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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. 6, June, 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: May 9, 2017 [EBook #54689] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JUNE, 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. 6. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - JUNE, 1880. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - PARAGRAPHS 161 - SIX PREACHERS, ALL CALLED—NEW INDUSTRIES AND SIGNIFICANT - FEATURES OF NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTH 166 - THE NEGRO, ON THE STATUS AND EXODUS OF THE NEGRO 167 - CONDITIONS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION—AFRICAN NOTES 169 - ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 170 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - A TOUR OF THE CONFERENCES 172 - NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE 175 - SOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION 176 - GEORGIA, MACON—Revival 177 - ALABAMA—Notes from Selma 179 - - - AFRICA. - - LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE 180 - - - THE CHINESE. - - POLITICS AND THE MISSION, ETC. 182 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - LETTERS FROM INDIAN BOYS 184 - - - RECEIPTS 185 - - - CONSTITUTION 189 - - - AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 190 - - * * * * * - - 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. C. C. PAINTER, 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. JUNE, 1880. NO. 6 - - * * * * * - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -As we go to press, we are happy to announce the safe arrival of -Prof. Thomas N. Chase, from our Mendi Mission. - - * * * * * - -_That 20 per cent._ increase in our appropriations, voted at -Chicago, and voted also by the Executive Committee, has not as -yet been furnished by our friends. We are compelled to urge it -upon their attention that we are in danger of falling behind the -appropriation, to our grief and the detriment of the work, unless -they come gallantly to the rescue. - - * * * * * - -_Who Will do It?_—One of our missionaries in North Carolina -suggests, and we cordially second the suggestion, that some of our -friends send us the means for distributing 1,000 copies of the -MISSIONARY to as many prominent men, clergymen and others, through -the South. We are confident that a like sum of money could not be -expended in a way to tell more favorably upon our work after the -means have been supplied to carry it on. Will not some generous -friend of the South send us the money? - - * * * * * - -_Tougaloo’s Plea._—Through its workers, this Institution puts in a -most pathetic plea to the Executive Committee for an appropriation -for a new building. How they inquire, can 120 persons be seated in -a dining-room large enough for only 80? Or how can fifty girls be -put into 16 small dormitories? The Executive Committee gives it up, -and sends it along as too much of a 15-puzzle. The plea melts the -hearts of us who have no money, so we make it to those who have, -hoping some one will help to a solution of this problem. - -Fully as difficult is that propounded by President Ware, of -Atlanta: Sixty-two girls in rooms fitted for forty, and prospects -that the number cannot be kept down to that. It could be easily -increased to one hundred next year. The $10,000, given from the -Graves estate for a building, must be supplemented by $5,000 to -make it adequate to pressing need. Who gives the answer to _this_? - - * * * * * - -_The Christian Recorder_, Philadelphia, (organ of the A. M. E. -Church,) in noticing the “Fool’s Errand,” refers to the fact that -the Fool found himself limited to the society of the teachers of -the colored schools and a few Northern families, and asks: “Why -so? Were there no colored people there? The South ostracised him -because of his _opinions_, while _he_ ostracised the negroes -because of their _color_.” Of the two, the _Recorder_ believes the -South the more rational and consistent. - - * * * * * - -_Laws of Heredity._—One of the—not fathers, but great-grandfathers, -in Israel, writes a pleasant note from Jewett City, Conn., to -say how much pleasure he takes in reading the “Receipt pages” -of the MISSIONARY, finding them the most interesting of the -whole. He notes as an especially pleasant feature, the increasing -number of “friends,” who send, as in the last number, from $2.00 -to $1,747.50. He mentions with great satisfaction that he has -learned to look regularly in the May number for a contribution -from the grandson of an old French Huguenot, who fifty years ago -hobbled regularly to the parsonage on the morning after missionary -meetings, and asked him (the writer) to get 25 cents out of his -purse for the work, which always left the purse empty. The grandson -now sends $20. Of him, he says, with Leigh Hunt, “May his tribe -increase.” We shall be glad if investigation on the part of some -missionary Darwin shall establish the fact that such tendencies are -transmitted with accumulating force from father to son. - - * * * * * - -In Southwest Texas, at a Freedman’s country home, our -Superintendent found a Bible which had this inscription, printed -upon a fly-leaf at the front: - -“One of 10,000 Bibles presented to the Freedmen of America by -the Divinity Students’ Missionary Society, connected with the -United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Printed at the University -Press, Oxford, for the National Bible Society of Scotland.” So -does religious beneficence percolate the most distant regions. -Our colored fellow-citizens have been made the recipients of an -immense amount of material and spiritual sympathy on the part of -British Christians. These Divinity Students will be glad to know -that this Bible, sent by their Society some ten years ago, is used -for morning and evening family worship in an interesting household, -which possesses its own farm, and which furnished hospitality to -our representative. - - * * * * * - -A dozen years ago, one of our lady teachers at a Southern -capital had a shower of stones driven through the window of her -school-room. At another time, some “fellows of the baser sort” -brought in some drunken Mexicans to annoy the school. A guard of -soldiers was placed at the school-house, and she was escorted to -and from the school by the same. Now she has so many friends among -the Southern white people that she says she doesn’t like to hear -them spoken against. She has not time to reciprocate their social -attentions. The school has proven a great success. She has her -fifty teachers out at work and she is as enthusiastic as ever. - - * * * * * - -_Rev. Geo. E. Hill_, of Marion, Ala., mentions a few facts in a -private note which doubtless he deemed too commonplace for formal -communication to the MISSIONARY, yet significant and hopeful. Not -every pastor, even in favored New England, is so fortunate in his -young people. - -On a recent Sabbath, one of his boys, who is to graduate this -summer from Talladega, preached for him, and proved himself a good -speaker, possessed of a clear, logical mind, with the promise of -being a useful man. On the next day, he and another member of his -church, also a Talladega student, spoke at the meeting of the Young -Men’s Christian Association extemporaneously, but with great beauty -and force. His missionary meetings are conducted in a way that -might be profitably followed by such of our churches as have like -helpers. The subject of the last one was “Africa,” illustrated by -a large map. Miss M., a graduate of Fisk University, read a paper -on the Mendi Mission, “which would have done honor to any of our -Northern churches.” She is possessed of a true missionary spirit -and Bro. Hill hopes she will find her way into the mission field, -notwithstanding a misfortune which has partially disabled her. - -He has also a Young People’s Club for intellectual culture. At -its last meeting, the programme included: A sketch of Gen. Grant; -a paper on Mormonism; a sketch of Eli Whitney; a history of -Umbrellas; a reading, recitations, etc. - -He seems to have a church of “Holy Endeavor,” with the athletics -and pastimes left out. - - * * * * * - -_A Confederate and a Man._—He was a colonel. He is the editor of a -leading journal of the South. Some years since, an educated mulatto -woman from Ohio went South to secure a position as a teacher. She -was thrust into the smoking-car to endure the commingled filth and -ribaldry of the place. - -After securing her position, it was necessary to return home -before entering upon her duties. She sought the intervention of -the colonel. He went to the local superintendent, who sent orders -along the line over three roads which gave her admission to the -ladies’ car, both on her way home and on her return. She proved a -splendid teacher and noble woman, and the colonel is proud to have -championed her cause, when to do so was unpopular. - -The same colonel is now wielding a great influence in the South in -favor of negro education, and recently, both in his paper and at a -public meeting, has expressed thanks to the A. M. A. for work it -has been doing in the South. - -The influences multiply and reach out in every direction, which are -destined soon to bring a total and wholesome change of sentiment, -North and South. - - * * * * * - -We have received the proceedings of the Colored Men’s State -Immigration Convention, held in Dallas, Texas, the latter part -of February. An association was formed whose object is to locate -colonies of colored people on Government lands in that State. Mr. -S. H. Smothers, editor of the _Baptist Journal_, of Dallas, said -in his address, as explanatory of the Exodus movement among his -people, what seems to have escaped the attention of the Senate -Exodus Committee, that the negro may act from the same motives that -influence white men. His address is full of good common sense, as -the following may show: - -“Only a few weeks ago, in a conversation with a colored immigrant -from Georgia, I asked him why he left that State and came to Texas. -He replied that a great many of his white neighbors were moving to -Texas, and he thought that whatever was good for them would be good -for him. - -“Much has been said in regard to the wrongs and oppressions of -which our people complain. While, doubtless, there is some ground -for their complaint, their hardships, in my opinion, are more -the result of their illiterate condition than all things else. -If a class of white laborers were as illiterate as our people, -they would be equally oppressed as are the Irish tenants to-day. -Capitalists look out for their own interest, and will, if they can, -oppress one man, be his color what it may, as soon as another. We -should remember that knowledge is power and ignorance is weakness. -The protection which we most need is the power which education and -property give. For my own part, all I ask of any man is an equal -chance, and then if he can outstrip me in the race of life, let him -do it.” - - * * * * * - -_Lovedale Missionary Institute_, South Africa, is said to be the -busiest industrial college in the world. During the session which -closed with 1879, there were in all 393 pupils of both sexes, many -of them boarders, who paid in fees £1,006, beside £510 still due. -Livingstonia and Blantyre sent 6 pupils; 19 came from Natal; 11 -from the country of the Barolongs. The carpenter had 30 apprentices -and journeymen under him; the wagon-maker 8; the blacksmith 5; the -printer 4; the bookbinder 2. On the farm were raised 1,054 bags of -corn, beans, potatoes and wheat. - -Twenty-one students, of whom eleven were Kaffir -certificated-schoolmasters, were under theological instruction. Dr. -Stewart thinks the home churches will hardly continue the present -number of missionaries beyond the lifetime of those now in the -field, and that the work will be done by a native ministry. - - * * * * * - -A “Livingstonia Central African Company,” for promoting legitimate -traffic among the natives, has been organized by a society of -gentlemen interested in the civilization of the “Dark Continent” -and in the development of its resources. Direct communication is -to be opened with Central Africa, and a road has already been -constructed a distance of sixty miles around the cataracts of the -Shiré, which, connecting with a line of steamers, will constitute -a line of 800 miles from the coast. Two Christian gentlemen of -Edinburgh, Messrs. John and Frederick Moir, are at the head of -the company. It is to be no less a missionary than a commercial -enterprise, and there is every reason for believing that in both -respects it will prove a success. The natives are becoming fully -awake to the advantages of the extensive and solid business -facilities possessed by the company, whose future will be watched -with great interest. - - * * * * * - -The _West African Reporter_, of Sierra Leone, in announcing changes -in the officers and probably in the location of the Liberia -College, (Dr. Blyden having been appointed President; and the -trustees, leave being given by the legislature, having voted to -co-operate with the American Board in a plan to remove the college -further into the interior,) expresses itself strongly in regard to -the injury done to natives who have been sent to Europe to receive -their education. It sums the result thus: - -“We find our children, as a result of their foreign culture—we do -not say _in spite_ of their foreign culture—but as a _result_ of -their foreign culture—aimless and purposeless for the race—crammed -with European formulas of thought and expression, so as to astonish -their bewildered relatives. Their friends wonder at the words of -their mouth. But they wonder at other things besides their words. -They are the Polyphemus of civilization—huge, but sightless—_cui -lumen ademptum_.” - -To some extent the same holds true of negroes from the South, -educated in the North for work in their old homes. - - * * * * * - -_Onondaga and Oneida Indians._—There are in the State of New York -eight Indian reservations, aggregating 86,336 acres of land, a -little less than 18 acres to each of the 5,093 Indians who occupy -them. These lands are held by tribal and not individual titles. A -few of these Indians have become thrifty farmers, but the most of -them are idle and poor; probably one-half are still pagans. A bill -has been introduced into the Legislature to abolish, with consent -of the Indians, the treaty of 1788, and distribute these lands -in severalty to these people. This would end the fatal communal -system, which has proved in this, as it must in all cases, so -deadly to all prosperity. Each Indian would thus become, under the -laws of the State, a land-owner, and amenable to the laws on the -same footing as other citizens. - -Under the present tribal system, the father has nothing but his -tomahawk and scalping knife to leave to his children, and transmits -only a disposition to use them. Give him the right to acquire a -title to something else, and he will doubtless acquire and bequeath -it. - - * * * * * - - There is a poor blind Samson in this land, - Shorn of his strength and hound in bands of steel, - Who may in some grim revel, raise his hand, - And shake the pillars of this commonweal, - Till the vast temple of our liberties - A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies. - -That same “blind Samson” is in the land to-day. It is the Negro, -uneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. It is the white -man, uneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. For it makes -no difference. The harm lies back of the color. The consequences of -ignorant suffrage, by whomsoever exercised, can be only detrimental -to the peace and welfare of the State. Free institutions can be -built up only on the basis of intelligence and integrity. Without -intelligence and integrity, the best cannot long survive. If there -be large numbers on whom this right has been conferred, but who are -densely ignorant, especially if these large numbers are grouped in -a single section, like these millions of negroes and poor whites -in the South, it is an official notice served on the nation that -no time is to be lost in imparting the mental and moral training -requisite for the right discharge of these sacred functions of -voting. Men are not left to settle this question of helping with -schools and churches, merely on the ground of humanity or Christian -duty. Their interest is challenged, and their very selfishness is -under contribution. We do not put matches in children’s hands, and -then leave them to play about hay-mows. If we give them matches -we train them in the use of them. With an instrument in his -hands so potent as the ballot, and with the possibility of using -the leverage of it in contingencies easy to be foreseen for the -overturning of the nation, it takes but half an eye to see that -the man who wields it ought to have an instructed mind and an -instructed conscience, and the State is not secure until he does. - - —[DR. NOBLE _in Advance_. - - -SIX PREACHERS, ALL OF THEM CALLED. - -[The following letter reveals the condition of _one_ out of many -neighborhoods scattered all over the South, densely populated -with negroes, neglected by the whites, excepting as the agent or -overseer of the plantation looks after the owner’s interests as -connected with the labor of the people. No schools, no churches, -excepting such as are ministered to by preachers as ignorant and, -in many cases, as licentious as the people themselves. Just think -of it! The visit of this Sunday-school agent the first visit of -a white Christian to the hundred families; their religious and -other culture such as those six preachers could give! And this -not in Central Africa, but in the very heart of the southwest -portion of our own land! These people citizens of our republic, and -voters!—ED. MISS.] - -A missionary of the American Sunday-School Union in the Southwest -writes: - -“I recently organized a Sunday-school for the colored people at -Homan Station, on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R. R., -in Miller County, between Texarkana and the Red River, where is -a large cotton plantation, and two others are near, having in -all more than one hundred families. Among them is one Baptist -church, and six preachers, every one ‘called!’ Only two of them -can read, and the pastor or ‘head-preacher’ is blind; and so are -all, in spiritual things, preachers and people. After delivering -an address, I found that only seven in the audience could read. -In all, fifty adults and children joined the Sunday-school and -promised to learn to read. I furnished them with primers, Bibles, -Testaments, etc., which seemed to please the plantation agent or -overseer as well as the people. - -“After the school was organized, the blind preacher gave a sermon -from Rev. xxii. 1, 2, another preacher doing the reading. I shall -not attempt to characterize the sermon, singing and responses. When -will white Christians, who know the way of life, surrender their -prejudices and teach these poor, benighted people the truths of the -Gospel? My visit was the first made by a white Christian worker to -this place, and will be remembered.” - - * * * * * - - -NEW INDUSTRIES AND SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF A NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTH. - -It is a good indication of the movement of the South to manufacture -its own staples, that since 1866 it has set in motion 600,000 -spindles, of which Georgia has 213,157, a third of them being in -Columbus, and that the cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., alone turned -out $4,000,000 worth of manufactured products last year, paid ten -to twelve per cent. dividends, and carried a handsome surplus to -the sinking-fund accounts. - -The president of the large mills at Nashville, Tenn., assured us -that his mills in 1878–9 had earned fifteen per cent. dividends. -One of our wealthiest manufacturers of New England, who has -recently been to Eastern Tennessee, where he has an interest in a -new mill, says if twenty years younger, he would certainly go South -and invest largely in manufacturing. Everything is favorable for -such enterprise. - -This is in striking contrast with the time when the papers, voicing -the sentiment of Virginia, compelled the founders of Lowell, Mass., -to abandon their purpose of building their mills in Richmond, -because such industries were in deadly hostility to Southern -institutions. - -Another significant, but almost unnoted feature of the new South, -(for the old _is_ passing away more rapidly than is generally -believed,) is the increasing favor with which the town system, but -more especially the common-school system, is regarded by the people. - -Under the old régime both were unknown. Virginia (and we believe -she was in harmony in this with all the other slave States) -pauperized the pupil who received aid, by making the overseer of -the poor the disburser of such funds as were appropriated by the -_County Court_ for educational purposes. - -The business, which in New England is transacted by the citizens -of a town, assembled in town meeting, duly warned, and notified of -the business that could be brought before it, was, in the South, -transacted by the _County Court_ for a whole county. Surprise is -often expressed that the people of the South can be led, in almost -solid masses, to the polls, to vote for men and measures which -those who know the private sentiments of the people are sure they -do not approve. - -But conceive of New England as having never sent her children to -a _common_ school; as having never gathered in town meeting; as -having never known even a Congregational Church meeting, and, -at the same time, as having free thought on all questions of -public policy overshadowed, fettered and ruthlessly throttled -by an interest which enthroned itself as supreme in commercial, -political and social life, before which good society did homage, -and politicians sacrificed, and divines worshipped, without whose -approval nothing was right, and without whose protection nothing -was safe. Conceive what, under such circumstances, New England -would have been, and then cease to wonder that the pro-slavery -disunionist was not crushed, and that the Bourbon politician is not -buried under the _new sentiment_ which lives in the South to-day. - -But it is manifest to anyone who knew the South under the old state -of things, and who has had opportunity of seeing it to-day, that -these two agencies which have made New England what she is, but -were unknown to the South—which were thrust upon her as a part -of the reconstructive machinery, against her sullen but helpless -protest, and were hated accordingly—are coming more and more into -favor with the people. - -It is noteworthy and significant that the Legislature of Tennessee, -last year, in all its frantic, unwise, and dishonest efforts to -reduce expenses, did not reduce her school appropriations. He must -be a blind observer and a dull reasoner who does not see that this -is most significant as showing that old things are passing away, -and all things are becoming new in a regenerated South. - - * * * * * - - -THE NEGRO, ON THE STATUS AND EXODUS OF THE NEGRO. - -It is significant that the leading article in the current number of -the _South Atlantic_, the _élite_ literary magazine of the South, -is by a colored man. His topic is, “The Status of the Negro, and -the Exodus.” It is able and fair in its treatment of the subject. -The editor disclaims responsibility for its statements, and -slightly apologizes for its publication; would have been glad, had -it not seemed unfair to the writer, to modify a few paragraphs; but -has given a negro full leave to tell his white readers just what he -thinks of negro status and exodus. This fact is one which should -not be forgotten. - -On the other hand, it would be well for us to hear just what an -intelligent negro has to say on this topic. The writer, Rev. D. J. -Sanders, indicates the difficulties in the way of his people’s -progress; obstacles thrown in the way both by his friends and -his enemies; asserts that because of what _he is_, the negro has -made commendable progress in spite of these hindrances, aided by -missionary preachers and teachers who paid but little attention to, -and took no part in, the political events which were transpiring -about them. Evidently, in his estimation, the improved condition of -his people has not been due to political action, but to schools and -moral influences. - -He asserts that the Exodus has not been brought about by political -causes, though a certain class of politicians have done something -to spread the movement; nor is it due to the fact that educational -or religious privileges have been withheld, for, strictly, it -cannot be asserted that such has been the case. Persons who were -pronounced in their opposition to negro schools are, when this -movement begins, laboring side by side with those who have devoted -themselves to negro education. Whatever of politics, or education, -or religion may enter into the movement is merely incidental. - -Political abuse there has been, but the Exodus movement began after -this had for the most part ceased, and has raged most where this -abuse has been least known, as near the home of the writer, in -North Carolina. - -There have been, and are now in some States, unjust laws regulating -labor and wages. The script system, which permits the employer to -pay the laborer in script redeemable at his store, has been known, -and is ruinously unjust to the laborer, but in the two States -where this movement has been greatest, regulative legislation has -been in the one exactly the reverse of what it is in the other. In -Mississippi the landlord must fulfil his engagements before he can -force his tenant to quit. In North Carolina the tenant must fulfil -his before he can leave. - -Fundamentally, it is the impoverished condition of the people, -conjoined with restlessness, and supplemented by idle curiosity, -making change easy and desirable, which has exposed these poor -people to the designs of unscrupulous sharpers and demagogues. They -have inherited poverty, ignorance, improvidence, to say nothing -of positive vices. They have been hindered by positive efforts to -keep them down. They have been discouraged by the fact that success -would give them no social or political advantage, and so they -have either refused to labor, or have squandered in pic-nics and -cake-walks, for tobacco and whiskey, it is estimated, about eighty -millions of dollars annually. - -There have been, so far, about 28,000 of these _exodusters_ who -have paid an average of about $16.65 to the railroad companies -for transportation. Out of this the companies have paid to the -unscrupulous agents who promote the movement, one dollar for full, -and fifty cents for half fares. - -The roads have received about $500,000 from these people, and -hope for at least half as much more from a return movement. The -emigrants have received in charity about seven cents each, as an -offset to the $16.65 which they have paid for transportation alone. -We know not what report the Senate Exodus Committee will make, but -are confident that it will come no nearer the truth in regard to -this movement than has the writer of this article. So long as the -negro is thus ignorant he will be helpless against the oppressor, -whether he be the old master or the pretended new friend. When we -know the possibilities yet undeveloped in the negro, and give full -scope to them, we shall know also what an element of wealth and -strength here is in what is now known as an incubus on prosperity -and a menace to our national life. - - -CONDITIONS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION. - -Before the Indian can become civilized, the conditions of -civilization must exist. For him, at present, these are scarcely -possible. No mere tribe can attain to a civilized state, yet the -tribal relation is fostered and perpetuated by our policy. Such -agencies of a civilized life as civil courts, town meetings, common -schools, railroads, telegraphs, etc., these are simply impossible -so long as tribes of men are forced or permitted to wander over -vast territories to which they have no other title than that of -tribal occupancy. The prime condition of a home is an exclusive -title to the land upon which it stands and from which its support -can be drawn. Without a home, a high civilization is impossible, -but our policy has been to discourage, and too often render -impossible, the creation of a home by the Indian. - -He is the ward of the nation—a ward who has never been taken to -the maternal bosom as a child, who is not permitted to reach his -majority, or to care for himself, who is cheated by his guardian, -and unfitted by the whole course of his education for the duties -and responsibilities of manhood. There has been no false principle -of politics but has been applied to his regulation. There has been -no species of wrong, or injustice, or folly, which has not been -practiced upon him, and regarded by him as the exponent of our -Christian civilization. - -It is time this foolish and wicked treatment should cease; time -that we showed something like an honest desire to do justly by him, -even though incapable of wise statesmanship. The principles which -have lifted up savage tribes and made of them civilized nations are -historic, and might be known to, and their application attempted -by, the Government. Our Congressmen should be compelled to hear -other demands than those made by reckless adventurers who find the -Indian occupying lands he would possess. - -Judging from all past experience we have every reason to believe -that, under secure conditions of life and property, these tribes -would settle down and become worthy and excellent citizens. The -protection of the Indian must be individual and not tribal; it -must be found in courts which administer impartial justice, not in -longer-ranged rifles and fleeter ponies. In short he must have the -opportunities and defences of manhood, and thus be prepared for the -responsibilities and duties of citizenship. - - * * * * * - - -AFRICAN NOTES. - -—The Mission church at Old Calabar, Western Africa, where the Rev. -E. P. Smith was buried, is spontaneously aiming at self-support. - -—A few French Protestant missionaries from South Africa, have -penetrated the great Barotse Valley, North of the Zambesi, with a -view to establishing a mission in this unevangelized region. M. -Coillard, the leader, is now in Europe, endeavoring to awaken an -interest in the new enterprise. - -—At the new San Salvador Congo Mission, excellent work has been -done during its first six months of labor. A school has been opened -and the scholars have made good progress. One hundred and fifty -on the average have attended preaching services; about a thousand -words of a hitherto unwritten language have been collated, and the -missionaries thank God and take courage. - -—Mr. Adam McCall, a converted engineer, with seven years’ -experience in African life, has gone out from the East London -Mission Institute, in charge of an expedition, planned to reach -Stanley Pool this summer. Here he proposes to establish a -good, strong industrial station, to which the natives from the -surrounding country may be attracted, and where they may gather -round a centre of civilizing and Christianizing influence. - -—The mission of the United Presbyterians in Egypt has been signally -blessed. They have thirty-five stations, nearly one thousand -communicants, and over twelve hundred pupils in their schools, -and have received, in all, assistance equal in value to $120,000. -$40,000 of this was from the late Viceroy, and $80,000 from His -Excellency Maharajah Dhuleep Singh. - -—According to Mr. Stanley’s report, the population in the upper -Congo region is very dense. The towns in some places are two -miles long, with one or more broad streets between rows of neat -well-built houses, superior to anything in East Africa. Mr. Stanley -is constructing a good road, ten feet wide, on the lower Congo, -past the rapids and cataracts. Relief stations are to be built at -intervals for the benefit of merchants, missionaries and explorers, -according to the original plan of the King of the Belgians. - -—Coal is said to exist in abundance in the vicinity of St. Paul -river, Liberia, West Africa, and a survey for a railroad has -recently been, made on the St. Paul river. - -—“The conditions of health in the Gaboon, West Africa,” says -Rev. S. H. Murphy, a Presbyterian missionary, “are good living, -godliness, cleanliness, tranquillity, patience, and quinine.” - -—A Trans-Sahara Railway from Algeria to Soudan, across the Desert -to Timbuctoo on the Niger, and another line from Senegal to the -Niger, are proposed by the French. The necessary explorations -for the first of these schemes are being made by Duponchel, a -celebrated engineer, and for the second by Soleillet, another -celebrated engineer and explorer. - -—The Dutch Church in South Africa began on January 2d the -publication of their first weekly religious paper, in the Dutch -language, called “_De Christen: Weekblad voor Kerk en Maat -schappij_;” (_or the Christian; a Weekly for the Church and -Society_.) It is well gotten up, and is indeed quite an attractive -sheet. - -There are several large and enterprising secular sheets published -at Cape Town. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -HAMPTON, VA.—“I am glad to tell you that two of your Indian boys, -Murie and Hustice, are to unite with our church on next Sunday.” - -RALEIGH, N. C.—The spiritual condition of the church is still very -encouraging. Fifteen persons entered into covenant last Sunday, -which made it a day of rejoicing. Six others have been voted into -the church, and will enter into covenant at the next communion. - -WILMINGTON, N. C.—A pleasing incident occurred at our communion -season last Sabbath. Four generations in one family were -represented, from the aged great-grandmother to the infant who -was presented for baptism by its grandmother, a close-communion -Baptist; her impenitent son, the father, and the young mother, who -is a member of our church, standing by her side. The grandmother -afterward communed with us. - -CHARLESTON, S. C.—Mr. Cutler writes: “Yesterday was a grand day for -us. The church renewed its covenant. About 100 were present. Some -30 or 40 others sent word that they wished to do so. We are now in -a condition to go forward. I trust the renewal was made sincerely.” - -AUGUSTA, GA.—“At one place where I called, an old lady had the care -of several grandchildren. One evening she said, ‘I don’t know what -I shall do to-morrow, for I’ve only one nickel left.’ Then, one -of the grandchildren replied, ‘Grandma, don’t you know you always -say, “the Lord will provide”? Don’t you worry; it will be here in -the morning.’ And sure enough she went over to the depot the next -morning, and two ladies asked her to wait on them, and gave her -fifty cents, and another said, ‘Here, auntie, take this basket and -empty it for me,’ and there was provision enough to last all day -and part of the next. ‘Children, you just trust the Lord,’ is a -remark she often makes.” - -WOODVILLE, GA.—“Our revival is still going on. God is with us. -Brother Markham preached here last Sunday, and four persons were -admitted to membership.” - -MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.—A society for little children has recently been -formed in this town, known as the “Rising Youths’ Society.” It -promises well. The Sunday-school is still flourishing. - -MCINTOSH, GA.—The church work is growing. Five have been added to -the church since last July, and a number are to unite at the May -communion. - -MILLER’S STATION, GA.—From Miss Douglass: “You see by the date -that I am once more out of Savannah. It was hard to get away, for -there were many who were inquiring, and needed to be sought out and -led to the Saviour. I came out to fill an appointment for a Bible -reading here last night. There were only thirteen present, as it -was rainy. One of these was an old gray-headed man, who suffers -much from rheumatism. He walked nearly two miles to get here, yet -expressed himself as ‘very much satisfied’ with the pay he received -for his walk.” - -MCINTOSH, GA.—Rev. A. J. Headen writes: “I have a great deal of -walking to do because I have no horse, and I am not able to go as -much as I might if I had one. Please see if you can help me to -secure one through some friend. I give you my word it would add a -hundred per cent. here to our work if a horse could be put in the -field. Some days I walk from eight to nine miles to see the people -and to attend to church work.” - -MACON, GA.—Rev. S. E. Lathrop writes: “When Brother Rogers was -here he told us we ought to ‘pray for a missionary horse.’ Whether -that is the best way to get one or not, I am not sure, but I do -wish we had one. When I see a serviceable horse, I sometimes feel -like breaking the tenth commandment, and saying, as the disciples -said to a certain colt’s owner, ‘The Master hath need of him.’ -We feel the need of some kind of locomotive power, as the hot -weather of spring has begun. Our long walks under the burning sun, -take the starch out of our linen, to say nothing of the lassitude -and fatigue of body. There are no street cars now running in -Macon; they are bankrupt, defunct and buried (_i. e._ the tracks) -under sand and gravel. Some of our members live two miles in one -direction and some three miles in another. The whole congregation -are scattered far and wide, hence they are somewhat irregular, and -the labor of visitation is much increased. If we had a horse we -could accomplish much more, besides saving something on draymen’s -bills, etc., etc. All our workers _need_ the recreation of riding -for the sake of health, and we can’t afford to hire hacks. Now I -don’t know why I wrote this, except that I do feel like ‘praying -for a missionary horse.’ Join your prayers with ours.” - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—The theological students at Talladega College have -just been favored with a course of lectures on Eschatology by Rev. -H. S. De Forest, President of the College. The students manifested -a lively interest in these lectures, and in the study of the -intricate and somewhat obscure field of thought traversed by them. -The lecturer having positive views, combined with much classic and -theologic learning on the themes discussed, and possessing a warm, -Christian heart, did not fail to make a deep impression on all who -heard him. - -Eight young men will be graduated from the Theological Department -of the College this year, all of whom will enter the Congregational -ministry in the South. They are now warmly welcomed to the pulpits -of all denominations, and are recognized as an important factor in -the elevation of the colored people in this region. - -KYMULGA, ALA.—A very interesting temperance meeting is reported. -Sixty persons were present. The exercises consisted of singing, -addresses and selections by the members of the Society. Rev. H. S. -De Forest, of Talladega, visited the Sunday-school and preached for -the people. - -CHILDERSBURG, ALA.—Rev. Alfred Jones writes: “My work is in a -lively condition. I have a full house. My people seem to study the -Bible with greater interest than they ever have before. Some come -to my church who did not like it at first.” - -ANNISTON, ALA.—Rev. P. J. McEntosh has been the victim of a -very pleasant “April Fool.” On returning from Conference he was -invited into the chapel, and found, to his great surprise, that -an excellent stand for the choir had been erected, with banisters -and place for books. The work had been done with the proceeds of a -surprise party given while he was away. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -A TOUR OF THE CONFERENCES. - -It took six weeks. Other pens were engaged to write up the details. -Some notes by the way, may be in place. The Kentucky Association -did not elect delegates to the National Council. There will be yet -another chance at the July meeting. Rev. John G. Fee is opposed -to any representation in that body beyond that of an honorary -character. Membership in it, he thinks, would be an endorsement -of the sect principle, and inconsistent with the position of the -Kentucky Association, which is simply a body of Christian ministers -and churches. He claims that testimony must be borne, if only in a -small way. At the National Council in Oberlin, I was delighted with -the catholic and non-sectarian spirit with which the delegates of -this body were welcomed to membership. I should say now: Keep on -sending delegates to encourage and emphasize that testimony. That -is the only ecclesiastical body in the United States that would -offer such organic fellowship. - -You have been told of the new era in our work, marked by the -opening of half a dozen of the homes of the first families in -Selma, Alabama, for the entertainment of the white members of the -Conference. It was not merely the offer of their houses as eating -and sleeping places, but it was a delicate and attentive Christian -hospitality, which invited the guests around from home to home in -order to the extension of acquaintance. When grateful words were -said to Major Joseph Hardie for having led the way, he answered -that that gave him too much credit; that the places had all been -opened cheerfully, and that, after the sessions were over, other -families had said: “Why didn’t you give us a chance? We would -like to have had some of those folks.” Another host, referring -to the mutual satisfaction, said: “It is just because we are -getting better acquainted.” In the same line was the opening of -the Presbyterian pulpit, morning and night. The exercises of the -Conference, with a printed programme and prepared articles, were of -a high order and well sustained throughout. It was much like one of -the Western General Associations. - -In the Louisiana Conference, at Terrebonne, of the twenty-six -members, the only two white men were Pres. Alexander and the -Superintendent. It was not a literary tournament, but a glowing -religious convocation. Before the adjournment, eight or ten souls -were inquiring the way of life, and some fervid spirits remained -to extend the flame. Our dear brother, Rev. Daniel Clay, the -entertaining pastor, with his own home and his church upon the same -plantation where for thirty-seven years he had served as a bondman, -is a very patriarch among the young ministers, loved and revered -by us all. The last meeting of this Conference, at New Iberia, was -followed by a revival that added one hundred to the company of the -disciples. Next year we are to go back to Terrebonne. - -The regular time for the meeting of the Association of -South-Western Texas is in July, which in the South is the slack -time of the year, with the corn and the cotton “laid by,” and which -is the usual period, among both colored and white, for revival -meetings, as is the winter at the North. This year the brethren -undertook to bring it forward to April, so that the Superintendent -might be with them, but, as everybody was plowing corn and chopping -out the cotton, the effort brought to Helena only the two pastors, -B. C. Church and M. Thompson. Yet we had a glorious four days’ -meeting, with preachings, conferences, a communion, a season of -baptizing, and a class meeting, which, according to the custom -of the church, precedes the communion as a preparation. People -came six, nine, or twelve miles. The native pastor, Mr. Thompson, -preached an able and moving sermon upon trust in God. The regular -meeting will be at the same place in July. This Church has a -dignified and efficient deaconess, who looks after the many little -things in the parish, which a woman can do better than anybody -else. It did seem appropriate that a woman’s taste should be -employed to arrange her Lord’s Table. I took pleasure in pointing -out to her, once a slave, the likeness of her work to that of -“Phebe, the servant of the Church at Cenchrea.” I had the pleasure -of a ride in the nice missionary buggy which Bro. Towne had given -to our presiding elder, Church. It is a good deal better, now that -he is sixty-seven, though straight and spry, when he camps out, -to have this vehicle to lie under, than to have only the starry -firmament over him. It helps to keep company on the prairie for the -preacher and the picketed pony. - -For ingenuity of swindling, can any pale face beat the darkey when -he tries? - -Down this way, one was going about selling tickets to Kansas for -five dollars down, and four upon arrival. In one place he took in -some forty of his confiding brethren. Some came to the railroad -agent, my informant, to learn of the cheat. Others, at another -place, had got on board to find that their tickets were a sham. -Another black sharper, for one dollar and a half, was making out -the papers for land which Queen Victoria was to give them, since -Uncle Sam had failed on the “forty acres and a mule.” - -On the way, making one hundred miles north by hack to Austin, I had -my desire satisfied in overtaking one of the great droves of cattle -moving northward. It numbered three thousand. We struck them as -they were passing across a valley, so that every creature was in -view. A grand sight it was, preceded by the four-mule commissary -prairie schooner, attended by the twenty cow-boys in saddle, with -cracking whip and awful spurs, and with the relay of sixty horses -in drove, each driver having a change of four. The dreadful drouth -of the last year, which carried corn up to 25 cents a bushel, was -apparent in the poverty-stricken quality of the beasts and in the -scraping up of old scalawags and yearlings and two-year-olds to -make out the drove. Out of three counties here last year, 25,000 -horses were taken. These go in droves of from twelve to fifteen -hundred. Multitudes of them, as they run from colts upward, are -sold for five dollars each. Mine host, a colored man, while I was -with him, sold eight head of broken horses for $155, to be paid -next fall, without interest. In some droves, fifty sucking colts -are sometimes shot in a day, as impediments of the march. - -The Parker farm has in it 24,000 acres. Six thousand of these are -to be cultivated to raise grain for fattening the 4,000 cattle -which are to be shipped by rail. Collins Campbell, Esq., twenty -years from Vermont, has his 15,000 acres, with 7,000 fenced. I -found him a stated reader of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and retaining -those well-balanced sentiments which his own Green Mountains -had bred. He sells land to the Freedmen. One of his neighbors, -whose hospitality I enjoyed, is Gabriel Washington. I wonder if -that archangel has not sufficient regard for “the Father of his -Country,” and for this, its dusky citizen, to be pleased with this -collocation of names? Our Gabriel is so much of the earth earthy, -that he owns 1,260 acres of its soil, and has a model farm, with -its orchard, cotton gin, and its big Yankee woodpile, the finest -one I have seen in the South. His buxom wife had been down the day -before, twelve miles, to our big meeting. - -Austin is picturesquely located on the north bank of the Colorado, -and is a city of 12,000 inhabitants, half of whom are said to -be colored; and the finest, most sightly spot about the Capital -has just now been crowned with the much admired “Tillotson -Institute.” It is to be opened October 1st. Mrs. E. G. Garland, -whose marriage with one of Gov. Davis’ judges did not interfere -with her school work, has for several years been in charge of the -Evans school-house, built by the Freedmen’s Bureau, and called -by her maiden name. The last year, fifty of her scholars were -out teaching. Her school numbered the last term 120. Surely, it -was time for the living institution to take to itself ampler -accommodations, and to advance to a higher grade. With all my heart -I commend this struggling enterprise. Texas has been neglected. It -must now be brought into the line of our educational work. Rev. -Dr. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church, which -was planted by Dr. Daniel Baker, is one of the trustees of the -Tillotson Institute, and is working for it heartily. A sermon at -Paris and a lecture at Memphis will complete the work of the tour. - - -NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. - -This is the Benjamin of the Congregational Israel. Its first -meeting was held one year ago at Raleigh. Its second occurred June -7th–9th at Dudley. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Geo. S. -Smith, a graduate of the Atlanta University, pastor at Raleigh, -upon Paul’s determination to know nothing but Christ, and Him -crucified. It was an able, stimulating, faithful discourse, urging -that ministers in fidelity to this doctrine must not be afraid -to preach against current sins. The morning prayer-meeting that -followed, throbbed and warmed with the idea of Christ as a present, -personal Saviour, and all the meetings had a spiritual glow. - -Rev. D. D. Dodge was made Moderator, and Rev. D. Peebles, Scribe. -The five churches had come to be six, the new one being at -Hilltown, in the west part of the State, and having as pastor Rev. -Islay Walden, a graduate of the New Brunswick Seminary, ordained -by the Dutch Classis of that locality, who had been a slave in the -region where now he is preaching the Gospel. A gracious revival, -and a meeting-house under way, are the fruits of the first six -months of the life of this church. These six churches and the five -schools of the A. M. A. in the State, were all represented. - -McLeansville was fixed upon as the place of the next meeting, -where Bro. Connet has his church and high-school. The Conference -was favored with the presence of Miss Farrington, lady missionary -aided by the ladies of Maine, and located at Wilmington, and also -with a visit from Misses Waugh and Barker, located at Newbern as -missionaries of the Chicago Baptist Ladies’ Society. These ladies -are doing a blessed work in the region round about. In April last, -going together, they had traveled 300 miles, and had held 80 -meetings. - -Two colored young ladies of rare cultivation, one an Episcopalian -from Philadelphia, the other a Presbyterian from Long Island, sent -down by the Society of Friends to teach in this neighborhood, -reported the happy working of their Bands of Hope, the idea of -which they had taken from Mr. Peebles’ Band in Dudley. - -Do the friends of the American Board and Home Missionary Society -know that we down here are broadening their field for harvest? Some -of these little churches reported contributions to aid the white -people out West in supporting the Gospel and to send missionaries -abroad. The one at Wilmington claimed itself to be the Banner -Church of all the constituents of the American Board, having given -more than any other, according to number and means, as judged by -the report of Dr. Alden. - -And so the good friend, “Howard,” who is about to help this church -to a house of worship, will see that he is sowing seed in good -ground. - -Rev. H. E. Brown, Secretary of the Freedmen’s Dept. of the -International Y. M. C. A., in his work at the South, has this -season held six of his union Bible meetings at Washington, -Richmond, Raleigh, Dudley, Wilmington, and Savannah, three of -which, as will be observed, were in this State. The series has been -one of great interest and profit. There are three points of special -notice. The first is the quickening of the spirit of Christian -union among these people, whose sectarianism is quite intense. -The second is the great honor which is put upon the word of God -by the constant service of Bible readings, with the plans of the -same multiplied for the people by his portable copyist. The third -point in this work is, that revivals of genuine Bible religion are -usually the result. This was true at the meeting at Raleigh, where -there were about 300 conversions among the colored people. There -is manifest an abiding increase of regard for the word of God. The -quality of the converts is also hopeful. As another perceptible -result, union meetings, led by an Evangelist, have since been -held by the white Churches of that city, and there were about 200 -hopeful conversions in these. We congratulate the Y. M. C. A. upon -this successful inauguration of their work among the Freedmen. -And we make grateful recognition of the influence of Maj. Joseph -Hardie, of Selma, Ala., a member of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, in -selecting and introducing Mr. Brown to this work in his own city. - -I am happy to make mention also of the work of Rev. E. E. Rogers as -an Evangelist in our Church at Macon, Ga. He has proven himself a -judicious and successful laborer, wise, earnest and loving. Pastor -Lathrop is very emphatic in commending him. Resulting from the -stimulus of this meeting, special services were projected in all -the other colored churches of the city. And as a matter of fact, -revival meetings in the white churches followed. Mr. Rogers had -also been a worker of the A. M. A. in former years. We hope that -his services in the future may be secured in this line of special -movement in our churches at the South. They have come to a degree -of intelligence and of steadiness that will encourage such endeavor. - - * * * * * - - -SOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION. - -Annual Meeting at Terrebonne, La., Apr. 7–10. - -REV. W. S. ALEXANDER. - -The fact that our meeting was to be at Terrebonne, where we have -a live, growing church, and a vigorous, devoted minister, gave -promise not only of a hospitable welcome, but of a profitable -season of communion. - -Brother Clay and his church had made every preparation. One hundred -and fifty dollars had been raised and expended in putting the -church and parsonage in perfect order. A long room in the house -adjoining the church had been provided with a table sufficient -to accommodate the delegates, and the table was furnished with -new tumblers, knives and forks and spoons, and the kitchen with -a new stove, all involving a good bill of costs, but met with -the greatest cheerfulness, and without the thought of hardship; -and then the members of the church and congregation brought in -chickens, hams and bread, and everything to satisfy the appetite of -hungry men, and I find that Louisiana Congregationalists eat with -the same relish as their brethren in the New England Associations. -So much for the material part of the feast, for which Brother Clay -and his flock deserve all praise and thanks. - -With the exception of two of the small mission churches, every -church was represented. Terrebonne is central, and the Morgan -R. R. extension (finished to New Iberia), makes communication -easy and rapid. There is something delightful about a new church -organization. There is an inspiration in building upon newly-laid -foundations, and every member feels that he is essential to the -success of the movement. In an organization representing many years -and great numerical strength, a man of quiet, retiring spirit is -lost to view; but in the first years, every heart and hand are -needed. - -The reports from the churches indicate a pure and steady growth. -The process of cutting off dead branches has gone on, so that -although nearly two hundred have been received during the year, the -numerical gain over all losses has been very small. We are glad to -believe that the sixteen hundred members in the churches of the -Association represent more solid moral worth than in any previous -year. In the business sessions, when questions requiring wisdom and -prudence were presented, and in the discussions of vital religious -topics, I was gratified to observe real progress in the ability, -self-control and kindly Christian spirit of the brethren. These -annual meetings serve as a profitable school, and are attended by -willing and eager learners. It was a great joy and blessing to have -Dr. Roy with us this year. The brethren have already learned to -love him, and to confide in his counsels. The Association placed -him under heavy tribute at this meeting. At their request he give -an address on “Our Country,” and with his large illustrative map -indicated the vast extent and marvelous resources of what is now -_their_ country, and of which _they_ are citizens. But a few years -ago the _plantation_ was all the country they knew anything about, -and from the law of the plantation there was no appeal. But now -they belong to Uncle Sam’s family of 50,000,000, and can look to -him for protection. - -Dr. Roy gave an address on our Congregational polity, which -greatly delighted the people. Hitherto, many of them have loved -Congregationalism without being able to give a reason for it. The -address was timely and profitable, because the brethren, while not -waging a denominational warfare with other churches, desire to be -intelligent in regard to their own faith, and to be able “to give a -reason for the hope that is within them.” - -The annual sermon, by Rev. W. P. Ward, of Gretna, was earnest and -practical, and prepared the large audience for the sermon of the -Moderator which followed it. But few congregations in the North -would bear two sermons on the same evening, but they not only -did that at Terrebonne, but by song and prayer and exhortation -continued the service another hour. The brethren seconded the -appeals of the preachers from the pulpit, and went down among the -people, entreating them to come to Christ by repentance and faith. -Eight came forward and kneeled down for prayer, and many hands went -up in the audience. God put honor upon His truth that night, and -the hearts of the people were touched. - -The sermon of Dr. Roy on the last morning was tender and searching, -and the tears of the people showed that he had not spoken in vain. - -The Church in New Iberia called Rev. W. R. Polk, and he has already -entered upon his work. He has a good field. May God give him grace -to cultivate it. - -Five “missionaries at large” were chosen. Some of them already -have churches, and take on all the supplementary work for which -they can find time. These men are unsalaried, and depend, in their -missionary tours, upon the thoughtful kindness and hospitality of -those to whom they go. Hospitality is a virtue among this people. -They exercise it “without grudging.” They have a real love for -sharing their “loaf” with him, be he stranger or friend, who calls -at their door. It is only necessary that he have the “password” of -the Christian Church. - -Rev. W. S. Alexander and Rev. Isaac H. Hall were elected delegates -to the National Congregational Council. - -The next meeting of the Association will be held in Terrebonne the -1st Wednesday in April, 1881. Brother Clay said: “I haven’t been -half paid for my trouble. You must come back next year.” - -Greeting to all the sister Associations in the North! Perhaps we -should say _filial_ rather than _fraternal_, but the infant of five -years ago is a good, strong child to-day, and we claim a seat at -the family table. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -Our Revival. - -REV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON. - -Our church observed the week of prayer, and there seemed to follow -an unusual tenderness in the regular prayer-meetings. The people -became more united and earnest, and it was evident that the way -for better things was being prepared. In February, some of the -brethren suggested sending for the aid of Rev. E. E. Rogers, of -Orange, Conn., who was pastor here from 1869 to 1873. I wrote and -found that the way was open for his coming, and we began at once -to hold extra prayer-meetings. Brother Rogers came during the last -week of February, and remained five weeks, preaching and laboring -with uncommon earnestness and consecration. The Lord has evidently -fitted him for this special work. The church took hold with -remarkable unanimity. I never have known any church in the North -to be so thoroughly united in revival effort. The contagion spread -to other churches, many of them soon beginning to hold special -services. This somewhat lessened our audiences, but a general -revival spirit spread through the city, and still continues. During -one or two weeks we held union afternoon prayer-meetings with a -colored Baptist church, a very uncommon thing in this country. - -The meetings were quiet, tender, impressive throughout. The -people are beginning to get out of their old ideas of a noisy -conversion. Some of the “old-time” quaint, plaintive songs are, -however, wonderfully apt and appropriate in such seasons, ranking -among the most effective “spiritual songs.” We held neighborhood -meetings in various localities, which seem more necessary here as -the people are so widely scattered. One disadvantage we found was -the necessity for late hours at night. Some of our people are “in -service,” and cannot get away early, and the rest do not finish -their work until night, and afterward must go home and get supper, -and walk from one to three miles to church. Our little band, -however, were remarkably faithful in attendance, though we could -not often begin the preaching until half-past eight or nine o’clock. - -One peculiarity which I discovered during the meetings was, that so -many of the colored people labor so long under conviction before -conversion. I had formerly supposed them to be a very religious -people, easily persuaded to become Christians; but my experience is -(confirmed by that of other workers), that very many labor under -intense conviction for many days, and even for weeks, coming to -the “anxious seat” every night for long periods, and seeming, for -some reason, unable to yield themselves up. No doubt this is in -part owing to the traditions handed down from the older ones, and -in part to ignorance of the true way. Yet, even after much personal -labor and explanation is given, they often remain unenlightened. It -is a phenomenon to me, especially as it is seen in the case of some -of the most intelligent. - -There have been from twelve to fifteen hopeful conversions. Ten -have united with our church, four of whom are heads of families, -and the rest promising young men and women. Some have united with -other churches. It is the custom here with some to seize hold of -converts at once and endeavor to persuade them into other churches. -Sometimes the different denominations (of the old-time churches) -wrangle over converts. - -One Saturday night we held a neighborhood meeting in the house -of a well-to-do colored family. The strains of song floated out -from door and windows, and the sound fell upon the ears of a “poor -white” woman of the lowest class, who was living illegally with -a deaf colored man. Her heart was stirred. She asked permission -to attend the next prayer-meeting, held at the same house on the -following Saturday. There she rose, and, with tearful voice, -confessed Christ, in the midst of her dusky audience. It seems -to be a genuine conversion. She brought in one night three other -degraded white women, one of whom was also living illicitly with -a colored man, another, who had not attended church for fourteen -years, and the third, who had never before in her life entered the -doors of a church! And now comes the question, like that of the -famous novel, “What will He do with it?” This poor, erring woman -is in frail health and hardly able to earn her living. She lives -with a colored man whom, she says, she is willing to marry. She -wants to marry him and join our church. But here the civil law -steps in and says, “Thou shalt not.” It is a crime in the eyes of -this commonwealth for white and colored persons to inter-marry, -and whoever celebrates such a marriage lays himself liable to a -thousand dollars fine. Of course, we cannot admit her to the church -while living in her present relations. She cannot marry, according -to the law; she has no friends, and is not able to support herself -if she should leave him. Even now she is so poor that she has to -borrow shoes and other clothing in order to attend church. The -white churches here have no room for such persons. She is in a more -pitiable condition than even the lowest of the negroes. Such are -some of the problems that beset us. Another of these white women is -the prodigal daughter of a good family, and we are endeavoring to -persuade her to return to her friends. - -Our revival has strengthened the church, and has caused us all to -“thank God and take courage.” Brother Rogers returned to his home -with the benedictions of a multitude. We trust the work has not yet -ceased. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Missionary needed. - -REV. C. E. CURTIS, SELMA. - -We are in the midst of a great union effort here that has been -opening the eyes of all the churches to the great need of -missionary work right at our doors. The whole city has been -districted off and workers assigned from one of the different -churches to each district. These are expected to visit every -family, take down the name and residence of each person five years -old and upward, with his religious condition and needs, present -those who may not be in the habit of attending Sunday-school with -a card of introduction to the superintendent of any school they -may prefer, have religious conversation, Bible reading and prayer, -wherever it can be done to advantage, and urge upon all, young and -old, a regular attendance on Sunday-school and church services. -Every week, we hold meetings to hear reports from the workers -in the different localities, and these meetings are intensely -interesting. It would rejoice your hearts, I know, to hear the -uniform testimony of delight in the work from those who, in many -cases, entered upon it with fear and trembling. At the same time, -the amount of religious destitution, intemperance and superstition -brought to light in this city of churches and schools (there are -eight churches and four schools for the colored people here), is -alarming. Out of twenty-one families, visited by one worker, only -two had Bibles, all but two used tobacco, and the majority whiskey. -Of twenty-two families visited by myself, only eight had any church -members among them, and the great majority used both whiskey and -tobacco. Very few attended Sunday-school. One hadn’t been inside -of a church for five years but once, and then only to attend the -funeral of a friend. One, who admitted that he habitually used both -whiskey and tobacco, claimed to be a minister in good and regular -standing among his brethren, and he is not the only such example in -the city. Several of the workers, particularly a young student from -the Baptist Theological School here, made stirring appeals to the -churches that they more earnestly endeavor to bring in the poor and -degraded, and make them feel at home in the house of God. - - * * * * * - -Last Sabbath a young man came to us to inquire, “What must I do -to be saved?” On asking what he had been trying to do, we learned -that he had endeavored to follow the plain, simple directions of -the Bible at first, but so many of his friends had told him that -he must stop reading his Bible and go to praying for visions and -dreams, that he had become very much confused about the way. Many -of them say plainly that they “don’t believe in Bible religion.” -They believe firmly in personal revelations from God, and that -these are superior to those in the Bible. There is more excuse for -them than for others, when we consider that so few can read and -judge for themselves, and that for generations the Bible has been, -and still is, represented to them by so many to be the bulwark -of slavery. But when I think what abundance of material there is -among these millions in the South for religious fanaticism to feed -upon, it is a wonder to me that they have, on the whole, wandered -so little from the truth, that some imposture has not spread among -them before this—as Mormonism did at the North and West—and swept -thousands of them away. I fear it will be the case yet, if the -churches are not more faithful in preaching and teaching the pure -Gospel. - -Now, to make the matter practical, what can we do about it? Surely, -much more ought to be done here by educated Bible Christians; but -our teachers are already nearly breaking down with overwork in -their regular school duties, there being one less teacher than -usual on the force this year; the missionary and industrial work -they have been doing, and in which they feel such an interest, they -will probably not be able to keep up another year, and Mrs. C. will -be compelled to give up much that she has been doing. In short, I -am more than ever convinced that we need a lady missionary here, -to devote her whole time to personal work among the classes not -now reached by our schools and churches, and to take charge of the -industrial work among the women and girls. We have in mind just the -one we need if her support can be assured. Our church will, I am -sure, assume a share of the expense, though it will be impossible -for them to do much more than they are doing. Now, who among the -friends of the work in the North will help us in this matter, which -seems so important? - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - -A LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE. - - -Among the most interesting experiences in our visit to the Mendi -Mission was a trip to Kaw-Mendi, the first station of the mission, -where, over forty years ago, Mr. Raymond, with his company of -Amistad captives, began their new home, near the spot where the -latter had been torn from their native land, and carried across the -sea to be sold into slavery. - -A row of eight hours in a boat of four oars, propelled by Junjo, -Mómodo Grenace, Carrij Mi-Mah and Boyema, and steered by Geo. -Keing, took us across the Sherbro, up the Jong and the Small Boom -to our destination. The chief objects of interest on the way were -wild monkeys, alligators, and mangrove trees, bearing vegetable -oysters that could be plucked as we sailed past. The rowers -“cheered the weary traveler,” and increased the speed of the boat, -by singing songs in their native tongue, in which, no doubt, as is -usually the case, they indulged in personal comments concerning -their passengers. - -A little after “the sun die” we reach Kaw-Mendi, and are ushered -into a native house of four rooms, whose walls, partitions and -floors are made of mud, and whose steep hip roof is covered with -“bamboo shingles,” the rafters and sheathing being cane. Mr. -and Mrs. Williams, born and educated in British Guiana, gave -us a hearty welcome to their mission home, leaving their work -of manufacturing arrow-root to prepare us a cup of tea. It was -prayer-meeting night and we gladly accepted an invitation to attend -service. The “barrie,” in which meetings are held, is a bamboo -roof, supported by tall posts, and enclosed by a mud wall about -four feet high. The floor and platforms are also of mud, nicely -sanded. - -I was unable to count the audience, for the lamps shed a dim light -which was not reflected from the faces of the company. A row of -boys led the singing, a young man “turned the word” of those who -spoke in English, and several led in brief prayers which we could -not understand, but which sounded sensible and devotional. - -In the morning we took a more particular view of the premises. -Mr. Williams’ house stands just in front of the site of the old -residence of Mr. Raymond and Mr. Thompson, a slight hollow and -small bank being the only things to mark the place where it stood. -While twenty years had crumbled to mother earth, buildings and -fences, and produced a jungle that made it almost impossible to -identify the site, the cashew, orange and bread-fruit trees had -been going on with their steady growth, and are now doing good -service with their fruit and shade. The flats along the banks of -the river, that had much to do with the unhealthfulness of the -location, on account of which it was abandoned, are probably the -same now that they were then. - -At our request, the two surviving Amistad captives came to see us, -Mr. Parn and Mr. Smith. The former had a pleasant smiling face, -but was too deaf to converse. The latter wore a rugged-looking -countenance, and after a little coaxing told us something of his -early life, dwelling especially upon the reason why the Amistads -rose up and killed the officers of the vessel on which they were -being carried to America. He said the cook told them that they were -to be killed and eaten, and showed them a huge kettle in which they -were to be boiled. So they rescued themselves from the sad fate -that seemed to await them by slaying their captors, acting on the -same principle that Stanley did when the natives on the Congo tried -to make “meat” of him and his companions. - -Chief Geo. Thompson Tucker came to pay his respects. He was -educated in the mission and was a pupil of Geo. Thompson. He is not -a Christian, but favors Mr. Williams’ work, and renders him much -assistance. He wore pants and shoes, and a frock made of country -cloth in a country fashion. He converses in English fluently, and -sometimes interprets for Mr. Williams. - -We desired to visit the cemetery, which Mr. Thompson had removed -to some distance, that the sight of so many graves of fallen -missionaries might not depress the living. The dew being heavy and -the “road” having grown up somewhat, Chief Tucker had two of his -men go on in advance, and trim off the overhanging branches with -their cutlasses, which they used with wonderful dexterity. The -cemetery is partly surrounded by a ditch and bank, Mr. Thompson -having concluded that this was more permanent than any fence that -could be erected. After a little search by the Chief and old Mr. -Smith, three graves were found, ranged side by side at the foot -of a mango tree—those of Mr. and Mrs. Tefft and Jane Winters. The -wood of which Mr. Thompson made head boards, and which he said did -not “know how to rot,” has in some way obtained that undesirable -knowledge, and even the planks laid on the graves by some later -visitor have crumbled nearly into dust. The other graves that were -identified were those of Mr. Garnick, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Arnold and -Mr. Thompson’s son George, who died June 6, 1853, at the age of -six years. Seven mango trees between one and two feet in diameter -mark these resting places. To me there was a strange fascination -about this consecrated spot, and words cannot express the feelings -I experienced as I walked there among the sainted dead in that -distant, strange land. - -We next visited the arrow-root farm and saw the boys dig the -bulbs, which resemble the sweet potato in shape. Then we went to -the little mill where the bulbs are grated and strained, ready -for drying and packing. Mr. Williams finds the cultivation and -manufacture of arrow-root reasonably profitable, and he deserves -encouragement in teaching the natives this and other industries, -for the great need of West Africa, apart from the Gospel, is a -knowledge of remunerative agriculture. - -The church bell had a strange sound, and we learned that it was an -old gun-barrel that had been planted in the ground in a native’s -door-yard to keep witches out of the house, but upon the conversion -of the owner, had been given up to Mr. Williams, and had thus been -converted from a profane to a sacred use. - -Fifteen church members, twelve inquirers, one hundred attendants -upon Sunday service, twenty-three family and nine day pupils, -the house and barrie, a clearing of three or four acres, the -cultivation of various crops, the manufacture of arrow-root and -frequent visits to neighboring towns, give some idea of the -industry, perseverance and Christian zeal of this devoted laborer -during the past three years, and seem to make it possible to -continue the work on this spot of so many hallowed associations and -memories. - - * * * * * - - - - -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 O. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. -F. F. Low, Rev. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. -Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., -Jacob S. Taber, Esq. - -DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. -Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, -E. P. Sanford, Esq. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. O. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -_Politics and the Mission._—Our Legislature, the first one convened -under our new Constitution, has adjourned, and the Chinese are -yet here. Denis Kearney has been made to “go,” and his party is -just “going;” the former, in prison attire, to break stones on the -public highway, and the latter to befitting insignificance and -complete disintegration. But how to assure it that “the Chinese -must go,” is a problem by which, now as heretofore, our Californian -statesmanship(!) finds itself sore baffled. Among our newly-fledged -legislators, there was scarcely one, at the opening of the -sessions, but had his pet scheme,—a sure cure for the Chinese ail; -and the river of Egypt scarce brought forth frogs more plentifully -than did our noisy Legislature its anti-Chinese bills. But most -of them died before they were fairly, fully born, and the rest -are either squelched under the weight of the U. S. Constitution, -or else, not daring to face that foe, have retired into prudent -dormancy. The gassy proclamation of our Board of Health, declaring -Chinatown a nuisance, has dissolved into thin air, and that -district of our city is just as populous, just as busy, just as -noisy, and almost as filthy as it was before. Our Mayor, and the -doctors associated with him, may possibly have caused a little more -of the Chinese gold to be “placed where it would do most good;” -but, no other effect of their bombastic demonstration seems now to -be even dreamed of. - -All this helps us hope that we shall be able to pursue our -mission-work with no special molestations, and that the result of -our summer campaign may be as bright as the out-look is just now. - -_A Touching Farewell Service._—the following paragraph which -appeared in the _Pacific_ of April 14th, over the initials of -the Principal of our Central school, I am sure will interest our -readers. It explains itself: - -“A very interesting and impressive meeting was held in Bethany -chapel on Thursday evening, April 8th. A large number of the -Chinese friends and scholars of Mrs. S. A. Worley and Misses Jessie -and Florence Worley, who for some years have been teachers in the -schools of the California Chinese Mission of this city, had met -together to bid these teachers farewell, as the family intended -going to their new home in Stockton on the following day. After -the regular exercises of Thursday evening, consisting of singing, -prayer and a short address in Chinese, the meeting was thrown open -to any who wished to speak or lead in prayer. The first who rose -spoke of his regret at their departure and his gratitude for their -kindness. He then said: ‘One year ago I hated Christian Chinese, -and I hated the name of Jesus Christ. Then Miss Worley came to -teach me, and read and explained the Bible to me, and by and by -I came to love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and all those who -worship him.’ One after another the Chinese brethren came forward -to bear witness to their love for these devoted teachers, and their -sorrow for their departure. Many of them, like the first speaker, -testified that they had been brought to the knowledge of the saving -power of Christ’s love by the words and the example of their loved -teachers. More than one tremulous voice and dimmed eye, gave -evidence that their words were not the complimentary exaggerations -of Chinese courtesy, but came deep from hearts filled with love -and gratitude for kindness that had been bestowed upon them, and -overflowing with grief at parting from their benefactors. ‘We have -nothing to repay you, our dear teachers,’ they said, ‘for all your -kindness in teaching us your language, and in leading us to Christ; -but we can pray God that He will bless you and keep you wherever -you may go. You will go to Stockton and we will go to China, and -may never see one another again on earth; but in heaven we will -meet again.’ - -The frequent brief prayers, offered in Chinese, were unintelligible -to the Americans present, but the frequent recurrence of the words -‘Stockton’ and ‘Worley’ showed that these men, just awakened -from heathen darkness, had grasped the idea of an omnipotent and -loving Father, to whom they might confidently intrust their absent -friends. What an ample reward to these teachers for their earnest -and prayerful devotion must such testimony have been! What a -foretaste of heavenly bliss they experienced in seeing this fruit -of their labor in the redemption of so many souls from idolatry and -heathenism! - - H. M. P.” - -_More about Oroville._—I give, perhaps, more than its share of -notice to our new work in Oroville. But this is our first attempt -to reach the Chinese engaged in mining, and, probably, the first -systematic attempt ever made in California. On that account it -has a special interest and importance. The number thus engaged is -large, and no man careth for their souls. We have our first fruits -of the work there, in the person of Jee Kane, a very interesting -young man. He has joined the Association, thus professing faith in -Christ. Miss Waterbury is disposed to commence a work among the -women and children, and has one woman already under instruction who -seems thoroughly interested. Lee Haim, our greatly-valued helper -at Oroville, is obliged to return to China, and Lem Chung, of the -Sacramento Mission, takes his place for a time. Miss Waterbury -reports that there was a good attendance and evident attention at -his last preaching service, and after service his hearers crowded -about him asking him questions about the miracles of Christ, of -which he had been speaking. He told her, “I feel so _proud_ of -Christ. He was with me, helped me speak, put words into my mouth.” - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -[We give, just as they were written, two letters from Indian boys -at Hampton for our young readers to puzzle over. We know they will -sympathize with Jonathan’s longing for his ponies, and commend -his purpose and effort to be content without them and study hard. -Our older readers will doubtless be struck with the other letter -as curiously resembling that of a German attempting English. -His substitution of d for t, and of p for b is quite funnily -Teutonic.—ED. MISSIONARY.] - - * * * * * - -MY DEAR FRIEND:—I thought I would write to you a few line, use to -be in my home, last summer I went out on a hunting Buffalo away -off in the west, we off in Texes country, and I saw many Texes and -they was trying to fight the Pawnee, but every Pawnee was afraid, -because they are good many Texes that makes the Pawnee afraid just -like all white men the Pawnee do like them to fight and Texes kind -afraid do and they stop and them went home every one. Would come -back any more. - -When I was a little boy I use to play all time would doing nothing -just only play all the time, now I like to worked hard like very -much indeed, because if I work hard and get some money note to go -away, that is the reason we like them for I come in Hampton Normal -I used to live in my tents and stay all time in my tents, when I -was a little boy I used to take care of them ponies all time and -every morning and take the ponies in a nice grass is and have good -to eat them nice grass note to way to take care of them. Now I am -doing to school I would take care of them horse and make fat horses -any more because I will try and be contented. My father used to -talk me about fight the Sioux a long time ago now stop fight and be -our friend all of them kind to each other. I went to school about -one year in my home that is the reason do know how to talk English -because I went to school one year. That is all I can say now - - From your friend - JONATHAN HUSTICE. - - * * * * * - -DEAR FRIEND:— I hope I write you to day, to let you Know what I -was doing when I was a young. Well I was working in my father his -farm. We pland some wheat and potatoes, we pland every thing, what -we want in a winder. And after-wile we had a school house in our -settlemend, so we can go to school, and that time I was very glad -to school every day and I minte my teacher what he tells me to to -and that time I was school two years and the next year I heart to -talk aboude the blacksmith shop, to put some podday a boy to learn -his trade put he coult find him any boy to learn fasd, and then the -other day I get a letter from our agt. and he dolt me if I like to -be a black smith, and I recived his letter to tell him that I am -very willing to be a black smith so I pegan to work every day, an -when I work one year I heard some boys to send to school some whre -and after wile he ask me if I like to school I told her I shoult -like to have it So I come here do learn a Good away and so that -I can teach my tribe a good away and I dry hard to learn fast to -learn write well and so that I help my tribe. I am sorry that I -going to say thire was a grait many Indians in our State. Thay are -very goot she can not understand to work himself. Some of them she -understand to write some thing his own Good. Dear sir I am glad -that you help us I am very much obliget to you, and then I will dry -hard to learn fast, it all I can to say. - - Yours very Respectfully, - ALEXANDER PETERS. - from Wis. State. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR APRIL, 1880. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $231.05. - - Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15.00 - Bethel. F. B. and H. C. B. 1.00 - Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.12 - Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00 - Gorham. Cong. Soc. 28.12 - Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch. 101.43 - Machias. Centre St. Ch., $13.38, and Sab. - Sch., $7 20.38 - Portland. “A Willing Worker” 2.00 - Wiscasset. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.60. - - Amherst. Cong. Ch. 36.75 - Atkinson Depot. Gyles Merrill, $50.; Mrs. - Gyles Merrill, $25; M. H. C., 50c. 75.50 - Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.58 - Derry. H. T. 1.00 - Greenville. E. G. Heald 6.00 - Hampstead. MISS J. S. EASTMAN, $30. to const. - herself, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12 42.00 - Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 5.00 - Hollis. By Geo. Swain 18.00 - Mason. Ladies, _for Storrs Sch._, $10;—H. B. - H., $1 11.00 - Milford. Cong. Ch. 11.63 - Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.51 - New Boston. Children’s Mission Circle of - Presb. Ch. 18.00 - New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln 10.00 - Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.63 - - - VERMONT, $389.31. - - Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., - (ad’l.), to const. SAMUEL JEWETT, ERNEST - PATTERSON, MRS. M. G. REMINGTON, MRS. A. C. - BINGHAM and MISS L. MARIA RAY, L. M’s 12.93 - Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; - Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.15 27.15 - Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 87.81 - Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.) 7.00 - Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.55 - East Hardwick. Mrs. L. A. P., $1; Mrs L. W. - J., $1 2.00 - East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox 5.00 - Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Marshfield. Lyman Clark 10.00 - Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.) 1.00 - Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, Memorial - Contribution, to const. MRS. JOHN SPENCER, - L. M. 30.00 - Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.52 - North Thetford. “A Friend” 2.00 - Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.78 - Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Sab. Sch. of - First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 - Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Waitsfield. A. M. B. and G. I. B. 1.00 - West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 12.06 - West Fairlee. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.27; Dea. J. - P. S., $1 14.27 - West Townshend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.74 - West Westminster. Mrs. Z. D. 0.50 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. - MISS ELLEN S. STEELE and MISS HARRIET - HERRICK, L. M’s. 56.00 - —— “A Friend” 20.00 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $4,447.11. - - Amherst. Second Cong. Ch. 10.58 - Andover. “Little Gleaners,” by Miss E. E. A., - Bbl. of C., _for Savannah. Ga._ - Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.10 - Auburndale. Mrs. T. S. W. 1.00 - Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding 50.00 - Barre. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. REV. - J. F. GAYLORD, L. M. 30.00 - Bedford. Trin. Ch. and Soc., to const. SAMUEL - DAVIS, L. M. 32.75 - Berlin. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. 5.00 - Boston. S. D. Smith (Organs), $400;—Geo. F. - Kendall, $5, _for Indian M._;—John L. - Shorey, 20 cop. “Nursery,” _for Talladega, - Ala._ 405.00 - Boxford. ——$1, _for Savannah, Ga._; Mrs. C., - 50c. 1.50 - Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Brimfield. Ladies’ Union of Second Cong. Ch. - $10, _for a Lady Missionary_; Miss P. C. - Browning, $10; Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3 23.00 - Brockton. “Friend,” $15;—“Friends,” 2 Bbls. of - C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ 15.00 - Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. Soc. 105.57 - Cambridge. Mrs. J. S. S., $1;—Bbl. of C. 1.00 - Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc., Mon. Con. - Coll. 7.98 - Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.07 - Conway. Mrs. William Tilton 2.00 - Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 205.29 - Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 30.07 - Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00 - Florence. A. L. Williston, $500; Florence Ch. - Coll., $111.48 611.48 - Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.18 - Granby. Cong. Ch. 19.50 - Greenfield. Ladies, Box of C., _for Atlanta, - Ga._ - Groton. John H. Goddard 500.00 - Hadley. E. Porter 10.00 - Hardwick. E. B. Foster 5.00 - Harwich. “Thank Offering” 1.25 - Haverhill. “Two Ladies,” _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 30.00 - Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 73.30 - Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fiske 5.00 - Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.23 - Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.19 - Jamaica Plain. “A Friend” 100.00 - Lancaster. LEGACY of Sophia Sterns, by W. W. - Wyman, Ex. 5.25 - Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch., $70, to const. - JAMES HARTLEY, and MRS. MARIA T. BENSON, L. - M’s; —— $5, _for Savannah, Ga._;—Rev. J. - Coit, $3.56, and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._ 78.56 - Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.02 - Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.00 - Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.57 - Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc. 69.41 - Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.32 - Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.82 - Mattapoisett. A. C. 1.00 - Melrose. G. L. M. 0.50 - Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00 - Newburyport. Miss P. N., $1; S. N. B., 50c.; - J. C. Cleveland, Bbl. of C. 1.50 - Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc., $125; “A - Friend,” $60; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $29.17;—Miss. Soc., $20, _for rebuilding - barn, Talladega, Ala._ 234.17 - Northampton. First Cong. Ch., $92.81; I. G. - Jewett. $2.15 94.96 - North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.87 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.28 - Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for “Leah,” - Tougaloo, Miss._ 7.50 - Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 139.98 - Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.76 - Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 - Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 102.16 - Salem. Mrs. E. O. P. 0.50 - Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.87 - South Abington. “A Friend” 1.00 - South Deerfield. ESTATE of Dea. Zebadiah - Graves, by C. A. Stowell, Ex. 108.46 - Southville. “A Friend” 2.00 - South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to - const. MRS. DEBORAH M. TIRRELL, L. M. 45.00 - Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $42.75; First - Cong. Ch., $34.75; Mrs. J. D. L., $1 78.50 - Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., Box of C. - Templeton. J. L. 1.00 - Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for Hampton - Inst._; —— $5, _for Savannah, Ga._ 35.00 - Townsend Harbor. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for - Macon, Ga._ - Upton. Mrs. M. F. C. 0.50 - Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. PHILLIP - JONES, L. M. 43.91 - Watertown. Mrs. J. A. 0.60 - Wayland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.90 - Webster. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.05 - West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00 - West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - Westport. Pacific Union Church 4.00 - West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch. 9.63 - West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett 5.00 - Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.75 - Wilmington. “Friends,” $100, _for Student - Aid_;—Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.90 136.90 - Winchester. Steven Cutter 80.00 - Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $135.94;—Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $50; G. H. - Whitcomb, $15, _for Student Aid, Straight - U._,—Salem St. Ch. and Soc., $11.88 212.82 - Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.05 - —— “A Friend” 1.00 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $99.71. - - Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $71.71;—A - few Ladies in Cong. Ch., $28, by Mrs. Wm. J. - King, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 99.71 - - - CONNECTICUT, $3,029.74. - - Ansonia. First Cong. Ch. 22.17 - Bloomfield. Mrs. Sally Gillet, to const. - LOUISA M. HODGES, L. M. 30.00 - Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 17.68 - Coventry. Second Cong. Ch. 51.23 - Darien. Cong. Ch., $30, and Sab. Sch., $7 37.00 - Easton. S. R. D. 1.00 - Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 35.00 - Farmington. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. 39.08 - Glastonbury. W. S. Williams, _for Fisk U._ 1,000.00 - Greeneville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 39.85 - Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 62.75 - Guilford. Third Cong. Ch., $33; First Cong. - Ch., $20 53.00 - Hadlyme. Joseph W. Hungerford 50.00 - Hartford. Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $16.45; - Wethersfield Ave. Sab. Sch., $5.23 21.68 - Lyme. Old Lyme Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.68 - Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch., $6, and - Sab. Sch., $10;—“Friends,” $1, _for postage_ 17.00 - Meriden. Center Cong. Ch. 12.21 - Middletown. First Ch., $36.53; Third Cong. - Ch., $16 52.53 - Milford. Anna C. Nettleton 2.00 - New Haven. First Ch., $134.70; Ch. of the - Redeemer, $85; College St. Cong. Ch., - $41.23; Howard Ave. Cong. Ch., $20 280.93 - North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Elihu - Dickerman, $2 27.00 - Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., ($30 of which from - Mrs. Chas. Lee, to const. WILLIAM G. ABBOTT, - L. M.) 700.00 - Plainville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - DOUGLAS W. MASON, L. M. 50.00 - Putnam. Mrs. Geo. W. Keith, $25; Mrs. E. W. - Spaulding, $25 _for Student Aid, Talladega - C._ 50.00 - Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch. 7.01 - Simsbury. Cong. Soc. 19.00 - Somersville. Cong. Ch. 50.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 41.35 - Vernon. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Savannah, - Ga._ 10.00 - Wallingford. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - West Hartford. Mrs. F. G. B. 0.50 - West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball 10.00 - Westford. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Whitneyville. Cong. Ch. 51.00 - Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 75.00 - —— “Friends,” _for Student Aid_ 53.09 - —— “A Friend” 20.00 - - - NEW YORK, $1,936.88. - - Ballston Spa. ESTATE of Titus M. Mitchell 200.00 - Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $167.46;—By Wm. - E. Whiting, $50, _for Chinese M._;—Mrs. Lucy - Thurber, $5 222.46 - Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. 21.40 - Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G. - Fairchild, $5 10.00 - Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00 - Gloversville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Straight U._ 40.00 - Honeoye. Miss Hannah Pitts 25.00 - Kiantone. Cong. Ch. 8.55 - Lumberland. Cong. Ch. 1.00 - Madison. G. H. H. 0.50 - Millville. Cong. Ch. 5.63 - Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 28.90 - Newark. James H. Reeves 5.00 - Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Box of Books - New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. 1,000.44 - New York. “A Friend,” $100;—S. T. Gordon, - $100;—D. J. Carson, $50, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 250.00 - Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, $5; L. C., $1 6.00 - Rome. John B. Jervis, $25; Miss C. Hurlburt, - $12 37.00 - Salem. B. C. 1.00 - Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, Bbl. of C., and - $5, _for Freight, for Talladega, Ala._ 5.00 - Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, $7; Miss F. A. - C., 50c. 7.50 - Tarrytown. “S. M. M.” 0.50 - Troy. Rev. Chas. Redfield 5.00 - Verona. Cong. Ch. 17.66 - Victor. “H. P.” 0.50 - Wellsville. Cong. Ch. 19.79 - Westfield. Mrs. A. B. R. 1.00 - Yaphank. “A Friend” 5.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $231.87. - - Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 11.75 - Jersey City. Tab. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30, - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,—Tabernacle Ch., - M. C. Coll., $8.62 38.62 - Lakewood. Rev. G. L. 1.00 - Montclair. First Cong. Ch., in part 170.00 - Newark. “A Friend” 10.00 - Orange. “T. F. S.” 0.50 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $90.04. - - Cambridgeborough. “W. G.” 0.54 - Farmers Valley. Mrs. E. C. O. 1.00 - Hulton. W. W. Grier, _for Student Aid_ 30.00 - Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch. 6.50 - Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester 5.00 - Prentiss Vale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy, $10; Wm. - Lovejoy, $2 12.00 - Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland 5.00 - West Alexander. Dr. Robert Davidson, $20; —— - $10 30.00 - - - OHIO, $1,290.25. - - Akron. Cong. Ch., $175.06, to const. DWIGHT W. - HIBBARD, THOMAS RHODES and MRS. LYDIA W. - ASHMAN, L. M’s;—Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 200.06 - Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, _for Woman’s - Work for Women_ 5.00 - Bissells. Mrs. S. H. E. 0.50 - Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, $5, _for Foreign - M._;—“A Friend,” $5 10.00 - Burton. Cong. Ch., $30.27, ($5 of which from - Mrs. L. R. Boughton); Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $10 40.27 - Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student - Aid, Tougaloo U._ 10.25 - Clarksfield. Mrs. Wm. A. A. 1.00 - Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., (of which - from Mrs. N. Scott, $2, Mrs. L., $1), - $23.96; Rev. Peter Kimball, $2; Individuals, - _for A. M._, $3 28.96 - Crab Creek. Welsh Cong. Ch. 3.17 - Fredericktown. A. H. ROYCE, ($30 of which to - const. himself, L. M.) 500.00 - Geneva. Cong. Ch., ($5 of which from Chas. - Talcott, and $3 from James Ford) 23.70 - Huntington. Edward West 25.00 - Huntsburgh. “Earnest Workers,” Box of C., _for - Talladega, Ala._ - Lindenville. David Parker and Samuel Beaty 10.00 - Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.37 - Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.95; Young - People’s Miss. Circle of First Ch., $30, to - const. MISS ALMEDA RUNYAN, L. M. 91.95 - Marietta. Cong. Ch. 90.98 - Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger, - Treas. 11.00 - Newark. “A Thank Offering,” $50; Mrs. J. C. - Wheaton, $10, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 60.00 - Oberlin. First Ch., Branch of Oberlin Freed - Woman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Wm. G. Frost, - Treas., _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00 - Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch. 28.00 - Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 21.04 - Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First - Cong. Ch., by Miss M. J. Leslie 15.00 - Xenia. Mrs. Sarah S. Morrow 7.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $128.05. - - Benzonia. E. F. Spencer 10.00 - Frankfort. First Cong. Ch., $3.71; O. B., $1 4.71 - Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woodville, - Ga._, $40; E. M. Ball, $10 50.00 - Homestead. Cong. Ch. 1.87 - Joyfield. Cong. Ch., (ad’l) 2.00 - Kalamo. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Marsh, _for - rebuilding barn, Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 - Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25 - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—“J. W.,” $1 26.00 - Kensington. “J. T.” 1.00 - Mattawan. W. B. Gorham 10.00 - Vermontville. First Cong. Ch. 13.00 - Vienna. Union Cong. Ch. 7.47 - - - INDIANA, $2.00. - - Sparta. John Hawkswell 2.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $822.02. - - Alton. Church of the Redeemer 55.35 - Aurora. New Eng. Ch. 35.74 - Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 2.25 - Chicago. ESTATE of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. W. - Blatchford, $250, _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._, and $112.50, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._;—New England Ch. Sab. Sch., - $46.90 _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._;—Bethany Cong. Ch., $15.21;—New Eng. - Ch., M. C. Coll., $11.82; Miss Anna E. - Bushnell, $5; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, $5 446.43 - Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 25.00 - Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. O. V. - RICE and J. S. SMITH, L. M’s. 81.85 - Moline. Thomas Jewett, $50, _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._, Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._; S. W. W., 75c. 75.75 - Oak Park. Cong Ch., in part 28.10 - Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Princeton. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, - Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs. C. C. Cully 15.00 - Seward. Cong. Ch. 11.50 - Wyanet and Providence. Cong. Churches, _for - Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs. - C. C. Cully 9.50 - - - WISCONSIN, $47.35. - - Beloit. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega - C._ 5.00 - Berlin. Union Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 5.00 - Caledonia. M. E. N. 1.00 - Geneva. Presb. Ch. 26.35 - Salem. “R. and F.” 5.00 - Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor 5.00 - - - IOWA, $148.81. - - Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 5.80 - Cedar Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, 3 bbls. of - C., _for Talladega, Ala._ - Des Moines. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 - Des Moines. Mrs. S. A. R., by Pub. “Advance” 1.00 - Dubuque. Ladies, by Mrs. M., _for Tougaloo_ 1.21 - Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 5.53 - Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 15.00 - Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby, $3;—Grace L. - Brewer, $2.80, _for Student Aid, Washington - Sch._;—Mrs. H. P. Fisk’s Sab. Sch. Class, - $1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 6.80 - Hampton. First Cong. Ch. 7.75 - Keokuk. M. A. Smith 5.00 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 15.61 - New Hampton. Woman’s Cent. Soc. 1.46 - Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $7, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._; Woman’s Miss. Soc., $4.45 11.45 - Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner, $20, _for Student - Aid, Tougaloo U._, and Box of Books, _for - Library, Talladega C._ 20.00 - Sabula. Mrs. H. H. Wood 3.00 - Stuart. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 9.20 - Tabor. A. S. McPherron, $9.75; Musical Union, - $10.25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._; “A - Friend,” $5, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 25.00 - - - KANSAS, $83.55. - - Atchison. Cong. Ch. 56.55 - Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker 5.00 - Topeka. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 15.00 - Waubaunsee. First Ch. of Christ 7.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $166.96. - - Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 1.11 - Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch. of St. - Anthony 16.12 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 6.16 - Owatonna. Cong. Ch. 2.83 - Saint Paul. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Waseca. Cong. Sab. Sch., $7; “C. and K.,” $5 12.00 - Winona. First Cong. Ch., to const. EDWARD - KEYES and MISS FRANC. B. LAIRD, L. M’s 73.74 - Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch., to const. T. D. - ROWELL, L. M. 30.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $2.50. - - Camp Creek. G. F. L. 0.50 - Steele City. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - - WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $0.50. - - Olympia. Mrs. H. H. S. 0.50 - - - OREGON. $22.15. - - Oregon City. Rev. A. N. Bower 10.00 - The Dalles. First Cong. Ch. 12.15 - - - CALIFORNIA, $5.00. - - Sonora. Mrs. H. M. Van Winkle 5.00 - - - MARYLAND, $100.00. - - Baltimore. T. D. Anderson 100.00 - - - WEST VIRGINIA, $5.00. - - Charleston. Mrs. Sarah Neale 5.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $345.85. - - Chattanooga. Rev. Joseph E. Smith, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 - Memphis. Lemoyne Sch., Tuition 192.15 - Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 103.70 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $119.25. - - Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition 25.53 - Wilmington. Tuition 93.75 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $25.00. - - Aiken. Mary R. Bell, _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._ 25.00 - - - GEORGIA, $549.90. - - Atlanta. Storrs’ Sch., Tuition, $211.15, Rent, - $3; Atlanta U., Tuition, $116.50;—“Friends,” - $25, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 355.65 - Macon. Tuition 58.25 - Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $60.70, Sales, - $69.79 130.49 - Stone Mountain. E. M. M. 0.51 - Woodville. Rev. J. H. Sengstacke, _for - building at Woodville_ 5.00 - - - ALABAMA, $289.03. - - Mobile. Mission Band, Emerson Inst., by Ella - F. Grover, Sec., _for Mendi M._ 40.00 - Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund 175.00 - Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $73.03; G. - N. E., $1 74.03 - - - FLORIDA, $1.00. - - Orange City. Mrs. M. D. H. 1.00 - - - LOUISIANA, $166.00. - - New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 166.00 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $122.05. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $102.05; O. A. - Angell, $20, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 122.05 - - * * * * * - - —— Small sums, _for Postage_ 3.19 - - - INCOME FUND. - - —— Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 4,000.00 - —————————— - Total $19,222.72 - Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th, $105,834.64 - - * * * * * - - FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Springfield, Vt. A. Woolson 100.00 - Andover, Mass. G. W. W. Dove 100.00 - Salem, Mass. Joseph H. Towne 25.00 - Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. A. Perkins 100.00 - New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, $25; - John B. Smith and Wife, $20 45.00 - Norwich, Conn. Dr. D. T. Coit 400.00 - New York, N. Y. “A Friend” 15.00 - West Farms, N. Y. Daniel Mapes 200.00 - Hyde Park, Penn. Thomas Eynon 50.00 - Philadelphia, Penn. Benj. Coates 100.00 - ————————— - Total $1,135.00 - Previously acknowledged in March Receipts 2,752.00 - ————————— - Total $3,887.00 - - * * * * * - - FOR NEGRO REFUGEES. - - Wethersfield, Conn. Jane S. Robbins, $6, and 3 - Bbls. of C. 6.00 - Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. M. A. F., $1; Miss M. L., $1 2.00 - Goshen, N. Y. “A Friend” 1.00 - Silver Lake, Penn. Wm. Macnab 2.00 - Lena, Ill. S. Rising 4.50 - Benzonia, Mich. Rev. D. B. Spencer 6.05 - Hancock, Mich. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - ——————— - Total $41.55 - Previously acknowledged in March Receipts 362.25 - ——————— - Total $403.80 - - * * * * * - - FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA. - - Chicago, Ill. Annual Meeting 195.54 - Danvers, Ill. Rev. M. L. Longley 5.00 - Kalamazoo, Mich. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 6.77 - ——————— - Total $207.31 - Previously acknowledged in March Receipts 453.28 - ——————— - Total $660.59 - - * * * * * - - FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA. - - Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional - pledge, £3,000. - London, Eng. Collected by Rev. O. H. White 1,701.00 - Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts 3,048.76 - ———————— - Total $4,749.76 - - * * * * * - - Receipts for April $22,307.58 - Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th $115,535.79 - =========== - - 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, counseling, 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 hold 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. Powell, 112 West Washington Street. - - -MAGAZINE. - -This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen -who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of -Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; -to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does -not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year -not less than five dollars. - -Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in -their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the -following - - -FORM OF A BEQUEST. - -“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in -trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person -who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the -‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, -under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, -to its charitable uses and purposes.” - -The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States -three are required—in other States only two], who should write -against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, -their street and number]. The following form of attestation will -answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published -and declared by the said [A. B.] as his Last Will and Testament, -in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in -his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto -subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required -that the Will should be made at least two months before the death -of the testator. - - * * * * * - - - - - [Illustration] - - J. & R. LAMB, - 59 Carmine St., N. Y. - CHURCH FURNISHERS - - Memorial Windows, Memorial Tablets, - Sterling Silver Communion Services. - SEND FOR CIRCULAR. - - - * * * * * - - - EDUCATE - - YOUR - - DAUGHTERS. - - - Give them all the advantages offered by - - WELLESLEY COLLEGE, - -at a very moderate expense to residents, by purchasing one of four -nice Houses, for sale by - - C. B. 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KINGSBURY, Sec., Bradford. - RUFUS ANDERSON, D.D., LL.D., Boston. - RAYMOND H. SEELEY, D.D., Haverhill. - SAMUEL D. WARREN, Boston. - EZRA FARNSWORTH, Boston. - Hon. WILLIAM A. RUSSELL, Lawrence. - JAMES R. NICHOLS, M.D., Haverhill. - FREDERICK JONES, Boston. - - - * * * * * - - - BOARD OF INSTRUCTION. - - MISS ANNIE E. JOHNSON, Principal. - - - MISS SARAH M. DAWSON, - Natural Sciences. - - MISS MARY E. MAGRATH, - Latin and Greek. - - MISS MARY F. PINKERTON, - English Literature and Language, - and Modern History. - - MISS ELIZABETH M. BENSON, - Literature and Ancient and - Mediæval History. - - FRAUL ANTONIE STOLLE, - French and German. - - MISS MARGARET C. LORING, - Mathematics. - - MISS MARY C. BARSTOW, Piano. - - PROF. SAMUEL M. DOWNS, - Piano, Organ and Vocal Music. - - MISS JENNIE E. IRESON, - Elocution and Gymnastics. - - REV. JOHN LORD. LL.D., - Lecturer on History. - - PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG, - Princeton Coll. Lecturer on Astronomy. - -[Illustration: PARLOR OF A SUITE.] - - - CALENDAR, 1880–81. - - FIRST TERM opens September 7th, 1880 - FIRST TERM closes November 24th, 1880 - SECOND TERM opens November 30th, 1880 - SECOND TERM closes March 4th, 1881 - THIRD TERM opens March 22d, 1881 - THIRD TERM closes June 22d, 1881 - - Recess at Christmas-time. - - - TUITION. - - FOR THE COURSE, which includes English branches, - Latin and French, Greek or German, Vocal Music in - Classes, per term, $20.00 - Academic Expenses for the year, including all - charges. No extras. $320.00 - Instructions on Piano, per quarter of 24 lessons, $20.00 to $40.00 - Use of Piano one hour a day, per quarter, 3.00 - Instructions in Perspective Drawing, per quarter, - 12 lessons, 5.00 - Instructions in Painting in Oil or Water Colors, per - quarter, 12 lessons, 8.00 - -Reduced rates to daughters of Missionaries in the home or foreign -field. - -Application for circulars may be made to MISS ANNIE E. JOHNSON, -Principal, Bradford, Mass. - - - * * * * * - - - PAYSON’S - - Indelible Ink, - - FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A - COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A - PREPARATION. - - - It still stands unrivaled after 50 years’ test. - - - _THE SIMPLEST & BEST._ - -Sales now greater than ever before. - -This Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all -rivals. - -Report of Judges: “For simplicity of application and indelibility.” - - - INQUIRE FOR - - PAYSON’S COMBINATION!!! - -Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many -Fancy Goods and Furnishing Houses. - - - * * * * * - - - Brown Brothers & Co. - - 59 WALL STREET, - - NEW YORK. - -=Buy and Sell Bills of Exchange= on Great Britain and Ireland, -France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, =Issue Commercial and -Travelers’ Credits, in Sterling=, available in any part of the -world, and in =Francs= for use in Martinique and Guadaloupe. - - Make Telegraphic Transfers of Money - - Between this and other countries, through London - and Paris. - -=Make Collection of Drafts drawn abroad= on all parts of the United -States and Canada, and of =Drafts drawn in the United States= on -Foreign Countries. - -=Travelers’ Credits= issued either against cash deposited or -satisfactory guarantee of repayment: In Dollars for use in the -United States and adjacent countries; or in Pounds Sterling for use -in any part of the world. 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PAINTER, aided by the -steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and teachers -in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications from -careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY -furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward -among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the -Freedmen as citizens in the South and as Missionaries in Africa. - -It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting -the races among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of -current events relating to their welfare and progress. - -Patriots and Christians interested in the education and -Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and -assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new -year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum. - -The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the -persons indicated on page 190. - -Donations and subscriptions should be sent to - - H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer, - 56 Reade Street, New York. - - * * * * * - - TO ADVERTISERS. - -Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the -AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of -Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in -Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore, -a specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals, -Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church -Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c. - -Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for -space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its -circulation. - -Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order -to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in -relation to advertising should be addressed to - - THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT, - 56 Reade Street, New York. - - * * * * * - -☞ Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of -the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning, -when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine. - - - DAVID H. 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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. 6, June, 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: May 9, 2017 [EBook #54689] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JUNE, 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) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div> -<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXIV.</p> -<p class="float-right smcap">No. 6.</p> -</div> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">JUNE, 1880.</p></div> - -<div class="wrap"><h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> - -<div class="center"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_161">161</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Six Preachers, all Called—New Industries and Significant Features of New -Life in the South</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_166">166</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Negro, on the Status and Exodus of the Negro</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_167">167</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Conditions of Indian Civilization—African Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_169">169</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Items from the Field</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_170">170</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Tour of the Conferences</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_172">172</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">North Carolina Conference</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_175">175</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">South-Western Congregational Association</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_176">176</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Georgia, Macon—<span class="chaplinen">Revival</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_177">177</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama—<span class="chaplinen">Notes from Selma</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_179">179</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Letter from Prof. T. N. Chase</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_180">180</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Politics and the Mission, etc.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_182">182</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Letters from Indian Boys</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_184">184</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_185">185</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Constitution</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_189">189</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Aim, Statistics, Wants</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_190">190</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> -<p class="center">NEW YORK.</p> -<p class="center">Published by the American Missionary Association,</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p> - -<p class="center medium">Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>American Missionary Association,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> -<p class="center medium medium"><span class="smcap">Hon.</span> E. S. TOBEY, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE-PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table class="medium"><tr><td class="tdpr"> -Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, D. D., Mass.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. J.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br /> -Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa.<br /> -Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br /> -<span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y. -</td> -<td> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br /> -<span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Dea. <span class="smcap">John C. Whitin</span>, Mass.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> -Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -<span class="smcap">E. A. Graves</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Daniel Hand</span>, Esq., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. L. Williston</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. F. Beard</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Frederick Billings</span>, Esq., Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Joseph Carpenter</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">E. P. Goodwin</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Goodell</span>, D. D., Mo.<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. W. Scoville</span>, Esq., Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">E. W. Blatchford</span>, Esq., Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">C. D. Talcott</span>, Esq., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">John K. McLean</span>, D. D., Cal.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Richard Cordley</span>, D. D., Kansas. -</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center medium"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> -<div class="center medium"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.<br /> -<br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table class="medium"><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">C. T. Christensen</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edgar Ketchum</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Pratt</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">J. A. Shoudy</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="center medium">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. <span class="smcap">C. C. Painter</span>, at the New York Office.</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p class="medium">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.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_161" id="Page_161">[161]</a></p> - -<p class="center">THE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> - -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXIV.</span></div> -<div class="third center">JUNE, 1880.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 6</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p>As we go to press, we are happy to announce the safe arrival of -Prof. Thomas N. Chase, from our Mendi Mission.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>That 20 per cent.</em> increase in our appropriations, voted at -Chicago, and voted also by the Executive Committee, has not as -yet been furnished by our friends. We are compelled to urge it -upon their attention that we are in danger of falling behind the -appropriation, to our grief and the detriment of the work, unless -they come gallantly to the rescue.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Who Will do It?</em>—One of our missionaries in North Carolina -suggests, and we cordially second the suggestion, that some of our -friends send us the means for distributing 1,000 copies of the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span> to as many prominent men, clergymen and others, -through the South. We are confident that a like sum of money could -not be expended in a way to tell more favorably upon our work after -the means have been supplied to carry it on. Will not some generous -friend of the South send us the money?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Tougaloo’s Plea.</em>—Through its workers, this Institution puts in a -most pathetic plea to the Executive Committee for an appropriation -for a new building. How they inquire, can 120 persons be seated in -a dining-room large enough for only 80? Or how can fifty girls be -put into 16 small dormitories? The Executive Committee gives it up, -and sends it along as too much of a 15-puzzle. The plea melts the -hearts of us who have no money, so we make it to those who have, -hoping some one will help to a solution of this problem.</p> - -<p>Fully as difficult is that propounded by President Ware, of -Atlanta: Sixty-two girls in rooms fitted for forty, and prospects -that the number cannot be kept down to that. It could be easily -increased to one hundred next year. The $10,000, given from the -Graves estate for a building, must be supplemented by $5,000 to -make it adequate to pressing need. Who gives the answer to <em>this</em>?</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_162" id="Page_162">[162]</a></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><cite>The Christian Recorder</cite>, Philadelphia, (organ of the A. M. E. -Church,) in noticing the “Fool’s Errand,” refers to the fact that -the Fool found himself limited to the society of the teachers of -the colored schools and a few Northern families, and asks: “Why -so? Were there no colored people there? The South ostracised him -because of his <em>opinions</em>, while <em>he</em> ostracised the negroes -because of their <em>color</em>.” Of the two, the <cite>Recorder</cite> believes the -South the more rational and consistent.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Laws of Heredity.</em>—One of the—not fathers, but great-grandfathers, -in Israel, writes a pleasant note from Jewett City, Conn., to say -how much pleasure he takes in reading the “Receipt pages” of the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, finding them the most interesting of the -whole. He notes as an especially pleasant feature, the increasing -number of “friends,” who send, as in the last number, from $2.00 -to $1,747.50. He mentions with great satisfaction that he has -learned to look regularly in the May number for a contribution -from the grandson of an old French Huguenot, who fifty years ago -hobbled regularly to the parsonage on the morning after missionary -meetings, and asked him (the writer) to get 25 cents out of his -purse for the work, which always left the purse empty. The grandson -now sends $20. Of him, he says, with Leigh Hunt, “May his tribe -increase.” We shall be glad if investigation on the part of some -missionary Darwin shall establish the fact that such tendencies are -transmitted with accumulating force from father to son.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In Southwest Texas, at a Freedman’s country home, our -Superintendent found a Bible which had this inscription, printed -upon a fly-leaf at the front:</p> - -<p>“One of 10,000 Bibles presented to the Freedmen of America by -the Divinity Students’ Missionary Society, connected with the -United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. Printed at the University -Press, Oxford, for the National Bible Society of Scotland.” So -does religious beneficence percolate the most distant regions. -Our colored fellow-citizens have been made the recipients of an -immense amount of material and spiritual sympathy on the part of -British Christians. These Divinity Students will be glad to know -that this Bible, sent by their Society some ten years ago, is used -for morning and evening family worship in an interesting household, -which possesses its own farm, and which furnished hospitality to -our representative.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A dozen years ago, one of our lady teachers at a Southern -capital had a shower of stones driven through the window of her -school-room. At another time, some “fellows of the baser sort” -brought in some drunken Mexicans to annoy the school. A guard of -soldiers was placed at the school-house, and she was escorted to -and from the school by the same. Now she has so many friends among -the Southern white people that she says she doesn’t like to hear -them spoken against. She has not time to reciprocate their social -attentions. The school has proven a great success. She has her -fifty teachers out at work and she is as enthusiastic as ever.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Rev. Geo. E. Hill</em>, of Marion, Ala., mentions a few facts in a -private note which doubtless he deemed too commonplace for formal -communication to the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, yet significant and -hopeful. Not every pastor, even in favored New England, is so -fortunate in his young people.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_163" id="Page_163">[163]</a></p> - -<p>On a recent Sabbath, one of his boys, who is to graduate this -summer from Talladega, preached for him, and proved himself a good -speaker, possessed of a clear, logical mind, with the promise of -being a useful man. On the next day, he and another member of his -church, also a Talladega student, spoke at the meeting of the Young -Men’s Christian Association extemporaneously, but with great beauty -and force. His missionary meetings are conducted in a way that -might be profitably followed by such of our churches as have like -helpers. The subject of the last one was “Africa,” illustrated by -a large map. Miss M., a graduate of Fisk University, read a paper -on the Mendi Mission, “which would have done honor to any of our -Northern churches.” She is possessed of a true missionary spirit -and Bro. Hill hopes she will find her way into the mission field, -notwithstanding a misfortune which has partially disabled her.</p> - -<p>He has also a Young People’s Club for intellectual culture. At -its last meeting, the programme included: A sketch of Gen. Grant; -a paper on Mormonism; a sketch of Eli Whitney; a history of -Umbrellas; a reading, recitations, etc.</p> - -<p>He seems to have a church of “Holy Endeavor,” with the athletics -and pastimes left out.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>A Confederate and a Man.