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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10,
+October, 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
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+Title: American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: July 1, 2005 [EBook #16159]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
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+Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald
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+
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+OCTOBER, 1889.
+
+VOL. XLIII. NO. 10.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  ANNUAL MEETING
+
+  VOTING MEMBERS
+
+  CLOSE OF FINANCIAL YEAR
+
+  LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS
+
+  COMPROMISES AND THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA
+
+  INDIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS
+
+  A MINISTER'S TESTIMONY
+
+  NOTES BY THE WAY
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  "FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE"
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  ITEMS FROM THE FIELD
+
+  VACATION AT TOUGALOO
+
+  FROM A TEACHER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS
+
+  SIGNS OF PROGRESS
+
+  OBITUARY
+
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+  A BIT OF EXPERIENCE
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+  FORT YATES, DAKOTA
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  OUR CHINESE IN CHINA
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS
+
+  PARAGRAPHS
+
+  GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+  SCHOOL INCIDENTS
+
+
+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. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.
+  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.
+
+
+_Corresponding Secretaries._
+
+  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+  Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+  H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+  PETER McCARTEE.
+  CHAS. P. PEIRCE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.
+  ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+
+_For Three Years._
+
+  J.E. RANKIN,
+  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 Street, 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.      OCTOBER, 1889.       No. 10.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANNUAL MEETING.
+
+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 29th. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of
+Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. Fuller details regarding the
+reception of delegates and their entertainment, together with rates at
+hotels, and railroad reductions, will be found on the last page of the
+cover.
+
+We are anxious that the Churches, Local Conferences and State
+Associations should be fully represented at the meeting. This
+Association is the almoner of their bounty and seeks their aid and
+counsel at its annual gatherings. We believe that the work of the past
+year will not only meet their approval, but increase their enthusiasm
+for pushing forward with renewed interest what still lies before us. We
+request the pastors of churches to secure the appointment of delegates,
+and all local Conferences and State Associations whose meetings have not
+been held, to name their delegates.
+
+For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 295.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VOTING MEMBERS.
+
+Life members and delegates chosen by contributing churches, local
+Conferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting, as
+will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.
+
+
+     ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted
+     members of this Association for life by the payment of
+     thirty dollars into its treasury, with the written
+     declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is
+     to be applied to constitute a designated person a life
+     member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the
+     payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+     payment of the same sum, may be made life members, without
+     the privilege of voting.
+
+     Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed
+     to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference
+     or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates
+     to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates,
+     duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the
+     Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CLOSE OF OUR FINANCIAL YEAR.
+
+These pages may fall into the hands of some of our constituents before
+the close of our fiscal year, September 30th. We hope that the
+opportunity will be embraced by church treasurers to remit promptly
+funds designed for us, and that benevolent friends who have intended to
+aid us during the year will carry out their purpose at once. The outlook
+is encouraging and we shall hail with joy and gratitude the day of
+deliverance from debt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+"Again I have the pleasure of enclosing for the general use of the
+American Missionary Association a draft of one hundred dollars. The Lord
+bless the work of the dear workers in the field. My love to them."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Many years ago I used to contribute to the funds of the American
+Missionary Association. My husband and I supported a teacher under its
+auspices, but times have changed and we are not able to do that now. For
+many years I have ceased to send any money to your treasury, for I
+thought what little I could afford would do no good at all. But seeing
+in the September MISSIONARY some contributions of a few dollars, I send
+the enclosed five dollars. If each one interested in the cause would do
+that, it would help some. My interest is unabated in your great and
+glorious work for humanity and immortal souls."
+
+
+FROM A MISSIONARY IN CHINA.
+
+"Enclosed we send twenty-five dollars, which please accept as our
+subscription to the American Missionary Association work for the current
+year. We are more and more interested in this work, especially in view
+of the hateful prejudice that exists in many parts of the South against
+the colored people and those who have so nobly espoused the cause of
+their education and Christianization. This low-minded prejudice is very
+similar to what we have to endure here in the interior of China, yet it
+is harder to bear because coming from those who pretend to be
+enlightened Christians, while here those who indulge in personal abuse
+are mostly of the lowest and most ignorant heathen, though they are
+often backed up by the literati."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+COMPROMISES AND THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA.
+
+Americans are much addicted to settling difficulties by compromises; but
+these compromises, in State and Church, especially in regard to slavery,
+have so often been the sacrifice of principle to expediency that the
+word has come to have a sinister meaning--implying such a sacrifice; and
+they have so often proved failures as to show them to be unwise, even as
+a matter of expediency.
+
+A brief sketch of some of these past compromises, with their motives and
+failures, may throw some light upon the compromise proposed for the
+Congregational churches in Georgia.
+
+
+POLITICAL COMPROMISES.
+
+These have usually been made from more than one motive:
+
+1. One strong plea is that the expediency is so urgent that a small
+sacrifice of right is justifiable. In that celebrated law case of
+Shylock the Jew _versus_ Antonio the merchant, so ably reported by
+William Shakespeare, Esq., this reason was plainly stated. The
+defendant's attorney, Bassanio, in order to avert from his client the
+dreadful forfeit of a pound of flesh taken nearest his heart, appealed
+to the judge:
+
+                               "I beseech you
+     Wrest once the law to your authority;
+     To do a great right, do a little wrong."
+
+The "wise young judge" knew the law, human and divine, too well to grant
+this plea.
+
+But that plea had its influence in securing the adoption of the Federal
+Constitution. Among other difficulties in the way, a constructive
+guarantee of slavery seemed necessary to secure the assent of some of
+the Southern States. How strong the plea! Slavery was wrong to be sure,
+but the terrible seven years' war was ended, and a great nation was
+ready to come into existence! The compromise was made and the Union was
+formed. But did the compromise save it? No! The "pound of flesh" was at
+last the price. After a struggle of seventy-two years the crisis came,
+Sumter was fired upon and the compromise was found to be a failure. "A
+pound of flesh!" Nay, the flesh and blood of a million of men saved the
+Union.
+
+2. Another motive for a compromise is the expectation that while it is
+all that can be done now, it will be a step towards the ultimate. This
+was strongly urged in that first compromise. It was said that the
+Declaration of Independence, the enthusiasm for liberty, and the
+world-wide boast of equal rights, must work a universal consent to the
+abrogation of slavery. Jefferson voiced the general sentiment when he
+said: "I think a change is already perceptible since the origin of the
+present revolution. The way I hope is preparing, under the auspices of
+heaven, for a total emancipation." But slavery grew stronger, instead of
+weaker, under the compromise, and from time to time required more
+compromises, and more surrenders. The Missouri Compromise, the
+Annexation of Texas, and the Fugitive Slave Law, each extorted under
+threats of the "dissolution of the Union," are examples. But no
+compromise ever wrenched an inch of territory from the clutch of slavery
+and gave it to freedom. Freedom _held_ the whole Northwest, by the
+_un_-compromising requirement: "There shall be neither slavery nor
+involuntary servitude" there!
+
+3. Another strong plea for compromise is the hopelessness of gaining
+anything better. This was the consideration urged so vehemently against
+the early Abolitionists. It was said: "Slavery is wrong--that we all
+admit--but it is a fixed fact, invulnerable, backed up by wealth,
+talent, pride and political influence, and all opposition is vain. You
+Abolitionists are mere sentimentalists, visionaries, doctrinaires." This
+had great influence with the indifferent, the timid, and especially with
+those who vaunt themselves as "practical men," who boast that they care
+nothing for abstractions, but take business views of things. This plea
+and these men were largely influential in carrying forward some of the
+most iniquitous compromises preceding the war.
+
+
+ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT SLAVERY.
+
+This glance at the compromises in the political history of the nation
+prepares us to look at those in the Church. Here, too, compromises on
+the subject of slavery were made as in the State, and generally from the
+same motives and always with the same disappointing results.
+
+The Churches before and during the revolutionary period were emphatic in
+their utterances against slavery. Their accredited leaders and official
+convocations used such terms as these: Methodist, "The sum of all
+villanies;" Presbyterian, "Man stealers: stealers of men are those who
+bring off slaves or freemen and keep, sell or buy them;" Baptist,
+"Slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature;"
+Congregational, "Slavery is in every instance wrong, unrighteous,
+oppressive, a great and crying sin, there being nothing equal to it on
+the face of the earth."
+
+But there were slaveholders in the churches, and as population increased
+they became more numerous and naturally chafed under such denunciations.
+But their impatience reached its climax under the modern anti-slavery
+doctrine that immediate emancipation is the only remedy for the sin of
+slavery. The South was alarmed and soon became imperious and exacting;
+the North was timid and yielding. Then began the special era of
+ecclesiastical compromises. Let me specify:
+
+1. The utterances as to the guilt of slavery were modified, reaching at
+length the point where some of the most eminent doctors of divinity and
+the most learned professors in theological seminaries tried to vindicate
+from the Bible the toleration of slavery.
+
+2. Disclaimers were made as to the right to interfere with slavery. As,
+for example, a large ecclesiastical assembly by vote disclaimed "any
+right, wish or intention to interfere with the civil and political
+relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slaveholding
+States of this Union." A distinguished bishop is reported to have said:
+"I have never yet advised the liberation of a slave, and I think I never
+shall;" and an eminent doctor of divinity declared: "If by one prayer I
+could liberate every slave in the land I would not dare to offer it."
+
+3. Fine distinctions were drawn in behalf of slaveholders. It was
+warmly urged in their defense that while slavery was a sin, the
+individual slaveholder might not in every case be a sinner--a charity
+that was made to cover a multitude of sinners. One large religious
+assembly declared that it could not "exclude slaveholders from the table
+of the Lord;" it would rather "sympathize with and succor them in their
+embarrassments." An elaborate report was adopted at another large
+convocation, in which it was suggested that the convert should be
+admitted into the church while still a slaveholder, an oppressive ruler
+and a proud Brahmin, in the hope that under proper teaching, "the master
+may be prepared to break the bonds of the slave, the oppressive ruler to
+dispense justice to the subject, and the proud Brahmin fraternally to
+embrace the man of low caste."
+
+The great motive for these concessions was the desire for church
+enlargement. Slavery was a sin, but the slaveholder might not always be
+guilty, and if church unity and church extension were to be secured in
+the South, some concessions must be made. Then, too, there was
+undoubtedly the hope that concessions and fraternal intercourse in
+public assemblies and in Christian work would win the confidence of the
+slaveholders, and perhaps prepare the way for the gradual removal of
+slavery; and above all there was the cogent plea that compromise or
+division was the only present choice. The "_half-loaf_" argument was
+wielded most effectually, and here, especially, the "practical men" came
+to the front, while on the heads of the devoted Abolitionists were
+showered without stint the epithets "fanatics" and "visionaries."
+
+So much zeal for the slaveholders, and so much sacrifice of
+self-respect, not to say of conscience, surely deserved a better fate;
+but all was in vain. The slaveholders scorned the compromises, and
+ruthlessly rent asunder the great national churches and missionary
+societies. The Congregationalists, never numerous in the South, clung
+with great tenacity to their few churches, but at length surrendered
+them.
+
+
+ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT CASTE.
+
+So ended the first chapter of humiliating and fruitless Church
+compromises; but a new chapter has begun to be written, and so far
+promises to read just as the other did, both as to the facts to be
+recorded and the end that will be reached. Slavery is dead, but the son
+and heir and legitimate representative, _race prejudice_, arises to take
+its place. This does not propose to remand the colored race back into
+slavery, but to hold them as inferiors, to be discriminated against as
+to equal rights and to bear with their color the perpetual ban of
+separation and degradation. This might be expected in the political
+world, but not in the Church where "_all are one in Christ Jesus_." And
+it would be a specially sad fact if the Church should be more tardy than
+the State in the recognition of the equal manhood of the two races.
+
+One great effort in the present ecclesiastical struggle is to secure the
+reunion of the sundered Churches; and, as in the case of slavery, other
+issues have been waived or compromised, leaving race-prejudice as the
+real point in the contest. Great have been the endeavors for harmony.
+Committees of Conference have been appointed, have met and conferred;
+enthusiastic public meetings have been held; communion services have
+been celebrated jointly, and great feasts have been spread to welcome
+visiting delegations. But the South has been inflexible on the
+color-line. The Northern leaders have made concessions, and in some
+instances have been ready to surrender the main point, but the mass of
+Northern Christians seem unwilling to deny the Saviour in the person of
+the man whose ostracism is demanded for no fault of his own, but only
+because God made him black.
+
+The Presbyterian Church (North) deserves special mention for having, in
+the last General Assembly rejected a compromise that approved "the
+policy of separate churches, presbyteries and synods." The prize was
+nothing less than the ultimate reunion of the Northern and Southern
+branches of that great Church. The leaders in the Church and in the
+Assembly were committed to it and warmly advocated it, but when the test
+vote came, it was rejected by an overwhelming majority! _God grant that
+when the test comes for the Congregationalists they may show as much
+back-bone!_ The present stage of the controversy finds the Methodists,
+Baptists and Presbyterians still divided, with little prospect of
+reunion. The Episcopalians in South Carolina have surrendered on a
+compromise that permits the one colored minister in the Convention to
+remain in it, but utterly forbids the admission of any others.
+
+
+THE CONGREGATIONALISTS IN GEORGIA.
+
+The Congregationalists are considering the question practically, but
+with a division of sentiment. Some stand firmly against all race
+distinctions, while others are disposed to compromise on a plan that
+keeps the two organizations in Georgia still separated by the
+color-line, but that provides for the appointment of a few delegates from
+each, to form a new body that shall have charge of the interests of the
+denomination and be represented in the National Council.
+
+We are not careful to criticise the _details_ of this plan, nor are we
+anxious to secure any particular modification of them. The cardinal fact
+is that the plan itself keeps the two bodies in Georgia apart for no
+other assigned or assignable reason than race prejudice; for who
+supposes for a moment that if these bodies were both white there would
+be this elaborate plan devised to touch each other with the tips of the
+fingers, instead of giving at once the whole hand-grasp of Christian
+fellowship? And so long as this plan makes or retains the line of caste
+distinction or practically delays or evades its rejection, it is a
+compromise that should not be endorsed. But already the old pleas for
+compromise are urged in its behalf:
+
+1. It is said that this is a first step towards the ultimate--a bridge
+to facilitate a future coming together. But a bridge is not possible,
+nor if possible, necessary. There is no doubt that since the New
+Testament was written there have been great improvements in bridge
+building, both mechanical and theological; but between equal manhood on
+one side and race prejudice on the other, "there is a great gulf fixed,"
+and no bridge can span the chasm. _The Negro must surrender his manhood
+or the white man his prejudice._ There is no half way. But when either
+is surrendered, there is no gulf, and no bridge is needed. If the Negro
+will take his place as an inferior, he and the white man can ride on the
+same seat in a buggy: if the white man will surrender his prejudice, the
+Race-Problem is settled. Which shall be surrendered--the manhood or the
+prejudice? The Congregational churches have no doubt on that question,
+and if we are to educate men in right principles we must stand firmly
+upon them ourselves. To begin with a compromise is to yield the very
+point at issue.
+
+2. But now also the opposite tack is taken. We are told that race
+prejudice is a fixed fact--that the Southern people will never yield,
+and that hence if we are to plant Congregational churches in the South
+at all, we must compromise. And once more we have with us the "practical
+men," who claim to take common sense views, and they urge us again to be
+content with the "half-loaf." But this compromise "half-loaf" is very
+much like the famous "little book" that John ate that was indeed in the
+mouth "sweet as honey" but afterward proved to be exceedingly "bitter."
+The truth is that this half-loaf, and Ephraim's "cake not turned" and
+the drink that was "lukewarm, neither hot nor cold," constitute a very
+unhealthy diet for Christian people. The past has its lesson by which we
+ought to have profited; and it will be a shame if, with all our
+experience, we are found to need the reproof that "when for the time ye
+ought to be teachers, ye have need that some one teach you again which
+be the _first principles of the oracles of God_."
+
+We have to deal once more, in the history of this nation, with the
+precious interests of the poor and neglected, and we must guard against
+past mistakes. The issue before us is a square one, and no dodging and
+no compromise will meet the case. We plead now for eight millions of
+freemen as we once plead for four millions of slaves. God is their
+Father, Christ is their Redeemer and the Church must recognize their
+equal manhood. We hold with the _Christian Union_ that: "It were better
+far that the Northern Church should not go with its missionary work into
+the South at all, than that it should go with a mission which
+strengthens the infidelity that denies that God made of one blood all
+the nations of the earth for to dwell together."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches North resist all
+overtures for separating the colored and white people in churches and
+ecclesiastical bodies in the South. The Episcopal Church, in Virginia
+and South Carolina at least, have consented to the separation on the
+color-line. The Congregationalists will soon decide the position they
+will take. Will they range themselves with the Episcopalians now
+standing alone?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+INDIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS.
+
+The public has been made aware through the press recently that the
+United States Government aids the Roman Catholics to support 2,098
+Indian pupils and assists all Protestant denominations in the support of
+only 1,146 pupils. Why is this discrimination, and who is to blame for
+it? If the Roman Catholics give for plant, teachers' salaries, etc., an
+amount proportionately greater than that given by the Protestants, then
+the Protestants have themselves only to blame, and the difficulty can be
+remedied by their giving an equal amount. But if, on the other hand, the
+Government gives in proportion more to the Roman Catholics than it does
+to the Protestants, then the Government is showing a wholly
+unjustifiable partiality. Figures are in order on this subject. Who will
+furnish them?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A MINISTER'S TESTIMONY.
+
+"I have just been reading the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for August with
+profound interest. I rejoice with you that the 'figures are still
+improving'.
+
+"Your 'practical thoughtful friend' is a suggestive example for us all,
+I am not surprised that this year he 'has doubled his special
+contribution.' 'Nothing succeeds like success,' is true also of
+achievement in bringing ourselves to give to the Lord of what he is
+constantly giving to us.
+
+"I thank God for the simple, but singular and noble justice done by that
+judge and jury in Chicago who maintained the civil rights of brother
+Smith.
+
+"Mrs. Regal's paper on 'The Local Society,' seemed to me full of
+excellent suggestions. One in particular, that of a birthday offering
+containing a cent for every year of age, is eminently practical, and
+conducive to surprising results. How better can we set up our Ebenezer
+than by thus saying from our purses as well as from our hearts,
+'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'?
+
+"Finding it is best for myself to 'strike while the iron is hot,' I sit
+down at once to send you a check. The signal mercy of the Lord enables
+me to make my offering of dollars instead of cents, and has put so many
+benefits already into the fraction of the current year that it may be
+reckoned as a complete year. How small an acknowledgment does even a
+dollar seem for a year of life, with all its escapes from peril and all
+its experience of good! What a refreshing addition to the resources of
+the church would result if each professing Christian would give such a
+birthday offering of one cent for each year of life! May the Lord fill
+us all with the spirit of him who gave himself unto the death for us.
+
+"I pray earnestly that the American Missionary Association may continue
+to enlarge, and its work to prosper."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES BY THE WAY.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.
+
+White Men and Red Men.
+
+"THE ROUND UP!
+INTERESTING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST NIGHT."
+
+The above was the characteristic heading in a Dakota paper of an
+editorial notice of the closing exercises of their High School.
+Everything takes its color from the peculiar condition of society. A
+rubber overcoat is a "slicker," and a native pony is a "broncho." Not so
+inappropriate, either, is the term "The Round Up," for the closing
+exercises of a school year. It ought to be the round up, a complete
+circle or sphere of successful work and accomplishment, so far as that
+period of school-life is concerned. The white men of Dakota are changing
+perceptibly, I think, in their feelings toward the red men among them,
+or among whom they are. A sense of responsibility for their
+Christianization seems to have taken possession of the minds of the
+intelligent Christian people. One is impressed with the abundance of
+church buildings in these small white settlements. In one small village
+of perhaps five hundred people, I counted eight Protestant churches.
+With Christian churches so numerously planted as they are in these new
+Western States, we may hope for large help from them in the Indian work
+of the Association, before many years. They are now falling into line in
+this great work. I rode on one side of the Missouri River for many miles
+among the white settlements. Afterwards I rode on the other side of the
+river a long distance among the Indian villages, and could not help but
+contrast the condition of life of the two. The Government relations
+differ materially. If the supplies were withheld from the Indians, and
+they were compelled to take land in severally, and not hustled over the
+prairie every month or two weeks for meat, sugar and coffee, I think the
+change for the better would be perceptible in a twelvemonth. There is
+general hopefulness on the part of the missionaries among the red men,
+now that two Christian men stand at the head of the Indian Department.
+
+It was my privilege to take a cordial letter of greeting from Supt.
+Dorchester of the Government Indian Schools to the A.M.A. missionaries
+at Santee Agency, Neb. It was an encouragement to these earnest toilers
+in this far-away field to know that there was appreciation on the part
+of the Government of the Christian work among these Indians. Great care,
+intense study, great deliberation of action will be necessary if these
+new Government officers succeed in bettering the condition of the red
+men, as they are doubtless sincerely desirous of doing. They must know
+what they are doing, before they do it.
+
+
+The Government schools which I visited furnished abundant evidence that
+considerable time would be necessary to correct the evils existing in
+these, and to make them what they should be before any radical policy
+could be safely adopted by the Government in reference to contract
+missionary schools. The Roman Catholic influence seems to have been a
+dominant power in the control of these schools for some time.
+
+Wolf Chief, a Mandan Indian, called on me while at Fort Berthold and
+begged that his tribe be protected against a Catholic priest who, he
+said, wanted to compel them to send their children to a school that he
+proposed to establish near them. "We Mandans are Congregationalists,"
+said this Indian chief, "and we want to send our children to your
+mission."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Incidents both amusing and pathetic are of frequent occurrence in this
+Indian work. Such incidents throw light upon the inside life of the
+Indians and missionaries, and are often useful in the "Monthly Concert,"
+and so I record some of them here.
+
+"Cherries-in-the-mouth," a somewhat aged and highly-painted Indian, was
+very much taken with one of the missionaries. He came to the
+Superintendent of the mission and offered eight ponies for her, or, I
+believe, more correctly, said he would give eight ponies, if he had
+them. His affection was larger than his pocket-book, as is sometimes
+true of his pale-faced brother.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Plenty Corn" was a sweet little Indian girl, who attended the mission
+at Fort Berthold. She had won her way wonderfully into the hearts of the
+teachers, and when she died last spring, there were sorrowful hearts in
+the mission, as truly as in the Indian tepee. The parents had been
+reached also by the influence of the mission. They permitted the
+missionary to lay the body in a coffin. The Indians took up the little
+white casket and bore it to the boat in which it was to be taken across
+the Missouri River. The father rowed the boat, as the mother sat on the
+opposite bank waiting for her dead darling, and from the boat there went
+up the piteous wailing of the father, which was echoed back from the
+bank in the piteous wail of the mother. It was a sad, sad sight, and
+emphasized painfully the need of Christian instruction, that the hope of
+the Gospel may break through the superstitious darkness of these sad
+lives.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ECHOES.
+
+An old man who teaches in the country heard we had a number of
+Sunday-school papers, and asked us if we had any "overtures of
+Sunday-school literature" to give him.
+
+One of the older boys was obliged to leave school to work. In the last
+prayer-meeting he attended he said: "It makes me feel very sorry when I
+think that next week my seat will be filled with my absence."
+
+Another prayed that he might walk more "citcumspotly before the world."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE."
+
+(_Written for a Missionary Concert held in the interests of the A.M.A._)
+
+
+     So free are the gifts of heaven,
+       So many the blessings which fall,
+     That, should we attempt to count them
+       We could not number them all.
+
+     For God is a generous Giver.
+       Who sows with a liberal hand
+     Shall reap a bounteous harvest
+       And gather the fruits of the land.
+
+     For 'tis God that gives the increase,
+       And oft it's a "hundred fold,"
+     And men are reaping in many ways
+       Aside from lands and gold.
+
+     The blessings of home and fireside,
+       Of friendship, of books, of health,
+     Of knowledge, of church, of worship,
+       All these are a part of our wealth.
+
+     But off in the sunny Southland,
+       In a part of our country large,
+     Are _needs_, which with us are _blessings_,
+       And to us there comes this charge:--
+
+     _Freely received are God's mercies;
+       And now will ye freely give?_
+     It will be a glorious mission
+       To help a nation live.
+
+
+BLUEHILL, ME.
+
+M.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SOUTH
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
+
+BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT F.E. JENKINS.
+
+
+NEW CHURCHES.
+
+Two new Congregational churches in connection with our work completed
+their organization with communion services on Sunday, September 1st.
+Both were organized by Northern people who have settled in the South in
+places which are likely to grow by immigration from the North. One is in
+Roseland, La., and is under the pastoral care of Rev. C.S. Shattuck. It
+starts with eleven members.
+
+The other is in North Athens, Tenn., and for the present is cared for by
+our general missionary, Rev. G. Stanley Pope. It begins with thirteen
+members. Both will come into the regular State organizations of
+Congregational churches.
+
+The First Congregational Church of Alco, Ala., was organized August
+25th, with twelve members. Rev. James Brown, a graduate of the last
+theological class at Talladega College, is the pastor.
+
+At Fort Payne, Ala., the first steps were taken August 21st toward the
+organization of a church. It was voted to complete the organization as
+soon as possible. Rev. Geo. S. Smith, recently of Raleigh, N.C., has
+gone to Fort Payne to take charge of the work.
+
+
+NEW CHAPEL.
+
+The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., aided by the
+American Missionary Association, is erecting a chapel which is to be
+used as a church until the congregation shall become larger and
+wealthier. This church has been organized by Northern people who have
+gone to this new and growing town to make their homes. It is connected
+with the Central South Association of Congregational Churches.
+
+
+HYMN BOOKS WANTED.
+
+The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., greatly needs
+hymn books. It has a few copies of the "Songs of the Sanctuary," but not
+enough to enable it to use them. Any church having copies of this book
+which are not needed in its service could scarcely do better with them
+than to send them to this courageous little church.
+
+From Crossville, Tenn., we have this appeal: "It would be esteemed a
+great favor if some church could furnish our people with a donation of
+hymn books for church singing. You may know of some church having a new
+supply of hymn books who would be pleased to give this poor flock on the
+mountains their old books. If so, they would be thankful, and highly
+appreciate the favor."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VACATION AT TOUGALOO.
+
+BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT E.S. HALL.
+
+Awake? With the "Rat-a-tat Quir-r-k, tat-tat" of the great
+crimson-crested woodpecker hammering just for noisy fun on the wide
+cornice of the "mansion," with the summer sun shining in through the
+window, and the five o'clock bell pealing sharply from Strieby Hall, the
+seven sleepers would have to be awake and doing at Tougaloo University.
+
+The mercury is passing the 72° point at sunrise; but the morning, as the
+sunshine sparkles on the dewy grass between the wide-spreading live-oaks
+of the grove, seems as cool as a morning on the Berkshire hills. The
+wide-rolling plantation fields to the west give no hint of the long hot
+mid-day hours when the cotton revels in a heat that sends all animate
+nature to the deepest coverts.
+
+The Tougaloo grounds are a paradise for all feathered life. The quail
+with their cheery "Bob White" whistle in the kitchen garden, following
+in plain sight the boys hoeing out the "grass." The blue-jays, martins
+and mocking birds render a trip to the Paris Exposition entirely
+unnecessary, if one wishes to hear all parties talk at the same moment
+and in unintelligible syllables. Curious, is'nt it, that these shy
+denizens of field and forest are so bold, in term as well as vacation
+time, where these colored lads and lasses congregate, for people of a
+low, brutal nature, incapable of any spark of generosity or ambition,
+are no friends to innocent nature. The papers that characterize the
+Negro as such, a creature unfit to live in a white man's country, cannot
+be blinded by prejudice!
+
+What of the human life at Tougaloo? College is out; the teachers are in
+the far North. Miss Emerson, Preceptress of the Girl's Hall; Mr.
+Hitchcock, Treasurer; Mr. Klein, Superintendent of the Farm; and Mr.
+Kennedy, Superintendent of Carpentry; and Mr. McKibban, borrowed from
+Macon school, are present to supervise the necessary work, for Tougaloo
+cannot be closed a day. With its farm and forest and its shops, it is to
+become for the Southwest what Hampton is for the Eastern South. May the
+Lord prompt some of his stewards to make investments here which will
+bring in a ten-fold interest for the nation and for heaven!
+
+The dining-hall shows a number of tables well filled at meal times. Most
+interesting are the ten little girls whom Miss Emerson has taken to
+bring up to womanhood with habits of industry and economy, and with
+characters pure and joyous. Each day has its routine for them; the
+bedroom, the dining-room, the kitchen, the sewing-room, the lesson hour,
+the play time and the period for personal advice and religious
+instruction, have their appropriate but never-forgotten place.
+
+There are a dozen of the large girls, young women who do the washing,
+"clean house," cook the daily meals and can fruit from the garden and
+orchard for the Sunday-night dish of sauce during the coming year. Part
+of these are girls in the regular domestic course, a few are kept to
+work for their board and instruction rather than have them obliged to go
+into the cotton fields at home under unscrupulous overseers. These girls
+have a long, busy day, for the work needed to keep any one of the great
+boarding schools in efficient operation would surprise any one of our
+contributing friends who has never been "thro' the mill."
+
+The boys--_little_ fellows some of them only seventy-two inches tall in
+their bare feet--comprise the regular students in the industrial
+courses; the baker, the butcher or meat boy, the irrepressible John boy
+of all work about the kitchen; then the stock, the farm, the carpenter
+and blacksmith apprentices, together with several kept for general help,
+for work of an unusual magnitude was to be undertaken this vacation.
+
+The Girl's Hall, a great three story building with seven thousand five
+hundred square feet of ground plan, had been slowly settling into this
+treacherous alluvium, which is three hundred feet deep to the first sand
+and gravel, until the building was in danger of falling. Southern
+contractors advised taking it down because it could not be safely
+repaired. But the American Missionary Association's force was equal to
+the emergency. The weight, with the resulting strains and thrusts, was
+calculated. Concrete footings of sufficient area were planned, brick
+piers and heavy timbering were skillfully placed, and the building will
+stand stronger than new and much improved in plan.
