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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 1,
+January, 1896, by Various
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+Title: The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 1, January, 1896
+
+Author: Various
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+Release Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #26022]
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JAN. 1896 ***
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+The American Missionary
+
+JANUARY, 1896
+
+Vol. L
+
+No. 1
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+  THE NEW YEAR,                                                   1
+  PAMPHLETS AND SPEECHES,                                         2
+  JUBILEE BELL BANK,                                              3
+  MEETING WOMAN'S BUREAU--CLIPPINGS,                              3
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+  ENDEAVOR TESTIMONIES,                                           4
+
+
+IN MEMORIAM.
+
+  PROF. GEO. L. WHITE,                                            6
+  MISS ADA M. SPRAGUE,                                            7
+  MRS. N. D. MERRIMAN--MISS LILLIAN BEYER,                        8
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  ANNUAL MEETING--REPORT OF SECRETARY,                            9
+  ADDRESS OF MRS. SYDNEY STRONG,                                 13
+  ADDRESS OF MISS ANNETTE P. BRICKETT,                           15
+  EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS, MISS H. S. LOVELAND,                    18
+  ADDRESS OF MRS. HARRIS,                                        20
+  EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. WOODBURY,                        21
+
+
+WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS                                      23
+
+
+RECEIPTS,                                                        25
+
+
+  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.     JANUARY, 1896.     No. 1.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+1846.          THE NEW YEAR.          1896.
+
+Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-six brings in the Jubilee Year of the
+American Missionary Association. What marked changes have taken place
+between 1846 and 1896, even in the range of events with which the
+Association is connected! Then the great gold discoveries in
+California had not been made; then little was done by the Church or
+the Government for the Indian; then the Southern mountaineers were
+hunting and fishing, innocent of schools and railroads; then slavery
+dominated the land, oppressing the slave and aiming to crush free
+thought and speech in the North.
+
+Now how changed! As to slavery, for example. The war and emancipation
+have written a new page on our national history. But emancipation only
+battered down the prison doors and sent forth the millions of
+ignorant, helpless and vicious people--a menace to the Republic and a
+reproach to the Church, if left in their degraded condition, but
+presenting a most hopeful field for humane and Christian effort. The
+facts made an appeal for immediate and effective work and the American
+Missionary Association sprang into the task. Hundreds of refined and
+Christian women lent their aid and toiled in the uplifting of the
+needy, amid the scorn and hatred of the white people, while the
+churches and benevolent friends responded with the means. The
+Association has followed up this Christlike beginning by the planting
+of permanent institutions--schools and churches--and the good effects
+are becoming apparent in the multitude of industrious, prosperous and
+educated colored people, the hopeful and helpful leaders of their
+race. But their advancement only reveals the yet unreached masses
+behind them as hopeful if promptly met, and as helpless if neglected,
+as those that preceded them.
+
+This good work is at its crowning point--to push forward is victory,
+to halt is disaster. But the Association feels the pressure of the
+hard times. It owes a debt of nearly $100,000, and needs four times
+as much to sustain the work now in hand. Nevertheless, there is no
+cause for discouragement in all this. There is vast wealth in the
+nation, and a large share of it is in the hands of those who are more
+or less directly connected with the Christian Church, and who are
+liberal in their gifts when worthy objects are fairly brought to their
+attention. It is true that there are those whose resources are
+restricted by the present stagnation in business. This, however, gives
+the opportunity for Christian self-denial. The relief for imperiled
+Christian work will come if those who are prospered will give of their
+abundance, while those less favored will imitate the Macedonians of
+whom Paul speaks, whose "deep poverty abounded unto the riches of
+their liberality." Self-denial is not a lost virtue in the Church of
+Christ.
+
+We make our appeal for relief during this Jubilee year. Already large
+correspondence has been had with pastors of churches and others, and
+the responses are very cheering, giving promise of most efficient
+helpfulness. We hope, therefore, that our next Annual Meeting--our
+fiftieth anniversary, to be held in Boston--will have the enthusiasm
+of a Jubilee deliverance from the bondage of hampering limitations,
+and give a new impulse to our labors for the emancipation of those
+still in the bondage of ignorance and vice.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PAMPHLETS AND SPEECHES.
+
+Our recent annual meeting has furnished a large number of papers and
+addresses, covering, in a wide range, the various parts of the work of
+this Association. Some of these have already appeared in the December
+number of THE MISSIONARY, and a portion of them will be reprinted in
+pamphlet or leaflet form, especially those from the field workers or
+which relate directly to field operations. Besides these, some of the
+valuable addresses not thus printed will be issued in pamphlet form,
+and all of them are freely offered to our constituents on application!
+We give below a somewhat complete list of these documents with the
+name of the author and the title of the address:
+
+  The Freedman Truly Free Only by Christian Education: Pres. MERRILL E.
+    GATES.
+  Ownership and Service: Secretary F. P. WOODBURY.
+  The Indian Factor in the Indian Problem: Secretary C. J. RYDER.
+  Last Decade of A. M. A. Work in the South: Dist. Secretary JOS. E.
+    ROY.
+  Christianization of the "Inferior Races:" President J. B. ANGELL.
+  The Chinese in America an Element in Christianizing China: Rev.
+    WILLARD SCOTT, D.D.
+  Plea for Hope and Courage: Rev. W. E. C. WRIGHT, D.D.
+  Educational Work in the South: President W. G. BALLANTINE.
+  Mountain School Work: Prof. C. M. STEVENS.
+  After Twenty-five years in Negro Education: Prof. A. K. SPENCE.
+  The Financial Problem: Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D.
+  Indian Work: Rev. G. W. REED.
+  Story of a Young Indian: JONAS SPOTTED-BEAR.
+  Reciprocal Interests and Responsibilities of the Indian and White
+    Man: Rev. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, D.D.
+  Southern Church Missions: Rev. H. M. LADD, D.D.
+  Progress and Needs of the Negro Race: Rev. GEORGE W. MOORE.
+  New Mission Churches: Rev. GEORGE H. HAINES.
+  Brothers and a Story: Rev. JOSIAH STRONG, D.D.
+  A Plea for the Chinese Work of the A. M. A.: Rev. J. K. MCLEAN, D.D.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JUBILEE BELL BANK.
+
+The American Missionary Association has prepared a Bell Bank for the
+use of Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavor Societies, etc., which it is
+ready to distribute freely on application.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S BUREAU.
+
+As usual, the January number of the MISSIONARY is devoted to the
+addresses and papers delivered at the meeting of the Bureau of Woman's
+Work, at Detroit, Mich. We are sure our readers will be gratified with
+the reports which we give of these very telling papers and speeches.
+They set forth distinctly the work of this Bureau and the needs and
+prospects of the various peoples to whom its labors are devoted. The
+Bureau is commending itself more and more as a valuable assistant in
+reaching the hearts and moving the sympathies of the Christian women
+of our churches, thus securing enlarged contributions.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CLIPPINGS FROM FIELD CORRESPONDENCE.
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+From Allen Normal School, Thomasville, Ga.:
+
+Every year of experience in the work strengthens my conviction of the
+uncounted value of the work done in the American Missionary
+Association schools in just the matter of fitting young men and women
+to go to these country places, to carry to the multitudes of their own
+race, whose lives are miserably darkened by ignorance and
+superstition, the light which they have received.
+
+From Lincoln School, Meridian, Miss.:
+
+God is giving us great encouragement. No year has yet brought us as
+great pleasure as this in seeing the fruits of our work. Eight of our
+last year's graduates entered Tougaloo and Fisk. Better than this--for
+we do not expect the greater part of our pupils will enter higher
+institutions--more than forty of our students are now teaching. Nearly
+every school in Kemper County is supplied with teachers from our
+school. Several of our young men are seriously considering the going
+as mission teachers into the darkest part of the great Black Belt.
+
+
+THE MOUNTAIN FIELD.
+
+From one of our mountain academies comes the following good message
+that will interest all the loyal Endeavorers throughout the land:
+
+"Last Sunday at our Young People's meeting a vigorous beginning was
+made to the organization of a Christian Endeavor Society. Young men
+active in religious meetings made the move and organized."
+
+The following lines are used in one of the Sunday-schools in
+Connecticut, which has recently given its birthday pennies to work
+among the mountain children in the South. Their contribution goes to
+help provide a building for the Christian instruction of a large
+number of Highland lads and lassies in Tennessee. We thoroughly
+appreciate gifts that come with the evident spirit of consecration
+that accompanies these birthday pennies:
+
+    Jesus sat beside the treasury,
+    Saw the pennies as they came,
+    Knew the hands that love to bring them
+    For the sake of His dear name.
+    Jesus, bless the ones _we_ bring Thee,
+    Give them something sweet to do;
+    May they help someone to love Thee;
+    Jesus, may we love Thee, too.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Chinese.
+
+
+ENDEAVOR TESTIMONIES.
+
+BY REV. W. C. POND, D.D.
+
+It seems to me that nothing else should so much interest the friends
+of our Chinese Mission, as to get glimpses of the inner life, the
+Christian purposes, the ways of thinking which characterize those whom
+we report as giving evidence of conversion, and, perhaps, not
+otherwise can such glimpses be given than by jotting down some of the
+testimonies borne by them in their Y. P. S. C. E. meetings.
+
+I myself have heard very many such which I have wished I could
+reproduce in the hearing of those whose gifts sustain our work, but
+that I may not seem to have gleaned the remarkable ones from the
+whole field, I will take only those recently reported to me from our
+Los Angeles Mission by its faithful and efficient teacher, Mrs. Rice.
+It must be noted that these were all made under the embarrassments
+attendant upon speaking in English, to them a strange and but
+half-learned tongue.
+
+1. "I enjoy C. E. very much. When you in trouble, your friend let you
+have money; when you get money you pay him back. So friends and
+teachers help us. Now they want us to give few words. They like to
+know how much I know Christ. Another thing: China never show us the
+way to Heaven. This country help us. God gave his only Son. We ought
+to thank Him and give him our words."
+
+2. "If you in strange place and look for hotel, may-be get in bad one;
+some friend show you good one, be very thankful. Christ show way to
+Heaven. _We_ be very thankful."
+
+3. "Ten days ago I read in paper--C. E. Society started in China. I
+felt very glad. When I visited China few years ago, did not know about
+it. I tell few friends words about great Creator of world. He made
+everything. He made good and evil. Some people ask me why God make
+evil. I tell him so people choose. I used to choose evil things,
+worship idols, and such things. Then I come Mission school, learn to
+sing; best of all, read Bible, and I read Jesus is the way, the truth
+and the life, and I choose good. I am glad I know Jesus is the way."
+
+4. An Exposition, Matt. 16:19. "I will give thee the keys," etc.
+"Don't lose your key. If you lose your key you can't get home. Not
+take care [_i. e._ carelessly] I lost my key for P. O. box. Had to ask
+for another. Have great trouble for lose your key, but if you do, ask
+your Father in heaven. He give you another."
+
+5. "I will explain how to go to heaven. Remember how I found the way
+to cook. First I make some cake. I not know how much eggs and how much
+sugar. Sometimes good and sometimes bad. After while I ask friend all
+about make cake. He good cook. He tell me how much eggs, how much
+flour, and how long bake. Then I have no trouble. So ask Jesus how to
+go to heaven. He tell me and I have no trouble."
+
+6. "We, brethren, go out all day, working hard. When it come night, we
+all come here to our home [_i. e._ the Mission House]. _It like fader
+and moder to us._"
+
+7. One of our brethren was greatly moved one night over a letter just
+received from his father acknowledging the receipt of $20, which he
+had sent in accordance with his custom of remitting regularly toward
+the support of his parents. His father asked him to send more in
+order that he might "buy him a new son who would worship ancestors."
+He said: "I am his only child. My father rather I smoke opium, gamble
+and drink, only so I give up Jesus and serve ancestors. I am not that
+way. I never give up my religion so long as I live. I did explain to
+them to be a Christian very much, but they not want to change. I wish
+I never got that letter. I do pray much for them. I pray for them
+every night."
+
+Teachers in any of our missions who succeed in persuading their pupils
+to speak at the Endeavor meetings in English will all recognize in the
+above testimonies counterparts of such as they have often heard. I am
+not surprised to have one of them, who has recently entered into this
+service, write: "The longer I teach the better I like the work and
+realize the grand possibilities in it. Oh! if only I can bring my
+scholars to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ!" She is doing this,
+and so are all the others in our noble band.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+In Memoriam.
+
+
+PROFESSOR GEORGE L. WHITE.
+
+Twenty-four years ago a choir of colored singers, young men and women,
+went forth from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., and introduced a
+peculiar variety of songs and music, which they and their successors
+have carried with _eclat_ well-nigh round the world. They not only
+awoke the enthusiasm of vast audiences in the large cities of America
+and Europe, but they were invited to sing before the mightiest
+monarchs and the most distinguished people on the other side of the
+water. These singers were endowed richly with the sweet and mellow
+voices that nature has given to their race, but they had also a
+training under a most skillful and magnetic teacher, Professor George
+L. White. He not only had genius as a teacher of music, but a profound
+faith in God that prompted him to undertake a seemingly hopeless
+enterprise, without adequate means and with little encouragement from
+others.
+
+He was born in Cadiz, N. Y., in 1833, and was a member of the 73d Ohio
+regiment. He fought in the battles of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville,
+and his life was always characterized by a spirit of loyal devotion to
+his country. At the close of the war he held office in the Freedmen's
+Bureau and was appointed to be the first treasurer of Fisk University.
