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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 34, No. 2, February, 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: April 30, 2017 [EBook #54636] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, FEBRUARY 1880 *** - - - - -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. XXXIV. No. 2. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - FEBRUARY, 1880. - - - - - _CONTENTS:_ - - - EDITORIAL. - - PARAGRAPHS 33 - ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA—KNOWING, GIVING, - PRAYING 34 - TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS 35 - WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 36 - GENERAL NOTES 37 - NEW APPOINTMENTS 39 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - GEORGIA CONFERENCE REVIEW 44 - EDUCATIONAL REPORT 46 - ATLANTA MISCELLANIES 47 - FLORIDA—Letter From Rev. Geo. Henry 48 - LOUISIANA—Schools and Churches: Rev. W. S. Alexander 49 - TENNESSEE—Labor among Convicts: Rev. H. S. Bennett 50 - TENNESSEE—Woman’s Work among Women: Miss Hattie A. - Milton 51 - TENNESSEE—Student-Teachers from Le Moyne 52 - - - THE INDIANS. - - BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD: Rev. C. L. Hall 53 - - - THE CHINESE. - - THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS: Rev. W. C. Pond 54 - - - RECEIPTS 56 - - - CONSTITUTION 61 - - - AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 62 - - * * * * * - - - - - 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. - ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y. - 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. J. - Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, 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, D. D., 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, D. D., 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. 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. - 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. - E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J. - Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill. - 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. - Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill. - Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo. - J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill. - E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill. - C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct. - Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal. - Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas. - - - 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_. - - H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._ - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_. - - - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - ALONZO S. BALL, - A. S. BARNES, - GEO. M. BOYNTON, - WM. B. BROWN, - C. T. CHRISTENSEN, - CLINTON B. FISK, - ADDISON P. FOSTER, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - SAMUEL HOLMES, - CHARLES A. HULL, - EDGAR KETCHUM, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - WM. T. PRATT, - J. A. SHOUDY, - JOHN H. WASHBURN, - G. B. WILLCOX. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - -relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the -Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to -the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American -Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New -York, or when more 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. - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2. - - * * * * * - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - -_A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year._—That is, we -think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will -you secure it for us in your church this year? - - * * * * * - -We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church, -Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress -Slash. Who will send them to us? - - * * * * * - -A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by mail, -the other day, for a hundred copies of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY to -put on a Christmas tree for members of his church, that he might -thus awaken more interest in the missionary cause. We sent them. -This is the first time we were ever asked to send our publications -as “Christmas greens.” - - * * * * * - -How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly -prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred -thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with -a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must -deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the -Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he -depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give -even the crumbs.—_Congregationalist._ - - * * * * * - -In this month of February, we publish, according to our custom, -the list of our missionaries and teachers in the field; and we are -proud of it, not for its length or numbers, but for the high and -approved character of those who constitute it; nay, rather, we are -thankful to Him under whom we all labor, that He has given to us -and to each other so worthy a band of co-laborers, so intelligent -and so devoted. We do not forget that these pastors and teachers -are far from their homes, and that each is known personally to but -a limited number of the friends of the Association, and we bespeak -for them not only a general but a personal remembrance. Would it -not be well to select some one whose work you, reader, will follow -with especial interest, to whom you will some time write, assuring -of your interest and prayers, and with whom you may establish and -maintain a personal friendship? Pray for some one at least in this -list by name, and you will be less likely to forget to pray for all -the rest. - - * * * * * - -“_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of -Jerusalem._”—So, in that hour of unearthly experience as recorded -in the fifty-first Psalm, does David’s heart leap from the state of -penitence and of forgiveness to take in the welfare of Zion. So, -evermore, does the truest devotion inspire the missionary spirit. -The first burden of our Lord’s Prayer is for a heavenly Kingdom -on earth. His last prayer with and for His disciples, that they -might be kept, and sanctified and glorified, was, “that the world -may believe that thou hast sent me.” It is the instinct of a soul -in communion with God, that in every prayer it should utter at -least one petition for the coming of his Kingdom. So often do our -lyric hymns, which are but a transcript of Christian experience, -glance off from almost any line of thought and of feeling, to utter -the great aspiration for the crowning of Christ in His spiritual -realm. The nearer we come to God, the more do we long to have Him -enthroned in all hearts. - - * * * * * - - -ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA. - -Mr. Miller writes: “I am very glad to be able to announce to you -the arrival of Bro. Nurse from America to join our work in Western -Africa. His voyage was rather longer than had been expected, and he -doubtless grew impatient as the ship neared this place, and stood -several days under the silent influence of a calm. - -“Yesterday was Thanksgiving-day with you at home—not less so with -him and his mother, from whom he had been separated for many -years, as they met in warm embrace. How freely the tears rolled -down the cheeks of that overjoyed mother, as she looked upon her -son returned to her and the ‘dark continent,’ a missionary of the -Gospel to assist in lifting up degraded, perishing mankind. Bro. -Nurse is a little worn-out from his long voyage, but will soon get -well rested, and we shall leave for Sherbro.” - - * * * * * - - -KNOWING, GIVING, PRAYING. - -These are the three strands of the rope by which the car of -missions is drawn. This is the trinity of Christian work. The three -are one, and each one is only itself fully as it is with the three. - -One can have little interest in knowing of a work for which he -neither gives nor prays. His knowledge will be indefinite and -easily forgotten. It has no grip in it such as comes from a -personal connection. In the nation’s war, men and women thought -of it, read of it, were eager to know the latest tidings, because -their sons and their wealth had been given to the cause which they -believed was God’s, and their prayers were daily following as they -traced the progress of the day. - -No one will give generously or sufficiently when he has not taken -pains to know. You cannot get up much enthusiasm over a mere list -of stations or catalogue of workers. Dr. Albert Bushnell says that -half the Presbyterian churches in the United States give nothing to -the cause of foreign missions, and that many who do not give do not -pray. We should be willing to go further than that and say that -none who do not give can pray effectually. They may repeat prayers -possibly in public for missions, because that is the proper thing -to do, but such are but “vain repetitions” against which we are -warned. - -We all agree that missions need the prayers of Christians; that -such prayer is the duty of all who bear the name of Christ. Then it -is equally a duty for all such to fulfil the conditions by which -they may be able to pray aright. It is a duty to know about the -progress of the Redeemer’s cause. If He bids us say, “Thy kingdom -come,” He will not be content with us if we sit with closed eyes, -indifferent to the signs of its coming. But how many Christian -people take pains to keep themselves informed of the affairs of the -nations of the earth, their wars, their acts, their commerce, and -skip the paragraphs which tell of the contests and conquests of -Christ’s kingdom! How many who know of the strifes and supremacies -of parties in Maine and Mississippi, know nothing at all of the -religious state or progress of our land! Is it likely that such -will give much, or pray earnestly? - -Nor will they pray aright unless they give. That makes it their -work. That establishes their interest in it. That, if it be -real giving—not mere throwing away to avoid the trouble or the -embarrassment of saying No—based on intelligent appreciation of the -need, enlarges and emphasizes and doubly underscores the prayer -which, then, with the alms ascending, will surely find their way to -God together. - -Friends, we want your prayers for us, for our workers and for our -work. But we want prayers that are weighted by your gifts—they -will rise the better for it; and that are illuminated with your -intelligence—they will be read the better for it, even by the -Father who “dwelleth in light.” - - * * * * * - - -TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - -This school was founded on the same comprehensive scale as -the other chartered institutions of the American Missionary -Association. In 1876, a beautiful site of eight acres, overlooking -the valley of the Colorado River and the mountains beyond, -was secured in the city of Austin, the capital of Texas, and -subsequently paid for by the originator of the enterprise, Rev. -Geo. J. Tillotson. Efforts were commenced at once to raise the -funds for the first building, which is to serve all the purposes of -a boarding school until the growth and ability of the institution -shall necessitate and provide others. Dea. David Allen, of -Connecticut, headed the subscription with $1,000, and to this -amount has since added $250. David Banks, of Stanwich, Conn., a -gentleman over 80 years of age, raised $1,200 more, subscribing -one-third of it himself. The remainder of the amount we now have -on hand was collected for the most part by Mr. Tillotson, who has -kindly added the gift of his services to the enterprise founded by -his liberality. The principal benefactors of the institution are -all over seventy years of age. - -Work on the new building was commenced last summer, and is still -going on. It is being constructed of brick, with some trimmings, -and will have accommodations for seventy boarding students. The -funds at our disposal for the object are barely sufficient to -inclose the building. We need $7,000 additional in order to finish -and furnish it for occupation by the 1st of October. The money -already given, amounting to about $11,000, exclusive of the $5,000 -paid for the site, was subscribed largely in sums of $400 each by -persons who are to have the privilege of naming the students’ -rooms, of which there will be thirty-five. A grand example has been -given. Are there not others ready to follow? - -The burden of debt, and the struggle required to maintain the -institutions already under way, has deterred this Association, -during the past three years, from pressing the claims of this, -our only school in Texas; but we believe the time has now come -when we should earnestly solicit the gifts needful for its speedy -completion. Already we have received the written indorsement of -seventy-six of the leading citizens of Austin, saying, “We believe -that such a school is very much needed, and that the enterprise -will be hailed by very many of our best citizens as of great -importance to the welfare of the State.” Texas has a territory -larger than France, and constitutes no mean part of “the whole -world” where we are commanded to go and teach. Will our friends aid -us to go up at once and possess the land? - - * * * * * - - -WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA? - -We copy from the _Tribune_ the following opinion of Col. C. Chaillé -Long, the African explorer, who preceded Stanley by a year in -visiting Mtesa: - -If the heart of Africa is ever reached by civilizing influences, -Colonel Long thinks the work must be done by intelligent colored -people from the United States. They, if anybody, could keep -communications open, introduce trade, and gradually train the -natives in habits of systematic industry. Last spring, when public -attention was attracted to the exodus of negroes from the Southern -States, Colonel Long wrote a letter to the King of Belgium, who -is President of the principal European society for exploring and -civilizing Africa. In that letter he proposed that the King should -stimulate, through the medium of his society, a movement to take a -large body of the discontented blacks from our Southern States and -settle them in Central Africa, opening with them a line of trading -and missionary posts from the West Coast to the lake country. - -Colonel Long believed that thousands of the most industrious and -best educated colored men in the Gulf States could be induced to -go. Their presence in Africa would, he wrote, create no surprise or -hostility among the natives, and they would soon acquire influence -over the native tribes and start the work of civilization. In this -way the experiment of opening the dark continent would be tried -under the only conditions that afford the least promise of success. -King Leopold wrote in reply that the project deeply interested him, -and that he should give it his careful investigation, but nothing -further has been heard from him. Colonel Long says it would cost -a great deal of money to carry out the scheme, but the African -exploring societies in Europe could raise it if they tried. He is -not enthusiastic about the success of his plan, but is confident -that it is the only one not foredoomed to failure. Equatorial -Africa, he insists, will never be civilized by white men. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -MACON, GA.—Pastor S. E. Lathrop is getting under way his -Circulating Library for the colored people. He sends out a -circular, printed on his own “Gospel Press,” that was given him -as a home missionary in Wisconsin, appealing for the gift of new -or second-hand books for this purpose. Gov. Colquitt and Senators -Gordon and Hill have furnished some. Pres. A. L. Chapin, of -Beloit, Wis., is putting up a trunk full. Sup’t Roy sent in a -“carpet-bag” full. Who’ll follow up? - -MACON, GA.—A graduate from the Lewis High School writes: “I have -worked faithfully for three months. I was assigned to a place where -there was no school-house or church. The people had their meeting -under an arbor. I worked with the patrons of the place until they -built me a school-house. Since that they have erected a church at -the expense of $350. It is 35 by 45 feet. We are holding protracted -meetings. Three persons have been received in full connection, -and many more are hovering around the altar. Our Sunday-school is -prospering. Many are coming in. The old folks are more interested -in this great work than the young. We are hammering down upon them. -My school numbers thirty-nine scholars. I have received several -petitions from the colored people, asking me to come again and -teach for them.” - -MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.—A pleasant and profitable Sunday-school -concert and Christmas exercise was held in the Dorchester Midway -church. Mr. McIntosh, the superintendent and teacher, and Miss -Douglass, the missionary, are doing good and successful work. Rev. -Floyd Snelson is the pastor, and his children gave some exhibitions -of their African treasures and experience. A watch-night -prayer-meeting was held at his house New Year’s eve. - -CYPRESS SLASH, GA.—The people are getting up timbers for their new -meeting-house. - -TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have had a blessed work here this week. Several -of our pupils had been very thoughtful for a great while, some of -them a year, and one or two even longer. They had held out stoutly, -but last Sabbath afternoon one yielded. Saturday night, several -asked for prayers. After church, three young men were converted. -Monday morning, twelve more yielded. Monday afternoon, one of the -most stubborn cases I ever met came into the fold. She had been -trying to climb up some other way for more than two years. Tuesday -afternoon another gave up, making in all eighteen within two days. -Our term closed on Wednesday. Several went to their homes very -anxious. I hope they may still be brought within the fold. - -FLORENCE, ALA.—The new church edifice mentioned in our last number -was first planned through the benevolence of Mrs. J. Fowler, -of Mendon, Ill., who contributed fully one-third of the total -cost, and thus laid the foundation of this good enterprise. The -completion of the work was made possible by “Howard.” - -WASHINGTON, D. C.—The American Missionary Association has called -Rev. Simon P. Smith to a missionary work among the colored people -of Washington. The Lincoln Mission, a Sabbath-school enterprise -connected with the Congregational Church, has offered its capacious -building, and here may yet arise a colored Congregational church. -Mr. Smith is a colored clergyman, a graduate of Howard and then of -Chicago Seminary, and well fitted for his work.—_Congregationalist._ - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -The Freedmen. - -—The school work of the Presbyterian Church among the Freedmen -reports 39 schools, 4,184 scholars, 58 (or, including 16 ministers -and 6 catechists engaged in teaching in addition to their other -duties, 80) teachers; making in both departments, including a -few assistant teachers, 140 missionaries. Five of their higher -schools report 1,126 pupils, of whom 145 taught part of the year, -reporting 7,513 pupils. Of the teachers from four of these schools, -77 superintended Sabbath-schools while teaching, and reported 4,043 -Sabbath-school scholars. These four schools report also 51 students -preparing for the Gospel ministry. - -—The M. E. Church, through its Freedmen’s Aid Society, has aided -in establishing and supporting 6 chartered colleges, 3 theological -and one medical school, and 9 institutions not chartered. In -these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year -is classified as follows: Biblical, 453; law, 20; medical, 60; -collegiate, 74; academic, 270; normal, 1,020; intermediate, 242; -primary, 371. Total, 2,510. - -—A colored lawyer was recently admitted to practice in the Court -of Appeals of Virginia. He is the first colored man who has ever -enjoyed this privilege in that State. The motion for his admission -was made by the son of ex-Gov. Wise. - - * * * * * - - -Africa. - -—On the 8th of July, Mr. James Stewart, C. E., then in charge -of the Nyassa Mission, wrote to the Convener from Livingstonia. -After building a dwelling-house for the head of the mission at -Livingstonia, he sailed north to visit the stations of Marenga and -Kaningina. He found all well. The Mangoni chiefs had presented -the mission with eleven cows, but insist on their being used only -in the country around Kaningina. Our own cattle—most precious -property—were in good condition. At Livingstonia, advancing -cultivation had driven off the pestilent and fatal tsetse fly. -After a fortnight’s holiday, the school-boys and girls had returned -to Christian instruction. Mr. Stewart had distributed toys and -handkerchiefs as prizes at the examination. Namalambi, “a fine, -promising boy,” was dux of the school. Mr. Stewart had already -started for Lake Tanganika before the request of the London -Missionary Society was telegraphed, and was hoping to meet and, if -necessary, aid Messrs. Hoare and Hutley. - - * * * * * - - -The Indians. - -—The Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, devotes a large -portion of his annual report to the Indian question. He states that -the hostile Indians at the West are few compared with the whole -number of the race. He states the Indian policy of the Department -to be as follows: - -“The ends steadily pursued by it are: _First_, to set the Indians -to work as agriculturists or herders, thus to break up their -habits of savage life and to make them self-supporting; _second_, -to educate their youth of both sexes, so as to introduce to the -growing generation civilized ideas, wants and aspirations; _third_, -to allot parcels of land to the Indians in severalty, and to give -them individual titles to their farms in fee, inalienable for a -certain period, thus to foster the pride of individual ownership -of property, instead of their former dependence upon the tribe, -with its territory held in common; _fourth_, when settlement in -severalty with individual title is accomplished, to dispose, with -their consent, of those lands on their reservations which are not -settled and used by them, the proceeds to form a fund for their -benefit which will gradually relieve the Government of the expenses -at present provided for by the annual appropriations; _fifth_ when -this is accomplished, to treat the Indians like other inhabitants -of the United States under the laws of the land. - -“This policy, if adopted and supported by Congress, and carried out -with wisdom and firmness, will in my opinion gradually bring about -a solution of the Indian problem, without injustice to the Indians, -and also without obstructing the development of the country. It -will raise them to a level of civilization at least equal to that -of the civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, and probably to -a higher one, considering the stimulus of individual ownership in -land. It will not take away from them by force what in justice and -equity belongs to them, but induce them to part with what they -cannot cultivate and use themselves for a fair compensation. It -will open to progress and improvement large districts now held by -Indians, which will then be of no real advantage to them and are -now to nobody else.” - - * * * * * - - -The Chinese. - -—Last February, Congress passed the bill prohibiting Chinese -immigration which was vetoed by President Hayes. The very next day -the new anti-Chinese constitution was adopted by the convention in -California, denying the Chinaman the right to land, to labor, to -vote, or even to live in any town or city. Soon came on the other -side a decision of the Federal courts, adjudging the queue-cutting -ordinance to be an unconstitutional violation of personal rights; -and another, asserting that the treaty with China, granting its -people a right of residence, gave them also a right of labor, and -forbade any State to prohibit their employment. Chinese merchants -meanwhile, unwilling to give up the commercial advantages assured -to them by treaty, are establishing a line of steamers from China -to the Sandwich Islands, and a connecting line thence to the -Pacific coast. This record of the year’s events is memorable and -full of suggestiveness. - - * * * * * - - - - -NEW APPOINTMENTS. - -1879-1880. - - -The following list presents the names and post-office addresses -of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions -and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among -the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, -the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological -Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the -Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association. -The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their -own Boards of Trustees; but being either founded or fostered in -the past by this Association, and representing the general work in -which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list. - - -THE SOUTHERN FIELD. - -REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., Field Superintendent. - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. - - WASHINGTON. - _Theological Department, Howard University._ - Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., Washington, D. C. - Rev. J. G. Craighead, D. D., Washington, D. C. - Rev. Alexander Pitzer, D. D., Washington, D. C. - Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., Washington, D. C. - HOWARD MISSION. - _Missionary._ - Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill. - - * * * * * - - VIRGINIA. - - HAMPTON. - _Minister._ - Rev. J. H. Denison, New Britain, Ct. - NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va. - Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Hampton, Va. - Mr. Albert Howe, Hampton, Va. - Mr. F. C. Briggs, Hampton, Va. - Mr. G. B. Starkweather, Hampton, Va. - Mr. E. B. French, Hampton, Va. - Mr. Daniel F. Cock, Hampton, Va. - Mr. M. B. Crowell, Hampton, Va. - Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Hampton, Va. - Capt. Henry Romeyn, Hampton, Va. - Miss Anna M. Hobbs, Hampton, Va. - Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y. - Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y. - Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass. - Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City. - Miss Julia A. Wilson, Hampton, Va. - Miss Lucy S. Shepard, Hampton, Va. - Miss Angelina Ball, Hampton, Va. - Miss Laura E. Coe, Hampton, Va. - Miss Lucy D. Gillett, Hampton, Va. - Miss Grace Harding, Hampton, Va. - Miss Jane E. Davis, Hampton, Va. - Miss Abby E. Cleaveland, Hampton, Va. - Miss Mary J. Sherman, Hampton, Va. - Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Hampton, Va. - Miss S. F. Sheppard, Hampton, Va. - Miss Mary T. Galpin, Hampton, Va. - Mrs. Eunice C. Dixon, Hampton, Va. - Miss Elizabeth P. Hyde, Brooklyn, N. Y. - Miss Emily Kimball, Hampton, Va. - Mr. Thomas T. Brice, Hampton, Va. - Mr. James C. Robbins, Hampton, Va. - Mr. Frank D. Banks, Hampton, Va. - Mr. John E. Fuller, Hampton, Va. - Mr. W. M. Reid, Hampton, Va. - Mr. W. H. Dagge, Hampton, Va. - Mr. G. J. Davis, Hampton, Va. - Mr. Booker Washington, Hampton, Va. - - CARRSVILLE. - _Teacher._ - Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa. - - * * * * * - - NORTH CAROLINA. - - WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207). - NORMAL SCHOOL. - _Minister and Superintendent._ - Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N. H. - _Principal._ - Miss Isabel Phelps, Oswego, N. Y. - _Assistants._ - Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass. - Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N. H. - Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N. H. - - RALEIGH. - _Minister._ - Rev. George S. Smith, Raleigh, N. C. - _Teachers._ - Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn. - Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn. - - DUDLEY. - _Minister._ - Rev. David Peebles, Dudley, N. C. - _Teacher._ - Miss Alice M. Conley, Shelby, Ala. - - McLEANSVILLE. - _Minister and Teacher._ - Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind. - - WOODBRIDGE. - _Teacher._ - Mr. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass. - - BEAUFORT. - _Minister._ - Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N. C. - - SALEM CHURCH, TROY AND HILLTOWN. - _Minister._ - Rev. Islay Walden, —— N. C. - - * * * * * - - SOUTH CAROLINA. - - CHARLESTON. - _Minister._ - Rev. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass. - AVERY INSTITUTE. - _Principal._ - Prof. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa. - _Assistants._ - Miss H. E. Phelps, Hannibal, N. Y. - Miss S. M. Tillotson, Wethersfield, Ct. - Miss M. E. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa. - Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C. - Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S. C. - Miss Monimia McKinlay, Charleston, S. C. - Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N. Y. - Mrs. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa. - - ORANGEBURG. - _Minister._ - Rev. Thornton Benson, Talladega, Ala. - - GREENWOOD. - BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL. - Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - GEORGIA. - - ATLANTA. - _Ministers._ - Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga. - Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass. - ATLANTA UNIVERSITY. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga. - [A]Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga. - Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga. - Rev. Horace Bumstead, Atlanta, Ga. - Prof. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga. - Prof. Frank W. Smith, Lincoln, Mass. - Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N. Y. - Mr. J. K. Hannahs, Newark, N. J. - Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass. - Miss Susie A. Cooley, Honek, Kansas. - Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me. - Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass. - Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn. - Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, Ohio. - Miss E. F. Moore, Chicago, Ill. - Miss Grace L. Robertson, Atlanta, Ga. - Mrs. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga. - _STORRS SCHOOL_, (104 Houston St.) - _Principal._ - Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N. Y. - _Assistants._ - Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N. H. - Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill. - Miss M. E. Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio. - Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga. - Miss Abbie Clark, Atlanta, Ga. - - MACON. - _Minister._ - Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, New London, Wis. - LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL. - _Teachers._ - Miss Christene Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y. - Miss Belle Haskins, Delmore, Kan. - Mrs. C. M. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass. - Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis. - - AUGUSTA. - _Teacher._ - Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass. - - MARIETTA. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan, Atlanta, Ga. - - ATHENS. - _Teacher._ - Mr. J. G. Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga. - - CUTHBERT. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Richard R. Wright, Atlanta, Ga. - - FORSYTH. - _Teacher._ - Mr. William F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga. - - HAWKINSVILLE. - _Teacher._ - Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn. - - FORT VALLEY. - _Teacher._ - Miss S. V. Whitic, Macon, Ga. - - THOMASVILLE. - _Teacher._ - Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga. - - AMERICUS. - _Teacher._ - Mr. G. W. F. Phillips, Milledgeville, Ga. - - MILLEDGEVILLE. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Henry L. Walker, Augusta, Ga. - - CARTERSVILLE. - _Teacher._ - Mr. T. C. Sheppard, Chattanooga, Tenn. - - SPARTA. - _Teacher._ - Mr. R. H. Carter, Atlanta, Ga. - - ALBANY. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Peter A. Denegall, Savannah, Ga. - - WASHINGTON. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Edw. P. Stewart, —— S. C. - - SAVANNAH. - _Minister and Supt. of Missions._ - Rev. R. F. Markham, Wheaton, Ill. - - BEACH INSTITUTE. - _Principal._ - Mr. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass. - _Assistants._ - Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass. - Miss Adelaide Daily, Fredonia, N. Y. - Miss Anna Burgh, New York, N. Y. - Miss E. H. Twichell, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. - Miss E. B. Willey, Andover, Mass. - Mrs. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass. - - WOODVILLE. - _Minister and Teacher._ - Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga. - _Assistant._ - Miss N. Headen, Talladega, Ala. - - MILLER’S STATION. - _Minister and Teacher._ - Rev. John R. McLean, McLeansville, N. C. - Miss E. W. Douglass, Decorah, Iowa. - - LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT. - _Minister._ - Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala. - - McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO. - THE GROVE. - _Minister._ - Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga. - _Teachers._ - John McIntosh, Jr., Savannah, Ga. - Mrs. John McIntosh, Savannah, Ga. - - CYPRESS SLASH. - _Minister._ - Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala. - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission, West Africa. - - * * * * * - - ALABAMA. - - TALLADEGA. - _Minister._ - Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct. - TALLADEGA COLLEGE. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Rev. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa. - Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct. - Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich. - Mr. George Atkins, Olivet, Mich. - Miss A. E. Sawyer, Boxford, Mass. - Miss Fannie Andrews, Milltown, Me. - Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O. - Miss H. P. Fisk, Beloit, Mich. - Mrs. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa. - Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct. - Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, Me. - _MISSION CHURCHES._ - ALABAMA FURNACE, KYMULGA, THE COVE, LAWSONVILLE. - _Superintendent._ - Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct. - - SHELBY IRON WORKS. - _Minister._ - Rev. J. D. Smith, Talladega, Ala. - - KYMULGA. - _Teacher._ - Mr. Samuel B. White, Kymulga, Ala. - - ANNISTON. - _Minister._ - Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala. - - CHILDERSBURG. - _Minister._ - Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala. - - MOBILE. - _Minister._ - Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y. - EMERSON INSTITUTE. - _Supt. and Teachers._ - Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y. - Miss Kate Randall, Lorain, Ohio. - Miss Ella F. Grover, Kingsville, Ohio. - Miss Clara Boynton, Andover, Mass. - Miss May Hickok, Kingsville, Ohio. - Miss H. Jennie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio. - Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y. - - MONTGOMERY, (P. O. Box 62). - _Minister._ - Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill. - SWAYNE SCHOOL. - _Principal._ - Miss Martha J. Adams, Columbus, Wis. - _Assistants._ - Miss Jane S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass. - Miss May Merry, Providence, R. I. - Miss Minerva Shufort, Montgomery, Ala. - Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis, Montgomery, Ala. - Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala. - Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill. - - SELMA. - _Minister._ - Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis. - - MARION. - _Minister._ - Rev. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass. - _Missionaries._ - Mrs. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass. - Miss Laura Hill, Boston, Mass. - - ATHENS. - _Minister._ - Rev. Horace J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn. - TRINITY SCHOOL. - _Teachers._ - Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich. - Rev. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn. - Mrs. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn. - - FLORENCE. - _Minister._ - Rev. William H. Ash, Providence, R. I. - - * * * * * - - TENNESSEE. - - NASHVILLE. - _Ministers._ - Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn. - Rev. Geo. W. Moore, Nashville, Tenn. - FISK UNIVERSITY. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn. - Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn. - Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn. - Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn. - Rev. C. C. Painter, Gt. Barrington, Mass. - Mr. Edward P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn. - Mr. John Burrus, Nashville, Tenn. - Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio. - Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio. - Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt. - Miss Mary O. Swift, Lansing, Mich. - Miss Irene E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y. - Miss Sarah M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich. - Miss Sarah A. Stevens, St. Johnsbury, Vt. - Miss Mary Farrand, Ypsilanti, Mich. - Miss Dora Ford, N. Abington, Mass. - - MEMPHIS. - _Minister._ - Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala. - LE MOYNE SCHOOL. - _Principal._ - Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis. - _Assistants._ - Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio. - Miss Emma Rand, Whitewater, Wis. - Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis. - Miss Hattie Milton, Romeo, Mich. - - CHATTANOOGA. - _Minister._ - [A]Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga. - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission. - - * * * * * - - KENTUCKY. - - BEREA. - _Minister._ - Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky. - BEREA COLLEGE. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky. - Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky. - Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky. - Rev. Charles G. Fairchild, Berea, Ky. - Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky. - Mr. Wm. Hart, Berea, Ky. - Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublette, Ill. - Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, Ohio. - Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass. - Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky. - Miss —— Warren, Berea, Ky. - Miss —— Clark, Berea, Ky. - Miss Clara A. Saxton, Oberlin, Ohio. - Miss C. W. Haynes, Oberlin, Ohio. - - CAMP NELSON. - _Minister._ - Rev. John Drew, Berea, Ky. - * * * * * - - MISSISSIPPI. - - TOUGALOO. - _Minister._ - Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio. - TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY. - _Managers and Instructors._ - Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio. - Prof. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas. - Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O. - Miss Orra A. Angell. Greenville, R. I. - Miss Fanny J. Webster, Berlin, Wis. - Miss Irene C. Barnes, Greenville, R. I. - Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio. - Mrs. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas. - Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me. - - * * * * * - - LOUISIANA. - - NEW ORLEANS. - _Ministers._ - Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn. - Rev. Isaac Hall, New Orleans, La. - Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La. - STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY. - _Instructors and Managers._ - Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn. - Prof. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La. - Mr. Geo. S. Ely, Fredonia, N. Y. - Miss Caroline Park, West Boxford, Mass. - Miss H. J. Halleck, Success, L. I. - Miss Lucia G. Merrill, Andover, Mass. - Miss Frances Stevens, Oswego, N. Y. - Mrs. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La. - - ABBERVILLE. - _Minister._ - Rev. Charles E. Smith, New Orleans, La. - - NEW IBERIA. - _Minister._ - Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La. - - * * * * * - - TEXAS. - - GOLIAD. - _Minister._ - Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas. - - CORPUS CHRISTI. - _Minister._ - Rev. S. M. Coles, New Haven, Conn. - - HELENA. - _Minister._ - Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Goliad, Texas. - - FLATONIA. - _Minister._ - Rev. A. J. Turner, Flatonia, Texas. - - AUSTIN. - _Teacher._ - Mrs. E. M. Garland, Austin, Texas. - - * * * * * - - -AMONG THE CHINESE. - - _Superintendent._ - Rev. W. C. Pond, San Francisco, Cal. - _Teachers._ - OAKLAND, Miss L. B. Mann. - Miss L. Duncan. - Mr. Lee Haim. - Mr. Jee Gam. - OROVILLE, Miss Jessamine Wood. - PETALUMA, Miss M. C. Waterbury. - Mr. Wah Yin. - SACRAMENTO, Mrs. S. E. Carrington. - Mr. Lem Chung. - SAN FRANCISCO, Mr. Henry M. Pond. - Mr. John Johnston. - Mr. Chung Mon. - Mr. S. Hackley. - Mr. Low Quong. - Mrs. M. A. Hackley. - Miss F. N. Worley. - Mrs. M. T. Huntling. - SANTA BARBARA, Miss Helen E. Clark. - STOCKTON, Mrs. M. B. Langdon. - Mr. Hong Sing. - - * * * * * - - -AMONG THE INDIANS. - - _Lake Superior Agency, Wis._ - Agent, Dr. Isaac L. Mahan. - Teacher, —— —— - Teacher, Robert Pew. - - _Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory._ - Agent, —— —— - - _Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory._ - Agent, Charles Crissey. - Teachers, (Connected with the Mission - of the A.B.C.F.M.) - - _S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory._ - Agent, Edwin Eells. - Missionary, Rev. Myron Eells. - Teachers, (Supported by Gov’t.) - - * * * * * - - -MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA. - - _Missionaries and Assistants._ - Rev. A. P. Miller. Mrs. A. P. Miller. - Rev. A. E. Jackson. Mrs. A. F. Jackson. - Dr. Benjamin James. Mr. Elmore L. Anthony. - Mr. A. E. White. Mr. Nathaniel Nurse. - Rev. Geo. N. Jewett. Mr. Jos. H. Gerber. - Mr. Sam. H. Goodman. Mr. Buel Tucker. - Mr. James Pickett. Mrs. Lucy During. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - - -CONFERENCE REVIEW. - -This review of the state of religion in the Congregational churches -of South Carolina and of Georgia, during this first year of their -General Conference, shows abundant occasion of gratitude for -general prosperity and spiritual blessing. - -The fact that all of our fourteen churches except one, have been -represented in this Conference by their ministers and delegates, -reveals an interest in its meetings, and in the doctrine of -the fellowship of the churches, that is truly delightful. In -this connection we cannot refrain from noting the grace of God -conferred upon the churches in their custom of providing the -necessary traveling expenses of their delegates. We hope that such -messengers of the churches will reciprocate this consideration, and -magnify their office, by making a full report of this and all such -convocations to their respective assemblies for worship. - -We gratefully recognize the increase of our total membership by -354, making the present number 949. One new church has been -organized, that of Cypress Slash, which reports to us a membership -of 54; a temporary cabin, built as a place for church and school, -with the purpose soon to erect a more comely and permanent -sanctuary; and also a new young minister who, with his wife, is -already reaping missionary fruit. - -We note with gratification that every one of our churches is -supplied with the ministry of the word, except that at Marietta, -whose pastor, Rev. S. P. Smith, has been transferred to Washington -City for the purpose of building up the 2d Congregational Church at -the capital. So, with the same exception, every one of our churches -has its own house of worship. Some of these are commodious and -tasteful; others are very plain; but all are places of sanctuary -comfort, and the worshippers are striving each year to increase -their comeliness and convenience. During the year, three of these -congregations have added to their meeting-houses the attraction of -the church-going bell. Among a people, few of whom have clocks or -watches, the church bell is their time-keeper, and the promoter -of that promptness which adds a charm to the services of public -worship. - -The doctrine of church discipline as a means of grace has been -illustrated by a heroic use of the pruning knife upon these vines, -that they may bring forth more fruit. The seeking of a clean -membership is essential to the healthfulness and well-being of the -churches. - -The cause of temperance has been kept near the heart of our -members. One church, the Pilgrim, at Woodville, has a large and -influential Band of Hope. All preach temperance and require its -practice among their members. We are deeply convinced that the -habit of intemperance is the devil’s best grip upon the poor and -lowly people among whom we have our lot and our work, and that -total abstinence is the only consistent rule for Christians. In -a community where pastors and officers and members of Protestant -churches indulge in the practice of drinking liquors, we feel -called