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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -  Volume 50, No.
+4, April 1896 by Various
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+Title: The American Missionary -  Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896
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+Author: Various
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+Release Date: December 12, 2006 [Ebook #20093]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY -  VOLUME 50, NO. 4, APRIL 1896***
+
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+The American Missionary -  Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896
+
+
+by Various
+
+
+
+
+Edition 1, (December 12, 2006)
+
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+Editorial
+   Jubilee Year Fund.
+   Our Industrial Work.
+   The School and Church.
+   The Year of Jubilee.
+   A Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each.
+The South.
+   Notes by the Way.
+   A Home Mission Work Little Understood.
+   Talladega College, Ala.
+   Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C.
+   A Gracious Revival
+Obituary.
+   HON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT.
+   MISS EVELYN E. STARR.
+Bureau of Woman's Work.
+   COLORED WOMEN'S WORK.
+   WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C.
+RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896.
+
+
+
+
+
+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 mail 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.
+
+_Honorary Secretary and Editor._
+
+REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._
+
+_Corresponding Secretaries._
+
+REV. A. F. BEARD, D.D., REV. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._
+REV. C. J. RYDER, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._
+
+_Recording Secretary._
+
+REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N. Y._
+
+_Auditors._
+
+GEORGE S. HICKOK.
+JAMES H. OLIPHANT.
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman.
+CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary.
+
+_For Three Years._
+
+SAMUEL HOLMES
+SAMUEL S. MARPLES,
+CHARLES L. MEAD,
+WILLIAM H. STRONG,
+ELIJAH HORR.
+
+_For Two Years._
+
+WILLIAM HAYES WARD,
+JAMES W. COOPER,
+LUCIEN C. WARNER,
+JOSEPH H. TWICHELL,
+CHARLES P. PIERCE.
+
+_For One Year._
+
+CHARLES A. HULL,
+ADDISON P. FOSTER,
+ALBERT J. LYMAN,
+NEHEMIAH BOYNTON,
+A. J. F. BEHRENDS.
+
+_District Secretaries._
+
+REV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._
+REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill._
+
+_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., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. 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. L.
+APRIL, 1896.
+No. 4.
+
+
+
+
+Jubilee Year Fund.
+
+
+                  of the American Missionary Association
+
+
+*It is now fifty years since the **AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION** was
+organized. Its work and history are before the churches. We have reason to
+rejoice in the accomplishment of the past. We are grateful to God for this
+ministry of grace to His needy ones. We have come now to the
+semi-centennial year of the Association. We propose to celebrate the
+Fiftieth Year, and to acknowledge the goodness of God to us in the past.*
+
+*But we find ourselves in this present time in distress. Our work has been
+severely affected by the adverse times. Our mission schools and churches
+are suffering. For the last three years our average current receipts have
+been $93,000 less per year than during the previous three years. The work
+has been cut $184,000 during these three years. If it had been fully
+maintained the debt would have been three times as great as it is.*
+
+*We are now confronted with the question of further and more disastrous
+reductions, for our obligations must be met. The $100,000 borrowed for
+mission work must be paid. We do not believe that the churches wish this
+to be done by closing more schools and church doors against the poorest of
+our countrymen throughout the Southern lowlands and mountains, amid the
+Dakotas and Montana, from California to Florida.*
+
+*The Association has come to the last half of its fiscal year. Up to this
+time it has made no special plea for help. It has waited fraternally until
+kindred organizations have received the aid they** so greatly needed. This
+vast Christian service in the most necessitous fields of the continent is
+as distinctively the trust of the churches as any of their enterprises
+are. Shall it not now have the same equitable relief as has been given to
+others? Has not the time now come for helping this suffering work? Will
+not those who have charged the Association with this burden of service now
+consecrate anew their benevolence to its relief and make this a Year of
+Jubilee, to wipe out the last vestige of debt?*
+
+*It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year
+Fund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that
+these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening
+those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the
+current work.*
+
+*The plea is urgent because the need is urgent. Will not all friends of
+this great work, pastor and people, now heartily unite in one special
+Christian endeavor to raise this American Missionary Association Jubilee
+Year Fund?*
+
+*Charles L. Mead,*
+* Samuel Holmes,*
+* Samuel S. Marples,*
+* William H. Strong,*
+* Elijah Horr,*
+* William Hayes Ward,*
+* Lucien C. Warner,*
+* James W. Cooper,*
+* Joseph H. Twichell,*
+* Charles P. Peirce,*
+* Charles A. Hull,*
+* Albert J. Lyman,*
+* Addison P. Foster,*
+* Nehemiah Boynton,*
+* A. J. F. Behrends*
+
+*Executive Committee of the*
+* AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.*
+
+
+
+
+Our Industrial Work.
+
+
+We publish in this number of THE MISSIONARY an article copied from _The
+Talladega College Record_, giving a detailed account of the industrial
+work carried on in that institution. We invite attention to it as showing
+the wide range of those industries, and of their thorough and systematic
+arrangement.
+
+
+
+
+The School and Church.
+
+
+As is the school and church in any nation or community, so are the people.
+The Chinese for ages with universal education, such as it is, and the
+religion of Confucius, are a superstitious, stagnant, and an unheroic
+race. Europe in the middle ages, with no schools and an ambitious
+hierarchy, became ignorant and war-like, oppressed in Church and State. In
+these United States, their abundant educational facilities and a free
+church have developed largely the most intelligent and free people on the
+earth. But we said "largely," for there are millions of people in this
+nation that are still in the lowest grades of ignorance and superstition.
+There are four millions of colored people who can neither read nor write,
+and have not yet escaped from the degrading effects of centuries of
+slavery. There are among the mountaineers of the South two millions of
+people, descendants of a noble race, who have for more than a hundred
+years been largely without schools or intelligent churches, and they have
+fallen far below the intelligence and enterprise of their fathers. Our
+American Indians, though comparatively a handful, still need our care.
+More than half their school population is without education or industrial
+habits.
+
+It is among these unfortunate races that the American Missionary
+Association is doing its great work. It comes to them with its schools and
+churches--its schools religious and its churches intelligent--and
+throughout the wide range of its work, lifting them up in knowledge and
+the industries of life, and in all these directions it has accomplished
+great results, planting wisely with good seed, and is beginning already to
+reap large and continually enlarging harvests.
+
+We print in this number of the MISSIONARY two articles written by
+Secretaries of the Association, which give reliable statements touching
+the deplorable needs of some of these people, and yet of the cheering
+transformations made in their condition by our schools and churches. We
+invite attention to these two articles.
+
+
+
+
+The Year of Jubilee.
+
+
+APPEAL FOR RELEASE FROM DEBT AND LIMITATIONS.
+
+
+
+
+A Jubilee Fund of $100,000 in Shares of $50 Each.
+
+
+We have come to our Year of Jubilee. Fifty years ago the American
+Missionary Association had a darker outlook than it has to-day. It saw
+4,000,000 of people, children of a common Father, who were born under the
+skies of our common country, in a land of churches and Bibles, and saw
+them, not only with no legal rights, but not even the rights of persons,
+chattels under the law, bought and sold as things, in sin and degradation,
+and without hope in the world. That was a dark outlook.
+
+But God's providence came, and now the country, which the Association
+could not so much as enter, is dotted with our schools, and with ten
+thousand other schools, and with churches, which stand for the truths
+which the Congregational churches of our land believe in and teach. Has
+anything more wonderful occurred in the wonderful fifty years, now gone
+by, than this change of conditions in the South, or any more demanding
+duty come to our churches than the work which has grown out of these
+changed conditions?
+
+It belonged to no man fifty years ago to foresee the magnitude of our work
+in the South. Add to this that among twenty tribes of Indians, and our
+missions in the highlands of the South among the whites, and that which
+has been so greatly blessed of God on the Pacific Coast, and who could
+have foretold it all fifty years ago?
+
+In all this we are not engaged in a merely philanthropic work; we are
+doing more than to educate people in industries, _though we are doing
+this_. We are building on a foundation which no other can lay than is
+laid, Jesus Christ. In the schoolroom, in the teachings of agriculture and
+mechanics, the various trades and industries, as well as in our churches,
+this is our foundation. We are bringing salvation to the peoples who need
+it, knowing well that salvation includes this life, as well as that which
+is to come. Our supreme thought is to hasten on the time when there shall
+be a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. This has been, and this is,
+our work. Now we need to meet our indebtedness. It is a distressing load
+to carry. We are seeking to pay our obligations this Jubilee Year. We have
+not pressed our grievous burden upon the churches as urgently as we would
+have done, because our sister societies, in like distress, were in the
+field with their special appeals. Our hearts are now gladdened by the
+gracious providences that have come to them. Now, will not the churches
+generally engage in a special effort to lift the burden of our debt and
+restore prosperity to this work, which the churches and our individual
+givers have been, and are, doing through this Association?
+
+In view of these facts, we most earnestly urge as the call of this Jubilee
+Year:
+
+First. That measures be taken in each church to make full and regular
+contributions to sustain our _current_ work. It has been sadly reduced.
+During the last three years the receipts of the Association have been less
+than in the previous three years by about $93,000 a year, and but for our
+retrenchments this would have made a debt three times as great as it is
+now. If this reduction of receipts is to continue it will mean a ruinous
+increase of debt or an equally ruinous retrenchment of the work.
+
+Second. So great is our sense of the need of sustaining our present work
+that if regular contributions are not adequate we urgently appeal that the
+effort be made to secure it by largely increased contributions or by a
+special collection.
+
+Third. That our friends and all interested in this work now so imperiled
+_will take shares in the Jubilee Fund of $100,000_. _This fund is divided
+into 2,000 shares of $50._ We would have each of these fifty years in the
+Association's history stand for a special contribution of a dollar, the
+whole fifty years being signalized by a Jubilee subscription of $50 and
+the semi-centennial made memorial by raising the money for the Jubilee
+Fund.
+
+Only six months are left of the present fiscal year. We come to all who
+believe in our work to help the Association and to help it now, so that we
+may at the great convocation at the Jubilee convention in Boston next
+October celebrate not only the heroic faith of the fathers, but the
+steadfast zeal and purpose of their children.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+
+
+
+Notes by the Way.
+
+
+Secretary A.F. Beard.
+
+In making my rounds among the schools of the Association and of the
+churches I find new experiences in old paths and new incidents by the way.
+Within the limitations of "an article" I cannot recall them, but I invite
+my readers to visit with me some of the places _en route_.
+
+             [[Illustration: FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.]]
+
+                      FARM BUILDINGS, ENFIELD, N. C.
+
+
+It is not a long journey from New York to Enfield, N. C. We will not find
+a New England village there when we leave the Weldon and Wilmington
+Railway. It is quite another part of the world. A ride of four miles among
+plantations and cotton fields brings us to the latest-born school of the
+Association. Here are a thousand acres of arable land, which ought to be a
+fortune to its owner and has been in years gone by. Now, however, cotton
+and corn have ceased to be kings, oftentimes they are more like beggars.
+Thus it came to pass that this noble plantation became the property of a
+benevolent lady in Brooklyn, N. Y., who made it a splendid gift to the
+Association, with sufficient money to build the fine brick building which
+stands in the center of this great farm, the beginning of the "Joseph K.
+Brick Normal, Agricultural, and Industrial School."
+
+Is it needed? We will say it is when we have acquainted ourselves with the
+condition of the colored people in these parts. I know not what could have
+been their condition in slavery. Except for the buying and the selling, it
+could not have been worse than we find it here to-day. Rags, ignorance,
+poverty, and degradation indescribable are in the cabins. Have the
+children been taught in any school? No. Can the parents read? No. Shall we
+find a Bible in the cabins? No. Weak, wicked, and absolutely poor, in dumb
+and stolid content with animalism and dirt, here families are herding like
+cattle, in windowless and miserable cabins of one room. The children who
+fail to receive the benignity of death grow up here and exist and suffer
+in this dreadful life. Yet we can ride by this plantation and in sight of
+it any day on our way to Florida, and never see what is so near.
+Nevertheless, here it is a reality much worse than it reads, for ten times
+one are ten and ten times ten are one hundred.
+
+In such environment and conditions is our "Agricultural and Industrial
+School" now half way through its first year.
+
+               [[Illustration: PRINCIPAL T. S. INBORDEN.]]
+
+                        PRINCIPAL T. S. INBORDEN.
+
+
+If the principal of it should tell the story of his life, how he walked
+eight miles every day for three months of the year to learn to read and
+write; how he worked for 20 cents a day to raise enough money to get away
+from his limitations for an education; how he became bell-boy at a hotel
+until he earned enough to buy a grammar, an arithmetic, and a dictionary;
+how he found himself at last at Fisk University with $1.25 with which to
+continue his studies for eight years before he could graduate; how he
+worked his patient way along teaching in vacation, pulling himself up hand
+over hand, it would pay one to stay over a day for it. There were only a
+few times during the eight years in Fisk when he had money enough to stamp
+a half dozen letters at once. This story, however, differs only in its
+incidents from that of other students at all of our colleges. The story of
+their struggles is the story of their strength.
+
+  "Shock and strain and struggle are
+  Friendlier than the smiling days."
+
+All of the teachers at Enfield are graduates of Fisk University, and they
+each have their own story how heavy-weighted with poverty, they kept
+"inching along" with a resolute faith that had divinity in it. Are they
+not the very ones to help upward the poor boys and girls about them who,
+until this year of grace, never had one chance in life, and never dreamed
+of one? We will keep our eyes on the school at Enfield.
+
+            [[Illustration: YOUNG MEN'S HALL, ENFIELD, N.C.]]
+
+                     YOUNG MEN'S HALL, ENFIELD, N.C.
+
+
+Next accompany me to Beaufort, N. C.. It is a place to visit. After we
+have gone as far as the land holds out, we set sail for a queer little
+town as far into the sea as it could get; but when once we have arrived
+there we are repaid for any temporary discomfort on the waters. We find at
+Beaufort, "Washburn Seminary" with its excellent industrial plant--a
+school of much merit--and a church that gives us who are watching and
+caring for churches through their weaknesses and doubtful times, much
+encouragement. A few years ago it was a question if the church would
+survive. Now it lives and stands for not a little and has strength of its
+own. Here, at the time of our visit, a young man, whose only educational
+privileges had been those of "Washburn Seminary," preached his first
+sermon to a congregation which crowded the church. It was a most
+creditable discourse in method, matter, and manner. The best of it is
+that, among those who have always known him, there is the common testimony
+that the young preacher lives his faith. Such incidents as this are not
+singular in the history of our schools and churches, but they are
+significant. They represent the evolution that is going on.
+
+Of our visits at Wilmington, Greenwood, Athens and Marietta, Atlanta and
+Anniston, we make no record.
+
+We will come to Talladega. President DeForest, with his hearty grip and
+whole-souled voice, gave me good welcome to Talladega. We were in old
+times classmates and friends at Yale, when we called ourselves boys. "You
+must not stop in the Hall this time, but come to my home and we will talk
+over what Talladega is doing and what we ought to do," he insisted.
