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diff --git a/43870-0.txt b/43870-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..356a08c --- /dev/null +++ b/43870-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2855 @@ +*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 43870 *** + +The American Missionary, + +NOVEMBER, 1885. + +VOL. XXXIX + +NO. 11. + + * * * * * + +CONTENTS + + * * * * * + +EDITORIAL. + + + PAGE. + + THE FIGURES--FINANCIAL 297 + WHAT OUR FRIENDS THINK AND SAY 298 + DEATH OF PRESIDENT WARE 300 + IYAKAPTAPI 301 + INDIANS IN THE DAKOTA ASSOCIATION 303 + +THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. + + GENERAL SURVEY--CHURCH WORK SOUTH 304 + EDUCATIONAL WORK SOUTH 306 + INDUSTRIAL TRAINING 309 + MOUNTAIN WORK 310 + WORK AMONG THE INDIANS 311 + WORK AMONG THE CHINESE 313 + THE WOMAN'S BUREAU--FINANCES 315 + CONCLUSION 316 + +RECEIPTS 317 + + * * * * * + +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. + + * * * * * + +AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + + * * * * * + +PRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Mass. + + +_Vice-Presidents._ + + Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo. + Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D. D., N. Y. + Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill. + Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D. D., Mass. + Rev. D. O. MEARS, D. D., Mass. + + +_Corresponding Secretary._ + + Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ + + +_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._ + + Rev. JAMES POWELL, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ + + +_Treasurer._ + + H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ + + +_Auditors._ + + W. H. ROGERS, + PETER McCARTEE. + + +_Executive Committee._ + + JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman. + A. P. FOSTER, Secretary. + + _For Three Years._ + + LYMAN ABBOTT. + A. S. BARNES. + J. R. DANFORTH. + CLINTON B. FISK. + A. P. FOSTER. + + _For Two Years._ + + S. B. HALLIDAY. + SAMUEL HOLMES. + SAMUEL S. MARPLES. + CHARLES L. MEAD. + ELBERT B. MONROE. + + _For One Year._ + + J. E. RANKIN. + WM. H. WARD. + J. L. WITHROW. + JOHN H. WASHBURN. + EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN. + + +_District Secretaries._ + + Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D. D., _21 Cong'l House, Boston_. + Rev. J. E. ROY, D. D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago_. + Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON, _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions_. + Rev. C. J. RYDER, _Field Superintendent_. + + +_Bureau of Woman's Work._ + + Secretary, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade St., N. Y._ + + * * * * * + +COMMUNICATIONS + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields, to +Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries: letters for +the "AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the Editor, 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. + + * * * * * + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + +VOL. XXXIX. NOVEMBER, 1885. NO. 11. + + * * * * * + +American Missionary Association. + + * * * * * + +$365,000 + +NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR. + + * * * * * + +Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a day +are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized plans of +the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the pressing +needs of the early future-- + +[FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.] + + * * * * * + +THE FIGURES. + + Donations. Legacies. + + Oct. 1, 1884, to Sept. 30, 1885 $249,392.10 $41,501.66 $290,894.06 + Oct. 1, 1883, to Sept. 30, 1884 223,034.77 64,559.42 287,594.19 + ---------- ---------- ---------- + Inc.$26,357.63 Dec.$23,057.76 Inc.$3,299.87 + +The figures given above mark the close of our fiscal year. While they +show a gratifying increase of receipts from living donors over those of +the preceding year, the falling off in legacies has been so heavy that +our books balance on the wrong side, and we are obliged to report a debt +of $15,451.87, which, with the debt of the preceding year, makes a total +indebtedness of $29,237.73. + +For an analysis of the figures, we refer our readers to the report of +the Executive Committee on the finances of the year, published in +another part of this number. It was a grand rally our friends made to +save us. We fear that some of them sacrificed more than they ought in +contributing so generously as they did. We pray that God may abundantly +reward them. We thank them, one and all, with a heartiness greater than +we can express. We would not sit in judgment upon the churches and +professed friends who have contributed nothing to our treasury during +the year. We know that some of them were not financially able. But we +cannot believe that this was true of a majority of them. + +The Congregational Year Book of 1885 reports 4,092 Congregational +churches in the United States. We received during the year contributions +from 1,677. What can be done to bring the non-contributing churches into +line is a question we beg the pastors of contributing churches and the +friends of the Association to help us answer. The pastors and members of +these non-contributing churches as a general thing do not read our +magazine. They are ignorant of our needs, and we do not know how to +reach them so as to wake them up. Had we an army of agents to visit and +talk to them, we might move them to take our work upon their thought and +sympathy. Our appeals by circular, by newspaper, resolutions of State +conferences and of the National Council, all fail to move them. They +still continue not to hear and not to do. There is only one way that we +can think of by which they can be reached, and that is for the local +conferences to take the matter in hand, and select a committee of "a +persistent ONE," who by letter, and, if need be, by personal visitation, +will bring the delinquents up to meet the obligations of fellowship and +denominational honor. + +But as seen over against this long list of _do-nothings_ what a grand +army the 1,677 contributing churches appear! Theirs has been the work +and theirs is the glory of "_a well done_" both from God and man. They +form a base of supplies from which the army at the front can be +recruited and sustained, and which can be counted on for support till +the victory is won. We enter upon the new year with fresh confidence and +renewed strength. No such word as "_fail_" finds place in our vocabulary +so long as we have such friends behind us and God above and around us. +The work will not be permitted to suffer. We shall throw off the debt. +The faithful 1,677 will be reinforced. Our friends will be multiplied, +and the work carried triumphantly forward. + + * * * * * + +WHAT OUR FRIENDS THINK AND SAY. + +EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS RECEIVED BY THE TREASURER DURING THE PAST FEW +WEEKS. + + +"If any part of the country is to be put first, the South should be, and +helped most. Hence the inclosed, half of it from myself and the other +half from the Congregational church here. Your work and that of your +compeers is above criticism. All there is of you is put in with a skill +and completeness which are not surpassed; and your plans are as large as +the field and as complete as its needs. No one could get more out of the +money or put it where it would do more good. You and yours are as +unmingled beneficence as rum shops are unmitigated maleficence. Were it +in my power, I would build a new school-house in the South every year. +My heart never thinks of you and your work without blessing you in it; +and I have written the above as a sort of relief." (We hardly feel +ourselves worthy of such generous praise, but we do very heartily thank +our brother for his warm indorsement.--ED.) + +"Inclosed find a small sum to help elevate and Christianize the colored +freedmen. Grains of sand make the mountains, and drops of water the +ocean, and the invisible workmen rear the coral islands; so may God's +people one and all _do what they can_, and your debt will be wiped out." + +"At our meeting last evening, I read your appeal and took up a +collection of $6, which I send you. It is a little Home Missionary +church of only 10 members, but they are good ones, and in earnest. Hope +all other churches will do as well and your society be saved from debt." + +"Got your final appeal before last Sunday, but were so happy to think we +had not waited for it, having taken our collection and subscription two +weeks before. But owing to the general poverty among my people, we had +to give time, and the sum is only now made up. I may say that this +little amount at this time represents more real _giving_ than any +collection I ever secured. May a blessing go with it." + +"I feel myself, like Paul, a debtor to all men, especially the classes +you represent. Accept, then, my single mite, in the spirit in which I +desire to send it, and may the Lord free you from the threatening debt +by leading your constituency to feel their indebtedness to these classes +and to Himself." + +"I inclose $10, and wish I might increase it a hundred-fold. I had +already given all that I intended, but could not resist the urgent +appeal for the needy." + +"The notices of your financial need came and touched a responsive chord +in my heart. A week ago I gave a preparatory notice that a collection +would be taken yesterday in your behalf. The people responded quite +liberally. Inclosed find draft for the amount. You have my earnest +prayer for the success of your effort to raise what you lack. May God +bless you in your work and labor of love." (It was indeed a generous +contribution, yet nearly one-third of it came out of the pastor.--ED.) + +"I had thought I had done all I could afford in these times, but +coincident with your appeal came the inclosed, for which I had another +place; but here, take it. The Lord will provide." + +"In response to your society's importunity, I inclose $2. I took the +collection up after a sermon I preached on Foreign Missions. We +surprised our people by the amount, as we don't usually get by a +collection one dollar. I hope you will realize soon that there is no +debt." (We have always believed that one of the best ways to rouse +people up to Home Missions is to stir them up on Foreign Missions.--ED.) + + * * * * * + +DEATH OF PRESIDENT WARE. + + +Edmund A. Ware was born in North Wrentham, now Norfolk, Mass., Dec. 22, +1837, and died suddenly of heart disease in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 25, +1885. He passed the early years of his life under conditions which made +him acquainted with hardships, and fitted him to have warm sympathy for +those who struggled against obstacles and trials. + +He was graduated from Yale College in 1863. During his college course +his attention was often turned to the field for Christian work, then +being opened in the South by the steady advance of our armies, and his +sympathies were strongly enlisted for a race just coming out of the +prison house of bondage, and he was ambitious to have a part in laying +the foundations of a new and better society in the regions desolated by +war. + +He was appointed an officer of the Freedman's Bureau in 1867, with +charge of the schools opened under its auspices in the State of Georgia, +which position he held for three years, until the closing of that branch +of the work of the government. + +His great work, however, was in connection with Atlanta University, an +institution for higher education, whose foundation he was active in +securing, and over whose interests he presided until the day of his +death. He labored for its welfare and that of the people in whose +interests it was established with rare devotion, and rejoiced in its +steady growth and prosperity with special personal gratification. + +Owing to some peculiar circumstances the institution early secured the +favorable attention of the State authorities, and an annual +appropriation from the State treasury. In the endeavors to secure and +confirm this grant he was conspicuously and honorably active, and during +the many years of its continuance his relations to the officers of the +State with whom he has thus been brought into contact have been +exceptionally pleasant, and in some cases cordial. + +During the last year of his life he took great interest in the +successful opening of an industrial department in the institution, and +for the last few weeks his great anxiety had been to secure the +furnishing of a large new building whose erection he had personally +overlooked. He had returned to Atlanta in advance of his family to make +preparations for the school year soon to open, had completed most of his +plans, and seemed in unusual good health and spirits. Soon after dinner +on Friday, Sept. 25, feeling dizzy while in his own house, where he was +alone, he sought the open air and walked toward the house of Professor +Bumstead, but becoming alarmed by increasing faintness he made loud +calls, which were promptly responded to by Mr. and Mrs. Bumstead; but in +spite of all remedies and efforts he speedily passed away to enter upon +his well-earned rest and his glorious reward. The crushing effects of +this sudden blow upon his household, upon his associates and the people +who loved and revered him, cannot be described. At his funeral services +all classes of the community were largely represented, and sympathy for +the bereaved was profound. The grief of former pupils was touching, and +was like that of children bereft of a father. + +So passed away in the maturity of his powers and the midst of his +usefulness, one of the earliest and most efficient of that great company +who have toiled since the war in this broad and needy field. His +departure seems like a translation; being taken suddenly without the +pains and anxieties of wasting sickness, in the full tide of his +greatest success, before any impairment of vigor or any calamity had +overtaken the work he loved so well. He was a man of great power over +other men, especially over young people, who were caught up by his +enthusiasm, and borne along sometimes to the attainment of surprising +results. He was well fitted to be a leader in the sphere he chose for +himself, and made his mark upon his generation, and had a large and +honorable share in securing the results already achieved, which are to +bless the State and nation with increasing power. + +A good man has fallen, and a great gap is made in the ranks of laborers +at the front; but the Lord who loves his own cause better than we do +will see that it suffers no loss. As the Lord has taken care that his +servant rests from his labors, it is ours to see that they follow Him. + + * * * * * + +IYAKAPTAPI. + + +That is, the _ascent_ from the plains of the head-waters of the +Minnesota River to the Coteau du Prairie, or high table-land to the +west. The old trail up-hill here gave the name _Ascension_ to the place. +There the tribes--Dakota tribes--met together for their annual autumn +feast--the missionary conference on the 24th of September. On the +Sabbath the little church was too small, and 400 