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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 12, December 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 1, 2017 [EBook #55016] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER 1880 *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXIV. NO. 12. - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - DECEMBER, 1880. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - PARAGRAPHS 385 - DR. MCKENZIE’S SERMON--POWER OF RIGHT PRINCIPLES 386 - THE CALL FOR ENLARGEMENT--SHALL IT BE HEEDED? 387 - HOLIDAY GIFTS 388 - REVIEW AND OUTLOOK: Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D. 389 - WHAT OUR AFRICAN METHODIST FRIENDS THINK 395 - GENERAL NOTES--Africa, Indians, Chinese 396 - CENTRAL SOUTH CONFERENCE 398 - ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 399 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - GLEANINGS 400 - GEORGIA--Atlanta University--Extract from Report - of Board of Visitors 400 - ALABAMA, ATHENS--Church, School, and Brick-making 401 - MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO--Patient Work 402 - LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS--Revival Meetings 403 - TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE--Fisk University 404 - MEMORIAL SERVICES 405 - - - THE INDIANS. - - INDIAN EDUCATION IN THE EAST: Gen. S. C. Armstrong 406 - - - THE CHINESE. - - CHAPTER OF GOOD THINGS: Rev. W. C. Pond 408 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - A SLAVE-GIRL’S FAITH 410 - - - RECEIPTS 412 - - - CONSTITUTION 415 - - - AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 416 - - * * * * * - - - NEW YORK - - Published by the American Missionary Association, - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - -Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter. - - - - -American Missionary Association, - -56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. 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. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H. - 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, Mass. - 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. - Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass. - Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa. - 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. - J. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill. - C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct. - Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal. - Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas. - Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass. - Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill. - Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y. - Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass. - Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass. - Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich. - Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., 56 _Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, D. D., _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, - C. T. CHRISTENSEN, - H. L. CLAPP, - CLINTON B. FISK, - ADDISON P. FOSTER, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - A. J. HAMILTON, - SAMUEL HOLMES, - CHARLES A. HULL, - EDGAR KETCHUM, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - SAMUEL S. MARPLES, - WM. T. PRATT, - J. A. SHOUDY, - JOHN H. WASHBURN. - - -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. DECEMBER, 1880. No. 12. - - * * * * * - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - -The publications provided for a household do much to mould the -character of its inmates. If a right proportion of these are -religious and missionary, good results are sure to follow. As at -this season many determine what periodicals they will take for -the coming year, we beg leave to suggest the wisdom of families -subscribing for and perusing the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. By this -means foundations for right thinking and right doing will be laid, -and the way prepared for the exercise of Christian patriotism and -philanthropy, so needful in the present condition of our country. - - * * * * * - -We have word from Hampton that the tide of negro students never -set in so promptly and strongly as since October 1st of this year. -For the second time in the history of the school, tents have been -erected on the campus and occupied by the colored boys. - - * * * * * - -Dr. Alexander, President of Straight University, is much encouraged -by the fact that white students are ready to avail themselves -of the advantages of the Law Department of the University. This -department is entirely self-sustaining, and conducted with rare -ability, one of the professors having served on the Supreme Bench -of the State. Of twenty-three students, nineteen are white. - - * * * * * - -The number of students in attendance at Fisk University for the -first two months of this year is much greater than that of any -previous year since Jubilee Hall was occupied. A communication -from Pres. Cravath, published elsewhere, states at length some of -the unusually hopeful aspects of the work, and indicates that the -University is entering upon a larger career of usefulness than it -has ever experienced. - -The American Bible Society offers to its Life Members an annual -grant of one dollar’s worth of Bibles or Testaments; its benevolent -intention being to supply them with the means of distributing the -word of God among the needy. This perquisite is transferable at -the written request of the Life Members. A lady, once a teacher -in our schools at the South, and who has a great interest in the -welfare of the colored children, suggests that in this way the -pupils of our day and Sunday-schools may be supplied with the -sacred Scriptures. We cordially second the suggestion, and will -be glad to receive the written authorization of any of the Life -Members of the Bible Society for the use of their current gift for -the purpose above indicated. The officers of the Bible Society, as -we understand, acquiesce in this plan so far as it may seem wise to -the Life Members to co-operate with us. - - * * * * * - - -DR. McKENZIE’S SERMON. - -The sermon preached at our Annual Meeting by Dr. McKenzie, related -to our duty to Africa, and was one of rare excellence and beauty. -It was printed in the _Advance_, Oct. 28th, and a limited number -can be supplied to persons sending us a postal requesting it, with -their address. The closing words of the sermon, which we append, -not only sound a note of cheer, but are fitted to awaken the hope -and courage of earnest Christian workers everywhere. - -“The day of the Lord is coming. The light is on the hills and along -the coast of all the lands. The nations are coming to the King. The -continents and the islands begin to hear His voice. The tongues of -men shall be filled with praise. It is not long; a few days more -of work and prayer; a few more deeds of sacrifice and love; a few -more lives given; a few more men gilded with the towel and with the -basin in their hands; a few more repetitions of that strange and -sacred deed, Jesus washing the feet of Judas. Then the glory and -the rejoicing. A little while and the day shall dawn. We may see -the hastening light as we face the East, - - “Where, faint and far, - Along the tingling desert of the sky, - Beyond the circle of the conscious hills, - Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass - The first foundations of that new, near Day - Which should be builded out of heaven to God.” - - * * * * * - - -POWER OF RIGHT PRINCIPLES. - -From the beginning this Association was wedded to right principles. -It recognized their latent power. It took it for granted that -right was expedient--that right would triumph. It did not ask if -right thinking and right doing was the way of the multitude, even -of the multitude of professing Christians. Its inquiry was simply -for the way of righteousness. That way it strove to tread. It was -called narrow--captious. Its leaders were sometimes stigmatized -as men of one idea--disturbers of the people--fanatics. They were -not time-servers, however. They had the martyr spirit and toiled -on, waiting for the morning; and the morning came. What was once -questioned if not ridiculed, is now accepted and honored. - -The elements that entered into their early labors are needful -still. They had courage. They dared to do right in the face of -opposition. If mobbed and mobbed again, the oppression only served -to fill the country with the fragrance of their good deeds. It was -but the torch that kindled the incense. They were never drawn from -a righteous purpose. God was present in the shadows, keeping watch -above his own. They had the spirit of sacrifice. They were ready to -go to the lost sheep--to the despised. They passed not by him who -fell among thieves. They achieved distinction by their readiness -to endure hardness--to submit to insult--to be counted among the -few--to toil with but little appreciation and for meagre rewards. -They also bore about with them a rich and beautiful charity, first -pure, then peaceable, full of mercy and good fruits. It was the -combination of these elements in active operation for a score of -years that served largely to revolutionize public sentiment, and -especially the sentiment in our churches, until the principles -of this Association are accepted and acceptable. The change -was wrought by the power of pure motives applied to aggressive -religious work in behalf of a needy and wronged people. - -This change is sure to come in every quarter of our land, by -sufficient application of the power of right principles. Every -mission station of this Association is a centre from which a pure -light radiates. Every graduate from our schools is a torch-bearer -flaming this light over the land. It is a question of time--of a -score of years perhaps--and there will be no ostracism experienced -by our teachers South. If they can be sustained in the field, -toiling in righteousness; if their numbers can be multiplied -to meet the demand; if the churches will make it possible to -continue the work; the victory of right principles South will -be as certain and speedy as it was at the North, and much more -may be hoped for. North and South will clap their hands together -in hearty co-operation, shouting their choruses in one grand -anthem, and entering in company upon the enlarged work of carrying -right principles to the domain of final victory--the Freedmen’s -fatherland. To gird ourselves for that to-day is the duty which -calls the servants of the Master, East, West, North and South. - - * * * * * - - -THE CALL FOR ENLARGEMENT--SHALL IT BE HEEDED? - -At no time has the call for enlargement been more urgent. It is -strikingly providential also. The political, moral and religious -atmosphere is charged with forces, prophetic of unparalleled -progress in our Southern work. Questions relative to the policy of -government are measurably settled for four years. We can lay our -plans with encouraging assurances. Sound and practical views on -all that pertains to permanent prosperity are dominant. It is not -likely they will be materially modified, save for the better. Our -statesmen and philanthropists are coming to prize more and more -those forces in man which are developed by a Christian education. -The _want_ that is looming up before them, is good schools for -the masses in every section of the country. They voice this want -in their public utterances, and the sound thereof is echoing and -re-echoing over the land. It has in it the promise of expansion -and universal application. Its adoption and elaboration mean -increase of every laudable industry, the development of commerce, -art, science, literature, wealth, beauty, happiness. They mean the -leveling up of humanity heavenward. The tone and temper of our best -men was never more auspicious than now--never more favorable to the -work of this Association. - -There never was so strong conviction in the South as now of the -wisdom of Christian education for the Freedmen. The worth of it -cannot be hidden. It is as evident as the sheen of an electric -light. There is a capacity in the heart of man, by which he is -able to recognize it. He comes to do so gradually, inevitably, as -the flower unfolds from the bud, and as the fruit matures from the -blossom. Many of the best in the world started wrong, but turned -about and out-stripped their fellows in well doing. The South has -been wrong, but pour in sufficient light and it will turn about. -We have a right to hope and pray for such consummation. The aim -of our work is to hasten it. When the South turns, it will not be -by halves,--that is not her method. She is already rising for the -emergency. The signs of it are apparent. It is but a question of -time, and the time is at hand. - -Legislatures have appropriated money for our work, and are doing -so heartily still. They act as statesmen, with a view to the -best interests of the State. In Texas, there is a tidal wave -setting strongly in favor of popular education, impelled by the -far-sightedness which discerns that the flow of emigration of the -best sort trends away from territory, however rich and inviting, -where free schools for all classes are not abundant. The value of -inaugurating school work through the agency of Christian teachers, -need not be argued. The call for these teachers is sure to be more -urgent than ever. Shall we provide for the immediate and coming -want? God seems to have said so. We have received $150,000 for -new buildings, in which to train teachers. New buildings mean -enlargement--enlargement means more missionaries, more prayer, more -money. Will not the friends of Christ heed this call prayerfully, -promptly, efficiently? - - * * * * * - - -HOLIDAY GIFTS. - -In December, 1869, the late Henry P. Haven, of New London, Ct., -proposed to his Sunday-school that instead of receiving gifts they -remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said: “It is more -blessed to give than to receive.” - -The proposition met with favor, and a Christmas service of -worship with a Christmas offering to some deserving cause became -incorporated in the annual school plans. It occurs to us that such -holiday gifts by Sabbath-schools and households have the following -advantages: - -One is, they afford the young people more real pleasure. The -happiness from rejoicing over the good of others is an exercise of -the purest affection and the finest feeling of the human heart. It -is akin to the blessedness and happiness of God himself. However -gratifying a gift may be to the receiver, nevertheless it puts him -to a disadvantage. The gift-taker becomes under obligation to the -gift-maker. The receiver’s joy in a gift terminates in himself. It -has a mixture of dependence and submission in it. But the giver is -placed under no obligation to the receiver. Moreover, he inevitably -ministers to his own well-being, though it may be unconsciously. -“Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.” - -Another advantage is that there is more virtue in giving than in -receiving. The virtue of receiving consists in regard for one’s -self; the virtue of giving in a proper regard for others. There is -also more self-denial in giving than in receiving, and self-denial -is the essence of virtue. The receiver has no natural habit or -inclination to counteract, but the giver must overcome many -obstacles which require superior virtue. The more young people do -to develop the attribute of virtue, the more real pleasure they are -sure to experience. - -And then again, God promises to reward the giver but not the -receiver. This is a great consideration, and may well be taken into -account by all teachers and parents. It is a good thing to make the -holidays memorable and happy by giving tokens to young people, but -not so blessed as to bring them into an attitude where they will be -sure of Heavenly rewards. Of the few things which God has promised -to reward men for in this life, giving is one. “Blessed is he that -considereth the poor * * * he shall be blessed upon the earth.” “He -that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he,” and best of all, God -means to reward the liberal giver more fully at the resurrection of -the just. - -By the favor of Providence we have ample opportunity to give to -humane and missionary enterprises. - -At this season, when plans for celebrating the holidays are being -matured, would it not be wise for those having responsibility for -training the young, to embrace the time to teach them in their -abundance of gift-taking and gift-making to provide for themselves -“bags that wax not old, a treasure in the Heavens that faileth not.” - - * * * * * - - -REVIEW AND OUTLOOK. - -A Paper read at the National Council at St. Louis, Nov. 13th. - -BY REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D. - -I intend, without preface, to review the work of the American -Missionary Association for the last three years, and to give an -outlook on its future duties. - - -I. The Review. - -1. We have paid our great debt. This had clung to us for years, -like the shirt of Nessus, scorching while it clung. At the last -Council we were enabled to announce that we had rent away about one -third of the hateful garment, during the next two years we tore off -the remainder, and since then we have walked forth, financially, -“Clad in raiment pure and white,” as becometh saints who should -“Owe no man anything.” It may happen to us in the future that our -books will sometimes show a balance on the wrong side; but we -hope never again to be beguiled into putting on one of the large, -iron-clad garments we had so long and sadly worn. - -2. We have received the munificent gift of $150,000 from Mrs. -Stone. Not long since, our elder and honored sister, the American -Board, had laid on her table a loaf so large that there was -danger that it might be like the “Cake of barley bread” which the -Midianite saw in his dream, that “tumbled into the host and came -unto a tent and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the -tent lay along.” But with the whole church, we rejoice that the -loaf has been to the Board, by its great wisdom and God’s blessing, -not as the cake of the Midianite, but as his dream, an augury of -victory and enlargement! Our gift, great as it was, is only as one -of “the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table,” most gratefully -received and all needed at once, with no danger of surfeit. Our -children are not only hungry--they are crowded into close quarters, -and some of them have to be turned out of doors. At the Atlanta -University, with accommodations for only 40 girls, 62 are packed -in. At Tougaloo, barracks of slabs are erected, and outbuildings -and garrets are turned into dormitories, and still the pupils come, -so that the teachers inquire if they may put three in a bed and -twelve in one large room. Our reply is: “Take all that you can -accommodate consistently with good health and morals, and send -the rest away.” These are specimens, perhaps the most striking, -but from nearly every school comes the call for more room. Never -before have we had such overcrowding; never before have we been -obliged to turn away so many. Mrs. Stone’s great gift will meet -the want in five of our larger institutions and no more; and that -only for shelter, while the increased number will make an enlarged -call for bread. Mrs. Stone provides the homes: who will furnish the -endowments for more teachers and the scholarships for more pupils? - -3. We are just completing the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, -with its large and commodious building and beautiful campus of -eight acres, near the capitol--an outpost in that vast State of the -Southwest; thus extending our permanent institutions from Hampton -Roads, Va., to the banks of the Colorado, Texas, and supplying -eight of the largest Southern States with schools of higher grade, -each of which sends out annually its score or fifty well-trained -teachers. - -4. It is a matter of much gratification to us that while we have -been paying our debt and extending our lines, we have been able to -maintain, and even to enlarge, the work already in hand among the -Freedmen. Three years ago our teaching force in the South numbered -150; now there are 200. Then our pupils were 5,404; now 8,052. - -One illustration of the usefulness of these schools is seen in -the great army of scholars taught in them and by their pupils. We -believe, from a safe estimate, that _half a million_ of names have -been enrolled, in the aggregate, in our schools and the schools -of our pupils, since this Council last met, and still the cry is -for more teachers. This roll-call of the school-room gives no idea -of the added work in the Sunday-school, the temperance cause, the -prayer meeting and in the homes of the people. As to the kind of -work done in our schools, and Theological departments, I point -to the modest and gentlemanly Second Assistant Moderator of this -National Council. - -Our church work has grown slowly, but steadily and safely. Three -years ago our churches in the South numbered 59, now there are -73. When we began our labors among the Freedmen there was not one -Congregational church in the old South. The famous Central Church -in Charleston, S. C., was not really Congregational, and that in -Liberty Co., Ga., had become Presbyterian. It is said that the soil -in the South is not congenial to our churches. It must be admitted -that they will not flourish in the same soil with slavery, nor -where its roots still live; but as the introduction of clover kills -ill weeds, root and branch, and not only yields a good harvest in -mowing time, but also enriches the ground for all other crops, so -the planting of Congregational churches in the South will help to -destroy the roots of slavery, give a good crop for the Master, and -enrich the field for all other churches. We are confident that our -clover-sowing in the South is coming to be regarded by both whites -and blacks not as supplanting others, but enriching all. - -5. The flow of Chinamen to the Pacific coast is not increasing, -but the work we are doing among those now there is as hopeful as -any we are attempting. Many are turning from idol worship and -giving evidence of genuine conversion. Such men as Jee Gam, so -intelligent, so modest, so pious, are proof that the work is not -superficial; and the eagerness of those converts as well as their -teachers to extend the effort to the Chinese in the mines, and even -to carry the Gospel to China, is proof of a missionary spirit as -well as of genuine piety. - -6. The new movement for the education of Indian youth in schools -at the East, begun three years ago at Hampton by Capt. Pratt, -deserves encouragement, not as superseding the schools among the -tribes, but as helping them. The sending of these young people -from their homes has attracted the attention of the Indians to the -subject of education more than any other thing that has taken place -for years; and the correspondence which has sprung up between the -parents and the children, as well as the return of the educated -pupils, will deepen the interest. We have aided some of the pupils -at Hampton, and we are disposed to consider the earnest wish of -Capt. Pratt, now in charge of the Government School for Indian -youth at Carlisle Barracks, that we extend the effort into several -of our schools in the South. Gen. Armstrong’s experience at Hampton -shows that the joint education of the Indian and Negro pupils is a -success, that they are helpful to each other. - -With this rapid sketch of our work among the three neglected races -in America, and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, I -pass to the next item in this review--where we follow the negro to -his home in the land of his fathers. - -7. The Mendi Mission in Africa. - -When the Council met in Detroit we had just sent out our first -company of Freedmen as missionaries to Africa. Three years is -not long enough to warrant absolute conclusions, yet such as we -have reached I give. 1. We are very hopeful as to the ability of -the colored American to endure the climate of Africa. 2. We are -a little disappointed as to his qualifications in ripeness of -judgment and maturity of character, for the duties of a missionary. -Perhaps we expected too much. The white missionary has behind him -the culture of seventeen centuries; the colored of seventeen years! -But of the fitness of the few now, and ultimately of many, we have -no doubt. We must select at first more carefully, and train the -rest more fully. Nor have we any question as to the call of God to -these Freedmen to carry the Gospel to Africa, and we “bate not a -jot of heart or hope” in our work of preparing and sending them. - -The discouragements we share with all the noble societies that -have responded to the grand impulse inspired by the wonderful -discoveries of Livingstone, Stanley and others; nay, with all who -in every age have heard the Divine call for great enterprises in -behalf of religion and humanity. God begins his great movements by -preliminary trials and disappointments; in them only are heroes -and martyrs trained. Persecutions were essential to the success of -the primitive church. Bull Run saved the republic and overthrew -slavery; and our confidence in the Divine purposes for Africa are -all the stronger for the discipline at the outset. He means no -holiday parade, but thorough, apostolic sacrifice and success. And -lastly, - -8. To pay that debt and to carry on our work, with its -enlargements, its endowments and buildings, we have, in these three -years, received into our treasury _six hundred and twenty-seven -thousand dollars_. If we add the sums received by our affiliated -schools ($283,132), the amount is _nine hundred and ten thousand -dollars_; and if we add to this the _one hundred and fifty thousand -dollars_ received from Mrs. Stone, now rapidly to be expended, -the total will be _one million and sixty thousand dollars_! The -churches seem to have had confidence in us, and to have appreciated -our work. For this, through you, we wish to thank them, and to ask -continued confidence and the means to carry on the enlarged work -that opens before us. - - -II. The work before us. - -When we turn from what we have done to what we have yet to do, we -are overawed at both its vastness and its pressing urgency. - -1. Whatever other danger threatens this republic, or calls for -the labors of its Christian people, that arising from the three -colored races is, I do not say the greatest, but the most obvious. -The vast influx of European peoples does indeed, awaken serious -apprehension, for they bring with them infidelity or Romanism; yet -thus far no overt peril has arisen from this source, for they have -so spread themselves among the masses that their influence has -gathered to no focal point. But the Indian has been an irritant -throughout the whole history of our occupancy of the land, and -in all parts of it. Blood has flowed freely in the track of our -wrongs against him, and will do so until we act like Christians -and he becomes one. The Chinamen on our Western coast are few, -and yet how their coming has shaken the nerves of the nation! -What other set of immigrants, so few in number, has excited so -much irritation--not on their part, but among ourselves about -them? But the great disturber--yet the utterly unintentional -disturber--of the peace of this nation, is the negro. For nearly -half a century the storm has raged around him, as around Elijah -in Horeb--the wind of tempestuous discussion in pulpit, press -and Congress; the earthquake, rending asunder trade-interests, -religious denominations, dividing even the nation itself into two -hostile sections; the lurid and awful fire of war, with its blood, -carnage and desolation. Last of all came “the still, small voice,” -and God was in it. But how little has it been heeded. The wind is -scarcely lulled; the earthquake is quiet but the dreadful chasms -remain; the fires are smouldering, but now and then a darting flame -of Ku Klux outrage or a Chisholm murder reveals the pent-up heat -below! Then as to the _anointing_! Elijah anointed the kings and -the prophet--giving thereby the grace to do the Divine behests, -whether of vengeance or mercy. We have _enacted_ the Freedman into -a king where all are sovereigns, and a prophet where all the Lord’s -people are priests, but we have not given him the knowledge or the -spiritual grace that alone can anoint him as a king or priest. - -The source of the special irritation in regard to these races is -not far to seek. If a man moves into your neighborhood who is of -your own race and color, though you may differ from him in theories -of trade, politics or religion, yet assimilation and esteem may -arise. But if he has a tawny skin, delights in the promiscuous use -of the tomahawk and scalping knife, and withal claims an ancient -title to the very land you occupy; or if he has a yellow face, -wears a cue, eats with chop-sticks and is willing to work fifty -per cent. cheaper than you can; or if he has a black face, with -the stigma of slavery and caste-prejudice upon him, then the case -is altered; assimilation and friendship are not so easy. But these -people are here and they must stay; they are so numerous that you -cannot ignore them; you must choose between leaving them as they -are, a perpetual source of annoyance and danger, or training them -to become useful citizens. Moreover, they are your neighbors, -fallen among thieves, which stripped them of their raiment and -wounded them, and you must choose between the part of the priest -and Levite or of the good Samaritan. The meanest of them all is -your brother, and you _are_ your brother’s keeper. - -But if you mean to act the part of a neighbor and a brother to -these great multitudes, you have no small job on hand--which brings -me to my next point. - -2. The dangers and the duties of emancipation. - -The nation that emancipates a large number of slaves assumes a -grave responsibility. This is increased if the emancipation is -immediate and the ex-slaves remain on the soil, and especially -if they differ widely in race from the master-class. All these -difficulties attach to our Act of Emancipation; but they are not -an argument against emancipation. The old abolitionists were -right--immediate emancipation was the nation’s duty. No preparation -could be made for the change before it took place--slavery -must be supreme or nothing. The safety lies alone in the wise -_after-treatment_. Then or never, and soon if ever, must the -Freedman be prepared for his new position. We have striking -illustrations at hand. We begin with the nearest in point of time: - -In 1861 Russia emancipated nearly fifty millions of serfs. This was -the result of a ground-swell of popular sentiment demanding some -break in the iron-clad despotism of an absolute monarchy. The next -year the empire completed a thousand years of national existence. -In the joyful enthusiasm over these two great events, there arose a -strong hope of the advent of constitutional liberty. The changes, -however, were few and utterly disappointing; and the issue of -emancipation scarcely less so, involving the ruin of most of the -landed aristocracy, and the ignorance, idleness and intemperance -of a large share of the serfs. And now, after twenty years of -unrelaxed despotism and the continued deterioration of the masses, -the educated people in Russia see no better remedy than Nihilism! - -In 1834 Great Britain emancipated 800,000 slaves in the West -Indies, giving £20,000 as compensation to the masters, but making -almost no provision for the education and religious instruction of -the negroes. The hour of emancipation presented a touching scene -in many places. Slavery ended on the midnight that ushered in the -first of August, and the negro population, engaged in devotional -exercises till that hour, were then on their knees and awaiting -in silence the gift of the great boon of freedom coming from the -hand of God! That was the auspicious era for beginning the work -of elevating this inoffensive and willing people. But the golden -moment was lost, for with inadequate provision for schools and -churches, they gradually sunk in ignorance and superstition, back -almost to African fetishism. So hopeless was the field that this -Association withdrew its missionaries, and at length the British -Government, aroused to its mistake, and after the loss of one third -of a century of most precious time, established a thorough system -of common schools. The tide begins slowly to turn. - -In remoter years God himself became the emancipator of about two -millions of slaves. Even He did not attempt the task of leaving -them on the soil to meet the scorn or the power of the masters. -But He showed His appreciation of their need of education