+Precious days were those, as I now recall them, with this scholarly man,
+so instinct with faith, so earnest and hopeful in his work, so happy in
+his family, and so full of plans for the time to come. We talked together
+of the interests of the institution which, within seventeen years, he had
+led on from a normal school to a college. Together we went through the
+various classrooms and heard the recitations; the mathematics cultivating
+the reasoning powers, the geography giving correct views of the world, the
+history widening the vision of it, the astronomy unfolding God's love of
+order and truth. We heard together the lessons in language, in ethics, in
+mental philosophy, and saw the students taking on strength and character,
+whom he had watched from grade to grade, from year to year. Not only in
+the theological department, where students were intent upon their calling,
+but in the farm work, in the industrial classes, everywhere, and on
+everything, was the stamp of earnest Christianity. So, through president
+and teachers, the highest ideals had been constantly held before the
+students. It was inspiration to me to meet once more the devoted teachers
+of the College, and the students, greedy for knowledge and willing to work
+for it, on the farm, in the industries, and in whatever way they could
+earn enough to help themselves through the year. When the time came for
+the "Goodbye," with the hearty invitation "come again," he did not know,
+nor I, that before a month should pass I should "come again" to look my
+farewell upon my silent friend who could no more welcome me. He had no
+word for me but I heard a word, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord,
+for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them." Surely
+the works of this man of God will follow him. The slow procession on that
+funeral day moved out of sight, and the next day the usual College work
+went on, but the days for Talladega have been sad.
+
+I would that I might extend the invitation to continue and visit a score
+of places with schools and churches on this journey, each of which gave to
+me its own suggestions. There is the unique and fruitful school at Cotton
+Valley, with its record of transformations; there are Selma and Tougaloo,
+Jackson, New Orleans, Mobile, Thomasville, Albany, Marshallville,
+Andersonville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston, Knoxville, Jonesboro, and
+others, where schools and churches, hand in hand, are saving the needy
+peoples. I can only say that as I visited these and other places I was
+constantly cheered both by the fidelity of the workers and by the
+efficiency of their work. The story of these workers together with God
+will never be fully told.
+
+In many places I found deepest poverty. The greatest luxury of the poor
+people is the "schooling" of their children. Parents will go hungry for
+this. Many of the children trudged along barefooted for miles when ice was
+on the pools by the roadside. I found, as I have before, churches and
+schools leavening their communities with more intelligent manhood and
+womanhood, with better homes, with wiser industries and economies, with
+stronger and truer characters. Many times I said: "If the good people who
+have ordained and sustained this work until now could only see it and know
+it as it actually is, our distressing debt would vanish within half a
+year. Our Jubilee would come, and we should 'arise and shine and give God
+the glory.'"
+
+
+
+
+A Home Mission Work Little Understood.
+
+
+Secretary Frank P. Woodbury.
+
+Those who have visited only the cities and towns of the South have not
+seen the black South. In the six Southern states containing what has been
+called the Black Belt there are four millions of negro people. Less than
+half a million of these live in the cities, towns, and villages, while
+more than three millions and a half of them dwell on the plantations of
+the country. Mr. Bryce in his work on America has called attention to the
+enormous difference between the colored churches of the cities and those
+of the poor negro districts, in some of which not merely have the old
+superstitions been retained but there has been a marked relapse into the
+Obeah rites and serpent worship of African heathenism. The rank
+superstitions, the beliefs in necromancy and witchcraft, the wild orgies
+of excitement, the utter divorce between the moral virtues and what is
+called religion, which obtain among the millions of the plantation negroes
+of the South, are but little understood. By one who knows it, the Black
+Belt has been called the great Dismal Swamp, the vast black malarial
+slough of the American republic.
+
+Gladstone has frequently emphasized an ancient saying, "The corruption of
+the best thing is the very worst thing." This is emphatically true of much
+which has been called Christianity in the plantation churches of the
+South. The testimony which comes to us of the moral and religious
+condition of many communities in the Black Belt, is startling. One negro
+witness who has been in direct association for many years with ministers
+in this part of the South, says, "three-fourths of those who are now
+acting as preachers in all this region, are absolutely unfit to preach the
+gospel. It is rare that one can find in the country districts where the
+masses of the people dwell, a minister who is both intelligent and morally
+upright."
+
+It is not long since the "Wilderness-Worshiper" excitement swept through a
+region of the South like a prairie fire. The excitement of expectancy for
+the immediate coming of Christ added fire to the hearts of the people.
+Hugh pyres of pine logs were rolled together and lit into flame as the
+darkness of night came on. These great fires were to light the way for the
+Saviour when He should come. Men rolled their bodies through the forests
+in a kind of pagan ecstasy of self-sacrifice to meet Him. So credulous are
+the negroes of the Black Belt, says a resident white lawyer, that if a
+fellow with a wig of long hair and a glib tongue should appear among them
+and say he is the Christ, inside of a week the turmoil of the
+Wilderness-Worship would be outdone.
+
+Now, a great awakening is beginning among these dark masses of people. Dr.
+Curry has well said: "Freedom itself is educatory. The energy of
+representative institutions is a valuable school-master. To control one's
+labor, to enjoy the earnings of it, to make contracts freely, to have the
+right of locomotion, and change of residence and business, have a helpful
+influence on mankind." Many of these people are calling for better
+preachers; preachers who are earnest and virtuous men and know their
+Bibles. "We used to listen," said a negro man at a recent meeting, "to
+these whooping and hollering preachers who snort so you could hear them
+over three hundred yards, and we would come home and say, 'That's the
+greatest sermon I ever heard.' But now we want men who can teach us
+something." "Our preachers are not what they ought to be," said one woman.
+"We have got too many gripsack preachers--men who go around from church to
+church with a gripsack, not full of sermons, but of bottles of whisky,
+which they sell to the members of their congregation." Great masses of
+negro people are beginning to feel that what they have called religion is
+not really religion at all.
+
+It must be remembered that every man or woman of these millions who has
+reached middle life was born a slave. The great bulk of the population
+have been brought up practically in the environment of a servile life.
+While there was much that was tender and pathetic and strong in the mute
+faith with which thousands of them lived through the dark trials of
+slavery, looking unto Christ as their deliverer, still the superstitions
+and degradations of slavery, its breaking of all home ties and life, could
+but infect the current religion of the black people. At its best, in
+multitudes of cases, it is but a form of physical and sensational
+excitement. The deep work of regenerating the soul and the life, which is
+the vital need of these people, is not done; it is not even attempted in
+the vast majority of the negro churches of the Black Belt. "The problem of
+the Kanaka in my native Hawaiian Islands," General Armstrong once said to
+me, "is one with that of the Southern negro. The Sandwich Islander,
+converted, was not yet rebuilt in the forces of his manhood." On the side
+of his moral nature, where he is weakest, the black man of the South has
+still to be girded and energized. In him are still the tendencies of his
+hereditary paganism, the vices of his slavehood. These will sink him
+unless his whole nature is regenerated by the ministration of a pure and
+vital Christianity.
+
+The black man needs what every human being needs, help from above. It is
+futile to say, he is free, let him alone. Mere freedom never yet saved a
+human soul. The gospel of Christ is not a mere declaration of freedom; it
+is regeneration and help from above. The more deeply a race is sinking in
+degradation and sin, the more imperative is its call for saving power from
+on high.
+
+From what element of our population is this cry of distress and need more
+agonizing than from the poor black man of the South? He is sinking in a
+quicksand of ignorance, poverty, and vice. There is nothing beneath to
+support his feet. He must go down unless he can get help from above. Those
+who are nearest to him, and can see and feel most deeply his desperate
+condition, plead most strongly in his behalf. "The definition is very
+clear, sharp, and simple," says an honored white minister of the South,
+"that the negroes are making a tremendous struggle to get an education and
+be religious; but despite this struggle, the bottom strata of the race are
+being sucked into crime and ruin with unprecedented and increasing
+rapidity. But, wherever the efforts of white Christians to aid them are
+regular, steady, and strong, this destruction and debasement are stayed to
+a marvelous degree. Here, then, are conditions that seem to leave no room
+for either neglect or delay, so far as we are concerned. Delay is sin to
+us, and death to them."
+
+Another minister of the South, whose services for the black man as well as
+the white man, have been those of a philanthropist, has said, "In our
+extremity we look to wise and just people in the Northern states to help
+us, to help both races; without Northern cooeperation things will go from
+bad to worse." Yet the old hard word is still uttered by many and thought
+by many more, "The negro is free, leave him to himself. We have done
+enough for him in taking off his slave chains." Are we then to expect from
+him more than we do from the white element of our American populations,
+native or foreign? Do we refuse them the gospel of home missions, and
+demand from them self-extrication from sin and its degradations?
+
+Our churches have not yet awakened to the vastness and promise of the home
+mission fields which they have put in charge of the American Missionary
+Association. They have not yet recognized the peculiar fitness of our
+free-church system for the people who have so lately come into personal
+freedom that the very word is indescribably precious to them. This
+Association ought now to have not only the means for a more ample support
+of its educational service, but also for the broadening of its distinctive
+church missions. The day has come for the planting of free Congregational
+churches among the shadowed millions of the South.
+
+In the upbuilding of their minds and hearts, our fundamental work of
+Christian education has been developed into remarkable fruitage, and is
+steadily doing this imperative and successful service. This education has
+been broad enough to make intellectual and moral leaders. It has not been
+confined to those who can become only manual laborers. With prominent
+emphasis upon industrial training, as is evinced by the farms and gardens
+and workshops of our institutions all through the South, we have not shut
+the door against the higher training.
+
+The Association has never given in to what may be termed the Southern
+theory of negro education, its confinement to the manual handicrafts, and
+the rudiments of primary school instruction. Nothing is more popular in
+the South than the practical limitation of educational opportunities for
+the negro people to the lines of manual training and the reserve of all
+the possibilities of a higher education to the white, dominant race. A
+prominent Southern journalist has expressed this view in the following
+terms: "A little education is all the negro needs. Let him learn the
+rudiments--to read, and to write, and to cipher, and be made to mix that
+knowledge with some useful labor. His only resource is manual labor." But
+one of the foremost colored men in the South has well said: "There is no
+defence or security for any, except in the highest intelligence and
+development of all. If anywhere there are efforts tending to curtail the
+fullest growth of the negro, let these efforts be turned into stimulating,
+encouraging, and making him the most useful and intelligent citizen."
+
+The American Missionary Association, in addition to its general and
+industrial school training, has opened the doors of a higher education to
+all who seek to enter in. The fruition of this opportunity now appears at
+the very juncture when a call is coming from among the millions of the
+back country for free churches, pure churches, churches which emphasize
+virtue and intelligence. Our great schools are bringing to us young men
+and young women thoroughly fitted to go preaching and teaching among these
+millions. But how shall they go, except they be sent?
+
+
+
+
+Talladega College, Ala.
+
+
+THE INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT.
+AGRICULTURE.
+
+Edgar A Bishop, B.S., Superintendent.
+
+The work in the Agricultural Department the past year has been the most
+satisfactory of any in its history. The young men of the Junior
+Preparatory and Normal classes with several special students have taken
+the classroom work, using Gulley's "First Lessons in Agriculture" as a
+textbook. Among the topics considered are the following:
+
+Origin, formation, and composition of soil. Composition of the plant. How
+plants feed and grow. Fertilization of the seed, and improvement of
+variety. Plant food in the soil and how developed. Preparing land for the
+crop. Cultivation of crop. Principles of drainage and irrigation. Manures
+and commercial fertilizers. Rotation of crops. Special diversified
+farming. Farm economy. Food and manure value of crops. How to propagate
+plants--pruning, grafting, budding, etc. Stock breeding: feeding and care;
+how to select for special purposes, detect unsoundness, determine age,
+etc.
+
+The classroom work has been reenforced by practical talks and
+illustrations at the barns and in the field.
+
+Thirty-five boys have had employment in the department this year. Six of
+these have worked by the month to accumulate a credit with which to enter
+the day school next year, meanwhile attending our night school. The others
+work after school hours and on Saturdays, and are paid by the hour at
+varying rates.
+
+The work on the farm has been largely the production of those crops needed
+for consumption in the institution, the support of animals for work, beef,
+milk, pork, etc.
+
+The general improvement of the land and the increase in the value of the
+property have been kept constantly in view. Our fields are becoming more
+fertile, and better crops are being raised every year.
+
+An orchard of several hundred trees, consisting of pears, plums, peaches,
+and cherries, has been set out. Other varieties have been added, also
+quinces, mulberries, figs, and grapes. This year one each of the Japanese
+walnut, giant chestnut, and paper shell pecan are being started; also half
+a dozen varieties of the raspberry, some currants, rhubarb and garden
+plants, with a view to propagate those that prove valuable. Twenty of the
+standard varieties of strawberries have been grown. Grasses and forage
+plants have also received their share of attention. One-half acre is being
+devoted to a trial of three Japanese millets in comparison with our German
+or golden millet. Several varieties of corn and sorghum have been grown
+and their characteristics carefully noted.
+
+Inquiries are often received from persons in this and other States
+regarding certain crops and methods of stock feeding. A creditable
+beginning has been made in rearing live stock, and it is our purpose to
+extend this branch of the work. To introduce some of the improved breeds
+best adapted to this section early occupied our attention, and we have met
+with encouragement beyond our expectation. Hundreds of pigs of good
+breeding have been sold all through the State to form the nucleus of
+better herds. Our herd of cattle is headed by a thoroughbred Jersey and
+contains several registered and many high-grade animals. It is increasing
+in quality and value each year.
+
+Besides the work already mentioned, an annual farmers' convention is held
+at the college, while meetings in some of the beats of the county have
+been held during the year. Much enthusiasm has been raised, and a
+determination evinced by many for better homes, better schools, stock,
+crops, etc. Widespread and systematic work along this line is planned for
+the ensuing year. In this way not only is the Agricultural Department
+striving to be a help to the people by practicing and advocating better
+methods of farming and living, but the College is becoming more widely and
+favorably known among all classes of people.
+
+
+
+Cooking.
+
+
+Miss Ruth K. Kingsley, Teacher.
+
+One of the most important arts, though often neglected, is that of
+cookery. The kitchen is so necessary a part of the boarding school and of
+the home that its equipment and regulations should be such as to make the
+work therein both easy and successful.
+
+Through the kindness of friends we have been able to purchase an excellent
+range and many of the improved cooking utensils now in use. Our girls
+enjoy working with these modern appliances, and they are taught the
+necessity of having appropriate places for them in the drawers and
+cupboards with which the room is supplied.  One of the first requirements
+is--a tidy kitchen.
+
+We have given attention to the preparation of the dishes found on the bill
+of fare of the average family, and have made much of healthful and proper
+methods of cooking. We do not propose to make professional cooks, but we
+hope that our girls will acquire skill sufficient to do all that is
+necessary in plain and wholesome family living. The class has been
+stimulated in its endeavor by the fact that the product of their daily
+work has found its way to the dining-tables of the boarding hall.
+
+
+
+The Laundry.
