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diff --git a/25906.txt b/25906.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b0ea414 --- /dev/null +++ b/25906.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2754 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 9, +September, 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 www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: June 26, 2008 [EBook #25906] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, SEPT. 1896 *** + + + + +Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Karen Dalrymple, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net +(This file was produced from images generously made +available by Cornell University Digital Collections.) + + + + + + +The American Missionary + +SEPTEMBER, 1896 + +VOL. L +No. 9 + + + + +CONTENTS + + +EDITORIAL. + + THE JUBILEE MEETING--UP TO DATE 273 + ONLY THIRTY DAYS MORE 274 + JUBILEE SHARE FUND--PARAGRAPHS 275 + +THE SOUTH. + + A NEGRO UPON SELF-HELP AND SELF-SUPPORT 276 + BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA., 279 + BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL, MACON, GA. 280 + BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL, GREENWOOD, S. C. 281 + TALLADEGA COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT 282 + SNAP SHOTS AT TALLADEGA STUDENTS 283 + ALBANY NORMAL SCHOOL, ALBANY, GA. 285 + CHANDLER NORMAL SCHOOL, LEXINGTON, KY. 286 + EXTRACTS FROM LETTER OF A SOUTHERN PASTOR 288 + LETTER FROM A FORMER STUDENT 289 + GRAND VIEW CHURCH 291 + +THE CHINESE. + + VISITS TO THREE MISSIONS 292 + +BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK. + + THE ASSOCIATION JUBILEE 295 + +SHARES JUBILEE YEAR FUND. 298 + +RECEIPTS. 299 + + * * * * * + +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. ALEX. McKENZIE, D.D., Mass. + Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. + 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. PEIRCE. + + _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. SEPTEMBER, 1896. No. 9. + + * * * * * + +THE JUBILEE MEETING. + +The semi-centennial of the American Missionary Association will be +celebrated in Boston, October 20-22, opening at three o'clock Tuesday +afternoon. A great and inspiring convocation is anticipated. Speakers +of national reputation have been secured. A large and interesting +industrial exhibit will be opened. Representatives from our mission +fields and a new band of Jubilee Singers will be heard throughout the +meetings. + +Directions as to membership and correspondence will be found on the +last page of the cover. Fuller details as to the entertainment of +delegates, reduced rates at hotels and in traveling fares, will be +given in due time through the religious press. + + * * * * * + +UP TO DATE. + +For the first ten months of our current fiscal year our expenditures +have been $53,000 less than for the corresponding ten months three +years ago. They are $37,000 less than for the first ten months of the +next year. They are $13,000 less than last year. These facts indicate +the severity of our retrenchments. + +We have most earnestly hoped for such a large increase of benefactions +as would greatly reduce our debts. Up to this time our receipts are +nearly $25,000 greater than at this date last year, but they are +$11,000 less than at this time year before last. That year closed with +a debt on its operations of $66,000, and last year with an additional +debt of $30,000. Thus far this year we have not only saved ourselves +from debt, but have gained $8,000 on the debts of the previous two +years. + +This is a favorable difference of $38,000 between our financial +standing now and that at this date last year. This advance has been +made possible only by the sympathetic and generous responses from many +givers and churches which have cheered the presentation of our work. +Very many others have promised future aid which will lift the burden. +But, for the time being, we have had to maintain our standing chiefly +by making continued reductions of expenditures. This has been a +difficult and sorrowful task. In answer to numberless appeals in +behalf of the ignorant and suffering, we have had to explain +constantly that the refusals of the Association were due, not to lack +of sympathy, but to lack of means. In general, the Association can +administer only the means confided to its charge. Its historic and +permanent policy has been against incurring a debt. Its careful and +conservative forecast two years ago encountered, like all similar +benevolent work in all the denominations, a sudden and serious +reduction of receipts. The next year it provided a much diminished +schedule of expenditures, but this was met with a further additional +reduction of support. + +Therefore, the task now set to the Association is to carry on only +what work it can while recovering what has been already expended in +these mission fields. We believe this recovery can be made. We are +most grateful to the churches, mission societies, and individual +givers who have so generously come to our help in this difficult and +trying year. From the promising responses which reach us, we can but +believe that very many more are planning for the relief of these +missions in their distress. Just now public attention is concentrated +on national issues of so perplexing and doubtful a character that +every enterprise, whether of business or of benevolence, waits upon +their settlement. We hope and pray that the coming months may lift the +clouds and pour prosperity again throughout all these vast mission +fields. + + * * * * * + +ONLY THIRTY DAYS MORE. + +At the time these lines reach the eyes of most of our readers, only +thirty days will remain of the fiftieth year in the work of the +American Missionary Association. + +We look forward to these few days with anxious hope. Pastors, officers +of churches and missionary societies, and individual givers have +intimated to us that they will co-operate in making this fiftieth year +a Year of Jubilee. Again and again our anxious inquiries have received +the kind assurance that the year shall not close without the uplift of +special help to the Association. + +Many churches and many givers have fulfilled this purpose. If all had +done as well, we should now be rejoicing over emancipation from all +indebtedness. + +We earnestly plead for personal contributions from individual givers. +After all, it is upon the many individual gifts, however small each +one may be, that the success of this work must now mainly depend. + +We ask as earnestly that each church which has not hitherto +contributed to the support of this mission work will do so now. + +We respectfully request that the treasurers of churches and mission +societies will now send us contributions already taken in behalf of +the American Missionary Association, or balances remaining in their +hands according to church plans, of proportionate contributions. + +Shall not these thirty September days in the book of life record the +special consecration in thousands of hearts of sacrificial service in +gifts to God's poor? + + * * * * * + +JUBILEE SHARE FUND. + +It will be seen in the record of this month that the Jubilee Share +Fund now aggregates pledges of over $14,000. This is a beginning, a +good beginning, but a beginning only. We hope these coming September +days which close our fiscal year will bring a vast increase of pledges +to the Jubilee Share Fund. We know that numbers of our friends have +been planning for it and looking forward to taking their part in this +great and useful Christian service. "Now is the accepted time." + + +_From Massachusetts_--"Please find inclosed check for $50 for the +Jubilee Year Fund, in memory of my dear father. His heart was ever +with your good work to the very end of his life." + +_From a Tennessee A. M. A. Missionary_--"Wife and I join the Jubilee +contributors. Find $50 for one share. We wish we could multiply this +by a hundred." + +_From Massachusetts_--"Please find from two friends in Boston $50 +each, which has been intrusted to my care for the share fund; and I +gladly send it to help on the share fund." + +_From Connecticut_--"It gives me pleasure to send you $2,000, as a +donation from our church to the American Missionary Association. Also +inclosed $785 as our annual contribution for the current expenses of +the Association, not for the debt." + +_From Iowa_--"Inclosed find $18, my donation to the work of the +American Missionary Association. It is probably my last donation as +my age (past fourscore) and poor health warn me my time is short in +which to serve the Lord in this world." + +_From Connecticut_--"I was not home last Sunday when the annual +contribution for the American Missionary Association was taken up, and +as I do not wish to miss having a little share in the good work of +your society I will inclose my check for $10 for the work." + +_From New Jersey_--"I am glad to be able to send the inclosed amount +from the Presbyterian Sunday-school of this place. For several years +we have been giving to the work of the American Missionary +Association, and each year is an advance on the previous year in +amount. May you all be abundantly blessed in your spiritual as well as +your financial welfare." + +_From Massachusetts_--"Inclosed find $5, which my sister before her +death desired me to send to the cause she labored for so many years, +and which was dear to her when her heavenly Father called her home." + +_From Ohio, inclosing $5_--"It is a pleasure to be able to carry out +the wish of my dear husband. Ever since the organization of the +American Missionary Association we have been small contributors, +though Baptists. God bless and support your work." + + * * * * * + +The South. + + * * * * * + +A NEGRO UPON SELF-HELP AND SELF-SUPPORT. + +BY REV. ORISHATUKEH FADUMA, TROY, N. C. + + +One reason why the question of self-help as it relates to the Negro is +so difficult of solution, is his previous condition of slavery. + +Slavery was first and last selfish. The training received by the Negro +under forced labor had no ethical meaning. The Negro labored, but was +not taught the dignity of labor; he did not find any dignity in it. If +there was any, his masters would have labored as he did, but the Negro +served as the cat's paws to get the nuts from the fire. The fire burnt +him severely, but he had not the benefit of the nuts. Thus the moral +and ethical benefit which he might have received from labor was lost. +Let our moralists ponder over this. The Negro's masters did not +believe in self-support during slavery; they were supported. Now that +his freedom is secured, the Negro also would like to have and hold as +the masters did. + +The result of this forced selfish labor may be briefly summed up thus. +The Negro by training and example became prejudiced against severe +struggle and toil, physical or intellectual. He is now distrustful of +attempts made to induce him to labor. He is willing to let somebody +else do the work while he reaps the benefit, just as his masters did +during slavery. Thus slavery became a foe to true Christian manliness, +self-respect, and faith in one's self and others. It took 200 years to +force these traits into the Negro's being. It was destructive of all +that is uplifting to his soul. There is now a reaction going on. +Unless the forces of the Christian schools and churches are applied +with energy, the work of construction will not soon overcome that of +200 years of destruction. + +Foremost in the education of the Negro along the line of self-support +is the American Missionary Association. That the policy of the +Association regarding self-help is not theoretical, but practical, may +be seen in the statement of Rev. Dr. Beard concerning the work in the +South, before the National Council for 1895. He says: "We are +realizing also that the independent methods of Congregational polity +develop self-help. These churches each year are bearing a larger part +of their own support. When it is remembered that formerly their +preachers were seldom paid anything, it can be understood that this +new way of church life is full of meaning." + +The Association states in emphatic and unequivocal language its +belief, founded on long experience, in an indigenous ministry. As Dr. +Beard says: "Our general policy has been to prepare the race to