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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No.
+01, January, 1884, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 19, 2009 [EBook #29165]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JAN 1884 ***
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+
+[Illustration:
+
+  The American Missionary
+
+  January, 1884.
+
+  VOL. XXXVIII.
+
+  NO. 1.]
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                           PAGE.
+
+EDITORIAL:
+
+    ANOTHER YEAR--THIS NUMBER                                  1
+    PAMPHLET--AMERICAN MISSIONARY--JOINT COMMITTEE             2
+    ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY                                 3
+    PARAGRAPHS                                                 4
+    WANTED--BENEFACTIONS--GENERAL NOTES                        5
+    TRAVELING IN AFRICA (CUT)                                  6
+    CHINESE WOMEN (CUT)                                        8
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK:
+
+    THE INDIAN WOMAN, BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS                      9
+    THE CHINESE, BY MRS. W. C. POND                           11
+    MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY, BY MRS. A. A. MYERS      12
+    COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH, BY MISS IDA M. BEACH         16
+    REPORT OF THE SECRETARY                                   19
+    FORM OF CONSTITUTION--THE BUREAU IN THE WEST              21
+
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE:
+
+    CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.                         23
+    CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS (CUT)                    24
+
+RECEIPTS                                                      26
+
+CONSTITUTION                                                  30
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+
+PRESIDENT.
+
+  Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.
+
+
+VICE-PRESIDENTS.
+
+  REV. C. L. GOODELL, D.D.;
+  REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D.;
+  REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D.;
+  REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D.;
+  REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D.
+
+
+CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.--REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street,
+  N. Y._
+
+
+TREASURER.--H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+AUDITORS.--WM. A. NASH, W. H. ROGERS.
+
+
+EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman;
+  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary;
+  LYMAN ABBOTT,
+  A. S. BARNES,
+  J. R. DANFORTH,
+  CLINTON B. FISK,
+  S. B. HALLIDAY,
+  EDWARD HAWKS,
+  SAMUEL HOLMES,
+  CHARLES A. HULL,
+  SAMUEL S. MARPLES,
+  CHARLES L. MEAD,
+  S. H. VIRGIN,
+  WM. H. WARD,
+  J. L. WITHROW.
+
+
+DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
+
+  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., _Boston_.
+  Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.
+  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.
+
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to
+the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the "American
+Missionary," to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office;
+letters for the Bureau of Woman's Work, to Miss D. E. Emerson, at the
+New York Office.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
+Address
+
+  H. STOKES, President.
+
+  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec'y.
+  S. N. STEBBINS, Act'y.
+  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.
+  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+VOL. XXXVIII.     JANUARY, 1884.     NO. 1.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Another year. Are we ready for it, ready to work and to win? The
+harvest is still plenteous and every increase of store is precious.
+Who can measure such privilege? And what of opportunities? The
+swift-winged events of our civilization are continually hurrying us
+into the midst of them. It is a day of speedy rewards. Christ comes
+quickly in these times. The business of the Church is helped as
+absolutely as secular business by the development and use of material
+agencies for advancement. What is wanted is the good seed of the
+word. It is that--the light which shines forth from _that_--which
+gives life and growth and masterly power. We want faith in the
+promises. It shall be said, "The kingdoms of this world are become
+the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ." The truth of it is not to
+be doubted or eclipsed. We want power from on high, and that is
+neither distant nor subject to unseasonable delay. What the year
+shall be is for us, under God, to determine. Let us labor and pray
+that the word of promise--the divine imbuement--may make rich and
+fruitful, and place the great religious interests of our land on the
+foundation of God which standeth sure.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We devote considerable space in this number of the _Missionary_ to
+the papers and reports presented at the Woman's Meeting held in
+connection with our Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. The topics considered
+related to the wide range of work conducted by this Association. They
+were treated by persons having much experience in our mission fields,
+and will be welcomed not only as interesting reading, but as
+furnishing authoritative data for the encouragement of the friends of
+our work. The constitution proposed at the meeting, for Women's
+co-operative societies is given, and is commended to the attention of
+those ladies who desire to aid mission work in our own country.
+
+The valuable Paper on "Woman's Work in Modern Charity and Missions,"
+read by Rev. A. H. Bradford at our Annual Meeting, not published
+elsewhere, has been put in pamphlet form, with a view to general
+distribution. We will be pleased to furnish copies gratuitously, in
+such numbers as may be desired, to those wishing it for the promotion
+of woman's work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are happy to report that the practice of paying for subscriptions
+for the _American Missionary_ is becoming more general year by year.
+This is as it should be. We try to make the _Missionary_ worth the
+price, which is fifty cents annually. We believe the information it
+contains is of value to all, and that most of it cannot be found
+elsewhere. Will not our friends kindly aid us in its circulation,
+remitting to our treasurer at once what may be gathered for that
+purpose?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOINT COMMITTEE.
+
+
+The Joint Committee appointed by the American Home Missionary Society
+and the American Missionary Association for the consideration of the
+relation between the two societies, met by adjournment at
+Springfield, Mass., Dec. 11. The committee on the part of the A. H.
+M. S. consisted of Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D.D., Rev. Lyman Abbott,
+D.D., Rev. Geo. L. Walker, D.D., Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D., and A. S.
+Barnes, Esq. The Committee on the part of the A. M. A. consisted of
+Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O.
+Mears, D.D., Prest. S. C. Bartlett, and Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D. All
+were present except Dr. Goodell, and his place was filled by Mr. S.
+B. Capen. A letter from Dr. Goodell was read. Dr. Barrows,
+representing the Home Missionary Society, and Dr. Strieby,
+representing the American Missionary Association, were also present
+by invitation.
+
+It was manifest that the members of the Committee were equally
+friends of both societies and sought only their greatest efficiency.
+No partisan feeling found utterance. The members of the Committee are
+men of independent views and judgment, and examined the subject
+before them from different standpoints, and yet reached in the paper
+presented below a remarkable degree of unanimity--every item
+receiving a unanimous vote. The result will command and deserves the
+attention of the churches. The following is
+
+THE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
+
+Consulting the principle of comity between the two societies--the A.
+H. M. S. and the A. M. A.--and that traditional policy of
+Congregationalists which ignores caste and color lines, and also in
+view of the present relative position and strength of the two
+societies, we, the Joint Committee, give as our judgment:
+
+1. That, as heretofore, the principal work of the American Home
+Missionary Society should be in the West, and the principal work of
+the American Missionary Association should be in the South.
+
+2. Whatever new work may be called for in any locality should be
+under the charge of the society already occupying the ground. No
+exception to this rule should be allowed unless it be by agreement
+between the two societies.
+
+3. Concerning work already established by either society, we would
+recommend that if either comity, economy or efficiency will be
+advanced by it, such a transfer of the work should be made as shall
+bring the work of the societies into harmony with the preceding
+recommendations.
+
+4. We would recommend to the two societies to consider the
+practicability of using a common superintendent in those portions of
+the field where an economical and efficient administration will be
+secured by it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY.
+
+
+What can be done with it? We can sustain efficiently our current work
+of educating teachers and preachers and the planting of churches. In
+the progress of development, more requires more. If the Association
+did not need increased receipts it would be evidence of lack of
+growth. There is no such lack. New demands are springing up at every
+point, and it is wise economy to meet these demands. They are simply
+the healthy development of legitimate missionary work.
+
+Just now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for
+promoting industrial education. The South is arising into a new life.
+New fields of labor are rapidly opening. Skilled workmen are wanted.
+The possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better
+understood. The aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their
+opportunities, and the industrial departments in connection with our
+institutions are patronized as never before. We ought to make the
+most of them now.
+
+We need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for
+knowledge with good reading. The colored people have few, if any,
+books or periodicals. We ought to have the means at once for
+furnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different
+points. Such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent
+should be provided.
+
+The students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be
+numbered by thousands. These explore the dark places of the land.
+They open schools in such buildings as can be found, or, finding
+none, teach out of doors. We need means to aid many such with
+supplemental support, making it possible for them to continue their
+schools longer than the few months provided for by the limited State
+appropriations. Thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this
+way. The opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than
+ever. A temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the South.
+Our students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total
+abstinence. They make the best advocates of the cause that can be had
+for many localities. It is a crucial period. The time to do this work
+is now--now, while the great questions at issue are being agitated
+and settled. We ought to have means for extending our efforts to the
+utmost in this direction.
+
+Of more importance still is evangelistic work, supplemental to the
+labors of our pastors. This is coming into more than usual
+prominence. Our students have had thorough training for it, and no
+little experience in it during their course of study. A score of them
+in every Southern State could be set to work with profit, if we had
+the money for such outlay. Nothing could do more for immediate
+results in developing a pure Christianity among the untaught and
+unsaved poor of the South.
+
+We might also, with a thousand dollars a day, do more than we have
+ever done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in
+all our fields of labor. This is the great and urgent necessity. Out
+of Christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded
+by a Christian civilization. For this especially we emphasize our
+appeal. To what better use can the Christians and patriots of our
+country devote a thousand dollars a day?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A friend, noting the annual average addition of churches as five or
+six, raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling
+that rate. The Association is glad to recognize this worthy
+aspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it, and still further to
+remind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to
+magnify the work of each year is also in the same line. Nevertheless,
+we find that those who become in some sense responsible for the
+nurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us
+become conservative instead of becoming rash, as is sometimes
+averred. Yet we are able to give assurance that the Field
+Superintendent and his associates, with their eyes upon the whole
+field, watching the germs and their unfolding, are only anxious to
+set out these plants of the Lord's house as fast as is at all
+consistent. We also see, in no far-away future, a large church work
+for us as the fruitage of our school work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A prize of $75 is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in
+the High School at Newport, R. I. The best examination this year was
+by the daughter of George Rice, the colored steward of the steamer
+Pilgrim. As she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from New
+York sent her $75 in gold.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WANTED!
+
+
+--We greatly need a new school building, for the lower grades at
+Tougaloo University, a two-story building with school rooms below and
+a chapel above. Who will give $3,000 for ---- Hall at Tougaloo?
+
+--We need also a steam engine for the Industrial Department at
+Tougaloo, a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power. Who will
+give it, or the money needful?
+
+--We need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of
+carpentry at Talladega and elsewhere. Who will give one or more sets?
+
+--We need illustrated books and magazines for our Reading Rooms. Who
+will give us subscriptions to _Wide Awake_, _St. Nicholas_, etc., or
+money to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BENEFACTIONS.
+
+
+Rutgers College has received $1,000 toward an endowment fund from Mr.
+R. H. Ballentine, Newark, N. J.
+
+Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, has given the city of Salem, Mass., $7,500,
+the income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in
+college.
+
+Illinois College has recently received a gift of $1,000 from Mr. E.
+W. Blatchford, of Chicago, who was a member of the class of '65.
+
+Mr. George W. Dixon, of Bethlehem, Pa., has given $20,000 to Linden
+Hall Female Seminary, to build a Gothic chapel in memory of his
+daughter.
+
+Mr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., has given $10,000 to Olivet
+College, Mich.
+
+Joseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has placed in the hands of the trustees
+of Hamlin University $25,000 to increase the endowment of that
+institution.
+
+Mrs. Robert L. Stuart has given $150,000 to Princeton College to
+endow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors
+in logic, ethics and psychology.
+
+_Among the wants specified in the report of the Executive Committee
+of the A. M. A. for the coming year was $10,000 for a new hall for
+the Edward Smith College, at Little Rock, Ark. It is proposed that
+the donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GENERAL NOTES.
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+--Among the Belgians no less than six commercial societies have been
+constituted to explore the Congo.
+
+--The Livingstone Inland Mission has founded a new station at Ngoma's
+Town, one hundred kilometers up the river from Stanley Pool.
+
+--The merchants of Lisbon have constituted a company for the
+navigation of the Quanza. They have constructed to this effect in
+England a steamer, the Serpa Pinto, which was to be delivered in
+September.
+
+--The Scotch Presbyterian Church have decided to furnish a steamer
+for the use of the Old Calabar Mission. The young people throughout
+the church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the
+money by the time the steamer is ready.
+
+--According to a dispatch from Sierra Leone the Queen of Massah, with
+the consent of the native chiefs, has authorized the annexation of
+the neighboring territory of Sherbro to the English possession, which
+will thus extend without interruption from Sierra Leone to Liberia.
+
+[Illustration: TRAVELING IN AFRICA.]
+
+--The fever of speculation reigns at Axim and in the districts of the
+Golden Coast. From the climate and the conditions of exploration, the
+working of the mines proceeds slowly. Commander Cameron, director of
+the West African Goldfields Company, has introduced upon his grant
+the hydraulic processes employed in California.
+
+--The _Journal_ of Geneva announces that the International African
+Association is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will
+receive gratuitously land in the countries of the Congo, of which
+Stanley has taken possession. It is negotiating to attract the
+Germans, and already the Prussian journals speak of the creation of a
+German Consulate.
+
+--Flegel has offered to the African German Society to make a new
+exploration in a region entirely unknown, which extends to the Congo;
+or, if they choose, to return toward the west to Mount Cameroon. The
+Government of the German Empire has granted a sum of 50,000 francs
+for this exploration. On the other hand, some private individuals of
+Lagos, where Flegel has resided since his last voyage, have furnished
+him funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the
+Niger and to Bénoué, in the advancement of science and commerce.
+
+--Mr. Petersen and Dr. Sims have founded at Stanley Pool a new
+station for the Livingstone Inland Mission. Dr. Sims very quickly
+commenced to heal the sick, which gained him the confidence of the
+natives. These latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their
+land the provisions necessary for the number of Europeans established
+at Stanley Pool, and the price of provisions has greatly increased.
+The steamer, Henry Reed, destined for the Upper Congo was to start
+out the first of August.
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+--Of the 6,000 Pi-Utes it is said that there are never more than 600
+on their reservation at one time. Not more than fifty attend the
+agency school.
+
+--The National Indian Association, an organization composed
+exclusively of ladies, has for its object to obtain for the Indians
+the rights of citizens, and to induce the Government to allow them to
+own farms.
+
+--The General Council of the Choctaw Nation, recently closed,
+appropriated $100,000 for the erection of a new council house, the
+old one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and
+training in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys.
+
+--The ceremony of receiving Sitting-Bull into the Catholic Church at
+Fort Yates has been indefinitely postponed because Sitting-Bull
+cannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go. Bishop
+Marty has had him under his care for several months, and his
+instructions were being rapidly absorbed by the Chief; but separation
+from his wives proved too much, and he will probably return to
+heathenism.
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+--The missionaries in China, to the number of 231, have presented
+another petition to the House of Commons against the infamous opium
+traffic.
+
+--There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands,
+who is said to be a whole Bible society in himself, expending twenty
+dollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to
+distribute among his countrymen there.
+
+--The largest bell in the world is in Kiota, Japan. It is 24 feet
+high and 16 inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended
+piece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside,
+and its booming can be heard for miles. Nobody knows when or by whom
+it was cast, and though its surface is covered with characters, no
+scholar has yet been able to translate them.
+
+--The _Foreign Missionary_ says the great secret of success in
+teaching the Chinese in America lies in the direct personal influence
+of the teacher over the pupil. Generally each pupil is provided with
+a teacher, and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct
+proportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced. The
+first important revelation that dawns upon the Chinaman is that there
+are those in this land who are not hoodlums, and that brutality is
+not the universal law in America; that Christianity is higher and
+purer than the enactments of Congress, and that Christ is the friend
+of all men, and has died for Chinamen as well as "Melicans."
+
+[Illustration: CHINESE WOMEN.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PAPERS READ AT THE WOMAN'S MEETING IN BROOKLYN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE INDIAN WOMAN.
+
+BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS.
+
+
+To describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among
+them, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven
+with our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and
+unlike white women she appeared to us at first. But she is a woman,
+even though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on
+her back.
+
+How uninteresting, you must think, and she probably thinks the same
+of you. She does not know that you care for her. She feels that she
+is different in some way, and most likely if you smile upon her she
+will not know it, for she is too modest even to look at you; but
+speak to her in a pleasant tone and offer to shake hands with her and
+notice her baby, and she begins to think that _you_ are a woman. In
+her no trace of dignity nor Pocahontas beauty are discernible, but
+she is untidy in person and attire, her movements are decidedly
+lackadaisical. An uninteresting object, indeed, to one who does not
+care to help her. But _we_ believe that she has a woman's heart; and
+more than that--she has a soul.
+
+Her aspirations for herself are limited, but she wants her child to
+grow up in the white people's way. Yet how small her conception of
+how this is to be accomplished!
+
+She is a heathen--hemmed in on every side by fear and superstition.
+Her gods are gods of fear. She believes in witchcraft, is afraid of a
+world full of evil spirits. Under a pagan religion her place is next
+to the mere animals. She goes with her husband to the hunt, not as a
+companion, but as the drudge, the human pack-horse; she prepares the
+food, and her husband devours it regardless of her needs; he may
+boast of his "old woman" as being "nina mimi heca" (swift or good to
+work) for that is the only accomplishment required in his selfish,
+egotistical mind. "The Indian woman comes into the world under a
+species of protest--every Indian parent desiring to have boys, rather
+than girls, hence she grows up into a condition of servitude." "In
+the Indian nation to purchase a wife is the honorable way, all other
+ways are dishonorable, and the man having bought his wife, although
+the custom of the country does not allow him to dispose of her to
+another, yet he may put her away, or leave her, at his pleasure. He
+may also whip her and beat her, for she is his money." I never shall
+forget one poor woman who came to me soon after we went to the Indian
+country. She showed me her back covered with the marks where her
+husband had beaten her.
+
+Now I have given you a brief description of the Indian woman _as we
+find her_. What can be done for her? What would _you_ do for her?
+There is only one thing. _Help her to become a Christian._ This is
+not to be accomplished in a hurry, for she is in bondage to her
+husband--to her religion. But faith and prayer, together with a
+genuine interest in the Indian home, can accomplish much. Desolate
+and comfortless though that home may be, it can be transformed, and
+the husband even can be made to see that there is something more
+real, something that is more satisfying, something that is more
+comforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods.
+"The man has more to give up than the woman if he becomes a
+Christian. If a woman changes her gods and her religion, no one cares
+very much; it is 'only a woman.' But a man must abandon his ancestral
+faith, which binds him more strongly than the woman, for the very
+reason that he is a man, and has been inducted into manhood through
+the ceremonies of his religion."
+
+He can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his
+horse or his dog; and he begins to see that he can do some of the
+work which she has been obliged to do, and thus she is enabled to
+make home more attractive. With the dawn of Christianity comes the
+first effort toward civilized ways. The husband now brings the wood
+and water, and little by little a few household conveniences appear,
+such as chairs, a table, a few dishes; also knives and forks are used
+instead of fingers; even lambrequins are sometimes seen--hung,
+however, in the most absurd way, outside the shades--and we are
+astonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and
+ruffled pillow-shams. Also a U. S. T. D. blanket is often spread down
+for a carpet, and the rude, rough walls are covered with pictures cut
+from illustrated newspapers.
+
+We find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful
+domestic arts, such as making light bread and preparing wholesome
+dishes of food for the sick. The teaching of making light bread
+became quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife,
+and for the Indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite
+fashionable.
+
+Then she shows a desire to dress like white women, and instead of the
+broadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short
+calico sack, and moccasins upon her feet, she appears with a kilt
+plaiting around her dress skirt, and, what probably in her mind is an
+improvement upon white woman's taste, the plaiting is headed with two
+or three rows of bright worsted skirt braid. As she admires the thin
+and lightly covered head of the white baby, she closely clips her own
+baby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible.
+But all this is the mere outside of life--one benefit which
+Christianity brings to her personally. She begins to show that she
+has become a missionary at heart and that she has a desire to send
+this great blessing which has wrought such a change in her home into
+other homes; and as others like herself, near at hand, have been
+treasuring up the blessed words of the Lord Jesus, "Go ye and preach
+my gospel," they begin to think that they can do something to send
+the good tidings to those who are in the darkness which so recently
+surrounded themselves.
+
+Now, in the Dakota mission, we have thirteen churches, and in every
+one a woman's missionary society, and the money raised is used to
+support native missionaries--that is, Christian Indians are sent out
+among the heathen Indians as missionaries, and are supported by
+Indian societies. The Indian woman's society is conducted very much
+like any sewing society among white women. Some woman is appointed to
+lead the devotional exercises, and we have our officers appointed
+annually. They make children's clothing after the white woman's
+fashion, and many useful articles similar to those usually made in
+sewing societies. Those women who are able make articles after their
+own styles, such as moccasins, pretty bags handsomely ornamented with
+porcupine, bead or ribbon work. These articles are gifts to the
+society, and we have no difficulty in disposing of them to those who
+wish specimens of Indian woman's skill in fancy work, or who may wish
+to help this native missionary work which is being so nobly carried
+on. Some of these women are really wonderful in their zeal and
+faithfulness, walking six, seven, or eight miles to the meeting every
+week. I could tell you many things about these faithful Christian
+Indian women, but do you wish any better proof of the hold
+Christianity has upon Indians?
+
+As I said before, an Indian woman's aspirations for herself are
+limited, but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's
+way. Now, if we are to elevate the Indian nation, let us plant in the
+homes the desire for the Gospel, and as we do it gather the children
+as fast as they are old enough to leave their mother's care into
+Christian training schools. Now out in the Indian country we are all
+the time carrying on missionary work in the homes, planting schools,
+organizing churches, and sending out native missionaries.
+
+We have at Santee Agency, Neb., a large school of advanced grade,
+well established for the education of children and youth. So well
+known is this school among Christian Indians that our accommodations
+have become very limited, and last year we were obliged to refuse
+many who wished to come. I think you cannot know how hard it is for
+us to say, We cannot take you.
+
+The great Dakota nation is ready to receive the Christian religion.
+We have the Bible in the Dakota language--a monument grand and
+beautiful to one who has just gone to his reward. Years of patient,
+quiet toil were spent in translating the precious words from the
+Greek and the Hebrew into the language of over fifty thousand
+savages. Then what hinders the work? We have hymns in the Dakota
+tongue. Who will go and sing these precious words to those who never
+heard them? There are those who are ready to go, but where is the
+money to send them? If you cannot go, what hinders you from sending
+some one? To be sure, this is a work of difficulty, for how can we
+expect a few years of training to so revolutionize a savage's live
+that he can withstand the heathenism which still permeates his native
+home? But we have those whom we can trust, and who are filling places
+of responsibility and usefulness. Besides those who have gone out as
+missionaries and teachers, we have in our school at Santee native
+teachers, and our own children are taught by them. One of our pupils
+is assistant matron in the Dakota Home. One who has been under our
+care is in the little city of Pierre, D. T., giving music lessons to
+white pupils. I give only a few instances, to show that we are
+beginning to see the results of our work.
+
+Then give the free Gospel of the love of Christ to this great heathen
+nation right here so near us. Here is the Bible, here are the hymns;
+who will provide the means to scatter them, and who will go to carry
+them? We are preparing those who will go with you as assistants and
+interpreters. We hear of those who wish to get rid of the Indians;
+the surest way to do it is to educate them and Christianize them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. W. C. POND.
+
+
+I will not waste time upon an introduction. I will only say that I am
+glad to be among you; glad that you are interested in the Chinese
+work, with which we have been connected so many years in California.
+We feel that we are greatly privileged in having these dark souls
+within our reach. We can obey our Saviour's last command, "Disciple
+all nations," without having to go far from our homes and native
+land. They are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our
+churches to them and they will come in. They _are_ coming in; not in
+large numbers but one by one. In the church of which my husband has
+been the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy Chinese
+members--about one-third of our whole membership.
+
+Many inquire how Chinese converts are tested. They join the Christian
+Association on probation and after a test of six or eight months are
+recommended to the church. Then they come before a committee of the
+church and are examined, and after studying the articles of faith, in
+their own language, for several weeks they are propounded for church
+membership, and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into
+full fellowship with the church. They are not hurried into the church
+and are themselves timid and prefer to wait.
+
+We have no work among the Chinese women that we can call our own.
+Both Presbyterians and Methodists have such a work in San Francisco,
+and it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a
+small work, because there are only three or four hundred Chinese
+women in San Francisco, and not a tenth of these accessible. But if
+means would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women
+at Sacramento, where nothing is done for them. With our very limited
+resources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and
+boys.
+
+But we have much work _by women_ of whom I would like to make
+mention. Patient and heroic, prayerful and soul-saving have been
+their efforts among the Chinese. I would like to tell you of one who
+has recently gone to her reward. Before leaving my home two months
+ago I called upon her and found her strength failing. But she was
+hopeful respecting her recovery, and the strongest incentive she had
+to get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the
+story of Jesus to her boys, as she called those in the Chinese
+school. And when death came to her, six Chinese acted as pall-bearers
+at her funeral, at her own request. The church was more than half
+filled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as
+one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.
+
+You are all, doubtless, more or less familiar with the _American
+Missionary_, and read from time to time Mr. Pond's reports found
+therein. I will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's
+report, read recently before the General Association of California,
+convened in Santa Cruz. They are as follows:
+
+Nineteen schools, as against 15 the last year; total enrollment of
+scholars, 2,823, as against 2,567 the former year; 40 teachers, of
+whom 14 were Chinese, as against 31 teachers the previous year, of
+whom 11 were Chinese; number of those who have professed to cease
+from idolatry, 175, as against 156 the year before; number of those
+who have given evidence of conversion, 121, as against 106 the former
+year, and the whole number of those who have turned to Christ during
+the history of the Mission, 400, who are scattered over the United
+States and in China. We hear of many of them who are doing good work
+for the Master and for the salvation of their countrymen.
+
+Toward the expense of the Mission during the past year the Chinese
+themselves have contributed $730.05.
+
+I would like to have you remember the name of our church. It is
+"Bethany." Remember us in your prayers, for God has laid a great work
+upon us. We started in much weakness, but God has been with us and
+blessed us. We have felt His presence in our Bethany as Martha and
+Mary of old did in theirs. We have heard the Master's voice saying
+unto us frequently, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
+least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY.
+
+BY MRS. A. A. MYERS.
+
+
+There is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very
+centre of the settled portion of the United States. "Our brother in
+black" has been held up to the view of two continents for the last
+fifty years. And what is America going to do with him and for him,
+has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.
+This same question for a still longer time has been propounded in
+regard to the red man of the forest, and in later years concerning
+the Chinese. And right nobly has the Christian brotherhood evidenced
+its purpose to make men of these degraded classes. But until recently
+it has escaped the notice of these Christian workers that we have
+another class as needy perhaps as any. No spice of romance is
+connected with them. No barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to
+awaken sympathy in them. They are simply poor people, who during
+slavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by
+the arrogant Bluegrass slaveholder on the one side, and the greedy
+cotton-planter on the other, back into the mountains, where they are
+shut away from the rest of the world by mountain barriers, and still
+more hopelessly by the haughty caste spirit of the slave-holding
+monarchs, who disdain to have anything to do with them except to seek
+their votes.
+
+These people are not really poor. Most of them own farms of three or
+four hundred acres; and the soil, if properly tilled, would be quite
+productive. Their plowing is done in the most primitive manner. A
+single horse attached to a little shovel plow simply tears the sod a
+little, enough so the weeds spring up luxuriantly, and the women and
+children must work hard in the hot sun to destroy them, while the
+lord of the home saddles his horse and rides to town, to sit on store
+boxes and tell low stories. This people, especially the male portion,
+seem to have a natural distaste for labor. They would be aristocratic
+if they could. In days of slavery they had their household servants,
+and tried to imitate the more wealthy slave-owners by living in
+idleness, and they still look upon labor as degrading.
+
+They make no effort to get themselves homes. The large majority live
+in log cabins, with no windows. The doors stand open winter and
+summer. The women in cool weather always sit with a little shawl
+around them and a sunbonnet on.
+
+There are generally two rooms to each house, usually with a chimney
+or open hall between them, so you have to go out of doors to pass
+from one to the other. In the kitchen (which also serves as
+dining-room) is a large fireplace and a cook stove, if they are the
+happy possessors of one.
+
+The other is the sitting and sleeping-room. You will often see three
+beds and one or two trundle-beds in a single room. Here the whole
+family and all the visitors sleep. We have sought to rest with
+thirteen of us in a room, perhaps 15 by 20 feet, and not a window in
+it and the doors shut. Fortunately the large-mouthed fireplace gave a
+pittance of ventilation. No carpets are used, and furniture is very
+limited. I believe nine-tenths of the people could put all their
+goods on a couple of loads and be ready to move at an hour's notice.
+
+Families are large, numbering twelve, fifteen or even nineteen
+children. Girls marry young, and seem to be entirely satisfied with
+their condition. You seldom hear a desire expressed for anything they
+don't possess. Give them a box of snuff and a stick to chew it with
+and you never hear a murmur escape their lips. Tobacco is
+indispensable. Old and young, male and female, are wedded to it. I
+have known of an old gentleman working all day for fifty cents and
+spending forty cents at night for tobacco for himself and wife and
+nine children.
+
+They seem to be without a standard in the land. They live so
+isolated, and have measured themselves by themselves until they have
+lost all idea of accurate judgment. Morality and sobriety are hardly
+looked for, even among church members and ministers. "Religion may be
+up to fever heat, while morality is down to zero." People "confess,"
+as they call it, and join the church, and in their entire life
+thereafter you could never know any difference.
+
+They are satisfied if their names are on the church book. I don't
+think they ever question their eternal salvation after they are once
+inside a church. If a person dies without having joined a church his
+friends frame some theory on which they rest their hope of his
+salvation. A young man was shot a little while ago in a drunken
+broil. As he fell mortally wounded he cried, "Oh, Lord!" His mother
+is sure he is safe because he called on the Lord. They have no
+conception of _living_ religion. They have no prayer or conference
+meetings. Aside from our own I doubt if there is a prayer meeting
+nearer than Berea, seventy miles away. There is no family prayer in
+all the land. I asked my class of boys, twenty or more in number, how
+many had ever heard their mothers' voice in prayer. Not one of them
+could raise a hand. At another school I asked a still larger class
+the same question, and only one girl raised her hand. There is no
+gathering of the little home nestlings together and instructing
+them--no Bible instruction given in the family. It has ceased to be a
+wonder to me, to ask nearly grown boys some of the most simple Bible
+questions, and hear them answer, "I don't know."