+
+If these youths, who pulled on the forty-eight great "jack-screws,"
+lifting and blocking up the building section by section, who excavated
+exactly to the surveyor's stakes, who mixed concrete and mortar, who
+framed and handled the huge "hard pine" timbers, who earnestly undertook
+whatever was told them--for this was new and strange work--if these
+youths had not been "Negroes," the outside world would have been glad to
+picture them in magazine and review.
+
+The writer has had a long experience as master of a boy's boarding
+school in the North, situated in a village which also contained a young
+ladies' seminary. Had those young people been as sober and in earnest as
+these dusky-skinned ones, as free from midnight mischief, how many weary
+vigils would he have escaped!
+
+The religious life at Tougaloo does not cease with term time. Two or
+three young men go out to hold Sunday services in the country cabins,
+the Sunday-school is full and the older ones serve as teachers, for many
+children come in from surrounding fields, making a school of nearly one
+hundred teachers and pupils. The young people's society meeting each
+Sunday afternoon, and the prayer meetings on Sunday and Wednesday
+evenings are characterized by a quiet, earnest Christianity, that would
+do credit to any circle in our Northern States.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FROM A TEACHER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS.
+
+Let me tell you of the general interest manifest in several of the
+counties west and north of us in attending this school. One of our
+students has visited many cabins over the mountains during his vacation,
+and finds school advantages very scarce and poor. He finds poverty and
+degradation, and ignorance of the world and of books. Some of the people
+are still using the old-time method of kindling their fires by flint and
+steel instead of matches. He has met many young people who are thirsting
+for books and school, has also found numbers who have struggled up
+through the darkness and have become teachers in their own neighborhood,
+"the blind leading the blind." Such almost invariably wish to come to
+our school and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close.
+Many are too poor to come. This is true of a number of young girls who
+would come if they could _work_ their board or in any possible way
+pay for it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these
+neglected girls, and place them in our school and prepare them for the
+future duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end
+will do the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of
+the money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.
+
+The natives are having their big yearly meetings and lively times
+shouting and actually chasing each other in and around their log
+churches to pull them to the "mourner's bench," and, in their wild
+efforts, they upset stove pipes and benches. It is so much like a circus
+that everybody runs to the big meetings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
+
+BY PRES. R.C. HITCHCOCK.
+
+Every little while, some article giving ultra views of "The Problem,"
+gets into the papers, sometimes painting a roseate-hued picture, and
+again some one, who does not find people of dusky hue all angels, writes
+that there is no hope; that all experiments leading to intellectual and
+especially to moral elevation are failures; and that she (as one wrote)
+is ready or almost ready, "to throw away the Bible and advise the
+negroes to be honestly heathen."
+
+I will indicate a few plain signs of progress. The negroes are rapidly
+learning self-control. Six years ago, if a package was left in the hall
+over night, there would be signs in the morning that it had been meddled
+with. The contents might be all there--I have not found them greatly
+given to peculation, from the first--but they did not seem to have the
+power to resist the temptation to peep. Now, this is never done; a
+package of any kind may be left where it is freely accessible for weeks,
+and it will be untouched.
+
+The first time a fire occurred in our neighborhood, what a panic there
+was! All were screaming and tearing about, trunks were dragged out of
+rooms, and one boy threw his out of a second story window. It was all we
+could possibly do to quiet them and restore order. Since then, there has
+been a fire so near as to scorch the rear fence and no panic, no
+screaming, hardly a student left his room. Formerly, on the receipt of
+bad news, as the intelligence of the death of a friend, it was not
+uncommon for one to have a fit of hysterics or something resembling it;
+now, such news is received with deep feeling indeed, and with tears, but
+no hysterics or fit of any kind.
+
+There is, also, a grand growth in the sister virtue of gratitude. In
+this, they have more to overcome, probably, than in any other matter,
+for here they carry an inheritance of great weight, from the old slave
+days. Why should they be grateful? What chance to exercise the feeling!
+It became, like the eyes of the fish in the Styx of Mammoth Cave,
+useless, and to all appearances disappeared. But the germ is there, and
+with light it will again come to the surface.
+
+I could cite scores of anecdotes. I will give but one, and I give this
+because it also illustrates a most loveable trait of character which
+abounds among these people--sympathy for suffering. Mrs. H. and myself
+started one day, to drive from New Iberia to the Avery salt mine, some
+ten miles distant. It was Monday following a hard Sunday's work
+speaking; it was as hot as days can be out in the Teche country, and
+when a little more than half way there, I was suffering from a terrific
+headache. We were too far to go back, and so drove on. Arrived at the
+"Island," we drove, as directed, to the boarding house, seeking a place
+where I could at least lie down, to find only a shed filled with tables,
+where the men ate, going elsewhere to sleep. I asked Mrs. H. to drive on
+and, holding on behind the carriage, was groping my way along, more dead
+than alive, when I heard a voice cry out, "Why, howdy, Professor, how
+ever came you here?" Glad was I to hear a friendly voice. It was that of
+a young girl who had been, some months before, a visitor at the
+University, and to whom I had given a little book and spoken some
+friendly words. My bread came back to me--a whole loaf for a crumb. All
+day long, she and her mother, who left her wash tub to attend to me,
+worked over my miserable head. A mile and more she ran in the burning
+sun for ice, and no herb that grew on "Petit Anse" from which a
+decoction could be made, was left untried, until ice, herbs, and a tough
+constitution prevailed, and I was able to ride home. I offered pay, but
+it was almost indignantly refused. I wish space would allow me to tell a
+hundred stories to illustrate their kind-heartedness, not only to each
+other, but to strangers, and even to their old masters and mistresses.
+
+Their Christian faith is something wonderful. It has been my blessed
+privilege to be at the bedside of several young people as the death
+angel hovered near, and nowhere did I ever feel so near the pearly
+gates. Such pure faith and perfect confidence, such perfect resignation,
+one could almost hear the rustle of the wings as Azrael bent down to
+take the sweet spirit home.
+
+They have gained much in stability of character. Frivolity and silly
+nonsense are not the rule. Our boys and girls who go out to teach, carry
+a load of responsibility with them. Some of the parishes have been
+almost entirely transformed by their work. Three of our boys last summer
+built the school houses in which they taught, the people contributing
+time, lumber and money, and they are the _only_ school houses in the
+State, outside of the large towns, that were built for, or are fit for,
+the purpose. Two of them have halls above for meetings, are fitted up
+with blackboards, desks, etc. The stories our boys tell of their efforts
+to introduce modern appliances and methods, remind me of those I used to
+hear from the old veterans Barnard, Camp, and others, of their struggles
+in the early days in Connecticut.
+
+They have grown in cleanliness and industry beyond expression. When I
+first came here, it was sometimes harder to get a bit of work done than
+to do it myself. Now, it is a pleasure to work with them.
+
+In nothing, perhaps, has there been so great a gain as in the habit of
+reading. The progress in this is simply astonishing, and cannot be
+described in a few words. Seven years ago, there was hardly a reader in
+the school. Now, many of our young people come to my library and,
+looking over my books, talk of them and their authors as intelligently
+as young people of the same age in Massachusetts would.
+
+I conclude by saying that, in this far-away corner, God has greatly
+blessed the efforts made by faithful teachers, and there is every cause
+for encouragement and hope.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+Another of our educated, consecrated and useful colored pastors has
+passed away. Rev. Welborn Wright, pastor of the Second Congregational
+Church of Lawrence, Kansas, died at his home, August 14th, of
+consumption. He was born in South Carolina, and had been pastor of the
+church in Lawrence over six years. He was a man of thought, earnest in
+his convictions, and had acquired a large influence over his own people.
+His church had prospered greatly under his care.
+
+He won the esteem of the white people. Two years ago he was elected a
+member of the Board of Education of the city, and proved himself to be a
+man of good judgment in practical affairs. His funeral was attended by
+Rev. Dr. Cordley, Rev. R.B. Parker and Rev. A.N. Richards. He was
+Secretary of the Minister's Meeting of Lawrence, and resolutions of warm
+commendation and sympathy for his family were passed by that body, and
+also by the Board of Education of Lawrence.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We have just learned that Mr. A.J. Berger, formerly industrial teacher
+at Macon, Georgia, died at Claremont, Virginia, September 2d, at the age
+of sixty-six years.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+News has also come to us of the death of Miss J.P. Bradshaw, a former
+teacher at Tougaloo University, Miss. For five years she bravely battled
+for life, but finally died of consumption.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A BIT OF EXPERIENCE.
+
+BY A TALLADEGA STUDENT.
+
+Not long since I was forcibly reminded of the work and worth of the
+schools of the American Missionary Association by witnessing the
+services in a church. In a room large enough to comfortably seat one
+hundred were fully two hundred and fifty, and a large crowd hovering
+about the door. There was abundance of singing and praying. The songs
+were mostly on the solo and chorus style--not set to music, what we call
+plantation or "made-up songs." While singing, the leader adds new words
+to suit his fancy and emotional fervor; thus the song often undergoes
+several changes of words in the course of a few months, all the time
+retaining the same tune. This is what is meant by "made-up songs." Among
+those of my people in whom the emotional tide runs high this kind of
+singing is _very popular_.
+
+In that meeting, while singing the last part of each song the audience
+would rise and turn their backs toward the pulpit. One started the
+prayers, but soon the multitude of voices made it impossible to know who
+was leading or what was being said. The minister came in late. He slowly
+turned the pages of the Bible until he found his text. With a murmuring
+voice he read a few verses and began preaching. Moving off slowly, like
+an express train, he soon gathered a rapid motion of body and a furious
+rattling of words. With head down and the white of his eyes turned
+upward he kept up a constant spitting and walking for forty or
+forty-five minutes. All the while the hearers responded with thrilling
+animation. The sermon over, the singing was started as before for a long
+jubilee. A few nights ago, at such a meeting, not far from the writer's
+church, a young woman so mutilated her head while going through a
+muscular jubilation, that she had to go to the doctor to have her head
+repaired.
+
+Less than a quarter of a mile away was another audience, not one-fourth
+as large as the one referred to above, with an educated preacher,
+worshiping in the spirit with the propriety and with the gentleness of
+the gospel. So unlike was the deportment and so different was the
+character of the two audiences that but for their common color one might
+have thought that they were composed of two distinct races. The question
+may be asked, what makes the difference? They are the same people,
+worshiping the same God out of the same Bible. Education and the lack of
+it make the difference.
+
+The conduct of audiences like the first here spoken of seems to vary
+with the style of the speaker. I once preached to such a congregation.
+Their behavior was orderly. During the sermon their responses were a few
+amens. Knowing their habit in worship, I was somewhat annoyed with the
+thought that I was muzzling their feelings and the sooner I got through
+the gladder they would be. That class of people have a way of calling
+the minister "Cold water preacher," if he does not preach them into
+something like a spell of hallucination. Their composure led me to
+believe that I would earn the title. Still I endured, and endeavored to
+give the plain truth plainly and earnestly; having a strong feeling that
+as I was in authority I must command in the right way. After dismission,
+many said to me, "You gave us the pure word and we enjoyed it." "That's
+what we need," said another. I was heartily invited to come again. I
+find now I am welcome with that people.
+
+"The fields are white already to harvest." Great is the opportunity of
+the rich and enlightened churches. The helpfulness of our schools to my
+people and to the country, is beyond calculation. Our missionary
+schools are like so many lighthouses along this dark belt of the Union.
+Their light is being reflected by thousands of colored youth who without
+these schools would have grown up in gross ignorance.
+
+This brings to mind an incident of my life, which now I believe was
+providential. Seventeen years ago, when my education was very limited,
+while working in a restaurant, I visited Talladega College and was
+deeply impressed with the school, and the intelligence and advancement
+of the boys. I decided that I would enter school immediately, and did
+so, though my money was scarce and a few weeks before I had agreed to
+continue work in the restaurant at twelve dollars per month, board and
+bed furnished. That was good wages for a boy of my age, but I know now
+that giving it up and going to school was a thousand times higher wages
+for me. I felt my imperfections so keenly then I was ashamed to talk to
+the boys in the college. The stimulation for an education, which I
+received on that visit to Talladega College has never left me. I regard
+it most fortunate for an ignorant young man to visit our best schools.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INDIANS
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FORT YATES, DAKOTA.
+
+MISS M.C. COLLINS.
+
+During the recent measles epidemic a large number of children died on
+the Agency. At this village, a little child had been conjured until they
+thought it was dying, and then they sent for me. I found the poor little
+one all bruised with the hands of the conjurer. I showed the mother how
+to bathe it, and I poulticed the throat and sent Josephine over again to
+change the poultice, and she reported the child as breathing quietly.
+The next morning the swelling had gone down and the baby seemed much
+better; all day it continued to improve, and the next day sat up and ate
+rice soup which I carried it. The mother said, "She is well now!" I
+said, "O, no, she is not; keep her in the house three days and I will
+visit her, then she will be well perhaps." If an Indian is not in a
+dying condition, they do not consider anything the matter. So, after I
+left, she took her child out and walked about two miles. The child
+caught cold, and that afternoon grew worse. They had an Indian to
+conjure it, and it died immediately. They sent for me to come and pray
+with them. Josephine went for Elias, and we went to the desolate home.
+The baby had been dead an hour and was closed up in a box, the
+grandfather singing a mourning song, the mother wailing, "O my daughter,
+my daughter, I loved her and she has left me." Over and over again she
+cried out in her sorrow. The grandmother had cut her flesh, and the
+streams of blood running down from her hair over her face only made all
+seem more desolate, and more weird and terrible. They were trying to be
+Indians, and yet they had asked for me to come. I suppose it was to give
+the child the full benefit of both religions, so that there should be no
+mistake in the future world.
+
+My Bible class now numbers ten; six of them are candidates for church
+membership. One of them spoke very nicely at our last prayer meeting.
+Among other things he said: "No man can kill God's Word. It will live
+and his church will grow. We have tried to kill it in this village, but
+look at it now. It has taken hold of us, and we who have fought against
+it are now its followers. No man can kill God, because he alone is the
+creator of life, and it is only foolish to try to stand upon his word
+and keep it down. The Indian customs fall before the Word of God
+wherever the Bible has gone. My friends, stop fighting against God,
+believe on him and rejoice." This is Wakutemani (Walking Hunter) whom I
+named Huntington Wolcott for Mr. Wolcott of Boston. Because he said he
+wanted a long name and the name of a good man, I combined the two. He is
+now ambitious to become a teacher. He will be ready for an out-station
+whenever you are able to build one. He says they have already asked him
+to come up on Oak Creek to teach them, and I gave him a Bible and hymn
+books and primer, and he goes about reading and singing and praying for
+Christ. May he be indeed the Walking Hunter, going about seeking souls.
+God be with him to the end.
+
+Nearly all of our Indians signed the bill to open the reservation. John
+Grass took the lead. He is a very wise man, and a good one for an Indian
+who represents the wild Indians. I attended all the sessions of the
+Council except the last. I see by the papers that a Roman Catholic
+priest on this Agency says he touched the pen first, and that caused all
+the Indians to sign. Grass says he wants me to dispute that, that he
+refused to sign last year because he did not like the bill. This year,
+the Commissioners were men of brains and the bill was a better one, and
+was so explained that the Indians understood it, and that they of their
+own accord thought the best thing they could do was to sign it, that the
+said priest had no power or influence over them whatever. He said, "Tell
+our friends this for me, and tell them the Commissioners know that we
+signed it of our own will because we believed it was for the good of our
+people." I told him I would write it East.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The instability of the Indian.--It used to be a proverb among the
+Indians that "The white man is very uncertain." The following brief
+extract from the letter of a missionary among the Indians not only shows
+that the Indian is unstable, but illustrates the difficulty of fixing
+the Indians in a given locality and at steady work:
+
+     The Commissioner was at ---- the other day, and our Indians
+     had a chance to sign, and almost all of them did so, but
+     still to many of them the opening seems an evil. I am afraid
+     they are not going to maintain their places in the face of
+     settlement by the whites. Already six families have slipped
+     away to the Indian Territory, and I shall not be much
+     surprised if in the next two years a considerable majority
+     of them go; and still it is about as difficult to tell what
+     an Indian will do, as it is to forecast western weather. I
+     think they have never done so well in farming as this year,
+     but one case will illustrate how unstable they are. One man
+     sold three young horses for about half what they were worth.
+     He had about eight acres of wheat, twelve acres of corn, and
+     an acre of oats, all of which he abandoned to go South,
+     though all his crops were very fine and had been well worked
+     by _himself_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR CHINESE IN CHINA.
+
+BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
+
+This is an old theme, but it presents fresh aspects from time to time. I
+am quite sure that the readers of the MISSIONARY will be interested in
+these extracts from three comparatively recent letters:
+
+"My DEAR PASTOR:
+
+"Since I left for my home, I am perfectly well and safe. I am very glad
+that I havn't got any persecution come to me. I told my parents the
+first thing when I reached my home that I don't worship the idols and
+the ancestors when I marry. They did not say anything except, 'Do what
+you please,' and then I thought I could stop the bride to worship too.
+They said, 'She couldn't,' [_i.e._ could not be prevented from
+worshiping]. In the day I married, when the bride worship the ancestors
+the spectators called me saying, 'Mr. Fung Jung, go, worship with the
+bride.' My mother answered them, 'That is all right, he did worship.'
+Two days after, the news that I did not worship the ancestors reached my
+wife's parents. They immediately send a woman to me and asked me what
+was the matter I did not worship the ancestor. I explained to her as
+well as I could and then she went home. Though I stay very firm for
+Jesus Christ, I am very sorry that I could not convert my family yet. Do
+pray for me and for those who do not know Christ."
+
+It may be remarked in explanation of this somewhat singular toleration
+of Fung Jung's faith and conduct as a Christian, that he had been a
+merchant for two or three years before he returned, and in comparison
+with his relatives at home, and perhaps with the average of returning
+Chinese, was a prosperous and somewhat well-to-do man. And it is often
+remarked that if a son or a brother can get _good luck_ in California he
+may have whatever religion he pleases. That is what Chinese religion is
+_for_--its sole utility--to get for its patrons good luck, and if this
+is gained, and the son or brother has money to divide, his religion will
+be accepted as satisfactory, on the ground that it has worked well in
+his case.
+
+
+JOE JET IN SEARCH OF A MISSIONARY.
+
+Joe Jet is the Christian merchant (once a helper in our mission) to whom
+was entrusted by our brethren the task of inaugurating their missionary
+work in the districts from which they came. The letter from him that I
+am about to quote reached me some months ago. "I have crossed the stormy
+ocean and safely reached my country. I have seen Tsing Ki, Fung Foo and
+all my friends at Hong Kong. God protected me. And we talked about our
+missionary society, how we should go on. Then we agree to try to have
+one good Christian brother, his name Moo King Shing. He can both preach
+and teach. We know he is belonging to the Presbyterian Church, but we
+desired to employ him. Then I left Hong Kong and went home to see my
+parents, wife and all my relatives. I stay home ten days, then take my
+way, go to find where Moo Hing Shan is. I go through the chapel of Kong
+Moon, then San Wao city, and then got to San Ching Fan and inquire how
+to get my way to see Moo Hing Shan. The preacher at that chapel say,
+he's in Nor Foo Market, and so, finally, I meet him there. I then talk
+over the new story with him. He like very well to work in our society,
+but he had teached and preached in that place seven years and all these
+brethren and scholars cannot leave him. The missionary say he could not
+let him leave, because he is a true Christian--not one to begin
+believing and then stop. He cannot decide yet. He will think about it.
+If he sure he cannot leave there, then we find another."
+
+A third letter is from a brother who has recently returned from China.
+It speaks of good news he has received from home--news of the baptism of
+six persons--one man and five women. About some of these women our
+brother knows something, and says: "One of the women was about sixty
+years of age. Her brother was a Christian and a preacher, and through
+her brother she gain to be a Christian. After this she encountered many
+trials, especially with her son's wife. Her son was in California, and
+his wife and two children lived with his mother. After she became a
+Christian both the children died. Their mother quarrel with her because
+she will not worship the idols. Then her brother, the preacher, died.
+Then she herself was taken very sick. We miss her three Sabbath days.
+That time no Chinese preacher was there, and only myself and, perhaps,
+one or two Christian brothers with me at the chapel. So I ask one of
+them to go with me to see for what cause she was absent. She lived about
+five miles from my place. We reach the village, meet a young man outside
+the village, ask him 'where is the Christian woman's house?' He said to
+us, 'Follow me.' So we follow him straight to her house and that young
+man live there. So I found she was sick. Three women were in the house,
+one of them the son's wife. These women said to us, 'If she not be a
+Christian you would not come to her.' My answer, 'Certainly not; if I
+not a Christian myself I would not come here.' So I begin to have a
+little talk to them and tell them who is the true God and how much God
+love us all, and how Jesus died for us. After this I gave them a prayer.
+They felt very much pleased to hear it. They gave me some present to
+take home, and soon the woman got all well. Then she went with her
+brother's widow to Hong Kong and leave her son's wife at home. Then she
+also became a Christian woman, very faithful, although a great many
+people make fun of her and use many bad words about her. She must be one
+of the five baptized."
+
+Another letter from a Chinese brother tells me, "My wife one time, with
+the Chinese women, keep Sabbath day. So I am very glad. When I was at
+home my wife say she too young to be Christian and afraid the people
+would make fun of her. I told a Chinese preacher's wife in China to try
+to get her. I hope she will be led the Christian way."
+
+Surely the leaven, though little, is working in China, and though it be
+hid in a great mass of meal, it will not cease its working till the
+whole is leavened. "China for Christ!" this our motto, and this our
+prayer.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+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.R. Dawes, Redfield;
+  Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Society,
+  President, Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight;
+  Sec., Mrs. Silas Dagett, 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 the list as a State body
+     for Mass. and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]
+
+We would, suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of
+State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary
+Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care,
+however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American
+Missionary Association, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Woman's meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held
+in connection with the Annual Meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October
+31st, in the New England Church, Chicago, Ill. Missionaries will be
+present from the work among the colored people and the mountain whites
+in the South, and also from the Indians, to give descriptions of their
+life on their mission fields. We would again urge a full representation
+of ladies from all the churches.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In connection also with the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary
+Association, and by their invitation, there will be an all-day Mass
+Meeting of Women's Home Missionary Unions in the New England Church,
+Chicago, October 29th. Every State Union is urged to send
+representatives.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD.
+
+
+SCHOOL LIFE.
+
+I think you could not find a busier company of young people anywhere. As
+soon as one task is accomplished, another is ready to be taken up, and
+this goes on from early morn till time for retiring. Going into the
+kitchen you will find a dozen or more girls, with bright and happy
+faces, doing the homely work of dish-washing and preparing the
+vegetables for dinner. In the laundry, you are greeted with as many more
+smiling faces, some singing, others telling funny stories, but all busy
+at their allotted work. The bell rings for school and you will see them
+flying from every direction, perhaps having taken a moment to smooth the
+hair, or arrange the dress. All out of breath they reach the school
+room, ready for the five hours' work with books, which is the same as
+any average school in the North. This work being accomplished, they are
+off to the farm, shops, the sewing room and the cooking class. Here they
+learn to prepare all substantial food which would be necessary for any
+table, and become initiated into the intricacies of bread, pie and
+cake-making.
+
+Our Sabbaths are not idle days either, for with Sunday-school, church
+service, and prayer meetings, our day is pretty well filled. Some of our
+girls are doing real missionary work by going out into the neighborhood,
+to relieve the sick, read to the old and infirm, and to carry food where
+it is needed. This they seem to enjoy, and it will, perhaps, prepare
+them for usefulness as they go out to work among their people.
+
+
+HOME LIFE.
+
+Perhaps, if I give you a glimpse into the home of one of our pupils, you
+can more easily understand what we have to work against among these
+people. In a miserable old hovel, of one small room, lives a family of
+eleven, father, mother, five children, two pitiful little orphans, to
+whom the mother out of the kindness of her heart has given shelter, and
+a young man and a young woman as boarders. The mother toils hard each
+day to furnish bread for the little ones, and does what she can to keep
+her family respectable. The father is what is termed, "no 'count." He
+has no regular employment, but, when so inclined, will chop wood, and
+thus earn a few dimes. Their house is lighted by one small window, in
+which bunches of rags and papers supply the absence of glass. The room
+is heated by an old fire-place, which is crumbling to decay. The
+furniture consists of two straw beds covered with ragged quilts, a
+little pine table, and four broken chairs. I need not tell you of the
+moral atmosphere which exists in such a home. Yet this is only a type of
+the home we see too often when we are making our round of calls.
+
+
+SACRIFICES FOR EDUCATION.
+
+Our school refuses none on account of age. Pupils are there, from the
+little three-year-old who attends the "Kinny-garten," as they call it,
+to those who are forty and fifty years old. I have been exceedingly
+interested in one woman who is now attending school in the primary room.
+She said to me: "I done sent my daughters through school and now I
+thought I would try and get a little education myself."
+
+One of the good brothers well expressed this idea of sacrifice on the
+part of the parents for the education of their children when he said, "I
+only wants to be a stepping-stone for my children. If I can help them to
+rise higher than I have got, that is all I ask."
+
+One poor woman told me she spent less than a dollar per week for
+provisions for a family of eight persons in order to save money to keep
+her children in school.
+
+The oldest pupil in my school, a man over thirty years of age, said to
+me one day, "I wish I could have gone to school when I was young, for as
+a fellow grows older, his remembrance comes shorter."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+Two little girls, about eight and nine years old, have just been to my
+room. The older one said, "This yere chile wants a dress to wear to
+Sunday-school to-morrow, and her ma says if it don't fit she can cut it
+off and make it over." I found among the contents of the last barrel a
+pretty blue gingham that fitted. I am sure the one who sent the dress
+would have felt happy if she could have seen the glad look of the child
+as she received it. I found the older little girl was not attending any
+day-school, and when I asked her what she did to help at home, she
+replied, "I don't do nothing, but stay at home and tote wood and notice
+the house."
+
+The children may be interested in a question asked by a little girl in
+the third grade. She said, "My pa wants I should ask you whether the
+children of Israel, that Moses led out of Egypt, were black people, or
+white people?"
+
+I have been teaching nearly six weeks. The house is a cheap frame one
+with a fire-place at one end. It is supplied with five benches, two
+desks and a blackboard. On those small benches twenty-five or more
+children must be seated. It is hard to keep them busy, as very few have
+the books which they need. Many are just learning to read, and some of
+these are making excellent progress.
+
+At first it seemed as though the scholars would fight on the least
+provocation. If there had not been a few who had attended another of our
+schools, I do not know what I should have done, but those few did not
+fight. Their deportment in the school-room was also good. Now there is
+scarcely any fighting. At first several brought tobacco to school, but
+it was not allowed to be used, and so is not brought now.
+
+One day a girl was at the board doing a simple sum in addition, three
+plus four; she put down nine as the entire sum. When I asked her what
+three plus four was equal to, she said "seven." I then asked her why she
+did not put that down; she said, "Dunno how to make a seben and so
+'lowed dat would do." One young man has come to school but four half
+days, yet he has learned to write his own name legibly and can read
+some. He could spell "right smart" before he came.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1889.
+
+
+THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+Income for August, 1889, from the
+  invested funds                            $4,197.35
+
+Income previously acknowledged              31,302.36
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                  Total    $35,499.71
+
+                                           ==========
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS.
+
+
+MAINE, $468.87.
+
+Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                      26.20
+
+Bath. Children's Loyal Temperance Legion,
+  2 Packages Books, etc., _for Sherwood,
+  Tenn._
+
+Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                18.42
+
+Brewer. Mrs. Catharine S. Hardy (100 of
+  which _for Chinese M. in Cal._)              200.00
+
+Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              20.63
+
+Castine. Class No. 9 Trin. Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                 1.70
+
+Dennysville. Cong. Ch.                          18.96
+
+Hampden. Cong. Ch.                              11.80
+
+Limington. Cong. Ch.                             9.00
+
+North Anson. "A Friend."                        15.00
+
+Portland. Seamens Bethel Ch.                    41.50
+
+Saco. First Parish Ch.                          19.13
+
+Searsport. First Cong. Ch.                      21.53
+
+Wells. B. Maxwell                               20.00
+
+Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.                      50.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $737.53.
+
+Acworth. Cong. Soc.                             10.87
+
+Amherst. Capt G.W. Bosworth                      3.00
+
+Bedford. Milton B. George, _for Clinton
+  Chapel, Talladega C._                          2.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch.                               21.86
+
+East Derry. First Cong. Ch.                      3.83
+
+Hanover. "Susie's Birthday Gift."                5.00
+
+Littleton. Cong. Ch.                            11.36
+
+Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., to const. REV.
+  JOHN THORPE, L.M.                             50.00
+
+Nashua. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._        61.50
+
+North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               17.00
+
+Pelham. Mrs. E.W. Tyler, _for Freight_           2.00
+
+Rindge. "A Friend"                               1.00
+
+Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                             3.25
+
+Temple. Mrs. Lucy W.C. Keyes                     0.40
+
+West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                         16.96
+                                              -------
+
+                                               210.03
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Cornish. Estate of Sarah W. Westgate, by
+  A.E. Wellman for Trustees Cong. Ch.
+  of Cornish                                    27.50
+
+Milford. Estate of Lydia H. Frost, by
+  Albert Heald and David Heald, Executors      500.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $737.53
+
+
+VERMONT, $340.33.
+
+Berlin. First Cong. Ch.                         22.00
+
+Charlotte. Cong. Ch.                            20.50
+
+Hartford. E. Morris                            100.00
+
+Highgate. Cong. Ch.                              4.78
+
+Rutland. Cong. Ch.                              50.00
+
+Shoreham. Cong. Ch.                             19.00
+
+Thetford. First Cong. Ch.                        6.00
+
+Vergennes. Cong. Ch.                            20.00
+
+Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 45.00
+
+Wallingford. "C.M.T.,"
+  _for Mountain Work_                            2.00
+
+West Townshend. Cong. Ch, and Soc.               8.90
+
+Worcester. Ladies of Cong. Go.,
+  _for McIntosh, Ga._                            5.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont,
+  by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, Treas:
+
+    Manchester. W.H.M.                5.00
+
+    Peacham. Ladies                  25.00
+
+    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies           7.15
+
+                                  --------      37.15
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $8,192.20.
+
+Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.
