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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 34, No.
-3, March, 1880, by Various
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-Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880
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-
- VOL. XXXIV. No. 3.
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- * * * * *
-
- “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
-
- * * * * *
-
- MARCH, 1880.
-
-
-
-
- _CONTENTS:_
-
-
- EDITORIAL.
-
- PARAGRAPHS 65
- ZEAL FOR STUDY 66
- TROPICAL AFRICA 67
- THE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA 69
- DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 70
- REV. CHAS. B. VENNING—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 71
- AFRICAN NOTES 73
-
-
- THE FREEDMEN.
-
- AT TALLADEGA: REV. J. E. ROY, D. D. 74
- NORTH CAROLINA—McLeansville School 75
- SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLESTON—Church and School Work
- —Cause of the Exodus 76
- GEORGIA—Report of Board of Commissioners on Atlanta
- University 78
- ALABAMA, TALLADEGA—Why he likes it: Rev. H. S. DeForrest 79
- ALABAMA, ATHENS—Building Progress—Missionary Spirit 80
- MISSISSIPPI, TOUGALOO—Student-Conversions—Crowded Rooms 81
- TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS—School work and Week of Prayer 82
- TEXAS—Two Hours’ Work by Student Canvasser 82
-
-
- THE INDIANS.
-
- AN INDIAN BOY’S LETTER 83
-
-
- THE CHINESE.
-
- ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO 85
-
-
- CHILDREN’S PAGE.
-
- HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES 87
-
-
- RECEIPTS 88
-
- CONSTITUTION 93
-
- AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 94
-
- * * * * *
-
- NEW YORK.
- Published by the American Missionary Association,
- ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.
-
- * * * * *
-
- Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
-
- Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.
-
-
-
-
- American Missionary Association,
-
- 56 READE STREET, N. Y.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- PRESIDENT.
-
- HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
-
-
- VICE-PRESIDENTS.
-
- Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.
- Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
- Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
- ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.
- Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.
- Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.
- WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.
- Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.
- Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.
- Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.
- Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.
- Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N. Y.
- Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.
- Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.
- Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
- HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.
- Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.
- Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.
- DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
- Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
- SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.
- Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.
- Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.
- Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.
- Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.
- Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
- EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.
- DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.
- Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.
- Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.
- A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.
- Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.
- Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.
- Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.
- Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.
- Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.
- Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.
- Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.
- S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
- PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.
- Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
- Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.
- Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.
- Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.
- Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.
- Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.
- WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.
- J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.
- E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.
- Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
- DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
- A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
- Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.
- FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
- JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.
- Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.
- Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
- J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
- E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
- C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
- Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.
- Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.
-
-
- CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
-
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
-
-
- DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
-
- REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
- REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.
- REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.
-
-
- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
-
- ALONZO S. BALL,
- A. S. BARNES,
- GEO. M. BOYNTON,
- WM. B. BROWN,
- C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
- CLINTON B. FISK,
- ADDISON P. FOSTER,
- S. B. HALLIDAY,
- SAMUEL HOLMES,
- CHARLES A. HULL,
- EDGAR KETCHUM,
- CHAS. L. MEAD,
- WM. T. PRATT,
- J. A. SHOUDY,
- JOHN H. WASHBURN,
- G. B. WILLCOX.
-
-
-COMMUNICATIONS
-
-relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.
-
-
-DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
-
-may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street,
-New York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch
-Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112
-West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty
-dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
-
-
-
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- VOL. XXXIV. MARCH, 1880. No. 3.
-
-
-
-
- American Missionary Association.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-We are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of Prof. Chase at
-Sierra Leone, about the 8th of January, and hope before our next issue
-to receive valuable advices from him.
-
- * * * * *
-
-We call attention to the Thirty-third Annual Report of the Association,
-recently published. In addition to the general survey which was read at
-the Annual Meeting at Chicago, and the minutes of that grand gathering,
-we have given, as usual, a detailed report of our work, and we suggest
-to pastors and others who may desire to inform themselves in regard to
-particular aspects of it, that if they will notice, they will find all
-this matter so classified in the Report that they can easily select
-just what they want. Thus, after the list of institutions and teachers,
-they may find the following headings: Delay in Opening Schools, Quality
-of the Work, Closing Exercises, Industrial Departments, Growing Favor,
-Buildings, Rented Property, Libraries, Student Aid, Religious Character
-of Schools, Colored Teachers, Theological Departments. The Church Work
-and other main departments are analyzed in the same way. We have done
-this, hoping to make the Report a helpful document and one easily used
-by the friends of the Association. Dr. Storrs’ sermon is also printed
-with it.
-
- * * * * *
-
-Miss Parmelee’s paper, read before the Woman’s Meeting at the
-Anniversary in Chicago, excited so much interest at the time and
-since, and gave so vivid, so faithful and so sympathetic a view of
-the perils of the girls of the South, that we have, besides giving
-a portion of it in a former MISSIONARY, re-printed it in full, and
-have sent it largely to the Christian women of our churches. We
-beg them to read it, remembering that its statements are facts,
-and that the evils of which it speaks are among the better class
-of the colored women of the South, and hardly suggest the depths
-below, in which the mass are at home, and into which education and
-enlightenment only make the fall more fatal. May God’s spirit move
-the hearts of our Christian women to save their sisters.
-
-One of our colored ministers, trained in an American Missionary
-Association school, in stating some incidents of his life to a friend,
-said that he was led, when about sixteen years old, to give up gambling
-and licentiousness, simply out of regard for his teacher, fearing that
-she would learn of his evil ways and despise him. That teacher little
-thought then, and has never learned even, of the blessed influence
-upon that young man, of her pure and consecrated life, which, through
-the providence of God, led to the transformation of a gambler and
-profligate, into an efficient and esteemed Christian minister, through
-whom she is now preaching to hundreds and even thousands.
-
- * * * * *
-
-The Superintendent, scouring through Georgia, came across Rev. Mr.
-Thomas, a choice man, who has charge of two colored Presbyterian
-churches at Union Point and Woodstock, under commission of the Northern
-General Assembly, and who got all his schooling—three years—at our
-Lewis High School in Macon, Ga. So the fruit of our tree of knowledge,
-is falling over into other church lots, and we are glad of it. Such
-fruitage is a great encouragement to the teachers of our minor schools.
-
- * * * * *
-
-_A Bible Example of Reconstruction._—It was after the return from
-Babylon. Civil and the moral reformation went hand in hand. The
-first Governor, Zerubabel, who was a grandson of a former king, had
-the high priest, Joshua, to lead in the worship, and the prophets,
-Haggai and Zechariah, to preach and to teach. The next Governor,
-Ezra, instituted for the instruction of the people an extensive
-system of Bible-readings. “So they read in the Book, in the law of
-God, distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the
-reading.”
-
-The next Governor, Nehemiah, was a reformer. He put down the practices
-of taking heathen wives, of violating the Sabbath, and of exacting
-illegal interest. No improvement has as yet been made upon that style
-of civil reconstruction. Religion and education, the church and the
-school, must go along with the re-ordering of the State. So we find our
-work at the South in the line of a Divine pattern. The Bible gives us
-its ideal of dealing with freedmen by taking into its sacred canon the
-five books of Moses for the emancipated Israelites, the books of Ezra,
-Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, for the restored captives.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ZEAL FOR STUDY.
-
-A good deal has been said, from time to time, of the abatement among
-the colored people of that eagerness to learn, which marked the days
-immediately following their emancipation. Of course, much of it is
-true; many found by trial that it was not so easy or instantaneous
-a process to learn to read as they had supposed; the pressure of
-self-support drew away the attention of others from their aspirations
-after an education; unduly excited ambitions and crude hopes were seen
-to be unfounded, and in the disappointment many were discouraged.
-But all of it is not true. There are many instances yet of the early
-eagerness to learn among the young, and even among the old; we give
-an instance from a teacher’s letter: “One woman, 39 years old, lives
-in the country, and walks six miles to school, and six miles again
-after school to her home. Her seat has been vacant only on one or two
-of the rainiest days since the school opened, September 1st. At home,
-she has all her household affairs to look after, and finds time to
-study at night even then; and if, on account of helping her husband to
-pick cotton in the fall, she would go late to bed without ‘knowing her
-lesson,’ it ‘worried’ her so, she said, that she ‘could not get a wink
-of sleep,’and her husband would waken to find her up and studying. She
-is gaining slowly in rudimentary knowledge, and is very much pleased,
-or, as she would say, ‘proud’ of her success. Several such ones, eager
-to learn, I have under my care, and though they can learn but slowly,
-it is really better than that they should never know anything, though I
-think we would count it hardly worth while to take such pains so late
-in life; yet, better to get upon the first round of the ladder than not
-to rise at all.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-TROPICAL AFRICA.
-
-The Three Lake Missions.
-
-Among the great movements of this stirring age, none are, perhaps,
-more far-reaching than those for the exploration and evangelization of
-Tropical Africa. The splendid achievements of Livingstone and Stanley
-crown and complete the efforts of their heroic predecessors. Africa’s
-three great central lakes and her two great rivers—the mysteries of
-the ages—are now explored and mapped.
-
-The missionary efforts that have followed these discoveries reveal an
-enthusiasm, and a consecration of talent and life, worthy of the vast
-field thus opened. In the promptness of the response, the money and the
-lives devoted and the number of missions founded or projected, the last
-five years give a history that probably has no parallel in the records
-of Christian missions. The story of these adventures in discovery and
-evangelization has the fascination of romance, and is pathetic in the
-piety and the sufferings of both travellers and missionaries.
-
-We select as illustrations the three Lake Missions of Tropical Africa.
-
-
-1. The Victoria Nyanza Mission.
-
-On the northern shores of this greatest of Africa’s central lakes is
-the dominion of King Mtesa—a name now familiar to the civilized world.
-He rules over two millions of people, has a navy of 300 war canoes and
-an army of 150,000 warriors. In 1875, Stanley reached his capital. The
-welcome was cordial, and for two months the traveller taught the King
-the principles of Christianity with such happy results that the Bible
-was studied, and in obedience to its teachings, an enemy and rebel,
-conquered in battle and doomed to death in accordance with African
-morals and invariable practice, was spared! Stanley appreciated the
-true value of the King’s “conversion,” and saw the need of having his
-own incipient teaching followed up by steady missionary labors. His
-appeal for such labors was written in Africa and appeared in a London
-paper Nov. 15, 1875. The prompt response should be noticed. Three
-days after it appeared, came an anonymous offer of $25,000 for the
-founding of the mission, and soon another equal sum was proffered.
-The venerable and efficient Church Missionary Society undertook the
-work. The consecrated money was soon followed by the consecrated
-men. In 1876, the company of missionaries landed at Zanzibar, and
-travelling the 800 miles of jungle in six months, and marking their
-first disaster in the death of one of their party, reached Mtesa’s
-capital. They were welcomed with enthusiasm, and when the name of Jesus
-was uttered, a salute was fired. The work was begun immediately, but
-soon the second great disaster came—two of the company, Lieutenant
-Smith and Mr. O’Neill, were murdered at no great distance from the
-capital. But instead of discouragement, these disasters called forth
-new enthusiasm. Three young men were promptly sent out by the Church
-Missionary Society. They took the Nile route, but a journey that should
-have taken three or four months was protracted to nine by the floating
-islands in the Upper Nile and the ignorance of the Arab captain. One
-of the missionaries received a sunstroke and was obliged to return. At
-length they reached Uganda and were joyfully received, but soon came
-the greatest calamity—a week after their arrival two French Jesuit
-priests came also, and succeeded in so disaffecting the mind of the
-King as to arrest the work, and lead to the withdrawment of most of the
-missionaries. The summary at the latest dates is: Sixteen missionaries
-in all have been sent, of whom six have died and three have returned
-sick. Of the seven still in Africa, four have been permitted to go on
-various duties and three remain at Uganda without the facilities either
-to carry on their work or to withdraw.
-
-
-2. Tanganika Mission.
-
-Ujiji, the location of the Tanganika Mission is endeared to the friends
-of Livingstone. Here he made his temporary home, and here, almost ready
-to die, he was discovered by Stanley, to be restored to vigor and to
-toil still longer for Africa, till at last he was found dead upon his
-knees. The plan for a mission here was formed by the London Missionary
-Society, scarcely less venerable than the Church Missionary Society.
-
-Mr. Arthington of Leeds, Eng., one of the generous and prompt donors
-of $25,000 for the Nyassa Mission, gave a like sum for this. Four
-ordained missionaries, one scientific man and one builder, left
-London in March, 1877. Their journey from the coast of Africa was
-protracted over thirteen months in consequence of the many obstacles
-and vexatious delays. Added to these trials, death did its fearful
-work. Under these discouraging circumstances, Dr. Mullen, the intrepid
-and beloved Secretary of the Society, obtained the reluctant consent of
-the Directors to lead in person an additional force, and to hasten the
-progress of the supplies. But he had gone only 200 miles from the coast
-when death closed his useful career. No event in the last five years
-has cast such a gloom over mission circles in Great Britain as the sad
-fate of this noble man.
-
-
-3. Nyassa Mission.
-
-Again is the stimulus of Livingstone’s labors seen, and his name and
-memory honored in the founding of another mission: the Livingstonia on
-Lake Nyassa. It was a labor of love for the Free Church of Scotland,
-aided by sister communions to undertake this mission. In the Spring of
-1875, the expedition started, having been furnished with all needed
-supplies, including a beautiful steel steamer and two boats for the use
-of the mission on the Lake. After a tedious journey up the Zambesi and
-Shiré and a toilsome land journey of 60 miles, around the Murchison
-Falls, the Lake was at length reached.
-
-After a brief search, a site was selected that held out unusual
-hopes of coveted advantages—there were no mosquitos and a favoring
-lake breeze gave promise of health. But alas for the unforeseen
-and insignificant difficulties that sometimes defeat the greatest
-undertakings—the fatal tsetse fly compelled the choice of a new
-location. But we cannot give space for the subsequent details.
-
-The disasters and deaths in these missions have had a depressing effect
-upon the hearts of Christians in Great Britain, and we fear that the
-discouragements will to some extent be felt in this country. But we
-must guard ourselves against hasty inferences and unwarranted fears. We
-should remember:—
-
-1. That trials at the outset are often God’s means of arousing a
-deeper faith. The history of missions, modern and Apostolic, is
-full of examples. The Teloogoo Mission where such an unusual work
-of Divine grace has recently been experienced and the converts have
-been numbered by thousands, was for a long time the scene
-of unfruitful labors. Bishop Crowther’s Mission in West Africa, now so
-strong and growing, had an early experience of toils and persecutions.
-The Apostles themselves encountered imprisonments and death not only,
-but their labors were sometimes followed by defections, perversions of
-doctrine and scandals in life.
-
-2. We should take courage from the fact that the slave-trade, the worst
-foe to missionary labors in Africa, is feeling the effects of the
-earnest efforts of Great Britain for its overthrow. Sir Samuel Baker,
-and after him Col. Gordon, the stout old Covenanter—the Havelock of
-Africa—have crippled its power on the Upper Nile, while the labors
-of Sir Bartle Frere, and subsequently of Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, have
-been equally effective along the coast, so that the Church Missionary
-Intelligencer feels authorized to say that “the slave-trade if not
-killed, is scotched.” The missions themselves, though hindered in many
-respects, have had a salutary influence in shaming and arresting this
-fiendish traffic.
-
-3. Finally, the church of God must bear in mind that the Saviour’s last
-and great command, “Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel,” is
-accompanied by that all-comprehensive and all-sufficient promise, “Lo,
-I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” God will redeem
-the whole world, and in the Saviour’s heart and plan, Africa is not
-forgotten.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-THE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA.
-
-Dr. Edward W. Blyden, of Liberia, Africa, is the author of an
-interesting article in the _Methodist Quarterly Review_ for January,
-1880, from which we gratefully reprint elsewhere his tribute to
-our work. Anything which comes from the pen of this distinguished
-gentleman—one of the most cultured men of the race whose cause he
-pleads—is well worth reading and consideration. With much that the
-Doctor says, we are in full and hearty agreement, but beg leave to make
-one or two suggestions, growing out of what seem to be at least not
-unwarranted deductions from his positions.
-
-No one can regret more than we do the prejudice which exists, in this
-country especially, against the colored man. And there is no doubt
-that, as Dr. Blyden observes, even among those who are not unmoved by
-the story of his wrongs, and who are earnestly engaged in philanthropic
-efforts for his uplifting, this personal prejudice and sense of
-superiority does exist. That it is not so to anything like the same
-degree in England and on the Continent, is suggestive in the light it
-casts upon the fact among us. On what is the difference of feeling
-founded? Certainly not altogether in the natural race-prejudice. That
-is a fact not to be denied. There is a prejudice which is universal
-between all people of distinct races of men. It is felt by the original
-inhabitants of Africa against the Caucasian, as Dr. B. shows, as well
-as by the white man in his own home against the black. But in this
-land, the prejudice is intensified by the position and the character of
-those who have made up the negro population.
-
-Dr. Blyden objects to our calling the Negro, Indian and Chinaman
-“the despised races.” He even dislikes to have Africa called “the
-Dark Continent.” Of course, our brother knows that the sympathies of
-this Association are, as they have always been, with these people of
-his land, and that our toils and labors have not been limited, nor
-of brief continuance, in their behalf. All this he most fully and
-kindly acknowledges in his article. It is hardly necessary for us to
-say, then, that we have used the term as describing what is, and as
-contrasted with what ought to be. It is true, rightly or wrongly,
-that they have been looked down upon and are still despised. And
-we have used the word as setting forth the fact, and as, therefore,
-the strongest plea to Christian sympathy and help; for we have been
-sure that where we could enlist these, the term would no longer have
-application. The good Samaritan did not despise the poor Jew who had
-fallen among thieves, as he held him up on the ass which bore him to
-the inn. He was too busy pitying and helping him. Perhaps this is
-enough to say. We have used the term “the Despised Races” not as an
-epithet, but as a plea.
-
-A fair inference at least from the Doctor’s article is, that he sees
-no hope for his people on this continent, and that their only way to
-success is to emigrate to the land of their mothers, and to make its
-reclamation their ambition. But how does that affect our work and the
-present generation? The American Colonization Society, as seen by
-its last published report, sent out to Africa during the year 1878,
-one hundred and one colonists; during the same year the bark Azor
-transported two hundred and forty. It is but a spoonful dipped from
-this deep sea. It is but the smallest possible percentage even of the
-increase of the colored population of America. Meanwhile, what are we
-to do with the five millions who remain, and with their children and
-their children’s children? What we do for them we must do for them here.
-
-We, too, believe in colonization; in the evangelization of Africa by
-Africans; and the only difference in our aim and purpose from the
-work with which the Doctor is so fully identified, is that we want to
-distribute our colonists more widely. It is well to have a Christian
-republic in Africa. But it is our desire to plant small colonies
-of twenty-five or thirty, among whom shall be both ministers and
-mechanics, here and there through the still “dark continent”—points
-of radiation for the light of life and of Christian civilization which
-they are to hold forth.
-
-We are full of sympathy and interest with the good work in Liberia.
-May the Lord bless it abundantly. But the work here is not hopeless.
-Hundreds of thousands of the Freedmen still answer, from amid all their
-disappointments and disabilities, “We are rising.” Our plan and purpose
-desire to take part in both hemispheres of the whole rounded work—to
-save the African in America and in Africa alike.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
-
-The American Missionary Association, whose publications we have
-prefixed to this paper, in their work of lofty and noble purpose
-through the South are endeavoring to prepare the negro for higher
-spheres of labor than “cotton-fields, turpentine orchards, and
-rice-fields.” Every negro who is at all acquainted with matters in the
-United States must have the highest admiration for it. Almost alone
-among the benevolent institutions of that land in the days of the great
-struggle, they never for one moment yielded to the imperious dictates
-of an oligarchical monopoly, but gave expression to the idea which they
-inscribed upon their banner, that one of the chief purposes of their
-organization was to resist the tyranny of the autocracy which doomed
-the negro to perpetual servitude. No one could be enrolled among its
-members who was a slave-holder. They have the gratitude of the negro
-race.
-
-But history will have a brighter page than even that with which
-to adorn their annals, when she comes to recount the devotion and
-sacrifices of the hundreds who have been sent forth under their
-auspices, as uplifters of the prostrate host in the South, to whom,
-left as they were, paralyzed by slavery, free movement and real progress
-were intrinsically impossible without the aid of such agencies as the
-American Missionary Association. As time rolls on, the romance which
-clings to those heroes who fought to unfetter the body of the slave,
-will fade beside the halo which will surround these who have labored to
-liberate his mind.
-
- (_Methodist Quarterly Review._)
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-REV. CHARLES B. VENNING.
-
-One of our most earnest and devoted missionaries at the Jamaica
-Mission, after severe and protracted suffering, has entered into his
-rest. Mr. Venning went about fifty years ago, when Negro-slavery was at
-its height, to work on a Jamaica sugar estate. He was then an ardent
-young Englishman, and easily led into dissipation and vice. But the
-Lord arrested him, and the course of his whole life was changed. He
-entered the Mico Institute, a Training College for Schoolmasters, and
-was a successful teacher. He then became interested in the efforts of
-the American Missionary Association, and desired to devote himself
-entirely to school work and religious teaching among the Negroes in
-the country districts of the Island. His name stands on the list of
-missionaries in our first Annual Report, and he has labored faithfully
-every year since—while his health would permit by active efforts, and
-when on a bed of suffering by example and counsel.
-
-We quote the following from the letter of a fellow missionary: “I never
-saw a man who so entirely devoted himself to the work as he did. He
-had the true missionary spirit. He not only preached the Gospel in his
-own church, but from house to house and in the most out-of-the-way
-places; indeed everywhere where men would give a listening ear. No
-other missionary in the Island did so much for the education of his
-people as Bro. Venning, and outside of the towns there could be found
-no people so intelligent as his. He watched over his flock with almost
-a painful interest—encouraged and reproved. He gathered the poor that
-were otherwise uncared for about his own door, gave them shelter, fed
-them from his own table, and clothed them from his own wardrobe.”
-
-One who knew him intimately at the Island writes: “He labored literally
-night and day most earnestly for the salvation of souls and the welfare
-of those who had been converted. Being a born educator, he has left
-his mark upon the generation that has grown up under his instruction.
-As a private Christian, he was most real and honest, and free from all
-guile, exemplifying in all his life, in the most striking manner, those
-beautiful words of Scripture ‘harmless’ and ‘blameless.’ His faith
-triumphed nobly in the end. In my interviews with him of late, it has
-been most interesting to see with how firm a grasp he held fast to the
-assurances of God’s blessed word, and thus found perfect rest and peace
-to his soul.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
-
-NASHVILLE, TENN.—Religious interest is reported in the school. Six
-persons have professed their faith in Christ. The day of prayer for
-colleges was observed and we hope that good may result from the day.
-
- * * * * *
-
-MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.—Pastor Snelson writes: We observed the week
-of prayer. The weather was mild, and consequently we did not have to
-go into the Academy for the use of the stoves. Last Sabbath, eleven
-were received into the church by confession and one by letter. It was
-a blessed day with us. There is much here to do. Miss E. W. Douglass is
-a great help to us. The people all like her. She is at work any and
-everywhere. They call her in some places the lady-preacher. I would to
-the Lord that more missionaries like her were sent throughout the field
-of the American Missionary Association. Pray for us.
-
- * * * * *
-
-ANNISTON, ALA.—On Thursday night, December 25th, the colored church
-was crowded to its utmost capacity to witness the exercises of the
-school children, which consisted of songs, recitations, etc. The Rev.
-P. J. McEntosh has had this school and church at Anniston in charge
-for a number of years and has labored with untiring energy to elevate
-the colored people, and has met with a great deal of encouragement.
-After the school exercises, the presents from the Christmas tree were
-distributed among the children. Several white visitors were present and
-spoke very highly of the management of the church and school. On Friday
-night, they gave a fair at which they realized $56.80.—_Chattanooga
-(Tenn.) Times._
-
- * * * * *
-
-GREENWOOD, S. C.—Mr. J. D. Backenstose writes: I have just closed my
-first week of school for this year (1880), and am glad to be able to
-report a larger number of students than ever before at this place.
-
-I have had to rent a room of one of my neighbors, and we have as many
-boarders now as we can well accommodate, even with our new house, and
-more are to come in the middle of the month.
-
-The house is 18×36, containing two rooms 18×18, with two windows and a
-door in each room and a chimney in the middle. Each room is to contain
-three bedsteads, and from six to nine chairs. The house completed and
-furnished will cost $228.68, a little more than we calculated, but it
-is large, well built and well furnished.
-
- * * * * *
-
-TALLADEGA, ALA.—Both of the barns, one being new and very valuable,
-with most of their contents, including hay, grain, corn, and
-corn-fodder, 300 bushels of cotton-seed, with tools and farm-implements
-and three cows, were burnt Wednesday night, Jan. 7. Evidently it was
-the work of an incendiary, but not instigated at all by any prevailing
-ill-will toward the College. Subscriptions were at once circulated
-among citizens, both white and black, and while the amount raised is
-not large, the number and willingness of the contributions prove the
-interest felt by this community in the College. Efforts will be made to
-rebuild at once. The loss is estimated at $1,200. It falls heavily on
-the agricultural department, which is becoming an important factor in
-the college work. The farm does much toward feeding the large family,
-and gives opportunity of self-help to the young men.
-
- * * * * *
-
-NORTH CAROLINA.—While Islay Walden’s people in Randolph county
-were hauling in logs for the lumber of their new church, the mill
-was burned, and a part of their boards. The owner not being able to
-rebuild, and there being no other mill near, the people came together
-to help him, the young colored preacher putting down $25 from his
-scanty salary. They hope to have the mill under way again in three or
-four weeks. Meantime they will hurry in their logs, to be the first of
-the new sawing.
-
- * * * * *
-
-TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have a colored man visiting his daughter to-day;
-his first visit to Tougaloo. He says he is keeping his daughter in
-school with the money saved by himself and wife on snuff and tobacco
-since signing the pledge; the result of the work of one of our students
-who taught in his district.
