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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. 10, October, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 27, 2016 [EBook #53377] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCTOBER 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. 10. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - OCTOBER, 1878. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - FINANCIAL 289 - OUR ANNUAL MEETING.—THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE - FREEDMEN 290 - THE YELLOW FEVER 291 - A FOUL CHANCE AND A FAIR CHANCE.—INDIAN AGENTS 292 - “INDIAN WARS” 293 - AN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK 294 - INDIAN STUDENTS.—THE WET SEASON ON THE WEST COAST 295 - PARAGRAPHS 296 - ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.—GENERAL NOTES 297 - OUR QUERY COLUMN 300 - - - THE PRESS. - - UNCLE REMUS’ REVIVAL HYMN.—A BIT OF HISTORY 301 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - GEORGIA—Brunswick—Risley School Exhibition 303 - ALABAMA—Wanted, a Barn: Rev. E. P. Lord 303 - TEXAS—The Southwest Texas Congregational Association: - Rev. B. C. Church 304 - KENTUCKY—A Vacant Church—The National Problem: Rev. - John G. Fee 305 - - - AFRICA. - - THE MENDI MISSION: Rev. Floyd Snelson and Mr. E. - White 306, 307 - - - THE INDIANS. - - S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION: Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D. 307 - GREEN BAY AGENCY: Jos. C. Bridgman, Esq. 310 - - - THE CHINESE. - - MORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG: Rev. W. C. Pond 311 - - - THE CHILDREN’S PAGE 313 - - - RECEIPTS 315 - - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 318 - - * * * * * - - 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. OCTOBER, 1878. NO. 10. - - * * * * * - - - - -_American Missionary Association._ - - * * * * * - - -FINANCIAL. - -When this number of the MISSIONARY reaches our readers, our fiscal -year (closing Sept. 30) will be nearly ended. By careful economy -for two years past, we kept our current expenses within our -receipts, and we hope that the receipts of this month will make -this the _third_ year in which our expenditures will not add a -dollar to our debt. - -Our _debt_ is now our great solicitude. Last year it was reduced, -by the sale of stocks, etc., from $93,232.99 to $62,816.90. This -year we have received to September 1, in cash, $14,108.22, and -in pledges (partly conditioned) $7,550, making $21,658.22, thus -reducing the amount—if the pledges are paid—to $41,158.68. Shall -not an effort, so nobly begun, be pushed forward to completion? - -We feel called upon, as never before, to urge the wiping out of -this debt. We have retrenched in office expenses, and have been -very guarded in annual appropriations, that it might be paid. -Generous doners have given liberally—some of their abundance—more -of their poverty—and the amount is reduced within grasp. We have -rejoiced that the liberality of the churches and individuals have, -in one month, by special efforts, well-nigh relieved a sister -society—the honored American Board—of a balance on its annual -appropriation of $80,000. A little more than half that amount, if -given to the A. M. A., will pay off the remainder of a debt that -has hung upon it as an incubus for ten years. The payment of that -debt will honor the cause of the Master; it will unfetter our -hands; it will cheer us and our friends for future work; it will -be a boon to the ignorant and needy masses for whom we labor. We -appeal to the wealthy, the liberal, the self-denying, to all who -love God and His poor, to make a final effort, by special gifts, to -reach an object so near at hand and so important. - -Our books will be closed promptly Sept. 30, for current receipts -and expenditures, but for _receipts for debt_ they will be kept -open till after the Annual Meeting; and we trust that meeting will -have the joy and glory of announcing the complete extinction of the -debt. - - * * * * * - - -OUR ANNUAL MEETING. - -The Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association will be held in the Broadway Congregational Church, -Taunton, Mass., October 29–31. The meeting will be organized on -Tuesday, at three o’clock P. M., and at half-past seven o’clock -in the evening the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. S. E. -Herrick, D. D., of Boston. On Wednesday, papers will be read by -Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., and others. Wednesday evening will -be occupied with addresses and reminiscences by present and former -missionaries of the A. M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of -committees and discussions of the work. - -The meeting will close Thursday evening, with addresses from able -and distinguished speakers, to be named hereafter. - -The people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends -who may attend the meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address -Charles H. Atwood, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning -places, will be duly sent. - - * * * * * - - -THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE FREEDMEN. - -The _Independent_ closes a careful and, in the main, accurate -summary of the work of Christian education among the negroes, with -a view of what the Roman Catholics are doing. After speaking of -the large estimates of money expended, and pupils taught by that -church, it says: - - “Nothing approaching a confirmation of these estimates has been - brought to our notice. We have carefully examined the Roman - Catholic papers with reference to this subject for a year past, - and have been able to glean from them only the most barren record - of facts and isolated movements.... We believe that, if the - Roman Catholics really had facts to prove that they have made - the progress they claim to have made, they would not hesitate to - publish them conspicuously. As they fail to produce them, we are - contented to believe, for the present, that they are doing no - more than their fair share of the work, if so much, and receiving - no more than their share of the conversions.” - -In a later issue, the same paper says: - - “We are glad to have been able to capture and expose the - spectre which has been frightening Protestants so much. We - mean the wholesale conversion of negroes to Catholicism. In a - recent article in our ‘Religious Intelligence’ we gave all the - information we could gather about the extent and results of - Catholic missions among the freedmen, and there was nothing in it - to alarm or annoy anybody. The _Catholic Review_ quotes liberally - from the article, and virtually concedes the accuracy of our - statements in the following sentences: - - “‘Like our contemporary, we have noticed the “extravagant - estimates” to which it refers; but we never happened to - notice their having been made by any Catholic authority - whatever. They usually make their appearance in papers - of the _Christian Advocate_ stamp, and are employed as a - stimulus to rouse missionary zeal in people who are much - more readily moved to give money by their hatred of Popery - than by their love for what they believe to be the truth - taught by our Divine Lord. The _Independent_ wants facts to - substantiate these boastings. We suggest that it can always - be accommodated with facts enough to substantiate the truth - of whatever assertions are actually made by our missionaries. - They can hardly be held responsible for any wild stories - which other people may circulate at their expense.’ - - “Those who have been most troubled by reports of the gains of - Catholicism among the negroes may give to the winds their fears.” - -We, too, have been for more than a year making special inquiries. -We have read the large estimates, which have been through the -newspapers, of money expended, and pupils taught. The statement -that $600,000 in gold (nearly one million dollars in our currency) -was given to this work by the Propaganda at Rome, in 1867, and -that, in the same year, sixty-six priests landed in New Orleans -to undertake missionary work among the blacks, we trace to the -_Christian Intelligencer_ of that year. - -The fact is, that it is extremely difficult to get at accurate and -authorized statements in regard to all Roman Catholic missions. -Their funds are not raised by appeals, based on special needs or -special encouragements, or addressed to the general public; and -their policy is one of quiet foundation-laying, rather than of -demonstrative up-building. It is not an easy task, even, to secure -reliable information of what they are doing here at our doors, or -behind their own. - -Recognizing this difficulty, we are not ready to agree with the -_Independent_ that, if the Roman Catholics had facts to prove, they -would not hesitate to publish them conspicuously. Nor are we ready -yet to congratulate ourselves that we “have been able to capture -and expose the spectre,” while we are obliged to confess that we -have not had it in our grasp sufficiently to take the measure of -its outlines, or tell its height and girth. - -A careful reading of the ‘virtual concession’ of the _Catholic -Review_ makes it amount to virtually nothing, except an ingenious -evasion of responsibility for any statements which may have -been made. It does not even say that the estimates have been -extravagant, but uses that expression as a quotation from the -_Independent_. It only suggests that assertions actually made by -missionaries (who are careful not to make assertions) can always be -substantiated. - -We would merely caution the friend of the negro, and those who -fear the influence of Romanism over him, that an argument based on -ignorance is not very securely founded. And, while we would not -have _omne ignotum pro magnifico_, or believe because the spectre -is vague, it must be very large; on the other hand, we would not -say of one whose wont is to hide itself, “Because we cannot dissect -it, it is nothing.” - - * * * * * - - -THE YELLOW FEVER. - -The yellow fever, in its ravages in the South, pays no regard to -race, color or previous condition. Whites and blacks alike have -suffered from its sudden and malignant attacks. Death levels all -distinctions. The statement which has been often made, that the -negroes are proof against this pestilence, seems to have been -ill-based, as intelligent observers of its ravages in former years -utterly contradict it. At any rate, it is not true of this year’s -scourge. - -Quite opposite assertions have been made in regard to the conduct -of the blacks during the panic which this deathly visitor has -occasioned. So contradictory, in fact, that we suspect the truth -to be that they have acted very much like white people of the -same intelligence. Some have stood at their posts, and done noble -work as nurses, as ministers, and in humbler stations. And some, -doubtless, like those of other races, have been carried by their -fears away from the most sacred of duties. - -How has it affected our work? Of course, our schools in the -South are closed during the hot months, and most of the teachers -and white pastors are in the North. Straight University, at New -Orleans, La., is closed, and Rev. Mr. Alexander, the pastor of -the church, is at his New England home. At Grenada, Miss., which -has been almost depopulated by the fever, we had a school. The -two teachers, however, we believe went to the country before the -pestilence reached that beautiful town. The only one of our workers -whom we know to have been stricken down is Rev. W. W. Mallory, the -colored pastor of the church at Memphis, Tenn., who was still sick -at our last advices. We have reason to hope for his recovery and -restoration to full health. - -We have transmitted some sums of money which have been put into our -hands for special relief to the suffering colored people of these -infected districts, to which we have added what we felt justified -in doing from the funds of the Association. - -But the peril is not over yet. Many days must intervene before the -thrice welcome frosts may be expected to kill the germs of this -fell disease, and famine always comes in the train of continued -pestilence. It is the Lord’s work to avert suffering and relieve -physical want. May the fountains of charity, which have been opened -so freely through the land, continue to flow increasingly until -there shall be no more thirst. - - * * * * * - - -A FOUL CHANCE AND A FAIR CHANCE. - -A correspondent writes us upon the subject of how the freedman is -getting on, as follows: - -“On my way up the Mississippi, between the States of Arkansas and -Mississippi, I fell into conversation with a planter living on the -right bank of the river, and, after the manner of all Yankees, -asked him how the negroes were getting on. He was a short, chunky, -red-faced man, and his account was gloomy in the extreme. He said -that he would not undertake to tell me all the trouble he had with -his ‘help,’ for, if he did, I would not believe him at all. He -said that he could not advance them anything at the beginning of -the season, for fear of their running away and leaving him without -hands in time of harvest; that they were so lazy that all they -cared for was to get bread and meat for the least possible amount -of work; that, although all his hands were deacons or preachers -or ‘exalters,’ they stole so that he could not raise any pigs or -chickens; that the members of the church were more licentious than -the ‘world’s people’; that they got angry and burned his gin-house -every year, etc., etc. He was the first man that I had met, during -a residence of nine years at the South, who would admit that he was -sorry the slaves had been made free. - -“On my way down the river, at about the same point, I had a -conversation upon the same subject with a man residing on the other -bank. He was a tall gentleman of fine form, with an intellectual, -genial, open face. In reply to my inquiries, he said the freedmen -were doing first-rate; were industrious, honest, temperate and -moral; were acquiring property in stock, tools and land; and he -found free labor more easily managed and more profitable than slave -labor. I referred to the conversation I had with his Mississippi -neighbor on my way up, and asked him why their reports were so -different. With a good deal of animation and emphasis, he replied: -‘I can tell you why it is: I just give my niggers a chance, and -he doesn’t. He has always brought them out in debt to him at the -end of every year, and has crushed out all their enterprise and -ambition, so that, as he says, the problem with them is how to -get a bare living with the least possible amount of work. All the -nigger wants is a fair chance.’” - - * * * * * - - -INDIAN AGENTS. - -Under the Peace Policy, the Government has entrusted to the -American Missionary Association the nomination of six Indian -agents. Vacancies in these occur from time to time, and -applications for nominations are desired. One vacancy now exists. - -These Indian agencies afford an admirable opportunity for -usefulness to the right persons; but they are not sinecures for -incompetent men—whether laymen or ministers. It is desirable that -the applicant have some knowledge of farming and the simpler -mechanic arts, but it is essential that he present the best -of credentials as to _piety, integrity, business capacity and -experience, and ability to influence masses of men_. - -The salary ranges from $1,000 to $2,000 per annum, according to -the responsibilities and duties of the agencies. Bonds for the -faithful performance of duty will be required by the government, -varying from $15,000 to $20,000. - -Applications or inquiries may be addressed to Rev. M. E. Strieby, -56 Reade Street, New York. - - * * * * * - - -“INDIAN WARS.” - -And so the latest Indian War is over! It is absurd to call such -chases and skirmishes by so dignified a name. Small bands of ten, -twenty, sometimes a hundred or two outlaws in revolt, are hunted -to death or surrender in the wildernesses of the Far West. We -call them nations, and this undignified pursuit a war. It is, in -reality, only the same thing which is continually being done in -our great cities by the police. Law-breakers, and men who avenge -their own wrongs, must be chased to their dens, and either caught -and chained, or shot like dogs. Only that, on the frontier, the -facilities for the violence, and then for the escape, are so much -greater than in the city; and that we have to send generals and -colonels in the army after them, instead of sergeants of police. - -We pity the “braves” of the Territories more than we do the -“roughs” of the bloody sixth ward, because they are more ignorant -and more wronged, and because the hindrances to a better life are -even greater for them. And we pity the gallant men of the army, who -are compelled to do this police work, in dogging criminals to death. - -Among the recent dispatches is one, telling of an encounter -between six cow-boys and eight Indians on the Nueces River, in -which four Indians were killed and one captured; one of the boys -had a flesh-wound, and the others only wounds in their clothing. -Generalship does not go for much in such guerrilla warfare. West -Point tactics are not of much avail. Often, in the brooks of New -England, the farmer’s boy, who goes fishing with a stick and a -string, when it rains too hard to work out of doors, will bring -home ten times as many trout as the city sportsman with eight-ounce -rod, a Conroy reel and a choice assortment of flies. Perhaps a -small army of cow-boys would serve us best on the frontier. It is -not fit work for real soldiers. We do not mean a word of disrespect -to them. They have our sympathy and admiration for their fidelity -and obedience, and for not resigning when they are set to such work. - -But how much better it would be if, by fair treatment and -honestly-fulfilled pledges, we had made these Indians both friendly -and law-abiding—or, even, if now, with patience and forbearance, -we should be persistently kind and true, and see how long it would -be before we and they should find each in the other, “a man and a -brother.” - - * * * * * - -The difference between _equal_ and _identical_ rights is well -illustrated by the action of the Georgia Central Railroad -officials. Travel between Macon and Savannah is so light that only -one passenger coach is run. By a partition this is divided into two -parts, furnished exactly alike, one for white and the other for -colored passengers. The colored end being nearly empty one day, a -white man took a seat, or rather _four_ seats, in it, upon which -the conductor told him that he was in the wrong end of the car, and -that the vice-president was very particular that no white persons -be allowed to ride in the apartment for colored people. - -A similar arrangement formerly prevailed on the street-cars in -Mobile, and some of the old partitioned cars are still in use. -It is to be hoped that, in the course of human events, identical -rights on steam-cars will not be considered any worse than on horse -cars by the constituents of Georgia’s good Governor Colquitt. - - -AN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK. - -We have just received a copy of the _Hymns in the Chinook Jargon -Language_, compiled by Rev. Mr. Eells, missionary of the American -Missionary Association. It is not a ponderous volume like those -in use in our American churches, with twelve or fifteen hundred -hymns, but a modest pamphlet of thirty pages, containing both the -Indian originals and the English translations. The tunes include, -among others, “Happy Land,” “Greenville,” “Bounding Billow,” “John -Brown,” and the “Hebrew Children.” The hymns are very simple, and -often repeat all but the first line. The translations show the -poverty of the language to convey religious ideas. - -One hymn reads— - - “Always Jesus is very strong, - So his Paper (the Bible) says.” - -Another we give in full, and in both original and translation, as -part of the words of the Jargon will be seen to be English: - - - HEAVEN. - - 1. Kopa Saghalie konoway tillikums - Halo olo, halo sick, - Wake kliminwhit, halo solleks, - Halo pahtlum, halo cly. - - _Chorus_—Jesus mitlite kopa Saghalie - Kunamoxt konoway tillikums kloshe. - - 2. Yahwa tillikums wake klahowya, - Wake sick tumtum, halo till, - Halo mimoluse, wake mesachie, - Wake polaklie, halo cole.—_Chorus._ - - 3. Yahwa tillikums mitlite kwanesum, - Hiyu houses, hiyu sing; - Papa, mama, pe kloshe tenas; - Ovacut yaka chicamin pil.—_Chorus._ - - 4. Jesus potlatch kopa siwash, - Spose mesika, hias kloshe, - Konoway iktas mesika tikegh, - Kopa Saghalie kwanesum.—_Chorus._ - - - Tune, “_Greenville_.” - - 1. In Heaven all the people - Are not hungry, are not sick; - They do not tell lies, do not become angry; - They do not become drunk, do not cry. - - Jesus lives in Heaven, - Together with all good people. - - 2. There the people are not poor, - Have no sorrow, are not tired; - They do not die, are not wicked; - There is no darkness, no cold. - - 3. There the people live always; - There are many houses, and much singing; - There is father, mother and good children; - The street is of gold. - - 4. Jesus will give to the Indians, - If you are very good, - Everything you wish, - In Heaven, always. - - -We only extract, further, the literal translation of the Lord’s -Prayer, some of the petitions of which seem to find admirable -expression in this version, especially the “lead us not into -temptation,” etc.: - -“Our Father who lives in the Above, good thy name over everywhere. -Good if thou become true Chief over all people. Good if thy mind is -on the earth, as in the Above. Give to us during this day our food. -Pity us for our wickedness, as we pity any man if he does evil to -us. Not thou carry us to where evil is; but if evil find us, good -thou help us conquer that evil. Truly all earth thy earth, and thou -very strong, and thou truly very good, so we wish all this. Good -so.” - -It is no little task to make hymns for such a people out of such -poor materials. Let it be understood that these are only hymns for -the transition state, for Indians who can only remember a little, -and who sing in English as soon as they have learned to read. - -This little book is an interesting monument of missionary labor, -and full of suggestion as to the manifold difficulties to be -encountered in the attempt to Christianize the Indians of America. - - * * * * * - - -INDIAN STUDENTS. - -The fifteen Indian students who have been studying at Hampton -remain there through the summer. Many of our readers will look -with interest for some news of them, and be glad to hear of their -continued progress and content. Like the other students who remain, -they work through the summer, chiefly on the farm, thus earning -money for their clothing and support. They are allowed a day and -a half in school each week, and thus, under a regular teacher, -their instruction is kept up in the English language, with object -lessons, and phonetic practice, writing, arithmetic and geography. -They also meet for an hour every evening, from eight to nine, -with a few of the other students, under the care of a teacher, -for conversation, and games that are exercises in talking. This -conversation class is thus far a great success, enjoyed by the -Indians and the other students who take pleasure in helping them. - -They also have their Sunday-school class, and a prayer-meeting, in -which most of them are very constant and devoted attendants. The -devoutness of their simple prayers in Cheyenne and Kiowa cannot be -doubted by a listener, though understood only by the Great Spirit -to whom they are addressed. - -At their first meeting, a gentleman present spelled out the -question with the card letters for one of the young men to answer: -Why do you like to learn? Letter by letter the startlingly -impressive answer followed, “Because it makes me a man!” - - * * * * * - - -THE WET SEASON ON THE WEST COAST. - -It will be borne in mind by those who have special interest in our -Mendi Mission that it is still the rainy season, to which all the -peculiar perils of the West Coast of Africa are to be encountered, -and with great risk to the health and life of those who are not -fully acclimated. We have had weekly letters from our colored -missionaries there, to as late a date as Aug. 13th, who have been -passing the first test of their ability to endure the climate -and resist the African fever. None of them have entirely escaped -the touch of its hot breath and icy hand, and yet it seems to -have for the most part passed them lightly by. Two of the female -missionaries have been very sick. One, Mrs. Dr. James, died early -in the season. - -Thus far, then, we are encouraged to believe that, as we hoped it -would prove, men and women of African descent endure the risks of -transplanting and of naturalization far better than those who have -neither themselves nor their ancestors been “to the manner born.” -And, if these perils at the threshold can be encountered better by -them than by others, we may surely hope that the less malignant -influences which pervade the atmosphere will not undermine their -strength, as it does with those who are foreigners by both blood -and birth. - -It behooves their friends on this side the ocean, who believe in -the power of prayer, to keep these missionaries constantly in their -minds and in their hearts, and to pray the Lord of the harvest, -who has already raised up and sent forth these laborers into the -field, that He will enable them to bear the heat and burden of the -day. - -They are doing well in their work. The schools are growing and -gaining in every way. A lack of proper text-books has hampered the -teachers, and an unfortunate delay has occurred by the loss of a -box containing a supply, which, with the boat which was conveying -it from Freetown to Good Hope, failed to reach its destination. The -church has received valuable accessions since Mr. Snelson and his -co-laborers reached the field. We hope to have more regular and -full correspondence to lay before our readers in future, from month -to month. - - * * * * * - - -An honored New Hampshire pastor writes: “I should be glad to -see the A. M. A’s debt removed, and I am in hearty sympathy -with the Society. It seems to me to combine, in the persons of -the freedmen—to say nothing of the Chinese, etc.—the claims of -Home and Foreign Missions in a remarkable degree. Patriotism and -philanthropy meet and blend in its work.” - -The same friend says: “Communism, so much, and thus far, perhaps, -so extravagantly dreaded, will find friends among the black race at -a future day, to an extent unexpected now, if we are not prompt to -enlighten and Christianize that vast army of ignorant and voting -laborers.” - - * * * * * - - -When, at the opening of the war, the life of the infant Berea -College was sought, the Angel of Providence said: “Arise, and take -the young child and flee into the Egypt of Safety, and be thou -there until I bring thee word; for the Herod of Slavery will seek -the young child, to destroy him.” But, when Herod was dead, behold, -the angel appeared, saying: “Arise, and take the young child and -go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the -young child’s life.” And they arose and took the young child Berea, -and went back into their own land. And the child grew, and waxed -strong in spirit. And other children were born to this household of -faith—Howard and Hampton, and Fisk and Atlanta, and Talladega and -Straight and Tougaloo, and several more. These do not have to flee -for their life; but they need to be nourished into maturity, that -they may do the mighty work assigned them in this and in coming -generations, here and in other lands. - - * * * * * - -_Apropos_—A judge from a Western city told us, the other day, that, -having had a black man to testify in his court, he turned and -complimented him from the bench as the most intelligent witness he -had ever had in that box. - - * * * * * - -He had been a colonel in the war. Since the coming of peace he -had remained in the South, to engage in the process of the social -and political reconstruction. He felt the desperateness of the -case, and yet was hopeful. In our office, he was setting forth the -Southern status, and arguing for patient endurance and vigorous -endeavor when, in his military phrase, he broke forth: “It is only -one shot in five hundred that hits.” Fire away, then, ye soldiers -of the Cross! Some of the shots will hit. - - * * * * * - -It was the Christmas of the year 1865. It was in a Southern city. -The preacher, though black, had the frosts of seventy winters on -his head. His text was the parable of the vine and the branches. In -the sermon of singular unction, he said: “My brethren, we has the -advantage of the vine and the branches. They get the sap only in -the spring and thro’ the season, _but the Christian has the sap all -the year ’round_.” - - * * * * * - -_Old Whitey._—Lewis Tappan had nothing too good to be used for the -benefit of the colored people. While our new Field Superintendent -was in the last six months of his course at the Union Theological -Seminary, with aid from the American Home Missionary Society, he -preached back of Brooklyn for a Presbyterian church of “Americans, -falsely called Africans,” as Mr. Tappan was fond of styling that -people. His own family carriage and horse he furnished the young -preacher all that time for riding out and back. Storms and mud did -not prevent the cheerful bringing out of the rig. In later years, -upon meeting the preacher, he would always speak with pleasure of -the service of Old Whitey. In those days, or even now, how few men -would furnish their family turnout for such a purpose! - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS. - -HAMPTON, VA.—The Trustees of the Normal Institute have decided to -uniform the male students. A plain sack-coat, pantaloons and cap of -bluish-gray cloth have been selected. The suit will cost about ten -dollars. - -—Seventy young men and twenty-two young women remain at Hampton -Institute this summer—a larger number than in any previous -year—finding employment on the school-farm, in the shops, -knitting-room, laundry, and at housework. The young people are -under watchful care and supervision; the family life of the school -is kept up, and regular Bible-class instruction on Sundays. - -BYRON, GA.—Two united with the church during the month of August; -two infants baptised. Still, many are asking what must they do to -be saved. - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—A professor writes: “Never before were our young -ministers, as a body, so much in earnest as now, or more successful -than this summer in their Christian work. They evince more tact in -overcoming difficulties, and show more power in removing obstacles -than I have ever seen in them before. The last two years have told -powerfully on their mental and Christian development.” - -—Rev. Mr. Hill writes; “At the church prayer-meeting in the -chapel, September 3d, three girls, pupils in the college, rose and -expressed a hope in Christ. Two of them are in the family at Foster -Hall, for whom we have felt anxious, and have been praying all -summer. They seem now very decided and very happy. I have been much -impressed with the deep spiritual tone of the teachers here, and -their entire consecration to the work.” - -—The Talladega College Industrial Department will hold a State -Industrial Fair at the grounds of the College, in Talladega, Ala., -in November, 1878. This fair is intended as an exhibition of -what the colored people are able to do, as farmers, carpenters, -printers, manufacturers, musicians, housewives, etc. Any one who -has produced, or made, or who owns anything he considers especially -fine, is invited to exhibit. Three hundred dollars or more are -promised, and it is hoped the sum may be increased to one thousand -dollars, to be given as prizes. - -CHILDERSBURG, ALA.—Rev. Mr. Jones was ordained here in June. -Between twenty and thirty have recently come out on the Lord’s side. - -ALABAMA FURNACE, ALA.—A protracted meeting is now in progress, with -decided indications of good results; and also at the “Cove,” there -have been several marked conversions. - -NEW ORLEANS, LA.—A gentleman of high standing, in New Orleans, -writes to Mr. Alexander, the pastor of the Central Congregational -Church, who is now in the North: “Notwithstanding the intense heat, -and the excitement that prevails because of the yellow-fever here, -the congregation at Central Church have not abated their interest, -and, both on Thursday evenings and on Sundays, they manifest by -their presence that they will ‘not forsake the assembling of -themselves together as the manner of some is.’ The good Lord is -present to bless at every service, and the faithful people are, as -far as I know, conscientiously discharging every known duty. They -display a zeal that is truly commendable, and must certainly meet -your approbation and esteem.” - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -The Freedmen. - -—The Trustees of the Peabody Fund have just sent $1,200 to aid -schools in North Carolina. One thousand dollars of this amount is -to be used in Raleigh alone—$600 for a white graded school, and -$400 for the two colored graded schools. Dr. Sears, agent of the -fund, said that the Trustees would have sent more money, but that -the income from it had recently fallen off 40 per cent. - -—The North Carolina Legislature of 1876–77 provided for two Normal -schools—one for white persons and one for black persons. The latter -offers continuous instruction throughout the year at Fayetteville. -It is under the care of Mr. Harris, a colored man, who was prepared -for the work, which he does well, in Ohio. - -—The Board of Education at San José, Cal., has abolished the -colored school, and the former pupils have been permitted to enter -the other schools. - -—At Memphis, a telegram says the colored population are acting well -in the emergency, and heartily co-operating with the whites, and -adds: - - “A meeting has been called by prominent colored men for the - purpose of organization, to assist the whites in relieving - distress and guarding the property, which the people, in - the panic of last week, left unguarded. Their action in the - present emergency speaks volumes, and has greatly increased the - confidence reposed in them by those who were their masters. Among - the most efficient on the police force now are the negroes.” - -—When the better people of the North come to be understood by -the right-thinking people of the South, we shall have hearty -co-operation in the education of the negro.—_Rev. Robert West._ - -—To “remove the colored man from politics”—in the sense of taking -him out of such an absorption in politics, and such a misuse of -them as does injury to himself and to others—it is only necessary -to put him into education and industry.