and -religious training by halting almost immediately after setting out -on their long journey and opening a church-school on Mount Sinai. -That most wonderful of all schools was kept there for a whole -year--God himself the teacher. And when their journey was resumed, -He directed in the construction of a portable church-school edifice -in which instruction was continued till their journey’s end. God’s -appreciation of the need of homes for the ex-slaves is seen in the -fact that He had employed gangs,--not of men, but of nations--for -centuries in clearing the land, building houses, and planting -olive-yards and vine-yards for them. - -This act of emancipation must be the model for Christian nations, -so far as the circumstances are the same. There must be no -preliminary apprenticeship, but immediate emancipation, followed -by prompt, thorough, and persistent training of the people in -knowledge, piety, and in acquiring homes. - -I call attention lastly to - -3. The results and outlook of our own emancipation. Let us consider -these, not as is usually done, from the standpoint either of the -politician of the North, or the planter of the South, but from that -of the negro himself. - -With all its glory, emancipation has brought to the negro three -great disappointments. - -(1.) Education was to him the talisman of the master’s power, and -above all, it was the key to open the long concealed treasures -of God’s word. He stretched forth his hand for it as if it were -Aladdin’s lamp, which by a few touches would reveal the hidden -riches. But there was no magic in the lamp; it showed him only a -long and difficult road, that by patient and persevering travel -would bring him to the coveted knowledge. Then, again, the common -school fund of the South gives him but few schools, and those are -open but for a short time, while his own necessities bend him -down to the struggle for existence, and allow him little means to -educate his children, or power to spare them from work in the field. - -(2.) His next great disappointment was in the ballot. This, too, he -had seized with avidity as the symbol of sovereign power--the one -grand test of equality with the master. In two states he wielded it -in uncontrolled majority, but his use of it was so disgraceful to -himself and so ruinous to the state, that his friends were amazed -and his foes exasperated. He showed that he lacked the intelligence -to wield this great power, and the strength of character to resist -its temptations; and now the symbol is wrenched from his grasp and -he is once more helpless before superior knowledge. - -(3.) His last disappointment was as to the ownership of land. What -visions floated before him of land that he could call his own and -of a home that he might adorn and use for himself and family. It is -wonderful to see how much he has done to realize this vision. But -this, too, in large measure eludes his grasp. If he rents he must -pay a rental almost equal to the value of the land; and if he buys, -he must take the united toil of himself and family to pay for it; -and hence his dilemma. If he buys his home, he cannot educate his -children; if he educates them, he cannot buy the home! - -Do we wonder that with the crushing of these “great expectations,” -and with as little hope in most cases of seeing things better as -when he was a slave, he yields to despair, and rather than “bear -the ills he has he flies to others that he knows not of,” and that -Kansas becomes his refuge? - -The Kansas refugees are not the most hopeless of the colored -people; they, at least, have the energy to flee. But there are -large numbers that are content to sink to the bottom and stay -there; they are the water in the hold that threatens to drag down -the ship. Yet, thank God, there is still another portion, not so -large, but more hopeful and enterprising than either, that get -homes and educate their children. These are the ones whose children -crowd our schools; they are the hope of the race; they have the -right ideal--that an education, of heart as well as head, is the -rod of God in the hand of man; that makes character, wields the -ballot, wins the home and works the land! This is the class to help -first, and this is the way to help--give them the good school and -the pure church. - -The emergency was too great to brook delay. This Association did -not wait. It struck in at this point at the outset and has stuck to -it ever since. It is on the right track, as is now admitted on all -sides. Pres. Hayes utters the practical sentiment of the nation, -and he but echoes what Judge Tourgee, the author of “A Fool’s -Errand,” representing the radical opinions of the North, and Rev. -Dr. Ruffner, Supt. of Public Instruction of Virginia, representing -the conservative views of the South, had already uttered, that -there is no way of making the Freedmen safe members of society but -by educating them. To the colored people themselves nothing is -more inspiring and helpful than the kind of work achieved by the -American Missionary Association in your behalf. When these people -recall the little handful of their number that cowered under the -guns of Fort Monroe for protection and the little school opened -there, and now see the large buildings at Hampton, the broad farm -and the busy workshops in which their children are trained; when -they remember the scowling looks of the masters in Atlanta when -Gen. Sherman had gone, and now see the Atlanta University, visited -by those old masters--and the best of them--who come away with -commendations so warm, that the state grants $8,000 a year to the -education of their children, when they think of the timid crowds -of their people in Nashville at the close of the war, and now see -Jubilee Hall, sung into existence by their children, who have -called forth the tribute of tears from crowned heads abroad as well -as people at home; when, in short, they see all over the South -such schools taught by teachers from the North, and behold their -children going forth year by year, by scores and hundreds to teach -and to preach, this is to them the manna that sustains them in -their wilderness journey. Will you help us to multiply that bread, -as Jesus did when He fed the multitudes, saying--“give ye them to -eat”? Multiply it not only for the thrifty and enterprising, but -multiply it for the discouraged ones now ready to flee to Kansas! -Yea, multiply it so abundantly that the most hopeless and degraded -may be fed by it and become strong; and then you will have helped -save the Freedmen and the nation, and will have helped win a -victory for caste-crushed people over all the world--a victory for -freedom, humanity and religion! - - * * * * * - - -WHAT OUR AFRICAN METHODIST FRIENDS THINK. - -_The Christian Recorder_ asks: “What is the lesson taught us by -the rapid growth of our sister colored churches, the Presbyterian -and Episcopal especially? That they are growing, and most rapidly, -too, he who runs may read. But what is the lesson it has for us -Methodists? Plainly that we shall put no more ignorant men and no -more trifling men into the ministry. To continue to do so is to -sound our death knell for the future. Ignorant men and trifling -men as religious teachers may satisfy the older generations of our -people, but the younger will insist upon one of two things--give us -an intelligent, dignified pulpit, or we will go where we can get -it. We are already losing too many of our children; nor will the -stampede ever stop, until our conferences stop opening the door to -every one who knocks.” - -This is from the able and influential organ of the African M. E. -Church, published at Philadelphia. Not long since we transferred -to these columns, from the same paper, a similar article, in -which the editor used the high quality of the educational and -church work of the A. M. A. at the South in the same way, as a -spur to his people. We commend his wisdom in the case. Perhaps no -more effective stimulus could be applied. Surely this great and -growing denomination, with its own “Wilberforce University,” and -with access to all of our institutions for the training of its -ministers, cannot afford to put off “ignorant and trifling” pastors -upon the young America of its constituency. They must have “an -intelligent and a dignified pulpit” or these young folks _will_ -stampede. That former article warned its hearers that the greatest -rival of the A. M. E. was the A. M. A. In the sense of provoking -to love and to good works we are willing to enter the lists. And -herein--the helping of the old-time colored churches of the South -to a public sentiment that demands more of purity and of education -in their ministry--we find much of our incentive and of our -mission. Their children come to our schools and soon learn to call -for more intellectual and moral cultivation in their preachers. Not -a few of their best pastors were trained in our institutions. - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -Africa. - ---A third telegraphic cable has been laid between Marseilles and -Algiers. - ---Twelve International African exploring and scientific -associations have recently been constituted. - ---Algeria exports $5,000,000 worth of wheat annually, of oxen and -sheep $3,000,000, wool $3,500,000, and grasses $2,000,000. - ---It is estimated that more than three thousand slaves were brought -to Egypt during the months of last June and July. - ---Dr. Zuchinetti has returned from a journey among the Makarakas, -the Niams-Niams, the Gouros-Gouros in Darfour, Kordofan and Nubia, -where he made a special study of the manner in which they collect -gold. - ---Messrs. Cadenhead and Carter of the International Association -were recently killed near the Tanganyika during a fight between -two hostile tribes of the interior. The Sultan of Zanzibar has -sent troops under Lieut. Matthews, an English officer, temporarily -secured for the purpose, to quell the disturbance. - ---A Sheik has recently transported over eight hundred slaves in a -single week from Suakim to Jedda. In order to evade the law the -negroes are given certificates of liberation when leaving the -African coast, but these are destroyed by their masters when they -arrive at Arabia, where they are sold. The question of appointing -consular agents at Khartoum and Siout for the purpose of breaking -up traffic in slaves, is agitated. - ---There is an African chief named Matola, living in the Rovuma -valley, East Central Africa, who speaks six languages. Perhaps the -most remarkable thing about him is that he is a total abstainer. He -became such from principle and has for many years never touched the -native beer or any other intoxicating liquor. By his aid a church -has been built to which he summons his people every Sunday, acting -as interpreter when there is occasion. - ---The negro Anderson, who has had great experience in travel and -adventure in Western Africa, is about to undertake the training of -elephants for service in Liberia. He has at his command elephant -hunters from the vicinity of the Congo, who will endeavor to -capture and bring to Monrovia as many of the animals as are wanted. -As domestic animals in Liberia are few in number and affected badly -by the climate, this new enterprise is looked upon with great favor. - ---The French people have formed a gold mining company on the west -coast of Africa called: “The African Company of the Gold Coast.” -During the month of August, 1879, it was working actively upon a -large and important gold vein, with machinery sent from Europe. -The results obtained were kept secret, but it transpired on the -coast that they had been surprising. A second company was formed -December, 1879, by the English, called the “Effuenta Gold Mining -Company,” for the immediate exploration of the rich territory named -Effuenta. The gold fever actually animated the inhabitants of -Wassaw as much as it did formerly the emigrants to California. - - * * * * * - - -The Indians. - ---Secretary Schurz has pledged himself to send fifty Indian girls -to Hampton, provided they can be received and cared for. He is -ready to appropriate $150 a year for each. - ---_Indian youth not revengeful._--General Armstrong testifies that, -“in nearly two years’ experience, we have found no signs of the -revengeful nature ascribed to the Indian. ‘They are like other -people’ is a common remark among us, and is the sum of Indian -character.” - ---A full-blooded Indian chief writes to his half-brother at Hampton -from Crow Creek: “I am going to write you a letter. I never forget -you. Try to learn all you can while you are down there. I wish I -were young so I could go down and learn too. I want you to learn -all you can and come back and teach your brothers. Try to learn and -talk English too. Don’t think about coming home all the time. If -you do you can’t learn much. I like to have you write a letter back -and tell me how you are. - - WIZI--That’s I.” - ---Rev. Mr. Denison of Hampton writes of the twelve captive -Indian warriors from Florida received by him into the church: -“We are not deceived into thinking that these Indians present a -highly civilized type of piety, but after careful observation, -we are forced to believe that, as regards the pith and marrow of -Christianity, they are our beloved brethren, for this one thing -they do if ever men did it, forgetting the things that are behind, -they press toward the mark. One point in theology they understand, -and only one. It is to walk the new road in the help of Jesus, and -they show their faith by their works. They are patient in study. -They are always found on the side of law and order. Digging in the -earth is not the chief joy of an Indian warrior, but Koba writes: -‘I pray every day and hoe onions.’” - ---_Bed-making by Indian youth._--Mr. James C. Robbins, a colored -graduate of Hampton who recently had oversight of Indian boys under -Gen. Armstrong, gives the following account: “When they first began -to make beds, the sheets were either tucked up under the pillow or -laid on the outside. One boy was found to have seven sheets, who -did not know the proper use for two. The janitor helped me carry a -bedstead into the sitting-room, the boys were called in and seated -in a semi-circle, and I began the process of bed-making, the boys -grunting and laughing as it proceeded. When the clothes were neatly -tucked in, and the pillow shaken and put into its place, I said, -‘Now boys, I will show you how to get into bed,’ which I did. Then, -through the interpreter, I asked who was willing to try it. He -hardly put the question when a boy who had objected to having his -hair cut when he first came, stepped forward. He began where I did, -and followed every movement, so closely had he observed. No sooner -did he finish than there was a stunning applause. He was then asked -to show us how to go to bed, and when his head touched the pillow -and he drew the clothing up over him, up went another shout.” - - * * * * * - - -The Chinese. - ---Dr. Legge, the professor of Chinese at Oxford University, says, -“If the present rate of conversion of the Chinese to Christianity -continues, by the year 1913, there will be 26,000,000 of church -members, and 100,000,000 of professed Christians in the Chinese -Empire.” - ---The Chinese government is removing the old restrictions which -withheld Chinese merchants from trading with other nations, and -is adopting a policy of encouragement to a wide-spread foreign -commerce. The Chinese Ambassador at Washington stated that a -steamer, commanded and manned by Chinese wholly, would soon appear -in San Francisco laden with the products of Chinese industry. - ---The Chinamen, who walk over bridges built two thousand years -ago, who cultivated the cotton-plant centuries before this country -was heard of, and who fed silk-worms before King Solomon built his -throne, have fifty thousand square miles around Shanghai which they -call the Garden of China, and which has been tilled for countless -generations. It is all meadow land, and is raised but a few feet -above the rivers, lakes, and canals, and is a complete network of -water-communication. The land is under the highest cultivation, -and three crops a year are gathered from it. The population is so -dense that wherever you look you see men and women in blue clothing -in such numbers that you fancy some muster or fair is coming off, -and that the people are out for a holiday. Missionaries of several -societies are at work in this locality. - ---A Christian Chinaman at Sacramento, in California, was present at -the annual festival of the Chinese school on June 4th. When asked -whether Christian influence really made the Chinaman better, he -replied:-- - -“Oh! yes, all much better men. Do not steal. Do not gamble. Do not -do any bad.” - -“How about smoking?” - -“Oh! no opium! Some not even smoke cigars. We can tell. All other -Chinamen watch Christian Chinamen. If they see him go wrong, tell -us. Then we tell him. Then he stop. If he did not stop, then he -must leave here.” - -“But, suppose you don’t watch him. Will he be good without it?” - -“Oh! yes, most times. When he is converted and believes truth, it -makes him good inside, he don’t want to go wrong any more.” - -“How do you like it as far as you have gone?” - -“Oh! me like very well. If all Chinamen be Christians, then no more -trouble about ‘must go’! All more happy and good to each other.” - - * * * * * - - -THE CENTRAL SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE. - -This religious body held its autumn meeting with the Second -Congregational Church, Memphis, Tenn. Delegates representing the -Churches in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, were present. -The following programme illustrates the orderly way and the -practical character of the brethren engaged in our church work -South:--“Annual Sermon,” Rev. Wm. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.; “Church -Extension,” Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Chattanooga; “Education,” Rev. G. -W. Moore, Nashville; “Missions,” Professor H. S. Bennett, Fisk -University; “How to Develop the Benevolence of the Churches,” -Professor A. K. Spence, Fisk University; “Absolute Necessity of -Education for the Colored People,” President Magoun, of Iowa -College. - -In addition to the foregoing exercises, the Conference examined -and licensed for one year Mr. B. F. Foster, of Arkansas, a former -student of the Theological department of Fisk University. It also -renewed the licensure of Rev. W. H. Fuller, a student of the -Theological department of Talladega College. During the session -a council was organized for the examination of Mr. B. A. Imes, -a graduate of Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, with -reference to his ordination and installation as pastor of the -church in which the Conference was convened. Rev. Dr. Roy was -Moderator of the Council, and the examination was very thorough -and satisfactory. Dr. Magoun, whose daughter is the accomplished -teacher of music in the Le Moyne Institute, was present to -preach the ordination sermon, and Rev. G. Stanley Pope, of -Tougaloo University, to give the charge to the pastor. This young -conference, which already numbers twelve churches, possesses the -elements of a steady and helpful growth, indicative of a better era -for pure religion at the South. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -WILMINGTON, N. C.--Pressure for admission to the lower classes -still continues. The school is crowded and there already is an -overflow room. Others are knocking morning, noon and night for -admittance. - -MACON, GA.--School opens unusually full, but better than that is -the fact that we have a good school. I can truly say that I feel we -are doing well in every part of the work. - -MARIETTA, GA.--Our work here is decidedly encouraging. No new -members yet, but three or four candidates are waiting to be -admitted whenever we deem it proper to receive them. One of these -is a man who brings a nice family to our Congregation; he has six -very bright children, five of whom are old enough to attend our -Sunday-school. I have been laboring in a quiet way, spending much -of my time in visiting the people, and with better acquaintance -with them I hope to do good work here. Sunday-school is already -showing an increase. Our monthly and quarterly concerts are doing -much good. Our choir meetings are helpful; in connection with the -practice of songs for the Sabbath we teach vocal music, and allow -all who wish to attend; thus far the plan has worked well. Our -organ is our greatest present burden, but we hope to be able to pay -for it at the stipulated time. - -ANNISTON, ALA.--Last Sabbath was our regular communion day, and a -very precious day it was to us. We were gathering up the fragments -of our protracted services. There were seventeen conversions during -the revival, and thirteen of the converts united with us. The -church has been quickened by the Spirit and backsliders restored. - -TALLADEGA, ALA.--Our opening this fall was most favorable. The -first day saw Foster Hall nearly full, and Swayne Hall well -occupied. If the pupils continue to come, we shall soon be -compelled to ask what we shall do with them. Both pastors of the -colored churches here enter the normal department, and one the -theological. - -MOBILE, ALA.--I feel constrained, by the reports of the coming -applicants, to request an additional teacher. Yesterday and to-day -we have turned away thirty or more applicants, nearly one half of -whom wish to enter the B intermediate department, and nearly one -half are former pupils. Some went away crying because there was no -room for them. - -SELMA, ALA.--Our new missionary, supported by the ladies of Maine, -writes as follows: “Have been here one month, and am prepared to -say that I like the work and find ample opportunity for doing good. -I have already called upon every member of our church. A good -degree of interest is shown by the Sunday-school, also an increased -interest in the church is seen and felt by all. We are hoping and -praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and trust that we -are remembered by our Northern friends in this respect as well as -others. I am rejoiced that I am permitted to labor in this cause; -encouragements far out-weigh discouragements, and when the people -of the North fully realize the amount of good accomplished by the -A. M. A. they will be more ready to sustain it than they have yet -been.” - -MEMPHIS, TENN.--School opened most hopefully. We now register over -one hundred and forty pupils, and I have already refused children -for the primary and intermediate rooms. I expect every seat will be -taken in the normal room by the end of this month. Our entire work -has never before opened so hopefully as this year. - -PARIS, TEXAS.--Rev. J. W. Roberts writes: Enclosed please find $1, -a collection which my Sunday-school sends for “Mendi Mission.” I -gave them a missionary talk yesterday on the work the A. M. A. was -carrying on in Africa, and urged them to aid her in sending the -Gospel to that land. The Sunday-school voted unanimously to do it. -Thus they send this as a beginning. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D., - -FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - - -GLEANINGS. - -L. A. P. - -Letters from student-teachers often furnish truer insight to the -homes and sentiments of the people than can be learned in the -higher schools. Ten miles from a leading city a young lady writes: -“This is such a wicked place that out of ninety day scholars I can -get only forty to come to Sabbath-school. I begin school at eight, -and close at half-past five in the evening. Parents think the -children are not learning anything unless they stay in school as -long as the field hands work.” - -A young man, whose recitations in class are always excellent, says: -“I have professed a hope in Christ, and joined the church. The -letter you wrote me two or three years ago concerning religion was -in my mind all the time before I professed hope. Please tell me -where in the Bible I can find the place where a woman once cooked a -Bible in a loaf of bread to keep it from being destroyed.” - -This question aptly illustrates the lack of general intelligence -in the community. It is quite possible for young people to leave -school with fair knowledge of the text-books, yet profoundly -ignorant of everything else, unless access to libraries and -thorough Bible training accompany the regular school work, and are -made a part of it. - -Another young man reads books and papers, and induces his patrons -to provide themselves with good reading matter. Under the same date -as the foregoing letter, he writes: “I have an enrolment of 120 in -day school. Sabbath-school numbers 143. I wish you could step into -my school-room, and see how busy and earnest all seem to be. You -cannot imagine how the colored people of this vicinity are grasping -after education. I lectured to a large audience last Monday night. -My subject was ‘Education in the South.’” - -Another student records his experience thus: “The school had no -black-board, no writing desks--well, in fact, it was not provided -with anything. I now have a black-board, 8 ft. by 4; also very -good writing desks. The children were very much surprised at the -black-board, as they had never seen one before.” - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - -Extracts from the Report of the Board of Visitors to the Atlanta -University. - -For three days we listened to examinations of the scholars -conducted orally by the teachers, and written examination work from -the higher classes was laid before us. We were also present at -the anniversary exercises of the Institution. It is with pleasure -that we bear testimony in behalf of the accuracy and thoroughness -manifested both by the teachers and scholars. We have never -seen stronger proof of careful and successful teaching, and the -discipline and government cannot be surpassed in any Institution. - -The scholars were neat in appearance, orderly in deportment, and -serious in application. The teachers were remarkably proficient in -their several departments, and the scholars seemed to be impressed -with a deep-seated earnestness, calculated not only to advance the -intellectual status of the colored race, but also to make of them -better men and women. - -The practical sciences are not neglected. A visit to the culinary -department showed us that the female students had been thoroughly -taught the art of cooking good dinners, without which even the -intellect would pine and languish. Calisthenics, also, constitute a -part of the training. - -We found the buildings and grounds in the best of order, evidencing -the same watchful eyes which overlooked the entire Institution. - -The school-rooms and furniture were entirely free from defacements -of any kind, showing a marked difference in this respect between -the Atlanta University and most other colleges. - -An interesting feature is the Library, composed of a collection of -about five thousand volumes, selected wisely for the purpose of -interesting as well as instructing the scholars. To the library -there have been added during the past year, three hundred new books -of recent publication. - -In connection with the library is a reading room, in which can be -found the leading magazines and daily papers. - -The future of the University seems truly bright, and a better -opportunity can never be given our colored citizens for a thorough -education. - -We commend the entire corps of instructors, and must express the -confidence which we feel in the capacity of the president, Mr. -Ware, and in his fitness for the position which he occupies. - -In conclusion, we think it proper to dwell for a moment upon the -fact that the Atlanta University, besides the influence which it -wields directly upon its scholars, reaches, through the many who -pass out from its walls as teachers, almost the entire colored -population of our State. While the mental man is being developed, -the moral man is carefully trained, and temperance and religion are -important parts of the instruction given. - -From this College, Georgia is sending out missionaries for the -amelioration of a large class of her citizens. Who can doubt the -wisdom of continuing the appropriation? - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Church, School, and Brick-making. - -MISS M. F. WELLS, ATHENS. - -I reached Athens on Saturday, Oct. 2d, found very little advance -on the brick-yard, the kiln of 118,000 being completed but not -burned, everybody discouraged, young people and children scattered -to the cotton fields, trying to earn enough money to buy their -winter shoes. Of course words of cheer and encouragement in view -of the _great work_ (for them the making of 200,000 brick _is_ a -great work, however small it may seem to those who do not know -their poverty, and the great sacrifice this has cost them) already -accomplished, made their heavy hearts lighter, and in the three -weeks since Oct. 1st a great change has come over the aspect of -things. - -Men and boys are in the woods cutting wood to burn the kiln made -this season; women and girls are contributing their dimes, nickels, -half dollars and dollars to raise a fund to haul the wood, and the -prospect is that the brick will be burned before Christmas. But -you will not wonder that down in my secret soul there is sometimes -almost a moan. How long, O Lord, how long before the completion of -the school-house? - -During the summer the church has kept up the public worship once -a day; a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister (colored) has generally -preached. When he was not well enough to preach a prayer meeting -was held. - -The Sunday-school has been pretty well attended, and is now very -enthusiastic. We are going over a short course of Bible History and -Chronology, in addition to the regular lessons of the International -course. We are to have an examination for promotions at Christmas -and all are striving to complete the course. Our prayer meetings -are increasing in interest and numbers, but we need a minister, -indeed we must have one. - -Two delegates have been appointed by the church to attend the -Conference at Memphis. It would be a pleasure to me, as one of the -appointees, to represent the church at that meeting, but there -seems no possibility of my going, as the school is filling up -rapidly, and the wood-cutters have to be provided with dinner, and -it requires eternal vigilance to look after all the interests in -such a way as to keep the “ark a moverin.” I should have written -sooner, but every day has brought some unexpected emergency--so -mixing church and school and brick-making, that no line of thought -or action was marked with sufficient distinctness to express itself -on paper. But now, things are more settled, all the interests -seem harmonized, and the chaos has given place to order. We are -all happy and busy day and night, bright faces and glad, earnest -spirits inspire hope in the teacher’s heart, and give vigor to -every effort to move forward. - - * * * * * - - -MISSISSIPPI. - -Patient Work. - -REV G. S. POPE, TOUGALOO. - -Sometimes we hear of incidents in the lives of our students plainly -showing that what we have said to them about hard, patient work -hasn’t ended with talk. - -One of the graduating class last June spoke to us of “Labor.” -A letter just received by one of the teachers tells how his -school-house was so uncomfortable that he thought something must be -done. He had a public entertainment to raise money to get lumber -for ceiling. He did not realize enough and footed the bill himself. -When the lumber arrived he asked the people to come together to do -the work, but they did not respond and he ceiled the house himself. - -Four of our girls taught near each other, their schools over 40 -miles from the railroad. One of them had taught before 14 months in -the same neighborhood. The people failed to pay her. At one time -she needed some money and persuaded a man who was owing her to kill -a hog and let her have it. She put it in a sack and started on -horseback to peddle it out. She has an invalid mother and one or -two brothers and sisters nearly dependent upon her. She is anxious -to educate herself, but the outlook is pretty dark. - -Two of them started together for their new field; went to B---- -by railroad, paid a man $5 to take them 20 miles, reached town -about dark and tried four places before finding any one who could -keep them over night. The old woman who took them in was not able -to give them anything to eat, but made a cup of coffee for each. -One of them had a little lunch with her. They ate part of it and -put the rest aside. The next morning one woman who had refused to -keep them over night called and invited them around to see her; -they took dinner there and went back to the old woman’s house to -stay over night again, as they could not find any one to take them -further