-
- * * * * *
-
-NEW ORLEANS, LA.—The Central Church is having a wonderful
-revival. Mr. Alexander has preached every night since the beginning
-of the year. The interest is remarkable, crowding the room
-every evening with a quiet, orderly, and earnest audience; many have
-been converted. Twenty-eight united with the church Feb. 1st.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AFRICAN NOTES.
-
-—The long delayed tidings have been received by the London Missionary
-Society from Messrs. Hore and Hutley at Lake Tanganika. The particulars
-of Mr. Dodgshun’s death are given. Annoyances and delays interposed
-by the Arab slave-traders are rehearsed. We give a few extracts from
-letters:—
-
-“During the seven months of our stay here, we have done much towards
-making friends with the natives; they have closely observed us, and
-admit that they can see nothing bad; but the influence of the Arabs
-is so powerful that they, the Wajiji, are afraid to make any definite
-negotiations with us apart from the Arabs.
-
- * * * * *
-
-“The slave-trade at Ujiji is merely a small local affair—slaves
-captured in war, &c., amongst surrounding tribes, and passed from
-hand to hand, till they finally come to a stand in some Arab’s
-_shamba_: this used to be done in the market, but since we came here,
-it has all been kept out of sight. Once only some Wajiji offered us
-a slave for sale as they passed by our _tembe_. The traders owning
-these domestic slaves, have from twenty to one hundred of them
-(I think Muniyi Heri reaches the larger number); they are their
-domestics, boatmen, carriers, body guard, and cultivators, and, of
-course, form the principle population of the place, filling up with
-huts the spaces between their masters’ larger houses.
-
-“Slavery amongst the natives is another matter. The Wajiji are great
-slave-holders, slaves being as common as domestic servants at home;
-but no great numbers are owned by individuals as among the Arabs. A
-common present between chiefs is one or two slaves, and Mirambo sends
-small parties from time to time to buy both slaves and ivory. When
-the Portuguese and Arab slave-trades are crushed out, or nearly so,
-we shall see and more fully realize the extent of native slavery,
-or slave customs, which cover the continent through its length and
-breadth. The former will have cost an immense outlay of the power and
-influence of civilized Europe ere it is swept away. The latter will
-take years of faithful mission labor to eradicate.
-
-“To fulfil my promise to an Arab, to whom I said, ‘We do not want to
-buy except for our own use; but I will send your words to England,’ I
-add these few lines:—The Arabs say, ‘If the white men will come here
-and buy, we will grow as much sugar and rice, and spice and oil, &c.,
-as they want, and would much rather get our money in that way, than
-in dangerous [and, as they admit one by one privately, _illegal_]
-slave-hunting.’ I keep telling them that the slave-trade is dying
-out, and they had better look to something else before they are left
-in the lurch.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-—“I have great trouble with my sailors who of course are _not_
-sailors. On one occasion I was close off Cape Kiungwe. About two A.
-M., pitch dark, a heavy squall burst on us from the northward, with
-sheets of rain. I could not see one foot in front of my eyes. This
-lasted for two or three hours, the boat sweeping along at a great
-rate without a stitch of canvas, and a nasty foaming sea. All six men
-became perfectly helpless, and huddled together inside the cabin. The
-good little binnacle, however, kept the compass-lamp burning, and by
-it only I knew where to steer; had it gone out, none of them could
-have put it to rights. I could not possibly let go the tiller; they
-were perfectly unable to work the paddles had they been required, and
-it was only after roaring myself hoarse at them that I could rouse
-them to bale the water out. When they get home they strut about with
-a little cane in their hands, and boast of their sailorizing.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-—“I trust,” he writes, “no one will call this mission disastrous, or
-condemn Ujiji hastily as unhealthy. It is certainly much healthier than
-Zanzibar, and both Mr. Hutley and myself were never more persistent in
-our determination to go on. Certainly we want more help, but the work
-is _going on_. We are living down native prejudices and suspicions,
-and the lies of slanderers. We will slacken no effort to carry on this
-work; and I am speaking, not at home, but in the midst of the work and
-its difficulties. May God induce His stewards to do their part, and
-see in the vacant spaces of the ranks only cause for new and earnest
-effort. I commenced this letter with but mournful news; I desire to
-close it with an expression of thankfulness to God for what health and
-strength and success He has given us, and with an earnest appeal to all
-missionary hearts to apply their means and strength with renewed vigor
-to this work, and to be assured that, however cavilers may talk of
-disaster, there is no despondency here.”
-
-—On the eve of going to press the Directors have received a telegram
-from the Society’s agent in Zanzibar, to the following effect: “The
-Rev. W. Griffith and Dr. Southon arrived at Ujiji on the 23d of
-September; all well.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-—An Alexandria despatch to the _Daily News_ says Ismail Eyoud Pacha
-has been appointed Governor of the Soudan, vice Gordon Pacha resigned.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-THE FREEDMEN.
-
-REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,
-
-FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
-
-
-AT TALLADEGA.
-
-_At the Faculty Meeting._—Three men and four women present. Prayer.
-The circle is passed around for matters of business. Besides minor
-things these results are reached; Will observe the day of prayer for
-colleges, with an address at morning worship, with a prayer-meeting
-in the afternoon for the male students, one for the females and one
-for the faculty, and with a general meeting at night; will hold a
-Normal Institute on the last two days of the present term, inviting
-the colored teachers in the region round about to come, and asking
-Mr. A. W. Farnham, Normal Professor at the Atlanta University, to be
-present and help; will have a series of familiar lectures, alternating
-on Friday night with the young people’s sociable. Surely all this looks
-like business.
-
-_At the Library._—The donation of books to the value of more than four
-hundred dollars, from Rev. W. H. Willcox, of Malden, Mass., attracts
-the eye, and feasts it, too. The books are new, of standard and current
-interest.
-
-_At the Prayer Meeting._—One of the colored young preachers reports
-the fine large old Bible which, as the gift of some Eastern friend, he
-had taken into his little church at the Cove on the preceding Sabbath.
-The people had requested him to express their thanks. Then President
-DeForest followed. There is a story connected with that book. It came
-with a box of things from the Congregational Church at Columbus, N.J.,
-Rev. E. B. Turner’s. It came from Harriet Storrs, who is a cousin of
-my mother. Every page of the book has been prayed over. Out of the
-Sabbath-school of that old hill-town church, six ministers of the
-Gospel have been raised up, among whom, I suppose, they count myself,
-for that was my father’s home; and two wives of foreign missionaries
-have come from the same source. Surely that old nest must be kept warm
-for more of such productiveness.
-
-_At Evening Prayers._—It is in the dining-hall, where the students
-of both sexes and the teachers meet. The repast over, the President,
-as is his wont, gives a resumé of the current news, the discovery of
-the intro-Mercurial star, the day’s phase of the Maine affairs, and
-other such. Then the students at two of the tables recite each a verse
-upon a particular topic, temptation; then the sweetness of a religious
-song; then prayer; then a quiet and orderly retiring. It is alone the
-religion of Jesus that can present such a scene.
-
-_At the Farm._—You enter its enclosure, passing under a graceful
-arch that bears in large letters the emblazonment, “Winsted Farm.”
-So everybody knows what town it was in Connecticut that did a good
-deal toward the providing of that industrial department. The wheat
-and the rye and the oats are covering the fields with green, even at
-this mid-winter time. You can see that there is good farming in that
-locality. You can see it, too, by contrast.
-
-_Co-operative Farming._—During the last season the colored people
-about our church at Lawson’s, in Alabama, Rev. J. W. Strong, pastor,
-rented a half-dozen acres of land, and cultivated the most of it in
-cotton, for the purpose of adding to the fund for supporting their
-school. They had a board of managers. They worked when called upon.
-They plowed and hoed. They at last picked out the cotton and found
-that they had two bales, worth $120. One bale they sent to the colored
-folks’ Industrial Fair, on the grounds of Talladega College. This
-church is now also engaged in building a house of worship, having the
-frame erected, intending, with the aid of $100 from the A.M.A., to go
-on this season with the finishing, and hoping that a revival will be
-its process of dedication.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-NORTH CAROLINA.
-
-Our School.
-
-REV. ALFRED CONNET, MCLEANSVILLE.
-
-Our school is put down as a common school. That is correct. Yet we are
-laboring to make it more than a common school. To this end we have
-graded it as follows:
-
-A. Normal; B. Normal. A. Intermediate; B. Intermediate. A. Primary; B.
-Primary.
-
-Through the kindness of friends in the North the school had been
-supplied with a good many books, and unfortunately, there was a great
-variety of text-books. We have ordered new, standard books, and have
-secured uniformity. As we had new books it was easy to require all to
-begin at the bottom and work up, and to do thorough work.
-
-In a very few instances we have found pupils who can go into two
-classes in the same branch. In this way they bring up from the first,
-and at the same time go on with a more advanced class.
-
-The grading, the new books, and the uniformity of books, have each and
-all had a stimulating effect. They see there is a ladder to climb. They
-see they cannot start at the top, or the middle, but must begin at the
-bottom. They study harder. The school has improved in numbers and in
-regularity of attendance. The number enrolled is 84.
-
-Our pupils are from four counties, including this (Guilford) county.
-Thirteen are here paying board, or boarding themselves. Of the thirteen
-all are professors of religion but three: one is a minister, two are
-preparing for the ministry; one professed religion since he came here
-a year ago, one of those preparing for the ministry united with the
-church at the last communion, and one is a teacher. Of those enrolled
-last year, seven are teachers, six of whom are now teaching, and one
-attending school. One pupil who is a minister reports over forty
-hopeful conversions in connection with his labors during the summer
-vacation.
-
-A year ago we greatly felt the need of dormitories, and accommodations
-for students to “batch.” For this the Association could make no
-appropriation. One of the neighbors has put up a building for this
-purpose, another is building, and a third has converted an old
-store-room into dormitories, and four families have taken boarders.
-Last year our school was confined to one room; now we have added a
-recitation room.
-
-On the whole, the outlook is hopeful. By the close of the present
-school year twelve to fifteen of our pupils will be able to obtain
-teacher’s license from the County School-Examiner.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-SOUTH CAROLINA.
-
-Church and School Work—The Cause of the Exodus.
-
-REV. TEMPLE CUTLER, CHARLESTON.
-
-The work goes quietly on here in Charleston—in all its departments.
-The school is flourishing. It never had so many pupils as now, and was
-never more popular than under the direction of Mr. Gaylord. We are not
-ashamed to have visitors from North, South, East, or West, visit Avery.
-If any of your readers doubt the capacity of these colored boys and
-girls, let them come and see for themselves.
-
-Miss Wells, our missionary, is doing good work—visiting the homes and
-teaching the mothers and daughters how to make the home what it should
-be.
-
-The church work goes on slowly. The feeling of unity and harmony is
-increasing, and, so far as I can see, may be said to be universal in
-the church. We have had stormy weather in Plymouth for some time; it
-has been a sort of Cape Hatteras, around which the winds have revelled,
-but now the sky is clear and the sea smooth. We have a large growth of
-tares in the church that does neither us nor anybody else any good.
-If we should undertake to root it out, I do not know how much wheat
-might come up with it, nor how much wheat we would trample down in
-getting to it. Oh, how wise we need to be in dealing with these people;
-what a broad mantle of charity we have to throw over them. Those of
-us who glean after the reapers in this field, where the “patriarchal
-institution” once flourished, find that either the type of piety
-that prevailed in the “Abrahamic household” was very defective, or
-the “Abrahamic duty” was woefully neglected. Certainly, the idea of
-religion that prevails among the former dependents of these modern
-patriarchs, is not that of either the Old or New Testament. But why
-throw stones at the old defunct institution? What did I say? Defunct?
-I wish to God it was defunct, and that these freemen had a fair chance
-and a free fight for their rights and liberties. But that day is a long
-way off; and I fear the shimmer of the morn is not yet seen. I want to
-be just as hopeful as possible. I never was a croaker. I generally see
-the bright side of a thing. But sometimes, when I come in from some
-tale of oppression and misery, the clouds just shut right down—it is
-midnight. When I am made to know that there are 20,000 poor wretches
-here in this city that are the carcass on which rich cormorants are
-fattening, my soul is sick within me. Congress may investigate the
-cause of the emigration of the colored people to all eternity, and come
-to what conclusion they may, it won’t stop. I pray God it may not
-stop until enough laborers get away from the South to give room for
-those who remain to grow. God knows the truth, and He will open some
-way for His people to go out. I assure you His new Israel has not yet
-come to the land flowing with milk and honey. What think you of a man
-supporting a family of four on 25 cents a day, and paying five dollars
-a month for house rent? What think you of a family of five living on
-the wages of the daughter who gets six dollars a month working out, and
-paying five dollars a month for house rent? _Hungry mouths will stifle
-conscience._ Or, how long could the good people of the North live on
-hasty-pudding without molasses or milk, morning, noon and night, and
-nothing else, day after day and week after week?
-
-Do you say, why not go back into the country and work the land? So
-I said to one who had brought his family of five or six down here
-to starve with the rest: “Why didn’t you stay up in the country?”
-“Couldn’t lib up dar no how. Starve up dar shuah. Rent so high couldn’t
-lib. Had free acres of land and a po, misable shantie, and had to work
-fo days ob de week fur de rent, and but two days to tend my own crop.
-Hab to buy ebreting ob de commisary. Hab to pay twenty cents a pound
-fur meat (bacon), and forty cents a peck fur grits (corn meal). Starve
-to deff up dar shuah.” Four days’ work every week for the rent of three
-acres of land! The best land in that section is worth four dollars per
-acre. Call the man’s work worth twenty-five cents a day. His rent was
-one dollar a week—fifty-two dollars a year. No wonder the landlords
-are not anxious to sell land to the colored people, when they can get
-four times the value of the land every year in work at twenty-five
-cents a day. Defunct institution! Yes, on the statute book. “But, my
-man, why didn’t you buy the land at four dollars an acre?” “Well, sah,
-some ob ’em did buy de land. I dunno how much dey pays; but I knows
-when dey’s paid two or tree stalments dey can’t pay no mo, and gibs
-em up.” Do you wonder the people listen to glowing pictures of better
-opportunities somewhere else? If these people had a decent chance at
-home, they would not listen to invitations away. The fact is, they
-are perfectly helpless, and there is nothing for the mass of them but
-to sit down and wait, wait, wait, through the long, long years till
-the morning comes. I do not wonder they emigrate. I pray God they may
-continue to go, until those who remain shall have their hands full to
-supply the demands for labor. It may not be better for those that go,
-but it will be better for those that remain. The more you thin out your
-woodland, the taller and stouter will be your timber. The only hope
-for this people is a scarcity of laborers. There are so many who must
-have work, or die, that every vacancy has a dozen ready applicants.
-Twenty-five cents a day, I am told, is all that some of these planters
-will give to man or woman; and they can get enough at that price. In
-such circumstances, you cannot expect people to haggle long about the
-price of labor. The cry is simply, “Give me my hire.” And then, if you
-remember that two hundred years of slavery in a man’s blood is not a
-very good preparation for independency, you may get a pretty good idea
-of the situation of the people.
-
-But my letter is too long. Tell the churches to pray for the freeman
-of the South. I do not say freedmen, because there are thousands
-here who were never slaves and are no better off. Ask the churches
-to help us to give them the only consolation they can at present
-have—a sure and intelligent hope of a better world than this on
-the other side—and not expect them, out of their deep poverty,
-to pay for their own schooling or preaching just yet.
-
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-
-
-GEORGIA.
-
-Report of the Committee of the Board of Commissioners to the Atlanta
-University, June, 1879.
-
-A large majority of the entire Board attended the examination of the
-colored University at Atlanta, which receives an annual donation of
-$8,000 from the State. The report of the special committee appointed
-to make a suitable minute of the exercises and the condition of the
-Institution was unanimously adopted. It is as follows:
-
-TO THE BOARD OF VISITORS:
-
-Gentlemen—The undersigned, your appointees, herewith submit
-the following report upon the final examinations of the Atlanta
-University, for the school year just closed.
-
-The Board attended these examinations in an almost entire body.
-They were promptly and courteously met by President Ware and
-his associates, and the examinations proceeded with systematic
-regularity. The exercises were designated by neatly printed
-programmes, with the time and place of recitation distinctly set
-forth.
-
-The examinations were fairly conducted and disclosed the fact that
-the most advanced methods of teaching were employed. These methods
-were mainly topical, supplemented by appropriate questions, which
-evinced that the students had an intelligent comprehension of the
-subjects under consideration. We were especially impressed by the
-evidences of patient, systematic, untiring training on the part of
-the teachers, so well adapted to the colored, or any race, and by the
-progressive manner in which a subject was developed. All branches
-taught, passed in review before us, and whether the immediate subject
-was reading, grammar, history, mathematics, the classics, or other
-branches, the means employed and the results attained were entirely
-satisfactory. The examinations were entirely oral and the decorum and
-order maintained were of a high character.
-
-The cleanliness of the recitation rooms, the preservation of school
-property and the gradual improvement of the grounds were marked.
-
-The final exercises at Friendship Church were very creditable to
-the institution. The subjects of the speeches and essays were
-appropriate, without political bearing, and they were delivered and
-read in a becoming manner.
-
-Comparing the examinations with preceding ones, we are satisfied that
-the University is steadily on the up-grade, and that it is becoming a
-centre of great interest among the colored people.
-
-The religious training of the pupils appeared to be excellent.
-
-The Normal feature of the institution we regard with especial
-interest. In no way can education be so rapidly extended, or its
-improved methods so effectually multiplied, as by the special
-training of teachers. This we believe to be the great educational
-want of our State.
-
-We have one suggestion to make, viz: as the oral recitation has
-been now so satisfactorily developed, would it not be beneficial
-to introduce some written examination work in the higher classes,
-as affording a better comparative test, and as advancing the
-examinations fully up to the modern standard?
-
-It is your committee’s opinion, based upon the foregoing, that
-the State has acted wisely in her appropriation to the Atlanta
-University, and that a continuance of it is to her best interests.
-
-Respectfully submitted,
-
-H. C. MITCHELL,
-
-Chairman Special Committee.
-
-T. G. POND, C. M. NEAL.
-
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-
-On motion the above report was ordered to be submitted to the Governor.
-
-H. H. JONES,
-
-Chairman of General Board.
-
-J. T. WHITE, C. M. NEAL.
-
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-
-
-ALABAMA.
-
-Why He Likes It.
-
-REV. H. S. DEFORREST, TALLADEGA.
-
-A minister recently called to one of our schools in the South, gives
-these reasons for liking his place.
-
-1st. I am needed. This is a great work and the workmen are few. It
-is not at all here as it used to be, and perhaps now is, in Boston
-on a Saturday morning, scores of men standing with carpet-bag in
-hand, waiting for a chance to preach, and many waiting in vain. We
-have here more of field than we can occupy. On all sides comes up the
-Macedonian-African cry, “come over and help us.” I am often weary on
-Saturday and poorly enough prepared for Sunday, but am spared the
-anguish of not knowing where to go or what to do. Besides, there is so
-much of self-denial in the work that there are probably not a great
-many thinking that, if I should die or leave, there would be a vacancy,
-and if there should be a vacancy they would like to fill it. Not many
-are interested in my will; few would care for my shoes,—I hope to wear
-them myself and wear them here. For,
-
-2nd. There is here a grand, perhaps unsurpassed opportunity for
-influencing men. I am not only a Home Missionary, but also a Foreign
-Missionary to Africa, and that last with special facilities. I am
-master of the language, and do not work at the disadvantage of a
-half-learned and half-murdered tongue. Neither is there any prejudice
-against me as a Foreigner because of my brogue, or my dress or my
-habits. Without the honors of a Foreign Missionary, I am also without
-many of his disadvantages, and my national and Yankee peculiarities,
-which might hinder across the sea, help on this side of the Atlantic.
-This is indeed a missionary field, but operated with special
-facilities. It is a double missionary field. For,
-
-3d. The most pressing work in our own country is here. As surely as in
-1861 our national peril is largely in the South. Ignorance is dense;
-immorality is rampant: lawlessness is wide-spread, while intelligence,
-morality and obedience to law form the only basis for such a government
-as ours. To save our country, we must save the South; to save the
-South, we must save the Southerners, and there are no Southerners
-more hopeful and more deserving than the late slaves. They are down
-but their faces are upward. Give them a hand and they will take it,
-especially if it be a “Yankee hand,” and a little lifting develops a
-good deal of spring in themselves. Thus it is that Patriotism as well
-as Humanity and Christianity keep me here, and no campaigning in our
-recent war seemed more a duty of loyalty than that in which I am now
-engaged. I am glad to be in the ranks and to still wear the blue. But,
-
-4th. Looking beyond our broad land, I hope, standing here, to reach
-some portion of the “Dark Continent.” I regard this as a good _pou
-sto_ for moving Africa. Our students, more than those who have been
-life-long readers, use their memories. They are more impressible than
-the young of some other stock. They have a strong desire, as they are
-helped, to help others. Apparently the great missionary movement of
-the next few years is to be in Africa. The call is already heard for
-men. Some of these men are here, and the impressions now made, the
-very words we now speak, may yet be felt and heard in lands whence the
-fathers of these men were stolen, and in the jungles which the white
-man may well fear to tread.
-
-5th. Besides, there are some special rewards in this work. If we
-have the white man’s contumely, we have the black man’s love. A more
-grateful and appreciative people than some of these, fresh from the
-prison-house of bondage but now rejoicing in a double freedom, I have
-never seen. Seldom is a pastor more fervently and affectionately
-prayed for than are some of us here. And I suspect as the Lord
-judges souls—He seeth not as man seeth—we have our companionship
-chiefly with the foremost of this part of the Land. These and similar
-considerations have led me to think that this College stands somewhere
-on Mt. Pisgah. Certainly just now I would rather be here than in any
-other part of the Universe of God. Tell our friends at the North that
-we do not need their sympathy but we do need their help. With more of
-means we could greatly multiply our labors and their results. Let those
-at the rear at least send on supplies, and more abundantly.
-
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-
-
-Is the Work in Vain?—Building Progress—A Missionary Spirit.
-
-REV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS.
-
-Sometimes one is tempted to say that the work here is in vain. We
-know, for instance, that a great deal has been done during the last
-fifteen years by the Principal of Trinity School, and yet one can see
-that the work is by no means finished. Have not some people at the
-North been thinking that, after fifteen years of good work among the
-colored people of the South, the A.M.A. ought to be about leaving the
-field here for some other? Some here say to me, it will be a work
-of centuries to bring up this people; others, that the colored race
-never will be fit for anything but farm laborers; they must be hewers
-of wood and drawers of water. Some people in Ohio think the religion
-of the colored man in the South is a “pure and undefiled” religion.
-Some people here think there is no use in trying to give the colored
-man a pure system of religion. “They get together and shout and carry
-on, and that is all they are fitted for.” “Their religion is impure
-and defiled, and they cannot appreciate a pure religion.” So say the
-enemies of the colored race. Well, this is partly true; too true. The
-colored man has emotion, and his late masters were too often content
-with that “religion” in the slave. As slaves they were allowed to
-preach and steal and commit adultery, and all together, too.
-
-When we think of the pit from which they have been lifted, and of their
-ancestry—only a few generations ago heathen all of them, cannibals
-some of them—can we think that the results are less than we might
-expect? A great deal has been done here, and there is a great deal to
-show for it. Some might think there was not much to be seen of good
-results. A church of forty-four members—three less than two years ago,
-five less than one year ago—some weak ones, the church as well as the
-school still pecuniarily dependent on the A.M.A., they will not be
-ready to cut loose from the fostering care of the Association for some
-years yet.
-
-Christ said that the kingdom of heaven was like a grain of mustard
-seed, or like a little leaven. These churches and schools act like
-leaven in a mass of ignorance. And this leaven works. And it is because
-of this leavening power of the Gospel that we are encouraged. The whole
-will be leavened in time. But time is necessary. The Congregational
-churches have undertaken a mighty work, and they must patiently stick
-to it for years yet. Much as can be seen of the results of the work
-here, more than half of it cannot be easily seen. Other churches have
-been enlightened and helped. Even those who try to keep out the light
-can’t prevent some of it getting through the chinks.
-
-You will want to know about the work for the new school building. If
-we had had the least idea that we must work five months with less than
-one hundred dollars in money, we never would have undertaken the job.
-We hoped a fair share of the subscriptions would be paid in cash. One
-or two had themselves to buy the moulds for making the bricks, and the
-shovels to dig with, and the cord to line the ground with. We had no
-boards to cover the bricks, so, instead of kilning the bricks as they
-were made, they were piled in an old log house. Many were broken in
-this way. Then they were moved when we had boards to cover the kiln;
-and many more were broken. And from the 1st of August—we didn’t begin
-to prepare the ground till July 17th—till November we had heavy and
-frequent rains. The papers said such a season had not been known for
-many years. We were hindered in our work, and lost bricks from the
-rains. But we have over a hundred thousand bricks, and a total expense
-of one hundred and fifty dollars. If the workers next summer can have
-the money, as we hope, they will not work to such disadvantage, for
-they will have boards on hand, and can kiln the bricks as they make
-them, and have tools. The building will be finished, but it takes more
-time than we at first thought. Such a school-house was not necessary
-fifteen years ago. Our neat church building, and the necessity for a
-substantial school building, are proofs of the great work done here
-by Miss Wells. I enjoy this work, and have become attached to the
-people. But it is too nice a place for me. I never expected to preach
-from a carpeted platform. I must go far hence to more destitute places
-beyond—to the islands of the sea. But the work is one. Whether in
-Alabama or Micronesia, under the A.M.A. or the A.B.C.F.M., we are
-working for one Lord, to establish the kingdom of Christ on earth. We
-can but praise Him that He calls us to work in any corner of His wide
-vineyard.
-
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-
-
-MISSISSIPPI.
-
-Sunday-Schools—Student-Conversions—Crowded Rooms.
-
-MRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.
-
-The year thus far has been most pleasant and profitable. During the
-fall term we had an unusually large number of students who entered into
-study with faithfulness and energy.