+
+
+The building in which the laundry work is done was erected by
+student-labor under the supervision of the Mechanical Superintendent. The
+washing and ironing are performed in the main by our night-school girls,
+who are looking forward to attendance upon the day school from current
+earnings. Here also the day-school occupants of the girls' dormitory do
+their own laundering, or assist after their daily recitations in the
+general work of the college.
+
+
+
+Nursing.
+
+
+Miss A.B. Chalfant, Teacher.
+
+The course of instruction is designed to extend through two years, the
+first being devoted to the sick room--care of the bed; moving and bathing
+the patient; different kinds of food for the invalid, with its
+preparation; making and application of poultices; rubbing, and the
+administration of simple remedies.
+
+In the second year more attention is given to the symptoms and the
+diagnosis of disease, with something of its treatment; and the proper
+course in emergencies, as in cases of burns, wounds, loss of blood,
+sun-strokes, drowning, and poisoning.
+
+The pupils have been chiefly from the Normal grade, though some who are
+outside of the college family have been glad to avail themselves of the
+opportunity to enter the class, and they have proved apt and faithful
+students. Early in the beginning of this school year the instructor
+offered to organize a class among the young men, and to meet them at an
+hour not to conflict with other studies. Six persons responded and a high
+degree of interest has been manifested.
+
+The value of this department is increasingly manifest, not only in the
+varied service rendered by the nurse teacher, but in the assistance given
+by pupils of both dormitories at the bedside of the sick, by mothers in
+the neighborhood who have been in the classes, and by the prophecy of
+better things for many homes where the influence of this work is felt.
+
+
+
+Printing.
+
+
+The college has maintained a printing office with but few interruptions
+since 1877.
+
+A number of the young men were put through a course of training by one of
+the officers of the institution, and for some time the printing has been
+in the hands of those thus instructed, and with but little supervision.
+The department has done a large share of our job work, and during the
+school year has issued a monthly paper called the _Talladega College
+Record_.
+
+
+
+Sewing.
+
+
+Miss A.B. Chalfant, Teacher.
+
+While it is believed that all industrial training develops both mind and
+body, yet special attention is given to the work among the girls, that it
+shall be in the line of improving their future homes. With this object in
+view, sewing is by no means an unimportant factor. It holds an important
+place in the curriculum of this school. Beginning in the third grade it
+extends through the seventh. Over two hundred pupils have received
+instruction this year.
+
+In the lower classes, felling, hemming, and making of button holes are
+taught; in the intermediate, cutting and making plain garments; in the
+higher grade the girls cut and make dresses. Instruction is given in
+making garments from old clothes and also in mending--two important
+accomplishments in most homes.
+
+Some of the girls are able during the school year, but especially in
+vacation, to earn enough by their sewing to materially aid themselves in
+meeting their school expenses. Considerable sewing is done for the
+institution, such as making bedding and work aprons, hemming towels and
+table linen. Custom work is attempted to some extent also, and by this
+means sufficient income has been derived not only to keep the Department
+stocked with material, but also to supply it with appropriate furniture
+for preserving the work of the pupils and displaying the finished product.
+
+
+
+Woodworking and Drafting.
+
+
+George Williamson, Instructor.
+
+The best method of Industrial Education is to keep the technical idea
+preeminently in view, and to teach, first, those principles which will be
+of real and practical use in an industrial life or profession. It is
+evident that the great mass of the people must be industrial workers in
+some form; and to teach them those principles of construction and drawing
+which govern all the mechanical trades is to give them preparation for a
+useful and successful life.
+
+We want to teach them how to express intelligently by means of drawing
+their own ideas or the ideas of others, and then to embody them in
+permanent and useful construction; so that at least they may have the
+start and impetus toward something better than a life of blind mechanical
+drudgery.
+
+The extent to which we can do this is limited by our time and opportunity.
+At present our instruction in the Slater shop is confined to woodworking
+and mechanical drafting. We have a course of lessons in woodworking for
+the boys, of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, illustrating
+progressively the common principles of construction in wood, and designed
+to develop familiarity with and dexterity in the use of tools. In each
+lesson the student receives a blue-print to work from; so that he learns
+to measure by scale, and interpret a draft. At the same time he is shown a
+perfect model to give him an ideal of good workmanship in the finished
+product. He is not allowed to use the model as a working copy, because
+that would counteract the influence of the drawing. The course is designed
+to teach progressively the common principles of good construction, each
+principle being repeated in different exercises so as to show its varied
+application.
+
+As far as possible we have a fourfold purpose in each exercise, viz.: To
+illustrate a principle of construction; to develop a knowledge of tools
+and skill in their use; to teach the use of working drawings and scales;
+to sustain the interest of the pupil.
+
+Of course there are a number of other indirect results attained at the
+same time in the general development of the faculties, and the training in
+habits of accuracy, patient perseverance, neatness, and order.
+
+The drawing classes are designed to carry on farther the same idea of the
+primary importance of technical knowledge and skill. We have but one year
+of compulsory work for the boys of the ninth grade--which provides a
+thorough course in plane, geometric scale, and pattern drawing from the
+same text-book that is used in the government science and art schools of
+Great Britain. Our plan provides another year's work in drawing for the
+purpose of teaching the principles and details of building construction,
+and the art of drawing plans, elevations, sections, etc. The improvement
+of the students in the drawing class is most marked and encouraging, and
+their interest well sustained. They are strongly impressed with the
+necessity and importance of absolute accuracy and truthfulness in their
+work.
+
+The classes in woodworking have about two hours per week--the first year
+drawing, five hours per week; the second year two hours per week. We have
+but one teacher in woodworking, and our work is limited in extent, but we
+are trying to do one thing well and systematically, and the results are
+most encouraging.
+
+
+
+
+Revivals.
+
+
+
+
+Lincoln Academy, All Healing, N.C.
+
+
+By Rev. James Wharton.
+
+I wish to say a word about Lincoln Academy as I found it. For several
+weeks they had been expecting me to go and hold evangelistic services for
+the students, whom I was glad to meet, and, I may say, a finer and more
+promising set of young people I have seldom met during the past twenty
+years of my work in the South. They are to be the fathers and mothers of
+the next generation, and will be just what we make them. They were all in
+good condition and prepared to enter upon the work of the Lord under the
+leadership of the principal, Miss Cathcart, and the teachers, who are all
+deeply interested in the spiritual welfare of each one under their care,
+and time after time one and another were taken to their rooms apart and
+pleaded with at the throne of grace, and I need not say that their efforts
+were signally blessed of God, for during the past week twenty-eight
+students have professed faith in Christ and are now living new lives.
+
+Every one around this neighborhood speaks in the highest terms of praise
+of the school and the good which is being done. A lady said to me the
+other day it was easy to recognize "Lincoln Academy" students for their
+good behavior and their manners. What a blessing to have such faithful
+helpers to lead them. As a result we need not wonder that parents
+sometimes send spoiled and wayward children for training, while others,
+knowing of the good influence brought to bear upon the children, deny
+themselves in every possible way that they may send their sons and
+daughters that they may be fitted for future life in the world which they
+have soon to face.
+
+
+
+
+A GRACIOUS REVIVAL.--Rev. Mr. Wharton, writes from Atlanta, Ga.: "The Lord
+has graciously blessed His work here, and the Gospel is still the power of
+God unto salvation. I have held services at Storrs School, Atlanta
+University, and the First Congregational Church, and during the last
+twelve days over 200 have been converted. Some of the most prominent
+colored citizens of this city and some of the most promising students of
+Storrs and also of the University have been reached and have decided for
+Christ, the future teachers and fathers and mothers of the next
+generation, who will come to the front, maybe, when we are silent in the
+grave. The beauty of this work is, it does not stop with the converts, but
+dark homes and hearts are going to be reached, superstition is going to
+give place to sound doctrine, and the whole country be benefited by such a
+revival. Parents are rejoicing on every hand over sons and daughters and
+also friends being converted. Truly 'God has done great things for us
+whereof we are glad.' I go next to Selma, Ala., for Sunday. I would be
+thankful of your prayers for Selma."
+
+GOOD RESULTS OF NOON PRAYER-MEETINGS.--A teacher from Helena, Ark.,
+writes: "We suggested to the Christians among our pupils that they meet in
+the chapel at noon recess each day for a prayer meeting, in the hope of
+bringing the unconverted members of our school to Christ. The suggestion
+was carried out by them and the blessing came abundantly. The result of
+these meetings has been the conversion of 25 of the 28 of our pupils who
+were not Christians. I have learned one lesson, that we must prepare for
+the outpouring of the spirit, and then expect great things."
+
+FROM TENNESSEE.--Home again. Shall we all meet again? O, must some parts
+of the work be dropped and other parts be crippled by the debt? This will
+not be so if all our members are like the little Tallmadge girl. Only five
+years old, lame and with suffering nerves she has earned a dollar this
+year by washing dishes, and gives it to our school. So a little child may
+teach us self-denial and devotion. God speed His work and bless our
+efforts.
+
+ATLANTA, GA.--"We send you $1 as an offering of the Junior Society of
+Christian Endeavor of Storrs School. It is an offering of love and
+gratitude. The Little Sunshine Committee of the society were very active
+in gathering this. It is their second missionary effort, their first being
+for the Indians at Fort Berthold."
+
+
+
+
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+
+
+
+HON. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT.
+
+
+In the death of Mr. Straight the American Missionary Association and the
+colored people of the South lose a firm and helpful friend. Mr. Straight
+passed away on February 21, 1896, in the 81st year of his age. When the
+Association in 1869 planted a school for the higher education of the
+Negroes in New Orleans, La., it found there a few persons of Northern
+birth, but who had long resided in that city, and were men of established
+character and of large influence, who took interest in the proposed
+institution and gave it their encouragement and support. Among these
+persons the Hon. Seymour Straight was most conspicuous for his deep
+interest in the project, for his useful service on the Board of Trustees
+and for his large gift at the outset--in view of all which the institution
+took his name.
+
+Under Gen. Sheridan's laudable desire for good government in the city of
+New Orleans, Mr. Straight was made a member of the City Council. In 1868
+he was appointed by the Chamber of Commerce as a member of a committee in
+regard to improvements in the cities of the State. In 1872 he was
+appointed a member of the International Penitentiary Congress, to assemble
+in London, Eng., which appointment, however, he was unable to accept. He
+received other marks of the esteem in which he was held by his
+fellow-citizens. In 1869, at the incorporation of the Straight University,
+he was appointed President of its Board of Trustees, which position he
+held till the time of his death. A good man has gone and his works do
+follow him.
+
+
+
+
+MISS EVELYN E. STARR.
+
+
+Our school at Greenwood, S. C., mourns the loss of one of its teachers,
+who, though she had been but a few months in connection with the school,
+had endeared herself to both teachers and pupils. Miss Evelyn E. Starr
+departed this life February 6, 1896. The principal of the school writes:
+"She came to the work with a sincere love for it, was intensely in
+earnest, and devoutly Christian."
+
+
+
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+
+Miss D. E. Emerson, Secretary.
+
+
+
+
+COLORED WOMEN'S WORK.
+
+
+We often speak of the influence of the schools and churches of the
+American Missionary Association, but perhaps it is not realized how marked
+this is in the growth of a missionary spirit among the people. To
+illustrate this we call attention to reports of a few of the Women's
+Missionary Societies among the colored people.
+
+The Woman's Union of Alabama reports as having raised by its auxiliaries
+$259.41, and the spirit of the auxiliaries is manifested in the following
+items:
+
+Anniston.--A society of girls of the church, ranging in age from five to
+fifteen years. The object is to increase an interest in mission work. The
+monthly fee is one cent. We hope to be able to do much more this year than
+we did last.
+
+Jenifer.--The chief object with the Jenifer Union is Africa. The meetings
+are held twice each month. Mothers' meetings are held every Friday, where
+fervent prayers are offered for all missionaries. Then a few minutes we
+spend in special prayer for Misses Fearing and Thomas, and Mr. and Mrs.
+Sheppard, colored missionaries in Africa.
+
+Montgomery.--Our Union meets every Monday. We make articles for sale. The
+money obtained in this way is used in helping any good cause. We have sent
+five dollars to the American Missionary Association for work among the
+Indians.
+
+Talladega.--We study the various mission fields, home and foreign. We have
+a Dorcas meeting when we make and repair articles of clothing. The third
+meeting of the month is the Mothers' meeting, where prayers are offered
+for many households. We have expended during the year $13.60 for work at
+home, $32.44 for American Missionary Association Indian work, $40.50 for
+foreign missions.
+
+The auxiliaries of Union of the Tennessee Association report as follows:
+
+Chattanooga.--The visiting and prayer-meeting committee have been
+unusually active. All classes of the sick and needy have been visited and
+comforted, and consolation and financial aid carried to many homes. Amount
+raised for the year, $67.24.
+
+Memphis.--Our Union meets monthly, and usually discusses two or three
+subjects on mission work. Our missionary cow is well, and its owner,
+Sister Rachel, furnishes good milk and butter to the sick free of charge,
+and will walk two miles to sell five cents' worth for the benefit of the
+Union. Amount raised during the year, $63.11.
+
+Nashville, Howard Church.--Our women are united in all lines of church,
+mission and industrial work. We are gradually growing in membership and
+enthusiasm. Our small contributions are no indication of the interest and
+labor shown. Amount raised for the year, $37.10.
+
+Nashville, Jackson Street Church.--Our Union numbers about twenty members.
+We have been blessed during the hard times in our effort to do church and
+mission work. Receipts for the year, $50.10.
+
+Louisville, Ky.--The outlook is bright for a steady progress in the
+uplifting of humanity. Amount raised for the year, $21.
+
+Little Rock, Ark.--Our Society has been acting in the double capacity of
+church aid and missionary society. We have recently organized a Church Aid
+Society in order that we may give the attention of our Union to mission
+work proper at home and abroad.
+
+North Carolina.--The President reports a most cheering advance in interest
+and contributions, $223 having been raised by the women of the Union
+during the year. This was done by very poor and hard working women. While
+most of the money was spent for aid in their churches and to the sick and
+needy about them, some of it was sent to the treasury of the Missionary
+Board.
+
+A few words from Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore, president of the Tennessee
+Association, tell the whole story. These once unhappy and largely idle
+women in practical Christian effort are now employed in Christ's name,
+intelligently, radiant in the joy of His salvation.
+
+
+
+
+WORK AT McLEANSVILLE, N. C.
+
+
+MRS. S. S. SEVIER.
+
+McLeansville is not a great city like New York or Chicago, where
+everything seems to be in a rush, and everybody is wrapt up in business;
+neither is it a great railroad center; but merely a "little flag-station."
+The majority of the people here, both white and colored, earn their living
+chiefly by farming.
+
+Even though McLeansville is a humble little place, we have a very pleasant
+work here, sustained mainly by the American Missionary Association. At the
+close of the year 1894 our church building was very small, indeed; could
+not hold more than sixty or seventy persons. A "Woman's Missionary Union"
+was organized last August. The first work this Union wished to do was to
+take steps toward enlarging our church. We accordingly planned to hold a
+fair to raise money for this purpose. The fair consisted mainly of
+clothing and fancy articles made by members of the Union. Some cloth was
+contributed for this purpose by Northern friends. The Union felt much
+encouraged over the result, which was $50. This amount, with an especial
+tax upon the members of the church, has enabled us to make a very great
+improvement upon our church. It is now almost twice as large as it was at
+the end of last year.