—_The Advance._ - -—No nation can possibly let twelve per cent. of its population grow -up in ignorance, superstition and vice, without reaping a fearful -harvest. - -—Macaulay says: “The best remedy for the evils incident to -newly-acquired freedom, is _freedom_.” - - -Africa. - -From all the west coast of Africa, in 1874, there were imported -486,544 cwt. of palm oil and kernels, valued at £518,134, or over -two-and-a-half million dollars; of India-rubber, 3,427 cwt. were -imported, valued at £25,792; of coffee, 11,502 cwt., valued at -£46,506; of spices and ginger, 8,803 cwt., valued at £20,908; and, -noticeable fact to Americans, of raw cotton, 11,315 cwt., valued at -£32,839. - -The chief articles sent out to the islands and coasts were cottons, -arms and ammunition, haberdashery, hardware and cutlery. Of these, -cotton was king. The whole number of yards of cotton cloth, mostly -prints, sold at these ports for that year, amounted to 47,217,966, -or nearly forty-eight millions. Allowing thirty yards to a piece, -and thirty pieces to a bale, there were over fifty thousand cases -of calicoes, whose value was estimated at £745,179, or nearly four -millions of dollars. Shall America utterly neglect so rich a field, -with its hundreds of factories half idle, and not a few completely -at rest?—_African Repository._ - -—The colored Republic of Liberia has 3,500 voters, 116 -officeholders, besides petty magistrates and constables, and taxes -the people at the rate of twenty-nine dollars for every voter, -besides the cost of maintaining schools and government buildings. - -—Stanley is said to have agreed to make another exploring trip -through the Continent of Africa, at the expense of the king of -Belgium. - -—Mr. Williams, who accompanied the Azor’s shipload of South Carolina -negroes to Liberia, is unwilling to take the responsibility of -advising the colored people of the United States to emigrate. -It is a magnificent country, and money is to be made there; but -the risks of fever and disease are great, and the climate is -enervating. Thrift, patience and good management are essential -to success. No emigrant should land at Monrovia without a six -months’ stock of provisions, a supply of simple medicines, a -little ready money, and all the bright calicoes, brass trinkets -and notions he can lay his hands on. Salt is always valuable, too. -In the interior, the natives lick visitors’ hands for the salty -taste of the perspiration. Those who have from $200 to $300 over -their passage-money will have a much better chance of becoming -independent in Liberia than in America; but those who expect to -find there a heaven on earth, where they will not have to work, and -who are unprovided with means, will soon become disheartened, and -be anxious to return to the United States. - - -The Indians. - -—One fundamental principle in the management of the Indians should -be, that they are not to be massed together, but separated in small -communities, and as soon as may be, in homesteads. The more they -mix with us the less they will disturb us. - -—The solution of the Indian problem will be found whenever a -policy founded upon justice shall be inaugurated, entrusted to a -separate department of the Government, free from political or army -interference, executed by men selected on account of fitness, who -shall be exempt from the accursed political dogma, “that to the -victors belong the spoils,” held to strictest accountability, and -subject to removal only by impeachment. When this is done so that -it cannot be undone, and the officers of the Department are clothed -with power to protect the Indian under the civil law of the land, -and the barriers to the citizenship of the Indian are removed, -and he stands upon the same plane with every other man, alike -responsible to law, and equally entitled to its protection, then, -and not until then, may we hope for peace with our native tribes. -When the army of the United States shall become what it ought ever -to be, the executive servant of the people, called into requisition -only when humane measures have failed, then it may fulfil its -mission—never as a humane civilizing power.—_Col. Meacham._ - -—The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the -Indian tribes in the United States is 117. - -—Of the 8,000 youth of legal school age in the Indian Territory, -over 5,000 are enrolled as attendants at the common schools, and -an average daily attendance of over 3,000 is reported. There is a -_per capita_ expenditure upon the total school population of the -Cherokees of twenty-five dollars, while New York State expends -but six. The total expenditure in all the tribes is very nearly -$200,000 a year. If money can make good schools, the Indians -certainly ought to have them. - -—The Bannock war is over, and the Snakes are scotched. If we may -believe these last—though it was one of their tribe who deceived -our first mother—in the division of labor, the Bannocks did the -murdering, and the Snakes the stealing. - -—The care of Spotted Tail agency was put into the hands of the -Episcopal Church, under the administration of Secretary Delano, in -the Interior Department. The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs -decides that this means that no other missionary religious teachers -shall go on this ground except Episcopalians. Consequently, three -Catholic priests have just been banished from the Spotted Tail -agency, against the wish and choice of that chief and his people. -So says the _Advance_. - - -Chinese. - -—The number of children in San Francisco between the ages of -five and seventeen is 55,899, of whom 133 are negroes, and 4 -Indians. The number under five years, of all classes, is 24,389, -making a total under seventeen years, of 80,288, of whom 1,505 -are Mongolians. Of the white children of school age, who have not -attended any school during the past year, there are 16,147. The -returns do not mention any Mongolian children as having attended -school. - -—The Chinese Consul, Lit-Mium Cook, who has recently arrived at -the port of San Francisco, says that the Chinese Government has -no desire to abrogate or modify the Burlingame Treaty, and also -that it believes that the Government of the United States has -both the power and the will to protect Chinamen in the enjoyment -of their treaty rights in this country. Mr. Seward, United States -Minister to China, who arrived at San Francisco in the same -vessel, expresses himself as strongly opposed, on commercial and -international grounds, to any change of the existing treaty with -China. There is not the slightest danger, as he thinks, that -Chinese immigration will ever be so great as to give that race any -control in this country, or make it injurious to our industrial -interests. - -—Chinese labor is discountenanced by the Legislature of British -Columbia. A resolution just passed declares that “Chinese laborers -should not be employed upon the public works of the province, and -that a clause should be inserted in specifications of all contracts -awarded, to the effect that contractors will not be permitted to -employ Chinese labor upon the works, and that, in event of their -doing so, the government will not be responsible for payment of the -contract.” - -—Two Chinese young men are preparing themselves for the ministry of -the Episcopal Church, in San Francisco, Cal. - -—The Chinese Ambassador is credited with the statement that the -Chinese will go to Ireland, as that is the only country that the -Irish do not rule. - - * * * * * - - -OUR QUERY COLUMN. - -One of our most experienced and successful teachers writes to us: -“Why not have a Query Column in the MISSIONARY, which will bring us -in contact oftener? Have questions practical, and answers concise, -clear, and to the point.” To all which we say: Why not, indeed? - -Answer: We will. - -Here is, then, already the beginning—a query and an answer. The -query practical, which is the only condition imposed by the writer. -The answer, although our own, we are not afraid to measure by all -the three conditions suggested. It is concise—not susceptible of -any very great condensation; clear—no vagueness there; and to the -point—indeed, a direct answer. - -Our Query Column is, then, in its place. After the news and notes -will be a place for the interrogation marks. Who will ask the -questions? We suppose it will be he that wants to know. And who -will answer them? We do not profess to know everything at the New -York office; but we have a wise man in the East, at Boston, and -one who may _occidentally_ know a thing or two at Chicago, a royal -correspondent in the South, who will be everywhere, and a whole -corps of intelligent teachers and pastors on the field, who, best -of all, can answer each other’s questions. - -Seriously, then, we welcome the idea. We hereby open and inaugurate -“Our Query Column,” for all our friends and co-workers. Let the -questions be “practical,” germain to our distinctive work. Let them -be the real questions on which you desire light for yourselves, -and from some source we will try to secure you answers which shall -be “concise, clear, and to the point.” Of course, we (for the -editorial, like the kingly, “we” is a cover for much irresponsible -authority) shall answer, or cause to be answered, only such queries -as, in our judgment, will be helpful to the work we have in hand. -Who asks first? - - - - -THE PRESS. - - * * * * * - - - UNCLE REMUS’ REVIVAL HYMN. - - O, whar’ shall we go when de great day comes, - Wid de blowin’ ob de trumpets an’ de bangin’ ob de drums? - How many po’ sinners ’ll be cotched out late, - An’ fin’ no latch ter de golden gate? - No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer, - De sun musn’t set on yo’ sorrer; - Sin’s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier— - O Lord, fetch de mo’ners up higher! - - When de nations ob de earth are standin’ all aroun’ - Who’s a gwine ter be chosen fer ter war de glory crown? - Who’s a gwine fer ter stan’, stiff-kneed an’ bol’, - An’ answer ter deir name at de callin’ ob de roll? - You’d better come now ef you’s comin’, - Ole Satan’s a loose an’ a bummin’, - De wheels ob destruction is a hummin’— - O, come along, sinner, ef you’s commin’. - - De song ob salvation is a mighty sweet song, - An’ de Paradise wind blow fur an’ blow strong, - An’ Aberham’s buzzum is safe an’ its wide, - An’ dat’s de place whar de sinners orter hide. - No use ter be stoppin’ an’ a lookin’, - Ef yo’ fool wid Satan you’ll get took in; - You’ll hang on de edge an’ get shook in, - Ef yo’ keep on a stoppin’ an’ a lookin’. - - Jes now is de time, an’ dis yer is de place, - Let de salvation sun shine squar’ in yo’ face; - Fight de battles ob de Lord, fight soon an’ fight late, - An’ you’ll always fin’ a latch ter de golden gate. - No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer, - De sun musn’t set on yo’ sorrer; - Sin’s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier— - Ax de Lord fer ter fetch yo’ up higher.—_Exchange._ - - * * * * * - - -A BIT OF HISTORY. - -There is nothing new under the sun—not even a Home Missionary -Society for Illinois. The American Missionary Association had three -auxiliaries—the Penobscot, in Maine; the Western Home and Foreign, -at Cincinnati; and the North-western, at Chicago. In 1854, the -North-western was modified to become the Illinois Home Missionary -Association. As such it was operated for five or six years, when -it was given up, and the whole work was transferred to the A. M. -A., with a District Secretary to have supervision of the missionary -churches and to push the collections. When that District Secretary -and the missionary churches, in 1861, were transferred to the A. -H. M. S., he retained in possession the record books of those two -auxiliaries. But these, together with other precious journals, -were consumed by the great fire, so that it will be difficult to -reproduce that chapter in our State home evangelism. Rev. Epaphras -Goodman was the Corresponding Secretary. Rev. S. G. Wright and Dr. -Flavel Bascom both served as agents. Rev. A. L. Rankin, now of -California, was a general missionary along the southern portion -of the Illinois Central Railroad. Coming to one place in Egypt, -and inquiring for the religious element there, he got this as an -answer: “Religious element? You are the first man we have had -making that inquiry. We thought you were looking for land.” - -We find by the Annual Report of the A. M. A. for 1855 that, of its -104 missionaries in the home department, forty of them were under -the Illinois Society. Among these were Revs. W. W. Blanchard, -Nelson Cook, George Bent, William Beardsley, S. Dilley, George -Gemmell, J. T. Marsh, M. N. Miles, Alfred Morse, W. A. Nichols, L. -Parker, George Schlosser, David Todd, E. E. Wells and David Wirt. -Among the fifty-four churches aided were the South, the Edwards, -and the Welsh, of Chicago; and those of Amboy, Henry, Providence, -Udina, Plymouth, of Ottawa; DeKalb, Lawn Ridge, Metamora, Roscoe, -Sterling, Bloomington, Byron, Kankakee, Newark, Milburn, Albany, -Urbana (now Champaign), Huntley, Victoria, Shirland, Dundee and -Sandwich. - -The State Society investigated the necessities of the field, and -endorsed applications for aid, but did not make appropriations -to the churches. This was done by the A. M. A. in New York, -which issued the commissions. After a while the executive -committee—Deacons Carpenter and Johnston, and Pastors Patton and -Roy—finding that they were simply an additional committee for -endorsing applications, and not having the responsibility and the -stimulus of administration, made request to have the whole work -resumed by the A. M. A., and the State Society voted to discontinue -its operations. Herein is a confirmation of the wisdom of the new -Society in making itself independent and auxiliary, and not simply -co-operative. This piece of history, containing the argument of -experience, was not brought out in the late series of discussions. - -That there was no alienation of feeling attending this separate -operation in home missions as a testimony against slavery, is -evident from the fact that the churches and the missionary pastors -of the A. M. A. were so readily turned over to the A. H. M. S., -and by it so cheerfully received. That National Home Missionary -Society had all along borne more or less of testimony against -slave-holding; but when, in 1857, it passed a rule by which all -of its fifty-five Southern Presbyterian missionaries were dropped -from its list, then no one could question the soundness of its -position. So, again, the readiness with which testifying churches -returned to regular contributions in behalf of the American Board, -as well as of this Society, revealed an abiding love for these -very organizations with which for a time they had not walked in -fellowship. The First and the Plymouth Churches of Chicago, which, -from their organization, had taken each its two annual collections -for the A. M. A., one for the home and one for the foreign -department, fell in with the old Society and Board as naturally and -heartily as though they had always been among the more conservative -churches. On the other hand, the chief officers and supporters of -the old organizations were glad that the organic testimony thus -borne, along with other influences, had been able to tone up public -sentiment so that the satisfactory action could be taken by them. - -And now everybody sees that, out of that testifying process, God -was bringing on another organization to be ready against the day -when He should open to it the special field of the South and of -Africa. - - —_Rev. Dr. Roy, in the Advance._ - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -Brunswick—Risley School Exhibition. - -AS SEEN BY A SOUTHERNER. - - This school is taught by S. B. Morse, a graduate of Atlanta - University. The following account is from a local newspaper. - -MR. EDITOR: It has ever been a source of unfeigned pleasure to me -to observe any efforts tending to the elevation and refinement -of humanity. Hence, it was no less a pleasure than surprise -last evening when I found so marvelously successful an effort -in that direction, as evinced in the concert and exhibition—the -closing exercises of the Risley School. Mr. Morse (a graduate of -the University of Atlanta) may justly congratulate himself upon -the proficiency attained by his pupils, considering the great -difficulties and discouragements under which he has necessarily had -to labor. - -The colored people are born natural musicians; but the time, -harmony and smooth rendering of the “part-songs” last night gave -indubitable evidence of thorough culture and faithful practice. -The declamation by the young scholars displayed good powers of -memory and hard study. Their enunciation was distinct and perfect. -The selections were excellent. With the single exception of an -interruption by a few disagreeable, unmannerly boys, who evidently -had as little respect for themselves as for propriety, the affair -went off without a break. Quite a number of white persons were -present. Just before closing the exercises, Mr. Morse made a short -and pertinent address, stating the numerous difficulties under -which he had labored, but offering “the fruits of his labors” as -the test of his fidelity and capacity for filling the position he -proudly claimed, of “teacher.” The Honorable President of the Board -of Education and Mr. Kenrick, the county-school commissioner, were -called upon for speeches, and expressed their hearty gratification -at the degree of proficiency and the evidence of faithful study -on the part of the school, and their satisfaction at the marked -improvement in order, manner, and the advance in education, as -clearly shown by their present exhibition. - -We have to congratulate ourselves upon possessing a most quiet, -respectable and law-abiding colored element. Their comfortable -homes, with well-stocked gardens; their numerous churches, some -quite pretentious in architecture, and, above all, their large and -substantial free school, give proof that there is no question of -their enjoyment of all “the rights, titles and emoluments” of a -“free and independent citizen” in Brunswick. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Wanted—a Barn. - -REV. E. P. LORD, TALLADEGA COLLEGE. - -Meeting a lady recently who has long been interested in our work, -she remarked: “Talladega does not seem to have so many wants as -most new institutions—at least, we do not hear so much of them.” -Imagine my surprise, when I had feared that the Association and all -of our friends were wearied by our continual importunities. - -What a list we have of not merely wants, but actual and pressing -necessities, for which some of us pray as continually and earnestly -as for daily bread. A dormitory, for the physical and moral -good of the young men, now crowded six and more in a room, in a -building intended and much needed for other purposes; a library, as -necessary in a college as steam in a factory; money, without which -none of the means of elevating a race or individuals can be made -effective. - -But I want now especially to urge one vital necessity, even to the -continuance of one of our most important means of helping this -people. Last year good friends in the North gave us $3,566.52, -and some of the instructors advanced $2,000. With this amount -property valued now at about $5,000 has been purchased, and an -Industrial Department, including farming, carpentering, printing, -and house-work of all kinds, has been carried on one year. By -this outlay sixty scholars have earned a large sum in payment of -their school expenses. They have also learned to do these various -kinds of work in a systematic and intelligent manner. But in the -growth of character the good has been greatest. The young people -have acquired earnestness, self-dependence and enterprise. During -the vacation they are disseminating this practical knowledge and -their spirit through the whole State. The Southern Educational -Society, composed of some of the foremost educators of the South, -recently pronounced “industrial education the hope of the South.” -It is certainly more necessary and more promising among the colored -people than among the whites. Already we can see the benefits of -the department in the improving material condition of the people -in the country about, in better and larger crops, cultivated more -skilfully with better implements, etc. - -The Agricultural Department is one of the most useful, and it is, -also, one of the most remunerative parts of our work. At present we -are obliged to go three-fourths of a mile by the road to reach the -farm; $1,000 would buy a piece of land connecting the farm directly -with the college buildings. This would save annually a large -percentage of the cost in time required to reach the farm, to say -nothing of the use of the land. Who will make this very essential -addition to “Winsted Farm”? - -The most profitable part of the farm-work is the dairy, and -raising beef for the College boarding department. We shall keep -fifty or sixty cattle continually, but we have now no barn. The -working stock, the implements and the feed must have a shelter. -We have nothing but sheds made of old lumber, which we fear the -autumn storms will destroy, with much property within. Besides, -if the farm is to be, as it should be, a model to the colored -people, we must not leave everything out in the rain and cold, -as is universally the case in the South. There is to be held, in -connection with the department, this fall, the first Industrial -Fair ever held by the colored people. We expect it to be a means -of education to 5,000 people. The barn should be ready for their -inspection and information. Fifteen hundred dollars will give the -farm the barn it needs, and furnish work to a number of young men, -by which they will learn the use of tools, under our very skilful -carpenter, and be able to pay their expenses in school. If friends -could appreciate how necessary these things are, we certainly -should have them at once. - - * * * * * - - -TEXAS. - -The Southwest Texas Congregational Association. - -REV. B. C. CHURCH, GOLIAD. - -The General Association of Congregational Churches, of Texas, at -its seventh annual session, doffed its name, and hereafter will be -known as the Southwest Texas Congregational Association. - -Three churches were represented by their delegates and pastors. -Rev. Geo. Whitefort, of Red River Association, and agent of the -American Tract Society, added to the interest of the meeting, and -found himself more interested than in any other association. - -The Rev. A. J. Turner, member of West Texas General Conference, -and pastor of the Congregational Church of Schulenburg, requested, -with his church, to be received into the Association. The church, -consisting of fifteen members, with Sabbath school of ninety-eight -scholars, had been gathered by him since last January. They left -former associations to find a church home of purity and morality, -and a more simple and Scriptural government. After examination, -conducted mostly by Rev. S. M. Coles, a graduate of Yale Divinity -School, he and the church were received. - -At our morning and night sessions of each day we had preaching and -other devotional services. Sabbath morning, Rev. Messrs. Coles -and Whitefort spoke most earnest and profitable words to parents -and children. This was followed by a love-feast, in which we had -forty-five talks, which, with singing, occupied about an hour and a -half. If several rose at a time, each waited for his turn. When the -people have been educated to speak of Christ and the joy of faith, -rather than of themselves, and “these low grounds of sorrows” -coming from their emotional nature, it is not strange that you see -smiles and tears, or that sinners’ hearts get into their throats. -When the opportunity was given, seventeen rose, saying, “Pray for -us.” After the Association adjourned, religious meetings continued -for a week, as a result of which, seven persons united with the -church. - -The Helena Church was organized four years ago with three members. -Now there are fifty-four members, twenty-three of whom united -within the last twelve months. During the same time they have -raised seven hundred dollars, with which they have built a house -and furnished it. The other churches have had but little growth in -membership, but in Bible study and intelligent worship there has -been commendable improvement. - -A Christian Church, worshipping God according to Bible rules, is a -light of untold worth in any country. This feature of our work is -encouraging. Even those who hate and persecute us gradually adopt -our views and modes of worship. - - * * * * * - - -KENTUCKY. - - -A Vacant Church—The Seed Wafted—The National Problem. - -REV. JOHN G. FEE, CABIN CREEK, LEWIS CO. - -I am here, in the field of my early ministry, on my regular -quarterly visit. Twenty-four years since, I left this for my -present home in Berea, Ky. - -Most of those who, as parents, heard me with trembling twenty-five -years ago have passed away, and those who were then boys and -girls are now fathers and mothers. These, by time, thought and -observation, have had their early impressions ripened into -convictions. The sympathies and convictions of these are for -loyalty to the union, liberty to man, and a gospel of impartial -love. They take no stock in the issues of mere denominationalism. -They assent readily to the proposition that manifested faith in the -Lord Jesus Christ, as a personal Saviour from _sin_, is the faith -of the gospel. On this faith the church was organized in 1847, -as it then separated from all slave-holding bodies. Some of the -members are still there. They have been without a regular pastor -ever since the year 1860. They still keep up a Sabbath-school, and -part of the time a prayer-meeting. - -What they now need is a regular pastor—one who can visit the -families, and preach at least once in two weeks. I hope such an -one may be speedily found. This, together with the congregation -in Bracken County, would make a most interesting and promising -field. The effort to plant churches here thirty years ago was not -in any sense a failure. And the second temple can be made much more -glorious than the first. - -Emigrations from these fields have been useful also. Five families -went more than a hundred miles into the interior to help build up -Berea; eleven others, young men and young women, have gone out -there as students in the college. Other families have gone to other -States to exert there an influence for liberty, justice, and a -gospel of impartial love. Many of these were “mere children,” and, -having had their birth in times of trial, they were not mutes in -the fields where, in the providence of God, they were cast. - -In view of the debasing effect of slavery in the South, and the -communistic element in the North, I am often asked, “What is to -be the result of this effort to establish republican institutions -on this continent?” I answer, there is no hope but in sanctifying -the hearts of the people by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This will -direct aright the intellect, the wealth and the activities of the -nation, make the people a law unto themselves, and for good. Let -us pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His -harvest. - - -A Teacher’s Vacation Correspondence. - -When tired teachers flee for rest to their own homes, they do not -wholly escape from school duties or cares. Letters pursue them with -unmerciful rapidity. From a pile of fresh ones, let us cull a few -samples of requests that demand sympathy and aid. - -“My school is to have an exhibition in a few weeks. Can you not -send me some interesting declamations and fresh music?” A favor -easily granted. - -“The Sabbath-school has appointed me king of its celebration. -Please send me a nice piece suitable to speak, and a few dialogues -appropriate for the little folks.” An hour’s search through old -files of the _National Teacher_ provides material exactly suited -for this occasion. - -“There is to be a Sunday-school Convention at ——, the 24th of -this month, and I am expected to speak. I never attended such a -meeting. Please write me a nice speech, telling who introduced -Sunday-schools, and how much good they have done.” A modest -request! But, if there is really to be a Sunday-school Convention -in the heart of Southern Georgia, and this shy boy is to help make -it successful, ’tis worth while to look over Sunday magazines for -facts which the speaker can arrange and use. - -“I wish I could go to school the whole of this year. My wages for -teaching public school three months will not carry me through. -Could you help me in any way?” - -A determined worker, who holds Sunday-schools on door-steps when -no better place offers, seeks encouragement and papers. Here is -part of his story: “I have some hard trials, and ups and downs, -but I trusts in God, and tries to fight my way through. I have got -no learning of account, but to the best of my knowledge I means -to teach. God said where there is little known there is little -required.” Perhaps the angels could tell us that poor Jacob’s crown -will far outshine that of many a richly-endowed soul. - -A “sweet-girl graduate,” folding away bouquets and compliments with -her pretty muslin, wishes to know how she can make her school-room -attractive. Speaking of future plans, she pens these words: “I mean -to work for the Master to the best of my ability. I think a life -not consecrated to God is _no life_.” - -If sometimes burdensome, such letters do greatly add to the -sweetness of vacation rest. They give assurance that the seed -sown in weariness is yielding harvest, which, with the affection -breathed from every page, inspires to future faithfulness and zeal. - - L. A. P. - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -THE MENDI MISSION. - -Eight Added to the Church—A Refreshing Sunday. - -Rev. Floyd Snelson writes: - - Last Saturday was our day for preparatory meeting, the following - Sabbath being the day of Communion. Ten persons presented - themselves as candidates for membership. All were examined - carefully, in open meeting; eight were received, as we believed - from their evidence that they were hopefully converted, and two - rejected on the ground that they were not married according to - law (this is one of the greatest evils that exist here, both - among the white and colored, there being no law to compel them - to marry). Sunday was, indeed, a day of great refreshing, there - being before us eight adults to be welcomed into the Church - of Christ, and seven children, in the arms of parents and - god-parents, to be consecrated to Him. And what increased the - joy was, that the whole week had been a rainy one up to late on - Saturday, when the good Master stopped the rain, and removed the - clouds gradually, and let the light of the sun beam upon us. - I would say more upon this precious subject, but the time for - closing the mail has arrived, and I am compelled to stop. Pray - for us. - -Mr. E. White writes: - - The thing I want to ask you about now is this—if you will help - me to take care of a few boys? When I was here the first of - the year, the people came almost daily to get me to take their - children and keep them in the mission, but I told them that - I was not allowed to do so; if I were, I would do it gladly. - Their reason was that, if they sent their children to the - mission-school, they would only be in the school a small portion - of the day, and at home most of the day and all night, and, - therefore, the evil influence which they would have over them - in that time would overbalance what the teacher would teach - them in the short time he would have them in the day; and they - wanted their children to “Sabby-book,” and if they did, they - must be taken away from them. They say that they don’t think - their children can become like the white man while they are with - them; the “pickin’” must be taken from the old people; and I - agree with them on this point. The vices which the old people - practice, the children will surely follow, if allowed to be where - they are. There are no children in this station, and we said in - our meeting that we would not take in any till we heard from - you; but, as I am a single man, you might not think of my taking - any mission children. Therefore, I write to ask you if you will - allow me to take some of the boys offered me. Some of the people - have promised to bring rice (which is the most they eat) for the - children, if I would only take them. - - One being with these people every day can clearly see that the - redemption of Africa is in the little folks, and, therefore, I - think, that a number of these boys and girls should be taken by - somebody, and trained, as they are at Hampton. - - This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and - see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that - time? There are only two things that differ here from the South. - First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work - with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the - South had more civilized people to deal with than these people - have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day, - will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand. - Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa? - - * * * * * - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - * * * * * - - -S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION. - -REV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON, - -_Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories._ - -The best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians -themselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all -the means to test every element of this question. - - -Safety of Life and Property. - -The agent, Edwin Eells, Esq., with wife and children, has lived -among the Indians here seven years. The employees and their -families have lived here from one to six years each, all without -harm or fear. At any moment the Indians could have killed them, -stolen their property, burnt the dwellings, and fled to the rugged -hills and mountains. The agent has traversed the country occupied -by his bands, alone, or with Indians, by day and by night, without -injury or alarm, leaving his wife and little ones at their mercy. -Whisky is excluded from the reservation, but outsiders have sold it -to the Indians, and exposed him and his household and company to -danger from them, when excited by it, and the more when arresting -them and arraigning and convicting the sellers in the courts. But -in no case has he or one of the whites received a blow, or a stab, -or a shot, or a threat from an Indian during all these seven years. - -Like facts can be put on record of the safety of agents and -employees, and their families, on most, if not all the reservations -in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. - -Their property has also been safe. Agent Eells affirms that clothes -are left out day and night, tools are left in open sheds, doors are -never locked, and yet they have never had an article stolen. He -adds that they have had no occasion to use force, or show weapons, -except in the arrest or retention of criminals. For this