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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: American Missionary, Vol. XXXIV., No. 5, May 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: June 26, 2017 [EBook #54981] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD, Wayne Hammond and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by Cornell University Digital -Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXIV. NO. 5. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - MAY, 1880. - - - - -_CONTENTS_: - - -EDITORIAL. - - PARAGRAPHS 129 - - GEN. GRANT’S RECEPTION AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY 132 - - OLD NAILS WELL CLINCHED--THE CASE IN A NUT-SHELL 133 - - SOUTHERN NEGROES IN NEW YORK CITY--WOMAN’S - HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 134 - - EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA 135 - - LE MOYNE INSTITUTE 136 - - ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION - OF THE SLAVE-TRADE 137 - - H. M. STANLEY ON THE CONGO 138 - - JESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY--GRADATIONS, - NATURAL AND HELPFUL 139 - - ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 140 - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA--Lincoln Mission, Washington 141 - - NORTH CAROLINA, WILMINGTON--Report of a Visitor 141 - - NORTH CAROLINA--Revivals in Raleigh 142 - - ALABAMA--Conference of Cong’l Churches 143 - - " Sunday-school Convention 145 - - " MONTGOMERY--Health-Talks, etc. 145 - - KENTUCKY--The Land and the People 146 - - -AFRICA. - - EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM PROF. CHASE 148 - - -THE INDIANS. - - INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON 149 - - -THE CHINESE. - - CHAPTER OF ITEMS 150 - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - ALBERT BURTON JOWETT 152 - - RECEIPTS 153 - - CONSTITUTION 157 - - AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 158 - - * * * * * - - NEW YORK: - - Published by the American Missionary Association, - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - - Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. - - - - -American Missionary Association, - -56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - -PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - -VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J. - Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y. - Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill. - Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C. - Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La. - HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H. - DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J. - Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct. - Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct. - A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio. - Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn. - Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn. - Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California. - Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon. - Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C. - Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis. - S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass. - Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa. - Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct. - Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct. - Sir PETER COATS, Scotland. - Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng. - WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y. - J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass. - E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J. - Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill. - DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct. - A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y. - FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt. - JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I. - Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill. - Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo. - J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill. - E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill. - C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct. - Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal. - Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas. - - -CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - -DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_. - - H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._ - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_. - - -EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - ALONZO S. BALL, - A. S. BARNES, - GEO. M. BOYNTON, - WM. B. BROWN, - C. T. CHRISTENSEN, - CLINTON B. FISK, - ADDISON P. FOSTER, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - SAMUEL HOLMES, - CHARLES A. HULL, - EDGAR KETCHUM, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - WM. T. PRATT, - J. A. SHOUDY, - JOHN H. WASHBURN, - G. B. WILLCOX. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - - relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to - the Corresponding Secretary, those relating to the collecting - fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of - the “American Missionary,” to Rev. C. C. PAINTER, at - the New York Office. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New -York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 -Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, -Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a -Life Member. - - - - -THE - -AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - VOL. XXXIV. MAY, 1880. NO. 5. - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -With this number, the AMERICAN MISSIONARY passes into the -hands of Rev. C. C. Painter, as Editor and Business Manager. Mr. -Painter was born in the South, educated at the North, where he was for -several years a pastor, and more recently a Professor of Theology in -Fisk University, and connected with its financial management. He brings -to the work a ripe scholarship, the pen of a ready writer, and a deep -interest in the varied work in which the Association is engaged. - -The retirement of the Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, who, for several years, -has acted as Editor of the MISSIONARY, is felt to be a great -loss to the Association. His peculiar skill in editing, his facility -in writing, and his quick apprehension of current events bearing -on our work, enabled him to give to our magazine a freshness and -attractiveness it never before had attained. Mr. Boynton’s usefulness -as a member of our Executive Committee makes his loss to us the -greater. In his new pastorate in Jamaica Plain, Boston, he bears with -him the warmest affection and best wishes of the officers of the -Association. - - * * * * * - -As we make our bow after the above graceful introduction by our honored -Senior Secretary, we are conscious that all eyes are turned regretfully -toward the departing, rather than hopefully to the incoming, Editor. -We are in the position similar to that of a new minister, who is -told as he makes his first pastoral visits, “We never expect to love -another pastor as we loved Mr. B.” We are glad for all that makes our -position difficult, and suggest as the only remedy for the loss the -MISSIONARY must otherwise sustain in the retirement of Mr. -Boynton, that all who feel it, shall make the appropriate effort to -prevent it. Let our teachers and missionaries understand, that they -must come to the rescue by prompt and faithful reports of every phase -of their work; giving us rich material from which to select what, from -our stand-point, appears _the_ thing to be said at any given time. Let -Pastors and Superintendents, and other co-laborers, feel that they -must stand between this work and loss, and double their diligence, and -quicken their zeal, in keeping their churches and schools informed -and interested; and, finally, let all who have -felt an impulse to _give_ more, show their appreciation of the late -Editor’s good work by such an increase of gifts, as shall meet the -urgent demands on our Treasury; and in _reporting_ all this, we promise -the most interesting numbers of the MISSIONARY yet published. -Thus: - - “Out of these _golden_ griefs - Bethel we’ll raise.” - - * * * * * - -We have received a copy of the new map of Central and Southern Africa, -published by the A. B. C. F. M. As an outline map for chapel purposes, -we believe it unsurpassed in beauty and cheapness. The price, on paper, -is 75c.; on cloth, $1.25; to be had of C. N. Chapin, 14 Congregational -House, Boston. - - * * * * * - -Dr. T. Thornton Macklin, who for several years was connected with the -Blantyre Mission in the region of the Nyassa, is making a brief visit -to this country, and gave us much valuable information about methods of -work in Equatorial Africa, in an hour’s interview at our office. Dr. -Macklin is anxious to return to Africa and enter upon pioneer work, -such as that proposed by Mr. Arthington to the A. M. A., in the Nile -basin. - - * * * * * - -We are glad to know that Dr. G. B. Willcox, whose presence and -counsels are sadly missed in our Committee meetings, loses none of -his enthusiasm for the American Missionary Association and its work, -because of his new home and new duties. At a recent meeting in Dr. -Noble’s church in Chicago, he read an address which we wish could be -put into the hands of every Christian, and of every citizen, in the -land. It is too long to print in our pages, and too consecutive to -dismember without marring. We hope he may have calls to deliver it -before the other churches of that city, and of other cities, East and -West. - - * * * * * - -We fear that a fact, stated by Mrs. Hill in our last number, has not -been fully taken in by our readers. Writing from Marion, Ala., of her -work among the children, she said, incidentally, and most of us read it -without comprehending it, “The girls’ sewing-class has sent $38 to the -Mendi Mission.” - -The “GIRLS’ SEWING-CLASS!” “THIRTY-EIGHT DOLLARS!” -Sunday-school workers of New England, think what that means! We -venture to say there is scarce a Sunday-school connected with one -of our churches in New England where the same amount of money would -cost a girls’ sewing-class one-half the self-denial and labor that -is represented by this $38 for the Mendi Mission. And it came from a -colored girls’ sewing-class! - - * * * * * - -Some time since, a request came from a teacher in one of our -institutions to the Sunday-school of the Second Congregational Church -in Rockville, Conn., that it should raise $70 for a promising young man -who, for lack of it, must leave his studies. The matter was brought -before the school and laid over for consideration. On the next Sabbath, -a class of young men, every one of whom was earning his own living, -stated that it would assume the responsibility for the whole amount. -To raise this money did not hurt them; on the contrary, it did them as -much good as it did the one who received it. What if this same spirit -should become epidemic in our schools! - -The Sunday-school at Kenosha, Wis., when its pastor read to it -President Cravath’s article in the October MISSIONARY, -entitled “What shall we do?” promptly responded by sending a check for -$50. Pastors, Sunday-school superintendents and teachers, it is not -a difficult thing to do, but a most easy, and as blessed as easy, to -enlist your young people in this beneficent work; beneficent not alone -in relation to the ignorant negroes, but to your own young people. -The needs of our work are great, but the need that our Sunday-school -children and young people be educated out of narrow, selfish views -of life, is even more urgent. Let this double education go forward -steadily and by organized effort; thus shall sower and reaper rejoice -together, and it will be difficult to tell the one from the other in -their mutual joy and benefit, for both are reapers of such sowing. - - * * * * * - -The Selma, Ala., _Daily Times_ notes the fact that our Field Secretary, -Dr. Roy, preached in the First Presbyterian Church of that city in -the morning, and the Rev. H. S. DeForest in the evening, of a recent -Sabbath, and says that more than usual interest was manifested in both -services. Also, in a kindly notice of the Fifth Annual Convention of -the Congregational Churches of Alabama, convened in that city, it says: -“This church is doing a great work for the education and religious -culture of the colored people in Alabama, and the other Southern -States.” - - * * * * * - -Dr. R. S. Rust, Secretary of the M. E. Freedmen’s Aid Society, in his -Twelfth Annual Report of the work of that Society, speaks with a just -pride of the twenty distinctive colored schools established in the -South, with an aggregate of 2,510 pupils: of these, 453 are classed -as Biblical, 20 law, 60 medical, 74 collegiate, 270 academic, 1,020 -normal, 242 intermediate, and 371 primary. - -We congratulate him and his church on the good work done, and to be -done. - - * * * * * - -Prof. J. W. Randolph, of Waco College, Texas, which, we understand, is -a newly-projected school, to be under management of the colored people, -announces his purpose of publishing a new music and hymn-book for and -by his own people; and so the genius of this people is reaching out -into new fields of effort. - - * * * * * - -Facts are facts _positeevely_, as Dr. John Brown’s Scotch beadle would -say, and will assert and establish themselves if we can only have -patience in well-doing. The professor of Greek in one of the State -Colleges of the South said to us, some months since: “I spent a day in -Fisk University, and as I am, and have been all my life, a teacher of -Greek, was curious to see what the negro could do with that language; -and, sir, I should be most proud and happy if I had twenty boys in my -College who could recite Greek as I heard that number of boys and girls -reciting it in that school.” - -The teacher of these boys and girls was a young colored woman, 22 years -of age, herself a graduate of the school in which she was then teaching. - - * * * * * - -Among the many indications of the growing interest taken by the best -class of Southern people in the educational work of our schools, we -note the frequent kindly notices, given in the daily papers of the -cities in which our schools are located, of anything that concerns the -work. We clip the following from the _Morning -Ledger_, of Memphis, in appreciative mention of the lecture course -before Le Moyne Institute of that city: “It is an encouraging sign -of the times when such men as Dr. Maury, Judge Morgan, Col. Eaton, -and Judge Hammond give their time and talents for the instruction and -elevation of the colored race, especially when these people show a -disposition and a capacity for moral and intellectual improvement. It -is an indisputable evidence of the amiable relations of the two races, -and gives assurance that the traces of the war, and its bad passions, -are wearing out, and that we have entered upon a peaceful, law-abiding -era, with a good basis for solid prosperity.” - -At the close of the last lecture, delivered by Rev. Mr. Trible, Col. -L. B. Eaton arose, and after reference to the success of the course -and its good results to the community, proposed, as appreciative of -the lecture and expressive of their interest in the object, that they -should take a collection, which resulted in over $30 for the library of -the school. - -We learn that these lectures have been prepared with the same care -as if intended for the most cultivated white audiences, and without -condescension or patronage, were delivered as if addressed to an -audience of young men and women without any hint, direct or implied, of -race, color, or previous condition. - - * * * * * - - -GEN. GRANT’S RECEPTION AT STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY. - -Just as the MISSIONARY was going to press, we received a -letter from Dr. Roy, who is now in New Orleans, giving a brief sketch -of the visit of Gen. Grant to the Straight University. We have also -a more full account in the _New Orleans Times_, but we can offer our -readers in this number only the shorter narrative. Dr. Roy writes: - -“We gave a reception to Gen. Grant in the chapel. Flags were displayed -at the front and behind the platform, with the big map on the wall and -a placard ‘Our Country.’ The school and the patrons filled the hall. -Prof. McPherron led his scholars in some exquisite classic music; -Prof. Alexander made the welcoming address in behalf of the Straight -University. Gen. Grant responded in one of his laconic and fitting -speeches, which was greatly satisfactory to the colored people. Gen. -Grant said: - -“‘It is a good sign to see such a University as this attended by -colored people who were for so long deprived of any such advantage. -Those who have gone before you had no such advantages. But by the -gift of these institutions, those here are taking the first great -step towards improving the advantages guaranteed to them by the -Constitution. Great advantages are given these people by the provisions -of the Constitution and the Amendments, and the colored people are -coming to improve them. The privilege of emigration is permitted -and allowed to any people. But other things being equal, every one -is happiest in passing his life in the locality where he was born. -So that I am glad to see you improving these opportunities. I hope -everything for the colored people, and may you make freedom a blessing -to yourselves. Gentlemen, I thank you for your kindness.’ - -“Then the Field Supt., in behalf of the A. M. A., followed, thanking -the General for the peace-policy which he had inaugurated, and which is -affording so much aid to our work among the Indians; and thanking him -for his word in China, upon Chinese emigration, which has helped us in -our missions on the Pacific coast. The Superintendent also reported the -extent of the work of the A. M. A. at the South, the patriotism of the -colored people, and their hunger for knowledge. -A young lady, in behalf of the students, presented the General with a -bouquet, and Col. Lewis (colored), Collector of the Port, responded -for the colored soldiers of Port Hudson. The scholars and friends then -filed around and shook hands with the General.” - - * * * * * - - -OLD NAILS WELL CLINCHED. - -Three cases of more than ordinary importance were decided in the -United States Supreme Court, last month, from which it happily appears -that the soul of Judge Taney doesn’t “go marching on.” The Negro has -rights. Thanks to the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, he has -exactly the same civil rights as the white citizen. Moreover, he has -equal rights before the courts--any “State Sovereignty” legislation -discriminating against him to the contrary notwithstanding. The -test-cases, which had been appealed to the Supreme Court, were those -in which colored men had been put on trial for alleged crimes in State -courts, and had been denied the right of having any member of their own -race on the jury. This discrimination against them, on account of race -and color, was pronounced unconstitutional and illegal. The decision is -one to awaken devout thankfulness and patriotic pride in the hearts of -all lovers of humanity and equal rights for all.--_The Advance._ - - * * * * * - - -THE CASE IN A NUT-SHELL. - -Judge Tourgee, if he _is_ the author of that remarkable book, “A Fool’s -Errand,” which every citizen of the Union should not only read, but -profoundly study, puts the case in a nut-shell when, in answer to his -old teacher’s question, “But what can be done for their (the Negroes’) -elevation and relief, or to prevent the establishment of a mediæval -barbarism in our midst?” he says: - -“The remedy is one that must be applied from the outside. _The -remedy for darkness is light; for ignorance, knowledge; for wrong, -righteousness._ The nation nourished and protected slavery. The -fruitage of slavery has been the ignorant freedman, the ignorant poor -white man, and the arrogant master. Now, let the nation undo the evil -it has permitted and encouraged; let it educate those whom it made -ignorant, and protect those whom it made weak. It is not a matter of -favor to the black, but of safety to the nation. Make the spelling-book -the sceptre of national power. Let the nation educate the colored man -and the poor white man, because the nation held them in bondage, and is -responsible for their education; educate the voter, because the nation -cannot afford that he should be ignorant. Honest ignorance in the -masses is more to be dreaded than malevolent intelligence in the few.” - -We express no opinion as to his method for applying this remedy, as -it would lead to a discussion of political questions with which, as -such, we have nothing to do. But that the remedy for, and the provision -against, these threatening evils, is the education of these people, of -this there can be no doubt. - -We are happy to say, also, that the work already accomplished by our -schools is dissipating the fears, conciliating the prejudices, and -disarming the hostility of the Southern people, who are coming more and -more to appreciate and sympathize with the effort to educate the Negro, -and in helpful ways to co-operate with us in this work. The remedy, -indeed, must come from without; but it is beginning to operate, and the -most hopeful symptom of healthful action is that the patient begins to -appreciate and demand it. - - * * * * * - - -SOUTHERN NEGROES IN NEW YORK CITY. - -In our efforts to find out the needs of the emigrants for Liberia, now -in New York, we have discovered facts in regard to the resident colored -population in the city which were to us a great surprise. One of its -most intelligent colored men informs us that of the 20,000 colored -inhabitants in this city, only about 5,000 are of Northern birth. - -A church organized two years ago, with 21 members, has now a membership -of 150, and a congregation of about 800, all of whom are from the -South. They now worship in a hall for which they pay $40 per month; -have raised more than $3,000 for current expenses; $300 for charities, -and have $2,000 in bank toward a church building. The pastor of this -church is a young ex-slave from Norfolk, Virginia. - -Now, in regard to the refugees themselves, we believe an attendance -upon the meeting in Dr. Garnet’s church, called to organize and -systematize the effort to care for them, would have proved a radical -cure for chronic and most persistent doubt as to the negroes’ ability -to meet an emergency. The overflowing charity of that meeting was only -matched by the wisdom, prudence and skill with which it was managed. - -If the Christian churches and friends of Christ would but seek out, and -bring as prominently before the public, facts, of which there are many, -such as the above, showing the rapid progress these people are making -under great discouragements, as the police courts and enemies of the -negro report and dwell upon those which show his degradation, we are -confident he would be held in much higher estimation. - -We venture to say that a like number of refugees of any other race, in -as great destitution, with a similar story of wrongs, whether true or -false, could not be so quietly stowed away in New York, or left to be -cared for so exclusively by their own people. There have been no urgent -appeals to the public, and either none at all, or but a passing notice -of their arrival, in our religious papers. - - * * * * * - - -WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. - -This new organization held its first public meeting in Boston, March -18th. The ladies assembled at eleven o’clock in the lecture room of -the Park Street Church, which was crowded. Mrs. C. A. Richardson, of -Chelsea, presided; Mrs. J. F. Hunnewell, of Charlestown, acted as -Secretary. By-laws were read and adopted. An address on the general -subject was made by Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton; and Mrs. Steele, of Revere, -gave a very interesting account of her labors in Maryland for eight -years among the poor whites. - -A more public meeting was held in the afternoon in the audience-room -of the church, which was also well filled. Rev. Dr. Webb presided, and -made a very appropriate and encouraging introductory address, sketching -the new range of work opened for women in the missionary world, and -assuring the new organization of the welcome it would receive by the -officers and friends of the American Board and the Woman’s Board. By -invitation, representatives of the American Missionary Association and -of the American Home Missionary Society addressed the audience; Rev. C. -L. Woodworth and Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D., appearing for the former, -and Rev. Robert West and Rev. H. M. Storrs, D. D., for the latter. -These gentlemen confined themselves, as was expected, to presenting -a view of the wide fields occupied by their -respective societies, and the great need and remarkable hopefulness -which they furnished for the labor of woman in the elevation and -Christianization of the more destitute women and children of the great -West and South. - -This new organization originated entirely with the ladies themselves, -and, as far as we can judge, has been inaugurated and will be carried -forward with great wisdom and efficiency, and with no spirit of -rivalry, but with the utmost Christian consideration and love towards -other similar boards. It is hard to predict the future of a new -benevolent organization. Who could have conjectured in 1810 the grand -reach of Christian labor achieved by the ever-to-be-honored American -Board? And who, ten years ago, could have foreseen the remarkable -energy and wonderful success--then latent, but now active--displayed -by the Christian women of this land in the several denominations in -co-operation with the great Missionary Boards? But while we cannot -prophesy of the future of this new society, yet the success of those we -have mentioned encourages us to anticipate for it a glorious career. -There certainly is room in this our land, among the women and children -of less favored portions and races, for the widest and most hopeful -endeavors that can be put forth; and while the degraded of distant -lands should not be neglected, certainly those in our own should not be -passed by. This new Board has our warmest sympathies. - - * * * * * - - -EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. - -In a letter from Rev. J. Edwards, of Grantville, Mass., he adds his -testimony to the many that reach us from all directions, that the South -is experiencing a gradual, and to one who visits it after several -years’ absence, marked uplifting. He also comes back full of the -assurance, as do all others who study the “problem of the South,” that -the A. M. A. is doing good work just where it is needed. We thank him -for his letter, and second his suggestion that our work presents a -magnificent opportunity to the Christian and patriot. We have room for -a few extracts: - -“Enter the train of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad and you will be -carried very comfortably through a country as monotonous and unexciting -as you will often find. You can bear to watch, for once, the scenery -that looks so painfully uninviting it is positively entertaining: light -land, scattered pines, and here and there, the so-called villages, of -which you might say, ‘enough of them--such as they are.’ No bright -green sward; and as for houses, homes--where are they? Surely not very -near the line of the railroad, unless you can by courtesy give the name -to the scanty cabins, with the tow-headed children, and the wan women, -and the man scratching the top of the earth with a plow drawn by one -decrepit steer or sorry mule. - -“The railroad on to which you pass at Weldon, would carry you to -Wilmington, famed throughout the old North State for its delightful -social life. But we stop one hundred miles short of this, in the heart -of the State. Your desolate ride has hardly prepared you for the -pleasing aspect of the town that greets you. Comfortable houses, some -of them tasteful, with abundant flower-yards, and, now and then, the -familiar green turf, preserved with a good deal of pains; the county -buildings, numerous and large stores, some of them doing a business of -two or three hundred thousand a year, assure -you that here, too, are homes and American enterprise. You are in the -midst of the cotton belt--a dry, light, almost sandy soil, level like -the bottom of a lake, showing signs (in beds of marl, with shells not -yet absorbed) of having been once under the sea, easily tilled; large -amounts of chemical fertilizers in use; plenty of work for both whites -and blacks; and, although some of both races are do-nothings, numbers -of both are industrious and reap the reward. The relations between the -two races here appear to the casual eye entirely peaceful. Some blacks -are leaving for Indiana, and a few are returning; and the departure -of those who go from this particular section only gives more room and -occupation for those who stay. - -“A fragment of the conversation of two negroes I overheard on the -street sounded true and sensible: ‘My ’pinion is, one dat’s willin’ to -work, kin make a livin’ most anywhar; as fur ---- he allus was too lazy -to live; he’s too lazy to die. I don’t b’lieve nuffin sech as he ses.’ -They were talking of a bright but indolent mulatto, well known in the -place, who had lately exodusized and come back. - -“The churches are Baptist, Episcopal, and Methodist, with -‘Hard-shells,’ Campbellites, etc. The colored people have churches and -preachers of their own, and will never rise very high till they have -schools and better churches. - -“The lack of schools is a great evil, felt and deplored by some of the -best people. There are private schools for the whites who can pay for -them, but no public schools for them, and none of any kind for the -blacks here yet. But times move forward and grow better.” - - * * * * * - - -LE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN. - -Training Nurses--Needle-Work--Preparation of Food, etc. - -In the MISSIONARY for March, 1879, Miss Milton gave some -account of the industrial department of the school at Le Moyne, and -also announced the purpose of giving attention to the training of -nurses. - -Prof. Steele writes that their plans have been more fully developed -with most gratifying results. During the year, about an hour each -day has been devoted to such work, without interfering with regular -studies, and with the effect of stimulating the students in all other -directions. The list of questions on the care of the sick, which -constituted a part of their examination at the close of the winter -term, indicates a varied and minute training, which must fit these -pupils to be angels of mercy, and most blessed ministers of comfort and -health in many cabins of the South. - -Professor Steele reports a death-rate among the negroes of Memphis that -is simply appalling. He says in other cities of the South it is about -double that among the whites; in Memphis it is three times as great. -We are confident that this disproportion does not prevail through the -country. The blacks are gregarious, and crowding into the cities, as -they do, in ignorance and poverty, disease is fearfully fatal among the -children; but we do not believe the forthcoming census will establish -such a death-rate as the above among the colored population at large. - -Our teachers, wise and Christ-like in their spirit, are directing their -efforts to whatever affects the welfare of these poor people, and their -condition will constantly improve. - - * * * * * - - -ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. - -The Queen of England announced at the opening of the last session of -Parliament, Feb. 5th, “That a convention for the suppression of the -slave-trade has been concluded between my Government and that of his -Imperial Majesty the Sultan.” This was very gratifying to all who had -so long waited the signing of the oft-promised and oft-delayed treaty -with Turkey. On the 9th of February, it was said by the Under-Secretary -of State that the treaty had been signed but not ratified, and would -soon be laid upon the table of the House of Commons. In the meantime, -what purports to be a copy of the treaty has been published. - -An examination of its several articles creates grave fears that astute -Turkish diplomacy has been too much for Sir Henry Layard in this -matter. It is all very well for English cruisers to have the right to -search suspected ships, sailing under the Turkish flag, for slaves; but -their officers cannot touch African _slave_ seamen, and it will be easy -to so make out a ship’s papers that she can carry many more men than -she needs, and she can change her crew every voyage. All slaves seized, -another article provides, shall be turned over to _Ottoman authorities -for the purpose of proclaiming them free_, which, we fear, will prove -as effectual in accomplishing that result, as throwing the turtle into -the water by the simpleton was effectual in drowning it. - -When England made treaties with other slave-holding nations for the -suppression of the slave-trade, she provided that captured slaves -should be tried before a mixed Commission in which British officers -sat. In this treaty they take their chances for freedom before an -Ottoman Court. - -In this connection we regret to announce that Pacha Gordon has -resigned, and his resignation has been accepted; and thus Central -Africa loses its noble Christian ruler. He went out in 1874 as Governor -General of Soudan, “to establish a regular government, to create -facilities for commerce, and to destroy the slave-trade in the province -entrusted to him,” and his resignation will bring dismay to all who -have the cause of humanity at heart. It was at first reported that -Ismail Eyoub Pacha had been appointed to take his place, who, while -not Gordon Pacha, was, it is said, as good a man for the post as could -be found in Egypt. But the _Anti-Slavery Reporter_ now says, “it is -officially announced that the actual successor is one Raouf Bey, of -evil memory.” - -This Raouf Bey is spoken of by Sir Samuel Baker in his “Ismailia” as -the bosom friend of Abou Saood, whom he describes “as the _incarnation -of the slave-trade_, and the greatest slave-dealer on the White -Nile.” Colonel Gordon thinks it certain that the slave-dealers will -at once resume their operations, and will be unmolested by the new -Governor. He estimates that at least 30,000 slaves have annually, -for the past twelve years, been brought down from the Bahr Gazelle -and Darfur; and Vice-Consul Wylde believes that not less than 50,000 -annually cross the Red Sea, who are taken to Egypt, Turkey, and other -Mohammedan countries. And now, it seems, the Anglo-Turkish Convention -provides that slaves captured by the English shall be handed over to -the _Ottoman_ authorities to be by them declared free, and a noted -slave-hunter displaces the Christian suppressor of that hellish traffic -in the governorship of the slave-hunting grounds. - - * * * * * - - -MR. H. M. STANLEY ON THE CONGO. - -[From the Field, March 12.] - -As the recent movements of this well known African explorer have not -been given in detail, the following translation of a letter written by -Father Carrie, head of the Congo Mission, dated Landana, December 3, -1879, and published in _Les Missions Catholiques_ (No. 559), may not be -without interest. - -Father Carrie says: “Having just returned from a voyage through -the whole navigable portion of the Lower Congo, I take the -first opportunity of sending you the following particulars -concerning Mr. Stanley and his explorations. The party of the -great explorer is somewhat numerous. It consists, besides the -leader, of a superintendent, an engineer, a sea captain, several -mechanics, carpenters, etc., in all, twenty whites of different -nationalities--Belgians, Americans, English, Italians, and Danes. A -French naturalist, M. Protche, just come to Landana from Paris, and an -old member of the German expedition to Chinchoxo, near Landana, are -also about to join The ‘Society for the Investigation of the Upper -Congo,’ as this expedition terms itself. - -“The blacks of the party consist of about one hundred men, Arabs -and natives from Sierra Leone and the Congo. The stores are very -considerable, comprising especially five small steamers and some -auxiliary craft, engines and trucks for land carriage, wooden houses -ready for erection, &c. - -“Mr. Stanley, as I am informed by Mr. Greshoff, proposes to go up the -Congo to the Lualaba, where he hopes to meet his Arab friend Tibu-tin. -He will then explore the Western part of the Congo as well as the -countries near both of its banks, and will endeavor at the same time to -bring the ivory-trade to Emboma. When we arrived at Vivi (four or five -miles below the first cataract of the Yellala Falls), Mr. Stanley was -on his way across the mountains in the direction of the great village -of the same name, doubtless studying the start for his route to the -interior. M. Van Schandel, chief engineer of the expedition, told us -that the celebrated traveller habitually started on such excursions -without warning any one of his going or returning. Soon, however, Mr. -Stanley himself was announced; he returned tired to death and covered -with dust and perspiration. - -“While waiting for the end of the rainy season, he is engaged in -firmly establishing his first station--the base of all his future -operations--and in maturing his plans for overcoming the gigantic -difficulties in his way. - -“It is, indeed, a startling enterprise to traverse some two hundred -miles of precipitous, rocky mountains, piled up--so to speak--one on -the other, and almost without any intermediate passage, not only with -a numerous party, but a considerable weight of baggage, wooden houses, -trucks and steam vessels, which must be hoisted over heights of from -1,000 to 1,300 feet, with extremely abrupt rises; and this not once, or -twenty, or a hundred times, but on thousands of occasions. - -“Happen what may, it will require some years’ work to reach the end -of this terrible chain of mountains at Stanley Pool, where the second -station is to be established.” - -Making every allowance for the fears of the worthy ecclesiastic whose -letter we have here given, it is sufficiently evident that Mr. Stanley -has his work cut out in executing the Belgian international programme. -He will, apparently, have a land journey of three hundred miles before -he can make use of the river, and he himself considers that it will -take three years to carry out the project successfully. -----File: -013.png--- - - * * * * * - - -JESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY! - -It is an assurance full of sweet comfort, especially to the poor, that -One sits over against the treasury who estimates at its full value the -widow’s mite, knowing as He does out of what love and self-denial it -comes. With a check for the last instalment of $100 from the estate -of a poor widow, comes a brief sketch of a life that was beautiful -and touching; a life that was full of struggle, and sorrow, and -benefaction; which closed in blindness after 88 years. After a brief -married life, she was left a widow with one child, in great poverty. -She won a home with her needle, in which she lived for forty-two years, -the last twenty-six of these entirely alone, as her daughter had been -taken from her by death. - -She lived her brave, self-forgetful, helpful life; active in all good -words and works in church and neighborhood, economizing where her own -wants were concerned, keeping guard even over the use of matches; -liberal to the limit, not only of what she _had_, but of what she -_could earn_, where the needs of others were known. Intelligently -acquainted with the work of the Church, at home and abroad, from a wide -reading of all our home and foreign missionary journals, she accepted -it as the highest duty and most honored privilege of life to fill up, -according to her measure in her own body, what remains behind of the -sufferings of the divine Redeemer. Such gifts are as precious ointment -poured upon the head of the Master, and He accepts them with the pledge -that they shall not be lost. It were almost a sacrilege to write a name -upon our pages by way of eulogy which the Master himself has pronounced -with honor before His angels: “Thou hast been faithful over a very -little.” “Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” - -And He still sits over against the treasury, noting not alone -the widow’s mite, but the larger gifts of those who give, if not -abundantly, yet out, of their abundance. - - * * * * * - - -GRADATIONS, NATURAL AND HELPFUL. - -Can civilization reach the state of nature, that state which God meant -for it, until men know how to divide society equally, from top to -bottom? I do not mean by this that there will ever come a time when -two will not be more than one, when four will not be more than two, -and when eight will not be more than four; I do not mean that we shall -ever see the time when there will not be gradations in society from the -top to the bottom--gradations of power, gradations of intelligence, -gradations of wealth, gradations of refinement; but there is to be in -society just that which exists in households--namely, a disposition, -that runs from the top to the bottom, of love and sympathy; and when -you have so stratified society, and organized it, and made every member -of it, from the lowest to the highest, feel, “My brother above me is -pulling me up higher,” we shall begin to realize our true relation, -and fulfil our appointed duty one to another. When in society it is -as it is on the sides of mountains, where men, being helped by those -who are above them, turn round and help those who are below them, and -go on a few steps and again are helped by those that are above them, -and again help those that are below them, and so on until they reach -the top, then gradation will not be an evil. Gradation is now an evil -because there is a stratum of prosperity, and a -thick slice of selfishness; then another stratum of prosperity, and a -thicker slice of selfishness; and so on, selfishness growing thicker -and thicker as you go toward the bottom. It has got to be broken up. -The low places, the valleys, have got to be exalted, the mountains -have got to be brought down, and men have got to mix and coalesce. -In other words, the day has got to come when that simple sentence, a -million times repeated, and a million times not understood, shall be -fulfilled, and love to God and love to man shall be the law of the -universe, and of universal conditions. We have got to come to it first -or last.--_Christian Union._ - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -N. C., LASSITER’S MILLS.--“The church is greatly revived; six -converts this week, and many more seeking the Lord.” - -N. C., RALEIGH.--“The revival still goes on. There have been -over 200 conversions since Mr. Brown left us, and many are still -anxious. There are revival meetings in every colored church in the city -every night without the least rivalry. We have twenty-two converts in -our church already.” - -S. C., CHARLESTON.--“Miss Wells has organized a Band of Hope -with forty members, and there seems to be a good deal of enthusiasm. -The church has fixed on the 3d Sunday in April as the day for a renewal -of the covenant. The officers are now visiting every member, urging -them to come forward to renew their church pledge.” - -GA., MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.--Mr. Snelson writes: “Our communion -season held yesterday was highly enjoyed by all. Six persons united -with the church. Four were promising young men. Two of the candidates -came out from Baptist families and were baptized by immersion.” - -GA., WOODVILLE.--Mr. Sengstacke writes: “I have been preaching -every night for six weeks. Our Sunday night meetings are crowded, and -the unconverted people are becoming alarmed. I am now reaching the very -class I have been longing after for some time--the young people. In -February I baptized two young people, in March three, and last night -one young woman professed conversion. Our Sunday night contributions -are increasing. We are having the church repainted on the inside, and -are trying to raise money for additional seats. We cannot seat the -people. Last Sunday night many turned away, because we had no room.” - -ALA., FLORENCE.--Easter-Sunday was observed in an impressive -manner. The new church was full. - -KY., BEREA.