+
+We feel that our year's labor thus far has been greatly blessed. We also
+feel that our little mission is a worthy work. The people seem to fully
+appreciate church and educational privileges.
+
+
+
+
+
+RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1896.
+
+
+_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+Income for February       $ 4,197.35
+Previously acknowledged    27,110.00
+                          ----------
+                          $31,307.35
+                          ==========
+
+                            CURRENT RECEIPTS.
+
+         *MAINE*, $292.99.
+Auburn. High St. Cong.       $30.00
+Ch.
+Auburn. Bbl. C. _for
+Andersonville, Ga._
+Augusta. "A Friend"           30.00
+Blanchard. Jacob               5.00
+Blanchard
+Brewer. Y.P.S.C.E. Cong.
+Ch., Box Christmas Goods,
+_for McIntosh, Ga._
+Bridgton. "T"                 75.00
+Castine. Mrs. C. M.            2.00
+Cushman, _for Freight, to
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Cumberland Center.             2.00
+Helping Hand Soc., _for
+Student Aid, McIntosh,
+Ga._
+Dennysville. Sab. Sch.         5.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Eliot. Cong. Ch., Lincoln      3.26
+Mem. Day Off.
+Garland. Cong. Ch. and         7.00
+Soc., 5, and C.E. Soc.,
+2, Jubilee Off.
+Harrison, Cong. Ch.            2.65
+Limington. Cong. Ch.          14.00
+Machias. Center St. Cong.      4.22
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Machias. ----, Bbl. C.
+_for Andersonville, Ga._
+North Bridgton. Sab. Sch.      4.25
+Cong. Ch., _for Student
+Aid, Talladega C._
+North Bridgton. Cong. Ch.      4.00
+North Gorham. Cong. Ch.,
+Bbl. C. _for Wilmington,
+N. C._
+Portland. Sab. Sch.           20.00
+Second Parish, Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off.
+Portland. Williston Cong.
+Ch., C. E. Soc., Box and
+Bbl. Christmas Goods for
+_Lexington, Ky._
+Salsbury Cove. Mrs. M.         1.00
+Rich, _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Sanford Mills. Geo.            5.00
+Goodell, _for Wilmington,
+N. C._
+Searsport. First Cong.        14.21
+Ch.
+Skowhegan. Island Av.         24.32
+Cong. Ch.
+South Berwick. Ladies of       1.25
+Cong. Ch., _for Freight
+to Blowing Rock, N. C._
+South Berwick. ----, Bbl.
+C. _for Andersonville,
+Ga._
+South Penobscot. Bapt.         1.00
+Ch., Bbl. C., Freight, 1,
+_for McIntosh, Ga._
+South West Harbor. King's
+Daughters, Bbl. C. _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Topsham. ----, Bbl. C.
+_for Andersonville, Ga._
+Westbrook. Cong. Ch.          14.18
+Westbrook. King's D.,
+Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Wilton. Sab. Sch. Cong.       11.12
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Whitneyville. Cong. Ch.,       4.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Woodfords. L. M. S.            8.53
+(Thank offering), 5; Sab.
+Sch. Cong. Ch. in part,
+3.53
+Woodfords. Bbl. C. _for
+Andersonville, Ga._
+
+RECEIVED AT SKYLAND INST., BLOWING ROCK, N. C.
+Acton. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.
+Auburn. ----, Bbl. C.
+Harpswell Center. Cong. Soc., Bbl C.
+Island Falls. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.
+Machias. Cong. Ch., Box and Bbl. C.
+Skowhegan. Cong. Soc., Bbl. C.
+
+      *NEW HAMPSHIRE*, $1,715.92
+Amherst. Sab. Sch. Cong.           6.04
+Ch.
+Bennington. Cong. Ch.,             7.91
+3.56, and C. E. Soc.,
+4.35
+Berlin Mills. Cong. Ch.           15.22
+Derry. Sab. Sch. First            10.00
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Day
+Mem. Off.
+Epping. "A Friend for the         40.00
+Debt," in Memory of Rev.
+J. H. Stearns, D.D.
+Epping. "Two Friends,"            10.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Exeter. First Cong. Ch.          133.08
+Francestown. M. C.                  .50
+Willard
+Gilmanton. Sab. Sch.               2.43
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Off.
+Hillsboro Bridge. Sab.             2.91
+Sch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off.
+Jaffrey. Ladies, First             1.50
+Cong. Ch., _for Freight
+to Joppa, Ala._
+Laconia. Mrs. H. F.                3.83
+Smith, _for Saluda, N.
+C._
+Manchester. First Cong.           41.40
+Ch. and Soc.
+Milford. Pilgrim Ch., Jr.          1.00
+Y. P. S. C. E., _for
+Indian M._
+Milton. Cong. Ch.                  7.25
+Nashua. Y. P. S. C. E. of         10.00
+First Cong. Ch.
+North Hampton. Cong. Ch.          22.50
+Pembroke. Sab. Sch. Cong.         14.30
+Ch.
+Penacook. Sab. Sch. Cong.         10.00
+Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Penacook. Y. P. S. C. E.           4.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Stratham. Cong. Ch. and           11.75
+Soc.
+Temple. Sab. Sch. Cong.            5.38
+Ch.
+Wolfborough. Cong. Ch.             4.92
+and Soc.
+
+ RECEIVED AT SKYLAND INST., BLOWING ROCK, N. C.
+Alstead. Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+C.
+Acworth. Mrs. W. Neal,
+Bbl. C.
+Chester. Cong. Soc., Bbl.
+C.
+Epping. First Cong. Soc.,
+Bbl. C.
+Hancock. Ladies' Soc.,
+Bbl. C.
+                                          -------
+                                          $365.92
+
+             *ESTATES.*
+New Ipswich. Estate Dea.       50.00
+Leavitt Lincoln, by Rev.
+Geo. F. Merriam, Trustee
+Pembroke. Estate of Mrs.    1,000.00
+Sarah C. Fellows, by
+Jacob E. Chickering,
+Adm'r.
+Plaistow. Estate of Mary      300.00
+S. Kelly, by Louis G.
+Hoyt, Adm'r.
+                           ---------
+                           $1,715.92
+
+         *VERMONT*, $2,330.21.
+Berlin. Cong. Ch.                  20.00
+Brattleboro. Mrs. Mary L.          26.00
+Hadley
+Bridgeport. Mrs. Chapman,           2.50
+_for Athens, Ala._
+Brownington. S. S.                  7.00
+Tinkham
+Brownington. Ladies'                1.50
+Cong. Ch., Freight to
+McIntosh, Ga.
+Burlington. Mrs. W. J.             15.00
+Van Patten, _for
+Williamsburg Acad., Ky._
+Cambridge. Madison                 10.00
+Stafford
+Charlotte. Cong. Ch.               33.00
+East Corinth. Cong. Ch.             8.75
+Essex Junction. Oppor'y
+Circle, Bbl. C. _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Greensboro. Sab. Sch.               1.55
+Cong. Ch.
+Florence. "Friends," _for            .87
+Freight to McIntosh, Ga._
+Manchester. E. J. Kellogg           5.00
+Manchester. Y. P. S. C.             5.00
+E. of Cong. Ch. _for Knox
+Inst., Athens, Ga._
+Manchester. W. H. M. S.,            1.65
+_for Freight to McIntosh,
+Ga._
+McIndoes Falls. Cong.
+Ch., 2. Bbls. C. _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Morgan. Lucy Little                  .50
+Newbury. First Cong. Ch.           26.30
+Newbury. Mrs. Anna E.              10.00
+Keyes, Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Newport. Woman's Aux.,              1.15
+Freight to McIntosh, Ga.
+Pawlet. A. Flower                    .50
+Rochester. Mrs. L. E.               5.00
+Martin, _for Wilmington,
+N. C._
+Saint Johnsbury. Jr. C.
+E. S. North. Ch., Box C.
+_for McIntosh, Ga._
+Strafford. Cong. Ch., 10;          16.00
+Sab. Sch., 2; Y. P. S. C.
+E. (thank off.), _for
+Mountain Work_, 4; by
+Rev. Henry Cummings
+Townshend. Mrs. H. P.                .50
+Holbrook
+Weston. Mrs. C. W.                  2.00
+Sprague
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Union of Vt., by Mrs.
+Rebecca P. Fairbanks,
+Treas., for Woman's Work:
+W. H. M. U.                        25.00
+Barton. Children's                  3.74
+Mission Band, _for Indian
+Schp._
+Chelsea. Ladies' Benev.            10.00
+Soc.
+East Fairfield. Jun. C.             5.00
+E., _for Indian Schp._
+Coventry. Busy Bees, adl.           5.00
+East Hardwich. Jun. C.              1.75
+E., _for Indian Schp._
+Hartland. Jr. C. E., _for           2.00
+Indian Schp._
+Jericho Center. Sab. Sch.            .90
+Milton. W. H. M. S.                 5.00
+Norwich. S. S., _for                2.50
+Indian Schp._
+Rutland. Jr. C. E., _for            5.00
+Indian Schp._
+Saint Johnsbury. Miss               2.55
+Margaret Hazen's S. S.
+Class, _for Indian Schp._
+Sherburne, Miss Lena A.             1.00
+Round's S. S. Class, _for
+Indian Schp._
+Westford. Homeland Aux.             6.00
+Westminster.  Mrs. C. W.            5.00
+Thompson
+---- "A Friend"                    25.00
+---- "A Friend"                    25.00
+                            ----- 130.44
+                                 -------
+                                 $330.21
+
+             *ESTATE.*
+West Brattleboro. Estate    2,000.00
+of Mrs. Elvira Stedman,
+by D. B. Stedman, Adm'r.
+>                          ---------
+                           $2,330.21
+
+      *MASSACHUSETTS*, $8,145.15.
+Abington. First Cong.               5.00
+Ch., Peter Talbot
+Andover. Sab. Sch. West            39.28
+Cong Ch., _for Freedmen_
+Andover.  Rev. C. C.                3.00
+Starbuck, _for Student
+Aid, Talladega C._
+Amherst. Amherst College          158.83
+Ch. (60 of which from
+President M. E. Gates to
+const. MISS MARY L. SNELL
+and MISS SABRA C. SNELL
+L. M.'s)
+Ashfield. "Taylor Family"           5.00
+Athol. Ladies' Immanuel
+Ch., Bbl. C., Freight
+paid _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Auburndale. Y. P. S. C.            20.00
+E. Cong. Ch.
+Ballardvale. Union Cong.            6.14
+Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.
+Berkely. Cong. Ch.                 27.50
+Blackstone. Cong. Ch., 7;          10.00
+Y. P. S. C. E., 2, and
+Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., 1
+Blanford. Harriet M.               25.00
+Hinsdale, _for Straight
+U._
+Boston. Park St. Ch., Y.           10.00
+P. S. C. E., _for C. E.
+Hall, McIntosh, Ga._
+Allston. Mrs. R. H. Bird,           5.00
+_for Indian M._
+Dorchester. Second Cong.           58.00
+Ch., Mrs. Wm. Wales, to
+const. MISS E. A. WALES
+L. M. 30; B. C. Hardwick,
+25; "A Friend," Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off., 3
+Roxbury. Mrs. S. A.                50.00
+Dwight, _for Orange Park,
+Fla._
+Highland Cong. Ch.                 13.50
+Highland Cong. Ch., Extra          25.00
+Cent-a-day Band
+                            ----- 161.50
+Boxborough. "A Friend"             20.00
+Brockton. Olivet Mem.              16.00
+Ch., _for Wilmington, N.
+C._
+Brockton. "Friends," _for           2.25
+Student Aid, Fisk U._
+Buckland. "Life Member"             2.00
+Cambridgeport. Pilgrim             22.32
+Cong. Ch.
+Cambridgeport. Wood                 3.00
+Memorial Y. P. S. C. E.,
+_for Central Ch., New
+Orleans, La._
+Cambridgeport. ----, Box
+C. _for Andersonville,
+Ga._
+Campello. "Friends," _for          27.00
+Student Aid, Fisk U._
+Charlemont. Y. P. S. C.            10.00
+E., First Cong. Ch., _for
+C. E. Hall, McIntosh,
+Ga._
+Chelesa. Central Cong.             77.15
+Ch.
+Chester Center. Cong.               4.51
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Chicopee. First Cong. Ch.          11.00
+Chicopee Falls. Second             31.30
+Cong. Ch.
+Dalton. Zenas Crane, 100;         200.00
+W. M. Crane, 100, _for
+Tougaloo U._
+Douglas. Sab. Sch., 1.55;           5.00
+Y. P. S. C. E., 1.75; Jr.
+S. C. E., _for Evarts,
+Ky._, 1.70, Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Dudley. Miss Nichols,               6.00
+_for Student Aid,
+Meridian, Miss._
+Easthampton. C. E. Soc.,            6.25
+of Payson Ch.
+Erving. L. B. Soc., Y. P.           6.00
+S. C. E. and King's
+Daughters of Cong. Ch.
+Everett. Mrs. Andrew                4.00
+Allen, 4; Mrs. Geo. W.
+Fitz, Bbl. C., _for
+Enfield, N. C._
+Fall River. Y. P. S. C.            25.00
+E. of Central Cong. Ch.,
+_for Student Aid, Fisk
+U._
+Fall River. Clinton                 2.00
+Remington, _for Indian
+M._
+Foxboro. Primary S. S.              7.00
+Class, _for Moorhead,
+Miss._
+Framingham. Plymouth               51.21
+Cong. Ch.
+Gill. Y. P. S. C. E., by           20.00
+Jessie S. Moore, Sec.,
+_for Central Ch., New
+Orleans, La._
+Globe Village. Evang.              10.88
+Free Ch.
+Granville Center. Y. P.             2.50
+S. C. E. of Cong. Ch.
+Great Barrington. First            12.00
+Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.
+Greenfield. Mrs. Dwight            12.00
+R. Tyler
+Greenwich. Ladies M. S.,            5.00
+Bbl. C., Freight, 5, _for
+Moorhead, Miss._
+Hampden. Ladies' Soc.               1.60
+Cong. Ch., _for Freight
+to Greenwood, S. C._
+Haverhill. Algernon P.             13.00
+Nichols, 10; Mrs. Clark,
+3, _for Indian M._
+Holyoke. "The Ladies'               5.00
+Prayer Circle" of Second
+Cong. Ch., _for Student
+Aid, Macon, Ga._, bal. to
+const. MRS. JOHN HALLE L.
+M.
+Hyannis. Y. P. S. C. E.             3.00
+of Cong. Ch.
+Hyde Park. "Friends,"              20.00
+_for Student Aid,
+Talladega C._
+Ipswich. First Parish              11.00
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Lawrence. Sab. Sch.                12.00
+Trinity Ch., _for Macon,
+Ga._
+Leominster. Ortho. Cong.           79.00
+Ch.