save +the race. This is based upon the conviction that in the long run, and +in the large view, the most effective way to lift up the masses is to +do what we can to help the relatively few to climb into higher +intellectual and moral power." + +One means toward the solution of this problem of self-help is the +industrial solution. Many overlook it because they think the Negro has +already had _much_ of it in his past history. But the Negro has never +had the _best_ of it. His industrial training before the war was +immoral as well as unscientific. The industrial education of the Negro +then was carried on without mental and moral culture; now the head, +the hands, and the heart are the triplets which must control his +development. Before the war he was simply a machine in industry; now +he is to be trained as a living soul. Before the war he had some +restraint through industrial work, but it was physical, not moral. The +education which the coming twentieth century requires of the Negro +through industry will be imperfect unless it shall be permeated with +the best and purest of ideals. It is also a recognition of the fact +that man is more than a physical creature; he is a combination of the +physical and the spiritual. It must be two natures working in harmony +with each other's development. + +The modern industrialism is a combination of preaching and practice. +It has in it a larger conception of God's Kingdom as seen in the world +of matter. If it is not the highest conception, it is not the lowest, +and should not be despised in the education of a race just emerging +from ignorance. One has only to see the Negro in the plantations of +the South, and observe his methods of work, to be convinced of the +necessity of industrial training as a means toward self-help. Look +throughout these farming districts and you will see houses fit for +pigs to dwell in rather than men; you will eat food the mode of +preparation of which is unworthy of a human being; you will see women +in laundry work who have never seen a washing-machine all their life; +and gradually the idea will flash into your mind that industrial +training is needed. + +The question may be asked, What is the American Missionary Association +doing along these lines of self-help and independence? Much has been +done, and is being done. The Association has not said much, but it is +doing much. This is better than saying much and doing little. At the +present time, when much is said about the industrial development of +the South, there is danger of following the crowd whose ideals are not +the highest. The popular cry is for a rejuvenated South, a South with +prosperous mills and factories, and the Negro with it. The Association +has wisely kept out of this, and yet has done more than any other +organization toward the industrial independence of the people. It was +the first to start industrial schools for the Negroes. Its first +industrial school was founded at Talladega, Ala., in 1867, where it +now works about 300 acres of land. Modern farming in its most +important branches is taught here. In connection with the school are +popular lectures, which are listened to, and scattered by the students +throughout the country. White and black farmers are being improved by +them. The instructor in farming, a graduate of the Amherst +Agricultural College, is both scientific and practical. In the same +school, at Talladega, young men and women are taught various other +branches of industry. + +Tougaloo Institution, in Mississippi, has a farm of 500 acres, which +supplies cities in the Northwest with her produce. There are no less +than fifty industrial schools under the American Missionary +Association, not to mention independent schools, which are largely +fostered by Congregational influence. The reflex influence of these +industrial schools upon the whites is marvelous. + +While we labor to plant seeds of true manhood in the hearts of the +people, we recognize the fact that there must be a going-out and a +taking-in. The involution of the race must precede its evolution. It +therefore requires time to see fruits. Time will tell; it is already +telling. With boards devising, and schools, churches, and pastors +formulating, methods to bring about the solution of the problem, we +shall reap an abundant harvest. When it is known that the larger +portion of the colored race in the South is still living on the +plantations, practically untouched by the Christian influences of this +century, living without God and not touched by our mission work, it +accentuates the imperative duty of the churches and pastors of +churches to hasten the work of self-support. In concluding, I +emphasize the following points: + +1. That the work of educating a race to manly independence requires +time as well as energy. + +2. That it behooves all teachers of the race to do their utmost to rid +the minds of the people of those ideas of slavery which strike a blow +at their independence. + +3. That the position taken by the American Missionary Association is +the true one in preparing the people for self-support, and thus toward +the self-support of our churches. + +4. That while recognizing the difficulties in the way of self-help and +self-support, many, if not all, can be removed if all the churches put +their shoulders to the wheel, and both teach and practice this, and do +all they can for their own support, rather than seek to have +everything done for them. + + * * * * * + +BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA. + +MISS JULIA B. FORD. + + +After another all too swiftly fleeting school year, the commencement +season is ushered in by the very able baccalaureate sermon delivered +to a large and appreciative audience by the Rev. J. J. Durham, one of +the colored pastors of Savannah. + +On Tuesday there are oral examinations in the classrooms. On +Wednesday, palms, magnolias, cape jasmine, and wild bamboo-vine have +lent their charm to render the chapel a fragrant abode of beauty. "Old +Glory" hangs here and there upon its walls. The large flag which each +morning through the year has received, after the singing of a +patriotic song, the salutations of the assembled students, has given +place for this occasion to the inspiring words of the Latin motto, +"_Ad astra per aspera_," which in bold relief gleam out from a +star-bespangled field of blue above the platform. + +Through the dense crowd which overflows the chapel and throngs the +adjoining rooms, to the notes of a march on the piano, the Ninth Grade +enters and stands to receive the graduating class, who file to their +places on the platform. With what swelling of heart are they silently +greeted, and how dear and noble a band do they seem to fond, +self-sacrificing parents, and to the teachers who have labored to +bring them to this the proudest day of their young lives. The class is +one of the largest which the Beach has ever graduated--four youths and +thirteen girls. The salutatory and essay, "What Can a Woman Do?" +earnest, suggestive, and pleasingly delivered, was followed in due +order by recitations, all rendered with spirit and grace, and winning +enthusiastic applause. The declamation by one youth, of President +Lincoln's address at Gettysburg, and the orations, by two others, on +race questions, receive due meed of appreciation. + +In the cantata, "The Ivy Queen," all the girl graduates take part, and +the ivy crown is placed on the brow of the valedictorian, who is a +keen-minded young girl of the pure Negro type. Her essay and +valedictory, "Character-building," is a worthy production. It was an +inspiring thing to look into the dark but perfectly radiant faces of +her father and mother, when, after the exercises, they came, all too +full for verbal expression, to grasp the hands of teachers. + +After the class song is sung, diplomas bestowed, the in-coming senior +class welcomed, and the announcement made as to the one whose rank in +her studies entitles her to a free scholarship for the ensuing year, a +brief but most excellent address is given by a young colored physician +of Savannah, whose ability, culture, high moral worth, and nobly +unselfish ambitions fit him to stand as a model to our students. The +newly made alumni meet teachers and friends in the Teachers' Home for +refreshments and a good, happy time generally; and in the midst of it +all one of the workers of Beach is surprised by a token of +appreciation in the form of a beautiful gift from the graduating +class. Our orator of the day, after some consultation, proposes to the +class of '96 the forming of an alumni association at the opening of +the next year, and then soon all disperse and a successful school year +is reckoned with the past. + + * * * * * + +BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL, MACON, GA. + +BY MISS LINCOLNIA C. HAYNES. + + +The Commencement Exercises of Ballard Normal School began with the +Junior Exhibition. At the time appointed every seat was taken and +there was scarcely standing room. The greatest interest was manifested +by all present, and at the close of the evening, when anxious parents +and interested friends crowded around with beaming faces to express +their satisfaction and appreciation, each teacher felt amply rewarded +for the arduous labor and effort put forth. + +The "Jubilee Songs," and especially the "Jubilee Medley," attracted +great attention. To hear "Steal Away," "Get on Board," "Swing Low," +and all the other old-time songs, wound into one, and yet fitting into +each other so perfectly and harmoniously, seemed almost a wonder. + +The annual sermon was preached the following Sunday by Rev. J. R. +McLean, pastor of the Congregational Church. In addressing the +graduates he urged a practical use of the knowledge gained; he +emphasized the fact that philanthropy is giving one's self, and he +impressed upon them the necessity of co-operating with Christ in all +things if success is desired in anything. + +Wednesday was Visitors' Day at the school, and a larger number was out +this year to witness the examinations and inspect work than for +several previous years. Wednesday night the alumni held their regular +meeting in the chapel. + +Thursday, Commencement Day, dawned gloriously, and long before the +time for the exercises to begin, people were wending their way toward +the building in order to obtain a comfortable seat. There were three +graduates, all girls, and they made a pretty sight as they marched +slowly up the aisle and took their places upon the platform. + +The Annual Address was delivered by Rev. S. A. Peeler, of the M. E. +Church. He did not go back thirty years and tell the condition of the +Negro at that time, and extol him for the rapid stride he has made, +etc. He did not enumerate the things the Negro can do, but he simply +and plainly stated, so that all who heard might clearly understand +him, what the Negro, and every one else who desires success, _must_ +do. + + * * * * * + +BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL, GREENWOOD, S. C. + +BY PRINCIPAL J. M. ROBINSON. + + +On the afternoon which witnessed the closing exercises of the Brewer +Normal School, notwithstanding a promised storm, the chapel was well +filled. The platform was tastefully decorated with flowers, ferns, and +the national colors. We feel keenly the need of a large flag, and +should some friend who sees this be moved to donate us one it would be +very gratefully received. + +The class of '96, composed of two young ladies and two young men, +acquitted themselves well. The essay, "We Girls," by Miss Annie Laurie +Fuller, was full of good thoughts, and pointed out very forcibly to +the girls of the colored race their present advantages, and what as a +result their responsibilities are. + +Rev. H. H. Proctor, pastor of the First Congregational Church, of +Atlanta, Ga., gave an able address on "Racial Contributions to +American Civilization," which, while stating plain truths very +plainly, gave no offense to the white friends present. For the first +time in our knowledge of the school there were a number of white +ladies in the audience, which we felt was quite a point gained. All +expressed themselves as very much pleased with the address, the parts +of the graduates, the music, and in fact with all the exercises. + +Mr. Proctor's presence with us was an inspiration to all, both +teachers and