+
+An M. E. minister in one of his pastoral visits took occasion to
+dwell with some stress on the blessedness of _walking in the light_.
+The mother showed how she literalized by promptly remarking, "Yes;
+I've told John I wanted a hole sawed in this end of the house, but he
+won't do it." During the same call he asked a young lady if she was
+preparing to go to judgment. She replied, "No, I reckin I won't go.
+If I do I'll have to walk, for we hain't got but two nags, and Rachel
+and Becky always ride them."
+
+The prevailing churches are the Reform or Campbellites, the
+Methodists, and the Missionary and Anti-Missionary Baptists. The
+latter church is strong all through the mountains. They are bigoted
+and ignorant, and boast that their knowledge comes direct from the
+throne, and they have nothing to do with man-made theories, as they
+call education. Their preaching is a sort of canting reiteration of
+the text and what few Scripture verses they chance to know and some
+hackneyed expressions. They are great on arguing, and it would be
+laughable if it was not so pitiful to hear the profound questions
+they discuss. Last season one of these preachers nearly broke up one
+of our mission Sunday-Schools, which we could attend only each
+alternate Sabbath. In the passage that reads "And anon they tell
+Him," he contended that A-non was an angel, and _they_ referred to
+the angel A-non. Each Sunday when we were not there that important
+question had to be discussed.
+
+One of these same preachers took his children from school because
+they were taught the heresy in geography that the world is round.
+They do all they can to prejudice the people against our work. They
+call our religion railroad religion. They are great barriers in our
+way. Still we have been cheered this year to see that their hold on
+the young people is loosening, and we are getting their hearts in
+spite of the protests of their parents. One of our mission
+Sunday-Schools, which has averaged this season one hundred, is
+composed almost entirely of young people and children, seldom ever a
+parent there.
+
+The Smith American Organ Co. have honored God and themselves, and
+will ever be held by some hearts in grateful remembrance by their
+gift to that society of a new organ. I have some times thought, as I
+have heard the young voices ring out with such enthusiasm, that,
+though critics might smile at our endeavor, Heaven would not disdain
+our offering of praise. The dingy low walls, the glass-less windows,
+the tobacco besmeared floor, become transformed to a holy temple,
+where God deigned to make visible His presence, and it has been a
+sacred place. Our hope of this people centres largely in the young.
+If it were not for them, we could not feel it right to stay among
+them.
+
+Another barrier to be overcome is their habits of worship. They have
+meetings but once a month during the summer and none at all during
+the winter. When they have service it is more for a visit than
+worship. Their churches are rough log houses, and so small that the
+greater part of the congregation remain out of doors. Four or more
+ministers are always in attendance, and all must preach. The
+congregation expect a tiresome time, and from the first are restless.
+They go out and come in, and they keep a constant march to and from
+the water pail, which usually sits on the desk in front of the
+speaker. Several grown people at a time will be standing waiting on
+each other at the pail. The speaker seems to be used to such things,
+and not at all disconcerted. Nearly all their services are funeral
+services for those who may have been dead for years. They bury their
+dead the same day or the day following death. They have no religious
+service, except a prayer at the grave, if there chance to be a
+minister present. Generally about a year after death, but often from
+five to fifteen years after, they have the funeral sermon preached.
+
+In regard to healthfulness of our mountain home, we have felt
+somewhat disappointed. Up so high, with nice springs and spring
+streams, one would expect a healthy climate. On the contrary, almost
+every one is ailing. Coughs and colds are universal. It is no wonder
+the natives are unhealthy; their habits of living would seem to
+prohibit health. They eat corn bread or hoe cake and bacon; some have
+flour, but it is always made up into hot biscuit, shortened with
+lard. They have this, with little variation, three times a day, 365
+days in a year. In summer, green beans cooked with bacon is added to
+the bill of fare. Of course the blood becomes impoverished, and
+almost every one has scrofula. Calomel and pills are the great
+panacea for all their bodily ills. Pills are brought on by the quart,
+and sold by the merchants like any other commodity. Cleanliness of
+the person is an unheard of luxury; I doubt whether they ever bathe.
+Children come to the table with unwashed faces. They are put to bed
+with the same clothes they wear during the day. Then add to all this
+the fact that tobacco is used almost from the cradle, and whiskies
+and toddies from the time the poor child opens its eyes to this
+world, and it's no great marvel that gray-haired men are exceedingly
+rare, and it's the "_old man_" and the "_old woman_" when one has
+reached the age of twenty-five.
+
+Now comes the question, What are we doing for the people? We have
+been with them nearly two years, and this has been our effort from
+the first, to get them to see that religion is a life rather than a
+sectarian belief. We have sought to impress upon them that joining a
+church is not Christianity. We have succeeded in getting a few to
+take part in our prayer meetings, and we have the assurance that
+_all_ the people are awaking to the fact that God has some demands
+upon them. We have from the first kept up regular Thursday night
+prayer meetings; have had good attendance, but often only Mr. Myers
+and myself to take part in them except as others read Scripture
+verses.
+
+On the Sabbath we have Sunday-school at 9:30. Average attendance,
+100; preaching at 11. I hasten home, saddle my horse, and ride six
+miles to the next railroad station (Pleasant View). Here I have met
+100 or more young people. I have been surprised that in a land where
+a woman isn't expected to _know_ anything, or _be_ anything but a
+doll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my
+school. Some, of course, have thought a woman entirely out of her
+sphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my
+friends: "Why, Mrs. Myers opens the school by prayer, just as Mr.
+Myers would. I don't know but it's all right, but it don't seem just
+the proper thing for a woman to do."
+
+Mr. M. has a mission in South Williamsburg or the mills, where
+numbers of children are growing up in the midst of gambling and
+shooting. Prof. W. has, about the same hour, a school two miles out
+in another direction. At night we have services again in
+Williamsburg. At these services we have more than can get into the
+house, and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation.
+Tuesday nights we go to Pleasant View and help them learn the Gospel
+Songs. Each alternate Wednesday evening, church socials; each
+alternate Friday afternoon, Band of Hope; Saturday evening, choir
+drill; Covenant Meeting once a month on Saturday afternoon.
+
+Mr. Myers has preached during the year beginning with Oct. '82, one
+hundred and forty-two sermons. The services, together with the other
+public services just mentioned, have amounted to three hundred and
+forty. Have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others. We
+spend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at
+the homes.
+
+We have a neat modern church nearly finished, and so far without
+foreign help. But no one knows what an effort has been required. Mr.
+Myers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work;
+would try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the North.
+But when the time would come he has worked all day alone. We have
+learned at last that this people don't enthuse.
+
+We are hard at work in our high-school enterprise. We have Prof. and
+Mrs. W. and Miss G., all from the North, with us. We hope to get a
+school, the good influence of which will never die out of these
+mountains.
+
+These are peculiar people. What I have said of them has reference to
+the _general_ class of society. But there are some who seem of better
+stock, who are shrewd, keen, far-sighted people. You cannot find
+their superiors in _native_ ability in any country. Though often
+lacking in culture and morality, they still hold a wide influence
+over the rest, so that something besides goodness is required in
+those who wish to come among them as helpers. There must be ability
+to adapt oneself to these widely diverse conditions. One needs wisdom
+and tact to get along with the shrewdest, and such a love for souls
+that he can come with a helping hand to the most degraded, nor be
+discouraged if, with a heart brimful of sympathy, he reaches the hand
+a long time only to see it rejected by those most in need.
+
+The work is a work of time. The majority of the people are unstable,
+thriftless improvident and ignorant. Slavery left its blight of
+impotency and profligacy upon them. They come and go as did their
+fathers a hundred years ago. Their tools and utensils are the same
+their great-grandparents used, and they are content with them. We
+never worked harder and saw less result in the conversion of sinners
+than while in Kentucky, and yet never felt more satisfied that we
+were where God wants us, and doing an important work. Unless these
+people have help they will prove a fretting leprosy in our nation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.
+
+BY MISS IDA M. BEACH.
+
+
+No small part of the work undertaken by the A. M. A. is that among
+the colored people of the South. Perhaps we may judge something of
+how vast this work is in itself, and how far-reaching in its results,
+if we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the
+colored people. Twenty years ago about 4,000,000 people were
+liberated from bondage, with all the evils resulting from the system
+of slavery resting upon them. There was great rejoicing among lovers
+of freedom when the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. The
+slaves themselves, wild with joy, shouted, "We're free! We're free!
+The year of jubilee has come!" Free! yes, free! but with the burdens
+of manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them. Freedom brought
+the right and opportunity of establishing homes. Glorious privilege!
+But do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought
+and planning it takes to maintain a _true home_? Freedom gave them
+the right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to
+manhood and womanhood, but oh! how much of patience and God-given
+power it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way!
+
+Four million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the
+judgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways
+of the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts! What an
+amount of instruction they needed!
+
+Right here the American Missionary Association stepped in and assumed
+the work of training these people. Christian men and women, filled
+with love for the Master, went down among these lowly ones. They
+carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ, established schools and churches,
+teaching in the open air, or in rude huts and deserted cabins. For
+twenty years this work has been carried on, and much good has been
+done in the name of the Lord. But to-day there are between six and
+seven million colored people in our Southland. The work of the A. M.
+A., together with all done by other societies and by students going
+forth from the colleges as teachers, as yet scarcely begins to reach
+this great number.
+
+Their first need is to be Christianized, for this alone lifts them up
+and gives a desire for better things. It is the religion of Jesus
+Christ alone which has given to us our high estate. How much we owe
+to the training of Christian mothers! Let us pity and stoop to lift
+up these ignorant ones. Send out those who can carry the glad tidings
+and point to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.
+
+Let us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is. But we
+cannot stop here. We must teach them how to use it. "Woman's work for
+woman," surely, for this must be done in the homes.
+
+Freedom gave them the _right_ to establish homes! They did the best
+they knew how, many of them, but they needed teaching--they need it
+to-day. They must be taught thrift and industry, and cleanliness and
+order. They want someone to come to them and help them to transform
+their huts into homes. Could you see their rags, their ugly,
+misshapen garments, you would agree with me that the women and girls
+greatly need to be taught the use of the needle.
+
+Of course Christian schools need to be multiplied among them, where
+the rudiments of an English education shall be thoroughly given,
+where sewing and cooking, the care of the house and the care of the
+sick shall be carefully taught the girls, where the boys may learn
+the use of tools and all that pertains to good farming.
+
+Our stronghold is the children. We can never eradicate the evils
+existing among the older generation. Slavery left too much ignorance
+and superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived
+under its sway. But we are responsible for the coming generations.
+
+The American Missionary Association aims to reach the young and meet
+their needs by the workers sent out.
+
+Perhaps our work in Savannah will be illustrative of that done in
+many other parts of the field. We have there established a church and
+school. There are now in school over 200 pupils. The majority of
+these remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school
+education. We have also a normal grade, where methods of teaching are
+taught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers. Besides this
+we have fitted up a sewing-room, where the girls learn every part of
+sewing and repairing, cutting and basting. Many schools have shops
+for boys; we look forward to the time when we may be able to have
+them, too.
+
+We are just establishing a reading-room. Those who have read Prof.
+Salisbury's article in the November MISSIONARY understand how much
+this is needed. In our present circumstances we arrange it so that
+all pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour, with teacher
+to direct. Then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social
+reading.
+
+In our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to
+assist them in a knowledge of true religion. Last year we observed
+the Week of Prayer, and in the daily meetings held for several weeks
+some found the way to Christ and Christian life. Our Church and
+Sunday-School work reaches many who are not connected with our
+school. We have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting
+the parents and children in their homes, ministering to the wants of
+the sick and needy, and holding Bible and Missionary meetings.
+
+This is a bare outline of our work. I presume many of you are saying.
+"Have there been no results during these last twenty years?" Oh yes,
+we have a bright side to the picture. When we are tired and
+discouraged, and wonder if harvest time will never come, we go to
+some of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought. We
+point to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that
+the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.
+
+In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair
+public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life,
+many of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy
+home just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched
+hovel.
+
+In the country, when the "Teachers' Home" and little school house are
+built beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things
+than they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the
+neat, cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a
+palace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to
+school and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands
+become clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are
+mended, the girls put on clean collars.
+
+The missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and
+stools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is
+scrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they
+must work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and
+before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old
+cabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the
+place of the old steer and cart.
+
+Yes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers
+in the early days among four million people, although just as many as
+could be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly
+seven millions, we have but 336 workers.
+
+Millions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is
+to be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these
+people, too.
+
+We need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and
+Christian men and women who are willing to send them. "The harvest
+truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the
+Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his
+harvest." "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
+life eternal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
+
+
+The information from the field, to which you have listened, explains
+to you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's
+Work. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then
+stated:
+
+1. To give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety
+of work sustained by the Association and to assist in devising plans
+of help.
+
+2. To promote correspondence with churches, Sabbath-schools,
+missionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a
+special character, such as the support of missionaries, aiding of
+students, supplying clothing, furnishing goods, and meeting other
+wants on mission ground.
+
+3. To send to the churches, conferences or associations desiring it,
+experienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them, giving
+fuller details of our methods of work.
+
+It was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies
+of our churches, and their evident disposition to aid more
+effectively in the elevation of women, particularly the women of the
+South, called for such a department. Already the ladies of one State
+had organized the "Woman's Aid to the A. M. A.," that they might have
+their definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries, and
+inquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work.
+
+It was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be
+awakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from
+the field, and the twenty years' experience of the Association in the
+South, during which time more than 3,000 different ladies had been
+employed as missionaries and teachers, the knowledge gained of the
+peculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people,
+and the thorough organization of the different departments of labor
+in home, school, and church, prepared us to bring before the ladies
+the information necessary, and to offer most excellent opportunities
+for special work for women. The ready response to this movement
+confirms the wisdom of the step, and we trust that ere long the
+Bureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the
+churches, and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the
+field.
+
+Immediately following the organization of the Bureau, Miss Rose
+Kinney, of Oberlin, O., for many years engaged in the Southern work,
+and recently located in one of the dark corners of the field,
+McIntosh, Ga., was detailed for service in the North. She spent about
+six weeks in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, addressing ladies'
+meetings at the General Associations, and with good results. In June
+the Secretary of the Bureau was present at the State Conferences of
+Vermont and Maine, and gave information of the work in the field,
+resulting in the appointment of a State Committee of ladies in
+Vermont, to secure funds for the support of a missionary. Early in
+September Miss Anna M. Cahill, for nine years connected with Fisk
+University, Nashville, Tenn., was detailed for special service, and
+has recently attended a series of meetings in Michigan and Illinois.
+
+It is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever
+and wherever opportunity is given, through different teachers and
+missionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field.
+
+Within the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had
+special aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries,
+as follows:
+
+  Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala.,
+    and Miss Farrington at Wilmington,  N. C.                  $675.00
+  Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O.,
+    support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga.                   387.00
+  Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala.     214.46
+  Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery,
+    Ala.                                                        254.33
+  Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support
+    of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn.                        488.81
+  Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La.   406.45
+                                                             ---------
+    Total                                                    $2,426.05
+
+In this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss
+Clary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the
+Sunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.
+
+Supplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been
+recently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the
+furnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of
+students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an
+education.
+
+While, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the
+organization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already
+manifest.
+
+Since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large
+and diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its
+distinct and important work,--viz.: The New West Education
+Commission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American
+Missionary Association--no effort has been made by the American
+Missionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to
+itself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to
+co-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the
+Chinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South,
+seems apparent.
+
+To this end we urge upon the ladies, organization, as helpful to
+systematic giving, and to facilitate such movement we present a form
+of constitution for a co-operative society, that may be open to the
+call from all parts of our country. This we greatly prefer as
+avoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home
+work. Such is the pressure of claims upon us, however, through the
+needs of our field, that except as such opportunity is afforded for
+aid to the Am. Miss. Assoc., we feel that we may be constrained to
+ask for organization auxiliary to the A. M. A. exclusively--for the
+women and children of 6,000,000 of colored people of the South alone
+presents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women, which
+we must not ignore, from the responsibility of which we cannot
+escape.
+
+We are just now entering upon a new year of work. Of the 175 ladies
+appointed to the various departments of missionary labor, twelve are
+engaged for special home visitation among the people. You can see at
+a glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty.
+Although our teachers are missionaries, and accomplish much through
+the schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the
+people, yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient
+woman at every mission station, whose entire time should be given to
+special work in the homes of the people. Not only do we desire this,
+but the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of
+this kind, not instead of that which we are doing in school and
+church, but supplementary to it, as necessary in securing the results
+we seek. Already fifteen applications are before us for lady
+missionaries to work in the homes, and we wait only for the women of
+the North to furnish us the necessary funds. As fast as we receive
+pledges of support the missionaries will be sent out.
+
+May the heart of every Christian woman be quickened to new impulse
+for the development of womanhood in those in our own land, so
+degraded and helpless!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FORM OF CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
+
+
+ART. 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Co-operative
+Missionary Society, ---- Church.
+
+ART. 2. Its object shall be to co-operate with the established
+missionary societies of the Congregational churches of America, in
+diffusing missionary intelligence, increasing interest in prayer, and
+in raising funds for missionary work in this country.
+
+ART. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a
+Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee
+of ---- members. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the
+different societies co-operating, or, if preferred, a Treasurer may
+be appointed for each.
+
+ART. 4. Contributors to this Society may designate to which branch of
+missionary work they wish their contributions applied. Undesignated
+contributions may be assigned by vote of the Executive Committee.
+
+ART. 5. Any lady may become a member of this Society by contributing
+a sum not less than one dollar annually, or ten cents monthly.
+Gentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members
+by the payment of ---- dollars.
+
+ART. 6. ---- members present at any regularly called meeting shall
+constitute a quorum for business.
+
+ART. 7. Meetings shall be held monthly, at which the Secretary shall
+give information of the work of the various societies assisted.
+Special meetings may be called by the officers and Executive
+Committee. Meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises.
+
+ART. 8. A vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular
+meeting shall be requisite for making any change in this
+constitution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE BUREAU IN THE WEST.
+
+BY MISS ANNA M. CAHILL.
+
+
+One main object of the Woman's Bureau, as stated at the time of its
+organization, is to diffuse information among the ladies of our
+churches, as to our work in its various departments.
+
+The carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy
+among the conferences and churches of Wisconsin and Michigan.
+
+If I went to inform I went also to learn--to see how fares our cause
+in these churches. Especially I sought to learn how strong a hold the
+work of the American Missionary Association has upon the sympathy and
+effort of the Christian ladies of that section, what organized system
+of helpfulness they already have in this line, or what in their
+judgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work
+in their regular plan of missionary operations for each year.
+
+As I expected, I found the interest in our cause in various stages of
+development. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not
+even so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is
+in its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold
+of us all in any practical way. In many churches--not by any means
+always the larger ones--I found an intelligent appreciation of the
+needs and claims of the South.
+
+We have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of
+the Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community
+that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field,
+I found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my
+appeals.
+
+My introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was
+at the State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my
+arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the
+anniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that
+there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land,
+and I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special
+gathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range
+of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our
+denomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local
+organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or
+several treasurers, to any of these societies.
+
+After attending this "gathering of the tribes" it was my privilege to
+go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of
+course the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over
+the State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that
+Beloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to
+take definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special
+contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for
+several years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of
+organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly
+charity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the
+Woman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a
+prominent lady in Michigan who said to me: "I think the ladies of
+each one of these Western States ought to support one or more
+teacher-missionaries under the Association."
+
+On the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative
+of the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society,
+with whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We
+were then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale,
+where we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch
+of the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more
+than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that
+adopted in Wisconsin.
+
+Before the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able
+to visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville,
+Vermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the
+various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might
+result from this new presentation of our needs.
+
+In the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union
+in its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to
+be done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find
+stancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than
+in this conference.
+
+At this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid
+journey brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the
+Minnesota State Association--just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota
+friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's
+Home Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the
+constitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its
+borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work.
+The giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is
+required by the constitution itself.
+
+We took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there
+went to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that
+these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less
+accessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily
+limited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors,
+charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of
+their churches.
+
+Before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the
+central points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we
+went up from there to Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt
+that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose
+homes we had already been.
+
+Another tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St.
+Clair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same
+experiences as before.
+
+We came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which was to be our
+last place of labor in Michigan. The ladies of this Conference,
+though not yet organized for home work under the State society, for
+several years supported a missionary in the South, largely through
+the personal effort of one active lady, who made this special
+collection her care. With the closing of this Bureau visit to the
+ladies of Michigan the work is left in their hands--not to be
+forgotten by them, but to be developed and strengthened until there
+shall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.
+
+REV. CHARLES H. OLIPHANT.
+
+
+The Editor has asked me to give some account of the way our
+Sunday-school behaves itself at Christmas-time.
+
+There are two ideas about the Church; and as parents feel and think
+about the Church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel
+about the Sunday-school. One conception of the Church is that it is a
+kind of receptacle for pious people. When one becomes "good enough"
+he is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by
+the means of grace. It is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it
+seems to excuse laymen from any active part in Christian work, if
+only they are regular attendants upon divine service. So, many people
+come to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for
+them to do, nothing either great or small. Such members may be said
+to be found in the "passive voice."
+
+The other and better notion is that the Church is not a receptacle,
+but an engine; not a box for Christians to get into, but a "body" for
+them to operate, and through which Christ can act upon the world of
+to-day. According to this view, the minister is not the only member
+whom the Master has called into His vineyard, the ideal Church is not
+so much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers; the congregation
+comes together not simply to "hear Mr. ----," but to organize for
+work. This may be called the Church's "active voice." I cannot
+(within the verbal limits assigned me) measure the miles of distance
+which lie between these two views.
+
+The same confusion of thought prevails in the Sunday-school. We know
+how the small boy finds that Sunday-school the most attractive (and
+that teacher the "nicest") whose Christmas-tree pays the largest
+dividend.
+
+[Illustration: CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS]
+
+When I came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial
+custom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school.
+After a year or two of competition with other schools in making it
+"worth while" for children to attend our own, we "braced up" and put
+the question to vote whether we would make the Christmas festival a
+feast for ourselves or a feast for others; whether we would have our
+school at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the
+beneficiaries, or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants
+of the Master, who had no parental pocketbook to tap; no good things
+to give away. To the surprise of all the vote was unanimous against
+the old, and in favor of the new, way. There was much misgiving as to
+results. Many confidently predicted that the offerings (each class
+was invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope) would be
+microscopic. It was distinctly understood that no money--not the
+smallest sum--was asked from those who disapproved the plan. Teachers
+were urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts.
+Inquiring next for a suitable object, we were advised by the Home
+Missionary Society of a poor servant of theirs in a Western State,
+whose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven
+children. We put her to vote, and she was promptly and unanimously
+chosen. With the introduction into the plan of a personal element,
+enthusiasm began, and it became evident at once that there was to be
+sharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts. At
+length came the Christmas Eve concert, and with it a bright, full
+company of children. They never looked so happy, and every one of
+them knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion, as when,
+class by class, the offerings were handed to the Superintendent. With
+each of these a passage of Scripture was recited. It became only too
+evident, as the pile within his hand increased, that the
+prognostications of those who were sure that an old Sunday-school
+could not be taught new tricks were false. We are a small
+school--only 80 scholars--but the class offerings on this occasion
+footed up twenty-eight dollars and some cents. A letter was
+accordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife (this was the
+best part of it, for we were sure that the minister could not then,
+as ministers will, mistake the remittance for a portion of his
+salary), who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or
+articles of which she was individually in need. The letter which came
+back to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school
+clear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear. It revealed
+(among other things) the fact that this poor servant had hitherto
+made all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle. Now
+she has a sewing machine. We all think, but none more fervently than
+the children, that the memory of a few oranges, more or less--oranges
+eaten three years ago--would not compensate for the glad
+consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie
+home. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the
+"giver" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the
+continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the
+remembrance of what our pennies wrought.
+
+We have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the
+practice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now
+habitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African
+lad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means,
+such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a
+missionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and
+perhaps for two months.
+
+Let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming
+obstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which
+they belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the
+children for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings.
+Do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference
+between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by
+all means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let
+it not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian
+attitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it
+is the _giving up_ which makes us the Lord's disciples.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MAINE, $425.02.
+
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      $250.95
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Dakota M._        1.56
+  Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First
+    Parish, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                 15.00
+  Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch.                          5.00
+  Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong.
+    Ch. and Soc., 7.20                                      37.20
+  Hiram. ----, _for Selma, Ala._                             1.75
+  Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence
+    Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17                              61.17
+  Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
+    Wilmington, N. C._
+  Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       16.00
+  Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.39
+  York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.
+
+  East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch.                                   20.68
+  Dover. Mrs. A. Fairbanks, 7; Mrs. S. Foye, 5, _for
+    Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                12.00
+  Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              39.12
+  Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.63
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.33; Cyrus Newhall, 1      10.33
+  Keen. Geo. E. Whitney                                      5.00
+  Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., _for McIntosh,
+    Ga._                                                     2.50
+  Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     10.00
+  Marlborough. Freedmen's Aid Soc., 2 bbls. of C., val.
+    60, _for Talladega C._, 4 _for Freight_                  4.00
+  Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          29.43
+  New Ipswich. Children's 21st Annual Fair for benevolent
+    objects                                                 10.50
+  Pembroke. Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 5; Rev. D. Goodhue, 1          6.00
+  Pittsfield. Box of Goods, by Rev. G. E. Hill, _for Marion,
+    Ala._
+  Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00
+  Tilton and Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 25.00
+  Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.27
+  West Lebanon. "Children's Mission Band." Christmas Box,
+    _for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency, Neb._
+  West Lebanon. Bbl. of C., by Rev. T. C. Pease, _for
+    Marietta, Ga._
+                                                         --------
+                                                          $215.46
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Francestown. Estate of Mrs. Harriet F. Downes, By Geo.
+    E. Downes                                              500.00
+                                                         --------
+                                                          $715.46
+
+
+VERMONT, $175.05.
+
+  Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                48.13
+  Berlin. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box of C.,
+    _for Talladega C._
+  Brattleborough. H. Halsey, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            5.00
+  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta
+    U._
+  Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00
+  Randolph. Mrs. Mary K. Nichols                             3.00
+  Rupert. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.25
+  Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. V. M. Howard, 25; Mrs. E. D.
+    Blodgett, 25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                50.00
+  Swanton. H. Stone, wife and daughter                       5.00
+  Vershire. Luella D. Carpenter                              1.00
+  Worcester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.55
+  West Randolph. Mrs. Susan E. Albin                         6.00
+  Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      19.10
+  Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   6.02
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $2,795.19.
+
+  Abington. "A Friend," to const. NAHUM FULLERTON L.M.      50.00
+  Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.30
+  Amherst. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._         7.00
+  Andover, G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._     25.00
+  Andover. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     20.00
+  Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.72;
+    incorrectly ack. in December number from Vt.
+  Auburn. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. SAMUEL D. HOSMER, L.M.  47.67
+  Boylston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box of C., val. 16
+  Boston. Pilgrim Soc. of Phillips Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Boston. Mrs. D. C. Holden, Bbl. of C., _for Chattanooga,
+    Tenn._
+  Boston. "Cash"                                            10.00
+  Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                        37.87
+  Brookline. Mrs. Crafts, Books
+  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight_       2.00
+  Brockton. Porter Ch. and Soc., "A Friend," 20 (adl.)
+    to const. MRS. ALPHEUS GURNEY and EVERETT C. RANDALL
+    L.M's; Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, 5                          25.00
+  Brockton. Mrs. Baylis Sanford, Bbl. of C., 2 _for
+    Freight, for Tougaloo U._                                2.00
+  Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    101.00
+  Billerica. Ladies of O. C. Ch., Chest of C., _for
+    Atlanta U._
+  Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40,
+    to const. ANNIE M. EDSON L.M.; Central Sq. Sab. Sch.,
+    15                                                      55.00
+  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of
+    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._, val. 34                    5.00
+  Cambridge. "A tithing"                                     5.00
+  Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, _for Lady
+    Miss'y, Chattanooga, Tenn._                             25.00
+  Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.67
+  Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.                                31.87
+  Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. MISS
+    ANNIE C. PIERCE L.M.                                    30.00
+  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         159.81
+  Dorchester. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., (ad'l)                 1.24
+  Duxbury. A. P. Ellison, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta U._
+  East Bridgewater. Mrs. S. D. Shaw                          3.00
+  Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                              15.81
+  Fitchburg. Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                      160.87
+  Gilbertsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00
+  Hatfield. Cong. Ch.                                       58.00
+  Haverhill. Algernon R. Nichols, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           35.00
+  Haverhill. Sew. Soc. of No. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
+    val. 75.37, _for Tougaloo U._
+  Holliston. "Friends," 15.97; Missionary Concert, 4.03,
+    _for Student Aid_; "Friends," Shoemaker's kit, val.
+    10, Shoe-lasts and clothing, _for Talladega C._         20.00
+  Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc., 25; First Cong. Sab.
