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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 12, December, 1889 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: July 1, 2005 [EBook #16172] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Cornell University, Joshua Hutchinson, Donald +Perry and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i"></a>[i]</span></p> + +<h1>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY</h1> + +<hr class="full" /> +<table class="volume" width="100%" summary="Title"> + <tr> + <td width="25%" align="left"><b>Vol. XLIII.</b></td> + <td width="50%" align="center"><b>DECEMBER, 1889.</b></td> + <td width="25%" align="right"><b>No. 12.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr class="full" /> + +<ul> +<li><a href="#EDITORIAL"><b>EDITORIAL.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#OUR_ANNUAL_MEETING"><span class="smcap">Our Annual Meeting</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#FINANCIAL"><span class="smcap">Financial</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_DANIEL_HAND_FUND"><span class="smcap">The Daniel Hand Fund</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_LITERATURE_OF_THE_MEETING"><span class="smcap">The Literature of The Meeting</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#NOTICES_FROM_THE_PRESS"><span class="smcap">Notices from the Press</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY"><span class="smcap">The "American Missionary"</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#BRIEF_NOTES"><span class="smcap">Brief Notes</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#FORTY-THIRD_ANNUAL_MEETING"><b>ANNUAL MEETING.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#The_Forty-third_Annual_Meeting_of_the_American_Missionary_Association"><span class="smcap">Proceedings of Annual Meeting</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#SUMMARY_OF_TREASURERS_REPORT"><span class="smcap">Summary of Treasurer's Report</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY_ASSOCIATION_ITS_PLACE_AND_WORK"><span class="smcap">The American Missionary Association—Its Place and Work. + By Secretary Strieby</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#THE_MISSIONARY_VIEW_OF_THE_SOUTHERN_SITUATION"><span class="smcap">The Missionary View of the Southern Situation. + By Secretary Beard</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#REPORTS_OF_COMMITTEES"><span class="smcap">Reports of Committees</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ADDRESSES_ON_THE_PRECEDING_REPORTS"><span class="smcap">Addresses on These Reports, by Messrs. Wright, Woodbury, Taylor, Hiatt, + Fisk, Foster, Riggs, Stimson, Goodwin, and Salisbury</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#ADDRESS_OF_REV_WM_M_TAYLOR"><span class="smcap">Closing Address by Rev. Dr. Taylor</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"><b>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</b></a> + <ul> + <li><a href="#REPORT_OF_SECRETARY"><span class="smcap">Report of Secretary</span></a></li> + <li><a href="#WOMANS_STATE_ORGANIZATIONS"><span class="smcap">Woman's State Organizations</span></a></li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><a href="#RECEIPTS_FOR_OCTOBER_1889"><b>RECEIPTS</b></a> +</li> +</ul> +<br /> +<hr class="quarter" /> + +<div class="center"><b>NEW YORK:<br /> +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br /> +Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</b></div> +<br /> + +<div class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br /> +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</div> +<br /> +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii"></a>[ii]</span></p> + +<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> + +<ul> + <li>PRESIDENT, Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Taylor</span>, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</li> + <li><i>Vice-Presidents.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.J.F. Behrends</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">F.A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie</span>, D.D., Mass.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">D.O. Mears</span>, D.D., Mass.</li> + <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Hopkins</span>, D.D., Mo.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Corresponding Secretaries.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reads Street, N.Y.</i></li> + <li>Rev. A.F. <span class="smcap">Beard</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Recording Secretary.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev. M.E. <span class="smcap">Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Treasurer.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">H.W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Auditors.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">Peter McCartee</span>.</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Chas. P. Peirce</span>.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li><i>Executive Committee.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.</li> + <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>, Secretary.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li> + <ul> + <li><i>For Three Years.</i> + <ul> + <li><span class="smcap">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> + <li><i>For Two 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 One Year.</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> + </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 Superintendent.</i> + <ul> + <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Frank E. Jenkins</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.—The date on the "address label" indicates the +time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on +ladle to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made +afterward, the change on the label will appear a month later. Please +send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former +address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and +occasional papers may be correctly mailed.</p> + + +<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4> + +<p>"I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in +trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, +when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American +Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the +direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its +charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by three +witnesses.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_331" id="Page_331"></a>[331]</span> +<h2><a name="EDITORIAL" id="EDITORIAL"></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>DECEMBER, 1889.</b></td> + <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 12.</b></td> + </tr> +</table> +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h3>American Missionary Association.</h3> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="OUR_ANNUAL_MEETING" id="OUR_ANNUAL_MEETING"></a>OUR ANNUAL MEETING.</h2> + +<p>We return from our Annual Meeting held in Chicago with a deep sense of +gratitude to God and to the many friends who in various ways helped to +make it one of the most pleasant and profitable of our anniversaries. We +did not have the remarkable uplift of a munificent gift like that of Mr. +Daniel Hand, which made our meeting at Providence so memorable, but we +had, in the strength and appropriateness of the sermon, and in the +ability of the addresses, papers and reports, that which will render +this meeting a cheering landmark in our history.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="FINANCIAL" id="FINANCIAL"></a>FINANCIAL.</h2> + +<div class="center">$500,000 FOR 1889-90.</div> + +<p>Our financial exhibit, with the able report upon it, was one of the +encouraging features of our Annual Meeting. The report of the Treasurer +announced the gratifying fact that the books closed with all obligations +and indebtedness paid, and with a balance on hand of over $4,000. The +able Finance Committee gave a careful examination of the Treasurer's +books and papers, and made very commendatory report as to methods and +accuracy.</p> + +<p>The National Council, at its meeting in Worcester, recommended that the +churches contribute to the Association for the coming year $500,000. The +Finance Committee after careful examination of the needs of the work +endorsed the recommendation of the Council, and the Association heartily +adopted the report. This sum, therefore, is what, in the judgment of +competent persons, is imperatively needed; and we, therefore, take +pleasure in going before our constituents, appealing for that amount.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_DANIEL_HAND_FUND" id="THE_DANIEL_HAND_FUND"></a>THE DANIEL HAND FUND.</h2> + +<p>This noble gift, which awakened such enthusiasm at our annual meeting +one year ago, came with its echo of work well done during the year—an +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_332" id="Page_332"></a>[332]</span>echo which we trust will reverberate with steady force through all the +years to come. In the Treasurer's report the figures were given as to +the appropriations made from the income of this Fund during the year; in +the General Survey cheering statements were made as to the many pupils +it had stimulated to industry and education, and the buildings it had +erected; and in several of the papers and addresses, grateful mention +was made of the benefits conferred by it. We trust that other large +givers may be stimulated to follow in the footsteps of one who has so +wisely invested his money for the uplifting of the most needy in our +land.</p> + +<p>A recent letter from Mr. Hand shows his deep solicitude that his gift +shall be used for the highest moral and religious purposes. He says: "I +have feared that the teachers might be more concerned for letters than +for morals. My bequest was given to you chiefly as a religious society. +Religion is the first, chiefest and best of it all."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_LITERATURE_OF_THE_MEETING" id="THE_LITERATURE_OF_THE_MEETING"></a>THE LITERATURE OF THE MEETING.</h2> + +<p>This presents a genuine case of the embarrassment of riches. We never +had better. We wish all our friends might have the opportunity for the +careful study of it, for it is worth their time and attention.</p> + +<p>Full reports of the proceedings were made daily in the <i>Chicago Inter +Ocean</i>. They were all gathered into a supplement, and have already been +widely scattered. Some copies are still on hand at our offices in New +York, Boston, Cleveland and Chicago, and can be had on application.</p> + +<p>The annual sermon, as usual, will be printed with the Annual Report. +This number of the MISSIONARY (an enlarged number) will contain the +Minutes and the official papers, including reports and the speeches upon +them, (the latter necessarily somewhat abridged) Secretaries' papers, +and the closing address of Rev. Dr. Taylor. Other papers and addresses, +including the Representative Addresses, will be published hereafter as +far as practicable in subsequent numbers of the MISSIONARY or in some +other form.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="NOTICES_FROM_THE_PRESS" id="NOTICES_FROM_THE_PRESS"></a>NOTICES FROM THE PRESS.</h2> + +<h4>FROM THE ADVANCE.</h4> + +<p>No meeting of the American Missionary Association has ever been better +than this last one. Dr. William M. Taylor, who with such consummate +felicity combines so many of the best characteristics of the Scotch, the +English and the Yankee, presided. The topics of the several papers and +addresses, though covering a large range of thought all converged to the +same main point, and were especially pertinent to the hour. Those who +had been invited to prepare papers showed, by the manifest pains they +took with them, their sense of the importance of the occasion. They +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_333" id="Page_333"></a>[333]</span>brought the results of their best and most earnest thinking. And it is +rare that such speakers are confronted by a more earnest, intelligent +and sympathetic audience.</p> + +<p>The meeting was a good one in every respect; it is not easy to +overestimate either its delightfulness or its moral power. It is not +possible for a great society to place before itself a more eminently +Christlike purpose. It has been greatly honored of God in its results +thus far. And no decently intelligent history of America will ever fail +to note the vital and decisively critical part which, in the Providence +that overrules all history, has been given to this so timely and so +sagaciously Christian organization to take in preparing the various +despised races of America for good citizenship in our common country, so +that Negro, Indian, Chinaman and whatever other race representatives are +among us may sing in glorious unison: "My country 'tis of thee, sweet +land of liberty!"</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>FROM THE CONGREGATIONALIST.</h4> + +<p>The Annual Meeting in Chicago was remarkable in many respects. All the +sessions were good. There was no talking against time. There were no +displays of eloquence. No one spoke for effect. The ruling desire seemed +to be to get at the facts, and to learn the lessons which they teach.</p> + +<p>Subjects were carefully grouped together, so that at the close of the +meeting one felt that the fourfold character of the work of the +Association had been fully and intelligently presented. Speeches were +almost entirely by those whose names were on the programme, and who, +therefore, had given time and thought to the matters on which they had +been invited to enlighten others. Every one came with the idea that he +<i>might</i> speak, that he had the liberty of the floor, and yet few cared +to use this liberty. Debate is good, but on matters which concern the +treatment of more than ten millions of people—eight of Negroes, two of +mountain whites, besides Indians and Chinese—extempore addresses are +not the best use of time. As a result of this preparation, Wednesday, +the day when most of the papers were read, will compare favorably with +the best days of the American Board. The ability of the younger men in +our denomination was conspicuous. None of our great benevolent +enterprises will suffer in their hands.</p> + +<p>While there was great seriousness, there was also evident hopefulness, +and an unshaken confidence in the power of the gospel to remove all the +difficulties in the race problem, the Indian and the Chinese questions, +and in the treatment of the Mountain Whites. While a unit in sentiment +as to the importance of the school, the convention seemed to be equally +a unit as to the importance of making it a missionary school, and of +keeping it in closest union with the church. The conviction seemed to +prevail that to separate the one from the other would, in the highest +degree, be unfortunate. It was evident, furthermore, that the work of +the Association has only just begun, that no backward step can be taken, +and that the churches <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_334" id="Page_334"></a>[334]</span>ought to give larger sums for the support of the +Association year by year. It deserves, and will reward, their confidence +and generosity.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>FROM THE CHRISTIAN UNION.</h4> + +<p>The Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association, held in +Chicago last week, and of which a full account will be found elsewhere, +brought out anew the directness and energy with which this society is +bringing its aid to the solution of some of the most immediate and +perplexing problems in this country. The Negro, the Indian and the +Chinese are the especial objects of its care, and it has rendered +immense service to these races in this country, not only by its direct +answer to the appeal for help which comes, consciously or unconsciously, +from all of them, but by its educational influence upon the country at +large. The importance of the race question in the South cannot be +overstated, and it is a question the very gravity of which makes all +partisanship on either side the gravest offense against the welfare of +the country. The American Missionary Association, planting itself +resolutely on the principle of equal justice to all races on our +continent, and holding firmly to the method of Christian education, +holds distinct leadership in the only direction which can bring +permanent peace and safety. There is no missionary work in the world so +urgent and so important as that among the Negroes of the South. It is +not often that the work of a great Association is so plainly marked, +commends itself so thoroughly to the support of the country, and +converges so directly upon those things which are most urgent in their +demand upon the best thought of the best citizens, as the work of the +American Missionary Association.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>FROM THE INDEPENDENT.</h4> + +<p>The meeting of the American Missionary Association in Chicago had no +debated question to excite difference. All agree that the meeting was +one of the most earnest and effective in the history of the Association. +Beginning with the opening sermon of Dr. Meredith, and closing with the +address of Dr. Taylor, all the reports and addresses were thoughtful and +pertinent. Some of the papers on special topics were of a very high +order, and it may not be invidious to name the remarkable paper by +Colonel Keating, of Memphis, Tenn., which places him alongside of Drs. +Curry and Haygood among the leaders of thought in creating the true New +South.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h4>FROM THE HARTFORD COURANT.</h4> + +<p>No society in all this country of societies is doing nobler or more +useful work than the one which has been holding its yearly meeting this +week <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_335" id="Page_335"></a>[335]</span>in the city of Chicago; none more thoroughly deserves the favor and +sympathy (expressing itself in dollars) of the public.</p> + +<p>Look at a few eloquent figures. This American Missionary Association, +not yet fifty years old, has one hundred and thirteen missionaries at +work among the Negroes, the sadly neglected white mountaineers and the +newly arrived immigrants in the Southern States. It has established and +maintains there one hundred and thirty-six churches; also five chartered +institutions of learning, eighteen normal and graded schools, and +thirty-seven common schools, served by two hundred and sixty +instructors. Among the Indians it has half a dozen churches and three +times that number of schools, sixty-eight missionaries and teachers; +among the Chinese in this country, sixteen schools, thirty-five +missionaries and teachers. Its expenditures during the year footed up a +little over $366,000—a little over a thousand dollars a day. What a +work these figures represent, not merely for the Christian religion, but +for civilization, for morals, for good citizenship!</p> + +<p>The American Missionary Association ought to have at least half a +million dollars to work with, this year, and Hartford should show well +up toward the top in the list of contributors.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY" id="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY"></a>"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY."</h2> + +<p>The rich treat which this number of the MISSIONARY presents may well +suggest the privilege and duty not only of reading, but also of +circulating it. Let each reader possess himself of these important facts +and figures—these broad views as to the great work laid on the hearts +of American patriots and Christians—and then hand the magazine to some +neighbor. Let us suggest farther, that the MISSIONARY, in its monthly +issues, is full of the same sort of facts and thoughts, and should be +more widely read—it should have a <i>larger list of paying subscribers</i>. +Please read the subjoined letter from a converted Chinaman and then "go +and do thou likewise."</p> + +<div class="blockquot"> +<div class="right"><br />LOS ANGELES, CAL., Sept. 25, 1889.</div> + +<p><i>Dear American Missionary:</i></p> + +<p>I am sorry to say that I have utterly forgotten to pay you +for the <i>American Missionary</i> for the year 1889. Now I beg +your pardon for that. You know I have used to send the money +through our pastor Dr. Pond, but since I had left San +Francisco visiting missions in different towns and cities +and therefore the <i>American Missionary</i> did not reached me +while I am away from Los Angeles, so my attention of paying +for it was dropped from that point. Now I sent you <i>one +dollars</i> including a new subscriber, our brother Jue King. +While I am writing this note another brother came in who +wish to get one also, and therefore have to send you $1.50, +one dollar & 50 cents. This brother name Leung Chow, Los +Angeles. Address Jue King's to the same P.O. Box as mine and +oblige. God bless the American Missionary.</p> + +<div class="center">Respectfully yours,</div> + +<div class="right">LOO QUONG.</div> +</div> + +<hr width="65%" /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_336" id="Page_336"></a>[336]</span> +<h2><a name="BRIEF_NOTES" id="BRIEF_NOTES"></a>BRIEF NOTES.</h2> + +<h4>REV. C.J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.</h4> + +<p>A little swarm of "Busy Bees," in Dover, N.H., have been making honey +for the needy children in one of the missions of our Association. Their +gift, amounting to sixty-five dollars, has been used to furnish a +Reference Library for the school at Wilmington, N.C. Special rates were +kindly given us on books by the Congregational Sunday-school and +Publishing Society and other firms in Boston, so that this sixty-five +dollars furnished a number of very useful books. Have not these "Busy +Bees" in New Hampshire set a good example to other children's societies?</p> + +<p>Speaking of the Sunday-school and Publishing Society reminds me of two +things. The first is the kindly interest and generous help of that +society in the work being done by the Association in various fields. +Literature is abundantly supplied from their press, and in some +instances they have sent colporteurs and missionaries into the various +fields, who do a grand good work.</p> + +<p>The other thing suggested by reference to this society is a queer +contribution which was brought in to Mr. Hall, a missionary of the +Association at Fort Berthold, Dakota. I chanced to be there when it was +brought in. Mr. Hall had told the Indian boys and girls of the useful +work done by the Sunday-school and Publishing Society in different parts +of the land. It has always been the policy of the Association, as our +friends know, to present the other Congregational Societies in our +missions, and distribute the small gifts which it is possible for these +poor people to give, among the different societies and not absorb it all +in the Association. These Indian boys had not money to give to the +Sunday-school Society, but they saw a premium offered for killing +gophers. They are a mischievous little animal, devouring a large amount +of wheat, corn and other grain every year. The farmers pay two cents for +each dead gopher. The proof that the gopher has been killed is his tail. +Now these little Indian boys had been so interested in the story told of +the work being done by the Sunday-school Society, that they spent their +Saturday afternoon holiday snaring gophers. They brought the tails in +the envelopes of the society, as their contribution. I took some of the +envelopes, paying two cents apiece for each tail and brought them East +with me. On one envelope I found the following: "Richard Fox, one tail." +What could be more appropriate!</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<p>Another of our District Secretaries not long since took a cup of coffee +at a lunch counter kept by a colored man in Northern Ohio. After paying, +he spoke of the work of the American Missionary Association. The colored +man's face lit up at once.</p> + +<p>"Are you in that work?"</p> + +<p>"Yes, I am."</p> + +<p>"Take back that fifteen cents, sir."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_337" id="Page_337"></a>[337]</span> +<h3><a name="FORTY-THIRD_ANNUAL_MEETING" id="FORTY-THIRD_ANNUAL_MEETING"></a>FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING</h3> + +<h4>OF THE</h4> + +<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p><a name="The_Forty-third_Annual_Meeting_of_the_American_Missionary_Association" id="The_Forty-third_Annual_Meeting_of_the_American_Missionary_Association"></a> +The Forty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association +convened in the New England Congregational Church of Chicago, Ill., on +Tuesday, October 29, 1889, at 3 o'clock P.M.</p> + +<p>The Association was called to order by the President, Rev. William M. +Taylor, D.D. The hymn, "I love thy kingdom, Lord," was sung, after which +the President read the thirty-fifth chapter of Isaiah and led the +Association in prayer.</p> + +<p>Dr. Norman Seaver, supplying temporarily the pulpit of the New England +Church, welcomed the Association, and was responded to by Dr. Taylor.</p> + +<p>Rev. N.A. Millerd and Rev. E.N. Andrews were appointed tellers, and +while the roll was being made out, Secretary A.F. Beard read the portion +of the Constitution relating to membership in the Association. Rev. J.C. +Armstrong, of Illinois, was elected Secretary, and Rev. E.S. Williams, +of Minnesota, Assistant Secretary.</p> + +<p>The President was instructed to appoint a Nominating Committee.</p> + +<p>The Treasurer, H.W. Hubbard, Esq., presented his annual report with +schedules and the certificates of the auditors. The report was accepted +and referred to the Committee on Finance.</p> + +<p>Field Superintendent Rev. Frank E. Jenkins read the General Survey of +the Executive Committee. The document was accepted and the parts were +referred to the special committees to be appointed.</p> + +<p>The President appointed the Nominating Committee as follows: Rev. G.S.F. +Savage, D.D., Rev. H.P. Higley, D.D., Rev. A.W. Archibald, Rev. A.B. +Allen and Rev. A.C. Hodges.</p> + +<p>The Association was led by Secretary Strieby in a concert of prayer with +the workers in the field, Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., District Secretary +Roy and many others participating, by remarks or prayers, in the +exercises.</p> + +<p>The Nominating Committee reported the following committees, which were +appointed:</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Business.</i>—Rev. G.H. Ide, D.D., Rev. C.R. Bruce, Rev. +M.W. Montgomery, Rev. D.P. Breed, Rev. E.M. Williams.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Finance.</i>—F.J. Lamb, Esq., J.H. Moore, Esq., Pres. David +Beaton, Pres. Albert Salisbury and Rev. W.S. Rugby.</p> + +<p><i>Committee of Arrangements.</i>—Rev. Norman Seaver, D.D., Wm. Dickinson, +Esq., Wm. H. Bradley, Esq., O.B. Green, Esq., Rev. F.A. Noble, D.D., +J.H. Hollister, M.D., District Secretary J.E. Roy.</p> + +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_338" id="Page_338"></a>[338]</span> +<h4>EVENING SESSION.</h4> + +<p>The exercises Tuesday evening opened with a selection by the quartette +choir of the New England Church.</p> + +<p>The Association was called to order by President Taylor, and Rev. W.B. +Wright, D.D., read the Scripture and led in prayer. "Watchman, tell us +of the night," was then sung, after which Rev. R.R. Meredith, of New +York, preached the Annual Sermon, from Isaiah xlii, 1-4.</p> + +<p>The sermon was followed by the administration of the Lord's Supper. The +following named persons officiated at the service: Ministers: Rev. H.P. +Higley, D.D., Rev. Graham Taylor, D.D. Deacons: S.D. Hastings, W.H. +Bradley, Wm. Dickinson, C.F. Gates, H.W. Hubbard and Chauncey Collom.</p> + +<p>At the close of the communion service, adjournment was taken to +Wednesday at 8 A.M.</p> + +<p>The benediction was pronounced by President Taylor.</p> + + +<h4>WEDNESDAY MORNING.</h4> + +<p>The prayer-meeting from 8 to 9 o'clock was led by President E.D. Eaton. +At 9 o'clock, President Eaton was called to the chair temporarily, and +was succeeded by the Vice-President of the Association, Rev. F.A. Noble, +D.D.</p> + +<p>The minutes of the previous day were read and approved.</p> + +<p>The President, Dr. Taylor, then resumed the chair.</p> + +<p>The Nominating Committee reported the following special committees, who +were appointed:</p> + +<p><i>Committee on the Chinese.</i>—Rev. H.A. Stimson, D.D., Rev. E.P. Goodwin, +D.D., Rev. Wm. Walker, Rev. J.G. Aikman, D.J. Pike, Esq.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on the Indians.</i>—Rev. A.P. Foster, D.D., Gen. C.H. Howard, +Rev. Clinton Douglass, Rev. C.V. Spear.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Educational Work.</i>—Rev. W.B. Wright, D.D., Rev. F.P. +Woodbury, D.D., Rev. Amos Dresser, Rev. H.M. Tupper, Rev. F.A. Ragland.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Church Work.</i>—Rev. Graham Taylor, D.D., Rev. Warren F. +Day, Rev. L.B. Maxwell, S.D. Hastings, Esq., O. Davidson, Esq.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Mountain Work.</i>—Rev. D.M. Fisk, D.D., Rev. S.E. Lathrop, +Rev. S.A. Norton, Rev. E.P. South, Rev. W.E. Barton, Robert F. Wheeler, +Esq.</p> + +<p>A paper on "The American Missionary Association, its Place and Work," +was read by Secretary M.E. Strieby, and referred to a committee to be +appointed.</p> + +<p>Following this, Secretary A.F. Beard read a paper on "The Missionary +View of the Southern Situation," which was referred also to a committee +to be appointed.</p> + +<p>The report of the Committee on the Chinese Work was presented by <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_339" id="Page_339"></a>[339]</span>Rev. +Henry A. Stimson, D.D. and accepted, and an address was made by Rev. E. +P. Goodwin, D.D.</p> + +<p>The Nominating Committee nominated the following special committees, who +were appointed:</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Secretary Strieby's Paper.</i>—Prof. G.B. Willcox, D.D., +Rev. J.F. Dudley, D.D., Rev. E.D. Hill, D.D., Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., +Rev. C.W. Camp, Rev. W.L. Tenney, Rev. J.E. Snowden.</p> + +<p><i>Committee on Secretary Beard's Paper.</i>—Rev. H.M. Tenney, D.D., Rev. +C.O. Brown, D.D., Rev. E.M. Williams, Rev. E.F. Williams, D.D., Rev. +Calvin Keyser, Deacon G.N. Palmer.</p> + +<p>Right Rev. H.B. Whipple, of Minnesota, then addressed the Association on +"The Future of the Indian in our Country."</p> + +<p>After which, remarks were made on the Chinese question by Dr. H.A. +Stimson and Rev. M.F. Sargent.</p> + +<p>After announcements of committees and programme for the afternoon, +President Taylor pronounced the benediction, and recess was taken until +2 o'clock P.M.</p> + + +<h4>WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.</h4> + +<p>The Association was called to order by Vice-President Noble. "Saviour, +visit thy plantation," was sung, after which Dr. Noble conducted the +devotional exercises for a half hour.</p> + +<p>A paper on "The Future of the Negro in our Country," was read by Rev. +C.H. Richards, D.D., of Wisconsin, and referred to the Executive +Committee with power to publish.</p> + +<p>Rev. C.F. Thwing, D.D., unable to be present as announced, forwarded +his address for the use of the Secretaries of the Association.</p> + +<p>Rev. A.P. Foster, D.D., presented the report of the Committee on the +Indian Work.</p> + +<p>Addresses were then made by Rev. T.L. Riggs, of Oahe, and Rev. C.W. +Shelton, Financial Secretary for Indian Missions.</p> + +<p>After singing, "Sow in the morn thy seed," the Association was addressed +by Rev. W.B. Wright, D.D., on the Educational Work, presenting the +report of the committee and speaking in its behalf. Rev. F.P. Woodbury, +D.D., spoke also on the same topic.</p> + +<p>After announcements, Dr. Noble pronounced the benediction, and the +Association took a recess until 7:30 P.M.</p> + + +<h4>WEDNESDAY EVENING.</h4> + +<p>The Association was called to order by Secretary Strieby, who invited +E.W. Blatchford, Esq., of Illinois, to preside during the evening in the +absence of President Taylor. Professor G.B. Willcox led the Association +in prayer.</p> + +<p>On being introduced by Secretary Strieby as representing the American +Board, Mr. Blatchford said:</p> + +<p>"I have no authority from the American Board to convey to you any +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_340" id="Page_340"></a>[340]</span>special message; and yet I know that they will be glad to have me +express to you their sentiments of sympathy with you in your work. The +work is one. In carrying forward the work of the American Board and the +American Missionary Association we are obeying the same command of our +Lord: Go ye into all the world and disciple all. We are inspired by the +same prophetic promises, that the time will come when this world shall +obey the command of God as it is obeyed in heaven. In fact, this +gathering is in itself a type of the unity of this work; for as I look +around me I see brethren and sisters representing the different +societies in which we are all interested. I see them here from the New +West Commission; I see the workers and representatives of our Home +Missionary Society; I see, of course, many representatives of the +American Missionary Association, and those deeply interested in the work +of our American Board. So that we have here in this very meeting an +illustration of these words of the Apostle: 'One Lord, one faith, one +baptism.'"</p> + +<p>Mrs. J.J.M. Angear, in charge of a Chinese Sunday-school in the First +Congregational Church, Chicago, spoke of her work, her Chinese choir +singing "Stand up for Jesus," and later a verse of "Sweet By and By," in +both English and Chinese.</p> + +<p>Representative addresses then followed, Mr. Chin Kue speaking for the +Chinese, Mrs. Elizabeth Winyan for the Indians, Rev. T.L. Riggs +interpreting, and Rev. Mr. McClellan for the Negro. A verse of "Shall we +whose souls are lighted," was sung, after which Rev. W.E. Barton spoke +of the Mountain Whites.</p> + +<p>President Eaton's paper was deferred, owing to the lateness of the hour.</p> + +<p>After Secretary Strieby had led the Association in prayer and pronounced +the benediction, recess was taken until Thursday morning at 8:30 A.M.</p> + + +<h4>THURSDAY MORNING.</h4> + +<p>Devotional exercises from 8:30 to 9 o'clock were conducted by Rev. E.S. +Hill. Vice-President Noble called the Association to order.</p> + +<p>The minutes of the previous day were read and approved.</p> + +<p>A letter to Secretary Strieby from Col. J.M. Keating, of Tennessee, on +the "Southern Problem," was read by Secretary J.E. Roy. A rising vote +was taken, expressing approval of the sentiments of the letter and +requesting the Association to publish it. Dr. F.A. Noble was instructed +to correspond with Col. Keating, assuring him of the Association's +appreciation of his address.</p> + +<p>The report on the "Mountain Work," was presented by Rev. D.M. Fisk, +D.D., who followed it by an address.</p> + +<p>District Secretary C.J. Ryder read a paper on "The Debt of our Country +to the American Highlanders."</p> + +<p>"My Country 'tis of Thee," was then sung, after which Secretary +Ryder's paper was referred to the Executive Committee of the Association +with reference to publication.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_341" id="Page_341"></a>[341]</span>President Taylor resumed the chair at this point and introduced Rev. +H.M. Tenney, D.D., who read the report of the committee on Secretary +A.F. Beard's paper. The report was accepted and referred to the +Executive Committee.</p> + +<p>An address on the Church Work was made by Rev. C.W. Hiatt, District +Secretary of the Association, and was followed by several brief +addresses on the Mountain Work.</p> + +<p>The report and an address was then made by Rev. Graham Taylor, D.D. The +report was accepted and its recommendations adopted.</p> + +<p>After announcements, Dr. Noble was instructed to reply to Dr. Arthur +Little, of Massachusetts, in response to his telegram of greeting. After +the benediction by President Taylor, recess was taken until 2 o'clock +P.M.</p> + + +<h4>THURSDAY AFTERNOON.</h4> + +<p>The Association was called to order by Vice-President Dr. F.A. Noble. A +verse of the hymn, "In the cross of Christ I glory," was sung. F.J. +Lamb, Esq., read the report of the Committee on Finance, supplementing +the report with a brief address. The report was accepted.</p> + +<p>The report on Secretary Strieby's paper was presented by Prof. G.B. +Willcox, D.D. The report was accepted and referred to the Executive +Committee.