police -service he commonly appoints Indian constables. What is true on -these counts of the S’Kokomish Indians, is true of other bands or -tribes placed on reservations in this region. Those who live near -them, or who have observed them in all conditions, both off and on -the reservations, for the last fifteen, and even for thirty years, -can bear witness that they are usually quiet, peaceable hunters, -fishermen, or workers on farms, or in mills, or lumber camps, or -in kitchens and laundries for the whites, exciting no fear among -families, and causing no danger to lone travellers on the prairies -or in the forests. - -The Nez Percé reservation has been traversed for thirty years -by whites in safety. Prospectors have ranged alone among their -mountains, and through the gulches in all directions, in search of -gold and silver for twenty years, in entire safety. Miners have -followed and pitched their camps in every sort of lonely spot, -exposed to the attacks of these savages. Long caravans of goods, in -mule or wagon trains, in the care of a few teamsters, have passed -back and forth among these Indians, and most of the other tribes, -transporting merchandise of all kinds during the last twenty years, -unmolested by the Indians. Express-men have had no fear to go to -any mining camp of the upper country in charge of millions of -gold. The mail carriers, on horses, have crossed and recrossed the -whole Indian country unharmed. Stages, loaded down with mails and -passengers, have rolled along over many of the same routes, having -no more fear of Indians than of the white settlers, for whose -convenience the post routes were established by government. Flocks -and herds, in care of a few scattered men, have multiplied in all -those regions. The robberies and murders, as the records of the -courts testify, have been committed by white men. Sheriffs trace -nearly every crime and outrage to the white, not to the Indian race. - -The charges of a thieving, savage, murderous spirit made against -the Indian in the public press, on the street, in the halls of -debate and legislation, are not borne out by the facts. It is like -charging a whole community with the vices and outrages of a small -number of its members. It is like putting the stigma upon the whole -South for the atrocities of Libby prison and Andersonville. It is -the charge of fraud upon the U. S. A. for the defalcations and -embarrassments of a few of her citizens. - -In war or peace the Indian is cruel in revenge; but we cannot -forget the massacres of Memphis. The victim in his grasp is -tortured; but we remember the Chisholm and Hamburg horrors, and -those in the negro parishes outside of New Orleans. He destroys -without mercy, and devastates without remorse; but the Pittsburgh -riots, the New York mobs, and the Commune of San Francisco, belong -to the white race. He has burnt a few of our hamlets and settlers’ -cabins. We have swept him and his household and his camps,—the -only houses and cities that he can call his own—with canister and -grape, the hail of iron and lead and fire. Having no commissariat, -he has starved his prisoners. Without transportation or fortress -for their safe keeping, he often raises the black flag and slays -them at sight. But again and again, at the outset of battle, the -order has moved along our line, “Take no prisoners!” Cold as -steel, we have made a jest of his life, and hailed him good only -when dead. We have steadily driven him from one hunting ground to -another, over the rivers and beyond the lakes, hemmed him in from -the gulfs and the oceans, crowded him off the prairies into rugged -mountains, compelled him to sell his native lands, and have let -loose the dogs of war upon him, because, forsooth, he has had the -manhood to resist our march of doom against his race. If he has -counted us the aggressors and the outlaws, we have hurled back upon -him the fiercest invective known to human speech. If he, in the -wild delirium of madness, has outraged and mutilated his captive, -we have, in fiercer and more fiery passion, counselled, if not -plotted, his extermination. - - -Progress in Civilization. - -Proofs press upon the eye and ear of agents and employees that he -does more and better with the means in his hand for the support -of himself and family than other men would. I visited ten Indian -families at their homes on the S’Kokomish reservation, on the -15th of August, and saw twenty more of their frame-boarded houses -enclosed within their small claims. About thirty of the Indians, -having finished haying, were away from home, most of them hunting -in the mountains, or fishing at the weirs. Those at home had neat, -well swept rooms, usually a sitting-room, bed-room and kitchen. -Almost every one had a cooking stove, with its furniture, and -crockery on the table, or in the cupboard a few chairs or benches, -a clock in every house (often two), occasionally a rocking-chair -and bureau, always one or two bedsteads, with beds and blankets, -and often covered with a neat quilt of the wife’s taste and make. -Cards and pictures were hung on the walls, and some of their -photographs, also. They were dressed in comfortable clothes, and -were glad of a call and a kindly greeting. They are adopting the -manners of their white teachers. - -The school, in charge of Deacon G. A Boynton, has a list of -thirty-one pupils, twenty-four of them pure Indians, six -half-breeds, and one little white girl. In dress, order and -studiousness, they rank with many of our common-schools. In -reading, singing, writing, at the blackboard, or in mental -arithmetic, they evince ability to learn what white children learn. -It is done more slowly, partly because while reciting in English -they probably think in their own more familiar language, or in -the jargon, and thus fail to get or convey the meaning of words -quickly, and probably from lack of such mental training in their -parents. The laws of heredity hold in them as in other people. -Better shaped heads and finer brain power may be expected of their -children. - -In church and Sabbath-school, Indian parents and children meet with -white parents and children, join in singing, listen to a sermon in -the morning, translated by the interpreter into the Twana Indian -language, and in the evening, to one in English. They exhibit a -desire to learn the word of truth, and are profiting by their -instructions. Several of the pupils in the school have become -Christians and united with the church. - -The testimony of the agent, the missionary, the teacher, the -physician, the farmer and the carpenter, is uniform as to their -capacity, and desire to improve and live like the whites, and of -their real progress in industry and manner of living. They are -trusted more and more, and they honor the trust. - -It is cowardly to despise them and cast them out like dogs. It is -noble to respect them as men and women, who have the rights of -life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They have claims on -us for sympathy and help to secure these things. It is a credit to -lift up the lowest, if we count them so. Those who know them best -have most hope of them, if given a fair chance. - - -A Neglected Treaty. - -No man will clear land and make a farm unless he owns it, or has a -lien upon it. The treaty pledges them an allotment for a homestead -on the reservation. It was made by Gov. Stevens, in Jane 1855, at -Point-no-Point, and ratified by the government in 1859. In private -and public speeches, with one voice, they plead for their titles. -They want the patents promised in the bond nineteen years ago. With -these in hand, they will improve their homes still more. It is a -reasonable demand. The plan to remove them from these lands, where -they were born, excites their fears and their rebellion. We cannot -expect them to rest in quiet and work with energy until we give -them the motive of ownership in the soil they till and the timber -they cut. This is the question of the hour for the Indian. Shall he -own in law his garden and his field and his house, or hold it as a -tenant at the will of another, liable to ejectment? If government -grant the former, as it has promised, the largest factor of the -problem will be found that will solve the rest of it. - - * * * * * - - -GREEN BAY AGENCY, KESHENA, WIS. - -JOS. C. BRIDGMAN, ESQ., AGENT. - -The Stockbridge tribe take very little interest in education. The -head men, not specially interested, voted to have only six months’ -schooling, paying the teacher but $25 per month. As this tribe -receive $3,800 a year, the same being the interest on their funds -in the hands of the Government, this meagre sum is illiberal. -Rev. J. Slingerland, who has been both preacher and teacher for -this tribe for many years, is still retained. While the number of -children of school age is twenty-five, with nearly as many of the -“old citizen” party, who are not allowed privileges, the greatest -number attending any one month is thirteen, and the average for the -year is ten. The church membership is twenty-nine. - -The Oneidas are making an unusually good record. Their crops -are nearly or quite one-third larger than last year. The school -attendance shows an increase of thirty-seven, and the church -membership fifty-three over last year. - -The Methodist Mission-school is unfortunately located for reaching -even a fair number of scholars, and Rev. S. W. Ford, without -additional compensation, has opened a school a mile and a half -distant; his daughter, Miss Mary W. Ford, teaching the Mission -school without pay. The records of the two schools are seventy-nine -scholars enrolled, with an average attendance of forty-five, -against an average of twenty-six for the one school of last year. -I am urging upon the Department the wisdom of establishing this -new school, which was started as an experiment, with the result -as above. Unless thus sustained it will be abolished, as Mr. Ford -cannot give his time without reward. - -The church membership, 178, has had some twenty-five additions the -past year, as the result of a revival in the fall and winter of -’77–78. Two or three of its members have been licensed to preach -the gospel. Exception to the rules of the Methodist Church is -made, and Mr. Ford is now on his sixth year at this post, being -found peculiarly fitted for work among the Indians, whom he well -understands, having lived with this and other tribes of the State. - -The Episcopal Mission-school has enrolled 114, many of whom are -induced to come by gifts of clothing, etc., supplied by the -Episcopal Mission. Average attendance for the year forty-five and -two-ninths. The Episcopal Church is well attended by a serious and -devout congregation on the Sabbath. Membership 150. - -Although there is a lodge of Good Templars with this tribe, -I regret to say that some of the members do not realize the -sacredness of their oath as they should, and falling from grace is -no uncommon occurrence; yet it has brought about a radical change -with some who have been confirmed drunkards for many years. - -The Menomonees have shown a wonderful spirit of thrift and -enterprise the past year, putting 200 or more acres of new -land under cultivation. Permission having been granted by the -Department, it is proposed to hold a fair the last week in -September, with a list of prizes for the best and second best -productions of their crops, stock of all kinds, and manufactured -articles by the women. Two hundred dollars in silver coin is to be -given. This is creating a spirited impetus to good work, and lively -times are expected on Fair-day. - -The schools of this tribe have, we regret to say, taken a step -backwards. In 1876, through the advice of Inspector Watkins, -the day-schools were consolidated into a Manual Labor and -Boarding School at Keshena, which far exceeded our most sanguine -expectations in numbers and interest. The breaking out of the -scarlet fever, in the fall term of 1877, compelled us to close the -school, with but four or five weeks’ teaching. It was renewed on -the 6th of January, but, owing to the non reply to letters, and -the omission of instructions from the bureau, only eight weeks’ -schooling has been had since January 1st. - -At the present time we are waiting permission to employ a matron -(as necessary to the success of the school as a teacher). This -delay is to be greatly regretted, as fifty children could be -easily gathered (the limit of our poor accommodations), while the -day-school has an average of less than ten. - -Crime and drunkenness is greatly on the decrease; not a case of any -magnitude of the former, and but a very few cases of the latter, -coming to my notice for the past year. This is a very hopeful sign -with this tribe, many of whom are wishing to become citizens. - -With the exception of scarlet fever, in a very mild form, among the -Menomonees, the sanitary condition has been excellent with these -people. - -As you are aware, the religion of this tribe is about equally -divided between the Pagan and Catholic, the former adhering closely -to their rites and ceremonies, as for worship and the burial of -their dead; and, when standing by, as they render their thanks to -the Great Spirit for “our homes,” “our friends,” “our food,” asking -His protection “from storms,” “from disease,” and, “when taken into -the happy hunting-ground,” to be “found in favor,” etc., one cannot -but feel that “He” who “is no respecter of persons” accepts their -thanks and hears their petitions, although accompanied with the -shaking of gourds and the pounding upon an Indian drum, instead of -the grand _Te Deum_ from the organs of our city churches. - -While the soil for Christian labor is unfavorable, and tares find -root, to the choking out of good seed sown, yet we should take -heart in the increasing desire on their part for better homes and -farms, and the laying aside of the wigwam for good houses, the gun -and rod for the plow and hoe. A slow and certain improvement in -their habits from year to year is observable, and with kindness, -honest dealing and right influence, the time is not so very far in -the future when they can and will take a place in our nation, not a -whit behind many pale faces. - - * * * * * - - - - -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. L. 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. - - * * * * * - - - We print the following letter from our Brother Pond, in regard to - the need and call for a mission work in Hong Kong, not because - the Executive Committee have formed any design of entering upon - such a work in the name of the American Missionary Association, - but only as these letters from converted Chinamen show to what - earnestness of missionary zeal they have been converted, and so - bear witness to the reality of their Christianization. - - Even though we felt warranted in extending our work to embrace - a limited foreign field on the Chinese Coast, as we do not, - there are questions of comity which would forbid it. The English - missionary societies occupy the Hong Kong field in force, and - the Presbyterian Board have missionaries in the Canton district, - from which the Chinese immigrants come to our Western coast. We - shall be very glad if they, or either of them, will supply the - want indicated by our correspondent, and for which the Chinese - converts show such deep concern.—[ED’S AM. MISS.] - - -MORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG. - -While studying the proposition which I ventured to broach last -month, for a mission at Hong Kong, which should be in intimate -relationship with our Californian Mission, I requested our helper, -Bro. Fung Affoo, to consult the Chinese brethren on the subject and -tell me what they thought. Soon after, letters began to pour in -upon me, till now I have about twenty on file, and it has occurred -to me that extracts from these would interest the readers of the -MISSIONARY. Some of them I can copy verbatim; some will need to be -retouched a little in their English in order to be understood; but -the ideas are their own, and the expressions will be modified as -little as possible. - -First of all, Affoo himself says: “I told the brethren at the -meeting last Sunday what you said to me about establishing a -mission at Hong Kong. They were very glad; their faces beamed with -joy. They all wish, with one accord, that this enterprise will be -accomplished before long.” - -The first letter which I take from my file is from Wong Sam. He -says “I wish you could establish a school in Hong Kong for a Young -Men’s Christian Association, as we have here. Then we could hold -all our brethren together when they go back to China, and they -would not all scatter abroad. I am sure all our brethren will be -glad to have one. I ask God all the time for it, if God is willing, -for He knows what is best. We cannot do anything without the -Holy One. Accept my warmest love and thanks for your kindness in -expending so much on our account, and bringing us out of darkness. -You will not lose your reward ‘in my Father’s kingdom,’ as Christ -says.” - -The next one which comes to hand is from Hong Sing, and addressed -to Affoo. It reads as follows: “I heard you some time ago talking -about if we would like have one American Association school in Hong -Kong. I feel very glad, indeed, if we have one school in Hong Kong, -that we may go back to our China and find a Christian Home. Canton -and Hong Kong have two or three schools, but not our Congregational -Association. You know how many of our Christian brothers have gone -back to China. They find no Christian home; then they find very -hard to be good, and bye-and-bye feel cold with Jesus.” - -Joe Lee and Chin Quong write to say: “I like the idea of having a -Christian school in Hong Kong very much, indeed. I think it will be -great benefit, not only to the Christian boys, but also to the poor -heathen boys there.” Chung Sun says: “I very glad; God very good to -me. I like bye-and-bye go back China; tell father, mother, sister, -brother, very good Jesus. If him all [i.e., his relatives] no like -me I go Christian house, call Christian friend Help me tell father, -mother, sister, brother, how very good Jesus is. If all man, woman -love Him, bye-and-bye go heaven. If he all beat and _lick_ me, I go -to the Chinese Mission at Hong Kong; very good, all the same my own -church.” - -Ah King writes: “Dear Mr. Pond—I am very glad in heart that I heard -missionary schools be opened in Hong Kong. I think you make these -things for our Christian brethren, just like builder build a stone -foundation of buildings—the wind cannot blow off it.” That is, the -mission work at Hong Kong will tend to secure the results of our -work here. Without this, the winds of contradiction and persecution -in China will tend to blow our brethren who return there off the -foundation. - -Perhaps these will suffice as samples, and I think that all the -points made in the other letters are referred to in these. But -the tone differs in different letters, and the fact specially -emphasized; thus, for example, the chief point with one is, “If it -[mission at Hong Kong] can be, it can keep us _doing good_ when we -go back, and I thank God with all my heart.” With another, it is -sorrow that we been without such a mission so long. “We plead,” he -says, “our brethren to help us. I pray that God will bless you and -open a way to make a mission in Hong Kong.” Another says, “If men -can’t do it, we all hope God has an authority [has some way] do it -for us. I hope our parents hear the gospel, receive it all, come to -Him forever.” A refuge from persecution is often referred to. “We -have great many trials, and I hope the Christians do this thing, -then our brothers have a place to see each other. We are far from -each other in China.” - -I conclude with the following from Jee Gam, whose name is familiar -to most of our readers—the helper longest in service with us; whose -good judgment, Christian spirit, and untiring zeal, I have learned -to greatly respect. He says: “I was very much pleased to hear that -you have written to the A. M. A., requesting its permission and aid -to establish a Chinese Mission in Hong Kong. Without attempting to -add anything to what you have written, I will tell you what Ting -Ki, the most active deacon of the London Mission at Hong Kong, said -to me while I was there: that the best way to accomplish the most -good is to open a mission and a Christian Association similar to -ours here. He also said that the great need of the English language -is now felt by most of the Chinese in that city, and in order to -aid them, such schools as we have here should be established. This -is the best way to reach them, so as to interest them in the Bible, -which is our chief aim. As many of the people in that city are -laboring people, they could attend school better in the evening -than through the day. Ting Ki was very anxious to have me remain -and establish such a mission-school, and teach them the English -language. The brethren in the Oakland school all feel as I do about -this matter, and they asked me to write for them, as well as for -myself.” - -I will add nothing to these expressions. I confess that as I -read them over, they ring in my ears like the Macedonian cry, -and I cannot but hope that our Association, hearing it, will -endeavor immediately to go into this modern Macedonia, “assuredly -gathering that the Lord has called us for to preach the gospel unto -them.”—Acts xvi, 10. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -From a Private Letter of a Pastor’s Daughter on a Visit to -Talladega College, Alabama. - - BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Aug. 24, ’78_. - -DEAR AUNTIE: Where do you think I am? This morning, Miss L. -(the matron of the college) and Mr. W. (one of the teachers) -and I started out, with horse and open buggy, for Anniston, a -little town twenty-six miles away. We got up early, and ate -our breakfast before the rest, then put the three satchels and -water-proof, shawl, two umbrellas, two blankets and pail of oats -and lunch-basket in the bottom and back of the buggy. Then we -three piled in, stopping in the village just long enough to get -some lemons. We had a lovely ride—part of the way through the -woods—catching glimpses of the mountains in the distance, all along. - -Perhaps you know that Alabama abounds in springs; so, whenever we -go out for a drive or a picnic, we always aim for a spring—taking -a gourd with us for a cup. We learned at a little town just below -here that there was a fine spring a little farther on; and here -we are now right in the woods. I am writing on a _Sabbath-school -Teacher_, which doesn’t take the place of a desk very well. We -have eaten our dinner and washed the dishes, and have been reading -aloud. We are now just ready to pick up the blankets and things, -and start again, for we have eleven miles yet to go. So, bye-bye, -till the next stopping-place. - - - ANNISTON, ALA., _Sunday_. - -I am going to write part of my letter Sunday, you see. I didn’t -tell you what we came here for, did I? Well, many of the scholars -at the college go out to teach in the summer, and sometimes the -teachers who are staying there through vacation go off to see their -old scholars, and encourage them in their Sunday-schools. They -do a great deal of good in this way. I have visited two of these -mission-schools; and this time we came to see Mr. M., one of the -theological students who has just been ordained here at Anniston. - -We found him and his wife living in a neatly-painted house, close -by his little church. It did me so much good to go into his home -and see what it was. Not much like most of the colored people’s -houses—log-huts, dirty, low, and only one room, with so few -comforts. This was a house of two rooms—the front room carpeted -neatly; a nice bureau and bed in the room; a little table with -books on it (one of which was a copy of Shakspeare!) In one corner -of the room was his writing desk, with library over it—and a very -good library it was; books on Isaiah and Psalms; Gospels and -Epistles; several, or rather all of Barnes’ Notes; a book on Moral -Philosophy, etc. I suppose that doesn’t sound like much of anything -to you; but when you know how many of these people live, and how -ignorant they are, it seems so much. There were pictures on the -wall, a clock on the mantel, shades and curtains at the windows, -etc. The church has a good bell, and is to be painted very soon. - -We attended Sunday-school this morning. Mr. M. has a little -blackboard, a review chart, question-books, Gospel-hymns, and all -such things. It did seem, this morning, when I was there, that -the colored people were advancing some. I am really interested in -them, Aunt Sarah. Have you heard of _my_ little Sabbath-school? May -H., a girl a little older than myself, and three of the students -(girls), and a driver, start at half-past two o’clock every Sunday -afternoon, in a mule-wagon. The school is held in a Mr. Allen’s -house—colored—(not the house, but the man, you know). We have to go -jolting over the roughest kind of a road to get there, crossing the -railroad track twice. When we reach the place, we crawl through the -fence and enter the little house. We find the children seated on -benches made of rough boards. May and I take our places in chairs -at the head of the school. Sometimes we have over forty children. -We open the school by singing some of the Gospel-hymns, then -follows the prayer; after talking a minute or two to the scholars, -the teachers take their classes and benches out of doors, and teach -right among the bee-hives and hollyhocks! - -The room is too small for so many scholars, especially as there are -two beds in it. After a while, the classes are called in, and one -of the scholars chooses a hymn to sing. Then I ask questions about -the lesson. Then we count the scholars and call their names, and -give out papers. Then I ask for verses from the children, which -they have learned in the classes. We then repeat the Twenty-third -Psalm together, and close by saying, in concert, the Lord’s Prayer. - -Now, you know a little of my Sabbath-school. I take ever so much -pleasure in planning for it. Friday evenings we have a Teachers’ -Meeting, just for us six teachers to talk over the school, and -study the lesson for the next Sabbath. Those are dear little -meetings. I enjoy them _so_ much. I hope I am helping a little to -raise up these poor neglected people. - -I will leave the rest of my paper for my next stopping-place. - - - BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Monday_. - -Here we are again, at the same lovely spring where we took our -dinner Saturday. We have just lunched, and Miss L. is reading. -Leila, our horse, is taking her dinner, and when she finishes it, -we shall start again for _home_. - -This morning we passed a whole field full of cardinal flowers. We -picked some beautiful ones, which are now bathing in the spring. -When riding here, we see such different sights from what we do in -the North. There are such beautiful tall pines here. They grow up -fifty or sixty feet before putting out any branches. The sweet -gum-tree, too, is very pretty. In the distance it looks like a -maple. We often see wild grape-vines covering trees, the stems as -large at the bottom as my two fists. The English ivy seems to like -this climate, too, for when it is planted by the side of a tree, it -grows way up into the branches, and almost covers the whole tree -sometimes. The passion flower grows in the fields here. - -Leila is just eating her last oat, so we must be starting. I -suppose my next stopping place will be Talladega. Good-bye. From -your loving niece, - - LAURA P. H. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR AUGUST, 1878. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $279.20 - - Augusta. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, by - Samuel Titcomb, Ex. 200.00 - Bangor. First Ch. 7.80 - Bath. Isaiah Percy $5; Beulah B. Percy $3; - Eliza Bowker $3 11.00 - Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Brewer. First Ch. $6 and Sab. Sch. $2 8.00 - Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps and daughter 12.00 - Falmouth. P. N. Marston 6.40 - Lebanon. S. D. L. 1.00 - North Anson. “A Friend” 5.00 - Saco. D. J. 1.00 - Winthrop. Mrs. E. H. N. 1.00 - York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $259.35. - - Antrim. “A Friend,” _for Wilmington, N. C._ 5.00 - Auburn. P. C. 1.00 - Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 - Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.75 - Brookline. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.50 - Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.47 - Concord. Individuals, by A. J. Herbert 3.00 - Exeter. “Friend” 20.00 - Francestown. Cong. Ch. $10; A. F. $1 11.00 - Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.76 - Hampstead. “A Friend,” 50.00 - Lancaster. Rev. C. E. S. 1.00 - Mason. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.25 - Meredith. S. S. Tappan 5.00 - Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. 23.87 - Pittsfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 17.00 - South Merrimac. “A Friend” 2.00 - Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.75 - - - VERMONT, $852.65. - - Benson. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.63 - Cambridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $29.79; Dea. S. - Montague $10; J. T. Fullerton $3 42.79 - Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.87; Cong. - Sab. Sch. $25 51.87 - Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Guildhall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 0.50 - Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25 - Manchester. E. J. Kellogg 10.00 - Monkton. Henry Miles 7.35 - St. Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.88 - Sharon. S. P. F. and Mrs. A. F. $1 ea. 2.00 - Springfield. Mrs. E. D. Parks $100; Cong. Ch. - and Soc. $55.38. 155.38 - Thetford. J. M. 1.00 - Waterbury. L. Hutchins 500.00 - West Westminster. Rev. A. Stevens 10.00 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $3,685.48. - - Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.14 - Ashfield. F. H. Smith 5.36 - Athol. ESTATE of Mrs. Abigail Chaplain, by - Lewis Thorp, Ex. 300.00 - Bellingham. E. W. 1.00 - Beverly. ESTATE of John Lovett, by James Hill - and Chas. T. Lovett, Executors 1,311.31 - Beverly. Miss Emma Harwood, proceeds of - Children’s Fair 2.00 - Boston. Juvenile Class of Phillip’s Cong. Ch. - $18.75, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._; “A - Friend” $1 19.75 - Boston Highlands. R. W. $1; J. F. 25c. 1.25 - Charlton. Clarissa W. Case 5.00 - Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 91.79 - Duxbury. Mrs. A. P. Holmes 2.00 - Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00 - Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Georgetown. Orth. Memo. Ch. and Soc. 26.16 - Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Great Barrington. ESTATE of Mary and Nancy - Kellogg, by Hiram Crittenden, Adm’r. 500.00 - Harwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (M. C. Coll.) 11.94 - Haverhill. John Kendrick 10.00 - Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fisk 5.00 - Housatonic. W. G. 1.00 - Hubbardston. Mission Circle $14, _for - Talladega C._; Mrs. Alden Pollard $6 20.00 - Littleton. Orthodox Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Long Meadow. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $18.58; - Gents’ Benev. Soc. $18.25 36.83 - Mansfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.41 - Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $58.52, - and box of Books. 58.52 - Medway Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - GEORGE E. SANDERSON, JOSEPH JONES and REV. - H. A. HANAFORD, L. M’s. 112.50 - Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.23 - Monterey. Cong. Ch. 17.00 - Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. 44.42 - Northampton. First Cong. Ch. $33.91; Edwards - Ch. $29.22. 63.13 - Norfolk. W. E. C. 1.00 - Pittsfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; S. - F. 51c. 5.51 - Randolph. “A Friend” 10.00 - Reading. Old South Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.03 - Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 120.00 - Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 130.50 - Sandwich. H. H. Nye. 2.00 - South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.62 - South Weymouth. Ladies’ Mission Soc. of Second - Cong. Ch. 18.00 - Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch. $15; South Cong. - Ch. $12.34; Mrs. Sarah Merrill $2.50 29.84 - Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36.55; Cong. - Sab. Sch. $7.58 44.13 - Townsend Centre. —— 8.00 - Ware. “A Friend” 10.00 - Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., for _Hampton, Va._ 70.00 - Worcester. Union Ch. $46.37; Hiram Smith and - Family $30 76.37 - West Boylston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00 - Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.07 - West Haverhill. Miss C. M. Smith 50.00 - Winchendon. North Cong. Sab. Sch. 29.67 - ——. “R. A. L.” 100.00 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $15. - - East Providence. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - - - CONNECTICUT, $887.46. - - Brooklyn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.00 - Canterbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc 6.12 - Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 60.00 - Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 64.17 - Deep River. H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.25 - Lebanon. First Ch. 48.70 - Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 - Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 25.07 - Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.17 - New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 35.25 - New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch. 66.50 - New London. “Collected by a Friend,” _for - Mendi M._ 10.00 - Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch. 41.50 - North Stamford. Cong. Ch. $1.50; Mrs. A. A. N. - $1 2.50 - Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 95.35 - Rocky Hill. Individuals, by Miss E. M. W. 1.05 - Salem. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Simsbury. Mrs. M. H. W. 1.00 - South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32.75 (of - which $10 from P. B. Averill, _for the Debt_) 22.75 - Stafford. Mrs. Thomas S. Thresher 3.50 - Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - GERTRUDE M. FENN, NELLIE TERRY and LELIA - WILLIAMS, L. M.’s 110.40 - Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.80 - Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. box of Books, by - Dea. I. N. Spencer. - West Haven. Cong. Ch. 19.40 - Wethersfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.61 - Wilton. Cong. Ch. 40.00 - Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.37 - - - NEW YORK, $807.23. - - Albany. V. S. Knowles 2.00 - Binghampton. J. D. Wells 5.00 - Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00 - Champion. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00 - Columbus. “A Friend” 3.00 - Copenhagen. Lucian Clark $10; Martha Smith $5 15.00 - Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.65 - Gaines. ESTATE of Henry O. Bidelman ($30 of - which to const. EDWIN S. BIDELMAN, L. M.), - by Charles Bidelman, Ex. 200.00 - Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $28.72, to const. - MRS. L. A. SANFORD, L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch. - $8.90 37.62 - Greenville. F. H. W. 1.00 - Homer. Cong. Ch. 32.15 - Ithaca. Mrs. Adam Harrison 3.00 - Le Roy. Mrs. Sarah Covert 5.00 - Lima. Rev. H. N. P. 0.25 - New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50.—Mrs. - Congdon $5, _for Fisk U._ 55.00 - Oneida. Rose J. Topliff $50; H. P. Palmer $20 70.00 - Peekskill. Prof. Robert Donald, Set of - School-desks and chairs. - Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.56; S. R. - Barber $10 40.56 - Pompey. Mrs. James H. Child ($4.50 of which - _for Student Aid_) 5.00 - Rome. Sarah H. Mudge 10.00 - Spencerport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 17.50 - Syracuse. “S. J. W.” 10.00 - Union Springs. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas, _for - Woodbridge, N. C._ 100.00 - Utica. ESTATE of Job Parker, by T. and M. M. - Parker, Executors 140.00 - Warsaw. Mrs. C. B. Darling $10; W. R., G. M. - P., A. W. N., O. F. P and A. G. B. $1 ea., - _for Student Aid, Talladega C._—Mrs. S. A. - H. 50c. 15.50 - West Winfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 - —— ——. 5.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $20. - - Newfield. Rev. Charles Willey 10.00 - Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Ford 10.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $105.47. - - Philadelphia. “B.” 50.00 - Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, _for Le - Moyne Sch., Memphis, Tenn._ 55.47 - - - OHIO, $436. - - Alexandria. Ladies, by Rev. D. S. Jones 5.00 - Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00 - Cardington. W. C. Nichols 5.00 - Cleveland. W. F. Hinman, _for Tougaloo U._ 50.00 - Cincinnati. Rent $41.48, _for the poor in New - Orleans_.—Rev. B. P. Aydelott, D. D. $10 51.48 - Dover. David Ingersoll and Mrs. Nancy H. - Ingersoll 42.00 - Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan $5; A. C. W. 70c.; - “Friends” $1, _for Tougaloo U._ 6.70 - Geneva. A. W. Hyman $10; Chas. Talcott $5; - “Friends” $1.05; Dea. G. C., M. C., W. E. - P., J. E. C., Mrs. A. E. H., Miss L. H. and - Mrs. H. A. W. $1 ea; Mrs. M. and Miss M. M. - K. $1; Mrs. E. W. S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 24.55 - Huntsburg. Young Ladies’ Soc. $5; Miss E. L. - Miller $2, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega, C._ 7.00 - Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet 10.00 - Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 6.25 - Lenox. Cong. Ch. 16.00 - Madison. Elias Strong $5; Mrs. H. E. H. $1; L. - J. W. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 6.50 - Mecca. Burt Case $5; J. C. H. $1, _for - Tougaloo U._ 6.00 - Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by M. A. - Curtis, Sec., $12, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega - C._—Cong. Ch. $14; M. E. Nettleton $5; Mrs. - S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._—Mrs. Ann G. Fenn - $2 33.50 - Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. 52.58 - Painesville. A Friend 5.00 - Tallmadge. F. F. Fenn $6; Mrs. P. Seward $5; - Calvin Treat $3; Mrs. H. E. Wolcott, H. A. - Sackett, Wm. Hind, F. D. Alling and Daniel - Hind $2 ea.; Mrs. C. A. Sackett $1.25; H. - Carter $1.10; Mrs. E. A. W., Miss J. E. W., - B. W. and Mrs. M. J. B. $1 ea; Mrs. L. A. S. - and Mrs. T. B. W. 50c. ea, _for Tougaloo U._ 31.35 - South Ridge. Urania Haviland 2.00 - Strongsville. Presb. Ch. $4.36; Mrs. A. P. $1, - _for Tougaloo U._ 5.36 - Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. (of which $5 from - Sarah D. Todd). 26.37 - Wauseon. Mrs. W. 0.50 - Wayne. Mrs. Lydia Beers 2.00 - West Andover. Rev. J. E. S. 1.00 - Weymouth. Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 3.86 - Windham. “Friends” $1.25; Mrs. E. K. H., Dea. - S. P., A. J., E. A., A. A. and G. A. M. $1 - ea.; M. G. D. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 7.75 - York. Cong. Ch. 16.25 - - - ILLINOIS, $239.18. - - Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter 1.50 - Canton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Chicago. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., $25, - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Mrs. S. P. H. 50c. 25.50 - Hutsonville. C. V. Newton 2.00 - Ivanhoe. R. Osgood 5.00 - Lafayette. Mrs. D. J. H. 2.00 - Lake Forest. Mrs. S. B. Williams, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - Moline. F. H. Williams 14.00 - Morrison. Cong. Ch. 21.51 - Newark. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 10.00 - Odell. Cong. Ch. 8.25 - Payson. Cong. Ch. (of which $50 from J. K. - Scarborough) 80.00 - Peoria. Cong. Ch. (in part) 22.92 - Solon Mills. R. R. C. 1.00 - South Holland. Rev. A. B. 0.50 - - - MICHIGAN, $290.60. - - Ada. T. I. H. 1.00 - Adrian. Stephen Allen 5.00 - Allegan. J. M. McCord, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 5.00 - Almont. Ladies of Cong. Soc. $5; Mrs. H. G. - (Romeo) $1, _for a Missionary, Memphis, - Tenn._ (Incorrectly ack. in August Mag.) - Alpena. “A Friend,” _for Indian Boy, Hampton - N. and A. Inst._ 25.00 - Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. $23.50; Isaac - Elliott $5 28.50 - Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 25.48 - Battle Creek. Mrs. Dr. J. B. Chapin 3.00 - Benzonia. W. B. $1; “A Friend” 50c. 1.50 - Bellevue. “A Little Band of Cheerful Givers in - First Cong. Soc.” $11.30, by Mrs. H. L. - Berry. (Ack. incorrectly in Sept. number - from Bellevue, Ohio.) - Detroit. Rev. H. D. Kitchell $25; “A Friend” - $21.40; Miss H. $1, _for Missionary, - Memphis, Tenn._ 47.40 - Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00 - Grand Haven. Cong. Ch. 1.00 - Leland. Rev. G. T. 1.00 - Litchfield. Cong. Ch., to const. F. C. MEAD L. - M. 31.00 - New Baltimore. Miss Hattie Milton, _for - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 7.00 - Northport. Cong. Ch. 11.72 - Rochester. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 3.00 - Union City. “A Friend,” (in part) to const. - AARON C. HENDERSON L. M. 40.00 - Vermontville. L. P. D. 1.00 - White Lake. Robert Garner $10; John Garner $5 15.00 - - - WISCONSIN, $103.78. - - Burlington. Plymouth Ch. (in part) 11.35 - Delavan. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Elk Grove. Cong. Ch. 8.25 - Fort Howard. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Fox Lake. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Leeds. Cong. Ch. 3.85 - Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 19.10 - River Falls. Cong. Ch. 9.66 - Waukesha. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 7.00 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. 11.57 - - - IOWA, $200.84. - - Burlington. Cong. Ch. 34.11 - Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch. 72.00 - Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 10.00 - Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 60.00 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 14.56 - Oskaloosa. M. B. Turner, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 2.17 - Wintersett. Sarah Dinsmore 8.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $109.30. - - Afton. Cong. Ch. 3.50 - Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.84 - Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch. - $25; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $17, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._—Plymouth Ch. $17.55 59.55 - Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 39.41 - Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - - - KANSAS, $2. - - Burlington. John Morris 2.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $15.50. - - Brewer Crossing. Mrs. E. T. 1.00 - Omaha. Cong. Ch. 14.50 - - - MISSOURI, $1.50. - - Ironton. J. Markham 1.50 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $93.54. - - Raleigh. Public Fund. $75; Washington Sch. - $18.54 93.54 - - - GEORGIA, 45c. - - Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Mendi M._ 0.45 - - - ALABAMA, $567.11. - - Montgomery. Public Fund $181.26; H. A. L. 50c. 181.76 - Talladega. Talladega College. $185.35; Rev. E. - P. Lord $200 385.35 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $5. - - Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope 5.00 - - - SCOTLAND, $105. - - Edinburgh. Adam Parsons $100; Mrs. Wm. Lillie - $5 105.00 - - - TURKEY, $5. - - —— “A Wanderer” 5.00 - —————————— - Total 9,086.64 - Total from Oct. 1st to August 31st. $151,757.14 - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass’t Treas._ - - - RECEIVED FOR DEBT. - - Goffstown, N. H. M. A. Stinson 5.00 - Conway, Mass. Rev. A. Shirley 1.00 - Collinsville, Conn. “Friends” 3.00 - Fairfield, Conn. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 - New Haven, Conn. E. Pendleton 20.00 - Putnam, Conn. “A Friend” 17.50 - South Britain, Conn. P. B. Averill 10.00 - West Hartford, Conn. M. A. Ellsworth 5.00 - New York, N. Y. “A Friend” 100.00 - Andover, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Case, $10 ea. 20.00 - Bell Brook, Ohio. Daniel Holmes 10.00 - Berea, Ohio. J. S. Smedley 10.00 - Cleveland, Ohio. “A Memorial” 250.00 - Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. S. B. Caldwell 10.00 - Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Harrington 10.00 - New Corydon, Ind. Geo. Stolz 10.00 - Logansport, Ind. Mrs. J. C. Merriam 5.00 - Dwight, Ill. J. C. Hetzel 25.00 - Elgin, Ill. W. G. Hubbard 50.00 - Milan, Ill. Mrs. J. M. N. Daniels 1.00 - Moline, Ill. John Deere 25.00 - Plymouth, Ill. L. A. Cook 5.00 - Polo, Ill. Mrs. R. M. Pearson 5.00 - Princeton, Ill. Mrs. A. R. Clapp 50.00 - Princeton, Ill. Mrs. P. B. Corss 20.00 - Alpena, Mich. “Friends” 25.00 - Hillsdale, Mich. Mrs. H. I. Mead 5.25 - Imlay, Mich. Mrs. N. D. Glidden 5.00 - Olivet, Mich. W. B. Palmer 50.00 - Olivet, Mich. Mrs. H. L. Porter 5.00 - Marion, Iowa. Mrs. R. D. Stevens 25.00 - Marion, Iowa. Miss Mary Stevens 5.00 - Marion, Iowa. Miss Louise Stevens 5.00 - Marion, Iowa. Master Redman Stevens 5.00 - Appleton, Wis. Miss Ann S. Kimball 20.00 - Appleton, Wis. “Ruth” 10.00 - Bristol, Wis. Charles M. Fowler 10.00 - Fort Howard, Wis. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank 50.00 - —————— - 892.75 - Previously acknowledged in July Receipts 13,215.47 - —————————— - Total $14,108.22 - - - RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Bridgeport, Conn. MRS. MARY BISHOP, to const. - herself L. M. 50.00 - Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. KINGMAN, to const. - herself L. M. 30.00 - Chester, Conn. Dea. E. C. Hungerford 30.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Miss Sarah Mead 100.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Dea. Josiah Wilcox 25.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Miss Hannah Mead 20.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Richard B. Carpenter 10.00 - Greenwich, Conn. E. A. Knapp 10.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Eliza Clark 5.00 - Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. A. S. Downes 1.00 - Harwinton, Conn. Mrs. F. S. Catlin 10.00 - New Hartford, Conn. Dea. H. W. Brown 10.00 - New Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. W. Brown 3.00 - Plymouth, Conn. George Langdon 10.00 - Rocky Hill, Conn. Mrs. A. Williams 1.00 - Winsted, Conn. C. J. Camp 25.00 - Rockland, Mass. Mrs. Rachel B. Reed 30.00 - Pekin, N. Y. MISS A. PECK, to const. herself - L. M. 30.00 - Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Maria Willets 10.00 - Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah W. Collins 10.00 - Purchase, N. Y. Miss Sarah Collins 1.00 - Onargo, Ill. Mrs. L. C. Foster 20.00 - Olivet, Mich. William B. Palmer 200.00 - —————— - 641.00 - Previously acknowledged April Receipts 824.00 - —————— - $1,465.00 - - - - -THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. - - * * * * * - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. 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. 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CASE & CO., Hartford, Ct.= - - - * * * * * - - - E. & O. WARD - - Give personal attention - to the sale of all kinds of - - PRODUCE ON COMMISSION. - - No. 279 Washington St., N. Y. - - (Est’d 1845.) Ref., _Irving National Bank_, N. Y. City. - - Also, Agents for - - ALEX. HORNBY’S - - STEAM-COOKED WHITE WHEAT AND OATS. - - Put up for sale in cases containing twenty-four - 2-lb square packages, with full - directions for use. - - - * * * * * - - - CRAMPTON’S - - PALM SOAP - - IS THE BEST FOR - - The Laundry, - - The Kitchen, - - AND FOR - - General Household Purposes. - - MANUFACTURED BY - - CRAMPTON BROTHERS, - - _Cor. Monroe & Jefferson Sts. N. Y._ - - Send for Circular and Price List. - - - * * * * * - - - BROWN BROS. & CO. - - BANKERS, - - 59 Wall St., New York, - 211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, - 66 State St., Boston. - -Issue, against cash deposited, or satisfactory guarantee of -repayment. - - Circular Credits for Travelers, - -In DOLLARS for use in the United States and adjacent countries, and -in POUNDS STERLING, for use in any part of the world. - -These Credits, bearing the signature of the holder, afford a ready -means of identification, and the amounts for which they are issued -can be availed of from time to time, wherever he may be, in sums to -meet the requirements of the Traveler. - -Application for Credits may be made to either of the above houses -direct, or through any respectable bank or banker in the country. - - -They also issue Commercial Credits, make Cable Transfers of Money -between this Country and England, and draw Bills of Exchange on -Great Britain and Ireland. - - - * * * * * - - - “IMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN.” - - Prince’s Improved Fountain Pen. - - [Illustration: CAP THE HANDLE CONTAINS THE INK] - -_As now improved the most perfect pen manufactured. Writes ten -hours with one filling. Saves one-third the time._ - -TESTIMONIAL.—“I can say this, your Fountain Pen is worth so much -that if I were bereft of it I should feel myself bereft of my right -hand.”—_Rev. Lyman Abbott, Editor of Christian Union, N. Y._ - -Can be sent by mail in a registered letter. Send for circulars. -Manufactured by - - JOHN S. PURDY, - - 212 Broadway, cor. Fulton St., N. Y. - - Also M’f’r of Gold Pens, Gold and Silver Holders, &c. - - - * * * * * - - -[Illustration: - - MARVIN’S - FIRE & BURGLAR - SAFES - COUNTER PLATFORM WAGON & TRACK - SCALES - _MARVIN SAFE & SCALE CO. - 265 BROADWAY. N. Y. - 627 CHESTNUT ST. PHILA._ -] - - - * * * * * - - - ANNUAL MEETING. - - - The Thirty-Second Annual Meeting - - OF THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION - - _WILL BE HELD IN THE_ - - Broadway Congregational Church, Taunton, Mass., - - OCTOBER 29-31. - -The Meeting will be organized on Tuesday, at Three o’Clock P. M., -and at Half-past Seven o’Clock in the evening the Annual Sermon -will be preached by - - Rev. S. E. HERRICK, D. D., of Boston. - -On Wednesday, papers will be read by Rev. GEORGE LEON WALKER, D.D., -and others. Wednesday evening will be occupied with addresses -and reminiscences by present and former missionaries of the A. -M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of committees and -discussions of the work. The Meeting will close Thursday evening, -with addresses from able and distinguished speakers, to be named -hereafter. - -The people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends -who may attend the Meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address -CHARLES H. ATWOOD, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning -places, will be duly sent. - - - 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._ - - - * * * * * - - - THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF - - THE - - American Missionary, - - ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. - - - SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT. - -Besides 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, -it will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting -the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of -current events relating to their welfare and progress. - -We publish =25,000= copies per month, and shall be glad to increase -the number indefinitely, knowing from experience that to be -informed of our work is to sympathize with, and desire to aid it. - -The Subscription Price will be, as formerly, =Fifty Cents a Year, -in Advance=. We also offer to send =One Hundred copies to one -address=, for distribution in Churches or to clubs of subscribers, -for $30., with the added privilege of a Life Membership to -such person as shall be designated. The Magazine will be sent -gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on Page 318. -Donations and subscriptions should be sent to - - H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t Treas., - 56 READE STREET, NEW YORK. - - - 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. 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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. 10, October, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: October 27, 2016 [EBook #53377] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCTOBER 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) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div> -<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXII.</p> -<p class="float-right">No. 10.</p> -</div> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br /> - -AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">OCTOBER, 1878.</p></div> - -<div class="wrap"> -<h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> -</div> - -<div class="center"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Financial</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_289">289</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Annual Meeting.—The Roman Catholics - Among the Freedmen</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_290">290</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Yellow Fever</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_291">291</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Foul Chance and a Fair Chance.—Indian - Agents</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_292">292</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">“Indian Wars”</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_293">293</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">An Indian Hymn-book</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_294">294</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Indian Students.—The Wet Season on - the West Coast</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_295">295</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_296">296</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Items from Churches and Schools.—General - Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_297">297</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Query Column</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_300">300</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE PRESS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Uncle Remus’ Revival Hymn.—A Bit of - History</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_301">301</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Georgia—<span class="chaplinen">Brunswick—Risley School Exhibition</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama—<span class="chaplinen">Wanted, a Barn: Rev. E. P. Lord</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Texas—<span class="chaplinen">The Southwest Texas Congregational - Association: Rev. B. C. Church</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_304">304</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Kentucky—<span class="chaplinen">A Vacant Church—The National - Problem: Rev. John G. Fee</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_305">305</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Mendi Mission: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. Floyd Snelson - and Mr. E. White</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_306">306</a>, <a href="#Page_307">307</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">S’Kokomish Reservation: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. G. H. Atkinson, - D. D.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_307">307</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Green Bay Agency: <span class="chaplinen">Jos. C. Bridgman, Esq.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_310">310</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">More About a Mission at Hong Kong: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. W. C. Pond</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_311">311</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_313">313</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_315">315</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_318">318</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<div class="center">NEW YORK:<br /> - -Published by the American Missionary Association,<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>. -</div> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><b>Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</b></p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center medium">A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2><i>American Missionary Association</i>,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon. E. S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table><tr><td class="tdpr"> - Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Jonathan Blanchard</span>, Ill.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Silas McKeen</span>, D. D., Vt.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, Mass.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">D. M. Graham</span>, D. D., Mich.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, Ct.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br /> - Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward L. Clark</span>, N. Y. -</td> - -<td> Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa.<br /> - Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br /> - <span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, Ct.<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">George Thacher</span>, LL. D., Iowa.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">H. M. Parsons</span>, N. Y.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> - Dea. <span class="smcap">John Whiting</span>, Mass.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. Patton</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> - Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> - Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y. -</td></tr> -<tr><td class="center" colspan="2"> - <span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago, Ill.</i><br /> -<br /> - EDGAR KETCHUM, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">E. A. Graves</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Sam’l Holmes</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">S. S. Jocelyn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="center">relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above.</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p>may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as <i>Assistant Treasurer</i>.</p> - -<p>A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> - -<p>Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[Pg 289]</a></span></p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<p class="center">THE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> - -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></div> -<div class="third center">OCTOBER, 1878.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 10.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>FINANCIAL.</h3> - -<p>When this number of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> reaches our readers, -our fiscal year (closing Sept. 30) will be nearly ended. By careful -economy for two years past, we kept our current expenses within our -receipts, and we hope that the receipts of this month will make -this the <em>third</em> year in which our expenditures will not add a -dollar to our debt.</p> - -<p>Our <em>debt</em> is now our great solicitude. Last year it was reduced, -by the sale of stocks, etc., from $93,232.99 to $62,816.90. This -year we have received to September 1, in cash, $14,108.22, and -in pledges (partly conditioned) $7,550, making $21,658.22, thus -reducing the amount—if the pledges are paid—to $41,158.68. Shall -not an effort, so nobly begun, be pushed forward to completion?</p> - -<p>We feel called upon, as never before, to urge the wiping out of -this debt. We have retrenched in office expenses, and have been -very guarded in annual appropriations, that it might be paid. -Generous doners have given liberally—some of their abundance—more -of their poverty—and the amount is reduced within grasp. We have -rejoiced that the liberality of the churches and individuals have, -in one month, by special efforts, well-nigh relieved a sister -society—the honored American Board—of a balance on its annual -appropriation of $80,000. A little more than half that amount, if -given to the A. M. A., will pay off the remainder of a debt that -has hung upon it as an incubus for ten years. The payment of that -debt will honor the cause of the Master; it will unfetter our -hands; it will cheer us and our friends for future work; it will -be a boon to the ignorant and needy masses for whom we labor. We -appeal to the wealthy, the liberal, the self-denying, to all who -love God and His poor, to make a final effort, by special gifts, to -reach an object so near at hand and so important.</p> - -<p>Our books will be closed promptly Sept. 30, for current receipts -and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[Pg 290]</a></span> expenditures, but for <em>receipts for debt</em> they will be kept -open till after the Annual Meeting; and we trust that meeting will -have the joy and glory of announcing the complete extinction of the -debt.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>OUR ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> - -<p>The Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association will be held in the Broadway Congregational Church, -Taunton, Mass., October 29–31. The meeting will be organized on -Tuesday, at three o’clock P. M., and at half-past seven o’clock -in the evening the annual sermon will be preached by Rev. S. E. -Herrick, D. D., of Boston. On Wednesday, papers will be read by -Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., and others. Wednesday evening will -be occupied with addresses and reminiscences by present and former -missionaries of the A. M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of -committees and discussions of the work.</p> - -<p>The meeting will close Thursday evening, with addresses from able -and distinguished speakers, to be named hereafter.</p> - -<p>The people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends -who may attend the meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address -Charles H. Atwood, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning -places, will be duly sent.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AMONG THE FREEDMEN.</h3> - -<p>The <cite>Independent</cite> closes a careful and, in the main, accurate -summary of the work of Christian education among the negroes, with -a view of what the Roman Catholics are doing. After speaking of -the large estimates of money expended, and pupils taught by that -church, it says:</p> - -<p class="blockquot"> - “Nothing approaching a confirmation of these estimates has been - brought to our notice. We have carefully examined the Roman - Catholic papers with reference to this subject for a year past, - and have been able to glean from them only the most barren record - of facts and isolated movements.... We believe that, if the - Roman Catholics really had facts to prove that they have made - the progress they claim to have made, they would not hesitate to - publish them conspicuously. As they fail to produce them, we are - contented to believe, for the present, that they are doing no - more than their fair share of the work, if so much, and receiving - no more than their share of the conversions.” -</p> - -<p>In a later issue, the same paper says:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p> - “We are glad to have been able to capture and expose the - spectre which has been frightening Protestants so much. We - mean the wholesale conversion of negroes to Catholicism. In a - recent article in our ‘Religious Intelligence’ we gave all the - information we could gather about the extent and results of - Catholic missions among the freedmen, and there was nothing in it - to alarm or annoy anybody. The <cite>Catholic Review</cite> quotes liberally - from the article, and virtually concedes the accuracy of our - statements in the following sentences:</p> - -<p class="blockquot"> - “‘Like our contemporary, we have noticed the “extravagant - estimates” to which it refers; but we never happened to notice - their having been made by any Catholic authority whatever. - They usually make their appearance in papers of the <cite>Christian - Advocate</cite> stamp, and are employed as a stimulus to rouse - missionary zeal in people who are much more readily moved to - give money by their hatred of Popery than by their love for what - they believe to be the truth taught by our Divine Lord. The - <cite>Independent</cite> wants facts to substantiate these boastings. We - suggest that it can always be accommodated with facts enough to - substantiate the truth of whatever assertions are actually made - by our missionaries. They can hardly be held responsible for any - wild stories which other people may circulate at their expense.’ -</p> - -<p>“Those who have been most troubled by reports of the gains of -Catholicism among the negroes may give to the winds their fears.”</p> -</div> - -<p>We, too, have been for more than a year making special inquiries. -We have read the large estimates, which have been through the -newspapers, of money expended, and pupils taught. The statement -that $600,000 in gold (nearly one million dollars in our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[Pg 291]</a></span> currency) -was given to this work by the Propaganda at Rome, in 1867, and -that, in the same year, sixty-six priests landed in New Orleans -to undertake missionary work among the blacks, we trace to the -<cite>Christian Intelligencer</cite> of that year.</p> - -<p>The fact is, that it is extremely difficult to get at accurate and -authorized statements in regard to all Roman Catholic missions. -Their funds are not raised by appeals, based on special needs or -special encouragements, or addressed to the general public; and -their policy is one of quiet foundation-laying, rather than of -demonstrative up-building. It is not an easy task, even, to secure -reliable information of what they are doing here at our doors, or -behind their own.</p> - -<p>Recognizing this difficulty, we are not ready to agree with the -<cite>Independent</cite> that, if the Roman Catholics had facts to prove, they -would not hesitate to publish them conspicuously. Nor are we ready -yet to congratulate ourselves that we “have been able to capture -and expose the spectre,” while we are obliged to confess that we -have not had it in our grasp sufficiently to take the measure of -its outlines, or tell its height and girth.</p> - -<p>A careful reading of the ‘virtual concession’ of the <cite>Catholic -Review</cite> makes it amount to virtually nothing, except an ingenious -evasion of responsibility for any statements which may have -been made. It does not even say that the estimates have been -extravagant, but uses that expression as a quotation from the -<cite>Independent</cite>. It only suggests that assertions actually made by -missionaries (who are careful not to make assertions) can always be -substantiated.</p> - -<p>We would merely caution the friend of the negro, and those who -fear the influence of Romanism over him, that an argument based on -ignorance is not very securely founded. And, while we would not -have <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">omne ignotum pro magnifico</i>, or believe because the spectre -is vague, it must be very large; on the other hand, we would not -say of one whose wont is to hide itself, “Because we cannot dissect -it, it is nothing.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>THE YELLOW FEVER.</h3> - -<p>The yellow fever, in its ravages in the South, pays no regard to -race, color or previous condition. Whites and blacks alike have -suffered from its sudden and malignant attacks. Death levels all -distinctions. The statement which has been often made, that the -negroes are proof against this pestilence, seems to have been -ill-based, as intelligent observers of its ravages in former years -utterly contradict it. At any rate, it is not true of this year’s -scourge.</p> - -<p>Quite opposite assertions have been made in regard to the conduct -of the blacks during the panic which this deathly visitor has -occasioned. So contradictory, in fact, that we suspect the truth -to be that they have acted very much like white people of the -same intelligence. Some have stood at their posts, and done noble -work as nurses, as ministers, and in humbler stations. And some, -doubtless, like those of other races, have been carried by their -fears away from the most sacred of duties.</p> - -<p>How has it affected our work? Of course, our schools in the -South are closed during the hot months, and most of the teachers -and white pastors are in the North. Straight University, at New -Orleans, La., is closed, and Rev. Mr. Alexander, the pastor of -the church, is at his New England home. At Grenada, Miss., which -has been almost depopulated by the fever, we had a school. The -two teachers, however, we believe went to the country before the -pestilence reached that beautiful town. The only one of our workers -whom we know to have been stricken down is Rev. W. W. Mallory, the -colored pastor of the church at Memphis, Tenn., who was still sick -at our last advices. We have reason to hope for his recovery and -restoration to full health.</p> - -<p>We have transmitted some sums of money which have been put into our -hands for<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[Pg 292]</a></span> special relief to the suffering colored people of these -infected districts, to which we have added what we felt justified -in doing from the funds of the Association.