+    Sch., 15 _for Straight U., furnishing_                  40.00
+  Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.31 and Bbl. of C.     9.31
+  Lawrence. "E. F. E."                                       5.00
+  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00
+  Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   26.45
+  Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           24.75
+  Ludlow. Cong. Ch.                                         35.16
+  Malden. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     25.00
+  Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3
+    _for Freight, for Savannah, Ga._                         3.00
+  Melrose. Orthodox Ch. and Soc.                            60.77
+  Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    56.59
+  Monson. Cong. Ch. (12 of which from Mrs. H. Dewey's
+    class, _for Howard U._)                                 37.00
+  Newbury. First Parish, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+  Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.83; Prospect
+    St. Cong. Ch., 29.50                                    66.33
+  Newton. Ladies' Freedman's Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl of C.,
+    _for Macon, Ga._
+  Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    100.00
+  Newton Lower Falls. "Friend," _for Student Aid,
+    Straight U._                                              .50
+  Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.75
+  North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             51.06
+  Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.14
+  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary, Topeka,
+    Kan._                                                   15.00
+  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., 2 _for Freight,
+    for Wilmington, N. C._                                   2.00
+  Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch.                                1.44
+  Pepperell. "Friends," Bbl. of C., _for Avery Inst._
+  Pittsfield. Mrs. Hurd, Bbl. of C., 2.50 _for Freight,
+    for Talladega C._                                        2.50
+  First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from Sab. Sch.,
+    _for S. S. work_)                                      143.00
+  Rockport. Busy Bee Soc., by Sadie W. Butman, _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.00
+  Rockport, "Pastor's Class," _for Dakota M._                5.64
+  Rockport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 2 Bdls. of S. S.
+    Exercises
+  Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.00
+  South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        50.05
+  Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              136.60
+  Spencer. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bdl. of C.
+  Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch.                               30.00
+  Sunderland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 _for
+    Freight, for Atlanta U._                                 3.00
+  Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                49.83
+  Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                               13.54
+  Tewksbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Freight, for
+    Talladega C._                                            2.00
+  Townsend. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 22.50
+  Watertown. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Phillips Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Straight U._                          50.00
+  Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00
+  Westborough. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                        50.00
+  Westborough. Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl. of C., 1,
+    _for Freight, for Atlanta U._                            1.00
+  West Medway. Cyrus Adams                                  10.00
+  West Newton. "A Friend," Bbl. of C.
+  Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         9.75
+  Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS.
+    HARRIET BEMIS L.M.                                      30.00
+  Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 163.26; Salem
+    St. Ch., 94; "E. C. C." 20                             277.26
+  Worcester. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   100.00
+  Worcester. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            8.66
+  Worcester. Infant Class Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Atlanta U._                                        30.00
+  Worthington. "An Aged Lady," by Rev. F. S. Huntington     10.00
+  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. C. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of
+    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._
+  ----. "A Friend"                                          20.00
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $337.80.
+
+  Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       22.91
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Providence. Estate of Sarah P. Phillips, by T.
+    Salisbury, Adm'r                                       314.89
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,972.41.
+
+  Branford. Rev. C. P. Osborne                              10.00
+  Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch.                              14.81
+  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Sab. Sch. Work, Marion,
+    Ala._                                                   25.00
+  Coventry. First Cong. Ch.                                 41.93
+  Danbury. First Cong. Ch.                                  12.00
+  Derby. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. &
+    N. Inst._                                               10.00
+  East Hartford. South Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. E. M. Roberts,
+    5                                                       20.00
+  East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00
+  Ellington. Cong. Ch.                                      26.14
+  Guilford. "A member of Third Cong. Ch." _for Student
+    Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                            2.00
+  Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch.                             84.41
+  Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., 31.43, to const. JOHN H.
+    FREEMAN L.M.; Cong. Ch., 20                             51.43
+  Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                     35.73
+  Killingly. E. F. Jencks                                    5.00
+  Lakeville. Children's Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             50.00
+  Litchfield. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00
+  Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. CATHARINE C.
+    HINSDALE, MRS. WM. HOMAN, JOSEPH U. PRATT, E. B.
+    COWLES, MARGARET LOGAN, LILLIAN B. SMITH, LUCY B.
+    GRISWOLD, SALLIE E. COLLINS, JOHN WARREN and MARSHALL
+    A. FOWLER, L.M's                                       300.00
+  Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.                                 50.00
+  Middletown. First Ch., 25.29; "A Friend," 5               30.29
+  Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          7.13
+  Millington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00
+  New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                               7.00
+  New Haven. "A Friend, in commemoration of fiftieth
+    birthday," 50; Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 10                  60.00
+  New London. Church of Christ                              49.90
+  New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen, Bbl. of C. and Chest of
+  Books, _for Talladega C._
+  Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS MARY
+    McCALL L.M.                                             51.02
+  Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                  75.41
+  Norwich. Rev. W. S. Palmer                                 5.00
+  Norwich Town. Charles B. Baldwin                          10.00
+  Putnam. "Missionary Workers" of Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00
+  Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                 44.69
+  South Coventry. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     98.00
+  Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      30.50
+  Thompsonville. First Presb. Sab. Sch., _for Straight U.,
+    Library_                                                 6.61
+  West Avon. "A Friend"                                     10.00
+  West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.91
+  West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                   5.50
+  Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for Tillotson C. &
+    N. Inst., Land_                                         50.00
+  Westport. Amasa Warren                                     5.00
+  Winchester. Cong. Ch.                                      8.02
+  Vernon Centre. Cong. Ch.                                  31.98
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,472.41
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Laura F. Stanley, by
+    Oliver Stanley, Ex.                                    500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,972.41
+
+
+NEW YORK, $891.01.
+
+  Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                            5.00
+  Albany. Chas. A. Beach                                    25.00
+  Brooklyn. "A Friend"                                       2.00
+  Brooklyn. Estate of Chas. Wilbur, pkg. Bibles
+  Camden. Cong. Ch. & Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._         28.00
+  Clinton. Miss Cynthia Chipman, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                      5.00
+  Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.                              5.00
+  Durham. "A Friend"                                         3.00
+  Ellington. George Waith                                    1.00
+  Fairport. First Cong. Ch.                                 79.11
+  Fredonia. Sab. Sch. of Pres. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (100 of which from A. Judson)    127.00
+  Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                20.00
+  Homer. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega
+    C._
+  Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Lady Miss'y,
+    Topeka, Kansas_                                         10.00
+  Liverpool. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._          1.00
+  Malone. First Cong. Ch.                                   32.20
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         22.60
+  Morristown. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00
+  Munnsville. N. S. Hall, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.,
+    Reading Room_                                            5.00
+  New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 81.50, _for Talladega C._
+    and bal. to const. DR. JOSEPH F. LAND, EDMUND L.
+    CHAMPLIN and MRS. LOUISE S. AYRES L.M's; Gen. Clinton
+    B. Fisk, 30, to const. MISS FANNY GLEASON L.M.; "A
+    Friend," 1; Harper & Brothers, 200 vols. School Books,
+    val. 100                                                112.50
+  New York. D. J. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00
+  New Haven. "A Friend," to const. REV. FRANK N. GREELEY
+    and MRS. ANNA C. GREELEY L.M's                           60.00
+  Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                               150.00
+  Portland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   8.60
+  West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle                                 2.00
+  West Durham. Diantha Scoville                              10.00
+  Warsaw. Mrs. H. L. Booth, Pkg. of Papers
+  Waterville. Mrs. J. S. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                  5.00
+  Whitestown. S. Hoxie, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._      10.00
+  ----. "Yale 59," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           50.00
+  ----. "A Friend," Blacksmith and Shoemakers' tools,
+    val. 80.00, _for Talladega C._
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $281.00.
+
+  Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts                              40.00
+  Elizabeth. Mrs. Hannah W. Page                             1.00
+  Jersey City. Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Indian Girl,
+    Santee Agency_                                          25.00
+  Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Hampton A. & N. Inst._                                  35.00
+  Paterson. P. Van Houten                                    5.00
+  Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (10.50 of
+    which _for Dakota M._)                                 175.00
+  Raritan. Box of Papers
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $35.00.
+
+  Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson                             15.00
+  Meadville. Miss Eliza Dickson                             15.00
+  North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner                             5.00
+
+
+OHIO, $472.61.
+
+  Alliance. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch.                            5.00
+  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         7.25
+  Bellevue. Cong. Ch., Collection 10.35, S. W. Boise 25.,
+    to const. REV. W. G. ROBERTS L.M.                       35.35
+  Berea. Mrs. Fred Smedley, _for Lexington, Ky._             3.75
+  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.                                24.29
+  Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00
+  Cleveland. White Sew. Machine Co., Sewing Machine, _for
+    Straight U._
+  Farmer. E. M. Ensign                                      10.00
+  Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury, "in memory of her daughter
+    Madelin," to const. MISS EMMA A. JOHNSON L.M.           30.00
+  Huron. Theodore Alvord                                     1.50
+  Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                43.16
+  Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        5.00
+  New Lyme. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Straight U.,
+    Library_                                                 7.60
+  North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, _for Theo. Dept.,
+    Talladega C._                                          100.00
+  Oberlin. "A Friend"                                       10.00
+  Peru. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._          63.75
+  Ruggles. First Cong. Ch.                                   6.23
+  Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton                                    1.50
+  Strongsville. E. Lyman, bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A.
+    AVERY L.M.                                              10.00
+  Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                                 5.00
+  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   17.46
+  Wellington. First Cong. Ch.                               59.27
+  York. Cong. Ch. (ad'l)                                     1.50
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $663.80.
+
+  Cable. Maria B. Holyoke                                    2.00
+  Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney                           10.00
+  Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 40.53; Ladies' Miss'y Soc.
+    of New Eng. Cong. Ch., 9.10                             49.63
+  Dover. Cong. Ch.                                          25.31
+  Dover. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y, Mobile,
+    Ala._                                                   10.00
+  Englewood. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00
+  Evanston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 11.00
+  Farmington. Phineas Chapman                               50.00
+  Freeport. L. L. Farwell, _for Talladega C._               10.00
+  Galesburg. Infant Class First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   17.50
+  Galesburg. C. S. Halsey, case of medicines, _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00
+  Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                   49.30
+  Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y Mobile,
+    Ala._                                                   25.00
+  Moline. First Cong. Ch.                                   55.39
+  Naperville. Cong. Ch.                                     17.40
+  Ottawa. First Cong. Ch.                                   41.00
+  Onarga. "Gentleman"                                         .50
+  Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     11.00
+  Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       90.00
+  Rochelle. "A Friend," _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.,
+    Reading Room_                                           50.00
+  Sheffield. Etta M. Kingburn                                3.27
+  Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, 5; Bryce Crawford, 5; D. P.
+    Barker, 2; P. B. Gault, 1; J. Hood, 1; S. Alexander,
+    1; J. Alexander, 1; R. H. Rosborough, 1; L. Fulton,
+    50c                                                     17.50
+  Sycamore. I. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       104.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $387.14.
+
+  Alamo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.                                 5.00
+  Allegan. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            50.85
+  Adrian. C. C. Spooner                                      5.00
+  Baldwin. Rev. S. B. Demarest                               2.00
+  Church's Corners. Cong. Ch., 13.40, and Sab. Sch.,
+    12.60; J. F. Douglass, 4; A. W. Douglass, 2; James
+    Robbins, 2                                              34.00
+  Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                      9.60
+  East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                34.00
+  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstack_                                              30.00
+  Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
+    U._                                                     25.00
+  Halloway. James Vincent                                   10.00
+  Hudson. Young People's Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                25.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mrs. Henry Montague, 5; Mr. Reimer, 3, _for
+    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    8.00
+  Lansing. Plymouth Ch.                                     21.74
+  Litchfield. Cong. Ch., 11.60; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 11.20  22.80
+  Olivet. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.63
+  Salem. First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._                     10.00
+  Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    42.37
+  Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.                                     35.65
+  Union City. J. R. Blake                                    5.00
+  Vienna. Cong. Ch.                                          4.50
+
+
+IOWA, $208.46.
+
+  Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers                                      2.00
+  Anamosa. Ladies Freedmen's Soc., Clothing, _for Straight
+    U._
+  Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New
+    Orleans, La._                                            4.00
+  Chester Center. First Cong. Ch.                           40.00
+  Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._             50.55
+  Decorah. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 40, _for Straight
+    U._
+  Des Moines. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls of C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                         11.71
+  Grinnell. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00
+  McGregor. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Cong. Ch.         17.00
+  McGregor. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La._  18.00
+  Montour. Cong. Ch.                                        32.60
+  Onawa. Cong. Ch.                                          12.60
+  Staceyville. Miss P. D. Shattuck, bedding _for Straight
+    U._
+  ----. "Hawkeye," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           4.00
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $163.69.
+
+  Burlington. Plymouth Ch.                                  15.00
+  Cooksville. Edward Gilley                                  5.00
+  Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                  13.50
+  Janesville. Cong. Ch.                                     10.32
+  Kan Kanna. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00
+  La Crosse. Mission Sch.                                   15.00
+  Milton. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.87
+  Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00
+  Platteville. Cong. Ch.                                    35.00
+  Shopiere. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._        8.00
+  Whitewater. Winchester & Partridge Mfg. Co., Corn and
+    Feed Mill, val. 40, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $62.69.
+
+  Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.00
+  Glyndon. Union Ch.                                         8.17
+  Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 30.46
+  Rochester. First Cong. Ch.                                21.06
+
+
+KANSAS, $9.70.
+
+  Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                               9.70
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $107.25.
+
+  Nebraska City. Cong. Ch.                                   7.25
+  York. Dr. Benjamin Bissell                               100.00
+
+
+ARKANSAS, $6.00.
+
+  Little Rock. Tuition                                       6.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $20.00.
+
+  Arcata. "A Friend"                                        20.00
+
+
+MARYLAND, $129.22.
+
+  Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                               129.22
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $122.75.
+
+  Lexington. Tuition                                        87.50
+  Newport. F. W. C. Crane                                    5.00
+  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     30.25
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $2,195.53.
+
+  Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition. 886.93; Rent, 75            961.93
+  Knoxville. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00
+  Memphis. Friends _for Le Moyne Sch., Enlargement of
+    Building_                                            1,000.00
+  Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          221.60
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $232.10.
+
+  Raleigh. "Friends," 2; Miss E. P. Hayes, 6 (of which 1
+    _for Freight_) _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._             8.00
+  Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 219.10; Cong. Ch., 5   224.10
+
+
+GEORGIA, $450.05.
+
+  Atlanta. Storrs' Sch., Tuition, 244.05; Rent, 3; First
+    Cong. Ch., 30                                          277.05
+  Macon. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00
+  Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 142, Rent, 10; Cong.
+    Ch., 10                                                162.00
+  Woodville. "A Friend"                                      1.00
+
+
+ALABAMA, $458.15.
+
+  Athens. Tuition, 63.90, "Student Aid," 20                 83.90
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00
+  Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 295.85; Cong. Ch., 1.20  297.05
+  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     20.00
+  Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 37.20; Cong. Ch., 10    47.20
+
+
+LOUISIANA, $207.00.
+
+  New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        207.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $1.00.
+
+  Jackson. Cong. Ch.                                         1.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $251.00.
+
+  Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 251.00
+
+
+----, $25.00.
+
+  Port Arthur. Rev. H. H. Robins, _for Talladega C._        25.00
+
+
+INCOMES, $933.03.
+
+  Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               575.00
+  C. F. Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                    125.00
+  De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._     37.50
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                        85.53
+  Income Fund, _for Straight U._                            20.00
+  Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                       50.00
+  Luke Mem. Sch. Fund, _for Talladega C._                   10.80
+  N. M. and A. Stone Fund, _For Talladega C._               25.00
+  Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._                      4.20
+                                                      -----------
+
+    Total for November                                 $14,734.11
+
+    Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th                    29,977.09
+                                                      ===========
+
+
+FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30                    76.07
+                                                      ===========
+
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+  56 Reade Street, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO INVESTORS.
+
+$925 and accrued interest will buy a $1,000 6 per cent. gold coupon
+bond of the
+
+  EAST and WEST R. R. CO. OF ALABAMA
+
+This is a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first
+mortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always
+paid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This
+bond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a
+safe investment. For sale by the
+
+  EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA., 502 B'way, or
+  AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST CO., 113 B'way, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONSTITUTION.
+
+
+ART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary
+Association.
+
+ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian
+missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the
+Holy Scriptures in our own country and other countries which are
+destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.
+
+ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members
+of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into
+its treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of
+payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated
+person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days
+after the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the
+privilege of voting.
+
+Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the
+funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of
+such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the
+Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be
+members of the Association for the year for which they were thus
+appointed.
+
+ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the
+month of October or November, at such time and place as may be
+designated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by
+the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official
+publication of the Association for the preceding month.
+
+ART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five
+Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a
+Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive
+Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.
+
+At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution,
+five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term
+of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each
+subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full
+term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill
+vacancies.
+
+ART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and
+disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and
+dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of
+missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in
+office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any
+Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate
+powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries
+and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in
+general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the
+Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.
+The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the
+Annual Meeting.
+
+Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting
+business.
+
+ART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who
+is not a member of some evangelical church.
+
+ART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint
+and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the
+Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
+
+ART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by
+the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting
+and voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a
+majority at the previous Annual Meeting.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+and Vegetables, and more than 1000 Illustrations of the choicest
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+
+VICK'S Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in
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+Copies for $5. Specimen numbers sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies 25
+cts.
+
+Address,
+
+  JAMES VICK,
+  Rochester, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: (drawing of lamp)]
+
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+
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+
+  I. P. FRINK, 551 Pearl St. N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SKIN HUMORS
+  CAN BE CURED BY
+  GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.
+
+
+SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 1883.
+
+_Mr. C. N. Crittenton:_
+
+DEAR SIR: I wish to call your attention to the good your Sulphur Soap
+has done me. For nearly fourteen years I have been troubled with a
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+amount. Yours respectfully.
+
+  M. H. MORRIS.
+  LICK HOUSE, San Francisco, Cal.
+
+
+The above testimonial is indisputable evidence that Glenn's Sulphur
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+cents.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+SOZODONT
+
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+
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+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS.
+
+
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+  (1883) now in progress (1883) at
+  AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS,
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+
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+
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+  AT EVERY GREAT WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOR SIXTEEN YEARS,
+
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+
+
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+
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+   1867   1873     1875      1876     1878   1881 |    1883
+  FRANCE.|AUSTRIA.| CHILI.  U. S. AMER.|FRANCE.|ITALY.|NETHERLANDS.
+
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+
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+
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+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 536px;">
+<img src="images/title.jpg" width="536" height="409" alt="The American Missionary, VOL. XXXVIII., NO. 1." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<span class="linenum"><span class="smcap">Page.</span></span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Editorial:</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Another Year&mdash;This Number</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_1'>1</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Pamphlet&mdash;American Missionary&mdash;Joint Committee</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_2'>2</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">One Thousand Dollars a Day</span><span class="linenum">  <a href='#Page_3'>3</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Paragraphs</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_4'>4</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Wanted&mdash;Benefactions&mdash;General Notes</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_5'>5</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Traveling in Africa (cut)</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_6'>6</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Chinese Women (cut)</span><span class="linenum">  <a href='#Page_8'>8</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">Bureau of Woman's Work:</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">The Indian Woman, by Mrs. A. L. Riggs</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_9'>9</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">The Chinese, by Mrs. W. C. Pond</span><span class="linenum"><a href='#Page_11'>11</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Mountain White Work in Kentucky, by Mrs. A. A. Myers</span><span class="linenum"><a href='#Page_12'>12</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Colored People of the South, by Miss Ida M. Beach</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_16'>16</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Report of the Secretary</span><span class="linenum">  <a href='#Page_19'>19</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Form of Constitution&mdash;the Bureau in the West</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_21'>21</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">Children's Page:</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Christmas Giving at Mystic, Conn.</span><span class="linenum">  <a href='#Page_23'>23</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Children Bearing Christmas Gifts (cut)</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_24'>24</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">Receipts</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_26'>26</a></span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">Constitution</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_30'>30</a></span><br />
+
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+NEW YORK:<br />
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br />
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br />
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="smcap">president.</span><br />
+Hon. <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Washburn</span>, LL.D., Mass.<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">vice-presidents.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D.</span>;
+<span class="smcap">Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D.</span>;
+<span class="smcap">Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D.</span>;
+<span class="smcap">Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.</span>;
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Corresponding Secretary.</span>&mdash;<span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Treasurer.</span>&mdash;<span class="smcap">H. W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Auditors.</span>&mdash;<span class="smcap">Wm. A. Nash, W. H. Rogers.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">executive committee.</span><br />
+<span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman;
+<span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>, Secretary;
+<span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott</span>,
+<span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,
+<span class="smcap">J. R. Danforth</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,
+<span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Edward Hawks</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead</span>,
+<span class="smcap">S. H. Virgin</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward</span>,
+<span class="smcap">J. L. Withrow</span>.<br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">district secretaries.</span><br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Woodworth</span>, D.D., <i>Boston</i>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+Rev. <span class="smcap">G. D. Pike, D.D.</span>, <i>New York</i>.<br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">James Powell</span>, <i>Chicago</i>.<br />
+</div>
+<br /><br />
+
+<div class="center smcap">communications</div>
+
+<p>relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to
+the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the "American
+Missionary," to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office;
+letters for the Bureau of Woman's Work, to Miss D. E. Emerson, at the
+New York Office.</p>
+
+
+<div class="center smcap">donations and subscriptions</div>
+
+<p>may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.</p>
+
+
+<div class="center smcap">form of a bequest.</div>
+
+<p>"<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 72px;">
+<img src="images/img004.jpg" width="72" height="72" alt="COUNT RUMFORD." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+<span class="large">HORSFORD'S<br />
+
+<b>ACID PHOSPHATE.</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="medium">(LIQUID.)</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION,<br /> NERVOUSNESS,
+DIMINISHED VITALITY,<br /> URINARY DIFFICULTIES,<br /> ETC.
+<br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF</span><br />
+<b>Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><p>There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority
+of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been
+offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want
+as this.</p>
+
+<p>It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.</p>
+
+<p>No danger can attend its use.</p>
+
+<p>Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to
+take.</p>
+
+<p>It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.</p>
+
+<p>Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on
+application.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="medium">MANUFACTURED BY THE</span><br />
+<b>RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,</b><br />
+<span class="medium"><b>Providence, R. I.,</b></span><br />
+<span class="medium">AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="xlarge"><b>MANHATTAN</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="large"><b>LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="medium"><b><i>156 and 158 Broadway.</i> </b></span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<div class="center large">THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.</div>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<div class="adquote"><p>DESCRIPTION&mdash;One of the oldest, strongest, best.</p>
+
+<p>POLICIES&mdash;Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash surrender
+values.</p>
+
+<p>RATES&mdash;Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.</p>
+
+<p>RISKS carefully selected.</p>
+
+<p>PROMPT, liberal dealing.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">General Agents and Canvassers Wanted</span> in desirable territory, to whom
+permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.</p>
+
+<p>Address</p></div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 15em;"><b>H. STOKES, President.</b></span><br />
+</p>
+
+<div>
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec'y.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 2.35em;">J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">S. N. STEBBINS, Act'y.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 2em;">H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.</span><br />
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h1>
+  <span class="small">THE</span><br /><span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>
+</h1>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+<table width="60%" summary="Title" align="center">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="30%"><b><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXVIII.</b></td>
+    <td align="center" width="40%"><b>JANUARY, 1884.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="30%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 1.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+
+<div class="center xlarge"><b>American Missionary Association.</b></div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Another year. Are we ready for it, ready to work and to win? The
+harvest is still plenteous and every increase of store is precious.
+Who can measure such privilege? And what of opportunities? The
+swift-winged events of our civilization are continually hurrying us
+into the midst of them. It is a day of speedy rewards. Christ comes
+quickly in these times. The business of the Church is helped as
+absolutely as secular business by the development and use of material
+agencies for advancement. What is wanted is the good seed of the
+word. It is that&mdash;the light which shines forth from <i>that</i>&mdash;which
+gives life and growth and masterly power. We want faith in the
+promises. It shall be said, "The kingdoms of this world are become
+the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ." The truth of it is not to
+be doubted or eclipsed. We want power from on high, and that is
+neither distant nor subject to unseasonable delay. What the year
+shall be is for us, under God, to determine. Let us labor and pray
+that the word of promise&mdash;the divine imbuement&mdash;may make rich and
+fruitful, and place the great religious interests of our land on the
+foundation of God which standeth sure.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>We devote considerable space in this number of the <i>Missionary</i> to
+the papers and reports presented at the Woman's Meeting held in
+connection with our Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. The topics considered
+related to the wide range of work conducted by this Association. They
+were treated by persons having much experience in our mission fields,
+and will be welcomed not only as interesting reading, but as
+furnishing authoritative data for the encouragement of the friends of
+our work. The constitution proposed at the meeting, for Women's
+co-operative societies is given, and is commended to the attention of
+those ladies who desire to aid mission work in our own country.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p>
+<p>The valuable Paper on "Woman's Work in Modern Charity and Missions,"
+read by Rev. A. H. Bradford at our Annual Meeting, not published
+elsewhere, has been put in pamphlet form, with a view to general
+distribution. We will be pleased to furnish copies gratuitously, in
+such numbers as may be desired, to those wishing it for the promotion
+of woman's work.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>We are happy to report that the practice of paying for subscriptions
+for the <i>American Missionary</i> is becoming more general year by year.
+This is as it should be. We try to make the <i>Missionary</i> worth the
+price, which is fifty cents annually. We believe the information it
+contains is of value to all, and that most of it cannot be found
+elsewhere. Will not our friends kindly aid us in its circulation,
+remitting to our treasurer at once what may be gathered for that
+purpose?</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>JOINT COMMITTEE.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The Joint Committee appointed by the American Home Missionary Society
+and the American Missionary Association for the consideration of the
+relation between the two societies, met by adjournment at
+Springfield, Mass., Dec. 11. The committee on the part of the A. H.
+M. S. consisted of Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D.D., Rev. Lyman Abbott,
+D.D., Rev. Geo. L. Walker, D.D., Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D., and A. S.
+Barnes, Esq. The Committee on the part of the A. M. A. consisted of
+Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O.
+Mears, D.D., Prest. S. C. Bartlett, and Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D. All
+were present except Dr. Goodell, and his place was filled by Mr. S.
+B. Capen. A letter from Dr. Goodell was read. Dr. Barrows,
+representing the Home Missionary Society, and Dr. Strieby,
+representing the American Missionary Association, were also present
+by invitation.</p>
+
+<p>It was manifest that the members of the Committee were equally
+friends of both societies and sought only their greatest efficiency.
+No partisan feeling found utterance. The members of the Committee are
+men of independent views and judgment, and examined the subject
+before them from different standpoints, and yet reached in the paper
+presented below a remarkable degree of unanimity&mdash;every item
+receiving a unanimous vote. The result will command and deserves the
+attention of the churches. The following is</p>
+
+<div class="center">THE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.</div>
+
+<p>Consulting the principle of comity between the two societies&mdash;the A.
+H. M. S. and the A. M. A.&mdash;and that traditional policy of
+Congregationalists which ignores caste and color lines, and also in
+view of the present relative position and strength of the two
+societies, we, the Joint Committee, give as our judgment:</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span></p>
+<p>1. That, as heretofore, the principal work of the American Home
+Missionary Society should be in the West, and the principal work of
+the American Missionary Association should be in the South.</p>
+
+<p>2. Whatever new work may be called for in any locality should be
+under the charge of the society already occupying the ground. No
+exception to this rule should be allowed unless it be by agreement
+between the two societies.</p>
+
+<p>3. Concerning work already established by either society, we would
+recommend that if either comity, economy or efficiency will be
+advanced by it, such a transfer of the work should be made as shall
+bring the work of the societies into harmony with the preceding
+recommendations.</p>
+
+<p>4. We would recommend to the two societies to consider the
+practicability of using a common superintendent in those portions of
+the field where an economical and efficient administration will be
+secured by it.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY.</h3>
+
+
+<p>What can be done with it? We can sustain efficiently our current work
+of educating teachers and preachers and the planting of churches. In
+the progress of development, more requires more. If the Association
+did not need increased receipts it would be evidence of lack of
+growth. There is no such lack. New demands are springing up at every
+point, and it is wise economy to meet these demands. They are simply
+the healthy development of legitimate missionary work.</p>
+
+<p>Just now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for
+promoting industrial education. The South is arising into a new life.
+New fields of labor are rapidly opening. Skilled workmen are wanted.
+The possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better
+understood. The aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their
+opportunities, and the industrial departments in connection with our
+institutions are patronized as never before. We ought to make the
+most of them now.</p>
+
+<p>We need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for
+knowledge with good reading. The colored people have few, if any,
+books or periodicals. We ought to have the means at once for
+furnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different
+points. Such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent
+should be provided.</p>
+
+<p>The students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be
+numbered by thousands. These explore the dark places of the land.
+They open schools in such buildings as can be found, or, finding
+none, teach out of doors. We need means to aid many such with
+supplemental support, making it possible for them to continue their
+schools longer than<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> the few months provided for by the limited State
+appropriations. Thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this
+way. The opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than
+ever. A temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the South.
+Our students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total
+abstinence. They make the best advocates of the cause that can be had
+for many localities. It is a crucial period. The time to do this work
+is now&mdash;now, while the great questions at issue are being agitated
+and settled. We ought to have means for extending our efforts to the
+utmost in this direction.</p>
+
+<p>Of more importance still is evangelistic work, supplemental to the
+labors of our pastors. This is coming into more than usual
+prominence. Our students have had thorough training for it, and no
+little experience in it during their course of study. A score of them
+in every Southern State could be set to work with profit, if we had
+the money for such outlay. Nothing could do more for immediate
+results in developing a pure Christianity among the untaught and
+unsaved poor of the South.</p>
+
+<p>We might also, with a thousand dollars a day, do more than we have
+ever done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in
+all our fields of labor. This is the great and urgent necessity. Out
+of Christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded
+by a Christian civilization. For this especially we emphasize our
+appeal. To what better use can the Christians and patriots of our
+country devote a thousand dollars a day?</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>A friend, noting the annual average addition of churches as five or
+six, raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling
+that rate. The Association is glad to recognize this worthy
+aspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it, and still further to
+remind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to
+magnify the work of each year is also in the same line. Nevertheless,
+we find that those who become in some sense responsible for the
+nurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us
+become conservative instead of becoming rash, as is sometimes
+averred. Yet we are able to give assurance that the Field
+Superintendent and his associates, with their eyes upon the whole
+field, watching the germs and their unfolding, are only anxious to
+set out these plants of the Lord's house as fast as is at all
+consistent. We also see, in no far-away future, a large church work
+for us as the fruitage of our school work.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>A prize of $75 is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in
+the High School at Newport, R. I. The best examination this year was
+by the daughter of George Rice, the colored steward of the steamer
+Pilgrim. As she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from New
+York sent her $75 in gold.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>WANTED!</h3>
+
+
+<p>&mdash;We greatly need a new school building, for the lower grades at
+Tougaloo University, a two-story building with school rooms below and
+a chapel above. Who will give $3,000 for &mdash;&mdash; Hall at Tougaloo?</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;We need also a steam engine for the Industrial Department at
+Tougaloo, a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power. Who will
+give it, or the money needful?</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;We need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of
+carpentry at Talladega and elsewhere. Who will give one or more sets?</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;We need illustrated books and magazines for our Reading Rooms. Who
+will give us subscriptions to <i>Wide Awake</i>, <i>St. Nicholas</i>, etc., or
+money to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit?</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>BENEFACTIONS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Rutgers College has received $1,000 toward an endowment fund from Mr.
