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-VOL. XXXII.                                                No. 6.

-

-                               THE

-

-                      AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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-                *       *       *       *       *

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-              “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

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-                           JUNE, 1878.

-

-

-

-

-                           _CONTENTS_:

-

-

-  EDITORIAL.

-

-    PARAGRAPHS                                                161

-    PRINCIPLES AND PLANS                                      162

-    DEPARTURE OF THE AZOR.—THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON         163

-    A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT                                   164

-    AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.—ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES       165

-    NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES                                    168

-    ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.—GENERAL NOTES                     169

-

-

-  THE FREEDMEN.

-

-    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                                       172

-    VIRGINIA: Additions to the Church—An Indian’s

-      Creed—A Good Beginning                                  174

-    SOUTH CAROLINA: History of “Avery” Graduates              174

-    GEORGIA: Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of

-      Hope—Twitchell School.—School  Children Farming—

-      Their Parents Buying Farms.—A Growing School—A

-      Literary Society                                        175

-    MISSISSIPPI: An Old School—Temperance Work—The

-      Gourd Family                                            176

-    THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY               177

-    THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.—ANNUAL

-      MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE                 178

-    THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING                 180

-

-

-  AFRICA.

-

-    ARRIVAL OF THE NEW MISSIONARIES.—FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF

-      AFRICA—A SUNDAY SERVICE—A SCHOOL CELEBRATION            181

-    ADVANTAGES OF COLORED MISSIONARIES                        182

-

-

-  THE INDIANS.

-

-    SCHOOL WANTS AND FARM WORK                                182

-    AN INDIAN WANTS A COW                                     183

-

-

-  THE CHINESE.

-

-    FUNG AFFOO’S BIBLE CLASS—VISALIA AND PETALUMA             183

-

-

-  THE CHILDREN’S PAGE                                         185

-

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-  RECEIPTS                                                    185

-

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-  CONSTITUTION                                                189

-

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-  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                                190

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-                            NEW YORK:

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-        Published by the American Missionary Association,

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-                     ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.

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-               Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.

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-          A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.

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-

-

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-               _American Missionary Association_,

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-                     56 READE STREET, N. Y.

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-  PRESIDENT.

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-    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.

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-    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.

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-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.

-

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-

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-                               THE

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-                      AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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-                *       *       *       *       *

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-             VOL. XXXII.     JUNE, 1878.      No. 6.

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-

-_American Missionary Association._

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-As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at

-Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, just one month from the date

-of their leaving New York by steamer for England. They had only

-the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their

-destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new

-field seem to be quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter

-on the new work at once. We look to the Lord of the harvest for

-His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have gone

-from us to the Mendi Mission.

-

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-

-We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which

-the English and Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting

-to begin their new work in Central Africa. The expedition of

-the London Missionary Society was, from July to January last,

-trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on

-Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season

-at Kirasa, only about one-third of the way. It is hoped that

-during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish

-themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian

-Churches is in danger of being driven from its station at

-Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant an enemy as a

-fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has

-sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations,

-and curtailed their usefulness in advancing the civilization of

-Africa. The station may have to be moved. A new site must be

-sought with great care, which will not be liable to this pest.

-

-In South Africa another missionary institution has been

-endangered by the Caffre War, three English officials having been

-murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith and O’Neill, of

-the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed

-by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of

-King M’tesa. We believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery

-are not liable to any of these perils. The station is accessible

-and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around them,

-nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to

-such regions are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set

-our hopes too high, or base them too confidently on any of the

-uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land of delays

-we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we

-cannot tell what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord—that He

-will suffer no evil to befall them, but give them strength for

-patient continuance in well-doing.

-

-Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the

-Institutions we mentioned in the May MISSIONARY, as needing

-greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We did not mention

-their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and

-perhaps the reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating

-the strain laid upon our resources this year, they have

-considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year,

-they laid before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how

-any institutions in the South can be in more pressing need than

-we of a new dormitory.”

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-

-Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta

-Sunday-school Convention would be either “lionized or snubbed”

-to that extent that it would be better for him not to come,

-proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,

-fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from

-Texas. He was received and treated just as the others were, and

-he behaved as well. The fact is, they were much busier devising

-for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each

-other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.

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-

-

-PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.

-

-—This Association does not affirm that races, any more

-than individuals, are equal in physical or mental fibre and

-development. Some races, as well as individuals, are manifestly

-below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all

-men shall be regarded as equal _before God and the Law_; and

-that hence, in all churches of Christ, no distinction be made,

-on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and

-administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally

-protected in person and property, and that whatever immunities or

-privileges are granted to one, be extended to all.

-

-—This Association does not found exclusively colored churches.

-They are only exclusive because they are not exclusive. They are

-open to all races, and hence but few white persons unite with

-them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally

-among the colored people in the South, as being at present most

-accessible, yet it has always favored the establishment of

-churches, mainly white, where the distribution of population

-calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to

-unite with them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its

-first missionary in the South, was in the formation of white

-churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was

-sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white)

-Congregational Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister

-was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend of the A. M. A., and at

-one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational Church

-in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated,

-under the auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary,

-who spent a month in Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that

-purpose. Not long since, the Association appointed a missionary

-in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity of Berea

-College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which

-he will preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These

-will be mainly white churches, but open to colored people. In

-like manner, the Association has promised missionary aid to

-a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San

-Antonio, Texas.

-

-—The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are

-in order to its religious work in America and Africa. Its best

-and most promising churches are established near the schools and

-colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them. These

-schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct

-thousands of pupils in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a

-salutary influence into the homes, churches and neighborhoods

-where they reside. The schools and theological departments also

-send out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to

-their people in the South and in Africa.

-

-—The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part

-having a relation to the whole, and its plans, while at present

-embracing mainly the “Despised Races,” as they have been called,

-are restricted in principle to no race or continent.

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-

-DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”

-

-The departure of the _Azor_ with the first instalment of the

-African exodus, from Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the

-history of the colored race.

-

-It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman

-could be aroused by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the

-teachers in our schools, fears have been felt that, perhaps, the

-call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to

-respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall

-be made, there will be no lack of men. We have more to fear now

-from unbridled enthusiasm than from want of zeal.

-

-This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly,

-among disaffected politicians, but it soon became a sort of

-religious crusade. It gained but little progress among the

-people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary

-enterprise. From the time the _Azor_ sailed into the harbor

-until her departure, on the 21st of April, with her living

-freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were

-thronged with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the

-African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who had engaged their passages

-months before, were left behind, for want of room. How long this

-enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this

-first company, of course are questions to be answered by and

-by. We dare not venture any prophecy, either good or evil. It

-is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of

-our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to

-be to Africa what the Pilgrim enterprise has been to America,

-we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a different class of

-emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African

-civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up

-men of intelligence, and sound and broad religious principle, for

-this work, and we naturally look with some anxiety to the effect

-of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the

-South at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray

-for the success of the movement, that God may overrule all our

-fears, and make it for good. This one question we are glad to

-have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is

-no lack of enthusiasm in the negro heart for his fatherland; and

-that, when the call shall come for more laborers in that field,

-we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.

-

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-

-

-THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.

-

-Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have

-been directed to Capt. Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of

-interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried, as prisoners of

-war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which

-had taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They

-went South, each with his legs fastened to a log with chains.

-They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied wrongs.

-One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed

-himself on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had

-great brass hoops in their ears. They knew no word of English.

-It was their good fortune to fall into the hands of a Christian

-army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in

-seeking to do them good, at length won their confidence, and

-succeeded, with the help of a few benevolent ladies, in teaching

-them some of the simplest elements of civilization and learning.

-A few of them can read very well.

-

-At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of

-Tarrytown, N. Y., who had been teaching among them, determined to

-secure, if possible, the education of two young men of her class.

-She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised

-money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in.

-At length it was found that twenty-two of them desired to go to

-school. They are now discharged from their imprisonment. The old

-chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the better.

-Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be

-educated in the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular

-studies, and have been detailed to various departments of work,

-in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented, and

-their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.

-

-Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of

-lines, of which life is so full, and yet which never cease to

-surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at Hampton, to be

-trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and

-the teachers of their people. Thus the two races are brought face

-to face—“the two races whose past involves America’s greatest

-responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest problems.”

-

-It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for

-a year—that, with what he is able to earn by his labor. This

-amount has been pledged by individuals alone, or together, for

-the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having done

-so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its

-Secretary, to assume the tuition of one of her wards, and the

-Executive Committee desire to do so; and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one

-years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in addition

-to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some

-of our friends, who may be especially interested in the elevation

-of the Indians, will make up this small amount, and help on this

-work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,

-and personality.

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-A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.

-

-Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in

-Sunday-schools. What to do with the Concert, has been a question

-which has perplexed teachers and superintendents year after year,

-as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession. The

-verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly

-all learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try

-a Missionary Concert, or, if you please, an American Missionary

-Concert.

-

-But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern,

-even, can be sent, like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and

-by mail. We have one in our hands, about six inches by eight,

-four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers

-(prepared originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville,

-Mass.) upon the nature and the work of the A. M. A., and we are

-almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact information

-compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape.

-Coupled with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten

-Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals during the Catechetical

-Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great

-interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near

-Boston; and we commend, most cordially, the thought and plan to

-the consideration and use of Superintendents and Presidents of

-Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme

-is a collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how

-to address their gifts to us. A new edition is in preparation,

-or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained in

-quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the

-Congregational House, Boston.

-

-District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an

-appeal to the Sunday-schools in behalf of the “Colored Student’s

-Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated that we are reaching (by

-student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand

-children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be

-reached.” He urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work.

-To know, is the first step toward supplying the want.

-

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-AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.

-

-It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the

-colored people of the South should be in such earnest sympathy

-with the work of educating their people. Occasionally, we hear

-one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot” through,

-and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured

-by the application of science; but the expression of such

-sentiments is rare.

-

-In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain

-color to read, or any one to teach them, preachers were _born_,

-not _made_. The wether of the flock put a bell around his own

-neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the

-war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of

-venison or furs, was the man for chief; so the exhorter who could

-pick up the most texts of Scripture, and evolve from his own

-understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of

-his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the

-minister by universal consent.

-

-Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what

-Nature implanted in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not

-fear those made leaders by the voice of a theological seminary.

-They who, by their quickness of perception, tact and experience,

-control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon

-ability gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.

-

-Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts,

-as well as the felt sentiments of the uneducated ministers

-among the colored people, I have no intention of placing a low

-estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have

-attained to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with

-good mental nourishment, and no one feels this more than they.

-The BEST minister combines natural ability of a high order with

-liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated

-ministry; and although the present pastors of the flocks may be

-secure in their places without learning, the next generation will

-insist upon education in their ministers.

-

-                  PROF. T. N. CHASE, IN THE _Christian Recorder_.

-

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-

-

-ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.

-

-A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some

-observations, which may be worthy of record. The location of both

-is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and Fisk Universities

-occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful

-sites. They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the

-importance of the work they represent. The buildings of both

-institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our party

-approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from

-top to bottom, as the students were studying in their rooms.

-“Hallelujah!” cried one of our number, enthusiastically, “God be

-praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one of

-us looked upon it without emotion.

-

-The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of

-educated Christian people. A more intelligent, cultivated and

-consecrated body of instructors it would be hard to find. They

-are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social

-privileges in both cities are few or none at all, and some of

-them, for the sake of the work they are in, have refused tempting

-offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the colored race

-from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary

-enthusiasm in their work. Often did the eye flash and the face

-glow, as they spoke of the trials and advancement of their pupils.

-

-The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower

-of the colored race. Only those are likely to undertake so

-many years of study, with the self-denials involved, who have,

-to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an

-education, and in whom are unusual elements of character. They

-are procuring an education under great difficulties. There are

-few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit

-themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to

-help their race. They work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing

-little urging or government. It is not strange, then, that when

-both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the

-results should be unusually favorable.

-

-Among these results in both institutions, the good order is

-specially noticeable. At the table, where teachers and scholars

-eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in charge takes

-his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no

-restraints are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of

-voices, which does not prevent the slightest signal from being

-heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred or

-more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room

-at Fisk University, we noticed that no teacher was present,

-though perfect order was maintained. “Have you no instructor or

-monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?” “Why, no, sir,”

-one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We

-could but recall certain days of our own student life when, if

-our instructor chanced to step out of the room for a moment,

-there were instantly missiles flying about, and students darting

-here and there.

-

-There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They

-impress one at a glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing

-about them, in dress, or manner or language, to offend the most

-fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at these

-institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the

-whole character and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from

-these dark faces, and, in our admiration for the soul, we totally

-forget the color of the skin.

-

-The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must

-remember that most of them were born in slavery, and have learned

-to read since the war. A generation or two must pass before we

-can see the results of life-long training in schools. What we

-now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard

-to find at the North better teachers or better schools than the

-two Universities of which we speak; and their influence over the

-pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very fine. The

-normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special

-commendation. We were also much pleased at a recitation in

-Xenophon’s _Memorabilia_, in which three young men were reciting

-to one of their own race, a graduate of the University—Miss

-Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first

-instance of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more

-valuable evidence of educational progress than recitations was

-the correctness of speech and richness of thought manifest in the

-conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted to

-be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes

-took part freely. There are few pastors in the North who would

-not be glad of such clear thought and apt expression in their

-meetings as we there heard.

-

-The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving

-the pupils rare qualities of earnestness and self-reliance.

-Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are the

-ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the

-course of study, all the influences tend to develop a manly and

-persevering spirit. The students are accustomed every summer

-to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in

-most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There

-are few organized schools and few school-houses for the colored

-people outside the cities. The University students desirous of a

-school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then

-secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads,

-or, perhaps, of a vacant log-cabin; then they must obtain

-permission of the county commissioner to teach the school. It

-evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such

-circumstances, and yet these students earn every summer, in from

-three to five months of teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece.

-Sometimes parents are willing and able to educate their children,

-without throwing them thus on their own resources. After Fisk

-University was established, a colored man bought land near by,

-built him a comfortable house, and made his home there, with the

-express purpose of educating his large family of children. But

-such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education generally

-are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched

-with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our

-Northern seminaries), who, at the age of fourteen, determined to

-go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till she had earned

-the means. For five years she has been securing an education,

-paying her way by teaching every summer. Another student was

-pointed out to us, whose persistence under difficulties is still

-more remarkable. For the work of two successive summers, he

-has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and

-for last summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that

-would pay only half the average sum, he has as yet received

-only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet he is not

-discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A.

-K. Spence is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools

-in the North, to supplement the meagre sums earned by the

-students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry a

-student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his

-son a thousand dollars a year at a Northern college.) If any

-Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional fifty dollars for

-the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to

-receive a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce

-the students to receive aid. They are eager to do for themselves.

-Recently, some kind words were addressed them by a visitor, on

-the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers, “it

-is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not

-know them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than

-ever to persuade them to receive the help they need.”

-

-We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both

-institutions. Most of them, particularly among the boarders, are

-earnest and consistent Christians. We were much moved at some

-of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.

-The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the

-memory of the instructors. Jubilee Hall had just been completed.

-It seemed a paradise to the colored people. A farewell meeting

-was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,

-where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the

-students prayed—“O Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter

-this beautiful new building; but if Thou wilt not go with us, we

-do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay here.”

-The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons

-of revival ever since.

-

-The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that

-the elevation of nearly five millions of people rests largely

-on them. They have a worthy ambition to be the leaders of their

-race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new

-ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who

-have just gone from Fisk University to Africa have left behind

-them an enthusiasm for missionary work. The students are now

-praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries

-of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as

-a definite and high aim. These students justly feel that in this

-land, and abroad, there is work for them to do. A glorious future

-lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful

-study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.

-

-It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety

-hung over Fisk University. Funds that were relied upon from

-Great Britain for current expenses had failed, and retrenchment,

-where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was under

-consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will

-not let it suffer.

-

-                                          REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.

-

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-

-

-NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.

-

-HAMPTON, VA.—Four students received to the church by profession

-May 5th. One of the Indian students lately received gives

-evidence of Christian character.

-

-RALEIGH, N. C.—“Our church has shared with others in a revival

-blessing this spring.” Twenty were received to the church April

-8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the pastor, writes: “There

-are several of the young men connected with our church and school

-who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if

-I can get some simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will

-form them into a class, and have them recite two or three times a

-week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”

-

-ORANGEBURG, S. C.—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years

-in this church and school. The church membership has increased

-two-thirds. Two members received in April. Sunday-school thriving

-and increasing, and feeding the church. A Woman’s Foreign

-Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the

-A. M. A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have

-been in training for teachers this year.

-

-BYRON, GA.—“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in

-numbers steadily. A day-school will soon be opened. Young people

-are asking for prayers every Sunday evening.”

-

-SAVANNAH, GA.—One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church

-work is very encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have

-twenty boys from twelve to sixteen years of age in my class, and

-am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I have been

-here, has the church been so prosperous.”

-

-MARION, ALA.—The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing.

-Three or four are to unite with the church at the next Communion.

-

-FLORENCE, ALA.—Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on

-church services good, and one member received on profession at

-his last visit.

-

-ABBEVILLE, LA.—The church has been holding special meetings,

-crowded every night. Two have been received to membership; others

-are under deep conviction. Rev. Charles E. Smith is the pastor.

-

-MEMPHIS, TENN.—A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings

-of God’s word, and a higher standard of personal godliness

-sought. “The question, how to utilize the combined power of the

-Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed

-in the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly

-deepening interest. The church has passed in safety and triumph

-through its financial straits, deficiencies have been made up,

-current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for

-the summer demands.”

-

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-

-

-ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.

-

-CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth

-anniversary April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were

-examined in Natural Philosophy, Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany,

-Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History, Latin,

-Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.;

-and an exhibition was held the following day, with music and

-recitations, to the great delight of a large assembly.

-

-MACON, GA.—The school building was dedicated, with the chapel,

-March 24. There are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the

-building. The large one will seat 110 pupils; the smaller, or

-recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole building

-is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington

-writes:—“We are credited by the people of the city—by the

-white people, especially—with having the prettiest chapel and

-school-rooms in the State.”

-

-FORSYTH, GA.—School-house built last year—“a two-story

-building, without a chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied

-since February last. Attendance good. “A deep concern about the

-most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture

-every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young

-people can only stay in school two or three months at a time,

-is the greatest drawback. The white people are very kind, and

-respond generously to every call for aid.

-

-CUTHBERT, GA.—There has been going on for over two weeks a

-glorious revival. Nearly all the pupils of the school are

-converted; all of the highest class but one, and that one an

-inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A

-reading-room has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts

-between the two (Methodist and Baptist) Sunday-schools of the

-place.

-

-FORT VALLEY, GA.—The day-school is improving by degrees. The

-Sunday-school is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented

-many from coming out, but the prospect is that very soon the

-school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with which to

-purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.

-

-NEW ORLEANS, LA.—“The year has been in every way delightful

-and profitable. God has blessed us in every department of our

-work. Every month, and indeed every week, has brought some

-new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue, soon

-to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they

-represent as good a class of students as were ever gathered in

-the University. So much for numerical success. What is better,

-there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in

-the Faculty.”

-

-MOBILE, ALA., EMERSON INSTITUTE.—The new two-story brick

-building, 34×64, with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with

-exercises of great interest. A full account was received just too

-late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for the July

-MISSIONARY.

-

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-

-

-GENERAL NOTES.

-

-

-The Negro.

-

-—We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the

-income of the Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees

-distributed, in eight States, $35,400; in 1873, in ten States,

-$137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their

-report, and take the largest and smallest.

-

-—April 21st, the barque _Azor_ sailed from Charleston, S. C.,

-with 250 emigrants, one-fifth being children. They go under the

-auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association to Boporo, about

-sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase

-a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from

-the Charleston _News and Courier_ accompanies the _Azor_.

-

-—Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization

-Society, writes that vessels will sail under their auspices in

-June and November. He fears for the new exodus movement, as

-having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very

-outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances,

-which evinced the need of a competent controlling agency in the

-management of their affairs.”

-

-—A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks

-ago, to organize a colony for the West, and measures were taken

-to promote that object. They denounced the Liberian exodus.

-

-—Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to

-all the colored people who may choose to emigrate thither, a

-cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection of her laws, and equal

-facilities for education.

-

-—“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association,

-giving little more than $200,000 a year towards founding

-Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits, among four

-million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we

-do little to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific

-slope; and our labor among the Indians is light. But our Romish

-friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year among the

-freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly

-schools. There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among

-the Indians.”—_President E. P. Tenney, Colorado College._

-

-—“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres

-of land within nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to

-colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on the industrial farm

-plan.”—_Evangelist._

-

-—A correspondent of the _Christian Observer_ is informed that

-there are twenty-five Romish schools in the three States of

-Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free board and tuition.

-

-—The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed

-by Gen. Lopez Analto, and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in

-Florida:

-

-  “I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and

-  belief, that there are negroes from the United States at

-  different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this day

-  held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various

-  pretexts, since the rebellion in the United States, and upon

-  American vessels.”

-

-The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden

-death of Judge Leonard.

-

-—The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African

-Missions, are referred to on an editorial page.

-

-—One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of

-new missionary stations in the interior of Africa, is the effect

-which such civilized settlements among the hunting-grounds of the

-slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is

-still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian,

-Abyssinian, and negro boys and, especially, girls.

-

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-

-

-The Chinaman.

-

-—In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge

-Sawyer has rendered a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who

-applied for naturalization papers, holding that Chinamen are

-not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the

-Naturalization Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens.

-“White,” he holds to be equivalent to Caucasian; and that, by

-exact construction of the provision, all but white persons, and

-persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever

-from citizenship. The case will probably be appealed.

-

-—We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph

-Twichell, in his recent lecture at New Haven, to those who are

-either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese in America. Under

-his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually $100,000

-in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut,

-where they are receiving a thorough course of education.

-

-—The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than

-$42,000 in school taxes. California law omits Mongolian children

-from the apportionment of school funds, refuses them admission

-to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen

-hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate

-schools for their three thousand children of proper age. Such are

-provided for those of African and Indian descent. The petition

-was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized it

-as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their

-part to “obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle

-their youth with ours, with a view, doubtless, to more thorough

-assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden of the

-complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate,

-and will work cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently

-not a “California diamond.”

-

-—A correspondent of the _Intelligencer_ asserts that the

-opposition to the Chinaman is instigated mainly by the

-liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither of whom

-has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.

-

-—A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed

-in part of members from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under

-the care of Rev. J. M. Condit. This is the second church in

-California, all the members of which are Chinese.

-

-—Prof. Mooar in _Evangelist_: “Our greatest danger in regard to

-this problem is not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us,

-but that we shall fail to be Christian enough for him.”

-

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-

-

-The Indian.

-

-—A writer in the _Advance_ says that there are 6,500 persons

-in the Indian Territory, formerly slaves of the Choctaws and

-Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided for their citizenship

-among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to

-each. In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was

-passed refusing to comply with the treaty; so that, in the land

-where they were born, and where they toiled in slavery to enrich

-their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children

-to the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no

-protection from, nor access to, the Indian courts of law. So, the

-big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.

-

-—The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under

-a territorial government, are in the face of solemn treaties,

-and the opposition of the various tribes to whom it has been

-promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor

-Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors,

-and their disregard of the rights of so-called inferior races.

-

-—The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed

-upon by the House Committee on Territories.

-

-—As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés

-prisoner to go to the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from

-punishment to the fugitives of that tribe, if they surrender to

-the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight

-with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood

-of Fort Ewell. The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain

-that the agent has defrauded them, and threaten trouble. To

-Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers that,

-when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive

-cattle and other property of greater value; and that when peace

-is made, the Government will provide for them, as it does for all

-friendly Indians.

-

-—The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.—See

-Leavenworth _Times_. The _Christian Recorder_ (A. M. E.) says:

-“No people can go down who make a plentiful use of soap and

-water.”

-

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-

-

-

-

-THE FREEDMEN.

-

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-

-

-STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.

-

-New Orleans, Louisiana.

-

-REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.

-

-The Institution was incorporated June 25th, 1869, and the first

-school building was completed in February, 1870. The American

-Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated

-in the establishment of the University. From the first, great

-numbers flocked to the school to enjoy its advantages, so that

-the capacity of the building was taxed to its utmost. The

-eagerness of the freedmen for education in 1870, and the two or

-three years following, was, perhaps, more intense and general

-than now. Between three and four thousand have been enrolled

-as students in the University during the eight years of its

-existence.

-

-It bears the name of Hon. Seymour Straight, of Ohio, who is one

-of its steadfast friends and benefactors.

-

-

-LOCATION.

-

-New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants, of whom 80,000 are

-colored people, is a most important point to be occupied in

-missionary work among the freedmen. As the commercial centre of

-the South-west—as the great cotton, sugar, and rice market of

-the Union—it out-ranks all others. In its intimate connections

-by river, bayou, and railroad with the most thickly populated

-negro districts of the old slave States, it is second to none.

-Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly adding to the

-negro population of Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there were

-369,000 colored people in this State, and each year swells

-the number. Already it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire

-population. Without disparagement to any other section, we claim,

-also, that the colored population of New Orleans represents

-the highest intelligence yet attained by the race in America.

-It includes the genuine African, the mulatto, the quadroon,

-the octaroon, and yet other shades and grades; and in this

-mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion of intelligence,

-and a corresponding increase in the capacity of culture and

-development. It would require the quick eye of an “expert” to

-detect, in the fair complexion and delicate features of many who

-throng our churches and schools, the faintest trace of African

-descent. Without speculating upon the cause, certain it is that

-we find among the colored people of the Crescent City a quickness

-of intelligence, and a capacity for the best culture and the

-noblest development, and withal a thirst for knowledge, which is

-worthy of our best sympathy and most generous benevolence.

-

-

-THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.

-

-In a word, our aim is Education, in its broadest and best

-meaning. The elevation, the prosperity, the highest manhood,

-and the co-ordinate rank of the African race in America, in the

-friendly rivalry of races, are still in the future—whether in

-the near or remote future, depends largely upon the race itself

-to determine. Education, under Divine guidance, is the gateway

-to that longed-for future. That I mean education as allied with

-religion, will be assumed. That the race is not educated, is

-by no fault of theirs. That they desire education, is to their

-credit. To help them to this education is both our duty and our

-privilege.

-

-The courses of study in this Institution include in the Academic

-Department, the Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory; and

-in the Professional Department, the Theological and the Law.

-

-We have a preparatory course, that we may secure better material

-for the higher courses. In the Normal course, special attention

-is given to those studies which will furnish young men and women

-with the education needed in the various branches of business

-life open to them, and which especially will qualify them as

-teachers, for which there is, and must continue to be, a great

-demand. In the Collegiate Department—which includes, among other

-studies, the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral Philosophy,

-and Latin—a higher grade and wider scope of studies will be

-added so soon as there is a demand for them. The school is yet

-in its infancy, and the number of those who are fitted to pursue

-to advantage the highest grade of studies is, of course, very

-limited.

-

-

-LAW DEPARTMENT.

-

-An able corps of Professors has been secured. Jurists of

-reputation and successful practice at the bar of Louisiana have

-kindly offered their services, with little hope of adequate

-compensation, and every facility is provided for young men of

-talent, who are attracted by the profession of the law, to

-fit themselves for honorable and successful practice. Regular

-graduates from this department, at the conclusion of a two years’

-course of study, and a well sustained examination, are admitted

-to the bar of New Orleans, with authority to practice in all the

-courts of the Commonwealth.

-

-

-THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.

-

-College graduates, who can be instructed in the original

-languages in which the Scriptures were written, are greatly

-desired, and until they can be secured, this department will

-but partially accomplish the object for which it was organized.

-The churches need thoroughly educated ministers, with carefully

-cultivated minds, who can intelligently preach the word. The

-degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers cannot be

-told. In the meantime, it is our aim to make the best use of

-the material we have, and transform it from a state of utter

-crudeness to one of partial fitness for the present demands of

-the churches. Men of piety and ability to speak and to teach are

-received, and advanced as far and as rapidly as their imperfect

-preparatory education will admit. Louisiana, with a colored

-population of 370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.

-The churches are calling in vain for intelligent laborers to go

-forth into the harvest. I wish the prospect was brighter for a

-large class of intelligent, spiritual, and enthusiastic students

-to enter this department, and to lift it to a high grade of

-usefulness.

-

-

-THE NEW UNIVERSITY.

-

-The building on Esplanade street, built in 1870, was entirely

-destroyed by fire February 16th, 1877. Since that disastrous

-event, our sessions have been held in Central Church, which

-is also the property of the American Missionary Association.

-A new site, more convenient and attractive, was purchased in

-January last. It is located on Canal street, the most beautiful

-avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a half square of land, 150

-feet front by 310 feet in depth. The new building, for whose

-design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas N. Chase, while not

-adhering strictly to any style of architecture, may be classed

-as _Italian_, as it approaches more nearly to that order. The

-dimensions of the building are 72 feet by 51½ feet. The five

-large recitation rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The halls are

-10 feet in width. The building is conveniently arranged, and all

-the requirements of the school, we think, have been anticipated

-in its design. The funds at the disposal of the Association did

-not admit of ornamentation; but the building, when completed,

-will be substantial, convenient, and comely. It will be ready

-for dedication and occupation at the opening of the fall term,

-October 1st. Grateful as we are for this new structure, we are

-not satisfied; neither should the friends of the freedmen in the

-North be satisfied. Straight University, in order to fill the

-measure of its usefulness, and cultivate the territory open to

-its occupation, must furnish accommodations for students from

-abroad—from towns outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining

-States. It must have _dormitories_. Two buildings, one on

-either side of the main building, are urgently needed, and at

-the earliest possible day. Then, when our group of buildings

-are completed, we can invite and welcome the best talent of the

-race, at whatever distance from New Orleans it may be found.

-Then our beloved University will become, among the educational

-institutions of the South-west—and especially of the Gulf

-States—the magnet, attracting to itself the best in intellect,

-in heart, and in promise of future good.

-

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-

-

-VIRGINIA.

-

-Additions to the Church—An Indian’s Creed—A Good Beginning.

-

-REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.

-

-Four students united with the church by profession the first

-Sabbath in May. It is several years since any Communion season

-has passed without some additions to the church.

-

-The fifteen Indians who have lately joined the school have taken

-hold of study and of manual labor with commendable zeal, and

-give promise of becoming good teachers and guides of their race.

-One of them now shows evidence of Christian character. Their

-promptness and decision, as to the duties required of them, were

-put to the test in reference to the use of tobacco, to which they

-were so strongly attached that, as one of them said:—“There are

-three things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I love smoke.”

-When asked if they would comply with the rules of the school,

-prohibiting the use of tobacco, after considering the matter

-awhile in silence, one of them gave an expressive sign that he

-would cut loose from tobacco; and then all the others gave the

-same significant pledge—a pledge which, their teacher assures

-us, they will never break.

-

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-

-

-SOUTH CAROLINA.

-

-History of “Avery” Graduates.

-

-PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.

-

-Avery Normal Institute was organized in Charleston, S. C.,

-October, 1865. The first formal graduation occurred in June,

-1872, at which time eleven young people received diplomas from

-the Institute. A class has been graduated each succeeding year,

-numbering as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874, six; 1875,

-fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including one post-graduate); 1877,

-twenty-two—giving a total of eighty-six. Of this number, death

-has taken five.

-

-Our school aims to fit its graduates to be competent teachers.

-Forty-six have been engaged in the public schools of the

-State—schools first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.

-Forty-one of the forty-six are teaching to-day; seventeen hold

-State certificates.

-

-One young man of the class of 1872 is an ordained minister. He

-was also graduated at South Carolina University in 1877. Another

-from that class, and one from the succeeding class, are studying

-with the ministry in view—one at Madison University, New York,

-the other at Atlanta University, Georgia. Three others from later

-classes are in higher institutions, preparing themselves to

-preach the Gospel.

-

-Our graduates bid fair to represent all the professions. One is

-in Howard University, studying medicine, and one in the leading

-Normal school of our county, preparing for teaching. The total

-number in higher institutions is seven, while four more have

-already received the degree of A. B. Five others were in South

-Carolina University when it closed its doors. These young men

-were ready to enter the Junior year of the College course when

-their studies were so abruptly ended. With one exception, they

-are teaching.

-

-Thirty-eight of our graduates are members of Evangelical

-churches; twenty at present are engaged in Sunday-school work.

-

-“By their fruits ye shall know them.” But is this all that Avery

-has done? No! Her influence has pervaded the homes of hundreds,

-and the lives of thousands. Her light has shone in every quarter

-of the State; and other lands are destined to share in her

-gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying three of her pupils to

-“Africa’s sunny fountains.”

-

-The questions are often asked: “What per cent. of your school is

-brown?” “Don’t the browns receive instruction more readily than

-the blacks?” The query, in the minds of so many, has led to an

-actual count of the graduates with regard to color, which gives:

-_Black_, 19; _brown_, 55; _fair_, 12. But, “the Lord is the maker

-of them all;” nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We sow “beside

-all waters.” “What shall the harvest be?”

-

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-

-

-GEORGIA.

-

-Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of Hope—Twichell School.

-

-REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.

-

-This small settlement of colored people is situated three miles

-west of Savannah, Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent, and

-divided into half-acre lots, which are now selling, on the

-instalment plan, for seventy-five dollars each. The houses are

-very small and uncomfortable; but since the American Missionary

-Association has erected a new meeting-house and parsonage, the

-people have commenced to put up better dwellings, and a strong

-love for home comforts is gradually taking hold upon the masses.

-The inhabitants of Woodville obtain a living by selling in the

-city market, or laboring in gardens and on rice plantations. In

-this settlement there are two groceries, and three on its border,

-where strong drink is sold, even on the Lord’s day.

-

-The only house of worship in this place is the Pilgrim

-Congregational Church. This church was organized in 1871 as the

-Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875 as the Pilgrim Church.

-A new site was chosen, and the present meeting-house was erected

-in the same year. This church has been a great blessing to the

-people. A deep religious feeling has prevailed in our midst, and

-many have become savingly acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ.

-Rev. Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this little church,

-and a great assistant to the young pastor in charge. A revival

-is still in progress; twenty persons have been recently added

-to the church, and seven are waiting to be received at the next

-Communion.

-

-The Sabbath-school is prospering. We have no well qualified

-teachers as yet, but Twichell School is preparing instructors for

-this work. We need lesson papers and other papers. Who will help

-us in this direction? Our Band of Hope consists of both adults

-and children. This society is working hard to save men from a

-drunkard’s grave, and hell. It has much opposition to overcome.

-The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking church-people are its worst

-enemies.

-

-TWICHELL SCHOOL.—This school is held in the church, and is

-taught by the pastor. Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.

-and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school at Grand Rapids,

-Mich., we have been able to instruct hundreds of children, and

-it is pleasing to know that our labor has not been in vain, for

-many of the little ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord. Mrs. S.

-N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids,

-Mich., and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere thanks

-for the deep interest they have taken in this work. Every effort

-put forth in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant people

-deserves the heartiest encouragement.

-

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-

-

-School Children Farming—Their Parents Buying Farms.

-

-SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.

-

-Our school is very small, as it always is at this season of the

-year, the children having to assist their parents in farming.

-For that reason, during the summer months of the previous years,

-we have had to teach about two hours at night, for the benefit

-of those who could not come in the daytime. We have not yet

-commenced night-school this year, though it is desired by many.

-

-There are many children in our neighborhood who belong to our

-school, but we find it very difficult to get all, or the most of

-them, to attend school regularly. We have a pretty good average

-attendance, but do not at all times have the same scholars, which

-causes much discord and delay.

-

-The children seem to be anxious to learn, but it is done in

-the midst of hardships which are uncommon to children in many

-other places. The older people are not as much interested in the

-education of their children as they should be, by a great deal.

-

-Only two schools for the colored children are kept up during the

-year in this county, namely, Second Midway and Old Midway. There

-are other places I know of in this county, where much might be

-done in the way of instructing the people in the right way, and

-they would be very glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.

-

-About two-thirds of the colored people in this county are trying

-to buy land, and really some have succeeded in so doing; but it

-is done by about four years’ _hard_ labor and strict economy.

-There is very little money in this county, and it will be so

-until the colored people pay for and take possession of these

-lands. After a couple of years they will be able to do much for

-themselves in many ways.

-

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-

-

-A Growing School—A Literary Society.

-

-COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.

-

-The Mission School at Marietta was opened Oct. 15th, 1877,

-with four pupils only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there were

-fourteen. The end of January found a roll of thirty-seven, which

-has steadily increased to seventy-two. It may be seen that the

-growth of this school was not very rapid, from the fact that it

-was opposed by many of the colored people in the city. But the

-more water they threw on this little spark, the brighter and

-faster it burned, till it has become a centre of attraction.

-Friends of this work are fast multiplying, and the future seems

-bright.

-

-My school is composed of some very bright and promising young

-men and women, seven of whom go out every summer to teach. The

-studies are spelling, reading, writing, geography, composition,

-grammar, and arithmetic.

-

-To this work is attached a literary society, known as the Junto,

-the exercises of which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,

-and singing. It was likewise opposed, but is now as largely

-attended as any church in the city.

-

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-

-

-MISSISSIPPI.

-

-An Old School—Temperance Work—The Gourd Family.

-

-MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.

-

-Our school, in age, ranks among the older ones, having been

-established in the Spring of 1866, and we have been its teachers

-continuously up to the present time. First, we were missionary

-teachers; after a time the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid,

-until the organization of free schools by the State; thereafter,

-we taught the public school until last year.

-

-During all these years of varying fortunes our school has

-steadily progressed, until there has grown up around us a

-generation of young people, not great, nor wise, nor learned,

-only as they are compared with those who have gone before them;

-but, standing out from the blackness of darkness of twelve years

-ago, they furnish a bright and hopeful outlook.

-

-We organized a Temperance society early in our work here, and it

-has never died out. We, several years ago, gave the control into

-the hands of the young people, being only members, for service,

-when needed. They have changed names, and banners, and badges

-more than once—just now it is blue ribbon—but the object has

-always been the same. Our Sunday-school has always claimed our

-best efforts, and we are glad to know that more than two-thirds

-of our older scholars are professing Christians. But the work

-done is but a drop compared with that which is not done. We

-have lived to see very many hopes and dreams fade out, and to

-learn that manhood and womanhood are not plants of the gourd

-family—Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge of what we have

-not done, and cannot do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,

-perhaps, we have thus learned to do what we can the more gladly,

-feeling sure that we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe this is

-a part of the work, for we, too, are our Father’s children.

-

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-

-

-THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

-

-Its Catholicity—Closing Exercises.

-

-The year of the Theological Department of Howard University has

-just closed. This department is under the joint care and support

-of the Presbytery of Washington, and of the American Missionary

-Association. The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as Professor

-of Revealed Theology and Biblical History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer,

-D. D., as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral Science; the

-latter supplies the instruction given by the President, Rev.

-Wm. W. Patton, D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences of

-Revealed Religion, and Hebrew, and by Rev. John G. Butler, D.

-D., in Pastoral Theology, Church History, and Homiletics. The

-theological students this year have numbered thirty-two. These

-are in all stages of preparation for their expected work. Several

-are already ministers, and are preaching, every Sunday, as

-pastors of colored churches in Washington; but, having had no

-early advantages, they are making up deficiencies as best they

-can.

-

-The theological students come from seven different denominations,

-while their instructors represent four. This is an unusual

-illustration of Christian union, and shows how much can be done,

-on a simple evangelical basis, for meeting the pressing wants

-of the colored population of our land. The work needs to be

-conducted on a broad, generous basis. We can thus introduce a

-powerful leaven of truth and righteousness where it is especially

-needed. The plan of instruction has been, to meet the special

-wants of each individual according to his age, his forwardness

-or backwardness of study, the time that he could remain, etc.

-Such as have enjoyed a classical education, are encouraged to

-take the regular three years’ course pursued in all theological

-seminaries. Others are taught what is found to be most needed

-to fit them for their work, in the form of English studies. Six

-have studied the Hebrew this year, and they passed a creditable

-examination in the grammar, and in translation, averaging quite

-as well as ordinary white students in theological institutions.

-These students also attend the Bible-class conducted by the

-president on the morning of the Lord’s day, and his preaching

-service in the afternoon, in the latter of which he has lately,

-in a series of discourses, pointed out the weakness and absurdity

-of modern skepticism, as an antidote to the influence of the

-infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob” Ingersoll, who has taken

-up his abode in Washington.

-

-Although the theological students have numbered thirty-two this

-year, it so happens that but one has completed his course; and

-as a distinguished clergyman who, it was hoped, would deliver

-the address at the anniversary, failed us at too late a moment

-to substitute any one else, the closing exercises took the form

-of a debate by eight of the young men, on this question: “Has

-a church a right to make total abstinence from intoxicating

-drinks a condition of membership?” This point was debated with

-much earnestness and shrewdness, and arguments, _pro_ and _con_,

-were drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture in a way which

-testified favorably to the abilities of the speakers. One of

-the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States takes a

-deep interest in this department of the University, and lately

-expressed himself emphatically in favor of encouraging and

-endowing it, as an important means of elevating the colored

-ministry and churches of all denominations. Its friends

-anticipate for it a future bright with usefulness.

-

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-

-

-THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.

-

-MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.

-

-As gems are valued by their rarity, so you can imagine how such a

-gathering as the Sunday-school Convention seemed to us in Georgia.

-

-We were favored, not more by hearing the appointed speakers in

-the great Convention, than by the personal presence and good

-words of many of its delegates in our own school-room. Gen. Fisk,

-who has given not only his name, but his heart and hand to our

-Fisk University, took Atlanta and the Convention by storm with

-his happy address of welcome. It seems to me our young men can

-never lose the inspiration of hope and courage that must have

-come to them from him, whose youthful struggles had even exceeded

-many of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M. Parsons. All who

-ever listened to him will understand how, at the close of his

-words, we felt that, next to the Rock Christ Jesus, there was

-not beneath the sun so firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.

-Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president from Montreal,

-warned us of the Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,

-only a good Scotch Presbyterian could feel. Then we had “Hope

-Ledyard,” the charming correspondent, whose young life seems too

-exquisitely moulded to have always escaped the loving Father’s

-crucible.

-

-Best of all, we had good words from many not heard in the

-Convention, and, perhaps, unknown to fame. There was Judge

-Harman, of Oswego. How his clear eye took in the large

-possibilities of our work, and how his great heart went out

-toward us! As he warned us of the perils of a life without Jesus,

-and the depths of despair into which life’s trials could plunge a

-soul unsupported by the Everlasting Arms, his peaceful face and

-silvery hair assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed, some of

-us had rare glimpses into the blessed beyond. The words of Rev.

-A. P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that I was prevented from

-hearing, so lifted both teachers and pupils above the plane of

-plodding school life, that we almost trembled to look down. The

-fact that many such men, of kindred mind and heart, filled the

-silent pews of the Convention, seemed to me the secret of its

-power. We had heard as good papers from other platforms, but the

-sight of such a body, all delighting in the Master’s command,

-“Feed My lambs,” was enough to send us to our homes feeling, as

-one of our girls expressed it, “I know I shall be a better woman

-for having attended the Convention.”

-

-In response to an invitation for the delegates to visit our

-school, Governor Colquitt, who presided, remarked to the

-Convention: “The University is a good place to visit, and is

-doing a good work”; and added that he had a servant who had

-attended our school some years, and the instruction received

-there had not pushed him above his position—he was the same

-humble, faithful boy about his work. Every summer he came to him

-for a recommendation to teach, which he cheerfully gave him, and

-the boy always returned in the fall the same good, modest young

-man.

-

-Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion to express his

-appreciation of our work. After the close of his sermon, at

-the Central Presbyterian Church here, while recounting to the

-audience the many things of interest he had enjoyed in their

-city, he remarked that he had recently visited most of the

-universities of Europe, and added that nothing in Atlanta, or

-the great universities abroad, had interested him so heartily as

-their Atlanta University.

-

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-

-

-ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE.

-

-REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.

-

-New Iberia was the place selected for our Annual Meeting this

-year, April 3-5, and one more attractive, or more important to

-the general interests of our work, could not have been chosen.

-This church was organized in 1866, and has a membership of 117,

-of which thirty have been received on profession of faith the

-past year. The population of the city is about 3,000, of whom

-nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.

-

-The South-western Conference is composed of fourteen

-Congregational churches, of which twelve were represented at our

-Annual Meeting.

-

-The reports from the churches showed very clearly that the past

-year had been one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.

-Several churches, as the Central, in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s,

-in Terrebonne, have been blessed with revivals of great power.

-Other churches have been cutting off dead branches, and putting

-themselves in condition for better service. In tabulating the

-reports, I find that the present membership of the churches of

-our Conference is 806. There have been added on profession during

-the year (ending April 1st, 1878,) _one hundred and thirteen_,

-and four by letter. Forty-seven adults and _eighty babies_ have

-been baptized.

-

-As I have already spoken of the precious revival in Central

-Church, in which more than fifty were converted, and the church

-itself greatly quickened and refreshed, I will not recite the

-facts again. The church of Brother Clay (one of the veterans and

-pioneers of Congregationalism in Louisiana), in Terrebonne, has

-passed through joyful and glorious experiences. The church has

-been thronged for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I did not know

-where all the people came from. The church and church-yard were

-filled with a dense mass of people. It seemed as though they

-sprung out of the ground.” Night after night the earnest truths

-of the Gospel were preached, and night after night “mourners”

-crowded the anxious seats, crying for mercy. The people came from

-long distances, five and seven miles. God put honor upon His

-word, and many have been converted, and still the good work goes

-on. Pastor Clay’s heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.

-

-

-QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.

-

-Among the topics considered at the Conference were the following:

-

-_Revivals_: The best method of promoting and conducting them.

-_Education_: The demand of the hour; how shall we meet it?

-_Faith_: Its nature; how can we secure greater faith? Its joys

-and its triumphs. What more can we do to reach the people with

-the Gospel?

-

-These questions were discussed with vigor and interest. Of

-course, no speeches had been prepared in advance, and I was

-surprised at the real excellence of the addresses. Mistakes in

-grammar were sometimes made, and there were not many classical

-allusions, but the speeches had the true ring, and good will come

-of them.

-

-

-PUBLIC SERVICES.

-

-The opening sermon was given by the Moderator, Mr. Alexander,

-from Matthew 1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel; which

-being interpreted is, God with us.” It was a great pleasure to

-speak to such an audience. The church was densely packed, the

-entry was filled; people took positions under the windows on

-the outside, and fully one hundred, having sought admission in

-vain, went reluctantly away. Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached

-the second evening; after which, the Moderator made an address

-on “Christian Unity,” in the hope of removing or modifying some

-of the asperities and jealousies existing among the colored

-churches. The address was received with strong expressions of

-sympathy. One good old “auntie” said the next day: “Don’t you say

-anything against that minister. He is trying to build up both

-sides. He don’t wish to break down anybody.”

-

-

-ORDINATION.

-

-On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a member of the church at New

-Iberia, but a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed a faithful

-examination before the Conference regarding his Christian

-experience, his religious belief, and his ability to preach, was

-ordained as an Evangelist.

-

-Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian, and will make an able

-and successful minister. He has served the churches faithfully

-for two years or more without compensation. He owns a small farm

-of eighteen acres on the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.

-His worthy wife was for a short time a student in Straight

-University. He expresses his willingness to leave his beautiful

-home, and go anywhere, even to Africa, where God may call him.

-

-

-FAREWELL MEETING.

-

-Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell prayer-meeting.” It

-was a most tender and impressive scene. As one after another

-spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was wet with manly tears,

-and when the entire Conference rose and joined hands, and they

-sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to themselves, beginning

-“Good-by, and shake hands,” and we entered into covenant with

-God and with each other to go forth to another year of labor and

-self-denial, those dear brethren, in the excess of religious

-emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus was our meeting of 1878

-brought to a close. The good pastor at New Iberia said: “Such a

-light was never kindled here before.” The Conference adjourned to

-meet in New Iberia next year, at the call of the Moderator.

-

-Dear brethren of the North, pray for us, and remember that we are

-trying to hold this distant outpost of the Church, and to extend,

-in this beautiful and fruitful land, the cherished faith and

-polity of our fathers.

-

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-

-

-THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING.

-

-  We give the following extracts from a letter, written by the

-  Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to the new missionaries to

-  Africa. From the fact that they are all Fisk University students,

-  the greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers in Africa

-  is full of pathetic interest:

-

-                                                 ERFURT, GERMANY.

-

-To ALBERT P. MILLER, ADA ROBERTS MILLER, ANDREW E. JACKSON, and

-ELLA HILDRIDGE JACKSON, Missionaries for Africa:

-

-_Dear Brothers and Sisters_: The Jubilee Singers send greeting.

-Could we give you our greeting in person, it would be more

-satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey to you, in writing, how

-our hearts have gone out to you in love and sympathy, and up to

-God in thankfulness, since the glad tidings reached us of your

-having consecrated your lives and talents to mission work among

-our brethren in Africa. We have prayed and labored long for this

-day, and now, thank God, our prayers are being answered.

-

-We realize in how large a degree our success has been

-attributable to the faithful prayers of you and your

-fellow-students, sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk

-University; and let us assure you that while you are doing battle

-for the Master, by helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism and

-superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen, you, in like manner,

-will be sustained by the prayers of your fellow students, and

-warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in our own native land,

-but in Great Britain, Holland and Germany. They will follow

-your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully, watching for the

-fruits which ye shall reap, in due season, if ye faint not, and

-rejoicing with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.

-

-You are our first band of missionaries at the outpost of the

-American Missionary Association in the land of our forefathers.

-May the light of God so shine in your hearts that its reflected

-rays shall be a balm to those who may come to you, to be healed

-and taught of God. May He give you strength to thrust in the

-“sharpened sickle” when the fields are ripe for the harvest, and

-the laborers so few.

-

-With the love and best wishes of the Jubilee Singers.

-

-                            (Signed)

-

-                                           GEORGIA M. GORDON,

-                                                F. J. LOUDIN,

-                                                B. W. THOMAS.

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-                                                     _Committee_.

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-AFRICA.

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-Arrival of the New Missionaries.

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-REV. FLOYD SNELSON.

-

-I received the letters, telling of the new missionaries on

-the way to our mission, with great joy. I left home late last

-Thursday afternoon for this place to meet them. We came on very

-well until Friday night about ten o’clock, at which time we were

-caught in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As I had not been

-here since our first arrival, there were many things to look

-after.

-

-Just as I was finishing up last night, the steamer came in,

-bringing them. I got out to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent

-nearly an hour with them. I am very favorably impressed with the

-first view of my new co-workers, and hope now to be able to carry

-on the work to greater success and with more ease.

-

-Next morning they came ashore, and expressed themselves as

-favorably surprised at the appearance of the place and people. On

-the 26th, we hope to leave early for Good Hope.

-

-  FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE,

-      _March 25th, 1878_.

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-First Impressions of Africa—A Sunday Service—A School

-Celebration.

-

-REV. ALBERT MILLER.

-

-On reaching Freetown, and walking about the place and conversing

-with the natives, we were very favorably disappointed. Some are

-very intelligent and kind-hearted. We attended a Sunday-School

-in the afternoon, and were much pleased to hear the children

-read and sing. They reminded me of a small country school in the

-South. A little boy played on the organ. We visited several of

-the natives, and I was everywhere surprised at seeing so much

-intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson had made all necessary

-preparations for our coming. The mission house had been fitted

-up nicely, so that we soon felt as if we were in an American

-village. We remained in Freetown two days, and Brother Snelson

-lost no time in showing us the many things of interest in this

-African city. We visited the market, and saw many things in the

-line of fruits to interest us. All were well pleased, but still

-longed to reach our adopted home.

-

-Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March, we arrived here on the

-28th, early in the morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.

-Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the mission met us at

-the wharf. We could not have been more kindly received by any

-persons. We have been here several days now, and find the work

-promising and encouraging. Brother Snelson and his helpers are

-hard at work, and things, I suppose, are much more hopeful than

-they have been for years.

-

-The church was filled last Sabbath to its utmost capacity with

-hearers. Brother S., I think is the right man in the right place.

-The only charge I am able to bring against him is overwork.

-He has the confidence of the people, which is so necessary to

-success. Services were conducted by Brother Jackson and myself.

-

-I find the people kind and obliging. They are very happy to have

-us, of their own race, come and teach and labor among them. Some

-seem ready to shout. We are well pleased with our new home, and

-are in a good state of health. The heat is very intense. All

-things seem to indicate a better day for the sable sons of Ham.

-Africa is not what rumor represents it to be—at least, what I

-have seen of it.

-

-APRIL 3, 1878.—To-day has been one of great interest, both

-to parents and children. The day-school, under the general

-management of Brother White, turned out. An examination took

-place in the forenoon, after which the schools (day and

-Sabbath), with two banners waving o’er head, came marching to a

-place near the mission-house, where a dinner had been prepared

-for them. Brother Snelson led the schools, and the children,

-full of joy, followed him. He led them through the principal

-streets of this our city, the sides of the streets being filled

-with lookers-on. All this seemed new to them, and I dare say it

-is new to this part of Africa. We had music, but very different

-from such as our American friends are accustomed to. An old tin

-box served as kettle-drum. This, with other instruments, made

-music sufficient for the children to march and keep pretty good

-time. Returning to the tables, the little ones ate dinner, using

-spoons, which is something very new to them. Each one seemed to

-be happy. The patrons were called upon to contribute for the

-giving of this dinner. Many responded, sending chickens, rice,

-etc. Of course, the whole affair was devolved upon Brother

-Snelson. He received contributions from traders and officials,

-many of whom are here on the coast. These, you will remember,

-are white, the friendship and kind favor of whom Brother S.

-has gained. They did not attend the exercises of the day, but

-came out at night, and listened to speeches from members of the

-school. The pupils spoke and sang well, and reminded me very much

-of my past experience in the South—so Southern-like.

-

-All were highly pleased with the exercises of the evening. The

-American flag was on one side of the house, that of England on

-the other—thus bringing all in attendance between them. These

-two flags during the day were unfurled to the gentle breeze with

-which we were favored. Many of the leading men of Bonthe were

-here, and, with those from other places, took tea with us. I gain

-more interest daily for this my field of labor. I shall not wait

-to become acclimated, but shall proceed to labor at once.

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-

-Advantages of Colored Missionaries.

-

-EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.

-

-You would like to know what I think about colored missionaries

-doing good here. My firm belief is, that they can do more than

-any other missionaries under the sun. These people have always

-been used to colored people. Most of the white men whom they have

-seen were traders, seeking their own good. They robbed the people

-of their produce and children, and destroyed their confidence.

-A white missionary has to be more careful than a colored one.

-The natives look upon a white person as unnatural, and think

-he is above them in every way, and that God made him so. They

-also think it is of no use for them to try to do the things they

-see the white man do. But, on the other hand, when they see a

-colored man do anything, they think if he can do it they can do

-it themselves. They are a great people to imitate. For a proof of

-what I have said, look at the Shengay Mission. It is conducted

-altogether by colored missionaries, and stands ahead of others on

-the coast. Do not think I say this because I am a colored man. I

-say it because I know it is true.

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-THE INDIANS.

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-School Wants and Farm Work.

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-W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.

-

-The school opened very encouragingly this term, and before the

-close of the second week we had fifty-four different boarding

-scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission to others, on

-account of our limited accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever

-broke out, and before the close of the term twenty-three boarding

-scholars, and many of our day scholars, had been sent home on

-account of sickness.

-

-The boarding scholars seem, generally, to be happy and contented

-with us, and eager to return at the opening of each new term; and

-their progress in their studies, and general deportment, is much

-greater than with the day scholars. The general interest, also,

-of the tribe in the subject of education is greatly quickened.

-The boarding-school, with suitable accommodations, might be made

-a great blessing to the tribe. We feel sure we could readily

-obtain 100 scholars if we had the accommodations.

-

-The tribe has asked the Department to appropriate, from their

-funds in the United States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of a

-suitable building.

-

-We see the dreadful results, in other tribes around us, of

-allowing the youth to grow up, without education, in contact with

-the whites, learning their vices and not their virtues, and it

-makes us long to see something done to save this people from the

-blight which has fallen upon so many other tribes before them.

-

-I have spent nearly three weeks going over the Reservation since

-school closed, visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the

-Indians to make larger improvements; and I have been very greatly

-gratified to notice so many already clearing up new lands. I have

-only found three or four families who will not clear up some new

-ground this spring. Some will clear as much as three or four

-acres. Many are chopping and logging heavy timber without any

-team to help them.

-

-I think there will be 300 acres of new land cleared this spring.

-I expect to distribute (only to those who clear at least one

-acre) 1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats, wheat, and

-vegetable seeds, for many of them have not yet learned to provide

-beforehand. There are, however, quite a number who not only have

-enough for their own seed, but some to sell.

-

-Could the boarding-school be kept up regularly for a few years,

-we should have great hopes for the future of this tribe, but

-there seems to be a strange lack of interest in this matter on

-the part of the authorities at Washington. We are now anxiously

-waiting for instructions to re-open this school. Meanwhile, the

-day-school is in operation, with an attendance of twenty-two

-scholars.

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-

-An Indian Wants a Cow.

-

-    Dr G L Mahon

-

-    Dr Sir i thought i would write a few lines to you to asking you

-    that you dint not answered me when i was asking you while you was

-    here about the Cow i want you to give me one if you Can i thing

-    i would use the Cow very much if you would give me one i could

-    get Some Butter from her and i could make good living on Butter

-    with Potatoes if you Send me one Send who have a young Calf in

-    her thats the one i like to have her and you will let me know it

-    By G Wheeler and another thing about Potatoes Zack Brown told me

-    he hasent got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring and ive got

-    Plenty potatoes in Net Lake and if you want any i could Sell it

-    to you Some that is for Zack Brown wants it Now i send my Best

-    Regards to you

-

-                 from     ADAWWAN-NE QUA BENANS

-               VERMILLION LAKE.

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-THE CHINESE.

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-“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 C. 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. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.

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-Fung Affoo’s Bible Class—Visalia and Petaluma.

-

-REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.

-

-Remembering that the Sabbath worship at our Central Mission had

-never been described, though often alluded to in the MISSIONARY,

-I requested Bro. Fung Affoo to give an account of it, and

-received the following communication:

-

-  “As we have not much time to teach them the Scripture on any

-  other evening, we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings to

-  teach them to read the Bible instead of their other lessons. On

-  Sunday we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at half-past eleven

-  A. M., and continuing for one hour and a half. We sing about half

-  an hour either in Chinese or in English, then offer a prayer, and

-  then read a chapter from the Bible. Each verse they read after

-  me, then I translate it into Chinese; when through interpreting,

-  on each verse or paragraph I make some remarks which I have

-  studied out during the week days. After we get through the

-  chapter, I speak about ten minutes on a subject selected from

-  that chapter beforehand, then one of our brethren offers prayer;

-  we then unite in singing the Doxology, and close with the

-  Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday evening are similar

-  to those we have on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement in

-  the work seeing that they like to read the Bible more than ever

-  before. Formerly only about one-half of the school attended the

-  Bible-class on Wednesday evenings, but now they number nearly

-  as many on that evening as on any other evening of the week. It

-  seems as though their hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of

-  course, many come to read the Bible only for the sake of learning

-  the English, but in time we hope, when they know the truth of

-  God, they will change their mind and heart, as some of them have

-  already done, who are now on Christ’s side, battling for the

-  Lord.”

-

-                                                    “FUNG AFFOO.”

-

-The attendance at this Sabbath noon service averages about

-fifty-five. Of course, my pastoral duties render it impossible

-for me ever to be present. I do not think, however, that my

-presence would add anything to the worship or the work. I assist

-the helpers in their preparation, but I believe that in dealing

-with their countrymen they are more skilful than I could be, even

-if I could speak Chinese. It needs an experience in heathenism,

-to enable one to reach the heathen in the most efficient way. God

-chooses saved _sinners_ to be messengers of salvation to those

-still lost. I think that the programme of this service, as Bro.

-Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact. It is not one of my

-planning—not the one I should have chosen; but as I carefully

-consider it, I ask, “What _could be_ better fitted for those for

-whom the service is arranged?”

-

-Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary labors among the Chinese

-at San Leandro were attended with so rich a blessing, is now

-acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at Visalia. He has

-carried there his zeal for this good work; has already rented a

-small room, and opened a school. We shall aid him as far as we

-are able. Would that we had a hundred men like-minded with him

-touching this work!

-

-Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish the care of the school at

-Petaluma, and is succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian

-spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade St., New York. This school

-is quite small, but its members surpass those of every other

-school in liberality, and I cannot consent to abandon them.

-Christ, too, is becoming known to them. With increasing interest

-they study God’s word. And they _sing_, somewhat at random, it

-must be confessed, in the matter of time and of tune, but with

-an eagerness and a gusto that betoken a beginning both of the

-spirit and the understanding in their song. Miss Anthony writes:

-“Wah Yene is a good Christian as far as he understands. He told

-me, one evening, that he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,

-and every night. Some people,’ he added, ‘not much good; likee go

-to church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor of the Congregational

-church] think they good. Some people very good, and pray to God.

-I likee be good—not much bad.’”

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-THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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-A TEACHER’S STORY.

-

-The following letter is from a young girl who has not gone

-through the Middle Class at Hampton, but is showing much energy

-and tact, and doing good work as teacher in one of the rough

-places of the far South:

-

-                                                         FLORIDA.

-

-  I will first say, I am a colored girl; my native home is in St.

-  Augustine. I was raised by kind Northern friends. I am teaching

-  school on the St. John’s River, about thirty or forty miles from

-  St. Augustine. In giving my descriptions, I will first describe

-  my school-house. It is made entirely of logs, with the exception

-  of the door and windows, which were given by Miss M. The skies

-  may be seen in any part of the room. The cracks in the floor are

-  large enough to put your hands through. When it rains, it leaks

-  in like water dropping from the trees. There is no fire-place,

-  nor was there any way for keeping warm until, the past week, a

-  young man got me a little stove. But the house is so open this

-  does but little towards heating it up. We have had some cold

-  days, and the only way I had to keep my scholars warm was, to

-  build two large fires and have the poor little children set

-  around them (out of doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and

-  bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart ache to see the tears

-  stand in their eyes, when I asked them why they didn’t put on

-  shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply would be, “I have on all

-  the clothes I got, and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes, when I

-  have on all I can to keep warm, most of my girls have only two

-  garments on, the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some of my

-  pupils have to come between two and three miles, and then cross a

-  creek. I have a sewing-school for my girls once a week. I read to

-  them, and teach them things to sing while they are sewing. They

-  are to keep what they make. I have been teaching three-and-a-half

-  months. The age of my scholars is from three-and-a-half to

-  twenty-four years. I have enrolled thirty scholars, most of them

-  very good, all anxious to learn. The people are very, very poor,

-  and have real hard times in getting clothing, and keeping from

-  starving. They live in log huts, some of which leak, and are in

-  a dreadful condition. I don’t know how to describe some of them.

-  There are a few white settlers here; some of them, when the folks

-  work for them, won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the work

-  they get from them is mostly their entire support.

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-RECEIPTS

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-FOR APRIL, 1878.

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-  MAINE, $27.24.

-

-    Andover. S. W. Pearson                                   5.00

-    Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.             1.00

-    Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  10.00

-    Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B. $1               11.24

-

-

-  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.

-

-    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.75

-    Deerfield. ESTATE of Stephen Brown, by Joseph T.

-      Brown, Ex.                                           100.00

-    Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,” _for a

-      Teacher_                                              78.00

-    Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.                       1.20

-    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. AUSTIN

-      H. BURR, L. M.                                        35.00

-    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           25.00

-    Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.

