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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 34, No. 3, March, 1880 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: August 19, 2017 [EBook #55384] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MARCH, 1880 *** - - - - -Produced by Brian Wilsden, Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and -the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at -http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images -generously made available by Cornell University Digital -Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. 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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -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. - - * * * * * - - - - -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.”) - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR JANUARY, 1880. - - * * * * * - - - 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. 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DOUGLAS, - Middletown, Conn., - MANUFACTURERS OF - PUMPS, - - HYDRAULIC RAMS, GARDEN ENGINES, PUMP - CHAIN AND FIXTURES, IRON CURBS, YARD - HYDRANTS, STREET - [Illustration] WASHERS, ETC. - - Highest Medal awarded - them by the Universal - Exposition at Paris, - France, in 1867; Vienna, - Austria, in 1873; and - Philadelphia, 1876. - - Founded in 1832. - - Branch Warehouses: - 85 & 87 John St. - NEW YORK, - AND - 197 Lake Street, - CHICAGO. - - _For Sale by all Regular Dealers._ - - - * * * * * - - - - - THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME - - OF THE - - American Missionary, - - 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. 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