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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 -- Vol. 33, No. 3, March, 1879 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: June 11, 2017 [EBook #54885] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MARCH 1879 *** - - - - -Produced by Brian Wilsden, Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by Cornell University Digital -Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXIII. No. 3. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - MARCH, 1879. - - - - - _CONTENTS:_ - - EDITORIAL. - - GENEROUS GIFT 65 - CALL TO GO FORWARD 65 - MR. ARTHINGTON’S OFFER 66 - NEW RECRUIT FOR MENDI MISSION 69 - SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT: Gen. C. B. Fisk 70 - WILDERNESS AND SOUTH COUNTRY: Rev. E. Corwin, D.D. 70 - ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 74 - GENERAL NOTES 75 - OUR QUERY COLUMN 76 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Rev. Jos. E. Roy, D.D. 78 - CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE: Rev. S. S. Ashley 80 - GEORGIA—Atlanta University—Revival among the Students 81 - ALABAMA, FLORENCE—Christmas Festival, &c. 82 - LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS—Straight University and Central - Church—Week of Prayer and Work of Grace 82 - TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE—Fisk University—Day of Prayer 84 - TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS—Woman’s Work—Cottage Meetings, &c. 84 - - - THE CHINESE. - - SUMMARY OF MISSION WORK: Rev. W. C. Pond. 86 - - - AFRICA. - - CHRISTMAS AT AVERY STATION 87 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - LITTLE SALLIE 88 - - - RECEIPTS. 90 - - - NEW YORK: - Published by the American Missionary Association, - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - =Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.= - - - - - American Missionary Association, - - 56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y. - Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill. - Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C. - Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La. - HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H. - DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J. - Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct. - Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct. - A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio - Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn. - Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn. - Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa. - Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California. - Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon. - Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C. - Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis. - S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass. - Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct. - Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa. - Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct. - Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct. - Sir PETER COATS, Scotland. - Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng. - WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y. - J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct. - DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct. - A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y. - FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt. - JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_. - - EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._ - H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Assistant Treasurer, N. Y._ - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_. - - - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - ALONZO S. BALL, - A. S. BARNES, - EDWARD BEECHER, - GEO. M. BOYNTON, - WM. B. BROWN, - CLINTON B. FISK, - ADDISON P. FOSTER, - E. A. GRAVES, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - SAM’L HOLMES, - S. S. JOCELYN, - ANDREW LESTER, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - JOHN H. WASHBURN, - G. B. WILLCOX. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - -relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to either -of the Secretaries as above; letters for the Editor of the “American -Missionary” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -Should be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Ass’t Treasurer, No. 56 Reade Street, -New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, -21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, -Chicago, Ill. - -A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. - -Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in which -it is located. - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - VOL. XXXIII. MARCH, 1879. No. 3. - * * * * * - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - -We have told our friends that for the last three months our receipts, -in common with those of our sister societies, have been less than for -the corresponding months of the preceding year. January did better, -but we would still have had some anxieties if there had not come to -us from an aged friend, who had given us no reason to expect so large -an offering, a check for _ten thousand dollars_. The letter which -accompanied the gift, referred to his observance of our efforts to -reduce the debt and our success in that direction, but asking us to -expend this money, the savings of a lifetime, in carrying on our work. -It was a gift from the Lord by the hand of His servant, and again, as -often before, we are called to make record of His faithfulness who has -promised to help those who are in His work. Should not this generous -gift strengthen our confidence that God has yet other treasures with -which He will enable us to commend His love to the despised, and to -preach His gospel to the poor? - - * * * * * - - -THE CALL TO GO FORWARD. - -We thank our friends for their noble efforts to conquer the Debt. As -we feared, however, the help thus given has diminished the supplies -for our regular and pressing work. We have wrought with only one hand -on the work and with the other held a weapon. But now that the debt is -well nigh vanquished, we must gird ourselves not merely to repair the -neglected gaps, but to push forward along the whole length of the wall. - - -THE DEBT PROVIDED FOR. - -Relying upon the payment of the money pledged, our actual indebtedness -is reduced to only $6,440. Against this amount our Executive Committee -has set apart our remaining Iowa lands, which at a low valuation fully -balance it, as a sinking fund, to be held for this purpose only. _The -debt is thus provided for_, and we have no more pleas to urge for its -extinction,—save as we suggest for this last time, there is a noble -opportunity just now for some generous friend to step in and claim the -honor of giving the finishing stroke to this Goliath, so setting free -those lands again to aid our current work. We praise the Lord that we -can now turn from this accomplished effort to other - - -DEFERRED AND URGENT WORK. - -The debt effort has enforced an economy in field work that has been -rigid—nay, hindering. For example, one of our higher institutions -has become so full that while it has accommodations for only 40 girls -it has 60 in attendance, and one of the recitations must be held in a -bed-room. Another instance is found in one of the brightest towns in -Georgia, where we have planted a church and opened a school. The place -is so near our Atlanta University that its pupils can readily supply -it with both teaching and preaching force; but for the lack of a few -hundred dollars to erect a cheap, and yet adequate building for school -and church, both are hindered in growth and usefulness, and if the -means be not soon furnished, might as well be abandoned. - -Our industrial schools suffer for want of funds. The colored students -are so poor that unless aid can in small amounts be furnished them, -either by facilities for work or by help in money, many of them must -abandon the effort for an education. These items as to school and -church work are but samples of what come to us from all parts of the -field. But there are other calls of special importance. No State in -the South is growing more rapidly than Texas. A generous friend of the -colored race has purchased an eligible lot of eight acres in Austin, -Texas, and given it to us as the site of a colored institution. He and -other friends have added gifts amounting to nearly $10,000, towards -the erection of a substantial building. We shall begin the structure -this spring, but will only enclose it, unless the means are furnished -to complete it. We will make no debt. We hope—nay, we plead—that the -money may be speedily forthcoming to finish this building and prepare -it for immediate use. - -The noble offer of Mr. Arthington, of Leeds, England, to which we call -attention below, opens another avenue for the efforts of the Freedmen -in the Evangelization of the land of their fathers. The proposed -mission lies in tropical Africa, and is desolated by the slave trade. -It thus appeals to our deepest sympathies as the life-long opponents of -slavery, and to the millions from whom we shall select the missionaries -who were themselves its victims. - -In view of these facts, we press our appeal on the hearts of our -friends. Let us go forward in the work so well begun, and let us enter -the new fields opened to us in the providence of God. We ask not merely -for special gifts for special objects, but also for the regular work so -well in hand, and needing so greatly the means of enlargement. - - * * * * * - - -MR. ARTHINGTON’S OFFER TO THE A. M. A. - -The name of Robert Arthington, Esq., of Leeds, England, has already -become familiar to all good people who are interested in the -evangelization of “The Dark Continent.” His gift of £5,000 each to the -Church Missionary Society and the London Missionary Society, of £1,000 -to the (English) Baptist Missionary Society, and his offer last year -of a similar amount to our own American Board of Commissioners for -Foreign Missions, all for the founding of new evangelizing agencies in -Equatorial Africa, have been among the most marked events in the recent -history of Christian giving. These various gifts and offers have all -been parts in the prosecution of a wisely comprehensive plan, which his -subjoined letter clearly sets forth, and in furthering which he has -now come to our Association with an offer of _three thousand pounds_ -($15,000), and a plan for our occupation of an important territory with -an efficient mission. - -The region which he carefully describes and commends to our care lies -north and east of the Victoria Nyanza Mission of the Church Missionary -Society; west and south of which lies the Tanganika Mission of the -London Society; west of this the region which he has asked the American -Board to occupy, and the Baptist Mission still further toward the -western coast. These five divisions nearly cross the continent between -10 degrees north and 10 degrees south latitude. Of course they are -large tracts, and only five starting points for evangelizing effort. - -We have felt that there was a special claim on our Association, which -has from its beginning been so intimately associated with the African -race, and which has so long kept up its mission on the West Coast, to -consider prayerfully and intelligently the proposal to enter into the -far-reaching plans of this steward of the Lord. It is not a matter -for hasty decision. The conditions which he imposes in regard to the -liquidation of our debt we believe will be fully met before we can do -more than consider and plan. The Executive Committee have appointed -a sub-committee consisting of four of its members, with three of its -officers, who will study into the matter with all care and report. The -result of their investigations, with a map of the region, may be looked -for in the April number of the MISSIONARY, to which, in connection -with the valuable letter of Mr. Arthington in this, we ask the careful -attention of all who are interested in the evangelization of Equatorial -Africa. - -We print herewith a large portion of - -=Mr. Arthington’s Letter.= - -In your thirtieth Annual Report, page 15, you indicate a desire, on the -part of your Society, to enter on some suitable field for missionary -enterprise in Eastern or Central Africa; and again, in the thirty-first -Report, I find in the first pages of the volume a similar desire -expressed for extension, so as to bring the African Continent within -the range of the mighty power of the Gospel—Christ risen again, in all -his reality set forth as the power of God unto salvation to every one -that believeth. - -If your Society can so enter into the scheme I am about to propose as -to assure me that the debt of your treasury—see the 31st Report—is -extinguished, and that your members adopt the proposal of it -prayerfully in all faith, I am impressed that I should be glad in the -Lord to offer to your Society towards the carrying it into execution -the sum of _three thousand pounds_. - -The unevangelized region of Africa to which I would call your earnest -attention, and invite you to accept as a field for missionary labors -(to be conducted with all energy in the Spirit—very judiciously fixing -your positions for holding forth the word of Life so as to command the -whole area, and diffuse throughout it the light of the Gospel—you -and a great multitude of true believers continually standing on the -watch-tower of the church and fervently praying, “Thy kingdom come!”) -is situated and extends from the 10th parallel of north latitude to the -point southwards where the 40th meridian crosses or cuts the river Jub -(or Godschob), west to east from the right (east) bank of the White -Nile to the said 40th meridian, and from the parallel of longitude of -that point on the Jub southwards west and east from the White Nile to -the right (west) bank of the Jub, down to the 3rd parallel of north -latitude, and from the 3rd parallel of north latitude down to the 1st -parallel of north latitude, west and east from the 35th meridian to -the Jub. We thus avoid Somali Land, which is not at present eligible -as a mission field. The territory south of the parallel 1 degree north -latitude, it is hoped, some other society will evangelize. West of the -35th meridian, from 3 degrees north latitude and southwards, appears -suitable for the Church Missionary Society of England, in connection -with the Victoria Nyanza district. - -The general object of this method of arrangement is to assign the whole -of Africa, so far as not Mohammedanized, to different sections of -the Christian church, that they may see that their several areas are -evangelized. You would thus have a great and highly promising field -for missionary labor, the most important and interesting people of -which are: 1. The decayed Christian Remnants (remnants of the ancient -Abyssinian church), Wolawo and Cambay, Muger and Gurague, and the -places Euarea, Kaffa, Susa, Tuffti, Kullu and Doko. 2. The great and -wide-spread Gallas tribes. 3. Dinkas. 4. The inhabitants of the Berri -country. 5. The Latookas. 