-    Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob Chapman $5       10.00

-    Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 6.75

-    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                          3.00

-    Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C. W. Wallace

-      $25                                                   75.00

-    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        19.00

-    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        34.78

-    Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.                                  1.00

-    Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.81

-    Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” _for Student Aid,

-      Wilmington, N. C._                                    17.00

-

-

-  VERMONT, $1,166.04.

-

-    Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              11.25

-    Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.                                0.50

-    Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            35.35

-    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                0.50

-    Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   165.36

-    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3 from

-     “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.02         25.42

-    Danby. Rev. L. D. M.                                     0.50

-    Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 25.00

-    East Barnard. Levi Belknap                               2.00

-    Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. REV. JOHN H.

-      HINCKS, L. M.                                         32.00

-    North Walden. S. W. O.                                   0.50

-    Peacham. ESTATE of Ezra C. Chamberlin, by Wm. R.

-      Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to const. MISS JANE E.

-      CHAMBERLIN and MISS JENNIE C. WATTS, L.M’s)          500.00

-    South Londonderry. “A Friend”                            5.00

-    Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,” _for

-      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                             150.00

-    Springfield. Mrs. F. P.                                  1.00

-    Swanton. Harry Smith                                     5.00

-    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 14.46

-    West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.                    14.10

-    West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;

-      Mrs. L. W. $1                                         17.10

-    Westminster West. ESTATE of Almira Goodhue, by

-      Homer Goodhue, Ex.                                   150.00

-    Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       11.00

-

-

-  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.

-

-    Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.71

-    Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G., 25c.          10.25

-    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,

-      Atlanta U._                                           10.00

-    Ashfield. B. H.                                          0.54

-    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Theo. Student,

-      Talladega C._                                         70.00

-    Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._       20.00

-    Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch. $132.16; Rev.

-      Chas. Nichols $25                                    157.16

-    Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           14.00

-    Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis Sanford,

-      box of C.                                              5.00

-    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                         69.21

-    Buckland. Cong. Ch.                                      9.55

-    Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.

-      MARTIN NELSON ROOT, M.D., L.M.; Cong. Ch. and

-      Soc. $5.75                                            35.75

-    Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.                           74.91

-    Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               14.66

-    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       48.22

-    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20; Thomas P.

-      Carlton $2                                            22.00

-    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        87.02

-    Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy                             2.50

-    Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.16

-    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75

-      from “Carpenter Bees,” _for Colored Girls_)           21.00

-    East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      1.00

-    East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D. $1               2.00

-    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 126.89

-    Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.17

-    Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. $14.40;

-      Mrs. E. H. $1                                         15.40

-    Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        36.02

-    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                             3.56

-    Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza

-      Huntington $2                                          7.00

-    Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss. Ass’n $6,

-      _for Wilmington, N. C._                               21.00

-    Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              10.00

-    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      14.97

-    Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;

-      Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.                             228.87

-    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     41.88

-    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   13.47

-    Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.                                    0.50

-    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        58.72

-    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00

-    Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of books.

-    Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.

-      Pond, Ex.                                            135.00

-    Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.

-    Melrose. E. N. C.                                        0.50

-    Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by

-      Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper, Ex’s.        959.09

-    Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 20.00

-    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.

-      OLIVER CHURCH and REV. CHAS. M. PEIRCE, L.M’s         60.71

-    Middleton. ESTATE of Mrs. Catharine Merriam

-      Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.                  100.00

-    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.60

-    New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.                               1.00

-    Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.                                  0.50

-    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                  27.68

-    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                            47.06

-    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;

-      Mrs. C. F. R. $1                                     151.64

-    Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes                           25.00

-    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              50.00

-    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;

-      L. W. 50c                                             21.89

-    Pittsfield. James R. Jones                              15.00

-    Princeton. H. N. M.                                      5.00

-    Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              37.00

-    Salem. Geo. Driver                                       5.00

-    Shelburne. Cong. Ch.                                     9.61

-    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00

-    Southfield. W. H. E.                                     0.50

-    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.              88.00

-    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  14.00

-    South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;

-      Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41                                83.00

-    South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      11.13

-    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.                         30.00

-    Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.                            20.00

-    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $38.55;

-      Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South Cong. Ch. $12.96         73.06

-    Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.                              25.50

-    Sutton. R. L. 1.00

-    Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.                          1.50

-    Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.                                   0.50

-    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       36.50

-    Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        12.00

-    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                25.00

-    Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll.

-      $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs. W. F.

-      Morse $5                                              87.95

-    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     26.75

-    Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.50

-    West Springfield. Park St. Ch.                          15.00

-    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       14.14

-    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                           15.39

-    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.80

-    Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.                 1.86

-    Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.                    19.10

-    —— “A Friend”                                          250.00

-    —— “A Friend”                                           20.00

-

-

-  RHODE ISLAND, 27c.

-

-    Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.

-    Slaterville. M. J. T.                                    0.27

-

-

-  CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.

-

-    Ansonia. Cong. Ch.                                      26.71

-    Avon. Miss L. A. A.                                      0.50

-    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                10.00

-    Birmingham. Cong. Ch.                                   46.38

-    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00

-    Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                10.00

-    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                  11.00

-    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                       35.50

-    East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.24

-    East Woodstock. ESTATE of George A. Paine, by

-      John Paine, Ex.                                      646.15

-    Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                    54.42

-    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                   63.52

-    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.44

-    Guilford. “Lea.”                                        10.00

-    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          4.15

-    Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G. $1;

-      Mrs. G. T. G. $1                                       3.25

-    Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.                       2.00

-    Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks                             5.00

-    Ledyard. Cong. Ch.                                       8.75

-    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              7.00

-    New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22;

-      College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch. (ad’l) $5;

-      A. T. $1                                              38.00

-    North Branford. Cong. Ch.                               22.00

-    Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, _for Student Aid,

-     Atlanta U._                                            5.00

-    Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, _for Student Aid,

-      Atlanta U._                                            5.00

-    Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, _for Student Aid,

-      Atlanta U._                                           50.00

-    Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith $5              15.00

-    Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding, by

-      Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams, Ex’s        1,046.63

-    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                            118.65

-    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                      8.81

-    Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.75

-    South Coventry. Cong. Ch.                               47.84

-    Southington. Cong. Ch.                                  18.17

-    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                    31.94

-    Westford. Cong. Ch                                       5.00

-    West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                85.00

-    West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                          1.00

-    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.00

-    Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                                65.00

-    Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss                            10.50

-    Woodfords. Dr. E. C.                                     0.50

-

-

-  NEW YORK, $1,197,84.

-

-    Albion. L. S.                                            1.00

-    Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50; Mrs. J. E.

-      Bean $10                                              22.50

-    Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central Cong.

-      Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E. Whiton $15; Mrs.

-      William Bane, packages books and C.                  526.65

-    Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.                                 0.60

-    Eagle Harbor. A. P.                                      0.48

-    Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5 for Student

-      Aid)                                                  10.00

-    Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres                                5.00

-    Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean                                   5.00

-    Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.                       1.00

-    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                 11.52

-    Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur                             2.00

-    Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch., by Lina

-      Burroughs, box of C. and books.

-    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. $440.93.

-      —“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch.

-      $11.41, _for Student Aid._—“A Friend,” package

-      _for Memphis, Tenn._                                 452.34

-    Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley                4.37

-    Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy                                100.00

-    Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.                                9.58

-    Rome. John B. Jervis                                    25.00

-    Saratoga Springs. S. C.                                  0.50

-    Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke                              6.80

-    Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.                                      1.00

-    Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt                           10.00

-    West Brook. T. S. H.                                     0.50

-    West Winfield. L. Bucklen                                2.00

-    Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.

-

-

-  NEW JERSEY, $101.50.

-

-    Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)                   100.00

-    Phillipsburg. H. P. M.                                   0.50

-    Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.                                   1.00

-

-

-  PENNSYLVANIA, $15.

-

-    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester                         5.00

-    Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd                                  10.00

-

-

-  OHIO, $910.87.

-

-    Akron. Cong. Ch.                                        81.70

-    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                       9.71

-    Bellevue. Cong. Ch.                                     23.50

-    Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New

-      Orleans_                                              78.72

-    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.                        18.80

-    Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn                                10.00

-    Geneva. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.50

-    Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                             23.25

-    Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                   15.50

-    Lenox. “A Friend”                                        5.00

-    Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham                          5.00

-    Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.         6.50

-    Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.                            1.00

-    New Richland. E. J.                                      1.00

-    North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.                              0.50

-    North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                  1.15

-    Oberlin. ESTATE of Mary I. Hulburd, by Hiram

-      Hulburd, Ex.                                          50.00

-    Oberlin. L. F.                                           1.00

-    Penfield. B. R.                                          1.00

-    Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by J. H.

-      Packer                                               400.00

-    Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend

-      $2.50                                                  5.50

-    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV.

-      JOSIAH STRONG and L. H. LEWIS, L. M’s.                60.00

-    Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First Cong.

-      Ch.                                                    8.50

-    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                              10.00

-    Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman $5                 15.00

-    Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.55

-    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                 20.29

-    West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   3.20

-    Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.                          20.00

-

-

-  INDIANA, $21.67.

-

-    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                   14.67

-    Liber. J. R. Wells                                       5.00

-    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                   2.00

-

-

-  ILLINOIS, $945.82.

-

-    Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”                         30.00

-    Aurora. New Eng. Ch.                                    20.00

-    Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison                             2.00

-    Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.                                 0.60

-    Chicago. First Cong. Ch.                               473.78

-    Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, _for

-      Student Aid, Fisk U._—Three Subscribers $1 ea.;

-      Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany Cong. Ch. 50c               29.50

-    Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones                               10.00

-    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.                              83.64

-    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                     143.80

-    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00

-    Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Fisk

-      U._                                                   25.00

-    Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.                               1.00

-    La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.                                  1.00

-    Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, _for Student Aid,

-      Tougaloo U._                                           2.00

-    Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1; A. M. S.

-      $1                                                     3.00

-    Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_            10.00

-    Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk

-      U._                                                   12.50

-    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00

-    Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,

-      Fisk U_.                                              25.00

-    St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.                          5.00

-    Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson $2           7.00

-    Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                 10.00

-    Tonica. Cong. Ch.                                       23.00

-

-

-  MICHIGAN, $132.41.

-

-    Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting $2.75;

-      C. I. W. $1                                            3.75

-    East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.                                 25.00

-    Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10

-     ea.; M. Wood $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            25.00

-    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                       10.66

-    Kalamo. Cong. Ch.                                        3.00

-    Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,

-      Fisk. U._                                             25.00

-    Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk

-      U._                                                   25.00

-    Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_             10.00

-    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                 5.00

-

-

-  WISCONSIN, $145.60.

-

-    Big Springs. Cong. Ch.                                   1.25

-    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                      21.00

-    Columbus. Cong. Ch.                                      8.18

-    Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank                          2.00

-    La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Fisk U._                50.00

-    Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.                         8.00

-    Stoughton. Box of C. and $1                              1.00

-    Warren. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00

-    West Salem. Cong. Ch.                                   27.17

-

-

-  IOWA, $2,695.54.

-

-    Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall                          5.00

-    Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_          2.00

-    Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50; Prairie

-      Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1, _for a Student,

-      Fisk U._                                              31.00

-    Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                                1.00

-    Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,

-      Fisk U._                                              10.00

-    DeWitt. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00

-    Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,

-      Fisk U._                                              25.00

-    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                        9.06

-    Grinnell. ESTATE of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.

-      C. F. Dike, Exec’x.                                2,500.00

-    Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.—Hon. J. B. G.,

-      50c., _for Mag._                                       4.50

-    Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.                                   1.00

-    Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn                                       5.00

-    Keokuk. “Signature”                                     10.00

-    Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                      13.53

-    McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D                    0.50

-    Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid, Fisk

-      U._                                                    5.00

-    Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const. MRS.

-      LUCRETIA DEERING, L. M.                                5.85

-    Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_              1.10

-    Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline E. Williams, by

-      William Mason                                         50.00

-    Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.                             5.00

-

-

-  MINNESOTA, $47.45.

-

-    Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                  23.75

-    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00

-    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.30

-    Tivoli. L. H.                                            1.00

-    Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.                                8.40

-

-

-  KANSAS, $66.32.

-

-    Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                   3.35

-    Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., _for Student Aid_           3.12

-    Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A. M. R. $1          4.00

-    Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts                            5.00

-    Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”                         10.00

-    Russell. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00

-    Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00

-    Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”                        15.85

-

-

-  NEBRASKA, $31.50.

-

-    Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_        1.50

-    Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser                            30.00

-

-

-  CALIFORNIA, 51c.

-

-    Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.                                   0.51

-

-

-  TENNESSEE, $461.26.

-

-    Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll. $10.26            310.26

-    Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, _for Student Aid,

-      Tougaloo U._                                          13.00

-    Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.                                0.25

-    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                 137.75

-

-

-  NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.

-

-    Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington

-      Sch. $8.20                                           158.20

-    Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong. Ch.

-      $7.40                                                129.15

-    Woodbridge. Tuition                                      3.05

-

-

-  SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.

-

-    Charleston. Avery Institute                            220.55

-

-

-  GEORGIA. $417.61.

-

-    Atlanta. Atlanta University                            109.00

-    Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley $12,

-      _for Student Aid._—Prof. T. N. Chase $25              95.00

-    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                  62.70

-    Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58                  150.91

-

-

-  ALABAMA, $388.09.

-

-    Athens. Trinity Sch.                                    26.00

-    Mobile. I. G.                                            0.50

-    Montgomery. Pub. Fund                                  225.00

-    Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, _for Student Aid,

-      Tougaloo U._                                           6.35

-    Talladega. Talledega College                           130.24

-

-

-  MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.

-

-    Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker & Son $5,

-      _for Barracks, Tougaloo_                              15.00

-    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                           43.05

-    Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., _for Barracks_           5.00

-    Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs _for Barracks,

-      Tougaloo_                                              1.00

-

-

-  LOUISIANA, $137.

-

-    New Orleans. Straight University                       137.00

-

-

-  TEXAS, 50c.

-

-    San Antonia. G. W. W.                                    0.50

-

-  CANADA, 50c.

-

-    Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.                                 0.50

-

-  ENGLAND, $900.95.

-

-    Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., _for Mendi Mission_      900.95

-

-  SCOTLAND, $200.

-

-     Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, _for a Teacher_           200.00

-

-  TURKEY, $10.

-

-   Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife                       10.00

-                                                        —————————

-        Total                                           17,557.13

-

-        Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th             $103,309.96

-

-                                              H. W. HUBBARD,

-                                                   _Ass’t Treas._

-

-  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.

-

-    Brewer, Me. M. Hardy                                    25.00

-    Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”               50.00

-    Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth                      50.00

-    Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis                     500.00

-    East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt                     50.00

-    Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”                               5.00

-    Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie                   10.00

-    Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions                   10.00

-    Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                  16.00

-                                                         ————————

-                                                           716.00

-    Previously acknowledged March receipts               8,921.72

-                                                         ————————

-        Total                                           $9,637.72

-

-

-  RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN,

-  TEXAS.

-

-    Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams            400.00

-    Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”                              2.50

-                                                         ————————

-                                                           402.50

-        Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts              422.00

-                                                         ————————

-        Total                                             $824.50

-

-       *       *       *       *       *

-

-

-

-

-Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

-

-Incorporated January 30, 1849.

-

-

-       *       *       *       *       *

-

-ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

-ASSOCIATION.”

-

-ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct

-Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a

-knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries

-which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent

-fields of effort.

-

-ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes

-faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in

-the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the

-funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment

-of thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and

-others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life

-members without the privilege of voting.

-

-ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of

-September, October or November, for the election of officers and

-the transaction of other business at such time and place as shall

-be designated by the Executive Committee.

-

-ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular

-officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,

-and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,

-and other co-operating bodies—each body being entitled to one

-representative.

-

-ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice

-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,

-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less

-than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be

-advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.

-

-ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting

-and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining

-and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries

-and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general,

-the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to

-the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent

-societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical

-jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject

-always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a

-reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any

-aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference

-shall be final.

-

-The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all

-vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual

-meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature

-for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any

-is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in

-the employment of the Society: to make provision, if any, for

-disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as

-are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their

-discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of

-missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit,

-and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.

-

-Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for

-transacting business.

-

-ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing

-officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields

-of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor

-particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive

-the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its

-employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.

-

-ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing

-to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and

-sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so

-through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually

-agreed upon.

-

-ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without

-the concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular

-annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been

-submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee

-in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to

-do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the

-meeting.

-

-FOOTNOTE:

-

-[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a

-belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a

-Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice

-of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity

-of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy

-obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and

-the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the

-wicked, and salvation of the righteous.

-

-       *       *       *       *       *

-

-

-

-

-_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. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the

-caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with

-the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the

-INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.

-

-

-STATISTICS.

-

-CHURCHES: _In the South_—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. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.

-

-INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.

-_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,

-Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La,; and

-Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,

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-_Other Schools_, 7. Total, 26.

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-10. Total, 252. STUDENTS—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.

-INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.

-

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-WANTS.

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-1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the

-growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached

-by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the

-feeble as well as the strong.

-

-2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions,

-to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES,

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-3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and

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-

-Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.

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-

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-                        OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.

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-No. 1.—=History= of the Association.

-

-No. 2.—=Africa=: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a

-Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their

-claims on America.

-

-No. 3.—=The Three Despised Races in the United States=; or, The

-Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M.

-A., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.

-

-No. 4.—=The Educational Work.= Showing the nature and reality

-of the black man's needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of

-Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M.

-A.

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-

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-

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-                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.

-

-A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to Advertisements, for

-which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially

-valuable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an

-established character for integrity and thrift that constitute them

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-and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to

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-to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in

-relation to advertising should be addressed to

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-Transcriber’s Notes:

-

-

-Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed only where the error

-appears to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too

-numerous to list; the others are as follows:

-

-— “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (English and Scotch

-missionaries)

-

-— missing “is” inserted on page 166. (The discipline of these

-institutions is evidently giving)

-

-— missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.

-(Africa’s sunny fountains)

-

-— extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on

-page 191, just prior to “COOPER INSTITUTE”.

-

-— “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (are well worth

-attention of)

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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53227 ***
+
+VOL. XXXII.                                                No. 6.
+
+                               THE
+
+                      AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+              “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+                           JUNE, 1878.
+
+
+
+
+                           _CONTENTS_:
+
+
+  EDITORIAL.
+
+    PARAGRAPHS                                                161
+    PRINCIPLES AND PLANS                                      162
+    DEPARTURE OF THE AZOR.—THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON         163
+    A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT                                   164
+    AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.—ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES       165
+    NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES                                    168
+    ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.—GENERAL NOTES                     169
+
+
+  THE FREEDMEN.
+
+    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                                       172
+    VIRGINIA: Additions to the Church—An Indian’s
+      Creed—A Good Beginning                                  174
+    SOUTH CAROLINA: History of “Avery” Graduates              174
+    GEORGIA: Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of
+      Hope—Twitchell School.—School  Children Farming—
+      Their Parents Buying Farms.—A Growing School—A
+      Literary Society                                        175
+    MISSISSIPPI: An Old School—Temperance Work—The
+      Gourd Family                                            176
+    THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY               177
+    THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.—ANNUAL
+      MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE                 178
+    THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING                 180
+
+
+  AFRICA.
+
+    ARRIVAL OF THE NEW MISSIONARIES.—FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF
+      AFRICA—A SUNDAY SERVICE—A SCHOOL CELEBRATION            181
+    ADVANTAGES OF COLORED MISSIONARIES                        182
+
+
+  THE INDIANS.
+
+    SCHOOL WANTS AND FARM WORK                                182
+    AN INDIAN WANTS A COW                                     183
+
+
+  THE CHINESE.
+
+    FUNG AFFOO’S BIBLE CLASS—VISALIA AND PETALUMA             183
+
+
+  THE CHILDREN’S PAGE                                         185
+
+
+  RECEIPTS                                                    185
+
+
+  CONSTITUTION                                                189
+
+
+  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                                190
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+                            NEW YORK:
+
+        Published by the American Missionary Association,
+
+                     ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+               Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+          A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater 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.     JUNE, 1878.      No. 6.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_American Missionary Association._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at
+Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, just one month from the date
+of their leaving New York by steamer for England. They had only
+the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their
+destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new
+field seem to be quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter
+on the new work at once. We look to the Lord of the harvest for
+His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have gone
+from us to the Mendi Mission.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which
+the English and Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting
+to begin their new work in Central Africa. The expedition of
+the London Missionary Society was, from July to January last,
+trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on
+Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season
+at Kirasa, only about one-third of the way. It is hoped that
+during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish
+themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian
+Churches is in danger of being driven from its station at
+Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant an enemy as a
+fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has
+sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations,
+and curtailed their usefulness in advancing the civilization of
+Africa. The station may have to be moved. A new site must be
+sought with great care, which will not be liable to this pest.
+
+In South Africa another missionary institution has been
+endangered by the Caffre War, three English officials having been
+murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith and O’Neill, of
+the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed
+by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of
+King M’tesa. We believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery
+are not liable to any of these perils. The station is accessible
+and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around them,
+nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to
+such regions are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set
+our hopes too high, or base them too confidently on any of the
+uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land of delays
+we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we
+cannot tell what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord—that He
+will suffer no evil to befall them, but give them strength for
+patient continuance in well-doing.
+
+Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the
+Institutions we mentioned in the May MISSIONARY, as needing
+greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We did not mention
+their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and
+perhaps the reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating
+the strain laid upon our resources this year, they have
+considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year,
+they laid before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how
+any institutions in the South can be in more pressing need than
+we of a new dormitory.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta
+Sunday-school Convention would be either “lionized or snubbed”
+to that extent that it would be better for him not to come,
+proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,
+fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from
+Texas. He was received and treated just as the others were, and
+he behaved as well. The fact is, they were much busier devising
+for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each
+other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.
+
+—This Association does not affirm that races, any more
+than individuals, are equal in physical or mental fibre and
+development. Some races, as well as individuals, are manifestly
+below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all
+men shall be regarded as equal _before God and the Law_; and
+that hence, in all churches of Christ, no distinction be made,
+on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and
+administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally
+protected in person and property, and that whatever immunities or
+privileges are granted to one, be extended to all.
+
+—This Association does not found exclusively colored churches.
+They are only exclusive because they are not exclusive. They are
+open to all races, and hence but few white persons unite with
+them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally
+among the colored people in the South, as being at present most
+accessible, yet it has always favored the establishment of
+churches, mainly white, where the distribution of population
+calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to
+unite with them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its
+first missionary in the South, was in the formation of white
+churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was
+sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white)
+Congregational Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister
+was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend of the A. M. A., and at
+one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational Church
+in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated,
+under the auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary,
+who spent a month in Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that
+purpose. Not long since, the Association appointed a missionary
+in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity of Berea
+College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which
+he will preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These
+will be mainly white churches, but open to colored people. In
+like manner, the Association has promised missionary aid to
+a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San
+Antonio, Texas.
+
+—The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are
+in order to its religious work in America and Africa. Its best
+and most promising churches are established near the schools and
+colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them. These
+schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct
+thousands of pupils in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a
+salutary influence into the homes, churches and neighborhoods
+where they reside. The schools and theological departments also
+send out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to
+their people in the South and in Africa.
+
+—The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part
+having a relation to the whole, and its plans, while at present
+embracing mainly the “Despised Races,” as they have been called,
+are restricted in principle to no race or continent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”
+
+The departure of the _Azor_ with the first instalment of the
+African exodus, from Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the
+history of the colored race.
+
+It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman
+could be aroused by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the
+teachers in our schools, fears have been felt that, perhaps, the
+call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to
+respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall
+be made, there will be no lack of men. We have more to fear now
+from unbridled enthusiasm than from want of zeal.
+
+This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly,
+among disaffected politicians, but it soon became a sort of
+religious crusade. It gained but little progress among the
+people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary
+enterprise. From the time the _Azor_ sailed into the harbor
+until her departure, on the 21st of April, with her living
+freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were
+thronged with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the
+African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who had engaged their passages
+months before, were left behind, for want of room. How long this
+enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this
+first company, of course are questions to be answered by and
+by. We dare not venture any prophecy, either good or evil. It
+is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of
+our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to
+be to Africa what the Pilgrim enterprise has been to America,
+we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a different class of
+emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African
+civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up
+men of intelligence, and sound and broad religious principle, for
+this work, and we naturally look with some anxiety to the effect
+of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the
+South at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray
+for the success of the movement, that God may overrule all our
+fears, and make it for good. This one question we are glad to
+have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is
+no lack of enthusiasm in the negro heart for his fatherland; and
+that, when the call shall come for more laborers in that field,
+we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.
+
+Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have
+been directed to Capt. Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of
+interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried, as prisoners of
+war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which
+had taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They
+went South, each with his legs fastened to a log with chains.
+They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied wrongs.
+One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed
+himself on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had
+great brass hoops in their ears. They knew no word of English.
+It was their good fortune to fall into the hands of a Christian
+army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in
+seeking to do them good, at length won their confidence, and
+succeeded, with the help of a few benevolent ladies, in teaching
+them some of the simplest elements of civilization and learning.
+A few of them can read very well.
+
+At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of
+Tarrytown, N. Y., who had been teaching among them, determined to
+secure, if possible, the education of two young men of her class.
+She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised
+money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in.
+At length it was found that twenty-two of them desired to go to
+school. They are now discharged from their imprisonment. The old
+chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the better.
+Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be
+educated in the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular
+studies, and have been detailed to various departments of work,
+in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented, and
+their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.
+
+Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of
+lines, of which life is so full, and yet which never cease to
+surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at Hampton, to be
+trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and
+the teachers of their people. Thus the two races are brought face
+to face—“the two races whose past involves America’s greatest
+responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest problems.”
+
+It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for
+a year—that, with what he is able to earn by his labor. This
+amount has been pledged by individuals alone, or together, for
+the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having done
+so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its
+Secretary, to assume the tuition of one of her wards, and the
+Executive Committee desire to do so; and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one
+years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in addition
+to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some
+of our friends, who may be especially interested in the elevation
+of the Indians, will make up this small amount, and help on this
+work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,
+and personality.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.
+
+Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in
+Sunday-schools. What to do with the Concert, has been a question
+which has perplexed teachers and superintendents year after year,
+as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession. The
+verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly
+all learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try
+a Missionary Concert, or, if you please, an American Missionary
+Concert.
+
+But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern,
+even, can be sent, like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and
+by mail. We have one in our hands, about six inches by eight,
+four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers
+(prepared originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville,
+Mass.) upon the nature and the work of the A. M. A., and we are
+almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact information
+compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape.
+Coupled with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten
+Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals during the Catechetical
+Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great
+interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near
+Boston; and we commend, most cordially, the thought and plan to
+the consideration and use of Superintendents and Presidents of
+Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme
+is a collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how
+to address their gifts to us. A new edition is in preparation,
+or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained in
+quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the
+Congregational House, Boston.
+
+District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an
+appeal to the Sunday-schools in behalf of the “Colored Student’s
+Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated that we are reaching (by
+student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand
+children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be
+reached.” He urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work.
+To know, is the first step toward supplying the want.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.
+
+It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the
+colored people of the South should be in such earnest sympathy
+with the work of educating their people. Occasionally, we hear
+one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot” through,
+and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured
+by the application of science; but the expression of such
+sentiments is rare.
+
+In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain
+color to read, or any one to teach them, preachers were _born_,
+not _made_. The wether of the flock put a bell around his own
+neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the
+war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of
+venison or furs, was the man for chief; so the exhorter who could
+pick up the most texts of Scripture, and evolve from his own
+understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of
+his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the
+minister by universal consent.
+
+Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what
+Nature implanted in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not
+fear those made leaders by the voice of a theological seminary.
+They who, by their quickness of perception, tact and experience,
+control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon
+ability gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.
+
+Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts,
+as well as the felt sentiments of the uneducated ministers
+among the colored people, I have no intention of placing a low
+estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have
+attained to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with
+good mental nourishment, and no one feels this more than they.
+The BEST minister combines natural ability of a high order with
+liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated
+ministry; and although the present pastors of the flocks may be
+secure in their places without learning, the next generation will
+insist upon education in their ministers.
+
+                  PROF. T. N. CHASE, IN THE _Christian Recorder_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.
+
+A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some
+observations, which may be worthy of record. The location of both
+is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and Fisk Universities
+occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful
+sites. They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the
+importance of the work they represent. The buildings of both
+institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our party
+approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from
+top to bottom, as the students were studying in their rooms.
+“Hallelujah!” cried one of our number, enthusiastically, “God be
+praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one of
+us looked upon it without emotion.
+
+The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of
+educated Christian people. A more intelligent, cultivated and
+consecrated body of instructors it would be hard to find. They
+are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social
+privileges in both cities are few or none at all, and some of
+them, for the sake of the work they are in, have refused tempting
+offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the colored race
+from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary
+enthusiasm in their work. Often did the eye flash and the face
+glow, as they spoke of the trials and advancement of their pupils.
+
+The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower
+of the colored race. Only those are likely to undertake so
+many years of study, with the self-denials involved, who have,
+to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an
+education, and in whom are unusual elements of character. They
+are procuring an education under great difficulties. There are
+few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit
+themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to
+help their race. They work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing
+little urging or government. It is not strange, then, that when
+both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the
+results should be unusually favorable.
+
+Among these results in both institutions, the good order is
+specially noticeable. At the table, where teachers and scholars
+eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in charge takes
+his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no
+restraints are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of
+voices, which does not prevent the slightest signal from being
+heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred or
+more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room
+at Fisk University, we noticed that no teacher was present,
+though perfect order was maintained. “Have you no instructor or
+monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?” “Why, no, sir,”
+one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We
+could but recall certain days of our own student life when, if
+our instructor chanced to step out of the room for a moment,
+there were instantly missiles flying about, and students darting
+here and there.
+
+There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They
+impress one at a glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing
+about them, in dress, or manner or language, to offend the most
+fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at these
+institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the
+whole character and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from
+these dark faces, and, in our admiration for the soul, we totally
+forget the color of the skin.
+
+The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must
+remember that most of them were born in slavery, and have learned
+to read since the war. A generation or two must pass before we
+can see the results of life-long training in schools. What we
+now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard
+to find at the North better teachers or better schools than the
+two Universities of which we speak; and their influence over the
+pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very fine. The
+normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special
+commendation. We were also much pleased at a recitation in
+Xenophon’s _Memorabilia_, in which three young men were reciting
+to one of their own race, a graduate of the University—Miss
+Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first
+instance of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more
+valuable evidence of educational progress than recitations was
+the correctness of speech and richness of thought manifest in the
+conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted to
+be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes
+took part freely. There are few pastors in the North who would
+not be glad of such clear thought and apt expression in their
+meetings as we there heard.
+
+The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving
+the pupils rare qualities of earnestness and self-reliance.
+Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are the
+ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the
+course of study, all the influences tend to develop a manly and
+persevering spirit. The students are accustomed every summer
+to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in
+most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There
+are few organized schools and few school-houses for the colored
+people outside the cities. The University students desirous of a
+school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then
+secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads,
+or, perhaps, of a vacant log-cabin; then they must obtain
+permission of the county commissioner to teach the school. It
+evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such
+circumstances, and yet these students earn every summer, in from
+three to five months of teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece.
+Sometimes parents are willing and able to educate their children,
+without throwing them thus on their own resources. After Fisk
+University was established, a colored man bought land near by,
+built him a comfortable house, and made his home there, with the
+express purpose of educating his large family of children. But
+such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education generally
+are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched
+with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our
+Northern seminaries), who, at the age of fourteen, determined to
+go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till she had earned
+the means. For five years she has been securing an education,
+paying her way by teaching every summer. Another student was
+pointed out to us, whose persistence under difficulties is still
+more remarkable. For the work of two successive summers, he
+has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and
+for last summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that
+would pay only half the average sum, he has as yet received
+only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet he is not
+discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A.
+K. Spence is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools
+in the North, to supplement the meagre sums earned by the
+students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry a
+student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his
+son a thousand dollars a year at a Northern college.) If any
+Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional fifty dollars for
+the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to
+receive a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce
+the students to receive aid. They are eager to do for themselves.
+Recently, some kind words were addressed them by a visitor, on
+the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers, “it
+is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not
+know them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than
+ever to persuade them to receive the help they need.”
+
+We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both
+institutions. Most of them, particularly among the boarders, are
+earnest and consistent Christians. We were much moved at some
+of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.
+The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the
+memory of the instructors. Jubilee Hall had just been completed.
+It seemed a paradise to the colored people. A farewell meeting
+was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,
+where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the
+students prayed—“O Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter
+this beautiful new building; but if Thou wilt not go with us, we
+do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay here.”
+The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons
+of revival ever since.
+
+The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that
+the elevation of nearly five millions of people rests largely
+on them. They have a worthy ambition to be the leaders of their
+race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new
+ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who
+have just gone from Fisk University to Africa have left behind
+them an enthusiasm for missionary work. The students are now
+praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries
+of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as
+a definite and high aim. These students justly feel that in this
+land, and abroad, there is work for them to do. A glorious future
+lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful
+study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.
+
+It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety
+hung over Fisk University. Funds that were relied upon from
+Great Britain for current expenses had failed, and retrenchment,
+where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was under
+consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will
+not let it suffer.
+
+                                          REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.
+
+HAMPTON, VA.—Four students received to the church by profession
+May 5th. One of the Indian students lately received gives
+evidence of Christian character.
+
+RALEIGH, N. C.—“Our church has shared with others in a revival
+blessing this spring.” Twenty were received to the church April
+8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the pastor, writes: “There
+are several of the young men connected with our church and school
+who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if
+I can get some simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will
+form them into a class, and have them recite two or three times a
+week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”
+
+ORANGEBURG, S. C.—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years
+in this church and school. The church membership has increased
+two-thirds. Two members received in April. Sunday-school thriving
+and increasing, and feeding the church. A Woman’s Foreign
+Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the
+A. M. A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have
+been in training for teachers this year.
+
+BYRON, GA.—“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in
+numbers steadily. A day-school will soon be opened. Young people
+are asking for prayers every Sunday evening.”
+
+SAVANNAH, GA.—One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church
+work is very encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have
+twenty boys from twelve to sixteen years of age in my class, and
+am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I have been
+here, has the church been so prosperous.”
+
+MARION, ALA.—The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing.
+Three or four are to unite with the church at the next Communion.
+
+FLORENCE, ALA.—Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on
+church services good, and one member received on profession at
+his last visit.
+
+ABBEVILLE, LA.—The church has been holding special meetings,
+crowded every night. Two have been received to membership; others
+are under deep conviction. Rev. Charles E. Smith is the pastor.
+
+MEMPHIS, TENN.—A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings
+of God’s word, and a higher standard of personal godliness
+sought. “The question, how to utilize the combined power of the
+Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed
+in the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly
+deepening interest. The church has passed in safety and triumph
+through its financial straits, deficiencies have been made up,
+current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for
+the summer demands.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.
+
+CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth
+anniversary April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were
+examined in Natural Philosophy, Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany,
+Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History, Latin,
+Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.;
+and an exhibition was held the following day, with music and
+recitations, to the great delight of a large assembly.
+
+MACON, GA.—The school building was dedicated, with the chapel,
+March 24. There are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the
+building. The large one will seat 110 pupils; the smaller, or
+recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole building
+is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington
+writes:—“We are credited by the people of the city—by the
+white people, especially—with having the prettiest chapel and
+school-rooms in the State.”
+
+FORSYTH, GA.—School-house built last year—“a two-story
+building, without a chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied
+since February last. Attendance good. “A deep concern about the
+most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture
+every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young
+people can only stay in school two or three months at a time,
+is the greatest drawback. The white people are very kind, and
+respond generously to every call for aid.
+
+CUTHBERT, GA.—There has been going on for over two weeks a
+glorious revival. Nearly all the pupils of the school are
+converted; all of the highest class but one, and that one an
+inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A
+reading-room has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts
+between the two (Methodist and Baptist) Sunday-schools of the
+place.
+
+FORT VALLEY, GA.—The day-school is improving by degrees. The
+Sunday-school is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented
+many from coming out, but the prospect is that very soon the
+school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with which to
+purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.
+
+NEW ORLEANS, LA.—“The year has been in every way delightful
+and profitable. God has blessed us in every department of our
+work. Every month, and indeed every week, has brought some
+new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue, soon
+to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they
+represent as good a class of students as were ever gathered in
+the University. So much for numerical success. What is better,
+there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in
+the Faculty.”
+
+MOBILE, ALA., EMERSON INSTITUTE.—The new two-story brick
+building, 34×64, with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with
+exercises of great interest. A full account was received just too
+late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for the July
+MISSIONARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GENERAL NOTES.
+
+
+The Negro.
+
+—We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the
+income of the Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees
+distributed, in eight States, $35,400; in 1873, in ten States,
+$137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their
+report, and take the largest and smallest.
+
+—April 21st, the barque _Azor_ sailed from Charleston, S. C.,
+with 250 emigrants, one-fifth being children. They go under the
+auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association to Boporo, about
+sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase
+a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from
+the Charleston _News and Courier_ accompanies the _Azor_.
+
+—Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization
+Society, writes that vessels will sail under their auspices in
+June and November. He fears for the new exodus movement, as
+having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very
+outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances,
+which evinced the need of a competent controlling agency in the
+management of their affairs.”
+
+—A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks
+ago, to organize a colony for the West, and measures were taken
+to promote that object. They denounced the Liberian exodus.
+
+—Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to
+all the colored people who may choose to emigrate thither, a
+cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection of her laws, and equal
+facilities for education.
+
+—“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association,
+giving little more than $200,000 a year towards founding
+Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits, among four
+million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we
+do little to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific
+slope; and our labor among the Indians is light. But our Romish
+friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year among the
+freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly
+schools. There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among
+the Indians.”—_President E. P. Tenney, Colorado College._
+
+—“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres
+of land within nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to
+colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on the industrial farm
+plan.”—_Evangelist._
+
+—A correspondent of the _Christian Observer_ is informed that
+there are twenty-five Romish schools in the three States of
+Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free board and tuition.
+
+—The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed
+by Gen. Lopez Analto, and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in
+Florida:
+
+  “I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and
+  belief, that there are negroes from the United States at
+  different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this day
+  held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various
+  pretexts, since the rebellion in the United States, and upon
+  American vessels.”
+
+The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden
+death of Judge Leonard.
+
+—The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African
+Missions, are referred to on an editorial page.
+
+—One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of
+new missionary stations in the interior of Africa, is the effect
+which such civilized settlements among the hunting-grounds of the
+slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is
+still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian,
+Abyssinian, and negro boys and, especially, girls.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Chinaman.
+
+—In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge
+Sawyer has rendered a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who
+applied for naturalization papers, holding that Chinamen are
+not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the
+Naturalization Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens.
+“White,” he holds to be equivalent to Caucasian; and that, by
+exact construction of the provision, all but white persons, and
+persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever
+from citizenship. The case will probably be appealed.
+
+—We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph
+Twichell, in his recent lecture at New Haven, to those who are
+either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese in America. Under
+his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually $100,000
+in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut,
+where they are receiving a thorough course of education.
+
+—The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than
+$42,000 in school taxes. California law omits Mongolian children
+from the apportionment of school funds, refuses them admission
+to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen
+hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate
+schools for their three thousand children of proper age. Such are
+provided for those of African and Indian descent. The petition
+was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized it
+as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their
+part to “obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle
+their youth with ours, with a view, doubtless, to more thorough
+assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden of the
+complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate,
+and will work cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently
+not a “California diamond.”
+
+—A correspondent of the _Intelligencer_ asserts that the
+opposition to the Chinaman is instigated mainly by the
+liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither of whom
+has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.
+
+—A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed
+in part of members from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under
+the care of Rev. J. M. Condit. This is the second church in
+California, all the members of which are Chinese.
+
+—Prof. Mooar in _Evangelist_: “Our greatest danger in regard to
+this problem is not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us,
+but that we shall fail to be Christian enough for him.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Indian.
+
+—A writer in the _Advance_ says that there are 6,500 persons
+in the Indian Territory, formerly slaves of the Choctaws and
+Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided for their citizenship
+among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to
+each. In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was
+passed refusing to comply with the treaty; so that, in the land
+where they were born, and where they toiled in slavery to enrich
+their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children
+to the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no
+protection from, nor access to, the Indian courts of law. So, the
+big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.
+
+—The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under
+a territorial government, are in the face of solemn treaties,
+and the opposition of the various tribes to whom it has been
+promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor
+Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors,
+and their disregard of the rights of so-called inferior races.
+
+—The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed
+upon by the House Committee on Territories.
+
+—As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés
+prisoner to go to the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from
+punishment to the fugitives of that tribe, if they surrender to
+the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight
+with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood
+of Fort Ewell. The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain
+that the agent has defrauded them, and threaten trouble. To
+Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers that,
+when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive
+cattle and other property of greater value; and that when peace
+is made, the Government will provide for them, as it does for all
+friendly Indians.
+
+—The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.—See
+Leavenworth _Times_. The _Christian Recorder_ (A. M. E.) says:
+“No people can go down who make a plentiful use of soap and
+water.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE FREEDMEN.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
+
+New Orleans, Louisiana.
+
+REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.
+
+The Institution was incorporated June 25th, 1869, and the first
+school building was completed in February, 1870. The American
+Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated
+in the establishment of the University. From the first, great
+numbers flocked to the school to enjoy its advantages, so that
+the capacity of the building was taxed to its utmost. The
+eagerness of the freedmen for education in 1870, and the two or
+three years following, was, perhaps, more intense and general
+than now. Between three and four thousand have been enrolled
+as students in the University during the eight years of its
+existence.
+
+It bears the name of Hon. Seymour Straight, of Ohio, who is one
+of its steadfast friends and benefactors.
+
+
+LOCATION.
+
+New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants, of whom 80,000 are
+colored people, is a most important point to be occupied in
+missionary work among the freedmen. As the commercial centre of
+the South-west—as the great cotton, sugar, and rice market of
+the Union—it out-ranks all others. In its intimate connections
+by river, bayou, and railroad with the most thickly populated
+negro districts of the old slave States, it is second to none.
+Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly adding to the
+negro population of Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there were
+369,000 colored people in this State, and each year swells
+the number. Already it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire
+population. Without disparagement to any other section, we claim,
+also, that the colored population of New Orleans represents
+the highest intelligence yet attained by the race in America.
+It includes the genuine African, the mulatto, the quadroon,
+the octaroon, and yet other shades and grades; and in this
+mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion of intelligence,
+and a corresponding increase in the capacity of culture and
+development. It would require the quick eye of an “expert” to
+detect, in the fair complexion and delicate features of many who
+throng our churches and schools, the faintest trace of African
+descent. Without speculating upon the cause, certain it is that
+we find among the colored people of the Crescent City a quickness
+of intelligence, and a capacity for the best culture and the
+noblest development, and withal a thirst for knowledge, which is
+worthy of our best sympathy and most generous benevolence.
+
+
+THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.
+
+In a word, our aim is Education, in its broadest and best
+meaning. The elevation, the prosperity, the highest manhood,
+and the co-ordinate rank of the African race in America, in the
+friendly rivalry of races, are still in the future—whether in
+the near or remote future, depends largely upon the race itself
+to determine. Education, under Divine guidance, is the gateway
+to that longed-for future. That I mean education as allied with
+religion, will be assumed. That the race is not educated, is
+by no fault of theirs. That they desire education, is to their
+credit. To help them to this education is both our duty and our
+privilege.
+
+The courses of study in this Institution include in the Academic
+Department, the Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory; and
+in the Professional Department, the Theological and the Law.
+
+We have a preparatory course, that we may secure better material
+for the higher courses. In the Normal course, special attention
+is given to those studies which will furnish young men and women
+with the education needed in the various branches of business
+life open to them, and which especially will qualify them as
+teachers, for which there is, and must continue to be, a great
+demand. In the Collegiate Department—which includes, among other
+studies, the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral Philosophy,
+and Latin—a higher grade and wider scope of studies will be
+added so soon as there is a demand for them. The school is yet
+in its infancy, and the number of those who are fitted to pursue
+to advantage the highest grade of studies is, of course, very
+limited.
+
+
+LAW DEPARTMENT.
+
+An able corps of Professors has been secured. Jurists of
+reputation and successful practice at the bar of Louisiana have
+kindly offered their services, with little hope of adequate
+compensation, and every facility is provided for young men of
+talent, who are attracted by the profession of the law, to
+fit themselves for honorable and successful practice. Regular
+graduates from this department, at the conclusion of a two years’
+course of study, and a well sustained examination, are admitted
+to the bar of New Orleans, with authority to practice in all the
+courts of the Commonwealth.
+
+
+THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
+
+College graduates, who can be instructed in the original
+languages in which the Scriptures were written, are greatly
+desired, and until they can be secured, this department will
+but partially accomplish the object for which it was organized.
+The churches need thoroughly educated ministers, with carefully
+cultivated minds, who can intelligently preach the word. The
+degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers cannot be
+told. In the meantime, it is our aim to make the best use of
+the material we have, and transform it from a state of utter
+crudeness to one of partial fitness for the present demands of
+the churches. Men of piety and ability to speak and to teach are
+received, and advanced as far and as rapidly as their imperfect
+preparatory education will admit. Louisiana, with a colored
+population of 370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.
+The churches are calling in vain for intelligent laborers to go
+forth into the harvest. I wish the prospect was brighter for a
+large class of intelligent, spiritual, and enthusiastic students
+to enter this department, and to lift it to a high grade of
+usefulness.
+
+
+THE NEW UNIVERSITY.
+
+The building on Esplanade street, built in 1870, was entirely
+destroyed by fire February 16th, 1877. Since that disastrous
+event, our sessions have been held in Central Church, which
+is also the property of the American Missionary Association.
+A new site, more convenient and attractive, was purchased in
+January last. It is located on Canal street, the most beautiful
+avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a half square of land, 150
+feet front by 310 feet in depth. The new building, for whose
+design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas N. Chase, while not
+adhering strictly to any style of architecture, may be classed
+as _Italian_, as it approaches more nearly to that order. The
+dimensions of the building are 72 feet by 51½ feet. The five
+large recitation rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The halls are
+10 feet in width. The building is conveniently arranged, and all
+the requirements of the school, we think, have been anticipated
+in its design. The funds at the disposal of the Association did
+not admit of ornamentation; but the building, when completed,
+will be substantial, convenient, and comely. It will be ready
+for dedication and occupation at the opening of the fall term,
+October 1st. Grateful as we are for this new structure, we are
+not satisfied; neither should the friends of the freedmen in the
+North be satisfied. Straight University, in order to fill the
+measure of its usefulness, and cultivate the territory open to
+its occupation, must furnish accommodations for students from
+abroad—from towns outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining
+States. It must have _dormitories_. Two buildings, one on
+either side of the main building, are urgently needed, and at
+the earliest possible day. Then, when our group of buildings
+are completed, we can invite and welcome the best talent of the
+race, at whatever distance from New Orleans it may be found.
+Then our beloved University will become, among the educational
+institutions of the South-west—and especially of the Gulf
+States—the magnet, attracting to itself the best in intellect,
+in heart, and in promise of future good.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VIRGINIA.
+
+Additions to the Church—An Indian’s Creed—A Good Beginning.
+
+REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.
+
+Four students united with the church by profession the first
+Sabbath in May. It is several years since any Communion season
+has passed without some additions to the church.
+
+The fifteen Indians who have lately joined the school have taken
+hold of study and of manual labor with commendable zeal, and
+give promise of becoming good teachers and guides of their race.
+One of them now shows evidence of Christian character. Their
+promptness and decision, as to the duties required of them, were
+put to the test in reference to the use of tobacco, to which they
+were so strongly attached that, as one of them said:—“There are
+three things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I love smoke.”
+When asked if they would comply with the rules of the school,
+prohibiting the use of tobacco, after considering the matter
+awhile in silence, one of them gave an expressive sign that he
+would cut loose from tobacco; and then all the others gave the
+same significant pledge—a pledge which, their teacher assures
+us, they will never break.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+History of “Avery” Graduates.
+
+PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.
+
+Avery Normal Institute was organized in Charleston, S. C.,
+October, 1865. The first formal graduation occurred in June,
+1872, at which time eleven young people received diplomas from
+the Institute. A class has been graduated each succeeding year,
+numbering as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874, six; 1875,
+fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including one post-graduate); 1877,
+twenty-two—giving a total of eighty-six. Of this number, death
+has taken five.
+
+Our school aims to fit its graduates to be competent teachers.
+Forty-six have been engaged in the public schools of the
+State—schools first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.
+Forty-one of the forty-six are teaching to-day; seventeen hold
+State certificates.
+
+One young man of the class of 1872 is an ordained minister. He
+was also graduated at South Carolina University in 1877. Another
+from that class, and one from the succeeding class, are studying
+with the ministry in view—one at Madison University, New York,
+the other at Atlanta University, Georgia. Three others from later
+classes are in higher institutions, preparing themselves to
+preach the Gospel.
+
+Our graduates bid fair to represent all the professions. One is
+in Howard University, studying medicine, and one in the leading
+Normal school of our county, preparing for teaching. The total
+number in higher institutions is seven, while four more have
+already received the degree of A. B. Five others were in South
+Carolina University when it closed its doors. These young men
+were ready to enter the Junior year of the College course when
+their studies were so abruptly ended. With one exception, they
+are teaching.
+
+Thirty-eight of our graduates are members of Evangelical
+churches; twenty at present are engaged in Sunday-school work.
+
+“By their fruits ye shall know them.” But is this all that Avery
+has done? No! Her influence has pervaded the homes of hundreds,
+and the lives of thousands. Her light has shone in every quarter
+of the State; and other lands are destined to share in her
+gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying three of her pupils to
+“Africa’s sunny fountains.”
+
+The questions are often asked: “What per cent. of your school is
+brown?” “Don’t the browns receive instruction more readily than
+the blacks?” The query, in the minds of so many, has led to an
+actual count of the graduates with regard to color, which gives:
+_Black_, 19; _brown_, 55; _fair_, 12. But, “the Lord is the maker
+of them all;” nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We sow “beside
+all waters.” “What shall the harvest be?”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GEORGIA.
+
+Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of Hope—Twichell School.
+
+REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.
+
+This small settlement of colored people is situated three miles
+west of Savannah, Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent, and
+divided into half-acre lots, which are now selling, on the
+instalment plan, for seventy-five dollars each. The houses are
+very small and uncomfortable; but since the American Missionary
+Association has erected a new meeting-house and parsonage, the
+people have commenced to put up better dwellings, and a strong
+love for home comforts is gradually taking hold upon the masses.
+The inhabitants of Woodville obtain a living by selling in the
+city market, or laboring in gardens and on rice plantations. In
+this settlement there are two groceries, and three on its border,
+where strong drink is sold, even on the Lord’s day.
+
+The only house of worship in this place is the Pilgrim
+Congregational Church. This church was organized in 1871 as the
+Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875 as the Pilgrim Church.
+A new site was chosen, and the present meeting-house was erected
+in the same year. This church has been a great blessing to the
+people. A deep religious feeling has prevailed in our midst, and
+many have become savingly acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ.
+Rev. Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this little church,
+and a great assistant to the young pastor in charge. A revival
+is still in progress; twenty persons have been recently added
+to the church, and seven are waiting to be received at the next
+Communion.
+
+The Sabbath-school is prospering. We have no well qualified
+teachers as yet, but Twichell School is preparing instructors for
+this work. We need lesson papers and other papers. Who will help
+us in this direction? Our Band of Hope consists of both adults
+and children. This society is working hard to save men from a
+drunkard’s grave, and hell. It has much opposition to overcome.
+The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking church-people are its worst
+enemies.
+
+TWICHELL SCHOOL.—This school is held in the church, and is
+taught by the pastor. Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.
+and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school at Grand Rapids,
+Mich., we have been able to instruct hundreds of children, and
+it is pleasing to know that our labor has not been in vain, for
+many of the little ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord. Mrs. S.
+N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids,
+Mich., and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere thanks
+for the deep interest they have taken in this work. Every effort
+put forth in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant people
+deserves the heartiest encouragement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+School Children Farming—Their Parents Buying Farms.
+
+SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.
+
+Our school is very small, as it always is at this season of the
+year, the children having to assist their parents in farming.
+For that reason, during the summer months of the previous years,
+we have had to teach about two hours at night, for the benefit
+of those who could not come in the daytime. We have not yet
+commenced night-school this year, though it is desired by many.
+
+There are many children in our neighborhood who belong to our
+school, but we find it very difficult to get all, or the most of
+them, to attend school regularly. We have a pretty good average
+attendance, but do not at all times have the same scholars, which
+causes much discord and delay.
+
+The children seem to be anxious to learn, but it is done in
+the midst of hardships which are uncommon to children in many
+other places. The older people are not as much interested in the
+education of their children as they should be, by a great deal.
+
+Only two schools for the colored children are kept up during the
+year in this county, namely, Second Midway and Old Midway. There
+are other places I know of in this county, where much might be
+done in the way of instructing the people in the right way, and
+they would be very glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.
+
+About two-thirds of the colored people in this county are trying
+to buy land, and really some have succeeded in so doing; but it
+is done by about four years’ _hard_ labor and strict economy.
+There is very little money in this county, and it will be so
+until the colored people pay for and take possession of these
+lands. After a couple of years they will be able to do much for
+themselves in many ways.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A Growing School—A Literary Society.
+
+COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.
+
+The Mission School at Marietta was opened Oct. 15th, 1877,
+with four pupils only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there were
+fourteen. The end of January found a roll of thirty-seven, which
+has steadily increased to seventy-two. It may be seen that the
+growth of this school was not very rapid, from the fact that it
+was opposed by many of the colored people in the city. But the
+more water they threw on this little spark, the brighter and
+faster it burned, till it has become a centre of attraction.
+Friends of this work are fast multiplying, and the future seems
+bright.
+
+My school is composed of some very bright and promising young
+men and women, seven of whom go out every summer to teach. The
+studies are spelling, reading, writing, geography, composition,
+grammar, and arithmetic.
+
+To this work is attached a literary society, known as the Junto,
+the exercises of which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,
+and singing. It was likewise opposed, but is now as largely
+attended as any church in the city.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+An Old School—Temperance Work—The Gourd Family.
+
+MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.
+
+Our school, in age, ranks among the older ones, having been
+established in the Spring of 1866, and we have been its teachers
+continuously up to the present time. First, we were missionary
+teachers; after a time the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid,
+until the organization of free schools by the State; thereafter,
+we taught the public school until last year.
+
+During all these years of varying fortunes our school has
+steadily progressed, until there has grown up around us a
+generation of young people, not great, nor wise, nor learned,
+only as they are compared with those who have gone before them;
+but, standing out from the blackness of darkness of twelve years
+ago, they furnish a bright and hopeful outlook.
+
+We organized a Temperance society early in our work here, and it
+has never died out. We, several years ago, gave the control into
+the hands of the young people, being only members, for service,
+when needed. They have changed names, and banners, and badges
+more than once—just now it is blue ribbon—but the object has
+always been the same. Our Sunday-school has always claimed our
+best efforts, and we are glad to know that more than two-thirds
+of our older scholars are professing Christians. But the work
+done is but a drop compared with that which is not done. We
+have lived to see very many hopes and dreams fade out, and to
+learn that manhood and womanhood are not plants of the gourd
+family—Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge of what we have
+not done, and cannot do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,
+perhaps, we have thus learned to do what we can the more gladly,
+feeling sure that we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe this is
+a part of the work, for we, too, are our Father’s children.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
+
+Its Catholicity—Closing Exercises.
+
+The year of the Theological Department of Howard University has
+just closed. This department is under the joint care and support
+of the Presbytery of Washington, and of the American Missionary
+Association. The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as Professor
+of Revealed Theology and Biblical History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer,
+D. D., as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral Science; the
+latter supplies the instruction given by the President, Rev.
+Wm. W. Patton, D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences of
+Revealed Religion, and Hebrew, and by Rev. John G. Butler, D.
+D., in Pastoral Theology, Church History, and Homiletics. The
+theological students this year have numbered thirty-two. These
+are in all stages of preparation for their expected work. Several
+are already ministers, and are preaching, every Sunday, as
+pastors of colored churches in Washington; but, having had no
+early advantages, they are making up deficiencies as best they
+can.
+
+The theological students come from seven different denominations,
+while their instructors represent four. This is an unusual
+illustration of Christian union, and shows how much can be done,
+on a simple evangelical basis, for meeting the pressing wants
+of the colored population of our land. The work needs to be
+conducted on a broad, generous basis. We can thus introduce a
+powerful leaven of truth and righteousness where it is especially
+needed. The plan of instruction has been, to meet the special
+wants of each individual according to his age, his forwardness
+or backwardness of study, the time that he could remain, etc.
+Such as have enjoyed a classical education, are encouraged to
+take the regular three years’ course pursued in all theological
+seminaries. Others are taught what is found to be most needed
+to fit them for their work, in the form of English studies. Six
+have studied the Hebrew this year, and they passed a creditable
+examination in the grammar, and in translation, averaging quite
+as well as ordinary white students in theological institutions.
+These students also attend the Bible-class conducted by the
+president on the morning of the Lord’s day, and his preaching
+service in the afternoon, in the latter of which he has lately,
+in a series of discourses, pointed out the weakness and absurdity
+of modern skepticism, as an antidote to the influence of the
+infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob” Ingersoll, who has taken
+up his abode in Washington.
+
+Although the theological students have numbered thirty-two this
+year, it so happens that but one has completed his course; and
+as a distinguished clergyman who, it was hoped, would deliver
+the address at the anniversary, failed us at too late a moment
+to substitute any one else, the closing exercises took the form
+of a debate by eight of the young men, on this question: “Has
+a church a right to make total abstinence from intoxicating
+drinks a condition of membership?” This point was debated with
+much earnestness and shrewdness, and arguments, _pro_ and _con_,
+were drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture in a way which
+testified favorably to the abilities of the speakers. One of
+the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States takes a
+deep interest in this department of the University, and lately
+expressed himself emphatically in favor of encouraging and
+endowing it, as an important means of elevating the colored
+ministry and churches of all denominations. Its friends
+anticipate for it a future bright with usefulness.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.
+
+MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.
+
+As gems are valued by their rarity, so you can imagine how such a
+gathering as the Sunday-school Convention seemed to us in Georgia.
+
+We were favored, not more by hearing the appointed speakers in
+the great Convention, than by the personal presence and good
+words of many of its delegates in our own school-room. Gen. Fisk,
+who has given not only his name, but his heart and hand to our
+Fisk University, took Atlanta and the Convention by storm with
+his happy address of welcome. It seems to me our young men can
+never lose the inspiration of hope and courage that must have
+come to them from him, whose youthful struggles had even exceeded
+many of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M. Parsons. All who
+ever listened to him will understand how, at the close of his
+words, we felt that, next to the Rock Christ Jesus, there was
+not beneath the sun so firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.
+Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president from Montreal,
+warned us of the Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,
+only a good Scotch Presbyterian could feel. Then we had “Hope
+Ledyard,” the charming correspondent, whose young life seems too
+exquisitely moulded to have always escaped the loving Father’s
+crucible.
+
+Best of all, we had good words from many not heard in the
+Convention, and, perhaps, unknown to fame. There was Judge
+Harman, of Oswego. How his clear eye took in the large
+possibilities of our work, and how his great heart went out
+toward us! As he warned us of the perils of a life without Jesus,
+and the depths of despair into which life’s trials could plunge a
+soul unsupported by the Everlasting Arms, his peaceful face and
+silvery hair assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed, some of
+us had rare glimpses into the blessed beyond. The words of Rev.
+A. P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that I was prevented from
+hearing, so lifted both teachers and pupils above the plane of
+plodding school life, that we almost trembled to look down. The
+fact that many such men, of kindred mind and heart, filled the
+silent pews of the Convention, seemed to me the secret of its
+power. We had heard as good papers from other platforms, but the
+sight of such a body, all delighting in the Master’s command,
+“Feed My lambs,” was enough to send us to our homes feeling, as
+one of our girls expressed it, “I know I shall be a better woman
+for having attended the Convention.”
+
+In response to an invitation for the delegates to visit our
+school, Governor Colquitt, who presided, remarked to the
+Convention: “The University is a good place to visit, and is
+doing a good work”; and added that he had a servant who had
+attended our school some years, and the instruction received
+there had not pushed him above his position—he was the same
+humble, faithful boy about his work. Every summer he came to him
+for a recommendation to teach, which he cheerfully gave him, and
+the boy always returned in the fall the same good, modest young
+man.
+
+Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion to express his
+appreciation of our work. After the close of his sermon, at
+the Central Presbyterian Church here, while recounting to the
+audience the many things of interest he had enjoyed in their
+city, he remarked that he had recently visited most of the
+universities of Europe, and added that nothing in Atlanta, or
+the great universities abroad, had interested him so heartily as
+their Atlanta University.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE.
+
+REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.
+
+New Iberia was the place selected for our Annual Meeting this
+year, April 3-5, and one more attractive, or more important to
+the general interests of our work, could not have been chosen.
+This church was organized in 1866, and has a membership of 117,
+of which thirty have been received on profession of faith the
+past year. The population of the city is about 3,000, of whom
+nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.
+
+The South-western Conference is composed of fourteen
+Congregational churches, of which twelve were represented at our
+Annual Meeting.
+
+The reports from the churches showed very clearly that the past
+year had been one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.
+Several churches, as the Central, in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s,
+in Terrebonne, have been blessed with revivals of great power.
+Other churches have been cutting off dead branches, and putting
+themselves in condition for better service. In tabulating the
+reports, I find that the present membership of the churches of
+our Conference is 806. There have been added on profession during
+the year (ending April 1st, 1878,) _one hundred and thirteen_,
+and four by letter. Forty-seven adults and _eighty babies_ have
+been baptized.
+
+As I have already spoken of the precious revival in Central
+Church, in which more than fifty were converted, and the church
+itself greatly quickened and refreshed, I will not recite the
+facts again. The church of Brother Clay (one of the veterans and
+pioneers of Congregationalism in Louisiana), in Terrebonne, has
+passed through joyful and glorious experiences. The church has
+been thronged for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I did not know
+where all the people came from. The church and church-yard were
+filled with a dense mass of people. It seemed as though they
+sprung out of the ground.” Night after night the earnest truths
+of the Gospel were preached, and night after night “mourners”
+crowded the anxious seats, crying for mercy. The people came from
+long distances, five and seven miles. God put honor upon His
+word, and many have been converted, and still the good work goes
+on. Pastor Clay’s heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.
+
+
+QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
+
+Among the topics considered at the Conference were the following:
+
+_Revivals_: The best method of promoting and conducting them.
+_Education_: The demand of the hour; how shall we meet it?
+_Faith_: Its nature; how can we secure greater faith? Its joys
+and its triumphs. What more can we do to reach the people with
+the Gospel?
+
+These questions were discussed with vigor and interest. Of
+course, no speeches had been prepared in advance, and I was
+surprised at the real excellence of the addresses. Mistakes in
+grammar were sometimes made, and there were not many classical
+allusions, but the speeches had the true ring, and good will come
+of them.
+
+
+PUBLIC SERVICES.
+
+The opening sermon was given by the Moderator, Mr. Alexander,
+from Matthew 1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel; which
+being interpreted is, God with us.” It was a great pleasure to
+speak to such an audience. The church was densely packed, the
+entry was filled; people took positions under the windows on
+the outside, and fully one hundred, having sought admission in
+vain, went reluctantly away. Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached
+the second evening; after which, the Moderator made an address
+on “Christian Unity,” in the hope of removing or modifying some
+of the asperities and jealousies existing among the colored
+churches. The address was received with strong expressions of
+sympathy. One good old “auntie” said the next day: “Don’t you say
+anything against that minister. He is trying to build up both
+sides. He don’t wish to break down anybody.”
+
+
+ORDINATION.
+
+On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a member of the church at New
+Iberia, but a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed a faithful
+examination before the Conference regarding his Christian
+experience, his religious belief, and his ability to preach, was
+ordained as an Evangelist.
+
+Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian, and will make an able
+and successful minister. He has served the churches faithfully
+for two years or more without compensation. He owns a small farm
+of eighteen acres on the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.
+His worthy wife was for a short time a student in Straight
+University. He expresses his willingness to leave his beautiful
+home, and go anywhere, even to Africa, where God may call him.
+
+
+FAREWELL MEETING.
+
+Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell prayer-meeting.” It
+was a most tender and impressive scene. As one after another
+spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was wet with manly tears,
+and when the entire Conference rose and joined hands, and they
+sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to themselves, beginning
+“Good-by, and shake hands,” and we entered into covenant with
+God and with each other to go forth to another year of labor and
+self-denial, those dear brethren, in the excess of religious
+emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus was our meeting of 1878
+brought to a close. The good pastor at New Iberia said: “Such a
+light was never kindled here before.” The Conference adjourned to
+meet in New Iberia next year, at the call of the Moderator.
+
+Dear brethren of the North, pray for us, and remember that we are
+trying to hold this distant outpost of the Church, and to extend,
+in this beautiful and fruitful land, the cherished faith and
+polity of our fathers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING.
+
+  We give the following extracts from a letter, written by the
+  Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to the new missionaries to
+  Africa. From the fact that they are all Fisk University students,
+  the greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers in Africa
+  is full of pathetic interest:
+
+                                                 ERFURT, GERMANY.
+
+To ALBERT P. MILLER, ADA ROBERTS MILLER, ANDREW E. JACKSON, and
+ELLA HILDRIDGE JACKSON, Missionaries for Africa:
+
+_Dear Brothers and Sisters_: The Jubilee Singers send greeting.
+Could we give you our greeting in person, it would be more
+satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey to you, in writing, how
+our hearts have gone out to you in love and sympathy, and up to
+God in thankfulness, since the glad tidings reached us of your
+having consecrated your lives and talents to mission work among
+our brethren in Africa. We have prayed and labored long for this
+day, and now, thank God, our prayers are being answered.
+
+We realize in how large a degree our success has been
+attributable to the faithful prayers of you and your
+fellow-students, sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk
+University; and let us assure you that while you are doing battle
+for the Master, by helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism and
+superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen, you, in like manner,
+will be sustained by the prayers of your fellow students, and
+warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in our own native land,
+but in Great Britain, Holland and Germany. They will follow
+your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully, watching for the
+fruits which ye shall reap, in due season, if ye faint not, and
+rejoicing with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.
+
+You are our first band of missionaries at the outpost of the
+American Missionary Association in the land of our forefathers.
+May the light of God so shine in your hearts that its reflected
+rays shall be a balm to those who may come to you, to be healed
+and taught of God. May He give you strength to thrust in the
+“sharpened sickle” when the fields are ripe for the harvest, and
+the laborers so few.
+
+With the love and best wishes of the Jubilee Singers.
+
+                            (Signed)
+
+                                           GEORGIA M. GORDON,
+                                                F. J. LOUDIN,
+                                                B. W. THOMAS.
+
+                                                     _Committee_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Arrival of the New Missionaries.
+
+REV. FLOYD SNELSON.
+
+I received the letters, telling of the new missionaries on
+the way to our mission, with great joy. I left home late last
+Thursday afternoon for this place to meet them. We came on very
+well until Friday night about ten o’clock, at which time we were
+caught in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As I had not been
+here since our first arrival, there were many things to look
+after.
+
+Just as I was finishing up last night, the steamer came in,
+bringing them. I got out to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent
+nearly an hour with them. I am very favorably impressed with the
+first view of my new co-workers, and hope now to be able to carry
+on the work to greater success and with more ease.
+
+Next morning they came ashore, and expressed themselves as
+favorably surprised at the appearance of the place and people. On
+the 26th, we hope to leave early for Good Hope.
+
+  FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE,
+      _March 25th, 1878_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+First Impressions of Africa—A Sunday Service—A School
+Celebration.
+
+REV. ALBERT MILLER.
+
+On reaching Freetown, and walking about the place and conversing
+with the natives, we were very favorably disappointed. Some are
+very intelligent and kind-hearted. We attended a Sunday-School
+in the afternoon, and were much pleased to hear the children
+read and sing. They reminded me of a small country school in the
+South. A little boy played on the organ. We visited several of
+the natives, and I was everywhere surprised at seeing so much
+intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson had made all necessary
+preparations for our coming. The mission house had been fitted
+up nicely, so that we soon felt as if we were in an American
+village. We remained in Freetown two days, and Brother Snelson
+lost no time in showing us the many things of interest in this
+African city. We visited the market, and saw many things in the
+line of fruits to interest us. All were well pleased, but still
+longed to reach our adopted home.
+
+Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March, we arrived here on the
+28th, early in the morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.
+Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the mission met us at
+the wharf. We could not have been more kindly received by any
+persons. We have been here several days now, and find the work
+promising and encouraging. Brother Snelson and his helpers are
+hard at work, and things, I suppose, are much more hopeful than
+they have been for years.
+
+The church was filled last Sabbath to its utmost capacity with
+hearers. Brother S., I think is the right man in the right place.
+The only charge I am able to bring against him is overwork.
+He has the confidence of the people, which is so necessary to
+success. Services were conducted by Brother Jackson and myself.
+
+I find the people kind and obliging. They are very happy to have
+us, of their own race, come and teach and labor among them. Some
+seem ready to shout. We are well pleased with our new home, and
+are in a good state of health. The heat is very intense. All
+things seem to indicate a better day for the sable sons of Ham.
+Africa is not what rumor represents it to be—at least, what I
+have seen of it.
+
+APRIL 3, 1878.—To-day has been one of great interest, both
+to parents and children. The day-school, under the general
+management of Brother White, turned out. An examination took
+place in the forenoon, after which the schools (day and
+Sabbath), with two banners waving o’er head, came marching to a
+place near the mission-house, where a dinner had been prepared
+for them. Brother Snelson led the schools, and the children,
+full of joy, followed him. He led them through the principal
+streets of this our city, the sides of the streets being filled
+with lookers-on. All this seemed new to them, and I dare say it
+is new to this part of Africa. We had music, but very different
+from such as our American friends are accustomed to. An old tin
+box served as kettle-drum. This, with other instruments, made
+music sufficient for the children to march and keep pretty good
+time. Returning to the tables, the little ones ate dinner, using
+spoons, which is something very new to them. Each one seemed to
+be happy. The patrons were called upon to contribute for the
+giving of this dinner. Many responded, sending chickens, rice,
+etc. Of course, the whole affair was devolved upon Brother
+Snelson. He received contributions from traders and officials,
+many of whom are here on the coast. These, you will remember,
+are white, the friendship and kind favor of whom Brother S.
+has gained. They did not attend the exercises of the day, but
+came out at night, and listened to speeches from members of the
+school. The pupils spoke and sang well, and reminded me very much
+of my past experience in the South—so Southern-like.
+
+All were highly pleased with the exercises of the evening. The
+American flag was on one side of the house, that of England on
+the other—thus bringing all in attendance between them. These
+two flags during the day were unfurled to the gentle breeze with
+which we were favored. Many of the leading men of Bonthe were
+here, and, with those from other places, took tea with us. I gain
+more interest daily for this my field of labor. I shall not wait
+to become acclimated, but shall proceed to labor at once.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Advantages of Colored Missionaries.
+
+EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.
+
+You would like to know what I think about colored missionaries
+doing good here. My firm belief is, that they can do more than
+any other missionaries under the sun. These people have always
+been used to colored people. Most of the white men whom they have
+seen were traders, seeking their own good. They robbed the people
+of their produce and children, and destroyed their confidence.
+A white missionary has to be more careful than a colored one.
+The natives look upon a white person as unnatural, and think
+he is above them in every way, and that God made him so. They
+also think it is of no use for them to try to do the things they
+see the white man do. But, on the other hand, when they see a
+colored man do anything, they think if he can do it they can do
+it themselves. They are a great people to imitate. For a proof of
+what I have said, look at the Shengay Mission. It is conducted
+altogether by colored missionaries, and stands ahead of others on
+the coast. Do not think I say this because I am a colored man. I
+say it because I know it is true.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+School Wants and Farm Work.
+
+W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.
+
+The school opened very encouragingly this term, and before the
+close of the second week we had fifty-four different boarding
+scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission to others, on
+account of our limited accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever
+broke out, and before the close of the term twenty-three boarding
+scholars, and many of our day scholars, had been sent home on
+account of sickness.
+
+The boarding scholars seem, generally, to be happy and contented
+with us, and eager to return at the opening of each new term; and
+their progress in their studies, and general deportment, is much
+greater than with the day scholars. The general interest, also,
+of the tribe in the subject of education is greatly quickened.
+The boarding-school, with suitable accommodations, might be made
+a great blessing to the tribe. We feel sure we could readily
+obtain 100 scholars if we had the accommodations.
+
+The tribe has asked the Department to appropriate, from their
+funds in the United States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of a
+suitable building.
+
+We see the dreadful results, in other tribes around us, of
+allowing the youth to grow up, without education, in contact with
+the whites, learning their vices and not their virtues, and it
+makes us long to see something done to save this people from the
+blight which has fallen upon so many other tribes before them.
+
+I have spent nearly three weeks going over the Reservation since
+school closed, visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the
+Indians to make larger improvements; and I have been very greatly
+gratified to notice so many already clearing up new lands. I have
+only found three or four families who will not clear up some new
+ground this spring. Some will clear as much as three or four
+acres. Many are chopping and logging heavy timber without any
+team to help them.
+
+I think there will be 300 acres of new land cleared this spring.
+I expect to distribute (only to those who clear at least one
+acre) 1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats, wheat, and
+vegetable seeds, for many of them have not yet learned to provide
+beforehand. There are, however, quite a number who not only have
+enough for their own seed, but some to sell.
+
+Could the boarding-school be kept up regularly for a few years,
+we should have great hopes for the future of this tribe, but
+there seems to be a strange lack of interest in this matter on
+the part of the authorities at Washington. We are now anxiously
+waiting for instructions to re-open this school. Meanwhile, the
+day-school is in operation, with an attendance of twenty-two
+scholars.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+An Indian Wants a Cow.
+
+    Dr G L Mahon
+
+    Dr Sir i thought i would write a few lines to you to asking you
+    that you dint not answered me when i was asking you while you was
+    here about the Cow i want you to give me one if you Can i thing
+    i would use the Cow very much if you would give me one i could
+    get Some Butter from her and i could make good living on Butter
+    with Potatoes if you Send me one Send who have a young Calf in
+    her thats the one i like to have her and you will let me know it
+    By G Wheeler and another thing about Potatoes Zack Brown told me
+    he hasent got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring and ive got
+    Plenty potatoes in Net Lake and if you want any i could Sell it
+    to you Some that is for Zack Brown wants it Now i send my Best
+    Regards to you
+
+                 from     ADAWWAN-NE QUA BENANS
+               VERMILLION LAKE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+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 C. 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. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Fung Affoo’s Bible Class—Visalia and Petaluma.
+
+REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
+
+Remembering that the Sabbath worship at our Central Mission had
+never been described, though often alluded to in the MISSIONARY,
+I requested Bro. Fung Affoo to give an account of it, and
+received the following communication:
+
+  “As we have not much time to teach them the Scripture on any
+  other evening, we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings to
+  teach them to read the Bible instead of their other lessons. On
+  Sunday we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at half-past eleven
+  A. M., and continuing for one hour and a half. We sing about half
+  an hour either in Chinese or in English, then offer a prayer, and
+  then read a chapter from the Bible. Each verse they read after
+  me, then I translate it into Chinese; when through interpreting,
+  on each verse or paragraph I make some remarks which I have
+  studied out during the week days. After we get through the
+  chapter, I speak about ten minutes on a subject selected from
+  that chapter beforehand, then one of our brethren offers prayer;
+  we then unite in singing the Doxology, and close with the
+  Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday evening are similar
+  to those we have on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement in
+  the work seeing that they like to read the Bible more than ever
+  before. Formerly only about one-half of the school attended the
+  Bible-class on Wednesday evenings, but now they number nearly
+  as many on that evening as on any other evening of the week. It
+  seems as though their hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of
+  course, many come to read the Bible only for the sake of learning
+  the English, but in time we hope, when they know the truth of
+  God, they will change their mind and heart, as some of them have
+  already done, who are now on Christ’s side, battling for the
+  Lord.”
+
+                                                    “FUNG AFFOO.”
+
+The attendance at this Sabbath noon service averages about
+fifty-five. Of course, my pastoral duties render it impossible
+for me ever to be present. I do not think, however, that my
+presence would add anything to the worship or the work. I assist
+the helpers in their preparation, but I believe that in dealing
+with their countrymen they are more skilful than I could be, even
+if I could speak Chinese. It needs an experience in heathenism,
+to enable one to reach the heathen in the most efficient way. God
+chooses saved _sinners_ to be messengers of salvation to those
+still lost. I think that the programme of this service, as Bro.
+Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact. It is not one of my
+planning—not the one I should have chosen; but as I carefully
+consider it, I ask, “What _could be_ better fitted for those for
+whom the service is arranged?”
+
+Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary labors among the Chinese
+at San Leandro were attended with so rich a blessing, is now
+acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at Visalia. He has
+carried there his zeal for this good work; has already rented a
+small room, and opened a school. We shall aid him as far as we
+are able. Would that we had a hundred men like-minded with him
+touching this work!
+
+Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish the care of the school at
+Petaluma, and is succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian
+spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade St., New York. This school
+is quite small, but its members surpass those of every other
+school in liberality, and I cannot consent to abandon them.
+Christ, too, is becoming known to them. With increasing interest
+they study God’s word. And they _sing_, somewhat at random, it
+must be confessed, in the matter of time and of tune, but with
+an eagerness and a gusto that betoken a beginning both of the
+spirit and the understanding in their song. Miss Anthony writes:
+“Wah Yene is a good Christian as far as he understands. He told
+me, one evening, that he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,
+and every night. Some people,’ he added, ‘not much good; likee go
+to church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor of the Congregational
+church] think they good. Some people very good, and pray to God.
+I likee be good—not much bad.’”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A TEACHER’S STORY.
+
+The following letter is from a young girl who has not gone
+through the Middle Class at Hampton, but is showing much energy
+and tact, and doing good work as teacher in one of the rough
+places of the far South:
+
+                                                         FLORIDA.
+
+  I will first say, I am a colored girl; my native home is in St.
+  Augustine. I was raised by kind Northern friends. I am teaching
+  school on the St. John’s River, about thirty or forty miles from
+  St. Augustine. In giving my descriptions, I will first describe
+  my school-house. It is made entirely of logs, with the exception
+  of the door and windows, which were given by Miss M. The skies
+  may be seen in any part of the room. The cracks in the floor are
+  large enough to put your hands through. When it rains, it leaks
+  in like water dropping from the trees. There is no fire-place,
+  nor was there any way for keeping warm until, the past week, a
+  young man got me a little stove. But the house is so open this
+  does but little towards heating it up. We have had some cold
+  days, and the only way I had to keep my scholars warm was, to
+  build two large fires and have the poor little children set
+  around them (out of doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and
+  bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart ache to see the tears
+  stand in their eyes, when I asked them why they didn’t put on
+  shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply would be, “I have on all
+  the clothes I got, and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes, when I
+  have on all I can to keep warm, most of my girls have only two
+  garments on, the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some of my
+  pupils have to come between two and three miles, and then cross a
+  creek. I have a sewing-school for my girls once a week. I read to
+  them, and teach them things to sing while they are sewing. They
+  are to keep what they make. I have been teaching three-and-a-half
+  months. The age of my scholars is from three-and-a-half to
+  twenty-four years. I have enrolled thirty scholars, most of them
+  very good, all anxious to learn. The people are very, very poor,
+  and have real hard times in getting clothing, and keeping from
+  starving. They live in log huts, some of which leak, and are in
+  a dreadful condition. I don’t know how to describe some of them.
+  There are a few white settlers here; some of them, when the folks
+  work for them, won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the work
+  they get from them is mostly their entire support.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+RECEIPTS
+
+FOR APRIL, 1878.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MAINE, $27.24.
+
+    Andover. S. W. Pearson                                   5.00
+    Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.             1.00
+    Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  10.00
+    Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B. $1               11.24
+
+
+  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.
+
+    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.75
+    Deerfield. ESTATE of Stephen Brown, by Joseph T.
+      Brown, Ex.                                           100.00
+    Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,” _for a
+      Teacher_                                              78.00
+    Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.                       1.20
+    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. AUSTIN
+      H. BURR, L. M.                                        35.00
+    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           25.00
+    Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.
+    Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob Chapman $5       10.00
+    Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 6.75
+    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                          3.00
+    Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C. W. Wallace
+      $25                                                   75.00
+    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        19.00
+    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        34.78
+    Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.                                  1.00
+    Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.81
+    Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” _for Student Aid,
+      Wilmington, N. C._                                    17.00
+
+
+  VERMONT, $1,166.04.
+
+    Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              11.25
+    Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.                                0.50
+    Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            35.35
+    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                0.50
+    Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   165.36
+    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3 from
+     “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.02         25.42
+    Danby. Rev. L. D. M.                                     0.50
+    Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 25.00
+    East Barnard. Levi Belknap                               2.00
+    Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. REV. JOHN H.
+      HINCKS, L. M.                                         32.00
+    North Walden. S. W. O.                                   0.50
+    Peacham. ESTATE of Ezra C. Chamberlin, by Wm. R.
+      Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to const. MISS JANE E.
+      CHAMBERLIN and MISS JENNIE C. WATTS, L.M’s)          500.00
+    South Londonderry. “A Friend”                            5.00
+    Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,” _for
+      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                             150.00
+    Springfield. Mrs. F. P.                                  1.00
+    Swanton. Harry Smith                                     5.00
+    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 14.46
+    West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.                    14.10
+    West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;
+      Mrs. L. W. $1                                         17.10
+    Westminster West. ESTATE of Almira Goodhue, by
+      Homer Goodhue, Ex.                                   150.00
+    Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       11.00
+
+
+  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.
+
+    Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.71
+    Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G., 25c.          10.25
+    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                           10.00
+    Ashfield. B. H.                                          0.54
+    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Theo. Student,
+      Talladega C._                                         70.00
+    Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._       20.00
+    Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch. $132.16; Rev.
+      Chas. Nichols $25                                    157.16
+    Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           14.00
+    Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis Sanford,
+      box of C.                                              5.00
+    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                         69.21
+    Buckland. Cong. Ch.                                      9.55
+    Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.
+      MARTIN NELSON ROOT, M.D., L.M.; Cong. Ch. and
+      Soc. $5.75                                            35.75
+    Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.                           74.91
+    Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               14.66
+    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       48.22
+    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20; Thomas P.
+      Carlton $2                                            22.00
+    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        87.02
+    Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy                             2.50
+    Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.16
+    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75
+      from “Carpenter Bees,” _for Colored Girls_)           21.00
+    East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      1.00
+    East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D. $1               2.00
+    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 126.89
+    Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.17
+    Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. $14.40;
+      Mrs. E. H. $1                                         15.40
+    Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        36.02
+    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                             3.56
+    Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza
+      Huntington $2                                          7.00
+    Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss. Ass’n $6,
+      _for Wilmington, N. C._                               21.00
+    Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              10.00
+    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      14.97
+    Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;
+      Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.                             228.87
+    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     41.88
+    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   13.47
+    Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.                                    0.50
+    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        58.72
+    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00
+    Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of books.
+    Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.
+      Pond, Ex.                                            135.00
+    Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.
+    Melrose. E. N. C.                                        0.50
+    Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
+      Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper, Ex’s.        959.09
+    Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 20.00
+    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+      OLIVER CHURCH and REV. CHAS. M. PEIRCE, L.M’s         60.71
+    Middleton. ESTATE of Mrs. Catharine Merriam
+      Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.                  100.00
+    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.60
+    New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.                               1.00
+    Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.                                  0.50
+    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                  27.68
+    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                            47.06
+    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;
+      Mrs. C. F. R. $1                                     151.64
+    Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes                           25.00
+    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              50.00
+    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;
+      L. W. 50c                                             21.89
+    Pittsfield. James R. Jones                              15.00
+    Princeton. H. N. M.                                      5.00
+    Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              37.00
+    Salem. Geo. Driver                                       5.00
+    Shelburne. Cong. Ch.                                     9.61
+    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00
+    Southfield. W. H. E.                                     0.50
+    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.              88.00
+    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  14.00
+    South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;
+      Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41                                83.00
+    South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      11.13
+    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.                         30.00
+    Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.                            20.00
+    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $38.55;
+      Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South Cong. Ch. $12.96         73.06
+    Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.                              25.50
+    Sutton. R. L. 1.00
+    Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.                          1.50
+    Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.                                   0.50
+    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       36.50
+    Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        12.00
+    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                25.00
+    Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll.
+      $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs. W. F.
+      Morse $5                                              87.95
+    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     26.75
+    Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.50
+    West Springfield. Park St. Ch.                          15.00
+    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       14.14
+    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                           15.39
+    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.80
+    Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.                 1.86
+    Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.                    19.10
+    —— “A Friend”                                          250.00
+    —— “A Friend”                                           20.00
+
+
+  RHODE ISLAND, 27c.
+
+    Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.
+    Slaterville. M. J. T.                                    0.27
+
+
+  CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.
+
+    Ansonia. Cong. Ch.                                      26.71
+    Avon. Miss L. A. A.                                      0.50
+    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                10.00
+    Birmingham. Cong. Ch.                                   46.38
+    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00
+    Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                10.00
+    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                  11.00
+    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                       35.50
+    East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.24
+    East Woodstock. ESTATE of George A. Paine, by
+      John Paine, Ex.                                      646.15
+    Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                    54.42
+    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                   63.52
+    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.44
+    Guilford. “Lea.”                                        10.00
+    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          4.15
+    Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G. $1;
+      Mrs. G. T. G. $1                                       3.25
+    Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.                       2.00
+    Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks                             5.00
+    Ledyard. Cong. Ch.                                       8.75
+    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              7.00
+    New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22;
+      College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch. (ad’l) $5;
+      A. T. $1                                              38.00
+    North Branford. Cong. Ch.                               22.00
+    Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, _for Student Aid,
+     Atlanta U._                                            5.00
+    Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                            5.00
+    Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                           50.00
+    Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith $5              15.00
+    Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding, by
+      Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams, Ex’s        1,046.63
+    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                            118.65
+    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                      8.81
+    Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.75
+    South Coventry. Cong. Ch.                               47.84
+    Southington. Cong. Ch.                                  18.17
+    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                    31.94
+    Westford. Cong. Ch                                       5.00
+    West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                85.00
+    West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                          1.00
+    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.00
+    Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                                65.00
+    Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss                            10.50
+    Woodfords. Dr. E. C.                                     0.50
+
+
+  NEW YORK, $1,197,84.
+
+    Albion. L. S.                                            1.00
+    Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50; Mrs. J. E.
+      Bean $10                                              22.50
+    Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central Cong.
+      Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E. Whiton $15; Mrs.
+      William Bane, packages books and C.                  526.65
+    Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.                                 0.60
+    Eagle Harbor. A. P.                                      0.48
+    Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5 for Student
+      Aid)                                                  10.00
+    Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres                                5.00
+    Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean                                   5.00
+    Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.                       1.00
+    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                 11.52
+    Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur                             2.00
+    Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch., by Lina
+      Burroughs, box of C. and books.
+    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. $440.93.
+      —“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch.
+      $11.41, _for Student Aid._—“A Friend,” package
+      _for Memphis, Tenn._                                 452.34
+    Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley                4.37
+    Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy                                100.00
+    Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.                                9.58
+    Rome. John B. Jervis                                    25.00
+    Saratoga Springs. S. C.                                  0.50
+    Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke                              6.80
+    Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.                                      1.00
+    Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt                           10.00
+    West Brook. T. S. H.                                     0.50
+    West Winfield. L. Bucklen                                2.00
+    Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.
+
+
+  NEW JERSEY, $101.50.
+
+    Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)                   100.00
+    Phillipsburg. H. P. M.                                   0.50
+    Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.                                   1.00
+
+
+  PENNSYLVANIA, $15.
+
+    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester                         5.00
+    Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd                                  10.00
+
+
+  OHIO, $910.87.
+
+    Akron. Cong. Ch.                                        81.70
+    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                       9.71
+    Bellevue. Cong. Ch.                                     23.50
+    Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New
+      Orleans_                                              78.72
+    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.                        18.80
+    Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn                                10.00
+    Geneva. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.50
+    Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                             23.25
+    Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                   15.50
+    Lenox. “A Friend”                                        5.00
+    Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham                          5.00
+    Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.         6.50
+    Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.                            1.00
+    New Richland. E. J.                                      1.00
+    North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.                              0.50
+    North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                  1.15
+    Oberlin. ESTATE of Mary I. Hulburd, by Hiram
+      Hulburd, Ex.                                          50.00
+    Oberlin. L. F.                                           1.00
+    Penfield. B. R.                                          1.00
+    Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by J. H.
+      Packer                                               400.00
+    Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend
+      $2.50                                                  5.50
+    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV.
+      JOSIAH STRONG and L. H. LEWIS, L. M’s.                60.00
+    Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First Cong.
+      Ch.                                                    8.50
+    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                              10.00
+    Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman $5                 15.00
+    Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.55
+    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                 20.29
+    West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   3.20
+    Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.                          20.00
+
+
+  INDIANA, $21.67.
+
+    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                   14.67
+    Liber. J. R. Wells                                       5.00
+    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                   2.00
+
+
+  ILLINOIS, $945.82.
+
+    Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”                         30.00
+    Aurora. New Eng. Ch.                                    20.00
+    Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison                             2.00
+    Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.                                 0.60
+    Chicago. First Cong. Ch.                               473.78
+    Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, _for
+      Student Aid, Fisk U._—Three Subscribers $1 ea.;
+      Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany Cong. Ch. 50c               29.50
+    Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones                               10.00
+    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.                              83.64
+    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                     143.80
+    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00
+    Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   25.00
+    Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.                               1.00
+    La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.                                  1.00
+    Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                           2.00
+    Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1; A. M. S.
+      $1                                                     3.00
+    Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_            10.00
+    Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   12.50
+    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00
+    Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U_.                                              25.00
+    St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.                          5.00
+    Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson $2           7.00
+    Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                 10.00
+    Tonica. Cong. Ch.                                       23.00
+
+
+  MICHIGAN, $132.41.
+
+    Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting $2.75;
+      C. I. W. $1                                            3.75
+    East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.                                 25.00
+    Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10
+     ea.; M. Wood $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            25.00
+    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                       10.66
+    Kalamo. Cong. Ch.                                        3.00
+    Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk. U._                                             25.00
+    Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   25.00
+    Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_             10.00
+    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                 5.00
+
+
+  WISCONSIN, $145.60.
+
+    Big Springs. Cong. Ch.                                   1.25
+    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                      21.00
+    Columbus. Cong. Ch.                                      8.18
+    Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank                          2.00
+    La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Fisk U._                50.00
+    Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.                         8.00
+    Stoughton. Box of C. and $1                              1.00
+    Warren. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00
+    West Salem. Cong. Ch.                                   27.17
+
+
+  IOWA, $2,695.54.
+
+    Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall                          5.00
+    Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_          2.00
+    Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50; Prairie
+      Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1, _for a Student,
+      Fisk U._                                              31.00
+    Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                                1.00
+    Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                              10.00
+    DeWitt. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00
+    Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                              25.00
+    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                        9.06
+    Grinnell. ESTATE of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.
+      C. F. Dike, Exec’x.                                2,500.00
+    Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.—Hon. J. B. G.,
+      50c., _for Mag._                                       4.50
+    Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.                                   1.00
+    Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn                                       5.00
+    Keokuk. “Signature”                                     10.00
+    Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                      13.53
+    McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D                    0.50
+    Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                    5.00
+    Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const. MRS.
+      LUCRETIA DEERING, L. M.                                5.85
+    Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_              1.10
+    Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline E. Williams, by
+      William Mason                                         50.00
+    Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.                             5.00
+
+
+  MINNESOTA, $47.45.
+
+    Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                  23.75
+    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00
+    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.30
+    Tivoli. L. H.                                            1.00
+    Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.                                8.40
+
+
+  KANSAS, $66.32.
+
+    Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                   3.35
+    Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., _for Student Aid_           3.12
+    Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A. M. R. $1          4.00
+    Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts                            5.00
+    Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”                         10.00
+    Russell. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00
+    Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00
+    Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”                        15.85
+
+
+  NEBRASKA, $31.50.
+
+    Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_        1.50
+    Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser                            30.00
+
+
+  CALIFORNIA, 51c.
+
+    Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.                                   0.51
+
+
+  TENNESSEE, $461.26.
+
+    Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll. $10.26            310.26
+    Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                          13.00
+    Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.                                0.25
+    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                 137.75
+
+
+  NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.
+
+    Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington
+      Sch. $8.20                                           158.20
+    Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong. Ch.
+      $7.40                                                129.15
+    Woodbridge. Tuition                                      3.05
+
+
+  SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.
+
+    Charleston. Avery Institute                            220.55
+
+
+  GEORGIA. $417.61.
+
+    Atlanta. Atlanta University                            109.00
+    Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley $12,
+      _for Student Aid._—Prof. T. N. Chase $25              95.00
+    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                  62.70
+    Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58                  150.91
+
+
+  ALABAMA, $388.09.
+
+    Athens. Trinity Sch.                                    26.00
+    Mobile. I. G.                                            0.50
+    Montgomery. Pub. Fund                                  225.00
+    Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                           6.35
+    Talladega. Talledega College                           130.24
+
+
+  MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.
+
+    Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker & Son $5,
+      _for Barracks, Tougaloo_                              15.00
+    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                           43.05
+    Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., _for Barracks_           5.00
+    Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs _for Barracks,
+      Tougaloo_                                              1.00
+
+
+  LOUISIANA, $137.
+
+    New Orleans. Straight University                       137.00
+
+
+  TEXAS, 50c.
+
+    San Antonia. G. W. W.                                    0.50
+
+  CANADA, 50c.
+
+    Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.                                 0.50
+
+  ENGLAND, $900.95.
+
+    Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., _for Mendi Mission_      900.95
+
+  SCOTLAND, $200.
+
+     Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, _for a Teacher_           200.00
+
+  TURKEY, $10.
+
+   Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife                       10.00
+                                                        —————————
+        Total                                           17,557.13
+
+        Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th             $103,309.96
+
+                                              H. W. HUBBARD,
+                                                   _Ass’t Treas._
+
+  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
+
+    Brewer, Me. M. Hardy                                    25.00
+    Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”               50.00
+    Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth                      50.00
+    Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis                     500.00
+    East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt                     50.00
+    Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”                               5.00
+    Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie                   10.00
+    Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions                   10.00
+    Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                  16.00
+                                                         ————————
+                                                           716.00
+    Previously acknowledged March receipts               8,921.72
+                                                         ————————
+        Total                                           $9,637.72
+
+
+  RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN,
+  TEXAS.
+
+    Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams            400.00
+    Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”                              2.50
+                                                         ————————
+                                                           402.50
+        Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts              422.00
+                                                         ————————
+        Total                                             $824.50
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
+
+Incorporated January 30, 1849.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+ASSOCIATION.”
+
+ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
+Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
+knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
+which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
+fields of effort.
+
+ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
+faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in
+the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the
+funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment
+of thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and
+others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life
+members without the privilege of voting.
+
+ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
+September, October or November, for the election of officers and
+the transaction of other business at such time and place as shall
+be designated by the Executive Committee.
+
+ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
+officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
+and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
+and other co-operating bodies—each body being entitled to one
+representative.
+
+ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice
+Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
+Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
+than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
+advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
+
+ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
+and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining
+and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries
+and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general,
+the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to
+the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent
+societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
+jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject
+always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a
+reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
+aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
+shall be final.
+
+The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all
+vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual
+meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature
+for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any
+is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in
+the employment of the Society: to make provision, if any, for
+disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as
+are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their
+discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of
+missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit,
+and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.
+
+Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
+transacting business.
+
+ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing
+officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields
+of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
+particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive
+the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its
+employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
+
+ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing
+to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and
+sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so
+through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually
+agreed upon.
+
+ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without
+the concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular
+annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
+submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee
+in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to
+do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the
+meeting.
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
+belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
+Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
+of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
+of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
+obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
+the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
+wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_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. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
+caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with
+the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the
+INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.
+
+
+STATISTICS.
+
+CHURCHES: _In the South_—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. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.
+
+INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.
+_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,
+Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La,; and
+Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
+Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta,
+Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11;
+_Other Schools_, 7. Total, 26.
+
+TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS—Among the Freedmen, 209;
+among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands,
+10. Total, 252. STUDENTS—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.
+INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.
+
+
+WANTS.
+
+1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
+growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached
+by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the
+feeble as well as the strong.
+
+2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions,
+to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES,
+for the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured
+and pious, for these churches.
+
+3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
+missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
+
+Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
+office, as below.
+
+  NEW YORK      H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
+  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.
+  CHICAGO       Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.
+
+
+MAGAZINE.
+
+This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the
+Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all
+clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to
+Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to
+Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and
+to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber,
+and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.
+
+Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in
+their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the
+following:
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars
+in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the
+person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
+of the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be
+applied under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
+Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”
+
+The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States
+three are required—in other States only two], who should write
+against their names, their places of residence [if in cities,
+their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
+answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
+and declared by the said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament,
+in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A.B., and in
+his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
+subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is
+required that the Will should be made at least two months before
+the death of the testator.
+
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+
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+and in POUNDS STERLING, for use in any part of the world.
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+for _=$165=_. _=$600=_ for _=$135=_, _=cash=_, not used a year, in
+perfect order. Great Bargains, Unrivaled Instruments, Unequaled
+Prices. Send for Catalogues. =HORACE WATERS & SONS, _40 East 14th
+Street, New York_.=
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                     Young America Press Co.,
+
+[Illustration]
+
+35 Murray St., New York, manufacture a variety of hand,
+self-inking, and rotary printing presses, ranging in price from $2
+to $150, including the =Centennial=, =Young America=, =Cottage=,
+=Lightning=, and other celebrated printing machines. Our new rotary
+press, the =United States Jobber= for cheapness and excellence, is
+unrivalled. Other presses taken in exchange. Lowest prices for type
+and printing material. Circulars free. Specimen Book of Type, 10
+cts. A sample package of plain and fancy cards, 10 cts.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  MARVIN'S
+  FIRE & BURGLAR
+  SAFES
+  COUNTER PLATFORM WAGON & TRACK
+  SCALES
+  _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO.
+  265 BROADWAY, N. Y.
+  627 CHESTNUT ST. PHILA._
+]
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+                    THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF
+
+                                THE
+
+                       American Missionary,
+
+                      ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
+
+
+                     SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.
+
+We publish =25,000= copies per month, giving news from the
+Institutions and Churches aided by the Association among the
+Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the
+Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, =Fifty
+Cents a Year, in Advance=.
+
+
+                        OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.
+
+No. 1.—=History= of the Association.
+
+No. 2.—=Africa=: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a
+Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their
+claims on America.
+
+No. 3.—=The Three Despised Races in the United States=; or, The
+Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M.
+A., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.
+
+No. 4.—=The Educational Work.= Showing the nature and reality
+of the black man's needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of
+Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M.
+A.
+
+_Will be sent free to any address, on application._
+
+                    H. W. HUBBARD, Ass't-Treas., 56 Reade St., N. Y.
+
+
+                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
+
+A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to Advertisements, for
+which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially
+valuable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an
+established character for integrity and thrift that constitute them
+valued customers in all departments of business.
+
+To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed
+to the "RULES" of the best Newspapers, requiring "DOUBLE RATES"
+for these "LUXURIES," our wide pages, fine paper, and superior
+printing, with =no extra charge for cuts=, are advantages readily
+appreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of
+business announcements.
+
+We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department,
+and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to
+advertise.
+
+Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
+to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
+relation to advertising should be addressed to
+
+                                   J. H. DENISON, Adv'g Agent,
+                                         56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
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+  Ask for KINGSFORD'S, and BE SURE YOU GET IT.
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+
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+
+
+
+
+Transcriber’s Notes:
+
+
+Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed only where the error
+appears to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too
+numerous to list; the others are as follows:
+
+— “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (English and Scotch
+missionaries)
+
+— missing “is” inserted on page 166. (The discipline of these
+institutions is evidently giving)
+
+— missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.
+(Africa’s sunny fountains)
+
+— extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on
+page 191, just prior to “COOPER INSTITUTE”.
+
+— “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (are well worth
+attention of)
+
+
+
+
+
+
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p>