+R. H. Ballentine, Newark, N. J.</p>
+
+<p>Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, has given the city of Salem, Mass., $7,500,
+the income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in
+college.</p>
+
+<p>Illinois College has recently received a gift of $1,000 from Mr. E.
+W. Blatchford, of Chicago, who was a member of the class of '65.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. George W. Dixon, of Bethlehem, Pa., has given $20,000 to Linden
+Hall Female Seminary, to build a Gothic chapel in memory of his
+daughter.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., has given $10,000 to Olivet
+College, Mich.</p>
+
+<p>Joseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has placed in the hands of the trustees
+of Hamlin University $25,000 to increase the endowment of that
+institution.</p>
+
+<p>Mrs. Robert L. Stuart has given $150,000 to Princeton College to
+endow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors
+in logic, ethics and psychology.</p>
+
+<p><i>Among the wants specified in the report of the Executive Committee
+of the A. M. A. for the coming year was $10,000 for a new hall for
+the Edward Smith College, at Little Rock, Ark. It is proposed that
+the donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion.</i></p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>
+
+
+<h4>AFRICA.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;Among the Belgians no less than six commercial societies have been
+constituted to explore the Congo.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Livingstone Inland Mission has founded a new station at Ngoma's
+Town, one hundred kilometers up the river from Stanley Pool.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p>
+<p>&mdash;The merchants of Lisbon have constituted a company for the
+navigation of the Quanza. They have constructed to this effect in
+England a steamer, the Serpa Pinto, which was to be delivered in
+September.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Scotch Presbyterian Church have decided to furnish a steamer
+for the use of the Old Calabar Mission. The young people throughout
+the church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the
+money by the time the steamer is ready.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;According to a dispatch from Sierra Leone the Queen of Massah, with
+the consent of the native chiefs, has authorized the annexation of
+the neighboring territory of Sherbro to the English possession, which
+will thus extend without interruption from Sierra Leone to Liberia.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 474px;">
+<img src="images/img010.jpg" width="474" height="394" alt="TRAVELING IN AFRICA." title="" />
+<span class="caption">TRAVELING IN AFRICA.</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>&mdash;The fever of speculation reigns at Axim and in the districts of the
+Golden Coast. From the climate and the conditions of exploration, the
+working of the mines proceeds slowly. Commander Cameron, director of
+the West African Goldfields Company, has introduced upon his grant
+the hydraulic processes employed in California.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p>
+<p>&mdash;The <i>Journal</i> of Geneva announces that the International African
+Association is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will
+receive gratuitously land in the countries of the Congo, of which
+Stanley has taken possession. It is negotiating to attract the
+Germans, and already the Prussian journals speak of the creation of a
+German Consulate.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Flegel has offered to the African German Society to make a new
+exploration in a region entirely unknown, which extends to the Congo;
+or, if they choose, to return toward the west to Mount Cameroon. The
+Government of the German Empire has granted a sum of 50,000 francs
+for this exploration. On the other hand, some private individuals of
+Lagos, where Flegel has resided since his last voyage, have furnished
+him funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the
+Niger and to B&eacute;nou&eacute;, in the advancement of science and commerce.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Mr. Petersen and Dr. Sims have founded at Stanley Pool a new
+station for the Livingstone Inland Mission. Dr. Sims very quickly
+commenced to heal the sick, which gained him the confidence of the
+natives. These latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their
+land the provisions necessary for the number of Europeans established
+at Stanley Pool, and the price of provisions has greatly increased.
+The steamer, Henry Reed, destined for the Upper Congo was to start
+out the first of August.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE INDIANS.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;Of the 6,000 Pi-Utes it is said that there are never more than 600
+on their reservation at one time. Not more than fifty attend the
+agency school.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The National Indian Association, an organization composed
+exclusively of ladies, has for its object to obtain for the Indians
+the rights of citizens, and to induce the Government to allow them to
+own farms.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The General Council of the Choctaw Nation, recently closed,
+appropriated $100,000 for the erection of a new council house, the
+old one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and
+training in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The ceremony of receiving Sitting-Bull into the Catholic Church at
+Fort Yates has been indefinitely postponed because Sitting-Bull
+cannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go. Bishop
+Marty has had him under his care for several months, and his
+instructions were being rapidly absorbed by the Chief; but separation
+from his wives proved too much, and he will probably return to
+heathenism.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE CHINESE.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;The missionaries in China, to the number of 231, have presented
+another petition to the House of Commons against the infamous opium
+traffic.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span></p>
+<p>&mdash;There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands,
+who is said to be a whole Bible society in himself, expending twenty
+dollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to
+distribute among his countrymen there.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The largest bell in the world is in Kiota, Japan. It is 24 feet
+high and 16 inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended
+piece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside,
+and its booming can be heard for miles. Nobody knows when or by whom
+it was cast, and though its surface is covered with characters, no
+scholar has yet been able to translate them.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The <i>Foreign Missionary</i> says the great secret of success in
+teaching the Chinese in America lies in the direct personal influence
+of the teacher over the pupil. Generally each pupil is provided with
+a teacher, and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct
+proportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced. The
+first important revelation that dawns upon the Chinaman is that there
+are those in this land who are not hoodlums, and that brutality is
+not the universal law in America; that Christianity is higher and
+purer than the enactments of Congress, and that Christ is the friend
+of all men, and has died for Chinamen as well as "Melicans."</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 476px;">
+<img src="images/img012.jpg" width="476" height="336" alt="CHINESE WOMEN." title="" />
+<span class="caption">CHINESE WOMEN.</span>
+</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h2>
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Miss D. E. Emerson, Secretary</span>.</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>PAPERS READ AT THE WOMAN'S MEETING IN BROOKLYN.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>THE INDIAN WOMAN.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS.</div>
+
+
+<p>To describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among
+them, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven
+with our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and
+unlike white women she appeared to us at first. But she is a woman,
+even though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on
+her back.</p>
+
+<p>How uninteresting, you must think, and she probably thinks the same
+of you. She does not know that you care for her. She feels that she
+is different in some way, and most likely if you smile upon her she
+will not know it, for she is too modest even to look at you; but
+speak to her in a pleasant tone and offer to shake hands with her and
+notice her baby, and she begins to think that <i>you</i> are a woman. In
+her no trace of dignity nor Pocahontas beauty are discernible, but
+she is untidy in person and attire, her movements are decidedly
+lackadaisical. An uninteresting object, indeed, to one who does not
+care to help her. But <i>we</i> believe that she has a woman's heart; and
+more than that&mdash;she has a soul.</p>
+
+<p>Her aspirations for herself are limited, but she wants her child to
+grow up in the white people's way. Yet how small her conception of
+how this is to be accomplished!</p>
+
+<p>She is a heathen&mdash;hemmed in on every side by fear and superstition.
+Her gods are gods of fear. She believes in witchcraft, is afraid of a
+world full of evil spirits. Under a pagan religion her place is next
+to the mere animals. She goes with her husband to the hunt, not as a
+companion, but as the drudge, the human pack-horse; she prepares the
+food, and her husband devours it regardless of her needs; he may
+boast of his "old woman" as being "nina mimi heca" (swift or good to
+work) for that is the only accomplishment required in his selfish,
+egotistical mind. "The Indian woman comes into the world under a
+species of protest&mdash;every Indian parent desiring to have boys, rather
+than girls, hence she grows up into a condition of servitude." "In
+the Indian nation to purchase a wife is the honorable way, all other
+ways are dishonorable, and the man having bought his wife, although
+the custom of the country does not allow him to dispose of her to
+another, yet he may put her away, or leave her, at his pleasure. He
+may also whip her and beat her, for she is his money." I never shall
+forget one poor woman who came to me soon after we went to the Indian
+country. She showed me her back covered with the marks where her
+husband had beaten her.</p>
+
+<p>Now I have given you a brief description of the Indian woman <i>as we
+find her</i>. What can be done for her? What would <i>you</i> do for her?
+There is only one thing. <i>Help her to become a Christian.</i> This is
+not to be accomplished in a hurry, for she is in bondage to her
+husband&mdash;to her religion. But faith and prayer, together with a
+genuine interest in the Indian home, can accomplish much. Desolate
+and comfortless though that home may be, it can be transformed, and
+the husband even can be made to see that there is something more
+real, something that is more satisfying, something that is more
+comforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods.
+"The man has more to give up than the woman<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> if he becomes a
+Christian. If a woman changes her gods and her religion, no one cares
+very much; it is 'only a woman.' But a man must abandon his ancestral
+faith, which binds him more strongly than the woman, for the very
+reason that he is a man, and has been inducted into manhood through
+the ceremonies of his religion."</p>
+
+<p>He can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his
+horse or his dog; and he begins to see that he can do some of the
+work which she has been obliged to do, and thus she is enabled to
+make home more attractive. With the dawn of Christianity comes the
+first effort toward civilized ways. The husband now brings the wood
+and water, and little by little a few household conveniences appear,
+such as chairs, a table, a few dishes; also knives and forks are used
+instead of fingers; even lambrequins are sometimes seen&mdash;hung,
+however, in the most absurd way, outside the shades&mdash;and we are
+astonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and
+ruffled pillow-shams. Also a U. S. T. D. blanket is often spread down
+for a carpet, and the rude, rough walls are covered with pictures cut
+from illustrated newspapers.</p>
+
+<p>We find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful
+domestic arts, such as making light bread and preparing wholesome
+dishes of food for the sick. The teaching of making light bread
+became quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife,
+and for the Indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite
+fashionable.</p>
+
+<p>Then she shows a desire to dress like white women, and instead of the
+broadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short
+calico sack, and moccasins upon her feet, she appears with a kilt
+plaiting around her dress skirt, and, what probably in her mind is an
+improvement upon white woman's taste, the plaiting is headed with two
+or three rows of bright worsted skirt braid. As she admires the thin
+and lightly covered head of the white baby, she closely clips her own
+baby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible.
+But all this is the mere outside of life&mdash;one benefit which
+Christianity brings to her personally. She begins to show that she
+has become a missionary at heart and that she has a desire to send
+this great blessing which has wrought such a change in her home into
+other homes; and as others like herself, near at hand, have been
+treasuring up the blessed words of the Lord Jesus, "Go ye and preach
+my gospel," they begin to think that they can do something to send
+the good tidings to those who are in the darkness which so recently
+surrounded themselves.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in the Dakota mission, we have thirteen churches, and in every
+one a woman's missionary society, and the money raised is used to
+support native missionaries&mdash;that is, Christian Indians are sent out
+among the heathen Indians as missionaries, and are supported by
+Indian societies. The Indian woman's society is conducted very much
+like any sewing society among white women. Some woman is appointed to
+lead the devotional exercises, and we have our officers appointed
+annually. They make children's clothing after the white woman's
+fashion, and many useful articles similar to those usually made in
+sewing societies. Those women who are able make articles after their
+own styles, such as moccasins, pretty bags handsomely ornamented with
+porcupine, bead or ribbon work. These articles are gifts to the
+society, and we have no difficulty in disposing of them to those who
+wish specimens of Indian woman's skill in fancy work, or who may wish
+to help this native missionary work which is being so nobly carried
+on. Some of these women are really wonderful in their zeal and
+faithfulness, walking six, seven, or eight miles to the meeting every
+week. I could tell you many things about these faithful Christian
+Indian women, but do you wish any better proof of the hold
+Christianity has upon Indians?</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p>
+<p>As I said before, an Indian woman's aspirations for herself are
+limited, but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's
+way. Now, if we are to elevate the Indian nation, let us plant in the
+homes the desire for the Gospel, and as we do it gather the children
+as fast as they are old enough to leave their mother's care into
+Christian training schools. Now out in the Indian country we are all
+the time carrying on missionary work in the homes, planting schools,
+organizing churches, and sending out native missionaries.</p>
+
+<p>We have at Santee Agency, Neb., a large school of advanced grade,
+well established for the education of children and youth. So well
+known is this school among Christian Indians that our accommodations
+have become very limited, and last year we were obliged to refuse
+many who wished to come. I think you cannot know how hard it is for
+us to say, We cannot take you.</p>
+
+<p>The great Dakota nation is ready to receive the Christian religion.
+We have the Bible in the Dakota language&mdash;a monument grand and
+beautiful to one who has just gone to his reward. Years of patient,
+quiet toil were spent in translating the precious words from the
+Greek and the Hebrew into the language of over fifty thousand
+savages. Then what hinders the work? We have hymns in the Dakota
+tongue. Who will go and sing these precious words to those who never
+heard them? There are those who are ready to go, but where is the
+money to send them? If you cannot go, what hinders you from sending
+some one? To be sure, this is a work of difficulty, for how can we
+expect a few years of training to so revolutionize a savage's live
+that he can withstand the heathenism which still permeates his native
+home? But we have those whom we can trust, and who are filling places
+of responsibility and usefulness. Besides those who have gone out as
+missionaries and teachers, we have in our school at Santee native
+teachers, and our own children are taught by them. One of our pupils
+is assistant matron in the Dakota Home. One who has been under our
+care is in the little city of Pierre, D. T., giving music lessons to
+white pupils. I give only a few instances, to show that we are
+beginning to see the results of our work.</p>
+
+<p>Then give the free Gospel of the love of Christ to this great heathen
+nation right here so near us. Here is the Bible, here are the hymns;
+who will provide the means to scatter them, and who will go to carry
+them? We are preparing those who will go with you as assistants and
+interpreters. We hear of those who wish to get rid of the Indians;
+the surest way to do it is to educate them and Christianize them.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE CHINESE.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. W. C. POND.</div>
+
+
+<p>I will not waste time upon an introduction. I will only say that I am
+glad to be among you; glad that you are interested in the Chinese
+work, with which we have been connected so many years in California.
+We feel that we are greatly privileged in having these dark souls
+within our reach. We can obey our Saviour's last command, "Disciple
+all nations," without having to go far from our homes and native
+land. They are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our
+churches to them and they will come in. They <i>are</i> coming in; not in
+large numbers but one by one. In the church of which my husband has
+been the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy Chinese
+members&mdash;about one-third of our whole membership.</p>
+
+<p>Many inquire how Chinese converts are tested. They join the Christian
+Association on probation and after a test of six or eight months are
+recommended to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span> the church. Then they come before a committee of the
+church and are examined, and after studying the articles of faith, in
+their own language, for several weeks they are propounded for church
+membership, and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into
+full fellowship with the church. They are not hurried into the church
+and are themselves timid and prefer to wait.</p>
+
+<p>We have no work among the Chinese women that we can call our own.
+Both Presbyterians and Methodists have such a work in San Francisco,
+and it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a
+small work, because there are only three or four hundred Chinese
+women in San Francisco, and not a tenth of these accessible. But if
+means would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women
+at Sacramento, where nothing is done for them. With our very limited
+resources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and
+boys.</p>
+
+<p>But we have much work <i>by women</i> of whom I would like to make
+mention. Patient and heroic, prayerful and soul-saving have been
+their efforts among the Chinese. I would like to tell you of one who
+has recently gone to her reward. Before leaving my home two months
+ago I called upon her and found her strength failing. But she was
+hopeful respecting her recovery, and the strongest incentive she had
+to get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the
+story of Jesus to her boys, as she called those in the Chinese
+school. And when death came to her, six Chinese acted as pall-bearers
+at her funeral, at her own request. The church was more than half
+filled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as
+one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.</p>
+
+<p>You are all, doubtless, more or less familiar with the <i>American
+Missionary</i>, and read from time to time Mr. Pond's reports found
+therein. I will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's
+report, read recently before the General Association of California,
+convened in Santa Cruz. They are as follows:</p>
+
+<p>Nineteen schools, as against 15 the last year; total enrollment of
+scholars, 2,823, as against 2,567 the former year; 40 teachers, of
+whom 14 were Chinese, as against 31 teachers the previous year, of
+whom 11 were Chinese; number of those who have professed to cease
+from idolatry, 175, as against 156 the year before; number of those
+who have given evidence of conversion, 121, as against 106 the former
+year, and the whole number of those who have turned to Christ during
+the history of the Mission, 400, who are scattered over the United
+States and in China. We hear of many of them who are doing good work
+for the Master and for the salvation of their countrymen.</p>
+
+<p>Toward the expense of the Mission during the past year the Chinese
+themselves have contributed $730.05.</p>
+
+<p>I would like to have you remember the name of our church. It is
+"Bethany." Remember us in your prayers, for God has laid a great work
+upon us. We started in much weakness, but God has been with us and
+blessed us. We have felt His presence in our Bethany as Martha and
+Mary of old did in theirs. We have heard the Master's voice saying
+unto us frequently, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
+least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MRS. A. A. MYERS.</div>
+
+
+<p>There is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very
+centre of the settled portion of the United States. "Our brother in
+black" has been held up to the view of two continents for the last
+fifty years. And what is America going to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> do with him and for him,
+has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.
+This same question for a still longer time has been propounded in
+regard to the red man of the forest, and in later years concerning
+the Chinese. And right nobly has the Christian brotherhood evidenced
+its purpose to make men of these degraded classes. But until recently
+it has escaped the notice of these Christian workers that we have
+another class as needy perhaps as any. No spice of romance is
+connected with them. No barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to
+awaken sympathy in them. They are simply poor people, who during
+slavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by
+the arrogant Bluegrass slaveholder on the one side, and the greedy
+cotton-planter on the other, back into the mountains, where they are
+shut away from the rest of the world by mountain barriers, and still
+more hopelessly by the haughty caste spirit of the slave-holding
+monarchs, who disdain to have anything to do with them except to seek
+their votes.</p>
+
+<p>These people are not really poor. Most of them own farms of three or
+four hundred acres; and the soil, if properly tilled, would be quite
+productive. Their plowing is done in the most primitive manner. A
+single horse attached to a little shovel plow simply tears the sod a
+little, enough so the weeds spring up luxuriantly, and the women and
+children must work hard in the hot sun to destroy them, while the
+lord of the home saddles his horse and rides to town, to sit on store
+boxes and tell low stories. This people, especially the male portion,
+seem to have a natural distaste for labor. They would be aristocratic
+if they could. In days of slavery they had their household servants,
+and tried to imitate the more wealthy slave-owners by living in
+idleness, and they still look upon labor as degrading.</p>
+
+<p>They make no effort to get themselves homes. The large majority live
+in log cabins, with no windows. The doors stand open winter and
+summer. The women in cool weather always sit with a little shawl
+around them and a sunbonnet on.</p>
+
+<p>There are generally two rooms to each house, usually with a chimney
+or open hall between them, so you have to go out of doors to pass
+from one to the other. In the kitchen (which also serves as
+dining-room) is a large fireplace and a cook stove, if they are the
+happy possessors of one.</p>
+
+<p>The other is the sitting and sleeping-room. You will often see three
+beds and one or two trundle-beds in a single room. Here the whole
+family and all the visitors sleep. We have sought to rest with
+thirteen of us in a room, perhaps 15 by 20 feet, and not a window in
+it and the doors shut. Fortunately the large-mouthed fireplace gave a
+pittance of ventilation. No carpets are used, and furniture is very
+limited. I believe nine-tenths of the people could put all their
+goods on a couple of loads and be ready to move at an hour's notice.</p>
+
+<p>Families are large, numbering twelve, fifteen or even nineteen
+children. Girls marry young, and seem to be entirely satisfied with
+their condition. You seldom hear a desire expressed for anything they
+don't possess. Give them a box of snuff and a stick to chew it with
+and you never hear a murmur escape their lips. Tobacco is
+indispensable. Old and young, male and female, are wedded to it. I
+have known of an old gentleman working all day for fifty cents and
+spending forty cents at night for tobacco for himself and wife and
+nine children.</p>
+
+<p>They seem to be without a standard in the land. They live so
+isolated, and have measured themselves by themselves until they have
+lost all idea of accurate judgment. Morality and sobriety are hardly
+looked for, even among church members and ministers. "Religion may be
+up to fever heat, while morality is down to zero." People "confess,"
+as they call it, and join the church, and in their entire life
+thereafter you could never know any difference.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></p>
+<p>They are satisfied if their names are on the church book. I don't
+think they ever question their eternal salvation after they are once
+inside a church. If a person dies without having joined a church his
+friends frame some theory on which they rest their hope of his
+salvation. A young man was shot a little while ago in a drunken
+broil. As he fell mortally wounded he cried, "Oh, Lord!" His mother
+is sure he is safe because he called on the Lord. They have no
+conception of <i>living</i> religion. They have no prayer or conference
+meetings. Aside from our own I doubt if there is a prayer meeting
+nearer than Berea, seventy miles away. There is no family prayer in
+all the land. I asked my class of boys, twenty or more in number, how
+many had ever heard their mothers' voice in prayer. Not one of them
+could raise a hand. At another school I asked a still larger class
+the same question, and only one girl raised her hand. There is no
+gathering of the little home nestlings together and instructing
+them&mdash;no Bible instruction given in the family. It has ceased to be a
+wonder to me, to ask nearly grown boys some of the most simple Bible
+questions, and hear them answer, "I don't know."</p>
+
+<p>An M. E. minister in one of his pastoral visits took occasion to
+dwell with some stress on the blessedness of <i>walking in the light</i>.
+The mother showed how she literalized by promptly remarking, "Yes;
+I've told John I wanted a hole sawed in this end of the house, but he
+won't do it." During the same call he asked a young lady if she was
+preparing to go to judgment. She replied, "No, I reckin I won't go.
+If I do I'll have to walk, for we hain't got but two nags, and Rachel
+and Becky always ride them."</p>
+
+<p>The prevailing churches are the Reform or Campbellites, the
+Methodists, and the Missionary and Anti-Missionary Baptists. The
+latter church is strong all through the mountains. They are bigoted
+and ignorant, and boast that their knowledge comes direct from the
+throne, and they have nothing to do with man-made theories, as they
+call education. Their preaching is a sort of canting reiteration of
+the text and what few Scripture verses they chance to know and some
+hackneyed expressions. They are great on arguing, and it would be
+laughable if it was not so pitiful to hear the profound questions
+they discuss. Last season one of these preachers nearly broke up one
+of our mission Sunday-Schools, which we could attend only each
+alternate Sabbath. In the passage that reads "And anon they tell
+Him," he contended that A-non was an angel, and <i>they</i> referred to
+the angel A-non. Each Sunday when we were not there that important
+question had to be discussed.</p>
+
+<p>One of these same preachers took his children from school because
+they were taught the heresy in geography that the world is round.
+They do all they can to prejudice the people against our work. They
+call our religion railroad religion. They are great barriers in our
+way. Still we have been cheered this year to see that their hold on
+the young people is loosening, and we are getting their hearts in
+spite of the protests of their parents. One of our mission
+Sunday-Schools, which has averaged this season one hundred, is
+composed almost entirely of young people and children, seldom ever a
+parent there.</p>
+
+<p>The Smith American Organ Co. have honored God and themselves, and
+will ever be held by some hearts in grateful remembrance by their
+gift to that society of a new organ. I have some times thought, as I
+have heard the young voices ring out with such enthusiasm, that,
+though critics might smile at our endeavor, Heaven would not disdain
+our offering of praise. The dingy low walls, the glass-less windows,
+the tobacco besmeared floor, become transformed to a holy temple,
+where God deigned to make visible His presence, and it has been a
+sacred place. Our hope of this people centres largely in the young.
+If it were not for them, we could not feel it right to stay among
+them.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p>
+<p>Another barrier to be overcome is their habits of worship. They have
+meetings but once a month during the summer and none at all during
+the winter. When they have service it is more for a visit than
+worship. Their churches are rough log houses, and so small that the
+greater part of the congregation remain out of doors. Four or more
+ministers are always in attendance, and all must preach. The
+congregation expect a tiresome time, and from the first are restless.
+They go out and come in, and they keep a constant march to and from
+the water pail, which usually sits on the desk in front of the
+speaker. Several grown people at a time will be standing waiting on
+each other at the pail. The speaker seems to be used to such things,
+and not at all disconcerted. Nearly all their services are funeral
+services for those who may have been dead for years. They bury their
+dead the same day or the day following death. They have no religious
+service, except a prayer at the grave, if there chance to be a
+minister present. Generally about a year after death, but often from
+five to fifteen years after, they have the funeral sermon preached.</p>
+
+<p>In regard to healthfulness of our mountain home, we have felt
+somewhat disappointed. Up so high, with nice springs and spring
+streams, one would expect a healthy climate. On the contrary, almost
+every one is ailing. Coughs and colds are universal. It is no wonder
+the natives are unhealthy; their habits of living would seem to
+prohibit health. They eat corn bread or hoe cake and bacon; some have
+flour, but it is always made up into hot biscuit, shortened with
+lard. They have this, with little variation, three times a day, 365
+days in a year. In summer, green beans cooked with bacon is added to
+the bill of fare. Of course the blood becomes impoverished, and
+almost every one has scrofula. Calomel and pills are the great
+panacea for all their bodily ills. Pills are brought on by the quart,
+and sold by the merchants like any other commodity. Cleanliness of
+the person is an unheard of luxury; I doubt whether they ever bathe.
+Children come to the table with unwashed faces. They are put to bed
+with the same clothes they wear during the day. Then add to all this
+the fact that tobacco is used almost from the cradle, and whiskies
+and toddies from the time the poor child opens its eyes to this
+world, and it's no great marvel that gray-haired men are exceedingly
+rare, and it's the "<i>old man</i>" and the "<i>old woman</i>" when one has
+reached the age of twenty-five.</p>
+
+<p>Now comes the question, What are we doing for the people? We have
+been with them nearly two years, and this has been our effort from
+the first, to get them to see that religion is a life rather than a
+sectarian belief. We have sought to impress upon them that joining a
+church is not Christianity. We have succeeded in getting a few to
+take part in our prayer meetings, and we have the assurance that
+<i>all</i> the people are awaking to the fact that God has some demands
+upon them. We have from the first kept up regular Thursday night
+prayer meetings; have had good attendance, but often only Mr. Myers
+and myself to take part in them except as others read Scripture
+verses.</p>
+
+<p>On the Sabbath we have Sunday-school at 9:30. Average attendance,
+100; preaching at 11. I hasten home, saddle my horse, and ride six
+miles to the next railroad station (Pleasant View). Here I have met
+100 or more young people. I have been surprised that in a land where
+a woman isn't expected to <i>know</i> anything, or <i>be</i> anything but a
+doll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my
+school. Some, of course, have thought a woman entirely out of her
+sphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my
+friends: "Why, Mrs. Myers opens the school by prayer, just as Mr.
+Myers would. I don't know but it's all right, but it don't seem just
+the proper thing for a woman to do."</p>
+
+<p>Mr. M. has a mission in South Williamsburg or the mills, where
+numbers of children<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> are growing up in the midst of gambling and
+shooting. Prof. W. has, about the same hour, a school two miles out
+in another direction. At night we have services again in
+Williamsburg. At these services we have more than can get into the
+house, and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation.
+Tuesday nights we go to Pleasant View and help them learn the Gospel
+Songs. Each alternate Wednesday evening, church socials; each
+alternate Friday afternoon, Band of Hope; Saturday evening, choir
+drill; Covenant Meeting once a month on Saturday afternoon.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Myers has preached during the year beginning with Oct. '82, one
+hundred and forty-two sermons. The services, together with the other
+public services just mentioned, have amounted to three hundred and
+forty. Have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others. We
+spend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at
+the homes.</p>
+
+<p>We have a neat modern church nearly finished, and so far without
+foreign help. But no one knows what an effort has been required. Mr.
+Myers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work;
+would try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the North.
+But when the time would come he has worked all day alone. We have
+learned at last that this people don't enthuse.</p>
+
+<p>We are hard at work in our high-school enterprise. We have Prof. and
+Mrs. W. and Miss G., all from the North, with us. We hope to get a
+school, the good influence of which will never die out of these
+mountains.</p>
+
+<p>These are peculiar people. What I have said of them has reference to
+the <i>general</i> class of society. But there are some who seem of better
+stock, who are shrewd, keen, far-sighted people. You cannot find
+their superiors in <i>native</i> ability in any country. Though often
+lacking in culture and morality, they still hold a wide influence
+over the rest, so that something besides goodness is required in
+those who wish to come among them as helpers. There must be ability
+to adapt oneself to these widely diverse conditions. One needs wisdom
+and tact to get along with the shrewdest, and such a love for souls
+that he can come with a helping hand to the most degraded, nor be
+discouraged if, with a heart brimful of sympathy, he reaches the hand
+a long time only to see it rejected by those most in need.</p>
+
+<p>The work is a work of time. The majority of the people are unstable,
+thriftless improvident and ignorant. Slavery left its blight of
+impotency and profligacy upon them. They come and go as did their
+fathers a hundred years ago. Their tools and utensils are the same
+their great-grandparents used, and they are content with them. We
+never worked harder and saw less result in the conversion of sinners
+than while in Kentucky, and yet never felt more satisfied that we
+were where God wants us, and doing an important work. Unless these
+people have help they will prove a fretting leprosy in our nation.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MISS IDA M. BEACH.</div>
+
+
+<p>No small part of the work undertaken by the A. M. A. is that among
+the colored people of the South. Perhaps we may judge something of
+how vast this work is in itself, and how far-reaching in its results,
+if we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the
+colored people. Twenty years ago about 4,000,000 people were
+liberated from bondage, with all the evils resulting from the system
+of slavery resting upon them. There was great rejoicing among lovers
+of freedom when the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. The
+slaves themselves, wild<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> with joy, shouted, "We're free! We're free!