+After training his singers, he started with them on their journey,
+stopping in Cincinnati and in Oberlin where they were welcomed by the
+first National Congregational Council; thence eastward, scarcely
+paying expenses, until they reached Brooklyn, where Henry Ward Beecher
+gave them an audience completely packing his great church, thus
+indorsing them for their future career. Their first trip through this
+country netted $20,000, and a second "campaign" in Great Britain and
+on the Continent was even more successful. As the result of all the
+efforts of the Jubilee Singers at home and abroad under different
+leaders, nearly $150,000 was realized, which was expended in grounds
+and buildings for Fisk University--an eloquent though silent monument
+to their remarkable undertaking. In 1881 Mr. White, while at
+Chautauqua with a band of singers, fell from a platform and suffered
+injuries from which he never wholly recovered. For several years he
+has been at Sage College, Ithaca, N. Y., where he has performed a work
+of great personal influence and endeared himself to all those with
+whom he came in contact. Mr. White died suddenly November 9, being
+stricken with paralysis. Services were held in the chapel of Sage
+College, and also at Fisk University, where some of the original band
+of singers rendered some of the old Jubilee hymns. He was buried at
+Fredonia, N. Y., and the interment service was held in the
+Presbyterian church. A useful career of a consecrated man has
+terminated amid the sorrows of many friends who yet do not mourn
+without hope.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS ADA M. SPRAGUE.
+
+Another of our faithful workers has finished her work and gone to her
+rest. On the 23d of November Miss Ada M. Sprague, assistant in the
+normal department of the Ballard School at Macon, Ga., breathed her
+last after a brief illness of two weeks. She leaves a widowed mother
+and twin sister. She has gone in the prime of her young womanhood and
+in the midst of her usefulness. But she has left behind the example of
+a consecrated life which will endure.
+
+Miss Sprague was born in Keene, Ohio, November 15, 1863. She was of
+New England ancestry. Her first experience in teaching was in a
+country school near her home, where she was very successful. She
+afterward went to college in Wooster, Ohio, but before she completed
+her course her father died and she was obliged to give up her studies
+and find some employment. For the following three or four years she
+worked in the Pension Office at Columbus, Ohio. Then, offering her
+services to the American Missionary Association, she was appointed to
+a position in Tillotson College at Austin, Texas, where she labored
+faithfully for four years. In October of this year she went to Macon,
+Ga., where she did her work thoroughly up to within two weeks of her
+death. She will be sadly missed by the mother, whose main dependence
+she was, and by the many friends she had made wherever she had lived
+and labored.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MRS. N. D. MERRIMAN.
+
+On the 1st of October, 1895, on the anniversary of her entering upon
+work as a teacher in Burrell School, at Selma, Ala., we buried Mrs.
+Narcissa Dorsey Merriman, wife of Professor James A. Merriman, of the
+class of '91, Talladega. Mrs. Merriman took the full college course at
+Fisk University, graduating in 1891. Professor Spence was for four
+years her instructor in Greek and leader of the Mozart Society, in
+which she was soprano soloist. He writes: "Let us thank God it was
+light with her at the evening of life." This was indeed true. A few
+hours before the end, when seemingly at the very brink, strength was
+given to sing in her remarkably clear, flute-like tones the verse,
+"God moves in a mysterious way." We sang this at her funeral; also by
+her request, "O mother, dear Jerusalem." These constituted a part of
+the memorial service at Fisk also.
+
+Miss Dorsey taught in '91-2 at Beaumont, Texas; '92-3-4 in Birmingham,
+Ala., and '94-5 in Burrell. In all these places she will long be
+remembered for her gift of song, scholarly attainment and genial
+bearing--a lovely woman. Besides a sorrowing husband she left a
+widowed mother, bereft of her only child, and a helpless infant three
+weeks old, thus seeming to lay down her work at the very dawn of great
+usefulness in home and society.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS LILLIAN BEYER.
+
+Miss Lillian Beyer, who taught in the Warner Institute at Knoxville,
+Tenn., last year, under this Association, died on November 29, and was
+laid to rest December 2. A week before her death she had every
+appearance of good health. She had secured a position as city
+missionary in the neighborhood in which she used to live in New York,
+and was expecting to begin her life work there on the very day on
+which she was buried. But a few days before she was attacked with a
+violent fit of coughing and grew rapidly worse, falling asleep two
+days later, on her twenty-fifth birthday.
+
+Her pastor writes: "The funeral was held in the chapel on Sunday
+evening. A great company gathered, and I trust that impressions were
+received which will bear fruit in the coming years. It is our prayer
+that those who did not yield to her life and her teaching may bow
+before this mysterious Providence. While preparing for her life work,
+Miss Beyer had done considerable missionary labor, and a bright
+prospect was before her--shall I not rather say _is_ before her."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Bureau of Woman's Work.
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+ANNUAL MEETING.
+
+One of the interesting sessions of the American Missionary Association
+at Detroit was the Woman's Meeting, which was held from two to four
+o'clock on Thursday afternoon before the same large audience that had
+already listened for two days to the varied accounts of work on the
+mission field.
+
+The devotional exercises were led by Miss Mallory, a deaconess of the
+First Church. Six of the Women's State Organizations were reported,
+viz. Maine, by Mrs. Woodbury, president; Massachusetts and Rhode
+Island, by Miss Bridgman, treasurer; Ohio, by Mrs. Brown, treasurer;
+Illinois, by Mrs. Claflin, president; Minnesota, by Miss Brickett,
+delegate; Michigan, by Mrs. Davis, delegate. We were privileged in
+having with us other officers of some of these Unions, Michigan
+especially being represented by president, secretary and treasurer.
+All brought words of hope, and some of the crisp sentences from the
+lips of these devoted home workers for missions will not soon be
+forgotten by those who heard them.
+
+Following the reports from State Unions, Mrs. Sydney Strong, of
+Cincinnati, president of the Ohio Union, gave a very interesting and
+helpful address on woman's work throughout the country. Then came the
+annual report of the Bureau of Women's Work, and missionary addresses
+from the field. The sweet Jubilee singing by the young women from
+Nashville, Tenn., added to the enjoyment of the occasion.
+
+We regret that the limit of the magazine pages will not allow the
+addresses in full, but we hope to furnish some of them in pamphlet
+form. The paper by Miss Mitchell, of Blowing Rock, N. C., will be
+printed thus.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Following the woman's meeting, a children's meeting was conducted,
+which held the close attention of the little ones for an hour with
+vivid descriptions of the children of Alaska and China, the Indian
+boys and girls, and of the mountain and negro children of the South.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPORT OF SECRETARY.
+
+We come to this Annual Meeting with hearts full of gratitude to the
+many friends who have stood by this work in its emergency, and with
+praise to Him who daily beareth our burdens, and who we believe is
+unto us a God of deliverances. True, every passing month of the year
+just closed has sounded the ominous word "Debt," and the burdens
+consequent have been many and heavy; it has been hard to see the
+missionary work so repressed and cramped when opportunities for
+development offered on every side. But it has been glorious to watch
+its wonderful power and accomplishment even in its too restricted
+limitation. Surely a blessing followed the offerings of those who
+remembered this A. M. A. field with their gifts especially of "money
+consecrated to the Lord's work." Some, we have reason to believe, in
+giving "their slender mite for love of Him," gave much.
+
+Thirty-one of the forty-two State Unions have made cash contributions
+to the Association's work during the year, but this does not represent
+in full the aid given. Four hundred and eighty-six barrels have been
+sent to the various fields, and while all have contained useful
+articles, some have been packed with valuable supplies of house linen
+for the boarding-halls and goods for the industrial classes.
+
+The Secretary has presented the work frequently at missionary
+meetings, and series of meetings were planned for her and for
+missionaries from the field, in several of the States. In this the
+officers of the State organizations cooperated cordially, and were
+most helpful in arranging appointments among the auxiliaries. There is
+evident need of the work being made known by personal presentation.
+Missionary literature has been freely distributed, and letters from
+the field have been sent out in response to contributions wherever
+desired. The system of missionary letter-writing entails not a little
+of care and burden upon both missionaries and secretary, but it brings
+the missionaries and home workers into closer sympathy, and provides
+interesting information for missionary meetings. We acknowledge
+thankfully the consideration shown when letters have been unavoidably
+delayed, and the many expressions of appreciation of the missionary
+news.
+
+Through the circulation of the letters and printed leaflets you have
+had many glimpses of the schools, churches, prayer-meetings,
+Sunday-schools, Endeavor meetings and the homes of the people in the
+South, on the Indian reservations, the Pacific Coast and Alaska. We
+trust it has been a joy to you to make the work so much your very own
+by the share you have had in sustaining it and watching its
+development.
+
+There is a very precious part of this missionary work, however, that
+lies beyond the boundaries of our one hundred and seventeen schools. A
+hint of it may be seen in the following to her teacher from a former
+colored student, now the wife of a Congregational minister in the A.
+M. A. church service. It represents hundreds of cases equally
+gratifying of those who, through the beneficent work of the American
+Missionary Association, to-day fill positions of influence and
+usefulness in the various walks of life. The writer says: "The work
+here I enjoy very much, nevertheless there are many discouraging
+things in connection with it. But then I know we cannot always have
+smooth sailing. If everything was all smooth there would be no need
+of much work. I am only too glad to do something for the Master,
+though I know I am one that is fitted only to quietly fill in a little
+chink in the great work that is to be done. When I remember that we
+are not all given the same number of talents, I am somewhat encouraged
+to go on with the work, content to do little unnoticed acts in the
+name of the Master. I remember, too, that what I am, you are the one
+who was instrumental in making me. The Lord has a great reward for you
+for your patience and kind dealing with me."
+
+"Little, unnoticed acts in the name of the Master." Think of it--that
+these colored boys, girls and mountain youth, Indians and Chinese, to
+the number of thirteen thousand annually, are through this American
+Missionary Association brought under such Christian training that a
+large proportion go forth to use their talents, be they great or
+small, in the name of the Master. What better could we do for either
+of these races than to support liberally a work that, preparing the
+youth for the practical duties of life, sends them forth to exert
+their influence among their people for the love of Christ and In His
+Name.
+
+It has been a year of advance in contributions from the organizations
+of Woman's Work, and while this has been a welcome and valuable aid to
+the A. M. A. treasury, it is also a cheering indication of what these
+organizations may be able to do the next year and the next with
+increasing knowledge of the mission field, increasing interest and
+ability. The cash receipts, through the State organizations, have been
+$21,213.95, and directly from local societies and mission bands,
+$4,124.66, a total of $25,338.61. We give a tabulated statement from
+which it will be seen that nine of the State organizations now measure
+their dollars for the A. M. A. by the thousand, and some of those in
+the list immediately following we hope will soon join the
+thousand-dollar rank.
+
+  Massachusetts and Rhode Island      $4,853.89
+  New York                             2,530.06
+  Ohio                                 1,893.29
+  Maine                                1,708.02
+  Connecticut                          1,517.05
+  Iowa                                 1,231.54
+  Illinois                             1,184.17
+  Vermont                              1,134.00
+  Missouri                             1,019.96
+  Minnesota                              851.61
+  New Jersey                             589.35
+  Michigan                               528.28
+  New Hampshire                          527.57
+  Wisconsin                              466.63
+  Nebraska                               274.39
+  Southern California                    207.85
+  Kansas                                 199.32
+  California                             102.10
+  South Dakota                            85.92
+  Colorado                                82.05
+  Louisiana                               45.52
+  Pennsylvania                            35.00
+  Alabama                                 30.00
+  North Carolina                          29.90
+  Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky        20.25
+  Washington                              20.00
+  Indiana                                 15.00
+  North Dakota                            11.50
+  Black Hills, S. D.                       6.28
+  Wyoming                                  5.75
+  New Mexico                               1.60
+
+In assigning these contributions to some definite portion of the work,
+as has been desired, the choice has naturally been the support of
+women as missionary teachers, forty-five having been thus assigned.
+The total number of missionaries in the A. M. A. churches and schools
+is six hundred and forty-nine. The churches number two hundred and
+twelve. The schools number one hundred and seventeen, and the five
+hundred and thirty teachers engaged in them, many of whom preach as
+well as teach, are indeed too few for the broad lines of instruction,
+the varied industrial training, the intellectual and spiritual, or, to
+use a favorite expression, the training of "head, hand and heart." But
+it is often noticeable how cheerfully these missionaries meet the
+increasing demands upon their strength, forgetful of self, in their
+intense desire for the good of their pupils, that, intelligent,
+industrious, virtuous, all may go out to their life-work, whatever and
+wherever it may be, in the name of the Master.
+
+But what of those who are not gathered into these Christian schools?
+Longing, praying and pleading to enter, what if the doors are closed
+against them because they have no money, no influence, and in their
+time of need, no friends? Our hearts ache that such should have been
+the bitter experience of any the past year. But it is too true. With
+no means of their own and no friend to aid them, hundreds have been
+turned back to darkness when they wanted light; turned back because
+there was none to help.
+
+The opportunities of the year just closed we may not reclaim, but we
+are beginning a new year with its new opportunities. The colored
+people, eager for improvement, struggling with poverty, appeal for
+schools and churches, but it costs $400 for each teacher or minister.
+The Indians want their children to come into the mission schools where
+they may learn "the Jesus way," but it costs $150 for each pupil. The
+mountain people of the South, unlettered, simple-hearted, credulous,
+are the prey of Mormon missionaries, who are working zealously for
+converts, and, as one reports, with "good success." The antidote is
+Christian teachers and preachers, but here again is an average cost of
+$400. The Chinese field, besides the work for men in mission schools,
+presents an opportunity for women's work among twenty-five hundred
+Chinese women in San Francisco, who are accessible in their homes, and
+who respond gratefully to Christian sympathy and instruction. Was
+there ever such gracious opportunity to the Christian church to gather
+into the fold the "other sheep" of the Great Shepherd? He has said,
+"them also I must bring." Would He bring them in through us? Let us
+arouse ourselves that we may not so lose these opportunities God has
+given to win this land for Christ. We have done something, but it is
+so far short of the need. Our offerings--have they been so much a part
+of ourselves, have they cost us so much that they have been _worthy_
+tokens of love to our Lord?