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-<div>

-<p class="float-left"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></p>

-<p class="float-right">No. 6.</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">JUNE, 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">Paragraphs</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Principles and Plans</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_162">162</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Departure of the Azor.&mdash;The Indian Boys at Hampton</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_163">163</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">A Sunday-School Concert</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_164">164</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">An Educated Ministry.&mdash;Atlanta and Fisk Universities</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_165">165</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">News from the Churches</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_168">168</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Items from the Schools.&mdash;General Notes</td>

-    <td class="linenum"> <a href="#Page_169">169</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Straight University</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_172">172</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Virginia: <span class="chaplinen"> Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A Good Beginning</span></td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">South Carolina: <span class="chaplinen">History of “Avery” Graduates</span></td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Georgia: <span class="chaplinen"> Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band

-of Hope&mdash;Twitchell School.&mdash;School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents

-Buying Farms.&mdash;A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society</span></td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_175">175</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Mississippi: <span class="chaplinen">An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The Gourd Family</span></td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_176">176</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Theological Department of Howard University</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_177">177</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">The International Sunday-School Convention.&mdash;Annual Meeting of the South-western Conference</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_178">178</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">The Singers to the Missionaries, Greeting</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Arrival of the New Missionaries.&mdash;First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday Service&mdash;A School Celebration</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_181">181</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Advantages of Colored Missionaries</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">School Wants and Farm Work</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">An Indian Wants a Cow</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="chapline">Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and Petaluma</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="toc-chapter">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="toc-chapter">CONSTITUTION</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_189">189</a></td>

-  </tr>

-  <tr>

-    <td class="toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &amp;c.</td>

-    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></td>

-  </tr>

-</table>

-</div>

-

-

-<hr class="quarter" />

-

-<div class="center">

-NEW YORK:<br />

-Published by the American Missionary Association,<br />

-<span class="smcap medium">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="center medium">A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-

-<div class="article">

-<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.<br />

-</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.<br />

-</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>.<br />

-</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>,<br />

-</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>,<br />

-</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>.<br />

-</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>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<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">JUNE, 1878.</div>

-<div class="third right">No. 6.</div>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="full bottom" />

-

-<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<p>As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone,

-March 23d, just one month from the date of their leaving New York by steamer for

-England. They had only the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their

-destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new field seem to be

-quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter on the new work at once. We look to

-the Lord of the harvest for His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have

-gone from us to the Mendi Mission.</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<p>We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which the <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>English and

-Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting to begin their new work in Central

-Africa. The expedition of the London Missionary Society was, from July to January

-last, trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on Lake Tanganyika,

-but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season at Kirasa, only about one-third of the

-way. It is hoped that during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish

-themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches is in

-danger of being driven from its station at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant

-an enemy as a fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has

-sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations, and curtailed their

-usefulness in advancing the civilization of Africa. The station may have to be

-moved. A new site must be sought with great care, which will not be liable to this

-pest.</p>

-

-<p>In South Africa another missionary institution has been endangered by the Caffre

-War, three English officials having been murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith

-and O’Neill, of the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed

-by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of King M’tesa. We

-believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery are not liable to any of these perils.

-The station is accessible and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around

-them, nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to such regions

-are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set our hopes too high, or base

-them too confidently on any of the uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land

-of delays we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we cannot tell

-what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord&mdash;that He will suffer no evil to befall them,

-but give them strength for patient continuance in well-doing.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span></p>

-

-<p>Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the Institutions we mentioned

-in the May <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, as needing greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We

-did not mention their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and perhaps the

-reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating the strain laid upon our resources this

-year, they have considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year, they laid

-before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how any institutions in the South can

-be in more pressing need than we of a new dormitory.”</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<p>Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta Sunday-school Convention

-would be either “lionized or snubbed” to that extent that it would be better for him

-not to come, proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,

-fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from Texas. He was received

-and treated just as the others were, and he behaved as well. The fact is, they were

-much busier devising for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each

-other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.</h3>

-

-<p>&mdash;This Association does not affirm that races, any more than individuals, are equal

-in physical or mental fibre and development. Some races, as well as individuals, are

-manifestly below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all men shall be

-regarded as equal <em>before God and the Law</em>; and that hence, in all churches of Christ,

-no distinction be made, on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and

-administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally protected in person and

-property, and that whatever immunities or privileges are granted to one, be extended

-to all.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;This Association does not found exclusively colored churches. They are only exclusive

-because they are not exclusive. They are open to all races, and hence but few

-white persons unite with them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally

-among the colored people in the South, as being at present most accessible, yet

-it has always favored the establishment of churches, mainly white, where the distribution

-of population calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to unite with

-them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its first missionary in the South, was in

-the formation of white churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was

-sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white) Congregational Church

-in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend

-of the A. M. A., and at one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational

-Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated, under the

-auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary, who spent a month in

-Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that purpose. Not long since, the Association

-appointed a missionary in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity

-of Berea College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which he will

-preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These will be mainly white churches,

-but open to colored people. In like manner, the Association has promised missionary

-aid to a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San Antonio,

-Texas.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are in order to its religious

-work in America and Africa. Its best and most promising churches are established

-near the schools and colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them.

-These schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct thousands of pupils<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>

-in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a salutary influence into the homes, churches and

-neighborhoods where they reside. The schools and theological departments also send

-out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to their people in the

-South and in Africa.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part having a relation

-to the whole, and its plans, while at present embracing mainly the “Despised

-Races,” as they have been called, are restricted in principle to no race or continent.</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”</h3>

-

-<p>The departure of the <i>Azor</i> with the first instalment of the African exodus, from

-Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the history of the colored race.</p>

-

-<p>It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman could be aroused

-by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the teachers in our schools, fears have been

-felt that, perhaps, the call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to

-respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall be made, there will be

-no lack of men. We have more to fear now from unbridled enthusiasm than from want

-of zeal.</p>

-

-<p>This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly, among disaffected

-politicians, but it soon became a sort of religious crusade. It gained but little progress

-among the people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary enterprise.

-From the time the <i>Azor</i> sailed into the harbor until her departure, on the 21st of April,

-with her living freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were thronged

-with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who

-had engaged their passages months before, were left behind, for want of room. How

-long this enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this first company, of

-course are questions to be answered by and by. We dare not venture any prophecy,

-either good or evil. It is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of

-our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to be to Africa what the Pilgrim

-enterprise has been to America, we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a

-different class of emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African

-civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up men of intelligence,

-and sound and broad religious principle, for this work, and we naturally look with some

-anxiety to the effect of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the South

-at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray for the success of the movement,

-that God may overrule all our fears, and make it for good. This one question we

-are glad to have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is no lack of enthusiasm

-in the negro heart for his fatherland; and that, when the call shall come for

-more laborers in that field, we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.</h3>

-

-<p>Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have been directed to Capt.

-Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried,

-as prisoners of war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which had

-taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They went South, each with his

-legs fastened to a log with chains. They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied

-wrongs. One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed himself

-on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had great brass hoops in

-their ears. They knew no word of English. It was their good fortune to fall into the

-hands of a Christian army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in seeking<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>

-to do them good, at length won their confidence, and succeeded, with the help of

-a few benevolent ladies, in teaching them some of the simplest elements of civilization

-and learning. A few of them can read very well.</p>

-

-<p>At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of Tarrytown, N. Y., who had

-been teaching among them, determined to secure, if possible, the education of two young

-men of her class. She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised

-money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in. At length it was

-found that twenty-two of them desired to go to school. They are now discharged from

-their imprisonment. The old chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the

-better. Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be educated in

-the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular studies, and have been detailed to

-various departments of work, in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented,

-and their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.</p>

-

-<p>Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of lines, of which life is

-so full, and yet which never cease to surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at

-Hampton, to be trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and the teachers

-of their people. Thus the two races are brought face to face&mdash;“the two races whose

-past involves America’s greatest responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest

-problems.”</p>

-

-<p>It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for a year&mdash;that,

-with what he is able to earn by his labor. This amount has been pledged by individuals

-alone, or together, for the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having

-done so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its Secretary, to assume

-the tuition of one of her wards, and the Executive Committee desire to do so;

-and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in

-addition to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some of our friends,

-who may be especially interested in the elevation of the Indians, will make up this small

-amount, and help on this work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,

-and personality.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.</h3>

-

-<p>Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in Sunday-schools.

-What to do with the Concert, has been a question which has perplexed teachers and

-superintendents year after year, as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession.

-The verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly all

-learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try a Missionary Concert, or,

-if you please, an American Missionary Concert.</p>

-

-<p>But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern, even, can be sent,

-like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and by mail. We have one in our hands, about

-six inches by eight, four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers (prepared

-originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville, Mass.) upon the nature and the

-work of the A. M. A., and we are almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact

-information compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape. Coupled

-with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals

-during the Catechetical Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great

-interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near Boston; and we commend, most

-cordially, the thought and plan to the consideration and use of Superintendents and

-Presidents of Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme is a

-collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how to address their gifts to us.

-A new edition is in preparation, or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>

-in quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the Congregational

-House, Boston.</p>

-

-<p>District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an appeal to the Sunday-schools

-in behalf of the “Colored Student’s Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated

-that we are reaching (by student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand

-children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be reached.” He

-urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work. To know, is the first step toward

-supplying the want.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.</h3>

-

-<p>It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the colored people of

-the South should be in such earnest sympathy with the work of educating their people.

-Occasionally, we hear one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot”

-through, and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured by the

-application of science; but the expression of such sentiments is rare.</p>

-

-<p>In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain color to read, or

-any one to teach them, preachers were <em>born</em>, not <em>made</em>. The wether of the flock put a

-bell around his own neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the

-war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of venison or furs, was

-the man for chief; so the exhorter who could pick up the most texts of Scripture, and

-evolve from his own understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of

-his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the minister by universal

-consent.</p>

-

-<p>Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what Nature implanted

-in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not fear those made leaders by

-the voice of a theological seminary. They who, by their quickness of perception, tact

-and experience, control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon ability

-gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.</p>

-

-<p>Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts, as well as the felt sentiments

-of the uneducated ministers among the colored people, I have no intention of

-placing a low estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have attained

-to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with good mental nourishment, and no one

-feels this more than they. The <span class="medium">BEST</span> minister combines natural ability of a high order

-with liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated ministry; and

-although the present pastors of the flocks may be secure in their places without learning,

-the next generation will insist upon education in their ministers.</p>

-

-<p class="smcap right">Prof. T. N. Chase, in the <cite>Christian Recorder</cite>.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.</h3>

-

-<p>A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some observations, which may be

-worthy of record. The location of both is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and

-Fisk Universities occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful sites.

-They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the importance of the work they represent.

-The buildings of both institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our

-party approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from top to bottom, as the

-students were studying in their rooms. “Hallelujah!” cried one of our number,

-enthusiastically, “God be praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one

-of us looked upon it without emotion.</p>

-

-<p>The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of educated Christian

-people. A more intelligent, cultivated and consecrated body of instructors it would be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span>

-hard to find. They are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social privileges

-in both cities are few or none at all, and some of them, for the sake of the work

-they are in, have refused tempting offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the

-colored race from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary enthusiasm in

-their work. Often did the eye flash and the face glow, as they spoke of the trials and

-advancement of their pupils.</p>

-

-<p>The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower of the colored race.

-Only those are likely to undertake so many years of study, with the self-denials involved,

-who have, to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an education, and

-in whom are unusual elements of character. They are procuring an education under

-great difficulties. There are few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit

-themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to help their race. They

-work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing little urging or government. It is not

-strange, then, that when both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the

-results should be unusually favorable.</p>

-

-<p>Among these results in both institutions, the good order is specially noticeable. At

-the table, where teachers and scholars eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in

-charge takes his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no restraints

-are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of voices, which does not prevent the

-slightest signal from being heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred

-or more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room at Fisk

-University, we noticed that no teacher was present, though perfect order was maintained.

-“Have you no instructor or monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?”

-“Why, no, sir,” one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We could

-but recall certain days of our own student life when, if our instructor chanced to step

-out of the room for a moment, there were instantly missiles flying about, and students

-darting here and there.</p>

-

-<p>There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They impress one at a

-glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing about them, in dress, or manner or

-language, to offend the most fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at

-these institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the whole character

-and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from these dark faces, and, in our admiration

-for the soul, we totally forget the color of the skin.</p>

-

-<p>The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must remember that

-most of them were born in slavery, and have learned to read since the war. A generation

-or two must pass before we can see the results of life-long training in schools.

-What we now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard to find at the

-North better teachers or better schools than the two Universities of which we speak;

-and their influence over the pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very

-fine. The normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special commendation.

-We were also much pleased at a recitation in Xenophon’s <cite>Memorabilia</cite>, in

-which three young men were reciting to one of their own race, a graduate of the

-University&mdash;Miss Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first instance

-of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more valuable evidence of

-educational progress than recitations was the correctness of speech and richness of

-thought manifest in the conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted

-to be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes took part

-freely. There are few pastors in the North who would not be glad of such clear

-thought and apt expression in their meetings as we there heard.</p>

-

-<p><a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving the pupils rare qualities of

-earnestness and self-reliance. Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span>

-the ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the course of study, all

-the influences tend to develop a manly and persevering spirit. The students are accustomed

-every summer to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in

-most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There are few organized

-schools and few school-houses for the colored people outside the cities. The University

-students desirous of a school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then

-secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads, or, perhaps, of a vacant

-log-cabin; then they must obtain permission of the county commissioner to teach the

-school. It evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such circumstances,

-and yet these students earn every summer, in from three to five months of

-teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece. Sometimes parents are willing and able to

-educate their children, without throwing them thus on their own resources. After

-Fisk University was established, a colored man bought land near by, built him a comfortable

-house, and made his home there, with the express purpose of educating his

-large family of children. But such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education

-generally are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched

-with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our Northern seminaries), who,

-at the age of fourteen, determined to go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till

-she had earned the means. For five years she has been securing an education, paying

-her way by teaching every summer. Another student was pointed out to us, whose persistence

-under difficulties is still more remarkable. For the work of two successive

-summers, he has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and for last

-summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that would pay only half the average

-sum, he has as yet received only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet

-he is not discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A. K. Spence

-is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools in the North, to supplement the

-meagre sums earned by the students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry

-a student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his son a thousand dollars

-a year at a Northern college.) If any Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional

-fifty dollars for the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to receive

-a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce the students to receive aid.

-They are eager to do for themselves. Recently, some kind words were addressed

-them by a visitor, on the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers,

-“it is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not know

-them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than ever to persuade

-them to receive the help they need.”</p>

-

-<p>We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both institutions. Most of

-them, particularly among the boarders, are earnest and consistent Christians. We

-were much moved at some of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.

-The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the memory of the instructors.

-Jubilee Hall had just been completed. It seemed a paradise to the colored

-people. A farewell meeting was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,

-where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the students prayed&mdash;“O

-Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter this beautiful new building; but if

-Thou wilt not go with us, we do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay

-here.” The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons of revival

-ever since.</p>

-

-<p>The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that the elevation of

-nearly five millions of people rests largely on them. They have a worthy ambition to

-be the leaders of their race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new

-ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who have just gone from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span>

-Fisk University to Africa have left behind them an enthusiasm for missionary work.

-The students are now praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries

-of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as a definite and high

-aim. These students justly feel that in this land, and abroad, there is work for them

-to do. A glorious future lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful

-study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.</p>

-

-<p>It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety hung over Fisk

-University. Funds that were relied upon from Great Britain for current expenses had

-failed, and retrenchment, where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was

-under consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will not let it suffer.</p>

-

-<p class="right">

-<span class="smcap">Rev. Addison P. Foster.</span><br />

-</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>&mdash;Four students received to the church by profession May 5th. One

-of the Indian students lately received gives evidence of Christian character.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Raleigh, N. C.</span>&mdash;“Our church has shared with others in a revival blessing this spring.”

-Twenty were received to the church April 8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the

-pastor, writes: “There are several of the young men connected with our church and

-school who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if I can get some

-simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will form them into a class, and have them

-recite two or three times a week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Orangeburg, S. C.</span>&mdash;Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years in this

-church and school. The church membership has increased two-thirds. Two members

-received in April. Sunday-school thriving and increasing, and feeding the church. A

-Woman’s Foreign Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the A. M.

-A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have been in training for teachers

-this year.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Byron, Ga.</span>&mdash;“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in numbers steadily.

-A day-school will soon be opened. Young people are asking for prayers every Sunday

-evening.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>&mdash;One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church work is very

-encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have twenty boys from twelve to sixteen

-years of age in my class, and am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I

-have been here, has the church been so prosperous.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Marion, Ala.</span>&mdash;The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing. Three or four are to

-unite with the church at the next Communion.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Florence, Ala.</span>&mdash;Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on church services

-good, and one member received on profession at his last visit.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Abbeville, La.</span>&mdash;The church has been holding special meetings, crowded every night.

-Two have been received to membership; others are under deep conviction. Rev.

-Charles E. Smith is the pastor.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Memphis, Tenn.</span>&mdash;A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings of God’s word,

-and a higher standard of personal godliness sought. “The question, how to utilize the

-combined power of the Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed in

-the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly deepening interest. The

-church has passed in safety and triumph through its financial straits, deficiencies have

-been made up, current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for the

-summer demands.”</p>

-</div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.</h3>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Charleston, S. C.</span>&mdash;The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth anniversary

-April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were examined in Natural Philosophy,

-Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany, Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History,

-Latin, Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.; and an

-exhibition was held the following day, with music and recitations, to the great delight of

-a large assembly.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>&mdash;The school building was dedicated, with the chapel, March 24. There

-are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the building. The large one will seat

-110 pupils; the smaller, or recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole

-building is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington writes:&mdash;“We

-are credited by the people of the city&mdash;by the white people, especially&mdash;with having

-the prettiest chapel and school-rooms in the State.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Forsyth, Ga.</span>&mdash;School-house built last year&mdash;“a two-story building, without a

-chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied since February last. Attendance good.

-“A deep concern about the most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture

-every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young people can only stay

-in school two or three months at a time, is the greatest drawback. The white people

-are very kind, and respond generously to every call for aid.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Cuthbert, Ga.</span>&mdash;There has been going on for over two weeks a glorious revival.

-Nearly all the pupils of the school are converted; all of the highest class but one, and

-that one an inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A reading-room

-has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts between the two (Methodist and

-Baptist) Sunday-schools of the place.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Fort Valley, Ga.</span>&mdash;The day-school is improving by degrees. The Sunday-school

-is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented many from coming out, but the

-prospect is that very soon the school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with

-which to purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>&mdash;“The year has been in every way delightful and profitable.

-God has blessed us in every department of our work. Every month, and indeed every

-week, has brought some new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue,

-soon to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they represent as good a

-class of students as were ever gathered in the University. So much for numerical success.

-What is better, there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in

-the Faculty.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala., Emerson Institute.</span>&mdash;The new two-story brick building, 34×64,

-with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with exercises of great interest. A full

-account was received just too late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for

-the July <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>

-

-<h4>The Negro.</h4>

-

-<p>&mdash;We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the income of the

-Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees distributed, in eight States, $35,400;

-in 1873, in ten States, $137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their

-report, and take the largest and smallest.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;April 21st, the barque <i>Azor</i> sailed from Charleston, S. C., with 250 emigrants,

-one-fifth being children. They go under the auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>

-to Boporo, about sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase

-a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from the Charleston <cite>News

-and Courier</cite> accompanies the <i>Azor</i>.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization Society, writes that

-vessels will sail under their auspices in June and November. He fears for the new exodus

-movement, as having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very

-outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances, which evinced the need

-of a competent controlling agency in the management of their affairs.”</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks ago, to organize

-a colony for the West, and measures were taken to promote that object. They denounced

-the Liberian exodus.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to all the colored people

-who may choose to emigrate thither, a cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection

-of her laws, and equal facilities for education.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association, giving little more

-than $200,000 a year towards founding Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits,

-among four million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we do little

-to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific slope; and our labor among the

-Indians is light. But our Romish friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year

-among the freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly schools.

-There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indians.”&mdash;<i>President E. P.

-Tenney, Colorado College.</i></p>

-

-<p>&mdash;“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres of land within

-nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on

-the industrial farm plan.”&mdash;<cite>Evangelist.</cite></p>

-

-<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Christian Observer</cite> is informed that there are twenty-five

-Romish schools in the three States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free

-board and tuition.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed by Gen. Lopez Analto,

-and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in Florida:</p>

-

-<div class="blockquot">

-

-<p>“I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that there are negroes

-from the United States at different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this

-day held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various pretexts, since the rebellion

-in the United States, and upon American vessels.”</p></div>

-

-<p>The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden death of Judge

-Leonard.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African Missions, are referred

-to on an editorial page.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of new missionary stations

-in the interior of Africa, is the effect which such civilized settlements among the

-hunting-grounds of the slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is

-still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian, Abyssinian, and negro

-boys and, especially, girls.</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<h4>The Chinaman.</h4>

-

-<p>&mdash;In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge Sawyer has rendered

-a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who applied for naturalization papers, holding

-that Chinamen are not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the Naturalization

-Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens. “White,” he holds to be equivalent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span>

-to Caucasian; and that, by exact construction of the provision, all but white persons,

-and persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever from citizenship.

-The case will probably be appealed.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph Twichell, in his recent

-lecture at New Haven, to those who are either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese

-in America. Under his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually

-$100,000 in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut, where

-they are receiving a thorough course of education.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than $42,000 in school

-taxes. California law omits Mongolian children from the apportionment of school funds,

-refuses them admission to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen

-hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate schools for their

-three thousand children of proper age. Such are provided for those of African and

-Indian descent. The petition was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized

-it as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their part to

-“obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle their youth with ours, with a

-view, doubtless, to more thorough assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden

-of the complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate, and will work

-cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently not a “California diamond.”</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Intelligencer</cite> asserts that the opposition to the Chinaman

-is instigated mainly by the liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither

-of whom has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed in part of members

-from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under the care of Rev. J. M. Condit.

-This is the second church in California, all the members of which are Chinese.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;Prof. Mooar in <cite>Evangelist</cite>: “Our greatest danger in regard to this problem is

-not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us, but that we shall fail to be Christian

-enough for him.”</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<h4>The Indian.</h4>

-

-<p>&mdash;A writer in the <cite>Advance</cite> says that there are 6,500 persons in the Indian Territory,

-formerly slaves of the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided

-for their citizenship among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to each.

-In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was passed refusing to comply

-with the treaty; so that, in the land where they were born, and where they toiled

-in slavery to enrich their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children to

-the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no protection from, nor access

-to, the Indian courts of law. So, the big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under a territorial government,

-are in the face of solemn treaties, and the opposition of the various tribes to

-whom it has been promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor

-Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors, and their disregard of

-the rights of so-called inferior races.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed upon by the House

-Committee on Territories.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés prisoner to go to

-the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from punishment to the fugitives of that tribe,

-if they surrender to the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight

-with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood of Fort Ewell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>

-The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain that the agent has defrauded them,

-and threaten trouble. To Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers

-that, when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive cattle and other

-property of greater value; and that when peace is made, the Government will provide

-for them, as it does for all friendly Indians.</p>

-

-<p>&mdash;The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.&mdash;See Leavenworth

-<cite>Times</cite>. The <cite>Christian Recorder</cite> (A. M. E.) says: “No people can go down who

-make a plentiful use of soap and water.”</p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<h3><a name="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY" id="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY"></a>STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.</h3>

-

-<p class="center">New Orleans, Louisiana.</p>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.</p>

-

-<p>The Institution was incorporated June

-25th, 1869, and the first school building

-was completed in February, 1870. The

-American Missionary Association and the

-Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated in the establishment

-of the University. From the

-first, great numbers flocked to the school

-to enjoy its advantages, so that the capacity

-of the building was taxed to its utmost.

-The eagerness of the freedmen for education

-in 1870, and the two or three years

-following, was, perhaps, more intense and

-general than now. Between three and

-four thousand have been enrolled as students

-in the University during the eight years of

-its existence.</p>

-

-<p>It bears the name of Hon. Seymour

-Straight, of Ohio, who is one of its steadfast

-friends and benefactors.</p>

-

-

-<h4>LOCATION.</h4>

-

-<p>New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants,

-of whom 80,000 are colored people,

-is a most important point to be occupied

-in missionary work among the freedmen.

-As the commercial centre of the

-South-west&mdash;as the great cotton, sugar,

-and rice market of the Union&mdash;it out-ranks

-all others. In its intimate connections

-by river, bayou, and railroad with

-the most thickly populated negro districts

-of the old slave States, it is second to none.

-Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly

-adding to the negro population of

-Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there

-were 369,000 colored people in this State,

-and each year swells the number. Already

-it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire population.

-Without disparagement to any other

-section, we claim, also, that the colored population

-of New Orleans represents the highest

-intelligence yet attained by the race in

-America. It includes the genuine African,

-the mulatto, the quadroon, the octaroon,

-and yet other shades and grades; and in this

-mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion

-of intelligence, and a corresponding increase

-in the capacity of culture and development.

-It would require the quick eye of an “expert”

-to detect, in the fair complexion and

-delicate features of many who throng our

-churches and schools, the faintest trace of

-African descent. Without speculating upon

-the cause, certain it is that we find among

-the colored people of the Crescent City a

-quickness of intelligence, and a capacity for

-the best culture and the noblest development,

-and withal a thirst for knowledge,

-which is worthy of our best sympathy and

-most generous benevolence.</p>

-

-

-<h4>THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.</h4>

-

-<p>In a word, our aim is Education, in

-its broadest and best meaning. The elevation,

-the prosperity, the highest manhood,

-and the co-ordinate rank of the African

-race in America, in the friendly rivalry of

-races, are still in the future&mdash;whether in

-the near or remote future, depends largely

-upon the race itself to determine. Education,

-under Divine guidance, is the gateway

-to that longed-for future. That I

-mean education as allied with religion, will

-be assumed. That the race is not educated,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span>

-is by no fault of theirs. That they desire

-education, is to their credit. To help them

-to this education is both our duty and our

-privilege.</p>

-

-<p>The courses of study in this Institution

-include in the Academic Department, the

-Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory;

-and in the Professional Department,

-the Theological and the Law.</p>

-

-<p>We have a preparatory course, that we

-may secure better material for the higher

-courses. In the Normal course, special attention

-is given to those studies which will

-furnish young men and women with the

-education needed in the various branches

-of business life open to them, and which

-especially will qualify them as teachers, for

-which there is, and must continue to be, a

-great demand. In the Collegiate Department&mdash;which

-includes, among other studies,

-the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral

-Philosophy, and Latin&mdash;a higher grade and

-wider scope of studies will be added so soon

-as there is a demand for them. The school

-is yet in its infancy, and the number of

-those who are fitted to pursue to advantage

-the highest grade of studies is, of course,

-very limited.</p>

-

-

-<h4>LAW DEPARTMENT.</h4>

-

-<p>An able corps of Professors has been secured.

-Jurists of reputation and successful

-practice at the bar of Louisiana have

-kindly offered their services, with little hope

-of adequate compensation, and every facility

-is provided for young men of talent, who

-are attracted by the profession of the law,

-to fit themselves for honorable and successful

-practice. Regular graduates from this

-department, at the conclusion of a two

-years’ course of study, and a well sustained

-examination, are admitted to the bar of

-New Orleans, with authority to practice in

-all the courts of the Commonwealth.</p>

-

-

-<h4>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.</h4>

-

-<p>College graduates, who can be instructed

-in the original languages in which the

-Scriptures were written, are greatly desired,

-and until they can be secured, this

-department will but partially accomplish

-the object for which it was organized. The

-churches need thoroughly educated ministers,

-with carefully cultivated minds, who

-can intelligently preach the word. The

-degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers

-cannot be told. In the meantime, it

-is our aim to make the best use of the material

-we have, and transform it from a

-state of utter crudeness to one of partial

-fitness for the present demands of the

-churches. Men of piety and ability to

-speak and to teach are received, and advanced

-as far and as rapidly as their imperfect

-preparatory education will admit.