pupils. On the whole, the year was closed with +hopefulness for the future and a greater desire to do work that should +tell for the uplifting of the needy people with whom we are +associated. + + * * * * * + +TALLADEGA COLLEGE COMMENCEMENT. + + +Talladega College, Ala., observed its twenty-ninth anniversary at the +usual time. + +The first public exercise was by the preparatory students who had +completed the course which entitled them to enter upon the collegiate +studies in the fall. Four young men received diplomas at this +exhibition. + +The display by the industrial departments was unusually interesting. +The sewing-room had on hand plain and fancy needle-work, finished +garments for both sexes, among which were children's clothes made over +from those previously worn by adults. This latter feature will commend +itself to many homes where the custom of "making over" old clothes is +one of the necessities. Girls taught in the sewing-room are able to +make a livelihood by taking orders for work in this line. There is +also a nurse-training department which is not only patronized by +pupils in the required course, but volunteer classes have been formed +consisting of the older male students and of mothers living near the +college. A hospital bed was exhibited, and also the various sorts of +bandages required in special cases. The boys' mechanical department +furnished a large display in carpentry--mostly of a technical +character. Then there were geometric and scale drawing, building plans +of a varied character, and other work. The farm was represented in an +appropriate way. Convenient appliances for care of stock, for housing +farm products, etc., were shown, and live stock of various sorts was +there--some varieties of which are giving to the college a wide +notoriety for their excellence. + +Public examinations were held in studies of grammar and advanced +grades. The class in trigonometry gave evidence of the practical +character of its labors by exhibiting a plat of the college +property--some 270 acres in all--drawn to a scale and neatly +lettered. + +The literary and musical exercises of the commencement were very +generously patronized by the white citizens. It is to be regretted +that the college chapel is not sufficiently large to accommodate the +audiences, and that scores were unable to get a sitting at the concert +of Monday night. There is a hope that a more commodious chapel will +soon be built. + +There were present two distinguished gentlemen from abroad--members of +the college trustee board, Dr. Beard, of New York, and Dr. Cooper, of +Connecticut. The former spoke most felicitously on several occasions, +and the latter delivered a very able baccalaureate sermon and the +literary address. Rev. J. R. McLean, of Macon, Ga., preached Sunday +night. + +The graduates and the subjects of their themes were as follows: + +NORMAL DEPARTMENT. + + The Uses of the Imagination Louise M. Johnson, Talladega + Folk-lore Marietta G. Kidd, Talladega + True Womanhood Annie B. Williams, Jacksonville + The Times that Try Men's Souls Robert A. Clarke, New Berne + There is More Beyond Wade A. Jones, Vincent + +THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. + +The Condition and the Value of Definite Preaching, + Manuel L. Baldwin, Troy, N. C. + +The Conquest of Alexander the Great in its Relation + to the Spread of Christianity, John I. Donaldson, Paris, Tex. + +The Relation of Infant Baptism to the Kingdom of God, + Robert W. Jackson, Durant, Miss. + +Dr. Andrews presided at the exercises and delivered the diplomas. + +Two representatives of the alumni also presented original exercises: + +Leaders Demanded by this Epoch, + Rev. H. E. Levi, B.D., Talladega (Normal '87, Theological '95) + +Alumni History, Miss Eliza A. Jones, Selma (Normal '91) + +The Alumni dinner and business meeting followed, and the address on +"Manhood," by Dr. Cooper, at night, closed the series. + + * * * * * + +SNAP SHOTS AT SOME TALLADEGA STUDENTS. + +BY PROF. E. C. SILSBY. + + +One day last year there came unannounced a boy who had walked fifty +miles to get here. He was an orphan, had been working until he had +secured a good outfit of clothing, and, having been told of this +school by one of our pupil-teachers laboring in his neighborhood, +concluded to come, "work his way," and get an education. There seemed +to be nothing to do but to reward his faith by receiving him into +boarding-hall and school-room. He was an apt scholar, worked +diligently, and is still doing well. + +Not long ago a young man, twenty years old, appeared with a diminutive +satchel and applied to enter school. Upon inquiry a college official +discovered that he lived some thirty miles distant, that he had only +$3.50, no expectation of getting any more money, and that his +scholarship was very poor. He stated that he had been converted about +four years before and sometime afterward had a "call to preach." +Later, he explained the nature of this "call" thus: "One morning just +before day, as I lay in my bed, I heard a voice. It said, 'Does you +remember what the Lord Jesus Christ said to his disciples just before +He descended into heaven? Go ye into all the world and preach the +gospel to every creature.' I studied about this, and finally asked the +Lord did He mean for me to preach. He gave me a feeling that He did. I +tried to get the idea out of my mind, but it kept coming back, and +here I am." He was advised to stay out until he could earn money +enough with which to make a beginning. But he wanted to enter school +even if he could stay in but two weeks. He was therefore examined, +placed in the second reader room, given a book and a Testament, and +the promise of work to pay his tuition. He found a boarding place, and +for a brief period of time enjoyed the privileges of the school room +according to his request. + +A young woman, daughter of an early friend of the College, is here. +Her father (now in heaven) had experienced the conditions both of +slavery and of freedom, and his children have inherited that father's +interest in education to a large degree. This, his youngest daughter, +is cared for by her brothers, and the solicitude they exhibit in her +welfare is very touching. May she finish her course with honor, and +perform a noble work "for Christ and humanity." + +A few years ago a man and his wife left the service of their employer +in a neighboring city, rented a little cottage in Talladega, and +entered the same class in one of our lower grades. By prudence and +economy they had saved some money and were able to live comfortably +while prosecuting their studies. They have passed regularly up the +grades and are happy in the progress they are making. During the long +summer vacation they find employment, and are on hand promptly at the +fall opening of the school. They are both active church members, and +the man expects to study for the ministry after sufficient preparatory +training. + +Here is a case several times repeated. It is that of a girl who is +making her way unaided by parental effort. She spends the long summer +vacation teaching a country school. The pay is small, board must be +paid out of her wages, and her scanty wardrobe must be replenished. +She has made a deposit with the treasurer, and has arranged for work +at the boarding hall to help out in the matter of college bills. She +has no time for play, no money for luxuries, but she is plucky and is +bound to have an education, and it looks as if she would succeed. + +A young man is here. He came with plain clothes, although they were +clean and new. Out of wages--less than ten dollars a month and +board--he had saved an amount which, with work out of study hours +would insure him a year in school. Once he came without money, but we +could not receive him. He therefore determined to come next time +_with_ money, and his success we note above. Promotion for good +scholarship came soon. Religious influences were strong, and he became +a Christian. He is now among the most trusted and valued pupils. + + * * * * * + +ALBANY NORMAL SCHOOL, ALBANY, GA. + +BY MRS. ALICE L. DAVIS. + + +One finds that every year the enrollment grows larger. The people are +increasingly appreciating the work done by the school. Every one who +can afford it usually sends his children to our school, but there are +others who are extremely poor but who are equally anxious to send +their children also, and in order to do this they make great +sacrifices. Many mothers work at the washtub from Monday morning till +Saturday night, and do all kinds of manual labor, to obtain the money +with which to keep their children in school. Some of our neediest +pupils prove to be the best in their classes. One boy, whose widowed +mother is unable to keep him in school, may be seen every day before +and after school going in search of odd jobs to obtain money with +which to pay his tuition. + +This boy is one of the brightest pupils we have. There are others who +are equally anxious to obtain an education. Many will walk distances +ranging from three to seven miles to school every morning. The +interest in the school increases yearly to such an extent that the +building, which at first was thought to be large enough to accommodate +all who would come, is now entirely too small to accommodate the +pupils that we have. It will be almost impossible to get along next +year without more room. We are greatly in need of a chapel where we +can hold our devotions and have our public exercises. Without more +room the work will be greatly hampered. + +The third anniversary of our school was held last week. These +exercises are always looked forward to with the greatest interest and +pleasure by both parents and pupils. On June 4 was our exhibition of +the primary and intermediate grades. The audience was made up of the +fathers, mothers, and friends of the students. They seemed anxious to +have each pupil acquit himself well, and the pupils seemed equally as +eager to do their best to please the audience. The programme, which +was well rendered, was made up of essays, declamations, solos, duets, +and choruses. "Bernardo del Carpio" and the quarrel between Brutus and +Cassius were rendered in a manner worthy of more experienced pupils. + +On June 5 were the exercises of the grammar grades. The programme was +made up of essays by two young ladies, who had completed the grammar +grades; instrumental solos by the music-pupils, trios, and choruses; +also an address by Rev. Mr. Sims, of Thomasville, Ga., who spoke on +the subject "Wanted." He pointed out the need of education, of +religion, of wealth, and especially of sterling morality in character. +This address was highly appreciated by the large and enthusiastic +audience. + +Could my reader have been present he would have realized that the +people are hungering and thirsting after knowledge, and are beginning +to regard our school as a well-spring to supply them. + + * * * * * + +CHANDLER NORMAL SCHOOL, LEXINGTON, KY. + +MISS F. J. WEBSTER, PRINCIPAL. + + +In reviewing the history of Chandler Normal School for the past year, +we find more reasons than usual for courage and gratitude. In all +departments of our work we see evidences of the mental and moral +advancement of our pupils. The year has been one of progress and +prosperity. Nothing has occurred to hinder the work. The conscientious +performance of duty has been the rule of the school, and the students +who entered with any other purpose in view soon discovered their +mistake and saw that they did not have the approval of their +companions. + +The forerunner of the closing exercises was the presentation of the +cantata "Little Red Riding-hood," by the pupils of the intermediate +grades. This entertainment drew as large an audience as the chapel, a +room that has a seating capacity of 600, could accommodate. The music, +both vocal and instrumental, was excellent, and illustrated most fully +the remarkable progress that has been made in this department within +the past three years. + +Two days were devoted to the annual written examinations, momentous +occasions, that were crowned with success so far as the majority of +the pupils were concerned. The ordeal of examinations closed with the +public oral ones on Friday morning. On the afternoon of the same day +occurred the exhibition of the eighth grade, the class finishing the +grammar