</em>—He was a colonel. He is the editor of a -leading journal of the South. Some years since, an educated mulatto -woman from Ohio went South to secure a position as a teacher. She -was thrust into the smoking-car to endure the commingled filth and -ribaldry of the place.</p> - -<p>After securing her position, it was necessary to return home -before entering upon her duties. She sought the intervention of -the colonel. He went to the local superintendent, who sent orders -along the line over three roads which gave her admission to the -ladies’ car, both on her way home and on her return. She proved a -splendid teacher and noble woman, and the colonel is proud to have -championed her cause, when to do so was unpopular.</p> - -<p>The same colonel is now wielding a great influence in the South in -favor of negro education, and recently, both in his paper and at a -public meeting, has expressed thanks to the A. M. A. for work it -has been doing in the South.</p> - -<p>The influences multiply and reach out in every direction, which are -destined soon to bring a total and wholesome change of sentiment, -North and South.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We have received the proceedings of the Colored Men’s State -Immigration Convention, held in Dallas, Texas, the latter part -of February. An association was formed whose object is to locate -colonies of colored people on Government lands in that State. Mr. -S. H. Smothers, editor of the <cite>Baptist Journal</cite>, of Dallas, said -in his address, as explanatory of the Exodus movement among his -people, what seems to have escaped the attention of the Senate -Exodus Committee, that the negro may act from the same motives that -influence white men. His address is full of good common sense, as -the following may show:</p> - -<p>“Only a few weeks ago, in a conversation with a colored immigrant -from Georgia, I asked him why he left that State and came to Texas. -He replied that a great many of his white neighbors were moving to -Texas, and he thought that whatever was good for them would be good -for him.</p> - -<p>“Much has been said in regard to the wrongs and oppressions of -which our people complain. While, doubtless, there is some ground -for their <a class="pagenum" name="Page_164" id="Page_164">[164]</a>complaint, their hardships, in my opinion, are more -the result of their illiterate condition than all things else. -If a class of white laborers were as illiterate as our people, -they would be equally oppressed as are the Irish tenants to-day. -Capitalists look out for their own interest, and will, if they can, -oppress one man, be his color what it may, as soon as another. We -should remember that knowledge is power and ignorance is weakness. -The protection which we most need is the power which education and -property give. For my own part, all I ask of any man is an equal -chance, and then if he can outstrip me in the race of life, let him -do it.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Lovedale Missionary Institute</em>, South Africa, is said to be the -busiest industrial college in the world. During the session which -closed with 1879, there were in all 393 pupils of both sexes, many -of them boarders, who paid in fees £1,006, beside £510 still due. -Livingstonia and Blantyre sent 6 pupils; 19 came from Natal; 11 -from the country of the Barolongs. The carpenter had 30 apprentices -and journeymen under him; the wagon-maker 8;the blacksmith 5; the -printer 4; the bookbinder 2. On the farm were raised 1,054 bags of -corn, beans, potatoes and wheat.</p> - -<p>Twenty-one students, of whom eleven were Kaffir -certificated-schoolmasters, were under theological instruction. Dr. -Stewart thinks the home churches will hardly continue the present -number of missionaries beyond the lifetime of those now in the -field, and that the work will be done by a native ministry.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A “Livingstonia Central African Company,” for promoting legitimate -traffic among the natives, has been organized by a society of -gentlemen interested in the civilization of the “Dark Continent” -and in the development of its resources. Direct communication is -to be opened with Central Africa, and a road has already been -constructed a distance of sixty miles around the cataracts of the -Shiré, which, connecting with a line of steamers, will constitute -a line of 800 miles from the coast. Two Christian gentlemen of -Edinburgh, Messrs. John and Frederick Moir, are at the head of -the company. It is to be no less a missionary than a commercial -enterprise, and there is every reason for believing that in both -respects it will prove a success. The natives are becoming fully -awake to the advantages of the extensive and solid business -facilities possessed by the company, whose future will be watched -with great interest.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The <cite>West African Reporter</cite>, of Sierra Leone, in announcing changes -in the officers and probably in the location of the Liberia -College, (Dr. Blyden having been appointed President; and the -trustees, leave being given by the legislature, having voted to -co-operate with the American Board in a plan to remove the college -further into the interior,) expresses itself strongly in regard to -the injury done to natives who have been sent to Europe to receive -their education. It sums the result thus:</p> - -<p>“We find our children, as a result of their foreign culture—we do -not say <em>in spite</em> of their foreign culture—but as a <em>result</em> of -their foreign culture—aimless and purposeless for the race—crammed -with European formulas of thought and expression, so as to astonish -their bewildered relatives. Their friends wonder at the words of -their mouth. But they wonder at other things besides their words. <a class="pagenum" name="Page_165" id="Page_165">[165]</a> -They are the Polyphemus of civilization—huge, but sightless—<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">cui -lumen ademptum</i>.”</p> - -<p>To some extent the same holds true of negroes from the South, -educated in the North for work in their old homes.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Onondaga and Oneida Indians.</em>—There are in the State of New York -eight Indian reservations, aggregating 86,336 acres of land, a -little less than 18 acres to each of the 5,093 Indians who occupy -them. These lands are held by tribal and not individual titles. A -few of these Indians have become thrifty farmers, but the most of -them are idle and poor; probably one-half are still pagans. A bill -has been introduced into the Legislature to abolish, with consent -of the Indians, the treaty of 1788, and distribute these lands -in severalty to these people. This would end the fatal communal -system, which has proved in this, as it must in all cases, so -deadly to all prosperity. Each Indian would thus become, under the -laws of the State, a land-owner, and amenable to the laws on the -same footing as other citizens.</p> - -<p>Under the present tribal system, the father has nothing but his -tomahawk and scalping knife to leave to his children, and transmits -only a disposition to use them. Give him the right to acquire a -title to something else, and he will doubtless acquire and bequeath -it.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">There is a poor blind Samson in this land,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Shorn of his strength and hound in bands of steel,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Who may in some grim revel, raise his hand,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And shake the pillars of this commonweal,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Till the vast temple of our liberties<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>That same “blind Samson” is in the land to-day. It is the Negro, -uneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. It is the white -man, uneducated, immoral, with a ballot in his hand. For it makes -no difference. The harm lies back of the color. The consequences of -ignorant suffrage, by whomsoever exercised, can be only detrimental -to the peace and welfare of the State. Free institutions can be -built up only on the basis of intelligence and integrity. Without -intelligence and integrity, the best cannot long survive. If there -be large numbers on whom this right has been conferred, but who are -densely ignorant, especially if these large numbers are grouped in -a single section, like these millions of negroes and poor whites -in the South, it is an official notice served on the nation that -no time is to be lost in imparting the mental and moral training -requisite for the right discharge of these sacred functions of -voting. Men are not left to settle this question of helping with -schools and churches, merely on the ground of humanity or Christian -duty. Their interest is challenged, and their very selfishness is -under contribution. We do not put matches in children’s hands, and -then leave them to play about hay-mows. If we give them matches -we train them in the use of them. With an instrument in his -hands so potent as the ballot, and with the possibility of using -the leverage of it in contingencies easy to be foreseen for the -overturning of the nation, it takes but half an eye to see that -the man who wields it ought to have an instructed mind and an -instructed conscience, and the State is not secure until he does.</p> - -<p class="right">—[<span class="smcap">Dr. Noble</span> <cite>in Advance</cite>.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_166" id="Page_166">[166]</a></p> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>SIX PREACHERS, ALL OF THEM CALLED.</h3> - -<p>[The following letter reveals the condition of <em>one</em> out of many -neighborhoods scattered all over the South, densely populated -with negroes, neglected by the whites, excepting as the agent or -overseer of the plantation looks after the owner’s interests as -connected with the labor of the people. No schools, no churches, -excepting such as are ministered to by preachers as ignorant and, -in many cases, as licentious as the people themselves. Just think -of it! The visit of this Sunday-school agent the first visit of -a white Christian to the hundred families; their religious and -other culture such as those six preachers could give! And this -not in Central Africa, but in the very heart of the southwest -portion of our own land! These people citizens of our republic, and -voters!—<span class="smcap">Ed. Miss.</span>]</p> - -<p>A missionary of the American Sunday-School Union in the Southwest -writes:</p> - -<p>“I recently organized a Sunday-school for the colored people at -Homan Station, on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern R. R., -in Miller County, between Texarkana and the Red River, where is -a large cotton plantation, and two others are near, having in -all more than one hundred families. Among them is one Baptist -church, and six preachers, every one ‘called!’ Only two of them -can read, and the pastor or ‘head-preacher’ is blind; and so are -all, in spiritual things, preachers and people. After delivering -an address, I found that only seven in the audience could read. -In all, fifty adults and children joined the Sunday-school and -promised to learn to read. I furnished them with primers, Bibles, -Testaments, etc., which seemed to please the plantation agent or -overseer as well as the people.</p> - -<p>“After the school was organized, the blind preacher gave a sermon -from Rev. xxii. 1, 2, another preacher doing the reading. I shall -not attempt to characterize the sermon, singing and responses. When -will white Christians, who know the way of life, surrender their -prejudices and teach these poor, benighted people the truths of the -Gospel? My visit was the first made by a white Christian worker to -this place, and will be remembered.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>NEW INDUSTRIES AND SIGNIFICANT FEATURES OF A NEW LIFE IN THE SOUTH.</h3> - -<p>It is a good indication of the movement of the South to manufacture -its own staples, that since 1866 it has set in motion 600,000 -spindles, of which Georgia has 213,157, a third of them being in -Columbus, and that the cotton mills at Augusta, Ga., alone turned -out $4,000,000 worth of manufactured products last year, paid ten -to twelve per cent. dividends, and carried a handsome surplus to -the sinking-fund accounts.</p> - -<p>The president of the large mills at Nashville, Tenn., assured us -that his mills in 1878–9 had earned fifteen per cent. dividends. -One of our wealthiest manufacturers of New England, who has -recently been to Eastern Tennessee, where he has an interest in a -new mill, says if twenty years younger, he would certainly go South -and invest largely in manufacturing. Everything is favorable for -such enterprise.</p> - -<p>This is in striking contrast with the time when the papers, voicing -the sentiment of Virginia, compelled the founders of Lowell, Mass., -to abandon their purpose of building their mills in Richmond, -because such industries were in deadly hostility to Southern -institutions.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_167" id="Page_167">[167]</a></p> - -<p>Another significant, but almost unnoted feature of the new South, -(for the old <em>is</em> passing away more rapidly than is generally -believed,) is the increasing favor with which the town system, but -more especially the common-school system, is regarded by the people.</p> - -<p>Under the old régime both were unknown. Virginia (and we believe -she was in harmony in this with all the other slave States) -pauperized the pupil who received aid, by making the overseer of -the poor the disburser of such funds as were appropriated by the -<em>County Court</em> for educational purposes.</p> - -<p>The business, which in New England is transacted by the citizens -of a town, assembled in town meeting, duly warned, and notified of -the business that could be brought before it, was, in the South, -transacted by the <em>County Court</em> for a whole county. Surprise is -often expressed that the people of the South can be led, in almost -solid masses, to the polls, to vote for men and measures which -those who know the private sentiments of the people are sure they -do not approve.</p> - -<p>But conceive of New England as having never sent her children to -a <em>common</em> school; as having never gathered in town meeting; as -having never known even a Congregational Church meeting, and, -at the same time, as having free thought on all questions of -public policy overshadowed, fettered and ruthlessly throttled -by an interest which enthroned itself as supreme in commercial, -political and social life, before which good society did homage, -and politicians sacrificed, and divines worshipped, without whose -approval nothing was right, and without whose protection nothing -was safe. Conceive what, under such circumstances, New England -would have been, and then cease to wonder that the pro-slavery -disunionist was not crushed, and that the Bourbon politician is not -buried under the <em>new sentiment</em> which lives in the South to-day.</p> - -<p>But it is manifest to anyone who knew the South under the old state -of things, and who has had opportunity of seeing it to-day, that -these two agencies which have made New England what she is, but -were unknown to the South—which were thrust upon her as a part -of the reconstructive machinery, against her sullen but helpless -protest, and were hated accordingly—are coming more and more into -favor with the people.</p> - -<p>It is noteworthy and significant that the Legislature of Tennessee, -last year, in all its frantic, unwise, and dishonest efforts to -reduce expenses, did not reduce her school appropriations. He must -be a blind observer and a dull reasoner who does not see that this -is most significant as showing that old things are passing away, -and all things are becoming new in a regenerated South.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>THE NEGRO, ON THE STATUS AND EXODUS OF THE NEGRO.</h3> - -<p>It is significant that the leading article in the current number of -the <cite>South Atlantic</cite>, the <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">élite</i> literary magazine of the South, -is by a colored man. His topic is, “The Status of the Negro, and -the Exodus.” It is able and fair in its treatment of the subject. -The editor disclaims responsibility for its statements, and -slightly apologizes for its publication; would have been glad, had -it not seemed unfair to the writer, to modify a few paragraphs; but -has given a negro full leave to tell his white readers just what he -thinks of negro status and exodus. This fact is one which should -not be forgotten.</p> - -<p>On the other hand, it would be well for us to hear just what an -intelligent negro has to say on this topic. The writer, Rev. D. J. -Sanders, indicates the difficulties<a class="pagenum" name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[168]</a> in the way of his people’s -progress; obstacles thrown in the way both by his friends and -his enemies; asserts that because of what <em>he is</em>, the negro has -made commendable progress in spite of these hindrances, aided by -missionary preachers and teachers who paid but little attention to, -and took no part in, the political events which were transpiring -about them. Evidently, in his estimation, the improved condition of -his people has not been due to political action, but to schools and -moral influences.</p> - -<p>He asserts that the Exodus has not been brought about by political -causes, though a certain class of politicians have done something -to spread the movement; nor is it due to the fact that educational -or religious privileges have been withheld, for, strictly, it -cannot be asserted that such has been the case. Persons who were -pronounced in their opposition to negro schools are, when this -movement begins, laboring side by side with those who have devoted -themselves to negro education. Whatever of politics, or education, -or religion may enter into the movement is merely incidental.</p> - -<p>Political abuse there has been, but the Exodus movement began after -this had for the most part ceased, and has raged most where this -abuse has been least known, as near the home of the writer, in -North Carolina.</p> - -<p>There have been, and are now in some States, unjust laws regulating -labor and wages. The script system, which permits the employer to -pay the laborer in script redeemable at his store, has been known, -and is ruinously unjust to the laborer, but in the two States -where this movement has been greatest, regulative legislation has -been in the one exactly the reverse of what it is in the other. In -Mississippi the landlord must fulfil his engagements before he can -force his tenant to quit. In North Carolina the tenant must fulfil -his before he can leave.</p> - -<p>Fundamentally, it is the impoverished condition of the people, -conjoined with restlessness, and supplemented by idle curiosity, -making change easy and desirable, which has exposed these poor -people to the designs of unscrupulous sharpers and demagogues. They -have inherited poverty, ignorance, improvidence, to say nothing -of positive vices. They have been hindered by positive efforts to -keep them down. They have been discouraged by the fact that success -would give them no social or political advantage, and so they -have either refused to labor, or have squandered in pic-nics and -cake-walks, for tobacco and whiskey, it is estimated, about eighty -millions of dollars annually.</p> - -<p>There have been, so far, about 28,000 of these <em>exodusters</em> who -have paid an average of about $16.65 to the railroad companies -for transportation. Out of this the companies have paid to the -unscrupulous agents who promote the movement, one dollar for full, -and fifty cents for half fares.</p> - -<p>The roads have received about $500,000 from these people, and -hope for at least half as much more from a return movement. The -emigrants have received in charity about seven cents each, as an -offset to the $16.65 which they have paid for transportation alone. -We know not what report the Senate Exodus Committee will make, but -are confident that it will come no nearer the truth in regard to -this movement than has the writer of this article. So long as the -negro is thus ignorant he will be helpless against the oppressor, -whether he be the old master or the pretended new friend. When we -know the possibilities yet undeveloped in the negro, and give full -scope to them, we shall know also what an element of wealth and -strength here is in what is now known as an incubus on prosperity -and a menace to our national life.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[169]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>CONDITIONS OF INDIAN CIVILIZATION.</h3> - -<p>Before the Indian can become civilized, the conditions of -civilization must exist. For him, at present, these are scarcely -possible. No mere tribe can attain to a civilized state, yet the -tribal relation is fostered and perpetuated by our policy. Such -agencies of a civilized life as civil courts, town meetings, common -schools, railroads, telegraphs, etc., these are simply impossible -so long as tribes of men are forced or permitted to wander over -vast territories to which they have no other title than that of -tribal occupancy. The prime condition of a home is an exclusive -title to the land upon which it stands and from which its support -can be drawn. Without a home, a high civilization is impossible, -but our policy has been to discourage, and too often render -impossible, the creation of a home by the Indian.</p> - -<p>He is the ward of the nation—a ward who has never been taken to -the maternal bosom as a child, who is not permitted to reach his -majority, or to care for himself, who is cheated by his guardian, -and unfitted by the whole course of his education for the duties -and responsibilities of manhood. There has been no false principle -of politics but has been applied to his regulation. There has been -no species of wrong, or injustice, or folly, which has not been -practiced upon him, and regarded by him as the exponent of our -Christian civilization.</p> - -<p>It is time this foolish and wicked treatment should cease; time -that we showed something like an honest desire to do justly by him, -even though incapable of wise statesmanship. The principles which -have lifted up savage tribes and made of them civilized nations are -historic, and might be known to, and their application attempted -by, the Government. Our Congressmen should be compelled to hear -other demands than those made by reckless adventurers who find the -Indian occupying lands he would possess.</p> - -<p>Judging from all past experience we have every reason to believe -that, under secure conditions of life and property, these tribes -would settle down and become worthy and excellent citizens. The -protection of the Indian must be individual and not tribal; it -must be found in courts which administer impartial justice, not in -longer-ranged rifles and fleeter ponies. In short he must have the -opportunities and defences of manhood, and thus be prepared for the -responsibilities and duties of citizenship.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>AFRICAN NOTES.</h3> - -<p>—The Mission church at Old Calabar, Western Africa, where the Rev. -E. P. Smith was buried, is spontaneously aiming at self-support.</p> - -<p>—A few French Protestant missionaries from South Africa, have -penetrated the great Barotse Valley, North of the Zambesi, with a -view to establishing a mission in this unevangelized region. M. -Coillard, the leader, is now in Europe, endeavoring to awaken an -interest in the new enterprise.</p> - -<p>—At the new San Salvador Congo Mission, excellent work has been -done during its first six months of labor. A school has been opened -and the scholars have made good progress. One hundred and fifty -on the average have attended preaching services; about a thousand -words of a hitherto unwritten language have been collated, and the -missionaries thank God and take courage.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_170" id="Page_170">[170]</a></p> - -<p>—Mr. Adam McCall, a converted engineer, with seven years’ -experience in African life, has gone out from the East London -Mission Institute, in charge of an expedition, planned to reach -Stanley Pool this summer. Here he proposes to establish a -good, strong industrial station, to which the natives from the -surrounding country may be attracted, and where they may gather -round a centre of civilizing and Christianizing influence.</p> - -<p>—The mission of the United Presbyterians in Egypt has been signally -blessed. They have thirty-five stations, nearly one thousand -communicants, and over twelve hundred pupils in their schools, -and have received, in all, assistance equal in value to $120,000. -$40,000 of this was from the late Viceroy, and $80,000 from His -Excellency Maharajah Dhuleep Singh.</p> - -<p>—According to Mr. Stanley’s report, the population in the upper -Congo region is very dense. The towns in some places are two -miles long, with one or more broad streets between rows of neat -well-built houses, superior to anything in East Africa. Mr. Stanley -is constructing a good road, ten feet wide, on the lower Congo, -past the rapids and cataracts. Relief stations are to be built at -intervals for the benefit of merchants, missionaries and explorers, -according to the original plan of the King of the Belgians.</p> - -<p>—Coal is said to exist in abundance in the vicinity of St. Paul -river, Liberia, West Africa, and a survey for a railroad has -recently been, made on the St. Paul river.</p> - -<p>—“The conditions of health in the Gaboon, West Africa,” says -Rev. S. H. Murphy, a Presbyterian missionary, “are good living, -godliness, cleanliness, tranquillity, patience, and quinine.”</p> - -<p>—A Trans-Sahara Railway from Algeria to Soudan, across the Desert -to Timbuctoo on the Niger, and another line from Senegal to the -Niger, are proposed by the French. The necessary explorations -for the first of these schemes are being made by Duponchel, a -celebrated engineer, and for the second by Soleillet, another -celebrated engineer and explorer.</p> - -<p>—The Dutch Church in South Africa began on January 2d the -publication of their first weekly religious paper, in the Dutch -language, called “<cite>De Christen: Weekblad voor Kerk en Maat -schappij</cite>;” (<cite>or the Christian; a Weekly for the Church and -Society</cite>.) It is well gotten up, and is indeed quite an attractive -sheet.</p> - -<p>There are several large and enterprising secular sheets published -at Cape Town.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hampton, Va.</span>—“I am glad to tell you that two of your -Indian boys, Murie and Hustice, are to unite with our church on -next Sunday.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Raleigh, N. C.</span>—The spiritual condition of the church is -still very encouraging. Fifteen persons entered into covenant last -Sunday, which made it a day of rejoicing. Six others have been -voted into the church, and will enter into covenant at the next -communion.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilmington, N. C.</span>—A pleasing incident occurred at our -communion season last Sabbath. Four generations in one family were -represented, from the aged great-grandmother to the infant who -was presented for baptism by its grandmother, a close-communion -Baptist; her impenitent son, the father, and the young mother, who -is a member of our church, standing by her side. The grandmother -afterward communed with us.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_171" id="Page_171">[171]</a></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Charleston, S. C.</span>—Mr. Cutler writes: “Yesterday was a -grand day for us. The church renewed its covenant. About 100 were -present. Some 30 or 40 others sent word that they wished to do so. -We are now in a condition to go forward. I trust the renewal was -made sincerely.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Augusta, Ga.</span>—“At one place where I called, an old lady had -the care of several grandchildren. One evening she said, ‘I don’t -know what I shall do to-morrow, for I’ve only one nickel left.’ -Then, one of the grandchildren replied, ‘Grandma, don’t you know -you always say, “the Lord will provide”? Don’t you worry; it will -be here in the morning.’ And sure enough she went over to the depot -the next morning, and two ladies asked her to wait on them, and -gave her fifty cents, and another said, ‘Here, auntie, take this -basket and empty it for me,’ and there was provision enough to last -all day and part of the next. ‘Children, you just trust the Lord,’ -is a remark she often makes.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Woodville, Ga.</span>—“Our revival is still going on. God is with -us. Brother Markham preached here last Sunday, and four persons -were admitted to membership.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Milledgeville, Ga.</span>—A society for little children has -recently been formed in this town, known as the “Rising Youths’ -Society.” It promises well. The Sunday-school is still flourishing.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McIntosh, Ga.</span>—The church work is growing. Five have been -added to the church since last July, and a number are to unite at -the May communion.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miller’s Station, Ga.</span>—From Miss Douglass: “You see by the -date that I am once more out of Savannah. It was hard to get away, -for there were many who were inquiring, and needed to be sought out -and led to the Saviour. I came out to fill an appointment for a -Bible reading here last night. There were only thirteen present, as -it was rainy. One of these was an old gray-headed man, who suffers -much from rheumatism. He walked nearly two miles to get here, yet -expressed himself as ‘very much satisfied’ with the pay he received -for his walk.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McIntosh, Ga.</span>—Rev. A. J. Headen writes: “I have a great -deal of walking to do because I have no horse, and I am not able to -go as much as I might if I had one. Please see if you can help me -to secure one through some friend. I give you my word it would add -a hundred per cent. here to our work if a horse could be put in the -field. Some days I walk from eight to nine miles to see the people -and to attend to church work.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—Rev. S. E. Lathrop writes: “When Brother Rogers -was here he told us we ought to ‘pray for a missionary horse.’ -Whether that is the best way to get one or not, I am not sure, but -I do wish we had one. When I see a serviceable horse, I sometimes -feel like breaking the tenth commandment, and saying, as the -disciples said to a certain colt’s owner, ‘The Master hath need of -him.’ We feel the need of some kind of locomotive power, as the hot -weather of spring has begun. Our long walks under the burning sun, -take the starch out of our linen, to say nothing of the lassitude -and fatigue of body. There are no street cars now running in -Macon; they are bankrupt, defunct and buried (<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">i. e.</i> the tracks) -under sand and gravel. Some of our members live two miles in one -direction and some three miles in another. The whole congregation -are scattered far and wide, hence they are somewhat irregular, and -the labor of visitation is much increased. If we had a horse we -could accomplish much more, besides saving something on draymen’s -bills, etc., etc. All our workers <em>need</em> the recreation of riding -for the sake <a class="pagenum" name="Page_172" id="Page_172">[172]</a>of health, and we can’t afford to hire hacks. Now I -don’t know why I wrote this, except that I do feel like ‘praying -for a missionary horse.’ Join your prayers with ours.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>—The theological students at Talladega -College have just been favored with a course of lectures on -Eschatology by Rev. H. S. De Forest, President of the College. The -students manifested a lively interest in these lectures, and in -the study of the intricate and somewhat obscure field of thought -traversed by them. The lecturer having positive views, combined -with much classic and theologic learning on the themes discussed, -and possessing a warm, Christian heart, did not fail to make a deep -impression on all who heard him.</p> - -<p>Eight young men will be graduated from the Theological Department -of the College this year, all of whom will enter the Congregational -ministry in the South. They are now warmly welcomed to the pulpits -of all denominations, and are recognized as an important factor in -the elevation of the colored people in this region.