before the Sabbath. They were going to finish their lunch -for supper, but the ants had finished it for them, so they had -nothing more to eat until about noon, the next day. A man charged -them $7 to take them 22 miles. The Lord sent them some lunch -through the same woman who fed them the day before. One of them -only obtained a two months’ school. She received $36, and had to -spend $13 in traveling expenses and $12 for board. She thinks she -will have hard work to get through the year on what remains. - -In one church there were three ministers and only one Testament. -These girls induced them to buy several Bibles. - -They wrote for the fourth one to come. She went as far as B----and -had to wait two weeks for her trunk. She then went half-way to her -school with the mail carrier and waited there another week before -she could get any conveyance to her school. She taught two months, -and after purchasing what clothing she absolutely needed, and -settling board bills, only had about five dollars. She has just -written me that she is picking cotton now, hoping to get a bale to -sell, so she can return to school. We have enough such incidents to -make a book. - - * * * * * - - -LOUISIANA. - -Indications of Good in School and Church--Revival Meetings. - -W. S. ALEXANDER, D. D., NEW ORLEANS. - -We watch with peculiar interest the indications of the first month -of church and school work, in their relation to the general results -of the year. The first month has passed, and we have abundant -reason to take courage and press forward. Never did a year begin -with fairer prospects of success. Never before, perhaps, have so -many students reported on the opening day of the University. - -The completed roll of the Academic, Law, and Theological -Departments would show nearly, if not quite 200 names. Many -students are detained upon the plantations--new scholars are on the -way, and we expect by the holidays to have all we can well provide -for. - - * * * * * - - -STONE HALL. - -The new dormitory, which will bear the name of our generous -benefactress, Mrs. Stone, of Malden, Mass., will soon be a reality. -The plans and specifications have been completed, bids have been -invited, and we shall soon hear the click of the mason’s trowel, -and the welcome sound of the saw and hammer. If Prof. Chase, who -will supervise the construction of the building, had any doubt of -our joy at his coming, he has not the perception with which we -credit him. Our most grateful thanks go out to Mrs. Stone for her -large-hearted benevolence. The blessings of thousands of God’s poor -people whom we are trying to serve will be part of her reward. - - * * * * * - - -THE LAW DEPARTMENT - -Numbers already 23 students, only four of whom are colored. This -department is entirely self-sustaining, and a fee of $56 per year -is exacted as compensation for the four able professors. It is a -source of great regret to us that more colored young men, in whose -interests the department was organized, do not avail themselves -of its advantages. It is conducted with rare ability. One of the -professors has been upon the Supreme Bench of this State. - - * * * * * - - -CENTRAL CHURCH. - -This church has paid all its expenses during the summer. The -pulpit has been supplied by a young man of ability, Mr. Albert, -formerly a student at Atlanta, and at present a member of our -senior class. I found the church in a good spiritual state, the -congregation somewhat scattered, but they soon rallied, and we have -now fair and increasing audiences. - -The one desire and prayer of the church is to witness an earnest -and extended revival, and I am grateful to be able to say that -this hope seems about to be realized. Three years ago, Mr. James -Wharton, of Barrow-in-Furness, England, visited this city to engage -in evangelistic work, if Providence should open the way, among the -colored people. He is a business man, but an earnest Christian, -endowed with fine gifts as a persuasive speaker. - -He wrote to me in the summer asking if the way would be open -for him to conduct revival services in Central Church if he -should visit New Orleans in October. I lost no time in sending -him a cordial invitation to come, and promised him our hearty -co-operation. He has arrived in the city accompanied by Mr. -Richard Irving, a man of kindred spirit, and next Sunday, Nov. -7th, they will begin a series of meetings which will be continued -indefinitely, so long as souls can be gathered into the Kingdom. -Printed notices of the meetings have been widely circulated, and -earnest workers are canvassing, going from house to house, and -entreating the people to come to this Gospel feast. Dear friends in -the North, pray for us, and the success of this movement. As Bro. -Wharton wrote me from England, “Pray mightily for us.” I pray God I -may have glad tidings to send you soon. These dear brethren come at -their own charges, and ask only the privilege of preaching a _free_ -Gospel to the needy and perishing. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -Fisk University. - -REV. E. M. CRAVATH, NASHVILLE. - -The sixteenth scholastic year of Fisk University has begun under -very favorable conditions and with very encouraging prospects. - -1. The number of pupils in attendance for the first two months of -this year is greatly increased over that of last, although that of -last year was larger than any previous year since the occupancy -of Jubilee Hall. The number from outside the city of Nashville is -thirty per cent. greater than at the same time one year ago. - -The result is that the limit of our boarding accommodations has -been already nearly reached, and the anxious inquiry is forcing -itself upon us, What shall we do with the large number of students -who desire, and are planning, to come during the next three months? - -2. The grade of scholarship in the case of new students is -considerably advanced over that of former years. There have been no -additions to the regular college classes, but four have entered the -senior, three the middle, and six the junior college preparatory -classes. As advanced students are the ones desired in such an -institution as this, it is a source of great encouragement that the -number of such is steadily increasing year by year. - -3. There is on the part of the students a growing comprehension -of the value and of the necessity of a thorough education, and -consequently a very much stronger desire and purpose to take long -courses of study. This is one of the most hopeful facts connected -with our work. It required a wonderful amount of determination and -patience on the part of both professors and students to engineer -the first classes through a college course of study. There was no -public sentiment in the community, and no sentiment among parents -or friends of the students, to encourage and stimulate to long -courses of study. But a great change for the better has been -wrought. The steady, persistent work of the past fifteen years, -which has resulted in the graduation of five small classes from -the college department, has created an atmosphere and established -conditions which stimulate the desire for a liberal education, and -foster the purpose of those who undertake to secure it. - -The educating power of a considerable body of advanced, carefully -disciplined and well-read students, is marked upon all the lower -grades, and especially upon those who come to Fisk University for -the first time. The present senior preparatory class promises to -enter college in May twenty strong. This is double the number of -the largest class that has ever before been entered. - -4. The influence and power of the work done by our students while -absent from the University during vacation or after completing -their studies, become more and more manifest. The reports brought -back by the students themselves, the testimony of Trustees and -County Superintendents, the new students brought here through their -influence, all reveal to us as we have not realized it before, -the greatness of the service the University is rendering to the -cause of education, morality, religion and social life throughout -the great Southwest. Our students are our epistles; and becoming -known and being read by the people wherever they go, are turning -the thoughts and hearts of others to the University. It is largely -because of the faithfulness and loyalty of our students that the -steady growth in numbers continues from year to year. - -We have, therefore, abundant reason to thank God and take courage. -The great concern we have about the future is that our friends in -the North will not be ready to meet the growing demands of this -great work of uplifting the millions of recently emancipated people -in the South, by a sufficiently large and constant giving. With -the experience of the last fifteen years in mind, we can say with the -full assurance of conviction that the call for the enlargement -and strengthening of the University is in some vital respects -more imperative now than ever before. Endowments are needed to -adequately sustain the departments of study already established, -and to found professional schools to meet the growing demands of a -struggling and rising people. - -These must come, or the best results of the labor already done, and -the money already expended, will not be attained. - - * * * * * - -Mother and Daughter Gone.--Memorial Services at Fisk University. - -The Sabbath services at this Institution, Oct. 24th, were hallowed -by the touching and appropriate tributes to the memory of Mrs. -Elizabeth Spence, mother of Prof. A. K. Spence, and of her -daughter, Mrs. Julia Spence Chase, wife of Prof. F. A. Chase. Mrs. -Spence had been boarding in the Institution four years, spending -her last days with her children. She possessed a mind of unusual -strength and vigor, and was somewhat distinguished as an author. -Only a few days before her death, when eighty-three years of age, -she composed a poem on the occasion of the Nashville Centennial -Exposition, which was published. This mother of missionaries was -born in Scotland, and in her girlhood was made familiar with the -missionary endeavors of the London Missionary Society through an -auxiliary which held its regular meetings at her mother’s house. -She was a woman of much prayer, great faith and a sweet and -beautiful charity. - -Just eleven weeks from the day Mrs. Spence died, writes Miss -Henrietta Matson, of Fisk University, Mrs. Chase followed her -mother to the fairer country above. Her death was sudden, and a -heavy blow to her sorely stricken family. She died on Kelley’s -Island, Lake Erie, where the family had gone for summer rest. Mrs. -Chase, with her husband, had been in Fisk University eight years; -a part of the time in the earlier years had been an instructor, -particularly in music, in which she was especially gifted and -accomplished. - -Her death was peaceful and beautiful. She sent loving messages to -all her friends, to the teachers and especially to the students, -whom she loved and for whom she had labored. With perfect calmness -she bade each of her dear ones good-bye, and then passed from their -sight, leaning upon the strong arm, and catching glimpses of the -glory beyond, even while treading the dark valley. - -At her own request, her remains were brought to Nashville, her -heart seeming to turn to the very last to those with whom she had -been associated, and to the people for whom she had labored. So -we laid her to rest till the resurrection morn on the beautiful -hillside, with southern skies bending above her, and not far from -the earthly home of her own dear ones. - -The message brought to us who remain, in the death of those who -have been of us is, “The night cometh, when no man can work.” - - * * * * * - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - -INDIAN EDUCATION IN THE EAST. - -AN ADDRESS BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG. - -It is now two and a half years since Indian students were enrolled -at the Hampton Institute; but I never saw a more radical change of -life than appears in these men. They represent the worst stock in -the Indian territory: the class that the West declares can’t be -elevated any more than the buffalo. If the West knows anything, it -knows that you can’t improve the prairie Indian. - -Crossing the continent twice, of late, I found the universal creed -to be “There is no good Indian but a dead one,” which has been -adopted by over half the intelligent people of the East. - -Capt. Pratt writes as follows from Carlisle, Pa.: “Of the Florida -boys who were formerly at Hampton, five have died; three,--Bear’s -Heart, Etahdleuh and Roman Nose--are still East: the two last being -here render valuable assistance to me by example and effort. The -others have all returned to their tribes, and, with the exception -of Tounkeuh, are reported us doing well for themselves and for -their people. Several are mentioned as specially useful. - -“We have 139 boys and 57 girls, 196 in all. The readiness of -children to come is in advance of the willingness of parents to -send at Miles’ Agency, and probably at the Kiowa too; but there -is in general such desire for education that I believe no great -difficulty would be experienced in getting nearly all the children -in the schools from most of the tribes.” - -The Carlisle School was established by an act of Congress, -accompanied by an official report from which I extract as follows: - -“Experience has shown that Indian children do not differ from -white children of similar status and surroundings, in aptitude or -capacity for acquiring knowledge; and opposition or indifference -to education on the part of parents decreases yearly: so that the -question of Indian education resolves itself mainly into a question -of school facilities.” - -Sons of Indian Chiefs, at Carlisle, are now making a portion of the -shoes, harnesses, wagons, tin-ware and other supplies needed by the -Department of Indian Affairs. - -Indians think. Their wise ones know that there is no hope for them -but in taking the white man’s road. But there is also a stubborn, -unyielding class. There are progressives and conservatives, as -among all thinking people. - -The braves will not fight the people who are educating their -children. Every Indian child at school is a hostage. - -I recently met an army officer who told me that in the summers of -1877 and 1878, five hundred thousand dollars had passed through -his hands, as Quartermaster, in payment of Oregon settlers, for -supplies and services in Indian wars; and that the past summer they -had been trying to get up another war for the sake of another five -hundred thousand. - -Our system of treaties, annuities and rations is an acknowledged -failure. Distribution is without regard to merit, and encourages -idleness among the one hundred and fifty thousand beneficiaries of -the Government. - -The Indians are grown-up children; we are a thousand years ahead -of them in the line of development. Progress is measured by -development. Education is not progress but is a means of it. A -brain full of book knowledge, whose physical basis is the product -of centuries of barbarism, is an absurdity that we do not half -realize, from our excessive traditional reverence for school and -college training. We forget that knowledge is not power unless -it is digested and assimilated. Savages have good memories; they -acquire but do not comprehend. - -Indians are easily taught, for their minds are quick; their bodies -are a greater care than their brains; but morals are the chief -concern of their teachers. Hence their education should be first -for the heart, then for health, and last for the mind, reversing -the custom of placing mind before physique and character. This is -the Hampton idea of education. - -Apply sanctified common sense to the Indian problem and you will -save them in spite of the steam engine and the threats of fate. - -The Indian question has been put wrong end first. It points to us, -not to them. - -The possibilities of sound educational methods are not dreamed of. -The power of mind over matter is everywhere seen, but the power of -mind over mind, of man over man, is little shown in all our proud -progress. That three years’ work of Captain Pratt at Fort Marion, -Florida, is the best illustration of it I know of. Yet he never had -over two years’ schooling, and went from his workshop to the war. -Work for the ex-captives was so encouraging, the need of educated -Indian girls so obvious, that resolving to push our effort further, -Mr. Schurz was interviewed, entered heartily into the scheme, and -sent Capt. Pratt to Dakota Territory, whence he brought to Hampton -in Nov., 1878, forty boys and nine girls, since increased to -twenty-two girls and forty-eight boys. Indian girls lead a slavish -life, do all the drudgery, and parents have hated to spare them. -Boys do nothing till they can fight. “I would send a hundred boys, -but not one girl,” said a chief to Capt. Pratt. But now one agency -alone, Yankton, would fill our school with Sioux girls. Agent Miles -says he could enroll Cheyenne children from the Indian Territory -for eastern schools as fast as he could write their names. - -Co-education of the sexes will succeed with Indians as well as with -colored people in the six largest institutions for negroes, in -which for ten years it has been tried with the best results. - -The death rate at Hampton has been serious but not discouraging. -Out of ninety-six, in twenty-two months seven have died at school -and three since returning home. The tribe, gathered as they are in -unnatural conditions at the agencies, away from the chase and the -fight, without action or buffalo beef, fed on government rations, -weaken. - -Indian students have in almost all cases died of diseases -implanted before leaving home; their friends have not been -surprised or discouraged. - -Chief Wizi, on hearing of the death of his adopted son at Hampton, -called his tribe together and said: “If only one of our children -returns to us with knowledge, we shall be repaid for the loss of -all the others.” - -While this eastern work at Carlisle and Hampton is incidental to -the general educational effort which must be made at the West, -it is, more than anything else, pushing the Indian question to a -proper settlement by creating public sentiment. For a Congressman -to see an Indian hoeing corn, does more good than piles of -documentary evidence. The hundreds of clear-headed, hard-handed -young red-skins who will, ere long, be settled among the tribes, -will, we think, be strong enough to sustain each other and to -teach the rest. They will not return home scared by our great -guns and arsenals, but stimulated by contact with the spirit that -lies at the bottom of our progress. They must see civilization to -comprehend it. - -What is given for them will come back with usury. Not the least -return to us may be the educational methods which, inspired by -exigencies and unchecked by tradition, shall be worked out to -meet the emergencies thrust upon the country by the destruction -of the buffalo, which has brought the Indian to face the issue of -civilization or destruction. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - - -“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” - -Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. - -PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. -Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. -F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. -Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob -S. Taber, Esq. - -DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. -Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -A CHAPTER OF GOOD THINGS. - -REV. W. C. POND. - -_Our Annual Meeting._--It was a very diminutive affair, compared -with that which, at the same time, was going on so grandly at -Lowell; or with the one which, just now, as I am writing, is--I -trust--in successful progress at Norwich. What a privilege and a -joy I should feel it to be if I were there, instead of here! That -is denied me, so far as bodily presence is concerned; but I am -free to be there in thought, and, in the solitude of my study, -to mingle my prayers with yours. They meet before one throne of -grace. _Our_ annual meeting is one of the features of the annual -convocation of our Congregational churches in California, which was -held this year with the First Church in Oakland. The time assigned -us in the programme was from 10:45 to 12:30 on Thursday, Oct. 7th. -I should think that 250 persons were present. Rev. J. K. McLean, -D. D., pastor of that church, and President of our Mission, occupied -the chair. After a hymn and prayer, the reports of the Treasurer -and of the Board of Directors were presented. The principal facts -set forth in these reports have been laid before the Association -at its meeting now going on, and need not be re-stated here. There -was, however, a novel feature in the Treasurer’s report--novel -to us, however it may be to others--which stirred some of our -friends not a little. We have always had more work at hand than -we could possibly do with the means at our command; but we have -tried to “cut the garment according to the cloth,” and have so -far succeeded as never to report a _deficit_, in current expenses -till this year. This was our novelty. Our friends did not like its -looks any better than we did. The President took it in hand and -shook it, at an expense to himself of $10. Rev. Dr. Mooar followed -with another shake, at the same cost to his exchequer. Then good -Dea. S. S. Smith, and minister after minister, followed in quick -succession, till not a shred of it remained, and we find ourselves -now with every bill paid, and a balance of $24.25, which we -transfer to our Barnes Mission House Building Fund. Cold water was -never more refreshing to a thirsty soul than was this spontaneous -and unexpected offering--whether considered with reference to its -_personelle_ or its results--to the heart of your Superintendent. -We don’t mean to give our friends an opportunity to repeat the -operation; but we shall remember it with gratitude and pleasure as -long as we live. Following this were volunteer speeches, containing -earnest expressions of good will and sympathy, and crowding one -upon another in such a way that the time allotted proved to be all -too short, and the only regret with which we closed the meeting was -that so many who wished to speak, and whom we earnestly wished to -hear, failed to have that opportunity. - -_The Chinese Fishing Villages._--It is several years since I first -visited a village of Chinese fishermen. I cannot say that the mere -pleasure of the thing would prompt me to repeat the visit very -frequently. There is nothing in the character of the dwellings, the -appearance of their denizens, or the odors rising from their work, -to tempt one to a protracted stay. But I thank God that I cannot -go through even such a rude and motley and ill-odored settlement, -without seeing the immortal souls of which these ill-kept bodies -are the habitations, or without beginning to query if some way -cannot be opened to pour in upon them the healing light of that -world which needs no sun. - -A few days ago a message came from one of them, by a Providence so -marked that I ventured to think it a Macedonian Call, and to read -in it God’s _promise_ of success. This village is on a little cape -jutting out into San Francisco Bay and known as Point San Pedro. -Mr. Charles W. Otis, my warm personal friend,--whom, with his -excellent wife, it was my privilege many years ago, while pastor -at Petaluma, to welcome to the fellowship of saints--has recently -been placed in charge of the “ranch” of which this Point San Pedro -is a part, and is thus brought into business relations with the -Chinese who are tenants upon it. His heart is stirred for them, and -he asked me if something could not be done to save them. I sent Wah -Yene, our devoted helper at Petaluma, to explore, and he brings me, -not only his own favorable testimony, but the following message -from Mr. Otis: “Wah Yene has been here a few days canvassing in -the Chinese school. He will report the prospects. That there is a -field here for work among the more than 400, there is no doubt. -We will furnish a house free, and I think I can get lumber from -some building for furniture, seats, &c. My wife and I will assist -all we can, though I shall be busy much of the time, but I can add -something that, will help the good work along. * * * “I know so -little of the ways and means and plans of the Chinese Mission that -I am unable to say more than to promise a hearty co-operation in -every possible way. We are very much pleased with Wah Yene, and -Mrs. Otis is ready to ‘adopt’ him, and says she would feel safe -with him near when I am compelled to be absent, as I shall be -two or three times each week.” Mr. Otis goes on to intimate that -he could give employment to Wah Yene for a part of each day, and -assume a proportionate part of his support if we desire; or if we -want him to devote his whole time to missionary service, he will -provide him a room comfortably furnished, free of charge. And so -Wah Yene starts to-day for a month’s trial of the work; and we, on -our part, will do our best to make the trial a success. - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -A SLAVE-GIRL’S FAITH. - -A TRUE STORY. - - “Chillen, git on de bo’de, - Chillen, git on de bo’de, - Chillen, git on de bo’de, bo’de, bo’de, - Dere’s room for many a mo’,”-- - -were the words that came in high but not unmusical tones from the -depths of the kitchen, where I knew Jule was struggling with the -week’s ironing. - -After puzzling over them for some time I cried, “What _does_ she -mean, auntie?” - -Auntie laughed. “Oh, you Yankee! Will you never learn negro talk? -Do they never sing about the ‘gospel ship’ in Boston? That is what -Jule means.” - -“Oh, is that it?” I replied, laughing in my turn. “I couldn’t -imagine how she was going to ‘get on a board’ with her two hundred -pounds of flesh. - -“I’m tired of sewing: I guess I’ll go down and talk to her a little -while.” - -Jule welcomed me to her snug kitchen, with a smile which disclosed -her shining white teeth; and I seated myself by her ironing-table, -and begged her to tell me of the days “befo’ de wah.” - -“Tell me how you became free,” I said, as she resumed her work. -“Were you set free, or did you run away?” hoping secretly that the -latter was the case. - -Her black eyes sparkled, and she tossed her gayly turbaned head, as -she answered-- - -“’Deed, miss, I just runned away.” - -“You did, Jule? How did you do it? Weren’t you frightened?” - -“Well, honey, de good Lord just done helped me.” - -“The Lord helped you? How?” - -“Ah, chile, de Lord just as powerful now as when He showed de -chillen of Isr’el de way to de promus land!” - -“Of course,” I replied; “but He doesn’t interpose in the affairs of -men as He did then. We have no pillars of fire, and no parting of -the sea.” - -“‘Deed, miss, I don’t know nothin’ ’bout your ’posing, and we -didn’t have no pillow of fire; but de Lord done helped me hisself.” - -“Well, tell me all about it, please.” - -“You see, miss, we lived just outside dis yere city. One night -somehow de cullud people hearn tell that Pres’dent Linkum was gwine -to set all de niggahs in de District free, and ole mars was gwine -to run us all down South to git clar ob de proclamashun. David, de -dining-room boy, was a likely fellar; he had been about with young -mars, and could read and write; so he heard de talk, and made up -his mind to run away to Washington dat very night. Any one who -wanted to could go ’long. Well, most of ’em was ready to go, my -mammy among ’em. She said I could go too: but we didn’t know how -I was to git away; fur, you see, miss, I was nurse to young mars’ -chillen, and slept with dem in a room that you couldn’t git out’en -’thout gwine through his and Mis’ Virginny’s room. De do’ that went -out into the hall was right at de head of their bed, and creaked -mighty loud. I asked mammy what I should do, and she said, ‘Trus’ -de Lord.’ - -“Well, we niggers went to bed same as ever, and de house was shut -up. I didn’t go to sleep, but tried to trus’ de Lord. De chillen -was sleeping sound, and so was young mars and Mis’ Virginny, when I -heard a little tap on de winder, and knew it was de signal. I got -on my knees in de bed, and I prayed hard, and I prayed strong. Then -I took my shoes in my hand, and crep’ frou de do’ into young mars’ -room, and round to de hall-do’, and put my hand on de knob. ’Deed, -miss, but my heart was a-beatin’; for, if de do’ should creak, we -were lost. ‘Good Lord, don’t let it creak,’ I whispered, and turned -de knob. Bress yo’ heart, honey! that do’ opened jest as soft as -a white baby’s bref,--that do’ that had always screeched like a -nigger when he’s hurt. I stepped into de hall, shet de do’ behind -me, went down stairs, an’ out by de smoke-house, an’ dare they all -were; but, if de good Lord hadn’t helped me, I shouldn’t have been -among ’em. Bress de Lord! Hallelujah!” - -“But what did you do after you got to the smoke-house?” I asked. - -“Oh, I was de las’ one; so we started right off. It was snowing, -and I couldn’t stop to put on my shoes; but I was a stout girl, -gwine on fo’teen, and didn’t mind de cold, for I was gwine to be -free.” - -“Weren’t you pursued?” - -“Oh, yes, miss! By and by we heard horses come pounding along. We -were nigh de cross-roads where de woods was thick; so we crep’ -under de branches of de fir-trees. Pretty soon young mars and de -overseer come ’long, and stopped to wonder which road we had taken. -They swore and cussed right smart for a while, and then took de -aqueduct road to Georgetown. When they had been gone a little -while, we crep’ out, and took de other road that led all ’round -’cross de creek to Washington. ’Bout morning we saw de Yankee -tents, and at noon we was free, bress de Lord!” - -“Well, Jule, I’m much obliged for your story,” I said, rising to -go, for auntie was calling me. - -“‘Deed, honey, you’s welcome. Always put yo’ trus’ in de Lord, -chile, He’ll keep de do’ from creaking.’” - -As I went up stairs, she began to sing in a high key and with great -fervor,-- - - “I’ll lub my Jesus till I die, - _Hal_lelujah! - He leaned from out de hebbenly sky, - _Hal_lelujah!” - - --_Well-Spring._ - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR OCTOBER, 1880. - - - MAINE, $227.79. - - Bangor. First Cong. Ch. $38.90 - Blue Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Bridgeton. Mrs. Rebecca Hale 4.00 - Brownville. ---- 6.00 - Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. SILAS - M. RIDEOUT L. M. 30.00 - East Madison. Eliza Bicknell 5.00 - Eastport. Central Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.89 - Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Hallowell. Fannie A. Davis, _Stu. Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Lewiston. C. C. Cobb, for Talladega, Ala. 10.00 - Portland. Williston Ch. and Soc., to const - REV. FRANK E. CLARK. L. M. 40.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Woolwich. John Percy 2.00 - ------ - 217.79 - Legacies, Hallowell--Mrs. Julia Talpey, by L. - D. Emerson, Ex. 10.00 - ------ - 227.79 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE $316.75. - - Amherst. L. and L. K. Melendy, $20; Miss Lucy - Blunt, $10, _for Chapel, Wilmington, N. C._ 30.00 - Antrim. “A Friend” 5.00 - Candia Village. Jona Martin 5.00 - Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 97.36 - Greenville. E. G. Heald 6.00 - Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 24.45 - Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.53 - Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.89 - Merrimac. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00 - Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.36 - Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.15 - New Boston. Pres. Ch. and Soc. 4.00 - New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children’s Fair 13.00 - Peterborough. M. R. 1.00 - Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.01 - Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.00 - - - VERMONT, $615.17. - - Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.30 - Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.75 - Benson. Bale of C. _for Refugees_, by Rev. G. - Lyon. - Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 26.58 - Burlington. Mrs. F. S. 1.00 - Danville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 - Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.32 - Londonderry. Mrs. Hepsibah H. Stowell 400.00 - Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.10 - McIndoe’s Falls. Dea. Monteith 5.00 - Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.35 - Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Saxton’s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 - Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd 20.00 - Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00 - Townshend. Mrs. N. D. Batchelder 2.00 - West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.77 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $3,815.00. - - Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.17 - Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to - const. MISS MARY D. FIELD and FRANK W. - HARRINGTON, L. M’s;--First Ch., $25. 