-
-Many who had been teaching during the summer, gave most interesting
-reports of their work. The Sunday-school and temperance work had been
-vigorously pushed with excellent results; one of which is over thirteen
-hundred signers to the temperance pledge. Some conversions in their
-Sunday-schools were also reported; and quite often now some one speaks
-in our prayer-meeting of receiving a letter from a pupil asking for
-prayers that he may become a Christian.
-
-Just at the close of the fall term we were visited with a remarkable
-outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Our good Dr. Roy had been here, and a
-sermon which he preached left impressions which brought some to decide
-for Christ. And then the Sunday-school lessons. I remember watching the
-young people during the closing exercises of Sunday-school the Sabbath
-before Christmas, and I saw that there was deep feeling, and felt sure
-that there were some who would not long resist the Spirit, and during
-the next three days there were nineteen conversions.
-
-Three or four others have since then found Christ. There is also a
-marked Christian growth and a growing interest in the study of the
-Bible. Our hearts are greatly encouraged, and we go forward rejoicing
-that we are permitted to work for Christ. Truly “The Lord hath done
-great things for us whereof we are glad.”
-
-At present we have one hundred and four boarders, with the prospect of
-more soon. Every room is occupied, and we are crowded to what seems
-the utmost limit of our accommodations. What we shall do with those
-yet to come, is a problem which neither mathematics nor the laws of
-expansion have solved. Shall they hang up in the trees or bivouac under
-them? We want to put an addition to the “barracks,” but have not the
-means necessary. Dear friends at the North, shall we turn these young
-people away? What is your answer? We hope that by a year from now, a
-good substantial building will be at least in process of erection, that
-shall do away with some of the temporary accommodations we now have.
-
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-
-
-TENNESSEE.
-
-School Work and Week of Prayer.
-
-E. A. H., MEMPHIS.
-
-Next week will, I believe, close my second month’s work here. I find
-the work very pleasant, and am enjoying it greatly, though I think I am
-working harder than I have ever worked in a school before. The school
-has filled up very rapidly since the holidays. My room is full to
-overflowing, and I have been obliged to seat a few of my pupils in the
-Normal room. That room and the Primary are also quite full. Of course,
-these additions to the school have made the work of the teachers
-much harder. Besides my work with my own pupils, I am having some
-practice work done. Four students from the Senior Class of the Normal
-Department, are engaged for a short time each day in teaching in my
-department, and under my supervision. This corps of teachers is changed
-once in two weeks, thus giving each pupil in that class a chance to
-work. I also meet the Senior Class three times a week, for talks with
-them on school and class work, taking up the objects to be gained by
-recitations and the best methods used. I think I can see already that
-this work is doing good, and I hope that it may prove of great value to
-the pupils.
-
-We have been observing the week of prayer in the school, by fifteen
-minute prayer meetings, directly after school. At first, these were
-held in a recitation room, but Thursday evening the meeting had grown
-so large that it was held in the Intermediate room, and Friday evening
-in the Assembly room. A good deal of interest has been shown, and a
-number have expressed a desire for the prayers of Christians. We hope
-that the interest may deepen and much good be done.
-
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-
-
-TEXAS.
-
-Two Hours’ Work by a Student-Canvasser.
-
-The following letter, with enclosure of $3.50 and fourteen names for
-the MISSIONARY for six months, will not only explain itself, but may
-furnish a suggestive example to many.
-
-DEAR FRIENDS: Of course you will be curious to know how it happened
-that some persons in this place—Marshall, Texas—suddenly conclude
-to read the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, consequently I send you these words
-of explanation. I am indebted to your schools for all the education I
-possess. I attended Straight University five months—from January to
-June, 1874; then beautiful Fisk University nearly nine months—from
-September to May, 1879, entering college regularly with the class.
-Commencement over, I set out for Texas, earnestly desiring to secure
-means to go through with; but, owing to bad health and the want of
-proper precaution, I failed. I was unwilling to return immediately to
-Fisk University empty-handed, to give my teachers additional concern
-about my welfare, and, as I am firmly resolved to complete the course,
-everything to the contrary notwithstanding, something had to be done.
-Hence I decided to remain in Texas a few months longer, giving my
-wife, who is at Nashville, the choice of remaining there or joining
-me here, until the difficulty is past. I could get no paying work
-right away, having walked upwards of two hundred miles and spent three
-weeks of valuable time in the search. Finally, weary, foot-worn and
-exhausted, I fell under the effects of intermittent fever—indeed, I
-was in trouble. Nothing remained, then, but to be idle two months or
-more, at the expiration of which I could begin to teach, in accordance
-with a contract that I then held. In the meantime my class would be
-making progress; this thought, believe me, gave me as much concern as
-my ill-health. I carried the subject to the Lord in prayer and became
-reconciled. I reached Marshall, on the 22d instant. I plainly stated
-my case to the teachers of this Institution. They seemed to sympathize
-with me, and on the following morning assigned me work. Thus, you see,
-I am doing something, though it may be very little.
-
-I heard an interesting discourse Sabbath evening from I. Corinthians
-xv., 58. The preacher proved clearly to my mind that Christians ought
-to be zealous of good works for the churches to which they belong.
-He proved, too, that all could do something. The whole furnished me
-excellent food for reflection. I began to figure out how much we
-colored people in the South could advance your glorious work if we
-only had the zeal. I found, indeed, that we are neglecting a very
-important service; so I resolved, not having anything else in view,
-to secure some subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and within two
-hours yesterday I begged fourteen persons to put down their names. Now,
-suppose each one of your students in the South should do even that
-much, is it not plain that you would soon have a large constituency
-here as well as in New England? Such service alone would increase your
-subscription-list by many thousands, and add largely to your income, as
-well as disseminate, as should be, a wide knowledge of your work. Let,
-then, every one, put his hand to the wheel, for all can do something.
-Believe me, I am heartily ashamed of myself, now that I can see what
-an excellent opportunity of doing great good I have lost by not doing
-the lesser. I have lived, more or less, in no fewer than twenty towns,
-and I have taught in at least fifteen different schools since I first
-left one of your schools, at any one of which I ought to have raised at
-least as many subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY as I have here. I
-have been a Christian for several years, but unfortunately one of that
-class who are afraid to “stand up for Jesus.” I am feeling differently
-now, consequently am likely to fly to the other extreme. Should any
-little work, then, suggest itself to you, such as you may regard me
-capable of performing, why be assured that a willing servant is at
-hand. It is to be very much regretted that, since I have to remain
-here, I could not be with the teachers at Tillotson College; still
-those who can work will work anywhere.
-
- Very sincerely,
-
- H. C. G.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-THE INDIANS.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AN INDIAN BOY’S LETTER.
-
-DEAR FRIEND: I was born in Grand Island, Neb. in the 15 day of
-November. My mother was married by a white man, and used to live in
-Grand Island, and my father was scouting with the Pawnees, and once it
-rain very hard and he got lightling struck and died; I did not know
-him, I never seen him, my mother tells me about him. When he died, my
-mother went back to her home, and lived with her brother, who lived
-like a white man. In 1869 I went on a hunting bufflos with the Pawnees
-and Puncas. We went on about three days; they found some bufflos, so
-all the men got their best horses and fixed them up, and then took
-their bows and arrows and guns. They went all around them, and then
-they just run their horses to see who’ill get there first, one man
-would kill two or three, sometimes four and eight, and they skin them,
-and take them home, skin and all. The skins is used for mocassins and
-men legends (leggings). Once I went swimming while the men went after
-bufflos, while I was in the water I seen a bufllo coming where I was,
-frightened me to, I had to climbed upon a tree. It was mad, and some
-men were after him; and had some arrows in him. They killed it, and
-then I got down, and I seen them skin it. We had lots bufflo meat; we
-camp the same place, the Indians were drying their meat, so it will
-less (last) long. After while we went on again, we went on till sun
-was sat. Next morning they seen some more bufflos; they killed many
-more; they had to stay there till their meat was dry. We stayed there
-and then the Indian women got their work things and work on with their
-skins. They finished them and had lots meat and skins. We return home
-again.
-
-I just eat dry meat all the time. No town near to buy some bread nor
-sugar. I used to be hungry for bread. I used to cry for bread. My
-stepfather had to take me where their was some Pawnees, that did not go
-on hunting. We got there. I had all the bread I want. I was glad then.
-The next day we went on and got to a town; and got in the cars, and
-went on; we got to another town; we get out and went to my home, and
-then they sent me to school. I went to school four months. I went home
-again.
-
-After while some of the Pawnees ran away from their homes, went to
-Indian Territory and stayed there for couple years, had nice time and
-had many ponies, then one went back home and told them it was very
-nice down the Territory, and it made part of the Chiefs think it would
-be nice to go down there. They used to have a counsil all day, and
-had a counsil one year. One Chief did not want to go down there; that
-was Lone Chief, because he liked that place, because the Pawnees were
-civilized when they were up there. They commencing putting up their
-houses, and farming. They went down there. I went down with them. When
-I was there, I used to work on my farm. I have got a farm my own. I use
-to go to school in winter. I had been wanting to go to school somewhere
-else. I am very glad they took me to Hampton School. I think my friends
-will help me all they can. I want to learn all I can at Hampton School
-and stay here till four or five years, my mother was willing for me to
-go to school and be among the white people, and when I went to Indian
-Territory, and I went to the day school one year, and the next year I
-went to the Boarding School. I never use to talk English one year ago,
-but the Agent at my home, keep me at his office where there was many
-white men were writing. They use to talk to me all the time in English,
-and then I learn how, and then I use to interpret for the Agent.
-
-When we first went down to the Territory, there use to be many
-sickness; they used to die; they were not use to in warm country. Once
-I was sick. I had the chills and favor. I near died. I got well again;
-before I came away, I plow part of my field and sowed some wheat, but I
-have got brothers who will work at my field while I am away, and keep
-my horses good, and houses. Some white people used to want to take me.
-When I was at home I used to write to Col. Meachem, to help me to go to
-some school. He did help me, and I am glad I went to Hampton School.
-I am trying to be a good boy, and study all I can. The only thing
-troubles me is Geography, that is the only thing I have to try hard.
-
- Yours truly,
- JAMES MURIE.
-
-
-
-
-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, E.
-P. Sanford, Esq.
-
-SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.
-
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-
-
-AN ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO.
-
-REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
-
-We have sustained a mission school among the Chinese at Sacramento for
-nearly ten years; but our first public anniversary was held at the
-Congregational church there, on Sunday, January 11th. The following
-account of it was furnished for _The Pacific_ by the pastor, Rev. Dr.
-Dwinell:
-
-“The attendance was good, and the exercises thrilling with Christian
-interest to one who can see in such facts the beginning of a great
-tidal wave of grace that is yet to flow over the Chinese empire;
-and, what is more, a good collection was taken, showing the interest
-to be genuine. The exercises consisted of recitations of classified
-Scripture, an original address, an original dialogue, and singing—all
-by the Chinese—and brief introductory and closing exercises by others.
-The mission is in a very prosperous condition, and shows the fruits
-of the earnest, faithful teaching of those who have had charge of the
-school, and especially of the present principal, Mrs. Carrington.”
-
-After several of the exercises a muffled applause was audible, such as
-on any other day and in any other place would have been irrepressible.
-Especially was this the case after the following
-
-
-ADDRESS BY LEM CHUNG.
-
-“Ladies and gentlemen: I am very glad to see you all here this evening.
-I thank you very much for your kindness, teaching us about the Gospel
-of Jesus Christ, because our people are in very darkness indeed,
-worshiping idols. I would like to tell you of something I did when I
-was a little boy at home. My parents were very careful to attend to
-worshiping idols, but on the first day of the year they must worship
-more than any other day of the year. At this time I used to carry a
-basket with some sacrifice in it, follow after my father from place to
-place where the different gods were for worshiping. I believe on them
-very much. I thought the idols can help us a great deal. So when I was
-at school one day, I wrote a piece of paper, it represent a sage, and I
-put it inside of my desk. I then bought some nuts and wine and offered
-to him, and bowed my head to him, and ask him to help me about my
-lessons, that I might recite them well, and I said, ‘If you do not help
-me to recite my lessons well, when I return I tear you off and burn you
-up.’ When the time come I could not recite very well, so then _I burn
-it_. I had been at school about three years. My father sent me to the
-high school professor. Explaining the book of Confucius at that time, I
-often go with the priest to help them play the music for worshiping the
-evil spirits. After little while the priest came to my father, see if
-he can let me go learn to be a priest. My father was willing to let me
-go, but when my mother knew it she said, ‘I cannot spare my son to be a
-priest, worshiping too much for the evil spirit, but I rather to send
-him to California, getting his living.’
-
-“Nearly five years have passed since I leaved my native land and came
-to this country, where I found all the things strange and different
-from what I had ever seen before. I found there was much for me to
-learn. A friend of mine invited me to Sunday-school, and I went with
-him. When I returned to the Chinatown I ask some person what kind of
-people are they who teach us there? They said, American people; but
-I could not know how it was that they should be willing to come and
-teach us without pay. They told me that they were very good people who
-come to teach you, and talk about Jesus Christ, and show us the right
-way. I kept on going till I can read the Bible. Great many things very
-different from other books. My heart was touch of Christ. I could not
-understand all; but not many days after the same friend invited me to
-go with him to the evening mission school. So I went with him to the
-school. After the lessons were over, the Chinese helper explained the
-Bible and talk to us, telling us it was useless to serve idols; they
-cannot help us; _they cannot take care of themselves_. But we must come
-to God of heaven, who made all things, heaven and earth. We must ask
-Him to help us, and pray to Him to give us all things what we need. We
-ought to praise Him. So when I heard him say this I saw and felt all I
-had done before was of no use, and was very wicked. Then I make up my
-mind to leave off worshiping idols, and begin to worship the true and
-living God. So I went back where I was employed. When I kneeled down
-to pray I opened my window, because I thought God cannot hear me if I
-leave it closed. After a few days the Chinese helper request me to join
-the Association of Christian Chinese, which I did, and read the Bible
-day by day, learning more about Christ. Oh, friends, I was very happy
-when I was converted! when I come to Jesus and worship the true God;
-leave the darkness and follow the light, and try to lead others of my
-countrymen to learn of Jesus, and know Him who died for us and save us
-from sin.
-
-“When my father heard I follow Christ he sent me a letter. He said:
-‘What are you doing out there? Are you going to believe Jesus, and
-leave all your countrymen, and your ancestors, and idols, and Confucius
-unserved?’ And he said: ‘No other way better than Confucius; so many
-of your countrymen do not believe Christ. You must leave off and
-come back to _our own way_. Believe the way that most of our people
-believe.’ But Christ tell us, ‘He that loveth father or mother more
-than Me not worthy of Me.’ I cannot leave off the way of Christ for the
-way of darkness; but I can try to bring them to Jesus. I hope you all,
-brethren, who come to Christ, will help hold up the light of the Gospel
-to shine on them which are in the dark and bow down to idols, and that
-many of my countrymen shall go back to China to tell the glad news to
-thousands there who have never heard of Christ; and if we cannot reward
-you, God will reward you every one.”
-
-I have not been willing to correct any of the little mistakes of
-grammar, but give the address in exact copy from the original. It
-was uttered in a clear voice, with a distinct and quite correct
-pronunciation, and with such simple earnestness that every eye was
-fixed upon him, and every heart seemed touched. Lem Chung has been our
-helper in Sacramento for about eight months, is _growing_ mentally and
-spiritually, and gives promise of a very useful future.
-
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-
-
-
-
-CHILDREN’S PAGE.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.
-
-An original Essay written by a Girl eleven years old, and read by her
-at a Woman’s Foreign Missionary Meeting in Indiana.
-
-I should think that everyone could think of ways for themselves, but I
-suppose we can help each other. Some ways that I may suggest might not
-be thought of by others, while others in turn might think of many ways
-that I would not.
-
-The first way that enters my mind is what I found to be a very good
-plan at one time; have your grandfather get sick so that your father
-will have to go and see him, and on his return your grandmother will
-send you a present of one dollar. With it buy a pig in partnership with
-someone else who has the same amount, and after feeding it with your
-father’s corn for a year, sell it for twenty dollars, you of course
-getting one half of it.
-
-Another way is to have a little garden and sell vegetables out of it;
-and another way is to have a hen and sell eggs, or raise chickens and
-sell them. One way that I found to be a good one, is to make tidies
-and sell them. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have a baby
-brother or sister, attend it two or three hours for a penny an hour.
-And I think another good way is to be a great talker, and have your
-mother give you five cents to be still. We may also relieve our mothers
-very much by watering the house plants, and may be she will give us a
-little bit.
-
-And I have often thought it would be a good plan to have pay for
-washing dishes, and may be some of your mothers would; just mention
-it to them; but mine won’t, for I have tried it! And when your mother
-sends you to pick berries, just mention the missionaries to her. And if
-you live in the country, gather apples, churn, kill potato bugs and dig
-potatoes. And then have a penny a dozen for finding pins; and the best
-place in the world to find pins is in the oldest sister’s room.
-
-And another way of getting money for our school in Persia is to save a
-part of the money we spend in candies. But I hope that in our dividing
-between ourselves and missions, none of us may be like the little
-boy that I heard of not long ago. His uncle gave him two bright new
-nickels. They were a little fortune to him, and as he looked upon
-them, he said, “One of these must go for the heathen and the other for
-candy.” After this decision he put them away, and every few minutes he
-would go to see if his fortune was safe. But once, after having them
-out, one of them was missing. What should he do? and which piece was
-lost, the missionary or the candy money? His little eyes rested upon
-the shining piece in his hand, and after many minutes of hard struggle
-with selfishness and benevolence, he said to his mother, “It was the
-missionary money that I lost!” But then I guess that bigger folks than
-children often have their business plans, which they think cannot be
-broken into by missionaries.
-
- (“Children’s Work for Children.”)
-
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-
-
-
-RECEIPTS
-
-FOR JANUARY, 1880.
-
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-
-
- MAINE, $528.76.
-
- Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student
- Aid, Atlanta U._;—Hammond St. Ch. (ad’l),
- $15.21; T. U. C., $1 $41.21
- Bath. Mrs. J. C. 1.00
- Biddeford. J. N. A. 1.00
- Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
- Cumberland. S. M. R. 1.00
- Farmington. —— Bbl. of C.
- Lovell. Ladies, by Mrs. Lewis Goodrich, Bbl. of C.
- Machias. Miss U. M. Penniman. 5.00
- Norway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.84
- Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and Daughter, $30;
- “A Friend,” $1.00 31.00
- Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l),
- $221.45; High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;—High
- St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Hampton N.
- and A. Inst._;—Mrs. David Patten, $5;
- Mrs. L. D., 50c. 351.95
- Rockland. Mrs. E. R. S., 51c.; Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
- bbl. of C. 0.51
- Saccarappa. W. K. D. 0.50
- South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, $25, _for
- Miller’s Station, Ga._;—Rev. H. I., 50c. 25.50
- Sweden. E. P. Woodbury 8.00
- Wells. First Cong. Ch., $5.50; Individuals, $2.50 8.00
- West Newfield. Samuel C. Adams 10.00
- Winthrop. E. H. N., $1; Ladies of Cong. Ch., $1 and
- bbl. of C. 2.00
- Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.25
-
-
- NEW HAMPSHIRE, $452.38.
-
- Amherst. Mrs. Ed. Aiken, $25, _for Student Aid,
- Straight U._;—Ladies Soc., $2 and Box of Goods,
- _for Wilmington, N. C._;—Miss C. M. Boylston, $2 29.00
- Colebrook. J. A. H. 0.50
- Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $47.01;
- —W. H. Pitman, $2, _for Mendi M._;
- —Miss F. A. G., 50c.; Mrs. C. D., 50c 50.02
- Francestown. ESTATE of Miss Lucy Everett, by Joseph
- Kingsbury. 60.00
- Francestown. A. F. 1.00
- Greenville. Cong. Ch., $8.50; E. G. Heald, $6 14.50
- Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 25.00
- Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
- Harrisville. D. Farwell 2.00
- Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
- Keene. Individuals 1.50
- Kensington. “Friend” 3.00
- Lake Village. B. Q. J. 1.00
- Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00
- Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc., $100, to
- const. REV. WM. V. W. DAVIS, F. B. EATON and E.
- L. BRYANT, L. M.’s; “Pillsbury,” $10 110.00
- Mason. Cong. Ch. 3.00
- Milford. Cong. Ch. 19.31
- Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 0.97
- Mount Vernon. J. A. S. 1.00
- Nashua. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30.28; Mrs.
- E. A. S., and Rev. F. A., 50c. ea 31.28
- New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $3; J. W. C., 50c. 3.50
- Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $13; Mrs. M. B. Pratt,
- $11; A. E., $1 25.00
- Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, $7; Cong. Ch.
- and Soc., $5 12.00
- Pittsfield. —— $10; John L. Thorndike, $10 20.00
- Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.30
- Short Falls. I. W. C. 0.50
- Temple. Individuals, by Rev. J. F. Bassett 5.00
- Wentworth. Ephraim Cook, $10 and bbl. of C. 10.00
- Wolfborough. Mrs. Sumner Clark 5.00
-
-
- VERMONT, $1,153.69.
-
- Barnet. W. G. H. 0.60
- Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.56
- Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 83.44
- Craftsbury. ESTATE of Mrs. Deborah W. Lewis, by
- C. S. Smith, Ex. 520.87
- East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch. 31.56
- Enosburgh. G. A. 1.00
- Felchville. M. C. F. 0.50
- McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.50
- North Thetford. Cong. Ch., $13.63; Mrs. E. G. B.,
- 50c. 14.13
- Pittsford. Cong. Soc. 20.00
- Post Mills. Mrs. F. J. C. May, bbl. of C.
- Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.50
- Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $111.55;
- South Cong. Ch., $38.17; Mrs. T. M. Howard, $25,
- _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 174.72
- Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch. 27.76
- South Peacham. Mrs. W. W. 1.00
- Springfield. “Springfield Miss. Circle,” _for
- Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 120.00
- Vershire. Mrs. M. W. Parker 2.00
- Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.51
- Weathersfield Centre. Mrs. Edson Chamberlin 5.00
- West Barnet. Ref. Presb. Ch., $10; Mrs. S. G., $1 11.00
- West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., $62.24;
- Mrs. F. C. Gaines, $5 67.24
- Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.30; G. F. H.,
- 50c. 7.80
-
-
- MASSACHUSETTS, $4,691.00.
-
- Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
- Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $78.55; North
- Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to const. Mrs. MARIA
- DUTTON and Mrs. JEANETTE E. STEARNS, L. M’s. 138.55
- Andover. Peter Smith, $500;—“Lady Friends,” $75,
- _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—West Cong. Ch.
- and Soc., $45.18; F. A. T., $1 621.18
- Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._;—G. S. S., 51c. 25.51
- Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.22
- Barre. “Friends,” $3, and Bbl. of C. by Mrs. Edwin
- Woods 3.00
- Bedford. M. E. R. 0.50
- Belchertown. Orrin Walker, $5; D. B. B. 50c. 5.50
- Berlin. Cong. Ch. 3.00
- Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; Rev. Charles
- Nichols, $30, to const. REV. J. ENWRIGHT, L. M.,
- “A Friend,” $20; H. S. Robinson, $10; “A Friend,”
- $10; Geo. P. Smith, $5; Mrs. B. F. Dewing, $5;
- Mrs. S., $1;—“S. E. H.,” 50c. _for Chinese M._ 281.50
- Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.19
- Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., $34.09; Joseph
- Hewett, $10; —— Bbl of C. 44.09
- Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. and Soc. 118.16
- Buckland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.25
- Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., $124.17;
- Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $8.24; Miss A. J. P., 50c. 132.91
- Campello. “Mrs. W.,” _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
- Tenn._ 3.00
- Chelsea. Miss M. E. Brooks, $2;—Mrs. A. E. P.,
- $1, _for Lady Missionary_,——; Miss H., 50c. 3.50
- Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.50
- Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.36
- Colerain. Miss E. McG. 1.00
- Conway. David Lyons 2.00
- Cotuit. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
- Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane, $100; Mrs. James P. Crane,
- $100 200.00
- Dorchester. Mrs. H. 1.00
- East Douglass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
- to const. MISS HELEN L. R. BRIGGS, L. M. 55.45
- East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C. 1.00
- Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.00
- Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton 10.00
- Framingham. Young People’s Circle, Plymouth Ch.,
- $98; Plymouth Ch. and Soc., $50.27;
- —— Box of C. 148.27
- Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.30
- Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. Sag. Sch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
- Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
- GEO. R. BRADFORD, JOHN CUNNINGHAM and JOSIAH
- K. HURST, L. M’s 100.00
- Granville Corners. C. Holcomb 5.00
- Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;
- Miss Emily Beckwith, $10; —— “A. C. T.,”
- $1 _for Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 111.00
- Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 15.00
- Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
- Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.51
- Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $143.19;
- West Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.04;
- Mrs. L. P. F., 50c.; Dea. E. W., 50c.; C. C., $1;
- Mrs. S. C., 50c. 152.73
- Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.10
- Holliston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C, val.
- $74.11, by Eda B. Partridge, Treas.; A. F., 51c. 0.51
- Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 103.80
- Housatonic. M. A. H. 0.51
- Hubbardston. A. G. D. 0.50
- Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
- Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.15; Limebrook
- Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.50 32.65
- Indian Orchard. Cong. Ch. 43.00
- Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 6.53
- Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $150;
- —Lawrence St. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student
- Aid, Atlanta U._ 200.00
- Lexington. Miss M. E. P. 0.50
- Littleton. Woman’s Miss. Circle, _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 10.00
- Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50;—Ladies’
- Soc., $1 and bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._;
- —Mrs. S. L. P., 50c. 51.50
- Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
- Malden. “A few Friends,” _for Student Aid,
- Tougaloo U._ 5.00
- Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw 3.00
- Medford. “A Friend” 2.00
- Methuen. A. P. C. 0.50
- Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $11.68; Cong.
- Ch. and Soc., $10.41 22.09
- Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.95
- Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class, $11,
- _for ed. of Indian boys, Hampton N. and A. Inst._;
- —Mrs. Dewey’s S. S. Class $6; Miss E. A. W., $1 18.00
- Monterey. Rev. A. E. T. 0.50
- Natick. Postage 0.10
- Needham. Mrs. Ellen H. Green 100.00
- Newburyport. Freedman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Mary E.