</p> + +<p>Following this, Secretary Strieby made a statement respecting the Hand +Fund. Dr. E.P. Goodwin, President Salisbury and President W.M. Taylor +spoke on the Financial Report, and the report was adopted.</p> + +<p>The Association then adjourned to the chapel, and the church was +occupied by the Woman's Missionary Meeting under the auspices of the +Woman's Bureau of the Association. Mrs. George M. Lane, of Detroit, +Michigan, presided. The report was made by the Secretary, Miss D.E. +Emerson, after which addresses were made by the missionaries: On the +mountain work, by Miss Hayes, of Tennessee; on the colored people, by +Mrs. Shaw, of Georgia, and Miss Plant, of Mississippi; and on the +Indians, by Miss Barnaby, a native teacher.</p> + +<p>The Nominating Committee reported the following list of officers for the +ensuing year:</p> + + +<ul> +<li><i>President</i>, + <ul> + <li>REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><i>Vice-Presidents</i>, + <ul> + <li>REV. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.</li> + <li>REV. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.</li> + <li>REV. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass.</li> + <li>REV. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass</li> + <li>REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><i>Corresponding Secretaries</i>, + <ul> + <li>REV. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</li> + <li>REV. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><i>Recording Secretary</i>, + <ul> + <li>REV. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_342" id="Page_342"></a>[342]</span><i>Treasurer</i>, + <ul> + <li>H.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><i>Auditors</i>, + <ul><li>PETER McCARTEE,</li> + <li>CHAS. P. PEIRCE.</li> + </ul> +</li> +<li><i>Executive Committee</i>, + <ul> + <li><i>For Three Years.</i> + <ul><li>S.B. HALLIDAY,</li> + <li>SAMUEL HOLMES,</li> + <li>SAMUEL S. MARPLES,</li> + <li>CHARLES L. MEAD,</li> + <li>ELBERT B. MONROE.</li></ul></li> + <li><i>For One Year.</i>—ALBERT J. LYMAN.</li> + </ul> +</li> +</ul> + + +<p>A ballot was taken and the brethren named were elected. After the +benediction by the President, recess was taken until 7:30 P.M.</p> + + +<h4>THURSDAY EVENING.</h4> + +<p>The Association was called to order by President Taylor. "Stand up, +stand up for Jesus," was sung, after which Rev. Simeon Gilbert, D.D., +led in prayer.</p> + +<p>The records of the previous sessions of the day were read and approved, +and the Secretary was instructed to complete the minutes.</p> + +<p>The invitation to hold the next Annual Meeting in Northampton, +Massachusetts, was accepted.</p> + +<p>President George A. Gates, of Iowa College, addressed the Association, +and was followed by an address by President Cyrus Northrop, D.D., of +Minnesota, and also by President E.D. Eaton, D.D., of Wisconsin.</p> + +<p>The closing address of the Association was made by President Taylor.</p> + +<p>The following minute read by Secretary Roy was then adopted:</p> + +<div class="blockquot"><p>When, just eighteen years ago, this city was smoldering in the ruins of +the great fire, which had consumed the holy and beautiful house of this +New England Church and the homes of every family in it, the pastor, +searching among the ashes within these walls for some memento, found a +charred leaf of the pulpit hymn-book on which he was able to decipher +these words:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">"Daughter of Zion, awake from the dust,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Exalt thy fallen head:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">And send thy heralds forth."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>That hymn was sung at the first service in the rough board tabernacle +erected upon this spot.</p> + +<p>We give thanks to God this day for the faith and courage by which this +people did awake from the dust and rebuild these walls, and by which +they have gone on building up their spiritual temple and participating +largely in the whole round of service for extending the Redeemer's +kingdom, a part of which has been the inviting and the welcoming of this +missionary convocation to their sanctuary and to their homes, and for +which, to them, along with all others in the sister churches who have +joined them on this occasion in exercising this grace of hospitality, we +express our heartiest thanks.</p> + +<p>We here call to mind with grateful emotion one of the manliest of men, +one of the truest disciples of Christ, Dea. C.G. Hammond, who counted it +an honor to have ministered at this altar from the day of its setting up +to the day of his translation, and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_343" id="Page_343"></a>[343]</span>who for many years had served as one +of the Vice-Presidents of this Association, and had been giving largely +of his substance to its treasury.</p> + +<p>At this closing hour, we are also thankfully reminded that the First +Congregational Church of this city was ready thirty years ago to +entertain this Association in the days of its weakness and of its +cross-bearing witness for Christ and for his lowly poor: and likewise, +ten years ago, to open its doors to receive the same body then brought +along by the providence of God to a position of honor and extended +usefulness.</p> + +<p>And so we gratefully name the Union Park Church, which is now lending us +its pastor as one of our Vice-Presidents, and which, with the other two +churches mentioned, has furnished us with the three grand annual sermons +of Drs. Goodwin, Noble, and Little, and the Plymouth Church, which, from +the day of its organization, with its testimony and its offerings, has +stood by this Association, and all the other churches of this vicinage, +grown now to be such a comely sisterhood, which have shared with these +others in the support of our work.</p> + +<p>To the four great railway passenger associations, which have extended to +us their courtesies; to the city press, which has so immensely broadened +the influence of this missionary convocation; to the gentlemen who, at +no small sacrifice of time and labor, have honored this occasion by +their addresses, reports, and clerical service; and to our honored and +beloved President, who has guided our deliberations with such skill and +grace, we express our obligations of thanks.</p></div> + +<p>Rev. Norman Seaver, D.D., responded for the New England Church. He said +there was a saying that lightning never struck the same place twice, +yet, though it fell to him to welcome the Association, it had also +fallen to him to respond to this vote of thanks. He had asked Secretary +Beard what he would say on this occasion, and was answered, in his witty +way, "Tell us Godspeed, and we are glad to get rid of you." Dr. Seaver +felt that the local people were the recipients, and the visitors the +benefactors in what had been done. The President had inspired them with +his spirit; he had not withdrawn his presence, and very late might he +return to the heavens. Students and young ministers had been benefited +by listening to those many learned men and devoted servants of God, and +were inspired for future usefulness. "We are not the benefactors, we are +the recipients, and we wish you Godspeed."</p> + +<p>After having sung the doxology, with the benediction by President +Taylor, the Association adjourned, to meet at Northampton, +Massachusetts, for its next Annual Meeting.</p> + + + +<div class='right'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""> +<tr><td align='right'>J.C. ARMSTRONG, }</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>}</td><td><i>Secretaries.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>E.S. WILLIAMS, }</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="SUMMARY_OF_TREASURERS_REPORT" id="SUMMARY_OF_TREASURERS_REPORT"></a>SUMMARY OF TREASURER'S REPORT.</h2> + + +<div class='center'> +<table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="EXPENDITURES"> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><b>EXPENDITURES.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />THE SOUTH.</td></tr> +<tr><td width="60%" align='left'>For Church and Educational Work, Land, Buildings, etc.</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$255,083.84</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />THE CHINESE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Superintendent, Teachers, Rent, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11,070.75</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />THE INDIANS.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_344" id="Page_344"></a>[344]</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Church and Educational Work, Buildings, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>51,781.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />FOREIGN MISSIONS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Superintendent, Missionaries, etc., for Missions in Africa, income paid to the A.B.C.F.M.</td> +<td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,754.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Support of Aged Missionary, Jamaica, W.I.</td> +<td align='right' valign='bottom'>250.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />PUBLICATIONS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For American Missionary, (23,200 monthly), Annual Reports, Clerk-hire, Postage, etc.</td> + <td align='right' valign='bottom'>7,230.31</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />AGENCIES.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>NEW YORK.—Woman's Bureau, Secretary, Traveling Expenses, Circulars, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,361.74</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FOR EASTERN DISTRICT.—District Secretary, Clerk-hire, Traveling Expenses, Printing, Rent, Postage, Stationery, etc.</td> + <td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,589.59</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FOR WESTERN MIDDLE DISTRICT.—District +Secretary, Traveling Expenses, Printing, +Rent, Postage, Stationery, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,246.33</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FOB WESTERN DISTRICT.—District Secretary, +Agents, Clerk-hire, Traveling +Expenses, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6,196.97</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />ADMINISTRATION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, +and Clerk-hire</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12,505.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br />MISCELLANEOUS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Rent, Care of Rooms, Furniture, +Repairs, Fuel and Light, Books and +Stationery, Rent of Safe Deposit Boxes, +Clerk-hire, Postage, Traveling Expenses, +Expressage, Telegrams, etc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5,541.43</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Annual Meeting</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>577.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wills and Estates</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3,385.07</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Annuity Account</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>407.93</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amounts refunded, sent to Treasurer +by mistake</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>122.77</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$366,104.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Debt Sept. 30, 1888</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5,641.21</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>371,745.21</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Balance on hand September 30, 1889</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4,471.67</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td><td width="15%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$376,216.88</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='right'>=========</td></tr> +</table></div> +<br /> + +<div class='center'> +<table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="RECEIPTS"> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><b>RECEIPTS.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td width="60%" align='left'>From Churches, Sabbath Schools, Missionary Societies and Individuals</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$189,299.57</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates and Legacies</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>114,020.41</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income, Sundry Funds</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10,947.26</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tuition and Public Funds</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34,126.69</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rent</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>506.36</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>United States Government, for Education of Indians</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16,408.85</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Slater Fund, paid to Institutions</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8,899.99</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sale of Property</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2,007.75</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td><td width="15%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$376,216.88</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='right'>=========</td></tr> +</table></div> +<br /> +<br /> + +<div class='center'> +<table width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="DANIEL HAND FUND AND OTHER"> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><b>DANIEL HAND FUND, INCOME ACCOUNT.</b><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_345" id="Page_345"></a>[345]</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income received to September 30, 1889</td><td colspan="2" align='right' valign='bottom'>$36,999.71</td></tr> +<tr><td width="60%" align='left'>Amount expended</td><td width="20%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$20,311.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Balance in hand and appropriated</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16,688.56</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td><td width="15%" align='right' valign='bottom'>36,999.71</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='right'>=========</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br /><b>RECEIPTS FOR THE WORK OF THE YEAR 1888-89.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>For Current Work</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$376,216.88</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income from Daniel Hand Fund</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36,999.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='right'>Total</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>————— </td><td align='right'>$413,216.59</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="3" align='center'><br /><b>ENDOWMENT FUNDS RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 1888-89.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>The Daniel Hand Fund for the Education +of Colored People, Securities +received, face value</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$1,000,894.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Foltz Endowment Fund, Estate of Rev. +Benjamin Foltz. (Balance)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>500.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————— </td><td width="15%" align='right' valign='bottom'>$1,001,394.25</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<br /><br /><br /> +<div class="right">H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,<br /> +56 Reade Street, New York.</div> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY_ASSOCIATION_ITS_PLACE_AND_WORK" id="THE_AMERICAN_MISSIONARY_ASSOCIATION_ITS_PLACE_AND_WORK"></a>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION—ITS PLACE AND WORK.</h2> + +<h4>BY SECRETARY M.E. STRIEBY.</h4> + +<p>We commemorate the forty-third anniversary of the American Missionary +Association. During these years, its place and work have become somewhat +definitely settled, and I take this occasion to set forth the position +that it now holds in relation to its constituents, its sister societies, +and the great work providentially thrown upon it.</p> + +<p>1. The Association recognizes the control of its constituents. That +recognition was one of the corner-stones on which it was founded. It +sought its members and its funds from persons of evangelical faith and +practical morality. Of such, it offered membership to any one who +contributed to its funds. Thus broadly was it placed on a popular basis.</p> + +<p>At length, however, it began to be felt by many of its supporters that +there were evils in this method—that the acts of the society were +liable to be regulated by the local attendance at each annual meeting, +and that such meetings might easily be "packed" to carry out a purpose. +The officers of the Association, true to the cardinal principles of its +founders of control by its constituents, welcomed the discussion and +cheerfully accepted the present constitution, which was adopted after +due deliberation. That <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_346" id="Page_346"></a>[346]</span>constitution designates as voters, life members +and delegates from the churches, local conferences and state +associations. The Executive Committee believe that we have now reached a +satisfactory basis, but if it shall be the will of the constituents to +make further modifications hereafter, the fundamental principle of the +Association will dictate a ready acceptance of any change that will not +set aside the evangelical, missionary, and philanthropic basis on which +the Association was founded, and that will not impair contracts or +endanger invested funds. The Association belongs, under Christ, to its +constituents.</p> + +<p>2. The work of the Association embraces all forms of effort in both the +church and the school. It was organized and chartered as a <i>missionary</i> +society. This was its fundamental aim. It was not till 1869, +twenty-three years after its organization, that the word "educational" +was put into its charter. But this change did not alter the character +of its work—<i>the school is missionary, the church an educator</i>—and +this church and school work are inseparably blended. The people among +whom it labors are children in knowledge, and will remain so for a long +time, for there are millions of blacks, mountain whites, Indians, and +Chinese in our country who cannot read and write. In Northern +communities where the children grow up in Christian homes and are +environed in cultured society, with the best of common schools, the +church finds the material for its membership, so far forth, prepared to +its hand, but among these millions of unlettered peoples the church, if +it is to be pure and intelligent, must be the outgrowth of the Christian +school; and the branches of the tree might as well be expected to grow +up without the roots, as such churches without these schools. The work +among them begins in the primary school, and follows them through all +departments of industrial, normal, collegiate and theological +instruction.</p> + +<p>In all this long process the teachers are with them at every step—in +the shop, the school, the Sunday-school, the prayer meeting, and the +church, and often the principal of the school is the pastor of the +church. Thus the church, which grows up within or along side of the +school, gets the priceless boon of the personal example and influence of +these Christian teachers, in refining the manners and in making +character; and as the pupils are converted they enter the church to +become its stable members and intelligent officers. On the other hand, +the families in the church, with their kindred and friends, furnish the +pupils for the school and help to sustain it by their money and prayers, +both the church and the school being stronger by their mutual support +and more potent in their influence in the community than if they stood +apart. And even after the scholars have left the school and have entered +upon the business of life, the Association is especially fitted to +gather them into churches. It has occurred in several instances, in +starting new churches beyond the range of our schools, that we have +found them to be made up first almost wholly <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_347" id="Page_347"></a>[347]</span>of graduates and students +from our different institutions, and that these have remained the most +intelligent and reliable members.</p> + +<p>We have found, too, that when a church was thus organized where we have +no school, we are very soon importuned to start one. In localities with +a scattered population there might not be sufficient public funds to +open a colored public school; in many more places they would sustain the +school for only two months in the year, and in larger towns it sometimes +has happened that these public schools were of such a character that the +parents begged for a Christian school as a means of saving the moral +purity of their children. Thus, in every way, and under all +circumstances, the school and the church need and help each other. And +what is true of the colored people is equally true of the whites in the +mountains and elsewhere, among whom the Association is working so +auspiciously, planting its schools and churches in mutual helpfulness.</p> + +<p>The suggestion that all the church work of the denomination in the +home-field be given to one society, and all the educational be +concentrated in one other society, deserves thoughtful consideration, +for it meets with this very serious objection, that it provides for but +one collection for work that now receives two or three. The experience +of our churches is conclusive against the hope that one enlarged +collection would be given to the one society. For a time, a brief time, +spasmodic efforts might, as in former cases, result in some special +contributions, but the new experiment would certainly be more +disastrous, if it should fail, than those already tried, because it +would involve far greater interests.</p> + +<p>It is not to be supposed for a moment that such consolidation is +contemplated in order that the churches may escape the large +responsibility now resting upon them; and if economy and efficiency are +the only objects sought, we fear the result would be disappointing. Such +an arrangement would not save in the number of workers in the field, and +surely it is not wise business management to leave great interests +inadequately supervised. Even if the consolidated society were divided +into separate departments or bureaux, the supervision could not be less, +if efficient, while the combination would be likely to lead to +complications, and would weaken, in the several departments, the sense +of individual responsibility and take away the impulse of historic life +and achievement.</p> + +<p>More work well managed and vigorously pushed seems to me to be the only +plan that will satisfy the Christian conscience or meet the approval of +the Master.</p> + +<p>3. The work of the Association extends to all races of men. This claim +is sanctioned by the fraternal agreement existing between it and the +American Home Missionary Society, by its own history, and by the needs +of the field. The agreement with the sister society says explicitly that +the Association is "to pursue its educational and church work in the +South among <i>both races</i>." The history of the Association shows that at +the beginning <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_348" id="Page_348"></a>[348]</span>the populations reached by it in America were <i>all white</i> +except the Indians and a few colored refugees in Canada.</p> + +<p>Its home missions at the North and West were among white people: and so +were they even in the South before the war. John G. Fee and his heroic +associates in Kentucky, and Daniel Worth and others in North Carolina, +founded churches and schools only among the whites. Berea College was +for whites only, at the outset. It was not till the era of emancipation +with its overwhelming flood of freedmen that the Association turned its +direct and almost exclusive attention to them. It heard the voice of God +in the tramp of these millions marching out of bondage into freedom, and +in that voice it heard the call to itself, providentially prepared for +the new era. It answered the call, without, however, abandoning its +mission to preach the gospel to the whites also; and now, with its +schools and churches well established throughout the South, with an open +door to the whites, and especially to those in the mountain regions, it +hears the voice of God calling it thither. The ready adaptation of its +methods to these people, and the success of its efforts among them, +attest the validity of its call and the wisdom of its response.</p> + +<p>4. The work of the Association is not a transient one. A New England +pastor at the beginning of our work for the freedmen, gave me a hearty +welcome to present our cause in his pulpit, telling me frankly he did so +the more cheerfully because he thought our work would soon be over—say +in twenty or twenty-five years. Now that good man believed that home +missions in the West, and in some of the older Eastern States, would be +needed well nigh on to the millennium, yet he imagined that the blacks, +just escaped from bondage, utterly poor, ignorant and degraded, would +(perhaps he hardly stopped to think how) rise in twenty-five years above +all need of help from any quarter in their upward struggle! But the +fallacy of such a supposition is realized more since these twenty-five +years have passed than it was then. It is now clearly seen that these +ex-slaves will require for three or four generations the most abundant +help to bring them up to the level of those Western settlers, including +the Swedes, Germans and Norwegians crowding in thither, who are +comparatively well-off and intelligent. And then, after that preparation +of the Negro has been made, the regular work of home missions will only +be fairly begun among them. The work for this people, therefore, is not +transient, and the missionary society that has it in hand has before it +not only a great but long-continued task.</p> + +<p>And for that great work the Association has had a manifest call and +preparation, and has gained an experience and an influence of peculiar +value in its further prosecution. The Association has wrought itself +into the schools and churches, into the industries of the colored +people, the improvement of their homes, the preparation of their sons +and daughters for home and business life, and for teachers and preachers +and physicians; <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_349" id="Page_349"></a>[349]</span>it has wrought itself into their better aspirations for +both this world and that which is to come. It has won upon the +confidence and respect of the white people by its unselfish and +Christian work, its kind but firm adherence to principle, and by the +blessing it has conferred upon both races in aiding the South in the +only true solution of its great problem.</p> + +<p>The Association has become anchored to this great work by the large +amount of invested funds intrusted to its care. It has received +thousands of dollars from the Freedmen's Bureau, from the Avery estate, +from the gifts of Mrs. Stone and others, and added to all these is the +large sum placed one year ago in its hands by the munificence of Mr. +Hand. These several sums aggregate more than two millions of dollars—an +amount of endowment, we believe, without a parallel among our +Congregational societies for the home field. While no inconsiderable +share of these funds is in plant, and therefore increases instead of +diminishes current expenses, yet the Association is the only legal +custodian of these funds. They constitute, therefore, a strong evidence +of the confidence of large donors in its usefulness and stability and in +the importance of its work, and at the same time they make a strong plea +for current contributions to sustain that work. God has moved the hearts +of noble men and women to lay these firm foundations. Will not others +equally able and far-seeing in their benevolence add to these gifts and +thus extend these foundations, and will not the churches build thereon +with diligent and cheerful hands?</p> + +<p>These forty-three years under review have been memorable in the history +of this Nation. They have witnessed the reign of slavery in the height +of its arrogant domination. They have seen the rising protest of +conscience and religion against that domination, with the mad resistance +of slavery, until it culminated in one of the bloodiest wars of modern +times. They have beheld a united Nation emerge from the conflict, and +not a slave in all its broad land. They have seen the uplifted hands and +hearts of the freedmen grasping for knowledge. And, last of all, they +behold the new power seated on the throne vacated by slavery, dooming +the colored man to a position of inferiority scarcely less degrading +than slavery itself.</p> + +<p>Along all these lines the sympathies and efforts of the Association have +run. It pleaded for the slave in his bondage, when to do so cost odium +and ostracism; it joined with others in the appeal against slavery, with +the hope that righteousness would avert the calamity of war. When the +slave came forth free, it went with prompt hands to fit him for his new +position, and now, as he enters the long and dark struggle against +poverty, ignorance and race-prejudice, it girds itself for the great +struggle, armed with what have ever been its only weapons, the light of +knowledge and the love of the gospel of Christ. The contest may be long, +the work will be great, but the triumph must be sure. May the church of +Christ, the patriots of the land, and the abundant blessing of the +Almighty God strengthen and help us in this great undertaking!</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_350" id="Page_350"></a>[350]</span> +<h2><a name="THE_MISSIONARY_VIEW_OF_THE_SOUTHERN_SITUATION" id="THE_MISSIONARY_VIEW_OF_THE_SOUTHERN_SITUATION"></a>THE MISSIONARY VIEW OF THE SOUTHERN SITUATION.</h2> + +<h4>BY SECRETARY A.F. BEARD.</h4> + +<p>The Southern problem is a National peril. Problems are not always +perils. This is a problem large with political and religious perils, and +whether political or religious it can not be ignored, nor can its +consideration be postponed. It is here. It is our problem. It is nearer +to the South, and more immediate, than to the North, but it is ours. We +are not foreigners in any part of this country. It has been settled once +for all that we are to be fellow citizens in a common country when we +come from Boston to Chicago and when we go from New York to New Orleans. +The problem which belongs to a country to which we belong, is ours. This +might as well be understood. We have no right to take our hands off from +that of which we are a part and which is a part of us. No part can say +to another, it is not your concern.</p> + +<p>This is true politically. Thrice true is it religiously—Christian faith +is not confined to State boundaries. It belongs everywhere. The problem +is not a new one. It has its roots bedded deep in history. When years +ago it began to be discussed by a few they were called agitators, as if +the discussion of right and wrong were itself a wrong, as if the letting +in of light upon the darkness were a deed of darkness. Nevertheless, the +Nation became thoughtful over the question of the rights of man. While +it was musing the fire burned, and an irrepressible conflict came. In +the issue it was settled that no man should be held by another man in +involuntary servitude in this common and inseparable country.</p> + +<p>A quarter of a century has elapsed since this settlement of a problem +which involved the destiny of two races, and of our whole country. The +question now before the Nation and before the churches is a corollary +of slavery. It is the second section of the first chapter. The first +question was: How shall liberty be proclaimed to the captive and the +enslaved become free? The second is: Being free, how can the two +races—as distinct and separate as are the white and black races of +the South—now equal before the law, live side by side under the same +government, and live in Christian truth and peace? This is the +problem, and, like the first, it is irrepressible.</p> + +<p>In one sense it is a new question—that is, a new generation of white +people has in part come forward to participate in the duties of +citizenship, since all men became men in the law of the land. To them +the question is practically new. The situation as they find it, is this: +The Negroes, who, twenty years ago, were four millions, are now eight +millions. The increase of the blacks above the increase of the whites in +the period of twenty years, is fourteen per cent. In his work on the +African in the United States, Professor Gilliam, having in hand the +figures of our Census Bureau, forecasts with the demonstration of +mathematics our population one century hence. We do not know what may +modify his figures, but he computes that at the present rate of increase +there are to be in the old slave States in one hundred <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_351" id="Page_351"></a>[351]</span>years, +ninety-five millions of whites and double this number of African +descent. Therefore, whatever may modify, it is probable that before one +half an hundred years are over, the numbers of the blacks will furnish +them sufficient guarantee for their legal rights.</p> + +<p>There are those in this presence who have seen the population of this +republic multiply itself nearly three times. Our childhood's geography +taught us that twenty-three millions of people lived in the United +States. Now our children learn that there are sixty millions. Twenty +years ago four millions of Negroes and eight millions to-day. Therefore, +as large as the problem now is to us, it will be greater for our +children if we err in our solution of it.</p> + +<p>This race of African descent has been declared by constitutional +enactment to be entitled to whatever privileges belong to man, as man. +Standing on this, and beginning with nothing but the heredity of +hindrances, with the brand of color and the prejudice of race against +them, this people have climbed up from their low estate with a +remarkable progress. They have applied themselves to take hold of +knowledge as no other people ever did in the annals of history. They +have made great inroads upon their previous illiteracy. They have +rapidly acquired property. They have developed industrial skill, and +established the evidences of business facility. They have shown +themselves capable of good citizenship, both in the understanding of its +duties and the practice of them. They have vindicated the act of +emancipation and the decrees of citizenship.</p> + +<p>Yet to-day their standing both as citizens and as Christians is opposed. +The question of their rights is discussed as if it were an open one, and +in the South it is coming to be increasingly denied. Under the plea that +it is unsafe for the black man to exercise his civil rights, there +arises a condition of affairs that can have no standing under our +government except a revolutionary standing. And the question whether the +rights of man as man shall be regarded, is to-day a more pressing +question than it has been at any previous time since the slaves were +declared to be men.</p> + +<p>The Southern press, which both creates and voices public opinion, +reveals an attitude of mind increasingly hostile to the equal civil +rights of the black man, for the simple reason that he is not white, +which is calculated to fill the friends of American institutions with +gravest apprehensions, and which demands the serious attention of us +all. Almost every week discloses to us the fact that intimidation, +oppression and violence do override the government of the land, in its +application to the Negro people. Influential Southern journals have +pronounced the Fifteenth Amendment a living threat to the civilization +of the South, and declare that Christian statesmanship demands its +abrogation.