85.00 - Barnstable Co. “A Minister’s Widow” _to - furnish a room, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Bernardston. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Bridgewater. Sarah L. Alden, $10.; Mrs. M. S. - Dunham, $2 12.00 - Boston. “Teacher of A. M. A.” 2.00 - Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 - Brocton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Brookline. W. H. White 10.00 - Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 109.57 - Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.34 - Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.00 - Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 32.87 - Dorchester. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., - _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - East Charlemont. Dea. P. Field 9.00 - East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $84.85; Cong. Sab. Sch., $25. 109.85 - Essex Co. “Howard,” _for Brick Jacket for - Chapel, Wilmington, N. C._ 500.00 - Gardner. J. B. Drury, to const. MRS. SARAH - JANE DRURY, L. M. 30.00 - Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.78 - Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Holyoke. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; Second - Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.74. 23.74 - Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. - Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. 817.00 - Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. 18.00 - Lanesborough. “A Friend” 1.00 - Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.50 - Long Meadow. Gents’ Benev. Soc. 28.75 - Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.06; - North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.21 22.27 - Middleborough. Miss E. P. K. 0.55 - Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 118.18 - Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.18 - Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 125.00 - North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00 - North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.50 - North Reading. Miss E. F. E. 1.00 - Norwood. Mrs. H. M. F., _for Indian M._ 1.00 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.00 - Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. - REV. JOHN E. DODGE, L. M. 30.00 - Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.46 - Peabody. Joseph Anderson 10.00 - Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.17 - Phillipston. Ladies’ Benev. Assn., Bbl of C. - Plainfield. Mrs. Albert Dyer, _for Student Aid_ 5.00 - Plimpton. Carrie, Alice and Nellie Titcomb 3.00 - Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.50; - Second Cong. Sab. Sch., $5 42.50 - Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 72.00 - Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.00 - South Middleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to - const. REV. EPHRAIM W. ALLEN, L. M. 30.00 - South Weymouth. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Second - Cong. Ch. 19.00 - South Walpole. J. F. W. 1.00 - Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $132.60; - Young Ladies’ Miss. Circle, $12.35; Young - Ladies’ Soc. Bbl. of C. 144.95 - Springfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $43.25; - First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $39.10; Mrs. - Bowdoin, $10; Ira Merrill, $5; Mrs. Ira - Merrill, $5 102.35 - Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00 - Townsend. “A Friend” 4.00 - Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($15 _of which - for Indian M_) 66.86 - Walpole. E. P. Stetson, $50; Cong. Ch. and - Soc., $28.75 78.75 - Westborough. Freedmen’s Mission Assn., 2 Bbls. - of C., _for Savannah and Atlanta, Ga._ - West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.35 - Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.93 - West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.57 - Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.02 - Whitinsville. Mrs. J. C. Whitin, _for Student - Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 30.00 - Worcester. Piedmont Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $313.90, to const. THOMAS H. HODGE, JOHN B. - GOUGH, ANSON BANGS, C. M. DYER, DEA. E. T. - MARBLE, MRS. SARA PARTRIDGE, DEA. LYMAN - DRURY, DEA. F. B. KNOWLES, ARTHUR M. STONE - and E. C. CRANE L. M’s; Central Cong. Ch. - and Soc., $165.75; Salem St. Cong. Ch. and - Soc., $84.28; Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $58.91 622.84 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $445.60. - - Providence. Union Cong. Ch. 445.60 - - - CONNECTICUT, $1,042.75. - - Avon. Harry Chidsey, to const. REV. N. J. - SEELEY and MISS LAURA SEELEY, L. M’s 100.00 - Bozrah. Simeon Abell, 2d. 5.00 - Buckingham. Cong. Ch. 4.14 - Darien. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega, Ala._ 5.00 - Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 19.40 - Hartford. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, $30, to const. - MARY BUSHNELL HILLYER, L. M.; A. R. Hillyer, - $30, to const. DONALD GREGG, L. M.; Windsor - Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.14; A. C. H., $1 78.14 - Hartford. Calvin Day, _for Talladega, Ala._ 50.00 - Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted, _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 15.00 - Hebron. First Cong. Ch. 6.62 - Hockanum. South Cong. Ch., $7; Mrs. E. M. - Roberts, $5 12.00 - Mansfield Centre. “Two Friends,” _for Student - Aid, Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 - New Britain. “First Ch. of Christ,” $5.59; D. - M. Rogers, $5.50 11.09 - New Haven. “Eleven Friends,” _for Talladega, - Ala._ 124.00 - New Haven. Mrs. E. R. Marvin 3.00 - New London. “A Friend in First Ch. of Christ,” - $100; Chas. D. Boss, $20; Chas. D. Boss, - Jr., $15; W. C. Crump, $5; Rev. J. P. - Taylor, $5, _for Talladega, Ala._ 145.00 - New London. Mrs. N. S. P. 1.00 - North Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 14.62 - Northfield. Cong Ch. to const. ERNEST WAKEMAN, - L. M. 34.75 - North Woodstock. “A Friend,” 8.00 - Norwich. “A Friend,” to const. CHARLES BARD, - L. M. 30.00 - Norwich. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, - Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 - Orange. “A Friend,” 10.00 - Putnam. “M. R. H.” 5.00 - Talcottville. C. D. Talcott and Others, _for - Talladega, Ala._ 200.00 - Watertown. Cong. Ch. 39.20 - West Brook. Cong. Ch. An. Coll., $44.60; M. C. - Coll., $21.69, to const. REV. JOSEPH A. - TOMLINSON, and MRS. NANCY A. PERRY, L. M.’s. 66.29 - ---- “Friend” 1.50 - ------ - 992.75 - Legacies. Fairfield--Mrs. Lucretia Tates, by - Walter Jennings, Ex. 50.00 - ------ - 1,042.75 - - - NEW YORK, $669.19. - - Arcade. Ralston W. Lyman 2.00 - Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher 20.00 - Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. 104.43 - Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., Geo. A. - Bell. Supt., $75 _for a Missionary in Fla._, - and by the liberality of Stephen Ballard, - $100 _for a Missionary, Ladies’ Island, S. - C._ 175.00 - Columbus. Box of books and papers by a Lady in - Cong. Ch. - Deansville. “L.” 5.00 - Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5.75; M. Day, - $5.75; Alfred Seymour, $5.75; J. H. W., $1; - J. A. H., $1; Others, 75c. 20.00 - Madison. O. S. Campbell, $5; Melissa Tompkins, - $5 10.00 - Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.75 - New York. Ladies of Presb. Memorial Ch., _for - a Teacher, Talladega C._ 105.00 - New York. “A Friend,” $2; National Temperance - Soc., by J. N. Stearns, 1500 Temperance - Papers 2.00 - Oneonta. Mrs. H. M. McC., and Mrs. H. C. S., - 50c each 1.00 - Ovid. D. W. K. 1.00 - Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. $43.20, to const. REV. - E. H. MARTIN, L. M.; R. J. Booth, package - papers 43.20 - Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch. 16.54 - Rome. John. B. Jervis 25.00 - Sherburne. Cong. Ch. 85.27 - Westfield. Mrs. A. B. Rice 3.00 - Woodhaven. L. I. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 7.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $5,285.49. - - East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 94.48 - Jersey City. First Cong. Ch. 36.01 - Montclair. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 55.00 - Perth Amboy. “A Friend,” _for Ind. Dept., Le - Moyne Inst_., and to const. PROF. S. G. - BARNES, EDWARD W. BARNES, and MRS. E. W. - BARNES, L. M’s. 100.00 - ------ - 285.49 - Legacies. Morristown--Mrs. M. J. Graves, by - Arthur B. Graves, Ex. 5,000.00 - -------- - 5,285.49 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $970.83. - - Athens. Mrs. F. E. C. 1.00 - Cambridgeborough. Ladies’ Miss. Circle of - Cong. Ch., by Mrs. H. R. Ross, Sec. 5.00 - Centreville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Philadelphia. S. A. Johnson. 4.83 - Riceville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - ------ - 20.83 - Legacies, Washington.--Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, - by Executors 950.00 - ------ - 970.83 - - - OHIO. $902.29. - - Akron. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 25.00 - Ashtabula. James Hall 5.00 - Bloomfield. Dea. M. Knapp, $10.00; W. A., $1, - _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 11.00 - Bristolville. A. N., $1; Mrs. L. M. C., $1; - “Friends,” 50c; _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo - U._ 2.50 - Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student - Aid, Tougaloo U._ 10.00 - Chardon. “Cheerful Workers,” by Mrs. Catherine - L. Keyes 15.00 - Chatham. Cong. Ch., $3.25; Cong. Ch. and Sab. - Sch., $9.09, _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 12.34 - Cleveland. Dea. C. T. Rogers, $50; Dea. S. H. - Sheldon, $25; H. H. Adams, $20; Martin - House, $15; H. V. Wilson, $5, _for Ladies’ - Hall, Tougaloo U._ 115.00 - Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.43; Hannah - M. Paine, $5 35.43 - Conneaut. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Edinburgh. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan, $5; C. B. W., $1; - R. H. O., $1, _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 7.00 - Geneva. Sab. Sch. and Friends, _for Ladies’ - Hall, Tougaloo U._ 20.50 - Green. Mrs. H. B. Harrington, _for Ladies’ - Hall, Tougaloo U._ 2.85 - Hudson. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Hudson. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 5.20 - Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Comings, $10; Myron - Whiting, $5; Mr. Noyes, $2 17.00 - Lafayette. “Friends,” _for Ladies’ Hall, - Tougaloo U._ 5.00 - Lake Co. “Congregationalist,” ($200 of which - _for Tougaloo U_) 300.00 - Lorain. Cong. Ch. 4.70 - Madison. James Ford, _for Ladies’ Hall, - Tougaloo U._ 5.00 - Mecca. Burt Case, $5; Wm. C. Hickok, $4.15, - _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 9.15 - Mesopotamia. Cong. Ch., _for Ladies’ Hall, - Tougaloo U._ 16.98 - Nelson. C. C. Fuller, $5; Rev. R. A. Toney, - $2; Cong. Ch., $1.50; G. F., 12c.; _for - Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 8.62 - Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson, _for Mendi M._ 5.00 - Oberlin. Miss E. A. L. 1.00 - Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 32.30 - Ravenna. Friends, through Cong. Ch., _for - Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 55.00 - Sandusky. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 5.59 - Saybrook. “Friends,” Dist. No. 3, _for Ladies’ - Hall, Tougaloo U._ 4.75 - Seville. Lyman Strong, $25; T. B. Dowd, $25, - _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 50.00 - South Newbury. H. P. G., $1; Mrs. R. M. P., - $1; Mrs R. T. W., $1; Others, $1 4.00 - Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 6.93 - Strongville. Cong. Ch., $10; Presb. Ch., $5; - _for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 15.00 - Twinsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch., $18; Mrs. Truman - Buell, $10; J. R. Parmelee, $2 30.00 - Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for - Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U._ 4.75 - Youngstown. “A Friend,” _for Ladies’ Hall, - Tougaloo U._ 10.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $630.62. - - Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 14.00 - Chicago. ---- $150; New England Cong. Ch., - $125.85; Clinton St. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which - to const. DEA S. S. WRIGHT, L. M.), $33.41; - ---- $12.23 321.49 - Chicago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 - Chicago. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., Bethany Ch., _for - Lady Missionary in Mobile, Ala._ 12.23 - Galva. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., - $13.32; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $11.68, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 - Joliet. Mrs. M. T. Murray 2.00 - North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam, _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.00 - Rockford. First Cong. Ch. 43.78 - Rockford. Mrs. John L. Page, _to furnish a - Room, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., $25; - Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 - Streator. Rev. G. W. Bainum 5.00 - Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk - U._ 50.00 - Sycamore. H. Wood, _for Lady Missionary in New - Orleans_ 10.00 - Western Springs. Mrs. J. C. Armstrong, _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._ 11.12 - Wyanet. J. R. P. 1.00 - ---- “A Friend” 5.00 - - - MICHIGAN. $106.71. - - Charlotte. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Edwardsburgh. Saml. C. Olmstead 25.00 - Hillsdale. J. W. Ford 2.00 - Imlay City. Woman’s Missionary Soc. 12.00 - Olivet. Cong. Ch. 40.71 - Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00 - Salem. First Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Wacousta. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - WISCONSIN, $202.08. - - Koshkomong. Cong. Ch. 9.87 - Racine. Ladies’ Foreign Miss. Soc., $19; Sab. - Sch., $6, _for Le Moyne Ind. Sch._ 25.00 - Wautoma. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - West De Pere. Cong. Ch. 11.61 - White Water. “Friends,” by C. M. Blackman, - _for Le Moyne Inst._ 153.60 - - - IOWA, $204.98 - - Algona. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 3.12 - Belle Plain. “A few Friends,” _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 3.75 - Burlington. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Grimes, _to - furnish a Room, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Charles City. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 10.00 - Corning. Cong. Ch. 5.12 - Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, $10; Rev. U. C. - Bosworth, $9; Mrs. H., $1, _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 20.00 - Danville. Cong. Ch. 5.15 - Earlville. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - Hillsborough. John W. Hammond 5.00 - Iowa City. Individuals, by C. A. M. Currier 1.50 - McGregor. Woman’s Missionary Soc. 14.96 - Mitchel. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 6.00 - Montour. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 7.00 - New Hampton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.20 - New Hampton. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 2.33 - Newtown. Cong. Ch., $15.62, and Sab. Sch., $2 17.62 - Ogden. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 11.00 - Osage. Juvenile Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 11.68 - Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 10.00 - Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 3.00 - Riceville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.00 - Rockford. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 3.70 - Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $3; “Willing - Helpers,” $1.35, _for Lady Missionary in New - Orleans_ 4.35 - Toledo. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in New - Orleans_ 5.50 - Waterloo. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 10.00 - Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary in New Orleans_ 2.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $41.37. - - Duluth. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 5.54 - Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 1.50 - Lake City. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Mankato. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary in - New Orleans_ 3.97 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 20.36 - - - KANSAS, $10. - - Wild Cat. Mrs. S. B. Peirce 10.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $4.61. - - Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. _for Lady Missionary in - New Orleans_ 2.61 - Waverly. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $179.20. - - Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 178.70 - Whiteside. G. W. J. 0.50 - - - ALABAMA, $5.14. - - Talladega. Talladega College 5.14 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $110.65 - - Tougaloo. Tuition, $55.50; Rent, $50; Tougaloo - U., $5.15 110.65 - - - ENGLAND, $482.50. - - London. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., _for - Fisk U._, £100 482.50 - --------- - Total $16,268.72 - - * * * * * - - - FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Southampton, Mass. Collected by Ladies of - Cong. Ch. 18.00 - Westborough, Mass. Cong. Sab. Sch. 24.00 - Westfield, Mass. First Cong. Ch., $12; Second - Cong. Ch., $12 24.00 - Worcester, Mass. Ladies in Central Cong. Ch., - $31.50; Ladies in Union Ch., $13.50; Ladies - in Salem St. Cong. Ch., $10; Ladies in - Piedmont Cong. Ch., $5, by Mrs. G. Henry - Whitcomb 60.00 - Worcester, Mass. Freedmen’s Mission Ass’n, - bbl. of C. - Central Falls, R. I. Ladies of Cong. Ch. $24, - and box of Bedding 24.00 - East Haven, Conn. Julius Morris 5.00 - Fair Haven, Conn. H. H. Strong 10.00 - Fair Haven, Conn. Mrs. H. C Hurd 1.00 - Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle 100.00 - Guilford, Conn. Third Cong. Ch., $11; Miss L. - C. Dudley, $10 21.00 - Hartford, Conn. D. H. Wells 50.00 - Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch. 19.00 - Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Benj. Douglass 25.00 - New Haven, Conn. “Member Davenport Cong. Ch.” 50.00 - New Haven, Conn. E. B. Bowditch 25.00 - New Haven, Conn. Simeon E. Baldwin, $20; Mrs. - Alex. McAlister, $5 25.00 - New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emmeline Smith 10.00 - New Haven, Conn. J. L. Ensign 5.00 - New Haven, Conn. R. E. Rice 5.00 - Waterbury, Conn. Charles E. Webster 10.00 - Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler 125.00 - Allegan, Mich. Mrs. R. E. Booth 400.00 - -------- - Total $1,036.00 - - * * * * * - - - FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA. - - Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional - pledge, £3,000 - London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., £332 $1,601.90 - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, - 56 Reade St., N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - - -Constitution of the American Missionary Association. - -INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849. - - * * * * * - - -ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY -ASSOCIATION.” - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort. - -ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes -faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the -practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, -may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty -dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have -not professed their faith may be constituted life members without -the privilege of voting. - -ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee. - -ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular -officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, -and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, -and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one -representative. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members. - -ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting -and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining -and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and -agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the -transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the -executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; -the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the -missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision -of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually -chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or -missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final. - -The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, -in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and -general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the -diffusion of the missionary spirit; and the general and vigorous -promotion of the missionary work. - -Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for -transacting business. - -ART VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing -officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields -of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor -particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the -known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment -those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves. - -ART IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the -principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain -missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the -agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon. - -ART X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without -the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular -annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been -submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in -season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do -so, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the -meeting. - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a -belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a -Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice -of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity -of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy -obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and -the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the -wicked, and salvation of the righteous. - - * * * * * - - - - -The American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely -related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE -in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane -and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -STATISTICS. - -CHURCHES: _In the South_--In Va., 1; N. C., 6; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; -Ky., 6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, -2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 76. - -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_, 31. Total 51. - -TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.--Among the Freedmen, 284; -among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, -330. STUDENTS--In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; -in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former -pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care -of the Association, 13,000. - - * * * * * - - -WANTS. - -1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the -growing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and -_larger_ contributions from the churches--the feeble as well as the -strong. - -2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to -accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for -the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and -pious, for these churches. - -3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and -missionaries to Africa--a pressing want. - -Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below: - - NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street. - BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., - Room 21 Congregational House. - CHICAGO Rev. Jas. 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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. - - - * * * * * - - - MANHATTAN - - LIFE - - Insurance Company, - - OF - - NEW YORK. - - ORGANIZED A.D. 1850. - - RULES OF BUSINESS. - -PREMIUMS the lowest safe rates. - -POLICY as little restricted in terms as possible. - -NON-FORFEITURE secured in the policy under the recent law of New -York. - -DIVIDENDS made annually. - -MANAGEMENT steady, reliable, business-like. - -INVESTMENTS. Best security sought, rather than the largest interest. - -PRINCIPAL OBJECT. To meet CLAIMS promptly. - -RESULT. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 12, December 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: July 1, 2017 [EBook #55016] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER 1880 *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div> - <hr class="full" /> - <div> - <p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXIV.</p> - <p class="float-right smcap">No. 12.</p> - </div> - <h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - <hr class="chap" /> - <div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - <hr class="chap" /> - <div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">DECEMBER, 1880.</p></div> -</div> - -<div class="wrap"><h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> - <div class="center"> - <table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_385">385</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Dr. McKenzie’s Sermon—Power of Right Principles</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_386">386</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Call for Enlargement—Shall it be Heeded?</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_387">387</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Holiday Gifts</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_388">388</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Review and Outlook: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_389">389</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">What Our African Methodist Friends Think</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_395">395</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">General Notes—<span class="chaplinen">Africa, Indians, Chinese</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_396">396</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Central South Conference</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_398">398</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Items from the Field</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_399">399</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Gleanings</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_400">400</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Georgia—<span class="chaplinen">Atlanta University—Extract from -Report of Board of Visitors</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_400">400</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama, Athens—<span class="chaplinen">Church, School, and -Brick-making</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_401">401</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Mississippi, Tougaloo—<span class="chaplinen">Patient Work</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_402">402</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Louisiana, New Orleans—<span class="chaplinen">Revival Meetings</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_403">403</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Tennessee, Nashville—<span class="chaplinen">Fisk University</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_404">404</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Memorial Services</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_405">405</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Indian Education in the East: <span class="chaplinen">Gen. S. C. Armstrong</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_406">406</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Chapter of Good Things: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. W. C. Pond</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_408">408</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Slave-Girl’s Faith</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_410">410</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_412">412</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Constitution</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_415">415</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Aim, Statistics, Wants, Etc.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_416">416</a></td> - </tr> - </table> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> -<p class="center">NEW YORK</p> -<p class="center">Published by the American Missionary Association,</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p> - -<p class="center medium">Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. 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D., Kansas.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. H. Willcox</span>, D. D., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Taylor</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">E. B. Webb</span>, D. D., Mass.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">C. I. Walker</span>, Mich.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. H. Ross</span>, Mich. -</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center medium"><span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. STRIEBY</span>, D. D., 56 <i>Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> -<div class="center medium"> -<span class="smcap">Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH</span>, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. G. D. PIKE</span>, D. D., <i>New York</i>.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. JAS. POWELL</span>, <i>Chicago</i>.<br /> -<br /> -H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table class="medium"><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> -<span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">C. T. Christensen</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">H. L. Clapp</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. J. Hamilton</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> -<span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Edgar Ketchum</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. T. Pratt</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. A. Shoudy</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="center medium">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the -Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to -the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American -Missionary,” to Rev. <span class="smcap">C. C. Painter</span>, at the New York Office.</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p class="medium">may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New -York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 -Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, -Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a -Life Member.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[385]</a></p> - - -<div class="article"> -<hr class="full" /> -<p class="center">THE</p> -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">VOL. XXXIV.</span></div> -<div class="third center">DECEMBER, 1880.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 12.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - - -<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The publications provided for a household do much to mould the -character of its inmates. If a right proportion of these are -religious and missionary, good results are sure to follow. As at -this season many determine what periodicals they will take for -the coming year, we beg leave to suggest the wisdom of families -subscribing for and perusing the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>. By -this means foundations for right thinking and right doing will be -laid, and the way prepared for the exercise of Christian patriotism -and philanthropy, so needful in the present condition of our -country.