+The year of jubilee has come!" Free! yes, free! but with the burdens
+of manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them. Freedom brought
+the right and opportunity of establishing homes. Glorious privilege!
+But do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought
+and planning it takes to maintain a <i>true home</i>? Freedom gave them
+the right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to
+manhood and womanhood, but oh! how much of patience and God-given
+power it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way!</p>
+
+<p>Four million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the
+judgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways
+of the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts! What an
+amount of instruction they needed!</p>
+
+<p>Right here the American Missionary Association stepped in and assumed
+the work of training these people. Christian men and women, filled
+with love for the Master, went down among these lowly ones. They
+carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ, established schools and churches,
+teaching in the open air, or in rude huts and deserted cabins. For
+twenty years this work has been carried on, and much good has been
+done in the name of the Lord. But to-day there are between six and
+seven million colored people in our Southland. The work of the A. M.
+A., together with all done by other societies and by students going
+forth from the colleges as teachers, as yet scarcely begins to reach
+this great number.</p>
+
+<p>Their first need is to be Christianized, for this alone lifts them up
+and gives a desire for better things. It is the religion of Jesus
+Christ alone which has given to us our high estate. How much we owe
+to the training of Christian mothers! Let us pity and stoop to lift
+up these ignorant ones. Send out those who can carry the glad tidings
+and point to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.</p>
+
+<p>Let us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is. But we
+cannot stop here. We must teach them how to use it. "Woman's work for
+woman," surely, for this must be done in the homes.</p>
+
+<p>Freedom gave them the <i>right</i> to establish homes! They did the best
+they knew how, many of them, but they needed teaching&mdash;they need it
+to-day. They must be taught thrift and industry, and cleanliness and
+order. They want someone to come to them and help them to transform
+their huts into homes. Could you see their rags, their ugly,
+misshapen garments, you would agree with me that the women and girls
+greatly need to be taught the use of the needle.</p>
+
+<p>Of course Christian schools need to be multiplied among them, where
+the rudiments of an English education shall be thoroughly given,
+where sewing and cooking, the care of the house and the care of the
+sick shall be carefully taught the girls, where the boys may learn
+the use of tools and all that pertains to good farming.</p>
+
+<p>Our stronghold is the children. We can never eradicate the evils
+existing among the older generation. Slavery left too much ignorance
+and superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived
+under its sway. But we are responsible for the coming generations.</p>
+
+<p>The American Missionary Association aims to reach the young and meet
+their needs by the workers sent out.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps our work in Savannah will be illustrative of that done in
+many other parts of the field. We have there established a church and
+school. There are now in school over 200 pupils. The majority of
+these remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school
+education. We have also a normal grade, where methods of teaching are
+taught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> Besides this
+we have fitted up a sewing-room, where the girls learn every part of
+sewing and repairing, cutting and basting. Many schools have shops
+for boys; we look forward to the time when we may be able to have
+them, too.</p>
+
+<p>We are just establishing a reading-room. Those who have read Prof.
+Salisbury's article in the November <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> understand how much
+this is needed. In our present circumstances we arrange it so that
+all pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour, with teacher
+to direct. Then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social
+reading.</p>
+
+<p>In our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to
+assist them in a knowledge of true religion. Last year we observed
+the Week of Prayer, and in the daily meetings held for several weeks
+some found the way to Christ and Christian life. Our Church and
+Sunday-School work reaches many who are not connected with our
+school. We have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting
+the parents and children in their homes, ministering to the wants of
+the sick and needy, and holding Bible and Missionary meetings.</p>
+
+<p>This is a bare outline of our work. I presume many of you are saying.
+"Have there been no results during these last twenty years?" Oh yes,
+we have a bright side to the picture. When we are tired and
+discouraged, and wonder if harvest time will never come, we go to
+some of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought. We
+point to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that
+the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.</p>
+
+<p>In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair
+public schools&mdash;where there is constant contact with civilized life,
+many of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy
+home just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched
+hovel.</p>
+
+<p>In the country, when the "Teachers' Home" and little school house are
+built beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things
+than they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the
+neat, cosy rooms inside&mdash;very simple and plain to us&mdash;seems like a
+palace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to
+school and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands
+become clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are
+mended, the girls put on clean collars.</p>
+
+<p>The missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and
+stools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is
+scrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they
+must work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and
+before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old
+cabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the
+place of the old steer and cart.</p>
+
+<p>Yes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers
+in the early days among four million people, although just as many as
+could be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly
+seven millions, we have but 336 workers.</p>
+
+<p>Millions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is
+to be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these
+people, too.</p>
+
+<p>We need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and
+Christian men and women who are willing to send them. "The harvest
+truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the
+Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his
+harvest." "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
+life eternal."</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.</h3>
+
+
+<p>The information from the field, to which you have listened, explains
+to you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's
+Work. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then
+stated:</p>
+
+<p>1. To give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety
+of work sustained by the Association and to assist in devising plans
+of help.</p>
+
+<p>2. To promote correspondence with churches, Sabbath-schools,
+missionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a
+special character, such as the support of missionaries, aiding of
+students, supplying clothing, furnishing goods, and meeting other
+wants on mission ground.</p>
+
+<p>3. To send to the churches, conferences or associations desiring it,
+experienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them, giving
+fuller details of our methods of work.</p>
+
+<p>It was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies
+of our churches, and their evident disposition to aid more
+effectively in the elevation of women, particularly the women of the
+South, called for such a department. Already the ladies of one State
+had organized the "Woman's Aid to the A. M. A.," that they might have
+their definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries, and
+inquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work.</p>
+
+<p>It was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be
+awakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from
+the field, and the twenty years' experience of the Association in the
+South, during which time more than 3,000 different ladies had been
+employed as missionaries and teachers, the knowledge gained of the
+peculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people,
+and the thorough organization of the different departments of labor
+in home, school, and church, prepared us to bring before the ladies
+the information necessary, and to offer most excellent opportunities
+for special work for women. The ready response to this movement
+confirms the wisdom of the step, and we trust that ere long the
+Bureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the
+churches, and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the
+field.</p>
+
+<p>Immediately following the organization of the Bureau, Miss Rose
+Kinney, of Oberlin, O., for many years engaged in the Southern work,
+and recently located in one of the dark corners of the field,
+McIntosh, Ga., was detailed for service in the North. She spent about
+six weeks in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, addressing ladies'
+meetings at the General Associations, and with good results. In June
+the Secretary of the Bureau was present at the State Conferences of
+Vermont and Maine, and gave information of the work in the field,
+resulting in the appointment of a State Committee of ladies in
+Vermont, to secure funds for the support of a missionary. Early in
+September Miss Anna M. Cahill, for nine years connected with Fisk
+University, Nashville, Tenn., was detailed for special service, and
+has recently attended a series of meetings in Michigan and Illinois.</p>
+
+<p>It is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever
+and wherever opportunity is given, through different teachers and
+missionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field.</p>
+
+<p>Within the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had
+special aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries,
+as follows:</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table width="80%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Special Aid in Support of Missionaries">
+<colgroup><col width="75%" /><col width="25%" /></colgroup>
+<tr>
+  <td class="sub1">Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala., and Miss Farrington at Wilmington, N. C.</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">$675.00</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td class="sub1">Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O., support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga.</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">387.00</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td class="sub1">Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala.</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">214.46</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>
+    <span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span>
+    <span style="margin-left: -1em;">Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery, Ala.</span>
+  </td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">254.33</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td class="sub1">Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn.</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">488.81</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td class="sub1">Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La.</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">406.45</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td colspan="2" align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+  <td>&nbsp;&nbsp;Total</td>
+  <td align="right" valign="bottom">$2,426.05</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>In this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss
+Clary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the
+Sunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.</p>
+
+<p>Supplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been
+recently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the
+furnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of
+students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an
+education.</p>
+
+<p>While, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the
+organization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already
+manifest.</p>
+
+<p>Since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large
+and diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its
+distinct and important work,&mdash;viz.: The New West Education
+Commission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American
+Missionary Association&mdash;no effort has been made by the American
+Missionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to
+itself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to
+co-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the
+Chinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South,
+seems apparent.</p>
+
+<p>To this end we urge upon the ladies, organization, as helpful to
+systematic giving, and to facilitate such movement we present a form
+of constitution for a co-operative society, that may be open to the
+call from all parts of our country. This we greatly prefer as
+avoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home
+work. Such is the pressure of claims upon us, however, through the
+needs of our field, that except as such opportunity is afforded for
+aid to the Am. Miss. Assoc., we feel that we may be constrained to
+ask for organization auxiliary to the A. M. A. exclusively&mdash;for the
+women and children of 6,000,000 of colored people of the South alone
+presents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women, which
+we must not ignore, from the responsibility of which we cannot
+escape.</p>
+
+<p>We are just now entering upon a new year of work. Of the 175 ladies
+appointed to the various departments of missionary labor, twelve are
+engaged for special home visitation among the people. You can see at
+a glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty.
+Although our teachers are missionaries, and accomplish much through
+the schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the
+people, yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient
+woman at every mission station, whose entire time should be given to
+special work in the homes of the people. Not only do we desire this,
+but the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of
+this kind, not instead of that which we are doing in school and
+church, but supplementary to it, as necessary in securing the results
+we seek. Already fifteen applications are before us for lady
+missionaries to work in the homes, and we wait only for the women of
+the North to furnish us the necessary funds. As fast as we receive
+pledges of support the missionaries will be sent out.</p>
+
+<p>May the heart of every Christian woman be quickened to new impulse
+for the development of womanhood in those in our own land, so
+degraded and helpless!</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>FORM OF CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.</h3>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Co-operative
+Missionary Society, &mdash;&mdash; Church.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 2. Its object shall be to co-operate with the established
+missionary societies of the Congregational churches of America, in
+diffusing missionary intelligence, increasing interest in prayer, and
+in raising funds for missionary work in this country.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a
+Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee
+of &mdash;&mdash; members. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the
+different societies co-operating, or, if preferred, a Treasurer may
+be appointed for each.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 4. Contributors to this Society may designate to which branch of
+missionary work they wish their contributions applied. Undesignated
+contributions may be assigned by vote of the Executive Committee.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 5. Any lady may become a member of this Society by contributing
+a sum not less than one dollar annually, or ten cents monthly.
+Gentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members
+by the payment of &mdash;&mdash; dollars.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 6. &mdash;&mdash; members present at any regularly called meeting shall
+constitute a quorum for business.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 7. Meetings shall be held monthly, at which the Secretary shall
+give information of the work of the various societies assisted.
+Special meetings may be called by the officers and Executive
+Committee. Meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. 8. A vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular
+meeting shall be requisite for making any change in this
+constitution.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE BUREAU IN THE WEST.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MISS ANNA M. CAHILL.</div>
+
+
+<p>One main object of the Woman's Bureau, as stated at the time of its
+organization, is to diffuse information among the ladies of our
+churches, as to our work in its various departments.</p>
+
+<p>The carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy
+among the conferences and churches of Wisconsin and Michigan.</p>
+
+<p>If I went to inform I went also to learn&mdash;to see how fares our cause
+in these churches. Especially I sought to learn how strong a hold the
+work of the American Missionary Association has upon the sympathy and
+effort of the Christian ladies of that section, what organized system
+of helpfulness they already have in this line, or what in their
+judgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work
+in their regular plan of missionary operations for each year.</p>
+
+<p>As I expected, I found the interest in our cause in various stages of
+development. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not
+even so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is
+in its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold
+of us all in any practical way. In many churches&mdash;not by any means
+always the larger ones&mdash;I found an intelligent appreciation of the
+needs and claims of the South.</p>
+
+<p>We have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of
+the Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community
+that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field,
+I found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my
+appeals.</p>
+
+<p>My introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was
+at the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span> State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my
+arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the
+anniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that
+there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land,
+and I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special
+gathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range
+of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our
+denomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local
+organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or
+several treasurers, to any of these societies.</p>
+
+<p>After attending this "gathering of the tribes" it was my privilege to
+go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of
+course the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over
+the State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that
+Beloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to
+take definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special
+contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for
+several years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of
+organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly
+charity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the
+Woman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a
+prominent lady in Michigan who said to me: "I think the ladies of
+each one of these Western States ought to support one or more
+teacher-missionaries under the Association."</p>
+
+<p>On the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative
+of the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society,
+with whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We
+were then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale,
+where we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch
+of the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more
+than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that
+adopted in Wisconsin.</p>
+
+<p>Before the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able
+to visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville,
+Vermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the
+various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might
+result from this new presentation of our needs.</p>
+
+<p>In the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union
+in its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to
+be done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find
+stancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than
+in this conference.</p>
+
+<p>At this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid
+journey brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the
+Minnesota State Association&mdash;just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota
+friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's
+Home Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the
+constitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its
+borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work.
+The giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is
+required by the constitution itself.</p>
+
+<p>We took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there
+went to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that
+these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less
+accessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily
+limited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors,
+charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of
+their churches.</p>
+
+<p>Before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the
+central points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we
+went up from there to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt
+that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose
+homes we had already been.</p>
+
+<p>Another tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St.
+Clair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same
+experiences as before.</p>
+
+<p>We came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which was to be our
+last place of labor in Michigan. The ladies of this Conference,
+though not yet organized for home work under the State society, for
+several years supported a missionary in the South, largely through
+the personal effort of one active lady, who made this special
+collection her care. With the closing of this Bureau visit to the
+ladies of Michigan the work is left in their hands&mdash;not to be
+forgotten by them, but to be developed and strengthened until there
+shall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>CHILDREN'S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">REV. CHARLES H. OLIPHANT.</div>
+
+
+<p>The Editor has asked me to give some account of the way our
+Sunday-school behaves itself at Christmas-time.</p>
+
+<p>There are two ideas about the Church; and as parents feel and think
+about the Church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel
+about the Sunday-school. One conception of the Church is that it is a
+kind of receptacle for pious people. When one becomes "good enough"
+he is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by
+the means of grace. It is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it
+seems to excuse laymen from any active part in Christian work, if
+only they are regular attendants upon divine service. So, many people
+come to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for
+them to do, nothing either great or small. Such members may be said
+to be found in the "passive voice."</p>
+
+<p>The other and better notion is that the Church is not a receptacle,
+but an engine; not a box for Christians to get into, but a "body" for
+them to operate, and through which Christ can act upon the world of
+to-day. According to this view, the minister is not the only member
+whom the Master has called into His vineyard, the ideal Church is not
+so much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers; the congregation
+comes together not simply to "hear Mr. &mdash;&mdash;," but to organize for
+work. This may be called the Church's "active voice." I cannot
+(within the verbal limits assigned me) measure the miles of distance
+which lie between these two views.</p>
+
+<p>The same confusion of thought prevails in the Sunday-school. We know
+how the small boy finds that Sunday-school the most attractive (and
+that teacher the "nicest") whose Christmas-tree pays the largest
+dividend.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></p>
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 531px;">
+<img src="images/img028.jpg" width="531" height="673" alt="CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS" title="" />
+<span class="caption">CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS</span>
+</div>
+
+<p>When I came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial
+custom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school.
+After a year or two of competition with other schools in making it
+"worth while" for children to attend our own, we "braced up" and put
+the question to vote whether we would make the Christmas festival a
+feast for ourselves or a feast for others; whether we would have our
+school at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the
+beneficiaries, or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants
+of the Master, who had no parental pocketbook to tap; no good things
+to give away. To the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> surprise of all the vote was unanimous against
+the old, and in favor of the new, way. There was much misgiving as to
+results. Many confidently predicted that the offerings (each class
+was invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope) would be
+microscopic. It was distinctly understood that no money&mdash;not the
+smallest sum&mdash;was asked from those who disapproved the plan. Teachers
+were urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts.
+Inquiring next for a suitable object, we were advised by the Home
+Missionary Society of a poor servant of theirs in a Western State,
+whose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven
+children. We put her to vote, and she was promptly and unanimously
+chosen. With the introduction into the plan of a personal element,
+enthusiasm began, and it became evident at once that there was to be
+sharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts. At
+length came the Christmas Eve concert, and with it a bright, full
+company of children. They never looked so happy, and every one of
+them knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion, as when,
+class by class, the offerings were handed to the Superintendent. With
+each of these a passage of Scripture was recited. It became only too
+evident, as the pile within his hand increased, that the
+prognostications of those who were sure that an old Sunday-school
+could not be taught new tricks were false. We are a small
+school&mdash;only 80 scholars&mdash;but the class offerings on this occasion
+footed up twenty-eight dollars and some cents. A letter was
+accordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife (this was the
+best part of it, for we were sure that the minister could not then,
+as ministers will, mistake the remittance for a portion of his
+salary), who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or
+articles of which she was individually in need. The letter which came
+back to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school
+clear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear. It revealed
+(among other things) the fact that this poor servant had hitherto
+made all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle. Now
+she has a sewing machine. We all think, but none more fervently than
+the children, that the memory of a few oranges, more or less&mdash;oranges
+eaten three years ago&mdash;would not compensate for the glad
+consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie
+home. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the
+"giver" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the
+continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the
+remembrance of what our pennies wrought.</p>
+
+<p>We have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the
+practice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now
+habitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African
+lad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means,
+such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a
+missionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and
+perhaps for two months.</p>
+
+<p>Let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming
+obstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which
+they belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the
+children for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings.
+Do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference
+between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by
+all means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let
+it not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian
+attitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it
+is the <i>giving up</i> which makes us the Lord's disciples.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">MAINE, $425.02.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$250.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Dakota M.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.56</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First Parish, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+7.20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">37.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hiram. &mdash;&mdash;, <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence Street Ch. and
+Soc., 11.17</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">61.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington, N.
+C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td> </tr> </table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.68</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dover. Mrs. A. Fairbanks, 7; Mrs. S. Foye, 5, <i>for Student Aid,
+Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">39.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.63</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.33; Cyrus Newhall, 1</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keen. Geo. E. Whitney</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marlborough. Freedmen's Aid Soc., 2 bbls. of C., val. 60, <i>for
+Talladega C.</i>, 4 <i>for Freight</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">29.43</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Children's 21st Annual Fair for benevolent objects</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pembroke. Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 5; Rev. D. Goodhue, 1</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Box of Goods, by Rev. G. E. Hill, <i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tilton and Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.27</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Lebanon. "Children's Mission Band." Christmas Box, <i>for Bird's
+Nest, Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Lebanon. Bbl. of C., by Rev. T. C. Pease, <i>for Marietta, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$215.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><span class="medium">LEGACY.</span></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Francestown. Estate of Mrs. Harriet F. Downes, By Geo. E. Downes</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$715.46</td> </tr> </table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />VERMONT, $175.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">48.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. H. Halsey, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, Bbl. of C., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Randolph. Mrs. Mary K. Nichols</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rupert. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. V. M. Howard, 25; Mrs. E. D. Blodgett, 25,
+<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Swanton. H. Stone, wife and daughter</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Vershire. Luella D. Carpenter</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Randolph. Mrs. Susan E. Albin</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.02</td> </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MASSACHUSETTS, $2,795.19.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Abington. "A Friend," to const. <span class="smcap">Nahum Fullerton</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Amherst. "A Friend," <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover, G. W. W. Dove, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.72; incorrectly ack. in
+December number from Vt.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Auburn. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Samuel D. Hosmer</span>, L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boylston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box of C., val. 16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Pilgrim Soc. of Phillips Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Mrs. D. C. Holden, Bbl. of C., <i>for Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. "Cash"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boxford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">37.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookline. Mrs. Crafts, Books</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Freight</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brockton. Porter Ch. and Soc., "A Friend," 20 (adl.) to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs.
+Alpheus Gurney</span> and <span class="smcap">Everett C. Randall</span> L.M's; Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, 5</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brockton. Mrs. Baylis Sanford, Bbl. of C., 2 <i>for Freight, for
+Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Chattanooga,
+Tenn.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">101.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Billerica. Ladies of O. C. Ch., Chest of C., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40, to const.
+<span class="smcap">Annie M. Edson</span> L.M.; Central Sq. Sab. Sch., 15</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C., <i>for
+Chattanooga, Tenn.</i>, val. 34</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cambridge. "A tithing"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, <i>for Lady Miss'y,
+Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Annie C. Pierce</span>
+L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">159.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., (ad'l)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.24</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Duxbury. A. P. Ellison, Bbl. of C., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Bridgewater. Mrs. S. D. Shaw</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">160.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Gilbertsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hatfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">58.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haverhill. Algernon R. Nichols, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haverhill. Sew. Soc. of No. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., val. 75.37, <i>for
+Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holliston. "Friends," 15.97; Missionary Concert, 4.03, <i>for Student
+Aid</i>; "Friends," Shoemaker's kit, val. 10, Shoe-lasts and clothing,
+<i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span>
+<div style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left:  0em;">Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc., 25; First Cong. Sab. Sch., 15 <i>for
+Straight U., furnishing</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.31 and Bbl. of C.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.31</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawrence. "E. F. E."</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Malden. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 <i>for Freight,
+for Savannah, Ga.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Melrose. Orthodox Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.77</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">56.59</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Ch. (12 of which from Mrs. H. Dewey's class, <i>for
+Howard U.</i>)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">37.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Parish, 2 Bbls. of C., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.83; Prospect St. Cong.
+Ch., 29.50</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">66.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton. Ladies' Freedman's Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl of C., <i>for Macon,
+Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Chattanooga,
+Tenn.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton Lower Falls. "Friend," <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">51.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Missionary, Topeka, Kan.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., 2 <i>for Freight, for
+Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pepperell. "Friends," Bbl. of C., <i>for Avery Inst.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Mrs. Hurd, Bbl. of C., 2.50 <i>for Freight, for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from Sab. Sch., <i>for S. S.
+work</i>)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">143.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport. Busy Bee Soc., by Sadie W. Butman, <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport, "Pastor's Class," <i>for Dakota M.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.64</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 2 Bdls. of S. S. Exercises</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">136.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spencer. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bdl. of C.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sunderland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 <i>for Freight, for
+Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.83</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.54</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tewksbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., <i>for Freight, for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Townsend. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 22.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Watertown. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Phillips Ch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westborough. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westborough. Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl. of C., 1, <i>for Freight,
+for Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Medway. Cyrus Adams</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Newton. "A Friend," Bbl. of C.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Harriet Bemis</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 163.26; Salem St. Ch., 94;
+"E. C. C." 20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">277.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. "A Friend," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Infant Class Piedmont Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worthington. "An Aged Lady," by Rev. F. S. Huntington</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. C. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for
+Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />RHODE ISLAND, $337.80.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kingston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.91</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><span class="medium">LEGACY.</span></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Estate of Sarah P. Phillips, by T. Salisbury, Adm'r</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">314.89</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CONNECTICUT, $1,972.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Branford. Rev. C. P. Osborne</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Sab. Sch. Work, Marion, Ala.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Coventry. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Danbury. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Derby. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Hartford. South Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. E. M. Roberts, 5</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ellington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Guilford. "A member of Third Cong. Ch." <i>for Student Aid, Tillotson
+C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">84.41</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., 31.43, to const. <span class="smcap">John H. Freeman</span> L.M.;
+Cong. Ch., 20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">51.43</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kensington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.73</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Killingly. E. F. Jencks</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lakeville. Children's Mission Circle, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Catharine C. Hinsdale, Mrs. Wm.
+Homan, Joseph U. Pratt, E. B. Cowles, Margaret Logan, Lillian B.
+Smith, Lucy B. Griswold, Sallie E. Collins, John Warren</span> and <span class="smcap">Marshall
+A. Fowler</span>, L.M's</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">300.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middletown. First Ch., 25.29; "A Friend," 5</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Millington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. "A Friend, in commemoration of fiftieth birthday," 50;
+Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 10</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New London. Church of Christ</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.90</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen, Bbl. of C. and Chest of Books, <i>for
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Mary McCall</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">51.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.41</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich. Rev. W. S. Palmer</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich Town. Charles B. Baldwin</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Putnam. "Missionary Workers" of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stamford. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">44.69</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Coventry. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">98.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thompsonville. First Presb. Sab. Sch., <i>for Straight U., Library</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Avon. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.91</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.50</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span>
+<div style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left:  0em;">Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.,
+Land</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westport. Amasa Warren</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winchester. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Vernon Centre. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.98</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,472.41</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><span class="medium">LEGACY.</span></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Laura F. Stanley, by Oliver Stanley, Ex.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,972.41</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW YORK, $891.01.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Albany. Chas. A. Beach</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Estate of Chas. Wilbur, pkg. Bibles</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Camden. Cong. Ch. &amp; Sab. Sch., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Miss Cynthia Chipman, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Durham. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ellington. George Waith</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fairport. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">79.11</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fredonia. Sab. Sch. of Pres. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (100 of which from A. Judson)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">127.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Homer. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, <i>for Lady Miss'y, Topeka, Kansas</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Liverpool. "A Friend," <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Malone. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morristown. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Munnsville. N. S. Hall, <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst., Reading Room</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 81.50, <i>for Talladega C.</i> and bal. to
+const. <span class="smcap">Dr. Joseph F. Land, Edmund L. Champlin</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Louise S.
+Ayres</span> L.M's; Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Fanny Gleason</span>
+L.M.; "A Friend," 1; Harper &amp; Brothers, 200 vols. School Books, val.
+100</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">112.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. D. J. Carson, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. "A Friend," to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Frank N. Greeley</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Anna
+C. Greeley</span> L.M's</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">150.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Durham. Diantha Scoville</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warsaw. Mrs. H. L. Booth, Pkg. of Papers</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waterville. Mrs. J. S. Hitchcock, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Whitestown. S. Hoxie, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "Yale 59," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend," Blacksmith and Shoemakers' tools, val. 80.00, <i>for
+Talladega C.</i></td> </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW JERSEY, $281.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Elizabeth. Mrs. Hannah W. Page</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jersey City. Tabernacle Sab. Sch., <i>for Indian Girl, Santee Agency</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Hampton A. &amp; N.
+Inst.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Paterson. P. Van Houten</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (10.50 of which <i>for
+Dakota M.</i>)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">175.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Raritan. Box of Papers</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />PENNSYLVANIA, $35.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meadville. Miss Eliza Dickson</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td> </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />OHIO, $472.61.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alliance. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Cong. Ch., Collection 10.35, S. W. Boise 25., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Rev. W. G. Roberts</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berea. Mrs. Fred Smedley, <i>for Lexington, Ky.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. White Sew. Machine Co., Sewing Machine, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Farmer. E. M. Ensign</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury, "in memory of her daughter Madelin," to
+const. <span class="smcap">Miss Emma A. Johnson</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huron. Theodore Alvord</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">43.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Lyme. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Straight U., Library</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, <i>for Theo. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peru. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">63.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ruggles. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.23</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Strongsville. E. Lyman, bal. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Julia A. Avery</span> L.M.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wellington. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">59.27</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch. (ad'l)</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td> </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ILLINOIS, $663.80.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cable. Maria B. Holyoke</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 40.53; Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of New Eng.
+Cong. Ch., 9.10</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.63</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.31</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dover. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Lady Miss'y, Mobile, Ala.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Englewood. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Evanston. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Farmington. Phineas Chapman</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Freeport. L. L. Farwell, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galesburg. Infant Class First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galesburg. C. S. Halsey, case of medicines, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Lady Miss'y Mobile, Ala.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Moline. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Naperville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ottawa. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Onarga. "Gentleman"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">90.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rochelle. "A Friend," <i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Reading Room</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sheffield. Etta M. Kingburn</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.27</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, 5; Bryce Crawford, 5; D. P. Barker, 2; P. B.
+Gault, 1; J. Hood, 1; S. Alexander, 1; J. Alexander, 1; R. H.
+Rosborough, 1; L. Fulton, 50c</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sycamore. I. H. Rogers, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">104.00</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MICHIGAN, $387.14.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alamo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Allegan. "Friends," <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Adrian. C. C. Spooner</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Baldwin. Rev. S. B. Demarest</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Church's Corners. Cong. Ch., 13.40, and Sab. Sch., 12.60; J. F.