+Littleton. Ortho. Cong.            14.30
+Ch.
+Lowell. Pawtucket Cong.             2.00
+Ch.
+Lunenburg. E. C. Ch.,               3.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Lynn. Sab. Sch. Cong.
+Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Wilmington, N. C._
+Marlboro. Cong. Ch.                15.00
+Medfield. Cong. Ch.                11.00
+Medford. Mystic Ch., _for            .50
+Indian M., Fort Yates, N.
+D._
+Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch.         105.36
+Melrose Highlands. Cong.           23.03
+Ch.
+Methuen. Mission Band,
+Box Christmas Gifts _for
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Middleboro. Thomas P.               1.00
+Carleton, for Gospels,
+_for Indian M._
+Milford. Y. P. S. C. E.             6.15
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Mittineague. Southworth
+Paper Co., Box
+Stationery, _for
+Lexington, Ky._
+Newburyport. Powell
+Mission Circle, North
+Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Enfield, N. C._
+Newton. Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+C. _for Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._
+North Amherst. ----, Bbl.
+C. _for King's Mountain,
+N. C._
+Northampton. Mrs F. A.             55.00
+Clark, 30; H. G. Maynard,
+25
+North Andover. Cong. Ch.,          17.28
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+North Billerica. Mrs. E.            2.00
+R. Gould, _for Gloucester
+Sch., Cappahosic, Va._
+North Middleboro. Cong.            44.44
+Ch.
+North Newton. Cong. Ch.             3.00
+Norton. Aux. of Woman's            25.00
+Board of Missions, _for
+Indian Schp._
+Oxford. L. M. Band, by              1.25
+Mrs. A. E. F. Childs,
+_for Freight to Savannah,
+Ga._
+Pittsfield. Mrs. H. A.             50.00
+Campbell, _for Tougaloo
+U._
+Pittsfield. Sab. Sch.              17.62
+First Cong. Ch., 10;
+Second Cong. Ch. and Sab.
+Sch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off's., 7.62
+Plymouth. Ch. of the               31.11
+Pilgrimage
+Reading. Jr. C. E. Soc.            10.00
+Cong. Ch., _for Mountain
+Work_
+Rockland. "Friends," _for           2.00
+Student Aid, Fisk U._
+Salem. Y. P. S. C. E.              75.00
+South Ch., _for Student
+Aid, Big Creek Gap,
+Tenn._
+Salem. Sab. Sch.                   30.00
+Tabernacle Ch., Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off. to const.
+HORACE M. BROWN L. M.
+Salem. Sab. Sch.                   25.00
+Tabernacle Ch., _for
+Central Ch., New Orleans,
+La._
+Salem. Grandma Pierce, 5,           7.00
+_for Teacher_; Primary
+Class S. S. South Ch., 2,
+_for C. E. Hall,
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Salem. Miss M. T. Strout,           4.50
+_for Wilmington, N.C._
+Sharon. Cong. Ch., to              33.42
+const. MRS. MARY L.
+HIXSON L. M.
+Shelburne. Cong. Ch., to           38.50
+const. HARDY DAVIS L. M.
+Shelburne. Ladies' Circle           1.25
+Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.,
+Freight 1.25, _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Sangus. "A King's                   6.00
+Daughter," _for Tougaloo
+U._
+Somerville. Prospect Hill          82.49
+Cong. Ch., to const. A.H.
+HINES, WILLIAM BURROUGHS
+and W. G. HALLOCK L. M.'s
+Somerville. Highland               20.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Southampton. Sab. Sch.             23.48
+Cong. Ch., 22.48; "A
+Friend," 1
+Southbridge. Mrs. B. U.            20.00
+Bugbee, _for Student Aid,
+Talladega C._
+South Deerfield. Ladies'
+Soc. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.
+_for Greenwood, S. C._
+South Framingham. Grace           360.16
+Cong. Ch. ("100 of which
+to reduce the Debt")
+South Hadley. Miss Mary            60.00
+F. Leach
+South Hadley Falls. Cong.          13.11
+Ch.
+South Weymouth. Mrs. Wm.           25.00
+Dyer, _for Student Aid,
+A. N. and I. Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Spencer. First Cong. Ch.          194.22
+and Soc.
+Spencer. S. S. Class, by           10.25
+Geo. H. Marsh, _for
+Indian Boys_
+Springfield. First Cong.           40.00
+Ch.
+Springfield. Ladies' M.
+S., Bbl. _for Moorhead,
+Miss._
+Springfield. North Ch.,
+Bbl. C. _for Talladega
+C._
+Stoughton. "A Friend"               1.00
+Topsfield. Boys'                   20.00
+Missionary Class, 10; Y.
+L. M. Circle, 10; _for
+Williamsburg Acad., Ky._
+Walpole. Sab. Sch. Second           8.09
+Ortho. Cong. Ch.
+Waltham. Cong. Ch., Jr.             3.00
+C. E. Soc.
+Ware Center. Ladies'
+Cong. Ch., Bbl. Papers,
+Freight pd. _for
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Warren. Y. P. S. C. E.,             4.00
+_for Student Aid,
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Wendell. Cong. Ch.                  1.00
+West Boxford. Cong. Ch.
+Aid Soc., 20 Bibles _for
+Lexington, Ky._
+West Groton. Evan.                 30.00
+Christian Union Ch., _for
+Mountain Work_, and to
+const. CLIFFORD E. BIXBY
+L. M.
+West Hatfield. Ladies'
+Aid Soc., Bbl. C. _for
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+West Hawley. Cong. Ch.              5.20
+Westminster. ----                   5.00
+West Newburyport. Rev. H.           1.00
+V. Moses, _for Straight
+U._
+West Springfield. First            22.25
+Cong. Ch., Jubilee Off.
+Williamsburg. Cong. Ch.            40.00
+Williamsburg. Mrs. O. P.            5.00
+Spellman, _for
+Williamsburg Acad., Ky._
+Worcester. Summer St.             142.23
+Cong. Ch., 60, to const.
+EDWARD L. SMITH and
+ARTHUR WHIPPLE L. M.'s;
+Sab. Sch. Plym. Ch.,
+47.26; ----, 30 to const.
+REV. RUFUS TAFT L. M.;
+Mrs. Sarah K. Goddard, 5
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Association of Mass. and
+R. I., Miss Annie C.
+Bridgman, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+W. H. M. A., _for                 340.00
+Salaries of Teachers_
+                                --------
+                               $3,344.41
+
+             *ESTATES.*
+Andover. Estate of Calvin    2,329.19
+E. Goodell, by S. H.
+Boutwell, Executor
+Pittsfield. Estate of        1,228.36
+Mrs. Hannah M. Hurd, by
+James A. Burbank,
+Executor
+Walpole. Estate of Mrs.      1,243.19
+Mary B. Johnson, by
+Frederic Gould, Executor
+                            ---------
+                            $8,145.15
+
+CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+Gray, Me. Rev. H. O. Thayer, Bbl. and Box C. _for
+Saluda, N.C._
+South Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.
+_for Blowing Rock, N. C._
+Jaffrey, N. H. Ladies' First Cong. Ch., Box C.
+_for Joppa, Ala._
+Ashfield, Mass. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Marshallville, Ga._
+
+       *RHODE ISLAND*, $57.59.
+Little Compton. United           23.29
+Cong. Ch. (18.09 of which
+for Freedmen)
+Providence. Central Cong.        15.00
+Ch., 9.70, _for Indian
+M., Fort Yates, N. D._;
+Edward Moore, 5.30, _for
+Indian M._
+Providence. Elmwood               3.65
+Temple, Y. P. S. C. E.,
+2; Y. P. S. C. E., North
+Ch., 1.65
+Providence. Ladies'
+Circle Plymouth Ch., Bbl.
+C., etc., _for Knoxville,
+Tenn._
+River Point. Cong. Ch.,          10.65
+_for Student Aid, Grand
+View, Tenn._
+Thornton. Sab. Sch. Cong.         5.00
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+
+       *CONNECTICUT*, $9,683.74.
+Ashford. "A Friend"                5.00
+Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. L.
+B. Soc., Bbl. C. _for
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Bridgeport. Ladies' Soc.,
+Bbl. C. _for Pleasant
+Hill, Tenn._
+Bristol. Lena J. Upson,           40.00
+_for Tougaloo U._
+Chester. Cong. Ch.                16.80
+Clinton. Cong. Ch.                 5.91
+Cromwell. Cong. Ch.               91.80
+Danbury. "Little                   3.00
+Workers," _for Central
+Church, New Orleans, La._
+Darien. Sab. Sch. Cong.            6.46
+Ch., _for Mountain Work_
+Deep River. Cong. Ch.             16.02
+East Hampton. Mrs. S.             30.00
+Skinner and Others, _for
+Theo. Dept. Talladega C._
+East Hartford. Alice               2.07
+Worth's S. S. Class, _for
+Central Ch., New Orleans,
+La._
+East Windsor Hill.                 3.00
+"Friends," _for Student
+Aid, Fisk U._
+Falls Village. Cong. Ch.           3.00
+Farmington. First Cong.          155.50
+Ch.
+Farmington. Y. P. S. C.           16.61
+E., Jubilee Off., by Miss
+Mary J. Hart
+Glastonbury. J. B.               100.00
+Williams, _for Touglaloo
+U._
+Goshen. Elisabeth Wadhams          5.00
+Guilford. Cong. Ch. and
+C. E. Soc., one and
+one-half Bbls. C. and
+Table Linen _for Storrs
+Sch., Atlanta, Ga._
+Hadlyme. J. W.                    60.00
+Hungerford, 50; R.E.
+Hungerford, 10
+Hartford. Second Ch. of          150.00
+Christ, 100; Asylum Hill
+Cong. Ch., "A Friend," 50
+Hartford. Ladies' B.
+Class, Bbl. C. _for
+Wilmington, N.C._
+Hebron. Y. P. S. C. E. of         17.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Hebron. Y. P. S. C. E. by          5.00
+Mrs. G. A. Little, _for
+Grand View, Tenn._
+Hebron. Cong. Ch., L. B.
+Soc., Bbl. C. _for
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Ivoryton. Mrs. E.A.              100.00
+Northrop, _for Tougaloo
+U._
+Kent. Y.P.S.C.E., Cong.            8.40
+Ch.
+Killingly. Y.P.S.C.E., by          9.00
+Miss Maud W. Deverell,
+_for Tougaloo U._
+Lebanon.  First Cong.             81.48
+Ch., to const. CHAS. A.
+PERKINS L. M., 56.48; "A
+Friend," 25
+Ledyard. Mrs. Anna                 0.30
+Gallup, _for Freight to
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Ledyard. Y.P.S.C.E.,              10.00
+Cong. Ch., _for C. E.
+Hall, McIntosh, Ga._
+Litchfield. First Cong.           40.36
+Ch.
+Madison. Miss E. T. Nash,
+Bbl. C. _for Blowing
+Rock, N. C._
+Meriden. Mrs. M. P.                0.50
+Bradley
+Meriden. First Cong. Ch.,          5.00
+"I. H. N.," _for Mountain
+Work_
+Milford. Sab. Sch. Cong.
+Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Wilmington, N. C._
+New Britain. South Ch.,
+Box C. _for Williamsburg
+Acad., Ky._
+New Haven. C. E. Soc.,            25.00
+Ch. of the Redeemer, _for
+Central Ch., New Orleans,
+La._
+New Haven. Sab. Sch.              17.50
+Center Ch., _for Schp.,
+Santee Indian Sch., Neb._
+New Haven. Mr. and Mrs.           12.00
+W. B. Johnson, 8.10; Mrs.
+E. Banton, Col, 3; Mrs.
+E. Gates, 90c., _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+New Preston. "E. C. W.,"           2.00
+_for Allen Normal Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Norfolk. "A Friend"                5.00
+North Branford. Sab. Sch.         15.00
+and Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong.
+Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+New Orleans, La._
+Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.          23.70
+Norwich. First Cong. Ch.          69.77
+Norwich.  Miss Rossiter,           4.50
+_for Athens, Ala._
+Norwich. Miss Barbara              4.00
+McDowell's S. S. Class,
+adl., _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Norwichtown. Miss Mary             2.00
+Perkins, _for Student
+Aid, McIntosh, Ga._
+Orange. S. S. Classes of           5.00
+Mrs. C. H. Russell and
+Miss Sperry, Cong. Ch.,
+_for A. N. and I. Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Pomfret. Cong. Ch.                35.85
+Putnam. Hattie E. Clark's          4.00
+S. S. Class, _for Student
+Aid, A. N. and I. Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Salisbury. Mrs. Burrall's          3.00
+S. S. Class, _for Grand
+View, Tenn._
+Saybrook. Cong. Ch. and           14.10
+Soc.
+Simsbury. Y.P.S.C.E., by           7.00
+Caroline F. Pattison
+Simsbury. Y.P.S.C.E.,              7.00
+Cong. Ch., _for Student
+Aid, A. N. and I. Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+South Canaan. Cong. Ch.            8.35
+South Glastonbury. Cong.           6.89
+Ch. and Sab. Sch.
+South Manchester. Sab.            10.78
+Sch. Cong. Ch.
+South Norwalk. Sab. Sch.          20.00
+Cong. Ch.
+South Windsor. First              23.48
+Cong. Ch.
+Sound Beach. Jr. C. E.             6.77
+Soc., Pilgrim Ch., 3.40;
+C. E. Soc., Pilgrim Ch.,
+3.37
+Stamford. Y.P.S.C.E. of           55.56
+First Cong. Ch.
+Stamford. Cong.                    5.00
+Y.P.S.C.E. _for Central
+Ch., New Orleans, La._
+Stratford. Cong. Ch.              10.00
+Y.P.S.C.E.
+Talcottville. Mrs. S. A.           6.00
+Talcott, _for Student
+Aid, A. N. and I. Sch.,
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Terryville. Heirs of R.           45.38
+D. H. Allen, by Charles
+I. Allen, Executor, _for
+the Freedmen_
+Terryville. Mrs. Lois             10.00
+Gridley
+Thomaston. First Cong.             9.90
+Ch.
+Thompson. Cong. Soc., 2
+Bbls. C. _for Blowing
+Rock, N. C._
+Torrington. Sab. Sch.             25.00
+Third Cong. Ch., _for
+Student Aid, Fisk U._
+Torrington. Mrs. Ida E.           11.00
+F. Burr, 10; Mrs. Lyon,
+1; _for Central Ch., New
+Orleans, La._
+Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and           10.07
+Soc.
+Waterbury. "A Friend".           100.00
+Westminster. Cong. Ch.             2.00
+Weston. Norfield                   5.00
+Y.P.S.C.E., by Anna E.
+Fitch, Sec.
+West Torrington. W. M.             5.60
+Circle, by H. M. Hayes,
+Treas.