--Some persons have here recently professed faith -in Christ, and others are inquiring. - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. - -Lincoln Mission. - -REV. SIMON P. SMITH, WASHINGTON. - -A great deal has been said recently about the Lincoln Mission in the -District of Columbia, and probably many would like to hear how the work -is progressing. - -There is a very large Sunday-school at this mission, and has been for -several years. The teachers come from Dr. Rankin’s church, more than -fifty of them, and manifest great enthusiasm. The school averages about -three hundred scholars, and on some occasions, during the cold weather, -we had more than four hundred. - -The majority of these children come from the poorest and most -illiterate colored families in the city. They have good training in the -day-schools, but bad home influences. Their parents do not bring them -up as they should, hence they are very rude. There is much need of a -lady missionary here to teach the mothers of these children how to make -homes happy. - -It is said that there are about sixty thousand colored people in the -city, and from the appearance of loiterers standing on the streets, -there must be twenty thousand out of employment. Idleness is the mother -of mischief, and what an opportunity such people have to enter into -temptation! Some of the parents of the children who come to the Lincoln -Mission are among these idlers. - -These children are very poorly dressed; they scarcely have sufficient -clothing to keep them warm. We hold prayer-meeting with them every -Wednesday evening, and we find it very difficult to keep them away from -the stove. This seems to indicate that they have but little fire at -home. We are always glad to have it cold on Wednesday evenings, for, -then, we are sure of a good audience; and we can tell them about the -words of eternal life. Many desire to be prayed for, and we believe -that some of them love the Lord Jesus. - -General O. O. Howard was with us recently, and addressed the children. -While he was speaking, his words were so full of sympathy and love that -he held the attention of the rudest class of boys in the city for more -than an hour. The sheep know the shepherd’s voice--even the lambs. We -know that he loves our nation, because he built us this synagogue, and -we love him because he loves us. He is, indeed, a true philanthropist. - - * * * * * - - -NORTH CAROLINA. - -Wilmington. - -In place of a report from our teachers at this place, we are happy to -substitute a letter from a visitor from the North who happened to reach -Wilmington in time for the examinations. We have yet to hear of the -first visitor who has not become an enthusiastic friend of our work. We -do not wish a general decline in health among our friends, but we do -wish that all visitors to the South would make themselves acquainted -with this work. - - -REPORT BY A VISITOR. - -Returning with my friend from our winter’s stay in Florida, we embraced -the opportunity to stop in Wilmington, and visit Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, -and see their work among the colored people. -We arrived the day previous to the exhibition which was to close the -winter’s term of school. Friday evening, March 26, at 8 o’clock, we -repaired to the pleasant hall of the building, where were gathered over -a hundred bright, interesting-looking boys and girls between the ages -of five and eighteen, well and neatly clad, and a fine looking audience -of expectant parents and friends, who filled the room to its utmost -capacity. The exercises were opened with singing by the school, one of -the ladies presiding most creditably at the organ. - -Then followed responsive reading from the Bible, led by Miss Warner, -and a prayer of thankfulness, by Mr. Dodge, for the possibilities now -opened to this once oppressed race. After devotions came recitations, -declamations, and dialogues, interspersed with music, in which all -participated, and the exercises from beginning to end were conducted -with a correctness and order that would have done credit to any white -school in the North. One of the pleasantest features of the evening -was the representation of the re-united States, in which each scholar -appeared wearing upon his or her shoulder the name of one of the -States, and repeating some appropriate motto or watch-word. When -all were gathered on the platform the Goddess of Liberty took her -place in the center, waving the stars and stripes as they sang the -“Star-Spangled Banner.” - -I only wish more friends in the North could have seen in their faces, -and heard from their lips, the pride and gratitude which these parents -are already finding in the education of their children. Sunday morning -we attended service in the same hall, where Mr. Dodge conducted the -exercises much as he would those of a church at home, with singing, -responsive reading, and an exposition of the Scripture appropriate to -Easter. At two o’clock Miss Farrington, who has this year joined the -Home in the capacity of a missionary, gathered in one of the lower -rooms for instruction, what she calls her mission school, made up of -those outside the church. At three, a large Sunday-school came together -in the hall, and after devotions were assigned to their respective -teachers for work. - -Again, in the evening Mr. Dodge presented Paul and his strivings to a -company of attentive listeners. No one can realize, who has not been on -the ground, the sacrifice and labors of this little band of workers, -who are so completely isolated by prejudice from their own people, -and are giving up everything to the elevation of this unfortunate -people. One of the saddest things about the work is the lack of means -to accommodate those who would be glad to avail themselves of the -advantages of this school. If we at the North could only see how small -would be our largest gifts compared with those of these teachers, -should we not do much more? - - -Raleigh. - -Reverend George E. Smith sends an account of the refreshing, and in -every way helpful labors of Reverend Henry E. Brown, during a few -weeks’ visit to the churches of Raleigh. It will be remembered that -Rev. Mr. Brown was connected with our work at Talladega, where, by -his devoted and earnest labors, not only as Pastor and Professor of -Theology, but as a missionary to the regions about, he established a -number of churches and did much to ensure their success. He is now -in the employ of the colored Y. M. C. Association of Raleigh, and is -visiting the churches of the South under its auspices. - -He reached Raleigh at noon on the 9th of February, and with -characteristic zeal had visited every colored pastor of the city -before night, and arranged for a meeting held that evening in the -Congregational Church, which was crowded to overflowing. Three -delegates of the Y. M. C. A., white, were present, and after hearing -Bro. Brown’s plan of operations, cordially endorsed them, and proffered -their assistance in carrying them out. Meetings for workers were held -in the afternoon of each day; from this those who co-operated in the -work went out to prayer-meetings in different parts of the city, and in -the evening general meetings were held in the various churches. - -Bro. Smith adds: There is now a revival going on in every colored -church in the city, and we really feel that it is a revival of -religion, not mere excitement. - -Since Brother Brown came in our midst, over one hundred souls have been -born into the kingdom of Christ. Many of the Sunday-school scholars -have been led to reflect, and to accept the Saviour as their great head -and teacher. Brother Brown’s labors among us have been a blessing to -all. One minister said the other day, “My people have more religion -than they used to have.” When asked why he thought so, he replied, -“Because they are living better.” - -It may be gratifying to the many friends of our little church to know -that we have shared in this great blessing. At our next communion -season, which is the first Sabbath in April, we expect a glorious time, -as ten persons have already made application to unite with us at that -time. There may be more, as there are many anxious ones who meet with -us every night inquiring the way of salvation. Since Brother Brown -left, we have still carried on the meetings. - - * * * * * - -ALABAMA. - -CONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES. - - A Full and Delightful Meeting--Abundant and Most Courteous - Hospitality of the Citizens. - -BY MISS A. E. SAWYER. - -The fifth annual meeting of the Alabama Conference was held, beginning -Saturday evening, March 27th, and closing on the evening of the 30th, -at Selma, a city noted for wide streets, beautiful trees, and pleasant -homes. Rev. C. B. Curtis assured us of a hearty welcome from the -church, which had long been anticipating this meeting, and Rev. O. W. -Fay, of Montgomery, followed with the opening sermon, upon Christian -activity. - -The sermon on Sabbath morning, by President DeForest, upon the power -of the Gospel, was given in concise, terse language, and when, at -the close, he pictured the scene at the last day, when Christ should -receive the redeemed from all kindreds and nations, the “amens” from -many hearers testified that their hearts had been touched. - -The children’s service in the afternoon opened with an earnest address, -by Prof. Ellis, upon temperance, followed by Mr. Y. B. Sims, upon the -same subject. - -Dr. Roy preached in the morning in the First Presbyterian Church, -and at night, Pres. DeForest filled the same pulpit, both to the -edification of the hearers, as we judge from various remarks of the -members. The fame of the morning sermon came from thirty miles “out -in the country,” and one good man said of the other preacher, “he -ought to be an evangelist; we want to get him away from you.” The -prayer-meetings were full of interest. - -Pastors and delegates from the fifteen churches were present. -Some spoke of special religious interest, others of neighborhood -prayer-meetings, one of a pastor’s class for brother ministers, some -of farms recently purchased to be carried on by different members for -the benefit of church or school; and various plans for the uplifting -of the people showed that the pastors of these little churches are -thinking and working, as one of their own members said, “still holding -on, though there are discouragements.” - -Dr. Roy presented the “Past, present and future work of the A. M. -A.” in an able address, and those who have long taken part in this -work were thrilled as they heard what had been done, and realized -the magnitude of the work still before them. Through the providence -of God, the Dark Continent was to be made light by the labors of men -and women trained in these schools of the South. We are not only home -missionaries, but, through our pupils, foreign missionaries. The fact -that Prof. Silsby is the son of a foreign missionary of Siam, gave -additional interest to his discourse on “The duty of the churches to -foreign missions.” - -One interesting feature of the Conference was the number and variety -of the papers by the students and pastors trained in the Theological -Department of Talladega College. Though greatly regretting the -unavoidable absence of Prof. Andrews, who has never before missed one -of these gatherings, all felt that he was well represented by his -students--his boys, as they like to call themselves. - -The discussion, “Shall our ministers encourage the Exodus?” by Rev. P. -J. McEntosh, must not be passed by in silence; for whatever were the -opinions of the audience as to the propriety of bringing forward such a -question at such a time, all must have been moved by the eloquence of -the speaker as he rapidly enumerated the disadvantages of the colored -people of the South. - -The third annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Association, -conducted by Miss Adams, of Montgomery, was one of exceeding interest. -Reports from Selma, Marion, Montgomery, Mobile, and Talladega told of -lively working societies of the women and girls. The work was much -the same in all. Mothers’ meetings, Bible readings, visitations of -the sick, sewing-schools for the girls, all are helps in this work of -lifting up the women of the South. Miss Hardy’s paper on “The word as -a means of success in our work,” by its apt quotations and earnest -Christian spirit, touched all hearts. A letter from Mrs. Ash, of -Florence, who was educated in one of the A. M. A. schools, was received -with much interest, and the manner in which it treated the question, -“How shall we inspire a spirit of womanhood in our young women and -girls?” highly commended. The whole spirit of the meeting showed that -this subject was uppermost in the hearts of the workers, and that they -realized that the colored women must be helped in their homes, if we -would reach the entire community. - -The Conference, after hearing an account of the meeting, passed a -resolution expressing great interest in it, and approving the advance -step connecting it with the new Home Missionary Association. - -Time will not allow even a passing notice of many excellent addresses, -but we must note a capital one on temperance by Judge Saffold, of -Selma, considering the question in its legal aspect. - -Tuesday night we assembled for the last time, and listened to an -eloquent missionary sermon by Mr. Crawford, followed by the celebration -of the Lord’s supper, Pres. DeForest and Dr. Roy officiating. It was a -tender, solemn service, the most precious of the week. Then came the -farewells, and we separated, feeling thankful for the privileges we had -so much enjoyed. - -The meetings were marked by large attendance, and are spoken of as -unusually interesting. - -We must not fail to mention the hospitality of the people of Selma, -particularly of the Presbyterian Church. They received us most -cordially, attended many of the exercises, expressing much interest in -what they heard, and greatly cheered us by their Christian courtesy. - - * * * * * - -ALABAMA SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION. - -Young Man with Backbone--Refreshing Gathering. - -PROF. GEO. N. ELLIS, TALLADEGA. - -We have just returned from the Fifth Annual Conference of the -Congregational Churches of Alabama and the first meeting of the State -Sunday-school Association held at Selma. - -This Association was organized only last year at Montgomery, so this -was our first gathering. We had a glorious, a soul-stirring time. -The Convention opened Friday evening, March 26th, with a sermon by -President DeForest of Talladega. - -I summarize reports as follows: - -Thirteen schools were represented by delegates, four by written -reports, one by letter; their aggregate shows over thirteen hundred -teachers and scholars in attendance, seventeen hundred volumes in -libraries, one hundred and eighty dollars raised, and one hundred -conversions. This does not include the schools taught by our students -through the summer, although they are really a part of our work. This -brief sentence gives no idea of the interest with which these reports -were given and received, or of the amusing or touching incidents -connected with the giving. - -_Mission Schools._--It will not do to pass these by unnoticed. It is -marvelously surprising how quickly the love of Christ, once received -into their own hearts, inspires this people to go out and seek for -others. - -We have three such schools about Talladega. Selma and Mobile report one -each. Childersburg has a county association. - -The superintendent of the mission school at Selma gave an interesting -account of his experience in organizing and conducting it. By the way, -he is the young man recently mentioned in the _Advance_, who refused -a position, worth $25 per month, in a store, because whiskey was sold -there, which he might sometimes have to handle. It takes moral backbone -in this country to stand up for temperance. I learned something of this -young man’s history. He is making every effort to educate himself and -at the same time partially supports a widowed mother with her large -family. He will make his mark in the world; moreover, what he is as to -character is largely due to the faithful efforts of a patient teacher. - -A large number