-Louisiana, with a colored population of

-370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.

-The churches are calling in vain for

-intelligent laborers to go forth into the harvest.

-I wish the prospect was brighter for

-a large class of intelligent, spiritual, and

-enthusiastic students to enter this department,

-and to lift it to a high grade of usefulness.</p>

-

-

-<h4>THE NEW UNIVERSITY.</h4>

-

-<p>The building on Esplanade street, built

-in 1870, was entirely destroyed by fire February

-16th, 1877. Since that disastrous

-event, our sessions have been held in Central

-Church, which is also the property of

-the American Missionary Association. A

-new site, more convenient and attractive,

-was purchased in January last. It is located

-on Canal street, the most beautiful

-avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a

-half square of land, 150 feet front by 310

-feet in depth. The new building, for whose

-design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas

-N. Chase, while not adhering strictly to any

-style of architecture, may be classed as <em>Italian</em>,

-as it approaches more nearly to that

-order. The dimensions of the building are

-72 feet by 51½ feet. The five large recitation

-rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The

-halls are 10 feet in width. The building is

-conveniently arranged, and all the requirements

-of the school, we think, have been

-anticipated in its design. The funds at the

-disposal of the Association did not admit of

-ornamentation; but the building, when completed,

-will be substantial, convenient, and

-comely. It will be ready for dedication

-and occupation at the opening of the fall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span>

-term, October 1st. Grateful as we are for

-this new structure, we are not satisfied;

-neither should the friends of the freedmen

-in the North be satisfied. Straight University,

-in order to fill the measure of its

-usefulness, and cultivate the territory open

-to its occupation, must furnish accommodations

-for students from abroad&mdash;from towns

-outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining

-States. It must have <em>dormitories</em>. Two

-buildings, one on either side of the main

-building, are urgently needed, and at the

-earliest possible day. Then, when our

-group of buildings are completed, we can invite

-and welcome the best talent of the

-race, at whatever distance from New Orleans

-it may be found. Then our beloved

-University will become, among the educational

-institutions of the South-west&mdash;and

-especially of the Gulf States&mdash;the magnet,

-attracting to itself the best in intellect, in

-heart, and in promise of future good.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>VIRGINIA.</h3>

-<h4>Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A

-Good Beginning.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.</p>

-

-<p>Four students united with the church by

-profession the first Sabbath in May. It is

-several years since any Communion season

-has passed without some additions to the

-church.</p>

-

-<p>The fifteen Indians who have lately joined

-the school have taken hold of study and of

-manual labor with commendable zeal, and

-give promise of becoming good teachers

-and guides of their race. One of them

-now shows evidence of Christian character.

-Their promptness and decision, as to the

-duties required of them, were put to the

-test in reference to the use of tobacco, to

-which they were so strongly attached that,

-as one of them said:&mdash;“There are three

-things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I

-love smoke.” When asked if they would

-comply with the rules of the school, prohibiting

-the use of tobacco, after considering

-the matter awhile in silence, one of them

-gave an expressive sign that he would cut

-loose from tobacco; and then all the others

-gave the same significant pledge&mdash;a pledge

-which, their teacher assures us, they will

-never break.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>SOUTH CAROLINA.</h3>

-<h4>History of “Avery” Graduates.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.</p>

-

-<p>Avery Normal Institute was organized in

-Charleston, S. C., October, 1865. The first

-formal graduation occurred in June, 1872,

-at which time eleven young people received

-diplomas from the Institute. A class has

-been graduated each succeeding year, numbering

-as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874,

-six; 1875, fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including

-one post-graduate); 1877, twenty-two&mdash;giving

-a total of eighty-six. Of this number,

-death has taken five.</p>

-

-<p>Our school aims to fit its graduates to be

-competent teachers. Forty-six have been

-engaged in the public schools of the State&mdash;schools

-first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.

-Forty-one of the forty-six are

-teaching to-day; seventeen hold State certificates.</p>

-

-<p>One young man of the class of 1872 is an

-ordained minister. He was also graduated

-at South Carolina University in 1877.

-Another from that class, and one from the

-succeeding class, are studying with the

-ministry in view&mdash;one at Madison University,

-New York, the other at Atlanta University,

-Georgia. Three others from later

-classes are in higher institutions, preparing

-themselves to preach the Gospel.</p>

-

-<p>Our graduates bid fair to represent all

-the professions. One is in Howard University,

-studying medicine, and one in the

-leading Normal school of our county, preparing

-for teaching. The total number in

-higher institutions is seven, while four more

-have already received the degree of A. B.

-Five others were in South Carolina University

-when it closed its doors. These

-young men were ready to enter the Junior

-year of the College course when their studies

-were so abruptly ended. With one exception,

-they are teaching.</p>

-

-<p>Thirty-eight of our graduates are members

-of Evangelical churches; twenty at

-present are engaged in Sunday-school work.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span></p>

-

-<p>“By their fruits ye shall know them.”

-But is this all that Avery has done? No!

-Her influence has pervaded the homes of

-hundreds, and the lives of thousands. Her

-light has shone in every quarter of the

-State; and other lands are destined to share

-in her gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying

-three of her pupils to <a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>“Africa’s sunny

-fountains.”</p>

-

-<p>The questions are often asked: “What

-per cent. of your school is brown?” “Don’t

-the browns receive instruction more readily

-than the blacks?” The query, in the minds

-of so many, has led to an actual count of

-the graduates with regard to color, which

-gives: <em>Black</em>, 19; <em>brown</em>, 55; <em>fair</em>, 12.

-But, “the Lord is the maker of them all;”

-nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We

-sow “beside all waters.” “What shall

-the harvest be?”</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>GEORGIA.</h3>

-<h4>Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band

-of Hope&mdash;Twichell School.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.</p>

-

-<p>This small settlement of colored people

-is situated three miles west of Savannah,

-Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent,

-and divided into half-acre lots, which are

-now selling, on the instalment plan, for seventy-five

-dollars each. The houses are

-very small and uncomfortable; but since

-the American Missionary Association has

-erected a new meeting-house and parsonage,

-the people have commenced to put up

-better dwellings, and a strong love for

-home comforts is gradually taking hold

-upon the masses. The inhabitants of

-Woodville obtain a living by selling in the

-city market, or laboring in gardens and on

-rice plantations. In this settlement there

-are two groceries, and three on its border,

-where strong drink is sold, even on the

-Lord’s day.</p>

-

-<p>The only house of worship in this place

-is the Pilgrim Congregational Church.

-This church was organized in 1871 as the

-Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875

-as the Pilgrim Church. A new site was

-chosen, and the present meeting-house was

-erected in the same year. This church has

-been a great blessing to the people. A

-deep religious feeling has prevailed in our

-midst, and many have become savingly acquainted

-with the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev.

-Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this

-little church, and a great assistant to the

-young pastor in charge. A revival is still

-in progress; twenty persons have been

-recently added to the church, and seven

-are waiting to be received at the next

-Communion.</p>

-

-<p>The Sabbath-school is prospering. We

-have no well qualified teachers as yet, but

-Twichell School is preparing instructors for

-this work. We need lesson papers and

-other papers. Who will help us in this direction?

-Our Band of Hope consists of both

-adults and children. This society is working

-hard to save men from a drunkard’s

-grave, and hell. It has much opposition to

-overcome. The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking

-church-people are its worst enemies.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Twichell School.</span>&mdash;This school is held

-in the church, and is taught by the pastor.

-Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.

-and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school

-at Grand Rapids, Mich., we have

-been able to instruct hundreds of children,

-and it is pleasing to know that our labor

-has not been in vain, for many of the little

-ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord.

-Mrs. S. N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the

-Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids, Mich.,

-and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere

-thanks for the deep interest they have

-taken in this work. Every effort put forth

-in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant

-people deserves the heartiest encouragement.</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<h4>School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents

-Buying Farms.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.</p>

-

-<p>Our school is very small, as it always is

-at this season of the year, the children

-having to assist their parents in farming.

-For that reason, during the summer months

-of the previous years, we have had to teach

-about two hours at night, for the benefit of

-those who could not come in the daytime.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>

-We have not yet commenced night-school

-this year, though it is desired by many.</p>

-

-<p>There are many children in our neighborhood

-who belong to our school, but we

-find it very difficult to get all, or the most

-of them, to attend school regularly. We

-have a pretty good average attendance,

-but do not at all times have the same

-scholars, which causes much discord and

-delay.</p>

-

-<p>The children seem to be anxious to

-learn, but it is done in the midst of hardships

-which are uncommon to children in

-many other places. The older people are

-not as much interested in the education of

-their children as they should be, by a great

-deal.</p>

-

-<p>Only two schools for the colored children

-are kept up during the year in this

-county, namely, Second Midway and Old

-Midway. There are other places I know

-of in this county, where much might be

-done in the way of instructing the people

-in the right way, and they would be very

-glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.</p>

-

-<p>About two-thirds of the colored people

-in this county are trying to buy land, and

-really some have succeeded in so doing;

-but it is done by about four years’ <em>hard</em>

-labor and strict economy. There is very

-little money in this county, and it will be

-so until the colored people pay for and take

-possession of these lands. After a couple

-of years they will be able to do much for

-themselves in many ways.</p>

-

-<hr class="tb" />

-

-<h4>A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.</p>

-

-<p>The Mission School at Marietta was

-opened Oct. 15th, 1877, with four pupils

-only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there

-were fourteen. The end of January found

-a roll of thirty-seven, which has steadily increased

-to seventy-two. It may be seen that

-the growth of this school was not very rapid,

-from the fact that it was opposed by many

-of the colored people in the city. But the

-more water they threw on this little spark,

-the brighter and faster it burned, till it has

-become a centre of attraction. Friends of

-this work are fast multiplying, and the future

-seems bright.</p>

-

-<p>My school is composed of some very

-bright and promising young men and women,

-seven of whom go out every summer

-to teach. The studies are spelling, reading,

-writing, geography, composition, grammar,

-and arithmetic.</p>

-

-<p>To this work is attached a literary society,

-known as the Junto, the exercises of

-which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,

-and singing. It was likewise opposed,

-but is now as largely attended as

-any church in the city.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>MISSISSIPPI.</h3>

-

-<h4>An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The

-Gourd Family.</h4>

-

-<p class="secauth">MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.</p>

-

-<p>Our school, in age, ranks among the older

-ones, having been established in the Spring

-of 1866, and we have been its teachers continuously

-up to the present time. First,

-we were missionary teachers; after a time

-the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid, until

-the organization of free schools by the

-State; thereafter, we taught the public

-school until last year.</p>

-

-<p>During all these years of varying fortunes

-our school has steadily progressed,

-until there has grown up around us a generation

-of young people, not great, nor wise,

-nor learned, only as they are compared with

-those who have gone before them; but,

-standing out from the blackness of darkness

-of twelve years ago, they furnish a

-bright and hopeful outlook.</p>

-

-<p>We organized a Temperance society

-early in our work here, and it has never

-died out. We, several years ago, gave the

-control into the hands of the young people,

-being only members, for service, when

-needed. They have changed names, and

-banners, and badges more than once&mdash;just

-now it is blue ribbon&mdash;but the object has

-always been the same. Our Sunday-school

-has always claimed our best efforts, and we

-are glad to know that more than two-thirds

-of our older scholars are professing Christians.

-But the work done is but a drop<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span>

-compared with that which is not done. We

-have lived to see very many hopes and

-dreams fade out, and to learn that manhood

-and womanhood are not plants of the gourd

-family&mdash;Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge

-of what we have not done, and cannot

-do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,

-perhaps, we have thus learned to do what

-we can the more gladly, feeling sure that

-we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe

-this is a part of the work, for we, too, are

-our Father’s children.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD

-UNIVERSITY.</h3>

-

-<h4>Its Catholicity&mdash;Closing Exercises.</h4>

-

-<p>The year of the Theological Department

-of Howard University has just closed. This

-department is under the joint care and support

-of the Presbytery of Washington, and

-of the American Missionary Association.

-The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as

-Professor of Revealed Theology and Biblical

-History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D.,

-as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral

-Science; the latter supplies the instruction

-given by the President, Rev. Wm. W. Patton,

-D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences

-of Revealed Religion, and Hebrew,

-and by Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., in

-Pastoral Theology, Church History, and

-Homiletics. The theological students this

-year have numbered thirty-two. These are

-in all stages of preparation for their expected

-work. Several are already ministers,

-and are preaching, every Sunday, as

-pastors of colored churches in Washington;

-but, having had no early advantages, they

-are making up deficiencies as best they can.</p>

-

-<p>The theological students come from seven

-different denominations, while their instructors

-represent four. This is an unusual illustration

-of Christian union, and shows

-how much can be done, on a simple evangelical

-basis, for meeting the pressing wants

-of the colored population of our land. The

-work needs to be conducted on a broad,

-generous basis. We can thus introduce a

-powerful leaven of truth and righteousness

-where it is especially needed. The plan of

-instruction has been, to meet the special

-wants of each individual according to his

-age, his forwardness or backwardness of

-study, the time that he could remain, etc.

-Such as have enjoyed a classical education,

-are encouraged to take the regular three

-years’ course pursued in all theological

-seminaries. Others are taught what is

-found to be most needed to fit them for

-their work, in the form of English studies.

-Six have studied the Hebrew this year,

-and they passed a creditable examination

-in the grammar, and in translation, averaging

-quite as well as ordinary white students

-in theological institutions. These students

-also attend the Bible-class conducted by

-the president on the morning of the Lord’s

-day, and his preaching service in the afternoon,

-in the latter of which he has lately,

-in a series of discourses, pointed out the

-weakness and absurdity of modern skepticism,

-as an antidote to the influence of the

-infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob”

-Ingersoll, who has taken up his abode in

-Washington.</p>

-

-<p>Although the theological students have

-numbered thirty-two this year, it so happens

-that but one has completed his course;

-and as a distinguished clergyman who, it

-was hoped, would deliver the address at

-the anniversary, failed us at too late a

-moment to substitute any one else, the

-closing exercises took the form of a debate

-by eight of the young men, on this question:

-“Has a church a right to make total

-abstinence from intoxicating drinks a condition

-of membership?” This point was

-debated with much earnestness and shrewdness,

-and arguments, <em>pro</em> and <em>con</em>, were

-drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture

-in a way which testified favorably to the

-abilities of the speakers. One of the Judges

-of the Supreme Court of the United States

-takes a deep interest in this department of

-the University, and lately expressed himself

-emphatically in favor of encouraging and

-endowing it, as an important means of elevating

-the colored ministry and churches of

-all denominations. Its friends anticipate

-for it a future bright with usefulness.</p>

-</div>

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span></p>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL

-CONVENTION.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.</p>

-

-<p>As gems are valued by their rarity, so

-you can imagine how such a gathering as

-the Sunday-school Convention seemed to

-us in Georgia.</p>

-

-<p>We were favored, not more by hearing

-the appointed speakers in the great Convention,

-than by the personal presence and

-good words of many of its delegates in our

-own school-room. Gen. Fisk, who has

-given not only his name, but his heart and

-hand to our Fisk University, took Atlanta

-and the Convention by storm with his

-happy address of welcome. It seems

-to me our young men can never lose

-the inspiration of hope and courage that

-must have come to them from him, whose

-youthful struggles had even exceeded many

-of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M.

-Parsons. All who ever listened to him will

-understand how, at the close of his words,

-we felt that, next to the Rock Christ

-Jesus, there was not beneath the sun so

-firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.

-Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president

-from Montreal, warned us of the

-Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,

-only a good Scotch Presbyterian could

-feel. Then we had “Hope Ledyard,” the

-charming correspondent, whose young life

-seems too exquisitely moulded to have always

-escaped the loving Father’s crucible.</p>

-

-<p>Best of all, we had good words from

-many not heard in the Convention, and,

-perhaps, unknown to fame. There was

-Judge Harman, of Oswego. How his clear

-eye took in the large possibilities of our

-work, and how his great heart went out

-toward us! As he warned us of the perils

-of a life without Jesus, and the depths of

-despair into which life’s trials could plunge

-a soul unsupported by the Everlasting

-Arms, his peaceful face and silvery hair

-assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed,

-some of us had rare glimpses into the

-blessed beyond. The words of Rev. A.

-P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that

-I was prevented from hearing, so lifted

-both teachers and pupils above the plane of

-plodding school life, that we almost trembled

-to look down. The fact that many such men,

-of kindred mind and heart, filled the silent

-pews of the Convention, seemed to me the

-secret of its power. We had heard as

-good papers from other platforms, but

-the sight of such a body, all delighting in

-the Master’s command, “Feed My lambs,”

-was enough to send us to our homes

-feeling, as one of our girls expressed it, “I

-know I shall be a better woman for having

-attended the Convention.”</p>

-

-<p>In response to an invitation for the delegates

-to visit our school, Governor Colquitt,

-who presided, remarked to the Convention:

-“The University is a good place to

-visit, and is doing a good work”; and added

-that he had a servant who had attended our

-school some years, and the instruction received

-there had not pushed him above

-his position&mdash;he was the same humble,

-faithful boy about his work. Every summer

-he came to him for a recommendation

-to teach, which he cheerfully gave him,

-and the boy always returned in the fall the

-same good, modest young man.</p>

-

-<p>Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion

-to express his appreciation of our work.

-After the close of his sermon, at the Central

-Presbyterian Church here, while recounting

-to the audience the many things

-of interest he had enjoyed in their city, he

-remarked that he had recently visited most

-of the universities of Europe, and added

-that nothing in Atlanta, or the great universities

-abroad, had interested him so

-heartily as their Atlanta University.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN

-CONFERENCE.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.</p>

-

-<p>New Iberia was the place selected for

-our Annual Meeting this year, April 3-5,

-and one more attractive, or more important

-to the general interests of our work, could

-not have been chosen. This church was organized

-in 1866, and has a membership of

-117, of which thirty have been received on

-profession of faith the past year. The population

-of the city is about 3,000, of whom

-nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p>

-

-<p>The South-western Conference is composed

-of fourteen Congregational churches,

-of which twelve were represented at our

-Annual Meeting.</p>

-

-<p>The reports from the churches showed

-very clearly that the past year had been

-one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.

-Several churches, as the Central,

-in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s, in Terrebonne,

-have been blessed with revivals of

-great power. Other churches have been

-cutting off dead branches, and putting

-themselves in condition for better service.

-In tabulating the reports, I find that the present

-membership of the churches of our Conference

-is 806. There have been added on

-profession during the year (ending April

-1st, 1878,) <em>one hundred and thirteen</em>, and

-four by letter. Forty-seven adults and

-<em>eighty babies</em> have been baptized.</p>

-

-<p>As I have already spoken of the precious

-revival in Central Church, in which more

-than fifty were converted, and the church

-itself greatly quickened and refreshed,

-I will not recite the facts again. The

-church of Brother Clay (one of the

-veterans and pioneers of Congregationalism

-in Louisiana), in Terrebonne,

-has passed through joyful and glorious experiences.

-The church has been thronged

-for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I

-did not know where all the people came

-from. The church and church-yard were

-filled with a dense mass of people. It

-seemed as though they sprung out of the

-ground.” Night after night the earnest

-truths of the Gospel were preached, and

-night after night “mourners” crowded the

-anxious seats, crying for mercy. The

-people came from long distances, five and

-seven miles. God put honor upon His

-word, and many have been converted, and

-still the good work goes on. Pastor Clay’s

-heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.</p>

-

-

-<h4>QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.</h4>

-

-<p>Among the topics considered at the

-Conference were the following:</p>

-

-<p><em>Revivals</em>: The best method of promoting

-and conducting them. <em>Education</em>: The

-demand of the hour; how shall we meet

-it? <em>Faith</em>: Its nature; how can we secure

-greater faith? Its joys and its triumphs.

-What more can we do to reach

-the people with the Gospel?</p>

-

-<p>These questions were discussed with vigor

-and interest. Of course, no speeches had

-been prepared in advance, and I was surprised

-at the real excellence of the addresses.

-Mistakes in grammar were sometimes

-made, and there were not many classical

-allusions, but the speeches had the

-true ring, and good will come of them.</p>

-

-

-<h4>PUBLIC SERVICES.</h4>

-

-<p>The opening sermon was given by the

-Moderator, Mr. Alexander, from Matthew

-1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel;

-which being interpreted is, God

-with us.” It was a great pleasure to speak

-to such an audience. The church was

-densely packed, the entry was filled; people

-took positions under the windows on the

-outside, and fully one hundred, having sought

-admission in vain, went reluctantly away.

-Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached the

-second evening; after which, the Moderator

-made an address on “Christian Unity,”

-in the hope of removing or modifying some

-of the asperities and jealousies existing

-among the colored churches. The address

-was received with strong expressions of

-sympathy. One good old “auntie” said

-the next day: “Don’t you say anything

-against that minister. He is trying to

-build up both sides. He don’t wish to

-break down anybody.”</p>

-

-

-<h4>ORDINATION.</h4>

-

-<p>On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a

-member of the church at New Iberia, but

-a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed

-a faithful examination before the Conference

-regarding his Christian experience, his

-religious belief, and his ability to preach,

-was ordained as an Evangelist.</p>

-

-<p>Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian,

-and will make an able and successful minister.

-He has served the churches faithfully for

-two years or more without compensation.

-He owns a small farm of eighteen acres on

-the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.

-His worthy wife was for a short time a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>

-student in Straight University. He expresses

-his willingness to leave his beautiful

-home, and go anywhere, even to Africa,

-where God may call him.</p>

-

-

-<h4>FAREWELL MEETING.</h4>

-

-<p>Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell

-prayer-meeting.” It was a most tender

-and impressive scene. As one after another

-spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was

-wet with manly tears, and when the entire

-Conference rose and joined hands, and they

-sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to

-themselves, beginning “Good-by, and shake

-hands,” and we entered into covenant with

-God and with each other to go forth to

-another year of labor and self-denial, those

-dear brethren, in the excess of religious

-emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus

-was our meeting of 1878 brought to a

-close. The good pastor at New Iberia

-said: “Such a light was never kindled here

-before.” The Conference adjourned to meet

-in New Iberia next year, at the call of the

-Moderator.</p>

-

-<p>Dear brethren of the North, pray for us,

-and remember that we are trying to hold

-this distant outpost of the Church, and to

-extend, in this beautiful and fruitful land,

-the cherished faith and polity of our

-fathers.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES,

-GREETING.</h3>

-

-

-<p class="medium">We give the following extracts from a letter, written

-by the Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to

-the new missionaries to Africa. From the fact

-that they are all Fisk University students, the

-greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers

-in Africa is full of pathetic interest:</p>

-

-<p class="right">

-<span class="smcap">Erfurt, Germany.</span><br />

-</p>

-

-<p>To <span class="smcap">Albert P. Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Ada Roberts

-Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Andrew E. Jackson</span>, and

-<span class="smcap">Ella Hildridge Jackson</span>, Missionaries

-for Africa:</p>

-

-<p><em>Dear Brothers and Sisters</em>: The Jubilee

-Singers send greeting. Could we give

-you our greeting in person, it would be

-more satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey

-to you, in writing, how our hearts have

-gone out to you in love and sympathy, and

-up to God in thankfulness, since the glad

-tidings reached us of your having consecrated

-your lives and talents to mission

-work among our brethren in Africa. We

-have prayed and labored long for this day,

-and now, thank God, our prayers are being

-answered.</p>

-

-<p>We realize in how large a degree our

-success has been attributable to the faithful

-prayers of you and your fellow-students,

-sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk University;

-and let us assure you that while

-you are doing battle for the Master, by

-helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism

-and superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen,

-you, in like manner, will be sustained

-by the prayers of your fellow students, and

-warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in

-our own native land, but in Great Britain,

-Holland and Germany. They will follow

-your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully,

-watching for the fruits which ye shall reap,

-in due season, if ye faint not, and rejoicing

-with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.</p>

-

-<p>You are our first band of missionaries at

-the outpost of the American Missionary

-Association in the land of our forefathers.

-May the light of God so shine in your hearts

-that its reflected rays shall be a balm to

-those who may come to you, to be healed

-and taught of God. May He give you

-strength to thrust in the “sharpened sickle”

-when the fields are ripe for the harvest,

-and the laborers so few.</p>

-

-<p>With the love and best wishes of the

-Jubilee Singers.</p>

-

-<p style="padding-left: 30%;">(Signed)</p>

-

-<p style="padding-left: 45%;">

-<span class="smcap">Georgia M. Gordon</span>,<br />

-<span class="smcap">F. J. Loudin</span>,<br />

-<span class="smcap">B. W. Thomas</span>.<br />

-</p>

-

-<p style="padding-left: 55%;"><i>Committee</i>.</p>

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p>

-

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h2>AFRICA.</h2>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<h3>Arrival of the New Missionaries.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. FLOYD SNELSON.</p>

-

-<p>I received the letters, telling of the new

-missionaries on the way to our mission, with

-great joy. I left home late last Thursday

-afternoon for this place to meet them. We

-came on very well until Friday night about

-ten o’clock, at which time we were caught

-in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As

-I had not been here since our first arrival,

-there were many things to look after.</p>

-

-<p>Just as I was finishing up last night, the

-steamer came in, bringing them. I got out

-to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent nearly

-an hour with them. I am very favorably

-impressed with the first view of my new co-workers,

-and hope now to be able to carry

-on the work to greater success and with

-more ease.</p>

-

-<p>Next morning they came ashore, and

-expressed themselves as favorably surprised

-at the appearance of the place and people.

-On the 26th, we hope to leave early for

-Good Hope.</p>

-

-<p>

-<span class="smcap">Freetown, Sierra Leone</span>,<br />

-<br />

-<i>March 25th, 1878</i>.<br />

-</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday

-Service&mdash;A School Celebration.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. ALBERT MILLER.</p>

-

-<p>On reaching Freetown, and walking

-about the place and conversing with the

-natives, we were very favorably disappointed.

-Some are very intelligent and kind-hearted.

-We attended a Sunday-School in the afternoon,

-and were much pleased to hear the

-children read and sing. They reminded

-me of a small country school in the South.

-A little boy played on the organ. We

-visited several of the natives, and I was

-everywhere surprised at seeing so much

-intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson

-had made all necessary preparations for

-our coming. The mission house had been

-fitted up nicely, so that we soon felt as if

-we were in an American village. We remained

-in Freetown two days, and Brother

-Snelson lost no time in showing us the

-many things of interest in this African city.

-We visited the market, and saw many

-things in the line of fruits to interest us.

-All were well pleased, but still longed to

-reach our adopted home.</p>

-

-<p>Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March,

-we arrived here on the 28th, early in the

-morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.

-Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the

-mission met us at the wharf. We could

-not have been more kindly received by any

-persons. We have been here several days

-now, and find the work promising and

-encouraging. Brother Snelson and his

-helpers are hard at work, and things, I

-suppose, are much more hopeful than they

-have been for years.</p>

-

-<p>The church was filled last Sabbath to

-its utmost capacity with hearers. Brother

-S., I think is the right man in the right

-place. The only charge I am able to bring

-against him is overwork. He has the confidence

-of the people, which is so necessary

-to success. Services were conducted by

-Brother Jackson and myself.</p>

-

-<p>I find the people kind and obliging.

-They are very happy to have us, of their

-own race, come and teach and labor

-among them. Some seem ready to shout.

-We are well pleased with our new home,

-and are in a good state of health. The

-heat is very intense. All things seem to

-indicate a better day for the sable sons of

-Ham. Africa is not what rumor represents

-it to be&mdash;at least, what I have seen of it.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">April 3, 1878.</span>&mdash;To-day has been one

-of great interest, both to parents and children.

-The day-school, under the general

-management of Brother White, turned out.

-An examination took place in the forenoon,

-after which the schools (day and Sabbath),<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>

-with two banners waving o’er head, came

-marching to a place near the mission-house,

-where a dinner had been prepared for them.

-Brother Snelson led the schools, and the

-children, full of joy, followed him. He led

-them through the principal streets of this

-our city, the sides of the streets being filled

-with lookers-on. All this seemed new to

-them, and I dare say it is new to this part

-of Africa. We had music, but very different

-from such as our American friends are

-accustomed to. An old tin box served as

-kettle-drum. This, with other instruments,

-made music sufficient for the children to

-march and keep pretty good time. Returning

-to the tables, the little ones ate dinner,

-using spoons, which is something very new

-to them. Each one seemed to be happy.

-The patrons were called upon to contribute

-for the giving of this dinner. Many responded,

-sending chickens, rice, etc. Of

-course, the whole affair was devolved upon

-Brother Snelson. He received contributions

-from traders and officials, many of

-whom are here on the coast. These, you

-will remember, are white, the friendship

-and kind favor of whom Brother S. has

-gained. They did not attend the exercises

-of the day, but came out at night, and listened

-to speeches from members of the

-school. The pupils spoke and sang well,

-and reminded me very much of my past experience

-in the South&mdash;so Southern-like.</p>

-

-<p>All were highly pleased with the exercises

-of the evening. The American flag

-was on one side of the house, that of England

-on the other&mdash;thus bringing all in

-attendance between them. These two flags

-during the day were unfurled to the gentle

-breeze with which we were favored. Many

-of the leading men of Bonthe were here,

-and, with those from other places, took tea

-with us. I gain more interest daily for

-this my field of labor. I shall not wait to

-become acclimated, but shall proceed to

-labor at once.</p>

-</div>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>Advantages of Colored Missionaries.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.</p>

-

-<p>You would like to know what I think

-about colored missionaries doing good here.

-My firm belief is, that they can do more than

-any other missionaries under the sun. These

-people have always been used to colored

-people. Most of the white men whom

-they have seen were traders, seeking their

-own good. They robbed the people of their

-produce and children, and destroyed their

-confidence. A white missionary has to be

-more careful than a colored one. The

-natives look upon a white person as unnatural,

-and think he is above them in every

-way, and that God made him so. They

-also think it is of no use for them to try to

-do the things they see the white man do.

-But, on the other hand, when they see a

-colored man do anything, they think if he

-can do it they can do it themselves. They

-are a great people to imitate. For a proof

-of what I have said, look at the Shengay

-Mission. It is conducted altogether by

-colored missionaries, and stands ahead of

-others on the coast. Do not think I say

-this because I am a colored man. I say it

-because I know it is true.</p>

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>School Wants and Farm Work.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.</p>

-

-<p>The school opened very encouragingly

-this term, and before the close of the second

-week we had fifty-four different boarding

-scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission

-to others, on account of our limited

-accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever

-broke out, and before the close of the term

-twenty-three boarding scholars, and many

-of our day scholars, had been sent home on

-account of sickness.</p>

-

-<p>The boarding scholars seem, generally, to

-be happy and contented with us, and eager

-to return at the opening of each new term;

-and their progress in their studies, and general

-deportment, is much greater than with

-the day scholars. The general interest,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span>

-also, of the tribe in the subject of education

-is greatly quickened. The boarding-school,

-with suitable accommodations, might be

-made a great blessing to the tribe. We

-feel sure we could readily obtain 100 scholars

-if we had the accommodations.</p>

-

-<p>The tribe has asked the Department to

-appropriate, from their funds in the United

-States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of

-a suitable building.</p>

-

-<p>We see the dreadful results, in other

-tribes around us, of allowing the youth to

-grow up, without education, in contact with

-the whites, learning their vices and not their

-virtues, and it makes us long to see something

-done to save this people from the

-blight which has fallen upon so many other

-tribes before them.</p>

-

-<p>I have spent nearly three weeks going

-over the Reservation since school closed,

-visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the

-Indians to make larger improvements; and I

-have been very greatly gratified to notice so

-many already clearing up new lands. I

-have only found three or four families who

-will not clear up some new ground this

-spring. Some will clear as much as three

-or four acres. Many are chopping and

-logging heavy timber without any team to

-help them.</p>

-

-<p>I think there will be 300 acres of new land

-cleared this spring. I expect to distribute

-(only to those who clear at least one acre)

-1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats,

-wheat, and vegetable seeds, for many of

-them have not yet learned to provide beforehand.

-There are, however, quite a

-number who not only have enough for their

-own seed, but some to sell.</p>

-

-<p>Could the boarding-school be kept up

-regularly for a few years, we should have

-great hopes for the future of this tribe, but

-there seems to be a strange lack of interest

-in this matter on the part of the authorities

-at Washington. We are now anxiously

-waiting for instructions to re-open this

-school. Meanwhile, the day-school is in

-operation, with an attendance of twenty-two

-scholars.</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>An Indian Wants a Cow.</h3>

-

-<p>

-Dr G L Mahon<br />

-</p>

-

-<p>Dr Sir i thought i would write a few

-lines to you to asking you that you dint not

-answered me when i was asking you while

-you was here about the Cow i want you to

-give me one if you Can i thing i would use

-the Cow very much if you would give me

-one i could get Some Butter from her and

-i could make good living on Butter with

-Potatoes if you Send me one Send who

-have a young Calf in her thats the one i

-like to have her and you will let me know

-it By G Wheeler and another thing about

-Potatoes Zack Brown told me he hasent

-got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring

-and ive got Plenty potatoes in Net Lake

-and if you want any i could Sell it to you

-Some that is for Zack Brown wants it

-Now i send my Best Regards to you</p>

-

-<p>

-from <span class="smcap">Adawwan-ne qua benans</span><br />

-<br />

-<span class="smcap">Vermillion Lake</span>.<br />

-</p>

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<p class="center large">“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</p>

-

-<p class="center large">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 C.

-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. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. Palache, Esq.</p>

-</div>

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h3>Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and

-Petaluma.</h3>

-

-<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p>

-

-<p>Remembering that the Sabbath worship

-at our Central Mission had never been

-described, though often alluded to in the

-<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, I requested Bro. Fung Affoo

-to give an account of it, and received the

-following communication:</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot">

-

-<p>“As we have not much time to teach

-them the Scripture on any other evening,

-we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings

-to teach them to read the Bible instead

-of their other lessons. On Sunday

-we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at

-half-past eleven A. M., and continuing for

-one hour and a half. We sing about half an

-hour either in Chinese or in English, then

-offer a prayer, and then read a chapter from

-the Bible. Each verse they read after me,

-then I translate it into Chinese; when

-through interpreting, on each verse or

-paragraph I make some remarks which

-I have studied out during the week days.

-After we get through the chapter, I speak

-about ten minutes on a subject selected

-from that chapter beforehand, then one of

-our brethren offers prayer; we then unite

-in singing the Doxology, and close with the

-Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday

-evening are similar to those we have

-on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement

-in the work seeing that they like to

-read the Bible more than ever before.

-Formerly only about one-half of the school

-attended the Bible-class on Wednesday

-evenings, but now they number nearly as

-many on that evening as on any other evening

-of the week. It seems as though their

-hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of

-course, many come to read the Bible only

-for the sake of learning the English, but in

-time we hope, when they know the truth of

-God, they will change their mind and heart,

-as some of them have already done, who

-are now on Christ’s side, battling for the

-Lord.”</p>

-

-<p class="right">

-“<span class="smcap">Fung Affoo.</span>”<br />

-</p></div>

-

-<p>The attendance at this Sabbath noon

-service averages about fifty-five. Of course,

-my pastoral duties render it impossible for

-me ever to be present. I do not think, however,

-that my presence would add anything

-to the worship or the work. I assist the

-helpers in their preparation, but I believe

-that in dealing with their countrymen they

-are more skilful than I could be, even if I

-could speak Chinese. It needs an experience

-in heathenism, to enable one to

-reach the heathen in the most efficient way.

-God chooses saved <em>sinners</em> to be messengers

-of salvation to those still lost. I think

-that the programme of this service, as Bro.

-Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact.

-It is not one of my planning&mdash;not the one

-I should have chosen; but as I carefully

-consider it, I ask, “What <em>could be</em> better

-fitted for those for whom the service is

-arranged?”</p>

-

-<p>Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary

-labors among the Chinese at San Leandro

-were attended with so rich a blessing, is

-now acting pastor of the Presbyterian

-church at Visalia. He has carried there

-his zeal for this good work; has already

-rented a small room, and opened a school.

-We shall aid him as far as we are able.

-Would that we had a hundred men like-minded

-with him touching this work!</p>

-

-<p>Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish

-the care of the school at Petaluma, and is

-succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian

-spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade

-St., New York. This school is quite

-small, but its members surpass those of

-every other school in liberality, and I cannot

-consent to abandon them. Christ, too,

-is becoming known to them. With increasing

-interest they study God’s word.

-And they <em>sing</em>, somewhat at random, it

-must be confessed, in the matter of time

-and of tune, but with an eagerness and a

-gusto that betoken a beginning both of

-the spirit and the understanding in their

-song. Miss Anthony writes: “Wah Yene

-is a good Christian as far as he understands.

-He told me, one evening, that

-he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,

-and every night. Some people,’ he

-added, ‘not much good; likee go to

-church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor

-of the Congregational church] think

-they good. Some people very good, and

-pray to God. I likee be good&mdash;not much

-bad.’”</p>

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>

-

-<div class="article">

-<h2>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<p class="center large">A TEACHER’S STORY.</p>

-

-<p class="medium">The following letter is from a young girl who has

-not gone through the Middle Class at Hampton,

-but is showing much energy and tact, and doing

-good work as teacher in one of the rough places

-of the far South:</p>

-

-<p class="right medium">FLORIDA.</p>

-

-<p>I will first say, I am a colored girl;

-my native home is in St. Augustine.

-I was raised by kind Northern friends. I

-am teaching school on the St. John’s River,

-about thirty or forty miles from St. Augustine.

-In giving my descriptions, I will first

-describe my school-house. It is made entirely

-of logs, with the exception of the

-door and windows, which were given by

-Miss M. The skies may be seen in any

-part of the room. The cracks in the floor

-are large enough to put your hands through.

-When it rains, it leaks in like water dropping

-from the trees. There is no fire-place,

-nor was there any way for keeping warm

-until, the past week, a young man got

-me a little stove. But the house is so open

-this does but little towards heating it up.

-We have had some cold days, and the only

-way I had to keep my scholars warm was,

-to build two large fires and have the poor

-little children set around them (out of

-doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and

-bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart

-ache to see the tears stand in their eyes,

-when I asked them why they didn’t put on

-shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply

-would be, “I have on all the clothes I got,

-and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes,

-when I have on all I can to keep warm,

-most of my girls have only two garments on,

-the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some

-of my pupils have to come between two

-and three miles, and then cross a creek. I

-have a sewing-school for my girls once a

-week. I read to them, and teach them

-things to sing while they are sewing. They

-are to keep what they make. I have been

-teaching three-and-a-half months. The age

-of my scholars is from three-and-a-half

-to twenty-four years. I have enrolled

-thirty scholars, most of them very good,

-all anxious to learn. The people are

-very, very poor, and have real hard

-times in getting clothing, and keeping from

-starving. They live in log huts, some of

-which leak, and are in a dreadful condition.

-I don’t know how to describe some of them.

-There are a few white settlers here; some

-of them, when the folks work for them,

-won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the

-work they get from them is mostly their entire

-support.</p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<h2>RECEIPTS</h2>

-<p class="center large">FOR APRIL, 1878.</p>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $27.24.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Andover. S. W. Pearson</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B.

-$1</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.24</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Deerfield. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Stephen Brown, by

-Joseph T. Brown, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,”

-<i>for a Teacher</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">78.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.20</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.

-<span class="smcap">Rev. Austin H. Burr, L. M.</span></td>

-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob

-Chapman $5</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">6.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C.

-W. Wallace $25</td>

-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">19.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">34.78</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.81</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” <i>for Student Aid,

-Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">17.00</td>

-</tr></table>

-</div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $1,166.04.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">35.35</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">165.36</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3

-from “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab.

-Sch. $8.02</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.42</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Danby. Rev. L. D. M.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Barnard. Levi Belknap</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.

-John H. Hincks</span>, L. M.</td>

-<td class="ramt">32.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Walden. S. W. O.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Peacham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Ezra C. Chamberlin,

-by Wm. R. Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to

-const. <span class="smcap">Miss Jane E. Chamberlin</span> and

-<span class="smcap">Miss Jennie C. Watts</span>, L.M’s)</td>

-<td class="ramt">500.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Londonderry. “A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,”

-<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">150.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. F. P.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Swanton. Harry Smith</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.46</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.10</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;

-Mrs. L. W. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">17.10</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Westminster West. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Almira Goodhue,

-by Homer Goodhue, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">150.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">21.71</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G.,

-25c.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,

-Atlanta U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ashfield. B. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.54</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, <i>for Theo. Student,

-Talladega C.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">70.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bolton. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta

-U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch.

-$132.16; Rev. Chas. Nichols $25</td>

-<td class="ramt">157.16</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis

-Sanford, box of C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">69.21</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Buckland. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">9.55</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.

-<span class="smcap">Martin Nelson Root</span>, M.D., L.M.;

-Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.75</td>

-<td class="ramt">35.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">74.91</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.66</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">48.22</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20;

-Thomas P. Carlton $2</td>

-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">87.02</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">7.16</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75

-from “Carpenter Bees,” <i>for Colored Girls</i>)</td>

-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D.

-$1</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">126.89</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">6.17</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.

-$14.40; Mrs. E. H. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.40</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">36.02</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.56</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza

-Huntington $2</td>

-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss.

-Ass’n $6, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.97</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;

-Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.</td>

-<td class="ramt">228.87</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">41.88</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">13.47</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">58.72</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of

-books.</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Medway. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.

-Pond, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">135.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Melrose. E. N. C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Methuen. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Joseph F. Ingalls, by

-Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper,

-Ex’s.</td>

-<td class="ramt">959.09</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.

-<span class="smcap">Oliver Church</span> and <span class="smcap"> Rev. Chas. M.

-Peirce</span>, L.M’s</td>

-<td class="ramt">60.71</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Middleton. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Catharine Merriam

-Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">17.60</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Adams. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">27.68</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">47.06</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;

-Mrs. C. F. R. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">151.64</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. </td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;

-L. W. 50c</td>

-<td class="ramt">21.89</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. James R. Jones</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Princeton. H. N. M.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">37.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Salem. Geo. Driver</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Shelburne. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">9.61</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Southfield. W. H. E.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and

-Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">88.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;

-Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41</td>

-<td class="ramt">83.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.13</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.

-$38.55; Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South

-Cong. Ch. $12.96</td>

-<td class="ramt">73.06</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sutton. R. L.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">36.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Webster. First Cong. Ch. </td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C.

-Coll. $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs.

-W. F. Morse $5</td>

-<td class="ramt">87.95</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">26.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.14</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.39</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">41.80</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.86</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.</td>

-<td class="ramt">19.10</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">250.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, 27c.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Slaterville. M. J. T.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.27</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span></p>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ansonia. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">26.71</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Avon. Miss L. A. A.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">46.38</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Darien. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">35.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.24</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of George A.

-Paine, by John Paine, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">646.15</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Fairfield. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">54.42</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">63.52</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.44</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Guilford. “Lea.”</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">4.15</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G.

-$1; Mrs. G. T. G. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ledyard. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and

-Soc. $22; College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch.

-(ad’l) $5; A. T. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">38.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Branford. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, <i>for Student

-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, <i>for Student

-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, <i>for Student

-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith

-$5</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding,

-by Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams,

-Ex’s</td>

-<td class="ramt">1,046.63</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">118.65</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.81</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">22.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">South Coventry. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">47.84</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Southington. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">18.17</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">31.94</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">85.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">65.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Woodfords. Dr. E. C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $1,197,84.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Albion. L. S.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50;

-Mrs. J. E. Bean $10</td>

-<td class="ramt">22.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central

-Cong. Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E.

-Whiton $15; Mrs. William Bane, packages

-books and C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">526.65</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.60</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Eagle Harbor. A. P.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.48</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5

-for Student Aid)</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres </td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.52</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch.,

-by Lina Burroughs, box of C. and books.</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.

-$440.93.&mdash;“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab.

-Sab. Sch. $11.41, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;“A

-Friend,” package <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">452.34</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley</td>

-<td class="ramt">4.37</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy</td>

-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">9.58</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Rome. John B. Jervis</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Saratoga Springs. S. C.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke</td>

-<td class="ramt">6.80</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Brook. T. S. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Winfield. L. Bucklen</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $101.50.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)</td>

-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Phillipsburg. H. P. M.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $15.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $910.87.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Akron. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">81.70</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">9.71</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">23.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent, <i>for the poor in New

-Orleans</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">78.72</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">18.80</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Geneva. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Huntington. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">23.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Kent. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lenox. “A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of

-Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">6.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">New Richland. E. J.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.15</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mary I. Hulburd, by

-Hiram Hulburd, Ex.</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. L. F.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Penfield. B. R.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by

-J. H. Packer</td>

-<td class="ramt">400.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend

-$2.50</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.

-Josiah Strong</span> and <span class="smcap">L. H. Lewis</span>, L. M’s.</td>

-<td class="ramt">60.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First

-Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman

-$5</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">6.55</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.29</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.20</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;INDIANA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $21.67.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.67</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Liber. J. R. Wells</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sparta. John Hawkswell</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $945.82.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”</td>

-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Aurora. New Eng. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.60</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">473.78</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25,

-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>&mdash;Three Subscribers

-$1 ea.; Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany

-Cong. Ch. 50c</td>

-<td class="ramt">29.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">83.64</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">143.80</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student Aid,

-Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, <i>for Student

-Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1;

-A. M. S. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, <i>for Student

-Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., <i>for Student Aid,

-Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Student

-Aid, Fisk U</i>.</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson

-$2</td>

-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tonica. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $132.41.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting

-$2.75; C. I. W. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10

-ea.; M. Wood $5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.66</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Kalamo. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student

-Aid, Fisk. U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student

-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $145.60.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Big Springs. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Columbus. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.18</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Box of C. and $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Warren. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">17.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">West Salem. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">27.17</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $2,695.54.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student

-Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50;

-Prairie Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1,

-<i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">31.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., <i>for Student

-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">DeWitt. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,

-Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">9.06</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Grinnell. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.

-C. F. Dike, Exec’x.</td>

-<td class="ramt">2,500.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.&mdash;Hon. J. B.

-G., 50c., <i>for Mag.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">4.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Keokuk. “Signature”</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">13.53</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Henry Hoover, <i>for Student Aid,

-Fisk U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const.

-<span class="smcap">Mrs. Lucretia Deering</span>, L. M.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.85</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">1.10</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Waltham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Miss Emeline E.

-Williams, by William Mason</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $47.45.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">23.75</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Rushford. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>

-<td class="ramt">11.30</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tivoli. L. H.</td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">8.40</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $66.32.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.35</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">3.12</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A.

-M. R. $1</td>

-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Russell. Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”</td>

-<td class="ramt">15.85</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $31.50.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student

-Aid</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser</td>

-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, 51c.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $461.26.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll.

-$10.26</td>

-<td class="ramt">310.26</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, <i>for Student

-Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">13.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.25</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">137.75</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington

-Sch. $8.20</td>

-<td class="ramt">158.20</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong.

-Ch. $7.40</td>

-<td class="ramt">129.15</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Woodbridge. Tuition</td>

-<td class="ramt">3.05</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SOUTH CAROLINA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Institute</td>

-<td class="ramt">220.55</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA. $417.61.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta University</td>

-<td class="ramt">109.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley

-$12, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;Prof. T. N.

-Chase $25</td>

-<td class="ramt">95.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">62.70</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58</td>

-<td class="ramt">150.91</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $388.09.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">26.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Mobile. I. G.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Fund</td>

-<td class="ramt">225.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, <i>for Student

-Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">6.35</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talledega College</td>

-<td class="ramt">130.24</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker &amp;

-Son $5, <i>for Barracks, Tougaloo</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University</td>

-<td class="ramt">43.05</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., <i>for Barracks</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs <i>for Barracks,

-Tougaloo</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;LOUISIANA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $137.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University</td>

-<td class="ramt">137.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, 50c.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">San Antonia. G. W. W.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CANADA">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, 50c.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.</td>

-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ENGLAND">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $900.95.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., <i>for Mendi

-Mission</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">900.95</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SCOTLAND">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $200.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, <i>for a Teacher</i></td>

-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TURKEY">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $10.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Total</td>

-<td class="ramt">17,557.13</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th</td>

-<td class="ramt">$103,309.96</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<p style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;" >

-<span style="padding-right: 5%;">H. W. HUBBARD,</span><br />

-<i>Ass’t Treas.</i>

-</p>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Debt">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Brewer, Me. M. Hardy</td>

-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis</td>

-<td class="ramt">500.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt</td>

-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions</td>

-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>

-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">716.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Previously acknowledged March receipts</td>

-<td class="ramt">8,921.72</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Total</td>

-<td class="ramt">$9,637.72</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<div class="center">

-<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Austin, TX">

-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams</td>

-<td class="ramt">400.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="sub1">Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”</td>

-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">402.50</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts</td>

-<td class="ramt">422.00</td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>

-</tr>

-

-<tr>

-<td class="total">Total</td>

-<td class="ramt">$824.50</td>

-</tr>

-</table></div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span></p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-

-<div class="article">

-<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2>

-

-<p class="center large">Incorporated January 30, 1849.</p>

-

-<hr class="chap" />

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American Missionary Association</span>.”</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and

-educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and

-other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of

-effort.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1">[A]</a> who professes faith in the Lord

-Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who

-contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of

-thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have not professed

-their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or

-November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business at such time

-and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members

-of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary

-societies, and other co-operating bodies&mdash;each body being entitled to one representative.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice Presidents, a Recording

-Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive

-Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory,

-and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of

-funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient

-reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the

-transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of

-missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical

-jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of

-the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the

-complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference

-shall be final.</p>

-

-<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among

-the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State

-Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all

-officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society: to make provision,

-if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are

-deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general

-conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary

-spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.</p>

-

-<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries,

-and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will

-endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits

-of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings

-as slaves.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this

-Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled

-to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed

-upon.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the concurrence of

-two thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed

-amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee

-in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the

-regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>

-

-<h5>FOOTNOTE:</h5>

-

-<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1">[A]</a>

-By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a

-belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a

-Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice

-of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity

-of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy

-obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and

-the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the

-wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p>

-

-<hr class="full" />

-</div>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p>

-

-<div class="article">

-

-<h2><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>&mdash;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, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; <i>Other Schools</i>, 7.

-Total, 26.</p>

-

-<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</span>&mdash;Among the Freedmen, 209;

-among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252.

-<span class="smcap">Students</span>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;a pressing want.</p>

-

-<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below.</p>

-

-<table>

-  <tr><td class="smcap" style="padding-right: 20px;">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr>

-  <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td> Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.</td></tr>

-  <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td> Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.</td></tr>

-</table>

-

-

-<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3>

-

-<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the

-Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the

-Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological

-Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does

-not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.</p>

-

-<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary Association</span> in their last

-Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following:</p>

-

-

-<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3>

-

-<p>“I <span class="medium">BEQUEATH</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars in trust, to pay

-the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable,

-shall act as Treasurer of the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be

-applied under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its

-charitable uses and purposes.”</p>

-

-<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required&mdash;in

-other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence

-[if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will

-answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the

-said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of

-the said A.B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed

-our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is required that the Will should

-be made at least two months before the death of the testator.</p>

-

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p>

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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span></p>

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-      </p>

-    </div>

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-<hr class="full" />

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-<div class="figcenter figmargin" style="width: 500px;">

-<img src="images/marvin.jpg" width="500" height="526" alt="Ad for Marvin's Safes and Scales" />

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-<hr class="full" />

-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span></p>

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-  <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF</p>

-  <p class="center">THE</p>

-  <p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary,</p>

-  <p class="center">ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p>

-  <hr class="tiny" />

-  <p class="center xlarge">SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</p>

-<p>

-We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, giving

-news from the Institutions and Churches aided by

-the Association among the Freedmen in the South,

-the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,

-and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, <b>Fifty

-Cents a Year, in Advance</b>.

-</p>

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-<p class="center xlarge">OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.</p>

-

-<p>No. 1.&mdash;<b>History</b> of the Association.</p>

-

-<p>No. 2.&mdash;<b>Africa</b>: Containing a History of the

-Mendi Mission, a Description of the Land and the

-People, and a presentation of their claims on

-America.</p>

-

-<p>No. 3.&mdash;<b>The Three Despised Races in the

-United States</b>; or, The Chinaman, the Indian,

-and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M. A.,

-by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.</p>

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-<p>No. 4.&mdash;<b>The Educational Work.</b> Showing the

-nature and reality of the black man's needs; the

-way to help him; the sentiment of Southern men;

-the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the

-A. M. A.</p>

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-<p><em>Will be sent free to any address, on application.</em></p>

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-<p class="right">H. W. HUBBARD, Ass't-Treas., 56 Reade St., N. Y.</p>

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-<p class="center xlarge">ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</p>

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-<p>A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to

-Advertisements, for which our low rates and large

-circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our

-readers are among the best in the country, having

-an established character for integrity and thrift

-that constitute them valued customers in all

-departments of business.</p>

-

-<p>To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who

-are accustomed to the "<span class="medium">RULES</span>" of the best Newspapers,

-requiring "<span class="medium">DOUBLE RATES</span>" for these

-"<span class="medium">LUXURIES</span>," our wide pages, fine paper, and

-superior printing, with <b>no extra charge for

-cuts</b>, are advantages readily appreciated, and

-which add greatly to the appearance and effect of

-business announcements.</p>

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-<p>We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this

-department, and solicit orders from all who have

-unexceptionable wares to advertise.</p>

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-<p>Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span>

-of the month, in order to secure insertion in the

-following number. All communications in relation

-to advertising should be addressed to</p>

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-<p class="right" style="padding-right: 2%;">J. H. DENISON, Adv'g Agent,</p>

-<p class="right">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p>

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-<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2>

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-<p>Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed

-only where the error appears to be a printing error. The

-punctuation changes are too numerous to list; the others are as

-follows:</p>

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-<p>&mdash; “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (<a href="#Err_1">English and Scotch missionaries</a>)</p>

-<p>&mdash; missing “is” inserted on page 166. (<a href="#Err_2">The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving</a>)</p>

-<p>&mdash; missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.  (<a href="#Err_3">Africa’s sunny fountains</a>)</p>

-<p>&mdash; extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on page 191, just prior to “<a href="#Err_4">COOPER INSTITUTE</a>”.</p>

-<p>&mdash; “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (<a href="#Err_5">are well worth attention of</a>)</p>