</p> + +<p>A thoughtful book published in New York, written in a calm and judicial +tone by an able lawyer in Virginia, in its chapter upon the future of +the Negro, says: "The social aspect of the Negro suffrage is certain to +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_352" id="Page_352"></a>[352]</span><i>grow more</i> threatening as the blacks increase. The motives which have +led the great body of whites to vote together in this age, must augment +in force in the age to follow. To day the rapid increase of the black +population constitutes a greater danger to the stability of our +government than any that is sapping the vitality of the European +monarchies. The partial disfranchisement of the Negro in the future +would appear to be inevitable, essential, if not to the existence of the +South, then to the prosperity of the Union." This is a temperate +expression of much Southern opinion.</p> + +<p>Not a few hold the view that the education and advancement of the Negro +tends to create the race problem, and do not hesitate to say that if the +Negroes could only be kept as laborers in the cotton and rice and sugar +fields, in the furnaces and mines of the South, aspiring to nothing +higher and not antagonizing the whites in political matters, there would +be no race problem.</p> + +<p>Six months ago we could quote from an editorial column written by an +ex-Confederate officer for an influential Democratic paper in the South +these words: "The duty of the white people of the South is plain. In the +spirit of <i>noblesse oblige</i> we must sympathize with those who are +fitting the colored people for the duties of life, remembering what the +Negroes were to our forefathers and what our forefathers were to them. +No one can doubt that a Negro has a soul to save. That admitted, he is +as much entitled to the benefits of salvation as the white man. But", he +adds, "what do we see? Nearly all the bodies of Christians even, except +the Roman Catholics, shuffling to set the Negro apart and leave him +largely to his own ways, shuffling out of their responsibility according +to the gospel which they profess as their guide, and putting the Negro +apart in spite of the word of God, whom they worship, that he is no +respecter of persons. The Negro was brought over here by theft and +outrage. He is here to stay, and we must deal with him according to the +golden rule, and as we would wish to be done by if we were similarly +placed."</p> + +<p>This is not a quotation from the National Council of Congregational +Churches, where such an utterance would both by nature and by grace find +expression, but it is from the pen of an officer of the Southern +Confederacy, who knows the light when he sees it, who keeps open an +honest eye, and who does not hesitate to speak from an honest mind. This +sentiment balances somewhat of that which pleads against the black man, +and not a few friends of this kind has the American Missionary +Association won to itself throughout the South. It never had so many who +are saying: "Yours is the most practical missionary work ever undertaken +by a Christian body." "You have won our confidence by your spirit and +your methods; you have our cordial sympathy." At the same time we +recognize the fact that both prejudice and partisanship are now making +strenuous efforts to create the judgment that the Negro should be +stripped of his civil rights and that his education is going on too +rapidly. For example, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353"></a>[353]</span>the <i>Southern Journal</i>, whose Christian sentiments +of six months ago, just quoted, with another editor to-day, comes to us +with another deliverance, probably nearer to the heart of most of its +constituency, saying: "The Negro is not a fit subject for Northern +missionary effort. Northern money is not wanted to build him schools, +and Northern teachers and preachers are not wanted to improve his mind +nor to save his soul. He should be let alone. He is out in the water: +let him swim. He should be left alone to work out his own salvation." +The editor who says we must save him is an ex-Confederate officer who +has always lived in the South. The editor who says he should be left +alone is a Northern man who has gone South to live. The first writes, +<i>noblesse oblige</i>. The second does not understand the language. He, +doubtless, has the largest constituency.</p> + +<p>The pulpit also creates and voices public opinion. Our work is coming to +get many a good word from the Southern pulpit. But a Southern white +bishop—Bishop Pearce—did not write to unwilling ears when he said: "In +my judgment higher education would be a calamity to the Negroes. It +would elevate Negro aspirations far above the station which the Negro +was created to fill. The whites can never tamely, and without protest +submit to the intrusion of colored people into places of trust, profit, +and responsibility." This, you will observe, is from a minister of +Christ. It is from a bishop of a church. It is from one who prays our +Lord's prayer, given alike to white and black. "After this manner, +therefore, pray ye." "Our Father." This is from one who believes in the +baptism at Pentecost, when devout men from every nation under heaven +received the impartial benedictions of God. This from one who read the +story of Peter and the sheet. "Alas, my brother."</p> + +<p>All this, then, is the atmosphere of the situation. Some prophetic souls +are looking out upon a most perplexing and perilous problem with +profound solicitude, and extending to us their sympathy and prayers for +our work. More, many more, are teaching and preaching that God has +created the Negro race to fill forever a place of inferiority, and that +he must stay down in the bog or in some way be destroyed. It is not +surprising, therefore, that ignorant white people should give form and +substance to these hostile opinions in scenes of violence and cruelty. +They believe in the inherent inferiority of the blacks, and have a +mighty fear lest this doctrine should prove to be untrue. The Negro, +twenty-five years ago in absolute poverty and illiteracy, has been +greedy for education, and has seriously thought of nothing but to rise +from his low condition.</p> + +<p>The intelligent white man now, and to his great surprise, is all at once +confronted by the intelligent black man. They are not so numerous now as +to be an element to fear, but the whites are foreseeing the not distant +day when they can not be relegated to inferiority because of their +color. The calamity that Bishop Pearce deplores and would prevent is not +far away—educated Negroes with aspirations, in other words, men.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354"></a>[354]</span>The general Negro illiteracy is gaining fast upon the white ignorance, +and the despised Negro is found to be living above many of his +illiterate white neighbors. This makes it easy work for designing men to +sharpen race prejudices, which by force and fear shall keep the Negro +down.</p> + +<p>On the Negro side, he has been patient and forbearing. With these +outbreaks of persecution some are discouraged, and are ready to +surrender their manhood. On the other hand, some are no longer patient, +but are enraged. They would retaliate. They feel that defense against +wrongs is right. An influential Negro paper says, "EDUCATE, AGITATE, +RETALIATE. Does one strike me? With the power of God on high, back also +will I strike him." This feeling grows. Add to it the fact that the +Negro is developing the power of organization. There are leaders. They +are in their councils and conventions. They are feeling deeply, speaking +plainly, and organizing efficiently.</p> + +<p>This is the situation! "How shall this problem be solved? How shall we +prevent the conflict between races?" A Southern author says: "These +problems have been solved in the past in four ways. By reducing the +weaker race to slavery, or by expulsion, or by extermination, or by the +amalgamation of the races. Slavery is out of the question—that is +settled. Equally repugnant is expulsion or extermination. Amalgamation +is abhorrent." Therefore, the problem will not be solved by any +historical precedents. The two races must live here in the same +sections, equal before the law, with mutual rights, and all rights must +be sanctioned and confirmed.</p> + +<p>The American Missionary Association is living with this problem day by +day. It is trying to see it with the look of Christ. This Association +foresaw this question forty years ago. It took on itself the preparation +for it. It guided itself to meet the problem in the fields before the +armies in the South were disbanded. It went with its distinctive and +unpopular principles. It went in the patience and love of Christ. For +the most part it met a natural and unconcealed hostility. It did not +retaliate even in spirit, but it stood firm in spirit and in truth. It +has lived on in the South, and taught the same ever-living and +everlasting gospel for all men, of whatever race or color. Its record is +before the churches. They have never had reason to feel other than +grateful to God for its work. Beginning with a great number of little +primary schools, and with thousands of beginners in the alphabet of +learning, it has gradually passed into larger and more far-reaching +influences by teaching teachers and preachers, who shall go, and who do +go out and reach multiplied thousands.</p> + +<p>In order that applied Christianity may have the power of self-help and +self-care, industries are introduced. In that the people are being +fitted to save themselves. All of our work from first to last is +missionary, and instinct with the motive of salvation; our schools are +means to an end; fitting preachers, teachers, mechanics, home makers to +meet the problem and the peril. It is not by education that the question +is to be solved. The missionary view <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355"></a>[355]</span>is not simply the educational view. +This society is not an educational society. Education is not the panacea +for the ills of man. Ignorance is a great evil, but it is not the worst +one; sinfulness is worse and more difficult to cure. The one who is +educated may make trouble and not heal it; secular education can not +meet the problem; State education can not protect against the peril, but +sanctified education can, for it has in it the power of God. This +society is a missionary society which, like the American Board, teaches +in order to save. You can scarcely save ignorance. This means Christian +schools not only full of ethics, but vital with faith. It means also the +twin life of school work and church work. To put these factors apart +would be a great disaster to each; nay, it would put away from the only +society that can effectively, and we believe effectually, meet this +problem, the chief factor in the solution of the impending and serious +question. Education alone is not equal to this question, and those who +have won the ear and the sympathy of those who need to come under the +power of the gospel, who have been their friends and teachers, who have +their confidence and trust, are the ones to take this gospel to them and +show them how to take it to others. The schools reach parents, the +schools reach pastors, the schools reach the people, the schools are +intertwined with all the church life that has any hope in it. This is +the missionary view. When this people in the wilderness cried out in +their distresses, "Who will speak for us?" the Association spoke for +them. When they needed sympathy, sympathy it gave. When they needed +instruction, it went to them in the name of Christ. In his name it stood +for the Negro. In his name it stood by the Negro. In his name it stood +with him. It stands there to-day. It is his friend and counselor. When +the Negro is cast down, the churches will hear one voice and they will +wish their own society to be found faithful in this.</p> + +<p>With this charter as a missionary society for schools and churches, we +present to the Negro race continually the personal hope of souls not +only, but the hope of the race. When they think that the progress is +slow we tell them that Christianity is sure. When they tell us that they +can not wait, but must organize and retaliate, we tell them to wait upon +God. "Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord." We ask them to remember that a +quarter of a century, or a century, is a short time in the history of a +people. We point to a million—a round million—of Negro children in the +schools to-day. We are teaching them to be men. We are saving them to be +Christians. We teach them not to remain down and not to be put down. +Being men, they are to stand like men, but like Christian men, to +conquer prejudices by worthiness, to meet race hatred with only a +stronger purpose to command respect, not to render evil for evil, but +contrariwise, blessing; not blow for blow, but to go on upbuilding +themselves, deserving their rights, and remembering that a great element +in the solution of this problem must be an intelligent faith in God. +With this missionary view we stand firm. We have learned that the +Southerners of our own race, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356"></a>[356]</span>even when they hold their prejudices +against our principles, respect those who stand in a Christian way for +their principles; and that these principles will never be accepted in +the South by our holding them loosely, or in suspense, or in any sort of +abeyance. They respect us when we teach our people that they have all +the rights of manhood and womanhood; that they are to respect themselves +and to be worthy of self-respect; that they are not to consent in their +own minds to any assertion of superiority based upon the tint of the +skin, and that they are never to feel guilty for being black. We are +teaching the colored people to hold honor with themselves.</p> + +<p>What this Association and other missionary forces have done and are +doing—this Association more than others—will be the balance of power +to prevent the dreaded conflict of races; <i>the balance of power</i> to +settle the question; How can the two races live in the same section with +mutual respect for each other's civil and Christian rights? This may +take time. Christianity takes time. It is ours to take Christianity to +teach that the beginning of Christianity was the death blow to wrong +principles and evil practices of men, however well intrenched and +fortified these forces may be.</p> + +<p>It is this which gives us courage to grapple with centuries of wrong and +to undertake the slow reduction of these evils. When Christianity came, +the era of conscience came, and in His gospel is the power of +intelligence and moral determination that shall not be overcome of evil, +but shall overcome evil with good.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">"Men bound with right are strong:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Right bound with right in Christian faith<br /></span> +<span class="i1">Will conquer a world of wrong."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>The missionary schools and the missionary churches are, we believe, the +only safeguard against the conflict of races. They are the guardian +against this national peril. This being so, the churches must speed them +more and more. They must not hinder them nor tie their hands. The +guarantees of this peaceful solution are in the hands of the churches. +Multiply and hasten the Christian energies. Multiply the Christian +prayers that we may be workers together with Him of whom it is written, +"He shall not fail or be discouraged."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="REPORTS_OF_COMMITTEES" id="REPORTS_OF_COMMITTEES"></a>REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.</h2> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON EDUCATIONAL WORK SOUTH.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. WM. BURNET WRIGHT, D.D., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>It is an ominous fact that in the South illiteracy is steadily +increasing. It is an encouraging fact that in the region surrounding our +chartered and normal schools illiteracy is steadily diminishing. The +colored people are multiplying more rapidly than the means of educating +them. If the supply of school accommodations to-day exactly equalled the +demand, so that every colored child of suitable age was provided for in +some school, there would be at the time of our next annual meeting +255,500 children asking to be taught their letters to whom we should +have to say, We cannot teach you. But the supply does not yet nearly +equal the demand.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357"></a>[357]</span>In respect to education, the South is a dark sky rapidly growing darker, +but flecked with patches of lighter shade, which are gradually growing +brighter and larger. Such a bright space frames each of our chartered +and normal schools. Fisk University, Talladega College, Tougaloo +University, Straight University, in New Orleans, and Tillotson +Institute, at Austin, Texas, are doing work which vindicates each year +more distinctly the strategic sagacity which located them. In these +institutions alone nearly two thousand students of both sexes are being +trained to be light-bearers to their race. Besides these, each of which +is essentially a normal school, and includes a normal department, +eighteen distinctively normal schools are sustained at different points +of strategic importance. Two new schools have been established during +the year. Good work has also been done among the mountain whites. The +income from the gift of Mr. Daniel Hand has enabled the Association to +enlarge its school accommodations, and to assist more than three hundred +students, who, without it, would have been unable to attend schools of +any kind.</p> + +<p>The committee would emphasize among special needs of the work, funds for +a girls' hall at Tillotson Institute, and for the endowment of a +theological school for training colored pastors. Two facts are +pre-eminently gratifying. The first is that in nearly all the schools of +the Association some kind of industrial training is provided, and that +the influence of such training is conspicuously shown in improved ideas +of home life and comfort among those connected by family or other ties +with our students. The second fact is, that in all our schools the +students are taught that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of +wisdom, and that consequently the separation between religion and +morality, which is the supreme danger of the Southern black churches, is +perceptibly diminishing.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON CHURCH WORK.</h3> + +<h4>BY PROFESSOR GRAHAM TAYLOR, CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>The mission of the American Missionary Association is shown to be a +<i>specialty</i> and a <i>unit</i> by its church work. It is the work of a +specialist among Christian organizations that alone could have produced +these churches. To meet the demands of an exigency which could not be +met by the pre-existent ordinary agencies, this child of Providence was +born of God and the times. For the accomplishment of ends for which no +means had been found, its methods were providentially chosen by a +process of spiritual selection. Its agencies are the accretions of the +Divine purpose in its progress toward the salvation of the undermost, +and the edifying of the whole body of Christ. To the production of its +unique Christian institutions the exclusive devotion to the study of the +peculiar conditions of these entirely distinct communities was +necessary. There have been generated by this devotion and acquired +through the experience of nearly half a century a knowledge and skill +which claim for this Association the recognition of the world as its +foremost expert in the successful application of Christianity to the +solution of the most difficult race problems of modern civilization.</p> + +<p>And yet in the accomplishment of this great achievement, loyalty to the +common faith and to our own polity, as well as to the teachings of +experience, demanded only the new application of the old prime factors +of God's own choice, the <i>local church</i> with its evangelism and +Christian nurture.</p> + +<p>In the work of this Association these two great agencies are uniquely +one. The pastor is often teacher and evangelist. The sanctuary is +school-house and mission station. At twenty-three points on the field +God has made of these twain—the church and the school—one. The church +is the unit of this unity. For while the church is generally the +offspring of the school, the school finds both its profoundest reasons +for existence and its highest consummation in the needs and ends of the +church. In it the work both of the teacher and evangelist co-ordinates +and culminates.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358"></a>[358]</span>It will not be so very long before these schools and colleges will find +their chief sources of supply in these churches, which although now so +dependent, must ultimately be depended upon to maintain and develop +their own institutions. Even now it is to be remembered that the appeal +of this evangelizing church work meets with the wider and more popular +response from the giving constituency of the Association, while the +educational institutions are more dependent upon the larger gifts of +interested individuals.</p> + +<p>Moreover, it is the church which opens the springs of the family life +from which the schools must draw their scholars. And it is the church +which creates the environment necessary to the Christian homes, to which +the graduates are sent back again to live their lives, and from which, +as the heart's fulcrum, their saved lives can best lift up the lost.</p> + +<p>These little church groups of evangelized and educated families are at +once the prime sources and the constituent elements of the new Christian +civilization which already heralds the coming of the kingdom to those +neglected, outcast peoples, to secure whose human rights, Christian +privileges and church fellowship is the first, loudest, longest call +upon the Congregational Churches of America.</p> + +<p>Therefore, in the name of this Association, whose heroic type of +missionary and teaching service makes our whole membership and ministry +the more attractive and ennobling; in the name of its schools which +became churches, and its churches which are schools; in the name of +their 8,400 professing Christians, and their 15,000 Sunday-school +scholars, and the 1,000 converts of the year; in the name of the races +of three continents to whom the Father is sending these our brethren as +we are sent to them, we pledge the fidelity of the American Missionary +Association to the two-fold agency of its one work, the discipling of +these races by the evangelizing church, and the Christian nurture of its +schools. And we re-echo the call which the National Council makes upon +our churches for the $500,000 required by the exigencies and +opportunities of this year's work for the neediest and most helpless of +all our fellow-countrymen.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON MOUNTAIN WORK.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. D.M. FISK, D.D., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>The formal report of your committee can without injustice be brief; not +because the field considered is narrow, or the work unimportant as a +missionary movement, but from the fact that a certain unity pervades +both, making it possible to comprehend in one view even the diversities +of a population of over two millions, and an area of above one hundred +thousand square miles.</p> + +<p>The official summary of the year's work, on which we report, once again +sets before this Association the situation and its involved problem; a +situation full of contradictions, a problem at once serious but not +hopeless.</p> + +<p>Here is the amazing spectacle of a self-isolated people, begirt with the +active life and thought of our eager times, yet sharing neither. Here is +an empire that is content to live in the past: having rich resources it +neglects to develop them; a productive soil but niggard crops. Amidst a +veritable Lebanon of forestry it has shanties for homes; with coal +deposits that are the envy of the world, its shivering women in +stoveless hovels attempt to defend themselves about their domestic toil +with coarse homespun shawls and slat-bonnets. In an age that has +harnessed mechanism, beast, and steam to the plow, scythe, sickle and +flail, these owners of mountains of iron and mines of power still +indolently vex a grudging soil with tools of such barbaric simplicity +that their intrusion is scarcely more than a provocation to weeds.</p> + +<p>Here is needless poverty in the lap of potential wealth, thriftlessness +in the face of every seeming stimulus to diligence. Here is a +diversified landscape that should <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359"></a>[359]</span>inspire and a climate that should +invigorate, but in place of vivacity and health we find apathetic +endurance and intrenched disease. Scrofula and its parasite kin are +domesticated in the debilitated blood, and pills, calomel, and death +jointly contend for the prolific cradle, and even when temporarily +defeated succeed in transforming childhood into unlovely age, without +the long interval of intermediate active, zestful manhood.</p> + +<p>And yet, pitiful as is this exhibit of deficiency, these Highland +dwellers are none the less men and our brethren. Slavery robbed them of +their lands half a century ago, and roughly shouldered them off into the +mountain wilderness dowered with the pauperizing maxims of oppression, +notably the indignity of toil, and their shrewd native mother-wit has +been left to rust to dullard loss in the absence of schools worthy the +name; worse still, their natural devoutness has been warped by unworthy +shepherds, till superstition, bigotry, and gross immorality have taken +fierce possession of many a society, hearthstone and heart. If to-day +the schools are inefficient and some of the preaching blasphemous; if +self-satisfied idleness has turned over this mountain realm to want and +the slavery of low living, and (as ever) made woman at once the servant +and the victim of its barbarism, it is but another historic count in the +awful indictment of human selfishness. And all these crying deficiencies +are but make-weights with our conviction of responsibility to this +mountain flock of God, that often has been misled and unworthily +sacrificed.</p> + +<p>The only problematical element in this matter is the measure of our +faith in God and man and all-prevailing truth. Wherever the ground has +been broken by faithful men there is a crop to show as returns for +invested toil. More than a thousand children are now under Christian +instruction in our schools. Our pupils are in hungry demand as teachers, +even to a minimum of years that to us would seem absurd (15 and 16 +years). Over twenty churches are holding up a reasonable religion, as a +life rather than merely a profession. New fields plead for mission work. +Our already planted churches and schools are stimulating other +denominations to redoubled diligence in church planting. Courage is in +the tone and look of our frontier workers. The officers of this +Association feel in an aggressive mood. The question resolves itself +into one of faith and contributions. What, my brethren, shall be our +answer?</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON INDIAN WORK.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. ADDISON F. FOSTER, D.D., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>The committee on the work of the American Missionary Association among +the Indians respectfully report that they gratefully recognize the good +hand of God in the work already done.</p> + +<p>Since the American Missionary Association took the work, the +expenditures have increased from $11,000 to $52,000, the out-stations +for direct evangelistic effort from seven to twenty-one, and the +churches from two to six. This last year, the Association has +established three new out-stations: the Moody station among the Mandans, +fifty miles north of Fort Berthold; the Moody Station No. 2 among the +Gros Ventres, twenty-five miles north of Fort Berthold; the Sankey +Station among the Dakotas at Cherry Creek. It has just put up a mission +house, with a room for church worship, at Rosebud Agency. It has +organized anew church at Bazille Creek, some distance out from Santee; a +branch church at Cherry Creek, on the Sioux Reservation, and is just +forming a church at Standing Rock, for which a building is now +completed.</p> + +<p>This record is certainly gratifying and shows that the Association +appreciates the emergency, and is striving to meet it, so far as the +means put in its hands allow. But your committee feel also that never +before was there so great an opportunity as now brought before the +Christians of this land, and especially our own denomination, for work +among the Indians.</p> + +<p>The relations of the Government and of the churches in Indian work are +now unusually <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360"></a>[360]</span>harmonious and kindly. The present Administration is +thoroughly in sympathy with missionary operations, and will do nothing +to impair their efficiency. We believe it to be sincerely actuated by a +desire to promote the best welfare of the Indians, and ready to +co-operate with all good people in efforts in this direction. It aims to +educate every Indian child. We desire to see this done, and believe that +when the Government assumes, as it should, the primary education of all +Indians of school age, we shall be called on to turn our efforts to a +much larger work for direct evangelization.</p> + +<p>Our opportunity is enlarging further by the breaking down of the old +pagan prejudices of the Indians. The testimony of all the workers on the +field is to this effect. The Indians are desirous of living as white +men. They are rapidly losing their distinctive Indian ideas and are +imbibing the notions of their white neighbors. This is seen in their +burials, which now are not uniformly, as of old, on scaffolds, but are +more and more interments. It is shown in their feeling and behavior when +death comes into their households. They no longer fill their houses with +hideous outcries, but instead seek the missionaries to inquire about the +life in the other world.</p> + +<p>A further opportunity is to be noted in the fact that the Dakota Indians +have specially fallen into our care. Our chief missions are located +among them, at Santee, Rosebud, Oahe, Standing Rock, and outlying +stations. But the Dakota Indians number 40,000 in all, or about +one-sixth of all the Indians in the country. We have mastered the Dakota +language; and a Bible, hymn-book, dictionary and other books are printed +in that tongue. We have, then, special ability to carry on mission work +among them, and are bound to utilize it to the full. The time is ripe +for immediate action. It must be taken without delay if taken at all. +The opening up to white settlement of a large strip of land though the +center of the great Sioux reservations is to bring the Indian into +contact with the influence of white men as never before. It is +impossible that that influence shall be altogether good. The contact of +the Indian with the frontiersmen of our own people has resulted most +deplorably in the past, and we cannot hope for much better results now. +Rum and licentiousness are sure to work untold harm to the Indian unless +they are met by the gospel. This opening up of Indian territory to white +settlement lays, therefore, a most imperative and immediate obligation +on Christian people to protect the Indian from ruin by giving them the +gospel.</p> + +<p>We are satisfied that nothing but the gospel will suffice. Education +alone can not save, and may simply give new strength to evil habits and +influences. It must be a Christian education; schools should be simply +preliminary and altogether subsidiary to the most energetic and wise +presentation of the gospel. The uniform policy of the American +Missionary Association in all departments of its work has been in this +direction, and we gladly recognize the fact that its Indian work has +steadily progressed with the idea of evangelizing the Indian.</p> + +<p>We know very well that the Association is laboring for 8,000,000 Negroes +and for 2,000,000 Mountain White people and for 125,000 Chinese, as well +as 262,000 Indians. We know that the proportion of the Indians is +comparatively small. At the same time we urge that this disproportion is +to a large degree counterbalanced by the special opportunities we have +considered. The Indian problem is before us for immediate settlement. It +admits of no delay. Care for these few Indians now, Christianize them +now, as we may, and the Indian becomes as the white man, and our +missionary efforts will then be released for other fields.</p> + +<p>In this special emergency we feel strongly the necessity laid on the +Association for an enlargement of its administrative force. Since the +death of our lamented brother, Secretary Powell, the force at the New +York office of the Association has been short-handed. We hope that the +earnest efforts which are being made by the Executive Committee to find +a suitable person to become another Secretary of the Association may be +at once successful. An emergency is upon us, and we say this with the +conviction <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361"></a>[361]</span>that the demands of the Indian work are now so imperative as +to require a large portion of the time and thought of such a Secretary. +It is a necessity that such a Secretary should frequently visit the +field and be in constant communication with the workers.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON CHINESE WORK.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. E.A. STIMSON, D.D., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>This is the smallest and least conspicuous department of the work of the +American Missionary Association, but the one that stands in the closest +relation to ourselves, and the one also that can show the largest +returns. The Chinese in America are few in number, but they are +scattered everywhere, as if God intended in them to put the spirit of +our churches to a crucial test, and, where that test is endured, to give +to his servants a prompt reward and an unanswerable confirmation of his +promises and of their faith.</p> + +<p>These strange little men from "the land of Sinim," mysterious, silent, +capable, incredibly industrious, money-making, with their pig-tails and +their felt shoes, their "pidgin English" and their unintelligible +"turkey tracks," their wooden countenance and their "bias eyes," their +opium, and their "ways that are dark," who, in spite of restrictive laws +and brutal personal treatment, are filtering in everywhere, until they +may be seen crouched in the corner of any street car, and are a familiar +object in the village street—why are they here? here just now and here +so persistently? It is no mighty immigration of men, such as De +Tocqueville liked to dwell upon. It is no conquering host, no familiar +immigration. Whatever may once have been the attractive force of the +California gold fields, washing soiled linen can hardly be regarded as +satisfying a national instinct, or thumping through the long hours of +the night upon an ironing table a soul-filling amusement. Much may be +said of "the golden fleece," but these are no modern Argonauts. They are +money-making as our friends the Jews, but no "high emprise" or "grand +endeavor" fires their calm pulse, and much as has been written of the +coolie system and the "Six Companies," nothing has been adduced which +seems adequate to explain the movement.</p> + +<p>The fact is, God is in it. He is crowding these heathen upon our +churches in these missionary days of an opening world, first of all to +prove our Christianity. Do we believe that all men are brothers? Do we +believe that the Holy Ghost who renewed our hearts can renew these? Do +we believe that the Lord who died for us, died for the world? Do we +believe—not that the world—but that this particular heathen as he +stands before us in his blue blouse, or sits at our side with his +reading-book, is as dear to our heavenly Father as you and I are? Do we +believe that we are to go to him with the gospel to find a way for the +truth into his heart, to bear his burdens, to win him by love, and that +without him we ourselves can not be made perfect? Do we believe, in +short, that God has brought him here to our door that we might learn +that if we have not a religion that will save, and will make us eager to +have it save a Chinaman, we have not a religion that will save +ourselves?