of visitors were present; among them Rev. Mr. Woodsmall, -Principal of the Baptist School at Selma, and others, many of whom -favored us with short addresses, which were spirited, enthusiastic and -pointed. - -We feel that we may fairly call our first convention a success in -numbers, exercises, interest and results. - - * * * * * - -Busy Days--Health-talks--“Major Ann.” - -MISS M. J. ADAMS, MONTGOMERY. - -It often seems as if our work grew upon our hands, so that we have -no time to tell about it; with our nearly 400 pupils, with all the -cases of discipline that must arise, with interviews with parents -and visits to their homes, in addition to the full hours of school -given to instruction; then the school prayer-meetings, the special -meetings for Bible study, the Young Men’s Association of the school--a -condition of membership of which is a pledge to abstain from the use -of tobacco,--and the semi-monthly meeting of the Woman’s Missionary -Society, which we have of late devoted to “Health-talks.” - -At our last meeting I sent an invitation to the mothers of our pupils -to come to the school-room on Monday at four o’clock. A large number -responded, and we gave them such instruction as we could, regarding -things they so much need to know for themselves, their children, and -their homes. The women listened earnestly, and begged for another -meeting of the kind. - -We set apart a portion of the day of prayer for colleges for -appropriate exercises, and had a solemn meeting. Since that day, some -have been seeking Jesus. Our hearts are specially cheered with the -evident sincerity of two promising young men, who, we trust, are now -entering upon the new life. - -We have a weekly school prayer-meeting, and meet on Tuesday nights such -pupils as we think will be specially helped in a small social meeting. - -I must tell you a little about “Aunt Ann,” a member of my Sunday-school -class, who has just died. She was in many respects a remarkable woman. -Of a giant frame, of strong practical common sense, an imperious will, -a contentious and often a bitter spirit, her life full of tribulation, -it was, indeed, a warfare. She was quite a politician, and very fond of -public speaking, so that she was known throughout the city, by both the -white and colored people, as “Major Ann.” - -She had learned to read in her old age, and had a great love for the -word of God. She always had her Bible by her in her market-stall, and -never failed of being in her place in the class, with her lesson well -learned, and at every Sunday-school concert or Christmas festival she -must say her “speech.” During the last of the year I noticed with how -much more of a tender and quiet spirit she enjoyed the truths of the -lesson, especially those about Heaven. When visited during her long and -painful sickness, she always called for the reading of the 5th chapter -of Revelation, adding, “Read it right, for I shall know if you make one -mistake.” That chapter and the repetition of the twenty-third Psalm -were a sure comfort to her in her suffering, poverty, and loneliness. - -Major Ann’s dying message to me was, “Meet me in glory; meet me at the -first trump.” - - * * * * * - -KENTUCKY. - -The Land and the People--The Work at McKee. - -REV. E. P. FAIRCHILD, BEREA. - -A stranger passing through many portions of the mountains of Kentucky -would probably regard it as a waste, howling wilderness, with no signs -of habitation, save now and then the crow of a chicken or bark of a -dog off in some hollow. This is owing to a custom the people have of -settling away from the public roads. Then, too, the highways often -follow a narrow ridge, or deep valley, where there would be but little -room for building. The indication of a near residence is a path leading -off from the road, or possibly you may see a corn-field on a distant -hill-side. But the heavy timber and thick underbrush generally obstruct -the view. - -The people, as a class, take but little pride in good or comfortable -houses. One often has to get quite near before he can see them, so -small are they, and so much the color of the timber, being made of logs -or poles. A person is regarded as “having a plenty” when he owns a good -saddle-horse or two, a pistol, a milch cow, a few shoats, domestic -fowls, and crop enough to last him through the year. The idea is that -man lives but a short time; he should be satisfied with enough to eat -and wear; that death, in a sense, destroys his individuality; that one -star doesn’t differ from another in glory; that “in much wisdom is much -grief,” and “what profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh -under the sun?” Be contented without knowledge, orchards and vineyards. -What reason have we for improving on the condition of our parents? Of -course, there are exceptions to those who hold these sentiments; and -if their prophets and priests had not promulgated these ideas, to keep -them from becoming wise above their instructors, probably none would -have cherished them; for it would be hard to -find a people with as little knowledge and culture, who are so honest, -genial, frank, and ready to receive instruction as they are. The -trouble is, they have been neglected. The Southern aristocracy have -little sympathy, and do not know what it is to reach a helping hand to -the needy, though they are regarded as very hospitable. The benevolent -people of the North and East are absorbed in aiding the growing West. - -But let us go to the church. There is no bell to ring, though a bell -would sound beautifully among those hills and valleys. There is no -time-piece but the sun, and often no church or school-house to enter; -a private house or an arbor is sufficient, if there is a spring near -by. It is surprising to see the number that gather when there are so -few signs of habitations. All are very attentive, and seem anxious -to learn, save a few roughs, who gather at a distance, provided with -whiskey and pistols, ready to quell any fuss that may chance to arise. -Those who read the Bible and Almanac at all generally read them very -much, and are ready to quote Scripture, but are less gifted in its -construction and application; and if they chance to get hold of any -other reading, they are apt to become very familiar with it, reading it -over several times. They are not afraid to sing loud, whether they know -the song or not. - -It is not one of their principles to give, unless it be a good meal -of bread, hog-meat and gravy. Many are not able, and none have been -taught, to give. Some hardly know how to account for the fact that -other people give to them. - -The people might be divided into two classes--either “in all things too -religious,” or “full of fornication and drunkenness, with feet swift to -shed blood.” The hills rock-ribbed, the quiet valleys with moss-covered -stones, clear flowing brooks and running ivy, are not adapted to -engender lukewarmness. A talented man is apt to be a preacher or -desperado--sometimes both. - -About four or five months ago I made my first visit to McKee, the -county seat of Jackson Co., Ky. I found a small village having a -court-house, jail, poor-house, two or three hotels, about the same -number of stores, several dwellings, and a small school-house, but no -church. It lies in a small basin-shaped hollow, with high hills on -all sides. On public days, citizens may be seen pouring in from every -valley until the streets are flooded with people, and some of the -people flooded with whiskey. - -On inquiry, I found they had no Sunday-school, and preaching, perhaps, -only once in two or three months, when a circuit rider might chance -to be passing. I immediately helped them to the organization of a -Sunday-school, and made an appointment to preach there every other -Saturday and Sunday through the winter. I have met the appointments, -and we now have a Sunday-school with a membership of over seventy-five, -with a good library and lesson papers. A Temperance Society has been -organized with over five hundred members. The Saturday and Sunday -meetings are regularly attended, and the people are now very anxious -that a suitable building should be erected for school and church -purposes. A subscription of over five hundred dollars has already been -raised by the citizens of McKee, and as soon as a thousand dollars can -be obtained from some benevolent source, we shall lay the foundation -for something permanent. - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - -EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM PROF. CHASE. - - -Jos. Smith preached this morning a good plain sermon upon “The Way of -Life.” He had to speak through an interpreter, but got along nicely. -The congregation was a strange one. Only two of the women had hats. -Most of them wore turbans made of striped handkerchiefs, wound around -in artistic styles. - -During the services a tithing-man passed around, a cane in hand, -keeping the children in order, and waking up those inclined to -drowsiness. - -_Avery Station._--This is rather a pleasant spot. The river makes three -bends here, and the mission house is so placed, that from the front -veranda we get a view about half a mile up and down the stream, of -water, rocks and green, the thick growth of trees, bushes and vines, -most of the way coming down to the water’s edge, and at some points -dipping into it. The yard is surrounded by a low well-kept hedge, -sprinkled with little pink blossoms. In front are cocoa-nut trees, -with their clumps of yellowish green nuts encircling the trunks about -twenty feet from the ground; an orange tree, a cinnamon tree with -its dark green fragrant leaves, and several pretty shrubs of various -kinds. Beyond the hedge, on a point sloping toward the river, is the -coffee “farm” (of three acres) covered with trees about four feet -high, looking very much like pear trees. In the rear is a clump of -banana trees with a few bunches of unripe fruit. In the distance is -the mill, whose irregular roof of bamboo is looked down upon from the -veranda. Nearer by is the chapel, an unpretentious yellow structure -with a school-room in the basement. The house is one-story, raised -several feet above the ground, having a wide veranda on three sides, -and containing six comfortable rooms, besides kitchen, &c. - -Mr. Jackson is pastor of the church; Mr. Anthony, from Berea, has -charge of the mill and farm; and Rev. Mr. Jowett, a native, educated -at Sierra Leone, teaches the school, and acts as interpreter. In -the family are ten little children who are just beginning to talk -in English, and work about the house and grounds. The plateful or -platefuls of rice the little things can put away is astonishing. The -smallest one will eat as much as can be piled on a dining-plate. - -[_Editorial Note._--A son of the Mr. Jowett, referred to in the -above letter, has just landed in this country, on his way to Fisk -University. Believing that he is to figure in the future history of -missions in Africa, we give a brief sketch of him, and a glimpse at -life in an African village, prepared by himself. This will be found in -the juvenile department. Just here we wish to say that Albert Miller -shows his appreciation of a liberal education and also his devotion to -his divine Master, two things very hopeful in a missionary. He found -this young man helpful as a Christian, and useful as an interpreter, -and believing he would make a good missionary, he has sent him to his -Alma Mater, and authorized the Association to pay his expenses out of -his own small salary. When such a spirit of self-denial and thorough -consecration characterizes the church, we shall have no trouble either -in getting or maintaining teachers and missionaries. - -We wish also to say that this is a most hopeful movement; that of the -emancipated Christian and cultured African, with a constitution which -enables him to live there, going back with the blessings of the Gospel -to his fatherland; and that of the native, fully -acquainted with the language of that people, rescued from paganism, to -this country for Christian education. The meaning of slavery, under the -Divine administration, is beginning to unfold itself.] - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - * * * * * - - -INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON. - -MISS ISABEL B. EUSTIS. - -Mr. Hall’s account in the February MISSIONARY of the departure -of his Fort Berthold boys for Hampton, was a vivid picture to us who -welcomed them here. We could almost see them bidding a sad good-bye to -their friends, waving their blankets from the deck of the boat, and -sympathized with their consciousness that they had “a long way to go, -and a long time to stay, and it would be hard.” - -We wish the friends, who bade them good-bye that cold October morning, -could see them to-day. If they could hear their quick and intelligent -replies in the school-room, and watch them at their trades, we think -they would recognize the record which the new thoughts and self-control -of the year have left on their faces, and would feel that they have -already gone a long way and a good one. - -Almka (White Wolf), would show them the blue farm-cart of which he -is rather shyly proud, because he made it, wheels and all, with his -own hands. White Breast would lay down the doors of a new wardrobe, -he is finishing neatly, and Karunach would come from mending shoes, -to tell them about Hampton, till their ideas out-stripped their -tongues, and the old Indian sign-language came to the rescue. I think -E-cor-rup-ta-ha would stop a minute, with a nonchalant air, to polish -lovingly the big Corliss engine, before he shook hands even with them. -Laughing Face and Ka-what would tell them how much they have made of -the new carriage-house, the Indians are building. Tom Smith would throw -away his plane, and meet them with a joke and his merry boyish laugh; -and little Ara-hotch-kish would look up from his painting, with a quick -shy glance of welcome, going straight to the warmest place they have -saved in their hearts. Most of our Indians have gained a sufficient -command of English to receive any idea which can be put in simple -words; and if any reader of the MISSIONARY is troubled with -ennui or thinks of searching for a new sensation, I advise him to come -to Hampton, and try telling the old children’s stories to Indians. Even -Washington’s little worn-out hatchet gets a new sharp edge. Columbus -on his voyage of discovery is followed with a slightly incredulous but -intense interest, and all the Bible record reveals again a new force -and fire. - -Imagine telling the story of David and Goliath for the first time -to a school full of Indian boys and girls. The room is breathlessly -still. Only kindling eyes and fixed attention show that the courage of -the shepherd boy for his unequal contest, his cool disregard of his -brother’s scoffs, his disdain of Saul’s armor and spear, his dauntless -confidence in God, are meeting, one by one, a hearty response in -the minds of the boys, a more timid one from the girls. Scarcely a -suppressed Indian grunt or guttural disturbs the narrative, till the -first slung-stone lodges fairly in the giant’s forehead, when little -Ta-ta-ton-ka-skah on the back seat forgets all traditions of Indian -stoicism, jumps about a foot in the air, and