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We have word from Hampton that the tide of negro students never -set in so promptly and strongly as since October 1st of this year. -For the second time in the history of the school, tents have been -erected on the campus and occupied by the colored boys.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Dr. Alexander, President of Straight University, is much encouraged -by the fact that white students are ready to avail themselves -of the advantages of the Law Department of the University. This -department is entirely self-sustaining, and conducted with rare -ability, one of the professors having served on the Supreme Bench -of the State. Of twenty-three students, nineteen are white.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The number of students in attendance at Fisk University for the -first two months of this year is much greater than that of any -previous year since Jubilee Hall was occupied. A communication -from Pres. Cravath, published elsewhere, states at length some of -the unusually hopeful aspects of the work, and indicates that the -University is entering upon a larger career of usefulness than it -has ever experienced.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[386]</a></p> - -<p>The American Bible Society offers to its Life Members an annual -grant of one dollar’s worth of Bibles or Testaments; its benevolent -intention being to supply them with the means of distributing the -word of God among the needy. This perquisite is transferable at -the written request of the Life Members. A lady, once a teacher -in our schools at the South, and who has a great interest in the -welfare of the colored children, suggests that in this way the -pupils of our day and Sunday-schools may be supplied with the -sacred Scriptures. We cordially second the suggestion, and will -be glad to receive the written authorization of any of the Life -Members of the Bible Society for the use of their current gift for -the purpose above indicated. The officers of the Bible Society, as -we understand, acquiesce in this plan so far as it may seem wise to -the Life Members to co-operate with us.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>DR. McKENZIE’S SERMON.</h3> - -<p>The sermon preached at our Annual Meeting by Dr. McKenzie, related -to our duty to Africa, and was one of rare excellence and beauty. -It was printed in the <cite>Advance</cite>, Oct. 28th, and a limited number -can be supplied to persons sending us a postal requesting it, with -their address. The closing words of the sermon, which we append, -not only sound a note of cheer, but are fitted to awaken the hope -and courage of earnest Christian workers everywhere.</p> - -<p>“The day of the Lord is coming. The light is on the hills and along -the coast of all the lands. The nations are coming to the King. The -continents and the islands begin to hear His voice. The tongues of -men shall be filled with praise. It is not long; a few days more -of work and prayer; a few more deeds of sacrifice and love; a few -more lives given; a few more men gilded with the towel and with the -basin in their hands; a few more repetitions of that strange and -sacred deed, Jesus washing the feet of Judas. Then the glory and -the rejoicing. A little while and the day shall dawn. We may see -the hastening light as we face the East,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i12">“Where, faint and far,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Along the tingling desert of the sky,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Beyond the circle of the conscious hills,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Were laid in jasper-stone as clear as glass<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The first foundations of that new, near Day<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Which should be builded out of heaven to God.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>POWER OF RIGHT PRINCIPLES.</h3> - -<p>From the beginning this Association was wedded to right principles. -It recognized their latent power. It took it for granted that -right was expedient—that right would triumph. It did not ask if -right thinking and right doing was the way of the multitude, even -of the multitude of professing Christians. Its inquiry was simply -for the way of righteousness. That way it strove to tread. It was -called narrow—captious. Its leaders were sometimes stigmatized -as men of one idea—disturbers of the people—fanatics. They were -not time-servers, however. They had the martyr spirit and toiled -on, waiting for the morning; and the morning came. What was once -questioned if not ridiculed, is now accepted and honored.</p> - -<p>The elements that entered into their early labors are needful -still. They had courage. They dared to do right in the face of -opposition. If mobbed and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[387]</a> mobbed again, the oppression only served -to fill the country with the fragrance of their good deeds. It was -but the torch that kindled the incense. They were never drawn from -a righteous purpose. God was present in the shadows, keeping watch -above his own. They had the spirit of sacrifice. They were ready to -go to the lost sheep—to the despised. They passed not by him who -fell among thieves. They achieved distinction by their readiness -to endure hardness—to submit to insult—to be counted among the -few—to toil with but little appreciation and for meagre rewards. -They also bore about with them a rich and beautiful charity, first -pure, then peaceable, full of mercy and good fruits. It was the -combination of these elements in active operation for a score of -years that served largely to revolutionize public sentiment, and -especially the sentiment in our churches, until the principles -of this Association are accepted and acceptable. The change -was wrought by the power of pure motives applied to aggressive -religious work in behalf of a needy and wronged people.</p> - -<p>This change is sure to come in every quarter of our land, by -sufficient application of the power of right principles. Every -mission station of this Association is a centre from which a pure -light radiates. Every graduate from our schools is a torch-bearer -flaming this light over the land. It is a question of time—of a -score of years perhaps—and there will be no ostracism experienced -by our teachers South. If they can be sustained in the field, -toiling in righteousness; if their numbers can be multiplied -to meet the demand; if the churches will make it possible to -continue the work; the victory of right principles South will -be as certain and speedy as it was at the North, and much more -may be hoped for. North and South will clap their hands together -in hearty co-operation, shouting their choruses in one grand -anthem, and entering in company upon the enlarged work of carrying -right principles to the domain of final victory—the Freedmen’s -fatherland. To gird ourselves for that to-day is the duty which -calls the servants of the Master, East, West, North and South.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE CALL FOR ENLARGEMENT—SHALL IT BE HEEDED?</h3> - -<p>At no time has the call for enlargement been more urgent. It is -strikingly providential also. The political, moral and religious -atmosphere is charged with forces, prophetic of unparalleled -progress in our Southern work. Questions relative to the policy of -government are measurably settled for four years. We can lay our -plans with encouraging assurances. Sound and practical views on -all that pertains to permanent prosperity are dominant. It is not -likely they will be materially modified, save for the better. Our -statesmen and philanthropists are coming to prize more and more -those forces in man which are developed by a Christian education. -The <em>want</em> that is looming up before them, is good schools for -the masses in every section of the country. They voice this want -in their public utterances, and the sound thereof is echoing and -re-echoing over the land. It has in it the promise of expansion -and universal application. Its adoption and elaboration mean -increase of every laudable industry, the development of commerce, -art, science, literature, wealth, beauty, happiness. They mean the -leveling up of humanity heavenward. The tone and temper of our best -men was never more auspicious than now—never more favorable to the -work of this Association.</p> - -<p>There never was so strong conviction in the South as now of the -wisdom of Christian education for the Freedmen. The worth of it -cannot be hidden. It is as evident as the sheen of an electric -light. There is a capacity in the heart of<a class="pagenum" name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[388]</a> man, by which he is -able to recognize it. He comes to do so gradually, inevitably, as -the flower unfolds from the bud, and as the fruit matures from the -blossom. Many of the best in the world started wrong, but turned -about and out-stripped their fellows in well doing. The South has -been wrong, but pour in sufficient light and it will turn about. -We have a right to hope and pray for such consummation. The aim -of our work is to hasten it. When the South turns, it will not be -by halves,—that is not her method. She is already rising for the -emergency. The signs of it are apparent. It is but a question of -time, and the time is at hand.</p> - -<p>Legislatures have appropriated money for our work, and are doing -so heartily still. They act as statesmen, with a view to the -best interests of the State. In Texas, there is a tidal wave -setting strongly in favor of popular education, impelled by the -far-sightedness which discerns that the flow of emigration of the -best sort trends away from territory, however rich and inviting, -where free schools for all classes are not abundant. The value of -inaugurating school work through the agency of Christian teachers, -need not be argued. The call for these teachers is sure to be more -urgent than ever. Shall we provide for the immediate and coming -want? God seems to have said so. We have received $150,000 for -new buildings, in which to train teachers. New buildings mean -enlargement—enlargement means more missionaries, more prayer, more -money. Will not the friends of Christ heed this call prayerfully, -promptly, efficiently?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>HOLIDAY GIFTS.</h3> - -<p>In December, 1869, the late Henry P. Haven, of New London, Ct., -proposed to his Sunday-school that instead of receiving gifts they -remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said: “It is more -blessed to give than to receive.”</p> - -<p>The proposition met with favor, and a Christmas service of -worship with a Christmas offering to some deserving cause became -incorporated in the annual school plans. It occurs to us that such -holiday gifts by Sabbath-schools and households have the following -advantages:</p> - -<p>One is, they afford the young people more real pleasure. The -happiness from rejoicing over the good of others is an exercise of -the purest affection and the finest feeling of the human heart. It -is akin to the blessedness and happiness of God himself. However -gratifying a gift may be to the receiver, nevertheless it puts him -to a disadvantage. The gift-taker becomes under obligation to the -gift-maker. The receiver’s joy in a gift terminates in himself. It -has a mixture of dependence and submission in it. But the giver is -placed under no obligation to the receiver. Moreover, he inevitably -ministers to his own well-being, though it may be unconsciously. -“Every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.”</p> - -<p>Another advantage is that there is more virtue in giving than in -receiving. The virtue of receiving consists in regard for one’s -self; the virtue of giving in a proper regard for others. There is -also more self-denial in giving than in receiving, and self-denial -is the essence of virtue. The receiver has no natural habit or -inclination to counteract, but the giver must overcome many -obstacles which require superior virtue. The more young people do -to develop the attribute of virtue, the more real pleasure they are -sure to experience.</p> - -<p>And then again, God promises to reward the giver but not the -receiver. This is a great consideration, and may well be taken into -account by all teachers and parents. It is a good thing to make the -holidays memorable and happy by giving<a class="pagenum" name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[389]</a> tokens to young people, but -not so blessed as to bring them into an attitude where they will be -sure of Heavenly rewards. Of the few things which God has promised -to reward men for in this life, giving is one. “Blessed is he that -considereth the poor * * * he shall be blessed upon the earth.” “He -that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he,” and best of all, God -means to reward the liberal giver more fully at the resurrection of -the just.</p> - -<p>By the favor of Providence we have ample opportunity to give to -humane and missionary enterprises.</p> - -<p>At this season, when plans for celebrating the holidays are being -matured, would it not be wise for those having responsibility for -training the young, to embrace the time to teach them in their -abundance of gift-taking and gift-making to provide for themselves -“bags that wax not old, a treasure in the Heavens that faileth not.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>REVIEW AND OUTLOOK.</h3> - -<p class="section">A Paper read at the National Council at St. Louis, Nov. 13th.</p> - -<p class="secauth">BY REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D.</p> - -<p>I intend, without preface, to review the work of the American -Missionary Association for the last three years, and to give an -outlook on its future duties.</p> - -<h4>I. The Review.</h4> - -<p>1. We have paid our great debt. This had clung to us for years, -like the shirt of Nessus, scorching while it clung. At the last -Council we were enabled to announce that we had rent away about one -third of the hateful garment, during the next two years we tore off -the remainder, and since then we have walked forth, financially, -“Clad in raiment pure and white,” as becometh saints who should -“Owe no man anything.” It may happen to us in the future that our -books will sometimes show a balance on the wrong side; but we -hope never again to be beguiled into putting on one of the large, -iron-clad garments we had so long and sadly worn.</p> - -<p>2. We have received the munificent gift of $150,000 from Mrs. -Stone. Not long since, our elder and honored sister, the American -Board, had laid on her table a loaf so large that there was -danger that it might be like the “Cake of barley bread” which the -Midianite saw in his dream, that “tumbled into the host and came -unto a tent and smote it that it fell, and overturned it that the -tent lay along.” But with the whole church, we rejoice that the -loaf has been to the Board, by its great wisdom and God’s blessing, -not as the cake of the Midianite, but as his dream, an augury of -victory and enlargement! Our gift, great as it was, is only as one -of “the crumbs that fall from the Master’s table,” most gratefully -received and all needed at once, with no danger of surfeit. Our -children are not only hungry—they are crowded into close quarters, -and some of them have to be turned out of doors. At the Atlanta -University, with accommodations for only 40 girls, 62 are packed -in. At Tougaloo, barracks of slabs are erected, and outbuildings -and garrets are turned into dormitories, and still the pupils come, -so that the teachers inquire if they may put three in a bed and -twelve in one large room. Our reply is: “Take all that you can -accommodate consistently with good health and morals, and send -the rest away.” These are specimens, perhaps the most striking, -but from nearly every school comes the call for more room. Never -before have we had such overcrowding; never before have we been -obliged to turn away so many. Mrs. Stone’s great gift will meet -the want in five of our<a class="pagenum" name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[390]</a> larger institutions and no more; and that -only for shelter, while the increased number will make an enlarged -call for bread. Mrs. Stone provides the homes: who will furnish the -endowments for more teachers and the scholarships for more pupils?</p> - -<p>3. We are just completing the Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas, -with its large and commodious building and beautiful campus of -eight acres, near the capitol—an outpost in that vast State of the -Southwest; thus extending our permanent institutions from Hampton -Roads, Va., to the banks of the Colorado, Texas, and supplying -eight of the largest Southern States with schools of higher grade, -each of which sends out annually its score or fifty well-trained -teachers.</p> - -<p>4. It is a matter of much gratification to us that while we have -been paying our debt and extending our lines, we have been able to -maintain, and even to enlarge, the work already in hand among the -Freedmen. Three years ago our teaching force in the South numbered -150; now there are 200. Then our pupils were 5,404; now 8,052.</p> - -<p>One illustration of the usefulness of these schools is seen in -the great army of scholars taught in them and by their pupils. We -believe, from a safe estimate, that <em>half a million</em> of names have -been enrolled, in the aggregate, in our schools and the schools -of our pupils, since this Council last met, and still the cry is -for more teachers. This roll-call of the school-room gives no idea -of the added work in the Sunday-school, the temperance cause, the -prayer meeting and in the homes of the people. As to the kind of -work done in our schools, and Theological departments, I point -to the modest and gentlemanly Second Assistant Moderator of this -National Council.</p> - -<p>Our church work has grown slowly, but steadily and safely. Three -years ago our churches in the South numbered 59, now there are -73. When we began our labors among the Freedmen there was not one -Congregational church in the old South. The famous Central Church -in Charleston, S. C., was not really Congregational, and that in -Liberty Co., Ga., had become Presbyterian. It is said that the soil -in the South is not congenial to our churches. It must be admitted -that they will not flourish in the same soil with slavery, nor -where its roots still live; but as the introduction of clover kills -ill weeds, root and branch, and not only yields a good harvest in -mowing time, but also enriches the ground for all other crops, so -the planting of Congregational churches in the South will help to -destroy the roots of slavery, give a good crop for the Master, and -enrich the field for all other churches. We are confident that our -clover-sowing in the South is coming to be regarded by both whites -and blacks not as supplanting others, but enriching all.</p> - -<p>5. The flow of Chinamen to the Pacific coast is not increasing, -but the work we are doing among those now there is as hopeful as -any we are attempting. Many are turning from idol worship and -giving evidence of genuine conversion. Such men as Jee Gam, so -intelligent, so modest, so pious, are proof that the work is not -superficial; and the eagerness of those converts as well as their -teachers to extend the effort to the Chinese in the mines, and even -to carry the Gospel to China, is proof of a missionary spirit as -well as of genuine piety.</p> - -<p>6. The new movement for the education of Indian youth in schools at -the East, begun three years ago at Hampton by Capt. Pratt, deserves -encouragement, not as superseding the schools among the tribes, -but as helping them. The sending of these young people from their -homes has attracted the attention of the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a> Indians to the subject of -education more than any other thing that has taken place for years; -and the correspondence which has sprung up between the parents and -the children, as well as the return of the educated pupils, will -deepen the interest. We have aided some of the pupils at Hampton, -and we are disposed to consider the earnest wish of Capt. Pratt, -now in charge of the Government School for Indian youth at Carlisle -Barracks, that we extend the effort into several of our schools in -the South. Gen. Armstrong’s experience at Hampton shows that the -joint education of the Indian and Negro pupils is a success, that -they are helpful to each other.</p> - -<p>With this rapid sketch of our work among the three neglected races -in America, and extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, I -pass to the next item in this review—where we follow the negro to -his home in the land of his fathers.</p> - -<p>7. The Mendi Mission in Africa.</p> - -<p>When the Council met in Detroit we had just sent out our first -company of Freedmen as missionaries to Africa. Three years is -not long enough to warrant absolute conclusions, yet such as we -have reached I give. 1. We are very hopeful as to the ability of -the colored American to endure the climate of Africa. 2. We are -a little disappointed as to his qualifications in ripeness of -judgment and maturity of character, for the duties of a missionary. -Perhaps we expected too much. The white missionary has behind him -the culture of seventeen centuries; the colored of seventeen years! -But of the fitness of the few now, and ultimately of many, we have -no doubt. We must select at first more carefully, and train the -rest more fully. Nor have we any question as to the call of God to -these Freedmen to carry the Gospel to Africa, and we “bate not a -jot of heart or hope” in our work of preparing and sending them.</p> - -<p>The discouragements we share with all the noble societies that -have responded to the grand impulse inspired by the wonderful -discoveries of Livingstone, Stanley and others; nay, with all who -in every age have heard the Divine call for great enterprises in -behalf of religion and humanity. God begins his great movements by -preliminary trials and disappointments; in them only are heroes -and martyrs trained. Persecutions were essential to the success of -the primitive church. Bull Run saved the republic and overthrew -slavery; and our confidence in the Divine purposes for Africa are -all the stronger for the discipline at the outset. He means no -holiday parade, but thorough, apostolic sacrifice and success. And -lastly,</p> - -<p>8. To pay that debt and to carry on our work, with its -enlargements, its endowments and buildings, we have, in these three -years, received into our treasury <em>six hundred and twenty-seven -thousand dollars</em>. If we add the sums received by our affiliated -schools ($283,132), the amount is <em>nine hundred and ten thousand -dollars</em>; and if we add to this the <em>one hundred and fifty thousand -dollars</em> received from Mrs. Stone, now rapidly to be expended, -the total will be <em>one million and sixty thousand dollars</em>! The -churches seem to have had confidence in us, and to have appreciated -our work. For this, through you, we wish to thank them, and to ask -continued confidence and the means to carry on the enlarged work -that opens before us.</p> - - -<h4>II. The work before us.</h4> - -<p>When we turn from what we have done to what we have yet to do, we -are overawed at both its vastness and its pressing urgency.</p> - -<p>1. Whatever other danger threatens this republic, or calls for -the labors of its Christian people, that arising from the three -colored races is, I do not say the greatest, but the most obvious. -The vast influx of European peoples does<a class="pagenum" name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[392]</a> indeed, awaken serious -apprehension, for they bring with them infidelity or Romanism; yet -thus far no overt peril has arisen from this source, for they have -so spread themselves among the masses that their influence has -gathered to no focal point. But the Indian has been an irritant -throughout the whole history of our occupancy of the land, and -in all parts of it. Blood has flowed freely in the track of our -wrongs against him, and will do so until we act like Christians -and he becomes one. The Chinamen on our Western coast are few, -and yet how their coming has shaken the nerves of the nation! -What other set of immigrants, so few in number, has excited so -much irritation—not on their part, but among ourselves about -them? But the great disturber—yet the utterly unintentional -disturber—of the peace of this nation, is the negro. For nearly -half a century the storm has raged around him, as around Elijah -in Horeb—the wind of tempestuous discussion in pulpit, press -and Congress; the earthquake, rending asunder trade-interests, -religious denominations, dividing even the nation itself into two -hostile sections; the lurid and awful fire of war, with its blood, -carnage and desolation. Last of all came “the still, small voice,” -and God was in it. But how little has it been heeded. The wind is -scarcely lulled; the earthquake is quiet but the dreadful chasms -remain; the fires are smouldering, but now and then a darting flame -of Ku Klux outrage or a Chisholm murder reveals the pent-up heat -below! Then as to the <em>anointing</em>! Elijah anointed the kings and -the prophet—giving thereby the grace to do the Divine behests, -whether of vengeance or mercy. We have <em>enacted</em> the Freedman into -a king where all are sovereigns, and a prophet where all the Lord’s -people are priests, but we have not given him the knowledge or the -spiritual grace that alone can anoint him as a king or priest.</p> - -<p>The source of the special irritation in regard to these races is -not far to seek. If a man moves into your neighborhood who is of -your own race and color, though you may differ from him in theories -of trade, politics or religion, yet assimilation and esteem may -arise. But if he has a tawny skin, delights in the promiscuous use -of the tomahawk and scalping knife, and withal claims an ancient -title to the very land you occupy; or if he has a yellow face, -wears a cue, eats with chop-sticks and is willing to work fifty -per cent. cheaper than you can; or if he has a black face, with -the stigma of slavery and caste-prejudice upon him, then the case -is altered; assimilation and friendship are not so easy. But these -people are here and they must stay; they are so numerous that you -cannot ignore them; you must choose between leaving them as they -are, a perpetual source of annoyance and danger, or training them -to become useful citizens. Moreover, they are your neighbors, -fallen among thieves, which stripped them of their raiment and -wounded them, and you must choose between the part of the priest -and Levite or of the good Samaritan. The meanest of them all is -your brother, and you <em>are</em> your brother’s keeper.</p> - -<p>But if you mean to act the part of a neighbor and a brother to -these great multitudes, you have no small job on hand—which brings -me to my next point.</p> - -<p>2. The dangers and the duties of emancipation.</p> - -<p>The nation that emancipates a large number of slaves assumes a -grave responsibility. This is increased if the emancipation is -immediate and the ex-slaves remain on the soil, and especially -if they differ widely in race from the master-class. All these -difficulties attach to our Act of Emancipation; but they are not -an argument against emancipation. The old abolitionists were -right—immediate emancipation was the nation’s duty. No preparation -could be made for the change<a class="pagenum" name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[393]</a> before it took place—slavery -must be supreme or nothing. The safety lies alone in the wise -<em>after-treatment</em>. Then or never, and soon if ever, must the -Freedman be prepared for his new position. We have striking -illustrations at hand. We begin with the nearest in point of time:</p> - -<p>In 1861 Russia emancipated nearly fifty millions of serfs. This was -the result of a ground-swell of popular sentiment demanding some -break in the iron-clad despotism of an absolute monarchy. The next -year the empire completed a thousand years of national existence. -In the joyful enthusiasm over these two great events, there arose a -strong hope of the advent of constitutional liberty. The changes, -however, were few and utterly disappointing; and the issue of -emancipation scarcely less so, involving the ruin of most of the -landed aristocracy, and the ignorance, idleness and intemperance -of a large share of the serfs. And now, after twenty years of -unrelaxed despotism and the continued deterioration of the masses, -the educated people in Russia see no better remedy than Nihilism!</p> - -<p>In 1834 Great Britain emancipated 800,000 slaves in the West -Indies, giving £20,000 as compensation to the masters, but making -almost no provision for the education and religious instruction of -the negroes. The hour of emancipation presented a touching scene -in many places. Slavery ended on the midnight that ushered in the -first of August, and the negro population, engaged in devotional -exercises till that hour, were then on their knees and awaiting -in silence the gift of the great boon of freedom coming from the -hand of God! That was the auspicious era for beginning the work -of elevating this inoffensive and willing people. But the golden -moment was lost, for with inadequate provision for schools and -churches, they gradually sunk in ignorance and superstition, back -almost to African fetishism. So hopeless was the field that this -Association withdrew its missionaries, and at length the British -Government, aroused to its mistake, and after the loss of one third -of a century of most precious time, established a thorough system -of common schools. The tide begins slowly to turn.</p> - -<p>In remoter years God himself became the emancipator of about two -millions of slaves. Even He did not attempt the task of leaving -them on the soil to meet the scorn or the power of the masters. -But He showed His appreciation of their need of education and -religious training by halting almost immediately after setting out -on their long journey and opening a church-school on Mount Sinai. -That most wonderful of all schools was kept there for a whole -year—God himself the teacher. And when their journey was resumed, -He directed in the construction of a portable church-school edifice -in which instruction was continued till their journey’s end. God’s -appreciation of the need of homes for the ex-slaves is seen in the -fact that He had employed gangs,—not of men, but of nations—for -centuries in clearing the land, building houses, and planting -olive-yards and vine-yards for them.</p> - -<p>This act of emancipation must be the model for Christian nations, -so far as the circumstances are the same. There must be no -preliminary apprenticeship, but immediate emancipation, followed -by prompt, thorough, and persistent training of the people in -knowledge, piety, and in acquiring homes.</p> - -<p>I call attention lastly to</p> - -<p>3. The results and outlook of our own emancipation. Let us consider -these, not as is usually done, from the standpoint either of the -politician of the North, or the planter of the South, but from that -of the negro himself.</p> - -<p>With all its glory, emancipation has brought to the negro three -great disappointments.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[394]</a></p> - -<p>(1.) Education was to him the talisman of the master’s power, and -above all, it was the key to open the long concealed treasures -of God’s word. He stretched forth his hand for it as if it were -Aladdin’s lamp, which by a few touches would reveal the hidden -riches. But there was no magic in the lamp; it showed him only a -long and difficult road, that by patient and persevering travel -would bring him to the coveted knowledge. Then, again, the common -school fund of the South gives him but few schools, and those are -open but for a short time, while his own necessities bend him -down to the struggle for existence, and allow him little means to -educate his children, or power to spare them from work in the field.</p> - -<p>(2.) His next great disappointment was in the ballot. This, too, he -had seized with avidity as the symbol of sovereign power—the one -grand test of equality with the master. In two states he wielded it -in uncontrolled majority, but his use of it was so disgraceful to -himself and so ruinous to the state, that his friends were amazed -and his foes exasperated. He showed that he lacked the intelligence -to wield this great power, and the strength of character to resist -its temptations; and now the symbol is wrenched from his grasp and -he is once more helpless before superior knowledge.