+Westville. The Misses              4.00
+Ogden, _for Wilmington,
+N. C._
+West Winsted. Geo. M.              5.00
+Carrington
+Wilton. Cong. Ch.                 17.41
+Windsor. First Cong. Ch.,         38.42
+28, and Sab. Sch., 10.42
+Winthrop. Mrs M. A. Jones          5.00
+----. "A Friend in Conn."        100.00
+Woman's Cong. Home
+Missionary Union of
+Conn., Mrs. W. W. Jacobs,
+Treas., _for Woman's
+Work_:
+           Cheshire. Aux.   25.00
+Norwich. Greensville Ch.,   10.00
+L. H. M. S., _for Student
+Aid, Dorchester Acad._
+    Trumbull. W. H. M. U.   25.00
+    Wallingford. L. B. S.   50.00
+                     ----        110.00
+                               --------
+                              $1,900.24
+
+             *ESTATES.*
+Hebron. Estate of              500.00
+Benjamin A. Bissell, by
+J. Henry Jagger, Executor
+New Britain.  Estates of     7,283.50
+Sophia and and Cordelia
+Stanley
+                             --------
+                            $9,683.74
+
+         *NEW YORK*, $1,507.49.
+Albany. Miss A. Van                  1.00
+Vranken, _for Gloucester
+Sch., Cappahosic, Va._
+Aquebogue. Class of Boys,            1.25
+_for Williamsburg Acad.,
+Ky._
+Ashville. Y.P.S.C.E. of              2.00
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Bethel. Cong. Ch.                    3.86
+Brooklyn. Rev. A. F.                20.00
+Beard, D.D., _for Theo.
+Dept. Talladega C._
+Brooklyn. Rev. S. B.                39.14
+Halliday, 20; Park Cong.
+Ch., 15.83; Rochester Av.
+Cong. Ch., 3.31
+Brooklyn. Primary Class              4.00
+Bethany S. S., _for
+Williamsburg Acad., Ky._
+Brooklyn. Y.P.S.C.E.,
+Park Av. Ch., Bbl. C.
+_for Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._
+Buffalo. Pilgrim Cong.              14.00
+Ch.
+Buffalo. Int. C. E. S.
+Del. Av. Bapt. Ch., Box
+C. For McIntosh, Ga.
+Camden. L. H. M. S.  of
+Cong. Ch., 2 large Boxes
+C. _for Hillsboro, N. C._
+Candor. Cong. Ch.                    6.25
+Canandaigua. Mrs. Fitch,             0.50
+_for Student Aid, King's
+Mountain, N. C._
+Clayville. Cong. Ch.                 3.00
+Clifton Springs. Miss                5.00
+Tappan
+Corona. Y.P.S.C.E., by               1.25
+Mrs. Wm. J. Peck, Box
+Toys, C., etc.; 1.25 _for
+Freight_, also 2 S. S.
+Rolls _for Beach Inst.,
+Savannah, Ga._
+De Kalb. Rev. R. C. Day              2.00
+Fairport. Sab. Sch. Cong.           10.50
+Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+New Orleans, La._
+Flushing. First Cong.               41.03
+Soc.
+Hamilton. Cong. Ch.                 19.00
+Hancock. Cong. Ch.                   3.50
+Harpersfield. Sab. Sch.              1.01
+Cong. Ch.
+Hopkinton. Cong. Ch., 40            64.72
+_for Mountain Work_; 10
+_for Indian M._; 9.72
+_for Alaska M._; 5 _for
+Chinese M._, and to
+const. MRS. JOHN HARRON
+and MISS A. POST L. M.'s
+Lisle. Cong. Ch.                     3.42
+Maine. Cong. Ch., Member            21.00
+Mount Hope. Christ Cong.             5.50
+Ch.
+Mount Morris. Soc.
+Christian Workers, Presb.
+Ch., Bbl. _for Moorhead,
+Miss_.
+Mount Vernon. First Cong.           17.31
+Ch.
+New Lots. V. P. M. Soc.,            25.00
+_for Williamsburg Acad.,
+Ky._
+New York.  The Virginia             45.00
+Lend-a-Hand Club, _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+New York.  Mrs. A. B.               30.00
+Woodford, _for Student
+Aid, Fisk U._
+New York. "A Friend,"                6.00
+_for Student Aid, Beach
+Inst., Savannah, Ga._
+Orwell. Cong. Ch.,                   2.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Oswego Falls. First Cong.            6.12
+Ch.
+Owego. Sab. Sch. Cong.               5.00
+Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+New Orleans, La._
+Owego. Cong. Ch.                    10.00
+Paris. Cong. Ch.                     7.62
+Portland. Young Ladies,
+Bbl. C., _for King's
+Mountain, N. C._
+Randolph. Cong. Ch.                  7.86
+Remson. Cong. Ch.                    3.00
+Rensselaer Falls. Sab.               2.50
+Sch. Cong. Ch., Lincoln
+Mem. Off.
+Rochester. Plymouth Cong.           29.75
+Ch.
+Rochester. South Cong.               9.00
+Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+New Orleans, La._
+Rushville. Rev. F. T.
+Hoover, Bbl. Potatoes
+_for Greenwood, S.C._
+Salamanca. Cong. Ch.                 4.57
+Saratoga Springs. G. F.
+Harvey, Box C. _for
+Talladega C._
+Sayville. Sab. Sch. Cong.           16.58
+Ch., 14.58; Cong Ch.,
+adl. 2
+Smyrna. Y. P. S. C. E.               5.00
+Spencerport. ----, Bbl.
+Bedding _for Meridian,
+Miss._
+Syracuse. Plymouth Cong.            18.20
+Ch.
+Syracuse. Jr. Y. P. S. C.            5.00
+E., Danforth Cong. Ch.
+_for Central Ch., New
+Orleans, La._
+Troy. S. Tappin, _for                1.00
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+Walton. First Cong. Ch.             74.57
+West Brook. Sab. Sch.                3.55
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Westfield. Miss S. S.               10.00
+Patterson, _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+Westfield. Sab. Sch.                 1.50
+Presb. Ch., _for Tougaloo
+U._
+West Winfield. Cong. Ch.             5.00
+Woodhaven. Mrs. Wheat's              2.00
+S. S. Class, _for Saluda,
+N. C._
+Woodside. Y. P. S. C. E.,            5.00
+by Fannie Jones, Sec.
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Union of N. Y., by Mrs.
+J. J. Pearsall, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work:_
+Brooklyn.  Tompkins Av.     3.50
+Cong. Ch., S.S. Class G,
+_for Student Aid, Lincoln
+Acad._
+   Middletown. First Ch.,   20.00
+   Ladies Guild
+   Newark Valley. "M.S.,"   10.00
+   _for Central Ch., New
+   Orleans, La._
+     New York. Broadway     276.00
+     Tabernacle Soc., for
+     Women's Work
+Poughkeepsie. L. H. M. S.   15.00
+      Poughkeepsie. C. E.   10.00
+                            ------ 334.50
+                                    -----
+                                  $965.56
+
+            *ESTATES.*
+Lewiston. Estate of          500.00
+Abigail Peck, by George
+E. Wilcox, Executor
+New York.  Estate of J.       41.93
+F. Delaplaine
+                          ---------
+                          $1,507.49
+
+       *NEW JERSEY*, $1,068.20.
+East Orange. First Cong.          67.00
+Ch.
+Freehold. Dr. J. S. Long,         10.00
+_for Indian M._
+Glen Ridge. Cong. Ch. (10        179.22
+of which _for Grand View,
+Tenn._)
+Jersey City Heights. Mrs.          5.00
+Henry O. Ames
+Montclair. L. M. Soc., by          1.00
+Mrs. J. L. Snyder
+Montclair. Cong. Ch., Lot
+of Bedding _for Talladega
+C._
+Morristown. Monroe Miss.
+Soc., Bbl. C. and
+Literature _for Savannah,
+Ga._
+Newark. Belleville Cong.         192.00
+Ch. (30 of which from
+Mrs. E. P. Denison), 142;
+C. S. Haines, 50
+Plainfield. J. A.                 12.00
+Robinson, 10; Miss A. E.
+Manktilow, 2, _for
+Central Ch., New Orleans,
+La._
+Westfield.  Ladies' Soc.,
+Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Greenwood, S. C._
+Woodbridge. Y. P. S. C.           10.00
+E., First Cong. Ch., _for
+Central Ch., New Orleans,
+La._
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Union of the N. J.
+Ass'n., by Mrs. J. H.
+Denison, Treas.:
+ Bound Brook, N. J. Cong.   10.00
+ Ch., W. H. M. S.
+ Philadelphia, Penn.        6.00
+ Central Cong. Ch., W. H.
+ M. S.
+  Washington, D. C. First   25.00
+  Cong. Ch.
+                            ----- 41.00
+                                  -----
+                                $517.22
+
+            *ESTATES.*
+Englewood.  Estate of       467.48
+Rev. Geo. B. Cheever,
+D.D., by Rev. Henry T.
+Cheever, Executor
+Hammonton. Estate of         83.50
+Albert D. Whitmore, by
+Mrs. E. L. Whitmore
+                             -----
+                         $1,068.20
+
+       *PENNSYLVANIA*, $214.50.
+Chester. Mrs. T. I.               5.00
+Leiper, _for Gloucester
+Sch., Cappahosic, Va._
+Germantown. Mrs. B. R.           16.00
+Smith, 6; Mrs. E. B.
+Stork, 5; Rev. Chas.
+Wood, D.D., 5, _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+New Wilmington.  Faulkner         5.00
+Sch., _for Lexington,
+Ky._
+New Wilmington.
+Neshannock Presb. Ch., 3
+Bbls. and 1 Box C. and
+Christmas Gifts _for
+Lexington, Ky._
+Ogontz School. 2 Boxes C.
+_for Blowing Rock, N. C._
+Philadelphia. John H.           100.00
+Converse, _for Straight
+U._
+Philadelphia. Mrs. W. H.         33.00
+Kemble, 15; Mrs. E. H.
+Farnum, 5; G. J. Simmons,
+5; H. A. Chase, 5; D. W.
+Hunt, 2; Col. John McKee,
+1, _for Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+Scranton. Plymouth Cong.         25.00
+Ch.
+Waring. M. T. Donaldson           5.00
+West Philadelphia. Mrs.          20.00
+Rebecca White, _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+----. Miss E. Scott, _for         0.50
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+Woman's Missionary Union,
+of Penn., Mrs. T. W.
+Jones, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+  Guy's Mills.  W. M. S.,   5.00
+  _for Straight U._
+
+           *OHIO*, $339.90.
+Akron. Sab. Sch. West             15.00
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Off.
+Akron. First Cong. Ch.,           11.75
+adl.
+Aurora. Sab. Sch. Cong.            2.00
+Ch.
+Austinburg. Ladies' Soc.,
+Bbl. C. _for Pleasant
+Hill, Tenn._
+Burton. First Cong. Ch.,          40.00
+to const. REV. E. O. MEAD
+L. M.
+Claridon. Sab. Sch Cong.          10.00
+Ch., by P. C. Spencer,
+Treas.
+Cleveland. "A Friend,"            32.66
+25; Lakewood Cong. Ch.,
+7.66
+Cleveland. Mrs. Mary F.            5.00
+Willard, _for Freedmen
+and Indian M._
+Cleveland. L. S. U.,               5.00
+Archwood Av. Cong. Ch.,
+_for Student Aid,
+Talladega C._
+Creston. W. H. M. S.,
+Jackson Presb. Ch., Bbl.
+C. _for McIntosh, Ga._
+Eagleville. Y. P. S. C.            2.51
+E., by Mrs. F. G. Peck,
+Chm.
+Fort Recovery. Cong. Ch.,          3.50
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Kent. Mrs. S. O.                   2.25
+Hathaway, S. S. Class of
+Boys, _for Moorhead Sch.,
+Miss._
+Marion. Mrs. Mary B.               1.25
+Vose, _for Wilmington, N.
+C._
+Medina. First Cong. Ch.,          30.57
+Jubilee Off. to const.
+REV. W. G. OLINGER L. M.
+Oberlin. Miss Calista             20.00
+Andrews, _for Student
+Aid, Fisk U._
+Oberlin. Sab. Sch. First          20.00
+Ch., 10; Mrs. E. B.
+Clark, 10
+Oberlin. Mrs. A. B. Reed,          5.00
+_for Student Aid,
+McIntosh, Ga._
+Oberlin. Percy Pond, _for          1.00
+Moorhead Sch., Miss._
+Oberlin. Second Cong.
+Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Wilmington, N. C._
+Painesville. "Friends,"            8.00
+_for Straight U._
+Painesville. "Friends,"            3.00
+_for Macon, Ga._
+Painesville. W. H.                 1.00
+Stocking
+Perrysburg. S. P. Tolman          20.00
+Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and         12.00
+Sab. Sch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Ravenna. C. A. Newton              5.00
+Richfield. Ladies' Soc.
+Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Greenwood S. C._
+Rootstown. Miss Fanny              5.30
+Parson's S. S. Class,
+_for Pleasant Hill,
+Tenn._
+Senecaville. Rev. Evans            1.00
+Thompson
+South Salem. Daniel S.             5.00
+Pricer
+Springfield. First Cong.           7.42
+Sab. Sch., 7.32; First
+Cong. Ch., bal. _for
+Campton, Ky._, 10 cts
+Toledo. Birmingham Cong.           2.05
+Sab. Sch.
+West Mill Grove. Sab.             10.14
+Sch. First Cong. Ch.,
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Willoughby. Miss Jennie
+Sharpe, 3 Pkgs. S. S.
+Papers _for Lexington,
+Ky._
+Zanesville. Sab. Sch.
+Second St. M. E. Ch., 50
+Gospel Hymns _for Mobile,
+Ala._
+Ohio Woman's Home
+Missionary Union, Mrs.
+George B. Brown, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work_:
+Andover. W. M. S.                  3.79
+Andover. J. C. E.                  2.21
+Chatham Center                     6.00
+Cleveland. Euclid, W. H.           2.00
+M. S.
+Columbus. Eastwood, "A            25.00
+Friend"
+Edinburg.                          1.50
+Sandusky. W. M. U.                10.00
+Toledo. Second.                    2.00
+                            ----- 52.50
+
+        *INDIANA*, $51.47.
+Brimfield. Miss Mary           3.00
+Huston, _for Pleasant
+Hill, Tenn._
+Elkhart. Cong. Ch., 6.85;     16.85
+Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 10;
+Lincoln Day Mem. Off.
+Fort Wayne. Y. P. S. C.        9.77
+E. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.,
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Liber. Cong. Ch., Lincoln      2.33
+Mem. Day Off.
+Michigan City. First          16.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Terre Haute. Sab. Sch.         3.52
+First Cong. Ch., Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off.
+
+          *ILLINOIS*, $794.77.
+Brimfield. Cong. Ch.                8.50
+Cambridge. Cong. Ch.                4.00
+Chapin. Mission Band,
+Quilt, Patchwork, Scrap
+Books, _for Moorhead,
+Miss._
+Chicago. "Cash," 100;             130.75
+Leavitt St. Cong. Ch.,
+8.87; Pacific Ch., 8.07;
+"A Widow," 5; Tabernacle
+C. E., 4.81; Mrs. Carrol
+Cutler, 2; Miss Susan R.