6. Fatiko and the Madi country. - -The great interest and importance of the Christian Remnants and of -the Gallas tribes is well known. The Berri people it is especially -desirable should be early instructed in Christian truth. They are -situated not very far to the east of Gondokoro, outside of the traders’ -route. They have never been reported, I believe, but as a fine people -comparatively, and are mentioned in Werne’s work, published many years -ago. - -The Latookas will appear interesting when we peruse Sir Samuel Baker’s -account of them, and see “The Albert Nyanza,” 1866, vol. 1, pages -204-6, in which he writes: “One of the principal channels, if not the -main stream of the river Sobat, is only 4 days’ march, or fifty miles, -east of Latooka, and is known to the natives as _the Chol_.” See also, -for accuracy of the places, Sir Samuel Baker’s “Ismailia,” the map. -The east bank of that stream (the Chol) is occupied by the Gallas. The -Gallas (in their attack on the Latookas) were invariably mounted on -mules, &c., “the cavalry of the Akkara,” &c. In a note to me, dated -August, 1878, Sir Samuel Baker says: “The Berri country has never been -visited by Europeans; although it is not far from Gondokoro, it lies -out of the way of traders’ routes. It would be comprised between north -latitude 5 degrees 20 minutes and 6 degrees 50 minutes, and commences -in east longitude about one degree east of Gondokoro, which is -absolutely correct on the maps.” “Fatiko is a small district situated -in 8 degrees north latitude, in the Madi country. You will find all -places laid down with extreme accuracy in the maps in my last work, -‘Ismailia.’” - -The linguistic aids for the evangelization of some of the tribes or -populations—say Gallas, Dinkas, Christian Remnants, People of Euarea, -Kaffa, Susa, &c.—already exist, I believe, in considerable degree. - -The proffered gift, then, if accepted by you, should be regarded as -a nucleus to which the Church of Christ around you shall pour its -offerings, and I think that two thousand pounds of the amount should -be specially applied towards the purchase and perpetual maintenance of -two river steamers, _one_ to navigate the Sobat and command the mission -to the Dinkas—to such of the Gallas tribes as are their neighbors on -the east, between them and Euarea—to the Gallas tribes on the Chol -branch of the Sobat (east or right bank), and to the Latookas west -or south-west (of the Chol), if accessible from that river; and the -_other_ steamer to navigate the Godschob (called the Jub at its mouth) -and command the missions to the Christian Remnants, Wolawo, &c., and -to the Gallas, who are to be found in large numbers in the country -west of, and up to, the right or west bank of the Godschob. And it is -understood that the people of the Berri country shall claim a place -amongst your earliest evangelistic efforts. Fatiko, with the Madi -country and Lake Samburu and population, are included in the area, but -need not claim a first place in your labors. Possibly the Gallas on -the upper course or waters of the Ozi—if geographers are right as -to the position of the source of this river—may be reached from the -Jub (Godschob) or from the Sobat. Your staff of missionaries for this -work, so full of promise of great results, should be a well-chosen -band, some of them men skilled in some of the arts, say two in the use -of scientific instruments, and they should be most thoughtfully and -prayerfully selected. - -I ask that two or three of your very best and ablest men—men of large -hearts, of enterprise and great faith, with several of the best maps -before you—will study the description of the area I have delineated, -and if it is not in any point perfectly clear, that you will at once -ask for the missing details. - -I really desire a thorough and permanent occupation of the field. - -Yours most truly, in the Lord Jesus Christ, - - (Signed) - ROBERT ARTHINGTON, - Leeds, England. - January 10th, 1879. - - * * * * * - - -A NEW RECRUIT FOR THE MENDI MISSION. - -It will be remembered that Rev. Floyd Snelson was compelled to return -to this country, after a sojourn of about a year in our African -mission, on account of the rapidly failing health of his wife. He has -resumed the care of the Midway Church in Georgia, from the pastorate of -which he was taken, against the wishes of his people, for the foreign -work. - -It was deemed necessary to make good the vacated place as soon as -possible. In accordance with the expressed judgment of the missionaries -on the field, the first want was of a man specially adapted to take -charge of the saw-mill and other industrial interests at Avery Station, -of which Mr. Jackson has had charge as well as of the church and -school. Inquiries were instituted at once among our higher institutions -for the right man, and we think we have found him. - -Elmore L. Anthony was born a slave in Allen County, Kentucky, June -8th, 1848. Early in the progress of the war he ran away to join the -Union army, but being rejected as a soldier on account of his youth, -he returned to his old master, who was a stock trader, preferring, if -he must be a servant to anybody, to serve him. In 1863 he left again, -and soon after entered the regular army, where he served three years. -He was promoted to be a sergeant, and while at Fort Duncan, in Texas, -was detailed to be superintendent of laborers, having the oversight of -over two hundred men. He says that he got on well in the army, simply -because he was perfectly temperate and sober. He bears testimonials -from his officers as to his moral character and faithfulness. - -In 1870 he made his way to Berea, Ky., and entered the primary class. -He has been there ever since, teaching during the last six years in -his vacations; and was a member of the senior class when he came, at -our call and by the advice and hearty commendation of the president -and faculty of the college, to give himself to work in Africa. That -he held, nearly from the beginning quite to the close of these years, -the trusted position of janitor of the Ladies’ Hall, is no small -evidence of the confidence which has been reposed in him. He is a man -of stalwart frame, has been medically examined and pronounced perfect -in health. He seems to us admirably adapted to the place as our “man of -affairs,” competent at the same time to fill a gap in school as teacher -when needed, and while not a preacher in any sense of the word, yet of -such honest purpose to do good that he will be no less a missionary for -that. He sailed the 13th of February _via_ Liberia. - - * * * * * - - -THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONCERT. - -GENERAL CLINTON B. FISK. - -It was a happy thought on the part of somebody to prepare a -Sunday-school Concert exercise, which should embody so much valuable -information and afford so great pleasure and holy joy, as does that -of the Jubilee Concert exercise, prepared by the Rev. G. D. Pike on -substantially the same basis as that first introduced by Rev. A. E. -Winship, of Massachusetts. - -It was my good fortune on Sunday, January 12th, to participate in the -exercises of a concert, conducted in accordance with this exceedingly -well arranged programme, in the Sunday-school of the Congregational -church at Stamford, Conn., Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., pastor. It was -a glad day in that, to me, the most attractive of all New England -villages. If any other town in the East can furnish a roll of better -men, women and children than those who adorn the beautiful Christian -homes of Stamford, then I want to go there and attend a Jubilee Concert -exercise. - -The preparation at Stamford was complete. ALL, from the excellent -pastor up to the oldest deacon, and down to the youngest child, took -part. The able and enthusiastic superintendent, Mr. Junius Smith, is -a born missionary, and he led his Sunday-school host into the work -with great earnestness. The church was filled at an early hour of the -evening, and when the great throng sung that sweetest of all Jubilee -Songs, and one which has stirred the hearts of the best people on two -continents, “Steal away to Jesus,” that wonderful, weird, plaintive -melody fell upon my ears with _almost_ the effect with which the -Jubilee Singers have a thousand times rendered it with their matchless -voices and marvellous power. Hon. Oliver Hoyt, one of Connecticut’s -wisest and best senators, impressively invoked the Divine blessing. The -facts in relation to the organization, successful progress and grand -achievements for the Master of the American Missionary Association -were admirably brought out by the tersely-prepared exercises. The -pastor, superintendent, teachers and scholars all had their part and -_did well._ Rev. G. D. Pike, whose head and heart are crammed full of -well-devised plans for the up-lifting of the Freedmen, and through the -uplifted Freedmen of America the redemption of Africa, made one of his -most forcible pleas in behalf of the Association. The writer of this -imperfect sketch followed with an exhortation in his Methodist way. The -collection was taken and a happy day closed. - -The Sunday-school Jubilee Concert exercise, if generally used, will -be instrumental in _fixing facts_ in the minds of young and old. I -bespeak for it the examination of Sunday-school superintendents, and I -most heartily bespeak the generous consideration of all good people in -behalf of the American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -THE WILDERNESS AND THE SOUTH COUNTRY. - -A Discourse on the Duty of the American Churches to the Despised and -Outcast Races. - -PREACHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE A. M. A. TO THE 1ST CONGREGATIONAL -CHURCH, JACKSONVILLE, ILL., BY THE PASTOR, REV. E. CORWIN, D. D., DEC. -22, 1878. - - Joshua xii. 8: “In the mountains and in the valleys, and in the plains - and in the springs, and in the wilderness and in the south country.” - -We owe nobody an apology for following the example of the Great Teacher -in the latitude and longitude he allowed to himself in the use of Old -Testament texts. I honor by following a Divine example when I use -this passage from Hebrew history as marvellously suggestive of our -broader heritage and of our responsibilities as a people coming into -fuller possession of a goodly land; in the mountains and valleys of -the Atlantic and Pacific seaboard; in the vast plains of the interior; -in the springs and great river sources of the lake region; in the -wide reaches of wilderness, comparatively worthless but for their -exhaustless resources of mineral wealth; and last, but not least, in -the sunny south country. - -If, with emotions of patriotic pride, Joshua, the great captain, could -speak of the wide extent and the varied resources of that goodly land, -into the possession of which he was leading the descendants of a -whole nation of fugitive slaves, how much more, with devout gratitude -and patriotic pride, may we dwell upon _the wonderful resources and -the wide reaches_ of a free empire in which there are forty million -sovereigns, and on whose territory you might place, in patch-work, -three hundred and twenty-eight states as large as Palestine, and -have scraps enough left over to cover the two dwarf sisters of the -Union—Delaware and Rhode Island! Corresponding most nearly in area -with Maryland, five Palestines might find comfortable quarters in -the single State of Illinois; yet so wonderful was the fertility of -that land, now comparatively barren and desolate, that it at one time -sustained a population so dense that if the vast territory of the -United States were thus thickly settled, it should have not merely -forty millions of inhabitants, but one thousand one hundred and forty -millions. Who doubts that such a population might be sustained on the -fat valleys of the interior and the plantations of the south country, -even though the waste places of the wilderness were left out of the -account as utterly unfit for the dwelling-places of men? And, as though -this vast heritage of ours were not enough for a free and industrious -people, God has over many portions of the land practically doubled its -area; piling its resources of wealth layer upon layer; rivaling and -redoubling the riches of the surface soil by the exhaustless stores of -coal, iron and copper, lead, silver and gold, treasured up for the use -of many generations; for there is the hiding of His power who is the -bountiful God of Providence. - -But my purpose is only so far to hint at the resources of this most -favored of lands, as to make the marvellous facts a basis for the -proposition that ability is one measure of our responsibility for the -hearty and liberal doing of what we can for the highest development of -this whole land. And let us never forget that a great, civilized and -Christian State is made and measured, not by its physical resources -merely, not by its accumulated material wealth, but chiefly by the -mental and moral stature of its inhabitants. _The best products and the -richest resources of any State are in its crop of men._ If these, even -on a sterile soil and under frowning skies, are liberal, large-hearted, -industrious, patriotic and pious, they make of the desert a paradise, -and amid the clefts of the rocks there may be rootage for great ideas. -If everywhere, for a single generation, such a populace could have -and hold possession of this planet, the old alien orb would shine so -that the shortest-sighted angel could see it without a telescope, -and the inhabitants of other worlds might intelligently covet it as -a dwelling-place for the society which it would afford. But wealth -without good society is worthless. That city might be a hell upon -earth in which there were no churches and schools, though every man -had a gold mine in one corner of his cellar and a diamond mine in -another. Mexico, with its mountains streaked with silver, has but few -attractions as the family residence of a man who cares to live out -more than half his days, or who esteems it no luxury to live among -an ignorant, bigoted and revengeful people. California to-day, with -all its discovered treasures, could not be so safe or so attractive -a place of residence as it was before those discoveries, but for -the better class of enterprising, intelligent, honest, law-abiding -citizens, who have come into possession of that land. Nor are political -institutions, however desirable, of much practical worth, except -as they are worked by men of moral principle, not for the selfish -advantage of the few, but for the protection and enriching of all. - -In considering _the claims of the American Missionary Association_ to -our prayerful interest and our liberal benefactions, these preliminary -thoughts have practical force as applied to moral science; for it is -distinctively the aim of this Association to lift society as a whole -by lifting at the lower stratum. Its work is confessedly not with the -most promising material, out of which the most may be made in the -shortest time, but with the most degraded, unpromising and despised of -the outcast races. _This is the great alchemist among our charities; -seeking to transmute the baser metals into gold._ For the transmuting -of character the mission of Christ was a witness to the universe -that the last might be first, and that the lowest might be lifted to -the highest position of honor and glory, as the result of the Divine -condescension, the deep down-reaching love of the Son of God. He -came not to honor the lordly, but to lift up the lowly. For gaining -influence and establishing his kingdom he sought out not the ruling -classes; but, himself despised and rejected of men, he knew how to -condescend to men of low estate. He dispensed his largest blessings to -the despised and