+
+The American Missionary Association has come to its fiftieth year of
+work and appeal for these to whom the gospel is to be preached,
+through church planting and Christian schools. It comes burdened with
+obligations for the work already done, and for that of the year just
+begun. Can we not, each one of us, _double our gifts_ to this work in
+this A. M. A. Jubilee year? This, with one true self-denial offering
+from every woman in the Congregational church, and friend of the work,
+and not only shall the Association come next year to its fiftieth
+anniversary with rejoicing, but hundreds of _new voices_ from the
+millions of people to whom we are sent, will join also in the song of
+Jubilee.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADDRESS OF MRS. SYDNEY STRONG.
+
+A speaker at our Toledo meeting two years ago, when she had told of
+her life work in China, closed her remarks by saying: "American
+sisters, the women of China look to you for their examples of
+Christian womanhood. Do not disappoint them: for if you do, it will be
+the greatest blow foreign missions can have." During the past year, in
+our work in Ohio, when I have known so much of the needs over this
+broad land of ours, I have wondered continually what some of the
+Christian converts of China would think could they visit our shores
+and go into the mountains in our Southern land and see the women
+there, how perfectly ignorant they are, some of them not even knowing
+their alphabet, and, what is sadder still, not even knowing that they
+are hundreds of years behind the women living but a few miles from
+their mountain home. If these Chinese converts could go down from the
+mountains into the plains and see our negro sister there in her cabin
+home, and realize how she is oppressed and how so few there care for
+her soul; if they could go into the West and visit the Indians, and
+realize how America has treated the Indian, how she has given him land
+until she wanted it herself and then has taken it, and pushed him
+farther West until now she has him in a place where the land is so
+poor it is not likely she will ever want it; if they could go and see
+their Chinese sisters--their own flesh and blood--and realize that
+America had the opportunity right at her own door of teaching and
+raising up Christian Chinese women to go back and teach their own
+kindred the "old, old story," what do you suppose they would think of
+Christian America? My sisters, what do you think of it? Are these
+conditions due to lack of money? We can all give when we are
+interested. Poverty is a thing of comparison. We are all poor compared
+with our neighbor on the avenue, and we are all rich compared with our
+neighbor who lived on crusts of bread last week and knows not where
+her crusts are coming from this week. No, my friends, we can give when
+we are interested.
+
+In this connection I have been thinking a little of a dear friend, who
+when asked if she could not increase her contribution to five dollars
+for the work this coming year, said: "Possibly I can another year, but
+this year I cannot, for I am going abroad and I have to economize."
+"Economy!" Is not that just the place it always begins? Can we look
+back over the last two years, those of us who have been affected by
+the hard times, and truthfully say that we did not begin at the giving
+end to economize? It seems to me that this is just where we all make
+our mistakes. Is not this just the reason why our church work is so
+cold and lifeless? We are trying to do Christ's work in man's way and
+we can no more do it than the Indian we are told about, who tried to
+run the machine controlled by electricity in his own way rather than
+in the way the inventor intended it to be run. God has given us a plan
+for doing this work and saving souls, and we are trying man's way
+rather than God's way. What is man's way? It is to do church work, go
+to missionary societies, and give--when we have time and money. What
+is God's way? "Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, and prove
+me now herewith, saith your God, and see if I will not open the
+windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing." Have we done it? Have
+we brought the tithes all in?
+
+We use much more wisdom in material things often than we do in
+spiritual things. Can we not learn a lesson from the farmer? What does
+God say to the farmer! "Sow, and ye shall also reap." But the farmer
+says, "I cannot; I haven't enough. If I had plenty I would sow, but I
+haven't. My family could not live as well as my neighbor; we could not
+set a good enough table; we might even have to go hungry." But the
+command comes again: "Sow, and ye shall also reap," and I venture to
+say that there is not a farmer in this country of ours but who would
+go hungry, yea, he and his children would go bare-footed, but he would
+take some portion of the grain that he had and throw it broadcast over
+his field, knowing that it would lie there and decay, but trusting in
+the Lord that it would come back to him after many days. Why cannot we
+use the same wisdom in spiritual matters?
+
+But there is something that is of more value even than money. It seems
+to me that the one thing we need is more consecrated women in our
+churches, women that have more love for their Master and for his
+cause, women that do not do this work from a sense of duty, but
+because they love their Lord and Saviour. It seems to me we ought to
+put love in the same place where Christ put it, on the same pinnacle
+where Paul put it: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of
+angels and have not love, it profiteth me nothing; though I understand
+all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I
+could remove mountains, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing;
+and though I give my body to be burned, and though I bestow all my
+goods to feed the poor, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing."
+
+My dear friends, if we only had this love, this consecration, we would
+be interested in everything that interests our Master. And hearing of
+our sister in the mountains who knows nothing of him, we would hasten
+to go ourselves or make it easy for others to go and tell her of His
+love. And thinking of our colored sister in the South who is oppressed
+and down-trodden, if we loved Him we would hasten to go with joy and
+tell her of the yoke that is easy and the burden that is light. And
+remembering our Indian sister who is so in the dark and is so
+destitute of knowledge we would find a way to tell her of Him who is
+the light of the world. And knowing of our Chinese sister here on our
+shores, who looks forward to a heavenly home for her husband, though
+she has no such hope for herself, we would go and tell her--or see
+that some one else told her--of Him who said: "Whosoever cometh unto
+me shall have eternal life." Our work then would not be done from a
+sense of duty but as the expression of our love and joy, and all we
+would ask in return would be the words: "Inasmuch as ye have done it
+unto one of the least of these, ye have done it unto me."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADDRESS BY MISS ANNETTE P. BRICKETT.
+
+In the few minutes which are assigned me in which to bring before you
+the work of our Indian mission and boarding school at Fort Berthold,
+among the Rees, Mandans and Gros Ventres, there is no time for me to
+discuss the "Indian Problem," about which I am not at all wise, nor to
+talk of the Indian character, nor to defend it against the numberless
+unjust opinions and popular newspaper and magazine prejudice with
+which you are all so familiar.
+
+I think you want to know all that I shall have time to tell you of our
+past year's work, our encouragements, our difficulties and successes.
+
+There has been an increasing spirit of loving, gentle, helpfulness
+among our school girls, both in the home and school life. We have all
+gladly noticed that our boys have become more courteous and
+thoughtful. Many of them have learned for the first time, under their
+wise and consecrated matron, the value of strict adherence to God's
+great law of obedience in the forming of manly characters and in the
+making of happy homes.
+
+Our older Ree girls came back to school this fall more neatly and
+cleanly clad than ever before. Some of them made tasteful calico
+dresses for themselves with which to return to us. Several of these
+older girls, under the leadership of one of our ladies, organized
+themselves into a "Cleaning Club" at the close of school in July and
+have kept faithfully at work all through the vacation, each week
+meeting at a certain house and giving the poor little log home, with
+its mud-plugged walls and dirt floor a most vigorous and thorough
+"scrub." After the beds had been made up cleanly with sheets and
+pillow cases, which were in each case the property of the school girl
+at whose house they met, and putting up cheap scrim curtains at the
+two little windows, then these students of scrubology, on a stove,
+shining with a perhaps unprecedented coat of blacking, prepared before
+their somewhat dazed parents a neat and wholesome meal of such simple
+material as they had, set it out on a white covered table just as
+nicely as they are taught to do at school, and invited their parents
+to eat with them. This improvement has not been merely spontaneous. It
+was a principle of the society that each girl who had been thus
+assisted should do all in her power to keep the home clean and neat,
+and our girls have greatly delighted us by the brave way in which they
+have kept this pledge.
+
+This past year several of our older boys and girls have, without
+urging or even suggestion from the teachers, told us of their earnest
+desire to go out into the world and attend a higher school. They were
+quite prepared to enter the school at Santee and though reminded of
+the opposition they would undoubtedly encounter in getting permission
+from their ignorant and in some cases heathen parents, as well as that
+of the Government Agent, they have still been quite determined.
+"Maimie," one of the girls, first asked consent of her uncle and aunt
+with whom she has her home. They both refused, being unwilling to have
+her go so far away and also to lose the small help which the little
+money Maimie earned by doing extra work at school brought to them.
+Both the uncle and aunt are members of our church and our prayers that
+Christian principle might triumph in this case and make these two an
+example to the rest were answered, for soon "Hand" and his wife
+"Alice" cheerfully went to the Agent and told him of their previous
+unwillingness but also of their present decision that they were glad
+to have Maimie go away and learn more of God's ways so that she might
+better teach and lead her people.
+
+John, one of the boys, has met with much bitter opposition from his
+people who are under the influence of the Catholic priest at the
+Agency. They have forced him into the Government school, which is of a
+grade entirely below his present attainments, and he is much
+discouraged, but we still trust that God's plan for our boys and
+girls, into whose souls he has put these aspirations, will be worked
+out in His own time and way.
+
+Our church members who are as yet but "babes in Christ" have had
+numerous testings this year, which, while they have been times of
+severe trial to us as well as to them, have been but passing clouds,
+which have only for a time hid from them the "Guiding Hand," and which
+has made them all the more strong and distinct as members of Christ's
+body.
+
+There have been disappointments in the past year; a few of those from
+whom we hoped much have become careless and indifferent. But more have
+grown in spiritual strength and are manifesting the new spirit of
+godliness in their lives in many practical ways; in neater personal
+appearance, in better houses and cleaner homes, and in much more
+industrious attention to their farm work. The Christian women nearly
+all ride on the seat of their wagons beside their husbands and not
+squatted down behind in the old way which indicated their inferiority
+and degradation.
+
+Our church and women's missionary organization have cheerfully
+contributed from exceedingly scanty means to all the branches of our
+Congregational work. While our school on account of the reduced
+appropriations has been reduced to forty-two pupils, our further
+outstation among the Mandan people, which for two years has been
+closed, has this fall been reopened, and one of the lady missionaries
+is already living among them in her little log house. Shall I speak of
+the needs of our school boys and girls? You patient mothers know so
+well what are the needs of forty-two play-loving active children, who
+wrestle, play football, tag, jump rope and barbed wire fences; and the
+needs of Indian boys and girls are nearly identical with those of the
+same number of white children.
+
+I think I have never yet heard an Indian Christian man or woman offer
+a prayer in which I have not heard this petition, "Oh Father in
+Heaven bless all the white people who love us and send us these
+teachers to tell us of God's ways." Shall we not return their grateful
+thought, by loving prayers, generous and sympathetic interest and
+every practical aid?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESS BY MISS HELEN S. LOVELAND.
+
+I have come to tell you something of Orange Park, the town, the school
+established there, and the trouble connected with it. The village is
+situated on the west bank of the St. John's River, which at that point
+is a beautiful expanse of water three miles wide. Nature has been very
+prodigal in that section. The trees and plants are of a luxurious
+growth. Flowers are numerous. Every kind of fruit is plentiful.
+Because of these natural advantages, general climate and apparent
+fitness for orange growing, a Northern settlement was made. The people
+were from various Northern States. The principal industry was orange
+growing.
+
+Five years ago when the Association was looking for a favorable place
+in Florida in which to locate a school, attention was drawn to this
+town. The place was selected because of its healthful situation and
+beautiful surroundings. The people in the town were anxious such a
+school should be established. To secure this the town voted the
+Association a considerable tract of land on which to build, and in
+addition a large wooded park. This was done with the understanding
+that all children in the town should be allowed to attend school.
+
+The buildings belonging to the institution are a church, in which both
+white and colored people worship together; the Girls' Hall, in which
+the girls, teachers and matron live; in the rear of this, connected by
+a passage way, is the dining-room and kitchen; next, to the west, is
+the school building, containing the chapel, study room and recitation
+rooms; yet farther to the west of this is the Boys' Hall, in which the
+principal and his wife live, in charge of the boys. Back of the two
+last mentioned buildings is the shop where the boys do the industrial
+work.
+
+The school has entered upon its fifth year. It has grown steadily and
+surely. The work done has been thorough and of a high grade. Up to the
+present time there have been in all 252 pupils connected with the
+school. There have been five teachers aside from the music, sewing and
+manual training teachers, principal and matron.
+
+The students are instructed in the common school branches. The work in
+the normal grades is designed to prepare them for teaching. The girls
+have classes in sewing, are taught to care for their rooms, and each
+one does her own laundry work. A certain amount of time, whether in
+the dining-room, halls, kitchen or laundry, is required. In this plan
+there are two objects; to aid the pupils in paying their school
+expenses and to teach them the arts of housekeeping. Each boy is
+required to give especial care to his room. A certain amount of work
+is also required of them. It consists of yard work, carrying mail,
+sweeping school buildings, attending to the lamps, etc.
+
+When there have been white boarding pupils they have had separate
+rooms and a separate table in the common dining-room.
+
+Bible lessons are given twice a week by the pastor. A school prayer
+meeting is held every Thursday afternoon in the school chapel. In this
+meeting the majority of the pupils take part, and much interest is
+shown. The Christian Endeavor, however, is the most enthusiastic
+meeting in which the students engage. It is held in the chapel of the
+church, and attended by both town people and the school. The colored
+students have shown themselves efficient committee workers and
+leaders. There have been several conversions in the society, and there
+is great reason to be encouraged. It is in this field that personal
+work is needed and is effective. So the school is educating the pupil
+in different lines, industrial, intellectual, and religious.
