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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 32, No. 04, April 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: September 18, 2016 [EBook #53078] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY - *** - - - - -Produced by KarenD, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXII. No. 4. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - APRIL, 1878. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - THE WARDS OF THE ALMIGHTY 97 - DOUGLASS AND HAYES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY 98 - CHURCH WORK IN THE SOUTH 99 - FOUR NEW MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA 100 - THE TWO INDIAN POLICIES 102 - NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES—ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS 103 - LIGHTS AND SHADOWS 104 - INDIAN NOTES 105 - CHINESE NOTES 106 - OBITUARIES 107 - - THE FREEDMEN. - - TALLADEGA COLLEGE 108 - NORTH CAROLINA: “A mighty still religion.” - “Good Christians is Peaceable.” 111 - ALABAMA: Debt-raising in a Colored Church 112 - LOUISIANA: Revival News 113 - TENNESSEE: Le Moyne Normal School—A Woman’s - Work Among Women 114 - KENTUCKY: Berea College 115 - HYMN 117 - - THE INDIANS. - - WASHINGTON TERRITORY: Three Indian Boys and - Their Letters. Rev. Myron Eells, S’kokomish 118 - INDIAN WELCOME TO AN AGENT. Dr. I. L. Mahan, - Red Cliff, Wis. 118 - - THE CHINESE. - - THE CHINESE NEW YEAR—MOB DENUNCIATIONS—THE GREAT - COMMISSION LESSENED—CONVERSIONS. Rev. W. C. - Pond, San Fransisco 119 - LETTER FROM AH JAM 120 - - THE CHILDREN’S PAGE 121 - - RECEIPTS 122 - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 126 - - * * * * * - - NEW YORK: - - Published by the American Missionary Association, - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - - * * * * * - - A. Anderson, Printer, 28 Frankfort St. - - - - - - _American Missionary Association_, - - 56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Rev. JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Ill. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - Rev. SILAS MCKEEN, D. D., Vt. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y. - Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill. - Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C. - Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La. - Rev. D. M. GRAHAM, D. D., Mich. - HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N.Y. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Ct. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - Rev. EDWARD L. CLARK, N. Y. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H. - DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J. - Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct. - Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct. - A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio. - Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn. - Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn. - Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa. - Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California. - Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon. - Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C. - Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis. - S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Rev. H. M. PARSONS, N. Y. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN WHITING, Mass. - Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct. - Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa. - Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct. - Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct. - Sir PETER COATS, Scotland. - Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng. - WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y. - J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago, Ill._ - - EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._ - H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Assistant Treasurer, N. Y._ - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_. - - - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - ALONZO S. BALL, - A. S. BARNES, - EDWARD BEECHER, - GEO. M. BOYNTON, - WM. B. BROWN, - CLINTON B. FISK, - A. P. FOSTER, - AUGUSTUS E. GRAVES, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - SAM’L HOLMES, - S. S. JOCELYN, - ANDREW LESTER, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - JOHN H. WASHBURN, - G. B. WILLCOX. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - -relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as _Assistant Treasurer_. - -A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. - -Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located. - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXII. APRIL, 1878. No. 4. - - * * * * * - - - - -_American Missionary Association._ - - - * * * * * - - -THE WARDS OF THE ALMIGHTY. - -The notable event connected with the formal presentation of Mr. -Carpenter’s picture “Signing the Emancipation Proclamation,” to the -United States, was the speech of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. It -was a graceful and significant act, when the former Vice-President -of the Southern Confederacy spoke such words of hearty good-will -at the reception of this commemoration of its death-blow. Mr. -Stephens claims for the South a share of the honor of emancipating -the slaves, since “the freedom of that race was never finally -consummated, and could not be, until the Southern States sanctioned -the Thirteenth Amendment. They accepted the proposition for -emancipation by a voluntary uncontrolled” adoption of it. - -Of the institution of slavery, as previously existing, he said: - - “If it were not the best relation for the happiness and - welfare of both races—morally, physically, intellectually and - politically—it was wrong and ought to have been abolished. This - I said of it years before secession, and I repeat it still. But, - as I have said, this is no time now to discuss those questions. - - “I have seen something of the world, and traveled somewhat, and I - have never yet found on earth a paradise. The Southern States are - no exception. Wherever I have been, I have been ready to exclaim - with Burns: - - “‘But, oh! what crowds in every land - Are wretched and forlorn! - - * * * * * - - Man’s inhumanity to man - Makes countless thousands mourn.’ - - “It was so at the South. It was so at the North. It is so yet. It - is so in every part of the world that I have seen.” - -In regard to the future relation of the races in this land, Mr. -Stephens speaks cautiously, and not unwisely. With many of the best -men of the South, he sees here a problem not easily to be solved, -and an outcome not lightly to be prophesied. He denies that any -Southern men desire a change back to the old relation of master and -slave. We quote again: - - “The question of the proper relation of the races is one of the - most difficult problems which statesmen or philanthropists, - legislators or jurists, ever had to solve. The former polity - of the Southern States upon this subject is ended, and I do - not think it inappropriate on this occasion to indulge in some - remarks with regard to the future. Since the emancipation, - since the former ruling race have been relieved of their direct - heavy responsibility for the protection and welfare of their - dependents, it has been common to speak of the colored race as - ‘the wards of the nation.’ - - “May I not say with appropriateness, in this connection, and - due reverence, in the language of Georgia’s greatest intellect - (Toombs), ‘They are rather the wards of the Almighty,’ committed - now, under a new state of things, to the rulers, the law-makers, - the law-expounders and the law-executors throughout this broad - land, within their respective constitutional spheres, to - take care of, and provide for, in that complicated system of - government under which we live? I am inclined, sir, so to regard - them, and so to speak of them—not in exceptional cases, but - as a mass. In the providence of God, why their ancestors were - permitted to be brought over here, it is not for us to say; but - they have a location and habitation here, especially in the - South, and since the changed condition of their status, though - it was the leading cause of the late terrible conflict of arms - between the States, yet I think I may venture to affirm there is - not one within the circle of my acquaintance, or in the whole - Southern country, who would now wish to see the old relation - restored.” - -Recognizing a national responsibility for the welfare and -protection of these freedmen, he closes with this ringing -exhortation: - - “This changed status creates new duties. The wardship has changed - hands. _Men of the North and of the South, of the East and of - the West—I care not of what party—I would to-day, on this - commemorative occasion, urge upon every one within the sphere of - duty and humanity, whether in public or private life, to see to - it that there be no violation of the Divine trust._” - -To which the _Independent_ gives its enthusiastic assent as follows: - - “Amen and Amen! Statesmen, patriots, Christians, listen to the - words of the Vice-President of the Confederate Government! They - speak the deepest feelings of the best men who fought against - the Union. There remains now for us the greater task of making - the freedmen worthy to enjoy and fit to adorn that freedom whose - proclamation was signed September 22d, 1862.” - - * * * * * - - -DOUGLASS AND HAYES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY. - -Surely, the colored people of the South are receiving plain talk -and good advice on all sides. Perhaps no one speaks more plainly -and penetratingly, and perhaps no one has a better right or ability -to do it, than the Hon. Frederick Douglass. At the reception of -an engraving of Mr. Carpenter’s picture, from the artist, by the -Howard University, he uttered honest words, and true. Speaking of -Mr. Stephens’ speech, in which he said it was yet to be proven -if emancipation was a blessing, Mr. Douglass replied that this -question was to be answered in the future, and meant that his race -was still on trial—on trial to see if they would be better masters -to themselves than their masters were to them—if they would rise -as early and work as late. - -In regard to his own people, he said: - - “Among the faults of my people are self-indulgence, love of - ease, and improvidence. They must learn to spend their earnings - judiciously. _If one can’t get up, he will be helped down._ They - have a fair chance to get up. They are on the way to Congress, - and if the negro can stand Congress, Congress ought to stand - the negro. The colored men have been forced up by abnormal - conditions, but they are now coming up gradually by their own - exertions.” - -This is the soundest kind of sense. Emancipation only struck the -shackles from the slave; it had no power to lift him up. Federal -force could hold him up by the arms, but he is still as limp as -ever, for all that; his ankle bones could not immediately receive -strength from it. “They have a fair chance to get up”; but that -does not get them up of itself. The stairways of education are -laid from the first story—yes, from the sub-cellar up through the -basement, flight after flight, to the top floor. But stairways do -not turn, end for end, to tumble people up. The paths of honest -industry and thrift are open; but they are all up-hill, and never -slide their travelers down into competence and respectability. -There is a chance to get up, but the freedman must do his own -climbing, after all. If there are some to dissuade him, by assuring -him that for him these ascents lead up to nothing worth the effort, -there are others to cheer him on, and to rejoice with him in each -new advance. But even such will be compelled to admit the justice -of the saying, “If one can’t get up, he will be helped down”; he -must not obstruct the way. He ought, however, to be encouraged, -by seeing such men as Douglass up so near the top. And those who -cannot encourage him by example, because they were born on higher -levels, surely may sympathize with him, in the remembrance of -their own toil, as they ascended on the same scale, though higher. -Let there not fail him, while he fails not to strive, cheers from -above, cheers from below, cheers from all around him, and a hand, -too, now and then, for him to grasp and get a friendly pull. The -stair builders must be in the way to help a little, just when heart -and strength are failing. - -President Hayes spoke, too, on the same occasion, and in much the -same line. Read this President’s Message: - - “The wisdom, the righteousness, and the grandeur of Abraham - Lincoln’s act of emancipation, no man will deny. That it has - conferred infinite blessings on our country, on both races, and - on the world, very few will question. This estimate of the act, - and of its results, will not be changed by the good conduct or - the bad conduct of either race. But it is said that the question - of the blessing conferred on the colored race depends on their - conduct. What they most need is, what Burns calls ‘the glorious - privilege of being independent.’ What this requires is, the - willingness to labor, and the prudence and self-denial to save - the fruits of labor. My young colored friends, let this, then, be - among your good resolutions: I will work, and I will save, to the - end that I may become independent.” - -That is good advice for any poor man, black or white. This picture -of the signing of the Emancipation Act can commemorate all of which -it is capable, only if the privilege of freedom be embraced as the -opportunity of manly toil, and the occasion of all patient effort -to become the equal of other men, not in external advantages and -rights half so much as in capacity and character. - -This is what we are working for among our colored brethren, and -especially among the youth, and with a measure of success which -makes us full of hope for their future and ours. We must be patient -to hold out the chances, and keep open the opportunities, as well -as they to toil and strive to use them. Most of all do we feel that -when we have succeeded in leading them to an intelligent Christian -experience, we have awakened in them the highest motive of which -the human mind is capable, and brought them under the most powerful -stimulus to the worthiest of all ambitions—to fit themselves, not -for high stations, but for useful work. - - * * * * * - - -CHURCH WORK IN THE SOUTH. - -Is the A. M. A. devoting a proper share of its work to the -extension of Congregational Churches in the South? The question is -a fair one, and deserves a frank answer. But the answer, to be just -to all interests concerned, must take a broad view of the whole -subject. The paramount duty of the nation, and especially of the -churches, to the emancipated slaves, is to fit them for their new -position as citizens, and their true destiny as men and Christians -in America, and as missionaries to Africa. Anything short of -this is less than our whole duty. The blacks are all religious -in their way, and nearly all are connected with churches. In the -matter of outward profession and inward emotion, the _quantity_ -is all that could be asked. It is in the _quality_ alone that a -change is needed. No Christian Church can discharge its duty to -them by merely denominationalizing them into its ranks, leaving -the essentials of character and Christian manhood unchanged. The -Congregational Churches of this country certainly will not be -satisfied with this low aim. - -But these Congregational Churches are, by the nature of the -case, compelled to work in methods differing from those of -other denominations. Methodists, Baptists, and, to some -extent, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, pre-occupy the ground. -Congregationalists were almost unknown among the blacks before -the war, and their efforts must naturally meet with sectarian -prejudice, somewhat in proportion to the ignorance of the people. -But, nevertheless, Congregationalism has a great responsibility -in regard to this people, in laying foundations on which to build -the essentials of character in civil and Christian life. It is -with this aim that the Association has, from the beginning, sought -to do its work—moving, with the progress of the colored people, -from the common-school to the more effective normal, collegiate -and theological teaching. The wisdom of its efforts is attested by -the commendations of those, both in the South and North, who are -most competent to judge, and also by the more convincing fact, that -it can point to 100,000 scholars in schools taught by its former -pupils, to the education it has given to many colored ministers, -and to the missionaries, born in slavery, trained in its schools, -and now sent to Africa. - -The church work must for a time, at least, grow out of, and keep -pace with, this Christian teaching, which prepares the people -to appreciate, and the minister to preach, a pure Gospel and a -practical morality. It were easy to scatter the seeds in a thin -and shallow soil, and gather a harvest that would wither while -it was gathering. A writer in one of the religious papers, who -censures the Association, makes this great boast, followed by a -frank confession: “With half of three millions of dollars I can -Congregationalize every negro in the South; _but, of course, the -work would not be permanent_.” The italics in this quotation are -ours, for we wish to call attention to the acknowledgment, and to -say that this transient work is precisely what the Association does -not attempt. It will not take the money of its patrons to start -ephemeral growths. It prefers, and we are sure its intelligent -friends will prefer, that it should plow deep, harrow thoroughly, -and sow “wholly a right seed,” that the gatherings may be an -hundred fold for the garner of the Master. - -An effort is made to stir up Congregationalists to plant _white_ -churches in the South. The project is not new, but its results -thus far have not been encouraging. Soon after the war, the Home -Missionary Society and the Congregational Union invested large -moneys in establishing such churches there, and we suppose that -their experience will lead them to ask for very clear evidence of -more favorable auspices before they will wish to renew the attempt. -But if it were renewed, it would only be an exaggeration of the -difficulties at the West, where feeble rival churches, in poor and -small communities, struggle against inevitable death. For, in the -South, we should have two feeble Congregational churches, the one -white and the other black, in still poorer and smaller places. And -more than all that, the A. M. A. has started its church work on the -only true Gospel basis, founding churches without distinction of -color. Its churches are not black by its ordination, and are only -made nearly so by the caste prejudice of the whites. It ought to -be understood that the progress of any people in civilization and -Christianity is a growth, taking form and bearing fruit according -to soil and climate, and that it cannot be produced to order, or at -the behest of mere theorists. - - * * * * * - - -FOUR NEW MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA. - -Many an experiment has failed because entered upon half-heartedly, -and tried on too small a scale to succeed. The height of wisdom -is to find the true line on which caution and courage meet. It -has been the purpose of the Association to do its part in the -evangelization of Africa, by missionaries of African descent, and -to begin in that effort so soon as our schools should begin to -furnish those qualified for such important work. - -Last fall, when, after the return of Mr. Billheimer and the death -of Barnabas Root, the Mendi Mission needed rëinforcement, the new -policy was begun by sending Messrs. Snelson, James and White to -the field. They arrived in due time, and entered at once heartily -upon their work. They have had some slight illnesses—almost, if -not quite all of them having suffered somewhat in the process of -acclimation—but at last accounts all were well again. If we are -fully informed, they have endured less inconvenience from this -cause than we anticipated. - -But the mission was still weak—Bro. Snelson the only minister. Two -of the white missionary helpers, who had been in the field before, -soon withdrew in impaired health. It was deemed wise, and, indeed, -indispensable, for the successful prosecution of the work, that the -ranks should be at once filled. It was decided to send three single -men, or better, if possible, two married men with their wives. A -letter was written to Fisk University, stating the need, which was -read without comment, at prayers, Feb. 8th. - -God’s Spirit took the message to the heart of Andrew E. Jackson, -and sent it by him to Albert Miller, and through them to Ella M. -Hildridge and Ada J. Roberts (also students at Fisk), to whom they -were respectively engaged, and three days later the four offered -themselves willingly for this far-off field. The faculty recognized -at once their fitness for the work; they were among the best and -brightest and most advanced of the students in their respective -departments. The four met daily for prayer together, and their -convictions and purposes were daily strengthened. The Executive -Committee accepted them promptly, and felt it necessary to press -their speedy departure, that they might reach the west coast of -Africa before the wet season should set in, when the conditions for -their acclimature would be less favorable than earlier. - -On Saturday of that week a council was convened, which, on the -following day, Sunday, Feb. 17th, ordained the two young men to -the Gospel ministry, they having each had considerable experience -in preaching. A farewell meeting of the students was also held on -the same day, full of heartiness and fervor, at which the following -resolution was unanimously adopted: - - “In consideration of the call of God to our brethren, to labor in - Africa, and in consideration of the many hours spent together in - Christian communion, - - “_Resolved_, That we devote a portion of each Sabbath morning - to prayer especially for them in their labors on the African - shores, that they may be abundantly blessed, both spiritually and - physically, and enabled to do good work for the Master.” - -We have no fear of a lack of missionary zeal henceforth in Fisk -University. But the manifestation of interest in this event was not -confined within its walls. All Nashville seemed aglow with friendly -enthusiasm. Dr. Rand, of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, -invited Miller into his pulpit, at the close of the Sunday morning -service, to address the congregation, which took up a liberal -collection for the outfit of the young missionaries. Their ages -range from twenty-one to twenty-seven. The Theological students -of Vanderbilt University invited them to an interview on Sunday -afternoon, at which they were most kindly received; and after -prayers together, and conversation, were the recipients of presents -of books and money. - -The next day, the double marriage was solemnized by Professors -Bennett and Spence, and later, a general farewell meeting was held -in St. John’s Chapel. The large building was crowded, and many went -away unable to find entrance. Prominent ministers from the city -and vicinity, representing the leading denominations of Christian -churches, were present. The tone of the meeting was congratulatory -and hopeful, as befitted the sending forth of these soldiers of the -Cross. - -At their leaving Nashville by the evening train, an immense crowd -gathered in and about the depot to see them off. A day or two only -was spent in New York, to make necessary purchases, and receive -instructions from the Secretary. On Thursday afternoon, a few -members of the Executive Committee, and representatives of the -religious press, held an informal interview with them. They each -told the story of their lives, of their struggles to acquire an -education, and of their religious experiences. All were deeply -impressed with the sincerity of their devotion, and with their -modesty and good sense as well. - -On Saturday, the 23d of February, they sailed for England, where -they arrived March 3d. By the 20th they were expected to reach -Freetown, and a few days later, their new home. - -We have thus fairly launched on the new experiment of African -evangelization by men and women of African descent, who have come -through American slavery to freedom. The nine adults together in -the field are enough to support each other’s courage and hold up -each other’s hands. But the field is far away; the perils of it are -peculiar; the path is a new one to these young men and women. We -trust in them with great confidence. But in the complications and -unforeseen emergencies which always may arise in a foreign field, -we feel that they need, more than most missionaries even, the -constant remembrances, in prayer, of the thousands of the friends -of Africa in our land and in Great Britain. We repeat most urgently -their parting request—“Brethren, pray for us.” - - * * * * * - - -THE TWO INDIAN POLICIES. - -Two radically different views have prevailed in this country from -the outset in regard to the treatment of the Indians—the one -represented by the word civilization, and the other by the word -extermination. The first of these was entertained by the Pilgrim -Fathers, and by the founder of Pennsylvania, and was carried out -apostolically by John Eliot, David Brainard, and others, as well -as by successful Indian missions of later date. But the effort -has been constantly obstructed by the hostilities between the -Indians and the white men, rendering the latter indisposed to -send the Gospel, and the former to receive it. The only decided -and comprehensive effort by the general Government, for the -civilization of the Indians, is the peace policy inaugurated by -General Grant, the results of which, in spite of all obstacles and -opposition, have been unmistakably and increasingly advantageous. -(1) As a class, the agents selected by the religious societies have -been far more trustworthy and efficient than their predecessors, -being themselves honest in their dealings with the Indian, and -defending them from the frauds of ring speculators, and the -temptations of the liquor dealers. (2) The progress of the Indians -in their industrial, educational and moral advancement has been -very marked, as is shown by a tabulated and comparative statement -of facts, prepared by the Board of Indian Commissioners, and -recently published. (3) The agents—representing all denominations, -and, therefore, not committing the government to sectarianism—have -most directly and heartily co-operated with the religious efforts -of the different churches for the evangelization of the Indians. -As the only possibility of civilizing the Indians lies in their -Christian enlightenment, the work of the religious societies, under -the fostering care of the government, gives the highest promise of -success. - -On the other hand, the policy of extermination has been tried from -the beginning. In the earlier days the struggle resembled the -border wars between England and Scotland, being mere temporary -raids, carried on with little expense. But modern warfare puts -another aspect on this contest with the Indians, making it vastly -more costly in men and money. It is believed that not a single -Indian has been killed by our army, at less than an average expense -of a million of dollars, and of the lives of one or more white men. -The War Department and the army are the natural representatives of -this policy, and if the Indians are transferred to their care, the -peace policy will be overthrown, and we fear that of extermination -substituted in its place. This apprehension involves no reflection -on the humanity of the officers and soldiers of the army, but the -inference is justified by the history of the past, and by the -fact that the business of an army is to destroy, and not to give -instruction. - -Much significancy is added to this question by the recent tables of -Major Clark, showing that the Indians are not decreasing in number. -They are here, and mean to stay. We cannot exterminate them, and -we ought, as a Christian people, to face manfully the other and -grander alternative of making them good citizens and sharers in the -blessings of the Gospel. - -One other thing should not be forgotten. This nation long oppressed -the black man, and the dread penalty came at length, whose -mementoes are in a million of soldiers’ graves, in broken homes and -hearts, North and South, and in the disturbance of all commercial -and industrial interests, under which the whole land still -trembles. If we persevere in our wrongs and neglects of the red -man, have we any hope that we shall escape similar retributions? -God still reigns! - - * * * * * - - -NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES. - -HAMPTON, VA.—“Five students united with the church by profession, -the first Sabbath in March. Others were advised to wait until they -had opportunity to prove themselves Christians by their Christian -works. There seems to be a continual work of grace extending -noiselessly and unobtrusively from heart to heart, and adding one -after another to the trophies of its victorious power.” - -MCLEANSVILLE, N. C.—Miss Douglass writes: “My Bible-class still -continues large. My room is crowded every Sabbath. After the class -was dismissed last night one young man, who wishes to fit himself -for a missionary, said, ‘I have taken a new resolution to be more -devoted than ever.’ He must soon leave school to earn more money. I -wish he could go on now.” - -SAVANNAH, GA.—Mr. Markham writes: “Our congregation is increasing -every week. God is with us. This is as clear as a sunbeam. I feel -His special aid. Two united with our church yesterday (March 3). -I am to go to Ogeechee next Sabbath. Nine will unite there. The -Sabbath-school at East Savannah is increasing. More than 100 are -now on the list.” - -MACON, GA.—“Yesterday (Feb. 10,) was a happy day to the Macon -church. Four children baptized, and five adults received into -membership. Of these, four are new converts—others will come -forward next month. Our daily prayer-meetings are continued. The -church is aroused to more activity, and we look for yet better -things.” - -WOODVILLE, GA.—“Six united with the church March 2d. Sunday-school -numbers nearly 100. Prayer-meetings are being held every evening. -The day-school has 92 scholars enrolled.” - -NEW ORLEANS, LA.—“The very interesting religious work still -continues. As many as fifty have been converted. Some of the very -hopeful cases are, or have been, nominal Catholics: others of the -same class are interested.” - -BEREA, KY.—“An interesting revival in progress—some twenty -conversions.” - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS. - -SAVANNAH, GA.—The Beach Institute in this city was destroyed by -fire on the morning of Feb. 20th. The fire began in a barn on the -premises in some mysterious way, and was speedily communicated to -the Institute building. The Teachers’ Home adjoining was saved, -the wall toward it standing. Part of the school furniture was also -saved. The building had, for a few years past, been rented to the -city school-board for a colored school. Notice had been given them -that the Association would require the building for its own use -next fall. The insurance money will replace the building, and a -school under the Association’s care will be opened as previously -planned. - -MARIETTA, GA.—“Our school opened for the first time Oct. 15th, -1877. The local prejudice was so great that only four scholars -attended. A change in the feeling has taken place, and the school -has, up to this time, enrolled 88 pupils. The colored people are -becoming eager to embrace their privileges. The children are -improving in knowledge and in care for themselves. The prospect is -full of encouragement.” - -FORSYTH, GA.