</p> - -<p>But the peril is not over yet. Many days must intervene before the -thrice welcome frosts may be expected to kill the germs of this -fell disease, and famine always comes in the train of continued -pestilence. It is the Lord’s work to avert suffering and relieve -physical want. May the fountains of charity, which have been opened -so freely through the land, continue to flow increasingly until -there shall be no more thirst.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>A FOUL CHANCE AND A FAIR CHANCE.</h3> - -<p>A correspondent writes us upon the subject of how the freedman is -getting on, as follows:</p> - -<p>“On my way up the Mississippi, between the States of Arkansas and -Mississippi, I fell into conversation with a planter living on the -right bank of the river, and, after the manner of all Yankees, -asked him how the negroes were getting on. He was a short, chunky, -red-faced man, and his account was gloomy in the extreme. He said -that he would not undertake to tell me all the trouble he had with -his ‘help,’ for, if he did, I would not believe him at all. He -said that he could not advance them anything at the beginning of -the season, for fear of their running away and leaving him without -hands in time of harvest; that they were so lazy that all they -cared for was to get bread and meat for the least possible amount -of work; that, although all his hands were deacons or preachers -or ‘exalters,’ they stole so that he could not raise any pigs or -chickens; that the members of the church were more licentious than -the ‘world’s people’; that they got angry and burned his gin-house -every year, etc., etc. He was the first man that I had met, during -a residence of nine years at the South, who would admit that he was -sorry the slaves had been made free.</p> - -<p>“On my way down the river, at about the same point, I had a -conversation upon the same subject with a man residing on the other -bank. He was a tall gentleman of fine form, with an intellectual, -genial, open face. In reply to my inquiries, he said the freedmen -were doing first-rate; were industrious, honest, temperate and -moral; were acquiring property in stock, tools and land; and he -found free labor more easily managed and more profitable than slave -labor. I referred to the conversation I had with his Mississippi -neighbor on my way up, and asked him why their reports were so -different. With a good deal of animation and emphasis, he replied: -‘I can tell you why it is: I just give my niggers a chance, and -he doesn’t. He has always brought them out in debt to him at the -end of every year, and has crushed out all their enterprise and -ambition, so that, as he says, the problem with them is how to -get a bare living with the least possible amount of work. All the -nigger wants is a fair chance.’”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>INDIAN AGENTS.</h3> - -<p>Under the Peace Policy, the Government has entrusted to the -American Missionary Association the nomination of six Indian -agents. Vacancies in these occur from time to time, and -applications for nominations are desired. One vacancy now exists.</p> - -<p>These Indian agencies afford an admirable opportunity for -usefulness to the right persons; but they are not sinecures for -incompetent men—whether laymen or ministers. It is desirable that -the applicant have some knowledge of farming and the simpler -mechanic arts, but <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>it is essential that he present the best -of credentials as to <em>piety, integrity, business capacity and -experience, and ability to influence masses of men</em>.</p> - -<p>The salary ranges from $1,000 to $2,000 per annum, according to -the responsibilities<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[Pg 293]</a></span> and duties of the agencies. Bonds for the -faithful performance of duty will be required by the government, -varying from $15,000 to $20,000.</p> - -<p>Applications or inquiries may be addressed to Rev. M. E. Strieby, -56 Reade Street, New York.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>“INDIAN WARS.”</h3> - -<p>And so the latest Indian War is over! It is absurd to call such -chases and skirmishes by so dignified a name. Small bands of ten, -twenty, sometimes a hundred or two outlaws in revolt, are hunted -to death or surrender in the wildernesses of the Far West. We -call them nations, and this undignified pursuit a war. It is, in -reality, only the same thing which is continually being done in -our great cities by the police. Law-breakers, and men who avenge -their own wrongs, must be chased to their dens, and either caught -and chained, or shot like dogs. Only that, on the frontier, the -facilities for the violence, and then for the escape, are so much -greater than in the city; and that we have to send generals and -colonels in the army after them, instead of sergeants of police.</p> - -<p>We pity the “braves” of the Territories more than we do the -“roughs” of the bloody sixth ward, because they are more ignorant -and more wronged, and because the hindrances to a better life are -even greater for them. And we pity the gallant men of the army, who -are compelled to do this police work, in dogging criminals to death.</p> - -<p>Among the recent dispatches is one, telling of an encounter -between six cow-boys and eight Indians on the Nueces River, in -which four Indians were killed and one captured; one of the boys -had a flesh-wound, and the others only wounds in their clothing. -Generalship does not go for much in such guerrilla warfare. West -Point tactics are not of much avail. Often, in the brooks of New -England, the farmer’s boy, who goes fishing with a stick and a -string, when it rains too hard to work out of doors, will bring -home ten times as many trout as the city sportsman with eight-ounce -rod, a Conroy reel and a choice assortment of flies. Perhaps a -small army of cow-boys would serve us best on the frontier. It is -not fit work for real soldiers. We do not mean a word of disrespect -to them. They have our sympathy and admiration for their fidelity -and obedience, and for not resigning when they are set to such work.</p> - -<p>But how much better it would be if, by fair treatment and -honestly-fulfilled pledges, we had made these Indians both friendly -and law-abiding—or, even, if now, with patience and forbearance, -we should be persistently kind and true, and see how long it would -be before we and they should find each in the other, “a man and a -brother.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The difference between <em>equal</em> and <em>identical</em> rights is well -illustrated by the action of the Georgia Central Railroad -officials. Travel between Macon and Savannah is so light that only -one passenger coach is run. By a partition this is divided into two -parts, furnished exactly alike, one for white and the other for -colored passengers. The colored end being nearly empty one day, a -white man took a seat, or rather <em>four</em> seats, in it, upon which -the conductor told him that he was in the wrong end of the car, and -that the vice-president was very particular that no white persons -be allowed to ride in the apartment for colored people.</p> - -<p>A similar arrangement formerly prevailed on the street-cars in -Mobile, and some of the old partitioned cars are still in use. -It is to be hoped that, in the course of human events, identical -rights on steam-cars will not be considered any worse than on horse -cars by the constituents of Georgia’s good Governor Colquitt.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[Pg 294]</a></span></p> -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>AN INDIAN HYMN-BOOK.</h3> - -<p>We have just received a copy of the <cite>Hymns in the Chinook Jargon -Language</cite>, compiled by Rev. Mr. Eells, missionary of the American -Missionary Association. It is not a ponderous volume like those -in use in our American churches, with twelve or fifteen hundred -hymns, but a modest pamphlet of thirty pages, containing both the -Indian originals and the English translations. The tunes include, -among others, “Happy Land,” “Greenville,” “Bounding Billow,” “John -Brown,” and the “Hebrew Children.” The hymns are very simple, and -often repeat all but the first line. The translations show the -poverty of the language to convey religious ideas.</p> - -<p>One hymn reads—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Always Jesus is very strong,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So his Paper (the Bible) says.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>Another we give in full, and in both original and translation, as -part of the words of the Jargon will be seen to be English:</p> - - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<p><span class="i12">HEAVEN.</span></p> -<span class="i0">1. Kopa Saghalie konoway tillikums<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Halo olo, halo sick,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Wake kliminwhit, halo solleks,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Halo pahtlum, halo cly.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><i>Chorus</i>—Jesus mitlite kopa Saghalie<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Kunamoxt konoway tillikums kloshe.<br /></span> -</div> - - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">2. Yahwa tillikums wake klahowya,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Wake sick tumtum, halo till,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Halo mimoluse, wake mesachie,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Wake polaklie, halo cole.—<i>Chorus.</i><br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">3. Yahwa tillikums mitlite kwanesum,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Hiyu houses, hiyu sing;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Papa, mama, pe kloshe tenas;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Ovacut yaka chicamin pil.—<i>Chorus.</i><br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">4. Jesus potlatch kopa siwash,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Spose mesika, hias kloshe,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Konoway iktas mesika tikegh,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Kopa Saghalie kwanesum.—<i>Chorus.</i><br /></span> -</div></div> - -<div class="poem" style="margin-top: 1.5em;"> -<div class="stanza"> -<p><span class="i8">Tune, “<i>Greenville</i>.”</span></p> -</div> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">1. In Heaven all the people<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Are not hungry, are not sick;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They do not tell lies, do not become angry;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">They do not become drunk, do not cry.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i8">Jesus lives in Heaven,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Together with all good people.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">2. There the people are not poor,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Have no sorrow, are not tired;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">They do not die, are not wicked;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">There is no darkness, no cold.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">3. There the people live always;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">There are many houses, and much singing;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">There is father, mother and good children;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The street is of gold.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">4. Jesus will give to the Indians,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">If you are very good,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Everything you wish,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">In Heaven, always.<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>We only extract, further, the literal translation of the Lord’s -Prayer, some of the petitions of which seem to find admirable -expression in this version, especially the “lead us not into -temptation,” etc.:</p> - -<p>“Our Father who lives in the Above, good thy name over everywhere. -Good if thou become true Chief over all people. Good if thy mind is -on the earth, as in the Above. Give to us during this day our food. -Pity us for our wickedness, as we pity any man if he does evil to -us. Not thou carry us to where evil is; but if evil find us, good -thou help us conquer that evil. Truly all earth thy earth, and thou -very strong, and thou truly very good, so we wish all this. Good -so.”</p> - -<p>It is no little task to make hymns for such a people out of such -poor materials. Let it be understood that these are only hymns for -the transition state, for Indians who can only remember a little, -and who sing in English as soon as they have learned to read.</p> - -<p>This little book is an interesting monument of missionary labor, -and full of suggestion as to the manifold difficulties to be -encountered in the attempt to Christianize the Indians of America.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[Pg 295]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>INDIAN STUDENTS.</h3> - -<p>The fifteen Indian students who have been studying at Hampton -remain there through the summer. Many of our readers will look -with interest for some news of them, and be glad to hear of their -continued progress and content. Like the other students who remain, -they work through the summer, chiefly on the farm, thus earning -money for their clothing and support. They are allowed a day and -a half in school each week, and thus, under a regular teacher, -their instruction is kept up in the English language, with object -lessons, and phonetic practice, writing, arithmetic and geography. -They also meet for an hour every evening, from eight to nine, -with a few of the other students, under the care of a teacher, -for conversation, and games that are exercises in talking. This -conversation class is thus far a great success, enjoyed by the -Indians and the other students who take pleasure in helping them.</p> - -<p>They also have their Sunday-school class, and a prayer-meeting, in -which most of them are very constant and devoted attendants. The -devoutness of their simple prayers in Cheyenne and Kiowa cannot be -doubted by a listener, though understood only by the Great Spirit -to whom they are addressed.</p> - -<p>At their first meeting, a gentleman present spelled out the -question with the card letters for one of the young men to answer: -Why do you like to learn? Letter by letter the startlingly -impressive answer followed, “Because it makes me a man!”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>THE WET SEASON ON THE WEST COAST.</h3> - -<p>It will be borne in mind by those who have special interest in our -Mendi Mission that it is still the rainy season, to which all the -peculiar perils of the West Coast of Africa are to be encountered, -and with great risk to the health and life of those who are not -fully acclimated. We have had weekly letters from our colored -missionaries there, to as late a date as Aug. 13th, who have been -passing the first test of their ability to endure the climate -and resist the African fever. None of them have entirely escaped -the touch of its hot breath and icy hand, and yet it seems to -have for the most part passed them lightly by. Two of the female -missionaries have been very sick. One, Mrs. Dr. James, died early -in the season.</p> - -<p>Thus far, then, we are encouraged to believe that, as we hoped it -would prove, men and women of African descent endure the risks of -transplanting and of naturalization far better than those who have -neither themselves nor their ancestors been “to the manner born.” -And, if these perils at the threshold can be encountered better by -them than by others, we may surely hope that the less malignant -influences which pervade the atmosphere will not undermine their -strength, as it does with those who are foreigners by both blood -and birth.</p> - -<p>It behooves their friends on this side the ocean, who believe in -the power of prayer, to keep these missionaries constantly in their -minds and in their hearts, and to pray the Lord of the harvest, -who has already raised up and sent forth these laborers into the -field, that He will enable them to bear the heat and burden of the -day.</p> - -<p>They are doing well in their work. The schools are growing and -gaining in every way. A lack of proper text-books has hampered the -teachers, and an unfortunate delay has occurred by the loss of a -box containing a supply, which, with the boat which was conveying -it from Freetown to Good Hope, failed to reach its destination. The -church has received valuable accessions since Mr. Snelson and his -co-laborers reached the field. We hope to have more regular and -full correspondence to lay before our readers in future, from month -to month.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[Pg 296]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>An honored New Hampshire pastor writes: “I should be glad to -see the A. M. A’s debt removed, and I am in hearty sympathy -with the Society. It seems to me to combine, in the persons of -the freedmen—to say nothing of the Chinese, etc.—the claims of -Home and Foreign Missions in a remarkable degree. Patriotism and -philanthropy meet and blend in its work.”</p> - -<p>The same friend says: “Communism, so much, and thus far, perhaps, -so extravagantly dreaded, will find friends among the black race at -a future day, to an extent unexpected now, if we are not prompt to -enlighten and Christianize that vast army of ignorant and voting -laborers.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>When, at the opening of the war, the life of the infant Berea -College was sought, the Angel of Providence said: “Arise, and take -the young child and flee into the Egypt of Safety, and be thou -there until I bring thee word; for the Herod of Slavery will seek -the young child, to destroy him.” But, when Herod was dead, behold, -the angel appeared, saying: “Arise, and take the young child and -go into the land of Israel, for they are dead which sought the -young child’s life.” And they arose and took the young child Berea, -and went back into their own land. And the child grew, and waxed -strong in spirit. And other children were born to this household of -faith—Howard and Hampton, and Fisk and Atlanta, and Talladega and -Straight and Tougaloo, and several more. These do not have to flee -for their life; but they need to be nourished into maturity, that -they may do the mighty work assigned them in this and in coming -generations, here and in other lands.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Apropos</i>—A judge from a Western city told us, the other day, that, -having had a black man to testify in his court, he turned and -complimented him from the bench as the most intelligent witness he -had ever had in that box.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He had been a colonel in the war. Since the coming of peace he -had remained in the South, to engage in the process of the social -and political reconstruction. He felt the desperateness of the -case, and yet was hopeful. In our office, he was setting forth the -Southern status, and arguing for patient endurance and vigorous -endeavor when, in his military phrase, he broke forth: “It is only -one shot in five hundred that hits.” Fire away, then, ye soldiers -of the Cross! Some of the shots will hit.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was the Christmas of the year 1865. It was in a Southern city. -The preacher, though black, had the frosts of seventy winters on -his head. His text was the parable of the vine and the branches. In -the sermon of singular unction, he said: “My brethren, we has the -advantage of the vine and the branches. They get the sap only in -the spring and thro’ the season, <em>but the Christian has the sap all -the year ’round</em>.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>Old Whitey.</i>—Lewis Tappan had nothing too good to be used for the -benefit of the colored people. While our new Field Superintendent -was in the last six months of his course at the Union Theological -Seminary, with aid from the American Home Missionary Society, he -preached back of Brooklyn for a Presbyterian church of “Americans, -falsely called Africans,” as Mr. Tappan was fond of styling that -people. His own family carriage and horse he furnished the young -preacher all that time for riding out and back. Storms and mud did -not prevent the cheerful bringing out of the rig. In later years, -upon meeting the preacher, he would always speak with pleasure of -the service of Old Whitey. In those days, or even now, how few men -would furnish their family turnout for such a purpose!</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[Pg 297]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>ITEMS FROM CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>—The Trustees of the Normal Institute have -decided to uniform the male students. A plain sack-coat, pantaloons -and cap of bluish-gray cloth have been selected. The suit will cost -about ten dollars.</p> - -<p>—Seventy young men and twenty-two young women remain at Hampton -Institute this summer—a larger number than in any previous -year—finding employment on the school-farm, in the shops, -knitting-room, laundry, and at housework. The young people are -under watchful care and supervision; the family life of the school -is kept up, and regular Bible-class instruction on Sundays.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Byron, Ga.</span>—Two united with the church during the month of -August; two infants baptised. Still, many are asking what must they -do to be saved.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>—A professor writes: “Never before were -our young ministers, as a body, so much in earnest as now, or -more successful than this summer in their Christian work. They -evince more tact in overcoming difficulties, and show more power -in removing obstacles than I have ever seen in them before. The -last two years have told powerfully on their mental and Christian -development.”</p> - -<p>—Rev. Mr. Hill writes; “At the church prayer-meeting in the -chapel, September 3d, three girls, pupils in the college, rose and -expressed a hope in Christ. Two of them are in the family at Foster -Hall, for whom we have felt anxious, and have been praying all -summer. They seem now very decided and very happy. I have been much -impressed with the deep spiritual tone of the teachers here, and -their entire consecration to the work.”</p> - -<p>—The Talladega College Industrial Department will hold a State -Industrial Fair at the grounds of the College, in Talladega, Ala., -in November, 1878. This fair is intended as an exhibition of -what the colored people are able to do, as farmers, carpenters, -printers, manufacturers, musicians, housewives, etc. Any one who -has produced, or made, or who owns anything he considers especially -fine, is invited to exhibit. Three hundred dollars or more are -promised, and it is hoped the sum may be increased to one thousand -dollars, to be given as prizes.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Childersburg, Ala.</span>—Rev. Mr. Jones was ordained here in -June. Between twenty and thirty have recently come out on the -Lord’s side.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Alabama Furnace, Ala.</span>—A protracted meeting is now in -progress, with decided indications of good results; and also at the -“Cove,” there have been several marked conversions.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>—A gentleman of high standing, in New -Orleans, writes to Mr. Alexander, the pastor of the Central -Congregational Church, who is now in the North: “Notwithstanding -the intense heat, and the excitement that prevails because of -the yellow-fever here, the congregation at Central Church have -not abated their interest, and, both on Thursday evenings and -on Sundays, they manifest by their presence that they will ‘not -forsake the assembling of themselves together as the manner of some -is.’ The good Lord is present to bless at every service, and the -faithful people are, as far as I know, conscientiously discharging -every known duty. They display a zeal that is truly commendable, -and must certainly meet your approbation and esteem.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3> - - -<h4>The Freedmen.</h4> - -<p>—The Trustees of the Peabody Fund have just sent $1,200 to aid -schools in North Carolina. One thousand dollars of this amount is -to be used in Raleigh alone—$600 for a white graded school, and -$400 for the two colored graded schools. Dr. Sears,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[Pg 298]</a></span> agent of the -fund, said that the Trustees would have sent more money, but that -the income from it had recently fallen off 40 per cent.</p> - -<p>—The North Carolina Legislature of 1876–77 provided for two Normal -schools—one for white persons and one for black persons. The latter -offers continuous instruction throughout the year at Fayetteville. -It is under the care of Mr. Harris, a colored man, who was prepared -for the work, which he does well, in Ohio.</p> - -<p>—The Board of Education at San José, Cal., has abolished the -colored school, and the former pupils have been permitted to enter -the other schools.</p> - -<p>—At Memphis, a telegram says the colored population are acting well -in the emergency, and heartily co-operating with the whites, and -adds:</p> - -<p class="blockquot"> - “A meeting has been called by prominent colored men for the - purpose of organization, to assist the whites in relieving - distress and guarding the property, which the people, in - the panic of last week, left unguarded. Their action in the - present emergency speaks volumes, and has greatly increased the - confidence reposed in them by those who were their masters. Among - the most efficient on the police force now are the negroes.” -</p> - -<p>—When the better people of the North come to be understood by -the right-thinking people of the South, we shall have hearty -co-operation in the education of the negro.—<cite>Rev. Robert West.</cite></p> - -<p>—To “remove the colored man from politics”—in the sense of taking -him out of such an absorption in politics, and such a misuse of -them as does injury to himself and to others—it is only necessary -to put him into education and industry.—<cite>The Advance.</cite></p> - -<p>—No nation can possibly let twelve per cent. of its population grow -up in ignorance, superstition and vice, without reaping a fearful -harvest.</p> - -<p>—Macaulay says: “The best remedy for the evils incident to -newly-acquired freedom, is <em>freedom</em>.”</p> - - -<h4>Africa.</h4> - -<p>From all the west coast of Africa, in 1874, there were imported -486,544 cwt. of palm oil and kernels, valued at £518,134, or over -two-and-a-half million dollars; of India-rubber, 3,427 cwt. were -imported, valued at £25,792; of coffee, 11,502 cwt., valued at -£46,506; of spices and ginger, 8,803 cwt., valued at £20,908; and, -noticeable fact to Americans, of raw cotton, 11,315 cwt., valued at -£32,839.</p> - -<p>The chief articles sent out to the islands and coasts were cottons, -arms and ammunition, haberdashery, hardware and cutlery. Of these, -cotton was king. The whole number of yards of cotton cloth, mostly -prints, sold at these ports for that year, amounted to 47,217,966, -or nearly forty-eight millions. Allowing thirty yards to a piece, -and thirty pieces to a bale, there were over fifty thousand cases -of calicoes, whose value was estimated at £745,179, or nearly four -millions of dollars. Shall America utterly neglect so rich a field, -with its hundreds of factories half idle, and not a few completely -at rest?—<cite>African Repository.</cite></p> - -<p>—The colored Republic of Liberia has 3,500 voters, 116 -officeholders, besides petty magistrates and constables, and taxes -the people at the rate of twenty-nine dollars for every voter, -besides the cost of maintaining schools and government buildings.</p> - -<p>—Stanley is said to have agreed to make another exploring trip -through the Continent of Africa, at the expense of the king of -Belgium.</p> - -<p>—Mr. Williams, who accompanied the Azor’s shipload of South -Carolina negroes to Liberia, is unwilling to take the -responsibility of advising the colored people of the United States -to emigrate. It is a magnificent country, and money is to be made -there; but the risks of fever and disease are great, and the -climate is enervating. Thrift, patience and good management are -essential to success. No emigrant should<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[Pg 299]</a></span> land at Monrovia without -a six months’ stock of provisions, a supply of simple medicines, -a little ready money, and all the bright calicoes, brass trinkets -and notions he can lay his hands on. Salt is always valuable, too. -In the interior, the natives lick visitors’ hands for the salty -taste of the perspiration. Those who have from $200 to $300 over -their passage-money will have a much better chance of becoming -independent in Liberia than in America; but those who expect to -find there a heaven on earth, where they will not have to work, and -who are unprovided with means, will soon become disheartened, and -be anxious to return to the United States.</p> - - -<h4>The Indians.</h4> - -<p>—One fundamental principle in the management of the Indians should -be, that they are not to be massed together, but separated in small -communities, and as soon as may be, in homesteads. The more they -mix with us the less they will disturb us.</p> - -<p>—The solution of the Indian problem will be found whenever a -policy founded upon justice shall be inaugurated, entrusted to a -separate department of the Government, free from political or army -interference, executed by men selected on account of fitness, who -shall be exempt from the accursed political dogma, “that to the -victors belong the spoils,” held to strictest accountability, and -subject to removal only by impeachment. When this is done so that -it cannot be undone, and the officers of the Department are clothed -with power to protect the Indian under the civil law of the land, -and the barriers to the citizenship of the Indian are removed, -and he stands upon the same plane with every other man, alike -responsible to law, and equally entitled to its protection, then, -and not until then, may we hope for peace with our native tribes. -When the army of the United States shall become what it ought ever -to be, the executive servant of the people, called into requisition -only when humane measures have failed, then it may fulfil its -mission—never as a humane civilizing power.—<cite>Col. Meacham.</cite></p> - -<p>—The number of Roman Catholic missionaries and teachers among the -Indian tribes in the United States is 117.</p> - -<p>—Of the 8,000 youth of legal school age in the Indian Territory, -over 5,000 are enrolled as attendants at the common schools, and -an average daily attendance of over 3,000 is reported. There is a -<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">per capita</i> expenditure upon the total school population of the -Cherokees of twenty-five dollars, while New York State expends -but six. The total expenditure in all the tribes is very nearly -$200,000 a year. If money can make good schools, the Indians -certainly ought to have them.</p> - -<p>—The Bannock war is over, and the Snakes are scotched. If we may -believe these last—though it was one of their tribe who deceived -our first mother—in the division of labor, the Bannocks did the -murdering, and the Snakes the stealing.</p> - -<p>—The care of Spotted Tail agency was put into the hands of the -Episcopal Church, under the administration of Secretary Delano, in -the Interior Department. The present Commissioner of Indian Affairs -decides that this means that no other missionary religious teachers -shall go on this ground except Episcopalians. Consequently, three -Catholic priests have just been banished from the Spotted Tail -agency, against the wish and choice of that chief and his people. -So says the <cite>Advance</cite>.</p> - - -<h4>Chinese.</h4> - -<p>—The number of children in San Francisco between the ages of -five and seventeen is 55,899, of whom 133 are negroes, and 4 -Indians. The number under five years, of all classes, is 24,389, -making a total under seventeen years, of 80,288, of whom 1,505 -are Mongolians. Of the white children of school age, who have not -attended any school<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[Pg 300]</a></span> during the past year, there are 16,147. The -returns do not mention any Mongolian children as having attended -school.</p> - -<p>—The Chinese Consul, Lit-Mium Cook, who has recently arrived at -the port of San Francisco, says that the Chinese Government has -no desire to abrogate or modify the Burlingame Treaty, and also -that it believes that the Government of the United States has -both the power and the will to protect Chinamen in the enjoyment -of their treaty rights in this country. Mr. Seward, United States -Minister to China, who arrived at San Francisco in the same -vessel, expresses himself as strongly opposed, on commercial and -international grounds, to any change of the existing treaty with -China. There is not the slightest danger, as he thinks, that -Chinese immigration will ever be so great as to give that race any -control in this country, or make it injurious to our industrial -interests.</p> - -<p>—Chinese labor is discountenanced by the Legislature of British -Columbia. A resolution just passed declares that “Chinese laborers -should not be employed upon the public works of the province, and -that a clause should be inserted in specifications of all contracts -awarded, to the effect that contractors will not be permitted to -employ Chinese labor upon the works, and that, in event of their -doing so, the government will not be responsible for payment of the -contract.”</p> - -<p>—Two Chinese young men are preparing themselves for the ministry of -the Episcopal Church, in San Francisco, Cal.</p> - -<p>—The Chinese Ambassador is credited with the statement that the -Chinese will go to Ireland, as that is the only country that the -Irish do not rule.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>OUR QUERY COLUMN.</h3> - -<p>One of our most experienced and successful teachers writes to us: -“Why not have a Query Column in the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, which will -bring us in contact oftener? Have questions practical, and answers -concise, clear, and to the point.” To all which we say: Why not, -indeed?</p> - -<p>Answer: We will.</p> - -<p>Here is, then, already the beginning—a query and an answer. The -query practical, which is the only condition imposed by the writer. -The answer, although our own, we are not afraid to measure by all -the three conditions suggested. It is concise—not susceptible of -any very great condensation; clear—no vagueness there; and to the -point—indeed, a direct answer.