+
+Last May the Governor of Florida signed a bill, now well known, framed
+by Superintendent Sheats, of the State Educational Department, which
+was aimed directly at the Orange Park school. What Mr Sheats' real
+intentions are in regard to the colored race is but too plain. One can
+but perceive, if his policy is followed, that their education in
+Florida practically ceases. During the last session of the Florida
+Legislature he requested it to enact a law prohibiting any others than
+negroes from teaching schools for negroes, except in normal
+instruction in institutes and summer schools. This did not become a
+law, but it was not the superintendent's fault.
+
+Last May in Lake County only nine candidates obtained certificates.
+There were sixty-seven schools to be supplied with teachers. This
+closed the schools. During last year one hundred and sixteen schools
+in the State, mostly colored, for the want of teachers were not held
+at all. A county official remarked that this examination law would
+probably "result in retiring nearly or quite all the colored teachers
+in a few years." Such a law "is a barbarous souvenir to make the
+country remember its bloody dealings with its black brother." "Though
+slavery is dead, its spirit yet lives; 'the serpent's head is crushed,
+but his tail still writhes, and sometimes it lashes out spitefully.'"
+We who are engaged in teaching in Orange Park are glad that the
+American Missionary Association is to test, and is already testing,
+the validity of this law. In contesting this law aimed at the Orange
+Park school, the Association takes up a question which has arisen
+before, but has never been settled. Theoretically, in the United
+States all men, whether white or black, enjoy equal civil liberties;
+practically, in the South, they do not. If the law is found to be
+unconstitutional, that will go a long way in establishing equal
+liberties for all.
+
+Meanwhile the school continues as before. The school and the
+Association need your assistance. The great work before the
+Association requires both the money and the prayers of the Christian
+people.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ADDRESS OF MRS. HARRIS,
+
+GRADUATE OF FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
+
+Miss Emerson has invited me to say a few words to this meeting in
+behalf of the women of my own race. As I have sat here and listened to
+the helpful and sympathetic words which have been spoken, I have felt
+that I bore upon my heart the burden of gratitude of all the negro
+women in the South, certainly of all the women and girls who have been
+under the influence of such schools and such teachers as the American
+Missionary Association has supplied. I do wish that I could show you
+enough of the need and tell you enough about the results to encourage
+you in the magnificent work you are doing for womanhood, wifehood and
+motherhood among us. My own father, years ago, studied for a time in
+Fisk University before it was really Fisk University; my mother's
+people, her brothers and sisters, also studied in Fisk University, so
+they were very anxious that their children should be in the same
+institution. For that reason, as it meant a good deal out of the
+family purse to board three or four children in such an institution as
+that, eight or nine years ago the family moved from a little town in
+the northern part of Kentucky to Nashville. We were reared in a quiet
+Christian home and early placed in Fisk University.
+
+I did not have an opportunity to come into personal contact with the
+class of colored people who make up the great mass in the South until
+after I had left school and gone to a little town in western Tennessee
+to teach. There I was placed in charge of the young women in the
+boarding department, and I sought to come most intimately in contact
+with their lives. Many of these young women came straight from the
+cotton plantations, and, although they could not sing and play as well
+as we who had been at Fisk, many of them boasted that they could
+handle a plow as well as a man. We undertook mission work in
+connection with the circle of King's Daughters which I organized among
+the girls, and the condition of the people as we found it in the two
+years I was there among the poor negroes of the city was very painful
+to me. Very often I came in from my visits in the poorer districts and
+closed the door of my room, feeling that I must leave it all to the
+Saviour, it seemed so discouraging and so much more than we could do.
+We found, among other things, that we needed to teach the women the
+most common and necessary habits of life, how to put the children to
+bed, how to feed and clothe them. Yet I would say that it is through
+the students of such schools as Fisk University that the Northern
+teachers whom you send to us can hope to reach the masses of our
+colored people. We get the life from our Northern teachers and then
+the great mass of the colored people look to us for it, for we can get
+into the home and into the life of the people as they cannot. And we
+begin to feel the responsibility; we begin to realize how much the
+race depends upon the mother and the sister and the wife. We begin to
+realize that we as negro women must be especially alive to the
+quickening influence of all that is noble and grand and true. We
+realize that we are indeed
+
+    "Living in a grand and awful time,
+      In an age on ages telling,
+    To be living is sublime."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. WOODBURY.
+
+Our eyes and our ears have been greeted during the last few days by
+those initial letters, "A. M. A.," and we have perhaps got a new
+meaning which was hinted at yesterday morning, "A Master Artist,"
+because the American Missionary Association takes the black clay and
+transforms it into the immortal soul. But I like best of all the
+meaning given to the letters by a little boy who had just begun to
+study Latin. With that air of ownership which we are so apt to see in
+the boys and girls who have just begun the study of a new language, he
+came to his mother and said, "Here it is: A. M. A.--_AMA._, Love thou
+them." I like better than all the meaning given inadvertently by that
+little boy, because it seems to me that the American Missionary
+Association, working as it does among the poor and oppressed classes,
+striving to weld into one common brotherhood the black, the white, the
+red and the yellow, is the best exponent we have here in our own
+country of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, and of
+that self-sacrificing love which brought Christ into the world to die
+for the rich and the poor, the high and the low, the black and the
+white alike. So it is entitled to write on all its literature and
+emblazon on its shield those cabalistic letters, "A M A"--"Love thou
+them."
+
+I will not try to add to facts or multiply incidents. Here we have
+before us this great problem: ten millions of our people, one-sixth of
+our whole body politic, sunk in the depths of superstition, ignorance
+and sin. We may shut our eyes to this problem; we may ignore it; we
+may say it has been exaggerated; we may even say it does not exist.
+You and I in our quiet homes may not hear the mutterings or the
+moanings of these ten million souls in bondage; but their cry goes up
+to Him who in mankind's first morning uttered those two burning
+questions which have ever since determined the standard of the Christ
+spirit in humanity: "Where art thou?" "Where is thy brother?"
+
+We are to make of these ten million people God-fearing, intelligent
+citizens. We are to leaven this mass of humanity with the leaven of
+the school and of the church, and, so doing, make of these two million
+whites, these stanch, stalwart Anglo-Saxon men, and of these eight
+million loyal, affectionate, docile negroes, all American-born
+citizens--we are to make of them a bulwark which shall resist the
+oncoming tide of socialism, anarchism and of atheism, which is trying
+to overwhelm our American institutions, rob us of our public-school
+system, profane our Sabbath and snatch the scepter from our fathers'
+God.
+
+And how is this to be done? How is this problem to be solved? By just
+such work as this of the American Missionary Association, which has
+abundant facilities, plenty of energy, wisdom and experience, and even
+the consecration necessary for the great work before it--everything
+but the money. And where is the money coming from? The money is coming
+from the churches. How do we know? Because the American Missionary
+Association was born in the churches, is the child of the churches,
+was sent forth from the churches with the benediction and prayers and
+blessings of the churches to carry out the policy adopted by the
+churches. The Church will not forsake its own.
+
+And this is our work. It is not the abolition of races, but the
+recognition of brotherhood. This is the work which Christ has given us
+to do; and if we would solve this negro problem, and all the thousand
+and one problems which are ever vexing the life of our free Republic,
+we must solve them by the principles of the Golden Rule and the
+democracy of the Lord's Prayer. It is not sufficient for us to stand
+with Thomas and say in rapt admiration, "My Lord and my God." Side by
+side with our black brother and with our white brother, with our
+yellow brother and with our red brother, we are to kneel and say, not
+"My Lord and my God," but "Our Father," and the spirit of common
+prayer to a common Father whom we have not seen will bind our hearts
+in closer brotherhood to those whom we have seen, and we will rise
+from our knees to carry out the principles of the Golden Rule.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS
+
+
+MAINE.
+
+WOMAN'S AID TO A. M. A.
+
+  _State Committee_--Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury,
+  Woodfords; Mrs. A. T. Burbank, Yarmouth;
+  Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor.
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE.
+
+FEMALE CENT. INSTITUTION AND HOME MISS. UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
+  Secretary--Mrs. John T. Perry, Exeter.
+  Treasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord.
+
+
+VERMONT.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, W. Brattleboro.
+  Secretary--Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.
+
+MASS AND R. I.
+
+[A]WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 9 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congregational House, Boston.
+  Treasurer--Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congregational House, Boston.
+
+
+CONNECTICUT.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New Britain.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St., Hartford.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.
+
+
+NEW YORK.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Green Ave., Brooklyn.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Syracuse.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 230 Macon St., Brooklyn.
+
+
+NEW JERSEY.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
+  Secretary--Mrs. R. J. Hegeman, 32 Forest Street, Montclair.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. H. Dennison, 150 Belleville Ave., Newark.
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. T. W. Jones, 511 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia.
+
+
+OHIO.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary Grounds, Cincinnati.
+  Secretary--Mrs. J. W. Moore, 836 Hough Ave., Cleveland.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. G. B. Brown, 2116 Warren St., Toledo.
+
+
+INDIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, Indianapolis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. A. H. Ball, Dewhurst.
+
+
+ILLINOIS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
+
+
+MISSOURI.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes Street, Kansas City.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave., Kansas City.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave., Kansas City.
+
+
+IOWA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
+  Secretary--Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
+  Treasurer--Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave., Des Moines.
+
+
+MICHIGAN.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids.
+  Secretary--Mrs. C. C. Denison, 132 N. College Ave., Grand Rapids.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
+
+
+WISCONSIN.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
+  Secretary--Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
+
+
+MINNESOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East Ninth Street, St. Paul.
+  Secretary--Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, S. E., Minneapolis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. W. P. Cleveland, Caledonia.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Bowdle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W. H. Thrall, Huron.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Huron.
+
+
+BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City.
+  Secretary--Mrs. H. H. Gilchrist, Hot Springs.
+  Treasurer--Miss Grace Lyman, Hot Springs.
+
+
+NEBRASKA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
+  Secretary--Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Second Street, Lincoln.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. James W. Dawes, Crete.
+
+
+KANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. F. E. Storrs, Topeka.
+  Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Read, Parsons.
+
+
+COLORADO.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette Street, Denver.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Chas. Westley, Box 508, Denver.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. B. C. Valantine, Highlands.
+
+
+WYOMING.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. P. F. Powelson, Cheyenne.
+  Secretary--Mrs. J. A. Riner, Cheyenne.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
+
+
+MONTANA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Helena.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
+
+
+IDAHO.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. D. L. Travis, Pocatello.
+
+
+WASHINGTON.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. A. J. Bailey, 323 Blanchard Street, Seattle.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K Street, Tacoma.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street, Seattle.
+
+
+OREGON.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland.
+  Secretary--Mrs. George Brownell, Oregon City.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 Third Street, Portland.
+
+
+CALIFORNIA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
+
+  President--Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th Street, Oakland.
+  Secretary--Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove Street, Oakland.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison Street, Oakland.
+
+
+SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Warren F. Day, 253 S. Hope St., Los Angeles.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, Riverside.
+
+
+NEVADA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
+  Secretary--Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
+  Treasurer--Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
+
+
+UTAH (Including Southern Idaho).
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  Secretary--Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth Street, E., Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. Dana W. Bartlett, Salt Lake City, Utah.
+  Secretary for Idaho--Mrs. Oscar Sonnenkalb, Pocatello, Idaho.
+
+
+NEW MEXICO.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. C. E. Winslow, Albuquerque.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E. W. Lewis, 301 So. Edith Street, Albuquerque.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. H. W. Bullock, Albuquerque.
+
+
+OKLAHOMA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.
+  Secretary--Mrs. L. E. Kimball, Guthrie.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L. S. Childs, Choctaw City.
+
+
+INDIAN TERRITORY.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. John McCarthy, Vinita.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. R. M. Swain, Vinita.
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
+  Secretary and Treasurer--Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
+
+
+GEORGIA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Avenue, Atlanta.
+  Secretary--Mrs. H. A. Kellam, Atlanta.
+  Treasurer--Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
+
+
+FLORIDA.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
+
+
+ALABAMA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. M. A. Dillard, Selma.
+  Secretary--Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
+
+
+TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY AND ARKANSAS.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION.
+
+  President--Mrs. G. W. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Univ., Nashville.
+  Secretary--Mrs. E. J. Lewis, 15 Echols Street, Memphis.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy Street, Nashville.
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Avenue, Meridian.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo Univ., Tougaloo.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3012 12th Street, Meridian.
+
+
+LOUISIANA.
+
+WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Miss Bella W. Hume, corner Gasquet and Liberty Streets,
+    New Orleans.
+  Secretary--Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, New Orleans.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
+
+
+TEXAS.
+
+WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
+
+  President--Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
+  Secretary--Mrs. H. Burt, Lock Box 563, Dallas.
+  Treasurer--Mrs. C. I. Scofield, Dallas.
+
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] While the W. H. M. A. appears in this list as a State
+body for Mass. and R. I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1895.
+
+
+_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_
+
+_For the Education of Colored People._
+
+  Income for November                                         $15,000.00
+  Previously acknowledged                                       1,460.00
+                                                              ----------
+                                                              $16,460.00
+
+
+CURRENT RECEIPTS.
+
+
+MAINE, $1,140.12.