upon to bear an unremitting and uncompromising testimony -against this violation of the spirit and the precept of the Gospel. - -We are confirmed in the wisdom of the union of the school-work -and the church-work in our evangelizing process. The school -prepares the way for the church. It brings along the young and -hopeful material for the church membership. The church garners up -such fruit. It reacts upon the school and the community by its -educating and elevating influence. In our ideal, both unite in the -one purpose of saving and edifying the souls of men. We desire -to express our sincere gratefulness in view of the devoted and -self-denying labor of the teachers in the schools associated with -our churches. - -The higher schools and colleges within our bounds have gone along -upon the plane of their former success. The Avery Institute, at -Charleston, has passed through a change of administration without -any diminution of its members or lowering of its high grade of -scholarship. The Normal School at Greenwood, S. C., has held on in -its beneficent way, enjoying the fine building and campus of an -old time Baptist College. The Beach Institute in this city, with -its cultivated and consecrated corps of seven teachers, with its -fine body of pupils, with its thorough discipline and its decided -moral and religious tone, is a power for good in this community -and in this part of the State. The Dorchester Academy at Midway, -the Lewis High School at Macon, and the Storrs School at Atlanta, -have kept steadily upon the line of their extensive and beneficent -influence. The Atlanta University maintains its high position as -to classical and normal scholarship, and as to moral and religious -tone, approved by the authorities of the Commonwealth and also -by the favor of Heaven, in the enrolling during the year of a -couple of score of its students among the disciples of the Great -Master. Its independent Union Church, with 67 members, although not -belonging to our body, is to us a sister in Christ, for whom our -prayers and sympathies shall ever abound. Its Faculty consists -of three graduates of Yale and one each of Harvard, Dartmouth and -Amherst Colleges, and of half a dozen cultivated ladies. To these -it has just added Prof. A. W. Farnham, who is introducing the most -approved normal methods, not only for the benefit of the normal -scholars but of all in the University. More than a dozen of its -graduates are now teaching high schools in leading cities of the -State of Georgia, and so starting from these centres, radiating -influences that shall bless many more communities. We give thanks -to God for the bequest of $50,000, by which the University will now -be able to add still more to its spacious accommodations. - -We greatly rejoice in the new feature of the work within our -limits, that of lady missionaries. We have four of them. One of -these has been located at Charleston, one at Miller’s Station, one -at Macon, and one in Atlanta. Woman’s work for women and children -in these communities, we consider a Christly service of the utmost -value. Woman can enter the homes as the pastor cannot; and yet she -will make work for him in following up her discoveries. Her ready -sympathy and happy tact will help her in stimulating to greater -domestic comfort, and will aid her in doing good through many ways -that are peculiarly her own. - -We are comforted by the educated young men who are coming forward -to minister in our churches. Besides those who have been raised up -in the “Beach” to minister to the churches that cluster about it, -we are happy in the coming of four graduates of the Theological -department of Talladega College in Alabama, three of whom are this -week receiving ordination at the hands of our own church councils, -and the other is the moderator of one of these Convocations. We are -happy to express grateful obligation to that Christian institution -in another State for this gift of her cultured sons, who are to us -also a part of the ascension gift of our blessed Lord. - -We are devoutly grateful to God for the spiritual refreshings that -have been enjoyed this year in our churches and schools. Some have -had special seasons of revival. Others have had the dew in the -fleece. Many souls have been brought into fellowship with Christ, -and Christians have, we trust, been advanced somewhat in the -process of purification. - -We cannot conclude this annual narrative without recording our -gratitude to the American Missionary Association, which, under God, -has been the occasion within a short period of all this school and -church development as now represented by the Conference of Georgia. -We remind ourselves, also, that this is only one of seven of these -Conferences which have been the outgrowth of the same general -Christianizing process at the South. We magnify the grace of God -bestowed upon the churches and friends who have furnished that -Association with the funds, the prayers and the sympathies, that -were essential to this great work. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is -marvelous in our eyes.” - - J. E. ROY. - JOHN MCINTOSH. - P. W. YOUNG. - - * * * * * - - -EDUCATIONAL REPORT. - -At the Georgia Conference the Committee on Education make the -following report: - -That “Education is the handmaid of Religion” has become an accepted -maxim. To be remembered everywhere, it is of especial importance -in this field. Religion has here been corrupted by ignorance, and -has often degenerated into superstition. A devout and imaginative -spirit has been betrayed into serious errors and gross excesses -in the name of truth and godliness. More knowledge, more culture -of mind, is necessary in many cases to prepare the way for the -perception of the truth. The one great object of the Church of -Christ in its labor among men is to save the souls of men by -holding forth the word of Life; but to attain this, the Church must -help to teach them what that word is, and how to read and study -it for themselves. The Gospel seeks to prepare men, not only for -the next life, but for this life also. It is fitted to bless the -whole man, physical and mental, as well as spiritual. Education -and Gospel piety must go together. The Committee would, therefore, -recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: - -1. _Resolved_, That this Conference desires to emphasize the fact -that the past year’s experience gives new occasion for gratitude -that from the beginning of the American Missionary Association’s -work in this field, the school and the church have been closely -united. - -2. _Resolved_, That it is the deliberate judgment of this -Conference that this field still requires the enlargement and -vigorous prosecution of the school work, as a necessary aid to the -upbuilding of our churches. - -3. _Resolved_, That the churches must not cease to pray fervently -for those who are teaching in our elementary and higher schools, -and for their pupils, that the instruction given and the mental -culture gained may bear the stamp of Christian consecration. - -4. _Resolved_, That we desire to express our _warm sympathy with -our young people_, who, in the face of many obstacles, are bravely -pressing forward in their studies, to fit themselves for teachers -or preachers, and would urge them to get as thorough and complete -an education as possible. - - Respectfully submitted, - - C. W. HAWLEY, - T. T. BENSON, - WILSON CALLEN, - _Committee_. - - * * * * * - - -ATLANTA MISCELLANIES. - -BY A RESIDENT. - -—A Christmas concert was observed by the Sunday-school of the -First Congregational Church of Atlanta, Georgia. It followed Dr. -Vincent’s programme, which, with variations, was rendered with -great success. The singing was excellent. The recitations and the -responsive readings of Scripture were impressive. The recitations -on the platform, of prose or poetry, a score or more, did not have -a failure or a prompting. Every piece during the whole evening -was about Christmas. The good reading and elocution were apparent -as the result of the good training in the Storrs School, whose -teachers are also instructors in the Sunday-school. Pastor C. W. -Hawley seemed in his element as the leader of this service. Sup’t -Roy made a talk at the close. The school numbers two hundred and -twenty-five. It would greatly gladden the hearts of the friends of -our work if they could only look in upon this and the many other -such schools in the South. - -Atlanta has a monthly Sunday-school Teachers’ Institute. -Pastor Hawley attends it. Atlanta’s County, Fulton, has also a -Sunday-school Association, which convenes in the city quarterly. -At the last meeting, as interest was warming up in favor of -taking some more practical measures toward helping the colored -Sunday-schools, it was found that the constitution limited the -membership to such schools as were “all white.” Whereupon a -_resolution_ of interest and of encouragement was adopted. At the -last meeting of the State S. S. Association, held in Macon, a -colored school in Savannah applied for membership. The matter was -quieted for the time, but it is said that it will come up again. -Upon the recommendation of Gov. Colquitt it is proposed to adopt -the Brooklyn idea of a Children’s Day once a year; this not only -for the City but for the State. In Atlanta there are fourteen -colored Sunday-schools. - -—At an entertainment at the Atlanta University, during the -holidays, the Field Superintendent gave one of his addresses upon -the map of the United States. - -—At the watch-night service in the Trinity M. E. South Church, of -Atlanta, one of the speakers, Rev. Dr. Potter, a Presiding Elder, -dwelling upon the openings of benevolence during the last year, -expatiated at length upon the million of dollars given by one -estate to the American Board. Surely the children of light are -beginning to do business upon something of the grand scale on which -the children of this world project their schemes. It was stated -at that meeting that during the year, under Pastor Heidt, the -Trinity Church had received two hundred members, half of them upon -confession of faith, and had paid off a debt of twenty thousand -dollars. It seems that the M. E. General Conference, South, has -abolished the feature of a six months’ probation. Only those are -received who give evidence of conversion. The form in receiving a -member that night was quite Congregational. This church has also -advanced upon the policy of its sister at the North, in allowing a -_four_ years’ pastorate, instead of _three_. - - * * * * * - - -FLORIDA. - -Letter from Rev. Geo. Henry. - -DEAR SIR: I opened last Monday a day-school in addition to our -Sunday-school. The necessity of this step will be apparent when I -tell you that there are fifty children in this place who wish to -attend school, but have been unable heretofore to do so, as the -distance to the nearest colored school is from four to seven miles -from their homes. Only a few of the larger ones have been able to -attend. - -In my school I have dull and bright, lazy and industrious children, -as you have in all other schools, but taking them altogether, they -study as well and learn as quickly as any set of pupils I have ever -seen. I have one little girl who did not know the alphabet last -Monday, but by the end of the week was able to read little stories -from a Reader rapidly and accurately. I have never anywhere seen -such progress made by a young child. - -In view of the capability of the children to learn, there can -scarcely be reason to doubt that the deplorable mental condition of -the adult Freedmen is due to that institution which has been such a -curse both to the slave and his owner. The public schools are open -from three to four months each year; but so far they have been of -very little use to the colored children, as they have been, as a -rule, taught by incompetent persons. Most of the colored schools -have colored teachers, and very few of them are either morally or -intellectually qualified for the position. For example, the man who -taught the school nearest to this place last winter used to bring -his bottle with him to school. A woman of bad character and only -rudimentary education has the same school this winter; yet this is -one of the largest schools in the county. In a conversation which -I had with Judge B——, a member of the Board of Public Instruction, -he said that “the school money which had been spent for colored -schools had been thrown away, for the children had not learned -anything.” This is very nearly a correct statement of the case, for -a bright child ten years of age would learn more in two months than -boys 19 or 20 years old know who have attended these schools for -years. Understand me, I think this is the fault of the teachers and -not of the pupils. - -I believe that in my week-day school I shall be able to do as much -for the improvement of the condition of the Freedmen as in any -other way, and I am sure if you were here to look over the field -you would agree with me. - -Our work in the Sunday-school is also very encouraging; not that -the scholars are uniting with the church—for nearly all the older -ones are members of churches now—but they are learning from the -word of God those truths which are calculated to prepare them for -useful lives in the earth and eternal happiness in the world to -come. - - * * * * * - - -LOUISIANA. - -The Schools and the Churches. - -BY REV. W. S. ALEXANDER. - -The work of education and evangelization among the Freedmen in -this State was never more hopeful. By the provisions of the new -constitution which was adopted at the recent election, the rate of -taxation has been greatly reduced, and as a direct consequence, -the appropriation for school purposes will be correspondingly cut -down. The free colored schools will be the first to be struck by -this wave of retrenchment. Many schools, especially in the country -parishes, will be closed, or, at the best, be maintained for a -very brief period in the year. New Orleans will feel this matter -as keenly as the country, for the amount of taxation is strictly -regulated by the new constitution. Only special gifts can possibly -keep the schools up to the present standard. One of the most -prominent educators in the city said to me, “I would not raise -unnecessarily the cry of alarm, but a crisis is surely near at hand -with our public schools.” The colored Normal School will certainly -be discontinued. The Peabody fund will probably not be available -for Louisiana another year. All these events, so unpropitious to -the free school system of Louisiana, and so deeply to be deplored, -render our work all the more necessary, and our prospect of -enlarged usefulness the brighter. - -When we see the grand opportunity opening before our beloved -University—an opportunity which has not the remotest resemblance -to the fictitious and dreamy—we try to forget the plaintive words, -“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” and rally our courage by the -more inspiring prophecy, “The morning light is breaking.” - -When the glorious work of enlargement begins, will it not be in -order to start at the Gulf of Mexico and gradually work up? We -rather approve of that