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diff --git a/20093.txt b/20093.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..37db5f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/20093.txt @@ -0,0 +1,4009 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. +4, April 1896 by Various + + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no +restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 4, April 1896 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: December 12, 2006 [Ebook #20093] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: US-ASCII + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY - VOLUME 50, NO. 4, APRIL 1896*** + + + + + +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. 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