+
+  Bangor. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for C. E. Hall,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                                  9.25
+  Bar Harbor. Class in Cong. Sab. Sch., 8; King's Daughters,
+    3.14, _for Student Aid, Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga._       11.14
+  Brewer. Jun. C. E. S., _for Student Aid, Dorchester Acad.,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                                  3.00
+  Castine. Mary F. and Margaret Cushman, 5; and "The Dear
+    Mother," 2.50                                                   7.50
+  Castine. Cong. Ch., 6; G. L. Weeks, 5; Mrs. D. W. Webster,
+    4; Kate S. Russell, 3; Mrs. M. B. Woodbury, 2; Mrs. S. W.
+    Webster, 1; Merritt Hewett, 50c., _for Student Aid,
+    Dorchester Acad., McIntosh, Ga._                               21.50
+  Castine. Y. P. S. C. E., 5.25; "Friends," Box and Bbl. C.,
+    _for C. E. Hall, McIntosh, Ga._                                 5.25
+  Cumberland Center. Cong. Ch., _for C. E. Hall, McIntosh, Ga._    23.00
+  Hallowell. "Friends, In His Name," _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                   5.00
+  Isleboro. J. P. Bragg, _for Student Aid, Dorchester Acad.,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                                  5.00
+  Kennebunkport. Mrs. H. Smith                                       .50
+  Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00
+  Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch.                                     4.08
+  Norridgwock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  30.00
+  Phippsburg. Rev. and Mrs. Noble, _for Student Aid, Dorchester
+    Acad._                                                          1.50
+  Portland. St. Lawrence St. Ch.                                   15.00
+  Portland. ----, _for Student Aid, King's Mountain, N. C._         7.00
+  Pownal. "A Few Friends" (10 of which _for Indian M._)            53.00
+  South Bridgton. Cong. Ch.                                         1.50
+  Union. Cong. Ch.                                                 20.25
+  Westbrook. "Friends" in Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Dorchester Acad._                                               8.00
+                                                               ---------
+                                                                 $236.47
+
+  ESTATES.
+
+  Bangor. Estate of Elizabeth G. Smith, George W. Sawyer,
+    Executor                                                      858.05
+  Eliot. Estate of Phebe J. (Moody) Shapleigh, by J. P. Moody,
+    Administrator                                                  45.60
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $1,140.12
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $1,270.61.
+
+  Alstead Center. Mrs. Whitney Breed, by W. H. Spalter, Co.
+    Treas.                                                          1.00
+  Bennington. Cong. Ch.                                            10.00
+  Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                    10.00
+  East Alstead. Cong. Ch., by W. H. Spalter, Co. Treas.             3.00
+  Epping. Mrs. G. S. Thompson and S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Wilmington, N. C._                                        18.00
+  Gilmanton Iron Works. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          3.50
+  Hanover. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg                                      20.00
+  Henniker. "A Few Friends," by Mrs. L. W. Peabody                  5.00
+  Hooksett. Union Ch.                                              13.22
+  Littleton. First Cong. Ch.                                         .50
+  Lyme. Mrs. Amos Bailey                                            1.00
+  Lyndeboro. Cong. Ch.                                              5.15
+  Manchester. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            65.56
+  Meredith. Cong. Ch.                                              14.50
+  North Hampton. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS GERTRUDE E.
+    ROBINSON L. M.                                                 30.00
+  Peterboro. Union Cong. Ch.                                       17.50
+  Piermont. Ladies' Homeland Circle, by Miss L. C. Hosford, Sec.    5.00
+  Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                         23.18
+  West Concord. West Cong. Ch.                                     24.50
+                                                               ---------
+                                                                 $270.61
+
+  ESTATE.
+
+  Manchester. Estate of Chester B. Southworth, in part, by
+    Mrs. Hattie I. Southworth, Executrix                        1,000.00
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $1,270.61
+
+
+VERMONT, $383.38.
+
+  Barre. Cong. Ch.                                                 21.90
+  Barton. "A Friend"                                               10.00
+  Bennington. Jun. End. Soc., _for music, Fort Berthold, N. D._     5.00
+  Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., 8.10; Second Cong. Ch., 15.40       23.50
+  Burlington. Member First Cong. Ch.                               25.00
+  Burlington. Mrs. J. H. Worcester, Box of Mags. and Books,
+    _for New Orleans, La._
+  Burlington. Y. P. S. C. E., Bbl. Books _for McIntosh, Ga._
+  Ferrisburg. Cong. Ch.                                             7.87
+  Hardwick. C. E. Ch.                                               2.43
+  Hartford. Mr. and Mrs. Eph. Morris, _for Knoxville, Tenn._       20.00
+  McIndoe's Falls. Cong. Ch.                                       12.00
+  Middlebury. Rev. J. C. Houghton                                  10.00
+  Montpelier. Bethany Cong. Ch.                                    35.00
+  Newport. Cong. Ch.                                               16.19
+  Orwell. Cong. Ch.                                                48.46
+  Pittsfield. Mrs. Arunah Allen                                     4.00
+  Saint Johnsbury. Ladies' Aid Soc., Box of C. and Table Linen
+    _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Stowe. Cong. Ch.                                                 37.20
+  Thetford. First. Cong. Ch.                                        7.03
+  West Charleston. Cong. Ch., special                               7.00
+  West Randolph. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch. (Class 13), _for
+    Student Aid, Straight U._                                      25.00
+  West Randolph. Cong. Ch.                                         18.95
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont, Mrs. Rebecca
+    P. Fairbanks, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Burlington. First Ch. W. H. M. S.              20.00
+      Castleton. W. H. M. S.                          3.60
+      East Hardwick. Junior C. E., _for Indian
+        Schp._                                        3.25
+      W. H. M. U. of Vt.                             20.00
+                                                    ------         46.85
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $9,260.02.
+
+  Acton. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Meridian, Miss._              6.75
+  Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch.                                      9.18
+  Andover. Free Christian Ch.                                      50.00
+  Andover. By Miss L. G. Merrill, Bbl. C. _for King's Mountain,
+    N. C._
+  Amherst. South Cong. Ch.                                          7.18
+  Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch.                                      36.80
+  Belchertown. "Two Friends" to const. REV. V. C. HARRINGTON
+    L. M.                                                          30.00
+  Billerica. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              5.95
+  Boston. Park St. Cong. Ch.                        397.35
+    "A Lady"                                        200.00
+    Miss E. S. Ficke, _for Marshallville, Ga._       50.00
+    "A Friend"                                        7.78
+    East Boston. Maverick Cong. Ch.                  27.04
+    Allston. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                      7.66
+    Dorchester. Mrs. C. P. Potter, _for Student
+      Aid, Wilmington, N. C._                         8.00
+    Mrs. Mary Houston, _for Student Aid,
+      Dorchester Acad._                               5.00
+    M. F. T. Drowne, Bbl. C. _for Pleasant Hill,
+      Tenn._
+    Roxbury. "A Friend," _for Central Ch., New
+      Orleans, La._                                   5.00
+                                                  --------        707.83
+  Boxford. First Cong. Ch.                                         36.82
+  Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Gloucester Ag.
+    and Indl. Sch., Cappahosic, Va._                               20.14
+  Braintree. First Cong. Ch.                                        6.97
+  Brockton. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for S. S. Work,
+    Mill Creek, Tenn._                                             10.00
+  Buckland. East District, by E. F. Smith, Treas.                   2.25
+  Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. (5.75 of which _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._)                                             50.95
+  Canton. Cong. Ch.                                               134.63
+  Charlemont. "A Friend"                                            2.00
+  Concord Junction. Union Ch.                                       1.00
+  Conway. Cong. Ch.                                                23.00
+  Dalton. Mrs. Zenas Crane, 30; Miss Clara L. Crane, 30, _for
+    Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                                 60.00
+  Dalton. Mrs. James B. Crane, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._     50.00
+  Danvers. Maple St. Cong. Ch. (10 of which _for Macon, Ga._),
+    ad'l to const. GEORGE B. SEARS, CHARLES H. PERRY, LUTHER
+    A. GUPPY, FRANK EVERETT, AURELIA W. PERRY, ESTHER W. KEMP,
+    ELIZABETH E. DODGE and MABEL G. ROSS L. M'S, 128.33; Sab.
+    Sch. Maple St. Cong. Ch., 5                                   133.33
+  Danvers. Sab. Sch. Maple St. Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                              30.00
+  Dunstable. Mrs. Fletcher, 50 cents; ----, Bbl. Mdse., _for
+    Meridian, Miss._                                                 .50
+  East Somerville. Sab. Sch. Franklin St. Cong. Ch.                10.00
+  Essex. Cong. Ch.                                                 23.00
+  Everett. First Cong. Ch., 26.56; Sab. Sch. Mystic Side Cong.
+    Ch., 5; Miss Mary Kent, 1                                      32.56
+  Framingham. Elizabeth Stone, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg
+    Acad., Ky._                                                     4.00
+  Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. John Wood                                5.00
+  Goshen. Cong. Soc.                                               12.16
+  Great Barrington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for C. E. Hall, McIntosh,
+    Ga._                                                           17.70
+  Hamilton. Mrs. E. M. Knowlton                                     3.00
+  Hanover. Pilgrim Conf.                                            1.08
+  Harvard. Cong. Ch.                                               10.00
+  Hatfield. Cong. Ch.                                              51.94
+  Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols (50 of which _for Talladega C._) 150.00
+  Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                   7.14
+  Holyoke. Circle of K. D. First Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                              10.00
+  Hubbardston. Cong. Ch.                                           14.87
+  Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                20.00
+  Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch.                                     15.52
+  Lakeville. W. H. M. Soc., by Mrs. A. C. Southworth, Sec.,
+    _for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch._                          15.00
+  Lawrence. Samuel White                                           30.00
+  Leominster. Miss Shedd's S. S. Class, _for Grand View, Tenn._    10.50
+  Lynn. Mary P. Stewart                                            12.00
+  Malden. First Ch.                                               109.72
+  Malden. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M., Fort Yates,
+    N. D._                                                         15.00
+  Mansfield. Cong. Ch.                                             17.70
+  Marion. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                           2.70
+  Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch.                                          11.00
+  Middleboro. First. Cong. Ch.                                     24.00
+  Middleboro. Sab. Sch. Central Cong. Ch.                           7.26
+  Middleton. Cong. Ch.                                              3.50
+  Middleton. Mrs. W. P. Landers, Bbl. Papers and C. _for Nat,
+    Ala._
+  Milford. Y. P. S. C. E., by H. L. Hunt, Treas., _for Student
+    Aid, Grand View Inst., Tenn._                                  25.00
+  Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., Miss M. A. Goodell                    5.00
+  Mittineague. Southworth Paper Co., Box of Paper _for Marion,
+    Ala._, and Box of Paper _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Medfield. "A Friend"                                             20.00
+  Medway. Village Cong. Ch., in part                               20.00
+  Monson. E. F. Morris, 100; Cong. Ch., 19.23                     119.23
+  Newburyport. Prospect St. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. MYRON
+    O. PATTON L. M.                                                56.06
+  Newburyport. North Cong. Ch., 27.44; Master Tom Carter, 25c      27.69
+  Newton Highlands. "Friends" _for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                                         50.00
+  Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch.                                   82.26
+  North Amherst. Friends, _for Student Aid, King's Mountain,
+    N. C._                                                          1.00
+  Northampton. "A Friend"                                         300.00
+  Oldtown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 4.90
+  Pepperell. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                       10.29
+  Pittsfield. ----, _for Freight to King's Mountain, N. C._         7.00
+  Pittsfield. Y. P. S. C. E. South Cong. Ch.                        5.00
+  Reading. W. M. S. Cong. Ch., Bbl of C. _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Rutland. Woman's Missionary Soc.                                  6.25
+  Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.                                   14.20
+  Salem. Crombie St. Ch., _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N. C._     12.00
+  Salem. "J. H. W.," _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._            2.00
+  South Braintree. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00
+  Southbridge. Mrs. Geo. Bradford                                  10.00
+  South Hadley. First Cong. Ch.                                    18.50
+  Southampton. Miss Ida Sutherland, Bbl. of C. _for Moorhead,
+    Miss._
+  Springfield. Park. Cong. Ch.                                     11.11
+  Taunton. Winslow Cong. Ch.                                       55.35
+  Templeton. Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.45; Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl.
+    C., _for McIntosh, Ga._                                         7.45
+  Uxbridge. Cong. Ch.                                              19.57
+  Ware. Miss S. R. Sage, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._            70.00
+  Ware. Mrs. S. R. Sage, _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N. C._      10.00
+  Wareham. C. E. Soc., _for Tougaloo U._                            5.00
+  Watertown. Ladies' Soc., Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for
+    Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Webster. Two Bbls. of C. _for Andersonville, Ga._
+  Westboro. C. E. Soc., Box Papers, friend prepaid, _for Pleasant
+    Hill, Tenn._
+  Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. Primary S. S. Thanksgiving Off.,
+    _for Student Aid, Fort Berthold, N. D._                        12.00
+  Westford. Y. P. S. C. E., by H. A. Bunce, Treasurer               5.50
+  West Medford. Cong. Ch.                                           7.00
+  West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.                             27.44
+  Whitman. "A Friend"                                               3.00
+  Winchester. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for Harrow Sch.,
+    Cumberland Gap, Tenn._                                         50.00
+  Winchester. ----, 3 Bbls. Mdse.; Ella C. Abbott, Pkg. Table
+    and Bed Linen, _for Meridian, Miss._
+  Worcester. Mary A. and Joanna F. Smith (60 of which to const.