course. The essays presented on this occasion were all upon +subjects suggested by the pupils' study of United States history. + +The exercises of Monday morning were wholly musical. The first part of +the programme consisted of the cantata "The Musical Enthusiast," and +the second part of a piano recital. All the music presented was of a +high order, most of it being classical. + +On Tuesday a declamatory contest was given by the young women of the +normal department. The prize offered by a friend of one of the +teachers was a year's tuition in Chandler School. The selections were +from standard authors, and were chosen with the purpose of testing to +the utmost the ability of the young contestants. During the past year +much interest has been manifested by the pupils in work of this sort, +and most noticeable progress has been made by many of them. + +At the close of the contest a very interesting and eloquent address on +the subject of temperance was given by Rev. J. S. Jackson, pastor of +the Congregational Church in Lexington. The thoughts presented were +full of inspiration for all who heard them. + +On Wednesday morning an intelligent and appreciative audience +assembled in the chapel to listen to the commencement exercises. Three +young men presented orations, and three young women essays, on this +occasion. There was but one graduate from the higher normal course. An +oration on the subject "Frederick Douglass," presented by a young man +who had completed the tenth grade, was considered an unusually +creditable student production and elicited much applause. + +The commencement address was given by the Rev. W. T. Bolling, D.D., +pastor of the Southern Methodist Church of Lexington. The speaker +prefaced his remarks by saying that much surprise had been expressed +by many of his friends that he, a former slaveholder and an +ex-Confederate soldier, would consent to deliver the commencement +address for a school devoted to such a purpose as was Chandler. He +assured these individuals that our school had no warmer friend than +he, nor one more in sympathy with its work. No address could have been +more helpful and stimulating than was his. All who had the privilege +of listening to it were cheered and edified. + +At the close of each day's literary exercises the majority of the +audience accepted the invitation to examine the work of the +sewing-classes on exhibition in one of the recitation-rooms. A large +number of articles, all carefully made by hand, gave abundant evidence +of the industry and skill of the girls of both schools. + +The closing entertainment of commencement week took place in the +chapel on Wednesday at 8 P.M. The programme for that occasion +consisted of a cantata entitled "The Cadets' Picnic," presented by +the little pupils of the Hand School. The night was stormy, but for +all that the large chapel of Chandler School was comfortably full. +Fifty small children, carefully trained and displaying perfect +self-possession, took part in this entertainment. The teachers of the +Hand School had every reason to feel gratified with the results of +their work. + +The teachers of both the Chandler and Hand schools have labored +diligently for the moral and spiritual upbuilding of their pupils +during the past year. The meetings of the Christian Endeavor Society, +held each Friday morning at 9, have been productive of the best +results. + +The Sunday-school work has been very encouraging. Chandler and Hand +Mission Sabbath-schools together numbered more than two hundred pupils +at the close of the year. Nearly all of these children were from +communities destitute of every other Christian influence. + + * * * * * + +EXTRACTS FROM A LETTER OF A SOUTHERN PASTOR. + + +I desire to explain to you some features of what I conceive to be the +most interesting scheme I have witnessed in the South for a long time. +You have, I suppose, received one or two copies of our little paper. +Let me give you a bit of history concerning it. + +It was a short while after the "local option" election, in which the +friends and advocates of temperance and good government went down in +inglorious defeat before the red-faced saloon-keepers and other +votaries of vice, when the executive committee of the "Prohibs" +saddled the cause of defeat on the Negroes' shoulders. The cause of +defeat agreed upon, a few generous-hearted men thought it would be +much better to make some kind of effort to elevate the Negro than to +grieve about what was already done. So the idea of a manual +training-school was advanced by two gentlemen, one of whom is a stanch +Southerner, who for a long time had the unenviable reputation of +believing and openly advocating the strange and illogical theory that +the Negro has no soul; the other is a minister of Southern birth, but +of Northern education. Infatuated with the prospects of ultimate +success, and having, it seems providentially, come upon a man who was +a printer and owned an outfit, they talked with him, and he, needing +work, was evidently smitten with the idea. Thoroughly understanding +themselves, they sought a conference with a few representative colored +men. I was among the first to be interviewed. The minister put the +matter before me, and I saw nothing unworthy in it, and it drew out my +sympathy immediately. After talking the whole matter over we agreed to +call a meeting. The meeting was called in the well-furnished office of +a colored man. There were six present--three white men and three +colored men. We talked over the matter again, each one stating his +limitations in the affair. I asked the white gentlemen present if they +thought they could stand the sentiment that would doubtless be brought +to bear upon them. They said, "While we anticipate opposition, we are +sure we can withstand all assaults." "Then," said I, "we have nothing +to lose." The whites were to have a part of the paper and the colored +a part--a quarter or a half, as they might desire. I was asked to take +charge of the colored department, and with reluctance I agreed. The +paper went through eight issues. The whites interested in it found the +pressure too great for them, and the owner of the outfit found the +support entirely too meager. The white editor while in attendance at a +church convention was in some cases refused the courtesy of a +Christian introduction. One young woman who was a friend of the editor +refused to introduce him to her friend because he was in the newspaper +business with a "nigger." A banker was asked to subscribe, but +refused, saying there was too much ---- "nigger" about that paper for +him. The merchants generally refused to advertise in it. After an +existence of about eight weeks the paper ceased temporarily or +permanently, I know not whether the former or the latter. When I +talked with the originator of the idea he candidly confessed: "I was +born in the South, held slaves in the South, have lived in the South +all my life, but the prejudice among the white people against the +Negroes is greater than I thought. While I am entirely independent of +public opinion, the reflection on my friends Mr. ---- and Dr. ---- has +been very great." + + * * * * * + +LETTER FROM A FORMER STUDENT AT MOBILE. + + +Dear Friend: I entered Emerson Institute the first Monday in October +of 1892, but long before that time I had contemplated going there to +school, though not having any immediate support I could not attend +until the above-named time. Just two days before I entered the school +I had accepted a position as clerk, but seeing the great need of an +education I quit immediately and entered school. When I entered +Emerson I had not been in school for about seven years, but had to +some extent been engaged in study. I had no sure means of support, but +was determined to educate myself. + +Our principal, seeing my earnestness, gave me the privilege of living +at the "Home," which enabled me to work out my board and tuition. I +gladly accepted. And it is here the lasting influence began its effect +upon me. Indeed, I cannot state the first impression made, but I do +know the best; that is, it was here I became a Christian and was made +to accept Christ as my Saviour. I think I professed religion in March +of 1893, during Mr. Moore's work there. From this step I began to +build a principle that would be able to stand the many temptations +that would come upon me. The next best thing, it was here (at Emerson) +I was made to realize the evil effect of alcoholic liquors, and when, +as before that time, I had some toleration for wine, etc., I pledged +myself against it and became a strong defender of "Prohibition." I was +fortunate in being awarded a prize for the best-made speech on +Prohibition in a contest given by Emerson Institute on May 22, 1894; +and I almost decided to become a temperance lecturer. + +It is impossible for me to enumerate the myriad of good influences +that have surrounded me by being a student in Mobile. But permit me to +say that if there is any one thing in earth that I owe for my +stableness in that which is right, it is my having been immediately +under the good influences of Emerson Institute and its earnest +teachers. I have been made to see the power of a good education. My +mind, heart, and soul have been broadened; and now I am able to look +upon humanity from a broader point of view. It has certainly given me +a more congenial spirit, and wherein I may have been conceited, I am +not now. One very important influence is that I have decided to never +stop short of the very best possible education. I have been made to +believe that morality is the only standard for ideal Christianity. + +A few words of what I am doing and shall do. I shall soon be teaching +my motto, "A high moral standard," pure and upright, to benefit the +largest possible number in shortest possible time. I shall endeavor by +God's assistance to instill in my pupils these true principles of +right doing and the possibilities brought through education. And as I +have been influenced by Emerson Institute and its teachers, I shall +try and do likewise to those whom I shall assume authority over. + +I think that you will be able to get an idea of how I have been +influenced by Emerson Institute by the narrative which I have given, +although scattering. + +I trust that you will pray for my success, and that I may be able to +stand the _test_. I have endeavored to give veracity in this matter, +with no exaggeration. Neither have I spoken in hyperbolical terms, to +make the wrong impression. Trusting that this is the question that you +asked me, properly answered, I am hopeful that your stay with us this +year has been crowned with success, and that you may return next year +with even greater determination, and that the results may be a +hundred-fold. Kind wishes to all the teachers. I am, + +Yours sincerely, + +W. L. Jones. + + * * * * * + +GRAND VIEW CHURCH. + +REV. W. W. DORNAN. + + +The Grand View Congregational Church is situated on Waldon's Ridge, +overlooking the pleasant valley of Tennessee. The outlook on the +southern side reaches to the Unaka chain of mountains in North +Carolina, a distance of about seventy miles. Westward and northward +rise in the background of the forest the mountains of the Cumberland +plateau. On the east, the trees shut out everything but the sky. + +We are about 800 feet above the sea-level, giving a most delightful +and salubrious atmosphere. The moral atmosphere is equally good. The +nearest place for liquors and their accompanying vices is in the +valley beneath. + +The Congregational Church was organized at this place on October 15, +1885, under the superintendency of the American Missionary +Association. The congregation was composed wholly of people from the +Northern States, who had come to the mountains seeking health. These, +to the number of about twenty-five families, form the neighborhood of +Grand View. Outside of this place are to be found the people of the +mountains, scattered across the mountain-top, in a little clearing +here and another there. In the midst of the woods, during the summer, +it is a "discovery" to find the log house, the home of the +mountaineer. The occupation of all is farming. There is no other means +for a livelihood. + +Many of the church members own their own homes; usually two-story +frame buildings. + +During the present pastorate