+Cutler, 2
+Cobden. Sab. Sch. Class,            0.67
+Cong. Ch., by May Wright,
+Teacher
+Concord, "A Few Friends,"           5.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Earlville. "J. A. D.,"             38.40
+25; Cong. Ch., 13.40
+Elmhurst. Bbl. _for
+Moorhead, Miss._
+Galena. Mrs. A. Bean                2.50
+Highland. Cong. Ch.                 4.90
+Hinesdale. Cong. Bible             75.00
+Sch., _for Theo. Student
+Aid, Talladega. C._
+Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.,           37.45
+_for Student Aid,
+Talladega. C._
+La Salle. E. C. Hegeler,           10.00
+_for Tougaloo U._
+Lincoln. Miss Ellen E.              1.00
+Robbins
+Morrison. William Wallace          10.00
+Oak Park. Cong. Ch., adl.           3.00
+Oak Park. L. B. S., Bbl.
+C. _for Blowing Rock, N.
+C._
+Peoria. Mrs. John L.              100.00
+Griswold, _for Student
+Aid, Fisk U._
+Peoria. Plymouth C. E.              3.62
+Peru. First Cong. Ch.,             16.51
+11.51; Y. P. S. C. E. of
+First Cong. Ch., 5
+Princeton. Mrs. S. C.              30.00
+Clapp
+Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                 5.04
+Providence. Cong. Ch.              25.00
+Shabbona. Cong. Ch.                31.50
+Sheffield. Cong. Ch.               54.71
+Thawville. Cong. Ch.                4.38
+----. Bbl. Comforts,
+etc., _for Moorhead,
+Miss._
+Illinois Woman's Home
+Missionary Union, Mrs. L.
+A. Field, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+Avon. W. M. S.                      1.00
+Chicago. Union Park W. M.         100.00
+S.
+Chicago. Covenant W. M.            13.40
+S.
+Chicago. Lincoln Park W.            6.00
+M. S.
+Chicago. Mrs. J. W.                 2.00
+Willard
+Godfrey. W. M. S.                  10.00
+Griggsville. W. M. S.               1.00
+Jacksonville. Y. L. M. S.          23.50
+Joy Prairie. W. M. S.              10.00
+McLean. W. M. S.                   10.00
+Ravenswood. W. M. S.               10.12
+Marseilles. W. M. S. _for           5.00
+Moorhead, Miss._
+Rollo. Mission Band, _for           0.82
+Moorhead, Miss._
+                            ----- 192.84
+
+         *MICHIGAN*, $342.91.
+Almont. Cong. Ch., 2.83;           7.98
+Y. P. S. C. E., 5.15, by
+Sarah Durham, Treas.
+Almont. ----, Box
+Christmas Goods _for
+Lexington, Ky._
+Baldwin. Sab. Sch. Cong.           2.50
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Benton Harbor. "A Friend"          2.00
+Benton Harbor. Ladies'
+Cong. Ch., Bdl. Quilts
+_for Moorhead, Miss._
+Benzonia. Jr. C. E. Soc.,
+Box Christmas Goods _for
+Lexington, Ky._
+Breckenridge. Cong. Ch.            2.00
+Charlotte. ----, Box C.
+_for Athens, Ala._
+Chief Lake. Mrs. S. A. B.          1.00
+Carrier
+Detroit. Fort St. Cong.            2.75
+Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., Box
+Toys, etc., and 2.75,
+_for Medicines for
+Greenwood, S. C._
+Detroit. Little Dorothy            2.00
+Conant Carson, by Mrs.
+Sam'l Carson
+Detroit. ----, Bbl.
+Christmas Goods _for
+Athens, Ala._; Miss
+Mallory, Bbl. C. _for
+Blowing Rock, N. C._;
+Ladies' Soc., Brewster
+Ch., Bbl. C. _for
+Greenwood, S. C._
+Eaton Rapids. Sab. Sch.
+Cong. Ch., Box S. S.
+Papers, _for Lexington,
+Ky._
+Ewen. First Cong. Ch.              4.17
+Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch.           25.00
+Grand Rapids. Smith Mem.
+Ch., Bbl. _for Moorhead,
+Miss._
+Leslie. Sab. Sch. First            2.50
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Lowell. ----, Bbl. C. for
+Athens, Ala.
+Luddington. Willie
+Hammond, Cards _for
+Athens, Ala._
+Muskegon. ----, Bbl. C.
+_for Athens, Ala._
+Pontiac. L. H. M. U., 2
+Bbls. C. _for Blowing
+Rock, N.C._
+Republic. Miss Mary Erwin         20.00
+Rondo. Y. P. S. C. E., by          0.69
+Mrs. C. H. Hoffman,
+Lincoln Mem. Off.
+Saginaw. Mrs. A. M.                4.00
+Spencer
+Wheatland. Cong. Ch.              19.00
+Wyandotte. Dr. Weaver,
+Box C. _for Athens, Ala._
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Union of Michigan, by
+Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
+Treas., _for Woman's
+Work_:
+Alpena. W. H. M. S.                5.00
+Athens. Ladies' Dime Soc.          0.25
+Churche's Corners. W. H.           3.50
+M. U.
+Detroit. First Ch. Sab.           47.27
+Sch., _for Student Aid,
+Santee Indian Sch.,
+Neb._, 23.04, and _for
+Student Aid, Pleasant
+Hill Acad., Tenn._, 24.23
+Grand Rapids. Smith                1.00
+Memorial Ch., W. M. S.
+Grape. W. H. M. S.                 0.25
+Grass Lake. W. H. M. S.            3.00
+Greenville. S. S., _for            9.05
+Student Aid, Santee
+Indian Sch., Neb._
+Highland Station. W. H.            3.00
+M. U.
+Kalamazoo. Y. P. S. C.             2.50
+E., _for Student Aid,
+Santee Indian Sch., Neb._
+Muskegon. First Ch., W.           15.00
+H. M. S., 5; First Ch.,
+Y. P. S. C. E., 10
+Stockbridge. Mrs. E. W.            5.00
+Woodward, _for Student
+Aid, Santee Indian Sch.,
+Neb._
+Ypsilanti. W. H. M. S.             2.50
+                            ----- 97.32
+                                -------
+                                $192.91
+
+             *ESTATE.*
+Benzonia. Estate of Amasa    150.00
+Waters, by L. P. Judson,
+Adm'r.
+                            -------
+                            $342.91
+
+           *IOWA*, $263.45.
+Albia. Mrs. Mary A. Payne          5.00
+Avoca. Rev. John Single            2.50
+Bellevue. Cong. Ch.                4.35
+Belmond. Y. P. S. C. E.            5.00
+of Cong. Ch., _for A. N.
+and I. Sch., Thomasville,
+Ga._
+Belmond. Miss Linck, S.
+S. Class, Box Christmas
+Gifts _for Thomasville,
+Ga._
+Cedar Rapids. Y. P. S. C.          5.00
+E. First Cong. Ch., _for
+Student Aid, McIntosh,
+Ga._
+Corning. First Cong. Ch.,         17.00
+14; C. E., 2; Sab. Sch.,
+1
+Cresco. Y. P. S. C. E.,            8.00
+_for Wilmington, N. C._
+Decorah. S. S. Class, E.           5.00
+J. Riley, Teacher, _for
+Moorhead Sch., Miss._
+Des Moines. Bentley &             10.00
+Olmstead, _for Talladega
+C._
+De Witt. Y. L. S. Class,           5.00
+_for Mountain Work_
+Eldora. Cong. Ch. (37.50          42.75
+_for Student Aid,
+Tougaloo U._)
+Glenwood. Cong. Ch.               16.00
+Grand View. Cong. Ch.              3.00
+Monticello. Y. P. S. C.            5.00
+E. of Cong. Ch.
+Montour. Jr. C. E. Soc.,           1.50
+_for Moorhead Sch.,
+Miss._
+Mortimer. Jr. C. E. Soc.,
+Quilt and Roll Material
+_for Sewing Sch., Beach
+Inst._
+Moville. Cong. Ch.                 4.04
+Nashua. C. E. Soc., Cong.         15.00
+Ch. _for Student Aid,
+Talladega C._
+Pilgrim. Cong. Ch.                 5.00
+Postville. Sab. Sch.              18.30
+Cong. Ch., Self-Denial
+Off., _for A. N. and I.
+Sch., Thomasville, Ga._
+Rockford. Mrs. J. B.
+Parmenter, Bbl. C. _for
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Waterloo. Mr. and Mrs.            10.00
+Emmons Johnson, _for
+Talladega C._
+Waucoma. Cong. Ch.                 6.00
+Iowa Woman's Home
+Missionary Union, Miss
+Belle L. Bentley, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work_:
+Creston. L. H. M. Circle           6.00
+Decorah. Y. P. S. C. E.            5.00
+Des Moines. North Park L.         10.00
+M. S.
+Fairfield. L. M. S.                0.50
+Fort Dodge. L. M. S.              10.00
+Genoa Bluffs. L. M. S.             2.00
+McGregor. W. M. S.                 8.90
+Newell. L. M. S.                   5.00
+Red Oak. L. M. S.                 15.00
+Tabor. Y. P. S. C. E.              1.33
+                            ----- 63.73
+                                -------
+                                $257.17
+
+           *ESTATE.*
+Fontanelle. Estate of      6.28
+Alex. M. Gow
+                        -------
+                        $263.45
+
+        *WISCONSIN*, $10,391.07.
+Edgerton. Sab. Sch. Cong.           1.60
+Ch.
+Elkhorn. Cong. Ch.                 10.00
+Koshkonong. Cong. Ch.               7.25
+Madison. Ladies' Home
+Miss'y Soc., Box
+Furnishings _for Home,
+Mobile, Ala._
+Menasha. Jr. C. E., _for            1.00
+Skyland Inst., Blowing
+Rock, N. C._
+Menomonie. Mrs. V. A.             100.00
+Knapp
+Milwaukee. North Side               4.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Oakland. S. S. Class, by            0.50
+Mrs. L. S. N. Allen,
+Teacher, _for Moorhead
+Sch., Miss._
+Peshtigo. Rev. E. W.               15.62
+Andrews, 5; Ethel D.
+Andrews (thank offering),
+5; Cong. Ch. and Sab.
+Sch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off., 5.62
+Ripon. First Cong. Ch.             63.00
+Spring Prairie. Mrs.                1.00
+James Brierly
+Sun Prairie. Cong. Ch.             10.00
+Viroqua. Cong. Ch.                 12.00
+Waukesha. Cong. Ch.                30.00
+Whitewater. Cong. Ch., 2
+B. of C. _for
+Thomasville, Ga._
+Wisconsin Woman's Home
+Missionary Union, Mrs. C.
+M. Blackman, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+Beloit. First W. M. U.             10.10
+Brandon. W. M. S.                   5.00
+Elkhorn. W. M. U., 25;             30.00
+Miny Hand, 5
+Madison. W. M. U.                  30.00
+Milwaukee. Grand Ave., W.          25.00
+M. U.
+Milwaukee. Pilgrim, W. M.          18.00
+S.
+Milwaukee. Hanover St.,            10.00
+W. M. S.
+Wauwatosa. W. M. U.                 7.00
+                            ----- 135.10
+                                 -------
+                                 $391.07
+
+              *ESTATE.*
+Trust Estate, by Trustee    10,000.00
+                           ----------
+                           $10,391.07
+
+         *MINNESOTA*, $226.65.
+Audubon. Cong. Ch.                  1.50
+Beaver Creek. Jr. C. E.,
+Box C. _for Blowing Rock,
+N. C._
+Glyndon. Ch. at Glyndon,            6.18
+_for Alaska M._
+Hawley. Union Ch.                   3.50
+Kasson. Mrs. J. G. Van
+Frank, Bbl. C. _for
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+Lake Park. Cong. Ch.                6.50
+Lake Stay. Ethel Chase              1.00
+and Alma Nelson, _for
+Moorhead Sch., Miss._
+Litchfield. Miss M.                 5.00
+Weeks, 5; ----, Bbl. C.,
+_for Student Aid,
+Meridian, Miss._
+Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of          12.50
+Pilgrim Cong. Ch., bal.
+to const. MISS NETTIE M.
+GETCHELL L. M.
+Minneapolis. "A Friend,"            0.50
+_for Moorhead Sch.,
+Miss._
+Minneapolis. Primary S.             1.00
+S. Park Av. Ch., _for
+Marion, Ala._
+Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.
+H. M. S., Box C. and
+Bedding _for King's
+Mountain, N. C._
+New York Mills. Cong. Ch.           1.37
+Northfield. Sab. Sch.              42.02
+Cong. Ch., _for Theo.
+Student Aid, Talladega
+C._
+Northfield. ----, Box
+Pictures _for Skyland
+Inst., Blowing Rock, N.
+C._
+Rochester. Cong. Ch.               26.45
+Saint Cloud. Cong. Ch. L.
+M. S., Bbl. C. _for
+Blowing Rock, N. C._
+Wadena. Cong. Ch. Y. L.            11.00
+M. Band, _for A. N. and
+I. Sch., Thomasville,
+Ga._
+Minnesota Woman's Home
+Missionary Union, by Mrs.
+M. W. Skinner, Treas.,
+_for Woman's Work_:
+Austin.                             7.60
+Benson. S. S.                       0.80
+Elk River.                          3.36
+Elk River. Meadow Vale              2.00
+Excelsior.                          3.38
+Lake City. C. E. Soc.              10.00
+Minneapolis. Plymouth,             52.74
+15.96; Park Av., 15;
+Lyndale S. S., 10.51;
+First, 3.27; "A Friend,"
+8
+Northfield. ----, _for             10.00
+Student Aid, Talladega
+C._
+Robbinsdale.  Jr. C. E.             4.75
+Soc.
+Saint Paul. Bethany,                3.50
+2.50; South Park, 1
+Saint Paul. Plymouth C.            25.00
+E. S., _for Central Ch.,
+New Orleans, La._
+                                 -------
+                                 $123.13
+Less expenses                      15.00
+                            ----- 108.13
+
+        *MISSOURI*, $18.88.
+Ironton. Jesse Markham          1.00
+Jackson. Ruth Gample and        0.25
+P. Lester, _for Moorhead
+Sch., Miss._
+Kansas City. Rev. S.            8.00
+Penfield, 6; Mary A.
+Kendrick, 2
+Lamar. Cong. Ch.                4.20
+Springfield. "Friends of        1.00
+Mission Work," by Rev. J.
+F. Graf
+Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.       4.43
+
+        *KANSAS*, $3.90.
+Leavenworth. H. L.
+Varney, 6 Pkgs. S. S.
+Papers _for Lexington,
+Ky._
+Wabaunsee. S. S. Class,     0.50
+Mrs. J. St. John,
+Teacher, _for Moorhead
+Sch., Miss._
+Wellington. Sab. Sch.       3.40
+Cong. Ch.
+
+        *NEBRASKA*, $164.90.
+Omaha. Saint Mary's Ave.       37.34
+Cong. Ch.
+Santee Agency. Miss Edith      50.00
+Leonard
+Santee. Pilgrim Cong.          62.31
+Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Wilcox. Rev. and Mrs. S.        5.00
+L. Unger
+Wisner. First Cong. Ch.        10.25
+
+        *NORTH DAKOTA*, $87.49.