—On February 1st, the school building of the colored -people of Forsyth was dedicated and set apart for the work -for which it was intended. For months these people have been -struggling to raise money to build the house. They had, as a -fund to start with, about two hundred dollars, which the colored -Baptist Church had collected. Subscription lists were opened and -the colored people and their white friends contributed as they -could. Contrary to the expectation of many, their success was -such that the building was framed and rapidly pushed forward. It -is not yet complete, lacking plastering, but is quite comfortable -nevertheless. The teacher, W. F. Jackson, a graduate of the Atlanta -University, has been indefatigable and untiring in his efforts to -press this enterprise to completion. Rev. E. A. Ware, President of -the Atlanta University, made the dedicatory address. - - * * * * * - - -LIGHTS AND SHADOWS. - -—A Southern man, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a book -agent for many years, reports that in the last two years he has -taken 280 orders from the colored people of Charleston for valuable -books, in many cases trusting them when cash payments could not be -made, and has not lost fifteen dollars. - -—A gentleman in Augusta, Ga., tells us he has sold over two -hundred house lots to colored people, who have paid for them in -small instalments, since the war. - -—The African Methodists have been holding an educational -convention in Georgia, Bishop Campbell presiding. From the -statements made by the Bishop and by Presiding Elder Brown, we -learn that wonderful progress in education has been made during the -last ten years. Ten years ago, in the Atlantic District, there was -but one man capable of keeping a minute of the transactions, “and -then it had to be read while it was hot, for if it ever cooled down -it could never be read again.” Now there is scarcely a preacher -who, besides reading and writing, has not pursued to some extent -the course of studies prescribed to candidates for the ministry. - -—It is pleasant to note how the freedmen are rising to the dignity -of self-support in their religious, as well as their material -interests. A missionary of the American Sunday-school Union, in -North Carolina, having recently organized three new Sunday-schools -among freedmen, writes, that at the close of one of his meetings -“an aged negro, of nearly seventy years, came forward with his -pennies to buy a primer for his grandson. His example was followed -until about two hundred pennies were piled upon the desk—the first -contribution of these poor but willing self-helpers.” - -—In seven years the students of Talladega College alone have -organized Sunday-schools in which have been taught over 20,000 -scholars. - -—Dr. Sears, agent of the Peabody Fund, says that in all the States -where there has been a re-action against education, it has been -followed by a return to better measures than ever. Thus, through -local actions and re-actions, the general forward movement is -assured. - -—One morning, in our school in Augusta, on calling for the First -Commandment with Promise, a little girl, hardly six years old, -said: “Honor thy father and mother, that thy days may be long in -the land of liberty.” That wasn’t very bad. - -—A colored Tennesseean says: “When I want to hear preaching, I go -to the Congregational Church; when I want to have a good time I go -to these other places.” - -—One of our faithful ministers in Georgia grieves over a recent -restoration to his pulpit of a neighboring colored pastor. He -says the white people wanted it, because (1) the man’s politics -suit them, (2) he is ignorant, and (3) he gets drunk. The colored -members of his church know nothing of Bible religion, and are like -their priest. On a recent Communion Sunday seven of them were seen -returning to their homes drunk—three just able to stagger on, and -four “being hauled out in a cart, not able to sit up.” The writer -says such churches cannot save these people, and mere secular -instruction will not cure such evils. The Christian school is the -only hope. - -—In another case, in the same State, a minister, going into a -church shortly after the close of a communion service, found the -deacons and a few of the members “eating and drinking and carrying -on as if they were in a bar-room.” Being expostulated with, they -said they did not feel at liberty to throw any of the bread and -wine away. It was evidently, however, a renewal of the old excesses -for which Paul so sharply rebuked the Church at Corinth. - -—A woman in one of the old-style churches, not far from one of -our best schools, “came through with religion” one night, and in -telling her wonderful “experience,” said she went to heaven, and -from there she saw this whole school “marching down to hell with -their Bibles in their hands.” - - * * * * * - - -INDIAN NOTES. - -—The House Committee on Indian Affairs has reported in favor -of the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the -War Department. Its grounds are (1) the failure of the attempts -to civilize; (2) the divided responsibility between Secretary -and Commissioner—between civil and military officers; (3) the -corruption of the present Indian service; (4) the economy of the -change, which will furnish employment for retired and idle army -officers who receive pay. - -—Precisely what civilizing agencies would be brought to bear upon -these people under the War Department is not stated in the report. -Whether the school and the church would be allowed, or only the -stockade and the garrison; whether bullets should take the place of -books, and guns of Gospel. This does not follow of necessity, only -from the despairing tone in regard to the attempts to civilize. - -—We beg our readers to notice carefully what class of men, as a -whole, sustain and desire the change to the War Department, and -what sort of men oppose it. There is great significance in such -discriminations. - -—The recent Sioux war cost $2,313,531 in money, and 283 men -killed, among whom was the gallant Custer and his staff, and 125 -wounded. - -—_Sunday Afternoon_ says: “It costs the United States about $1,700 -a year to support a soldier fighting the Indians. It costs the -American Board about half as much to support a missionary preaching -to them. Would it not be cheaper to send more missionaries and -fewer soldiers?” - -—Hon. A. C. Barstow, one of the Indian Commissioners, and a man -thoroughly conversant with the whole subject of Indian affairs, -gives the following opinion regarding this important branch of our -Civil Service and the men who control it. He says: - - “The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs is an able man, of - large business experience, and, moreover, (as chairman of the - Purchasing Committee of the Board of Indian Commissioners for - two or three years, and up to within a few months of entering - this office), of large experience in Indian affairs. There is no - man in the country whom corrupt contractors have more learned to - fear and to hate; and, in my opinion, they are the men who are - fanning this flame of excitement, and who are exerting all their - influence to turn the administration of Indian affairs over to - the War Department. They are pinched by the present policy, and - desire change. They cannot suffer by this or any change, and may - be benefited—hence, their noisy zeal. I am sorry that any good - man has for a moment been led to believe that the Secretary of - the Interior is open to the influence of this class of men. I - think the public may safely quiet their fears upon this point. - Whatever else may be said of him, he is not a ‘bird of that - feather.’ From what I have seen, I think the public may look for - an administration of his department not only honest but able, and - may also be assured that the policy of President Hayes toward the - Indians will be eminently humane and Christian.” - -—The educational work among the Indians may be summed up from -the Commissioner’s report for 1877, as follows: There are 251,000 -Indians, and 28,000 half-breeds, exclusive of Alaska. Among them -are 330 schools, of which 60 are boarding-schools, with 437 -teachers; and 11,515 pupils have attended at least one mouth. -Largest monthly average, 4,774; average for the year, 3,598; -expense to the government, $255,379; to Tribal funds, $81,989; to -the religious societies, $33,950; in all, $371,318; 40,397, of whom -23,196 are adults, can read; 1,206 learned to read last year. - -—The religious items, drawn from the same source, show 207 church -buildings on the reservations; 126 missionaries, not included -among teachers; expended by religious societies, $36,164; 27,215 -are members of the mission churches of all denominations. We -question whether the $36,000 reported as expended by the religious -societies, represents, even approximately, the full amount given -from this source, since the A. B. C. F. M. and the Presbyterian -Board, together, expend annually nearly this amount. We claim that, -considering all the disadvantages of his condition, and the fewness -of the laborers, the results are gratifying and hopeful. - - * * * * * - - -CHINESE NOTES. - -—The House Committee on Education and Labor made a report, -February 25th, on the Chinese question, of which we give the -following abstract: Since the first treaty with China, in July, -1844, the migration has been on the steady increase for the last -twenty years—from 1855 to 1859, it was 4,530; 1860 to 1864, it -was 6,600; from 1865 to 1870, it was 9,311; from 1871 to 1874, it -was 13,000. —— The lowest estimate of Chinamen in California is -150,000. From the density of population in China, and the lowness -of wages, from their migratory disposition, and the attractions -of our congenial climate, high wages and liberal government, and -the cheapness and safety of the voyage hither, an increasing -rate of immigration is prophesied. —— While the Chinaman is -desirable merely as a laborer, he has neither home, self-respect, -nor underclothes, and lives on rice, tea and dried fish. He has -low ideas of religion, labor, women and virtue. —— He does not -assimilate with the American people, and is unchanged by contact. -He does not mean to stay, and will not even contribute his dead -body to our national welfare. He cannot be made into a soldier, or -even a juryman. —— He is proud of Confucius, and vainly boasts of -China as the central nation of the world. He is, and will remain, -distinct “in color, size, features, dress, language, customs, -habits and social peculiarities.” - -The joint resolution relative to Chinese immigration is as follows: - -“_Whereas_, It appears that the great majority of Chinese -immigrants are unwilling to conform to our institutions, to become -permanent residents of our country, and accept rights and assume -responsibilities of citizenship; and, - -”_Whereas_, They have indicated no capacity to assimilate with our -people; therefore, - -“_Resolved_, That the President of the United States be requested -to open correspondence immediately with the Governments of China -and Great Britain, with the view of securing a change or abrogation -of all stipulations in existing treaties which permit unlimited -immigration of Chinese to the United States.” - -—Cheap labor, whether by machine or by man-power, has always been -resisted by those whom it has displaced. But it always pushes -the more intelligent laborers up and not down. It has been so in -California. Men are now foremen who were only fruit-pickers, and -engineers who were only miners before Chinese labor came in. - -—Race unions, to keep prices of labor up, and to put competition -down, are no better than other unions for these purposes. All such -combinations are both short-sighted and selfish. - -—In the San Francisco _Bulletin_, we find the following -schedule of labor rates in that city: Carpenters, from $3 to -$3.50 a day; bricklayers, $4 to $5; painters, $3; plasterers, -$3.50; hod-carriers,$3; stone-cutters, $4; machinists, $3 to $4; -brass-founders, $4.50; common laborers, $2; woolen mills, $2.50 to -$3.50; domestics, $25 to $30 a month—not more than two children -allowed in an employer’s family at that. It can be seen at a glance -that these wages are twice those paid in the Eastern States for -corresponding work. Does Chinese competition keep these prices up, -or does California need less homeopathic doses of “China” to bring -her prices somewhere near the level of her sister States? - -—By the statistics of the arrivals and departures for 1877, it -appears that 9,906 passengers arrived from China and Japan, and -7,852 returned, showing an excess of 2,054 arrivals, not all of -whom, indeed, were Mongolians; while the deaths of Chinese exceeded -2,054. It would seem that our Christian statesmen of San Francisco -might repress their morbid solicitude, in view of these encouraging -facts. - - * * * * * - -We trust our readers will notice carefully the accounts of our -various educational institutions as they appear in order from -month to month. These articles are intended to give a view of -the peculiar work, and appliances for work, of these schools and -colleges. Next month, we expect to publish an article on Tougaloo -University, Mississippi; and, in June, one on Straight University, -Louisiana. Others will follow in such order as their special -circumstances may determine. - - * * * * * - -We find that we are at liberty to say to our readers, that the -touching little poem entitled “Christ in the Person of the Poor,” -which appeared in our February MISSIONARY, was from the pen of the -Rev. ELI CORWIN, D. D., of Jacksonville, Illinois. - - * * * * * - - -OBITUARIES. - -The heroes of the anti-slavery struggle are passing away. The -Tappans, Joshua Leavitt and others finished their course in the -last few years, and now we record the death of two others of their -compeers. - -REV. WM. GOODELL was born in Chenango County, N. Y., Oct. 25th, -1792. In his earlier years he acquired a practical knowledge of -business affairs, but it was as a thinker, writer and reformer -that he has made his mark in the world. He will be remembered -as an editor and author, devoted earnestly and successfully to -promoting reform in many directions, but especially in relation to -intemperance and slavery. Mr. Goodell was present at the Convention -in Albany, N. Y., at which this Association was formed, and took -a prominent and effective part in its proceedings, preparing and -reporting the elaborate address to the Christian public, which -was adopted and sent forth as embodying the views on which the -Convention based the new organization. From that time to the close -of his life, his sympathy for our work was constant and earnest. - -REV. J. S. GREEN died at his home in Makawao, Sandwich Islands, -Jan. 5th, 1878, in the 82d year of his age. Mr. Green went out -as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1828, in company -with Andrews, Gulick and others, and shared in effecting the -wonderful transformation in those Islands. In 1842 Mr. Green -resigned his connection with the American Board, and from that -time until his death was a pastor, depending for his support upon -his own labor and the contributions of his people. His strong -anti-slavery sympathies led him to seek a connection, yet without -salary, with the Union Missionary Society and subsequently with -this Association, when that Society was merged into it. His name -appeared for years in our list of foreign missionaries, and his -reports were full and interesting. His ready pen, not satisfied -with mere reports, was prolific in contributions on missionary -subjects, and earnest in its denunciations of the evils of slavery -in his native land. He was a man of deep and earnest piety, and his -memory will be cherished in the warm regard of those who knew his -worth and his useful career. - -DEATH OF TEACHERS. - -The painful intelligence has reached us of the death, on February -17th, of typhoid fever, after a four weeks’ illness, of Mr. -MARMADUKE C. KIMBER, of Germantown, Pa., aged nearly twenty-four -years. The son of one of the valued friends and trustees of Hampton -Institute, Mr. Kimber, when just out of college in 1872, gave his -services to the school for two years as a volunteer teacher. Since -then he has been professor in a Western college, and after a year -of travel in Europe, he took charge of the Friends’ Academy in -Germantown, which position he held at the time of his death. He is -remembered with sincerest esteem by the officers of the school and -teachers who were associated with him at Hampton, and the students -who were under his instruction.—_Southern Workman._ - -MRS. ALICIA S. (BLOOD) BROWN died at Leavenworth, Kansas, on the -26th of February. Mrs. Brown was for some years a teacher under -this Association at Monticello, Florida, and her many friends there -will remember the faithful instruction she gave and the kindnesses -she bestowed. Her illness was long and severe, but when she did -_not_ look for the Messenger, he came and took her away. In the -midst of her sufferings, she could cheerfully say, that she wanted -to “bear and suffer all His will.” - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - - * * * * * - - -TALLADEGA COLLEGE. - -REV. E. P. LORD, PRESIDENT. - -Almost in the very centre of Alabama, the great Allegheny range -makes a last and only partially successful effort at rearing -mountains, before losing itself in the low, flat _black belt_. Thus -the pure and exhilarating atmosphere of more Northern latitudes -is brought to the very border of the almost tropical country that -belts the Gulf. Overlooking the rich, populous, and somewhat -unwholesome low-lands, breathing the pure mountain air, is situated -Talladega, seeming to have been Providentially placed as a city -of refuge for the colored people of Alabama. The beauty of the -surrounding landscape is a perpetual inspiration to teachers and -students. The location of the college, in a quiet country village -of two thousand inhabitants, invites the young people from the -cities, and less favored localities, to an atmosphere as pure and -healthful morally as it is physically. - -But one other Southern State, if any, has so large a colored -population as Alabama. A half million are now in the State, and the -number is continually increasing. Of these, three-fifths cannot -read. There are about two hundred thousand children of school age, -and only one in ten of these was in school last year. Eighty-three -cents only was expended upon the education of each of those who did -attend. One would hardly judge that this could afford a _liberal_ -education. - -In a State needing moral and educational efforts so greatly, the -A. M. A. has opened schools and organized churches in Mobile, -Montgomery, Selma, Marion, Athens, and a few other places. In 1870 -the Association established Talladega College, as the key-stone of -the arch, or the centre of its system of educational and religious -work in Alabama. The college is closely connected with the other -points of the Association’s work in this State by means of the -intimate social relations between the faculty of the college and -the workers in those places. - -The various departments designated by the name _Talladega College_, -are so closely interwoven that any distinct mention of the workings -of one must contain facts closely related to the others. For -convenience I will speak of (1) the Literary Department; (2) the -Industrial Department; (3) the Theological Department; (4) the -Church Work. - -The Literary Department. - -This includes the various grades, from the elementary to the -higher Normal course, the latter requiring three years for its -completion. The studies pursued include in mathematics, University -Algebra and Geometry; in science, Physical Geography, Physiology, -Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, English Literature, Mental and -Moral Philosophy, etc., with the theory and practice of teaching. -Its students have accomplished much in teaching throughout the -State. In seven years, according to their reports to the principal, -these students have taught about five hundred day-schools, with -fifteen thousand scholars. At the same time they have organized -Sabbath-schools, and taught in them over twenty thousand scholars. -These numbers fairly represent the power these young people have -exerted for the moral and intellectual elevation of their people in -this and other States. There are in the department seventy pupils. -Next year a large number will be admitted from the intermediate -grade, which now numbers one hundred, though, in our present -poverty, it has had but one teacher the greater part of the year. - -There are in attendance this year two hundred and fifty students, a -much larger number than ever before, and there is every indication -of an increase the coming year. During the last vacation the -principal and the music teacher, with a company of students, -visited many of the larger places of the State, lecturing, giving -concerts, and stirring up the people generally on the subject of -education. The Christian zeal and deportment of the students, and -the information diffused, awakened a desire for education, and a -public sentiment in favor of Talladega College never before known. -The last commencement exhibited and also increased the new love -and enthusiasm for the college. They gathered from the country for -twenty miles around, on foot, on mules, in ox-carts and wagons. -All the examinations were largely attended; many who could not -read taking the liveliest interest in “two unknown quantities,” -and experiments in philosophy. An instructive address by Rev. Dr. -Brown, of Newark, N. J., the prize declamations and essays by -fourteen of the Normal students, the graduating exercises of three -young men from the Theological Department, the concert by the -Musical Union, and other interesting exercises, furnished the only -means for comprehending a liberal education, which hundreds of the -great crowds in attendance had ever enjoyed. - -The students, also, are taking a personal pride in bringing back -the best scholars from their summer schools. One young man, having -failed to collect any funds from his summer school in Georgia, -started with his most advanced pupil on foot, their satchels upon -their backs. Walking, riding in chance carts, and helped on by -railroad conductors, who were evidently influenced to surprising -kindness by the spirit of the Master, they reached this place. -Incited by the enthusiasm of this young man, three more have -followed him from his distant field of labor. From Mississippi, -another young man brought back two. They walked about one hundred -miles, and are now paying their way in school by labor on the -college farm. - -Both have begun earnest Christian lives, and are soon to unite with -the church. - -All the young men of the college are organized into a battalion of -cadets for physical culture. Their government is conducted by means -of this organization, its officers being held responsible for the -conduct of the members, and being expected to set an example of -manliness and courteous deportment. We find this to be one of the -most potent factors of their moral as well as physical development. - -Industrial Department. - -At the close of the last school year, the Industrial Department -was decided upon. One of the professors, with the approval of -the Association, immediately proceeded to lay the matter before -friends in the North; and the teachers gathered from all sources -whatever they could secure, with which to begin the work. About -three thousand dollars have already been received, and work in the -following branches begun: - -A printing press was secured, with which to bring our wants before -the people of the North, and our influence to bear upon the -intelligent colored people. Six students have learned a useful -trade, and by its means are paying their way in school. In August -they began the publication of the _Southern Sentinel_, a small -eight-page paper, of which five hundred copies are issued monthly. -Should any one doubt its usefulness, a year’s subscription (one -dollar) would be an excellent test. Six hundred copies of the -Sabbath-school Lesson papers, prepared with reference to the -peculiar needs of our Sabbath-schools, are also printed, together -with a large quantity of other matter. - -Work upon the farm was begun in September. In October one hundred -and sixty acres were bought, in addition to the thirty acres -already owned by the college. The citizens of the place, both white -and colored, have become deeply interested in the success of the -enterprise. Gifts of all kinds, from a little girl’s pet chicken, -to a fine eighteen dollar plow from a merchant of the town, and -from an old auntie’s half-peck of potatoes to a fine cow and calf -from one of the deacons of the college church, and varying in -amounts from five cents to fifty dollars, have been given. Our most -intelligent citizens say that no other enterprise for the benefit -of the colored people has ever aroused so much interest among them -as the Agricultural Department. - -In the Girls’ Industrial School, sixteen young women are earning, -wholly or in part, their board and tuition; while, at the same -time, learning ways and methods which will make hundreds of homes -brighter and happier. - -In mechanical work, five hundred dollars’ worth of building and -repairing has been done, under the direction of an excellent -carpenter. - -In these different departments of labor, the students have already -received about fifteen hundred dollars as wages, in board and -tuition. - -Theological Department. - -If the colored people are to be elevated, in no class is education -more necessary than in the ministry. One of the leading Baptist -ministers in the State, being asked how many of the young ministers -educated in their schools were now in the ministry in this State, -replied “One, and we expect soon another.” Yet this church includes -by far the largest number of the colored people. To meet this -great want, a Theological Department was organized in connection -with the college in 1872. Four young men constituted the first -class, three of whom are now in the ministry. The number of pupils -last year was twenty-seven; at present it is nineteen. The decrease -is owing to the requirement of a higher standard in literary -training. The colored people are naturally theologians and Bible -students. Three distinct lines of study are pursued, all of which -have special reference to practical, Christian work. (1) To make -the pupils familiar with the facts of the Bible. (2) To establish -them in a system of Christian theology. (3) To acquaint them with -the best methods of Christian work. Twenty-five Sabbath-schools are -carried on by the students. Six of these have grown into churches, -the young men acting as their pastors. Sabbath-school Conventions, -and various other kinds of Christian work, are conducted by the -students, often assisted by teachers from the college. This -department has a library of over eight hundred volumes. - -Church Work. - -We doubt if anywhere else in the South the Church and School are -both so strong and so closely united as here. The Congregational -Church of Talladega was organized in 1868. There are at present -one hundred and forty-nine members, with a Sabbath-school of three -hundred. Of course the larger part are students, but a goodly -number are citizens, heads of families, having good homes, and -being comparatively prosperous. Not only the members of this -church, but of the other churches in the village, are thoroughly -interested in whatever affects the college. In all the church -services citizens and students mingle, with always a sprinkling -of members from other churches. In the social gatherings of the -students, the members of the church are always welcomed, and -enter heartily into their pleasures. Thus the college is anchored -by means of the church in the hearts of the people themselves. -Many colleges are held in their present location by the force of -gravity, or by the adhesive force of brick and mortar alone; but -Talladega College, were her buildings burned to the ground, or -blown aloft into the air, would remain firmly fixed in the hearts -and affections of the people. - - * * * * * - - -NORTH CAROLINA. - -“A mighty still religion.” “Good Christians is Peaceable.” - -MISS MARTHA MOORE, WILMINGTON. - -With a larger working force this year, we are able to do more -outside work, and we find in our visits among the people plenty -of poverty, misery and sin. We almost wonder if _any power_ is -sufficient to raise them from their degradation. Yet, the many -noble exceptions bring to view the _possibilities_ of the race, and -encourage us to labor on. - -To show how the old heathenish idea of religion seems to those who -have received more light, I will copy a letter from one who, only a -year ago, was led to embrace the truth and to join our church. She -writes from her old home in the country, where she is spending the -winter with her father. She has, as you will see, a very limited -education. She writes: - - “DEAR FRIENDS: I arrieved home safe found All injoying helth I - went with Brother to the Sunday School But Could not Injoy it; - Some had their spelling Books And Some their testaments and - speled And read the lessons over and out to play. then the Church - gather in to Class and in a half hour every bodys mouth was open - and their was nothing to be heard But I have been redeemb. I - stod aside and look at them till at last one of them Caime to - me saying sister what are you doing havent you got the Spirit - on yet? why, your religeon dead why what sort of Still thing is - this. ha you must be up And a doing let the world no that you - got the spirit on Show your light and let them see. Well I says - I think that a very poor way to show the Christian light. O well - if you say this a poor way you got no religeon honey; what Church - you belong to. I tole them, why I never heard of that before - well if they are like you I don’t no how it is but its mighty - still religeon well I says Im Sorry that you all think that - unless you Make a loud noise the world wont see your Light. I - believe in showing the light in our walk And Conversation home - and abroad not wait to go To the Church; But they say you must - get the Spirit on, so you see its imposible for me to injoy their - worship. I hope you will all pray for my deliverence for I do not - think the lord intend to keep Me in this purgatory. - - “Yours, L. S.” - -We have in our night-school some who are making great efforts to -improve in knowledge. It requires no little resolution, after -working hard all day, to walk a mile or two and study two or three -hours. A stranger came a few weeks ago, wishing, as he said, “to -cultivate his brain.” There was evidently need of it, and we were -glad to learn that his recent conversion had awakened him to the -importance of knowing how to read for himself. He also expressed a -wish to come here to church, as he had become acquainted with one -of our members, who, as he said, “seemed to be a good, civil sort -of Christian,” and he thought he would come and see what kind of -meetings produced that effect. He had attended another church, but -said he “didn’t like there, for they had some crossness, and good -Christians is peaceable; they can’t help being peaceable”;—a good -lesson for all who bear the Christian name. - -Our Sunday-school averages about 130, and the truth seems to be -gaining a firmer hold in the minds of some of the older pupils. The -day-school is prospering. One of the little ones of the primary -department, a bright little fellow, was yesterday laid in his grave. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Debt-Raising in a Colored Church. - -REV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY - -At the annual meeting of the church, in December, it was found that -of the $100 pledged to the pastor’s salary, only $25 had been paid; -and that an old debt for sexton’s services remained, amounting to -$34. In the extra effort made to pay for the painting and repair -of the church, and other expenses in spring and summer, these -things had been neglected. It was a surprise, and, of course, a -disagreeable one to many of the church; but there was a decided -feeling that the amount ought to be raised at once, and not left -to be a burden on the church any longer. A debt of $109 is as much -to this people as some of the $50,000 debts, which Mr. Kimball has -been helping churches North to clear away, are to them. Therefore, -it seemed to me that the matter was one to be carefully and -prayerfully managed. I appointed a meeting for the consideration -of the matter, and opened it by reading Chaps, viii. and ix. of 2d -Cor., and briefly explaining their teachings. Then we spent half an -hour in prayer, the brethren bringing the burden right to the Lord -in the simplest and most touching language, expressing their sorrow -and self-reproach at having failed to make good their promises, and -asking forgiveness and help. Then they talked the matter over, and -decided to raise the amount at once by subscription. A fair was -suggested, but the decision was against it, on the ground that it -wasn’t quite honorable to call in outside help to make good their -own delinquency; and, moreover, that a fair involved a great deal -of unprofitable labor and excitement, and was a fruitful mother -of dissensions. These points they made themselves, and in view of -them they decided to raise the amount by voluntary offerings. The -subscription began at once, and the matter being presented to the -church for two successive Sundays, the whole amount was raised by -voluntary pledges. I am certain that the brethren who so cheerfully -and promptly pledged, and paid, $7.50 and $6 and $5, gave as -abundantly, in proportion to their means, as those who pledged -$5,000 and $2,000 at Providence. The spirit in which it was done -was the most beautiful part of it. It was more than willingly done. -The gifts were brought forward thankfully, joyously, and I never -saw happier people in my life than those who joined in thanksgiving -to God, when the whole amount was raised. We observed the week of -prayer, with meetings every evening, and there was real evidence -of the presence of the Spirit. One who has long been in the dark -was brought out into the light; and it seemed to us that we must go -forward. We had meetings for two weeks with good attendance, and -very tender feeling. Quite a number of people rose for prayers, and -we hope that four at least have found the Saviour. The church has -certainly been quickened and strengthened very much. - - * * * * * - - -LOUISIANA. - -Revival News—“Pray for My Child!”—Older Converts—Romanists -Reached. - -MRS. T. N. CHASE, NEW ORLEANS. - -You will rejoice to hear of the good work in the Central -Congregational Church of New Orleans. The interest has been -sufficient to bring an unusual number every night for four weeks to -our prayer-meeting. One evening, after the pastor had taken nearly -the usual time, he called for brief testimony from Christians. -Fifty-three responded in the limited half hour. - -The fruit to be gathered in was from among the older students of -the school, who were not already professing Christians. This was -what would be expected by those who know their faithful, Christian -teachers. All teachers know the thrilling interest that clusters -around the conversion of young persons under their tuition. So, as -I have heard our teachers talk of this scholarly young man, and -that promising young woman, coming over to the Lord’s side, I knew -very well what a burden of prayer and effort was lifted from their -hearts and hands. - -The third week of our meetings a younger class seemed interested. -One evening a widow begged us to pray for her daughter, in tones -that would have melted a heart of stone. As she passed out of the -door, at the close of the meeting, I overheard her saying to one -and another, “Pray for my child! pray for my child!” An earnest -mother, I thought; who can doubt the reality of her religion? On my -way home I learned that her husband had been a devoted member of -our church, and a wealthy, intelligent, respected colored citizen. -I am happy to find such men are not rare in New Orleans. The next -evening the mother, with the same pleading earnestness, begged us -to pray for her child. Since her husband’s death her property had -gone, other dear ones had passed on, and it seemed as though she -could not be denied the conversion of her child. The grandmother -was present, too, and gave us a soul-stirring testimony of her long -pilgrimage. When those who wished our prayers were requested to -come forward, several responded. All were strangers to me; but when -a certain little girl went forward just behind the others, a tide -of emotion almost overcame me. She was as much a stranger to me -as the others, and I, for a moment, wondered at my tears. Then it -flashed upon me that she must be the widow’s child, and my emotion -was caused by the flood of sympathy that was involuntarily surging -from heart to heart for that praying mother. On inquiry, I found -I was not mistaken. You can imagine, better than I can describe, -the scene, when mother and grandmother gathered about the child, -pleading with her to yield to Jesus, as we all knelt to commend the -lost lambs to a loving Shepherd. - -Now, the older people are being reached. Friday evening a man came -in late to escort his wife home. Saturday he came early, and at -the very first opportunity was on his feet, saying, “For forty -years I hadn’t thought I had a soul till I came in here last night. -Help me to find Jesus.” He went forward, fell upon his knees, and -was so penitent it did not seem strange that that very night the -publican’s God sent him “to his house justified.” As he met our -pastor the next morning at church, he exclaimed, “Mr. Alexander, -you convinced me, but Jesus saved me.” It would do a stoic good to -look upon his beaming face and see what grace has done for that man. - -It seems to me that the most interesting feature of the A. M. -A. work in New Orleans is its leavening influence upon Roman -Catholicism. I was talking, after service one evening, with a -beautiful girl who had been forward for prayers, and whose face -wore a genuine look of deep contrition. On asking her if she -attended church here regularly, she replied, “No; I go to the -Catholic Church.” Another girl was sitting beside a member of our -family one evening, when a boy behind whispered to her, “Don’t you -ask for prayers! if you do, I’ll tell the priest!” I hear that a -large number in the school are professed Catholics, but are allowed -to attend on account of the superior instruction. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -Le Moyne Normal School. - - MEMPHIS, TENN., _Feb. 16th, 1878_. - -The Le Moyne teachers, last year, organized among themselves -a reading circle for their own pleasure and improvement. Each -Thursday evening was devoted to the study of an author. After -a while, other friends were invited to join them for a single -reading. The custom was continued after the long vacation, and -became a part of the family life. - -So much interest was manifested among the occasional guests, that -some of them proposed that the circle be enlarged to include all -the colored teachers of the city. The proposal was favorably -received, and the new literary society has superseded the original. -The character of exercises has been changed to meet the demands of -this wider and different element. The programme this week was as -follows: - -_Historical_: “Benjamin Franklin—his public life; his private -life.” _Poetical_: “Longfellow—sketch of his life; selections -from his writings.” _Debate_: “Resolved, that the Crusades were -a benefit to the world.” “Humorous Reading.” _Scientific_: “Cell -Life.” “Budget.” - -Music is interspersed, and discussions upon different topics are -presented. Ten minutes is the utmost time allowed each participant. -The only drawback is the lack of books of reference. Our small -library furnishes some assistance, and the additions made to it -from time to time help us in our preparations for the literary -society. - -Friday evenings are devoted to an equally interesting and -well-attended gathering of a more devotional character. The -Sabbath-school teachers, who use the International Lessons, meet in -one of the school-rooms for studying the next Sabbath’s lesson. It -is one of the most enjoyable hours of the week. - -The first suggestion of united study came from the superintendent -of the leading Methodist Sabbath-school. Others at once acceded -to the proposal, and heartily join in the exercises. Topics are -assigned to members of various schools, so that special preparation -is previously made, and very little time is wasted during the -meeting. - -Methodist, Baptist and Congregational superintendents succeed one -another in leading the meetings. Denominational lines are forgotten -in seeking to learn the truths of the Bible, and in considering -the best methods of presenting those truths to classes. The ten -minutes of devotion, at the beginning of each meeting, include the -discussion of a practical subject. “How to secure the influence of -the Holy Spirit in the hearts of our scholars,” “Best methods of -conducting Infant Classes,” “Opening and closing exercises of the -school,” are a few of the topics considered. - - * * * * * - - -A Woman’s Work among Women. - -MISS HATTIE MILTON, MEMPHIS. - -My mission, thus far, has been mostly to the lowly. The first -step was to become acquainted with the people and secure their -confidence, which had to be accomplished in various ways; sometimes -by taking a great interest in the children, lending them books, -giving them pictures, candy, toys, etc., or by giving the mother -a little assistance or advice about her work. Sickness affords a -good opportunity. I visited one family where the mother had been -helpless for some time from a beating given her by her husband. -I dressed her wounds, made clothing for her infant, washed and -dressed it, set the neighbors to work, and thus secured the -confidence of the whole neighborhood; now I am welcomed into homes -where before I was treated with coldness and suspicion. I reach a -great many through my sick ones. - -Some little Sabbath-school girls in Crete, Ill., sent us a box -of bedding and clothing, which has been a great help in my work; -also, my friends at Romeo, Mich., sent a box of clothing, toys, -books, and material for my sewing-school, all of which has been a -God-send to me, as I find some very destitute families. The city -does nothing for the poor colored people, so my opportunity is all -the greater for doing good. - -I find many who cannot read and who are very glad to hear the Bible -read. Some have even offered to pay me for reading to them, at the -same time saying, “You must need it, you dear child, if you have -left your friends and home to come and work for the poor colored -people.” - -It is astonishing how little these people know about the Bible, -although they have attended church for years. Those who cannot -read find it so hard to understand the preaching, and those who -could read a little to them ‘could not give the understanding,’ as -they say. When I had finished my Bible reading with one family, -they said: “Please, ma’am, come every Sabbath, we get so much more -satisfaction from hearing you read than we do anywhere else.” I -endeavor to visit them at such hours as not to interfere with -their work, and often read and explain the Bible to a woman while -she proceeds with her sewing or ironing; however, some insist on -laying aside work, saying, “We must give our whole attention to the -word of God when we do have a chance to hear it”; and it is quite -affecting to have them thank the kind heavenly Father for sending -some one to teach them ways they knew not of, and pray to become -better women for having received the instruction. - -The missionary and those who send her do not lack for prayers from -the colored people. I have a Mothers’ Meeting once a week, where I -endeavor to teach them from the Bible their duties as mothers and -wives; also a sewing-school, where we teach the girls how to cut -and make garments, which they buy, when finished, at a low price. -I have had so much to do in this part of the work, that one of the -teachers has kindly assisted me. - -I have over fifty families on my visiting list, and have called on -several others and am received cordially by nearly all. I am well -pleased with the work, and ought never to cease being thankful for -the good and wonderful way in which the Lord has opened this field -of labor for me. - -Not long since, one of the girls from the senior class came and -told me she would like to become a missionary sometime, and asked -me to tell her what she could do now, as she wishes to begin to -work for Jesus while she is young. She asked me to take her with -me on some of my visits among the people, which I shall be glad to -do. I think one of the good results of this work is that it tends -to set the colored people to work for themselves, as they are glad -to do, but did not know how to go to work; they need instruction in -this as in everything else. - - * * * * * - - -KENTUCKY. - -Berea College. - -While the echoes of Merry Christmas are ringing in our ears, and -good dinners and joyous family greetings are still bright spots in -our memories, it may be interesting to hear of a Gospel Feast in -Berea, Ky. Our good steward, of the Boarding Hall, conceived the -plan of going out into our highways and hedges and inviting those -most destitute to dine with him. Over the hills and the valleys -went the joyful tidings into many a log-hut—“Mr. H. done ’vite us -to a big dinner at de Hall.” - -Aside from teachers and their wives, no white folks were admitted -within those doors as guests. At an early hour, the large parlor -began to fill. To those of us who were late, it required no little -moral courage to enter a room so well filled, and go through the -ordeal of hand-shaking. The walls were lined with people, and -from their sober, dignified looks, one could easily imagine it a -funeral occasion. They seemed conscious of the dignity of the hour, -and were prepared to maintain it at any cost. Men sat modestly -far away from the women. The costumes would have driven “Worth” -distracted. Surely, never could he have devised so many ways of -“doing up” the female form. Bits of ribbon, faded and old, stray -pieces of lace pinned here and there in charming abundance, and -with a lofty indifference to such minor matters as harmony or -usefulness. One large figured gown of prominent yellow shades, made -conspicuous the form of an old woman, who seemed, like her gown, -to have awakened out of a Rip Van Winkle sleep, or been unearthed -from some old ruin. It reminded us of the days of Dolly Varden, and -was not very unlike the Chinese and Japanese cloths which to-day -we try to think pretty. But it would be impossible to attempt a -description of the toilettes. Necessity made a virtue of all sorts -of combinations; and if they were not beautiful, they seemed to -give the wearers the feeling of being dressed—a feeling not always -accomplished under happier circumstances. - -As we went from one to another, it certainly relieved the monotony -to hear them say, “Ki, yi! dars Miss Lizzie,” “How d’ye, honey,” -and so on. From the men came the stiffest bows and politest concern -for our health. Knowing but few in the party, we hastily found a -seat, where we could talk to one about gardens. To another, the -never-failing question of babies proved interesting; and thinking -of the little black ones, I thought in God’s sight they might be -as fair as my own. It took so long for one old dame to tell of -her “rheumatiz” and general “misery,” that our sympathy, which -was real, almost cooled before the lengthy recital was ended. -During all that long hour not a loud laugh was heard from those -laughter-loving people. - -At length, to the relief of us all, the great doors opened, and the -eager old children could contain themselves no longer, and almost -broke ranks and ran; husbands and wives apart, evidently fearing, -as they hurried to their seats, there would not be room for all. -Not till the guests were seated did the teachers scatter here and -there, glad for _once_ at least to yield the first seat. - -What a meal was provided! Of all good things that could be brought -from farm or store, there was no lack. The blessing asked, eagerly -they began to enjoy what was to them the principal event of the -day. Glancing about us, we saw our steward (a man of deeds rather -than of words), upon whom all the expense of this feast came, -looking around, with beaming eye, over the great company whose -hearts he had made glad. We thought of the wife who had stood by -his side so many years, helping in every good work, and who would -have been there if God had not called her higher. The flushed face -of our good housekeeper, who is never too weary or too busy to do -a little more, if she can make hearts happy thereby, shone upon -us, and we knew her hands had been full for many days. Though her -feet were tired, they obeyed the loving heart, and she flew among -us like a spirit, watching on all sides that no one should fail to -enjoy the dinner. - -Looking up the table, our hearts ached, as one face after another -brought up the old slave days. Some there were who had risen above -every discouragement, and in the face of poverty, low wages and -many another hindrance, had proved themselves men, gladly denying -themselves the comforts of life, that their children’s days might -be brighter than their own. We saw there old men, grown grey in -their “massa’s” service, turned out without a dollar, to pinch the -rest of their lives to keep from suffering. Women, married in the -Lord and in the honesty of their own hearts, considered only as so -much property, to be abused or neglected as their masters chose. -Beauty was a fearful gift to the race, and many of our colored -women do not lack the gift. - -One woman we must speak of, who, having neither riches nor -sweetness of temper, made it all good in the wealth of names, which -can only be equalled in the royal family. I give a few: “Carrie -Lee, Bessie Fee, who but she—Bernaugh.” “Isabel, rise and tell, -the glories of Immanuel—Bernaugh.” “Raphael Rogers, Alfred Hart, -’Postle Paul, Caleb after all—Bernaugh.” How she abbreviated these -names I know not. - -The dinner over, the music room quickly filled. Some of our -pianists gave sweet music, but so far above a part of the assembly -that I’ve no doubt they longed for their “fiddles and banjoes.” By -request, they struck up a wailing sound, which rose and fell, with -words somewhat after this style: - - “The ark’s a movin’, movin’, movin’, - The ark’s a movin’, move right along.” - -This was so sad, that something joyful was called for, and again -the strain rung out; old men and women moving their bodies to -keep their own time, which each one seemed to do regardless of -his neighbor, closing up each line, and almost each word, with -such hemi-demi-semi-quavers as would have puzzled some of our best -singers. Poor things! the elements of joy had not entered into -their religious life. The minor strain swept over all their heart -experiences, and in spite of the words of their hymns, their music -gave us the echo of their days of bondage, and helped us to thank -God that a brighter life had been ours. To them seemed to come no -middle ground between the “double-shuffle” and the saddest songs -for Christ. - -After many a hand-shake and parting blessing to us all, the people -wended their way back to their homes, some to their rude cabins, -saying to one another, “Dis de best day of my life,” “Tank de Lord -for dis good day.” - -To our steward we gave the conventional good-bye, but in our hearts -we knew that there was one blessed passage of Scripture applicable -to him, and we doubt not he will hear it some day: “Inasmuch as ye -have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have -done it unto Me.” - -This is one picture. I shall be glad soon to show the other side, -and give the contrast between some of those who were gathered at -this feast, and their children, who have enjoyed the privileges of -the school at Berea. L. R. - - * * * * * - - -HYMN. - -MRS. E. SPENCE.[A] - - Sung at the farewell meeting on the departure of Rev. Mr. and - Mrs. A. P. Miller, and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jackson, as - missionaries to Africa, Nashville, Feb. 18, 1878. - - God bless, with special favor, - This consecrated band! - Their trust will never waver, - Led by Thy loving hand! - As to thy call they listen, - Each answers, “Here am I,” - And yet a tear may glisten - Unbidden in the eye! - - Thou know’st what ties are breaking - That twine around the heart! - The yearning, and the aching, - When friends and kindred part! - Oh! let them feel Thy presence - Continuously so near, - To compensate the absence - Of all they hold most dear! - - As, over land and ocean - They still pursue their way, - The spirit of devotion - Replenish day by day. - When over smooth seas gliding - With hearts attuned to sing, - Or tossed by tempest, hiding - Beneath thy shelt’ring wing! - - And when their destination - Is safely reached at last, - Where every mission station - Has boundaries so vast— - Strengthen the willing spirit - For service, till they see - The land which they inherit, - Redeemed and ruled by Thee! - - Lord Jesus, lead victorious - The sacramental host, - Until thy kingdom, glorious, - Extend from coast to coast; - The powers of hell be driven - From every conquered zone, - And, even as in heaven, - Thy will on earth be done! - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] Mrs. Spence was born in Scotland, in the year that Cary, the -first missionary from England, went out upon his pioneer and -untrodden way eighty years ago. Her heart has been overflowing with -gladness during these days of preparation. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - - * * * * * - - -WASHINGTON TERRITORY. - -Three Christian Boys and their Letters. - -REV. MYRON EELLS, S’KOKOMISH - -Our hearts were gladdened, last Sabbath, by receiving into our -Church three of the Indian school-boys, each of them supposed to -be about thirteen years of age. We had kept them on a virtual -probation for nearly a year, until I began to feel that to do so -any longer would be an injury both to themselves and to others. -Their conduct, especially towards their school-teacher, although -not perfect, has been so uniformly Christian that those who were -best acquainted with them felt the best satisfied in regard to -their change of heart. Said a member of our Church of about fifty -years’ Christian experience—who was not here much during the -summer, and hence knew comparatively little about them—after -hearing a full statement, “I wish that some of the white children -whom we have received into the Church had given one half as good -evidence of being Christians as these boys give.” And yet the -Church was satisfied in regard to them. On religious subjects, they -have been most free in communicating both to their teacher and -myself by letter. I have thought that you might be interested in -extracts from some of them, and hence send the following: - - “I am going to write to you this day, please help me to get my - father to become a Christian,” (his father is an Indian doctor) - “and I think I will get Andrew and Henry” (the other Christian - boys) “to say a word for my father. I want you to read it to my - father.” - -He wrote to his father the following, which I read to him: - - “AUG. 3D, 1877. - - “MY DEAR-BELOVED FATHER: Your son is a Christian. I am going off - to another road. I am going in a road where it leadeth to heaven, - and you are going to a big road where it leadeth to hell. But now - please return back from hell, I was long time thinking what shall - I do, then my father would be saved from hell. I prayed to God. I - asked God to help my father to become a Christian.” - -The letter of another, to his Indian friends: - - “You have not read the Bible, for you cannot read, but you have - heard the minister read it to you. You seem not to pay good - attention, but you know how Jesus was crucified, how he was put - on the Cross, how he was mocked and whipped, and they put a crown - of thorns, and he was put to death.” - -The letter of the other to me: - - “O, how I love all the Indians. I wish they should all become - Christians. If you please, tell them about Jesus coming. It makes - me feel bad because the Indians are not ready.” - -To his Indian friends: - - “The first time I became a Christian, I found it a very hard - thing to do, but I kept asking Jesus to help me, and so He did, - for I grew stronger and stronger. So, my Friends, if you will - just accept Jesus as your King, He will help you to the end of - your journey. You must trust wholly in Jesus’ strength, and - yield your will, your time, your talents, your reputation, your - strength, your property, your all, to be henceforth and forever - subject to His divine control; your hearts to love Him, your - tongues to speak for Him, your hands and feet to work for Him, - and your lives to serve Him, when and where and as His Spirit may - direct. Don’t be proud, but be very good Christians; be brave and - do what is right. - - “YOUR YOUNG FRIEND.” - - * * * * * - -Indian Welcome to an Agent. - -DR. I. L. MAHAN, RED CLIFF, WIS. - -The payment recently made to the Bois Forte Indians was one of the -most pleasant and agreeable I have ever made. The Indians received -me with a salute (of blank cartridges) fired from their guns. On -each side of the team, as I passed through their camp, the Indian -men, women and children were in line on each side of the road for -a quarter of a mile, and such hurrahs and rejoicings I have seldom -witnessed. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - - * * * * * - -“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” - -Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. - -PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L -Stone, D. D., Thomas O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. -F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. -H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., -Jacob S. Taber, Esq. - -DIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E. -Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford, -Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pound. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -The Chinese New Year—Mob Denunciations—The Great Commission -Lessened—Conversions. - -REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -The Chinese New Year festival began Feb. 1st. It was observed for -five days, the first three being “the great days of the feast.” -As the Chinese excuse themselves from manual labor during those -days, worship and business, and sociality absorb the time. At -this festival, accounts must be squared, or, at any rate, brought -to some settlement. Votive offerings, with the smoke of incense, -abound in the temples—_bribes_ with which good luck is purchased -from their gods. The city authorities had forbidden the use of -fire-crackers, greatly to the chagrin of the Joss-worshippers, but -the din of the gongs was such that even an idol, it would seem, -might almost be made to hear. For our Christian Chinese it was, -first of all, a week of prayer. Not to be out-done even by their -own former-selves, they began their meetings at eleven o’clock on -the last night of the old year, and welcomed the new one in its -first hours, with worship to Jesus, their new friend and Saviour. -They say that it would be a shame, if they were not willing to give -hours to Him, which, but for Him, they would still have been giving -to senseless blocks of wood, or to pictures hung upon the wall. -Each day there was more or less of time devoted to social worship, -and the rest to friendly calls among the brethren of different -missions, and the reception of calls from American friends, or else -to the transaction of the annual business of their Association. The -carefulness with which they attend to this business, might well be -emulated by many a strong church. The amounts involved are small, -of course, while the talk might seem superabundant to taciturn -people like us; but the exactitude in accounts, the watchfulness -against debts, the punctuality in their mutual settlements, if -grafted into the working of many a church that I have known, would -greatly help its peace and growth, and even its good name. - -The “era of good feeling” towards the Chinese, is, doubtless, -nearer now than it was eight months ago. I affirm this _by faith_, -and not because I can see, as yet, even the first streaks of -its dawning. It seems as though the out-cries, “Down with the -Chinese!” “The Chinamen must go, peaceably if they will, forcibly -if they must,” would have become, by this time, monotonous and -wearisome, but every Monday’s morning paper reports a gathering -of from 3,000 to 6,000 people standing on a sand-lot near our new -City Hall, in the midst often of wind and rain, and listening for -an hour or two, while Kearney and Willock repeat their barbarous -refrain. We cannot prevent a depressing effect of this upon our -work. Christians get afraid of it. One of our pastors, entering -upon temporary service with an inland church, wrote me as follows -a few days since: “On my first Sabbath here, a poor Chinaman came -to church to hear me. The next day I found him out, and he is a -Christian. He is hungering and thirsting for the word of life, and -I thought—what a splendid nucleus that would be for a class. I -sought the officers of the church for their consent and approval -to such an organization. Then came swiftly the ominous shake of -the head, which I now so well know, and I was told that ‘public -sentiment would not bear it.’ My heart aches for them, and I pray -fervently to know my duty.” I am utterly at a loss to know how -such church officers read the Great Commission. I understand what -the _plain English_ of it is: I think I could study it out in the -Greek. Does anybody know of any rendering of it, according to which -the Chinese are left out? It not, how is it that we have so many of -these head-shaking Christians all over California? - -Furthermore, prejudice breeds prejudice, and the heathen Chinese -are beginning even to hate the language thus abused to curse and -slander them. They have no longer any appetite for the bait with -which we have been fishing for their souls. But if our schools are -thus unavoidably less attractive to them, and some of the seats -get empty, we try to do the better work with such as remain. And -the gracious Spirit adds His blessing still. Five were received to -the First Congregational Church in Oakland at its last communion. -This week two from the Barnes school have been reported to me -as persuaded to be Christians, and desirous of joining the -Association. What I have several times before said is still true, -I think—that no month passes in which I do not hear from some one -or more of our schools, of souls coming out of darkness into light. -The consequence is that hearty Christians once fairly engaged in -this work become enthusiastic in it. One teacher writes: “To try -to prepare the way for the enlightenment of these darkened minds -has been the highest privilege of my life. I do not forget the -blessedness of leading my own children and other young people to -Jesus, but in the offices of mother and teacher, this work has come -to me as a matter of course, while the other is the realization -of one of my earliest and most fondly cherished desires. I have -found it pleasant, even when I could get no word or sign that the -faintest shadow of my meaning was comprehended, for I felt that I -might be starting thought and opening the way for truth to come in -by and by; but when, in some instances, there has been a sudden -interest manifested, and such half-incredulous, half-delighted -responses come as ‘What! Jesus died for me?’ ‘What! Jesus Christ my -best friend!’ ‘Yes, I will love Him!’ I have felt one such moment a -complete compensation for a whole lifetime of sorrow and toil.” - - * * * * * - - -LETTER FROM AH JAM. - - SANTA BARBARA, _January 12th_. - -MR. POND: - -_Dear Sir_—How is your health? I should be glad to have you to -write me another report about you school. If you find any interest -chapter I shall enjoy it if you will let me know. I cannot explain -it which is the best of all [i.e. cannot tell which chapters are -the best]. It seems to me very hard to understood the Bible. I wish -I had more leisure for my study, or to follow you while I shall -learn a great deal. I was very much troubled when I stayed on board -ship; she had four Chinese besides me. There was nobody instructed -in anything like the gospel. They thought it was dreadful to -believe in Christ. It makes them swear, grumble, and smoke opium. -They are walking in the way of destruction. I felt very sorry for -them. I told them several times what we ought to do in this world -while we live. They said they would never be afraid when they die -where the soul would go. I presume they will do all things as they -please. I left my place, and came on shore two weeks since. But I -cannot find any situation yet, because it is very dull. Perhaps I -will go to the city next year, and then I shall see you again. We -do remember you when we pray; we would like you pray for us, too, -if you please. Your sincerely, - - AH JAM, AND THE OTHERS. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - - * * * * * - -A SICK BOY’S LETTER TO HIS TEACHER. - -I thank you for the beautiful papers that you sent me. I read a -piece in one they call “Glad Tidings.” It was about the dissipated -father and the dying child. He was a bad man, and used bad -_languish_, and cause his whole family to be miserable; and his -little son would go to him and crawl up on his knee and tell him -about the good God, and the tears would gush from his eye. The -little boy said to his father: “Father, you are crying; what is -the matter?” “I am afraid, my son, I am going to lose you—you are -going to die.” “Well, father, I know I am going to die, but I am -not afraid to die, for I will go to Jesus.” - -I read that piece, and my little heart did feel so warm. I am -trying to be a good boy, and pray to God that I may be a good boy. -I am trying to be a better boy every day. - - From your dear scholar, - - M.T. - - MONTGOMERY, ALA. - - * * * * * - -LIVE IN GOD’S SUNSHINE. - -“Well, Aunt Polly, here you are again on the doorsteps. It seems to -me you almost live on them.” - -Old Polly raised her faded eyes to the face of her friend, and, -laughing, said: - -“Yes, dear, dat’s jus’ so! Jim says ‘We mought build a house all -doo’ steps and nothin’ else, fo’ granny, ’cause she lives dar an’ -nowhar else.’” - -“I suppose you like to see the people, and to hear the children -prattle as they go by to school,” said the lady. - -“Well, yes, I likes to see folks, ’cause my Fader up dar made ’em -all; but it’s most fo’ de sunshine dat I stays out here. O, God’s -sunshine’s a powerful blessin’, dear. When I’s cold I comes out and -sits in it, and I grows warm; when I’s hungry, and Jim’s wife’s got -nothin’ to eat, I comes out here and ’pears like I’d had my dinner; -when I’s in pain, and ’scruciated all over wid de rheumatiz, I -comes out into the sunshine, and de pain skulks off; when Jim don’t -be good and ’pears like he was goin’ to ’struction, and my heart -is bustin’ like, I comes out and sits in God’s sunshine, and peace -comes through His beam into my soul; when old Death comes an’ -star’s in my face, and say, ‘I comin’ arter ye soon, to take ye -into de dark grave,’ den I comes out into God’s sunshine, and dares -him to frighten my soul! Says I to him, ‘Ye hasn’t power in ye to -throw one shadow on to my pillow; for my blessed Jesus, de Sun of -Righteousness, He been down dar before me, and He left it full, -heaped up and runnin’ over wid God’s sunshine. I shall rest sweet -in dat warm place, for de eternal sunshine dat shall magnify and -glorify all as loves de shinin’ Jesus.” - -“Auntie,” said her friend, who always felt that she could sit at -the feet of this humble saint and learn of Jesus, “that is very -lovely. But there come days when there is no sunshine—when the -clouds gather, and the rains fall, and the snows come, and the -winds blow. What do you do then?” - -“O la, honey, by de time de storms come, I’ve got my soul so full -ob sunshine dat it lasts a heap o’ time. Dem times Jim scolds, -and his poor wife’s ’scouraged, and de child’n are cross, and -de stove smokes and de kittle won’t bile; but I never knows it. -God’s sunshine is in my soul, and I tries to spread it round, and -sometimes Jim’s wife feels it, and she says—oh, she’s a good -daughter-in-law—‘Long’s I keeps close to granny, ’pears like my -heart’s held up.’ - -“Well, well, dear, you can teach me somethin’, and ye can fetch -me nice things to make mo’ sunshine; but I can teach you what ye -never thought on—dat God’s sunshine’s ’nough for rich and poor, -and dem dat thank Him for it, and sit in it, or work in it, and -let it into dar heart, will soon go whar it’s all sunshine. Try -to make folks live in God’s sunshine, and get it into dar hearts, -honey.”—_Intelligencer._ - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR FEBRUARY, 1878. - - - MAINE, $491.13. - - Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Augusta. So. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.50 - Bethel. A few Ladies of First Cong. Ch. 11.00 - Blanchard. Daniel Blanchard 5.00 - Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman 5.00 - Gilead. Rev. H. R. 0.50 - Holden. “A Friend” 1.00 - Orland. Mrs. Buck and daughter 30.00 - Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. $302.13; Second - Cong. Ch. and Soc $40; Seamen’s Bethel - Church $15; Mrs. David Patten $5. 362.13 - Salem. A. P. 0.50 - Searsport. J. Y. B. 1.00 - Weld. D. D. Tappan 2.00 - Wells. First Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from Mrs. - B. A. Maxwell to const. MRS. W. S. KIMBALL, - L. M.) 36.00 - Winthrop. Mrs. E. S. B. 0.50 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $367.34. - - Bedford. Presb. Ch. $12.50; Mrs. S. S. F. $1, - _for Wilmington, N. C._ 13.50 - Dover. M. E. L. 0.50 - Francestown. Mrs. R. R. F. $1; W. B. 50c. 1.50 - Franconia. Mrs. Geo. A. Beckwith 2.00 - Greenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.84 - Hanover. Prof. T. W. D. W. 0.50 - Hillsborough. Mrs. D. T. W. and others 1.51 - Hillsboro Centre. John Adams 10.00 - Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Wilmington, - N. C._ 13.18 - Keene. “A Friend” 128.12 - Lisbon. Mrs. A. P. 1.00 - Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00 - Lyme. T. L. Gilbert 2.00 - Manchester. First Ch. 85.44 - Mason. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $2 and bbl of C., - _for Wilmington, N. C._ 2.00 - Merrimac. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.30 - Nashua. “A Friend” 20.00 - New Boston. “Willing Workers,” _for - Wilmington, N. C._ 12.00 - New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $8.50; Cong. - Ch. Mon. Coll. $4.45; Levitt Lincoln $10; “A - Friend” $1.50; W. W. J. $1; Mrs. S. T. 50c.; - “A Friend” $6; Subscribers _for Mag._ $2.50 34.45 - Pittsfield. John L. Thorndike 10.00 - Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 1.50 - Windham, C. Packard, pkg of C. - - - VERMONT, $1,434.42. - - Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.12 - Burlington. ESTATE of Mrs. R. S. Nichols, by - B. S. Nichols, Ex., _for Fisk U._ 100.00 - Chester Depot. J. L. Fisher 15.00 - Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 - East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00 - Essex. Mrs. Dr. L. C. B. 1.00 - Morrisville. Dea. C. F. 0.50 - Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 53.09 - North Bennington. Cong. Ch. 10.06 - Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.45 - North Thetford. Mrs. E. G. Baxter 3.00 - Randolph. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - St. Albans. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.81 - St. Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $392.59, and - Sab. Sch. 65.40; W. W. T. $1 458.99 - Salisbury. J. F. 1.00 - Townshend. Mrs. Mary B. Burnap $10; Mrs. S. R. - 50c. 10.50 - Waterford. Cong. Sab. Sch. $4; S. E. Potter $3. 7.00 - West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H. 0.50 - Westminster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for - Talladega C._, and to const. PORTER F. PAGE, - L. M. 90.70 - West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.75 - West Randolph. Betsey Nichols $2; Mrs. S. A. - W. $1. 3.00 - Williston. ESTATE of Dea. Ezbon Sanford, by - Geo. Lawton, Ex. 500.00 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.95 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $3,363.53. - - Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson 50.00 - Ashby. Rev. G. S. S. 0.50 - Barre. Evan Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS. J. - F. BROOKS, L. M. 30.00 - Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - WALLACE G. WEBBER, L. M. 30.00 - Boston. Cash $10; G. E. S. Kinney $1.50 11.50 - Boston Highlands. Miss. E. Davis 25.00 - Brimfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $15; S. H. 51c. 15.51 - Boxford. Individuals, by M. L. Sawyer 2.50 - Brocton. Bbl. of C. - Cambridge. Mrs. J. H. Stone 2.00 - Cambridgeport. Geo. F. Kendall 10.00 - Charlestown. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. - HENRY L. KENDALL, L. M. 50.00 - Chelsea. Ladies of First Ch. 2 bbls. of - Clothing and roll of Carpeting, _for Marion, - Ala._ - Centreville. Marv A. Crosby 8.00 - Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc. 34.24 - Conway. C. Batchelder 2.50 - Cotuit. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.05 - Dedham. Rev. C. M. Southgate, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00 - Dudley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - East Braintree. Miss R. A. Faxon, _for - purchase of books_ 7.00 - East Hampton. ESTATE of Samuel Williston, by - E. H. Sawyer, Ex. 1,200.00 - East Medway. Circle of Industry, 2 bbl’s of C. - Val. $27. - Foxborough. C. N. M. 0.10 - Granville. C. H. 0.25 - Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Society, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 18.00 - Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.07 - Groton. “Mother and Daughter” 20.00 - Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 13.00 - Hanover. C. C. 1.00 - Harvard. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 20.00 - Harwichport. Capt. Leonard Robbins 10.00 - Haverhill. C. E. C. and B. F. E. 1.00 - Holden. Mrs. L. B. B. 0.50 - Hubbardston. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 22.00 - Jamaica Plain, Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 - Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch. to const MISS - JOSEPHINE CUMMINGS, L. M. 60.00 - Leicester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $3, and bbl. of - C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ 3.00 - Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.10 - Medford. Dea. Galen James 300.00 - Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.71 - Millbury. Tyler Waters. $5; H. G. $1 6.00 - Natick. “Thank Offering” to const. MRS. MARY - S. WIGHT, L. M. 30.00 - Newton Centre. “Friends,” by Mrs. Furber, $50, - _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._,—J. W. 50c. 50.50 - Northampton. “A Friend” 240.00 - North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - North Brookfield. First Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - North Somerville. W. H. A. 0.50 - Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. MRS. - LAURA E. MORTON and MISS LOUISA A. AYRES, L. - M.’s. 70.35 - Palmer. Box of C. - Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.00 - Peru. G. W. 1.00 - Plymouth. Mrs. C. H. P. 0.50 - Reading. Mrs. B. P. W. 0.50 - Rockland. ——. 25.00 - Sherborn. Pilgrim Sab. Sch. 15.00 - Southbridge. “A Friend” 1.00 - Southborough. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 22.66 - South Deerfield. Mrs. M. C. Tilton 2.00 - South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.00 - South Wilbraham. W. V. S. 1.00 - Springfield. Class in Hope Ch. Sab. Sch., by - Mrs. Homer Merriam $3; Mrs. A. C. Hunt - $1.10; Mrs. R. K. $1 5.10 - Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 33.17 - Taunton. W. H. 1.00 - Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Hampton, Va._ 30.00 - Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00 - Upton. Mrs. M. P. J., Miss M. E. C. and Mrs. - M. F. C. $1 ea. 3.00 - Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 20.00 - Wellesley. L. B. H. and C. E. S. 1.00 - Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 167.70 - West Brookfield. A. S. F. 0.50 - Westford. Rev. E. H. 1.00 - West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.50 - West Springfield. H. A. Southworth 50.00 - Williamsburgh. H. H. T. and Mrs. M. E. G. $1; - J. L. $1 2.00 - Williamstown. C. F. 0.50 - Wilmington. J. Skelton 10.00 - Winchendon. Mrs. E. B. 0.50 - Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B. 0.25 - Worcester. Salem St. Ch. and Soc. $82.50; - Union Ch. $70; Old South Cong. Ch. - $48.47.—Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $5., by Mrs. C. - A. Lincoln, _for Ind. Sch., for Talladega - C._—A. E. W. 80c. 206.77 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $131. - - Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc $115 (of which - $25 from “A Friend”); J. G. 50c. 115.50 - Providence. Geo. W. Davison $15; Miss McB. 50c. 15.50 - - - CONNECTICUT, $1,411.45. - - Birmingham. Ella S. Smith 10.00 - Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. 65.82 - Canaan. “A mite for the Freedmen” 2.00 - Cheshire. Rev. J. H. I. 0.50 - Colebrook. Cong. Ch. 10.25 - Collinsville. Everest Fund $200, _for Student - Aid, Talladega C._; Cong. Sab. Sch. $46, - _for Ag. Dept., Talladega C._—Cong. Ch. - $26.82.—M. A. Warren $12, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._—“A Friend” $2; J. H. B. $1 287.82 - Darien. “A Friend” 0.61 - Derby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 9.00 - Durham Centre. A. P. C. and J. E. 1.00 - East Hartford. “A. W”. 10.00 - Ellington. Sarah K. Gilbert 5.00 - Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 43.95 - Greenwich. “A” 20.00 - Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00 - Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00 - Jericho. Wm. Osgood 3.00 - Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. REV. - GEORGE N. KELLOGG, L. M. 34.75 - Lebanon. Betsey Metcalf 2.00 - Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. $34.30; A. C. B. - 25c. 34.55 - Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss 2.00 - Killingworth. Mrs. A. V. E. 0.51 - Mansfield Centre. Cong. Ch. 10.10 - Meriden. Miss L. P. 1.00 - Millbrook. Mrs. E. M. 1.00 - New Haven. Ralph Tyler $10; “A Friend” $3; “A - Lady” $2; College St. Ch., S. W. Barnum, 4 - copies “Romanism as it is,” Val. $14 15.00 - New London. Second Cong. Ch. 15.00 - New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B 50c.; Mrs. M. A. - Stone 2 bbls. of C. 0.50 - Norfolk. Mrs. M. A. C. 1.00 - North Cornwall. “A Friend” 7.00 - North Guilford. Mrs. E. F. Dudley, $5; “A - Friend” $5 10.00 - North Stamford. Cong. Ch. 9.27 - Norwich. Park Cong. Soc. $414.88 (of which $30 - from Mrs. Chas. Lee to const. FRANK JOHNSON, - L.M., $30 from Miss S. M. Lee to const. - MAJ. B. P. LEARNED, L.M.)—Second Cong. Ch. - Sab. Sch. $75, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 489.88 - Orange. Cong. Sab. Sch. $30; Rev. E. E. Rogers - $10, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 40.00 - Oxford. Rev. F. R. Wait, Box of S. S. Books. - Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17.75; C. B. P. - 50c. 18.25 - Simsbury. Cong. Soc. 46.12 - Suffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 63.30 - Unionville. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 10.98 - Wapping. Little Miss Ada Hart, _for Ag. Dept., - Talladega C._ 0.10 - Watertown. Miss. A. W. 1.00 - Wellington. Mrs. J. H. 1.00 - West Chester. Cong. Ch. $8.20 and Sab. Sch. - $17.44 25.64 - West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.55 - Wethersfield. H. Savage 2.00 - Winsted. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, _for Ag. - Dept., Talladega C._—Elias E. Gilman - $10.—Ladies, by Mrs. Dea. Hinsdale, bbl. of - C., _for Talladega C._ 30.00 - Yalesville. “B.” 10.00 - ——. “A Friend” 10.00 - - - NEW YORK, $542.78. - - Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch. $10; Mrs. H. - Dickinson $5 15.00 - Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00 - Canastota. E. B. Northrup 5.00 - Cheateaugay. Joseph Shaw 10.00 - Clarkson. Oliver Babcock 20.00 - Coeymans. Wm. B. H. 0.50 - Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor and Miss A. G. - Fairchild $5 ea. 10.00 - Danby. Cong. Ch. 21.00 - East Bloomfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.26 - Ellington. Mrs. Eliza Rice 10.00 - Flushing. First Cong. Ch. 32.00 - Franklin. Cong. Ch., _for Montgomery, Ala._ 15.00 - Fredonia. Hon. John Chandler 10.00 - Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S. 1.00 - Keeseville. Dea. Marcus Barnes, deceased, by - G. W. Dodds 5.00 - Lima. Mrs. G. Sprague, _for a Student_ 5.00 - Lisbon. First Cong. Ch. 13.00 - Little Genesee. Rev. T. B. Brown 5.00 - Little Valley. H. S. Huntley 2.00 - Little York. J. Pratt 5.00 - Moravia. By S. M. Cady 1.50 - Morrisania. First Cong. Ch., 2 pkg’s of Bibles. - New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland, $100.—Mr. and - Mrs. Wm E. Dodge, $100, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._—Mrs. Charlotte Tappan Lewis, - $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—H. W. H. $1; - Mrs. M. H. B. 50c.; Stephen T. Gordon, 556 - copies School Song Books 206.50 - Oneonta. L. J. S. 0.25 - Pitcher. Miss N. W. 0.50 - Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds 5.00 - Rushford. W. W. 0.50 - Saratoga Springs. Mrs. A. M. Wheeler 2.00 - Three Mile Bay. Mrs. S. U. 1.00 - Verona. Cong. Ch., to const. SAMUEL G. - BREWSTER, L. M. 39.27 - Vernon Centre. M. Judson 3.00 - Walton. R. A. R. 0.50 - Watkins. S. G. and Mrs. E. S. M. 1.00 - West Chazy. Daniel Bassett and wife 5.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $133.29. - - Belleville. J. B. 0.50 - Boonton. Mrs. N. T. J. 1.00 - Chester. J. H. Crane 20.00 - Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch. 5.00 - Englewood. Rev. G. B. Cheever, D. D. 6.79 - Morristown. Mrs. R. R. Graves 100.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $33. - - Allentown. C. M. 0.50 - Canton. H. Sheldon 5.00 - Coudersport. John S. Mann 5.00 - Easton. Clarissa Silliman 5.00 - Jamestown. Mrs. J. C. B. 1.00 - Mahoningtown. W. W. 0.50 - Minersville. First Cong. Ch. (Welsh) 10.00 - Providence. E. Weston 6.00 - - - OHIO, $349.82. - - Burton. Cong Soc. $32.35; Mrs. H. H. F. 50c 32.85 - Chardon. Mrs. D. A. S. G 1.00 - Cincinnati. Rent $92.12, _for the poor in New - Orleans_.—Osman Sellew $10, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U_ 102.12 - Claridon. Cong. Ch. 60.50 - Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch. $5.50; Rev. - H. Trautman $5; J. B., 50c 11.00 - Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Conneaut. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 - Cuyahoga Falls. Individuals, by R. G. Thomas 5.50 - Fostoria. C. M. 0.50 - Gratis. S. H. 0.50 - Greensburgh. H. B. H. 1.00 - Hudson. Miss Laura Rogers $2.50; H. T. and A. - D. C. $1 3.50 - Kent. A. C. 1.00 - Madison. W. H. S. 1.00 - Metamora. M. S. 1.00 - Middlefield. Mrs. L. S. Buel 5.00 - Norwalk. T. L. 1.00 - Oberlin. Mrs. Jane C. Miller $30, _for Ag. - Dept., Talladega C._—Second Cong. Ch. - $13.84; Harris Lewis $3; Mrs. C. C. W. 51c 47.35 - Painesville. Elwin Little, $15; C. R. Stone. - $5; Rev. S. W. P. $1 21.00 - Sandusky. Individuals, by Rev. J. Strong 5.00 - Sharonville. J. H. 1.00 - South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer $3; Mrs. M. S. - and Miss M. M. $1 ea. 5.00 - Strongsville. Elijah Lyman 10.00 - Wellington. “Two Friends” 5.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $195.10. - - Belvidere. Elizabeth Smith 2.00 - Canton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 25.00 - Chicago. W. B. J. 0.50 - Dallas City. Mrs. S. Miller 1.25 - Evanston. “A little Child” 1.00 - Equality. S. E. C. 0.50 - Galesburg. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - Galesburg. ESTATE of W. C. Willard, by Prof. - T. R. Willard 4.00 - Geneseo. Chas. Perry 25.00 - Hutson. C. V. N. 1.00 - Jacksonville. REV. ELI CORWIN $30, to const. - himself L. M.; T. W. Melendy, H. L. Melendy - and M. C. Melendy $30, to const. DAVID COLE, - L. M.—Cong. Ch, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 65.00 - Millington. Mrs. D. A. Aldrich, _for Lewis - High Sch., Macon, Ga._ 5.00 - Oak Park. O. P. 0.50 - Payson. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 11.00 - Peoria. Plymouth Mission Sab. Sch. $20; - “Friends” 6.60, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 26.60 - Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss 10.00 - Seward. Rev. E. F. W. 0.50 - Toulon. H. R. 0.25 - Wethersfield. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg 5.00 - Willmette. Mrs. A. T. S. and Rev. E. P. W. 1.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $396.14. - - Adrian. A. G. W. 0.50 - Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. 45.96 - Blissfield. W. C. 0.50 - Church’s Corners. J. F. Douglass 5.00 - Detroit. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $50, _for a - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._—Fort St. Presb. - Ch. $50; Peter Gray $5, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 105.00 - Grand Rapids. “Friends” $45, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._—E. M. Ball $20 65.00 - Greenville. Mrs. Dr. Ellsworth, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 - Kalamazoo. “Helping Hand” Plymouth Ch. $27; - Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. $5; Rev. H. N. B. - $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 33.00 - Litchfield. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $10.59; The - Shining Light Sab. Sch. Class $3.41 14.00 - Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes, _for Fisk U._ 10.00 - Mattawan. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Muskegon. Cong. Ch. 22.00 - Pontiac. Mrs. Mills Gelston, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 5.00 - Romeo. Mrs. S. L. Andrews and Mrs. A. B. - Maynard $10 ea.; Miss T. S. $5, _for a - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._; Box of C., val. - $40, by Mrs. M. W. Fairfield 25.00 - Sparta. Mr. Martindale, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 2.00 - Sparta Centre. Rev. E. W. N. and C. I. M. 1.00 - Union City. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. - REV. H. H. VAN AUKEN, L. M. 34.00 - Victor. H. P. 1.00 - Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe 5.00 - Whitehall. Cong. Ch. $10.18.—Individuals, by - B. Hammond, $2 12.18 - Ypsilanti. Dr. W. H. H. 1.00 - - - WISCONSIN, $205.55. - - Beloit. Mrs. D. Clary 10.00 - Fort Atkinson. Jared Lamphear 10.00 - Hartland. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Keshena. W. W. W. 0.50 - La Crosse. Mrs. E. V. W. 1.00 - Liberty. Cong. Ch. 4.52 - Menasha. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00 - Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Racine. First Presb. Ch. $55, _Ind. Dept., - Talladega C._—Mrs. D. D. N. $1 56.00 - Ripon. C. F. H. 0.50 - Salem. Cong. Ch. ($45 of which from W. Munson) 58.38 - Sheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 1.00 - Shopiere. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Watertown. Mrs. H. W. Bingham 5.00 - West Rosendale. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 13.25 - Wilmot. Cong. Ch. 1.60 - - - IOWA, $318.07. - - Bellevue. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.35 - Birmingham. E. S. Livingston 5.00 - Clinton. Cong. Ch. $53.46; Mission Sab. Sch. - $5; Individuals, _for Mag._ $1.50 59.96 - Cromwell. Mrs. M. E. B. 1.00 - Eldora. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Des Moines. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $25.—Mrs. - Merritt $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 30.00 - Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. 0.75 - Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. $50; Mrs. A. E. - Crosby $10, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._—Prof. B. $1 61.00 - Humboldt. L. K. Lorbeer $5; Mrs. C. W. $1 6.00 - Inland. D. M. 0.50 - Leon. Miss. J. K., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo - U._ 1.00 - Lyons. “Little Workers” $35, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._—First Cong. Ch. $22.52 57.52 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Straight - University_ 18.49 - Muscatine. Rev. Dr. Robbins, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 2.00 - Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 6.00 - Oskaloosa. Mrs. Asa Turner, _for Tougaloo U._ 10.00 - Riceville. Cong. Ch. $27.95; Cong. Sab. Sch. - $7.50 35.45 - Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield 6.00 - Wentworth. Cong. Ch. 2.55 - Wilton. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $6.50; Rev. E. P. - S. 50c 7.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $156.91. - - County Line. Cong. Ch. 3.18 - Marshall. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - McPherson. Cong. Ch. 8.03 - Minneapolis. Rev. E. M. Williams $51.16; First - Cong. Sab. Sch. $23.84, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._—Plymouth Ch. $19.12 94.12 - Northfield. First Cong. Ch. ($5 of which _for - Fort Berthold_, D. T.). 24.45 - Owatonna. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 14.64 - St. Paul. Rev. T. S. W. $1 R. H. 50c 1.50 - Sterling. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - KANSAS, $5. - - Diamond Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $10.25. - - Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor 1.25 - Nebraska City. Individuals, by Miss Lucy N. - Bowen 4.00 - York. Benjamin Bissell 5.00 - - - DAKOTA, $0.50. - - Yankton. Mrs. T. N. B. 0.50 - - - COLORADO, $0.50. - - Canon City. D. L. 0.50 - - - CALIFORNIA, $2. - - Rohnerville. Mrs. Mary A. Brown 2.00 - - - OREGON, $22.50. - - The Dalles. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.50 - Portland. Capt. Benj. F. Smith 20.00 - - - WASHINGTON TER., $13.55. - - White River. Rev. S. Greene 3.55 - S’kokomish. Rev. Cushing Eells 10.00 - - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $0.50. - - Washington. A. J. H. 0.50 - - - KENTUCKY, $0.51. - - Frankfort. Miss M. A. 0.51 - - - VIRGINIA, $28.46. - - Hampton. Bethesda Ch. 28.46 - - - TENNESSEE, $359.05. - - Chattanooga. Cong. Ch. 13.50 - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 106.65 - Murfreesborough. Mrs. E. S. Grant, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 - Nashville. Fisk University 233.90 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $226.96. - - Raleigh. Pub. Fund. $100; Washington Sch. - $14.60 114.60 - Wilmington. Normal Sch. $106.75; Cong. Ch. - $4.61; P. J. I. and T. H. $1 112.36 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $222.75. - - Charleston. Avery Inst. 222.75 - - - GEORGIA, $537.50. - - Atlanta. Atlanta University 162.00 - Macon. Lewis High School 74.75 - Savannah. Pub. Fund 300.00 - Woodville. J. H. H. S., _for Mendi, Indian and - Chinese M._ 0.75 - - - ALABAMA, $762.05. - - Athens. Trinity Sch. $32; Trinity Miss. Soc. - $16.60; Miss M. F. Wells $15 63.60 - Mobile. Emerson Inst. 88.95 - Montgomery. Pub. Fund 444.00 - Selma. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Talladega. Talladega C. 160.50 - - - LOUISIANA, $185. - - New Iberia. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Mendi M._ 2.00 - New Orleans. Straight University 1.83 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $158.25. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo University $151.90; Miss - Orra Angell $6.35 158.25 - - - MISSOURI, $6. - - Kidder. S. C. Coult 5.00 - Laclede. Rev. E. D. C. 0.50 - St. Louis. C. M. J. 0.50 - - - TEXAS, $1.70. - - Marshall. L. H. S. 0.50 - Schulenburg. Rev. A. J. T. 0.20 - Whitmans. W. B. and E. A. 1.00 - - - ——, $10. - - ——. J. Estey & Co., by G. P. Guilford, Gen’l - Agt., one organ, val. $225, _for Atlanta U._ - ——. Miss Lizzie Riley’s Class, in Perkins’ - Inst. for the Blind, _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega C._ 8.00 - ——. Small sums, _for Postage_ 2.00 - - —— - - Received at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., - _for Student Aid_, from March 2d to Dec. - 31st, 1877, $1,467.28. - ILLINOIS. _Aurora_: Sab. Sch., First Cong. Ch. - $50; Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch. $50; - _Boltwood_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $7.50; - _Chicago_: Mrs. Mary E. Blatchford $25; Miss - Harriet Farrand $3; _Elgin_: Sab. Sch. Cong. - Ch. $25; _Evanston_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. - $50; J. M. Williams $25; John Williams $25; - _Galesburg_: Sab. Sch. Ch. of Christ $50; - _Galva_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. %50; _Genesco_: - B. M. Huntington $25; M. B. Huntington $25; - _La Salle_: Mrs. Tomlins $5; —— Lathrop - $5; _Malden_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $16.25; - _Marseilles_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $10; - _Moline_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $75; _Oak - Park_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $49.85; _Ottawa_: - Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. $50; _Peoria_: Chas. - Fisher $28; _Princeton_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. - $19; _Streator_: Mrs. Ralph Plumb $30; - _Toulon_: “Friends” $7 705.60 - MICHIGAN. _Ada_: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $13; - _Allegan_: Mrs. Elizabeth Booth $50; - _Alpena_: Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. $39.47; - _Covert_: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $10; _Detroit_: - Sab. Sch. Fort St. Presb. Ch. $30.75; - _Galesburg:_ Rev. L. M. Hunt $20; Sab. Sch. - of Cong. Ch. $17.50; _Greenville_: Sab. Sch. - of Cong. Ch. $50; _Kalamazoo_: Sab. Sch. - First Cong. Ch. $30; Sab. Sch. Plymouth - Cong. Ch. $15; _Lowell_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. - $5; _Olivet:_ Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $10; - _Plainwell_: Sab. Sch. Presb. Ch. $7; - _Portland_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $6.40; - Ladies’ Miss. Soc. and Sab. Sch. 21.60 325.72 - IOWA. _Burlington_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $50; - _Clinton_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $25; - _Davenport_: Sab. Sch. Edwards’ Cong. Ch. - $50; _Denmark_: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $28; - _Dubuque_: Cong. Ch. $20; _Genesco:_ Sab. - Sch. Cong. Ch. $25; O. Lyons, Mrs. Dr. - Blanding $5; _Manchester_: Sab. Sch. Cong. - Ch. $20.85; _Maquoketa_: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. - $20; _Marshalltown_: J. W. Windsor $32.80; - _Muscatine_: Cong. Sab. Sch. $50; _Osage_: - Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $19.56. _Oskaloosa_: - Cong. Sab. Sch. $50 396.21 - WISCONSIN.—_Beloit_: Sab. Sch. of Second - Cong. Ch. 3.00 - MINNESOTA.—_Minneapolis_: Rev. Edwin S. - Williams $11.75; _Winona_: Sab. Sch. of - First Cong. Ch. $25 36.75 - - - CANADA, $13.10. - - Caledonia. A. C. Buck 5.00 - Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes and I. C. Barton - $4.05 ea. 8.10 - - - ENGLAND, $6.31. - - London. Mrs. Mary E. Mahan 6.31 - - - SANDWICH ISLANDS, $500. - - Hawaii. “A Friend” 500.00 - —————————— - Total $14,069.25 - Total from Oct. 1st to Feb. 28th $71,433.70 - - H. W. HUBBARD, - _Ass’t Treas._ - - RECEIVED FOR DEBT. - - Newbury, Vt. P. W. Ladd 5.00 - Bristol, R. I. Mrs. Maria DeW. Rogers and Miss - Charlotte De Wolf $250 ea. 500.00 - Hartford, Conn. Roland Mather 1,000.00 - New Haven, Conn. F. C. Sherman 50.00 - Putnam, Conn. Mrs. Adaline S. Fitts 17.50 - Florence, Mass. A. L. Williston 1,000.00 - Cheateaugay, N. Y. Joseph Shaw 10.00 - New York, N. Y. Stephen T. Gordon 100.00 - Austingburgh, Ohio. L. B. Austin 100.00 - Canfield, Ohio. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 - Streator, Ill. Samuel Plumb 300.00 - Oakland, Cal. S. Richards 100.00 - ————————— - $3,199.50 - Previously acknowledged Jan. receipts 3,716.33 - ————————— - Total $6,915.83 - - - FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Fitchburg, Mass. David Boutelle 200.00 - Previously acknowledged Jan. receipts 222.00 - ——————— - Total $422.00 - - * * * * * - - - - -_The American Missionary Association._ - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 32, No. 04, April 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: September 18, 2016 [EBook #53078] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY - *** - - - - -Produced by KarenD, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - -</pre> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div> -<p class="float-left"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></p> -<p class="float-right">No. 4.</p> -</div> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">APRIL, 1878.</p></div> - -<div class="wrap"> -<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS"></a><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Wards of the Almighty</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_97">97</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Douglass and Hayes at Howard University</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_98">98</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Church Work in the South</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_99">99</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Four New Missionaries for Africa</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_100">100</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Two Indian Policies</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_102"> 102</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">News from the Churches—Items from the Schools</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_103">103</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Lights and Shadows</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_104">104</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Indian Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_105">105</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Chinese Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_106">106</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Obituaries</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_107">107</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Talladega College</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_108">108</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">North Carolina: <span class="chaplinen">“A mighty still religion.” -“Good Christians is Peaceable.”</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_111">111</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama: <span class="chaplinen">Debt-raising in a Colored Church</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_112">112</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Louisiana: <span class="chaplinen">Revival News</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_113">113</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Tennessee: <span class="chaplinen">Le Moyne Normal School—A -Woman’s Work Among Women</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_114">114</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Kentucky: Berea College</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_115">115</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Hymn</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_117">117</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Washington Territory: <span class="chaplinen">Three Indian -Boys and Their Letters. Rev. Myron Eells, -S’kokomish</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Indian Welcome to an Agent. <span class="chaplinen">Dr. I. L. -Mahan, Red Cliff, Wis.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_118">118</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Chinese New Year—Mob Denunciations—The -Great Commission Lessened—Conversions. -<span class="chaplinen"> Rev. W. C. Pond, -San Fransisco</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_119">119</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Letter from Ah Jam</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_120">120</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline toc-chapter">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_121">121</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_122">122</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &<span class="chaplinen">c.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_126">126</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<div class="center">NEW YORK:<br /> -Published by the American Missionary Association,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</span> -</div> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="small center">A. Anderson, Printer, 28 Frankfort St.</p> - - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2><a name="American_Missionary_Association" id="American_Missionary_Association"></a><i>American Missionary Association</i>,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon.</span> E. S. TOBEY, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table><tr><td class="tdpr"> -Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Jonathan Blanchard</span>, Ill.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Silas McKeen</span>, D. D., Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, Mass.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">D. M. Graham</span>, D. D., Mich.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N.Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br /> -Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward L. Clark</span>, N. Y. -</td> - -<td> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa.<br /> -Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br /> -<span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">George Thacher</span>, LL. D., Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br /> -<span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. M. Parsons</span>, N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Dea. <span class="smcap">John Whiting</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. Patton</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> -Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y. -</td></tr> -<tr><td class="center" colspan="2"><span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span>M. E. STRIEBY, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago, Ill.</i><br /> -<br /> - EDGAR KETCHUM, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>. -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Augustus E. Graves</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Sam’l Holmes</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">S. S. Jocelyn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p>relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above.</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p>may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as <i>Assistant Treasurer</i>.</p> - -<p>A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> - -<p>Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_97" id="Page_97">[97]</a></p> - -<p class="center">THE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> - -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXII.</div> -<div class="third center">APRIL, 1878.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 4.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="WARDS" id="WARDS"></a>THE WARDS OF THE ALMIGHTY.</h3> - -<p>The notable event connected with the formal presentation of Mr. -Carpenter’s picture “Signing the Emancipation Proclamation,” to the -United States, was the speech of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. It -was a graceful and significant act, when the former Vice-President -of the Southern Confederacy spoke such words of hearty good-will -at the reception of this commemoration of its death-blow. Mr. -Stephens claims for the South a share of the honor of emancipating -the slaves, since “the freedom of that race was never finally -consummated, and could not be, until the Southern States sanctioned -the Thirteenth Amendment. They accepted the proposition for -emancipation by a voluntary uncontrolled” adoption of it.</p> - -<p>Of the institution of slavery, as previously existing, he said:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“If it were not the best relation for the happiness and -welfare of both races—morally, physically, intellectually and -politically—it was wrong and ought to have been abolished. This -I said of it years before secession, and I repeat it still. But, -as I have said, this is no time now to discuss those questions.</p> - -<p>“I have seen something of the world, and traveled somewhat, and I -have never yet found on earth a paradise. The Southern States are -no exception. Wherever I have been, I have been ready to exclaim -with Burns:</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i1">“‘But, oh! what crowds in every land<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Are wretched and forlorn!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> - -<div class="i0"> -<hr style="width: 30%; margin-left: 0%;" /> -</div> - -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Man’s inhumanity to man<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Makes countless thousands mourn.’<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>“It was so at the South. It was so at the North. It is so yet. It -is so in every part of the world that I have seen.”</p></div> - -<p>In regard to the future relation of the races in this land, Mr. -Stephens speaks cautiously, and not unwisely. With many of the best -men of the South, he sees here a problem not easily to be solved, -and an outcome not lightly to be prophesied. He denies that any -Southern men desire a change back to the old relation of master and -slave. We quote again:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The question of the proper relation of the races is one of the -most difficult problems which statesmen or philanthropists, -legislators or jurists, ever had to solve. The former polity -of the Southern States upon this subject is ended, and I do -not think it inappropriate on this occasion to indulge in some -remarks with regard to the future. Since the emancipation, -since the former ruling race have been relieved of their direct -heavy responsibility for the protection and welfare of their -dependents, it has been common to speak of the colored race as -‘the wards of the nation.’</p> - -<a class="pagenum" name="Page_98" id="Page_98">[98]</a> - -<p>“May I not say with appropriateness, in this connection, and -due reverence, in the language of Georgia’s greatest intellect -(Toombs), ‘They are rather the wards of the Almighty,’ committed -now, under a new state of things, to the rulers, the law-makers, -the law-expounders and the law-executors throughout this broad -land, within their respective constitutional spheres, to -take care of, and provide for, in that complicated system of -government under which we live? I am inclined, sir, so to regard -them, and so to speak of them—not in exceptional cases, but -as a mass. In the providence of God, why their ancestors were -permitted to be brought over here, it is not for us to say; but -they have a location and habitation here, especially in the -South, and since the changed condition of their status, though -it was the leading cause of the late terrible conflict of arms -between the States, yet I think I may venture to affirm there is -not one within the circle of my acquaintance, or in the whole -Southern country, who would now wish to see the old relation -restored.”</p></div> - -<p>Recognizing a national responsibility for the welfare and -protection of these freedmen, he closes with this ringing -exhortation:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“This changed status creates new duties. The wardship has changed -hands. <em>Men of the North and of the South, of the East and of -the West—I care not of what party—I would to-day, on this -commemorative occasion, urge upon every one within the sphere of -duty and humanity, whether in public or private life, to see to -it that there be no violation of the Divine trust.</em>”</p></div> - -<p>To which the <cite>Independent</cite> gives its enthusiastic assent as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Amen and Amen! Statesmen, patriots, Christians, listen to the -words of the Vice-President of the Confederate Government! They -speak the deepest feelings of the best men who fought against -the Union. There remains now for us the greater task of making -the freedmen worthy to enjoy and fit to adorn that freedom whose -proclamation was signed September 22d, 1862.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="DOUGLASS_AND_HAYES" id="DOUGLASS_AND_HAYES"></a>DOUGLASS AND HAYES AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY.</h3> - -<p>Surely, the colored people of the South are receiving plain talk -and good advice on all sides. Perhaps no one speaks more plainly -and penetratingly, and perhaps no one has a better right or ability -to do it, than the Hon. Frederick Douglass. At the reception of -an engraving of Mr. Carpenter’s picture, from the artist, by the -Howard University, he uttered honest words, and true. Speaking of -Mr. Stephens’ speech, in which he said it was yet to be proven -if emancipation was a blessing, Mr. Douglass replied that this -question was to be answered in the future, and meant that his race -was still on trial—on trial to see if they would be better masters -to themselves than their masters were to them—if they would rise -as early and work as late.