+  _for ed. Indian Child, Fort Berthold,
+  Dak._                                         21.06
+
+Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch.         14.50
+
+Andover. "Friend," _for Girls' Dormitory,
+  Macon, Ga._                                1,202.76
+
+Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for
+  Chandler Normal Sch., Lexington, Ky._        483.22
+
+Bernardston. Cong. Ch.                           7.30
+
+Boston. "Friends," _for Tougaloo U._            60.00
+
+    "A Friend."                      25.00
+
+    Woman's Home Miss'y
+      Ass'n., _for Indian Sch'p.
+      Oahe Ind'l Sch._               15.00
+
+  Neponset. Sab. Sch. of Trinity
+    Ch., on True Blue
+    Cards, bal. to const.
+    CHESTER G. BARNES L.M.            8.00
+
+  Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch.     227.54
+
+                                   -------     335.54
+
+Boylston Center. Charles T. White               5.00
+
+Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    37.01
+
+Cambridgeport. Stearns Chapel                    3.83
+
+Campello. South Cong. Ch.                      100.00
+
+Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                         10.75
+
+Conway. Cong. Ch.                                6.50
+
+Curtisville. Cong. Ch.                          20.20
+
+Curtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Oaks, N.C._                              27.41
+
+Dalton. Mrs. Louise F. Crane, 50; Miss
+  Clara L. Crane, 50. _for Tougaloo U._        100.00
+
+East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._               12.50
+
+Falmouth. Cong. Ch.                             39.58
+
+Hardwick. Calvinistic Ch.                        9.95
+
+Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols,
+  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._              200.00
+
+Holden. Two Bbls. of C. and 8.45. by Miss
+  M.A. Perry, _for McLeansville, N.C._           8.45
+
+Holden. M.A. Perry                               4.00
+
+Holliston. "Bible Christians of Dist.
+  No. 4."                                       50.00
+
+Leverett. Y.P.S.C.E. ad'l, _for Grand View,
+  Tenn._                                        11.00
+
+Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.           131.68
+
+Millbury. First Cong. Ch., (10 of which
+  _for Mountain Work_)                          58.40
+
+Millbury. M.D. Garfield, 10;
+  Lizzie M. Garfield, 2                         12.00
+
+Natick. First Cong. Ch.                        150.00
+
+Newburyport. A Friend, _for Indian M._          10.00
+
+Northampton. ----                                3.00
+
+North Wilbraham. Grace Union Ch.                17.50
+
+Peru. Rev. S.W. Powell                           3.00
+
+Prescott. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 9.00
+
+Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner                   20.00
+
+Revere. Miss Emily M. Peck, Bbl. of C.,
+  2 _for Freight, for Marion, Ala._              2.00
+
+Richmond. Cong. Ch.                              5.64
+
+Royalston. "Thank Offering from a
+  Friend," _for Greenwood, S.C._                12.50
+
+Springfield. Mrs. O.C. Hunt                     10.00
+
+South Amherst. Cong. Ch.                        11.00
+
+Uxbridge. WILLIAM H. SEAGRAVE, bal.
+  to const. himself L.M.                        25.00
+
+Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.              15.66
+
+Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., bal.
+  to const. GEORGE H. MADDOCK L.M.               6.17
+
+Ware. Mr. Anderson's S.S. Class, _for
+  Indian Sch'p, Santee Normal Sch._             17.50
+
+Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell
+  _for Chinese M._                               5.00
+
+Warren. Ladies, Box of Bedding, etc.;
+  Mrs. M.L. Hastings, 3. _for Freight,
+  for Austin, Texas_                             3.00
+
+Westford. William Taylor, 5, _for Indian M._
+  and 5 _for Mountain Work_                     10.00
+
+Whateley. Cong. Ch., 12.84, and
+  Sab. Sch., 10                                 22.84
+
+Winchester. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Indian Sch'p.,
+  Santee Normal Sch._                           70.00
+
+Woods Holl. Cong. Ch.                            3.00
+
+Worcester. Polly W. Ames and
+  George W. Ames                                 6.00
+
+----. "Donations,"                             100.00
+
+----. "A."                                      10.00
+
+Hampden Benevolent Association, by
+  Charles Marsh, Treasurer:
+
+    Huntington. Second               19.85
+
+    Mittineagne                       3.57
+
+    Monson. Sab. Sch.,
+      _for Indian M._                50.00
+
+    Springfield, Rev. Edward
+      Clarke                          5.00
+
+                                  --------      78.42
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $3,538.87
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Conway. Estate of Ruby Strong, Mrs.
+  Julia E. Tilton, Adm'x., _for Tougaloo U._    20.00
+
+Cummington. Estate of Mrs. R.P.W.
+  Baldwin, by Ethan Clark, Executor            500.00
+
+Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings,
+  _for Education, Instruction and
+  Improvement of the Colored Population
+  of the South_                              3,000.00
+
+Newton Highlands. Estate of Miss Ellen
+  Craft, by Miss Emeline H. Craft and
+  Sarah A. Craft, Executors                    400.00
+
+Southampton. Estate of Eunice L. Strong,
+  Henry W. Bosworth, Adm., by Charles
+  Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n           733.33
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $8,192.20
+
+
+CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Winchester, Mass. First Cong. Ch., by
+  Miss Elizabeth P. Chapin, Bbl. of C.,
+  Val. 50, _for Fort Berthold, Dak._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $32.00.
+
+Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.                15.00
+
+Narragansett Pier. Miss C. Danielson,
+  _for Indian M._                                2.00
+
+Providence. N.W. Williams                       15.00
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,395,01.
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.       25.00
+
+Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   16.14
+
+East Granby. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen H.
+  Strong, _for Cong. Ind'l Sch., Ga._            5.00
+
+East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
+  Ch., 31.54 _for Indian M._; Infant Sch.,
+  2.80, _for Rosebud M._                        34.34
+
+Green's Farms. Cong. Ch.                        20.00
+
+Guilford. Wigwam Club of First Cong.
+  Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._, and to const.
+  MISS EMMA PHELPS and MISS LOTTIE
+  NORTON L.M's                                  70.00
+
+Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const.
+  WILLIAM C. BISHOP L.M.                        30.00
+
+Middletown. Third Cong. Ch.                     13.37
+
+Hadlyme. Jos. W. Hungerford                    100.00
+
+Hampton. "A Friend"                              5.00
+
+Lisbon. Cong. Ch.                               20.00
+
+Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                         47.20
+
+New London. "A Teacher and Chinese Scholar,
+  First Ch. of Christ," _for Chinese M._         5.00
+
+New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           10.00
+
+New Preston. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
+ _for Conn, Ind'l Sch., Ga._                     5.00
+
+Norfolk. Young Ladles' Mission Band,
+  _for Indian M._                               42.42
+
+North Haven. Cong. Ch.                          57.00
+
+North Guilford. Mrs. Eben F. Dudley,
+  _for Indian M._                                5.00
+
+Oxford. Cong. Ch., to const REV. HENRY
+  M. HAZELTINE L.M.                             32.88
+
+Prospect. Cong. Ch.                             20.00
+
+Redding. Cong. Ch.                              20.73
+
+Riverton. Cong. Ch.                              7.00
+
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                                11.60
+
+Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      46.69
+
+South Windsor. First Ch.                        11.49
+
+Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.           46.50
+
+Terryville. "A Friend," _for Indian M._         20.00
+
+Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                             7.75
+
+Windsor. First Cong. C.                         75.00
+
+----. "A Christian Union Reader,"
+  _for Chinese M._                              25.00
+
+----. "A Friend in Conn."                       10.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $815.01
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. Asa B. Smith,
+  by Rev. E. Harmon, Ex.                       550.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $1,395.01
+
+
+NEW YORK, $36,789.63.
+
+Augusta. "Friends," by M.A. Holmes               1.45
+
+Cambria Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.           8.00
+
+Comstock. "A Friend"                            20.00
+
+Deansville. Cong. Ch., _for Charleston, S.C._    9.08
+
+Eaton. Cong. Ch.                                 8.50
+
+East Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Santee Ind'l Sch._                       26.22
+
+Franklin. Cong. Ch.                             30.06
+
+Fredonia. Miss Martha L. Stevens                 2.00
+
+Greene. Cong. Ch.                               10.50
+
+Java. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch. 10., Juv. Temp.
+  Soc. 1.25, by Mamie J. Lyford, Treas.         11.25
+
+New York. "Pilgrim Church," 20.,
+  Rev. Stephen Angell, 10                       30.00
+
+North Walton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             8.57
+
+Nyack. John W. Towt                            100.00
+
+Tarrytown. "A Friend,"                          50.00
+
+Warsaw. "A Friend," 50., Cong. Ch., 4           54.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,
+  by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Jamestown. Ladies' Aux.          15.00
+
+    Rutland. Ladies' Aux.             5.00
+
+                                     -----      20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                              $389.63
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Fulton. Estate of Mrs. A.B.C. Dada           1,400.00
+
+New York. Estate of John F. Delaplaine,
+  James Cruickshank and Talbot W.
+  Chambers, Executors                       35,000.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $36,789.63
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $82.00.
+
+Bordentown. Lambert Bewkes                       3.00
+
+Highlands. Rev. H.R. Proudfit                   54.00
+
+Perth Amboy. Rev. P. Kimball                    25.00
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $1.00.
+
+Braddock. Thomas Addenbrook, P'k'g.
+  C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+New Castle. John Burgess                         1.00
+
+
+OHIO, $164.50.
+
+Adams Mills. Mrs. M.A. Smith                    10.00
+
+Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee                            5.00
+
+Charlestown. Cong. Ch.                           2.50
+
+Cleveland. Hough Chapel, 20., Crawford
+  Road, 20., by Rev. C.W. Hiatt                 40.00
+
+Cleveland. East Madison Av. Cong. Ch.           25.00
+
+Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott              5.00
+
+Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 22; Woman's
+  Miss'y Soc., 3.; Y.P.S.C.E. 5., to const.
+  REV. EDGAR S. ROTHROCK L.M.                   30.00
+
+Kent. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Ada J. Blackmore,
+  _for Memphis, Tenn._                          10.00
+
+Marietta. Cong. Ch.                              2.00
+
+Stubenville. First Ch.                          10.00
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treasurer,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Akron. Aux.                      20.00
+
+    Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band    5.00
+
+                                   -------      25.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $491.43
+
+Beecher. Member Cong. Ch.                       10.00
+
+Belvidere. Mrs. Mary C. Foote, 5., _for
+  Tillotson C. and N. Inst._, and 3. _for
+  Woman's Work_                                  8.00
+
+Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 149.01;
+  Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 11.60           160.61
+
+De Kalb. Cong. Ch.                              18.87
+
+Dover. Cong. Ch., (100. of which from
+  Dea. George Wells) to cont. DEA. J. HOYT,
+  DEA. AARON DUNBAR, JOHN W. HENSEL,
+  J.B. ALLEN and JAMES A. PIERCE L.M's         123.71
+
+Hyde Park. S.S. Class, Presb. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._                1.50
+
+Joliet. "A Thank Offering, M.T.M."              10.00
+
+Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.                          42.15
+
+Lyndon. J.M. Hamilton                            1.00
+
+Malden. Cong. Ch. ad'l.                          7.13
+
+Normal. Cong. Ch.                                9.24
+
+Ontario. Cong. Ch.                              14.34
+
+Princeton. Mrs. S.C. Clapp                      25.00
+
+Providence. Cong. Ch.                           12.00
+
+Ravenswood. Cong. Ch.                           21.01
+
+Toulon. Cong. Ch., in part                      10.00
+
+Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.                      16.17
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $61.85.
+
+Ann Arbor. Y.P.M.S. of First Cong. Ch.
+  _for Chapel, Santee Agency_                   13.85
+
+Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. L.W.
+  Killmar, _for Athens, Ala._                   20.00
+
+Farmington. Mary Erwin                          10.00
+
+Homer. Mrs. C.C. Evarts                          6.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of
+  Michigan, by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas:
+
+    Grand Blanc. "Willing Helpers,"
+     _for Normal Training Sch.,
+     Santee Agency_                             12.00
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $360.10.
+
+Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                        169.30
+
+Boscobel. "Coral Workers" by Mrs. A.A. Young     3.00
+
+Cooksville. Cong. Ch.                            6.36
+
+Eau Claire. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.        15.00
+
+Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch. to const.
+  WILTON B. SIMMONS L.M.                        43.89
+
+Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch.                        15.80
+
+LaCrosse. Cong. Ch.                             51.41
+
+Lake Mills. Cong. Ch.                            4.00
+
+Ripon. First Cong. Ch.                          20.00
+
+Viroque. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box Books,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Waukesha. Cong. Ch.                             31.34
+
+
+IOWA, $211.26.
+
+Clayton. N.G. Platt                              5.00
+
+Creston. Pilgrim Ch.                             1.81
+
+Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, Box Papers,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Dubuque. Y.L. Benev. Soc.,
+  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                8.00
+
+Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                              4.92
+
+Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                             5.16
+
+Nashua. Cong. Ch.                               10.68
+
+Osage. Cong. Ch., to const. L.A. LARSON
+  and LEE J. LOVELESS L.M's                     60.00
+
+Red Oak. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 4
+  Packages Papers, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Storm Lake. Cong. Ch.                           13.14
+
+Tipton. "L.M.S." _for Mountain Work_             5.00
+
+Victor. Mrs. C.L. McDermid, _for
+  Nat, Ala._                                     0.50
+
+Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Bellevue. L.M.S.                  4.25
+
+    Des Moines. L.M.S.                5.00
+
+    Genoa. W.H.M.U.                   2.01
+
+    Grinnell. W.H.M.U.                3.01
+
+    Humboldt. W.M.S.                  5.00
+
+    Iowa City. W.H.M.U.              25.35
+
+    Le Mars                           2.10
+
+    Magnolia. W.H.M.U.                1.50
+
+    Osage. W.M.S.                     2.15
+
+    Sheldon. W.M.U.                   2.00
+
+    Traer. L.M.S.                    20.00
+
+    Dubuque. Y.L.B.S.                 4.00
+
+    Fairfield. L.M.S.                 3.10
+
+    McGregor. L.M.S. ad'l to cont.
+      MRS. WILLIAM
+      TROUT-FETTER L.M.              10.58
+
+    McGregor. "Thank Offering."       2.00
+
+    New Hampton. L.M.S.               5.00
+
+                                   -------      97.05
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $46.90.
+
+Austin. Mrs. S.C. Bacon                         10.00
+
+New Richland. Cong. Ch.                          2.00
+
+Rose Creek. Mrs. J.S. Rounce,
+  on True Blue Card                              3.10
+
+Rushford. Cong. Ch.                              5.28
+
+Saint Paul. Saint Anthony Park Cong. Ch.        19.00
+
+Tivoli. Lyman Humiston                           1.00
+
+Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.                     6.52
+
+
+MISSOURI, $12.50.
+
+Amity. Cong. Ch.                                 2.50
+
+Kidder. Cong. Ch.                               10.00
+
+
+KANSAS, $5.00.
+Boston Mills. J. Hubbard                         5.00
+
+
+DAKOTA, $5.00.
+
+Yankton. Gen. W.H.H. Beadle                      5.00
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA, $9.65.
+
+Elrod. Cong. Ch.                                 1.60
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of
+  South Dakota, by Mrs. Sue Fifield,
+  Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Plankinton. W.M.S.                3.05
+
+    Sioux Falls. W.M.S.               5.00
+
+                                     -----       8.05
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $58.73. Exeter.
+
+Exeter. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc.,
+  by Grace Gilbert                               5.00
+
+Fremont. Cong. Ch., 35., and Sab. Sch. 7.48     42.48
+
+Nebraska City. Woman's Miss'y Soc.,
+  by Mrs. J.B. Parmlee, Treas.                  10.00
+
+Silver Creek. Cong. Ch.                          1.25
+
+
+MONTANA, $20.50.
+
+Helena. First Cong. Ch.                         20.50
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, 70c.
+
+Murphys. Douglas Flat Cong. Ch.                  0.70
+
+
+OREGON, $650.63.
+
+East Portland. First Cong. Ch.                   0.63
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Portland. Estate of Dea. H.M. Humphrey,
+  by Rev. C.F. Clapp                           650.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $5.25.
+
+McLeansville. First Cong. Ch.                    1.50
+
+Nall. Cong. Ch.                                  0.50
+
+Pekin. Cong. Ch.                                 1.25
+
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                                 2.00
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $215.50.
+
+Glenmary. Cong. Ch.                             10.00
+
+Memphis. "Friends," _for LeMoyne Sch.
+  Building_. (30. of which to cont.
+  DR. D.T. PORTER L.M.)                         205.50
+
+
+GEORGIA, $17.00.
+
+Atlanta. Teachers and Students of
+  Atlanta U., _for Indian M._                   15.00
+
+Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta, U._      2.00
+
+
+TEXAS, 65c.
+
+Austin. Tillotson Ch. of Christ, ad'l.           0.65
+
+
+NEW MEXICO, $3.80.
+
+Albuquerque. Cong. Ch.                           3.80
+
+
+JAPAN, $20.00.
+
+Kioto. Mission Ch.                              20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Donations                                   $7,618.69
+
+Estates                                     42,780.83
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $50,399.52
+
+
+INCOME, $30.00.
+
+Belden Sch'p Fund _for Talladega C._            30.00
+
+
+TUITION, $98.00.
+
+Wilmington, N.C., Tuition            11.50
+
+Grand View, Tenn., Tuition           74.42
+
+Austin, Texas, Tuition               12.06
+
+                                  --------      98.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Total for August                           $50,527.52
+
+
+SUMMARY.
+
+Donations                                 $171,498.08
+
+Estates                                     98,995.51
+
+                                          -----------
+
+                                          $270,493.59
+
+Income                                       9,103.21
+
+Tuition                                     34,059.34
+
+United States Government
+  appropriation for Indians                 15,219.37
+
+                                          -----------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to August 31            $328,875.51
+
+                                          ===========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for August                       $26.55
+
+Previously acknowledged                        733.12
+
+                                              -------
+
+Total                                         $759.67
+
+
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+56 Reade St., N.Y.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No.
+10, October, 1889, by Various
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+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a>[i]</span></p>
+
+<h1>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY</h1>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<table class="volume" width="100%" summary="Title">
+  <tr>
+    <td width="25%" align="left"><b>Vol. XLIII.</b></td>
+    <td width="50%" align="center"><b>OCTOBER, 1889.</b></td>
+    <td width="25%" align="right"><b>No. 10.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>CONTENTS</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY"><b>EDITORIAL.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#ANNUAL_MEETING"><span class="smcap">Annual Meeting</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#VOTING_MEMBERS"><span class="smcap">Voting Members</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#THE_CLOSE_OF_OUR_FINANCIAL_YEAR"><span class="smcap">Close of Financial Year</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#LETTERS_FROM_CONTRIBUTORS"><span class="smcap">Letters from Contributors</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#COMPROMISES_AND_THE_CONGREGATIONAL_CHURCHES_OF_GEORGIA"><span class="smcap">Compromises and the Congregational Churches of Georgia</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#INDIAN_CONTRACT_SCHOOLS"><span class="smcap">Indian Contract Schools</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#A_MINISTERS_TESTIMONY"><span class="smcap">A Minister's Testimony</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#NOTES_BY_THE_WAY"><span class="smcap">Notes by the Way</span></a></li>
+    <li><span class="smcap">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</span></li>
+    <li><a href="#FREELY_YE_HAVE_RECEIVED_FREELY_GIVE"><span class="smcap">"Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give"</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#THE_SOUTH"><b>THE SOUTH.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#ITEMS_FROM_THE_FIELD"><span class="smcap">Items from the Field</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#VACATION_AT_TOUGALOO"><span class="smcap">Vacation at Tougaloo</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#FROM_A_TEACHER_IN_THE_TENNESSEE_MOUNTAINS"><span class="smcap">From a Teacher in the Tennessee Mountains</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#SIGNS_OF_PROGRESS"><span class="smcap">Signs of Progress</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#OBITUARY"><span class="smcap">Obituary</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#STUDENTS_LETTER"><b>STUDENT'S LETTER.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#A_BIT_OF_EXPERIENCE"><span class="smcap">A Bit of Experience</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#THE_INDIANS"><b>THE INDIANS.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#FORT_YATES_DAKOTA"><span class="smcap">Fort Yates, Dakota</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#THE_CHINESE"><b>THE CHINESE.</b></a>
+ <ul>
+   <li><a href="#OUR_CHINESE_IN_CHINA"><span class="smcap">Our Chinese in China</span></a></li>
+ </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"><b>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#WOMANS_STATE_ORGANIZATIONS"><span class="smcap">Woman's State Organizations</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#The_Womans_meeting"><span class="smcap">Paragraphs</span></a></li>
+    <li><a href="#GLIMPSES_FROM_THE_FIELD"><span class="smcap">Glimpses from the Field</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"><b>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</b></a>
+  <ul>
+    <li><a href="#OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"><span class="smcap">School Incidents</span></a></li>
+  </ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#RECEIPTS_FOR_AUGUST_1889"><b>RECEIPTS</b></a></li>
+</ul>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center"><b>NEW YORK:<br />
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br />
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</b></div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br />
+Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</div>
+<br />
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span>
+
+<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>PRESIDENT, Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Taylor</span>, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</li>
+  <li><i>Vice-Presidents.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.J.F. Behrends</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">F.A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.</li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie</span>, D.D., Mass.</li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">D.O. Mears</span>, D.D., Mass.</li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Hopkins</span>, D.D., Mo.</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reads Street, N.Y.</i></li>
+    <li>Rev. A.F. <span class="smcap">Beard</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Recording Secretary.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Treasurer.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li><span class="smcap">H.W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Auditors.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li><span class="smcap">Peter McCartee</span>.</li>
+    <li><span class="smcap">Chas. P. Peirce</span>.</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Executive Committee.</i>
+    <ul>
+      <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.</li>
+      <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>, Secretary.</li>
+    </ul>
+    </li>
+    <li>
+    <ul>
+      <li><i>For Three Years.</i>
+        <ul>
+          <li><span class="smcap">J.E. Rankin</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">J.W. Cooper</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Edmund L. Champlin</span>.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+      <li><i>For Two Years.</i>
+        <ul>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Chas. A. Hull</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Albert J. Lyman</span>.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+      <li><i>For One Year.</i>
+        <ul>
+          <li><span class="smcap">S.B. Halliday</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead</span>,</li>
+          <li><span class="smcap">Elbert B. Monroe</span>.</li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>District Secretaries.</i>
+  <ul>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">C.J. Ryder</span>, <i>21 Cong'l House, Boston.</i></li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">J.E. Roy</span>, D.D., <i>151 Washington Street, Chicago.</i></li>
+    <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Rev. C.W. Hiatt</span>, <i>64 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio</i>.</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+<li><i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</i>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Chas. W. Shelton</span>.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Field Superintendents.</i>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Frank E. Jenkins</span>,</li>
+      <li>Prof. <span class="smcap">Edward S. Hall</span>.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li><i>Secretary Of Woman's Bureau.</i>
+    <ul>
+      <li>Miss <span class="smcap">D.E. Emerson</span>, <i>56 Reade St. N.Y.</i></li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+<h4>COMMUNICATIONS</h4>
+
+<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the
+Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the
+Treasurer.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h4>
+
+<p>In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be
+sent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when
+more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational
+House, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment
+of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p>
+
+<p>NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.&mdash;The date on the "address label," indicates the
+time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on
+label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made
+afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please
+send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former
+address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and
+occasional papers may be correctly mailed.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4>
+
+<p>"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who,
+when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American
+Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the
+direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three
+witnesses.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_271" id="Page_271"></a>[271]</span>
+
+<h2><a name="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY" id="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY"></a>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h2>
+
+<table width="60%" summary="Title" align="center">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XLIII.</b></td>
+    <td align="center" width="50%"><b>OCTOBER, 1889.</b></td>
+     <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 10.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+<hr style='width: 65%;' />
+
+<h3>American Missionary Association.</h3>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+
+<h2><a name="ANNUAL_MEETING" id="ANNUAL_MEETING"></a>ANNUAL MEETING.</h2>
+
+<p>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 29th. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of
+Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. Fuller details regarding the
+reception of delegates and their entertainment, together with rates at
+hotels, and railroad reductions, will be found on the last page of the
+cover.</p>
+
+<p>We are anxious that the Churches, Local Conferences and State
+Associations should be fully represented at the meeting. This
+Association is the almoner of their bounty and seeks their aid and
+counsel at its annual gatherings. We believe that the work of the past
+year will not only meet their approval, but increase their enthusiasm
+for pushing forward with renewed interest what still lies before us. We
+request the pastors of churches to secure the appointment of delegates,
+and all local Conferences and State Associations whose meetings have not
+been held, to name their delegates.</p>
+
+<p>For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 295.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VOTING_MEMBERS" id="VOTING_MEMBERS"></a>VOTING MEMBERS.</h2>
+
+<p>Life members and delegates chosen by contributing churches, local
+Conferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting, as
+will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.</p>
+
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted
+members of this Association for life by the payment of
+thirty dollars into its treasury, with the written
+declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is
+to be applied to constitute a designated person a life
+member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the
+payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+payment of the same sum, may be made life members, without
+the privilege of voting.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_272" id="Page_272"></a>[272]</span>Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed
+to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference
+or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates
+to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates,
+duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the
+Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.</p></div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_CLOSE_OF_OUR_FINANCIAL_YEAR" id="THE_CLOSE_OF_OUR_FINANCIAL_YEAR"></a>THE CLOSE OF OUR FINANCIAL YEAR.</h2>
+
+<p>These pages may fall into the hands of some of our constituents before
+the close of our fiscal year, September 30th. We hope that the
+opportunity will be embraced by church treasurers to remit promptly
+funds designed for us, and that benevolent friends who have intended to
+aid us during the year will carry out their purpose at once. The outlook
+is encouraging and we shall hail with joy and gratitude the day of
+deliverance from debt.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="LETTERS_FROM_CONTRIBUTORS" id="LETTERS_FROM_CONTRIBUTORS"></a>LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS.</h2>
+
+<p>"Again I have the pleasure of enclosing for the general use of the
+American Missionary Association a draft of one hundred dollars. The Lord
+bless the work of the dear workers in the field. My love to them."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>"Many years ago I used to contribute to the funds of the American
+Missionary Association. My husband and I supported a teacher under its
+auspices, but times have changed and we are not able to do that now. For
+many years I have ceased to send any money to your treasury, for I
+thought what little I could afford would do no good at all. But seeing
+in the September MISSIONARY some contributions of a few dollars, I send
+the enclosed five dollars. If each one interested in the cause would do
+that, it would help some. My interest is unabated in your great and
+glorious work for humanity and immortal souls."</p>
+
+
+<h4>FROM A MISSIONARY IN CHINA.</h4>
+
+<p>"Enclosed we send twenty-five dollars, which please accept as our
+subscription to the American Missionary Association work for the current
+year. We are more and more interested in this work, especially in view
+of the hateful prejudice that exists in many parts of the South against
+the colored people and those who have so nobly espoused the cause of
+their education and Christianization. This low-minded prejudice is very
+similar to what we have to endure here in the interior of China, yet it
+is harder to bear because coming from those who pretend to be
+enlightened Christians, while here those who indulge in personal abuse
+are mostly of the lowest and most ignorant heathen, though they are
+often backed up by the literati."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_273" id="Page_273"></a>[273]</span>
+<h2><a name="COMPROMISES_AND_THE_CONGREGATIONAL_CHURCHES_OF_GEORGIA" id="COMPROMISES_AND_THE_CONGREGATIONAL_CHURCHES_OF_GEORGIA"></a>COMPROMISES AND THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA.</h2>
+
+<p>Americans are much addicted to settling difficulties by compromises; but
+these compromises, in State and Church, especially in regard to slavery,
+have so often been the sacrifice of principle to expediency that the
+word has come to have a sinister meaning&mdash;implying such a sacrifice; and
+they have so often proved failures as to show them to be unwise, even as
+a matter of expediency.</p>
+
+<p>A brief sketch of some of these past compromises, with their motives and
+failures, may throw some light upon the compromise proposed for the
+Congregational churches in Georgia.</p>
+
+
+<h4>POLITICAL COMPROMISES.</h4>
+
+<p>These have usually been made from more than one motive:</p>
+
+<p>1. One strong plea is that the expediency is so urgent that a small
+sacrifice of right is justifiable. In that celebrated law case of
+Shylock the Jew <i>versus</i> Antonio the merchant, so ably reported by
+William Shakespeare, Esq., this reason was plainly stated. The
+defendant's attorney, Bassanio, in order to avert from his client the
+dreadful forfeit of a pound of flesh taken nearest his heart, appealed
+to the judge:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i8">"I beseech you<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Wrest once the law to your authority;<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">To do a great right, do a little wrong."<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>The "wise young judge" knew the law, human and divine, too well to grant
+this plea.</p>
+
+<p>But that plea had its influence in securing the adoption of the Federal
+Constitution. Among other difficulties in the way, a constructive
+guarantee of slavery seemed necessary to secure the assent of some of
+the Southern States. How strong the plea! Slavery was wrong to be sure,
+but the terrible seven years' war was ended, and a great nation was
+ready to come into existence! The compromise was made and the Union was
+formed. But did the compromise save it? No! The "pound of flesh" was at
+last the price. After a struggle of seventy-two years the crisis came,
+Sumter was fired upon and the compromise was found to be a failure. "A
+pound of flesh!" Nay, the flesh and blood of a million of men saved the
+Union.</p>
+
+<p>2. Another motive for a compromise is the expectation that while it is
+all that can be done now, it will be a step towards the ultimate. This
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_274" id="Page_274"></a>[274]</span>was strongly urged in that first compromise. It was said that the
+Declaration of Independence, the enthusiasm for liberty, and the
+world-wide boast of equal rights, must work a universal consent to the
+abrogation of slavery. Jefferson voiced the general sentiment when he
+said: "I think a change is already perceptible since the origin of the
+present revolution. The way I hope is preparing, under the auspices of
+heaven, for a total emancipation." But slavery grew stronger, instead of
+weaker, under the compromise, and from time to time required more
+compromises, and more surrenders. The Missouri Compromise, the
+Annexation of Texas, and the Fugitive Slave Law, each extorted under
+threats of the "dissolution of the Union," are examples. But no
+compromise ever wrenched an inch of territory from the clutch of slavery
+and gave it to freedom. Freedom <i>held</i> the whole Northwest, by the
+<i>un</i>-compromising requirement: "There shall be neither slavery nor
+involuntary servitude" there!</p>
+
+<p>3. Another strong plea for compromise is the hopelessness of gaining
+anything better. This was the consideration urged so vehemently against
+the early Abolitionists. It was said: "Slavery is wrong&mdash;that we all
+admit&mdash;but it is a fixed fact, invulnerable, backed up by wealth,
+talent, pride and political influence, and all opposition is vain. You
+Abolitionists are mere sentimentalists, visionaries, doctrinaires." This
+had great influence with the indifferent, the timid, and especially with
+those who vaunt themselves as "practical men," who boast that they care
+nothing for abstractions, but take business views of things. This plea
+and these men were largely influential in carrying forward some of the
+most iniquitous compromises preceding the war.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT SLAVERY.</h4>
+
+<p>This glance at the compromises in the political history of the nation
+prepares us to look at those in the Church. Here, too, compromises on
+the subject of slavery were made as in the State, and generally from the
+same motives and always with the same disappointing results.</p>
+
+<p>The Churches before and during the revolutionary period were emphatic in
+their utterances against slavery. Their accredited leaders and official
+convocations used such terms as these: Methodist, "The sum of all
+villanies;" Presbyterian, "Man stealers: stealers of men are those who
+bring off slaves or freemen and keep, sell or buy them;" Baptist,
+"Slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature;"
+Congregational, "Slavery is in every instance wrong, unrighteous,
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_275" id="Page_275"></a>[275]</span>oppressive, a great and crying sin, there being nothing equal to it on
+the face of the earth."</p>
+
+<p>But there were slaveholders in the churches, and as population increased
+they became more numerous and naturally chafed under such denunciations.