</p> + +<p>Seven hundred and fifty of these men already members of the churches +connected with our mission on the Pacific Coast! and who will say how +many more on the rolls of our churches from St. Louis to Boston! What +are these Chinese converts, the fruitage of our Sunday-schools and +prayer-meetings, our personal labor, but God's blessed seal set upon our +Christian faith! Here is the evidence. Ours is the conquering faith of +the world. It will save every man, for it has saved these men, no less +than you and me.</p> + +<p>But this is not all. China's day has come. We hear from beyond the sea +of the new railway, the awful floods, the burning of the "Altar of +Heaven," and the strange stirrings of the mind of that mighty people, +the oldest, and judged by its persistent life, <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362"></a>[362]</span>the strongest now on the +globe. Merchants tell us of its limitless trade: diplomatists speak of +its astuteness and of its new navy, second only to that of England; +scholars wonder at a nation of heathen with whom learning determines +rank, and where the "boss" and the fixer of elections are unknown. +Missionaries write of the throngs that gather in strange cities to hear +them preach, of the new gentleness and courtesy everywhere shown them, +and of the increasing number of young people pressing into the mission +schools.</p> + +<p>In the midst of all this, when the Lord's voice is heard calling us to +lift up our eyes and look on the fields now white for the harvest, comes +word from our solitary watchman upon the watch-tower in Hong-Kong that +when he returned to his post, as he did last year, perplexed and +down-hearted, because not one Christian in all America heeded his call +and went with him to his field, to his surprise and joy the Lord has +been preparing his own servants in the person of Chinese emigrants +coming home from America, bringing with them not money only and +knowledge of the wide world, but the new-found faith; graduates of +laundries, but also of our Sunday-schools, members of our churches, +filled with an eager spirit to tell their parents, their brethren, their +neighbors, of Jesus Christ. Ah, dear friends, God's ways are not as our +ways. Let us not be slow to catch his thought and walk where he leads.</p> + +<p>Here, then, is the call to us. Begin with the Chinaman at your door. +Recognize that the Lord Jesus stands before you in him. You prove your +own faith; you "do it unto" your Lord; you forward the plan of God when +you take him by the hand and gently entreat him for Christ.</p> + +<p>For the same reason you will give your money to support the work of this +Association. No work has been more devoted, more upheld by prayer, more +Christlike, or, we may add, more deservedly successful than that under +the lead of our representative, Dr. Pond, on the Pacific Coast. He has +already surrounded himself with a band of trained Christian converts, +who would be a joy in any field, and who are making themselves felt for +good far and wide. Their influence reaches to Chicago, St. Louis, and +even Boston and New York. It is ours to see that the Christian city they +find here is not less Christlike than that which met them when they +landed on our shores, and that the hoodlum of our Eastern cities no more +represents the spirit of our churches than does he of San Francisco and +of Oakland. Let us be careful to show that our hand will be as promptly +raised to protect the helpless Chinaman from insult on the street as it +will be to lead his soul to Christ. Let us insist upon it, as Americans +and as Christians, that no distinction of race or of color shall stand +between any man and his rights, either in the State or in the Church. +Then may we hope that all—white and black, Chinaman and American—will +care less for rights and more for duties, and, in the joy of a true +brotherhood, will labor together to bring in the day of the Lord. In any +case, let us, with all our multiform machinery, our conventions, our +societies, our churches, be not so busy "saving souls" that we have not +care to save men and women.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.</h3> + +<h4>BY F.J. LAMB, ESQ., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>Your committee beg leave to report that they have had under +consideration the matters committed to them. They have been attended by +your Treasurer, and they have examined his reports submitted, +particularly the detailed statement of receipts and expenditures for the +year closed; also statement of trust funds of the Association; also +statement of resources and liabilities, and of the income of the Daniel +Hand Educational Fund for the same period. These statements come to us +duly vouched for by the standing committee of auditors elected by the +Association. A summarized statement of receipts and expenditures has +been printed and distributed at this meeting, which <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363"></a>[363]</span>accords with the +detailed report. Other reports show that the invested funds of the +Association, aside from the Daniel Hand Fund, are $230,875.78, being +$500 more than in the previous year. From the statement of resources and +liabilities, we find that the various colleges, schools, stations, +buildings, and property constituting what may be termed the plant of the +Association, amount, at their estimated value, to $745,849. This is a +large sum, but the investment yields no pecuniary return to the +Association. It represents the fixed property with which the Association +carries on its work, and the figures may serve in some measure to +apprise us of the magnitude of the work being carried on by the +Association.</p> + +<p>The Daniel Hand Fund is a separate and distinct trust, and its income +cannot be used for the general work of the Association, and may demand +some further notice before this report is closed. The general condition +of the fund is found on the printed abstract already mentioned.</p> + +<p>We find the system of keeping the accounts clear, convenient, and well +adapted to exhibit from month to month the exact pecuniary condition of +the Association, and the restrictions upon drawing money from the +treasury well calculated to insure safety in that respect, and we find +the management of the Treasurer's accounts and office in all details +satisfactory and deserving our commendation. Comparing the gifts and +work of the Association for the last year just closed with the previous +year, and the recommendations of the Finance Committee a year ago, we +find that the year 1888 closed with a deficit of over $5,000, that the +amount of receipts for that year had been $320,953.42; that the Finance +Committee then recommended that the friends of the Association should +raise for the year $375,000 for its current expenditures. It is a source +of great gratification to find that this recommendation has been nobly +met, and $376,216.88 have been received during the year just closed, an +increase of over $55,000; that the deficit of the former year has been +supplied, and that the Association commences the current year with a +fund in the treasury of $4,471.67. This we deem substantial indorsement +of the Association and its work, by the churches, Sunday-schools, +missionary societies and its individual friends. This report might stop +here with congratulations for the prosperous year just closed, but the +duties so well done, and work so well performed, must simply furnish the +Association a standing place and vantage ground for a greater work on +its part, and grounds for greater sacrifices and gifts by its friends +for the year to come.</p> + +<p>The National Council, representing the Congregational churches of the +whole nation, lately in session at Worcester, by a unanimous vote +recommended that the churches and friends of the work of this +Association raise for it for current expenditures for the year now +commenced the sum of $500,000. Is this magnificent sum too much to ask +for the year now auspiciously begun? Happily for your committee, we are +saved the necessity of elaborate or studied examination of the needs of +the work that has been done by the papers read and to be printed and +addresses delivered from the platform during the meetings up to this +time. You are thus informed more fully than we could hope to inform you +what these needs are and their urgency. But we may say that of the +8,000,000 Negroes in the South it is estimated only 2,000,000 can read +and write. Add to these the millions of poor whites in the mountains and +the red men of the West and the Chinese in our land, and we are fully +justified in asserting that the work of this Association equals in +magnitude any work of the church, and involves issues of Christianity, +and patriotism touched by no other work of our age. It is estimated by +the officers of the Association that through its schools and colleges +and the teachers furnished by them, who are instructing the children in +the South more or less every year, perhaps 175,000 are being reached and +instructed. Assuming that as many are reached by other missionary and +benevolent societies, we see the tremendous need that can not be +ignored. This burden is laid peculiarly and urgently on this <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364"></a>[364]</span>society and +its contributing friends. Can we meet this duty with less than $500,000 +for the current year? Your committee say, No. Perhaps you will be ready +to acquiesce. But let us see what this means. It means that every living +donor who contributed last year must increase his contribution 50 per +cent., or the number of donors must be largely increased. A large amount +was received last year from estates and legacies, namely, $114,020.41. +This resource is a variable quantity. The Association can not <i>depend</i> +on any increase from this source. Its confidence must be in the living, +who can give if they will.</p> + +<p>Your Committee deem it proper to call more particular attention to the +magnificent gift of Daniel Hand to the Association. It is quite likely +that some may suppose, and some may have measured their gifts last year +in the belief, that the income of this fund was applicable to pay +current expenses of the Association. But this is not so. The Daniel Hand +Fund is appropriated to special work, which, although connected +generally with the work of the Association, is yet not a part of that +ordinary work for which this fund we recommend to be raised is to be +expended. Hence all friends of the Association must make and measure +their gifts to it understanding that the sum we propose must be raised +without any aid from the income from that million dollars constituting +one of the grandest gifts of our time. Shall this $500,000 for the +current work of the Association for 1889 be furnished to it? This is +God's work. The churches here represented and the friends of the +Association have the money. It can not be put to any nobler Christian +use; the needs demand it, and we recommend that $500,000 be raised for +the Association for its current work for the year now begun.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON SECRETARY STRIEBY'S PAPER.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. G.B. WILLCOX, D.D., CHAIRMAN.</h4> + +<p>The paper by Dr. Strieby impresses your committee as an admirably +comprehensive and discriminating statement of the policy and work of the +Association. As to the reconstruction of our educational and missionary +societies, to the suggestion of which much of the paper calls attention, +and from which he dissents, we should do well to make haste slowly. Some +time in the future it may become practicable. But we discover no finger +of Providence pointing toward it at present.</p> + +<p>If the thought were to reduce our societies to which these interests are +intrusted to two, calling for but two annual collections where we now +have three or four, it needs no prophet to foresee the effect of that on +the amounts collected. If the suggestion is of the reconstruction, not +of the societies, but only of the work—if it proposes that our +educational and missionary enterprises be so divided that no one society +shall to any extent conduct both—it has certainly an attractive look.</p> + +<p>But is it more than a look? The educational institutions of several of +our societies were born out of the inmost life of those organizations +and lie on their bosom for nourishment to-day. To ask the American +Board, for example, to turn over its colleges and schools to some other +society, for that, of course, is involved in the plan suggested—would +be like asking one of our Christian mothers to send her babe to the +foundlings' home. Some of us are old enough to remember that the +venerable and now sainted Dr. Anderson was at first vehemently opposed +to the schools planted by the missionaries in India. It was confounding +things that differ. The work of a missionary society was not to manage +schools. The schools were discontinued. But the Board soon discovered +that it was doing its work with but one hand. The schools came back and +came to stay. Now we conservatives are rather jealous of our progressive +brethren calling for a reconstruction of the American Board. We know not +whereto this thing may grow.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365"></a>[365]</span>If the colleges and schools of the American Missionary Association were +secular, if they had no vital oneness of life with its churches, there +might be room for the plan suggested. But they are as thoroughly +Christian in their aim as the churches. The churches are as +indispensably educational as the schools. As Dr. Strieby remarks, the +teacher is often the pastor. The pastor finds a great part of his flock +in the school. The teachers teach in his Sunday-school. The +prayer-meeting depends on them for its success. The unseen shuttles of +mutual sympathy, flying back and forth incessantly, are weaving the two +together, and working out the one pattern of the Divine life in souls, +that covers both. The plan proposed would, at least to the eye, +disentangle all complications. It would lay out the work in the +Year-Book with clean-cut precision. But vital things are not always +improved by vivisection. It would doubtless simplify our apprehension of +the organs of a <i>man</i> to lay the lungs on one side of the table, the +heart on another, the liver on a third, and the brains on a fourth. But +how far it would enhance the vitality and usefulness of the man is +another question. There is an organism which is often, and without harm, +in that fashion distributed. But it is a mannikin—not a man.</p> + +<p>The one most formidable evil among our colored countrymen is their +deplorable ignorance of the connection between religion and morality—or +rather the fact that religion, on its outward side, is morality. The +sable deacon who, when confronted with a list of his sins as dark as his +countenance, replied triumphantly; "Well, bredren, I'se broke ebery +commandment ob de ten—but bress de Lord, I'se nebber los' my 'ligion," +was no monster of iniquity. He was only saturated and sodden with the +delusion which submerges Pagan, Mohammedan, and Papist alike, and throws +no little of its froth over Protestant, too often, that duties toward +God and toward man are not blended, or even dove-tailed together. But +they are weights in opposite scales. Be only devout in your penances or +your hallelujahs, and your life among men is of little account. Now, +that notion can not be corrected in such a people as that one with which +we have to do in the South by an occasional Sunday sermon. In the +day-school it must be reiterated morning, noon, and night in various +applications, line upon line and precept upon precept. And so, on the +other hand, teachers, as well as scholars, must be reminded by pastors, +with a little Puritan iron in their blood, of their Christian, as well +as educational obligations. One member of your committee who has had +practical experience in the Southern work reports that some teachers, +occasionally even now, need to be reminded of the Christian service that +the Association, as well as the Master, expects from them. But divide +these different functions, put the churches and Sunday-schools under +other auspices, and, self-evidently, that temptation would be so much +the worse. We must have groped out of the morning twilight toward the +millennial day much further than we have before any such plan can be +reduced to fact.</p> + +<p>Dr. Strieby speaks in the paper of his clerical friend of twenty-five +years ago, who thought the work of the Association would be transient. +It reminds us of Mr. Seward's remark that three months would end the +civil war. We are in for a long campaign. The sad fact is not to be +blinked that, with the enormous increase of the colored population, the +illiteracy among them is greater to-day than at the close of the +rebellion. We have need to sing at times:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">O, learn to scorn the praise of men:<br /></span> +<span class="i1">O, learn to lose with God.<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>As Dr. Goodwin grandly told us yesterday, our work is under the Master's +order. Success is no concern of ours. But success, because it is His +concern, is sure. Every losing battle in His service turns in time to +victory. We remember in Count Agenor de Gasparin's "Uprising of a Great +People," how spell-bound, awe-struck, he appeared to be before that +magnificent ground swell of the loyal nation, rolling on, as a traveling +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366"></a>[366]</span>mountain range, to sweep the rebellion as drift-wood before it. The +eight millions of the freedmen and their children are rising. If, for +the present, there are refluent waves that sadden us it is God who +brings in the tide. "And when I begin," saith the Lord, "I will also +make an end."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>REPORT ON SECRETARY BEARD'S PAPER.</h3> + +<h4>BY REV. H.M. TENNEY, D.D., CHAIRMAN</h4> + +<p>The committee to which was referred the paper of Secretary Beard +respectfully report that the "Missionary View of the Southern Situation" +therein presented impresses us profoundly with the fact that the +sincerest piety is the most exalted patriotism. It commends itself to us +as worthy of the most serious attention of the thoughtful of both races +in the North and in the South. The gravity of the Southern problem, as +set before us, is little less than appalling. The colored race now looks +back over a quarter of a century of freedom and recognized rights. The +traditions and customs and conservative ties of slavery are broken with +its chains. The ideas, aspirations and manly instincts of liberty have +taken hold upon the colored people and are becoming controlling. The +intellectual progress of the many, the political and national prominence +of the few, the acquisition of wealth, and the marvelously +disproportionate increase in their numbers, serve to awaken the colored +race to self-consciousness and a sense of power. It is beginning to +demand its rights and to be impatient of their resistance and +suppression. The Samson of the past, bound, shorn and blinded, stands +to-day with fetters broken, with locks grown long, and with eyes yet +dim, but with the dimness of returning vision, as one who sees men as +trees walking. And whether he shall be carried on to complete +emancipation, intellectual and spiritual, a true manhood, or goaded to +madness, and driven to bow himself against the pillars of our national +and social temple, and pull it down to the common ruin of us all, is the +question of the hour. A race so situated, were there no other factors in +the problem, would be a peril to any people, and would call for the most +helpful effort and self-sacrificing zeal and Christ-like patience.</p> + +<p>But the white man in the Southern situation is as serious a factor in +the problem as the black man. In a different way, the incubus of slavery +has rested as heavily upon him as upon his black brother. The illiteracy +is not all on one side. If we put ourselves in the place of our Southern +white brothers, and remember what human nature is, apart from the grace +of God, we may not greatly wonder, in view of the heritage of the past +and the real difficulties and perils of the present, that there is an +intensity of race prejudice, and a bitterness of caste spirit, and an +increasing hostility to the rising colored population which registers +itself in outbreaks of violence and bloodshed, in the defiance of law, +and in crimes against the ballot-box. We may not be greatly surprised +that there should be intelligent men who regard the education of the +colored man as a calamity, and deny his rights, and call for his +disfranchisement. The white man of the South needs emancipation and +Christian elevation as well as the black. We are the debtors of Christ +to both races. Leave these two races to themselves without the gospel of +Christ, and the conflict between them is inevitable, and it can be but +terrific and protracted, and a dark blot upon the Christian name and +civilization. Dr. Beard has well said that the problem can not be solved +by historic precedents. All talk of slavery or peonage for the inferior +race, or migration, or extermination, or amalgamation, is idle and +morally repugnant and politically dangerous.</p> + +<p>The problem set for our solution by Almighty God is just this—as stated +in this missionary view of it: How, being free, two races as dissimilar +as are the white and black races, now equal before the law, can live +side by side under the same government <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367"></a>[367]</span>and live in prosperity and peace. +This problem must be solved, and it must be solved aright. And we may be +sure that the ultimate solution of blessing for both races does not, and +can not, lie in any retrograde movement toward the old darkness and +bondage, but forward in the direction of the larger light and truer +liberty of Christ. If the colored race, as a race, seems to have reached +a point when "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing," its hope and +ours lie not in a return to ignorance and degradation, but in pressing +on to that larger knowledge and truer wisdom, the beginning of which is +the fear of God, and the fullness of which is a hearty recognition and +cordial acceptance and discharge of the obligations and trusts of a +Christian manhood and Christian citizenship. The condition of the +colored race, indeed, is but a necessary stage in its upward and onward +march. It is no other than we have always had reason to expect would be +reached. That the mile-stone of to-day marks so great progress is cause +for profound gratitude. The new features of the situation and the fresh +difficulties are those, and those only, which are incident to progress.</p> + +<p>There is but one solution for the Southern problem, and that is the +solution for which this Association has labored from the beginning, and +which this paper urges. Christianity in its highest forms, an +intelligent Christian manhood, is that solution. It is an impressive +thought that it is the mission of this Association, more than all other +institutions and agencies, to develop that Christian sentiment among the +colored people, and indirectly among the whites, which shall create a +<i>balance of power</i> which shall save the races and the nation from that +conflict which without it seems inevitable. This fact is a trumpet call +to us to press the work of the Association in its schools and colleges +and churches with renewed vigor and devotion.</p> + +<p>And we would especially emphasize the necessity of preserving the unity +of the educational and religious work of the Association to this end. +Every teacher must be a missionary as truly as every preacher. And this +unity of purpose and effort must be felt. Church and school, as in the +past, must continue to stand together in the minds and labors of the +people that there may be no exaltation of education at the expense of +religion. In the dark days of slavery, it was faith in God that +sustained the Negro, that inspired his songs, and that made him strong +to endure and patient to wait. And it was by the power of God that he +was at last set free. Never did the colored man need that faith in God, +and in an overruling and guiding Providence, more than now, when the +goal of liberty and equality is so nearly attained, and yet strangely +delayed. Nobly do the leaders of the race realize that faith, and seek +to lead their brethren into it.</p> + +<p>It belongs to this Association, by all the agencies at its command, to +teach this people to be patient and to wait upon the Lord, to endure +hardship, to leave vengeance with the Lord, and, accepting the +responsibilities of liberty and citizenship, to gird themselves to meet +them in the spirit and in the strength of a grand Christian manhood. +This the history of this people warrants us in expecting from them. To +this manhood, struggle and work we welcome them, and in it we pledge +them our Christian support.</p> + +<p>Let this be the temper of those who hold the balance of power between +the races in the South, and in no long time the slumbering conscience of +the Southern white will respond. The noble utterances of the +Southerners, who already demand that the Golden Rule shall be applied to +the race problem, prove that it is already waking to life and power. It +will be felt then that it cannot be safe to sin against God, to despise +even the least of his children; that it must be safe to follow in the +way where he leads, to do his bidding, and to give equal rights to all, +and to treat all men as brethren. And thus the missionary view +prevailing, and the missionary solution accepted, the perils and +conflicts of to-day will disappear as the storm-cloud passes, and the +difficulties of race relations now anticipated will adjust themselves in +God's way, and in God's time—the way of Christian manhood and +brotherhood, of righteousness and of peace.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368"></a>[368]</span> +<h2><a name="ADDRESSES_ON_THE_PRECEDING_REPORTS" id="ADDRESSES_ON_THE_PRECEDING_REPORTS"></a>ADDRESSES ON THE PRECEDING REPORTS.</h2> + + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. WM. BURNET WRIGHT, D.D.</h3> + +<p>When that Egyptian King, of whom we all know, was carving those +memorials of his greatness which, even as brought to us by the magazines +of late, have interested us all so much, and when Egypt was the most +superb power in the world, slave women, of whom the mother of Moses was +one, were lamenting by the Nile. But the people then to be pitied were +not the Hebrews, but the Egyptians.</p> + +<p>As I think of the future of my country, my anxiety is not for the black +race.</p> + +<p>The two nations which seem destined to exert in the near future the most +intense and wide influence are Russia and the United States. Before each +of them God has set essentially the same task and appears to have +conditioned largely their prosperity upon the way in which they do it. +That task is to develop into full-orbed free men a vast number of +citizens who have been dwarfed and twisted by slavery. How to do this +most thoroughly and speedily is the superlatively important question for +each nation to decide. In Russia, there is no more acute observer than +Count Tolstoi: and Count Tolstoi has said to his countrymen, "What we in +Russia need supremely is three things; they are schools and schools and +schools." The American Missionary Association, in view of all that has +been said here these two days, seems to me to be repeating, with the +emphasis of an adequate experience, those same words; and I think Mr. +Hand has shown a judgment equal to his generosity in so wording the +conditions of his gift that it repeats the same thing. The Association, +whether intentionally or unintentionally, is telling us that what we +need in the South supremely is "schools and schools and schools."</p> + +<p>By schools I certainly do not mean institutions which train only the +mind or the body, or both. I am perfectly familiar with the picture +which Mr. Maturin Ballou has drawn of the Alaska Indian using the +knowledge gained in missionary schools to raise a check. I know that +education which does not rightly train the will may be giving tools to a +burglar or weapons to a mad man. The anarchism in Chicago, but for the +education it controls, would have been like Bunyan's giants—able only +to gnaw its nails in malice and have fits in sunshiny weather. But the +American Missionary Association understands this thoroughly. In that +copy of the year's review which Dr. Strieby sent me, the report of the +school work was marked with a red pencil, that of the church work with a +blue one; but the two marks overlapped, the red and the blue, so +completely that all attempts to separate them were hopeless. Dr. Strieby +himself could not distinguish between the church <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369"></a>[369]</span>work and the school +work of the Association. No man can. They are indistinguishable because +they have been inseparable. This is as it should be. This is essential +to their real success. This is New Testament preaching—discipling; and +that is what the Master told us to do. The danger of Count Tolstoi's +leadership in Russia is great, and it is solely this: that he does not +know that fact. The safety of your guidance, gentlemen, who conduct the +policy of this Association, is that you do. The education given by the +State and by the Federal Government has been and must necessarily be, +almost wholly secular. But the education given by this Association is +distinctly, not technically, religious. It is rooted and grounded in the +Bible. And if what I am saying appears to you trite, I am glad of it, +because it shows that on the substantial facts we are at one and need no +argument.</p> + +<p>There are, however, two facts which sharply distinguish between the work +we have to do among our emancipated slaves and that set before Russia +among her emancipated serfs, and which make it more conspicuously +obvious than it can be in Russia that we need schools. We have, first of +all, to contend with the prejudice of color. We have been told how great +that is. I need spend no time in repeating this while the debates at +Worcester and in the Episcopal Convention at New York ring in our ears; +while Harvard seniors can not elect for class orator the ablest and +fittest man they have if he happens to be colored, without eliciting +from New York newspapers two-column editorials of amazement; and while +writers as wise, as informed, and as calm as George Cable, are unable to +write without showing their quivering apprehension of a race war. The +wickedness of this class feeling is conceded by all good men, and I need +not dwell upon it.</p> + +<p>The cause of it has been largely overlooked, and therefore the remedies +so often advocated have proved futile. Until the cause is distinctly +recognized and acknowledged and remedied, the prejudice will remain. The +cause is this: All freeborn people in every age and clime have had a +contempt for slaves. That is very near the feeling—mark my words—they +ought to have. It was stronger in Athens than it has ever been in +Charleston. It is partly, and has always been largely, caused by the +wicked pride of mastership, but it has also been largely inspired by the +perception of those vices and inferiorities which his condition breeds +in the slave. Ignorance, deceit, cowardice, are contemptible; and +therefore men who know better fall into the way of despising those who +are ignorant and cowardly instead of trying to help them become the +reverse of all these things. In nearly every other nation—there are two +exceptions that will readily occur to you—save our own, as soon as the +slave's chains have been broken and the slave's vices eradicated, the +emancipated man has been absorbed among the class of freemen. There was +nothing left to suggest that he had ever been a slave. The people forgot +it. But the black man bears an ineffaceable mark that he belongs to a +race which has been enslaved; and it is, therefore, in ninety-nine <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370"></a>[370]</span>cases +out of a hundred unconsciously but instinctively assumed that his is +still the servile character. There is no natural antipathy between the +white and the black races; if there were there could be no mulattoes. +The sole reason of the persistence of this caste feeling is that the +black man bears the mark saying to every one that sees him, "I belong to +a race that has been enslaved:" and unconsciously men assume, "Therefore +your character is still a servile character." The prejudice is deep; it +is almost universal; and so long as there is a God in heaven who led +forth the Hebrews and overthrew the Pharaohs, there will be no safety +for this Nation of ours until the prejudice is obliterated, as +completely as that which once existed and was more intense between the +Anglo-Saxon and the Norman. If, as has been the case in many another +land, there should arise an emergency threatening the existence of our +Nation, and there were one man, and only one, capable of steering us +through the storm into safety—some Lincoln or Washington—and if every +voter in our country knew that this man were the only one who could do +it, that man, if he were black, could not be elected President. Were +such an emergency to arise to-morrow, we should perish. We should perish +by suicide, and richly deserve all that we got. There is no safety for +our land until this prejudice of caste is gone. It never came by +argument; it can never be argued away. It can not be smothered under +legislation nor uprooted by resolutions nor effaced by tears. While good +men feel it they will fight it, but the majority will yield to it and it +can be decided in only one way. That way was well outlined by a colored +student in Hampton Institute in the debating club of that institution. +The subject for discussion was, "How Shall We Black Men Secure Our +Rights?" The last speaker was black as ebony, and had been bred in his +early years a slave. When he arose I expected to hear him repeat the +familiar complaints and suggest the familiar remedies. He did neither. +He simply said: "My friends, I do not agree with all that you have said. +I think, as you do, that the way white people treat us in the street +cars and hotels"—and he might have added, in churches, but he did +not—"is wrong, unchristian, and cruel." And when he said that, there +was a pathos in his voice which made me ashamed to be a white man. +"But," he added, "while I think as you do that it is cruel, I do not +think that the white people will ever stop treating us as inferiors so +long as we are inferiors, and I think that they will despise us as long +as they can. But when we get enough character in our hearts, enough +brains in our head, and enough money in our pockets, they will stop +calling us niggers!"</p> + +<p>He was right—a thousand times right. We must face the facts and steer +by them, and not attempt to be guided by sentiment and emotions. So long +as the sight of a black face instinctively suggests to us rags and +ignorance, and servility and menial employments, just so long this +prejudice of caste will endure, and no amount of individual genius, +culture, or character will be able to brush the mildew of caste from any +individual black <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371"></a>[371]</span>man's brow. That lady may be a Florence Nightingale, +but if I whisper, and whisper truly, that she came from the slums, that +her sisters are in the penitentiary, and her brothers are thieves, +society will never forgive her for not being in the penitentiary +herself. Society will pity her in ostentatious magniloquence, which is +far worse than contempt or neglect; perhaps it will clothe her with silk +and diamonds; but it will never treat her as it would not dare not to +treat any lady whom it felt its equal. As has been well said, what is +needed is not patronage nor pity, but fact—the recognition of fact. +When the sight of a black face shall no longer remind men that it +belongs to a race of which the immense majority close at hand are still +showing what we have driven into them by the lash and bound in them by +chains; when the black face shall have clothed itself in associations as +full of comfort and culture and Christian worth as a white man wears, +"Negro" will be as honorable as "Caucasian." And for this, through its +churches which are schools, and its schools which are churches, the +American Missionary Association is laboring and praying with splendid +success.