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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 32, No. 8, August, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 22, 2016 [EBook #53340] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, AUGUST 1878 *** - - - - -Produced by KarenD, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXII. NO. 8. - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - AUGUST, 1878. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - OUR GRADUATES 225 - PARAGRAPHS 225, 226 - THE LAW OF RESTITUTION 226 - S. S. AND M. M. CONCERT 227 - ADDRESS AT THE BOSTON ANNIVERSARY 228 - ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS 230 - GENERAL NOTES: The Freedmen, Africa, The Indian 232, 233 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - VIRGINIA—Religious Interest at Hampton: Rev. - Richard Tolman 235 - - NORTH CAROLINA—Contrasts and Progress: Rev. - D. D. Dodge 235 - - SOUTH CAROLINA—Brewer Normal School: J. D. - Backenstose 237 - - GEORGIA—Atlanta University, by a Georgia - Editor.—Lewis High School at Macon: Miss - Annette Lynch.—A Bright Day in Athens: Mr. - John McIntosh.—The Religious Work in Georgia: - Rev. F. Markham 237-241 - - ALABAMA—Two Ordinations at Talladega: Rev. Geo. - E. Hill.—Closing Days of Emerson Institute: - Miss S. J. Irwin 242 - - MISSISSIPPI—The Year at Tougaloo University: - Rev. G. Stanley Pope 243 - - LOUISIANA: “Here am I: Send Me, Send Me.”—From - New Orleans to New York: Rev. W. S. Alexander 244 - - - AFRICA. - - THE MENDI MISSION—Converts Added to the New Church; - Death of Mrs. Dr. James: Rev. Floyd Snelson 246 - - - THE CHINESE. - - ITEMS AND INCIDENTS: Rev. W. C. Pond 247 - - - THE CHILDREN’S PAGE 249 - - - RECEIPTS 250 - - - CONSTITUTION 253 - - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 254 - - * * * * * - - - 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, - E. A. 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. AUGUST, 1878. No. 8. - - * * * * * - -_American Missionary Association._ - - * * * * * - - -OUR GRADUATES. - -The colleges of the land have just now been sending forth their -classes of graduates, equipped for further study and for new work. -The young men and women have passed their examinations and taken -their degrees and made their speeches in hundreds of academic -halls. Parents and patrons have gathered—these to see the gain and -growth of their children, and those to rejoice in the good which -their generous benefactions have accomplished. It is the harvest -time in the collegiate year; though the crops are not gathered into -garners, but scattered and sown at once for other growths. - -Our schools and colleges, too, have come to the end of another -year. Examination and commencement times come to all impartially -under the fifteenth amendment. We do not profess that the graduates -of our seven colleges go out equipped, for depth and breadth of -culture, on an equality with the sons of Yale or Harvard, but we do -believe that they are fitted, and fitted well, for the work that -is before them, and to be the leaders first of their own people. -We do know that the religious impression made upon them is more -general and more deep than in most Northern colleges, and that -the influences under which they work and study foster and develop -seriousness of purpose and that highest of all ambitions—the -ambition to be useful. And so, in this our humbler work, we rejoice -and take pride. - -Our Normal-school work is still the largest and perhaps the most -important that we have to do. And when we follow in imagination, -and occasionally by visitation, and frequently by communication, -the pupils of our schools out into the little hamlets and -cross-roads all over the Southern States, where they are teaching -the mysteries of the A, B, C, to the little children, and the -larger ones, who come from humblest homes, where the dark-skinned -father and mother look with wondering admiration at the child—their -child—who can tell “round O” from “crooked S,” we are filled with -the sense of the magnitude and importance of this work of laying -foundations on which are to be built the towers of intelligence -and virtue. And we pray devoutly that God may bless each one of -those who are going forth this year to teach the children of a long -neglected race. - - * * * * * - -We see that Stanley’s story of his journey, “_Through the Dark -Continent_,” is published by Sampson, Low & Co., London. We have -not yet examined it, but are sure that it will be of great interest -and instructiveness even to those who have read his vivid letters -in the _Herald_ from time to time. - - * * * * * - -It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mrs. Dr. JAMES -of the Mendi Mission, of which the tidings is given in another -column. The other members of the mission are all well, and the work -progresses both materially and spiritually; and the brave band who -went back to carry the light of life to the dark land of their -fathers, have not lost heart or hope because one of their number -has gone up higher. - - * * * * * - -We made a very full and frank statement three months ago in regard -to our finances. We recognized the fact that the receipts up to -that time had been better than for the corresponding months of -the previous year. It gave us peculiar pleasure to make that -statement. And now, having spoken so, we wish to be heard on the -other side. For it is equally true now, that the receipts have -been diminishing, and for two months have been less than in the -same months of the previous year. Friends, do not leave us in the -lurch now, or spoil in the last two months of our fiscal year the -improving record of the first ten. Our needs as your agents are -very far beyond the means you furnish us. - - * * * * * - - -THE LAW OF RESTITUTION. - -The law of restitution is one which the religion of the Old -Testament enforces, and which the New Testament does not relax. It -applies, as all laws do, most pressingly to individuals, but it -reaches out, as all laws do, to nations and to races. - -We have wronged the Negro, the Indian and the Chinaman—all -three—and they therefore call on us, on our American nation, and -on our English-speaking people, for redress, and for all that we -can do to atone for past neglect—not only for past neglect, but -injustice. Need I recite? - -It was in 1620 that the first slave ship landed her human freight -upon the shores of Virginia, and, from that time for more than two -centuries the deadly traffic was continued, and men, women and -children were bought and sold like animals. We need not say, “But -this was a Southern crime; we and our fathers were not guilty.” -For two-thirds of that time, the whole nation were alike in it. -Northern ships and Northern capital carried on the importation -later than that. Our Northern fathers gave it up largely, it is -true, as it is charged, because what was for the time profitable -in South Carolina and in Georgia, did not pay in Massachusetts and -Vermont. It was not until 1825 that the slaves were set free in -the State of New Jersey. We do not propose to depict the evils and -the sins of slavery. Thank God, they are in the past, save as the -consequences are upon us still. - -I grant that good may have been done; that, in the end, it may be -shown that elevation and enlightenment have followed from even this -contact with a superior civilization and religion. God causes the -wrath of man to praise Him; and even the sinful and the selfish -acts of men are made the servants of His will. But that is hardly -to be put to the credit of the thus indirect instruments of good. -Rather, by what this good lacks of that which Christian motive and -effort might have accomplished, we are guilty before God. - -The horrors enacted and still enacting on the dark continent of -Africa—for the slave trade still continues—the enforced ignorance -and enforced vice of two centuries and a half, the engrafting of -the vices of civilization upon those of heathendom, are the charges -which this nation has to meet before the bar of God. It is a debt -which never can be paid. Is there no claim on us from the American -Negro? - -How is it with the Indian? The original occupants of the territory -now covered by these United States, and its possessors, as much as -wandering hunters can be the owners of the soil, our fathers found -them. What have they gained from us? The greed of the white man has -pursued them from that day to this. From place to place they have -been driven. Bargains have been broken and treaties violated, in -almost every instance, first by the white man. The true history of -almost every Indian war (so called) has been begun by the violence -or provoked by the faithlessness of the white man. It was true -of the Modoc, the Sitting Bull and the Nez Percès wars, and that -evidently. - -What have we given the red man? Whisky and powder; the vices of -civilization, and the means of war. A few missionaries have been -among them, devoting themselves, with heroic self-denial, to the -work of educating and elevating them, and, wherever the tribes -among which they have labored have been far enough away to escape -the too frequent trader and the settler, they have been teachable, -have come to occupy farms, and learned to labor and to pray. - -Perhaps the halting and uncertain policy of the government has been -its worst crime toward them for these last thirty years. And now, -even under the peace policy, which has done very much for them, -their disabilities are of the greatest. - -How can you expect to rouse ambitions for industry and intelligence -among men who are not allowed to hold a title to the farms they -have cleared, or the houses they have built, and who may be -ordered, at the will of the government (which is often only the -will of envious neighbors), to a new Reservation? How can you -expect to Christianize a man, whose wrongs are unavenged, and who -is hunted by an army if he avenges them himself? And yet, of the -less than 300,000 Indians, over 40,000 can read, 12,000 attended -school last year, 27,000 are church members. The government spent -about one dollar a head in their education last year. It has cost, -for forty years, about forty dollars a head—$12,000,000 annually—to -fight them. Do we owe them anything? - -And the Chinaman? He is not a very large factor yet in our -population. He owes the opium habit in some degree, at least, to -the exigencies of English commerce. His account with this country -has not been running very long yet. But it will be all we can -do, if we do our utmost to Christianize him, to keep the account -current balanced. - -He is met on the Pacific Coast (where his industry has already been -of great value) with the cry, “Away with him back to China!” It has -just been decided that he, being neither white nor black, cannot -become a citizen in California. - -A few Christian men and women have opened schools to teach John -the English alphabet; the New Testament has been his reading book. -Already some 300 are converted men, and members of the churches, -and have formed Christian associations, in which they live in -Christian ways. - -And the question is: Shall we run in debt to the Chinaman, as we -have to the Negro and the Indian? Would it not be well to keep in -mind the Scripture saying now—“Owe no man anything, but to love one -another”? - -If wrongs emphasize claims, surely the three races of men in our -own land have a most convincing claim upon the people of the United -States. Who will respond to it, if the Christian people fail to -hear and heed it? - - * * * * * - - -S. S. AND M. M. CONCERT. - -REV. J. W. CHICKERING, D. D., BOSTON, MASS. - -These numerous initials form the shortest mode of designating an -interesting, if not unique, meeting I had the pleasure of attending -yesterday, in the Congregational Church at Amesbury, Mass., Rev. -Pliny S. Boyd, pastor. - -They stand for “Sabbath-school and Missionary Monthly Concert”; -the plan being to let the scholars do the reporting and the -singing, with prayers from several teachers, and remarks from the -superintendent, pastor and a visiting brother. - -The triple work of the American Missionary Association was -assigned for this occasion; and it was encouraging for the future -of benevolent effort in the church, to see how promptly class after -class repeated the answers allotted them. - -Each will probably remember through life his or her part in the -programme; and, from the whole, a very clear outline was furnished -to the assembly of the numbers, needs, and capabilities of the -Indians, Mongolians and Negroes within our borders. - -I was happy to be able to confirm and illustrate some of those -statements, and to urge upon that intelligent church, and the -flourishing Sabbath-school, from which seventy were received into -communion last year, the pressing, may we not say paramount? -importance of that department of missionary effort. - -If the “four millions” are suffered to live in vice and ignorance, -and the superstition which is already seeking to overshadow them -like the old fetichism of their ancestors, the American Church—yes, -the nation—will find too late what a mistake they have made. - -Ten thousand such “Monthly Concerts” as this would go far in the -direction of instructing the children and awaking their parents, -respecting one of the great duties of the hour. Why not let it be -tried? - - * * * * * - - -ADDRESS AT THE BOSTON ANNIVERSARY. - -BY REV. GEORGE R. MERRILL, BIDDEFORD, ME. - -I am to suggest three considerations which give _permanent_ -importance to our work among the despised races. The evangelization -of six millions of people, one-seventh of our entire population, -cannot be safely left to the enthusiasm aroused by special pleas, -but must be grounded in such truth as shall make its prosecution a -Christian and patriotic duty of supreme and abiding urgency. - - -I.