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Kymulga, Ala.</span>—A very interesting temperance meeting is -reported. Sixty persons were present. The exercises consisted of -singing, addresses and selections by the members of the Society. -Rev. H. S. De Forest, of Talladega, visited the Sunday-school and -preached for the people.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Childersburg, Ala.</span>—Rev. Alfred Jones writes: “My work is -in a lively condition. I have a full house. My people seem to study -the Bible with greater interest than they ever have before. Some -come to my church who did not like it at first.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Anniston, Ala.</span>—Rev. P. J. McEntosh has been the victim of -a very pleasant “April Fool.” On returning from Conference he was -invited into the chapel, and found, to his great surprise, that -an excellent stand for the choir had been erected, with banisters -and place for books. The work had been done with the proceeds of a -surprise party given while he was away.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,</p> - -<p class="secauth">FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>A TOUR OF THE CONFERENCES.</h3> - -<p>It took six weeks. Other pens were engaged to write up the details. -Some notes by the way, may be in place. The Kentucky Association -did not elect delegates to the National Council. There will be yet -another chance at the July meeting. Rev. John G. Fee is opposed -to any representation in that body beyond that of an honorary -character. Membership in it, he thinks, would be an endorsement -of the sect principle, and inconsistent with the position of the -Kentucky Association, which is simply a body of Christian ministers -and churches. He claims that testimony must be borne, if only in a -small way. At the National Council in Oberlin, I was delighted with -the catholic and non-sectarian spirit with which the delegates of -this body were welcomed to membership. I should say now: Keep on -sending delegates to encourage and emphasize that testimony. That -is the only ecclesiastical body in the United States that would -offer such organic fellowship.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_173" id="Page_173">[173]</a></p> - -<p>You have been told of the new era in our work, marked by the -opening of half a dozen of the homes of the first families in -Selma, Alabama, for the entertainment of the white members of the -Conference. It was not merely the offer of their houses as eating -and sleeping places, but it was a delicate and attentive Christian -hospitality, which invited the guests around from home to home in -order to the extension of acquaintance. When grateful words were -said to Major Joseph Hardie for having led the way, he answered -that that gave him too much credit; that the places had all been -opened cheerfully, and that, after the sessions were over, other -families had said: “Why didn’t you give us a chance? We would -like to have had some of those folks.” Another host, referring -to the mutual satisfaction, said: “It is just because we are -getting better acquainted.” In the same line was the opening of -the Presbyterian pulpit, morning and night. The exercises of the -Conference, with a printed programme and prepared articles, were of -a high order and well sustained throughout. It was much like one of -the Western General Associations.</p> - -<p>In the Louisiana Conference, at Terrebonne, of the twenty-six -members, the only two white men were Pres. Alexander and the -Superintendent. It was not a literary tournament, but a glowing -religious convocation. Before the adjournment, eight or ten souls -were inquiring the way of life, and some fervid spirits remained -to extend the flame. Our dear brother, Rev. Daniel Clay, the -entertaining pastor, with his own home and his church upon the same -plantation where for thirty-seven years he had served as a bondman, -is a very patriarch among the young ministers, loved and revered -by us all. The last meeting of this Conference, at New Iberia, was -followed by a revival that added one hundred to the company of the -disciples. Next year we are to go back to Terrebonne.</p> - -<p>The regular time for the meeting of the Association of -South-Western Texas is in July, which in the South is the slack -time of the year, with the corn and the cotton “laid by,” and which -is the usual period, among both colored and white, for revival -meetings, as is the winter at the North. This year the brethren -undertook to bring it forward to April, so that the Superintendent -might be with them, but, as everybody was plowing corn and chopping -out the cotton, the effort brought to Helena only the two pastors, -B. C. Church and M. Thompson. Yet we had a glorious four days’ -meeting, with preachings, conferences, a communion, a season of -baptizing, and a class meeting, which, according to the custom -of the church, precedes the communion as a preparation. People -came six, nine, or twelve miles. The native pastor, Mr. Thompson, -preached an able and moving sermon upon trust in God. The regular -meeting will be at the same place in July. This Church has a -dignified and efficient deaconess, who looks after the many little -things in the parish, which a woman can do better than anybody -else. It did seem appropriate that a woman’s taste should be -employed to arrange her Lord’s Table. I took pleasure in pointing -out to her, once a slave, the likeness of her work to that of -“Phebe, the servant of the Church at Cenchrea.” I had the pleasure -of a ride in the nice missionary buggy which Bro. Towne had given -to our presiding elder, Church. It is a good deal better, now that -he is sixty-seven, though straight and spry, when he camps out, -to have this vehicle to lie under, than to have only the starry -firmament over him. It helps to keep company on the prairie for the -preacher and the picketed pony.</p> - -<p>For ingenuity of swindling, can any pale face beat the darkey when -he tries? <a class="pagenum" name="Page_174" id="Page_174">[174]</a> -Down this way, one was going about selling tickets to Kansas for -five dollars down, and four upon arrival. In one place he took in -some forty of his confiding brethren. Some came to the railroad -agent, my informant, to learn of the cheat. Others, at another -place, had got on board to find that their tickets were a sham. -Another black sharper, for one dollar and a half, was making out -the papers for land which Queen Victoria was to give them, since -Uncle Sam had failed on the “forty acres and a mule.”</p> - -<p>On the way, making one hundred miles north by hack to Austin, I had -my desire satisfied in overtaking one of the great droves of cattle -moving northward. It numbered three thousand. We struck them as -they were passing across a valley, so that every creature was in -view. A grand sight it was, preceded by the four-mule commissary -prairie schooner, attended by the twenty cow-boys in saddle, with -cracking whip and awful spurs, and with the relay of sixty horses -in drove, each driver having a change of four. The dreadful drouth -of the last year, which carried corn up to 25 cents a bushel, was -apparent in the poverty-stricken quality of the beasts and in the -scraping up of old scalawags and yearlings and two-year-olds to -make out the drove. Out of three counties here last year, 25,000 -horses were taken. These go in droves of from twelve to fifteen -hundred. Multitudes of them, as they run from colts upward, are -sold for five dollars each. Mine host, a colored man, while I was -with him, sold eight head of broken horses for $155, to be paid -next fall, without interest. In some droves, fifty sucking colts -are sometimes shot in a day, as impediments of the march.</p> - -<p>The Parker farm has in it 24,000 acres. Six thousand of these are -to be cultivated to raise grain for fattening the 4,000 cattle -which are to be shipped by rail. Collins Campbell, Esq., twenty -years from Vermont, has his 15,000 acres, with 7,000 fenced. I -found him a stated reader of the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>, -and retaining those well-balanced sentiments which his own Green -Mountains had bred. He sells land to the Freedmen. One of his -neighbors, whose hospitality I enjoyed, is Gabriel Washington. I -wonder if that archangel has not sufficient regard for “the Father -of his Country,” and for this, its dusky citizen, to be pleased -with this collocation of names? Our Gabriel is so much of the earth -earthy, that he owns 1,260 acres of its soil, and has a model farm, -with its orchard, cotton gin, and its big Yankee woodpile, the -finest one I have seen in the South. His buxom wife had been down -the day before, twelve miles, to our big meeting.</p> - -<p>Austin is picturesquely located on the north bank of the Colorado, -and is a city of 12,000 inhabitants, half of whom are said to -be colored; and the finest, most sightly spot about the Capital -has just now been crowned with the much admired “Tillotson -Institute.” It is to be opened October 1st. Mrs. E. G. Garland, -whose marriage with one of Gov. Davis’ judges did not interfere -with her school work, has for several years been in charge of the -Evans school-house, built by the Freedmen’s Bureau, and called -by her maiden name. The last year, fifty of her scholars were -out teaching. Her school numbered the last term 120. Surely, it -was time for the living institution to take to itself ampler -accommodations, and to advance to a higher grade. With all my heart -I commend this struggling enterprise. Texas has been neglected. It -must now be brought into the line of our educational work. Rev. -Dr. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church, which -was planted by Dr. Daniel Baker, is one of the trustees of the -Tillotson Institute, and is working for it heartily. A sermon at -Paris and a lecture at Memphis will complete the work of the tour.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_175" id="Page_175">[175]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>NORTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE.</h3> - -<p>This is the Benjamin of the Congregational Israel. Its first -meeting was held one year ago at Raleigh. Its second occurred June -7th–9th at Dudley. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. Geo. S. -Smith, a graduate of the Atlanta University, pastor at Raleigh, -upon Paul’s determination to know nothing but Christ, and Him -crucified. It was an able, stimulating, faithful discourse, urging -that ministers in fidelity to this doctrine must not be afraid -to preach against current sins. The morning prayer-meeting that -followed, throbbed and warmed with the idea of Christ as a present, -personal Saviour, and all the meetings had a spiritual glow.</p> - -<p>Rev. D. D. Dodge was made Moderator, and Rev. D. Peebles, Scribe. -The five churches had come to be six, the new one being at -Hilltown, in the west part of the State, and having as pastor Rev. -Islay Walden, a graduate of the New Brunswick Seminary, ordained -by the Dutch Classis of that locality, who had been a slave in the -region where now he is preaching the Gospel. A gracious revival, -and a meeting-house under way, are the fruits of the first six -months of the life of this church. These six churches and the five -schools of the A. M. A. in the State, were all represented.</p> - -<p>McLeansville was fixed upon as the place of the next meeting, -where Bro. Connet has his church and high-school. The Conference -was favored with the presence of Miss Farrington, lady missionary -aided by the ladies of Maine, and located at Wilmington, and also -with a visit from Misses Waugh and Barker, located at Newbern as -missionaries of the Chicago Baptist Ladies’ Society. These ladies -are doing a blessed work in the region round about. In April last, -going together, they had traveled 300 miles, and had held 80 -meetings.</p> - -<p>Two colored young ladies of rare cultivation, one an Episcopalian -from Philadelphia, the other a Presbyterian from Long Island, sent -down by the Society of Friends to teach in this neighborhood, -reported the happy working of their Bands of Hope, the idea of -which they had taken from Mr. Peebles’ Band in Dudley.</p> - -<p>Do the friends of the American Board and Home Missionary Society -know that we down here are broadening their field for harvest? Some -of these little churches reported contributions to aid the white -people out West in supporting the Gospel and to send missionaries -abroad. The one at Wilmington claimed itself to be the Banner -Church of all the constituents of the American Board, having given -more than any other, according to number and means, as judged by -the report of Dr. Alden.</p> - -<p>And so the good friend, “Howard,” who is about to help this church -to a house of worship, will see that he is sowing seed in good -ground.</p> - -<p>Rev. H. E. Brown, Secretary of the Freedmen’s Dept. of the -International Y. M. C. A., in his work at the South, has this -season held six of his union Bible meetings at Washington, -Richmond, Raleigh, Dudley, Wilmington, and Savannah, three of -which, as will be observed, were in this State. The series has been -one of great interest and profit. There are three points of special -notice. The first is the quickening of the spirit of Christian -union among these people, whose sectarianism is quite intense. -The second is the great honor which is put upon the word of God -by the constant service of Bible readings, with the plans of the -same multiplied for the people by his portable copyist. The third -point in this work is, that revivals of genuine Bible religion are -usually the result. This was true at the meeting at Raleigh, where -there were about 300 conversions among the colored people. There -is manifest an abiding increase of regard for the word of God. The -quality of the converts<a class="pagenum" name="Page_176" id="Page_176">[176]</a> is also hopeful. As another perceptible -result, union meetings, led by an Evangelist, have since been -held by the white Churches of that city, and there were about 200 -hopeful conversions in these. We congratulate the Y. M. C. A. upon -this successful inauguration of their work among the Freedmen. -And we make grateful recognition of the influence of Maj. Joseph -Hardie, of Selma, Ala., a member of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, in -selecting and introducing Mr. Brown to this work in his own city.</p> - -<p>I am happy to make mention also of the work of Rev. E. E. Rogers as -an Evangelist in our Church at Macon, Ga. He has proven himself a -judicious and successful laborer, wise, earnest and loving. Pastor -Lathrop is very emphatic in commending him. Resulting from the -stimulus of this meeting, special services were projected in all -the other colored churches of the city. And as a matter of fact, -revival meetings in the white churches followed. Mr. Rogers had -also been a worker of the A. M. A. in former years. We hope that -his services in the future may be secured in this line of special -movement in our churches at the South. They have come to a degree -of intelligence and of steadiness that will encourage such endeavor.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>SOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.</h3> - -<p class="section">Annual Meeting at Terrebonne, La., Apr. 7–10.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.</p> - -<p>The fact that our meeting was to be at Terrebonne, where we have -a live, growing church, and a vigorous, devoted minister, gave -promise not only of a hospitable welcome, but of a profitable -season of communion.</p> - -<p>Brother Clay and his church had made every preparation. One hundred -and fifty dollars had been raised and expended in putting the -church and parsonage in perfect order. A long room in the house -adjoining the church had been provided with a table sufficient -to accommodate the delegates, and the table was furnished with -new tumblers, knives and forks and spoons, and the kitchen with -a new stove, all involving a good bill of costs, but met with -the greatest cheerfulness, and without the thought of hardship; -and then the members of the church and congregation brought in -chickens, hams and bread, and everything to satisfy the appetite of -hungry men, and I find that Louisiana Congregationalists eat with -the same relish as their brethren in the New England Associations. -So much for the material part of the feast, for which Brother Clay -and his flock deserve all praise and thanks.</p> - -<p>With the exception of two of the small mission churches, every -church was represented. Terrebonne is central, and the Morgan -R. R. extension (finished to New Iberia), makes communication -easy and rapid. There is something delightful about a new church -organization. There is an inspiration in building upon newly-laid -foundations, and every member feels that he is essential to the -success of the movement. In an organization representing many years -and great numerical strength, a man of quiet, retiring spirit is -lost to view; but in the first years, every heart and hand are -needed.</p> - -<p>The reports from the churches indicate a pure and steady growth. -The process of cutting off dead branches has gone on, so that -although nearly two hundred have been received during the year, the -numerical gain over all losses has been very small. We are glad to -believe that the sixteen hundred members in the churches of the -Association represent more solid moral worth than in any previous -year. In the business sessions, when questions requiring wisdom and -prudence were presented, and in the discussions of vital religious -topics, I was gratified to observe real progress in the ability, -self-control and kindly Christian spirit of the brethren.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_177" id="Page_177">[177]</a> These -annual meetings serve as a profitable school, and are attended by -willing and eager learners. It was a great joy and blessing to have -Dr. Roy with us this year. The brethren have already learned to -love him, and to confide in his counsels. The Association placed -him under heavy tribute at this meeting. At their request he give -an address on “Our Country,” and with his large illustrative map -indicated the vast extent and marvelous resources of what is now -<em>their</em> country, and of which <em>they</em> are citizens. But a few years -ago the <em>plantation</em> was all the country they knew anything about, -and from the law of the plantation there was no appeal. But now -they belong to Uncle Sam’s family of 50,000,000, and can look to -him for protection.</p> - -<p>Dr. Roy gave an address on our Congregational polity, which -greatly delighted the people. Hitherto, many of them have loved -Congregationalism without being able to give a reason for it. The -address was timely and profitable, because the brethren, while not -waging a denominational warfare with other churches, desire to be -intelligent in regard to their own faith, and to be able “to give a -reason for the hope that is within them.”</p> - -<p>The annual sermon, by Rev. W. P. Ward, of Gretna, was earnest and -practical, and prepared the large audience for the sermon of the -Moderator which followed it. But few congregations in the North -would bear two sermons on the same evening, but they not only -did that at Terrebonne, but by song and prayer and exhortation -continued the service another hour. The brethren seconded the -appeals of the preachers from the pulpit, and went down among the -people, entreating them to come to Christ by repentance and faith. -Eight came forward and kneeled down for prayer, and many hands went -up in the audience. God put honor upon His truth that night, and -the hearts of the people were touched.</p> - -<p>The sermon of Dr. Roy on the last morning was tender and searching, -and the tears of the people showed that he had not spoken in vain.</p> - -<p>The Church in New Iberia called Rev. W. R. Polk, and he has already -entered upon his work. He has a good field. May God give him grace -to cultivate it.</p> - -<p>Five “missionaries at large” were chosen. Some of them already -have churches, and take on all the supplementary work for which -they can find time. These men are unsalaried, and depend, in their -missionary tours, upon the thoughtful kindness and hospitality of -those to whom they go. Hospitality is a virtue among this people. -They exercise it “without grudging.” They have a real love for -sharing their “loaf” with him, be he stranger or friend, who calls -at their door. It is only necessary that he have the “password” of -the Christian Church.</p> - -<p>Rev. W. S. Alexander and Rev. Isaac H. Hall were elected delegates -to the National Congregational Council.</p> - -<p>The next meeting of the Association will be held in Terrebonne the -1st Wednesday in April, 1881. Brother Clay said: “I haven’t been -half paid for my trouble. You must come back next year.”</p> - -<p>Greeting to all the sister Associations in the North! Perhaps we -should say <em>filial</em> rather than <em>fraternal</em>, but the infant of five -years ago is a good, strong child to-day, and we claim a seat at -the family table.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>GEORGIA.</h3> - -<p class="section">Our Revival.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON.</p> - -<p>Our church observed the week of prayer, and there seemed to follow -an unusual tenderness in the regular prayer-meetings. The people -became more united and earnest, and it was evident that the way -for better things was being prepared. In February, some of the -brethren suggested sending for the aid<a class="pagenum" name="Page_178" id="Page_178">[178]</a> of Rev. E. E. Rogers, of -Orange, Conn., who was pastor here from 1869 to 1873. I wrote and -found that the way was open for his coming, and we began at once -to hold extra prayer-meetings. Brother Rogers came during the last -week of February, and remained five weeks, preaching and laboring -with uncommon earnestness and consecration. The Lord has evidently -fitted him for this special work. The church took hold with -remarkable unanimity. I never have known any church in the North -to be so thoroughly united in revival effort. The contagion spread -to other churches, many of them soon beginning to hold special -services. This somewhat lessened our audiences, but a general -revival spirit spread through the city, and still continues. During -one or two weeks we held union afternoon prayer-meetings with a -colored Baptist church, a very uncommon thing in this country.</p> - -<p>The meetings were quiet, tender, impressive throughout. The -people are beginning to get out of their old ideas of a noisy -conversion. Some of the “old-time” quaint, plaintive songs are, -however, wonderfully apt and appropriate in such seasons, ranking -among the most effective “spiritual songs.” We held neighborhood -meetings in various localities, which seem more necessary here as -the people are so widely scattered. One disadvantage we found was -the necessity for late hours at night. Some of our people are “in -service,” and cannot get away early, and the rest do not finish -their work until night, and afterward must go home and get supper, -and walk from one to three miles to church. Our little band, -however, were remarkably faithful in attendance, though we could -not often begin the preaching until half-past eight or nine o’clock.</p> - -<p>One peculiarity which I discovered during the meetings was, that so -many of the colored people labor so long under conviction before -conversion. I had formerly supposed them to be a very religious -people, easily persuaded to become Christians; but my experience is -(confirmed by that of other workers), that very many labor under -intense conviction for many days, and even for weeks, coming to -the “anxious seat” every night for long periods, and seeming, for -some reason, unable to yield themselves up. No doubt this is in -part owing to the traditions handed down from the older ones, and -in part to ignorance of the true way. Yet, even after much personal -labor and explanation is given, they often remain unenlightened. It -is a phenomenon to me, especially as it is seen in the case of some -of the most intelligent.</p> - -<p>There have been from twelve to fifteen hopeful conversions. Ten -have united with our church, four of whom are heads of families, -and the rest promising young men and women. Some have united with -other churches. It is the custom here with some to seize hold of -converts at once and endeavor to persuade them into other churches. -Sometimes the different denominations (of the old-time churches) -wrangle over converts.</p> - -<p>One Saturday night we held a neighborhood meeting in the house -of a well-to-do colored family. The strains of song floated out -from door and windows, and the sound fell upon the ears of a “poor -white” woman of the lowest class, who was living illegally with -a deaf colored man. Her heart was stirred. She asked permission -to attend the next prayer-meeting, held at the same house on the -following Saturday. There she rose, and, with tearful voice, -confessed Christ, in the midst of her dusky audience. It seems -to be a genuine conversion. She brought in one night three other -degraded white women, one of whom was also living illicitly with -a colored man, another, who had not attended church for fourteen -years, and the third, who had never before in her life entered the -doors of a church! And now comes<a class="pagenum" name="Page_179" id="Page_179">[179]</a> the question, like that of the -famous novel, “What will He do with it?” This poor, erring woman -is in frail health and hardly able to earn her living. She lives -with a colored man whom, she says, she is willing to marry. She -wants to marry him and join our church. But here the civil law -steps in and says, “Thou shalt not.” It is a crime in the eyes of -this commonwealth for white and colored persons to inter-marry, -and whoever celebrates such a marriage lays himself liable to a -thousand dollars fine. Of course, we cannot admit her to the church -while living in her present relations. She cannot marry, according -to the law; she has no friends, and is not able to support herself -if she should leave him. Even now she is so poor that she has to -borrow shoes and other clothing in order to attend church. The -white churches here have no room for such persons. She is in a more -pitiable condition than even the lowest of the negroes. Such are -some of the problems that beset us. Another of these white women is -the prodigal daughter of a good family, and we are endeavoring to -persuade her to return to her friends.</p> - -<p>Our revival has strengthened the church, and has caused us all to -“thank God and take courage.” Brother Rogers returned to his home -with the benedictions of a multitude. We trust the work has not yet -ceased.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>ALABAMA.</h3> - -<p class="section">Missionary needed.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. C. E. CURTIS, SELMA.</p> - -<p>We are in the midst of a great union effort here that has been -opening the eyes of all the churches to the great need of -missionary work right at our doors. The whole city has been -districted off and workers assigned from one of the different -churches to each district. These are expected to visit every -family, take down the name and residence of each person five years -old and upward, with his religious condition and needs, present -those who may not be in the habit of attending Sunday-school with -a card of introduction to the superintendent of any school they -may prefer, have religious conversation, Bible reading and prayer, -wherever it can be done to advantage, and urge upon all, young and -old, a regular attendance on Sunday-school and church services. -Every week, we hold meetings to hear reports from the workers -in the different localities, and these meetings are intensely -interesting. It would rejoice your hearts, I know, to hear the -uniform testimony of delight in the work from those who, in many -cases, entered upon it with fear and trembling. At the same time, -the amount of religious destitution, intemperance and superstition -brought to light in this city of churches and schools (there are -eight churches and four schools for the colored people here), is -alarming. Out of twenty-one families, visited by one worker, only -two had Bibles, all but two used tobacco, and the majority whiskey. -Of twenty-two families visited by myself, only eight had any church -members among them, and the great majority used both whiskey and -tobacco. Very few attended Sunday-school. One hadn’t been inside -of a church for five years but once, and then only to attend the -funeral of a friend. One, who admitted that he habitually used both -whiskey and tobacco, claimed to be a minister in good and regular -standing among his brethren, and he is not the only such example in -the city. Several of the workers, particularly a young student from -the Baptist Theological School here, made stirring appeals to the -churches that they more earnestly endeavor to bring in the poor and -degraded, and make them feel at home in the house of God.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Last Sabbath a young man came to us to inquire, “What must I do -to be saved?” On asking what he had been trying to do, we learned -that he had endeavored to follow the plain, simple<a class="pagenum" name="Page_180" id="Page_180">[180]</a> directions of -the Bible at first, but so many of his friends had told him that -he must stop reading his Bible and go to praying for visions and -dreams, that he had become very much confused about the way. Many -of them say plainly that they “don’t believe in Bible religion.” -They believe firmly in personal revelations from God, and that -these are superior to those in the Bible. There is more excuse for -them than for others, when we consider that so few can read and -judge for themselves, and that for generations the Bible has been, -and still is, represented to them by so many to be the bulwark -of slavery. But when I think what abundance of material there is -among these millions in the South for religious fanaticism to feed -upon, it is a wonder to me that they have, on the whole, wandered -so little from the truth, that some imposture has not spread among -them before this—as Mormonism did at the North and West—and swept -thousands of them away. I fear it will be the case yet, if the -churches are not more faithful in preaching and teaching the pure -Gospel.</p> - -<p>Now, to make the matter practical, what can we do about it? Surely, -much more ought to be done here by educated Bible Christians; but -our teachers are already nearly breaking down with overwork in -their regular school duties, there being one less teacher than -usual on the force this year; the missionary and industrial work -they have been doing, and in which they feel such an interest, they -will probably not be able to keep up another year, and Mrs. C. will -be compelled to give up much that she has been doing. In short, I -am more than ever convinced that we need a lady missionary here, -to devote her whole time to personal work among the classes not -now reached by our schools and churches, and to take charge of the -industrial work among the women and girls. We have in mind just the -one we need if her support can be assured. Our church will, I am -sure, assume a share of the expense, though it will be impossible -for them to do much more than they are doing. Now, who among the -friends of the work in the North will help us in this matter, which -seems so important?</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>AFRICA.</h2> - -<h3>A LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE.</h3> - - -<p>Among the most interesting experiences in our visit to the Mendi -Mission was a trip to Kaw-Mendi, the first station of the mission, -where, over forty years ago, Mr. Raymond, with his company of -Amistad captives, began their new home, near the spot where the -latter had been torn from their native land, and carried across the -sea to be sold into slavery.</p> - -<p>A row of eight hours in a boat of four oars, propelled by Junjo, -Mómodo Grenace, Carrij Mi-Mah and Boyema, and steered by Geo. -Keing, took us across the Sherbro, up the Jong and the Small Boom -to our destination. The chief objects of interest on the way were -wild monkeys, alligators, and mangrove trees, bearing vegetable -oysters that could be plucked as we sailed past. The rowers -“cheered the weary traveler,” and increased the speed of the boat, -by singing songs in their native tongue, in which, no doubt, as is -usually the case, they indulged in personal comments concerning -their passengers.