twenty-one have united with the church; +fourteen by letter, seven by confession. Out of this number we have +nine who are mountaineers, the first acquisition of the native element +to the church. We have a small but neat building, seating 150, in +which services are held every Sunday morning and evening. A Christian +Endeavor Society embraces a large number of the young people for whom +we labor. + +This church is in connection with a large and flourishing school. The +students come to us from three States, and thus the influence of the +American Missionary Association is scattered far and wide. We are the +center of a large but poor class of people who have no means to help +themselves. If they are ever to help themselves, they must receive a +start from outside. When they do get a chance they usually go ahead. + +We have among our students many teachers of the public schools lifting +the tone of the whole mountain. Last year about sixteen of the +students taught school during the vacation, covering a territory from +Red Belt, Georgia, to Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee. Several lawyers, +former students, are now practicing at the bar in Tennessee and other +States. To our honor one of our graduates is a missionary in China; +many have gone forth to usefulness. Many, if not all, of these would +have been unable to do anything for themselves but for the benevolence +of the churches and the planting of the school and church in this +place. The ideas with which the Association set out to work are no +longer theories, but established facts. + +The success of the Association, I believe, lies, next to God's +blessing, in the fact that they realized that not only the school is +needed to make better men and women, but also the church to fit these +men and women for the struggles of life. Both together are needed to +do the work. + +In this place, where "the work which this society is doing touches +every fiber of our national life," that which produced the sterling +manhood of New England in the past days, and made our national life a +possibility and then a fact, can, in a like manner in the future, +produce such men and women on the mountains and in the valleys of the +South. + +Such a work should give hope and courage to every friend of this +Association, and I believe that in the last day it will be a great +surprise to many to know how many homes they have helped to brighten, +and how many lives they have helped to bless, and how many souls they +have helped to save. + + * * * * * + +The Chinese. + + * * * * * + +VISITS TO THREE MISSIONS. + +BY REV. JEE GAM. + + +The missions visited were those at Marysville, Oroville, and +Watsonville. At each place an anniversary was held, at which Dr. Pond +wished me to make an address. But I felt that I had other duties to do +besides this: + +1. To see that those brethren who had not been baptized should come to +baptism. + +2. To urge those scholars who ought to join the Congregational +Association of Christian Chinese to do so at once. + +3. To strengthen and stimulate the brethren, not only to stand firm in +their faith, but to press forward to save men through Christ. + +4. To urge them to give generously to our work. + +5. To preach on the street, that I might lead some one or more to +Jesus. + +At Marysville I lost no time in getting the names of those who had not +been baptized, and who seemed ready for baptism; then the names of +pupils who ought to join the association. Then I enlisted the +co-operation of the baptized Christians. We just _surrounded_ four of +our brethren and urged them to give themselves publicly and wholly to +Christ. They objected that they would like just to know more, but they +had been under instruction between one and two years, and had +confessed themselves believers six or more months ago by joining the +association. We thought them well qualified to receive baptism. +Finally they consented, and then we all shook hands and rejoiced. They +were baptized by Dr. Pond the following Sunday evening, when after the +anniversary we received the Lord's Supper and listened to Dr. Pond's +sermon on our motto for the year, "Ye shall be baptized with the Holy +Ghost." + +The method of winning the three pupils for the Association was the +same only with the added efforts of all present. + +The contribution was generous. At my first mention of this matter they +all held up their pledge-cards, duly signed, and with the amounts they +were able to give written upon them. + +On Sunday afternoon we held a street meeting, which all the brethren +who could attended, and all helped. + +The next day (Monday) two Marysville brethren went with us to Oroville +at their own expense. The weather was intensely hot, but this did not +prevent a cordial welcome to us, both at the depot and at the Mission. +And here we settled down to work just as we did at Marysville. The +result was that three brethren were baptized and one scholar joined +the association. The new brother is an educated young man, but was a +great devotee of gambling, at which he has generally lost money. On my +first visit to Oroville, two years ago, I admonished him to quit this +bad habit and become a Christian. He frankly acknowledged the sin, but +was reluctant to cease from it till he could win back what he had +lost. So I could not persuade him. And when I reached Oroville this +time I was made sad at hearing that he was still a gambler, though +still a pupil in the school. He came to the Mission house that evening +at about 10 o'clock, and, after hand-shaking, sat down in a corner of +the room. Seeing in this a fine opportunity, I said to the brethren +present, "Let us gather about Jee Loy and win him to Christ to-night." +There were six of us, myself included. We asked him what objection he +had to becoming a Christian. He mentioned many, but we disposed of +them all, not, however, without talking for nearly two hours. During +the brethren's turns to speak I prayed in my heart many times, +invoking God's help on our words, and begging that his heart might be +opened to the truth and to Christ. + +But he still refused. I then said to him, "Will you go home and think +the matter over very carefully and let us know to-morrow evening?" He +said that he would. A prayer was offered and he went home. We were +overjoyed when he came the next evening to tell us that he had decided +for Christ and would join the association, which he did at once. We +were all filled with thanksgiving. + +Three other things made us glad: (1) The addition of three brethren to +our Bethany Church in Oroville; (2) the steadfastness and boldness of +our brethren as shown at the street preaching service; and (3) their +generosity. For when I spoke to them about Senator George C. Perkins +and his allowing them to occupy this building for twenty years without +charging a cent of rent, or even our paying the taxes upon it, and +suggested that they make him a life member of our California Chinese +Mission, as quick as lightning "Yes," "Yes!" was heard all over the +room. In a very short time the whole amount of $25 was subscribed; and +they intend, with God's help, to make Mrs. Perkins a life member next +year. + +The anniversaries at Marysville and Oroville were the best we ever had +in either place. The Lord's Supper, in each case, was observed at the +mission after the anniversary service closed, and this was followed by +Dr. Pond's discourse, so that the services did not end till about +11.30 o'clock. + +At Oroville, even after this, a pleasant social was held, and we tried +to bring another to Christ, but did not succeed; and finally, the +night being so nearly gone, and the morning train for San Francisco +starting at 4 o'clock, we did not go to bed at all, but strolled +through Chinatown and enjoyed the cool night air after a hot, +laborious day. + +At Watsonville we had similar exercises, and the joy of extending our +fellowship to Dr. Quon Hun, a highly educated Chinese physician, who +had attended our school for several months, and who, after studying +the Lord's Prayer all alone, was led into the light of Christ, and +composed a beautiful Chinese poem upon it. He had charge of the +tablets of one of the Tongs, and had also his own private shrine in +his office. But he returned the tablets and destroyed his own idols. +He is a man greatly respected, and will be able to do a great work for +Christ, though doubtless he will encounter much odium and +persecution. + + * * * * * + +Bureau of Woman's Work. + + * * * * * + +THE ASSOCIATION JUBILEE. + +BY SEC. D. E. EMERSON. + + +Not long after emancipation a freed-woman, about 50 years old, who was +learning to read, came to the word "unbound" in her lesson, and +exclaimed, rapturously, "How good, to feel unbound!" + +If the American Missionary Association, its work, principles, and all +that it represents, could be expressed in one word, that word would be +_emancipation_--deliverance from bondage, deliverance from caste +prejudice, from ignorance, superstition, and darkness. Its mission is +to preach the gospel to the poor, to loose the chains of the bound, to +proclaim "The truth shall make you free." + +It was a little company of earnest men and women that gathered in +Albany, N. Y., in September, 1846, to form this organization. Its +early history was not only of works, but of "witness," fearless and +undaunted. It had a God-given mission, and this conviction sustained +its brave adherents during those years of severe trial and testing. +Yet all was not discouragement. Every year brought added strength in +numbers and in funds. Every year showed more plainly that the hand of +the Lord was in this movement. + +So it worked for fifteen years, gaining varied experience in +industrial, educational, evangelistic, and church work, in methods of +administration, in wise use of funds. At the close of this period it +was conducting prosperous missions at thirty-seven stations in its +foreign field, and in the home field it had under its care 120 +churches. Then came the rebellion and war, and the unmistakable call +of Providence to the rapid development of missions southward. +Immediately the Association, now encouraged and supported by all the +churches, moved in the wake of the Union army, beginning in 1861 to +work for the contrabands at Fortress Monroe, where 1,800 colored +people had sought the protection of the American flag. All its +varieties of experience and resources were called into action. It +became a philanthropic society to feed and clothe the suffering, a +Bible society to distribute the word of God. It became an industrial +society to help people to homes and teach practical farming, trades, +and housewifery. It established social settlements, with groups of +missionary teachers living in one household among the degraded and +despised people, to whom they ministered; an educational society with +its system of schools; a church society, seeking always the salvation +of souls and gathering of converts into churches. + +Now it was that the wisdom, the heroism, the unfaltering faith of this +Association, strengthened by fifteen years of valorous adherence to +the gospel principles of emancipation, prepared it to launch out upon +its great mission. The demands were almost overwhelming in extent and +variety. + +First, Fortress Monroe, then Norfolk and all eastern Virginia, Newport +News, and Port Royal; then the Carolinas, Mississippi, and Tennessee. +So closely did the missions follow the victorious armies that by the +time the war-storm had fully cleared away, the American Missionary +Association had 320 missionaries preaching and teaching the gospel to +the freedmen, with 16,000 pupils in its schools. No wonder that it was +said, "Behold how God has fitted this Association for this vast and +mighty work." + +The development of this marvelous work has many thrilling chapters +among the forty-nine that have been already written. They tell the +story briefly of the devoted men and women who have been carrying on +the blessed work of emancipation. They show how not less than 3,000 +women have given of their best talent and strength to this Christ-like +service. They speak of the perils by shotgun and by fire; of +imprisonment, ostracism, and scorn; of persecution, that it was +believed the progress of the age had made impossible in these later +days, but which the