</p> - -<p>In regard to his own people, he said:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Among the faults of my people are self-indulgence, love of -ease, and improvidence. They must learn to spend their earnings -judiciously. <em>If one can’t get up, he will be helped down.</em> They -have a fair chance to get up. They are on the way to Congress, -and if the negro can stand Congress, Congress ought to stand -the negro. The colored men have been forced up by abnormal -conditions, but they are now coming up gradually by their own -exertions.”</p></div> - -<p>This is the soundest kind of sense. Emancipation only struck the -shackles from the slave; it had no power to lift him up. Federal -force could hold him up by the arms, but he is still as limp as -ever, for all that; his ankle bones could not immediately receive -strength from it. “They have a fair chance to get up”; but that -does not get them up of itself. The stairways of education are -laid from the first story—yes, from the sub-cellar up through the -basement, flight after flight, to the top floor. But stairways do -not turn, end for end, to tumble people up. The paths of honest -industry and thrift are open; but they are all up-hill, and never -slide their travelers down into competence and respectability. -There is a chance to get up, but the freedman must do his own -climbing, after all. If there are some to dissuade him, by assuring -him that for him these ascents lead up to nothing worth the effort, -there are others to cheer him on, and to rejoice with him in each -new advance.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a> But even such will be compelled to admit the justice -of the saying, “If one can’t get up, he will be helped down”; he -must not obstruct the way. He ought, however, to be encouraged, -by seeing such men as Douglass up so near the top. And those who -cannot encourage him by example, because they were born on higher -levels, surely may sympathize with him, in the remembrance of -their own toil, as they ascended on the same scale, though higher. -Let there not fail him, while he fails not to strive, cheers from -above, cheers from below, cheers from all around him, and a hand, -too, now and then, for him to grasp and get a friendly pull. The -stair builders must be in the way to help a little, just when heart -and strength are failing.</p> - -<p>President Hayes spoke, too, on the same occasion, and in much the -same line. Read this President’s Message:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The wisdom, the righteousness, and the grandeur of Abraham -Lincoln’s act of emancipation, no man will deny. That it has -conferred infinite blessings on our country, on both races, and -on the world, very few will question. This estimate of the act, -and of its results, will not be changed by the good conduct or -the bad conduct of either race. But it is said that the question -of the blessing conferred on the colored race depends on their -conduct. What they most need is, what Burns calls ‘the glorious -privilege of being independent.’ What this requires is, the -willingness to labor, and the prudence and self-denial to save -the fruits of labor. My young colored friends, let this, then, be -among your good resolutions: I will work, and I will save, to the -end that I may become independent.”</p></div> - -<p>That is good advice for any poor man, black or white. This picture -of the signing of the Emancipation Act can commemorate all of which -it is capable, only if the privilege of freedom be embraced as the -opportunity of manly toil, and the occasion of all patient effort -to become the equal of other men, not in external advantages and -rights half so much as in capacity and character.</p> - -<p>This is what we are working for among our colored brethren, and -especially among the youth, and with a measure of success which -makes us full of hope for their future and ours. We must be patient -to hold out the chances, and keep open the opportunities, as well -as they to toil and strive to use them. Most of all do we feel that -when we have succeeded in leading them to an intelligent Christian -experience, we have awakened in them the highest motive of which -the human mind is capable, and brought them under the most powerful -stimulus to the worthiest of all ambitions—to fit themselves, not -for high stations, but for useful work.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="CHURCH_WORK" id="CHURCH_WORK"></a>CHURCH WORK IN THE SOUTH.</h3> - -<p>Is the A. M. A. devoting a proper share of its work to the -extension of Congregational Churches in the South? The question is -a fair one, and deserves a frank answer. But the answer, to be just -to all interests concerned, must take a broad view of the whole -subject. The paramount duty of the nation, and especially of the -churches, to the emancipated slaves, is to fit them for their new -position as citizens, and their true destiny as men and Christians -in America, and as missionaries to Africa. Anything short of -this is less than our whole duty. The blacks are all religious -in their way, and nearly all are connected with churches. In the -matter of outward profession and inward emotion, the <em>quantity</em> -is all that could be asked. It is in the <em>quality</em> alone that a -change is needed. No Christian Church can discharge its duty to -them by merely denominationalizing them into its ranks, leaving -the essentials of character and Christian manhood unchanged. The -Congregational Churches of this country certainly will not be -satisfied with this low aim.</p> - -<p>But these Congregational Churches are, by the nature of the -case, compelled to work in methods differing from those of -other denominations. Methodists, Baptists, and, to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_100" id="Page_100">[100]</a> some -extent, Presbyterians and Episcopalians, pre-occupy the ground. -Congregationalists were almost unknown among the blacks before -the war, and their efforts must naturally meet with sectarian -prejudice, somewhat in proportion to the ignorance of the people. -But, nevertheless, Congregationalism has a great responsibility -in regard to this people, in laying foundations on which to build -the essentials of character in civil and Christian life. It is -with this aim that the Association has, from the beginning, sought -to do its work—moving, with the progress of the colored people, -from the common-school to the more effective normal, collegiate -and theological teaching. The wisdom of its efforts is attested by -the commendations of those, both in the South and North, who are -most competent to judge, and also by the more convincing fact, that -it can point to 100,000 scholars in schools taught by its former -pupils, to the education it has given to many colored ministers, -and to the missionaries, born in slavery, trained in its schools, -and now sent to Africa.</p> - -<p>The church work must for a time, at least, grow out of, and keep -pace with, this Christian teaching, which prepares the people -to appreciate, and the minister to preach, a pure Gospel and a -practical morality. It were easy to scatter the seeds in a thin -and shallow soil, and gather a harvest that would wither while -it was gathering. A writer in one of the religious papers, who -censures the Association, makes this great boast, followed by a -frank confession: “With half of three millions of dollars I can -Congregationalize every negro in the South; <em>but, of course, the -work would not be permanent</em>.” The italics in this quotation are -ours, for we wish to call attention to the acknowledgment, and to -say that this transient work is precisely what the Association does -not attempt. It will not take the money of its patrons to start -ephemeral growths. It prefers, and we are sure its intelligent -friends will prefer, that it should plow deep, harrow thoroughly, -and sow “wholly a right seed,” that the gatherings may be an -hundred fold for the garner of the Master.</p> - -<p>An effort is made to stir up Congregationalists to plant <em>white</em> -churches in the South. The project is not new, but its results -thus far have not been encouraging. Soon after the war, the Home -Missionary Society and the Congregational Union invested large -moneys in establishing such churches there, and we suppose that -their experience will lead them to ask for very clear evidence of -more favorable auspices before they will wish to renew the attempt. -But if it were renewed, it would only be an exaggeration of the -difficulties at the West, where feeble rival churches, in poor and -small communities, struggle against inevitable death. For, in the -South, we should have two feeble Congregational churches, the one -white and the other black, in still poorer and smaller places. And -more than all that, the A. M. A. has started its church work on the -only true Gospel basis, founding churches without distinction of -color. Its churches are not black by its ordination, and are only -made nearly so by the caste prejudice of the whites. It ought to -be understood that the progress of any people in civilization and -Christianity is a growth, taking form and bearing fruit according -to soil and climate, and that it cannot be produced to order, or at -the behest of mere theorists.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="FOUR_NEW_MISSIONARIES" id="FOUR_NEW_MISSIONARIES"></a>FOUR NEW MISSIONARIES FOR AFRICA.</h3> - -<p>Many an experiment has failed because entered upon half-heartedly, -and tried on too small a scale to succeed. The height of wisdom -is to find the true line on which caution and courage meet. It -has been the purpose of the Association to do its part in the -evangelization of Africa, by missionaries of African descent, and -to begin in that effort so soon as our schools should begin to -furnish those qualified for such important work.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_101" id="Page_101">[101]</a></p> - -<p>Last fall, when, after the return of Mr. Billheimer and the death -of Barnabas Root, the Mendi Mission needed rëinforcement, the new -policy was begun by sending Messrs. Snelson, James and White to -the field. They arrived in due time, and entered at once heartily -upon their work. They have had some slight illnesses—almost, if -not quite all of them having suffered somewhat in the process of -acclimation—but at last accounts all were well again. If we are -fully informed, they have endured less inconvenience from this -cause than we anticipated.</p> - -<p>But the mission was still weak—Bro. Snelson the only minister. Two -of the white missionary helpers, who had been in the field before, -soon withdrew in impaired health. It was deemed wise, and, indeed, -indispensable, for the successful prosecution of the work, that the -ranks should be at once filled. It was decided to send three single -men, or better, if possible, two married men with their wives. A -letter was written to Fisk University, stating the need, which was -read without comment, at prayers, Feb. 8th.</p> - -<p>God’s Spirit took the message to the heart of Andrew E. Jackson, -and sent it by him to Albert Miller, and through them to Ella M. -Hildridge and Ada J. Roberts (also students at Fisk), to whom they -were respectively engaged, and three days later the four offered -themselves willingly for this far-off field. The faculty recognized -at once their fitness for the work; they were among the best and -brightest and most advanced of the students in their respective -departments. The four met daily for prayer together, and their -convictions and purposes were daily strengthened. The Executive -Committee accepted them promptly, and felt it necessary to press -their speedy departure, that they might reach the west coast of -Africa before the wet season should set in, when the conditions for -their acclimature would be less favorable than earlier.</p> - -<p>On Saturday of that week a council was convened, which, on the -following day, Sunday, Feb. 17th, ordained the two young men to -the Gospel ministry, they having each had considerable experience -in preaching. A farewell meeting of the students was also held on -the same day, full of heartiness and fervor, at which the following -resolution was unanimously adopted:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“In consideration of the call of God to our brethren, to labor in -Africa, and in consideration of the many hours spent together in -Christian communion,</p> - -<p>“<em>Resolved</em>, That we devote a portion of each Sabbath morning -to prayer especially for them in their labors on the African -shores, that they may be abundantly blessed, both spiritually and -physically, and enabled to do good work for the Master.”</p></div> - -<p>We have no fear of a lack of missionary zeal henceforth in Fisk -University. But the manifestation of interest in this event was not -confined within its walls. All Nashville seemed aglow with friendly -enthusiasm. Dr. Rand, of the First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, -invited Miller into his pulpit, at the close of the Sunday morning -service, to address the congregation, which took up a liberal -collection for the outfit of the young missionaries. Their ages -range from twenty-one to twenty-seven. The Theological students -of Vanderbilt University invited them to an interview on Sunday -afternoon, at which they were most kindly received; and after -prayers together, and conversation, were the recipients of presents -of books and money.</p> - -<p>The next day, the double marriage was solemnized by Professors -Bennett and Spence, and later, a general farewell meeting was held -in St. John’s Chapel. The large building was crowded, and many went -away unable to find entrance. Prominent ministers from the city -and vicinity, representing the leading denominations of Christian -churches, were present. The tone of the meeting was congratulatory -and hopeful, as befitted the sending forth of these soldiers of the -Cross.</p> - -<p>At their leaving Nashville by the evening train, an immense crowd -gathered in and about the depot to see them off. A day or two only -was spent in New York, to make necessary purchases, and receive -instructions from the Secretary. On Thursday<a class="pagenum" name="Page_102" id="Page_102">[102]</a> afternoon, a few -members of the Executive Committee, and representatives of the -religious press, held an informal interview with them. They each -told the story of their lives, of their struggles to acquire an -education, and of their religious experiences. All were deeply -impressed with the sincerity of their devotion, and with their -modesty and good sense as well.</p> - -<p>On Saturday, the 23d of February, they sailed for England, where -they arrived March 3d. By the 20th they were expected to reach -Freetown, and a few days later, their new home.</p> - -<p>We have thus fairly launched on the new experiment of African -evangelization by men and women of African descent, who have come -through American slavery to freedom. The nine adults together in -the field are enough to support each other’s courage and hold up -each other’s hands. But the field is far away; the perils of it are -peculiar; the path is a new one to these young men and women. We -trust in them with great confidence. But in the complications and -unforeseen emergencies which always may arise in a foreign field, -we feel that they need, more than most missionaries even, the -constant remembrances, in prayer, of the thousands of the friends -of Africa in our land and in Great Britain. We repeat most urgently -their parting request—“Brethren, pray for us.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="INDIAN_POLICIES" id="INDIAN_POLICIES"></a>THE TWO INDIAN POLICIES.</h3> - -<p>Two radically different views have prevailed in this country from -the outset in regard to the treatment of the Indians—the one -represented by the word civilization, and the other by the word -extermination. The first of these was entertained by the Pilgrim -Fathers, and by the founder of Pennsylvania, and was carried out -apostolically by John Eliot, David Brainard, and others, as well -as by successful Indian missions of later date. But the effort -has been constantly obstructed by the hostilities between the -Indians and the white men, rendering the latter indisposed to -send the Gospel, and the former to receive it. The only decided -and comprehensive effort by the general Government, for the -civilization of the Indians, is the peace policy inaugurated by -General Grant, the results of which, in spite of all obstacles and -opposition, have been unmistakably and increasingly advantageous. -(1) As a class, the agents selected by the religious societies have -been far more trustworthy and efficient than their predecessors, -being themselves honest in their dealings with the Indian, and -defending them from the frauds of ring speculators, and the -temptations of the liquor dealers. (2) The progress of the Indians -in their industrial, educational and moral advancement has been -very marked, as is shown by a tabulated and comparative statement -of facts, prepared by the Board of Indian Commissioners, and -recently published. (3) The agents—representing all denominations, -and, therefore, not committing the government to sectarianism—have -most directly and heartily co-operated with the religious efforts -of the different churches for the evangelization of the Indians. -As the only possibility of civilizing the Indians lies in their -Christian enlightenment, the work of the religious societies, under -the fostering care of the government, gives the highest promise of -success.</p> - -<p>On the other hand, the policy of extermination has been tried from -the beginning. In the earlier days the struggle resembled the -border wars between England and Scotland, being mere temporary -raids, carried on with little expense. But modern warfare puts -another aspect on this contest with the Indians, making it vastly -more costly in men and money. It is believed that not a single -Indian has been killed by our army, at less than an average expense -of a million of dollars, and of the lives of one or more white men. -The War Department and the army are the natural representatives of -this policy, and if the Indians are transferred to their care, the -peace policy will be overthrown, and we fear that of extermination -substituted in its place. This apprehension<a class="pagenum" name="Page_103" id="Page_103">[103]</a> involves no reflection -on the humanity of the officers and soldiers of the army, but the -inference is justified by the history of the past, and by the -fact that the business of an army is to destroy, and not to give -instruction.</p> - -<p>Much significancy is added to this question by the recent tables of -Major Clark, showing that the Indians are not decreasing in number. -They are here, and mean to stay. We cannot exterminate them, and -we ought, as a Christian people, to face manfully the other and -grander alternative of making them good citizens and sharers in the -blessings of the Gospel.</p> - -<p>One other thing should not be forgotten. This nation long oppressed -the black man, and the dread penalty came at length, whose -mementoes are in a million of soldiers’ graves, in broken homes and -hearts, North and South, and in the disturbance of all commercial -and industrial interests, under which the whole land still -trembles. If we persevere in our wrongs and neglects of the red -man, have we any hope that we shall escape similar retributions? -God still reigns!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="CHURCH_NEWS" id="CHURCH_NEWS"></a>NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>—“Five students united with the church by -profession, the first Sabbath in March. Others were advised to -wait until they had opportunity to prove themselves Christians by -their Christian works. There seems to be a continual work of grace -extending noiselessly and unobtrusively from heart to heart, and -adding one after another to the trophies of its victorious power.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McLeansville, N. C.</span>—Miss Douglass writes: “My Bible-class -still continues large. My room is crowded every Sabbath. After the -class was dismissed last night one young man, who wishes to fit -himself for a missionary, said, ‘I have taken a new resolution to -be more devoted than ever.’ He must soon leave school to earn more -money. I wish he could go on now.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>—Mr. Markham writes: “Our congregation -is increasing every week. God is with us. This is as clear as -a sunbeam. I feel His special aid. Two united with our church -yesterday (March 3). I am to go to Ogeechee next Sabbath. Nine will -unite there. The Sabbath-school at East Savannah is increasing. -More than 100 are now on the list.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—“Yesterday (Feb. 10,) was a happy day to the -Macon church. Four children baptized, and five adults received -into membership. Of these, four are new converts—others will come -forward next month. Our daily prayer-meetings are continued. The -church is aroused to more activity, and we look for yet better -things.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Woodville, Ga.</span>—“Six united with the church March 2d. -Sunday-school numbers nearly 100. Prayer-meetings are being held -every evening. The day-school has 92 scholars enrolled.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>—“The very interesting religious work -still continues. As many as fifty have been converted. Some of the -very hopeful cases are, or have been, nominal Catholics: others of -the same class are interested.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Berea, Ky.</span>—“An interesting revival in progress—some -twenty conversions.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="ITEMS_FROM_THE_SCHOOLS" id="ITEMS_FROM_THE_SCHOOLS"></a>ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>—The Beach Institute in this city was -destroyed by fire on the morning of Feb. 20th. The fire began in -a barn on the premises in some mysterious way, and was speedily -communicated to the Institute building. The Teachers’ Home -adjoining was saved, the wall toward it standing. Part of the -school furniture was also saved.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_104" id="Page_104">[104]</a> The building had, for a few years -past, been rented to the city school-board for a colored school. -Notice had been given them that the Association would require -the building for its own use next fall. The insurance money will -replace the building, and a school under the Association’s care -will be opened as previously planned.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marietta, Ga.</span>—“Our school opened for the first time -Oct. 15th, 1877. The local prejudice was so great that only four -scholars attended. A change in the feeling has taken place, and the -school has, up to this time, enrolled 88 pupils. The colored people -are becoming eager to embrace their privileges. The children are -improving in knowledge and in care for themselves. The prospect is -full of encouragement.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Forsyth, Ga.</span>—On February 1st, the school building of -the colored people of Forsyth was dedicated and set apart for -the work for which it was intended. For months these people have -been struggling to raise money to build the house. They had, as a -fund to start with, about two hundred dollars, which the colored -Baptist Church had collected. Subscription lists were opened and -the colored people and their white friends contributed as they -could. Contrary to the expectation of many, their success was -such that the building was framed and rapidly pushed forward. It -is not yet complete, lacking plastering, but is quite comfortable -nevertheless. The teacher, W. F. Jackson, a graduate of the Atlanta -University, has been indefatigable and untiring in his efforts to -press this enterprise to completion. Rev. E. A. Ware, President of -the Atlanta University, made the dedicatory address.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="LIGHTS_AND_SHADOWS" id="LIGHTS_AND_SHADOWS"></a>LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.</h3> - -<p>—A Southern man, a member of the Presbyterian Church, and a book -agent for many years, reports that in the last two years he has -taken 280 orders from the colored people of Charleston for valuable -books, in many cases trusting them when cash payments could not be -made, and has not lost fifteen dollars.</p> - -<p>—A gentleman in Augusta, Ga., tells us he has sold over two -hundred house lots to colored people, who have paid for them in -small instalments, since the war.</p> - -<p>—The African Methodists have been holding an educational -convention in Georgia, Bishop Campbell presiding. From the -statements made by the Bishop and by Presiding Elder Brown, we -learn that wonderful progress in education has been made during the -last ten years. Ten years ago, in the Atlantic District, there was -but one man capable of keeping a minute of the transactions, “and -then it had to be read while it was hot, for if it ever cooled down -it could never be read again.” Now there is scarcely a preacher -who, besides reading and writing, has not pursued to some extent -the course of studies prescribed to candidates for the ministry.</p> - -<p>—It is pleasant to note how the freedmen are rising to the dignity -of self-support in their religious, as well as their material -interests. A missionary of the American Sunday-school Union, in -North Carolina, having recently organized three new Sunday-schools -among freedmen, writes, that at the close of one of his meetings -“an aged negro, of nearly seventy years, came forward with his -pennies to buy a primer for his grandson. His example was followed -until about two hundred pennies were piled upon the desk—the first -contribution of these poor but willing self-helpers.”</p> - -<p>—In seven years the students of Talladega College alone have -organized Sunday-schools in which have been taught over 20,000 -scholars.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Sears, agent of the Peabody Fund, says that in all the States -where there has been a re-action against education, it has been -followed by a return to better measures<a class="pagenum" name="Page_105" id="Page_105">[105]</a> than ever. Thus, through -local actions and re-actions, the general forward movement is -assured.</p> - -<p>—One morning, in our school in Augusta, on calling for the First -Commandment with Promise, a little girl, hardly six years old, -said: “Honor thy father and mother, that thy days may be long in -the land of liberty.” That wasn’t very bad.</p> - -<p>—A colored Tennesseean says: “When I want to hear preaching, I go -to the Congregational Church; when I want to have a good time I go -to these other places.”</p> - -<p>—One of our faithful ministers in Georgia grieves over a recent -restoration to his pulpit of a neighboring colored pastor. He -says the white people wanted it, because (1) the man’s politics -suit them, (2) he is ignorant, and (3) he gets drunk. The colored -members of his church know nothing of Bible religion, and are like -their priest. On a recent Communion Sunday seven of them were seen -returning to their homes drunk—three just able to stagger on, and -four “being hauled out in a cart, not able to sit up.” The writer -says such churches cannot save these people, and mere secular -instruction will not cure such evils. The Christian school is the -only hope.</p> - -<p>—In another case, in the same State, a minister, going into a -church shortly after the close of a communion service, found the -deacons and a few of the members “eating and drinking and carrying -on as if they were in a bar-room.” Being expostulated with, they -said they did not feel at liberty to throw any of the bread and -wine away. It was evidently, however, a renewal of the old excesses -for which Paul so sharply rebuked the Church at Corinth.</p> - -<p>—A woman in one of the old-style churches, not far from one of -our best schools, “came through with religion” one night, and in -telling her wonderful “experience,” said she went to heaven, and -from there she saw this whole school “marching down to hell with -their Bibles in their hands.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="INDIAN_NOTES" id="INDIAN_NOTES"></a>INDIAN NOTES.</h3> - -<p>—The House Committee on Indian Affairs has reported in favor -of the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the Interior to the -War Department. Its grounds are (1) the failure of the attempts -to civilize; (2) the divided responsibility between Secretary -and Commissioner—between civil and military officers; (3) the -corruption of the present Indian service; (4) the economy of the -change, which will furnish employment for retired and idle army -officers who receive pay.</p> - -<p>—Precisely what civilizing agencies would be brought to bear upon -these people under the War Department is not stated in the report. -Whether the school and the church would be allowed, or only the -stockade and the garrison; whether bullets should take the place of -books, and guns of Gospel. This does not follow of necessity, only -from the despairing tone in regard to the attempts to civilize.</p> - -<p>—We beg our readers to notice carefully what class of men, as a -whole, sustain and desire the change to the War Department, and -what sort of men oppose it. There is great significance in such -discriminations.</p> - -<p>—The recent Sioux war cost $2,313,531 in money, and 283 men -killed, among whom was the gallant Custer and his staff, and 125 -wounded.</p> - -<p>—<cite>Sunday Afternoon</cite> says: “It costs the United States about $1,700 -a year to support a soldier fighting the Indians. It costs the -American Board about half as much to support a missionary preaching -to them. Would it not be cheaper to send more missionaries and -fewer <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>soldiers?”</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_106" id="Page_106">[106]</a></p> - -<p>—Hon. A. C. Barstow, one of the Indian Commissioners, and a man -thoroughly conversant with the whole subject of Indian affairs, -gives the following opinion regarding this important branch of our -Civil Service and the men who control it. He says:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs is an able man, of -large business experience, and, moreover, (as chairman of the -Purchasing Committee of the Board of Indian Commissioners for -two or three years, and up to within a few months of entering -this office), of large experience in Indian affairs. There is no -man in the country whom corrupt contractors have more learned to -fear and to hate; and, in my opinion, they are the men who are -fanning this flame of excitement, and who are exerting all their -influence to turn the administration of Indian affairs over to -the War Department. They are pinched by the present policy, and -desire change. They cannot suffer by this or any change, and may -be benefited—hence, their noisy zeal. I am sorry that any good -man has for a moment been led to believe that the Secretary of -the Interior is open to the influence of this class of men. I -think the public may safely quiet their fears upon this point. -Whatever else may be said of him, he is not a ‘bird of that -feather.’ From what I have seen, I think the public may look for -an administration of his department not only honest but able, and -may also be assured that the policy of President Hayes toward the -Indians will be eminently humane and Christian.”</p></div> - -<p>—The educational work among the Indians may be summed up from -the Commissioner’s report for 1877, as follows: There are 251,000 -Indians, and 28,000 half-breeds, exclusive of Alaska. Among them -are 330 schools, of which 60 are boarding-schools, with 437 -teachers; and 11,515 pupils have attended at least one mouth. -Largest monthly average, 4,774; average for the year, 3,598; -expense to the government, $255,379; to Tribal funds, $81,989; to -the religious societies, $33,950; in all, $371,318; 40,397, of whom -23,196 are adults, can read; 1,206 learned to read last year.</p> - -<p>—The religious items, drawn from the same source, show 207 church -buildings on the reservations; 126 missionaries, not included -among teachers; expended by religious societies, $36,164; 27,215 -are members of the mission churches of all denominations. We -question whether the $36,000 reported as expended by the religious -societies, represents, even approximately, the full amount given -from this source, since the A. B. C. F. M. and the Presbyterian -Board, together, expend annually nearly this amount. We claim that, -considering all the disadvantages of his condition, and the fewness -of the laborers, the results are gratifying and hopeful.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="CHINESE_NOTES" id="CHINESE_NOTES"></a>CHINESE NOTES.</h3> - -<p>—The House Committee on Education and Labor made a report, -February 25th, on the Chinese question, of which we give the -following abstract: Since the first treaty with China, in July, -1844, the migration has been on the steady increase for the last -twenty years—from 1855 to 1859, it was 4,530; 1860 to 1864, it -was 6,600; from 1865 to 1870, it was 9,311; from 1871 to 1874, it -was 13,000. —— The lowest estimate of Chinamen in California is -150,000. From the density of population in China, and the lowness -of wages, from their migratory disposition, and the attractions -of our congenial climate, high wages and liberal government, and -the cheapness and safety of the voyage hither, an increasing -rate of immigration is prophesied. —— While the Chinaman is -desirable merely as a laborer, he has neither home, self-respect, -nor underclothes, and lives on rice, tea and dried fish. He has -low ideas of religion, labor, women and virtue. —— He does not -assimilate with the American people, and is unchanged by contact. -He does not mean to stay, and will not even contribute his dead -body to our national welfare. He cannot be made into a soldier, or -even a juryman. —— He is proud of Confucius, and vainly boasts of -China as the central nation of the world. He is, and will remain, -distinct<a class="pagenum" name="Page_107" id="Page_107">[107]</a> “in color, size, features, dress, language, customs, -habits and social peculiarities.”</p> - -<p>The joint resolution relative to Chinese immigration is as follows:</p> - -<p>“<em>Whereas</em>, It appears that the great majority of Chinese -immigrants are unwilling to conform to our institutions, to become -permanent residents of our country, and accept rights and assume -responsibilities of citizenship; and,</p> - -<p>”<em>Whereas</em>, They have indicated no capacity to assimilate with our -people; therefore,</p> - -<p>“<em>Resolved</em>, That the President of the United States be requested -to open correspondence immediately with the Governments of China -and Great Britain, with the view of securing a change or abrogation -of all stipulations in existing treaties which permit unlimited -immigration of Chinese to the United States.”</p> - -<p>—Cheap labor, whether by machine or by man-power, has always been -resisted by those whom it has displaced. But it always pushes -the more intelligent laborers up and not down. It has been so in -California. Men are now foremen who were only fruit-pickers, and -engineers who were only miners before Chinese labor came in.