- Demmick, Sec., _for Lady Missionary, Macon, Ga._ 25.00
- Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 223.15
- Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $77.32;
- S. A. E., 50c.; J. W., 50c. 78.32
- North Abington. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. 5.00
- Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. 20.00
- North Amherst. H. S. 1.00
- North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. 61.00
- Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
- Norwood. Mrs. Fuller 3.00
- Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.50
- Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. 13.57
- Pittsfield. By John T. Poorer, $2.50; Mrs. N. G. B.
- and Miss E. F., 50c. ea. 3.50
- Plymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 56.56
- Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.15
- Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.06
- Reading. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.92
- Rockland. E. Shaw 25.00
- Rockport. John Parsons 3.00
- Salem. A. P. 0.50
- Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
- Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
- South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, Bbl.
- of C. _for Savannah, Ga._
- South Boston. Infant Class of Phillips Sab. Sch.,
- $15; Miss J. A. 50c. 15.50
- South Natick. John Eliot Ch. and Soc. 9.63
- South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. to
- const. MISS MARY B. TIRRELL and MISS MARY A.
- LLOYD, L. M’s. 51.00
- Somerville. H. B. S. 0.50
- Springfield. “M,” $200; First Cong. Ch., $33.06;
- South Cong. Ch., $32.91; G. B. K., $1;
- Mrs. H., 50c. 267.47
- Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. 74.48
- Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.80
- Stoughton. Betsey E. Capen 2.00
- Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.40
- Sudbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21; “A Friend,” $3 24.00
- Taunton. “A Friend” 20.00
- Uxbridge. W. J. 1.00
- Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.
- _for Wilmington, N. C._
- Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.08; “L. B. H.,”
- $20 56.08
- Westborough. Rev. J. W. B. 0.60
- West Boylston. “Willing Workers” $2 and Bbl. of C. 2.00
- West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.16
- West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. ADDISON A.
- SMITH, L. M. 31.08
- West Newbury. J. C. C. 2.50
- West Roxbury. South Evan Sab. Sch. _for Indian
- Pupils, Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 20.00
- Whitinsville. Cong. Ch., $30; “A Friend,” $20;
- S. A. D., 50c. 50.50
- Williamstown. Cong. Ch., $40; Rev. Mark Hopkins,
- $10 50.00
- Wilmington. Dea. J. Skilton 10.00
- Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., mon. con. coll. $34.22;
- North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.12 45.34
- Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $133.57;
- Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.24 161.81
- Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge 5.00
- —— “A Friend,” 10.00
- —— “A Friend,” 5.00
-
-
- RHODE ISLAND, $199.96.
-
- Bristol. Mrs. R. R. and Miss C. De W., _for Mag._ 1.00
- Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
- Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
- Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Providence. Union Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $126.64;
- Charles St. Cong. Ch., $13.72; M. E. L., $1;
- Miss P., 60c. 141.96
-
-
- CONNECTICUT, $3,036.40.
-
- Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew 25.00
- Berlin. C. S. Webster, $50, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._;—Second Cong. Ch., $19.12 69.12
- Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 6.00
- Bridgeport. V. C. 1.00
- Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
- Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. 12.50
- Burnside. Miss E. S. 0.50
- Canaan. “A Friend” 2.00
- Canton Centre. Wm. G. Hallock 10.00
- Cheshire. Cong. Ch., _for ed. of an Indian boy,
- Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 5.00
- Colchester. S. G. Millard, $10, _for Student Aid,
- Straight U._;—C. B. McCall, $10, _for Student
- Aid, Talladega C._; Mrs. M. J. G., 50c. 20.50
- Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($6 of which
- _for Girls’ Ind. Sch., Talladega C._) 28.43
- Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift 10.00
- Cromwell. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which _for Indian M._) 11.00
- Danbury. E. B. 1.00
- Durham. Ladies’ Miss. Ass’n, $3 and Bbl. of C. _for
- Talladega, Ala._ 3.00
- Eastford. ESTATE of Royel Warren, by J. D. Barrows,
- Ex. 250.00
- East Hartford. First Ch. 20.00
- East Windsor Hill. Ladies, $10.50, and Bbl. of C.
- _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 10.50
- Enfield. Sarah A. Abbe 30.00
- Essex. First Cong. Ch. 13.20
- Farmington. Cong. Ch. Quar. Coll., (of which $150
- from Henry D. Hawley, to const. FLORA E.
- Hawley, L. M.) 204.45
- Georgetown. Cong. Ch., case of S. S. Books;
- Rev. C. A. N., $1 1.00
- Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35; G. M. J.,
- 63c. 35.63
- Goshen. “A Friend” 20.00
- Greenwich. Miss Sarah Mead 50.00
- Hampton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.77
- Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $149.96, ($10 of
- which _for Hampton Inst._); Park Cong. Ch. and
- Soc., $133.57; Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $20.07;
- Mrs. Mary C. Bemis, $20;—Young Girls’ Miss.
- Ass’n, $5, _for Talladega, Ala._;
- Miss P. Johnson, $1.50; Mrs. W. T., 50c. 330.60
- Harwinton. Mrs. Frederick S. Catlin 50.00
- Hebron. “Friends” 15.00
- Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
- Kensington. Cong. Ch. 5.44
- Lebanon. Goshen Sab. Sch. $12; Mrs. P. E. H., 50c. 12.50
- Litchfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 50.00
- Lyme. First Cong. Ch. 17.00
- Madison. Cong. Ch. 1.00
- Manchester. E. A. B. 0.50
- Meriden. Centre Cong. Ch. 21.00
- Milford. First Cong. Ch. 50.04
- Montville. First Cong. Ch. 6.95
- Morris. Cong. Ch. 7.00
- New Britain. South Cong. Ch., $55.40; Mrs. A. A., $1 56.40
- New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.55
- New Haven. Mrs. Henry Johnston, $5.00; Miss B. P.,
- $1; Others, $1 7.00
- New London. Second Cong. Ch., ($300 of which
- from TRUST ESTATE of H. P. HAVEN.) 778.26
- New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B. 1.00
- New Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.50
- North Branford. J. A. P. 1.00
- Northford. Cong. Ch. 12.50
- North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett 10.00
- Norwalk. Mrs. Wm. B. St. John 3.00
- Orange. Cong. Ch. 12.50
- Prospect. Dea. Benj. B. Brown, $10;
- Mrs. E. B. Brown, $10 20.00
- Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 28.50
- Quinnebaug. —Bbl. of C.
- Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 58.61
- Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.16
- Southington. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.10
- Stanwich. Wm. Brush 300.00
- Stonington. R. Town 1.50
- Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 23.09
- Thompson. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 9.00
- Washington. F. A. F. 1.00
- Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. WILLIAM A.
- JONES and LAURA N. DAYTON, L. M’s. 75.00
- Weatogue. T. J. W. 1.00
- West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, $30, to const. MRS.
- IRA H. MERRIMAN, L. M.; E. K. Breckenridge, $5 35.00
- Westminster. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.60
- Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.00
- Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter 6.00
- Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 10.00
- Woodbury. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Curtiss 10.00
- —— “A Friend” 17.50
-
-
- NEW YORK, $642.73.
-
- Antwerp. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Mrs. Ira H. Abell 25.00
- Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L. 1.00
- Binghamton. Sheldon Warner 10.00
- Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $10, _for the
- poor in Plym. Sab. Sch., Charleston, S. C._;
- —Mrs. H. Dickinson, $2; O. W., 50c. 12.50
- Canastota. E. B. Northrop, $5; Mr. and Mrs. R. H.
- Childs, $5 10.00
- Clear Creek. Cong. Ch. 1.50
- Clifton Springs. MRS. ANDREW PEIRCE, to const.
- herself L. M. 30.00
- Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 5.00
- Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk 5.00
- East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $35.57;
- Mrs. E. S. $1 36.57
- Ellington. Cong. Ch. 7.50
- Felts Mills. Joel A. Hubbard and family 30.00
- Franklin. First Cong. Ch. 29.58
- Fredonia. Mrs. Thos. W. Stevens 5.00
- Fillmore. L. L. Nourse 5.00
- Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol, and T. W.
- Chesebro, $5 ea.; F. S., 50c. 15.50
- Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S. $1; Miss B. R. S., 50c. 1.50
- Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch. 3.00
- Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones 15.00
- Jamesport. L. I. “Friends” 10.00
- Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer 5.00
- Marcellus. First Ch., $20; Mrs. L. H., 45c. 20.45
- Marion. Cong. Ch. 30.00
- Millbrook. Mrs. J. W. C. 1.00
- New York. Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._;—Holman Liver Pad Co., 7.75, _for
- Emerson Inst._; E. S., 50c. 58.25
- New York Mills. H. N. Porter, D. D. 10.00
- Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- North Franklin. Mrs. Mary P. Foote 5.00
- Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. S. 1.00
- Perry Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc., $16.35 and Bbl.
- of C. by Mrs. G. K. Sheldon 16.35
- Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds 5.00
- Rochester. Gen. A. W. Riley 25.00
- Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall, $10; A. E. W., 50c. 10.50
- South Stockton. Adelia Eaton 4.00
- Success. Sab. Sch. by J. H. Benjamin, Supt. 20.00
- Syracuse. Miss A. W. D. 0.50
- Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder 2.00
- Victor. Mrs. Emeline Lewis 50.00
- Walton. First Cong. Ch., $58.53; Agavine Miss.
- Soc., $10;—Chas. S. Fitch, _for Mendi M._, $5 73.53
- West Chazy. Daniel Bassett, $5;
- Rev. L. Prindle, $2 7.00
- West Farms. J. A. 1.00
- Westfield. Mrs. J. B. S. 1.00
- West Greece. S. B. B. 0.50
- Whitesborough. J. Symonds 5.00
- Whitney’s Point. Mrs. E. Rogers 2.00
- —— “A Friend” 25.00
-
-
- NEW JERSEY, $108.50.
-
- Belleville. J. B. 0.50
- Camden. James E. Simpson 2.00
- Clayton. “A Friend,” _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
- Tenn._ 25.00
- Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch. 5.00
- Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 10.00
- Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., J. H. Denison, $30,
- to const. MISS CARRIE DENISON, L. M.;
- Miss H. Miller, $4, _for Student Aid, Raleigh,
- N. C._; Mrs. R. W. S., $1;—$1 36.00
- Paterson. Benj. Crane 20.00
- Roseville. Ladies of Home M. Soc., by Mrs. L. Hannah 10.00
-
-
- PENNSYLVANIA, $36.62.
-
- Allentown. C. M. 0.50
- Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovel 10.00
- Cowdersport. Mrs. John S. Mann 5.00
- East Brook. James H. Patton 5.00
- Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss Ellen Porter, $1 6.00
- Philadelphia. W. P. F. and Mrs. S. D. 1.00
- West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife 5.00
- Wurtemburg. Mrs. T. E. Liebendorfer, $2;
- Others, $2.12 4.12
-
-
- OHIO, $428.24.
-
- Ashland. John Thomson 2.28
- Austinburgh. N. A. 1.00
- Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay 10.00
- Bellevue. J. S. 1.00
- Berea. James S. Smedley 5.00
- Burton. Miss E. E. P. 0.50
- Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch. 18.81
- Claridon. Cong. Soc. 13.50
- Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., $13.20;
- John Foote, $10; Rev. H. Trautman, $5 28.20
- Columbus. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
- Elyria. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 40.00
- Four Corners. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury 10.00
- Granville. Thomas D. Williams 10.00
- Kingsville. M. Whiting 20.00
- Lenox. Cong. Ch. 9.25
- Lyme. Cong. Ch. 17.88
- Madison. Ladies Benev. Soc., $14.75, _for Student
- Aid, Tougaloo U._; “Old Friend,” $5; W. H. S., $1 20.75
- Moss Run. M. B. F. 0.50
- Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.50, _for
- Student Aid, Atlanta U._; Harris Lewis, $3. 28.50
- Orwell. Rev. W. T. Richardson 5.00
- Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for
- Student Aid, Atlanta U._;
- First Cong. Ch. $18.57 43.57
- Parisville. Rev. D. D. 0.50
- Ruggles. Mrs. J. T. 0.50
- Saybrook. Rev. A. D. Barber and Family 20.00
- Seville. Julia Hulburt 10.00
- Sharonville. J. H. 1.00
- Sicily. Julian F. Cumberland 5.00
- Springfield. W. A. F. 1.00
- Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward 5.00
- Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed,$10; By E. P. B., $1 11.00
- Wellington. E. W. 0.50
- Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 10.00
- Windham. First Cong. Ch. 23.00
-
-
- INDIANA, $17.50.
-
- Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. _for Chinese M._ 6.75
- Madison. G. W. Southwick 5.00
- South Vigo. Cong. Ch. 2.75
- Sparta. Mrs. L. R. 1.00
- Versailles. J. D. Nichols 2.00
-
-
- ILLINOIS, $1000.32.
-
- Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington 5.00
- Avon. Mrs. Cylinder Woods, $5; “A Friend,” $5 10.00
- Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., $9.65;—Mrs. J. D.
- Pike’s Sab. Sch. Class, $7; _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._; N. L. J., 50c. 17.15
- Batavia. “W. E. M.” 20.00
- Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier,
- Ex. 59.61
- Byron. I. S. K. 1.00
- Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $112.50, _for Student
- Aid, Talladega C._;—Union Park Cong. Ch. Sab.
- Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;
- —New Eng. Cong. Ch., $10 147.50
- Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan 5.00
- Denver. Thomas Graham 5.00
- Farmington. Phineas Chapman 44.00
- Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._;—J. G. W., 50c. 50.50
- Genesco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 135.92
- Hamlet. L. C. 1.00
- Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.00
- Lyndon. First Cong. Ch. 11.00
- Kankakee. F. S. H. and J. H. 1.00
- Kewanee. Cong. Ch., $102.73;—Cong. Ch. Sab.
- Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 127.73
- Knoxville. W. A., $1; Mrs. A. B., $1 2.00
- Mendon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 16.00
- Milan. By Mrs. J. M. L. D. 1.00
- Oak Park. J. W. Scoville 100.00
- Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
- Paxton. “A Friend” 20.00
- Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00
- Polo. Penny Contribution, _for Lady Missionary,
- Nashville, Tenn._ 1.00
- Port Byron. A. F. Hollister, $6; Ladies’ Miss.
- Soc., $5.50; Emma Hollister, $2.00 13.50
- Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss 10.00
- Rockford. Mrs. A. H. Perry 20.00
- Roseville. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l) 4.54
- South Bend. R. Burroughs 10.00
- Tonica. V. G. Lutz 5.00
- Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch. 5.87
- Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc., by Miss E. M.
- Hollister, Treas. 5.00
-
-
- MICHIGAN, $112.61.
-
- Calumet. Robert Dobbie 10.50
- Covert. F. C. 0.57
- Cross Village. Rev. A. A. C. 1.00
- Detroit. F. M. S. 0.50
- Dexter. Dennis Warner 10.00
- East Saginaw. Mrs. Miriam Seymour 2.00
- Flint. H. Whittlesey 2.00
- Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50
- Kalamazoo. Mrs. M. J. Kent 5.00
- Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes 5.00
- Marshall. D. H. Miller 5.00
- Olivet. “A Friend,” _for Talladega C._ 0.25
- Owasso. Mrs. F. G. D. 0.50
- Romeo. Miss T. S. C., $1; Miss M. A. J., $1 2.00
- Saint Johns. A. J. B. 0.50
- Somerset. Cong. Ch. 18.87
- Stockbridge. W. B. C. 1.00
- Summit. Missionary Society, by Mrs. A. Vansickle 6.67
- Union City. First. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 24.75
- White Lake. Robert Garner and wife 15.00
-
-
- WISCONSIN, $227.26.
-
- Appleton. First Cong. Ch. 20.20
- Beloit. First Cong. Ch. $30, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._; Mrs. B. D. $1; W. P. 51c. 31.51
- Brandon. Rev. H. W. C. 0.50
- Bristol. Wis. Branch of W. B. M. S. 10.00
- Cheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 50c., ea. 1.00
- Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Selma, Ala._ 15.79
- Fond du Lac. H. S. M. 0.50
- Geneva. Presb. Ch. Quar. coll., $19.25; W. H. H.,
- 50c. 19.75
- Kenosha. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.27
- La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 15.44
- Mazomanie. R. L. 1.00
- Mukwanago. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00
- Sparta. Cong. Ch., $52; Cong. Sab. Sch., $29.34;
- Mission Band, $8.96, to const. MISS LYNTHA FRANCK,
- MRS. O. L. IRWIN and J. R. SKILLMAN, L. M’s 90.30
- ————. By L. S. Bingham 2.00
- Racine. Mrs. D. D. N. 1.00
- Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon 10.00
-
-
- IOWA, $444.27.
-
- Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Bowensburgh. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard
- Eells, Ex. 100.00
- Big Rock. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Burlington. Cong. Ch. 70.36
- Clay. Cong. Ch. 4.50
- Cleveland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., $10;
- “Friends,” $13, _for Student Aid_;
- —T. E. Brown, $10; Mrs. A. W. Rollins, $5, _for
- Repairs, Talladega C._ 38.00
- Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. and Mrs. J. B., 50c. ea. 1.00
- Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 26.66
- Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Boys’ S. S. Class, $26.22;
- Miss S. Whitcomb’s S. S. Class, $5, _for Student
- Aid_, and A. Steele, $5, _for Repairs,
- Talladega C._ 36.22
- Marion. Mrs. A. W. Shedd, $5, _for Student Aid_;
- J. T. S., 50c. 5.50
- McGregor. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 17.70
- Monticello. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Muscatine. Cong. Ch., $36.05, and a Sewing Machine,
- _for Talladega C._ 36.05
- New Hampton. Dea. Gideon Gardiner, $5; Ladies’ Miss.
- Soc., Quar. Coll., $1.60 6.60
- Newton. Rev. S. A. A. 0.50
- Osage. Cong. Ch., $10.75; Woman’s Miss. Soc., $5.50;
- Mrs. G. W. Smith, $1.50 17.75
- Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. O. J. Green,
- Treas. 2.68
- Sherrills Mount. Rev. J. R. 1.00
- Tabor. J. F. S. 0.50
- Traer. Rev. C. H. Bissel, $5; Infant Class Cong. Sab.
- Sch., $2.25; Mrs. Ames, $2 9.25
- Waterloo. Leavett & Johnson, _for Talladega C._ 40.00
-
-
- KANSAS, $16.00.
-
- Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. Stone ($1 of which _for
- Chinese Mission_) 3.00
- Meriden. “A Friend of Missions” 10.00
- Topeka. Justin Hillyer 3.00
-
-
- MINNESOTA, $86.41.
-
- Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.40
- Austin. Union Cong. Ch. 25.77
- Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Medford. J. W. Powell’s Sab. Sch. Class 2.00
- Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $19.64; Second
- Cong. Ch., $1.60 21.24
- Northfield. “Friends,” $7, and Bbl. of C. _for
- Talladega C._; A. L., $1 8.00
- Plainview. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.00
- Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
- _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
- Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00
-
-
- NEBRASKA, $29.00.
-
- Freemont. Cong. Ch., $5; and Sab. Sch., $8 13.00
- Lincoln. J. G. E. 1.00
- Nebraska City. “A Friend,” $10; Woman’s Missionary
- Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $3.50; Individuals, $1.50 15.00
-
-
- CALIFORNIA, $5.00.
-
- Chico. Lewis H. Moss 5.00
-
-
- WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $8.01.
-
- White River. Cong. Ch. 8.01
-
-
- TENNESSEE, $587.25.
-
- Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 117.15
- Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, $245.10; Prof. A. K.
- Spencer, $200, _for Fisk U._;—Soc. for Evan. of
- Africa in Fisk U., $25, _for a Pupil, Mendi M._ 470.10
-
-
- NORTH CAROLINA, $131.36.
-
- Dudley. Tuition 6.45
- Raleigh. Washington Sch. Tuition 16.25
- Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition, $82.50; Sales,
- $22; Cong. Ch. $4.16 108.66
-
-
- SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.50.
-
- Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $317.50;
- —Plymouth Cong. Ch., $3, _for Mendi M._ 320.50
-
-
- GEORGIA, $550.69.
-
- Atlanta. Storrs School Tuition, $185.60; Rent, $3;
- Atlanta U., Tuition, $97; Rent, $16.50 312.10
- Athens. J. G. H. 0.51
- Hawkinsville. M. B. C. 0.50
- Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $48.15; Rent, $4;
- First Cong. Ch., $8 60.15
- Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 118.50; Sales,
- $58.93; Rent, $10 187.43
-
-
- ALABAMA, $418.14.
-
- Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $179.45; Cong. Ch.,
- $2 181.45
- Montgomery. Public Fund 175.00
- Talladega. Talladega Col., _Tuition_, $61.19;
- Rev. J. W. R., 50c 61.69
-
-
- MISSISSIPPI, $57.97.
-
- Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $47.77; Rent, $10.20 57.97
-
-
- MISSOURI, $18.00.
-
- Bridge Creek. I. R. W. 0.50
- Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5; F. P. M.,
- $1; Others, $1.50 17.50
-
-
- LOUISIANA, $96.25.
-
- New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 96.25
-
-
- ———— ——, $25.00.
-
- Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. Natural Science, Fisk U._ 25.00
-
-
- INCOME FUND, $195.50.
-
- Interest _for Mendi M._ 45.50
- Graves Library Fund 150.00
-
-
- CANADA, $20.00.
-
- Guelph. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey 10.00
-
-
- LABRADOR, $10.00.
-
- Labrador. Rev. S. R. Butler 10.00
-
-
- BULGARIA, $10.00.
-
- Bulgaria, Samokov. “Wanderer” 10.00
- ————————
- Total 15,665.32
- Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st $58,823.19
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.
-
- Exeter, N. H. Mrs. Augusta F. Odlin 100.00
- Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins 100.00
- Worcester, Mass. John B. Gough 50.00
- New York, N. Y. Mrs. C. P. Stokes 100.00
- ——————
- Total $350.00
- Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 867.00
- ———————
- Total $1,217.00
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ATHENS, ALA.
-
- Charlotte, Mich. Cong. Ch. 36.00
- Minneapolis, Minn. “Friends” 300.00
- ——————
- Total $336.00
- Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 83.00
- ——————
- Total $419.00
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.
-
- Newton, Mass. Elliot Ch. and Soc. 117.50
- Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to const.
- REV. ALBERT P. MILLER, L. M. 30.00
- Union City, Mich. Mrs. Sarah B. Clark, $5; Mrs. L.
- W. Clark, $5; Mrs. Lee, $3; Juv. Miss. Soc., $3 16.00
- ——————
- Total 163.50
- Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 17.00
- ——————
- Total $180.50
-
- * * * * *
-
- Receipts for January 16,514.82
-
- Total from Oct. 1st to January 31st $62,255.03
- =========
-
- 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 slave-holder, or in the practice
-of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a
-member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life
-member; provided that children and others who have not professed their
-faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.
-
-ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September,
-October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction
-of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the
-Executive Committee.
-
-ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
-officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and
-of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other
-co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.
-
-ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,
-Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than
-twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and
-the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
-
-ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and
-disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and
-dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents;
-the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of
-all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of
-missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no
-ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to
-be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall,
-by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
-aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall
-be final.
-
-The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies
-occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;
-to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of
-incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
-officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the
-Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and
-for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in
-all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general
-conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of
-the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the
-missionary work.
-
-Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting
-business.
-
-ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers,
-agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and
-conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to
-discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of
-unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their
-fellow-beings as slaves.
-
-ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to
-the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain
-missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the
-agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
-
-ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the
-concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual
-meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to
-a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be
-published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in
-the regular official notifications of the meeting.
-
-FOOTNOTE:
-
-[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
-belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
-Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
-of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
-of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
-obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
-the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
-wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
-
-
-
-
-The American Missionary Association.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AIM AND WORK.
-
-To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the
-almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main
-efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and
-Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related
-to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America,
-and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian
-policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.
-
-
-STATISTICS.
-
-CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va.,1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13;
-Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.
-_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.
-
-INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.—_Chartered_:
-Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville,
-Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8.
-_Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston,
-Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile,
-Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.
-
-TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253;
-among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,
-296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in
-other studios, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils
-of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care of the
-Association, 13,000.
-
-
-WANTS.
-
-1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing
-work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_
-contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as the strong.
-
-2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to
-accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for the
-new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for
-these churches.
-
-3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
-missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
-
-Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
-office, as below:
-
- NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
- BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
- CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.
-
-
-MAGAZINE.
-
-This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the
-Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who
-take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath
-Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies
-of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to
-take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five
-dollars.
-
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-who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American
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-direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its
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-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
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- THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME
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-
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-
- 1880.
-
-
-We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the
-increasing appreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year,
-and purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still
-greater value to those interested in the work which it records.
-
-Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for
-1880?
-
-A little effort on the part of our friends, when making
-their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in
-forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the
-influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our
-work.
-
-Under the editorial supervision of Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, aided
-by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries
-and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional
-communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,
-the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture
-of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on
-the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South
-and as missionaries in Africa.
-
-It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters
-affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a
-monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and
-progress.
-
-Patriots and Christians interested in the education and
-Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it,
-and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and
-the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.
-
-The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
-persons indicated on page 94.
-
-Donations and subscriptions should be sent to
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
- 56 Reade Street, New York.
-
-
- TO ADVERTISERS.
-
-Special attention is invited to the advertising department
-of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are
-thousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors
-and Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools;
-it is, therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising
-Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of
-Learning, Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.
-
-Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged
-for space in its columns, considering the extent and character
-of its circulation.
-
-Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month,
-in order to secure insertion in the following number. All
-communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to
-
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- 56 Reade Street, New York.