Indians, with a +sprinkling of white people, sat outside in the sun, some on benches, and +most on the grass, around the Communion table. The tents of those who +had come in from long distances were pitched on either side in the +ravines, among the fall foliage, and the wide brown plain, with a long +gleam of shining lake far off, lay below. As we took the bread and hid +our faces in our hands, we thought of that distribution by Galilee, when +they sat in companies on the grassy slope by the lake. It was not "the +touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still," but +the real presence of Him who said "I am the bread of life," to these +400 Christian Indians whom He had brought up from the low, dead level of +barbarism to the present heights of Christian life. + +One little dark baby in a white dress was baptized, and four young +people publicly confessed their faith in a newly-found Saviour. + +Solomon, "His Own Grandfather," who has gathered a church of the Dakota +refugees from the Minnesota troubles of 1862, over in Manitoba, spoke to +us of the spiritual nature of God's kingdom; and Ehnamani, who years ago +laid down his warrior weapons, administered the bread, telling us of the +tribulation and fire through which Christ went to become bread for our +life. Then the "beloved John," our brother missionary who threw his +young strength into the Dakota work at its darkest hour twenty-five +years ago, could hardly control the emotion with which he spoke of the +trials out of which the Dakotas had been brought to this present joy and +strength through "His stripes." + +It has been a long _ascent_ for fifty years, but now fourteen churches, +with a thousand members; eleven young men's Christian associations; a +native missionary society, receiving contributions amounting this year +to $1,165, much of it the fruit of hard labor by Dakota women, with the +needle and at the wash-tub; a Christian community with its own native +justices of the peace, rigidly enforcing temperance and marital law, +and, according to the testimony of the United States agent on the +ground, more careful of religious observances than white communities, +and no less exemplary in morals; thousands of acres of cultivated land; +these are some of the outward signs of the inner life of God in the +heart. + +Add to this the 1,000 or more converts gathered in later years and +claimed by Episcopalians and Roman Catholics; add the long roll of those +who have ascended to their Lord; add the white people who have been +saved and inspired by the example of their Dakota brethren, and compute +if you can the spiritual fruit of the Dakota Indian Mission. + +Then think of this result wrought out, in the midst of what is fast +becoming one of the most influential communities of our land. Christian +churches by hundreds, Christian colleges and Christian homes, all built +on this early Indian work as a foundation. Then, as we rejoice in the +present interest in work for Indians, remember the obloquy and +opposition of the past through which the early workers struggled. + +To appreciate this ascent, one should come up from Western Indian +barbarism, and not down from Eastern culture. + +Leave the nightly drumming and dancing and revelry, the daily offering +to heathen gods, the daily wailing and cutting of the flesh at the +scaffold of sepulture, and one will acknowledge that God alone has +wrought this change. + +Before the regular sessions of the conference a "theological institute" +occupied two days. This was attended by some thirty pastors and leading +members of the churches. There were lectures on Bible history, on +family relations, on preaching and pastoral work. Then the general +meeting opened with a hymn written for the occasion by the organist, a +young Indian, and the singing was led by native young men. The topics at +the conference were such as the education of children, the missionary +cause; and the one that seemed to call out most discussion was, "How to +secure the spiritual growth of the Church." The young men showed great +interest in their Christian associations, and voted to affiliate with +their kindred in the white communities, of whom they heard through the +Rev. Mr. Williams, who represented the Christian association of the +young men of Minneapolis. The Indian women, too, had their missionary +meeting, and show the same traits and give evidence of the same activity +and zeal that make their white sisters the main strength of the +Christian Church. + +So we bid all take heart, and go on upward--iyakaptapi. C. L. HALL. + + * * * * * + +INDIANS IN THE DAKOTA ASSOCIATION. + + +This is an ecclesiastical body of a hundred churches that has the +opportunity to show the unity of the spirit in race fellowship. Besides +the local German Association, one of the five belonging to it, the +Indian Mission churches and pastors of the Santee Agency and of Fort +Sully, with their superintendents, Revs. Alfred L. and Thomas M. Riggs, +are among the members. At the recent annual meeting, held at Huron, +September 17th to 20th, there were present the Riggs brothers, three +lady missionaries, and two female and four male Indians. The service of +Rev. A. L. Riggs, as moderator, was justly commended for its urbanity +and promptness. At the meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society, held +with the mixed assembly, the two Indian women, Estelle Ward and Ellen +Spotted Bear, were brought forward, in their usual white woman's garb, +to make talks, which were interpreted by Mrs. T. M. Riggs. During some +discussion upon Indian work, the Riggs brothers supplemented their +remarks by addresses from Frank Frazier and Stephen Yellow Hawk, a +deacon and a pastor. At the Communion, on the Lord's Day, this deacon +was associated with three white men in distributing the elements. At the +final meeting, on Sunday night, with a crowded house, between the +addresses of Rev. Drs. Jos. B. Clark and Jos. E. Roy were sandwiched two +hymns, sung by the natives and their teachers, and also an address by +the dignified pastor at the Santee Agency, Rev. Artemas Ehnamani, +interpreted by Rev. A. L. Riggs. This, and the talks of the other +Indians, reported their former condition as heathen and their coming to +the light through their missionaries. Particularly touching was the +allusion of Pastor Ehnamani to the sainted men, Drs. Williamson and +Riggs. All showed the one spirit, that of the common Redeemer. + + * * * * * + +THE LAKE MOHONK CONFERENCE. + + +On the 6th, 7th and 8th of October the third annual meeting of the Lake +Mohonk Conference was held. Hon. Albert K. Smiley and Mrs. Smiley, as +usual, extended the hospitality of their magnificent mountain retreat to +the friends of the Indian. The sessions of the conference were of great +interest. Eminent men and women read historical and suggestive papers, +and ably discussed the great questions of the Indian problem. The +conference, after much earnest debate, were unanimous in recommending +such legislation by Congress as will give allotments of land in +severalty to the Indians--the sale of lands not required for occupancy, +and funding of proceeds therefor for their benefit--the early +discontinuance of rations and annuities, increased educational +facilities, including industrial and especially agricultural, and the +dispersion and diffusion of the Indians among the other people of the +country, with all the rights and immunities of other citizens. + + * * * * * + +THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. + + * * * * * + +GENERAL SURVEY. + + +This Association by its chartered rights is authorized to go anywhere +that it finds people destitute of Gospel privileges. Limitation of means +and coöperation with other societies may compel it to a narrower sphere +than the demands call for; but this is the principle that underlies the +Association's organization, and that has characterized all its historic +development. The work is at present confined to this country. We have +missions in sixteen States and three Territories. The combined +population of these States and Territories is 17,459,610, and at least +one-third of that number are the legitimate objects of this +Association's care. By reason of the necessities of the people our work +is both evangelistic and educational: the church and the school in their +united aim securing the salvation of body, mind and soul; reaching home +life, social life and business life; laying the only foundation on which +can rest a progressive and enduring civilization. These mighty forces of +Christianity--mother and daughter--in mutual helpfulness and in close +proximity, are the agencies through which, with God's blessing, we hope +to reach and save the people. + + * * * * * + +CHURCH WORK SOUTH. + + +STATISTICS. + + Churches 112 + Missionaries, of which 89 are pastors 119 + Members 6,881 + Added during the year 1,127 + Sunday School scholars 10,569 + + +In this department of our work we are permitted to report very decided +growth. Heretofore, the average number of churches organized each year +has been six. This year the number runs up to seventeen. This increase +comes from the maturing of enterprises that have been nursed for a +longer or shorter time, and also the fruiting of our school process and +the enlarging of our mountain work. These new churches are at Pleasant +View and Rockhold, Ky.; at Cedar Cliff, Melville and Johnson's, N. C.; +at Jellico, Pleasant Hill, Robbins, Jonesboro, Grand View and Helenwood, +Tenn.; at Rutland, Ga.; Ironton, Ala.; Greenville, Miss.; Abbeville, +La.; and at Dallas and Austin, Tex. They have all been supplied with the +ministry of the word, though several have been yoked two and two under +one pastor. Eight of them have houses of worship, the others use +school-houses or chapels of school buildings. + +Of the 89 pastors who have ministered to our 112 churches, 30 were from +the North and 59 were raised up in our own institutions at the South. +The average membership of these churches is 61. Total additions for the +year, 1,127, of which, on confession of faith, 883. Raised for church +purposes, $12,394.78; for benevolence, $1,625.86. + +The evangelist, Rev. J. C. Fields, accompanied by his wife, who aids him +by song, has continued his service through the year. He has labored at +Louisville; in our three churches at Nashville; at Meridian, Jackson and +Greenville, Miss.; and at Athens, Tecumseh, Montgomery, Marion, Selma, +Talladega, Birmingham, Ironton and Shelby Iron Works, Ala. As a result, +between seven and eight hundred souls were hopefully led to Christ, and +about one half of them gathered into our churches; while other +denominations shared in the precious harvest. At several of the places +visited, the religious interest assumed marvelous power. + +At Marion there were 55 who professed Christ, the work spreading from +our church into the State Normal school located there. Two-thirds of the +converts were young men, ranging from fifteen to twenty years of age, +who gave themselves earnestly to prayer and labor for the conversion of +their comrades. A little girl, eight years old, was the first of a +family to accept Christ. Her mother followed. The father, a drunkard, +through the persuasion of friends, visited the church for the first +time. When opportunity was given those desiring salvation to express +their desire, the little child crossed over to where her father was, and +begged him to come. He did not that evening, but a few nights later he +yielded and gave his heart to the Saviour. It is a custom among the +colored people to give the hand of welcome to those who have made up +their minds to become Christians; and we can well believe, as an +eye-witness describes, "it was a beautiful as well as a touching scene +when this little girl stepped forward to welcome father and mother on +the Lord's side." + +At Talladega College there were 116 conversions, including every inmate +of the ladies' hall, and, with a single exception, every boy in the +Stone Hall. The meetings, as distinctively revival, had to come to a +close for lack of material upon which to work, and take the form of +praise and thanksgiving unto God for the marvelous display of His grace. +It was a literal fulfillment of the Divine promise to "pour out a +blessing that there should not be room enough to receive it." + +At Selma there were 300 who confessed their Saviour. Gray-haired men, +grandmothers, men and women in the prime of life, youth and children, +were among the converts. "The most glorious work of grace," writes +Pastor Curtis, "it has ever been my privilege to see." + +Revivals have also been enjoyed in the Central Church and Straight +University, New Orleans; in the Tougaloo University, where nearly all +the students were led to Christ; at New Iberia, La., where, under the +labors of the pastor, fifty-nine were brought into church fellowship; +in the First and University churches, Atlanta, and at several other +places. It has been a year of marked religious interest and progress +nearly all over the field. + + * * * * * + +EDUCATIONAL WORK SOUTH. + + +STATISTICS. + + Chartered Institutions 6 + Normal and Graded Schools 14 + Common Schools 36 + Instructors 250 + Pupils 8,823 + + Classifying the students, we have: Theological, 96; Law, 67; + College, 52; College Preparatory, 113; Normal, 814; Grammar, + Intermediate and Primary, 7,681. + + +The resignation during the year of Professor Salisbury, Superintendent +of our school work, and the transfer to Chicago of Dr. Roy, +Superintendent of our church work at the South, raised the question +whether, in view of the system to which these brethren had reduced the +work of their respective fields, the two departments might not be +consolidated and their care assigned to one man. With much hesitation it +was decided to try the experiment. Rev. C. J. Ryder, of Medina, O., has +been selected to take the new position, and has entered upon its duties. +His headquarters will be at Cincinnati, from which point, by reason of +its central location and excellent railroad facilities, the whole field +will be easily accessible. We regretfully part with Professor Salisbury. +The three years of his service have been very valuable to our work, and +it is largely because of this service we are permitted to report that +our schools were never before so well organized nor so efficient as now. + +The exhibit of our schools in the World's Exposition at New Orleans +attracted much attention from visitors. The New Orleans papers spoke of +it in very complimentary terms. Descriptions of it were written and +widely published in the newspapers all over the country. President +Hitchcock, of Straight University, Rev. S. E. Lathrop and several of our +colored students, took charge successively of the exhibit, and were on +hand to answer questions regarding the American Missionary Association, +its schools and its work. A large number of pamphlets and tracts were +distributed. Representatives from every State in the Union, and from +nearly every nation on the face of the earth, dropped in to learn the +object-lesson the exhibit taught of what Christian education had done +for the Indian and the Negro. + +At Midway, Ga., an additional building has been erected for the +Dorchester Academy. The Storrs School, Atlanta, by the sale of bullets +dug from the battlefields around the city, realized enough to secure a +much-needed kindergarten building. Mrs. F. L. Allen, of Waterbury, +Conn., has donated us a property in Quitman, Ga., containing three acres +of land, on which stands a hotel building, nearly new and thoroughly +furnished, to be used as a school for girls. The ladies of the First and +Second Congregational churches of Waterbury promptly seconded Mrs. +Allen's gift by raising $1,000 to make the necessary alterations to put +the building in order for the school, and the ladies of the +Congregational churches of the State have so far responded to an appeal +for them to assume the support of the school, that it starts out with an +assurance of success from the beginning. Rev. J. H. Parr, formerly of +the Tillotson Institute, is to have the school in charge. + +We have not been able to spend much money this year in brick and +mortar. We have been obliged to put our funds almost exclusively into +the more practical work of mind and character building. + +Fisk University celebrated its twentieth anniversary this year by +graduating from its college course fifteen, two of the number being +young ladies. This makes 52 who have been graduated from Fisk. The +Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Tennessee, several +State officials, many Senators and Representatives attended the +Commencement exercises and alumni dinner. A series of speeches in +commendation of the good work done at the institution were made by these +gentlemen, who bore testimony to the high standing of the Fisk students +as teachers and citizens throughout the State. Of the 37 graduates +previous to the class of this year, the record shows that 24 of them are +principals and teachers in different schools; 5 are pastors of churches; +1 is a missionary in Africa under the American Board; 2 are practicing +lawyers; 2 are studying for the professions--1 in a theological, the +other in a medical school; 1 is a member of the Tennessee Legislature; +and 2, who were teachers, have died. Its roll numbers 427, including +representatives of 21 States and 1 Territory. + +Talladega College has had 365 students. This was more than it could +comfortably care for. The girls' hall was crowded. Some applicants had +to be refused for lack of room. The new Cassidy School building, having +been used by over 200 pupils, continues to justify its right to be. +Prosperity has marked the life of this college in all its departments. + +Atlanta University maintains its well-earned reputation for school work +of the highest order; 297 students have shared its privileges. Colonel +L. W. Avery, Chairman of the State Board of Visitors, in his report last +year, was so emphatic and strong in his praise of what he had seen and +heard at the University, that the other members of the Board would not +believe him, and he was compelled to modify his praises before they +would accept his report. This year the whole Board was present at the +examinations, and the result is that they have every one been converted, +and are now ready to go even farther than the Colonel in testifying that +"the proficiency attained in the scholastic results has been simply +astonishing." The University continues to receive the annual +appropriation of $8,000 from the State--a fact that is all significant +respecting the undeniable worth of the school. + +Tougaloo University, located on the Illinois Central R. R., about eight +miles north of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, receives State aid +to the amount of $3,000 annually. Two hundred and sixteen students last +year have taxed its utmost capacity for accommodation. Governor Lowry +and the State Board of Visitors attended the commencement exercises, and +were surprised at the evidence of the Negro's capacity for education. +Four students took degrees in the elementary Normal course that requires +ten years to complete it, and one took the degree from the higher Normal +course, to complete which requires twelve years. + +Straight University, New Orleans, notwithstanding the devastation of +floods and the failure of cotton crops that last year so severely +affected the very limited finances of the colored people of Louisiana, +was filled with students at the beginning of the school year, and +continued not only crowded, but _over_crowded to the end; 584 scholars +were enrolled, including representatives from Cuba, Honduras, New +Mexico, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Illinois, and even Old +England. + +Tillotson Institute, Texas, has also had a very crowded and successful +year. This is the youngest of our chartered schools. It has the modesty +that in every way is becoming the youngest member of the family, but in +all that is excellent in work it stands not a whit behind the oldest and +the best. It has already outgrown the comfortable limits of its +habitation. The crowding process has struck it, and its cry for relief +is growing sharper and sharper. We shall have to heed its cry one of +these days. The great and rapidly-growing State of Texas challenges our +forethought and our care. The State Superintendent of Public +Instruction, Hon. B. M. Baker, was present at the commencement +exercises, and after commending the teachers for their faithful work and +testifying that the best teachers of the colored schools in Texas were +graduates of the Tillotson Institute, he publicly thanked the people of +the North for the establishment and maintenance of the school. Judge +Fullmore, a county school superintendent, who was also present, not only +indorsed all that Mr. Baker had said, but added that in his appointments +of teachers he always gave Tillotson graduates the preference, and that +a certificate of graduation from Tillotson in the hands of an applicant +was all the evidence of character and ability he needed. + +Were we to continue sketching the salient points in the work of our +other schools scattered all over the South, it would be simply to give +fresh illustrations of the five facts already made prominent--crowded +schools, growing necessities, faithful work, good results and outside +commendation. + +As compared with last year, the statistics in our school work show a +falling off of two chartered institutions and seven common schools. On +its face, this looks like loss; in reality, it is gain. The two +chartered institutions dropped out of our statistics are Berea and +Hampton, that, as a matter of fact, have been for several years +self-sustaining and independent, and which, as formerly fostered by us, +we have hitherto reported; they are still in the field, doing a greater +work than ever, while the seven common schools, dropped because they +ceased to be needed where they were located, are more than represented +in the better work of the other schools, to strengthen which the money +thus set free has been transferred. + +We are steadily but slowly coming to the realization of the idea that +was the inspiration of the American Missionary Association's school +system--Christian colleges and Normal schools for the training of +leaders, and Christian preparatory schools to furnish them with the +right kind of material. The South is year by year, as its financial +ability increases and its public sentiment improves, doing more for the +rudimental instruction of its children. It is the duty of the State to +provide elementary education for every child within its borders, and to +that point the Southern States must one day come; but just in proportion +as they come to that point, the necessities for our work increase. The +demand for Christian teachers and preachers and professional men in all +ranks at the South will grow as facilities for the elementary education +of the children multiply. Our aim is not only to save the land from +ignorance, but to save it from godless intelligence. Infidelity is as +much the enemy of free institutions as ignorance; and when the children +are intelligent, an ignorant leadership is almost as effective as an +infidel leadership to raise up an infidel people; so that, as +intelligence spreads among the youth of the South, we are placed under +accumulating obligations, by virtue of our loyalty to the kingdom of our +Lord, and by virtue of our interest in the perpetuity of republican +institutions, to strengthen, enlarge and multiply this work. Of course, +just now, and for a great many years to come, by far the greater part of +our school work must be in the lower grades of instruction. So long as +it can be said, that in the Southern States eighty per cent. of the +colored and thirty per cent. of the white population are illiterate; +that there are not educational facilities enough to furnish fifty per +cent. of the children with even a chance to learn their letters; that +there are whole communities and sections in which there are no schools +whatever; that there are thousands and tens of thousands of children and +youth who would be glad to go to school did they have opportunity; so +long we must continue to furnish elementary instruction in all our +schools, and as far as possible to open such small schools as may meet +the present but transient exigency, to be dropped, as we have the seven +common schools above referred to, when, from whatever cause, the +necessity for them has passed away. The Executive Committee desires to +emphasize and to have the constituents of the American Missionary +Association keep it constantly before them, that as the cause and means +of popular education extend in the South, the necessity for the work of +the Association becomes stronger and stronger. + +As seen from this stand-point, the desirability of bringing our larger +institutions as speedily as possible, where they shall be able to take +care of themselves, becomes clear and urgent. They should be at once so +far endowed that the question of their permanence as conservators of the +supremacy of Christian leadership in the thought, character and life of +the people should be settled beyond peradventure for all time. + +We commend these schools to the special regard of those who are looking +about to invest money where, in the name of the Lord, it will yield rich +and enduring returns. + + * * * * * + +INDUSTRIAL TRAINING. + + + Schools in which industries are taught 16 + Special industrial teachers 10 + Teachers combining industrial with other work 21 + + +Industrial teaching is made prominent at Santee, Oahe, at all of our +chartered institutions, at Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., Lewis +High School, Macon, Ga., and incidentally at six other schools. Aid has +been received from the Slater Fund for this work at Macon, Atlanta, +Nashville, Tougaloo, Talladega, Memphis and Austin. Nearly all the +scholars in attendance pursue some of the branches of industry taught. +Housekeeping, cooking, dress-making, care of the sick, agriculture, +blacksmithing, harness-making, type-setting and printing are made +prominent, according to the conveniences at hand. Atlanta, Talladega and +Tougaloo have farms which are worked by the students under the +instruction of practical farmers. At several other points farming could +be successfully taught if only we had the farms, and we could have the +farms if only we had the money. + +For the teaching of the trades we need special buildings. Progress has +been made in this direction. Atlanta University has erected "The Knowles +Industrial Building," a memorial of the late Mr. L. J. Knowles, of +Worcester, Mass., whose widow not long before her death appropriated +$6,000 for this object. It is a brick building 100 by 44 feet, with two +stories and a basement, and, for its use, is one of the finest in the +South. At Macon, a two-story building has been constructed--the upper +story for the Lewis Library and the lower for a carpenter shop. At +Talladega has been also built a two-story structure, the upper story to +be used for carpentry and the lower for blacksmithing. The citizens of +Memphis two years ago gave Professor Steele $1,000 to put a girl's +industrial department into the Le Moyne school, and now they have +pledged him $600 more to secure a workshop for the boys. Fort Berthold +in Dakota and Fisk and Straight Universities at the South greatly need +industrial buildings, and there are other schools of which the same +might be said with equal emphasis. + +It is difficult to overestimate the importance of industrial training. +Latest in development in connection with our schools, it may yet prove +first in value. Labor is heaven-ordained. It is the chief +instrumentality through which a people are elevated. Grace saves the +soul and transforms character instantly. It makes the savage and +sinner kind and good instantly; but it will not instantly make him a +good farmer, a skilled mechanic, a trained scholar. Up from the lowest +to the highest, man must toil patiently and laboriously. Nature will +tolerate neither jumps nor deceptions. It is no kindness to put a man +where he is out of place, and still less is it a kindness to make him +believe that he has a right to be there. He who climbs up into position +or who is foisted into it by any other instrumentality than by the toil +necessary to fit him for the position, the same is a thief and a robber. +The police forces of Nature will speedily put him under arrest. The +judicial forces of Nature will soon cast him into a prison, out of which +he shall not come until beginning at the bottom, by diligent labor, he +is willing to pay the last farthing at every step in the process of his +advancement. The implements and the products of industry are the gauges +of civilization. Between the roughly-hewn stone hatchet and the +finely-polished steel axe lies all the history of the world's progress. +The college, the library, the fine residence and the factory of modern +civilization are at one end of the line, the other end of which starts +from the dug-out and the hut. Man, in the highest estate, forget or +ignore it as he may, has that in him which connects him with the lowest, +and labor, the hard labor of his ancestors, extending through the ages +as well as his own, has been the means of bringing him where he is. If +the Indian and the negro are to be elevated, they must rise by the same +steps as have others. They must _work_ their way up. But they who are +above them, remembering the pit out of which they themselves have been +dug, must give them a chance to rise, and help them as they try to rise. +That they have the capacity for elevation along every line of human +development has been abundantly proved over and over again. The +industrial exhibit of the colored people at the recent Centennial +Exposition in New Orleans, was in every way gratifying to their friends. +Though these people are only 20 years out of the house of their 250 +years' bondage, antedated by millenniums of barbarism, they sent +articles showing their progress in the industries that more than filled +the entire gallery assigned them in one end of the immense Government +building. + + * * * * * + +MOUNTAIN WORK. + + +This work has gone forward the past year with marked success. In +Kentucky, Rev. J. T. Ford, having taken the pastoral charge