+    FRED. J. FARRAR and MRS. SUSIE G. FARRAR L. M's)               75.00
+  Worcester. "A Friend," _for Library, Tougaloo U._                20.00
+  Wrentham. First Cong. Ch.                                         8.70
+  ----. "A Friend," _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                     12.00
+  ----. "A Friend of the Cause"                                     2.00
+  Hampden Benevolent Association, by Geo. R. Bond, Treas.:
+    Chicopee. First Ch.                               2.67
+    Ludlow. First Ch.                                13.56
+    Holyoke. First Ch.                               28.13
+    Feeding Hills. Ch.                                9.00
+    Palmer. Second Ch. (of which 7.32 _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._)                            27.20
+    Springfield. Hope Ch.                            26.49
+    West Springfield. First Ch. Ladies, 10 _for
+      Indian M., Fort Yates, N. D._ and 10 _for
+      Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                 20.00
+                                                   -------        127.05
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Association of Mass. and
+    R. I., Miss Annie C. Bridgman, Treas., _for Woman's
+    Work_:
+      W. H. M. A., _for Salaries of Teachers_       680.00
+      Boston. Central Ch. Ladies Aux., _for Three
+        Schps., Nat, Ala._                           90.00
+      Dedham                                          5.00
+      Gloucester, Ladies' Aux.                        5.00
+                                                   -------        780.00
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $9,260.02
+
+   ESTATE.
+
+   Boston. Estate of Elizabeth C. Parkhurst, by Elmore
+     F. Brackett, Executor                                      5,000.00
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $9,260.02
+
+  CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+
+  South Berwick. M. Ladies of Cong. Soc., Bbl. C. _for Blowing
+    Rock, N. C._
+  Boston. Mrs. Kendall, Pulpit Bible _for Enfield, N. C._
+  Lanesville, Mass. W. L. Saunders, Box Men's C. _for Charlotte,
+    N. C._
+  Medford, Mass. Miss Fanny Washburn, Pkg. C. _for Charlotte, N. C._
+  Wellfleet, Mass. Mrs. Geo. S. Holbrook, Bedding _for Enfield, N. C._
+  Cranston, R. I. Rev. D. C. Torrey, Picture Rolls, Papers, etc.
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $92.47.
+
+  Bristol. First Cong. Ch.                                         41.68
+  Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                              46.60
+  Providence. Y. P. S. C. E. of North Cong. Ch.                     4.19
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,155.62.
+
+  Abington. "Friends in Cong. Ch."                                  3.00
+  Barkhamstead. First. Cong. Ch.                                    1.71
+  Berlin. Infant Class Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Moorhead, Miss._       5.00
+  Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch., 10.25; Second Con. Ch., Chas.
+    A. Miller, 1                                                   11.25
+  Buckingham. Cong. Ch., ad'l                                       1.00
+  Burlington. Cong. Sab. Sch. and Friends, _for Children's Aid_     3.00
+  Chester. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch., New Orleans,
+    La._                                                           40.00
+  Chester. Cong. Ch.                                               23.75
+  Clinton. Birthday offerings of a class of little children, by
+   Mrs. E. E. Post, _for Grand View, Tenn._                         1.67
+  Colchester. First Cong. Ch.                                      16.25
+  Cromwell. E. S. Coe, 15; R. S. Griswold, 1, _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                              16.00
+  East Haddam. "A Friend"                                           5.00
+  East Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                          30.97
+  East Hartford. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding, etc., _for
+    Athens, Ala._
+  Easton. Cong. Ch.                                                23.66
+  East Woodstock. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Indl. Sch.,
+    Thomasville, Ga._                                              13.00
+  Ekonk. Rev. John Elderkin, for self and wife, 6; for son and
+    a deceased daughter, 4                                         10.00
+  Ellington, Cong. Ch., by H. L. James, Treas. Tolland Co. Conf.   92.80
+  Fairfield. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Mountain Work_              25.00
+  Farmington. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., ad'l., _for Schp., Tougaloo U._ 41.26
+  Greenwich. Cong. Ch., _for Selma, Ala._                          24.00
+  Groton. Cong. Ch. Jr. Soc. of C. E.                               5.00
+  Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford                                   20.00
+  Hartford. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            50.00
+  Hartford. Warburton Chapel Sab. Sch.                             17.62
+  Hartford. Windsor Av. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                  10.00
+  Lisbon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Indl. Sch., Thomasville
+    Ga._, 6; "A Friend," 1, bal. to const. NELLIE S. CARPENTER
+    L. M.                                                           7.00
+  Lyme. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._                      5.00
+  Meriden. Miss Annie M. Wilcox, _for Central Ch., New Orleans,
+    La._                                                            3.00
+  Middlefield. "Mizpah" Circle of K. D., _for Mountain Work_        3.00
+  Middletown. Individual, by E. P. Augur, Treas.                    6.00
+  Milton. Cong. Ch.                                                 8.13
+  New Britain. Mrs. J. B. Smith, 1 Box Patch Work Pieces _for
+    Tougaloo U._
+  New Canaan. W. H. M. S. of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Indl. Sch.,
+    Thomasville, Ga._                                              26.00
+  New Canaan. Cong. Ch.                                            40.52
+  New Haven. Howard Ave. Ch.                                       35.89
+  New Haven. Mrs. J. Y. Leonard, 5; United Ch., Mrs. R. I.
+    Miner, 5; Mrs. Samuel McQueen, 5; _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                  15.00
+  New Haven. United Ch., Mrs. D. M. Corthelle, _for Central
+    Ch., New Orleans, La._                                          1.00
+  New Haven. Mrs. J. H. Burton, Box Books _for McIntosh, Ga._
+  North Guilford. Miss Rossiter, _for Athens, Ala._                 4.50
+  Norwich. Mrs. M. F. Norton, _for Student Aid, Wilmington,
+    N. C._                                                         10.00
+  Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Books, etc., _for Athens,
+    Ala._
+  Norwich. "Friends," 2 Bbls. C. _for McIntosh, Ga._
+  Plainville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                  20.00
+  Rockville. Union Cong. Ch.                                       18.87
+  Sound Beach. First Cong. Ch.                                     24.00
+  Southport. Miss Eliza A. Bulkley, 40; Miss Georgie A.
+    Bulkley, 40                                                    80.00
+  Stafford Springs. Cong. Ch.                                      14.70
+  Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                        24.85
+  Suffield. ----, Bbl. C. and Material _for Sewing Class,
+    King's Mountain, N. C._
+  Thomaston. First Cong. Ch.                                        8.19
+  Torrington. M. W. A. Miller, 20 Bibles, 20 Testaments, _for
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+  Vernon Center Cong. Ch.                                          17.30
+  Voluntown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                     2.00
+  Watertown. Alert Boys of Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._         6.00
+  Windham. So. Windham Branch of First Ch.                          1.38
+  Westbrook. Cong. Ch.                                             23.96
+  Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                                         81.75
+  Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                        25.39
+
+  Woman's Cong. Home Missionary Union of Conn., Mrs. W. W.
+    Jacobs, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Bridgeport. Park. St. Ch. Aux.                 25.00
+      Danbury. Y. L. M. Soc.                          2.25
+      East Haven. Aux.                               17.50
+      Hartford. First Ch.                            10.00
+      New Britain. So. Ch. S. S. Class No. 55         3.50
+      Orange. L. H. M. S.                            13.00
+      Putnam, L. H. M. S.                            50.00
+                                                   -------        121.25
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $1,125.62
+
+  ESTATE.
+
+  Groton. Estate of Mrs. B. N. Hurlbutt                            30.00
+                                                               ---------
+                                                               $1,155.62
+
+
+NEW YORK, $6,399.36.
+
+  Albany. First Cong. Ch.                                          22.64
+  Angola. Miss A. H. Ames                                           5.00
+  Bristol. Cong. Ch.                                               10.00
+  Brooklyn. Mrs. Julia E. Brick, _for Joseph K. Brick,
+    Agricultural, Industrial and Normal Sch., Enfield, N. C._   1,000.00
+  Brooklyn. Tompkins Ave. Cong. Ch.               1,000.00
+    Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch.                          500.00
+    "A Friend"                                      150.00
+    South Cong. Ch.                                 102.15
+                                                 ---------      1,752.15
+  Brooklyn. Clinton Av. C. E., _for Hillsboro, N. C._              10.00
+  Brooklyn. Y. P. S. C. E. of South Cong. Ch., _for Pleasant
+    Hill, Tenn._                                                   10.00
+  Brooklyn. Miss Elsie M. Hodge, _for Student Aid, Wilmington,
+    N. C._                                                          8.00
+  Brooklyn. "Friend" in South Ch., 5; "A Thank Offering," 2,
+    _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                             7.00
+  Buffalo. First Cong. Ch., 50; Niagara Sq. People's Ch., 12.64;
+    T. D. Desmond, 5                                               67.64
+  Canandaigua. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for Santee Indian Sch._ 33.40
+  Cortland. Cong. Ch.                                              30.50
+  Crown Point. Y. P. S. C. E., by May M. Washburne                  5.00
+  East Bloomfield. Frederic Munson, to const. ABBY KINGSBURY L. M. 30.00
+  East Bloomfield. Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin, _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                   5.00
+  East Otto. Cong. Ch.                                              3.50
+  Gainesville. Cong. Ch.                                            5.63
+  Holland Patent. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                   3.73
+  Jamestown. First Cong. Ch.                                      182.17
+  Lisbon. Cong. Ch. (of which Frank Benedict, 1; Silas W.
+    Seymour, 1; Alfred Seymour, 1)                                  7.40
+  Massena. Cong. Ch.                                                5.00
+  McGrawville. H. D. Corey                                          1.00
+  Napoli. Cong. Ch.                                                 5.53
+  Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.                                         13.54
+  New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch., in part (20 of which
+    _for Moorhead, Miss._)                                      1,845.86
+  New York. Broadway Tab., 23; Broadway Tab., "A Friend," 10,
+    _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._                            33.00
+  New York. "Cash"                                                100.00
+  New York. Misses E. and M. Collins, _for Gloucester Sch.,
+    Cappahosic, Va._                                               50.00
+  Perry Center. Cong. Ch.                                          13.77
+  Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch., D.C. Mathews, _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                               5.00
+  Port Richmond. Capt. S. Squire                                    5.00
+  Riverhead. Boys' S. S. Class, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg
+    Acad., Ky._                                                     1.25
+  Riverside-on-Hudson. Mrs. William E. Dodge, 2 Boxes Books and
+    Magazines, _for Library, Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._
+  Rochester. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Ch., 14.60; Plym. Ch., Jos.
+    W. Robbins, 5, _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._             19.60
+  Rochester. South Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C. and Books _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  Saratoga Springs. Cong. Ch.                                      30.00
+  Sing Sing. Miss E. L. Parsons, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         4.50
+  Spencerport. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. (10.08 of which
+    _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._, bal. to const. MRS.
+    ADA NICHOLS L. M.)                                             22.84
+  Spencerport. Cong. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                   8.00
+  Syracuse. Mrs. E. B. Cobb, Bbl. of C. _for Hillsboro, N. C._
+  Troy. Mrs. John Neher, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va._    20.00
+  Union Falls. Francis E. Duncan                                   13.61
+  Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge                                        5.00
+  Warsaw. Cong. Ch.                                                 9.48
+  West Brooklyn. Miss Myra Manley                                   1.00
+  Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                 2.00
+  West Newark. D. J. Borthwick, _for Central Ch., New Orleans,
+    La._                                                            3.00
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union of New York, by Mrs. Minnie H.
+    Pearsall, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Brooklyn. Class C, Tompkins Av. S. S., _for
+        Student Aid, King's Mountain_                 1.00
+      Canandaigua. W. M. S., _for Student Aid,
+        King's Mt._                                  12.62
+      East Albany. S. S.                              5.00
+      Evans. W. M. S., _for Student Aid, Fort
+        Berthold, N. D._                             10.00
+      Fairport. W. H. M. U.                           5.00
+      Homer. Mrs. B. W. Payne                         5.00
+      Ithaca. Jr. C. E., _for Student Aid,
+        King's Mt._                                   5.00
+      Northville. W. H. M. U.                         5.00
+      Oswego. W. M. S., _for Student Aid,
+        Williamsburg Acad._                           5.00
+      Paris. Judd Mission Band                        9.00
+      Phoenix. W. M. S., _for Student Aid,
+        Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                         50.00
+      West Winfield. C. E. Soc., _for Central Ch.,
+        New Orleans, La._                             15.00
+      Woodhaven. Girls' Jun. C. E. S., _for Student
+        Aid, Moorhead, Miss._                         10.00
+                                                    -------       137.62
+                                                              ----------
+                                                               $5,554.36
+
+  ESTATES.
+
+  Homer. Estate of Sarah E. K. Hobart                             345.00
+  Lake Grove, Long Island. Estate of Rev. Otis Holmes,
+    by Rev. Henry M. Holmes, Executor                             500.00
+                                                              ----------
+                                                               $6,399.36
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $397.63.
+
+  East Orange. Trinity Ch. (5 of which _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._) to const. MRS. EMMA A. HOWELL, JOHN
+    TURNER and WILL SIBLING L. M's                                187.00
+  East Orange. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                        20.00
+  Jersey City. Tabernacle Ch. (7.90 of which _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._)                                             23.70
+  Jersey City. First Cong. Ch., Dea. W. J. Hunt                    20.00
+  Morristown. "Friend," 2.50, and 2 Bbls. Literature and C.,
+    _for Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._                                2.50
+  Morristown. Mission Band, Monroe Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._                                8.00
+  Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch., New
+    Orleans, La._                                                  10.25
+  Newfield. "A Friend"                                              2.00
+  Plainfield. Jr. C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                               4.18
+  Stanley. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00
+  Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (51 of which
+    _for Central Ch., New Orleans, La._)                          100.00
+  Woodbridge. Cong. Ch., Wm. E. Fink, 5, _for Central Ch.,
+    New Orleans, La._                                               5.00
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $85.46.