+Douglass, 4; A. W. Douglass, 2; James Robbins, 2</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">34.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>
+<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span>
+<div style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left:  0em;">Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  9.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">34.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., <i>for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstack</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Halloway. James Vincent</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Young People's Benev. Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Mrs. Henry Montague, 5; Mr. Reimer, 3, <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lansing. Plymouth Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.74</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Cong. Ch., 11.60; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 11.20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Olivet. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.63</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Salem. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">42.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Union City. J. R. Blake</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Vienna. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td></tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />IOWA, $208.46.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Anamosa. Ladies Freedmen's Soc., Clothing, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chester Center. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Decorah. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 40, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls of C., <i>for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eldora. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">McGregor. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">McGregor. Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">18.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montour. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Onawa. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Staceyville. Miss P. D. Shattuck, bedding <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "Hawkeye," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WISCONSIN, $163.69.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. Plymouth Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cooksville. Edward Gilley</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Janesville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.32</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kan Kanna. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">La Crosse. Mission Sch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Platteville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shopiere. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Whitewater. Winchester &amp; Partridge Mfg. Co., Corn and Feed Mill,
+val. 40, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MINNESOTA, $62.69.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Detroit. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Glyndon. Union Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rochester. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.06</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KANSAS, $9.70.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEBRASKA, $107.25.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">York. Dr. Benjamin Bissell</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ARKANSAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ARKANSAS, $6.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Little Rock. Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CALIFORNIA, $20.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Arcata. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MARYLAND">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MARYLAND, $129.22.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">129.22</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KENTUCKY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KENTUCKY, $122.75.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lexington. Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">  87.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newport. F. W. C. Crane</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Williamsburg. Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.25</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TENNESSEE, $2,195.53.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition. 886.93; Rent, 75</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">961.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Knoxville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Memphis. Friends <i>for Le Moyne Sch., Enlargement of Building</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">221.60</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NORTH CAROLINA, $232.10.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Raleigh. "Friends," 2; Miss E. P. Hayes, 6 (of which 1 <i>for
+Freight</i>) <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 219.10; Cong. Ch., 5</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">224.10</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />GEORGIA, $450.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs' Sch., Tuition, 244.05; Rent, 3; First Cong. Ch., 30</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">277.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Macon. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 142, Rent, 10; Cong. Ch., 10</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">162.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodville. "A Friend"</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ALABAMA, $458.15.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Athens. Tuition, 63.90, "Student Aid," 20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">83.90</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 295.85; Cong. Ch., 1.20</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">297.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 37.20; Cong. Ch., 10</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.20</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;LOUISIANA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />LOUISIANA, $207.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">207.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MISSISSIPPI, $1.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jackson. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TEXAS, $251.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Austin. Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst., Tuition</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">251.00</td>
+</tr></table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;Unknown">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />&mdash;&mdash;, $25.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Port Arthur. Rev. H. H. Robins, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;INCOMES">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />INCOMES, $933.03.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">575.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">C. F. Hammond Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">125.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">De Forest Fund, <i>for President's Chair, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">37.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">85.53</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Income Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Le Moyne Fund, <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Luke Mem. Sch. Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">N. M. and A. Stone Fund, <i>For Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yale Library Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total for November</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$14,734.11</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">29,977.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">=========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Subscriptions from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30</td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">76.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1"></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">=========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">56 Reade Street, New York.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="center large"><b>TO INVESTORS.</b></div>
+
+<div class="center"><br />$925 and accrued interest will buy a $1,000 6 per<br /> cent. gold coupon
+bond of the<br /><br />
+
+<span class="large">EAST and WEST R. R. CO. OF ALABAMA</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote">
+<p>This is a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first
+mortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always
+paid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This
+bond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a
+safe investment. For sale by the</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA., 502 B'way, or<br /> AMERICAN LOAN AND
+TRUST CO., 113 B'way, N. Y.</div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>CONSTITUTION.</h3>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary
+Association.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian
+missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the
+Holy Scriptures in our own country and other countries which are
+destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members
+of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into
+its treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of
+payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated
+person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days
+after the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the
+privilege of voting.</p>
+
+<p>Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the
+funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of
+such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the
+Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be
+members of the Association for the year for which they were thus
+appointed.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the
+month of October or November, at such time and place as may be
+designated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by
+the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official
+publication of the Association for the preceding month.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five
+Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a
+Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive
+Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.</p>
+
+<p>At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution,
+five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term
+of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each
+subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full
+term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill
+vacancies.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and
+disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and
+dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of
+missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in
+office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any
+Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate
+powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries
+and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in
+general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the
+Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.
+The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the
+Annual Meeting.</p>
+
+<p>Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting
+business.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who
+is not a member of some evangelical church.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint
+and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the
+Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art</span>. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by
+the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting
+and voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a
+majority at the previous Annual Meeting.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div>
+<div style="background-image: url('images/img035a.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat;">
+<div class="sandbag01"><span></span></div>
+<div class="sandbag02"><span></span></div>
+<div class="sandbag03"><span></span></div>
+<div class="sandbag04"><span></span></div>
+<p class="medium"><b>For 1884 is an Elegant Book of 150 Pages, 3 Colored<br /> Plates of FLOWERS
+and vegetables, and more than<br /> 1000 Illustrations</b> of the choicest
+Flowers, Plants and<br /> <b>VEGETABLES</b>, and Directions for Growing. It is<br />
+handsome enough for the Center Table or a <b>Holiday<br /> Present</b>. Send on
+your name and Postoffice address,<br /> with 10 cents, and we will send you
+a copy, post-paid.<br /> This is not a quarter of its cost. It is printed
+in both English<br /> and German. If you afterwards order seeds deduct the<br />
+10 cents. <b>VICK'S SEEDS ARE THE BEST IN<br /> THE WORLD.</b> The Floral Guide
+will tell how to<br /> get and grow them.</p>
+<p class="medium"><b> VICK'S Illustrated Monthly
+Magazine</b>,<br /> 32 Pages, a Colored Plate in every<br /> number and many fine
+Engravings. Price $1.25<br /> a year; Five Copies for $5. Specimen numbers<br />
+sent for 10 cents; 3 trial copies 25 cts.<br /><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Address,</span>
+<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><b><span class="large">JAMES VICK,</span></b></span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><b>Rochester, N. Y.</b></span><br />
+<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<div style="clear: left;">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 166px;">
+<img src="images/img035b.jpg" width="166" height="207" alt="light" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="adquote"><b>The Great Church <span class="large">LIGHT</span>.</b></p>
+
+<p class="adquote"><b>FRINK'S Patent Reflectors</b> give the <b>Most Powerful</b>, the <b>Softest</b>,
+<b>Cheapest</b> and the <b>Best</b> Light known for Churches, Stores, Show Windows,
+Parlors, Banks, Offices, Picture Galleries, Theatres, Depots, etc.
+New and elegant designs. Send size of room. Get circular and
+estimate. A liberal discount to churches and the trade.</p>
+
+<p>I. P. FRINK, 551 Pearl St. N. Y.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="large">SKIN HUMORS</span><br />
+<span class="medium">CAN BE CURED BY</span><br />
+<span class="large">GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote">
+<br />
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 17em;"><span class="smcap">San Francisco</span>, Feb. 16, 1883.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p><i>Mr. C. N. Crittenton:</i></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>: I wish to call your attention to the good your Sulphur Soap
+has done me. For nearly fourteen years I have been troubled with a
+skin humor resembling salt rheum. I have spent nearly a small fortune
+for doctors and medicine, but with only temporary relief. I commenced
+using your "Glenn's Sulphur Soap" nearly two years ago&mdash;<b>used it in
+baths and as a toilet soap daily. My skin is now as clear as an
+infant's, and no one would be able to tell that I ever had a skin
+complaint.</b> I would not be without the soap if it cost five times the
+amount. Yours respectfully.
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">M. H. MORRIS.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;"><span class="smcap">Lick House</span>, San Francisco, Cal.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>The above testimonial is indisputable evidence that Glenn's Sulphur
+Soap will eliminate poisonous Skin Diseases <span class="smcap">when all other means have
+failed</span>. To this fact thousands have testified; and that it will
+banish lesser afflictions, such as common <span class="smcap">pimples, eruptions</span> and
+<span class="smcap">sores</span>, and keep the skin clear and beautiful, is absolutely certain.
+For this reason ladies whose complexions have been improved by the
+use of this soap <span class="smcap">now make it a constant toilet appendage</span>. The genuine
+always bears the name of C. N. CRITTENTON, 115 Fulton street, New
+York, sole proprietor. For sale by all druggists or mailed to any
+address on receipt of 30 cents in stamps, or three cakes for 75
+cents.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="xlarge"><b>J. &amp; R. LAMB,</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="large"><b>59 Carmine Street.</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="medium">Sixth Ave. cars pass the door.</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figleft2" style="width: 141px;">
+<img src="images/img035c.jpg" width="141" height="217" alt="logo" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;" class="xlarge"><b>BANNERS</b></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">IN SILK,</span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 1.25em;">NEW DESIGNS.</span><br /><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;" class="xlarge">CHURCH</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: .5em;" class="xlarge">FURNITURE</span><br /><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: -1.5em;" class="medium">SEND FOR HAND BOOK BY MAIL.</span>
+</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center xlarge"><b>PEARLS <span class="smcap">in the</span> MOUTH</b></div>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 252px;">
+<img src="images/img035d.jpg" width="252" height="342" alt="engraving of smiling woman" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="xlarge">Beauty and Fragrance</span><br />
+
+<span class="medium">Are communicated to the mouth by</span><br />
+
+<span class="xlarge"><b>SOZODONT</b></span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="adquote">which renders the <i>teeth pearly white</i>, the gums rosy, and the
+<i>breath sweet</i>. By those who have used it, it is regarded as an
+indispensable adjunct of the toilet. It thoroughly <i>removes tartar</i>
+from the teeth, without injuring the enamel.</p>
+
+<div class="center large">SOLD BY DRUGGISTS</div>
+
+<div class="center large"><b>EVERYWHERE.</b></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center xxlarge"><b>MASON &amp; HAMLIN ORGANS.</b></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+<span class="medium">A cable dispatch announces that at the</span><br /><br />
+<span class="medium">International Industrial Exhibition</span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">(1883) now in progress (1883) at</span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="large"><b>AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS,</b></span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">These Organs have been Awarded the</span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="xlarge"><b>GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR,</b></span><br /><br />
+
+<span><b>Being the VERY HIGHEST AWARD, ranking above the GOLD MEDAL, and given
+only for EXCEPTIONAL SUPER-EXCELLENCE.</b></span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">THUS IS CONTINUED THE UNBROKEN SERIES OF TRIUMPHS OF THESE ORGANS</span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="large">AT EVERY GREAT WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOR SIXTEEN YEARS,</span><br /><br />
+
+<span class="large"><b>No other American Organs having been found equal to them in any.</b></span>
+</div>
+
+<p class="adquote">THE RECORD OF TRIUMPHS of MASON &amp; HAMLIN ORGANS in such severe and
+prolonged comparisons by the BEST JUDGES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS IN THE
+WORLD now stands: at</p>
+
+<table width="80%" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Awards won">
+
+<tr>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">PARIS,<br />1867<br />FRANCE.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">VIENNA,<br />1873<br /> AUSTRIA.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">SANTIAGO,<br />1875<br />CHILI.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">PHILA.,<br />1876<br /> U. S. AMER.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">PARIS,<br />1878<br />FRANCE.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">MILAN, <br /> 1881<br />ITALY.</td>
+<td align="center" style="border-right: solid 1px;">AMSTERDAM,<br />1883<br />NETHERLANDS.</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<div class="center xxlarge"><br /><b>The Testimony of Musicians is Equally Emphatic.</b></div>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 706px;">
+<br />
+<img src="images/img036.jpg" width="706" height="345" alt="Endorsements" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center large"><br /><b>A NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR 1883-4</b></div>
+
+<p class="adquote medium">(dated October, 1883) is now ready and will be sent free; including
+MANY NEW STYLES&mdash;the best assortment and most attractive organs we
+have ever offered. <span class="smcap">One Hundred Styles</span> are fully described and
+illustrated, adapted to all uses, in plain and elegant cases in
+natural woods, and superbly decorated in gold, sliver and colors.
+Prices, $22 for the smallest size, but having as much power as any
+single reed organ and the characteristic Mason &amp; Hamlin excellence,
+up to $900 for the largest size. 50 styles between $100 and $200.
+<i>Sold also for easy payments.</i> Catalogues free.</p>
+
+<div class="center"><br />
+<span class="large"><b>THE MASON &amp; HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO.,</b></span><br />
+<span class="medium"><b>154 Tremont St., Boston; 46 East 14th Street (Union Square), New
+York; 140 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.</b></span>
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No.
+01, January, 1884, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: June 19, 2009 [EBook #29165]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JAN 1884 ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD, and the Online
+Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This
+file was produced from images generously made available
+by Cornell University Digital Collections.)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  The American Missionary
+
+  January, 1884.
+
+  VOL. XXXVIII.
+
+  NO. 1.]
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                                           PAGE.
+
+EDITORIAL:
+
+    ANOTHER YEAR--THIS NUMBER                                  1
+    PAMPHLET--AMERICAN MISSIONARY--JOINT COMMITTEE             2
+    ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY                                 3
+    PARAGRAPHS                                                 4
+    WANTED--BENEFACTIONS--GENERAL NOTES                        5
+    TRAVELING IN AFRICA (CUT)                                  6
+    CHINESE WOMEN (CUT)                                        8
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK:
+
+    THE INDIAN WOMAN, BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS                      9
+    THE CHINESE, BY MRS. W. C. POND                           11
+    MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY, BY MRS. A. A. MYERS      12
+    COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH, BY MISS IDA M. BEACH         16
+    REPORT OF THE SECRETARY                                   19
+    FORM OF CONSTITUTION--THE BUREAU IN THE WEST              21
+
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE:
+
+    CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.                         23
+    CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS (CUT)                    24
+
+RECEIPTS                                                      26
+
+CONSTITUTION                                                  30
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+
+PRESIDENT.
+
+  Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.
+
+
+VICE-PRESIDENTS.
+
+  REV. C. L. GOODELL, D.D.;
+  REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D.;
+  REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D.;
+  REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D.;
+  REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D.
+
+
+CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.--REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street,
+  N. Y._
+
+
+TREASURER.--H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+AUDITORS.--WM. A. NASH, W. H. ROGERS.
+
+
+EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman;
+  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary;
+  LYMAN ABBOTT,
+  A. S. BARNES,
+  J. R. DANFORTH,
+  CLINTON B. FISK,
+  S. B. HALLIDAY,
+  EDWARD HAWKS,
+  SAMUEL HOLMES,
+  CHARLES A. HULL,
+  SAMUEL S. MARPLES,
+  CHARLES L. MEAD,
+  S. H. VIRGIN,
+  WM. H. WARD,
+  J. L. WITHROW.
+
+
+DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
+
+  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., _Boston_.
+  Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.
+  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.
+
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to
+the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the "American
+Missionary," to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York Office;
+letters for the Bureau of Woman's Work, to Miss D. E. Emerson, at the
+New York Office.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]
+
+HORSFORD'S
+
+ACID PHOSPHATE.
+
+(LIQUID.)
+
+FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,
+DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY DIFFICULTIES, ETC.
+
+
+  PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF
+  Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.
+
+
+There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority
+of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been
+offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want
+as this.
+
+It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.
+
+No danger can attend its use.
+
+Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to
+take.
+
+It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.
+
+Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on
+application.
+
+
+  MANUFACTURED BY THE RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,
+  Providence, R. I.,
+  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MANHATTAN
+
+LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,
+
+_156 and 158 Broadway._
+
+
+THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.
+
+
+DESCRIPTION--One of the oldest, strongest, best.
+
+POLICIES--Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash surrender
+values.
+
+RATES--Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.
+
+RISKS carefully selected.
+
+PROMPT, liberal dealing.
+
+
+GENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to whom
+permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.
+
+Address
+
+  H. STOKES, President.
+
+  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec'y.
+  S. N. STEBBINS, Act'y.
+  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.
+  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+VOL. XXXVIII.     JANUARY, 1884.     NO. 1.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Another year. Are we ready for it, ready to work and to win? The
+harvest is still plenteous and every increase of store is precious.
+Who can measure such privilege? And what of opportunities? The
+swift-winged events of our civilization are continually hurrying us
+into the midst of them. It is a day of speedy rewards. Christ comes
+quickly in these times. The business of the Church is helped as
+absolutely as secular business by the development and use of material
+agencies for advancement. What is wanted is the good seed of the
+word. It is that--the light which shines forth from _that_--which
+gives life and growth and masterly power. We want faith in the
+promises. It shall be said, "The kingdoms of this world are become
+the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ." The truth of it is not to
+be doubted or eclipsed. We want power from on high, and that is
+neither distant nor subject to unseasonable delay. What the year
+shall be is for us, under God, to determine. Let us labor and pray
+that the word of promise--the divine imbuement--may make rich and
+fruitful, and place the great religious interests of our land on the
+foundation of God which standeth sure.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We devote considerable space in this number of the _Missionary_ to
+the papers and reports presented at the Woman's Meeting held in
+connection with our Annual Meeting in Brooklyn. The topics considered
+related to the wide range of work conducted by this Association. They
+were treated by persons having much experience in our mission fields,
+and will be welcomed not only as interesting reading, but as
+furnishing authoritative data for the encouragement of the friends of
+our work. The constitution proposed at the meeting, for Women's
+co-operative societies is given, and is commended to the attention of
+those ladies who desire to aid mission work in our own country.
+
+The valuable Paper on "Woman's Work in Modern Charity and Missions,"
+read by Rev. A. H. Bradford at our Annual Meeting, not published
+elsewhere, has been put in pamphlet form, with a view to general
+distribution. We will be pleased to furnish copies gratuitously, in
+such numbers as may be desired, to those wishing it for the promotion
+of woman's work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We are happy to report that the practice of paying for subscriptions
+for the _American Missionary_ is becoming more general year by year.
+This is as it should be. We try to make the _Missionary_ worth the
+price, which is fifty cents annually. We believe the information it
+contains is of value to all, and that most of it cannot be found
+elsewhere. Will not our friends kindly aid us in its circulation,
+remitting to our treasurer at once what may be gathered for that
+purpose?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+JOINT COMMITTEE.
+
+
+The Joint Committee appointed by the American Home Missionary Society
+and the American Missionary Association for the consideration of the
+relation between the two societies, met by adjournment at
+Springfield, Mass., Dec. 11. The committee on the part of the A. H.
+M. S. consisted of Rev. J. E. Twitchell, D.D., Rev. Lyman Abbott,
+D.D., Rev. Geo. L. Walker, D.D., Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D., and A. S.
+Barnes, Esq. The Committee on the part of the A. M. A. consisted of
+Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O.
+Mears, D.D., Prest. S. C. Bartlett, and Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D. All
+were present except Dr. Goodell, and his place was filled by Mr. S.
+B. Capen. A letter from Dr. Goodell was read. Dr. Barrows,
+representing the Home Missionary Society, and Dr. Strieby,
+representing the American Missionary Association, were also present
+by invitation.
+
+It was manifest that the members of the Committee were equally
+friends of both societies and sought only their greatest efficiency.
+No partisan feeling found utterance. The members of the Committee are
+men of independent views and judgment, and examined the subject
+before them from different standpoints, and yet reached in the paper
+presented below a remarkable degree of unanimity--every item
+receiving a unanimous vote. The result will command and deserves the
+attention of the churches. The following is
+
+THE ACTION OF THE COMMITTEE.
+
+Consulting the principle of comity between the two societies--the A.
+H. M. S. and the A. M. A.--and that traditional policy of
+Congregationalists which ignores caste and color lines, and also in
+view of the present relative position and strength of the two
+societies, we, the Joint Committee, give as our judgment:
+
+1. That, as heretofore, the principal work of the American Home
+Missionary Society should be in the West, and the principal work of
+the American Missionary Association should be in the South.
+
+2. Whatever new work may be called for in any locality should be
+under the charge of the society already occupying the ground. No
+exception to this rule should be allowed unless it be by agreement
+between the two societies.
+
+3. Concerning work already established by either society, we would
+recommend that if either comity, economy or efficiency will be
+advanced by it, such a transfer of the work should be made as shall
+bring the work of the societies into harmony with the preceding
+recommendations.
+
+4. We would recommend to the two societies to consider the
+practicability of using a common superintendent in those portions of
+the field where an economical and efficient administration will be
+secured by it.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS A DAY.
+
+
+What can be done with it? We can sustain efficiently our current work
+of educating teachers and preachers and the planting of churches. In
+the progress of development, more requires more. If the Association
+did not need increased receipts it would be evidence of lack of
+growth. There is no such lack. New demands are springing up at every
+point, and it is wise economy to meet these demands. They are simply
+the healthy development of legitimate missionary work.
+
+Just now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for
+promoting industrial education. The South is arising into a new life.
+New fields of labor are rapidly opening. Skilled workmen are wanted.
+The possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better
+understood. The aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their
+opportunities, and the industrial departments in connection with our
+institutions are patronized as never before. We ought to make the
+most of them now.
+
+We need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for
+knowledge with good reading. The colored people have few, if any,
+books or periodicals. We ought to have the means at once for
+furnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different
+points. Such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent
+should be provided.
+
+The students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be
+numbered by thousands. These explore the dark places of the land.
+They open schools in such buildings as can be found, or, finding
+none, teach out of doors. We need means to aid many such with
+supplemental support, making it possible for them to continue their
+schools longer than the few months provided for by the limited State
+appropriations. Thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this
+way. The opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than
+ever. A temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the South.
+Our students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total
+abstinence. They make the best advocates of the cause that can be had
+for many localities. It is a crucial period. The time to do this work
+is now--now, while the great questions at issue are being agitated
+and settled. We ought to have means for extending our efforts to the
+utmost in this direction.
+
+Of more importance still is evangelistic work, supplemental to the
+labors of our pastors. This is coming into more than usual
+prominence. Our students have had thorough training for it, and no
+little experience in it during their course of study. A score of them
+in every Southern State could be set to work with profit, if we had
+the money for such outlay. Nothing could do more for immediate
+results in developing a pure Christianity among the untaught and
+unsaved poor of the South.
+
+We might also, with a thousand dollars a day, do more than we have
+ever done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in
+all our fields of labor. This is the great and urgent necessity. Out
+of Christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded
+by a Christian civilization. For this especially we emphasize our
+appeal. To what better use can the Christians and patriots of our
+country devote a thousand dollars a day?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A friend, noting the annual average addition of churches as five or
+six, raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling
+that rate. The Association is glad to recognize this worthy
+aspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it, and still further to
+remind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to
+magnify the work of each year is also in the same line. Nevertheless,
+we find that those who become in some sense responsible for the
+nurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us
+become conservative instead of becoming rash, as is sometimes
+averred. Yet we are able to give assurance that the Field
+Superintendent and his associates, with their eyes upon the whole
+field, watching the germs and their unfolding, are only anxious to
+set out these plants of the Lord's house as fast as is at all
+consistent. We also see, in no far-away future, a large church work
+for us as the fruitage of our school work.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A prize of $75 is given annually to the best male Greek scholar in
+the High School at Newport, R. I. The best examination this year was
+by the daughter of George Rice, the colored steward of the steamer
+Pilgrim. As she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from New
+York sent her $75 in gold.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WANTED!
+
+
+--We greatly need a new school building, for the lower grades at
+Tougaloo University, a two-story building with school rooms below and
+a chapel above. Who will give $3,000 for ---- Hall at Tougaloo?
+
+--We need also a steam engine for the Industrial Department at
+Tougaloo, a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power. Who will
+give it, or the money needful?
+
+--We need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of
+carpentry at Talladega and elsewhere. Who will give one or more sets?
+
+--We need illustrated books and magazines for our Reading Rooms. Who
+will give us subscriptions to _Wide Awake_, _St. Nicholas_, etc., or
+money to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BENEFACTIONS.
+
+
+Rutgers College has received $1,000 toward an endowment fund from Mr.
+R. H. Ballentine, Newark, N. J.
+
+Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, has given the city of Salem, Mass., $7,500,
+the income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in
+college.
+
+Illinois College has recently received a gift of $1,000 from Mr. E.
+W. Blatchford, of Chicago, who was a member of the class of '65.
+
+Mr. George W. Dixon, of Bethlehem, Pa., has given $20,000 to Linden
+Hall Female Seminary, to build a Gothic chapel in memory of his
+daughter.
+
+Mr. Roland Mather, of Hartford, Conn., has given $10,000 to Olivet
+College, Mich.
+
+Joseph Dean, of Minneapolis, has placed in the hands of the trustees
+of Hamlin University $25,000 to increase the endowment of that
+institution.
+
+Mrs. Robert L. Stuart has given $150,000 to Princeton College to
+endow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors
+in logic, ethics and psychology.
+
+_Among the wants specified in the report of the Executive Committee
+of the A. M. A. for the coming year was $10,000 for a new hall for
+the Edward Smith College, at Little Rock, Ark. It is proposed that
+the donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GENERAL NOTES.
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+--Among the Belgians no less than six commercial societies have been
+constituted to explore the Congo.
+
+--The Livingstone Inland Mission has founded a new station at Ngoma's
+Town, one hundred kilometers up the river from Stanley Pool.
+
+--The merchants of Lisbon have constituted a company for the
+navigation of the Quanza. They have constructed to this effect in
+England a steamer, the Serpa Pinto, which was to be delivered in
+September.
+
+--The Scotch Presbyterian Church have decided to furnish a steamer
+for the use of the Old Calabar Mission. The young people throughout
+the church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the
+money by the time the steamer is ready.
+
+--According to a dispatch from Sierra Leone the Queen of Massah, with
+the consent of the native chiefs, has authorized the annexation of
+the neighboring territory of Sherbro to the English possession, which
+will thus extend without interruption from Sierra Leone to Liberia.
+
+[Illustration: TRAVELING IN AFRICA.]
+
+--The fever of speculation reigns at Axim and in the districts of the
+Golden Coast. From the climate and the conditions of exploration, the
+working of the mines proceeds slowly. Commander Cameron, director of
+the West African Goldfields Company, has introduced upon his grant
+the hydraulic processes employed in California.
+
+--The _Journal_ of Geneva announces that the International African
+Association is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will
+receive gratuitously land in the countries of the Congo, of which
+Stanley has taken possession. It is negotiating to attract the
+Germans, and already the Prussian journals speak of the creation of a
+German Consulate.
+
+--Flegel has offered to the African German Society to make a new
+exploration in a region entirely unknown, which extends to the Congo;
+or, if they choose, to return toward the west to Mount Cameroon. The
+Government of the German Empire has granted a sum of 50,000 francs
+for this exploration. On the other hand, some private individuals of
+Lagos, where Flegel has resided since his last voyage, have furnished
+him funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the
+Niger and to Benoue, in the advancement of science and commerce.
+
+--Mr. Petersen and Dr. Sims have founded at Stanley Pool a new
+station for the Livingstone Inland Mission. Dr. Sims very quickly
+commenced to heal the sick, which gained him the confidence of the
+natives. These latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their
+land the provisions necessary for the number of Europeans established
+at Stanley Pool, and the price of provisions has greatly increased.
+The steamer, Henry Reed, destined for the Upper Congo was to start
+out the first of August.
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+--Of the 6,000 Pi-Utes it is said that there are never more than 600
+on their reservation at one time. Not more than fifty attend the
+agency school.
+
+--The National Indian Association, an organization composed
+exclusively of ladies, has for its object to obtain for the Indians
+the rights of citizens, and to induce the Government to allow them to
+own farms.
+
+--The General Council of the Choctaw Nation, recently closed,
+appropriated $100,000 for the erection of a new council house, the
+old one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and
+training in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys.
+
+--The ceremony of receiving Sitting-Bull into the Catholic Church at
+Fort Yates has been indefinitely postponed because Sitting-Bull
+cannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go. Bishop
+Marty has had him under his care for several months, and his
+instructions were being rapidly absorbed by the Chief; but separation
+from his wives proved too much, and he will probably return to
+heathenism.
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+--The missionaries in China, to the number of 231, have presented
+another petition to the House of Commons against the infamous opium
+traffic.
+
+--There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands,
+who is said to be a whole Bible society in himself, expending twenty
+dollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to
+distribute among his countrymen there.
+
+--The largest bell in the world is in Kiota, Japan. It is 24 feet
+high and 16 inches thick at the rim. It is sounded by a suspended
+piece of wood, like a battering ram, which strikes it on the outside,
+and its booming can be heard for miles. Nobody knows when or by whom
+it was cast, and though its surface is covered with characters, no
+scholar has yet been able to translate them.
+
+--The _Foreign Missionary_ says the great secret of success in
+teaching the Chinese in America lies in the direct personal influence
+of the teacher over the pupil. Generally each pupil is provided with
+a teacher, and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct
+proportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced. The
+first important revelation that dawns upon the Chinaman is that there
+are those in this land who are not hoodlums, and that brutality is
+not the universal law in America; that Christianity is higher and
+purer than the enactments of Congress, and that Christ is the friend
+of all men, and has died for Chinamen as well as "Melicans."
+
+[Illustration: CHINESE WOMEN.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PAPERS READ AT THE WOMAN'S MEETING IN BROOKLYN.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE INDIAN WOMAN.
+
+BY MRS. A. L. RIGGS.
+
+
+To describe an Indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among
+them, for every peculiarity becomes so familiar, and so interwoven
+with our common everyday experience, that we forget how strange and
+unlike white women she appeared to us at first. But she is a woman,
+even though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on
+her back.
+
+How uninteresting, you must think, and she probably thinks the same
+of you. She does not know that you care for her. She feels that she
+is different in some way, and most likely if you smile upon her she
+will not know it, for she is too modest even to look at you; but
+speak to her in a pleasant tone and offer to shake hands with her and
+notice her baby, and she begins to think that _you_ are a woman. In
+her no trace of dignity nor Pocahontas beauty are discernible, but
+she is untidy in person and attire, her movements are decidedly
+lackadaisical. An uninteresting object, indeed, to one who does not
+care to help her. But _we_ believe that she has a woman's heart; and
+more than that--she has a soul.
+
+Her aspirations for herself are limited, but she wants her child to
+grow up in the white people's way. Yet how small her conception of
+how this is to be accomplished!
+
+She is a heathen--hemmed in on every side by fear and superstition.
+Her gods are gods of fear. She believes in witchcraft, is afraid of a
+world full of evil spirits. Under a pagan religion her place is next
+to the mere animals. She goes with her husband to the hunt, not as a
+companion, but as the drudge, the human pack-horse; she prepares the
+food, and her husband devours it regardless of her needs; he may
+boast of his "old woman" as being "nina mimi heca" (swift or good to
+work) for that is the only accomplishment required in his selfish,
+egotistical mind. "The Indian woman comes into the world under a
+species of protest--every Indian parent desiring to have boys, rather
+than girls, hence she grows up into a condition of servitude." "In
+the Indian nation to purchase a wife is the honorable way, all other
+ways are dishonorable, and the man having bought his wife, although
+the custom of the country does not allow him to dispose of her to
+another, yet he may put her away, or leave her, at his pleasure. He
+may also whip her and beat her, for she is his money." I never shall
+forget one poor woman who came to me soon after we went to the Indian
+country. She showed me her back covered with the marks where her
+husband had beaten her.