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+<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 53227 ***</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p>
+
+<div>
+<p class="float-left"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></p>
+<p class="float-right">No. 6.</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">JUNE, 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">Paragraphs</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Principles and Plans</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_162">162</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Departure of the Azor.&mdash;The Indian Boys at Hampton</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_163">163</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">A Sunday-School Concert</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_164">164</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">An Educated Ministry.&mdash;Atlanta and Fisk Universities</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_165">165</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">News from the Churches</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_168">168</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Items from the Schools.&mdash;General Notes</td>
+    <td class="linenum"> <a href="#Page_169">169</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Straight University</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_172">172</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Virginia: <span class="chaplinen"> Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A Good Beginning</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">South Carolina: <span class="chaplinen">History of “Avery” Graduates</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Georgia: <span class="chaplinen"> Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band
+of Hope&mdash;Twitchell School.&mdash;School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents
+Buying Farms.&mdash;A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_175">175</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Mississippi: <span class="chaplinen">An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The Gourd Family</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_176">176</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Theological Department of Howard University</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_177">177</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">The International Sunday-School Convention.&mdash;Annual Meeting of the South-western Conference</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_178">178</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">The Singers to the Missionaries, Greeting</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Arrival of the New Missionaries.&mdash;First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday Service&mdash;A School Celebration</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_181">181</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Advantages of Colored Missionaries</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">School Wants and Farm Work</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">An Indian Wants a Cow</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and Petaluma</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">CONSTITUTION</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_189">189</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &amp;c.</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+NEW YORK:<br />
+Published by the American Missionary Association,<br />
+<span class="smcap medium">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="center medium">A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="article">
+<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.<br />
+</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.<br />
+</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>.<br />
+</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>,<br />
+</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>,<br />
+</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>.<br />
+</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>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<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">JUNE, 1878.</div>
+<div class="third right">No. 6.</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full bottom" />
+
+<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p>As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone,
+March 23d, just one month from the date of their leaving New York by steamer for
+England. They had only the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their
+destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new field seem to be
+quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter on the new work at once. We look to
+the Lord of the harvest for His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have
+gone from us to the Mendi Mission.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which the <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>English and
+Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting to begin their new work in Central
+Africa. The expedition of the London Missionary Society was, from July to January
+last, trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on Lake Tanganyika,
+but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season at Kirasa, only about one-third of the
+way. It is hoped that during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish
+themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches is in
+danger of being driven from its station at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant
+an enemy as a fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has
+sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations, and curtailed their
+usefulness in advancing the civilization of Africa. The station may have to be
+moved. A new site must be sought with great care, which will not be liable to this
+pest.</p>
+
+<p>In South Africa another missionary institution has been endangered by the Caffre
+War, three English officials having been murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith
+and O’Neill, of the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed
+by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of King M’tesa. We
+believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery are not liable to any of these perils.
+The station is accessible and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around
+them, nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to such regions
+are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set our hopes too high, or base
+them too confidently on any of the uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land
+of delays we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we cannot tell
+what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord&mdash;that He will suffer no evil to befall them,
+but give them strength for patient continuance in well-doing.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the Institutions we mentioned
+in the May <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, as needing greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We
+did not mention their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and perhaps the
+reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating the strain laid upon our resources this
+year, they have considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year, they laid
+before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how any institutions in the South can
+be in more pressing need than we of a new dormitory.”</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta Sunday-school Convention
+would be either “lionized or snubbed” to that extent that it would be better for him
+not to come, proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,
+fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from Texas. He was received
+and treated just as the others were, and he behaved as well. The fact is, they were
+much busier devising for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each
+other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.</h3>
+
+<p>&mdash;This Association does not affirm that races, any more than individuals, are equal
+in physical or mental fibre and development. Some races, as well as individuals, are
+manifestly below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all men shall be
+regarded as equal <em>before God and the Law</em>; and that hence, in all churches of Christ,
+no distinction be made, on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and
+administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally protected in person and
+property, and that whatever immunities or privileges are granted to one, be extended
+to all.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;This Association does not found exclusively colored churches. They are only exclusive
+because they are not exclusive. They are open to all races, and hence but few
+white persons unite with them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally
+among the colored people in the South, as being at present most accessible, yet
+it has always favored the establishment of churches, mainly white, where the distribution
+of population calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to unite with
+them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its first missionary in the South, was in
+the formation of white churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was
+sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white) Congregational Church
+in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend
+of the A. M. A., and at one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational
+Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated, under the
+auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary, who spent a month in
+Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that purpose. Not long since, the Association
+appointed a missionary in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity
+of Berea College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which he will
+preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These will be mainly white churches,
+but open to colored people. In like manner, the Association has promised missionary
+aid to a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San Antonio,
+Texas.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are in order to its religious
+work in America and Africa. Its best and most promising churches are established
+near the schools and colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them.
+These schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct thousands of pupils<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>
+in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a salutary influence into the homes, churches and
+neighborhoods where they reside. The schools and theological departments also send
+out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to their people in the
+South and in Africa.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part having a relation
+to the whole, and its plans, while at present embracing mainly the “Despised
+Races,” as they have been called, are restricted in principle to no race or continent.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”</h3>
+
+<p>The departure of the <i>Azor</i> with the first instalment of the African exodus, from
+Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the history of the colored race.</p>
+
+<p>It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman could be aroused
+by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the teachers in our schools, fears have been
+felt that, perhaps, the call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to
+respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall be made, there will be
+no lack of men. We have more to fear now from unbridled enthusiasm than from want
+of zeal.</p>
+
+<p>This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly, among disaffected
+politicians, but it soon became a sort of religious crusade. It gained but little progress
+among the people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary enterprise.
+From the time the <i>Azor</i> sailed into the harbor until her departure, on the 21st of April,
+with her living freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were thronged
+with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who
+had engaged their passages months before, were left behind, for want of room. How
+long this enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this first company, of
+course are questions to be answered by and by. We dare not venture any prophecy,
+either good or evil. It is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of
+our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to be to Africa what the Pilgrim
+enterprise has been to America, we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a
+different class of emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African
+civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up men of intelligence,
+and sound and broad religious principle, for this work, and we naturally look with some
+anxiety to the effect of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the South
+at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray for the success of the movement,
+that God may overrule all our fears, and make it for good. This one question we
+are glad to have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is no lack of enthusiasm
+in the negro heart for his fatherland; and that, when the call shall come for
+more laborers in that field, we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.</h3>
+
+<p>Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have been directed to Capt.
+Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried,
+as prisoners of war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which had
+taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They went South, each with his
+legs fastened to a log with chains. They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied
+wrongs. One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed himself
+on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had great brass hoops in
+their ears. They knew no word of English. It was their good fortune to fall into the
+hands of a Christian army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in seeking<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>
+to do them good, at length won their confidence, and succeeded, with the help of
+a few benevolent ladies, in teaching them some of the simplest elements of civilization
+and learning. A few of them can read very well.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of Tarrytown, N. Y., who had
+been teaching among them, determined to secure, if possible, the education of two young
+men of her class. She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised
+money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in. At length it was
+found that twenty-two of them desired to go to school. They are now discharged from
+their imprisonment. The old chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the
+better. Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be educated in
+the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular studies, and have been detailed to
+various departments of work, in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented,
+and their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.</p>
+
+<p>Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of lines, of which life is
+so full, and yet which never cease to surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at
+Hampton, to be trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and the teachers
+of their people. Thus the two races are brought face to face&mdash;“the two races whose
+past involves America’s greatest responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest
+problems.”</p>
+
+<p>It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for a year&mdash;that,
+with what he is able to earn by his labor. This amount has been pledged by individuals
+alone, or together, for the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having
+done so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its Secretary, to assume
+the tuition of one of her wards, and the Executive Committee desire to do so;
+and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in
+addition to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some of our friends,
+who may be especially interested in the elevation of the Indians, will make up this small
+amount, and help on this work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,
+and personality.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.</h3>
+
+<p>Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in Sunday-schools.
+What to do with the Concert, has been a question which has perplexed teachers and
+superintendents year after year, as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession.
+The verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly all
+learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try a Missionary Concert, or,
+if you please, an American Missionary Concert.</p>
+
+<p>But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern, even, can be sent,
+like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and by mail. We have one in our hands, about
+six inches by eight, four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers (prepared
+originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville, Mass.) upon the nature and the
+work of the A. M. A., and we are almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact
+information compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape. Coupled
+with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals
+during the Catechetical Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great
+interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near Boston; and we commend, most
+cordially, the thought and plan to the consideration and use of Superintendents and
+Presidents of Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme is a
+collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how to address their gifts to us.
+A new edition is in preparation, or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>
+in quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the Congregational
+House, Boston.</p>
+
+<p>District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an appeal to the Sunday-schools
+in behalf of the “Colored Student’s Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated
+that we are reaching (by student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand
+children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be reached.” He
+urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work. To know, is the first step toward
+supplying the want.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.</h3>
+
+<p>It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the colored people of
+the South should be in such earnest sympathy with the work of educating their people.
+Occasionally, we hear one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot”
+through, and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured by the
+application of science; but the expression of such sentiments is rare.</p>
+
+<p>In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain color to read, or
+any one to teach them, preachers were <em>born</em>, not <em>made</em>. The wether of the flock put a
+bell around his own neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the
+war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of venison or furs, was
+the man for chief; so the exhorter who could pick up the most texts of Scripture, and
+evolve from his own understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of
+his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the minister by universal
+consent.</p>
+
+<p>Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what Nature implanted
+in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not fear those made leaders by
+the voice of a theological seminary. They who, by their quickness of perception, tact
+and experience, control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon ability
+gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts, as well as the felt sentiments
+of the uneducated ministers among the colored people, I have no intention of
+placing a low estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have attained
+to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with good mental nourishment, and no one
+feels this more than they. The <span class="medium">BEST</span> minister combines natural ability of a high order
+with liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated ministry; and
+although the present pastors of the flocks may be secure in their places without learning,
+the next generation will insist upon education in their ministers.</p>
+
+<p class="smcap right">Prof. T. N. Chase, in the <cite>Christian Recorder</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.</h3>
+
+<p>A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some observations, which may be
+worthy of record. The location of both is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and
+Fisk Universities occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful sites.
+They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the importance of the work they represent.
+The buildings of both institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our
+party approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from top to bottom, as the
+students were studying in their rooms. “Hallelujah!” cried one of our number,
+enthusiastically, “God be praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one
+of us looked upon it without emotion.</p>
+
+<p>The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of educated Christian
+people. A more intelligent, cultivated and consecrated body of instructors it would be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span>
+hard to find. They are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social privileges
+in both cities are few or none at all, and some of them, for the sake of the work
+they are in, have refused tempting offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the
+colored race from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary enthusiasm in
+their work. Often did the eye flash and the face glow, as they spoke of the trials and
+advancement of their pupils.</p>
+
+<p>The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower of the colored race.
+Only those are likely to undertake so many years of study, with the self-denials involved,
+who have, to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an education, and
+in whom are unusual elements of character. They are procuring an education under
+great difficulties. There are few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit
+themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to help their race. They
+work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing little urging or government. It is not
+strange, then, that when both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the
+results should be unusually favorable.</p>
+
+<p>Among these results in both institutions, the good order is specially noticeable. At
+the table, where teachers and scholars eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in
+charge takes his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no restraints
+are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of voices, which does not prevent the
+slightest signal from being heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred
+or more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room at Fisk
+University, we noticed that no teacher was present, though perfect order was maintained.
+“Have you no instructor or monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?”
+“Why, no, sir,” one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We could
+but recall certain days of our own student life when, if our instructor chanced to step
+out of the room for a moment, there were instantly missiles flying about, and students
+darting here and there.</p>
+
+<p>There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They impress one at a
+glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing about them, in dress, or manner or
+language, to offend the most fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at
+these institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the whole character
+and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from these dark faces, and, in our admiration
+for the soul, we totally forget the color of the skin.</p>
+
+<p>The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must remember that
+most of them were born in slavery, and have learned to read since the war. A generation
+or two must pass before we can see the results of life-long training in schools.
+What we now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard to find at the
+North better teachers or better schools than the two Universities of which we speak;
+and their influence over the pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very
+fine. The normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special commendation.
+We were also much pleased at a recitation in Xenophon’s <cite>Memorabilia</cite>, in
+which three young men were reciting to one of their own race, a graduate of the
+University&mdash;Miss Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first instance
+of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more valuable evidence of
+educational progress than recitations was the correctness of speech and richness of
+thought manifest in the conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted
+to be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes took part
+freely. There are few pastors in the North who would not be glad of such clear
+thought and apt expression in their meetings as we there heard.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving the pupils rare qualities of
+earnestness and self-reliance. Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span>
+the ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the course of study, all
+the influences tend to develop a manly and persevering spirit. The students are accustomed
+every summer to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in
+most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There are few organized
+schools and few school-houses for the colored people outside the cities. The University
+students desirous of a school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then
+secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads, or, perhaps, of a vacant
+log-cabin; then they must obtain permission of the county commissioner to teach the
+school. It evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such circumstances,
+and yet these students earn every summer, in from three to five months of
+teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece. Sometimes parents are willing and able to
+educate their children, without throwing them thus on their own resources. After
+Fisk University was established, a colored man bought land near by, built him a comfortable
+house, and made his home there, with the express purpose of educating his
+large family of children. But such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education
+generally are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched
+with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our Northern seminaries), who,
+at the age of fourteen, determined to go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till
+she had earned the means. For five years she has been securing an education, paying
+her way by teaching every summer. Another student was pointed out to us, whose persistence
+under difficulties is still more remarkable. For the work of two successive
+summers, he has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and for last
+summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that would pay only half the average
+sum, he has as yet received only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet
+he is not discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A. K. Spence
+is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools in the North, to supplement the
+meagre sums earned by the students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry
+a student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his son a thousand dollars
+a year at a Northern college.) If any Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional
+fifty dollars for the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to receive
+a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce the students to receive aid.
+They are eager to do for themselves. Recently, some kind words were addressed
+them by a visitor, on the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers,
+“it is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not know
+them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than ever to persuade
+them to receive the help they need.”</p>
+
+<p>We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both institutions. Most of
+them, particularly among the boarders, are earnest and consistent Christians. We
+were much moved at some of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.
+The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the memory of the instructors.
+Jubilee Hall had just been completed. It seemed a paradise to the colored
+people. A farewell meeting was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,
+where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the students prayed&mdash;“O
+Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter this beautiful new building; but if
+Thou wilt not go with us, we do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay
+here.” The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons of revival
+ever since.</p>
+
+<p>The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that the elevation of
+nearly five millions of people rests largely on them. They have a worthy ambition to
+be the leaders of their race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new
+ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who have just gone from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span>
+Fisk University to Africa have left behind them an enthusiasm for missionary work.
+The students are now praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries
+of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as a definite and high
+aim. These students justly feel that in this land, and abroad, there is work for them
+to do. A glorious future lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful
+study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.</p>
+
+<p>It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety hung over Fisk
+University. Funds that were relied upon from Great Britain for current expenses had
+failed, and retrenchment, where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was
+under consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will not let it suffer.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Addison P. Foster.</span><br />
+</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>&mdash;Four students received to the church by profession May 5th. One
+of the Indian students lately received gives evidence of Christian character.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Raleigh, N. C.</span>&mdash;“Our church has shared with others in a revival blessing this spring.”
+Twenty were received to the church April 8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the
+pastor, writes: “There are several of the young men connected with our church and
+school who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if I can get some
+simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will form them into a class, and have them
+recite two or three times a week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Orangeburg, S. C.</span>&mdash;Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years in this
+church and school. The church membership has increased two-thirds. Two members
+received in April. Sunday-school thriving and increasing, and feeding the church. A
+Woman’s Foreign Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the A. M.
+A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have been in training for teachers
+this year.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Byron, Ga.</span>&mdash;“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in numbers steadily.
+A day-school will soon be opened. Young people are asking for prayers every Sunday
+evening.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>&mdash;One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church work is very
+encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have twenty boys from twelve to sixteen
+years of age in my class, and am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I
+have been here, has the church been so prosperous.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Marion, Ala.</span>&mdash;The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing. Three or four are to
+unite with the church at the next Communion.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Florence, Ala.</span>&mdash;Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on church services
+good, and one member received on profession at his last visit.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Abbeville, La.</span>&mdash;The church has been holding special meetings, crowded every night.
+Two have been received to membership; others are under deep conviction. Rev.
+Charles E. Smith is the pastor.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Memphis, Tenn.</span>&mdash;A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings of God’s word,
+and a higher standard of personal godliness sought. “The question, how to utilize the
+combined power of the Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed in
+the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly deepening interest. The
+church has passed in safety and triumph through its financial straits, deficiencies have
+been made up, current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for the
+summer demands.”</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Charleston, S. C.</span>&mdash;The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth anniversary
+April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were examined in Natural Philosophy,
+Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany, Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History,
+Latin, Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.; and an
+exhibition was held the following day, with music and recitations, to the great delight of
+a large assembly.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>&mdash;The school building was dedicated, with the chapel, March 24. There
+are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the building. The large one will seat
+110 pupils; the smaller, or recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole
+building is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington writes:&mdash;“We
+are credited by the people of the city&mdash;by the white people, especially&mdash;with having
+the prettiest chapel and school-rooms in the State.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Forsyth, Ga.</span>&mdash;School-house built last year&mdash;“a two-story building, without a
+chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied since February last. Attendance good.
+“A deep concern about the most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture
+every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young people can only stay
+in school two or three months at a time, is the greatest drawback. The white people
+are very kind, and respond generously to every call for aid.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Cuthbert, Ga.</span>&mdash;There has been going on for over two weeks a glorious revival.
+Nearly all the pupils of the school are converted; all of the highest class but one, and
+that one an inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A reading-room
+has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts between the two (Methodist and
+Baptist) Sunday-schools of the place.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Fort Valley, Ga.</span>&mdash;The day-school is improving by degrees. The Sunday-school
+is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented many from coming out, but the
+prospect is that very soon the school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with
+which to purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>&mdash;“The year has been in every way delightful and profitable.
+God has blessed us in every department of our work. Every month, and indeed every
+week, has brought some new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue,
+soon to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they represent as good a
+class of students as were ever gathered in the University. So much for numerical success.
+What is better, there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in
+the Faculty.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala., Emerson Institute.</span>&mdash;The new two-story brick building, 34×64,
+with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with exercises of great interest. A full
+account was received just too late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for
+the July <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>
+
+<h4>The Negro.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the income of the
+Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees distributed, in eight States, $35,400;
+in 1873, in ten States, $137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their
+report, and take the largest and smallest.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;April 21st, the barque <i>Azor</i> sailed from Charleston, S. C., with 250 emigrants,
+one-fifth being children. They go under the auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>
+to Boporo, about sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase
+a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from the Charleston <cite>News
+and Courier</cite> accompanies the <i>Azor</i>.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization Society, writes that
+vessels will sail under their auspices in June and November. He fears for the new exodus
+movement, as having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very
+outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances, which evinced the need
+of a competent controlling agency in the management of their affairs.”</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks ago, to organize
+a colony for the West, and measures were taken to promote that object. They denounced
+the Liberian exodus.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to all the colored people
+who may choose to emigrate thither, a cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection
+of her laws, and equal facilities for education.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association, giving little more
+than $200,000 a year towards founding Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits,
+among four million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we do little
+to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific slope; and our labor among the
+Indians is light. But our Romish friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year
+among the freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly schools.
+There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indians.”&mdash;<i>President E. P.
+Tenney, Colorado College.</i></p>
+
+<p>&mdash;“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres of land within
+nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on
+the industrial farm plan.”&mdash;<cite>Evangelist.</cite></p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Christian Observer</cite> is informed that there are twenty-five
+Romish schools in the three States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free
+board and tuition.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed by Gen. Lopez Analto,
+and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in Florida:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p>“I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that there are negroes
+from the United States at different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this
+day held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various pretexts, since the rebellion
+in the United States, and upon American vessels.”</p></div>
+
+<p>The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden death of Judge
+Leonard.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African Missions, are referred
+to on an editorial page.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of new missionary stations
+in the interior of Africa, is the effect which such civilized settlements among the
+hunting-grounds of the slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is
+still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian, Abyssinian, and negro
+boys and, especially, girls.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>The Chinaman.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge Sawyer has rendered
+a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who applied for naturalization papers, holding
+that Chinamen are not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the Naturalization
+Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens. “White,” he holds to be equivalent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span>
+to Caucasian; and that, by exact construction of the provision, all but white persons,
+and persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever from citizenship.
+The case will probably be appealed.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph Twichell, in his recent
+lecture at New Haven, to those who are either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese
+in America. Under his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually
+$100,000 in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut, where
+they are receiving a thorough course of education.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than $42,000 in school
+taxes. California law omits Mongolian children from the apportionment of school funds,
+refuses them admission to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen
+hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate schools for their
+three thousand children of proper age. Such are provided for those of African and
+Indian descent. The petition was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized
+it as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their part to
+“obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle their youth with ours, with a
+view, doubtless, to more thorough assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden
+of the complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate, and will work
+cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently not a “California diamond.”</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Intelligencer</cite> asserts that the opposition to the Chinaman
+is instigated mainly by the liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither
+of whom has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed in part of members
+from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under the care of Rev. J. M. Condit.
+This is the second church in California, all the members of which are Chinese.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Prof. Mooar in <cite>Evangelist</cite>: “Our greatest danger in regard to this problem is
+not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us, but that we shall fail to be Christian
+enough for him.”</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>The Indian.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;A writer in the <cite>Advance</cite> says that there are 6,500 persons in the Indian Territory,
+formerly slaves of the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided
+for their citizenship among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to each.
+In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was passed refusing to comply
+with the treaty; so that, in the land where they were born, and where they toiled
+in slavery to enrich their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children to
+the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no protection from, nor access
+to, the Indian courts of law. So, the big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under a territorial government,
+are in the face of solemn treaties, and the opposition of the various tribes to
+whom it has been promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor
+Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors, and their disregard of
+the rights of so-called inferior races.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed upon by the House
+Committee on Territories.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés prisoner to go to
+the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from punishment to the fugitives of that tribe,
+if they surrender to the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight
+with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood of Fort Ewell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>
+The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain that the agent has defrauded them,
+and threaten trouble. To Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers
+that, when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive cattle and other
+property of greater value; and that when peace is made, the Government will provide
+for them, as it does for all friendly Indians.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.&mdash;See Leavenworth
+<cite>Times</cite>. The <cite>Christian Recorder</cite> (A. M. E.) says: “No people can go down who
+make a plentiful use of soap and water.”</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h3><a name="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY" id="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY"></a>STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">New Orleans, Louisiana.</p>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.</p>
+
+<p>The Institution was incorporated June
+25th, 1869, and the first school building
+was completed in February, 1870. The
+American Missionary Association and the
+Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated in the establishment
+of the University. From the
+first, great numbers flocked to the school
+to enjoy its advantages, so that the capacity
+of the building was taxed to its utmost.
+The eagerness of the freedmen for education
+in 1870, and the two or three years
+following, was, perhaps, more intense and
+general than now. Between three and
+four thousand have been enrolled as students
+in the University during the eight years of
+its existence.</p>
+
+<p>It bears the name of Hon. Seymour
+Straight, of Ohio, who is one of its steadfast
+friends and benefactors.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LOCATION.</h4>
+
+<p>New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants,
+of whom 80,000 are colored people,
+is a most important point to be occupied
+in missionary work among the freedmen.
+As the commercial centre of the
+South-west&mdash;as the great cotton, sugar,
+and rice market of the Union&mdash;it out-ranks
+all others. In its intimate connections
+by river, bayou, and railroad with
+the most thickly populated negro districts
+of the old slave States, it is second to none.
+Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly
+adding to the negro population of
+Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there
+were 369,000 colored people in this State,
+and each year swells the number. Already
+it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire population.
+Without disparagement to any other
+section, we claim, also, that the colored population
+of New Orleans represents the highest
+intelligence yet attained by the race in
+America. It includes the genuine African,
+the mulatto, the quadroon, the octaroon,
+and yet other shades and grades; and in this
+mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion
+of intelligence, and a corresponding increase
+in the capacity of culture and development.
+It would require the quick eye of an “expert”
+to detect, in the fair complexion and
+delicate features of many who throng our
+churches and schools, the faintest trace of
+African descent. Without speculating upon
+the cause, certain it is that we find among
+the colored people of the Crescent City a
+quickness of intelligence, and a capacity for
+the best culture and the noblest development,
+and withal a thirst for knowledge,
+which is worthy of our best sympathy and
+most generous benevolence.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.</h4>
+
+<p>In a word, our aim is Education, in
+its broadest and best meaning. The elevation,
+the prosperity, the highest manhood,
+and the co-ordinate rank of the African
+race in America, in the friendly rivalry of
+races, are still in the future&mdash;whether in
+the near or remote future, depends largely
+upon the race itself to determine. Education,
+under Divine guidance, is the gateway
+to that longed-for future. That I
+mean education as allied with religion, will
+be assumed. That the race is not educated,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span>
+is by no fault of theirs. That they desire
+education, is to their credit. To help them
+to this education is both our duty and our
+privilege.</p>
+
+<p>The courses of study in this Institution
+include in the Academic Department, the
+Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory;
+and in the Professional Department,
+the Theological and the Law.</p>
+
+<p>We have a preparatory course, that we
+may secure better material for the higher
+courses. In the Normal course, special attention
+is given to those studies which will
+furnish young men and women with the
+education needed in the various branches
+of business life open to them, and which
+especially will qualify them as teachers, for
+which there is, and must continue to be, a
+great demand. In the Collegiate Department&mdash;which
+includes, among other studies,
+the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral
+Philosophy, and Latin&mdash;a higher grade and
+wider scope of studies will be added so soon
+as there is a demand for them. The school
+is yet in its infancy, and the number of
+those who are fitted to pursue to advantage
+the highest grade of studies is, of course,
+very limited.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LAW DEPARTMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>An able corps of Professors has been secured.
+Jurists of reputation and successful
+practice at the bar of Louisiana have
+kindly offered their services, with little hope
+of adequate compensation, and every facility
+is provided for young men of talent, who
+are attracted by the profession of the law,
+to fit themselves for honorable and successful
+practice. Regular graduates from this
+department, at the conclusion of a two
+years’ course of study, and a well sustained
+examination, are admitted to the bar of
+New Orleans, with authority to practice in
+all the courts of the Commonwealth.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>College graduates, who can be instructed
+in the original languages in which the
+Scriptures were written, are greatly desired,
+and until they can be secured, this
+department will but partially accomplish
+the object for which it was organized. The
+churches need thoroughly educated ministers,
+with carefully cultivated minds, who
+can intelligently preach the word. The
+degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers
+cannot be told. In the meantime, it
+is our aim to make the best use of the material
+we have, and transform it from a
+state of utter crudeness to one of partial
+fitness for the present demands of the
+churches. Men of piety and ability to
+speak and to teach are received, and advanced
+as far and as rapidly as their imperfect
+preparatory education will admit.
+Louisiana, with a colored population of
+370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.
+The churches are calling in vain for
+intelligent laborers to go forth into the harvest.
+I wish the prospect was brighter for
+a large class of intelligent, spiritual, and
+enthusiastic students to enter this department,
+and to lift it to a high grade of usefulness.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE NEW UNIVERSITY.</h4>
+
+<p>The building on Esplanade street, built
+in 1870, was entirely destroyed by fire February
+16th, 1877. Since that disastrous
+event, our sessions have been held in Central
+Church, which is also the property of
+the American Missionary Association. A
+new site, more convenient and attractive,
+was purchased in January last. It is located
+on Canal street, the most beautiful
+avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a
+half square of land, 150 feet front by 310
+feet in depth. The new building, for whose
+design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas
+N. Chase, while not adhering strictly to any
+style of architecture, may be classed as <em>Italian</em>,
+as it approaches more nearly to that
+order. The dimensions of the building are
+72 feet by 51½ feet. The five large recitation
+rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The
+halls are 10 feet in width. The building is
+conveniently arranged, and all the requirements
+of the school, we think, have been
+anticipated in its design. The funds at the
+disposal of the Association did not admit of
+ornamentation; but the building, when completed,
+will be substantial, convenient, and
+comely. It will be ready for dedication
+and occupation at the opening of the fall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span>
+term, October 1st. Grateful as we are for
+this new structure, we are not satisfied;
+neither should the friends of the freedmen
+in the North be satisfied. Straight University,
+in order to fill the measure of its
+usefulness, and cultivate the territory open
+to its occupation, must furnish accommodations
+for students from abroad&mdash;from towns
+outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining
+States. It must have <em>dormitories</em>. Two
+buildings, one on either side of the main
+building, are urgently needed, and at the
+earliest possible day. Then, when our
+group of buildings are completed, we can invite
+and welcome the best talent of the
+race, at whatever distance from New Orleans
+it may be found. Then our beloved
+University will become, among the educational
+institutions of the South-west&mdash;and
+especially of the Gulf States&mdash;the magnet,
+attracting to itself the best in intellect, in
+heart, and in promise of future good.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>VIRGINIA.</h3>
+<h4>Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A
+Good Beginning.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.</p>
+
+<p>Four students united with the church by
+profession the first Sabbath in May. It is
+several years since any Communion season
+has passed without some additions to the
+church.</p>
+
+<p>The fifteen Indians who have lately joined
+the school have taken hold of study and of
+manual labor with commendable zeal, and
+give promise of becoming good teachers
+and guides of their race. One of them
+now shows evidence of Christian character.
+Their promptness and decision, as to the
+duties required of them, were put to the
+test in reference to the use of tobacco, to
+which they were so strongly attached that,
+as one of them said:&mdash;“There are three
+things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I
+love smoke.” When asked if they would
+comply with the rules of the school, prohibiting
+the use of tobacco, after considering
+the matter awhile in silence, one of them
+gave an expressive sign that he would cut
+loose from tobacco; and then all the others
+gave the same significant pledge&mdash;a pledge
+which, their teacher assures us, they will
+never break.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>SOUTH CAROLINA.</h3>
+<h4>History of “Avery” Graduates.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.</p>
+
+<p>Avery Normal Institute was organized in
+Charleston, S. C., October, 1865. The first
+formal graduation occurred in June, 1872,
+at which time eleven young people received
+diplomas from the Institute. A class has
+been graduated each succeeding year, numbering
+as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874,
+six; 1875, fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including
+one post-graduate); 1877, twenty-two&mdash;giving
+a total of eighty-six. Of this number,
+death has taken five.</p>
+
+<p>Our school aims to fit its graduates to be
+competent teachers. Forty-six have been
+engaged in the public schools of the State&mdash;schools
+first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.
+Forty-one of the forty-six are
+teaching to-day; seventeen hold State certificates.</p>
+
+<p>One young man of the class of 1872 is an
+ordained minister. He was also graduated
+at South Carolina University in 1877.
+Another from that class, and one from the
+succeeding class, are studying with the
+ministry in view&mdash;one at Madison University,
+New York, the other at Atlanta University,
+Georgia. Three others from later
+classes are in higher institutions, preparing
+themselves to preach the Gospel.</p>
+
+<p>Our graduates bid fair to represent all
+the professions. One is in Howard University,
+studying medicine, and one in the
+leading Normal school of our county, preparing
+for teaching. The total number in
+higher institutions is seven, while four more
+have already received the degree of A. B.
+Five others were in South Carolina University
+when it closed its doors. These
+young men were ready to enter the Junior
+year of the College course when their studies
+were so abruptly ended. With one exception,
+they are teaching.</p>
+
+<p>Thirty-eight of our graduates are members
+of Evangelical churches; twenty at
+present are engaged in Sunday-school work.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>“By their fruits ye shall know them.”
+But is this all that Avery has done? No!
+Her influence has pervaded the homes of
+hundreds, and the lives of thousands. Her
+light has shone in every quarter of the
+State; and other lands are destined to share
+in her gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying
+three of her pupils to <a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>“Africa’s sunny
+fountains.”</p>
+
+<p>The questions are often asked: “What
+per cent. of your school is brown?” “Don’t
+the browns receive instruction more readily
+than the blacks?” The query, in the minds
+of so many, has led to an actual count of
+the graduates with regard to color, which
+gives: <em>Black</em>, 19; <em>brown</em>, 55; <em>fair</em>, 12.
+But, “the Lord is the maker of them all;”
+nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We
+sow “beside all waters.” “What shall
+the harvest be?”</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>GEORGIA.</h3>
+<h4>Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band
+of Hope&mdash;Twichell School.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.</p>
+
+<p>This small settlement of colored people
+is situated three miles west of Savannah,
+Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent,
+and divided into half-acre lots, which are
+now selling, on the instalment plan, for seventy-five
+dollars each. The houses are
+very small and uncomfortable; but since
+the American Missionary Association has
+erected a new meeting-house and parsonage,
+the people have commenced to put up
+better dwellings, and a strong love for
+home comforts is gradually taking hold
+upon the masses. The inhabitants of
+Woodville obtain a living by selling in the
+city market, or laboring in gardens and on
+rice plantations. In this settlement there
+are two groceries, and three on its border,
+where strong drink is sold, even on the
+Lord’s day.</p>
+
+<p>The only house of worship in this place
+is the Pilgrim Congregational Church.
+This church was organized in 1871 as the
+Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875
+as the Pilgrim Church. A new site was
+chosen, and the present meeting-house was
+erected in the same year. This church has
+been a great blessing to the people. A
+deep religious feeling has prevailed in our
+midst, and many have become savingly acquainted
+with the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev.
+Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this
+little church, and a great assistant to the
+young pastor in charge. A revival is still
+in progress; twenty persons have been
+recently added to the church, and seven
+are waiting to be received at the next
+Communion.</p>
+
+<p>The Sabbath-school is prospering. We
+have no well qualified teachers as yet, but
+Twichell School is preparing instructors for
+this work. We need lesson papers and
+other papers. Who will help us in this direction?
+Our Band of Hope consists of both
+adults and children. This society is working
+hard to save men from a drunkard’s
+grave, and hell. It has much opposition to
+overcome. The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking
+church-people are its worst enemies.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Twichell School.</span>&mdash;This school is held
+in the church, and is taught by the pastor.
+Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.
+and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school
+at Grand Rapids, Mich., we have
+been able to instruct hundreds of children,
+and it is pleasing to know that our labor
+has not been in vain, for many of the little
+ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord.
+Mrs. S. N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the
+Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
+and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere
+thanks for the deep interest they have
+taken in this work. Every effort put forth
+in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant
+people deserves the heartiest encouragement.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents
+Buying Farms.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.</p>
+
+<p>Our school is very small, as it always is
+at this season of the year, the children
+having to assist their parents in farming.
+For that reason, during the summer months
+of the previous years, we have had to teach
+about two hours at night, for the benefit of
+those who could not come in the daytime.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>
+We have not yet commenced night-school
+this year, though it is desired by many.</p>
+
+<p>There are many children in our neighborhood
+who belong to our school, but we
+find it very difficult to get all, or the most
+of them, to attend school regularly. We
+have a pretty good average attendance,
+but do not at all times have the same
+scholars, which causes much discord and
+delay.</p>
+
+<p>The children seem to be anxious to
+learn, but it is done in the midst of hardships
+which are uncommon to children in
+many other places. The older people are
+not as much interested in the education of
+their children as they should be, by a great
+deal.</p>
+
+<p>Only two schools for the colored children
+are kept up during the year in this
+county, namely, Second Midway and Old
+Midway. There are other places I know
+of in this county, where much might be
+done in the way of instructing the people
+in the right way, and they would be very
+glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.</p>
+
+<p>About two-thirds of the colored people
+in this county are trying to buy land, and
+really some have succeeded in so doing;
+but it is done by about four years’ <em>hard</em>
+labor and strict economy. There is very
+little money in this county, and it will be
+so until the colored people pay for and take
+possession of these lands. After a couple
+of years they will be able to do much for
+themselves in many ways.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.</p>
+
+<p>The Mission School at Marietta was
+opened Oct. 15th, 1877, with four pupils
+only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there
+were fourteen. The end of January found
+a roll of thirty-seven, which has steadily increased
+to seventy-two. It may be seen that
+the growth of this school was not very rapid,
+from the fact that it was opposed by many
+of the colored people in the city. But the
+more water they threw on this little spark,
+the brighter and faster it burned, till it has
+become a centre of attraction. Friends of
+this work are fast multiplying, and the future
+seems bright.</p>
+
+<p>My school is composed of some very
+bright and promising young men and women,
+seven of whom go out every summer
+to teach. The studies are spelling, reading,
+writing, geography, composition, grammar,
+and arithmetic.</p>
+
+<p>To this work is attached a literary society,
+known as the Junto, the exercises of
+which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,
+and singing. It was likewise opposed,
+but is now as largely attended as
+any church in the city.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>MISSISSIPPI.</h3>
+
+<h4>An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The
+Gourd Family.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.</p>
+
+<p>Our school, in age, ranks among the older
+ones, having been established in the Spring
+of 1866, and we have been its teachers continuously
+up to the present time. First,
+we were missionary teachers; after a time
+the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid, until
+the organization of free schools by the
+State; thereafter, we taught the public
+school until last year.</p>
+
+<p>During all these years of varying fortunes
+our school has steadily progressed,
+until there has grown up around us a generation
+of young people, not great, nor wise,
+nor learned, only as they are compared with
+those who have gone before them; but,
+standing out from the blackness of darkness
+of twelve years ago, they furnish a
+bright and hopeful outlook.</p>
+
+<p>We organized a Temperance society
+early in our work here, and it has never
+died out. We, several years ago, gave the
+control into the hands of the young people,
+being only members, for service, when
+needed. They have changed names, and
+banners, and badges more than once&mdash;just
+now it is blue ribbon&mdash;but the object has
+always been the same. Our Sunday-school
+has always claimed our best efforts, and we
+are glad to know that more than two-thirds
+of our older scholars are professing Christians.
+But the work done is but a drop<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span>
+compared with that which is not done. We
+have lived to see very many hopes and
+dreams fade out, and to learn that manhood
+and womanhood are not plants of the gourd
+family&mdash;Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge
+of what we have not done, and cannot
+do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,
+perhaps, we have thus learned to do what
+we can the more gladly, feeling sure that
+we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe
+this is a part of the work, for we, too, are
+our Father’s children.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD
+UNIVERSITY.</h3>
+
+<h4>Its Catholicity&mdash;Closing Exercises.</h4>
+
+<p>The year of the Theological Department
+of Howard University has just closed. This
+department is under the joint care and support
+of the Presbytery of Washington, and
+of the American Missionary Association.
+The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as
+Professor of Revealed Theology and Biblical
+History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D.,
+as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral
+Science; the latter supplies the instruction
+given by the President, Rev. Wm. W. Patton,
+D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences
+of Revealed Religion, and Hebrew,
+and by Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., in
+Pastoral Theology, Church History, and
+Homiletics. The theological students this
+year have numbered thirty-two. These are
+in all stages of preparation for their expected
+work. Several are already ministers,
+and are preaching, every Sunday, as
+pastors of colored churches in Washington;
+but, having had no early advantages, they
+are making up deficiencies as best they can.</p>
+
+<p>The theological students come from seven
+different denominations, while their instructors
+represent four. This is an unusual illustration
+of Christian union, and shows
+how much can be done, on a simple evangelical
+basis, for meeting the pressing wants
+of the colored population of our land. The
+work needs to be conducted on a broad,
+generous basis. We can thus introduce a
+powerful leaven of truth and righteousness
+where it is especially needed. The plan of
+instruction has been, to meet the special
+wants of each individual according to his
+age, his forwardness or backwardness of
+study, the time that he could remain, etc.
+Such as have enjoyed a classical education,
+are encouraged to take the regular three
+years’ course pursued in all theological
+seminaries. Others are taught what is
+found to be most needed to fit them for
+their work, in the form of English studies.
+Six have studied the Hebrew this year,
+and they passed a creditable examination
+in the grammar, and in translation, averaging
+quite as well as ordinary white students
+in theological institutions. These students
+also attend the Bible-class conducted by
+the president on the morning of the Lord’s
+day, and his preaching service in the afternoon,
+in the latter of which he has lately,
+in a series of discourses, pointed out the
+weakness and absurdity of modern skepticism,
+as an antidote to the influence of the
+infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob”
+Ingersoll, who has taken up his abode in
+Washington.</p>
+
+<p>Although the theological students have
+numbered thirty-two this year, it so happens
+that but one has completed his course;
+and as a distinguished clergyman who, it
+was hoped, would deliver the address at
+the anniversary, failed us at too late a
+moment to substitute any one else, the
+closing exercises took the form of a debate
+by eight of the young men, on this question:
+“Has a church a right to make total
+abstinence from intoxicating drinks a condition
+of membership?” This point was
+debated with much earnestness and shrewdness,
+and arguments, <em>pro</em> and <em>con</em>, were
+drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture
+in a way which testified favorably to the
+abilities of the speakers. One of the Judges
+of the Supreme Court of the United States
+takes a deep interest in this department of
+the University, and lately expressed himself
+emphatically in favor of encouraging and
+endowing it, as an important means of elevating
+the colored ministry and churches of
+all denominations. Its friends anticipate
+for it a future bright with usefulness.</p>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL
+CONVENTION.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.</p>
+
+<p>As gems are valued by their rarity, so
+you can imagine how such a gathering as
+the Sunday-school Convention seemed to
+us in Georgia.</p>
+
+<p>We were favored, not more by hearing
+the appointed speakers in the great Convention,
+than by the personal presence and
+good words of many of its delegates in our
+own school-room. Gen. Fisk, who has
+given not only his name, but his heart and
+hand to our Fisk University, took Atlanta
+and the Convention by storm with his
+happy address of welcome. It seems
+to me our young men can never lose
+the inspiration of hope and courage that
+must have come to them from him, whose
+youthful struggles had even exceeded many
+of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M.
+Parsons. All who ever listened to him will
+understand how, at the close of his words,
+we felt that, next to the Rock Christ
+Jesus, there was not beneath the sun so
+firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.
+Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president
+from Montreal, warned us of the
+Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,
+only a good Scotch Presbyterian could
+feel. Then we had “Hope Ledyard,” the
+charming correspondent, whose young life
+seems too exquisitely moulded to have always
+escaped the loving Father’s crucible.</p>
+
+<p>Best of all, we had good words from
+many not heard in the Convention, and,
+perhaps, unknown to fame. There was
+Judge Harman, of Oswego. How his clear
+eye took in the large possibilities of our
+work, and how his great heart went out
+toward us! As he warned us of the perils
+of a life without Jesus, and the depths of
+despair into which life’s trials could plunge
+a soul unsupported by the Everlasting
+Arms, his peaceful face and silvery hair
+assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed,
+some of us had rare glimpses into the
+blessed beyond. The words of Rev. A.
+P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that
+I was prevented from hearing, so lifted
+both teachers and pupils above the plane of
+plodding school life, that we almost trembled
+to look down. The fact that many such men,
+of kindred mind and heart, filled the silent
+pews of the Convention, seemed to me the
+secret of its power. We had heard as
+good papers from other platforms, but
+the sight of such a body, all delighting in
+the Master’s command, “Feed My lambs,”
+was enough to send us to our homes
+feeling, as one of our girls expressed it, “I
+know I shall be a better woman for having
+attended the Convention.”</p>
+
+<p>In response to an invitation for the delegates
+to visit our school, Governor Colquitt,
+who presided, remarked to the Convention:
+“The University is a good place to
+visit, and is doing a good work”; and added
+that he had a servant who had attended our
+school some years, and the instruction received
+there had not pushed him above
+his position&mdash;he was the same humble,
+faithful boy about his work. Every summer
+he came to him for a recommendation
+to teach, which he cheerfully gave him,
+and the boy always returned in the fall the
+same good, modest young man.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion
+to express his appreciation of our work.
+After the close of his sermon, at the Central
+Presbyterian Church here, while recounting
+to the audience the many things
+of interest he had enjoyed in their city, he
+remarked that he had recently visited most
+of the universities of Europe, and added
+that nothing in Atlanta, or the great universities
+abroad, had interested him so
+heartily as their Atlanta University.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN
+CONFERENCE.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.</p>
+
+<p>New Iberia was the place selected for
+our Annual Meeting this year, April 3-5,
+and one more attractive, or more important
+to the general interests of our work, could
+not have been chosen. This church was organized
+in 1866, and has a membership of
+117, of which thirty have been received on
+profession of faith the past year. The population
+of the city is about 3,000, of whom
+nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The South-western Conference is composed
+of fourteen Congregational churches,
+of which twelve were represented at our
+Annual Meeting.</p>
+
+<p>The reports from the churches showed
+very clearly that the past year had been
+one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.
+Several churches, as the Central,
+in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s, in Terrebonne,
+have been blessed with revivals of
+great power. Other churches have been
+cutting off dead branches, and putting
+themselves in condition for better service.
+In tabulating the reports, I find that the present
+membership of the churches of our Conference
+is 806. There have been added on
+profession during the year (ending April
+1st, 1878,) <em>one hundred and thirteen</em>, and
+four by letter. Forty-seven adults and
+<em>eighty babies</em> have been baptized.</p>
+
+<p>As I have already spoken of the precious
+revival in Central Church, in which more
+than fifty were converted, and the church
+itself greatly quickened and refreshed,
+I will not recite the facts again. The
+church of Brother Clay (one of the
+veterans and pioneers of Congregationalism
+in Louisiana), in Terrebonne,
+has passed through joyful and glorious experiences.
+The church has been thronged
+for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I
+did not know where all the people came
+from. The church and church-yard were
+filled with a dense mass of people. It
+seemed as though they sprung out of the
+ground.” Night after night the earnest
+truths of the Gospel were preached, and
+night after night “mourners” crowded the
+anxious seats, crying for mercy. The
+people came from long distances, five and
+seven miles. God put honor upon His
+word, and many have been converted, and
+still the good work goes on. Pastor Clay’s
+heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.</p>
+
+
+<h4>QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.</h4>
+
+<p>Among the topics considered at the
+Conference were the following:</p>
+
+<p><em>Revivals</em>: The best method of promoting
+and conducting them. <em>Education</em>: The
+demand of the hour; how shall we meet
+it? <em>Faith</em>: Its nature; how can we secure
+greater faith? Its joys and its triumphs.
+What more can we do to reach
+the people with the Gospel?</p>
+
+<p>These questions were discussed with vigor
+and interest. Of course, no speeches had
+been prepared in advance, and I was surprised
+at the real excellence of the addresses.
+Mistakes in grammar were sometimes
+made, and there were not many classical
+allusions, but the speeches had the
+true ring, and good will come of them.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PUBLIC SERVICES.</h4>
+
+<p>The opening sermon was given by the
+Moderator, Mr. Alexander, from Matthew
+1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel;
+which being interpreted is, God
+with us.” It was a great pleasure to speak
+to such an audience. The church was
+densely packed, the entry was filled; people
+took positions under the windows on the
+outside, and fully one hundred, having sought
+admission in vain, went reluctantly away.
+Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached the
+second evening; after which, the Moderator
+made an address on “Christian Unity,”
+in the hope of removing or modifying some
+of the asperities and jealousies existing
+among the colored churches. The address
+was received with strong expressions of
+sympathy. One good old “auntie” said
+the next day: “Don’t you say anything
+against that minister. He is trying to
+build up both sides. He don’t wish to
+break down anybody.”</p>
+
+
+<h4>ORDINATION.</h4>
+
+<p>On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a
+member of the church at New Iberia, but
+a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed
+a faithful examination before the Conference
+regarding his Christian experience, his
+religious belief, and his ability to preach,
+was ordained as an Evangelist.</p>
+
+<p>Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian,
+and will make an able and successful minister.
+He has served the churches faithfully for
+two years or more without compensation.
+He owns a small farm of eighteen acres on
+the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.
+His worthy wife was for a short time a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>
+student in Straight University. He expresses
+his willingness to leave his beautiful
+home, and go anywhere, even to Africa,
+where God may call him.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FAREWELL MEETING.</h4>
+
+<p>Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell
+prayer-meeting.” It was a most tender
+and impressive scene. As one after another
+spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was
+wet with manly tears, and when the entire
+Conference rose and joined hands, and they
+sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to
+themselves, beginning “Good-by, and shake
+hands,” and we entered into covenant with
+God and with each other to go forth to
+another year of labor and self-denial, those
+dear brethren, in the excess of religious
+emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus
+was our meeting of 1878 brought to a
+close. The good pastor at New Iberia
+said: “Such a light was never kindled here
+before.” The Conference adjourned to meet
+in New Iberia next year, at the call of the
+Moderator.</p>
+
+<p>Dear brethren of the North, pray for us,
+and remember that we are trying to hold
+this distant outpost of the Church, and to
+extend, in this beautiful and fruitful land,
+the cherished faith and polity of our
+fathers.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES,
+GREETING.</h3>
+
+
+<p class="medium">We give the following extracts from a letter, written
+by the Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to
+the new missionaries to Africa. From the fact
+that they are all Fisk University students, the
+greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers
+in Africa is full of pathetic interest:</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Erfurt, Germany.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>To <span class="smcap">Albert P. Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Ada Roberts
+Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Andrew E. Jackson</span>, and
+<span class="smcap">Ella Hildridge Jackson</span>, Missionaries
+for Africa:</p>
+
+<p><em>Dear Brothers and Sisters</em>: The Jubilee
+Singers send greeting. Could we give
+you our greeting in person, it would be
+more satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey
+to you, in writing, how our hearts have
+gone out to you in love and sympathy, and
+up to God in thankfulness, since the glad
+tidings reached us of your having consecrated
+your lives and talents to mission
+work among our brethren in Africa. We
+have prayed and labored long for this day,
+and now, thank God, our prayers are being
+answered.</p>
+
+<p>We realize in how large a degree our
+success has been attributable to the faithful
+prayers of you and your fellow-students,
+sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk University;
+and let us assure you that while
+you are doing battle for the Master, by
+helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism
+and superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen,
+you, in like manner, will be sustained
+by the prayers of your fellow students, and
+warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in
+our own native land, but in Great Britain,
+Holland and Germany. They will follow
+your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully,
+watching for the fruits which ye shall reap,
+in due season, if ye faint not, and rejoicing
+with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.</p>
+
+<p>You are our first band of missionaries at
+the outpost of the American Missionary
+Association in the land of our forefathers.
+May the light of God so shine in your hearts
+that its reflected rays shall be a balm to
+those who may come to you, to be healed
+and taught of God. May He give you
+strength to thrust in the “sharpened sickle”
+when the fields are ripe for the harvest,
+and the laborers so few.</p>
+
+<p>With the love and best wishes of the
+Jubilee Singers.</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 30%;">(Signed)</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 45%;">
+<span class="smcap">Georgia M. Gordon</span>,<br />
+<span class="smcap">F. J. Loudin</span>,<br />
+<span class="smcap">B. W. Thomas</span>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 55%;"><i>Committee</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>AFRICA.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h3>Arrival of the New Missionaries.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. FLOYD SNELSON.</p>
+
+<p>I received the letters, telling of the new
+missionaries on the way to our mission, with
+great joy. I left home late last Thursday
+afternoon for this place to meet them. We
+came on very well until Friday night about
+ten o’clock, at which time we were caught
+in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As
+I had not been here since our first arrival,
+there were many things to look after.</p>
+
+<p>Just as I was finishing up last night, the
+steamer came in, bringing them. I got out
+to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent nearly
+an hour with them. I am very favorably
+impressed with the first view of my new co-workers,
+and hope now to be able to carry
+on the work to greater success and with
+more ease.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning they came ashore, and
+expressed themselves as favorably surprised
+at the appearance of the place and people.
+On the 26th, we hope to leave early for
+Good Hope.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Freetown, Sierra Leone</span>,<br />
+<br />
+<i>March 25th, 1878</i>.<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday
+Service&mdash;A School Celebration.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. ALBERT MILLER.</p>
+
+<p>On reaching Freetown, and walking
+about the place and conversing with the
+natives, we were very favorably disappointed.
+Some are very intelligent and kind-hearted.
+We attended a Sunday-School in the afternoon,
+and were much pleased to hear the
+children read and sing. They reminded
+me of a small country school in the South.
+A little boy played on the organ. We
+visited several of the natives, and I was
+everywhere surprised at seeing so much
+intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson
+had made all necessary preparations for
+our coming. The mission house had been
+fitted up nicely, so that we soon felt as if
+we were in an American village. We remained
+in Freetown two days, and Brother
+Snelson lost no time in showing us the
+many things of interest in this African city.
+We visited the market, and saw many
+things in the line of fruits to interest us.
+All were well pleased, but still longed to
+reach our adopted home.</p>
+
+<p>Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March,
+we arrived here on the 28th, early in the
+morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.
+Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the
+mission met us at the wharf. We could
+not have been more kindly received by any
+persons. We have been here several days
+now, and find the work promising and
+encouraging. Brother Snelson and his
+helpers are hard at work, and things, I
+suppose, are much more hopeful than they
+have been for years.</p>
+
+<p>The church was filled last Sabbath to
+its utmost capacity with hearers. Brother
+S., I think is the right man in the right
+place. The only charge I am able to bring
+against him is overwork. He has the confidence
+of the people, which is so necessary
+to success. Services were conducted by
+Brother Jackson and myself.</p>
+
+<p>I find the people kind and obliging.
+They are very happy to have us, of their
+own race, come and teach and labor
+among them. Some seem ready to shout.
+We are well pleased with our new home,
+and are in a good state of health. The
+heat is very intense. All things seem to
+indicate a better day for the sable sons of
+Ham. Africa is not what rumor represents
+it to be&mdash;at least, what I have seen of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">April 3, 1878.</span>&mdash;To-day has been one
+of great interest, both to parents and children.
+The day-school, under the general
+management of Brother White, turned out.
+An examination took place in the forenoon,
+after which the schools (day and Sabbath),<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>
+with two banners waving o’er head, came
+marching to a place near the mission-house,
+where a dinner had been prepared for them.
+Brother Snelson led the schools, and the
+children, full of joy, followed him. He led
+them through the principal streets of this
+our city, the sides of the streets being filled
+with lookers-on. All this seemed new to
+them, and I dare say it is new to this part
+of Africa. We had music, but very different
+from such as our American friends are
+accustomed to. An old tin box served as
+kettle-drum. This, with other instruments,
+made music sufficient for the children to
+march and keep pretty good time. Returning
+to the tables, the little ones ate dinner,
+using spoons, which is something very new
+to them. Each one seemed to be happy.
+The patrons were called upon to contribute
+for the giving of this dinner. Many responded,
+sending chickens, rice, etc. Of
+course, the whole affair was devolved upon
+Brother Snelson. He received contributions
+from traders and officials, many of
+whom are here on the coast. These, you
+will remember, are white, the friendship
+and kind favor of whom Brother S. has
+gained. They did not attend the exercises
+of the day, but came out at night, and listened
+to speeches from members of the
+school. The pupils spoke and sang well,
+and reminded me very much of my past experience
+in the South&mdash;so Southern-like.</p>
+
+<p>All were highly pleased with the exercises
+of the evening. The American flag
+was on one side of the house, that of England
+on the other&mdash;thus bringing all in
+attendance between them. These two flags
+during the day were unfurled to the gentle
+breeze with which we were favored. Many
+of the leading men of Bonthe were here,
+and, with those from other places, took tea
+with us. I gain more interest daily for
+this my field of labor. I shall not wait to
+become acclimated, but shall proceed to
+labor at once.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>Advantages of Colored Missionaries.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.</p>
+
+<p>You would like to know what I think
+about colored missionaries doing good here.
+My firm belief is, that they can do more than
+any other missionaries under the sun. These
+people have always been used to colored
+people. Most of the white men whom
+they have seen were traders, seeking their
+own good. They robbed the people of their
+produce and children, and destroyed their
+confidence. A white missionary has to be
+more careful than a colored one. The
+natives look upon a white person as unnatural,
+and think he is above them in every
+way, and that God made him so. They
+also think it is of no use for them to try to
+do the things they see the white man do.
+But, on the other hand, when they see a
+colored man do anything, they think if he
+can do it they can do it themselves. They
+are a great people to imitate. For a proof
+of what I have said, look at the Shengay
+Mission. It is conducted altogether by
+colored missionaries, and stands ahead of
+others on the coast. Do not think I say
+this because I am a colored man. I say it
+because I know it is true.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>School Wants and Farm Work.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.</p>
+
+<p>The school opened very encouragingly
+this term, and before the close of the second
+week we had fifty-four different boarding
+scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission
+to others, on account of our limited
+accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever
+broke out, and before the close of the term
+twenty-three boarding scholars, and many
+of our day scholars, had been sent home on
+account of sickness.</p>
+
+<p>The boarding scholars seem, generally, to
+be happy and contented with us, and eager
+to return at the opening of each new term;
+and their progress in their studies, and general
+deportment, is much greater than with
+the day scholars. The general interest,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span>
+also, of the tribe in the subject of education
+is greatly quickened. The boarding-school,
+with suitable accommodations, might be
+made a great blessing to the tribe. We
+feel sure we could readily obtain 100 scholars
+if we had the accommodations.</p>
+
+<p>The tribe has asked the Department to
+appropriate, from their funds in the United
+States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of
+a suitable building.</p>
+
+<p>We see the dreadful results, in other
+tribes around us, of allowing the youth to
+grow up, without education, in contact with
+the whites, learning their vices and not their
+virtues, and it makes us long to see something
+done to save this people from the
+blight which has fallen upon so many other
+tribes before them.</p>
+
+<p>I have spent nearly three weeks going
+over the Reservation since school closed,
+visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the
+Indians to make larger improvements; and I
+have been very greatly gratified to notice so
+many already clearing up new lands. I
+have only found three or four families who
+will not clear up some new ground this
+spring. Some will clear as much as three
+or four acres. Many are chopping and
+logging heavy timber without any team to
+help them.</p>
+
+<p>I think there will be 300 acres of new land
+cleared this spring. I expect to distribute
+(only to those who clear at least one acre)
+1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats,
+wheat, and vegetable seeds, for many of
+them have not yet learned to provide beforehand.
+There are, however, quite a
+number who not only have enough for their
+own seed, but some to sell.</p>
+
+<p>Could the boarding-school be kept up
+regularly for a few years, we should have
+great hopes for the future of this tribe, but
+there seems to be a strange lack of interest
+in this matter on the part of the authorities
+at Washington. We are now anxiously
+waiting for instructions to re-open this
+school. Meanwhile, the day-school is in
+operation, with an attendance of twenty-two
+scholars.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>An Indian Wants a Cow.</h3>
+
+<p>
+Dr G L Mahon<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>Dr Sir i thought i would write a few
+lines to you to asking you that you dint not
+answered me when i was asking you while
+you was here about the Cow i want you to
+give me one if you Can i thing i would use
+the Cow very much if you would give me
+one i could get Some Butter from her and
+i could make good living on Butter with
+Potatoes if you Send me one Send who
+have a young Calf in her thats the one i
+like to have her and you will let me know
+it By G Wheeler and another thing about
+Potatoes Zack Brown told me he hasent
+got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring
+and ive got Plenty potatoes in Net Lake
+and if you want any i could Sell it to you
+Some that is for Zack Brown wants it
+Now i send my Best Regards to you</p>
+
+<p>
+from <span class="smcap">Adawwan-ne qua benans</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Vermillion Lake</span>.<br />
+</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p class="center large">“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</p>
+
+<p class="center large">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 C.
+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. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. Palache, Esq.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and
+Petaluma.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p>
+
+<p>Remembering that the Sabbath worship
+at our Central Mission had never been
+described, though often alluded to in the
+<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, I requested Bro. Fung Affoo
+to give an account of it, and received the
+following communication:</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot">
+
+<p>“As we have not much time to teach
+them the Scripture on any other evening,
+we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings
+to teach them to read the Bible instead
+of their other lessons. On Sunday
+we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at
+half-past eleven A. M., and continuing for
+one hour and a half. We sing about half an
+hour either in Chinese or in English, then
+offer a prayer, and then read a chapter from
+the Bible. Each verse they read after me,
+then I translate it into Chinese; when
+through interpreting, on each verse or
+paragraph I make some remarks which
+I have studied out during the week days.
+After we get through the chapter, I speak
+about ten minutes on a subject selected
+from that chapter beforehand, then one of
+our brethren offers prayer; we then unite
+in singing the Doxology, and close with the
+Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday
+evening are similar to those we have
+on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement
+in the work seeing that they like to
+read the Bible more than ever before.
+Formerly only about one-half of the school
+attended the Bible-class on Wednesday
+evenings, but now they number nearly as
+many on that evening as on any other evening
+of the week. It seems as though their
+hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of
+course, many come to read the Bible only
+for the sake of learning the English, but in
+time we hope, when they know the truth of
+God, they will change their mind and heart,
+as some of them have already done, who
+are now on Christ’s side, battling for the
+Lord.”</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+“<span class="smcap">Fung Affoo.</span>”<br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p>The attendance at this Sabbath noon
+service averages about fifty-five. Of course,
+my pastoral duties render it impossible for
+me ever to be present. I do not think, however,
+that my presence would add anything
+to the worship or the work. I assist the
+helpers in their preparation, but I believe
+that in dealing with their countrymen they
+are more skilful than I could be, even if I
+could speak Chinese. It needs an experience
+in heathenism, to enable one to
+reach the heathen in the most efficient way.
+God chooses saved <em>sinners</em> to be messengers
+of salvation to those still lost. I think
+that the programme of this service, as Bro.
+Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact.
+It is not one of my planning&mdash;not the one
+I should have chosen; but as I carefully
+consider it, I ask, “What <em>could be</em> better
+fitted for those for whom the service is
+arranged?”</p>
+
+<p>Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary
+labors among the Chinese at San Leandro
+were attended with so rich a blessing, is
+now acting pastor of the Presbyterian
+church at Visalia. He has carried there
+his zeal for this good work; has already
+rented a small room, and opened a school.
+We shall aid him as far as we are able.
+Would that we had a hundred men like-minded
+with him touching this work!</p>
+
+<p>Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish
+the care of the school at Petaluma, and is
+succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian
+spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade
+St., New York. This school is quite
+small, but its members surpass those of
+every other school in liberality, and I cannot
+consent to abandon them. Christ, too,
+is becoming known to them. With increasing
+interest they study God’s word.
+And they <em>sing</em>, somewhat at random, it
+must be confessed, in the matter of time
+and of tune, but with an eagerness and a
+gusto that betoken a beginning both of
+the spirit and the understanding in their
+song. Miss Anthony writes: “Wah Yene
+is a good Christian as far as he understands.
+He told me, one evening, that
+he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,
+and every night. Some people,’ he
+added, ‘not much good; likee go to
+church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor
+of the Congregational church] think
+they good. Some people very good, and
+pray to God. I likee be good&mdash;not much
+bad.’”</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p class="center large">A TEACHER’S STORY.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">The following letter is from a young girl who has
+not gone through the Middle Class at Hampton,
+but is showing much energy and tact, and doing
+good work as teacher in one of the rough places
+of the far South:</p>
+
+<p class="right medium">FLORIDA.</p>
+
+<p>I will first say, I am a colored girl;
+my native home is in St. Augustine.
+I was raised by kind Northern friends. I
+am teaching school on the St. John’s River,
+about thirty or forty miles from St. Augustine.
+In giving my descriptions, I will first
+describe my school-house. It is made entirely
+of logs, with the exception of the
+door and windows, which were given by
+Miss M. The skies may be seen in any
+part of the room. The cracks in the floor
+are large enough to put your hands through.
+When it rains, it leaks in like water dropping
+from the trees. There is no fire-place,
+nor was there any way for keeping warm
+until, the past week, a young man got
+me a little stove. But the house is so open
+this does but little towards heating it up.
+We have had some cold days, and the only
+way I had to keep my scholars warm was,
+to build two large fires and have the poor
+little children set around them (out of
+doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and
+bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart
+ache to see the tears stand in their eyes,
+when I asked them why they didn’t put on
+shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply
+would be, “I have on all the clothes I got,
+and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes,
+when I have on all I can to keep warm,
+most of my girls have only two garments on,
+the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some
+of my pupils have to come between two
+and three miles, and then cross a creek. I
+have a sewing-school for my girls once a
+week. I read to them, and teach them
+things to sing while they are sewing. They
+are to keep what they make. I have been
+teaching three-and-a-half months. The age
+of my scholars is from three-and-a-half
+to twenty-four years. I have enrolled
+thirty scholars, most of them very good,
+all anxious to learn. The people are
+very, very poor, and have real hard
+times in getting clothing, and keeping from
+starving. They live in log huts, some of
+which leak, and are in a dreadful condition.
+I don’t know how to describe some of them.
+There are a few white settlers here; some
+of them, when the folks work for them,
+won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the
+work they get from them is mostly their entire
+support.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>RECEIPTS</h2>
+<p class="center large">FOR APRIL, 1878.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $27.24.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. S. W. Pearson</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B.
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.24</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Deerfield. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Stephen Brown, by
+Joseph T. Brown, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,”
+<i>for a Teacher</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">78.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Austin H. Burr, L. M.</span></td>
+<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob
+Chapman $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C.
+W. Wallace $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">34.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” <i>for Student Aid,
+Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr></table>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $1,166.04.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">165.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3
+from “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab.
+Sch. $8.02</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.42</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Danby. Rev. L. D. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Barnard. Levi Belknap</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.
+John H. Hincks</span>, L. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">32.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Walden. S. W. O.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peacham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Ezra C. Chamberlin,
+by Wm. R. Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to
+const. <span class="smcap">Miss Jane E. Chamberlin</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Miss Jennie C. Watts</span>, L.M’s)</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Londonderry. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,”
+<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. F. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Swanton. Harry Smith</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;
+Mrs. L. W. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westminster West. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Almira Goodhue,
+by Homer Goodhue, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G.,
+25c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ashfield. B. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.54</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, <i>for Theo. Student,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">70.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bolton. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta
+U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch.
+$132.16; Rev. Chas. Nichols $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">157.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis
+Sanford, box of C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">69.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Buckland. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.