</p> + +<p>I would like to remind you of the second point, which is emphasized by +the statement in the report that a graduate, of Fisk University, with +his wife, another graduate, has gone to Africa under commission of the +American Board, and has there shown eminent abilities. Africa is the +only continent on the planet that has never had a history. For +millenniums it has been a locked closet. But in the providence of God +the gaze of Christendom is now concentrated upon it. All the passions, +good and bad, which push men are impelling the most adventurous and +energetic of our race to look or to go thither. Love of money, love of +adventure, love of power, love of man and love of God, are leading men +to look into the 200,000,000 dusky faces there from which the veil has +at last been thrown back. Meanwhile 8,000,000 of that race whose +Christianizing means the regeneration of a continent vaster than Europe +and the inauguration of a history perhaps to be more splendid than that +which Europe has wrought out in two millenniums, are here for you and me +to educate. Do you believe these facts are accidents? Do you believe +that He who maketh the wrath of man to praise Him and restraineth the +remainder of wrath has not ordained them according to the counsels of +his own will? There never can be a Christian education which does not +plant and foster the missionary spirit. Is it a dream? If so, let me die +before I wake. Is it a dream that among 8,000,000 of our fellow citizens +each of whom, as Dr. Strieby told us at New York, is qualified to live, +perhaps to thrive, in the climate which has proved a grave to +Anglo-Saxons, each of whom is qualified to visit Africa with a fair hope +of making himself received as a child returning unto his own household? +Is it too much to hope that, under the Christian education we may give +them if we will, enough will desire to preach Christ to the dark continent +to gem it with life and light as the sky is gemmed with stars?</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372"></a>[372]</span>I am too old to do it, but so complete is my conviction that the future +of the race in the coming century shall move toward Africa as in the +ages following Paul it moved toward the North and West of Europe, that +were I a young man, loyal and devoted to my Master, and trying as he +told his followers by Gennesaret to read in the morning and evening red +the signs of the times, I should not go to Africa, perhaps; I would go +to Tougaloo University, I think, and there devote all my energies and +powers to instructing black men in the meaning and scope and inspiration +and promise of the Master's words, "Go ye."</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. F.P. WOODBURY, D.D.</h3> + +<p>I feel that I have learned a great deal to-day; and as the last speaker +spoke concerning Africa, an idea has come into my mind which I may +express. Here we have on one side of the great ocean, Africa; on the +other side, America. We have here a race conflict; on the one side eight +millions of blacks, we will say, and perhaps eight millions of +irreconcilable whites on the other. And these dominant eight millions of +white men maintain, with the utmost pertinacity—and they have the power +in their right hand so far as we can see—that they propose to rule and +keep down those eight millions of black men. I have seen the title of a +book recently published, "An Appeal to Pharoah," which is vouched for as +a calm and temperate discussion of the question whether, after all, we +are not going to get by this race difficulty by a great deportation to +Africa. It is a good deal to raise the question of eight millions of men +leaving one country and going across the ocean and settling in another +continent. But isn't there something in it after all? Might it not +compose the differences? I know that the cost would be very large, but +careful estimates go to show that the cost is not anywhere near the +amount we spent in our civil war. On the one side, we have these eight +millions of black men—ignorant, very largely superstitious, still +somewhat above those of the same color in Africa, and plunged here into +an antagonism which is deep, and bitter, and hopeless. On the other +side, we have these eight millions of white people who do not accept the +results of the war. Isn't it better that eight millions shall go? I +don't know. I think it deserves serious consideration.</p> + +<p>But when the question arises for practical consideration, I think there +is another and a little deeper question that we ought to remember, and +that is this: Which eight millions ought to go? Is it these who have +been faithful to the American flag, who are straight in the line of +progress that this republic proposes to maintain, who are in the line of +the development of all the ages, who are looking upward? Or is it the +eight millions who are hopelessly side-tracked by the purposes of +infinite God, and who are standing <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373"></a>[373]</span>here in this republic, undertaking to +maintain a conflict that is necessarily one of despair, as sure as God +is at the head of the universe? Expatriation if you please, deportation +if you will; but consider the question whether it shall be eight +millions of American patriots who are to be sent over to Africa or eight +millions who have come out of a rebellion and maintain their seditious +and rebellious attitude to-day.</p> + +<p>My friends, we all know that we are going to live together. There is no +more baseless theory on God's earth than that we are going to take eight +millions of men and send them out of this country, because they want to +learn something, because they want to live like men and be men and +citizens, and because God has put them here for our work and our +education. I tell you, my friends, the immediate problem seems to me +only one form of a larger problem. What is the problem of the planet +to-day? Is it not the problem as to which of two theories shall maintain +itself concerning the masses which are at the base of society? Isn't +that the problem in every nation? Isn't it the problem here concerning +white and black, red and yellow alike? There is no possible doubt about +it. The labor problem, do you call it? Here is one theory which holds +that the masses shall be kept down. Here is the other system which +maintains that they shall be elevated. We have got to live with them in +the world, for I imagine there is nobody talking about sending them to +the moon. Don't you know, and I know that the world is growing smaller +every year? Talk about neighborhood—look over this continent. Germany +is here; Ireland is here; France is here; China is here; Africa is here. +We are neighbors to everybody. We are touching elbows across the ocean +all the time. If you send anybody to Africa, why, he is only next door; +and by and by we shall have air ships that will float up over there in a +few hours! How are you going to manage this thing? We have got to live +together in this world, and nearer and nearer to one another with every +generation; and this country may just as well be the field in which to +try the experiment out as any other country on the face of the globe. I +think we are going to try it out to the end. There are symptoms of it +all around.</p> + +<p>But the conflict is here; it is in the air. It is not a conflict by +sword. You know they tell the legend among the old mediæval stories that +in one of the great battles on one of the plains of Europe, after the +quiet darkness of the night had settled over the scene, the field strewn +all over with the forms of the mangled and the dead, there were seen in +the shuddering midnight air to rise spirit forms maintaining the deadly +conflict there, and carrying on the battle of the day. It seems to me, +in some sense, true of us. The sword has done what the sword could do; +it can do no more. But the conflict is here in the air, pronouncing +itself with every event that drifts across our horizon. Harvard sets its +seal on the brow of Clement Morgan, and the Memphis <i>Avalanche</i> has no +other word for him than to call him "that dusky steer with the crumpled +forelock."</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374"></a>[374]</span>My friends, we are going right forward in the field of conflict, which +is the field of victory. One with God is a majority, and we are +thousands with God. And we have on our side the weak and the helpless, +too. I don't want any better aid than that. You know that Burke in that +magnificent invective against Warren Hastings, when he rose to the very +climax of it and told the story of those atrocious tortures to which the +poor and ignorant and misguided peasants of India had been put, how they +had had their fingers tied together and mashed with hammers, and other +unmentionable things had been done to them, appealed to the parliament +and said that if they should refuse justice those mashed and disabled +hands, lifted high to Heaven in prayer, would call down the power of God +for their deliverance. Is it not worse to mash and disable a mind and a +soul than a hand? I tell you the prayers of the poor are on our side; +and if we had nothing of all this magnificent achievement of this +Association to look upon, we could look on those hands raised and those +souls crying out from the social bondage of to-day, as they did from the +physical bondage of a few years ago, and know that if God be for us we +need not care who or what is against us.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF PROFESSOR GRAHAM TAYLOR.</h3> + +<p>I have but a very few words to add to this report. The facts speak +louder than any statement of them can. When skirting the Asiatic shore +of the inner sea, that lonely traveler, Paul, heard a voice, he looked +across to the shores of Europe, and there in the night stood a great +colossal form, not of a naked savage, but a form clad perhaps, in the +panoply of the Macedonian phalanx, the representative of the Europe that +then was and was yet to be, the precursor, it may be, to the classically +informed mind of the missionary to the Gentiles, of that long procession +of great world conquerors. It was the Man of Macedon who stood there in +the might of his strength and cried, like the crying of an infant in the +night, the crying of an infant for the light, "Come: come over into +Macedonia and help us."</p> + +<p>Now, my brethren, this was the cry of the strong for help. This was the +cry of the peoples that were following the westward course of the star +of empire. And yet, in their strength, they cried as though they were +the weakest of woman born. And when that missionary, in response to that +call, crossed the sea, though he came to that Macedonian city which had +been the battle-scene of the contending forces of the Roman empire, he +found access for the gospel into Europe through the open heart of one +woman—Lydia, a seller of purple. And there, sitting down by the water +course, where prayer was wont to be made, he just grouped those +individuals into that unit of God's operations on the face of the earth, +the local church. And this church was distinguished among the apostolic +churches <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375"></a>[375]</span>for its family traits, for the infusion of feminine grace and +masculine strength, for the most domestic hospitality and the very +faults of the close attritions of human life. There he planted the seed +which has grown into our European and American civilization and +Christianity.</p> + +<p>And so ever at the cry of the strong for help the gospel has had just +these three great prime factors to present for the solution of the +problems of every age: first, the home, with its priesthood of the +father and mother, the sanctuary of the house and the ministrations of +family life; secondly, the school; and thirdly, between the home and the +school, the church. When our Lord himself, from all possible sources, +made selection of the first among the many means he has chosen for the +redemption of this world, he chose a trained personality. As the medium +for the transmission of truth, no improvement, no change has been found +in all the progress of the gospel. By this trained personality—the +heart that has been led to live with Christ awhile, and then go forth in +his name and filled with his love to the hearts that have place for that +love and rootage for that life—this wonderful product of our Christian +civilization has everywhere been produced.</p> + +<p>And I take it that in no one of the Christian agencies known to us are +these three methods so wonderfully unified, so inseparably united, as +the home and the church and the school are in the work of the American +Missionary Association. They are one and the same. They are +indissoluble. The long experience of this Association through this half +century of specialized work does fit it, as the report has said, to give +an almost commanding opinion in regard to the method of the work to be +pursued among these very distinct classes. From the field as well as +from the office, and from the experience of those longest at work, we +learn that the school finds its ultimate aim only in the church; that, +as a Christian agency, we are to work with the school only as a means to +the end of building up that body of Christ on the face of the earth +which is known by the name of his church. I do not see how the +separation to any extent of school and church work can fail to break the +unity of administration and hinder the progress of this gloriously +on-going work.</p> + +<p>I have just one word to add in regard to the reflex influence of this +church work upon the home churches. My brethren, there has been a great +dearth in candidates for the ministry until very recently. It strikes me +that there is no such object-lesson in all our land, inviting men to +consecrate themselves to the noblest of purposes, as the heroic ministry +of this Association. It needs the heroic element to attract young men. +It needs something which is very plainly worth their while to live for +and to work for and to consecrate their energies toward, in order to +attract them from the allurements of business and material progress +to-day. The Indian service of the British Government, and even the +service of the great commercial companies, have that element of heroism +in it them which has attracted <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376"></a>[376]</span>the very best brain and brawn of the +English race to India. So it seems to me we will have to hold up these +great organizations, which reach down to the hard places of the land, +which occupy places that require men to man them, in order to recruit +the ranks of our ministers. A man needs to know that he will have to be +all the more a man to be anything of a minister now-a-days, to attract +him into this great work. And this heroic type of Christian ministry and +of Christian manhood and womanhood, shown in the half century of this +society's work and existence, is to my mind one of the great attractions +upon the best, the strongest, and the most consecrated of those men and +women who devote their lives to the service of the church.</p> + +<p>Its reflex influence upon every other branch of missionary activity in +the church is very plain. It is to-day—I do not hesitate to say it—the +hero of our organizations. It takes far less stamina, far less +consecration, I believe, to go to India, or China, or Japan than it does +to come out at the call of God and of this agency of His divine +Providence and enter many a field manned by this Association. In the +<i>personnel</i> of our theological seminaries I have long noticed that the +choicest spirits, the men with the stamp of courage upon them, those who +are not working for place, but for Christ, and him alone, are the men +who take up this work. They are the men who, when they come back to the +schools of the prophets, thrill our hearts as no other men do with the +story of the conquests of Christ in their own hearts as well as out in +the hard fields which they cultivate for his sake; and there will be no +more glowing missionary meeting of the seminary with which I have the +honor to be connected than when the reports of this meeting shall be +carried back to the brethren. The prayers of the class-rooms, the +prayers of the missionary meetings, the yearnings of the hearts of the +men who are preparing to follow in the footsteps of those who have +heroically led the way, are the wires for these unseen and yet never +unused electric currents which unite the North with the South, the +frontier with the citadels of our common Christianity.</p> + +<p>We know very well the danger of a false education, of a school without A +church, education without evangelization, a university without the heart +of Christ beating in it. Great are the joy and confidence felt in the +hearts of the constituency of this body that school and church are so +inextricably interwoven with each other that if you plant a school it +will develop into a church, and if the church comes it will eventually +and inevitably re-act, and in a most blessed way in spiritual and often +in material resources upon the school. We give largely to the school +because there is a home beneath it and a church around it.</p> + +<p>I regard these churches of the American Missionary Association with +their evangelistic and nurturing agencies, prime sociological factors +for bringing in Christ's dear kingdom in this land of ours. It is their +mission not only to remedy evils, not only to restore rights, but to be +great <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377"></a>[377]</span>constructive agencies of a new Christian civilization. For when +Christ came, he came preaching, not the gospel of the individual, not a +gospel simply to save that man, that woman, that child, but the gospel +of the Kingdom, the gospel which this great Association so effectually +preaches and not only preaches but applies and administers as well. And +the time will not be far hence when this whole subject of the +environment of the spiritual life will force itself so imperatively upon +the study of the churches at home that they will take the type of their +work and the inspiration for their new developments from the leadership +of this and kindred missionary organizations which have set them these +most brilliant examples of being ahead of the thought and the feeling of +their day.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. C.W. HIATT.</h3> + +<p>More than fifty years ago De Tocqueville gave utterance to these +prophetic words: "The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the +future existence of the United States arises from the presence of a +black population upon its territory." I think that that prophecy has +been iterated and reiterated before this convention until we ought +finally to let it rest as an established fact. I believe we are menaced +by these eight millions of people, who are twice as great in number as +were the people of the United Colonies when they broke from the +mightiest naval and military power in history; but I believe that the +peril that we are menaced by in the presence of this black man arises +from his perils. There is a peril from the black man, but it is a peril +secondary to the peril <i>of</i> the black man upon this soil. I do not +apprehend any uprising by Uncle Tom; but Uncle Tom is dead, and his son +is here and his friends of a younger generation. These men are being +gnarled and corrupted and imbruted, and are massing themselves, touching +elbows one with another; and under the influences of the age in which we +live are becoming a factor in our civilization which, unless we modify +and change it under our Christian teaching, will render our Southland +like that island on the north of the Caribbean Sea where to-day it is +said that the name of Toussaint l'Ouverture, the original defender and +liberator, is a hissing and a reproach.</p> + +<p>It was a fine augury of the future when the work for the ex-slave began +at Fortress Monroe in the atmosphere of religion. Mary Peake, meeting +the advancing multitudes of refugees, gospel in heart and primer in +hand, as by divine suggestion, laid the pattern of all our succeeding +toil. Side by side of mutual helpfulness God has placed the alphabet and +decalogue, the teacher and the preacher, the school-house and the +church. "What therefore God hath joined together let not man put +asunder."</p> + +<p>The largest, grandest word in the title of this organization is +"Missionary." When that word drops out its work will be done, for its +call will <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378"></a>[378]</span>have ceased. Our ultimate end and present purpose is, and +always should be, simply this—to save. We cannot lift our fallen +brother without the leverage of the cross.</p> + +<p>No field is wider, none more difficult, than that to which our eyes are +turned, embracing as it does four of the five families of mankind. They +huddle together in the lap of Christendom, but feel no warmth. They are +a demonstration of the fact that civilization never touches barbarism +without polluting it. The Indian, finding his highest ideal in the rude +and tipsy defender of our flag; the Chinaman, taking home more +heathenism than he brings; the Negro, bound tighter by the vices of the +whites than ever he was by their iron chains—these three, ignorant of +the Christ and grasping the satanic weaponry of our sinful land and age, +together form the most discouraging of mission fields. Our laborers are +faced by all the serious problems of the foreign land—problems +unrelieved by a single romantic charm. When we send our missionaries to +Africa they go to labor among the Africans; and when we send them down +South they go to teach "niggers."</p> + +<p>Notice, then, what the report of this committee signifies in the +presence of the fact that our laborers not only grapple with foreign +languages, conceptions, idolatries, habits of benighted peoples, but all +the time are hindered and assailed on every hand by these Bedouin Arabs +of our land—the minions of mammon and the slaves of caste. To gather +and hold and save in such a field as this, is task enough for the finest +corps in the army of the Lord.</p> + +<p>In the presence of these well-known facts, the report of the committee +adds another chapter to the Book of Acts. It gladdens our hearts with +thrilling music—the music of ringing sickle and reaper's song. From all +over this mighty field, from mountain, and savannah, and shore, and +plain, we hear the resonant footsteps of advancing troops—a solid +regiment of converts marching in the army of our Christ and into the +fellowship of his Congregational Church. I want you to notice that this +church which we have planted in the South is just the kind of a church +to take these people and assimilate them, to save them and to preserve +them to their highest usefulness. And why? In the first place, because +it is a church that will take them in. I saw the other day this +inscription over a great arch erected in honor of our Pan-American +guests in the city of Cleveland, "Welcome All Americans." Well, the +Congregational Church has put three talismanic letters over the portal +of every church that it has planted in the South and in the West, +"A.M.A.—All mankind acceptable."</p> + +<p>Every convert in our work has cosmopolitan views respecting the +brotherhood of man. This means that one thousand people have seated +themselves before an apostolic communion table. White, black, red and +yellow, side by side in harmony before the broken memorials of the life +of love. The spirit of color-caste is a post-apostolic devil. The most +eminent convert of the evangelist Philip was as black as a middle vein +of Massilon <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379"></a>[379]</span>coal. Perhaps that is why they met in the desert and the +spirit compassionately caught Philip away. The purest church and the +purest ray of sunshine are alike—they absorb the seven colors of the +spectrum. When the Creator flung the rainbow like a silken scarf over +the shoulder of the summer cloud, he drew his color-line. Pentecostal +blessings fell at Jerusalem, and have fallen ever since on the +cosmopolitan church.</p> + +<p>The second feature of this church that adapts it to ours field is the +open Bible. Every convert is armed with the shining sword—the sword of +the spirit, which is the word of God, like the sword in the hand of the +angel at Eden's gate, turning every way at once.</p> + +<p>You do not hear of immorality, gross and fearful, within the precincts +of our Congregational churches. You do not hear of our people walking up +the hills of the beatitudes over the broken tables of the law. The +written word, like the Incarnate, goes into our congregations and drives +out all the sellers of oxen and of doves. The Word, also, is the +protection of these people against their greatest foe of this day—the +encroaching power of the Church of Rome. Do you know that that ancient +foe of liberty is stalking all across the twelve States of the South? Do +you know what it means to have the Church of Rome take in hand these +people of lowly and of feeble intelligence? We do not have to crossover +to Austria or Italy in order to discern her aims, for the Nun of Kenmare +has alighted upon our shores, and her alarming words are running through +the land. Rome knows no color prejudice, and the foot of that great +despotic power can rest just as easily upon a skin that is black as upon +a neck that is of the purest alabaster. And the Congregational Church +down South is the only champion against this papal see, for she has an +aisle wide enough for five races of mankind to march up to her communion +table, while the sword of the Spirit guards her portals.</p> + +<p>Again, I wish you to notice this fact: That this Church which we are +planting is not only hiding a multitude of sins by saving these lowly +people, but it is serving the interests of the State as well. When we +remember that the polity of our church is a polity of liberty, that it +teaches that rights and duties go hand in hand, that it takes just as +much wisdom to elect the pastor of a church as the President of the +United States, we can see that the moral influence of this polity of +ours is serving the interests of our commonwealth. The Congregational +Church is carrying the Pilgrim idea into the soil of the Cavalier. +Straight University, Tillotson Institute, and these other schools, are +but the outcropping of that old stone down in an Eastern harbor that we +call Plymouth Rock. Down South are being planted those two principles +upon which the great superstructure of our liberty rests firm—a church +without a bishop and a state without a king. This is what +Congregationalism is carrying into that land long ruled by +aristocracies. It is giving these people who possess liberty the +knowledge of how to use it aright.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380"></a>[380]</span>Finally we not only hide a multitude of sins, we not only serve the +State, but we reach forth a long arm to save the world. Awhile ago I was +in the study of Dr. Ladd. There, spread before us, were relics of his +well remembered cruise along the Nile. There were implements for rude +tillage of the soil, there were swords and spears beaten into shape by +barbaric artisans, there were the cats and lizards and toads, objects of +worship by unnumbered millions. Thus were displayed in object lesson the +savagery and idolatry of one of the largest families of man. The Doctor +placed his finger on the map at Mendi Mission. "There," said he, "I saw +a row of missionaries graves. Their headstones sadly told the tale of +the pestilential land. Two months, three months, nine months they +survived, and then fell to rise no more. No white man can endure the +clime."</p> + +<p>Another time I was at a commencement of Fisk University. I saw Professor +Spence take two photographs, and hold them up before the gaze of five +hundred intelligent colored youths, whose faces fairly glowed as they +looked upon the well-remembered features of two of their alumni, who in +Western Africa, if I mistake not, are teaching the gospel of Christ and +enduring the rigors of the climate. And in the glowing features of these +five hundred folk, I saw the prophecy of a splendid recruiting of our +feeble forces in that continent which by and by shall not be dark. Ah, +this work is grand! We are putting the cross of Jesus into the dusky +hands that shall carry it not only to the land of the pyramids, not only +to the land of the ancient wall; but, as I believe, there will come a +day when some child now in our schools of the West, some Apache or +Dakotan, will rise with apostolic fervor, and going southward along the +isthmus and over the mountains will put this transfigured cross of +Christ into the pampas and the llanos through which the Amazon and the +Orinoco pour their majestic streams.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. D.M. FISK, D.D.</h3> + +<p>It may be fitting to add a few supplementary words corroborative of +the hopeful view taken in this report on the Mountain Work. At first +glance it does seem that this is a discouraging field. I need not +recapitulate what has been said in the report already before you. It +is sufficiently discouraging; the ignorance and poverty are not the +worst features. The position of the clergy in many sections—I am +happy to say not in all—is full of discouragement. The worst thing we +have to face is the apathy of the people. Their phrase, "We-uns never +asked you-uns to come here," is certainly most pathetic.</p> + +<p>What do we propose to do about it? What do we propose to do with more +than two millions for whom Christ died, American citizens, in the very +heart of our Nation, around whom the currents of commerce and industry +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381"></a>[381]</span>swirl every day? Shall the greatest tidal wave of all time pass them by, +and they not feel it for a moment? More than all, shall the great gospel +of God, which is life, and hope, and peace, and home, for us, be nothing +for them?</p> + +<p>I am happy to say that it is not all dark by any manner of means. Your +committee is hopeful, the members of this Association are hopeful, our +brethren on the frontier are hopeful. There are very many favorable +things, and one of the most favorable is their increasing numbers. Do we +stop to estimate what two millions of souls means? More than thirty +thousand cradles filled in a single year.</p> + +<p>These men respect the Bible. They feel a superstitious regard for it; +they are not infidel people. They have a simple, childlike faith, and +the Bible word is to them final. Many things that many of us have to +contend with, the brethren there do not meet I mean in the field of +infidelity.</p> + +<p>They have great respect for woman if she respects herself. I have the +statement of one of our workers in the South that a woman can go even +among these men when they are drunk, and if she respects herself and has +maintained her character she is perfectly safe in their midst.</p> + +<p>This same writer tells me of a young man who went out from one of their +schools, and kept school in a certain place during the winter, When he +returned, he said: "Nothing would tempt me to go back there again." Not +so with the young ladies. It is one of the most astonishing signs of the +times that really into the feeble hand of womanhood is given the key of +the situation. They respect these girls, they reverence them and give +them a place of dignity in their hearts. That makes it possible for +these women to do a large and splendid work in the South.</p> + +<p>Once let these girls that come under the influence of our Christian +Northern women who go there as teachers, and the graduates of these +various colleges and schools that we have planted, and are about to +plant in the South; once let common womanhood in the South that has been +so much under the heel of this oppression; once let girlhood feel the +power that has come go girlhood, that to them as young women in the +cradle of these hills, under this fair sky is given the power to turn +over in not less than thirty or forty years this whole country for God +and humanity, for enlightenment and for Christian peace;—once let that +idea get into the minds of these girls, and we have not the same problem +that we have to-day.</p> + +<p>There is good blood there as well. There is a man in Congress to-day, +honoring himself and his district and his nation, who went to school +there, and I know not for how many years wore but one garment. I call +that pretty good blood when from such circumstances a man can come up to +such a large place.</p> + +<p>There is a transition time with this whole section. New conditions are +being put upon them. They feel the outside movement of the world. A +friend of mine is now in the South who has brought up a large quantity +of lumber in a certain district, and when he finds the right man he will +plant <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382"></a>[382]</span>a school there. Coal and iron are being extensively worked. My +brother here (the Rev. S.E. Lathrop) tells me that near Cumberland Gap +four hundred houses have gone up within a very brief time, and over two +thousand workmen are pushing into a section not before opened. It will +not come in an hour or in a day; but by and by, when these men face the +new life of our times, when they have once felt its pressure, and the +tremendous disparity between their manner of living and the high kind of +life of Northern homes and Northern hearthstones, they will move, and a +change will come over the spirit of their dreams. Even now, the native +preachers, who have been so hostile to our work, are coming to these, +our pastors, and asking for light on the Bible. Furthermore, our pupils +are going out and organizing county institutes, and the work is going on +everywhere.</p> + +<p>There is a dark side to it, but I praise God there is a bright side. It +is like a dam. When the dam begins to go, it will go all at once. Youth +is on our side. In thirty years we shall not have the same problem we +have now—no, not in twenty years. Wealth is coming in. A large tract of +eleven thousand acres, containing some of the finest coal that the world +knows, is being developed. This means a great influx of population, and +this wealth is to be developed, and new material power is coming as an +auxiliary to our spiritual power. This wealth is being converted. A man +who five years ago was a godless man, and who owns to-day one-seventh of +these eleven thousand acres of coal lands, was converted. He was made a +Sunday-school Superintendent, but he could not say the Lord's Prayer; +yet he was determined that the Lord's Prayer should be repeated in that +school, and he hired a large number of small boys and gave them a dime +apiece and told them to learn the Lord's Prayer that week. They did so; +and when Sunday came, with a chorus to back him, he came on as a solo +performer.</p> + +<p>A dear girl of my own acquaintance dressed, in one morning, fifteen or +sixteen women and children. They came around her and felt her all over, +and wondered at the complexity of her garments. I speak of this thing +because it indicates that that old apathy is breaking up, and they are +coming to look at new things and feel a new interest in the life outside +of themselves. And as this same dear girl taught from thirty to fifty of +these women, they listened eagerly, and the tears rolled down their +cheeks, and they said to her, "Oh, come and tell us more about Jesus, +for we want to be different kind of women, different kind of mothers."</p> + +<p>There was one girl, coarse enough in fiber, heavy enough in build, gross +enough in appearance, who came out to one of our commencements, and went +back with the arrow in her heart, saying, "I would give all the world if +I had it, if I could write a piece and git up thar and read it like +them." She went home determined she would go to college. She was a large +girl, fifteen years old, yet did not know a single letter. She walked +fifty miles nearly, and came and said to the college president that she +wanted to work for her board, so that she could enter the school. What +could she do? He <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383"></a>[383]</span>found that really she was incapacitated for doing +anything; but she said, "I can hoe corn like a nigger." Finally she was +set at some sort of work, and that girl, after three or four years, went +out as a school teacher into a district where young men dared not go, +where her eyes were blistered with the sights she saw—men shot down +before her face and eyes by the whisky distillers—and she was asked to +organize a Sunday-school there. When any one starts a Sunday-school he +is expected to preach, and so that girl had to become a preacher, and +to-day she is preaching the gospel of God and spreading the work there. +And yet she came from one of the very humblest classes.