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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 35, No.
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- VOL. XXXV. NO. 8.
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- * * * * *
-
- “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
-
- * * * * *
-
- AUGUST, 1881.
-
-
-
-
- _CONTENTS_:
-
-
- EDITORIAL.
-
- PARAGRAPH—The Mendi Mission 225
- ILLUSTRATION—Mission Home, Mendi Mission 228
- DEATH OF REV. KELLY M. KEMP 230
- AFRICAN NOTES 230
- FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA: Rev. Lewis Grout 232
- ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE: Sec’y Strieby 233
- BENEFACTIONS 236
- CHINESE AND INDIAN NOTES 237
-
-
- THE FREEDMEN.
-
- ANNIVERSARY REPORTS—Continued.
- Ga.: Atlanta University 238
- Ala.: Talladega College 240
- Texas: Tillotson Institute, Austin 242
- S.C.: Avery Institute, Charleston 242
- Ga.: Lewis High School, Macon 243
-
-
- THE CHINESE.
-
- ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON 245
-
-
- WOMAN’S HOME MISS. ASSOC’N.
-
- TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY 247
-
-
- CHILDREN’S PAGE.
-
- GRACIE’S MISTAKE: Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever 248
-
-
- RECEIPTS 250
-
- LIST OF OFFICERS 254
-
- CONSTITUTION 255
-
- AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 256
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-[Illustration: MAP OF PROTESTANT MISSION STATIONS IN AFRICA.]
-
-
-
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- * * * * *
-
- VOL. XXXV. AUGUST, 1881. NO. 8.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-_American Missionary Association._
-
- * * * * *
-
-We publish on the opposite page a map of Africa, upon which is
-represented, by crosses, the location of the different Protestant
-mission stations of that continent. The Mendi Mission on the West
-Coast, and the proposed Arthington Mission in the Nile Basin, are
-specially indicated by dotted lines. We give, also, elsewhere a cut
-of the Mission Home at Good Hope Station, Mendi Mission.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-THE MENDI MISSION.
-
-SUGGESTIONS, WITH EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL.
-
-REV. H. M. LADD.
-
-Much of the mission work in Africa, at least upon the West Coast,
-has a basis in industrial work of some kind. Many causes have
-conspired to hinder this branch of civilizing work at the Mendi
-Mission. Without stopping to specify what these may have been,
-no one can doubt that the chief reason why the saw-mill at Avery
-has failed to be a source of income to the Association, is the
-difficulty of transporting the lumber to market. This mill, with
-a circular and an upright saw, with a good head of water during
-the larger part of the year, and with timber near at hand, is the
-only mill of the kind on the West Coast. There is a good demand for
-such lumber as the mill can produce, but the chief market is 120
-miles distant. No one in Africa, however much he might want lumber,
-would be guilty of going 120 miles for it, nor even 120 rods, if
-he could help it. In former times the lumber was taken to the
-market in a large boat, propelled by oar and sail; but the climate
-and the worms have claimed that boat as their own. Here is a most
-potent agency, an attractive centre for goods. The mill might be
-producing thousands of feet of lumber a day, and yet if there were
-no way to carry this lumber to the point where it could be sold,
-its production would only become a burden. What is needed to insure
-the best success of the mill, and of all the industrial departments
-connected with it, is an easy and quick means of transportation.
-This would not only make the mill a really civilizing institution
-and a paying piece of property, but if a small steamer or tug-boat
-were thus in use, it would more than pay its own way in the
-regular trips it would make, and by the incidental services it
-could render to other mission stations where similar industrial
-work is carried on. There are promises enough to insure the
-successful running of such a steamer. It should be adapted to
-towing a lumber boat of large capacity to and from Freetown, and
-should also be adapted to carrying passengers up and down the
-rivers. It would accomplish more work in a given time than any
-other project yet proposed on this coast, would dispense with the
-small army of boatmen and fleet of boats now maintained, and would
-be the solution of the question in regard to the mill. But why keep
-up this mill? Why have an industrial department? Simply because the
-spiritual interests of the mission are involved in it and demand
-it. There must be a physical basis for any successful work upon
-the minds and hearts of the people in this part of Africa. This
-has been demonstrated in other missions than our own. The people
-need a place to tie to, and something to draw them to that place
-in order to receive any lasting good. They need to learn habits of
-industry along with the Gospel. They need to be lifted out of their
-barbarism by increasing their wants and showing them how to supply
-them.
-
-These are a few of the considerations that make this industrial
-work a sort of entering wedge for the Gospel. The situation of
-things at the Avery Station is, however, such as to convince
-those who have considered the matter, that the keen edge of this
-entering wedge must be the sharp prow of a little steamer. There
-can be scarcely a doubt, that the facilities afforded by such a
-steamer would give a much needed impetus to the whole work of the
-Association upon the West Coast.
-
-
-JOHN BROWN MEMORIAL STEAMER.
-
-Here is now an opportunity to turn to account the latent forces
-that lie pent up within easy reach. But how shall the steamer
-preach its practical sermon unless it be sent? Some one must send
-it. Many hands make light work, especially when they contain the
-contributions of willing hearts. Why may not the many little
-rills, and springs, and even drops of love for the colored race,
-flow together and float this steamer? Why not send, as some one
-has suggested, old John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry, in a memorial
-steamer over to Africa, to carry forward in a higher sense the work
-of freedom which he began here, and which shall never end till
-his soul has ceased its marching on? About $10,000 are needed to
-furnish such a steamer as is required. Who will take the first $100
-share in the steamer “John Brown” soon to leave for the coast of
-Africa?