+<span class="smcap">Martin Nelson Root</span>, M.D., L.M.;
+Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.75</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">74.91</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">48.22</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20;
+Thomas P. Carlton $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">87.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75
+from “Carpenter Bees,” <i>for Colored Girls</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D.
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">126.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.
+$14.40; Mrs. E. H. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">36.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.56</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza
+Huntington $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss.
+Ass’n $6, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.97</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;
+Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.</td>
+<td class="ramt">228.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">41.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.47</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">58.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of
+books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medway. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.
+Pond, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">135.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Melrose. E. N. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Methuen. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
+Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper,
+Ex’s.</td>
+<td class="ramt">959.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Oliver Church</span> and <span class="smcap"> Rev. Chas. M.
+Peirce</span>, L.M’s</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middleton. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Catharine Merriam
+Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Adams. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">27.68</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">47.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;
+Mrs. C. F. R. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">151.64</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. </td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;
+L. W. 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. James R. Jones</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Princeton. H. N. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">37.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Salem. Geo. Driver</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shelburne. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Southfield. W. H. E.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">88.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;
+Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41</td>
+<td class="ramt">83.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.
+$38.55; Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South
+Cong. Ch. $12.96</td>
+<td class="ramt">73.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sutton. R. L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">36.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Webster. First Cong. Ch. </td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C.
+Coll. $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs.
+W. F. Morse $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">87.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">41.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.</td>
+<td class="ramt">19.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">250.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, 27c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Slaterville. M. J. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.27</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ansonia. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Avon. Miss L. A. A.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">46.38</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Darien. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.24</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of George A.
+Paine, by John Paine, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">646.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fairfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">54.42</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">63.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Guilford. “Lea.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G.
+$1; Mrs. G. T. G. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ledyard. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and
+Soc. $22; College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch.
+(ad’l) $5; A. T. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">38.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Branford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith
+$5</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding,
+by Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams,
+Ex’s</td>
+<td class="ramt">1,046.63</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">118.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Coventry. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">47.84</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Southington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">31.94</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">85.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">65.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodfords. Dr. E. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $1,197,84.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Albion. L. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50;
+Mrs. J. E. Bean $10</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central
+Cong. Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E.
+Whiton $15; Mrs. William Bane, packages
+books and C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">526.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eagle Harbor. A. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.48</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5
+for Student Aid)</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres </td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch.,
+by Lina Burroughs, box of C. and books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.
+$440.93.&mdash;“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab.
+Sab. Sch. $11.41, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;“A
+Friend,” package <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">452.34</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.58</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rome. John B. Jervis</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saratoga Springs. S. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brook. T. S. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Winfield. L. Bucklen</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $101.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Phillipsburg. H. P. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $15.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $910.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Akron. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">81.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent, <i>for the poor in New
+Orleans</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">78.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneva. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntington. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kent. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lenox. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of
+Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Richland. E. J.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mary I. Hulburd, by
+Hiram Hulburd, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. L. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Penfield. B. R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by
+J. H. Packer</td>
+<td class="ramt">400.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend
+$2.50</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.
+Josiah Strong</span> and <span class="smcap">L. H. Lewis</span>, L. M’s.</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First
+Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman
+$5</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;INDIANA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $21.67.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Liber. J. R. Wells</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sparta. John Hawkswell</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $945.82.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Aurora. New Eng. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">473.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25,
+<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>&mdash;Three Subscribers
+$1 ea.; Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany
+Cong. Ch. 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">29.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">83.64</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">143.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1;
+A. M. S. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U</i>.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson
+$2</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tonica. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $132.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting
+$2.75; C. I. W. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10
+ea.; M. Wood $5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kalamo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk. U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $145.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Big Springs. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Columbus. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.18</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Box of C. and $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warren. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Salem. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">27.17</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $2,695.54.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50;
+Prairie Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1,
+<i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">DeWitt. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.
+C. F. Dike, Exec’x.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2,500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.&mdash;Hon. J. B.
+G., 50c., <i>for Mag.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">4.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keokuk. “Signature”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.53</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Henry Hoover, <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const.
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Lucretia Deering</span>, L. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waltham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Miss Emeline E.
+Williams, by William Mason</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $47.45.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rushford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tivoli. L. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.40</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $66.32.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A.
+M. R. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Russell. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.85</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $31.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, 51c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $461.26.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll.
+$10.26</td>
+<td class="ramt">310.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">137.75</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington
+Sch. $8.20</td>
+<td class="ramt">158.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong.
+Ch. $7.40</td>
+<td class="ramt">129.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbridge. Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.05</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SOUTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Institute</td>
+<td class="ramt">220.55</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA. $417.61.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta University</td>
+<td class="ramt">109.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley
+$12, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;Prof. T. N.
+Chase $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">95.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">62.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58</td>
+<td class="ramt">150.91</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $388.09.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mobile. I. G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Fund</td>
+<td class="ramt">225.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">6.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talledega College</td>
+<td class="ramt">130.24</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker &amp;
+Son $5, <i>for Barracks, Tougaloo</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University</td>
+<td class="ramt">43.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., <i>for Barracks</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs <i>for Barracks,
+Tougaloo</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;LOUISIANA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $137.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University</td>
+<td class="ramt">137.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, 50c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">San Antonia. G. W. W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CANADA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, 50c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ENGLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $900.95.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., <i>for Mendi
+Mission</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">900.95</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SCOTLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $200.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, <i>for a Teacher</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TURKEY">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $10.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">17,557.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th</td>
+<td class="ramt">$103,309.96</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;" >
+<span style="padding-right: 5%;">H. W. HUBBARD,</span><br />
+<i>Ass’t Treas.</i>
+</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Debt">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brewer, Me. M. Hardy</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="ramt" colspan="2">716.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Previously acknowledged March receipts</td>
+<td class="ramt">8,921.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">$9,637.72</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Austin, TX">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams</td>
+<td class="ramt">400.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="ramt" colspan="2">402.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts</td>
+<td class="ramt">422.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">$824.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<p class="center large">Incorporated January 30, 1849.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American Missionary Association</span>.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and
+educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and
+other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of
+effort.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1">[A]</a> who professes faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who
+contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of
+thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have not professed
+their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or
+November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business at such time
+and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members
+of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary
+societies, and other co-operating bodies&mdash;each body being entitled to one representative.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice Presidents, a Recording
+Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive
+Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory,
+and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of
+funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient
+reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the
+transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of
+missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
+jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of
+the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the
+complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
+shall be final.</p>
+
+<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among
+the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State
+Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
+officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society: to make provision,
+if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are
+deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general
+conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary
+spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.</p>
+
+<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries,
+and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will
+endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits
+of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings
+as slaves.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this
+Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled
+to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed
+upon.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the concurrence of
+two thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed
+amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee
+in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the
+regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>
+
+<h5>FOOTNOTE:</h5>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1">[A]</a>
+By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
+belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
+Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
+of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
+of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
+obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
+the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
+wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2><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>&mdash;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, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; <i>Other Schools</i>, 7.
+Total, 26.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</span>&mdash;Among the Freedmen, 209;
+among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252.
+<span class="smcap">Students</span>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;a pressing want.</p>
+
+<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below.</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr><td class="smcap" style="padding-right: 20px;">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td> Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td> Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3>
+
+<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the
+Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the
+Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological
+Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
+not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.</p>
+
+<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary Association</span> in their last
+Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following:</p>
+
+
+<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3>
+
+<p>“I <span class="medium">BEQUEATH</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars in trust, to pay
+the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable,
+shall act as Treasurer of the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be
+applied under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes.”</p>
+
+<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required&mdash;in
+other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence
+[if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
+answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the
+said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of
+the said A.B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed
+our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is required that the Will should
+be made at least two months before the death of the testator.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center"><b><span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROWN <span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROS. &amp; <span class="xxxlarge">C</span>O.</b></p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>BANKERS,</b></p>
+
+<p>59 Wall St., New York,</p>
+<p class="center">211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,</p>
+<p class="right">66 State St., Boston.</p>
+
+<p>Issue, against cash deposited, or satisfactory guarantee of repayment,</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Circular Credits for Travelers,</b></p>
+
+<p>In <span class="medium">DOLLARS</span> for use in the United States and adjacent
+countries, and in <span class="medium">POUNDS STERLING</span>, for use
+in any part of the world.</p>
+
+<p>These Credits, bearing the signature of the
+holder, afford a ready means of identification, and
+the amounts for which they are issued can be
+availed of from time to time, wherever he may be,
+in sums to meet the requirements of the Traveler.</p>
+
+<p>Application for Credits may be made to either of
+the above houses direct, or through any respectable
+bank or banker in the country.</p>
+
+<hr class="tenth" />
+
+<p><b>They also issue Commercial Credits,
+make Cable Transfers of Money between
+this Country and England, and draw Bills
+of Exchange on Great Britain and Ireland.</b></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center"><b><span class="xlarge">W</span>arren <span class="xlarge">W</span>ard <span class="xlarge">&amp; C</span>o.</b></p>
+
+<p class="center">MANUFACTURERS OF ARTISTIC</p>
+
+<p class="center xxxlarge"><b>FURNITURE,</b></p>
+
+<p>Invite attention to a very large stock, including new
+<b>Eastlake, Queen Anne, Japanese,</b> Modern and
+other choice styles, exclusively of our own design
+and manufacture, which we fully warrant, being
+made of the best seasoned material, and of unsurpassed
+workmanship.</p>
+
+<p>We keep on hand a large variety of <b>Chamber</b>
+<b>Suites</b> in Ash Walnut and Mahogany, from <b>$30</b>
+up; <b>Parlor Suites</b> in all varieties of covering,
+from <b>$50</b> up; <b>Enameled Suites,</b> a large variety
+in new styles, from <b>$17</b> up; <b>Library Furniture</b>
+of all kinds and styles; <b>Dining Room Extension</b>
+<b>Tables, Sideboards, Chairs, &amp;c.</b>, at Lowest
+Prices; <b>Hat Stands, Hall Chairs</b> and <b>Hanging</b>
+<b>Glasses;</b> also, <b>Superior Hair Mattresses,</b>
+<b>Pillows, Spring Beds, Curtains, Lambrequins,</b>
+<b>Window Shades, Cabinet, Centre</b>
+<b>Tables, Easels, Pedestals</b> and other fancy
+articles for the Parlor, &amp;c., &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p>Designs furnished and estimates given for Furniture
+of all kinds requiring to be made.</p>
+
+<p>We fully guarantee all our work, and our prices
+are as low as any other manufacturers’ for the
+same quality of goods.</p>
+
+<p class="center xlarge"><b>75 &amp; 77 Spring St.,</b></p>
+
+<p class="center large">Cor, CROSBY ST.,</p>
+
+<div>
+<div class="half small">One Block E. of Br’dway, bef. St.<br />
+Nicholas &amp; Metropolitan Hotels.</div>
+<div class="half large right"><i>New York</i>.</div>
+</div>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+  <p class="center"><b>Established A. D. 1850.</b></p>
+  <p class="large center">THE</p>
+  <p class="xxxlarge center">MANHATTAN</p>
+  <p class="large center"><b>Life Insurance Co.,</b></p>
+  <p class="center">156 Broadway, New York,</p>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="xxlarge">$7,400,000</td>
+    <td class="large center">DEATH<br />CLAIMS,</td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="large"><b>$4,900,000</b></td>
+    <td class="center"><b>Return Premiums to<br />Policy-Holders,</b></td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS A SURPLUS OF</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="large"><b>$1,700,000</b></td>
+    <td class="center">OVER<br />LIABILITIES,</td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="medium center"><em>By New York Standard of Valuation</em>.</p>
+  <p class="center"><em>It gives the Best Insurance<br />on the Best Lives at the most<br />Favorable Rates.</em></p>
+  <p class="medium center">EXAMINE THE PLANS AND RATES OF THIS COMPANY.</p>
+  <table class="medium">
+    <tr><td class="large center">HENRY STOKES, <span class="smcap">President</span>,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>C. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Vice-President</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>J. L. HALSEY,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Secretary</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>S. N. STEBBINS,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Actuary</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>H. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>H. B. STOKES,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Assistant-Secretaries</i>.</td></tr>
+  </table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement ">
+<p class="center xxxlarge"><b>E. D. Bassford’s</b></p>
+<p class="center large"><a name="Err_4" id="Err_4"></a><b>COOPER INSTITUTE, NEW YORK CITY,</b></p>
+
+<p>Just received from European and Domestic Manufacturers
+complete new stock of fresh and beautiful
+goods. Every department of this great emporium
+is being re-stocked with the Newest and
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+
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+
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+  <p class="large center">Young America Press Co.,</p>
+  <div>
+    <div class="float-right">
+      <img src="images/press.jpg" alt="Printing Press" />
+    </div>
+    <div class="half vtop">
+      <p class="medium vtop"><b>35 Murray St., New York,</b>
+manufacture a variety of hand, self-inking,
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+
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+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;">
+  <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF</p>
+  <p class="center">THE</p>
+  <p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary,</p>
+  <p class="center">ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p>
+  <hr class="tiny" />
+  <p class="center xlarge">SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</p>
+<p>
+We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, giving
+news from the Institutions and Churches aided by
+the Association among the Freedmen in the South,
+the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,
+and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, <b>Fifty
+Cents a Year, in Advance</b>.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center xlarge">OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.</p>
+
+<p>No. 1.&mdash;<b>History</b> of the Association.</p>
+
+<p>No. 2.&mdash;<b>Africa</b>: Containing a History of the
+Mendi Mission, a Description of the Land and the
+People, and a presentation of their claims on
+America.</p>
+
+<p>No. 3.&mdash;<b>The Three Despised Races in the
+United States</b>; or, The Chinaman, the Indian,
+and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M. A.,
+by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.</p>
+
+<p>No. 4.&mdash;<b>The Educational Work.</b> Showing the
+nature and reality of the black man's needs; the
+way to help him; the sentiment of Southern men;
+the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the
+A. M. A.</p>
+
+<p><em>Will be sent free to any address, on application.</em></p>
+
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+
+
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+
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+Advertisements, for which our low rates and large
+circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our
+readers are among the best in the country, having
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+that constitute them valued customers in all
+departments of business.</p>
+
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+business announcements.</p>
+
+<p>We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this
+department, and solicit orders from all who have
+unexceptionable wares to advertise.</p>
+
+<p>Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span>
+of the month, in order to secure insertion in the
+following number. All communications in relation
+to advertising should be addressed to</p>
+
+<p class="right" style="padding-right: 2%;">J. H. DENISON, Adv'g Agent,</p>
+<p class="right">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="figcenter figmargin" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/kingsford.jpg" width="500" height="419" alt="Ad for Kingsford's Oswego Corn Starch" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div>
+<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2>
+
+<p>Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed
+only where the error appears to be a printing error. The
+punctuation changes are too numerous to list; the others are as
+follows:</p>
+
+<p>&mdash; “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (<a href="#Err_1">English and Scotch missionaries</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; missing “is” inserted on page 166. (<a href="#Err_2">The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.  (<a href="#Err_3">Africa’s sunny fountains</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on page 191, just prior to “<a href="#Err_4">COOPER INSTITUTE</a>”.</p>
+<p>&mdash; “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (<a href="#Err_5">are well worth attention of</a>)</p>
+</div>
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+06, June, 1878, by Various
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+Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 32, No. 06, June, 1878
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+VOL. XXXII.                                                No. 6.
+
+                               THE
+
+                      AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+              “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+                           JUNE, 1878.
+
+
+
+
+                           _CONTENTS_:
+
+
+  EDITORIAL.
+
+    PARAGRAPHS                                                161
+    PRINCIPLES AND PLANS                                      162
+    DEPARTURE OF THE AZOR.—THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON         163
+    A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT                                   164
+    AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.—ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES       165
+    NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES                                    168
+    ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.—GENERAL NOTES                     169
+
+
+  THE FREEDMEN.
+
+    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                                       172
+    VIRGINIA: Additions to the Church—An Indian’s
+      Creed—A Good Beginning                                  174
+    SOUTH CAROLINA: History of “Avery” Graduates              174
+    GEORGIA: Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of
+      Hope—Twitchell School.—School  Children Farming—
+      Their Parents Buying Farms.—A Growing School—A
+      Literary Society                                        175
+    MISSISSIPPI: An Old School—Temperance Work—The
+      Gourd Family                                            176
+    THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY               177
+    THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.—ANNUAL
+      MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE                 178
+    THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING                 180
+
+
+  AFRICA.
+
+    ARRIVAL OF THE NEW MISSIONARIES.—FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF
+      AFRICA—A SUNDAY SERVICE—A SCHOOL CELEBRATION            181
+    ADVANTAGES OF COLORED MISSIONARIES                        182
+
+
+  THE INDIANS.
+
+    SCHOOL WANTS AND FARM WORK                                182
+    AN INDIAN WANTS A COW                                     183
+
+
+  THE CHINESE.
+
+    FUNG AFFOO’S BIBLE CLASS—VISALIA AND PETALUMA             183
+
+
+  THE CHILDREN’S PAGE                                         185
+
+
+  RECEIPTS                                                    185
+
+
+  CONSTITUTION                                                189
+
+
+  WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.                                190
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+                            NEW YORK:
+
+        Published by the American Missionary Association,
+
+                     ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+               Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+          A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater 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.     JUNE, 1878.      No. 6.
+
+                *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_American Missionary Association._
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at
+Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, just one month from the date
+of their leaving New York by steamer for England. They had only
+the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their
+destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new
+field seem to be quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter
+on the new work at once. We look to the Lord of the harvest for
+His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have gone
+from us to the Mendi Mission.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which
+the English and Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting
+to begin their new work in Central Africa. The expedition of
+the London Missionary Society was, from July to January last,
+trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on
+Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season
+at Kirasa, only about one-third of the way. It is hoped that
+during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish
+themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian
+Churches is in danger of being driven from its station at
+Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant an enemy as a
+fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has
+sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations,
+and curtailed their usefulness in advancing the civilization of
+Africa. The station may have to be moved. A new site must be
+sought with great care, which will not be liable to this pest.
+
+In South Africa another missionary institution has been
+endangered by the Caffre War, three English officials having been
+murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith and O’Neill, of
+the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed
+by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of
+King M’tesa. We believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery
+are not liable to any of these perils. The station is accessible
+and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around them,
+nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to
+such regions are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set
+our hopes too high, or base them too confidently on any of the
+uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land of delays
+we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we
+cannot tell what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord—that He
+will suffer no evil to befall them, but give them strength for
+patient continuance in well-doing.
+
+Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the
+Institutions we mentioned in the May MISSIONARY, as needing
+greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We did not mention
+their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and
+perhaps the reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating
+the strain laid upon our resources this year, they have
+considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year,
+they laid before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how
+any institutions in the South can be in more pressing need than
+we of a new dormitory.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta
+Sunday-school Convention would be either “lionized or snubbed”
+to that extent that it would be better for him not to come,
+proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,
+fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from
+Texas. He was received and treated just as the others were, and
+he behaved as well. The fact is, they were much busier devising
+for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each
+other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.
+
+—This Association does not affirm that races, any more
+than individuals, are equal in physical or mental fibre and
+development. Some races, as well as individuals, are manifestly
+below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all
+men shall be regarded as equal _before God and the Law_; and
+that hence, in all churches of Christ, no distinction be made,
+on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and
+administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally
+protected in person and property, and that whatever immunities or
+privileges are granted to one, be extended to all.
+
+—This Association does not found exclusively colored churches.
+They are only exclusive because they are not exclusive. They are
+open to all races, and hence but few white persons unite with
+them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally
+among the colored people in the South, as being at present most
+accessible, yet it has always favored the establishment of
+churches, mainly white, where the distribution of population
+calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to
+unite with them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its
+first missionary in the South, was in the formation of white
+churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was
+sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white)
+Congregational Church in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister
+was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend of the A. M. A., and at
+one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational Church
+in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated,
+under the auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary,
+who spent a month in Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that
+purpose. Not long since, the Association appointed a missionary
+in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity of Berea
+College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which
+he will preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These
+will be mainly white churches, but open to colored people. In
+like manner, the Association has promised missionary aid to
+a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San
+Antonio, Texas.
+
+—The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are
+in order to its religious work in America and Africa. Its best
+and most promising churches are established near the schools and
+colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them. These
+schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct
+thousands of pupils in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a
+salutary influence into the homes, churches and neighborhoods
+where they reside. The schools and theological departments also
+send out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to
+their people in the South and in Africa.
+
+—The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part
+having a relation to the whole, and its plans, while at present
+embracing mainly the “Despised Races,” as they have been called,
+are restricted in principle to no race or continent.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”
+
+The departure of the _Azor_ with the first instalment of the
+African exodus, from Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the
+history of the colored race.
+
+It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman
+could be aroused by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the
+teachers in our schools, fears have been felt that, perhaps, the
+call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to
+respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall
+be made, there will be no lack of men. We have more to fear now
+from unbridled enthusiasm than from want of zeal.
+
+This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly,
+among disaffected politicians, but it soon became a sort of
+religious crusade. It gained but little progress among the
+people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary
+enterprise. From the time the _Azor_ sailed into the harbor
+until her departure, on the 21st of April, with her living
+freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were
+thronged with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the
+African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who had engaged their passages
+months before, were left behind, for want of room. How long this
+enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this
+first company, of course are questions to be answered by and
+by. We dare not venture any prophecy, either good or evil. It
+is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of
+our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to
+be to Africa what the Pilgrim enterprise has been to America,
+we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a different class of
+emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African
+civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up
+men of intelligence, and sound and broad religious principle, for
+this work, and we naturally look with some anxiety to the effect
+of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the
+South at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray
+for the success of the movement, that God may overrule all our
+fears, and make it for good. This one question we are glad to
+have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is
+no lack of enthusiasm in the negro heart for his fatherland; and
+that, when the call shall come for more laborers in that field,
+we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.
+
+Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have
+been directed to Capt. Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of
+interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried, as prisoners of
+war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which
+had taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They
+went South, each with his legs fastened to a log with chains.
+They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied wrongs.
+One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed
+himself on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had
+great brass hoops in their ears. They knew no word of English.
+It was their good fortune to fall into the hands of a Christian
+army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in
+seeking to do them good, at length won their confidence, and
+succeeded, with the help of a few benevolent ladies, in teaching
+them some of the simplest elements of civilization and learning.
+A few of them can read very well.
+
+At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of
+Tarrytown, N. Y., who had been teaching among them, determined to
+secure, if possible, the education of two young men of her class.
+She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised
+money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in.
+At length it was found that twenty-two of them desired to go to
+school. They are now discharged from their imprisonment. The old
+chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the better.
+Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be
+educated in the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular
+studies, and have been detailed to various departments of work,
+in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented, and
+their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.
+
+Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of
+lines, of which life is so full, and yet which never cease to
+surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at Hampton, to be
+trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and
+the teachers of their people. Thus the two races are brought face
+to face—“the two races whose past involves America’s greatest
+responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest problems.”
+
+It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for
+a year—that, with what he is able to earn by his labor. This
+amount has been pledged by individuals alone, or together, for
+the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having done
+so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its
+Secretary, to assume the tuition of one of her wards, and the
+Executive Committee desire to do so; and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one
+years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in addition
+to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some
+of our friends, who may be especially interested in the elevation
+of the Indians, will make up this small amount, and help on this
+work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,
+and personality.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.
+
+Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in
+Sunday-schools. What to do with the Concert, has been a question
+which has perplexed teachers and superintendents year after year,
+as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession. The
+verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly
+all learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try
+a Missionary Concert, or, if you please, an American Missionary
+Concert.
+
+But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern,
+even, can be sent, like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and
+by mail. We have one in our hands, about six inches by eight,
+four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers
+(prepared originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville,
+Mass.) upon the nature and the work of the A. M. A., and we are
+almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact information
+compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape.
+Coupled with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten
+Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals during the Catechetical
+Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great
+interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near
+Boston; and we commend, most cordially, the thought and plan to
+the consideration and use of Superintendents and Presidents of
+Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme
+is a collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how
+to address their gifts to us. A new edition is in preparation,
+or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained in
+quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the
+Congregational House, Boston.
+
+District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an
+appeal to the Sunday-schools in behalf of the “Colored Student’s
+Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated that we are reaching (by
+student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand
+children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be
+reached.” He urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work.
+To know, is the first step toward supplying the want.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.
+
+It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the
+colored people of the South should be in such earnest sympathy
+with the work of educating their people. Occasionally, we hear
+one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot” through,
+and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured
+by the application of science; but the expression of such
+sentiments is rare.
+
+In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain
+color to read, or any one to teach them, preachers were _born_,
+not _made_. The wether of the flock put a bell around his own
+neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the
+war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of
+venison or furs, was the man for chief; so the exhorter who could
+pick up the most texts of Scripture, and evolve from his own
+understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of
+his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the
+minister by universal consent.
+
+Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what
+Nature implanted in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not
+fear those made leaders by the voice of a theological seminary.
+They who, by their quickness of perception, tact and experience,
+control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon
+ability gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.
+
+Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts,
+as well as the felt sentiments of the uneducated ministers
+among the colored people, I have no intention of placing a low
+estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have
+attained to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with
+good mental nourishment, and no one feels this more than they.
+The BEST minister combines natural ability of a high order with
+liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated
+ministry; and although the present pastors of the flocks may be
+secure in their places without learning, the next generation will
+insist upon education in their ministers.
+
+                  PROF. T. N. CHASE, IN THE _Christian Recorder_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.
+
+A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some
+observations, which may be worthy of record. The location of both
+is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and Fisk Universities
+occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful
+sites. They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the
+importance of the work they represent. The buildings of both
+institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our party
+approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from
+top to bottom, as the students were studying in their rooms.
+“Hallelujah!” cried one of our number, enthusiastically, “God be
+praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one of
+us looked upon it without emotion.
+
+The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of
+educated Christian people. A more intelligent, cultivated and
+consecrated body of instructors it would be hard to find. They
+are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social
+privileges in both cities are few or none at all, and some of
+them, for the sake of the work they are in, have refused tempting
+offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the colored race
+from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary
+enthusiasm in their work. Often did the eye flash and the face
+glow, as they spoke of the trials and advancement of their pupils.
+
+The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower
+of the colored race. Only those are likely to undertake so
+many years of study, with the self-denials involved, who have,
+to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an
+education, and in whom are unusual elements of character. They
+are procuring an education under great difficulties. There are
+few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit
+themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to
+help their race. They work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing
+little urging or government. It is not strange, then, that when
+both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the
+results should be unusually favorable.
+
+Among these results in both institutions, the good order is
+specially noticeable. At the table, where teachers and scholars
+eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in charge takes
+his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no
+restraints are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of
+voices, which does not prevent the slightest signal from being
+heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred or
+more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room
+at Fisk University, we noticed that no teacher was present,
+though perfect order was maintained. “Have you no instructor or
+monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?” “Why, no, sir,”
+one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We
+could but recall certain days of our own student life when, if
+our instructor chanced to step out of the room for a moment,
+there were instantly missiles flying about, and students darting
+here and there.
+
+There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They
+impress one at a glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing
+about them, in dress, or manner or language, to offend the most
+fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at these
+institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the
+whole character and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from
+these dark faces, and, in our admiration for the soul, we totally
+forget the color of the skin.
+
+The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must
+remember that most of them were born in slavery, and have learned
+to read since the war. A generation or two must pass before we
+can see the results of life-long training in schools. What we
+now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard
+to find at the North better teachers or better schools than the
+two Universities of which we speak; and their influence over the
+pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very fine. The
+normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special
+commendation. We were also much pleased at a recitation in
+Xenophon’s _Memorabilia_, in which three young men were reciting
+to one of their own race, a graduate of the University—Miss
+Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first
+instance of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more
+valuable evidence of educational progress than recitations was
+the correctness of speech and richness of thought manifest in the
+conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted to
+be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes
+took part freely. There are few pastors in the North who would
+not be glad of such clear thought and apt expression in their
+meetings as we there heard.
+
+The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving
+the pupils rare qualities of earnestness and self-reliance.
+Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are the
+ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the
+course of study, all the influences tend to develop a manly and
+persevering spirit. The students are accustomed every summer
+to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in
+most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There
+are few organized schools and few school-houses for the colored
+people outside the cities. The University students desirous of a
+school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then
+secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads,
+or, perhaps, of a vacant log-cabin; then they must obtain
+permission of the county commissioner to teach the school. It
+evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such
+circumstances, and yet these students earn every summer, in from
+three to five months of teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece.
+Sometimes parents are willing and able to educate their children,
+without throwing them thus on their own resources. After Fisk
+University was established, a colored man bought land near by,
+built him a comfortable house, and made his home there, with the
+express purpose of educating his large family of children. But
+such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education generally
+are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched
+with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our
+Northern seminaries), who, at the age of fourteen, determined to
+go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till she had earned
+the means. For five years she has been securing an education,
+paying her way by teaching every summer. Another student was
+pointed out to us, whose persistence under difficulties is still
+more remarkable. For the work of two successive summers, he
+has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and
+for last summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that
+would pay only half the average sum, he has as yet received
+only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet he is not
+discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A.
+K. Spence is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools
+in the North, to supplement the meagre sums earned by the
+students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry a
+student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his
+son a thousand dollars a year at a Northern college.) If any
+Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional fifty dollars for
+the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to
+receive a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce
+the students to receive aid. They are eager to do for themselves.
+Recently, some kind words were addressed them by a visitor, on
+the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers, “it
+is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not
+know them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than
+ever to persuade them to receive the help they need.”
+
+We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both
+institutions. Most of them, particularly among the boarders, are
+earnest and consistent Christians. We were much moved at some
+of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.
+The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the
+memory of the instructors. Jubilee Hall had just been completed.
+It seemed a paradise to the colored people. A farewell meeting
+was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,
+where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the
+students prayed—“O Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter
+this beautiful new building; but if Thou wilt not go with us, we
+do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay here.”
+The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons
+of revival ever since.
+
+The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that
+the elevation of nearly five millions of people rests largely
+on them. They have a worthy ambition to be the leaders of their
+race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new
+ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who
+have just gone from Fisk University to Africa have left behind
+them an enthusiasm for missionary work. The students are now
+praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries
+of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as
+a definite and high aim. These students justly feel that in this
+land, and abroad, there is work for them to do. A glorious future
+lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful
+study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.
+
+It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety
+hung over Fisk University. Funds that were relied upon from
+Great Britain for current expenses had failed, and retrenchment,
+where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was under
+consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will
+not let it suffer.
+
+                                          REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.
+
+HAMPTON, VA.—Four students received to the church by profession
+May 5th. One of the Indian students lately received gives
+evidence of Christian character.
+
+RALEIGH, N. C.—“Our church has shared with others in a revival
+blessing this spring.” Twenty were received to the church April
+8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the pastor, writes: “There
+are several of the young men connected with our church and school
+who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if
+I can get some simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will
+form them into a class, and have them recite two or three times a
+week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”
+
+ORANGEBURG, S. C.—Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years
+in this church and school. The church membership has increased
+two-thirds. Two members received in April. Sunday-school thriving
+and increasing, and feeding the church. A Woman’s Foreign
+Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the
+A. M. A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have
+been in training for teachers this year.
+
+BYRON, GA.—“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in
+numbers steadily. A day-school will soon be opened. Young people
+are asking for prayers every Sunday evening.”
+
+SAVANNAH, GA.—One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church
+work is very encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have
+twenty boys from twelve to sixteen years of age in my class, and
+am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I have been
+here, has the church been so prosperous.”
+
+MARION, ALA.—The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing.
+Three or four are to unite with the church at the next Communion.
+
+FLORENCE, ALA.—Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on
+church services good, and one member received on profession at
+his last visit.
+
+ABBEVILLE, LA.—The church has been holding special meetings,
+crowded every night. Two have been received to membership; others
+are under deep conviction. Rev. Charles E. Smith is the pastor.
+
+MEMPHIS, TENN.—A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings
+of God’s word, and a higher standard of personal godliness
+sought. “The question, how to utilize the combined power of the
+Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed
+in the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly
+deepening interest. The church has passed in safety and triumph
+through its financial straits, deficiencies have been made up,
+current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for
+the summer demands.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.
+
+CHARLESTON, S. C.—The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth
+anniversary April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were
+examined in Natural Philosophy, Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany,
+Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History, Latin,
+Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.;
+and an exhibition was held the following day, with music and
+recitations, to the great delight of a large assembly.
+
+MACON, GA.—The school building was dedicated, with the chapel,
+March 24. There are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the
+building. The large one will seat 110 pupils; the smaller, or
+recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole building
+is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington
+writes:—“We are credited by the people of the city—by the
+white people, especially—with having the prettiest chapel and
+school-rooms in the State.”
+
+FORSYTH, GA.—School-house built last year—“a two-story
+building, without a chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied
+since February last. Attendance good. “A deep concern about the
+most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture
+every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young
+people can only stay in school two or three months at a time,
+is the greatest drawback. The white people are very kind, and
+respond generously to every call for aid.
+
+CUTHBERT, GA.—There has been going on for over two weeks a
+glorious revival. Nearly all the pupils of the school are
+converted; all of the highest class but one, and that one an
+inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A
+reading-room has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts
+between the two (Methodist and Baptist) Sunday-schools of the
+place.
+
+FORT VALLEY, GA.—The day-school is improving by degrees. The
+Sunday-school is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented
+many from coming out, but the prospect is that very soon the
+school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with which to
+purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.
+
+NEW ORLEANS, LA.—“The year has been in every way delightful
+and profitable. God has blessed us in every department of our
+work. Every month, and indeed every week, has brought some
+new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue, soon
+to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they
+represent as good a class of students as were ever gathered in
+the University. So much for numerical success. What is better,
+there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in
+the Faculty.”
+
+MOBILE, ALA., EMERSON INSTITUTE.—The new two-story brick
+building, 34×64, with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with
+exercises of great interest. A full account was received just too
+late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for the July
+MISSIONARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GENERAL NOTES.
+
+
+The Negro.
+
+—We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the
+income of the Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees
+distributed, in eight States, $35,400; in 1873, in ten States,
+$137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their
+report, and take the largest and smallest.
+
+—April 21st, the barque _Azor_ sailed from Charleston, S. C.,
+with 250 emigrants, one-fifth being children. They go under the
+auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association to Boporo, about
+sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase
+a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from
+the Charleston _News and Courier_ accompanies the _Azor_.
+
+—Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization
+Society, writes that vessels will sail under their auspices in
+June and November. He fears for the new exodus movement, as
+having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very
+outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances,
+which evinced the need of a competent controlling agency in the
+management of their affairs.”
+
+—A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks
+ago, to organize a colony for the West, and measures were taken
+to promote that object. They denounced the Liberian exodus.
+
+—Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to
+all the colored people who may choose to emigrate thither, a
+cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection of her laws, and equal
+facilities for education.
+
+—“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association,
+giving little more than $200,000 a year towards founding
+Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits, among four
+million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we
+do little to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific
+slope; and our labor among the Indians is light. But our Romish
+friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year among the
+freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly
+schools. There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among
+the Indians.”—_President E. P. Tenney, Colorado College._
+
+—“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres
+of land within nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to
+colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on the industrial farm
+plan.”—_Evangelist._
+
+—A correspondent of the _Christian Observer_ is informed that
+there are twenty-five Romish schools in the three States of
+Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free board and tuition.
+
+—The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed
+by Gen. Lopez Analto, and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in
+Florida:
+
+  “I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and
+  belief, that there are negroes from the United States at
+  different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this day
+  held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various
+  pretexts, since the rebellion in the United States, and upon
+  American vessels.”
+
+The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden
+death of Judge Leonard.
+
+—The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African
+Missions, are referred to on an editorial page.
+
+—One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of
+new missionary stations in the interior of Africa, is the effect
+which such civilized settlements among the hunting-grounds of the
+slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is
+still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian,
+Abyssinian, and negro boys and, especially, girls.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Chinaman.
+
+—In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge
+Sawyer has rendered a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who
+applied for naturalization papers, holding that Chinamen are
+not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the
+Naturalization Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens.
+“White,” he holds to be equivalent to Caucasian; and that, by
+exact construction of the provision, all but white persons, and
+persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever
+from citizenship. The case will probably be appealed.
+
+—We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph
+Twichell, in his recent lecture at New Haven, to those who are
+either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese in America. Under
+his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually $100,000
+in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut,
+where they are receiving a thorough course of education.
+
+—The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than
+$42,000 in school taxes. California law omits Mongolian children
+from the apportionment of school funds, refuses them admission
+to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen
+hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate
+schools for their three thousand children of proper age. Such are
+provided for those of African and Indian descent. The petition
+was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized it
+as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their
+part to “obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle
+their youth with ours, with a view, doubtless, to more thorough
+assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden of the
+complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate,
+and will work cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently
+not a “California diamond.”
+
+—A correspondent of the _Intelligencer_ asserts that the
+opposition to the Chinaman is instigated mainly by the
+liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither of whom
+has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.
+
+—A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed
+in part of members from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under
+the care of Rev. J. M. Condit. This is the second church in
+California, all the members of which are Chinese.
+
+—Prof. Mooar in _Evangelist_: “Our greatest danger in regard to
+this problem is not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us,
+but that we shall fail to be Christian enough for him.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The Indian.
+
+—A writer in the _Advance_ says that there are 6,500 persons
+in the Indian Territory, formerly slaves of the Choctaws and
+Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided for their citizenship
+among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to
+each. In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was
+passed refusing to comply with the treaty; so that, in the land
+where they were born, and where they toiled in slavery to enrich
+their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children
+to the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no
+protection from, nor access to, the Indian courts of law. So, the
+big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.
+
+—The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under
+a territorial government, are in the face of solemn treaties,
+and the opposition of the various tribes to whom it has been
+promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor
+Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors,
+and their disregard of the rights of so-called inferior races.
+
+—The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed
+upon by the House Committee on Territories.
+
+—As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés
+prisoner to go to the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from
+punishment to the fugitives of that tribe, if they surrender to
+the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight
+with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood
+of Fort Ewell. The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain
+that the agent has defrauded them, and threaten trouble. To
+Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers that,
+when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive
+cattle and other property of greater value; and that when peace
+is made, the Government will provide for them, as it does for all
+friendly Indians.
+
+—The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.—See
+Leavenworth _Times_. The _Christian Recorder_ (A. M. E.) says:
+“No people can go down who make a plentiful use of soap and
+water.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE FREEDMEN.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
+
+New Orleans, Louisiana.
+
+REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.
+
+The Institution was incorporated June 25th, 1869, and the first
+school building was completed in February, 1870. The American
+Missionary Association and the Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated
+in the establishment of the University. From the first, great
+numbers flocked to the school to enjoy its advantages, so that
+the capacity of the building was taxed to its utmost. The
+eagerness of the freedmen for education in 1870, and the two or
+three years following, was, perhaps, more intense and general
+than now. Between three and four thousand have been enrolled
+as students in the University during the eight years of its
+existence.
+
+It bears the name of Hon. Seymour Straight, of Ohio, who is one
+of its steadfast friends and benefactors.
+
+
+LOCATION.
+
+New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants, of whom 80,000 are
+colored people, is a most important point to be occupied in
+missionary work among the freedmen. As the commercial centre of
+the South-west—as the great cotton, sugar, and rice market of
+the Union—it out-ranks all others. In its intimate connections
+by river, bayou, and railroad with the most thickly populated
+negro districts of the old slave States, it is second to none.
+Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly adding to the
+negro population of Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there were
+369,000 colored people in this State, and each year swells
+the number. Already it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire
+population. Without disparagement to any other section, we claim,
+also, that the colored population of New Orleans represents
+the highest intelligence yet attained by the race in America.
+It includes the genuine African, the mulatto, the quadroon,
+the octaroon, and yet other shades and grades; and in this
+mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion of intelligence,
+and a corresponding increase in the capacity of culture and
+development. It would require the quick eye of an “expert” to
+detect, in the fair complexion and delicate features of many who
+throng our churches and schools, the faintest trace of African
+descent. Without speculating upon the cause, certain it is that
+we find among the colored people of the Crescent City a quickness
+of intelligence, and a capacity for the best culture and the
+noblest development, and withal a thirst for knowledge, which is
+worthy of our best sympathy and most generous benevolence.
+
+
+THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.
+
+In a word, our aim is Education, in its broadest and best
+meaning. The elevation, the prosperity, the highest manhood,
+and the co-ordinate rank of the African race in America, in the
+friendly rivalry of races, are still in the future—whether in
+the near or remote future, depends largely upon the race itself
+to determine. Education, under Divine guidance, is the gateway
+to that longed-for future. That I mean education as allied with
+religion, will be assumed. That the race is not educated, is
+by no fault of theirs. That they desire education, is to their
+credit. To help them to this education is both our duty and our
+privilege.
+
+The courses of study in this Institution include in the Academic
+Department, the Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory; and
+in the Professional Department, the Theological and the Law.
+
+We have a preparatory course, that we may secure better material
+for the higher courses. In the Normal course, special attention
+is given to those studies which will furnish young men and women
+with the education needed in the various branches of business
+life open to them, and which especially will qualify them as
+teachers, for which there is, and must continue to be, a great
+demand. In the Collegiate Department—which includes, among other
+studies, the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral Philosophy,
+and Latin—a higher grade and wider scope of studies will be
+added so soon as there is a demand for them. The school is yet
+in its infancy, and the number of those who are fitted to pursue
+to advantage the highest grade of studies is, of course, very
+limited.
+
+
+LAW DEPARTMENT.
+
+An able corps of Professors has been secured. Jurists of
+reputation and successful practice at the bar of Louisiana have
+kindly offered their services, with little hope of adequate
+compensation, and every facility is provided for young men of
+talent, who are attracted by the profession of the law, to
+fit themselves for honorable and successful practice. Regular
+graduates from this department, at the conclusion of a two years’
+course of study, and a well sustained examination, are admitted
+to the bar of New Orleans, with authority to practice in all the
+courts of the Commonwealth.
+
+
+THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.
+
+College graduates, who can be instructed in the original
+languages in which the Scriptures were written, are greatly
+desired, and until they can be secured, this department will
+but partially accomplish the object for which it was organized.
+The churches need thoroughly educated ministers, with carefully
+cultivated minds, who can intelligently preach the word. The
+degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers cannot be
+told. In the meantime, it is our aim to make the best use of
+the material we have, and transform it from a state of utter
+crudeness to one of partial fitness for the present demands of
+the churches. Men of piety and ability to speak and to teach are
+received, and advanced as far and as rapidly as their imperfect
+preparatory education will admit. Louisiana, with a colored
+population of 370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.
+The churches are calling in vain for intelligent laborers to go
+forth into the harvest. I wish the prospect was brighter for a
+large class of intelligent, spiritual, and enthusiastic students
+to enter this department, and to lift it to a high grade of
+usefulness.
+
+
+THE NEW UNIVERSITY.
+
+The building on Esplanade street, built in 1870, was entirely
+destroyed by fire February 16th, 1877. Since that disastrous
+event, our sessions have been held in Central Church, which
+is also the property of the American Missionary Association.
+A new site, more convenient and attractive, was purchased in
+January last. It is located on Canal street, the most beautiful
+avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a half square of land, 150
+feet front by 310 feet in depth. The new building, for whose
+design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas N. Chase, while not
+adhering strictly to any style of architecture, may be classed
+as _Italian_, as it approaches more nearly to that order. The
+dimensions of the building are 72 feet by 51½ feet. The five
+large recitation rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The halls are
+10 feet in width. The building is conveniently arranged, and all
+the requirements of the school, we think, have been anticipated
+in its design. The funds at the disposal of the Association did
+not admit of ornamentation; but the building, when completed,
+will be substantial, convenient, and comely. It will be ready
+for dedication and occupation at the opening of the fall term,
+October 1st. Grateful as we are for this new structure, we are
+not satisfied; neither should the friends of the freedmen in the
+North be satisfied. Straight University, in order to fill the
+measure of its usefulness, and cultivate the territory open to
+its occupation, must furnish accommodations for students from
+abroad—from towns outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining
+States. It must have _dormitories_. Two buildings, one on
+either side of the main building, are urgently needed, and at
+the earliest possible day. Then, when our group of buildings
+are completed, we can invite and welcome the best talent of the
+race, at whatever distance from New Orleans it may be found.
+Then our beloved University will become, among the educational
+institutions of the South-west—and especially of the Gulf
+States—the magnet, attracting to itself the best in intellect,
+in heart, and in promise of future good.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+VIRGINIA.
+
+Additions to the Church—An Indian’s Creed—A Good Beginning.
+
+REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.
+
+Four students united with the church by profession the first
+Sabbath in May. It is several years since any Communion season
+has passed without some additions to the church.
+
+The fifteen Indians who have lately joined the school have taken
+hold of study and of manual labor with commendable zeal, and
+give promise of becoming good teachers and guides of their race.
+One of them now shows evidence of Christian character. Their
+promptness and decision, as to the duties required of them, were
+put to the test in reference to the use of tobacco, to which they
+were so strongly attached that, as one of them said:—“There are
+three things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I love smoke.”
+When asked if they would comply with the rules of the school,
+prohibiting the use of tobacco, after considering the matter
+awhile in silence, one of them gave an expressive sign that he
+would cut loose from tobacco; and then all the others gave the
+same significant pledge—a pledge which, their teacher assures
+us, they will never break.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+SOUTH CAROLINA.
+
+History of “Avery” Graduates.
+
+PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.
+
+Avery Normal Institute was organized in Charleston, S. C.,
+October, 1865. The first formal graduation occurred in June,
+1872, at which time eleven young people received diplomas from
+the Institute. A class has been graduated each succeeding year,
+numbering as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874, six; 1875,
+fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including one post-graduate); 1877,
+twenty-two—giving a total of eighty-six. Of this number, death
+has taken five.
+
+Our school aims to fit its graduates to be competent teachers.
+Forty-six have been engaged in the public schools of the
+State—schools first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.
+Forty-one of the forty-six are teaching to-day; seventeen hold
+State certificates.
+
+One young man of the class of 1872 is an ordained minister. He
+was also graduated at South Carolina University in 1877. Another
+from that class, and one from the succeeding class, are studying
+with the ministry in view—one at Madison University, New York,
+the other at Atlanta University, Georgia. Three others from later
+classes are in higher institutions, preparing themselves to
+preach the Gospel.
+
+Our graduates bid fair to represent all the professions. One is
+in Howard University, studying medicine, and one in the leading
+Normal school of our county, preparing for teaching. The total
+number in higher institutions is seven, while four more have
+already received the degree of A. B. Five others were in South
+Carolina University when it closed its doors. These young men
+were ready to enter the Junior year of the College course when
+their studies were so abruptly ended. With one exception, they
+are teaching.
+
+Thirty-eight of our graduates are members of Evangelical
+churches; twenty at present are engaged in Sunday-school work.
+
+“By their fruits ye shall know them.” But is this all that Avery
+has done? No! Her influence has pervaded the homes of hundreds,
+and the lives of thousands. Her light has shone in every quarter
+of the State; and other lands are destined to share in her
+gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying three of her pupils to
+“Africa’s sunny fountains.”
+
+The questions are often asked: “What per cent. of your school is
+brown?” “Don’t the browns receive instruction more readily than
+the blacks?” The query, in the minds of so many, has led to an
+actual count of the graduates with regard to color, which gives:
+_Black_, 19; _brown_, 55; _fair_, 12. But, “the Lord is the maker
+of them all;” nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We sow “beside
+all waters.” “What shall the harvest be?”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GEORGIA.
+
+Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Band of Hope—Twichell School.
+
+REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.
+
+This small settlement of colored people is situated three miles
+west of Savannah, Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent, and
+divided into half-acre lots, which are now selling, on the
+instalment plan, for seventy-five dollars each. The houses are
+very small and uncomfortable; but since the American Missionary
+Association has erected a new meeting-house and parsonage, the
+people have commenced to put up better dwellings, and a strong
+love for home comforts is gradually taking hold upon the masses.
+The inhabitants of Woodville obtain a living by selling in the
+city market, or laboring in gardens and on rice plantations. In
+this settlement there are two groceries, and three on its border,
+where strong drink is sold, even on the Lord’s day.
+
+The only house of worship in this place is the Pilgrim
+Congregational Church. This church was organized in 1871 as the
+Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875 as the Pilgrim Church.
+A new site was chosen, and the present meeting-house was erected
+in the same year. This church has been a great blessing to the
+people. A deep religious feeling has prevailed in our midst, and
+many have become savingly acquainted with the Lord Jesus Christ.
+Rev. Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this little church,
+and a great assistant to the young pastor in charge. A revival
+is still in progress; twenty persons have been recently added
+to the church, and seven are waiting to be received at the next
+Communion.
+
+The Sabbath-school is prospering. We have no well qualified
+teachers as yet, but Twichell School is preparing instructors for
+this work. We need lesson papers and other papers. Who will help
+us in this direction? Our Band of Hope consists of both adults
+and children. This society is working hard to save men from a
+drunkard’s grave, and hell. It has much opposition to overcome.
+The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking church-people are its worst
+enemies.
+
+TWICHELL SCHOOL.—This school is held in the church, and is
+taught by the pastor. Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.
+and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school at Grand Rapids,
+Mich., we have been able to instruct hundreds of children, and
+it is pleasing to know that our labor has not been in vain, for
+many of the little ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord. Mrs. S.
+N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids,
+Mich., and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere thanks
+for the deep interest they have taken in this work. Every effort
+put forth in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant people
+deserves the heartiest encouragement.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+School Children Farming—Their Parents Buying Farms.
+
+SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.
+
+Our school is very small, as it always is at this season of the
+year, the children having to assist their parents in farming.
+For that reason, during the summer months of the previous years,
+we have had to teach about two hours at night, for the benefit
+of those who could not come in the daytime. We have not yet
+commenced night-school this year, though it is desired by many.
+
+There are many children in our neighborhood who belong to our
+school, but we find it very difficult to get all, or the most of
+them, to attend school regularly. We have a pretty good average
+attendance, but do not at all times have the same scholars, which
+causes much discord and delay.
+
+The children seem to be anxious to learn, but it is done in
+the midst of hardships which are uncommon to children in many
+other places. The older people are not as much interested in the
+education of their children as they should be, by a great deal.
+
+Only two schools for the colored children are kept up during the
+year in this county, namely, Second Midway and Old Midway. There
+are other places I know of in this county, where much might be
+done in the way of instructing the people in the right way, and
+they would be very glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.
+
+About two-thirds of the colored people in this county are trying
+to buy land, and really some have succeeded in so doing; but it
+is done by about four years’ _hard_ labor and strict economy.
+There is very little money in this county, and it will be so
+until the colored people pay for and take possession of these
+lands. After a couple of years they will be able to do much for
+themselves in many ways.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A Growing School—A Literary Society.
+
+COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.
+
+The Mission School at Marietta was opened Oct. 15th, 1877,
+with four pupils only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there were
+fourteen. The end of January found a roll of thirty-seven, which
+has steadily increased to seventy-two. It may be seen that the
+growth of this school was not very rapid, from the fact that it
+was opposed by many of the colored people in the city. But the
+more water they threw on this little spark, the brighter and
+faster it burned, till it has become a centre of attraction.
+Friends of this work are fast multiplying, and the future seems
+bright.
+
+My school is composed of some very bright and promising young
+men and women, seven of whom go out every summer to teach. The
+studies are spelling, reading, writing, geography, composition,
+grammar, and arithmetic.
+
+To this work is attached a literary society, known as the Junto,
+the exercises of which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,
+and singing. It was likewise opposed, but is now as largely
+attended as any church in the city.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI.
+
+An Old School—Temperance Work—The Gourd Family.
+
+MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.
+
+Our school, in age, ranks among the older ones, having been
+established in the Spring of 1866, and we have been its teachers
+continuously up to the present time. First, we were missionary
+teachers; after a time the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid,
+until the organization of free schools by the State; thereafter,
+we taught the public school until last year.
+
+During all these years of varying fortunes our school has
+steadily progressed, until there has grown up around us a
+generation of young people, not great, nor wise, nor learned,
+only as they are compared with those who have gone before them;
+but, standing out from the blackness of darkness of twelve years
+ago, they furnish a bright and hopeful outlook.
+
+We organized a Temperance society early in our work here, and it
+has never died out. We, several years ago, gave the control into
+the hands of the young people, being only members, for service,
+when needed. They have changed names, and banners, and badges
+more than once—just now it is blue ribbon—but the object has
+always been the same. Our Sunday-school has always claimed our
+best efforts, and we are glad to know that more than two-thirds
+of our older scholars are professing Christians. But the work
+done is but a drop compared with that which is not done. We
+have lived to see very many hopes and dreams fade out, and to
+learn that manhood and womanhood are not plants of the gourd
+family—Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge of what we have
+not done, and cannot do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,
+perhaps, we have thus learned to do what we can the more gladly,
+feeling sure that we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe this is
+a part of the work, for we, too, are our Father’s children.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
+
+Its Catholicity—Closing Exercises.
+
+The year of the Theological Department of Howard University has
+just closed. This department is under the joint care and support
+of the Presbytery of Washington, and of the American Missionary
+Association. The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as Professor
+of Revealed Theology and Biblical History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer,
+D. D., as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral Science; the
+latter supplies the instruction given by the President, Rev.
+Wm. W. Patton, D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences of
+Revealed Religion, and Hebrew, and by Rev. John G. Butler, D.
+D., in Pastoral Theology, Church History, and Homiletics. The
+theological students this year have numbered thirty-two. These
+are in all stages of preparation for their expected work. Several
+are already ministers, and are preaching, every Sunday, as
+pastors of colored churches in Washington; but, having had no
+early advantages, they are making up deficiencies as best they
+can.
+
+The theological students come from seven different denominations,
+while their instructors represent four. This is an unusual
+illustration of Christian union, and shows how much can be done,
+on a simple evangelical basis, for meeting the pressing wants
+of the colored population of our land. The work needs to be
+conducted on a broad, generous basis. We can thus introduce a
+powerful leaven of truth and righteousness where it is especially
+needed. The plan of instruction has been, to meet the special
+wants of each individual according to his age, his forwardness
+or backwardness of study, the time that he could remain, etc.
+Such as have enjoyed a classical education, are encouraged to
+take the regular three years’ course pursued in all theological
+seminaries. Others are taught what is found to be most needed
+to fit them for their work, in the form of English studies. Six
+have studied the Hebrew this year, and they passed a creditable
+examination in the grammar, and in translation, averaging quite
+as well as ordinary white students in theological institutions.
+These students also attend the Bible-class conducted by the
+president on the morning of the Lord’s day, and his preaching
+service in the afternoon, in the latter of which he has lately,
+in a series of discourses, pointed out the weakness and absurdity
+of modern skepticism, as an antidote to the influence of the
+infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob” Ingersoll, who has taken
+up his abode in Washington.
+
+Although the theological students have numbered thirty-two this
+year, it so happens that but one has completed his course; and
+as a distinguished clergyman who, it was hoped, would deliver
+the address at the anniversary, failed us at too late a moment
+to substitute any one else, the closing exercises took the form
+of a debate by eight of the young men, on this question: “Has
+a church a right to make total abstinence from intoxicating
+drinks a condition of membership?” This point was debated with
+much earnestness and shrewdness, and arguments, _pro_ and _con_,
+were drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture in a way which
+testified favorably to the abilities of the speakers. One of
+the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States takes a
+deep interest in this department of the University, and lately
+expressed himself emphatically in favor of encouraging and
+endowing it, as an important means of elevating the colored
+ministry and churches of all denominations. Its friends
+anticipate for it a future bright with usefulness.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.
+
+MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.
+
+As gems are valued by their rarity, so you can imagine how such a
+gathering as the Sunday-school Convention seemed to us in Georgia.
+
+We were favored, not more by hearing the appointed speakers in
+the great Convention, than by the personal presence and good
+words of many of its delegates in our own school-room. Gen. Fisk,
+who has given not only his name, but his heart and hand to our
+Fisk University, took Atlanta and the Convention by storm with
+his happy address of welcome. It seems to me our young men can
+never lose the inspiration of hope and courage that must have
+come to them from him, whose youthful struggles had even exceeded
+many of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M. Parsons. All who
+ever listened to him will understand how, at the close of his
+words, we felt that, next to the Rock Christ Jesus, there was
+not beneath the sun so firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.
+Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president from Montreal,
+warned us of the Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,
+only a good Scotch Presbyterian could feel. Then we had “Hope
+Ledyard,” the charming correspondent, whose young life seems too
+exquisitely moulded to have always escaped the loving Father’s
+crucible.
+
+Best of all, we had good words from many not heard in the
+Convention, and, perhaps, unknown to fame. There was Judge
+Harman, of Oswego. How his clear eye took in the large
+possibilities of our work, and how his great heart went out
+toward us! As he warned us of the perils of a life without Jesus,
+and the depths of despair into which life’s trials could plunge a
+soul unsupported by the Everlasting Arms, his peaceful face and
+silvery hair assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed, some of
+us had rare glimpses into the blessed beyond. The words of Rev.
+A. P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that I was prevented from
+hearing, so lifted both teachers and pupils above the plane of
+plodding school life, that we almost trembled to look down. The
+fact that many such men, of kindred mind and heart, filled the
+silent pews of the Convention, seemed to me the secret of its
+power. We had heard as good papers from other platforms, but the
+sight of such a body, all delighting in the Master’s command,
+“Feed My lambs,” was enough to send us to our homes feeling, as
+one of our girls expressed it, “I know I shall be a better woman
+for having attended the Convention.”
+
+In response to an invitation for the delegates to visit our
+school, Governor Colquitt, who presided, remarked to the
+Convention: “The University is a good place to visit, and is
+doing a good work”; and added that he had a servant who had
+attended our school some years, and the instruction received
+there had not pushed him above his position—he was the same
+humble, faithful boy about his work. Every summer he came to him
+for a recommendation to teach, which he cheerfully gave him, and
+the boy always returned in the fall the same good, modest young
+man.
+
+Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion to express his
+appreciation of our work. After the close of his sermon, at
+the Central Presbyterian Church here, while recounting to the
+audience the many things of interest he had enjoyed in their
+city, he remarked that he had recently visited most of the
+universities of Europe, and added that nothing in Atlanta, or
+the great universities abroad, had interested him so heartily as
+their Atlanta University.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN CONFERENCE.
+
+REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.
+
+New Iberia was the place selected for our Annual Meeting this
+year, April 3-5, and one more attractive, or more important to
+the general interests of our work, could not have been chosen.
+This church was organized in 1866, and has a membership of 117,
+of which thirty have been received on profession of faith the
+past year. The population of the city is about 3,000, of whom
+nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.
+
+The South-western Conference is composed of fourteen
+Congregational churches, of which twelve were represented at our
+Annual Meeting.
+
+The reports from the churches showed very clearly that the past
+year had been one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.
+Several churches, as the Central, in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s,
+in Terrebonne, have been blessed with revivals of great power.
+Other churches have been cutting off dead branches, and putting
+themselves in condition for better service. In tabulating the
+reports, I find that the present membership of the churches of
+our Conference is 806. There have been added on profession during
+the year (ending April 1st, 1878,) _one hundred and thirteen_,
+and four by letter. Forty-seven adults and _eighty babies_ have
+been baptized.
+
+As I have already spoken of the precious revival in Central
+Church, in which more than fifty were converted, and the church
+itself greatly quickened and refreshed, I will not recite the
+facts again. The church of Brother Clay (one of the veterans and
+pioneers of Congregationalism in Louisiana), in Terrebonne, has
+passed through joyful and glorious experiences. The church has
+been thronged for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I did not know
+where all the people came from. The church and church-yard were
+filled with a dense mass of people. It seemed as though they
+sprung out of the ground.” Night after night the earnest truths
+of the Gospel were preached, and night after night “mourners”
+crowded the anxious seats, crying for mercy. The people came from
+long distances, five and seven miles. God put honor upon His
+word, and many have been converted, and still the good work goes
+on. Pastor Clay’s heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.
+
+
+QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.
+
+Among the topics considered at the Conference were the following:
+
+_Revivals_: The best method of promoting and conducting them.
+_Education_: The demand of the hour; how shall we meet it?
+_Faith_: Its nature; how can we secure greater faith? Its joys
+and its triumphs. What more can we do to reach the people with
+the Gospel?
+
+These questions were discussed with vigor and interest. Of
+course, no speeches had been prepared in advance, and I was
+surprised at the real excellence of the addresses. Mistakes in
+grammar were sometimes made, and there were not many classical
+allusions, but the speeches had the true ring, and good will come
+of them.
+
+
+PUBLIC SERVICES.
+
+The opening sermon was given by the Moderator, Mr. Alexander,