</p> + +<p>There is a peaceful invasion of this people by themselves. This mission +of the people to themselves is one of the most hopeful things about this +work. And when they realize that they have a mission, Pauline in spirit, +unto their own people, then victory shall come to us.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER, D.D.</h3> + +<p>This Indian problem has been largely settled on its civil side. For many +years the friends of the Indians have been consulting together, and have +done their utmost to influence public opinion. And the Government has +heeded the call—as it always does—of a widely extended and wise public +sentiment; and, in consequence, our policy with regard to the Indian has +been very largely re-shaped. To-day, by reason of the Dawes Bill, land +is open to the Indians in severalty. There is a fair degree of law +secured for the Indians. The great questions pertaining to their outward +circumstances are under happy prospect of adjustment.</p> + +<p>But, this being the fact, it simply increases the necessity laid upon us +to meet the requirements of the present day. The door is open for the +Indian to become a citizen; and in this land, whenever any man receives +the privileges of citizenship, it is incumbent upon us to see to it that +he is fitted for that sacred obligation by the church and by the school.</p> + +<p>This is a necessity of our republic which we have recognized from our +earliest day. When our fathers came to this land, they located side by +side the school house and the church; and, wherever we have sought to +open the privileges of the suffrage, and the dignities, and honors, and +joys of citizenship, to any class of people among us, we have always +felt it to be an imperative necessity to see to it that they had both +these sacred training schools, the educational institution and the +religious institution, side by side.</p> + +<p>Now to-day we have unusual opportunities. Everything seems to be coming +to a focus in regard to our work for the Indians. Never has the time +been so auspicious as it is to-day. Never have there been so many things +combining to show to us that if we are to improve the opportunity God +gives us to care for the Indian—this man who held this land before we +came to it and from whom we have taken our possession—we must do <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384"></a>[384]</span>it +to-day. There are other great needs about us, other races and other +classes and other conditions; but there is no other class appealing so +intensely to the sympathies of all our people to-day, as is the Indian. +This is one great explanation of the remarkable increase of the work of +this Association among the Indians. How did it ever spring from an +expenditure of $11,000 annually to $52,000, as it is to-day? Partly +because the Government has been willing to aid, but still more because +our people throughout the land have been intensely interested in the +Indian and have been glad to help him. They have said by their gifts +that now is the time, and we must leap to improve this opportunity or +else it will slip away from us forever.</p> + +<p>It is the conviction of your committee—and I can voice it most +perfectly—that we must improve this opportunity before it is gone, and +that this people who have long suffered at the hands of their white +brethren have a claim to our earnest Christian sympathy and to our +heartiest effort to put them upon their feet. They are more than ready, +they are anxious for our aid, they are crying to us for help.</p> + +<p>Now, let me say that the American Missionary Association has always felt +the importance of working in evangelistic lines. It would be nothing if +it had not the church before it as an incentive. It works primarily +through the school; but always with the thought that the school is +secondary, and that the church is the one great aim before it. And +unless this incentive were before it, unless it recognized that its work +was to bring men to Christ, and to bind them together in Christian +churches, there would be but little to call for the great self-denials +of Christian workers in the field and many Christian givers in the +country at large. It is this thought that has ever been held up before +it—the thought that the church and the school go together, and that the +school is simply the handmaid of the church. We recognize the fact that +in Congregationalism especially, out of all forms of religious belief, +we cannot hope to make men earnest, effective Christians, caring for +themselves, managing their own affairs independently, and having in them +the heart to go out and work, unless we cultivate their minds as well. +And so this Association has sought, and this body of Christians that +represent the Association has sought, by gifts and by teaching, to +develop the thought that there always should be an educational work +going forward that there may be something to build upon. Christianity +needs education in order to give it its largest power.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. THOMAS L. RIGGS.</h3> + +<p>It was said of Dr. Williamson by an old Indian that he had an Indian +heart. I, too, have an Indian heart, and I can lay claim to that +possession as but few can. It would take but a very little while to go +from here into the very midst of our present Indian field. It took my +father and Dr. Williamson, when they first entered the field, some six +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385"></a>[385]</span>months to reach it. I could start to-morrow morning, and taking the cars +in this city, and reaching Pierre by the following night, could be +farther off by Saturday, farther from the border of the mission field, +than my father and Dr. Williamson could after they had travelled six +months.</p> + +<p>I would like to invite you to go with me on a tour of inspection of the +mission field itself. I would take my two ponies and drive out to the +Cheyenne River, and take you to one of our out-stations, and show you +something of the influences at work in the field to-day. As we went up +the valley, we would see the Indian village located there, and in the +midst, on a rising piece of ground, the mission station. Over some of +the houses we would see a red flag flying. That is a prayer, a votive +offering; there are sick in that house, and that is a prayer to the gods +that healing may come, and that death may be kept from them. Over on the +right we would see the dance-house—a great octagonal house with an open +roof, in which the Indians gather night after night to dance to the +monotonous beating of the drum. That is a very common sound out in the +Indian villages, bringing to us always that thought of slavery to evil. +As we go up to the station itself, we would see something more of the +work than you have as yet been able to see. If it be on the Sabbath, as +we go in we would see a young man there, with his audience before him, +not a very large audience—old men, old women, boys and girls—gathered +on the rough benches, and very much as they are in their own homes. Some +of the old women have their hair down over their faces, the boys with +dirty hands, old men with their dirty blankets, and yet they are +gathered around there to hear the word of life. The preacher, as he +stands before them, tells them of God's wonderful love, and takes as his +text that most wonderful verse in the Bible, "God so loved the world +that he gave his only begotten Son."</p> + +<p>Then, as you look at the man who is preaching there, you would hardly +recognize in him one who thirteen years ago was a savage, a painted +Indian. As I look at him it seems a most wonderful thing that such a +change has taken place. I knew him as a savage; a splendid fellow he +was, and he is now a more splendid man than ever he was a savage; and he +is teaching the gospel of Christ to his own people. I have been out +there seventeen years, and if there were not another result to show for +those seventeen years of work than the lifting up of this Clarence Ward, +and making of him a man in Christ Jesus, I should be abundantly +satisfied.</p> + +<p>There is another influence of which I would speak, the influence of the +home. Here in our happy homes we know but very little of what that means +to the Indian. An Indian has no home, in our sense of the word. Some +years ago I went with a party of Indians 175 miles west of the Missouri +River in the middle of winter. We climbed a mountain and looked away to +the east. We could see, I should think, 150 miles, and the Indian as he +sat there on the edge of a rock, covered his head up in a blanket <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386"></a>[386]</span>and +cried. Said he: "This is my country, and we have had to leave it." That +was his idea of home—such a barren stretch as that, the snow glistening +in the sunlight. The Dakota Indian lives in a region, not in a place. +The Christian home coming into the midst of a village carries there an +ideal of which the Indian knows nothing, and he is taught by the power +of example day after day. The Christian woman in that home keeps her +house clean, keeps her children clean, and stands there as a persistent +example of the power of the gospel of soap, just as the man himself +there who has become a Christian no longer steals horses. A party going +out into an enemy's country would go as often for the sake of bringing +back stolen horses, as they would for scalps. The man who has become a +Christian is recognized at once as shut out from that privilege.</p> + +<p>Reference has been made to the opening up of the reservation, and the +crisis is now upon us in connection with our Indian work. We have eleven +million acres of land there just west of the Missouri River to be thrown +open for settlement. Do you know what that means? Were any of you down +at Oklahoma this last season? It means the rush of a swarm of people, +good, bad and indifferent—chiefly bad and indifferent—and these +settlers will crowd themselves in as a wedge between the two divisions +of the Indian reservation, and we shall have Indians both to the north +and to the south. They will be exposed to influences from which they +have been kept as yet; influences which will tend to uplift in the +outcome, as well as to degrade. I thank God for it. I thank God that he +is bringing the white man into the midst of the Indian country. It may +seem that this is a heroic remedy. So it is, but it is time for heroic +remedies. We need to meet the question as it comes to us to-day. There +is a ranchman out on Bad River, who tells me that there is no such thing +as an Indian question. "Why," said I, "what are you talking about?" +"There is no such thing," said he. I asked him how he explained it. "The +simple thing to do is just to treat them as men, and that will be all +there is to it. That will settle it, and there will be no such thing as +an Indian question." Treat them as men and make Christians of them, and +we will settle the whole thing.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D.</h3> + +<p>Referring to Dr. Goodwin's powerful address, I find myself transported +again to China; but the fact recurs to my mind that this is not a +foreign missionary society, but a home missionary one, and what we have +to do is to open our minds to the conviction that it is possible to do +at home plenty of work for the Chinaman. I am glad to give a little +personal testimony because what we need most of all is to be convinced +of the necessity to give time and strength and labor to win the +individual Chinaman to Christ. Not very long ago there came to my +knowledge in St. Louis an ordinary Chinaman, comparatively a young man. +He joined our church and I knew <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387"></a>[387]</span>he desired to be recognized as a +Christian man. About a year before, he had been a member of a +Sunday-school where ladies were teaching Chinese. Before that our +newspapers had created great outcry about a case of leprosy in the city. +This Chinaman appeared at my house in great trepidation. He had been two +or three years in this country, and had been saving his money in order +to go back and see his mother's face before she would die, and he hoped +to be able to return to China in the following fall. He had learned that +there was a Chinaman, unknown to him, lying ill in a little laundry, of +a disease of which nothing was known, without friends and without care. +He took care of this man, leaving his own work for the purpose, and at +length he came to me asking where he could get a physician to attend the +patient. I gave him a note to one of the best physicians in my own +church, who went at once and saw the man, and he seeing it was a strange +form of disease, went to a specialist of skin diseases, who had the man +brought to a hospital in order to watch his disease. Rumors of this +reaching the newspapers, the reporters thought it a good opportunity to +make a story about leprosy, giving the number and street of an imaginary +laundry in the heart of the city. Instantly the patronage of the Chinese +laundries stopped. My Chinese friend was in the greatest distress about +it, and particularly about me, lest I should think he had brought the +contagious disease to my house. I could hardly persuade him to enter, +and then he told me there was no truth in the story of the newspapers, +and asked what he should do. What was the result of the story? The +Chinaman took care of his friend in the house and in the hospital, +paying considerable for his care, and when he recovered sent him to San +Francisco—in fact, spent about $180 on him, the whole sum he had saved +to take himself home to his mother, and he did this for a man who was as +utterly unknown to him as to you or me. He also came to me with a $10 +bill to pay the doctor, saying it was not enough, but it was all the +money he had, and he would add to it by and by. All we want is testimony +as to the character of the Chinese. Here was a man not converted by +Moody or by any service, but by the ministry of an unknown Sunday-school +teacher; as the result of that simple agency he found a charity so +Christ-like as to do work like this. That little Chinaman brought to me +some of his companions, asking me to do something to help them to be +Christians, and as the result of his work a large Sunday-school is +to-day in operation. There is abundance of such testimony, I believe, to +be furnished throughout our land, which we should have before our heart as +an answer to the anti-Chinese mania which now and then sweeps over this +country. Help us to carry the gospel to these men of unmeasured +possibilities, whom God in his mercy has brought across the seas to +plead at our doors.</p> + +<p>This audience can help the Chinese in a better way than giving them +money. That Chinaman was asked in my house the other day how many <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388"></a>[388]</span>hours +he slept, and he said, "Two or three." "Are you ever troubled by +hoodlums?" "Yes, every day. They break the windows. Last week they broke +into my laundry and stole five bundles of clothes, for which I had to +pay customers $20." "Do you get no protection from the police?" I asked +him. He shook his head—yes, sometimes, but they were no good. The +Chinese have the same right to life and liberty that we have, and if we +get them that, they'll get the money fast enough themselves. We owe it +to the Chinese that they get protection.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> + +<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. E.P. GOODWIN, D.D.</h3> + +<p>I rejoice that I can lift my voice at least in a word of commendation, +if such a word seem in any sense to be needed, in the furtherance of +this particular kind of work. I remind myself sometimes that this very +tone of apology is a tone that ought to set some of us, as ministers and +as brethren, to reconsidering our conception of the gospel. Why, +beloved, suppose it were an admitted fact that for the next hundred +years not a solitary Chinaman would be converted. What then? Do you +imagine that that fact would absolve us from allegiance to the commands +of the Lord Jesus Christ? You will remind yourselves—I am sure I remind +myself often—that in respect to our Christian work, the breadth of it +and the particular departments of it, we have absolutely no option +whatsoever: that when our Master said to his disciples, "Go ye into all +the world and preach the gospel to every creature," he made no exception +of those that might have almond eyes and yellow faces, nor of those that +might have black skins and woolly hair; that he took in, in that wide +sweep of his omniscient vision, every nation and kindred under the whole +sky, and that should exist until the kingdom itself should come.</p> + +<p>If it could be demonstrated that it required ten times as much work and +ten times as much money to convert the Chinaman as anybody else, then +all the more because of degradation and superstition and idolatry and +hardness of heart—all the more must I storm the Gibraltar of that +paganism. The Master's principle seemed to be, "Give ye them to eat." +The fact of hunger is what lays the law upon the hearts of the +disciples; and by so much as men are more hungered—if there be one +nation more so than another—by so much as they are nearer to starving +for the bread of life, by so much the more are your heart and my heart +called upon in the name and in the sympathy of Jesus Christ, to respond +to that cause. Those disciples of that early day might just as well have +said, "Master, we can not feed all these ten thousand. We will pick out +those around us, the nearest at hand. We won't touch that set of lepers +just over there from Capernaum; we won't have anything to do with that +other set of outcasts and vagabonds drifted in here, some of them from +Samaria; we will have nothing <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389" id="Page_389"></a>[389]</span>whatever to do with these wretches from +Chorazin—gamblers and abandoned people of every sort."</p> + +<p>What do you think would have been his response to that sort of argument? +I think if Peter had given him any such plea as that it would have cut +him off hopelessly from any apostleship. There would have been a new +band of apostles that would have been instituted then and there that +were willing to take the Master's command, take Him as responsible for +the authority and for the result. They knew better; they knew Him +better; and though they had their little scant loaves that would not +give a quarter of a crumb apiece to the great multitude, they said: +"That is not our responsibility; ours is to obey. It is His to furnish +when the resources fail." Brethren, that is my theory of missions.</p> + +<p>Do you remember the little anecdote about Francis Xavier, that before he +went abroad as a missionary to China, while he was sleeping with his +room-mate one night, he startled him by rising in his sleep and throwing +out his arms with great urgency, as he said, "Yet more, oh, my God, yet +more!" His comrade wakened him and asked him what he meant. "Why," said +he, "I was having a vision of things in the East. I was seeing +missionaries tortured; some of them were being burned, some of them were +having their flesh torn from their bodies, and in many ways they seemed +to be suffering in their testimony for Christ's sake. And as I looked, +the tears came to my eyes, and a voice said to me, 'That is what it will +cost you if you go on this missionary tour. Are you willing to take the +cost?' And I said, 'Oh, Lord Jesus; yet more, yet more, if I may win +these perishing souls.'"</p> + +<p>Brethren, it is the call of the hour. These people may become, in my +judgment, pre-eminently the missionary people. They have been called the +Yankees of the Orient. They are scattered every whither, in every +quarter of the world. I think it ought to shame us to have less +enthusiasm for these for whom Christ died than they of the Romish church +in the palmiest days of its missionary zeal. God help us that we may +stand true upon the Pacific coast and all through our land, and that for +every missionary church abroad there may be a score and a hundred. Dr. +Williams said, after thirty years' knowledge of the Chinese, that we +might evangelize China from one end of the empire to the other in half a +century if we were in earnest. God help us that we may labor and pray +for the coming of such a day.</p> + +<p>Now I believe this: That, so far as the facts go, there is just as large +a percentage of results to be shown for work among the Chinese as for +work anywhere. Take it in our city, among some of the Chinese schools; +take it in San Francisco, take it in China itself. I received on +Saturday last a letter from Mr. Gray, of Hong-Kong, speaking of a young +man who had gone out from our church as his assistant in the work there. +Said he to me: "He is one of the most valuable helpers I could have. He +not only <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390"></a>[390]</span>stands fast by his work, but he also seems to have spiritual +discernment to meet the peculiar difficulties we have to encounter, and +there are plenty of them. Here is a man, for instance, who says he would +whip his wife to death if he should hear of her accepting Christ. There +is another, a mother, who would let her child starve if she thought it +was being taught the gospel of Jesus Christ. But among this people there +is no more successful laborer that I know of than Sui Chung." I knew him +well. He came into our Chinese Sunday-school, which is held every +Sunday afternoon. I remember him distinctly, as giving, so far as I +could see, clear evidence of being born of the Spirit. And I bear +testimony to these young men now in my church—there are ten or a +dozen of them—that, so far as I know them and so far as I have been +able to talk with them in imperfect English or through Chinese +interpreters, their Christian experience is as satisfactory as that of +any others. Nay, I will say more than that. I will venture to say that +the Chinese brethren in my church are more earnest. They sustain a +Chinese prayer-meeting regularly every Sunday of their own accord in +their own language, and have kept it up ever since there were enough +of them to be united together. I frequently look in and talk with +them; and there is one thing about these Chinese that I greatly +respect—I never saw them pull out their watches while I was speaking +to them. I never saw any of them going to sleep; I never saw a look in +the face of one of them which indicated that he was not profoundly +interested. I was in their meeting last Sunday, and I told them about +Sui Chung. Most of these Chinese can read. Some of them are very +fluent talkers, and some are very intelligent. I suppose we have a +thousand or fifteen hundred in this city, and a very large proportion +of them, they tell me, can read the Chinese Bible.</p> + +<p>Now, I have great respect for this people, if for nothing more than for +their history. We have a petty hundred years of history. How many +hundred have they? Any nation that can hold itself together for 4,000 +years—or shall I say for more?—and that to-day constitutes nearly +one-quarter of the population of the earth, certainly deserves our +respect. Any people that can take our own handicrafts and beat us at +them—and they will do it in a good many directions, and make money, +even though you may disapprove of their way of living—deserve our +respect. Any people that can furnish diplomates fitted to stand side by +side with Bismarck and Gladstone, and our own embassadors say that they +can, certainly deserve our respect.</p> + +<p>One thing more they desire of the Christian church, if it were only a +debt to be paid. I insist upon it, brethren, that at least Christian +England and Christian America ought to pay back to them in missionary +moneys at least an amount equal to that of which we have robbed them by +the infamous opium traffic, and to-day it is people from Christian +lands, more than anything else, who are furnishing the difficulties in +the way of the introduction of the gospel abroad.</p> + +<hr style='width: 45%;' /> +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391"></a>[391]</span> +<h3>ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT ALBERT SALISBURY.</h3> + +<p>There are values even in this world for which we have no expression, for +which we have no definite standard, and of which we have no very clear +comprehension. They are values, none the less. But there is one standard +of value of which I think it may be safely said the American people have +come into a very clear comprehension, that is, of the weight of the +working power of a dollar.</p> + +<p>Most of us know it by pretty thorough experience. We know what a dollar +costs, how hard it is to get, how hard it is to keep, how little we are +liable to receive for it when it goes. And, let me say it, I believe +there are no people on this Western Continent who have any more exact, +definite, clearly defined comprehension of what a dollar is, what it +will do, and what it will not do, than the managers of our missionary +enterprises.</p> + +<p>Then, it is sometimes thought and sometimes said that these men who +conduct church work and missionary work do not know much about dollars; +that a dollar, a thousand dollars, or a million dollars, is a very +indefinite thing; and that they ask for a million dollars, or half a +million dollars, with a great deal of nonchalance, as if it were merely +a matter of asking. It is not so. When this Finance Committee indorse +the recommendation of the National Council that half a million of +dollars be raised for the work of this Association during the coming +year, they do it from a business point of view, and when the officers +and managers of this Association second this demand, they know what it +means. They know better than anybody else in the world knows how hard it +is to get half a million of dollars. For some years I went up and down +through the South and West in the service of this Association. I went in +and out of the rooms at No. 56 Reade Street, New York, and I must have +been very dull not to know pretty well the inside workings of this +Association. I have been among workers on the field. I know how closely +everything is reckoned, how carefully every penny is spent; and I know +how the demands of the work and the needs press upon the workers in the +field, so that they look back to those rooms in New York with the +feeling that somehow there is not a very great deal of liberality there, +that those officers pare very closely. But these workers in the field +have no such experience after all as the officers there at the centre of +things. Those members of the Executive Committee, those Secretaries and +the Treasurer, sitting there together, and facing the demands of the old +work and the new, have rolled upon them every day a sense of the value +of money and of the need of economy such as even the workers in the +field can not comprehend. I have been there, I am now outside, and I am +free to say whatever I please; and I make bold to say to you here that +the work which is alive and growing must have the most money. Increased +demands must cost. It is a law of nature. Now, then, when this Finance +Committee come forward to indorse this recommendation that <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392"></a>[392]</span>$500,000 +instead of $375,000 be raised for the coming year, they do not at all +reach the measure of the need.</p> + +<p>There is only one thing necessary to get this money and more. It is a +pretty comprehensive thing. If upon the members of our churches in this +land as clear a sense of the need of what ought to be done and can be +done could be brought as comes to those in contact with the work, the +money would be forthcoming. How to make our people realize the facts in +this matter is the problem. Money will come when our people know how +much it is needed, how profitably it is spent, and how grandly it pays +dividends.</p> + +<hr style='width: 65%;' /> + +<h2><a name="ADDRESS_OF_REV_WM_M_TAYLOR" id="ADDRESS_OF_REV_WM_M_TAYLOR"></a>ADDRESS OF REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.</h2> + +<p>Last Wednesday evening at the Prayer and Conference Meeting of the +Broadway Tabernacle, one of the office-bearers of the church put this +question to me: "Can we hope to be instrumental in the conversion of the +Jews, so long as the present prejudice against God's ancient people +exists among us?" And that inquiry, taken in connection with the fact +that the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association was to be +held here this week, led me to examine the Word of God, that I might +discover what incidental light is thrown on the subject of pride of race +by its histories and other contents, and I mean to-night to put the +result of my examination before you.</p> + +<p>The first and most striking instance of its manifestation which we come +upon in Scripture is the treatment given by the Egyptians to the +Israelites. "Every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians," so +they counted themselves superior to the Hebrews, and subjected them to +the greatest indignities, grinding them under the harshest oppression, +and exacting from them, by the lash of the task-master, the most arduous +labor. But mark how their pride was rebuked and their cruelty punished, +under the moral and retributive government of God. Their land was +desolated by a series of plagues culminating in the death of the +first-born, and the people whom they had oppressed made their escape +from the most powerful empire then existing in the world, without +themselves striking a single blow. The Lord fought for them. Each of +these ten plagues was a Divine protest against that national pride which +arrogated to itself the exclusive right to power, privilege, immunity +and possession, and which met its merited punishment that day, when "the +Lord saved Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the +Egyptians dead upon the seashore."</p> + +<p>But the mention of the Hebrews in this connection may seem to some to be +most inappropriate. Were not they, it may be asked, virtually created +into a separate and exclusive nation, and taught to look upon themselves +as God's peculiar people? Did not they become proverbial for their pride +of race, and for saying on every occasion, "We have Abraham to our +father," and were they not especially the Pharisees among the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393"></a>[393]</span>nations? +Now it must be confessed that all these questions must be answered in +the affirmative, but when we widen our view and take into consideration +the great purpose of God in the formation and conservation of the Hebrew +commonwealth, we may see reason somewhat to modify our opinion. For the +settlement of the Jews in Canaan and their restriction within its limits +were not ends in themselves, but only means for the attainment of higher +ends which were to affect the moral and spiritual condition of "all +people that on earth do dwell." The promise made to Abraham was in this +wise: "In thee and in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be +blessed;" and it was for the purpose of securing the fulfilment of the +latter part of that promise that a special and peculiar hedge was +planted around the vine which God had brought out of Egypt. It was not +meant to be a permanent arrangement, but was designed merely for a +temporary emergency, until, as Paul has said, "the Seed should come" to +bless the world with his great salvation. It cannot, therefore, be +quoted as furnishing a universal example, or as giving any divine +approval to that pride of race of which we have been speaking. Moreover, +even when the Hebrews were selected by God for this purpose, they were +told over and over again that they were not chosen for anything in +themselves, and that they had no reason to plume themselves on the fact +that they were chosen. And when they degenerated into self-conceit on +the ground of their having been so highly privileged, they were finally +cast out of the land of promise. Nor is this all. In the system under +which they were placed by Moses, they were taught to look with +kindliness on those who came to sojourn among them, of whatever race +they might be. They were not, indeed, to be a missionary people, or to +seek to induce others to settle among them, but if others came to dwell +beside them, hear how they were to treat them: "Thou shalt neither vex a +stranger nor oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." +"And if a stranger sojourn with thee in the land, ye shall not vex him. +But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born +among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in +the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Love ye therefore the +stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus xxii. 21; +Levit. xix. 33; xxv. 35; Deut. x. 19). Lay these commands alongside of +recent legislation among ourselves with reference to the Chinese, and +then see what God must think of that blot upon our statute book in this +age of our boasted enlightenment.</p> + +<p>Take, again, the account of the singular retribution that came upon the +people in the days of David because of Saul's treatment of the +Gibeonites. These aborigines belonged to the ancient Canaanitish tribes, +and were so astute as to impose even upon Joshua, and to obtain from him +a treaty on false pretenses. Still an agreement was made with them on +the terms that they should be permitted to live in the land, but that +they should be "hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of the +Lord." This contract <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394"></a>[394]</span>was faithfully observed on both sides until the +days of Saul, who sought to slay them "in his zeal to the children of +Israel and Judah." And what was the result? A famine lasting for three +years, which was only removed at last by the giving up, according to the +ancient practices of the Gibeonites, of seven of Saul's sons for +execution. Now there is much in that old history that is difficult for +us at this distance of time, and ignorant as we are of the customs that +prevailed among these tribes, to understand. But no one of us can read +it without being reminded of our treatment of the Indian tribes that +linger among us still. Have we not broken almost every treaty that we +ever made with them? Have we not said, unpityingly regarding them, that +their destruction before the advance of civilization is inevitable? And +have we not forgotten that the God of the Gibeonites lives to be the +avenger of the Indians? If the hewers of wood and drawers of water were +not beneath his notice long ago, think you he does not see and chronicle +the wrongs of the Indians to-day, and shall not he render to every man +according to his works?</p> + +<p>Before passing from the Old Testament to the New, I merely mention the +fact that among the ancestors of the Lord Jesus Christ we find two +belonging to alien races, namely, Rahab of Jericho, and Ruth the +Moabitess, whose very presence in that noble line is a prophecy of the +glorious truth that the Son of David was to be also the Son of man, the +Saviour of sinners of every name and nation, the kinsman of all races, +the brother of humanity, and that as he represents them all in his +priestly intercession yonder, so in each of them we may see a +representative of him here and now upon the earth.