—The Test of our Christianity. - -If you please, let us call upon this platform four representative -men. The first shall be of Anglo-Saxon lineage, the inheritor -by birth of our ripe Christian civilization, and bearing upon -him the marks of our characteristic civilized vices,—a man self -sufficient, profane, intemperate and dishonest. Next him place an -Indian, in all the brutality, sottishness and despair to which -our guardianship of two centuries has brought him. The next is -a Freedman, touched with his ancient race-superstitions, and -possessed by the usual vices of a subject people. Last in the group -set a Chinaman, just from the Joss House and the opium den. - -Now, do you, who represent the Christianity of the nineteenth -century, stand before them with the gospel in your hands. Man of -God, look upon these slaves of sin! Nations and languages, look on -this man of God! and do you tell us what Christianity can do for -these. What can it do for this white man? Triumphantly, you answer, -“It can save him; can break down his self-sufficiency and pride, -redeem him from his cups, make him an honest man, and, if he have -committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” What can it do for the -Indian? “It can save him; make him sober and industrious, a servant -of God.” What for this Negro? “It can save him, lift him out of his -race-corruptions, and save him to God and man.” And what for this -Chinaman? “The same. It can make him a man, reverent and devout -to God, and useful to his fellows. The gospel is the power of God -unto salvation to Mongol, Negro and Caucasian, and no barriers of -race avail to hinder it.” Is this all? Has your gospel nothing more -that it can do for this company? Then is it not the true and full -gospel! That full gospel at the first gained wondrous victories. -The proud pharisee and the despised publican, they of Cæsar’s -household and the bond-slave—Jew and Gentile alike—came under its -power. The Christianity of that day, the full gospel, not only -saved them as individuals, made each one an heir of eternal life, -but also fused and bound them into a true brotherhood. - -The Christianity of the nineteenth century is on trial as to -whether it can do this. Its power to redeem the individual has been -grandly illustrated before our eyes, and now the other question -comes forward. Its answer will have many forms indeed. One of them -is the attitude that Christian capital and Christian labor take -to each other. But its marked test, the most illustrious triumph -or conspicuous failure, is to be here among the despised races, -whose representatives are before us. God has reserved for American -Christianity this grand opportunity to show the world, that after -eighteen centuries the gospel is shorn of none of its honor—that -under its inspirations we are able to bind these despised races, -regenerated and lifted up, into a true fellowship with ourselves. -The American Missionary Association is your representative and -servant to this end, and worthy such support as the gospel itself -should receive. - - -II.—The Test of our National Life. - -Mr. Matthew Arnold, in a recent essay, uses these words: “When we -talk of man’s advance towards his full humanity, we think of an -advance not along one line only, but several. The Hebrew race was -pre-eminent on one great line. The Hellenic race was pre-eminent on -another line.” - -Taking for truth the conception involved in these words, but with -a Christian interpretation, it follows that a true Christian -patriotism will not have respect to the permanence of party or the -development of resources; these are means to its nobler ends. - -It will see in all history the developing thought of God, and in -its own history a particular increment of that thought. - -These eighteen centuries, and those that are to follow, are the -development of Christianity, and that development covers three -zones, which circle and complete the globe—God’s relation to man, -man’s relation to God, and man’s relation to man. During the five -centuries nearest Christ, about the centres of Alexandria and -Constantinople, influences rose and were moulded whose resultant -was that view of God in his relation to man which is the common -property of Christendom. For eleven centuries following, Divine -Providence was shaping especially under the impulse of the -Reformation, the confession of the scriptural relation of man to -God. Then, with the seventeenth century, history passed into the -third zone, in which is to be illustrated the Divine idea of man’s -relation to man, which is, that the race is an organic brotherhood, -because having one father, God, and one elder brother, Jesus Christ. - -From the first planting at Plymouth, God has been shaping our -national experiences to draw the confession from us. Little by -little the problem has grown upon us, as we were able to meet it. -Two centuries and more were required to illustrate, through us, how -the sublime socialism of the New Testament, could blend together -in one brotherhood, representatives of all the white and dominant -races of the world. And it is done, though not perfectly, indeed. -English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dane, German and Russ—all over our -land—are companies of them cemented into the equal brotherhood -of a Christian Church and a Christian State. And now the deeper -conditions of the problem are upon us. Within our borders are three -races, neither white nor dominant. They are men; the Saviour died -for them; the Holy Spirit calls them, one by one, into membership -in the kingdom of God; they are our brothers by New Testament law. -We are to make them organically one with us in a Christian state. -Here, in the despised races, is the _test of our national life_. - -The American Missionary Association appeals to you, not only as -Christian men in the name of the Christianity that is on trial -as to its social power, but as American men in the name of God’s -thought for the land, which it is working out as to the Negro, the -Chinaman and the Indian. It says, “One is our Master, even Christ, -and all we are brethren.” - -In the jail record of one of our cities, there are these entries -after a convict’s name: “Occupation, _Statesman_; Religion, -_None_.” Is it not a reproach to our Christianity, waiting for its -grandest testimony; to our Christian patriotism, on which is laid -the thought of God for the land, that in these years we have been -so content to leave the care of the despised races, these “wards -of the Almighty,” the elect for His noblest purpose, to those -whose fit record is: “Occupation, _Statesmen_; Religion, _None_”! -Two hundred and fifty years have been given us with the Indian to -carry out “the great hope and inward zeal” of our fathers, a score -of years almost with the Freedman and Chinaman. How long can we -expect the Divine patience to delay ere it shall take away our -opportunity, and give it to a nation bringing forth the fruits of -righteousness? - - -III.—The Example of Christ. - -There were despised classes among the Jews eighteen hundred years -ago—publicans and sinners, from whom their betters withheld -even the touch of their garments. But our Master, Jesus Christ, -consorted with these, until they called Him, “the friend of -publicans and sinners.” The Samaritans were a race despised of the -Jews, yet to one of them our Lord made the earliest and clearest -declaration of His Messiahship. Nay, at the outset of His mission, -passing by the needy cities of Judah, He, our Lord, went to preach -His gospel among the despised and dispersed who dwelt on the border -of Zebulon and Napthalin, where “darkness covered the land and -gross darkness the people.” - -The appeal that is made for the American Missionary Association, in -the name of the witness to the gospel, and in the name of Christian -patriotism, gains its height when it is made in the name of Christ. - -Every argument by which this work appeals to us to-day, is a -prophecy of its success in our hands. Work among the despised -races, work that sets the seal of power on the Christianity of our -time, work that is to realize God’s thought for the land, work so -Christly cannot fail! - -The American Missionary Association, to which this work is -committed of God and the churches, needs but one thing of you. That -is, money? No! It is but needed that there should be such incomes -of the Holy Ghost into Christian hearts as shall lift up church -membership from membership in a religious club to its true dignity -of citizenship in the kingdom of God; such incomes of the Spirit as -shall fill the heart of each citizen with the grand thought of the -kingdom—brotherhood. Then, consecrated purses will be opened, and -gold and silver, and greenbacks and bonds, will flow into the full -treasury of the Lord. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. - -MCLEANSVILLE, N. C.—Five persons joined the church the last Sunday -in June. Eighty-three communicants were present, all but three -members of this church. - -DUDLEY, N. C.—Seventeen united with the church, Rev. D. Peebles, -pastor, June 16. This church numbers over eighty members. Mr. -George S. Smith, of Raleigh, and Miss Carrie Waugh, of Woodbridge, -assisted in revival work. - -ORANGEBURG, S. C.—A deep religious interest is reported in -this church. The school was closed June 18th, with appropriate -exercises, and in the presence of a crowded audience. - -ATLANTA, GA.—On the third Sabbath in June six young people united -with the college church upon profession, and as many more will -probably unite during the vacation with churches at their homes. -It has been a good year in the religious culture of the school, -and a great gain is manifest in the earnestness and steadiness of -Christian character attained. The Sabbath-school at this church -found itself last Sabbath with _eleven_ less teachers than the week -before; the reason being that nearly that number of young people -had gone into the country to teach summer schools for three months. -The fact suggests one of the sources of influence such a church -has, as well as one of the difficulties of carrying it on. - -—Mr. S. P. Smith, of Chicago Seminary, has taken up the work -with the First Church, during Mr. Ashley’s vacation, under very -favorable auspices. The people are united and hopeful. - -GOLDING’S GROVE, GA.—School closed June 20th. - -CUTHBERT, GA.—The school at this place, re-opened two years ago, -reports a good year’s work. Over a hundred pupils have been in -attendance, some of them adults and elders and deacons of churches. -A reading-room has been kept up. A large attendance witnessed the -examinations and closing exercises. Mr. R. R. Wright, from Atlanta, -is the teacher. - -WOODVILLE, GA.—“Little Aubor (one of our school girls) is very -ill. During the late revival she had made up her mind to become -a Christian, but her father was a stumbling-block in her way. He -gave her a severe whipping, and kept her away from the protracted -meetings. Shortly afterward she was taken ill, and said to him, -‘Oh, father, I wanted to give my heart to Christ, but you have -kept me away.’ Yesterday, when I asked her if she was praying, she -answered in a whisper, ‘I am praying, I am praying, I am praying.’” - -ANNISTON, ALA.—Rev. Peter J. McIntosh was ordained pastor of this -church June 18th. Sermon by Rev. D. L. Hickok, of Talladega. -The proprietor of the hotel showed his good-will by giving free -entertainment to all the white visitors. The indications for -spiritual prosperity are encouraging. - -CHILDERSBURG, ALA.—Rev. Alfred Jones was ordained June 20th. The -church building has just been plastered. A series of special -services are in contemplation. Congregations average from fifty-six -to eighty. - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—The following indicates the vacation work of some -of the students for the next three months: J. D. Smith goes to -preach at Savannah, Ga.; H. S. Williams to Montgomery; Andrew -Headen to Selma, to begin work at once; J. B. Sims to Marietta, -Ga., to begin the last Sunday in June. P. W. Young has charge -of the church at Kingston; John Strong, of the Lawson Church, -organized last summer; Barbour Grant of the Cove Church; Thornton -Benson of the church at Alabama Furnace. They receive from $20 to -$25 a month. Peter J. McIntosh was ordained pastor of the church at -Anniston, and Alfred Jones at Childersburg, and are referred to in -Rev. Mr. Hill’s letter. - -MOBILE, ALA.—Emerson Institute finds its new building admirably -adapted to its uses; has received evidences of increasing favor -with the white citizens of Mobile; is under great obligations to -Dr. Morrell for placing his professional skill as a physician at -the disposal of the teachers, and refusing all compensation. Its -teachers are doing good service in the various Sunday-schools of -the city. - -MEMPHIS, TENN.—A permanent library, to which the colored people -may have free access, has been begun by the faculty of Le Moyne -Normal School. Some hundreds of books have been secured, and during -the coming summer vacation a commodious reading-room is to be -fitted up. More volumes will be added from time to time, as means -are secured, and it is confidently expected that the near future -will see this excellent project firmly established, and doing the -work for which it is designed. During the closing week at the -school the junior-class gave an exhibition, the proceeds of which -are to be used for the library. Donations of books are solicited. - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -The Freedmen. - -—The _Congregationalist_ says, in its report of the examination -of the students of Andover Theological Seminary: “One of the -best recitations made in Greek was by a young man from Atlanta -University, a suggestive item for the churches interested in that -institution.” - -—The Presbyterian General Assembly has transferred its eighty -colored churches from the Board of Home Missions back to the -Committee on Freedmen. The committee, having somewhat enlarged its -educational work, appeals to the Presbyterian churches for more -liberal and more general contributions. - -—The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly reported as contributed -for the evangelization of the colored people, during the last year, -$416.75, to which the Reformed (Dutch) Church added $359.25. - -—The _Christian at Work_ describes a colored church, south, of -which it says: “It was an aristocratic institution, as it seemed, -and a failure. The preacher read his sermon, the singing was -operatic, and the whole thing a ludicrous burlesque. White people -go to an unhealthy extreme, often, in suppressing emotion, but for -the colored folks to imitate this folly is death outright.” - -—The same correspondent says of a missionary to the freedmen, whom -he chanced to meet: “I said to him, as we were taking our leave, -‘It takes a good deal of grit and grace to stand the pressure here, -don’t it?’ ‘One can get _very near the Lord here_,’ he replied; -‘indeed, he has to get very near Him to do any good.’” - -—A Louisiana correspondent sums up a letter to the -_Congregationalist_ thus: “In spite of all drawbacks, the tendency -of the colored churches in Louisiana is upward. The Sunday-schools -are well attended, and properly taught. The church members are -orderly and industrious citizens, respected in the communities -in which they live, and ready and willing to contribute, to the -full extent of their means, for any Christian purposes. Take -them altogether, the progress of the colored churches has been -sufficiently rapid to gratify any one who prays that the beams -of the Sun of Righteousness may illumine the dark corners of the -earth.” - -—“There is no teacher so wholesome as personal necessity. In South -Carolina a few men and many women cling absolutely to the past, -learning nothing, forgetting nothing. But the bulk of thinking men -see that the old Southern society is as absolutely annihilated -as the feudal system, and that there is no other form of society -now possible except such as prevails at the North and West. The -dream of re-enslaving the negro, if it ever existed, is like the -negro’s dream, if he ever had it, of five acres and a mule from -the government. Both races have long since come down to the stern -reality of self-support. No sane Southerner would now take back as -slaves, were they offered, a race of men who have been for a dozen -years freemen and voters.”—_Col. Higginson in the Atlantic._ - - * * * * * - - -Africa. - -—The barque _Azor_, which sailed April 21st for Africa, arrived -at Sierra Leone, May 19th. There were several cases of measles -before the sailing, and this malady spread rapidly. The ship fever, -which came from overcrowding, was worse, however, and increased -by scantiness of water and lack of proper medical attendance. -Twenty-three of the emigrants died on the way. The barque was towed -to Monrovia by an English steamer. - -—A despatch to the _Herald_ represents the emigrants as being -almost destitute of money, some of them holding notes of the Exodus -Association, which is said to be unable to meet its obligations. - -—Another ship load of freedmen are waiting at Charleston to take -passage as soon as the _Azor_ returns. She is probably on her way -before this date. - -—It is a gratifying fact to the friends of the American -Colonization Society that in sending over 160 expeditions to -Liberia, no serious casualty has happened either to vessel or -emigrants. Special care has been taken to make their passage -safe and comfortable, and kind Providence has given prosperity. -The last expedition of the society left New York, June 19, with -sixty-nine emigrants on board the barque _Liberia_ from Virginia, -North Carolina and Florida. When four days out, in a heavy fog, she -collided with an Austrian vessel, and, losing her bowsprit, put -back for repairs. She left again, Monday, July 1st. - -—France has just appropriated 100,000 francs for a scientific -expedition to Central Africa, under M. L’Abbé Debaize. He is a -young man of thirty-three, of fine education and attainments, -familiar with Arabic, Coptic and some East African languages; and -having passed special courses in divinity, astronomy and natural -history, much is anticipated from his investigations. He sailed -from Marseilles about two months ago, and is now probably at -Zanzibar, fitting out for the proposed journey across Equatorial -Africa. - - * * * * * - - -The Indian. - -We reprint the following from the N. Y. _Tribune_, as giving the -best and most consecutive account of the reported outbreaks among -the Indians of Oregon, Washington Territory and Idaho, which we -have been able to find. It ascribes the origin of the difficulty to -the lack and scantiness of appropriations for the Indian Service. -We do not vouch for the exactness of the report. It accords with -the dispatches received from day to day: - -The last report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs shows that -the savage tribes of Idaho and Eastern Oregon, which are taking -part, more or less, in the present war, number about 7,400 souls. -They are capable of sending into the field 2,500 warriors; and -the telegraph dispatches, printed above, indicate that about that -number of savages have already joined the two great war parties -which are menacing the settlements of that region, and with which a -heavy battle may be fought any day now by the troops under command -of General Howard. The census of the tribes is as follows: - -Fort Hall Agency Bannocks, Shoshones 1,507 -Lemhi Agency Sheepeaters, Bannocks, Shoshones 940 -Idaho Indians, not under an agent Pend d’Oreilles, Kootenais 600 -Grande Ronde Agency 819 -Malhewr Agency Piutes, Snakes 759 -Umatilla Agency Walla-Wallas, Cayuses, Umatillas 849 -Roving Indians on the Columbia, renegades, etc. 2,000 - -The Indians at these agencies have been kept in a state of -constant agitation for more than a year by the singular delay -of Congress in making appropriations for the Indian service, -and by the scantiness of the appropriations when made. For the -Malhewr Agency in Oregon, the Indians of which have gone to war, -the appropriation was $50,000 in 1873, and $40,000 for the two -successive years; but in 1876 it was reduced to $25,000, and in -1877 to $20,000. The agent begged that if Congress intended to -persist in this course it would build a saw and grist-mill for the -Indians, but it was not done. At the Fort Hall and Lemhi Agency in -Idaho, where the present uprising began, the Indians were nearly -starved by the government. About 500 had to leave Fort Hall to -hunt up a subsistence for themselves; and last May the agent at -Lemhi was studying how to remove the band to a new location, to -protect it from the government. The outbreak on the part of the Nez -Percès, a year ago, did not affect these Indians at the time. They -all remained quiet and loyal, but they have had their own troubles -since, and have grown impatient at the failure of the government to -feed them. - -The present outbreak began the latter part of May, when Buffalo -Horn, a noted scout, took out 200 Bannocks, and camped in the lava -beds between Big Camas Prairie and Snake River, in the southern -part of Idaho. The news of this rising spread over Idaho and -Eastern Oregon very quickly, and, in a fortnight’s time, all the -Indians of that region were in a state of excitement, and began -raiding the valleys and driving off and killing stock by the -hundred head. The United States troops in that region consisted -of a few companies of cavalry and infantry, scattered about the -two territories at the military posts. This was an insufficient -protection, and the citizens of Boise City, in Idaho, Walla-Walla, -in Oregon, Camp Harney and elsewhere, formed themselves into -volunteer companies for active operations. About June 1, Colonel -Bernard, with seventy cavalry and twenty citizens, started on a -forced march to Big Camas Prairie. The Indians did not await them -there, but began moving westward along Idaho River in straggling -bands, dining off the stock and killing occasional settlers on the -march. Howard sent orders at once to Bernard to return, which he -did, pursuing the Bannocks into the Owyhee country in the southeast -corner of Oregon. One incident of this movement on the part of -the Indians was a fight between seventeen citizens and about 100 -Indians, about June 6, in which two volunteers and eight Indians -were killed. - -A concentration of Indians took place in Southeastern Oregon, and, -on June 23, Bernard came upon a camp of them 1,500 strong. He had -only 200 men, but he surprised the camp, routed it and chased -the band for ten miles. A large number of Indians were killed. -Bernard lost four killed and three wounded. The savages retreated -to Stein’s Mountain. General Howard arrived on the field after the -fight, with Miles and Downey, having marched forty-five miles a day -to catch up with Bernard. From Stein’s Mountain the Indians moved -northward toward Camp Harney and Canyon City. They attacked neither -place, but concentrated on John Day River, where they are in camp, -1,500 strong, according to the dispatches printed above. - -The other band of hostile Indians is on what is called Camas -Prairie, north of the Salmon river, in Central Idaho, the scene -of the outbreak by Joseph’s band of Nez Percès last year. The -dispatches just received state that this party is composed chiefly -of Snakes, and is about 1,000 strong. - -The Klamaths at the agency in Southwestern Oregon began to commit -depredations about June 25. The band then numbered about 800. - -—Some of those most intelligent in Indian affairs believe that -a general Indian war is an impossibility, unless the General -Government shall adopt some strangely unwise and hostile -policy. Even then the various tribes would not unite, but fight -independently, so much stronger are their mutual antipathies and -feuds than their hatred of the whites. - -—The transfer of the Indians to the War Department has not been -accomplished. The whole matter has been referred to a joint -committee, consisting of three members of the Senate and five -members of the House, to investigate and report next January upon -the expediency of such a transfer. - -—The _Advance_ says: “If the report shall be in its favor, the -transfer will be because the religious press and the friends of the -peace policy neglect their duty. It is stated that a majority of -the House branch of the Commission is opposed to the change.” - -—The _Christian Union_ offers this suggestion: “The various -missionary bodies ought now to confer with each other, agree, if -possible, on the policy to be pursued toward the Indians, and then -send to Washington a delegation of the ablest men of the respective -denominations to urge its adoption. The fact that Secretary Schurz -is out of favor with Congress, is a poor reason for shifting the -Indians from his department, and we have yet to see any better -one assigned. The simple question is: How can the Indian tribes -be most easily civilized and Christianized, and so brought into -assimilation with Americans? And that is a question on which the -churches of America ought to have something to say.” - -—The _Independent_ gives its testimony thus: “It is entirely clear -to our minds that the peace policy adopted in 1869, for which -great credit is due to General Grant, and which, not without some -imperfections, has been pursued ever since, is the best that ever -was adopted in this country, and in its principles and purpose the -only one that ever should be adopted. The statistics show that the -condition of the Indians, in all the elements that go to make up -the idea of civilization, has immensely improved within the last -ten years, under the benign influence of this policy. Our idea -on this subject is, that it is best to let well enough alone, -especially since we cannot make it better. Let us do right by the -Indian for the present, observing our treaties with him, dealing -justly by him, and fighting him only when compelled to do so by -a stern necessity, and then trust the providence of God for the -future.” - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - * * * * * - - -VIRGINIA. - -Religious Interest at Hampton—Missionary Zeal. - -REV. RICHARD TOLMAN, HAMPTON. - -Six of our students united with the church by profession June 9th, -the last Sabbath of the school-year, making twenty-seven who have -joined us since November 1st, besides those who have connected -themselves with other churches. After Commencement, May 23d, two -more of the graduating-class came out on “the Lord’s side,” so that -all but four of the boarding-pupils of that class are hopefully -Christian; and one of these four seems now “not far from the -kingdom of God.” - -An interesting example of what Christian faith and perseverance -may accomplish, is that of a colored brother connected with our -printing-office. About a year since, he proposed starting a -Sabbath-school in a destitute neighborhood, but was told that it -would be of no use. He determined to try. Beginning with three -pupils, the number has constantly increased, until now he has a -school of more than eighty deeply-interested members. We need many -such laborers in these harvest-fields. - - -NORTH CAROLINA. - -The Church—Contrasts and Progress—Two Prayers. - -REV. D. D. DODGE, WILMINGTON. - -Our church-work is distinct from the school, the latter being -not in any sense sectarian. We think we see marked improvement -in the character of those who have been longest members of the -church. They seem to hunger for truth for the purpose of living -it, and their progress is, of course, steady and rapid. We are -often thrilled by the rich experience as manifested by unconscious -expressions in the prayer-meetings. We have received six new -members during the year: - -It may be well to hear what impression is made upon a new comer, so -I quote from one of our teachers who has been with us only a year. - -“To hear of the degradation of the colored people of the South is -to know but little of it, for ‘the half can ne’er be told.’ It is -humiliating to think that in our own beloved land there exists so -much of barbarism and heathenish superstition. This is realized by -looking at the homes and home-life of the poor people, but much -more by noticing their form of religion. - -“I had visited lowly cots and abodes of poverty, seeming devoid of -even the bare necessaries of life. Sometimes, in one small house -several families huddled together, the little ones swarming in -the yard like bees from the hive on a sunny day. I had seen poor -sewing women trying to earn a bare subsistence—trying to keep by -that little weapon, the needle, the wolf from the door. And I had -thought what must life be worth to such suffering ones? And yet the -degradation of this poor people never came to me with such force as -when, for the first time, I entered a colored church, and witnessed -scenes such as I had heard of, but never could realize without -_seeing_. - -“The meeting was in progress when we entered, many talking or -standing ready for a chance to be heard, others jumping and -clapping their hands. One man, who gesticulated fiercely and -screamed hoarsely, exhorted the brethren and sisters to ‘look out -for the devil—he’s after yer—he’ll run yer inter the briers, but -yer mus’ put on yer shoes—he’ll knock yer down, but yer mus’ get -up an’ run, an’ put on yer shoes.’ Finally, in his frenzy, we -could distinguish nothing except, in broken utterances, ‘put on -yer shoes! put on yer shoes! put on yer shoes!’ amid the shouts of -laughter and cheers which urged him on, coming chiefly from the -female portion of the audience. He at length sat down exhausted, -when a woman rose in mid-air, with a wild scream, coming down -head-foremost, while all around were others shouting or jumping up -and down. This, with variations, continued amidst quavering, weird -music, the big cape bonnets bobbing to and fro, keeping time. At -length the minister, who seemed to prefer order, wished to close -the meeting, when immediately the people began to disperse, he -calling to them to keep their places until after the benediction -should be given, but they paid no heed. Whereupon he proceeded -to lecture them on this wise: ‘If I were at one of your houses -and should take my hat and leave without saying good day, you -would think it was a piece of very ill politeness,’—and more to -the same effect; but the tide not being stayed, he called upon -a fine-looking young man to pronounce the benediction, which he -did with such an air of ease and grace as contrasted strangely -with all the surroundings, and I turned away in silent wonder at -him, as being one of such a crowd. I never felt so truly thankful -for a better way that is opened to them, and that even a few are -struggling to elevate themselves,—are found sitting ‘clothed and in -their right mind,’ learning truth. - -“For there _is_ a brighter side, and it is only by keeping in -mind the motto, ‘_look_ on the _bright_ side’ that there is -encouragement to make continued efforts for the uplifting of those -who do not wish it for themselves. That there are noble exceptions -we are glad and thankful. The little church planted here, as a -branch from the true vine, though in number small, is noble in its -strength of purpose, and the willingness of heart found in each -member. So eager to learn, so thankful to be taught, it has been a -pleasure to teach them as they have come to our night-school.” - -At the closing session of our Sabbath-school, five young men -made short addresses. Their words were hearty and stirring, and -expressed a deep satisfaction with what they had gained in the -school, as they looked back over the time they had attended, one -of them adding modestly, “Not that I would have you think that I -have learned so _much_ of the Bible, for I don’t know anything of -any great account.” Ah! but what he has learned he has practiced -so faithfully that he is a shining light to all who know him, and -his words are eloquent with the power behind them of a consistent -life. All of these young men are a power for good in the city. Two -others, members of the church, are not in town, but we believe they -are living true lives elsewhere. - -I close by giving you the quaint words of two prayers, offered -when the family was away, and jotted down by the one teacher who -was left in charge. The excellent spirit shines through the strange -clothing: - -“O, Lord! please make us wise enough to see sin before we get to -it, that we may shun it; and won’t you please cause people to fall -out wi’ their ways and accept your ways.” - -For the teachers gone North: - -“Bless those who is absent; be with ’em and keep an eye on ’em, and -bless ’em week in and week out; bless those who is afflicted and -isn’t feeling well; help ’em to get out of the state which they is -in; prop ’em up in strength and also in grace, and prepare ’em for -the work they is calkerlated for. Teach us Thy way, and make us -more wiser in reading Thy word. Help us to grow more steadfaster, -more loviner, more sincerer, and more wiser.” - - * * * * * - - -SOUTH CAROLINA. - -Brewer Normal School—The Year’s Work. - -J.D. BACKENSTOSE, GREENWOOD. - -This institution has just closed the best year of its history, and -looks out upon the year to come more hopefully than ever before. -The examinations on Tuesday and Wednesday were close, and eminently -satisfactory to all present, and there was a good attendance. - -The great day, July 4th, dawned. The morning was a little cloudy, -the air was cool and delightful. A great crowd of people assembled -at eleven o’clock in the morning, to hear orations from four of our -former students: W. W. Frazier, R. J. Holloway, B. H. Wimms and L. -C. Waller, who are now engaged in teaching. The young men acquitted -themselves nobly, and all who were present speak highly of them. - -The dinner given by the patrons and friends of the institution -equalled anything of the kind ever given in this place. The table -was loaded with everything that heart could wish for and that -loving hands could provide. An exhibition, consisting of speeches, -recitations and dialogues, interspersed with singing, took place in -the evening. The house was filled to its utmost capacity, and it -was with difficulty that the speakers could make their way to the -stage. All present seemed delighted with the exercises. - -Prizes were awarded to Miss Louise Griffin and Miss Maria Logan for -being the best speakers. - -Several of the white citizens of the place, including Rev. Mr. -Smart, of the M. E. Church south, and Prof. Hodges, of the Male -Academy of this place, were present at the exhibition, and -expressed themselves as pleased with what they saw and heard. All -the colored pastors of the place, with the exception of the African -Methodist, were present during most of the exercises, and seemed -delighted with the proficiency exhibited. - -During the year the students’ rooms have been neatly furnished, -and are now quite comfortable. The students have made gratifying -progress in their studies, and we feel that a year’s advancement -has been made. Twenty-six of our students are now engaged in -teaching, and over eleven hundred pupils are under their care. - -We have met with hindrances. We have been accused of prejudicing -our students against their church, and of punishing them if they -did not attend our Sunday-school; but, despite all this, our -school has been unusually full, and our Sunday-school large and -interesting. The students have all gone to their homes, or to some -work, to make preparation for their return next fall. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -Atlanta University—Examinations and Commencement. - -REPORT AND COMMENTS BY A GEORGIA EDITOR. - -[_From the Macon Telegraph and Messenger._] - -For several days the Board of Visitors, appointed by the Governor -to the State University, have been diligently attending the -recitations of the several classes of this colored seat of -learning, and are greatly pleased with what they have seen. - -The pupils are perfectly orderly, well behaved and respectful -in their demeanor, and not a few are good scholars, and give -satisfactory evidences of progress. - -A large preponderance are of mixed blood, and several would pass -for white anywhere. There is no perceptible difference, in the -aptness to learn, between the mulatto and his coal-black associate. -Perhaps the latter sticks closest to the text-book, and is less -disposed to investigate. But this may be owing to his superior -tractability and habits of obedience. Some of the best students, -male and female, are full-blooded Africans. - -They read Greek and Latin, demonstrated problems in mathematics, -discoursed upon international law and the Constitution, recited -history, geography and grammar, and, in short, pursued successfully -the curriculum of our highest schools. - -To the questions propounded by the Board, too, they usually gave -sensible and intelligent replies, showing powers of thought and -self-reliance not commonly attributed to our colored people. -Indeed, while it would be wrong to say that the recitations were -_perfect_, yet it can truly be affirmed that they were highly -creditable, and compared well with the examinations of our white -institutions. Again we repeat, the decorum and behavior of the -entire body of students indicated a most marked improvement, as -compared with former years, and was unexceptionable. - -The teachers are inferior to none in the State for thoroughness, -patience and skill in imparting knowledge. They possess the -confidence of the pupils, and, under the wise administration of -President Ware, everything moves like clockwork, and no serious -outbreak has ever occurred. - -The discipline is mild, but resolute and excellent. We could -detect, after seven years’ operation, not a stain upon the spotless -floors, and no pencil defacement or knife-marks upon walls or -furniture, while, on the contrary, everything was in print -throughout the building. - -There are now in attendance upon the Atlanta University 244 -students in its various classes and departments, as follows: -Regular College Students—Seniors 4, Juniors 10, Sophomores 3, -Freshmen 7; total 24. In the Scientific School there are 6 -students; in the Preparatory Department, 37. In the High Normal -School, 72. In the Normal School proper, 104, and one post-graduate -student. These sum up 244 pupils, as above stated. - -Thirty-seven Alumni have gone forth from the University, _thirty_ -of whom are engaged in teaching, _four_ are ministers or pastors of -churches, two are mothers of young families, and one has deceased. -It is a noteworthy fact, also, that every graduate is a professor -of religion. - -The resources of the University are derived from the annual -appropriation of $8,000 made by the State, the donations of the -American Missionary Association, amounting in the past year to -$1,615.28, and one permanent scholarship of $300. Board per month, -including tuition, room, fuel, lights and washing, is only twelve -dollars, hardly sufficient to cover bare expenses, and certainly -not affording one cent of revenue. - -The students are required to sign a pledge to abstain from the use -of liquor and tobacco; they enjoy the advantages of an excellent -miscellaneous library, which contains some illustrated volumes and -standard works very rare, and of great value. It was for the most -part the gift of the late R. R. Graves, Esq., of New York, and -contains 5,000 volumes. - -On Tuesday, His Excellency, General A. H. Colquitt, was pleased -to spend the morning in attendance upon the examinations of the -University, and expressed himself highly gratified with the -progress made by the pupils. At the close of the day’s exercises, -President Ware invited him to address the assembled school. The -Governor responded, in one of his emphatic, eloquent, sensible and -touching talks, which was listened to with breathless attention, -and repeatedly elicited unbounded applause. His advice to the -pupils was paternal and faithful, while as a Christian he did not -fail to point out to them the value and supreme necessity of the -salvation of their immortal souls. It was an address that reflected -more credit upon our worthy and popular chief magistrate than the -grandest oration pronounced before the most august assemblage in -the land. After he had concluded, several members of the Board of -Visitors were invited to make remarks. Among those who responded -were Judge W. D. Harden and Rev. T. G. Pond. - -The exercises of the University of Atlanta closed June 27th with -the usual commencement programme, and the delivery of diplomas and -certificates to fifteen graduates. - -The Lloyd Street Church was probably as closely jammed and -artistically packed as ever were the contents of a sardine box. -There were no vacant spaces, no possible squeezing in of another -auditor, no interstice, window or aisle opening that did not have -two occupants where one only could be comfortably accommodated. As -a rule, too, the colored assemblage was well dressed and orderly, -barring the occasional plaintive wails and impassioned screams of -sundry pickaninnies who their mothers would insist should have a -place in the picture. - -The writer, unavoidably detained by other duties, did not arrive -upon the scene until the exercises were considerably advanced. -Then came the tug of war to reach his associates on the stage. He -charged two or three times, but was ignominiously repulsed and -hurled back, like chaff before the wind. But the _bonhommie_ of -those simple people was excellent, and tumbled and panting for -breath, your correspondent at length reached the rostrum, and -obtained a comfortable seat hard by. - -It is sufficient to say that those it was our privilege to hear -acquitted themselves with credit, and their enunciation and -training as elocutionists evinced much care and skill on the part -of the teachers of belles lettres in the University. - -Some of the graduates, both male and female, are intelligent -looking young people, and really exhibited powers of original -thought in their essays and speeches that would have done no -discredit to any institution in the country. Their manner and -demeanor, too, was uniformly courteous and unexceptionable, and we -confess to a very deep interest in their future welfare and career. - -It is just as well that our people should at once fully grasp and -comprehend the problem of the negro’s future. He is a citizen -both of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Georgia, and -possessed of equal rights and privileges with the most favored of -the Anglo Saxon race. No law can be enacted which does not include -and apply to him, and the freedman is now an essential and integral -portion of the community. Hence, it should ever be the mission and -duty of the superior race to treat him kindly, and to spare no -pains to elevate this new element to its proper place in the body -politic. They, equally with ourselves, help to make the law-givers -and rulers of the country, and how can they act intelligently in -the premises unless educated and duly qualified for the responsible -trust, which, doubtless, was prematurely and unadvisedly _thrust_ -upon them by the gift of the ballot. - -We must deal with circumstances as we find them, and not look -backward, but forward and upwards. The negro race is a fixture in -the South and will never die out, either by emigration to Liberia -or from natural causes. It is susceptible of great improvement, and -can be made largely conducive to the welfare and prosperity of the -country. - -The exercises over, President Ware, after a short, but singularly -appropriate address, delivered the diplomas and certificates of -scholarship to the fifteen graduates, remarking, that as they were -printed in English they would not be in the predicament of some -bachelors of arts who could not translate their own Latin diplomas. -Thus ended the examinations and commencement of the Atlanta -University. - -We cannot, in all candor, pass on without again commending this -institution to the good will and sympathy of the white people of -Georgia. It is conducted upon proper and conservative principles. -Its president and corps of instructors are honest, faithful and -capable. Its pupils well behaved and exemplary. Its influence, we -fully believe, will be for good to the African race, and it is to -be hoped that the State will ever continue to bestow her patronage -upon a foundation which is doing more than any other to elevate -and bless the African race, which is destined to form an important -element in the future politics and government of the country. - - * * * * * - - -Lewis High School at Macon. Examinations and Entertainments. - -MISS ANNETTE LYNCH. - -It has been my happy privilege to visit this institution, after an -absence of two years, and note the progress made by the pupils, -as shown in the recent examinations and closing exercises of the -school-year of 1878. - -As a former teacher in the school, I was better able to