</p> - -<p>—Race unions, to keep prices of labor up, and to put competition -down, are no better than other unions for these purposes. All such -combinations are both short-sighted and selfish.</p> - -<p>—In the San Francisco <cite>Bulletin</cite>, we find the following -schedule of labor rates in that city: Carpenters, from $3 to -$3.50 a day; bricklayers, $4 to $5; painters, $3; plasterers, -$3.50; hod-carriers,$3; stone-cutters, $4; machinists, $3 to $4; -brass-founders, $4.50; common laborers, $2; woolen mills, $2.50 to -$3.50; domestics, $25 to $30 a month—not more than two children -allowed in an employer’s family at that. It can be seen at a glance -that these wages are twice those paid in the Eastern States for -corresponding work. Does Chinese competition keep these prices up, -or does California need less homeopathic doses of “China” to bring -her prices somewhere near the level of her sister States?</p> - -<p>—By the statistics of the arrivals and departures for 1877, it -appears that 9,906 passengers arrived from China and Japan, and -7,852 returned, showing an excess of 2,054 arrivals, not all of -whom, indeed, were Mongolians; while the deaths of Chinese exceeded -2,054. It would seem that our Christian statesmen of San Francisco -might repress their morbid solicitude, in view of these encouraging -facts.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We trust our readers will notice carefully the accounts of our -various educational institutions as they appear in order from -month to month. These articles are intended to give a view of -the peculiar work, and appliances for work, of these schools and -colleges. Next month, we expect to publish an article on Tougaloo -University, Mississippi; and, in June, one on Straight University, -Louisiana. Others will follow in such order as their special -circumstances may determine.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We find that we are at liberty to say to our readers, that the -touching little poem entitled “Christ in the Person of the Poor,” -which appeared in our February <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, was from the -pen of the Rev. <span class="smcap">Eli Corwin</span>, D. D., of Jacksonville, -Illinois.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="OBITUARIES" id="OBITUARIES"></a>OBITUARIES.</h3> - -<p>The heroes of the anti-slavery struggle are passing away. The -Tappans, Joshua Leavitt and others finished their course in the -last few years, and now we record the death of two others of their -compeers.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rev. Wm. Goodell</span> was born in Chenango County, N. Y., Oct. -25th, 1792. In his earlier years he acquired a practical knowledge -of business affairs, but it was as a thinker, writer and reformer -that he has made his mark in the world. He will be remembered -as an editor and author, devoted earnestly and successfully to -promoting<a class="pagenum" name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[108]</a> reform in many directions, but especially in relation to -intemperance and slavery. Mr. Goodell was present at the Convention -in Albany, N. Y., at which this Association was formed, and took -a prominent and effective part in its proceedings, preparing and -reporting the elaborate address to the Christian public, which -was adopted and sent forth as embodying the views on which the -Convention based the new organization. From that time to the close -of his life, his sympathy for our work was constant and earnest.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rev. J. S. Green</span> died at his home in Makawao, Sandwich -Islands, Jan. 5th, 1878, in the 82d year of his age. Mr. Green -went out as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1828, in -company with Andrews, Gulick and others, and shared in effecting -the wonderful transformation in those Islands. In 1842 Mr. Green -resigned his connection with the American Board, and from that -time until his death was a pastor, depending for his support upon -his own labor and the contributions of his people. His strong -anti-slavery sympathies led him to seek a connection, yet without -salary, with the Union Missionary Society and subsequently with -this Association, when that Society was merged into it. His name -appeared for years in our list of foreign missionaries, and his -reports were full and interesting. His ready pen, not satisfied -with mere reports, was prolific in contributions on missionary -subjects, and earnest in its denunciations of the evils of slavery -in his native land. He was a man of deep and earnest piety, and his -memory will be cherished in the warm regard of those who knew his -worth and his useful career.</p> - -<h4>DEATH OF TEACHERS.</h4> - -<p>The painful intelligence has reached us of the death, on February -17th, of typhoid fever, after a four weeks’ illness, of Mr. -<span class="smcap">Marmaduke C. Kimber</span>, of Germantown, Pa., aged nearly -twenty-four years. The son of one of the valued friends and -trustees of Hampton Institute, Mr. Kimber, when just out of -college in 1872, gave his services to the school for two years -as a volunteer teacher. Since then he has been professor in a -Western college, and after a year of travel in Europe, he took -charge of the Friends’ Academy in Germantown, which position he -held at the time of his death. He is remembered with sincerest -esteem by the officers of the school and teachers who were -associated with him at Hampton, and the students who were under his -instruction.—<cite>Southern Workman.</cite></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mrs. Alicia S. (Blood) Brown</span> died at Leavenworth, Kansas, -on the 26th of February. Mrs. Brown was for some years a teacher -under this Association at Monticello, Florida, and her many friends -there will remember the faithful instruction she gave and the -kindnesses she bestowed. Her illness was long and severe, but when -she did <em>not</em> look for the Messenger, he came and took her away. -In the midst of her sufferings, she could cheerfully say, that she -wanted to “bear and suffer all His will.”</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2><a name="THE_FREEDMEN" id="THE_FREEDMEN"></a>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3><a name="TALLADEGA_COLLEGE" id="TALLADEGA_COLLEGE"></a>TALLADEGA COLLEGE.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. E. P. LORD, PRESIDENT.</p> - -<p>Almost in the very centre of Alabama, the great Allegheny range -makes a last and only partially successful effort at rearing -mountains, before losing itself in the low, flat <em>black belt</em>. Thus -the pure and exhilarating atmosphere of more Northern latitudes -is brought to the very border of the almost tropical country that -belts the Gulf. Overlooking the rich, populous, and somewhat -unwholesome low-lands, breathing the pure mountain air, is situated -Talladega, seeming to have been Providentially placed as a city -of refuge for the colored people of Alabama. The beauty of the -surrounding landscape is a perpetual inspiration to teachers and -students. The location<a class="pagenum" name="Page_109" id="Page_109">[109]</a> of the college, in a quiet country village -of two thousand inhabitants, invites the young people from the -cities, and less favored localities, to an atmosphere as pure and -healthful morally as it is physically.</p> - -<p>But one other Southern State, if any, has so large a colored -population as Alabama. A half million are now in the State, and the -number is continually increasing. Of these, three-fifths cannot -read. There are about two hundred thousand children of school age, -and only one in ten of these was in school last year. Eighty-three -cents only was expended upon the education of each of those who did -attend. One would hardly judge that this could afford a <em>liberal</em> -education.</p> - -<p>In a State needing moral and educational efforts so greatly, the -A. M. A. has opened schools and organized churches in Mobile, -Montgomery, Selma, Marion, Athens, and a few other places. In 1870 -the Association established Talladega College, as the key-stone of -the arch, or the centre of its system of educational and religious -work in Alabama. The college is closely connected with the other -points of the Association’s work in this State by means of the -intimate social relations between the faculty of the college and -the workers in those places.</p> - -<p>The various departments designated by the name <i>Talladega College</i>, -are so closely interwoven that any distinct mention of the workings -of one must contain facts closely related to the others. For -convenience I will speak of (1) the Literary Department; (2) the -Industrial Department; (3) the Theological Department; (4) the -Church Work.</p> - -<h4>The Literary Department.</h4> - -<p>This includes the various grades, from the elementary to the -higher Normal course, the latter requiring three years for its -completion. The studies pursued include in mathematics, University -Algebra and Geometry; in science, Physical Geography, Physiology, -Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, English Literature, Mental and -Moral Philosophy, etc., with the theory and practice of teaching. -Its students have accomplished much in teaching throughout the -State. In seven years, according to their reports to the principal, -these students have taught about five hundred day-schools, with -fifteen thousand scholars. At the same time they have organized -Sabbath-schools, and taught in them over twenty thousand scholars. -These numbers fairly represent the power these young people have -exerted for the moral and intellectual elevation of their people in -this and other States. There are in the department seventy pupils. -Next year a large number will be admitted from the intermediate -grade, which now numbers one hundred, though, in our present -poverty, it has had but one teacher the greater part of the year.</p> - -<p>There are in attendance this year two hundred and fifty students, a -much larger number than ever before, and there is every indication -of an increase the coming year. During the last vacation the -principal and the music teacher, with a company of students, -visited many of the larger places of the State, lecturing, giving -concerts, and stirring up the people generally on the subject of -education. The Christian zeal and deportment of the students, and -the information diffused, awakened a desire for education, and a -public sentiment in favor of Talladega College never before known. -The last commencement exhibited and also increased the new love -and enthusiasm for the college. They gathered from the country for -twenty miles around, on foot, on mules, in ox-carts and wagons. -All the examinations were largely attended; many who could not -read taking the liveliest interest in “two unknown quantities,” -and experiments in philosophy. An instructive address by Rev. Dr. -Brown, of Newark, N. J., the prize declamations and essays by -fourteen of the Normal students, the graduating exercises of three -young men from the Theological Department, the concert by the -Musical Union, and other interesting exercises, furnished the only -means for comprehending a liberal education, which hundreds<a class="pagenum" name="Page_110" id="Page_110">[110]</a> of the -great crowds in attendance had ever enjoyed.</p> - -<p>The students, also, are taking a personal pride in bringing back -the best scholars from their summer schools. One young man, having -failed to collect any funds from his summer school in Georgia, -started with his most advanced pupil on foot, their satchels upon -their backs. Walking, riding in chance carts, and helped on by -railroad conductors, who were evidently influenced to surprising -kindness by the spirit of the Master, they reached this place. -Incited by the enthusiasm of this young man, three more have -followed him from his distant field of labor. From Mississippi, -another young man brought back two. They walked about one hundred -miles, and are now paying their way in school by labor on the -college farm.</p> - -<p>Both have begun earnest Christian lives, and are soon to unite with -the church.</p> - -<p>All the young men of the college are organized into a battalion of -cadets for physical culture. Their government is conducted by means -of this organization, its officers being held responsible for the -conduct of the members, and being expected to set an example of -manliness and courteous deportment. We find this to be one of the -most potent factors of their moral as well as physical development.</p> - -<h4>Industrial Department.</h4> - -<p>At the close of the last school year, the Industrial Department -was decided upon. One of the professors, with the approval of -the Association, immediately proceeded to lay the matter before -friends in the North; and the teachers gathered from all sources -whatever they could secure, with which to begin the work. About -three thousand dollars have already been received, and work in the -following branches begun:</p> - -<p>A printing press was secured, with which to bring our wants before -the people of the North, and our influence to bear upon the -intelligent colored people. Six students have learned a useful -trade, and by its means are paying their way in school. In August -they began the publication of the <cite>Southern Sentinel</cite>, a small -eight-page paper, of which five hundred copies are issued monthly. -Should any one doubt its usefulness, a year’s subscription (one -dollar) would be an excellent test. Six hundred copies of the -Sabbath-school Lesson papers, prepared with reference to the -peculiar needs of our Sabbath-schools, are also printed, together -with a large quantity of other matter.</p> - -<p>Work upon the farm was begun in September. In October one hundred -and sixty acres were bought, in addition to the thirty acres -already owned by the college. The citizens of the place, both white -and colored, have become deeply interested in the success of the -enterprise. Gifts of all kinds, from a little girl’s pet chicken, -to a fine eighteen dollar plow from a merchant of the town, and -from an old auntie’s half-peck of potatoes to a fine cow and calf -from one of the deacons of the college church, and varying in -amounts from five cents to fifty dollars, have been given. Our most -intelligent citizens say that no other enterprise for the benefit -of the colored people has ever aroused so much interest among them -as the Agricultural Department.</p> - -<p>In the Girls’ Industrial School, sixteen young women are earning, -wholly or in part, their board and tuition; while, at the same -time, learning ways and methods which will make hundreds of homes -brighter and happier.</p> - -<p>In mechanical work, five hundred dollars’ worth of building and -repairing has been done, under the direction of an excellent -carpenter.</p> - -<p>In these different departments of labor, the students have already -received about fifteen hundred dollars as wages, in board and -tuition.</p> - -<h4>Theological Department.</h4> - -<p>If the colored people are to be elevated, in no class is education -more necessary than in the ministry. One of the leading Baptist -ministers in the State, being asked how many of the young ministers -educated in their schools were now in the ministry in this State, -replied “One, and we expect soon another.” Yet this church includes -by far<a class="pagenum" name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[111]</a> the largest number of the colored people. To meet this -great want, a Theological Department was organized in connection -with the college in 1872. Four young men constituted the first -class, three of whom are now in the ministry. The number of pupils -last year was twenty-seven; at present it is nineteen. The decrease -is owing to the requirement of a higher standard in literary -training. The colored people are naturally theologians and Bible -students. Three distinct lines of study are pursued, all of which -have special reference to practical, Christian work. (1) To make -the pupils familiar with the facts of the Bible. (2) To establish -them in a system of Christian theology. (3) To acquaint them with -the best methods of Christian work. Twenty-five Sabbath-schools are -carried on by the students. Six of these have grown into churches, -the young men acting as their pastors. Sabbath-school Conventions, -and various other kinds of Christian work, are conducted by the -students, often assisted by teachers from the college. This -department has a library of over eight hundred volumes.</p> - -<h4>Church Work.</h4> - -<p>We doubt if anywhere else in the South the Church and School are -both so strong and so closely united as here. The Congregational -Church of Talladega was organized in 1868. There are at present -one hundred and forty-nine members, with a Sabbath-school of three -hundred. Of course the larger part are students, but a goodly -number are citizens, heads of families, having good homes, and -being comparatively prosperous. Not only the members of this -church, but of the other churches in the village, are thoroughly -interested in whatever affects the college. In all the church -services citizens and students mingle, with always a sprinkling -of members from other churches. In the social gatherings of the -students, the members of the church are always welcomed, and -enter heartily into their pleasures. Thus the college is anchored -by means of the church in the hearts of the people themselves. -Many colleges are held in their present location by the force of -gravity, or by the adhesive force of brick and mortar alone; but -Talladega College, were her buildings burned to the ground, or -blown aloft into the air, would remain firmly fixed in the hearts -and affections of the people.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="NORTH_CAROLINA" id="NORTH_CAROLINA"></a>NORTH CAROLINA.</h3> - -<p class="center">“A mighty still religion.” “Good Christians is Peaceable.”</p> - -<p class="secauth">MISS MARTHA MOORE, WILMINGTON.</p> - -<p>With a larger working force this year, we are able to do more -outside work, and we find in our visits among the people plenty -of poverty, misery and sin. We almost wonder if <em>any power</em> is -sufficient to raise them from their degradation. Yet, the many -noble exceptions bring to view the <em>possibilities</em> of the race, and -encourage us to labor on.</p> - -<p>To show how the old heathenish idea of religion seems to those who -have received more light, I will copy a letter from one who, only a -year ago, was led to embrace the truth and to join our church. She -writes from her old home in the country, where she is spending the -winter with her father. She has, as you will see, a very limited -education. She writes:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Dear Friends</span>: I arrieved home safe found All injoying -helth I went with Brother to the Sunday School But Could not -Injoy it; Some had their spelling Books And Some their testaments -and speled And read the lessons over and out to play. then the -Church gather in to Class and in a half hour every bodys mouth -was open and their was nothing to be heard But I have been -redeemb. I stod aside and look at them till at last one of them -Caime to me saying sister what are you doing havent you got the -Spirit on yet? why, your religeon dead why what sort of Still -thing is this. ha you must be up And a doing let the world no -that you got the spirit on Show your light and let them see. Well -I says I think that a very poor way to show the Christian light. -O well if you say this a poor way you got no religeon honey; what -Church you belong to. I tole them, why I never heard of that -before well if they are like you I don’t no how it is but its -mighty still religeon well I says Im Sorry that you all think -that unless you Make a loud noise<a class="pagenum" name="Page_112" id="Page_112">[112]</a> the world wont see your Light. -I believe in showing the light in our walk And Conversation home -and abroad not wait to go To the Church; But they say you must -get the Spirit on, so you see its imposible for me to injoy their -worship. I hope you will all pray for my deliverence for I do not -think the lord intend to keep Me in this purgatory. -</p> -<p class="right">“Yours, L. S.”</p> -</div> - - -<p>We have in our night-school some who are making great efforts to -improve in knowledge. It requires no little resolution, after -working hard all day, to walk a mile or two and study two or three -hours. A stranger came a few weeks ago, wishing, as he said, “to -cultivate his brain.” There was evidently need of it, and we were -glad to learn that his recent conversion had awakened him to the -importance of knowing how to read for himself. He also expressed a -wish to come here to church, as he had become acquainted with one -of our members, who, as he said, “seemed to be a good, civil sort -of Christian,” and he thought he would come and see what kind of -meetings produced that effect. He had attended another church, but -said he “didn’t like there, for they had some crossness, and good -Christians is peaceable; they can’t help being peaceable”;—a good -lesson for all who bear the Christian name.</p> - -<p>Our Sunday-school averages about 130, and the truth seems to be -gaining a firmer hold in the minds of some of the older pupils. The -day-school is prospering. One of the little ones of the primary -department, a bright little fellow, was yesterday laid in his grave.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="ALABAMA" id="ALABAMA"></a>ALABAMA.</h3> - -<p class="center">Debt-Raising in a Colored Church.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. CHARLES NOBLE, MONTGOMERY</p> - -<p>At the annual meeting of the church, in December, it was found that -of the $100 pledged to the pastor’s salary, only $25 had been paid; -and that an old debt for sexton’s services remained, amounting to -$34. In the extra effort made to pay for the painting and repair -of the church, and other expenses in spring and summer, these -things had been neglected. It was a surprise, and, of course, a -disagreeable one to many of the church; but there was a decided -feeling that the amount ought to be raised at once, and not left -to be a burden on the church any longer. A debt of $109 is as much -to this people as some of the $50,000 debts, which Mr. Kimball has -been helping churches North to clear away, are to them. Therefore, -it seemed to me that the matter was one to be carefully and -prayerfully managed. I appointed a meeting for the consideration -of the matter, and opened it by reading Chaps, viii. and ix. of 2d -Cor., and briefly explaining their teachings. Then we spent half an -hour in prayer, the brethren bringing the burden right to the Lord -in the simplest and most touching language, expressing their sorrow -and self-reproach at having failed to make good their promises, and -asking forgiveness and help. Then they talked the matter over, and -decided to raise the amount at once by subscription. A fair was -suggested, but the decision was against it, on the ground that it -wasn’t quite honorable to call in outside help to make good their -own delinquency; and, moreover, that a fair involved a great deal -of unprofitable labor and excitement, and was a fruitful mother -of dissensions. These points they made themselves, and in view of -them they decided to raise the amount by voluntary offerings. The -subscription began at once, and the matter being presented to the -church for two successive Sundays, the whole amount was raised by -voluntary pledges. I am certain that the brethren who so cheerfully -and promptly pledged, and paid, $7.50 and $6 and $5, gave as -abundantly, in proportion to their means, as those who pledged -$5,000 and $2,000 at Providence. The spirit in which it was done -was the most beautiful part of it. It was more than willingly done. -The gifts were brought forward thankfully, joyously, and I never -saw happier people in my life than those who joined in thanksgiving -to God, when the whole amount was raised. We observed the week of -prayer, with meetings every evening, and there was real evidence -of<a class="pagenum" name="Page_113" id="Page_113">[113]</a> the presence of the Spirit. One who has long been in the dark -was brought out into the light; and it seemed to us that we must go -forward. We had meetings for two weeks with good attendance, and -very tender feeling. Quite a number of people rose for prayers, and -we hope that four at least have found the Saviour. The church has -certainly been quickened and strengthened very much.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="LOUISIANA" id="LOUISIANA"></a>LOUISIANA.</h3> - -<p class="center">Revival News—“Pray for My Child!”—Older Converts—Romanists -Reached.</p> - -<p class="secauth">MRS. T. N. CHASE, NEW ORLEANS.</p> - -<p>You will rejoice to hear of the good work in the Central -Congregational Church of New Orleans. The interest has been -sufficient to bring an unusual number every night for four weeks to -our prayer-meeting. One evening, after the pastor had taken nearly -the usual time, he called for brief testimony from Christians. -Fifty-three responded in the limited half hour.</p> - -<p>The fruit to be gathered in was from among the older students of -the school, who were not already professing Christians. This was -what would be expected by those who know their faithful, Christian -teachers. All teachers know the thrilling interest that clusters -around the conversion of young persons under their tuition. So, as -I have heard our teachers talk of this scholarly young man, and -that promising young woman, coming over to the Lord’s side, I knew -very well what a burden of prayer and effort was lifted from their -hearts and hands.</p> - -<p>The third week of our meetings a younger class seemed interested. -One evening a widow begged us to pray for her daughter, in tones -that would have melted a heart of stone. As she passed out of the -door, at the close of the meeting, I overheard her saying to one -and another, “Pray for my child! pray for my child!” An earnest -mother, I thought; who can doubt the reality of her religion? On my -way home I learned that her husband had been a devoted member of -our church, and a wealthy, intelligent, respected colored citizen. -I am happy to find such men are not rare in New Orleans. The next -evening the mother, with the same pleading earnestness, begged us -to pray for her child. Since her husband’s death her property had -gone, other dear ones had passed on, and it seemed as though she -could not be denied the conversion of her child. The grandmother -was present, too, and gave us a soul-stirring testimony of her long -pilgrimage. When those who wished our prayers were requested to -come forward, several responded. All were strangers to me; but when -a certain little girl went forward just behind the others, a tide -of emotion almost overcame me. She was as much a stranger to me -as the others, and I, for a moment, wondered at my tears. Then it -flashed upon me that she must be the widow’s child, and my emotion -was caused by the flood of sympathy that was involuntarily surging -from heart to heart for that praying mother. On inquiry, I found -I was not mistaken. You can imagine, better than I can describe, -the scene, when mother and grandmother gathered about the child, -pleading with her to yield to Jesus, as we all knelt to commend the -lost lambs to a loving Shepherd.</p> - -<p>Now, the older people are being reached. Friday evening a man came -in late to escort his wife home. Saturday he came early, and at -the very first opportunity was on his feet, saying, “For forty -years I hadn’t thought I had a soul till I came in here last night. -Help me to find Jesus.” He went forward, fell upon his knees, and -was so penitent it did not seem strange that that very night the -publican’s God sent him “to his house justified.” As he met our -pastor the next morning at church, he exclaimed, “Mr. Alexander, -you convinced me, but Jesus saved me.” It would do a stoic good to -look upon his beaming face and see what grace has done for that man.</p> - -<p>It seems to me that the most interesting feature of the A. M. -A. work in New Orleans is its leavening influence upon Roman -Catholicism. I was talking, after service one evening, with a -beautiful girl who had been forward for prayers, and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_114" id="Page_114">[114]</a> whose face -wore a genuine look of deep contrition. On asking her if she -attended church here regularly, she replied, “No; I go to the -Catholic Church.” Another girl was sitting beside a member of our -family one evening, when a boy behind whispered to her, “Don’t you -ask for prayers! if you do, I’ll tell the priest!” I hear that a -large number in the school are professed Catholics, but are allowed -to attend on account of the superior instruction.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="TENNESSEE" id="TENNESSEE"></a>TENNESSEE.</h3> - -<p class="center">Le Moyne Normal School.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Memphis, Tenn.</span>, <i>Feb. 16th, 1878</i>.</p> - -<p>The Le Moyne teachers, last year, organized among themselves -a reading circle for their own pleasure and improvement. Each -Thursday evening was devoted to the study of an author. After -a while, other friends were invited to join them for a single -reading. The custom was continued after the long vacation, and -became a part of the family life.</p> - -<p>So much interest was manifested among the occasional guests, that -some of them proposed that the circle be enlarged to include all -the colored teachers of the city. The proposal was favorably -received, and the new literary society has superseded the original. -The character of exercises has been changed to meet the demands of -this wider and different element. The programme this week was as -follows:</p> - -<p><em>Historical</em>: “Benjamin Franklin—his public life; his private -life.” <em>Poetical</em>: “Longfellow—sketch of his life; selections -from his writings.” <em>Debate</em>: “Resolved, that the Crusades were -a benefit to the world.” “Humorous Reading.” <em>Scientific</em>: “Cell -Life.” “Budget.”</p> - -<p>Music is interspersed, and discussions upon different topics are -presented. Ten minutes is the utmost time allowed each participant. -The only drawback is the lack of books of reference. Our small -library furnishes some assistance, and the additions made to it -from time to time help us in our preparations for the literary -society.</p> - -<p>Friday evenings are devoted to an equally interesting and -well-attended gathering of a more devotional character. The -Sabbath-school teachers, who use the International Lessons, meet in -one of the school-rooms for studying the next Sabbath’s lesson. It -is one of the most enjoyable hours of the week.</p> - -<p>The first suggestion of united study came from the superintendent -of the leading Methodist Sabbath-school. Others at once acceded -to the proposal, and heartily join in the exercises. Topics are -assigned to members of various schools, so that special preparation -is previously made, and very little time is wasted during the -meeting.</p> - -<p>Methodist, Baptist and Congregational superintendents succeed one -another in leading the meetings. Denominational lines are forgotten -in seeking to learn the truths of the Bible, and in considering -the best methods of presenting those truths to classes. The ten -minutes of devotion, at the beginning of each meeting, include the -discussion of a practical subject. “How to secure the influence of -the Holy Spirit in the hearts of our scholars,” “Best methods of -conducting Infant Classes,” “Opening and closing exercises of the -school,” are a few of the topics considered.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>A Woman’s Work among Women.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">MISS HATTIE MILTON, MEMPHIS.</p> - -<p>My mission, thus far, has been mostly to the lowly. The first -step was to become acquainted with the people and secure their -confidence, which had to be accomplished in various ways; sometimes -by taking a great interest in the children, lending them books, -giving them pictures, candy, toys, etc., or by giving the mother -a little assistance or advice about her work. Sickness affords a -good opportunity. I visited one family where the mother had been -helpless for some time from a beating given her by her husband. -I dressed her wounds, made clothing for her infant, washed and -dressed it, set the neighbors to work, and thus secured the -confidence of the whole neighborhood; now I am welcomed into homes -where before I was treated with coldness<a class="pagenum" name="Page_115" id="Page_115">[115]</a> and suspicion. I reach a -great many through my sick ones.</p> - -<p>Some little Sabbath-school girls in Crete, Ill., sent us a box -of bedding and clothing, which has been a great help in my work; -also, my friends at Romeo, Mich., sent a box of clothing, toys, -books, and material for my sewing-school, all of which has been a -God-send to me, as I find some very destitute families. The city -does nothing for the poor colored people, so my opportunity is all -the greater for doing good.</p> - -<p>I find many who cannot read and who are very glad to hear the Bible -read. Some have even offered to pay me for reading to them, at the -same time saying, “You must need it, you dear child, if you have -left your friends and home to come and work for the poor colored -people.”</p> - -<p>It is astonishing how little these people know about the Bible, -although they have attended church for years. Those who cannot -read find it so hard to understand the preaching, and those who -could read a little to them ‘could not give the understanding,’ as -they say. When I had finished my Bible reading with one family, -they said: “Please, ma’am, come every Sabbath, we get so much more -satisfaction from hearing you read than we do anywhere else.” I -endeavor to visit them at such hours as not to interfere with -their work, and often read and explain the Bible to a woman while -she proceeds with her sewing or ironing; however, some insist on -laying aside work, saying, “We must give our whole attention to the -word of God when we do have a chance to hear it”; and it is quite -affecting to have them thank the kind heavenly Father for sending -some one to teach them ways they knew not of, and pray to become -better women for having received the instruction.</p> - -<p>The missionary and those who send her do not lack for prayers from -the colored people. I have a Mothers’ Meeting once a week, where I -endeavor to teach them from the Bible their duties as mothers and -wives; also a sewing-school, where we teach the girls how to cut -and make garments, which they buy, when finished, at a low price. -I have had so much to do in this part of the work, that one of the -teachers has kindly assisted me.</p> - -<p>I have over fifty families on my visiting list, and have called on -several others and am received cordially by nearly all. I am well -pleased with the work, and ought never to cease being thankful for -the good and wonderful way in which the Lord has opened this field -of labor for me.