</p> - -<p>(3.) His last disappointment was as to the ownership of land. What -visions floated before him of land that he could call his own and -of a home that he might adorn and use for himself and family. It is -wonderful to see how much he has done to realize this vision. But -this, too, in large measure eludes his grasp. If he rents he must -pay a rental almost equal to the value of the land; and if he buys, -he must take the united toil of himself and family to pay for it; -and hence his dilemma. If he buys his home, he cannot educate his -children; if he educates them, he cannot buy the home!</p> - -<p>Do we wonder that with the crushing of these “great expectations,” -and with as little hope in most cases of seeing things better as -when he was a slave, he yields to despair, and rather than “bear -the ills he has he flies to others that he knows not of,” and that -Kansas becomes his refuge?</p> - -<p>The Kansas refugees are not the most hopeless of the colored -people; they, at least, have the energy to flee. But there are -large numbers that are content to sink to the bottom and stay -there; they are the water in the hold that threatens to drag down -the ship. Yet, thank God, there is still another portion, not so -large, but more hopeful and enterprising than either, that get -homes and educate their children. These are the ones whose children -crowd our schools; they are the hope of the race; they have the -right ideal—that an education, of heart as well as head, is the -rod of God in the hand of man; that makes character, wields the -ballot, wins the home and works the land! This is the class to help -first, and this is the way to help—give them the good school and -the pure church.</p> - -<p>The emergency was too great to brook delay. This Association did -not wait. It struck in at this point at the outset and has stuck to -it ever since. It is on the right track, as is now admitted on all -sides. Pres. Hayes utters the practical sentiment of the nation, -and he but echoes what Judge Tourgee, the author of “A Fool’s -Errand,” representing the radical opinions of the North, and Rev. -Dr. Ruffner, Supt. of Public Instruction of Virginia, representing -the conservative views of the South, had already uttered, that -there is no way of making the Freedmen safe members of society but -by educating them. To the colored people themselves nothing is -more inspiring and helpful than the kind of work achieved by the -American Missionary Association in your behalf. When these people -recall the little handful of their number that cowered under the -guns of Fort<a class="pagenum" name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[395]</a> Monroe for protection and the little school opened -there, and now see the large buildings at Hampton, the broad farm -and the busy workshops in which their children are trained; when -they remember the scowling looks of the masters in Atlanta when -Gen. Sherman had gone, and now see the Atlanta University, visited -by those old masters—and the best of them—who come away with -commendations so warm, that the state grants $8,000 a year to the -education of their children, when they think of the timid crowds -of their people in Nashville at the close of the war, and now see -Jubilee Hall, sung into existence by their children, who have -called forth the tribute of tears from crowned heads abroad as well -as people at home; when, in short, they see all over the South -such schools taught by teachers from the North, and behold their -children going forth year by year, by scores and hundreds to teach -and to preach, this is to them the manna that sustains them in -their wilderness journey. Will you help us to multiply that bread, -as Jesus did when He fed the multitudes, saying—“give ye them to -eat”? Multiply it not only for the thrifty and enterprising, but -multiply it for the discouraged ones now ready to flee to Kansas! -Yea, multiply it so abundantly that the most hopeless and degraded -may be fed by it and become strong; and then you will have helped -save the Freedmen and the nation, and will have helped win a -victory for caste-crushed people over all the world—a victory for -freedom, humanity and religion!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>WHAT OUR AFRICAN METHODIST FRIENDS THINK.</h3> - -<p><cite>The Christian Recorder</cite> asks: “What is the lesson taught us by -the rapid growth of our sister colored churches, the Presbyterian -and Episcopal especially? That they are growing, and most rapidly, -too, he who runs may read. But what is the lesson it has for us -Methodists? Plainly that we shall put no more ignorant men and no -more trifling men into the ministry. To continue to do so is to -sound our death knell for the future. Ignorant men and trifling -men as religious teachers may satisfy the older generations of our -people, but the younger will insist upon one of two things—give us -an intelligent, dignified pulpit, or we will go where we can get -it. We are already losing too many of our children; nor will the -stampede ever stop, until our conferences stop opening the door to -every one who knocks.”</p> - -<p>This is from the able and influential organ of the African M. E. -Church, published at Philadelphia. Not long since we transferred -to these columns, from the same paper, a similar article, in -which the editor used the high quality of the educational and -church work of the A. M. A. at the South in the same way, as a -spur to his people. We commend his wisdom in the case. Perhaps no -more effective stimulus could be applied. Surely this great and -growing denomination, with its own “Wilberforce University,” and -with access to all of our institutions for the training of its -ministers, cannot afford to put off “ignorant and trifling” pastors -upon the young America of its constituency. They must have “an -intelligent and a dignified pulpit” or these young folks <em>will</em> -stampede. That former article warned its hearers that the greatest -rival of the A. M. E. was the A. M. A. In the sense of provoking -to love and to good works we are willing to enter the lists. And -herein—the helping of the old-time colored churches of the South -to a public sentiment that demands more of purity and of education -in their ministry—we find much of our incentive and of our -mission. Their children come to our schools and soon learn to call -for more intellectual and moral cultivation in their preachers. Not -a few of their best pastors were trained in our institutions.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[396]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3> - - -<h4>Africa.</h4> - -<p>—A third telegraphic cable has been laid between Marseilles and -Algiers.</p> - -<p>—Twelve International African exploring and scientific -associations have recently been constituted.</p> - -<p>—Algeria exports $5,000,000 worth of wheat annually, of oxen and -sheep $3,000,000, wool $3,500,000, and grasses $2,000,000.</p> - -<p>—It is estimated that more than three thousand slaves were brought -to Egypt during the months of last June and July.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Zuchinetti has returned from a journey among the Makarakas, -the Niams-Niams, the Gouros-Gouros in Darfour, Kordofan and Nubia, -where he made a special study of the manner in which they collect -gold.</p> - -<p>—Messrs. Cadenhead and Carter of the International Association -were recently killed near the Tanganyika during a fight between -two hostile tribes of the interior. The Sultan of Zanzibar has -sent troops under Lieut. Matthews, an English officer, temporarily -secured for the purpose, to quell the disturbance.</p> - -<p>—A Sheik has recently transported over eight hundred slaves in a -single week from Suakim to Jedda. In order to evade the law the -negroes are given certificates of liberation when leaving the -African coast, but these are destroyed by their masters when they -arrive at Arabia, where they are sold. The question of appointing -consular agents at Khartoum and Siout for the purpose of breaking -up traffic in slaves, is agitated.</p> - -<p>—There is an African chief named Matola, living in the Rovuma -valley, East Central Africa, who speaks six languages. Perhaps the -most remarkable thing about him is that he is a total abstainer. He -became such from principle and has for many years never touched the -native beer or any other intoxicating liquor. By his aid a church -has been built to which he summons his people every Sunday, acting -as interpreter when there is occasion.</p> - -<p>—The negro Anderson, who has had great experience in travel and -adventure in Western Africa, is about to undertake the training of -elephants for service in Liberia. He has at his command elephant -hunters from the vicinity of the Congo, who will endeavor to -capture and bring to Monrovia as many of the animals as are wanted. -As domestic animals in Liberia are few in number and affected badly -by the climate, this new enterprise is looked upon with great favor.</p> - -<p>—The French people have formed a gold mining company on the west -coast of Africa called: “The African Company of the Gold Coast.” -During the month of August, 1879, it was working actively upon a -large and important gold vein, with machinery sent from Europe. -The results obtained were kept secret, but it transpired on the -coast that they had been surprising. A second company was formed -December, 1879, by the English, called the “Effuenta Gold Mining -Company,” for the immediate exploration of the rich territory named -Effuenta. The gold fever actually animated the inhabitants of -Wassaw as much as it did formerly the emigrants to California.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>The Indians.</h4> - -<p>—Secretary Schurz has pledged himself to send fifty Indian girls -to Hampton, provided they can be received and cared for. He is -ready to appropriate $150 a year for each.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[397]</a></p> - -<p>—<em>Indian youth not revengeful.</em>—General Armstrong testifies that, -“in nearly two years’ experience, we have found no signs of the -revengeful nature ascribed to the Indian. ‘They are like other -people’ is a common remark among us, and is the sum of Indian -character.”</p> - -<p>—A full-blooded Indian chief writes to his half-brother at Hampton -from Crow Creek: “I am going to write you a letter. I never forget -you. Try to learn all you can while you are down there. I wish I -were young so I could go down and learn too. I want you to learn -all you can and come back and teach your brothers. Try to learn and -talk English too. Don’t think about coming home all the time. If -you do you can’t learn much. I like to have you write a letter back -and tell me how you are.</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Wizi</span>—That’s I.”</p> - -<p>—Rev. Mr. Denison of Hampton writes of the twelve captive -Indian warriors from Florida received by him into the church: -“We are not deceived into thinking that these Indians present a -highly civilized type of piety, but after careful observation, -we are forced to believe that, as regards the pith and marrow of -Christianity, they are our beloved brethren, for this one thing -they do if ever men did it, forgetting the things that are behind, -they press toward the mark. One point in theology they understand, -and only one. It is to walk the new road in the help of Jesus, and -they show their faith by their works. They are patient in study. -They are always found on the side of law and order. Digging in the -earth is not the chief joy of an Indian warrior, but Koba writes: -‘I pray every day and hoe onions.’”</p> - -<p>—<em>Bed-making by Indian youth.</em>—Mr. James C. Robbins, a colored -graduate of Hampton who recently had oversight of Indian boys under -Gen. Armstrong, gives the following account: “When they first began -to make beds, the sheets were either tucked up under the pillow or -laid on the outside. One boy was found to have seven sheets, who -did not know the proper use for two. The janitor helped me carry a -bedstead into the sitting-room, the boys were called in and seated -in a semi-circle, and I began the process of bed-making, the boys -grunting and laughing as it proceeded. When the clothes were neatly -tucked in, and the pillow shaken and put into its place, I said, -‘Now boys, I will show you how to get into bed,’ which I did. Then, -through the interpreter, I asked who was willing to try it. He -hardly put the question when a boy who had objected to having his -hair cut when he first came, stepped forward. He began where I did, -and followed every movement, so closely had he observed. No sooner -did he finish than there was a stunning applause. He was then asked -to show us how to go to bed, and when his head touched the pillow -and he drew the clothing up over him, up went another shout.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>The Chinese.</h4> - -<p>—Dr. Legge, the professor of Chinese at Oxford University, says, -“If the present rate of conversion of the Chinese to Christianity -continues, by the year 1913, there will be 26,000,000 of church -members, and 100,000,000 of professed Christians in the Chinese -Empire.”</p> - -<p>—The Chinese government is removing the old restrictions which -withheld Chinese merchants from trading with other nations, and -is adopting a policy of encouragement to a wide-spread foreign -commerce. The Chinese Ambassador at Washington stated that a -steamer, commanded and manned by Chinese wholly, would soon appear -in San Francisco laden with the products of Chinese industry.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[398]</a></p> - -<p>—The Chinamen, who walk over bridges built two thousand years -ago, who cultivated the cotton-plant centuries before this country -was heard of, and who fed silk-worms before King Solomon built his -throne, have fifty thousand square miles around Shanghai which they -call the Garden of China, and which has been tilled for countless -generations. It is all meadow land, and is raised but a few feet -above the rivers, lakes, and canals, and is a complete network of -water-communication. The land is under the highest cultivation, -and three crops a year are gathered from it. The population is so -dense that wherever you look you see men and women in blue clothing -in such numbers that you fancy some muster or fair is coming off, -and that the people are out for a holiday. Missionaries of several -societies are at work in this locality.</p> - -<p>—A Christian Chinaman at Sacramento, in California, was present at -the annual festival of the Chinese school on June 4th. When asked -whether Christian influence really made the Chinaman better, he -replied:—</p> - -<p>“Oh! yes, all much better men. Do not steal. Do not gamble. Do not -do any bad.”</p> - -<p>“How about smoking?”</p> - -<p>“Oh! no opium! Some not even smoke cigars. We can tell. All other -Chinamen watch Christian Chinamen. If they see him go wrong, tell -us. Then we tell him. Then he stop. If he did not stop, then he -must leave here.”</p> - -<p>“But, suppose you don’t watch him. Will he be good without it?”</p> - -<p>“Oh! yes, most times. When he is converted and believes truth, it -makes him good inside, he don’t want to go wrong any more.”</p> - -<p>“How do you like it as far as you have gone?”</p> - -<p>“Oh! me like very well. If all Chinamen be Christians, then no more -trouble about ‘must go’! All more happy and good to each other.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE CENTRAL SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE.</h3> - -<p>This religious body held its autumn meeting with the Second -Congregational Church, Memphis, Tenn. Delegates representing the -Churches in Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, were present. -The following programme illustrates the orderly way and the -practical character of the brethren engaged in our church work -South:—“Annual Sermon,” Rev. Wm. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.; “Church -Extension,” Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Chattanooga; “Education,” Rev. G. -W. Moore, Nashville; “Missions,” Professor H. S. Bennett, Fisk -University; “How to Develop the Benevolence of the Churches,” -Professor A. K. Spence, Fisk University; “Absolute Necessity of -Education for the Colored People,” President Magoun, of Iowa -College.</p> - -<p>In addition to the foregoing exercises, the Conference examined -and licensed for one year Mr. B. F. Foster, of Arkansas, a former -student of the Theological department of Fisk University. It also -renewed the licensure of Rev. W. H. Fuller, a student of the -Theological department of Talladega College. During the session -a council was organized for the examination of Mr. B. A. Imes, -a graduate of Oberlin College and Theological Seminary, with -reference to his ordination and installation as pastor of the -church in which the Conference was convened. Rev. Dr. Roy was -Moderator of the Council, and the examination was very thorough -and satisfactory. Dr. Magoun, whose daughter is the accomplished -teacher of music in the Le Moyne Institute, was present to preach -the ordination sermon, and Rev. G. Stanley Pope, of Tougaloo -University, to give the charge to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[399]</a> the pastor. This young -conference, which already numbers twelve churches, possesses the -elements of a steady and helpful growth, indicative of a better era -for pure religion at the South.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilmington, N. C.</span>—Pressure for admission to the lower -classes still continues. The school is crowded and there already is -an overflow room. Others are knocking morning, noon and night for -admittance.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—School opens unusually full, but better than -that is the fact that we have a good school. I can truly say that I -feel we are doing well in every part of the work.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marietta, Ga.</span>—Our work here is decidedly encouraging. No -new members yet, but three or four candidates are waiting to be -admitted whenever we deem it proper to receive them. One of these -is a man who brings a nice family to our Congregation; he has six -very bright children, five of whom are old enough to attend our -Sunday-school. I have been laboring in a quiet way, spending much -of my time in visiting the people, and with better acquaintance -with them I hope to do good work here. Sunday-school is already -showing an increase. Our monthly and quarterly concerts are doing -much good. Our choir meetings are helpful; in connection with the -practice of songs for the Sabbath we teach vocal music, and allow -all who wish to attend; thus far the plan has worked well. Our -organ is our greatest present burden, but we hope to be able to pay -for it at the stipulated time.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Anniston, Ala.</span>—Last Sabbath was our regular communion -day, and a very precious day it was to us. We were gathering up -the fragments of our protracted services. There were seventeen -conversions during the revival, and thirteen of the converts -united with us. The church has been quickened by the Spirit and -backsliders restored.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>—Our opening this fall was most favorable. -The first day saw Foster Hall nearly full, and Swayne Hall well -occupied. If the pupils continue to come, we shall soon be -compelled to ask what we shall do with them. Both pastors of the -colored churches here enter the normal department, and one the -theological.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala.</span>—I feel constrained, by the reports of the -coming applicants, to request an additional teacher. Yesterday -and to-day we have turned away thirty or more applicants, nearly -one half of whom wish to enter the B intermediate department, and -nearly one half are former pupils. Some went away crying because -there was no room for them.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Selma, Ala.</span>—Our new missionary, supported by the ladies -of Maine, writes as follows: “Have been here one month, and am -prepared to say that I like the work and find ample opportunity for -doing good. I have already called upon every member of our church. -A good degree of interest is shown by the Sunday-school, also an -increased interest in the church is seen and felt by all. We are -hoping and praying for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and trust -that we are remembered by our Northern friends in this respect as -well as others. I am rejoiced that I am permitted to labor in this -cause; encouragements far out-weigh discouragements, and when the -people of the North fully realize the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[400]</a> amount of good accomplished -by the A. M. A. they will be more ready to sustain it than they -have yet been.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Memphis, Tenn.</span>—School opened most hopefully. We now -register over one hundred and forty pupils, and I have already -refused children for the primary and intermediate rooms. I expect -every seat will be taken in the normal room by the end of this -month. Our entire work has never before opened so hopefully as this -year.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Paris, Texas.</span>—Rev. J. W. Roberts writes: Enclosed please -find $1, a collection which my Sunday-school sends for “Mendi -Mission.” I gave them a missionary talk yesterday on the work -the A. M. A. was carrying on in Africa, and urged them to aid -her in sending the Gospel to that land. The Sunday-school voted -unanimously to do it. Thus they send this as a beginning.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,</p> - -<p class="secauth">FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GLEANINGS.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">L. A. P.</p> - -<p>Letters from student-teachers often furnish truer insight to the -homes and sentiments of the people than can be learned in the -higher schools. Ten miles from a leading city a young lady writes: -“This is such a wicked place that out of ninety day scholars I can -get only forty to come to Sabbath-school. I begin school at eight, -and close at half-past five in the evening. Parents think the -children are not learning anything unless they stay in school as -long as the field hands work.”</p> - -<p>A young man, whose recitations in class are always excellent, says: -“I have professed a hope in Christ, and joined the church. The -letter you wrote me two or three years ago concerning religion was -in my mind all the time before I professed hope. Please tell me -where in the Bible I can find the place where a woman once cooked a -Bible in a loaf of bread to keep it from being destroyed.”</p> - -<p>This question aptly illustrates the lack of general intelligence -in the community. It is quite possible for young people to leave -school with fair knowledge of the text-books, yet profoundly -ignorant of everything else, unless access to libraries and -thorough Bible training accompany the regular school work, and are -made a part of it.</p> - -<p>Another young man reads books and papers, and induces his patrons -to provide themselves with good reading matter. Under the same date -as the foregoing letter, he writes: “I have an enrolment of 120 in -day school. Sabbath-school numbers 143. I wish you could step into -my school-room, and see how busy and earnest all seem to be. You -cannot imagine how the colored people of this vicinity are grasping -after education. I lectured to a large audience last Monday night. -My subject was ‘Education in the South.’”</p> - -<p>Another student records his experience thus: “The school had no -black-board, no writing desks—well, in fact, it was not provided -with anything. I now have a black-board, 8 ft. by 4; also very -good writing desks. The children were very much surprised at the -black-board, as they had never seen one before.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GEORGIA.</h3> - -<p class="section">Extracts from the Report of the Board of Visitors to the Atlanta -University.</p> - -<p>For three days we listened to examinations of the scholars -conducted orally<a class="pagenum" name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[401]</a> by the teachers, and written examination work -from the higher classes was laid before us. We were also present at -the anniversary exercises of the Institution. It is with pleasure -that we bear testimony in behalf of the accuracy and thoroughness -manifested both by the teachers and scholars. We have never -seen stronger proof of careful and successful teaching, and the -discipline and government cannot be surpassed in any Institution.</p> - -<p>The scholars were neat in appearance, orderly in deportment, and -serious in application. The teachers were remarkably proficient in -their several departments, and the scholars seemed to be impressed -with a deep-seated earnestness, calculated not only to advance the -intellectual status of the colored race, but also to make of them -better men and women.</p> - -<p>The practical sciences are not neglected. A visit to the culinary -department showed us that the female students had been thoroughly -taught the art of cooking good dinners, without which even the -intellect would pine and languish. Calisthenics, also, constitute a -part of the training.</p> - -<p>We found the buildings and grounds in the best of order, evidencing -the same watchful eyes which overlooked the entire Institution.</p> - -<p>The school-rooms and furniture were entirely free from defacements -of any kind, showing a marked difference in this respect between -the Atlanta University and most other colleges.</p> - -<p>An interesting feature is the Library, composed of a collection of -about five thousand volumes, selected wisely for the purpose of -interesting as well as instructing the scholars. To the library -there have been added during the past year, three hundred new books -of recent publication.</p> - -<p>In connection with the library is a reading room, in which can be -found the leading magazines and daily papers.</p> - -<p>The future of the University seems truly bright, and a better -opportunity can never be given our colored citizens for a thorough -education.</p> - -<p>We commend the entire corps of instructors, and must express the -confidence which we feel in the capacity of the president, Mr. -Ware, and in his fitness for the position which he occupies.</p> - -<p>In conclusion, we think it proper to dwell for a moment upon the -fact that the Atlanta University, besides the influence which it -wields directly upon its scholars, reaches, through the many who -pass out from its walls as teachers, almost the entire colored -population of our State. While the mental man is being developed, -the moral man is carefully trained, and temperance and religion are -important parts of the instruction given.</p> - -<p>From this College, Georgia is sending out missionaries for the -amelioration of a large class of her citizens. Who can doubt the -wisdom of continuing the appropriation?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ALABAMA.</h3> - -<p class="section">Church, School, and Brick-making.</p> - -<p class="secauth">MISS M. F. WELLS, ATHENS.</p> - -<p>I reached Athens on Saturday, Oct. 2d, found very little advance -on the brick-yard, the kiln of 118,000 being completed but not -burned, everybody discouraged, young people and children scattered -to the cotton fields, trying to earn enough money to buy their -winter shoes. Of course words of cheer and encouragement in view -of the <em>great work</em> (for them the making of 200,000 brick <em>is</em> a -great work, however small it may seem to those who do not know -their poverty, and the great sacrifice this has cost them) already -accomplished, made their heavy hearts lighter, and in the three -weeks since Oct. 1st a great change has come over the aspect of -things.</p> - -<p>Men and boys are in the woods cutting wood to burn the kiln made -this<a class="pagenum" name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[402]</a> season; women and girls are contributing their dimes, -nickels, half dollars and dollars to raise a fund to haul the wood, -and the prospect is that the brick will be burned before Christmas. -But you will not wonder that down in my secret soul there is -sometimes almost a moan. How long, O Lord, how long before the -completion of the school-house?</p> - -<p>During the summer the church has kept up the public worship once -a day; a Cumberland Presbyterian Minister (colored) has generally -preached. When he was not well enough to preach a prayer meeting -was held.</p> - -<p>The Sunday-school has been pretty well attended, and is now very -enthusiastic. We are going over a short course of Bible History and -Chronology, in addition to the regular lessons of the International -course. We are to have an examination for promotions at Christmas -and all are striving to complete the course. Our prayer meetings -are increasing in interest and numbers, but we need a minister, -indeed we must have one.</p> - -<p>Two delegates have been appointed by the church to attend the -Conference at Memphis. It would be a pleasure to me, as one of the -appointees, to represent the church at that meeting, but there -seems no possibility of my going, as the school is filling up -rapidly, and the wood-cutters have to be provided with dinner, and -it requires eternal vigilance to look after all the interests in -such a way as to keep the “ark a moverin.” I should have written -sooner, but every day has brought some unexpected emergency—so -mixing church and school and brick-making, that no line of thought -or action was marked with sufficient distinctness to express itself -on paper. But now, things are more settled, all the interests -seem harmonized, and the chaos has given place to order. We are -all happy and busy day and night, bright faces and glad, earnest -spirits inspire hope in the teacher’s heart, and give vigor to -every effort to move forward.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>MISSISSIPPI.</h3> - -<p class="section">Patient Work.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV G. S. POPE, TOUGALOO.</p> - -<p>Sometimes we hear of incidents in the lives of our students plainly -showing that what we have said to them about hard, patient work -hasn’t ended with talk.</p> - -<p>One of the graduating class last June spoke to us of “Labor.” -A letter just received by one of the teachers tells how his -school-house was so uncomfortable that he thought something must be -done. He had a public entertainment to raise money to get lumber -for ceiling. He did not realize enough and footed the bill himself. -When the lumber arrived he asked the people to come together to do -the work, but they did not respond and he ceiled the house himself.</p> - -<p>Four of our girls taught near each other, their schools over 40 -miles from the railroad. One of them had taught before 14 months in -the same neighborhood. The people failed to pay her. At one time -she needed some money and persuaded a man who was owing her to kill -a hog and let her have it. She put it in a sack and started on -horseback to peddle it out. She has an invalid mother and one or -two brothers and sisters nearly dependent upon her. She is anxious -to educate herself, but the outlook is pretty dark.</p> - -<p>Two of them started together for their new field; went to B—— by -railroad, paid a man $5 to take them 20 miles, reached town about -dark and tried four places before finding any one who could keep -them over night. The old woman who took them in was not able to -give them anything to eat, but made a cup of coffee for each. One -of them had a little lunch with her. They ate part of it and put -the rest aside. The next morning one woman who had refused to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_403" id="Page_403">[403]</a> -keep them over night called and invited them around to see her; -they took dinner there and went back to the old woman’s house to -stay over night again, as they could not find any one to take them -further before the Sabbath. They were going to finish their lunch -for supper, but the ants had finished it for them, so they had -nothing more to eat until about noon, the next day. A man charged -them $7 to take them 22 miles. The Lord sent them some lunch -through the same woman who fed them the day before. One of them -only obtained a two months’ school. She received $36, and had to -spend $13 in traveling expenses and $12 for board. She thinks she -will have hard work to get through the year on what remains.</p> - -<p>In one church there were three ministers and only one Testament. -These girls induced them to buy several Bibles.