</p> - -<p>Our Query Column is, then, in its place. After the news and notes -will be a place for the interrogation marks. Who will ask the -questions? We suppose it will be he that wants to know. And who -will answer them? We do not profess to know everything at the New -York office; but we have a wise man in the East, at Boston, and -one who may <em>occidentally</em> know a thing or two at Chicago, a royal -correspondent in the South, who will be everywhere, and a whole -corps of intelligent teachers and pastors on the field, who, best -of all, can answer each other’s questions.</p> - -<p>Seriously, then, we welcome the idea. We hereby open and inaugurate -“Our Query Column,” for all our friends and co-workers. Let the -questions be “practical,” germain to our distinctive work. Let them -be the real questions on which you desire light for yourselves, -and from some source we will try to secure you answers which shall -be “concise, clear, and to the point.” Of course, we (for the -editorial, like the kingly, “we” is a cover for much irresponsible -authority) shall answer, or cause to be answered, only such queries -as, in our judgment, will be helpful to the work we have in hand. -Who asks first?</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[Pg 301]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE PRESS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>UNCLE REMUS’ REVIVAL HYMN.</h3> - -<div class="poem"> -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">O, whar’ shall we go when de great day comes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Wid de blowin’ ob de trumpets an’ de bangin’ ob de drums?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">How many po’ sinners ’ll be cotched out late,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ fin’ no latch ter de golden gate?<br /></span> -<span class="i8">No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">De sun musn’t set on yo’ sorrer;<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Sin’s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">O Lord, fetch de mo’ners up higher!<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When de nations ob de earth are standin’ all aroun’<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who’s a gwine ter be chosen fer ter war de glory crown?<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who’s a gwine fer ter stan’, stiff-kneed an’ bol’,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ answer ter deir name at de callin’ ob de roll?<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You’d better come now ef you’s comin’,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Ole Satan’s a loose an’ a bummin’,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">De wheels ob destruction is a hummin’—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">O, come along, sinner, ef you’s commin’.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">De song ob salvation is a mighty sweet song,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ de Paradise wind blow fur an’ blow strong,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ Aberham’s buzzum is safe an’ its wide,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ dat’s de place whar de sinners orter hide.<br /></span> -<span class="i8">No use ter be stoppin’ an’ a lookin’,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Ef yo’ fool wid Satan you’ll get took in;<br /></span> -<span class="i8">You’ll hang on de edge an’ get shook in,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Ef yo’ keep on a stoppin’ an’ a lookin’.<br /></span> -</div> - -<div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Jes now is de time, an’ dis yer is de place,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Let de salvation sun shine squar’ in yo’ face;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Fight de battles ob de Lord, fight soon an’ fight late,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">An’ you’ll always fin’ a latch ter de golden gate.<br /></span> -<span class="i8">No use fer ter wait twel ter morrer,<br /></span> -<span class="i8">De sun musn’t set on yo’ sorrer;<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Sin’s ez sharp ez a bamboo brier—<br /></span> -<span class="i8">Ax de Lord fer ter fetch yo’ up higher.—<cite>Exchange.</cite><br /></span> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>A BIT OF HISTORY.</h3> - -<p>There is nothing new under the sun—not even a Home Missionary -Society for Illinois. The American Missionary Association had three -auxiliaries—the Penobscot, in Maine; the Western Home and Foreign, -at Cincinnati; and the North-western, at Chicago. In 1854, the -North-western was modified to become the Illinois Home Missionary -Association. As such it was operated for five or six years, when -it was given up, and the whole work was transferred to the A. M. -A., with a District Secretary to have supervision of the missionary -churches and to push the collections. When that District Secretary -and the missionary churches, in 1861, were transferred to the A. -H. M. S., he retained in possession the record books of those two -auxiliaries. But these, together with other precious journals, -were consumed by the great fire, so that it will be difficult to -reproduce<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[Pg 302]</a></span> that chapter in our State home evangelism. Rev. Epaphras -Goodman was the Corresponding Secretary. Rev. S. G. Wright and Dr. -Flavel Bascom both served as agents. Rev. A. L. Rankin, now of -California, was a general missionary along the southern portion -of the Illinois Central Railroad. Coming to one place in Egypt, -and inquiring for the religious element there, he got this as an -answer: “Religious element? You are the first man we have had -making that inquiry. We thought you were looking for land.”</p> - -<p>We find by the Annual Report of the A. M. A. for 1855 that, of its -104 missionaries in the home department, forty of them were under -the Illinois Society. Among these were Revs. W. W. Blanchard, -Nelson Cook, George Bent, William Beardsley, S. Dilley, George -Gemmell, J. T. Marsh, M. N. Miles, Alfred Morse, W. A. Nichols, L. -Parker, George Schlosser, David Todd, E. E. Wells and David Wirt. -Among the fifty-four churches aided were the South, the Edwards, -and the Welsh, of Chicago; and those of Amboy, Henry, Providence, -Udina, Plymouth, of Ottawa; DeKalb, Lawn Ridge, Metamora, Roscoe, -Sterling, Bloomington, Byron, Kankakee, Newark, Milburn, Albany, -Urbana (now Champaign), Huntley, Victoria, Shirland, Dundee and -Sandwich.</p> - -<p>The State Society investigated the necessities of the field, and -endorsed applications for aid, but did not make appropriations -to the churches. This was done by the A. M. A. in New York, -which issued the commissions. After a while the executive -committee—Deacons Carpenter and Johnston, and Pastors Patton and -Roy—finding that they were simply an additional committee for -endorsing applications, and not having the responsibility and the -stimulus of administration, made request to have the whole work -resumed by the A. M. A., and the State Society voted to discontinue -its operations. Herein is a confirmation of the wisdom of the new -Society in making itself independent and auxiliary, and not simply -co-operative. This piece of history, containing the argument of -experience, was not brought out in the late series of discussions.</p> - -<p>That there was no alienation of feeling attending this separate -operation in home missions as a testimony against slavery, is -evident from the fact that the churches and the missionary pastors -of the A. M. A. were so readily turned over to the A. H. M. S., -and by it so cheerfully received. That National Home Missionary -Society had all along borne more or less of testimony against -slave-holding; but when, in 1857, it passed a rule by which all -of its fifty-five Southern Presbyterian missionaries were dropped -from its list, then no one could question the soundness of its -position. So, again, the readiness with which testifying churches -returned to regular contributions in behalf of the American Board, -as well as of this Society, revealed an abiding love for these -very organizations with which for a time they had not walked in -fellowship. The First and the Plymouth Churches of Chicago, which, -from their organization, had taken each its two annual collections -for the A. M. A., one for the home and one for the foreign -department, fell in with the old Society and Board as naturally and -heartily as though they had always been among the more conservative -churches. On the other hand, the chief officers and supporters of -the old organizations were glad that the organic testimony thus -borne, along with other influences, had been able to tone up public -sentiment so that the satisfactory action could be taken by them.</p> - -<p>And now everybody sees that, out of that testifying process, God -was bringing on another organization to be ready against the day -when He should open to it the special field of the South and of -Africa.</p> - -<p class="right"> - —<cite>Rev. Dr. Roy, in the Advance.</cite><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[Pg 303]</a></span> -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>GEORGIA.</h3> - -<h4>Brunswick—Risley School Exhibition.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">AS SEEN BY A SOUTHERNER.</p> - -<p class="medium hang"> - This school is taught by S. B. Morse, a graduate of Atlanta - University. The following account is from a local newspaper. -</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mr. Editor</span>: It has ever been a source of unfeigned -pleasure to me to observe any efforts tending to the elevation -and refinement of humanity. Hence, it was no less a pleasure than -surprise last evening when I found so marvelously successful -an effort in that direction, as evinced in the concert and -exhibition—the closing exercises of the Risley School. Mr. Morse -(a graduate of the University of Atlanta) may justly congratulate -himself upon the proficiency attained by his pupils, considering -the great difficulties and discouragements under which he has -necessarily had to labor.</p> - -<p>The colored people are born natural musicians; but the time, -harmony and smooth rendering of the “part-songs” last night gave -indubitable evidence of thorough culture and faithful practice. -The declamation by the young scholars displayed good powers of -memory and hard study. Their enunciation was distinct and perfect. -The selections were excellent. With the single exception of an -interruption by a few disagreeable, unmannerly boys, who evidently -had as little respect for themselves as for propriety, the affair -went off without a break. Quite a number of white persons were -present. Just before closing the exercises, Mr. Morse made a short -and pertinent address, stating the numerous difficulties under -which he had labored, but offering “the fruits of his labors” as -the test of his fidelity and capacity for filling the position he -proudly claimed, of “teacher.” The Honorable President of the Board -of Education and Mr. Kenrick, the county-school commissioner, were -called upon for speeches, and expressed their hearty gratification -at the degree of proficiency and the evidence of faithful study -on the part of the school, and their satisfaction at the marked -improvement in order, manner, and the advance in education, as -clearly shown by their present exhibition.</p> - -<p>We have to congratulate ourselves upon possessing a most quiet, -respectable and law-abiding colored element. Their comfortable -homes, with well-stocked gardens; their numerous churches, some -quite pretentious in architecture, and, above all, their large and -substantial free school, give proof that there is no question of -their enjoyment of all “the rights, titles and emoluments” of a -“free and independent citizen” in Brunswick.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>ALABAMA.</h3> - -<h4>Wanted—a Barn.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. E. P. LORD, TALLADEGA COLLEGE.</p> - -<p>Meeting a lady recently who has long been interested in our work, -she remarked: “Talladega does not seem to have so many wants as -most new institutions—at least, we do not hear so much of them.” -Imagine my surprise, when I had feared that the Association and all -of our friends were wearied by our continual importunities.</p> - -<p>What a list we have of not merely wants, but actual and pressing -necessities, for which some of us pray as continually and earnestly -as for daily bread. A dormitory, for the physical and moral -good of the young men, now crowded six and more in a room, in a -building intended and much needed for other purposes; a library, as -necessary in a college as steam in a factory; money, without which -none of the means of elevating a race or individuals can be made -effective.</p> - -<p>But I want now especially to urge one vital necessity, even to the -continuance of one of our most important means of helping this -people. Last year good friends in the North gave us $3,566.52, -and some of the instructors advanced $2,000. With this amount -property valued now at about $5,000 has been purchased, and an -Industrial<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[Pg 304]</a></span> Department, including farming, carpentering, printing, -and house-work of all kinds, has been carried on one year. By -this outlay sixty scholars have earned a large sum in payment of -their school expenses. They have also learned to do these various -kinds of work in a systematic and intelligent manner. But in the -growth of character the good has been greatest. The young people -have acquired earnestness, self-dependence and enterprise. During -the vacation they are disseminating this practical knowledge and -their spirit through the whole State. The Southern Educational -Society, composed of some of the foremost educators of the South, -recently pronounced “industrial education the hope of the South.” -It is certainly more necessary and more promising among the colored -people than among the whites. Already we can see the benefits of -the department in the improving material condition of the people -in the country about, in better and larger crops, cultivated more -skilfully with better implements, etc.</p> - -<p>The Agricultural Department is one of the most useful, and it is, -also, one of the most remunerative parts of our work. At present we -are obliged to go three-fourths of a mile by the road to reach the -farm; $1,000 would buy a piece of land connecting the farm directly -with the college buildings. This would save annually a large -percentage of the cost in time required to reach the farm, to say -nothing of the use of the land. Who will make this very essential -addition to “Winsted Farm”?</p> - -<p>The most profitable part of the farm-work is the dairy, and -raising beef for the College boarding department. We shall keep -fifty or sixty cattle continually, but we have now no barn. The -working stock, the implements and the feed must have a shelter. -We have nothing but sheds made of old lumber, which we fear the -autumn storms will destroy, with much property within. Besides, -if the farm is to be, as it should be, a model to the colored -people, we must not leave everything out in the rain and cold, -as is universally the case in the South. There is to be held, in -connection with the department, this fall, the first Industrial -Fair ever held by the colored people. We expect it to be a means -of education to 5,000 people. The barn should be ready for their -inspection and information. Fifteen hundred dollars will give the -farm the barn it needs, and furnish work to a number of young men, -by which they will learn the use of tools, under our very skilful -carpenter, and be able to pay their expenses in school. If friends -could appreciate how necessary these things are, we certainly -should have them at once.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>TEXAS.</h3> - -<h4>The Southwest Texas Congregational Association.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. B. C. CHURCH, GOLIAD.</p> - -<p>The General Association of Congregational Churches, of Texas, at -its seventh annual session, doffed its name, and hereafter will be -known as the Southwest Texas Congregational Association.</p> - -<p>Three churches were represented by their delegates and pastors. -Rev. Geo. Whitefort, of Red River Association, and agent of the -American Tract Society, added to the interest of the meeting, and -found himself more interested than in any other association.</p> - -<p>The Rev. A. J. Turner, member of West Texas General Conference, -and pastor of the Congregational Church of Schulenburg, requested, -with his church, to be received into the Association. The church, -consisting of fifteen members, with Sabbath school of ninety-eight -scholars, had been gathered by him since last January. They left -former associations to find a church home of purity and morality, -and a more simple and Scriptural government. After examination, -conducted mostly by Rev. S. M. Coles, a graduate of Yale Divinity -School, he and the church were received.</p> - -<p>At our morning and night sessions of each day we had preaching and -other devotional services. Sabbath morning, Rev. Messrs. Coles -and Whitefort spoke most earnest and profitable words to parents -and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[Pg 305]</a></span> children. This was followed by a love-feast, in which we had -forty-five talks, which, with singing, occupied about an hour and a -half. If several rose at a time, each waited for his turn. When the -people have been educated to speak of Christ and the joy of faith, -rather than of themselves, and “these low grounds of sorrows” -coming from their emotional nature, it is not strange that you see -smiles and tears, or that sinners’ hearts get into their throats. -When the opportunity was given, seventeen rose, saying, “Pray for -us.” After the Association adjourned, religious meetings continued -for a week, as a result of which, seven persons united with the -church.</p> - -<p>The Helena Church was organized four years ago with three members. -Now there are fifty-four members, twenty-three of whom united -within the last twelve months. During the same time they have -raised seven hundred dollars, with which they have built a house -and furnished it. The other churches have had but little growth in -membership, but in Bible study and intelligent worship there has -been commendable improvement.</p> - -<p>A Christian Church, worshipping God according to Bible rules, is a -light of untold worth in any country. This feature of our work is -encouraging. Even those who hate and persecute us gradually adopt -our views and modes of worship.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>KENTUCKY.</h3> - - -<h4>A Vacant Church—The Seed Wafted—The National Problem.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. JOHN G. FEE, CABIN CREEK, LEWIS CO.</p> - -<p>I am here, in the field of my early ministry, on my regular -quarterly visit. Twenty-four years since, I left this for my -present home in Berea, Ky.</p> - -<p>Most of those who, as parents, heard me with trembling twenty-five -years ago have passed away, and those who were then boys and -girls are now fathers and mothers. These, by time, thought and -observation, have had their early impressions ripened into -convictions. The sympathies and convictions of these are for -loyalty to the union, liberty to man, and a gospel of impartial -love. They take no stock in the issues of mere denominationalism. -They assent readily to the proposition that manifested faith in the -Lord Jesus Christ, as a personal Saviour from <em>sin</em>, is the faith -of the gospel. On this faith the church was organized in 1847, -as it then separated from all slave-holding bodies. Some of the -members are still there. They have been without a regular pastor -ever since the year 1860. They still keep up a Sabbath-school, and -part of the time a prayer-meeting.</p> - -<p>What they now need is a regular pastor—one who can visit the -families, and preach at least once in two weeks. I hope such an -one may be speedily found. This, together with the congregation -in Bracken County, would make a most interesting and promising -field. The effort to plant churches here thirty years ago was not -in any sense a failure. And the second temple can be made much more -glorious than the first.</p> - -<p>Emigrations from these fields have been useful also. Five families -went more than a hundred miles into the interior to help build up -Berea; eleven others, young men and young women, have gone out -there as students in the college. Other families have gone to other -States to exert there an influence for liberty, justice, and a -gospel of impartial love. Many of these were “mere children,” and, -having had their birth in times of trial, they were not mutes in -the fields where, in the providence of God, they were cast.</p> - -<p>In view of the debasing effect of slavery in the South, and the -communistic element in the North, I am often asked, “What is to -be the result of this effort to establish republican institutions -on this continent?” I answer, there is no hope but in sanctifying -the hearts of the people by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This will -direct aright the intellect, the wealth and the activities of the -nation, make the people a law unto themselves, and for good. Let -us pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His -harvest.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[Pg 306]</a></span></p> - - -<h4>A Teacher’s Vacation Correspondence.</h4> - -<p>When tired teachers flee for rest to their own homes, they do not -wholly escape from school duties or cares. Letters pursue them with -unmerciful rapidity. From a pile of fresh ones, let us cull a few -samples of requests that demand sympathy and aid.</p> - -<p>“My school is to have an exhibition in a few weeks. Can you not -send me some interesting declamations and fresh music?” A favor -easily granted.</p> - -<p>“The Sabbath-school has appointed me king of its celebration. -Please send me a nice piece suitable to speak, and a few dialogues -appropriate for the little folks.” An hour’s search through old -files of the <cite>National Teacher</cite> provides material exactly suited -for this occasion.</p> - -<p>“There is to be a Sunday-school Convention at ——, the 24th of -this month, and I am expected to speak. I never attended such a -meeting. Please write me a nice speech, telling who introduced -Sunday-schools, and how much good they have done.” A modest -request! But, if there is really to be a Sunday-school Convention -in the heart of Southern Georgia, and this shy boy is to help make -it successful, ’tis worth while to look over Sunday magazines for -facts which the speaker can arrange and use.</p> - -<p>“I wish I could go to school the whole of this year. My wages for -teaching public school three months will not carry me through. -Could you help me in any way?”</p> - -<p>A determined worker, who holds Sunday-schools on door-steps when -no better place offers, seeks encouragement and papers. Here is -part of his story: “I have some hard trials, and ups and downs, -but I trusts in God, and tries to fight my way through. I have got -no learning of account, but to the best of my knowledge I means -to teach. God said where there is little known there is little -required.” Perhaps the angels could tell us that poor Jacob’s crown -will far outshine that of many a richly-endowed soul.</p> - -<p>A “sweet-girl graduate,” folding away bouquets and compliments with -her pretty muslin, wishes to know how she can make her school-room -attractive. Speaking of future plans, she pens these words: “I mean -to work for the Master to the best of my ability. I think a life -not consecrated to God is <em>no life</em>.”</p> - -<p>If sometimes burdensome, such letters do greatly add to the -sweetness of vacation rest. They give assurance that the seed -sown in weariness is yielding harvest, which, with the affection -breathed from every page, inspires to future faithfulness and zeal.</p> - -<p class="right"> - L. A. P. -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>AFRICA.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>THE MENDI MISSION.</h3> - -<h4>Eight Added to the Church—A Refreshing Sunday.</h4> - -<p>Rev. Floyd Snelson writes:</p> - -<p class="blockquot"> - Last Saturday was our day for preparatory meeting, the following - Sabbath being the day of Communion. Ten persons presented - themselves as candidates for membership. All were examined - carefully, in open meeting; eight were received, as we believed - from their evidence that they were hopefully converted, and two - rejected on the ground that they were not married according to - law (this is one of the greatest evils that exist here, both - among the white and colored, there being no law to compel them - to marry). Sunday was, indeed, a day of great refreshing, there - being before us eight adults to be welcomed into the Church - of Christ, and seven children, in the arms of parents and - god-parents, to be consecrated to Him. And what increased the - joy was, that the whole week had been a rainy one up to late on - Saturday, when the good Master stopped the rain, and removed the - clouds gradually, and let the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[Pg 307]</a></span> light of the sun beam upon us. - I would say more upon this precious subject, but the time for - closing the mail has arrived, and I am compelled to stop. Pray - for us. -</p> - -<p>Mr. E. White writes:</p> -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>The thing I want to ask you about now is this—if you will help - me to take care of a few boys? When I was here the first of - the year, the people came almost daily to get me to take their - children and keep them in the mission, but I told them that - I was not allowed to do so; if I were, I would do it gladly. - Their reason was that, if they sent their children to the - mission-school, they would only be in the school a small portion - of the day, and at home most of the day and all night, and, - therefore, the evil influence which they would have over them - in that time would overbalance what the teacher would teach - them in the short time he would have them in the day; and they - wanted their children to “Sabby-book,” and if they did, they - must be taken away from them. They say that they don’t think - their children can become like the white man while they are with - them; the “pickin’” must be taken from the old people; and I - agree with them on this point. The vices which the old people - practice, the children will surely follow, if allowed to be where - they are. There are no children in this station, and we said in - our meeting that we would not take in any till we heard from - you; but, as I am a single man, you might not think of my taking - any mission children. Therefore, I write to ask you if you will - allow me to take some of the boys offered me. Some of the people - have promised to bring rice (which is the most they eat) for the - children, if I would only take them.</p> - -<p>One being with these people every day can clearly see that the - redemption of Africa is in the little folks, and, therefore, I - think, that a number of these boys and girls should be taken by - somebody, and trained, as they are at Hampton.</p> - -<p>This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and - see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that - time? There are only two things that differ here from the South. - First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work - with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the - South had more civilized people to deal with than these people - have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day, - will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand. - Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa? -</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>THE INDIANS.</h3> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON,</p> - -<p class="secauth"><i>Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories.</i></p> - -<p>The best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians -themselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all -the means to test every element of this question.</p> - - -<h4>Safety of Life and Property.</h4> - -<p>The agent, Edwin Eells, Esq., with wife and children, has lived -among the Indians here seven years. The employees and their -families have lived here from one to six years each, all without -harm or fear. At any moment the Indians could have killed them, -stolen their property, burnt the dwellings, and fled to the rugged -hills and mountains. The agent has traversed the country occupied -by his bands, alone, or with Indians, by day and by night, without -injury or alarm, leaving his wife and little ones at their mercy. -Whisky is excluded from the reservation, but outsiders have sold it -to the Indians, and exposed him<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[Pg 308]</a></span> and his household and company to -danger from them, when excited by it, and the more when arresting -them and arraigning and convicting the sellers in the courts. But -in no case has he or one of the whites received a blow, or a stab, -or a shot, or a threat from an Indian during all these seven years.</p> - -<p>Like facts can be put on record of the safety of agents and -employees, and their families, on most, if not all the reservations -in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.</p> - -<p>Their property has also been safe. Agent Eells affirms that clothes -are left out day and night, tools are left in open sheds, doors are -never locked, and yet they have never had an article stolen. He -adds that they have had no occasion to use force, or show weapons, -except in the arrest or retention of criminals. For this police -service he commonly appoints Indian constables. What is true on -these counts of the S’Kokomish Indians, is true of other bands or -tribes placed on reservations in this region. Those who live near -them, or who have observed them in all conditions, both off and on -the reservations, for the last fifteen, and even for thirty years, -can bear witness that they are usually quiet, peaceable hunters, -fishermen, or workers on farms, or in mills, or lumber camps, or -in kitchens and laundries for the whites, exciting no fear among -families, and causing no danger to lone travellers on the prairies -or in the forests.</p> - -<p>The Nez Percé reservation has been traversed for thirty years -by whites in safety. Prospectors have ranged alone among their -mountains, and through the gulches in all directions, in search of -gold and silver for twenty years, in entire safety. Miners have -followed and pitched their camps in every sort of lonely spot, -exposed to the attacks of these savages. Long caravans of goods, in -mule or wagon trains, in the care of a few teamsters, have passed -back and forth among these Indians, and most of the other tribes, -transporting merchandise of all kinds during the last twenty years, -unmolested by the Indians. Express-men have had no fear to go to -any mining camp of the upper country in charge of millions of -gold. The mail carriers, on horses, have crossed and recrossed the -whole Indian country unharmed. Stages, loaded down with mails and -passengers, have rolled along over many of the same routes, having -no more fear of Indians than of the white settlers, for whose -convenience the post routes were established by government. Flocks -and herds, in care of a few scattered men, have multiplied in all -those regions. The robberies and murders, as the records of the -courts testify, have been committed by white men. Sheriffs trace -nearly every crime and outrage to the white, not to the Indian race.</p> - -<p>The charges of a thieving, savage, murderous spirit made against -the Indian in the public press, on the street, in the halls of -debate and legislation, are not borne out by the facts. It is like -charging a whole community with the vices and outrages of a small -number of its members. It is like putting the stigma upon the whole -South for the atrocities of Libby prison and Andersonville. It is -the charge of fraud upon the U. S. A. for the defalcations and -embarrassments of a few of her citizens.</p> - -<p>In war or peace the Indian is cruel in revenge; but we cannot -forget the massacres of Memphis. The victim in his grasp is -tortured; but we remember the Chisholm and Hamburg horrors, and -those in the negro parishes outside of New Orleans. He destroys -without mercy, and devastates without remorse; but the Pittsburgh -riots, the New York mobs, and the Commune of San Francisco, belong -to the white race. He has burnt a few of our hamlets and settlers’ -cabins. We have swept him and his household and his camps,—the -only houses and cities that he can call his own—with canister and -grape, the hail of iron and lead and fire. Having no commissariat, -he has starved his prisoners. Without transportation or fortress -for their safe keeping, he often raises the black flag and slays -them at sight. But again and again, at the outset of battle, the -order has moved along our line, “Take no prisoners!” Cold as -steel, we have made a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[Pg 309]</a></span> jest of his life, and hailed him good only -when dead. We have steadily driven him from one hunting ground to -another, over the rivers and beyond the lakes, hemmed him in from -the gulfs and the oceans, crowded him off the prairies into rugged -mountains, compelled him to sell his native lands, and have let -loose the dogs of war upon him, because, forsooth, he has had the -manhood to resist our march of doom against his race. If he has -counted us the aggressors and the outlaws, we have hurled back upon -him the fiercest invective known to human speech. If he, in the -wild delirium of madness, has outraged and mutilated his captive, -we have, in fiercer and more fiery passion, counselled, if not -plotted, his extermination.</p> - - -<h4>Progress in Civilization.</h4> - -<p>Proofs press upon the eye and ear of agents and employees that he -does more and better with the means in his hand for the support -of himself and family than other men would. I visited ten Indian -families at their homes on the S’Kokomish reservation, on the -15th of August, and saw twenty more of their frame-boarded houses -enclosed within their small claims. About thirty of the Indians, -having finished haying, were away from home, most of them hunting -in the mountains, or fishing at the weirs. Those at home had neat, -well swept rooms, usually a sitting-room, bed-room and kitchen. -Almost every one had a cooking stove, with its furniture, and -crockery on the table, or in the cupboard a few chairs or benches, -a clock in every house (often two), occasionally a rocking-chair -and bureau, always one or two bedsteads, with beds and blankets, -and often covered with a neat quilt of the wife’s taste and make. -Cards and pictures were hung on the walls, and some of their -photographs, also. They were dressed in comfortable clothes, and -were glad of a call and a kindly greeting. They are adopting the -manners of their white teachers.