</p> - -<p>Not long since, one of the girls from the senior class came and -told me she would like to become a missionary sometime, and asked -me to tell her what she could do now, as she wishes to begin to -work for Jesus while she is young. She asked me to take her with -me on some of my visits among the people, which I shall be glad to -do. I think one of the good results of this work is that it tends -to set the colored people to work for themselves, as they are glad -to do, but did not know how to go to work; they need instruction in -this as in everything else.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="KENTUCKY" id="KENTUCKY"></a>KENTUCKY.</h3> - -<p class="center">Berea College.</p> - -<p>While the echoes of Merry Christmas are ringing in our ears, and -good dinners and joyous family greetings are still bright spots in -our memories, it may be interesting to hear of a Gospel Feast in -Berea, Ky. Our good steward, of the Boarding Hall, conceived the -plan of going out into our highways and hedges and inviting those -most destitute to dine with him. Over the hills and the valleys -went the joyful tidings into many a log-hut—“Mr. H. done ’vite us -to a big dinner at de Hall.”</p> - -<p>Aside from teachers and their wives, no white folks were admitted -within those doors as guests. At an early hour, the large parlor -began to fill. To those of us who were late, it required no little -moral courage to enter a room so well filled, and go through the -ordeal of hand-shaking. The walls were lined with people, and -from their sober, dignified looks, one could easily imagine it a -funeral occasion. They seemed conscious of the dignity of the hour, -and were prepared to maintain it at any cost.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a> Men sat modestly -far away from the women. The costumes would have driven “Worth” -distracted. Surely, never could he have devised so many ways of -“doing up” the female form. Bits of ribbon, faded and old, stray -pieces of lace pinned here and there in charming abundance, and -with a lofty indifference to such minor matters as harmony or -usefulness. One large figured gown of prominent yellow shades, made -conspicuous the form of an old woman, who seemed, like her gown, -to have awakened out of a Rip Van Winkle sleep, or been unearthed -from some old ruin. It reminded us of the days of Dolly Varden, and -was not very unlike the Chinese and Japanese cloths which to-day -we try to think pretty. But it would be impossible to attempt a -description of the toilettes. Necessity made a virtue of all sorts -of combinations; and if they were not beautiful, they seemed to -give the wearers the feeling of being dressed—a feeling not always -accomplished under happier circumstances.</p> - -<p>As we went from one to another, it certainly relieved the monotony -to hear them say, “Ki, yi! dars Miss Lizzie,” “How d’ye, honey,” -and so on. From the men came the stiffest bows and politest concern -for our health. Knowing but few in the party, we hastily found a -seat, where we could talk to one about gardens. To another, the -never-failing question of babies proved interesting; and thinking -of the little black ones, I thought in God’s sight they might be -as fair as my own. It took so long for one old dame to tell of -her “rheumatiz” and general “misery,” that our sympathy, which -was real, almost cooled before the lengthy recital was ended. -During all that long hour not a loud laugh was heard from those -laughter-loving people.</p> - -<p>At length, to the relief of us all, the great doors opened, and the -eager old children could contain themselves no longer, and almost -broke ranks and ran; husbands and wives apart, evidently fearing, -as they hurried to their seats, there would not be room for all. -Not till the guests were seated did the teachers scatter here and -there, glad for <em>once</em> at least to yield the first seat.</p> - -<p>What a meal was provided! Of all good things that could be brought -from farm or store, there was no lack. The blessing asked, eagerly -they began to enjoy what was to them the principal event of the -day. Glancing about us, we saw our steward (a man of deeds rather -than of words), upon whom all the expense of this feast came, -looking around, with beaming eye, over the great company whose -hearts he had made glad. We thought of the wife who had stood by -his side so many years, helping in every good work, and who would -have been there if God had not called her higher. The flushed face -of our good housekeeper, who is never too weary or too busy to do -a little more, if she can make hearts happy thereby, shone upon -us, and we knew her hands had been full for many days. Though her -feet were tired, they obeyed the loving heart, and she flew among -us like a spirit, watching on all sides that no one should fail to -enjoy the dinner.</p> - -<p>Looking up the table, our hearts ached, as one face after another -brought up the old slave days. Some there were who had risen above -every discouragement, and in the face of poverty, low wages and -many another hindrance, had proved themselves men, gladly denying -themselves the comforts of life, that their children’s days might -be brighter than their own. We saw there old men, grown grey in -their “massa’s” service, turned out without a dollar, to pinch the -rest of their lives to keep from suffering. Women, married in the -Lord and in the honesty of their own hearts, considered only as so -much property, to be abused or neglected as their masters chose. -Beauty was a fearful gift to the race, and many of our colored -women do not lack the gift.</p> - -<p>One woman we must speak of, who, having neither riches nor -sweetness of temper, made it all good in the wealth of names, which -can only be equalled in the royal family. I give a few: “Carrie -Lee, Bessie Fee, who but she—Bernaugh.”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_117" id="Page_117">[117]</a> “Isabel, rise and tell, -the glories of Immanuel—Bernaugh.” “Raphael Rogers, Alfred Hart, -’Postle Paul, Caleb after all—Bernaugh.” How she abbreviated these -names I know not.</p> - -<p>The dinner over, the music room quickly filled. Some of our -pianists gave sweet music, but so far above a part of the assembly -that I’ve no doubt they longed for their “fiddles and banjoes.” By -request, they struck up a wailing sound, which rose and fell, with -words somewhat after this style:</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The ark’s a movin’, movin’, movin’,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The ark’s a movin’, move right along.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>This was so sad, that something joyful was called for, and again -the strain rung out; old men and women moving their bodies to -keep their own time, which each one seemed to do regardless of -his neighbor, closing up each line, and almost each word, with -such hemi-demi-semi-quavers as would have puzzled some of our best -singers. Poor things! the elements of joy had not entered into -their religious life. The minor strain swept over all their heart -experiences, and in spite of the words of their hymns, their music -gave us the echo of their days of bondage, and helped us to thank -God that a brighter life had been ours. To them seemed to come no -middle ground between the “double-shuffle” and the saddest songs -for Christ.</p> - -<p>After many a hand-shake and parting blessing to us all, the people -wended their way back to their homes, some to their rude cabins, -saying to one another, “Dis de best day of my life,” “Tank de Lord -for dis good day.”</p> - -<p>To our steward we gave the conventional good-bye, but in our hearts -we knew that there was one blessed passage of Scripture applicable -to him, and we doubt not he will hear it some day: “Inasmuch as ye -have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have -done it unto Me.”</p> - -<p>This is one picture. I shall be glad soon to show the other side, -and give the contrast between some of those who were gathered at -this feast, and their children, who have enjoyed the privileges of -the school at Berea. L. R.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3><a name="HYMN" id="HYMN"></a>HYMN.</h3> - -<p class="center"><span class="secauth">MRS. E. SPENCE.</span><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="medium hang">Sung at the farewell meeting on the departure of Rev. Mr. and -Mrs. A. P. Miller, and Rev. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Jackson, as -missionaries to Africa, Nashville, Feb. 18, 1878.</p></div> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">God bless, with special favor,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">This consecrated band!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Their trust will never waver,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Led by Thy loving hand!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">As to thy call they listen,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Each answers, “Here am I,”<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And yet a tear may glisten<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Unbidden in the eye!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Thou know’st what ties are breaking<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That twine around the heart!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The yearning, and the aching,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When friends and kindred part!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Oh! let them feel Thy presence<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Continuously so near,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To compensate the absence<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of all they hold most dear!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">As, over land and ocean<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They still pursue their way,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The spirit of devotion<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Replenish day by day.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">When over smooth seas gliding<br /></span> -<span class="i2">With hearts attuned to sing,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or tossed by tempest, hiding<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Beneath thy shelt’ring wing!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">And when their destination<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Is safely reached at last,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Where every mission station<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Has boundaries so vast—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Strengthen the willing spirit<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For service, till they see<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The land which they inherit,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Redeemed and ruled by Thee!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lord Jesus, lead victorious<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The sacramental host,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Until thy kingdom, glorious,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Extend from coast to coast;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The powers of hell be driven<br /></span> -<span class="i2">From every conquered zone,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And, even as in heaven,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Thy will on earth be done!<br /></span> -</div></div> - - -<p>FOOTNOTE:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Mrs. Spence was born in Scotland, in the year that -Cary, the first missionary from England, went out upon his pioneer -and untrodden way eighty years ago. Her heart has been overflowing -with gladness during these days of preparation.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_118" id="Page_118">[118]</a></p></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2><a name="THE_INDIANS" id="THE_INDIANS"></a>THE INDIANS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3><a name="WASHINGTON" id="WASHINGTON"></a>WASHINGTON TERRITORY.</h3> - -<p class="center">Three Christian Boys and their Letters.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. MYRON EELLS, S’KOKOMISH</p> - -<p>Our hearts were gladdened, last Sabbath, by receiving into our -Church three of the Indian school-boys, each of them supposed to -be about thirteen years of age. We had kept them on a virtual -probation for nearly a year, until I began to feel that to do so -any longer would be an injury both to themselves and to others. -Their conduct, especially towards their school-teacher, although -not perfect, has been so uniformly Christian that those who were -best acquainted with them felt the best satisfied in regard to -their change of heart. Said a member of our Church of about fifty -years’ Christian experience—who was not here much during the -summer, and hence knew comparatively little about them—after -hearing a full statement, “I wish that some of the white children -whom we have received into the Church had given one half as good -evidence of being Christians as these boys give.” And yet the -Church was satisfied in regard to them. On religious subjects, they -have been most free in communicating both to their teacher and -myself by letter. I have thought that you might be interested in -extracts from some of them, and hence send the following:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“I am going to write to you this day, please help me to get my -father to become a Christian,” (his father is an Indian doctor) -“and I think I will get Andrew and Henry” (the other Christian -boys) “to say a word for my father. I want you to read it to my -father.”</p></div> - -<p>He wrote to his father the following, which I read to him:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p class="right"> -“<span class="smcap">Aug. 3d, 1877.</span> -</p> - -<p> -“<span class="smcap">My dear-beloved Father</span>: Your son is a Christian. I am -going off to another road. I am going in a road where it leadeth -to heaven, and you are going to a big road where it leadeth to -hell. But now please return back from hell, I was long time -thinking what shall I do, then my father would be saved from -hell. I prayed to God. I asked God to help my father to become a -Christian.” -</p> -</div> - -<p>The letter of another, to his Indian friends:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“You have not read the Bible, for you cannot read, but you have -heard the minister read it to you. You seem not to pay good -attention, but you know how Jesus was crucified, how he was put -on the Cross, how he was mocked and whipped, and they put a crown -of thorns, and he was put to death.”</p></div> - -<p>The letter of the other to me:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“O, how I love all the Indians. I wish they should all become -Christians. If you please, tell them about Jesus coming. It makes -me feel bad because the Indians are not ready.”</p></div> - -<p>To his Indian friends:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“The first time I became a Christian, I found it a very hard -thing to do, but I kept asking Jesus to help me, and so He did, -for I grew stronger and stronger. So, my Friends, if you will -just accept Jesus as your King, He will help you to the end of -your journey. You must trust wholly in Jesus’ strength, and -yield your will, your time, your talents, your reputation, your -strength, your property, your all, to be henceforth and forever -subject to His divine control; your hearts to love Him, your -tongues to speak for Him, your hands and feet to work for Him, -and your lives to serve Him, when and where and as His Spirit may -direct. Don’t be proud, but be very good Christians; be brave and -do what is right.</p> -<p class="right">“<span class="smcap">Your Young Friend.</span>”</p> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3><a name="INDIAN_WELCOME" id="INDIAN_WELCOME"></a>Indian Welcome to an Agent.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">DR. I. L. MAHAN, RED CLIFF, WIS.</p> - -<p>The payment recently made to the Bois Forte Indians was one of the -most pleasant and agreeable I have ever made. The Indians received -me with a salute (of blank cartridges) fired from their guns. On -each side of the team, as I passed through their camp, the Indian -men, women and children were in line on each side of the road for -a quarter of a mile, and such hurrahs and rejoicings I have seldom -witnessed.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></p> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2><a name="THE_CHINESE" id="THE_CHINESE"></a>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<p class="center">Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. -<span class="smcap">Vice-Presidents</span>: Rev. A. L Stone, D. D., Thomas O. -Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. -Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward -P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, -Rev. W. E. Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. -Sanford, Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pound. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. -Palache, Esq.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="center">The Chinese New Year—Mob Denunciations—The Great Commission -Lessened—Conversions.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p> - -<p>The Chinese New Year festival began Feb. 1st. It was observed for -five days, the first three being “the great days of the feast.” -As the Chinese excuse themselves from manual labor during those -days, worship and business, and sociality absorb the time. At -this festival, accounts must be squared, or, at any rate, brought -to some settlement. Votive offerings, with the smoke of incense, -abound in the temples—<em>bribes</em> with which good luck is purchased -from their gods. The city authorities had forbidden the use of -fire-crackers, greatly to the chagrin of the Joss-worshippers, but -the din of the gongs was such that even an idol, it would seem, -might almost be made to hear. For our Christian Chinese it was, -first of all, a week of prayer. Not to be out-done even by their -own former-selves, they began their meetings at eleven o’clock on -the last night of the old year, and welcomed the new one in its -first hours, with worship to Jesus, their new friend and Saviour. -They say that it would be a shame, if they were not willing to give -hours to Him, which, but for Him, they would still have been giving -to senseless blocks of wood, or to pictures hung upon the wall. -Each day there was more or less of time devoted to social worship, -and the rest to friendly calls among the brethren of different -missions, and the reception of calls from American friends, or else -to the transaction of the annual business of their Association. The -carefulness with which they attend to this business, might well be -emulated by many a strong church. The amounts involved are small, -of course, while the talk might seem superabundant to taciturn -people like us; but the exactitude in accounts, the watchfulness -against debts, the punctuality in their mutual settlements, if -grafted into the working of many a church that I have known, would -greatly help its peace and growth, and even its good name.</p> - -<p>The “era of good feeling” towards the Chinese, is, doubtless, -nearer now than it was eight months ago. I affirm this <em>by faith</em>, -and not because I can see, as yet, even the first streaks of its -dawning. It seems as though the out-cries, “Down with the Chinese!” -“The Chinamen must go, peaceably if they will, forcibly if they -must,” would have become, by this time, monotonous and wearisome, -but every Monday’s morning paper reports a gathering of from 3,000 -to 6,000 people standing on a sand-lot near our new City Hall, in -the midst often of wind and rain, and listening for an hour or two, -while Kearney and Willock repeat their barbarous refrain. We cannot -prevent a depressing effect of this upon our work. Christians get -afraid of it. One of our pastors, entering upon temporary service -with an inland church, wrote me as follows a few days since:<a class="pagenum" name="Page_120" id="Page_120">[120]</a> “On my -first Sabbath here, a poor Chinaman came to church to hear me. The -next day I found him out, and he is a Christian. He is hungering -and thirsting for the word of life, and I thought—what a splendid -nucleus that would be for a class. I sought the officers of the -church for their consent and approval to such an organization. -Then came swiftly the ominous shake of the head, which I now so -well know, and I was told that ‘public sentiment would not bear -it.’ My heart aches for them, and I pray fervently to know my -duty.” I am utterly at a loss to know how such church officers read -the Great Commission. I understand what the <em>plain English</em> of it -is: I think I could study it out in the Greek. Does anybody know -of any rendering of it, according to which the Chinese are left -out? It not, how is it that we have so many of these head-shaking -Christians all over California?</p> - -<p>Furthermore, prejudice breeds prejudice, and the heathen Chinese -are beginning even to hate the language thus abused to curse and -slander them. They have no longer any appetite for the bait with -which we have been fishing for their souls. But if our schools are -thus unavoidably less attractive to them, and some of the seats -get empty, we try to do the better work with such as remain. And -the gracious Spirit adds His blessing still. Five were received to -the First Congregational Church in Oakland at its last communion. -This week two from the Barnes school have been reported to me -as persuaded to be Christians, and desirous of joining the -Association. What I have several times before said is still true, -I think—that no month passes in which I do not hear from some one -or more of our schools, of souls coming out of darkness into light. -The consequence is that hearty Christians once fairly engaged in -this work become enthusiastic in it. One teacher writes: “To try -to prepare the way for the enlightenment of these darkened minds -has been the highest privilege of my life. I do not forget the -blessedness of leading my own children and other young people to -Jesus, but in the offices of mother and teacher, this work has come -to me as a matter of course, while the other is the realization -of one of my earliest and most fondly cherished desires. I have -found it pleasant, even when I could get no word or sign that the -faintest shadow of my meaning was comprehended, for I felt that I -might be starting thought and opening the way for truth to come in -by and by; but when, in some instances, there has been a sudden -interest manifested, and such half-incredulous, half-delighted -responses come as ‘What! Jesus died for me?’ ‘What! Jesus Christ my -best friend!’ ‘Yes, I will love Him!’ I have felt one such moment a -complete compensation for a whole lifetime of sorrow and toil.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3><a name="LETTER_FROM_AH_JAM" id="LETTER_FROM_AH_JAM"></a>LETTER FROM AH JAM.</h3> - -<p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Santa Barbara</span>, <i>January 12th</i>. -</p> - -<p> -<span class="smcap">Mr. Pond</span>: -</p> - -<p><i>Dear Sir</i>—How is your health? I should be glad to have you to -write me another report about you school. If you find any interest -chapter I shall enjoy it if you will let me know. I cannot explain -it which is the best of all [i.e. cannot tell which chapters are -the best]. It seems to me very hard to understood the Bible. I wish -I had more leisure for my study, or to follow you while I shall -learn a great deal. I was very much troubled when I stayed on board -ship; she had four Chinese besides me. There was nobody instructed -in anything like the gospel. They thought it was dreadful to -believe in Christ. It makes them swear, grumble, and smoke opium. -They are walking in the way of destruction. I felt very sorry for -them. I told them several times what we ought to do in this world -while we live. They said they would never be afraid when they die -where the soul would go. I presume they will do all things as they -please. I left my place, and came on shore two weeks since. But I -cannot find any situation yet, because it is very dull. Perhaps I -will go to the city next year, and then I shall see you again. We -do remember you when we pray; we would like you pray for us, too, -if you please. Your sincerely,</p> - -<p class="smcap right">Ah Jam, and the others.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[121]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - - -<h2><a name="THE_CHILDRENS_PAGE" id="THE_CHILDRENS_PAGE"></a>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>A SICK BOY’S LETTER TO HIS TEACHER.</h3> - -<p>I thank you for the beautiful papers that you sent me. I read a -piece in one they call “Glad Tidings.” It was about the dissipated -father and the dying child. He was a bad man, and used bad -<em>languish</em>, and cause his whole family to be miserable; and his -little son would go to him and crawl up on his knee and tell him -about the good God, and the tears would gush from his eye. The -little boy said to his father: “Father, you are crying; what is -the matter?” “I am afraid, my son, I am going to lose you—you are -going to die.” “Well, father, I know I am going to die, but I am -not afraid to die, for I will go to Jesus.”</p> - -<p>I read that piece, and my little heart did feel so warm. I am -trying to be a good boy, and pray to God that I may be a good boy. -I am trying to be a better boy every day.</p> - -<p class="center">From your dear scholar,</p> - -<p class="right">M.T.</p> - -<p class="smcap">Montgomery, Ala.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>LIVE IN GOD’S SUNSHINE.</h3> - -<p>“Well, Aunt Polly, here you are again on the doorsteps. It seems to -me you almost live on them.”</p> - -<p>Old Polly raised her faded eyes to the face of her friend, and, -laughing, said:</p> - -<p>“Yes, dear, dat’s jus’ so! Jim says ‘We mought build a house all -doo’ steps and nothin’ else, fo’ granny, ’cause she lives dar an’ -nowhar else.’”</p> - -<p>“I suppose you like to see the people, and to hear the children -prattle as they go by to school,” said the lady.</p> - -<p>“Well, yes, I likes to see folks, ’cause my Fader up dar made ’em -all; but it’s most fo’ de sunshine dat I stays out here. O, God’s -sunshine’s a powerful blessin’, dear. When I’s cold I comes out and -sits in it, and I grows warm; when I’s hungry, and Jim’s wife’s got -nothin’ to eat, I comes out here and ’pears like I’d had my dinner; -when I’s in pain, and ’scruciated all over wid de rheumatiz, I -comes out into the sunshine, and de pain skulks off; when Jim don’t -be good and ’pears like he was goin’ to ’struction, and my heart -is bustin’ like, I comes out and sits in God’s sunshine, and peace -comes through His beam into my soul; when old Death comes an’ -star’s in my face, and say, ‘I comin’ arter ye soon, to take ye -into de dark grave,’ den I comes out into God’s sunshine, and dares -him to frighten my soul! Says I to him, ‘Ye hasn’t power in ye to -throw one shadow on to my pillow; for my blessed Jesus, de Sun of -Righteousness, He been down dar before me, and He left it full, -heaped up and runnin’ over wid God’s sunshine. I shall rest sweet -in dat warm place, for de eternal sunshine dat shall magnify and -glorify all as loves de shinin’ Jesus.”</p> - -<p>“Auntie,” said her friend, who always felt that she could sit at the -feet of this humble saint and learn of Jesus, “that is very lovely. -But there come days when there is no sunshine—when the clouds -gather, and the rains fall, and the snows come, and the winds blow. -What do you do then?”</p> - -<p>“O la, honey, by de time de storms come, I’ve got my soul so full -ob sunshine dat it lasts a heap o’ time. Dem times Jim scolds, -and his poor wife’s ’scouraged, and de child’n are cross, and -de stove smokes and de kittle won’t bile; but I never knows it. -God’s sunshine is in my soul, and I tries to spread it round, and -sometimes Jim’s wife feels it, and she says—oh, she’s a good -daughter-in-law—‘Long’s I keeps close to granny, ’pears like my -heart’s held up.’</p> - -<p>“Well, well, dear, you can teach me somethin’, and ye can fetch -me nice things to make mo’ sunshine; but I can teach you what ye -never thought on—dat God’s sunshine’s ’nough for rich and poor, -and dem dat thank Him for it, and sit in it, or work in it, and -let it into dar heart, will soon go whar it’s all sunshine. Try -to make folks live in God’s sunshine, and get it into dar hearts, -honey.”—<cite>Intelligencer.</cite></p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_122" id="Page_122">[122]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2><a name="RECEIPTS" id="RECEIPTS"></a>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="center">FOR FEBRUARY, 1878.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $491.13.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Augusta. So. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. A few Ladies of First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blanchard. Daniel Blanchard</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gilead. Rev. H. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holden. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orland. Mrs. Buck and daughter</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. $302.13; -Second Cong. Ch. and Soc $40; Seamen’s -Bethel Church $15; Mrs. David Patten $5.</td> -<td class="ramt">362.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. A. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Searsport. J. Y. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weld. D. D. Tappan</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wells. First Cong. Ch. ($30 of which from -Mrs. B. A. Maxwell to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. W. S. -Kimball</span>, L. M.)</td> -<td class="ramt">36.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Mrs. E. S. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $367.34.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bedford. Presb. Ch. $12.50; Mrs. S. S. F. -$1, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. M. E. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Francestown. Mrs. R. R. F. $1; W. B. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Franconia. Mrs. Geo. A. Beckwith</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.84</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover. Prof. T. W. D. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsborough. Mrs. D. T. W. and others</td> -<td class="ramt">1.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsboro Centre. John Adams</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Wilmington, -N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keene. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">128.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lisbon. Mrs. A. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Londonderry. C. S. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyme. T. L. Gilbert</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. First Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">85.44</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mason. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $2 and bbl of C., -<i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Merrimac. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashua. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Boston. “Willing Workers,” <i>for Wilmington, -N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $8.50; -Cong. Ch. Mon. Coll. $4.45; Levitt Lincoln -$10; “A Friend” $1.50; W. W. J. $1; -Mrs. S. T. 50c.; “A Friend” $6; Subscribers -<i>for Mag.</i> $2.50</td> -<td class="ramt">34.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. John L. Thorndike</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windham, C. Packard, pkg of C.</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $1,434.42.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. R. S. Nichols, -by B. S. Nichols, Ex., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester Depot. J. L. Fisher</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Essex. Mrs. Dr. L. C. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrisville. Dea. C. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">53.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Bennington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Thetford. Mrs. E. G. Baxter</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Randolph. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Albans. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.81</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $392.59, -and Sab. Sch. 65.40; W. W. T. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">458.99</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salisbury. J. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townshend. Mrs. Mary B. Burnap $10; -Mrs. S. R. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterford. Cong. Sab. Sch. $4; S. E. Potter -$3.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westminster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., -<i>for Talladega C.</i>, and to const. <span class="smcap">Porter F. Page</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">90.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Randolph. Betsey Nichols $2; Mrs. S. -A. W. $1.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williston. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Dea. Ezbon Sanford, -by Geo. Lawton, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.95</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,363.53.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashby. Rev. G. S. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Evan Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Mrs. J. F. Brooks</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Wallace G. Webber</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Cash $10; G. E. S. Kinney $1.50</td> -<td class="ramt">11.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. Miss. E. Davis</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brimfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $15; S. H. -51c.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxford. Individuals, by M. L. Sawyer</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brocton. Bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridge. Mrs. J. H. Stone</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. Geo. F. Kendall</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlestown. First Cong. Ch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. Henry L. Kendall</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Ladies of First Ch. 2 bbls. of -Clothing and roll of Carpeting, <i>for Marion, -Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Centreville. Marv A. Crosby</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.24</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Conway. C. Batchelder</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cotuit. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dedham. Rev. C. M. Southgate, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dudley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Braintree. Miss R. A. Faxon, <i>for purchase -of books</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Samuel Williston, -by E. H. Sawyer, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">1,200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Medway. Circle of Industry, 2 bbl’s of -C. Val. $27.