+But their impatience reached its climax under the modern anti-slavery
+doctrine that immediate emancipation is the only remedy for the sin of
+slavery. The South was alarmed and soon became imperious and exacting;
+the North was timid and yielding. Then began the special era of
+ecclesiastical compromises. Let me specify:</p>
+
+<p>1. The utterances as to the guilt of slavery were modified, reaching at
+length the point where some of the most eminent doctors of divinity and
+the most learned professors in theological seminaries tried to vindicate
+from the Bible the toleration of slavery.</p>
+
+<p>2. Disclaimers were made as to the right to interfere with slavery. As,
+for example, a large ecclesiastical assembly by vote disclaimed "any
+right, wish or intention to interfere with the civil and political
+relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slaveholding
+States of this Union." A distinguished bishop is reported to have said:
+"I have never yet advised the liberation of a slave, and I think I never
+shall;" and an eminent doctor of divinity declared: "If by one prayer I
+could liberate every slave in the land I would not dare to offer it."</p>
+
+<p>3. Fine distinctions were drawn in behalf of slaveholders. It was
+warmly urged in their defense that while slavery was a sin, the
+individual slaveholder might not in every case be a sinner&mdash;a charity
+that was made to cover a multitude of sinners. One large religious
+assembly declared that it could not "exclude slaveholders from the table
+of the Lord;" it would rather "sympathize with and succor them in their
+embarrassments." An elaborate report was adopted at another large
+convocation, in which it was suggested that the convert should be
+admitted into the church while still a slaveholder, an oppressive ruler
+and a proud Brahmin, in the hope that under proper teaching, "the master
+may be prepared to break the bonds of the slave, the oppressive ruler to
+dispense justice to the subject, and the proud Brahmin fraternally to
+embrace the man of low caste."</p>
+
+<p>The great motive for these concessions was the desire for church
+enlargement. Slavery was a sin, but the slaveholder might not always be
+guilty, and if church unity and church extension were to be secured in
+the South, some concessions must be made. Then, too, there was
+undoubtedly the hope that concessions and fraternal intercourse in
+public assemblies and in Christian work would win the confidence of the
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_276" id="Page_276"></a>[276]</span>slaveholders, and perhaps prepare the way for the gradual removal of
+slavery; and above all there was the cogent plea that compromise or
+division was the only present choice. The "<i>half-loaf</i>" argument was
+wielded most effectually, and here, especially, the "practical men" came
+to the front, while on the heads of the devoted Abolitionists were
+showered without stint the epithets "fanatics" and "visionaries."</p>
+
+<p>So much zeal for the slaveholders, and so much sacrifice of
+self-respect, not to say of conscience, surely deserved a better fate;
+but all was in vain. The slaveholders scorned the compromises, and
+ruthlessly rent asunder the great national churches and missionary
+societies. The Congregationalists, never numerous in the South, clung
+with great tenacity to their few churches, but at length surrendered
+them.</p>
+
+
+<h4>ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT CASTE.</h4>
+
+<p>So ended the first chapter of humiliating and fruitless Church
+compromises; but a new chapter has begun to be written, and so far
+promises to read just as the other did, both as to the facts to be
+recorded and the end that will be reached. Slavery is dead, but the son
+and heir and legitimate representative, <i>race prejudice</i>, arises to take
+its place. This does not propose to remand the colored race back into
+slavery, but to hold them as inferiors, to be discriminated against as
+to equal rights and to bear with their color the perpetual ban of
+separation and degradation. This might be expected in the political
+world, but not in the Church where "<i>all are one in Christ Jesus</i>." And
+it would be a specially sad fact if the Church should be more tardy than
+the State in the recognition of the equal manhood of the two races.</p>
+
+<p>One great effort in the present ecclesiastical struggle is to secure the
+reunion of the sundered Churches; and, as in the case of slavery, other
+issues have been waived or compromised, leaving race-prejudice as the
+real point in the contest. Great have been the endeavors for harmony.
+Committees of Conference have been appointed, have met and conferred;
+enthusiastic public meetings have been held; communion services have
+been celebrated jointly, and great feasts have been spread to welcome
+visiting delegations. But the South has been inflexible on the
+color-line. The Northern leaders have made concessions, and in some
+instances have been ready to surrender the main point, but the mass of
+Northern Christians seem unwilling to deny the Saviour in the person of
+the man whose ostracism is demanded for no fault of his own, but only
+because God made him black.</p>
+
+<p>The Presbyterian Church (North) deserves special mention for having, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_277" id="Page_277"></a>[277]</span>in
+the last General Assembly rejected a compromise that approved "the
+policy of separate churches, presbyteries and synods." The prize was
+nothing less than the ultimate reunion of the Northern and Southern
+branches of that great Church. The leaders in the Church and in the
+Assembly were committed to it and warmly advocated it, but when the test
+vote came, it was rejected by an overwhelming majority! <i>God grant that
+when the test comes for the Congregationalists they may show as much
+back-bone!</i> The present stage of the controversy finds the Methodists,
+Baptists and Presbyterians still divided, with little prospect of
+reunion. The Episcopalians in South Carolina have surrendered on a
+compromise that permits the one colored minister in the Convention to
+remain in it, but utterly forbids the admission of any others.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE CONGREGATIONALISTS IN GEORGIA.</h4>
+
+<p>The Congregationalists are considering the question practically, but
+with a division of sentiment. Some stand firmly against all race
+distinctions, while others are disposed to compromise on a plan that
+keeps the two organizations in Georgia still separated by the
+color-line, but that provides for the appointment of a few delegates from
+each, to form a new body that shall have charge of the interests of the
+denomination and be represented in the National Council.</p>
+
+<p>We are not careful to criticise the <i>details</i> of this plan, nor are we
+anxious to secure any particular modification of them. The cardinal fact
+is that the plan itself keeps the two bodies in Georgia apart for no
+other assigned or assignable reason than race prejudice; for who
+supposes for a moment that if these bodies were both white there would
+be this elaborate plan devised to touch each other with the tips of the
+fingers, instead of giving at once the whole hand-grasp of Christian
+fellowship? And so long as this plan makes or retains the line of caste
+distinction or practically delays or evades its rejection, it is a
+compromise that should not be endorsed. But already the old pleas for
+compromise are urged in its behalf:</p>
+
+<p>1. It is said that this is a first step towards the ultimate&mdash;a bridge
+to facilitate a future coming together. But a bridge is not possible,
+nor if possible, necessary. There is no doubt that since the New
+Testament was written there have been great improvements in bridge
+building, both mechanical and theological; but between equal manhood on
+one side and race prejudice on the other, "there is a great gulf fixed,"
+and no bridge can span the chasm. <i>The Negro must surrender his manhood
+or the white man his prejudice.</i> There is no half way. But <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_278" id="Page_278"></a>[278]</span>when either
+is surrendered, there is no gulf, and no bridge is needed. If the Negro
+will take his place as an inferior, he and the white man can ride on the
+same seat in a buggy: if the white man will surrender his prejudice, the
+Race-Problem is settled. Which shall be surrendered&mdash;the manhood or the
+prejudice? The Congregational churches have no doubt on that question,
+and if we are to educate men in right principles we must stand firmly
+upon them ourselves. To begin with a compromise is to yield the very
+point at issue.</p>
+
+<p>2. But now also the opposite tack is taken. We are told that race
+prejudice is a fixed fact&mdash;that the Southern people will never yield,
+and that hence if we are to plant Congregational churches in the South
+at all, we must compromise. And once more we have with us the "practical
+men," who claim to take common sense views, and they urge us again to be
+content with the "half-loaf." But this compromise "half-loaf" is very
+much like the famous "little book" that John ate that was indeed in the
+mouth "sweet as honey" but afterward proved to be exceedingly "bitter."
+The truth is that this half-loaf, and Ephraim's "cake not turned" and
+the drink that was "lukewarm, neither hot nor cold," constitute a very
+unhealthy diet for Christian people. The past has its lesson by which we
+ought to have profited; and it will be a shame if, with all our
+experience, we are found to need the reproof that "when for the time ye
+ought to be teachers, ye have need that some one teach you again which
+be the <i>first principles of the oracles of God</i>."</p>
+
+<p>We have to deal once more, in the history of this nation, with the
+precious interests of the poor and neglected, and we must guard against
+past mistakes. The issue before us is a square one, and no dodging and
+no compromise will meet the case. We plead now for eight millions of
+freemen as we once plead for four millions of slaves. God is their
+Father, Christ is their Redeemer and the Church must recognize their
+equal manhood. We hold with the <i>Christian Union</i> that: "It were better
+far that the Northern Church should not go with its missionary work into
+the South at all, than that it should go with a mission which
+strengthens the infidelity that denies that God made of one blood all
+the nations of the earth for to dwell together."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches North resist all
+overtures for separating the colored and white people in churches and
+ecclesiastical bodies in the South. The Episcopal Church, in Virginia
+and South Carolina at least, have consented to the separation on the
+color-line. The Congregationalists will soon decide the position they
+will take. Will they range themselves with the Episcopalians now
+standing alone?</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_279" id="Page_279"></a>[279]</span>
+<h2><a name="INDIAN_CONTRACT_SCHOOLS" id="INDIAN_CONTRACT_SCHOOLS"></a>INDIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS.</h2>
+
+<p>The public has been made aware through the press recently that the
+United States Government aids the Roman Catholics to support 2,098
+Indian pupils and assists all Protestant denominations in the support of
+only 1,146 pupils. Why is this discrimination, and who is to blame for
+it? If the Roman Catholics give for plant, teachers' salaries, etc., an
+amount proportionately greater than that given by the Protestants, then
+the Protestants have themselves only to blame, and the difficulty can be
+remedied by their giving an equal amount. But if, on the other hand, the
+Government gives in proportion more to the Roman Catholics than it does
+to the Protestants, then the Government is showing a wholly
+unjustifiable partiality. Figures are in order on this subject. Who will
+furnish them?</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_MINISTERS_TESTIMONY" id="A_MINISTERS_TESTIMONY"></a>A MINISTER'S TESTIMONY.</h2>
+
+<p>"I have just been reading the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for August with
+profound interest. I rejoice with you that the 'figures are still
+improving'.</p>
+
+<p>"Your 'practical thoughtful friend' is a suggestive example for us all,
+I am not surprised that this year he 'has doubled his special
+contribution.' 'Nothing succeeds like success,' is true also of
+achievement in bringing ourselves to give to the Lord of what he is
+constantly giving to us.</p>
+
+<p>"I thank God for the simple, but singular and noble justice done by that
+judge and jury in Chicago who maintained the civil rights of brother
+Smith.</p>
+
+<p>"Mrs. Regal's paper on 'The Local Society,' seemed to me full of
+excellent suggestions. One in particular, that of a birthday offering
+containing a cent for every year of age, is eminently practical, and
+conducive to surprising results. How better can we set up our Ebenezer
+than by thus saying from our purses as well as from our hearts,
+'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'?</p>
+
+<p>"Finding it is best for myself to 'strike while the iron is hot,' I sit
+down at once to send you a check. The signal mercy of the Lord enables
+me to make my offering of dollars instead of cents, and has put so many
+benefits already into the fraction of the current year that it may be
+reckoned as a complete year. How small an acknowledgment does even a
+dollar seem for a year of life, with all its escapes from peril and all
+its experience of good! What a refreshing addition to the resources of
+the church would result if each professing Christian would give such a
+birthday offering of one cent for each year of life! May the Lord fill
+us all with the spirit of him who gave himself unto the death for us.</p>
+
+<p>"I pray earnestly that the American Missionary Association may continue
+to enlarge, and its work to prosper."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_280" id="Page_280"></a>[280]</span>
+<h2><a name="NOTES_BY_THE_WAY" id="NOTES_BY_THE_WAY"></a>NOTES BY THE WAY.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.</h4>
+
+<h3>White Men and Red Men.</h3>
+
+<h4>"THE ROUND UP!<br />
+INTERESTING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST NIGHT."</h4>
+
+<p>The above was the characteristic heading in a Dakota paper of an
+editorial notice of the closing exercises of their High School.
+Everything takes its color from the peculiar condition of society. A
+rubber overcoat is a "slicker," and a native pony is a "broncho." Not so
+inappropriate, either, is the term "The Round Up," for the closing
+exercises of a school year. It ought to be the round up, a complete
+circle or sphere of successful work and accomplishment, so far as that
+period of school-life is concerned. The white men of Dakota are changing
+perceptibly, I think, in their feelings toward the red men among them,
+or among whom they are. A sense of responsibility for their
+Christianization seems to have taken possession of the minds of the
+intelligent Christian people. One is impressed with the abundance of
+church buildings in these small white settlements. In one small village
+of perhaps five hundred people, I counted eight Protestant churches.
+With Christian churches so numerously planted as they are in these new
+Western States, we may hope for large help from them in the Indian work
+of the Association, before many years. They are now falling into line in
+this great work. I rode on one side of the Missouri River for many miles
+among the white settlements. Afterwards I rode on the other side of the
+river a long distance among the Indian villages, and could not help but
+contrast the condition of life of the two. The Government relations
+differ materially. If the supplies were withheld from the Indians, and
+they were compelled to take land in severally, and not hustled over the
+prairie every month or two weeks for meat, sugar and coffee, I think the
+change for the better would be perceptible in a twelvemonth. There is
+general hopefulness on the part of the missionaries among the red men,
+now that two Christian men stand at the head of the Indian Department.</p>
+
+<p>It was my privilege to take a cordial letter of greeting from Supt.
+Dorchester of the Government Indian Schools to the A.M.A. missionaries
+at Santee Agency, Neb. It was an encouragement to these earnest toilers
+in this far-away field to know that there was appreciation on the part
+of the Government of the Christian work among these Indians. Great care,
+intense study, great deliberation of action will be necessary if these
+new Government officers succeed in bettering the condition of the red
+men, as they are doubtless sincerely desirous of doing. They must know
+what they are doing, before they do it.</p>
+
+
+<p>The Government schools which I visited furnished abundant evidence that
+considerable time would be necessary to correct the evils existing in
+these, and to make them what they should be before any radical policy
+could <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_281" id="Page_281"></a>[281]</span>be safely adopted by the Government in reference to contract
+missionary schools. The Roman Catholic influence seems to have been a
+dominant power in the control of these schools for some time.</p>
+
+<p>Wolf Chief, a Mandan Indian, called on me while at Fort Berthold and
+begged that his tribe be protected against a Catholic priest who, he
+said, wanted to compel them to send their children to a school that he
+proposed to establish near them. "We Mandans are Congregationalists,"
+said this Indian chief, "and we want to send our children to your
+mission."</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>Incidents both amusing and pathetic are of frequent occurrence in this
+Indian work. Such incidents throw light upon the inside life of the
+Indians and missionaries, and are often useful in the "Monthly Concert,"
+and so I record some of them here.</p>
+
+<p>"Cherries-in-the-mouth," a somewhat aged and highly-painted Indian, was
+very much taken with one of the missionaries. He came to the
+Superintendent of the mission and offered eight ponies for her, or, I
+believe, more correctly, said he would give eight ponies, if he had
+them. His affection was larger than his pocket-book, as is sometimes
+true of his pale-faced brother.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>"Plenty Corn" was a sweet little Indian girl, who attended the mission
+at Fort Berthold. She had won her way wonderfully into the hearts of the
+teachers, and when she died last spring, there were sorrowful hearts in
+the mission, as truly as in the Indian tepee. The parents had been
+reached also by the influence of the mission. They permitted the
+missionary to lay the body in a coffin. The Indians took up the little
+white casket and bore it to the boat in which it was to be taken across
+the Missouri River. The father rowed the boat, as the mother sat on the
+opposite bank waiting for her dead darling, and from the boat there went
+up the piteous wailing of the father, which was echoed back from the
+bank in the piteous wail of the mother. It was a sad, sad sight, and
+emphasized painfully the need of Christian instruction, that the hope of
+the Gospel may break through the superstitious darkness of these sad
+lives.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<h4>ECHOES.</h4>
+
+<p>An old man who teaches in the country heard we had a number of
+Sunday-school papers, and asked us if we had any "overtures of
+Sunday-school literature" to give him.</p>
+
+<p>One of the older boys was obliged to leave school to work. In the last
+prayer-meeting he attended he said: "It makes me feel very sorry when I
+think that next week my seat will be filled with my absence."</p>
+
+<p>Another prayed that he might walk more "citcumspotly before the world."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_282" id="Page_282"></a>[282]</span>
+<h2><a name="FREELY_YE_HAVE_RECEIVED_FREELY_GIVE" id="FREELY_YE_HAVE_RECEIVED_FREELY_GIVE"></a>"FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE."</h2>
+
+<div class="center">(<i>Written for a Missionary Concert held in the interests of the A.M.A.</i>)</div>
+
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">So free are the gifts of heaven,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">So many the blessings which fall,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">That, should we attempt to count them<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">We could not number them all.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">For God is a generous Giver.<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Who sows with a liberal hand<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Shall reap a bounteous harvest<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And gather the fruits of the land.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">For 'tis God that gives the increase,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">And oft it's a "hundred fold,"<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">And men are reaping in many ways<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Aside from lands and gold.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">The blessings of home and fireside,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">Of friendship, of books, of health,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Of knowledge, of church, of worship,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">All these are a part of our wealth.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">But off in the sunny Southland,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">In a part of our country large,<br /></span>
+<span class="i1">Are <i>needs</i>, which with us are <i>blessings</i>,<br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And to us there comes this charge:&mdash;</i><br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1"><i>Freely received are God's mercies;</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i2"><i>And now will ye freely give?</i><br /></span>
+<span class="i1">It will be a glorious mission<br /></span>
+<span class="i2">To help a nation live.<br /></span>
+</div><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i1">BLUEHILL, ME.</span>
+</div></div>
+<div class="center">M.</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_SOUTH" id="THE_SOUTH"></a>THE SOUTH</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="ITEMS_FROM_THE_FIELD" id="ITEMS_FROM_THE_FIELD"></a>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT F.E. JENKINS.</h4>
+
+
+<h4>NEW CHURCHES.</h4>
+
+<p>Two new Congregational churches in connection with our work completed
+their organization with communion services on Sunday, September 1st.
+Both were organized by Northern people who have settled in the South in
+places which are likely to grow by immigration from the North. One is in
+Roseland, La., and is under the pastoral care of Rev. C.S. Shattuck. It
+starts with eleven members.</p>
+
+<p>The other is in North Athens, Tenn., and for the present is cared for by
+our general missionary, Rev. G. Stanley Pope. It begins with thirteen
+members. Both will come into the regular State organizations of
+Congregational churches.</p>
+
+<p>The First Congregational Church of Alco, Ala., was organized August
+25th, with twelve members. Rev. James Brown, a graduate of the last
+theological class at Talladega College, is the pastor.</p>
+
+<p>At Fort Payne, Ala., the first steps were taken August 21st toward the
+organization of a church. It was voted to complete the organization as
+soon as possible. Rev. Geo. S. Smith, recently of Raleigh, N.C., has
+gone to Fort Payne to take charge of the work.</p>
+
+
+<h4>NEW CHAPEL.</h4>
+
+<p>The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., aided by the
+American Missionary Association, is erecting a chapel which is to be
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_283" id="Page_283"></a>[283]</span>used as a church until the congregation shall become larger and
+wealthier. This church has been organized by Northern people who have
+gone to this new and growing town to make their homes. It is connected
+with the Central South Association of Congregational Churches.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HYMN BOOKS WANTED.</h4>
+
+<p>The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., greatly needs
+hymn books. It has a few copies of the "Songs of the Sanctuary," but not
+enough to enable it to use them. Any church having copies of this book
+which are not needed in its service could scarcely do better with them
+than to send them to this courageous little church.</p>
+
+<p>From Crossville, Tenn., we have this appeal: "It would be esteemed a
+great favor if some church could furnish our people with a donation of
+hymn books for church singing. You may know of some church having a new
+supply of hymn books who would be pleased to give this poor flock on the
+mountains their old books. If so, they would be thankful, and highly
+appreciate the favor."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="VACATION_AT_TOUGALOO" id="VACATION_AT_TOUGALOO"></a>VACATION AT TOUGALOO.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT E.S. HALL.</h4>
+
+<p>Awake? With the "Rat-a-tat Quir-r-k, tat-tat" of the great
+crimson-crested woodpecker hammering just for noisy fun on the wide
+cornice of the "mansion," with the summer sun shining in through the
+window, and the five o'clock bell pealing sharply from Strieby Hall, the
+seven sleepers would have to be awake and doing at Tougaloo University.</p>
+
+<p>The mercury is passing the 72&deg; point at sunrise; but the morning, as the
+sunshine sparkles on the dewy grass between the wide-spreading live-oaks
+of the grove, seems as cool as a morning on the Berkshire hills. The
+wide-rolling plantation fields to the west give no hint of the long hot
+mid-day hours when the cotton revels in a heat that sends all animate
+nature to the deepest coverts.</p>
+
+<p>The Tougaloo grounds are a paradise for all feathered life. The quail
+with their cheery "Bob White" whistle in the kitchen garden, following
+in plain sight the boys hoeing out the "grass." The blue-jays, martins
+and mocking birds render a trip to the Paris Exposition entirely
+unnecessary, if one wishes to hear all parties talk at the same moment
+and in unintelligible syllables. Curious, is'nt it, that these shy
+denizens of field and forest are so bold, in term as well as vacation
+time, where these colored lads and lasses congregate, for people of a
+low, brutal nature, incapable of any spark of generosity or ambition,
+are no friends to innocent nature. The papers that characterize the
+Negro as such, a creature unfit to live in a white man's country, cannot
+be blinded by prejudice!</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_284" id="Page_284"></a>[284]</span>What of the human life at Tougaloo? College is out; the teachers are in
+the far North. Miss Emerson, Preceptress of the Girl's Hall; Mr.
+Hitchcock, Treasurer; Mr. Klein, Superintendent of the Farm; and Mr.
+Kennedy, Superintendent of Carpentry; and Mr. McKibban, borrowed from
+Macon school, are present to supervise the necessary work, for Tougaloo
+cannot be closed a day. With its farm and forest and its shops, it is to
+become for the Southwest what Hampton is for the Eastern South. May the
+Lord prompt some of his stewards to make investments here which will
+bring in a ten-fold interest for the nation and for heaven!</p>
+
+<p>The dining-hall shows a number of tables well filled at meal times. Most
+interesting are the ten little girls whom Miss Emerson has taken to
+bring up to womanhood with habits of industry and economy, and with
+characters pure and joyous. Each day has its routine for them; the
+bedroom, the dining-room, the kitchen, the sewing-room, the lesson hour,
+the play time and the period for personal advice and religious
+instruction, have their appropriate but never-forgotten place.</p>
+
+<p>There are a dozen of the large girls, young women who do the washing,
+"clean house," cook the daily meals and can fruit from the garden and
+orchard for the Sunday-night dish of sauce during the coming year. Part
+of these are girls in the regular domestic course, a few are kept to
+work for their board and instruction rather than have them obliged to go
+into the cotton fields at home under unscrupulous overseers. These girls
+have a long, busy day, for the work needed to keep any one of the great
+boarding schools in efficient operation would surprise any one of our
+contributing friends who has never been "thro' the mill."</p>
+
+<p>The boys&mdash;<i>little</i> fellows some of them only seventy-two inches tall in
+their bare feet&mdash;comprise the regular students in the industrial
+courses; the baker, the butcher or meat boy, the irrepressible John boy
+of all work about the kitchen; then the stock, the farm, the carpenter
+and blacksmith apprentices, together with several kept for general help,
+for work of an unusual magnitude was to be undertaken this vacation.</p>
+
+<p>The Girl's Hall, a great three story building with seven thousand five
+hundred square feet of ground plan, had been slowly settling into this
+treacherous alluvium, which is three hundred feet deep to the first sand
+and gravel, until the building was in danger of falling. Southern
+contractors advised taking it down because it could not be safely
+repaired. But the American Missionary Association's force was equal to
+the emergency. The weight, with the resulting strains and thrusts, was
+calculated. Concrete footings of sufficient area were planned, brick
+piers and heavy timbering were skillfully placed, and the building will
+stand stronger than new and much improved in plan.</p>
+
+<p>If these youths, who pulled on the forty-eight great "jack-screws,"
+lifting and blocking up the building section by section, who excavated
+exactly to the surveyor's stakes, who mixed concrete and mortar, who
+framed <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_285" id="Page_285"></a>[285]</span>and handled the huge "hard pine" timbers, who earnestly undertook
+whatever was told them&mdash;for this was new and strange work&mdash;if these
+youths had not been "Negroes," the outside world would have been glad to
+picture them in magazine and review.</p>
+
+<p>The writer has had a long experience as master of a boy's boarding
+school in the North, situated in a village which also contained a young
+ladies' seminary. Had those young people been as sober and in earnest as
+these dusky-skinned ones, as free from midnight mischief, how many weary
+vigils would he have escaped!</p>
+
+<p>The religious life at Tougaloo does not cease with term time. Two or
+three young men go out to hold Sunday services in the country cabins,
+the Sunday-school is full and the older ones serve as teachers, for many
+children come in from surrounding fields, making a school of nearly one
+hundred teachers and pupils. The young people's society meeting each
+Sunday afternoon, and the prayer meetings on Sunday and Wednesday
+evenings are characterized by a quiet, earnest Christianity, that would
+do credit to any circle in our Northern States.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FROM_A_TEACHER_IN_THE_TENNESSEE_MOUNTAINS" id="FROM_A_TEACHER_IN_THE_TENNESSEE_MOUNTAINS"></a>FROM A TEACHER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS.</h2>
+
+<p>Let me tell you of the general interest manifest in several of the
+counties west and north of us in attending this school. One of our
+students has visited many cabins over the mountains during his vacation,
+and finds school advantages very scarce and poor. He finds poverty and
+degradation, and ignorance of the world and of books. Some of the people
+are still using the old-time method of kindling their fires by flint and
+steel instead of matches. He has met many young people who are thirsting
+for books and school, has also found numbers who have struggled up
+through the darkness and have become teachers in their own neighborhood,
+"the blind leading the blind." Such almost invariably wish to come to
+our school and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close.
+Many are too poor to come. This is true of a number of young girls who
+would come if they could <i>work</i> their board or in any possible way
+pay for it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these
+neglected girls, and place them in our school and prepare them for the
+future duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end
+will do the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of
+the money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.</p>
+
+<p>The natives are having their big yearly meetings and lively times
+shouting and actually chasing each other in and around their log
+churches to pull them to the "mourner's bench," and, in their wild
+efforts, they upset stove pipes and benches. It is so much like a circus
+that everybody runs to the big meetings.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_286" id="Page_286"></a>[286]</span>
+<h2><a name="SIGNS_OF_PROGRESS" id="SIGNS_OF_PROGRESS"></a>SIGNS OF PROGRESS.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY PRES. R.C. HITCHCOCK.</h4>
+
+<p>Every little while, some article giving ultra views of "The Problem,"
+gets into the papers, sometimes painting a roseate-hued picture, and
+again some one, who does not find people of dusky hue all angels, writes
+that there is no hope; that all experiments leading to intellectual and
+especially to moral elevation are failures; and that she (as one wrote)
+is ready or almost ready, "to throw away the Bible and advise the
+negroes to be honestly heathen."</p>
+
+<p>I will indicate a few plain signs of progress. The negroes are rapidly
+learning self-control. Six years ago, if a package was left in the hall
+over night, there would be signs in the morning that it had been meddled
+with. The contents might be all there&mdash;I have not found them greatly
+given to peculation, from the first&mdash;but they did not seem to have the
+power to resist the temptation to peep. Now, this is never done; a
+package of any kind may be left where it is freely accessible for weeks,
+and it will be untouched.</p>
+
+<p>The first time a fire occurred in our neighborhood, what a panic there
+was! All were screaming and tearing about, trunks were dragged out of
+rooms, and one boy threw his out of a second story window. It was all we
+could possibly do to quiet them and restore order. Since then, there has
+been a fire so near as to scorch the rear fence and no panic, no
+screaming, hardly a student left his room. Formerly, on the receipt of
+bad news, as the intelligence of the death of a friend, it was not
+uncommon for one to have a fit of hysterics or something resembling it;
+now, such news is received with deep feeling indeed, and with tears, but
+no hysterics or fit of any kind.</p>
+
+<p>There is, also, a grand growth in the sister virtue of gratitude. In
+this, they have more to overcome, probably, than in any other matter,
+for here they carry an inheritance of great weight, from the old slave
+days. Why should they be grateful? What chance to exercise the feeling!