+
+  Chester. Mrs. E. W. Lieper, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic,
+    Va._                                                            5.00
+  East Smithfield. W. H. M. S., by Miss Maria Perkins, Sec.,
+    _for Freedmen_                                                  3.80
+  Germantown. M. C. Cope, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va._   50.00
+  Germantown, First Cong. Ch.                                      11.66
+  Philadelphia. Mrs. Josiah Morris and Sister, _for Student Aid,
+    Wilmington, N. C._                                             12.00
+  Shire Oaks. Jane Wilson                                           3.00
+
+
+OHIO, $688.42.
+
+  Canaan. Union Ch., _for C. E. Hall, McIntosh, Ga._                5.00
+  Cincinnati. Walnut Hills Cong. Ch. (60 of which to const.
+    GEORGE MONTEITH and E. W. HYDE L. M's)                         80.99
+  Claridon. L. T. Wilmot, bal. to const. FRED. WILMOT L. M.        10.00
+  Cleveland. Pilgrim C. E. Soc., 20; Mrs. Gibbons, 5; Mrs.
+    McAdams, 5; Mrs. A. W. Knowlton, 3; Miss Smith, 1, _for
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                                 34.00
+  Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E., _for
+    Cumberland Gap, Tenn._                                          9.00
+  Cleveland. C. E. S. Hough Ave. Ch., Box Books and Mags. _for
+    Pleasant Hill, Tenn._
+  Columbus. First Cong. Ch.                                       173.07
+  Conneaut. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                  20.00
+  Creston. Rev. W. A. Knowlton, 2; Pres. W. H. M. S., 2; Claude
+    McElvaine, 2, _for McIntosh, Ga._                               6.00
+  Hudson. Cong. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New Orleans,
+    La._                                                            5.00
+  Lenox. Cong. Ch., 6; W. M. Soc., 10., by Rev. F. W. Link         16.00
+  Madison. Central. Cong. Ch.                                      14.96
+  Madison. Central Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. and Box of C. _for
+    Andersonville, Ga._
+  Marysville. Cong. Ch.                                             3.50
+  Medina. First Cong. Ch., A. I. Root, 25; Y. P. S. C. E., 25;
+    Jun. End. S., 5; J. S. Warner, 5; Ch. Members, 9, _for Mountain
+    Work_, and bal. to const. PROF. E. C. STICKEL, ROBERT EDWARDS,
+    H. HEADY, D. EDDY and MISS GRACE ADAMS L. M's                  69.00
+  New Milford. Mrs. E. G. Prindle                                   2.00
+  Oberlin. Mrs. A. T. Reed, Bbl. C. _for McIntosh, Ga._
+  Olmsted. Second Cong. Ch.                                        10.70
+  Parkman. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                                  6.00
+  Painesville. First Cong. Ch.                                     32.14
+  Ravenna. Cong. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Central Ch., New Orleans,
+    La._                                                            3.22
+  Sandusky. First Cong. Ch.                                        43.54
+  Senecaville. Rev. Evans Thompson                                  1.00
+  Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 5; C. E. Soc., 5; Ladies' Soc.,
+    2; Primary Sab. Sch., 2, _for Campton, Ky._                    14.00
+  Temple. Cong. Ch., _for Macon, Ga._                               8.25
+  ----. ----, _for Freight to Memphis, Tenn._                       1.60
+
+ Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. G. B. Brown,
+   Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+     Ashtabula. W. M. S.                              9.00
+     Chatham. Mission Band                            3.00
+     Cleveland. Mt. Zion W. M. S.                     3.60
+     Hudson. W. H. M. S.                              5.00
+     Marietta. First Y. L. M. S.                     15.00
+     Mount Vernon. W. M. S., to const. MISS ABBIE
+       ATWOOD L. M.                                  30.00
+     Painesville. Y. P. S. C. E.                      2.00
+                                                    ------         67.60
+                                                                --------
+                                                                 $636.57
+
+  ESTATE.
+
+  Oberlin. Estate of Amanda Porter, by Judge J. E. Ingersoll       51.85
+                                                                --------
+                                                                 $688.42
+
+
+INDIANA, $205.00.
+
+  Angola. "A Friend," Elgin Watch _for a Teacher, King's
+    Mountain, N. C._
+  East Chicago. First Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  ----. "Dorothy"                                                 200.00
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $690.73.
+
+  Chicago. New England Ch. "A Friend," 20; Rev. Willard Scott,
+    D.D., 10                                                       30.00
+  Creston. Cong Ch.                                                10.41
+  Dover. Cong Ch.                                                  14.80
+  Evansville. Cong. Ch.                                            15.80
+  Granville. Cong. Ch.                                             30.11
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                              67.30
+  Huntley. Cong. Ch.                                                6.15
+  Illini. Cong. Ch.                                                 6.25
+  Joliet. First Presb. Ch., Box of Books, etc., Freight 1.38,
+    _for Macon, Ga._                                                1.38
+  Lee Center. Cong. Ch.                                            21.25
+  Lombard. First Ch.                                               20.00
+  Lowell. V. G. Lutz                                                1.00
+  Morgan Park. Mrs. M. Thomson                                      5.00
+  Paxton. Cong. Ch.                                               100.00
+  Payson. J. K. Scarborough                                       100.00
+  Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens                                        5.00
+  Poplar Grove. Cong. Ch.                                          14.00
+  Princeton. Cong. Ch.                                             51.89
+  Ridgeland. Cong. Ch.                                             13.28
+  Rockefeller. Cong. Ch.                                            3.33
+  Roseville. Mrs. S. C. Autell, Bbl. of Hats _for Moorhead, Miss._
+  Shabbona. Miss B. M. Langford, C. E., _for Student Aid,
+    Moorhead Sch., Miss._                                           5.00
+  Sterling. First Cong. Ch.                                        30.13
+  Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                       14.94
+  Toulon. Miss A. M. Smith's Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                                   1.25
+
+  Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, Mrs. L. A. Field, Treas.,
+    _for Woman's Work_:
+      Ashkum. Y. P. S. C. E.                          2.00
+      Chicago. New Eng. W. M. S.                     54.50
+      Chicago. Lincoln Park W. M. S.                  6.00
+      Chicago. Cal. Ave. W. M. S.                     3.00
+      Elmhurst. Mission Band                          1.00
+      Emington. W. M. S.                              1.00
+      Illini. W. M. S.                                6.86
+      La Salle. W. M. S.                              4.10
+      Rockford. Second Ch. W. M. S.                  18.00
+      Sandwich. W. M. S.                             10.00
+      Waukegan. W. M. S.                             16.00
+                                                    ------        122.46
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $161.72.
+
+  Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.                                       18.49
+  Baldwin. Cong. Ch. Y. P. S. C. E.                                 3.10
+  Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch.                                    10.00
+  Hart. First Cong. Ch.                                             7.25
+  Hillsdale. Mrs. Mary I. Mead                                      1.00
+  Imlay City. First Cong. Ch., 5; C. E. Soc., 2, by Ellen
+    Walker, Ch. Treas.                                              7.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mr. J. A. Kent                                         5.00
+  Manistee. Cong. Ch., by H. N. Dustin, Treas.                      8.00
+  Morenci. Bbl. of C. _for Athens, Ala._
+  Olivet. Mrs. Wm. Hickok, _for Dodge Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._   5.00
+  Olivet. Miss May Ely, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._             5.00
+  Portland. Cong. Ch., 15.78; Sab. Sch., Cong. Ch., 1.85           17.63
+  Three Oaks. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. FRANK FOX L. M.      49.00
+  Watervliet. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                      19.75
+  Whittaker. Cong. Ch.                                              2.00
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Graybill,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Hopkins Station. W. H. M. U.                    1.50
+      Pontiac. W. H. M. S., _for Schp., Pleasant
+        Hill, Tenn._                                  2.00
+                                                     -----          3.50
+
+
+IOWA, $598.99.
+
+  Almoral. Cong. Ch.                                                7.64
+  Belknap.                                                          2.31
+  Cass. Cong. Ch.                                                  16.50
+  Castleville. Cong. Ch., _for Chinese M._                          5.00
+  Cedar Rapids. Band Willing Workers, by Mrs. L. R. Munger, _for
+    Student Aid, Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._                        1.00
+  Cedar Rapids. Mission Band of Willing Workers of First Cong.
+    Ch., Box C. and Bedding _for Tougaloo U._
+  Cincinnati. Cong. Ch.                                             3.00
+  Clarion. Cong. Ch.                                                4.41
+  Council Bluff. Mrs. Helen Montgomery, _for Dodge Hall, Pleasant
+    Hill, Tenn._                                                    1.00
+  Cromwell. Young People's Miss. Society, Box Bedding, by Mrs.
+    C. M. Bacon, _for Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga._
+  Danville. Cong. Ch.                                              14.50
+  Des Moines. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                      78.92
+  Grinnell. Mrs. J. D. Brainard, Bbl. C. _for King's Mountain,
+    N. C._
+  Humboldt. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch., _for Macon, Ga._                 5.00
+  Lake View. Mrs. V. R. Anson, Pkg. Sewing Material and Literature
+    _for Beach Inst., Savannah, Ga._
+  Lewis. Bear Grove Y. P. S. C. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga._                                 3.00
+  Manchester. Cong. Ch.                                            27.31
+  Monticello. Cong. Ch., ad'l                                       1.00
+  Monticello. Mrs. R. C. Stirton, 450 vols. Books _for Library,
+    Tougaloo U._
+  Muscatine. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. L. G. KENT L. M.      45.00
+  Nashua. Cong. Ch.                                                 5.00
+  Oskaloosa. Cong. Ch.                                             20.78
+  Red Oaks. Ladies' Miss. Society, Bbl. Literature, by Mrs. Paul
+    Clark, _for Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga._
+  Riceville. Cong. Ch.                                              5.83
+  Rowen. Cong. Ch.                                                  7.00
+  Tabor. Cong. Ch.                                                 25.33
+  Waterloo. Cong. Ch. (10 of which from Rev. M. K. Cross)          67.00
+  Williams. L. A. S. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Literature _for Beach
+    Institute, Savannah, Ga._
+
+  Iowa Woman's Home Missionary Union, Miss Belle L. Bentley,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Afton. Jr. C. E.                                1.00
+      Algona. W. M. S.                               20.00
+      Anita. W. M. S.                                 6.20
+      Bear Grove. W. M. S.                            6.02
+      Burlington. W. M. S.                           20.00
+      Cedar Falls. Y. P. S. C. E.                     5.00
+      Cedar Rapids. First W. M. S.                    4.20
+      Council Bluffs. W. M. S.                       10.00
+      Des Moines. "Plym. Rock Miss. Soc."             5.00
+      Des Moines. Plym. W. M. S.                     11.83
+      Emmetsburg. Cong. Ch., 6.15; Sab. Sch.
+        Cong. Ch., 3.85; W. M. S., 4                 14.00
+      Fairfield. W. M. S.                             6.00
+      Glenwood. W. M. S.                             12.00
+      Grinnell. W. M. S., 39.80; Boys' and Girls'
+        Army, 5; Y. W. F. M. S., 4.50                49.30
+      Hampton W. M. S.                                5.00
+      Harlan. Council B. Assn.                       15.70
+      Lewis. W. M. S.                                10.00
+      Lyons. W. M. S.                                 1.00
+      McGregor. Two Primary S. S. Classes             1.37
+      McGregor. A. P. D.                              1.63
+      Marshalltown. W. M. S.                          6.25
+      Mason City. W. M. S.                            2.03
+      Ogden. Y. M. S.                                 2.00
+      Rockford. W. M. S.                              2.85
+      Tabor. W. M. S.                                18.56
+      Stuart. L. H. and F. M. S.                     10.50
+      Webster City. Mrs. J. D. McMurray               5.00
+                                                  --------       $252.44
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $69.71.
+
+  Baraboo. Cong. Ch.                                                9.25
+  Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     18.32
+  Clintonville. First Cong. Ch.                                     6.97
+  Delevan. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                                      6.00
+  Le Grange. Miss Nellie Bishop, _for Memphis, Tenn._               6.25
+  Menasha. Correction. E. D. Smith, 500. Incorrectly ack.
+    in November number from Menasha, Iowa.
+  Milwaukee. L. M. S., Prot. Home for Aged, _for Mountain Work_     1.50
+  Nekoosa. Cong. Ch., 7.12; Mr. A. L. McClelland, 2.25, _for
+    Student Aid, Straight U._                                       9.37
+  Oak Center. Mrs. S. B. Howard, _for Indian M._                    2.00
+  Rosendale. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                                 2.05
+  Wauwatosa. L. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                                5.00
+  Whitewater. Miss Mary Warne, _for Memphis, Tenn._                 3.00
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $173.64.
+
+  Benson. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                         1.30
+  Etna. Y. P. S. C. E., _for Jonesboro, Tenn._                      5.00
+  Glenwood. Cong. Ch.                                              10.00
+  Lake Park. Ladies' Aid Soc., by Ella Higley, Treas.               7.50
+  Litchfield. Mrs. De Caster, _for Student Aid, Meridian, Miss._    7.50
+  Mapleton. Miss Nellie Bishop, _for Memphis, Tenn._               15.25
+  Mazeppa. Bbl. of C. _for Marion, Ala._
+  Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                        26.29
+  Princeton. First Cong. Ch.                                        6.00
+  St. Paul. Atlantic Cong. Ch.                                      2.50
+  Spring Valley. Negro, Indian and Chinese Soc., by Sarah E.