judge -of that progress than a stranger; and truly, looking back to -those who were promising pupils then, but in lower classes, -and seeing so many of them now in the highest class, and doing -credit to themselves and teachers, is not only gratifying, but -an encouragement to all who have taken an interest in the work -here through all its vicissitudes. The school is now under the -very able management of Rev. M. O. Harrington and wife, with Miss -L. A. Abbott as assistant, and has ninety-three pupils enrolled. -It is answering well the purpose of its establishment, viz.: To -provide for colored pupils at Macon and surrounding places a higher -education than the common-school, without the expense of going -elsewhere. - -The examinations on the 13th and 14th were listened to by a -large number of the more intelligent of the colored patrons and -friends of the school. Members of the press were also present, and -showed themselves highly pleased. The pupils went through their -examinations in all their various studies in a manner which showed -they were perfectly familiar with all they had gone over in their -text-books. All showed thoroughness and promptness, from the lowest -to the highest class. Problems in algebra were demonstrated, axioms -given, translations from Latin and English sentences analyzed and -parsed, in a manner that did credit to teachers and scholars. - -On the night of the 14th, a literary entertainment was given by -the pupils, which included vocal and instrumental music, with -essays, declamations, etc. Two allegories, “The Pilgrim’s Choice,” -and “Light Hearts’ Pilgrimage,” deserve special notice, for not -only the beautiful manner in which they were rendered, but for the -life-lessons they taught, and the mental power developed by those -who had so successfully learned their long and difficult parts. -The essays, “Missed Lessons,” and “Little by Little,” and “No -Excellence without Labor,” showed marked ability in the pupils, -and a strong desire to aim high and persevere in their efforts to -obtain greater advancement. The quartette singing was listened to -with almost breathless attention; and, indeed, one could not help -thinking that here was a band that, with proper training, might -in time rival the famous Jubilee Singers. I am sure little Miss -Kitchen, the youngest of the singers, would even now create a -sensation in any audience; her fearlessly clear, high tones give -promise of a “star” singer, could she have proper training. - -Teachers and scholars deserve great credit for their efforts, and -their merit is appreciated to that degree that they have been -called upon to repeat the entertainment on the 17th. - - * * * * * - - -A Bright Day in Athens. - -MR. JOHN MCINTOSH. - -May 24th, the closing exercises of my school came off. Between the -hours of nine and four o’clock, over two hundred persons gathered -into the Knox’s Institute, to witness the closing exercises and -a spelling-match between my school and another from a different -section of the city. Prof. A. Brumby, of the Georgia University, -and the Mayor of Athens, were present. These distinguished visitors -remained some hours, and, on leaving, spoke very encouragingly to -my pupils and patrons. They said that they noticed many indications -of progress and thoroughness. - -Prof. Brumby said he was perfectly astonished, and so were his -pupils who came with him. He said good work was being done at the -Knox’s Institute, and he hoped that this work would continue. -The Mayor said many good things, among which were these words: -“You are not only being taught lessons in books, but also lessons -of virtue and morality.” He bade us go on. My school beat in -the spelling-match, and this encouraged my pupils greatly. The -Athenians are awake. I shall return the latter part of June to -labor for three months under the free-school system. - - * * * * * - - -The Religious Work in Georgia. - -REV. F. MARKHAM, SAVANNAH. - -The religious work of the A. M. A. in Savannah and the vicinity -has never been in as prosperous a condition since I have been -here as at the present. The increase in the congregations and the -membership has been greater than any previous year. - -At Savannah, twenty-four have united with the church; fourteen -children have been baptized. The Sabbath-school has more than -doubled in numbers. Over two hundred scholars are enrolled; the -average attendance is about one hundred and sixty. - -Ogeechee Church, which is ten miles from Savannah, has received -nineteen members. Brother McLean has the confidence and support -of his people. He is doing a good work in the Sabbath-school. -His wife is a good worker, and a great help, especially in the -Sabbath-school. There are about fifty scholars in the school. They -also teach a day-school and a night-school. - -Plymouth Church, at Woodville, three miles west of Savannah, Rev. -J. H. H. Sengstacke, pastor, has had an interesting work of grace -in the Sabbath-school. Twenty-eight united with the church, mostly -from the Sabbath-school, which has about seventy-five scholars. The -day-school numbers now about fifty; in the winter it had a hundred; -now the children have to work. - -East Savannah is two-and-a-half miles from the city—a little -village of colored people. A few whites are there, who live by -selling liquor to the colored people. There are nearly three -hundred children in that vicinity. The A. M. A., by the assistance -of a Boston friend, built a little church there. J. H. Stephens, -a student in my theological class, started a Sabbath-school, and -preaches to the people. The children are very wild, though some -have bright intellects, and can make useful men and women; but they -are as uncultivated as the children in the centre of Africa. It -is very hard to keep the attention of such children, and secure a -regular attendance at school. Mrs. Markham and Hattie B. Markham -and Mr. Floyd have been going out regularly every Sabbath to work -in the East Savannah Sabbath-school. Sometimes they have had eighty -or ninety scholars, then only forty or fifty; the average has been -about sixty. - -I can see a decided improvement in the conduct of the scholars. -They come in and go out orderly, pay better attention, and begin to -understand what a Sabbath-school is for; when they leave for home, -they do not make such hideous noises, but go along the street more -quietly. They have to be taught everything. There are thousands -upon thousands of children in Georgia in the same condition. We -hope soon to be able to organize a church at East Savannah, of -twelve or fifteen members. - -Belmont is four miles south-west from Savannah. The church here is -supplied by Wilson Callen, a very faithful man of God. The church -suffered here by a bad man, who preached for them, but was last -year expelled from church. He claims to be a preacher still, and is -doing what he can to draw the people away. The work is gradually -improving, both in the church and Sabbath-school. - -Louisville, two miles south-west of Savannah, has a church of about -twenty-five, and a Sabbath-school of about the same number. Brother -Callen supplies this work also, and is growing in the confidence of -the people, and his school and congregation are increasing. We hope -for a revival here. - -Midway Church, in Liberty Co., is about thirty miles from -Savannah; Rev. J. E. Smith, a graduate of Atlanta University, is -pastor. This church is in a healthy and prosperous state. Since -Rev. Floyd Snelson left here, to go to Africa, there have been -added nine members. I hear many encouraging things about Brother -Smith’s work there. There are now about two hundred and forty -members. Here is a fine opportunity to do good. The most of the -people are securing permanent homes. The colored people need to be -taught to act and think for themselves, and feel responsibility. - -There is great need of more help here. The day-school ought to have -additional help. There is a necessity for a woman of cultivation. -All mission work is like a child—it must grow or die. I hope the -people at the North are not willing we shall die. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Two Ordinations at Talladega—How Churches Begin and Grow. - -REV. GEO. E. HILL, MARION. - -I have just had the pleasure of attending two ordinations of -colored men, the first of the kind I ever witnessed. These young -men were recent graduates of Talladega College, and, having only -last week attended the examinations in the Theological Department -of this institution, in charge of Prof. Andrews, I was prepared for -at least a respectable appearance on their part. - -But the event exceeded expectation. In the first instance the -examination of the candidate continued through two hours and was -very searching and thorough, the council consisting in part of -three college professors. - -The young brother maintained his self-possession, and appeared -almost as much at home in theology as if he had been a professor -himself. Indeed, I may say of both these brethren, in all my -remembrance of ordinations at the North, I have seldom seen a -candidate for the sacred office appear better on the whole. - -It is truly inspiring to behold the work which such a college as -this is doing for the colored race, not only in providing good -schools and teachers, but in raising up an intelligent ministry, -and in planting the right kind of Christian churches. - -Here, for example, at A., where we were the other day, there is the -old established Episcopal Church, for white folks, and, perhaps, -a colored church or two, where “faith” is more insisted on than -“works.” A new order now comes in, which is at first looked upon -with distrust as an innovation. A church is organized with eight -or ten members. Preaching is statedly kept up by students from -the college. The congregation steadily increases; and, in three -years, partly through the exertions of the members, and partly -by the kindly aid of the “Iron Company,” a neat little chapel is -built, with a miniature parsonage alongside. A pastor is called, -and an ordination takes place, conducted with as much solemnity and -decorum as if it were in the suburbs of New York or Boston. The -people outside look on. Strangers are attracted in. Distrust gives -place to respect. The influence is contagious. Shiftlessness and -immorality have been exchanged for industry and thrift. Society is -reconstructed. “The tree is known by its fruits.” - -May the good work go on, and such trees and such fruit be -multiplied a thousand fold! - -I was grieved to learn that, in the case of one of these young -pastors, with a wife and child, all the pay he expects to receive -is fifteen dollars a month from the A. M. A. - - * * * * * - - -Closing Days of Emerson Institute—Algebra—“Lower ’Strumties” and -the Ledger. - -MISS S. J. IRWIN, MOBILE. - -The school at Mobile closed satisfactorily. Public examinations -were held on the last two days. The interest manifested by the -attendance of the people was highly gratifying, and as some of -the examinations were beyond the understanding of the majority of -the audience, it was noticeable that they should have remained -during the day at the expense of their dinners, and a number of -the working men at the expense of a day’s income, in order to show -their appreciation of what was being done for their children. - -There were examinations in all studies pursued during the year; and -the commendable degree of faithfulness and zeal which has been the -marked characteristic of the scholars, was evinced at the close. - -The advanced grammar-class ended its lesson with the correction, -on the black-board, of a letter by a colored candidate for office, -recently published; the class gave rules for its criticisms and -explanations. - -An algebra-class was reported by a Southern lady of high -intelligence, who had taught that branch for a number of years, -as the best she ever heard, doing credit to any class or grade of -scholars. - -The exercises of the primary room, also, elicited much comment on -the careful drill that had been bestowed in the endeavor to convey -the spirit of study, and not alone the “letter” thereof, although -the “Busy Bees” were not far in advance of that fundamental -branch of education. They could readily grasp the _fact_, in the -physiological lecture, of the different parts of the body, although -their undeveloped articulation could only pronounce the arms and -limbs as the “upper” and “lower ’strumties.” - -A white gentleman of much educational experience, who has charge of -an academy for young men, left his own duties to be present during -the last day; and his final address to the pupils was pleasingly -commendatory of their progress and attainments. - -In his original and epigrammatic manner he told them to go ahead, -and get beyond these lazy white boys, who liked to have so much -done for them—for you can do it! He had tried to shame his boys -before, by telling what the Emerson Institute scholars could do, -and he surely could now. He concluded, urging them not to forget to -bring, and the parents to send, the little tuition money which came -due once in a while, and was so small a recompense for what they -received. - -A paper was read by two of the oldest scholars, entitled “Emerson -Institute Ledger,” for which the subscription price was readily -paid, which was announced to be “undivided attention, payable in -advance.” Some members of the audience offered to pay for the paper -if it could be regularly issued. - -Addresses by ministers and others followed the examinations; the -school sang “Gathering Home”; the circulars announcing the next -year’s school-work were distributed; the hope was expressed of -seeing the familiar faces again after these intervening months of -vacation; the Lord’s Prayer chanted; the benediction; warm and -tearful words of farewell between pupils and teachers, and the -doors closed upon another year’s work. - - * * * * * - - -MISSISSIPPI. - -The Year at Tougaloo University—Results and Reforms. - -REV. G. STANLEY POPE, PRINCIPAL. - -As we look back over the school-year, we have every reason to feel -that it has been a successful year. - -The health of the teachers has been good; their devotion to the -work unsurpassed, and their success in the school-room everything -that could be expected. - -The general health of the school has kept up well. There were only -two serious cases of sickness, and no deaths, for which we are very -thankful to our protecting Father. None were even obliged to leave -school on this account. - -The attendance from abroad has been much larger than usual, and -those attending have uniformly been anxious to remain during the -whole session. - -We graduated our first class this year, and there has been quite -a class spirit