-
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-of the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by
-mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised
-in our Magazine.=
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-<div>
-<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXIV.</div>
-<div class="third center">&nbsp;</div>
-<div class="third right">No. 3.</div>
-</div>
-<hr class="bottom" />
-
-<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">MARCH, 1880.</p></div>
-
-<div class="wrap">
-<h2><i>CONTENTS:</i></h2>
-<div class="center">
-<table class="toc">
-
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Zeal for Study</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Tropical Africa</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_67">67</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">The Negro in America and Africa</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Dr. Blyden on the American Missionary Society</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Rev. Chas. B. Venning</span>&mdash;Items from the Field</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">African Notes</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_73">73</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">At Talladega: Rev. J. E. Roy, D. D.</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">North Carolina</span>&mdash;McLeansville School</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">South Carolina, Charleston</span>&mdash;Church and
-School Work&mdash;Cause of the Exodus</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_76">76</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Georgia </span>&mdash;Report of Board of Commissioners
-on Atlanta University</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Alabama, Talladega</span>&mdash;Why he likes it: Rev.
-H. S. DeForrest</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Alabama, Athens</span>&mdash;Building Progress&mdash;Missionary Spirit</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Mississippi, Tougaloo</span>&mdash;Student-Conversions&mdash;Crowded Rooms</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Tennessee, Memphis</span>&mdash;School work and Week of Prayer</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline-mc"><span class="smcap">Texas</span>&mdash;Two Hours’ Work by Student Canvasser</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_82">82</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline"><span class="smcap">An Indian Boy’s Letter</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline"><span class="smcap">Anniversary at Sacramento</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline"><span class="smcap">How to make Money for the Missionaries</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">RECEIPTS</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_88">88</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline"><span class="smcap">Constitution</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_93">93</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline"><span class="smcap">Aim, Statistics, Wants</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_94">94</a></td>
- </tr>
-
-</table>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p class="center">NEW YORK.</p>
-<p class="xlarge center">Published by the American Missionary Association,<br />
-<span class="smcap smaller">Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</span>
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p>
-
-<p class="center">Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h2>American Missionary Association,</h2>
-<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<p class="position">PRESIDENT.</p>
-
-<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon. E. S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p>
-
-<div>
-<p class="position">VICE-PRESIDENTS.</p>
-
-<table><tr><td class="tdpr">
-Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, D. D., Mass.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. J.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, D. D., Ct.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Minn.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br />
-Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa.<br />
-Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br />
-<span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, D. D., Ct.<br />
-<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br />
-</td>
-
-<td>
-Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br />
-<span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
-Dea. <span class="smcap">John C. Whitin</span>, Mass.<br />
-Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br />
-Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br />
-<span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
-<span class="smcap">E. a. Graves</span>, Esq., N. J.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble</span>, D. D., Ill.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Daniel Hand</span>, Esq., Ct.<br />
-<span class="smcap">A. L. Williston</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">A. F. Beard</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Frederick Billings</span>, Esq., Vt.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Joseph Carpenter</span>, Esq., R. I.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">E. P. Goodwin</span>, D. D., Ill.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Goodell</span>, D. D., Mo.<br />
-<span class="smcap">J. W. Scoville</span>, Esq., Ill.<br />
-<span class="smcap">E. W. Blatchford</span>, Esq., Ill.<br />
-<span class="smcap">C. D. Talcott</span>, Esq., Ct.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">John K. Mclean</span>, D. D., Cal.<br />
-Rev. <span class="smcap">Richard Cordley</span>, D. D., Kansas.
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-
-<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p>
-
-<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p>
-
-<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
-<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.<br />
-<br />
-H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br />
-<span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.
-</div>
-
-<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>,
-</td>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">C. T. Christensen</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br />
-</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 />
-</td>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Pratt</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">J. A. Shoudy</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>.
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p class="center p1 medium">COMMUNICATIONS</p>
-
-<p class="center">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.
-</p>
-
-<p class="center p1 medium">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p>
-
-<p>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>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p>
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h2>THE<br />
-<span class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</span></h2>
-
-<hr class="top" />
-<div>
-<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXIV.</div>
-<div class="third center">MARCH, 1880.</div>
-<div class="third right">No. 3.</div>
-</div>
-<hr class="bottom" />
-
-<h3 class="nobreak xxxlarge">American Missionary Association.</h3>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p class="p1">We are glad to be able to announce the safe arrival of
-Prof. Chase at Sierra Leone, about the 8th of January, and hope before
-our next issue to receive valuable advices from him.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>We call attention to the Thirty-third Annual Report of the
-Association, recently published. In addition to the general survey
-which was read at the Annual Meeting at Chicago, and the minutes of
-that grand gathering, we have given, as usual, a detailed report of our
-work, and we suggest to pastors and others who may desire to inform
-themselves in regard to particular aspects of it, that if they will
-notice, they will find all this matter so classified in the Report that
-they can easily select just what they want. Thus, after the list of
-institutions and teachers, they may find the following headings: Delay
-in Opening Schools, Quality of the Work, Closing Exercises, Industrial
-Departments, Growing Favor, Buildings, Rented Property, Libraries,
-Student Aid, Religious Character of Schools, Colored Teachers,
-Theological Departments. The Church Work and other main departments
-are analyzed in the same way. We have done this, hoping to make the
-Report a helpful document and one easily used by the friends of the
-Association. Dr. Storrs’ sermon is also printed with it.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>Miss Parmelee’s paper, read before the Woman’s Meeting at the
-Anniversary in Chicago, excited so much interest at the time and since,
-and gave so vivid, so faithful and so sympathetic a view of the perils
-of the girls of the South, that we have, besides giving a portion of
-it in a former <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, re-printed it in
-full, and have sent it largely to the Christian women of our churches.
-We beg them to read it, remembering that its statements are facts, and
-that the evils of which it speaks are among the better class of the
-colored women of the South, and hardly suggest the depths below, in
-which the mass are at home, and into which education and enlightenment
-only make the fall more fatal. May God’s spirit move the hearts of our
-Christian women to save their sisters.
-</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66"
-id="Page_66">[66]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>One of our colored ministers, trained in an American Missionary
-Association school, in stating some incidents of his life to a friend,
-said that he was led, when about sixteen years old, to give up gambling
-and licentiousness, simply out of regard for his teacher, fearing that
-she would learn of his evil ways and despise him. That teacher little
-thought then, and has never learned even, of the blessed influence
-upon that young man, of her pure and consecrated life, which, through
-the providence of God, led to the transformation of a gambler and
-profligate, into an efficient and esteemed Christian minister, through
-whom she is now preaching to hundreds and even thousands.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>The Superintendent, scouring through Georgia, came across Rev.
-Mr. Thomas, a choice man, who has charge of two colored Presbyterian
-churches at Union Point and Woodstock, under commission of the
-Northern General Assembly, and who got all his schooling&mdash;three
-years&mdash;at our Lewis High School in Macon, Ga. So the fruit of our
-tree of knowledge, is falling over into other church lots, and we are
-glad of it. Such fruitage is a great encouragement to the teachers of
-our minor schools.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><i>A Bible Example of Reconstruction.</i>&mdash;It was after the return
-from Babylon. Civil and the moral reformation went hand in hand. The
-first Governor, Zerubabel, who was a grandson of a former king, had
-the high priest, Joshua, to lead in the worship, and the prophets,
-Haggai and Zechariah, to preach and to teach. The next Governor,
-Ezra, instituted for the instruction of the people an extensive
-system of Bible-readings. “So they read in the Book, in the law of
-God, distinctly and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the
-reading.”
-</p>
-
-<p>The next Governor, Nehemiah, was a reformer. He put down the
-practices of taking heathen wives, of violating the Sabbath, and of
-exacting illegal interest. No improvement has as yet been made upon
-that style of civil reconstruction. Religion and education, the church
-and the school, must go along with the re-ordering of the State. So we
-find our work at the South in the line of a Divine pattern. The Bible
-gives us its ideal of dealing with freedmen by taking into its sacred
-canon the five books of Moses for the emancipated Israelites, the books
-of Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai and Zechariah, for the restored captives.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>ZEAL FOR STUDY.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1">A good deal has been said, from time to time, of the
-abatement among the colored people of that eagerness to learn, which
-marked the days immediately following their emancipation. Of course,
-much of it is true; many found by trial that it was not so easy or
-instantaneous a process to learn to read as they had supposed; the
-pressure of self-support drew away the attention of others from their
-aspirations after an education; unduly excited ambitions and crude
-hopes were seen to be unfounded, and in the disappointment many were
-discouraged. But all of it is not true. There are many instances yet
-of the early eagerness to learn among the young, and even among the
-old; we give an instance from a teacher’s letter: “One woman, 39 years
-old, lives in the country, and walks six miles to school, and six miles
-again after school to her home. Her seat has been vacant only on one
-or two of the rainiest days since the school opened, September 1st. At
-home, she has all her household affairs to look after, and finds time
-to study at night even then; and if, on account of helping her husband
-to pick cotton in the fall, she would go late to bed without ‘knowing
-her lesson,’
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></span>
-
-it ‘worried’ her so, she said, that she ‘could not get a wink of sleep,’
-and her husband would waken to find her up and studying. She is gaining
-slowly in rudimentary knowledge, and is very much pleased, or, as she
-would say, ‘proud’ of her success. Several such ones, eager to learn, I
-have under my care, and though they can learn but slowly, it is really
-better than that they should never know anything, though I think we
-would count it hardly worth while to take such pains so late in life;
-yet, better to get upon the first round of the ladder than not to rise
-at all.”
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>TROPICAL AFRICA.<br /> <span class="smaller">The Three Lake
-Missions.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="p1">Among the great movements of this stirring age, none
-are, perhaps, more far-reaching than those for the exploration and
-evangelization of Tropical Africa. The splendid achievements of
-Livingstone and Stanley crown and complete the efforts of their heroic
-predecessors. Africa’s three great central lakes and her two great
-rivers&mdash;the mysteries of the ages&mdash;are now explored and
-mapped.
-</p>
-
-<p>The missionary efforts that have followed these discoveries reveal
-an enthusiasm, and a consecration of talent and life, worthy of the
-vast field thus opened. In the promptness of the response, the money
-and the lives devoted and the number of missions founded or projected,
-the last five years give a history that probably has no parallel in
-the records of Christian missions. The story of these adventures in
-discovery and evangelization has the fascination of romance, and
-is pathetic in the piety and the sufferings of both travellers and
-missionaries.
-</p>
-
-<p>We select as illustrations the three Lake Missions of Tropical
-Africa.
-</p>
-
-<p class="p1">1. The Victoria Nyanza Mission.</p>
-
-<p>On the northern shores of this greatest of Africa’s central lakes is
-the dominion of King Mtesa&mdash;a name now familiar to the civilized
-world. He rules over two millions of people, has a navy of 300 war
-canoes and an army of 150,000 warriors. In 1875, Stanley reached his
-capital. The welcome was cordial, and for two months the traveller
-taught the King the principles of Christianity with such happy results
-that the Bible was studied, and in obedience to its teachings, an enemy
-and rebel, conquered in battle and doomed to death in accordance with
-African morals and invariable practice, was spared! Stanley appreciated
-the true value of the King’s “conversion,” and saw the need of having
-his own incipient teaching followed up by steady missionary labors.
-His appeal for such labors was written in Africa and appeared in a
-London paper Nov. 15, 1875. The prompt response should be noticed.
-Three days after it appeared, came an anonymous offer of $25,000 for
-the founding of the mission, and soon another equal sum was proffered.
-The venerable and efficient Church Missionary Society undertook the
-work. The consecrated money was soon followed by the consecrated men.
-In 1876, the company of missionaries landed at Zanzibar, and travelling
-the 800 miles of jungle in six months, and marking their first disaster
-in the death of one of their party, reached Mtesa’s capital. They were
-welcomed with enthusiasm, and when the name of Jesus was uttered, a
-salute was fired. The work was begun immediately, but soon the second
-great disaster came&mdash;two of the company, Lieutenant Smith and
-Mr. O’Neill, were murdered at no great distance from the capital. But
-instead of discouragement, these disasters called forth new enthusiasm.
-Three young men were promptly sent out by the Church Missionary
-Society. They took the Nile route, but a journey that should have taken
-three or four months was protracted to nine
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a></span>
-
-by the floating islands in the Upper Nile and the ignorance of the
-Arab captain. One of the missionaries received a sunstroke and was
-obliged to return. At length they reached Uganda and were joyfully
-received, but soon came the greatest calamity&mdash;a week after their
-arrival two French Jesuit priests came also, and succeeded in so
-disaffecting the mind of the King as to arrest the work, and lead to
-the withdrawment of most of the missionaries. The summary at the latest
-dates is: Sixteen missionaries in all have been sent, of whom six have
-died and three have returned sick. Of the seven still in Africa, four
-have been permitted to go on various duties and three remain at Uganda
-without the facilities either to carry on their work or to withdraw.
-</p>
-
-<p class="p1">2. Tanganika Mission.</p>
-
-<p>Ujiji, the location of the Tanganika Mission is endeared to the
-friends of Livingstone. Here he made his temporary home, and here,
-almost ready to die, he was discovered by Stanley, to be restored to
-vigor and to toil still longer for Africa, till at last he was found
-dead upon his knees. The plan for a mission here was formed by the
-London Missionary Society, scarcely less venerable than the Church
-Missionary Society.
-</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Arthington of Leeds, Eng., one of the generous and prompt
-donors of $25,000 for the Nyassa Mission, gave a like sum for this.
-Four ordained missionaries, one scientific man and one builder, left
-London in March, 1877. Their journey from the coast of Africa was
-protracted over thirteen months in consequence of the many obstacles
-and vexatious delays. Added to these trials, death did its fearful
-work. Under these discouraging circumstances, Dr. Mullen, the intrepid
-and beloved Secretary of the Society, obtained the reluctant consent of
-the Directors to lead in person an additional force, and to hasten the
-progress of the supplies. But he had gone only 200 miles from the coast
-when death closed his useful career. No event in the last five years
-has cast such a gloom over mission circles in Great Britain as the sad
-fate of this noble man.
-</p>
-
-<p class="p1">3. Nyassa Mission.</p>
-
-<p>Again is the stimulus of Livingstone’s labors seen, and his name and
-memory honored in the founding of another mission: the Livingstonia on
-Lake Nyassa. It was a labor of love for the Free Church of Scotland,
-aided by sister communions to undertake this mission. In the Spring of
-1875, the expedition started, having been furnished with all needed
-supplies, including a beautiful steel steamer and two boats for the use
-of the mission on the Lake. After a tedious journey up the Zambesi and
-Shiré and a toilsome land journey of 60 miles, around the Murchison
-Falls, the Lake was at length reached.
-</p>
-
-<p>After a brief search, a site was selected that held out unusual
-hopes of coveted advantages&mdash;there were no mosquitos and a
-favoring lake breeze gave promise of health. But alas for the
-unforeseen and insignificant difficulties that sometimes defeat
-the greatest undertakings&mdash;the fatal tsetse fly compelled the
-choice of a new location. But we cannot give space for the subsequent
-details.
-</p>
-
-<p>The disasters and deaths in these missions have had a depressing
-effect upon the hearts of Christians in Great Britain, and we fear that
-the discouragements will to some extent be felt in this country. But we
-must guard ourselves against hasty inferences and unwarranted fears. We
-should remember:&mdash;
-</p>
-
-<p>1. That trials at the outset are often God’s means of arousing a
-deeper faith. The history of missions, modern and Apostolic, is full
-of examples. The Teloogoo Mission where such an unusual work of Divine
-grace has recently been experienced and the converts have been numbered
-by thousands, was for a long time the scene
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></span>
-
-of unfruitful labors. Bishop Crowther’s Mission in West Africa, now so
-strong and growing, had an early experience of toils and persecutions.
-The Apostles themselves encountered imprisonments and death not only,
-but their labors were sometimes followed by defections, perversions of
-doctrine and scandals in life.
-</p>
-
-<p>2. We should take courage from the fact that the slave-trade, the
-worst foe to missionary labors in Africa, is feeling the effects of the
-earnest efforts of Great Britain for its overthrow. Sir Samuel Baker,
-and after him Col. Gordon, the stout old Covenanter&mdash;the Havelock
-of Africa&mdash;have crippled its power on the Upper Nile, while the
-labors of Sir Bartle Frere, and subsequently of Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar,
-have been equally effective along the coast, so that the Church
-Missionary Intelligencer feels authorized to say that “the slave-trade
-if not killed, is scotched.” The missions themselves, though hindered
-in many respects, have had a salutary influence in shaming and
-arresting this fiendish traffic.
-</p>
-
-<p>3. Finally, the church of God must bear in mind that the Saviour’s
-last and great command, “Go ye into all the world and preach the
-Gospel,” is accompanied by that all-comprehensive and all-sufficient
-promise, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.”
-God will redeem the whole world, and in the Saviour’s heart and plan,
-Africa is not forgotten.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>THE NEGRO IN AMERICA AND AFRICA.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1">Dr. Edward W. Blyden, of Liberia, Africa, is the author of an interesting
-article in the <cite>Methodist Quarterly Review</cite> for January, 1880, from which we gratefully
-reprint elsewhere his tribute to our work. Anything which comes from the
-pen of this distinguished gentleman&mdash;one of the most cultured men of the
-race whose cause he pleads&mdash;is well worth reading and consideration. With much
-that the Doctor says, we are in full and hearty agreement, but beg leave to make
-one or two suggestions, growing out of what seem to be at least not unwarranted
-deductions from his positions.
-</p>
-
-<p>No one can regret more than we do the prejudice which exists, in this country
-especially, against the colored man. And there is no doubt that, as Dr. Blyden
-observes, even among those who are not unmoved by the story of his wrongs, and
-who are earnestly engaged in philanthropic efforts for his uplifting, this personal
-prejudice and sense of superiority does exist. That it is not so to anything like
-the same degree in England and on the Continent, is suggestive in the light it casts
-upon the fact among us. On what is the difference of feeling founded? Certainly
-not altogether in the natural race-prejudice. That is a fact not to be denied.
-There is a prejudice which is universal between all people of distinct races of men.
-It is felt by the original inhabitants of Africa against the Caucasian, as Dr. B.
-shows, as well as by the white man in his own home against the black. But in
-this land, the prejudice is intensified by the position and the character of those
-who have made up the negro population.
-</p>
-
-<p>Dr. Blyden objects to our calling the Negro, Indian and Chinaman “the
-despised races.” He even dislikes to have Africa called “the Dark Continent.”
-Of course, our brother knows that the sympathies of this Association are, as
-they have always been, with these people of his land, and that our toils and
-labors have not been limited, nor of brief continuance, in their behalf. All this
-he most fully and kindly acknowledges in his article. It is hardly necessary for
-us to say, then, that we have used the term as describing what is, and as contrasted
-with what ought to be. It is true, rightly or wrongly, that they have
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></span>
-
-been looked down upon and are still despised. And we have used the word as
-setting forth the fact, and as, therefore, the strongest plea to Christian sympathy
-and help; for we have been sure that where we could enlist these, the term would
-no longer have application. The good Samaritan did not despise the poor Jew
-who had fallen among thieves, as he held him up on the ass which bore him to the
-inn. He was too busy pitying and helping him. Perhaps this is enough to say.
-We have used the term “the Despised Races” not as an epithet, but as a plea.
-</p>
-
-<p>A fair inference at least from the Doctor’s article is, that he sees no hope for his
-people on this continent, and that their only way to success is to emigrate to the
-land of their mothers, and to make its reclamation their ambition. But how does
-that affect our work and the present generation? The American Colonization
-Society, as seen by its last published report, sent out to Africa during the year 1878,
-one hundred and one colonists; during the same year the bark Azor transported two
-hundred and forty. It is but a spoonful dipped from this deep sea. It is but the
-smallest possible percentage even of the increase of the colored population of
-America. Meanwhile, what are we to do with the five millions who remain, and
-with their children and their children’s children? What we do for them we
-must do for them here.
-</p>
-
-<p>We, too, believe in colonization; in the evangelization of Africa by Africans;
-and the only difference in our aim and purpose from the work with which the Doctor
-is so fully identified, is that we want to distribute our colonists more widely.
-It is well to have a Christian republic in Africa. But it is our desire to plant
-small colonies of twenty-five or thirty, among whom shall be both ministers and
-mechanics, here and there through the still “dark continent”&mdash;points of radiation
-for the light of life and of Christian civilization which they are to hold forth.
-</p>
-
-<p>We are full of sympathy and interest with the good work in Liberia. May the
-Lord bless it abundantly. But the work here is not hopeless. Hundreds of
-thousands of the Freedmen still answer, from amid all their disappointments and
-disabilities, “We are rising.” Our plan and purpose desire to take part in both
-hemispheres of the whole rounded work&mdash;to save the African in America and in
-Africa alike.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>DR. BLYDEN ON THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1">The American Missionary Association, whose publications
-we have prefixed to this paper, in their work of lofty and noble
-purpose through the South are endeavoring to prepare the negro for
-higher spheres of labor than “cotton-fields, turpentine orchards, and
-rice-fields.” Every negro who is at all acquainted with matters in the
-United States must have the highest admiration for it. Almost alone
-among the benevolent institutions of that land in the days of the great
-struggle, they never for one moment yielded to the imperious dictates
-of an oligarchical monopoly, but gave expression to the idea which they
-inscribed upon their banner, that one of the chief purposes of their
-organization was to resist the tyranny of the autocracy which doomed
-the negro to perpetual servitude. No one could be enrolled among its
-members who was a slave-holder. They have the gratitude of the negro
-race.
-</p>
-
-<p>But history will have a brighter page than even that with which
-to adorn their annals, when she comes to recount the devotion and
-sacrifices of the hundreds who have been sent forth under their
-auspices, as uplifters of the prostrate host in the South, to whom,
-left as they were, paralyzed by slavery, free movement
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span>
-
-and real progress were intrinsically impossible without the aid of such
-agencies as the American Missionary Association. As time rolls on, the
-romance which clings to those heroes who fought to unfetter the body of
-the slave, will fade beside the halo which will surround these who have
-labored to liberate his mind.
-</p>
-
-<p class="right">(<cite>Methodist Quarterly Review.</cite>)</p> </div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>REV. CHARLES B. VENNING.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1">One of our most earnest and devoted missionaries at
-the Jamaica Mission, after severe and protracted suffering, has
-entered into his rest. Mr. Venning went about fifty years ago, when
-Negro-slavery was at its height, to work on a Jamaica sugar estate. He
-was then an ardent young Englishman, and easily led into dissipation
-and vice. But the Lord arrested him, and the course of his whole life
-was changed. He entered the Mico Institute, a Training College for
-Schoolmasters, and was a successful teacher. He then became interested
-in the efforts of the American Missionary Association, and desired to
-devote himself entirely to school work and religious teaching among
-the Negroes in the country districts of the Island. His name stands
-on the list of missionaries in our first Annual Report, and he has
-labored faithfully every year since&mdash;while his health would permit
-by active efforts, and when on a bed of suffering by example and
-counsel.
-</p>
-
-<p>We quote the following from the letter of a fellow missionary: “I
-never saw a man who so entirely devoted himself to the work as he did.
-He had the true missionary spirit. He not only preached the Gospel in
-his own church, but from house to house and in the most out-of-the-way
-places; indeed everywhere where men would give a listening ear. No
-other missionary in the Island did so much for the education of his
-people as Bro. Venning, and outside of the towns there could be found
-no people so intelligent as his. He watched over his flock with almost
-a painful interest&mdash;encouraged and reproved. He gathered the
-poor that were otherwise uncared for about his own door, gave them
-shelter, fed them from his own table, and clothed them from his own
-wardrobe.”
-</p>
-
-<p>One who knew him intimately at the Island writes: “He labored
-literally night and day most earnestly for the salvation of souls and
-the welfare of those who had been converted. Being a born educator,
-he has left his mark upon the generation that has grown up under his
-instruction. As a private Christian, he was most real and honest, and
-free from all guile, exemplifying in all his life, in the most striking
-manner, those beautiful words of Scripture ‘harmless’ and ‘blameless.’
-His faith triumphed nobly in the end. In my interviews with him of
-late, it has been most interesting to see with how firm a grasp he held
-fast to the assurances of God’s blessed word, and thus found perfect
-rest and peace to his soul.”
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1"><span class="smcap">Nashville,
-Tenn.</span>&mdash;Religious interest is reported in the school. Six
-persons have professed their faith in Christ. The day of prayer for
-colleges was observed and we hope that good may result from the day.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">McIntosh, Liberty Co., Ga.</span>&mdash;Pastor
-Snelson writes: We observed the week of prayer. The weather was mild,
-and consequently we did not have to go into the Academy for the use
-of the stoves. Last Sabbath, eleven were received into the church by
-confession and one by letter. It was a blessed day with us. There is
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a></span>
-
-much here to do. Miss E. W. Douglass is a great help to us. The people
-all like her. She is at work any and everywhere. They call her in some
-places the lady-preacher. I would to the Lord that more missionaries
-like her were sent throughout the field of the American Missionary
-Association. Pray for us.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Anniston, Ala.</span>&mdash;On Thursday night,
-December 25th, the colored church was crowded to its utmost capacity
-to witness the exercises of the school children, which consisted of
-songs, recitations, etc. The Rev. P. J. McEntosh has had this school
-and church at Anniston in charge for a number of years and has labored
-with untiring energy to elevate the colored people, and has met with a
-great deal of encouragement. After the school exercises, the presents
-from the Christmas tree were distributed among the children. Several
-white visitors were present and spoke very highly of the management of
-the church and school. On Friday night, they gave a fair at which they
-realized $56.80.&mdash;<cite>Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times.</cite>
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Greenwood, S. C.</span>&mdash;Mr. J. D.