+
+Now I have given you a brief description of the Indian woman _as we
+find her_. What can be done for her? What would _you_ do for her?
+There is only one thing. _Help her to become a Christian._ This is
+not to be accomplished in a hurry, for she is in bondage to her
+husband--to her religion. But faith and prayer, together with a
+genuine interest in the Indian home, can accomplish much. Desolate
+and comfortless though that home may be, it can be transformed, and
+the husband even can be made to see that there is something more
+real, something that is more satisfying, something that is more
+comforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods.
+"The man has more to give up than the woman if he becomes a
+Christian. If a woman changes her gods and her religion, no one cares
+very much; it is 'only a woman.' But a man must abandon his ancestral
+faith, which binds him more strongly than the woman, for the very
+reason that he is a man, and has been inducted into manhood through
+the ceremonies of his religion."
+
+He can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his
+horse or his dog; and he begins to see that he can do some of the
+work which she has been obliged to do, and thus she is enabled to
+make home more attractive. With the dawn of Christianity comes the
+first effort toward civilized ways. The husband now brings the wood
+and water, and little by little a few household conveniences appear,
+such as chairs, a table, a few dishes; also knives and forks are used
+instead of fingers; even lambrequins are sometimes seen--hung,
+however, in the most absurd way, outside the shades--and we are
+astonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and
+ruffled pillow-shams. Also a U. S. T. D. blanket is often spread down
+for a carpet, and the rude, rough walls are covered with pictures cut
+from illustrated newspapers.
+
+We find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful
+domestic arts, such as making light bread and preparing wholesome
+dishes of food for the sick. The teaching of making light bread
+became quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife,
+and for the Indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite
+fashionable.
+
+Then she shows a desire to dress like white women, and instead of the
+broadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short
+calico sack, and moccasins upon her feet, she appears with a kilt
+plaiting around her dress skirt, and, what probably in her mind is an
+improvement upon white woman's taste, the plaiting is headed with two
+or three rows of bright worsted skirt braid. As she admires the thin
+and lightly covered head of the white baby, she closely clips her own
+baby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible.
+But all this is the mere outside of life--one benefit which
+Christianity brings to her personally. She begins to show that she
+has become a missionary at heart and that she has a desire to send
+this great blessing which has wrought such a change in her home into
+other homes; and as others like herself, near at hand, have been
+treasuring up the blessed words of the Lord Jesus, "Go ye and preach
+my gospel," they begin to think that they can do something to send
+the good tidings to those who are in the darkness which so recently
+surrounded themselves.
+
+Now, in the Dakota mission, we have thirteen churches, and in every
+one a woman's missionary society, and the money raised is used to
+support native missionaries--that is, Christian Indians are sent out
+among the heathen Indians as missionaries, and are supported by
+Indian societies. The Indian woman's society is conducted very much
+like any sewing society among white women. Some woman is appointed to
+lead the devotional exercises, and we have our officers appointed
+annually. They make children's clothing after the white woman's
+fashion, and many useful articles similar to those usually made in
+sewing societies. Those women who are able make articles after their
+own styles, such as moccasins, pretty bags handsomely ornamented with
+porcupine, bead or ribbon work. These articles are gifts to the
+society, and we have no difficulty in disposing of them to those who
+wish specimens of Indian woman's skill in fancy work, or who may wish
+to help this native missionary work which is being so nobly carried
+on. Some of these women are really wonderful in their zeal and
+faithfulness, walking six, seven, or eight miles to the meeting every
+week. I could tell you many things about these faithful Christian
+Indian women, but do you wish any better proof of the hold
+Christianity has upon Indians?
+
+As I said before, an Indian woman's aspirations for herself are
+limited, but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's
+way. Now, if we are to elevate the Indian nation, let us plant in the
+homes the desire for the Gospel, and as we do it gather the children
+as fast as they are old enough to leave their mother's care into
+Christian training schools. Now out in the Indian country we are all
+the time carrying on missionary work in the homes, planting schools,
+organizing churches, and sending out native missionaries.
+
+We have at Santee Agency, Neb., a large school of advanced grade,
+well established for the education of children and youth. So well
+known is this school among Christian Indians that our accommodations
+have become very limited, and last year we were obliged to refuse
+many who wished to come. I think you cannot know how hard it is for
+us to say, We cannot take you.
+
+The great Dakota nation is ready to receive the Christian religion.
+We have the Bible in the Dakota language--a monument grand and
+beautiful to one who has just gone to his reward. Years of patient,
+quiet toil were spent in translating the precious words from the
+Greek and the Hebrew into the language of over fifty thousand
+savages. Then what hinders the work? We have hymns in the Dakota
+tongue. Who will go and sing these precious words to those who never
+heard them? There are those who are ready to go, but where is the
+money to send them? If you cannot go, what hinders you from sending
+some one? To be sure, this is a work of difficulty, for how can we
+expect a few years of training to so revolutionize a savage's live
+that he can withstand the heathenism which still permeates his native
+home? But we have those whom we can trust, and who are filling places
+of responsibility and usefulness. Besides those who have gone out as
+missionaries and teachers, we have in our school at Santee native
+teachers, and our own children are taught by them. One of our pupils
+is assistant matron in the Dakota Home. One who has been under our
+care is in the little city of Pierre, D. T., giving music lessons to
+white pupils. I give only a few instances, to show that we are
+beginning to see the results of our work.
+
+Then give the free Gospel of the love of Christ to this great heathen
+nation right here so near us. Here is the Bible, here are the hymns;
+who will provide the means to scatter them, and who will go to carry
+them? We are preparing those who will go with you as assistants and
+interpreters. We hear of those who wish to get rid of the Indians;
+the surest way to do it is to educate them and Christianize them.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+EXTRACT FROM ADDRESS OF MRS. W. C. POND.
+
+
+I will not waste time upon an introduction. I will only say that I am
+glad to be among you; glad that you are interested in the Chinese
+work, with which we have been connected so many years in California.
+We feel that we are greatly privileged in having these dark souls
+within our reach. We can obey our Saviour's last command, "Disciple
+all nations," without having to go far from our homes and native
+land. They are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our
+churches to them and they will come in. They _are_ coming in; not in
+large numbers but one by one. In the church of which my husband has
+been the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy Chinese
+members--about one-third of our whole membership.
+
+Many inquire how Chinese converts are tested. They join the Christian
+Association on probation and after a test of six or eight months are
+recommended to the church. Then they come before a committee of the
+church and are examined, and after studying the articles of faith, in
+their own language, for several weeks they are propounded for church
+membership, and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into
+full fellowship with the church. They are not hurried into the church
+and are themselves timid and prefer to wait.
+
+We have no work among the Chinese women that we can call our own.
+Both Presbyterians and Methodists have such a work in San Francisco,
+and it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a
+small work, because there are only three or four hundred Chinese
+women in San Francisco, and not a tenth of these accessible. But if
+means would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women
+at Sacramento, where nothing is done for them. With our very limited
+resources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and
+boys.
+
+But we have much work _by women_ of whom I would like to make
+mention. Patient and heroic, prayerful and soul-saving have been
+their efforts among the Chinese. I would like to tell you of one who
+has recently gone to her reward. Before leaving my home two months
+ago I called upon her and found her strength failing. But she was
+hopeful respecting her recovery, and the strongest incentive she had
+to get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the
+story of Jesus to her boys, as she called those in the Chinese
+school. And when death came to her, six Chinese acted as pall-bearers
+at her funeral, at her own request. The church was more than half
+filled with Chinese, and the scene was touching in the extreme, as
+one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time.
+
+You are all, doubtless, more or less familiar with the _American
+Missionary_, and read from time to time Mr. Pond's reports found
+therein. I will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's
+report, read recently before the General Association of California,
+convened in Santa Cruz. They are as follows:
+
+Nineteen schools, as against 15 the last year; total enrollment of
+scholars, 2,823, as against 2,567 the former year; 40 teachers, of
+whom 14 were Chinese, as against 31 teachers the previous year, of
+whom 11 were Chinese; number of those who have professed to cease
+from idolatry, 175, as against 156 the year before; number of those
+who have given evidence of conversion, 121, as against 106 the former
+year, and the whole number of those who have turned to Christ during
+the history of the Mission, 400, who are scattered over the United
+States and in China. We hear of many of them who are doing good work
+for the Master and for the salvation of their countrymen.
+
+Toward the expense of the Mission during the past year the Chinese
+themselves have contributed $730.05.
+
+I would like to have you remember the name of our church. It is
+"Bethany." Remember us in your prayers, for God has laid a great work
+upon us. We started in much weakness, but God has been with us and
+blessed us. We have felt His presence in our Bethany as Martha and
+Mary of old did in theirs. We have heard the Master's voice saying
+unto us frequently, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
+least of these, My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK IN KENTUCKY.
+
+BY MRS. A. A. MYERS.
+
+
+There is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very
+centre of the settled portion of the United States. "Our brother in
+black" has been held up to the view of two continents for the last
+fifty years. And what is America going to do with him and for him,
+has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world.
+This same question for a still longer time has been propounded in
+regard to the red man of the forest, and in later years concerning
+the Chinese. And right nobly has the Christian brotherhood evidenced
+its purpose to make men of these degraded classes. But until recently
+it has escaped the notice of these Christian workers that we have
+another class as needy perhaps as any. No spice of romance is
+connected with them. No barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to
+awaken sympathy in them. They are simply poor people, who during
+slavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by
+the arrogant Bluegrass slaveholder on the one side, and the greedy
+cotton-planter on the other, back into the mountains, where they are
+shut away from the rest of the world by mountain barriers, and still
+more hopelessly by the haughty caste spirit of the slave-holding
+monarchs, who disdain to have anything to do with them except to seek
+their votes.
+
+These people are not really poor. Most of them own farms of three or
+four hundred acres; and the soil, if properly tilled, would be quite
+productive. Their plowing is done in the most primitive manner. A
+single horse attached to a little shovel plow simply tears the sod a
+little, enough so the weeds spring up luxuriantly, and the women and
+children must work hard in the hot sun to destroy them, while the
+lord of the home saddles his horse and rides to town, to sit on store
+boxes and tell low stories. This people, especially the male portion,
+seem to have a natural distaste for labor. They would be aristocratic
+if they could. In days of slavery they had their household servants,
+and tried to imitate the more wealthy slave-owners by living in
+idleness, and they still look upon labor as degrading.
+
+They make no effort to get themselves homes. The large majority live
+in log cabins, with no windows. The doors stand open winter and
+summer. The women in cool weather always sit with a little shawl
+around them and a sunbonnet on.
+
+There are generally two rooms to each house, usually with a chimney
+or open hall between them, so you have to go out of doors to pass
+from one to the other. In the kitchen (which also serves as
+dining-room) is a large fireplace and a cook stove, if they are the
+happy possessors of one.
+
+The other is the sitting and sleeping-room. You will often see three
+beds and one or two trundle-beds in a single room. Here the whole
+family and all the visitors sleep. We have sought to rest with
+thirteen of us in a room, perhaps 15 by 20 feet, and not a window in
+it and the doors shut. Fortunately the large-mouthed fireplace gave a
+pittance of ventilation. No carpets are used, and furniture is very
+limited. I believe nine-tenths of the people could put all their
+goods on a couple of loads and be ready to move at an hour's notice.
+
+Families are large, numbering twelve, fifteen or even nineteen
+children. Girls marry young, and seem to be entirely satisfied with
+their condition. You seldom hear a desire expressed for anything they
+don't possess. Give them a box of snuff and a stick to chew it with
+and you never hear a murmur escape their lips. Tobacco is
+indispensable. Old and young, male and female, are wedded to it. I
+have known of an old gentleman working all day for fifty cents and
+spending forty cents at night for tobacco for himself and wife and
+nine children.
+
+They seem to be without a standard in the land. They live so
+isolated, and have measured themselves by themselves until they have
+lost all idea of accurate judgment. Morality and sobriety are hardly
+looked for, even among church members and ministers. "Religion may be
+up to fever heat, while morality is down to zero." People "confess,"
+as they call it, and join the church, and in their entire life
+thereafter you could never know any difference.
+
+They are satisfied if their names are on the church book. I don't
+think they ever question their eternal salvation after they are once
+inside a church. If a person dies without having joined a church his
+friends frame some theory on which they rest their hope of his
+salvation. A young man was shot a little while ago in a drunken
+broil. As he fell mortally wounded he cried, "Oh, Lord!" His mother
+is sure he is safe because he called on the Lord. They have no
+conception of _living_ religion. They have no prayer or conference
+meetings. Aside from our own I doubt if there is a prayer meeting
+nearer than Berea, seventy miles away. There is no family prayer in
+all the land. I asked my class of boys, twenty or more in number, how
+many had ever heard their mothers' voice in prayer. Not one of them
+could raise a hand. At another school I asked a still larger class
+the same question, and only one girl raised her hand. There is no
+gathering of the little home nestlings together and instructing
+them--no Bible instruction given in the family. It has ceased to be a
+wonder to me, to ask nearly grown boys some of the most simple Bible
+questions, and hear them answer, "I don't know."
+
+An M. E. minister in one of his pastoral visits took occasion to
+dwell with some stress on the blessedness of _walking in the light_.
+The mother showed how she literalized by promptly remarking, "Yes;
+I've told John I wanted a hole sawed in this end of the house, but he
+won't do it." During the same call he asked a young lady if she was
+preparing to go to judgment. She replied, "No, I reckin I won't go.
+If I do I'll have to walk, for we hain't got but two nags, and Rachel
+and Becky always ride them."
+
+The prevailing churches are the Reform or Campbellites, the
+Methodists, and the Missionary and Anti-Missionary Baptists. The
+latter church is strong all through the mountains. They are bigoted
+and ignorant, and boast that their knowledge comes direct from the
+throne, and they have nothing to do with man-made theories, as they
+call education. Their preaching is a sort of canting reiteration of
+the text and what few Scripture verses they chance to know and some
+hackneyed expressions. They are great on arguing, and it would be
+laughable if it was not so pitiful to hear the profound questions
+they discuss. Last season one of these preachers nearly broke up one
+of our mission Sunday-Schools, which we could attend only each
+alternate Sabbath. In the passage that reads "And anon they tell
+Him," he contended that A-non was an angel, and _they_ referred to
+the angel A-non. Each Sunday when we were not there that important
+question had to be discussed.
+
+One of these same preachers took his children from school because
+they were taught the heresy in geography that the world is round.
+They do all they can to prejudice the people against our work. They
+call our religion railroad religion. They are great barriers in our
+way. Still we have been cheered this year to see that their hold on
+the young people is loosening, and we are getting their hearts in
+spite of the protests of their parents. One of our mission
+Sunday-Schools, which has averaged this season one hundred, is
+composed almost entirely of young people and children, seldom ever a
+parent there.
+
+The Smith American Organ Co. have honored God and themselves, and
+will ever be held by some hearts in grateful remembrance by their
+gift to that society of a new organ. I have some times thought, as I
+have heard the young voices ring out with such enthusiasm, that,
+though critics might smile at our endeavor, Heaven would not disdain
+our offering of praise. The dingy low walls, the glass-less windows,
+the tobacco besmeared floor, become transformed to a holy temple,
+where God deigned to make visible His presence, and it has been a
+sacred place. Our hope of this people centres largely in the young.
+If it were not for them, we could not feel it right to stay among
+them.
+
+Another barrier to be overcome is their habits of worship. They have
+meetings but once a month during the summer and none at all during
+the winter. When they have service it is more for a visit than
+worship. Their churches are rough log houses, and so small that the
+greater part of the congregation remain out of doors. Four or more
+ministers are always in attendance, and all must preach. The
+congregation expect a tiresome time, and from the first are restless.
+They go out and come in, and they keep a constant march to and from
+the water pail, which usually sits on the desk in front of the
+speaker. Several grown people at a time will be standing waiting on
+each other at the pail. The speaker seems to be used to such things,
+and not at all disconcerted. Nearly all their services are funeral
+services for those who may have been dead for years. They bury their
+dead the same day or the day following death. They have no religious
+service, except a prayer at the grave, if there chance to be a
+minister present. Generally about a year after death, but often from
+five to fifteen years after, they have the funeral sermon preached.
+
+In regard to healthfulness of our mountain home, we have felt
+somewhat disappointed. Up so high, with nice springs and spring
+streams, one would expect a healthy climate. On the contrary, almost
+every one is ailing. Coughs and colds are universal. It is no wonder
+the natives are unhealthy; their habits of living would seem to
+prohibit health. They eat corn bread or hoe cake and bacon; some have
+flour, but it is always made up into hot biscuit, shortened with
+lard. They have this, with little variation, three times a day, 365
+days in a year. In summer, green beans cooked with bacon is added to
+the bill of fare. Of course the blood becomes impoverished, and
+almost every one has scrofula. Calomel and pills are the great
+panacea for all their bodily ills. Pills are brought on by the quart,
+and sold by the merchants like any other commodity. Cleanliness of
+the person is an unheard of luxury; I doubt whether they ever bathe.
+Children come to the table with unwashed faces. They are put to bed
+with the same clothes they wear during the day. Then add to all this
+the fact that tobacco is used almost from the cradle, and whiskies
+and toddies from the time the poor child opens its eyes to this
+world, and it's no great marvel that gray-haired men are exceedingly
+rare, and it's the "_old man_" and the "_old woman_" when one has
+reached the age of twenty-five.
+
+Now comes the question, What are we doing for the people? We have
+been with them nearly two years, and this has been our effort from
+the first, to get them to see that religion is a life rather than a
+sectarian belief. We have sought to impress upon them that joining a
+church is not Christianity. We have succeeded in getting a few to
+take part in our prayer meetings, and we have the assurance that
+_all_ the people are awaking to the fact that God has some demands
+upon them. We have from the first kept up regular Thursday night
+prayer meetings; have had good attendance, but often only Mr. Myers
+and myself to take part in them except as others read Scripture
+verses.
+
+On the Sabbath we have Sunday-school at 9:30. Average attendance,
+100; preaching at 11. I hasten home, saddle my horse, and ride six
+miles to the next railroad station (Pleasant View). Here I have met
+100 or more young people. I have been surprised that in a land where
+a woman isn't expected to _know_ anything, or _be_ anything but a
+doll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my
+school. Some, of course, have thought a woman entirely out of her
+sphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my
+friends: "Why, Mrs. Myers opens the school by prayer, just as Mr.
+Myers would. I don't know but it's all right, but it don't seem just
+the proper thing for a woman to do."
+
+Mr. M. has a mission in South Williamsburg or the mills, where
+numbers of children are growing up in the midst of gambling and
+shooting. Prof. W. has, about the same hour, a school two miles out
+in another direction. At night we have services again in
+Williamsburg. At these services we have more than can get into the
+house, and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation.
+Tuesday nights we go to Pleasant View and help them learn the Gospel
+Songs. Each alternate Wednesday evening, church socials; each
+alternate Friday afternoon, Band of Hope; Saturday evening, choir
+drill; Covenant Meeting once a month on Saturday afternoon.
+
+Mr. Myers has preached during the year beginning with Oct. '82, one
+hundred and forty-two sermons. The services, together with the other
+public services just mentioned, have amounted to three hundred and
+forty. Have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others. We
+spend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at
+the homes.
+
+We have a neat modern church nearly finished, and so far without
+foreign help. But no one knows what an effort has been required. Mr.
+Myers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work;
+would try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the North.
+But when the time would come he has worked all day alone. We have
+learned at last that this people don't enthuse.
+
+We are hard at work in our high-school enterprise. We have Prof. and
+Mrs. W. and Miss G., all from the North, with us. We hope to get a
+school, the good influence of which will never die out of these
+mountains.
+
+These are peculiar people. What I have said of them has reference to
+the _general_ class of society. But there are some who seem of better
+stock, who are shrewd, keen, far-sighted people. You cannot find
+their superiors in _native_ ability in any country. Though often
+lacking in culture and morality, they still hold a wide influence
+over the rest, so that something besides goodness is required in
+those who wish to come among them as helpers. There must be ability
+to adapt oneself to these widely diverse conditions. One needs wisdom
+and tact to get along with the shrewdest, and such a love for souls
+that he can come with a helping hand to the most degraded, nor be
+discouraged if, with a heart brimful of sympathy, he reaches the hand
+a long time only to see it rejected by those most in need.
+
+The work is a work of time. The majority of the people are unstable,
+thriftless improvident and ignorant. Slavery left its blight of
+impotency and profligacy upon them. They come and go as did their
+fathers a hundred years ago. Their tools and utensils are the same
+their great-grandparents used, and they are content with them. We
+never worked harder and saw less result in the conversion of sinners
+than while in Kentucky, and yet never felt more satisfied that we
+were where God wants us, and doing an important work. Unless these
+people have help they will prove a fretting leprosy in our nation.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WORK AMONG THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH.
+
+BY MISS IDA M. BEACH.
+
+
+No small part of the work undertaken by the A. M. A. is that among
+the colored people of the South. Perhaps we may judge something of
+how vast this work is in itself, and how far-reaching in its results,
+if we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the
+colored people. Twenty years ago about 4,000,000 people were
+liberated from bondage, with all the evils resulting from the system
+of slavery resting upon them. There was great rejoicing among lovers
+of freedom when the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. The
+slaves themselves, wild with joy, shouted, "We're free! We're free!
+The year of jubilee has come!" Free! yes, free! but with the burdens
+of manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them. Freedom brought
+the right and opportunity of establishing homes. Glorious privilege!
+But do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought
+and planning it takes to maintain a _true home_? Freedom gave them
+the right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to
+manhood and womanhood, but oh! how much of patience and God-given
+power it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way!
+
+Four million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the
+judgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways
+of the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts! What an
+amount of instruction they needed!
+
+Right here the American Missionary Association stepped in and assumed
+the work of training these people. Christian men and women, filled
+with love for the Master, went down among these lowly ones. They
+carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ, established schools and churches,
+teaching in the open air, or in rude huts and deserted cabins. For
+twenty years this work has been carried on, and much good has been
+done in the name of the Lord. But to-day there are between six and
+seven million colored people in our Southland. The work of the A. M.
+A., together with all done by other societies and by students going
+forth from the colleges as teachers, as yet scarcely begins to reach
+this great number.
+
+Their first need is to be Christianized, for this alone lifts them up
+and gives a desire for better things. It is the religion of Jesus
+Christ alone which has given to us our high estate. How much we owe
+to the training of Christian mothers! Let us pity and stoop to lift
+up these ignorant ones. Send out those who can carry the glad tidings
+and point to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.
+
+Let us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is. But we
+cannot stop here. We must teach them how to use it. "Woman's work for
+woman," surely, for this must be done in the homes.
+
+Freedom gave them the _right_ to establish homes! They did the best
+they knew how, many of them, but they needed teaching--they need it
+to-day. They must be taught thrift and industry, and cleanliness and
+order. They want someone to come to them and help them to transform
+their huts into homes. Could you see their rags, their ugly,
+misshapen garments, you would agree with me that the women and girls
+greatly need to be taught the use of the needle.
+
+Of course Christian schools need to be multiplied among them, where
+the rudiments of an English education shall be thoroughly given,
+where sewing and cooking, the care of the house and the care of the
+sick shall be carefully taught the girls, where the boys may learn
+the use of tools and all that pertains to good farming.
+
+Our stronghold is the children. We can never eradicate the evils
+existing among the older generation. Slavery left too much ignorance
+and superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived
+under its sway. But we are responsible for the coming generations.
+
+The American Missionary Association aims to reach the young and meet
+their needs by the workers sent out.
+
+Perhaps our work in Savannah will be illustrative of that done in
+many other parts of the field. We have there established a church and
+school. There are now in school over 200 pupils. The majority of
+these remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school
+education. We have also a normal grade, where methods of teaching are
+taught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers. Besides this
+we have fitted up a sewing-room, where the girls learn every part of
+sewing and repairing, cutting and basting. Many schools have shops
+for boys; we look forward to the time when we may be able to have
+them, too.
+
+We are just establishing a reading-room. Those who have read Prof.
+Salisbury's article in the November MISSIONARY understand how much
+this is needed. In our present circumstances we arrange it so that
+all pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour, with teacher
+to direct. Then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social
+reading.
+
+In our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to
+assist them in a knowledge of true religion. Last year we observed
+the Week of Prayer, and in the daily meetings held for several weeks
+some found the way to Christ and Christian life. Our Church and
+Sunday-School work reaches many who are not connected with our
+school. We have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting
+the parents and children in their homes, ministering to the wants of
+the sick and needy, and holding Bible and Missionary meetings.
+
+This is a bare outline of our work. I presume many of you are saying.
+"Have there been no results during these last twenty years?" Oh yes,
+we have a bright side to the picture. When we are tired and
+discouraged, and wonder if harvest time will never come, we go to
+some of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought. We
+point to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that
+the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.
+
+In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair
+public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life,
+many of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy
+home just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched
+hovel.
+
+In the country, when the "Teachers' Home" and little school house are
+built beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things
+than they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the
+neat, cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a
+palace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to
+school and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands
+become clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are
+mended, the girls put on clean collars.
+
+The missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and
+stools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is
+scrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they
+must work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and
+before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old
+cabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the
+place of the old steer and cart.
+
+Yes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers
+in the early days among four million people, although just as many as
+could be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly
+seven millions, we have but 336 workers.
+
+Millions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is
+to be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these
+people, too.
+
+We need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and
+Christian men and women who are willing to send them. "The harvest
+truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the
+Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his
+harvest." "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
+life eternal."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.
+
+
+The information from the field, to which you have listened, explains
+to you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's
+Work. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then
+stated:
+
+1. To give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety
+of work sustained by the Association and to assist in devising plans
+of help.
+
+2. To promote correspondence with churches, Sabbath-schools,
+missionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a
+special character, such as the support of missionaries, aiding of
+students, supplying clothing, furnishing goods, and meeting other
+wants on mission ground.
+
+3. To send to the churches, conferences or associations desiring it,
+experienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them, giving
+fuller details of our methods of work.
+
+It was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies
+of our churches, and their evident disposition to aid more
+effectively in the elevation of women, particularly the women of the
+South, called for such a department. Already the ladies of one State
+had organized the "Woman's Aid to the A. M. A.," that they might have
+their definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries, and
+inquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work.
+
+It was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be
+awakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from
+the field, and the twenty years' experience of the Association in the
+South, during which time more than 3,000 different ladies had been
+employed as missionaries and teachers, the knowledge gained of the
+peculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people,
+and the thorough organization of the different departments of labor
+in home, school, and church, prepared us to bring before the ladies
+the information necessary, and to offer most excellent opportunities
+for special work for women. The ready response to this movement
+confirms the wisdom of the step, and we trust that ere long the
+Bureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the
+churches, and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the
+field.
+
+Immediately following the organization of the Bureau, Miss Rose
+Kinney, of Oberlin, O., for many years engaged in the Southern work,
+and recently located in one of the dark corners of the field,
+McIntosh, Ga., was detailed for service in the North. She spent about
+six weeks in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, addressing ladies'
+meetings at the General Associations, and with good results. In June
+the Secretary of the Bureau was present at the State Conferences of
+Vermont and Maine, and gave information of the work in the field,
+resulting in the appointment of a State Committee of ladies in
+Vermont, to secure funds for the support of a missionary. Early in
+September Miss Anna M. Cahill, for nine years connected with Fisk
+University, Nashville, Tenn., was detailed for special service, and
+has recently attended a series of meetings in Michigan and Illinois.
+
+It is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever
+and wherever opportunity is given, through different teachers and
+missionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field.
+
+Within the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had
+special aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries,
+as follows:
+
+  Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala.,
+    and Miss Farrington at Wilmington,  N. C.                  $675.00
+  Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O.,
+    support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga.                   387.00
+  Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala.     214.46
+  Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery,
+    Ala.                                                        254.33
+  Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support
+    of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn.                        488.81
+  Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La.   406.45
+                                                             ---------
+    Total                                                    $2,426.05
+
+In this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss
+Clary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the
+Sunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.
+
+Supplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been
+recently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the
+furnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of
+students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an
+education.
+
+While, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the
+organization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already
+manifest.
+
+Since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large
+and diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its
+distinct and important work,--viz.: The New West Education
+Commission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American
+Missionary Association--no effort has been made by the American
+Missionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to
+itself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to
+co-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the
+Chinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South,
+seems apparent.
+
+To this end we urge upon the ladies, organization, as helpful to
+systematic giving, and to facilitate such movement we present a form
+of constitution for a co-operative society, that may be open to the
+call from all parts of our country. This we greatly prefer as
+avoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home
+work. Such is the pressure of claims upon us, however, through the
+needs of our field, that except as such opportunity is afforded for
+aid to the Am. Miss. Assoc., we feel that we may be constrained to
+ask for organization auxiliary to the A. M. A. exclusively--for the
+women and children of 6,000,000 of colored people of the South alone
+presents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women, which
+we must not ignore, from the responsibility of which we cannot
+escape.
+
+We are just now entering upon a new year of work. Of the 175 ladies
+appointed to the various departments of missionary labor, twelve are
+engaged for special home visitation among the people. You can see at
+a glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty.
+Although our teachers are missionaries, and accomplish much through
+the schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the
+people, yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient
+woman at every mission station, whose entire time should be given to
+special work in the homes of the people. Not only do we desire this,
+but the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of
+this kind, not instead of that which we are doing in school and
+church, but supplementary to it, as necessary in securing the results
+we seek. Already fifteen applications are before us for lady
+missionaries to work in the homes, and we wait only for the women of
+the North to furnish us the necessary funds. As fast as we receive
+pledges of support the missionaries will be sent out.
+
+May the heart of every Christian woman be quickened to new impulse
+for the development of womanhood in those in our own land, so
+degraded and helpless!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FORM OF CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.
+
+
+ART. 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Co-operative
+Missionary Society, ---- Church.