developed, so that there is a strong desire on the -part of the pupils to remain in school and graduate in the classes -that they are now in. - -The religious work has not been marked by as many conversions -as we had hoped to see; but there has been great progress made -in Christian activity in certain directions, especially in -_Sunday-school Work_ and _Temperance Reform_. - -The Sabbath before Commencement we spent in Sunday-school -Convention. Steps were taken to organize a Sunday-school Union, -which promises to greatly enlarge our usefulness to those in the -surrounding country. No such work has ever before been undertaken. - -In our temperance work we were opposed at the outset by the leading -students. For some time it looked as though we were not going to -bring them to the point of taking a stand, even after they were -brought to see that the people were being ruined by strong drink. -But the victory was most complete. Students who had to leave before -the year closed, sent back for pledges. They were hard at work -in the temperance reform. When school closed, every one who was -going out to teach, and many others, took pledges, and went out -enthusiastic to their new field of labor. This seems to us the -peculiar feature of our work this year outside the school-room. - -The work in the school-room has been marked by thoroughness. Gen. -J. A. Smith, State Superintendent of Education, writes me: “Only -having attended your exercises one day, I am hardly prepared to -give anything more than impressions hastily formed. I will say, -however, those were all favorable. The examinations of the classes, -so far as I heard them, especially in mathematics, surpassed my -expectations * * * Judging from the order and system exhibited, -I was led to believe that the discipline of the institution was -excellent.” - -Nothing could more fitly have followed the instructions of the -year than Rev. W. S. Alexander’s address, on Commencement Day, on -“Natural and Acquired Right.” It was full of interest and wise -application. - - * * * * * - - -LOUISIANA. - - -“Here am I; Send Me, Send Me.” - -_One of many Applications._ - - _June 24, 1878._ - -PROF. A. K. SPENCE: - -_Dear Sir_—I just received a catalogue from Fisk University, and I -must frankly express myself as gratified at the noble work that is -being accomplished by Fisk University. - -I am anxious to attend the University so as to prepare myself -as a missionary to Africa. I have a poor mother, and I am her -only support, and I know not how I shall ever be able to make -preparations. - -Let me know the provisions made for those preparing to go on -mission. - -I have made quite an advancement in the English branches, but -desire to pursue the High Normal course proscribed in your -institute, and also the studies of the theological course. - -I feel that I must go to Africa. “Here am I; send me, send me.” - -See what can be done for me. I can bring certificates of my -advancement made, and also of character. I shall patiently wait to -hear from you, and trust you will not forget me. - - Your brother in Christ, F. C. L. - - * * * * * - - -FROM NEW ORLEANS TO NEW YORK. - -REV. W. S. ALEXANDER. - -The Commencement season, marking the completion of a year’s work -and the beginning of welcome and needed rest to the teachers in the -South, is now well over, and those who have wrought so faithfully -during the year, are enjoying the quiet of their Northern homes. -While _en route_ to New York, it was my pleasure to visit several -of our most prominent institutions, and I shall be glad to speak of -what I saw. By way of preface, let me say of - - -STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY - -that the school-year closed happily and successfully. The -examinations, which are the best test of scholarship and progress, -gave great satisfaction to our friends, and the teachers were -glad and grateful to feel that the year’s work had been a good -one. We graduated ten young men from the Law Department, of whom -eight were white, showing the appreciation of the manner in which -this department is conducted. It is entirely self-supporting, -the professors accepting the fees of the students as their -compensation. Next year we anticipate a class of twenty-five. -We graduated three young ladies from the Academic Department. -They were superior scholars, and will be successful teachers. At -our annual exhibition, and at the Commencement exercises on a -subsequent evening, an audience of 800 were in attendance, to show -by their presence their deep interest in the prosperity of our -beloved institution. - -Leaving New Orleans on Tuesday evening, June 4th, we were met at -Jackson, Miss., by Brother Pope, with whom we went to - - -TOUGALOO. - -What a delightful location! my first thought was. It does not -require a great degree of self-denial to spend the winter in such -a retreat as this. The mission-house is situated in the centre -of a plantation of five hundred acres, and the approach to it is -through a superb grove or forest of oaks, festooned with Spanish -moss. Coming from parched and dry New Orleans, where the sun -smites so fiercely in midsummer, the country around Tougaloo -seemed delightfully fresh and cool. I found teachers and pupils -in the midst of their annual examinations. I was impressed with -the faithfulness and thoroughness of the instruction given here. -There was no “coaching” and no prompting, but every student was -put to a fair test of scholarship and proficiency. The singing -was an important and interesting feature of Commencement week. -Tougaloo could send out its troop of Jubilee Singers, who would -win general favor. Great credit is due to the teachers of -vocal and instrumental music. The institution, already in such -good condition, should have, at the earliest day, increased -accommodations for boarding-scholars, enabling them to receive a -larger number of mature pupils from all parts of Mississippi. From -Tougaloo I went to - - -SELMA, ALA., - -for a day only. This is one of the prettiest towns in Alabama. -The county has a dense negro population, so that the school must -always have abundant patronage. It was pleasant to find here Mr. -Silsby, whose father was an efficient worker in the same field many -years. Mr. Burrell, who is still living, has the great satisfaction -of knowing that his benevolent gift has been so fruitful of good -results. I reached - - -TALLADEGA - -in time for my appointment on Sunday. This was another surprise -to me. Situated in the mountain region of Alabama, with a grand -outlook on every side, with fresh breezes from the hills, and -with valleys clothed with verdure, it certainly seemed as though -a Divine hand guided in the choice of this favored site. The -Baccalaureate sermon by the college pastor, Rev. Mr. Hickox, was -able and timely. The examinations were full of interest, and -brought out the real merit of the instruction and the zeal and -diligence of the students. I was particularly pleased with the -theological examination conducted by Rev. Mr. Andrews. It covered -a wide range of study, and showed that the young men had been -taught to think and reason for themselves. I noticed with great -satisfaction, in the boarding department, the orderly and polite -deportment of the seventy-five young men and women who gather three -times a day in the same dining-hall. It was like a quiet Christian -family. The training received here will be beyond value, and will -reach many families in the State. Were a boarding department not -necessary, it would be very desirable for the culture of manners -and the direct influence on character of the association of the -sexes. - - -MEMPHIS. - -It was a long and wearisome journey to Tennessee. I was never -sure of making a railroad connection, as we do on the grand trunk -lines. Le Moyne Institute has an interesting history. Dr. Le -Moyne, the noted Cremationist, was the generous benefactor of this -institution. Without him, it would not now exist. I was too late -for the examinations, but in time for the Commencement exercises. -They were held in the pretty Congregational Church, and were -highly creditable. I found here a company of live, enthusiastic -teachers. The mission-house is a most home-like place, and it was -not difficult for me, on inquiring of citizens, to ascertain that -Le Moyne Institute is thoroughly prized in Memphis. With the same -corps of teachers as now, they can hardly fail of success. Here, as -in many other points in the South, dormitories are urgently needed. -They cannot secure, without them, the best class of students, and -the school will remain, at best, a High or Normal School, when it -might be the College, in West Tennessee, for the colored people. -If some man of Dr. Le Moyne’s generosity would put up a fine -building for a dormitory, he would be planting seed-corn which -would yield many harvests in the coming years. A fact which touches -our hearts at every repetition of it, is that, years ago, during -the yellow-fever epidemic, two of the teachers heroically remained -at their posts and ministered to those smitten with the fever, and -cheerfully paid the forfeit with their lives. Such men and women -are made of “good stuff,” and the cause they represent has a right -to popular sympathy and support. - -With regard to our general work in the South, I was glad to -notice everywhere quickened zeal, followed by greatly increased -prosperity. I believe the good work among the freedmen was never -so efficient as to-day, and never so richly deserved the hearty -sympathy and generous benefactions of the good people of the North. -As it is no time to sound a retreat when an army has gained its -earliest victories, so it is no time, in the work of education and -evangelization among the freedmen in the South, to repress zeal -or to slacken effort, or to retrench where retrenchment would be -fatal; but to push forward till the highest results are achieved. - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -THE MENDI MISSION. - -Converts Added to the Church—Death of Mrs. Dr. James. - -REV. FLOYD SNELSON, GOOD HOPE. - -The church-work is progressing very well. At our last communion, -the first Sabbath in May, eleven natives united with the church, -all hopefully converted. It was a great day with us. One of the old -sisters, who had been here from the beginning, cried out, “Thank -God! I’ve never seen it so before,” with many other expressions -of joy. This is the result of steady work. Others are seeking -admission; but it was thought best that they should wait until -another opportunity. One child was baptized. Pray that the Lord may -bless us. - -With painful regret I must inform you that Death has entered our -ranks, and has taken away one of our missionaries—our sister, Mrs. -James. I wrote you in my last that she and her little daughter -were unwell. I learned by a letter May 20th from Dr. James (who is -stationed at Avery), that his wife was seized with a convulsion -on the morning of Sunday, the 19th, while engaged in her domestic -business, was taken to her room, and that one convulsion succeeded -another rapidly, and with such violence that she could not speak, -until two o’clock in the night, when she died. - -Brother Jackson is well again, and he and his wife have returned -to Avery Station, to resume their work. All are now comparatively -well, and the work is going on. We feel its importance more and -more, and we are not discouraged by the fact that one has fallen, -but will close up our ranks and march forward, hoping to be -reinforced from time to time, until the victory is won. - - * * * * * - - - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -Items and Incidents. - -REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -STATISTICS.—Our schools have not yet recovered, so far as -attendance is concerned, from the shock they received through the -riots of last July. But they are gaining, and should no untoward -event occur, I hope that before this summer is ended they will -be as large as ever before—as large, that is, as we can possibly -sustain without an increase of means. Ten schools are now in -operation, and seventeen teachers are employed. The aggregate -number of pupils enrolled May 31st was 467, and the average -attendance was 242. This is a gain over months preceding, and -June promises something better still. The total number of Chinese -who had attended the schools, for a longer or shorter period, -from September 1st (the commencement of our fiscal year) to May -31st, was 1,178. Seventy-eight of these pupils give evidence of -conversion. The whole number whom we have reason to believe have -been born of God, during the last five years of our work, cannot be -much less than two hundred. - -BAPTISMS.