-Backenstose writes: I have just closed my first week of school for
-this year (1880), and am glad to be able to report a larger number of
-students than ever before at this place.</p>
-
-<p>I have had to rent a room of one of my neighbors, and we have as
-many boarders now as we can well accommodate, even with our new house,
-and more are to come in the middle of the month.</p>
-
-<p>The house is 18×36, containing two rooms 18×18, with two windows
-and a door in each room and a chimney in the middle. Each room is
-to contain three bedsteads, and from six to nine chairs. The house
-completed and furnished will cost $228.68, a little more than we
-calculated, but it is large, well built and well furnished.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>&mdash;Both of the barns,
-one being new and very valuable, with most of their contents, including
-hay, grain, corn, and corn-fodder, 300 bushels of cotton-seed, with
-tools and farm-implements and three cows, were burnt Wednesday night,
-Jan. 7. Evidently it was the work of an incendiary, but not instigated
-at all by any prevailing ill-will toward the College. Subscriptions
-were at once circulated among citizens, both white and black, and
-while the amount raised is not large, the number and willingness of
-the contributions prove the interest felt by this community in the
-College. Efforts will be made to rebuild at once. The loss is estimated
-at $1,200. It falls heavily on the agricultural department, which is
-becoming an important factor in the college work. The farm does much
-toward feeding the large family, and gives opportunity of self-help to
-the young men.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">North Carolina.</span>&mdash;While Islay
-Walden’s people in Randolph county were hauling in logs for the lumber
-of their new church, the mill was burned, and a part of their boards.
-The owner not being able to rebuild, and there being no other mill
-near, the people came together to help him, the young colored preacher
-putting down $25 from his scanty salary. They hope to have the mill
-under way again in three or four weeks. Meantime they will hurry in
-their logs, to be the first of the new sawing.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Tougaloo, Miss.</span>&mdash; We have a colored
-man visiting his daughter to-day; his first visit to Tougaloo. He says
-he is keeping his daughter in school with the money saved by himself
-and wife on snuff and tobacco since signing the pledge; the result of
-the work of one of our students who taught in his district.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>&mdash;The Central Church
-is having a wonderful revival. Mr. Alexander has preached every night
-since the beginning of the year. The interest
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a></span>
-
-is remarkable, crowding the room every evening with a quiet, orderly,
-and earnest audience; many have been converted. Twenty-eight united
-with the church Feb. 1st.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>AFRICAN NOTES.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1">&mdash;The long delayed tidings have been received
-by the London Missionary Society from Messrs. Hore and Hutley at
-Lake Tanganika. The particulars of Mr. Dodgshun’s death are given.
-Annoyances and delays interposed by the Arab slave-traders are
-rehearsed. We give a few extracts from letters:&mdash;
-</p>
-
-<p>“During the seven months of our stay here, we have done much towards
-making friends with the natives; they have closely observed us, and
-admit that they can see nothing bad; but the influence of the Arabs
-is so powerful that they, the Wajiji, are afraid to make any definite
-negotiations with us apart from the Arabs.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>“The slave-trade at Ujiji is merely a small local
-affair&mdash;slaves captured in war, &amp;c., amongst surrounding
-tribes, and passed from hand to hand, till they finally come to a stand
-in some Arab’s <i lang="sw" xml:lang="sw">shamba</i>: this used to be
-done in the market, but since we came here, it has all been kept out
-of sight. Once only some Wajiji offered us a slave for sale as they
-passed by our <i lang="sw" xml:lang="sw">tembe</i>. The traders owning
-these domestic slaves, have from twenty to one hundred of them (I think
-Muniyi Heri reaches the larger number); they are their domestics,
-boatmen, carriers, body guard, and cultivators, and, of course, form
-the principle population of the place, filling up with huts the spaces
-between their masters’ larger houses.
-</p>
-
-<p>“Slavery amongst the natives is another matter. The Wajiji are great
-slave-holders, slaves being as common as domestic servants at home;
-but no great numbers are owned by individuals as among the Arabs. A
-common present between chiefs is one or two slaves, and Mirambo sends
-small parties from time to time to buy both slaves and ivory. When the
-Portuguese and Arab slave-trades are crushed out, or nearly so, we
-shall see and more fully realize the extent of native slavery, or slave
-customs, which cover the continent through its length and breadth. The
-former will have cost an immense outlay of the power and influence of
-civilized Europe ere it is swept away. The latter will take years of
-faithful mission labor to eradicate.
-</p>
-
-<p>“To fulfil my promise to an Arab, to whom I said, ‘We do not want
-to buy except for our own use; but I will send your words to England,’
-I add these few lines:&mdash;The Arabs say, ‘If the white men will
-come here and buy, we will grow as much sugar and rice, and spice and
-oil, &amp;c., as they want, and would much rather get our money in
-that way, than in dangerous [and, as they admit one by one privately,
-<em>illegal</em>] slave-hunting.’ I keep telling them that the
-slave-trade is dying out, and they had better look to something else
-before they are left in the lurch.”
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>&mdash;“I have great trouble with my sailors who of course are
-<em>not</em> sailors. On one occasion I was close off Cape Kiungwe.
-About two <span class="medium">A. M.</span>, pitch dark, a heavy squall
-burst on us from the northward, with sheets of rain. I could not see
-one foot in front of my eyes. This lasted for two or three hours, the
-boat sweeping along at a great rate without a stitch of canvas, and a
-nasty foaming sea. All six men became perfectly helpless, and huddled
-together inside the cabin. The good little binnacle, however, kept the
-compass-lamp burning, and by it only I knew where to steer; had it gone
-out, none of them could have put it to rights. I could
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></span>
-
-not possibly let go the tiller; they were perfectly unable to work the
-paddles had they been required, and it was only after roaring myself
-hoarse at them that I could rouse them to bale the water out. When they
-get home they strut about with a little cane in their hands, and boast
-of their sailorizing.”
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>&mdash;“I trust,” he writes, “no one will call this mission
-disastrous, or condemn Ujiji hastily as unhealthy. It is certainly much
-healthier than Zanzibar, and both Mr. Hutley and myself were never more
-persistent in our determination to go on. Certainly we want more help,
-but the work is <em>going on</em>. We are living down native prejudices
-and suspicions, and the lies of slanderers. We will slacken no effort
-to carry on this work; and I am speaking, not at home, but in the midst
-of the work and its difficulties. May God induce His stewards to do
-their part, and see in the vacant spaces of the ranks only cause for
-new and earnest effort. I commenced this letter with but mournful news;
-I desire to close it with an expression of thankfulness to God for what
-health and strength and success He has given us, and with an earnest
-appeal to all missionary hearts to apply their means and strength with
-renewed vigor to this work, and to be assured that, however cavilers
-may talk of disaster, there is no despondency here.”
-</p>
-
-<p>&mdash;On the eve of going to press the Directors have received a
-telegram from the Society’s agent in Zanzibar, to the following effect:
-“The Rev. W. Griffith and Dr. Southon arrived at Ujiji on the 23d of
-September; all well.”
-</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>&mdash;An Alexandria despatch to the <cite>Daily News</cite> says
-Ismail Eyoud Pacha has been appointed Governor of the Soudan, vice
-Gordon Pacha resigned.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,</p>
-
-<p class="center secauth">FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>AT TALLADEGA.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1"><i>At the Faculty Meeting.</i>&mdash;Three men and four women
-present. Prayer. The circle is passed around for matters of business.
-Besides minor things these results are reached; Will observe the day
-of prayer for colleges, with an address at morning worship, with a
-prayer-meeting in the afternoon for the male students, one for the
-females and one for the faculty, and with a general meeting at night;
-will hold a Normal Institute on the last two days of the present term,
-inviting the colored teachers in the region round about to come, and
-asking Mr. A. W. Farnham, Normal Professor at the Atlanta University,
-to be present and help; will have a series of familiar lectures,
-alternating on Friday night with the young people’s sociable. Surely
-all this looks like business.
-</p>
-
-<p><i>At the Library.</i>&mdash;The donation of books to the value of more
-than four hundred dollars, from Rev. W. H. Willcox, of Malden, Mass.,
-attracts the eye, and feasts it, too. The books are new, of standard
-and current interest.
-</p>
-
-<p><i>At the Prayer Meeting.</i>&mdash;One of the colored young preachers
-reports the fine large old Bible which, as the gift of some Eastern
-friend, he had taken into his little church at the Cove on the
-preceding Sabbath. The people had requested him to express their
-thanks. Then President DeForest followed. There is a story connected
-with that book. It came with a box of things from the Congregational
-Church at
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a></span>
-
-Columbus, N.J., Rev. E. B. Turner’s. It came from Harriet Storrs, who
-is a cousin of my mother. Every page of the book has been prayed over.
-Out of the Sabbath-school of that old hill-town church, six ministers
-of the Gospel have been raised up, among whom, I suppose, they count
-myself, for that was my father’s home; and two wives of foreign
-missionaries have come from the same source. Surely that old nest must
-be kept warm for more of such productiveness.
-</p>
-
-<p><i>At Evening Prayers.</i>&mdash;It is in the dining-hall, where the
-students of both sexes and the teachers meet. The repast over, the
-President, as is his wont, gives a resumé of the current news, the
-discovery of the intro-Mercurial star, the day’s phase of the Maine
-affairs, and other such. Then the students at two of the tables recite
-each a verse upon a particular topic, temptation; then the sweetness of
-a religious song; then prayer; then a quiet and orderly retiring. It is
-alone the religion of Jesus that can present such a scene.
-</p>
-
-<p><i>At the Farm.</i>&mdash;You enter its enclosure, passing under a
-graceful arch that bears in large letters the emblazonment, “Winsted
-Farm.” So everybody knows what town it was in Connecticut that did a
-good deal toward the providing of that industrial department. The wheat
-and the rye and the oats are covering the fields with green, even at
-this mid-winter time. You can see that there is good farming in that
-locality. You can see it, too, by contrast.
-</p>
-
-<p><i>Co-operative Farming.</i>&mdash;During the last season the colored
-people about our church at Lawson’s, in Alabama, Rev. J. W. Strong,
-pastor, rented a half-dozen acres of land, and cultivated the most of
-it in cotton, for the purpose of adding to the fund for supporting
-their school. They had a board of managers. They worked when called
-upon. They plowed and hoed. They at last picked out the cotton and
-found that they had two bales, worth $120. One bale they sent to the
-colored folks’ Industrial Fair, on the grounds of Talladega College.
-This church is now also engaged in building a house of worship, having
-the frame erected, intending, with the aid of $100 from the A.M.A., to
-go on this season with the finishing, and hoping that a revival will be
-its process of dedication.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>NORTH CAROLINA.<br /> <span class="xmedium">Our School.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. ALFRED CONNET, MCLEANSVILLE.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">Our school is put down as a common school. That is
-correct. Yet we are laboring to make it more than a common school. To
-this end we have graded it as follows:
-</p>
-
-<p>A. Normal; B. Normal. A. Intermediate; B. Intermediate. A. Primary;
-B. Primary.
-</p>
-
-<p>Through the kindness of friends in the North the school had been
-supplied with a good many books, and unfortunately, there was a great
-variety of text-books. We have ordered new, standard books, and have
-secured uniformity. As we had new books it was easy to require all to
-begin at the bottom and work up, and to do thorough work.
-</p>
-
-<p>In a very few instances we have found pupils who can go into two
-classes in the same branch. In this way they bring up from the first,
-and at the same time go on with a more advanced class.
-</p>
-
-<p>The grading, the new books, and the uniformity of books, have each
-and all had a stimulating effect. They see there is a ladder to climb.
-They see they cannot start at the top, or the middle, but must begin at
-the bottom. They study harder. The school has improved in numbers and
-in regularity of attendance. The number enrolled is 84.
-</p>
-
-<p>Our pupils are from four counties, including this (Guilford) county.
-Thirteen are here paying board, or boarding themselves. Of the thirteen
-all are professors of religion but three: one is
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a></span>
-
-a minister, two are preparing for the ministry; one professed religion
-since he came here a year ago, one of those preparing for the ministry
-united with the church at the last communion, and one is a teacher.
-Of those enrolled last year, seven are teachers, six of whom are now
-teaching, and one attending school. One pupil who is a minister reports
-over forty hopeful conversions in connection with his labors during the
-summer vacation.
-</p>
-
-<p>A year ago we greatly felt the need of dormitories, and
-accommodations for students to “batch.” For this the Association could
-make no appropriation. One of the neighbors has put up a building for
-this purpose, another is building, and a third has converted an old
-store-room into dormitories, and four families have taken boarders.
-Last year our school was confined to one room; now we have added a
-recitation room.
-</p>
-
-<p>On the whole, the outlook is hopeful. By the close of the present
-school year twelve to fifteen of our pupils will be able to obtain
-teacher’s license from the County School-Examiner.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>SOUTH CAROLINA.<br /> <span class="xmedium">Church and School
-Work&mdash;The Cause of the Exodus.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. TEMPLE CUTLER, CHARLESTON.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">The work goes quietly on here in Charleston&mdash;in all
-its departments. The school is flourishing. It never had so many pupils
-as now, and was never more popular than under the direction of Mr.
-Gaylord. We are not ashamed to have visitors from North, South, East,
-or West, visit Avery. If any of your readers doubt the capacity of
-these colored boys and girls, let them come and see for themselves.
-</p>
-
-<p>Miss Wells, our missionary, is doing good work&mdash;visiting the
-homes and teaching the mothers and daughters how to make the home what
-it should be.
-</p>
-
-<p>The church work goes on slowly. The feeling of unity and harmony
-is increasing, and, so far as I can see, may be said to be universal
-in the church. We have had stormy weather in Plymouth for some time;
-it has been a sort of Cape Hatteras, around which the winds have
-revelled, but now the sky is clear and the sea smooth. We have a large
-growth of tares in the church that does neither us nor anybody else
-any good. If we should undertake to root it out, I do not know how
-much wheat might come up with it, nor how much wheat we would trample
-down in getting to it. Oh, how wise we need to be in dealing with
-these people; what a broad mantle of charity we have to throw over
-them. Those of us who glean after the reapers in this field, where the
-“patriarchal institution” once flourished, find that either the type of
-piety that prevailed in the “Abrahamic household” was very defective,
-or the “Abrahamic duty” was woefully neglected. Certainly, the idea
-of religion that prevails among the former dependents of these modern
-patriarchs, is not that of either the Old or New Testament. But why
-throw stones at the old defunct institution? What did I say? Defunct?
-I wish to God it was defunct, and that these freemen had a fair chance
-and a free fight for their rights and liberties. But that day is a long
-way off; and I fear the shimmer of the morn is not yet seen. I want to
-be just as hopeful as possible. I never was a croaker. I generally see
-the bright side of a thing. But sometimes, when I come in from some
-tale of oppression and misery, the clouds just shut right down&mdash;it
-is midnight. When I am made to know that there are 20,000 poor wretches
-here in this city that are the carcass on which rich cormorants are
-fattening, my soul is sick within me. Congress may investigate the
-cause of the emigration of the colored people to all eternity, and come
-to what conclusion they may, it won’t stop. I pray
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a></span>
-
-God it may not stop until enough laborers get away from the South to
-give room for those who remain to grow. God knows the truth, and He
-will open some way for His people to go out. I assure you His new
-Israel has not yet come to the land flowing with milk and honey. What
-think you of a man supporting a family of four on 25 cents a day, and
-paying five dollars a month for house rent? What think you of a family
-of five living on the wages of the daughter who gets six dollars a
-month working out, and paying five dollars a month for house rent?
-<em>Hungry mouths will stifle conscience.</em> Or, how long could the
-good people of the North live on hasty-pudding without molasses or
-milk, morning, noon and night, and nothing else, day after day and week
-after week?
-</p>
-
-<p>Do you say, why not go back into the country and work the land?
-So I said to one who had brought his family of five or six down here
-to starve with the rest: “Why didn’t you stay up in the country?”
-“Couldn’t lib up dar no how. Starve up dar shuah. Rent so high couldn’t
-lib. Had free acres of land and a po, misable shantie, and had to work
-fo days ob de week fur de rent, and but two days to tend my own crop.
-Hab to buy ebreting ob de commisary. Hab to pay twenty cents a pound
-fur meat (bacon), and forty cents a peck fur grits (corn meal). Starve
-to deff up dar shuah.” Four days’ work every week for the rent of three
-acres of land! The best land in that section is worth four dollars
-per acre. Call the man’s work worth twenty-five cents a day. His rent
-was one dollar a week&mdash;fifty-two dollars a year. No wonder the
-landlords are not anxious to sell land to the colored people, when
-they can get four times the value of the land every year in work at
-twenty-five cents a day. Defunct institution! Yes, on the statute book.
-“But, my man, why didn’t you buy the land at four dollars an acre?”
-“Well, sah, some ob ’em did buy de land. I dunno how much dey pays;
-but I knows when dey’s paid two or tree stalments dey can’t pay no mo,
-and gibs em up.” Do you wonder the people listen to glowing pictures
-of better opportunities somewhere else? If these people had a decent
-chance at home, they would not listen to invitations away. The fact is,
-they are perfectly helpless, and there is nothing for the mass of them
-but to sit down and wait, wait, wait, through the long, long years till
-the morning comes. I do not wonder they emigrate. I pray God they may
-continue to go, until those who remain shall have their hands full to
-supply the demands for labor. It may not be better for those that go,
-but it will be better for those that remain. The more you thin out your
-woodland, the taller and stouter will be your timber. The only hope
-for this people is a scarcity of laborers. There are so many who must
-have work, or die, that every vacancy has a dozen ready applicants.
-Twenty-five cents a day, I am told, is all that some of these planters
-will give to man or woman; and they can get enough at that price. In
-such circumstances, you cannot expect people to haggle long about the
-price of labor. The cry is simply, “Give me my hire.” And then, if you
-remember that two hundred years of slavery in a man’s blood is not a
-very good preparation for independency, you may get a pretty good idea
-of the situation of the people.
-</p>
-
-<p>But my letter is too long. Tell the churches to pray for the freeman
-of the South. I do not say freedmen, because there are thousands here
-who were never slaves and are no better off. Ask the churches to help
-us to give them the only consolation they can at present have&mdash;a
-sure and intelligent hope of a better world than this on the other
-side&mdash;and not expect them, out of their deep poverty, to pay for
-their own schooling or preaching just yet.
-</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_78"
-id="Page_78">[78]</a></span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>GEORGIA.<br /> <span class="xmedium">Report of the Committee of
-the Board of<br /> Commissioners to the Atlanta University, June,
-1879.</span></h3>
-
-<p>A large majority of the entire Board attended the examination of the
-colored University at Atlanta, which receives an annual donation of
-$8,000 from the State. The report of the special committee appointed
-to make a suitable minute of the exercises and the condition of the
-Institution was unanimously adopted. It is as follows:
-</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">To the Board of Visitors</span>:</p>
-
-<p>Gentlemen&mdash;The undersigned, your appointees, herewith submit
-the following report upon the final examinations of the Atlanta
-University, for the school year just closed.
-</p>
-
-<p>The Board attended these examinations in an almost entire body.
-They were promptly and courteously met by President Ware and his
-associates, and the examinations proceeded with systematic regularity.
-The exercises were designated by neatly printed programmes, with the
-time and place of recitation distinctly set forth.
-</p>
-
-<p>The examinations were fairly conducted and disclosed the fact that
-the most advanced methods of teaching were employed. These methods were
-mainly topical, supplemented by appropriate questions, which evinced
-that the students had an intelligent comprehension of the subjects
-under consideration. We were especially impressed by the evidences of
-patient, systematic, untiring training on the part of the teachers,
-so well adapted to the colored, or any race, and by the progressive
-manner in which a subject was developed. All branches taught, passed
-in review before us, and whether the immediate subject was reading,
-grammar, history, mathematics, the classics, or other branches, the
-means employed and the results attained were entirely satisfactory. The
-examinations were entirely oral and the decorum and order maintained
-were of a high character.
-</p>
-
-<p>The cleanliness of the recitation rooms, the preservation of school
-property and the gradual improvement of the grounds were marked.</p>
-
-<p>The final exercises at Friendship Church were very creditable to the
-institution. The subjects of the speeches and essays were appropriate,
-without political bearing, and they were delivered and read in a
-becoming manner.
-</p>
-
-<p>Comparing the examinations with preceding ones, we are satisfied
-that the University is steadily on the up-grade, and that it is
-becoming a centre of great interest among the colored people.
-</p>
-
-<p>The religious training of the pupils appeared to be excellent.
-</p>
-
-<p>The Normal feature of the institution we regard with especial
-interest. In no way can education be so rapidly extended, or its
-improved methods so effectually multiplied, as by the special training
-of teachers. This we believe to be the great educational want of our
-State.
-</p>
-
-<p>We have one suggestion to make, viz: as the oral recitation has
-been now so satisfactorily developed, would it not be beneficial to
-introduce some written examination work in the higher classes, as
-affording a better comparative test, and as advancing the examinations
-fully up to the modern standard?
-</p>
-
-<p>It is your committee’s opinion, based upon the foregoing, that the
-State has acted wisely in her appropriation to the Atlanta University,
-and that a continuance of it is to her best interests.
-</p>
-
-<p style="margin-left:5%;">Respectfully submitted,</p>
-<p style="margin-left:38em;"><span class="smcap">H. C. Mitchell</span>,</p>
-<p class="right">Chairman Special Committee.</p>
-<p class="right"><span class="smcap">T. G. Pond</span>,
-<span style="margin-left:2em;">&nbsp;</span>
-<span class="smcap">C. M. Neal</span>.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p>On motion the above report was ordered to be submitted to the
-Governor.</p>
-
-<p style="margin-left:40em;"><span class="smcap">H. H. Jones</span>,</p>
-<p class="right">Chairman of General Board.</p>
-<p class="right"><span class="smcap">J. T. White</span>,
-<span style="margin-left:2em;">&nbsp;</span>
-<span class="smcap">C. M. Neal</span>.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79"
-id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p>
-
-<h3>ALABAMA.<br /> <span class="xmedium">Why He Likes It.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. H. S. DEFORREST, TALLADEGA.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">A minister recently called to one of our schools in the
-South, gives these reasons for liking his place.
-</p>
-
-<p>1st. I am needed. This is a great work and the workmen are few. It
-is not at all here as it used to be, and perhaps now is, in Boston
-on a Saturday morning, scores of men standing with carpet-bag in
-hand, waiting for a chance to preach, and many waiting in vain. We
-have here more of field than we can occupy. On all sides comes up the
-Macedonian-African cry, “come over and help us.” I am often weary on
-Saturday and poorly enough prepared for Sunday, but am spared the
-anguish of not knowing where to go or what to do. Besides, there is so
-much of self-denial in the work that there are probably not a great
-many thinking that, if I should die or leave, there would be a vacancy,
-and if there should be a vacancy they would like to fill it. Not many
-are interested in my will; few would care for my shoes,&mdash;I hope to
-wear them myself and wear them here. For,
-</p>
-
-<p>2nd. There is here a grand, perhaps unsurpassed opportunity for
-influencing men. I am not only a Home Missionary, but also a Foreign
-Missionary to Africa, and that last with special facilities. I am
-master of the language, and do not work at the disadvantage of a
-half-learned and half-murdered tongue. Neither is there any prejudice
-against me as a Foreigner because of my brogue, or my dress or my
-habits. Without the honors of a Foreign Missionary, I am also without
-many of his disadvantages, and my national and Yankee peculiarities,
-which might hinder across the sea, help on this side of the Atlantic.
-This is indeed a missionary field, but operated with special
-facilities. It is a double missionary field. For,
-</p>
-
-<p>3d. The most pressing work in our own country is here. As surely as
-in 1861 our national peril is largely in the South. Ignorance is dense;
-immorality is rampant: lawlessness is wide-spread, while intelligence,
-morality and obedience to law form the only basis for such a government
-as ours. To save our country, we must save the South; to save the
-South, we must save the Southerners, and there are no Southerners
-more hopeful and more deserving than the late slaves. They are down
-but their faces are upward. Give them a hand and they will take it,
-especially if it be a “Yankee hand,” and a little lifting develops a
-good deal of spring in themselves. Thus it is that Patriotism as well
-as Humanity and Christianity keep me here, and no campaigning in our
-recent war seemed more a duty of loyalty than that in which I am now
-engaged. I am glad to be in the ranks and to still wear the blue.
-But,
-</p>
-
-<p>4th. Looking beyond our broad land, I hope, standing here, to reach
-some portion of the “Dark Continent.” I regard this as a good <em>pou
-sto</em> for moving Africa. Our students, more than those who have
-been life-long readers, use their memories. They are more impressible
-than the young of some other stock. They have a strong desire, as they
-are helped, to help others. Apparently the great missionary movement
-of the next few years is to be in Africa. The call is already heard
-for men. Some of these men are here, and the impressions now made, the
-very words we now speak, may yet be felt and heard in lands whence the
-fathers of these men were stolen, and in the jungles which the white
-man may well fear to tread.
-</p>
-
-<p>5th. Besides, there are some special rewards in this work. If we
-have the white man’s contumely, we have the black man’s love. A more
-grateful and appreciative people than some of these, fresh from the
-prison-house of bondage but now rejoicing in a double freedom, I have
-never seen. Seldom is a pastor more fervently and affectionately prayed
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></span>
-
-for than are some of us here. And I suspect as the Lord judges
-souls&mdash;He seeth not as man seeth&mdash;we have our companionship
-chiefly with the foremost of this part of the Land. These and similar
-considerations have led me to think that this College stands somewhere
-on Mt. Pisgah. Certainly just now I would rather be here than in any
-other part of the Universe of God. Tell our friends at the North that
-we do not need their sympathy but we do need their help. With more of
-means we could greatly multiply our labors and their results. Let those
-at the rear at least send on supplies, and more abundantly.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>Is the Work in Vain?&mdash;Building Progress&mdash;A Missionary
-Spirit.</h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">Sometimes one is tempted to say that the work here is in
-vain. We know, for instance, that a great deal has been done during
-the last fifteen years by the Principal of Trinity School, and yet one
-can see that the work is by no means finished. Have not some people at
-the North been thinking that, after fifteen years of good work among
-the colored people of the South, the A.M.A. ought to be about leaving
-the field here for some other? Some here say to me, it will be a work
-of centuries to bring up this people; others, that the colored race
-never will be fit for anything but farm laborers; they must be hewers
-of wood and drawers of water. Some people in Ohio think the religion
-of the colored man in the South is a “pure and undefiled” religion.