of the +church at Williamsburg, Rev. A. A. Myers was at liberty to give himself +to more extended missionary work; and, as might be expected, he has gone +into it with a will. He has organized three new churches; one at +Jellico, with 11 members; one at Pleasant View, with 13 members, and one +at Rockhold, with 15 members. Under his superintendency the Jellico +church has erected a good, commodious house, but it needs a bell. The +congregations number from 250 to 300, and the pastor, Rev. E. W. +Bullock, reports the interest as increasing. + +Pleasant View Church has also put up a house of worship, now complete +except seats. At Rockland, stone is on the ground. Mr. Myers using his +own team to haul it, himself being teamster, and the lumber is all ready +to begin work. A chapel is soon to be erected at South Williamsburg, +where there are hundreds around the mills who cannot be induced to +attend church up town. Eleven Sunday-schools, with an enrollment of +1,200 and an average of 750, have been maintained. These schools extend +from Jellico on the State line to the northern part of Whitley County +along the railroad. Besides these, several students from the Academy +have conducted Sunday-schools at their homes, reporting an enrollment of +160. + +Day schools have been kept at Woodbine, Rockhold, Dowlais and Jellico +with marked success. + +The Williamsburg Academy has had an enrollment of 203. The reputation +and influence of this school are extending far and wide. The teachers, +imbued with the missionary spirit, have been a power in the church and +in the community as well as in the school. The question whether our +schools could be kept up if colored students were admitted, has been +squarely met and answered, and right at our central station, +Williamsburg, we have had colored pupils during the past two terms. When +they were first admitted, there was a stampede of the white scholars, +reducing the number of pupils from 120 to 40, but as they had a chance +to think the matter over, and they saw the school going right along as +if nothing had happened, and that it was going to keep right along, they +began to come back again, with still others to join them, so that the +school closed with a larger enrollment than the previous year. The +excitement caused a discussion that found its way into the newspapers of +the State, and gave the school such an advertisement as could not have +been secured by years of ordinary work. We shall have no more trouble +with the color question in Whitley County. It has been settled, and +settled right. + +In Tennessee, the Independent Church at Sherwood, and its pastor, Rev. +A. B. Smith, have entered our fellowship by joining the Central South +Association. On the Cumberland plateau, Pastor B. Dodge has secured the +organization of a church with 16 members, which is associated with his +church at Pomona. An organ and hymn-books were furnished by the Pilgrim +Church, Cambridgeport, Mass. The people have subscribed $300, chiefly in +lumber, toward a much-needed chapel for church and day school. At both +these points day schools have been maintained. At Grand View, the first +year of the Academy has proved a success, and now a church has been +organized in association with it, both to be under the care of Rev. C. +B. Riggs. + +The school work of Mrs. St. Clair in Scott County has been remarkable. +Three years ago there were 27 saloons and two Sunday-schools in the +county, one school held in Mrs. St. Clair's tent and the other in a +blacksmith shop; now there are three saloons and 25 Sunday-schools, and +the good people are praying with much confidence that their prayers will +be answered for three less saloons and three more Sunday-schools. Mr. R. +F. Taft, of Worcester, Mass., was sent down to help in this field. His +labors were wonderfully blessed. Two churches, one at Robbins, the other +at Helenwood, were organized. He is not able to continue in our service, +but, in speaking of what has been accomplished, he has this to say: +"Wherever I went the people were so eager to hear the Gospel that it was +a joyous work to me. All came together, natives and Northerners, and our +colored brethren. If the A. M. A. has accomplished nothing more, it has +broken down the line of color, and to-day all mingle together in seeking +after the pearl of great price." The work of Mr. Taft has been taken up +by Rev. W. E. Barton, a recent graduate of Berea College, who finds +already so much on his hands that he is crying for help. + + * * * * * + +WORK AMONG THE INDIANS. + + +STATISTICS. + + Churches 5 + Members 301 + Ministers 7 + Schools 15 + Teachers 52 + Pupils 706 + Sunday-school scholars 776 + + +Our Indian work is chiefly in Nebraska and Dakota, among the great Sioux +nation that numbers about sixty thousand, and the tribes that mingle +with, or are located around, them. We have three main stations, Santee, +Oahe and Fort Berthold, all situated on the Missouri River, and at +points strategic for pushing missions out among the people. + +_Santee._--Here is planted the Santee Normal School, under the care of +Rev. A. L. Riggs. This institution, pioneer of its kind, began work for +the higher training of Indian pupils fifteen years ago. Its history and +experience show the great advancement that has been made by the Indian +mind. At first the pupils came as to a sort of picnic, and expected to +slip out when the fun stopped. But now the discipline, attendance and +class work are of a high order and will compare favorably with schools +of similar grade elsewhere. One thing quite noteworthy about Santee is +that while it is often impossible to fill the desired quota of girls for +other schools, applications at Santee from girls and young women far +exceed the ability to receive them. This school, with its 177 pupils +busily engaged in their studies under the instruction of an able corps +of teachers, in possession of buildings that are up to the times in all +their equipments, reaching by its influence every Indian village of the +great empire of the Missouri River basin, is an institution from which, +with God's blessing upon its work, we have a right to expect great +things in the future. + +Pilgrim Church, under the joint pastorate of the Rev. Artemas Ehnamani +and Rev. A. L. Riggs, honors the faith and polity of the Pilgrim Fathers +in its co-operation with the school, nurturing and extending the cause +of Christian education. Its roll numbers 164 names, and its +Sabbath-school reports an attendance of 183. + +Great and urgent fields inviting missionary occupancy lie all around +Santee. Swift Bear's colony, numbering sixteen families, an offshoot +from Rosebud agency, has located along the Niobrara. Others are coming +down this fall as soon as their little crops are harvested. All the land +on the north side of the Niobrara, twenty miles east of the mouth of the +Keya-paba, and much of the land on the Ponca Creek close by, is now +taken. Here has just been built a school-house given by Deacon Burrill, +of Oberlin, Ohio, a little building of two rooms, one for the teacher's +residence, and the other for the school room and chapel. A son of Pastor +Ehnamani, of the Santee Church, is to take charge of this station. + +Among the Poncas, since last December, we have had a missionary, Rev. J. +E. Smith, who, while maintaining Sabbath services with good attendance, +has during the week taught a government school. At the Upper Ponca +settlement, during the months of February and March, a mission day +school was kept by Albert Frazier, a native teacher. + +_Oahe._--This mission, with its out-stations, is in charge of Rev. T. L. +Riggs. The native helpers are Titus Jugg, Elizabeth Winjan, William Lee, +Daniel Lee, Samuel Smiley, Stephen Yellow Hawk and Edwin Phelps, all, +with one exception, full-blood Dakota Indians. + +The Indians of the Rosebud Agency on the White River have long been +calling for missionaries to be sent among them. The Park Street Church, +Boston, has given $400 to open a mission in that needy region, and Mr. +Riggs expects to have a well-established out-station on the White River +before the beginning of the coming winter. + +During the year a movement has been made to establish an industrial +school at Oahe. The Indian Bureau gave twenty scholarships. Alonzo +Trask, Esq., executor in the Marquand estate, gave $1,500 toward a +building, on condition that an additional $1,500 be raised. This +additional amount Mr. Riggs secured. The beginning of the school was +made in January. Twelve scholars were all that could be accommodated. +They were promptly secured. The school has been continued by the +exercise of strictest economy and the willing self-sacrifices of all +concerned. The experiment has proved a success, and a good beginning has +been made for another year. The new building is now about, if not quite, +ready, and fitted to receive forty scholars. + +The church at Oahe bears the significant name of Shiloh. A place of rest +it has proved to many a weary soul--yet of rest only as it has prepared +for activity. During the year God has been pleased to manifest His grace +in saving power. Seventeen new members have been received on profession +of their faith and three by letter. The total membership is 54. The +greater part of these are young men and women, not more than half being +over thirty years of age and not more than five being past forty-five +years. This church enjoys the ministrations of Stephen Yellow Hawk and +David Lee. + +_Fort Berthold._--This point with the territory adjacent is held by Rev. +C. L. Hall. The day school has had 129 pupils during the year. Six of +the Indian girls have been taken into the teachers' home, with marked +benefit to the mission work. Increased interest has been manifested in +the church services, the average attendance being 75. At Fort Stevenson +a Government school (75 pupils) has been kept by Mr. and Mrs. B. F. +Wells. Religious meetings have been held fortnightly on Thursday evening +and Sabbath school each Sunday. The Crow agency, after waiting two +years, is still begging for us to send a missionary. + +Leaving Fort Berthold and striking westward about 1,000 miles, we come +to Skokomish Agency, Washington Territory, where Rev. Myron Eells stands +almost alone to represent the interest our denomination takes in the +salvation of the Indians of that region. At Skokomish he has a church of +46 members; at Dunginess a church of 28 members, where he spends two +Sabbaths and the intervening week each month; and at Squakson, a small +reservation formerly in charge of the Presbyterians, who have now +withdrawn, he conducts public worship once a month. In these three +places he has under his pastoral care 102 families; average attendance +at public worship, 150; at Sabbath school, 84; at prayer meeting, 62. +Infant baptisms, 19; adult baptisms and reception to church membership, +11. Many of the Christian Indians are efficient helpers in the prayer +meeting and the Sunday school, assisting Mr. Eells when he is present +and carrying on the work when he is absent. + +At Santa Fé, New Mexico, we have maintained during part of the year four +teachers who have had under instruction Pueblo Indian children, for whom +Government scholarships had been secured. + + * * * * * + +WORK AMONG THE CHINESE. + + +STATISTICS. + + Schools 18 + Missionaries 38 + Pupils enrolled 1,457 + Average attendance 810 + Ceased from idol worship 171 + Giving evidence of conversion 112 + + +These figures show three more missions and twelve more missionaries than +the statistics of last year. In the missionary force there are eleven +Chinese helpers. + +Four new schools have been opened at the following points: Alturas, +Fresno, San Diego and Tulare. The school at Alturas, in the +northeastern part of California, though established for the Chinese, +like all other A. M. A. schools, is open to everybody, irrespective of +race or color, and the Indians in the vicinity have so largely availed +themselves of the privilege that they greatly outnumber the Chinese. +This school is under the care of Mrs. Griffiths, wife of the pastor of +the Congregational Church in the place. She has the constant coöperation +of her husband, who welcomes to his church all who can be induced to +attend from the school. The mission at Stockton, the first one +established by us in California, was closed last year, but has been +reopened with an attendance and promise such as it never had before. Our +schools are all in the hands of devoted and efficient teachers, are well +located and well rooted. We are justified in feeling that they are all +fairly on the way to become permanent. + +The California Chinese mission, whose superintendency has been under the +care of Rev. W. C. Pond ever since its organization in 1875, is +auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. It has its own +President and Board of Managers. It works in closest harmony with the +parent society, and while it must look to us for by far the largest part +of the funds necessary to carry its work forward, yet it does not rely +wholly upon our appropriations, but makes continuous efforts to raise +money itself. + +It reports as having received into its own treasury the past year +$3,141.20. Its property consists of the Barnes and the West Mission +Houses in San Francisco, together with an interest in the North Mission +House of San Francisco and the new Mission House in Tulare. Mr. Pond has +made strenuous efforts to secure sufficient contributions to bring to +pass, without incurring debt, a transfer of these properties to the A. +M. A., and he informs us that this result is now assured and that the +transfer will soon be made. We shall thus come into possession of +property worth upward of $9,000, free from debt. + +The past year has not been in garnered results so fruitful as our +Superintendent and his co-workers had expected; yet they have been +faithful in the cultivation of the field. Early in the year they +determined to be more aggressive than formerly. If the Chinese would not +come in greater numbers to the schools, then the missionaries would go +to them. Three men in the providence of God were at hand who were +impressed with the importance of this aggressive work, and who were able +to preach to the Chinese in their own language; Rev. D. D. Jones, who +had returned from missionary work in South China, Jee Gam and Wong Ock. +These brethren have been engaged in evangelistic work both at the +mission houses and on the streets in San Francisco and at several other +points. But "hard hearts," threatened persecution, and actively working +prejudice have everywhere stood in the way of progress. + +Still God did not leave His children altogether without some evidence of +His favor. There were eighteen who professed conversion and twelve who +received baptism. The reflex influence of these evangelistic services +has been productive of great spiritual blessing to our missionaries and +to the Chinese Christians. It has driven them to realize that they must +more than ever trust in the power of God's spirit to overcome the +difficulties; that they must faithfully hold and work every point now +occupied; that they must pray on and labor on until the Holy Spirit +descend in power to break