+Dwight. Sab. Sch. of               5.54
+Cong. Ch.
+Fargo. Mrs. M. M. Fisher,          5.00
+_for Wilmington, N. C._
+Farmington. Dwight Cong.           2.50
+Ch.
+Fort Berthold. Cong. Ch.          60.00
+and Sab. Sch., Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off., 50; W. M.
+Soc. of Cong. Ch., 10
+Woman's Home Missionary
+Union, of North Dakota,
+by Mrs. J. M. Fisher,
+Treas., _for Woman's
+Work_:
+Cummings. Mission Band             2.25
+Lisbon. L. M. S.                   2.20
+Wahpeton. L. M. S.                10.00
+                            ----- 14.45
+
+      *SOUTH DAKOTA*, $5.25.
+Faulkton. Cong. Ch.           2.00
+Fort Pierre. Cong. Ch.        2.25
+Winfred. Cong. Ch.            1.00
+
+    *MONTANA*, $12.06.
+Castle. Cong. Ch.      5.00
+Helena. Cong. Ch.      7.06
+
+       *IDAHO*, $2.00.
+Mount Home. Cong. Ch.     2.00
+
+      *OKLAHOMA*, $2.30.
+Guthrie. Cong. Ch.,         2.30
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+
+        *ARIZONA*, $1.54.
+Nogales. Jr. Y. P. S. C.       1.54
+E., by Olive C. Mix, Sec.
+
+        *COLORADO*, $30.50.
+Boulder. Cong. Ch.             7.50
+Greeley. Jr. Y. P. S. C.      23.00
+E., of Park Ch., _for
+Scholarship, Santee
+Indian Sch., Neb._
+
+       *CALIFORNIA*, $256.61.
+Etna Mills. Scott Valley        14.61
+Cong. Ch.
+North Berkeley. Cong. Ch.       12.50
+Redlands. Lugonia Terrace       10.55
+Ch.
+San Diego. Mrs. H. M.            1.00
+Butler, _for Moorhead
+Sch., Miss._
+San Francisco. The             200.45
+California Chinese
+Mission. William
+Johnstone, Treas. (see
+items below)
+Vacaville. Cong. Ch.             7.50
+Southern Cal. Woman's
+Home Missionary Union, by
+Mrs. Mary M. Smith,
+Treas., _for Woman's
+Work_:
+Redlands. First Cong. Ch.       10.00
+W. M. S.
+
+     *WASHINGTON*, $3.00.
+Sultan. C. W. Mercer       3.00
+
+     *DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA*, $2.00.
+Washington. Miss C. L.               2.00
+Franklin, 1; Mr. and Mrs.
+L. B. Moore, 1; Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off.
+
+        *MARYLAND*, $31.00.
+Baltimore. Wm. Wood, _for       1.00
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+Federalsburg. L. J.            30.00
+Deming, to const. MISS
+JANE DEMING L. M.
+
+        *VIRGINIA*, $56.00.
+Cappahosic.  Educational       50.00
+Club, _for Gloucester
+Sch._
+Herndon Mrs. M. E.              5.00
+Leonhardt
+---- R. J. Pollard, 50c.;       1.00
+H. West, 50c. _for
+Gloucester Sch.,
+Cappahosic, Va._
+
+      *KENTUCKY*, $11.50.
+Corbin. Cong. Ch.,          2.25
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Evarts. Cong. Ch.           5.25
+Pioneer. Cong. Ch.          2.00
+Red Ash. Cong. Ch.          2.00
+
+        *TENNESSEE*, $135.12.
+Big Creek Gap. Cong. Ch.         1.00
+Deer Lodge. A. L. Ross          10.00
+Knoxville.  L. A. Soc.           5.00
+Pilgrim Cong. Ch.,
+Jubilee Off.
+Knoxville. Miss I. F.
+Hubbard, 25 copies Gospel
+Hymns _for Knoxville_.
+Memphis. J. S. Menken,         100.00
+_for Kindergarten,
+Memphis, Tenn._
+Nashville. Jackson St.          10.12
+Cong. Ch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Nashville. Rev. F. A.            9.00
+Chase, 5, and _for
+Student Aid, Fisk U._, 4
+
+       *NORTH CAROLINA*, $51.80.
+Beaufort. Cong. Ch., _for          2.00
+Student Aid, Talladega
+C._
+High Point. Cong. Ch.,            10.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Salem. Cong. Ch.                   2.50
+Saluda. Rev. E. W.                30.00
+Hollies and wife, to
+const. MISS MARY C.
+PHELPS L. M.
+Wilmington. Cong. Ch.,             2.30
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off
+Woman's Missionary Union,
+Miss A. E. Farrington,
+Treas., _for Woman's
+Work_:
+Oaks. "Friend," 4; Y. P.           5.00
+S. C. E., 1
+
+      *SOUTH CAROLINA*, $20.32.
+Capello. Miss Cora B.
+Leach, Box C. _for
+Greenwood, S. C._
+Charleston. President,          20.32
+Teachers, and Students,
+Avery Normal Inst.,
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+
+        *GEORGIA*, $76.72.
+Andersonville. Two Bbls.
+C. and Sewing Room
+Supplies from Unknown
+Source.
+Athens. Cong. Ch.,             2.68
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Atlanta. Prof. Bumsted,
+50 copies Pamphlet speech
+of U. S. C. Harris, _for
+Beach Inst._
+Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch.,      2.81
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Macon. First Cong. Ch.,       10.00
+8.24; Sab. Sch., 1.05; Y.
+P. S. C. E., 35c.; Jr. Y.
+P. S. C. E., 36c.,
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Macon. Mary E. Simonds,        4.00
+_for Macon, Ga._
+McIntosh. Midway Ch. and      11.68
+Sab. Sch., Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+McIntosh. Miss S.J.            8.00
+Scott, 5; Prof. F. W.
+Foster, 3, _for Student
+Aid, McIntosh, Ga._
+Marietta. Cong. Ch.,           6.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Savannah. Sub. to
+McClure's Mag. one year,
+from unknown source, _for
+Beach Inst._
+Thomasville. Cong. Ch.,       30.55
+15.55; Students and
+Teachers Allen Normal
+Sch., 15; Lincoln Mem.
+Day Off.
+Woodville. Pilgrim Ch.,        1.00
+75c.; Rev. J. H. H.
+Sengstacke, 25c.
+
+        *ALABAMA*, $156.48.
+Anniston. Abraham Lincoln       5.00
+Cent. Soc., by Rev. James
+Brown, Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Brewton. First Cong. Ch.,       3.00
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Childersburg. Cong. Ch.,        7.03
+3.03; Rev. W. P.
+Hamilton, 1; Rev. Miles
+Harris, 50c. John West,
+50c.; Mrs. J. West, 50c.;
+Miss Lucy Freeman, 50c.;
+Mrs. Violet Jones, 50c.;
+Mrs. Sallie Price, 50c.
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Florence. Cong. Ch.             3.00
+Fort Payne. Cong. Ch.           6.30
+Ironaton. Rev. P. O.            3.00
+Wailes
+Jenifer. Colored Cong.          8.50
+Ch. and Sab. Sch.,
+Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Mobile. Cong. Ch., 8.57;       12.10
+A. L. Cent Soc., 1.46; Y.
+P. S. C. E., 1.07; Sab.
+Sch., 1, Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+Selma. Rev. A. T. Burnell      10.00
+Selma. W. M. U., _for           5.00
+Indian M._
+Sylacauga. Cong. Ch.            1.75
+Talladega. Cong. Ch.           71.80
+(18.05 Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.), 20.55; Sab. Sch.
+Cong. Ch. (5.26 Lincoln
+Mem. Day Off.), 20.50;
+Abraham Lincoln Cent.
+Soc. (5 of which from
+Mrs. F. C. Rice,
+Burlington, Vt.), 29.25;
+Annie Williams Mission
+Sab. Sch. 1.50
+Talladega. E. A. Bishop,       15.00
+12; Miss F. A. Frew, for
+Student Aid, 3, _for
+Talladega C._
+Talladega. E. C. Silsby,        5.00
+_for Theo. Dept.
+Talladega C._
+
+       *MISSISSIPPI*, $20.10.
+Meridian. "An A. M. A.          10.00
+Teacher"
+Moorhead. Pittsfield             0.10
+Tougaloo. Mrs. L. M.            10.00
+Sisson, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+         *LOUISIANA*, $82.67.
+Abberville. St. Mary              5.00
+Cong. Ch., _for Straight
+U._, Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+New Iberia. Saint Paul            4.00
+Cong. Ch.
+Woman's Missionary Union
+of La., by Mrs. C. M.
+Crawford, Treas., _for
+Woman's Work_:
+Hammond. Aux.                     4.10
+Hammond. Sab. Sch. Cong.          3.48
+Ch.
+New Iberia. Aux.                  1.04
+New Orleans. Straight U.         34.00
+Aux., to const. MISS
+JENNIE FYFE L. M.
+New Orleans. Central Ch.         14.00
+Aux.
+Roseland. Aux.                    7.00
+Welsh. Aux.                       2.00
+By Mrs. L. St. J.
+Hitchcock:
+Belle Place. Aux.                 3.60
+Morris Brown. Aux.                2.66
+New Iberia. Aux.                  1.49
+Thebodeaux. Aux.                  0.30
+                           ----- 73.67
+
+        *FLORIDA*, $19.50.
+Cocoa, Mrs. J. S.              2.00
+Blackburn
+Georgiana. Mrs. Mary C.       10.00
+Munson
+Orange Park. Union Cong.       5.00
+Ch. Lincoln Mem. Day Off.
+Orange Park, C. E. Soc.,       2.50
+by Mrs. Fannie S. Baxter,
+Sec.
+
+           *TEXAS*, $2.37.
+Goliad. Y. P. S. C. E.,          2.37
+by Mrs. G. B. Hallowell,
+Sec., Lincoln Mem. Day
+Off.
+                           ----------
+Donations                  $11,496.59
+Estates                     27,183.43
+                           ----------
+                           $38,680.02
+
+          *TUITION*, $5,397.91.
+Cappahosic, Va. Tuition              19.50
+Lexington, Ky. Tuition               80.75
+Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition           214.80
+Grand View, Tenn. Tuition            48.47
+Knoxville, Tenn. Tuition             50.50
+Memphis. Tuition                    880.95
+Nashville, Tenn. Tuition            773.55
+Pleasant Hill, Tenn.                 65.45
+Tuition
+Beaufort, N. C. Tuition              16.00
+Blowing Rock, N. C.                  19.67
+Tuition
+Chapel Hill, N. C.                   15.05
+Tuition
+Enfield, N. C. Tuition               18.00
+Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition             26.14
+King's Mountain, N. C.               34.00
+Tuition
+Saluda, N. C. Tuition                42.75
+Troy, N. C. Tuition                   6.14
+Wilmington, N. C. Tuition           181.25
+Whittier, N. C. Tuition              12.70
+Charleston, S. C. Tuition           349.80
+Greenwood, S. C. Tuition            134.64
+Albany, Ga. Tuition                 136.00
+Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch.            180.70
+Tuition
+Andersonville, Ga.                   17.50
+Tuition
+Marietta, Ga. Tuition                 2.40
+Macon, Ga. Tuition                  226.20
+McIntosh, Ga. Tuition               104.13
+Savannah, Ga. Tuition               169.73
+Thomasville, Ga. Tuition             47.25
+Woodville, Ga. Tuition                2.25
+Athens, Ala. Tuition                 62.55
+Joppa, Ala. Tuition                  12.81
+Marion, Ala. Tuition                 64.85
+Mobile, Ala. Tuition                 86.00
+Nat, Ala. Tuition                    22.00
+Selma, Ala. Tuition                 107.00
+Talladega, Ala. Tuition             162.25
+Jackson, Miss. Tuition              104.50
+Meridian, Miss. Tuition              70.50
+Moorhead, Miss. Tuition              18.15
+Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition             117.25
+New Orleans, La. Tuition            498.78
+Martin, Fla. Public Fund             20.00
+Orange Park, Fla. Tuition            59.65
+Helena, Ark. Tuition                 38.35
+Austin, Texas. Tuition               77.00
+                            ----- 5,397.91
+                                ----------
+Total for February              $44,077.93
+                                ==========
+
+              *SUMMARY.*
+Donations                    $73,913.94
+Estates                       52,837.58
+                            -----------
+                            $126,751.52
+Income                         4,129.30
+Tuition                       18,808.68
+                            -----------
+Total from Oct. 1 to Feb.   $149,689.50
+29
+                            ===========
+
+     *FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.*
+Subscriptions for                  $59.88
+February
+Previously acknowledged            255.80
+                                  -------
+Total                             $315.68
+RECEIPTS OF THE
+CALIFORNIA CHINESE
+MISSION: William
+Johnstone, Treas., from
+January 16 to February
+13, 1896.
+FROM LOCAL MISSIONS:
+Fresno. Chinese Mon.                 5.60
+Offs.
+Los Angeles. Chinese Mon.            6.30
+Offs.
+Marysville. Chinese Mon.             7.45
+Offs.
+Oakland. Chinese Mon.                6.00
+Offs.
+Oroville. Chinese Mon.               1.25
+Offs.
+Petaluma. Chinese Mon.               2.25
+Offs.
+Riverside. Chinese Mon.              2.55
+Offs.
+Sacramento. Chinese Mon.             6.50
+Offs.
+Sacramento. Annual Membs             2.00
+San Bernardino.                      6.00
+Anniversary Offs.
+San Diego. Chinese Mon.              5.70
+Offs.
+San Francisco. Bethany               2.00
+Ch. Annual Membs.
+San Francisco. Central.              6.55
+Ch., Chinese Mon. Offs.
+San Francisco. West. Ch.,            3.05
+Chinese Mon. Offs.
+Santa Barbara. Chinese               7.95
+Mon. Offs.
+Santa Barbara. Gir. Chow.            3.00
+Santa Cruz. Chinese Mon.             6.00
+Offs.
+Ventura. Chinese Mon.                1.25
+Offs.
+Watsonville. Chinese Mon.            2.00
+Offs.
+                              ----- 83.40
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY
+UNION OF SOUTHERN
+CALIFORNIA, Mrs. Mary M.
+Smith, Treas.:
+North Pasadena. Cong. Ch.           10.00
+W. M. S.
+PERSONAL GIFTS:
+Lincoln, Cal. Rev. E. D.             6.55
+Hale, Parsonage Mite Box
+Blue Rapids, Kansas. Mrs.            0.50
+Blanche Tibbetts
+FOR CHINESE MOTHERS AND
+CHILDREN:
+Greenfield, Mass. Mrs. W.           10.00
+B. Washburn
+Stratford, Conn. Miss               20.00
+Cordelia Sterling
+Albany, N. Y. "Friends,"            70.00
+by Miss Janet McNaughton
+                             ----- 100.00
+                                  -------
+Total                             $200.45
+                                  =======
+
+H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,
+Bible House, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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