the outcasts, who, conscious of their vileness, felt -their need of salvation. Not unfaithful to the self-satisfied Scribes -and Pharisees, he came especially to seek and to save those who felt -themselves to be lost sheep of the house of Israel. Read the record -anew, with this thought in mind, and see if his special aim was not to -seek and save the lost, in the sense of the despised and abandoned, who -were, perhaps, without hope for themselves, and whose case might have -been regarded as desperate by others. - -We are not the true followers of Christ if we are wanting in the -Christ-like spirit, and seek not to save the despised and outcast races -who dwelt in the wilderness and in the south country. Do you tell me, -_as an excuse for neglecting_ them, that the Indians, instead of being -the noble red men, such as the sickly sentimental fancy of the poet and -the moralist too often paint them, are, for the most part, ignorant and -vile, dirty and degraded, lazy, mean, treacherous and revengeful? My -familiarity with the better class of frontiersmen prepares me candidly -to admit it all as a statement of fact. But I draw from those facts a -very different conclusion than that they are not worth saving. All the -more do they need to be saved. I might, without encroaching upon the -regions of romance, tell, by the hour, tales of horror, as they have -been related to me by reliable witnesses, that would make the blood -fairly curdle in your veins. And if I had the gift of eloquence I might -so vividly depict those horrors that you would find yourselves, right -here in the house of God, clenching your fist and threatening vengeance -upon wretches so base, upon savages so merciless, upon mockeries of -manhood so gross and beastly. - -But let me remind you that an intelligent Indian might with more -eloquent tongue inveigh against the crimes of those who profess to -be better than savages. He might truthfully speak of the perfidy of -those who break the faith of treaties almost before the ink is dry in -which the plausible yet one-sided contract is written. He might with -indignant sneer point to the great army of vagrants claiming better -blood, as filthy and vile, as dangerous and degraded as the worst -savages were ever charged with being. But in saying all this he has not -made out his case. No criminal can make even a plausible defence in any -court by the plea that he is no worse than the worst men he can find -in society; though, somehow, quite respectable sinners do seem to gain -some comfort from this sort of scavenger’s logic. - -It is absurd to suppose that ignorant and brutal savages should be so -much better than civilized men that there should not be found in every -tribe, as there are with us in every community, a dangerous class, -selfish enough to plunder and murder those who have never wronged them, -and desperate enough to take any risk and to commit any crime. It were -most surprising if it were not so. All the more, then, I insist upon -their need of saving. With all the stronger emphasis I urge that this -nation cannot afford, on its undefended borders, any more than it -can afford in its strong centres of population and of well organized -police, to be indifferent to the needless multiplying of such a class. -Has our civilization much to boast of if it admits that there is no -better way for forty millions of people to deal with four hundred -thousand Indians than to exterminate them? If it were not true, as it -is, that it costs more to kill them than to civilize, convert and by -moral forces control them, what less than savages are we if we adopt -the creed of the worst class of frontiersmen as the creed of the -churches; that the best thing we can do with the savage is to kill him; -and that there are no good Indians but dead ones? - -Let us be intelligent enough to know, and candid enough to confess, -that in estimating their possibilities of social, industrial and moral -development, we have taken too much account of the exceptional cases -in which they have made trouble, and not enough of the many tribes -that, for long years, have lived in peace, grown thrifty, maintained -self-control, cared for the education of their children, and honored -their profession of religion. What this and kindred associations have -successfully achieved among the Indians alone, entitles them to the -gratitude of the nation, and the liberal support of all who have faith -in the Christ-like work of saving the lost. - -I have not time to speak at length of the work of the Association -among the Asiatic immigrants upon the Pacific coast. Many of you know -how honestly and earnestly I contend that in many respects this serf -population that is sweeping in upon our Western border is a most -undesirable element, morally, socially and politically. But by as much -as they are, in the mass, vile and degraded, the worst sort of stuff -out of which to make American citizens, by so much the more are we -bound not to outdo them in violence that would dishonor a savage, and -in intolerance and prejudice that is worse than heathenish. Here, too, -the argument of this discourse finds its fullest illustration. It is -the strongest proof of the bounty of our religion that its brightest -trophies are secured and its grandest victories achieved upon the most -hopeless fields, and in saving the very chief of sinners. - -But the work of the Association among the Aborigines of the wilderness -is as nothing to their more important mission, and their more signal -success among _the colored people of the south country_. Here is -a population vastly more numerous and more dangerous if left in -ignorance; for, wisely or unwisely, they have been invested with the -right, and in some places they freely exercise the power to vote. -Admit, now, all that may be said of the utter unfitness of the great -majority of them to exercise this privilege of freemen. Yet since, -beyond recall, they have the right, and in some way must be counted as -a very important factor in the forces that are to shape our destiny, we -can no more afford to let them remain in ignorance, than we can afford -to let the same class grow up in ignorance and vice among us, with so -little sense of their responsibilities, and with so little self-respect -as citizens, that they can be bought like cattle by the highest -bidder. The more debased, indolent and ignorant they are, the greater -the danger to our free institutions, and the stronger the motive -for seeking to elevate, educate and save them. They constitute more -than one-tenth of our population. If directly or indirectly we were -accessory to the placing of so dangerous a weapon in their hands—a -weapon, as respects their own interests, liable to kick back—we are -bound to help fit them so to exercise the right that they shall not -be the ignorant tools of corrupt and crafty men in either party as -ignorant and unprincipled as themselves. This the A. M. A. is striving -wisely to do in accord with the sentiments and sympathies of many of -the former slave-owners, who in good faith accept the situation, and -sincerely desire the temporal and spiritual well-being of the colored -people. - -But its highest aim and ours is such a spiritual elevation of the -colored people as shall carry all the most salutary influences into -their social, political and domestic life. Our honest and intelligent -aim is to lift them out of their degradation by bringing them to -Christ. Our work among them is with no sectarian, as it is with no -partisan political purpose. We propose to help make them intelligent -and worthy Christian people. There our responsibility ceases. As to -parties and sects, they must learn wisely to choose for themselves. - -Whatever the shading of their creed, we do care that they should be -sincere in their love to God, close in their following of Christ, and -honest in all their dealings with their fellow-men. We do care that -their moral training shall be such that their religion shall mean not -emotion merely, but character; not noise and bodily exercise, which -profiteth little, but practical godliness, which leads one to earn an -honest living for himself and his household, and suffers the neighbor’s -chickens unmolested to roost low; not a religion of the lips and the -tongue alone, but of the head and the heart controlling the life. - -Nowhere is a mere profession of godliness of much account, if virtues -tried and true are not the proofs of an intelligent love and a sincere -devotion. No creed can be accepted as a substitute for character. -Christ must be wrought into the life or we are not true Christians, -and the more completely self-deceived we are, the greater will be our -surprise, when, by and by, he who is infallible in his judgment shall -say, “I never knew you.” The cross worn upon the neck, or perched upon -the steeple-tops, or set up at every crossing, is at best a mocking -reminder of our impiety; if ever so loudly we profess to be saints, -and yet live as though our religion were a polite theory with which to -compliment our Maker, and to befool our fellow men, and not a thing of -practical worth, to help one stand fire in the conflicts of temptation -and in the furnace of affliction. Such a genuine religion, warranted -to keep in any climate, is wanted everywhere alike; in the East and -the West, the North and the South country. The lofty and the lowly, -the honored and the despised, the respectable and the degraded, we and -everybody, need it. It is the only kind worth propagating. For it, and -it alone, of all the world’s religions, has vital force and saving -power enfolded in every root-fibre of doctrine, and in every seed-germ -of truth. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -GREENWOOD, S. C.—School fuller than ever before; boarding-school -overcrowded. Mr. Backenstose is compelled to make arrangements in -neighboring families for students. - -ORANGEBURG, S. C.—“Our school has 196 pupils enrolled. We have a large -normal class. Six are teachers now. We have some who have begun in -music, and this week we have resolved to form a choir. Can you help us -with a musical instrument? _We greatly need_ one for the church. Our -organ has been injured by taking it back and forth to church.” - -MACON, GA.—Pastor Lathrop has printed on his “Gospel Press,” (given -him while a Home Missionary in Wisconsin by a lady at the East), a -stirring pastoral address. It includes a warm greeting, notice of -services and invitations thereto; also of the Lewis High School and -the Sunday-school, enforced by appropriate Scripture. We quote one -paragraph: - -“No sectarian gospel will be taught from this pulpit. The pastor -heartily believes, and endeavors to preach, the broad, liberal, helpful -Gospel of ‘peace on earth, good-will toward men,’ through our Lord -Jesus Christ. This gospel of the ‘Prince of Peace’ does not agree -with quarreling among Christians, or strifes between churches. ‘If My -kingdom were of this world, then would My servants fight,’ said the -Master. Our great aim will be to show how this glorious gospel and this -blessed Jesus will help _every_ needy heart to bear _all_ its burdens; -how every soul may be freed from the bondage of sin, and filled with -love, meekness, temperance, patience, purity, righteousness, and joy, -‘which the world knows not, neither can give nor take away.’” - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—Some recent conversions and cases of special interest -in religious things are reported in the college. One student, at least, -has declared his desire to go to Africa some day, if the Lord shall -open the way. - -SELMA, ALA.—A happy work of grace is reported from the Burrell school, -resulting in a considerable number of conversions. - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - -The Freedmen. - -—Senator Windom has introduced a bill providing for the colonization -and distribution of the colored people of the Southern States in new -States and Territories as they may select. Some interest and sympathy -with the project has been expressed by prominent colored men, though we -think the great majority of the most intelligent of them are persuaded -that by patience and industry they can conquer peace and a place for -themselves anywhere. - -—Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, was present at the recent meeting of -the Conference on the Civilization of Africa, and said that he would -lead the Belgian Exploring Expedition, which is soon to start for -Africa. - - * * * * * - - -The Indians. - -—The Board of Indian Commissioners held its regular yearly meeting for -the preparation of its annual report in Washington last week. Besides -the members of the Board there were representatives of the religious -bodies interested in the management of Indian affairs through their -missionary operations among the different tribes, and also because many -of the Indian agents are appointed on their recommendation. From the -tenth annual report of the Board to the President, it appears that more -than one-half of the Indians have discarded the blanket and donned a -civilized garb; that about one-half have moved out of their lodges and -wigwams into houses, the number of which has increased nearly threefold -in ten years; that the number of pupils in Indian schools has more -than doubled; that nearly one-sixth of the Indian population can read; -that the number of acres of land cultivated by the Indians is about -five times as great as ten years ago; that the production of wheat has -increased nearly fivefold, of oats and barley nearly fourfold, and of -hay nearly ninefold; and that the Indians own about three times as -many horses and mules, six times at many cattle, seven times as many -swine and about seventy-five times as many sheep as they did ten -years ago. The Board remarks: “This exhibit of results is certainly -encouraging, and presents a strong argument against any radical change -of policy.” The Conference urge three measures upon the President and -Congress: 1. That courts of law be established on Indian reservations, -with jurisdiction in all cases where both parties are Indians. 2. That -common schools be provided for Indians the same as for white children, -under some regular system. 