claps his hands in an -ecstasy of delight. - -The bell rings, and the scholars must go to their classes, and fight -their own giants, strong ones, that will by no -means down at the first blow. May God bless every one, and grant them -His faith, and courage, and patience, till “little by little” their -enemies shall be driven out. - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - -“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” - -Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. - - PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. - VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C. - Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. - Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., - Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, - Esq. - - DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. - Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph - Howell, Rev. John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq. - - SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. - Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -A CHAPTER OF ITEMS. - -_Chinese New-Year’s._--Our Chinese brethren observed their national -New-Year’s festival very happily, in their usual Christian way. -With great pleasure do I remember my visit to the very comfortable -head-quarters which our Oakland brethren have established. It is a -two-story house, very neatly furnished with whatever is necessary to a -Christian home, except that the male sex alone is represented there. -It bears witness to the strength of the _home impulse_ in Chinese -hearts, such of them, at least, as have been touched by the love of -Christ, and shows how soon--if only these immigrants were treated as -others are--Christian homes, in the full sense of that good word, -would spring into existence among them. When I reached the house, the -rooms were already full of Chinese, and their teachers and friends. -After greetings were over and refreshments tasted, several hymns were -sung, and then I spoke to them of the “new commandment” which our -Saviour gave us, and led them in prayer. Just as I was leaving, Rev. -Dr. McLean, their pastor, entered with other friends. Before I had -gone far, I met Rev. Mr. Condit, a Presbyterian missionary among the -Chinese, on his way to the same place. And thus with greetings and -exhortations, and good counsel and prayer, the day passed away. At -our Central Mission House and the Bethany Home in this city, similar -exercises were held, at which the same duty of brotherly love--for us -“the lesson of the hour”--was pressed on their attention, and made the -object of earnest and united prayer--prayer to which I, at length, see -the beginning of a glad response. - -Of this same festival, as observed at Sacramento, Mrs. Carrington -writes: “The rooms were very tastefully decorated, and called forth -much praise from the many who called. The scholars began the week -by holding prayer-meetings; and during the week, as friends called, -much of the time was spent in prayer and song. At a union meeting on -Thursday evening, Dr. Dwinell was present and spoke to them.” Similar -reports come from Stockton, Santa Barbara, etc. This festival calls, -of course, for a few days of vacation in the schools, and involves a -temporary diminution in attendance, but, in my view, the religious uses -to which it can be put, amply compensate for any inconveniences it may -involve. - -_Additions to the Churches._--Two of our pupils at Santa Barbara were -baptized and received to the Congregational Church in that city, at -its last communion. Three are expecting to be -baptized and received to the Congregational Church at Sacramento, and -seven to Bethany Church, San Francisco, at their April communions. Let -me quote Mrs. Carrington once more: “I cannot tell you how my heart -has sometimes been thrilled with joy at the faithfulness of those so -recently brought out from darkness into the marvelous light. If people -all through the land could know what devoted Christiana many of them -are, they would feel condemned, as I do, for their own unfaithfulness.” - -_The Barnes School._--Dea. and Mrs. Simeon Hackley, who have so long -and so usefully conducted the Barnes Mission School, have found that -other cares, that cannot be thrown off, make it impossible for them -longer to continue in the work. Both of them have been engaged in it -steadily for nearly six years. Dea. H., a graduate of Hamilton College, -having been forced by a disease of the eyes to suspend study at the -Union Theological Seminary, and thus to give up his hope of becoming a -foreign missionary, carried into secular life the missionary spirit. -What he hoped for thus in youth, he found at length in this work, and -to him and his like-minded wife have many souls been given as seals of -their service here. - -It is a real blessing that Mrs. C. A. Sheldon, who so successfully -conducted the Bethany School for several years, has been restored to -health, and, with the assistance of her daughter, is able to fill this -vacant place. The school is growing in size and interest, and, we may -hope, will be as useful in the future as it has been in the past. - -_Oroville Once More._--Miss Waterbury, from Oroville, gives an -interesting account of some “great idol Masonic festival,” which -occupied the last week of February in the Chinese quarter of that town. -She says: “Crowds of people have come in from the country for miles -around, dark and rough-looking, many of them. There were processions, -day after day, in which I recognized some of our scholars walking. Some -of the forms were tall and fine as you will ever see. They carried a -huge monster, serpent or dragon of unearthly hideousness, designed to -keep away the evil spirits. At their temple there was an unceasing din -of cymbals and gongs, with the firing of crackers and bombs, and the -outlandish shouts of a mob-like throng; and nearly opposite, across -the narrow street, stands our humble mission-house, where on the three -Sabbaths previous, Lee Haim had preached, at eleven o’clock, to a -room-full of his countrymen. On the Saturday and Sunday evenings of -this festival, the Chinese crowded in so that we dismissed school, -and Lee Haim preached and sung to them in Chinese. Every seat and -every standing-place was filled. They wanted to hear. I am sure some -poor, dark minds got a little Gospel truth for the first time, and, -with some of them, all they will ever hear until the revelations of -the future world shall be made to their astonished vision. It was -soul-inspiring to see the earnestness and energy with which he threw -his whole soul into the work, and even more so, to see all the eyes, -and ears, and mouths open to catch the new and strange things of which -the preacher spoke. I could not understand a word, but I was refreshed -in spirit and made stronger by it.” Of course, this crowd no longer -hangs upon the word. In two or three days, most of them scattered to -their little mining camps, and the school resumed its comparatively -diminutive proportions. But God’s word will not return to Him void; and -while we know not which shall prosper, either this or that, we know -that “he that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall -_doubtless_ return again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with -him.” - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -ALBERT BURTON JOWETT. - -I was born, in 1860, in a little town called Mocolo. They have no -houses there, but little mud huts covered with thatch. There are no -roads, nor horses, nor cows. The people walk, or ride in little canoes -on the rivers. Not much work is done. What little clothing they wear is -made of native cloths. They have no cradles, and no clothing is needed -for their children. My father was away in the country to buy rice for -the Mendi Mission, and was taken prisoner a little before I was born. -The town was destroyed and the inhabitants killed, but my father’s life -was spared. He was redeemed by Mr. Burton, one of the missionaries, who -paid twenty-five shillings, English money, for his release. My father -moved to Good Hope when I was quite young, and I attended school and -studied the English language. - -Not far from the school-house there are groves of limes, pine-apples, -plums, and bacon-fire, and the boys amuse themselves by battling each -other with limes. The principal holidays are Christmas, New-Year’s -and Good Friday. They celebrate Christmas by having a big dance out -of doors, lasting all day and often all night. The music is made by -beating drums, and by women who sing and clap their hands. The place -was lighted through the night by an immense fire in the centre. Pots of -rice are cooked, and a sauce made of palm-oil, rice and fish, is served -with it. They always have rum and gin, which is supplied them very -much more freely than the Gospel. We have no stoves in our country. -The fires are built either out of doors or in the corner of the hut. -As there are no chimneys, it is sometimes very smoky. The natives have -no lamps, but use palm-oil in a dish. For a wick they wrap a piece of -cloth around a stick. They have no tables, but sit down around a large -mat and eat their food from wooden bowls, making one spoon do for the -whole family. On funeral occasions they have a big dance, which they -sometimes keep up two or three days. All the people of the village -attend, and the nearest relative is expected to furnish all the rum -he is able to pay for, and a liberal supply of food, but they have no -religious ceremonies. When a big man marries, if he has sufficient -money, he keeps up a dance for a week. The missionaries are welcomed, -and are doing a great deal to break up these old customs. In 1877, the -Rev. Mr. Snelson and two other Freedmen came to our mission, and it -was under their instruction that I was urged to give my heart to the -Saviour. When Mr. Snelson asked me to try and become a Christian, I -told him I couldn’t do it. - -He took me to his room and prayed with me, then he called my father, -and we all knelt down and he prayed again. He told me to go up to my -room and think over the matter. At first I did not know what to do; -then I fell down on my knees and prayed; I went to bed and prayed -nearly the whole night. The next day I went to see Mr. Snelson, and he -spoke to me on the same subject; I told him I felt greatly relieved -from the burden of sin, and he prayed with me again that evening. Soon -after I connected myself with the church. After Mr. Snelson’s return to -America, Rev. Albert Miller, a Freedman from the Fisk University, was -my pastor. - -Before leaving Africa I acted as interpreter for Mr. Miller, -translating his sermons, as he delivered them, into the Mendi language. -My father, who has been a native preacher for more than twenty years, -is anxious to have missions planted far into the interior, where there -are supposed to be two million Mendi people, occupying a country about -7 degrees north latitude. All he could do is to give me up to the work. -Among this vast number, there is but one mission at present, and that -is conducted by Freedmen from America. - -After spending three years in this country, at the Fisk University, it -is my purpose to return to Africa, and assist in establishing missions -in large villages in the wooded country, far from the coast. I feel -that I need your prayers. I have been treated very kindly since I left -Africa, and I pray earnestly that I may not disappoint my friends who -have assisted me in coming to this country, and who are anxious that I -should prepare myself to be a successful missionary in my native land. - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR MARCH, 1880. - - * * * * * - -MAINE, $432.47. - - Augusta. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($30 of which from - BARRETT EDWARDS POTTER to const. himself L. M.) $53.56 - - Bluehill. M. E. Johnson 5.00 - - Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - - Hampden. C. E. H. 1.00 - - Kennebunk. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - - Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch. 17.77 - - Machais. E. G. L. and Mrs. H., 50c. each 1.00 - - Orono. Cong. Ch. 1.04 - - Portland. Ladies in Maine, _for Lady Missionary_, - by Mrs. W. E. Gould 300.00 - - Portland. Nathalie Lord, package, _for Rev. A. E. White, - Mendi M._ - - Saco. D. J. 1.00 - - Saint Albans. Rev. W. S. Sewell, $2; Cong. Ch., $1 3.00 - - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - - Weld. Rev. D. D. T. 1.00 - - Wells. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.10 - - Winthrop. Isaac N. Metcalf 2.00 - - York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 - -NEW HAMPSHIRE, $159.68. - - Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.95 - - Concord. Mrs. A. F. and Mrs. C. L. G., 60c. each 1.20 - - Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.90 - - Francestown. R. G. C. 0.50 - - Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 25.00 - - Hillsborough Bridge. Mrs. J. G. and Mrs. N. T., $1 each 2.00 - - Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.60 - - Lancaster. Mrs. A. M. Amsden 5.00 - - Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.25 - - Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 58.73 - - Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.05 - - Meridian. Mrs. Lucia Wells 5.00 - - New Ipswich. “Hillside Gleaners’ Sewing Circle,” by Carrie - B. Wilson, Treas. 5.00 - - Petersborough. A. M. C. 0.50 - -VERMONT, $154.93. - - Barre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.12 - - Bradford. Rev. Mrs. and Mrs. Elliot 12.00 - - Burlington. Third Cong. Ch. 20.00 - - Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - - Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith 5.00 - - Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 - - Essex. L. C. B. 1.00 - - Ludlow. Mrs. L. H. C. 1.00 - - Lyndonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - - Northfield. O. D. E. 1.00 - - Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Soc., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 17.97 - - Sharon. Mrs. A. F. and Miss S. P. F., $1 each 2.00 - - West Dummerston. A. B. B. 1.00 - - Weston. Mrs. S. A. Sprague and Lucy P. Bartlett, $2 - each 4.00 - - West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.84 - - West Westminster. Elvira M. Gorham 2.00 - - ---- “A Friend” 20.00 - -MASSACHUSETTS, $4,869.39. - - Amherst. Girls’ Prayer Meeting, by Mrs. Mary H. Scott, - $30.05, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;--First Cong. Ch., $25 55.05 - - Andover. Calvin E. Goodell 25.00 - - Ashland. Mrs. Mary F. Cutler 5.00 - - Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 - - Beechwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.31 - - Boston. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $574.76; Miss R. A. - F., 50c.; F. W., 50c. 575.76 - - Boston Highlands. H. W. T. 0.50 - - Bradford. Ladies’ Bible Class, bbl. C. - - Brimfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $10.00 - - Brockton. Mrs. I. N. 0.50 - - Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $581.54; N. H., 50c. 582.04 - - Charlemont. First Ch. 3.00 - - Chester. Second Cong. and Soc. 6.00 - - Clinton. First Evan Ch. and Soc. 75.00 - - Danvers. Mrs. S. S. 1.00 - - Dedham. Allyn Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for Chinese M._ 16.54 - - Dorchester. Mrs. Susan Collins 2.00 - - East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. 