+It became, like the eyes of the fish in the Styx of Mammoth Cave,
+useless, and to all appearances disappeared. But the germ is there, and
+with light it will again come to the surface.</p>
+
+<p>I could cite scores of anecdotes. I will give but one, and I give this
+because it also illustrates a most loveable trait of character which
+abounds among these people&mdash;sympathy for suffering. Mrs. H. and myself
+started one day, to drive from New Iberia to the Avery salt mine, some
+ten miles distant. It was Monday following a hard Sunday's work
+speaking; it was as hot as days can be out in the Teche country, and
+when a little more than half way there, I was suffering from a terrific
+headache. We were too far to go back, and so drove on. Arrived at the
+"Island," we drove, as directed, to the boarding house, seeking a place
+where I could at least lie down, to find only a shed filled with tables,
+where the men ate, going elsewhere to sleep. I asked Mrs. H. to drive on
+and, holding on behind the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_287" id="Page_287"></a>[287]</span>carriage, was groping my way along, more dead
+than alive, when I heard a voice cry out, "Why, howdy, Professor, how
+ever came you here?" Glad was I to hear a friendly voice. It was that of
+a young girl who had been, some months before, a visitor at the
+University, and to whom I had given a little book and spoken some
+friendly words. My bread came back to me&mdash;a whole loaf for a crumb. All
+day long, she and her mother, who left her wash tub to attend to me,
+worked over my miserable head. A mile and more she ran in the burning
+sun for ice, and no herb that grew on "Petit Anse" from which a
+decoction could be made, was left untried, until ice, herbs, and a tough
+constitution prevailed, and I was able to ride home. I offered pay, but
+it was almost indignantly refused. I wish space would allow me to tell a
+hundred stories to illustrate their kind-heartedness, not only to each
+other, but to strangers, and even to their old masters and mistresses.</p>
+
+<p>Their Christian faith is something wonderful. It has been my blessed
+privilege to be at the bedside of several young people as the death
+angel hovered near, and nowhere did I ever feel so near the pearly
+gates. Such pure faith and perfect confidence, such perfect resignation,
+one could almost hear the rustle of the wings as Azrael bent down to
+take the sweet spirit home.</p>
+
+<p>They have gained much in stability of character. Frivolity and silly
+nonsense are not the rule. Our boys and girls who go out to teach, carry
+a load of responsibility with them. Some of the parishes have been
+almost entirely transformed by their work. Three of our boys last summer
+built the school houses in which they taught, the people contributing
+time, lumber and money, and they are the <i>only</i> school houses in the
+State, outside of the large towns, that were built for, or are fit for,
+the purpose. Two of them have halls above for meetings, are fitted up
+with blackboards, desks, etc. The stories our boys tell of their efforts
+to introduce modern appliances and methods, remind me of those I used to
+hear from the old veterans Barnard, Camp, and others, of their struggles
+in the early days in Connecticut.</p>
+
+<p>They have grown in cleanliness and industry beyond expression. When I
+first came here, it was sometimes harder to get a bit of work done than
+to do it myself. Now, it is a pleasure to work with them.</p>
+
+<p>In nothing, perhaps, has there been so great a gain as in the habit of
+reading. The progress in this is simply astonishing, and cannot be
+described in a few words. Seven years ago, there was hardly a reader in
+the school. Now, many of our young people come to my library and,
+looking over my books, talk of them and their authors as intelligently
+as young people of the same age in Massachusetts would.</p>
+
+<p>I conclude by saying that, in this far-away corner, God has greatly
+blessed the efforts made by faithful teachers, and there is every cause
+for encouragement and hope.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_288" id="Page_288"></a>[288]</span>
+<h2><a name="OBITUARY" id="OBITUARY"></a>OBITUARY.</h2>
+
+<p>Another of our educated, consecrated and useful colored pastors has
+passed away. Rev. Welborn Wright, pastor of the Second Congregational
+Church of Lawrence, Kansas, died at his home, August 14th, of
+consumption. He was born in South Carolina, and had been pastor of the
+church in Lawrence over six years. He was a man of thought, earnest in
+his convictions, and had acquired a large influence over his own people.
+His church had prospered greatly under his care.</p>
+
+<p>He won the esteem of the white people. Two years ago he was elected a
+member of the Board of Education of the city, and proved himself to be a
+man of good judgment in practical affairs. His funeral was attended by
+Rev. Dr. Cordley, Rev. R.B. Parker and Rev. A.N. Richards. He was
+Secretary of the Minister's Meeting of Lawrence, and resolutions of warm
+commendation and sympathy for his family were passed by that body, and
+also by the Board of Education of Lawrence.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>We have just learned that Mr. A.J. Berger, formerly industrial teacher
+at Macon, Georgia, died at Claremont, Virginia, September 2d, at the age
+of sixty-six years.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>News has also come to us of the death of Miss J.P. Bradshaw, a former
+teacher at Tougaloo University, Miss. For five years she bravely battled
+for life, but finally died of consumption.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="STUDENTS_LETTER" id="STUDENTS_LETTER"></a>STUDENT'S LETTER.</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="A_BIT_OF_EXPERIENCE" id="A_BIT_OF_EXPERIENCE"></a>A BIT OF EXPERIENCE.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY A TALLADEGA STUDENT.</h4>
+
+<p>Not long since I was forcibly reminded of the work and worth of the
+schools of the American Missionary Association by witnessing the
+services in a church. In a room large enough to comfortably seat one
+hundred were fully two hundred and fifty, and a large crowd hovering
+about the door. There was abundance of singing and praying. The songs
+were mostly on the solo and chorus style&mdash;not set to music, what we call
+plantation or "made-up songs." While singing, the leader adds new words
+to suit his fancy and emotional fervor; thus the song often undergoes
+several changes of words in the course of a few months, all the time
+retaining the same tune. This is what is meant by "made-up songs." Among
+those of my people in whom the emotional tide runs high this kind of
+singing is <i>very popular</i>.</p>
+
+<p>In that meeting, while singing the last part of each song the audience
+would rise and turn their backs toward the pulpit. One started the
+prayers, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289"></a>[289]</span>but soon the multitude of voices made it impossible to know who
+was leading or what was being said. The minister came in late. He slowly
+turned the pages of the Bible until he found his text. With a murmuring
+voice he read a few verses and began preaching. Moving off slowly, like
+an express train, he soon gathered a rapid motion of body and a furious
+rattling of words. With head down and the white of his eyes turned
+upward he kept up a constant spitting and walking for forty or
+forty-five minutes. All the while the hearers responded with thrilling
+animation. The sermon over, the singing was started as before for a long
+jubilee. A few nights ago, at such a meeting, not far from the writer's
+church, a young woman so mutilated her head while going through a
+muscular jubilation, that she had to go to the doctor to have her head
+repaired.</p>
+
+<p>Less than a quarter of a mile away was another audience, not one-fourth
+as large as the one referred to above, with an educated preacher,
+worshiping in the spirit with the propriety and with the gentleness of
+the gospel. So unlike was the deportment and so different was the
+character of the two audiences that but for their common color one might
+have thought that they were composed of two distinct races. The question
+may be asked, what makes the difference? They are the same people,
+worshiping the same God out of the same Bible. Education and the lack of
+it make the difference.</p>
+
+<p>The conduct of audiences like the first here spoken of seems to vary
+with the style of the speaker. I once preached to such a congregation.
+Their behavior was orderly. During the sermon their responses were a few
+amens. Knowing their habit in worship, I was somewhat annoyed with the
+thought that I was muzzling their feelings and the sooner I got through
+the gladder they would be. That class of people have a way of calling
+the minister "Cold water preacher," if he does not preach them into
+something like a spell of hallucination. Their composure led me to
+believe that I would earn the title. Still I endured, and endeavored to
+give the plain truth plainly and earnestly; having a strong feeling that
+as I was in authority I must command in the right way. After dismission,
+many said to me, "You gave us the pure word and we enjoyed it." "That's
+what we need," said another. I was heartily invited to come again. I
+find now I am welcome with that people.</p>
+
+<p>"The fields are white already to harvest." Great is the opportunity of
+the rich and enlightened churches. The helpfulness of our schools to my
+people and to the country, is beyond calculation. Our missionary
+schools are like so many lighthouses along this dark belt of the Union.
+Their light is being reflected by thousands of colored youth who without
+these schools would have grown up in gross ignorance.</p>
+
+<p>This brings to mind an incident of my life, which now I believe was
+providential. Seventeen years ago, when my education was very limited,
+while working in a restaurant, I visited Talladega College and was
+deeply <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290"></a>[290]</span>impressed with the school, and the intelligence and advancement
+of the boys. I decided that I would enter school immediately, and did
+so, though my money was scarce and a few weeks before I had agreed to
+continue work in the restaurant at twelve dollars per month, board and
+bed furnished. That was good wages for a boy of my age, but I know now
+that giving it up and going to school was a thousand times higher wages
+for me. I felt my imperfections so keenly then I was ashamed to talk to
+the boys in the college. The stimulation for an education, which I
+received on that visit to Talladega College has never left me. I regard
+it most fortunate for an ignorant young man to visit our best schools.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_INDIANS" id="THE_INDIANS"></a>THE INDIANS</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="FORT_YATES_DAKOTA" id="FORT_YATES_DAKOTA"></a>FORT YATES, DAKOTA.</h2>
+
+<h4>MISS M.C. COLLINS.</h4>
+
+<p>During the recent measles epidemic a large number of children died on
+the Agency. At this village, a little child had been conjured until they
+thought it was dying, and then they sent for me. I found the poor little
+one all bruised with the hands of the conjurer. I showed the mother how
+to bathe it, and I poulticed the throat and sent Josephine over again to
+change the poultice, and she reported the child as breathing quietly.
+The next morning the swelling had gone down and the baby seemed much
+better; all day it continued to improve, and the next day sat up and ate
+rice soup which I carried it. The mother said, "She is well now!" I
+said, "O, no, she is not; keep her in the house three days and I will
+visit her, then she will be well perhaps." If an Indian is not in a
+dying condition, they do not consider anything the matter. So, after I
+left, she took her child out and walked about two miles. The child
+caught cold, and that afternoon grew worse. They had an Indian to
+conjure it, and it died immediately. They sent for me to come and pray
+with them. Josephine went for Elias, and we went to the desolate home.
+The baby had been dead an hour and was closed up in a box, the
+grandfather singing a mourning song, the mother wailing, "O my daughter,
+my daughter, I loved her and she has left me." Over and over again she
+cried out in her sorrow. The grandmother had cut her flesh, and the
+streams of blood running down from her hair over her face only made all
+seem more desolate, and more weird and terrible. They were trying to be
+Indians, and yet they had asked for me to come. I suppose it was to give
+the child the full benefit of both religions, so that there should be no
+mistake in the future world.</p>
+
+<p>My Bible class now numbers ten; six of them are candidates for church
+membership. One of them spoke very nicely at our last prayer <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291"></a>[291]</span>meeting.
+Among other things he said: "No man can kill God's Word. It will live
+and his church will grow. We have tried to kill it in this village, but
+look at it now. It has taken hold of us, and we who have fought against
+it are now its followers. No man can kill God, because he alone is the
+creator of life, and it is only foolish to try to stand upon his word
+and keep it down. The Indian customs fall before the Word of God
+wherever the Bible has gone. My friends, stop fighting against God,
+believe on him and rejoice." This is Wakutemani (Walking Hunter) whom I
+named Huntington Wolcott for Mr. Wolcott of Boston. Because he said he
+wanted a long name and the name of a good man, I combined the two. He is
+now ambitious to become a teacher. He will be ready for an out-station
+whenever you are able to build one. He says they have already asked him
+to come up on Oak Creek to teach them, and I gave him a Bible and hymn
+books and primer, and he goes about reading and singing and praying for
+Christ. May he be indeed the Walking Hunter, going about seeking souls.
+God be with him to the end.</p>
+
+<p>Nearly all of our Indians signed the bill to open the reservation. John
+Grass took the lead. He is a very wise man, and a good one for an Indian
+who represents the wild Indians. I attended all the sessions of the
+Council except the last. I see by the papers that a Roman Catholic
+priest on this Agency says he touched the pen first, and that caused all
+the Indians to sign. Grass says he wants me to dispute that, that he
+refused to sign last year because he did not like the bill. This year,
+the Commissioners were men of brains and the bill was a better one, and
+was so explained that the Indians understood it, and that they of their
+own accord thought the best thing they could do was to sign it, that the
+said priest had no power or influence over them whatever. He said, "Tell
+our friends this for me, and tell them the Commissioners know that we
+signed it of our own will because we believed it was for the good of our
+people." I told him I would write it East.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>The instability of the Indian.&mdash;It used to be a proverb among the
+Indians that "The white man is very uncertain." The following brief
+extract from the letter of a missionary among the Indians not only shows
+that the Indian is unstable, but illustrates the difficulty of fixing
+the Indians in a given locality and at steady work:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The Commissioner was at &mdash;&mdash; the other day, and our Indians
+had a chance to sign, and almost all of them did so, but
+still to many of them the opening seems an evil. I am afraid
+they are not going to maintain their places in the face of
+settlement by the whites. Already six families have slipped
+away to the Indian Territory, and I shall not be much
+surprised if in the next two years a considerable majority
+of them go; and still it is about as difficult to tell what
+an Indian will do, as it is to forecast western weather. I
+think they have never done so well in farming as this year,
+but one case <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292"></a>[292]</span>will illustrate how unstable they are. One man
+sold three young horses for about half what they were worth.
+He had about eight acres of wheat, twelve acres of corn, and
+an acre of oats, all of which he abandoned to go South,
+though all his crops were very fine and had been well worked
+by <i>himself</i>.</p></div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="THE_CHINESE" id="THE_CHINESE"></a>THE CHINESE.</h2>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OUR_CHINESE_IN_CHINA" id="OUR_CHINESE_IN_CHINA"></a>OUR CHINESE IN CHINA.</h2>
+
+<h4>BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.</h4>
+
+<p>This is an old theme, but it presents fresh aspects from time to time. I
+am quite sure that the readers of the MISSIONARY will be interested in
+these extracts from three comparatively recent letters:</p>
+
+<p>"My DEAR PASTOR:</p>
+
+<p>"Since I left for my home, I am perfectly well and safe. I am very glad
+that I havn't got any persecution come to me. I told my parents the
+first thing when I reached my home that I don't worship the idols and
+the ancestors when I marry. They did not say anything except, 'Do what
+you please,' and then I thought I could stop the bride to worship too.
+They said, 'She couldn't,' [<i>i.e.</i> could not be prevented from
+worshiping]. In the day I married, when the bride worship the ancestors
+the spectators called me saying, 'Mr. Fung Jung, go, worship with the
+bride.' My mother answered them, 'That is all right, he did worship.'
+Two days after, the news that I did not worship the ancestors reached my
+wife's parents. They immediately send a woman to me and asked me what
+was the matter I did not worship the ancestor. I explained to her as
+well as I could and then she went home. Though I stay very firm for
+Jesus Christ, I am very sorry that I could not convert my family yet. Do
+pray for me and for those who do not know Christ."</p>
+
+<p>It may be remarked in explanation of this somewhat singular toleration
+of Fung Jung's faith and conduct as a Christian, that he had been a
+merchant for two or three years before he returned, and in comparison
+with his relatives at home, and perhaps with the average of returning
+Chinese, was a prosperous and somewhat well-to-do man. And it is often
+remarked that if a son or a brother can get <i>good luck</i> in California he
+may have whatever religion he pleases. That is what Chinese religion is
+<i>for</i>&mdash;its sole utility&mdash;to get for its patrons good luck, and if this
+is gained, and the son or brother has money to divide, his religion will
+be accepted as satisfactory, on the ground that it has worked well in
+his case.</p>
+
+
+<h4>JOE JET IN SEARCH OF A MISSIONARY.</h4>
+
+<p>Joe Jet is the Christian merchant (once a helper in our mission) to whom
+was entrusted by our brethren the task of inaugurating their missionary
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293"></a>[293]</span>work in the districts from which they came. The letter from him that I
+am about to quote reached me some months ago. "I have crossed the stormy
+ocean and safely reached my country. I have seen Tsing Ki, Fung Foo and
+all my friends at Hong Kong. God protected me. And we talked about our
+missionary society, how we should go on. Then we agree to try to have
+one good Christian brother, his name Moo King Shing. He can both preach
+and teach. We know he is belonging to the Presbyterian Church, but we
+desired to employ him. Then I left Hong Kong and went home to see my
+parents, wife and all my relatives. I stay home ten days, then take my
+way, go to find where Moo Hing Shan is. I go through the chapel of Kong
+Moon, then San Wao city, and then got to San Ching Fan and inquire how
+to get my way to see Moo Hing Shan. The preacher at that chapel say,
+he's in Nor Foo Market, and so, finally, I meet him there. I then talk
+over the new story with him. He like very well to work in our society,
+but he had teached and preached in that place seven years and all these
+brethren and scholars cannot leave him. The missionary say he could not
+let him leave, because he is a true Christian&mdash;not one to begin
+believing and then stop. He cannot decide yet. He will think about it.
+If he sure he cannot leave there, then we find another."</p>
+
+<p>A third letter is from a brother who has recently returned from China.
+It speaks of good news he has received from home&mdash;news of the baptism of
+six persons&mdash;one man and five women. About some of these women our
+brother knows something, and says: "One of the women was about sixty
+years of age. Her brother was a Christian and a preacher, and through
+her brother she gain to be a Christian. After this she encountered many
+trials, especially with her son's wife. Her son was in California, and
+his wife and two children lived with his mother. After she became a
+Christian both the children died. Their mother quarrel with her because
+she will not worship the idols. Then her brother, the preacher, died.
+Then she herself was taken very sick. We miss her three Sabbath days.
+That time no Chinese preacher was there, and only myself and, perhaps,
+one or two Christian brothers with me at the chapel. So I ask one of
+them to go with me to see for what cause she was absent. She lived about
+five miles from my place. We reach the village, meet a young man outside
+the village, ask him 'where is the Christian woman's house?' He said to
+us, 'Follow me.' So we follow him straight to her house and that young
+man live there. So I found she was sick. Three women were in the house,
+one of them the son's wife. These women said to us, 'If she not be a
+Christian you would not come to her.' My answer, 'Certainly not; if I
+not a Christian myself I would not come here.' So I begin to have a
+little talk to them and tell them who is the true God and how much God
+love us all, and how Jesus died for us. After this I gave them a prayer.
+They felt very much pleased to hear it. They gave me some present to
+<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294"></a>[294]</span>take home, and soon the woman got all well. Then she went with her
+brother's widow to Hong Kong and leave her son's wife at home. Then she
+also became a Christian woman, very faithful, although a great many
+people make fun of her and use many bad words about her. She must be one
+of the five baptized."</p>
+
+<p>Another letter from a Chinese brother tells me, "My wife one time, with
+the Chinese women, keep Sabbath day. So I am very glad. When I was at
+home my wife say she too young to be Christian and afraid the people
+would make fun of her. I told a Chinese preacher's wife in China to try
+to get her. I hope she will be led the Christian way."</p>
+
+<p>Surely the leaven, though little, is working in China, and though it be
+hid in a great mass of meal, it will not cease its working till the
+whole is leavened. "China for Christ!" this our motto, and this our
+prayer.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK" id="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"></a>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h2>
+
+<h4>MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</h4>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="WOMANS_STATE_ORGANIZATIONS" id="WOMANS_STATE_ORGANIZATIONS"></a>WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS</h2>
+
+<h3>CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h3>
+
+<p>ME.&mdash;Woman's Aid to A.M.A.,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.</span><br />
+</p>
+<p>
+VT.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood, Montpelier, Vt.</span><br />
+</p>
+<p>
+CONN.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.</span><br />
+</p>
+<p>
+MASS. and R.I.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Association,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Natalie Lord, Boston, Mass.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></span><br />
+</p>
+<p>
+N.Y.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. William Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+ALA.&mdash;Woman's Missionary Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss S.S. Evans, Birmingham, Ala.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+MISS.&mdash;Woman's Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo, Miss.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+TENN. and ARK.&mdash;Woman's Missionary Union of Central South Conference,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Anna M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+LA.&mdash;Woman's Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans, La.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+FLA.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park, Fla.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+OHIO.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+IND.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne, Ind.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+ILL.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+MINN.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Katharine Plant, 2651 Portland Avenue,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Minneapolis, Minn.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+IOWA.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+KANSAS.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. G.L. Epps, Topeka, Kan.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+MICH.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. Mary. B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+WIS.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+NEB.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 N. Broad St., Fremont, Neb.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+COLORADO.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Packard, Pueblo, Colo.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Union,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">President, Mrs. T.M. Hills, Sioux Falls;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Secretary, Mrs. W.R. Dawes, Redfield;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.</span><br /></p><p>
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.&mdash;Woman's Home Miss. Society,<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">President, Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Sec., Mrs. Silas Dagett, Harwood;</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Treas., Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.</span><br /></p>
+
+<div class="footnote"><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> For the purpose of exact information, we note
+that while the W.H.M.A. appears in the list as a State body
+for Mass. and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.</div>
+
+<p>We would, suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of
+State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary
+Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care,
+however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American
+Missionary Association, since <i>undesignated funds will not reach us</i>.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<p><a name="The_Womans_meeting" id="The_Womans_meeting"></a><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295"></a>[295]</span>The Woman's meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held
+in connection with the Annual Meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October
+31st, in the New England Church, Chicago, Ill. Missionaries will be
+present from the work among the colored people and the mountain whites
+in the South, and also from the Indians, to give descriptions of their
+life on their mission fields. We would again urge a full representation
+of ladies from all the churches.</p>
+
+<hr style='width: 45%;' />
+
+<p>In connection also with the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary
+Association, and by their invitation, there will be an all-day Mass
+Meeting of Women's Home Missionary Unions in the New England Church,
+Chicago, October 29th. Every State Union is urged to send
+representatives.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="GLIMPSES_FROM_THE_FIELD" id="GLIMPSES_FROM_THE_FIELD"></a>GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD.</h2>
+
+
+<h4>SCHOOL LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>I think you could not find a busier company of young people anywhere. As
+soon as one task is accomplished, another is ready to be taken up, and
+this goes on from early morn till time for retiring. Going into the
+kitchen you will find a dozen or more girls, with bright and happy
+faces, doing the homely work of dish-washing and preparing the
+vegetables for dinner. In the laundry, you are greeted with as many more
+smiling faces, some singing, others telling funny stories, but all busy
+at their allotted work. The bell rings for school and you will see them
+flying from every direction, perhaps having taken a moment to smooth the
+hair, or arrange the dress. All out of breath they reach the school
+room, ready for the five hours' work with books, which is the same as
+any average school in the North. This work being accomplished, they are
+off to the farm, shops, the sewing room and the cooking class. Here they
+learn to prepare all substantial food which would be necessary for any
+table, and become initiated into the intricacies of bread, pie and
+cake-making.</p>
+
+<p>Our Sabbaths are not idle days either, for with Sunday-school, church
+service, and prayer meetings, our day is pretty well filled. Some of our
+girls are doing real missionary work by going out into the neighborhood,
+to relieve the sick, read to the old and infirm, and to carry food where
+it is needed. This they seem to enjoy, and it will, perhaps, prepare
+them for usefulness as they go out to work among their people.</p>
+
+
+<h4>HOME LIFE.</h4>
+
+<p>Perhaps, if I give you a glimpse into the home of one of our pupils, you
+can more easily understand what we have to work against among these
+people. In a miserable old hovel, of one small room, lives a family of
+eleven, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296"></a>[296]</span>father, mother, five children, two pitiful little orphans, to
+whom the mother out of the kindness of her heart has given shelter, and
+a young man and a young woman as boarders. The mother toils hard each
+day to furnish bread for the little ones, and does what she can to keep
+her family respectable. The father is what is termed, "no 'count." He
+has no regular employment, but, when so inclined, will chop wood, and
+thus earn a few dimes. Their house is lighted by one small window, in
+which bunches of rags and papers supply the absence of glass. The room
+is heated by an old fire-place, which is crumbling to decay. The
+furniture consists of two straw beds covered with ragged quilts, a
+little pine table, and four broken chairs. I need not tell you of the
+moral atmosphere which exists in such a home. Yet this is only a type of
+the home we see too often when we are making our round of calls.</p>
+
+
+<h4>SACRIFICES FOR EDUCATION.</h4>
+
+<p>Our school refuses none on account of age. Pupils are there, from the
+little three-year-old who attends the "Kinny-garten," as they call it,
+to those who are forty and fifty years old. I have been exceedingly
+interested in one woman who is now attending school in the primary room.