+    Flower, Treas., _for N., I. and C. Work_, 5 each               15.00
+
+  Minnesota Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. M. W. Skinner,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Alexandria.                                    10.00
+      Lamberton.                                      2.00
+      Minneapolis. Plymouth, 15.10; Park Ave.,
+        13.71; Lyndale Jr. C. E. Soc., 5;
+        Silver Lake, 4; First, 1.88                  39.69
+      St. Paul. Park, 3.75; Miss. Union, 5.36         9.11
+      St. Cloud. Jr. C. E. S.                         1.50
+      Winona. Mrs. C. N. McLaughlin, Special         15.00
+                                                  --------        $77.30
+
+
+KANSAS, $86.42.
+
+  Council Grove. Cong. Ch.                                         12.68
+  Humboldt. "Two Sisters," 6 _for Freedmen_, 1 _for Mountain
+    Work_, 1 _for Thunderhawk M._                                   8.00
+  Manhattan. First Cong. Ch.                                       22.85
+  Partridge. Cong. Ch.                                              3.00
+  Seabrook. Cong. Ch., 3.14; Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.34                  4.48
+  Stockton. Cong. Ch.                                               1.00
+  White City. Rev. E. Richards                                      2.24
+
+  Kansas Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. E. C. Read,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Axtell.                                         1.00
+      Dover.                                          3.00
+      Eureka.                                         3.00
+      Eureka. C. E.                                   5.00
+      Herndon.                                        2.00
+      Kansas City. First Ch.                         10.00
+      Kansas City. Pilgrim, "Little Pat"              1.02
+      McDonald.                                        .15
+      Ridgeway. Mission Soc.                          2.50
+      Stafford.                                       1.00
+      Udall.                                          2.50
+      Wellsville.                                     1.00
+                                                    ------         32.17
+
+
+MISSOURI, $217.41.
+
+  Bonne Terre. Cong. Ch.                                           11.65
+  Cole Camp. Cong. Ch.                                             11.45
+  Green Ridge. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+  Old Orchard. Cong. Ch.                                           22.51
+  Saint Louis. Cong. Ch., Pilgrim, 11.76; Cong. Ch., Compton
+    Hill, 5.60; Cong. Ch., Olive Branch, 3.50; Cong. Ch., Hope,
+    3.07; Cong. Ch., Redeemer, 2.10                                26.03
+  Sedalia. Second Cong. Ch.                                         1.57
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Missouri, Mrs. K. L. Mills,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Meadville. Cong. Ch. L. H. M. S.                6.00
+      Kansas City. First Ch. Ladies' Union.          27.00
+      Kansas City. Clyde Ch. Ladies' Union.          12.20
+      St. Louis Pilgrim Ch. L. H. M. S.              95.00
+      St. Louis. First Ch. L. H. M. S.                3.00
+                                                    ------        143.20
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $44.27.
+
+  Curtis. Cong. Ch.                                                 2.67
+  Grafton. Willie Stuckey                                           1.60
+
+ Woman's Home Missionary Union, of Nebraska, by Mrs. James W.
+   Dawes, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+     W. H. M. U. of Neb.                                           40.00
+
+
+NORTH DAKOTA, $110.00.
+
+  Fort Berthold. Cong. Ch. S. S. and Cong., _for music, Fort
+    Berthold, N. D._                                              100.00
+  Fort Berthold. Miss. A. R. Creighton.                             5.00
+  Mayville, C. E. Soc., by J. P. Haber                              5.00
+
+
+SOUTH DAKOTA, $18.43.
+
+  Beresford. Cong. Ch.                                              4.00
+  Columbia. Cong. Ch.                                               3.96
+  Huron. Woman's Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._             1.50
+  Mission Hill. Rev. D. B. Nichols                                  2.62
+  Pioneer. Cong. Ch.                                                1.60
+  Rapid City. Cong. Ch.                                             4.75
+
+
+COLORADO, $29.45.
+
+  Colorado Springs. Second Cong. Ch.                               19.45
+  Highland Lake. Church of Christ                                   5.00
+  Manitou. Carrie Bradley                                           5.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $457.47.
+
+  Belmont. Mrs. E. L. Reed                                         10.00
+  Ontario. Cong. Ch., 36.65, to const. RICHARD C. WILLIAMS L. M.;
+    Y. P. S. C. E. of Cong. Ch., 5.                                41.65
+  Pasadena. Cong. Ch.                                              18.65
+  Redlands. First Cong. Ch.                                        36.72
+  San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission, Wm. Johnstone,
+    Treas. (see items below)                                      332.45
+  Tulare. "A Friend," _for Hospital, Fort Yates, N. D._            10.00
+
+  Woman's Home Missionary Union of Southern Cal., by Mary M.
+    Smith, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Highlands. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.                  5.00
+      Ontario. W. M. Soc.                             3.00
+                                                   -------          8.00
+
+
+OREGON, $18.04.
+
+  Forest Grove. First Cong. Ch.                                    16.04
+  Salem. Wm. Staiger                                                2.00
+
+
+WASHINGTON, $1.00.
+
+  Anacortes. Geo. M. Hagadorn                                       1.00
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $20.00.
+
+  Washington. Rev. B. N. Seymour                                   20.00
+
+
+VIRGINIA, $1.75.
+
+  Gloucester, R. H. Hogg, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va._     .50
+  ----. G. H. Harris, 25 c.; Miss L. A. V. Harris, 50 c.; _for
+    Gloucester, Sch., Cappahosic Va._                                .75
+  ----. M. O. Lockley, _for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va._        .50
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $6.75.
+
+  Campton. "Friends," by Sarah G. Street                            3.25
+  Carpenter. Ch., by Rev. S. Sutton                                 1.50
+  Red Ash. Cong. Ch.                                                2.00
+  Williamsburg. Ky. Lumber Co., 1 Old Iron Chimney, _for
+    Williamsburg, Ky._
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $132.94.
+
+  Knoxville. Miss. I. F. Hubbard, _for Knoxville, Tenn._           12.28
+  Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Menken, _for Kindergarten,
+    Memphis, Tenn._                                               100.00
+  Memphis. Woman's Miss. Union, by Rev. G. V. Clark, _for
+    Santee Indian M._                                              10.00
+  Nashville. Rev. F. A. Chase, 5; Rev. A. K. Spence, 3.66           8.66
+  Nashville. Rev. H. H. Wright, _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._     2.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $5.44.
+
+  Beaufort. First Cong. Ch.                                         2.00
+  High Point. Cong. Ch.                                             1.25
+  Melville. Cong. Ch.                                               2.19
+
+
+GEORGIA, $2.92.
+
+  McIntosh. Carrie A. Whitaker, _for C. E. Hall_                     .68
+  Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., 1.47; Rev. J. Loyd, 63c.; Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstacke, 14c.                                                2.24
+
+
+FLORIDA, $12.50.
+
+  Orange Park. Rev. Truman S. Perry                                10.00
+
+  Florida Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. W. D. Brown,
+    Treas., _for Woman's Work_:
+      Interlachen. Philips Ch. Aux.                                 2.50
+
+
+ALABAMA, $20.51.
+
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                                 6.37
+  Marion. Trinity Sch., _for Athens, Ala._                          8.14
+  Ironaton. Rev. P. O. Wailes                                       4.00
+  Shelby. Abraham Lincoln Cent Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 1.34;
+    Rev. A. Simmons, 66c.                                           2.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $24.00.
+
+  Tougaloo. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                        20.00
+  Tougaloo. Frank H. Ball, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._           4.00
+
+
+ARKANSAS, $1.25.
+
+  Helena. Normal Sch.                                               1.25
+
+
+TEXAS, $5.00.
+
+  Helena. Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. F. H. Allen, _for Orange
+    Park, Fla._                                                     5.00
+
+
+CANADA, $5.00.
+
+  Montreal. Chas. Alexander                                         5.00
+
+
+ENGLAND, $500.00.
+
+  London. Mrs. M. A. Allen, _for Memphis, Tenn._                  500.00
+
+
+TURKEY, $6.60.
+
+  Marsovan. Girls in the Boarding Sch., by Martha A. King,
+    _for Alaska M._                                                 6.60
+
+
+ASIA, $10.00.
+
+  North China. "Two American Ladies," by John M. Gould,
+    Portland, Me.                                                  10.00
+                                                              ----------
+
+Donations                                                     $16,679.53
+
+Estates                                                         7,830.50
+                                                              ----------
+
+                                                              $24,510.03
+
+
+INCOME, $775.00.
+
+  Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                        525.00
+  Haley Schp. Fund, _for Fisk U._                    25.00
+  Hastings Schp. Fund, _for Atlanta U._              18.75
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                 43.75
+  Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                75.00
+  Plumb Schp. Fund, _for Fisk U._                    50.00
+  Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._                  37.50
+                                                  --------        775.00
+
+
+TUITION, $4,010.88.
+
+  Cappahosic, Va. Tuition                            24.64
+  Evarts, Ky. Tuition                                24.00
+  Williamsburg, Ky. Tuition                          29.62
+  Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition                            9.30
+  Knoxville, Tenn. Tuition                           34.10
+  Memphis, Tenn. Tuition                            568.75
+  Nashville, Tenn. Tuition                          867.72
+  Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition                       58.55
+  Beaufort, N. C. Tuition                            18.45
+  Blowing Rock, N. C. Tuition                         4.86
+  Chapel Hill, N. C. Tuition                          6.75
+  Enfield, N. C. Tuition                              4.00
+  Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition                           23.25
+  King's Mountain, N. C. Tuition                     25.00
+  Saluda, N. C. Tuition                              15.75
+  Wilmington, N. C. Tuition                         194.75
+  Whittier, N. C. Tuition                             9.27
+  Charleston, S. C. Tuition                         327.75
+  Greenwood, S. C. Tuition                           44.86
+  Albany, Ga. Tuition                               150.00
+  Andersonville, Ga. Tuition                          4.40
+  Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch. Tuition                  157.20
+  Macon, Ga. Tuition                                269.79
+  Marietta, Ga. Tuition                               8.75
+  McIntosh, Ga. Tuition                              28.11
+  Savannah, Ga. Tuition                             178.27
+  Woodville, Ga. Tuition                              1.90
+  Athens, Ala. Tuition                               43.80
+  Marion, Ala. Tuition                               36.17
+  Nat, Ala. Tuition                                  68.47
+  Selma, Ala. Tuition                               102.80
+  Talladega, Ala. Tuition                             6.70
+  Martin, Fla. Public Fund                           20.00
+  Orange Park, Fla. Tuition                          45.75
+  Meridian, Miss. Tuition                            63.00
+  Moorhead, Miss. Tuition                             6.30
+  New Orleans, La. Tuition                          487.80
+  Helena, Ark. Tuition                               40.30
+                                                 ---------      4,010.88
+                                                              ----------
+  Total for November                                          $29,295.91
+                                                              ==========
+
+
+SUMMARY.
+
+  Donations                                                   $28,232.59
+  Estates                                                      19,569.54
+                                                              ----------
+                                                              $47,802.13
+
+  Income                                                          775.00
+  Tuition                                                       4,661.11
+                                                              ----------
+  Total from Oct. 1 to Nov. 30                                $53,238.24
+                                                              ==========
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions for November                                      $28.90
+  Previously acknowledged                                          24.15
+                                                                 -------
+  Total                                                           $53.05
+
+
+RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, from October 17 to
+  November 15, 1895. William Johnstone, Treas.
+
+  FROM LOCAL MISSIONS:
+
+    Applicable to expenses of the current fiscal year.
+
+    Fresno. Chinese Mon. Offs.                        3.75
+    Los Angeles. Chinese Mon. Offs.                   4.40
+    Marysville. Chinese Mon. Offs.                    7.40
+    Oroville. Chinese Mon. Offs.                      2.05
+    Petaluma. Chinese Mon. Offs.                      3.00
+    Riverside. Chinese Mon. Offs.                     3.90
+    Sacramento. Chinese Mon. Offs.                   10.50
+    San Bernardino. Chinese Mon. Offs.                3.70
+    San Diego. Chinese Mon. Offs.                     3.75
+    San Francisco. Central Chinese Mon. Offs.        11.45
+    San Francisco, West. Chinese Mon. Offs.           1.85
+    Santa Barbara. Chinese Mon. Offs.                 3.15
+    Santa Cruz. Chinese Mon. Offs.                    6.40
+    Ventura. Chinese Mon. Offs.                       2.00
+    Vernondale. Chinese Mon. Offs.                    3.90
+    Watsonville. Chinese Mon. Offs.                   1.75
+                                                    ------         72.95
+
+    Applicable to unpaid bills of year ending August 31, 1895.
+
+    Oroville. Chinese Mon. Offs.                      1.50
+    Riverside. Chinese Mon. Offs.                     2.00
+    Sacramento. Chinese Mon. Offs.                    5.00
+    San Bernardino. Chinese Mon. Offs.                2.50
+    San Diego. Chinese Mon. Offs.                     5.00
+    Ventura. Chinese Mon. Offs.                       2.50
+                                                   -------         18.50
+
+
+  FROM INDIVIDUALS:
+
+    Geo. I. Hawley                                   20.00
+    Rev. Geo. Mooar, D.D.                            10.00
+    "Mrs. C. S. R."                                   1.00
+    "W. C. P."                                      150.00
+                                                   -------        181.00
+
+
+  FROM EASTERN FRIENDS:
+
+    Greenfield, Mass. Mrs. E. B. Loomis              10.00
+    Norwich, Conn. Mrs. S. A. Huntington             25.00
+                                                   -------         35.00
+
+  FOR CHINESE WOMEN:
+
+    Hatfield, Mass. "The Real Folks"                               25.00
+                                                                 -------
+                                                                 $332.45
+                                                                 =======
+
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,
+  Bible House, N. Y.
+
+
+
+
+
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