+from Matthew 1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel; which
+being interpreted is, God with us.” It was a great pleasure to
+speak to such an audience. The church was densely packed, the
+entry was filled; people took positions under the windows on
+the outside, and fully one hundred, having sought admission in
+vain, went reluctantly away. Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached
+the second evening; after which, the Moderator made an address
+on “Christian Unity,” in the hope of removing or modifying some
+of the asperities and jealousies existing among the colored
+churches. The address was received with strong expressions of
+sympathy. One good old “auntie” said the next day: “Don’t you say
+anything against that minister. He is trying to build up both
+sides. He don’t wish to break down anybody.”
+
+
+ORDINATION.
+
+On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a member of the church at New
+Iberia, but a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed a faithful
+examination before the Conference regarding his Christian
+experience, his religious belief, and his ability to preach, was
+ordained as an Evangelist.
+
+Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian, and will make an able
+and successful minister. He has served the churches faithfully
+for two years or more without compensation. He owns a small farm
+of eighteen acres on the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.
+His worthy wife was for a short time a student in Straight
+University. He expresses his willingness to leave his beautiful
+home, and go anywhere, even to Africa, where God may call him.
+
+
+FAREWELL MEETING.
+
+Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell prayer-meeting.” It
+was a most tender and impressive scene. As one after another
+spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was wet with manly tears,
+and when the entire Conference rose and joined hands, and they
+sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to themselves, beginning
+“Good-by, and shake hands,” and we entered into covenant with
+God and with each other to go forth to another year of labor and
+self-denial, those dear brethren, in the excess of religious
+emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus was our meeting of 1878
+brought to a close. The good pastor at New Iberia said: “Such a
+light was never kindled here before.” The Conference adjourned to
+meet in New Iberia next year, at the call of the Moderator.
+
+Dear brethren of the North, pray for us, and remember that we are
+trying to hold this distant outpost of the Church, and to extend,
+in this beautiful and fruitful land, the cherished faith and
+polity of our fathers.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES, GREETING.
+
+  We give the following extracts from a letter, written by the
+  Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to the new missionaries to
+  Africa. From the fact that they are all Fisk University students,
+  the greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers in Africa
+  is full of pathetic interest:
+
+                                                 ERFURT, GERMANY.
+
+To ALBERT P. MILLER, ADA ROBERTS MILLER, ANDREW E. JACKSON, and
+ELLA HILDRIDGE JACKSON, Missionaries for Africa:
+
+_Dear Brothers and Sisters_: The Jubilee Singers send greeting.
+Could we give you our greeting in person, it would be more
+satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey to you, in writing, how
+our hearts have gone out to you in love and sympathy, and up to
+God in thankfulness, since the glad tidings reached us of your
+having consecrated your lives and talents to mission work among
+our brethren in Africa. We have prayed and labored long for this
+day, and now, thank God, our prayers are being answered.
+
+We realize in how large a degree our success has been
+attributable to the faithful prayers of you and your
+fellow-students, sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk
+University; and let us assure you that while you are doing battle
+for the Master, by helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism and
+superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen, you, in like manner,
+will be sustained by the prayers of your fellow students, and
+warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in our own native land,
+but in Great Britain, Holland and Germany. They will follow
+your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully, watching for the
+fruits which ye shall reap, in due season, if ye faint not, and
+rejoicing with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.
+
+You are our first band of missionaries at the outpost of the
+American Missionary Association in the land of our forefathers.
+May the light of God so shine in your hearts that its reflected
+rays shall be a balm to those who may come to you, to be healed
+and taught of God. May He give you strength to thrust in the
+“sharpened sickle” when the fields are ripe for the harvest, and
+the laborers so few.
+
+With the love and best wishes of the Jubilee Singers.
+
+                            (Signed)
+
+                                           GEORGIA M. GORDON,
+                                                F. J. LOUDIN,
+                                                B. W. THOMAS.
+
+                                                     _Committee_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Arrival of the New Missionaries.
+
+REV. FLOYD SNELSON.
+
+I received the letters, telling of the new missionaries on
+the way to our mission, with great joy. I left home late last
+Thursday afternoon for this place to meet them. We came on very
+well until Friday night about ten o’clock, at which time we were
+caught in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As I had not been
+here since our first arrival, there were many things to look
+after.
+
+Just as I was finishing up last night, the steamer came in,
+bringing them. I got out to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent
+nearly an hour with them. I am very favorably impressed with the
+first view of my new co-workers, and hope now to be able to carry
+on the work to greater success and with more ease.
+
+Next morning they came ashore, and expressed themselves as
+favorably surprised at the appearance of the place and people. On
+the 26th, we hope to leave early for Good Hope.
+
+  FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE,
+      _March 25th, 1878_.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+First Impressions of Africa—A Sunday Service—A School
+Celebration.
+
+REV. ALBERT MILLER.
+
+On reaching Freetown, and walking about the place and conversing
+with the natives, we were very favorably disappointed. Some are
+very intelligent and kind-hearted. We attended a Sunday-School
+in the afternoon, and were much pleased to hear the children
+read and sing. They reminded me of a small country school in the
+South. A little boy played on the organ. We visited several of
+the natives, and I was everywhere surprised at seeing so much
+intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson had made all necessary
+preparations for our coming. The mission house had been fitted
+up nicely, so that we soon felt as if we were in an American
+village. We remained in Freetown two days, and Brother Snelson
+lost no time in showing us the many things of interest in this
+African city. We visited the market, and saw many things in the
+line of fruits to interest us. All were well pleased, but still
+longed to reach our adopted home.
+
+Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March, we arrived here on the
+28th, early in the morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.
+Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the mission met us at
+the wharf. We could not have been more kindly received by any
+persons. We have been here several days now, and find the work
+promising and encouraging. Brother Snelson and his helpers are
+hard at work, and things, I suppose, are much more hopeful than
+they have been for years.
+
+The church was filled last Sabbath to its utmost capacity with
+hearers. Brother S., I think is the right man in the right place.
+The only charge I am able to bring against him is overwork.
+He has the confidence of the people, which is so necessary to
+success. Services were conducted by Brother Jackson and myself.
+
+I find the people kind and obliging. They are very happy to have
+us, of their own race, come and teach and labor among them. Some
+seem ready to shout. We are well pleased with our new home, and
+are in a good state of health. The heat is very intense. All
+things seem to indicate a better day for the sable sons of Ham.
+Africa is not what rumor represents it to be—at least, what I
+have seen of it.
+
+APRIL 3, 1878.—To-day has been one of great interest, both
+to parents and children. The day-school, under the general
+management of Brother White, turned out. An examination took
+place in the forenoon, after which the schools (day and
+Sabbath), with two banners waving o’er head, came marching to a
+place near the mission-house, where a dinner had been prepared
+for them. Brother Snelson led the schools, and the children,
+full of joy, followed him. He led them through the principal
+streets of this our city, the sides of the streets being filled
+with lookers-on. All this seemed new to them, and I dare say it
+is new to this part of Africa. We had music, but very different
+from such as our American friends are accustomed to. An old tin
+box served as kettle-drum. This, with other instruments, made
+music sufficient for the children to march and keep pretty good
+time. Returning to the tables, the little ones ate dinner, using
+spoons, which is something very new to them. Each one seemed to
+be happy. The patrons were called upon to contribute for the
+giving of this dinner. Many responded, sending chickens, rice,
+etc. Of course, the whole affair was devolved upon Brother
+Snelson. He received contributions from traders and officials,
+many of whom are here on the coast. These, you will remember,
+are white, the friendship and kind favor of whom Brother S.
+has gained. They did not attend the exercises of the day, but
+came out at night, and listened to speeches from members of the
+school. The pupils spoke and sang well, and reminded me very much
+of my past experience in the South—so Southern-like.
+
+All were highly pleased with the exercises of the evening. The
+American flag was on one side of the house, that of England on
+the other—thus bringing all in attendance between them. These
+two flags during the day were unfurled to the gentle breeze with
+which we were favored. Many of the leading men of Bonthe were
+here, and, with those from other places, took tea with us. I gain
+more interest daily for this my field of labor. I shall not wait
+to become acclimated, but shall proceed to labor at once.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Advantages of Colored Missionaries.
+
+EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.
+
+You would like to know what I think about colored missionaries
+doing good here. My firm belief is, that they can do more than
+any other missionaries under the sun. These people have always
+been used to colored people. Most of the white men whom they have
+seen were traders, seeking their own good. They robbed the people
+of their produce and children, and destroyed their confidence.
+A white missionary has to be more careful than a colored one.
+The natives look upon a white person as unnatural, and think
+he is above them in every way, and that God made him so. They
+also think it is of no use for them to try to do the things they
+see the white man do. But, on the other hand, when they see a
+colored man do anything, they think if he can do it they can do
+it themselves. They are a great people to imitate. For a proof of
+what I have said, look at the Shengay Mission. It is conducted
+altogether by colored missionaries, and stands ahead of others on
+the coast. Do not think I say this because I am a colored man. I
+say it because I know it is true.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+School Wants and Farm Work.
+
+W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.
+
+The school opened very encouragingly this term, and before the
+close of the second week we had fifty-four different boarding
+scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission to others, on
+account of our limited accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever
+broke out, and before the close of the term twenty-three boarding
+scholars, and many of our day scholars, had been sent home on
+account of sickness.
+
+The boarding scholars seem, generally, to be happy and contented
+with us, and eager to return at the opening of each new term; and
+their progress in their studies, and general deportment, is much
+greater than with the day scholars. The general interest, also,
+of the tribe in the subject of education is greatly quickened.
+The boarding-school, with suitable accommodations, might be made
+a great blessing to the tribe. We feel sure we could readily
+obtain 100 scholars if we had the accommodations.
+
+The tribe has asked the Department to appropriate, from their
+funds in the United States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of a
+suitable building.
+
+We see the dreadful results, in other tribes around us, of
+allowing the youth to grow up, without education, in contact with
+the whites, learning their vices and not their virtues, and it
+makes us long to see something done to save this people from the
+blight which has fallen upon so many other tribes before them.
+
+I have spent nearly three weeks going over the Reservation since
+school closed, visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the
+Indians to make larger improvements; and I have been very greatly
+gratified to notice so many already clearing up new lands. I have
+only found three or four families who will not clear up some new
+ground this spring. Some will clear as much as three or four
+acres. Many are chopping and logging heavy timber without any
+team to help them.
+
+I think there will be 300 acres of new land cleared this spring.
+I expect to distribute (only to those who clear at least one
+acre) 1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats, wheat, and
+vegetable seeds, for many of them have not yet learned to provide
+beforehand. There are, however, quite a number who not only have
+enough for their own seed, but some to sell.
+
+Could the boarding-school be kept up regularly for a few years,
+we should have great hopes for the future of this tribe, but
+there seems to be a strange lack of interest in this matter on
+the part of the authorities at Washington. We are now anxiously
+waiting for instructions to re-open this school. Meanwhile, the
+day-school is in operation, with an attendance of twenty-two
+scholars.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+An Indian Wants a Cow.
+
+    Dr G L Mahon
+
+    Dr Sir i thought i would write a few lines to you to asking you
+    that you dint not answered me when i was asking you while you was
+    here about the Cow i want you to give me one if you Can i thing
+    i would use the Cow very much if you would give me one i could
+    get Some Butter from her and i could make good living on Butter
+    with Potatoes if you Send me one Send who have a young Calf in
+    her thats the one i like to have her and you will let me know it
+    By G Wheeler and another thing about Potatoes Zack Brown told me
+    he hasent got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring and ive got
+    Plenty potatoes in Net Lake and if you want any i could Sell it
+    to you Some that is for Zack Brown wants it Now i send my Best
+    Regards to you
+
+                 from     ADAWWAN-NE QUA BENANS
+               VERMILLION LAKE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+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 C. 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. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+Fung Affoo’s Bible Class—Visalia and Petaluma.
+
+REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
+
+Remembering that the Sabbath worship at our Central Mission had
+never been described, though often alluded to in the MISSIONARY,
+I requested Bro. Fung Affoo to give an account of it, and
+received the following communication:
+
+  “As we have not much time to teach them the Scripture on any
+  other evening, we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings to
+  teach them to read the Bible instead of their other lessons. On
+  Sunday we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at half-past eleven
+  A. M., and continuing for one hour and a half. We sing about half
+  an hour either in Chinese or in English, then offer a prayer, and
+  then read a chapter from the Bible. Each verse they read after
+  me, then I translate it into Chinese; when through interpreting,
+  on each verse or paragraph I make some remarks which I have
+  studied out during the week days. After we get through the
+  chapter, I speak about ten minutes on a subject selected from
+  that chapter beforehand, then one of our brethren offers prayer;
+  we then unite in singing the Doxology, and close with the
+  Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday evening are similar
+  to those we have on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement in
+  the work seeing that they like to read the Bible more than ever
+  before. Formerly only about one-half of the school attended the
+  Bible-class on Wednesday evenings, but now they number nearly
+  as many on that evening as on any other evening of the week. It
+  seems as though their hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of
+  course, many come to read the Bible only for the sake of learning
+  the English, but in time we hope, when they know the truth of
+  God, they will change their mind and heart, as some of them have
+  already done, who are now on Christ’s side, battling for the
+  Lord.”
+
+                                                    “FUNG AFFOO.”
+
+The attendance at this Sabbath noon service averages about
+fifty-five. Of course, my pastoral duties render it impossible
+for me ever to be present. I do not think, however, that my
+presence would add anything to the worship or the work. I assist
+the helpers in their preparation, but I believe that in dealing
+with their countrymen they are more skilful than I could be, even
+if I could speak Chinese. It needs an experience in heathenism,
+to enable one to reach the heathen in the most efficient way. God
+chooses saved _sinners_ to be messengers of salvation to those
+still lost. I think that the programme of this service, as Bro.
+Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact. It is not one of my
+planning—not the one I should have chosen; but as I carefully
+consider it, I ask, “What _could be_ better fitted for those for
+whom the service is arranged?”
+
+Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary labors among the Chinese
+at San Leandro were attended with so rich a blessing, is now
+acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at Visalia. He has
+carried there his zeal for this good work; has already rented a
+small room, and opened a school. We shall aid him as far as we
+are able. Would that we had a hundred men like-minded with him
+touching this work!
+
+Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish the care of the school at
+Petaluma, and is succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian
+spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade St., New York. This school
+is quite small, but its members surpass those of every other
+school in liberality, and I cannot consent to abandon them.
+Christ, too, is becoming known to them. With increasing interest
+they study God’s word. And they _sing_, somewhat at random, it
+must be confessed, in the matter of time and of tune, but with
+an eagerness and a gusto that betoken a beginning both of the
+spirit and the understanding in their song. Miss Anthony writes:
+“Wah Yene is a good Christian as far as he understands. He told
+me, one evening, that he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,
+and every night. Some people,’ he added, ‘not much good; likee go
+to church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor of the Congregational
+church] think they good. Some people very good, and pray to God.
+I likee be good—not much bad.’”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+A TEACHER’S STORY.
+
+The following letter is from a young girl who has not gone
+through the Middle Class at Hampton, but is showing much energy
+and tact, and doing good work as teacher in one of the rough
+places of the far South:
+
+                                                         FLORIDA.
+
+  I will first say, I am a colored girl; my native home is in St.
+  Augustine. I was raised by kind Northern friends. I am teaching
+  school on the St. John’s River, about thirty or forty miles from
+  St. Augustine. In giving my descriptions, I will first describe
+  my school-house. It is made entirely of logs, with the exception
+  of the door and windows, which were given by Miss M. The skies
+  may be seen in any part of the room. The cracks in the floor are
+  large enough to put your hands through. When it rains, it leaks
+  in like water dropping from the trees. There is no fire-place,
+  nor was there any way for keeping warm until, the past week, a
+  young man got me a little stove. But the house is so open this
+  does but little towards heating it up. We have had some cold
+  days, and the only way I had to keep my scholars warm was, to
+  build two large fires and have the poor little children set
+  around them (out of doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and
+  bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart ache to see the tears
+  stand in their eyes, when I asked them why they didn’t put on
+  shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply would be, “I have on all
+  the clothes I got, and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes, when I
+  have on all I can to keep warm, most of my girls have only two
+  garments on, the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some of my
+  pupils have to come between two and three miles, and then cross a
+  creek. I have a sewing-school for my girls once a week. I read to
+  them, and teach them things to sing while they are sewing. They
+  are to keep what they make. I have been teaching three-and-a-half
+  months. The age of my scholars is from three-and-a-half to
+  twenty-four years. I have enrolled thirty scholars, most of them
+  very good, all anxious to learn. The people are very, very poor,
+  and have real hard times in getting clothing, and keeping from
+  starving. They live in log huts, some of which leak, and are in
+  a dreadful condition. I don’t know how to describe some of them.
+  There are a few white settlers here; some of them, when the folks
+  work for them, won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the work
+  they get from them is mostly their entire support.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+RECEIPTS
+
+FOR APRIL, 1878.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  MAINE, $27.24.
+
+    Andover. S. W. Pearson                                   5.00
+    Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.             1.00
+    Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  10.00
+    Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B. $1               11.24
+
+
+  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.
+
+    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              2.75
+    Deerfield. ESTATE of Stephen Brown, by Joseph T.
+      Brown, Ex.                                           100.00
+    Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,” _for a
+      Teacher_                                              78.00
+    Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.                       1.20
+    Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. AUSTIN
+      H. BURR, L. M.                                        35.00
+    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           25.00
+    Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.
+    Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob Chapman $5       10.00
+    Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 6.75
+    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                          3.00
+    Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C. W. Wallace
+      $25                                                   75.00
+    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        19.00
+    Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        34.78
+    Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.                                  1.00
+    Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               8.81
+    Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” _for Student Aid,
+      Wilmington, N. C._                                    17.00
+
+
+  VERMONT, $1,166.04.
+
+    Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              11.25
+    Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.                                0.50
+    Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            35.35
+    Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)                0.50
+    Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   165.36
+    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3 from
+     “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.02         25.42
+    Danby. Rev. L. D. M.                                     0.50
+    Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 25.00
+    East Barnard. Levi Belknap                               2.00
+    Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. REV. JOHN H.
+      HINCKS, L. M.                                         32.00
+    North Walden. S. W. O.                                   0.50
+    Peacham. ESTATE of Ezra C. Chamberlin, by Wm. R.
+      Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to const. MISS JANE E.
+      CHAMBERLIN and MISS JENNIE C. WATTS, L.M’s)          500.00
+    South Londonderry. “A Friend”                            5.00
+    Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,” _for
+      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                             150.00
+    Springfield. Mrs. F. P.                                  1.00
+    Swanton. Harry Smith                                     5.00
+    West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 14.46
+    West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.                    14.10
+    West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;
+      Mrs. L. W. $1                                         17.10
+    Westminster West. ESTATE of Almira Goodhue, by
+      Homer Goodhue, Ex.                                   150.00
+    Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.                       11.00
+
+
+  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.
+
+    Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.71
+    Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G., 25c.          10.25
+    Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                           10.00
+    Ashfield. B. H.                                          0.54
+    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Theo. Student,
+      Talladega C._                                         70.00
+    Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._       20.00
+    Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch. $132.16; Rev.
+      Chas. Nichols $25                                    157.16
+    Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           14.00
+    Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis Sanford,
+      box of C.                                              5.00
+    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                         69.21
+    Buckland. Cong. Ch.                                      9.55
+    Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.
+      MARTIN NELSON ROOT, M.D., L.M.; Cong. Ch. and
+      Soc. $5.75                                            35.75
+    Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.                           74.91
+    Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               14.66
+    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       48.22
+    Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20; Thomas P.
+      Carlton $2                                            22.00
+    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        87.02
+    Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy                             2.50
+    Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            7.16
+    East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75
+      from “Carpenter Bees,” _for Colored Girls_)           21.00
+    East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      1.00
+    East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D. $1               2.00
+    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 126.89
+    Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        6.17
+    Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. $14.40;
+      Mrs. E. H. $1                                         15.40
+    Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        36.02
+    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                             3.56
+    Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza
+      Huntington $2                                          7.00
+    Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss. Ass’n $6,
+      _for Wilmington, N. C._                               21.00
+    Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.                              10.00
+    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      14.97
+    Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;
+      Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.                             228.87
+    Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     41.88
+    Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   13.47
+    Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.                                    0.50
+    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        58.72
+    Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00
+    Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of books.
+    Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.
+      Pond, Ex.                                            135.00
+    Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.
+    Melrose. E. N. C.                                        0.50
+    Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
+      Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper, Ex’s.        959.09
+    Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 20.00
+    Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+      OLIVER CHURCH and REV. CHAS. M. PEIRCE, L.M’s         60.71
+    Middleton. ESTATE of Mrs. Catharine Merriam
+      Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.                  100.00
+    Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.60
+    New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.                               1.00
+    Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.                                  0.50
+    North Adams. Cong. Ch.                                  27.68
+    Northampton. First Cong. Ch.                            47.06
+    Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;
+      Mrs. C. F. R. $1                                     151.64
+    Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes                           25.00
+    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.              50.00
+    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;
+      L. W. 50c                                             21.89
+    Pittsfield. James R. Jones                              15.00
+    Princeton. H. N. M.                                      5.00
+    Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              37.00
+    Salem. Geo. Driver                                       5.00
+    Shelburne. Cong. Ch.                                     9.61
+    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00
+    Southfield. W. H. E.                                     0.50
+    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.              88.00
+    South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  14.00
+    South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;
+      Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41                                83.00
+    South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      11.13
+    South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.                         30.00
+    Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.                            20.00
+    Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $38.55;
+      Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South Cong. Ch. $12.96         73.06
+    Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.                              25.50
+    Sutton. R. L. 1.00
+    Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.                          1.50
+    Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.                                   0.50
+    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       36.50
+    Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        12.00
+    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                25.00
+    Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll.
+      $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs. W. F.
+      Morse $5                                              87.95
+    West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     26.75
+    Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.50
+    West Springfield. Park St. Ch.                          15.00
+    Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       14.14
+    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                           15.39
+    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.80
+    Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.                 1.86
+    Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.                    19.10
+    —— “A Friend”                                          250.00
+    —— “A Friend”                                           20.00
+
+
+  RHODE ISLAND, 27c.
+
+    Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.
+    Slaterville. M. J. T.                                    0.27
+
+
+  CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.
+
+    Ansonia. Cong. Ch.                                      26.71
+    Avon. Miss L. A. A.                                      0.50
+    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                10.00
+    Birmingham. Cong. Ch.                                   46.38
+    Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00
+    Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                10.00
+    Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.                                  11.00
+    Darien. Cong. Ch.                                       35.50
+    East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        8.24
+    East Woodstock. ESTATE of George A. Paine, by
+      John Paine, Ex.                                      646.15
+    Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                    54.42
+    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                   63.52
+    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.44
+    Guilford. “Lea.”                                        10.00
+    Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          4.15
+    Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G. $1;
+      Mrs. G. T. G. $1                                       3.25
+    Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.                       2.00
+    Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks                             5.00
+    Ledyard. Cong. Ch.                                       8.75
+    Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              7.00
+    New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22;
+      College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch. (ad’l) $5;
+      A. T. $1                                              38.00
+    North Branford. Cong. Ch.                               22.00
+    Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, _for Student Aid,
+     Atlanta U._                                            5.00
+    Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                            5.00
+    Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, _for Student Aid,
+      Atlanta U._                                           50.00
+    Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith $5              15.00
+    Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding, by
+      Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams, Ex’s        1,046.63
+    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                            118.65
+    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                      8.81
+    Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.75
+    South Coventry. Cong. Ch.                               47.84
+    Southington. Cong. Ch.                                  18.17
+    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                    31.94
+    Westford. Cong. Ch                                       5.00
+    West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                85.00
+    West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                          1.00
+    Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             14.00
+    Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.                                65.00
+    Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss                            10.50
+    Woodfords. Dr. E. C.                                     0.50
+
+
+  NEW YORK, $1,197,84.
+
+    Albion. L. S.                                            1.00
+    Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50; Mrs. J. E.
+      Bean $10                                              22.50
+    Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central Cong.
+      Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E. Whiton $15; Mrs.
+      William Bane, packages books and C.                  526.65
+    Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.                                 0.60
+    Eagle Harbor. A. P.                                      0.48
+    Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5 for Student
+      Aid)                                                  10.00
+    Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres                                5.00
+    Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean                                   5.00
+    Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.                       1.00
+    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                 11.52
+    Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur                             2.00
+    Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch., by Lina
+      Burroughs, box of C. and books.
+    New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. $440.93.
+      —“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch.
+      $11.41, _for Student Aid._—“A Friend,” package
+      _for Memphis, Tenn._                                 452.34
+    Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley                4.37
+    Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy                                100.00
+    Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.                                9.58
+    Rome. John B. Jervis                                    25.00
+    Saratoga Springs. S. C.                                  0.50
+    Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke                              6.80
+    Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.                                      1.00
+    Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt                           10.00
+    West Brook. T. S. H.                                     0.50
+    West Winfield. L. Bucklen                                2.00
+    Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.
+
+
+  NEW JERSEY, $101.50.
+
+    Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)                   100.00
+    Phillipsburg. H. P. M.                                   0.50
+    Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.                                   1.00
+
+
+  PENNSYLVANIA, $15.
+
+    Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester                         5.00
+    Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd                                  10.00
+
+
+  OHIO, $910.87.
+
+    Akron. Cong. Ch.                                        81.70
+    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                       9.71
+    Bellevue. Cong. Ch.                                     23.50
+    Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New
+      Orleans_                                              78.72
+    Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.                        18.80
+    Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn                                10.00
+    Geneva. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.50
+    Huntington. First Cong. Ch.                             23.25
+    Kent. First Cong. Ch.                                   15.50
+    Lenox. “A Friend”                                        5.00
+    Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham                          5.00
+    Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.         6.50
+    Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.                            1.00
+    New Richland. E. J.                                      1.00
+    North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.                              0.50
+    North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                  1.15
+    Oberlin. ESTATE of Mary I. Hulburd, by Hiram
+      Hulburd, Ex.                                          50.00
+    Oberlin. L. F.                                           1.00
+    Penfield. B. R.                                          1.00
+    Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by J. H.
+      Packer                                               400.00
+    Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend
+      $2.50                                                  5.50
+    Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV.
+      JOSIAH STRONG and L. H. LEWIS, L. M’s.                60.00
+    Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First Cong.
+      Ch.                                                    8.50
+    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed                              10.00
+    Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman $5                 15.00
+    Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              6.55
+    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                 20.29
+    West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   3.20
+    Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.                          20.00
+
+
+  INDIANA, $21.67.
+
+    Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.                                   14.67
+    Liber. J. R. Wells                                       5.00
+    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                   2.00
+
+
+  ILLINOIS, $945.82.
+
+    Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”                         30.00
+    Aurora. New Eng. Ch.                                    20.00
+    Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison                             2.00
+    Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.                                 0.60
+    Chicago. First Cong. Ch.                               473.78
+    Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, _for
+      Student Aid, Fisk U._—Three Subscribers $1 ea.;
+      Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany Cong. Ch. 50c               29.50
+    Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones                               10.00
+    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.                              83.64
+    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                     143.80
+    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00
+    Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   25.00
+    Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.                               1.00
+    La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.                                  1.00
+    Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                           2.00
+    Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1; A. M. S.
+      $1                                                     3.00
+    Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_            10.00
+    Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   12.50
+    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                     14.00
+    Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U_.                                              25.00
+    St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.                          5.00
+    Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson $2           7.00
+    Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                 10.00
+    Tonica. Cong. Ch.                                       23.00
+
+
+  MICHIGAN, $132.41.
+
+    Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting $2.75;
+      C. I. W. $1                                            3.75
+    East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.                                 25.00
+    Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10
+     ea.; M. Wood $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            25.00
+    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                       10.66
+    Kalamo. Cong. Ch.                                        3.00
+    Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk. U._                                             25.00
+    Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                   25.00
+    Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_             10.00
+    Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe                                 5.00
+
+
+  WISCONSIN, $145.60.
+
+    Big Springs. Cong. Ch.                                   1.25
+    Clinton. Cong. Ch.                                      21.00
+    Columbus. Cong. Ch.                                      8.18
+    Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank                          2.00
+    La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Fisk U._                50.00
+    Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.                         8.00
+    Stoughton. Box of C. and $1                              1.00
+    Warren. Cong. Ch.                                       17.00
+    West Salem. Cong. Ch.                                   27.17
+
+
+  IOWA, $2,695.54.
+
+    Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall                          5.00
+    Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_          2.00
+    Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50; Prairie
+      Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1, _for a Student,
+      Fisk U._                                              31.00
+    Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                                1.00
+    Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                              10.00
+    DeWitt. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00
+    Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                              25.00
+    Dunlap. Cong. Ch.                                        9.06
+    Grinnell. ESTATE of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.
+      C. F. Dike, Exec’x.                                2,500.00
+    Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.—Hon. J. B. G.,
+      50c., _for Mag._                                       4.50
+    Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.                                   1.00
+    Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn                                       5.00
+    Keokuk. “Signature”                                     10.00
+    Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.                      13.53
+    McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D                    0.50
+    Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                    5.00
+    Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const. MRS.
+      LUCRETIA DEERING, L. M.                                5.85
+    Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_              1.10
+    Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline E. Williams, by
+      William Mason                                         50.00
+    Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.                             5.00
+
+
+  MINNESOTA, $47.45.
+
+    Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                  23.75
+    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00
+    Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.30
+    Tivoli. L. H.                                            1.00
+    Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.                                8.40
+
+
+  KANSAS, $66.32.
+
+    Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                   3.35
+    Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., _for Student Aid_           3.12
+    Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A. M. R. $1          4.00
+    Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts                            5.00
+    Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”                         10.00
+    Russell. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00
+    Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                 20.00
+    Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”                        15.85
+
+
+  NEBRASKA, $31.50.
+
+    Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_        1.50
+    Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser                            30.00
+
+
+  CALIFORNIA, 51c.
+
+    Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.                                   0.51
+
+
+  TENNESSEE, $461.26.
+
+    Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll. $10.26            310.26
+    Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                          13.00
+    Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.                                0.25
+    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.                                 137.75
+
+
+  NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.
+
+    Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington
+      Sch. $8.20                                           158.20
+    Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong. Ch.
+      $7.40                                                129.15
+    Woodbridge. Tuition                                      3.05
+
+
+  SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.
+
+    Charleston. Avery Institute                            220.55
+
+
+  GEORGIA. $417.61.
+
+    Atlanta. Atlanta University                            109.00
+    Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley $12,
+      _for Student Aid._—Prof. T. N. Chase $25              95.00
+    Macon. Lewis High Sch.                                  62.70
+    Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58                  150.91
+
+
+  ALABAMA, $388.09.
+
+    Athens. Trinity Sch.                                    26.00
+    Mobile. I. G.                                            0.50
+    Montgomery. Pub. Fund                                  225.00
+    Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                           6.35
+    Talladega. Talledega College                           130.24
+
+
+  MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.
+
+    Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker & Son $5,
+      _for Barracks, Tougaloo_                              15.00
+    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University                           43.05
+    Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., _for Barracks_           5.00
+    Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs _for Barracks,
+      Tougaloo_                                              1.00
+
+
+  LOUISIANA, $137.
+
+    New Orleans. Straight University                       137.00
+
+
+  TEXAS, 50c.
+
+    San Antonia. G. W. W.                                    0.50
+
+  CANADA, 50c.
+
+    Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.                                 0.50
+
+  ENGLAND, $900.95.
+
+    Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., _for Mendi Mission_      900.95
+
+  SCOTLAND, $200.
+
+     Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, _for a Teacher_           200.00
+
+  TURKEY, $10.
+
+   Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife                       10.00
+                                                        —————————
+        Total                                           17,557.13
+
+        Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th             $103,309.96
+
+                                              H. W. HUBBARD,
+                                                   _Ass’t Treas._
+
+  RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
+
+    Brewer, Me. M. Hardy                                    25.00
+    Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”               50.00
+    Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth                      50.00
+    Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis                     500.00
+    East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt                     50.00
+    Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”                               5.00
+    Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie                   10.00
+    Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions                   10.00
+    Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                  16.00
+                                                         ————————
+                                                           716.00
+    Previously acknowledged March receipts               8,921.72
+                                                         ————————
+        Total                                           $9,637.72
+
+
+  RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN,
+  TEXAS.
+
+    Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams            400.00
+    Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”                              2.50
+                                                         ————————
+                                                           402.50
+        Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts              422.00
+                                                         ————————
+        Total                                             $824.50
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
+
+Incorporated January 30, 1849.
+
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+ASSOCIATION.”
+
+ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
+Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
+knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
+which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
+fields of effort.
+
+ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
+faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in
+the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the
+funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment
+of thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and
+others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life
+members without the privilege of voting.
+
+ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
+September, October or November, for the election of officers and
+the transaction of other business at such time and place as shall
+be designated by the Executive Committee.
+
+ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
+officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
+and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
+and other co-operating bodies—each body being entitled to one
+representative.
+
+ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice
+Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
+Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
+than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
+advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
+
+ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
+and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining
+and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries
+and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general,
+the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to
+the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent
+societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
+jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject
+always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a
+reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
+aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
+shall be final.
+
+The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all
+vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual
+meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature
+for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any
+is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in
+the employment of the Society: to make provision, if any, for
+disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as
+are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their
+discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of
+missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit,
+and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.
+
+Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
+transacting business.
+
+ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing
+officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields
+of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
+particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive
+the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its
+employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
+
+ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing
+to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and
+sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so
+through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually
+agreed upon.
+
+ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without
+the concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular
+annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
+submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee
+in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to
+do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the
+meeting.
+
+FOOTNOTE:
+
+[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
+belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
+Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
+of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
+of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
+obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
+the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
+wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_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. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
+caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with
+the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the
+INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.
+
+
+STATISTICS.
+
+CHURCHES: _In the South_—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. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.
+
+INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.
+_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,
+Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La,; and
+Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
+Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta,
+Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11;
+_Other Schools_, 7. Total, 26.
+
+TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS—Among the Freedmen, 209;
+among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands,
+10. Total, 252. STUDENTS—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.
+INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.
+
+
+WANTS.
+
+1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
+growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached
+by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the
+feeble as well as the strong.
+
+2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions,
+to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES,
+for the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured
+and pious, for these churches.
+
+3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
+missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
+
+Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
+office, as below.
+
+  NEW YORK      H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
+  BOSTON        Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.
+  CHICAGO       Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.
+
+
+MAGAZINE.
+
+This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the
+Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all
+clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to
+Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to
+Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and
+to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber,
+and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.
+
+Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in
+their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the
+following:
+
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars
+in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the
+person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
+of the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be
+applied under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
+Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”
+
+The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States
+three are required—in other States only two], who should write
+against their names, their places of residence [if in cities,
+their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
+answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
+and declared by the said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament,
+in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A.B., and in
+his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
+subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is
+required that the Will should be made at least two months before
+the death of the testator.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
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+                 211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,
+                               66 State St., Boston.
+
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+repayment,
+
+Circular Credits for Travelers,
+
+In DOLLARS for use in the United States and adjacent countries,
+and in POUNDS STERLING, for use in any part of the world.
+
+These Credits, bearing the signature of the holder, afford a
+ready means of identification, and the amounts for which they are
+issued can be availed of from time to time, wherever he may be,
+in sums to meet the requirements of the Traveler.
+
+Application for Credits may be made to either of the above houses
+direct, or through any respectable bank or banker in the country.
+
+They also issue Commercial Credits, make Cable Transfers of
+Money between this Country and England, and draw Bills of
+Exchange on Great Britain and Ireland.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
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+
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+                              THE
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+                           MANHATTAN
+
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+                           HAS PAID
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+         $4,900,000 Return Premiums to Policy-Holders,
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+                       HAS A SURPLUS OF
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+                  the Best Lives at the most
+                       Favorable Rates._
+
+EXAMINE THE PLANS AND RATES OF THIS COMPANY.
+
+HENRY STOKES, PRESIDENT,
+
+C. Y. WEMPLE,
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+                    THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF
+
+                                THE
+
+                       American Missionary,
+
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+
+
+                     SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.
+
+We publish =25,000= copies per month, giving news from the
+Institutions and Churches aided by the Association among the
+Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the
+Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, =Fifty
+Cents a Year, in Advance=.
+
+
+                        OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.
+
+No. 1.—=History= of the Association.
+
+No. 2.—=Africa=: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a
+Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their
+claims on America.
+
+No. 3.—=The Three Despised Races in the United States=; or, The
+Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M.
+A., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.
+
+No. 4.—=The Educational Work.= Showing the nature and reality
+of the black man's needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of
+Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M.
+A.
+
+_Will be sent free to any address, on application._
+
+                    H. W. HUBBARD, Ass't-Treas., 56 Reade St., N. Y.
+
+
+                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
+
+A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to Advertisements, for
+which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially
+valuable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an
+established character for integrity and thrift that constitute them
+valued customers in all departments of business.
+
+To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed
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+appreciated, and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of
+business announcements.
+
+We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department,
+and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to
+advertise.
+
+Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
+to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
+relation to advertising should be addressed to
+
+                                   J. H. DENISON, Adv'g Agent,
+                                         56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
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+
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+  OSWEGO
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+  T. KINGSFORD & SON
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+  STARCH
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+
+
+Transcriber’s Notes:
+
+
+Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed only where the error
+appears to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too
+numerous to list; the others are as follows:
+
+— “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (English and Scotch
+missionaries)
+
+— missing “is” inserted on page 166. (The discipline of these
+institutions is evidently giving)
+
+— missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.
+(Africa’s sunny fountains)
+
+— extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on
+page 191, just prior to “COOPER INSTITUTE”.
+
+— “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (are well worth
+attention of)
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<hr class="full" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[i]</a></span></p>
+
+<div>
+<p class="float-left"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></p>
+<p class="float-right">No. 6.</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">JUNE, 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">Paragraphs</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Principles and Plans</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_162">162</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Departure of the Azor.&mdash;The Indian Boys at Hampton</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_163">163</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">A Sunday-School Concert</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_164">164</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">An Educated Ministry.&mdash;Atlanta and Fisk Universities</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_165">165</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">News from the Churches</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_168">168</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Items from the Schools.&mdash;General Notes</td>
+    <td class="linenum"> <a href="#Page_169">169</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Straight University</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_172">172</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Virginia: <span class="chaplinen"> Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A Good Beginning</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">South Carolina: <span class="chaplinen">History of “Avery” Graduates</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_174">174</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Georgia: <span class="chaplinen"> Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band
+of Hope&mdash;Twitchell School.&mdash;School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents
+Buying Farms.&mdash;A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_175">175</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Mississippi: <span class="chaplinen">An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The Gourd Family</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_176">176</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Theological Department of Howard University</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_177">177</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">The International Sunday-School Convention.&mdash;Annual Meeting of the South-western Conference</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_178">178</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">The Singers to the Missionaries, Greeting</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Arrival of the New Missionaries.&mdash;First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday Service&mdash;A School Celebration</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_181">181</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Advantages of Colored Missionaries</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">School Wants and Farm Work</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">An Indian Wants a Cow</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and Petaluma</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_183">183</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">CONSTITUTION</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_189">189</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &amp;c.</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+NEW YORK:<br />
+Published by the American Missionary Association,<br />
+<span class="smcap medium">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="center medium">A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[ii]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="article">
+<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.<br />
+</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.<br />
+</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>.<br />
+</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>,<br />
+</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>,<br />
+</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>.<br />
+</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>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<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">JUNE, 1878.</div>
+<div class="third right">No. 6.</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full bottom" />
+
+<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p>As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone,
+March 23d, just one month from the date of their leaving New York by steamer for
+England. They had only the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their
+destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new field seem to be
+quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter on the new work at once. We look to
+the Lord of the harvest for His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have
+gone from us to the Mendi Mission.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which the <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>English and
+Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting to begin their new work in Central
+Africa. The expedition of the London Missionary Society was, from July to January
+last, trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on Lake Tanganyika,
+but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season at Kirasa, only about one-third of the
+way. It is hoped that during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish
+themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches is in
+danger of being driven from its station at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant
+an enemy as a fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has
+sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations, and curtailed their
+usefulness in advancing the civilization of Africa. The station may have to be
+moved. A new site must be sought with great care, which will not be liable to this
+pest.</p>
+
+<p>In South Africa another missionary institution has been endangered by the Caffre
+War, three English officials having been murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith
+and O’Neill, of the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed
+by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of King M’tesa. We
+believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery are not liable to any of these perils.
+The station is accessible and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around
+them, nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to such regions
+are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set our hopes too high, or base
+them too confidently on any of the uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land
+of delays we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we cannot tell
+what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord&mdash;that He will suffer no evil to befall them,
+but give them strength for patient continuance in well-doing.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the Institutions we mentioned
+in the May <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, as needing greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We
+did not mention their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and perhaps the
+reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating the strain laid upon our resources this
+year, they have considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year, they laid
+before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how any institutions in the South can
+be in more pressing need than we of a new dormitory.”</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta Sunday-school Convention
+would be either “lionized or snubbed” to that extent that it would be better for him
+not to come, proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but,
+fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from Texas. He was received
+and treated just as the others were, and he behaved as well. The fact is, they were
+much busier devising for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each
+other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>PRINCIPLES AND PLANS.</h3>
+
+<p>&mdash;This Association does not affirm that races, any more than individuals, are equal
+in physical or mental fibre and development. Some races, as well as individuals, are
+manifestly below others in some respects. All that we claim is, that all men shall be
+regarded as equal <em>before God and the Law</em>; and that hence, in all churches of Christ,
+no distinction be made, on account of race or color; and also that, in the enactment and
+administration of the laws of the land, all races be equally protected in person and
+property, and that whatever immunities or privileges are granted to one, be extended
+to all.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;This Association does not found exclusively colored churches. They are only exclusive
+because they are not exclusive. They are open to all races, and hence but few
+white persons unite with them. But, while the work of the Association has been principally
+among the colored people in the South, as being at present most accessible, yet
+it has always favored the establishment of churches, mainly white, where the distribution
+of population calls for them, and which allow colored persons freely to unite with
+them. Thus, the early efforts of John G. Fee, its first missionary in the South, was in
+the formation of white churches in Kentucky. So, also, the counsel of its officers was
+sought and given in the organization of the Second (or white) Congregational Church
+in Chattanooga, Tenn. Its first minister was Rev. J. A. Thome, a life-long friend
+of the A. M. A., and at one time its agent in Great Britain. The Congregational
+Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was organized, and its house dedicated, under the
+auspices of Rev. C. L. Woodworth, its Boston Secretary, who spent a month in
+Jacksonville preaching and laboring for that purpose. Not long since, the Association
+appointed a missionary in Kentucky, who has surveyed the field in the vicinity
+of Berea College, and expects to organize five or six churches, to which he will
+preach in turn until each can sustain a minister. These will be mainly white churches,
+but open to colored people. In like manner, the Association has promised missionary
+aid to a church, of similar character, about to be organized in San Antonio,
+Texas.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The educational institutions of the A. M. A. in the South are in order to its religious
+work in America and Africa. Its best and most promising churches are established
+near the schools and colleges, and receive intelligence and strength from them.
+These schools furnish hundreds of Christian teachers, who instruct thousands of pupils<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></span>
+in day and Sunday-schools, and carry a salutary influence into the homes, churches and
+neighborhoods where they reside. The schools and theological departments also send
+out many ministers and missionaries, who carry the Gospel to their people in the
+South and in Africa.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The work of the Association is a providential growth, each part having a relation
+to the whole, and its plans, while at present embracing mainly the “Despised
+Races,” as they have been called, are restricted in principle to no race or continent.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>DEPARTURE OF THE “AZOR.”</h3>
+
+<p>The departure of the <i>Azor</i> with the first instalment of the African exodus, from
+Charleston, S. C., marks an epoch in the history of the colored race.</p>
+
+<p>It may have been a question in some minds whether the freedman could be aroused
+by the missionary spirit. By some, even of the teachers in our schools, fears have been
+felt that, perhaps, the call for missionaries might come and the people not be ready to
+respond. The question is decided that, whenever this call shall be made, there will be
+no lack of men. We have more to fear now from unbridled enthusiasm than from want
+of zeal.</p>
+
+<p>This African Exodus Association had its origin, undoubtedly, among disaffected
+politicians, but it soon became a sort of religious crusade. It gained but little progress
+among the people, until the idea was suggested that it be made a missionary enterprise.
+From the time the <i>Azor</i> sailed into the harbor until her departure, on the 21st of April,
+with her living freight for Liberia, the wharves and streets of the city were thronged
+with people of all sexes and ages, eager to view the African “Mayflower.” Hundreds, who
+had engaged their passages months before, were left behind, for want of room. How
+long this enthusiasm will continue, and what may be the success of this first company, of
+course are questions to be answered by and by. We dare not venture any prophecy,
+either good or evil. It is an experiment, some features of which are not in the line of
+our ideas; but if, in the providence of God, it shall prove to be to Africa what the Pilgrim
+enterprise has been to America, we shall rejoice. We should prefer to have a
+different class of emigrants undertake this work, and lay the foundation of African
+civilization upon a broader foundation. Our object is to raise up men of intelligence,
+and sound and broad religious principle, for this work, and we naturally look with some
+anxiety to the effect of turning loose in Africa the freedman, as we find him in the South
+at present. We hope for the best, however, and shall pray for the success of the movement,
+that God may overrule all our fears, and make it for good. This one question we
+are glad to have settled, as we think it is by this movement, that there is no lack of enthusiasm
+in the negro heart for his fatherland; and that, when the call shall come for
+more laborers in that field, we shall have this enthusiasm on our side.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.</h3>
+
+<p>Visitors to St. Augustine, Fla., during the last three years have been directed to Capt.
+Pratt’s Indians as among the objects of interest in Fort Marion. There they were carried,
+as prisoners of war, in the spring of 1875, after the terrible massacres which had
+taken place in the Indian Territory by the Five Tribes. They went South, each with his
+legs fastened to a log with chains. They were filled with hatred over their real or fancied
+wrongs. One jumped from the cars, and was shot by the guard; one killed himself
+on the way. They wore only their Indian blankets, and had great brass hoops in
+their ears. They knew no word of English. It was their good fortune to fall into the
+hands of a Christian army officer, who, by his skill in management, and patience in seeking<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a></span>
+to do them good, at length won their confidence, and succeeded, with the help of
+a few benevolent ladies, in teaching them some of the simplest elements of civilization
+and learning. A few of them can read very well.</p>
+
+<p>At the end of their second year, Mrs. Dr. Caruthers, of Tarrytown, N. Y., who had
+been teaching among them, determined to secure, if possible, the education of two young
+men of her class. She obtained permission from the Indian Commission, and raised
+money for the purpose. Other means and offers of help came in. At length it was
+found that twenty-two of them desired to go to school. They are now discharged from
+their imprisonment. The old chiefs go back to their people, greatly changed for the
+better. Fifteen of the young men were left at Hampton, April 13th, to be educated in
+the Normal Institute. They have begun their regular studies, and have been detailed to
+various departments of work, in shop and on farm. They seem perfectly happy and contented,
+and their new comrades treat them with kindness and consideration.</p>
+
+<p>Here is another of those curious comminglings, and crossings of lines, of which life is
+so full, and yet which never cease to surprise us. The African and the Indian meet at
+Hampton, to be trained together, to be intelligent citizens and Christians, and the teachers
+of their people. Thus the two races are brought face to face&mdash;“the two races whose
+past involves America’s greatest responsibilities; whose future, some of her hardest
+problems.”</p>
+
+<p>It costs $115 to keep one of these Indian boys at Hampton for a year&mdash;that,
+with what he is able to earn by his labor. This amount has been pledged by individuals
+alone, or together, for the education of most of the number. Mrs. Caruthers, having
+done so much, has asked the A. M. A., through its President and its Secretary, to assume
+the tuition of one of her wards, and the Executive Committee desire to do so;
+and Zone-ke-nh, twenty-one years of age, of the Kiowa tribe, will go to Hampton, in
+addition to those already there, as the pupil of the Association, if some of our friends,
+who may be especially interested in the elevation of the Indians, will make up this small
+amount, and help on this work, in which the elements are combined of romance, beneficence,
+and personality.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>A SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT.</h3>
+
+<p>Nothing is more welcome in these days than new ideas for use in Sunday-schools.
+What to do with the Concert, has been a question which has perplexed teachers and
+superintendents year after year, as the months come, one after another, in rapid succession.
+The verses containing “faith” and “hope” and “heaven” must be nearly all
+learned now in some quarters, and the new suggestion is, try a Missionary Concert, or,
+if you please, an American Missionary Concert.</p>
+
+<p>But, how shall it be done? The answer is at hand. The pattern, even, can be sent,
+like Demorest’s or Butterick’s, in paper and by mail. We have one in our hands, about
+six inches by eight, four pages. It consists of a series of questions and answers (prepared
+originally by Rev. A. E. Winship, of Somerville, Mass.) upon the nature and the
+work of the A. M. A., and we are almost surprised to find so much valuable and exact
+information compacted in this form, and in so taking and interesting a shape. Coupled
+with this is a small sheet collection of eight or ten Jubilee Songs, to be sung at intervals
+during the Catechetical Exercise. We hear that this exercise has been used with great
+interest and success in several Sunday-schools at and near Boston; and we commend, most
+cordially, the thought and plan to the consideration and use of Superintendents and
+Presidents of Missionary Societies. The twenty-sixth article in the programme is a
+collection, and a legend instructing generous youth how to address their gifts to us.
+A new edition is in preparation, or in press. The questions and songs may be obtained<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a></span>
+in quantity, on application to District Secretary Woodworth, at the Congregational
+House, Boston.</p>
+
+<p>District Secretary Powell has issued recently, from Chicago, an appeal to the Sunday-schools
+in behalf of the “Colored Student’s Aid Fund.” He says: “It is estimated
+that we are reaching (by student and graduate teachers) not less than a hundred thousand
+children in the South. But there are two millions of them to be reached.” He
+urges every Sunday-school to help in this good work. To know, is the first step toward
+supplying the want.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>AN EDUCATED MINISTRY.</h3>
+
+<p>It is quite remarkable that the uneducated ministers among the colored people of
+the South should be in such earnest sympathy with the work of educating their people.
+Occasionally, we hear one intimate that he is a trumpet for the Lord to “toot”
+through, and express fear that the tone of the instrument might be injured by the
+application of science; but the expression of such sentiments is rare.</p>
+
+<p>In the dark days, when States did not allow people of a certain color to read, or
+any one to teach them, preachers were <em>born</em>, not <em>made</em>. The wether of the flock put a
+bell around his own neck, and led off. As the Indian who could bring home from the
+war-path the most scalps, or from the hunt the greatest amount of venison or furs, was
+the man for chief; so the exhorter who could pick up the most texts of Scripture, and
+evolve from his own understanding the greatest amount of rhetoric, and with arrows of
+his own manufacture pierce the largest number of souls, was the minister by universal
+consent.</p>
+
+<p>Schools do not make brains; they only develop and bring out what Nature implanted
+in a man. Leaders by the voice of God need not fear those made leaders by
+the voice of a theological seminary. They who, by their quickness of perception, tact
+and experience, control men, need not fear that those who depend chiefly upon ability
+gained from books will steal the hearts of their people.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in saying all this, as the expression of my own thoughts, as well as the felt sentiments
+of the uneducated ministers among the colored people, I have no intention of
+placing a low estimate upon the schools. These uncultured giants might have attained
+to a larger growth, if they had been supplied with good mental nourishment, and no one
+feels this more than they. The <span class="medium">BEST</span> minister combines natural ability of a high order
+with liberal culture. The tendency of the times is toward an educated ministry; and
+although the present pastors of the flocks may be secure in their places without learning,
+the next generation will insist upon education in their ministers.</p>
+
+<p class="smcap right">Prof. T. N. Chase, in the <cite>Christian Recorder</cite>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ATLANTA AND FISK UNIVERSITIES.</h3>
+
+<p>A recent visit to these institutions has resulted in some observations, which may be
+worthy of record. The location of both is unsurpassed. In these cities Atlanta and
+Fisk Universities occupy, respectively, two of the most commanding and beautiful sites.
+They are seen from afar, a perpetual reminder of the importance of the work they represent.
+The buildings of both institutions are good; Jubilee Hall surpassingly so. Our
+party approached it late in the evening, when it was lighted from top to bottom, as the
+students were studying in their rooms. “Hallelujah!” cried one of our number,
+enthusiastically, “God be praised for this great lighthouse in the South.” And not one
+of us looked upon it without emotion.</p>
+
+<p>The teachers in both institutions are among the choicest of educated Christian
+people. A more intelligent, cultivated and consecrated body of instructors it would be<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></span>
+hard to find. They are doing their work at much personal sacrifice. Their social privileges
+in both cities are few or none at all, and some of them, for the sake of the work
+they are in, have refused tempting offers from Northern schools. They are teaching the
+colored race from a high sense of duty, and are filled with a missionary enthusiasm in
+their work. Often did the eye flash and the face glow, as they spoke of the trials and
+advancement of their pupils.</p>
+
+<p>The students in these institutions are, of course, the flower of the colored race.
+Only those are likely to undertake so many years of study, with the self-denials involved,
+who have, to begin with, tolerably clear ideas of the privileges of an education, and
+in whom are unusual elements of character. They are procuring an education under
+great difficulties. There are few to encourage them or aid them. But they are eager to fit
+themselves for future usefulness, and burdened with a longing to help their race. They
+work, therefore, with an enthusiasm needing little urging or government. It is not
+strange, then, that when both teacher and scholar are fired with a religious fervor, the
+results should be unusually favorable.</p>
+
+<p>Among these results in both institutions, the good order is specially noticeable. At
+the table, where teachers and scholars eat together, all stand quietly till the teacher in
+charge takes his seat. There is no loud talking or laughing, but, while no restraints
+are put on conversation, only a gentle murmur of voices, which does not prevent the
+slightest signal from being heard. The least tap of a bell suffices to dismiss the hundred
+or more boarders from the tables. In passing through the school-room at Fisk
+University, we noticed that no teacher was present, though perfect order was maintained.
+“Have you no instructor or monitor here,” we asked, “to secure good order?”
+“Why, no, sir,” one replied, wonderingly, “we do not wish to be disorderly.” We could
+but recall certain days of our own student life when, if our instructor chanced to step
+out of the room for a moment, there were instantly missiles flying about, and students
+darting here and there.</p>
+
+<p>There is a striking degree of refinement among the students. They impress one at a
+glance as ladies and gentlemen. There is nothing about them, in dress, or manner or
+language, to offend the most fastidious. Never was there a better illustration than at
+these institutions of the power of a Christian education to change the whole character
+and appearance. A cultivated soul shines out from these dark faces, and, in our admiration
+for the soul, we totally forget the color of the skin.</p>
+
+<p>The education of these students is rapidly progressing. We must remember that
+most of them were born in slavery, and have learned to read since the war. A generation
+or two must pass before we can see the results of life-long training in schools.
+What we now see, however, is sufficiently surprising. It would be hard to find at the
+North better teachers or better schools than the two Universities of which we speak;
+and their influence over the pupils is marvelous. Many of the recitations were very
+fine. The normal training of Fisk University seemed to deserve special commendation.
+We were also much pleased at a recitation in Xenophon’s <cite>Memorabilia</cite>, in
+which three young men were reciting to one of their own race, a graduate of the
+University&mdash;Miss Laura S. Cary. It would not be strange if this were the first instance
+of the kind in the history of the world. Perhaps a more valuable evidence of
+educational progress than recitations was the correctness of speech and richness of
+thought manifest in the conversations and remarks of the students. We were permitted
+to be present at a prayer-meeting, in which students of both sexes took part
+freely. There are few pastors in the North who would not be glad of such clear
+thought and apt expression in their meetings as we there heard.</p>
+
+<p><a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving the pupils rare qualities of
+earnestness and self-reliance. Undoubtedly those who have these qualities inborn are<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></span>
+the ones who are most likely to be in the schools. But once in the course of study, all
+the influences tend to develop a manly and persevering spirit. The students are accustomed
+every summer to scatter through the South, in search of schools. These, in
+most of the States, they do not find ready to their hand. There are few organized
+schools and few school-houses for the colored people outside the cities. The University
+students desirous of a school must first hunt up children who will agree to come; then
+secure the use of some little colored church at the cross-roads, or, perhaps, of a vacant
+log-cabin; then they must obtain permission of the county commissioner to teach the
+school. It evidently requires courage and resolution to succeed under such circumstances,
+and yet these students earn every summer, in from three to five months of
+teaching, about a hundred dollars apiece. Sometimes parents are willing and able to
+educate their children, without throwing them thus on their own resources. After
+Fisk University was established, a colored man bought land near by, built him a comfortable
+house, and made his home there, with the express purpose of educating his
+large family of children. But such cases are rare. The youth who desire an education
+generally are obliged to secure the means themselves. We were much touched
+with the story of one young lady (as truly so as any in our Northern seminaries), who,
+at the age of fourteen, determined to go to Fisk University, and went to teaching till
+she had earned the means. For five years she has been securing an education, paying
+her way by teaching every summer. Another student was pointed out to us, whose persistence
+under difficulties is still more remarkable. For the work of two successive
+summers, he has been unable to collect a dollar of the money due him; and for last
+summer’s work, when he was able to get a school that would pay only half the average
+sum, he has as yet received only a small portion of what he has earned. And yet
+he is not discouraged, but works on cheerfully. At Fisk University, Mrs. A. K. Spence
+is making efforts to secure gifts from Sabbath-schools in the North, to supplement the
+meagre sums earned by the students. One hundred and fifty dollars annually will carry
+a student through. (We heard a gentleman say that it cost his son a thousand dollars
+a year at a Northern college.) If any Sabbath-school desires to assume the additional
+fifty dollars for the support of one of these pupils, Mrs. Spence will be glad to receive
+a letter on the subject. The great trouble is to induce the students to receive aid.
+They are eager to do for themselves. Recently, some kind words were addressed
+them by a visitor, on the subject of self-reliance. “Oh,” said one of the teachers,
+“it is a pity he said that; it was natural he should, but he does not know
+them. It made them wince, and we shall have harder work than ever to persuade
+them to receive the help they need.”</p>
+
+<p>We were greatly pleased at the piety of the students in both institutions. Most of
+them, particularly among the boarders, are earnest and consistent Christians. We
+were much moved at some of their prayers, they were so tender, earnest and child-like.
+The prayer of one of their number is still treasured up in the memory of the instructors.
+Jubilee Hall had just been completed. It seemed a paradise to the colored
+people. A farewell meeting was held in the old dingy barracks, in the centre of Nashville,
+where the school had hitherto met. It was then that one of the students prayed&mdash;“O
+Lord, Thou knowest how eager we are to enter this beautiful new building; but if
+Thou wilt not go with us, we do not wish to go. Unless Thou wilt go, also, let us stay
+here.” The Lord did go with them, and they have enjoyed frequent seasons of revival
+ever since.</p>
+
+<p>The aims of these students are very high. They justly feel that the elevation of
+nearly five millions of people rests largely on them. They have a worthy ambition to
+be the leaders of their race in everything pure and noble. Conjoined with this, a new
+ambition has recently fired their hearts. The four students who have just gone from<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a></span>
+Fisk University to Africa have left behind them an enthusiasm for missionary work.
+The students are now praying and planning for the conversion of Africa by missionaries
+of their own color. There is nothing that so lifts up a people as a definite and high
+aim. These students justly feel that in this land, and abroad, there is work for them
+to do. A glorious future lies within their reach, and the fact stimulates them to faithful
+study and gives them Christian manliness, as could nothing else.</p>
+
+<p>It was a grief to us to learn that a shadow of financial anxiety hung over Fisk
+University. Funds that were relied upon from Great Britain for current expenses had
+failed, and retrenchment, where expenses had already been cut down to the quick, was
+under consideration. Surely the friends of this noble Institution will not let it suffer.</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Addison P. Foster.</span><br />
+</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>&mdash;Four students received to the church by profession May 5th. One
+of the Indian students lately received gives evidence of Christian character.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Raleigh, N. C.</span>&mdash;“Our church has shared with others in a revival blessing this spring.”
+Twenty were received to the church April 8th, which now numbers 72. Mr. Smith, the
+pastor, writes: “There are several of the young men connected with our church and
+school who are anxious that I should teach them theology. I think, if I can get some
+simple, cheap work on that subject, that I will form them into a class, and have them
+recite two or three times a week. I want to do all I can to help the young men on.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Orangeburg, S. C.</span>&mdash;Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Johnson have been two years in this
+church and school. The church membership has increased two-thirds. Two members
+received in April. Sunday-school thriving and increasing, and feeding the church. A
+Woman’s Foreign Missionary Association is organized, and has contributed to the A. M.
+A. debt, and missions in India and Africa. Fifteen have been in training for teachers
+this year.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Byron, Ga.</span>&mdash;“The church is active; Sunday-school increasing in numbers steadily.
+A day-school will soon be opened. Young people are asking for prayers every Sunday
+evening.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>&mdash;One of the workers in Savannah writes: “Our church work is very
+encouraging. The Sabbath-school is splendid. I have twenty boys from twelve to sixteen
+years of age in my class, and am deeply interested in them. Never before, since I
+have been here, has the church been so prosperous.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Marion, Ala.</span>&mdash;The Sabbath audiences are steadily increasing. Three or four are to
+unite with the church at the next Communion.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Florence, Ala.</span>&mdash;Mr. L. C. Anderson reports the attendance on church services
+good, and one member received on profession at his last visit.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Abbeville, La.</span>&mdash;The church has been holding special meetings, crowded every night.
+Two have been received to membership; others are under deep conviction. Rev.
+Charles E. Smith is the pastor.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Memphis, Tenn.</span>&mdash;A genuine interest is manifested in the teachings of God’s word,
+and a higher standard of personal godliness sought. “The question, how to utilize the
+combined power of the Church for its own unification and enlargement, is discussed in
+the prayer-meetings with growing frequency, and manifestly deepening interest. The
+church has passed in safety and triumph through its financial straits, deficiencies have
+been made up, current expenses provided for, and a small surplus is on hand for the
+summer demands.”</p>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Charleston, S. C.</span>&mdash;The Avery Normal Institute held its thirteenth anniversary
+April 17th. The school numbers 294. The pupils were examined in Natural Philosophy,
+Grammar, Arithmetic, Botany, Physiology, Spelling, Mental Arithmetic, History,
+Latin, Grammatical Analysis, Reading, Geography, Algebra, Writing, etc.; and an
+exhibition was held the following day, with music and recitations, to the great delight of
+a large assembly.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>&mdash;The school building was dedicated, with the chapel, March 24. There
+are three rooms occupying the ground floor of the building. The large one will seat
+110 pupils; the smaller, or recitation-rooms, twenty-five or thirty each. The whole
+building is lighted with gas and heated by a furnace. Mr. Harrington writes:&mdash;“We
+are credited by the people of the city&mdash;by the white people, especially&mdash;with having
+the prettiest chapel and school-rooms in the State.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Forsyth, Ga.</span>&mdash;School-house built last year&mdash;“a two-story building, without a
+chimney, plastering, or even laths.” Occupied since February last. Attendance good.
+“A deep concern about the most familiar truths of the Bible has led to a short lecture
+every morning,” by Mr. Jackson, the teacher. That the young people can only stay
+in school two or three months at a time, is the greatest drawback. The white people
+are very kind, and respond generously to every call for aid.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Cuthbert, Ga.</span>&mdash;There has been going on for over two weeks a glorious revival.