+She said to me: "I done sent my daughters through school and now I
+thought I would try and get a little education myself."</p>
+
+<p>One of the good brothers well expressed this idea of sacrifice on the
+part of the parents for the education of their children when he said, "I
+only wants to be a stepping-stone for my children. If I can help them to
+rise higher than I have got, that is all I ask."</p>
+
+<p>One poor woman told me she spent less than a dollar per week for
+provisions for a family of eight persons in order to save money to keep
+her children in school.</p>
+
+<p>The oldest pupil in my school, a man over thirty years of age, said to
+me one day, "I wish I could have gone to school when I was young, for as
+a fellow grows older, his remembrance comes shorter."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS" id="OUR_YOUNG_FOLKS"></a>OUR YOUNG FOLKS.</h2>
+
+<p>Two little girls, about eight and nine years old, have just been to my
+room. The older one said, "This yere chile wants a dress to wear to
+Sunday-school to-morrow, and her ma says if it don't fit she can cut it
+off and make it over." I found among the contents of the last barrel a
+pretty blue gingham that fitted. I am sure the one who sent the dress
+would have felt happy if she could have seen the glad look of the child
+as she received it. I found the older little girl was not attending any
+day-school, and when I asked her what she did to help at home, she
+replied, "I don't do nothing, but stay at home and tote wood and notice
+the house."</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297"></a>[297]</span>The children may be interested in a question asked by a little girl in
+the third grade. She said, "My pa wants I should ask you whether the
+children of Israel, that Moses led out of Egypt, were black people, or
+white people?"</p>
+
+<p>I have been teaching nearly six weeks. The house is a cheap frame one
+with a fire-place at one end. It is supplied with five benches, two
+desks and a blackboard. On those small benches twenty-five or more
+children must be seated. It is hard to keep them busy, as very few have
+the books which they need. Many are just learning to read, and some of
+these are making excellent progress.</p>
+
+<p>At first it seemed as though the scholars would fight on the least
+provocation. If there had not been a few who had attended another of our
+schools, I do not know what I should have done, but those few did not
+fight. Their deportment in the school-room was also good. Now there is
+scarcely any fighting. At first several brought tobacco to school, but
+it was not allowed to be used, and so is not brought now.</p>
+
+<p>One day a girl was at the board doing a simple sum in addition, three
+plus four; she put down nine as the entire sum. When I asked her what
+three plus four was equal to, she said "seven." I then asked her why she
+did not put that down; she said, "Dunno how to make a seben and so
+'lowed dat would do." One young man has come to school but four half
+days, yet he has learned to write his own name legibly and can read
+some. He could spell "right smart" before he came.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%;" />
+<h2><a name="RECEIPTS_FOR_AUGUST_1889" id="RECEIPTS_FOR_AUGUST_1889"></a>RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1889.</h2>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>THE DANIEL HAND FUND</b>,</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><i>For the Education of Colored People.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Income for August, 1889, from the invested funds </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$4,197.35</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Income previously acknowledged </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31,302.36</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Total </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$35,499.71</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>=========</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+<h3>CURRENT RECEIPTS.</h3>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MAINE, $468.87.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bath. Children's Loyal Temperance Legion, 2 Packages Books, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Brewer. Mrs. Catharine S. Hardy (100 of which <i>for Chinese M. in Cal.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>200.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.63</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Castine. Class No. 9 Trin. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.70</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dennysville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.96</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hampden. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Limington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Anson. "A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Portland. Seamens Bethel Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>41.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Saco. First Parish Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.13</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Searsport. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.53</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wells. B. Maxwell</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEW HAMPSHIRE, $737.53.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Acworth. Cong. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.87</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Amherst. Capt G.W. Bosworth</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bedford. Milton B. George, <i>for Clinton Chapel, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Durham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.86</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>East Derry. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.83</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hanover. "Susie's Birthday Gift."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Littleton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.36</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOHN THORPE, L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nashua. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>61.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Pelham. Mrs. E.W. Tyler, <i>for Freight</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rindge. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Salisbury. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Temple. Mrs. Lucy W.C. Keyes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.96</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>210.03</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298"></a>[298]</span>ESTATES.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cornish. Estate of Sarah W. Westgate, by A.E. Wellman for Trustees Cong. Ch. of Cornish</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Milford. Estate of Lydia H. Frost, by Albert Heald and David Heald, Executors</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$737.53</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>VERMONT, $340.33.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Berlin. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Charlotte. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. E. Morris</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Highgate. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.78</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rutland. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Shoreham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thetford. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Vergennes. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>45.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wallingford. "C.M.T.," <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>West Townshend. Cong. Ch, and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.90</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. Ladies of Cong. Go., <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, Treas:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Manchester. W.H.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peacham. Ladies</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Saint Johnsbury. Ladies</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;37.15</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MASSACHUSETTS, $8,192.20.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. <i>for ed. Indian Child, Fort Berthold, Dak.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.06</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Andover. "Friend," <i>for Girls' Dormitory, Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,202.76</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, <i>for Chandler Normal Sch., Lexington, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>483.22</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bernardston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boston. "Friends," <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"A Friend."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n., <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i><br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Oahe Ind'l Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Neponset. Sab. Sch. of Trinity Ch., on True Blue Cards,<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;bal. to const. CHESTER G. BARNES L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>227.54&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;335.54</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boylston Center. Charles T. White</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.01</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cambridgeport. Stearns Chapel</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.83</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Campello. South Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Conway. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Curtisville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Curtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Oaks, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27.41</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dalton. Mrs. Louise F. Crane, 50; Miss Clara L. Crane, 50. <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Falmouth. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>39.58</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hardwick. Calvinistic Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.95</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, <i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>200.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Holden. Two Bbls. of C. and 8.45. by Miss M.A. Perry, <i>for McLeansville, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Holden. M.A. Perry</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Holliston. "Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Leverett. Y.P.S.C.E. ad'l, <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>131.68</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Millbury. First Cong. Ch., (10 of which <i>for Mountain Work</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>58.40</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Millbury. M.D. Garfield, 10; Lizzie M. Garfield, 2</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Natick. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>150.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Newburyport. A Friend, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. &mdash;&mdash;</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Wilbraham. Grace Union Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Peru. Rev. S.W. Powell</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Prescott. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Revere. Miss Emily M. Peck, Bbl. of C., 2 <i>for Freight, for Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Richmond. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.64</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Royalston. "Thank Offering from a Friend," <i>for Greenwood, S.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Mrs. O.C. Hunt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>South Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Uxbridge. WILLIAM H. SEAGRAVE, bal. to const. himself L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.66</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., bal. to const. GEORGE H. MADDOCK L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.17</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ware. Mr. Anderson's S.S. Class, <i>for Indian Sch'p, Santee Normal Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Warren. Ladies, Box of Bedding, etc.; Mrs. M.L. Hastings, 3. <i>for Freight, for Austin, Texas</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Westford. William Taylor, 5, <i>for Indian M.</i>and 5 <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Whateley. Cong. Ch., 12.84, and Sab. Sch., 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.84</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Indian Sch'p., Santee Normal Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woods Holl. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. Polly W. Ames and George W. Ames</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&mdash;&mdash;. "Donations,"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&mdash;&mdash;. "A."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Huntington. Second</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.85&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mittineagne</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.57&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Monson. Sab. Sch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Springfield, Rev. Edward Clarke</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;78.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$3,538.87</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATES.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Conway. Estate of Ruby Strong, Mrs. Julia E. Tilton, Adm'x., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cummington. Estate of Mrs. R.P.W. Baldwin, by Ethan Clark, Executor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, <i>for Education, Instruction and Improvement of the Colored Population of the South</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3,000.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Newton Highlands. Estate of Miss Ellen Craft, by Miss Emeline H. Craft and Sarah A. Craft, Executors</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>400.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Southampton. Estate of Eunice L. Strong, Henry W. Bosworth, Adm., by Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>733.33</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$8,192.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Winchester, Mass. First Cong. Ch., by Miss Elizabeth P. Chapin, Bbl. of C., Val. 50, <i>for Fort Berthold, Dak.</i></td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>RHODE ISLAND, $32.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Narragansett Pier. Miss C. Danielson, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Providence. N.W. Williams</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>CONNECTICUT, $1,395,01.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.14</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299"></a>[299]</span>East Granby. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen H. Strong, <i>for Cong. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 31.54 <i>for Indian M.</i>; Infant Sch., 2.80, <i>for Rosebud M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Green's Farms. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Guilford. Wigwam Club of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i>, and to const. MISS EMMA PHELPS and MISS LOTTIE NORTON L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM C. BISHOP L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Middletown. Third Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.37</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hadlyme. Jos. W. Hungerford</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hampton. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>47.20</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New London. "A Teacher and Chinese Scholar, First Ch. of Christ," <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New Preston. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Conn, Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Norfolk. Young Ladles' Mission Band, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.42</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Haven. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>57.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Guilford. Mrs. Eben F. Dudley, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Oxford. Cong. Ch., to const REV. HENRY M. HAZELTINE L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.88</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Prospect. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Redding. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.73</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Riverton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Salem. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.60</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.69</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>South Windsor. First Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.49</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Terryville. "A Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.75</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Windsor. First Cong. C.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>75.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&mdash;&mdash;. "A Christian Union Reader," <i>for Chinese M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend in Conn."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$815.01</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. Asa B. Smith, by Rev. E. Harmon, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>550.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$1,395.01</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEW YORK, $36,789.63.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Augusta. "Friends," by M.A. Holmes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.45</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cambria Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Comstock. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Deansville. Cong. Ch., <i>for Charleston, S.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Eaton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>East Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., <i>for Santee Ind'l Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.22</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Franklin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.06</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fredonia. Miss Martha L. Stevens</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Greene. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Java. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch. 10., Juv. Temp. Soc. 1.25, by Mamie J. Lyford, Treas.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New York. "Pilgrim Church," 20., Rev. Stephen Angell, 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>North Walton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.57</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nyack. John W. Towt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tarrytown. "A Friend,"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Warsaw. "A Friend," 50., Cong. Ch., 4</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>54.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Jamestown. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Rutland. Ladies' Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$389.63</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATES.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fulton. Estate of Mrs. A.B.C. Dada</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,400.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New York. Estate of John F. Delaplaine, James Cruickshank and Talbot W. Chambers, Executors</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35,000.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$36,789.63</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEW JERSEY, $82.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bordentown. Lambert Bewkes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Highlands. Rev. H.R. Proudfit</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>54.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Perth Amboy. Rev. P. Kimball</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>PENNSYLVANIA, $1.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Braddock. Thomas Addenbrook, P'k'g. C., etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New Castle. John Burgess</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>OHIO, $164.50.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Adams Mills. Mrs. M.A. Smith</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Charlestown. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. Hough Chapel, 20., Crawford Road, 20., by Rev. C.W. Hiatt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. East Madison Av. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 22; Woman's Miss'y Soc., 3.; Y.P.S.C.E. 5., to const. REV. EDGAR S. ROTHROCK L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Kent. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Ada J. Blackmore, <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Marietta. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Stubenville. First Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treasurer, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Akron. Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;25.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>ILLINOIS, $491.43</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Beecher. Member Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Belvidere. Mrs. Mary C. Foote, 5., <i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.</i>, and 3. <i>for Woman's Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 149.01; Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 11.60</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>160.61</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>De Kalb. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.87</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dover. Cong. Ch., (100. of which from Dea. George Wells) to cont. DEA. J. HOYT, DEA. AARON DUNBAR, JOHN W. HENSEL,
+J.B. ALLEN and JAMES A. PIERCE L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>123.71</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. S.S. Class, Presb. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Marion, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Joliet. "A Thank Offering, M.T.M."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.15</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lyndon. J.M. Hamilton</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Malden. Cong. Ch. ad'l.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.13</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Normal. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.24</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ontario. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Princeton. Mrs. S.C. Clapp</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Providence. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ravenswood. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.01</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Toulon. Cong. Ch., in part</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.17</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MICHIGAN, $61.85.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ann Arbor. Y.P.M.S. of First Cong. Ch. <i>for Chapel, Santee Agency</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.85</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. L.W. Killmar, <i>for Athens, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Farmington. Mary Erwin</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Homer. Mrs. C.C. Evarts</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Grand Blanc. "Willing Helpers," <i>for Normal Training Sch., Santee Agency</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>WISCONSIN, $360.10.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Beloit. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>169.30</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boscobel. "Coral Workers" by Mrs. A.A. Young</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cooksville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.36</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Eau Claire. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch. to const. WILTON B. SIMMONS L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>43.89</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.80</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300"></a>[300]</span>LaCrosse. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>51.41</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Lake Mills. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Ripon. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Viroque. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box Books, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Waukesha. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.34</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>IOWA, $211.26.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Clayton. N.G. Platt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Creston. Pilgrim Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.81</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, Box Papers, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Dubuque. Y.L. Benev. Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Grinnell. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.92</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.16</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nashua. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.68</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Osage. Cong. Ch., to const. L.A. LARSON and LEE J. LOVELESS L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Red Oak. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 4 Packages Papers, etc., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Storm Lake. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.14</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tipton. "L.M.S." <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Victor. Mrs. C.L. McDermid, <i>for Nat, Ala.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Bellevue. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.25&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Des Moines. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Genoa. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Grinnell. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.01&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Humboldt. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Iowa City. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.35&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Le Mars</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Magnolia. W.H.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Osage. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.15&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sheldon. W.M.U.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Traer. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Dubuque. Y.L.B.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Fairfield. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.10&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;McGregor. L.M.S. ad'l to cont. MRS. WILLIAM<br />
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TROUT-FETTER L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.58&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;McGregor. "Thank Offering."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;New Hampton. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;97.05</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MINNESOTA, $46.90.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Austin. Mrs. S.C. Bacon</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>New Richland. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rose Creek. Mrs. J.S. Rounce, on True Blue Card</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.10</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Rushford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.28</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Saint Paul. Saint Anthony Park Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tivoli. Lyman Humiston</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.52</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MISSOURI, $12.50.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Amity. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Kidder. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>KANSAS, $5.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Boston Mills. J. Hubbard</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>DAKOTA, $5.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Yankton. Gen. W.H.H. Beadle</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>SOUTH DAKOTA, $9.65.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Elrod. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.60</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of South Dakota, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Plankinton. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.05&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Sioux Falls. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;8.05</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEBRASKA, $58.73.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Exeter. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Grace Gilbert</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Fremont. Cong. Ch., 35., and Sab. Sch. 7.48</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42.48</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nebraska City. Woman's Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. J.B. Parmlee, Treas.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Silver Creek. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.25</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MONTANA, $20.50.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Helena. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.50</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>CALIFORNIA, 70c.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Murphys. Douglas Flat Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.70</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>OREGON, $650.63.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>East Portland. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.63</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Portland. Estate of Dea. H.M. Humphrey, by Rev. C.F. Clapp</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>650.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NORTH CAROLINA, $5.25.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>McLeansville. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Nall. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.50</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Pekin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.25</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Salem. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>TENNESSEE, $215.50.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Glenmary. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Memphis. "Friends," <i>for LeMoyne Sch. Building</i>. (30. of which to cont. DR. D.T. PORTER L.M.)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>205.50</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>GEORGIA, $17.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Atlanta. Teachers and Students of Atlanta U., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch., <i>for Atlanta, U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>TEXAS, 65c.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Austin. Tillotson Ch. of Christ, ad'l.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.65</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>NEW MEXICO, $3.80.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Albuquerque. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.80</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>JAPAN, $20.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Kioto. Mission Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'><br />&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Donations </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$7,618.69</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Estates </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>42,780.83</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$50,399.52</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>INCOME, $30.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Belden Sch'p Fund <i>for Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>TUITION, $98.00.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington, N.C., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.50&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Grand View, Tenn., Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>74.42&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Austin, Texas, Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.06&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;98.00</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Total for August </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$50,527.52</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>SUMMARY.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Donations </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$171,498.08</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Estates </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>98,995.51</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$270,493.59</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Income </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9,103.21</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Tuition </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34,059.34</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>United States Government appropriation for Indians </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15,219.37</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Total from Oct. 1 to August 31 </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$328,875.51</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>=========</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class='center'>
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</b></td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Subscriptions for August </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$26.55</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Previously acknowledged</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>733.12</td></tr>
+<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td></tr>
+<tr><td align='left'>Total </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$759.67</td></tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class="right"><br /><br />
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,<br />
+56 Reade St., N.Y.</div>
+
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+
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+<pre>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10,
+October, 1889, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: July 1, 2005 [EBook #16159]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald
+Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
+https://www.pgdp.net
+
+
+
+
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+OCTOBER, 1889.
+
+VOL. XLIII. NO. 10.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  ANNUAL MEETING
+
+  VOTING MEMBERS
+
+  CLOSE OF FINANCIAL YEAR
+
+  LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS
+
+  COMPROMISES AND THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA
+
+  INDIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS
+
+  A MINISTER'S TESTIMONY
+
+  NOTES BY THE WAY
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  "FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE"
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  ITEMS FROM THE FIELD
+
+  VACATION AT TOUGALOO
+
+  FROM A TEACHER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS
+
+  SIGNS OF PROGRESS
+
+  OBITUARY
+
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+  A BIT OF EXPERIENCE
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+  FORT YATES, DAKOTA
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  OUR CHINESE IN CHINA
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS
+
+  PARAGRAPHS
+
+  GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+  SCHOOL INCIDENTS
+
+
+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. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.
+  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.
+  Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.
+
+
+_Corresponding Secretaries._
+
+  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+  Rev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+  Rev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+  H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+  PETER McCARTEE.
+  CHAS. P. PEIRCE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.
+  ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+
+_For Three Years._
+
+  J.E. RANKIN,
+  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 Street, 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.      OCTOBER, 1889.       No. 10.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANNUAL MEETING.
+
+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 29th. Rev. R.R. Meredith, D.D., of
+Brooklyn, N.Y., will preach the sermon. Fuller details regarding the
+reception of delegates and their entertainment, together with rates at
+hotels, and railroad reductions, will be found on the last page of the
+cover.
+
+We are anxious that the Churches, Local Conferences and State
+Associations should be fully represented at the meeting. This
+Association is the almoner of their bounty and seeks their aid and
+counsel at its annual gatherings. We believe that the work of the past
+year will not only meet their approval, but increase their enthusiasm
+for pushing forward with renewed interest what still lies before us. We
+request the pastors of churches to secure the appointment of delegates,
+and all local Conferences and State Associations whose meetings have not
+been held, to name their delegates.
+
+For notice of Woman's Meeting, see page 295.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VOTING MEMBERS.
+
+Life members and delegates chosen by contributing churches, local
+Conferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting, as
+will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.
+
+
+     ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted
+     members of this Association for life by the payment of
+     thirty dollars into its treasury, with the written
+     declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is
+     to be applied to constitute a designated person a life
+     member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the
+     payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+     payment of the same sum, may be made life members, without
+     the privilege of voting.
+
+     Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed
+     to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference
+     or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates
+     to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates,
+     duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the
+     Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CLOSE OF OUR FINANCIAL YEAR.
+
+These pages may fall into the hands of some of our constituents before
+the close of our fiscal year, September 30th. We hope that the
+opportunity will be embraced by church treasurers to remit promptly
+funds designed for us, and that benevolent friends who have intended to
+aid us during the year will carry out their purpose at once. The outlook
+is encouraging and we shall hail with joy and gratitude the day of
+deliverance from debt.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+LETTERS FROM CONTRIBUTORS.
+
+"Again I have the pleasure of enclosing for the general use of the
+American Missionary Association a draft of one hundred dollars. The Lord
+bless the work of the dear workers in the field. My love to them."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Many years ago I used to contribute to the funds of the American
+Missionary Association. My husband and I supported a teacher under its
+auspices, but times have changed and we are not able to do that now. For
+many years I have ceased to send any money to your treasury, for I
+thought what little I could afford would do no good at all. But seeing
+in the September MISSIONARY some contributions of a few dollars, I send
+the enclosed five dollars. If each one interested in the cause would do
+that, it would help some. My interest is unabated in your great and
+glorious work for humanity and immortal souls."
+
+
+FROM A MISSIONARY IN CHINA.
+
+"Enclosed we send twenty-five dollars, which please accept as our
+subscription to the American Missionary Association work for the current
+year. We are more and more interested in this work, especially in view
+of the hateful prejudice that exists in many parts of the South against
+the colored people and those who have so nobly espoused the cause of
+their education and Christianization. This low-minded prejudice is very
+similar to what we have to endure here in the interior of China, yet it
+is harder to bear because coming from those who pretend to be
+enlightened Christians, while here those who indulge in personal abuse
+are mostly of the lowest and most ignorant heathen, though they are
+often backed up by the literati."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+COMPROMISES AND THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF GEORGIA.
+
+Americans are much addicted to settling difficulties by compromises; but
+these compromises, in State and Church, especially in regard to slavery,
+have so often been the sacrifice of principle to expediency that the
+word has come to have a sinister meaning--implying such a sacrifice; and
+they have so often proved failures as to show them to be unwise, even as
+a matter of expediency.
+
+A brief sketch of some of these past compromises, with their motives and
+failures, may throw some light upon the compromise proposed for the
+Congregational churches in Georgia.
+
+
+POLITICAL COMPROMISES.
+
+These have usually been made from more than one motive:
+
+1. One strong plea is that the expediency is so urgent that a small
+sacrifice of right is justifiable. In that celebrated law case of
+Shylock the Jew _versus_ Antonio the merchant, so ably reported by
+William Shakespeare, Esq., this reason was plainly stated. The
+defendant's attorney, Bassanio, in order to avert from his client the
+dreadful forfeit of a pound of flesh taken nearest his heart, appealed
+to the judge:
+
+                               "I beseech you
+     Wrest once the law to your authority;
+     To do a great right, do a little wrong."
+
+The "wise young judge" knew the law, human and divine, too well to grant
+this plea.
+
+But that plea had its influence in securing the adoption of the Federal
+Constitution. Among other difficulties in the way, a constructive
+guarantee of slavery seemed necessary to secure the assent of some of
+the Southern States. How strong the plea! Slavery was wrong to be sure,
+but the terrible seven years' war was ended, and a great nation was
+ready to come into existence! The compromise was made and the Union was
+formed. But did the compromise save it? No! The "pound of flesh" was at
+last the price. After a struggle of seventy-two years the crisis came,
+Sumter was fired upon and the compromise was found to be a failure. "A
+pound of flesh!" Nay, the flesh and blood of a million of men saved the
+Union.
+
+2. Another motive for a compromise is the expectation that while it is
+all that can be done now, it will be a step towards the ultimate. This
+was strongly urged in that first compromise. It was said that the
+Declaration of Independence, the enthusiasm for liberty, and the
+world-wide boast of equal rights, must work a universal consent to the
+abrogation of slavery. Jefferson voiced the general sentiment when he
+said: "I think a change is already perceptible since the origin of the
+present revolution. The way I hope is preparing, under the auspices of
+heaven, for a total emancipation." But slavery grew stronger, instead of
+weaker, under the compromise, and from time to time required more
+compromises, and more surrenders. The Missouri Compromise, the
+Annexation of Texas, and the Fugitive Slave Law, each extorted under
+threats of the "dissolution of the Union," are examples. But no
+compromise ever wrenched an inch of territory from the clutch of slavery
+and gave it to freedom. Freedom _held_ the whole Northwest, by the
+_un_-compromising requirement: "There shall be neither slavery nor
+involuntary servitude" there!
+
+3. Another strong plea for compromise is the hopelessness of gaining
+anything better. This was the consideration urged so vehemently against
+the early Abolitionists. It was said: "Slavery is wrong--that we all
+admit--but it is a fixed fact, invulnerable, backed up by wealth,
+talent, pride and political influence, and all opposition is vain. You
+Abolitionists are mere sentimentalists, visionaries, doctrinaires." This
+had great influence with the indifferent, the timid, and especially with
+those who vaunt themselves as "practical men," who boast that they care
+nothing for abstractions, but take business views of things. This plea
+and these men were largely influential in carrying forward some of the
+most iniquitous compromises preceding the war.
+
+
+ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT SLAVERY.
+
+This glance at the compromises in the political history of the nation
+prepares us to look at those in the Church. Here, too, compromises on
+the subject of slavery were made as in the State, and generally from the
+same motives and always with the same disappointing results.
+
+The Churches before and during the revolutionary period were emphatic in
+their utterances against slavery. Their accredited leaders and official
+convocations used such terms as these: Methodist, "The sum of all
+villanies;" Presbyterian, "Man stealers: stealers of men are those who
+bring off slaves or freemen and keep, sell or buy them;" Baptist,
+"Slavery is a violent deprivation of the rights of nature;"
+Congregational, "Slavery is in every instance wrong, unrighteous,
+oppressive, a great and crying sin, there being nothing equal to it on
+the face of the earth."
+
+But there were slaveholders in the churches, and as population increased
+they became more numerous and naturally chafed under such denunciations.
+But their impatience reached its climax under the modern anti-slavery
+doctrine that immediate emancipation is the only remedy for the sin of
+slavery. The South was alarmed and soon became imperious and exacting;
+the North was timid and yielding. Then began the special era of
+ecclesiastical compromises. Let me specify:
+
+1. The utterances as to the guilt of slavery were modified, reaching at
+length the point where some of the most eminent doctors of divinity and
+the most learned professors in theological seminaries tried to vindicate
+from the Bible the toleration of slavery.
+
+2. Disclaimers were made as to the right to interfere with slavery. As,
+for example, a large ecclesiastical assembly by vote disclaimed "any
+right, wish or intention to interfere with the civil and political
+relation between master and slave, as it exists in the slaveholding
+States of this Union." A distinguished bishop is reported to have said:
+"I have never yet advised the liberation of a slave, and I think I never
+shall;" and an eminent doctor of divinity declared: "If by one prayer I
+could liberate every slave in the land I would not dare to offer it."
+
+3. Fine distinctions were drawn in behalf of slaveholders. It was
+warmly urged in their defense that while slavery was a sin, the
+individual slaveholder might not in every case be a sinner--a charity
+that was made to cover a multitude of sinners. One large religious
+assembly declared that it could not "exclude slaveholders from the table
+of the Lord;" it would rather "sympathize with and succor them in their
+embarrassments." An elaborate report was adopted at another large
+convocation, in which it was suggested that the convert should be
+admitted into the church while still a slaveholder, an oppressive ruler
+and a proud Brahmin, in the hope that under proper teaching, "the master
+may be prepared to break the bonds of the slave, the oppressive ruler to
+dispense justice to the subject, and the proud Brahmin fraternally to
+embrace the man of low caste."
+
+The great motive for these concessions was the desire for church
+enlargement. Slavery was a sin, but the slaveholder might not always be
+guilty, and if church unity and church extension were to be secured in
+the South, some concessions must be made. Then, too, there was
+undoubtedly the hope that concessions and fraternal intercourse in
+public assemblies and in Christian work would win the confidence of the
+slaveholders, and perhaps prepare the way for the gradual removal of
+slavery; and above all there was the cogent plea that compromise or
+division was the only present choice. The "_half-loaf_" argument was
+wielded most effectually, and here, especially, the "practical men" came
+to the front, while on the heads of the devoted Abolitionists were
+showered without stint the epithets "fanatics" and "visionaries."
+
+So much zeal for the slaveholders, and so much sacrifice of
+self-respect, not to say of conscience, surely deserved a better fate;
+but all was in vain. The slaveholders scorned the compromises, and
+ruthlessly rent asunder the great national churches and missionary
+societies. The Congregationalists, never numerous in the South, clung
+with great tenacity to their few churches, but at length surrendered
+them.
+
+
+ECCLESIASTICAL COMPROMISES ABOUT CASTE.
+
+So ended the first chapter of humiliating and fruitless Church
+compromises; but a new chapter has begun to be written, and so far
+promises to read just as the other did, both as to the facts to be
+recorded and the end that will be reached. Slavery is dead, but the son
+and heir and legitimate representative, _race prejudice_, arises to take
+its place. This does not propose to remand the colored race back into
+slavery, but to hold them as inferiors, to be discriminated against as
+to equal rights and to bear with their color the perpetual ban of
+separation and degradation. This might be expected in the political
+world, but not in the Church where "_all are one in Christ Jesus_." And
+it would be a specially sad fact if the Church should be more tardy than
+the State in the recognition of the equal manhood of the two races.
+
+One great effort in the present ecclesiastical struggle is to secure the
+reunion of the sundered Churches; and, as in the case of slavery, other
+issues have been waived or compromised, leaving race-prejudice as the
+real point in the contest. Great have been the endeavors for harmony.
+Committees of Conference have been appointed, have met and conferred;
+enthusiastic public meetings have been held; communion services have
+been celebrated jointly, and great feasts have been spread to welcome
+visiting delegations. But the South has been inflexible on the
+color-line. The Northern leaders have made concessions, and in some
+instances have been ready to surrender the main point, but the mass of
+Northern Christians seem unwilling to deny the Saviour in the person of
+the man whose ostracism is demanded for no fault of his own, but only
+because God made him black.
+
+The Presbyterian Church (North) deserves special mention for having, in
+the last General Assembly rejected a compromise that approved "the
+policy of separate churches, presbyteries and synods." The prize was
+nothing less than the ultimate reunion of the Northern and Southern
+branches of that great Church. The leaders in the Church and in the
+Assembly were committed to it and warmly advocated it, but when the test
+vote came, it was rejected by an overwhelming majority! _God grant that
+when the test comes for the Congregationalists they may show as much
+back-bone!_ The present stage of the controversy finds the Methodists,
+Baptists and Presbyterians still divided, with little prospect of
+reunion. The Episcopalians in South Carolina have surrendered on a
+compromise that permits the one colored minister in the Convention to
+remain in it, but utterly forbids the admission of any others.
+
+
+THE CONGREGATIONALISTS IN GEORGIA.
+
+The Congregationalists are considering the question practically, but
+with a division of sentiment. Some stand firmly against all race
+distinctions, while others are disposed to compromise on a plan that
+keeps the two organizations in Georgia still separated by the
+color-line, but that provides for the appointment of a few delegates from
+each, to form a new body that shall have charge of the interests of the
+denomination and be represented in the National Council.
+
+We are not careful to criticise the _details_ of this plan, nor are we
+anxious to secure any particular modification of them. The cardinal fact
+is that the plan itself keeps the two bodies in Georgia apart for no
+other assigned or assignable reason than race prejudice; for who
+supposes for a moment that if these bodies were both white there would
+be this elaborate plan devised to touch each other with the tips of the
+fingers, instead of giving at once the whole hand-grasp of Christian
+fellowship? And so long as this plan makes or retains the line of caste
+distinction or practically delays or evades its rejection, it is a
+compromise that should not be endorsed. But already the old pleas for
+compromise are urged in its behalf:
+
+1. It is said that this is a first step towards the ultimate--a bridge
+to facilitate a future coming together. But a bridge is not possible,
+nor if possible, necessary. There is no doubt that since the New
+Testament was written there have been great improvements in bridge
+building, both mechanical and theological; but between equal manhood on
+one side and race prejudice on the other, "there is a great gulf fixed,"
+and no bridge can span the chasm. _The Negro must surrender his manhood
+or the white man his prejudice._ There is no half way. But when either
+is surrendered, there is no gulf, and no bridge is needed. If the Negro
+will take his place as an inferior, he and the white man can ride on the
+same seat in a buggy: if the white man will surrender his prejudice, the
+Race-Problem is settled. Which shall be surrendered--the manhood or the
+prejudice? The Congregational churches have no doubt on that question,
+and if we are to educate men in right principles we must stand firmly
+upon them ourselves. To begin with a compromise is to yield the very
+point at issue.
+
+2. But now also the opposite tack is taken. We are told that race
+prejudice is a fixed fact--that the Southern people will never yield,
+and that hence if we are to plant Congregational churches in the South
+at all, we must compromise. And once more we have with us the "practical
+men," who claim to take common sense views, and they urge us again to be
+content with the "half-loaf." But this compromise "half-loaf" is very
+much like the famous "little book" that John ate that was indeed in the
+mouth "sweet as honey" but afterward proved to be exceedingly "bitter."
+The truth is that this half-loaf, and Ephraim's "cake not turned" and
+the drink that was "lukewarm, neither hot nor cold," constitute a very
+unhealthy diet for Christian people. The past has its lesson by which we
+ought to have profited; and it will be a shame if, with all our
+experience, we are found to need the reproof that "when for the time ye
+ought to be teachers, ye have need that some one teach you again which
+be the _first principles of the oracles of God_."
+
+We have to deal once more, in the history of this nation, with the
+precious interests of the poor and neglected, and we must guard against
+past mistakes. The issue before us is a square one, and no dodging and
+no compromise will meet the case. We plead now for eight millions of
+freemen as we once plead for four millions of slaves. God is their
+Father, Christ is their Redeemer and the Church must recognize their
+equal manhood. We hold with the _Christian Union_ that: "It were better
+far that the Northern Church should not go with its missionary work into
+the South at all, than that it should go with a mission which
+strengthens the infidelity that denies that God made of one blood all
+the nations of the earth for to dwell together."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches North resist all
+overtures for separating the colored and white people in churches and
+ecclesiastical bodies in the South. The Episcopal Church, in Virginia
+and South Carolina at least, have consented to the separation on the
+color-line. The Congregationalists will soon decide the position they
+will take. Will they range themselves with the Episcopalians now
+standing alone?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+INDIAN CONTRACT SCHOOLS.
+
+The public has been made aware through the press recently that the
+United States Government aids the Roman Catholics to support 2,098
+Indian pupils and assists all Protestant denominations in the support of
+only 1,146 pupils. Why is this discrimination, and who is to blame for
+it? If the Roman Catholics give for plant, teachers' salaries, etc., an
+amount proportionately greater than that given by the Protestants, then
+the Protestants have themselves only to blame, and the difficulty can be
+remedied by their giving an equal amount. But if, on the other hand, the
+Government gives in proportion more to the Roman Catholics than it does
+to the Protestants, then the Government is showing a wholly
+unjustifiable partiality. Figures are in order on this subject. Who will
+furnish them?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A MINISTER'S TESTIMONY.
+
+"I have just been reading the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for August with
+profound interest. I rejoice with you that the 'figures are still
+improving'.
+
+"Your 'practical thoughtful friend' is a suggestive example for us all,
+I am not surprised that this year he 'has doubled his special
+contribution.' 'Nothing succeeds like success,' is true also of
+achievement in bringing ourselves to give to the Lord of what he is
+constantly giving to us.
+
+"I thank God for the simple, but singular and noble justice done by that
+judge and jury in Chicago who maintained the civil rights of brother
+Smith.
+
+"Mrs. Regal's paper on 'The Local Society,' seemed to me full of
+excellent suggestions. One in particular, that of a birthday offering
+containing a cent for every year of age, is eminently practical, and
+conducive to surprising results. How better can we set up our Ebenezer
+than by thus saying from our purses as well as from our hearts,
+'Hitherto hath the Lord helped us'?
+
+"Finding it is best for myself to 'strike while the iron is hot,' I sit
+down at once to send you a check. The signal mercy of the Lord enables
+me to make my offering of dollars instead of cents, and has put so many
+benefits already into the fraction of the current year that it may be
+reckoned as a complete year. How small an acknowledgment does even a
+dollar seem for a year of life, with all its escapes from peril and all
+its experience of good! What a refreshing addition to the resources of
+the church would result if each professing Christian would give such a
+birthday offering of one cent for each year of life! May the Lord fill
+us all with the spirit of him who gave himself unto the death for us.
+
+"I pray earnestly that the American Missionary Association may continue
+to enlarge, and its work to prosper."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NOTES BY THE WAY.
+
+BY DISTRICT SECRETARY C.J. RYDER.
+
+White Men and Red Men.
+
+"THE ROUND UP!
+INTERESTING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES LAST NIGHT."
+
+The above was the characteristic heading in a Dakota paper of an
+editorial notice of the closing exercises of their High School.