</p> + +<p>But now what may we learn from Christ himself in the New Testament? It +is true that his personal ministry in the world was almost entirely +confined to the Jews. It had to be so limited at first, if his gospel +was to gather force for its triumphant march over the world at a later +day; but even during his life in the world he came repeatedly in contact +with men and women of races other than that of the Jews, and always in +such a way as to show his sympathy with them and love toward them. I +remind you of his long and earnest conversation with the woman of +Samaria, at the well of Sychar, and of the fact that she was a +descendant of that mixed nationality which sprung from the amalgam of +those heathen colonists that were sent by the King of Assyria to take +the places left vacant by the ten tribes whom he had carried away +captive. I recall to your recollection, too, his eulogy on the Roman +centurion, and his constant exposure of the contemptuousness of the +Pharisees in their attitude not only toward the publicans and sinners of +their own nation, but also toward Gentiles of every description. Think +of his dealing with the Syrophœnician woman. She was a Canaanite of the +old race, and, though at first he seemed to turn her away, yet +ultimately he gave her all she asked and more: and even his apparently +abrupt treatment of her in the beginning, if I read the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395"></a>[395]</span>history aright, +was meant to be an exposure and condemnation of the feelings commonly +cherished toward those of her nation by the Jews of his day. No doubt it +tested and strengthened her own faith. But we must not forget that the +whole conversation with her was meant to teach a lesson to his disciples +also. It was part of their training for their future life work. It was a +portion of their preparation for carrying his gospel to all nations. And +so he spoke out their own thoughts about the women, holding up a mirror +before them in which they might see themselves, when he said, "It is not +meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs;" and he +ultimately showed them that she was better far than many who would have +spurned her from their presence. So from the kindness showed to aliens +by the Lord himself, we may learn not only to beware of this leaven of +the Pharisees, but also to deal kindly and truly with men of every race, +and make them sharers with us in the blessings of the gospel.</p> + +<p>But thus far we have not come upon any case where the difference was one +not only of race but of color. Even here, however, we are not without +scriptural instances to guide us. You remember that of Ebed-melech, the +Ethiopian. Jeremiah was, by the cruelty of his enemies, imprisoned in a +dungeon or water tank, and was sunk in the mire at the bottom. +Ebed-melech, learning his condition, went and informed King Zedekiah of +the real state of the case, and obtained a command to take an escort of +thirty men with him and deliver him from the dungeon lest he should die. +So with great tenderness the Ethiopian threw down rags to put under the +ropes which he let down, and by which he was to soften the pressures of +the cords under his arms as they drew him up therewith from his filthy +prison; and after they had thus delivered him there came to the prophet +this message of God concerning him; "Go and speak to Ebed-melech, the +Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: +Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; +and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee. But I will +deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord; and thou shalt not be given +into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. For I will surely +deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall +be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith +the Lord." Here we have a kindness done by a colored man to Jeremiah, +and a message sent from God to the colored man acknowledging and +rewarding that kindness; but O! how many debts of that sort owed by men +among ourselves to the colored people have been forgotten or repudiated! +In the agony of the war, colored people fought in the ranks of the +Northern armies; and I have heard those who have belonged to the +Confederate side declare with tears in their eyes that the faithful +watch kept by their colored servants over their wives and families while +they were absent with the troops was beyond all praise. And yet in these +days we read every now and then of colored people shot down like dogs on +the slightest provocation, and prevented on the merest pretext from +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396"></a>[396]</span>exercising the rights of citizens of this free Republic, and men look on +and do nothing. But God may say something by and by, and when he speaks +men's ears shall tingle! We have another illustration of God's treatment +of a colored man in the case of the Ethiopian treasurer. He was +returning from Jerusalem, where he had been at one of the great annual +Jewish feasts, and as he was riding in his chariot he was reading aloud +to himself the book of the prophet Isaiah, when the evangelist Philip, +specially sent thither for the purpose by God's Spirit, addressed him, +and on being asked to come into the carriage with him expounded to him +the meaning of the passage which he was reading, and preached the gospel +from it unto him with such good effect that he was forthwith baptized on +the confession of his faith, and afterward went on his way rejoicing to +found that Ethiopian church which claims to this day to be one of the +most ancient Christian churches in the world. He was a man, for he was +moved by the truth as you and I have been, and he became a +Christian—"the highest style of man"—to show us that, as Peter said, +"In every nation they that fear God and work righteousness are accepted +of him." That which is highest in any man is his appreciation and +acceptance of the gospel! of Christ, and wherever we see that +appreciation we have not only a fellow man but a brother Christian, to +be treated by us as Paul requested Philemon to treat Onesimus—as "a +brother beloved." Nor let any one suppose that there is a single race +upon the earth that can not be so transformed and gladdened as this +Ethiopian was. Even Charles Darwin declared that after the Patagonians +it could not be said that any race is too degraded for the gospel to +elevate, and so he gave new emphasis, unwittingly, perhaps, but, if so, +all the more strongly, to the words addressed to Peter on the housetop: +"What God hath cleansed that call not thou common;" or those of Paul in +one of his epistles: "For there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is +neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all +one in Christ Jesus."</p> + +<p>This topic is at present greatly occupying the attention of the +Christian churches in our land. It was before the General Assembly of +the Presbyterian Church in May last, and has been again discussed at the +meeting of the Council of Congregational churches in Worcester three +weeks ago, and in the Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal +Church, which has just closed its sessions in New York. I will not seek +to criticise or to characterize the decisions at which these bodies have +arrived, save to say that in my judgment the Presbyterian Assembly faced +the difficulty more thoroughly, and disposed of it more courageously, +than either of the others. But I will say that there is only one +solution of a question of this sort. Every Christian, when he comes to +think on it seriously, must feel that to be the case. No compromise will +satisfy either party to it or will please God, and any settlement to be +permanent must be in harmony with the inspired statement that "God hath +made of one blood all the nations that dwell upon the face of the +earth." But such a result can not be <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_397" id="Page_397"></a>[397]</span>brought about either in the state +or in the churches merely by legislation. You can not compel either by +physical or moral constraint the different races to meet on terms of +social equality. No doubt you can, and you ought to see to it, that men +of all races stand precisely on the same platform before the law and +have the same protection from the law. But to get rid of a prejudice you +must take a different method. You can not uproot that all at once. The +removal of that must be the result of education and of spiritual growth. +But when I speak of education I must add that it is not the colored +people alone that need to be educated here. The white people of all our +cities, whether North or South, require education as well. They need to +be taught that the Negro is a man, for at bottom that is not more than +half believed by multitudes. They need to be taught that the Negro may +become a Christian, and that there are possibilities of Christian +missionary enterprise in his race that are absolutely incalculable. They +need to be taught to look upon the different races of Indians, Chinese +and Africans among us as dignified and ennobled by Christ's incarnation, +and as purchased by his sacrificial blood equally with themselves. They +need to look upon the Christianized among them as brethren in Christ, +and then the rest will come of itself.</p> + +<p>There has been great progress in these recent years toward the result of +which I speak. The present agitation concerning the color-line, as it is +called, is itself an indication of progress, and the day assuredly will +dawn when men of all nationalities and names shall come from the East +and from the West, from the North and from the South, and sit down with +Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob in the kingdom of our Father. But if +we as a Nation cultivate the spirit of the Pharisees, and continue to +despise those who are "guilty of a skin not colored like our own," we +may be sure that he who visited the Hebrew nation for their treatment of +the Gibeonites will send also some nemesis on us.</p> + +<p>I can not but feel, beloved brethren, that in these meetings which +to-night come to a close, something has been done to help forward that +result which under the guidance of the Scriptures we all believe to be +the right one. We have had a series of most delightful conferences. Now +let us go back to our homes determined to take the seminal truths which +have been presented to us here, and scatter them wherever we are called +to labor. The seed may seem to be but a handful, and the soil may seem +unpromising as the rocky mountain tops—but be sure the result will be a +harvest that will shake like the cedars of Lebanon. And though it may +seem a little incongruous to quote from the Scottish poet—would that +everything he wrote were of as pure and lofty an inspiration—I will +venture to conclude with his well-known lines:</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i1">"Then let us pray that come it may,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">As come it will for a' that,<br /></span> +<span class="i1">That man to man the world over<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Shall brithers be for a' that."<br /></span> +</div></div> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_398" id="Page_398"></a>[398]</span> +<h2><a name="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK" id="BUREAU_OF_WOMANS_WORK"></a>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK</h2> + +<h4>MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</h4> + +<p>The Annual Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American +Missionary Association, held on Thursday afternoon in the church during +the session of the business meeting in the chapel, was one of unusual +interest. Following the Report of the Secretary, there were interesting +addresses by missionaries, and a very effective address by Mrs. Geo. M. +Lane, of Detroit, Michigan, who presided.</p> + +<p>The Report and some of the addresses will be published in separate +leaflets, and may be had by application to Miss Emerson at 56 Reade St.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2><a name="REPORT_OF_SECRETARY" id="REPORT_OF_SECRETARY"></a>REPORT OF SECRETARY.</h2> + +<p>A look backward over the twelve months since our last annual gathering +reveals much of interest and encouragement, that should fill our hearts +with gratitude that our woman's work has had such an influence in +bringing light and gladness to thousands of women and children, whose +lives have been cast in the dark portions of our Christian land. So +large an element of Woman's Work enters into the plan upon which the +field of the American Missionary Association is operated, and it is so +interwoven with the entire structure of its missions, that any report of +it as separate and distinct can be only partial. And yet with the more +systematic organization of woman's work in the raising of funds, we have +been able to assign special woman's work on mission ground, with most +satisfactory results, for to have a particular school or missionary has +stimulated the givers, and has brought courage and comfort to the +missionaries who have been thus sustained.</p> + +<p>Our Woman's Work. What is it? Whom is it for? Who should do it?</p> + +<p>What is it? It is to take to heathen mothers and sisters here in our own +country the glorious news of salvation for <i>them</i>; to bring the light +and truth of the Gospel to those who are groping in the fog of +superstition and a wrong conception of Bible truth; to plant the +Christian school; to establish the Christian home as an object lesson; +to show mothers how to train their children to honor and obedience, to +mingle with the needy and helpless, and by sympathy and tact secure such +changes in the homes as will lead to their permanent improvement; in a +word, to follow the example of our Lord Jesus, by living and teaching +the blessings of intelligence and godliness among those in our home-land +for whose improvement and well-being we are peculiarly responsible. The +American Missionary Association has ninety-four schools, and in most of +these more women than men are engaged. It is the duty of the missionary +teacher to avail herself of every opportunity which her relation with +her scholars affords, either in day or <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_399" id="Page_399"></a>[399]</span>boarding school, to inculcate +Christian truth, to warn against the evils which she finds common among +the people, to teach by example and precept the living Word, as +manifested in the life of Christ. The wonderful change wrought in those +who are brought under the influence of such consecrated missionaries, +testifies to the value of woman's work in missions.</p> + +<p>But who are these for whom we are peculiarly responsible, and why is +there so especial need of <i>woman's</i> work?</p> + +<p>They are our eight millions of negroes, of whom probably not more than +one-fourth may be said to have felt the corrective influence of the +Gospel upon their lives. Perhaps only those who have come in contact +with these people for the <i>sole purpose of helping</i> them to manhood and +womanhood, can comprehend the tremendous incubus of bad habits, stunted +growth, blunted susceptibilities, with which they struggle. It is +painful to note the limitations of those even who have had the best +advantages. Yet they are ever reaching upward, and the struggle is +bringing out noble qualities of character, showing the possibilities of +the race. We have had a goodly recompense for Christian labor among +them, and does not this increase our responsibility for the +three-fourths that are yet to be helped to a good understanding of +themselves and their duty toward man and God? And no one will question +that in the development of the best <i>womanhood</i> there rests the surest +hope of the elevation of this wronged, and even now, greatly oppressed +people.</p> + +<p>But our woman's work finds also its mission among the needy whites of +the South. It seems almost incredible that there should be found, within +thirty-six hours' ride of our Northern towns, so dotted with schools and +churches and Christian homes, a section of our country where there have +been in hiding, in the ravines and on the mountain sides, two or more +millions of our American people, in gross ignorance and superstition. +But such is the case, and as always, the women are the greatest +sufferers. Doubtless the Negroes have the largest claim upon us, because +of their past history, their present wrongs, and their great numbers, +which have become so startling as to make it imperative that we yield no +jot of advantage gained, but rather increase our efforts every year for +their intellectual and moral improvement. Yet the work for the mountain +whites is <i>just now</i> especially urgent. A missionary of much experience +expresses the view, that if we can bring the forces of Christian +education to bear mightily upon these mountain people for the next ten +years, they will themselves become a power as our allies in the great +battles of the future against immorality and false doctrines. A few +weeks since I met in North Carolina near the Great Smoky Mountains a +mother and daughter, the latter about eighteen years old. A school for +mountain girls had been opened there, and the daughter had attended the +last year. On entering she could not read a word, but now was in the +Fourth Reader, and studying arithmetic and geography. The rich, soft +color that came to her cheeks, and the kindling light of her <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_400" id="Page_400"></a>[400]</span>eyes, told +of the brightness this school had brought into her life; this Christian +school, for here too, she had learned the way of eternal life. Even the +mother's eyes sparkled like stars as she looked with admiration upon her +"learned" daughter.</p> + +<p>But our door stands wide open also towards the Indians and Chinese, and +all the arguments that appeal to us so strongly for the disenthrallment +of women in heathen lands, appeal with equal, yea greater force for the +heathen in our own land, whom the <i>Gospel only</i> can make free.</p> + +<p>Such is our great and urgent call for work for woman in the field of the +American Missionary Association. Who should do it, and how? Who but the +Christian women of our churches, either directly or by substitutes? Some +can go, of those who have prepared themselves for the highest and best +quality of Christian service. They should be thoroughly trained and +disciplined teachers, but not this alone. Every teacher should be a +careful and intelligent Bible student, able to instruct from the word of +God, practical and earnest, self-sacrificing and co-operative, ready to +do what seems most necessary, even though it should not call into action +her finest mental qualities. Let those who cannot go, send a substitute, +but let none fail to seize the opportunity for a part in this blessed +work, for the salvation of our country, and its protection as a +Christian land.</p> + +<p>There are now twenty-six State organizations for Woman's Work in our own +country through our Congregational Churches, which co-operate in the +work of the American Missionary Association. Some have increased their +contributions during the past year; others have not fallen below the +standard they had fixed for this field, but have not made any annual +advance. With a very few, co-operation has not yet extended beyond a +study of our work. But a study of the field is encouraging, for a +knowledge of the need brings responsibility to do all possible to meet +it, and soon we trust these also will be contributing Unions. To +facilitate the study of our field, our monthly magazine has been sent +free to many ladies' societies, our literature has been distributed, and +more than sixteen thousand copies of missionary letters have been +circulated among the ladies. Would not the value of organization be +shown in the larger flow of funds annually for a work of such pressing +necessity as this? We rejoice that some have already demonstrated this +value of united effort. More than one State Missionary Union, +recognizing the importance of this work and remembering that in drawing +upon the benevolence of all the Congregational Ladies' Societies in the +State, it should not do a small thing, has raised the support of four or +more missionary teachers for an entire school. And the officers of the +Union have taken pains to stir up the pure minds of the ladies in each +auxiliary by way of remembrance of this particular field.</p> + +<p>But there are those not in the State organizations, whose help we +record, as Sunday-schools and Christian Endeavor Societies. Many such +have during the year asked for a special object for their contributions. +What <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_401" id="Page_401"></a>[401]</span>can the Secretary do? The particular things that can be +accomplished with forty or fifty or seventy dollars are indeed few, but +these sums combined may sustain a missionary for a year. So each such +contribution is made a share of the four hundred dollars necessary for +the purpose, and something definite is accomplished. What is it? This. A +faithful Christian woman is sent to the field, where, in a neat cottage, +she makes her home life an object lesson to the colored people or the +mountain whites or the Indians for many miles around. Their homes begin +to improve. Her day school, held in the little church near by, attracts +not only children, but young men and women, and even young married +people. A Christian Endeavor Society is formed. The Sunday-school and +church take a new start under her teachings. Other Sunday-schools and +Christian societies are maintained through her influence, and so the +small contributions accomplish a large work.</p> + +<p>Private individuals also have aided us. What a blessed privilege to be +able out of one's own income to put worthy missionaries into such a +field.</p> + +<p>There has been an increase in aid rendered in sewing, a form of help +that is very valuable in keeping our boarding schools and mission homes +furnished, our sewing schools provided with basted work, and clothing +ready for worthy but needy students. As with money, so with sewing, we +could use wisely very much more than has been received.</p> + +<p>We acknowledge also the kindness of ladies in furnishing books and +papers adapted to the need. The young people, especially among the +Negroes, are acquiring a taste for reading, and with their emotional and +excitable natures, they take readily to sensational literature, with its +startling illustrations. A neighborhood or society collection of books +and papers will usually contain some of such a stamp, and you maybe sure +they will not always discriminate in favor of the most instructive +reading. Therefore select for them as you would for your own sons and +daughters, what is attractive and healthful, and withhold all else.</p> + +<p>And now we are just starting upon a new year. Four hundred and +seventy-six laborers have been called into the missionary ranks of the +American Missionary Association. One hundred and ninety missions are in +operation, with their widening influence and ever growing needs. Of our +one hundred and forty-two churches there are fifty-seven which have not +at present any Northern missionary associated with them. The difference +in the development of these churches, as contrasted with those which +have the influence and help of Northern teachers, is so marked, as to +constitute a most urgent appeal for more missionaries—faithful +women—to gather in the young people, interest and instruct them, to +live among them, an example of economy and thrift in housekeeping, of +neighborly kindness, of faithfulness in church obligations and of +consistent Christian life. I do not hesitate to affirm that in the +field of the American Missionary Association such provision is next in +importance to the preached word. Neither can take the place of the +other. Either is at a disadvantage without the <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_402" id="Page_402"></a>[402]</span>other. And yet there are +fifty-seven of these mission stations this year, <i>now</i>, without such +beneficent woman's ministry, waiting only for additional funds, the new +money necessary to provide reinforcements.</p> + +<p>I appeal to you, Christian women, in your organized capacity as State +Unions; and as individuals—stewards to whom perchance our Lord has +entrusted a goodly inheritance—for help to the American Missionary +Association in this almost overwhelming responsibility. Send us the +missionaries for these needy fields.</p> + +<p>I appeal to you in behalf especially of the wronged and helpless women +and girls of these ten millions of our own countrymen, American born, +whose only hope is in the sympathy and the help of the Christian people +of our own land. We do not live in the day of small things, but of great +needs and large opportunities. Surely now, if ever, is the time to +"enlarge the place of thy tent and stretch forth the curtains of thy +habitation. Spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes, +that thou mayest spread abroad on the right hand and on the left, and +possess the nations of our land."</p> + + + +<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> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table width="70%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="WOMANS STATE ORGANIZATIONS"> +<tr><td align="center">MAINE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chairman of Committee—Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />VERMONT.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />CONNECTICUT.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />NEW YORK.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />OHIO.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, 95 Monroe Ave., Columbus.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />INDIANA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />ILLINOIS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />IOWA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />MICHIGAN.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_403" id="Page_403"></a>[403]</span></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />WISCONSIN.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. C.C. Keeler, Beloit.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />MINNESOTA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />NORTH DAKOTA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />SOUTH DAKOTA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />NEBRASKA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St, Fremont.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />MISSOURI.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. C.L. Goodell, 3006 Pine St., St. Louis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. E.P. Bronson, 3100 Chestnut St., St. Louis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />KANSAS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />COLORADO AND WYOMING.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Sawyer. Boulder, Colorado.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. C.T. Goodell, 24th and Eddy Sts., Cheyenne, Wyoming.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />CALIFORNIA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Havens, 3329 Harrison St., Oakland.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />LOUISIANA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. R.D. Hitchcock, New Orleans.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />MISSISSIPPI.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />ALABAMA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss S.S. Evans, 2612 Fifth Ave., Birmingham.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. G. Baker, Selma.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />FLORIDA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Miss M.F. Wells, Athens, Tenn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center"><br />NORTH CAROLINA.</td></tr> +<tr><td align="center">WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>President—Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Secretary—Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Treasurer—Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.</td></tr> +</table></div> + +<div class="footnote"><br /><br /><br /><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1">[1]</a> For the purpose of exact information, we note +that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body +for Mass. and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.</div><br /> + +<p>We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State +Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association +be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, +should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary +Association, since <i>undesignated funds will not reach us</i>.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_404" id="Page_404"></a>[404]</span> +<h2><a name="RECEIPTS_FOR_OCTOBER_1889" id="RECEIPTS_FOR_OCTOBER_1889"></a>RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 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 colspan="2" align='center'><b><i>For the Education of Colored People.</i></b></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><b>FROM</b></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><b>MR. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Income from October, 1889,</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$960.00</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, $165.76.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alfred. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.56</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bangor. Corelli W. Simpson. Engravings for Hospital, <i>Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ellsworth. Mrs. Phelps, <i>for Teachers' Home, Lexington, Ky.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fryeburg. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.54</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenville. Cong. Ch., 15.55, and Sab. Sch., 12</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>27.55</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Island Falls. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Castle. Second Cong. Ch., to const. S.D. WYMAN and MRS. AURANUS MILLEE L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Patten. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. George C. Frye, Chemist, Medicines, val. 15.06, <i>for Hospital, Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.11</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wells. "A Friend."</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>NEW HAMPSHIRE, $274.05.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Alstead. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canaan. Mary A. George</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Great Falls. Ladies' Home Miss'y Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hanover. Dartmouth College Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>67.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mason. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashua. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children's Fair (2 of which <i>for Indian M.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pelham. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pembroke. First Cong. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peterboro. Union Evan. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portsmouth. "In as much Circle" of King's Daughters of North Ch., <i>for furnishing room, Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</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>VERMONT, $217.20.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Benson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bethel. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.56</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>81.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Guildhall. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hubbardton. D.J. Flagg</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sharon. A Friend, 1; "X.", 1</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sharon. Communion Service, <i>for Jonesboro, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. F.V.A. Townsend, to const MRS. ISABELLA WATERMAN L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Townsend. Mrs. H. Holbrook</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.84</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westminster. West. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.00</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>MASSACHUSETTS, $4,599.69.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amherst. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. Phillips Academy <i>for Boys' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Andover. "Pansy Band," <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.72</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.12</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Boston. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc., 400, <i>for Woman's Work</i>;<br /> + 35 from Shawmut Mite Soc., <i>for Indian Sch'p.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>435.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "A Friend In Boston," <i>for Building Fund, Pleasant Hill</i>,<br /> + <i>Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>250.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>95.87 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. Walter Baker, 30, Mr. Hardwick, 10, Mrs. Means,<br /> + 10, Mrs. Wales, 5, Miss Carruth, 5, Miss Salmon, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>65.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "Friends," by A.C. Hopkins, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Harvard Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>37.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Mrs. Eliza Bicknell</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Roxbury. Highland Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ladies of Immanuel Ch., <i>for Freight on Bbl. to</i><br /> + <i>Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Im. Ch., Mrs. M.M. Graham</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.51 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 1,019.78</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brimfield. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.64</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brookline. Harvard Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>57.38</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brockton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., to const. CHAS. H. REYNOLDS, SIDNEY E. NICKERSON and MRS. JANE B. JENNINGS L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>104.48</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridge. Mrs. C.A. Phelps' S.S. Class, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 97.14; First Cong. Ch., 1</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>98.14</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Campello. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, <i>for Freight on Boxes to Chapel Hill, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>66.12</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chelsea. First Cong. Ch., 38.50; Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch., 15</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>53.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.54</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Cambridge. Miss M.F. Aiken, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Everett. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>39.74</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Framingham. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Guernsey, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gardner. First Cong. Ch., to const CHAS. F. READ and MRS. SETH HEYWOOD L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>60.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>58.95</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_405" id="Page_405"></a>[405]</span>Groton. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>145.80</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Harvard. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Haverhill. Mary Merrill, Package Patchwork, <i>for Sew. Sch., Sherwood Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Holliston. "Bible Christians," 47; Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.50</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>87.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Housatonic. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.45</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lawrence. Trinity Ch., <i>for Freedmen and Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.19</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lawrence. United Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lee. "Friendly."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ludlow Center. First Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mansfield. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>78.38</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Milton. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch., 46.73; First Cong. Ch., 13.14</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>59.87</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newton. Eliot Ch., 120; First Cong. Ch., 75.08</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>195.08</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newton Center. Mrs. Sarah C. Davis, <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>200.