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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 33, No. 10, October, 1879 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: April 23, 2017 [EBook #54589] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCT 1879 *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD 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. XXXIII. No. 10. - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - OCTOBER, 1879. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - THE ANNUAL MEETING—PARAGRAPHS 289 - WORKER AT REST (MRS. PEEBLES)—DEATH OF FATHER JOCELYN 291 - RANDOM SUGGESTIONS 293 - A STRONG APPEAL 294 - LANGUAGE OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA 296 - STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY 297 - ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 299 - GENERAL NOTES 300 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - NORTH AND SOUTH—SOME THINGS IN COMMON 304 - REMINISCENCES—“IT’S THE COLOR THAT TELLS” 306 - TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE—Remarkable Conversion and - Triumphant Death 309 - GEORGIA, BYRON—First Impressions 310 - - - THE CHINESE. - - THE BEGINNING OF HARVEST—ONG LUNE 310 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES 313 - - - RECEIPTS 314 - - - CONSTITUTION 317 - - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS &C. 318 - - - * * * * * - - - - - NEW YORK. - - Published by the American Missionary Association. - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - - Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y. as second-class - matter. - - - - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, - - 56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., 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. - 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., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - 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. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, 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. - Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct. - DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct. - A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y. - FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt. - JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_. - 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, - ADDISON 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; letters for the Editor of the -“American Missionary” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York -Office. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -should be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Ass’t Treasurer, No. 56 Reade -Street, New York, or when mote convenient, to either of the Branch -Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West -Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. - -A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. - -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. XXXIII. OCTOBER, 1879. No. 10. - - * * * * * - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -OUR ANNUAL MEETING. - -The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association will be held in the First Congregational Church (Rev. -Dr. Goodwin’s), Chicago, Illinois, commencing October 28th, at 3 -p. m. The Annual Sermon will be preached by Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. -D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., service commencing at half-past seven in -the evening. A paper on the Chinese question will be presented by -Rev. J. H. Twichell, of Hartford, Connecticut; one on the Necessity -of the Protection of Law for the Indians, by Gen. J. H. Leake, -United States District Attorney, Chicago, Illinois. Other papers -and addresses on timely and important subjects will be presented by -able writers, the announcement of which will be given in the daily -press at an early date. - -Parties desiring entertainment during the meeting will write, by -or before October 8th, to H. G. Billings, Esq., 242 South Water -Street, Chicago. - - * * * * * - -It will be seen that our communications from the Southern field are -very limited this month. It is, of course, the time of vacation in -all our Southern institutions, except a few of the public schools, -to the support of which we are contributing, and from which we -hear mainly through the larger schools of which their teachers are -pupils or graduates. Soon the wheels will begin to revolve again, -we trust, with greater effectiveness than ever before. - - * * * * * - -A confidential word from the Editor to the members of the -missionary and teaching force who occasionally write to the -MISSIONARY.—Your communications are always read in the most kindly -and interested spirit. Their contents are always noted, and if -they contain any incident or item which even perhaps may be of -general interest to our readers, we use it. Do not be too greatly -disappointed or grieved at us if we do not always use them in the -form in which they are sent. There are many things which must -be weighed in the make-up of a magazine which no one but those -who see it all can even know. The Editor’s basket is not a waste -basket, even when it receives MSS., for they do not go into it -unread, nor do we mean to let any wheat get lost among the chaff, -although doubtless we occasionally do. Sometimes an article must -be squeezed into an item or be squeezed out. Please keep writing, -then, not for your local audience, but for all; or, if you please, -as though it were meant for the Editor’s ear alone. Don’t be -disappointed—much more, don’t be angry, if all you write does not -get into print. And don’t promise anybody, that a certain thing you -send will appear in the MISSIONARY; for, after all, the Editor who -must decide is in the New York office. - - * * * * * - -Prof. A. K. Spence and wife arrived in August by steamer “Bolivia,” -from an absence of a year in their native Scotland. They have been -for ten years connected with Fisk University, and have resumed -their work in that institution. By their visit they have been -greatly refreshed in health. They have been constantly engaged in -private and public effort to interest their Scottish people yet -more in our work as related to the Christianization of Africa. -With their territorial and commercial interest in that dark -continent, British Christians are all the more disposed to care -for the religious welfare of the inhabitants of that country. -The many friends at the West who have heard the familiar talks -of Mrs. Spence, will be prepared to believe that her recital of -the Freedman’s story to the sisters of her motherland was greatly -acceptable. - -Prof. Spence’s mother, who, at the age of eighty-five, recently -contributed to the _Independent_ a poem on George McDonald, whom -she had known from his childhood, sent on the fee for her article -to the treasury of the A. M. A. - - * * * * * - -_Revivals in Summer Time._—The people of the North, who are apt -to be under the respite of vacation at this season of the year, -and who are addicted to special efforts for the promotion of -revivals in the Winter time, are sometimes surprised to hear of -such movements at the South during the heat of Summer. At first it -seems quite creditable to the piety of our colored brethren that -they should warm up to such service in dog days. But the reason for -selecting this season for such service is the same as that which -at the North locates it in the Winter. That is the slack time of -the year. The corn and the cotton have been laid by, and now there -is leisure before the time comes for picking and harvesting. The -Association of South-west Texas meets at the middle of July, and -refuses to fix any other date for assembling, desiring to use that -“set time” for some revival effort, and expecting to bless the -entertaining church in that way. We are hearing that nearly all of -our churches in the South have been making more or less of special -effort. - - * * * * * - -_The Southern Sentinel_, a monthly, published at Talladega College, -under the new management of Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, editor, and P. -P. Green (one of the students), publisher, is taking on more of -freshness and of force. A department of agriculture has been added. -This will be of great value. In this we see the hand of the farm -superintendent, Mr. Atkinson, who went down from Olivet College to -help on in this part of the Talladega movement. - - * * * * * - -“_What is that to thee? Follow thou me._”—This response of the -Master to Peter’s inquiry about the lot of John indicates the -measure of consecration requisite on the part of those who are -called to this missionary work among despised classes. It is an -unquestioning, an unconditional obedience that is needed. One may -say: “Others are staying at home and having easy times.” What is -that to thee? “Down there we may be sneered at and treated like -pariahs.” What is that to thee? “It was easy up North to have been -an abolitionist, but to go and put yourself down by the side of and -underneath the outcast ex-slave to try to raise him up, that is -another thing.” What is _that_ to thee? Follow thou me. Follow my -call; follow my example in caring for “these my brethren.” Sympathy -with the Saviour in His love for souls, in His self-forgetfulness -while winning lost men to His Gospel, is the first qualification -for this Christly work. It was a rigid scrutiny that set aside the -few men that were to gain the victory of the Lord at the hand of -Gideon. A like carefulness of selection is necessary in this holy -war. It would enlist only those who give themselves to its cause -with such alacrity that they stop not for personal ease, but who -lap their drink. - -But the reward of those who thus follow the Divine Leader in this -service is quick and ample. They are a happy set of folks. They -love their work; they love their people; they have joy in their -calling; in this they are like returned foreign missionaries. - - * * * * * - -_A Worker at Rest._—Mrs. Anna M. (Day) Peebles departed this life -at Dudley, N. C., on the 28th of August. Educated at Oberlin, she -had been one of our teachers in the Washington School at Raleigh, -N. C., serving also as teacher and leader of music. Something over -a year ago she was married to Rev. David Peebles, of Dudley, N. C., -where she took charge of the school, becoming greatly successful -and beloved in the same. Excelling as a teacher, enthusiastic in -the missionary aspect of her work, and winsome among her associates -and pupils, her loss to our cause is greatly felt. - - * * * * * - - -DEATH OF FATHER JOCELYN. - -Another Christian hero has laid aside his armor and received his -crown. The Lord did not break the dies when He made the last of the -ancient Martyrs or of the Puritan heroes. In great emergencies he -reproduces them after their kind. The anti-slavery struggle needed -them and they came forth, and among them there was no braver man -than the gentle and amiable SIMEON S. JOCELYN. It is a mistake to -suppose that the bold and determined men who take front rank in -great moral conflicts are destitute of kindly impulses. Father -Jocelyn was utterly uncompromising where duty called, yet I have -seldom known a man of more tender sympathies, of quicker, almost -womanly sensibility to sorrow or suffering. Nor are all such men, -as is often imagined, so intent on pushing forward their great -reforms as to overlook the rights of others. Father Jocelyn was -most scrupulous in regard to the minutest claims of all men, even -of his opponents. Nor are all such seemingly rash and headlong -men lacking in caution. Father Jocelyn was the most cautious man -I ever knew. Indeed this trait was, in some sense, a hindrance to -his activity, for he instinctively saw the many adverse bearings -and possible misconstructions to the course contemplated or to the -document to be published. The marvel is that such a man could ever -have become an abolitionist—that he could have risked reputation, -property, and even life itself, in an enterprise so doubtful of -success and beset with so many dangers to the peace of the church -and the nation. The only explanation is in his clear perception, -through all glosses, of the path of duty, and the overwhelming -impulse of conscience to pursue it in spite of all dangers. Of such -stuff are moral heroes made. - -The piety of Father Jocelyn was sincere, deep and all-pervading. -He was a man of prayer and of close communion with God, active -in Christian labors in public and private, and of a beautiful -simplicity and transparency of character—a saintly man. A Puritan -by birth and conscientious conviction, his religious life was after -the strictest model, yet his tender sympathies rendered him kind as -well as faithful in counsel or warning, while his broad Christian -charity made him liberal toward all who loved the Saviour. - -Father Jocelyn was born in New Haven, Ct., in 1799, and was early -converted to Christ. He began active life as an engraver, but -relinquished a prosperous business to preach the Gospel to the -poor, devoting his ministry to a feeble colored church in New -Haven. The anti-slavery cause from the beginning had his warmest -sympathies and most earnest co-operation. The American Missionary -Association had no earlier or steadier friend. When the Amistad -captives were landed in New London, and prompt and persevering -efforts were made to re-enslave them, a committee of gentlemen was -organized in New York to watch over their interests, and at the -head of that committee stands the name of S. S. Jocelyn. Throughout -the long struggle that secured their liberties and their return -to their native land, accompanied by a missionary and teacher, -Mr. Jocelyn was constant in his active exertions; and when at -length that committee and other similar bodies were united in the -formation of this Association, he was forward in founding, and -constant thereafter in sustaining the new organization. He attended -the meeting in Albany when the Association was formed. He was its -Recording Secretary from 1846 to 1853, Corresponding Secretary with -charge of the Home Department from 1853 to 1863, and from that time -till his death was a member of the Executive Committee. - -We extract from an article in the _Advance_, by Dr. Roy, the -following account of the funeral: - -“The funeral was held in the New England Church of Brooklyn, E. D., -where he had his membership. In the large congregation there was a -fine representation of colored people. The Executive Committee and -other officers of the American Missionary Association were present. -The pall-bearers were a squad of veterans of the old Liberty Guard. -The