13.75 - - East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. 22.00 - - East Medway. Ladies of First Ch., B. of C. and 25c., _for - freight_ 0.25 - - Essex Co. “Howard,” _for Chapel at Wilmington, N. C._ 2,000.00 - - Fall River. First Cong. Ch., $84.04; M. E., $1 85.04 - - Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.81 - - Franklin. Peter Adams 2.00 - - Georgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.90 - - Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.78 - - Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.26 - - Greenfield. Jeanette Thompson 5.00 - - Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker 5.00 - - Groton. Union Ch. and Soc., $83, and Sab. Sch., $17; - Elizabeth Farnsworth, $20; “Mother and Daughter” - (of which $5 ea. _for - Chinese and Indian M._) $20 140.00 - - Groveland. Mrs. M. A. R. 0.50 - - Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.75 - - Hyde Park. Mrs. H. W. Bidwell, to const. MRS. FISK P. - BREWER, L. M 30.00 - - Jamaica Plain. “A Friend” 4.00 - - Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00 - - Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.42 - - Lowell. Mrs. A. S. C. 0.50 - - Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 - - Mansfield. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.56 - - Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, large package of flower and - vegetable seeds, _for Talladega, Ala._, and box garden - seeds, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ - - Marlborough. T. B. P. 1.00 - - Medway. J. D. Ellis 100.00 - - Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00 - - Montague. Cong. Soc. 6.85 - - Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.51 - - Newburyport. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00 - - Newton Centre. Mrs. M. B. Furber’s Bible Class, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 - - North Abington. “A Friend,” $15;--One and a half - bbl. of C., _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 15.00 - - North Adams. Rev. C. S. S. 1.00 - - North Amherst. W. L. R. 1.00 - - Northbridge Centre. Minnie A. Winter 2.00 - - North Brookfield. Miss Abby W. Johnson, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 25.00 - - Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($30 of which from Mrs. - E. B. Wheaton, to const. MARY A. CHAPIN, L. M.) 39.00 - - Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. 10.84 - - Paxton. Mrs. H. O. K. and Mrs. W. B. R., 50c. ea. 1.00 - - Quincy. Miss Merrill’s Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - Reading. Bethesda Sab. Sch. 25.00 - - Royalston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., - _for Savannah, Ga._ - - Sandwich. Mrs. Eliza W. Wells, $5; Mrs. Robert - Tobey, $5; Mrs. C. C. P. W., $1; Mrs. L. E. T., $1 12.00 - - Saxonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) $2.11 - - Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - - South Braintree. A. P. W. 1.00 - - Southbridge. Miss S. R. L. 1.00 - - South Framingham. G. M. Amsden 5.00 - - South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20; Fred A. Hayes, - $3 23.00 - - South Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bbl. of C.; Ladies’ - Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. - - Spencer. Primary Dept. of Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.30 - - Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch., $13.22; Ira Merrill, $5 18.22 - - Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc. 21.52 - - Tewkesbury. “In Memory of Mary,” by F. 10.00 - - Ware. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Le Moyne Sch., Memphis, - Tenn._ 25.00 - - Wareham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.25 - - Warren. Mrs. Jos. Ramsdell ($5 of which _for Chinese M._) 6.00 - - Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., bbl. of C., _for - Memphis, Tenn._; Corban Soc., bbl. of C., _for - Talladega, Ala._ - - Webster. G. W. F. 1.00 - - Westborough. Evan. Ch. and Soc. Mon. Con. Coll. 20.21 - - West Dennis. S. S. C. 1.00 - - Westfield. First Ch., (“A Friend”) $50; First Cong. Ch. - and Soc. $18.74; S. F. S. B., $1 69.74 - - West Hawley. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - West Stockbridge. Village Cong. Ch. 26.94 - - Whitinsville. ESTATE of E. W. Fletcher, by Chas. - P. Whitin, Ex. 100.00 - - Williamsburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - Wilmington. Mrs. S. Bancroft 6.00 - - Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 122.18 - - Worcester. ----$60 to const. G. HENRY WHITCOMB and - MRS. ABBIE E. WHITCOMB, L. M’s; Rev. W. J. White, - $1.50;--Mrs. John B. Gough, B. of C., and $1, _for - freight, for Atlanta U._; T. W. T., $1 90.50 - -RHODE ISLAND, $1.00. - - Newport. D. B. F. 1.00 - -CONNECTICUT, $4,215.83. - - Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 20.00 - - Birmingham. Cong. Ch., Coll. $24.76; Wm. E. Downs, $100 124.76 - - Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. 91.21 - - Bristol. “A Friend” 4.00 - - Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $42.25; Hon. E. C. - Hungerford, $30 to const. CORNELIA A. NORTON, L. M. 72.25 - - - East Hartford. First Cong. Church 20.00 - - East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - - Enfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. ($10 of which _for Butler - school, Hampton, Va._) 13.00 - - Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 35.00 - - Franklin. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - - Georgetown. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - Guilford. “A Friend in Third Ch.” 5.00 - - Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.83 - - Hartford. Benj. DeForest, $70, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._;--Mrs. John Olmsted, $15, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 85.00 - - Huntington. “A few Friends in Cong. Ch. and Soc.” 6.50 - - Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks 5.00 - - Lebanon. ESTATE of Miss Betsy Metcalf, by Mary B. - Van Tuyl 50.00 - - Marion. By Rev. L. F. B. 0.50 - - Morris. H. W. 0.50 - - Milford. “J. M.,” for books, _for Fisk U._ 10.00 - - Naugatuck. Cong. Ch. 100.00 - - New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, $143.03;--South Ch. Sab. - Sch., $50, _for Scholarship, Atlanta U._;--“Member So. - Cong. Ch.,” (two donations $5 ea.) $10 208.03 - - New Haven. ESTATE of Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D., by - Wm. L. Patton, Ex. 500.00 - - New Haven. “A Friend,” $100; Dwight Place Cong. Ch. (of - which from Dea. Nelson Hall, $40; Dr. R. Crane, $10) $75 175.00 - - New London, “First Ch. of Christ” $50.42 - - North Guilford. “A Friend,” $5; N. L. C., 50c. 5.50 - - North Haven. Cong. Ch. 56.12 - - Norwich. Miss. Ass’n of Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 - - Plantsville. Cong. Ch., $243.35;--Mrs. E. P. Hotchkiss, - $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 248.35 - - Simsbury. Rev. W. D. McF. 0.60 - - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 30.33 - - Washington. Cong. Ch. 21.07 - - Waterbury. First Cong. Ch., $141.41; “A Friend,” - $30, to const. ISRAEL HOLMES, L. M. 171.41 - - Watertown. John DeForest, _for Student Aid, Talladega - C._ 100.00 - - Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.10 - - Woodbury. ESTATE of Fannie Minor, by C. J. Minor, - Ex. 62.50 - - Woodbury. Benj. Fabrique 20.00 - - Woodstock. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MISS ELLEN D. - CHANDLER, L. M. 40.35 - - ---- “A Friend” 1,747.50 - - ---- “A Friend” 10.00 - -NEW YORK, $978.17. - - Albany. H. A. Homes, $2;--S. C., $1, _for repairs, - Talladega C._ 3.00 - - Astoria. C. N. S. 0.50 - - Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., by Geo. H. Shirley, - Chairman of Miss. Com., _for support of a Lady - Missionary, Charleston, S. C._, and to const. MISS - CARRIE A. PRATT, MRS. A. S. FOWLER, MRS. L. R. P. - STOCKTON, MRS. E. D. GRISWOLD, FREDERICK P. LITCHFIELD, - REV. JOHN L. SCUDDER, and WILLIAM C. HICKCOK, L. M’s 210.00 - - Brooklyn. Chas. Wilbur, package Bibles; John H. - Anderson, box papers. - - Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach 20.00 - - Black Creek. Cong. Ch., $3; Miss M. T., $1 4.00 - - Chittenango. Rev. S. W., _for Church building, - New Iberia, La._ 1.00 - - Clockville. C. K. 1.00 - - Crown Point. ESTATE of Mrs. Tryphena Walker, by Rev. - A. T. Clarke, to const. CALVIN W. HUESTIS and Dea. N. - MADISON CLARKE, L. M’s 50.00 - - Dansville. James H. Learned 10.00 - - Deansville. Miss E. G. 1.00 - - Franklin. Communion Set, by Rev. I. H. Frazer. - - Gilbertsville Academy. Rev. A. Wood, Principal 15.00 - - Gloversville. Cong. Soc. ($100 of which from Alanson - Judson) 114.00 - - Greenwich. Proceeds of claim on Cong. Ch. 150.00 - - Hancock. Mrs. A. E. S. 1.00 - - Honeoye. Cong. Ch. 31.60 - - Ledyard. Cong. Ch., $27.60; R. H. Waldo, $2 29.60 - - Leeds. Miss I. E. S. 1.00 - - Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Woman’s Work for - Women_ 25.00 - - Little Valley. First Cong. Ch. 2.12 - - Lockport. H. W. Nichols 20.00 - - Moravia. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., (ad’l) 1.00 - - New Hamburgh. S H. S. 0.50 - - New York. Ladies’ Association of Presb. Memorial Ch., - $105, _for a Teacher_;--Joseph S. Holt, ($10 of which - _for Berea C._) $20;--By Rev. C. S. Robinson, 54 copies - “Songs of Sanctuary;”--American Tract. Soc., Grant of - Sunday School Papers, _for the Freedmen_ 125.00 - - Oneida. S. H. Goodwin, $10; Edward Loomis, $2 12.00 - - Oswego. “Friends,” by Miss S. Williams, _for Girls’ Ind. - Sch., Talladega C._ 2.00 - - Oxford. Asso. Presb. Ch. and Soc. 6.97 - - Parma. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark 5.00 - - Paris Hill. Cong. Ch. 14.25 - - Rochester. Mrs. A. E. Albright 5.00 - - Sherburn. Chas. A. Fuller, $50, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._;--Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $34.63 84.63 - - Sinclairville. E. C. Preston, $1.50; Mrs. D. T. C., $1; - B. W. F., $1; E. W., 50c. 4.00 - - Syracuse. Sereno F. King $5.00 - - Union Falls. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, Francis E. Duncan, - and Margaret B. Duncan, $10 ea., to const. MRS. FANNY - D. DUNCAN, L. M. 30.00 - - Union Valley. Dr. J. Angel 10.00 - - West Barre. L. S. 1.00 - -NEW JERSEY, $329.18. - - Bound Brook. Mrs. T. D. V. 1.00 - - ---- “Heart’s Content” 50.00 - - Jersey City. Sab. Sch. of Tab. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 20.00 - - Newark. C. S. Haines 40.00 - - Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. 68.28 - - Sayreville. A. B. K. 0.50 - - Somerville. Mrs. Nicolas Voorhees 2.00 - - Vineland. Proceeds of Land 147.40 - -PENNSYLVANIA, $15.00. - - Scranton. F. E. Nettleton 15.00 - -OHIO, $1,460.99. - - Castalia. Mrs. I. W. S. 1.00 - - Claridon. “Cheerful Workers,” Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00 - - Cleveland. ESTATE of Brewster Pelton, by J. G. - Jennings, Ex. 1,118.75 - - Cleveland. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., $30; Miss Bettie - Dutton’s Class, $10; Mrs. C. W. Ruggles’ Class, $10, - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._--M. H. B., 50c. 50.50 - - Conneaut. Communion Set, by H. E. Pond. - - Delaware. N. W. Hodges 2.00 - - Elyria. F. B. N. 0.50 - - Fort Recovery. J. F. Collins 6.00 - - Greenwich Station. Wm. M. Mead 5.00 - - Kirtland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.65 - - Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Teacher, Selma, Ala._ 20.50 - - Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - - Metamora. Mrs. M. S. 1.00 - - Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. 40.62 - - Parkman. J. S. H. 0.50 - - Ravenna. S. H. 1.00 - - Rockport. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - - Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. - E. ALVORD, ELISHA D. WARD, MISS SARAH E. - CLARK, and JOHN M. FARRAR, L. M’s. 121.32 - - Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 15.00 - - Springfield. First Cong. and Soc. 8.64 - - Tallmadge. H. W. C. 0.51 - - Wellington. A. H. A. 1.00 - - West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - - Youngstown. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Welsh Cong. Ch., $10; J. - C., 50c. 10.50 - -MICHIGAN, $196.38. - - Adrian. C. C. Spooner 5.00 - - Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 11.50 - - Benzonia. Mrs. L. A. B. C. 1.00 - - Covert. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 12.00 - - Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $50; Mrs. Z. - Eddy, $5; Miss T. Hudson, $4; Mrs. L., $1, _for Lady - Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._; Miss M. L. Miller, $5 65.00 - - East Saginaw. Cong. Ch. 32.20 - - Greenville. Mrs. R. L. Ellsworth, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U., Tenn._ 5.00 - - Kalamo. Cong. Ch., $3.23; Evans District, $1.27; Mrs. - S. E. B., 50c. 5.00 - - Laingsburg. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - - Menomonee. Rev. A. W. B. 0.50 - - Milford. Mrs. M. O. 0.50 - - New Baltimore. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.18 - - Olivet. “A Friend,” $10, _for Emerson Inst._, $5, _for - Chinese in Cal._, $5, _for Indian M._, $5, _for Camp - Nelson, Ky._; Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll., $10.85 35.85 - - Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Fisk - U., Tenn._, $9.15; Mrs. A., $1 10.15 - - Port Huron. H. W. C. 1.00 - - South Frankfort. O. B. $0.50 - - Union City. Mrs. E. J. H. and Mrs. D. B. W. 50c. ea. 1.00 - -INDIANA, $6.37. - - Dunreith. Mrs. L. M., 37c.; L. M., $1 1.37 - - New Corydon. George Stoltz 5.00 - - South Bend. Oliver Plow Co., 3 plows, _for Talladega_. - -ILLINOIS, $1,353.58. - - Aurora. First Cong. Ch. 13.87 - - Bowensburg. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard - Eells, Ex. 12.00 - - Bowensburg. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, $100, by - Richard Eells, Ex., incorrectly ack. in March No. - - Byron. A. A. Johnson 5.00 - - Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - - Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., $334.27;--Union - Park Cong. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._;--Lincoln Park Ch., $30, to const. ALFRED GOUDY, L. - M.;--Woman’s Miss. Soc., of Lincoln Park Ch., $20, _for - Lady Missionary_;--Mrs. L. P. R., $1 435.27 - - Chicago. ESTATE of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. - W. Blatchford, Adm’r, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 250.00 - - Dundee. Mrs. W. D. 1.00 - - Elgin. Cong. Ch. 13.58 - - Evanston. First Cong. Ch. 33.94 - - Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $50; Mrs. S. - R. Holmes, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._, First Ch. of - Christ, $30.05 85.05 - - Galesburg. _Correction._--In March No., Cong. Ch. Sab. - Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._, should read, - “Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of First Ch. of Christ.” - - - Geneseo. Cong. Ch., (ad’l) $45.13; Mrs. E. L. Atkinson, - $5 50.13 - - Griggsville. Cong. Ch. 22.15 - - Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 10.45 - - Kewanee. _Correction._--In April No., Ladies of Cong. - Ch., $57, should read, from Ladies of Cong. Ch., $37; - La Moille, Cong. Ch., $20. - - - Moline. John Deere, $100; Cong. Ch., $60 160.00 - - Oneida. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 2.40 - - Ontario. Cong. Ch. 21.55 - - Ottawa. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 15.00 - - Peoria. Moses Pettengill, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00 - - Polo. Bbl. of C., and $1.40, _for freight_, _for Nashville, - Tenn._ 1.40 - - Princeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 6.75 - - Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $25; - Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., $25; Miss. Soc. - of Female Sem., $10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 60.00 - - Streator. Mrs. Ralph Plumb, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 50.00 - - Sycamore. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 50.00 - - Toulon. Cong. Ch. 11.00 - - Waukegan. Rev. A. J. B. 0.60 - - Winnetka. Cong. Ch.,$17.60, and Sab. Sch., $1.84 19.44 - - York Neck. Mrs. Anna Reynolds 5.00 - -MISSOURI, $3.75. - - Laclede. Cong. Ch., $3.25; Rev. E. D. S., 50c., _for - Mag._ 3.75 - -WISCONSIN, $129.59. - - Adamsville. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - Appleton. Miss Ann S. Kimball 100.00 - - Eau Claire. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary_ 21.65 - - Kashkomong. Mrs. A. V. M. 0.50 - - Milwaukee. “Friends,” box and bbl. C., _for Straight U._ - - Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - Two Rivers. Cong. Ch. 2.44 - - Windsor. H. H. S. 1.00 - -IOWA, $259.94. - - Burlington. M. L. $1.00 - - Cedar Rapids. T. M. Sinclair, _for repairs, Talladega - C._ 50.00 - - Chester Centre. Cong. Ch. 46.00 - - Columbus City. Sarah E. Evans 2.00 - - Dubuque. Bbl. of bedding. - - Floris. “Mary and Martha” 5.00 - - Grinnell. Cong. Ch., $43.13; Sab. Sch. Class of boys, $2; - L. B., 50c. 45.63 - - Marion. Cong. Ch., $63.31; Willing Workers, box of C., _for - Straight U._ 63.31 - - McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc., bbl. of C., _for Straight - U._ - - Postville. Rev. R. H. Robbins, _for repairs, Talladega - C._ 2.00 - - Tabor. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 10.00 - - Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore, $10; “Friends,” $25 35.00 - -KANSAS, $252.00. - - Leavenworth. Mrs. T. C. 1.00 - - Olathe. ESTATE of Elvira Beckwick, by Watts - Beckwith 250.00 - - Olathe. Rev. W. W. McM. 1.00 - -MINNESOTA, $92.57. - - Minneapolis. Rev. E. M. Williams, $50, _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._;--Plymouth Ch., $28.57 78.57 - - Rushford. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - - Saint Paul. C. S. Campbell 10.00 - - Tivoli. L. H. 1.00 - -NEBRASKA, $14.00. - - Indianola. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - Red Willow. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - -COLORADO, $1.00. - - Colorado Springs. Rev. E. N. B. 0.50 - - Denver. J. L. P. 0.50 - -CALIFORNIA, $25.00. - - Oakland. Mrs. Nathaniel Gray 25.00 - -MARYLAND, $100.00. - - Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 - -VIRGINIA, $28.40. - - Hampton. Normal Sch. Ch. 28.40 - -TENNESSEE, $272.75. - - Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition 89.80 - - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 182.95 - -NORTH CAROLINA, $120.24. - - McLeansville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition 30.00 - - Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition 85.24 - -GEORGIA, $658.25. - - Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $241.90; Rent, $3; - Atlanta U., Tuition, $113; “A Friend,” $2.52 360.42 - - Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 74.95; Rent, $8 82.95 - - McIntosh. S. S. 0.50 - - Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107.75; Sales, - $106.63 214.38 - -ALABAMA, $624.80. - - Anniston. Cong. Ch., _for repairs, Talladega C._ 8.15 - - Marion. “Girls Sewing-Class,” _for Mendi Mission_ 17.00 - - Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition 176.70 - - Montevallo. Cornelius Cadle, Jr., _for rebuilding barn, - Talladega C._ 10.00 - - Montgomery. Public School Fund 175.00 - - Selma. Rent, $100; Cong. Ch., $54.60 154.60 - - Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, $74.85;--Eight - individuals, $1 ea.; J. R. M., 50c., _for rebuilding - barn_ 83.35 - -MISSISSIPPI, $87.00. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 87.00 - -LOUISIANA. $129.75. - - New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition 129.75 - -INCOME FUND, $416.00. - - ---- Avery fund, _for Mendi M._ 246.00 - - ---- General Fund 50.00 - - ---- C. F. Dike Fund 50.00 - - ---- Straight U. Scholarship Fund 70.00 - ----- ----, $50.00. - - ---- Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. of Natural Science, Fisk - U._ 50.00 - -SCOTLAND, $250.00. - - Glasgow. Mrs. Ann Morris McDowell, by Rev. Geo. - Morris, _for a Teacher, Fisk U._ 200.00 - - - ---- “A. P.” 50.00 - - ------ - - Total, $17,688.01 - - Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st $86,611.92 - - * * * * * - -FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA. - - Church’s Corners, Mich. First Cong. Ch. 21.00 - - Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts 432.28 - - ------ - - Total, $453.28 - - * * * * * - -FOR NEGRO REFUGEES. - - Somerset, Mass. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. - - Wilmington, Mass. Bbl. of C. - - South Norwalk, Conn. 2 Bbls. of C., by Mrs. C. M. - Lawrence. - - Binghamton, N. Y. Chas. A. Beach 5.00 - - Brooklyn, N. Y. “A Friend” 5.00 - - Penn Yan, N. Y. M. Hamlin 100.00 - - “Heart’s Content,” N. J. Box of C. - - Savannah, Ohio. J. A. P. Patterson 5.00 - - ------ - - Total $115.00 - - Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts. 247.25 - - ------ - - Total $362.25 - - * * * * * - -FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - East Hampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston 200.00 - - Lowell. Mass. Mrs. E. M. Buss, $100; Judge Crosby, $25; - Leonard Kimball, $25 150.00 - - - Hartford, Conn. C. C. Lyman 100.00 - - New Haven, Conn. Amos Townsend 10.00 - - New London, Conn. TRUST ESTATE of Henry P. Haven 500.00 - - Waterbury, Conn. Chas Benedict 400.00 - - Morristown, N. J. Ella M. Graves 100.00 - - Salem, Ohio. David A. Allen 25.00 - - ------ - - Total $1,485.00 - - Previously acknowledged in Feb. Receipts 1,267.00 - - ------ - - Total $2,752.00 - - * * * * * - - Receipts for March $19,309.01 - - Total from Oct. 1st to March 31st $93,228.21 - - ====== - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, - 56 Reade St., N. Y. - - - - -Constitution of the American Missionary Association. - -INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849. - - * * * * * - - -ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN -MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.” - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which -are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of -effort. - -ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[1] who -professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, -or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the -funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty -dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have -not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the -privilege of voting. - -ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and the -transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be -designated by the Executive Committee. - -ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular -officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and -of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other -co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than -twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and -the Treasurer ex-officio, members. - -ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the -collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, -sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) -missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in -general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to -the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; -the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the -missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of -the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always -entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the -decision of such reference shall be final. - -The Executive Committee shall have authority to till all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in -all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general -conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of -the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the -missionary work. - -Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting -business. - -ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing -officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, -and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to -discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of -unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their -fellow-beings as slaves. - -ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing -to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain -missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the -agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon. - -ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution -without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a -regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been -submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in -season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so -submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting. - -[Footnote 1: By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a -belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; -the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, -the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by -the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to -salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the -judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the -righteous.] - - - - -The American Missionary Association. - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as -citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As -closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted -CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in -its humane and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has -also a mission in AFRICA. - - -STATISTICS. - -CHURCHES: _In the South_--In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., -13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. -_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70. - -INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE -SOUTH.--_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala., -Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and -Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, -N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; -Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other -Schools_, 24. Total 44. - -TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, -253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, -296. STUDENTS--In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, -63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former -pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the -care of the Association, 13,000. - - -WANTS. - -1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and -_larger_ contributions from the churches--the feeble as well as the -strong. - -2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational -institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; -MEETING HOUSES for the new churches as we are organizing; -MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for these churches. - -3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and -missionaries to Africa--a pressing want. - -Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below: - - NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. - BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House. - CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street. - - -MAGAZINE. - -This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who -take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath -Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies -of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to -take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five -dollars. - -Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION -in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the -following - - -FORM OF A BEQUEST. - -“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- -dollars in trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the -person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the -‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, -under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to -its charitable uses and purposes.” - -The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three -are required--in other States only two], who should write against -their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and -number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State -in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A. -B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the -request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of -each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some -States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months -before the death of the testator. - - * * * * * - - - EDUCATE - YOUR - DAUGHTERS. - - * * * * * - -Give them all the advantages offered by - -WELLESLEY COLLEGE, - -at a very moderate expense to residents, by purchasing one of four nice -Houses, for sale by - - C. B. DANA, - Wellesley, Mass. - - * * * * * - - -“=FRUIT= OF THE =VINE=.” - -=Pure=, Rich, Clear Unfermented Wine for =Communion=, -rec’d Centennial =MEDAL=. Circulars free. =T. H. JOHNSON, New -Brunswick, N. J.=, National Temperance Soc., 58 Reade St., N. Y., -Cong’l and Bap. 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PAINTER, aided -by the steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries and -teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional communications -from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the AMERICAN -MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work -going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and -the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as Missionaries in Africa. - -It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the -races among which it labors, and will give monthly summary of current -events relating to their welfare and progress. - -Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing -of these despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its -circulation. Begin with the next number and the new year. 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