</p> - -<p>A little after “the sun die” we reach Kaw-Mendi, and are ushered -into a native house of four rooms, whose walls, partitions and -floors are made of mud, and whose steep hip roof is covered with -“bamboo shingles,” the rafters and sheathing being cane. Mr. -and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_181" id="Page_181">[181]</a> Mrs. Williams, born and educated in British Guiana, gave -us a hearty welcome to their mission home, leaving their work -of manufacturing arrow-root to prepare us a cup of tea. It was -prayer-meeting night and we gladly accepted an invitation to attend -service. The “barrie,” in which meetings are held, is a bamboo -roof, supported by tall posts, and enclosed by a mud wall about -four feet high. The floor and platforms are also of mud, nicely -sanded.</p> - -<p>I was unable to count the audience, for the lamps shed a dim light -which was not reflected from the faces of the company. A row of -boys led the singing, a young man “turned the word” of those who -spoke in English, and several led in brief prayers which we could -not understand, but which sounded sensible and devotional.</p> - -<p>In the morning we took a more particular view of the premises. -Mr. Williams’ house stands just in front of the site of the old -residence of Mr. Raymond and Mr. Thompson, a slight hollow and -small bank being the only things to mark the place where it stood. -While twenty years had crumbled to mother earth, buildings and -fences, and produced a jungle that made it almost impossible to -identify the site, the cashew, orange and bread-fruit trees had -been going on with their steady growth, and are now doing good -service with their fruit and shade. The flats along the banks of -the river, that had much to do with the unhealthfulness of the -location, on account of which it was abandoned, are probably the -same now that they were then.</p> - -<p>At our request, the two surviving Amistad captives came to see us, -Mr. Parn and Mr. Smith. The former had a pleasant smiling face, -but was too deaf to converse. The latter wore a rugged-looking -countenance, and after a little coaxing told us something of his -early life, dwelling especially upon the reason why the Amistads -rose up and killed the officers of the vessel on which they were -being carried to America. He said the cook told them that they were -to be killed and eaten, and showed them a huge kettle in which they -were to be boiled. So they rescued themselves from the sad fate -that seemed to await them by slaying their captors, acting on the -same principle that Stanley did when the natives on the Congo tried -to make “meat” of him and his companions.</p> - -<p>Chief Geo. Thompson Tucker came to pay his respects. He was -educated in the mission and was a pupil of Geo. Thompson. He is not -a Christian, but favors Mr. Williams’ work, and renders him much -assistance. He wore pants and shoes, and a frock made of country -cloth in a country fashion. He converses in English fluently, and -sometimes interprets for Mr. Williams.</p> - -<p>We desired to visit the cemetery, which Mr. Thompson had removed -to some distance, that the sight of so many graves of fallen -missionaries might not depress the living. The dew being heavy and -the “road” having grown up somewhat, Chief Tucker had two of his -men go on in advance, and trim off the overhanging branches with -their cutlasses, which they used with wonderful dexterity. The -cemetery is partly surrounded by a ditch and bank, Mr. Thompson -having concluded that this was more permanent than any fence that -could be erected. After a little search by the Chief and old Mr. -Smith, three graves were found, ranged side by side at the foot -of a mango tree—those of Mr. and Mrs. Tefft and Jane Winters. The -wood of which Mr. Thompson made head boards, and which he said did -not “know how to rot,” has in some way obtained that undesirable -knowledge, and even the planks laid on the graves by some later -visitor have crumbled nearly into dust. The other graves that were -identified were those of Mr. Garnick, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Arnold and -Mr. Thompson’s son George, who died June 6, 1853, at the age of -six<a class="pagenum" name="Page_182" id="Page_182">[182]</a> years. Seven mango trees between one and two feet in diameter -mark these resting places. To me there was a strange fascination -about this consecrated spot, and words cannot express the feelings -I experienced as I walked there among the sainted dead in that -distant, strange land.</p> - -<p>We next visited the arrow-root farm and saw the boys dig the -bulbs, which resemble the sweet potato in shape. Then we went to -the little mill where the bulbs are grated and strained, ready -for drying and packing. Mr. Williams finds the cultivation and -manufacture of arrow-root reasonably profitable, and he deserves -encouragement in teaching the natives this and other industries, -for the great need of West Africa, apart from the Gospel, is a -knowledge of remunerative agriculture.</p> - -<p>The church bell had a strange sound, and we learned that it was an -old gun-barrel that had been planted in the ground in a native’s -door-yard to keep witches out of the house, but upon the conversion -of the owner, had been given up to Mr. Williams, and had thus been -converted from a profane to a sacred use.</p> - -<p>Fifteen church members, twelve inquirers, one hundred attendants -upon Sunday service, twenty-three family and nine day pupils, -the house and barrie, a clearing of three or four acres, the -cultivation of various crops, the manufacture of arrow-root and -frequent visits to neighboring towns, give some idea of the -industry, perseverance and Christian zeal of this devoted laborer -during the past three years, and seem to make it possible to -continue the work on this spot of so many hallowed associations and -memories.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<p class="section">Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. -<span class="smcap">Vice-Presidents</span>: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas O. -Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. Dwinell, -D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. -Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George 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.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. O. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. -Palache, Esq.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><em>Politics and the Mission.</em>—Our Legislature, the first one convened -under our new Constitution, has adjourned, and the Chinese are -yet here. Denis Kearney has been made to “go,” and his party is -just “going;” the former, in prison attire, to break stones on the -public highway, and the latter to befitting insignificance and -complete disintegration. But how to assure it that “the Chinese -must go,” is a problem by which, now as heretofore, our Californian -statesmanship(!) finds itself sore baffled. Among our newly-fledged -legislators, there was scarcely one, at the opening of the -sessions, but had his pet scheme,—a sure cure for the Chinese ail; -and the river of Egypt scarce brought forth frogs more plentifully -than did our noisy Legislature its anti-Chinese bills. But most -of them died before they were fairly, fully born, and the rest -are either squelched under the weight of the U. S. Constitution, -or else, not daring to face that foe, have retired into prudent -dormancy. The gassy proclamation of our Board of Health, declaring -Chinatown a nuisance, has dissolved into thin air,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[183]</a> and that -district of our city is just as populous, just as busy, just as -noisy, and almost as filthy as it was before. Our Mayor, and the -doctors associated with him, may possibly have caused a little more -of the Chinese gold to be “placed where it would do most good;” -but, no other effect of their bombastic demonstration seems now to -be even dreamed of.</p> - -<p>All this helps us hope that we shall be able to pursue our -mission-work with no special molestations, and that the result of -our summer campaign may be as bright as the out-look is just now.</p> - -<p><em>A Touching Farewell Service.</em>—the following paragraph which -appeared in the <cite>Pacific</cite> of April 14th, over the initials of -the Principal of our Central school, I am sure will interest our -readers. It explains itself:</p> - -<p>“A very interesting and impressive meeting was held in Bethany -chapel on Thursday evening, April 8th. A large number of the -Chinese friends and scholars of Mrs. S. A. Worley and Misses Jessie -and Florence Worley, who for some years have been teachers in the -schools of the California Chinese Mission of this city, had met -together to bid these teachers farewell, as the family intended -going to their new home in Stockton on the following day. After -the regular exercises of Thursday evening, consisting of singing, -prayer and a short address in Chinese, the meeting was thrown open -to any who wished to speak or lead in prayer. The first who rose -spoke of his regret at their departure and his gratitude for their -kindness. He then said: ‘One year ago I hated Christian Chinese, -and I hated the name of Jesus Christ. Then Miss Worley came to -teach me, and read and explained the Bible to me, and by and by -I came to love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and all those who -worship him.’ One after another the Chinese brethren came forward -to bear witness to their love for these devoted teachers, and their -sorrow for their departure. Many of them, like the first speaker, -testified that they had been brought to the knowledge of the saving -power of Christ’s love by the words and the example of their loved -teachers. More than one tremulous voice and dimmed eye, gave -evidence that their words were not the complimentary exaggerations -of Chinese courtesy, but came deep from hearts filled with love -and gratitude for kindness that had been bestowed upon them, and -overflowing with grief at parting from their benefactors. ‘We have -nothing to repay you, our dear teachers,’ they said, ‘for all your -kindness in teaching us your language, and in leading us to Christ; -but we can pray God that He will bless you and keep you wherever -you may go. You will go to Stockton and we will go to China, and -may never see one another again on earth; but in heaven we will -meet again.’</p> - -<p>The frequent brief prayers, offered in Chinese, were unintelligible -to the Americans present, but the frequent recurrence of the words -‘Stockton’ and ‘Worley’ showed that these men, just awakened -from heathen darkness, had grasped the idea of an omnipotent and -loving Father, to whom they might confidently intrust their absent -friends. What an ample reward to these teachers for their earnest -and prayerful devotion must such testimony have been! What a -foretaste of heavenly bliss they experienced in seeing this fruit -of their labor in the redemption of so many souls from idolatry and -heathenism!</p> - -<p class="right">H. M. P.”</p> - -<p><em>More about Oroville.</em>—I give, perhaps, more than its share of -notice to our new work in Oroville. But this is our first attempt -to reach the Chinese engaged in mining, and, probably, the first -systematic attempt ever made in California. On that account it -has a special interest and importance. The number thus engaged is -large, and no man careth for their souls. We have our first fruits -of the work there, in the person of Jee Kane, a<a class="pagenum" name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[184]</a> very interesting -young man. He has joined the Association, thus professing faith in -Christ. Miss Waterbury is disposed to commence a work among the -women and children, and has one woman already under instruction who -seems thoroughly interested. Lee Haim, our greatly-valued helper -at Oroville, is obliged to return to China, and Lem Chung, of the -Sacramento Mission, takes his place for a time. Miss Waterbury -reports that there was a good attendance and evident attention at -his last preaching service, and after service his hearers crowded -about him asking him questions about the miracles of Christ, of -which he had been speaking. He told her, “I feel so <em>proud</em> of -Christ. He was with me, helped me speak, put words into my mouth.”</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>[We give, just as they were written, two letters from Indian boys -at Hampton for our young readers to puzzle over. We know they will -sympathize with Jonathan’s longing for his ponies, and commend -his purpose and effort to be content without them and study hard. -Our older readers will doubtless be struck with the other letter -as curiously resembling that of a German attempting English. -His substitution of d for t, and of p for b is quite funnily -Teutonic.—<span class="smcap">Ed. Missionary.</span>]</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">My Dear Friend</span>:—I thought I would write to you a few line, -use to be in my home, last summer I went out on a hunting Buffalo -away off in the west, we off in Texes country, and I saw many -Texes and they was trying to fight the Pawnee, but every Pawnee -was afraid, because they are good many Texes that makes the Pawnee -afraid just like all white men the Pawnee do like them to fight and -Texes kind afraid do and they stop and them went home every one. -Would come back any more.</p> - -<p>When I was a little boy I use to play all time would doing nothing -just only play all the time, now I like to worked hard like very -much indeed, because if I work hard and get some money note to go -away, that is the reason we like them for I come in Hampton Normal -I used to live in my tents and stay all time in my tents, when I -was a little boy I used to take care of them ponies all time and -every morning and take the ponies in a nice grass is and have good -to eat them nice grass note to way to take care of them. Now I am -doing to school I would take care of them horse and make fat horses -any more because I will try and be contented. My father used to -talk me about fight the Sioux a long time ago now stop fight and be -our friend all of them kind to each other. I went to school about -one year in my home that is the reason do know how to talk English -because I went to school one year. That is all I can say now</p> - -<p class="right nomargin" style="padding-right: 10%;">From your friend</p> -<p class="right nomargin smcap">Jonathan Hustice.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Dear Friend</span>:— I hope I write you to day, to let you Know -what I was doing when I was a young. Well I was working in my -father his farm. We pland some wheat and potatoes, we pland every -thing, what we want in a winder. And after-wile we had a school -house in our settlemend, so we can go to school, and that time I -was very glad to school every day and I minte my teacher what he -tells me to to and that<a class="pagenum" name="Page_185" id="Page_185">[185]</a> time I was school two years and the next -year I heart to talk aboude the blacksmith shop, to put some podday -a boy to learn his trade put he coult find him any boy to learn -fasd, and then the other day I get a letter from our agt. and he -dolt me if I like to be a black smith, and I recived his letter to -tell him that I am very willing to be a black smith so I pegan to -work every day, an when I work one year I heard some boys to send -to school some whre and after wile he ask me if I like to school I -told her I shoult like to have it So I come here do learn a Good -away and so that I can teach my tribe a good away and I dry hard -to learn fast to learn write well and so that I help my tribe. I -am sorry that I going to say thire was a grait many Indians in our -State. Thay are very goot she can not understand to work himself. -Some of them she understand to write some thing his own Good. Dear -sir I am glad that you help us I am very much obliget to you, and -then I will dry hard to learn fast, it all I can to say.</p> - -<p class="right nomargin" style="padding-right: 10%;">Yours very Respectfully,</p> -<p class="right nomargin smcap">Alexander Peters.</p> -<p class="nomargin" style="padding-left: 10%;">from Wis. State.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="section">FOR APRIL, 1880.</p> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $231.05.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">$15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. F. B. and H. C. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brewer. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gorham. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">101.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Machias. Centre St. Ch., $13.38, and Sab. -Sch., $7</td> -<td class="ramt">20.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. “A Willing Worker”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wiscasset. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.60.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atkinson Depot. Gyles Merrill, $50.; Mrs. -Gyles Merrill, $25; M. H. C., 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Derry. H. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. E. G. Heald</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampstead. <span class="smcap">Miss J. S. Eastman</span>, $30. to -const. herself, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$12</td> -<td class="ramt">42.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hollis. By Geo. Swain</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mason. Ladies, <i>for Storrs Sch.</i>, $10;—H. B. -H., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Boston. Children’s Mission Circle of -Presb. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.63</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $389.31.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., -(ad’l.), to const. <span class="smcap">Samuel Jewett</span>, <span class="smcap">Ernest -Patterson</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. M. G. Remington</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. -A. C. Bingham</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss L. Maria Ray</span>, -L. M’s</td> -<td class="ramt">12.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; -Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.15</td> -<td class="ramt">27.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">87.81</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.)</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. Mrs. L. A. P., $1; Mrs L. -W. J., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marshfield. Lyman Clark</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.)</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, -Memorial Contribution, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. -John Spencer</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Thetford. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Sab. Sch. -of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waitsfield. A. M. B. and G. I. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Fairlee. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.27; Dea. -J. P. S., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">14.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Townshend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Westminster. Mrs. Z. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. -<span class="smcap">Miss Ellen S. Steele</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Harriet -Herrick</span>, L. M’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">56.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $4,447.11.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. “Little Gleaners,” by Miss E. E. -A., Bbl. of C., <i>for Savannah. Ga.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">68.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Auburndale. Mrs. T. S. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. -J. F. Gaylord</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bedford. Trin. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Samuel -Davis</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berlin. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. S. D. Smith (Organs), $400;—Geo. -F. Kendall, $5, <i>for Indian M.</i>;—John L. -Shorey, 20 cop. “Nursery,” <i>for Talladega, -Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">405.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxford. ——$1, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i>; Mrs. -C., 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brimfield. Ladies’ Union of Second Cong. -Ch. $10, <i>for a Lady Missionary</i>; Miss P. -C. Browning, $10; Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3</td> -<td class="ramt">23.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brockton. “Friend,” $15;—“Friends,” 2 -Bbls. of C., <i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_186" id="Page_186">[186]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">105.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridge. Mrs. J. S. S., $1;—Bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc., Mon. -Con. Coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Conway. Mrs. William Tilton</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">205.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Florence. A. L. Williston, $500; Florence -Ch. Coll., $111.48</td> -<td class="ramt">611.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Ladies, Box of C., <i>for Atlanta, -Ga.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Groton. John H. Goddard</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadley. E. Porter</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hardwick. E. B. Foster</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harwich. “Thank Offering”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. “Two Ladies,” <i>for Student Aid, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">73.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fiske</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">46.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.19</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. <span class="smcap">Legacy</span> of Sophia Sterns, by -W. W. Wyman, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch., $70, to const. -<span class="smcap">James Hartley</span>, and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Maria T. Benson</span>, -L. M’s; —— $5, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i>;—Rev. -J. Coit, $3.56, and Box of C., <i>for -Macon, Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">78.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.02</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">54.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">69.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.82</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mattapoisett. A. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Melrose. G. L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Miss P. N., $1; S. N. B., 50c.; -J. C. Cleveland, Bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc., $125; “A -Friend,” $60; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$29.17;—Miss. Soc., $20, <i>for rebuilding -barn, Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">234.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Ch., $92.81; I. G. -Jewett. $2.15</td> -<td class="ramt">94.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.28</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for “Leah,” -Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">139.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">49.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">102.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. Mrs. E. O. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Abington. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Deerfield. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Dea. Zebadiah -Graves, by C. A. Stowell, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">108.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southville. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and -Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Deborah M. Tirrell</span>, -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $42.75; First -Cong. Ch., $34.75; Mrs. J. D. L., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">78.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., Box of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Templeton. J. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, <i>for Hampton -Inst.</i>; —— $5, <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townsend Harbor. Ladies, Bbl. of C., <i>for -Macon, Ga.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Upton. Mrs. M. F. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Phillip Jones</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.91</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Mrs. J. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wayland. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Webster. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westport. Pacific Union Church</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. “Friends,” $100, <i>for Student -Aid</i>;—Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.90</td> -<td class="ramt">136.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchester. Steven Cutter</td> -<td class="ramt">80.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $135.94;—Central -Cong. Sab. Sch., $50; G. H. -Whitcomb, $15, <i>for Student Aid, Straight -U.</i>,—Salem St. Ch. and Soc., $11.88</td> -<td class="ramt">212.82</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $99.71.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $71.71;—A -few Ladies in Cong. Ch., $28, by -Mrs. Wm. J. King, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">99.71</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $3,029.74.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bloomfield. Mrs. Sally Gillet, to const. <span class="smcap">Louisa -M. Hodges</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coventry. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">51.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Darien. Cong. Ch., $30, and Sab. Sch., $7</td> -<td class="ramt">37.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Easton. S. R. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.08</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Glastonbury. W. S. Williams, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greeneville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">39.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">62.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford. Third Cong. Ch., $33; First Cong. -Ch., $20</td> -<td class="ramt">53.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadlyme. Joseph W. Hungerford</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $16.45; -Wethersfield Ave. Sab. Sch., $5.23</td> -<td class="ramt">21.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyme. Old Lyme Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch., $6, and -Sab. Sch., $10;—“Friends,” $1, <i>for postage</i></td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown. First Ch., $36.53; Third Cong. -Ch., $16</td> -<td class="ramt">52.53</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Anna C. Nettleton</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. First Ch., $134.70; Ch. of the -Redeemer, $85; College St. Cong. Ch., $41.23; -Howard Ave. Cong. Ch., $20</td> -<td class="ramt">280.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; -Elihu Dickerman, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., ($30 of which -from Mrs. Chas. Lee, to const. <span class="smcap">William G. -Abbott</span>, L. M.)</td> -<td class="ramt">700.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Douglas W. Mason</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam. Mrs. Geo. W. Keith, $25; Mrs. E. -W. Spaulding, $25 <i>for Student Aid, -Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Simsbury. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Somersville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vernon. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Savannah, -Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wallingford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Mrs. F. G. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitneyville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">51.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “Friends,” <i>for Student Aid</i></td> -<td class="ramt">53.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $1,936.88.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ballston Spa. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Titus M. Mitchell</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $167.46;—By -Wm. E. Whiting, $50, <i>for Chinese M.</i>;—Mrs. -Lucy Thurber, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">222.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Churchville. Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G. -Fairchild, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[187]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gloversville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Honeoye. Miss Hannah Pitts</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kiantone. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lumberland. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. G. H. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrisville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. James H. Reeves</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Box of Books</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.44</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. “A Friend,” $100;—S. T. Gordon, -$100;—D. J. Carson, $50, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">250.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, $5; L. C., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rome. John B. Jervis, $25; Miss C. Hurlburt, -$12</td> -<td class="ramt">37.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. B. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, Bbl. of C., and -$5, <i>for Freight, for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, $7; Miss -F. A. C., 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tarrytown. “S. M. M.”</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy. Rev. Chas. Redfield</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Verona. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.66</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Victor. “H. P.”</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellsville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Mrs. A. B. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yaphank. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $231.87.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jersey City. Tab. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30, -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>,—Tabernacle Ch., -M. C. Coll., $8.62</td> -<td class="ramt">38.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lakewood. Rev. G. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch., in part</td> -<td class="ramt">170.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. “T. F. S.”</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $90.04.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeborough. “W. G.”</td> -<td class="ramt">0.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmers Valley. Mrs. E. C. O.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hulton. W. W. Grier, <i>for Student Aid</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Prentiss Vale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy, $10; Wm. -Lovejoy, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Alexander. Dr. Robert Davidson, $20; -—— $10</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $1,290.25.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Akron. Cong. Ch., $175.06, to const. <span class="smcap">Dwight -W. Hibbard</span>, <span class="smcap">Thomas Rhodes</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. -Lydia W. Ashman</span>, L. M’s;—Cong. Sab. -Sch., $25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">200.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, <i>for Woman’s -Work for Women</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bissells. Mrs. S. H. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, $5, <i>for Foreign M.</i>;—“A -Friend,” $5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burton. Cong. Ch., $30.27, ($5 of which from -Mrs. L. R. Boughton); Ladies’ Miss. Soc., -$10</td> -<td class="ramt">40.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clarksfield. Mrs. Wm. A. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., (of which -from Mrs. N. Scott, $2, Mrs. L., $1), $23.96; -Rev. Peter Kimball, $2; Individuals, <i>for A. -M.</i>, $3</td> -<td class="ramt">28.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crab Creek. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fredericktown. <span class="smcap">A. H. Royce</span>, ($30 of which -to const. himself, L. M.)</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva. Cong. Ch., ($5 of which from Chas. -Talcott, and $3 from James Ford)</td> -<td class="ramt">23.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntington. Edward West</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntsburgh. “Earnest Workers,” Box of C., -<i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lindenville. David Parker and Samuel -Beaty</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.95; Young -People’s Miss. Circle of First Ch., $30, to -const. <span class="smcap">Miss Almeda Runyan</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">91.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marietta. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">90.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. -Munger, Treas.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. “A Thank Offering,” $50; Mrs. J. -C. Wheaton, $10, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. First Ch., Branch of Oberlin -Freed Woman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Wm. G. -Frost, Treas., <i>for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, -Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First -Cong. Ch., by Miss M. J. Leslie</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Xenia. Mrs. Sarah S. Morrow</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $128.05.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia. E. F. Spencer</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Frankfort. First Cong. Ch., $3.71; O. B., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">4.71</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Woodville, -Ga.</i>, $40; E. M. Ball, $10</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Homestead. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Joyfield. Cong. Ch., (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamo. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Marsh, <i>for rebuilding -barn, Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25 -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—“J. W.,” $1</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kensington. “J. T.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mattawan. W. B. Gorham</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vermontville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vienna. Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.47</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $2.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sparta. John Hawkswell</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $822.02.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alton. Church of the Redeemer</td> -<td class="ramt">55.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Aurora. New Eng. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bartlett. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chandlerville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. -W. Blatchford, $250, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta -U.</i>, and $112.50, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega -C.</i>;—New England Ch. Sab. Sch., $46.90 -<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>;—Bethany -Cong. Ch., $15.21;—New Eng. Ch., M. C. -Coll., $11.82; Miss Anna E. Bushnell, $5; -Mrs. J. H. McArthur, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">446.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. O. V. -Rice</span> and <span class="smcap">J. S. Smith</span>, L. M’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">81.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moline. Thomas Jewett, $50, <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>, Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>; S. W. W., 75c.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Cong Ch., in part</td> -<td class="ramt">28.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ottawa. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton. Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Missionary, -Liberty Co., Ga.</i>, by Mrs. C. C. Cully</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seward. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wyanet and Providence. Cong. Churches, -<i>for Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga.</i>, by -Mrs. C. C. Cully</td> -<td class="ramt">9.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $47.35.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. “Friends,” <i>for Student Aid, Talladega -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berlin. Union Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Caledonia. M. E. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva. Presb. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. “R. and F.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $148.81.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, <i>for Student Aid, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cedar Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch, 3 bbls. -of C., <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Mrs. S. A. R., by Pub. -“Advance”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Ladies, by Mrs. M., <i>for Tougaloo</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.53</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[188]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Mrs. S. H. Bixby, $3;—Grace L. -Brewer, $2.80, <i>for Student Aid, Washington -Sch.</i>;—Mrs. H. P. Fisk’s Sab. Sch. Class, $1, -<i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampton. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keokuk. M. A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hampton. Woman’s Cent. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $7, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i>; Woman’s Miss. Soc., $4.45</td> -<td class="ramt">11.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner, $20, <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>, and Box of Books, <i>for -Library, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sabula. Mrs. H. H. Wood</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stuart. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tabor. A. S. McPherron, $9.75; Musical -Union, $10.25, <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i>; -“A Friend,” $5, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $83.55.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atchison. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">56.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waubaunsee. First Ch. of Christ</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $166.96.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch. of St. -Anthony</td> -<td class="ramt">16.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Owatonna. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Paul. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waseca. Cong. Sab. Sch., $7; “C. and K.,” -$5</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winona. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Edward -Keyes</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Franc. B. Laird</span>, L. M’s</td> -<td class="ramt">73.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">T. D. -Rowell</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $2.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Camp Creek. G. F. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Steele City. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $0.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olympia. Mrs. H. H. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON. $22.15.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oregon City. Rev. A. N. Bower</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">The Dalles. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.15</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sonora. Mrs. H. M. Van Winkle</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MARYLAND, $100.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Baltimore. T. D. Anderson</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WEST VIRGINIA, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Mrs. Sarah Neale</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $345.85.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rev. Joseph E. Smith, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Memphis. Lemoyne Sch., Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">192.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">103.70</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $119.25.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">25.53</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">93.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $25.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Aiken. Mary R. Bell, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $549.90.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs’ Sch., Tuition, $211.15, -Rent, $3; Atlanta U., Tuition, $116.50;—“Friends,” -$25, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">355.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macon. Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">58.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $60.70, -Sales, $69.79</td> -<td class="ramt">130.49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stone Mountain. E. M. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodville. Rev. J. H. Sengstacke, <i>for building -at Woodville</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $289.03.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mobile. Mission Band, Emerson Inst., by -Ella F. Grover, Sec., <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">175.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $73.03; -G. N. E., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">74.03</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FLORIDA, $1.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange City. Mrs. M. D. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $166.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">166.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $122.05.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $102.05; O. -A. Angell, $20, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">122.05</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— Small sums, <i>for Postage</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.19</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$19,222.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th,</td> -<td class="ramt">$105,834.64</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL -INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield, Vt. A. Woolson</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Mass. G. W. W. Dove</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem, Mass. Joseph H. Towne</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. A. Perkins</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Louisa Nichols, -$25; John B. Smith and Wife, $20</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich, Conn. Dr. D. T. Coit</td> -<td class="ramt">400.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Farms, N. Y. Daniel Mapes</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park, Penn. Thomas Eynon</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia, Penn. Benj. Coates</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$1,135.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in March Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">2,752.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$3,887.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield, Conn. Jane S. Robbins, $6, and 3 Bbls. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn, N. Y. Mrs. M. A. F., $1; Miss M. L., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goshen, N. Y. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Silver Lake, Penn. Wm. Macnab</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lena, Ill. S. Rising</td> -<td class="ramt">4.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia, Mich. Rev. D. B. Spencer</td> -<td class="ramt">6.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock, Mich. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$41.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in March Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">362.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$403.80</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago, Ill. Annual Meeting</td> -<td class="ramt">195.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danvers, Ill. Rev. M. L. Longley</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo, Mich. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. -Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.77</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$207.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in March Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">453.28</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$660.59</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional -pledge, £3,000.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">London, Eng. Collected by Rev. O. H. -White</td> -<td class="ramt">1,701.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">3,048.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$4,749.76</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr> -<td class="sub1"> Receipts for April</td> -<td class="ramt">$22,307.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to April 30th</td> -<td class="ramt">$115,535.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">==========</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right nomargin" style="padding-right: 20%;">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Treas.</i>,</p> -<p class="right nomargin" style="padding-right: 10%;">56 Reade St., N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[189]</a></p> - - -<div class="article"> -<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<p class="section">INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American -Missionary Association</span>.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to -conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and -diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other -countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and -urgent fields of effort.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> who -professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, -or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to -the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment -of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others -who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members -without the privilege of voting.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of -the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of -such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary -societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled -to one representative.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the -collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling, -sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) -missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; -and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually -appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other -benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical -jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject -always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a -reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any -aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference -shall be final.</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, -in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and -general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the -diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous -promotion of the missionary work.</p> - -<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for -transacting business.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in -appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting -fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor -particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the -known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment -those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals -agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint -and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so -through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually -agreed upon.</p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made 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.</p> - - -<p>FOOTNOTE:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></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 hold -obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and -the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the -wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[190]</a></p></div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>The American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3> - -<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted -its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their -duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries -in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the -caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate -with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the -<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p> - - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; -Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; -Texas, 6. <i>Africa</i>, 2. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 1. Total 70.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the -South.</span>—<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; -Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; -and Austin, Texas, 8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at Wilmington, -Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, -Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, -Tenn., 12. <i>Other Schools</i>, 24. Total 44.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>—Among the Freedmen, -253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9: in Africa, 13. -Total, 296. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—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. -<span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="medium">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work. This increase can only be reached by <em>regular</em> -and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as -the strong.</p> - -<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span> for the new churches we are organizing; -<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here -and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p> - -<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below:</p> - -<table> -<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr> -<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.</td></tr> -<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.</td></tr> -</table> - - -<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3> - -<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen -who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of -Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; -to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does -not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year -not less than five dollars.</p> - -<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary -Association</span> in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly -requested to use the following</p> - - -<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— -dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to -the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer -of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be -applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the -Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p> - -<p>The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States -three are required—in other States only two], who should write -against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, -their street and number]. 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WILLIAMS & CO.,</p> - <p class="center">GLASTENBURY, CONN.,</p> - <p class="center small">MANUFACTURERS OF</p> - <p class="center xxlarge"><b>Shaving and Toilet Soaps.</b></p> - <hr class="tiny" /> - <p class="medium">For over 30 years this firm has made the manufacture of <b>Shaving -Soaps</b> a specialty, and their Yankee Barber’s Bar, and other -Soaps, enjoy a reputation among Barbers, as well as those who shave -themselves, unequalled by any other.</p> - <p class="medium">To all of our readers who are seeking for the <b>very best Shaving -Soap</b>, we would say, be sure and get some of the following -(<em>carefully avoiding counterfeits</em>):</p> - <p class="indent">GENUINE YANKEE SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">BARBER’S FAVORITE SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">CLIPPER SHAVING SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">VERBENA CREAM TABLET,</p> - <p class="indent">POCKET SHAVING SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">TONSORIAL SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">BARBER’S BAR SOAP,</p> - <p class="indent">MUG SHAVING SOAP.</p> - <hr class="tiny" /> - <p class="medium">These Soaps can be found in every State, and nearly every town in -the United States.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[192]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 600px;"> -<img src="images/bradford.jpg" width="600" height="378" alt="" /> -<p class="caption center">BRADFORD ACADEMY, BRADFORD, MASS. -<br /> -<span class="medium">INCORPORATED 1804.</span></p> -</div> - -<p class="center large">TRUSTEES.</p> -<table> - <tr><td>Rev.</td><td>JAMES H. MEANS, D.D., Pres., Boston.</td></tr> - <tr><td>Hon.</td><td>GEORGE COGSWELL, M.D., Vice-Pres. and Treasurer, Bradford.</td></tr> - <tr><td>Rev.</td><td>JOHN D. KINGSBURY, Sec., Bradford.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>RUFUS ANDERSON, D.D., LL.D., Boston.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>RAYMOND H. SEELEY, D.D., Haverhill.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>SAMUEL D. WARREN, Boston.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>EZRA FARNSWORTH, Boston.</td></tr> - <tr><td>Hon.</td><td>WILLIAM A. RUSSELL, Lawrence.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>JAMES R. NICHOLS, M.D., Haverhill.</td></tr> - <tr><td></td><td>FREDERICK JONES, Boston.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center large">BOARD OF INSTRUCTION.</p> -<p class="center">MISS ANNIE E. JOHNSON, Principal.</p> -<p class="center">MISS SARAH M. DAWSON,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Natural Sciences.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS MARY E. MAGRATH,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Latin and Greek.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS MARY F. PINKERTON,<br /> - <span class="center medium">English Literature and Language, and Modern History.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS ELIZABETH M. BENSON,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Literature and Ancient and Mediæval History.</span></p> -<p class="center">FRAUL ANTONIE STOLLE,<br /> - <span class="center medium">French and German.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS MARGARET C. LORING,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Mathematics.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS MARY C. BARSTOW,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Piano.</span></p> -<p class="center">PROF. SAMUEL M. DOWNS,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Piano, Organ and Vocal Music.</span></p> -<p class="center">MISS JENNIE E. IRESON,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Elocution and Gymnastics.</span></p> -<p class="center">REV. JOHN LORD. LL.D.,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Lecturer on History.</span></p> -<p class="center">PROF. CHARLES A. YOUNG,<br /> - <span class="center medium">Princeton Coll. Lecturer on Astronomy.</span></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> - <img src="images/parlor.jpg" width="500" height="377" alt="" /> - <p class="caption center">PARLOR OF A SUITE.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center">CALENDAR, 1880–81.</p> -<table class="medium"> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">First Term</span> opens</td><td class="right">September 7th, 1880</td></tr> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">First Term</span> closes</td><td class="right">November 24th, 1880</td></tr> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">Second Term</span> opens</td><td class="right">November 30th, 1880</td></tr> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">Second Term</span> closes</td><td class="right">March 4th, 1881</td></tr> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">Third Term</span> opens</td><td class="right">March 22d, 1881</td></tr> - <tr><td><span class="smcap">Third Term</span> closes</td><td class="right">June 22d, 1881</td></tr> -</table> -<p class="center medium">Recess at Christmas-time.</p> - -<p class="center">TUITION.</p> -<table class="medium"> - <tr><td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">For the Course</span>, which includes English branches, - Latin and French, Greek or German, Vocal Music in Classes, per term,</td><td class="ramt">$20.00</td></tr> - <tr><td class="sub1">Academic Expenses for the year, including all charges. No extras.</td><td class="ramt">$320.00</td></tr> - <tr><td class="sub1">Instructions on Piano, per quarter of 24 lessons,</td><td class="ramt">$20.00 to $40.00</td></tr> - <tr><td class="sub1">Use of Piano one hour a day, per quarter,</td><td class="ramt">3.00</td></tr> - <tr><td class="sub1">Instructions in Perspective Drawing, per quarter, 12 lessons,</td><td class="ramt">5.00</td></tr> - <tr><td class="sub1">Instructions in Painting in Oil or Water Colors, per quarter, 12 lessons,</td><td class="ramt">8.00</td></tr> - <tr><td colspan="2">Reduced rates to daughters of Missionaries in the home or foreign field.</td></tr> - <tr><td colspan="2">Application for circulars may be made to <span class="smcap">Miss</span> ANNIE E. JOHNSON, Principal, Bradford, Mass.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xlarge">PAYSON’S</p> -<p class="center xxlarge">Indelible Ink,</p> -<p class="center">FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A<br /> -COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A<br /> -PREPARATION.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center large">It still stands unrivaled after 50 years’ test.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><em>THE SIMPLEST & BEST.</em></p> - -<p>Sales now greater than ever before.</p> -<p>This Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all rivals.</p> -<p>Report of Judges: “For simplicity of application and indelibility.”</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center small">INQUIRE FOR</p> - -<p class="center large">PAYSON’S COMBINATION ! ! !</p> - -<p>Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many -Fancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xxxlarge">Brown Brothers & Co.</p> -<p class="center xlarge">59 WALL STREET,</p> -<p class="center large">NEW YORK.</p> -<p class="medium"><b>Buy and Sell Bills of Exchange</b> on Great Britain and Ireland, -France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, <b>Issue Commercial and -Travelers’ Credits, in Sterling</b>, available in any part of the -world, and in <b>Francs</b> for use in Martinique and Guadaloupe.</p> - -<p class="center xlarge">Make Telegraphic Transfers of Money</p> - -<p class="center small">Between this and other countries, through London and Paris.</p> - -<p class="medium"><b>Make Collection of Drafts drawn abroad</b> on all parts of the -United States and Canada, and of <b>Drafts drawn in the United -States</b> on Foreign Countries.</p> - -<p class="medium"><b>Travelers’ Credits</b> issued either against cash deposited or -satisfactory guarantee of repayment: In Dollars for use in the -United States and adjacent countries; or in Pounds Sterling for use -in any part of the world. Applications for credits may be addressed -as above direct, or through any first-class Bank or Banker.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center large">BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,</p> -<p class="center medium">26 Chapel St., Liverpool.</p> - -<p class="center large">BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO.,</p> -<p class="center medium">Founder’s Court, Lothbury, London.</p> -</div> - -<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;"> - <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME</p> - <p class="center">OF THE</p> - <p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary,</p> - <p class="center xlarge">1880.</p> - -<p>We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing -appreciation of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> during the past year, and -purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value -to those interested in the work which it records.</p> - -<p>Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?</p> - -<p>A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own -remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, -will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our -Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.</p> - -<p>Under the editorial supervision of Rev. <span class="smcap">C. C. Painter</span>, -aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries -and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional -communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the -<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> furnishes a vivid and reliable picture -of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the -Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as -Missionaries in Africa.</p> - -<p>It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting -the races among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of -current events relating to their welfare and progress.</p> - -<p>Patriots and Christians interested in the education and -Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and -assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new -year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.</p> - -<p>The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the -persons indicated on page 190.</p> - -<p>Donations and subscriptions should be sent to</p> - -<p class="center large">H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</p> -<p class="right">56 Reade Street, New York.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<p class="center xlarge">TO ADVERTISERS.</p> - -<p>Special attention is invited to the advertising department of -the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>. Among its regular readers are -thousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and -Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, -therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising Books, -Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, -Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.</p> - -<p>Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for -space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its -circulation.</p> - -<p>Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span> of the -month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All -communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to</p> - -<p class="center large">THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,</p> -<p class="right">56 Reade Street, New York.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><img src="images/pointer.jpg" width="27" height="17" alt="hand pointing" /> Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of -the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning, -when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center small">DAVID H. 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