pastor, Rev. Mr. Hibbard, presided. A few words of affectionate -sympathy with the brothers and sisters who had been bereaved of -their father, were spoken by Rev. J. E. Roy, whose father, also at -the age of eighty, a few months before had been called away. - -“Dr. Strieby spoke of the work of the departed in the American -Missionary Association, and especially with eloquent words depicted -the tremendous moral courage, the great cautiousness, the womanly -tenderness, the transparent simplicity which were blended in his -character. Strange that so sweet a man ever had the grit to take up -the battle against slavery. Rev. Mr. Ray, a colored minister, who -had known Mr. Jocelyn, and had been associated with him for forty -years, gave fitness to the occasion by his words of gratitude, and -by several telling reminiscences,—one of which was that, in 1839, -Mr. Jocelyn came down from New Haven to take up the gauntlet of -debate upon the colonization question with Mr. Robert Finley. The -discussion was in a hall in Nassau Street, and Mr. Jocelyn’s main -reliance was the word of God. - -“Rev. Mr. Lockwood, a former pastor, bore loving testimony. Dr. -Edward Beecher went back to an acquaintance of fifty years ago, -when a student in Yale College, under concern of soul, he went to -Mr. Jocelyn. He was such a spiritual, faithful Christian as a young -man in passing that crisis would be apt to seek out. Dr. B. was -associated with him in his Sabbath-school and church work among the -colored people, and carried with him that same impulse when he went -to Illinois College, and stood by Elijah P. Lovejoy until they shot -him down. In closing, Dr. Beecher said that the words appropriate -to the character of the departed were: ‘In simplicity and godly -sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we -have had our conversation in the world.’” - - M. E. STRIEBY. - - * * * * * - - -RANDOM SUGGESTIONS. - -Will the Exodus Affect the Work of the Association in the South? - -I answer without hesitation, _it will not_. To the present time the -exodus movement has been confined very largely to the disturbed -parishes, or to certain exceptional cases where the conditions of -labor have been oppressive. In New Orleans, while conventions and -open-air meetings have been held, and the policy of emigration has -been discussed, but few of the Freedmen have decided to leave the -State and find a home in Kansas. There is a restless, dissatisfied -feeling among the masses of the negroes, especially the poorer -classes, induced by the glowing appeals made to them; but the -exodus has not assumed, and I believe will not assume, large -proportions. The masses will stay on Southern soil and abide in -Southern homes. My opinion is based upon the supposition that their -rights, social, educational and religious, and their rights also -as laborers, will not be invaded or denied beyond what they are at -present. - -In New Orleans 45 per cent. of the population is colored, and -in the State at large 55 per cent. I do not believe that this -ratio will be materially changed by the exodus. And even if a -few thousands of Freedmen left the South in search of warmer -hospitality, an increased compensation for labor, and a more -equitable recognition of their rights as citizens, it would not -lessen the possibilities of good afforded to the Association. -Should a half million go away, there would still be four and a half -millions left to be instructed and helped in their race struggle -for higher intelligence and a purer religious life. Press forward, -then, the glorious work of education. Hasten the full equipment of -the normal schools and colleges for the wider, grander work before -them. Let new churches be planted, and the pure gospel of Christ be -preached all over the beautiful and fruitful South, wherever the -Freedman has his home. The work is not one of a generation, but of -a century. - - -Student Aid. - -To secure, at the earliest day, one of the chief objects of the -Association—the thorough education of colored young men and women -as teachers and ministers, who shall be competent to lead the -masses of their race to a higher civilization—special aid must be -given to those whose minds and hearts give promise of usefulness. -A large number who propose to seek only an elementary education, -or those who reside in the city where a school of high grade is -located, do not require aid from abroad. The wise policy of the -instructors in our institutions is to search for young men and -women of promise, and encourage them to pursue a full course of -study, and to watch over them till the benefits they receive are -made a valued possession not only to themselves but to their race. -What are the facts in the case? The best material is often remote -from the college, and utterly lacking in pecuniary ability. Many -of the brightest, the most intellectual of the children of the -Freedmen, who are intensely anxious for an education, and have a -praiseworthy ambition to be fitted for positions of responsibility -and usefulness, are denied the privileges of the college by reason -of extreme poverty. Many others are able to meet a part of the cost -of an education, but without benevolent aid must stop short of a -full course of study. I am just now in receipt of a letter from a -worthy and talented young man near New Orleans. I quote a sentence -to show its import: “I have the same mind to work in the cause of -Christ and prepare to preach His word. I think I have been called -to engage in this work and cannot be satisfied unless I do. Dear -brother, I do now most solemnly appeal to you and the good brethren -in the North to aid me to an education.” - -This is one instance of hundreds which could be cited. Another fact -deserves earnest consideration. We need to _conserve_ and utilize -for the general good the partial education which the graduates of -our colleges have secured. At the present time this is not done -as it should be, and as it might be, if _special_ student aid -were available. Many graduates go forth from the college who are -lost to view. After so much patient labor has been bestowed upon -them—and in some instances special pecuniary aid given—they should -be encouraged in every way to devote themselves to the greatest -good of their people. Take the last class in Straight University as -an illustration. We graduated eight students, all bright, talented -and promising, and, grandest of all, Christians. All are poor—some -of them extremely poor. Their education has cost them a hard, -patient struggle. They desire to become teachers of the highest -rank. The young men are looking to the learned professions. In -order to attain what they desire, and what we desire for them, they -should take a post-graduate course. The young men, if God calls -them to the work, should take a three years’ course of theological -instruction. - -But left alone, without outside aid, they will be compelled to work -for their daily bread, and for them their school days will have -forever passed. Is it not worth while to say to these young men: -“Come back to the University, and the Christian benevolence of the -North will see you through one, two or three years more of study, -and then we shall claim you for the college, for the church, and -for the work of God. Henceforth you are not your own, but must go -wherever God shall call you, and stand in the forefront of every -great and good movement for the elevation of your race.” - -To-day, if a worthy Christian young man or woman appeals to us, -“Can you not aid me to keep on in my studies?” our answer is a -sorrowful one, “There is no fund that can be appropriated to -that purpose.” Will not good men think of this and make a grand -possibility of good a fact gloriously realized? - - W. S. ALEXANDER. - - * * * * * - - -A STRONG APPEAL. - -We present below a forcible appeal for student aid. Such aid is -essential, and the question of obtaining it in sufficient amount -to meet the demand lies at the bottom of the whole possibility -of educating the colored youth of the South. If scholarships and -educational funds are important to the white students of the -North, how much more to the colored students at the South, where -employment is so poorly paid, and the money so hard to be collected -when earned! This appeal is but a sample of the cry that comes from -all our institutions—Atlanta, Talladega, Tougaloo, New Orleans, and -the rest. An illustration may be seen in the foregoing article by -Rev. W. S. Alexander, President of Straight University. - -But we must warn our patrons not to divert their contributions from -our ordinary work to this special object, for if this is done, we -might as well furnish this student help directly from our treasury. -Then where would be the money to sustain the teachers?—and _they -must be sustained_, or the schools closed. The only solution of -the problem is for the friends of the Freedmen to enlarge their -contributions to meet both wants. We most importunately urge our -patrons not to starve the teacher in order to aid the scholar, but -help both. - - -What Shall We Do? - -Will a goodly number of the readers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY tell -us? - -The case can be best set forth by giving a single illustration. On -the Saturday evening preceding the Monday on which the new school -year of Fisk University was to begin, a young man was brought -to my room by one of our former students, who introduced him as -being from Montgomery, Alabama. I found on inquiry, and from a -letter which he brought from a prominent colored man of that city, -that he had determined to get an education, and having but little -money, had made up his mind to walk from Montgomery to Nashville, -a distance of three hundred miles, with the hope of finding some -way by which he might be admitted as a student in Fisk University. -Fortunately, a prominent citizen of Montgomery was able to secure -him a pass on the railroad, one hundred miles, to Birmingham, and -a student of Fisk University who happened to meet him at Columbia, -Tenn., used the little spare money he had in his pocket to help him -on his way twenty miles toward Nashville. - -What do the friends of education among the colored people of the -South wish us to do with such cases? The University has no means -of its own with which to help such young people, and this instance -is but an illustration of very many similar cases which we are -compelled to decide every year. - -From the correspondence of teachers, and through the cases known -personally by the comparatively few of our old students who have -already returned from their summer’s work, we could number up -to-day, which is only the fourth day after the opening of the -school, at least forty instances of young men and young women of -known character and ability who are eager and anxious to come to -Fisk University to fit themselves for teaching and other Christian -work among their people, who cannot come because they have not and -cannot get sufficient money. The number will be doubled by the time -this article reaches our friends through the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. -In many cases they can pay from five to seven dollars of the twelve -dollars a month required for their board and tuition. We find from -actual experience that an average of fifty dollars will help at -least one such struggling student to support for a year in Fisk -University. The balance and the money necessary to purchase books -they can generally provide for themselves. We ask the readers of -the AMERICAN MISSIONARY what we shall do with these cases. Any one -who will send us a thousand dollars will answer the question for -at least twenty. Every fifty dollars will give the answer in the -case of one. Our hearts ache when we are compelled to refuse, for -the want of money, these eager applications. Every one who has an -answer to give us can send it to H. W. Hubbard, Assistant Treasurer -of the American Missionary Association at New York—and we know the -answer will suffer no long delay in his hands—or to E. P. Gilbert, -Assistant Treasurer of Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. All -students helped will in due time communicate by letter with those -who thus befriend them. - -Will not every individual or Sabbath-school that contributed last -year to help aid students continue that help for the coming year, -and give us the earliest possible information of such intention? - - E. M. CRAVATH, _Pres. Fisk University_. - - -THE LANGUAGE OF EQUATORIAL AFRICA. - -Great interest has been awakened in the geographical discoveries -that have been made in Central Equatorial Africa during the last -twenty-five years. This vast and newly-explored country is no -doubt the choicest portion of the whole African continent. The -inhabitants, with the exception of a few mixed tribes along its -outer borders, all belong to one great family. A line starting -from the Cameroon Mountains on the western coast, second degree -north latitude, and drawn, with some slight variations, directly -across the continent to the same degree of latitude on the east -coast, divides the negro race into two distinct families, perhaps -of nearly equal size. The one, occupying the country north of this -line to the southern borders of the Great Desert, is known as the -Nigritian stock, from the fact that they are to be found mainly -in the valley of the Niger. The other, and the one to which our -article mainly refers, is known as the Ethiopian or Nilotic family, -from its supposed descent from the ancient Ethiopians, whose chief -residence was the banks of the Nile. - -One general language, with great divergence as to dialects, -prevails over this whole region of country. There are not -only verbal resemblances, but there is a peculiar grammatical -structure, scarcely known to any other language, that pervades and -characterizes all the dialects of this one great family. A very -large number of words are common to the Mpongwe dialect on the west -coast, and the Swahili on the east, as may be seen from a grammar -of the Mpongwe, published by the missionaries at the Gaboon years -ago. If the words used by three or four tribes along the coast of -Southern Guinea could be fully collated, they would be found to -contain not less, perhaps, than four-fifths of all the words used -over the whole of this vast region. - -But apart from these verbal resemblances, there are certain -features of orthography that establish the relationship between -these dialects quite as clearly. To mention no others, the use -of _m_ and _n_—as if they were preceded by a sort of half-vowel -sound—before certain other consonants, at the beginning of words, -is very peculiar. _M_ is constantly used before b, p, t, and w, -as in the words _mbolo_, _mpolu_, _mtesa_, and _mwera_. So _n_ is -constantly used before k, t, y, and gw, as in the words _nkala_, -_ntondo_, _nyassa_, and _ngwe_. The combination of _ny_ occurs in -the names of most of the great lakes, as _Nyassa_, _Nyanza_, and -_Tanganyika_. A still more striking feature of relationship between -these dialects may be found in the combinations by which proper -names are formed. The names of a large proportion of the tribes -encountered by Stanley and Cameron on their journeys across the -continent commence with the letter _u_, as _Uganda_, _Unyoro_, and -_Ujiji_, &c. Now, by prefixing _ma_, and dropping the initial _u_, -we have _Maganda_, a person or citizen of _Uganda_; _Manyoro_, a -person or citizen of _Unyoro_. So by prefixing _wa_ instead of -_ma_, we get _Waganda_, they, or the people of _Uganda_. Now, in -the Mpongwe dialect, _ma_ is simply a contraction of _oma_, person, -and _wa_ or _wao_ is the personal pronoun for _they_, showing how -these proper names are formed. Again, many of the names of these -tribes terminate in _ana_. _Ana_, in the Mpongwe dialect, is an -abbreviation of _awana_, children or descendants. If the names of -Bechuana and Wangana could be analyzed, they would be found to mean -the children or descendants of _Bechu_ or _Wanga_, this being the -way of giving names to any particular family that separates itself -from the parent stock. - -But the peculiar character of this language is more remarkable -than its wide diffusion. Taking the Mpongwe dialect as a specimen, -we have no hesitation in saying that it will be difficult to -find any language, ancient or modern, that is more systematic -or philosophical in its general arrangements, more marked in -the classification of its different parts of speech or their -relationship to each other, or in the extent of its inflections, -especially those of the verb. The existence of such a language -among an uncultivated people is simply a marvel. As many as three -hundred oblique forms can be derived from the root of every regular -Mpongwe verb, each one of which will have a clear and distinct -shade of meaning of its own, and yet so regular and systematic in -all its inflections, that a practiced philologist could, after -a few hours’ study, trace up any of even its most remote forms -to the original root. It is not intended to convey the idea that -all these forms are habitually used, for that would indicate a -much more extended vocabulary than could reasonably be expected -among an uncultivated people. But there is no form of the verb, -notwithstanding its extensive ramifications, that would not be -distinctly understood by an audience, even if they had never heard -it used before. - -It will be seen, therefore, that the vocabulary may be expanded -to an almost unlimited extent. It is not only expansible, but it -has a wonderful capacity for conveying new ideas. The missionaries -laboring among these people, after they had acquired a thorough -knowledge of the structure of this wonderful language, were -surprised to find with how much ease they could use it to convey -religious ideas. In their native state the people had no knowledge -of the Christian religion, and, of course, used no terms for -saviour or salvation, for redeemer or redemption, etc. They had, -however, the terms _sunga_, to save, and _danduna_, to redeem, or -pay a ransom. Now, according to a well established law of grammar, -_ozunge_ is a saviour, and _isungina_ is salvation; similarly -from _danduna_ comes _olandune_, the redeemer, and _ilanduna_, -redemption:—so that they could at once get a tolerably correct -idea of these terms, and there was no need (as there is in most -unwritten languages) to call in the aid of foreign words. Without -multiplying illustrations of a similar character, it will be seen -that the language is not only flexible and expansive to a very -remarkable degree, but is suitable beyond almost any other known -language to convey religious instruction to the minds of the -people. It has been preserved, no doubt, by a wise Providence for -this very purpose. - -The providence of God towards this great family, therefore, seems -to be very marked and significant. They have been preserved for -centuries in great numbers and vigorous manhood, notwithstanding -their perpetual intestine strifes and the cruel desolations that -have been occasioned by the slave trade, along both their eastern -and western borders. They are in possession of a country that is -not only healthful and productive, but whose navigable streams seem -to have been traced out by the finger of Divine Providence for -the twofold purpose of facilitating intercommunication among the -people themselves, and of furthering the rapid diffusion of the -Gospel wherever it has once gained a footing. Then their language, -with all its wonderful characteristics, seems to have been kept -by the Divine hand as an easy channel through which the light and -blessings of the Gospel might, in God’s own good time, reach their -dark and benighted minds. - - J. LEIGHTON WILSON, in _The Catholic Presbyterian_. - - * * * * * - - -A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY. - -BY MRS. H. G. GUINESS. - -A wealthy farmer who cultivated some thousands of acres, had, -by his benevolence, endeared himself greatly to his large staff -of laborers. He had occasion to leave the country in which his -property was situated, for some years; but, before doing so, -he gave his people clearly to understand that he wished the -whole of the cultivated land to be kept in hand, and all the -unclaimed marsh lands to be enclosed and drained, and brought into -cultivation—that even the hills were to be terraced, and the poor -mountain pastures manured—so that no single corner of the estate -should remain neglected and barren. Ample resources were left for -the execution of these works, and there were sufficient hands to -have accomplished the whole within the first few years of the -proprietor’s absence. - -He was detained in the country to which he had been called very -many years. Those whom he left children were men and women when -he came back, and so the number of his tenantry and laborers -was vastly multiplied. Was the task he had given them to do -accomplished? Alas! no. Bog and moor and mountain waste were only -wilder and more desolate than ever. Fine rich virgin soil, by -thousands of acres, was bearing only briars and thistles. Meadow -after meadow was utterly barren for want of culture; nay, by far -the larger part of the farm seemed never to have been visited by -his servants. - -Had they been idle? Some had, but large numbers had been -industrious enough. They had expended a vast amount of labor, -and skilled labor, too; but they had bestowed it all on the park -immediately around the house. This had been cultivated to such a -pitch of perfection that the workmen had scores of times quarreled -with each other, because the operations of one interfered with -his neighbor. And a vast amount of labor, too, had been lost in -sowing the same patch—for instance, with corn fifty times over in -one season, so that the seed never had time to germinate and grow -and bear fruit; in caring for the forest trees as if they had been -tender saplings; in manuring soils already too fat, and watering -pastures already too wet. The farmer was positively astonished -at the misplaced ingenuity with which labor and seed and manure, -skill and time and strength, had been wasted for no result. The -very same amount of toil and capital expended according to his -directions, would have brought the whole demesne into culture, and -yielded a noble revenue. But season after season had rolled away in -sad succession, leaving those unbounded areas of various but all -reclaimable soil, barren and useless; and, as to the park, it would -have been far more productive and perfect had it been relieved of -the extraordinary and unaccountable amount of energy expended on it. - -Why did these laborers act so absurdly? Did they wish to labor -in vain? On the contrary, they were forever craving for fruit, -coveting good crops, longing for great results. Did they not wish -to carry out the farmer’s views about his property? Well, they -seemed to have that desire, for they were always reading the -directions he wrote, and said continually to each other, “You know -we have to bring the whole property into order;” but they did not -do it. Some few tried, and ploughed up a little plot here and -there, and sowed corn and other crops. Perhaps these failed, and -so the rest got discouraged. Oh no! the yield was magnificent; -far richer in proportion than they got themselves. They clearly -perceived that, but yet they failed to follow a good example. Nay, -when the labors of a few, in some distant valley, had resulted in -a crop they were all unable to gather in by themselves, the others -would not even go and help them to bring home the sheaves. They -preferred watching for weeds among the roses in the overcrowded -garden, and counting the blades of grass in the park and the leaves -on the trees. - -Then they were fools, surely, not wise men?—traitors, not true -servants to their lord? - -Oh! I can’t tell! You must ask him that. I only know that the -Master said, “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to -every creature.” And eighteen hundred and seventy-seven years after -they had not even mentioned that there was a Gospel to one-half of -the world!—_China’s Millions_. - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -MEMPHIS, TENN.—Thus far, during the epidemic of this year, none of -the scholars of the Le Moyne Institute and none of the members of -the Second Congregational Church (colored) have suffered. - -ATLANTA, GA.—The Storrs School was opened on the first of -September, with 250 scholars, under the continued principalship -of Miss Amy Williams, who is assisted by Misses Abby Clark, Julia -Goodwin, Amelia Ferris and F. J. Morris. Miss M. E. Stevenson -has been transferred from the position of a teacher to that of -lady missionary for the city, representing the ladies of the two -churches of Oberlin. - -BRUNSWICK, GA.—Mr. Morse writes: “My school has been free the -entire year. We have averaged over ninety for the year of ten -months. I think many have been made wiser and better. Some have -connected themselves with the churches there. We are having a -season of great Christian interest in the Congregational Church of -this city, under Brother Clarke’s care. Two of our Sunday-school -scholars, and now supernumerary teachers, have given their hearts -to the Saviour. Our hope is the schools; take them away and I would -not give anything for Congregationalism among the colored people. I -had no idea of touching this matter when I began to write.” - -MACON, GA.—Rev. S. E. Lathrop, who has been at Atlanta for three -months, running down to supply his church meantime, in a private -letter, describes a day of work as follows: - -“Brother Young wrote me from Byron to come down there and baptize -some candidates for him. In the morning I went out from Macon -(seventeen miles by rail), rode three miles from the church to -the creek in a lumber wagon with fourteen _other_ colored folks, -getting caught in a shower on the way. Arrived at a grist-mill, -in which I changed clothes (preparing for immersion), with the -flour-dust half an inch deep everywhere. Waded into the creek and -immersed four candidates, three men and one woman, all of whom -behaved excellently well, without any shouting or gymnastics; -the seal of _sprinkling_ being set upon us by another sudden -shower just as we came out of the water. Rode back to the church, -preached, administered communion, received the four persons to -membership, and baptized an infant. Had just time for a good dinner -of ‘chicken fixins,’ and took the train back to Macon, arriving at -six p. m. of a close, sultry day. Walked one and a half miles and -back through the sweltering heat, to see a sick girl who wants to -join our church. Got back just in time for evening service, and -preached. Came back here yesterday, and have felt ‘bunged up’ ever -since.” - -NO. 1 MILLER’S STATION, GA.—“On the 27th of August, one of the -members of this church died; or, perhaps, I should express it -better if I said he fell asleep—for it seemed more like sleep than -death. The brother had not been a member of the church for one year -yet; but all who saw him before his death felt sure that he was a -saved man. He was over 76 years of age, and was one of those who -had left off drinking since I came here. He was so determined on -leaving it off that he would not take the communion with us the -last time he was present at our services. He said he was afraid it -would lead him to rum drinking again. In his case was shown the -power of the Gospel. He had lived in sin for 75 years; yet, by the -grace of God, and the power of His word, he was set free from the -power of Satan. During his short Christian life he was kept from -the sin of strong drink, and when he died he went to live with -Jesus. A few hours before his death he said to me: ‘All I want now -is to see my dear Jesus; I have given up all for His sake; do, -blessed Jesus, come and take me when you are ready.’” - -“THE FIRST COMMENCEMENT ON THE OGEECHEE” is the way in which Pastor -McLean, of Ga., announces the closing exercises of his parish -school. Never before had those rice swamps caught the echoes of -the children’s eloquence. In the twenty-eight orations and two -dialogues there was not a failure. And when the fathers and mothers -had a chance to express their gratitude, it was a burst of “God -bless you, brother.” Best of all, of the ninety-five who have been -connected with the school during the year, twenty-five have become -the disciples of the Great Master since the school was opened. - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—The Catalogue of the College for the last year -reports 214 students in all the departments. This number includes -the dozen theological students who have been under the training of -Prof. G. W. Andrews. Their names are Andrew J. Headen, P. W. Young -and W. S. Williams, who were graduated this year; and also these, -who are to study one year more, though they have all been licensed, -J. B. Grant, Byron Gunner, John W. Strong, John R. Sims, Yancy B. -Sims, J. W. Roberts, H. W. Conley and Spencer Snell. - -LAWSONVILLE, ALA.—While the people of this place are engaged in -building a church, they are enjoying a season of revival under -their Talladega minister, Rev. J. W. Strong. - -MT. SPRING, ALA.—Rev. Alfred Jones, of Childersburg, having -preached a week at the out-station, Mt. Spring, was permitted to -rejoice in the conversion of fourteen persons. A half dozen have -also united with his church at home upon profession. - -THE COVE, ALA.