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norfolk. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Attleboro. Frank Bennett, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.18</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Leominster. Ch. of Christ</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>21.43</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. A.L. Williston, 170; "A Friend," 9, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>179.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>160.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Middleboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oxford. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Freight on 3 Bbl's. to Kittrell, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oxford. "Oxtord."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peabody. Second Cong. Ch., 5; West Branch of Second Cong. Ch., 2.75</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Reading. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Randolph. Miss MARION BELCHER, to const. herself L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockland. Miss Cordelia Shaw, <i>for Freight on Bbl. to Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Salem. Crombie St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>67.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saxonville. Edwards Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.93</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const. J.W. PERRY L.M.; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Somerville. Day St. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Southampton. L.C. Tiffany's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., <i>for Theo. Student Aid Fund</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Egremont. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Deerfield. Cong. Ch., 34.15; Sab. Sch., 12.93</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>47.08</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., (50 of which <i>for Mountain Work</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>174.54</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Hadley. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Miss Carrie H. Bowdoin</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E., First Ch. of Christ, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Weymouth. Miss S.B. Tirrel's S.S. Class, Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.82</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Townsend. Mrs. Ralph Ball, <i>for Freight on Bbl. to Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Boxford. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.85</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westhampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.78</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.58</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Medford. —— <i>for Boys' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Springfield. Ladies' Mission Circle of Park St. Ch., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchendon. First Cong. Ch., 13, and Sab. Sch., 17.30</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. Ladies' Western Miss'y Soc., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>90.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. S. Elliott</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worcester. Mary A. and Joanna F. Smith</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Agawam</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.25 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Holyoke. Second</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>83.31 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> South Hadley Falls</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.91 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Springfield. South</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.30 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 159.77</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$4,249.69</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATES.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dunstable. Estate of Mary Wilson, by Wm. P. Proctor, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Enfield. Estate of J.B. Woods, by Rev. R.M. Woods, Trustee, to const. MISS CHARLOTTE A. LATHROP L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Groton. Estate of Samuel C. Rockwood, by George S. Gates, Ex.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>300.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$4,599.69</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kennebunk, Maine. Mrs. Mary P. Smith, Box of C., <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Campello, Mass. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, 2 Boxes, <i>for Chapel Hill, S.C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridgeport, Mass. By Mrs. R.L. Snow, Box of Bedding, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Gardner, Mass. Y.P.S.C.E., Package of Papers, <i>for Jellico, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hopkinton, Mass. King's Daughters, Bbl. of C., val. 50, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oxford, Mass. Woman's Miss'y Soc., 3 Bbls., <i>for Kittrell, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockland, Mass. Ladies' Sew. Circle of Cong. Ch., Bbl., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Roslindale, Mass. Miss F.H. Wiswall, Box Hymn Books, etc., <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Roxbury, Mass, Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Immanuel Ch., Bbl., val. 31.54, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Townsend, Mass. By Mrs. Ralph Ball, Bbl., <i>for Sherwood, Tenn.</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, $730.96.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Little Compton. Mrs. Antrace Pierce</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newport. United Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Providence. Central Cong. Ch. (25 of which <i>for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i>and 10. <i>for Talladega C.</i>)</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>625.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Providence. North Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>44.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Providence. Sab. Sch. of Beneficent Cong. Ch., 25, Miss Burrows' Class, 1.25, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.25</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>CONNECTICUT, $2,705.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Berlin. Mrs. Sophia Savage, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bridgeport D.H. Terry, 10., L.B. Silliman, 5, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bristol. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.27</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.29</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>East Granby. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ellington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>148.70</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Granby. South Cong. Ch., 13; First Cong. Ch., 6.12</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.12</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hadlyme. Cong. Ch., 4.; Mrs. E. Geer, 1.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. Students' Association of Hartford Theo. Sem., 34.81; Mrs. Charles T. Hillyer, 30.00</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>64.81</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hartford. D.R. Howe, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lisbon. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. REV. Q.M. BOSWORTH L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Middlebury. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.01</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Monroe. Mrs. F.A. and H.L. Curtiss</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>46.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Poquonock. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>53.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Portland. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.91</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.94</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Britain. Prayer Meeting Coll. Center Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>34.24</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Britain. Normal Class of South Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Normal Inst., Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.31</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_406" id="Page_406"></a>[406]</span>New Haven. United Ch., 268.52; College St. Ch., 10.00</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>278.52</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New London. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>79.95</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Preston. Mrs. Henry Upson, 4; Mrs. Stanley Williams, 1, <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Northford. Cong Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Madison. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>211.88</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rockville. Union Cong. Ch. (65 of which <i>for Tougaloo U.</i>) to const. MISS LUCINDA BAILEY, +MISS ELLEN. L. WILSON, MISS CELIA E. PRESCOTT, LUTHER H. +FULLER and ISAAC M. AGARD L.M.'s</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>168.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Stamford. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>16.61</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Terryville. Elizur Fenn</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Sch'p, Santee Ind. Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tolland. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.02</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wallingford. Mrs. Clara Beebe Darling, ad'l, <i>for Chapel, Darling Station, Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wallingford. H.L. Judd, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>70.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.27</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Watertown. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.79</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Watertown. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. Fred. Scott, <i>for Student Aid, Fort Berthold, Ind. Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Hartland. H.L. Wilcox, <i>for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Winchester. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. Ward W. Jacobs, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Bridgeport. L.H.M. Soc. of North Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$1,705.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Plymouth. Estate of Eliza Bull, by Ira B. Bull and Geo. M. Welles, Executors 1,000.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$2,705.00</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 YORK, $838.67.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Albany. "E.M.E."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Amsterday. Mrs. Chandler Bartlett</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Aquebogue. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Brooklyn. Tompkins Ave. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>400.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Churchville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>31.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner, Box of C., Val. 46.65, <i>for McLeansville, N.C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Deansville. Y.P.S.C.E., <i>for Student Aid, Avery Inst.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hudson. Mrs. D.A. Jones</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ithaca. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., <i>for ed. of a girl, Santee Ind. Sch.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>35.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jamestown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.39</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kelloggsville. Miss C.L. Taylor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, 5; Ladles Aid Soc., 5; Alfred Seymour, 5; Mrs. Servilia G. Childs, +2; Mrs. J.H. Wagoner, 1; J.A. Head, 1; G.G. Grosvenor, 50c.; C.P. Day, 50c.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Munnsville. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Napoli. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.32</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Lebanon. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Broadway Tab., J.T. Leavitt</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New York. J.H. Washburn, Pkg. of C.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Syracuse. Plymouth Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Utica. Miss Caroline E. Backus, <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Warsaw. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.71</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'> Binghamton. Helpers H.M. Soc., to const.<br /> + MRS. J.L. MESEREAU L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Geddes. Ladies Aux.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Lyssander. Ladies' Aux., to const.<br /> + MRS. DESIRE A. FULLER L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $65.00</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 JERSEY, $185.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Montclair. Womans' Home Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch. <i>for Marshallville Sch., Ga.</i>, +and to const. MRS. LUCIA P. AMES, MARY B. AMES and LULU AMES L.M's</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>180.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Paterson. P. Van Houten</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Point Pleasant. Rev. S.Y. Lum, Box of Books, <i>for Talladega C.</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>PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cambridge. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ridgway. Bible Class by Minnie J. Kline, <i>for Oaks, N.C.</i></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>OHIO, $1,706.04.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Walnut Hills Cong. Ch., <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 30.21; Rev. W.L. Tenney, 15; Plymouth Ch., 5.85</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>51.06</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Columbus. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>191.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Columbus. "A Friend" Box of Bedding, <i>for Grand View, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Conneaut. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 20; H.E. Pond, 5., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Fort Recovery. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lafayette. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lorain. "Wide Awake Soc." <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.55</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Medina. Friends in Cong. Ch., by Mrs. E.F. Leach, <i>for furnishing a room, new boarding hall, Macon, Ga.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>North Bloomfield. Prof. F.O. Reed</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>68.29</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oberlin. Rev. C.V. Speare, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oberlin. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Jewett Memorial Hall</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.55</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pittsfield. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bundle of Carpeting, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Newark. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Strongsville. Elijah Lyman</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Toledo. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wakeman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>York. Cong. Ch. to const. MILO E. BRANCH L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>32.00</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'> Chagrin Falls. Aux. <i>for Miss Collins</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chester Cross Roads. St. Paul's Miss. Band,<br /> + <i>for Dakota Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.13 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Conneaut. W.H.M.S., <i>for Miss Collins</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Hudson. L.H.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>7.16 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> "Friends"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.95 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Painesville. M.S. Home Dept.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— $76.74</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$706.04</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Ashtabula. Estate of Miss E.G. Austin, by Henry Fassett, Adm'r </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,000.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$1,706.04</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, $743.83.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atkinson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.20</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Aurora. N.L. Janes</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buda. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>114.86</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Chicago. Mrs. F.E. Brush, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>104.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_407" id="Page_407"></a>[407]</span>Chicago. Ladies of South Park Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Crete. Phineas Chapman</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elgin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.41</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elgin. "A Friend"</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Elmwood. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Mattoon. "Friends," by Mrs. A.F. Cushman, <i>for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Morrison. William Wallace</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>10.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lawn Ridge. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.48</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lee Center. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marseilles. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Payson. J.K. Scarborough</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>100.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Peoria. Miss Etta Proctor's S.S. Class, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Princeton. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Princeton. Rev. F. Bascom, D.D., Box of Books, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Prospect Park. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.04</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oak Park. Young People's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Turner. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.13</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Ashkum</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.56 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Atkinson</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Buda</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chebanse</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Chicago. Park</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.75 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Elgin</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Oak Park</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Peoria</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rockford. First</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rockford. Second</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>20.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Sterling</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Toulon</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Warrensburg</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.44 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>———— 180.75</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, $9,417.64.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Detroit. Parke, Davis & Co., Chemists, Medicines, Val. 17.31. <i>for Hospital, Fort Yates, Dak.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hart. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.02</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.16</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Manistee. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>26.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New Haven. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.11</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>South Haven. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.05</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wheatland. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$95.34</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br />ESTATE.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Olivet. Estate of William B. Palmer, by Geo. W. Keyes, Ex. </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9,332.20</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$9,417.54</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, $82.66.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beloit. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., 11.86; First Cong. Ch., 5.50</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.36</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Beloit. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Sewing Machine, <i>for Straight U.</i>; 2 <i>for Freight</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>24.62</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Madison. Clarissa L. Ware's S.S. Class, Birthday Box, <i>for Lathrop Library</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.93</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Madison. Clarissa L. Ware, Package Patchwork, <i>for Sew. Sch., Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>New London. Ira Millerd, Sr., <i>for Lathrop Library</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Rosendale. Mrs. H.N. Clark, <i>for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>West Salem. Mrs. Anson Clark</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Whitewater. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Viroqua. Mrs. J.R. Casson, <i>for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn.</i></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>IOWA, $226.60.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Atlantic. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.22</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Blairstown. MRS. J.H. FRENCH, to const. herself L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Burlington. First Cong. Ch., to const. LUKE PALMER, JR. L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>36.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.98</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Genoa Bluffs. Boys' Intermediate and Primary Classes, Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Grinnell. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Marcus. "A Life Member."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Oldfield. Highland Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Indian M and Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.75</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Sherrills Mound. German Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Strawberry Point. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>12.15</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wittemberg. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>9.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, <i>for Woman's Work</i>:</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Central City. Y.P.S.C.E.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Clay. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Des Moines. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>22.02 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Harlan. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Independence. Aid Soc.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Lyons</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.61 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Miles. L.M.S., "Thank Offering."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> McGregor. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>8.65 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Onawa. S.S. Birthday Bo</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>x6.40 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Osage. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.90 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Rockford. L.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.05 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Shenandoah. W.M.S.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.55 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'> Wells</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>0.50 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>——— 67.33</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, $93.55.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>13.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lake City. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Williamsburg Academy</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>23.02</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>45.65</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Saint Paul. S.S. Class, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.38</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Waseca. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.25</td></tr> +</table></div> + + + +<div class='center'> +<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary=""><tr><td width="80%"></td><td width="20%"></td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='center'><br /><b>MISSOURI, $40.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kansas City. Clyde Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Laclede. Clara Seward, Package Patchwork, <i>for Sew. Sch., Sherwood, Tenn.</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>KANSAS, $12.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Manhattan. W.E. Castle</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>NEBRASKA, $113.26.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cortland. "H.C.H."</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Cowles. G.A. Harris</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.48</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Hay Springs. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Irvington. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>15.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Kearney. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nebraska City. Woman's Miss'y. Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Omaha. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>78.53</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>NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA, $113.19.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buffalo Gap. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Buxton, N.D. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Mountain Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>80.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Custer. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.10</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lake Henry, S. Dak. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.71</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Yankton, S. Dak. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>18.13</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>WASHINGTON, $5.50.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Roy. Mrs. Eliza Taylor</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>5.50</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'><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_408" id="Page_408"></a>[408]</span><br /><b>OREGON, $45.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Canyon. E.S. PENFIELD, to const. himself L.M.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>30.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Forest Grove. Cong. Ch.</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>CALIFORNIA, $3,190.15.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Belmont. Mrs. E.L. Reed and Miss Harriet Reed, <i>for Woman's Work</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>17.50</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Redlands. First Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>19.25</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission (See Items Below) </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3,138.40</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Tustin. "Busy Bees" by Miss Mary Buss, 15, and Package C., <i>for Student Aid, Normal Inst., Grand View, Tenn.</i></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>NORTH CAROLINA, $43.85.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Blowing Rock. F.W. Van Wagenen, <i>for Blowing Rock, N.C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>McLeansville. Rev. A. Connet, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>14.60</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Willmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>4.25</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>TEXAS, $25.00.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Dallas. Cong. Ch.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>25.00</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'><br />—————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Donations </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$13,862.30</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Estates </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>11,722.20</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>—————</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>$25,584.50</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>TUITION, $466.01.</b></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Lexington, Ky. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>171.35 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Wilmington, N.C. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>6.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn. County Fund</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>50.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Nashville, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>192.35 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Public Fund</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>40.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>3.00 </td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Austin, Texas. Tuition</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>2.31 </td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>———— 466.01</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>United States Government for the Education of Indians </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>1,017.98</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total for October </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$27,068.49</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 October </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$81.86</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>RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,</b><br /> +from April 20th to October 16th, 1889.<br /> +E. Palache, Treas.</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.—Los Angeles, Chinese Mon Off's. 34.80. Annual Mem's and +other gifts, 20.50.—Marysville. Chinese Monthlies, 27.80; Annual Mem's, +6.—Oakland, Chinese Monthlies, 40; Annual Mem's, 24.—Oroville. Chinese Monthlies, 15.85; +Annual Mem's. 34.—Petaluma: Chinese Monthlies, 10.50; Anniversary Coll., 5.75; Annual Mem's and +other gifts (6 of which from Dea. A.B. Case) 56.50.—Riverside, Chinese Monthlies, 17.55; Annual Mem's +15.—Sacramento, Chinese Monthlies, 36; Annual Mem's, 30.25.—San Buenaventura, Chinese Monthlies, +14,10; Annual Mon's, etc., 31: Chinese Special Offerings, 91.85—San Diego, Chinese weekly offerings, +86; Annual Mem's and other gifts, 53.45; J.A. Rogers, 10; QUON NEUEY, 25, to const. himself L.M.; Rev. and +Mrs. J.B. Silcox, 10; Col. E.F. French, 5; Moses Frick, 2.50; Others. 3.—Santa Barbara, Chinese Monthlies, +14.05; Annual Mem's and other gifts, 43.75; Pon Dan, 5; Yee Ock, 5; Gin Chow, 5; Mrs. E.M. Shattuck, 3.50, +balance to const. REV. C.T. WEITZEL L.M.; "Lady Friend," 5; Mrs. Josiah Bates, 4; Cong. Ch., 32.25; Collection +at Social, 10.50.—Santa Cruz. Chinese Monthlies, 36.10; Anniversary Coll., 10.80; Annual Mem's, etc., +63.50.—Stockton, Chinese Monthlies, 8.75; Annual Mem's. 35.—Tucson, Chinese Monthlies, 7; Annual Mem's, +18; "A Friend," 1.35 </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$964.95</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>FROM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.—Bethany, (San Joaquin Co.) 4.—Byron, 6.— +Crockett, 2.50.—Lorin, 6.40.—Los Angeles, First, Woman's Home Missionary Soc,. 43.10. Y.P.S.C.E., +4.50.—Murphys, 4.—Oakland. First, Annual Off's, 120.85; Fellowship Fund, 22; Sab. Sen., Primary Class, +19.25; Mrs. H.G. Noyes, 15, "Other Friends." 25; First Ch., Market St. Branch, 5.50, Plymouth Ave. Ch., Dr. Geo. +Mooar, 6.50; Dr. I.E. Dwinell, 5; Dr. J.A. Benton. 5; Mrs. A.B. Sargent, 5; Mrs. C.F. Whitton, 2.50; Mrs. M.L. +Merritt, 2.50; Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Armstrong, 2.50; Others, 3.—Ontario, 47.—Redwood, 7.—Rio +Vista, 15.15,—San Diego, Second, Rev. F.B. Perkins, 5.—San Francisco, First. Mrs. Hutchins, 5; Miss Hutchins, 1.50; Mrs. Perkins, 1.80; "Other +Friends," 7; Third Church, 63.90.—Bethany Ch., from Americans Annual Mem's, 67.50. Mrs. H.A. Lamont, 14; "W.C.P." balance to const. REV. J.B. SILCOX +and MRS. A.E. NOBLE L.M's, 9.50; Dr. R.B. Hall, 10; J.M. Stockman, 10; Mrs. S.C. Hasleton, 10; W. Johnstone, 5; T.S. Sherman, 5.—From Chinese Central +Mission, Monthly Off's, 46.90; Annual Mem's, etc., 95.60; Barnes Mission, Monthly Off's 8.25; Annual Mem's, etc., 8; West Mission, Monthly Off's, +27.60; Annual Mem's. 29; San Francisco Branch Ass'n 7.55, (25 of which from Chinese to const. REV. J.F. MASTERS L.M.).—Saratoga, 10.—Woodland, 7.70 +</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>834.95</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS.—Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co., 500; Mrs. A.J. Styles, +250.; Frank J. Felt, 50.; John Jackson, 25.; Rev. Joseph Rowell, 10. Rev. J.C. Holbrook, D.D., 10.; Mrs. +E.G. Chaddock, 5.; Rev. and Mrs. H.H. Wickoff, 5</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>855.00</td></tr> + +<tr><td align='left'>FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.—Bangor, Me., Hon. E.R. Burpee, 100.—"A Friend," +10.—Brewer, Me., Mrs. Hardy, 100.—Norridgewock, Me., Mrs. Benjamin Tappan, 2.—North +Conway, N.H., First Cong. Ch., 10.; Rev. R. Henry Davis, 10.—Amherst, Mass., Mrs. R.A. Lester, +100.—South Braintree, Mass. Rev. J.B. Sewall. 25.—Marlboro, Mass., Miss H.J. Alexander, +1.50.—New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Henry Farnum, 100.—Colebrook, Conn., Miss Sarah Carrington, +20.—Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss L.B. Sherwood, 4.—Richfield, Minn, T.N. Spaulding, 1.</td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>483.50</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>————</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>Total </td><td align='right' valign='bottom'>$3,138.40</td></tr> +<tr><td colspan="2" align='right'>=======</td></tr> +</table></div> + + +<div class="right"><br /><br /> +H.W. 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