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diff --git a/18001.txt b/18001.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..feb6944 --- /dev/null +++ b/18001.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3021 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary, Volume 49, No. 4, +April, 1895, by Various + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The American Missionary, Volume 49, No. 4, April, 1895 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: March 16, 2006 [EBook #18001] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by Cornell +University Digital Collections) + + + + + + +The American Missionary + +APRIL, 1895 + +VOL. XLIX + +No. 4 + + + + +CONTENTS + +EDITORIAL. + + OUR FINANCIAL OUTLOOK--DEATH OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS, 121 + + ITEMS, 122 + + THE PROSPERITY OF THE SOUTH, 123 + + NOTES-BY-THE-WAY, SEC. A. F. BEARD, 124 + + +THE SOUTH. + + TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISSISSIPPI (Illustrated), 125 + + LINCOLN MEMORIAL, SPECIAL METHOD, 133 + + LINCOLN MEMORIAL DAY IN THE SOUTH, 134 + + THE LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION, 135 + + FIELD ITEMS, 136 + + MISS AMY WILLIAMS, 137 + + +THE INDIANS. + + COLLECTION FOR THE DEBT AT SANTEE AGENCY, 138 + + LETTER FROM AN INDIAN, 139 + + +THE CHINESE. + + GLEANINGS FROM ANNUAL REPORT OF CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, 139 + + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + THANK-OFFERING DAY, 141 + + +RECEIPTS, 142 + + * * * * * + +NEW YORK + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, + +Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York. + + + * * * * * + +Price, 50 Cents a Year in advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + +PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. + Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + Rev. ALEX McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y. + Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio. + + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + + Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + Rev. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + + +_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._ + + Rev. C. J. RYDER, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + + +_Recording Secretary._ + + Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + + +_Treasurer._ + + HENRY W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N. Y._ + + +_Auditors._ + + PETER MCCARTEE. + JAMES MITCHELL. + + +_Executive Committee._ + + CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. + CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary. + + _For Three Years._ + + WILLIAM HAYES WARD, + JAMES W. COOPER, + LUCIEN C. WARNER, + JOSEPH H. TWICHELL, + CHARLES P. PEIRCE. + + _For Two Years._ + + CHARLES A. HULL, + ADDISON P. FOSTER, + ALBERT J. LYMAN, + NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, + A. J. F. BEHRENDS. + + _For One Year._ + + SAMUEL HOLMES, + SAMUEL S. MARPLES, + CHARLES L. MEAD, + WILLIAM H. STRONG, + ELIJAH HORR. + + +_District Secretaries._ + + Rev. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass_. + Rev. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill_. + Rev. W. E. C. WRIGHT, D.D., _Cong'l Rooms, Y. M. C. A. Building, + Cleveland, Ohio_. + + +_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ + + Miss D. E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N. Y._ + + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," +to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the +finances, to the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, +to the Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. + + +DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be +sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York, or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill., or Congregational +Rooms, Y. M. C. A. Building, Cleveland, Ohio. A payment of thirty dollars +constitutes a Life Member. + +NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label" indicates the +time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on +label to the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made +afterward the change on the label will appear a month later. Please +send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former +address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and +occasional papers may be correctly mailed. + + +FORM OF A BEQUEST. + +"I GIVE AND BEQUEATH the sum of ---- dollars to the 'American +Missionary Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the +State of New York." The will should be attested by three witnesses. + + * * * * * + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + +VOL. XLIX. APRIL, 1895. No. 4. + + * * * * * + + + + +OUR FINANCIAL OUTLOOK. + + +Our debt is large, but we rejoice to say that during the last three +months it has been slowly diminishing. It reached its highest point +November 30--$82,425.58. December 31 it was $82,032.07; January 31, +$79,502.77; February 28, $76,431.49. The cause of this decrease varies +in the different months. Sometimes the legacies are in advance, and +sometimes the donations. The expenses have been largely reduced in all +departments. + +While these figures are somewhat encouraging, yet the size of the debt +is ominous. The winter months, usually most fruitful in collections, +have passed away, and the time for the annual appropriations is near +at hand. Unless the debt can be greatly reduced, the cutting down of +the appropriations for the next year must be disastrous to this great +work. We do not lose our trust in God, nor our hope that the friends +of these ignorant and yet struggling people will not suffer the work +to be seriously hindered. We respectfully invoke pastors to secure for +us as liberal contributions as possible, and we ask individual donors +to remember the work with special gifts. + + + + +DEATH OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. + + +The unexpected and sudden death of Mr. Douglass has awakened a sense +of profound sympathy never before expressed toward a person identified +with the negro race, and seldom toward one of the white race. We are +not surprised at the manifestations of profound respect and sorrow of +the colored people, and we rejoice, too, that the white race has shown +almost equal regard for his memory, by their attendance when he lay in +state in Washington, and when his body was interred in Rochester. The +press has voiced the sentiment of the nation in the full and +eulogistic notices of his life. Frederick Douglass deserved it all. + +No man, perhaps, in this country has broken through so heavy a crust +of ignorance, poverty and race prejudice as was done by this boy born +on a slave plantation, stealing his education, fleeing from his slave +home and then achieving for himself a rank among the foremost men of +the nation in intelligence, eloquence and of personal influence in the +great anti-slavery struggle of this country. He has achieved honors in +the public service of the nation, and has faithfully and honorably +fulfilled every trust laid upon him. + +Mr. Douglass is among the last survivors of that band of Abolitionists +that were so potent in their influence in arousing the nation to the +evils of slavery. The recent death of Theodore D. Weld, in his +ninety-first year, recalls a name now almost forgotten, but that two +generations ago indicated the foremost orator in the anti-slavery +ranks. The poet of anti-slavery, Whittier, has gone recently, and now +the most conspicuous name left of that noble band is that of Mrs. +Harriet Beecher Stowe. + +The American Missionary Association has reason to congratulate itself +that its last annual meeting was made memorable by the presence of Mr. +Douglass, and its vast audience stirred most deeply by his eloquent +address. In that address he expressed his gratitude for himself and +his people for the work done by the Association in their behalf. And +in a letter subsequently addressed to the senior secretary of the +Association, he says, in speaking of that address: "I am very glad to +have been able thus publicly to record my sense of the value of the +great work of the Association in saving my people. I am a friend of +free thought and free inquiry, but I find them to be no substitute for +the work of educating the ignorant and lifting up the lowly. Time and +toil have nearly taken me from the lecture field, but I still have a +good word to say in the cause to which the American Missionary +Association is devoted." + + + + +ITEMS. + + +Of the twelve millions of families now in the United States, it is +said that one million cannot secure the needed work to procure the +luxuries and comforts of life. On this basis the one and a half +millions of colored families are at a special disadvantage. They have +to contend not only against the hard times, but against the immense +disadvantages of race prejudice. + + * * * * * + +The appointment of Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota, to be a member of the +Board of Indian Commissioners was an appointment eminently fit to be +made. Few men in this country stand higher in their knowledge of the +Indians and their wants, or have shown a more intelligent and +self-sacrificing interest in their behalf. + + * * * * * + +The Indian Territory, occupied by what has been regarded as the +Civilized Tribes, is in a precarious position. The recent +investigation by the Committee under ex-Senator Dawes has brought out +the facts in startling distinctness. The recommendations of the +Senator are very clear and radical, but it is feared that delay in the +settlement of the question will only protract and aggravate the +difficulty. + + * * * * * + +The "Missing Link" has been discovered. It was found, we are told, in +some fragments of skeletons dug up somewhere in Java. What an +attraction this will be to lead scientific doctors to neglect living +beings and wrangle over these old bones. In this country the real +"Missing Link" is that charity on the part of the white people that +recognizes the colored man as a fellow-citizen and a fellow Christian. +Let that link be found and burnished up and a good many serious +problems will be solved. + + + + +THE PROSPERITY OF THE SOUTH. + + +From time to time there loom up prospects of great advancement in the +Southern States. Iron and coal are found in close proximity and in +unlimited quantity. At once the boom starts and great cities spring +into existence with busy foundries and added railway facilities. But +somehow or other the boom loses its fervor and the bright hopes are +delayed. Yet the South _has_ vast resources, though they can only be +developed gradually, and as capital shall become assured that the +labor problem in the South is satisfactorily adjusted. + +We are told again that cotton mills are to be transferred from the +North to the South. Hitherto cheap cottons have been the product of +these Southern cotton mills. But now the promise is that the finest +grades of cotton will be produced. Labor is cheap in the South, but +skilled labor is very scarce, and no cheaper than at the North, and to +transfer such labor from the North will be at the additional cost of +transportation. + +Great efforts are made from time to time to induce immigrants to +settle in the South, and high hopes have been built on such endeavors. +But immigrants continue to go to the North and West, and do not go +South. This is not because the South is not rich in minerals, in a +productive soil and a beautiful climate. Why is it? Capital in the +hands of the whites in the South continues to crush labor in the +person of the black man under the heel of prejudice. Perhaps the +laborer from Europe may dread the same thing. + +In spite of all drawbacks, the South _is_ improving, and will +continue to improve, and the process will be hastened as the white +man lays aside his race prejudice and the black man lifts himself +above it by acquiring property, intelligence and character. Whatever +helps this consummation does more for the future good of the South +than can be done in any other way. + + + + +NOTES-BY-THE-WAY. + +SECRETARY A. F. BEARD. + + +Among places of greatest interest which I visited in my late Southern +tour one was Tougaloo University. Its location is unique, and its work +is also. In the very heart of the black belt of Mississippi, it is +sending out its light among thousands who are in darkness. It would +quite repay one who would study the problem of saving these children +of the rural districts of the black belt to go far out of his way to +visit Tougaloo. He should take time for it, to ride over its broad +acres of cultivated land, its cotton fields, its fields of sugar cane +and corn, its hay fields, all under the care of those who are being +educated. They should see its shops for iron working, for wood +working, and its varied other industries. They should see those who +work by day, diligent students at the books all the long evenings +until late. They should see the self help of all. They should go +through the grades and notice the quality of the work done and its +character, its classes in mathematics and in languages, and its work +in the physical sciences. It is a great school--Tougaloo--and if +people could see it, they would quote it more for its economy and +efficiency. Not always are efficiency and economy found pulling +equally in the same harness. + +A little incident in Tougaloo interested me. A discussion