</p> - -<p>They wrote for the fourth one to come. She went as far as B—— -and had to wait two weeks for her trunk. She then went half-way -to her school with the mail carrier and waited there another week -before she could get any conveyance to her school. She taught two -months, and after purchasing what clothing she absolutely needed, -and settling board bills, only had about five dollars. She has just -written me that she is picking cotton now, hoping to get a bale to -sell, so she can return to school. We have enough such incidents to -make a book.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>LOUISIANA.</h3> - -<p class="section">Indications of Good in School and Church—Revival Meetings.</p> - -<p class="secauth">W. S. ALEXANDER, D. D., NEW ORLEANS.</p> - -<p>We watch with peculiar interest the indications of the first month -of church and school work, in their relation to the general results -of the year. The first month has passed, and we have abundant -reason to take courage and press forward. Never did a year begin -with fairer prospects of success. Never before, perhaps, have so -many students reported on the opening day of the University.</p> - -<p>The completed roll of the Academic, Law, and Theological -Departments would show nearly, if not quite 200 names. Many -students are detained upon the plantations—new scholars are on the -way, and we expect by the holidays to have all we can well provide -for.</p> - -<h4>STONE HALL.</h4> - -<p>The new dormitory, which will bear the name of our generous -benefactress, Mrs. Stone, of Malden, Mass., will soon be a reality. -The plans and specifications have been completed, bids have been -invited, and we shall soon hear the click of the mason’s trowel, -and the welcome sound of the saw and hammer. If Prof. Chase, who -will supervise the construction of the building, had any doubt of -our joy at his coming, he has not the perception with which we -credit him. Our most grateful thanks go out to Mrs. Stone for her -large-hearted benevolence. The blessings of thousands of God’s poor -people whom we are trying to serve will be part of her reward.</p> - -<h4>THE LAW DEPARTMENT</h4> - -<p>Numbers already 23 students, only four of whom are colored. This -department is entirely self-sustaining, and a fee of $56 per year -is exacted as compensation for the four able professors. It is a -source of great regret to us that more colored young men, in whose -interests the department was organized, do not avail themselves -of its advantages. It is conducted with rare ability. One of the -professors has been upon the Supreme Bench of this State.</p> - -<h4>CENTRAL CHURCH.</h4> - -<p>This church has paid all its expenses during the summer. The pulpit -has been supplied by a young man of ability, Mr. Albert, formerly -a student at Atlanta, and at present a member of our senior class. -I found the church in a<a class="pagenum" name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[404]</a> good spiritual state, the congregation -somewhat scattered, but they soon rallied, and we have now fair and -increasing audiences.</p> - -<p>The one desire and prayer of the church is to witness an earnest -and extended revival, and I am grateful to be able to say that -this hope seems about to be realized. Three years ago, Mr. James -Wharton, of Barrow-in-Furness, England, visited this city to engage -in evangelistic work, if Providence should open the way, among the -colored people. He is a business man, but an earnest Christian, -endowed with fine gifts as a persuasive speaker.</p> - -<p>He wrote to me in the summer asking if the way would be open -for him to conduct revival services in Central Church if he -should visit New Orleans in October. I lost no time in sending -him a cordial invitation to come, and promised him our hearty -co-operation. He has arrived in the city accompanied by Mr. -Richard Irving, a man of kindred spirit, and next Sunday, Nov. -7th, they will begin a series of meetings which will be continued -indefinitely, so long as souls can be gathered into the Kingdom. -Printed notices of the meetings have been widely circulated, and -earnest workers are canvassing, going from house to house, and -entreating the people to come to this Gospel feast. Dear friends in -the North, pray for us, and the success of this movement. As Bro. -Wharton wrote me from England, “Pray mightily for us.” I pray God I -may have glad tidings to send you soon. These dear brethren come at -their own charges, and ask only the privilege of preaching a <em>free</em> -Gospel to the needy and perishing.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>TENNESSEE.</h3> - -<p class="section">Fisk University.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. E. M. CRAVATH, NASHVILLE.</p> - -<p>The sixteenth scholastic year of Fisk University has begun under -very favorable conditions and with very encouraging prospects.</p> - -<p>1. The number of pupils in attendance for the first two months of -this year is greatly increased over that of last, although that of -last year was larger than any previous year since the occupancy -of Jubilee Hall. The number from outside the city of Nashville is -thirty per cent. greater than at the same time one year ago.</p> - -<p>The result is that the limit of our boarding accommodations has -been already nearly reached, and the anxious inquiry is forcing -itself upon us, What shall we do with the large number of students -who desire, and are planning, to come during the next three months?</p> - -<p>2. The grade of scholarship in the case of new students is -considerably advanced over that of former years. There have been no -additions to the regular college classes, but four have entered the -senior, three the middle, and six the junior college preparatory -classes. As advanced students are the ones desired in such an -institution as this, it is a source of great encouragement that the -number of such is steadily increasing year by year.</p> - -<p>3. There is on the part of the students a growing comprehension -of the value and of the necessity of a thorough education, and -consequently a very much stronger desire and purpose to take long -courses of study. This is one of the most hopeful facts connected -with our work. It required a wonderful amount of determination and -patience on the part of both professors and students to engineer -the first classes through a college course of study. There was no -public sentiment in the community, and no sentiment among parents -or friends of the students, to encourage and stimulate to long -courses of study. But a great change for the better has been -wrought. The steady, persistent work of the past fifteen years, -which has resulted in the graduation of<a class="pagenum" name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[405]</a> five small classes from -the college department, has created an atmosphere and established -conditions which stimulate the desire for a liberal education, and -foster the purpose of those who undertake to secure it.</p> - -<p>The educating power of a considerable body of advanced, carefully -disciplined and well-read students, is marked upon all the lower -grades, and especially upon those who come to Fisk University for -the first time. The present senior preparatory class promises to -enter college in May twenty strong. This is double the number of -the largest class that has ever before been entered.</p> - -<p>4. The influence and power of the work done by our students while -absent from the University during vacation or after completing -their studies, become more and more manifest. The reports brought -back by the students themselves, the testimony of Trustees and -County Superintendents, the new students brought here through their -influence, all reveal to us as we have not realized it before, -the greatness of the service the University is rendering to the -cause of education, morality, religion and social life throughout -the great Southwest. Our students are our epistles; and becoming -known and being read by the people wherever they go, are turning -the thoughts and hearts of others to the University. It is largely -because of the faithfulness and loyalty of our students that the -steady growth in numbers continues from year to year.</p> - -<p>We have, therefore, abundant reason to thank God and take courage. -The great concern we have about the future is that our friends in -the North will not be ready to meet the growing demands of this -great work of uplifting the millions of recently emancipated people -in the South, by a sufficiently large and constant giving. With -the experience of the last fifteen years in mind, we can say with the -full assurance of conviction that the call for the enlargement -and strengthening of the University is in some vital respects -more imperative now than ever before. Endowments are needed to -adequately sustain the departments of study already established, -and to found professional schools to meet the growing demands of a -struggling and rising people.</p> - -<p>These must come, or the best results of the labor already done, and -the money already expended, will not be attained.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="section">Mother and Daughter Gone.—Memorial Services at Fisk University.</p> - -<p>The Sabbath services at this Institution, Oct. 24th, were hallowed -by the touching and appropriate tributes to the memory of Mrs. -Elizabeth Spence, mother of Prof. A. K. Spence, and of her -daughter, Mrs. Julia Spence Chase, wife of Prof. F. A. Chase. Mrs. -Spence had been boarding in the Institution four years, spending -her last days with her children. She possessed a mind of unusual -strength and vigor, and was somewhat distinguished as an author. -Only a few days before her death, when eighty-three years of age, -she composed a poem on the occasion of the Nashville Centennial -Exposition, which was published. This mother of missionaries was -born in Scotland, and in her girlhood was made familiar with the -missionary endeavors of the London Missionary Society through an -auxiliary which held its regular meetings at her mother’s house. -She was a woman of much prayer, great faith and a sweet and -beautiful charity.</p> - -<p>Just eleven weeks from the day Mrs. Spence died, writes Miss -Henrietta Matson, of Fisk University, Mrs. Chase followed her -mother to the fairer country above. Her death was sudden, and a -heavy blow to her sorely stricken family. She died on Kelley’s -Island, Lake Erie, where the family had gone for summer rest. Mrs. -Chase, with her husband, had been in Fisk University<a class="pagenum" name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[406]</a> eight years; -a part of the time in the earlier years had been an instructor, -particularly in music, in which she was especially gifted and -accomplished.</p> - -<p>Her death was peaceful and beautiful. She sent loving messages to -all her friends, to the teachers and especially to the students, -whom she loved and for whom she had labored. With perfect calmness -she bade each of her dear ones good-bye, and then passed from their -sight, leaning upon the strong arm, and catching glimpses of the -glory beyond, even while treading the dark valley.</p> - -<p>At her own request, her remains were brought to Nashville, her -heart seeming to turn to the very last to those with whom she had -been associated, and to the people for whom she had labored. So -we laid her to rest till the resurrection morn on the beautiful -hillside, with southern skies bending above her, and not far from -the earthly home of her own dear ones.</p> - -<p>The message brought to us who remain, in the death of those who -have been of us is, “The night cometh, when no man can work.”</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3 class="section">INDIAN EDUCATION IN THE EAST.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">AN ADDRESS BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.</p> - -<p>It is now two and a half years since Indian students were enrolled -at the Hampton Institute; but I never saw a more radical change of -life than appears in these men. They represent the worst stock in -the Indian territory: the class that the West declares can’t be -elevated any more than the buffalo. If the West knows anything, it -knows that you can’t improve the prairie Indian.</p> - -<p>Crossing the continent twice, of late, I found the universal creed -to be “There is no good Indian but a dead one,” which has been -adopted by over half the intelligent people of the East.</p> - -<p>Capt. Pratt writes as follows from Carlisle, Pa.: “Of the Florida -boys who were formerly at Hampton, five have died; three,—Bear’s -Heart, Etahdleuh and Roman Nose—are still East: the two last being -here render valuable assistance to me by example and effort. The -others have all returned to their tribes, and, with the exception -of Tounkeuh, are reported us doing well for themselves and for -their people. Several are mentioned as specially useful.</p> - -<p>“We have 139 boys and 57 girls, 196 in all. The readiness of -children to come is in advance of the willingness of parents to -send at Miles’ Agency, and probably at the Kiowa too; but there -is in general such desire for education that I believe no great -difficulty would be experienced in getting nearly all the children -in the schools from most of the tribes.”</p> - -<p>The Carlisle School was established by an act of Congress, -accompanied by an official report from which I extract as follows:</p> - -<p>“Experience has shown that Indian children do not differ from -white children of similar status and surroundings, in aptitude or -capacity for acquiring knowledge; and opposition or indifference -to education on the part of parents decreases yearly: so that the -question of Indian education resolves itself mainly into a question -of school facilities.”</p> - -<p>Sons of Indian Chiefs, at Carlisle, are now making a portion of the -shoes, harnesses, wagons, tin-ware and other supplies needed by the -Department of Indian Affairs.</p> - -<p>Indians think. Their wise ones know that there is no hope for them -but in taking the white man’s road. But there is also a stubborn, -unyielding class.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[407]</a> There are progressives and conservatives, as -among all thinking people.</p> - -<p>The braves will not fight the people who are educating their -children. Every Indian child at school is a hostage.</p> - -<p>I recently met an army officer who told me that in the summers of -1877 and 1878, five hundred thousand dollars had passed through -his hands, as Quartermaster, in payment of Oregon settlers, for -supplies and services in Indian wars; and that the past summer they -had been trying to get up another war for the sake of another five -hundred thousand.</p> - -<p>Our system of treaties, annuities and rations is an acknowledged -failure. Distribution is without regard to merit, and encourages -idleness among the one hundred and fifty thousand beneficiaries of -the Government.</p> - -<p>The Indians are grown-up children; we are a thousand years ahead -of them in the line of development. Progress is measured by -development. Education is not progress but is a means of it. A -brain full of book knowledge, whose physical basis is the product -of centuries of barbarism, is an absurdity that we do not half -realize, from our excessive traditional reverence for school and -college training. We forget that knowledge is not power unless -it is digested and assimilated. Savages have good memories; they -acquire but do not comprehend.</p> - -<p>Indians are easily taught, for their minds are quick; their bodies -are a greater care than their brains; but morals are the chief -concern of their teachers. Hence their education should be first -for the heart, then for health, and last for the mind, reversing -the custom of placing mind before physique and character. This is -the Hampton idea of education.</p> - -<p>Apply sanctified common sense to the Indian problem and you will -save them in spite of the steam engine and the threats of fate.</p> - -<p>The Indian question has been put wrong end first. It points to us, -not to them.</p> - -<p>The possibilities of sound educational methods are not dreamed of. -The power of mind over matter is everywhere seen, but the power of -mind over mind, of man over man, is little shown in all our proud -progress. That three years’ work of Captain Pratt at Fort Marion, -Florida, is the best illustration of it I know of. Yet he never had -over two years’ schooling, and went from his workshop to the war. -Work for the ex-captives was so encouraging, the need of educated -Indian girls so obvious, that resolving to push our effort further, -Mr. Schurz was interviewed, entered heartily into the scheme, and -sent Capt. Pratt to Dakota Territory, whence he brought to Hampton -in Nov., 1878, forty boys and nine girls, since increased to -twenty-two girls and forty-eight boys. Indian girls lead a slavish -life, do all the drudgery, and parents have hated to spare them. -Boys do nothing till they can fight. “I would send a hundred boys, -but not one girl,” said a chief to Capt. Pratt. But now one agency -alone, Yankton, would fill our school with Sioux girls. Agent Miles -says he could enroll Cheyenne children from the Indian Territory -for eastern schools as fast as he could write their names.</p> - -<p>Co-education of the sexes will succeed with Indians as well as with -colored people in the six largest institutions for negroes, in -which for ten years it has been tried with the best results.</p> - -<p>The death rate at Hampton has been serious but not discouraging. -Out of ninety-six, in twenty-two months seven have died at school -and three since returning home. The tribe, gathered as they are in -unnatural conditions at the agencies, away from the chase and the -fight, without action or buffalo beef, fed on government rations, -weaken.</p> - -<p>Indian students have in almost all<a class="pagenum" name="Page_408" id="Page_408">[408]</a> cases died of diseases -implanted before leaving home; their friends have not been -surprised or discouraged.</p> - -<p>Chief Wizi, on hearing of the death of his adopted son at Hampton, -called his tribe together and said: “If only one of our children -returns to us with knowledge, we shall be repaid for the loss of -all the others.”</p> - -<p>While this eastern work at Carlisle and Hampton is incidental to -the general educational effort which must be made at the West, -it is, more than anything else, pushing the Indian question to a -proper settlement by creating public sentiment. For a Congressman -to see an Indian hoeing corn, does more good than piles of -documentary evidence. The hundreds of clear-headed, hard-handed -young red-skins who will, ere long, be settled among the tribes, -will, we think, be strong enough to sustain each other and to -teach the rest. They will not return home scared by our great -guns and arsenals, but stimulated by contact with the spirit that -lies at the bottom of our progress. They must see civilization to -comprehend it.</p> - -<p>What is given for them will come back with usury. Not the least -return to us may be the educational methods which, inspired by -exigencies and unchecked by tradition, shall be worked out to -meet the emergencies thrust upon the country by the destruction -of the buffalo, which has brought the Indian to face the issue of -civilization or destruction.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<p class="section">Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D. -<span class="smcap">Vice-Presidents</span>: Rev. A. L. Stone, D.D., Thomas 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.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, -Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. -John Kimball.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. -Palache, Esq.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>A CHAPTER OF GOOD THINGS.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND.</p> - -<p><i>Our Annual Meeting.</i>—It was a very diminutive affair, compared -with that which, at the same time, was going on so grandly at -Lowell; or with the one which, just now, as I am writing, is—I -trust—in successful progress at Norwich. What a privilege and a -joy I should feel it to be if I were there, instead of here! That -is denied me, so far as bodily presence is concerned; but I am -free to be there in thought, and, in the solitude of my study, -to mingle my prayers with yours. They meet before one throne of -grace. <em>Our</em> annual meeting is one of the features of the annual -convocation of our Congregational churches in California, which was -held this year with the First Church in Oakland. The time assigned -us in the programme was from 10:45 to 12:30 on Thursday, Oct. 7th. -I should think that 250 persons were present. Rev. J. K. McLean, -D.D., pastor of that church, and President of our Mission, occupied -the chair. After a hymn and prayer, the reports of the Treasurer -and of the Board of Directors were presented. The principal facts -set forth in these reports have been laid before the Association -at its meeting now going on, and need not be re-stated here. There -was, however, a novel feature in the Treasurer’s report—novel -to us, however it may be to others—which stirred some of our -friends not a little. We have always had more work at hand than -we<a class="pagenum" name="Page_409" id="Page_409">[409]</a> could possibly do with the means at our command; but we have -tried to “cut the garment according to the cloth,” and have so -far succeeded as never to report a <em>deficit</em>, in current expenses -till this year. This was our novelty. Our friends did not like its -looks any better than we did. The President took it in hand and -shook it, at an expense to himself of $10. Rev. Dr. Mooar followed -with another shake, at the same cost to his exchequer. Then good -Dea. S. S. Smith, and minister after minister, followed in quick -succession, till not a shred of it remained, and we find ourselves -now with every bill paid, and a balance of $24.25, which we -transfer to our Barnes Mission House Building Fund. Cold water was -never more refreshing to a thirsty soul than was this spontaneous -and unexpected offering—whether considered with reference to its -<i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">personelle</i> or its results—to the heart of your Superintendent. -We don’t mean to give our friends an opportunity to repeat the -operation; but we shall remember it with gratitude and pleasure as -long as we live. Following this were volunteer speeches, containing -earnest expressions of good will and sympathy, and crowding one -upon another in such a way that the time allotted proved to be all -too short, and the only regret with which we closed the meeting was -that so many who wished to speak, and whom we earnestly wished to -hear, failed to have that opportunity.</p> - -<p><i>The Chinese Fishing Villages.</i>—It is several years since I first -visited a village of Chinese fishermen. I cannot say that the mere -pleasure of the thing would prompt me to repeat the visit very -frequently. There is nothing in the character of the dwellings, the -appearance of their denizens, or the odors rising from their work, -to tempt one to a protracted stay. But I thank God that I cannot -go through even such a rude and motley and ill-odored settlement, -without seeing the immortal souls of which these ill-kept bodies -are the habitations, or without beginning to query if some way -cannot be opened to pour in upon them the healing light of that -world which needs no sun.</p> - -<p>A few days ago a message came from one of them, by a Providence so -marked that I ventured to think it a Macedonian Call, and to read -in it God’s <em>promise</em> of success. This village is on a little cape -jutting out into San Francisco Bay and known as Point San Pedro. -Mr. Charles W. Otis, my warm personal friend,—whom, with his -excellent wife, it was my privilege many years ago, while pastor -at Petaluma, to welcome to the fellowship of saints—has recently -been placed in charge of the “ranch” of which this Point San Pedro -is a part, and is thus brought into business relations with the -Chinese who are tenants upon it. His heart is stirred for them, and -he asked me if something could not be done to save them. I sent Wah -Yene, our devoted helper at Petaluma, to explore, and he brings me, -not only his own favorable testimony, but the following message -from Mr. Otis: “Wah Yene has been here a few days canvassing in -the Chinese school. He will report the prospects. That there is a -field here for work among the more than 400, there is no doubt. -We will furnish a house free, and I think I can get lumber from -some building for furniture, seats, &c. My wife and I will assist -all we can, though I shall be busy much of the time, but I can add -something that, will help the good work along. * * * “I know so -little of the ways and means and plans of the Chinese Mission that -I am unable to say more than to promise a hearty co-operation in -every possible way. We are very much pleased with Wah Yene, and -Mrs. Otis is ready to ‘adopt’ him, and says she would feel safe -with him near when I am compelled to be absent, as I shall be two -or three times each week.” Mr. Otis goes on to intimate that he -could give employment<a class="pagenum" name="Page_410" id="Page_410">[410]</a> to Wah Yene for a part of each day, and -assume a proportionate part of his support if we desire; or if we -want him to devote his whole time to missionary service, he will -provide him a room comfortably furnished, free of charge. And so -Wah Yene starts to-day for a month’s trial of the work; and we, on -our part, will do our best to make the trial a success.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>A SLAVE-GIRL’S FAITH.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">A TRUE STORY.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“Chillen, git on de bo’de,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Chillen, git on de bo’de,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Chillen, git on de bo’de, bo’de, bo’de,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dere’s room for many a mo’,”—<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>were the words that came in high but not unmusical tones from the -depths of the kitchen, where I knew Jule was struggling with the -week’s ironing.</p> - -<p>After puzzling over them for some time I cried, “What <em>does</em> she -mean, auntie?”</p> - -<p>Auntie laughed. “Oh, you Yankee! Will you never learn negro talk? -Do they never sing about the ‘gospel ship’ in Boston? That is what -Jule means.”</p> - -<p>“Oh, is that it?” I replied, laughing in my turn. “I couldn’t -imagine how she was going to ‘get on a board’ with her two hundred -pounds of flesh.</p> - -<p>“I’m tired of sewing: I guess I’ll go down and talk to her a little -while.”</p> - -<p>Jule welcomed me to her snug kitchen, with a smile which disclosed -her shining white teeth; and I seated myself by her ironing-table, -and begged her to tell me of the days “befo’ de wah.”</p> - -<p>“Tell me how you became free,” I said, as she resumed her work. -“Were you set free, or did you run away?” hoping secretly that the -latter was the case.</p> - -<p>Her black eyes sparkled, and she tossed her gayly turbaned head, as -she answered—</p> - -<p>“’Deed, miss, I just runned away.”</p> - -<p>“You did, Jule? How did you do it? Weren’t you frightened?”</p> - -<p>“Well, honey, de good Lord just done helped me.”</p> - -<p>“The Lord helped you? How?”</p> - -<p>“Ah, chile, de Lord just as powerful now as when He showed de -chillen of Isr’el de way to de promus land!”</p> - -<p>“Of course,” I replied; “but He doesn’t interpose in the affairs of -men as He did then. We have no pillars of fire, and no parting of -the sea.”</p> - -<p>“‘Deed, miss, I don’t know nothin’ ’bout your ’posing, and we -didn’t have no pillow of fire; but de Lord done helped me hisself.”</p> - -<p>“Well, tell me all about it, please.”</p> - -<p>“You see, miss, we lived just outside dis yere city. One night -somehow de cullud people hearn tell that Pres’dent Linkum was gwine -to set all de niggahs in de District free, and ole mars was gwine -to run us all down South to git clar ob de proclamashun. David, de -dining-room boy, was a likely fellar; he had been about with young -mars, and could read and write; so he heard de talk, and made up -his mind to run away to Washington dat very night. Any one who -wanted to could go ’long. Well, most of ’em was ready to go, my -mammy among ’em. She said I could go too: but we didn’t know how -I was to git away; fur, you see, miss, I was nurse to young mars’ -chillen, and slept with dem in a room that you couldn’t git out’en -’thout gwine through his and Mis’ Virginny’s room. De do’ that went -out into the hall was right at de head of their bed, and creaked -mighty loud. I asked mammy what I should do, and she said, ‘Trus’ -de Lord.’</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a></p> - -<p>“Well, we niggers went to bed same as ever, and de house was shut -up. I didn’t go to sleep, but tried to trus’ de Lord. De chillen -was sleeping sound, and so was young mars and Mis’ Virginny, when I -heard a little tap on de winder, and knew it was de signal. I got -on my knees in de bed, and I prayed hard, and I prayed strong. Then -I took my shoes in my hand, and crep’ frou de do’ into young mars’ -room, and round to de hall-do’, and put my hand on de knob. ’Deed, -miss, but my heart was a-beatin’; for, if de do’ should creak, we -were lost. ‘Good Lord, don’t let it creak,’ I whispered, and turned -de knob. Bress yo’ heart, honey! that do’ opened jest as soft as -a white baby’s bref,—that do’ that had always screeched like a -nigger when he’s hurt. I stepped into de hall, shet de do’ behind -me, went down stairs, an’ out by de smoke-house, an’ dare they all -were; but, if de good Lord hadn’t helped me, I shouldn’t have been -among ’em. Bress de Lord! Hallelujah!”</p> - -<p>“But what did you do after you got to the smoke-house?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“Oh, I was de las’ one; so we started right off. It was snowing, -and I couldn’t stop to put on my shoes; but I was a stout girl, -gwine on fo’teen, and didn’t mind de cold, for I was gwine to be -free.”</p> - -<p>“Weren’t you pursued?”</p> - -<p>“Oh, yes, miss! By and by we heard horses come pounding along. We -were nigh de cross-roads where de woods was thick; so we crep’ -under de branches of de fir-trees. Pretty soon young mars and de -overseer come ’long, and stopped to wonder which road we had taken. -They swore and cussed right smart for a while, and then took de -aqueduct road to Georgetown. When they had been gone a little -while, we crep’ out, and took de other road that led all ’round -’cross de creek to Washington. ’Bout morning we saw de Yankee -tents, and at noon we was free, bress de Lord!”</p> - -<p>“Well, Jule, I’m much obliged for your story,” I said, rising to -go, for auntie was calling me.</p> - -<p>“‘Deed, honey, you’s welcome. Always put yo’ trus’ in de Lord, -chile, He’ll keep de do’ from creaking.’”</p> - -<p>As I went up stairs, she began to sing in a high key and with great -fervor,—</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“I’ll lub my Jesus till I die,<br /></span> -<span class="i12"><em>Hal</em>lelujah!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He leaned from out de hebbenly sky,<br /></span> -<span class="i12"><em>Hal</em>lelujah!”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p class="right">—<cite>Well-Spring.</cite></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="center large">FOR OCTOBER, 1880.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $227.79.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">$38.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blue Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeton. Mrs. Rebecca Hale</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brownville. ——</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. -<span class="smcap">Silas M. Rideout</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Madison. Eliza Bicknell</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eastport. Central Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.89</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hallowell. Fannie A. Davis, <i>Stu. Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lewiston. C. C. Cobb, for Talladega, Ala.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. Williston Ch. and Soc., to -const <span class="smcap">Rev. Frank E. Clark</span>. L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woolwich. John Percy</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">217.