—Six of our pupils were baptized and received to Bethany -Church, San Francisco, on Sunday, June 2d. This makes the Chinese -membership of that church number forty-four. These brethren had -studied diligently the Confession of Faith and the Covenant, which -they were called publicly to accept, and had approved themselves -well through their five to eight months of “probation” in our -“Association of Christian Chinese.” I have no doubt that both -the Confession and Covenant contained words which they could not -define; but I have also no doubt that “for substance of doctrine,” -they assented to the one and consented to the other intelligently, -honestly and devoutly. I shall never forget the evening I spent -with them, questioning them as to their views and purposes and -experiences as Christians. Not one of them but had come out of more -or less tribulation, into this decided and outspoken Christian -life. Friends turn their backs upon them and load them with -reproaches, but they seem to harbor no feeling of resentment—only -longing to impart to their persecutors the same blessing they have -found for themselves. - -On the same day the first Chinese child of our church was baptized, -under the “Christian name,” as her father phrased it, of Lily Lee. -This father was one of the first group of Chinese converts whom it -was my privilege to receive to the church. He returned to Canton -about two years since, and sought out, at one of the missions, a -Christian wife; and so, in his one room in California, he has now -a Christian home. On the same day, also, Wah Yin was baptized and -received to the Congregational Church in Petaluma—the first-fruits, -so far as church membership is concerned, of our mission there. He -is a very interesting Christian, and has endured hardness, as a -good soldier. He has been not only reproached, but whipped, by his -countrymen, for the name of Christ. But he says “it didn’t hurt -much,” and we should never have known of the fact, but that one who -took part in it boasted of it openly. - -LU LUNE, for nearly a year a missionary helper, was offered by -his uncle a position as Chinese foreman at the salmon fisheries -near Collinsville. The work there knows no Sabbath, and the -Chinese settlement abounds in gambling and opium dens and in petty -idol shrines. The position was, in a worldly point of view, very -desirable, but Lu Lune refused to go unless he could have his -Sabbath, and could be permitted to be just such a Christian there -as he would be at the mission-house itself. It is a token of Lu -Lune’s own desirableness that his terms were accepted, and he is -there, trying, as opportunity offers, to preach Christ, and letting -the light of a Christian example shine all the while. I may add -that this is the fourth among the Chinese members of our church -who has been placed in a position of trust by persons who knew -nothing and cared nothing about their Christian professions. It is -a tribute paid to their trustworthiness. - -LEE HAIM, recently appointed as a helper, has now been for two -months in Sacramento. The increase in attendance and interest -at the school speaks well for his zeal and aptitude. Under his -influence, the Christian members of the school have rented a small -building for a sort of Home, and he uses it as a chapel. I will -quote a few words from his letter of June 6th, correcting his -English a little, for, while he, like Wong Sam, excels most of his -countrymen here in knowledge of Chinese, he is also like Wong Sam -in his trouble with English idioms: - -“Now, dear brother, Mr. Pond, I am happy to say to you a few words -how the mighty God has done to us. He has prepared us a home, and -leads many Chinese to come to learn the Word of Him, and to study -your language, also. When the Sabbath-day is come, I am happy to -go down to preach to them on “I” street, where the Chinese dwell. -Some of our countrymen very anxious to hear, and some are not. I -think our congregation of Christian Chinese will become large, -though I am weak, and no one can help me to take a part on Saturday -and Sunday evenings. Yet I remember a certain man in Cesarea, -called Cornelius, had feared God, with all his house, and prayed to -God always, and then God heard his prayer, and said to him, ‘Thy -prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.’—Acts -x. 18. So I will ask God what we need. Then we receive. Oh, how -glorious! So I wish you pray for me; so I will pray for you, and -all your family and teachers.” - -AN INDIAN GIFT.—Such gifts were not in good repute in the days of -my childhood, but for me the name is now redeemed. A venerable -Presbyterian pastor in the State of New York, who had himself -previously made a generous donation in aid of our work, writes a -second time as follows: “After reading the account of your work -on page 150 of the May number of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, at our -missionary meeting, last evening, an Indian came forward and handed -me fifty cents for your mission, with tears in his eyes. I hasten -to enclose his offering, with those of others, making out for you a -postal order for five dollars.” I know not what others may see in -this brief epistle, or how others would receive that Indian’s gift; -but to me it came as something surpassingly sacred. I certainly -mean to make _every_ donation go as far as possible; but some have -in them their _par value_—simply that and nothing more. This came -to me fragrant with incense and wet with tears—a vial full of -odors, which are the prayers of saints—and to use it except with -utmost care and earnest supplication seemed like sacrilege. - -OUR STOCKTON SCHOOL.—Mrs. M. C. Brown, teacher at Stockton, says: -“Ah Gun (otherwise Jimmie), one who had gladdened my heart by his -consecration to Christ, left us December 29th, to go to Oregon. He -had been a regular attendant at my school for eighteen months, and -for the last three of his stay, I have every reason to think he was -a true Christian. Three weeks since came the news that the vessel -on which he sailed was wrecked, and Jimmie was among the lost. May -he not even now be singing that song, known only to those who have -‘washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb’? -This is the first ripe grain, so far as I know, gathered from this -school into the garner of the Good Husbandman.” - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - - * * * * * - -AN UNCONSCIOUS JONAH. - -The following correspondence will explain itself. A letter sent -by mail to buy _Wellsprings_, and enclosing the necessary money -missed its way, and was brought with waste paper to a mill; there -it was found by a boy of ten years. The sender of the letter was -sought out by the boy’s father, and, as a result of it all, the -money, somewhat increased, has through us purchased _Wellsprings_ -to supply the school at Ogeechee, Ga., for six months. So at last -this Jonah has arrived at his Nineveh. We think this singular -discovery and pleasant correspondence has in it several suggestive -lessons. If some of our young friends will write us what they think -it teaches, we will be glad to print their suggestions in the next -MISSIONARY. - - - “N. A., MASS., May 17, 1878. - -“Mr. D. O.: _Sir_—The letter written by yourself, which I enclose -in this, will explain the reason for my wishing to ascertain your -address. My little boy found the letter, with the money enclosed, -in the paper-mill in this place, as he was looking among the old -waste for some fancy scraps of paper. He came to me with it, to -know what was to be done. I thought it a good opportunity to -impress upon his mind the value of strict honesty, and told him -that of course we must try to find the owner. Thus, after being -tossed about among old rags for nearly two years, the money will if -not again miscarried, return to its original owner. If the money is -received, please acknowledge the same. - - “Yours truly, C. R. D.” - - -_The Lost Letter._ - - “NEW YORK, July 19, 1876. - -“MOSES H. SARGENT, ESQ.: - -“_Dear Sir_—Enclosed find one and 20/100 dollars. Please send me by -return (if possible) the value in _Wellsprings_—the latest issue. I -want to use them next Sabbath. - - “Yours very truly, D. O.” - - - “NEW YORK, May 20, 1878. - -“Mr. C. R. D.: _Dear Sir_—Yours of the 17th, with the money -enclosed, reached me, for which please accept my best thanks. - -“Due inquiries for the letter were made at the post-office here at -the time, but without success, and of course I concluded that it -had been opened and money stolen by some post office official. Even -now there is some mystery, which perhaps might be removed if the -(original) envelope could be found. - -“The amount at the time was designed for a good cause, in -connection with Sunday-school work, and I feel, after what has -happened, that the Lord, having delivered it from the jaws of the -paper mill, has an additional claim upon it, and so I propose that -your little boy (with your help, if necessary) name an object to -which he would like it applied. - -“Jonah, when appointed to do certain work, was disobedient and, -you know, soon found himself in the ‘fish’s belly.’ From this -uncomfortable situation, however, he was soon delivered, and _one -more_ opportunity given him to obey orders—with better results. -Now, suppose we call our dollar and twenty cents the _disobedient -Jonah_, and our little friend the _fish_; and now that our Jonah -has landed safely, suppose we give him one more opportunity for -obeying his orders? - -“Please say to my little friend that I appreciate what he has done -in this matter, and congratulate the son on having a good adviser, -and the father on having a son inclined to take good advice. - -“Should you reply to this note, please give me the boy’s name and -age, and photograph likeness if you have one. - - “Yours respectfully and truly, D. O.” - - - “N. A., MASS., May 25, 1878. - -“Mr. D. O.: _Dear Sir_—Your very happy acknowledgement of the -receipt of that money (or I might, say, of that ‘Jonah’), which -went so far astray from the first direction given to it, was duly -received, and the reaching of it listened to by our little boy, or -the ‘fish’ with much delight. - -“Our son’s name is Edwin H. He is ten years of age. He is quite -pleased that the money is going to be used to do missionary -work and that you have given him the privilege of deciding what -direction it shall take in starting on a second trip. - -“Now, Eddie thinks that if this Jonah has not done the work which -he was first directed, and has had such a wonderful escape from -a terrible death, that, he can do no better than to follow the -directions given to the Prophet Jonah, who was saved by a much -bigger ‘fish’ than himself, and those directions are found in Jonah -iii. 2, viz.: ‘Arise; go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach -unto it the preaching that I bid thee.’ Therefore, this Jonah must -go and sell himself for as many good little papers as he can, and -be distributed among the little boys and girls of some mission -Sunday-school; and may the good resulting be proportionate to that -accomplished by Jonah of old. - -“We have no recently-taken photograph, but such as we have I -enclose, in compliance with your request. - - “Yours very truly, C. R. D.” - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR JUNE, 1878. - - - * * * * * - - MAINE, $7.42. - - Hampden. Cong. Ch. 5.32 - Waterford. Cong. Sab. Sch. $1.60; Mrs. C. D. - 50c. 2.10 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $128.36. - - Amherst. S. C. A. and S. E. A. 50c. ea., _for - Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 1.00 - Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.37 - Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.75 - Chester. Miss C. S. G. 0.25 - Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.25; Cong. Sab. - Sch. $8.85; Dea. A. M. K. $1 26.10 - Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 2.00 - Nashua. Dea. James Hartshorn, _for Memorial - Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 10.00 - Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.39 - Short Falls. J. W. C. 1.00 - Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.50 - Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - - - VERMONT, $194.89. - - Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.38 - Brownington. Dea. Wm. Spencer 5.00 - Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.34 - Danby. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.16 - Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.44 - Essex Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Fayetteville. Individuals by A. Birchard 1.00 - Greensborough. R. E. Crane 5.00 - Jericho. Mrs. Lucy Spaulding $10; C. H. L. $1 11.00 - Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.20 - St. Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Salisbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.82 - Swanton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Wallingford. By Ettie A. Ballou $1.25, and bbl - of C. 1.25 - Westminster, West. Mission Band by Nellie - Houghton, Treas. 6.00 - Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch. $6.30; H. N. - Prentiss, $2.00 8.30 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $3,070.47. - - Amesbury and Salisbury Mills. Cong. Ch. Miss. - and Sab. Sch. Concerts 11.00 - Amherst. William M. Graves 20.00 - Andover. Joseph W. Smith, _for Telescope, - Atlanta U._ 20.00 - Ashby. Rev. Mr. S., _for Memorial Inst. - Wilmington, N. C._ 1.00 - Athol. H. G. 0.50 - Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 82.04 - Ayer. Mrs. E. A. Spaulding, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 70.00 - Belchertown. Mrs. Agnes M. Knowlton 2.00 - Beverly. Dane St. Sab. Sch. 20.09 - Boston. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $218,—Park St. Sab. Sch. $50, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U.;_ “A Friend” $25, _for - Telescope, Atlanta U.;_ Mrs. Collins $5 298.00 - Boxford. Sab. Sch. $20; and “Friends” $14.75, - _for Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 34.75 - Bradford. Mrs. Sarah C. Boyd, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 15.00 - Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Aux. of Pilgrim Ch. 2 - bbls. of C. - Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.46 - Clinton. First Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 - Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.50 - Dover. H. H. F. 0.50 - Easthampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00 - East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 - Falmouth. ESTATE of Lucy Lawrence, by Silas - Jones 300.00 - Fitchburg. J. A. Conn, _for a Student, Atlanta - U._ 50.00 - Foxborough. Mrs. Polly Hartshorn 5.00 - Georgetown. “A Friend” 5.00 - Granville Corners. C. Holcomb 5.00 - Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.50 - Hanover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.70 - Harwich Port. Rev. J. R. Munsell 2.00 - Hawley. “A Friend” 2.00 - Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $48.28; “Ladies’ - Bible-Class” Cong. Ch. $25, by J. Batchelder 73.28 - Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 - Leicester First Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $21.46.—Mrs. N. $1, _for Memorial Inst., - Wilmington, N. C._ 22.46 - Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $50; - Elliot Cong. Ch. by J. G. B. $25 75.00 - Lynnfield Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.10 - Marlborough. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 65.00 - Medford. Dea. Galen James 700.00 - Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for bell for - First Cong. Ch., Atlanta, Ga._ 25.00 - Newbury. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. $27.52; - First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.18 46.70 - Newburyport. Whitfield Cong. Ch. 10.73 - Northampton. “A Friend.” 150.00 - Otis. Rev. J. C. S. 0.50 - Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.66 - Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.25 - Rockdale Mills. Housatonic Cong. Ch. 39.58 - Salem. Joseph H. Towne $100; A. P. $1 101.00 - Saxonville. Edward’s Ch. and Sab. Sch. 30.00 - Scituate. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.93 - Somerville. Infant-Class of Franklin St. Ch. 8.75 - Southampton. “A Friend,” by Miss J. E. Strong 3.00 - South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - South Braintree. Miss R. A. Faxon, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 - South Hadley. Members Mt. Holyoke Fem. Sem. 18.70 - South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00 - Springfield. “E. M. P.,” South Ch. 20.00 - Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.68 - Topsfield. ESTATE of Mrs. R. C. Towne, _for - Student Aid_ 100.00 - Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 - Uxbridge. Mrs. Ellis 2.00 - Wakefield. Mrs. A. S. 0.25 - Walpole. Mrs. C. F. Metcalf 5.00 - Warren. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - DEA. M. W. FAY and MRS. E. H. HITCHCOCK, L. - M.’s 63.20 - Watertown. Ladies of Phillips’ Ch. 2 bbls. of - C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ - West Boylston. Polly W. Ames and Geo. W. Ames - $3 ea. 6.00 - Westminster. Ladies’ Sew. Soc. $5 and bbl. of - C., _for Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 5.00 - West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - West Springfield. Park St. Ch. 12.07 - Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 48.00 - Worcester. Union Cong. Ch. 64.59 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $370.23. - - Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 370.23 - - - CONNECTICUT, $2,227.12. - - Bloomfield. Mrs. Sally Gillett, to const. AMY - MARTHA HODGES L. M. 30.00 - Bristol. Miss. Soc., _for Ind Sch., Talladega_ 20.00 - Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $83.60, - and Sab. Sch. $2.86 86.46 - Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc 15.09 - East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.15 - Greenville. Miss C. Gordon and Miss Ayer, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 15.00 - Hartford. Centre Ch. 690.58 - Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 36.00 - Lakeville. “A Friend” $20, _for a Student, - Fisk U._—Mrs. M. A. H. 51c. 20.51 - Lyme. Rev. E. F. Burr 20.00 - Manchester. ——, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 12.50 - Meriden. E. E. Leonard 5.00 - Middletown. Third Cong. Ch. $30, to const. - DEA. GEO. W. BOARDMAN L. M.; Mrs. L. C. - Birdsey $5 35.00 - Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.70 - New Haven. College St. Ch. $40; Third Cong. - Ch. 29.07 69.07 - New London. Trust ESTATE of Henry P. Haven - ($100 of which for _Hampton N. and A. Inst._) 300.00 - New London. Mrs. J. A. R. 1.00 - Norfolk. Cong. Ch. to const. ABEL CAMP, JOHN K. - SHEPARD and MRS. H. H. RIGGS L. M’s 100.00 - North Coventry. Cong. Ch. 25.11 - Norwich. Mrs. Chas. Lee, _for Teachers_, and - to const. MRS. M. A. GROSVENOR L. M. 30.00 - Plainfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.50 - Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. 2 bbls C., _for New - Orleans, La._ - Putnam. Mrs. M. A. Keith 2.00 - Rockville. Cong. Ch. 79.20 - Scotland. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Simsbury. Miss J. T. C., _for Atlanta U._ 1.00 - Somersville. Cong. Ch. 35.66 - Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc 15.40 - Thomaston. ESTATE of Henry Brooks by J. K. - Brooks, Ex’r. 336.90 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 39.60 - Tolland. Cong. Ch. 8.26 - Unionville. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 27.43 - Woodstock. “Friends,” _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega_ 10.00 - Westport. A. Warren $5; Mrs. A. Warren $2 7.00 - West Winsted. Mrs. J. C. Stillman 10.00 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. 50.00 - ——. Rev. E. E. Rogers, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 10.00 - - - NEW YORK, $217.18 - - Amsterdam. C. Bartlett 10.00 - Berkshire. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Binghamton. Sheldon Warner 10.00 - Brooklyn, E. D. New England Cong. Ch. 22.39 - Jamestown. J. L. Hall $5; Mrs. J. L. Hall $2 7.00 - Middletown. Samuel Ayres $3, _for Home M. and - $1 for Foreign M._ 4.00 - New York. Mrs. Caroline P. Stokes, $50, _for - Ind. Sch., Talladega_.—“Pilgrim Band,” - Broadway Tabernacle, $7.29, _for a Student, - Fisk U._ 57.29 - Oneida. Stephen H. Goodwin 80.00 - Oswego. Miss H. E. S. 0.50 - Warsaw. “A Friend” 4.00 - West Yaphank. H. M. Overton 6.00 - Windsor. Mrs. J. W. 1.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $108.16. - - Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 16.00 - Jersey City. First Cong. Ch. $61.66.—Sab. Sch. - Tabernacle Cong. Ch. $30, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 91.66 - Newark. Mrs. G. E. S. 0.50 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $57.36. - - Canton. H. Sheldon 5.00 - Gibson. “A Friend” $16.11; Miss B. C. 25c. 16.36 - Oxford. Rev. E. W. 1.00 - Philadelphia. Miss M. A. Longstreth, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - West Alexander. ——. 10.00 - - - OHIO, $935.21. - - Ashtabula. James Hall 5.00 - Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.69 - Brighton. Cong. 4.26 - Chardon. Cong. Soc. $3 and bbl. of C., _for - Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 3.00 - Cardington. R. H 0.50 - Delphos. M. D. J. 1.00 - Gomer. Welch Cong. Ch. 52.25 - Huntsburg. Bbl. of C. and $2, _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega_ 2.00 - Madison. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo - U._ 45.00 - Marysville. Sab. Sch., _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega_ 4.30 - Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 83.50 - Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. 81.50 - Plymouth. ESTATE of Henry Amerman, by A. L. - Grimes 600.00 - South Newbury. Ladies’ Soc., _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega_ 3.06 - Tallmage. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25.15; Rev. L. - Shaw $10 35.15 - - - INDIANA, 25c. - - Elletsville. J. A. R. 0.25 - - - ILLINOIS, $1,046.80. - - Cobden. E. W. Towne, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - Chicago. C. G. Hammond $50, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._—Lincoln Park Ch. $27.75 77.75 - Elgin. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Farmington. Cong. Ch. $85.06.—Sab. Sch. and - Individuals in Cong. Ch. $25, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 110.06 - Geneseo. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Huntington $27, - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Mrs. E. L. - Atkinson $5.—J. T. A. 50c., _for Mag._ 32.50 - Homer. Cong. Ch. 15.46 - Hennepin. Cong. Ch. 7.42 - Ivanhoe. G. B. 1.00 - Jacksonville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00 - Kewanee. Woman’s Miss. Soc. and Cong. Ch. $15 - and bbl. of C., by Mrs. C. C. Cully, _for - Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 15.00 - La Harpe. “A Friend” 1.00 - Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Ferry, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00 - La Salle. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 12.50 - Lockport. Cong. Ch. 14.00 - Lyonsville. Cong. Ch. 16.64 - Oak Park. “A Friend” $10; Cong. Ch. (in part) - $3.50 13.50 - Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 33.65 - Peru. Rev. G. S. B. 0.50 - Polo. Robert Smith 500.00 - Princeton. Cong. Ch. 42.62 - Providence. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 8.00 - Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for a - Student, Talladega_ 12.00 - St. Charles. Cong. Ch. 24.70 - Waupannsee Grove. Cong. Ch. 16.00 - Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Willmette. C. A. V. 0.50 - - - MICHIGAN, $240. - - Adair. Henry Topping 5.00 - Adrian. A. J. Hood $10, _for Freedmen, Indian - and Chinese M._—C. C. Spooner $5 15.00 - Almont. Mrs. H. G., _for a Missionary, - Memphis, Tenn._ 1.00 - Benzonia. First Cong. Soc. 16.00 - Covert. A. S. Packard $50, and Sab. Sch. of - Cong. Ch. $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._; - W. J. C. 50c 100.50 - Homestead. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Marshall. D. A. Miller 5.00 - Northville. D. Pomeroy 5.00 - Owasso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 - Romeo. Ladies of Cong. Soc. $5, _for a - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 5.00 - Summit. Cong. Ch. 7.50 - - - WISCONSIN, $64.92. - - Beloit. Mrs. S. W. Clary $10, _for Byron, - Ga._; A. W. H. $1 11.00 - Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 6.02 - Boscobel. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Brandon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tougaloo U._ 4.00 - Durand. Sab. Sch. Class 1.40 - Hammond. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Racine. Individuals First Presb. Ch. $10; Mrs. - R. B. M. 50c 10.50 - Windsor. H. H. S. 0.50 - Warren. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.00 - Waukesha. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 12.50 - - - IOWA, $60.93. - - Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00 - Dubuque. Cong. Ch. 14.80 - Des Moines. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - Glenwood. Rev. L. S. Williams 5.00 - Leon, J. K., _for New Building, Tougaloo U._ 1.00 - New Hampton. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Girls’ - Ind. Sch., Talladega_ 1.00 - Osage. Sab Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 9.13 - Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 4.00 - Waterloo. Rev. M. K. Cross 10.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $113.40. - - Marine Mills. Cong. Ch. 2.38 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $28.97.—Rev. H. A. - Stimpson, $10, _for Telescope, Atlanta U._ 38.97 - St. Paul. Chas. B. Newcomb, _for Telescope, - Atlanta U._ 25.00 - St. Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell 4.00 - Princeton. Cong. Sab. Sch. (proceeds of - Concert) 18.05 - Winona. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - - - KANSAS, $19.83. - - Bavaria. Cong. Ch. $3.33; A. M. 50c 3.83 - Brookville. Cong. Ch. $15; Mrs. E. S. and W. - G. 50c. ea. 16.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $1.00. - - Nebraska City. K. U. S. S. Class, _for Cal. - Chinese M._ 1.00 - - - ARKANSAS, 51c. - - Little Rock. M. J. H. 0.51 - - - COLORADO $33.47 - - Colorado Springs. Cong. Ch. 33.47 - - - CALIFORNIA, $142.20. - - Rohnerville. J. T. 0.50 - Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay 10.00 - San Francisco. Receipts of the California - Chinese Mission 131.70 - - - OREGON, $7. - - Forest Grove. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - - - WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $3.80. - - White River. Cong. Ch. 3.80 - - - TENNESSEE, $429.65. - - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. $148.45.—Cong. Ch. Sab. - Sch. $12, _for Mendi M._ 160.45 - Nashville. Fisk University 269.20 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $197.94. - - Wilmington. “Friends” $77.50, by Miss E. A. - Warner, _for Memorial Inst._—Normal Sch. - $106.25; First Cong. Ch. $6.85—Miss Maria - Smith, _for Memorial Inst._ $2 192.60 - Woodbridge. Tuition 5.34 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $220.00. - - Charleston. Avery Inst. 220.00 - - - ALABAMA, $192.15. - - Athens. Trinity Sch. 52.75 - Florence. L. C. A. 0.50 - Mobile. Emerson Inst. $90.55; Rev. Wm. H. A. - and M. G. 50c. ea. 91.55 - Selma. First Cong. Ch. $6.60.—E. C. Silsby $5, - _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 11.60 - Talladega. Talladega College 35.75 - - - GEORGIA, $477.09. - - Atlanta. Atlanta U. $74.—Prof. T. N. Chase - $50. _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 124.00 - Macon. Lewis High Sch. 44.25 - Savannah. Beach Inst. $296.70; Cong. Ch. $7.64 - and Sab. Sch. $3.50 307.84 - Woodville. Plymouth Ch. 1.00 - - - LOUISIANA, $422.50. - - New Orleans. Straight University $214; Central - Ch. $208; Rev. H. A. R. 50c 422.50 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $63.35. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U. $43.35.—Rev. G. S. Pope - $20, _for Student Aid_ 63.35 - - - MISSOURI. $10.15. - - Brookfield. Cong. Ch. 5.15 - Index. P. M. Wells 5.00 - - - ENGLAND, $24.35. - - Bishop Auckland. Joseph Lingford 24.35 - - - SCOTLAND, $97.80. - - Perth. North United Presb. Ch. £18.—J. Balman, - _for Cal. Chinese M._ £2, by D. Morton 97.80 - —————————— - Total 11,185.49 - Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th $129,307.75 - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass’t Treas._ - - RECEIVED FOR DEBT. - - —— N. H. “A Friend” 100.00 - —— Vt. “A Friend” 100.00 - Norwich, Conn. Miss. S. Mace 20.00 - Rockville, Conn. J. N. Stickney 25.00 - West Meriden, Conn. Edmund Tuttle, to const. - CHARLES L. MERRIAM, L. M. 30.00 - New York, N. Y. Stephen T. Gordon 100.00 - Benzonia, Mich. Mrs. S. A. B. C. 1.00 - Detroit, Mich. Rev. F. T. Bayley 15.00 - Streator, Ill. Hon. Samuel Plumb 250.00 - Kilmarnock, Scotland. John Galloway 1,000.00 - ————————— - 1,641.00 - Previously acknowledged May Receipts 10,522.72 - ————————— - Total $12,163.72 - - -Receipts of the CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, (E. Palache, Treas.) -from March 21 to June 20, 1878: - - - FROM AUXILIARIES, $17.10. - - Petaluma Chinese Mission. Chinese 8.10 - Stockton Chinese Mission. Mrs. M. C. Brown $3; - Wm. Saunders $1; A. Van R. Paterson $1; - Chinese $4 9.00 - - - FROM CHURCHES, $59.60. - - San Francisco. First Cong. Ch. 44.35 - Bethany. Church (in part) 15.25 - - - FROM EASTERN FRIENDS, $55. - - Bangor, Me. Mrs. E. R. Burpee, _for Barnes’ - Mission House_ 25.00 - Lake George, N. Y. Rev. H. S. Huntington $25; - Other friends $5 30.00 - —————— - Total $131.70 - - * * * * * - - - - -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. 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Y._ - - Send for Circular and Price List. - - - * * * * * - - - CABINET ORGANS - -HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL WORLD’S EXHIBITIONS. _Only American Organs -awarded such at_ ANY. _Before buying or renting, send for our_ -LATEST CATALOGUES and CIRCULARS, with NEW STYLES, REDUCED PRICES -and _much information_. _Sent free._ - - MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO., - - BOSTON, NEW YORK, or CHICAGO. - - - * * * * * - - - ORGANS - -Splendid _=$340=_ ORGANS for _=$100=_. _=$300=_ for _=$90=_. -_=$275=_ for _=$80=_. _=$200=_ for _=$70=_. _=$190=_ for _=$65=_; -and _=$160=_ for _=$55=_. PIANOS—_=$900=_ Piano Forte for _=$225=_. -_=$800=_ for _=$200=_. _=$750=_ for _=$185=_. _=$700=_ 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 cents. - - - * * * * * - - -[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. - - - * * * * * - - - KINGSFORD’S - - OSWEGO - - For PUDDINGS, CUSTARDS, BLANC MANGE, Etc. - - The BEST is - -[Illustration: Original KINGSFORD’S OSWEGO CORN STARCH. PERFECTLY PURE] - - UNEQUALED FOR DELICACY, VARIETY OF USE AND HEALTHFULNESS. ADAPTED - ALIKE TO THE TASTE OF THE EPICURE AND THE WANTS OF THE INVALID. - - - - -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: - -“Libera” changed to “Liberia” on page 223. (expeditions to Liberia) - -“obligatians” changed to “obligations” on page 231. (under great -obligations) - -“Talladaga” changed to “Talladega” on page 251. (Unionville. Cong. -Ch., for Talladega) - -Extra “(” removed from E.D. Bassford’s ad on page 256. 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