of the +topic, "How can we improve our homes," called from one student these +words: "I find the negro lacks race pride. He despises his own makeup. +Who of you ever heard any negro say that he thought the general +characteristics of his race were as becoming as those of other races? +Nor are they. The Anglo-Saxon is proud of his race characteristics. +The Indian is, also, but the negro despises himself and would be +anything else than what God has made him. But how can we escape hell +if we hate ourselves because we are negroes, when this is the divine +wisdom of a just God? We may talk about improving our homes by getting +an education as much as we please, but we will never be anything until +we have a race pride and try to carry out the great plan of God who +made us and knew what is best for us. Let us be genuine negroes, pure +and good, and not desire a drop of other blood in our veins." + +This seems to be the spirit of Tougaloo. Its graduates whom I have met +are manly and womanly, self-respecting and self-helping. + + + + +TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISSISSIPPI. + +BY PRES. F. G. WOODWORTH, D.D. + + +[Illustration: MANSION.] + +[Illustration: GIRLS' DORMITORY.] + +The chartered schools of the American Missionary Association, though +doing an essentially similar work, are yet strongly individualized. +Tougaloo University is emphatically the black belt plantation school +of the Association, located in the country, in the midst of America's +darkest Africa, touching that by far most numerous and important class +on which the future of the negroes mainly rests--the plantation +negroes. Forming the bulk of the colored population, least tinged with +white blood, they are at once the most ignorant and the most hopeful +class. Within seven miles of Jackson, the State capital, on the +Illinois Central road, easily accessible, not only from Mississippi, +but from large regions of Louisiana and Arkansas, it draws pupils from +a wide area and sends its trained teachers and graduates to a region +still wider. Its location is healthful and one of beauty, and, removed +from town distractions and temptations, it is admirably situated for +efficient work. The school was established in the autumn of 1869, and +the early reports show a surrounding region which in its drunkenness, +fighting and iniquity, is quite in contrast with the present +condition of affairs. Five hundred acres of land were purchased and +with them a fine mansion (page 125), then not many years old, intended +for the finest plantation house of the State and built for a bride who +came not. As the illustration shows, it is a handsome structure--the +only one with any decided architectural pretensions in the place. It +served at first for school rooms and dormitory purposes, and has been +thus used during most of the life of the school. Now it contains the +offices of president and treasurer, the main library--which greatly +needs more books--music rooms, the doctor's office, teachers' rooms, +and the president's home. There are now nine large buildings for +school use, with several smaller ones. The next oldest of the large +buildings is the girls' dormitory, just south of the mansion, where is +the common dining room, with the necessary kitchen, laundry and bake +house appliances, and dormitory room for several teachers and eighty +to ninety girls. + +[Illustration: BALLARD HALL.] + +[Illustration: BOYS' DORMITORY, STRIEBY HALL.] + +[Illustration: THE PLANTATION BARN.] + +[Illustration: BIBLE HALL.] + +Washington Hall, built just north of the mansion about the time of the +girls' dormitory, was burned some years ago, and now on its site +stands the Ballard Building, containing the study and recitation rooms +of the grammar and intermediate departments, which lead up to the +normal and the chapel, where all general exercises and Sabbath +services are held. One of the greatest needs of the school is a church +building, that can be specially devoted to religious purposes. There +is a grand chance for a memorial building. A little northeast of +Ballard is the boys' dormitory, Strieby Hall, erected in 1882, a +brick structure 112 x 40 feet, and three stories high, with a basement +which has a laundry and bathrooms. In this building the normal and +higher work is carried on, with a fairly good physical and chemical +laboratory and reference library, but needing great enlargement and +additional facilities. The normal work is of chief importance, for the +future of the race lies largely with the trained teachers of the +common schools. Those who have gone from Tougaloo have won golden +opinions from both races and do a work which in its scope and +missionary character multiplies greatly the influence of the +supporters of the school. Strieby has, by crowding, dormitory room for +seventy to eighty boys. A separate building for normal work is greatly +needed, one having a library, reading room, recitation room, museums +and laboratories. Just northwest of Strieby is the large barn, which, +with the picture of the cattle, will suggest the large agricultural +department of the school with its stock, garden, fruit raising, etc. +Here, too, a building is greatly needed for the farm boys and a +foreman, where a special course of instruction can be given in fitting +out good farmers. Not a few graduates and former students have been +successful in the conduct of farms and market gardens, some of them in +connection with teaching. Back of the mansion is a little and not at +all beautiful building that has been a slave pen, day nursery for +slave children; then, under the American Missionary Association, a +dormitory known as Boston Hall, then a carpentry class room, then +girls' "Industrial Cottage" and is now dignified as Bible Hall, and +houses the theological department, which was established two years +ago. This department has the beginning of a library, but needs books +and maps very greatly, and has two courses based on the English Bible, +one of two and one of four years. Though having this year but few +pupils in the regular course, it is doing very thorough work. The +evening class for outside preachers has been for some years a power +for good. A glance at the picture will convince anyone that theology +should have better quarters. Who will give them? Berkshire Cottage, of +which a picture is given, accommodates the industrial training work +of the girls. Here are classrooms for needlework and cookery, with +courses extending over four years, and which all girls in the grammar +grades are as much obliged to take as they are the English branches. +To the normal girls special instruction in dressmaking is given. +Berkshire, besides accommodating several teachers, has a kitchen, +dining and sitting room, and several bedrooms, devoted to practical +housekeeping, where, at present, four girls at a time keep house +practically for six weeks at a time, so becoming competent for +homemakers. Not far from this cottage is the Ballard shop building, +where the manual training of the boys is carried on. Here to the small +boys of the Hand school instruction in knifework is given, and to the +boys of all higher grades careful instruction, in accordance with the +best manual training methods, in wood-working, with excellent +accommodations for more than twenty boys at a time. Forging, at which +eight at a time can work, and mechanical and architectural drawing, +with tables and tools for two dozen. The outcome of this work and of +the girls' industries, teachers of which are supported by the Slater +Fund, which has done, and is doing, so grand a work, has been most +satisfactory and encouraging in the skill manifested, the increased +earning capacity imparted, the greater ability to gain and maintain +homes, and the development of character. + +[Illustration: BERKSHIRE COTTAGE.] + +[Illustration: BALLARD MANUAL TRAINING SHOP.] + +[Illustration: CARPENTRY.] + +[Illustration: FORGING.] + +One other picture, the Hand Primary building, suggests the practical +work of the Normal department, for here the Normal students have +practice during the two closing years of their course, gathering +pupils from surrounding cabins. + +Underneath all the work of the school is the dominating thought of the +development of Christian character. The preaching, the Sabbath school, +with its class prayer meetings directed by the Sabbath school +teachers, the religious societies, the Covenant for Christian service, +the personal influence of teachers and older pupils, all tend in that +direction with most blessed results. Upon the surrounding region +growing influence is exerted through the four Sabbath schools from two +to four miles away, in which teachers and students from the University +assist. A picture of one of the schools, McCharity, is given here. +Mention should also be made of the "Tougaloo University Addition to +Tougaloo." One hundred and twenty acres of land have been divided into +five-acre house lots, which are being sold at $100 each to former +students and those who wish to educate children at the University. In +a few years it is expected that a fine community will be there. + +[Illustration: DANIEL HAND KINDERGARTEN AND PRIMARY SCHOOL.] + +Around three great fundamental ideas the work of Tougaloo, with its +nearly 400 students and 23 instructors, with its theological, college +preparatory, normal, agricultural, industrial, musical, and nurse +training departments, its religious work, is grouped and carried on +with notable success. These are the development of the family and +home, leadership, and pure religious life. Who will endow a chair? Who +will endow the University, and perpetuate one's influence in a most +fruitful way? Successful as Tougaloo has been, its largest, widest +work is yet to come. + + + + +LINCOLN MEMORIAL--SPECIAL METHOD. + +MRS. G. W. ANDREWS, TALLADEGA, ALA. + + +[Illustration: McCHARITY SUNDAY-SCHOOL MISSION.] + +There has been much enthusiasm here since Sabbath morning in starting +an "Abraham Lincoln Cent Association" in order to give the _poorest_ +among our people an opportunity to do something toward helping to lift +the debt of the American Missionary Association. There will be four +departments of giving, one cent per day, one per week, one per month, +and five dollars will constitute one a memorial member of the +Association. The collection from those who pay a cent a day will be +taken at the time of devotional exercise in the schools in the +morning; the cent per week every Tuesday morning, the cent per month +on the twelfth day of each month. Every quarter the treasurer will +gather the different sums and send to the American Missionary +Association treasury. The twelfth day of February each _year_ will be +a rallying day, when we trust much more will be realized. It is hoped +by those who have this plan in hand, and we are all working in unison +here in it, to extend it throughout all of our schools and churches in +the South, that the present debt of the American Missionary +Association may be brought close to their hearts, and kept there, as +the proposition is that this association shall continue until the debt +is lifted. + + + + +LINCOLN MEMORIAL DAY IN THE SOUTH. + +BY REV. W. J. LARKIN. + + +On Lincoln's birthday most of the churches connected with the American +Missionary Association in the South took occasion to make a +contribution to it, and many gifts not large in themselves, but +representing a great deal of sacrifice, have been received by our +treasurer in New York. The pastor of our church in Marion, Alabama, +sends a contribution of over $16 from his church, which amount +represents more sacrifices than thousands of dollars would represent +from many of our more favored churches. He writes: "We had a Lincoln's +exercise on Lord's day, 10th, by the school at the church. It was a +very cold, dark night, but our offering was $16.09. You will consider +the hard times here--and they are hard, indeed, this year--we have had +intense cold now nearly two months with the mercury nearly to zero. +When ice is six inches thick in this part of Alabama it means intense +suffering for the half-clad and half-fed negroes. We add to this +$16.09, $11.26, which we have collected at our missionary prayer +meetings, making in all $27.35." + +"I called on a few of the old ex-slaves for some experiences of bygone +days. Among others here is one: 'When I was a boy about twelve years +of age there were several boys together telling what we would do when +we became men. I said, "I am going to be free and keep a store, and +perhaps employ some of you boys as my clerks." Among these boys +standing there was a white boy, who, when he went home, told his +father what I had been saying. Shortly after a lady, when I was +passing her house one day called me in and said, "Steve, is that you?" +"Yes, marm." "I want to see you; I hear you have been talking some bad +talk with other boys." I said, "What is it, marm?" "You said that you +were going to be free some day. Now let me tell you, if you do not +stop talking such talk you will be hung and nobody can possibly save +you. Let me tell you, you were ordained from the foundation of the +world to be a slave; that is your destiny."' He continued, 'Although I +never employed any of those boys as clerks, yet from that white boy, +who reported my conversation, I have bought thousands of dollars' +worth of goods since. I began by selling cakes on the railway cars. I +remember down in Tennessee about the year 1852 a man came and +preached, and was said to have abolition ideas. The