plan and are quite ready for it. - -CHURCH WORK IN LOUISIANA. - -“We hold our own, and something more,” is the word that comes up -from the churches of our Association. Our annual meeting will -be held at _Terrebonne_, the first Wednesday in April, and the -brethren are eagerly anticipating it. Congregationalism is a -plant of slow growth among the colored people, not from want of -adaptation, but from lack of money to push it into fields now -unoccupied or uncultivated. Money is needed to give new enterprises -substantial encouragement in their difficult “beginnings”—to tide -the pastors past the _starvation_ point—to give them “foothold” -till strength comes to them in the natural growth of a good -enterprise. - -The church at New Iberia, which welcomed our last annual -conference, and which is memorable as the scene of a most precious -revival, and suffered seriously in the loss, by a furious wind -storm in September, of their tasteful and commodious chapel, is -rallying grandly from the shock. By liberal subscriptions, by -mortgaging their property, and by personal labor, they have put -up and covered the frame of a larger building, and have stopped -before finishing, simply because they could do no more. Two hundred -dollars will put the new chapel in order for dedication. Shall they -appeal in vain? We cannot afford to lose or to cripple this church. -It has been a bright light on the prairie, and though the tempest -levelled the building, it cannot—it must not—extinguish the light. - -Our own, the Central Church, sends greeting to all kind, -sympathizing and praying friends in the North. All summer long, -the members of the church have prayed in public and in private for -a gracious out-pouring of the Divine Spirit. I found the church in -an earnest, praying state. A greater degree of unity and cordial -Christian fellowship prevails than I have ever before seen. -To-morrow (Sunday, Jan. 4,) begins the “Week of Prayer.” If, in its -results, it shall fulfil the longings and faith of this people, -then will it indeed be the “Week of Weeks” to us in Central Church. -Last night, at our preparatory service, seventy-five were present; -five new members were received, of whom three came on profession of -faith. It was a meeting of peculiar tenderness and spiritual power. -After a brief lecture by the pastor, forty-two Christians spoke -tender, earnest words of love to God, and devotion to His service. -God grant I may have good tidings to send you in my next letter. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -Labor Among Convicts. - -PROF. H. S. BENNETT, NASHVILLE. - -I have been superintendent of the Sunday-school in the Penitentiary -of Tennessee, located at Nashville, for nine years, and several of -the teachers of Fisk University have done so much in connection -with that school that the work done there becomes a part of the -influence of Fisk University. Hence, a brief description of a -powerful work of grace, which has been in progress during the past -three months, will appropriately find place in the columns of the -MISSIONARY. - -During my connection with the prison school, several seasons of -refreshing have been witnessed, and hundreds of the prisoners have -expressed a hope in Christ. - -On returning from the North and resuming my duties as -superintendent in the prison, in September, I noticed an unusual -interest in the study of the Bible lesson. The remarks which were -made at the close of the lesson were listened to with breathless -interest. The interest was so marked that it was determined -to give an opportunity to those who might desire to present -themselves for prayers. This was done, and upwards of one hundred -prisoners presented themselves. After a brief prayer-meeting, -the prisoners were dismissed. On the next Sabbath, five or six -made a profession of their faith in Christ, having been converted -through the week. The work thus begun went on for two months, -only one meeting for inquiry being held each week, and that at -the close of the Sabbath-school. Another meeting was held on -Sabbath morning, at which regular services were conducted by the -chaplain. Each Sabbath, from three to six reported that they had -found the Saviour. A deep religious interest pervaded the entire -prison. Wherever little groups of prisoners were to be found, their -conversation was upon the subject of religion. All the teachers -felt that the Lord was present in power. At the end of two months -thirty-five had found the Saviour, and ten or twelve backsliders -had been reclaimed. - -On the last Sabbath of November an unusual scene was witnessed -within the prison walls. Thirty-four prisoners were received into -the prison church. As the long row of prisoners, arrayed in the -stripes of the criminal, stood up to take upon them the covenant -vows of the church, it was perceived that the work had been very -great. - -Of the candidates, eight or ten were baptized by sprinkling, the -rest by immersion. Ten or twelve remain to be taken into the church. - -The influence of the work among the prisoners is seen to be very -salutary. The church service and the Sabbath-school are the two -bright spots in the lives of the prisoners. From twenty to -twenty-eight teachers, of both sexes and colors, Northern and -Southern, engage in the work. Three hundred pupils, prisoners, -attend with remarkable regularity, as the attendance is optional. -The influence of the religious work is to inspire the prisoners -with hope, and with a purpose to retrieve whatever they have lost -by their folly and crime in the past. Scores of them go out and -live useful and honorable lives. Of this we have abundant proof. - - * * * * * - - -WOMAN’S WORK AMONG WOMEN. - -Answers to Prayer—“Scrubbing up with the Bible.” - -MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS, TENN. - -My heart is overflowing with thanks-giving, not so much for the -great results that I have already seen—for the greatest results -in this work are discerned only by the eye of faith—but that I am -permitted to be the instrument, even in a humble way, of answering -your prayers, and not only yours, but those of the poor suffering -people here. So many times when administering to their wants, not -only when giving them loaves and fishes, but when pointing them to -a higher spiritual and moral life, they have remarked, “Miss, I -know the Lord sent you in answer to prayer.” - -Sometimes I hesitate about going to places, and think I will do -some other duty that day; but when the thought comes to me that it -may be an opportunity to answer somebody’s prayer, I feel that I -must go. Again, many times have my friends in the North answered -my prayers. I will mention one instance which struck me as being -remarkable. A very poor woman came to me asking for clothing for -the little helpless children of her dying sister. I had just -given out the last garment; but while talking with her I put up a -prayer that something would come soon, and told her that I thought -I should have something for her in a few days. Just then the -door-bell rang, and I went to the door and found there a box, which -I opened at once, and in it beheld the answer to my prayer! It was -full of very nice and mostly new clothing for children. It was a -literal fulfilment of the promise, “and it shall come to pass, that -before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking -I will hear.” And it is a comforting thought, that wherever God -places us, He gives us the opportunity to answer other people’s -prayers. - -The interest in this work is constantly increasing as we know more -about it. The outlook for the year on which we have already entered -is very encouraging. A few days since, while visiting a very hard -neighborhood, one mother who is a church member said, “You must -come around often; we knew ye first, and ye ought to visit us most; -we needs ye too. I allers lays close down to what ye say, like the -knife to the grindstone, ‘cause I wants ye to sharpen me, so I will -get to living better. I’s mighty keerless, tho’ sometimes I does -try in a stamerin’ manner to talk to my trifling neighbors. Now -do come around often and _scrub us up with the Bible_.” Another -woman, who has a good home, said, “We are so glad to have you back, -so we can have our prayer meetings again; for we like those quiet -meetings, without any fuss; and we like a leader in whom we have -confidence, to instruct us.” - -One of the pupils in our school urged me to start a Sunday-school -in the Methodist church, of which she is a member. I went three or -four times, accompanied by one of our teachers. The colored pastor -gave us a hearty welcome; said he was proud that we had come to -help, and that he was no respecter of persons. The number increased -each week. Last Sunday it was very unpleasant. The tenacity of the -red Memphis mud was marvelous; but when I arrived, a little late, -at the church, having been detained to attend the burial of a -baby, I found a goodly number, and the pastor was reviewing the -last week’s lesson. We immediately proceeded with the lesson for -the day, after which I told them I thought we had better organize a -Sunday-school, as I only wished to be a teacher, and would rather -some of their own number would be the officers. To this they gladly -assented, and we organized. We have three classes. I furnish them -with Sunday-school papers, as they have never had any. Twice, -as the hour for service approached, the minister has given up -preaching, saying they learned much more studying the Bible. As we -were leaving the church a brother said, “I believe you is going to -be jest the building up of this church.” Another said, “That is the -kind of folks we colored ones needs; some one who is always at the -post of duty, and is not afeard of mud and rain.” - -We have substantial evidence that our Northern friends have not -forgotten the suffering ones here, in the shape of two barrels of -very useful clothing, from Whitewater, Wis., and I have word that -boxes from three other places are on the road. May those who give -be as much blessed as those who receive, and we will strive to do -all in our power to answer their prayers. “So we, being many, are -one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.” - - * * * * * - - -STUDENT TEACHERS FROM LE MOYNE. - -MISS L. A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS. - -We have never kept any record of the teaching and Sunday-school -work done by our pupils, but, within a few days, I have -gratified my curiosity by taking notes from the lips of a few -student-teachers. Here they are. - -Sixteen of our young people have during the summer taught one -thousand and thirty-five (1,035) day pupils, and very nearly as -many S. S. scholars. This does not include the teachers now at -work, some of whom return to us next week, or in early spring. -Probably this is only a fifth of the record, counting all former -pupils. - -Some of the experiences are very droll, as of the young woman who -saw new phases of life in Arkansas: “Would you believe it, that the -_white_ people didn’t know as much as I do?” White and black always -called her “the white lady,” and urged her return next season. - -Another young woman was assistant in a school of 80 children. The -log school-house had no windows except board shutters; the seats -were boards fastened upon blocks of wood; the blackboard was of her -own manufacture. The building was so small that in pleasant weather -she heard her recitations in a bush-arbor built against the side of -the house. - -Some of the teachers had better accommodations. One young man had -an excellent building in a community of thriving farmers. He has -taught there for five seasons. Just now he is getting up a club for -the _New York Tribune_ and reports ten subscribers. - -Another young man, a member of the senior class, could scarcely -leave his people. A powerful revival in connection with the school -had brought many aged people as well as children to confess Christ, -and the converts were loth to part with their teacher and friend. -The person who went after him does not weary of telling about the -tears shed and pathetic expressions of regret. - -After two years of constant teaching, another writes, “There are so -many things in life I can’t manage, I want to go to school again.” -The most cheering sign of the year is this growing desire for more -thorough preparation for the work of life. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - * * * * * - - -BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD. - -Rev. C. L. Hall, Fort Berthold, D. T. - -In the temporary vacancy of this Indian Agency, we gratefully -acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Hall, who is in the service of the -A. B. C. F. M., in writing us the interesting letter which we print -herewith: - -I have had my privilege and my duty to co-operate with your society -as represented by Hampton Institute, Virginia, and with the U. S. -Government, in inducing a number of Indian youth to go East for -education. - -We thank God that the Government, among other good movements it has -undertaken, has taken this “new departure” in the matter of Indian -education. The A. B. C. F. M. has for many years been educating -Indians with success, and the present civilized condition of the -Cherokees, Choctaws, and many of the Sioux, Nez Perces and other -tribes, is owing to their efforts, and for some years past the -A. M. A. has also undertaken like work with like success. Indian -education is no new departure with us; but on the part of the -Government it is, and it has given us great pleasure to help on the -plans of the Secretary of the Interior and of Commissioner Hayt in -this matter. - -The beginning of their “experiment” was here at Berthold. Captain -Pratt, who was detailed by the Government to get fifty Indians -from the mission, came to start his company at this agency, and I -shall always feel that it was an honor to have been able to help -him get a start. We did not know how the people would feel about -sending their children to a distant and unknown country. They were -superstitious about school and church influences. Would they trust -the white man? Would they be sufficiently influenced by the desire -for an education. - -Well, Captain Pratt had both experience and faith; he told us -of his talks and prayer meetings with the prisoners in Florida, -and of their desire for education, and of the willingness of -Eastern Christian friends to help them; then we knelt down in -the sitting-room of our mission home, that Sabbath evening, and -committed our way unto the Lord. All was in doubt; some had refused -to go; the chiefs would not send their children; but soon three -youth (boys of eighteen or twenty years of age) came of their own -accord and offered themselves. They had been attending our school -and had learned in a measure to trust us. They said they knew it -was a long way to go and a long time to stay, and it would be hard; -but they were prepared to carry out their resolution to learn to -be white men. Soon thirteen youth, nine boys and four girls, were -secured, all from our school; it took the nucleus of our school; -but we knew that this movement would create a new interest in -education and bring us new scholars, as well as do more than we -could for the old ones who should go away, so we gave them up -willingly. - -With this beginning, Captain Pratt started down the river in a -flat-bottom stern-wheel mission steamboat, one cold October day, -collecting more from the river agencies as he went along till -forty-nine were secured. The youth looked very sober as they -started off; there were some very touching partings with friends, -one of whom said, “I may not see a hair of him again;” and at the -last look at them we saw blankets and coats waving in lieu of -handkerchiefs on the upper deck of the boat. My heart was in my -mouth as I thought of the boys and their Indian relatives, and of -the better days in store for Indians, of which Uncle Sam was giving -us a foretaste. All this was a year ago; to-day a hundred more from -Dakota are on their way to Hampton and to Carlisle, and provision -is being made for others in the West near their own homes. It is a -beginning of better days, and I rejoice that our two Congregational -societies can find occasion to co-operate with each other and the -Government in behalf of the Indian. - -Now let us make a vigorous push, along with the forces now at work, -to get him the protection of the U. S. Courts, so that he may have -a better appeal than the only one now open to him, as Gen. Crook -says—_his rifle_. - -In spite of the change of agents four times in less than four -years, and in spite of all endeavors to break down Christian -influences here, these Indians have steadily progressed. They are -cultivating more land and doing it more thoroughly, showing more -interest in schools, and a stronger desire to adopt civilized -habits, one young man going so far as to come to me with the -request, “Father, they say you are skilful; can you not make my -shoes squeak for me? They don’t squeak like white people’s shoes.” - - * * * * * - - - - -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 F. 