</p> - -<p>The school, in charge of Deacon G. A Boynton, has a list of -thirty-one pupils, twenty-four of them pure Indians, six -half-breeds, and one little white girl. In dress, order and -studiousness, they rank with many of our common-schools. In -reading, singing, writing, at the blackboard, or in mental -arithmetic, they evince ability to learn what white children learn. -It is done more slowly, partly because while reciting in English -they probably think in their own more familiar language, or in -the jargon, and thus fail to get or convey the meaning of words -quickly, and probably from lack of such mental training in their -parents. The laws of heredity hold in them as in other people. -Better shaped heads and finer brain power may be expected of their -children.</p> - -<p>In church and Sabbath-school, Indian parents and children meet with -white parents and children, join in singing, listen to a sermon in -the morning, translated by the interpreter into the Twana Indian -language, and in the evening, to one in English. They exhibit a -desire to learn the word of truth, and are profiting by their -instructions. Several of the pupils in the school have become -Christians and united with the church.</p> - -<p>The testimony of the agent, the missionary, the teacher, the -physician, the farmer and the carpenter, is uniform as to their -capacity, and desire to improve and live like the whites, and of -their real progress in industry and manner of living. They are -trusted more and more, and they honor the trust.</p> - -<p>It is cowardly to despise them and cast them out like dogs. It is -noble to respect them as men and women, who have the rights of -life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They have claims on -us for sympathy and help to secure these things. It is a credit to -lift up the lowest, if we count them so. Those who know them best -have most hope of them, if given a fair chance.</p> - - -<h4>A Neglected Treaty.</h4> - -<p>No man will clear land and make a farm unless he owns it, or has a -lien upon it. The treaty pledges them an allotment for a homestead -on the reservation. It was<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[Pg 310]</a></span> made by Gov. Stevens, in Jane 1855, at -Point-no-Point, and ratified by the government in 1859. In private -and public speeches, with one voice, they plead for their titles. -They want the patents promised in the bond nineteen years ago. With -these in hand, they will improve their homes still more. It is a -reasonable demand. The plan to remove them from these lands, where -they were born, excites their fears and their rebellion. We cannot -expect them to rest in quiet and work with energy until we give -them the motive of ownership in the soil they till and the timber -they cut. This is the question of the hour for the Indian. Shall he -own in law his garden and his field and his house, or hold it as a -tenant at the will of another, liable to ejectment? If government -grant the former, as it has promised, the largest factor of the -problem will be found that will solve the rest of it.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>GREEN BAY AGENCY, KESHENA, WIS.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">JOS. C. BRIDGMAN, ESQ., AGENT.</p> - -<p>The Stockbridge tribe take very little interest in education. The -head men, not specially interested, voted to have only six months’ -schooling, paying the teacher but $25 per month. As this tribe -receive $3,800 a year, the same being the interest on their funds -in the hands of the Government, this meagre sum is illiberal. -Rev. J. Slingerland, who has been both preacher and teacher for -this tribe for many years, is still retained. While the number of -children of school age is twenty-five, with nearly as many of the -“old citizen” party, who are not allowed privileges, the greatest -number attending any one month is thirteen, and the average for the -year is ten. The church membership is twenty-nine.</p> - -<p>The Oneidas are making an unusually good record. Their crops -are nearly or quite one-third larger than last year. The school -attendance shows an increase of thirty-seven, and the church -membership fifty-three over last year.</p> - -<p>The Methodist Mission-school is unfortunately located for reaching -even a fair number of scholars, and Rev. S. W. Ford, without -additional compensation, has opened a school a mile and a half -distant; his daughter, Miss Mary W. Ford, teaching the Mission -school without pay. The records of the two schools are seventy-nine -scholars enrolled, with an average attendance of forty-five, -against an average of twenty-six for the one school of last year. -I am urging upon the Department the wisdom of establishing this -new school, which was started as an experiment, with the result -as above. Unless thus sustained it will be abolished, as Mr. Ford -cannot give his time without reward.</p> - -<p>The church membership, 178, has had some twenty-five additions the -past year, as the result of a revival in the fall and winter of -’77–78. Two or three of its members have been licensed to preach -the gospel. Exception to the rules of the Methodist Church is -made, and Mr. Ford is now on his sixth year at this post, being -found peculiarly fitted for work among the Indians, whom he well -understands, having lived with this and other tribes of the State.</p> - -<p>The Episcopal Mission-school has enrolled 114, many of whom are -induced to come by gifts of clothing, etc., supplied by the -Episcopal Mission. Average attendance for the year forty-five and -two-ninths. The Episcopal Church is well attended by a serious and -devout congregation on the Sabbath. Membership 150.</p> - -<p>Although there is a lodge of Good Templars with this tribe, -I regret to say that some of the members do not realize the -sacredness of their oath as they should, and falling from grace is -no uncommon occurrence; yet it has brought about a radical change -with some who have been confirmed drunkards for many years.</p> - -<p>The Menomonees have shown a wonderful spirit of thrift and -enterprise the past year, putting 200 or more acres of new -land under cultivation. Permission having been granted by the -Department, it is proposed to hold a fair the last week in -September, with a list of prizes for the best and second best -productions of their crops, stock of all<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[Pg 311]</a></span> kinds, and manufactured -articles by the women. Two hundred dollars in silver coin is to be -given. This is creating a spirited impetus to good work, and lively -times are expected on Fair-day.</p> - -<p>The schools of this tribe have, we regret to say, taken a step -backwards. In 1876, through the advice of Inspector Watkins, -the day-schools were consolidated into a Manual Labor and -Boarding School at Keshena, which far exceeded our most sanguine -expectations in numbers and interest. The breaking out of the -scarlet fever, in the fall term of 1877, compelled us to close the -school, with but four or five weeks’ teaching. It was renewed on -the 6th of January, but, owing to the non reply to letters, and -the omission of instructions from the bureau, only eight weeks’ -schooling has been had since January 1st.</p> - -<p>At the present time we are waiting permission to employ a matron -(as necessary to the success of the school as a teacher). This -delay is to be greatly regretted, as fifty children could be -easily gathered (the limit of our poor accommodations), while the -day-school has an average of less than ten.</p> - -<p>Crime and drunkenness is greatly on the decrease; not a case of any -magnitude of the former, and but a very few cases of the latter, -coming to my notice for the past year. This is a very hopeful sign -with this tribe, many of whom are wishing to become citizens.</p> - -<p>With the exception of scarlet fever, in a very mild form, among the -Menomonees, the sanitary condition has been excellent with these -people.</p> - -<p>As you are aware, the religion of this tribe is about equally -divided between the Pagan and Catholic, the former adhering closely -to their rites and ceremonies, as for worship and the burial of -their dead; and, when standing by, as they render their thanks to -the Great Spirit for “our homes,” “our friends,” “our food,” asking -His protection “from storms,” “from disease,” and, “when taken into -the happy hunting-ground,” to be “found in favor,” etc., one cannot -but feel that “He” who “is no respecter of persons” accepts their -thanks and hears their petitions, although accompanied with the -shaking of gourds and the pounding upon an Indian drum, instead of -the grand <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">Te Deum</i> from the organs of our city churches.</p> - -<p>While the soil for Christian labor is unfavorable, and tares find -root, to the choking out of good seed sown, yet we should take -heart in the increasing desire on their part for better homes and -farms, and the laying aside of the wigwam for good houses, the gun -and rod for the plow and hoe. A slow and certain improvement in -their habits from year to year is observable, and with kindness, -honest dealing and right influence, the time is not so very far in -the future when they can and will take a place in our nation, not a -whit behind many pale faces.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<p class="center large">Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. -<span class="smcap">Vice-Presidents</span>: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C. -Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. L. E. -Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward -P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, -Rev. W. E. Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. -Sanford, Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. -Palache, Esq.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="medium"> - We print the following letter from our Brother Pond, in regard to - the need and call for a mission work in Hong Kong, not because - the Executive Committee have formed any design of entering upon - such a work in the name of the American Missionary Association, - but only as these letters from converted Chinamen show to what - earnestness of missionary zeal they have been converted, and so - bear witness to the reality of their Christianization.</p> - -<p class="medium"> - Even though we felt warranted in extending<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[Pg 312]</a></span> our work to embrace - a limited foreign field on the Chinese Coast, as we do not, - there are questions of comity which would forbid it. The English - missionary societies occupy the Hong Kong field in force, and - the Presbyterian Board have missionaries in the Canton district, - from which the Chinese immigrants come to our Western coast. We - shall be very glad if they, or either of them, will supply the - want indicated by our correspondent, and for which the Chinese - converts show such deep concern.—[<span class="smcap">Ed’s Am. Miss.</span>] -</p> - -<h4>MORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG.</h4> - -<p>While studying the proposition which I ventured to broach last -month, for a mission at Hong Kong, which should be in intimate -relationship with our Californian Mission, I requested our helper, -Bro. Fung Affoo, to consult the Chinese brethren on the subject and -tell me what they thought. Soon after, letters began to pour in -upon me, till now I have about twenty on file, and it has occurred -to me that extracts from these would interest the readers of the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>. Some of them I can copy verbatim; some will -need to be retouched a little in their English in order to be -understood; but the ideas are their own, and the expressions will -be modified as little as possible.</p> - -<p>First of all, Affoo himself says: “I told the brethren at the -meeting last Sunday what you said to me about establishing a -mission at Hong Kong. They were very glad; their faces beamed with -joy. They all wish, with one accord, that this enterprise will be -accomplished before long.”</p> - -<p>The first letter which I take from my file is from Wong Sam. He -says “I wish you could establish a school in Hong Kong for a Young -Men’s Christian Association, as we have here. Then we could hold -all our brethren together when they go back to China, and they -would not all scatter abroad. I am sure all our brethren will be -glad to have one. I ask God all the time for it, if God is willing, -for He knows what is best. We cannot do anything without the -Holy One. Accept my warmest love and thanks for your kindness in -expending so much on our account, and bringing us out of darkness. -You will not lose your reward ‘in my Father’s kingdom,’ as Christ -says.”</p> - -<p>The next one which comes to hand is from Hong Sing, and addressed -to Affoo. It reads as follows: “I heard you some time ago talking -about if we would like have one American Association school in Hong -Kong. I feel very glad, indeed, if we have one school in Hong Kong, -that we may go back to our China and find a Christian Home. Canton -and Hong Kong have two or three schools, but not our Congregational -Association. You know how many of our Christian brothers have gone -back to China. They find no Christian home; then they find very -hard to be good, and bye-and-bye feel cold with Jesus.”</p> - -<p>Joe Lee and Chin Quong write to say: “I like the idea of having a -Christian school in Hong Kong very much, indeed. <a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>I think it will be -great benefit, not only to the Christian boys, but also to the poor -heathen boys there.” Chung Sun says: “I very glad; God very good to -me. I like bye-and-bye go back China; tell father, mother, sister, -brother, very good Jesus. If him all [i. e., his relatives] no like -me I go Christian house, call Christian friend Help me tell father, -mother, sister, brother, how very good Jesus is. If all man, woman -love Him, bye-and-bye go heaven. If he all beat and <em>lick</em> me, I go -to the Chinese Mission at Hong Kong; very good, all the same my own -church.”</p> - -<p>Ah King writes: “Dear Mr. Pond—I am very glad in heart that I heard -missionary schools be opened in Hong Kong. I think you make these -things for our Christian brethren, just like builder build a stone -foundation of buildings—the wind cannot blow off it.” That is, the -mission work at Hong Kong will tend to secure the results of our -work here. Without this, the winds of contradiction and persecution -in China will tend to blow our brethren who return there off the -foundation.</p> - -<p>Perhaps these will suffice as samples, and I think that all the -points made in the other letters are referred to in these. But<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[Pg 313]</a></span> -the tone differs in different letters, and the fact specially -emphasized; thus, for example, the chief point with one is, “If it -[mission at Hong Kong] can be, it can keep us <em>doing good</em> when we -go back, and I thank God with all my heart.” With another, it is -sorrow that we been without such a mission so long. “We plead,” he -says, “our brethren to help us. I pray that God will bless you and -open a way to make a mission in Hong Kong.” Another says, “If men -can’t do it, we all hope God has an authority [has some way] do it -for us. I hope our parents hear the gospel, receive it all, come to -Him forever.” A refuge from persecution is often referred to. “We -have great many trials, and I hope the Christians do this thing, -then our brothers have a place to see each other. We are far from -each other in China.”</p> - -<p>I conclude with the following from Jee Gam, whose name is familiar -to most of our readers—the helper longest in service with us; whose -good judgment, Christian spirit, and untiring zeal, I have learned -to greatly respect. He says: “I was very much pleased to hear that -you have written to the A. M. A., requesting its permission and aid -to establish a Chinese Mission in Hong Kong. Without attempting to -add anything to what you have written, I will tell you what Ting -Ki, the most active deacon of the London Mission at Hong Kong, said -to me while I was there: that the best way to accomplish the most -good is to open a mission and a Christian Association similar to -ours here. He also said that the great need of the English language -is now felt by most of the Chinese in that city, and in order to -aid them, such schools as we have here should be established. This -is the best way to reach them, so as to interest them in the Bible, -which is our chief aim. As many of the people in that city are -laboring people, they could attend school better in the evening -than through the day. Ting Ki was very anxious to have me remain -and establish such a mission-school, and teach them the English -language. The brethren in the Oakland school all feel as I do about -this matter, and they asked me to write for them, as well as for -myself.”</p> - -<p>I will add nothing to these expressions. I confess that as I -read them over, they ring in my ears like the Macedonian cry, -and I cannot but hope that our Association, hearing it, will -endeavor immediately to go into this modern Macedonia, “assuredly -gathering that the Lord has called us for to preach the gospel unto -them.”—Acts xvi, 10.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h3>From a Private Letter of a Pastor’s Daughter on a Visit to -Talladega College, Alabama.</h3> - -<p class="right"> - <span class="smcap">By the Road-side</span>, <i>Aug. 24, ’78</i>. -</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Auntie</span>: Where do you think I am? This morning, Miss -L. (the matron of the college) and Mr. W. (one of the teachers) -and I started out, with horse and open buggy, for Anniston, a -little town twenty-six miles away. We got up early, and ate -our breakfast before the rest, then put the three satchels and -water-proof, shawl, two umbrellas, two blankets and pail of oats -and lunch-basket in the bottom and back of the buggy. Then we -three piled in, stopping in the village just long enough to get -some lemons. We had a lovely ride—part of the way through the -woods—catching glimpses of the mountains in the distance, all along.</p> - -<p>Perhaps you know that Alabama abounds in springs; so, whenever we -go out for a drive or a picnic, we always aim for a spring—taking -a gourd with us for a cup. We learned at a little town just below -here that there was a fine spring a little farther on; and here -we are now right in the woods.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[Pg 314]</a></span> I am writing on a <em>Sabbath-school -Teacher</em>, which doesn’t take the place of a desk very well. We -have eaten our dinner and washed the dishes, and have been reading -aloud. We are now just ready to pick up the blankets and things, -and start again, for we have eleven miles yet to go. So, bye-bye, -till the next stopping-place.</p> - -<p class="right"> - <span class="smcap">Anniston, Ala.</span>, <i>Sunday</i>. -</p> - -<p>I am going to write part of my letter Sunday, you see. I didn’t -tell you what we came here for, did I? Well, many of the scholars -at the college go out to teach in the summer, and sometimes the -teachers who are staying there through vacation go off to see their -old scholars, and encourage them in their Sunday-schools. They -do a great deal of good in this way. I have visited two of these -mission-schools; and this time we came to see Mr. M., one of the -theological students who has just been ordained here at Anniston.</p> - -<p>We found him and his wife living in a neatly-painted house, close -by his little church. It did me so much good to go into his home -and see what it was. Not much like most of the colored people’s -houses—log-huts, dirty, low, and only one room, with so few -comforts. This was a house of two rooms—the front room carpeted -neatly; a nice bureau and bed in the room; a little table with -books on it (one of which was a copy of Shakspeare!) In one corner -of the room was his writing desk, with library over it—and a very -good library it was; books on Isaiah and Psalms; Gospels and -Epistles; several, or rather all of Barnes’ Notes; a book on Moral -Philosophy, etc. I suppose that doesn’t sound like much of anything -to you; but when you know how many of these people live, and how -ignorant they are, it seems so much. There were pictures on the -wall, a clock on the mantel, shades and curtains at the windows, -etc. The church has a good bell, and is to be painted very soon.</p> - -<p>We attended Sunday-school this morning. Mr. M. has a little -blackboard, a review chart, question-books, Gospel-hymns, and all -such things. It did seem, this morning, when I was there, that -the colored people were advancing some. I am really interested in -them, Aunt Sarah. Have you heard of <em>my</em> little Sabbath-school? May -H., a girl a little older than myself, and three of the students -(girls), and a driver, start at half-past two o’clock every Sunday -afternoon, in a mule-wagon. The school is held in a Mr. Allen’s -house—colored—(not the house, but the man, you know). We have to go -jolting over the roughest kind of a road to get there, crossing the -railroad track twice. When we reach the place, we crawl through the -fence and enter the little house. We find the children seated on -benches made of rough boards. May and I take our places in chairs -at the head of the school. Sometimes we have over forty children. -We open the school by singing some of the Gospel-hymns, then -follows the prayer; after talking a minute or two to the scholars, -the teachers take their classes and benches out of doors, and teach -right among the bee-hives and hollyhocks!</p> - -<p>The room is too small for so many scholars, especially as there are -two beds in it. After a while, the classes are called in, and one -of the scholars chooses a hymn to sing. Then I ask questions about -the lesson. Then we count the scholars and call their names, and -give out papers. Then I ask for verses from the children, which -they have learned in the classes. We then repeat the Twenty-third -Psalm together, and close by saying, in concert, the Lord’s Prayer.</p> - -<p>Now, you know a little of my Sabbath-school. I take ever so much -pleasure in planning for it. Friday evenings we have a Teachers’ -Meeting, just for us six teachers to talk over the school, and -study the lesson for the next Sabbath. Those are dear little -meetings. I enjoy them <em>so</em> much. I hope I am helping a little to -raise up these poor neglected people.</p> - -<p>I will leave the rest of my paper for my next stopping-place.</p> - -<p class="right"> - <span class="smcap">By the Road-side</span>, <i>Monday</i>. -</p> - -<p>Here we are again, at the same lovely spring where we took our -dinner Saturday. We have just lunched, and Miss L. is reading. -Leila, our horse, is taking her dinner,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[Pg 315]</a></span> and when she finishes it, -we shall start again for <em>home</em>.</p> - -<p>This morning we passed a whole field full of cardinal flowers. We -picked some beautiful ones, which are now bathing in the spring. -When riding here, we see such different sights from what we do in -the North. There are such beautiful tall pines here. They grow up -fifty or sixty feet before putting out any branches. The sweet -gum-tree, too, is very pretty. In the distance it looks like a -maple. We often see wild grape-vines covering trees, the stems as -large at the bottom as my two fists. The English ivy seems to like -this climate, too, for when it is planted by the side of a tree, it -grows way up into the branches, and almost covers the whole tree -sometimes. The passion flower grows in the fields here.</p> - -<p>Leila is just eating her last oat, so we must be starting. I -suppose my next stopping place will be Talladega. Good-bye. From -your loving niece,</p> - -<p class="right"> - <span class="smcap">Laura P. H.</span> -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="center larger">FOR AUGUST, 1878.</p> - - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $279.20</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Augusta. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, -by Samuel Titcomb, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. First Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bath. Isaiah Percy $5; Beulah B. Percy $3; -Eliza Bowker $3</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brewer. First Ch. $6 and Sab. Sch. $2</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps and daughter</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Falmouth. P. N. Marston</td> -<td class="ramt">6.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. S. D. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Anson. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saco. D. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Mrs. E. H. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $259.35.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Antrim. “A Friend,” <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Auburn. P. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.47</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Individuals, by A. J. Herbert</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Exeter. “Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Francestown. Cong. Ch. $10; A. F. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampstead. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Rev. C. E. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mason. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meredith. S. S. Tappan</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Merrimac. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $852.65.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $29.79; Dea. -S. Montague $10; J. T. Fullerton $3</td> -<td class="ramt">42.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.87; -Cong. Sab. Sch. $25</td> -<td class="ramt">51.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guildhall. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. E. J. Kellogg</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monkton. Henry Miles</td> -<td class="ramt">7.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.88</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sharon. S. P. F. and Mrs. A. F. $1 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. E. D. Parks $100; Cong. -Ch. and Soc. $55.38.</td> -<td class="ramt">155.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thetford. J. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterbury. L. Hutchins</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Westminster. Rev. A. Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,685.48.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashfield. F. H. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">5.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Athol. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Abigail Chaplain, -by Lewis Thorp, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">300.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bellingham. E. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beverly. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of John Lovett, by James -Hill and Chas. T. Lovett, Executors</td> -<td class="ramt">1,311.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beverly. Miss Emma Harwood, proceeds of -Children’s Fair</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Juvenile Class of Phillip’s Cong. Ch. -$18.75, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>; “A -Friend” $1</td> -<td class="ramt">19.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. R. W. $1; J. F. 25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlton. Clarissa W. Case</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">91.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Duxbury. Mrs. A. P. Holmes</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Georgetown. Orth. Memo. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Great Barrington. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mary and -Nancy Kellogg, by Hiram Crittenden, -Adm’r.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (M. C. Coll.)</td> -<td class="ramt">11.94</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. John Kendrick</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fisk</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Housatonic. W. G.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>Hubbardston. Mission Circle $14, <i>for Talladega -C.</i>; Mrs. Alden Pollard $6</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Littleton. Orthodox Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Long Meadow. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $18.58; -Gents’ Benev. Soc. $18.25</td> -<td class="ramt">36.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. -$58.52, and box of Books.</td> -<td class="ramt">58.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medway Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to -const. <span class="smcap">George E. Sanderson</span>, <span class="smcap">Joseph -Jones</span> and <span class="smcap">Rev. H. A. Hanaford</span>, L. M’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">112.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monterey. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">44.42</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Ch. $33.91; Edwards -Ch. $29.22.</td> -<td class="ramt">63.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norfolk. W. E. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; -S. F. 51c.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Randolph. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reading. Old South Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.03</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">120.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">130.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandwich. H. H. Nye.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Ladies’ Mission Soc. of -Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch. $15; South -Cong. Ch. $12.34; Mrs. Sarah Merrill $2.50</td> -<td class="ramt">29.84</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36.55; -Cong. Sab. Sch. $7.58</td> -<td class="ramt">44.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townsend Centre. ——</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ware. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., for <i>Hampton, Va.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Ch. $46.37; Hiram Smith -and Family $30</td> -<td class="ramt">76.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boylston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[Pg 316]</a></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">37.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Haverhill. Miss C. M. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchendon. North Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">29.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “R. A. L.”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $15.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Providence. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $887.46.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">48.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canterbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> -<td class="ramt">6.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cromwell. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">64.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Deep River. H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. First Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">48.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middlebury. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">66.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. “Collected by a Friend,” <i>for -Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Stamford. Cong. Ch. $1.50; Mrs. A. -A. N. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">95.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rocky Hill. Individuals, by Miss E. M. -W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Simsbury. Mrs. M. H. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32.75 -(of which $10 from P. B. Averill, <i>for the -Debt</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">22.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stafford. Mrs. Thomas S. Thresher</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Gertrude M. Fenn</span>, <span class="smcap">Nellie Terry</span> and -<span class="smcap">Lelia Williams</span>, L. M.’s</td> -<td class="ramt">110.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. box of Books, -by Dea. I. N. Spencer.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Haven. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">93.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.37</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $807.23.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Albany. V. S. Knowles</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Binghampton. J. D. Wells</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Champion. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Columbus. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Copenhagen. Lucian Clark $10; Martha -Smith $5</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gaines. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Henry O. Bidelman ($30 -of which to const. <span class="smcap">Edwin S. Bidelman</span>, -L. M.), by Charles Bidelman, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $28.72, to const. -<span class="smcap">Mrs. L. A. Sanford</span>, L. M.; Cong. Sab. -Sch. $8.90</td> -<td class="ramt">37.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. F. H. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Homer. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ithaca. Mrs. Adam Harrison</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Le Roy. Mrs. Sarah Covert</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lima. Rev. H. N. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50.—Mrs. -Congdon $5, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">55.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oneida. Rose J. Topliff $50; H. P. Palmer -$20</td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peekskill. Prof. Robert Donald, Set of -School-desks and chairs.