3. That the homestead law be so modified -that an Indian may select his homestead within the limits of the -reservation to which he belongs. - -—The joint committee, consisting of three Senators and five -Representatives, to whom the question of the transfer of the Indians to -the War Department was submitted, being equally divided, have made two -reports. Congressional experts have been trying to decide which of the -two should have precedence as a _quasi_ majority report. - -Senator McCreery and Representatives Scales, Hooker and Boone favor -the transfer. Their report claims that the present system actually -prevailed even before (in 1848) the Indians were given in care of -the Interior Department, as the War Department neither appointed nor -supervised the agents, but only received their reports. All past evils -are therefore traceable to this system. The peace policy in 1868 was a -confession of its failure. The army control will be better, because of -the high character of army officers, and the system of accountability -to which they are subject, because it will cost less money and avoid -wars. - -Senators Sanders and Oglesby, and Representatives Stewart and Van -Voorhes report against the transfer, because of the abuses when the -management was in the hands of the War Department down to 1849; because -the Indians and the army officers agree in personally disliking the -proposed transfer; because of the progress in civilization already -made; on the ground of economy and appropriateness; and because not -one-third of the Indians need military supervision in any form. They -ascribe the failures of the past to the unwise recognition of the -tribal relation, exclusion from the protection of civil law, and of -landed rights. They recommend that the Indian Bureau be made a distinct -department, with a Cabinet officer at its head, and that the President -be authorized to transfer temporarily the control of hostile tribes. - -The proposal to transfer was rejected by a vote of 101 to 88. - - * * * * * - - -The Chinese. - -—The Committee on Education and Labor has introduced a bill, which -has been passed in the House, forbidding the master of any vessel to -bring more than fifteen Chinamen at any one time to the United States, -under a penalty of $100 fine for each passenger, and imprisonment for -six months. We hope the Senate will have the good sense to refuse its -consent to such action, which is a slight upon the Chinese Embassy -here, and may easily lead to a withdrawal of the privileges to American -citizens in the Flowery Land, which it was thought worth a good deal of -effort to obtain. - - * * * * * - - -OUR QUERY COLUMN. - -We print with great satisfaction the two following answers to the -question about the training of nurses. The first tells what is being -done in Le Moyne Institute; the second lays down foundation principles. - - -Training for Nurses. - -I note with interest the “query” in the January MISSIONARY relative to -the training of nurses. It is but one of many indications of a rapidly -growing dissatisfaction with the present system of education in this -country. More and more it is coming to be the feeling that education, -in its true sense, is not designed, as has been thought in the past, to -fit people for “higher positions,” but rather to fit them to make the -most of life in the positions they do occupy, and which must, in any -event, be filled by some one. To satisfy this most reasonable feeling, -more of the things that pertain to practical life must be thought and -talked and taught in our schools. It is no doubt a serious question as -to how a safe transition can be made from the present highly artificial -system to one that will have a more practical bearing on the every-day -life of the masses. In this case advice of a similar nature to that -which Horace Greeley gave about resumption will prove, at least, -the most reasonable. The best and only way to make the change is to -_change_. - -But for the query. At Le Moyne School, where we have one almost -continuous daily session from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M., at least an hour -of this time each day must be given by the pupils to some branch of -practical or industrial knowledge. We cannot wait for all the desired -appliances in this work, or to have a beaten track pointed out to us. -We are beginning with such appliances as are at hand, and we expect to -learn from our own experience as well as from other sources; but at any -rate in time to _earn success._ - -In the direct line of training nurses, each girl in the school, sixteen -years old or over, will devote the industrial hour, for two days in -each week, to studies under this head, including special lessons -in anatomy, physiology and hygiene. For the present, at least, no -text-book is to be placed in the hands of the students. They are to -gain their knowledge from lectures, which are to be followed by general -and familiar conversation between instructor and pupils on the same -subject. Each girl will be required to take notes of the lecture, and -to write out what she can of the knowledge imparted. After a subject is -completed, each member of the class is required to prepare an essay, -putting in the best possible form her knowledge of the entire subject -in all its bearings. - -This is, in a general way, to effect the _theoretical_ training. We -hope to find opportunity to give members of the class at least a little -practice: First, in their own homes or circle of friends; second, -possibly in the woman’s ward of the city hospital, located near us; -third, in private families desirous of forwarding our work; or fourth, -among the destitute poor really in need of such services. Our work is -to commence with the simpler and more commonly occurring complaints of -this section, as colds, accidents that happen often, chills and fever, -etc. - -I should like to write more fully of our plans as they relate to other -industrial matters, but space forbids. We are thoroughly convinced, -however, that in this matter of practical teaching, something more -effective than “tracts” is required to make sure of accomplishing any -great amount of good. We must come to closer quarters in this struggle; -it must be made a hand-to-hand conflict. Along our part of the line we -should have no fears of success if we could have placed at our disposal -the appliances really needed for the work. In the training of nurses, -we need and must have a good manikin, a human skeleton, some forms or -models of different organs of the human body, etc., etc. Who will come -forward and help us to them? - -A. J. STEELE, _Le Moyne Normal Institute, Memphis, Tenn._ - - * * * * * - -The treatment which preserves health is the best treatment for its -recovery. We should lead our pupils to see that wholesome diet eaten -at proper hours, and sufficient sleep taken at the time which God -appointed for sleep, will impart more physical vigor than any other two -agencies; and that a disregard for them is a fruitful source of much -sickness, especially among colored people. - -Sunlight and pure air are important factors in making the sick well, -and keeping the well from being sick. The _temperance pledge_ is also -a cheap and safe medicine. A knowledge of the chemistry of food, of -digestion, circulation and respiration is important, and may be taught -to comparatively young pupils. Nature, like a sensible dame, resents -an insult; and sickness is the punishment she imposes to avenge her -injuries. Nor will punishment cease until reparation is made. - -AMOS W. FARNHAM, _Avery Institute, Charleston, S. C._ - - * * * * * - -We are happy to make mention, which is all it would be proper for us to -do in this place, of the book for boys written by Gen. O. O. Howard. -Our friends are so largely his friends, that many of them will want to -read “Donald’s School Days,” published by Lee & Shepard, of Boston. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -SOME FIRST IMPRESSIONS. - -1. I find this school and church work in more forward condition -than I had expected. I had known of the slow process of building up -educational and church institutions at the West. I knew of the greater -difficulties in this line at the South. I am gratified to find the -schools in such substantial buildings, and almost all the churches in -houses of their own, some of them attractive, and some very rough. - -2. I find that these people handle the Congregational system better -than I had expected. They even excel in parliamentary tactics; and -what is the course of Congregational usage but the wise procedure of a -deliberative assembly? In their reaction from the experience of bondage -they rejoice in the full liberty of Christ’s house. If this system was -good enough to be given by the Apostles to the early churches round -about the Mediterranean, which had not, as I believe, been trained -in New England, and whose members had to take from them some severe -rebukes in the line of morals, surely it is good enough for these lowly -people. - -3. I find an improvement of feeling among Southern people, both towards -the Freedmen and our work among them. As the students come back from -vacation service to our several institutions, they report this advance -in good-will. The people are learning that ours is a philanthropic and -missionary, and not a political process, and so their prejudice is -abating. It is natural that some worthy people should feel a little -chagrin at the slipping of this work out of their hands; but not a few -of them are glad to see it carried on by anybody. They say, now that -these people have been made citizens, they must be made the best of -citizens. - -4. I find that the school work is the almost indispensable prerequisite -to the church work. It fixes the place. It draws out the material. -It qualifies for church activity. It is no gain to the Kingdom for -us simply to transfer the old-time church members to our system. -Our work is to train up the youth, to develop intelligence, and to -organize a fellowship of congenial material. A judicious man of -another denomination, speaking upon this subject, said that the -Congregationalists could afford to wait for the young; that his church -could not wait. It is surprising to see how rapidly the young people -come forward, for the mass of our congregations are of that class. - -5. I find a philosophical reason for our call to the church work. This -people have been taught to seek dreams and visions at conversion; to -think that there can be no regeneration without a dreadful physical -process of “coming through.” Now, there are not a few persons of strong -minds and strong wills who say that they never can come through in that -way. Some such have been delighted to find the quiet way of submission -and faith. Some of the noblest natures now in our churches were of that -sort. Happy have been the preachers and teachers who have led them in -this way of peace. - -6. I see a wise Providence in the opening of “Homes” for our workers. -It was impossible to get board among the white people. The Freedmen -had not the accommodations. It became necessary to provide “Homes” -which should be the property of the A. M. A. They become castles of -safety and abodes of comfort. They also bring to bear the example and -influence of home, which is a valuable adjunct to the missionary scheme. - -7. As the soldiers once took this country, so now the women seem to -be taking it over again. In all our chartered institutions, men are -at work, affording the masculine quality to the workmanship. But in -all these, ladies are employed as teachers in the higher as well as in -the primary departments. Many of the normal and high schools are under -the exclusive control of ladies. In the earlier conflict their sex -was their protection. In all the movement their patience and tact and -heroism, and their loving devotement to the good of the people, have -secured a crown of success. Our country will never know its debt to -these patriotic women. - -8. That whatever in politic or personal estate may betide the Freedmen, -our business is to keep pegging away at the up-lifting process. Whether -for the time their vote is allowed them or not; whether they be -ku-kluxed or bush-whacked or bulldozed; whether the South favor this -work or not, this one thing we have to do—to go forward patiently, -kindly, and strongly in this rudimental work of Christian civilization. - -9. That we are not to repress the emotional nature of this people, -but to give it a basis of intelligence. This element, which is a -beauty and a power in the endowment of man, abounds in the African -mind; enriched by culture it may yet add a glory to our civilization. -Barnabas Root and Prof. Blyden both argued that we should develop their -race according to their idiosyncrasies; and yet the tendency seems to -be that as they advance in cultivation they re-act to the more severe -and logical style, and so lose somewhat of their power. We ought not to -contribute to this result by our training process. Let them sing some -of their rich “spirituals.” Give them our hymns and tunes that have an -enlivening glow. Be not afraid to appeal to their hearts as well as to -their heads. Let them be allowed the Pauline privilege of saying “Amen” -to the “giving of thanks.” It is a robbery of this people to bring them -down to the intellectual severity of the Puritans. It has been argued -that we of the Caucasian blood have weakened ourselves by this ruling -down of our emotional sentiments. It was a friend who said at Taunton, -that what the Congregationalists needed was consecrated emotion. At the -same place it was incorrectly argued that our system was not adapted to -the freed people because of their tropical nature. Was it so with the -Oriental nature 1,800 years ago? - -10. That those who, in this work, during the years past, have gone on -in the face of prejudice and ostracism and persecution, have made the -way comparatively easy for those of us who join them now. - - * * * * * - - -THE CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE. - -The Annual Meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn. - -REV. S. S. ASHLEY, ATLANTA. - -This body held its annual meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn., on the 15th, -16th and 17th of January, the prevalence of the yellow fever having -prevented its session at the regular time in November. Owing to the -withdrawal of most of the Alabama and of all the Georgia churches, -to form conferences in their respective States, the Conference now -consists of the Congregational churches in Mississippi, Tennessee and -Northern Alabama, twelve in number. The churches in Mississippi were -not represented. Rev. Horace J. Taylor, of Athens, Ga., was chosen -Moderator. Each evening of the session was occupied with preaching; -Rev. S. S. Ashley, Dr. J. E. Roy and Prof. H. S. Bennett officiating. -Papers were read as follows: “On the Diaconate,” by Dr. Roy; on the -“Congregational Polity,” the Scriptural authority therefor, and its -advantages, by Rev. Temple Cutler of Chattanooga; and interesting -discussions were awakened by them. This Conference evidently believes -that the time has come to push Congregational church extension in the -South. The experience of those who have been long in this field is, -that Congregationalism is eminently adapted to the South. - -The narratives of the state of religion in the Conference developed -several interesting facts concerning Chattanooga. That city was -severely smitten by the yellow fever. Through all the autumn, business -and meetings were suspended. The citizens had largely fled away, -and the place was left to the sick, the dying and the doctors. The -Chattanooga church consists of about eighty members; several of them -were smitten, but not one died. “The Band of Hope,” a society pledged -to abstinence from intoxicating drinks, tobacco and profanity, having -between two hundred and three hundred members, lost only two members -by the fever. This “Band” was organized by Rev. E. O. Tade some ten -years since. Its object is to gather in and hold under strict New -Testament temperance principles the youth of both sexes. Some twelve -hundred names have been enrolled upon its records. Its power has been -felt far and wide. A branch of the mother band has been organized in -the city. It may be safely said that through its agency Chattanooga is -more free from intemperance than any other Southern city hereabouts. -Its elections are less noted for rioting and drunkenness than those -of the cities of Georgia. Here is one result of A. M. A. work. Every -church should have connected closely with it a kindred organization. -The steadiness of this church in Chattanooga is largely owing to the -temperance principles of its members, adopted while they were young. - - * * * * * - -Bro. Taylor gave the Conference an interesting description of his -former mission field on the Gilbert Islands, pointing out their -peculiar coral formation, the customs and character of the inhabitants, -and the success of Christian missions among them. - - * * * * * - -Prof. Bennett gave encouraging statements concerning Fisk University. -Prof. Spence is in Scotland; Prof. Cravath at his post, and the -machinery is running smoothly. The number of students is about as large -as usual; the religious interest not quite so decided as in former -years. - - * * * * * - -It was voted to invite the Congregational churches of the South to meet -in convention at Atlanta in November, 1880. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -=Atlanta University, Alumni and Students.= - -PROF. J. F. FULLER, ATLANTA. - -This is the _tenth_ year since the organization of this school. The -first class graduated from the higher normal course in 1873, and the -first from the college in 1876. Classes have graduated regularly from -both departments each year since. The _alumni_ number 52, of whom, -at graduation, 50 were professing Christians. With the exception of -three who are now pursuing a higher course of study, and one who has -died since graduation, these are all doing active work for the Master -among their own people, and, with others who have left school before -completing the regular course of study, are selecting and sending to -the University the more promising of their pupils. - -The present year shows a larger number of students in attendance and of -a better class. Besides those already established in different parts of -the State, over a hundred of the students teach during the long summer -vacation in the public schools, and also engage in Sabbath school -work. It is estimated that during the year 1878 over _ten thousand_ -pupils in the State of Georgia were taught by those educated at this -University. The influence of the school is commensurate with the number -of its workers, and that influence, now very marked, is constantly -increasing. The last catalogue shows 30 in the college classes, 37 -in the preparatory, 72 in the higher normal, and 104 in the normal. -The buildings are of brick, plain, substantial and convenient, but -_inadequate_ to the present and prospective needs. The grounds are -ample—nearly sixty acres—and beautifully located in the outskirts of -the city. - - * * * * * - - -=Revival among the Students.= - -REV. C. W. FRANCIS, ATLANTA. - -You will be glad to know that at this school we are in the midst of a -deep and effective work of grace, which has already brought into the -kingdom a goodly number of precious souls. There has been a good degree -of religious interest since the school came together in October, and -during the week of prayer, which we faithfully observed, that interest -was deepened; and since that time some have been committing themselves -to Christ’s service. The day of prayer for colleges, just observed, -was an occasion of deep and solemn interest, and a considerable number -took a step forward. A few extra meetings have been held; but, for -the most part, affairs have gone on as usual, with no interruption -of school work; and but for the greater quiet and improved order and -discipline of the school, and increasing fidelity to duty, an observer -would not know how thorough a work was going forward. Our reliance has -been mainly upon the truth, earnestly and plainly presented, rather -than upon any unusual measures, and our aim to reach the conscience, -and thus secure an intelligent and thorough submission to the claims of -God. All the members of the classes to graduate this year now profess -to be Christians, and we hope will be well prepared to do effective -work for the Master in the wide and needy field open before them. Some -who have long withstood every good influence are already affected, and -we hope will soon yield to Christ’s claims; indeed, there are hardly -any in the family who are not ready to acknowledge a deep interest in -the subject. We do not like to give numbers, but we may reasonably -hope that as many as twelve have already begun the new life, and more -than as many more are deeply serious. We hope for a greater work and a -deeper consecration, and that the Lord may baptize afresh for the great -and growing work pressing upon us. There are constantly, even at this -season, calls for teachers in all parts of this State which cannot be -answered, and in almost all cases Christian character is one of the -first qualifications sought. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -=Christmas Festival—Bearing One Another’s Burdens.= - -REV. WILLIAM H. ASH, FLORENCE. - -From the depletion made in September by many of our members going to -Kansas, a dark cloud for a time gathered over the work here; but I -believe the crisis is past, and some that were active in opposition -are now working in harmony with us, and endeavoring to take part in -every good work. The faithful few are ever encouraged by these cheering -words: “But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be -found even to fight against God.” - -Up to the Sabbath previous to Christmas we were undecided as to whether -it was best to have a Christmas tree; but I found so many willing -hearts and ready hands eager to help, and particularly some not members -of the church, but friendly to it, that I threw all my influence in -this direction to make it a success. At first we planned to have it in -the church; but finding that the building used for our Sunday services -was too small, it was removed to the court-house, where we had ample -room. The church would only accommodate about one-fifth of the people -who came with their children to receive the gifts, for we had something -for nearly every Methodist and Baptist boy and girl, as well as every -Congregationalist in town. - -On Friday night, the ladies of our church gave an entertainment to aid -in defraying the expenses incurred by the burial of a member of the -church who had died very suddenly. He would have been buried by the -town but for a few loyal and faithful brethren who revolted at any such -idea, and at once assumed the responsibility, though there was not one -cent in the treasury. At the supper they cleared enough to pay the -debt, and quite a little sum in addition. Our polity is guarded with -the same _sacredness_ as in New England. - - * * * * * - - -LOUISIANA. - -=Straight University and the Central Church—A Week of Prayer and Work - -of Grace—Revival Incidents.= - -REV. WALTER S. ALEXANDER, NEW ORLEANS. - -New Orleans, La., Feb. 1st, 1879. - -The terrible epidemic which held this city in its relentless grasp -for five months and created general gloom and depression, delayed -the opening of the University till December 1st. When we closed the -last term and planned for another year—our first year in the new -University building—our hopes were strong and enthusiastic, and we -said, “With the attraction and novelty of a fresh, beautiful building -in a central position, and the tide of public sentiment strongly in -our favor, the new year will be a marked period in the educational -interests of our State.” These brilliant expectations were changed -to grave uncertainty and anxiety. But God is with us, and our fears -are already dissipated. In the first place, the colored people were -wonderfully exempt from the ravages of the fever. There were instances -of the fever, but the mortality was slight. The only disadvantage was -the uncertainty regarding the time of opening the term, which induced a -large number to enter into other school arrangements. At this writing -we have in the Academic Department 175, and in the Law Department 25. -New students are enrolled every week, and we have great occasion for -satisfaction and gratitude. Our friends will be glad to know that the -new University building suits our needs to perfection. We could hardly -suggest a change in the arrangement of rooms. In many respects it is a -model house. If our friends could understand how earnestly we desire -to furnish our beautiful chapel and two additional recitation rooms, -into which we are almost ready to “_swarm_,” and how we long to see a -neat fence surrounding the lot, isolating and protecting us, situated -as we are on the grand boulevard of the city, I am sure that some good -heart would suggest the means of accomplishing these things. But this -is God’s work, and He will send relief if we can only wait. - -We shall graduate a class of six, of whom five are young men. They all -have bright minds and are first-class scholars. It is a real pleasure -to teach them. I hear them every morning in Upham’s Mental Philosophy, -and the most exacting teacher would ask no better recitations than are -uniformly given. The inducements for young men and women to qualify -themselves for teachers of the highest grade are all that could be -desired. It is impossible now to answer the demands for competent -teachers for the colored schools of Louisiana. I have received an -application for a principal of a large parish school, with a salary of -$1,200, and two are now in hand for lady teachers, with salaries of $30 -per month, in a town where good board can be obtained for $7 per month. -This demand will constantly increase both in Louisiana and Texas. Two -of our last senior class are teaching in Texas, and receiving $50 per -month. - -When I returned to the church, after an absence of more than five -months, the people greeted me with enthusiasm, and said to me, “You -find us a united people. God has kept us together during this sad -summer. We are ready for work. When will the revival begin?” I told -them we should begin special meetings with the “Week of Prayer;” but -the time for earnest labor was already at hand to prepare the people -for the work of grace, which I felt sure God had in store for us. Our -prayer meetings were largely attended, and I could see that the Church -were longing and praying for a glorious revival. What a joyful duty it -is to preach to such a people! The “Week of Prayer” came, and with a -deep feeling of dependence upon God we gathered for our first special -meeting. Night after night the attendance increased. Christians yielded -themselves to the spirit of the meetings; the flame of religious fervor -burned more brightly; and when, in sympathy with the Christian world, -we had considered the topics assigned by the Evangelical Alliance, -we felt ready to enter upon the holy work of winning souls, and of -directing all our thoughts and energies to this object. For four -weeks we gathered every night, with an attendance ranging from 80 -to 150, seldom falling below 100. Members of other churches flocked -in; unconverted men and women heard the good news and joined the -waiting throng. The result has been joyful—blessed—glorious. In -some respects I have never witnessed a revival of greater spiritual -power. The work has been quiet as the under-current of a river, but -deep, heart-searching and vital. The number of converts has been less -than in some previous revivals; but when the position and influence of -those who have been reached, one-half of them heads of families, is -considered, the general result is highly important. A few instances -will illustrate the nature of the good work. During a previous revival -a fair young girl was one of the joyful converts. She has been a -steadfast Christian, honoring by a consistent, holy life her vows as -a church member. One year ago she was married to a young man of many -attractive qualities, and the centre of influence in a wide circle -of friends. During this revival not only the husband, but the mother -have found Christ, and to-day there is great joy in that household. -On the night when the mother uttered the exultant cry, “Christ has -set me free; I am redeemed!” the child, who had prayed for her -husband’s and her mother’s conversion, fainted from excess of joy and -emotion. Another mother is made happy by the conversion of her son, -and expresses her joy with fast-falling tears. Now a student from one -of the country parishes yields to conviction and takes his stand as -a Christian. Another, a painter by trade, who says he knew nothing -of Christianity before, seeks earnestly till he finds the Saviour. We -shall never forget his impassioned eloquence when he announced his -conversion. It was the utterance of a deep, overwhelming joy. A young -man, whose home teaching has been all wrong, walks for days beneath the -dark shadow of doubt and fear. On one night he rose in meeting, and -weeping freely said, “Why do I not find peace? Why will not God have -mercy? Oh, pray for me and help me!” Such agony of soul cannot continue -long. It was the profound darkness before the dawn. To-day his faith is -strong and joyful. - -There came into our meeting a wife, in whose conversion peculiar -interest was manifested. Listening with eager interest from the first, -she soon became intensely engaged in her own salvation. Near the -close of one of our services she exclaimed, so soon as her emotion -would permit her to speak, “God, have mercy! Everybody pray for me!” -Earnestly she inquired the way of life, and after a brief but bitter -struggle the light came beaming in upon her soul, and she goes from -house to house, spreading the glad tidings and telling what great -things the Lord has done for her. Last year a married woman—a public -school-teacher—experienced this blessed change of heart, and the -religion of Christ has been the absorbing theme of her life since. Now -her daughter, an interesting girl of sixteen, shares the faith of the -mother, who says, “Have I not reason for loving God as I do?” One who -became a Christian years ago, but who, through indifference, had lapsed -from the enjoyment of the Christian life, has been recovered. When she -sought my counsel, I said, “Don’t expect to be converted over again. -Take your place as a Christian woman, and live as a Christian should -live.” The change with her has been like a new conversion. The cloud -has been dispelled, and she rejoices in the restored favor of God. - -On the last night of our special services fully 150 people were -present. I think we shall begin another special campaign the 1st of -March. Pray for us that a great light may be kindled here, which God -will never suffer to go out. Oh, the progress of this dear church these -last three years! Their self-respect, their pure lives, their faith in. -God, give cause for Christian confidence, affection and recognition. -The true church of God will not withhold them. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -=Fisk University—The Day of Prayer, etc.= - -PRES. E. M. CRAVATH, NASHVILLE. - -The meeting for prayer for the Association and its work was held on -Monday afternoon, January 6, at three o’clock, in the chapel. The -number in attendance was very large, and there was an unusual freedom -in prayer and a deep and tender interest in all the exercises. Prof. -Bennett spoke of the falling off in receipts, of which you had made -mention in a recent letter to him, and this called forth very earnest -supplication that God would move men’s hearts to liberal giving, so -that the good work among their people might not suffer. The occasion -was one of unusual interest. - -There have been two very clear and interesting cases of conversion -since Christmas, and some among us are anxious. There has not yet been -so large an increase in the number of students since New Years as we -had expected. The weather has been intensely cold and money seems to be -very scarce. - -The health of teachers and pupils is good. At the Baptist Institute -they were compelled to suspend school on Monday because of sickness -resulting from the unusual cold and exposure. - - * * * * * - - -=Woman’s Work—Relief Fund—Health Matters—Cottage Meetings—Northern -Helpers.