+
+ART. 2. Its object shall be to co-operate with the established
+missionary societies of the Congregational churches of America, in
+diffusing missionary intelligence, increasing interest in prayer, and
+in raising funds for missionary work in this country.
+
+ART. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a
+Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee
+of ---- members. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the
+different societies co-operating, or, if preferred, a Treasurer may
+be appointed for each.
+
+ART. 4. Contributors to this Society may designate to which branch of
+missionary work they wish their contributions applied. Undesignated
+contributions may be assigned by vote of the Executive Committee.
+
+ART. 5. Any lady may become a member of this Society by contributing
+a sum not less than one dollar annually, or ten cents monthly.
+Gentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members
+by the payment of ---- dollars.
+
+ART. 6. ---- members present at any regularly called meeting shall
+constitute a quorum for business.
+
+ART. 7. Meetings shall be held monthly, at which the Secretary shall
+give information of the work of the various societies assisted.
+Special meetings may be called by the officers and Executive
+Committee. Meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises.
+
+ART. 8. A vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular
+meeting shall be requisite for making any change in this
+constitution.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE BUREAU IN THE WEST.
+
+BY MISS ANNA M. CAHILL.
+
+
+One main object of the Woman's Bureau, as stated at the time of its
+organization, is to diffuse information among the ladies of our
+churches, as to our work in its various departments.
+
+The carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy
+among the conferences and churches of Wisconsin and Michigan.
+
+If I went to inform I went also to learn--to see how fares our cause
+in these churches. Especially I sought to learn how strong a hold the
+work of the American Missionary Association has upon the sympathy and
+effort of the Christian ladies of that section, what organized system
+of helpfulness they already have in this line, or what in their
+judgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work
+in their regular plan of missionary operations for each year.
+
+As I expected, I found the interest in our cause in various stages of
+development. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not
+even so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is
+in its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold
+of us all in any practical way. In many churches--not by any means
+always the larger ones--I found an intelligent appreciation of the
+needs and claims of the South.
+
+We have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of
+the Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community
+that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field,
+I found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my
+appeals.
+
+My introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was
+at the State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my
+arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the
+anniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that
+there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land,
+and I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special
+gathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range
+of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our
+denomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local
+organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or
+several treasurers, to any of these societies.
+
+After attending this "gathering of the tribes" it was my privilege to
+go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of
+course the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over
+the State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that
+Beloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to
+take definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special
+contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for
+several years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of
+organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly
+charity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the
+Woman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a
+prominent lady in Michigan who said to me: "I think the ladies of
+each one of these Western States ought to support one or more
+teacher-missionaries under the Association."
+
+On the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative
+of the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society,
+with whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We
+were then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale,
+where we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch
+of the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more
+than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that
+adopted in Wisconsin.
+
+Before the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able
+to visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville,
+Vermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the
+various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might
+result from this new presentation of our needs.
+
+In the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union
+in its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to
+be done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find
+stancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than
+in this conference.
+
+At this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid
+journey brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the
+Minnesota State Association--just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota
+friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's
+Home Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the
+constitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its
+borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work.
+The giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is
+required by the constitution itself.
+
+We took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there
+went to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that
+these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less
+accessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily
+limited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors,
+charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of
+their churches.
+
+Before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the
+central points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we
+went up from there to Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt
+that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose
+homes we had already been.
+
+Another tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St.
+Clair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same
+experiences as before.
+
+We came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which was to be our
+last place of labor in Michigan. The ladies of this Conference,
+though not yet organized for home work under the State society, for
+several years supported a missionary in the South, largely through
+the personal effort of one active lady, who made this special
+collection her care. With the closing of this Bureau visit to the
+ladies of Michigan the work is left in their hands--not to be
+forgotten by them, but to be developed and strengthened until there
+shall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.
+
+REV. CHARLES H. OLIPHANT.
+
+
+The Editor has asked me to give some account of the way our
+Sunday-school behaves itself at Christmas-time.
+
+There are two ideas about the Church; and as parents feel and think
+about the Church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel
+about the Sunday-school. One conception of the Church is that it is a
+kind of receptacle for pious people. When one becomes "good enough"
+he is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by
+the means of grace. It is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it
+seems to excuse laymen from any active part in Christian work, if
+only they are regular attendants upon divine service. So, many people
+come to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for
+them to do, nothing either great or small. Such members may be said
+to be found in the "passive voice."
+
+The other and better notion is that the Church is not a receptacle,
+but an engine; not a box for Christians to get into, but a "body" for
+them to operate, and through which Christ can act upon the world of
+to-day. According to this view, the minister is not the only member
+whom the Master has called into His vineyard, the ideal Church is not
+so much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers; the congregation
+comes together not simply to "hear Mr. ----," but to organize for
+work. This may be called the Church's "active voice." I cannot
+(within the verbal limits assigned me) measure the miles of distance
+which lie between these two views.
+
+The same confusion of thought prevails in the Sunday-school. We know
+how the small boy finds that Sunday-school the most attractive (and
+that teacher the "nicest") whose Christmas-tree pays the largest
+dividend.
+
+[Illustration: CHILDREN BEARING CHRISTMAS GIFTS]
+
+When I came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial
+custom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school.
+After a year or two of competition with other schools in making it
+"worth while" for children to attend our own, we "braced up" and put
+the question to vote whether we would make the Christmas festival a
+feast for ourselves or a feast for others; whether we would have our
+school at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the
+beneficiaries, or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants
+of the Master, who had no parental pocketbook to tap; no good things
+to give away. To the surprise of all the vote was unanimous against
+the old, and in favor of the new, way. There was much misgiving as to
+results. Many confidently predicted that the offerings (each class
+was invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope) would be
+microscopic. It was distinctly understood that no money--not the
+smallest sum--was asked from those who disapproved the plan. Teachers
+were urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts.
+Inquiring next for a suitable object, we were advised by the Home
+Missionary Society of a poor servant of theirs in a Western State,
+whose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven
+children. We put her to vote, and she was promptly and unanimously
+chosen. With the introduction into the plan of a personal element,
+enthusiasm began, and it became evident at once that there was to be
+sharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts. At
+length came the Christmas Eve concert, and with it a bright, full
+company of children. They never looked so happy, and every one of
+them knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion, as when,
+class by class, the offerings were handed to the Superintendent. With
+each of these a passage of Scripture was recited. It became only too
+evident, as the pile within his hand increased, that the
+prognostications of those who were sure that an old Sunday-school
+could not be taught new tricks were false. We are a small
+school--only 80 scholars--but the class offerings on this occasion
+footed up twenty-eight dollars and some cents. A letter was
+accordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife (this was the
+best part of it, for we were sure that the minister could not then,
+as ministers will, mistake the remittance for a portion of his
+salary), who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or
+articles of which she was individually in need. The letter which came
+back to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school
+clear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear. It revealed
+(among other things) the fact that this poor servant had hitherto
+made all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle. Now
+she has a sewing machine. We all think, but none more fervently than
+the children, that the memory of a few oranges, more or less--oranges
+eaten three years ago--would not compensate for the glad
+consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie
+home. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the
+"giver" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the
+continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the
+remembrance of what our pennies wrought.
+
+We have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the
+practice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now
+habitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African
+lad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means,
+such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a
+missionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and
+perhaps for two months.
+
+Let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming
+obstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which
+they belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the
+children for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings.
+Do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference
+between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by
+all means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let
+it not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian
+attitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it
+is the _giving up_ which makes us the Lord's disciples.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MAINE, $425.02.
+
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      $250.95
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Dakota M._        1.56
+  Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First
+    Parish, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                 15.00
+  Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch.                          5.00
+  Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong.
+    Ch. and Soc., 7.20                                      37.20
+  Hiram. ----, _for Selma, Ala._                             1.75
+  Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence
+    Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17                              61.17
+  Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
+    Wilmington, N. C._
+  Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       16.00
+  Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.39
+  York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.
+
+  East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch.                                   20.68
+  Dover. Mrs. A. Fairbanks, 7; Mrs. S. Foye, 5, _for
+    Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                12.00
+  Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              39.12
+  Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             15.63
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.33; Cyrus Newhall, 1      10.33
+  Keen. Geo. E. Whitney                                      5.00
+  Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., _for McIntosh,
+    Ga._                                                     2.50
+  Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     10.00
+  Marlborough. Freedmen's Aid Soc., 2 bbls. of C., val.
+    60, _for Talladega C._, 4 _for Freight_                  4.00
+  Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          29.43
+  New Ipswich. Children's 21st Annual Fair for benevolent
+    objects                                                 10.50
+  Pembroke. Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 5; Rev. D. Goodhue, 1          6.00
+  Pittsfield. Box of Goods, by Rev. G. E. Hill, _for Marion,
+    Ala._
+  Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00
+  Tilton and Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 25.00
+  Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.27
+  West Lebanon. "Children's Mission Band." Christmas Box,
+    _for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency, Neb._
+  West Lebanon. Bbl. of C., by Rev. T. C. Pease, _for
+    Marietta, Ga._
+                                                         --------
+                                                          $215.46
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Francestown. Estate of Mrs. Harriet F. Downes, By Geo.
+    E. Downes                                              500.00
+                                                         --------
+                                                          $715.46
+
+
+VERMONT, $175.05.
+
+  Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                48.13
+  Berlin. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box of C.,
+    _for Talladega C._
+  Brattleborough. H. Halsey, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            5.00
+  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta
+    U._
+  Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00
+  Randolph. Mrs. Mary K. Nichols                             3.00
+  Rupert. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                11.25
+  Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. V. M. Howard, 25; Mrs. E. D.
+    Blodgett, 25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                50.00
+  Swanton. H. Stone, wife and daughter                       5.00
+  Vershire. Luella D. Carpenter                              1.00
+  Worcester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.55
+  West Randolph. Mrs. Susan E. Albin                         6.00
+  Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      19.10
+  Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   6.02
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $2,795.19.
+
+  Abington. "A Friend," to const. NAHUM FULLERTON L.M.      50.00
+  Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              12.30
+  Amherst. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._         7.00
+  Andover, G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._     25.00
+  Andover. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     20.00
+  Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.72;
+    incorrectly ack. in December number from Vt.
+  Auburn. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. SAMUEL D. HOSMER, L.M.  47.67
+  Boylston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box of C., val. 16
+  Boston. Pilgrim Soc. of Phillips Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Boston. Mrs. D. C. Holden, Bbl. of C., _for Chattanooga,
+    Tenn._
+  Boston. "Cash"                                            10.00
+  Boxford. Cong. Ch.                                        37.87
+  Brookline. Mrs. Crafts, Books
+  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight_       2.00
+  Brockton. Porter Ch. and Soc., "A Friend," 20 (adl.)
+    to const. MRS. ALPHEUS GURNEY and EVERETT C. RANDALL
+    L.M's; Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, 5                          25.00
+  Brockton. Mrs. Baylis Sanford, Bbl. of C., 2 _for
+    Freight, for Tougaloo U._                                2.00
+  Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    101.00
+  Billerica. Ladies of O. C. Ch., Chest of C., _for
+    Atlanta U._
+  Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40,
+    to const. ANNIE M. EDSON L.M.; Central Sq. Sab. Sch.,
+    15                                                      55.00
+  Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of
+    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._, val. 34                    5.00
+  Cambridge. "A tithing"                                     5.00
+  Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, _for Lady
+    Miss'y, Chattanooga, Tenn._                             25.00
+  Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         12.67
+  Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.                                31.87
+  Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. MISS
+    ANNIE C. PIERCE L.M.                                    30.00
+  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         159.81
+  Dorchester. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., (ad'l)                 1.24
+  Duxbury. A. P. Ellison, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta U._
+  East Bridgewater. Mrs. S. D. Shaw                          3.00
+  Florence. Florence Cong. Ch.                              15.81
+  Fitchburg. Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                      160.87
+  Gilbertsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00
+  Hatfield. Cong. Ch.                                       58.00
+  Haverhill. Algernon R. Nichols, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           35.00
+  Haverhill. Sew. Soc. of No. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
+    val. 75.37, _for Tougaloo U._
+  Holliston. "Friends," 15.97; Missionary Concert, 4.03,
+    _for Student Aid_; "Friends," Shoemaker's kit, val.
+    10, Shoe-lasts and clothing, _for Talladega C._         20.00
+  Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc., 25; First Cong. Sab.
+    Sch., 15 _for Straight U., furnishing_                  40.00
+  Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.31 and Bbl. of C.     9.31
+  Lawrence. "E. F. E."                                       5.00
+  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00
+  Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   26.45
+  Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           24.75
+  Ludlow. Cong. Ch.                                         35.16
+  Malden. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     25.00
+  Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3
+    _for Freight, for Savannah, Ga._                         3.00
+  Melrose. Orthodox Ch. and Soc.                            60.77
+  Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    56.59
+  Monson. Cong. Ch. (12 of which from Mrs. H. Dewey's
+    class, _for Howard U._)                                 37.00
+  Newbury. First Parish, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+  Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.83; Prospect
+    St. Cong. Ch., 29.50                                    66.33
+  Newton. Ladies' Freedman's Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl of C.,
+    _for Macon, Ga._
+  Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._                                    100.00
+  Newton Lower Falls. "Friend," _for Student Aid,
+    Straight U._                                              .50
+  Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.75
+  North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             51.06
+  Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.14
+  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary, Topeka,
+    Kan._                                                   15.00
+  Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., 2 _for Freight,
+    for Wilmington, N. C._                                   2.00
+  Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch.                                1.44
+  Pepperell. "Friends," Bbl. of C., _for Avery Inst._
+  Pittsfield. Mrs. Hurd, Bbl. of C., 2.50 _for Freight,
+    for Talladega C._                                        2.50
+  First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from Sab. Sch.,
+    _for S. S. work_)                                      143.00
+  Rockport. Busy Bee Soc., by Sadie W. Butman, _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._                               6.00
+  Rockport, "Pastor's Class," _for Dakota M._                5.64
+  Rockport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 2 Bdls. of S. S.
+    Exercises
+  Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        7.00
+  South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        50.05
+  Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              136.60
+  Spencer. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bdl. of C.
+  Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch.                               30.00
+  Sunderland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 _for
+    Freight, for Atlanta U._                                 3.00
+  Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                49.83
+  Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                               13.54
+  Tewksbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Freight, for
+    Talladega C._                                            2.00
+  Townsend. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 22.50
+  Watertown. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Phillips Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Straight U._                          50.00
+  Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00
+  Westborough. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.                        50.00
+  Westborough. Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl. of C., 1,
+    _for Freight, for Atlanta U._                            1.00
+  West Medway. Cyrus Adams                                  10.00
+  West Newton. "A Friend," Bbl. of C.
+  Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         9.75
+  Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS.
+    HARRIET BEMIS L.M.                                      30.00
+  Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 163.26; Salem
+    St. Ch., 94; "E. C. C." 20                             277.26
+  Worcester. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   100.00
+  Worcester. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            8.66
+  Worcester. Infant Class Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Atlanta U._                                        30.00
+  Worthington. "An Aged Lady," by Rev. F. S. Huntington     10.00
+  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. C. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of
+    C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._
+  ----. "A Friend"                                          20.00
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $337.80.
+
+  Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       22.91
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Providence. Estate of Sarah P. Phillips, by T.
+    Salisbury, Adm'r                                       314.89
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,972.41.
+
+  Branford. Rev. C. P. Osborne                              10.00
+  Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch.                              14.81
+  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Sab. Sch. Work, Marion,
+    Ala._                                                   25.00
+  Coventry. First Cong. Ch.                                 41.93
+  Danbury. First Cong. Ch.                                  12.00
+  Derby. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. &
+    N. Inst._                                               10.00
+  East Hartford. South Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. E. M. Roberts,
+    5                                                       20.00
+  East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        25.00
+  Ellington. Cong. Ch.                                      26.14
+  Guilford. "A member of Third Cong. Ch." _for Student
+    Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                            2.00
+  Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch.                             84.41
+  Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., 31.43, to const. JOHN H.
+    FREEMAN L.M.; Cong. Ch., 20                             51.43
+  Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                     35.73
+  Killingly. E. F. Jencks                                    5.00
+  Lakeville. Children's Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             50.00
+  Litchfield. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00
+  Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. CATHARINE C.
+    HINSDALE, MRS. WM. HOMAN, JOSEPH U. PRATT, E. B.
+    COWLES, MARGARET LOGAN, LILLIAN B. SMITH, LUCY B.
+    GRISWOLD, SALLIE E. COLLINS, JOHN WARREN and MARSHALL
+    A. FOWLER, L.M's                                       300.00
+  Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.                                 50.00
+  Middletown. First Ch., 25.29; "A Friend," 5               30.29
+  Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          7.13
+  Millington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00
+  New Britain. South Cong. Ch.                               7.00
+  New Haven. "A Friend, in commemoration of fiftieth
+    birthday," 50; Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 10                  60.00
+  New London. Church of Christ                              49.90
+  New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen, Bbl. of C. and Chest of
+  Books, _for Talladega C._
+  Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS MARY
+    McCALL L.M.                                             51.02
+  Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                  75.41
+  Norwich. Rev. W. S. Palmer                                 5.00
+  Norwich Town. Charles B. Baldwin                          10.00
+  Putnam. "Missionary Workers" of Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      25.00
+  Stamford. First Cong. Ch.                                 44.69
+  South Coventry. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     98.00
+  Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      30.50
+  Thompsonville. First Presb. Sab. Sch., _for Straight U.,
+    Library_                                                 6.61
+  West Avon. "A Friend"                                     10.00
+  West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.91
+  West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                   5.50
+  Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for Tillotson C. &
+    N. Inst., Land_                                         50.00
+  Westport. Amasa Warren                                     5.00
+  Winchester. Cong. Ch.                                      8.02
+  Vernon Centre. Cong. Ch.                                  31.98
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,472.41
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Laura F. Stanley, by
+    Oliver Stanley, Ex.                                    500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,972.41
+
+
+NEW YORK, $891.01.
+
+  Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark                            5.00
+  Albany. Chas. A. Beach                                    25.00
+  Brooklyn. "A Friend"                                       2.00
+  Brooklyn. Estate of Chas. Wilbur, pkg. Bibles
+  Camden. Cong. Ch. & Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._         28.00
+  Clinton. Miss Cynthia Chipman, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                      5.00
+  Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.                              5.00
+  Durham. "A Friend"                                         3.00
+  Ellington. George Waith                                    1.00
+  Fairport. First Cong. Ch.                                 79.11
+  Fredonia. Sab. Sch. of Pres. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (100 of which from A. Judson)    127.00
+  Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                20.00
+  Homer. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega
+    C._
+  Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Lady Miss'y,
+    Topeka, Kansas_                                         10.00
+  Liverpool. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._          1.00
+  Malone. First Cong. Ch.                                   32.20
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         22.60
+  Morristown. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00
+  Munnsville. N. S. Hall, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.,
+    Reading Room_                                            5.00
+  New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 81.50, _for Talladega C._
+    and bal. to const. DR. JOSEPH F. LAND, EDMUND L.
+    CHAMPLIN and MRS. LOUISE S. AYRES L.M's; Gen. Clinton
+    B. Fisk, 30, to const. MISS FANNY GLEASON L.M.; "A
+    Friend," 1; Harper & Brothers, 200 vols. School Books,
+    val. 100                                                112.50
+  New York. D. J. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._         50.00
+  New Haven. "A Friend," to const. REV. FRANK N. GREELEY
+    and MRS. ANNA C. GREELEY L.M's                           60.00
+  Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard                               150.00
+  Portland. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   8.60
+  West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle                                 2.00
+  West Durham. Diantha Scoville                              10.00
+  Warsaw. Mrs. H. L. Booth, Pkg. of Papers
+  Waterville. Mrs. J. S. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                  5.00
+  Whitestown. S. Hoxie, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._      10.00
+  ----. "Yale 59," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           50.00
+  ----. "A Friend," Blacksmith and Shoemakers' tools,
+    val. 80.00, _for Talladega C._
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $281.00.
+
+  Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts                              40.00
+  Elizabeth. Mrs. Hannah W. Page                             1.00
+  Jersey City. Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Indian Girl,
+    Santee Agency_                                          25.00
+  Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Hampton A. & N. Inst._                                  35.00
+  Paterson. P. Van Houten                                    5.00
+  Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (10.50 of
+    which _for Dakota M._)                                 175.00
+  Raritan. Box of Papers
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $35.00.
+
+  Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson                             15.00
+  Meadville. Miss Eliza Dickson                             15.00
+  North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner                             5.00
+
+
+OHIO, $472.61.
+
+  Alliance. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch.                            5.00
+  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         7.25
+  Bellevue. Cong. Ch., Collection 10.35, S. W. Boise 25.,
+    to const. REV. W. G. ROBERTS L.M.                       35.35
+  Berea. Mrs. Fred Smedley, _for Lexington, Ky._             3.75
+  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.                                24.29
+  Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._                                           25.00
+  Cleveland. White Sew. Machine Co., Sewing Machine, _for
+    Straight U._
+  Farmer. E. M. Ensign                                      10.00
+  Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury, "in memory of her daughter
+    Madelin," to const. MISS EMMA A. JOHNSON L.M.           30.00
+  Huron. Theodore Alvord                                     1.50
+  Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                43.16
+  Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._        5.00
+  New Lyme. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Straight U.,
+    Library_                                                 7.60
+  North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, _for Theo. Dept.,
+    Talladega C._                                          100.00
+  Oberlin. "A Friend"                                       10.00
+  Peru. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._          63.75
+  Ruggles. First Cong. Ch.                                   6.23
+  Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton                                    1.50
+  Strongsville. E. Lyman, bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A.
+    AVERY L.M.                                              10.00
+  Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                                 5.00
+  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   17.46
+  Wellington. First Cong. Ch.                               59.27
+  York. Cong. Ch. (ad'l)                                     1.50
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $663.80.
+
+  Cable. Maria B. Holyoke                                    2.00
+  Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney                           10.00
+  Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 40.53; Ladies' Miss'y Soc.
+    of New Eng. Cong. Ch., 9.10                             49.63
+  Dover. Cong. Ch.                                          25.31
+  Dover. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y, Mobile,
+    Ala._                                                   10.00
+  Englewood. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00
+  Evanston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 11.00
+  Farmington. Phineas Chapman                               50.00
+  Freeport. L. L. Farwell, _for Talladega C._               10.00
+  Galesburg. Infant Class First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   17.50
+  Galesburg. C. S. Halsey, case of medicines, _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Hampton. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00
+  Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                   49.30
+  Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y Mobile,
+    Ala._                                                   25.00
+  Moline. First Cong. Ch.                                   55.39
+  Naperville. Cong. Ch.                                     17.40
+  Ottawa. First Cong. Ch.                                   41.00
+  Onarga. "Gentleman"                                         .50
+  Providence. Cong. Ch.                                     11.00
+  Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       90.00
+  Rochelle. "A Friend," _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.,
+    Reading Room_                                           50.00
+  Sheffield. Etta M. Kingburn                                3.27
+  Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, 5; Bryce Crawford, 5; D. P.
+    Barker, 2; P. B. Gault, 1; J. Hood, 1; S. Alexander,
+    1; J. Alexander, 1; R. H. Rosborough, 1; L. Fulton,
+    50c                                                     17.50
+  Sycamore. I. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       104.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $387.14.
+
+  Alamo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc.                                 5.00
+  Allegan. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            50.85
+  Adrian. C. C. Spooner                                      5.00
+  Baldwin. Rev. S. B. Demarest                               2.00
+  Church's Corners. Cong. Ch., 13.40, and Sab. Sch.,
+    12.60; J. F. Douglass, 4; A. W. Douglass, 2; James
+    Robbins, 2                                              34.00
+  Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                      9.60
+  East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                34.00
+  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstack_                                              30.00
+  Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
+    U._                                                     25.00
+  Halloway. James Vincent                                   10.00
+  Hudson. Young People's Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                25.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mrs. Henry Montague, 5; Mr. Reimer, 3, _for
+    Student Aid, Fisk U._                                    8.00
+  Lansing. Plymouth Ch.                                     21.74
+  Litchfield. Cong. Ch., 11.60; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 11.20  22.80
+  Olivet. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.63
+  Salem. First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._                     10.00
+  Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    42.37
+  Three Oaks. Cong. Ch.                                     35.65
+  Union City. J. R. Blake                                    5.00
+  Vienna. Cong. Ch.                                          4.50
+
+
+IOWA, $208.46.
+
+  Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers                                      2.00
+  Anamosa. Ladies Freedmen's Soc., Clothing, _for Straight
+    U._
+  Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New
+    Orleans, La._                                            4.00
+  Chester Center. First Cong. Ch.                           40.00
+  Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._             50.55
+  Decorah. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 40, _for Straight
+    U._
+  Des Moines. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls of C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                         11.71
+  Grinnell. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00
+  McGregor. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Cong. Ch.         17.00
+  McGregor. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La._  18.00
+  Montour. Cong. Ch.                                        32.60
+  Onawa. Cong. Ch.                                          12.60
+  Staceyville. Miss P. D. Shattuck, bedding _for Straight
+    U._
+  ----. "Hawkeye," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._           4.00
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $163.69.
+
+  Burlington. Plymouth Ch.                                  15.00
+  Cooksville. Edward Gilley                                  5.00
+  Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch.                                  13.50
+  Janesville. Cong. Ch.                                     10.32
+  Kan Kanna. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00
+  La Crosse. Mission Sch.                                   15.00
+  Milton. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.87
+  Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00
+  Platteville. Cong. Ch.                                    35.00
+  Shopiere. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._        8.00
+  Whitewater. Winchester & Partridge Mfg. Co., Corn and
+    Feed Mill, val. 40, _for Tougaloo U._
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $62.69.
+
+  Detroit. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.00
+  Glyndon. Union Ch.                                         8.17
+  Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 30.46
+  Rochester. First Cong. Ch.                                21.06
+
+
+KANSAS, $9.70.
+
+  Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                               9.70
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $107.25.
+
+  Nebraska City. Cong. Ch.                                   7.25
+  York. Dr. Benjamin Bissell                               100.00
+
+
+ARKANSAS, $6.00.
+
+  Little Rock. Tuition                                       6.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $20.00.
+
+  Arcata. "A Friend"                                        20.00
+
+
+MARYLAND, $129.22.
+
+  Baltimore. First Cong. Ch.                               129.22
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $122.75.
+
+  Lexington. Tuition                                        87.50
+  Newport. F. W. C. Crane                                    5.00
+  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     30.25
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $2,195.53.
+
+  Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition. 886.93; Rent, 75            961.93
+  Knoxville. Cong. Ch.                                      12.00
+  Memphis. Friends _for Le Moyne Sch., Enlargement of
+    Building_                                            1,000.00
+  Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          221.60
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $232.10.
+
+  Raleigh. "Friends," 2; Miss E. P. Hayes, 6 (of which 1
+    _for Freight_) _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._             8.00
+  Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 219.10; Cong. Ch., 5   224.10
+
+
+GEORGIA, $450.05.
+
+  Atlanta. Storrs' Sch., Tuition, 244.05; Rent, 3; First
+    Cong. Ch., 30                                          277.05
+  Macon. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00
+  Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 142, Rent, 10; Cong.
+    Ch., 10                                                162.00
+  Woodville. "A Friend"                                      1.00
+
+
+ALABAMA, $458.15.
+
+  Athens. Tuition, 63.90, "Student Aid," 20                 83.90
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00
+  Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 295.85; Cong. Ch., 1.20  297.05
+  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     20.00
+  Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 37.20; Cong. Ch., 10    47.20
+
+
+LOUISIANA, $207.00.
+
+  New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        207.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $1.00.
+
+  Jackson. Cong. Ch.                                         1.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $251.00.
+
+  Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 251.00
+
+
+----, $25.00.
+
+  Port Arthur. Rev. H. H. Robins, _for Talladega C._        25.00
+
+
+INCOMES, $933.03.
+
+  Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               575.00
+  C. F. Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._                    125.00
+  De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._     37.50
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                        85.53
+  Income Fund, _for Straight U._                            20.00
+  Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                       50.00
+  Luke Mem. Sch. Fund, _for Talladega C._                   10.80
+  N. M. and A. Stone Fund, _For Talladega C._               25.00
+  Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._                      4.20
+                                                      -----------
+
+    Total for November                                 $14,734.11
+
+    Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th                    29,977.09
+                                                      ===========
+
+
+FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30                    76.07
+                                                      ===========
+
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
+  56 Reade Street, New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+TO INVESTORS.
+
+$925 and accrued interest will buy a $1,000 6 per cent. gold coupon
+bond of the
+
+  EAST and WEST R. R. CO. OF ALABAMA
+
+This is a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first
+mortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always
+paid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This
+bond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a
+safe investment. For sale by the
+
+  EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA., 502 B'way, or
+  AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST CO., 113 B'way, N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONSTITUTION.
+
+
+ART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary
+Association.
+
+ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian
+missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the
+Holy Scriptures in our own country and other countries which are
+destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.
+
+ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members
+of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into
+its treasury, with the written declaration at the time or times of
+payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated
+person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days
+after the payment shall have been completed. Other persons, by the
+payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the
+privilege of voting.
+
+Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the
+funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of
+such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the
+Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be
+members of the Association for the year for which they were thus
+appointed.
+
+ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the
+month of October or November, at such time and place as may be
+designated by the Association, or, in case of its failure to act, by
+the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official
+publication of the Association for the preceding month.
+
+ART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five
+Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a
+Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive
+Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.
+
+At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution,
+five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term
+of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each
+subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full
+term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill
+vacancies.
+
+ART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and
+disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and
+dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of
+missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in
+office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any
+Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate
+powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries
+and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in
+general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the
+Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.
+The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the
+Annual Meeting.
+
+Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting
+business.
+
+ART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who
+is not a member of some evangelical church.
+
+ART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint
+and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the
+Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
+
+ART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by
+the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting
+and voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a
+majority at the previous Annual Meeting.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
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+
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+
+Address,
+
+  JAMES VICK,
+  Rochester, N. Y.
+
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+
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+
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+
+_Mr. C. N. Crittenton:_
+
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+
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+
+
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+
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