the stony hearts and dissipate the opposing +forces of Mongolian heathenism on the one hand and Caucasian +inconsistency and infidelity on the other. "Brethren, pray for us!" is +the almost heart-agonizing appeal Superintendent Pond makes to the +constituents of this Association. "Never before," he writes, "were we so +well prepared to do good service to the Master, and to move on with +saving power among these dark souls purchased with His blood, as now, +at the opening of this new fiscal year. Yet never before did we look on +into the year with such a sense of utter helplessness or such a despair +of real success except through the co-working of the Holy Ghost." + +We commend this appeal for prayer to all our friends. Let there go up +such a cry to God for help that in Pentecostal power His spirit may be +outpoured upon our Chinese missions; and not only will the good results +be felt in our own country, but they will reach in blessing even the +vast empire of China and make strong and glad the hearts of our +Christian brethren there. + + * * * * * + +THE WOMAN'S BUREAU. + + +The Woman's Bureau has proved a most efficient agency in our work during +the past year. The family and the home where mother and sister are the +strong guard of purity and moral strength, the newly-freed people knew +nothing about from experience. Our missionaries, more than two-thirds of +whom were women, found themselves face to face with the duty of caring +for their unfortunate sisters. When the Christian women of the country +were taking up and discussing the special claims of degraded and lost +women for woman's special effort, and organizing societies to meet that +claim, the American Missionary Association had the whole business in +operation on a large and successful scale. When, therefore, the Woman's +Bureau was created, it was neither to inaugurate a new work nor in +imitation of other organizations. The purpose was to make the Christian +women of the country more intelligently acquainted with a branch of our +mission long in operation, and induce them by an increase of their +contributions and sympathy and prayers to make it more widely +successful. Miss D. E. Emerson, who not only by her experience as a +missionary in the field, but also by her experience as a clerk in the +New York office, was admirably qualified to take the Bureau in charge, +was made its Secretary. She has opened direct channels of communication +between the lady missionaries on the field and the Christian women of +the churches. Sunday schools and ladies' missionary societies have been +furnished an opportunity to assume, either wholly or partially, the +support of an assigned missionary from whom they have regularly received +letters. She has arranged to have addresses given upon the work at +missionary meetings and conferences, either by herself or by a lady +missionary, so far as she could, wherever and whenever such service has +been desired. The work has been steadily growing upon her hands. The +interest is widening and deepening. With no increase of machinery, with +but little increase of expense, and with no divisive disturbance, either +in the Association or in the churches, our Woman's Bureau quietly and +effectively carries forward its operations at the North and at the +South, at the East and at the West. + + * * * * * + +FINANCES. + + +_Receipts for 1884-5._ + + Donations from Churches and Individuals $191,698.35 + Legacies 41,501.66 + U. S. Government for Indian Schools 9,458.13 + Slater Fund for Industrial Training 8,600.00 + Tuition, Rents, etc. 39,635.92 + ----------- + Total $290,894.06 + + +As compared with the receipts of last year, these figures show +$191,698.35 collections and donations this year, as against $164,056.77 +last; legacies, $41,501.66 this year, as against $64,559.42 last; a gain +in contributions from the living of $27,641.58, a loss from legacies of +$23,057.76. The receipts from all sources for the past year, +notwithstanding the heavy loss in legacies, are in excess over the +receipts of the preceding year $3,299.87. The expenditures for the year +have been $306,345.93, leaving a debt on the year just closed of +$15,451.87. This, added to the deficit of the previous year, leaves us +with a total indebtedness of $29,237.73. But over against this and in +close connection with it, should be stated the fact that in both years +the indebtedness has been owing to an increase of appropriations to meet +the absolutely necessary demands of the new Indian missions transferred +to us by the American Board. In 1883-4, we expended on these missions, +including $11,495.19 received from the U. S. Government, $33,204.95. In +1884-5, including $9,458.13 from the Government, we spent $41,283.75. +The churches had laid this work upon us, and we could not avoid these +expenditures. + +We began the year with a debt of $13,785.86. The task before us, +therefore, if our work was to be kept to its former scale, was to +increase our receipts over the previous year $27,571.72, or twice the +deficit. We have made that increase in donations from the living, with +$69.86 to spare, and that, too, in the face of the stringency of the +times. Had the legacies remained the same as the preceding year (which +were $61,807.31 less than the legacies of the year preceding that), we +should have closed this year without a debt, and had $7,605.89 on hand +to apply on the debt with which we started out. + + * * * * * + +CONCLUSION. + + +In conclusion, this review of the year inspires first of all songs of +thanksgiving to our Heavenly Father for His manifold blessings upon the +work and workers, and then our heartfelt gratitude to the pastors, +churches and friends that have so nobly and generously, many of them at +great self-sacrifice, contributed to sustain the work. With such +evidence from heaven that the work is God's, with such evidence from +earth that it rests upon the hearts and consciences of His people as a +sacred trust, we cannot but feel that in it all Providence is saying +unto us, _Go forward_. But what say our constituents? We present them +our report. We await their answer. + + * * * * * + +RECEIPTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1885. + + * * * * * + +MAINE, $1,078.85. + + Albany. Cong. Ch. $1.00 + Augusta. Joel Spalding 10.00 + Bangor. Hammond St. Ch., 100; Cen. Cong. Ch. and + Soc., 75 175.00 + Bangor. Dudley Coe, 1; C. M., M. F. and A. B. Duren, + 30c., _for Rosebud_ _Indian M._ 1.30 + Bath. "A Friend" 5.00 + Belfast. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. 75.00 + Brownfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 + Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.75 + Cumberland Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.17 + Deer Isle. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 + Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.25 + Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 + Gilead Cong. Ch. 4.50 + Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery 5.00 + Kennebunkport. South Cong. Ch., 12; First Cong. Ch., 3 15.00 + Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch. 9.30 + Madison. "Friends in Cong. Ch.," by Mrs. Ezra Dinsmore 20.00 + Oldtown. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Orono. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Portland. Second Parish Ch., 182.17, to const. HORACE + H. RICKER, G. R. FURBISH, E. A. BASCOM, MRS. LUCY A. + FOGG, MRS. MARY E. MERRILL and NATHAN WESTON L. Ms.; + State St. Ch., 150; Williston Cong. Ch., 95: West + Cong. Ch., 11; Abyssinian Cong. Ch., 10; T. B. + Percy, 5 453.17 + Princeton. "A Friend" 2.00 + Presque Isle. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Saco. First Cong. Ch. 10.42 + Scarboro. Cong. Ch. 13.15 + Sherman Mills. Washburn Memorial Ch. 5.00 + South Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 14.20; "Miss'y + Soc.," 5 19.20 + Turner. Cong. Ch. 7.50 + Wells. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.26 + West Brooksville. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Windham. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Winslow. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 + Wintersport. Miss. M. M. Morrell 2.50 + Winthrop. Mrs. Otis Packard, 30, to const. DEA. GEO. + O. PACKARD L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., 12.10 42.10 + York Corner. Second Cong. Ch. 8.28 + + +NEW HAMPSHIRE, $963.04. + + Amherst. Miss M. C. Boylston 20.00 + Auburn. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Bennington. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Canterbury. "Friend" 5.00 + Chester. Mrs. Mary E. Hidden 10.00 + Concord. First Ch., 125; Friend in North Cong. Ch., 5 130.00 + Danbury. "A few members Cong. Ch." 6.00 + Derry. First Cong. Ch. 23.85 + Durham. Cong. Ch. 27.00 + East Derry. Rev. H. M. Penniman 5.00 + Epping. "Friend" 1.00 + Fitzwilliam. Louisa Hill, 10; Fanny Hancock, 5; Cong. + Ch., 3.50 18.50 + Franklin Falls. J. C. Neal 1.00 + Goffstown. Mrs. M. A. Stinson 10.00 + Gorham. Cong. Ch. 6.29 + Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. 43.40 + Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.10 + Hanover. Cong. Ch. Dart. College 79.90 + Harrisville. Darius Farwell 2.00 + Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.25 + Jaffrey. N. P. Phelps 1.00 + Keene. Mrs. D. W. Buckminster, and Miss Mason 3.00 + Kensington. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Laconia. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + Manchester. Mary A. Allison 3.00 + Meriden. Cong. Ch. 21.00 + New Boston. "A Friend" (50 of which _for Cal. Chinese + M._) 100.50 + New Market. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 3.55, Dea. T. H. + Wiswall, 10 13.55 + North Conway. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.25; S. H. Leavitt, + Isabella Smith and Julia M. Philbrook, 10 ea., to + const. MORRIS H. SMITH, L. M. 47.25 + Peterborough. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + Piermont. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.00 + Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + Portsmouth. Rev. W. W. Dow 5.00 + Rye. Cong. Ch. 11.75 + Shelburne. Cong. Ch. 1.50 + Sullivan. Cong. Ch. 6.10 + Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.95 + Temple. Mrs. Geo. Goodyear and Sister 5.00 + Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. 8.42 + Walpole. First Cong. Ch. 22.07 + Webster. "A Friend" 5.00 + West Concord. J. W. Chandler 1.00 + Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00 + By Geo. Swain--Amherst Cong. Ch., 11.40--Brookline + Cong. Ch., 8.82--Peterboro' Union Evan. Ch., 13.50 33.72 + ------- + $852.63 + + LEGACY. + + Lebanon. Estate of Mary A. F. Tracy, by Stephen A. + Tracy, Ex. 110.41 + ------- + $963.04 + + +VERMONT, $2,216.07. + + Bakersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 + Barton Landing. Children's Miss'y Soc. by Katie B. + Joslyn, Treas. _for Share_ 13.00 + Bradford. Mrs. C. D. Redington, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, + _for McIntosh, Ga._ 10.00 + Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.86 + Brattleboro. "A Friend," 33.35; Joseph Wilder, 10 43.35 + Brownington. Dea. William Spencer, 5; S. S. Tinkham, 5 10.00 + Burlington. First Cong. Ch. 188.58 + Cambridge. Madison Safford and wife 38.52 + Cambridge. E. Wheelock, B. Holmes, O. W. Reynolds, S. M. + Safford and Madison Safford, 5 ea.; Mrs. M. Blaisdell, + 3; Mrs. M. Waterhouse, 2; J. W. Turner, 2; Mrs. L. + Eaton, 1; E. Bentley, 1 34.00 + Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.50 + Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.58 + Chester. J. L. Fisher 5.00 + Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + Fair Haven. "Light Bearers" Cong. Sab. Sch. (3 of which + _for Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._) 17.57 + Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 + Glover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.50 + Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Greensborough. "A few friends," by Rev. S. Knowlton 12.00 + Guildhall. Cong. Ch. 3.26 + Hartford. E. Morris, 100; Mr. and Mrs. Albert Buel, 10 110.00 + Hartland. Class in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for McIntosh, Ga._ 5.00 + Lunenburg. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Lyndonville. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Manchester. Samuel G. Cone, 20; Mrs. S. G. Cone, 5 25.00 + Marshfield. Rev. J. D. Bailey 7.44 + Milton. "M. L. D.," 3; B. Fairchild, M. D., 2 5.00 + Montgomery Centre. Cong. Ch. 7.77 + Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Newbury. Mrs. E. P. Keyes, 30, to const. J. T. ATKINSON + L. M.; H. E. Keyes, 30, to const. HELEN R. AIKEN L. M. 60.00 + New Haven. Cong. Ch., 25, and Sab. Sch. 5, _for Indian + M._ 30.00 + North Pownal. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Norwich. Ashley Blodgett, 5; Mrs. H. Burton, 2; Cong. + Ch., 1 8.00 + Peacham. Miss Varnum, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, _for + McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00 + Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. 5; "D.," 2 7.00 + Pittsford. Mrs. E. H. Denison 5.00 + Quechee. Rev. N. F. Carter 10.00 + Royalton. A. W. Kenney, 30; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., + 17.75 47.75 + Rutland. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh 10.00 + Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., 200; Rev. Henry + Fairbanks, 100 300.00 + Saint Johnsbury. Union Meeting, North and South Chs., + _for Indian M._ 168.81 + Saxton's River. "Friend" 1.00 + South Royalton. Mrs. S. H. Jones 10.00 + Springfield. Mrs. Frederick Parks, 100; A. Woolson, 100 200.00 + Stowe. Joseph Pike 1.00 + Swanton. C. C. Long 10.00 + Underhill. Chas. A. Birchard 5.00 + Vergennes. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 32.53 + Willamstown. Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 13.01 + Wolcott. Rev. J. F. Whitney 2.00 + Woodstock. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Henry + Fairbanks 10.50 + Worcester. Cong. Ch. 5.63 + ----. "A Friend" 300.00 + --------- + $1,992.16 + + LEGACIES. + + North Ferrisburg. Estate of Sylvia Dean, by J. M. + Dean, Ex. 15.00 + Wilmington. Estate of Judah Moore 208.91 + --------- + $2,216.07 + + +MASSACHUSETTS, $10,843.55. + + Acton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Atlanta U._ 10.00 + Amesbury. MRS. EDMUND MORRILL, to const. herself L. M. 30.00 + Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 85, to const. MISS + LULU LOUISA LAWTON and CEPHAS F. FRARY L. Ms.; First + Cong. Ch., 35; "C.," 30 150.00 + Andover. John Smith 500.00 + Ashland. G. M. Perry, 5; Edwin Perry, 5 10.00 + Attleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.24 + Auburn. Cong. Ch. 66.00 + Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.00 + Boston. "Wilberforce," 300; Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, + 100; "Friend in Need," 100; Jona. A. Lane, 25; + Dr. Edward Strong and Wife, 25; Mrs. O. H. White, + 20; "A Friend," 10; "A Friend," 5; Rev. R. B. + Howard, 5.