white people took +him and hung him. Oh! children, if I only had had the privileges you +now have! I thank God for the American Missionary Association. It took +my children and made men of them. When I was a boy a good Christian +man taught me to read a little. The white people discovered it and +said, "You stop teaching niggers," and cut off his forefinger for +teaching us to write.'" + + + + +THE LOUISIANA ASSOCIATION. + +BY REV. G. W. MOORE, FIELD MISSIONARY. + + +The Louisiana State Association held its twenty-sixth annual meeting +with the church at Thibodeaux, February 1-4. It was one of the best +meetings in interest and attendance in the history of the association. + +The reports from the churches showed a steady growth and hopeful +outlook, in spite of the hard times. These churches of Southern +Louisiana are in the black belt of the State on plantations and in +towns adjacent to the large sugar plantations. Many of the planters +have become bankrupt by the changed conditions of giving up the sugar +bounty, while the poor colored laborers have been the greatest +sufferers. + +The stories of their hardships and struggles in their efforts to live +and carry forward their church work are full of pathos, heroism and +self-sacrifice. Laborers have had to take fifty cents a day and board +themselves, to keep the wolf of starvation from their door, and many +of them are unable to get work at any price. + +It was a revelation to the brethren to hear the report of Rev. James +Herod, of the American Missionary Association meeting at Lowell, +Mass., and of Mr. E. H. Phillips, of the Cleveland Christian Endeavor +meeting. It was the first time these colored men had been North or +East, and had come in contact with Northern civilization. First-class +trains, hotels and Christian hospitality from "our brother in white" +were all new to them. + +Mr. Herod is a graduate of Straight University, and is our pastor at +Abbeville, La. His face beamed with grateful joy as he told the story +of the meeting and the wonders of the North, and of the warm welcome +of Northern friends, while the brethren of the Association were held +spell-bound by his graphic recital. It is hard to tell which was the +happier, the speaker or the audience. + +Mr. Phillips, of Morris-Brown Church, New Orleans, is a zealous +Christian Endeavor worker. The State of Louisiana was represented at +the Cleveland Christian Endeavor Convention by two colored delegates, +Mr. Phillips and Dr. Nelson. The reception these colored Endeavorers +received at Cleveland made all of our hearts glad. It was so +refreshing to see this star of hope rising in the hearts of our long +oppressed brethren, and to have them realize somewhere in the land the +meaning and sweetness of the words of our Lord, and the Christian +Endeavor motto: "One is your Master, even Christ, and all ye are +brethren." + +The report made by our field missionary of the Sunday-school +Convention held in London, Eng., also inspired the brethren with the +hope that the good time coming will come ere long, when they will be +measured by their worth and _work_, and not always be despised and +oppressed because of the accident of birth and condition. The Woman's +Missionary State Union, with Miss Bella Hume as president, held an +interesting meeting. They are assisting in the support of a missionary +at our Indian Mission at Santee, Neb. The Sunday-school State +Association, Rev. J. W. Whittaker, moderator, also held an inspiring +meeting. Mr. Alfred Lawless, Jr., was appointed general Sunday-school +superintendent to visit needy Sunday-schools in the State, and +especially to assist in organizing Sunday-schools on the sugar +plantations. + +The neat little chapel built a year ago by the American Missionary +Association at Thibodeaux was dedicated Sunday, February 3. An +impressive and helpful sermon was preached by Rev. Prof. G. W. +Henderson, of Straight University, followed by addresses by the +pastor, Rev. J. E. Smith, Trustee Matthew Dickerson and the field +missionary. + +As the train left the little town the delegates sang, "God be with you +till we meet again." The coach was curtained off, to separate the +white and colored passengers, but as this song of benediction rang out +on the train the curtain was lifted by the white passengers, and for a +season we were all one company. May the angelic song of the Nativity +of "peace on earth and good will toward men" so abound that the +curtains that separate men will be raised and its refrain of "peace +and good will" extend to our common humanity, that we may all be bound +together and united to Christ. + + + + +FIELD ITEMS. + + +The organization of Young People's Societies of Christian Endeavor +among the young people in the mountains is being carried on very +successfully by the missionaries and superintendents of the American +Missionary Association in that region. A recent report from one of the +superintendents gives a list of nine places at which Endeavor +Societies have been recently organized. The American Missionary +Association has been especially active in this work of spreading the +Endeavor movement among our young Highlanders of the South. The +Endeavor Society meets just their need, and furnishes opportunities +for development and growth which are greatly appreciated. + + * * * * * + +Extract from a letter, Andersonville, Ga.: It is pitiful to see the +children come so regularly four or five miles to school, their feet +protruding from their broken shoes, bringing their baskets of tuition +in the way of chickens, eggs, etc., to pay their school bills. One +longs to cook up the things brought and give food to the poor children +and wrap them in warm clothing, but I know the only way to make them +self-reliant and keep them from the spirit of mendicancy is to require +them to pay. + + * * * * * + +NEW ORLEANS, LA.--Rev. Geo. W. Moore writes: About thirty of +the boarding students and fifty of the day students have avowed their +faith in Christ since Friday evening, when I first began the Gospel +exercises in their behalf. All of the boarders of Straight University +are now in the Christian household of faith. + + + + +MISS AMY WILLIAMS. + + +On Sunday, February 24, at Rochester, N. Y., another of our valued +missionaries passed on beyond the work and opportunities of this life +to her blessed reward. + +Miss Amy Williams entered the service of the Association in 1868 as +missionary teacher at Augusta, Ga. The next year she was transferred +to Atlanta, Ga., where she was for many years the principal of the +Storrs School. Retiring from this principalship in 1885, she spent a +few years North, but her heart continually turned to her loved people, +and in 1893 she accepted appointment as principal of the Slater Normal +School, at Knoxville, Tenn., where her work was characterized by the +same thoroughness and ability as that at Atlanta. Finding that her +health would not permit her to return the second year, she wrote in +December: "My heart just aches to go back South. Every other work +seems insignificant." + +Mrs. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta, Ga., writes as follows: + +"Nearly twenty-five years ago, in the beauty of her young womanhood, +she took charge of Storrs School, shaping it through those plastic +years, and leaving the impress of her grand life upon it. At supper +table to-night I ventured to ask one of the older girls who sits +beside me if she remembered Miss Williams. How her face lighted up as +she said: "Oh yes; she gave me my first Bible." Hundreds of boys and +girls have entered the college preparatory class at Atlanta University +who, but for her, would never have gone beyond the grammar school. In +the early days, before electric cars, she often walked out here, +nearly two miles, to see how her Storrs children were getting on. One +day I wanted to walk back with her a little way, but she said: "I must +go on a mile further to the home of a poor boy who ran away and has +been sleeping in my schoolroom two nights, because his father beats +him so he does not dare to go home." That boy is now Rev. John W. +Whittaker, class of '84, and pastor of First Congregational Church, +New Orleans, La. I think of hosts of others who will rise up to call +her blessed. So, as much as I loved her, I cannot grieve for her, but +only sit and wonder how that one crown can contain all the stars that +must be circling round her brow." + + + + +The Indians. + + + + +COLLECTION FOR THE DEBT AT SANTEE AGENCY. + + +The response of an Indian church to the appeal for help in view of the +financial distress upon the Association, is certainly worthy of any +Christian church anywhere. In reporting their collection, Dr. A. L. +Riggs writes as follows: + +"On February 10, our mission people and Pilgrim Church responded to +the call of the American Missionary Association, and made a +subscription of two hundred and sixteen dollars. This subscription +will be paid in before the first of April, and it will likely be +increased some. Of course the larger part is the gift of the +missionaries, but the Indians did well, a number contributing five +dollars apiece." + +In giving an account of a service the day this large collection was +taken at this Indian church, Mr. F. B. Riggs writes: + +"Two of the mission people started the pledge with twenty dollars +each. That rather startled the people, but several soon ventured ten +dollars each. Then one pledged ten dollars on condition that nine +others pledged the same. The nine were found. One Indian woman pledged +ten dollars. Several Indians put down four, five, six and seven +dollars each. We would sing and then call for pledges; speak and sing +again, and then pledges again. The committee was instructed to canvass +the matter farther immediately. The work is now going on outside. In +the meanwhile the pledges are being paid very fast, and I expect to be +able to remit to you soon. This contribution from Pilgrim Church means +much from the hearts of our members. They have gone right down to the +suffering point in this giving. The pupils in the school have done +well in helping, too. I have been astonished that many members of +America's great churches think that missionaries and people in our +mission fields are only recipients. I wonder if the good people in all +our large churches did as much to lift the debt of the American +Missionary Association on Lincoln Memorial Sabbath as did the members +of this Indian Mission Church on the prairie. If so, the debt is wiped +out." + + + + +LETTER FROM AN INDIAN. + + +David Tatankaota recently wrote the following letter to Miss M. C. +Collins. David is the missionary in Thunder Hawk's village, a new +mission recently opened by the American Missionary Association. Miss +Collins writes that David sent his report together with this letter +and a collection of $5.50 from the Indians in his mission: + + "January 26, 1895. + + "WINONA, MY FRIEND: + + "I will give you a letter. My children and wife we are all well. + Every Sunday brings praying. Some are beginning to understand the + Bible. At the second service on Sunday I ask some to pray and + some to talk. Also at the Wednesday prayer meeting these are + ready to respond. Chasinghorse, Flyinghorse and Whiteagle. + + "Thunderhawk is growing a little stronger (spiritually). He and + his family are always at church. I have said enough. + + + "Your friend, + + "DAVID TATANKAOTA. + + "This is written with my own hand. Amen." + +Translated by Miss Collins. + + + + +The Chinese. + + + + +GLEANINGS FROM THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION FOR +THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31, 1894. + +BY REV. W. C. POND, D.D. + + +This is old news. But the report has been delayed in order that the +treasurer might keep his books open till the very last offering +pledged to us in aid of the work for that year could be collected, and +thus, as much as possible be paid of the salaries which remained +unpaid at the end of the year. We had no deficit. The mission does not +run in debt. It never uses the resources of a new year to pay the +arrears of the one preceding. Consequently there was only one thing to +do when it became apparent that our resources would not be equal to +our needs, viz., to authorize our workers to cease work and close the +schools, and to say that should they continue in the work, we could +promise them only this, that we would do for them all that was +possible to us. The final result was that our workers--steadfast and +faithful--after having given their usual donations, squared accounts +in January by extra gifts amounting to $374.90. + +And while we are on this matter of the finances, we will give an +abstract of the treasurer's final statement respecting current +expenses in our general work: + + + I. RESOURCES: + + On hand last Report $49.95 + Appropriation American Missionary Association 7,499.90 + Receipts at Treasury California Chinese Mission 4,973.80 + Transferred from Permanent Prop. Account 24.55 + Sale of Tracts and Books 4.40 + + + II. DISBURSEMENTS: + + Salaries of Superintendent, Teachers + and Helpers $8,480.25 + Rents of Mission Houses 3,013.85 + Incidental Expenses 1,058.50 + -------- -------- + $12,552.60 $12,552.60 + + +In addition to this, the work for Chinese mothers and children cost us +$557.70, a little less than one-half of what we could have used with +rigid economy and good results. + +The statistics of the work show twenty-one missions in which schools +have been maintained, as follows: Fourteen during the entire