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. Palanche, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS. - -BY REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -It is said that in connection with a somewhat enthusiastic -collection for the American Board, taken ten years or more ago, at -the First Congregational Church in this city, one card was sent up -having this inscription: “Five dollars for Home missions, but ‘nary -red’ for Foreign.” The Christian spirit of the expression and its -rhetorical elegance are about equal. Yet it well represents one -class of Christian workers and givers who believe intensely that -charity begins at home, who like to _see_ what they are doing, and -to watch its on-goings and to judge of its results for themselves. -Foreign missions seem to them chimerical; the interest in such work -romantic; and they don’t believe in romance and chimeras. - -We have sometimes met another class whose interest flags when -they are brought in contact with the hard facts of any Christian -work. For them, “’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.” To -see and handle any Christian enterprise involves them inevitably -in disappointment. They read the glowing pages of the _Herald_, -and often feel their hearts burn within them; but if brought into -actual, daily contact with the toils, the drudgeries of service, -the days of small things, the months and years of discouragement -through which, with faith that would not falter, God led his -servants on to that which now makes those pages glow, they would -soon become disheartened, possibly fault-finding, as though funds -and men were being wasted on a work that makes so little show. - -We respectfully suggest to all such friends of our Chinese -work that they remain in the East, and do not at present visit -California; for Christ, as found in the souls for whom we labor, -has no halo round his head—indeed, He had none when He wrought in -that carpenter’s shop at Nazareth; when He walked, with dust-worn -raiment and with weary feet, the ill-wrought trails of ancient -Palestine; nor even when He hung upon the cross. There was no -external beauty to make men desire him; and to many who at this -distance are almost filled with envy at the high privileges Peter, -James and John enjoyed of seeing his face and hearing his voice, -and walking in his companionship, He might have seemed a “root out -of dry ground, having no form nor comeliness.” - -At any rate, He abides to-day in souls that are very dark, that are -very little sanctified—saints that by no means answer to the ideal -saintliness—He abides in them; and while with patient love we bear -with them, and while we hope on and work on, though faith feels -like fainting and hope seems long deferred, we are _assured that -we are serving_ HIM. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the -least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” - -This is the period of the year when our work has least of what -is outward and visible to stir enthusiasm. The weather is often -stormy. The nights are often very dark. At some of the factories, -work having broken across the boundary line which fading daylight -fixed, holds on under gas-light till it is too late for our pupils -to get to school. At any rate, many of them drop off; the average -declines, and our hearts droop a little. It would be so much -easier to work, if we could all the time be expanding, increasing, -harvesting. Then, often, the pupils seem specially dull, and this -one or that one in whom we have become deeply interested, and whom -we supposed to have become somewhat enlightened, discloses a depth -of darkness which we do not like to fathom, and shows that he has -understood far less than we supposed. Among those whom we believe -to be true followers of Christ, there crop out littlenesses of envy -or jealousy or ill-humor, that perhaps would call down on them -swift condemnation, did not all this remind us so much of what has -stained our own Christian life. - -Now if our romantic friends should drop in upon us at such times, -they might be sorely disappointed; might feel that we had drawn on -our fancies for some of our facts; might possibly go away and add -their own “Amen” to the scornful taunts of Godless newspapers upon -“converted Chinamen.” And yet just such experiences of difficulty -and discouragement belong to Christian work everywhere. If they -do not form a necessary part of the discipline and training of -the church, they certainly are unavoidable in the healing of -sin-poisoned souls—in the education, the _leading out_ of men from -darkness into light. - -I write these things, not because I have any special -disappointments to communicate. I have none. And yet the state -of the work just now is shadowed in these reflections. I have -sometimes fancied—and felt that it was no mere fancy—that I could -see in the story of our little mission, a tiny miniature of the -history of the Apostolic Church. We had our little Pentecost to -start with. We had the glow of a new love, the effervescence of a -new life, the fresh joy of fraternal fellowship; prayer meetings -carried, against my protest, for sheer delight in them, on into the -small hours, by men who must be up and hard at work by six o’clock -in the morning. Then after awhile we had our Ananias—two of them, -since there was no wife to match Sapphira. And then we had disputes -and little jealousies, like those of the Grecians against the -Hebrews, and our scatterings by persecution and by other causes, -in which, I rejoice to say, our disciples, like those of old, went -here and there, preaching the word; so that with all that there has -been at times to start anxiety, to test faith, to chasten hope, the -work has kept moving on. Souls have been added constantly, _saved_ -souls, we trust. Much prayer has gone up to the throne of grace, -and earnest work has followed it, and Christ, thank God, has proved -himself to be stronger than the strong man armed. - - -THE OROVILLE MISSION. - -We entered a new name on the list of our schools on the 1st of -November. It is at Oroville, the county seat of Butte Co. It is -taught by Miss Jessamine Wood, daughter of the Congregational -pastor in that town. Years ago we began a work there, but under -auspices that proved to be very unfavorable. Ever since, we have -desired to renew the effort, but the way has not opened till -now. There are few points in the interior of the State where -so many Chinese—1,500, it is said—are congregated. The Chinese -population of the town at one time out-numbered that of all other -nationalities. Our school, at its outset, is very small, the -attendance being only seven, but we trust it is the thin edge of a -wedge which we may yet drive home with good effect. A helper will -be set at work there, temporarily at least, after the holidays, -by whom not only may the school be enlarged, but the Gospel be -preached in the streets, and the war for Christ be carried into the -very Africa of Oroville Chinatown. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR DECEMBER, 1879. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $250.54. - - Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15.50 - Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch. 35.09 - Brewer. First Ch. and Sab. Sch. 8.70 - Bridgeton. “Jean.” 5.00 - Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps 10.00 - Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.27 - Hallowell. Miss F. Littlefield, 2 Bbls. of C. - Hampden. Cong. Ch. 9.50 - Litchfield. Ladies, Bbl. of C. Machias. Centre - St. Ch. 1.88 - Newport. Mrs. M. S. N. 1.00 - Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $45.60; - Individuals, $1. 46.60 - Norway. Mary K. Frost 5.00 - Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Skowhegan. Miss C. A. Weston, $20, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Mrs. W. Woodbury, $5, - _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 25.00 - South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis, by Rev. - G. Lewis 7.00 - Vassalborough. Joseph White 5.00 - Yarmouth. First Ch. and Soc. 22.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $264.62. - - Amherst. Ladies’ Union Miss. Soc., _for - Student Aid, Straight U._ 31.00 - Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.78 - Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.05 - Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.74 - Dover. E. J. L. 1.00 - East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, Bbl. of C. - Fisherville. Cong. Ch. 17.61 - Francestown. Cong. Ch. 21.00 - Greenfield. Individuals, by Mrs. M. M. Foster 7.00 - Hanover Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Hillsborough Centre. H. O. C. 1.00 - Hopkintown. Rev. D. S. 0.60 - Jaffrey. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C. - Keene. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., - $2.50, and Bbl. of C. 2.50 - Marlborough. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc., Bbl. - of C. and $1 _for Freight_;—Freedmen’s Aid - Soc. $10 _for Talladega_ 11.00 - Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 2.50 - Mason. Ladies, Bbl. of C. Nashua. First Cong. - Ch. and Soc. 21.34 - New London. Mary K. Trussell 2.00 - Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50 - Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Stratham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Temple. Mrs. W. K. 1.00 - Tilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 - West Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - - - VERMONT, $862.30. - - Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.28 - Burlington. J. P. 0.50 - Castleton. Mrs. L. G. S. 1.00 - Cambridge. Mrs. Hezekiah How 13.00 - Chester. G. H. C. 0.51 - East Barnard. L. B. 1.00 - East Hardwick. S. W. O. 1.00 - Essex Junction. E. T. M. 1.00 - Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00 - Mechanicsville. C. E. B. 1.00 - Newbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Indians, - Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 4.00 - Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($5 of which from - Mrs. Ashley Blodgett) 10.00 - Pawlett. Miss D. Smith, ($1 _of which for - Indian M._) 1.50 - Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.09 - Pittsford. Dea. Tiffany 2.00 - Randolph. Mrs. I. N. 1.00 - Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.50 - Rutland. East Parish, Cong. Ch. and Soc. 128.90 - Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Cong. Ch. - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Springfield. “A Friend” $200; Mrs. E. D. - Parks, $100; Mrs. F. Parks, $100 400.00 - Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. S. T. FULLER, L. M. 46.52 - Townshend. Mrs. Mary Burnap, $5; Mrs. Anna - Rice, $5; Rev. Geo. Porter, D. D. $2; 4 - Individuals, $1 each; Others, 75 cents 16.75 - West Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12; - Cong. Sab. Sch. $8 20.00 - Williston. C. A. Seymour 5.00 - Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.25 - Woodstock. Hon. Frederick Billings 100.00 - Worcester. Mrs. J. H. 0.50 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $5,241.25. - - Andover. Mary I. Abbott, $5; Mrs. F. R. B., - 50c.; Dea. H. C., 50c. 6.00 - Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to - const. REV. DANIEL E. ADAMS, L. M. 31.30 - Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., and - $2.35 _for freight_ 2.35 - Auburn. Cong. Ch. 45.62 - Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 156.02 - Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc., $219; - Mount Vernon Ch. and Soc., $155.47; Union - Cong. Ch. and Soc., $103.25; “Two Friends,” - $6 483.72 - Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. and Soc., $33, - and Sab. Sch., $3.30;—Miss E. E. Backup, B. - of C. _for Mendi M._ 33.30 - Braintree. Mrs. W. J. 0.50 - Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21;— —— - $2 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 23.00 - Brookfield. Rev. C. E. S. 1.00 - Brimfield. First Cong. Ch. 27.64 - Buckland. C. W. Thayer 5.00 - Campello. —— Bbl. of C. and $5, _for Lady - Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 5.00 - Charlestown. “S. M. S.” 10.00 - Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $53.89; - Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $14.62 68.51 - Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch., (of which $32.62 - _for Teacher, Hampton N. & A. Inst._) 39.93 - Danvers. C. W. L. 0.50 - Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student - Aid, Straight U._ 15.00 - Douglass. A. M. Hill, $10; Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $5 15.00 - Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch., $440.04, and - Sab. Sch., $50; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $24.17, and Sab. Sch., $50 564.21 - East Longmeadow. E. M. 1.00 - East Medway. H. D. 0.50 - East Taunton. Mrs. B. L. S. 0.50 - East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.10 - Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.52 - Framingham. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., 2 Bbls. of - C. and $4 _for Freight_, by Mrs. Joseph - Mann;—E. K. S., $1 5.00 - Freetown. “A Friend,” $8; Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $6.11 14.11 - Florence. Sab. Sch. Class, Julius Phelps, - Teacher 9.37 - Gloucester. M. A. H. 0.10 - Hanover. C. C. 1.00 - Harwichport. Leonard Robbins 10.00 - Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones, $10; Mrs. J. B. - Case, $5 15.00 - Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.14 - Holbrook. —— $35, _for Lady Missionary, - Nashville, Tenn._;—Miss A. E. Holbrook, $5, - and Bbl. of C. 40.00 - Holden. Cong. Soc. $23; Mrs. M. F. $1 24.00 - Holliston. A. W. F. M. 1.20 - Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. 16.75 - Hopkinton. Mrs. P. Claflin, _for Berea C._ 25.00 - Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $16.45;—South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $15, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 31.45 - Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 350.00 - Lakeville. Betsey Kinsley 2.00 - Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.50 - Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21.71; Mrs. - Sewall’s S. S. Class, Bbl. of C. 21.71 - Longmeadow. N. B. & A. C., 50c. each 1.00 - Lowell. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Hampton - N. & A. Inst._ 90.43 - Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.81 - Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $16.91; North - Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.27 19.18 - Malden. Rev. W. H. Willcox, $100, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._;—First Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $47.08 147.08 - Mansfield. P. M. E. 1.00 - Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5; J. - J. H. Gregory, one Box 5.00 - Marlborough. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Union Ch. 10.00 - Marion. ESTATE of John Pitcher, by Trustees 53.99 - Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00 - Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by S. G. - Sargent 25.00 - Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., $40, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._;—Bbl. of C. 40.00 - Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 63.83 - Mill River. Miss M. R. Wilcox 10.00 - Mitteneague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.70 - Monson. E. F. Morris, $50; Cong. Ch. $30; to - const. DEA. A. H. WHITE, L. M. 80.00 - Newbury. First Parish, Bbl. of C. Newburyport. - Miss S. E. Teel 5.00 - New Braintree. Ladies’ Aid Soc. Bbl. of C. - North Abington. —— $10;—Three Bbls. of C. - and 48.75 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, - Tenn._ 58.75 - Northampton. “W.” 100.00 - North Andover. H. T. Parks, Bbl. of C. - Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh 5.00 - North Brookfield. Members of Union Ch. $34; - Union Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. $19.10 53.10 - North Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.93 - Oxford. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.34 - Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.54 - Peabody. T. S. 1.00 - Phillipston. A. & T. Ward 5.00 - Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.30 - Plymouth. C. W. P. 0.50 - Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 116.00 - Rochester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Rockland. Mr. Rice, $25; “Other Friends,” - $12.35, _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, - Tenn._ 37.35 - Salem. J. H. T. 60c.; J. P. A. 50c. 1.10 - Sheffield. First Cong. Soc. 10.55 - South Abington. Sewing Circle, $25; Miss Mary - Whitmarsh, $20; Miss C. Whitman, $5; Mrs. P. - Healy, $5; —— Bbl. of C. and $5, _for Lady - Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 60.00 - Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.41 - South Deerfield. Mrs. M. B. R. 0.50 - South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.50; - M. F. M., $1 20.50 - South Weymouth. Second Cong. S. S., Miss - Grover’s Class, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Springfield. South Ch., (Mrs. S. E. C.), $10; - Mrs. A. C. H. $1.10 11.10 - Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.44 - Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Student - Aid, Washington Sch., Raleigh, N. C._ 10.00 - Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - CHARLES A. HASKELL, L. M. 30.00 - Templeton. Mrs. L. M. 1.00 - Tolland. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C. - Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00 - Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.75 - Townsend Harbor. S. F. W. 0.50 - Upton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.00 - Wakefield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 15.70 - Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.60 - Watertown. Mrs. W. L., 60c.; Mrs. J. B. 50c 1.10 - West Boxford. Ladies, by Mrs. H. T. Park, B. - of C. and $2 _for Freight_; Mrs. C. E. Park, - $3 _for Freight_ 5.00 - West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.00 - Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00 - Westhampton. H. F. C. 1.00 - West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.33 - West Medway. S. P. 1.00 - Westminster. “A Friend.” 5.00 - West Newbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 - West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch. 41.00 - Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1,154.75 - Williamstown. Boys’ Miss. Soc., $10; Ladies of - Cong Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for Woodbridge, N. - C._ 10.00 - Winchendon. “A Friend,” $1; Mrs. M. D. B. $1 2.00 - Woburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch. ($25 of which - from “A Friend,”) $100;—First Cong. Sab. - Sch. $70, _for Student Aid, Hampton N. and - A. Inst._ 170.00 - Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ($4 of which - _for Berea C._) $36.54;—Washburn, Moen M’f’g - Co., 6,700 ft. galv’d wire fencing, 10 lbs. - galv’d Staples, _for Atlanta U._ 36.54 - —— —— 50.00 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $200.50. - - Barrington. Cong. Ch., $50; and Sab. Sch. $25 75.00 - Oak Lawn. Rev. Marcus Ames 10.00 - Pawtucket. Mrs. J. G. 0.50 - Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. $85; - Josiah Chapin, $25; W. C. Chapin, $5 115.00 - - - CONNECTICUT, $1,814.09. - - Ansonia. “A Little Girl,” 0.10 - Black Rock. Cong. Ch. 21.00 - Bridgeport. C. G. D. 0.50 - Brooklyn. M. W. C., $1; S. H. T., $1 2.00 - Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. MRS. - LEANDER BUELL, L. M. 48.07 - Cornwall. First Cong. Ch., $5; G. H. C., 60c. 5.60 - Darien. Miss B. D. 0.50 - Deep River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.90 - Eastford. Cong. Ch. 11.28 - East Hartford. First Ch. 20.00 - East Woodstock. C. D. 0.50 - Groton. Cong. Ch., $6.54, and Sab. Sch., $12.10 18.64 - Guilford. Dea. Eli Parmelee 10.00 - Haddam. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Hamden. H. H. 0.50 - Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.25 - Hartford. Second Cong. Ch., $93.61;—MRS. JOHN - OLMSTED, $50, _for rebuilding Academic Hall, - Hampton Inst._; and $10 _for Florence, - Ala._, and to const. herself L. M.;—Mrs. - Benton, $5 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, - Tenn._;—Rev. R. R. M., $1; Mrs. J. O., 50 - cts. 160.11 - Madison. Cong. Ch. 7.25 - Meriden. Miss P. 1.00 - Middleton. Sab. Sch. of South Ch. 25.00 - Millford. Plymouth Ch. $52.23; Plymouth Cong. - Ch. Sab. Sch. $32, to const. MRS. OWEN T. - CLARK, L. M.; “P.” $2 86.23 - Moodus. Amasa Day Chaffee, (a little friend) - proceeds of his garden 3.00 - Moose Meadow. Mrs. H. L. E. 0.50 - New Britain. “Member of South Ch.” 5.00 - New Haven. Amos Townsend, $25; Third Cong. - Ch., $24.90; Mrs. Dr. R. Crane, $10; Mrs. - Julius Yale, $5; Mrs. E. B. 70c.; C. A. S. - 60c.; W. O. S., 50c.; W. A. L., 50c. 67.20 - New London. TRUST ESTATE OF HENRY P. HAVEN, - _for Fisk U._ 250.00 - New London. Mrs. Chapel, $50, _for Fisk - U._;—First Ch. of Christ, Quar. Coll. - $48.97; First Cong. Ch., $37.18 136.15 - New Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.84 - Newtown. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Norfolk. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 4 Bbls. of C. - _for Woodbridge, N. C._ - North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.37 - North Stamford. Emily Waterbury 2.51 - North Woodbury. “M. J. C.” 2.00 - Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 35.63 - Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (ad’l), to const. - MISS HANNAH L. RIPLEY, MISS ELIZABETH P. - RIPLEY, MISS MARIA J. LEAVENS, MISS EMELINE - F. NORTON, MISS CAROLINE B. SCARLETT, MISS - JENNIE A. GORDON, MISS ALICE C. DYER, MISS - AUGUSTA B. GREENE, MISS ELLA G. CILLEY, MISS - JULIA M. PLUMMER, MISS FANNIE L. TREADWAY, - MISS AUGUSTA P. GILLETT, MISS MARY L. - HUNTINGTON, MISS HENRIETTA MEEKER, MISS - ELLEN M. NUNN and MISS MARY J. PALMER, L. - M.’s 200.00 - Norwich. “Friends,” Papyrograph, with entire - outfit, _for Atlanta U._ - Portland. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 13.46 - Simsbury. Rev. W. D. McF. 0.50 - South Britain. E. M. Averill 2.00 - Southington. Cong. Ch. 16.00 - South Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Stamford. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. 7.88 - Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. 78.75 - Suffield. First Cong. Ch. 16.15 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 73.20 - Tolland. J. L. Clough, “Family Thanksgiving - Donation” 2.00 - Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $48, by Dea. - J. Atwater; Miss T. B. Bartholomew, $2 50.00 - Warren. First Ecclesiastical Ch. and Soc. 40.00 - West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.36 - West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.20 - Willimantic. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46.30;—Cong. - Sab. Sch., $30, _for Student Aid, Straight - U._ 76.30 - Winchester. Cong. Ch. 4.86 - Winsted. First Cong. Ch. 27.80 - Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 7.00 - Vernon. E. M. Seymour, Bbl. of C. - - - NEW YORK, $2,617.58. - - Adam’s Basin. L. D. 1.00 - Albany. First Cong. Ch. 60.70 - Alfred Centre. Mrs. Ida F. Kenyon 5.00 - Berkshire. Miss R. K. 1.00 - Binghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 - Brooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch., - $368.45;—Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $201, by - Geo. H. Shirley, _for Rev. Geo. Henry, - Fla._;—Miss Katherine Holmes, $2, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 571.45 - Bridgewater. Zenas Eldred 5.00 - Brier Hill. O. J. 0.50 - Chateaugay. Joseph Shaw 5.00 - Chestertown. R. C. C. 1.00 - Cincinnatus. Coll. Union Thanksgiving Service, - by Rev. E. Rogers 10.00 - Cortland. Mrs. E. B. Dean 5.00 - Crown Point. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., - Samuel Buck, Treas. 10.00 - Durham. Mrs. H. Ingraham 2.00 - Dryden. ESTATE of Mrs. L. C. Phillips, by Mrs. - M. L. Keeny, Executrix 500.00 - East Bloomfield. Russel B. Goodwin 4.03 - Ellington. “A Friend” 1,000.00 - Fairport. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Greenville. F. H. Wakeley 5.00 - Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres 5.00 - Homer. Mrs. Augusta Arnold, $3; F. F. Pratt, $2 5.00 - Madison. Rev. Geo. Hardy 10.00 - Mount Vernon. J Van Santvord 10.00 - New York. “X. Y. Z.” $100., _for Hampton N. - and A. Inst._;—Class in Broadway Tab. Sab. - Sch., by A. P. Dana, Teacher, $11, _for - Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;—Washington Lee, - $5; S. F. Haywood, $5; American Bible Soc., - Grant of Bibles, val. $505 121.00 - North Collins. A. H. 1.00 - Oriskany. Albert Halsey, $5; Mrs. Lucy B. - Porter, deceased, $5; Rev. S. F. Porter and - Wife, $5 15.00 - Palmyra. Mrs. M. A. Woodward 30.00 - Pulaski. S. C. 1.00 - Rochester. Miss E. Leavenworth, $5; A. Beebee, - $5; Abraham Hubregtse, $2 12.00 - Rodman. Miss Eliza Gates, $25; John S. Sill, - $10 35.00 - Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, $30, to const. - HON. EVERETT A. CARPENTER, L. M.; “A Life - Member,” $1 31.00 - Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok 2.00 - Smyrna. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc. 15.00 - Sparkill. Mrs. H. E. D. 1.00 - Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 34.40 - Waterville. Mrs. J. Candee, $4; Mrs. Wm. - Winchill, $3 7.00 - Westmoreland. A. S. B. 0.50 - Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff, $4; Rev. J. S. - P. $1 5.00 - Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 10.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $28. - - Clayton. D. N. Moore, _for Lady Missionary, - Nashville, Tenn._ 25.00 - Millstone. Mrs. J. T. C. 1.00 - Morristown. W. B. 1.00 - Newark. R. D. W. 1.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $9. - - Guy’s Mills. S. O. F. 0.50 - North East. B. T. Spooner, $5; C. A. T. $1 6.00 - Providence. Welsh Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Plainfield. Mrs. H. B. O. 0.50 - - - OHIO, $599.34. - - Aurora. Cong. Ch. $4.50; Dea. O. S. 50c. 5.00 - Austinburg. L. D. R. 27c.; F. J. R. 50c. 0.77 - Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 22.50 - Chagrin Fall. “Earnest Workers,” $20, _for - Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;—Cong. Ch. $14.91 34.91 - Chardon. —— 1.00 - Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch. 13.64 - Claridon. L. T. Wilmot 10.00 - Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., $20.29; Mrs. - H. P. Hickox, $10;—Mrs. Coggswell, $2, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._—Miss M. P. 50c. 32.79 - Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.10 - Delaware. Troedshewdalar Ch., $9; Wm. Bevan $5 14.00 - Dover. Cong. Ch. 9.00 - East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi - M._ 2.00 - Elyria. Mrs. G., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00 - Fostoria. C. M. 1.00 - Geneva. W. C. P. 1.00 - Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., $28.50; L. G., 50c. 29.00 - Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 8.50 - Madison. Mrs. Sarah Warner 10.00 - Mallet Creek. J. A. Bingham, M. D. 5.00 - Mansfield. S. M. S. 0.50 - Marietta. R. P., 50c.; Rev. I. M. P., 50c 1.00 - Mechanicstown. Susan Manifold 2.00 - Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by Mrs. M. J. - Munger, Treas. 7.00 - Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike 5.00 - Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch., $9.30; Thomas D. - Jones, $5 14.30 - North Eaton. M. O. 0.50 - Oberlin. J. W. Merrill, $100; Mrs. C. G. - Finney, $20; P. B. H., 50c. 120.50 - Painesville. Edward Little, $1.50; Rev. S. W. - P., $1 2.50 - Rootstown. Cong. Ch., $23; bal. to const. MRS. - CHARLOTTE E. BICKFORD, L. M. 23.00 - Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, $5, _for - Student, Tougaloo U._;—W. C. Sexton, $2 7.00 - Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. 0.50 - Sicily. S. W. Huggins 10.00 - Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar. Coll. 6.14 - Steubenville. Adna Tenney 20.00 - Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Twinsburg. J. R. Parmelee 2.00 - Wakeman. Cong. Ch., to const. MINOT PIERCE, L. - M. 51.42 - Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 16.75 - Wellington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Welshfield. S. P. 0.51 - Wooster. D. B. 1.00 - York. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - —— “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 35.50 - - - INDIANA, $1. - - Newville. Rev. A. D. 1.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $998.47. - - Amboy. Bureau Ass’n of Ill., by Mrs. H. T. - Ford, Treas., _for Lady Missionary_, - _Liberty Co., Ga._ 25.00 - Beardstown. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - Chicago. “A Friend,” $250, by E. W. - Blatchford, _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._;—N. E. Cong. Ch. (bal. Coll.) $109.22, - and Mon. Con. Coll., $10.63;—Sab. Sch. of - First Cong. Ch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._;—Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch. (of - which $15 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._), - $25.75;—Miss R., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._;—L. D. 50c. 447.10 - Elgin. Mrs. Lovell, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 - Evanston. Cong. Ch., $21.56;—J. M. Williams, - $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 26.56 - Fremont. Mrs. Robinson, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 5.00 - Galesburg. “Friends,” by Mrs. S. R. Holmes, - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.45 - Geneseo. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.58 - Highland. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Jerseyville. G. W. Burke 10.00 - Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., $25, _for - Student Aid, Straight U._;—Mrs. C. L. C., $1. 26.00 - La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. Nay, $2 2.00 - Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 25.50 - Lee Centre. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for - Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._ 15.03 - Lewistown. Mrs. M. Phelps 50.00 - Lisbon. G. K. 0.50 - Mendon. Mrs. C. T. 1.00 - Moline. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Ladies’ Aid - Soc. of Cong. Ch., $25; “A Friend,” $1, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 51.00 - Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Band, $50; First - Cong. Sab. Sch., $42.60, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 92.60 - Peoria. Wm. Truesdell, $10; Moses Pettingill, - $10; J. T. Rogers, $5; Rev. H. A. Stevens, - $2, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Mrs. E. - Woodruff, $2 29.00 - Polo. “Mrs. B. and M., Mrs. B., Mrs. P. and E. - P.,” $18; “Three young friends,” $3.50, _for - Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 21.50 - Pittsfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter 10.00 - Princeton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.25 - Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch., $12.75; L. - Kingman, $10. 22.75 - Roseville. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.65 - Saint Charles. W. B. Lyons and Wife 5.00 - Sycamore. Rev. A. S. 1.00 - Western Springs. Mr. Williams, $2; Mr. A., - $1.; Miss J., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 4.00 - Winnebago. N. F. Parsons 10.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $414.22. - - Almont. Cong. Ch. 38.59 - Alpena. Mrs. S. Hitchcock 1.50 - Benzonia. Rev. J. S. Fisher 25.00 - Berrien Springs. Alexander B. Leeds 5.00 - Birmingham. Rev. J. McC., $1; Mrs. D. D. S., $1 2.00 - East Saginaw. ESTATE of Charles W. Wilder, by - N. H. Culver, Admr. 100.00 - Jonesville. Mrs. R. L. H. 0.50 - Lodi. Eli Benton 50.00 - Memphis. ESTATE of Chester L. Dudley, by James - H. Dudley 25.00 - Owosso. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._;—First Cong. Ch., $50 100.00 - Paw Paw. H. R. 1.00 - Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch. 16.03 - Union City. Cong. Ch. 36.60 - Vassar. Mrs. O. W. Selden 3.00 - Whitehall. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - - IOWA, $414.81. - - Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Castalia. W. H. Baker and Family, to const. - MRS. ALMIRA A. RICHARDS, L. M. 35.00 - Cedar Falls. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.00 - Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 37.57 - Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 16.26 - Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington 5.00 - Decorah. First Cong. Ch. 32.68 - Des Moines. Cong. Ch. ($50 of which from - ex-Gov. Samuel Merrill), $107.92; Ladies of - Plymouth Ch. $11 118.92 - Fifteen-Mile Grove. G. C. H. 1.00 - Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 36.83 - Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Le Grand. J. N. Craig, $3; T. P. C., $1 4.00 - Lewis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Marion. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, $25; “Willing - Workers” of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for - Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00 - Montour. Cong. Ch. 12.54 - Stacyville. Cong. Ch. 17.50 - Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield 10.00 - Tabor. Miss J. E. Williams, $5, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._;—J. E. Williams, $2 7.00 - Waterloo. Mrs. W. W. T. 0.51 - - - WISCONSIN, $258.24. - - Appleton. Mrs. M. C. P. 0.50 - Beloit. “Friends” $5, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._;—Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1 6.00 - Cooksville. Ed. Gilley 5.00 - Janesville. “Life Member” 10.00 - Madison. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. J. - H. OLIN, L. M. 30.00 - Menasha. First. Cong. Ch. 40.00 - Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 35.50 - Racine. Mrs. M. B. Erskine 5.00 - Sheboygan. David Ticknor 2.00 - Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. C. 1.00 - West Salem. William Munson 50.00 - Whitewater. Cong. Ch. 73.24 - - - KANSAS, $14.15. - - Manhattan. Mrs. M. P. 1.00 - Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Washington Creek. D. E. B. 1.00 - Waushara. Cong. Ch. 4.15 - - - MINNESOTA, $63.89. - - Faribault. Cong. Ch. 27.27 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 19.12 - Morris. Cong. Ch. 1.52 - Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 15.98 - - - NEBRASKA, $7. - - Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor 2.00 - Santee Agency. “A Friend of the Freedmen.” 5.00 - - - DAKOTA, $51.05. - - Yankton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for work among - Women_ 51.05 - - - WASHINGTON TER., $25. - - Colfax. Rev. Cushing Eells 10.00 - S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - - - CALIFORNIA, $5. - - Chico. Lewis H. Morse, 1 copy of Worcester’s - Unabridged Dictionary - Nevada City. Charles Hepler 5.00 - - - MARYLAND, $100. - - Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 100.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $230.55. - - Chattanooga. J. W. H. 0.50 - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 31.60 - Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition, - $193.10;—Fisk U., Thanksgiving Offering, - $5.35 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 198.45 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $108.01. - - Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition 7.60 - Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $94.50; - First Cong. Ch. $5.91 100.41 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $342.50. - - Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, - $320.50;—Rev. T. Cutler, $20, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._—Cong. Ch., $2 342.50 - - - GEORGIA, $596.01. - - Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $215.60; Rent, - 3; Atlanta U. Tuition, $94; Rent, - $14.30;—Atlanta U., _for an Indian Student_, - $50 376.90 - Bellmont. Cong. Ch. 1.50 - Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $53.35; Rent, - $6.50 59.85 - Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107; Sales, - $50.76 157.76 - - - ALABAMA, $523.60. - - Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 31.00 - Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition 201.25 - Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund 175.00 - Selma. Cong. Ch., $31.40; Rent, $5 36.40 - Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition, $79.45; - W. S., 50c. 79.95 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $200.05. - - Natchez. Rev. C. A. 0.50 - New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 110.00 - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $40.25; Rent, - $48.80; by Rev. G. S. P., 50c. 89.55 - - - MISSOURI, $18.05. - - Ashburn. F. M. R. 1.00 - Miami. Elijah Nichols 5.00 - Neosho. “A Friend” 1.00 - Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch. 11.05 - - - INCOME FUND, $290. - - —— Avery Fund 190.00 - —— C. F. Dike Fund 50.00 - —— General Fund 50.00 - - - CANADA, $2. - - Union. Nathan Taylor 2.00 - - - PERSIA, $30. - - Oroomiah. Rev. and Mrs. B. Labaree 30.00 - ————————— - Total 16,580.82 - Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $43,157.87 - - * * * * * - - FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA. - - Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional - pledge £3,000 - Brewer, Me. M. Hardy $100.00 - Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 1,515.34 - ————————— - Total $1,615.34 - - * * * * * - - FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - New London, Conn. First Cong. Ch. $50.00 - Brooklyn, N. Y. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch. (A. - S. Barnes) 500.00 - Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler 125.00 - ————————— - Total 675.00 - Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 192.00 - ————————— - Total $867.00 - - * * * * * - - FOR NEGRO REFUGEES. - - Bangor, Me. Miss Perham $2.00 - Harwichport, Mass. Leonard Robbins 5.00 - Coral, Mich. Benjamin H. Lewis 5.00 - —————— - Total 12.00 - Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 5.00 - —————— - Total $17.00 - - * * * * * - - Receipts for December 17,367.82 - Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $45,740.21 - ========== - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, - 56 Reade St., N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - - -Constitution of the American Missionary Association. - -INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849. - - * * * * * - - -ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY -ASSOCIATION.” - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort. - -ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes -faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is not a slaveholder, or in the -practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, -may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty -dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have -not professed their faith may be constituted life members without -the privilege of voting. - -ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee. - -ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular -officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, -and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, -and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one -representative. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members. - -ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting -and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining -and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and -agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the -transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the -executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; -the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the -missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision -of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually -chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or -missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final. - -The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, -in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and -general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the -diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous -promotion of the missionary work. - -Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for -transacting business. - -ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing -officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields -of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor -particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the -known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment -those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves. - -ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to -the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain -missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the -agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon. - -ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without -the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular -annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been -submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in -season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if -so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting. - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a -belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a -Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice -of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity -of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy -obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and -the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the -wicked, and salvation of the righteous. - - * * * * * - - - - -The American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely -related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE -in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane -and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in -AFRICA. - - -STATISTICS. - -CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; -Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. -_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70. - -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.; Savannah, Macon, -Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, -Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44. - -TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253; -among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, -296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; -in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former -pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care -of the Association, 13,000. - - -WANTS. - -1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the -growing work. 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. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and -missionaries to Africa—a pressing want. - -Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below: - - NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. - BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House. - CHICAGO Rev. Jas. 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