-Some people here think there is no use in trying to give the colored
-man a pure system of religion. “They get together and shout and carry
-on, and that is all they are fitted for.” “Their religion is impure
-and defiled, and they cannot appreciate a pure religion.” So say the
-enemies of the colored race. Well, this is partly true; too true. The
-colored man has emotion, and his late masters were too often content
-with that “religion” in the slave. As slaves they were allowed to
-preach and steal and commit adultery, and all together, too.
-</p>
-
-<p>When we think of the pit from which they have been lifted, and of
-their ancestry&mdash;only a few generations ago heathen all of them,
-cannibals some of them&mdash;can we think that the results are less
-than we might expect? A great deal has been done here, and there is a
-great deal to show for it. Some might think there was not much to be
-seen of good results. A church of forty-four members&mdash;three less
-than two years ago, five less than one year ago&mdash;some weak ones,
-the church as well as the school still pecuniarily dependent on the
-A.M.A., they will not be ready to cut loose from the fostering care of
-the Association for some years yet.
-</p>
-
-<p>Christ said that the kingdom of heaven was like a grain of mustard
-seed, or like a little leaven. These churches and schools act like
-leaven in a mass of ignorance. And this leaven works. And it is because
-of this leavening power of the Gospel that we are encouraged. The whole
-will be leavened in time. But time is necessary. The Congregational
-churches have undertaken a mighty work, and they must patiently stick
-to it for years yet. Much as can be seen of the results of the work
-here, more than half of it cannot be easily seen. Other churches have
-been enlightened and helped. Even those who try to keep out the light
-can’t prevent some of it getting through the chinks.
-</p>
-
-<p>You will want to know about the work for the new school building. If
-we had had the least idea that we must work five months with less than
-one hundred dollars in money, we never would have undertaken the job.
-We hoped a fair share of the subscriptions would be paid in cash. One
-or two had themselves to buy the moulds for making the bricks, and the
-shovels to dig with,
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></span>
-
-and the cord to line the ground with. We had no boards to cover the
-bricks, so, instead of kilning the bricks as they were made, they were
-piled in an old log house. Many were broken in this way. Then they were
-moved when we had boards to cover the kiln; and many more were broken.
-And from the 1st of August&mdash;we didn’t begin to prepare the ground
-till July 17th&mdash;till November we had heavy and frequent rains.
-The papers said such a season had not been known for many years. We
-were hindered in our work, and lost bricks from the rains. But we have
-over a hundred thousand bricks, and a total expense of one hundred
-and fifty dollars. If the workers next summer can have the money, as
-we hope, they will not work to such disadvantage, for they will have
-boards on hand, and can kiln the bricks as they make them, and have
-tools. The building will be finished, but it takes more time than we at
-first thought. Such a school-house was not necessary fifteen years ago.
-Our neat church building, and the necessity for a substantial school
-building, are proofs of the great work done here by Miss Wells. I enjoy
-this work, and have become attached to the people. But it is too nice
-a place for me. I never expected to preach from a carpeted platform. I
-must go far hence to more destitute places beyond&mdash;to the islands
-of the sea. But the work is one. Whether in Alabama or Micronesia,
-under the A.M.A. or the A.B.C.F.M., we are working for one Lord, to
-establish the kingdom of Christ on earth. We can but praise Him that He
-calls us to work in any corner of His wide vineyard.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>MISSISSIPPI.<br /> <span
-class="xmedium">Sunday-Schools&mdash;Student-Conversions&mdash;Crowded
-Rooms.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">MRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">The year thus far has been most pleasant and profitable.
-During the fall term we had an unusually large number of students who
-entered into study with faithfulness and energy.
-</p>
-
-<p>Many who had been teaching during the summer, gave most interesting
-reports of their work. The Sunday-school and temperance work had been
-vigorously pushed with excellent results; one of which is over thirteen
-hundred signers to the temperance pledge. Some conversions in their
-Sunday-schools were also reported; and quite often now some one speaks
-in our prayer-meeting of receiving a letter from a pupil asking for
-prayers that he may become a Christian.
-</p>
-
-<p>Just at the close of the fall term we were visited with a remarkable
-outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Our good Dr. Roy had been here, and a
-sermon which he preached left impressions which brought some to decide
-for Christ. And then the Sunday-school lessons. I remember watching the
-young people during the closing exercises of Sunday-school the Sabbath
-before Christmas, and I saw that there was deep feeling, and felt sure
-that there were some who would not long resist the Spirit, and during
-the next three days there were nineteen conversions.
-</p>
-
-<p>Three or four others have since then found Christ. There is also
-a marked Christian growth and a growing interest in the study of the
-Bible. Our hearts are greatly encouraged, and we go forward rejoicing
-that we are permitted to work for Christ. Truly “The Lord hath done
-great things for us whereof we are glad.”
-</p>
-
-<p>At present we have one hundred and four boarders, with the prospect
-of more soon. Every room is occupied, and we are crowded to what seems
-the utmost limit of our accommodations. What we shall do with those
-yet to come, is a problem which neither mathematics nor the laws of
-expansion have solved. Shall they hang up in the trees or bivouac under
-them? We want to put an addition to the “barracks,” but have not the
-means necessary. Dear friends at the
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a></span>
-
-North, shall we turn these young people away? What is your answer?
-We hope that by a year from now, a good substantial building will be
-at least in process of erection, that shall do away with some of the
-temporary accommodations we now have.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>TENNESSEE.<br /> <span class="xmedium">School Work and Week of
-Prayer.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">E. A. H., MEMPHIS.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">Next week will, I believe, close my second month’s work
-here. I find the work very pleasant, and am enjoying it greatly, though
-I think I am working harder than I have ever worked in a school before.
-The school has filled up very rapidly since the holidays. My room is
-full to overflowing, and I have been obliged to seat a few of my pupils
-in the Normal room. That room and the Primary are also quite full.
-Of course, these additions to the school have made the work of the
-teachers much harder. Besides my work with my own pupils, I am having
-some practice work done. Four students from the Senior Class of the
-Normal Department, are engaged for a short time each day in teaching
-in my department, and under my supervision. This corps of teachers
-is changed once in two weeks, thus giving each pupil in that class a
-chance to work. I also meet the Senior Class three times a week, for
-talks with them on school and class work, taking up the objects to be
-gained by recitations and the best methods used. I think I can see
-already that this work is doing good, and I hope that it may prove of
-great value to the pupils.
-</p>
-
-<p>We have been observing the week of prayer in the school, by fifteen
-minute prayer meetings, directly after school. At first, these were
-held in a recitation room, but Thursday evening the meeting had grown
-so large that it was held in the Intermediate room, and Friday evening
-in the Assembly room. A good deal of interest has been shown, and a
-number have expressed a desire for the prayers of Christians. We hope
-that the interest may deepen and much good be done.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>TEXAS.<br /> <span class="xmedium">Two Hours’ Work by a
-Student-Canvasser.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="p1">The following letter, with enclosure of $3.50 and
-fourteen names for the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> for six
-months, will not only explain itself, but may furnish a suggestive
-example to many.
-</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Dear Friends</span>: Of course you will
-be curious to know how it happened that some persons in this
-place&mdash;Marshall, Texas&mdash;suddenly conclude to read the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>, consequently I send
-you these words of explanation. I am indebted to your schools for
-all the education I possess. I attended Straight University five
-months&mdash;from January to June, 1874; then beautiful Fisk University
-nearly nine months&mdash;from September to May, 1879, entering college
-regularly with the class. Commencement over, I set out for Texas,
-earnestly desiring to secure means to go through with; but, owing
-to bad health and the want of proper precaution, I failed. I was
-unwilling to return immediately to Fisk University empty-handed, to
-give my teachers additional concern about my welfare, and, as I am
-firmly resolved to complete the course, everything to the contrary
-notwithstanding, something had to be done. Hence I decided to remain
-in Texas a few months longer, giving my wife, who is at Nashville, the
-choice of remaining there or joining me here, until the difficulty is
-past. I could get no paying work right away, having walked upwards of
-two hundred miles and spent three weeks of valuable time in the search.
-Finally, weary, foot-worn and exhausted, I fell under the effects of
-intermittent fever&mdash;indeed, I was in trouble. Nothing remained,
-then, but to be idle two months or more, at the expiration of which I
-could begin to teach, in accordance with a contract that I then held.
-In the meantime my
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></span>
-
-class would be making progress; this thought, believe me, gave me as
-much concern as my ill-health. I carried the subject to the Lord in
-prayer and became reconciled. I reached Marshall, on the 22d instant. I
-plainly stated my case to the teachers of this Institution. They seemed
-to sympathize with me, and on the following morning assigned me work.
-Thus, you see, I am doing something, though it may be very little.
-</p>
-
-<p>I heard an interesting discourse Sabbath evening from I. Corinthians
-xv., 58. The preacher proved clearly to my mind that Christians ought
-to be zealous of good works for the churches to which they belong.
-He proved, too, that all could do something. The whole furnished me
-excellent food for reflection. I began to figure out how much we
-colored people in the South could advance your glorious work if we only
-had the zeal. I found, indeed, that we are neglecting a very important
-service; so I resolved, not having anything else in view, to secure
-some subscribers to the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>,
-and within two hours yesterday I begged fourteen persons to put down
-their names. Now, suppose each one of your students in the South should
-do even that much, is it not plain that you would soon have a large
-constituency here as well as in New England? Such service alone would
-increase your subscription-list by many thousands, and add largely to
-your income, as well as disseminate, as should be, a wide knowledge
-of your work. Let, then, every one, put his hand to the wheel, for
-all can do something. Believe me, I am heartily ashamed of myself,
-now that I can see what an excellent opportunity of doing great good
-I have lost by not doing the lesser. I have lived, more or less, in
-no fewer than twenty towns, and I have taught in at least fifteen
-different schools since I first left one of your schools, at any one
-of which I ought to have raised at least as many subscribers to the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> as I have here. I have
-been a Christian for several years, but unfortunately one of that class
-who are afraid to “stand up for Jesus.” I am feeling differently now,
-consequently am likely to fly to the other extreme. Should any little
-work, then, suggest itself to you, such as you may regard me capable
-of performing, why be assured that a willing servant is at hand. It is
-to be very much regretted that, since I have to remain here, I could
-not be with the teachers at Tillotson College; still those who can work
-will work anywhere.
-</p>
-
-<p style="margin-left: 35em;">Very sincerely,</p>
-<p style="margin-left: 40em;">H. C. G.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h3>AN INDIAN BOY’S LETTER.</h3>
-
-<p class="p1"><span class="smcap">Dear Friend</span>: I was born in
-Grand Island, Neb. in the 15 day of November. My mother was married
-by a white man, and used to live in Grand Island, and my father was
-scouting with the Pawnees, and once it rain very hard and he got
-lightling struck and died; I did not know him, I never seen him, my
-mother tells me about him. When he died, my mother went back to her
-home, and lived with her brother, who lived like a white man. In 1869 I
-went on a hunting bufflos with the Pawnees and Puncas. We went on about
-three days; they found some bufflos, so all the men got their best
-horses and fixed them up, and then took their bows and arrows and guns.
-They went all around them, and then they just run their horses to see
-who’ill get there first, one man would
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a></span>
-
-kill two or three, sometimes four and eight, and they skin them, and
-take them home, skin and all. The skins is used for mocassins and men
-legends (leggings). Once I went swimming while the men went after
-bufflos, while I was in the water I seen a bufllo coming where I was,
-frightened me to, I had to climbed upon a tree. It was mad, and some
-men were after him; and had some arrows in him. They killed it, and
-then I got down, and I seen them skin it. We had lots bufflo meat; we
-camp the same place, the Indians were drying their meat, so it will
-less (last) long. After while we went on again, we went on till sun
-was sat. Next morning they seen some more bufflos; they killed many
-more; they had to stay there till their meat was dry. We stayed there
-and then the Indian women got their work things and work on with their
-skins. They finished them and had lots meat and skins. We return home
-again.
-</p>
-
-<p>I just eat dry meat all the time. No town near to buy some bread
-nor sugar. I used to be hungry for bread. I used to cry for bread. My
-stepfather had to take me where their was some Pawnees, that did not go
-on hunting. We got there. I had all the bread I want. I was glad then.
-The next day we went on and got to a town; and got in the cars, and
-went on; we got to another town; we get out and went to my home, and
-then they sent me to school. I went to school four months. I went home
-again.
-</p>
-
-<p>After while some of the Pawnees ran away from their homes, went to
-Indian Territory and stayed there for couple years, had nice time and
-had many ponies, then one went back home and told them it was very
-nice down the Territory, and it made part of the Chiefs think it would
-be nice to go down there. They used to have a counsil all day, and
-had a counsil one year. One Chief did not want to go down there; that
-was Lone Chief, because he liked that place, because the Pawnees were
-civilized when they were up there. They commencing putting up their
-houses, and farming. They went down there. I went down with them. When
-I was there, I used to work on my farm. I have got a farm my own. I use
-to go to school in winter. I had been wanting to go to school somewhere
-else. I am very glad they took me to Hampton School. I think my friends
-will help me all they can. I want to learn all I can at Hampton School
-and stay here till four or five years, my mother was willing for me to
-go to school and be among the white people, and when I went to Indian
-Territory, and I went to the day school one year, and the next year I
-went to the Boarding School. I never use to talk English one year ago,
-but the Agent at my home, keep me at his office where there was many
-white men were writing. They use to talk to me all the time in English,
-and then I learn how, and then I use to interpret for the Agent.</p>
-
-<p>When we first went down to the Territory, there use to be many
-sickness; they used to die; they were not use to in warm country. Once
-I was sick. I had the chills and favor. I near died. I got well again;
-before I came away, I plow part of my field and sowed some wheat, but I
-have got brothers who will work at my field while I am away, and keep
-my horses good, and houses. Some white people used to want to take me.
-When I was at home I used to write to Col. Meachem, to help me to go to
-some school. He did help me, and I am glad I went to Hampton School.
-I am trying to be a good boy, and study all I can. The only thing
-troubles me is Geography, that is the only thing I have to try hard.</p>
-
-<p class="sig35">Yours truly,</p>
-<p class="sig40"><span class="smcap">James Murie</span>.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_85"
-id="Page_85">[85]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p class="xlarge center">“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</p>
-
-<p class="center"><b>Auxiliary to the American Missionary
-Association.</b></p>
-
-<blockquote> <p><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><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Mooar, D. D.,
-Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph
-Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. <span
-class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. Palache, Esq.</p>
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>AN ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO.</h3>
-
-<p class="center secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p>
-
-<p class="p1">We have sustained a mission school among the Chinese at
-Sacramento for nearly ten years; but our first public anniversary was
-held at the Congregational church there, on Sunday, January 11th. The
-following account of it was furnished for <cite>The Pacific</cite> by
-the pastor, Rev. Dr. Dwinell:
-</p>
-
-<p>“The attendance was good, and the exercises thrilling with
-Christian interest to one who can see in such facts the beginning
-of a great tidal wave of grace that is yet to flow over the Chinese
-empire; and, what is more, a good collection was taken, showing the
-interest to be genuine. The exercises consisted of recitations of
-classified Scripture, an original address, an original dialogue, and
-singing&mdash;all by the Chinese&mdash;and brief introductory and
-closing exercises by others. The mission is in a very prosperous
-condition, and shows the fruits of the earnest, faithful teaching of
-those who have had charge of the school, and especially of the present
-principal, Mrs. Carrington.”
-</p>
-
-<p>After several of the exercises a muffled applause was audible,
-such as on any other day and in any other place would have been
-irrepressible. Especially was this the case after the following
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h4>ADDRESS BY LEM CHUNG.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1">“Ladies and gentlemen: I am very glad to see you all
-here this evening. I thank you very much for your kindness, teaching
-us about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because our people are in very
-darkness indeed, worshiping idols. I would like to tell you of
-something I did when I was a little boy at home. My parents were
-very careful to attend to worshiping idols, but on the first day of
-the year they must worship more than any other day of the year. At
-this time I used to carry a basket with some sacrifice in it, follow
-after my father from place to place where the different gods were for
-worshiping. I believe on them very much. I thought the idols can help
-us a great deal. So when I was at school one day, I wrote a piece of
-paper, it represent a sage, and I put it inside of my desk. I then
-bought some nuts and wine and offered to him, and bowed my head to him,
-and ask him to help me about my lessons, that I might recite them well,
-and I said, ‘If you do not help me to recite my lessons well, when I
-return I tear you off and burn you up.’ When the time come I could not
-recite very well, so then <em>I burn it</em>. I had been at school
-about three years. My father sent me to the high school professor.
-Explaining the book of Confucius at that time, I often go with the
-priest to help them play the music for worshiping the evil spirits.
-After little while the priest came to my father, see if he can let me
-go learn to be a priest. My father was willing to let me go, but when
-my
-
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a></span>
-
-mother knew it she said, ‘I cannot spare my son to be a priest,
-worshiping too much for the evil spirit, but I rather to send him to
-California, getting his living.’
-</p>
-
-<p>“Nearly five years have passed since I leaved my native land
-and came to this country, where I found all the things strange and
-different from what I had ever seen before. I found there was much for
-me to learn. A friend of mine invited me to Sunday-school, and I went
-with him. When I returned to the Chinatown I ask some person what kind
-of people are they who teach us there? They said, American people; but
-I could not know how it was that they should be willing to come and
-teach us without pay. They told me that they were very good people who
-come to teach you, and talk about Jesus Christ, and show us the right
-way. I kept on going till I can read the Bible. Great many things very
-different from other books. My heart was touch of Christ. I could not
-understand all; but not many days after the same friend invited me to
-go with him to the evening mission school. So I went with him to the
-school. After the lessons were over, the Chinese helper explained the
-Bible and talk to us, telling us it was useless to serve idols; they
-cannot help us; <em>they cannot take care of themselves</em>. But we
-must come to God of heaven, who made all things, heaven and earth. We
-must ask Him to help us, and pray to Him to give us all things what we
-need. We ought to praise Him. So when I heard him say this I saw and
-felt all I had done before was of no use, and was very wicked. Then I
-make up my mind to leave off worshiping idols, and begin to worship
-the true and living God. So I went back where I was employed. When I
-kneeled down to pray I opened my window, because I thought God cannot
-hear me if I leave it closed. After a few days the Chinese helper
-request me to join the Association of Christian Chinese, which I did,
-and read the Bible day by day, learning more about Christ. Oh, friends,
-I was very happy when I was converted! when I come to Jesus and worship
-the true God; leave the darkness and follow the light, and try to lead
-others of my countrymen to learn of Jesus, and know Him who died for us
-and save us from sin.
-</p>
-
-<p>“When my father heard I follow Christ he sent me a letter. He said:
-‘What are you doing out there? Are you going to believe Jesus, and
-leave all your countrymen, and your ancestors, and idols, and Confucius
-unserved?’ And he said: ‘No other way better than Confucius; so many
-of your countrymen do not believe Christ. You must leave off and come
-back to <em>our own way</em>. Believe the way that most of our people
-believe.’ But Christ tell us, ‘He that loveth father or mother more
-than Me not worthy of Me.’ I cannot leave off the way of Christ for the
-way of darkness; but I can try to bring them to Jesus. I hope you all,
-brethren, who come to Christ, will help hold up the light of the Gospel
-to shine on them which are in the dark and bow down to idols, and that
-many of my countrymen shall go back to China to tell the glad news to
-thousands there who have never heard of Christ; and if we cannot reward
-you, God will reward you every one.”
-</p>
-
-<p>I have not been willing to correct any of the little mistakes
-of grammar, but give the address in exact copy from the original.
-It was uttered in a clear voice, with a distinct and quite correct
-pronunciation, and with such simple earnestness that every eye was
-fixed upon him, and every heart seemed touched. Lem Chung has been
-our helper in Sacramento for about eight months, is <em>growing</em>
-mentally and spiritually, and gives promise of a very useful
-future.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_87"
-id="Page_87">[87]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2 class="break">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h3>HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.<br /> <span
-class="xmedium">An original Essay written by a Girl eleven years
-old,<br /> and read by her at a Woman’s Foreign Missionary Meeting in
-Indiana.</span></h3>
-
-<p class="p1">I should think that everyone could think of ways for
-themselves, but I suppose we can help each other. Some ways that I may
-suggest might not be thought of by others, while others in turn might
-think of many ways that I would not.
-</p>
-
-<p>The first way that enters my mind is what I found to be a very good
-plan at one time; have your grandfather get sick so that your father
-will have to go and see him, and on his return your grandmother will
-send you a present of one dollar. With it buy a pig in partnership with
-someone else who has the same amount, and after feeding it with your
-father’s corn for a year, sell it for twenty dollars, you of course
-getting one half of it.
-</p>
-
-<p>Another way is to have a little garden and sell vegetables out of
-it; and another way is to have a hen and sell eggs, or raise chickens
-and sell them. One way that I found to be a good one, is to make tidies
-and sell them. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have a baby
-brother or sister, attend it two or three hours for a penny an hour.
-And I think another good way is to be a great talker, and have your
-mother give you five cents to be still. We may also relieve our mothers
-very much by watering the house plants, and may be she will give us a
-little bit.
-</p>
-
-<p>And I have often thought it would be a good plan to have pay for
-washing dishes, and may be some of your mothers would; just mention
-it to them; but mine won’t, for I have tried it! And when your mother
-sends you to pick berries, just mention the missionaries to her. And if
-you live in the country, gather apples, churn, kill potato bugs and dig
-potatoes. And then have a penny a dozen for finding pins; and the best
-place in the world to find pins is in the oldest sister’s room.
-</p>
-
-<p>And another way of getting money for our school in Persia is to
-save a part of the money we spend in candies. But I hope that in our
-dividing between ourselves and missions, none of us may be like the
-little boy that I heard of not long ago. His uncle gave him two bright
-new nickels. They were a little fortune to him, and as he looked upon
-them, he said, “One of these must go for the heathen and the other for
-candy.” After this decision he put them away, and every few minutes he
-would go to see if his fortune was safe. But once, after having them
-out, one of them was missing. What should he do? and which piece was
-lost, the missionary or the candy money? His little eyes rested upon
-the shining piece in his hand, and after many minutes of hard struggle
-with selfishness and benevolence, he said to his mother, “It was the
-missionary money that I lost!” But then I guess that bigger folks than
-children often have their business plans, which they think cannot be
-broken into by missionaries.
-</p>
-
-<p class="right">(“Children’s Work for Children.”)</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2>RECEIPTS</h2>
-<p class="center large">FOR JANUARY, 1880.</p>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $528.76.</td></tr>
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i>;&mdash;Hammond St. Ch.
-(ad’l), $15.21; T. U. C., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">$41.21</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bath. Mrs. J. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Biddeford. J. N. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cumberland. S. M. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Farmington. &mdash;&mdash; Bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lovell. Ladies, by Mrs. Lewis Goodrich,
-Bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Machias. Miss U. M. Penniman.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.84</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and Daughter, $30;
-“A Friend,” $1.00</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l),
-$221.45; High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;&mdash;High
-St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for
-Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i>;&mdash;Mrs. David Patten,
-$5; Mrs. L. D., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">351.95</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockland. Mrs. E. R. S., 51c.; Ladies of
-Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saccarappa. W. K. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, $25,
-<i>for Miller’s Station, Ga.</i>;&mdash;Rev. H. I., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sweden. E. P. Woodbury</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wells. First Cong. Ch., $5.50; Individuals,
-$2.50 </td>
-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Newfield. Samuel C. Adams</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winthrop. E. H. N., $1; Ladies of Cong.
-Ch., $1 and bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.25</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $452.38.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amherst. Mrs. Ed. Aiken, $25, <i>for Student
-Aid, Straight U.</i>;&mdash;Ladies Soc., $2 and Box
-of Goods, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i>;&mdash;Miss C.
-M. Boylston, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">29.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colebrook. J. A. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $47.01; &mdash;W.
-H. Pitman, $2, <i>for Mendi M.</i>;&mdash;Miss F.
-A. G., 50c.; Mrs. C. D., 50c</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.02</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Francestown. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Miss Lucy Everett,
-by Joseph Kingsbury.</td>
-<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Francestown. A. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Ch., $8.50; E. G. Heald,
-$6</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Harrisville. D. Farwell</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Keene. Individuals</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kensington. “Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lake Village. B. Q. J.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Londonderry. C. S. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc., $100,
-to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Wm. V. W. Davis</span>, <span class="smcap">F. B. Eaton</span>
-and <span class="smcap">E. L. Bryant</span>, L. M.’s; “Pillsbury,”
-$10</td>
-<td class="ramt">110.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mason. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milford. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.31</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.97</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. J. A. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nashua. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$30.28; Mrs. E. A. S., and Rev. F. A., 50c. ea</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $3; J. W.
-C., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $13; Mrs. M. B.
-Pratt, $11; A. E., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, $7;
-Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. &mdash;&mdash; $10; John L. Thorndike,
-$10</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Short Falls. I. W. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Temple. Individuals, by Rev. J. F. Bassett</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wentworth. Ephraim Cook, $10 and bbl. of
-C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wolfborough. Mrs. Sumner Clark</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $1,153.69.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Barnet. W. G. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bennington. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">83.44</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Craftsbury. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Deborah W.
-Lewis, by C. S. Smith, Ex.</td>
-<td class="ramt">520.87</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Enosburgh. G. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Felchville. M. C. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Thetford. Cong. Ch., $13.63; Mrs. E.
-G. B., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.13</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsford. Cong. Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Post Mills. Mrs. F. J. C. May, bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $111.55;
-South Cong. Ch., $38.17; Mrs. T. M. Howard,
-$25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">174.72</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.76</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Peacham. Mrs. W. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. “Springfield Miss. Circle,” <i>for
-Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">120.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vershire. Mrs. M. W. Parker</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Weathersfield Centre. Mrs. Edson Chamberlin</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Barnet. Ref. Presb. Ch., $10; Mrs. S.
-G., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., $62.24;
-Mrs. F. C. Gaines, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">67.24</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.30; G.
-F. H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.80</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $4,691.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $78.55;
-North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to const.
-Mrs. <span class="smcap">Maria Dutton</span> and Mrs. <span class="smcap">Jeanette E.