year, +except as recesses were taken at Chinese and American holidays; four +with but one month's vacation; two during the four months that the +fruit men have comparative leisure, and one--that at Watsonville--a +new mission which commenced work four months before the fiscal year +closed. + +The total number of months of labor was 431. + +The aggregate enrollment of Christian Chinese connected with our +missions, so far as reported, is 596. The number concerning whom we +may hope that they have been led to Christ during the past year is 60, +making the total number of whom this hope has been cherished, and who +have given "credible evidence of faith in Christ" from the first more +than 1,100. How many of these will appear in the church of the +first-born "clothed in white robes" it is not for human judgment to +decide. Sometimes the human, the frail, we may almost say the +_devilish_ crops out in a way to put hope and courage to a test that +is terribly severe, but never anything to compare with that which Paul +had to confront in those at Corinth, whom he nevertheless denominates +"the sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints." The Good Shepherd +knows his sheep, and those thus given to him by the Father shall +_never perish_, neither shall anyone pluck them out of his Father's +hands. + +The limits of our space forbid that we follow the report into its +accounts of the year's work in each one of these missions. Two points +deserve special notice. One of these has been referred to in a +previous number of THE MISSIONARY. More attention must be +given to preaching in the street and in our schoolrooms, which make +very comfortable little chapels. The other is that many Chinese +children--native-born Americans--are growing up not only in the great +centers, but also in interior villages, and we must open the doors of +our schools to these; make such arrangements as will secure their +attendance, and so bring it about by the grace of God that they grow +up not in darkness, but under the healing beams of Him who said, "I am +the light of the world." + + * * * * * + +OFFERINGS OF OUR BRETHREN.--It is not possible to segregate +their gifts to our treasury with perfect accuracy, but we are within +the truth when we place them at $1,905.40. In addition to this they +have given for the local expenses of their several Associations +$1,134.10, for Missionary Work in China $675.65, for their Worldwide +Missionary Society (through the American Board) $63.60, and for relief +to needy brethren and others $358, making an aggregate of $5,136.75 as +their offerings for the year; and this, be it understood when the +pressure of the times cannot but be felt by them, on the average, more +severely than by any others. The goods a Chinaman has to sell are +likely to be those that in hard times we dispense with. If wages are +to be reduced, the reduction begins with the Chinaman. It is no great +sin in the view of many to steer clear of paying a Chinaman. If +anybody is to be dismissed from service when economy begins it is the +Chinaman. We cannot but think that under the circumstances the +financial showing at this point is highly creditable. + + + + +Bureau of Woman's Work. + + + + +WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNIONS. + +THANK-OFFERING DAY, APRIL 12. + + +It is heart cheering that the Women's Unions have planned for thought, +prayer and special offerings on Friday, April 12, or Easter Sunday, +the 14th, the day which, in the words of the resolution adopted by the +State organizations at their annual meeting, "commemorates Christ's +gift of Himself to the world." + +Surely liberal offerings must follow sober thought and earnest prayer +for the redemption of those whom God seems to have given into our +special charge here in our own country. Our Lord Himself said, "Ye +have done it unto Me." What if it does cost self-denial? Shall we not +plan more liberally for Christ than for self? + + "How much owest thou my Lord? That is the question which the giver + has to face. Sometimes in commercial circles a man will assign a + debt that is owing to him to someone else out of friendship that + he may take it when he has collected and use it for himself. Much + in the same way, I think, the Lord Jesus has assigned a large + portion of the debt which we owe to Him to those who are around + us, to the unconverted at our doors, to these races among whom we + labor. Let us see in those for whom appeal is made to us through + this Association the representatives of Christ." + + DR. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR. + + + "When men know the grace of Christ they will never feel that they + have given Him enough. Until they know it they will never give + _Him_ anything. They may contribute to keep up appearances so as + to be like other people or to gain a reputation, but they will + never give to _Him_ until they know His grace. Before men give to + Christ they must receive from Him, and when they have received + Christ Himself into their hearts they will be impelled to give, + _im_pelled not _com_pelled; for the delight and the duty will + co-exist, or rather the duty will be merged in the delight." + + DR. WILLIAM M. TAYLOR. + + * * * * * + +WANTED, to supply demands for libraries, copies of THE AMERICAN +MISSIONARY for January, February, March and April, 1862, January, +1866, January, 1867, and January and August, 1875. Also, copies of The +Annual Report for 1860, 1861, 1862, 1863. + + + + +RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1895. + +THE DANIEL HAND FUND + +For the Education of Colored People. + + Income for February $4,197.35 + Previously acknowledged 18,322.50 + ---------- + $22,519.85 + ========== + + +CURRENT RECEIPTS. + + +MAINE, $524,10. + + Alfred. Cong. Ch., 10.50; Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch., 2.22 12.72 + Andover. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Auburn. Samuel J. M. Perkins 10.00 + Augusta. "A Friend" 30.00 + Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Ch. 100.00 + Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch., L. M. Circle, Bbl. C. + _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ + Boothbay Harbor. Mrs. M. Alice Beal, _for Gospel Work_ 8.00 + Brewer. Jun. C. E. S., 2 boxes Christmas Gifts, _for + McIntosh, Ga._ + Freeport. Miss G. B. Lewis 1.00 + Gardiner. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill + Acad., Tenn_ 24.00 + Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 118.29 + Gorham. H. H. Soc., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00 + Harpswell Center. Bbl. C., by Mrs. E. R. Morse, _for + Blowing Rock, N. C._ + Harrison, Cong. Ch. 3.37 + Litchfield Corners. Y. P. S. C. E., by Walter T. + Earle, Treas. 2.50 + Litchfield Corners. Bbl. C., by Mrs. D. F. Smith, + _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ + North Bridgton. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + Phippsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.27 + Portland. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 40.00 + Portland. W. M. Soc., _for Student Aid, Gregory Inst._ 8.00 + Portland. Second Parish Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., Bbl. + C. _for Greenwood, S. C._ + Robinston. Ladies' Aid Soc., of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Bedding, + Freight 1.85, _for Talladega, Ala._ 1.85 + Rockland. Woman's Aid Soc., of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Bedding, + etc., Freight 2, _for Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 + Searsport. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch., 5; Jun. C. E. S., 4, + _for Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga._ 9.00 + Wells. Barak Maxwell, 20; "A Friend," 1 21.00 + West Cornville. Addie Bicknell .50 + West Paris. Miss Mary L. Dana, "Youth's Companion" + for one year, _for Macon, Ga._ + Woodfords. Carl Coffin, S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 2.10 + Woodfords. Bbl. C. and Bedding, _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + Woodfords. 2 Bbls. C., by Mrs. Ida V. Woodbury, Sec., + _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ + Woodfords. Bbl. C., _for Marion, Ala._ + Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs. E. D. + Freeman, Memorial Miss Sophia Carleton) 40.00 + + Maine Woman's Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. Ida V. Woodbury, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Cumberland Center 22.00 + Lewiston, Pine St. Ch. 25.00 + Turner. Mrs. S. L. Bird 1.00 + Pownal 5.00 + ------ 53.00 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $1,098.04 + + Amherst. Edward D. Boylston, 100; Cong. Ch., 80; Sab. Sch., + Cong. Ch., 11.46 191.46 + Boscawen. Mrs. Mattie P. Webster, Freight, _to Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ 1.00 + Claremont. Y. W. Soc., Bbl. C., etc., _for Wilmington, N. C._ + East Brentwood. Rev. H. H. Colburn 10.00 + East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch., 14.50; Christian Endeavor Soc., 5.42 19.92 + Farmington. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which from Y. P. S. C. E.) + _for Student Aid, Nat, Ala._ 35.40 + Greenville. Cong. Ch. (of which F. W. Ely 25). 40.00 + Jaffrey. "Lilies of the Field," by Miss L. S. Adams, + _for Storrs Sch._ 10.00 + Littleton. First Cong. Ch. 24.83 + Londonderry. Chas. S. Pillsbury 1.00 + Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. L. + GOODRICH, MRS. J. B. ESTEY and MRS. J. G. JONES L. M.'s 102.12 + Merrimac. Geo. S. Parkhurst, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00 + New Castle. Willing Workers, _for Straight U._ 10.00 + Pembroke. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 15.34 + Peterboro. Union Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 10.00 + South New Market. Miss H. L. Fitts, _for Student Aid, + Gregory Inst._ 32.40 + Stratham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 + South New Market. Miss H. L. Fitts, _for Freight_, + 1.71 Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ 1.71 + Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. 10.86 + -------- + $598.04 + ESTATES. + + Lyndeboro. Estate of Jotham Hildreth, _for benevolent + and charitable purposes of the A. M. A., among the Colored + People of the South_, by William R. Putnam, Trustee 500.00 + -------- + $1,098.04 + + +VERMONT, $388.00. + + Barnet. Sab. Sch, Cong Ch. 4.83 + Barre. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Burlington. Mary C. Wheeler, _for Straight U._ 20.00 + Cambridge. M. and C. Safford 15.00 + Damon's Crossing. Geo. A. Appleton 10.00 + Dorset. Y. P. S. C. E., by Marcia K. Gray, Ch. M. C., + _for Student Aid, Blowing Rock. N. C._ 10.00 + Dorset. Mrs. H. M. Johnson 1.00 + Essex. A. A. Slater, Box and Bbl. C., _for Columbia, S. C._ + Greensboro. Cong. Ch. 4.20 + Jeffersonville. Second Cong. Ch. of Cambridge 5.50 + Johnson. A. J. Grant, _for Straight U._ 5.00 + Milton. Y. P. S. C. E., Cong. Ch., _for C. E. Hall, + McIntosh, Ga._ 1.85 + Montpelier. Bethany Sab. Sch., by D. S. Wheatley, Treas. 16.78 + Newfane. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.55 + New Haven. Cong. Ch., Y. L. Working Club, Bbl. C., + _for Grand View. Tenn._ + North Bennington. Cong. Ch., Ladies, Bbl. C., _for + Grand View, Tenn._ + Rupert. Cong. Ch. 24.40 + Saint Johnsbury. South Cong., Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., + _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 40.00 + Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 21.00 + Strafford. Cong. Ch., 17: Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. + Ch., _for Mountain Work_, 8 25.00 + Westford. "A Friend" 5.00 + Westminster. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., End-Day Off., + _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 5.00 + Whiting. Cong. Ch. 6.31 + Woodstock. W. H. M. S., 25; Mrs. Fred. Merrill, 3, + _for Ballard Sch., Macon, Ga._ 28.00 + _Received for Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga.:_ + Barton Landing and Brownington, Bbl. C. + Chelsea. By Mrs. C. D. Comstock, 4; Mrs. + Sarah W. Sherman, Freight, 2.65 6.65 + Coventry. Busy Bees, Bbl. C., + Freight, 2. 2.00 + Essex Junction. By Mrs. F. D. Bacon, + Bbl. C., Freight, 2 2.00 + North Craftsbury. Vermont H. M. S. 5.00 + Montpelier. Bethany Ch., L. M. S., 2 + Bbls C. + Saint Johnsbury. Ladies of South Ch., + Box C. + West Glover. Ladies. Bbl. B. + ------ 15.65 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, by Mrs. + William P. Fairbanks, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Berlin. L. H. M. S. 5.00 + Brattleboro West. Jun. C. E., _for + Indian Sch'p._ 5.00 + Burlington. First Ch., W. H. M. S. 20.00 + Northfield. W. H. M. S. 5.00 + Norwich. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Sch'p_ 6.00 + Saint Johnsbury. So. Ch. W. H. M. S., + 26.93; So. Ch. Sab. Sch., 30; Center + Ch., W. H. M. S., 5 61.93 + Waterbury. Jun. C. E. Soc., _for + Indian Sch'p._ 5.00 + ------ 107.93 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $8,422.71. + + Amesbury. Ladies H. M. Soc. of Main St. Ch., _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 6.50 + Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 90.00 + Amherst. North Ch., 7.50; T. S. Cooley, Box S. S. Papers, + _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ 7.50 + Amherst. Colored Bible Class, Bbl. C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ + Andover. Rev. C. C. Starbuck, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00 + Andover. Theo. Sem., _for Mountain Work_ 1.25 + Ashfield. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Bedford. Cong. Ch. 9.51 + Berlin. Cong. Ch. 14.25 + Beverly. Wash. St. Cong Ch. 50.37 + Beverly Farms. A Day 1.00 + Billerica. Mrs. Daniel W. Hardy, Bbl. C., _for Moorhead, Miss._ + Blue Hill. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Acad., + Tenn._ 10.00 + Blue Hill. Mrs. Lizzie A. Tucker, 30, to const. herself L. M. + Incorrectly ack. in February number, from Blue Hill, Maine. + Brimfield. Union Cong. Ch. Ladies, Bbl. C., _for Greenwood, + S. C._ + Brookline. Geo. P. Davis, _for Tuition, Little Mary, + Gregory Inst._ 5.00 + Buckland. "Life Member" 2.00 + Blanford. Miss H. M. Hinsdale, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00 + Boston. Ladies' Aux., _for Student Aid, + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 75.00 + Old South Ch. Mrs. Clapp, _for Sch'p, + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 40.00 + Miss E. S. Fiske, _for Marshallville, + Ga._ 25.00 + Whatsoever Band, _for Student Aid, + Gregory Inst._ 6.00 + Union Ch. Y. P. Miss. Soc. 5.00 + "Girls' Refuge," _for Student Aid, + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 5.00 + Perry, Mason & Co., "Youth's + Companion," one year, _for Macon, + Ga._ + Mrs. M. H. Hitchcock, Bbl. C. _for + Columbia, S. C._ + Mrs. T. H. Kendall, 2 Bbls. C., etc., + _for Marshallville, Ga._ + Dorchester. Mrs. N. P. Livermore, 35; + Mrs. Wm. Jenks, 8, _for Student Aid, + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 43.00 + Second Cong. Ch., by B. C. Hardwick 25.00 + Rev. H. Houston, _for Student Aid_, + 5.33; Freight, 1.67; "Friends," by + Mrs. Mary Houston, Bbl. C., _for + Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga._ 7.00 + Jamaica Plain. Mrs. Cheney, _for Le Moyne + Inst._ 25.00 + Indian Association, by Miss Manning, + Treas., _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, + N. D., Out-station Work for Women_ 10.00 + Roxbury. Eliot Cong. Ch. 50.00 + "A Friend," _for Tuition, Little Mary, + Gregory Inst._ 8.00 + L. H. M. S. Bbl. C., _for Blowing Rock, + N. C._ + ------ 324.00 + + Brookfield. Mrs. R. B. Montague 5.00 + Cambridge. Henry White, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Stereopticon Coll. 19.48 + Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Woman's Miss. Soc., _for + Work Among Chinese Women in Cal._ 10.00 + Carlisle. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Saluda Sem., N.C._ 25.00 + Centreville. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Charlton. Cong. Ch. 12.97 + Chester. 2 Bbls. C., _for Meridian, Miss._ + Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. 44.50 + Cummington. Mrs. H. M. Porter, _for Mountain Work_ 10.00 + Curtisville. Y. P. S. C. E., by Minnie Ford, Treas., + _for Santee Indian Sch._ 10.00 + Dalton. First Cong. Ch., to const. LILLIAN F. MITCHELL, + CAMILLA B. PERREY, WILLIAM D. YEATS, WALTER H. SEARS + and LILLIAN TOOLEY L. M.'s 165.15 + Dalton. W. M. Crane, 100; Mrs. Z. M. Crane, 100; Miss + Clara L. Crane, 100; to const. MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD, + MRS. M. D. PELTON, MISS LILLIAN E. SIMMONS, JAMES + BARDIN, HERBERT R. MESSENGER and CHARLES SLATER L. M.'s 300.00 + Dalton. Mrs. Z. M. Crane 12; Mrs. Zenas Crane, 12; Mrs. + J. B. Crane, 12; Miss Clara L. Crane, 12; and Miss Mary + Crane, 12, _for Student Aid, Talladega, C._ 60.00 + Douglass. "A Friend," 5; "Friends," 3, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 8.00 + Dunstable. Y. P. S. C. E., "Thank Off." 5.00 + Everett. Mrs. G. W. Fitz, Bbl. C., _for Albany, Ga._ + Fall River. Mrs. R. K. Remington, _for Wilmington, N. C._ 10.00 + Fall River. Miss Robertson, _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, + N. D._ 5.00 + Framingham. Plym. Ch. 45.75 + Framingham. Plym. Ch., Ladies, _for Williamsburg Acad. Ky._ 12.00 + Franklin. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + Gill. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Church, New + Orleans, La._ 6.30 + Greenfield. Mrs. Dwight R. Tyler 12.00 + Halifax. C. E. Day, Off., by Nellie T. Bain, Treas. 2.65 + Hamilton. E. M. Knowlton 2.00 + Hatfield. Sab. Sch. Classes and Friends, by David Billings, + Treas. 12.12 + Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Theo. Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 50.00 + Haverhill. ----, 25; Y. P. S. C. E., Union Cong. Ch., 2.62 27.62 + Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., + New Orleans, La._ 50.00 + Hopkinton. Mrs. A. M. Crooks, _for Little Mary, Wilmington, + N. C._ 10.00 + Hyde Park. Infant S. S., of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 8.00 + Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. 9.28 + Leominster. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 40.00 + Lee. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., 19; Mrs. Kibbon, 1; + Miss Ames, 1, _for Avery Home, Charleston, S. C._ 21.00 + Lowell. John St. Sab. Sch., 4; John St. Primary S. S., 15, + _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 19.00 + Lowell. G. H. Candee, _for Library, Straight U._ 10.00 + Lunenburg. Evan. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Marlboro Washburn C. E. Union 2.50 + Milton. Hon. Edward L. Pierce, 19 Vols. "Memoirs and Works + of Charles Sumner," _for Straight U._ + Milford. Rev. W. Woodbury, Pkgs. S. S. Literature; Mrs. + Woodbury, 2 fine Lamps for Students' Rooms, _for Grand + View, Tenn._ + Monson. E. F. Morris, 100; Cong. Ch., 22.74 122.74 + Montvale. Mrs. S. T. Greenough 5.00 + New Bedford. Y. P. S. C. E., _for A. N. and I. Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00 + Neponset. Mrs. S. L. Winsor, _for Library, Straight U._ 5.00 + Newburyport. Mrs. S. Kimball, _for Le Moyne Inst., Memphis, + Tenn._ 3.00 + Newton. Mrs. George S. Trowbridge's S. S. Class, Elliot Ch., + _for Little Indian Girl, Santee, Neb._ 5.00 + Northampton. Miss Bates and Miss Fisk, _for Student Aid, + Lincoln Acad., N. C._ 4.41 + North Amherst. Ladies' M. S., Bbl. C., _for Lincoln Acad., + N. C._ + North Chelmsford. "A Friend" 5.00 + North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + North Leominster. Cong. Ch. of Christ 13.07 + North Weymouth. Cong. Ch., "Wide Awakes," _for Indian M., + Fort Berthold, N. D._ 5.00 + Oakham. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Palmer. Second Cong. Ch., _for Theo. Student Aid, Talladega + C._ 75.00 + Pittsfield. Mary A. Bissell, Copies of "American Teacher," + _for Talladega, Ala._ + Plymouth. Church of the Pilgrimage 36.42 + Randolph. Miss Abbie Turner, _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, + N. D._ 5.00 + Reading. "A Friend" 5.00 + Royalston. D. P. Foster, _for Mountain Work_ 5.00 + Salem. Y. L. M. S., _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, N. D._ 5.00 + Sharon. Cong. Ch. S. S. Class, _for Williamsburg Acad., Ky._ 17.33 + Sharon. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Somerville. Winter Hill Cong Ch., 31.61; Franklin St. O. C. + Sab. Sch., 10 41.61 + Somerville. Prospect Hill Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for Macon, + Ga._ + South Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch. 170.41 + South Framingham. R. L. Day, _for Special Mountain Work._ 100.00 + South Framingham. Grace Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Mountain + Work_ 19.65 + South Haley Falls. "Friends" 10.00 + Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. SHERMAN W. + BROWN L. M. 187.32 + Spencer. Three S. S. Classes, by C. E. Green, 13; Through + Miss Fitts, 12.50, _for Student Aid, Gregory Inst._ 25.50 + Springfield. Robert H. Clizbe, by Mrs. E. B. Merriam 15.00 + Springfield. King's Daughters, Circle of Ruth, _for Gloucester + Sch., Cappahosic, Va._ 3.00 + Springfield. By Mrs. Thompson, Bbl. C., Freight, 1.30, _for + Blowing Rock, N. C._ 1.30 + Springfield. L. M. Soc., _for A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 1.20 + Sterling. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Sturbridge. Firs. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.36 + Turners Falls. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., 8; Mrs. Mayo's + S. S. Class, 5.50, _for Central Church, New Orleans, La._ 13.50 + Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 65.02 + Ware. Miss Sage, 5; Mr. Cutler, 5; Jun. Y. P. S. C. E., 5, + _for Meridian, Miss._ 15.00 + Warren. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid_, 8; Bbl. C., By + Miss Ellen L. Pixley, _for Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga._ 8.00 + Wellesley. "A Friend" 20.00 + Wellesley. Wellesley College, Indian Ass'n. 3.00 + Westboro. Y. L. B. Soc., Evan. Cong. Ch., _for Saluda, N. C._ 25.00 + Westboro. Miss Kate Harrington, _for Student Aid, A. N. and + I. Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 10.00 + Westfield. ----, 2 Bbls C.; Mrs. O. W. Sanford, Bbl. C., + _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + West Hatfield. Aid Soc., Bbl. C. _for Moorhead, Miss._ + West Medway. Second Cong. Ch., _for Evarts, Ky._, and to + const. REV. FRED HOVEY ALLEN L. M. 30.00 + West Medway. Third Cong. Ch. 30.00 + West Newton. "Pax" 2.00 + Weymouth. Rev. J. M. Lord. 2 Boxes Books, _for Straight U. + Library_ + Wilbraham. Mrs. P. S. Horner 2.00 + Williamstown. Church of Christ, White Oaks, by Rev. W. Morse 3.00 + Williamstown. Mrs. L. D. White, Bbl. C., _for Williamsburg, + Ky._ + Winchester. Cong. Ch, Children, _for Student Aid, Pleasant + Hill Acad., Tenn._ 40.00 + Whitinsville. A. F. Whitin, Books, _for Library, Talladega C._ + Worcester. Old South Ch., 100.25; Central Cong. Ch., 96.74; + Park Cong. Ch., Ladies' Missy Soc., bal. to const. REV. + INNAN L. WILCOX L. M. 13; A. L. Smith, 5 214.99 + Worcester. F. D. and D. N. Dixon Memorial Fund, _for Student + Aid, Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 20.00 + Hampden Benevolent Association, by George R. Bond, Treas.: + Chicopee. First 6.20 + North Wilbraham. Grace Union 7.80 + Palmer. Second 15.00 + Springfield. First 20.43 + Springfield. South 65.60 + Westfield. Second 56.98 + Westfield. Second Sab. Sch., _for + Indian M._ 37.76 + ----. "A Friend" 10.00 + ------ 219.77 + + Woman's Home Missionary Association of Mass. and R. I., + Annie C. Bridgman, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + W. H. M. A., _for Salaries of + Teachers._ 338.47 + Roxbury. Walnut Av. Ch., Ladies' Aux., + adl., to const. MISS HELEN M. + ATWOOD L. M. 2.94 + ------ 341.41 + -------- + $3,672.71 + + ESTATE. + + Walpole. Estate Mary B. Johnson, 5,000, less State + Tax, 250, by Frederic Guild, Executor 4,750.00 + -------- + $8,422.71 + + CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE: + + South Berwick, Me. Mrs. K. B. Lewis, Bbl. Mdse., _for + High Point, N. C._ + Billerica, Mass. H. A. King, Overcoat, _for Nat, Ala._ + Lanesville, Mass. W. L. Saunders, Pkg. Men's C., _for Nat, + Ala._ + Westford, Mass. Mrs. A. S. Wright, Bbl. and Box C., etc., + _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ + West Newton, Mass. Miss Alice Williston Bbl. C. _for Nat, + Ala._ + + +RHODE ISLAND, $90.80. + + Newport. Mrs. T. Thayer, 10; Wm. Andrews, 4.50 14.50 + Providence. Centre Cong. Ch., 50; Ministering Children, 12, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 62.00 + Providence. Centre Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + Providence. Cong. Ch., Jun. C. E. Union, _for Student Aid, + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ 3.00 + Providence. Y. P. S. C. E., North Cong. Ch. 1.30 + Providence. Wm. H. Waite, Bbl. C., _for Thomasville, Ga._ + + +CONNECTICUT, $2,905.19. + + Branford Cong. Ch. and Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New + Orleans, La._ 25.00 + Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. 116.18 + Bristol. Miss E. J. Peck, Bbl. C., etc., _for Talladega, Ala._ + Chaplin. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. REV. EUGENE M. FRARY L. M. 20.00 + Collinsville. "Friends," _for Theo. Student Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00 + Cornwall Hollow, Union End. Soc., by Mrs. Katherine M. + Sedgwick, _for Mountain Work_ 2.00 + Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 97.42 + Cromwell. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for Grand View, Tenn._ + Danbury. Y. P. S. C. E. of First Cong. Ch. 6.66 + East Haddam. "A Friend" 5.00 + East Hampton. Dea. Samuel Skinner, 37; Mrs. Jno. Star, 5; + E. C. Barton, 3; A. Conklin, 3; L. S. Carpenter, 2, _for + Theo. Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00 + East Hartford. Miss Gilman's S. S. Class, _for Central Ch., + New Orleans, La._ 7.50 + East Hartford. S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + Essex. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Farmington. Sab Sch., First Cong. Ch., 16.56 _for Central Ch., + New Orleans, La._, 12.35 _for Indian M._ 28.91 + Glastonbury. "A Friend," by Rev. John Barstow, _for Central + Ch., New Orleans, La._ 5.00 + Greenfield. C. A. Blakeman, _for Wilmington, N. C._ 8.00 + Greenwich. Cong. Ch., Mrs. Geo. P. Sheldon, 5; Miriam F. and + Helen A. Choate, by Rev. W. Choate, D.D., 5; Miss Agnes W. + Hubbard, 5 15.00 + Guilford. Miss Seward, Bbl. C. and Literature, _for Storrs + Sch._ + Guilford. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Hartford. Second Ch. of Christ 100.00 + Hartford. Mrs. W. P. Williams _for Industrial Work, Fisk U._ 15.00 + Hartford. I. J. Steane, _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 10.00 + Hartford. Fourth Cong. Ch., Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl. C., Freight + paid; South Ch. Sewing Soc., Box C., _for Grand View, Tenn._ + Harwinton. Cong. Ch., 10.72; Mrs. Milo Watson, 5 15.72 + Lebanon. First Cong. Ch., 52.16, to const. LUTHER H. RANDALL + L. M.; C. E. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 5 57.16 + Littleton. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + Lyme. L. M. S., Bbl. C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + Mansfield Centre. Mrs. L. M. Swift, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 2.00 + Middletown. First Ch. 27.40 + Millington. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + Montville Center. C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 4.00 + New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, "A Friend," to const. MISS + JENNIE M. BURNHAM L. M. 30.00 + New Britain. Cong. Ch., Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. C., _for + Grand View, Tenn._ + New Canaan. King's Daughters, Box C., _for Williamsburg. Ky._ + New Canaan. Cong. Ch., Box C., _for Grand View, Tenn._ + New Hartford. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for + Talladega Ala._ + New Haven. Edwin B. Bowditch, 15; Samuel A. Stevens, 5, _for + Student Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00 + New Haven. United Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New + Orleans, La._ 10.00 + New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen 10.00 + Newtown. Cong. Ch. 6.20 + Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 30.48 + Norwalk. Cong. Ch., King's Daughters, 2 Bbls. C., _for Grand + View, Tenn._ + North Woodstock. Cong. Ch, Sab. School, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 16.00 + Norwich. Mrs. Lucy A. Forbes S. S. Class, Second Cong. Ch., + _for Columbia, S. C._ 4.00 + Norwich. L. H. M. S, Greeneville Ch., Freight, 2.30, _for + McIntosh, Ga._ 2.30 + Norwich. Y. P. S. C. E. of Park Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Plainfield. Y. P. S. C. E., by Albert Phillips. Sec. 5.54 + Plainville. "A Friend" 1.00 + Pomfret. Cong. S. S., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + Prospect. B. B. Brown 20.00 + Putnam. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00 + Salisbury. S. S. Class, Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ 3.00 + Salisbury. S. S. Class, Mrs. M. Clark, Bbl. C., _for + Thomasville, Ga._ + Somers. "A Friend," _for Little Mary, Wilmington, N. C._ 1.00 + Somersville. Cong. Ch. 9.57 + Sound Beach. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Y. P. S. C. E., _for + Talladega C._, 6; Opportunity Seekers of Pilgram Cong. + Ch., 1.30 7.30 + South Glastonbury. Sab Sch., Cong. Ch. 6.56 + Southport, Miss Eliza A. Bulkley and Miss Georgie A. Bulkley 80.00 + Stamford. First Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., Bbl. C.. _for + Grand View, Tenn._ + Stratford. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ 10.00 + Suffield. Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Pierce, _for Meridian, Miss._ 40.00 + Suffield. ----, _for Student Aid, Skyland Ins., Blowing Rock, + N. C._ 10.00 + Suffield. First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ 6.23 + Taftville. Cong. Ch. 10.78 + Talcottville. Y. P. S. C. E., Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Terryville. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 33.25 + Thomaston. First Cong. Ch. 12.20 + Thomson. Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., Bbl., C., _for Grand View, + Tenn._ + Torrington. Two Sab. Sch. Classes, by Mrs. Burr Lyon, _for + Indian Sch'p, Santee, Neb._ 17.00 + Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.57 + Wapping. Sab. Sch., Second Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch., New + Orleans, La._ 15.00 + Waterbury. Infant Class, Sab. Sch., Second Cong. Ch., 10, + _for Colored Children_; 10 _for Indian Children's Sch._ 20.00 + Watertown. Alert Boys' Class, of Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian + M., Fort Berthold, N. D._ 3.00 + Watertown. Cong. Ch., Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. C., Freight + paid, _for Grand View, Tenn._ + Westchester. "Christian Bees." Freight, _for A. G. Sch., + Moorhead, Miss._ 1.31 + Westminster. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + West Torrington. Ladies' Miss. Circle, 4.25, _for A. I. Sch., + Thomasville, Ga._, and 4.25, _for Grand View Acad., Tenn._ 8.50 + West Winsted. "A Friend," _for Indian M._ 10.00 + Winthrop. "A Friend" 3.00 + ----. "Friends," _for Theo. Student Aid, Talladega, C._ 43.00 + + Woman's Cong. Home Missionary Union of Conn. Mrs. W. W. + Jacobs, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Bridgeport. Ladies' Union, Park St. + Ch. (15 of which _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._), 30, to const. MRS. LOUISA + LINCOLN L. M.; Y. P. S. C. E., + Park St. Ch., 6 36.00 + Fairfield. Miss E. A. Lyon 5.20 + Hartford. First Ch., Prim. Dept. of + Sab. Sch. 5.00 + Poquonock. Aux. 30.00 + Torringford. L. H. M. S. 5.00 + Wallingford. Cong. Ch., L. B. S. 25.00 + West Winsted. Second Ch., Mrs. Henry + Gay 23.00 + ------ 129.20 + -------- + $1,469.19 + + ESTATES. + + Cornwall. Estate of Silas C. Beers 680.35 + Groton. Estate of Mrs. B. N. Hurlbutt 119.10 + New Haven. Estate Lorinda M. Hall, by A. M. Blakesley, + Executor 636.55 + -------- + $2,905.19 + + +NEW YORK, $6,259.18. + + Albany. "A Friend" 35.00 + Albany. W. H. M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Box Bedding, etc., + _for Talladega, Ala._ + Angola. Miss A. H. Ames, _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + Batavia. F. E. Rice, _for A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 10.00 + Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch. 22.00 + Brooklyn. Bethany Sab. Sch., Prim. Class, _for Student Aid, + Williamsburg Acad., Ky._ 4.00 + Brooklyn. W. H. M. Soc. of Pilgrim Ch., Box Bedding, Freight, + 1.41, _for Talladega, Ala._ 1.41 + Brooklyn. Ladies' Miss. Soc., T. T. Circle of King's Daughters, + Bundle Table Covers, _for Talladega, Ala._ + Brooklyn. Violet A. Johnson, _for Student Aid, Gregory Inst._ 1.00 + Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + Buffalo. People's Cong. Ch., Box Bedding and Towels, _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Canandaigua. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Box Bedding and Towels, + _for Talladega, Ala._ + Cazenovia. Ladies' Christian Assn., _for Black Mt. Acad., Ky._ 35.00 + Clayton. Church Society, Box Bedding and Towels, Freight 1, + _for Talladega, Ala._ 1.00 + Clifton Springs. Ned and Roy Merritt, by Rev. C. P. W. Merritt 5.00 + Corona. Rev. W. J. Peck, Freight _to Savannah, Ga._ 1.00 + Derby. Birthday Box Offering, by Mrs. Fanny C. Squier 5.00 + Eagle Harbor. M. P. Lyman .50 + Ellington. Cong Ch., W. H. M. S., Mrs. H. B. Rice, _for Woman's + Work_ 5.00 + Elmira. Glines Miss. Soc., Box C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Flushing. Cong. Ch. 26.69 + Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 32.00 + Himrods. Mrs. Helen B. Ayres 5.00 + Ithaca. Rev. O. B. Hitchcock 10.00 + Ithaca. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. Bedding, etc., Freight + 2, _for Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 + Jamesport. Cong. Ch., Box C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + LeRoy. Mrs. Margaret McEwen, 5; "A Friend to the Cause," 5; + Mrs. Margaret McEwen, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 3 13.00 + LeRoy. W. H. M. S. of Presb. Ch., Bbl. C., Freight 1, _for + Fisk U._ 1.00 + Little Valley. W. H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bedding, _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Lockport. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Box Bedding, etc., _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Lysander. Y. P. S. C. E., Cong. Ch. 5.75 + Middletown. W. H. M. S. of Cong. Ch., Box Bedding and Towels, + _for Talladega, Ala._ + Morristown. First Cong. Ch. 8.63 + Mount Morris. Sab. Sch. Presb. Ch., _for A. G. Sch., + Moorhead, Miss._ 10.75 + Mount Vernon. Mrs. L. F. Buell, 2 Bbls. C., etc., _for + Columbia, S. C._ + Newburg. W. M. Circle, Bbl. C., _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + New York. W. E. Dodge, Educational Fund, 250; Bleeker Van + Wagenen, 50, _for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 300.00 + New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., "A Friend," Stamford, Conn. + (25 of which _for Thomasville, Ga._) 50.00 + New York. Miss D. E. Emerson, to const. MRS. A. ELIZABETH + DAVENPORT L. M., _for A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 35.00 + New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., C. E. Soc., _for C. E. Hall, + McIntosh, Ga._ 8.40 + New York. C. T. Dillingham & Co., Harper Bros., Fords, Howard + & Hulbert, A. S. Barnes & Co., Books for Library; Ginn & Co., + Books and Maps, _for Talladega C._ + New York. Mrs. A. C. Hickok, Box Papers, etc., _for Greenwood, + S. C._ + New York. American Bible Soc., Grant of Scriptures. Val. 205. + New York. Forest Av., Morrisania, Cong. Ch., C. E. Soc., 25. + Incorrectly ack. in March number from Fourth Av., Morrisania. + Norwood. Miss. Soc., Box Bedding, etc., _for Talladega, Ala._ + Ogdensburg. First Cong. Ch. 13.10 + Ogdensburg. "Home Land Circle" of Cong. Ch., Box Aprons and + Towels, _for Talladega, Ala._ + Orient. Cong. Ch. 12.38 + Owego. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Owego. Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Paris. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Philadelphia. Cong. Ch. 3.75 + Philadelphia. Bbl. C., by Mrs. D. H. Scofield, _for Blowing + Rock, N. C._ + Pleasantville. G. L. Perry, _for Indian M., Fort Berthold, + N. D._ 2.00 + Port Leyden. Junior C. E. Soc., Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ 1.00 + Phoenix. Ladies' Miss. Soc., Box Bedding and Sundries, Freight + 1.39, _for Talladega, Ala._ 1.39 + Phoenix. Mrs. Carter and S. S. Class, S. S. Papers, _for + Marion, Ala._ + River Head. Bbl. C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 23.75 + Rochester. Mrs. E. M. Sayne, Bbl., Books, etc., Freight Pd., + _for Talladega, Ala._ + Rushville. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., Freight 1, _for Greenwood, + S. C._ 1.00 + Saratoga. G. F. Harvey. Bbl. and Box Hardware, etc., _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Schenectady. Ladies' Miss. Soc., Cong. Ch., _for Evarts, Ky._ 25.00 + Schenectady. Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box and Bbl. + Bedding, etc., _for Talladega, Ala._ + Seneca Falls. W. H. M. S. of Cong. Ch., Box Bedding, _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Sherburne. Mrs. C. S. Gorton, 25, _for Cooking School_; "Little + Lights," 10, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 35.00 + Tarrytown. Mrs. Elbert B. Monroe (10 of which _for Little Mary, + Wilmington, N. C._) 110.00 + Utica. D. H. Williams 5.00 + Walton. Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_ 17.18 + Walton. Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Bedding, _for + Talladega, Ala._ + Walworth. Mrs. J. C. Cobb 5.00 + Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + West Winfield. George C. Wadell 5.00 + Woodhaven. Mrs. Catharine McNicol, 5; Woman's Miss. Soc. of + Cong. Ch., 5 10.00 + Woodville. W. H. M. S., Box Bedding, _for Talladega, Ala._ + Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton, _for Indian M._ 5.00 + ----. "Friends" 10.00 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of N. Y., by Mrs. J. J. + Pearsall, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Albany. Home Circle 5.00 + Bristol Center. H. M. S. 5.50 + Corning. 17.00 + Hancock. M. B. 5.00 + Homer. Miss Ellen Phillips 1.00 + New Haven. Willing Workers 10.00 + New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., Soc. for + Woman's Work 250.00 + New York. Silver Circle, Mrs. H. S. + Caswell 5.00 + ------ 298.50 + -------- + $1,259.18 + + ESTATE. + + Warsaw. Estate of Silas B. Sturdevant, Memorial Milton + Whipple, late of Riga, N. Y., by Mrs. Louise A. + Sturdevant, Executrix 5,000.00 + -------- + $6,259.18 + + +NEW JERSEY, $119.76. + + Bridgeton. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Lincoln Acad., N. C._ 7.50 + East Orange. Mrs. Lucy H. Everest 5.00 + Glen Ridge. Cong. Ch. 60.66 + Plainfield. Trinity Ref. Ch., by Miss Mabel A. Woodruff, Bbl. + C. and Toys, _for Selma, Ala._ + Westfield. Ladies' Benev. Assn., Bbl. C., _for Greenwood, S. C._ + Woodbridge. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch. 6.60 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. Assn., by Mrs. + J. H. Denison, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Paterson Helping Hand Soc. of Auburn + St. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Santee Indian Sch._ 40.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $41.15. + + Allegheny City. Mrs. Claflin, _for Le Moyne Inst., Memphis, + Tenn._ 3.50 + Cambridgeboro. Cong. Ch. 6.15 + Germantown. Mrs. E. B. Stork, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, + Va._ 5.00 + Lander. First Cong. Ch. 2.50 + Le Raysville. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Ogontz, Box C., by Miss M. J. Gates, _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ + Philadelphia. Rebecca White 20.00 + West Mill Creek. Presb. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., Bbl. Papers, + _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + + +OHIO, $458.29. + + Brecksville. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch. 7.67 + Burton. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.24 + Claridon. Cong. Ch. S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, Pleasant + Hill Acad., Tenn._ 16.00 + Cleveland. Lake View Cong. Ch. 7.50 + Cleveland. Mrs. L. V. Tolvert, _for Student Aid, Albany, Ga._ 1.00 + Columbus. Plymouth Ch. 15.60 + Cuyahoga Falls. J. L. Longshore 2.50 + Hudson. Cong. Ch. L. B. Soc., Bbl. C., Mrs. C. S. Drake, + Freight 1.40, _for Macon, Ga._ 1.40 + Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 + Monroe. First Cong. Ch. 2.45 + Newton Falls. Cong. Ch. 7.86 + North Fairfield. Cong. Ch. Ladies, _for Student Aid, Pleasant + Hill Acad., Tenn._ 8.00 + Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 8.23 + Oberlin. Sab. Sch., First Ch., 16; Mrs. E. B. Clark, 10 26.00 + Oberlin. Chauncey Pond, _for A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 5.00 + Painesville. Junior Soc. of C. E., First Cong. Ch., _for + Indian M._ 1.00 + Portsmouth. J. Q. Weaver, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, + Va._ 1.00 + Saybrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.48 + South Newbury. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 2.76 + South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer 5.00 + Sylvania. Cong. Ch. 4.50 + Wakeman. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Walnut Hills. Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ 15.00 + West Andover. Cong. Ch. 7.10 + Willoughby. F. A. Page 5.00 + Youngstown. Plym. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + + Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. G. B. Brown, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Coolville. Mrs. M. B. Bartlett 200.00 + Oberlin. First, L. A. S. 5.00 + Springfield. W. M. S. 6.00 + ------ 211.00 + -------- + $406.29 + + ESTATE. + + Oberlin. Estate of Amanda Porter 52.00 + -------- + 458.29 + + +INDIANA, 50c. + + Brimfield. Miss Huston, Bbl. C., Freight 50c., _for Blowing + Rock, N. C._ .50 + + +ILLINOIS, $950.55. + + Abingdon. Busy Bees, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + Albion. Mrs. Jos. Green, 3; Cong. Ch., Colored, 1.60 4.60 + Aurora. First Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E, _for Lincoln Acad., + N. C._ 17.00 + Batavia. Cong. Ch. 61.29 + Champaign. Cong. Ch. 42.62 + Champaign. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 + Chicago. "Hapland," 100; Sab. Sch., N. E. Cong. Ch., 15; + Tabernacle C. E., 10; Mary R. Blackburn, 5; Mrs. M. W. + Mabbs, 5 135.00 + Chicago. Mrs. Ben Frees, _for Le Moyne Inst._ 25.00 + Chicago. "Friends," Box C. and Sundries, _for Talladega, Ala._ + Dallas City. Mrs. M. H. Smith 2.00 + Dwight. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + Englewood. Plym. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, + Williamsburg Acad., Ky._ 10.00 + Elgin. Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight + U._ 12.00 + Elgin. Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch., _for Native Teacher, Indian + M., Grand River, N. D._ 5.00 + Elmhurst. Cong. Ch. 6.71 + Englewood. Pilgrim Ch., Pkg. Books, _for Pleasant Hill Acad., + Tenn._ + Galena, Mrs. A. Bean 2.50 + Galesburg, C. E. Soc., by Mrs. E. E. Day, _for Indian M._ 4.50 + Geneseo. "A Birthday Memorial" 10.00 + Geneva. Y. P. S. C. E. 3.24 + Greenville. Cong. Ch., Bbl. Books and C., Freight 1.20, _for + Talladega, Ala._ 1.20 + Hampton. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Manteno. Box S. S. Papers, _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + Melvin. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Moline. Alfred Williams 10.00 + Nora. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Ottawa. Mrs. Ruth P. Bascom 10.00 + Peoria. Mrs. John L. Griswold, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00 + Peoria. Mrs. Sarah P. Howe, S. S. Class, 10; Miss Anna + Kinney, S. S. Class, 1.50; Miss Nora Mankers, S. S. Class, + 1; Howe Y. P. S. C. E., 5, and Individual Members, 2.50, + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00 + Plano. Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 1.00 + Providence. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Roseville. Cong. Ch. 27.71 + Shabbona. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + Sheridan. Mrs. C. J. O. Heavenhill 1.50 + Somonauk. Y. P. S. C. E. 3.06 + Toulon. Miss A. M. Smith, S. S. Class, 1, _for Student Aid_; + Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch., Box Bedding, _for Talladega, + Ala._ 1.00 + Winnebago. Cong. Ch., Miss. Soc., Bbl. C., _for Pleasant + Hill, Tenn._ + Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 10.18 + + Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. L. A. Field, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Chicago. New Eng. W. M. S. 18.60 + Chicago. Covenant, W. M. S. 1.20 + McLean, W. M. S. 5.00 + Oak Park. Y. L. M. S. 50.00 + Odell. S. S. 1.70 + Rockford. W. M. S. 12.00 + Winnetka. W. M. S. 7.54 + ------ 96.04 + -------- + $686.65 + + ESTATE. + + Galesburg. Estate of Miss Mary J. Browning, by Wm. H. + Browning, Executor 263.90 + -------- + $950.55 + + +MICHIGAN, $1,275.15. + + Adrian. A. J. Hood 10.00 + Agricultural College. Prof. R. C. Kedzie, to const. MRS. + ELLA M. KEDZIE L. M. 30.00 + Detroit. Westminster Pres. Ch., Jun. Y. P. S. C. E., Box + Papers, etc.; Plymouth Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C., + _for Greenwood, S. C._ + Grand Rapids. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 6.75; Smith Memorial Ch., 2 8.75 + Kalamazoo. Mrs. J. A. Kent 5.00 + Lansing. Ch. at Trout Creek 4.25 + Manistee. First Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Marshall. Mrs. J. S. Stout 5.00 + Richmond. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Romeo. Miss E. B. Dickinson 50.00 + Saugatuck. C. E. Assn., Christmas Box, _for Lexington, Ky._ + Travers City. C. A. Hammond, _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill + Acad., Tenn._ 1.00 + West Bay City. John Bourn, _for Alaska M._ 100.00 + Ypsilanti. Cong. Ch., Box C., _for Williamsburg, Ky._ + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, Mrs. E. F. + Grabill, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Grand Blanc. Willing Workers, _for + Indian Student Aid, Santee, Neb._ 12.20 + Grand Rapids. W. H. M. S., Park Ch. 13.20 + Grass Lake. W. H. M. S. 3.00 + Saint Johns. Women's Assn. .75 + South Haven. Y. P. S. C. E., _for + Student Aid, Pleasant Hill Acad., + Tenn._ 5.00 + Stockbridge. Mrs. E. W. Woodward, _for + Student Aid, A. G. Sch., Moorhead, + Miss._ 10.00 + ------ 44.15 + -------- + $275.15 + + ESTATE. + + Ann Arbor. Estate of Dr. C. L. Ford, by Bryant Walker, + Adm'r. 1,000.00 + -------- + $1,275.15 + + +IOWA, $485.76. + + Algona. A. Zahlten 10.00 + Alton. First Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Belmond. S. S. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00 + Blencoe. Cong. Ch. 3.70 + Charles City. Miss Clara Lumbeck, _for Student Aid, Talladega + C._ 5.00 + Decorah. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + Des Moines. Plymouth Ch., 118.47; North Park Cong., + Y. P. S. C. E., 5 123.47 + Eagle Grove. S. S. of Cong. Ch., _for Talladega, Ala._ 5.00 + Eagle Grove. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Eldora. Cong. Ch., 24.15; "Japan," 5 29.15 + Fairfax. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Forest City. Miss Grace Mason, Box Literature, _for Beach + Inst., Savannah, Ga._ + Glenwood. Cong. S. S., by Mrs. John Hanson, Box Toys, etc., + _for Beach Inst._ + Grand View. Cong. Ch., Miss. Soc., Box C., _for Grand View, + Tenn._ + Grinnell. First Cong. Ch., _for Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + Grinnell. Mrs. J. B. Grinnell, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + Grinnell. Miss E. H. Brewer, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, + Va._ 3.00 + Harlan. Mission Band, _for Talladega, Ala._ 4.00 + Hawarden. Cong, Ch. 13.47 + Independence. Mrs. E. M. Potwin, Pkg. Cards and Papers, _for + Beach Inst._ + Lakeside. Cong. Ch. 8.69 + Lewis. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + Manchester. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C., _for Pleasant Hill Acad., + Tenn._ + Marshalltown. L. M. Soc., by Mrs. Anna M. Brown, Box Literature, + etc., _for Beach Inst._ + Maquoketa. Miss Mary C. Shaw 5.00 + McGregor. King's Daughters, "St. Nicholas" for one year, _for + Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn._ + Muscatine. Junior C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 10.00 + Newton. Wittemberg Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.37 + Newell. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Osage. Cong. Ch., 18.38; Cong. Y. P. S. C. E., 5.10 23.48 + Osceola. Miss Jennie M. Baird 5.00 + Red Oak. W. H. M. U., 15. Incorrectly ack. in February number + from Mrs. M. A. Clark, Afton, Iowa. + Rockford. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, A. N. + and I. Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ 9.50 + Salem. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + + Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, Miss Belle L. Bentley, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Algona. L. M. S. 2.14 + Bear Grove. L. M. S. 7.15 + Chester Center. L. M. S. .50 + Creston. L. M. S. 5.00 + Des Moines. Plymouth, L. M. S. 12.04 + Grinnell. L. M. S. 6.90 + Keokuk. L. M. S. 15.00 + Le Mars. L. M. S. 1.00 + McGregor. L. M. S. 8.70 + Marion. Y. P. M. S. 15.00 + Muscatine. S. S., First Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Newell. L. M. S. 5.00 + Newton. L. M. S. 3.00 + Old Man's Creek. H. and F. M. S. 1.82 103.25 + -------- + 470.08 + + ESTATE. + + Fontanelle. Estate, A. M. Gow, Colored 15.68 + -------- + 485.76 + + +WISCONSIN, $392.57. + + Clear Lake. Swedish Cong. Ch. 1.24 + Eau Claire. First Cong. Ch. 25.06 + Hayward. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Ironton. O. C. Blanchard 5.00 + Koshkonong. Cong. Ch. 7.85 + Lake Geneva. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 12.00 + La Grange. Miss Greening, _for Le Moyne Inst._ 10.00 + Madison. Cong. C. E., 12 Cop. No. 5 Hymn Books, _for + Marion, Ala._ + Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. CHARLES C. + DIMOCK and JOSEPH J. HOLDEN L. M.'s 42.00 + Platteville. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Ripon. First Cong, Ch., 43; Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch, 10.86 53.86 + Spring Green. L. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Springvale. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Nat, Ala._ 3.30 + Whitewater. Cong. Ch., Special 10.26 + Whitewater. Faculty and Students, State Normal College, 50; + Mrs. Crandall's S. S., Cong. Ch., 10; C. M. Blackman, 10; + Geo. S. Marsh, 10; The Homeland Circle, 5; Frank W. Trott, + 5; T. W. Denison, 5; Other Citizens, 15, _for Le Moyne + Inst._ 110.00 + + Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union. Mrs. C. M. + Blackman, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Beloit. First Cong. Ch., W. M. U. 10.00 + Eau Claire. W. M. U. 5.00 + Green Bay. W. M. U. 20.00 + Milwaukee. Grand Av. W. M. U. 25.00 + Milwaukee. Hanover St. W. M. S. 10.00 + Prairie du Chien. "Mrs. F. P. B." 10.00 + Wauwatosa. W. M. S. 11.00 + ------ 91.00 + + +MINNESOTA, $129.21. + + Anoka. Christmas Box, _for Lincoln Acad., N. C._ + Barnesville. Cong. Ch. 2.50 + Chowen. Rev. E. E. Rogers, _for Storrs Sch._, 1.64; Box Sch. + Supplies, Freight 1.40, _for Macon, Ga._; Box Ed. Material, + Freight 1.34, _for Cabin Teachers, Beach Inst._ 4.38 + Crookston. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Faribault. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., by Rev. A. Willey, _for + Theo. Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00 + Fairmont. Bbl. C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + Graceville. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Madison. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Mankato. Cong. Ch. 7.15 + Minneapolis. Gentlemen of Park Av. Cong. Ch. 7.15 + Minneapolis. Saint Louis Park. Union Ch., _for Wilmington, + N. C._ 2.00 + Montevideo. L. M. S., Bbl. C., _for Blowing Rock, N. C._ + Northfield. S. S. Cong. Ch., 35.22; Other Friends, 14.78, + by Rev. A. Willey; Mrs. Skinner, Bbl. C., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 50.00 + Northfield. First Cong. Ch. 24.50 + Northfield. Prof. G. Huntington, "Anti-Slavery History," by + Rev. A. Willey (Price 1.50), _for Talladega, Ala._ + Rochester. L. M. S., Bbl. C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + Saint Paul. Miss Brooks and Miss Miller, "Saint Nicholas" + one year, _for Macon, Ga._ + Spring Valley. L. M. S., 2 Bbls. C., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._ + Tivoli. Lyman Humiston 1.00 + West Duluth. Cong. Ch. 3.10 + + +MISSOURI, $79.05. + + Clyde. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Dawn. Cong. Ch. 1.30 + Eldon. Henry Phillips 2.50 + St. Louis. L. A. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. G. S. + Anderson, 2 Boxes C., Val. 15, _for Fort Berthold, N. D._ + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of Mo., by Mrs. K. L. + Mills, Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Kansas City. So. West Tab. L. M. S. 13.25 + Kansas City. Olivet Ch., L. M. S. 2.50 + Lamar. L. H. M. S. 5.00 + Springfield. First Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 5.00 + St. Louis. Plym. Ch., L. M. S. 17.70; + Campton Hill, Y. P. S. C. E. 6; + Auburt Place. L. M. S., 5.80; First + Ch., L. H. M. S., 5 34.50 + ------ 60.25 + + +KANSAS, $28.13. + + Burlingame. "A Friend" 5.00 + Hiawatha. S. S. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega + C._ 10.00 + Kensington. Cong. Ch. 5.13 + Linwood. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Topeka. Mrs. R. Gaw, First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for Meridian, + Miss._ 5.00 + + +ARKANSAS, 50c. + + Little Rock. Cong. Ch. .50 + + +NEBRASKA, $10.00. + + Beatrice. Mrs. B. F. Hotchkiss 10.00 + + +NEVADA, $5.50. + + Reno. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + + +NORTH DAKOTA, $72.53. + + Cando. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. 1.05 + Dwight. Cong. Ch. 3.15 + Fort Berthold. Miss Elizabeth Kehoe, _for Indian M., Fort B._ 33.33 + Fort Berthold. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Mayville. First Cong. Ch. 12.50 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of N. D., by Mrs. J. M. Fisher, + Treas., _for Woman's Work_: + Cummings. Christian Soldiers 2.50 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $13.04. + + Mission Hill. Cong. Ch. 3.27 + Redfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.77 + Sioux Falls. First Cong. Ch. 5.70 + Wessington Springs, Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 1.30 + + +COLORADO, $12.72. + + Denver. Caroline Danielson, _for Indian M._ 1.00 + Montrose. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Otis. Cong. Ch. 3.50 + Pueblo. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 4.07 + Pueblo. Woman's Aux. Soc., Pilgrim Cong. Ch., Mrs. E. B. + Coleman, Treas. 1.15 + + +CALIFORNIA, $502.89. + + Campbell. Mrs. E. E. White, S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 7.00 + East Highlands. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. 5.59 + San Francisco. Receipts of the California Chinese Mission (see + items below) 485.30 + + Cong. Woman's State Home Missionary Society of California, + by Mrs. J. M. Haven, Treas.: + Campbell. Ladies, _for Indian M._ 5.00 + + +OREGON, $8.50. + + Portland. Y. M. Bible Class of Cong. S. S., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 8.50 + + +WASHINGTON, $14.90. + + Port Angeles. Cong. Ch. 2.90 + Puyallup. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 2.00 + New Whatcom. Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Savage, "A Thank Offering," + _for Talladega, Ala._ 10.00 + + +OKLAHOMA, $1.00. + + Alva. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $20.00. + + Washington. Rev. I. G. Craighead, _for Mountain Work_ 20.00 + + +KENTUCKY, $5.85. + + Lexington. Chandler Sab. Sch., _for Lexington, Ky._ 1.85 + Red Ash. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + + +VIRGINIA, $16.54. + + _Receipts for Gloucester School, Cappahosic, Va._: + Cappahosic. Students' Concert, 3.95; + H. P. Smith, 50c 4.45 + Hampton. Miss C. W. Fields 1.00 + Mathews Co. J. R. Brooks 2.00 + Middlesex. Miss M. A. Burrill 1.00 + Morning Glory. Sab. Sch. 1.50 + Wareneck. Public School. 6.59 + ------ 16.54 + + +TENNESSEE, $106.00. + + Deer Lodge. Cong. Ch. 11.50 + Grand View. From Unknown Sources, 2 Bbls. C. + Memphis. "Friends," _for Le Moyne Inst._ 79.50 + Nashville. "Friend" 10.00 + Nashville. Mrs. M. M. Somers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $40.05. + + Carter Mills. S. A. Stanford 1.00 + Dry Creek. W. D. Newkirk 5.00 + High Point. Rev. Z. Simmons 3.00 + Oaks. Cong. Ch. 1.05 + Troy. Hon. E. A. Morse 10.00 + Wilmington. Mrs. V. C. Logie, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00 + + +GEORGIA, $42.37. + + Atlanta. Miss A. Clarke, _for Storrs Sch._ 7.00 + Marietta. Cong. Ch. 5.25 + McIntosh, Cong. Ch., 9.75, and Sab. Sch., 3.25; Medway + Ch., 3.32 16.32 + McIntosh. C. E. Soc., by Carrie E. Leadbetter, _for C. E. + Hall, McIntosh_ 7.15 + McIntosh. Emma J. Rosecrans, _for Student Aid, Dorchester Acad._ 5.00 + Savannah. Pkg. Cards and Pkg. Materials for Sewing Dept., from + Unknown Sources, _for Beach Inst._ + Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, 75c.; Rev. J. Loyd, 25c.; + Pilgrim Ch., 65c. 1.65 + + +FLORIDA, $747.71. + + Daytona. First Cong. Ch. 22.14 + Fernandina. "A Friend" 500.00 + Jacksonville. Chas. H. Smith, _for Student Aid, Wilmington, + N. C._ 8.00 + Orange Park. C. E. Soc. and Sab. Sch., by Carrie Parrott, + Pres. 4.30 + -------- + 534.44 + + ESTATE. + + Tangerine. Estate of Thomas Jewett, by Alfred Williams, + Administrator 213.27 + -------- + 747.71 + + +ALABAMA, $85.20. + + Anniston. Rev. James Brown, _for Theo. Dept._, 5; _Student + Aid_, 5, _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + Athens. Cong. Ch. 4.29 + Montgomery. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Beaufort, N. C._ 4.01 + Selma. "H. N.," _for Blacksmith Shop, Selma_ 25.00 + Selma. Cong. Ch. 6.05 + Shelby. Covenant Cong. Ch. 3.10 + Talladega. Pres. H. S. DeForest, _for Repairs, Talladega, Ala._ 32.75 + + +MISSISSIPPI, $20.00. + + Moorhead. Miss S. L. Emerson, _for A. G. Sch._ 20.00 + + +LOUISIANA, $9.71. + + Woman's Missionary Union of Louisiana, by Mrs. C. M. + Crawford, Treas., _for Indian M._: + Belle Place. Aux. 1.48 + Hammond. Aux. 1.25 + New Iberia. Aux. 1.80 + New Orleans. Central Ch., Aux., 1.32; + Morris Brown Ch., Aux., 1.08 2.40 + Roseland. Aux. .25 + Welsh. Aux. 2.53 + ------ 9.71 + + +TEXAS, $32.00. + + Austin. Miss E. Meek, 15; Miss M. Portune, 10, _for Student + Aid, Tillotson Inst._; Tillotson Church of Christ, 5; + Tillotson C. E. Soc., _for Indian M._, 2; "A Doctor," + Drugs, Val. 6, _for Tillotson Inst._ 32.00 + + +FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES, $17.00. + + ---- Miss Emily Hartwell, _for Student Aid, Indian M., Fort + Berthold, N. D._ 7.00 + ---- "A Friend," _for Talladega, Ala._ 5.00 + ---- "A Friend," 5.00 + + +CANADA, $13.00. + + Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00 + Ottawa. Mrs. Livingstone, _for Ballard Sch., Macon, Ga._ 3.00 + Sherbrooke. Mrs. H. J. Morey 5.00 + + +ENGLAND, $200.00. + + London. Mrs. Allen, _for Le Moyne Inst._ 200.00 + -------- + +Donations $12,414.30 + +Estates 13,230.85 + ---------- + + $25,645.15 + + +TUITION, $6,675.69. + + Cappahosic, Va. Tuition 3.00 + Evarts, Ky. Tuition 106.15 + Lexington, Ky. Tuition 85.73 + Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition 265.35 + Big Creek Gap, Tenn. Tuition 15.20 + Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition 7.33 + Knoxville, Tenn. Tuition 35.23 + Grand View, Tenn. Tuition 165.00 + Memphis, Tenn. Tuition 1,508.80 + Nashville, Tenn. Tuition 797.10 + Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition 108.49 + Beaufort, N. C. Tuition 16.60 + Blowing Rock, N. C. Tuition 13.10 + Kings Mountain, N. C. Tuition 32.00 + Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition 30.20 + Troy, N. C. Tuition 13.60 + Whittier, N. C. Tuition 10.85 + Wilmington, N. C. Tuition 195.50 + Saluda, N. C. Tuition 22.15 + Charleston. S. C. Tuition 324.00 + Greenwood, S. C. Tuition 100.61 + Albany, Ga. Tuition 126.95 + Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch., Tuition 154.90 + Macon, Ga. Tuition 246.01 + McIntosh, Ga. Tuition 80.66 + Marshallville, Ga. Tuition 4.00 + Savannah, Ga. Tuition 181.28 + Thomasville, Ga. Tuition 56.15 + Woodville, Ga. Tuition 4.60 + Orange Park, Fla. Tuition 122.50 + Athens, Ala. Tuition 50.15 + Florence, Ala. Tuition 7.50 + Marion, Ala. Tuition 50.22 + Nat, Ala. Tuition 83.75 + Selma, Ala. Tuition 113.80 + Talladega, Ala. Tuition 684.34 + Meridian, Miss. Tuition 60.75 + Moorhead, Miss. Tuition 17.00 + Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition 72.75 + New Orleans, La. Tuition 550.29 + Helena, Ark. Tuition 39.35 + Austin, Tex. Tuition 112.75 + ------ 6,675.69 + ---------- + +Total for February $32,320.84 + ========== + + +SUMMARY. + + Donations $74,789.61 + Estates 36,131.81 + ---------- + $110,921.42 + + Income 4,370.00 + Tuition 18,330.70 + ---------- + + Total from Oct. 1 to Feb. 28 $133,622.12 + ========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + + Subscriptions for February $83.95 + Previously acknowledged 275.00 + -------- + Total 358.95 + ======== + + +RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION. + + William Johnstone, Treas., from December 2, 1894, + to February 21, 1895: + Fresno. (Chinese.) N. Y. Gifts to + Jesus, 18.60; Mon. Offs., 3 21.60 + Hanford. Annual Memberships 6.00 + Los Angeles. Mon. Offs., 6.55; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 33.10 39.65 + Marysville. Mon. Offs., 11.75; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 9 20.75 + Oakland. Mon. Offs. 40.00 + Oakland. Pilgrim Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 4.65 + Oroville. Mon. Offs., 3; N. Y. Gifts + to Jesus, 10 (of which Miss Chase, + 5; Miss Leggett, 1) 13.00 + Petaluma. Mon. Offs., 2.25; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 9 11.25 + Sacramento. Mon. Offs., 14; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 17.45 31.45 + San Bernardino. Mon. Offs., 6.95; + Gin Koo King, 1 7.95 + San Diego. Mon. Offs., 4.75; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 12 16.75 + San Francisco. Central Ch., Mon. + Offs., 10.90; Annual Membership, 6 16.90 + San Francisco. West Ch., Mon. Offs. 6.50 + San Francisco. N. Y. Gifts to Jesus + (of which Jee Gam, 11; Mrs. Jee + Gam, 2; Children, 2.60; Supt., 9) 24.60 + San Francisco. Charles Hanna 0.50 + Santa Barbara. Mon. Offs., 7.60; + N. Y. Gifts to Jesus (of which + American Friends, by Mrs. M. J. + Southwick, 6.65), 10.65 18.25 + Santa Cruz. Mon Offs., 1.85; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 14 15.85 + Stockton. Mon. Offs., 5.40; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 15.25 20.65 + Ventura. Mon. Offs., 3.25; N. Y. + Gifts to Jesus, 11 14.25 + Vernondale. N. Y. Gifts to Jesus 3.00 + Watsonville. Mon. Offs., 3.75; + Pastoral Union, 4 7.75 + ------ 341.20 + +FOR CHINESE MOTHERS AND CHILDREN: + + Bangor, Me. Prof. J. S. Sewall's + S. S. Class 15.00 + Belfast, Me. Miss E. M. Pond 5.00 + Boston, Mass. Mount Vernon Ch., Chinese + S. S. 20.00 + New Haven, Conn. Mrs. J. E. Pond 5.00 + Albany, N. Y. "Friends" 75.00 + Oakland, Cal. "A Friend," by Mrs. L. C. + Agard, 15; Woman's H. M. Soc., 3 18.00 + California Woman's State Home Miss. + Soc., by Mrs. J. M. Haven 6.00 + ------ 144.00 + -------- + +Total $485.30 + ======== + + H. W. HUBBARD, Treas., + Bible House, N. Y. + + * * * * * + +EXTRACT FROM AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE +AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +BY HON. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. + + +I esteem it an honor to have been invited to speak a word in this +presence upon this very interesting occasion. I am here, however, not +so much to deliver an address, or to make a speech, as to put myself +on record. I am here to pay a debt long due. I have wished, by my +presence here, to emphasize my gratitude to the members and friends of +this Association for the beneficent work which they have done, and +which they are still doing, for the people with whom I am identified. +I would not disparage the labors of any other organization in this +direction inside of the church. I am thankful to all such, but I know +of none to which the colored people of the Southern States are more +indebted for effective service than to this American Missionary +Association. + +Long before the abolition of slavery, this organization bore a +consistent and faithful testimony against that stupendous wrong. When +it was abolished this Association did not disband nor discontinue its +work, but went forward as earnestly as ever to advance, enlighten and +elevate the colored people of the South. + + * * * * * + +There is a beautiful story told about a little child in the orphanage +of John Falk at Weimar. They were having supper in the dining hall, +and the teacher gave thanks in the ordinary way before the children +began their meals, saying, "Come, Lord Jesus, and be our guest +to-night, and bless the mercies which Thou hast provided." One little +boy looked up and said, "Teacher, you always ask the Lord Jesus to +come, but He never comes. Will He ever come?" "Oh, yes, if you will +only hold on in faith, He will be sure to come." "Very well," said the +little boy, "I will set a chair beside me here to-night to be ready +when He comes." And so the meal proceeded. By-and-by there came a rap +at the door, and there was ushered in a poor, half-frozen apprentice. +He was taken to the fire and his hands warmed. Then he was asked to +partake of the meal, and where should he go but to the chair which the +little boy had provided? As he sat down there the little boy looked up +with a light in his eye and said, "Teacher, I see it now. The Lord +Jesus was not able to come Himself, and He sent the poor man in His +place. Isn't that it?" + +Aye, that is just it. And so, brethren, the Lord Jesus isn't able, +according to his plans for this world, to come personally yet among +us, but He has sent these colored people, Chinese, Indians and +heathen, to make appeal in His behalf to us, and who among us will set +a chair for Him? There are many friends with whom I hardly agree who +are very anxiously waiting for the appearance of the personal Christ +among us, and they are wondering what they shall do to welcome Him. +Would that the eyes of these brethren, and our own, too, were opened +to the perception of the Christ that is already here, in the persons +of those needing to be helped and educated and elevated, and that +their ears could hear His words, "Inasmuch as ye do it unto one of the +least of these his brethren ye do it unto Christ." That is the +Christian philosophy of giving, and if a man does not feel the force +of these considerations, I should be disposed to say he has not yet +begun to be a Christian. + +REV. WILLIAM M. 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