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Legacies, Hallowell—Mrs. Julia Talpey, by -L. D. Emerson, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">227.79</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE $316.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. L. and L. K. Melendy, $20; Miss -Lucy Blunt, $10, <i>for Chapel, Wilmington, -N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Antrim. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Candia Village. Jona Martin</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">97.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. E. G. Heald</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.53</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hollis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.89</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Merrimac. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Boston. Pres. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children’s -Fair</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peterborough. M. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_412" id="Page_412">[412]</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $615.17.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benson. Bale of C. <i>for Refugees</i>, by Rev. G. Lyon.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. F. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Londonderry. Mrs. Hepsibah H. Stowell</td> -<td class="ramt">400.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McIndoe’s Falls. Dea. Monteith</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saxton’s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townshend. Mrs. N. D. Batchelder</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.77</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $3,815.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to -const. <span class="smcap">Miss Mary D. Field</span> and <span class="smcap">Frank -W. Harrington</span>, L. M’s;—First Ch., $25.</td> -<td class="ramt">85.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barnstable Co. “A Minister’s Widow” <i>to -furnish a room, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bernardston. Orthodox Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Sarah L. Alden, $10.; Mrs. M. -S. Dunham, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. “Teacher of A. M. A.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brocton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. W. H. White</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">109.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Charlemont. Dea. P. Field</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$84.85; Cong. Sab. Sch., $25.</td> -<td class="ramt">109.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Essex Co. “Howard,” <i>for Brick Jacket for -Chapel, Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gardner. J. B. Drury, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Sarah -Jane Drury</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holyoke. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; -Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.74.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">817.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lanesborough. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Long Meadow. Gents’ Benev. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.06; -North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.21</td> -<td class="ramt">22.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middleborough. Miss E. P. K.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">118.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">125.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Reading. Miss E. F. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwood. Mrs. H. M. F., <i>for Indian M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. John E. Dodge</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. Joseph Anderson</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phillipston. Ladies’ Benev. Assn., Bbl of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Mrs. Albert Dyer, <i>for Student -Aid</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plimpton. Carrie, Alice and Nellie Titcomb</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.50; -Second Cong. Sab. Sch., $5</td> -<td class="ramt">42.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">72.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Middleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., -to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Ephraim W. Allen</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of -Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Walpole. J. F. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $132.60; -Young Ladies’ Miss. Circle, $12.35; Young -Ladies’ Soc. Bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">144.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$43.25; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $39.10; -Mrs. Bowdoin, $10; Ira Merrill, $5; Mrs. -Ira Merrill, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">102.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townsend. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($15 <i>of -which for Indian M</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">66.86</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walpole. E. P. Stetson, $50; Cong. Ch. and -Soc., $28.75</td> -<td class="ramt">78.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough. Freedmen’s Mission Assn., -2 Bbls. of C., <i>for Savannah and Atlanta, Ga.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">44.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.02</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Mrs. J. C. Whitin, <i>for Student -Aid, Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Piedmont Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$313.90, to const. <span class="smcap">Thomas H. Hodge</span>, <span class="smcap">John -B. Gough</span>, <span class="smcap">Anson Bangs</span>, <span class="smcap">C. M. Dyer</span>, <span class="smcap">Dea. -E. T. Marble</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. Sara Partridge</span>, -<span class="smcap">Dea. Lyman Drury</span>, <span class="smcap">Dea. F. B. Knowles</span>, -<span class="smcap">Arthur M. Stone</span> and <span class="smcap">E. C. Crane</span> L. M’s; -Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $165.75; Salem -St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $84.28; Old South Cong. Ch. -and Soc., $58.91</td> -<td class="ramt">622.84</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $445.60.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">445.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $1,042.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Avon. Harry Chidsey, to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. N. J. -Seeley</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Laura Seeley</span>, L. M’s</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bozrah. Simeon Abell, 2d.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Buckingham. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Darien. Cong. Ch., <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, $30, to const. -<span class="smcap">Mary Bushnell Hillyer</span>, L. M.; A. R. -Hillyer, $30, to const. <span class="smcap">Donald Gregg</span>, -L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., -$17.14; A. C. H., $1</td> -<td class="ramt">78.14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Calvin Day, <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Mrs. John Olmsted, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hebron. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hockanum. South Cong. Ch., $7; Mrs. E. -M. Roberts, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mansfield Centre. “Two Friends,” <i>for -Student Aid, Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain. “First Ch. of Christ,” $5.59; -D. M. Rogers, $5.50</td> -<td class="ramt">11.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. “Eleven Friends,” <i>for Talladega, -Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">124.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Mrs. E. R. Marvin</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. “A Friend in First Ch. of -Christ,” $100; Chas. D. Boss, $20; Chas. -D. Boss, Jr., $15; W. C. Crump, $5; Rev. J. -P. Taylor, $5, <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">145.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. Mrs. N. S. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong Ch. to const. <span class="smcap">Ernest -Wakeman</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Woodstock. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. “A Friend,” to const. <span class="smcap">Charles -Bard</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, -Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam. “M. R. H.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talcottville. C. D. Talcott and Others, <i>for -Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.20<a class="pagenum" name="Page_413" id="Page_413">[413]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brook. Cong. Ch. An. Coll., $44.60; -M. C. Coll., $21.69, to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Joseph -A. Tomlinson</span>, and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Nancy A. Perry</span>, -L. M.’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">66.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">992.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Legacies. Fairfield—Mrs. Lucretia Tates, -by Walter Jennings, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">1,042.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $669.19.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Arcade. Ralston W. Lyman</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Binghamton. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">104.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., Geo. A. -Bell. Supt., $75 <i>for a Missionary in Fla.</i>, -and by the liberality of Stephen Ballard, -$100 <i>for a Missionary, Ladies’ Island, S. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">175.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Columbus. Box of books and papers by a -Lady in Cong. Ch.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Deansville. “L.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hamilton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, $5.75; M. -Day, $5.75; Alfred Seymour, $5.75; J. H. -W., $1; J. A. H., $1; Others, 75c.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. O. S. Campbell, $5; Melissa Tompkins, -$5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">38.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Ladies of Presb. Memorial Ch., -<i>for a Teacher, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">105.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. “A Friend,” $2; National -Temperance Soc., by J. N. Stearns, 1500 -Temperance Papers</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oneonta. Mrs. H. M. McC., and Mrs. H. C. -S., 50c each</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ovid. D. W. K.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. $43.20, to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. E. H. Martin</span>, L. M.; R. J. Booth, -package papers</td> -<td class="ramt">43.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rome. John. B. Jervis</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherburne. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">85.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Mrs. A. B. Rice</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodhaven. L. I. Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $5,285.49.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">94.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jersey City. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montclair. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">55.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Perth Amboy. “A Friend,” <i>for Ind. Dept., -Le Moyne Inst</i>., and to const. <span class="smcap">Prof. S. G. -Barnes</span>, <span class="smcap">Edward W. Barnes</span>, and <span class="smcap">Mrs. -E. W. Barnes</span>, L. M’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">285.49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Legacies. Morristown—Mrs. M. J. Graves, -by Arthur B. Graves, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">5,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">5,285.49</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $970.83.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Athens. Mrs. F. E. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeborough. Ladies’ Miss. Circle of -Cong. Ch., by Mrs. H. R. Ross, Sec.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Centreville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. S. A. Johnson.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Riceville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">20.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Legacies, Washington.—Dr. F. Julius Le -Moyne, by Executors</td> -<td class="ramt">950.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">970.83</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO. $902.29.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Akron. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashtabula. James Hall</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bloomfield. Dea. M. Knapp, $10.00; W. A., -$1, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristolville. A. N., $1; Mrs. L. M. C., $1; -“Friends,” 50c; <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chardon. “Cheerful Workers,” by Mrs. -Catherine L. Keyes</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chatham. Cong. Ch., $3.25; Cong. Ch. and -Sab. Sch., $9.09, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">12.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Dea. C. T. Rogers, $50; Dea. S. -H. Sheldon, $25; H. H. Adams, $20; Martin -House, $15; H. V. Wilson, $5, <i>for Ladies’ -Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">115.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.43; -Hannah M. Paine, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">35.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Conneaut. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Edinburgh. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan, $5; C. B. W., $1; -R. H. O., $1, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva. Sab. Sch. and Friends, <i>for Ladies’ -Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Green. Mrs. H. B. Harrington, <i>for Ladies’ -Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Comings, $10; Myron -Whiting, $5; Mr. Noyes, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lafayette. “Friends,” <i>for Ladies’ Hall, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lake Co. “Congregationalist,” ($200 of -which <i>for Tougaloo U</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">300.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lorain. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. James Ford, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mecca. Burt Case, $5; Wm. C. Hickok, -$4.15, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">9.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mesopotamia. Cong. Ch., <i>for Ladies’ Hall, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">16.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nelson. C. C. Fuller, $5; Rev. R. A. -Toney, $2; Cong. Ch., $1.50; G. F., 12c.; -<i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">8.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Miss E. A. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ravenna. Friends, through Cong. Ch., <i>for -Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">55.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandusky. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saybrook. “Friends,” Dist. No. 3, <i>for Ladies’ -Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seville. Lyman Strong, $25; T. B. Dowd, -$25, <i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Newbury. H. P. G., $1; Mrs. R. M. -P., $1; Mrs R. T. W., $1; Others, $1</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Strongville. Cong. Ch., $10; Presb. Ch., $5; -<i>for Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Twinsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch., $18; Mrs. -Truman Buell, $10; J. R. Parmelee, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., <i>for -Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Youngstown. “A Friend,” <i>for Ladies’ Hall, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $630.62.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. —— $150; New England Cong. -Ch., $125.85; Clinton St. Cong. Ch. ($30 of -which to const. <span class="smcap">Dea S. S. Wright</span>, L. M.), -$33.41; —— $12.23</td> -<td class="ramt">321.49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., Bethany Ch., -<i>for Lady Missionary in Mobile, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">12.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galva. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., -$13.32; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., $11.68, <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Joliet. Mrs. M. T. Murray</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam, <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. Mrs. John L. Page, <i>to furnish a -Room, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., $25; -Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Streator. Rev. G. W. Bainum</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sycamore. H. Wood, <i>for Lady Missionary -in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_414" id="Page_414">[414]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Western Springs. Mrs. J. C. Armstrong, <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wyanet. J. R. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN. $106.71.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Edwardsburgh. Saml. C. Olmstead</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsdale. J. W. Ford</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Imlay City. Woman’s Missionary Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.71</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wacousta. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $202.08.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Koshkomong. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Racine. Ladies’ Foreign Miss. Soc., $19; -Sab. Sch., $6, <i>for Le Moyne Ind. Sch.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wautoma. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West De Pere. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White Water. “Friends,” by C. M. Blackman, -<i>for Le Moyne Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">153.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $204.98</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Algona. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belle Plain. “A few Friends,” <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Grimes, <i>to -furnish a Room, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charles City. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Corning. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Creston. Mrs. Perrigo, $10; Rev. U. C. Bosworth, -$9; Mrs. H., $1, <i>for Student Aid, -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Earlville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsborough. John W. Hammond</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Iowa City. Individuals, by C. A. M. -Currier</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Missionary Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mitchel. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montour. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hampton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for -Lady Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hampton. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newtown. Cong. Ch., $15.62, and Sab. Sch., -$2</td> -<td class="ramt">17.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ogden. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Juvenile Miss. Soc., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Riceville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc., $3; “Willing -Helpers,” $1.35, <i>for Lady Missionary -in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toledo. Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Missionary in -New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wentworth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $41.37.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Duluth. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lake City. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mankato. Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Missionary in -New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.36</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $10.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wild Cat. Mrs. S. B. Peirce</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $4.61.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. <i>for Lady Missionary -in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waverly. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $179.20.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">178.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whiteside. G. W. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $5.14.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega College</td> -<td class="ramt">5.14</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $110.65</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tuition, $55.50; Rent, $50; -Tougaloo U., $5.15</td> -<td class="ramt">110.65</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $482.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">London. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., <i>for -Fisk U.</i>, £100</td> -<td class="ramt">482.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————-</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$16,268.72</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL -INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southampton, Mass. Collected by Ladies of -Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough, Mass. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield, Mass. First Cong. Ch., $12; Second -Cong. Ch., $12</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester, Mass. Ladies in Central Cong. -Ch., $31.50; Ladies in Union Ch., $13.50; -Ladies in Salem St. Cong. Ch., $10; Ladies -in Piedmont Cong. Ch., $5, by Mrs. -G. Henry Whitcomb</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester, Mass. Freedmen’s Mission Ass’n, -bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Central Falls, R. I. Ladies of Cong. Ch. $24, -and box of Bedding</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Haven, Conn. Julius Morris</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven, Conn. H. H. Strong</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven, Conn. Mrs. H. C Hurd</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford, Conn. Third Cong. Ch., $11; Miss -L. C. Dudley, $10</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. D. H. Wells</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Benj. Douglass</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. “Member Davenport -Cong. Ch.”</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. E. B. Bowditch</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. Simeon E. Baldwin, $20; -Mrs. Alex. McAlister, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emmeline Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. J. L. Ensign</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven, Conn. R. E. Rice</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterbury, Conn. Charles E. Webster</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler</td> -<td class="ramt">125.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Allegan, Mich. Mrs. R. E. Booth</td> -<td class="ramt">400.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$1,036.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional -pledge, £3,000</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid -Soc., £332</td> -<td class="ramt">$1,601.90</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 10%;">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Treas.</i>,</p> -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 5%;">56 Reade St., N. Y.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_415" id="Page_415">[415]</a></p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<p class="center">INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American -Missionary Association</span>.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to -conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and -diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other -countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and -urgent fields of effort.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> who -professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, -or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to -the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment -of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others -who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members -without the privilege of voting.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of -the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of -such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary -societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled -to one representative.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the -collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, 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.</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies -occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; -to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of -incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all -officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the -Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and -for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, -in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and -general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the -diffusion of the missionary spirit; and the general and vigorous -promotion of the missionary work.</p> - -<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for -transacting business.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in -appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting -fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor -particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the -known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment -those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals -agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint -and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so -through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually -agreed upon.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art X.</span> No amendment shall be made to this Constitution -without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a -regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been -submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in -season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do -so, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the -meeting.</p> - - -<p>FOOTNOTE:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among -others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men -without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning -Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the -necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and -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.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_416" id="Page_416">[416]</a></p></div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>The American Missionary Association.</h2> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3> - -<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted -its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their -duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries -in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the -caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate -with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the -<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p> - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 6; S. C., 2; -Ga., 13; Ky., 6; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 17; Miss., 4; Texas, 6. -<i>Africa</i>, 2. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 1. Total 76.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the -South.</span>—<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, -Ala., Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New -Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at -Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, -Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; -Memphis, Tenn., 12. <i>Other Schools</i>, 31. Total 51.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>—Among the -Freedmen, 284; among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in -Africa, 13. Total, 330. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 102; Law, -23; in College Course, 75; in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. -Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at -150,000. <span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="medium">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work. This increase can only be reached by <em>regular</em> -and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as -the strong.</p> - -<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span> for the new churches we are organizing; -<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here -and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p> - -<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below:</p> - -<table> -<tr><td class="smcap">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.</td></tr> -<tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational House.</td></tr> -<tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 112 West Washington Street.</td></tr> -</table> - -<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3> - -<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen -who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of -Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; -to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does -not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year -not less than five dollars.</p> - -<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary -Association</span> in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly -requested to use the following</p> - -<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— -dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to -the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer -of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be -applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the -Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p> - -<p>The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States -three are required—in other States only two], who should write -against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, -their street and number]. 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. 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From the first it has -maintained a thoroughly independent stand in politics, discussing -all public questions of interest from a Christian standpoint. In -religion it takes the same ground with the Evangelical Alliance; in -temperance, with the National Temperance Society, and as regards -the oppressed races, with the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<p>It gives summaries of the week’s news, full Prices Current and -Financial Reports, and copious selections from the best editorials -of the New York daily papers of both parties. It also gives -reports of important religious and temperance meetings and makes a -specialty of a daily report of the Fulton Street Prayer Meeting, -which has been a much-prized portion of the paper. 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