+Everything takes its color from the peculiar condition of society. A
+rubber overcoat is a "slicker," and a native pony is a "broncho." Not so
+inappropriate, either, is the term "The Round Up," for the closing
+exercises of a school year. It ought to be the round up, a complete
+circle or sphere of successful work and accomplishment, so far as that
+period of school-life is concerned. The white men of Dakota are changing
+perceptibly, I think, in their feelings toward the red men among them,
+or among whom they are. A sense of responsibility for their
+Christianization seems to have taken possession of the minds of the
+intelligent Christian people. One is impressed with the abundance of
+church buildings in these small white settlements. In one small village
+of perhaps five hundred people, I counted eight Protestant churches.
+With Christian churches so numerously planted as they are in these new
+Western States, we may hope for large help from them in the Indian work
+of the Association, before many years. They are now falling into line in
+this great work. I rode on one side of the Missouri River for many miles
+among the white settlements. Afterwards I rode on the other side of the
+river a long distance among the Indian villages, and could not help but
+contrast the condition of life of the two. The Government relations
+differ materially. If the supplies were withheld from the Indians, and
+they were compelled to take land in severally, and not hustled over the
+prairie every month or two weeks for meat, sugar and coffee, I think the
+change for the better would be perceptible in a twelvemonth. There is
+general hopefulness on the part of the missionaries among the red men,
+now that two Christian men stand at the head of the Indian Department.
+
+It was my privilege to take a cordial letter of greeting from Supt.
+Dorchester of the Government Indian Schools to the A.M.A. missionaries
+at Santee Agency, Neb. It was an encouragement to these earnest toilers
+in this far-away field to know that there was appreciation on the part
+of the Government of the Christian work among these Indians. Great care,
+intense study, great deliberation of action will be necessary if these
+new Government officers succeed in bettering the condition of the red
+men, as they are doubtless sincerely desirous of doing. They must know
+what they are doing, before they do it.
+
+
+The Government schools which I visited furnished abundant evidence that
+considerable time would be necessary to correct the evils existing in
+these, and to make them what they should be before any radical policy
+could be safely adopted by the Government in reference to contract
+missionary schools. The Roman Catholic influence seems to have been a
+dominant power in the control of these schools for some time.
+
+Wolf Chief, a Mandan Indian, called on me while at Fort Berthold and
+begged that his tribe be protected against a Catholic priest who, he
+said, wanted to compel them to send their children to a school that he
+proposed to establish near them. "We Mandans are Congregationalists,"
+said this Indian chief, "and we want to send our children to your
+mission."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Incidents both amusing and pathetic are of frequent occurrence in this
+Indian work. Such incidents throw light upon the inside life of the
+Indians and missionaries, and are often useful in the "Monthly Concert,"
+and so I record some of them here.
+
+"Cherries-in-the-mouth," a somewhat aged and highly-painted Indian, was
+very much taken with one of the missionaries. He came to the
+Superintendent of the mission and offered eight ponies for her, or, I
+believe, more correctly, said he would give eight ponies, if he had
+them. His affection was larger than his pocket-book, as is sometimes
+true of his pale-faced brother.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Plenty Corn" was a sweet little Indian girl, who attended the mission
+at Fort Berthold. She had won her way wonderfully into the hearts of the
+teachers, and when she died last spring, there were sorrowful hearts in
+the mission, as truly as in the Indian tepee. The parents had been
+reached also by the influence of the mission. They permitted the
+missionary to lay the body in a coffin. The Indians took up the little
+white casket and bore it to the boat in which it was to be taken across
+the Missouri River. The father rowed the boat, as the mother sat on the
+opposite bank waiting for her dead darling, and from the boat there went
+up the piteous wailing of the father, which was echoed back from the
+bank in the piteous wail of the mother. It was a sad, sad sight, and
+emphasized painfully the need of Christian instruction, that the hope of
+the Gospel may break through the superstitious darkness of these sad
+lives.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ECHOES.
+
+An old man who teaches in the country heard we had a number of
+Sunday-school papers, and asked us if we had any "overtures of
+Sunday-school literature" to give him.
+
+One of the older boys was obliged to leave school to work. In the last
+prayer-meeting he attended he said: "It makes me feel very sorry when I
+think that next week my seat will be filled with my absence."
+
+Another prayed that he might walk more "citcumspotly before the world."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+"FREELY YE HAVE RECEIVED, FREELY GIVE."
+
+(_Written for a Missionary Concert held in the interests of the A.M.A._)
+
+
+     So free are the gifts of heaven,
+       So many the blessings which fall,
+     That, should we attempt to count them
+       We could not number them all.
+
+     For God is a generous Giver.
+       Who sows with a liberal hand
+     Shall reap a bounteous harvest
+       And gather the fruits of the land.
+
+     For 'tis God that gives the increase,
+       And oft it's a "hundred fold,"
+     And men are reaping in many ways
+       Aside from lands and gold.
+
+     The blessings of home and fireside,
+       Of friendship, of books, of health,
+     Of knowledge, of church, of worship,
+       All these are a part of our wealth.
+
+     But off in the sunny Southland,
+       In a part of our country large,
+     Are _needs_, which with us are _blessings_,
+       And to us there comes this charge:--
+
+     _Freely received are God's mercies;
+       And now will ye freely give?_
+     It will be a glorious mission
+       To help a nation live.
+
+
+BLUEHILL, ME.
+
+M.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SOUTH
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
+
+BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT F.E. JENKINS.
+
+
+NEW CHURCHES.
+
+Two new Congregational churches in connection with our work completed
+their organization with communion services on Sunday, September 1st.
+Both were organized by Northern people who have settled in the South in
+places which are likely to grow by immigration from the North. One is in
+Roseland, La., and is under the pastoral care of Rev. C.S. Shattuck. It
+starts with eleven members.
+
+The other is in North Athens, Tenn., and for the present is cared for by
+our general missionary, Rev. G. Stanley Pope. It begins with thirteen
+members. Both will come into the regular State organizations of
+Congregational churches.
+
+The First Congregational Church of Alco, Ala., was organized August
+25th, with twelve members. Rev. James Brown, a graduate of the last
+theological class at Talladega College, is the pastor.
+
+At Fort Payne, Ala., the first steps were taken August 21st toward the
+organization of a church. It was voted to complete the organization as
+soon as possible. Rev. Geo. S. Smith, recently of Raleigh, N.C., has
+gone to Fort Payne to take charge of the work.
+
+
+NEW CHAPEL.
+
+The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., aided by the
+American Missionary Association, is erecting a chapel which is to be
+used as a church until the congregation shall become larger and
+wealthier. This church has been organized by Northern people who have
+gone to this new and growing town to make their homes. It is connected
+with the Central South Association of Congregational Churches.
+
+
+HYMN BOOKS WANTED.
+
+The Plymouth Congregational Church of New Decatur, Ala., greatly needs
+hymn books. It has a few copies of the "Songs of the Sanctuary," but not
+enough to enable it to use them. Any church having copies of this book
+which are not needed in its service could scarcely do better with them
+than to send them to this courageous little church.
+
+From Crossville, Tenn., we have this appeal: "It would be esteemed a
+great favor if some church could furnish our people with a donation of
+hymn books for church singing. You may know of some church having a new
+supply of hymn books who would be pleased to give this poor flock on the
+mountains their old books. If so, they would be thankful, and highly
+appreciate the favor."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VACATION AT TOUGALOO.
+
+BY FIELD SUPERINTENDENT E.S. HALL.
+
+Awake? With the "Rat-a-tat Quir-r-k, tat-tat" of the great
+crimson-crested woodpecker hammering just for noisy fun on the wide
+cornice of the "mansion," with the summer sun shining in through the
+window, and the five o'clock bell pealing sharply from Strieby Hall, the
+seven sleepers would have to be awake and doing at Tougaloo University.
+
+The mercury is passing the 72 deg. point at sunrise; but the morning, as the
+sunshine sparkles on the dewy grass between the wide-spreading live-oaks
+of the grove, seems as cool as a morning on the Berkshire hills. The
+wide-rolling plantation fields to the west give no hint of the long hot
+mid-day hours when the cotton revels in a heat that sends all animate
+nature to the deepest coverts.
+
+The Tougaloo grounds are a paradise for all feathered life. The quail
+with their cheery "Bob White" whistle in the kitchen garden, following
+in plain sight the boys hoeing out the "grass." The blue-jays, martins
+and mocking birds render a trip to the Paris Exposition entirely
+unnecessary, if one wishes to hear all parties talk at the same moment
+and in unintelligible syllables. Curious, is'nt it, that these shy
+denizens of field and forest are so bold, in term as well as vacation
+time, where these colored lads and lasses congregate, for people of a
+low, brutal nature, incapable of any spark of generosity or ambition,
+are no friends to innocent nature. The papers that characterize the
+Negro as such, a creature unfit to live in a white man's country, cannot
+be blinded by prejudice!
+
+What of the human life at Tougaloo? College is out; the teachers are in
+the far North. Miss Emerson, Preceptress of the Girl's Hall; Mr.
+Hitchcock, Treasurer; Mr. Klein, Superintendent of the Farm; and Mr.
+Kennedy, Superintendent of Carpentry; and Mr. McKibban, borrowed from
+Macon school, are present to supervise the necessary work, for Tougaloo
+cannot be closed a day. With its farm and forest and its shops, it is to
+become for the Southwest what Hampton is for the Eastern South. May the
+Lord prompt some of his stewards to make investments here which will
+bring in a ten-fold interest for the nation and for heaven!
+
+The dining-hall shows a number of tables well filled at meal times. Most
+interesting are the ten little girls whom Miss Emerson has taken to
+bring up to womanhood with habits of industry and economy, and with
+characters pure and joyous. Each day has its routine for them; the
+bedroom, the dining-room, the kitchen, the sewing-room, the lesson hour,
+the play time and the period for personal advice and religious
+instruction, have their appropriate but never-forgotten place.
+
+There are a dozen of the large girls, young women who do the washing,
+"clean house," cook the daily meals and can fruit from the garden and
+orchard for the Sunday-night dish of sauce during the coming year. Part
+of these are girls in the regular domestic course, a few are kept to
+work for their board and instruction rather than have them obliged to go
+into the cotton fields at home under unscrupulous overseers. These girls
+have a long, busy day, for the work needed to keep any one of the great
+boarding schools in efficient operation would surprise any one of our
+contributing friends who has never been "thro' the mill."
+
+The boys--_little_ fellows some of them only seventy-two inches tall in
+their bare feet--comprise the regular students in the industrial
+courses; the baker, the butcher or meat boy, the irrepressible John boy
+of all work about the kitchen; then the stock, the farm, the carpenter
+and blacksmith apprentices, together with several kept for general help,
+for work of an unusual magnitude was to be undertaken this vacation.
+
+The Girl's Hall, a great three story building with seven thousand five
+hundred square feet of ground plan, had been slowly settling into this
+treacherous alluvium, which is three hundred feet deep to the first sand
+and gravel, until the building was in danger of falling. Southern
+contractors advised taking it down because it could not be safely
+repaired. But the American Missionary Association's force was equal to
+the emergency. The weight, with the resulting strains and thrusts, was
+calculated. Concrete footings of sufficient area were planned, brick
+piers and heavy timbering were skillfully placed, and the building will
+stand stronger than new and much improved in plan.
+
+If these youths, who pulled on the forty-eight great "jack-screws,"
+lifting and blocking up the building section by section, who excavated
+exactly to the surveyor's stakes, who mixed concrete and mortar, who
+framed and handled the huge "hard pine" timbers, who earnestly undertook
+whatever was told them--for this was new and strange work--if these
+youths had not been "Negroes," the outside world would have been glad to
+picture them in magazine and review.
+
+The writer has had a long experience as master of a boy's boarding
+school in the North, situated in a village which also contained a young
+ladies' seminary. Had those young people been as sober and in earnest as
+these dusky-skinned ones, as free from midnight mischief, how many weary
+vigils would he have escaped!
+
+The religious life at Tougaloo does not cease with term time. Two or
+three young men go out to hold Sunday services in the country cabins,
+the Sunday-school is full and the older ones serve as teachers, for many
+children come in from surrounding fields, making a school of nearly one
+hundred teachers and pupils. The young people's society meeting each
+Sunday afternoon, and the prayer meetings on Sunday and Wednesday
+evenings are characterized by a quiet, earnest Christianity, that would
+do credit to any circle in our Northern States.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FROM A TEACHER IN THE TENNESSEE MOUNTAINS.
+
+Let me tell you of the general interest manifest in several of the
+counties west and north of us in attending this school. One of our
+students has visited many cabins over the mountains during his vacation,
+and finds school advantages very scarce and poor. He finds poverty and
+degradation, and ignorance of the world and of books. Some of the people
+are still using the old-time method of kindling their fires by flint and
+steel instead of matches. He has met many young people who are thirsting
+for books and school, has also found numbers who have struggled up
+through the darkness and have become teachers in their own neighborhood,
+"the blind leading the blind." Such almost invariably wish to come to
+our school and say they shall be here as soon as their schools close.
+Many are too poor to come. This is true of a number of young girls who
+would come if they could _work_ their board or in any possible way
+pay for it. Whoever will provide funds to meet the expenses of these
+neglected girls, and place them in our school and prepare them for the
+future duties of life, will be doing an angelic work, and in the end
+will do the greatest good that can be done to this people. Very much of
+the money spent for this mountain people will be the same as thrown away
+if this effort is not made to educate the girls.
+
+The natives are having their big yearly meetings and lively times
+shouting and actually chasing each other in and around their log
+churches to pull them to the "mourner's bench," and, in their wild
+efforts, they upset stove pipes and benches. It is so much like a circus
+that everybody runs to the big meetings.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
+
+BY PRES. R.C. HITCHCOCK.
+
+Every little while, some article giving ultra views of "The Problem,"
+gets into the papers, sometimes painting a roseate-hued picture, and
+again some one, who does not find people of dusky hue all angels, writes
+that there is no hope; that all experiments leading to intellectual and
+especially to moral elevation are failures; and that she (as one wrote)
+is ready or almost ready, "to throw away the Bible and advise the
+negroes to be honestly heathen."
+
+I will indicate a few plain signs of progress. The negroes are rapidly
+learning self-control. Six years ago, if a package was left in the hall
+over night, there would be signs in the morning that it had been meddled
+with. The contents might be all there--I have not found them greatly
+given to peculation, from the first--but they did not seem to have the
+power to resist the temptation to peep. Now, this is never done; a
+package of any kind may be left where it is freely accessible for weeks,
+and it will be untouched.
+
+The first time a fire occurred in our neighborhood, what a panic there
+was! All were screaming and tearing about, trunks were dragged out of
+rooms, and one boy threw his out of a second story window. It was all we
+could possibly do to quiet them and restore order. Since then, there has
+been a fire so near as to scorch the rear fence and no panic, no
+screaming, hardly a student left his room. Formerly, on the receipt of
+bad news, as the intelligence of the death of a friend, it was not
+uncommon for one to have a fit of hysterics or something resembling it;
+now, such news is received with deep feeling indeed, and with tears, but
+no hysterics or fit of any kind.
+
+There is, also, a grand growth in the sister virtue of gratitude. In
+this, they have more to overcome, probably, than in any other matter,
+for here they carry an inheritance of great weight, from the old slave
+days. Why should they be grateful? What chance to exercise the feeling!
+It became, like the eyes of the fish in the Styx of Mammoth Cave,
+useless, and to all appearances disappeared. But the germ is there, and
+with light it will again come to the surface.
+
+I could cite scores of anecdotes. I will give but one, and I give this
+because it also illustrates a most loveable trait of character which
+abounds among these people--sympathy for suffering. Mrs. H. and myself
+started one day, to drive from New Iberia to the Avery salt mine, some
+ten miles distant. It was Monday following a hard Sunday's work
+speaking; it was as hot as days can be out in the Teche country, and
+when a little more than half way there, I was suffering from a terrific
+headache. We were too far to go back, and so drove on. Arrived at the
+"Island," we drove, as directed, to the boarding house, seeking a place
+where I could at least lie down, to find only a shed filled with tables,
+where the men ate, going elsewhere to sleep. I asked Mrs. H. to drive on
+and, holding on behind the carriage, was groping my way along, more dead
+than alive, when I heard a voice cry out, "Why, howdy, Professor, how
+ever came you here?" Glad was I to hear a friendly voice. It was that of
+a young girl who had been, some months before, a visitor at the
+University, and to whom I had given a little book and spoken some
+friendly words. My bread came back to me--a whole loaf for a crumb. All
+day long, she and her mother, who left her wash tub to attend to me,
+worked over my miserable head. A mile and more she ran in the burning
+sun for ice, and no herb that grew on "Petit Anse" from which a
+decoction could be made, was left untried, until ice, herbs, and a tough
+constitution prevailed, and I was able to ride home. I offered pay, but
+it was almost indignantly refused. I wish space would allow me to tell a
+hundred stories to illustrate their kind-heartedness, not only to each
+other, but to strangers, and even to their old masters and mistresses.
+
+Their Christian faith is something wonderful. It has been my blessed
+privilege to be at the bedside of several young people as the death
+angel hovered near, and nowhere did I ever feel so near the pearly
+gates. Such pure faith and perfect confidence, such perfect resignation,
+one could almost hear the rustle of the wings as Azrael bent down to
+take the sweet spirit home.
+
+They have gained much in stability of character. Frivolity and silly
+nonsense are not the rule. Our boys and girls who go out to teach, carry
+a load of responsibility with them. Some of the parishes have been
+almost entirely transformed by their work. Three of our boys last summer
+built the school houses in which they taught, the people contributing
+time, lumber and money, and they are the _only_ school houses in the
+State, outside of the large towns, that were built for, or are fit for,
+the purpose. Two of them have halls above for meetings, are fitted up
+with blackboards, desks, etc. The stories our boys tell of their efforts
+to introduce modern appliances and methods, remind me of those I used to
+hear from the old veterans Barnard, Camp, and others, of their struggles
+in the early days in Connecticut.
+
+They have grown in cleanliness and industry beyond expression. When I
+first came here, it was sometimes harder to get a bit of work done than
+to do it myself. Now, it is a pleasure to work with them.
+
+In nothing, perhaps, has there been so great a gain as in the habit of
+reading. The progress in this is simply astonishing, and cannot be
+described in a few words. Seven years ago, there was hardly a reader in
+the school. Now, many of our young people come to my library and,
+looking over my books, talk of them and their authors as intelligently
+as young people of the same age in Massachusetts would.
+
+I conclude by saying that, in this far-away corner, God has greatly
+blessed the efforts made by faithful teachers, and there is every cause
+for encouragement and hope.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+Another of our educated, consecrated and useful colored pastors has
+passed away. Rev. Welborn Wright, pastor of the Second Congregational
+Church of Lawrence, Kansas, died at his home, August 14th, of
+consumption. He was born in South Carolina, and had been pastor of the
+church in Lawrence over six years. He was a man of thought, earnest in
+his convictions, and had acquired a large influence over his own people.
+His church had prospered greatly under his care.
+
+He won the esteem of the white people. Two years ago he was elected a
+member of the Board of Education of the city, and proved himself to be a
+man of good judgment in practical affairs. His funeral was attended by
+Rev. Dr. Cordley, Rev. R.B. Parker and Rev. A.N. Richards. He was
+Secretary of the Minister's Meeting of Lawrence, and resolutions of warm
+commendation and sympathy for his family were passed by that body, and
+also by the Board of Education of Lawrence.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We have just learned that Mr. A.J. Berger, formerly industrial teacher
+at Macon, Georgia, died at Claremont, Virginia, September 2d, at the age
+of sixty-six years.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+News has also come to us of the death of Miss J.P. Bradshaw, a former
+teacher at Tougaloo University, Miss. For five years she bravely battled
+for life, but finally died of consumption.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A BIT OF EXPERIENCE.
+
+BY A TALLADEGA STUDENT.
+
+Not long since I was forcibly reminded of the work and worth of the
+schools of the American Missionary Association by witnessing the
+services in a church. In a room large enough to comfortably seat one
+hundred were fully two hundred and fifty, and a large crowd hovering
+about the door. There was abundance of singing and praying. The songs
+were mostly on the solo and chorus style--not set to music, what we call
+plantation or "made-up songs." While singing, the leader adds new words
+to suit his fancy and emotional fervor; thus the song often undergoes
+several changes of words in the course of a few months, all the time
+retaining the same tune. This is what is meant by "made-up songs." Among
+those of my people in whom the emotional tide runs high this kind of
+singing is _very popular_.
+
+In that meeting, while singing the last part of each song the audience
+would rise and turn their backs toward the pulpit. One started the
+prayers, but soon the multitude of voices made it impossible to know who
+was leading or what was being said. The minister came in late. He slowly
+turned the pages of the Bible until he found his text. With a murmuring
+voice he read a few verses and began preaching. Moving off slowly, like
+an express train, he soon gathered a rapid motion of body and a furious
+rattling of words. With head down and the white of his eyes turned
+upward he kept up a constant spitting and walking for forty or
+forty-five minutes. All the while the hearers responded with thrilling
+animation. The sermon over, the singing was started as before for a long
+jubilee. A few nights ago, at such a meeting, not far from the writer's
+church, a young woman so mutilated her head while going through a
+muscular jubilation, that she had to go to the doctor to have her head
+repaired.
+
+Less than a quarter of a mile away was another audience, not one-fourth
+as large as the one referred to above, with an educated preacher,
+worshiping in the spirit with the propriety and with the gentleness of
+the gospel. So unlike was the deportment and so different was the
+character of the two audiences that but for their common color one might
+have thought that they were composed of two distinct races. The question
+may be asked, what makes the difference? They are the same people,
+worshiping the same God out of the same Bible. Education and the lack of
+it make the difference.
+
+The conduct of audiences like the first here spoken of seems to vary
+with the style of the speaker. I once preached to such a congregation.
+Their behavior was orderly. During the sermon their responses were a few
+amens. Knowing their habit in worship, I was somewhat annoyed with the
+thought that I was muzzling their feelings and the sooner I got through
+the gladder they would be. That class of people have a way of calling
+the minister "Cold water preacher," if he does not preach them into
+something like a spell of hallucination. Their composure led me to
+believe that I would earn the title. Still I endured, and endeavored to
+give the plain truth plainly and earnestly; having a strong feeling that
+as I was in authority I must command in the right way. After dismission,
+many said to me, "You gave us the pure word and we enjoyed it." "That's
+what we need," said another. I was heartily invited to come again. I
+find now I am welcome with that people.
+
+"The fields are white already to harvest." Great is the opportunity of
+the rich and enlightened churches. The helpfulness of our schools to my
+people and to the country, is beyond calculation. Our missionary
+schools are like so many lighthouses along this dark belt of the Union.
+Their light is being reflected by thousands of colored youth who without
+these schools would have grown up in gross ignorance.
+
+This brings to mind an incident of my life, which now I believe was
+providential. Seventeen years ago, when my education was very limited,
+while working in a restaurant, I visited Talladega College and was
+deeply impressed with the school, and the intelligence and advancement
+of the boys. I decided that I would enter school immediately, and did
+so, though my money was scarce and a few weeks before I had agreed to
+continue work in the restaurant at twelve dollars per month, board and
+bed furnished. That was good wages for a boy of my age, but I know now
+that giving it up and going to school was a thousand times higher wages
+for me. I felt my imperfections so keenly then I was ashamed to talk to
+the boys in the college. The stimulation for an education, which I
+received on that visit to Talladega College has never left me. I regard
+it most fortunate for an ignorant young man to visit our best schools.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INDIANS
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+FORT YATES, DAKOTA.
+
+MISS M.C. COLLINS.
+
+During the recent measles epidemic a large number of children died on
+the Agency. At this village, a little child had been conjured until they
+thought it was dying, and then they sent for me. I found the poor little
+one all bruised with the hands of the conjurer. I showed the mother how
+to bathe it, and I poulticed the throat and sent Josephine over again to
+change the poultice, and she reported the child as breathing quietly.
+The next morning the swelling had gone down and the baby seemed much
+better; all day it continued to improve, and the next day sat up and ate
+rice soup which I carried it. The mother said, "She is well now!" I
+said, "O, no, she is not; keep her in the house three days and I will
+visit her, then she will be well perhaps." If an Indian is not in a
+dying condition, they do not consider anything the matter. So, after I
+left, she took her child out and walked about two miles. The child
+caught cold, and that afternoon grew worse. They had an Indian to
+conjure it, and it died immediately. They sent for me to come and pray
+with them. Josephine went for Elias, and we went to the desolate home.
+The baby had been dead an hour and was closed up in a box, the
+grandfather singing a mourning song, the mother wailing, "O my daughter,
+my daughter, I loved her and she has left me." Over and over again she
+cried out in her sorrow. The grandmother had cut her flesh, and the
+streams of blood running down from her hair over her face only made all
+seem more desolate, and more weird and terrible. They were trying to be
+Indians, and yet they had asked for me to come. I suppose it was to give
+the child the full benefit of both religions, so that there should be no
+mistake in the future world.
+
+My Bible class now numbers ten; six of them are candidates for church
+membership. One of them spoke very nicely at our last prayer meeting.
+Among other things he said: "No man can kill God's Word. It will live
+and his church will grow. We have tried to kill it in this village, but
+look at it now. It has taken hold of us, and we who have fought against
+it are now its followers. No man can kill God, because he alone is the
+creator of life, and it is only foolish to try to stand upon his word
+and keep it down. The Indian customs fall before the Word of God
+wherever the Bible has gone. My friends, stop fighting against God,
+believe on him and rejoice." This is Wakutemani (Walking Hunter) whom I
+named Huntington Wolcott for Mr. Wolcott of Boston. Because he said he
+wanted a long name and the name of a good man, I combined the two. He is
+now ambitious to become a teacher. He will be ready for an out-station
+whenever you are able to build one. He says they have already asked him
+to come up on Oak Creek to teach them, and I gave him a Bible and hymn
+books and primer, and he goes about reading and singing and praying for
+Christ. May he be indeed the Walking Hunter, going about seeking souls.
+God be with him to the end.
+
+Nearly all of our Indians signed the bill to open the reservation. John
+Grass took the lead. He is a very wise man, and a good one for an Indian
+who represents the wild Indians. I attended all the sessions of the
+Council except the last. I see by the papers that a Roman Catholic
+priest on this Agency says he touched the pen first, and that caused all
+the Indians to sign. Grass says he wants me to dispute that, that he
+refused to sign last year because he did not like the bill. This year,
+the Commissioners were men of brains and the bill was a better one, and
+was so explained that the Indians understood it, and that they of their
+own accord thought the best thing they could do was to sign it, that the
+said priest had no power or influence over them whatever. He said, "Tell
+our friends this for me, and tell them the Commissioners know that we
+signed it of our own will because we believed it was for the good of our
+people." I told him I would write it East.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The instability of the Indian.--It used to be a proverb among the
+Indians that "The white man is very uncertain." The following brief
+extract from the letter of a missionary among the Indians not only shows
+that the Indian is unstable, but illustrates the difficulty of fixing
+the Indians in a given locality and at steady work:
+
+     The Commissioner was at ---- the other day, and our Indians
+     had a chance to sign, and almost all of them did so, but
+     still to many of them the opening seems an evil. I am afraid
+     they are not going to maintain their places in the face of
+     settlement by the whites. Already six families have slipped
+     away to the Indian Territory, and I shall not be much
+     surprised if in the next two years a considerable majority
+     of them go; and still it is about as difficult to tell what
+     an Indian will do, as it is to forecast western weather. I
+     think they have never done so well in farming as this year,
+     but one case will illustrate how unstable they are. One man
+     sold three young horses for about half what they were worth.
+     He had about eight acres of wheat, twelve acres of corn, and
+     an acre of oats, all of which he abandoned to go South,
+     though all his crops were very fine and had been well worked
+     by _himself_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR CHINESE IN CHINA.
+
+BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D.
+
+This is an old theme, but it presents fresh aspects from time to time. I
+am quite sure that the readers of the MISSIONARY will be interested in
+these extracts from three comparatively recent letters:
+
+"My DEAR PASTOR:
+
+"Since I left for my home, I am perfectly well and safe. I am very glad
+that I havn't got any persecution come to me. I told my parents the
+first thing when I reached my home that I don't worship the idols and
+the ancestors when I marry. They did not say anything except, 'Do what
+you please,' and then I thought I could stop the bride to worship too.
+They said, 'She couldn't,' [_i.e._ could not be prevented from
+worshiping]. In the day I married, when the bride worship the ancestors
+the spectators called me saying, 'Mr. Fung Jung, go, worship with the
+bride.' My mother answered them, 'That is all right, he did worship.'
+Two days after, the news that I did not worship the ancestors reached my
+wife's parents. They immediately send a woman to me and asked me what
+was the matter I did not worship the ancestor. I explained to her as
+well as I could and then she went home. Though I stay very firm for
+Jesus Christ, I am very sorry that I could not convert my family yet. Do
+pray for me and for those who do not know Christ."
+
+It may be remarked in explanation of this somewhat singular toleration
+of Fung Jung's faith and conduct as a Christian, that he had been a
+merchant for two or three years before he returned, and in comparison
+with his relatives at home, and perhaps with the average of returning
+Chinese, was a prosperous and somewhat well-to-do man. And it is often
+remarked that if a son or a brother can get _good luck_ in California he
+may have whatever religion he pleases. That is what Chinese religion is
+_for_--its sole utility--to get for its patrons good luck, and if this
+is gained, and the son or brother has money to divide, his religion will
+be accepted as satisfactory, on the ground that it has worked well in
+his case.
+
+
+JOE JET IN SEARCH OF A MISSIONARY.
+
+Joe Jet is the Christian merchant (once a helper in our mission) to whom
+was entrusted by our brethren the task of inaugurating their missionary
+work in the districts from which they came. The letter from him that I
+am about to quote reached me some months ago. "I have crossed the stormy
+ocean and safely reached my country. I have seen Tsing Ki, Fung Foo and
+all my friends at Hong Kong. God protected me. And we talked about our
+missionary society, how we should go on. Then we agree to try to have
+one good Christian brother, his name Moo King Shing. He can both preach
+and teach. We know he is belonging to the Presbyterian Church, but we
+desired to employ him. Then I left Hong Kong and went home to see my
+parents, wife and all my relatives. I stay home ten days, then take my
+way, go to find where Moo Hing Shan is. I go through the chapel of Kong
+Moon, then San Wao city, and then got to San Ching Fan and inquire how
+to get my way to see Moo Hing Shan. The preacher at that chapel say,
+he's in Nor Foo Market, and so, finally, I meet him there. I then talk
+over the new story with him. He like very well to work in our society,
+but he had teached and preached in that place seven years and all these
+brethren and scholars cannot leave him. The missionary say he could not
+let him leave, because he is a true Christian--not one to begin
+believing and then stop. He cannot decide yet. He will think about it.