-Stearns</span>, L. M’s.</td>
-<td class="ramt">138.55</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Andover. Peter Smith, $500;&mdash;“Lady
-Friends,” $75,<i> for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>;&mdash;West
-Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.18; F. A.
-T., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">621.18</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for Student Aid,
-Atlanta U.</i>;&mdash;G. S. S., 51c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.22</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Barre. “Friends,” $3, and Bbl. of C. by Mrs.
-Edwin Woods</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bedford. M. E. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Belchertown. Orrin Walker, $5; D. B. B. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Berlin. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; Rev.
-Charles Nichols, $30, to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. J.
-Enwright</span>, L. M., “A Friend,” $20; H. S.
-Robinson, $10; “A Friend,” $10; Geo. P.
-Smith, $5; Mrs. B. F. Dewing, $5; Mrs.
-S., $1;&mdash;“S. E. H.,” 50c. <i>for Chinese M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">281.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.19</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., $34.09;
-Joseph Hewett, $10; &mdash;&mdash; Bbl of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">44.09</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">118.16</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Buckland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc.,
-$124.17; Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $8.24; Miss
-A. J. P., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">132.91</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Campello. “Mrs. W.,” <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Miss M. E. Brooks, $2;&mdash;Mrs. A. E.
-P., $1, <i>for Lady Missionary</i>,&mdash;&mdash;; Miss
-H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.36</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colerain. Miss E. McG.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Conway. David Lyons</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cotuit. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane, $100; Mrs. James
-P. Crane, $100</td>
-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Mrs. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Douglass. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
-<span class="smcap">Miss Helen L. R. Briggs</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">55.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></span></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">68.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Framingham. Young People’s Circle, Plymouth
-Ch., $98; Plymouth Ch. and Soc.,
-$50.27; &mdash;&mdash; Box of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">148.27</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">33.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. Sag. Sch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
-const. <span class="smcap">Geo. R. Bradford</span>, <span class="smcap">John Cunningham</span>
-and <span class="smcap">Josiah K. Hurst</span>, L. M’s</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Granville Corners. C. Holcomb</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$100; Miss Emily Beckwith, $10; &mdash;&mdash; “A. C.
-T.,” $1 <i>for Hampton N. &amp; A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">111.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $143.19;
-West Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.04; Mrs. L. P.
-F., 50c.; Dea. E. W., 50c.; C. C., $1; Mrs.
-S. C., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">152.73</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holliston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C,
-val. $74.11, by Eda B. Partridge, Treas.;
-A. F., 51c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">103.80</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Housatonic. M. A. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hubbardston. A. G. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.15;
-Limebrook Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.65</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Indian Orchard. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">43.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.53</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$150;&mdash;Lawrence St. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50,
-<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lexington. Miss M. E. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Littleton. Woman’s Miss. Circle, <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50;&mdash;Ladies’
-Soc., $1 and bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington,
-N. C.</i>;&mdash;Mrs. S. L. P., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">51.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Malden. “A few Friends,” <i>for Student Aid,
-Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Medford. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Methuen. A. P. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch.,
-$11.68; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10.41</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.09</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">57.95</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S.
-Class, $11, <i>for ed. of Indian boys, Hampton N.
-and A. Inst.</i>;&mdash;Mrs. Dewey’s S. S. Class $6;
-Miss E. A. W., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monterey. Rev. A. E. T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Natick. Postage</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Needham. Mrs. Ellen H. Green</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Freedman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs.
-Mary E. Demmick, Sec., <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Macon, Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">223.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$77.32; S. A. E., 50c.; J. W., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">78.32</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Abington. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Amherst. H. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">61.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwood. Mrs. Fuller</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. By John T. Poorer, $2.50; Mrs.
-N. G. B. and Miss E. F., 50c. ea.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">56.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.06</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Reading. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.92</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockland. E. Shaw</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockport. John Parsons</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Salem. A. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper,
-Bbl. of C. <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Boston. Infant Class of Phillips Sab.
-Sch., $15; Miss J. A. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Natick. John Eliot Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.63</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and
-Soc. to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Mary B. Tirrell</span> and
-<span class="smcap">Miss Mary A. Lloyd</span>, L. M’s.</td>
-<td class="ramt">51.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Somerville. H. B. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. “M,” $200; First Cong. Ch.,
-$33.06; South Cong. Ch., $32.91; G. B. K.,
-$1; Mrs. H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">267.47</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stockbridge. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">74.48</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.80</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Betsey E. Capen</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sudbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21; “A
-Friend,” $3</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Taunton. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Uxbridge. W. J.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 2 Bbls.
-of C. <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt"> </td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.08; “L.
-B. H.,” $20</td>
-<td class="ramt">56.08</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westborough. Rev. J. W. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Boylston. “Willing Workers” $2 and
-Bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.16</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const.
-<span class="smcap">Addison A. Smith</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.08</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Newbury. J. C. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Roxbury. South Evan Sab. Sch. <i>for
-Indian Pupils, Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Ch., $30; “A
-Friend,” $20; S. A. D., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Williamstown. Cong. Ch., $40; Rev. Mark
-Hopkins, $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Dea. J. Skilton</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., mon. con.
-coll. $34.22; North Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$11.12 </td>
-<td class="ramt">45.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$133.57; Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$28.24</td>
-<td class="ramt">161.81</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash; “A Friend,”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash; “A Friend,”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $199.96.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Mrs. R. R. and Miss C. De W., <i>for
-Mag.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peace Dale. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Providence. Union Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $126.64;
-Charles St. Cong. Ch., $13.72; M. E. L., $1;
-Miss P., 60c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">141.96</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $3,036.40.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Berlin. C. S. Webster, $50, <i>for Student Aid,
-Talladega C.</i>;&mdash;Second Cong. Ch., $19.12</td>
-<td class="ramt">69.12</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. V. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Broad Brook. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burnside. Miss E. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Canaan. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Canton Centre. Wm. G. Hallock</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cheshire. Cong. Ch., <i>for ed. of an Indian
-boy, Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colchester. S. G. Millard, $10, <i>for Student Aid,
-Straight U.</i>;&mdash;C. B. McCall, $10, <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Mrs. M. J. G., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($6 of which
-<i>for Girls’ Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.43</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cromwell. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which <i>for Indian
-M.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danbury. E. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Durham. Ladies’ Miss. Ass’n, $3 and Bbl.
-of C. <i>for Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Eastford. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Royel Warren, by J. D.
-Barrows, Ex.</td>
-<td class="ramt">250.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hartford. First Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></span></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Windsor Hill. Ladies, $10.50, and Bbl.
-of C. <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Enfield. Sarah A. Abbe</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Essex. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch. Quar. Coll., (of which
-$150 from Henry D. Hawley, to const. <span class="smcap">Flora</span>
-E. Hawley, L. M.) </td>
-<td class="ramt">204.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Georgetown. Cong. Ch., case of S. S. Books;
-Rev. C. A. N., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35;
-G. M. J., 63c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.63</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Goshen. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greenwich. Miss Sarah Mead</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hampton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.77</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $149.96,
-($10 of which <i>for Hampton Inst.</i>); Park Cong.
-Ch. and Soc., $133.57; Windsor Ave. Cong.
-Ch., $20.07; Mrs. Mary C. Bemis, $20;&mdash;Young
-Girls’ Miss. Ass’n, $5, <i>for Talladega,
-Ala.</i>; Miss P. Johnson, $1.50; Mrs. W. T.,
-50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">330.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Harwinton. Mrs. Frederick S. Catlin</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hebron. “Friends”</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kensington. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.44</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lebanon. Goshen Sab. Sch. $12; Mrs. P. E.
-H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lyme. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Manchester. E. A. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Meriden. Centre Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milford. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.04</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montville. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.95</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Morris. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch., $55.40; Mrs.
-A. A., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">56.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.55</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Haven. Mrs. Henry Johnston, $5.00;
-Miss B. P., $1; Others, $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. Second Cong. Ch., ($300 of
-which from <span class="smcap">Trust Estate</span> of <span class="smcap">H. P. Haven</span>.)</td>
-<td class="ramt">778.26</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Branford. J. A. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northford. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwalk. Mrs. Wm. B. St. John</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Orange. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Prospect. Dea. Benj. B. Brown, $10; Mrs.
-E. B. Brown, $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Quinnebaug. &mdash;Bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Salisbury. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">58.61</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">29.16</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Southington. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stanwich. Wm. Brush</td>
-<td class="ramt">300.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stonington. R. Town</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.09</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Thompson. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid,
-Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Washington. F. A. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. <span class="smcap">William
-A. Jones</span> and <span class="smcap">Laura N. Dayton</span>, L. M’s.</td>
-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Weatogue. T. J. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, $30, to
-const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Ira H. Merriman</span>, L. M.; E.
-K. Breckenridge, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westminster. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodbury. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Curtiss</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash; “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $642.73.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Antwerp. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Mrs. Ira H.
-Abell</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Binghamton. Sheldon Warner</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $10, <i>for
-the poor in Plym. Sab. Sch., Charleston, S. C.</i>;&mdash;Mrs.
-H. Dickinson, $2; O. W., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Canastota. E. B. Northrop, $5; Mr. and Mrs.
-R. H. Childs, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clear Creek. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clifton Springs. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Andrew Peirce</span>, to
-const. herself L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $35.57;
-Mrs. E. S. $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ellington. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Felts Mills. Joel A. Hubbard and family</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Franklin. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">29.58</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fredonia. Mrs. Thos. W. Stevens</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fillmore. L. L. Nourse</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol, and
-T. W. Chesebro, $5 ea.; F. S., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gouverneur. Mrs. H. D. S. $1; Miss B. R. S., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jamesport. L. I. “Friends”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marcellus. First Ch., $20; Mrs. L. H., 45c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millbrook. Mrs. J. W. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York. Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch., $50,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;&mdash;Holman Liver
-Pad Co., 7.75, <i>for Emerson Inst.</i>; E. S., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">58.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York Mills. H. N. Porter, D. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Franklin. Mrs. Mary P. Foote</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Perry Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc., $16.35
-and Bbl. of C. by Mrs. G. K. Sheldon</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plattsburgh. G. W. Dodds</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rochester. Gen. A. W. Riley</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall, $10; A. E.
-W., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Stockton. Adelia Eaton</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Success. Sab. Sch. by J. H. Benjamin, Supt.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Miss A. W. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Victor. Mrs. Emeline Lewis</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Walton. First Cong. Ch., $58.53; Agavine
-Miss. Soc., $10;&mdash;Chas. S. Fitch, <i>for Mendi
-M.</i>, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">73.53</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Chazy. Daniel Bassett, $5; Rev. L.
-Prindle, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Farms. J. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westfield. Mrs. J. B. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Greece. S. B. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitesborough. J. Symonds</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitney’s Point. Mrs. E. Rogers</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash; “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $108.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Belleville. J. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Camden. James E. Simpson</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clayton. “A Friend,” <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch., J. H.
-Denison, $30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Carrie Denison</span>,
-L. M.; Miss H. Miller, $4, <i>for Student
-Aid, Raleigh, N. C.</i>; Mrs. R. W. S., $1;&mdash; $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Paterson. Benj. Crane</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Roseville. Ladies of Home M. Soc., by Mrs.
-L. Hannah</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $36.62.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Allentown. C. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovel</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cowdersport. Mrs. John S. Mann</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Brook. James H. Patton</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss Ellen
-Porter, $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. W. P. F. and Mrs. S. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wurtemburg. Mrs. T. E. Liebendorfer, $2;
-Others, $2.12</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.12</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $428.24.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashland. John Thomson</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Austinburgh. N. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></span></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bellevue. J. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Berea. James S. Smedley</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burton. Miss E. E. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.81</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Claridon. Cong. Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., $13.20;
-John Foote, $10; Rev. H. Trautman, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Columbus. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Elyria. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Four Corners. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Granville. Thomas D. Williams</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kingsville. M. Whiting</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lenox. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.88</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Ladies Benev. Soc., $14.75, <i>for
-Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>; “Old Friend,”
-$5; W. H. S., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moss Run. M. B. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.50, <i>for
-Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>; Harris Lewis, $3.</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Orwell. Rev. W. T. Richardson</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for
-Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>; First Cong. Ch.
-$18.57</td>
-<td class="ramt">43.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Parisville. Rev. D. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ruggles. Mrs. J. T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Rev. A. D. Barber and Family</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Seville. Julia Hulburt</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sharonville. J. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sicily. Julian F. Cumberland</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. W. A. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed, $10; By E. P.
-B., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellington. E. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windham. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $17.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. <i>for Chinese M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">6.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. G. W. Southwick</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Vigo. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sparta. Mrs. L. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Versailles. J. D. Nichols</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $1000.32.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Avon. Mrs. Cylinder Woods, $5; “A Friend,”
-$5</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., $9.65;&mdash;Mrs.
-J. D. Pike’s Sab. Sch. Class, $7; <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>; N. L. J., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Batavia. “W. E. M.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Belvidere. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Olney Nichols, by H.
-W. Pier, Ex.</td>
-<td class="ramt">59.61</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Byron. I. S. K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $112.50, <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i>;&mdash;Union Park Cong.
-Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;&mdash;New
-Eng. Cong. Ch., $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">147.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Denver. Thomas Graham</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Farmington. Phineas Chapman</td>
-<td class="ramt">44.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;&mdash;J. G. W., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Genesco. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">135.92</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hamlet. L. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lyndon. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kankakee. F. S. H. and J. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kewanee. Cong. Ch., $102.73;&mdash;Cong. Ch.
-Sab. Sch., $25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">127.73</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Knoxville. W. A., $1; Mrs. A. B., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mendon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milan. By Mrs. J. M. L. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oak Park. J. W. Scoville</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Paxton. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Polo. Penny Contribution, <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Port Byron. A. F. Hollister, $6; Ladies’
-Miss. Soc., $5.50; Emma Hollister, $2.00</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockford. Mrs. A. H. Perry</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Roseville. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Bend. R. Burroughs</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tonica. V. G. Lutz</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.87</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc., by Miss E.
-M. Hollister, Treas.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $112.61.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Calumet. Robert Dobbie</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Covert. F. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cross Village. Rev. A. A. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Detroit. F. M. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dexter. Dennis Warner</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Mrs. Miriam Seymour</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Flint. H. Whittlesey</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Mrs. M. J. Kent</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marshall. D. H. Miller</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Olivet. “A Friend,” <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Owasso. Mrs. F. G. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Romeo. Miss T. S. C., $1; Miss M. A. J.,
-$1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Johns. A. J. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Somerset. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.87</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stockbridge. W. B. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Summit. Missionary Society, by Mrs. A.
-Vansickle</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.67</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Union City. First. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">White Lake. Robert Garner and wife</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $227.26.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Appleton. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beloit. First Cong. Ch. $30, <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Mrs. B. D. $1; W. P.
-51c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brandon. Rev. H. W. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Wis. Branch of W. B. M. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 50c., ea.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Selma, Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.79</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fond du Lac. H. S. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneva. Presb. Ch. Quar. coll., $19.25; W.
-H. H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kenosha. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.27</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">La Crosse. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.44</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mazomanie. R. L.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mukwanago. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sparta. Cong. Ch., $52; Cong. Sab. Sch.,
-$29.34; Mission Band, $8.96, to const.
-<span class="smcap">Miss Lyntha Franck</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. O. L. Irwin</span>
-and <span class="smcap">J. R. Skillman</span>, L. M’s</td>
-<td class="ramt">90.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. By L. S. Bingham</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Racine. Mrs. D. D. N.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $444.27.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bowensburgh. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Eliza B. Spencer,
-by Richard Eells, Ex.</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Big Rock. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burlington. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">70.36</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clay. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Ladies of Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., $10;
-“Friends,” $13, <i>for Student Aid</i>;&mdash;T. E.
-Brown, $10; Mrs. A. W. Rollins, $5, <i>for
-Repairs, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">38.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. and Mrs. J. B., 50c.
-ea.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">26.66</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Boys’ S. S. Class,
-$26.22; Miss S. Whitcomb’s S. S. Class, $5,
-<i>for Student Aid</i>, and A. Steele, $5, <i>for Repairs,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">36.22</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marion. Mrs. A. W. Shedd, $5, <i>for Student
-Aid</i>; J. T. S., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">McGregor. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monticello. Ladies of Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></span></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Cong. Ch., $36.05, and a Sewing
-Machine, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">36.05</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Hampton. Dea. Gideon Gardiner, $5;
-Ladies’ Miss. Soc., Quar. Coll., $1.60</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton. Rev. S. A. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Osage. Cong. Ch., $10.75; Woman’s Miss.
-Soc., $5.50; Mrs. G. W. Smith, $1.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. O.
-J. Green, Treas.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.68</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sherrills Mount. Rev. J. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tabor. J. F. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Traer. Rev. C. H. Bissel, $5; Infant Class
-Cong. Sab. Sch., $2.25; Mrs. Ames, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Leavett &amp; Johnson, <i>for Talladega
-C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $16.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. Stone ($1 of which
-<i>for Chinese Mission</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Meriden. “A Friend of Missions”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Topeka. Justin Hillyer</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $86.41.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Audubon. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Austin. Union Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.77</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Excelsior. Cong. Ch.</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">Medford. J. W. Powell’s Sab. Sch. Class</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $19.64;
-Second Cong. Ch., $1.60</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.24</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northfield. “Friends,” $7, and Bbl. of C.
-<i>for Talladega C.</i>; A. L., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plainview. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $29.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Freemont. Cong. Ch., $5; and Sab. Sch.,
-$8</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lincoln. J. G. E.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nebraska City. “A Friend,” $10; Woman’s
-Missionary Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $3.50;
-Individuals, $1.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $5.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chico. Lewis H. Moss</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $8.01.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">White River. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.01</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $587.25.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">117.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, $245.10; Prof.
-A. K. Spencer, $200, <i>for Fisk U.</i>;&mdash;Soc. for
-Evan. of Africa in Fisk U., $25, <i>for a
-Pupil, Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">470.10</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $131.36.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dudley. Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Washington Sch. Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition, $82.50;
-Sales, $22; Cong. Ch. $4.16</td>
-<td class="ramt">108.66</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $317.50;&mdash;Plymouth
-Cong. Ch., $3, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">320.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $550.69.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs School Tuition, $185.60;
-Rent, $3; Atlanta U., Tuition, $97; Rent,
-$16.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">312.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Athens. J. G. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hawkinsville. M. B. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $48.15;
-Rent, $4; First Cong. Ch., $8</td>
-<td class="ramt">60.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 118.50;
-Sales, $58.93; Rent, $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">187.43</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $418.14.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $179.45;
-Cong. Ch., $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">181.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Public Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">175.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega Col., <i>Tuition</i>, $61.19;
-Rev. J. W. R., 50c</td>
-<td class="ramt">61.69</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $57.97.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $47.77;
-Rent, $10.20</td>
-<td class="ramt">57.97</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $18.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridge Creek. I. R. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5;
-F. P. M., $1; Others, $1.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $96.25.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">96.25</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; &mdash;&mdash;, $25.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jubilee Singers, <i>for Dept. Natural Science,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND, $195.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Interest <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">45.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Graves Library Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $20.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Guelph. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LABRADOR, $10.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Labrador. Rev. S. R. Butler</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">BULGARIA, $10.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bulgaria, Samokov. “Wanderer”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">15,665.32</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st</td>
-<td class="ramt">$58,823.19</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL
-INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Exeter, N. H. Mrs. Augusta F. Odlin</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester, Mass. John B. Gough</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. Mrs. C. P. Stokes</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$350.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">867.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$1,217.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ATHENS, ALA.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charlotte, Mich. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis, Minn. “Friends”</td>
-<td class="ramt">300.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$336.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">83.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$419.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton, Mass. Elliot Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">117.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to
-const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Albert P. Miller</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Union City, Mich. Mrs. Sarah B. Clark, $5;
-Mrs. L. W. Clark, $5; Mrs. Lee, $3; Juv.
-Miss. Soc., $3</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">163.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$180.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1"> Receipts for January</td>
-<td class="ramt">16,514.82</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Total from Oct. 1st to January 31st</td>
-<td class="ramt">$62,255.03</td>
-</tr>
-
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">=========</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<p class="sig25">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Treas.</i>,</p>
-<p class="sig30">56 Reade St., N. Y.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_93" id="Page_93">[93]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.<br />
-
-<span class="xmedium">INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.</span></h2>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<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_A" id="FNanchor_A"></a><a
-href="#Footnote_A" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> who professes faith in
-the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slave-holder, 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, if
-so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="p1"></div>
-<div class="footnotes">
-<blockquote>
-<p class="footnote"><span class="smcap"><b>Footnote:</b></span></p>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-<p><a name="Footnote_A" id="Footnote_A"></a><a href="#FNanchor_A">
-<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>
-</div>
-
-</blockquote>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<p><span
-class="pagenum"><a name="Page_94" id="Page_94">[94]</a></span></p>
-
-<h2><span class="xlarge">The American Missionary Association.</span></h2>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<h4>AIM AND WORK.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1">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>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<h4 class="nobreak">STATISTICS.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1"><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the
-South</i>&mdash;In Va.,1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4;
-Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. <i>Africa</i>, 2. <i>Among
-the Indians</i>, 1. Total 70.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained
-in the South.</span>&mdash;<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.;
-Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New
-Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at
-Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah,
-Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,
-Tenn., 12. <i>Other Schools</i>, 24. Total 44.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and
-Assistants.</span>&mdash;Among the Freedmen, 253; among the
-Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296. <span
-class="smcap">Students</span>&mdash;In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in
-College Course, 63; in other studios, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars
-taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. <span
-class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association,
-13,000.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h4>WANTS.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1">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&mdash;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&mdash;a pressing want.
-</p>
-
-<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
-office, as below:
-</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-<p>
-<span class="smcap">New York</span> H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Boston</span> Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.<br />
-<span class="smcap">Chicago</span> Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.<br />
-</p>
-</blockquote>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h4 class="nobreak">MAGAZINE.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1">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>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h4 class="nobreak">FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4>
-
-<p class="p1">“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor
-(or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars in trust, to pay the
-same in &mdash;&mdash; 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&mdash;in other States only two], who should write against
-their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and
-number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State
-in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A.
-B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the
-request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of
-each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some
-States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months
-before the death of the testator.
-</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
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-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_96" id="Page_96">[96]</a></span></p>
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-
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-
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-<br />
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-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<div class="adblock">
-<p><span class="standard">Crampton’s old Palm Soap for the Laundry, the
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-<p class="large center">CRAMPTON BROTHERS,</p>
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-
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-
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-<p class="xxxlarge"><b>The Perfected Type-Writer.</b></p>
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img src="images/i_typewriter.png" alt="TYPEWRITER" />
-</div>
-<p class="center"><span class="xxlarge">THE MINISTER’S BEST ASSISTANT.</span></p>
-<p><span class="standard">Writes faster than the pen, making beautiful manuscript for the pulpit,
-or copy for the printer.</span></p>
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-</div>
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-
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-
-<div class="advertisement center">
-
-<p class="xxxlarge center"><b>Every Man His Own Printer.</b></p>
-
-<table><tr><td class="tdpr">
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img src="images/i_print-machine.png" alt="Print Machine" />
-</div>
-</td>
-
-<td>
-<p><span class="xlarge">Excelsior <b>$3</b> Printing Press.</span><br />
-<br />
-<span class="standard">Prints cards, labels, envelopes, &amp;c.;<br />
-larger sizes for larger work. For business<br />
-or pleasure, young or old. Catalogue<br />
-of Presses, Type, Cards, &amp;c., sent<br />
-for two stamps.</span><br />
-<span class="standard"><b>KELSEY &amp; CO., M’f’rs, Meriden, Conn.</b></span>
-</p>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="advertisement center">
-
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img src="images/i_marvin.png" alt="Marvin Banner" />
-</div>
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-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="advertisement">
-
-<p class="xxlarge center"><b>W. &amp; B. DOUGLAS,</b></p>
-<p class="large center"><b>Middletown, Conn.,</b></p>
-
-<p class="center">MANUFACTURERS OF</p>
-
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-
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-
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-
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-</div>
-</td>
-
-<td>
-<p>Highest Medal awarded<br />
-them by the Universal<br />
-Exposition at Paris,<br />
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-Austria, in 1873; and<br />
-Philadelphia, 1876.</p>
-
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-
-<p class="large center">Founded in 1832.</p>
-
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-
-<p class="large center">Branch Warehouses:</p>
-<p class="xlarge center"><b>85 &amp; 87 John St.</b></p>
-<p class="large center">NEW YORK,</p>
-<p class="center">AND</p>
-<p class="xlarge center"><b>197 Lake Street,</b></p>
-<p class="large center">CHICAGO.</p>
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center"><i>For Sale by all Regular Dealers.</i></p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-
-<div class="advertisement">
-
-<div><span class="center large">THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME</span><br />
-
-<span class="small">OF THE</span><br />
-<span class="xxxlarge">American Missionary,</span><br />
-<span class="large center">1880.</span></div>
-
-<p class="p1">We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing appreciation of
-the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> during the past year, and purpose to spare no effort to make its pages
-of still greater value to those interested in the work which it records.</p>
-
-<p>Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?</p>
-
-<p>A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own remittances, to
-induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus
-widen the influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.</p>
-
-<p>Under the editorial supervision of Rev. <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>, aided by the steady
-contributions of our intelligent missionaries and teachers in all parts of the field, and
-with occasional communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward
-among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as
-citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.</p>
-
-<p>It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting the races among
-which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of current events relating to their
-welfare and progress.</p>
-
-<p>Patriots and Christians interested in the education and Christianizing of these
-despised races are asked to read it, and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next
-number and the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.</p>
-
-<p>The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on
-page 94.</p>
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-<p class="sig15">H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</p>
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-<p class="large center"><b>TO ADVERTISERS.</b></p>
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-<p class="p1">Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the <span class="smcap">American
-Missionary</span>. Among its regular readers are thousands of Ministers of the Gospel,
-Presidents, Professors and Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and
-Schools; it is, therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising Books,
-Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church Furniture,
-Bells, Household Goods, &amp;c.</p>
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