= - -MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS. - -The outlook seems much more encouraging this year than last, for -several reasons, one of the most important of which is, that the -relief fund gives us access to many more families. Last Sabbath five -new scholars came to Sunday-school, all from families which had been -benefited by the relief. One of the boys, eleven years old, who belongs -to a very poor family, but who is quite a hero among his neighbors, -because of his honesty and industry, I often met last year with others -on the commons, but he could not come to Sunday-school because he was -so ragged. As he was very anxious to attend, a suit of clothes was -given him last week, and Sabbath morning he came to the church before -his teacher was dressed for breakfast, and waited patiently during the -three hours until the exercises began, enjoying his improved appearance. - -The past few weeks have been very cold for this climate, and many a -widow with her little children has been made to rejoice as she gathered -her family around the bright fire and partook of the wholesome food -provided by the A. M. A. relief. The yellow fever made terrible havoc -in many families—indeed in some none are left to tell the tale of woe! -For a few days, now, the weather has been very warm and there is much -sickness, and the death rate is very high among the colored people—in -many cases, no doubt, resulting from want of proper attention. A few -days since I visited a man suffering with indigestion and cold; he had -called a doctor, but was not relieved; his wife was anxious to help -him, but knew not what to do; so she was told to let the light in from -behind, instead of in front of the patient, as it was very painful to -his eyes, then to apply cloths wet in hot water to the aching head and -chest, and hot bricks, steaming with vinegar, to his feet. In half an -hour he was relieved and the next day was almost well, only needing -directions about food and ventilation. This is but an instance among -many of those who suffer for the want of such simple remedies, of the -use of which they have no knowledge. As the demand for nurses has been -very great during the past year, we propose giving some attention to -this branch in our school, which has filled up since Christmas and is -doing well. - -The industrial department is getting in good working order. I have -about forty women and girls under my general supervision, the more -experienced assisting me in teaching the others to cut and make -garments. They seem much interested in the work. This department is -looked upon with approval by most of the people, as but few mothers are -capable of teaching their daughters these accomplishments, though they -are very anxious that they should learn them. - -My field of work is already twice as large as last year. Members of -the different churches welcome me into their houses, and invite their -neighbors to our cottage meetings, of which we have five every week in -different neighborhoods. The pastor of the leading Methodist church -here gave me the names of several members of his church who would be -glad to have me hold mothers’ meetings in their houses, which was a -great help in my work, as it did much to remove the suspicion with -which they have regarded me. Some who are not professed Christians have -invited me to their houses, saying they hope by so doing they may see -the way more clearly. Many colored people look upon the epidemic of the -past season as a judgment from God on account of their sins, and try to -be more religious lest a worse evil befall them. - -The Ladies’ Missionary Society, of Roseville, Ill., have become -interested in this work, and have forwarded a box, for which we are -thankful. - -The “Little Girls,” of Crete, Ill., who last year sent a box, have this -year formed a society, which they have named “_The Milton Busy Bees_,” -have met every two weeks, and with their friends have prepared a box -of very valuable clothing, which has been received, and has made many a -heart beat warmer. May God bless all our kind friends at the North who -aid us so much by these substantial signs of their sympathy. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - - -=Summary of Mission Work among the Chinese.= - -REV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -At the annual meeting of the California Chinese Mission I was requested -to append to the report then presented an account of the work of other -missions. I venture to hope that that account will be of interest to -the readers of the MISSIONARY, and offer it as my contribution for this -month. The facts were obtained not from printed reports, but by special -inquiries. - -=The Presbyterian Mission= reports four evening mission schools, one in -each of the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and San José, -with an average attendance of 70, 60, 35 and 24 respectively. Four -American missionaries, speaking the Chinese language, are employed, -four Chinese preachers, and six other teachers. There is also, in San -Francisco, a day school for boys and girls, with two teachers, one -English and one Chinese, and an average attendance of twelve pupils. -There are six preaching places, three in San Francisco, three in -Oakland, two in Sacramento, and two in San José. Twenty religious -services are held each week, with an attendance which varies from a -very few to one hundred. Two Chinese churches have been organized, one -in San Francisco and the other in Oakland. The former has 40 members, -of whom two were received the past year. The latter has 29 members, -of whom six were added the last year. The San Francisco church has -been in existence many years, and has received to membership from its -organization 103 persons. In connection with the Sacramento Mission, -21 Christian Chinese have been received to the Presbyterian Church of -that city; fifteen are still members of the church, and of these, eight -were received last year. In connection with the San José school there -are seven Christian Chinese, members of the Presbyterian church of that -city. - -=The Ladies’ Foreign Missionary Society= of the Presbyterian church -sustains in San Francisco a Home for Chinese women, which has now -eleven inmates, who must, of course, be not only taught, but sheltered -and boarded, and, often, protected from the brutes in human form who -claim to be their owners. - -The total number of laborers connected with the Presbyterian Mission is -thus seen to be fifteen. The total average attendance at the schools, -212. The total number of church members, from the first, is 160, of -whom 69 have been removed by dismissal to churches in China, by death, -or by the dropping of their names from the roll. The total number who -hear the gospel from the lips of the missionaries or native preachers -cannot be estimated, but must run far up into the hundreds, if not into -the thousands. - -Of the =Methodist Chinese Mission=, Rev. Dr. Gibson, Superintendent, -makes the following succinct and clear report: - -“Five evening and day schools, with a total average attendance of -149; five Sunday-schools, with a total average attendance of 246; -four preaching places, with a total average attendance of 170; public -preaching, daily prayer meetings, praise meetings, class meeting and -Bible class, weekly, 78 Chinese members and 10 probationers; baptisms -last year—adults, 19; children, 3; cost of girls’ boarding-school, -$1,900; cost of all other work, $7,600. - -“One of our schools is a boarding school for Chinese girls and women. -We call it the ‘Asylum.’ As to churches, our plan is a little different -from yours. We have classes at different places, but all are members of -the one church at San Francisco.” - -At Los Angeles, from a Chinese Mission School, which was sustained for -many years by the California Chinese Mission, twenty in all have united -with the Presbyterian church in that city. - -=The United Presbyterian Church.=—This church, also, sustains a -mission school in Oakland, which has an average attendance of about -forty pupils. - -=The Woman’s Union Mission= to Chinese Women and Children has been in -operation nearly nine years. As its name indicates, it is a union work, -and is sustained for the most part by ladies in the different churches -of San Francisco and Oakland. The Society has been aided materially -this last year by the Chinese themselves, having received a gift in -money from the “Six Companies,” and also from the Chinese merchants. - -The special work of this Mission is among Chinese children, and for -them a day school is sustained in the second story of the old “Globe -Hotel,” at the corner of Dupont and Jackson streets. With this special -work is also combined visitation among Chinese families. The number of -scholars on the roll the past year is fifty-two. Thirty-two of these -are boys and twenty girls. There are two teachers employed, an English -teacher and a teacher of Chinese. The running expenses of this Society -are about eighty-five dollars a month. - -If, now, I add to this statement the following statistics touching _our -own_ =Congregational Mission=, the exhibit of missionary work among the -Chinese in California will be complete. - -We maintain 11 schools: at Oakland, Petaluma, Sacramento; in San -Francisco, the Central, Barnes and Bethany; San Leandro, Santa Barbara, -Stockton, Visalia and Woodland; in which 16 teachers are employed. -1,492 pupils have been enrolled during the year. The average attendance -for the 12 months’ has been 244–647 being the largest number reported -in any single month. 93 profess to have ceased from idol worship, and -75 give evidence of conversion. - -There is, outside these organized missions, considerable work done -by the churches in Chinese Sunday-schools, no complete or reliable -statistics of which could be easily obtained. At those sustained by -Congregational churches the total average attendance is, of pupils -about 250, and of teachers about 100. - -There is furthermore, we may trust, in Christian households scattered -throughout the State, a work done for Chinese employed in them, which -cannot be reported here, but whose record is on high. There, too, its -fruit will appear, gathered into everlasting life. - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -A CHRISTMAS IN AFRICA. - -MRS. H. L. JACKSON, AVERY STATION. - -To-day we have celebrated the birth of our dear Saviour. The first -thing was the giving of presents to the laborers, which Mr. Jackson did -from his own earnings. It was the custom of the former missionaries to -give the laborers each a Christmas present, and they are not a people -who forget very soon any favor shown them by the former missionaries. -This present consisted of two goats and two bushels of rice, which was -divided among them. I watched with pleasure their happy faces as each -one received his portion. - -At ten o’clock the first bell rang for services, and at the ringing of -the second bell the chapel was filled to its utmost capacity with the -heathen, who came from miles around to hear and learn of Jesus, and -why we celebrate this eventful day. There were so many present that -we were obliged to bring in extra seats. They gave very good attention -and seemed to drink in the truths of Jesus Christ as they were given -them. It would have been encouraging to you could you have seen them -when they were told that this dear Saviour whom we celebrate is a God -who hears in Mendi, Sherbro, Timony and all other languages, and if -they come to Him with pure and contrite hearts He will wash away their -sins and make them white in the blood of the Lamb. From their cheerful -countenances one could read that their happy hearts sung forth praises -to God. I am, as you may know, a lover of singing, so we selected -some of the most beautiful and appropriate hymns for the occasion. As -we sung, I, like the heathen, could but exclaim praise to God in the -highest. Surely Africa will be redeemed from the curse of ignorance and -sin, and her sons and daughters learn to bow in reverence to the true -and living God. - -After service, Mr. Jackson and I prepared a dinner, to which we invited -the chiefs of the Bargroo river. They seemed to enjoy themselves very -much indeed. The dinner consisted, as nearly as possible, of their -country dishes and a plenty of pure cold water. Having a country cook, -the dishes were all served up in regular country style. We had our -interpreter to dine with them, so that we might be able to converse -with them on the meaning of Christmas day and how they should celebrate -it. - -We are greatly encouraged to go forward in the work. It is true that it -is a hard and tedious one, but when we lean on Jesus it is made light. -You would, perhaps, be pleased to know of some of our encouragements. -There is an unusual amount of interest manifested on the part of the -natives in religion. They take hold of the truths imparted to them as -if their souls were thirsty for the living bread of heaven. They are -also gradually laying aside their country fashions, such as gregrees, -charms and fetiches. All of these are features of interest to one who -labors among them. - - * * * * * - -Although we are thus encouraged, the habit of drinking rum is spreading -among them. This is a great curse to Africa. No evil could be -perpetrated among these people more injurious to them than the selling -of rum. Really, many of them seem to think that rum is the staff of -life, and in order to exist they must have it. This idea has been -brought to them through the medium of a civilized people, whose highest -aim should be to wipe this evil practice out of existence. Mr. Jackson -endeavored to impress upon their minds as clearly as possible the great -sin of drinking rum, and I am sure that many were convinced of it. - - * * * * * - -The church is progressing both in interest and in strength. The first -Sunday in this month was communion day. The presence of the Lord seemed -near each one. Five persons joined the church and were baptized. Among -the number was one chief. We have now three chiefs belonging to our -church, and we believe that they are really converted men. - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -LITTLE SALLIE. - -PROFESSOR A. K. SPENCE, OF FISK UNIVERSITY. - -(Written from Dundee, Scotland.) - -Little Sallie was born a slave, but became free through the -Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. She had learned to read -elsewhere, but came to the school connected with Fisk University to -pursue her studies still further. There she soon saw she was a sinner, -and needed a Saviour. She sought long, but did not find peace to -her soul. She was very sorrowful, and her trouble appeared in her -down-cast face. She often sighed and sometimes wept. She prayed much -and read her Bible. Her teachers felt sad for poor little Sallie. - -At last light came. The Bible says, “Sorrow continueth for a night, -but joy cometh in the morning.” Her joy was great. Any one could see -that she had met a change. Her countenance was all aglow. A sweet smile -played on her lips. Her voice was full of music as she told what God -had done for her. Her eye kindled as she spoke of her dear Saviour. -All the affection of her young heart was given to him. It was sweet to -listen to her prayers, in which she often said, _dear Jesus_. - -But Sallie wished to do something for Him who had done so much for her. -All young converts feel in that way. Old Christians feel so, too. Paul -says, “The love of Christ constraineth us.” But what could she do? She -was so young, and only a girl. Even if she were a woman, she could not -go into the pulpit and preach. Only men do that. What could she do! -This perplexed little Sallie. - -One of her teachers, knowing her trouble, said to her, “Well, Sallie, -you can read, can you not?” “Oh, yes!” she replied, for she was a good -reader. “There are many colored people who were long slaves, and cannot -read, are there not? Would not you like to read the Bible to some of -them?” - -This thought pleased little Sallie. Soon after she put on her hat, took -her Bible, and went out, Christ’s little missionary. She stood erect, -she stepped light, she looked happy; she was going out to do good for -Jesus. No doubt His love was warm in her heart just then. We always -feel love to God when for His sake we try to do good to men. - -She did not know it, but the teacher who suggested her mission followed -to see what she would do. When she turned a street corner, he turned it -soon after her. At last she entered a little house, such as many of the -colored people live in. It was made of boards, one story high, and had -only one room. The day was warm. The door was open. He went to it and -looked in. I will try to tell you what he saw. - -Sallie sat in a chair with her Bible in her lap, reading. One colored -woman was, seemingly, busy at a table, ironing clothes. But her -iron went back and forth nearly in the same place, while she looked -away, eyes and mouth open, to little Sallie, to whom she listened -attentively. Another had ceased from her work, and, leaning against -the wall, looked down upon our little missionary in a most loving, -motherly way. A third was sitting at her feet and gazing with her -great, dark face into the face of Sallie, who, in a low, sweet voice, -was reading: “He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for -our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with -His stripes we are healed.” Was it not beautiful? You know this is a -prophesy of Christ, written many hundred years, before the sufferings -it describes, which Jesus bore for us. Find the fifty-third chapter of -Isaiah and read it for yourselves, my young friends, and think that -Sallie read it to those poor colored women; and as you go over these -verses, may the same love and joy fill your hearts as filled hers. - - * * * * * - -Remember, also, that you, too, may be workers for Christ in some way. -It may not be in Sallie’s way. She used to sing “There’ll be something -in Heaven for children to do.” There is something for them to do on -earth, too. Seek God’s guidance and He will show you what. Christ says -that if we give even a cup of water to any one, for His sake, we shall -not lose our reward. Sallie did not work for pay, but she had her -reward in the consciousness that she was pleasing Jesus and doing good -to those women. - - * * * * * - -Many years have passed since the time of this narrative. Little Sallie -is now a young woman. Through the aid of kind friends she completed -the course of studies in the Normal department of Fisk University, and -is now teaching colored children in the far-off State of Texas. The -freed people of the South need such teachers; they need also ministers -of their own race; and many missionaries are needed for Africa. - - * * * * * - -One way, my dear young friends, in which you can serve the Lord, is -this: Help us to educate these young people. When you put a little -piece of money into the box for this cause and for Jesus’ sake, He sees -it and will say to you in the last day: “Inasmuch as ye have done it -unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR JANUARY, 1879. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $749.02. - - Bangor. Hammond St. Ch. (bal.) $34.41; Hammond St. - Sab. Sch. $15 $49.41 - Brownville. Hon. A. H. Merrill, $100; Cong. Ch. - and Soc. $15 115.00 - Buxton. Rev. Joseph Kyte 3.00 - Gorham. First Cong. Ch. to const. SAMUEL T. DOLE, - MOSES FOGG and JOHN S. LEAVIT L. M.’s 83.21 - Hallowell. Emma French, half bbl. of C - Machins. “A Friend.” 3.00 - Monson. Rev. R. W. Emerson 20.50 - North Dixmont. Mrs. M. E. K. 1.00 - Norway. Mrs. Mary K. Frost 5.00 - Portland. State St. Ch., $344.90; - High St. Cong. Ch., $100 444.00 - Searsport. J. Y. B. 1.00 - Skowhegan. Mrs. L. W. Weston, $5; Miss S. A. T., $1 6.00 - South Bridgton. Mrs. R. Hale; 3.00 - Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 0.50 - Winthrop. Mrs. E. H. N. 1.00 - Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.50 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $10,653.97. - - Amherst. Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n $2 and box of C., - _for Wilmington, N. C._ 2.00 - Antrim. “Friends,” by Imla Wright 110.00 - Alstead. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 - Boscawen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.08 - Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.15 - Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Concord. Miss F. A. G. and Mrs. A. F., $1; - Mrs. C. L. G. 60c. 1.60 - Derry. Mrs. H. T. 0.50 - Dover. M. A. L. 1.00 - Exeter. “A Friend,” $30; Mrs. A. C. Perkins bbl. of - C. 30.00 - Fitzwilliam. Dea. Rufus B. Phillips 5.00 - Franceston. Joseph Kingsbury, $10; A. F. $1. 11.00 - Gilmanton Iron Works. Moses P. Page, _for future - work of the Association_ 10,000.00 - Greenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Harrisville. Mrs. Lucy B. Richardson 10.00 - Hebron. Rev. J. B. Cook 2.00 - Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $12.33; Mrs. Samuel - Towne, $5; G. C., $1. 18.33 - Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.75 - Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00 - Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc. 70.41 - Meredith Village. Mrs. C. S. 0.50 - Milford. Cong. Ch. 33.70 - Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.50 - Nashua. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.24 - New Ipswich. “Hillside Gleaners,” _for Wilmington, - N.C._ 4.00 - New London. ESTATE of Eliza S. Trussell 150.00 - New London. Miss M. K. T. 0.50 - Peterborough. Cong. Ch. 25.46 - Pittsfield. John L. Thorndike 10.00 - Rochester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Salem. Individuals in Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Shelburne. Mrs. M. C. Ingalls 3.00 - Temple. Mrs. W. K. 1.00 - Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 9.25 - West Campton. T. J. Sanborn 5.00 - Wilton. Mistletoe Band, _for Wilmington, N. C._, - $10; J. T. H., $1. 11.00 - - - VERMONT, $779.62. - - Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00 - Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Cambridge. Dea. S. Montague 5.00 - Castleton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.90 - Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 4.00 - Chester. G. H. C. 0.50 - Dorset. I. N. Sykes 5.00 - Essex Junction. Elizabeth T. Macomber 5.00 - Granby and Victory Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00 - Marshfield. Lyman Clark 10.00 - McIndoe’s Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Morrisville. “A Friend.” 5.00 - North Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Pittsford. Henry Sherman 30.50 - Randolph. Mrs. I. Nichols 2.00 - Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; —— First Cong. - Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._, $13.51. 28.51 - Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.89 - Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.77 - Saint Johnsbury. North Ch., $464.83; - North Ch. Sab. Sch., $50. 514.83 - Waitsfield. G. I. B. and A. M. B., $1; - S. H. Robinson, bbl. of C. 1.00 - West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 10.22 - Williston. C. A. Seymour. 5.00 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. 13.50 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $4,308.38. - - Acton. Mrs. M. F., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00 - Amherst. First Cong Ch. and Soc., $79.43; North - Cong. Ch. and Soc., $24.86; Prayer Meeting, Ag. - College, by E. D. Howe, $1.50. 105.79 - Andover. Peter Smith 500.00 - Andover. Ladies’ Aux. Miss. Soc. of Free Ch., $25; - John Smith, $10; Francis H. Johnson, $5; M. C. - Andrews, $2; Mrs. David Gray, $2; D. C., $1; - J. W. P., $1; G. F., $1, _for Student Aid, - Straight U._ 47.00 - Andover. ESTATE of Mrs. Caroline P. Taylor, by - James C. Taylor, Ex. 200.00 - Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ —— G. S. S., 50c. 25.50 - Ashfield. Cong. Ladies 10.26 - Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 8.00 - Auburndale. Miss Emma Warren, _for Tougaloo U._ 2.00 - Ballardvale. W. C. C., _for Student Aid, S. U._ 0.50 - Boston. Mrs E. C. Parkhurst of Mt. Vernon Ch., - $20; Mrs. Livermore, $2; Mrs. A. C. S. $1; - —— “Friends” Christmas Box, _for Wilmington, - N. C._ 23.00 - Boston. Mrs. Samuel A. Bradbury, $25; incorrectly - ack. in Feb. number. - Boxford. Rev. W. S. Coggin, $5; Mrs. J. K. Coles’ - Sab. Sch. class, $2, _for Student Aid, Straight - U._; —— F. C., 50c. 7.50 - Boylston. Ladies, for Freight 1.00 - Bradford. S. W. Carleton, _for Student Aid, - Straight U._ 5.00 - Brocton. Joseph Hewitt, $10; —— Mrs. Barzilla Corey. - $5; Miss Lizzie Kingman and Sch., $1.96, _for - Tougaloo U._ 16.96 - Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. 67.75 - Cambridge. Mrs. C. A. W. 0.50 - Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., $195.75; - Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $62.39; Mrs. E. K., 60c.; - N. H. H., 50c.; A. A. P., 50c. 259.74 - Centerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.67 - Charlestown. First Ch. and Parish 50.00 - Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.50 - Clinton. Mrs. C. R. Sawyer 10.00 - Coleraine. Miss E. McG. 1.00 - Cotuit. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.30 - Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane 100.00 - Danvers. C. W. L. 0.50 - Douglass. A. M. H. 0.70 - East Douglass. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. THOMAS - H. MEEKS and CLARA B. SIMMONS, L. M’s. 65.91 - Easthampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch 25.00 - East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30; E. M., - $1. 31.00 - East Medway. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - East Woburn. Wm. Temple 3.00 - Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 110.41 - Fall River. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $83.34; M. E. - $1. 84.34 - Fitchburg. Miss C. S. D. 1.00 - Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.27; - Young Peoples Mission of Plymouth Ch. $11.35 and - bbl. of C.; Mrs. Maria Fay, $5; Mrs. S. N. - Brewer, $2; “A Friend,” $1. 45.62 - Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.40 - Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.50 - Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.45 - Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $70; - James Bird $12.50 82.50 - Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.14 - Greenwich. Cong. Sab. Sch. 18.00 - Groton. Union Cong. Ch. 18.09 - Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6.10; Sab. Sch. - $8.67 14.77 - Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.00 - Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($100 _of which - from Mrs. Theodore Noyes_), $203.39; - C. C. and D. E. $1.00 204.39 - Harwichport. Leonard Robbins 10.00 - Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.10 - Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. box of books - Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.80 - Hubbardston. A. G. D. 0.51 - Ipswich. Linebrook Cong. Ch. 6.30 - Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch. and Soc. $62.07; - —— Coll. Union Meeting, $21.70, _for Student - Aid, Straight U._ 83.77 - Lee. M. A. H. 1.00 - Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.18 - Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 13.54 - Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.50 - Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc. $83.73; First Cong. - Ch. and Soc. $78.90; MRS. E. M. BUSS. $30. to - const herself L. M.; Mrs. E. J. Donnell, $5 197.63 - Ludlow. Cong. Ch. 27.00 - Malden. Mrs. M. L. B. 1.00 - Manchester. Bbl. of C. - Mansfield. P. M. E. 1.00 - Mattapoisett. A. C. 1.00 - Medfield. F. D. E. 0.50 - Merrimac. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. I. B. - BATTLES, L.M. 50.00 - Middleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch. bbl. of C. and $2.26 - _for freight_; Cong. Ch. and Soc. $14 16.26 - Millbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $58.50; —— Cong. Ch. - and Soc. $21.50, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 80.00 - Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.49; —— Sunbeam - Mission Circle, _for Chinese M._ $20 46.49 - Newburyport. J. D. 1.00 - Newton. Eliot Ch. $137.41; Mrs. E. R. M. 50c. 137.91 - Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. $29.96; J. W. 50c.; - S. A. E. 50c. 30.96 - Newtonville. Central Cong. Soc. 20.89 - Newton Falls. Ladies, bbl. of C. - North Amherst. H. S. 1.00 - North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. 12.66 - North Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.51 - North Hadley. Ch. and Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ $10; —— Cong. Sab. Sch. $4.55 14.55 - Norwood. Mrs. H. N. Fuller, bal. to const. B. W. - FULLER, L. M. 4.75 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20.28; L. W. 50c. 20.78 - Peabody. T. S. 1.00 - Phillipston. A. and T. Ward 5.00 - Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. to const. REV. SAMUEL - HARRISON and THEO. BARTLETT, L. M’s 100.00 - Plymouth. Ch. of Pilgrimage 43.99 - Reading. Mrs. Mark M. Temple 2.00 - Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. S. S. box of Books. - Rochester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Rockland. Miss S. M. Bailey, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 18.00 - Salem. Joseph H. Towne, $10 _for Student Aid, - Straight U._; —— South Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll., - $5.80; M. W., 50c. 16.30 - Sandwich. H. H. Nye 2.00 - South Attleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.33 - Southborough. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $8.93; M. A. E., - 50c. 9.43 - South Hadley. Teachers and Students of Mt. Holyoke - Fem. Sem., _for Tougaloo U._ 16.80 - South Royalston. Cong. Ch. Soc., $10; Mrs. S. N., - 50c. 10.50 - Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $27.22; First Cong. - Ch. and Soc., $20.61; Mrs. A. C. H., $1.10; A. A. - H., $1 49.93 - Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.73 - Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.56 - Stow. Mrs. M. W. _for Tougaloo U._ 0.25 - Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.80 - Tewksbury. George Lee, $10; Rev. S. F. French, $5; - Wm. H. Lee, $5, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 20.00 - Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell ($5 _of which for - Chinese M._) 6.00 - Watertown. Miss L. P. Auld, $15, _for Books for - Mrs. Mather_; —— Mrs. J. A., 50c. 15.50 - West Boxford. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight - U._ 7.54 - West Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.47; - D. S. Stebbins, bbl. of C. 12.47 - Westfield. Second Ch. and Soc. 19.57 - West Springfield. Park St. Ch. $46.15; First Ch., - $15 61.15 - Whitinsville. Rev. J. R. Thurston 30.00 - Williamstown. Miss Emily Beckwith 10.00 - Wilmington. Cong. Sab. Sch., $30. _for Student Aid, - Talladega_ C. —— J Skilton, $10 40.00 - Winchester. “A Friend,” 2.00 - Woburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $150; Cong. Ch. - and Soc. (in part), $40.94; Mrs. G. A. B., 50c. 191.44 - Worcester. Central Cong. Ch., $149.48; Salem St. - Ch. and Soc., $64.08; Old South Cong. Ch. and - Soc., $51.25; A. M. C., 50c.; Rev. W. J. W., 50c. 265.81 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $431.33. - - Bristol. Mrs. R. 1.00 - Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc. 62.00 - Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 - Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. $235.33; —— Young - Ladies’ Soc. of Beneficent Ch., $100, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ —— Miss E. A. Linsley $3 338.33 - - - CONNECTICUT, $2,863.41. - - Black Rock. Cong. Ch. 7.80 - Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 7.34 - Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch., $49.35; J. B. $1 50.35 - Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 - Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Cheshire. Rev. I. H. I. 1.00 - Chester. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Durham. Miss A. P. C. 1.00 - Essex. First Cong. Ch. 14.12 - Farmington. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. ($100 of which - from Henry D. Hawley.) 167.95 - Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch., $156.16; G. M. J. 60c. 156.76 - Griswold. Mrs. E. B. 1.00 - Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle, $103.50; - First Cong. Ch., $24 127.50 - Haddam. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $152.55; South - Cong. Ch., $100; Mrs. M. C. Bemis, $20.50; Mrs. W. - T., 50c.; “A Friend,” 50c.; Mrs. A. E. C., 25c. 274.30 - Kensington. Cong. Ch and Soc., to const. LEANDER A. - BUNCE, L. M. 31.57 - Jewett City. Cong Ch. and Soc. 13.60 - Manchester. E. S. and E. A. B. 1.00 - Montville. First Cong. Ch. 6.50 - Moose Meadow. Mrs. H. L. E. 0.50 - New Britain. South Cong. Ch. (_of which $5 “special - from a member,”_) $76.94; “South Ch. A Friend,” - $20; Mrs. S. 50c. 97.44 - New Haven. O. A. Dorman, $100; F. C. Sherman, $100; - Amos Townsend. $50; Henry Johnson, $5; —— Delia - C. Davis, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ $5; - —— P. P. $1; W. A. L. $1; Mrs. S. P. C. 50c. 262.50 - New London. Second Cong. Ch. (of which $300 from - TRUST ESTATE of the late H. P. Haven) 819.62 - New London. “A Friend” 1.00 - Norfolk. Cong. Ch. to const. MISS SARAH CURTISS, - L. M. 30.00 - North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett, $15.50; “A Friend,” - $5; M. L. C. 50c. 21.00 - Norwalk. Mrs. Wm. B. St. John 3.00 - Norwich. Miss. Ass’n of Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $50, - _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ —— Miss S. M. Lee, - $5 55.00 - Old Lyme. Miss Mary Sill, bdl. of C. _for Talladega - C._ - Orange. Cong. Ch. 10.80 - Plymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Ag’l Dept._ - Talladega, Ala. 100.00 - Roxbury. Cong. Ch. 17.75 - Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 65.25 - Stamford. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 50.00 - Stratford. “A. S. C.” 5.00 - Terryville. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll’s. 15.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 23.51 - Warren. First Ecclesiastical Ch. and Soc. 28.20 - Washington. “A few Friends,” by Henry S. Nettleton 6.00 - Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. 125.61 - Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch. to const. ANNA H. SCOTT - and GEORGE N. GRISWOLD, L. M.’s 69.00 - West Chester. Cong. Ch. 11.00 - West Meriden. E. K. Breckenridge 5.00 - West Safford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.75 - Willimantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, - Straight U._ 25.00 - Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, $10; Elias E. Gilman, - $10; First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $6.19 26.19 - Woodbridge. Cong. Ch. $9.69; Cong. Sab. Sch. $6.31, - (of which $6 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._) 16.60 - Woodstock. Cong. Sab. Sch. to const. DORA A. - LINDEMAN, L. M. 30.00 - —— “A Friend” 17.50 - - - NEW YORK, $991.03. - - Antwerp. Two S. S. Classes and a few Ladies, by Mrs. - Kate C. Abell, pkg. of C. and $1 _for Talladega C._ 1.00 - Aquebogue, L. I. Sab. Sch. and Friends _for Student - Aid, Straight U._ 38.00 - Brooklyn. Mrs Lewis Tappan 10.00 - Brooklyn. E D. ESTATE of Mary Withington, by J. N. - Stearns, Ex. 315.45 - Evans. Mrs. R. P. B. Camp 5.00 - Camden. S. Sperry 2.00 - Champlain. H. H. 1.00 - Chestertown. R. C. C. 1.00 - Churchville. Caroline Town, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 5.00 - Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; and Miss A. G. - Fairchild, $5; Rev. M. Lusk, $3 13.00 - East Avon. Mrs. F. D. 1.00 - East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 31.40 - Fredonia. Mrs. E. S Kellogg, box of C. - Fulton. J. C. Galispe, $7; Almon Bristol, $5; T. - W. Chesebro, $5; Dea. F. S. 50c.; Mrs. I. C. $1 18.50 - Greigsville. Mrs. S. J. Child, Mrs. F. A. Gray and - Miss L. A. Gray 3.00 - Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones, $10; A. S. P. 50c. 10.50 - Kiantone. Mrs. E. C. Hall’s S. S. Class 7.00 - Lebanon. M. Day, $5; Thomas H. Hitchcock. $5; A. - Seymour, $5; S. H., $1; J. H. W., $1 17.00 - Le Roy. Mrs. Sarah Covert, $6; Mrs. Dea. McEwein, $5 11.00 - Lima. Mrs. Mary Sprague, _for Student Aid, Hampton - Inst._ 5.00 - Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer 5.00 - Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 63.92 - McGrawville. H. D. Corey 2.00 - Middleport. G. J. H. 1.00 - Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 16.23 - Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 10.00 - New York. Mrs. Parker, $100; Mrs. C. Tappan Lewis, - $5; “A Friend,” $5; —— S. S. Class (“Pilgrim - Band,”) Broadway Tab. Ch., $15.60 _for Student - Aid, Hampton Inst._ 125.60 - North Walton. Union Miss. Soc., $14.87; Cong. Ch. - Sab. Sch., $8.21; “A Friend,” $1 24.08 - Orwell. “Friends” by Rev. F. N. Greeley, box of C - Oswego. J. G. 0.50 - Paris Hill. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 26.00 - Pekin. Miss Abigail Peck 10.00 - Penn Yan. W. W. Taylor 2.10 - Riverhead. Mrs. Eliza Miller, $20; Miss Knowles, $5 25.00 - Rochester. A. Hubregtse 2.50 - Smyrna. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc. 20.00 - Tarrytown. “A Friend” 60.00 - Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder 2.00 - Troy. Mary and Margaret J. Cushman 1.00 - Walton. First Cong. Ch. 79.75 - West Chazy. Daniel Bassett 5.00 - West Farms. J. A. 0.50 - - - NEW JERSEY, $209.50. - - Belleville. Mrs. J. B. 0.50 - Bricksburgh. Mrs. G. L. 1.00 - Jersey City. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 - Jersey City. “D. D. A.” 5.00 - Morristown. Mrs. R. R. Graves, $100; W. B., $1 101.00 - Newark. J. H. Denison 30.00 - Paterson. Benj. Crane, $20; P. Van Houten, $2 22.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $42.00. - - Philadelphia. W. P. F., $1; Rev. C. E. B., 50c.; - Mrs. J. R. McC., 50c. 2.00 - Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, - Talladega, Ala._ 25.00 - Washington. Mrs. M. H. McFarland 10.00 - West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife 5.00 - - - OHIO, $350.42. - - Alliance. J. S. Thomas 2.00 - Ashland. J. Thompson 2.28 - Belpre. Cong. Ch. 5.20 - Chardon. Sab. Sch. Class, (“Cheerful Workers”) 10.00 - Claridon. Cong. Ch. 45.01 - Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New Orleans, La._ 18.15 - Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch. $21.10; Franklin Av. - Cong. Ch., $8.82 29.92 - Geneva. MRS. S. KINGSBURY, bal. to const. herself, - L. M. 10.00 - Hudson. Ladies’ Union Miss. Soc., bbl. of C. _for - Colored poor of N. O._ - Kingsville. Myron Whiting 10.00 - Madison. M. B. H. 1.00 - Marietta. Mrs. E. W. B. 1.00 - Marysville. R. S. Wilcox, _for Student Aid, Selma, - Ala._ 20.00 - Medina. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl. _for Tougaloo U._ 5.00 - Moss Run. M. B. F. 0.50 - Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch. 9.30 - North Bloomfield. Friend, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega - C._ 36.63 - Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 7.30 - Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $20; Harris Lewis, $5; - J. S. McClelland, $2; H.R. $1; Ladies’ Soc. of - 2d Cong. Ch. 2 bbls. of C., _for Colored poor of - N. O._ 28.00 - Orrville. Chas. S. Strong 5.00 - Painsville. First Cong. Ch., (_of which $2.50 from - Mrs. Morley for Straight U._,) $26.07; First Cong. - S. S., $25; C. R. Stone, $5 56.07 - Ruggles. Mrs. J. T. 0.50 - Sharonville. J. H. 1.00 - Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.56 - Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward, $5; —— Mrs. A. F., - 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 5.50 - Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed 10.00 - Twinsburgh. J. R. Parmalee 3.00 - Unionville. M. W. 1.00 - Wellington. E. W. 0.50 - Windham. First Cong. Ch. 19.00 - - - INDIANA, $17. - - Elkhart. First Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Madison. G. W. Southworth 10.00 - Newville. A. D. 1.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $2,277.53. - - Aurora. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 25.00 - Chicago. New Eng. Ch., $16.39; - New Eng. Ch. Sab. Sch., $65.16 81.55 - Delavan. Mrs. R. Houghton 2.00 - Downer’s Grove. J. W. Bushnell 5.00 - Elgin. Mrs. C. C. B. 1.00 - Galena. Mrs. Anne Bean 2.00 - Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ 34.60 - Geneseo. Cong. Ch. (in part) 15.00 - Glencoe. Cong. Ch. 54.42 - Greenview. H. W. W. 0.50 - Hutsonville. C. V. N. 0.50 - Kings. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 3.95 - La Salle. W. E. T. 1.00 - Lewistown. ESTATE of Myron Phelps, by Mary P. - Phelps, Henry Phelps, and Stephen Phelps, Ex’s. 1,000.00 - Lombard. First Cong. Ch. 7.75 - Macomb. G. H. S. 1.00 - Millington. Mrs. D. W. J. 0.50 - Owosso. Mrs. E. H. A. 1.50 - Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Polo. Robert Smith 500.00 - Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $4.25; —— Mrs. - E. L. H., 55c. _for Tougaloo U._ 4.80 - Princeton. Benj. Ferris 10.00 - Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., $13; —— Mrs. - Penfield, $10, _for Student Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 23.00 - Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch. 22.74 - Tilden. Mrs. A. E. A. 1.00 - Waukegan. Miss E. D., _for Tougaloo U._ 0.33 - Wyoming. Cong. Ch. 4.39 - York Neck. A. R. 1.00 - —— “Friends” 450.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $139.38. - - Alpena. Julia F. Farwell, _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._ 10.00 - Armada. Miss Lydia A. Jackman 5.00 - Birmingham. Mrs. A. D. S. 1.00 - Chelsea. John C. Winans 10.00 - Clinton. Mrs. S. R. 0.50 - Detroit. “A Friend” 1.50 - Edwardsburg. U. E. 1.00 - Galesburg. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid. - Fisk U._ 17.40 - Grand Rapids. E. M. B. 0.50 - Grass Lake. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25 _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._; —— Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.23 35.23 - Homer. Mrs. C. C. Evarts 1.25 - Jackson. Mrs. Eliza Page, $15; B. T. $1 16.00 - Romeo. Mrs. A. B. Maynard, $10; Mrs. S. L. Andrews, - $10; Miss T. S. Clark, $5, _for Lady Missionary, - Memphis, Tenn._; —— M. A. J. $1; Miss T. S. C. - 50c. 26.50 - Saint Johns. Mrs. D. B. 1.00 - Stanton. Mrs. J. M. W. 0.50 - Stockbridge. Mrs. B. and Mrs. C. 1.00 - Traverse City. S. A. 1.00 - Union City. Andrew Lucas 4.00 - Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe 5.00 - —— “Ex Teacher” 1.00 - - - WISCONSIN, $144.85. - - Appleton. “G. W. P.” $26; Cong. Ch. $11.90 37.90 - Beloit. Prof. W. P. 0.50 - Delavan. Cong. Ch. 11.50 - Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Snell 5.00 - Geneva. Presb. Ch. 22.04 - Green Bay. A. Kimball and Others, $5, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._; —— R. M. 20c. 5.20 - La Crosse. Mrs. W. W. 0.50 - Mazomanie. R. L. 1.00 - Oshkosh. Col. C. R. H. 0.50 - Racine. Rev. C. N. 1.00 - Sheboygan. Mrs. L. H. Chase, $10.50; D. B. 50c.; - A. D. 50c. 11.50 - Whitewater. First Cong. Ch. 48.21 - - - IOWA, $146.06. - - Algona. Cong. Ch. 9.00 - Anita. Cong. Ch. 1.00 - Burlington. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 38.90 - Clay. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Davenport. Capt. E. A. Adams, _for Student Aid, - Talladega, Ala._ 50.00 - Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 8.11 - Grinnell. A. A. Murch 2.00 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bal. to const. - MRS. A. B. PEARSALL, L. M. 16.80 - Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 7.25 - Parkersburg. Rev. A. P. 1.00 - Tabor. Miss Julia E. 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Mrs. N. Gray 25.00 - - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.40. - - Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey. $10; M. S. C., 40c. 10.40 - - - WEST VIRGINIA, $1.50. - - Elm Grove. H. M. Atkinson, _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._ 1.50 - - - TENNESSEE, $382.93. - - Chattanooga. Miss Blanche Curtis, _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo_ 10.00 - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 261.28 - Nashville. Fisk University 111.65 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $138.52. - - McLeansville. Rev. Alfred Connett, $3.20; Cong. Ch. - $1.80 5.00 - Raleigh. Washington Sch. $15; Miss E. P. Hayes, $10 25.00 - Wilmington. Normal Sch. $102.39; First Cong. Ch. - $6.13 108.52 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $278.00. - - Charleston. Avery Inst. $276; A. W. Farnham, $2 278.00 - - - GEORGIA, $297.70. - - Atlanta. Storrs Sch. 207.85 - Atlanta. Rent 36.00 - Macon. Lewis High Sch. 53.85 - - - ALABAMA, $429.28. - - Marion. Girl’s Sewing Class, _for Mendi M._ 21.00 - Maryville. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Student - Aid, Selma, Ala._ 10.00 - Montgomery. 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Dunham 5.00 - Easthampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston 50.00 - Fall River, Mass. Rev. Wm. W. Adams 25.00 - Florence, Mass. A. L. Williston 500.00 - Georgetown, Mass. —— 10.00 - Monson, Mass. Cong. Ch. $9.73; Mrs. C. O. Chapin’s - Class, $5.50 15.23 - Newtonville, Mass. Mrs. J. W. Hayes 25.00 - North Brookfield, Mass. First Cong. Ch. 50.00 - South Weymouth, Mass. “Friends,” by Rev. G. F. - Stanton 25.00 - Ware, Mass. First Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. 8.31 - Winchendon, Mass. Rev. D. Foster and Wife 25.00 - Worcester, Mass. “M. A. T.” 7.50 - Colchester, Conn. Collected by Mrs. S. E. Ransom 27.00 - Easton, Conn. Mrs. R. H. Wheeler 25.00 - Cromwell, Conn. Cong. Ch. 2.50 - Hartford, Conn. Centre Ch., by Mrs. J. W. Cooke 100.00 - Middlefield, Conn. “Friends in Cong. Soc.” by Rev. - A. C. Denison 16.00 - Middletown, Conn. A few ladies in First Cong. Ch., - by Mrs. E. Tesey 25.00 - Newtown, Conn. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Unionville, Conn. “Friends,” by Mrs. T. E. Daviess 25.00 - Waterbury, Conn. 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