State of Florida has been able to revive. But +these chapters tell also how the truth has been setting many free, +blacks and whites alike, bringing them into a truer conception of +God's fatherhood, man's brotherhood through sonship by Jesus Christ. + +The American Missionary Association finds its highest testimonial in +the work itself, in its system of Christian schools, including graded +primaries, academies, normal and industrial schools, in its colleges +in each of five states, and in its advancing church work. Nay, its +best testimonial is in the product from these schools and churches, +the teachers and preachers, lawyers and doctors, the good farmers and +mechanics, the upright mothers and fathers, the sweet though humble +homes, the conscientious Christian citizens, in whose influence and +leadership lies the hope of the African race. It finds its testimonial +in the loyalty and devotion of its missionaries, their self-denial for +the cause they love. It has seen a gifted woman from a home of comfort +going year by year for twenty years to this work of emancipation for +the "bound" in Georgia and Tennessee, among a despised people, and, +when called from earth and earth's opportunities, leaving a liberal +sum to continue the work of Christian education. It has seen many +another consecrated missionary take from the savings of a lifetime, to +enable the Association to light one more lamp for the dark places of +the South, and not a few turn back three-fourths of their small +salaries to help in sustaining the work. The liberality of the +missionaries testifies not only to the genuineness of the work, but to +the importance of the field and its irresistible appeal. + +With such a history the American Missionary Association stands before +the churches in this, its fiftieth, year. God has graciously widened +the fields before it. The 4,000,000 of freed slaves are a race of +8,000,000 in our midst. "Never since the apostolic age has there been +open to the church a field so vast, so urgent, so hopeful." + +God has graciously widened the mission fields of the Association; the +mountain regions of the South have been opened, and the gospel, +carried with such personal risk fifty years ago, reaching only here +and there a few, may be carried freely to the 2,000,000 of our +mountain countrymen mentally and spiritually bound. God has graciously +widened the fields. The Indian missions present their claim, for +wherever a pagan Indian tribe remains there may the gospel be carried +quickly and without personal harm. The providential call has been +heard also, and answered by this Association, for the Chinese within +our borders and the Eskimo on the Alaskan coast. The work of this +Association may well be the glory of the churches. God has done His +part. He has opened the fields, He has richly blessed every effort +toward enlightenment and Christian civilization. The missionaries have +done their part in prayer, in labor, in gifts, in voicing the earnest +appeal of these poor, whose greatest need is Christian education and a +pure gospel. + +Now, the Association has come to its fiftieth year, the fiftieth +chapter in its serial history. Standing always for emancipation, it is +itself enthralled in the toils of a terrible debt. It trusted the +churches; it believed that the action of the churches in separating +their Indian work from the government, relinquishing $22,000, would be +followed by $22,000 additional gifts from the people of God, that the +Indian missions should not suffer loss. It believed that the growing +claim of the Southern mountain work and the claim of this great +African race in our midst would not be disregarded. It still believes +in the churches. There has been only a temporary withholding. In the +sisterhood of missionary societies, two have been freed from debt. Now +by one grand concentration of gifts to the Jubilee Fund of the +American Missionary Association, shall it not be enabled to celebrate +a remarkable record, a marvelous work, a divine call to present +widening fields of usefulness and a jubilee of financial freedom that +by the grace of God shall last? May we not then confidently look for +the opening of the windows of heaven, and the outpouring of such a +blessing on home churches and mission fields as shall summon the +attention of an indifferent and unbelieving world to the certain and +rapid progress of the kingdom of God? + +Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares. + + EMELINE J. KELLOGG, Manchester, Vt. + ANDRUS MARCH, Charlton City, Mass. + CAROLINE CROWELL, Haverhill, Mass. + CHRISTIAN UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Upper Montclair, N. J. + Mrs. S. M. COWLES, Kensington, Conn. + Mrs. M. A. BACHELOR, Whitinsville, Mass. + Mrs. C. A. RANSOM, Wellesley, Mass. + CENTRAL UNION SOUTH CHURCH, Concord, N. H. + TWO FRIENDS, Wellesley, Mass., two shares. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY, River Falls, Wis. + FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Great Barrington, Mass. + Rev. JAMES W. BIXLER, Trustee, New London, Conn. + FRANK L. ANDREWS, Fall River, Mass. + Mrs. R. S. CURTIS, Hampden, Me. + SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Manchester, Conn. + PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL, Worcester, Mass. + TABITHA L. CUSHMAN, East Los Angeles, Cal. + CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL, Greenville, N. H. + "DEBTOR TO THE A. M. A.," Auburndale, Mass. + Mrs. ELLEN M. WELLMAN, Malden, Mass. + W. H. M. A., AUXILIARY OF CHURCH OF THE PILGRIMAGE, Plymouth, Mass. + CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Yankton, S. D. + WALNUT HILLS WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Cincinnati, O. + JOHN M. WILLIAMS, Evanston, Ill. + PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Lawrence, Kan. + Mr. and Mrs. GAYLORD THOMSON, Medina, O. + CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Granby, Mass. + Mrs. LOTA B. WHITE WALES, in memory of Rev. O. H. WHITE, D.D., + Dorchester, Mass. + A FRIEND, New Britain, Conn. + FRIENDS, Milford, N. H., two shares. + LADIES IN SECOND CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, West Winsted, Conn. + Miss ANNA E. FARRINGTON, through WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION + OF NORTH CAROLINA, Oaks, N. C. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY, Hancock, Mich. + A FRIEND, Concord, N. H., two shares. + Mrs. S. A. PRATT, Worcester, Mass. + EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Westboro, Mass. + CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Oakham, Mass. + TWO FRIENDS, Park Street Congregational Church, Boston, Mass. + INDIVIDUALS IN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Cumberland Centre, Me. + BELLE OLINGER, Williamsburg, Ky. + Mrs. W. H. CATLIN, Meriden, Conn. + WOMAN'S ASSOCIATION, First Church, Detroit, Mich. + RESIDENTS, Cumberland Gap, Tenn. + + Previously reported, 238 + Subscriptions reported above, 46 + ------ + Total number of shares reported, 284 + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1896. + + * * * * * + +_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_ + +_For the Education of Colored People._ + + Income for July $7,920.00 + Previously acknowledged 47,663.09 + ----------- + $55,583.09 + =========== + + +CURRENT RECEIPTS + + +MAINE, $371.59 + + Albany. J. E. Bird $4.00 + Auburn. Mission Band High St. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 2.50 + Calais. First Cong. Soc. 20.00 + Centre Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.60 + East Madison. "A Friend" 4.00 + Gardiner. First Cong. Ch. 28.14 + Hampden. Mrs. R. S. Curtis, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + North Bridgton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 4.25 + Rockland. Cong. Ch. 42.57 + South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, _for Moorhead, Miss._ 10.00 + Wells. B. Maxwell, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + + Maine Woman's Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. Ida V. Woodbury, Treas.: + Biddeford. Second Ch. Ladies' Miss'y Aux. 45.25 + Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 6.28 + Harpswell Center. 10.00 + Minot Center. Bal. to const. MRS. OLIVE D. + SHAW L. M. 23.00 + Pownal. 5.00 + Skowhegan. 21.00 + Somerset. Conference Coll. 3.00 + Troy. 7.00 + Turner. 17.00 + Winthrop. 5.00 + Woodfords. S. S. Primary Dept. 1.00 + ------ 143.53 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $857.10. + + Alsted. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.70 + Boscawen. Mr. and Mrs. S. N. Allen (1 of which _for debt_) 3.00 + Candia. Cong. Ch. 15.79 + Concord. South Cong. Ch. 63.18 + Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.63 + Dover. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 + Greenville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Hanover. Mary A. Fletcher, _for Hospital, Fort Yates, N. D._ 10.00 + Haverhill. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box C. and Bedding, Val. + 22.45, _for Savannah, Ga._ + Laconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + Lyndeboro. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + Manchester. Class of Young Girls, Sab. Sch. of Franklin + St. Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Plainfield. Mrs. S. R. Baker 10.00 + Rindge. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Swanzey. Y. P. S. C. E., 8 _for Fort Berthold, N. D._; + 5 _for Fort Independence, N. D._ 13.00 + Walpole. Cong. Ch. 28.63 + ----. "A Friend," for a Life Membership 30.00 + + New Hampshire Female Cent. Inst. and Home Missionary Union, + by Miss Annie A. McFarland, Treas.: + Boscawen. Cent. Union, _for Salary, + Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 8.67 + Concord. Cent. Union, First Ch., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Concord. "A Friend," First Ch., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Concord. Cent. Union, South Ch., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Derry. Cent. Union, First Cong. Ch., + _for Salary_ 25.00 + Epsom. Cent. Society 4.00 + Hebron and Groton. Homeland Circle + (3.78 of which _for debt_) 7.57 + Keene. Sab. Sch. Prim. Dept., Second Ch. 5.00 + Manchester. L. H. M. Soc. of Franklin + St. Ch. 68.00 + Tamworth. Mrs. Mary K. Gannet, + _for Two Shares Jubilee Fund_ 100.00 + ------- 368.24 + ------- + $821.17 + + ESTATE. + + New Ipswich. Estate of Dea. Leavit Lincoln, by Trustees 35.93 + ------- + $857.10 + + +VERMONT, $626.39. + + Barnet. Y. P. S. C. E., by R. L. Laughlin, Cor. Sec. $2.50 + Bradford. Cong. Ch. 13.10 + Burlington. College St. Cong. Ch. 84.33 + Burlington. Sab. Sch., College St. Ch., + _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._ 20.00 + Granby. "A Friend" 15.00 + Manchester. Miss Emeline J. Kellogg, + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Newbury. Bbl. for Christmas, Freight 2.46, + _for King's Mountain, N. C._ 2.46 + North Bennington. Cong. Ch., adl. 1.50 + Queechee. Cong. Ch., adl. 11.80 + Randolph. First Cong. Ch. 9.15 + Rochester. Cong. Ch. 13.92 + Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + Saint Johnsbury. "In Memoriam, Z.W." _for Share + Jubilee Fund_, 50; "B.," 25; "H.," 25 100.00 + Townshend. Miss E. Ballard 5.00 + Wallingford. "A Friend" 1.00 + West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 32.97 + Westford. Y. P. S. C. E., by Luna M. Osgood, Cor. Sec. 2.50 + West Hartford. Mrs. E. M. Copeland, _Jubilee Offering_ 1.00 + West Randolph. Mrs. Sidney Howard 6.00 + Windsor. Old South Cong. Ch. 4.75 + Woodstock. Cong. Soc. 25.53 + ------- + $437.51 + + ESTATE. + + Charlotte. Estate of Lydia Ann Hicks 100.00 + Swanton. Estate of C. C. Long, by D. G. Furman, Executor 88.88 + ------- + $626.39 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $4,016.10 + + Abington. First Cong. Ch. $7.60 + Andover. Abbot Academy, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ and + to const. MISS LAURA S. WATSON, Principal, L. M. 50.00 + Andover. Sab. Sch., South Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + Ashby. Ortho. Ch. 10.61 + Auburndale. "One who is a Debtor to the A. M. A.," + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Beverly. Dane St. Cong. Ch. 87.92 + Beverly. Mrs. Ann V. Bailey, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Blandford. First Cong. Ch. 18.00 + Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. 