+Nearly all the pupils of the school are converted; all of the highest class but one, and
+that one an inquirer. Three ministers are attending school regularly. A reading-room
+has been opened. Mr. Wright divides his efforts between the two (Methodist and
+Baptist) Sunday-schools of the place.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Fort Valley, Ga.</span>&mdash;The day-school is improving by degrees. The Sunday-school
+is growing rapidly. The cold weather has prevented many from coming out, but the
+prospect is that very soon the school will be crowded. A small sum is in hand, with
+which to purchase catechisms and lesson-papers.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>&mdash;“The year has been in every way delightful and profitable.
+God has blessed us in every department of our work. Every month, and indeed every
+week, has brought some new expression of the Divine favor. Upon our catalogue,
+soon to be issued, between 280 and 300 names will appear, and they represent as good a
+class of students as were ever gathered in the University. So much for numerical success.
+What is better, there has been entire harmony and affectionate co-operation in
+the Faculty.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala., Emerson Institute.</span>&mdash;The new two-story brick building, 34×64,
+with wings 10×21, was dedicated May 1st with exercises of great interest. A full
+account was received just too late to be inserted in this number, but in good time for
+the July <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>
+
+<h4>The Negro.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;We were misled by a usually reliable authority in regard to the income of the
+Peabody Educational Fund. In 1866, its trustees distributed, in eight States, $35,400;
+in 1873, in ten States, $137,150; and in 1877, $89,400. We give the figures from their
+report, and take the largest and smallest.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;April 21st, the barque <i>Azor</i> sailed from Charleston, S. C., with 250 emigrants,
+one-fifth being children. They go under the auspices of the Liberian Exodus Association<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></span>
+to Boporo, about sixty miles north-east from Monrovia. It is intended to purchase
+a steamship to make regular trips to Monrovia. A reporter from the Charleston <cite>News
+and Courier</cite> accompanies the <i>Azor</i>.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Mr. Orcutt, General Secretary of the American Colonization Society, writes that
+vessels will sail under their auspices in June and November. He fears for the new exodus
+movement, as having more zeal than knowledge; and remarks that, “at the very
+outset, they were subjected to disappointments and annoyances, which evinced the need
+of a competent controlling agency in the management of their affairs.”</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A meeting of colored men was held at Washington, a few weeks ago, to organize
+a colony for the West, and measures were taken to promote that object. They denounced
+the Liberian exodus.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Senator Ingalls has written a letter, in which he promises to all the colored people
+who may choose to emigrate thither, a cordial welcome to Kansas, the protection
+of her laws, and equal facilities for education.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;“We starve and pinch the American Missionary Association, giving little more
+than $200,000 a year towards founding Christian schools, and planting Christian pulpits,
+among four million freedmen, in the pit of ignorance and degradation; we do little
+to speak of among the Celestial pagans on the Pacific slope; and our labor among the
+Indians is light. But our Romish friends are now said to be spending $600,000 a year
+among the freedmen, among whom they have 150,000 pupils under priestly schools.
+There are 137 Catholic missionaries and teachers among the Indians.”&mdash;<i>President E. P.
+Tenney, Colorado College.</i></p>
+
+<p>&mdash;“The Roman Catholic Church has purchased a tract of 7,000 acres of land within
+nine miles of Chase City, Va., and propose to colonize it, and educate the freedmen, on
+the industrial farm plan.”&mdash;<cite>Evangelist.</cite></p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Christian Observer</cite> is informed that there are twenty-five
+Romish schools in the three States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, with free
+board and tuition.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The following is the closing sentence of an affidavit, signed by Gen. Lopez Analto,
+and sworn to before a U. S. Commissioner in Florida:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot">
+
+<p>“I further declare and say, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that there are negroes
+from the United States at different places on the Island of Cuba, who are to this
+day held as slaves, shipped from the United States, under various pretexts, since the rebellion
+in the United States, and upon American vessels.”</p></div>
+
+<p>The investigation of this matter was interrupted by the sudden death of Judge
+Leonard.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The delays, and partial defeat, of the various Central African Missions, are referred
+to on an editorial page.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;One of the results to be anticipated from the establishment of new missionary stations
+in the interior of Africa, is the effect which such civilized settlements among the
+hunting-grounds of the slave-traders will have in suppressing that terrible evil. It is
+still the whole business of thousands to buy or steal Circassian, Abyssinian, and negro
+boys and, especially, girls.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>The Chinaman.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;In the United States Circuit Court, at San Francisco, Judge Sawyer has rendered
+a decision, in the case of the Chinaman who applied for naturalization papers, holding
+that Chinamen are not white persons within the meaning of the term as used in the Naturalization
+Laws, and are not entitled to become citizens. “White,” he holds to be equivalent<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></span>
+to Caucasian; and that, by exact construction of the provision, all but white persons,
+and persons of African nativity and descent, are excluded forever from citizenship.
+The case will probably be appealed.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;We commend the story of Yung Wing, as told by Rev. Joseph Twichell, in his recent
+lecture at New Haven, to those who are either hopeful or hopeless as to the Chinese
+in America. Under his care, the Chinese Government is expending annually
+$100,000 in maintaining about 120 Chinese boys at schools in Connecticut, where
+they are receiving a thorough course of education.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Chinese in San Francisco paid, in 1866-67, more than $42,000 in school
+taxes. California law omits Mongolian children from the apportionment of school funds,
+refuses them admission to the common-schools, and opens no schools for them. Thirteen
+hundred Chinamen have petitioned the Legislature for separate schools for their
+three thousand children of proper age. Such are provided for those of African and
+Indian descent. The petition was at once laid on the table. A leading paper stigmatized
+it as a dangerous and aggressive indication of a movement on their part to
+“obtain larger wages,” and showing a desire “to mingle their youth with ours, with a
+view, doubtless, to more thorough assimilation in the body politic.” And yet, the burden
+of the complaints against them has been that they will not assimilate, and will work
+cheap! If consistency is a jewel, it is evidently not a “California diamond.”</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A correspondent of the <cite>Intelligencer</cite> asserts that the opposition to the Chinaman
+is instigated mainly by the liquor-sellers and the Roman Catholic priests, neither
+of whom has John any use for, and whose patrons he displaces.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;A Chinese church is to be organized at Oakland, Cal., composed in part of members
+from Dr. Eells’ church, and the mission under the care of Rev. J. M. Condit.
+This is the second church in California, all the members of which are Chinese.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;Prof. Mooar in <cite>Evangelist</cite>: “Our greatest danger in regard to this problem is
+not that the Chinaman will be too pagan for us, but that we shall fail to be Christian
+enough for him.”</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>The Indian.</h4>
+
+<p>&mdash;A writer in the <cite>Advance</cite> says that there are 6,500 persons in the Indian Territory,
+formerly slaves of the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The treaty of 1866 provided
+for their citizenship among the tribes, and an allotment of fifty acres of land to each.
+In the first Indian Legislature after the treaty, a law was passed refusing to comply
+with the treaty; so that, in the land where they were born, and where they toiled
+in slavery to enrich their masters, they can own no land, cannot send their children to
+the nation’s schools, are not permitted to vote, and have no protection from, nor access
+to, the Indian courts of law. So, the big fish eat the little fish, all the way down.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The various plans for organizing the Indian Territory under a territorial government,
+are in the face of solemn treaties, and the opposition of the various tribes to
+whom it has been promised. It is only another of the wrongs to which the poor
+Indian has been subjected by the cupidity of his white neighbors, and their disregard of
+the rights of so-called inferior races.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Bill creating the Territory of Oklahoma has been agreed upon by the House
+Committee on Territories.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;As to the rebel Indians, Gen. Sheridan allows a Nez Percés prisoner to go to
+the Canadian frontier, to offer immunity from punishment to the fugitives of that tribe,
+if they surrender to the military. Some have left Sitting Bull, and refused to fight
+with him longer. A band are raiding in Texas, in the neighborhood of Fort Ewell.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a></span>
+The Bannocks at Lemhi Agency, in Idaho, complain that the agent has defrauded them,
+and threaten trouble. To Sitting Bull’s inquiries about peace, Gen. Miles answers
+that, when the Indians give up their ponies and guns, they will receive cattle and other
+property of greater value; and that when peace is made, the Government will provide
+for them, as it does for all friendly Indians.</p>
+
+<p>&mdash;The Nez Percés Indians take a Turkish bath every morning.&mdash;See Leavenworth
+<cite>Times</cite>. The <cite>Christian Recorder</cite> (A. M. E.) says: “No people can go down who
+make a plentiful use of soap and water.”</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h3><a name="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY" id="STRAIGHT_UNIVERSITY"></a>STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.</h3>
+
+<p class="center">New Orleans, Louisiana.</p>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT.</p>
+
+<p>The Institution was incorporated June
+25th, 1869, and the first school building
+was completed in February, 1870. The
+American Missionary Association and the
+Freedmen’s Bureau co-operated in the establishment
+of the University. From the
+first, great numbers flocked to the school
+to enjoy its advantages, so that the capacity
+of the building was taxed to its utmost.
+The eagerness of the freedmen for education
+in 1870, and the two or three years
+following, was, perhaps, more intense and
+general than now. Between three and
+four thousand have been enrolled as students
+in the University during the eight years of
+its existence.</p>
+
+<p>It bears the name of Hon. Seymour
+Straight, of Ohio, who is one of its steadfast
+friends and benefactors.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LOCATION.</h4>
+
+<p>New Orleans, a city of 220,000 inhabitants,
+of whom 80,000 are colored people,
+is a most important point to be occupied
+in missionary work among the freedmen.
+As the commercial centre of the
+South-west&mdash;as the great cotton, sugar,
+and rice market of the Union&mdash;it out-ranks
+all others. In its intimate connections
+by river, bayou, and railroad with
+the most thickly populated negro districts
+of the old slave States, it is second to none.
+Texas, Mississippi, and Florida are constantly
+adding to the negro population of
+Louisiana. By the census of 1875 there
+were 369,000 colored people in this State,
+and each year swells the number. Already
+it is fifty-five per cent. of the entire population.
+Without disparagement to any other
+section, we claim, also, that the colored population
+of New Orleans represents the highest
+intelligence yet attained by the race in
+America. It includes the genuine African,
+the mulatto, the quadroon, the octaroon,
+and yet other shades and grades; and in this
+mingling of races we see, also, the diffusion
+of intelligence, and a corresponding increase
+in the capacity of culture and development.
+It would require the quick eye of an “expert”
+to detect, in the fair complexion and
+delicate features of many who throng our
+churches and schools, the faintest trace of
+African descent. Without speculating upon
+the cause, certain it is that we find among
+the colored people of the Crescent City a
+quickness of intelligence, and a capacity for
+the best culture and the noblest development,
+and withal a thirst for knowledge,
+which is worthy of our best sympathy and
+most generous benevolence.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE RESULTS WE HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH.</h4>
+
+<p>In a word, our aim is Education, in
+its broadest and best meaning. The elevation,
+the prosperity, the highest manhood,
+and the co-ordinate rank of the African
+race in America, in the friendly rivalry of
+races, are still in the future&mdash;whether in
+the near or remote future, depends largely
+upon the race itself to determine. Education,
+under Divine guidance, is the gateway
+to that longed-for future. That I
+mean education as allied with religion, will
+be assumed. That the race is not educated,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></span>
+is by no fault of theirs. That they desire
+education, is to their credit. To help them
+to this education is both our duty and our
+privilege.</p>
+
+<p>The courses of study in this Institution
+include in the Academic Department, the
+Collegiate, the Normal, and the Preparatory;
+and in the Professional Department,
+the Theological and the Law.</p>
+
+<p>We have a preparatory course, that we
+may secure better material for the higher
+courses. In the Normal course, special attention
+is given to those studies which will
+furnish young men and women with the
+education needed in the various branches
+of business life open to them, and which
+especially will qualify them as teachers, for
+which there is, and must continue to be, a
+great demand. In the Collegiate Department&mdash;which
+includes, among other studies,
+the higher Mathematics, Mental and Moral
+Philosophy, and Latin&mdash;a higher grade and
+wider scope of studies will be added so soon
+as there is a demand for them. The school
+is yet in its infancy, and the number of
+those who are fitted to pursue to advantage
+the highest grade of studies is, of course,
+very limited.</p>
+
+
+<h4>LAW DEPARTMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>An able corps of Professors has been secured.
+Jurists of reputation and successful
+practice at the bar of Louisiana have
+kindly offered their services, with little hope
+of adequate compensation, and every facility
+is provided for young men of talent, who
+are attracted by the profession of the law,
+to fit themselves for honorable and successful
+practice. Regular graduates from this
+department, at the conclusion of a two
+years’ course of study, and a well sustained
+examination, are admitted to the bar of
+New Orleans, with authority to practice in
+all the courts of the Commonwealth.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT.</h4>
+
+<p>College graduates, who can be instructed
+in the original languages in which the
+Scriptures were written, are greatly desired,
+and until they can be secured, this
+department will but partially accomplish
+the object for which it was organized. The
+churches need thoroughly educated ministers,
+with carefully cultivated minds, who
+can intelligently preach the word. The
+degree of suffering for the lack of such ministers
+cannot be told. In the meantime, it
+is our aim to make the best use of the material
+we have, and transform it from a
+state of utter crudeness to one of partial
+fitness for the present demands of the
+churches. Men of piety and ability to
+speak and to teach are received, and advanced
+as far and as rapidly as their imperfect
+preparatory education will admit.
+Louisiana, with a colored population of
+370,000, is ripe for a glorious spiritual harvest.
+The churches are calling in vain for
+intelligent laborers to go forth into the harvest.
+I wish the prospect was brighter for
+a large class of intelligent, spiritual, and
+enthusiastic students to enter this department,
+and to lift it to a high grade of usefulness.</p>
+
+
+<h4>THE NEW UNIVERSITY.</h4>
+
+<p>The building on Esplanade street, built
+in 1870, was entirely destroyed by fire February
+16th, 1877. Since that disastrous
+event, our sessions have been held in Central
+Church, which is also the property of
+the American Missionary Association. A
+new site, more convenient and attractive,
+was purchased in January last. It is located
+on Canal street, the most beautiful
+avenue in New Orleans. It comprises a
+half square of land, 150 feet front by 310
+feet in depth. The new building, for whose
+design great credit is due to Prof. Thomas
+N. Chase, while not adhering strictly to any
+style of architecture, may be classed as <em>Italian</em>,
+as it approaches more nearly to that
+order. The dimensions of the building are
+72 feet by 51½ feet. The five large recitation
+rooms are 30 feet by 50½ feet. The
+halls are 10 feet in width. The building is
+conveniently arranged, and all the requirements
+of the school, we think, have been
+anticipated in its design. The funds at the
+disposal of the Association did not admit of
+ornamentation; but the building, when completed,
+will be substantial, convenient, and
+comely. It will be ready for dedication
+and occupation at the opening of the fall<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a></span>
+term, October 1st. Grateful as we are for
+this new structure, we are not satisfied;
+neither should the friends of the freedmen
+in the North be satisfied. Straight University,
+in order to fill the measure of its
+usefulness, and cultivate the territory open
+to its occupation, must furnish accommodations
+for students from abroad&mdash;from towns
+outside of New Orleans, and from adjoining
+States. It must have <em>dormitories</em>. Two
+buildings, one on either side of the main
+building, are urgently needed, and at the
+earliest possible day. Then, when our
+group of buildings are completed, we can invite
+and welcome the best talent of the
+race, at whatever distance from New Orleans
+it may be found. Then our beloved
+University will become, among the educational
+institutions of the South-west&mdash;and
+especially of the Gulf States&mdash;the magnet,
+attracting to itself the best in intellect, in
+heart, and in promise of future good.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>VIRGINIA.</h3>
+<h4>Additions to the Church&mdash;An Indian’s Creed&mdash;A
+Good Beginning.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON.</p>
+
+<p>Four students united with the church by
+profession the first Sabbath in May. It is
+several years since any Communion season
+has passed without some additions to the
+church.</p>
+
+<p>The fifteen Indians who have lately joined
+the school have taken hold of study and of
+manual labor with commendable zeal, and
+give promise of becoming good teachers
+and guides of their race. One of them
+now shows evidence of Christian character.
+Their promptness and decision, as to the
+duties required of them, were put to the
+test in reference to the use of tobacco, to
+which they were so strongly attached that,
+as one of them said:&mdash;“There are three
+things I love: I love God; I love Jesus; I
+love smoke.” When asked if they would
+comply with the rules of the school, prohibiting
+the use of tobacco, after considering
+the matter awhile in silence, one of them
+gave an expressive sign that he would cut
+loose from tobacco; and then all the others
+gave the same significant pledge&mdash;a pledge
+which, their teacher assures us, they will
+never break.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>SOUTH CAROLINA.</h3>
+<h4>History of “Avery” Graduates.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">PROF. A. W. FARNHAM, CHARLESTON, S. C.</p>
+
+<p>Avery Normal Institute was organized in
+Charleston, S. C., October, 1865. The first
+formal graduation occurred in June, 1872,
+at which time eleven young people received
+diplomas from the Institute. A class has
+been graduated each succeeding year, numbering
+as follows: In 1873, fourteen; 1874,
+six; 1875, fifteen; 1876, nineteen (including
+one post-graduate); 1877, twenty-two&mdash;giving
+a total of eighty-six. Of this number,
+death has taken five.</p>
+
+<p>Our school aims to fit its graduates to be
+competent teachers. Forty-six have been
+engaged in the public schools of the State&mdash;schools
+first in rank, in scholarship, and discipline.
+Forty-one of the forty-six are
+teaching to-day; seventeen hold State certificates.</p>
+
+<p>One young man of the class of 1872 is an
+ordained minister. He was also graduated
+at South Carolina University in 1877.
+Another from that class, and one from the
+succeeding class, are studying with the
+ministry in view&mdash;one at Madison University,
+New York, the other at Atlanta University,
+Georgia. Three others from later
+classes are in higher institutions, preparing
+themselves to preach the Gospel.</p>
+
+<p>Our graduates bid fair to represent all
+the professions. One is in Howard University,
+studying medicine, and one in the
+leading Normal school of our county, preparing
+for teaching. The total number in
+higher institutions is seven, while four more
+have already received the degree of A. B.
+Five others were in South Carolina University
+when it closed its doors. These
+young men were ready to enter the Junior
+year of the College course when their studies
+were so abruptly ended. With one exception,
+they are teaching.</p>
+
+<p>Thirty-eight of our graduates are members
+of Evangelical churches; twenty at
+present are engaged in Sunday-school work.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>“By their fruits ye shall know them.”
+But is this all that Avery has done? No!
+Her influence has pervaded the homes of
+hundreds, and the lives of thousands. Her
+light has shone in every quarter of the
+State; and other lands are destined to share
+in her gifts, for the good ship Azor is carrying
+three of her pupils to <a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>“Africa’s sunny
+fountains.”</p>
+
+<p>The questions are often asked: “What
+per cent. of your school is brown?” “Don’t
+the browns receive instruction more readily
+than the blacks?” The query, in the minds
+of so many, has led to an actual count of
+the graduates with regard to color, which
+gives: <em>Black</em>, 19; <em>brown</em>, 55; <em>fair</em>, 12.
+But, “the Lord is the maker of them all;”
+nor is He “a respecter of persons.” We
+sow “beside all waters.” “What shall
+the harvest be?”</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>GEORGIA.</h3>
+<h4>Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School&mdash;Band
+of Hope&mdash;Twichell School.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. JOHN H. H. SENGSTACKE, WOODVILLE.</p>
+
+<p>This small settlement of colored people
+is situated three miles west of Savannah,
+Ga. It was bought by a Northern agent,
+and divided into half-acre lots, which are
+now selling, on the instalment plan, for seventy-five
+dollars each. The houses are
+very small and uncomfortable; but since
+the American Missionary Association has
+erected a new meeting-house and parsonage,
+the people have commenced to put up
+better dwellings, and a strong love for
+home comforts is gradually taking hold
+upon the masses. The inhabitants of
+Woodville obtain a living by selling in the
+city market, or laboring in gardens and on
+rice plantations. In this settlement there
+are two groceries, and three on its border,
+where strong drink is sold, even on the
+Lord’s day.</p>
+
+<p>The only house of worship in this place
+is the Pilgrim Congregational Church.
+This church was organized in 1871 as the
+Woodville Church, and re-organized in 1875
+as the Pilgrim Church. A new site was
+chosen, and the present meeting-house was
+erected in the same year. This church has
+been a great blessing to the people. A
+deep religious feeling has prevailed in our
+midst, and many have become savingly acquainted
+with the Lord Jesus Christ. Rev.
+Mr. Markham is deeply interested in this
+little church, and a great assistant to the
+young pastor in charge. A revival is still
+in progress; twenty persons have been
+recently added to the church, and seven
+are waiting to be received at the next
+Communion.</p>
+
+<p>The Sabbath-school is prospering. We
+have no well qualified teachers as yet, but
+Twichell School is preparing instructors for
+this work. We need lesson papers and
+other papers. Who will help us in this direction?
+Our Band of Hope consists of both
+adults and children. This society is working
+hard to save men from a drunkard’s
+grave, and hell. It has much opposition to
+overcome. The rum-sellers and whisky-drinking
+church-people are its worst enemies.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Twichell School.</span>&mdash;This school is held
+in the church, and is taught by the pastor.
+Through the benevolence of the A. M. A.
+and the Congregational Church Sabbath-school
+at Grand Rapids, Mich., we have
+been able to instruct hundreds of children,
+and it is pleasing to know that our labor
+has not been in vain, for many of the little
+ones are rejoicing in Christ the Lord.
+Mrs. S. N. M., of Dubuque, Iowa, “the
+Merry Workers,” at Grand Rapids, Mich.,
+and other Northern friends, deserve our sincere
+thanks for the deep interest they have
+taken in this work. Every effort put forth
+in the name of Jesus to elevate this ignorant
+people deserves the heartiest encouragement.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>School Children Farming&mdash;Their Parents
+Buying Farms.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">SEABORN SNELSON, MCINTOSH.</p>
+
+<p>Our school is very small, as it always is
+at this season of the year, the children
+having to assist their parents in farming.
+For that reason, during the summer months
+of the previous years, we have had to teach
+about two hours at night, for the benefit of
+those who could not come in the daytime.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a></span>
+We have not yet commenced night-school
+this year, though it is desired by many.</p>
+
+<p>There are many children in our neighborhood
+who belong to our school, but we
+find it very difficult to get all, or the most
+of them, to attend school regularly. We
+have a pretty good average attendance,
+but do not at all times have the same
+scholars, which causes much discord and
+delay.</p>
+
+<p>The children seem to be anxious to
+learn, but it is done in the midst of hardships
+which are uncommon to children in
+many other places. The older people are
+not as much interested in the education of
+their children as they should be, by a great
+deal.</p>
+
+<p>Only two schools for the colored children
+are kept up during the year in this
+county, namely, Second Midway and Old
+Midway. There are other places I know
+of in this county, where much might be
+done in the way of instructing the people
+in the right way, and they would be very
+glad to receive it; but the aid is wanting.</p>
+
+<p>About two-thirds of the colored people
+in this county are trying to buy land, and
+really some have succeeded in so doing;
+but it is done by about four years’ <em>hard</em>
+labor and strict economy. There is very
+little money in this county, and it will be
+so until the colored people pay for and take
+possession of these lands. After a couple
+of years they will be able to do much for
+themselves in many ways.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<h4>A Growing School&mdash;A Literary Society.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">COSMO P. JORDAN, MARIETTA.</p>
+
+<p>The Mission School at Marietta was
+opened Oct. 15th, 1877, with four pupils
+only. The 2d day of January, 1878, there
+were fourteen. The end of January found
+a roll of thirty-seven, which has steadily increased
+to seventy-two. It may be seen that
+the growth of this school was not very rapid,
+from the fact that it was opposed by many
+of the colored people in the city. But the
+more water they threw on this little spark,
+the brighter and faster it burned, till it has
+become a centre of attraction. Friends of
+this work are fast multiplying, and the future
+seems bright.</p>
+
+<p>My school is composed of some very
+bright and promising young men and women,
+seven of whom go out every summer
+to teach. The studies are spelling, reading,
+writing, geography, composition, grammar,
+and arithmetic.</p>
+
+<p>To this work is attached a literary society,
+known as the Junto, the exercises of
+which consist of reading, speaking, discussions,
+and singing. It was likewise opposed,
+but is now as largely attended as
+any church in the city.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>MISSISSIPPI.</h3>
+
+<h4>An Old School&mdash;Temperance Work&mdash;The
+Gourd Family.</h4>
+
+<p class="secauth">MISS ANNA HARWOOD, GRENADA.</p>
+
+<p>Our school, in age, ranks among the older
+ones, having been established in the Spring
+of 1866, and we have been its teachers continuously
+up to the present time. First,
+we were missionary teachers; after a time
+the Freedmen’s Bureau lent us its aid, until
+the organization of free schools by the
+State; thereafter, we taught the public
+school until last year.</p>
+
+<p>During all these years of varying fortunes
+our school has steadily progressed,
+until there has grown up around us a generation
+of young people, not great, nor wise,
+nor learned, only as they are compared with
+those who have gone before them; but,
+standing out from the blackness of darkness
+of twelve years ago, they furnish a
+bright and hopeful outlook.</p>
+
+<p>We organized a Temperance society
+early in our work here, and it has never
+died out. We, several years ago, gave the
+control into the hands of the young people,
+being only members, for service, when
+needed. They have changed names, and
+banners, and badges more than once&mdash;just
+now it is blue ribbon&mdash;but the object has
+always been the same. Our Sunday-school
+has always claimed our best efforts, and we
+are glad to know that more than two-thirds
+of our older scholars are professing Christians.
+But the work done is but a drop<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a></span>
+compared with that which is not done. We
+have lived to see very many hopes and
+dreams fade out, and to learn that manhood
+and womanhood are not plants of the gourd
+family&mdash;Jonah’s kind, at least. The knowledge
+of what we have not done, and cannot
+do, is sometimes very hard to bear; and,
+perhaps, we have thus learned to do what
+we can the more gladly, feeling sure that
+we, ourselves, grow thereby. And maybe
+this is a part of the work, for we, too, are
+our Father’s children.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT OF HOWARD
+UNIVERSITY.</h3>
+
+<h4>Its Catholicity&mdash;Closing Exercises.</h4>
+
+<p>The year of the Theological Department
+of Howard University has just closed. This
+department is under the joint care and support
+of the Presbytery of Washington, and
+of the American Missionary Association.
+The former sustains Rev. L. Westcott, as
+Professor of Revealed Theology and Biblical
+History, and Rev. A. W. Pitzer, D. D.,
+as Professor of Biblical Studies and Moral
+Science; the latter supplies the instruction
+given by the President, Rev. Wm. W. Patton,
+D. D., in Natural Theology, the Evidences
+of Revealed Religion, and Hebrew,
+and by Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., in
+Pastoral Theology, Church History, and
+Homiletics. The theological students this
+year have numbered thirty-two. These are
+in all stages of preparation for their expected
+work. Several are already ministers,
+and are preaching, every Sunday, as
+pastors of colored churches in Washington;
+but, having had no early advantages, they
+are making up deficiencies as best they can.</p>
+
+<p>The theological students come from seven
+different denominations, while their instructors
+represent four. This is an unusual illustration
+of Christian union, and shows
+how much can be done, on a simple evangelical
+basis, for meeting the pressing wants
+of the colored population of our land. The
+work needs to be conducted on a broad,
+generous basis. We can thus introduce a
+powerful leaven of truth and righteousness
+where it is especially needed. The plan of
+instruction has been, to meet the special
+wants of each individual according to his
+age, his forwardness or backwardness of
+study, the time that he could remain, etc.
+Such as have enjoyed a classical education,
+are encouraged to take the regular three
+years’ course pursued in all theological
+seminaries. Others are taught what is
+found to be most needed to fit them for
+their work, in the form of English studies.
+Six have studied the Hebrew this year,
+and they passed a creditable examination
+in the grammar, and in translation, averaging
+quite as well as ordinary white students
+in theological institutions. These students
+also attend the Bible-class conducted by
+the president on the morning of the Lord’s
+day, and his preaching service in the afternoon,
+in the latter of which he has lately,
+in a series of discourses, pointed out the
+weakness and absurdity of modern skepticism,
+as an antidote to the influence of the
+infidel lecturer, popularly called “Bob”
+Ingersoll, who has taken up his abode in
+Washington.</p>
+
+<p>Although the theological students have
+numbered thirty-two this year, it so happens
+that but one has completed his course;
+and as a distinguished clergyman who, it
+was hoped, would deliver the address at
+the anniversary, failed us at too late a
+moment to substitute any one else, the
+closing exercises took the form of a debate
+by eight of the young men, on this question:
+“Has a church a right to make total
+abstinence from intoxicating drinks a condition
+of membership?” This point was
+debated with much earnestness and shrewdness,
+and arguments, <em>pro</em> and <em>con</em>, were
+drawn ingeniously from reason and Scripture
+in a way which testified favorably to the
+abilities of the speakers. One of the Judges
+of the Supreme Court of the United States
+takes a deep interest in this department of
+the University, and lately expressed himself
+emphatically in favor of encouraging and
+endowing it, as an important means of elevating
+the colored ministry and churches of
+all denominations. Its friends anticipate
+for it a future bright with usefulness.</p>
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL
+CONVENTION.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.</p>
+
+<p>As gems are valued by their rarity, so
+you can imagine how such a gathering as
+the Sunday-school Convention seemed to
+us in Georgia.</p>
+
+<p>We were favored, not more by hearing
+the appointed speakers in the great Convention,
+than by the personal presence and
+good words of many of its delegates in our
+own school-room. Gen. Fisk, who has
+given not only his name, but his heart and
+hand to our Fisk University, took Atlanta
+and the Convention by storm with his
+happy address of welcome. It seems
+to me our young men can never lose
+the inspiration of hope and courage that
+must have come to them from him, whose
+youthful struggles had even exceeded many
+of their own. Then we heard Dr. H. M.
+Parsons. All who ever listened to him will
+understand how, at the close of his words,
+we felt that, next to the Rock Christ
+Jesus, there was not beneath the sun so
+firm a foundation as our blessed Bible.
+Another day, Dr. McVicar, a college president
+from Montreal, warned us of the
+Jesuits, with an earnestness such as, perhaps,
+only a good Scotch Presbyterian could
+feel. Then we had “Hope Ledyard,” the
+charming correspondent, whose young life
+seems too exquisitely moulded to have always
+escaped the loving Father’s crucible.</p>
+
+<p>Best of all, we had good words from
+many not heard in the Convention, and,
+perhaps, unknown to fame. There was
+Judge Harman, of Oswego. How his clear
+eye took in the large possibilities of our
+work, and how his great heart went out
+toward us! As he warned us of the perils
+of a life without Jesus, and the depths of
+despair into which life’s trials could plunge
+a soul unsupported by the Everlasting
+Arms, his peaceful face and silvery hair
+assuring us he knew whereof he affirmed,
+some of us had rare glimpses into the
+blessed beyond. The words of Rev. A.
+P. Foster, Dr. Tully, and several that
+I was prevented from hearing, so lifted
+both teachers and pupils above the plane of
+plodding school life, that we almost trembled
+to look down. The fact that many such men,
+of kindred mind and heart, filled the silent
+pews of the Convention, seemed to me the
+secret of its power. We had heard as
+good papers from other platforms, but
+the sight of such a body, all delighting in
+the Master’s command, “Feed My lambs,”
+was enough to send us to our homes
+feeling, as one of our girls expressed it, “I
+know I shall be a better woman for having
+attended the Convention.”</p>
+
+<p>In response to an invitation for the delegates
+to visit our school, Governor Colquitt,
+who presided, remarked to the Convention:
+“The University is a good place to
+visit, and is doing a good work”; and added
+that he had a servant who had attended our
+school some years, and the instruction received
+there had not pushed him above
+his position&mdash;he was the same humble,
+faithful boy about his work. Every summer
+he came to him for a recommendation
+to teach, which he cheerfully gave him,
+and the boy always returned in the fall the
+same good, modest young man.</p>
+
+<p>Dr. McVicar also took a public occasion
+to express his appreciation of our work.
+After the close of his sermon, at the Central
+Presbyterian Church here, while recounting
+to the audience the many things
+of interest he had enjoyed in their city, he
+remarked that he had recently visited most
+of the universities of Europe, and added
+that nothing in Atlanta, or the great universities
+abroad, had interested him so
+heartily as their Atlanta University.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOUTH-WESTERN
+CONFERENCE.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.</p>
+
+<p>New Iberia was the place selected for
+our Annual Meeting this year, April 3-5,
+and one more attractive, or more important
+to the general interests of our work, could
+not have been chosen. This church was organized
+in 1866, and has a membership of
+117, of which thirty have been received on
+profession of faith the past year. The population
+of the city is about 3,000, of whom
+nearly, if not quite, fifty per cent. are colored.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a></span></p>
+
+<p>The South-western Conference is composed
+of fourteen Congregational churches,
+of which twelve were represented at our
+Annual Meeting.</p>
+
+<p>The reports from the churches showed
+very clearly that the past year had been
+one of marked activity and spiritual prosperity.
+Several churches, as the Central,
+in New Orleans, and St. Mark’s, in Terrebonne,
+have been blessed with revivals of
+great power. Other churches have been
+cutting off dead branches, and putting
+themselves in condition for better service.
+In tabulating the reports, I find that the present
+membership of the churches of our Conference
+is 806. There have been added on
+profession during the year (ending April
+1st, 1878,) <em>one hundred and thirteen</em>, and
+four by letter. Forty-seven adults and
+<em>eighty babies</em> have been baptized.</p>
+
+<p>As I have already spoken of the precious
+revival in Central Church, in which more
+than fifty were converted, and the church
+itself greatly quickened and refreshed,
+I will not recite the facts again. The
+church of Brother Clay (one of the
+veterans and pioneers of Congregationalism
+in Louisiana), in Terrebonne,
+has passed through joyful and glorious experiences.
+The church has been thronged
+for days and weeks. Mr. Clay said: “I
+did not know where all the people came
+from. The church and church-yard were
+filled with a dense mass of people. It
+seemed as though they sprung out of the
+ground.” Night after night the earnest
+truths of the Gospel were preached, and
+night after night “mourners” crowded the
+anxious seats, crying for mercy. The
+people came from long distances, five and
+seven miles. God put honor upon His
+word, and many have been converted, and
+still the good work goes on. Pastor Clay’s
+heart is filled with joy and thankfulness.</p>
+
+
+<h4>QUESTIONS DISCUSSED.</h4>
+
+<p>Among the topics considered at the
+Conference were the following:</p>
+
+<p><em>Revivals</em>: The best method of promoting
+and conducting them. <em>Education</em>: The
+demand of the hour; how shall we meet
+it? <em>Faith</em>: Its nature; how can we secure
+greater faith? Its joys and its triumphs.
+What more can we do to reach
+the people with the Gospel?</p>
+
+<p>These questions were discussed with vigor
+and interest. Of course, no speeches had
+been prepared in advance, and I was surprised
+at the real excellence of the addresses.
+Mistakes in grammar were sometimes
+made, and there were not many classical
+allusions, but the speeches had the
+true ring, and good will come of them.</p>
+
+
+<h4>PUBLIC SERVICES.</h4>
+
+<p>The opening sermon was given by the
+Moderator, Mr. Alexander, from Matthew
+1, 23: “They shall call his name Emmanuel;
+which being interpreted is, God
+with us.” It was a great pleasure to speak
+to such an audience. The church was
+densely packed, the entry was filled; people
+took positions under the windows on the
+outside, and fully one hundred, having sought
+admission in vain, went reluctantly away.
+Mr. Hall, of New Orleans, preached the
+second evening; after which, the Moderator
+made an address on “Christian Unity,”
+in the hope of removing or modifying some
+of the asperities and jealousies existing
+among the colored churches. The address
+was received with strong expressions of
+sympathy. One good old “auntie” said
+the next day: “Don’t you say anything
+against that minister. He is trying to
+build up both sides. He don’t wish to
+break down anybody.”</p>
+
+
+<h4>ORDINATION.</h4>
+
+<p>On Friday evening Mr. Homer Jones, a
+member of the church at New Iberia, but
+a resident at Lake Piegneur, having passed
+a faithful examination before the Conference
+regarding his Christian experience, his
+religious belief, and his ability to preach,
+was ordained as an Evangelist.</p>
+
+<p>Bro. Jones is a warm-hearted Christian,
+and will make an able and successful minister.
+He has served the churches faithfully for
+two years or more without compensation.
+He owns a small farm of eighteen acres on
+the shore of the beautiful Lake Piegneur.
+His worthy wife was for a short time a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a></span>
+student in Straight University. He expresses
+his willingness to leave his beautiful
+home, and go anywhere, even to Africa,
+where God may call him.</p>
+
+
+<h4>FAREWELL MEETING.</h4>
+
+<p>Friday morning was devoted to a “farewell
+prayer-meeting.” It was a most tender
+and impressive scene. As one after another
+spoke, “the fire burned”; every eye was
+wet with manly tears, and when the entire
+Conference rose and joined hands, and they
+sang or chanted an old refrain, peculiar to
+themselves, beginning “Good-by, and shake
+hands,” and we entered into covenant with
+God and with each other to go forth to
+another year of labor and self-denial, those
+dear brethren, in the excess of religious
+emotion, laughed and cried together. Thus
+was our meeting of 1878 brought to a
+close. The good pastor at New Iberia
+said: “Such a light was never kindled here
+before.” The Conference adjourned to meet
+in New Iberia next year, at the call of the
+Moderator.</p>
+
+<p>Dear brethren of the North, pray for us,
+and remember that we are trying to hold
+this distant outpost of the Church, and to
+extend, in this beautiful and fruitful land,
+the cherished faith and polity of our
+fathers.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>THE SINGERS TO THE MISSIONARIES,
+GREETING.</h3>
+
+
+<p class="medium">We give the following extracts from a letter, written
+by the Jubilee Singers, from Erfurt, Germany, to
+the new missionaries to Africa. From the fact
+that they are all Fisk University students, the
+greetings of the gleaners in Europe to the sowers
+in Africa is full of pathetic interest:</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+<span class="smcap">Erfurt, Germany.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+<p>To <span class="smcap">Albert P. Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Ada Roberts
+Miller</span>, <span class="smcap">Andrew E. Jackson</span>, and
+<span class="smcap">Ella Hildridge Jackson</span>, Missionaries
+for Africa:</p>
+
+<p><em>Dear Brothers and Sisters</em>: The Jubilee
+Singers send greeting. Could we give
+you our greeting in person, it would be
+more satisfactory, as we can but feebly convey
+to you, in writing, how our hearts have
+gone out to you in love and sympathy, and
+up to God in thankfulness, since the glad
+tidings reached us of your having consecrated
+your lives and talents to mission
+work among our brethren in Africa. We
+have prayed and labored long for this day,
+and now, thank God, our prayers are being
+answered.</p>
+
+<p>We realize in how large a degree our
+success has been attributable to the faithful
+prayers of you and your fellow-students,
+sent up daily in our behalf from Fisk University;
+and let us assure you that while
+you are doing battle for the Master, by
+helping to lift the dark pall of barbarism
+and superstition which enshrouds our kinsmen,
+you, in like manner, will be sustained
+by the prayers of your fellow students, and
+warm, earnest Christian hearts, not only in
+our own native land, but in Great Britain,
+Holland and Germany. They will follow
+your footsteps, faithfully and prayerfully,
+watching for the fruits which ye shall reap,
+in due season, if ye faint not, and rejoicing
+with you in the extension of Christ’s kingdom.</p>
+
+<p>You are our first band of missionaries at
+the outpost of the American Missionary
+Association in the land of our forefathers.
+May the light of God so shine in your hearts
+that its reflected rays shall be a balm to
+those who may come to you, to be healed
+and taught of God. May He give you
+strength to thrust in the “sharpened sickle”
+when the fields are ripe for the harvest,
+and the laborers so few.</p>
+
+<p>With the love and best wishes of the
+Jubilee Singers.</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 30%;">(Signed)</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 45%;">
+<span class="smcap">Georgia M. Gordon</span>,<br />
+<span class="smcap">F. J. Loudin</span>,<br />
+<span class="smcap">B. W. Thomas</span>.<br />
+</p>
+
+<p style="padding-left: 55%;"><i>Committee</i>.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>AFRICA.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h3>Arrival of the New Missionaries.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. FLOYD SNELSON.</p>
+
+<p>I received the letters, telling of the new
+missionaries on the way to our mission, with
+great joy. I left home late last Thursday
+afternoon for this place to meet them. We
+came on very well until Friday night about
+ten o’clock, at which time we were caught
+in quite a storm, and had to anchor. As
+I had not been here since our first arrival,
+there were many things to look after.</p>
+
+<p>Just as I was finishing up last night, the
+steamer came in, bringing them. I got out
+to them about 8.30 P.M., and spent nearly
+an hour with them. I am very favorably
+impressed with the first view of my new co-workers,
+and hope now to be able to carry
+on the work to greater success and with
+more ease.</p>
+
+<p>Next morning they came ashore, and
+expressed themselves as favorably surprised
+at the appearance of the place and people.
+On the 26th, we hope to leave early for
+Good Hope.</p>
+
+<p>
+<span class="smcap">Freetown, Sierra Leone</span>,<br />
+<br />
+<i>March 25th, 1878</i>.<br />
+</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>First Impressions of Africa&mdash;A Sunday
+Service&mdash;A School Celebration.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. ALBERT MILLER.</p>
+
+<p>On reaching Freetown, and walking
+about the place and conversing with the
+natives, we were very favorably disappointed.
+Some are very intelligent and kind-hearted.
+We attended a Sunday-School in the afternoon,
+and were much pleased to hear the
+children read and sing. They reminded
+me of a small country school in the South.
+A little boy played on the organ. We
+visited several of the natives, and I was
+everywhere surprised at seeing so much
+intelligence displayed. Brother Snelson
+had made all necessary preparations for
+our coming. The mission house had been
+fitted up nicely, so that we soon felt as if
+we were in an American village. We remained
+in Freetown two days, and Brother
+Snelson lost no time in showing us the
+many things of interest in this African city.
+We visited the market, and saw many
+things in the line of fruits to interest us.
+All were well pleased, but still longed to
+reach our adopted home.</p>
+
+<p>Leaving Freetown on the 25th of March,
+we arrived here on the 28th, early in the
+morning. The men rowed all night. Mrs.
+Snelson, Mr. White and the children of the
+mission met us at the wharf. We could
+not have been more kindly received by any
+persons. We have been here several days
+now, and find the work promising and
+encouraging. Brother Snelson and his
+helpers are hard at work, and things, I
+suppose, are much more hopeful than they
+have been for years.</p>
+
+<p>The church was filled last Sabbath to
+its utmost capacity with hearers. Brother
+S., I think is the right man in the right
+place. The only charge I am able to bring
+against him is overwork. He has the confidence
+of the people, which is so necessary
+to success. Services were conducted by
+Brother Jackson and myself.</p>
+
+<p>I find the people kind and obliging.
+They are very happy to have us, of their
+own race, come and teach and labor
+among them. Some seem ready to shout.
+We are well pleased with our new home,
+and are in a good state of health. The
+heat is very intense. All things seem to
+indicate a better day for the sable sons of
+Ham. Africa is not what rumor represents
+it to be&mdash;at least, what I have seen of it.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">April 3, 1878.</span>&mdash;To-day has been one
+of great interest, both to parents and children.
+The day-school, under the general
+management of Brother White, turned out.
+An examination took place in the forenoon,
+after which the schools (day and Sabbath),<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a></span>
+with two banners waving o’er head, came
+marching to a place near the mission-house,
+where a dinner had been prepared for them.
+Brother Snelson led the schools, and the
+children, full of joy, followed him. He led
+them through the principal streets of this
+our city, the sides of the streets being filled
+with lookers-on. All this seemed new to
+them, and I dare say it is new to this part
+of Africa. We had music, but very different
+from such as our American friends are
+accustomed to. An old tin box served as
+kettle-drum. This, with other instruments,
+made music sufficient for the children to
+march and keep pretty good time. Returning
+to the tables, the little ones ate dinner,
+using spoons, which is something very new
+to them. Each one seemed to be happy.
+The patrons were called upon to contribute
+for the giving of this dinner. Many responded,
+sending chickens, rice, etc. Of
+course, the whole affair was devolved upon
+Brother Snelson. He received contributions
+from traders and officials, many of
+whom are here on the coast. These, you
+will remember, are white, the friendship
+and kind favor of whom Brother S. has
+gained. They did not attend the exercises
+of the day, but came out at night, and listened
+to speeches from members of the
+school. The pupils spoke and sang well,
+and reminded me very much of my past experience
+in the South&mdash;so Southern-like.</p>
+
+<p>All were highly pleased with the exercises
+of the evening. The American flag
+was on one side of the house, that of England
+on the other&mdash;thus bringing all in
+attendance between them. These two flags
+during the day were unfurled to the gentle
+breeze with which we were favored. Many
+of the leading men of Bonthe were here,
+and, with those from other places, took tea
+with us. I gain more interest daily for
+this my field of labor. I shall not wait to
+become acclimated, but shall proceed to
+labor at once.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>Advantages of Colored Missionaries.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">EXTRACT OF LETTER FROM A. E. WHITE.</p>
+
+<p>You would like to know what I think
+about colored missionaries doing good here.
+My firm belief is, that they can do more than
+any other missionaries under the sun. These
+people have always been used to colored
+people. Most of the white men whom
+they have seen were traders, seeking their
+own good. They robbed the people of their
+produce and children, and destroyed their
+confidence. A white missionary has to be
+more careful than a colored one. The
+natives look upon a white person as unnatural,
+and think he is above them in every
+way, and that God made him so. They
+also think it is of no use for them to try to
+do the things they see the white man do.
+But, on the other hand, when they see a
+colored man do anything, they think if he
+can do it they can do it themselves. They
+are a great people to imitate. For a proof
+of what I have said, look at the Shengay
+Mission. It is conducted altogether by
+colored missionaries, and stands ahead of
+others on the coast. Do not think I say
+this because I am a colored man. I say it
+because I know it is true.</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>School Wants and Farm Work.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">W. W. WHEELER, KESHENA, WIS.</p>
+
+<p>The school opened very encouragingly
+this term, and before the close of the second
+week we had fifty-four different boarding
+scholars, and were compelled to refuse admission
+to others, on account of our limited
+accommodations. Soon the scarlet-fever
+broke out, and before the close of the term
+twenty-three boarding scholars, and many
+of our day scholars, had been sent home on
+account of sickness.</p>
+
+<p>The boarding scholars seem, generally, to
+be happy and contented with us, and eager
+to return at the opening of each new term;
+and their progress in their studies, and general
+deportment, is much greater than with
+the day scholars. The general interest,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a></span>
+also, of the tribe in the subject of education
+is greatly quickened. The boarding-school,
+with suitable accommodations, might be
+made a great blessing to the tribe. We
+feel sure we could readily obtain 100 scholars
+if we had the accommodations.</p>
+
+<p>The tribe has asked the Department to
+appropriate, from their funds in the United
+States Treasury, $6,000 for the erection of
+a suitable building.</p>
+
+<p>We see the dreadful results, in other
+tribes around us, of allowing the youth to
+grow up, without education, in contact with
+the whites, learning their vices and not their
+virtues, and it makes us long to see something
+done to save this people from the
+blight which has fallen upon so many other
+tribes before them.</p>
+
+<p>I have spent nearly three weeks going
+over the Reservation since school closed,
+visiting from farm to farm, encouraging the
+Indians to make larger improvements; and I
+have been very greatly gratified to notice so
+many already clearing up new lands. I
+have only found three or four families who
+will not clear up some new ground this
+spring. Some will clear as much as three
+or four acres. Many are chopping and
+logging heavy timber without any team to
+help them.</p>
+
+<p>I think there will be 300 acres of new land
+cleared this spring. I expect to distribute
+(only to those who clear at least one acre)
+1,000 bushels of potatoes, besides corn, oats,
+wheat, and vegetable seeds, for many of
+them have not yet learned to provide beforehand.
+There are, however, quite a
+number who not only have enough for their
+own seed, but some to sell.</p>
+
+<p>Could the boarding-school be kept up
+regularly for a few years, we should have
+great hopes for the future of this tribe, but
+there seems to be a strange lack of interest
+in this matter on the part of the authorities
+at Washington. We are now anxiously
+waiting for instructions to re-open this
+school. Meanwhile, the day-school is in
+operation, with an attendance of twenty-two
+scholars.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>An Indian Wants a Cow.</h3>
+
+<p>
+Dr G L Mahon<br />
+</p>
+
+<p>Dr Sir i thought i would write a few
+lines to you to asking you that you dint not
+answered me when i was asking you while
+you was here about the Cow i want you to
+give me one if you Can i thing i would use
+the Cow very much if you would give me
+one i could get Some Butter from her and
+i could make good living on Butter with
+Potatoes if you Send me one Send who
+have a young Calf in her thats the one i
+like to have her and you will let me know
+it By G Wheeler and another thing about
+Potatoes Zack Brown told me he hasent
+got enough Potatoes Seeds for in a spring
+and ive got Plenty potatoes in Net Lake
+and if you want any i could Sell it to you
+Some that is for Zack Brown wants it
+Now i send my Best Regards to you</p>
+
+<p>
+from <span class="smcap">Adawwan-ne qua benans</span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="smcap">Vermillion Lake</span>.<br />
+</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p class="center large">“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</p>
+
+<p class="center large">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 C.
+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. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. Palache, Esq.</p>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>Fung Affoo’s Bible Class&mdash;Visalia and
+Petaluma.</h3>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p>
+
+<p>Remembering that the Sabbath worship
+at our Central Mission had never been
+described, though often alluded to in the
+<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, I requested Bro. Fung Affoo
+to give an account of it, and received the
+following communication:</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a></span></p><div class="blockquot">
+
+<p>“As we have not much time to teach
+them the Scripture on any other evening,
+we set apart Sunday and Wednesday evenings
+to teach them to read the Bible instead
+of their other lessons. On Sunday
+we have the “Bible-class,” commencing at
+half-past eleven A. M., and continuing for
+one hour and a half. We sing about half an
+hour either in Chinese or in English, then
+offer a prayer, and then read a chapter from
+the Bible. Each verse they read after me,
+then I translate it into Chinese; when
+through interpreting, on each verse or
+paragraph I make some remarks which
+I have studied out during the week days.
+After we get through the chapter, I speak
+about ten minutes on a subject selected
+from that chapter beforehand, then one of
+our brethren offers prayer; we then unite
+in singing the Doxology, and close with the
+Lord’s Prayer. Our exercises on Wednesday
+evening are similar to those we have
+on Sundays. It gives me much encouragement
+in the work seeing that they like to
+read the Bible more than ever before.
+Formerly only about one-half of the school
+attended the Bible-class on Wednesday
+evenings, but now they number nearly as
+many on that evening as on any other evening
+of the week. It seems as though their
+hatred of Christianity becomes less. Of
+course, many come to read the Bible only
+for the sake of learning the English, but in
+time we hope, when they know the truth of
+God, they will change their mind and heart,
+as some of them have already done, who
+are now on Christ’s side, battling for the
+Lord.”</p>
+
+<p class="right">
+“<span class="smcap">Fung Affoo.</span>”<br />
+</p></div>
+
+<p>The attendance at this Sabbath noon
+service averages about fifty-five. Of course,
+my pastoral duties render it impossible for
+me ever to be present. I do not think, however,
+that my presence would add anything
+to the worship or the work. I assist the
+helpers in their preparation, but I believe
+that in dealing with their countrymen they
+are more skilful than I could be, even if I
+could speak Chinese. It needs an experience
+in heathenism, to enable one to
+reach the heathen in the most efficient way.
+God chooses saved <em>sinners</em> to be messengers
+of salvation to those still lost. I think
+that the programme of this service, as Bro.
+Fung Affoo gives it, illustrates this fact.
+It is not one of my planning&mdash;not the one
+I should have chosen; but as I carefully
+consider it, I ask, “What <em>could be</em> better
+fitted for those for whom the service is
+arranged?”</p>
+
+<p>Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary
+labors among the Chinese at San Leandro
+were attended with so rich a blessing, is
+now acting pastor of the Presbyterian
+church at Visalia. He has carried there
+his zeal for this good work; has already
+rented a small room, and opened a school.
+We shall aid him as far as we are able.
+Would that we had a hundred men like-minded
+with him touching this work!</p>
+
+<p>Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish
+the care of the school at Petaluma, and is
+succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian
+spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade
+St., New York. This school is quite
+small, but its members surpass those of
+every other school in liberality, and I cannot
+consent to abandon them. Christ, too,
+is becoming known to them. With increasing
+interest they study God’s word.
+And they <em>sing</em>, somewhat at random, it
+must be confessed, in the matter of time
+and of tune, but with an eagerness and a
+gusto that betoken a beginning both of
+the spirit and the understanding in their
+song. Miss Anthony writes: “Wah Yene
+is a good Christian as far as he understands.
+He told me, one evening, that
+he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime,
+and every night. Some people,’ he
+added, ‘not much good; likee go to
+church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor
+of the Congregational church] think
+they good. Some people very good, and
+pray to God. I likee be good&mdash;not much
+bad.’”</p>
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p class="center large">A TEACHER’S STORY.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">The following letter is from a young girl who has
+not gone through the Middle Class at Hampton,
+but is showing much energy and tact, and doing
+good work as teacher in one of the rough places
+of the far South:</p>
+
+<p class="right medium">FLORIDA.</p>
+
+<p>I will first say, I am a colored girl;
+my native home is in St. Augustine.
+I was raised by kind Northern friends. I
+am teaching school on the St. John’s River,
+about thirty or forty miles from St. Augustine.
+In giving my descriptions, I will first
+describe my school-house. It is made entirely
+of logs, with the exception of the
+door and windows, which were given by
+Miss M. The skies may be seen in any
+part of the room. The cracks in the floor
+are large enough to put your hands through.
+When it rains, it leaks in like water dropping
+from the trees. There is no fire-place,
+nor was there any way for keeping warm
+until, the past week, a young man got
+me a little stove. But the house is so open
+this does but little towards heating it up.
+We have had some cold days, and the only
+way I had to keep my scholars warm was,
+to build two large fires and have the poor
+little children set around them (out of
+doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and
+bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart
+ache to see the tears stand in their eyes,
+when I asked them why they didn’t put on
+shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply
+would be, “I have on all the clothes I got,
+and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes,
+when I have on all I can to keep warm,
+most of my girls have only two garments on,
+the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some
+of my pupils have to come between two
+and three miles, and then cross a creek. I
+have a sewing-school for my girls once a
+week. I read to them, and teach them
+things to sing while they are sewing. They
+are to keep what they make. I have been
+teaching three-and-a-half months. The age
+of my scholars is from three-and-a-half
+to twenty-four years. I have enrolled
+thirty scholars, most of them very good,
+all anxious to learn. The people are
+very, very poor, and have real hard
+times in getting clothing, and keeping from
+starving. They live in log huts, some of
+which leak, and are in a dreadful condition.
+I don’t know how to describe some of them.
+There are a few white settlers here; some
+of them, when the folks work for them,
+won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the
+work they get from them is mostly their entire
+support.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<h2>RECEIPTS</h2>
+<p class="center large">FOR APRIL, 1878.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $27.24.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. S. W. Pearson</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B.
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.24</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Deerfield. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Stephen Brown, by
+Joseph T. Brown, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,”
+<i>for a Teacher</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">78.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Rev. Austin H. Burr, L. M.</span></td>
+<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob
+Chapman $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C.
+W. Wallace $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">34.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” <i>for Student Aid,
+Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr></table>
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $1,166.04.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">165.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3
+from “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab.
+Sch. $8.02</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.42</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Danby. Rev. L. D. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Barnard. Levi Belknap</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.
+John H. Hincks</span>, L. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">32.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Walden. S. W. O.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peacham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Ezra C. Chamberlin,
+by Wm. R. Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to
+const. <span class="smcap">Miss Jane E. Chamberlin</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Miss Jennie C. Watts</span>, L.M’s)</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Londonderry. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,”
+<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. F. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Swanton. Harry Smith</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10;
+Mrs. L. W. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westminster West. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Almira Goodhue,
+by Homer Goodhue, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G.,
+25c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ashfield. B. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.54</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, <i>for Theo. Student,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">70.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bolton. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta
+U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch.
+$132.16; Rev. Chas. Nichols $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">157.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis
+Sanford, box of C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">69.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Buckland. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const.
+<span class="smcap">Martin Nelson Root</span>, M.D., L.M.;
+Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.75</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">74.91</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">48.22</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20;
+Thomas P. Carlton $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">87.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75
+from “Carpenter Bees,” <i>for Colored Girls</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D.
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">126.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.
+$14.40; Mrs. E. H. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">36.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.56</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza
+Huntington $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss.
+Ass’n $6, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.97</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87;
+Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100.</td>
+<td class="ramt">228.87</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">41.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.47</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">58.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of
+books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medway. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Clarissa A. Pond, by A.
+Pond, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">135.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Melrose. E. N. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Methuen. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
+Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper,
+Ex’s.</td>
+<td class="ramt">959.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Oliver Church</span> and <span class="smcap"> Rev. Chas. M.
+Peirce</span>, L.M’s</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middleton. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Catharine Merriam
+Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Bedford. Miss H. M. L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Mrs. J. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Adams. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">27.68</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">47.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64;
+Mrs. C. F. R. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">151.64</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. </td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39;
+L. W. 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. James R. Jones</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Princeton. H. N. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">37.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Salem. Geo. Driver</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shelburne. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Southfield. W. H. E.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">88.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42;
+Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41</td>
+<td class="ramt">83.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.
+$38.55; Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South
+Cong. Ch. $12.96</td>
+<td class="ramt">73.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sutton. R. L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">36.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Webster. First Cong. Ch. </td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C.
+Coll. $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs.
+W. F. Morse $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">87.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">41.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll.</td>
+<td class="ramt">19.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">250.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;“A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, 27c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Slaterville. M. J. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.27</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ansonia. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Avon. Miss L. A. A.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">46.38</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Darien. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.24</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of George A.
+Paine, by John Paine, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">646.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fairfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">54.42</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">63.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Guilford. “Lea.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G.
+$1; Mrs. G. T. G. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ledyard. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and
+Soc. $22; College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch.
+(ad’l) $5; A. T. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">38.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Branford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, <i>for Student
+Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith
+$5</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding,
+by Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams,
+Ex’s</td>
+<td class="ramt">1,046.63</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">118.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Coventry. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">47.84</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Southington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">31.94</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">85.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">65.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodfords. Dr. E. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $1,197,84.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Albion. L. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50;
+Mrs. J. E. Bean $10</td>
+<td class="ramt">22.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central
+Cong. Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E.
+Whiton $15; Mrs. William Bane, packages
+books and C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">526.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eagle Harbor. A. P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.48</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5
+for Student Aid)</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres </td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch.,
+by Lina Burroughs, box of C. and books.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.
+$440.93.&mdash;“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab.
+Sab. Sch. $11.41, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;“A
+Friend,” package <i>for Memphis, Tenn.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">452.34</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.58</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rome. John B. Jervis</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saratoga Springs. S. C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Troy. Mrs. E. C. S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Brook. T. S. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Winfield. L. Bucklen</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $101.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part)</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Phillipsburg. H. P. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $15.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $910.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Akron. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">81.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bellevue. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent, <i>for the poor in New
+Orleans</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">78.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneva. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntington. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kent. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lenox. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of
+Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Richland. E. J.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mary I. Hulburd, by
+Hiram Hulburd, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. L. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Penfield. B. R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by
+J. H. Packer</td>
+<td class="ramt">400.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend
+$2.50</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev.
+Josiah Strong</span> and <span class="smcap">L. H. Lewis</span>, L. M’s.</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First
+Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman
+$5</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;INDIANA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $21.67.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Liber. J. R. Wells</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sparta. John Hawkswell</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $945.82.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alton. “Church of the Redeemer”</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Aurora. New Eng. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">473.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25,
+<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>&mdash;Three Subscribers
+$1 ea.; Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany
+Cong. Ch. 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">29.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">83.64</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">143.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1;
+A. M. S. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U</i>.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson
+$2</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tonica. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $132.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Detroit. Individuals, by Mrs. R. Nutting
+$2.75; C. I. W. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. E. Ball and Mrs. Avery $10
+ea.; M. Wood $5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kalamo. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lansing. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk. U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Muskegon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stanton. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $145.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Big Springs. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Columbus. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.18</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fort Howard. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">La Crosse. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Box of C. and $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warren. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Salem. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">27.17</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $2,695.54.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cedar Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chester Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. $16.50;
+Prairie Gleaners $13.50; Mrs. D. B. D. $1,
+<i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Ladies Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">DeWitt. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Charles F. Dike, by Mrs.
+C. F. Dike, Exec’x.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2,500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby $4.&mdash;Hon. J. B.
+G., 50c., <i>for Mag.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">4.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampton. Mrs. W. P. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kellogg. Mrs. Dunn</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keokuk. “Signature”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Maquoketa. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.53</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">McGregor. Mrs. R. G. and Mrs. E. P. D</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Henry Hoover, <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const.
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Lucretia Deering</span>, L. M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waltham. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Miss Emeline E.
+Williams, by William Mason</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Woman’s Cent. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $47.45.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">23.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rushford. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tivoli. L. H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.40</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $66.32.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Blue Rapids. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eureka. Cong. Sab. Ch. Sch., <i>for Student Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. $3; Rev. A.
+M. R. $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Leavenworth. Mrs. S. A. Cutts</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Russell. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wabaunsee. “First Ch. of Christ”</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.85</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $31.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Schuyler. By Rev. A. Dresser</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, 51c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Mrs. N. N. T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $461.26.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rent $300; Church Coll.
+$10.26</td>
+<td class="ramt">310.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rev. Temple Cutler, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Maryville. Prof. P. M. B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">137.75</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $290.40.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Pub. Sch. Fund $150; Washington
+Sch. $8.20</td>
+<td class="ramt">158.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal School $121.75; Cong.
+Ch. $7.40</td>
+<td class="ramt">129.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbridge. Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.05</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SOUTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Institute</td>
+<td class="ramt">220.55</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA. $417.61.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta University</td>
+<td class="ramt">109.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. “A Friend” $58; Rev. S. S. Ashley
+$12, <i>for Student Aid.</i>&mdash;Prof. T. N.
+Chase $25</td>
+<td class="ramt">95.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">62.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Savannah. Rent $83.33; Tuition $67.58</td>
+<td class="ramt">150.91</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $388.09.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mobile. I. G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Fund</td>
+<td class="ramt">225.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Selma. Rev. Fletcher Clark, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">6.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talledega College</td>
+<td class="ramt">130.24</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $64.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jackson. Byron Lumley $10; J. Stadeker &amp;
+Son $5, <i>for Barracks, Tougaloo</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University</td>
+<td class="ramt">43.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. W. P. Dulaney, M. D., <i>for Barracks</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yazoo City. Hon W. D. Gibbs <i>for Barracks,
+Tougaloo</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;LOUISIANA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $137.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University</td>
+<td class="ramt">137.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, 50c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">San Antonia. G. W. W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;CANADA">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, 50c.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Camlachie. Rev. J. M. G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;ENGLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $900.95.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., <i>for Mendi
+Mission</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">900.95</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;SCOTLAND">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $200.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowell, <i>for a Teacher</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Receipts&mdash;TURKEY">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $10.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Van. Dr. Geo. C. Raynolds and wife</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">17,557.13</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th</td>
+<td class="ramt">$103,309.96</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;" >
+<span style="padding-right: 5%;">H. W. HUBBARD,</span><br />
+<i>Ass’t Treas.</i>
+</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Debt">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brewer, Me. M. Hardy</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland, Me. “A Member of State St. Ch.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester, N. H. C. B. Southworth</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston, Mass. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Claremont, Mass. A. P. Leavitt</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport, Mass. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodworth, Wis. Rev. Thomas Gillespie</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Meriden, Kansas. A Friend of Missions</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga, Tenn. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="ramt" colspan="2">716.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Previously acknowledged March receipts</td>
+<td class="ramt">8,921.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">$9,637.72</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" summary="Received for Austin, TX">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Glastonbury, Conn. J. B. and W. S. Williams</td>
+<td class="ramt">400.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Englewood, N. J, “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="ramt" colspan="2">402.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Previously acknowledged Feb. receipts</td>
+<td class="ramt">422.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">$824.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table></div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<p class="center large">Incorporated January 30, 1849.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American Missionary Association</span>.”</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and
+educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and
+other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of
+effort.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1">[A]</a> who professes faith in the Lord
+Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who
+contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of
+thirty dollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have not professed
+their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or
+November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business at such time
+and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members
+of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary
+societies, and other co-operating bodies&mdash;each body being entitled to one representative.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice Presidents, a Recording
+Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive
+Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory,
+and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of
+funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient
+reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the
+transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of
+missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
+jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of
+the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the
+complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
+shall be final.</p>
+
+<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among
+the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State
+Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
+officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society: to make provision,
+if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are
+deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general
+conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary
+spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.</p>
+
+<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries,
+and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will
+endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits
+of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings
+as slaves.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this
+Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled
+to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed
+upon.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the concurrence of
+two thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed
+amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee
+in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the
+regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>
+
+<h5>FOOTNOTE:</h5>
+
+<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1">[A]</a>
+By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
+belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
+Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
+of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
+of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
+obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
+the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
+wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2><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>&mdash;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, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; <i>Other Schools</i>, 7.
+Total, 26.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</span>&mdash;Among the Freedmen, 209;
+among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252.
+<span class="smcap">Students</span>&mdash;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&mdash;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&mdash;a pressing want.</p>
+
+<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below.</p>
+
+<table>
+  <tr><td class="smcap" style="padding-right: 20px;">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td> Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td> Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.</td></tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3>
+
+<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the
+Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the
+Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological
+Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
+not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.</p>
+
+<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary Association</span> in their last
+Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following:</p>
+
+
+<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3>
+
+<p>“I <span class="medium">BEQUEATH</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars in trust, to pay
+the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable,
+shall act as Treasurer of the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be
+applied under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
+charitable uses and purposes.”</p>
+
+<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required&mdash;in
+other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence
+[if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
+answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the
+said [A.B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of
+the said A.B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed
+our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is required that the Will should
+be made at least two months before the death of the testator.</p>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[191]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center"><b><span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROWN <span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROS. &amp; <span class="xxxlarge">C</span>O.</b></p>
+
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+
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+<p class="center">211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,</p>
+<p class="right">66 State St., Boston.</p>
+
+<p>Issue, against cash deposited, or satisfactory guarantee of repayment,</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Circular Credits for Travelers,</b></p>
+
+<p>In <span class="medium">DOLLARS</span> for use in the United States and adjacent
+countries, and in <span class="medium">POUNDS STERLING</span>, for use
+in any part of the world.</p>
+
+<p>These Credits, bearing the signature of the
+holder, afford a ready means of identification, and
+the amounts for which they are issued can be
+availed of from time to time, wherever he may be,
+in sums to meet the requirements of the Traveler.</p>
+
+<p>Application for Credits may be made to either of
+the above houses direct, or through any respectable
+bank or banker in the country.</p>
+
+<hr class="tenth" />
+
+<p><b>They also issue Commercial Credits,
+make Cable Transfers of Money between
+this Country and England, and draw Bills
+of Exchange on Great Britain and Ireland.</b></p>
+
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center"><b><span class="xlarge">W</span>arren <span class="xlarge">W</span>ard <span class="xlarge">&amp; C</span>o.</b></p>
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+
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+
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+<b>Suites</b> in Ash Walnut and Mahogany, from <b>$30</b>
+up; <b>Parlor Suites</b> in all varieties of covering,
+from <b>$50</b> up; <b>Enameled Suites,</b> a large variety
+in new styles, from <b>$17</b> up; <b>Library Furniture</b>
+of all kinds and styles; <b>Dining Room Extension</b>
+<b>Tables, Sideboards, Chairs, &amp;c.</b>, at Lowest
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+<b>Glasses;</b> also, <b>Superior Hair Mattresses,</b>
+<b>Pillows, Spring Beds, Curtains, Lambrequins,</b>
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+<b>Tables, Easels, Pedestals</b> and other fancy
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+
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+
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+are as low as any other manufacturers’ for the
+same quality of goods.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+  <p class="center"><b>Established A. D. 1850.</b></p>
+  <p class="large center">THE</p>
+  <p class="xxxlarge center">MANHATTAN</p>
+  <p class="large center"><b>Life Insurance Co.,</b></p>
+  <p class="center">156 Broadway, New York,</p>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="xxlarge">$7,400,000</td>
+    <td class="large center">DEATH<br />CLAIMS,</td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="large"><b>$4,900,000</b></td>
+    <td class="center"><b>Return Premiums to<br />Policy-Holders,</b></td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="center"><b>HAS A SURPLUS OF</b></p>
+  <table><tr>
+    <td class="large"><b>$1,700,000</b></td>
+    <td class="center">OVER<br />LIABILITIES,</td>
+  </tr></table>
+  <p class="medium center"><em>By New York Standard of Valuation</em>.</p>
+  <p class="center"><em>It gives the Best Insurance<br />on the Best Lives at the most<br />Favorable Rates.</em></p>
+  <p class="medium center">EXAMINE THE PLANS AND RATES OF THIS COMPANY.</p>
+  <table class="medium">
+    <tr><td class="large center">HENRY STOKES, <span class="smcap">President</span>,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>C. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Vice-President</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>J. L. HALSEY,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Secretary</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>S. N. STEBBINS,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Actuary</i>.</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>H. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td>H. B. STOKES,</td></tr>
+    <tr><td class="right"><i>Assistant-Secretaries</i>.</td></tr>
+  </table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement ">
+<p class="center xxxlarge"><b>E. D. Bassford’s</b></p>
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<p class="center xlarge"><b>Edward D. Bassford,</b></p>
+
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+
+<p class="center"><b><i>COOPER INSTITUTE</i></b>,</p>
+
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+</div>
+
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></span></p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
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+
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+  <tr>
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+  </tr>
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+cheapness, these Libraries <a name="Err_5" id="Err_5"></a>are well worth attention of City and Country Sunday
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
+<hr class="tenth" />
+
+<p class="center">A. S. B. &amp; Co., also publish</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+the Bliss Family, on steel. Price $2.</p>
+
+<p class="large">Lyman Abbott’s Commentary</p>
+
+<p class="medium">ON THE NEW TESTAMENT (Illustrated). Matthew
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+nearly ready.</p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[193]</a></span></p>
+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+Instruments, Unequaled Prices. Send for Catalogues.
+<span class="larger"><b>HORACE WATERS &amp; SONS,</b></span>
+<i>40 East 14th Street, New York</i>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+  <p class="large center">Young America Press Co.,</p>
+  <div>
+    <div class="float-right">
+      <img src="images/press.jpg" alt="Printing Press" />
+    </div>
+    <div class="half vtop">
+      <p class="medium vtop"><b>35 Murray St., New York,</b>
+manufacture a variety of hand, self-inking,
+and rotary printing presses,
+ranging in price from $2 to $150,
+including the <b>Centennial</b>,
+<b>Young America</b>, <b>Cottage</b>,
+<b>Lightning</b>, and other celebrated
+printing machines. Our new rotary
+press, the <b>United States Jobber</b>
+for cheapness and excellence, is
+unrivalled. Other presses taken in exchange.
+Lowest prices for type and
+printing material. Circulars free.
+Specimen Book of Type, 10 cts.
+A sample package of plain and
+fancy cards, 10 cts.
+      </p>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+<div class="figcenter figmargin" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/marvin.jpg" width="500" height="526" alt="Ad for Marvin's Safes and Scales" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[194]</a></span></p>
+
+<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;">
+  <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF</p>
+  <p class="center">THE</p>
+  <p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary,</p>
+  <p class="center">ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p>
+  <hr class="tiny" />
+  <p class="center xlarge">SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</p>
+<p>
+We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, giving
+news from the Institutions and Churches aided by
+the Association among the Freedmen in the South,
+the Indian tribes, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,
+and the Negroes in Western Africa. Price, <b>Fifty
+Cents a Year, in Advance</b>.
+</p>
+
+<p class="center xlarge">OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.</p>
+
+<p>No. 1.&mdash;<b>History</b> of the Association.</p>
+
+<p>No. 2.&mdash;<b>Africa</b>: Containing a History of the
+Mendi Mission, a Description of the Land and the
+People, and a presentation of their claims on
+America.</p>
+
+<p>No. 3.&mdash;<b>The Three Despised Races in the
+United States</b>; or, The Chinaman, the Indian,
+and the Freedman. An Address before the A. M. A.,
+by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.</p>
+
+<p>No. 4.&mdash;<b>The Educational Work.</b> Showing the
+nature and reality of the black man's needs; the
+way to help him; the sentiment of Southern men;
+the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the
+A. M. A.</p>
+
+<p><em>Will be sent free to any address, on application.</em></p>
+
+<p class="right">H. W. HUBBARD, Ass't-Treas., 56 Reade St., N. Y.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center xlarge">ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</p>
+
+<p>A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to
+Advertisements, for which our low rates and large
+circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our
+readers are among the best in the country, having
+an established character for integrity and thrift
+that constitute them valued customers in all
+departments of business.</p>
+
+<p>To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who
+are accustomed to the "<span class="medium">RULES</span>" of the best Newspapers,
+requiring "<span class="medium">DOUBLE RATES</span>" for these
+"<span class="medium">LUXURIES</span>," our wide pages, fine paper, and
+superior printing, with <b>no extra charge for
+cuts</b>, are advantages readily appreciated, and
+which add greatly to the appearance and effect of
+business announcements.</p>
+
+<p>We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this
+department, and solicit orders from all who have
+unexceptionable wares to advertise.</p>
+
+<p>Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span>
+of the month, in order to secure insertion in the
+following number. All communications in relation
+to advertising should be addressed to</p>
+
+<p class="right" style="padding-right: 2%;">J. H. DENISON, Adv'g Agent,</p>
+<p class="right">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="figcenter figmargin" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/kingsford.jpg" width="500" height="419" alt="Ad for Kingsford's Oswego Corn Starch" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div>
+<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2>
+
+<p>Punctuation, spelling and grammar were changed
+only where the error appears to be a printing error. The
+punctuation changes are too numerous to list; the others are as
+follows:</p>
+
+<p>&mdash; “a” changed to “and” on page 161. (<a href="#Err_1">English and Scotch missionaries</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; missing “is” inserted on page 166. (<a href="#Err_2">The discipline of these institutions is evidently giving</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; missing a added to change “Afric’s” to “Africa’s” on page 175.  (<a href="#Err_3">Africa’s sunny fountains</a>)</p>
+<p>&mdash; extraneous “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s Advertisement on page 191, just prior to “<a href="#Err_4">COOPER INSTITUTE</a>”.</p>
+<p>&mdash; “attenion” changed to “attention” on page 192. (<a href="#Err_5">are well worth attention of</a>)</p>
+</div>
+
+
+
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