—Rev. J. B. Grant has been assisted at this place by -his fellow theologues, Y. B. Sim, T. T. Benson, J. R. Sims, and by -Rev. P. J. McEntosh, in a series of meetings which have resulted in -great good. - -NEW ORLEANS, LA.—Rev. D. L. Mitchel, who is in charge of the -Presbyterian Book Depository in this city, is supplying the Central -Church (Rev. W. S. Alexander’s) during the summer vacation. He -writes thus under a recent date: “The congregation is quite regular -in attendance, about seventy, and the attention is excellent. The -prayer meetings are also well attended, and the spiritual condition -steadily improving. I think this one of the most important fields -in the South, and one of the most hopeful. May the blessing of our -heavenly Father abide with your corps of Christian workers and give -them abundant success in their self-denying labors.” - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -The Freedmen. - -—Of 142 cases of yellow fever reported at Memphis during the week, -August 18th to 24th, 79 were of colored people—about one-half. -About three-eighths of the total population are colored. - -—Among the colored refugees in Kansas is an entire Baptist church -of 300 persons led by the pastor and deacons. They were from Delta, -La. - -—Sojourner Truth, the famous colored woman, who is now 103 years -old, is at Chicago, en route to Kansas, to make a study of the -colored exodus. - -—Governor St. John, of Kansas, believes that the colored exodus has -only begun; that it is not unlikely that it will soon re-open, and -reach to hundreds of thousands in its numbers. - -—The current catalogue of Howard University reports a total of -236 students for the year. Of these, 21 are in the Theological -department, 64 in the Medical, 10 in the Law, 17 in the College, -16 in the Preparatory, and 87 in the Normal. This Association for -the third year sustains one-half the expense of the Theological -department. Rev. Dr. Craighead of this city, many years connected -with _The Evangelist_, has been appointed to the chair of Theology, -made vacant by the death of Prof. Lorenzo Westcott. Dr. Craighead -has accepted, and is to enter upon duty this fall. The Law and -Medical departments are under the instruction of resident lawyers -and doctors in Washington. Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., is President -and Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, Natural -Theology, and Evidences of Revealed Religion, also Instructor in -Hebrew. - -An appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made by the last -Congress exclusively for the benefit of the College; not a dollar -is to go to sustain the professional courses. It is fitting that -the Government, which, through the Freedmen’s Bureau, did so much -to found the institution, should help it along in its straits. - -Prof. R. I. Greener, of the Law department, before the American -Association for the Advancement of Science, in session at Saratoga, -joined issue with Frederick Douglass in the discussion of the -exodus question. He is a man of platform popularity. It must -have been a touching scene when Col. Thos. J. Kirkpatrick, of -Virginia, and Frederick Douglass, in the meeting of the Howard -Board of Trust, joined hands in mutual expression of regard—the -ex-slaveholder and the ex-slave. - -—The Marysville College in East Tennessee, founded before the -war by the New School Presbyterians, now under the presidency -of Rev. Peter Mason Bartlett, who has also a brother in one of -the professorships, received some of the funds of the Freedmen’s -Bureau, upon the condition that its doors should ever stand open to -colored as well as white students. This provision has been carried -out in spite of local prejudice, so that all along there have -been a few students of the African race among its numbers. This -institution is to be praised for fidelity to the bond. Some schools -that received from the same fund, on the same conditions, have not -stood to the contract. - -—Aunt Kelly, now living at Troy, Missouri, at an advanced age, but -“bred, born, and raised in ole Virginny,” told the writer, that, -when a young woman, she sawed the lumber for the building of the -State University. For that matter, the labor in building the mass -of the literary institutions of the South was performed by the -colored people. It is, then, only a piece of reciprocity that the -several States of that region should now provide public schools -for that class of their citizens. Old Virginia appropriates ten -thousand dollars a year to the Hampton Institute; South Carolina -aids the Claflin University (Methodist), and other States are doing -a like generous thing. - - * * * * * - - -Africa. - -—Of the twenty-three new missionaries sent out by the Church -Missionary Society during the last year, three were for West -Africa and five for the Nyanza Mission. Of the eighteen new this -year, two are for West Africa and two for the Nyanza Mission, to -be stationed at Mpwapwa. Mr. Price is, for the present, the only -ordained missionary at the station. Mr. Cole is to devote himself -largely to the industrial interests of the Mission with a view to -its self-support at as early a day as may be found possible. Dr. -Baxter and Mr. Last have already occupied the field for a year. In -the instructions given them at a farewell meeting it was said: “Not -only is it made more and more clear that Mpwapwa is in a sense the -key to the Lake district, and likely to remain so for many years -to come, and hence important with a view to the work carried on in -the interior by other societies as well as the C. M. S., but there -is also no doubt that from it, as a centre, missionary work may be -carried on both among the natives inhabiting the Usagara Mountains -and amid the manly and numerous race inhabiting the Ugogo country.” - -—The same Society reports that its work in behalf of the freed -slaves in East Africa is beginning to bear spiritual fruit. The -improved condition of the settlement at Frere Town, materially and -morally, has been reported from time to time; but the spiritual -results hitherto have been comparatively small. Until lately no -mention has been made of the gospel’s taking root among the poor -liberated slaves rescued by Her Majesty’s cruisers, and handed -over to the Mission in the Autumn of 1875, to the number of nearly -300, and perhaps another 100 in smaller detachments since. Mr. -Streeter now reports the baptism of thirty-two of them on their own -confession of faith, besides infants. The Rev. A. Menzies reached -Frere Town June 1st. - -—The Free Church of Scotland reports the transfer of Miss Waterston -to the new field at Livingstonia. Miss W. has for seven years been -the successful superintendent of the female seminary at Lovedale. -She is fully qualified as a medical missionary, and carries the -confidence and good wishes of all who know her. Says the _Monthly -Record_: She means to go first to Lovedale, where she will halt -for a short time in order to select coadjutors from among her -former pupils. She hopes to induce some of them to accompany her -to the sphere of her future labors, where they will be employed as -teachers, and in other departments of the work. When Dr. Stewart -first started for Lake Nyassa, so many of the Lovedale young men -volunteered for service under their noble missionary’s banner, that -he found it impossible to accept of half the number. From what we -have heard of the young women, they are not likely to be behind in -courage and zeal, nor is Miss Waterston likely to be disappointed -in her hope of volunteers. Her aim will be now, as formerly, to -blend Christian teaching with efforts to civilize and elevate, -and, as opportunity offers, to gather the young into boarding and -industrial schools. She will also help Dr. Laws in his dispensary -and other medical work among the women. - -The only other lady who has gone to Livingstonia is to be the wife -of the well-known missionary, Dr. Laws, who so ably conducts the -Free Church Mission there; and at Blantyre, the station of the -Established Church of Scotland, there already resides the wife of -one of the missionaries—Mrs. Duff McDonald. - -—When the missionary steamer owned by the mission of the Free -Church of Scotland was to be placed on Lake Nyassa, the leader -of the expedition applied to the chief of the tribe for reliable -help to carry the craft around the Murchison Cataracts. The chief -responded by sending eight hundred women,—a compliment certainly -to the trustworthiness of the sex. “Some of them came fifty miles, -bringing their provisions with them. These women were intrusted -with the whole, when if a single portion of the steamer had been -lost, the whole scheme would have failed. They carried it in -two hundred and fifty loads in five days, under a tropical sun, -seventy-five miles, to an elevation of 1,800 feet, and not a -nail or screw was lost. They ‘trusted the Englishman,’ asking no -questions of wages, and receiving each six yards of calico; and for -the sake of being liberal, each was given an extra yard.”—_Heathen -Woman’s Friend_. - -—The sudden death of Rev. Dr. Mullens, of peritonitis, at Aden, -is announced. He has been for some years a Christian leader -in Great Britain, and his opinions have had great weight with -intelligent Christians throughout the world. He has been the chief -Corresponding Secretary of the great London Missionary Society -during about twenty years—a position of great responsibility and -usefulness, and one of the most influential in the Church of -Christ. Before he was called to this service he had been for many -years a successful missionary in India. Two or three months ago, by -his own request—if memory serves us faithfully—he was appointed by -the Society to accompany a band of young missionaries to Zanzibar, -and to go on, if necessary, if his judgment so decided, to Lake -Tanganyika, in the heart of Southern Africa. It was expected -that his strong sense and remarkable executive ability would see -and organize some method to overcome the serious obstacles and -difficulties which lie in the path of missions to Central Africa. - -On arriving at Zanzibar, Dr. Mullens decided, in the exercise -of the discretion given him by the Board, to proceed onward, in -company with Messrs. Griffith and Southon, to Lake Tanganyika. The -party left Zanzibar on the afternoon of Friday, June 13th, and -having landed at Saadani, started for the interior. Letters dated -Ndumi, June 16th, report that all the members of the expedition -were in excellent health, and were well on their way westward. - -News of his death on the 10th of July has brought sadness to many -hearts outside of the circle who will most deeply miss his counsels -and mourn his loss. He was not yet fifty-nine years of age, and was -one of the foremost men of the present time in foreign missions, -having been, perhaps, the most prominent leader in the Basle -Missionary Conference held in October last. - -—There is now an unbroken chain of communication by steam from -England to the northern end of Lake Nyassa in Central Africa, -excepting seventy miles of the Murchison Cataracts in the Shire -River; and it is ascertained that Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika are -but 130 miles apart, instead of 250. - -—The London _Daily Telegraph_ says: Among many interesting -particulars of discoveries brought from Africa by the gallant -Portuguese explorer, Major Serpa Pinto, none is more absorbing -than his story of the white people encountered between the rivers -Cubango and Cuando. Serpa Pinto found in these districts a tribe -absolutely European in tint, yet nowise of the Albino type, for -the hair was black and woolly. He described them as uglier than -the plainest negroes, and lower in civilization than any race met -with, having receding foreheads, slanting eyes like the Chinese, -prominent cheek-bones, and hanging lower lips. The appearance fails -to do much credit to the white men whom they resemble. Who, then, -and whence, are these people, so strangely recalling the tribe -spoken of by Mr. Stanley between the equatorial lakes? - -—Late news from Bishop Crowther’s mission, on the Niger River, -Africa, states that one of the chiefs, Captain Hart, who had been -most active at Bonny in the persecution of Christian converts, -is dead. On his death-bed he commanded that all his idols be -destroyed, warning his followers to have nothing more to do with -idol worship. The next day after his death the heathen fell upon -the collection of idols with a will. Archdeacon Crowther writes: - -“Early this morning they began to destroy the jujus. The work of -destruction is great. The poor gods and goddesses are having very -hard times in late Captain Hart’s quarters now. They are handled in -a most unceremonious and rough manner. Two canoe-loads, it is said, -have found their resting-place in the deepest part of the river, -and those that float and will not sink are broken into ever so many -pieces. Floating wrecks of idols made and worshiped since the days -of Captain Hart’s father are to be seen dotted all over the creek -to the river in the shipping. Imprecations and abuses have taken -the place of worship.” - -Bishop Crowther reports that, after a long season at Bonny, in -which, owing to persecution, there were no converts, eight persons -have been baptized. - -—Dr. John Kirk, the British Consul-General at Zanzibar, Africa, -writes that Keith Johnson, the leader of the expedition to explore -the head of Lake Nyassa, died of dysentery on the 27th of June, -at Berobero, 130 miles inland from Dar-es-Salaam. The expedition -will be continued by Mr. Thomson, the scientific assistant of Mr. -Johnson. - -—Mr. John S. Hartland reports his arrival at Bonny, and Mr. W. H. -Bentley at Sierra Leone, on the West Coast of Africa. They are -both on their way to the English Baptist Mission on the Congo or -Livingstone River. - - * * * * * - - -The Indians. - -The following paragraph from the _Independent_ so fully expresses -our view of the matter of the Ponca Indians, that we both copy and -endorse it: - -The story which Secretary Schurz tells about the Ponca Indians, -while it corrects some misapprehensions in regard to the case, -nevertheless confesses that the Government has treated the Indians -very unjustly. This the Secretary said in his first annual report. -After securing to the Poncas 96,000 acres of land in South-eastern -Dakota by the treaties of 1817, 1826 and 1858, the Government in -1868 granted this very land to the Sioux Indians, without any -reference to the rights held therein by the Poncas, both by treaty -and occupancy. The Sioux Indians were unfriendly to the Poncas, -and the collision between these tribes made it necessary for -the Government to seek the removal of the Poncas to the Indian -Territory. All this was done before the present Administration -came into power, and hence it has no responsibility for the wrong -done. Secretary Schurz says that “no effort has been spared by -the Executive branch of the Government to rectify all the wrongs -that the Poncas have suffered, so far as these wrongs can be -rectified.” He also says that “a bill for their relief, providing -for payment for their lands in Dakota, and also providing for -the payment for their new reservation, with an appropriation of -$58,000 to reimburse them for their losses, has been sent to -Congress by the Interior Department.” We are glad to learn from so -good an authority that the Executive Department of the Government -recognizes the wrong which has been done to these Indians, and -shows a disposition to make an honorable _amende_ therefor. It is -to be hoped that Congress will sustain and concur with its efforts. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -NORTH AND SOUTH. - -Some Things in Common. - -In efforts to promote the spirit of Christian union, it is always -advised that we look for the things that we hold in common—the -things that make us Christians, rather than those which make us -of this or that church party. In seeking to advance national good -feeling, may we not wisely pursue something of the same course? If -any persons can take up this line of talk without being accused -of having been bulldozed by Southern blandishment, it may be those -who were the early abolitionists, and especially those who endeavor -to prove their faith by their works in going down among the lowly -and despised ex-slaves to try to raise them up by the appliances of -education and of the Gospel. - -1. One such common possession is that of our English inheritance. -We are, characteristically, of the Anglo-Saxon stock. We speak -the English language from South to North. We have that glorious -speech that swallows up and overmasters the Babel of tongues that -fall upon our ears. We think that, led by our incomparable Webster -and Worcester, we use our English with even more of correctness -than does the mother country. We inherit the great principles of -constitutional government, of trial by jury, habeas corpus, and of -civil and religious liberty. We are joint heirs to the matchless -English literature, and to a history that has made England the -leading nation of Christendom. - -2. We hold in common the glories of our Revolutionary period. We -share in the joys of the birth of a new nation. We have the same -traditions of patriotism. We are mutually proud of the memory of -Washington and Jefferson and the Adamses, and of the other fathers -of the Republic. Our National Centennial gave occasion for a -revival of our national feeling. Masses of our brethren who had -been estranged were glad of the opportunity thus afforded to share -in the thrill inspired by the world’s recognition of our national -greatness. - -3. We share in the essentials of the Reformed Church life. The -Pilgrims and the Puritans settled in New England. Much of the blood -by which the Southern States were stocked was of the Reformed -quality. In the celebration, at Chicago, of the two hundred and -fiftieth anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims, Dr. Bacon said -that the Presbyterians were Puritans. The South has had a large -portion of this moral and theological leavening. The Scotch and -the Scotch-Irish element in that region has been large and largely -influential. Through them Puritan notions have been planted and -propagated. The Huguenots, who were the contribution of France to -the Reformation, have had a large representation in the South. -Sixty years before the Pilgrims landed, they made, on the Carolina -coast, two settlements, which were annihilated by the persecuting -power of Rome that followed them to the wilderness continent. They -tried again and made a lodgment where Charleston now stands, and to -this day “The Huguenot Church” abides in its integrity of language -and of character. From this same source that city has received a -large infiltration of blood and of principle. Out in the State, -and at other places in the South, the Huguenots have given names -to towns and tone and caste to society. The South has had but a -small portion of the foreign emigration, and so has felt less the -influence of the Continental views as to the Sabbath. One of our -professors, who has been many years in the South, says that the -Holy Day is more strictly observed in that part of the country -than at the North. The intellectual orthodoxy of the South is well -known. It may be because of the lack of activity in theological -discussion, but the fact is apparent to such a degree that a more -ethical and practical preaching is what the Christian people are -hungering for thereaway. - -4. We have a common sympathy in Protestantism. The early Spanish -and French occupation in Louisiana and in Baltimore has made -those strong Catholic centres. But Romanism is not so generally a -prevailing power in the South as in the North. The drift of foreign -emigration has made this difference. Rome’s chance at the South is -now not with immigrants, but with natives, Africo-Americans; and -she is bound to make the most of it. But just here comes out our -unity in Protestant views. Southern Christians are anxious lest -the display and the mystery of the Roman system should captivate -these simple children of nature. They are as solicitous as we -that the same Providence which delivered our land from the early -domination of Romish nationalities, may save it from coming under -the supremacy of that spiritual despotism. When the Catholic bishop -at Richmond opened his cathedral, Sunday nights, to a free service -in behalf of the colored people, it made a tremendous stir among -white as well as colored Protestants. - -5. Have we not had a common responsibility for the existence of -slavery? Striking in its upas roots at Jamestown, it was allowed -to spread over all the colonies. Samuel Hopkins, thundering at -the gates of the pens of the slave-trade in Newport, must yet -reverberate among those empty dens still standing. In 1872 I saw -in Connecticut an aged disciple who had once been a slave in that -State. My childish ears tingled with my father’s stories of slave -life as known to him in New Jersey. The system, by implication, -was recognized in the Federal Constitution. The Government allowed -it to sweep out over yet other empire areas at the South and West. -We had Federal laws, resting upon Northern public sentiment, to -protect the institution. We allowed our churches and our literary -institutions and our benevolent societies to come under the common -paralysis of conscience. Without any interest in slaves as personal -property, we allowed our great commercial affairs to be brought -under bondage to that system. Our measure of complicity in that -national wrong was indicated in part by the awful retribution meted -out in the sacrifice of half a million of precious lives and by the -offering of billions of treasure. We have had occasion to join our -brethren at the South and say, “We are verily guilty concerning our -brother.” - -6. Have we not now a common obligation to make restitution to these -new-made citizens? We are not only by legislation to recognize -their rights of manhood and of citizenship, but to uphold them in -the same. We are to secure them in the enjoyment of the blessing -of our American educational system and of the best Christianizing -processes. As we have endowed them with the sacred elements of -citizenship, we must help them to the means of making them citizens -worthy of the nation. This common duty was indicated by Hon. John -Goode, of Virginia, when he said, in Congress, “Can the Government -bestow civil and political rights upon these wards of the nation, -and at the same time avoid the solemn obligation to provide for -their mental and moral improvement?” That is the responsibility -of citizens, North and South, as well as of the Government. And -so let the people join hands, irrespective of sectional lines, in -doing the just, the right thing by these native Americans, the -providential significance of whose existence in our country is a -problem calling for solution. - - * * * * * - - -REMINISCENCES. - - “It’s the color that tells”—“Jes hear dem niggers read”—Candle - and half-bushel—“Age up country,” &c.—Sad words making - glad—“Frosty arms.” - -After the full accounts you have been giving your readers of late -of the Commencement Exercises, with their attendant essays and -orations, brief reminiscences of a few years ago, when the Freedmen -knew little of Greek and Latin, but were intent upon “blue-back” -spellers and the easy parts of the Bible, may not come amiss. - -It happened once that in a dimly-lighted school-house, about nine -o’clock at night, filled with men and women of various hue, from -white through brown to black, there was one class of nine young -men spelling words of three syllables. They were very earnest, and -in real old-fashioned way were going “up and down” in the class. -At the head stood Joseph, very black; then three nearly as dark, -followed by four light ones, with the very darkest of the whole -class at the foot. All went well till the upper light one missed -and the word passed down; Joseph, seeing it likely to pass from the -light ones to the very dark face at the foot, in excitement and joy -burst forth with, “Spell it, Dave, and cut up here; _it’s the color -that tells_.” Dave spelt it, and the color did tell. - -One man who made his appearance in night-school about the middle -of the winter, I shall never forget. His entrance was quite -overpowering—a big man, big cane, big hat, and a big shawl thrown -over his shoulder, Arab style. I happened to be at leisure, so I -went at once to ask him if he intended coming regularly to school. -Saying that he did, my next question was, “What’s your name?” “I’m -Lucy’s husband, over there.” As I didn’t know Lucy, I was not much -the wiser, and had to repeat the question with the emphasis on the -_your_. Wishing to classify him, I asked, “What book do you read -in?” “The Bible mostly, ma’am.” “Can you read in the First Reader?” -“Yes, first, second, third, fourth and all the other elementary -books.” Thinking I might gain some information where to assign him, -I looked at the books he had brought with him. There were four: a -large family Bible; another book of some size, but very fine print, -on “Presbyterian Ordination Refuted;” a “Child’s Scripture Question -Book,” and a small geography. - -But if the night-schools were amusing, the afternoon schools for -the women were not less so. Old women and young women, many of them -in fantastic attire, with hats, caps and dresses that would have -been considered prizes by an antiquary; the dark faces peering -from under the white or speckled turban; old women wiping their -spectacles, vainly endeavoring to get “more light” on the subject, -while picking away at the letters in some old Primer, as if they -were to be transferred bodily to the head. Aunt Chloe Fisher -must have been seventy-five or eighty years old, but still she -was bright and original. She came into school one afternoon very -anxious to learn to read “de way, de troof, and de life.” Seeing -some women in another part of the room reading, she exclaimed, “Jes -hear dem niggers read! If dis nig can’t read, too, won’t she fight -’em?” and then she vigorously applied her finger to the pages of -the Gospel of John which she had with her, finding the words Lord -and God, which were about all she knew. She believed in both faith -and works, for she used to pray most earnestly that God would help -her know the words, and then get up in the middle of the night and -light a pine knot to see if she had a word right. Old Aunt Chloe -was always happy. I never saw her otherwise but once, and then she -was greatly troubled for fear she should lose her place in the -grave-yard. One special place she had chosen, and young people were -dying so fast she was afraid she should not die soon enough to lie -there. She would get happy over her wash-tub or anywhere else, and -her hands and her feet would keep time with some negro hymn in a -most amusing manner. - -One old Aunty was reading the fifth chapter of Matthew, -when she came to a passage, which she read thus; -“Neither—do—men—light—a—half-bushel—and—put—it—under—a—candle-stick.” -On being stopped and told to look again, pointing with her finger -all along the lines of the page, with a look of half despair she -said, “Bress you, honey, I can’t find either candle or half-bushel -now.” Those simple words were quite a sermon for me, and I’ve -thought of them many a time since. Are not we, as Christians, in -danger of losing our candles? Our good Aunty’s candle was soon -found for her; but will ours, once lost, be as easily recovered? - -In those days, even in the day-schools, there were many -difficulties that could hardly be encountered now. I remember -hearing one teacher say that it was almost impossible to get the -ages of her scholars. They would say, “My age is up country;” or -“Ole missis has my age in the Bible, and she’s gone away.” The -trick of giving one name to one teacher and another to the next -was practiced. On giving a second name once, one little fellow was -brought up with, “Why, I thought your name was George Johnson?” “I -done got tired of that name,” was his cool reply. - -Perhaps the most interesting prayer-meeting that I ever attended -among the Freedmen was in Alabama, where the Ku Klux outrages -lasted so much longer than in other places, and where the -missionaries looked to their guns and their rifles before retiring. -I reached there just the evening of the weekly prayer-meeting at -the school-house. ’Twas a stormy night, but with waterproofs and -umbrellas we ventured. Wholly unused to bullets, I must confess -there was a little trembling under one waterproof, as we wended -our way along the little path through the woods, and across the -one plank bridge over the Branch; but once within the building all -fear vanished. The room was filled with the finest looking colored -people I had ever seen. They had, many of them, been house servants -in the best families in this aristocratic place. The pastor opened -the meeting, and they carried it on with a liveliness that was -truly refreshing. Two or three usually rose at once, with words -right on their lips. This church had only been organized a little -over a year, and then numbered about eighty. There had been much -to dishearten all along. They had no church building, and had been -striving hard to build; but no sooner would they begin to see -little light through the clouds than the white people, fearing that -the men with dark skins might acquire too great a hold on this -world’s goods, would remove work from the most prosperous, and -thus the clouds would gather again. Referring to this method of -_keeping down_, one of the members once said, “No ’count niggers -can rub along here well enough, but smart niggers had better look -out for other quarters.” Even at that time the danger of their -being obliged to disband from outside violence was hardly over, and -as they told of their love for their church, one could hardly help -thinking of the stories of the early Christians, when persecutions -only increased their zeal. There was an undertone of sadness -through the remarks of several, for they felt peculiarly uncertain -as to what a day might bring forth. But one suddenly rose and -changed the key. “I was sad,” he said, “when I first came in here, -but your words of sadness have made me glad, for they have shown me -how much we all love our church, and such love, with the love of -God for us, which is even much greater, will carry us through fiery -trials. I never felt as strong as I feel to-night. ’Tis true, I -don’t know what may come upon us, but I do feel that the Lord will -help us through.” Then he told what he hoped for the future, in -such cheerful words, that as he sat down, they burst forth almost -with one voice in a song of praise, and then one after another -kneeled down, and in the most simple words of faith asked their -Father to help His children in this their day of trouble, and I do -not think there was one present who had the slightest doubt of His -doing so. - -Even before the Kansas fever, there were States in the North that -were synonyms for all good things to the colored people. I remember -a Thanksgiving Day, when a minister was addressing one of the -schools, and telling the children what they had to be thankful -for, that he burst forth with the question, “Is there any other -country so blessed as this?” “Yes, sir,” said a little urchin -before him. “Why, what one?” “Massachusetts,” was the reply. - -I once heard a colored minister pray heartily for the teachers in -this wise, “May God throw around this institution His _frosty_ -arms, and bear the teachers from this to another vale of tears.” - -The good old days have gone; the better ones, _perhaps_, have come. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -A Remarkable Conversion and Triumphant Death. - -MISS HENRIETTA MATSON, NASHVILLE. - -How often have God’s dealings with His children seemed strange and -sad, when those who were just ready to do valiant service for Him, -here amid the need of a lost world, are called up higher—called to -rest, rather than toil—to wear the crown, rather than longer bear -the cross. - -But God’s ways are not ours, and since we know that He ever cares -for His own cause, we may believe that He calls the loved one to -a higher usefulness. Such were some of the thoughts that came to -our hearts when, on a beautiful June morning during the summer -vacation, we read the words, “E. J. Park died yesterday afternoon,” -followed by an account of the triumphant death of a student of Fisk -University, who had gone to Texas to teach school. - -Eugene Park came to Fisk University several years ago, a pleasant, -careless boy, who had never bestowed a thought upon his eternal -interests. For a long time he was but little moved; both the -warnings and the entreaties of the Gospel seemed to fall unheeded -upon his ear, and we often felt that he became only more careless -and indifferent. - -At last, however, the Spirit strove with him, and he began to -ask, “What must I do to be saved?” though at first there was not -in him that fixed purpose which would lead him to arise and go to -his Father. And so he halted for months, wavering and undecided, -until a mighty conviction seized him that he must find God, and -that speedily. Sin, in all its enormity, was revealed to him, and -he seemed indeed to realize that he was lost, unless the Saviour -should interpose and deliver him. - -He then gave himself entirely to seeking God. He could not study, -and there were many long hours in which he could neither eat nor -sleep, so powerfully was he wrought upon. One morning in Chapel, -at devotional exercises, while in this intense state of mind, the -reading of the Scriptures so affected him that he sobbed aloud. -Hoping to calm him, and at the same time point him to Christ, the -hymn was sung, “Oh, the blood, the precious blood!” but he was so -overcome that his friends were obliged to take him away, and a few -of us gathered and prayed with him. Still the light from the Sun of -Righteousness did not break in; the precious blood was not applied -to his soul until the next day, when Jesus Himself drew near, and -the Lord of Glory revealed Himself as the One altogether lovely, -and the Chief among ten thousand. His soul seemed in a rapture of -joy for days. He came to the school with his Bible always in his -hand, as though he could not be parted from it even for a moment. - -Then followed years of ripening in the Christian life, with -frequent seasons of such blessing that he could not speak of Christ -without tears. He early gave himself to the ministry, feeling that -to preach the everlasting Gospel would be his highest joy, and -was pursuing his studies with this in view. He was not, however, -without temptations to a worldly life, though we are assured that -the dear Saviour kept His own, even unto the end. His death was a -beautiful illustration of the triumph of the Gospel of Christ. Far -from friends and home, yet he was not alone, for that Friend that -sticketh closer than a brother was near. - -He had been ill for several days, and one morning he told those -about him that he should go home at three afternoon, and precisely -at the hour named the summons came. He had sent messages to his -mother and friends. “Tell them,” he said, “that Jesus is with me -and saves me. Oh, how sweet it is to die in the arms of Jesus.” He -then sung, “Washed in the blood of the Lamb,” “Safe in the arms of -Jesus,” and “Sweeping through the gates to the new Jerusalem.” - -And now we, in our sorrow, think of him as thus “safe.” We hoped he -would labor long and successfully for the Master; but he has been -called up higher, and is now, we believe, among the ransomed in the -New Jerusalem, where he has learned the new song, even praise unto -our God. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -First Impressions. - -REV. P. W. YOUNG, BYRON - -I feel the necessity of writing you this morning concerning my -work, though my time is much occupied. I am happy to say that I -found some very earnest members here, notwithstanding they were -like sheep without a shepherd when I came. There is an opportunity -for a great deal of Christian labor here, as in many other places. - -I preach on the Sabbath at 11 o’clock and at 8 o’clock in the -evening. We have a very good Temperance Society also. Its members -manifest great interest in the cause. The people are beginning to -see that intemperance, if continually practiced, will bring them to -degradation. I delivered a lecture to the society last Sabbath in -the afternoon, having about 250 persons present. I told them in the -plainest words of the great harm that had been done by intemperance -among the colored people. When I closed my remarks they said they -wished I could speak an hour longer on the same subject, showing -their hearty approval of what I had said. - -The religious interest seems to be good generally. There are four -converts to unite with the church. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - - -“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” - -Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. - -PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. -Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. -F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. -H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., -Jacob S. Taber, Esq. - -DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. -Baker, James M. Haven Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, -E. P. Sanford, Esq. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -THE BEGINNING OF HARVEST—ONG LUNE. - -REV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -Our Lord has begun—sooner than we desired and very suddenly to -us—to gather from our harvest field His wheat into His garner. The -first-fruits went home on Sunday, Aug. 3d, at our Bethany church. I -was in the act of baptizing and welcoming to Christian fellowship -on earth _four_ of our more recently converted Chinese brethren, -when our brother Ong Lune was welcomed to the fellowship above. He -was a young man of 21 years, had been a Christian, as we hoped, -for nearly three years, and a church member since December, 1877. -His sickness was brief, and he was supposed to be recovering till -about twenty-four hours before his death. He had greatly desired -to become strong enough to be present at our August communion, but, -instead, he ate bread in the kingdom of God. - -Modest and unassuming, but intelligent, earnest and thoroughly -consecrated to Christ, his absence from our mission work makes a -void not easily filled. A great majority of American Christians -might well have sat at the feet of this young Chinaman and learned -how to be co-workers with the Saviour. Approaching his countrymen -with a smile, seizing every opportunity to “speak a word in -season,” he sought to bring them to our schools, and then to lead -them to his Saviour. A house-servant, with little time that he -could call his own, he will wear no starless crown. I know not how -many times the question, “Who told you to come to school?” has been -answered by the utterance of his name. The last service he was able -to render was—in spite of pain and weariness from the disease which -afterwards proved fatal—to act as my interpreter in the examination -of three candidates for baptism, one of them, possibly, his own -child in the Gospel. - -His teacher—Miss Florence N. Wooley—quotes him as saying that what -he wanted was “to bring more and more scholars, and watch them, -and when they know about Jesus, must make them to be our brethren -and try to keep them from temptation; and I wish to do the best I -can, but am afraid of temptation myself.” She adds: “He succeeded -in this; and the secret of his success, as told me by one of the -scholars, was this: ‘He talked so nice to the boys, and never got -cross nor angry; and so they all minded what he told them.’ He had -entered into the spirit of the word, ‘Go out into the highways and -hedges and compel them to come in.’ As soon as he came into school -he was wont to speak of some one who had promised him to come that -night. If this promise was not fulfilled, he went after the person -again and again and brought him in. He was getting on well in his -studies, especially in his study of the Bible. The last verses he -recited were Acts vii. 54, 55, now happily fulfilled in his own -experience.” - - -THE STORY OF LEE FOUN, BY LEE HAIM. - -[Lee Haim, one of our helpers, had given me this account, and I -requested him to write it for the MISSIONARY. I give it as he wrote -it, word for word, correcting only a few expressions to make the -sense clear.—W. C. P.] - -“I am going to tell you something of our Christian brethren -when they go back to China. Last year one of our Christian -Association went by the steamship with his own brother, and when -they both reached their old home, his elder brother said to his -wife: ‘Well, to-morrow I will go tell my mother that my younger -brother, Lee Foun, believes in Jesus, and was a member of the -American Association while he staid in California. He does not -want to worship our gods which sit in the temple, nor worship our -ancestors; neither to keep the traditions which our fathers have -handed down from generation to generation. If I go and tell these -things to my mother she will give him a good whipping.’ - -“So his elder brother agreed to tell his mother in the morning; -and when the morning came he brought the whole affair before her. -She was exceedingly grieved when she heard it, and she went and -told some of her son’s uncles. Then Lee Foun’s uncles said to her: -‘Never mind that now; your son now come back is like a stranger; -you need not to say any thing to him now; but wait for two days, -until the first day of June is come; then you may call him up and -offer some tea, and burn the incense in the morning, and see if he -do it or not.’ This custom was known to Lee Foun, for our Chinese -generally keep it twice each month—the first day of the month and -the fifteenth. It is considered a very important custom, as much so -as to serve their parents in their lifetime. It is like the Jews -keeping the Passover every year, or as we keep the Supper of the -Lord. - -“So his mother said nothing to him till the first day of June; then -she tried to wake him up to burn the incense and offer the tea to -his great-grandfather; but Lee Foun did not get up as early that -morning as usual; and when the time of offering tea and burning -the incense had passed, then he got up. And when he met his mother -she burst into tears. He asked her presently, ‘What is the matter, -mother?’ and his mother gave no answer. Then he asked her the same -thing. His mother said to him: ‘My son, you ought to have got up -early this morning and offered some tea and burned the incense -before your ancestor; but you got up so late, and did not do it, -that makes me feel bad.’ Then Lee Foun said to his mother: ‘If we -go and offer tea and burn the incense before these stones, wood, -clay and paper, do you think they know it? I don’t believe that, -for they, having eyes, cannot see; having ears, cannot hear; having -noses, cannot smell; mouth, cannot speak; hands, cannot handle; -feet they have, but cannot walk; and bodies have they, but cannot -move. All these things are nothing but wood, stone, clay and paper. -What good have they done for men? Moreover, those who serve images, -or serve the dead instead of the living, sin against the living -and true God; for every thing is made by His own hands. And He has -commanded us not to worship images, neither to serve the dead; -but only to worship the true and living God, and to honor father -and mother while they are living. But those who take offerings -of paper to be burned up, and represent money, are foolish, and -deceive themselves; for the paper is nothing but paper, and cannot -represent money.’ Then his mother laughed when she heard that, and -Lee Foun’s brother was angry at him, because his mother was pleased -with his younger brother, Lee Foun. He felt as Joseph’s brethren -felt toward Joseph when they saw Jacob, their father, love him. Do -you think they could injure Joseph, and that Lee Foun’s brother can -injure Lee Foun? No. Why not? Because God is with them. As Paul -said: ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?’ Oh, how glorious -and powerful God is! - -“After a while some of the Chinese missionaries heard that a -certain Christian brother had come back, so they went and inquired -for Lee Foun, and they entered into his village, to visit him; -and when he saw the missionaries, then he wept, because of the -persecution by his own brother, and because of the ignorance of -his relatives about God. Lee Foun’s mother was glad to receive -them, and invited them to come again to the feast of Lee Foun’s -marriage. After this the marriage of Lee Foun was at hand; so the -Chinese missionaries went to his village again to show him how -the Christian ceremony should be performed. So Lee Foun did as -Christians do. He did not bow his head before the idols, nor before -his ancestors, and neither did he keep the traditions of men, but -the commands of God. - -“Not only he did so, but Chan Wen, Lee Sam, and also many of our -brethren, act in accordance with Christianity when they go back -to China. I believe you have no doubt of that; for if we are true -Christians here in California, we will be true Christians in China -and elsewhere. We will stand up for Jesus and suffer for Him, and -take up His cross in public. - -“Dear friends, we entreat that you will mention our names to the -Lord when you pray, that we may have a faithful heart in our Lord -Jesus; that we may be strong in Him; and ask Him to open the great -door to us, that the nation of heathen Chinese soon may become -a Christian nation, and they may understand the word of God and -know Christ is the Creator and Saviour of the world, and all the -creatures should be bowed down before Him.” - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -COUNTRY SCHOOL-HOUSES. - -TO THE CHILDREN: - -I know you have heard much about the colored people, but did you -ever hear about their country school-houses? Let me tell you of two -in Alabama. - -Sunday-schools as well as day-schools are held in these same -buildings. One Sunday, a minister who was going twelve miles out -into the country to visit one of these schools, invited me to go -with him. After inquiring many times where the school was, and -going half a mile out of our way, we at last spied, at the right -of the road, some saddled mules hitched to trees. We thought that -might be the place, and sure enough there, right in the woods, was -a nice new school-house. - -After fastening our horse to a sweet-gum tree, we entered the -little unpainted building. The superintendent gave us seats at the -head of the school—not armchairs, but simply a board two feet from -the floor, answering for a bench. As soon as we were seated I began -to look about me to see what kind of a place I was in, while the -minister addressed the school. The house was built of pine logs, -placed an inch apart, consequently there were great cracks on all -sides of the room, which in summer must have been pleasant, as they -let in air, but in winter, think how cold they would be. The house -was full of old men, women and children, sitting on rude benches. - -As I looked through the crack near me, I saw outside a row of men -seated on a log, who left their places when they heard a stranger’s -voice inside and crowded into the house. I saw them put their hats -up on a beam over their heads. Those who couldn’t find room inside -looked through the cracks. There was no window, only a square hole -cut over the door to let in light. Seeing the many cracks in the -roof, we asked, when we came out, if it never rained in upon them. -“Not much,” was the answer. You see these people don’t mind a bit -of a sprinkle now and then. - -After the minister had finished telling them how he had been -in the very same land where Jesus had lived, the school sung, -“We’re going home to-morrow.” I wish you could have heard those -children. They sang at the top of their voices, their white teeth -showing more than ever in contrast with their black skin. After -the superintendent gave out the papers which we had brought, the -exercises closed, and I was glad to be relieved of the sixty pairs -of eyes which had been upon me. - -Another time I went with some teachers to a Mission Sunday-school. -This was in a most lovely place, right in the thick woods, far away -from any houses or sounds of any kind, except the songs of the -birds. We found we were early that day, for neither the teacher nor -scholars had come. We went inside the school-house and waited. - -Perhaps you ask how we got in. That was an easy thing to do, for -there was no locked door to keep us out, and no door of any kind, -only an opening in one side of the house. This was an old building, -built in the same way as the first one I visited. In some places -the logs were a foot apart. Here the benches were made of round -logs split in two, the flat part being the top, and in each end -of the rounded part were two legs. And such queer looking seats -as they were! Only one or two of them had backs. Before long the -teacher and a few scholars came. The school was small that day, as -there was a “big baptizing,” as they call it, not far away, which -always attracts crowds of colored people. - -After the scholars had left, and as we were preparing to go, a -terrible thunder shower came up which detained us there. The rain -came in, drip, drip, at every crack, till after a while there was -only one dry corner in the house. The teacher told us that when -showers came in school time, the scholars had to sit on their books -to keep them dry. The shower continued for some time, and being -very tired, after a sixteen-mile drive over new-cut roads through -woods, we put on our water-proofs and lay down on the damp benches; -but finding the drops were falling into our faces, we were obliged -to put up umbrellas. This was resting under difficulties. There, in -that open building, far away from any one, with the rain coming in -and standing in pools on the floor, we fully realized what these -poor country people have to go through to learn their A, B, C; and -those who continue their schools in the winter must suffer greatly -from the cold, as they only have a fire-place in one end of the -room. One teacher told us that his fire-place was so poor, that in -winter he built a fire out of doors, while the children gathered -around it sitting on stumps and logs. There are not only these two -schools I have spoken of, but many such scattered all over the -Southern States. - -Now, since I have been writing this, I have thought what a nice -plan it would be for you boys and girls to save some of your -pennies, and perhaps before long one of you would have enough to -buy a small, plain black-board, and another enough to buy a box of -crayons, or a pretty motto for one of these old bare school-rooms. -If you couldn’t send the things, you could send the money for them; -and how delighted any teacher would be with a few such comforts! -What do you think of my plan?—L. P. H. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR AUGUST, 1879. - - - MAINE, $1,031.89. - - Bangor. First Cong. Ch. $29.17 - Bath. Eliza Bowker 2.00 - Castine. ESTATE of Samuel Adams, by L. G. - Philbrook, Ex. 800.00 - Cumberland Mills. Rev. E. S. Tead 18.00 - Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - MISS E. B. EMERY, L. M. 27.72 - Vassalborough. ESTATE of Mary B. Buxton, by - Samuel Titcomb, Ex. 100.00 - West Bath. Isaiah Percy, $3; Buelah B. Percy $2 5.00 - Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $301.76. - - Antrim. “A Friend.” _for Talladega C._ 5.00 - Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.70 - Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.35 - East Jaffrey. Eliza A. Parker 20.00 - Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.29 - Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.64 - Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 51.33 - Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.80 - Merrimack. Merrimack Aux. Soc. 11.15 - Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, _for - Athens, Ala._ 50.00 - Short Falls. J. W. C. 0.50 - - - VERMONT, $195.95. - - Berlin. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.56 - Brownington. Cong. Sab. Sch. (of which $5 from - Dea. S.) 8.45 - Chester. E. S. 1.00 - Essex Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.50 - Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.75 - Ferrisburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.85 - Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.84 - Greensborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Highgate. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.07 - Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.34 - North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Pittsford. Mrs. E. H. Denison 5.00 - Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 9.03 - Springfield. Cong. Ch. 46.71 - Swanton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.85 - Townshend. Mrs. N. B. Batchelder 2.00 - Wesminster. Rev. A. B. D. 1.00 - Westminster West. Rev. A. Stevens, D. D., $10; - Cong. Sab. Sch., $10 20.00 - Windham. “A Friend,” $7; Cong. Sab. Sch., $4 11.00 - Windham. Cong. Ch., $9.10, ack. in Sept. - Number, should read, Cong. Sab. Sch. - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $2,168.10. - - Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 - Andover. G. W. W. Dove. $100; “J. B. C.,” $5, - _for Athens, Ala._;—Ladies of Free Ch., $70, - _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—J. L. S., - 50c 175.50 - Ashburnham. M. W. 1.00 - Boston. Rev. B. Southworth 5.00 - Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.60 - Boxford. S. B. S., 30c.; Mrs. C., 50c. 0.80 - Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.70 - Brookline. “M. and H. S. W.” 250.00 - Buckland. —— by W. F. Root 2.12 - Charlton. Clarissa W. Case 5.00 - Chelsea. N. C. Tenny 5.00 - Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.25 - Conway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.50 - Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $12.48 _for - Athens, Ala._) 13.50 - Easthampton. ESTATE of Samuel Hurlbut, by Mrs. - Sarah E. Pettis, Ex. 200.00 - Erving. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.15 - Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.07 - Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin 5.00 - Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $20, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._;—Miss Janette - Thompson, $5 25.00 - Hadley. Russell Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Holliston. Mrs. W. R. T. 0.50 - Hopkinton. Mrs. J. P. Claflin, $150; Cong. Ch. - and Soc., $51.36 201.36 - Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.00 - Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00 - Long Meadow. Gents’ Benev. Ass’n. 27.75 - Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 94.55 - Monson. Mrs. C. C. Chapin and Class, to const. - MRS. JOHN PACKARD, L. M. 30.00 - Monterey. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Milton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 31.34 - Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00 - Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber’s Bible - Class, $60. _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._;—Cong. Ch. and Soc., $55.64; Deacon - Benj. Burt, $2 117.64 - North Reading. Rev. F. H. Foster 3.36 - Norton. Wheaton Sem., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Orange. Mrs. E. W. M. 1.00 - Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.37 - Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, bbl. of C. and - books _for Talladega C._ - Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 14.00 - Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 110.34 - Shelburne. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.83 - Shirley Village. L. Holbrook 5.00 - South Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Springfield. North Ch., $40, _for Miller - Station, Ga._;—Memorial Ch., $18.40;—Ira - Merrill, $5, _for Athens, Ala._ 63.40 - Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 34.33 - Templeton. Trin. Sab. Sch. 26.31 - Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.00 - Webster. First Cong. Ch. 50.00 - Westfield. Mrs. J. F. 1.00 - West Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 23.00 - Wellesley. Missionary Soc. of Wellesley College 4.00 - Westminster. ESTATE of Mrs. S. A. Damon, by H. - G. Whitney, Ex. 208.00 - West Springfield. Mittineague Cong. Ch. 12.05 - Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 40.00 - Worcester. Union Ch. 37.73 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $1,776.64. - - Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers, $500; C. De - Wolf, $500 1000.00 - East Providence. Cong. Ch. 14.00 - Kingston. Cong. Ch. 28.77 - Providence. Central Cong. Ch. 733.87 - - - CONNECTICUT, $1,142.93. - - Bantam Falls. Miss Cornelia Bradley, _for - Athens, Ala._ 5.00 - Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.76 - Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch and Soc. 13.66 - Brooklyn. First Trin. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 - Canton Centre. “An Aged Friend” 2.00 - Collinsville. Talladega Soc., $15.50, _for - Student Aid, Talladega C._;—“A Friend,” $1 16.50 - Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 58.00 - Durham. “A Friend.” to const. MRS. HENRY H. - NEWTON, L. M. 30.00 - East Haven. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 30.00 - Ellington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 28.00 - Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. JENNETTE - COWLES VORCE, L. M. 30.00 - Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, _for - Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 5.00 - Greenfield. LEGACY of Dea. Wm. B. Morehouse, - by N. B. Hill 200.00 - Greenfield. Cong. Ch. 11.55 - Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 - Hadlyme. R. E. and J. W. Hungerford, _for Fisk - U._, $100;—Cong. Ch., $12.58; J. H. V., 85c. 113.43 - Hartford. “The Armour Bearers” of Talcott St. - Sab. Sch. 3.25 - Kensington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 - Middletown. “A Friend” 10.00 - Milford. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.75 - North Branford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.25 - North Cornwall. Benev. Assn., by E. D. Pratt, - Treas. 15.15 - New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 66.60 - New Haven. Amos Townsend 40.00 - North Stamford. Mrs. N. 1.00 - Roxbury. “Mother and Daughter” 5.00 - Salem. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.10 - Southport. “A Friend of the Freedmen” 20.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 22.83 - Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.59 - Union. Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss, $10; Union - Cong. Ch., $6 16.00 - Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.69 - Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.30 - Westfield. Cong. Ch. to const. WM. K. LOGEE - and MARY E. KING, L. M’s 65.00 - Westford. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - West Haven. Cong. Ch. 29.23 - West Winsted. “A Friend,” _for Athens, Ala._ 6.00 - Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.96 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 11.83 - —— “Friends” 5.00 - —— “A Friend” 17.50 - - - NEW YORK, $25,133.99. - - Albany. Vina S. Knowles 5.00 - Black River. D. D. 1.00 - Brooklyn. J. E. 1.00 - Clifton Springs. Miss F., $1, _for Miller’s - Station, Ga._;—Mrs. M. M. C., 50c 1.50 - Copenhagen. Lucian Clark 10.00 - Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.50 - Ellington. Mrs. E. Rice 5.00 - Elmira. Clarissa Thurston 5.00 - Granby Centre. J. C. Harrington, _for Athens, - Ala._ 10.00 - Ilion. Mrs. S. M. 1.00 - Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5; M. Day, $5; - Alfred Seymour, $5; Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Head, - $2; J. H. W., $1; Rev. S. M. D., 50c.; Sab. - Sch., $1.50, bal. to const. JARVIS A. HEAD, - L. M. 20.00 - Lima. Mrs. Mary Sprague, _for Student Aid_ 5.00 - Newburgh. Mrs. E. I. P., M. D. 0.50 - New Lebanon. Presb. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.86 - New York. Mrs. Magie, $10, _for Atlanta - U._;—J. S. Holt, $10 20.00 - Rome. Sarah H. Mudge 10.00 - Sidney Plains. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Victor. ESTATE of Melancton Lewis, by Mrs. E. - Lewis and S. S. Bushnell. Exs. 24,966.63 - West Groton. Cong. Ch., $9; Miss A. T. - Cunningham, $5 14.00 - —— —— 25.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $63.43. - - Bound Brook. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student - Aid, Tougaloo U._ 8.00 - Montclair. First Cong. Ch. 55.43 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $42.80. - - Mercer. Cong. Ch. 37.80 - West Alexander. —— 5.00 - - - OHIO, $214.40. - - Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00 - Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.54 - Beloit. J. S. 1.00 - Castalia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Deerfield. I. J. 1.00 - Huntsburgh. Miss E. L. Miller, _for Student - Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00 - Mulberry Corners. Mrs. E. D. Lyman 2.00 - Oberlin. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., by Mrs. - Dr. Allen, Treas., $75, _for a Lady - Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;—Second Cong. Ch., - $37.46; First Cong. Ch., $16.40 128.86 - Plymouth. Mrs. E. A. 1.00 - Springfield. Mrs. M. G. 1.00 - Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Westerville. Mrs. M. E. H. K. 1.00 - Windham. First Cong. Ch. 21.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $142.33. - - Adair. Henry Topping 5.00 - Adrian. A. J. Hood 10.00 - Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. 36.00 - Clinton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Edward - Cook, Sec. 5.00 - Grass Valley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.12 - Homer. Mrs. Mary D. Pease 10.00 - Hopkins. First Cong. Ch., $8.60; Second Cong. - Ch., $4.40 13.00 - Owosso. Union Meeting 9.30 - Salem. First Cong. Ch. 4.13 - Summit. Cong. Ch. 6.78 - Three Oaks. Cong. Ch. 17.00 - Union City. Cong. Sab. Sch., $6; bal. to - const. LILLIE V. MCCLELLAN, L. M.;—Mrs. E. - J. H. and Mrs. D. B. W., 50c. ea. 7.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $636.56. - - Broughton. Rev. S. Penfield 5.00 - Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for Atlanta U._ 315.00 - Farm Ridge. Rev. J. P. Hiester and family 2.00 - Ivanhoe. Mrs. S. S. 1.00 - Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Maiden. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.30 - Maywood. Union Ch. 5.00 - Moline. Cong. Ch. 45.00 - Odell. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Peoria. Cong. Ch. 121.50 - Princeton. Mrs. A. R. Clapp, $50; Mrs. P. B. - Corss, $15 65.00 - Roseville. First Cong. Ch. $21; Rev. A. L. - Pennoyer, $5 26.00 - Saint Charles. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. 5.00 - Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.76 - Tiskilwa. Rev. R. E. Cutler, $2; B. A. B., $1 3.00 - - - IOWA, $170.15. - - Alden. Cong. Ch. 8.50 - Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 - Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25;—Ladies of Cong. - Ch., $5., _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans_ 30.00 - Davenport. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 - Durant. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 6.00 - Grinnell. Mrs. Day, $5; Mrs. B., $1; Rev. S. - L. H., $1; Others, $1, _for Miller’s - Station, Ga._;—Mrs. Magoun’s Sab. Sch. - Class, $5.10 13.10 - Hillsborough. John W. Hammond 5.00 - Lyons. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00 - Marion. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 30.00 - Mason City. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 - Mitchell. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.25 - Monticello. Miss N. P. S., _for Miller’s - Station, Ga._ 1.00 - New Hampton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00 - Orchard. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 4.60 - Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 10.00 - Quasqueton. Cong. Ch., $5; I. H. D., $1 6.00 - Rockford. Ladies Miss. Soc., $3.70; Mrs. E. - D., $1; Mrs. A. E. G., $1 5.70 - Stacyville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 - Wayne. D. C. S. 1.00 - Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 3.00 - Wilton. “Little Gleaners,” _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans_ 5.00 - - - WISCONSIN, $62.84. - - Arena. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Snell 5.00 - Ripon. First Cong. Ch., $29.85; W. G. B., 50c. 30.35 - River Falls. First Cong. Ch. 22.49 - - - MINNESOTA, $55.44. - - Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Medford. Cong. Ch. 3.25 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 16.19 - Winona. Adna Tenney 20.00 - Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 6.00 - - - KANSAS, $10. - - Mariadahl. H. H. Griffin, _for Athens, Ala._ 10.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $36.65. - - Butler Co. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Crete. Cong. Ch. 11.65 - Iowa Ridge. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Macon. Rev. S. N. Grout 12.00 - Schuyler. Sumner & Free 6.00 - - - MISSOURI, $1.50. - - Cahoka. Moses Allen 1.50 - - - TEXAS, $1. - - Brenham. Mrs. I. H., _for Athens, Ala._ 1.00 - - - CALIFORNIA, $109.50. - - Oakland. S. Richards 100.00 - Pescadero. Miss. Band of Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.50 - Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay 5.00 - - - MARYLAND, $10. - - Federalsburgh. Miss Sarah A. Beals 10.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $5. - - Nashville. Mrs. E. Spence 5.00 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $1.50. - - Orangeburgh. Rev. W. L. Johnson 1.50 - - - GEORGIA, $173.45. - - Athens. J. G. Hutchins, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 64.00 - Atlanta. Atlanta U., $80;—By Mary E. Sand, - $5.50; Storrs School, $18.45; A. Simpson, - $5.50 109.45 - - - ALABAMA, $104.92. - - Selma. First Cong. Ch. (of which $3.45 _for - Mendi M._), $80.70; Rental, $2 82.70 - Shelby Iron Works. Rev. J. D. S. 0.50 - Talladega. Talladega C. 21.72 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $1.15. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U. 1.15 - - - INCOME FUND, $552.16. - - —— Avery Fund 549.70 - —— —— 2.46 - ————————— - Total 34,146.04 - Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st $163,393.36 - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Asst. Treas._ - - - * * * * * - - FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Gilead, Conn. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown $5.00 - New York, N. Y. “A Friend” 100.00 - ——————— - Total 105.00 - Previously acknowledged in June receipts 2,397.17 - ———————— - Total $2,502.17 - - * * * * * - - FOR NEGRO REFUGEES. - - Marbletown, N. Y. John Hulme $2.85 - Previously acknowledged in July receipts 346.39 - —————— - Total $349.24 - - - - -Constitution of the American Missionary Association. - -INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849. - - * * * * * - - -ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY -ASSOCIATION.” - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations, and to diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort. - -ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes -faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the -practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, -may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty -dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have -not professed their faith may be constituted life members without -the privilege of voting. - -ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee. - -ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular -officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, -and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, -and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one -representative. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members. - -ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting -and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining -and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and -agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the -transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the -executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; -the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the -missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision -of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually -chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or -missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final. - -The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, -in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and -general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the -diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous -promotion of the missionary work. - -Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for -transacting business. - -ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing -officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields -of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor -particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the -known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment -those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves. - -ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to -the principles of this society, and wishing to appoint and sustain -missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the -agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon. - -ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without -the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular -annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been -submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in -season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if -so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting. - - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a -belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a -Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice -of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity -of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy -obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and -the retributions of the judgement in the eternal punishment of the -wicked, and salvation of the righteous. - - - - -The American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely -related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE -in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane -and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in -AFRICA. - - -STATISTICS. - -CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 12; -Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5. -_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66. - -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_, 18. Total 37. - -TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 231; -among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total, -279. STUDENTS—In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College Course, 106; -in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, taught by former -pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under the care -of the Association, 13,000. - - -WANTS. - -1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the -growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by -_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble -as well as the strong. - -2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to -accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES, for -the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and -pious, for these churches. - -3. 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Y. - -Further announcements of arrangements and programme will be made -later. - - * * * * * - - -YESTERDAY’S WORK. - -We point to the record of results of our work among the Freedmen -during the last fifteen years, as indicating a degree of progress -and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of -time. We base our claims for generous gifts, now and in the years -to come, upon this showing, confident that this is the best -argument we can make. Is it too much to claim to have been faithful -over a few things, or to ask that we be trusted with what may be -needful for the many which are at hand? - - -TO-MORROW’S WANT. - -Looking ahead, we see that the coming claims upon us must be -greater than those of the past. The signs of the times indicate -that the Lord’s work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near -future; the progress, made and making, in our schools, and the call -for enlargement in our church work, will make increasing demands -upon us, until the time shall come when they shall be more largely -self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now. We have -done much—we are doing more—we must expect to do a still greater -work. Give us the means, and plan large things for us in the days -to come. - - * * * * * - - -ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. - -We invite special attention to this department, of which our low -rates and large circulation make its pages specially valuable. 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