88.96 + Boston--Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. 108.41 + Dorchester. Pilgrim Ch., adl. 1.00 + Roxbury. H. M. Soc. Walnut Av. Ch., Mrs. Esther G. + Thomas, _Jubilee Offering_ 5.00 + ------ 114.41 + Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. 161.73 + Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 28.16 + Campello. South Cong. Ch. 50.00 + Charlton City. Andrus March, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Concord. Cong. Ch., adl. .50 + Cummington. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Curtisville. Cong. Ch., 17; Mite Boxes Sab. Sch., + Cong. Ch., 18.88, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 35.88 + Dalton. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. 25.00 + Douglas. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Easthampton. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 27.41 + Enfield. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Fall River. Frank L. Andrews, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Fall River. Central Cong. Ch., Ladies' Benef. + Soc. and Y. L. Aux., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Foxboro. "M. N. P.," 30 of which to const. MRS. + ESTHER N. CADWELL L. M. 50.00 + Gardner. W. B. M. Aux., by Mrs. E. A. Rolfe 50.00 + Gloucester. Trinity Cong. Ch. 40.00 + Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch., 30, to const. + REV. LEON D. BLISS L. M; First Cong. Ch., Sunday + Sch. Class and Other Friends, 30, to const. MRS. + EMILY A. VAN LENNEP L. M. (50 of which _for Share + Jubilee Fund_) 60.00 + Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., 41.24; Mrs. Dwight + R. Tyler, 12.00 53.24 + Greenfield. First Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for + Alaska M._ 5.06 + Haverhill. Mrs. Caroline Crowell, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Holliston. First Cong. Ch. 49.05 + Holliston. S. S. Class of Boys, _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 2.00 + Huntington. Rev. Edward C. Haynes 1.56 + Hyde Park. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 + Lenox. Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, 50; Mrs. Geo. + Westinghouse, 50; George Higginson, 50, _for + Life Membership_ and _for 3 Shares Jubilee Fund_ 150.00 + Littleton. Ladies' Sewing Circle 14.00 + Lowell. Eliot Ch., W. H. M. A., Box Sch. Supplies + _for Tougaloo U._ + Lynn. Chestnut St. Cong. Ch. 2.15 + Lyonsville. "A Friend of Missions" 5.00 + Malden. Mrs. Ellen M. Wellman (50 of which _for + Share Jubilee Fund_) 100.00 + Middleboro. Thomas P. Carleton, _for Gospels, + for Colored Children_ 1.50 + Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Theo. Student Aid, + Howard U._ 25.00 + Millers Falls. First Cong. Ch. 2.50 + Mittineague. Southworth Co., Box of Paper _for + Talladega C._ + Newburyport. First Cong. Ch. 17.31 + Newton. Eliot Ch. 100.00 + Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. 85.66 + Northampton. "Friends," 15; Miss M. F. Andrews, 10, + _for Theo. Student Aid, Howard U._ 25.00 + North Amherst. North Cong. Ch., Martha E. Harrington, + 20; Frank W. Harrington, 5 25.00 + North Andover. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + North Andover. Mrs. Wm. A. Russell, _for Theo. + Student Aid, Harvard U._ 25.00 + North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.52 + North Wilbraham. Grace Union Ch. 18.10 + Oxford. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MISS MABEL E. + TYLER and MISS LUCY J. KING L. M.'s 40.00 + Palmer. Second Cong. Ch., _for Theo. Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 67.68 + Princeton. First Cong. Ch. 70.00 + Richmond. King's Daughters, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 + Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Springfield. Edward O. Sutton, 40; Faith Ch., by + W. I. Morse, Treas., 12 52.00 + Sunderland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Taunton. West Cong. Soc. 4.11 + Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 21.78 + Wareham. "Two Friends" 15.00 + Wellesley. "Two Friends," _for Two Shares Jubilee Fund_ 100.00 + Wellesley. Mrs. C. A. Ransom, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Wellesley Hills. Cong. Ch. 38.00 + Whitinsville. Mrs. M. A Bachelor, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Winchester. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 + West Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Worcester. Central Ch., 125; Union Ch., 67.70; + Piedmont Ch. (quarterly), 30 222.70 + Worcester. Sab. Sch., Plymouth Cong. Ch. + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 87.83 + Worcester. Park Cong. Ch., _for Theo. Student Aid, + Howard U._ 5.00 + Worcester. "A Friend." by N. Scammon 10.00 + Worcester. "A Friend in Mass." 35.00 + Woman's Home Missionary Association of Mass. and R. I., + Miss Annie C. Bridgman, Treas: + Auburndale Aux. 25.00 + Plymouth Aux., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + ------ 75.00 + --------- + $3,253.23 + + ESTATES. + Boston. Estate of Lucinda J. Hartshorn 747.87 + Boston. Estate of Elizabeth C. Parkhurst 15.00 + --------- + $4,016.10 + + +RHODE ISLAND, $120.49. + + Newport. United Con. Ch. (quarterly) $13.53 + Pawtucket. Pawtucket Cong. Ch. 90.00 + Providence. N. W. Williams, 15; Y. P. S. C. E. + of North Cong. Ch., 1.96 16.96 + + +CONNECTICUT, $2,297.56. + + Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. $10.00 + Bristol. Mrs. S. P. Newell and Mrs. Harry W. Barnes, + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Clinton. L. L. Hull 10.00 + Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 + Danielson. Mrs. H. N. Clemons 1.00 + East Canaan. Cong. Ch. 5.61 + Farmington. Cong. Ch. 200.00 + Farmington. "A Friend," _for Indian M._ 50.00 + Glastonbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 25, _for + Student Aid, Tougaloo U._, and 25 _for Student + Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 50.00 + Guilford. Miss Clara I. Sage, _for Two Shares Jubilee Fund_ 100.00 + Hartford. Wethersfield Av. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Kensington. Mrs. S. M. Cowles, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Kensington. Cong. Ch., Coll. at Rally Meeting 6.30 + Killingworth. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Lisbon. The Sunbeam Mission Circle, _for Student Aid, + A. G. Sch., Moorhead, Miss._ 6.00 + Manchester. Second Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 57.05 + Manchester. Miss M. H. Hilliard, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Middletown. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. Useful Articles; + Cash, 2; _for Talladega C._ 2.00 + Milford. Plymouth Ch., 20.28; First Cong. Ch., 14.02 34.30 + Morris. Cong. Soc. 9.20 + New Britain. First Ch. of Christ 125.00 + New Britain. Union Service, by Rev. J. W. Cooper, D.D., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.68 + New Haven. Mrs. James H. Foy, 25; F. R. Bliss, 5, + _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._ 30.00 + New London. Rev. James W. Bixler, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + New London. First Ch. of Christ 45.44 + New Milford. Grace H. Turrill 5.00 + Northfield. Cong. Ch., 18.26; C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 1.08 19.34 + North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Old Lyme. Cong. Ch. 6.22 + Plainfield. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. 9.67 + Plainville. "Church Member," _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Prospect. B. B. Brown, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Putnam. Edgar Clark .50 + Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 17.24 + Rockville. G. L. Grant 2.00 + Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 60.40 + Shelton. Cong. Ch. 24.18 + Southington. Cong. Ch. 17.41 + Stony Creek. Ch. of Christ, _Jubilee Offering_ 12.00 + Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. 80.78 + Wapping. Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch. 11.49 + Waterbury. Mrs. Ruth W. Carter, deceased, Trust Fund, + by Samuel Holmes, _for Douglass Hall, Cappahosic, Va._ 500.00 + Woodbury. First Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 16.41 + West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 98.41; + Rev. H. A. Russell, 5. 103.41 + Weston. Norfield Y. P. S. C. E., by Anna E. Fitch, + Cor. Sec. 5.00 + + Woman's Congregational Home Missionary Union of + Connecticut, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, Treas.: + Bridgeport. No. Ch. Aux. + _for Grand View, Tenn._ 1.43 + Cromwell, Ladies of Cong. Ch., + _for Thomasville Sch._ 13.50 + Hartford, Friend in Asylum Hill Ch., + _for Fort Berthold, N. D._ 2.00 + Kensington, Aux., _for Share Jubilee + Fund_ and to const. MRS. S. A. + HART L. M. 50.00 + Richville. Union Ch., Jr. C. E. Soc., + _for Grand View, Tenn._ 10.00 + ------- 76.93 + ---------- + $2,197.56 + + ESTATE. + + Clinton. Estate of Harvey Stevens, by R. R. + Stannard, Trustee 100.00 + ---------- + $2,297.56 + + +NEW YORK, $3,082.77. + + Angola. Cong. Ch., 10; Y. P. S. C. E., 2 $12.00 + Angola. Miss A. H. Ames 5.00 + Binghamton. First Cong. Ch., Bible Sch., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 + Brooklyn. Mrs. Julia E. Brick, _for The + Joseph K. Brick Normal and Agricultural School, + Enfield, N. C._ 2,000.00 + Brooklyn. Lewis Av. Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. Miss'y + Soc., _for Salary of Teacher, Indian M._, 75; + Sab. Sch., Central Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., + Santee, Neb._, 37.50; Rev. J. M. Whiton, Ph.D., + _for Whiton Prizes, Talladega C._, 15; Bushwick + Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 5 132.50 + Cold Brook. Mrs. A. J. Burt, _for Gloucester Sch. + Cappahosic, Va._ 2.00 + Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Danby. Cong Ch. 5.00 + East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc 25.00 + Elbridge. First Presb. Ch 5.80 + New York. W. E. Dodge, Educational Fund, _for + Theo. Dept., Talladega C._ 100.00 + New York. Miss D. E. Emerson, _for repairs, + Moorehead, Miss._ 20.00 + New York. (Tremont) Trinity Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Northfield. Y. P. S. C. E., by W. S. Webb 9.96 + Pattersonville. Mrs. Freeman Milmine, _for Talladega C._ 5.00 + Perry Centre. "In Memoriam Martha B. Sheldon," + by Milton A. Barber, _for Debt_ 75.00 + Phoenix. L. J. Carrier, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 3.00 + Rushville. Rev. F. T. Hoover, Bbl. Potatoes, _for + Greenwood, S. C._ + Saratoga Springs. Mrs. E. B. Ripley, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Sherburne. Miss Fannie Rexford, _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + Sherburne. Mrs. J. C. Harrington 5.00 + Syracuse. Geddes Cong. Ch. 13.26 + Utica. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central + Ch., New Orleans, La._ 5.00 + Westmoreland. Miss S. A. Dann 2.00 + West Winfield. "G. W." 10.00 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of New York, by + Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, Treas.: + Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Ch., S. S. Class + C, _for Student Aid, Lincoln Acad._ 3.50 + Carthage. W. M. S. 5.00 + Clifton Springs. "Mrs. A. G. W.," + _for Jubilee Fund_ 8.00 + Morrisville. C. E., _for Central + Ch., New Orleans, La._ 5.00 + Rutland. Aux. 8.75 + Syracuse. Danforth Ch., L. U., + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 + ------- 40.25 + ---------- + $2,582.77 + + ESTATE. + + Amsterdam. Estate of David Cady: T. H. Benton + Crane, Executor 500.00 + ---------- + $3,082.77 + + +NEW JERSEY, $343.92. + + Chester. J. H. Cramer $30.00 + East Orange, First Cong. Ch., Y. P S. C. E., + _for Grand View, Tenn._ 25.00 + Hoboken. John E. Merrill, _Jubilee Offering_ 10.00 + Lyons Farms. Sab. Sch. Presb. Ch. 22.92 + Orange. The Armstrong Club, _for Gloucester + Sch., Cappahosic, Va._ 5.00 + Newark. First Cong. Ch., Jun. Y. P. S. C. E., + _for Indian M._ 5.75 + Plainfield. Mrs. Mary E. Whiton to const. + MIRIAM F. CHOATE L. M. 30.00 + Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch. 19.31 + Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. + (50.00 of which _for Share Jubilee Fund_) 150.00 + Vineland. Jun. C. E. Soc., First Bapt. Ch., + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. + Association, by Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.: + + Plainfield. Cong. Ch., W. H. M. S., + _for Salary_ 25.00 + -------- 25.