--Cambridge North Av. Ch. and Soc., + 209.55--Cambridgeport, Pilgrim Ch., 127.55--Chelsea, + A. C. Tenney, 25--Dorchester, Second Cong. Ch. and + Soc., 187.61; Mrs. R. W. Prouty, 5--East Boston, + Maverick Ch. and Soc. 26.25--Somerville, Franklin St. + Ch., 125; Franklin St. Ch., "M.," 50; Miss M. C. + Sawyer, 10; Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Prospect + Hill Ch., 10 1,365.96 + Ballardvale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 51.75 + Berkley. Cong. Sab. Sch. 13.28 + Bernardston. Orthodox Cong. Soc. 8.75 + Billerica. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 + Boxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.70 + Bridgewater. "A Friend" 30.00 + Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; Porter Evan. + Ch. and Soc., 61.53, to const. MISS CORNELIA EDDY + and MISS LIZZIE F. TROW L. Ms.; Mrs. L. C. Sanford, + 5 141.53 + Carlisle. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.18 + Centreville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.50 + Chatham. Cong. Ch. 6.50 + Chester Center. First Cong. Ch. 5.22 + Conway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.23 + Cummington. Cong. Ch. 11.30 + Danvers. Maple St. Ch. 75.00 + Dedham. "Three Friends" 4.50 + Duxbury. Mrs. R. R. Holmes 1.00 + East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. 16.00 + Easthampton. First Cong. Ch., 47; First Cong. Ch. and + Sab. Sch., 25; Rev. A. M. Colton, 5 77.00 + East Granville. "Y. P. Soc. of Christian Endeavor" 5.00 + Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + Essex. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 + Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.28 + Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc., 128.59; "A Friend," + 30 to const. MRS. CLARA W. HUBBARD L. M.; C. C. Ch., + 25.50 184.09 + Florence. Cong. Ch. 12.35 + Foxborough. Ortho. Cong. Ch. 51.65 + Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc., 25; E. H. Warren, 1 26.00 + Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00 + Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk + U._ 50.00 + Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ALFRED H. + RICHARDSON L. M. 25.00 + Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., 15; Mrs. M. A. + Harrington, 10 25.00 + Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc 44.31 + Granby. Mission Circle, by Mrs. A. W. T. Fisk, _for + Miss'y, Atlanta, Ga._ 15.00 + Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., 69.25; Cong. Ch., 10; + First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 10 89.25 + Greenwich. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Groveland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50 + Hanover. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.00 + Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Student Aid, Fisk + U._ 100.00 + Haverhill. Algernon P. Nichols 100.00 + Hinsdale. J. Hosmer, 10; Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Plunkett, + 7; C. J. Kittredge, 3; Rev. J. H. Laird, 2; S. + Kittredge, 2; Miss S. Warriner, 1; L. Payne, 1; + Others, 4 30.00 + Housatonic. "Friends," 15; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10; Cong. + Ch. (ad'l), 1 26.00 + Huntington. Second Cong. Ch. 7.25 + Ipswich. Mission Band of So. Ch., 6.30; "A Friend," 50c 6.80 + Kingston. Mayflower Ch. 40.00 + Lancaster. Ev. Cong. Ch. 36.55 + Leverett. Cong Ch. and Sab. Sch. 9.50 + Longmeadow. "M. C. G." 10.00 + Ludlow Centre. "A Friend" 1.00 + Lowell. Pawtucket Ch. and Soc. 18.00 + Mansfield. P. M. Edwards 1.00 + Medway. Village Ch. and Soc. 27.00 + Melrose. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 65.62 + Middleborough. Central Cong. Ch. 52.00 + Middlefield. "A Friend" 2.00 + Middleton. Mrs. Loring Carleton 4.50 + Milford. "A Friend" 1.00 + Millbury. By Lizzie M. Garfield 5.75 + Millers Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.60 + Mill River. Miss M. R. Wilcox 10.00 + Monson. E. F. Morris, 50; Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Holmes, + Jr., 50; Mrs. N. M. Field, 25; Mrs. C. O. Chapin, 5 130.00 + Monument Beach. Wm. R. Vining 50.00 + Neponset. Miss S. L. Tuttle's S. S. Class, Bbl. of C., + _for Wilmington, N. C._, 1 _for Freight_ 1.00 + New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Le Moyne Inst._ 8.00 + Newburyport. Freedmen's Aid Soc., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 20.00 + Newton. Eliot Ch. 130.00 + Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + Norfolk. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + North Abington. Cong. Ch., 5; Rev. J. H. Jones, 5 10.00 + Northampton. First Cong. Ch., 279.23; "A Friend," 100; + Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc., 87.50; Jared Clark, 25 491.73 + Northborough. Evan. Cong. Ch., 68; Sab. Sch., 10 78.00 + Northbridge Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., 50; and Sab. Sch., + 30, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 80.00 + North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35.59; Mrs. + Hannah M. Nye, 5; Miss Abbie W. Johnson, 5 45.59 + North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch., to const. MISS ADA + M. SHELDON L. M. 50.00 + North Middleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA. + SOLOMON WHITE L. M. 45.00 + Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.62; Miss Susan Fairbanks, + 10 40.62 + Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 + Paxton. Cong. Ch. 16.75 + Pigeon Cove. Mrs. M. L. Thalheimer, deceased, by M. E. + Thalheimer 25.00 + Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 100; Second Cong. + Sab. Sch., 5; E. R. M., 2.50 107.50 + Plymouth. Second Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Prescott. "A Friend" 5.00 + Princeton. Cong. Ch. 20.50 + Provincetown. First Cong. Ch. 14.63 + Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 + Randolph. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 201.80 + Reading. Old South and Bethesda Chs., to const. FRANK + W. B. PRATT and E. P. FITTS L. Ms., 87.85; J. M. + Carleton, 5; "A Friend," 4.50 97.35 + Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; Elijah Shaw, 50 125.00 + Rutland. Children of Cong. Ch., 10, and Papers, _for + Robbins, Tenn._ 10.00 + Salem. Crombie St. Ch. and Soc., 50.15; George Driver, + 2 52.15 + Sandwich. Mrs. Card 2.00 + Saundersville. Cong Ch. and Soc. 15.00 + Scituate. Cen. Cong. Ch. and S. S. 24.55 + Scotland. Miss Mary H. Leonard 2.00 + Shelburne Falls. Sab. Sch. Concert, 8.01; Three Classes + Cong. S. S., 5.99, _for Indian M._ 14.00 + Shrewsbury. Mr. and Mrs. William A. Greene, 500; Cong. + Ch. and Soc., 112.33 612.33 + South Abington. Miss C. H. Whitman, 100; Cong. Ch. + and Soc., 47.59 147.59 + South Amherst. Cong. Ch. 7.72 + South Dartmouth. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + South Egremont. Mrs. Huldah Bills, 30, to const. REV. + P. T. FARWELL L. M.; Cong. Ch., 25 55.00 + South Franklin. Union Cong. Ch. 5.25 + South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 31.25; Cong. Sab. + Sch., 8.85 40.10 + South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Parish 31.00 + South Natick. John Eliot Ch. 6.16 + South Plymouth. Second Cong. Ch. (ad'l) 2.12 + South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 49; "A + Friend," 25 74.00 + Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.10 + Springfield. "A Friend," 500; A. C. Hunt, 10, + "L. E. W.," 10 520.00 + Springfield. Infant Class, Cong. S. S., 2; Miss L. + Fay's S. S. Class, 1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 3.00 + Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. 23.90 + Stoughton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.72 + Sudbury. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. 37.00 + Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. and Sab. Sch. 100.00 + Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + Taunton. Winslow Cong. Ch. and Soc. (30 of which to + const. GEO. W. ANDROS L. M.) 49.27 + Taunton. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 39.00 + Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. FRANK H. + KASSON L. M. 32.00 + Topsfield. "A Friend" 1.00 + Townsend. "Member Cong. Ch." 5.00 + Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Co. and Soc. 29.45 + Ware. C. C. Hitchcock 10.00 + Warren. Cong. Ch., 100; "N. G.," 5 105.00 + Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, _for Chinese M._ 5.00 + Wayland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 + Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 + West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + Westboro. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00 + West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 + West Boylston. G. W. Ames, 3; Polly W. Ames, 3; Mrs. + A. Campbell, 1.50 7.50 + West Cummington. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Westfield. Mrs. C. W. Fowler, 5; Dr. H. Holland, 3 8.00 + Westford. Union Ch. 17.00 + West Gardner. M. B. Knowlton 10.00 + West Gardner. Nettie M. Bartlett, _for Rosebud Indian + M._ 2.00 + Westhampton. Miss Mary Edwards, "in Memory of Mrs. + Catharine Edwards" 5.00 + Westminster. F. Lombard, 5; Mrs. Mossman, 25c 5.25 + West Springfield. Mrs. Lucy M. Bagg 200.00 + West Tisbury. First Cong. Ch. 9.63 + Whately. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Whitinsville. S. F. Morse 2.00 + Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.50 + Winchendon. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 50.00 + Winchester. S. Elliot 25.00 + Woburn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 204.60 + Woburn. Ladies' Charitable Reading Soc., Bbl. of C., + val. 52.40, _for Williamsburg, Ky._, 1.17 _for + Freight_ 1.17 + Wollaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.05 + Woods Holl. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Worcester. "Friend," 500; Piedmont Ch., 400; Plymouth + Cong. Ch. and Soc., 130; Samuel R. Heywood, 100; + Hiram Smith and family, 30; Mrs. S. A. Howard, 5 1,165.00 + Worcester. "A Friend," _for Charleston, S. C._ 4.00 + Worthington. Cong. Ch. 19.34 + Yarmouth. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 10.29 + By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n--Ludlow, + 23.90--Palmer, Second, 15--Springfield, Mrs. E. + Clarke, 5--Westfield, Second, 108.80--West + Springfield, Park St., 23 175.70 + ---------- + $10,261.55 + + LEGACIES. + + Boston. Estate of Rev. H. B. Hooker, D. D. 50.00 + Enfield. Estate of Dea. Henry Fobes, by W. B. + Kimball, Ex. 500.00 + Oakham. Estate of Perly Ayres, by William Spear, Ex. 32.00 + ---------- + $10,843.55 + + +RHODE ISLAND, $2,432.84. + + Bristol. Mrs. Rogers, 100; First Cong. Ch., 30 130.00 + East Providence. Samuel Belden, to const. REV. + WILLIAM FITZ, HARMON S. BABCOCK, SAMUEL BELDEN + BABCOCK, RICHARD W. CONE, JOHN CHURCHILL, and + SAMUEL BELDEN CHURCHILL L. Ms. 180.00 + Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. 58.50 + Providence. George H. Corliss, 1000; Central Cong. + Ch., 718; Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., 119.22; + James Coats, 100; Beneficent Cong. Ch., 50; "A + Friend," 5 1,992.22 + Slatersville. Cong. Ch. 31.00 + Westerly. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.12; Emeline Smith, 5 35.12 + Woonsocket. Globe Cong. Ch. 6.00 + + +CONNECTICUT, $10,360.07. + + Abington. Cong. Ch. 14.50 + Andover. "A Friend" 20.00 + Berlin. "A Friend," 50; Second Cong. Ch., 19.24 69.24 + Bethlehem. "A Friend" 5.00 + Birmingham. Cong. Ch. 35.35 + Bolton. By Mrs. L. H. Barber, _for Conn. Sch., + Quitman, Ga._ 5.00 + Branford. H. G. Harrison 10.00 + Bristol. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Sch., + Quitman, Ga._ 55.00 + Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch. and Cong. to const. + WILLIAM WOODBRIDGE L. M. 38.00 + Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.65 + Canaan. Estate Daniel Norton, Package Books and 50c .50 + Chaplin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 + Cheshire. "A Friend," 25; Cong. Ch., 21.25 46.25 + Chester. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + Cobalt. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Cromwell. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. + FANNY L. KEECH and MISS CHLOE P. DAVISON L. Ms. 60.00 + Durham. Cong. Ch. 23.00 + East Avon. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.25 + East Hartford. H. L. Goodwin, 100; First Ch., 30; + Abraham Williams, 10; South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 15 155.00 + East Granby. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + East Windsor. "A Friend" 5.00 + Elliott. Wm. Osgood 1.00 + Fairfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Santee + Agency, Neb._ 20.00 + Farmington. Cong. Ch. 140.49 + Glastonbury. James B. Williams (ad'l), 200; First + Cong. Ch. and Soc., 82.58 282.58 + Goshen. Mrs. Moses Lyman 5.00 + Guilford. First Cong. Ch., to const. WM. H. LEE L. M. 30.00 + Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Share_ 20.00 + Hartford. Mrs. Catherine R. Hillyer 20.00 + Hebron. "Friends" 7.00 + Hockanum. Mrs. E. M. Roberts 5.00 + Huntington. Cong. Ch. 30.00 + Huntington. Oliver Baird, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + Kensington. Lucy J. Upson, Arthur W. Upson, Alice O. + Upson and Mary H. Upson, 5 ea. 20.00 + Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss 5.00 + Kent. First Cong. Soc. 25.64 + Lebanon. "A few Friends" 30.00 + Manchester. "C. S. S." 10.00 + Meriden. First Cong. Ch., 100; First Cong. Ch., + "A Friend," 25; Edmund Tuttle, 30, to const. + MISS ELLEN E. TUTTLE L. M. 155.00 + Milford. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 150.00 + Milford. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 50, and Sab. Sch., 25.59 75.59 + Mount Carmel. Mrs. J. M. Swift bal. to const. WILLIAM + E. SWIFT L. M. 10.00 + Nepaug. South Cong. Ch. 3.25 + New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, 69.30; Members South + Cong. Ch., 40 (30 of which to const. EMMA GERTRUDE + ROGERS L. M.); Rev. J. W. Cooper, 25 134.30 + New Canaan. "Friend E." 10.00 + New Haven. Nelson Hall, 50; Alfred Walker, 10 60.00 + New London. "First Ch. of Christ" 64.60 + New Preston. Mrs. Betsy Averill 10.00 + Norfolk. Mrs. Mary D. Bassett 4.00 + Northford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett, 50; "A friend's + mite," 2 52.00 + North Stamford. Cong. Soc. 6.76 + North Stonington. Dudley R. Wheeler 20.00 + Norwich. ---- 1,000.00 + Norwich. First Cong. Ch., 50; Othniel Gager, 24; + Sarah A. Huntington, 10 84.00 + Old Lyme. Cong. Ch. 64.34 + Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + Plainfield. Cong. Ch. 5.27 + Plainville. William Cowles 20.00 + Plymouth. "A Friend," 500; "A Friend," 50 550.00 + Preston. Long Soc. Sab. Sch. 2.00 + Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00 + Prospect. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Ridgebury. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 38.00 + Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. (4.30 of which _for + Tillotson C. and N. Inst._) 71.76 + Rockville. J. N. Stickney 10.00 + Rockville. Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson + C. and N. Inst._ 9.44 + Roxbury. "A Friend, Birthday Offering" 3.00 + Salisbury. "The Twins," Miriam and Rose Goddard, aged + 5 weeks, by Rev. J. C. Goddard 1.00 + Saybrook. Second Cong. Ch. 30.00 + Somerville. Cong. Ch. 14.60 + Southbury. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., 5; "A Friend," 1 6.00 + Southington. First Cong. Ch. 60.80 + South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Southport. "A gift in the name of Frederick Marquand" + (4,000 of which _for Special Indian Work in + Dakota_) 4,500.00 + Southport. "A Friend," to const. Miss ABBIE B. LORD + L. M. 30.00 + South Windsor. Sam'l T. Wolcott 20.00 + Stamford. Friends, Cong. Ch., by Rev. S. Scoville 100.00 + Stanwich. David Banks, 100; John Brush, 5; Mrs. Chas. + Brush, 5; Mary A. Lockwood, 1; Cong. Ch., 5 116.00 + Stratford. "A Friend" 2.00 + Talcottville. Cong. Ch. 80.00 + Terryville. A. S. Gaylord, 10; Mr. & Mrs. Elizur + Fenn, 5 ea. 20.00 + Thomaston. Cong. Ch., 43.25; P. Darrow, 15.51 58.76 + Thompson. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn. Sch., + Quitman Ga._ 27.00 + Tolland. Cong. Ch. 11.82 + Torringford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.14 + Torrington. L. Wetmore, 150; First Cong. Ch., 10 160.00 + Vernon Center. Miss H. B. Chapin 2.00 + Voluntown and Sterling. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. + MISS MARY E. P. ELDERKIN L. M. 17.28 + Washington. Cong. Soc. 34.75 + Waterbury. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. H. M. + Dutton, _for Conn. Sch., Quitman Ga._ 200.00 + Waterbury. "Sunshine Circle," _for Macon, Ga._ 8.00 + Waterbury. "A Friend," 10; "A Friend," Second Cong. + Ch., 5 15.00 + Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.55 + Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 + West Avon. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Westbrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 56.54; "Cash," 2 58.54 + West Hartland. Deacons of Cong. Ch. 4.00 + West Haven. "A few Ladies," by Mrs. Emeline Smith 20.00 + Westminster. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Mallory 5.00 + Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch. 19.66 + Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.35 + Windham. Westminster Cong. Ch. 9.06 + Windsor Locks. "A Friend" 10.00 + Winsted. Miss Emeline Catlin and Sister 10.00 + Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 + ----. "A Friend" 300.00 + ----. "Connecticut Friend" 10.00 + ----. "A Friend" 10.00 + ---------- + $10,110.07 + + LEGACY. + + New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven, + _for Talladega C._ 250.00 + ---------- + $10,360.07 + + +NEW YORK, $3,493.43. + + Amsterdam. Mrs. Mary A. Bartlett 2.00 + Amsterdam. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 1.00 + Bangor. Cong. Ch. 4.09 + Bay Shore. Cong. Ch. 11.65 + Berkshire. First Cong. Ch. 54.00 + Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock 5.00 + Binghamton. Sheldon Warner 5.00 + Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. 20.16 + Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch., 468.55; Member Plym. Ch., 25; + Julius Davenport, 100; "A Member of Central Ch. Sab. + Sch.," Dr. Behrend's, 30, to const. MRS. DAVID M. + STONE L. M.; Rev. E. P. Thwing, 2; "A Friend," 1 626.55 + Brookton. Rev. I. Bradnack 3.00 + Cambridge. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.00 + Candor. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Central New York. "Thank Offering" 10.00 + Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey 10.00 + Chenango Co. "Life Member" 10.00 + Copenhagen. Cong. Ch. and S. S. 10.00 + Coventry. First Cong. Ch. 6.54 + Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, 2.50; Miss A. G. Fairchild, + 2.50 5.00 + Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 49; Second Cong. + Ch., 5 54.00 + East Watertown. Mrs. T. Merwin 10.00 + East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, 30; C. M. Clark, 3 33.00 + Flushing. "Friends" 5.00 + Gerry. Mrs. M. A. Sears 128.36 + Goshen. "A Friend" 2.00 + Hammondville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Havana. J. F. Phelps 5.00 + Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Hudson. Abraham S. Peet 3.00 + Jamestown. First Cong. Ch., 7; Sab. Sch., 14.49 21.49 + Kiantone. Cong. Ch. 8.56 + Le Roy. Mrs. L. A. Parsons 4.50 + Little Valley. First Cong. Ch. 6.14 + Maine Village. Cong. Ch. 15.40 + Malone. Mrs. H. R. Wilson 3.00 + Massena. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Middletown. First Cong. Ch. 36.17 + Millville. By Henry L. Hommedieu 10.00 + New York. John Dwight, 200; A. S. Barnes, 100; + "H. W. H.," 60 to const. WILLIAM HUBBARD and MISS + D. E. EMERSON L. Ms.; S. T. Gordon, 30; ----, 11.25; + Joseph S. Hol, 10; "Colored Orphan Asylum and its + Chaplain, Stephen Angell," 10; James W. Treadwell, + 5; M. H. Bartow, 2; "A Friend," 1 449.25 + Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 115.79 + Norwich. By Rev. A. G. Upton 5.00 + Nunda. "A Friend," (10 _of which for Chinese and + Indian M._) 15.00 + Nyack. John W. Towt 100.00 + Oneonta. Mrs. L. I. Safford 5.00 + Orient. Cong. Ch. 18.58 + Owego. Dr. L. H. Allen 10.00 + Parishville. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Pekin. Abigail Peck 25.00 + Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.00 + Richford. Cong. Ch. 6.66 + Rochester. Geo. Thayer 25.00 + Rodman. Miss Eliza Gates, 20; John S. Sill, 5 25.00 + Rome. Rev. Wm. B. Hammond 5.00 + Salamanca. Cong. Ch. and Pastor 7.00 + Seneca Falls. Cong. Ch. 10.25 + Sherburne. "A Friend" 10.00 + Silver Creek. Mrs. Simeon Howes, 7.50; W. Chapin, 7.50 15.00 + Syracuse. Plymouth Ch., 133.03; C. A. Hamlin, 25 158.03 + Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 5.00 + Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge, 10; Bethesda Welsh Cong. + Ch., 10; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 7 27.00 + Wading River. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton 5.00 + ----. ---- 2.00 + By Mrs. L. H. Cobb, Treas., for _Miss'y, Tougaloo, + Miss._--Copenhagen, Ladies' Aux., 50--Danby, Mrs. S. + Johnson's S. S. Class, 9.18--Poughkeepsie, Ladies' + H. M. Union, 20--Rushville, Ladies' Soc., 10--Saratoga + Springs, Aux. Soc., 20--West Groton, Y. P. Miss'y + Soc., 20 129.18 + --------- + $2,457.35 + + LEGACY. + + Walton. Estate of Elizabeth Bassett (500 of which + _for Mendi M._) by G. W. Fitch and T. S. Hoyt, + Executors 1,036.08 + --------- + $3,493.43 + + +NEW JERSEY, $10,154.40. + + Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts 30.00 + Bordentown. L. Beeuwkes 3.00 + Bound Brook. Cong. Ch., 75.39; and Sab. Sch. 25, _for + Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 100.39 + Chester. Cong. Ch., 35.45, and Sab. Sch., 4.68 40.13 + Closter. Rev. G. W. Plack 5.00 + Englewood. Rev. Geo. B. Cheever, D. D., and Wife 9,716.88 + Jersey City Heights. "A Friend" 2.00 + Montclair. First Cong. Ch., 110; First Cong. Ch. Sab. + Sch., 50; Mrs. Edward Sweet, 50 210.00 + Trenton. S. T. Sherman 20.00 + Westfield. Children's Mission Band of Cong. Ch., + _for Share_ 20.00 + Woodbridge. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + + +PENNSYLVANIA, $1,640.91. + + Cambridgeboro. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson and Miss Eliza Dickson, + 15 ea. 30.00 + Guy's Mills. Mrs. F. Maria Guy 1.00 + Jeanesville. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Mercersburg. Thomas C. Johnston 4.00 + Morris Run. Welsh Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Philadelphia. "Member of Central Cong. Ch.," 50; Chas. + Burnham, 50; John Edmands, 25 125.00 + Pottsville. Cong. Ch., 1.48; Rev. D. T. Davies, 3 4.48 + Ridgeway. Rev. O. D. Crawford 2.00 + Shamokin. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Troy. Chas. C. Paine 100.00 + Washington. Mrs. M. H. McFarland 10.00 + -------- + $298.48 + + LEGACY. + + Pittsburg. Estate of Chas. Avery 1,342.43 + --------- + $1,640.91 + + +OHIO, $1,035.87. + + Alliance. Welsh Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 6.00 + Alliance. Mrs. J. M. Thomas 5.00 + Barton. Miss A. C. Hitchcock, 5; Cong. Ch., 2.83; + _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 7.83 + Berea. Cong. Ch. 11.50 + Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch., 5, and Sab. Sch., 5 10.00 + Bowling Green. Mrs. Mary H. Leet, _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 5.00 + Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Canfield. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + Castalia. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Chagrin Falls. John S. Bullard, 20; Cong. Ch., 12.07 32.07 + Chardon. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 + Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ruggles, 10; Lawrence + St. Welsh Cong. Ch., 10; Mrs. Charlotte Ruggles, 2 22.00 + Claridon. L. T. Wilmot, 10; Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.50; Mr. + and Mrs. D. B. Ladd, 5 22.50 + Cleveland. Mrs. H. B. Spelman (25 of which _for Student + Aid, Atlanta U._) 30.00 + Cleveland. Mrs. S. A. Bradbury, 50; First Cong. Ch., + 22.75; Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., Friend, 10; J. J. Low, + 5; Mount Zion Cong. Ch., 1 88.75 + Columbus. Dr. W. Gladden, 10; Geo. W. Bright, 10; Mrs. + Walter Craft and Children, 7; Miss Beatrice Terrell, + 1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 28.00 + Columbus. Mrs. M. K. Bates, 10; Benj. Talbot, 1 11.00 + Conneaut. H. E. Pond 5.00 + Conneaut. H. E. Pond, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 2.00 + Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 23.25, and Sab. Sch., 1.75; + Woman's Miss'y Soc., 5, to const. REV. J. R. NICHOLS + L. M. 30.00 + Greenwich. Rev. C. H. Phelps 5.00 + Gustavus. First Cong. Ch. 7.20 + Hartford. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Hudson. Mrs. H. Baldwin 5.00 + Ironton. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + Lorain. First Cong. Ch. 28.89 + Madison Lake. Mrs. H. B. Fraser 25.00 + Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Marysville. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Medina. Woman's Miss'y Soc., First Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Mount Vernon. "A Friend" 5.00 + Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch., 9.27; Lewis Jones, 2 11.27 + Newburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.00 + North Bloomfield. W. C. Savage 5.00 + North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. 10.30 + Norwalk. "A Sower beside all Waters.," bal. to const. + REV. T. F. HILDRETH L. M. 20.00 + Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., 121.98; Homer Johnson, + M. D., 5 126.98 + Oberlin. Young Woman's Miss'y Soc., Oberlin C., _for + Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 + Painesville. Rev. S. W. Pierson 5.00 + Randolph. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Richfield. Mrs. Uri Oviatt, 5; Dea. T. E. Ellsworth, 2 7.00 + Rochester. Cong Ch. 4.00 + Rock Creek. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of New Lyme Inst., + _for Model Sch. Building, Straight U._ 10.00 + Rootstown. "Young Peoples' Band of Christian Endeavor," + by H. M. Reed, Treas. 17.00 + Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 18.50 + Steubenville. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Tallmadge. Tallmadge Benev. Ass'n 25.49 + Toledo. Central Cong. Ch., 20; State Line Ch., 2; + Washington St. Cong. Ch., 5.50 27.50 + Wakeman. Cong. Ch. 15.65 + Wayne. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Willoughby. Mrs. C. A. Garlick 2.00 + York. Cong. Ch. 24.00 + Youngstown. "Two Friends" 7.00 + By Mrs. Wm. Clayton, Treas. O. W. H. M. U., _for Lady + Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._--Oberlin W. H. M. S. of + Second Cong. Ch., 75--Cleveland, Y. P. M. Soc. of + First Ch., 20--Hudson, W. H. M. S., 5.44 100.44 + --------- + $1,005.87 + + LEGACY. + + Hanging Rock. Estate of Rachel R. Hamilton, by + Robert Peebles, Executor 30.00 + --------- + $1,035.87 + + +INDIANA, $58.00. + + Auburn. James Adams 20.00 + Brooklyn. Rev. Wm. Richey, 1; Mrs. F. J. Richey, 1 2.00 + Liber. Thomas Towle 1.00 + Michigan City. Cong. Ch. 35.00 + + +ILLINOIS, $2,284.64. + + Albany. ---- 10.00 + Amboy. First Cong. Ch. 45.00 + Aurora. N. L. Janes 10.00 + Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 20.00 + Bellmont Cong. Ch. and "Friends" 8.51 + Brimfield Cong. Ch. 12.25 + Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney 10.00 + Carthage. Mrs. Elizabeth Bernethy 50.00 + Chenoa. Mrs. M. A. Ketcham, 1; Mrs. Cutter, 50 cents 1.50 + Chicago. N. E. Cong. Ch., 110.04; J. M. Williams, 100; + Lincoln Park Cong. Ch., 20.43; Rev. J. M. Williams, + 10; Lake View Cong. Ch., 7.50; H. J. Kilbourn, 3; + "M. W.," 1 251.97 + Chicago. Ladies M. Soc. N. E. Cong. Ch., _for Miss'y, + Mobile, Ala._ 25.00 + Collinsville. J. F. Wadsworth 10.00 + Crystal Lake. Cong. Ch. 24.08 + Elgin. Cong. Ch., 175.78; W. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., + 26.12 201.90 + Englewood. Cong. Ch. 20.60 + Forest. Cong. Ch. 16.90 + Galesburg. First Cong. Ch. 66.73 + Galesburg. "A Friend," _for Emerson Inst._ 25.00 + Garden Prairie. Mrs. A. A. Dawson, 75c.; Willie L. + Dawson, 25c. 1.00 + Geneseo. Mrs. Henry Nourse 50.00 + Glencoe. Arthur H. Day 5.00 + Griggsville. Mrs. A. W. Green 5.00 + Highland Park. L. S. Bingham 5.00 + Hinsdale. Cong. Sab. Sch., 10; J. W. Bushnell, 5 15.00 + Kewanee. Cong. Ch. 264.18 + La Harpe. Cong. Ch. 17.50 + La Salle. "An aged Friend" 200.00 + Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 7.18 + Lyndon. Cong. Ch. 11.05 + Lyonsville. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + Metamora. Members Cong. Ch. (Christian Union) 32.15 + Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Miss'y, Mobile, + Ala._ 30.00 + Nebraska. Mrs. Carse and Daughter, 1 ea. 2.00 + Nora. Cong. Ch. 13.00 + Oak Park. First Cong. Ch., 100; Rev. J. E. Roy, 30, to + const. EDGAR C. ELLIS L. M.; "E.," 10 140.00 + Olive. Cong. Ch. 8.76 + Olney. First Cong. Ch. 8.00 + Peoria. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, + Atlanta U._ 25.00 + Peoria. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, + Tougaloo U._ 9.00 + Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss 15.00 + Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter 10.00 + Providence. Cong. Ch. 42.38 + Rantoul. Cong. Ch. 3.25 + Ravenswood. Cong. Ch. 40.00 + Rochelle. C. F. Holcomb 15.00 + Rockford. Thomas D. Robertson 50.00 + Rockton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 5.50; "A Friend," 5.50; + "C. P.," 5 16.00 + Roseville. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Axtell 1.00 + Rutland. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Shirland. Rev. E. Colton 5.00 + Sycamore. Hon. Henry Wood 10.00 + Wataga. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + Winnebago. N. F. Parsons, 15; O. T. Holcomb, 2; + J. L. McLain, 25c. 17.25 + Woodburn. Cong. Ch. 7.45 + Wyanet. Rev. F. C. Cochran 10.00 + ----. "A Friend in Illinois" 75.00 + By Mrs. E. F. Williams, _for Lady + Missionaries_--Galesburg Ladies' Miss'y Soc. + of Brick Ch., 11; Lombard, by Women's H. M. U. + of Ill., 10.05--Moline Ladies' W. H. M. U., 13.00 34.05 + --------- + $2,034.64 + + LEGACY. + + Peoria. Estate of Moses Pettengill, by Rev. + A. A. Stevens 250.00 + --------- + $2,284.64 + + +MICHIGAN, $2,089.35. + + Addison. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Alpena. First Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ 41.00 + Ann Arbor. Mrs. Walker, _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ .50 + Banks. Cong. Ch. 4.04 + Bedford. Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ 6.22 + Benton Harbor. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.00 + Benzonia. Cong. Ch., 49.50 (ad'l) to const. E. P. + SMITH and DEA. J. R. BARR L. Ms.; Rev. Joseph S. + Fisher, 30, to const. JAMES T. BRISSENDEN L. M. 79.50 + Bradley. First Cong. Ch. .96 + Calumet. Dr. Chas. W. Niles 25.00 + Calumet. Boys' Class in Cong. Sab. Sch., by John + Knauf, Treas., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 4.00 + Carson City. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Church's Corners. Cornelius Clement, 10; Dea. N. R. + Rowley, 5; A. W. Douglass, 5; Mrs. John Williams, + 2; James Robins, 2; C. Alpaugh, P. Hallock, H. + Reed, Dea. G. S. Wells, D. H. Gardner, John Wells, + and P. Cunningham, 1 ea; J. Robins, W. Hazen and + W. C. Robins, 50c. ea; Cong. Ch., 8.80 41.30 + Coloma. Cong. Ch. 3.09 + Croton. Cong. Ch. 2.85 + Detroit. First Cong. Ch., 139.40; First Cong. Ch. + and Sab. Sch., 50; "A Friend," 61.50, by Rev. J. + Porter, to const. CALVIN THOMPSON GARLAND and MARY + EVANS GARLAND L. Ms.; Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., 87.71 338.61 + Dexter. Dennis Warner 20.00 + Dowagiac. Cong. Ch. 11.35 + East Saginaw. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, + Fisk U._ 25.00 + East Saginaw. Mrs. A. M. Spencer 2.00 + Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ 16.00 + Galesburg. First Cong. Ch. 16.56 + Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.25 + Grand Blanc. "Willing Workers," _for Teacher, Santee + Agency, Neb._ 10.00 + Grand Rapids. Members First Cong. Ch. 25.00 + Greenville. M. Rutan 500.00 + Homer. Mrs. C. C. Evarts 5.00 + Hopkins. First Cong. Ch., 2.88; Second Cong. Ch., + 13.54 16.42 + Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. 3.25 + Hudsonville. Cong. Ch. 1.46 + Jackson. "A Friend" 5.00 + Johnston and Barry. Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ .75 + Imlay City. Cong. Ch. 4.50 + Irving. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Kensington. John Thompson 5.00 + Lansing. Plymouth Ch., 40; Prof. R. C. Kedzie, 10; + Mrs. A. Wheeler, 50c. 50.50 + Leroy. Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._ 7.00 + Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. 17.20 + Manistee. Cong. Ch. 23.50 + New Baltimore. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 + New Haven. S. E. Mills 5.00 + New Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 2.00 + Orion. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Berridge 5.00 + Ovid. Cong. Ch. 3.60 + Owosso. Cong. Ch. 14.03 + Robinson. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Saint Ignace. Cong. Ch. 2.25 + Saint Johns. H. M. Perrin, 50; A. J. Baldwin, 10; + C. A. Shaw, 5; _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 65.00 + Tipton. Rev. A. A. Wall .50 + Union City. "A Friend" 200.00 + Union City. Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for Straight U_) 139.41 + Vermontville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 + Wacousta. Cong. Ch. 4.50 + White Cloud. Rev. John Jeffries 1.00 + Ypsilanti. M. G. Wood, _for Talladega C._ 5.00 + By Mrs. A. McDougall, _for Straight U._--"A Friend," + 100--Charlotte,75--Edmore, 6.25--Nashville, + 4--Olivet, 39--Vermontville, 21 245.25 + + +WISCONSIN, $653.66. + + Baraboo. Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Beloit. First Cong. Ch., 25; Second Cong. Ch. Sab. + Sch., 8.19; Mrs. H. Nelson, 1.50 34.69 + Bloomer. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 3.20 + Brandon. Cong. Ch. 17.75 + Brodhead. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Clinton. John H. Cooper 5.00 + Columbus. Olivet Ch. (20 of which _for Miss'y, Austin, + Tex._), 42.50; Olivet Sab. Sch., 5 47.50 + Cooksville. Cong. Ch. 3.50 + Darlington. "Two Friends" in Cong. Ch. 1.00 + Eagle. Pleasant Hill Presb. Ch. 3.75 + Eau Claire. First Cong. Ch. 35.00 + Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + Fox Lake. Miss M. J. Adams 5.75 + Hartford. Cong. Ch. 15.50 + Hartland. Cong. Ch. 22.00 + Kaukauna. "A Friend" 5.00 + Kinnickinnick. Cong. Ch. 4.41 + Lake Geneva. Y. P. Soc., _for Miss'y, Austin, Tex._ 5.00 + Lancaster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 + Lancaster. Ladies' Aid Soc., _for Macon, Ga._ 2.35 + Leeds. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch. 75.00 + New Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 5.59 + Peshtigo. Rev. and Mrs. H. C. Todd 2.00 + Pewaukee. Cong. Ch. 6.00 + Platteville. Ladies' Soc., _for Miss'y, Austin, Tex._ 4.16 + Ripon. Cong. Ch., 69.50; Mrs. C. T. Tracy, 5 74.50 + River Falls. Cong. Ch. 17.50 + Rosendale. Cong. Ch. 5.50 + Salem. William Munson 50.00 + Sheboygan. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Library, + Macon, Ga._ 15.00 + Sheboygan. "A true Friend of the Freedmen" 5.00 + Sparta. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Spring Green. Welsh Cong. Ch., 2; English Cong. + Ch., 1.30 3.30 + Whitewater. Cong Ch. and Sab. Sch., 78.18 + _For Missionary, Austin, Tex_--Appleton, Ladies Soc. + Cong. Ch., 12.75--Arena, Ladies of Cong. Ch., + 4.08--Eau Claire, Cong. Sab. Sch., 10--New Lisbon, + Ladies Cong. Ch., 1.50--Stoughton, "A. B. S.," + 1--Birthday Box Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.20--Whitewater, + Cong. Sab. Sch., 20 50.53 + + +IOWA, $859.15. + + Algona. Cong. Ch. 11.00 + Almoral. Cong. Ch. 7.37 + Amity. Cong. Ch. 9.00 + Atlantic. Cong. Ch., 20.93; Sab. Sch., 5.75 26.68 + Bear Grove. Cong. Ch. (6 of which from Mrs. O. C. + Warne and family) 7.25 + Belknap. Cong. Ch. 2.10 + Big Rock. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.00 + Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch., 43.49; Mrs. E. O. Price, 2 45.49 + Central City. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., 10; + Cong. Ch., 10 20.00 + Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 26.00 + Danville. Cong. Ch. 8.80 + Decorah. Cong. Ch. 31.26 + Denmark. Cong. Sab. Sch. 18.50 + Des Moines. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 262.13; North Park + Cong. Ch., 5.89 268.02 + Des Moines. Plym. Cong. Ch., 23.75; Ladies of Plym. + Ch., 13; North Park Ch., 7.05; Ladies of Pilgrim + Ch., 2.50; _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 46.30 + Des Moines. T. S. Wright, _for Talladega C._ 10.00 + Dubuque. German Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 + Durant. "Friends" 10.00 + Earlville. Cong. Ch. 6.35 + Eldora. Cong. Ch. 12.31 + Elkader. Mary H. Carter 5.00 + Grinell. Samuel F. Cooper, _for Fisk U._ 100.00 + Grand View. German Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Green Mountain. "Lady in Cong. Ch." 2.00 + Independence. Cong. Ch., 11.44; Rev. Daniel Chapman, 2 13.44 + Kersauqua. Infant Class Cong. S. S. 2.00 + McGregor. J. H. Ellsworth, 10; Cong. Ch., 8; Ladies' + Miss'y Soc., 3.50 21.50 + Miles. Cong. Ch. 7.50 + Mitchell. Cong. Ch. 5.55 + New Providence. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Newton. Cong. Ch. 18.00 + Oakland. Cong. Ch. 5.55 + Onawa. Cong. Ch. 5.85 + Pattersonville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Postville. Cong. Ch. 11.36 + Preston. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Salem. Rev. D. D. Tibbets and Members Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 7.50 + Sioux Rapids. Cong. Ch. 2.40 + Spencer. Rev. G. G. Perkins 2.00 + Victor. "A Friend" 1.00 + Wayne. Cong. Ch., 5.56; D. C. Smith, 1 6.56 + Webster City. Cong. Ch. 7.21 + Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore 15.00 + By Mrs. G. W. Reynolds, Treas., _for Miss'y, New + Orleans, La._--Chester Center, Ladies, 3.25--Clay, + Y. L. Bible Class, 5; Rosebud Class, 4.20; Ladies, + 85c.--Wayne, Ladies, 5 18.30 + + +MINNESOTA, $308.47. + + Alexandria. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.00 + Appleton. Madison and Lac Qui Parle Churches, 1 ea. 3.00 + Brownsville. Mrs. S. M. McHose 2.00 + Cannon Falls. Cong. Ch. 4.35 + Clearwater. Cong. Ch. 2.40 + Edgerton. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Hancock. Cong. Ch. 1.50 + Hastings. D. B. Truax 5.00 + Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 8.00 + Mankato. Woman's Miss'y Soc. 8.89 + Minneapolis. Mrs. Irene E. Hale, 50; Plymouth Ch., + 15.42; The Open Door Ch., 9.15; Rev. E. S. Williams, + 5 79.57 + Montevideo. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 3.00 + Morris. Cong. Ch. 11.29 + Owatonna. First Cong. Ch. 6.06 + Rushford. Cong. Ch. 2.20 + Saint Paul. "Cheerful Giver" 25.00 + Springfield. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Waseca. Cong. Ch. 5.58 + By Mrs. J. N. Cross, Treas.--Clearwater, M. S., + 25c.--Cottage Grove, Ladies Aux. Union S. S., + 11.50--Glyndon, W. M. S., _for Miss'y, Austin, + Tex._, 10--Minneapolis, Plym. Ch., W. H. M. S., + 98.28 (50 of which _for Student Aid Fisk + U._)--Waseca, W. M. S., 8.60 128.63 + + +KANSAS, $113.98. + + Arkansas City. "A Friend" 20.00 + Atchison. "Mission Band," by Mrs. Ellen Patton, + _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 + Deerton. Cong. Ch. .33 + Eureka. Cong. Ch. 3.77 + Highland. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch., 3; Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 2 5.00 + Milford. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Muscotah. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Osawatomie. Cong. Ch. 14.00 + Sterling. Cong. Ch. 30.00 + Topeka. Tuition 18.88 + + +MISSOURI, $207.06. + + Brookfield. Cong. Ch. 13.76 + Cameron. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Carthage. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Kahoka. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + Laclede. Rev. E. D. Seward and wife 3.00 + St. Louis. First Cong. Ch., 100; Cong. Ch., 5; Pilgrim + Cong. Ch., 61 166.00 + St. Joseph. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 + Springfield. Central Ch. 1.30 + + +COLORADO, $25.70. + + Colorado Springs. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 6.50; Mrs. + J. W. Pickett, 5 11.50 + Crested Butte. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + Denver. Cong. Ch., 5, and Sab. Sch., 5 10.00 + Manitou. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.20 + + +NEBRASKA, $115.52. + + Blair. First Cong. Ch. 7.00 + Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. 3.20 + Crete. Cong. Ch., 24.50; J. R. Little, 10 34.50 + Friend. Cong. Ch. 1.70 + Maineland. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + McCook. "A Friend" 9.00 + North Platte. "A Friend" 1.00 + Omaha. Mrs. Gaylord 10.10 + Sutton. First Cong. Ch. 4.62 + Syracuse. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + Waco. Cong. Ch. 2.40 + Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 25.00 + York. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 + + +DAKOTA, $94.36. + + Badger. Firesteel Cong. Ch. 1.58 + Dawson. Cong. Ch. 4.00 + Deadwood. Cong. Ch. 26.05 + Elk Point. Cong. Ch. 10.00 + Harwood. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + Hope. Cong. Ch. 6.03 + Iroquois. Cong. Ch. 1.00 + Jamestown. Mrs. M. S. Wells 5.00 + Springfield. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + Springfield. Chas. Seccombe, _for Rosebud Indian M._ .20 + Valley Springs. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 2.50 + Windsor. Mrs. Sarah P. Wirt 10.00 + ------ + $69.36 + + LEGACY. + + Wahpeton. Estate of Mrs. L. H. Porter, by Rev. Samuel + F. Porter 25.00 + ------ + $94.36 + + +CALIFORNIA, $30.00. + + Los Angeles. Mrs. Milo Whiting 5.00 + Lugonia. C. H. Lathrop 15.00 + Oakland. Rev. J. M. McPherron 10.00 + + +OREGON, $50.70. + + Oregon City. Friends in Cong. Ch. 10.00 + The Dalles. Rev. E. P. Roberts, 30, to const. MYRA + H. ROBERTS L. M.; First Cong. Ch., 10.70 40.70 + + +MONTANA, $3.00. + + Glendive. Cong. Ch. 3.00 + + +ARIZONA, $6.01. + + Benson. Rev. R. T. Liston, _for Rosebud Indian M._ 1.00 + Benson. Rev. R. T. Liston 5.01 + + +WASHINGTON T., $12.75. + + Houghton. First Ch. of Christ 5.25 + Skokomish. Rev. M. Eells 5.00 + Tacoma. Mrs. Eliza Taylor 2.00 + + +DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $7,610.62. + + Washington. U. S. Gov., _for Education of Indians_ 7,570.62 + Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey, 20; Lincoln Mem. + Ch., 10; ----, 10 40.00 + + +MARYLAND, $200.00. + + Baltimore. "A Friend" 200.00 + + +TENNESSEE, $4,060.75. + + Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00 + Memphis. Slater Fund 1,200.00 + Nashville. Slater Fund 2,800.00 + Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, 30.44; Jackson St. + Cong. Ch., 5 35.44 + Pomona. Cong. Ch. 4.94 + Sherwood. Union Ch. 8.37 + + +NORTH CAROLINA, $89.05. + + McLeansville. First Cong. Ch. 1.05 + Oaks. Cong. Ch., 11.64; Mission Band, 2.36 14.00 + Raleigh. Geo. S. Smith 10.00 + Wilmington. "Tithes, 30," to const. MISS A. E. + FARRINGTON L. M.; Cong. Ch., 34 64.00 + + +SOUTH CAROLINA, $30.00. + + Charleston. Cong. Ch. 30.00 + + +GEORGIA, $524.75. + + Atlanta. Kindergarten, Tuition 8.25 + Belmont. Cong. Ch. .50 + Cypress Slash. Cong. Ch., 6; Rev. Geo. C. Rowe, 4 10.00 + Macon. Slater Fund 500.00 + Miller's Station. Rev. Wilson Callen and Wife 5.00 + Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke 1.00 + + +ALABAMA, $2,181.15. + + Athens. Rev. H. S. Williams 12.00 + Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 15.00 + Selma. Cong. Ch., 27.15; Lady Teachers Cong. + S. S., 7 34.15 + Talledega. Slater Fund 2,000.00 + Talladega. Cong. Ch. 120.00 + + +FLORIDA, $69.00. + + Orange City. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 + St. Augustine. Rent 66.00 + + +MISSISSIPPI, $1,588.25. + + Tougaloo. Slater Fund 1,500.00 + Tougaloo. Rev. G. Stanley Pope and Wife, 50; Cong. + Ch., 20; Wm. D. Hitchcock, 10; Miss Kellogg, 1; + Sidney Daniels, 1; Rent, 6.25 88.25 + + +LOUISIANA, $17.20. + + New Orleans. Central Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. and + Individuals 17.20 + New Orleans. Pres. Hitchcock, Box of Minerals, + _for Talladega C._ + + +TEXAS, $625.48. + + Austin. Slater Fund 600.00 + Austin. Tuition 16.23 + Dallas. Cong. Ch. 2.25 + Paris. Cong. Ch., 3; Sab. Sch., 45c.; Woman's + Miss'y Soc., 1.55 5.00 + Paris. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Indian M., Fort + Berthold, Dak._ 2.00 + + +INCOMES, 1,349.69. + + Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 1,023.57 + Crane Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 8.34 + Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00 + General Endowment Fund 50.00 + Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 160.00 + Scholarship Fund, _for Straight U._ 57.78 + + +CANADA, $110. + + Montreal. Rev. John Fraser 10.00 + ----. "A Friend" 100.00 + ---------- + + Total for September $69,587.32 + Total from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 290,894.06 + ========== + + +FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. + + Subscriptions for September $48.00 + Previously acknowledged 1,209.68 + --------- + Total $1,257.68 + + * * * * * + + Watertown. Conn. Estate of Dr. John De Forest, by + Erastus L. De Forest, Ex., _for the benefit of + Hampton N. & A. Inst._ $5,000.00 + + +ENDOWMENT. + + Watertown. Conn. Estate of Dr. John De Forest, by + Erastus L. De Forest, Ex., _for President's Chair, + Talladega C._ $5,000.00 + ========= + + H. W. 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