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.56; -S. R. Barber $10</td> -<td class="ramt">40.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pompey. Mrs. James H. Child ($4.50 of -which <i>for Student Aid</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rome. Sarah H. Mudge</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spencerport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Syracuse. “S. J. W.”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union Springs. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas, <i>for -Woodbridge, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Utica. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Job Parker, by T. and -M. M. Parker, Executors</td> -<td class="ramt">140.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warsaw. Mrs. C. B. Darling $10; W. R., -G. M. P., A. W. N., O. F. P and A. G. B. -$1 ea., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>—Mrs. -S. A. H. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Winfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— ——.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $20.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newfield. Rev. Charles Willey</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Ford</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $105.47.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. “B.”</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, <i>for -Le Moyne Sch., Memphis, Tenn.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">55.47</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $436.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alexandria. Ladies, by Rev. D. S. Jones</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cardington. W. C. Nichols</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. W. F. Hinman, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent $41.48, <i>for the poor in New -Orleans</i>.—Rev. B. P. Aydelott, D. D. $10</td> -<td class="ramt">51.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. David Ingersoll and Mrs. Nancy H. -Ingersoll</td> -<td class="ramt">42.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan $5; A. C. W. 70c.; -“Friends” $1, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva. A. W. Hyman $10; Chas. Talcott -$5; “Friends” $1.05; Dea. G. C., M. C., -W. E. P., J. E. C., Mrs. A. E. H., Miss L. -H. and Mrs. H. A. W. $1 ea; Mrs. M. and -Miss M. M. K. $1; Mrs. E. W. S. 50c., <i>for -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">24.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntsburg. Young Ladies’ Soc. $5; Miss -E. L. Miller $2, <i>for Ind. Dept. Talladega, C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lafayette. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lenox. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. Elias Strong $5; Mrs. H. E. H. -$1; L. J. W. 50c., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mecca. Burt Case $5; J. C. H. $1, <i>for Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by M. -A. Curtis, Sec., $12, <i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega -C.</i>—Cong. Ch. $14; M. E. Nettleton -$5; Mrs. S. 50c., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i>—Mrs. -Ann G. Fenn $2</td> -<td class="ramt">33.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. A Friend</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tallmadge. F. F. Fenn $6; Mrs. P. Seward -$5; Calvin Treat $3; Mrs. H. E. Wolcott, -H. A. Sackett, Wm. Hind, F. D. Alling and -Daniel Hind $2 ea.; Mrs. C. A. Sackett -$1.25; H. Carter $1.10; Mrs. E. A. W., -Miss J. E. W., B. W. and Mrs. M. J. B. -$1 ea; Mrs. L. A. S. and Mrs. T. B. W. -50c. ea, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">31.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Ridge. Urania Haviland</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Strongsville. Presb. Ch. $4.36; Mrs. A. P. $1, -<i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. (of which $5 -from Sarah D. Todd).</td> -<td class="ramt">26.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Mrs. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wayne. Mrs. Lydia Beers</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Andover. Rev. J. E. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weymouth. Cong. Ch., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.86</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windham. “Friends” $1.25; Mrs. E. K. -H., Dea. S. P., A. J., E. A., A. A. and G. -A. M. $1 ea.; M. G. D. 50c., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.25</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $239.18.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., -$25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Mrs. S. P. -H. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hutsonville. C. V. Newton</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ivanhoe. R. Osgood</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lafayette. Mrs. D. J. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. S. B. Williams, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moline. F. H. Williams</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrison. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Odell. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Payson. Cong. Ch. (of which $50 from J. K. -Scarborough)</td> -<td class="ramt">80.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peoria. Cong. Ch. (in part)</td> -<td class="ramt">22.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Solon Mills. R. R. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Holland. Rev. A. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $290.60.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ada. T. I. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adrian. Stephen Allen</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Allegan. J. M. McCord, <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[Pg 317]</a></span></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Almont. Ladies of Cong. Soc. $5; Mrs. H. -G. (Romeo) $1, <i>for a Missionary, Memphis, -Tenn.</i> (Incorrectly ack. in August Mag.)</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alpena. “A Friend,” <i>for Indian Boy, Hampton -N. and A. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. $23.50; Isaac -Elliott $5</td> -<td class="ramt">28.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Battle Creek. Mrs. Dr. J. B. Chapin</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia. W. B. $1; “A Friend” 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bellevue. “A Little Band of Cheerful Givers -in First Cong. Soc.” $11.30, by Mrs. H. L. -Berry. (Ack. incorrectly in Sept. number -from Bellevue, Ohio.)</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Detroit. Rev. H. D. Kitchell $25; “A -Friend” $21.40; Miss H. $1, <i>for Missionary, -Memphis, Tenn.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">47.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Haven. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leland. Rev. G. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">F. C. Mead</span> -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Baltimore. Miss Hattie Milton, <i>for Missionary, -Memphis, Tenn.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northport. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochester. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Missionary, -Memphis, Tenn.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union City. “A Friend,” (in part) to const. -<span class="smcap">Aaron C. Henderson</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vermontville. L. P. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White Lake. Robert Garner $10; John Garner -$5</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $103.78.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Plymouth Ch. (in part)</td> -<td class="ramt">11.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Delavan. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elk Grove. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Howard. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fox Lake. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leeds. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">River Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.66</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waukesha. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.57</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $200.84.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">72.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oskaloosa. M. B. Turner, <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wintersett. Sarah Dinsmore</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $109.30.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Afton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Audubon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.84</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. -Ch. $25; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $17, -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Plymouth Ch. -$17.55</td> -<td class="ramt">59.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">39.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $2.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. John Morris</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $15.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brewer Crossing. Mrs. E. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Omaha. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $1.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ironton. J. Markham</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $93.54.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Public Fund. $75; Washington -Sch. $18.54</td> -<td class="ramt">93.54</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, 45c.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.45</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $567.11.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Public Fund $181.26; H. A. -L. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">181.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega College. $185.35; Rev. -E. P. Lord $200</td> -<td class="ramt">385.35</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $5.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $105.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Edinburgh. Adam Parsons $100; Mrs. Wm. -Lillie $5</td> -<td class="ramt">105.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $5.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “A Wanderer”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total"> Total</td> -<td class="ramt">9,086.64</td> -</tr> - - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total from Oct. 1st to August 31st.</td> -<td class="ramt">$151,757.14</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 10%;">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Ass’t Treas.</i></p> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goffstown, N. H. M. A. Stinson</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Conway, Mass. Rev. A. Shirley</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Collinsville, Conn. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fairfield, Conn. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. E. Pendleton</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam, Conn. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">17.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Britain, Conn. P. B. Averill</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hartford, Conn. M. A. Ellsworth</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Case, -$10 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bell Brook, Ohio. Daniel Holmes</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berea, Ohio. J. S. Smedley</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland, Ohio. “A Memorial”</td> -<td class="ramt">250.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. S. B. Caldwell</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Harrington</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Corydon, Ind. Geo. Stolz</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Logansport, Ind. Mrs. J. C. Merriam</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dwight, Ill. J. C. Hetzel</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elgin, Ill. W. G. Hubbard</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milan, Ill. Mrs. J. M. N. Daniels</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moline, Ill. John Deere</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plymouth, Ill. L. A. Cook</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Polo, Ill. Mrs. R. M. Pearson</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton, Ill. Mrs. A. R. Clapp</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton, Ill. Mrs. P. B. Corss</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alpena, Mich. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsdale, Mich. Mrs. H. I. Mead</td> -<td class="ramt">5.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Imlay, Mich. Mrs. N. D. Glidden</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet, Mich. W. B. Palmer</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet, Mich. Mrs. H. L. Porter</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion, Iowa. Mrs. R. D. Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion, Iowa. Miss Mary Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion, Iowa. Miss Louise Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion, Iowa. Master Redman Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Appleton, Wis. Miss Ann S. Kimball</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Appleton, Wis. “Ruth”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol, Wis. Charles M. Fowler</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Howard, Wis. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">892.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in July Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">13,215.47</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total"> Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$14,108.22</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INSTITUTE, -AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeport, Conn. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Mary Bishop</span>, to -const. herself L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeport, Conn. <span class="smcap">S. C. Kingman</span>, to const. -herself L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester, Conn. Dea. E. C. Hungerford</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Miss Sarah Mead</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Dea. Josiah Wilcox</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Miss Hannah Mead</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Richard B. Carpenter</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. E. A. Knapp</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Eliza Clark</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. A. S. Downes</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harwinton, Conn. Mrs. F. S. Catlin</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford, Conn. Dea. H. W. Brown</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. W. Brown</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plymouth, Conn. George Langdon</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rocky Hill, Conn. Mrs. A. Williams</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winsted, Conn. C. J. Camp</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockland, Mass. Mrs. Rachel B. Reed</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pekin, N. Y. <span class="smcap">Miss A. Peck</span>, to const. herself -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Maria Willets</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah W. Collins</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Purchase, N. Y. Miss Sarah Collins</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Onargo, Ill. Mrs. L. C. Foster</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet, Mich. William B. Palmer</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">641.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged April Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">824.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">$1,465.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[Pg 318]</a></span></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="article"> - -<h2>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3> - -<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted -its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their -duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries -in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the -caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate -with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the -<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p> - - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; -Ga., 11; Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; -Texas, 4. <i>Africa</i>, 1. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 2. Total, 62.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the South.</span> -<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, -Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and -Austin, Texas, 8; <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at Wilmington, -Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; -Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; <i>Other -Schools</i>, 7. Total, 26.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</span>—Among the Freedmen, -209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign -lands, 10. Total, 252. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 74; Law, -8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. -Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at -100,000. <span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="smcap">Increase</span> of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by -<em>regular</em> and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble -as well as the strong.</p> - -<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span>, for the new churches we are organizing; -<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here -and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p> - -<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below.</p> - -<table> - <tr><td class="smcap" style="padding-right: 20px;">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr> - <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.</td></tr> - <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington St.</td></tr> -</table> - -<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3> - -<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen -who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of -Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; -to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does -not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year -not less than five dollars.</p> - -<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary -Association</span> in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly -requested to use the following</p> - - -<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— -dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to -the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of -the “American Missionary Association,” New York City, to be applied -under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, -to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p> - -<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States -three are required—in other States only two], who should write -against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, -their street and number]. The following form of attestation will -answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published -and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, -in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in -his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto -subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States, it is required -that the Will should be made at least two months before the death -of the testator.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_319" id="Page_319">[Pg 319]</a></span></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="center large"><b>SERMON PAPER.</b></p> - -<p class="center medium"><i>The Best is made from the</i></p> - -<p class="center xlarge"><span class="u">ACME</span> <span class="u">PARCHMENT</span> <span class="u">PAPER</span></p> - -<p class="medium">which is the strongest paper made, and will not crack or wear out -by use. Its color (cream) peculiarly adapts it to night work, being -far more pleasing and less trying to the eyes than white.</p> - -<p class="medium">It is the only paper made from pure fibre and not adulterated with -clay or earth to give it weight and surface, and contains no jute, -wood, straw, coloring matter, nor any foreign substance whatever.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>PRICE PER REAM.</b></p> - -<table class="medium"> - <tr><td>7 lb. Sermon (whole or half sheets),</td><td class="ramt">$3.00</td></tr> - <tr><td>8 lb. Sermon (whole or half sheets),</td><td class="ramt">3.50</td></tr> - <tr><td>9 lb. Sermon (whole or half sheets),</td><td class="ramt">4.00</td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="medium">Cap, Letter and Note sizes on hand or ruled to order. On receipt -of price, any quantity will be sent to any address, charges paid. -Address</p> - -<p class="center"><b>ACME LETTER FILE M’F’G CO.,</b></p> -<p class="right"><b>49 John St., New York.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">See below Card of Am. Tract Society, which is endorsed by Rev. A. -H. Clapp, D. D., Treas. Am. Home. Miss. So.; and Rev. Dr. Thwing, -Sec. Board of Foreign and Domestic Missions of the Prot. Episcopal -Church.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="center medium"><b>American Tract Society</b>,</p> -<p class="center right">150 <span class="smcap">Nassau St.</span>, N. Y., <i>Nov</i>. 23, 1877.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Acme Letter File M’f’g Co</span>., <i>49 John St.</i>:</p> - -<p class="medium"><i>Gentlemen</i>—It gives me great pleasure to say to you that the Acme -Parchment Paper bought of you has given perfect satisfaction; for -toughness and ability to resist hard wear it is unsurpassed. 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D. 1850.</b></p> - <p class="large center">THE</p> - <p class="xxxlarge center">MANHATTAN</p> - <p class="large center"><b>Life Insurance Co.,</b></p> - <p class="center">156 Broadway, New York,</p> - <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="xxlarge">$7,400,000</td> - <td class="large center">DEATH<br />CLAIMS,</td> - </tr></table> - <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="large"><b>$4,900,000</b></td> - <td class="center"><b>Return Premiums to<br />Policy-Holders,</b></td> - </tr></table> - <p class="center"><b>HAS A SURPLUS OF</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="large"><b>$1,700,000</b></td> - <td class="center medium">OVER<br />LIABILITIES,</td> - </tr></table> - <p class="medium center"><em>By New York Standard of Valuation.</em></p> - <p class="center"><em>It gives the Best Insurance on the Best Lives at the most -Favorable Rates.</em></p> - <p class="medium center">EXAMINE THE PLANS AND RATES OF THIS COMPANY.</p> - <table class="medium"> - <tr><td class="large center">HENRY STOKES, <span class="smcap">President</span>,</td></tr> - <tr><td>C. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr> - <tr><td class="right"><i>Vice-President</i>.</td></tr> - <tr><td>J. L. HALSEY,</td></tr> - <tr><td class="right"><i>Secretary</i>.</td></tr> - <tr><td>S. N. STEBBINS,</td></tr> - <tr><td class="right"><i>Actuary</i>.</td></tr> - <tr><td>H. Y. WEMPLE,</td></tr> - <tr><td>H. B. STOKES,</td></tr> - <tr><td class="right"><i>Assistant-Secretaries</i>.</td></tr> - </table> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="center large"><em>Case’s Bible Atlas.</em></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="small">Quarto Size. Accurate and <em>up to the times</em>. <b>16</b> Full -Page Maps, with Explanatory Notes and Index. Designed to aid -Sunday-school Teachers and Scholars. Every family needs it. Price -$1.00. In Cloth, $1.50. Sent by mail on receipt of price.</p> - -<p class="small"><b>AGENTS WANTED</b> in every Township. <em>Liberal terms given.</em> -Address <b>O. D. CASE & CO., Hartford, Ct.</b></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="center medium"><span class="xxlarge"><b>E. & O. WARD</b></span> -Give personal attention to the sale of all kinds of</p> - -<p class="center"><b>PRODUCE ON COMMISSION.</b></p> - -<p class="center medium"><b>No. 279 Washington St., N. Y.</b></p> - -<p class="center medium">(Est’d 1845.) Ref., <i>Irving National Bank</i>, N. Y. City.</p> - -<p class="center medium">Also, Agents for</p> - -<p class="center">ALEX. HORNBY’S</p> - -<p class="center medium">STEAM-COOKED WHITE WHEAT AND OATS.</p> - -<p class="center medium">Put up for sale in cases containing twenty-four<br /> -2-lb square packages, with full<br />directions for use.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="large center">CRAMPTON’S</p> -<p class="xxlarge center">PALM SOAP</p> -<p class="center medium">IS THE BEST FOR</p> -<p class="center" style="padding-right: 10%;"><b>The Laundry,</b></p> -<p class="center" style="padding-left: 10%;"><b>The Kitchen,</b></p> -<p class="medium center">AND FOR</p> -<p class="center">General Household Purposes.</p> -<p class="medium center">MANUFACTURED BY</p> -<p class="medium center"><b>CRAMPTON BROTHERS,</b></p> -<p class="medium center"><i><b>Cor. Monroe & Jefferson Sts. N. Y.</b></i></p> -<p class="center medium">Send for Circular and Price List.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="center"><b> - <span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROWN - <span class="xxxlarge">B</span>ROS. & - <span class="xxxlarge">C</span>O.</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>BANKERS,</b></p> - -<p>59 Wall St., New York,</p> -<p class="center">211 Chestnut St., Philadelphia,</p> -<p class="right">66 State St., Boston.</p> - -<p>Issue, against cash deposited, or satisfactory guarantee of -repayment.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Circular Credits for Travelers,</b></p> - -<p>In <span class="medium">DOLLARS</span> for use in the United States and adjacent -countries, and in <span class="medium">POUNDS STERLING</span>, for use in any part of -the world.</p> - -<p>These Credits, bearing the signature of the holder, afford a ready -means of identification, and the amounts for which they are issued -can be availed of from time to time, wherever he may be, in sums to -meet the requirements of the Traveler.</p> - -<p>Application for Credits may be made to either of the above houses -direct, or through any respectable bank or banker in the country.</p> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<p><b>They also issue Commercial Credits, make Cable Transfers of Money -between this Country and England, and draw Bills of Exchange on -Great Britain and Ireland.</b></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<p class="center medium"><b>“IMPORTANT TO CLERGYMEN.”</b></p> - -<p class="center large">Prince’s Improved Fountain Pen.</p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> -<img src="images/pen.jpg" width="400" height="30" alt="The Handle Contains The Ink" /> -</div> - -<p class="medium"><i>As now improved the most perfect pen manufactured. Writes ten -hours with one filling. Saves one-third the time.</i></p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Testimonial.</span>—“I can say this, your Fountain Pen is worth -so much that if I were bereft of it I should feel myself bereft of -my right hand.”—<cite>Rev. Lyman Abbott, Editor of Christian Union, N. -Y.</cite></p> - -<p class="medium">Can be sent by mail in a registered letter. Send for circulars. -Manufactured by</p> - -<p class="center medium"><b>JOHN S. PURDY,</b></p> - -<p class="center medium right"><b>212 Broadway, cor. Fulton St., N. Y.</b></p> - -<p class="center medium">Also M’f’r of Gold Pens, Gold and Silver Holders, &c.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="advertisement"> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/marvin.jpg" width="500" height="526" alt="Ad for Marvin's Safes" /> -</div> - -</div> - -<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;"> -<p class="center xxxlarge">ANNUAL MEETING.</p> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<p class="center large"><b>The Thirty-Second Annual Meeting</b></p> - -<p class="center medium">OF THE</p> - -<p class="center large"><b>AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION</b></p> - -<p class="center medium"><i>WILL BE HELD IN THE</i></p> - -<p class="center xlarge">Broadway Congregational Church, Taunton, Mass.,</p> - -<p class="center large">OCTOBER 29-31.</p> - -<p class="medium">The Meeting will be organized on Tuesday, at Three o’Clock P. M., -and at Half-past Seven o’Clock in the evening the Annual Sermon -will be preached by</p> - -<p class="center larger">Rev. S. E. HERRICK, D. D., of Boston.</p> - -<p class="medium">On Wednesday, papers will be read by Rev. GEORGE LEON WALKER, D.D., -and others. Wednesday evening will be occupied with addresses -and reminiscences by present and former missionaries of the A. -M. A. Thursday will be devoted to reports of committees and -discussions of the work. The Meeting will close Thursday evening, -with addresses from able and distinguished speakers, to be named -hereafter.</p> - -<p class="medium">The people of Taunton will undertake to entertain all the friends -who may attend the Meetings. Those desiring hospitality can address -CHARLES H. ATWOOD, Esq., until Sept. 20th. Return cards, assigning -places, will be duly sent.</p> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<p class="center large"><b>OUR NEW PAMPHLETS.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">No. 1.—<b>HISTORY</b> of the Association.</p> - -<p class="medium">No. 2.—<b>AFRICA</b>: Containing a History of the Mendi Mission, a -Description of the Land and the People, and a presentation of their -claims on America.</p> - -<p class="medium">No. 3.—<b>THE THREE DESPISED RACES in the UNITED STATES</b>; or, -The Chinaman, the Indian, and the Freedman. An Address before the -A. M. A., by Rev. Joseph Cook, of Boston, Mass.</p> - -<p class="medium">No. 4.—<b>THE EDUCATIONAL WORK.</b> Showing the nature and reality -of the black man’s needs; the way to help him; the sentiment of -Southern men; the work of the Romish Church; the wants of the A. M. -A.</p> - -<p class="center medium"><i>WILL BE SENT FREE TO ANY ADDRESS ON APPLICATION.</i></p> - - -<hr class="full" /> - <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF</p> - <p class="center">THE</p> - <p class="center xxlarge"><b>American Missionary,</b></p> - <p class="center">ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><b>SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">Besides 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, -it will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting -the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of -current events relating to their welfare and progress.</p> - -<p class="medium">We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, and shall be glad to -increase the number indefinitely, knowing from experience that to -be informed of our work is to sympathize with, and desire to aid it.</p> - -<p class="medium">The Subscription Price will be, as formerly, <b>Fifty Cents a -Year, in Advance</b>. We also offer to send <b>One Hundred copies -to one address</b>, for distribution in Churches or to clubs -of subscribers, for $30., with the added privilege of a Life -Membership to such person as shall be designated. The Magazine will -be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on -Page 318. Donations and subscriptions should be sent to</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 6%;">H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t Treas.,</p> -<p class="right medium">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><b>ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to Advertisements, for -which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially -valuable. Our readers are among the best in the country, having an -established character for integrity and thrift that constitute them -valued customers in all departments of business.</p> - -<p class="medium">To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed to -the “<span class="medium">RULES</span>” of the best Newspapers, requiring “<span class="medium">DOUBLE -RATES</span>” for these “<span class="medium">LUXURIES</span>,” our wide pages, fine -paper, and superior printing, with <b>no extra charge for cuts</b>, -are advantages readily appreciated, and which add greatly to the -appearance and effect of business announcements.</p> - -<p class="medium">We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department, -and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to -advertise.</p> - -<p class="medium">Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span> of the -month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All -communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 6%;">J. H. DENISON, Adv’g Agent,</p> -<p class="right medium">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p> -</div> - -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2> - - -<p>Punctuation and spelling were changed only where the error appears -to be a printing error. Inconsistent hyphenation was retained -as there are numerous authors. The punctuation changes are too -numerous to list; the others are as follows:</p> - -<p>“tha the” changed to “that he” on page 292. (<a href="#Err_1">it is essential that -he present</a>)</p> - -<p>“Ithink” changed to “I think” on page 312. (<a href="#Err_2">I think it will be -great benefit</a>)</p> - -<p>“Taladega” changed to “Talladega” in the entry for <a href="#Err_3">Hubbardston</a> on -page 315.</p> - -<p>Ditto marks in tables were replaced with the text they represent, -in order to help the text line up properly in all media.</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 32, -No. 10, October, 1878, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCTOBER 1878 *** - -***** This file should be named 53377-h.htm or 53377-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/3/3/7/53377/ - -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) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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