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $75.00 + + Germantown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Philadelphia. W. Graham Tyler 25.00 + + +OHIO, $550.80. + + Akron. First Cong. Ch., adl. 60.00 + Ashtabula. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morris, _Jubilee Offering_ 2.00 + Atwater. "A Friend" 100.00 + Bellevue. S. W. Boise, 10; First Cong. Ch., 4 14.00 + Cleveland. Bethlehem Cong. Ch., 38.60; Euclid Ave. + Cong. Ch., 25.00; C. E. Soc., East Madison Ave. + Cong. Ch., 5.00 68.60 + Cleveland. Hough Ave. Cong. Ch., "A Friend," + _for Mountain Work_ 1.00 + Columbus. Rev. B. Talbot, _for Debt_ 1.00 + Cuyahoga Falls. First Cong. Ch. 18.65 + Dover. Mrs. R. Hall 5.00 + Hudson. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Lodi. Cong. Ch. 7.17 + North Bloomfield. Dea. and Mrs. J. M. Knapp, + _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._ 5.00 + Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., 39.93; Mrs. Hannah + S. Lewis, 5.00 44.93 + Oberlin. Mrs. M. A. Keep, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ in part 25.00 + Painesville. Class of Girls, Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., + _for Macon, Ga._ 3.20 + Rootstown. W. J. Dickinson 20.00 + Senecaville. Rev. Evans Thompson 1.00 + Tallmadge. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. 24.08 + Thorndyke. Adelaide E. Whetmore 2.00 + Windham. First Cong. Ch. 4.30 + + Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Geo. + B. Brown, Treas.: + + Austinburg. W. M. S., _for Salaries_ 15.00 + Chardon. Y. P. S. C. E., _for + Salary_ 3.00 + Cincinnati. Walnut Hills, W. H. M. S., + _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Cleveland. First, W. H. M. S., + _Jubilee Offering_ 5.00 + Cleveland. Pilgrim J. C. E., 6 + _for Salaries_; 3.20, _for Student + Aid, Dorchester Acad._ 9.20 + Dayton. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Salary_ 3.00 + North Fairfield. W. M. S., 2.50; + S. S., 1, _for Salaries_ 3.50 + Oberlin. First, L. A. S., _for + Salary_ 10.00 + Ravenna. F. & H. M. S., + _for Salary_ 10.17 + Springfield. First, Y. P. S. C. E., + _for Salary_ 5.00 + Wauseon. C. W. A., _Jubilee Offering_ 15.00 + Zanesville. W. M. S., _for Salary_ 5.00 + ------- 133.87 + + +INDIANA, $20.50. + + Fort Wayne. Plymouth Cong. Ch., _for Freedmen and Indian M._ $20.50 + + +ILLINOIS, $616.01. + + Aurora. New England Cong. Ch. $4.01 + Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote 5.00 + Canton. Cong. Ch. 27.63 + Clifton. Cong. Ch. 1.90 + Elburn. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Elgin. Mrs. M. C. Town, _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Evanston. Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Galesburg. Central Cong. Ch., Mrs. Martha A. + Hitchcock, in part _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 25.00 + Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ, 67.91; Sab. Sch. Cong. + Ch. of Christ, 25.71 93.62 + Glen Ellyn. First Cong. Ch. 6.20 + Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 12.95 + LaGrange. Cong. Ch. 14.82 + Mazon. Cong. Ch. 6.71 + Moline. Cong. Ch. 45.00 + Normal. First Cong. Ch. 6.50 + Oak Park. Second Cong. Ch. 30.84 + Oneida. Cong. C. E. Soc. 2.50 + Paxton. Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 5.00 + Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens 2.50 + Princeton. Cong. Ch. 17.98 + Rio. Sab. Sch., Second Cong. Ch. 2.15 + Rockford. Sab. Sch., Second Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Sannemin. Mrs. M. E. Knowlton 1.00 + Stark. Missionary Soc., by Mrs. Wm. Kleffer, Treas. 4.00 + Sterling. Mrs. Catharine McKinney 10.00 + Toulon. Miss Addie M. Smith, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00 + ----. Cash .50 + + Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. L. A. + Field, Treas.: + Chicago. New England, W. M. S. 31.70 + Chicago. Lincoln Park, W. M. S. 5.00 + Lockport. W. M. S. 4.25 + Peoria. Plymouth, Jr., C. E. .30 + Rockford. First, W. M. S. 4.95 + Saint Charles. W. M. S. 5.00 + ------- 51.20 + -------- + $516.01 + + ESTATE. + + Freeport. Estate of L. A. Warner, by A. C. Warner, Executor 100.00 + -------- + $616.01 + + +MICHIGAN, $78.44. + + Benzonia. First Cong. Ch. 9.00 + Hancock. First Cong. Ch. 39.98 + Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for + Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 6.85 + Olivet. Olivet Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00 + Saint Joseph. First Cong. Ch. 5.61 + Vicksburg. Rev. J. and Mrs. L. A. Van Antwerp 2.00 + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. + Grabill, Treas.: + Detroit. First Ch., Primary Dept., + _for Chapel Building, Chinese M._ 2.00 + Litchfield. L. M. S., _for Salary_ 10.00 + ------- 12.00 + + +IOWA, $249.34. + + Alden. Cong. Ch. 2.95 + Algona. First Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., 25; Mrs. H. E. + Stacey, 10; _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00 + Anita. Ladies' M. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 + Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 3.70 + Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch. 50.00 + Council Bluffs. N. P Dodge, _for DeF. Mem. Chapel, + Talladega C._ 25.00 + Danville. Lee W. Mix. 5.00 + Hartwick. Cong. Ch. 3.44 + Lewis. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Otho. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Ottumwa. First Cong. Ch. 15.36 + Waverly. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Wayne. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + + Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, Miss Belle L. + Bentley, Treas: + Decorah. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. + _for Indian M., Salary_ 1.52 + Grinnell. W. H. M. U. 2.18 + Iowa City. W. H. M. U. 11.25 + Lake View. L. M. S. 2.50 + Mason City. Y. P. S. C. E., + _for Indian M., Salary_ 4.00 + Muscatine. Jr. C. E., _for + Talladega C._ 5.00 + Old Man's Creek. Cong. Ch. 5.39 + Old Man's Creek. Sab. Sch. + _for Indian M., Salary_ 2.75 + Osage. W. M. S. 28.80 + ------ 63.39 + + +WISCONSIN, $246.60. + + Beloit. First Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 62.75 + Delavan. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Durand. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 3.50; Pilgrim Cong. Ch., + L. M. Soc., 5.00 8.50 + Eau Claire. First Cong. Ch. 37.50 + Fulton. Rev. A. S. Reid 2.00 + Janesville. Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch., _for Student + Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00 + Lake Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 16.00 + Oconomowoc. Cong. Ch. 2.16 + Sparta. Cong. Ch. 27.10 + Sun Prairie. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, + Talladega C._ 3.00 + West Salem. Cong. Ch. to const. CLYDE M. SHANE L. M., + 32.77; Cong. Ch. C. E. Soc., 9.06 41.83 + + Wisconsin Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, + Treas.: + Appleton. W. H. M. U. 17.09 + Arena. W. H. M. U. 1.45 + Eau Claire. W. H. M. U. 4.00 + Stoughton. S. S. Birthday Box 3.50 + Sun Prairie. W. H. M. U. 1.72 + Wauwatosa. W. H. M. U. 6.00 + Wauwatosa. W. H. M. U., _for Debt_ 5.00 + ------ 38.76 + + +MINNESOTA, $117.12. + + Alexandria. First Cong. Ch. 11.95 + Austin. Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch. 5.04 + Minneapolis. Como Av. Cong. Ch. 5.17 + New Richland. Cong. Ch. 1.58 + Robbinsdale. Cong. Ch. 8.82 + Winona. Cong. Ch. 32.00 + Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. 2.56 + -------- + $67.12 + + ESTATE. + + Hawley. Estate of Adna Colburn, Sen., by Walter + Tanner, Executor 50.00 + -------- + $117.12 + + +MISSOURI, $3.00. + + Saint Louis. Bethlehem Cong. Ch. 3.00 + + +NEBRASKA, $38.30. + + Linwood. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Fairmont. Cong. Ch. 4.30 + Santee Agency. Young Woman's Missionary Society of + Santee Normal Training Sch., by Mary T. Morris, _for Debt_ 20.00 + + +NORTH DAKOTA, $3.00. + + Woman's Home Missionary Union of North Dakota, by Mrs. + J. M. Fisher, Treas.: + Cummings. Mission Band 3.00 + + +SOUTH DAKOTA, $57.00. + + Beresford. Cong. Ch., 2.65; W. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 2.35 5.00 + Yankton. Cong. Ch., _for Share Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Pioneer. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + +COLORADO, $6.00. + + Fort Logan, Charlotte E. Parish 6.00 + + +ARIZONA, $2.00. + + Nogales. Soc. of C. E., by Mrs. O. E. Mix 2.00 + + +CALIFORNIA, $59.25. + + Avalon. Rev. Ewing Ogden Tade 2.50 + Lodi. Cong. Ch. 4.50 + East Los Angeles. Mrs. Tabitha I. Cushman, _for Share + Jubilee Fund_ 50.00 + Woman's Home Missionary Union of Southern Cal., by Mrs. + Mary M. Smith, Treas.: + San Jacinto. L. A. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 2.25 + + +OREGON, $5.00. + + Ashland. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + +WASHINGTON, $10.06. + + Snohomish. Cong. Ch. 10.06 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $258.22. + + Washington. Rev. J. E. Rankin, Prof. J. L. Ewell and + Prof. Isaac Clark, 100; First Cong. Ch., 75; Prof. + J. L. Ewell, 32.61; Prof. Isaac Clark, 18.61; Rev. + J. E. Rankin, 12; Mount Pleasant Cong. Ch., 10; Rev. + H. P. Johnson, D.D., 10, _for Theo. Student Aid, + Howard U._ 258.22 + + +MARYLAND, $100.00. + + Baltimore. D. D. Mallory, _for Gloucester Sch., + Cappahosic, Va._ 100.00 + + +VIRGINIA, $3.50. + + Cappahosic. John Boyd, _for Gloucester Sch._ 1.00 + Saint Stephen's Ch. Rev. W. H. Taylor, _for Gloucester Sch., + Cappahosic, Va._ 2.50 + + +KENTUCKY, $10.47. + + Campton. Rev. J. W. Doane, _Jubilee Offering_ 5.00 + Evarts. Cong. Ch., 2.05; Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch., 42c. 2.47 + Red Ash. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $3.25. + + Woman's Missionary Union of North Carolina, by Miss + A. E. Farrington, Treas.: + Oaks. Free-Will Workers 2.00 + Oaks. Jr. C. E. S., _for Indian M._ 1.25 + ------- 3.25 + + +SOUTH CAROLINA, $5.00. + + Charleston. Miss I. C. Chapin, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 + + +GEORGIA, $5.50. + + McIntosh. Rev. J. A. Jones, _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._ 5.00 + Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke .50 + + +ALABAMA, $18.84. + + Ironaton. Rev. P. O. Wailes, _for De F. Mem. Chapel_, 4; + _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._, 2. 6.00 + Talladega. Abraham Lincoln Cent. Soc., by Mrs. E. G. + Snell, Treas. 12.84 + + +MISSISSIPPI, $20.50. + + Moorhead. Miss E. L. Parsons, _for Moorhead_ 20.00 + Tougaloo. F. H. Ball, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ .50 + + +----, $17.25. + + ----. Anonymous, _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + ----. D. H. Holmes 5.00 + ----. "A Friend" 2.25 + + +HAWAII, 200.00. + + Kohala. "A Friend" 200.00 + + + ----------- + Donations $12,758.19 + Estates 1,737.68 + ----------- + $14,495.87 + + +INCOME, $335.00. + + Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 202.00 + Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00 + General Endowment Fund 50.00 + General Endowment Fund, _for Freedmen_ 7.50 + LeMoyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 11.25 + Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 3.75 + Tuthill King Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 7.50 + Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 3.00 + -------- 335.00 + + +TUITION, $1,294.14. + + Evarts, Ky. Tuition 25.28 + Lexington, Ky. Tuition 17.05 + Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition 151.75 + Nashville, Tenn. Tuition 281.45 + Beaufort, N. C. Tuition 10.50 + Charleston, S. C. Tuition 350.15 + Greenwood, S. C. Tuition 71.57 + Marietta, Ga. Tuition .45 + Talladega, Ala. Tuition 282.54 + New Orleans, La. Tuition 13.00 + Austin, Tex. Tuition 90.40 + -------- 1,294.14 + ---------- + +Total for July $16,125.01 + ========== + + +SUMMARY + + Donations $150,640.92 + Estates 80,788.22 + ------------ + $231,429.14 + + Income 11,386.51 + + Tuition 38,514.36 + ------------ + Total from Oct. 1, to July 31 $281,330.01 + ============ + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + + Subscriptions for July $19.25 + Previously acknowledged 442.10 + -------- + Total $461.35 + + + + H.W. 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