+If he sure he cannot leave there, then we find another."
+
+A third letter is from a brother who has recently returned from China.
+It speaks of good news he has received from home--news of the baptism of
+six persons--one man and five women. About some of these women our
+brother knows something, and says: "One of the women was about sixty
+years of age. Her brother was a Christian and a preacher, and through
+her brother she gain to be a Christian. After this she encountered many
+trials, especially with her son's wife. Her son was in California, and
+his wife and two children lived with his mother. After she became a
+Christian both the children died. Their mother quarrel with her because
+she will not worship the idols. Then her brother, the preacher, died.
+Then she herself was taken very sick. We miss her three Sabbath days.
+That time no Chinese preacher was there, and only myself and, perhaps,
+one or two Christian brothers with me at the chapel. So I ask one of
+them to go with me to see for what cause she was absent. She lived about
+five miles from my place. We reach the village, meet a young man outside
+the village, ask him 'where is the Christian woman's house?' He said to
+us, 'Follow me.' So we follow him straight to her house and that young
+man live there. So I found she was sick. Three women were in the house,
+one of them the son's wife. These women said to us, 'If she not be a
+Christian you would not come to her.' My answer, 'Certainly not; if I
+not a Christian myself I would not come here.' So I begin to have a
+little talk to them and tell them who is the true God and how much God
+love us all, and how Jesus died for us. After this I gave them a prayer.
+They felt very much pleased to hear it. They gave me some present to
+take home, and soon the woman got all well. Then she went with her
+brother's widow to Hong Kong and leave her son's wife at home. Then she
+also became a Christian woman, very faithful, although a great many
+people make fun of her and use many bad words about her. She must be one
+of the five baptized."
+
+Another letter from a Chinese brother tells me, "My wife one time, with
+the Chinese women, keep Sabbath day. So I am very glad. When I was at
+home my wife say she too young to be Christian and afraid the people
+would make fun of her. I told a Chinese preacher's wife in China to try
+to get her. I hope she will be led the Christian way."
+
+Surely the leaven, though little, is working in China, and though it be
+hid in a great mass of meal, it will not cease its working till the
+whole is leavened. "China for Christ!" this our motto, and this our
+prayer.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+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.R. Dawes, Redfield;
+  Treasurer, Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Society,
+  President, Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight;
+  Sec., Mrs. Silas Dagett, 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 the list as a State body
+     for Mass. and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]
+
+We would, suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of
+State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary
+Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care,
+however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American
+Missionary Association, since _undesignated funds will not reach us_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Woman's meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held
+in connection with the Annual Meeting, on Thursday afternoon, October
+31st, in the New England Church, Chicago, Ill. Missionaries will be
+present from the work among the colored people and the mountain whites
+in the South, and also from the Indians, to give descriptions of their
+life on their mission fields. We would again urge a full representation
+of ladies from all the churches.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In connection also with the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary
+Association, and by their invitation, there will be an all-day Mass
+Meeting of Women's Home Missionary Unions in the New England Church,
+Chicago, October 29th. Every State Union is urged to send
+representatives.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GLIMPSES FROM THE FIELD.
+
+
+SCHOOL LIFE.
+
+I think you could not find a busier company of young people anywhere. As
+soon as one task is accomplished, another is ready to be taken up, and
+this goes on from early morn till time for retiring. Going into the
+kitchen you will find a dozen or more girls, with bright and happy
+faces, doing the homely work of dish-washing and preparing the
+vegetables for dinner. In the laundry, you are greeted with as many more
+smiling faces, some singing, others telling funny stories, but all busy
+at their allotted work. The bell rings for school and you will see them
+flying from every direction, perhaps having taken a moment to smooth the
+hair, or arrange the dress. All out of breath they reach the school
+room, ready for the five hours' work with books, which is the same as
+any average school in the North. This work being accomplished, they are
+off to the farm, shops, the sewing room and the cooking class. Here they
+learn to prepare all substantial food which would be necessary for any
+table, and become initiated into the intricacies of bread, pie and
+cake-making.
+
+Our Sabbaths are not idle days either, for with Sunday-school, church
+service, and prayer meetings, our day is pretty well filled. Some of our
+girls are doing real missionary work by going out into the neighborhood,
+to relieve the sick, read to the old and infirm, and to carry food where
+it is needed. This they seem to enjoy, and it will, perhaps, prepare
+them for usefulness as they go out to work among their people.
+
+
+HOME LIFE.
+
+Perhaps, if I give you a glimpse into the home of one of our pupils, you
+can more easily understand what we have to work against among these
+people. In a miserable old hovel, of one small room, lives a family of
+eleven, father, mother, five children, two pitiful little orphans, to
+whom the mother out of the kindness of her heart has given shelter, and
+a young man and a young woman as boarders. The mother toils hard each
+day to furnish bread for the little ones, and does what she can to keep
+her family respectable. The father is what is termed, "no 'count." He
+has no regular employment, but, when so inclined, will chop wood, and
+thus earn a few dimes. Their house is lighted by one small window, in
+which bunches of rags and papers supply the absence of glass. The room
+is heated by an old fire-place, which is crumbling to decay. The
+furniture consists of two straw beds covered with ragged quilts, a
+little pine table, and four broken chairs. I need not tell you of the
+moral atmosphere which exists in such a home. Yet this is only a type of
+the home we see too often when we are making our round of calls.
+
+
+SACRIFICES FOR EDUCATION.
+
+Our school refuses none on account of age. Pupils are there, from the
+little three-year-old who attends the "Kinny-garten," as they call it,
+to those who are forty and fifty years old. I have been exceedingly
+interested in one woman who is now attending school in the primary room.
+She said to me: "I done sent my daughters through school and now I
+thought I would try and get a little education myself."
+
+One of the good brothers well expressed this idea of sacrifice on the
+part of the parents for the education of their children when he said, "I
+only wants to be a stepping-stone for my children. If I can help them to
+rise higher than I have got, that is all I ask."
+
+One poor woman told me she spent less than a dollar per week for
+provisions for a family of eight persons in order to save money to keep
+her children in school.
+
+The oldest pupil in my school, a man over thirty years of age, said to
+me one day, "I wish I could have gone to school when I was young, for as
+a fellow grows older, his remembrance comes shorter."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
+
+Two little girls, about eight and nine years old, have just been to my
+room. The older one said, "This yere chile wants a dress to wear to
+Sunday-school to-morrow, and her ma says if it don't fit she can cut it
+off and make it over." I found among the contents of the last barrel a
+pretty blue gingham that fitted. I am sure the one who sent the dress
+would have felt happy if she could have seen the glad look of the child
+as she received it. I found the older little girl was not attending any
+day-school, and when I asked her what she did to help at home, she
+replied, "I don't do nothing, but stay at home and tote wood and notice
+the house."
+
+The children may be interested in a question asked by a little girl in
+the third grade. She said, "My pa wants I should ask you whether the
+children of Israel, that Moses led out of Egypt, were black people, or
+white people?"
+
+I have been teaching nearly six weeks. The house is a cheap frame one
+with a fire-place at one end. It is supplied with five benches, two
+desks and a blackboard. On those small benches twenty-five or more
+children must be seated. It is hard to keep them busy, as very few have
+the books which they need. Many are just learning to read, and some of
+these are making excellent progress.
+
+At first it seemed as though the scholars would fight on the least
+provocation. If there had not been a few who had attended another of our
+schools, I do not know what I should have done, but those few did not
+fight. Their deportment in the school-room was also good. Now there is
+scarcely any fighting. At first several brought tobacco to school, but
+it was not allowed to be used, and so is not brought now.
+
+One day a girl was at the board doing a simple sum in addition, three
+plus four; she put down nine as the entire sum. When I asked her what
+three plus four was equal to, she said "seven." I then asked her why she
+did not put that down; she said, "Dunno how to make a seben and so
+'lowed dat would do." One young man has come to school but four half
+days, yet he has learned to write his own name legibly and can read
+some. He could spell "right smart" before he came.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1889.
+
+
+THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+Income for August, 1889, from the
+  invested funds                            $4,197.35
+
+Income previously acknowledged              31,302.36
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                  Total    $35,499.71
+
+                                           ==========
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS.
+
+
+MAINE, $468.87.
+
+Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                      26.20
+
+Bath. Children's Loyal Temperance Legion,
+  2 Packages Books, etc., _for Sherwood,
+  Tenn._
+
+Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                18.42
+
+Brewer. Mrs. Catharine S. Hardy (100 of
+  which _for Chinese M. in Cal._)              200.00
+
+Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              20.63
+
+Castine. Class No. 9 Trin. Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                 1.70
+
+Dennysville. Cong. Ch.                          18.96
+
+Hampden. Cong. Ch.                              11.80
+
+Limington. Cong. Ch.                             9.00
+
+North Anson. "A Friend."                        15.00
+
+Portland. Seamens Bethel Ch.                    41.50
+
+Saco. First Parish Ch.                          19.13
+
+Searsport. First Cong. Ch.                      21.53
+
+Wells. B. Maxwell                               20.00
+
+Yarmouth. First Parish Ch.                      50.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $737.53.
+
+Acworth. Cong. Soc.                             10.87
+
+Amherst. Capt G.W. Bosworth                      3.00
+
+Bedford. Milton B. George, _for Clinton
+  Chapel, Talladega C._                          2.00
+
+Durham. Cong. Ch.                               21.86
+
+East Derry. First Cong. Ch.                      3.83
+
+Hanover. "Susie's Birthday Gift."                5.00
+
+Littleton. Cong. Ch.                            11.36
+
+Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., to const. REV.
+  JOHN THORPE, L.M.                             50.00
+
+Nashua. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._        61.50
+
+North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.               17.00
+
+Pelham. Mrs. E.W. Tyler, _for Freight_           2.00
+
+Rindge. "A Friend"                               1.00
+
+Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                             3.25
+
+Temple. Mrs. Lucy W.C. Keyes                     0.40
+
+West Lebanon. Cong. Ch.                         16.96
+                                              -------
+
+                                               210.03
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Cornish. Estate of Sarah W. Westgate, by
+  A.E. Wellman for Trustees Cong. Ch.
+  of Cornish                                    27.50
+
+Milford. Estate of Lydia H. Frost, by
+  Albert Heald and David Heald, Executors      500.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $737.53
+
+
+VERMONT, $340.33.
+
+Berlin. First Cong. Ch.                         22.00
+
+Charlotte. Cong. Ch.                            20.50
+
+Hartford. E. Morris                            100.00
+
+Highgate. Cong. Ch.                              4.78
+
+Rutland. Cong. Ch.                              50.00
+
+Shoreham. Cong. Ch.                             19.00
+
+Thetford. First Cong. Ch.                        6.00
+
+Vergennes. Cong. Ch.                            20.00
+
+Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 45.00
+
+Wallingford. "C.M.T.,"
+  _for Mountain Work_                            2.00
+
+West Townshend. Cong. Ch, and Soc.               8.90
+
+Worcester. Ladies of Cong. Go.,
+  _for McIntosh, Ga._                            5.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont,
+  by Mrs. William P. Fairbanks, Treas:
+
+    Manchester. W.H.M.                5.00
+
+    Peacham. Ladies                  25.00
+
+    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies           7.15
+
+                                  --------      37.15
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $8,192.20.
+
+Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.
+  _for ed. Indian Child, Fort Berthold,
+  Dak._                                         21.06
+
+Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch.         14.50
+
+Andover. "Friend," _for Girls' Dormitory,
+  Macon, Ga._                                1,202.76
+
+Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for
+  Chandler Normal Sch., Lexington, Ky._        483.22
+
+Bernardston. Cong. Ch.                           7.30
+
+Boston. "Friends," _for Tougaloo U._            60.00
+
+    "A Friend."                      25.00
+
+    Woman's Home Miss'y
+      Ass'n., _for Indian Sch'p.
+      Oahe Ind'l Sch._               15.00
+
+  Neponset. Sab. Sch. of Trinity
+    Ch., on True Blue
+    Cards, bal. to const.
+    CHESTER G. BARNES L.M.            8.00
+
+  Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch.     227.54
+
+                                   -------     335.54
+
+Boylston Center. Charles T. White               5.00
+
+Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    37.01
+
+Cambridgeport. Stearns Chapel                    3.83
+
+Campello. South Cong. Ch.                      100.00
+
+Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                         10.75
+
+Conway. Cong. Ch.                                6.50
+
+Curtisville. Cong. Ch.                          20.20
+
+Curtisville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Oaks, N.C._                              27.41
+
+Dalton. Mrs. Louise F. Crane, 50; Miss
+  Clara L. Crane, 50. _for Tougaloo U._        100.00
+
+East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._               12.50
+
+Falmouth. Cong. Ch.                             39.58
+
+Hardwick. Calvinistic Ch.                        9.95
+
+Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols,
+  _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._              200.00
+
+Holden. Two Bbls. of C. and 8.45. by Miss
+  M.A. Perry, _for McLeansville, N.C._           8.45
+
+Holden. M.A. Perry                               4.00
+
+Holliston. "Bible Christians of Dist.
+  No. 4."                                       50.00
+
+Leverett. Y.P.S.C.E. ad'l, _for Grand View,
+  Tenn._                                        11.00
+
+Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.           131.68
+
+Millbury. First Cong. Ch., (10 of which
+  _for Mountain Work_)                          58.40
+
+Millbury. M.D. Garfield, 10;
+  Lizzie M. Garfield, 2                         12.00
+
+Natick. First Cong. Ch.                        150.00
+
+Newburyport. A Friend, _for Indian M._          10.00
+
+Northampton. ----                                3.00
+
+North Wilbraham. Grace Union Ch.                17.50
+
+Peru. Rev. S.W. Powell                           3.00
+
+Prescott. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                 9.00
+
+Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner                   20.00
+
+Revere. Miss Emily M. Peck, Bbl. of C.,
+  2 _for Freight, for Marion, Ala._              2.00
+
+Richmond. Cong. Ch.                              5.64
+
+Royalston. "Thank Offering from a
+  Friend," _for Greenwood, S.C._                12.50
+
+Springfield. Mrs. O.C. Hunt                     10.00
+
+South Amherst. Cong. Ch.                        11.00
+
+Uxbridge. WILLIAM H. SEAGRAVE, bal.
+  to const. himself L.M.                        25.00
+
+Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.              15.66
+
+Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., bal.
+  to const. GEORGE H. MADDOCK L.M.               6.17
+
+Ware. Mr. Anderson's S.S. Class, _for
+  Indian Sch'p, Santee Normal Sch._             17.50
+
+Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell
+  _for Chinese M._                               5.00
+
+Warren. Ladies, Box of Bedding, etc.;
+  Mrs. M.L. Hastings, 3. _for Freight,
+  for Austin, Texas_                             3.00
+
+Westford. William Taylor, 5, _for Indian M._
+  and 5 _for Mountain Work_                     10.00
+
+Whateley. Cong. Ch., 12.84, and
+  Sab. Sch., 10                                 22.84
+
+Winchester. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Indian Sch'p.,
+  Santee Normal Sch._                           70.00
+
+Woods Holl. Cong. Ch.                            3.00
+
+Worcester. Polly W. Ames and
+  George W. Ames                                 6.00
+
+----. "Donations,"                             100.00
+
+----. "A."                                      10.00
+
+Hampden Benevolent Association, by
+  Charles Marsh, Treasurer:
+
+    Huntington. Second               19.85
+
+    Mittineagne                       3.57
+
+    Monson. Sab. Sch.,
+      _for Indian M._                50.00
+
+    Springfield, Rev. Edward
+      Clarke                          5.00
+
+                                  --------      78.42
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $3,538.87
+
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Conway. Estate of Ruby Strong, Mrs.
+  Julia E. Tilton, Adm'x., _for Tougaloo U._    20.00
+
+Cummington. Estate of Mrs. R.P.W.
+  Baldwin, by Ethan Clark, Executor            500.00
+
+Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings,
+  _for Education, Instruction and
+  Improvement of the Colored Population
+  of the South_                              3,000.00
+
+Newton Highlands. Estate of Miss Ellen
+  Craft, by Miss Emeline H. Craft and
+  Sarah A. Craft, Executors                    400.00
+
+Southampton. Estate of Eunice L. Strong,
+  Henry W. Bosworth, Adm., by Charles
+  Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n           733.33
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $8,192.20
+
+
+CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+Winchester, Mass. First Cong. Ch., by
+  Miss Elizabeth P. Chapin, Bbl. of C.,
+  Val. 50, _for Fort Berthold, Dak._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $32.00.
+
+Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.                15.00
+
+Narragansett Pier. Miss C. Danielson,
+  _for Indian M._                                2.00
+
+Providence. N.W. Williams                       15.00
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,395,01.
+
+Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.       25.00
+
+Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   16.14
+
+East Granby. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen H.
+  Strong, _for Cong. Ind'l Sch., Ga._            5.00
+
+East Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
+  Ch., 31.54 _for Indian M._; Infant Sch.,
+  2.80, _for Rosebud M._                        34.34
+
+Green's Farms. Cong. Ch.                        20.00
+
+Guilford. Wigwam Club of First Cong.
+  Ch., _for Indian Sch'p._, and to const.
+  MISS EMMA PHELPS and MISS LOTTIE
+  NORTON L.M's                                  70.00
+
+Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const.
+  WILLIAM C. BISHOP L.M.                        30.00
+
+Middletown. Third Cong. Ch.                     13.37
+
+Hadlyme. Jos. W. Hungerford                    100.00
+
+Hampton. "A Friend"                              5.00
+
+Lisbon. Cong. Ch.                               20.00
+
+Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                         47.20
+
+New London. "A Teacher and Chinese Scholar,
+  First Ch. of Christ," _for Chinese M._         5.00
+
+New Preston. Mrs. Betsey Averill,
+  _for Mountain Work_                           10.00
+
+New Preston. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
+ _for Conn, Ind'l Sch., Ga._                     5.00
+
+Norfolk. Young Ladles' Mission Band,
+  _for Indian M._                               42.42
+
+North Haven. Cong. Ch.                          57.00
+
+North Guilford. Mrs. Eben F. Dudley,
+  _for Indian M._                                5.00
+
+Oxford. Cong. Ch., to const REV. HENRY
+  M. HAZELTINE L.M.                             32.88
+
+Prospect. Cong. Ch.                             20.00
+
+Redding. Cong. Ch.                              20.73
+
+Riverton. Cong. Ch.                              7.00
+
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                                11.60
+
+Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      46.69
+
+South Windsor. First Ch.                        11.49
+
+Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.           46.50
+
+Terryville. "A Friend," _for Indian M._         20.00
+
+Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                             7.75
+
+Windsor. First Cong. C.                         75.00
+
+----. "A Christian Union Reader,"
+  _for Chinese M._                              25.00
+
+----. "A Friend in Conn."                       10.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                              $815.01
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. Asa B. Smith,
+  by Rev. E. Harmon, Ex.                       550.00
+
+                                            ---------
+
+                                            $1,395.01
+
+
+NEW YORK, $36,789.63.
+
+Augusta. "Friends," by M.A. Holmes               1.45
+
+Cambria Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.           8.00
+
+Comstock. "A Friend"                            20.00
+
+Deansville. Cong. Ch., _for Charleston, S.C._    9.08
+
+Eaton. Cong. Ch.                                 8.50
+
+East Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,
+  _for Santee Ind'l Sch._                       26.22
+
+Franklin. Cong. Ch.                             30.06
+
+Fredonia. Miss Martha L. Stevens                 2.00
+
+Greene. Cong. Ch.                               10.50
+
+Java. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch. 10., Juv. Temp.
+  Soc. 1.25, by Mamie J. Lyford, Treas.         11.25
+
+New York. "Pilgrim Church," 20.,
+  Rev. Stephen Angell, 10                       30.00
+
+North Walton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.             8.57
+
+Nyack. John W. Towt                            100.00
+
+Tarrytown. "A Friend,"                          50.00
+
+Warsaw. "A Friend," 50., Cong. Ch., 4           54.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y.,
+  by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas.,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Jamestown. Ladies' Aux.          15.00
+
+    Rutland. Ladies' Aux.             5.00
+
+                                     -----      20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                              $389.63
+
+ESTATES.
+
+Fulton. Estate of Mrs. A.B.C. Dada           1,400.00
+
+New York. Estate of John F. Delaplaine,
+  James Cruickshank and Talbot W.
+  Chambers, Executors                       35,000.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $36,789.63
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $82.00.
+
+Bordentown. Lambert Bewkes                       3.00
+
+Highlands. Rev. H.R. Proudfit                   54.00
+
+Perth Amboy. Rev. P. Kimball                    25.00
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $1.00.
+
+Braddock. Thomas Addenbrook, P'k'g.
+  C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+New Castle. John Burgess                         1.00
+
+
+OHIO, $164.50.
+
+Adams Mills. Mrs. M.A. Smith                    10.00
+
+Bryan. S.E. Blakeslee                            5.00
+
+Charlestown. Cong. Ch.                           2.50
+
+Cleveland. Hough Chapel, 20., Crawford
+  Road, 20., by Rev. C.W. Hiatt                 40.00
+
+Cleveland. East Madison Av. Cong. Ch.           25.00
+
+Cincinnati. Mrs. Betsey E. Aydelott              5.00
+
+Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 22; Woman's
+  Miss'y Soc., 3.; Y.P.S.C.E. 5., to const.
+  REV. EDGAR S. ROTHROCK L.M.                   30.00
+
+Kent. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Ada J. Blackmore,
+  _for Memphis, Tenn._                          10.00
+
+Marietta. Cong. Ch.                              2.00
+
+Stubenville. First Ch.                          10.00
+
+Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treasurer,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Akron. Aux.                      20.00
+
+    Harmar. Oak Grove Mission Band    5.00
+
+                                   -------      25.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $491.43
+
+Beecher. Member Cong. Ch.                       10.00
+
+Belvidere. Mrs. Mary C. Foote, 5., _for
+  Tillotson C. and N. Inst._, and 3. _for
+  Woman's Work_                                  8.00
+
+Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 149.01;
+  Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 11.60           160.61
+
+De Kalb. Cong. Ch.                              18.87
+
+Dover. Cong. Ch., (100. of which from
+  Dea. George Wells) to cont. DEA. J. HOYT,
+  DEA. AARON DUNBAR, JOHN W. HENSEL,
+  J.B. ALLEN and JAMES A. PIERCE L.M's         123.71
+
+Hyde Park. S.S. Class, Presb. Ch.,
+  _for Student Aid, Marion, Ala._                1.50
+
+Joliet. "A Thank Offering, M.T.M."              10.00
+
+Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.                          42.15
+
+Lyndon. J.M. Hamilton                            1.00
+
+Malden. Cong. Ch. ad'l.                          7.13
+
+Normal. Cong. Ch.                                9.24
+
+Ontario. Cong. Ch.                              14.34
+
+Princeton. Mrs. S.C. Clapp                      25.00
+
+Providence. Cong. Ch.                           12.00
+
+Ravenswood. Cong. Ch.                           21.01
+
+Toulon. Cong. Ch., in part                      10.00
+
+Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.                      16.17
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $61.85.
+
+Ann Arbor. Y.P.M.S. of First Cong. Ch.
+  _for Chapel, Santee Agency_                   13.85
+
+Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by Mrs. L.W.
+  Killmar, _for Athens, Ala._                   20.00
+
+Farmington. Mary Erwin                          10.00
+
+Homer. Mrs. C.C. Evarts                          6.00
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of
+  Michigan, by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas:
+
+    Grand Blanc. "Willing Helpers,"
+     _for Normal Training Sch.,
+     Santee Agency_                             12.00
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $360.10.
+
+Beloit. First Cong. Ch.                        169.30
+
+Boscobel. "Coral Workers" by Mrs. A.A. Young     3.00
+
+Cooksville. Cong. Ch.                            6.36
+
+Eau Claire. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.        15.00
+
+Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch. to const.
+  WILTON B. SIMMONS L.M.                        43.89
+
+Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch.                        15.80
+
+LaCrosse. Cong. Ch.                             51.41
+
+Lake Mills. Cong. Ch.                            4.00
+
+Ripon. First Cong. Ch.                          20.00
+
+Viroque. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box Books,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Waukesha. Cong. Ch.                             31.34
+
+
+IOWA, $211.26.
+
+Clayton. N.G. Platt                              5.00
+
+Creston. Pilgrim Ch.                             1.81
+
+Davenport. Mrs. M. Willis, Box Papers,
+  etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Dubuque. Y.L. Benev. Soc.,
+  _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                8.00
+
+Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                              4.92
+
+Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                             5.16
+
+Nashua. Cong. Ch.                               10.68
+
+Osage. Cong. Ch., to const. L.A. LARSON
+  and LEE J. LOVELESS L.M's                     60.00
+
+Red Oak. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 4
+  Packages Papers, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
+
+Storm Lake. Cong. Ch.                           13.14
+
+Tipton. "L.M.S." _for Mountain Work_             5.00
+
+Victor. Mrs. C.L. McDermid, _for
+  Nat, Ala._                                     0.50
+
+Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union,
+  _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Bellevue. L.M.S.                  4.25
+
+    Des Moines. L.M.S.                5.00
+
+    Genoa. W.H.M.U.                   2.01
+
+    Grinnell. W.H.M.U.                3.01
+
+    Humboldt. W.M.S.                  5.00
+
+    Iowa City. W.H.M.U.              25.35
+
+    Le Mars                           2.10
+
+    Magnolia. W.H.M.U.                1.50
+
+    Osage. W.M.S.                     2.15
+
+    Sheldon. W.M.U.                   2.00
+
+    Traer. L.M.S.                    20.00
+
+    Dubuque. Y.L.B.S.                 4.00
+
+    Fairfield. L.M.S.                 3.10
+
+    McGregor. L.M.S. ad'l to cont.
+      MRS. WILLIAM
+      TROUT-FETTER L.M.              10.58
+
+    McGregor. "Thank Offering."       2.00
+
+    New Hampton. L.M.S.               5.00
+
+                                   -------      97.05
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $46.90.
+
+Austin. Mrs. S.C. Bacon                         10.00
+
+New Richland. Cong. Ch.                          2.00
+
+Rose Creek. Mrs. J.S. Rounce,
+  on True Blue Card                              3.10
+
+Rushford. Cong. Ch.                              5.28
+
+Saint Paul. Saint Anthony Park Cong. Ch.        19.00
+
+Tivoli. Lyman Humiston                           1.00
+
+Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.                     6.52
+
+
+MISSOURI, $12.50.
+
+Amity. Cong. Ch.                                 2.50
+
+Kidder. Cong. Ch.                               10.00
+
+
+KANSAS, $5.00.
+Boston Mills. J. Hubbard                         5.00
+
+
+DAKOTA, $5.00.
+
+Yankton. Gen. W.H.H. Beadle                      5.00
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA, $9.65.
+
+Elrod. Cong. Ch.                                 1.60
+
+Woman's Home Missionary Union of
+  South Dakota, by Mrs. Sue Fifield,
+  Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+
+    Plankinton. W.M.S.                3.05
+
+    Sioux Falls. W.M.S.               5.00
+
+                                     -----       8.05
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $58.73. Exeter.
+
+Exeter. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc.,
+  by Grace Gilbert                               5.00
+
+Fremont. Cong. Ch., 35., and Sab. Sch. 7.48     42.48
+
+Nebraska City. Woman's Miss'y Soc.,
+  by Mrs. J.B. Parmlee, Treas.                  10.00
+
+Silver Creek. Cong. Ch.                          1.25
+
+
+MONTANA, $20.50.
+
+Helena. First Cong. Ch.                         20.50
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, 70c.
+
+Murphys. Douglas Flat Cong. Ch.                  0.70
+
+
+OREGON, $650.63.
+
+East Portland. First Cong. Ch.                   0.63
+
+ESTATE.
+
+Portland. Estate of Dea. H.M. Humphrey,
+  by Rev. C.F. Clapp                           650.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $5.25.
+
+McLeansville. First Cong. Ch.                    1.50
+
+Nall. Cong. Ch.                                  0.50
+
+Pekin. Cong. Ch.                                 1.25
+
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                                 2.00
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $215.50.
+
+Glenmary. Cong. Ch.                             10.00
+
+Memphis. "Friends," _for LeMoyne Sch.
+  Building_. (30. of which to cont.
+  DR. D.T. PORTER L.M.)                         205.50
+
+
+GEORGIA, $17.00.
+
+Atlanta. Teachers and Students of
+  Atlanta U., _for Indian M._                   15.00
+
+Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta, U._      2.00
+
+
+TEXAS, 65c.
+
+Austin. Tillotson Ch. of Christ, ad'l.           0.65
+
+
+NEW MEXICO, $3.80.
+
+Albuquerque. Cong. Ch.                           3.80
+
+
+JAPAN, $20.00.
+
+Kioto. Mission Ch.                              20.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Donations                                   $7,618.69
+
+Estates                                     42,780.83
+
+                                           ----------
+
+                                           $50,399.52
+
+
+INCOME, $30.00.
+
+Belden Sch'p Fund _for Talladega C._            30.00
+
+
+TUITION, $98.00.
+
+Wilmington, N.C., Tuition            11.50
+
+Grand View, Tenn., Tuition           74.42
+
+Austin, Texas, Tuition               12.06
+
+                                  --------      98.00
+
+                                           ----------
+
+Total for August                           $50,527.52
+
+
+SUMMARY.
+
+Donations                                 $171,498.08
+
+Estates                                     98,995.51
+
+                                          -----------
+
+                                          $270,493.59
+
+Income                                       9,103.21
+
+Tuition                                     34,059.34
+
+United States Government
+  appropriation for Indians                 15,219.37
+
+                                          -----------
+
+Total from Oct. 1 to August 31            $328,875.51
+
+                                          ===========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+Subscriptions for August                       $26.55
+
+Previously acknowledged                        733.12
+
+                                              -------
+
+Total                                         $759.67
+
+
+
+H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+56 Reade St., N.Y.
+
+
+
+
+
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