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Foxborough. C. N. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granville. C. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Society, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Groton. “Mother and Daughter”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover. C. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harvard. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harwichport. Capt. Leonard Robbins</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. C. E. C. and B. F. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holden. Mrs. L. B. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hubbardston. Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain, Central Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch. to const <span class="smcap">Miss -Josephine Cummings</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leicester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $3, and bbl. -of C., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medford. Dea. Galen James</td> -<td class="ramt">300.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">57.71</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbury. Tyler Waters. $5; H. G. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natick. “Thank Offering” to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. -Mary S. Wight</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton Centre. “Friends,” by Mrs. Furber, -$50, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>,—J. W. -50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northampton. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">240.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Somerville. W. H. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. -Laura E. Morton</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Louisa A. -Ayres</span>, L. M.’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">70.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Palmer. Box of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">77.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peru. G. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Mrs. C. H. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reading. Mrs. B. P. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockland. ——.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherborn. Pilgrim Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southbridge. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_123" id="Page_123">[123]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southborough. Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.66</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Deerfield. Mrs. M. C. Tilton</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Wilbraham. W. V. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Class in Hope Ch. Sab. Sch., -by Mrs. Homer Merriam $3; Mrs. A. C. -Hunt $1.10; Mrs. R. K. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">5.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton. W. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Hampton, -Va.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Upton. Mrs. M. P. J., Miss M. E. C. and -Mrs. M. F. C. $1 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellesley. L. B. H. and C. E. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">167.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. A. S. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Rev. E. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Springfield. H. A. Southworth</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williamsburgh. H. H. T. and Mrs. M. E. -G. $1; J. L. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williamstown. C. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. J. Skelton</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchendon. Mrs. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Salem St. Ch. and Soc. $82.50; -Union Ch. $70; Old South Cong. Ch. -$48.47.—Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $5., by Mrs. -C. A. Lincoln, <i>for Ind. Sch., for Talladega -C.</i>—A. E. W. 80c.</td> -<td class="ramt">206.77</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $131.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc $115 (of -which $25 from “A Friend”); J. G. -50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">115.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Geo. W. Davison $15; Miss -McB. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $1,411.45.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Ella S. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">65.82</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canaan. “A mite for the Freedmen”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cheshire. Rev. J. H. I.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colebrook. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Collinsville. Everest Fund $200, <i>for Student -Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Cong. Sab. Sch. $46, -<i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i>—Cong. Ch. -$26.82.—M. A. Warren $12, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i>—“A Friend” $2; J. H. -B. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">287.82</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Darien. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">0.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Derby. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Durham Centre. A. P. C. and J. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hartford. “A. W”.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ellington. Sarah K. Gilbert</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">43.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich. “A”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jericho. Wm. Osgood</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. George N. Kellogg</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. Betsey Metcalf</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. $34.30; A. C. B. -25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Killingworth. Mrs. A. V. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield Centre. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden. Miss L. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbrook. Mrs. E. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Ralph Tyler $10; “A Friend” -$3; “A Lady” $2; College St. Ch., S. W. -Barnum, 4 copies “Romanism as it is,” -Val. $14</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B 50c.; Mrs. M. -A. Stone 2 bbls. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Mrs. M. A. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Cornwall. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Guilford. Mrs. E. F. Dudley, $5; -“A Friend” $5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Stamford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Park Cong. Soc. $414.88 (of which -$30 from Mrs. Chas. Lee to const. <span class="smcap">Frank -Johnson,</span> L.M., $30 from Miss S. M. Lee -to const. <span class="smcap"> Maj. B. P. Learned</span>, L.M.)—Second -Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $75, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">489.88</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. Cong. Sab. Sch. $30; Rev. E. E. -Rogers $10, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. Rev. F. R. Wait, Box of S. S. -Books.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17.75; C. B. -P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Simsbury. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">46.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Suffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">63.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Unionville. Cong. Ch., <i>for Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wapping. Little Miss Ada Hart, <i>for Ag. -Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Miss. A. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellington. Mrs. J. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Chester. Cong. Ch. -$8.20 and Sab. Sch. $17.44</td> -<td class="ramt">25.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. H. Savage</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winsted. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, <i>for Ag. -Dept., Talladega C.</i>—Elias E. Gilman $10.—Ladies, -by Mrs. Dea. Hinsdale, bbl. of C., -<i>for Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yalesville. “B.”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $542.78.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch. $10; Mrs. H. -Dickinson $5</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canastota. E. B. Northrup</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cheateaugay. Joseph Shaw</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clarkson. Oliver Babcock</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coeymans. Wm. B. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor and Miss A. -G. Fairchild $5 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danby. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Bloomfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ellington. Mrs. Eliza Rice</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Flushing. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch., <i>for Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fredonia. Hon. John Chandler</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keeseville. Dea. Marcus Barnes, deceased, -by G. W. Dodds</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lima. Mrs. G. Sprague, <i>for a Student</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lisbon. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Little Genesee. Rev. T. B. Brown</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Little Valley. H. S. Huntley</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Little York. J. Pratt</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moravia. By S. M. Cady</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrisania. First Cong. Ch., 2 pkg’s of -Bibles.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland, $100.—Mr. -and Mrs. Wm E. Dodge, $100, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i>—Mrs. Charlotte Tappan -Lewis, $5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—H. W. -H. $1; Mrs. M. H. B. 50c.; Stephen T. -Gordon, 556 copies School Song Books</td> -<td class="ramt">206.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oneonta. L. J. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pitcher. Miss N. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rushford. W. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saratoga Springs. Mrs. A. M. Wheeler</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Three Mile Bay. Mrs. S. U.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Verona. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap"> Samuel G. -Brewster</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vernon Centre. M. Judson</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walton. R. A. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watkins. S. G. and Mrs. E. S. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Chazy. Daniel Bassett and wife</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $133.29.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belleville. J. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boonton. Mrs. N. T. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. J. H. Crane</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Englewood. Rev. G. B. Cheever, D. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morristown. Mrs. R. R. Graves</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $33.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Allentown. C. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canton. H. Sheldon</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coudersport. John S. Mann</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Easton. Clarissa Silliman</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamestown. Mrs. J. C. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_124" id="Page_124">[124]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mahoningtown. W. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minersville. First Cong. Ch. (Welsh)</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. E. Weston</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $349.82.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burton. Cong Soc. $32.35; Mrs. H. H. F. -50c</td> -<td class="ramt">32.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chardon. Mrs. D. A. S. G</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent $92.12, <i>for the poor in New -Orleans</i>.—Osman Sellew $10, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U</i></td> -<td class="ramt">102.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Claridon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch. $5.50; -Rev. H. Trautman $5; J. B., 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Conneaut. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cuyahoga Falls. Individuals, by R. G. -Thomas</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fostoria. C. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gratis. S. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greensburgh. H. B. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Miss Laura Rogers $2.50; H. T. -and A. D. C. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kent. A. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. W. H. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Metamora. M. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Mrs. L. S. Buel</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwalk. T. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Mrs. Jane C. Miller $30, <i>for Ag. -Dept., Talladega C.</i>—Second Cong. Ch. $13.84; -Harris Lewis $3; Mrs. C. C. W. -51c</td> -<td class="ramt">47.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. Elwin Little, $15; C. R. Stone. $5; -Rev. S. W. P. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandusky. Individuals, by Rev. J. Strong</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sharonville. J. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer $3; Mrs. M. -S. and Miss M. M. $1 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Strongsville. Elijah Lyman</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellington. “Two Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $195.10.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"> -Belvidere. Elizabeth Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. W. B. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dallas City. Mrs. S. Miller</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Evanston. “A little Child”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Equality. S. E. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of W. C. Willard, by -Prof. T. R. Willard</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Chas. Perry</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hutson. C. V. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jacksonville. <span class="smcap">Rev. Eli Corwin</span> $30, to -const. himself L. M.; T. W. Melendy, H. -L. Melendy and M. C. Melendy $30, to -const. <span class="smcap">David Cole</span>, L. M.—Cong. Ch, $5, -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">65.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millington. Mrs. D. A. Aldrich, <i>for Lewis -High Sch., Macon, Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. O. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Payson. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peoria. Plymouth Mission Sab. Sch. $20; -“Friends” 6.60, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">26.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seward. Rev. E. F. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toulon. H. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Willmette. Mrs. A. T. S. and Rev. E. P. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $396.14.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adrian. A. G. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blissfield. W. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Church’s Corners. J. F. Douglass</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Detroit. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $50, <i>for -a Missionary, Memphis, Tenn.</i>—Fort St. -Presb. Ch. $50; Peter Gray $5, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">105.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. “Friends” $45, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i>—E. M. Ball $20</td> -<td class="ramt">65.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. Mrs. Dr. Ellsworth, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. “Helping Hand” Plymouth -Ch. $27; Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. $5; Rev. -H. N. B. $1, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">33.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $10.59; The -Shining Light Sab. Sch. Class $3.41</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mattawan. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Muskegon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pontiac. Mrs. Mills Gelston, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Romeo. Mrs. S. L. Andrews and Mrs. A. B. -Maynard $10 ea.; Miss T. S. $5, <i>for a Missionary, -Memphis, Tenn.</i>; Box of C., val. -$40, by Mrs. M. W. Fairfield</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sparta. Mr. Martindale, <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sparta Centre. Rev. E. W. N. and C. I. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union City. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. H. H. Van Auken</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Victor. H. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitehall. Cong. Ch. $10.18.—Individuals, -by B. Hammond, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">12.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ypsilanti. Dr. W. H. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $205.55.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. Mrs. D. Clary</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Atkinson. Jared Lamphear</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartland. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keshena. W. W. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">La Crosse. Mrs. E. V. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Liberty. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Menasha. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Racine. First Presb. Ch. $55, <i>Ind. Dept., -Talladega C.</i>—Mrs. D. D. N. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">56.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ripon. C. F. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. Cong. Ch. ($45 of which from W. -Munson)</td> -<td class="ramt">58.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sheboygan. A. D. and D. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shopiere. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Mrs. H. W. Bingham</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Rosendale. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmot. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $318.07.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Birmingham. E. S. Livingston</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch. $53.46; Mission Sab. -Sch. $5; Individuals, <i>for Mag.</i> $1.50</td> -<td class="ramt">59.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cromwell. Mrs. M. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eldora. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $25.—Mrs. -Merritt $5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. $50; Mrs. A. -E. Crosby $10, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Prof. -B. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">61.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Humboldt. L. K. Lorbeer $5; Mrs. C. W. -$1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Inland. D. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leon. Miss. J. K., <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyons. “Little Workers” $35, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i>—First Cong. Ch. $22.52</td> -<td class="ramt">57.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Straight -University</i></td> -<td class="ramt">18.49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Rev. Dr. Robbins, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oskaloosa. Mrs. Asa Turner, <i>for Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Riceville. Cong. Ch. $27.95; Cong. Sab. -Sch. $7.50</td> -<td class="ramt">35.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wentworth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton. Woman’s Miss. Soc. $6.50; Rev. E. -P. S. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $156.91.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">County Line. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marshall. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McPherson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.03</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Rev. E. M. Williams $51.16; -First Cong. Sab. Sch. $23.84, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Plymouth Ch. $19.12</td> -<td class="ramt">94.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. First Cong. Ch. ($5 of which -<i>for Fort Berthold</i>, D. T.).</td> -<td class="ramt">24.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Owatonna. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">14.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Paul. Rev. T. S. W. $1 R. H. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sterling. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_125" id="Page_125">[125]</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $5.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Diamond Valley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $10.25.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. Individuals, by Miss Lucy -N. Bowen</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">York. Benjamin Bissell</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">DAKOTA, $0.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yankton. Mrs. T. N. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">COLORADO, $0.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canon City. D. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $2.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rohnerville. Mrs. Mary A. Brown</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON, $22.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">The Dalles. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. Capt. Benj. F. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON TER., $13.55.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White River. Rev. S. Greene</td> -<td class="ramt">3.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">S’kokomish. Rev. Cushing Eells</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $0.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. A. J. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">KENTUCKY, $0.51.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Frankfort. Miss M. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.51</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">VIRGINIA, $28.46.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampton. Bethesda Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.46</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $359.05.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">106.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Murfreesborough. Mrs. E. S. Grant, <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk University</td> -<td class="ramt">233.90</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $226.96.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Pub. Fund. $100; Washington Sch. -$14.60</td> -<td class="ramt">114.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch. $106.75; Cong. -Ch. $4.61; P. J. I. and T. H. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">112.36</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $222.75.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">222.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $537.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta University</td> -<td class="ramt">162.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High School</td> -<td class="ramt">74.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Pub. Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">300.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodville. J. H. H. S., <i>for Mendi, Indian -and Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $762.05.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch. $32; Trinity Miss. -Soc. $16.60; Miss M. F. Wells $15</td> -<td class="ramt">63.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">88.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">444.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Selma. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C.</td> -<td class="ramt">160.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $185.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Iberia. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Mendi -M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University</td> -<td class="ramt">1.83</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $158.25.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University $151.90; -Miss Orra Angell $6.35</td> -<td class="ramt">158.25</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $6.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kidder. S. C. Coult</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Laclede. Rev. E. D. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Louis. C. M. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, $1.70.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marshall. L. H. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Schulenburg. Rev. A. J. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitmans. W. B. and E. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">——, $10.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. J. Estey & Co., by G. P. Guilford, -Gen’l Agt., one organ, val. $225, <i>for Atlanta -U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. Miss Lizzie Riley’s Class, in Perkins’ -Inst. for the Blind, <i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. Small sums, <i>for Postage</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> - -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">——</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Received at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., <i>for -Student Aid</i>, from March 2d to Dec. 31st, 1877, -$1,467.28.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Illinois.</span> <i>Aurora</i>: Sab. Sch., First Cong. -Ch. $50; Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch. $50; -<i>Boltwood</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $7.50; <i>Chicago</i>: -Mrs. Mary E. Blatchford $25; Miss -Harriet Farrand $3; <i>Elgin</i>: Sab. Sch. -Cong. Ch. $25; <i>Evanston</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. -Ch. $50; J. M. Williams $25; John Williams -$25; <i>Galesburg</i>: Sab. Sch. Ch. of -Christ $50; <i>Galva</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. -%50; <i>Genesco</i>: B. M. Huntington $25; M. -B. Huntington $25; <i>La Salle</i>: Mrs. Tomlins -$5; —— Lathrop $5; <i>Malden</i>: Sab. -Sch. Cong. Ch. $16.25; <i>Marseilles</i>: Sab. -Sch. Cong. Ch. $10; <i>Moline</i>: Sab. Sch. -Cong. Ch. $75; <i>Oak Park</i>: Sab. Sch. -Cong. Ch. $49.85; <i>Ottawa</i>: Sab. Sch. of -Cong. Ch. $50; <i>Peoria</i>: Chas. Fisher $28; -<i>Princeton</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $19; -<i>Streator</i>: Mrs. Ralph Plumb $30; <i>Toulon</i>: -“Friends” $7</td> -<td class="ramt">705.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Michigan.</span> <i>Ada</i>: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $13; -<i>Allegan</i>: Mrs. Elizabeth Booth $50; <i>Alpena</i>: -Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. $39.47; -<i>Covert</i>: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $10; <i>Detroit</i>: -Sab. Sch. Fort St. Presb. Ch. $30.75; -<i>Galesburg:</i> Rev. L. M. Hunt $20; Sab. -Sch. of Cong. Ch. $17.50; <i>Greenville</i>: Sab. -Sch. of Cong. Ch. $50; <i>Kalamazoo</i>: Sab. -Sch. First Cong. Ch. $30; Sab. Sch. Plymouth -Cong. Ch. $15; <i>Lowell</i>: Sab. Sch. -Cong. Ch. $5; <i>Olivet:</i> Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. -$10; <i>Plainwell</i>: Sab. Sch. Presb. Ch. $7; -<i>Portland</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $6.40; Ladies’ -Miss. Soc. and Sab. Sch. 21.60</td> -<td class="ramt">325.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Iowa.</span> <i>Burlington</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. -$50; <i>Clinton</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $25; -<i>Davenport</i>: Sab. Sch. Edwards’ Cong. Ch. -$50; <i>Denmark</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $28; -<i>Dubuque</i>: Cong. Ch. $20; <i>Genesco:</i> Sab. -Sch. Cong. Ch. $25; O. Lyons, Mrs. Dr. -Blanding $5; <i>Manchester</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. -Ch. $20.85; <i>Maquoketa</i>: Ladies’ Miss. -Soc. $20; <i>Marshalltown</i>: J. W. Windsor -$32.80; <i>Muscatine</i>: Cong. Sab. Sch. $50; -<i>Osage</i>: Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch. $19.56. <i>Oskaloosa</i>: -Cong. Sab. Sch. $50</td> -<td class="ramt">396.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Wisconsin.</span>—<i>Beloit</i>: Sab. Sch. of Second -Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Minnesota.</span>—<i>Minneapolis</i>: Rev. Edwin S. -Williams $11.75; <i>Winona</i>: Sab. Sch. of -First Cong. Ch. $25</td> -<td class="ramt">36.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $13.10.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Caledonia. A. C. Buck</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes and I. C. -Barton $4.05 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.10</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $6.31.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">London. Mrs. Mary E. Mahan</td> -<td class="ramt">6.31</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts" summary=""> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">SANDWICH ISLANDS, $500.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hawaii. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$14,069.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to Feb. 28th</td> -<td class="ramt">$71,433.70</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="p1 right" style="padding-right: 20px;">H. W. HUBBARD,</p> -<p class="right"><i>Ass’t Treas.</i></p> - -<table> -<tr> -<td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury, Vt. P. W. Ladd</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol, R. I. Mrs. Maria DeW. Rogers -and Miss Charlotte De Wolf $250 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. Roland Mather</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. F. C. Sherman</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam, Conn. Mrs. Adaline S. Fitts</td> -<td class="ramt">17.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Florence, Mass. A. L. Williston</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cheateaugay, N. Y. Joseph Shaw</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. Stephen T. Gordon</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Austingburgh, Ohio. L. B. Austin</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canfield, Ohio. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Streator, Ill. Samuel Plumb</td> -<td class="ramt">300.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oakland, Cal. S. Richards</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$3,199.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged Jan. receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">3,716.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub2">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$6,915.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburg, Mass. David Boutelle</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged Jan. receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">222.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub2"> Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$422.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[126]</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2><a name="The_American_Missionary_Association" id="The_American_Missionary_Association"></a><i>The American Missionary Association.</i></h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3> - -<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted -its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their -duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries -in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the -caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate -with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the -<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p> - - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; -Ga., 11; Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; -Texas, 4. <i>Africa</i>, 1. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 2. Total, 62.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the South.</span> -<i>Chartered:</i> Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, -Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and -Austin, Texas, 8; <i>Graded or Normal Schools:</i> at Wilmington, -Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; -Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selina, Ala; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; <i>Other -Schools</i>, 7. Total, 26.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</span>—Among the Freedmen, -209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign -lands, 10. Total, 252. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 74; Law, -8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. -Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at -100,000. <span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="smcap">Increase</span> of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by -<em>regular</em> and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble -as well as the strong.</p> - -<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span>, for the new churches we are organizing; -<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here -and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p> - -<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below.</p> - -<table> -<tr> -<td style="padding-right: 20px;"><span class="smcap">New York</span></td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td><span class="smcap">Boston</span></td><td>Rev. C. L. 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