-
-
-ADVANCE TO THE INTERIOR.
-
-If we may believe one-half of the glowing accounts which come to us
-regarding the high table-lands of the interior, one or two hundred
-miles back from the coast, the region is full of rich promises
-as the scene of future missionary operations. It is said that
-the land is rich, the country wonderfully beautiful and healthy,
-the population dense, and cattle and horses abundant. There are
-difficulties in the way of reaching this country, but they are
-not insurmountable. One of our missionaries (Mr. Williams), well
-fitted for the work, has pushed his way back into this region, and
-reports very strongly in its favor. He brought back a horse with
-him as corroborative evidence of his statements, and there can be
-no doubt that in this healthier upland region the natives are more
-intelligent, more industrious, and every way superior, while they
-are also ready to welcome any who come among them for purposes
-of peace. Our present stations upon the coast, three in number,
-furnish excellent starting points and bases of supply, and should
-be maintained largely as such. But it should be our aim to work
-back from the low, malarious coast into these healthier and more
-promising highlands just as soon as the proper men and the means
-can be found. Starting from the stations already established, it
-would seem to be a wise thing to locate a chain of stations within
-easy distances of each other, stretching back to the mountains.
-At these points the missionaries could reside two by two, with
-mutual helpfulness and support. The natives of this region talk
-the same general language as upon the coast. They are said to be
-remarkably fine singers, and are fond of music. They manufacture
-great quantities of cloth and various other articles of a superior
-quality. They are, however, reported to be the husbands of many
-wives, counting their honors by the number of their wives. The
-rivers that drain this region afford an imperfect approach to the
-country, but are available for considerable distances. Let the
-means and the men be found, and this healthier and more promising
-country can soon be captured for Christ. It is only a question of
-time. This push for the interior must soon be made, and a larger
-and better work must soon be inaugurated.
-
-
-BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL.
-
-On Wednesday, March 23d, we sighted the point of Sierra Leone by
-early dawn. The country as approached from the sea is beautiful.
-The serrated Lion Mountains slope to the water’s edge, covered
-with a luxuriance of tropical vegetation. The city of Freetown at
-a little distance appears comparatively well built. The public
-buildings are large and attract immediate attention, the streets
-are wide and regularly laid out; and the whole external aspect
-strikes one as much finer than what is naturally expected on this
-coast; but a nearer view suggests the truth of the old saying that
-“Familiarity breeds contempt.” The stay here was short, but into
-the time was crowded a variety of strange and novel experiences.
-From this point the mission boat “Olive Branch” carried us to
-Good Hope Station, on Sherbro Island, where we landed late in the
-evening of March 30th. This trip of about one hundred and twenty
-miles occupied three days and two nights, and was, perhaps, the
-most trying part of our journey. We experienced several severe
-tornadoes on the way, and suffered from the intense glare of the
-sun, now nearly vertical, and the difficulty of procuring proper
-food. Having reached the mission house, we at once made ourselves
-as much at home as possible. Thursday, March 31st, we were all
-up at an early hour, and went out before the intense heat of the
-day to inspect the grounds and buildings. The fine property of
-the mission had evidently suffered in many ways from neglect. All
-the buildings stood in need of repairs, and a large portion of
-the grounds, including the little cemetery where Barnabas Root is
-buried, was overgrown with bush. The spiritual condition of the
-church and station seemed also to bear some resemblance to its
-outward condition. It was not hopeless, but somewhat depressed.
-The grounds in the immediate vicinity of the mission house gave
-evidence, however, that the missionaries had neither forgotten to
-exercise their taste, nor been wasteful of the small force and
-slender means at their command. So, also, the spiritual condition
-of the station presented some encouraging features. The warm
-reception which Mr. Kemp and his wife received on every side gave
-some reason to hope that the church would yet nourish under his
-judicious care.
-
-[Illustration: MISSION HOME, MENDI MISSION.]
-
-Friday, April 1st, was emphatically a day of calls. It had been
-quickly noised abroad that the new missionaries from America had
-arrived, and many availed themselves of the first opportunity to
-bid them welcome to Africa. Possibly a little curiosity was mingled
-with their politeness, but we did not care to analyze too closely,
-and were glad to see them all. The people we met were generally
-fine looking, of a rich, brown color, and not burdened by any
-superfluity of clothing. They talked a broken English, which was
-almost as difficult to understand as a new language.
-
-To say that Sunday, April 3d, was a warm day would convey but a
-slight idea of the truth. When the thermometer indicates over 90°
-in America we are apt to call it rather warm; but a new adjective
-is needed to characterize African heat at 90°, for it is something
-so entirely different from the summer broils of other countries.
-No wonder that this is an unhealthy climate. The land is low, the
-water stagnant, the air moist, vegetation thick, and the heat
-intense. In the morning I preached in the mission church to an
-attentive audience on “The light that shineth in a dark place,” and
-was present at a service in the Mendi language at the school-house
-in the afternoon. The prayer meeting in the evening was well
-attended and full of interest.
-
-On Monday, April 4th, we went in the “Olive Branch” to Avery
-Station, on the Mahna River, a branch of the Bargroo, forty miles
-inland. The trip took all of one night, the boatmen rowing and
-keeping time to their oars with a weird, monotonous singing all the
-way.
-
-The inspection of the station at Avery consumed the early morning
-hours of Tuesday. We visited the mill, the boat houses, the coffee
-farm, the cassada fields, the rice houses, the boy’s department,
-the store, the church and school-room, and last, but not least, the
-“faki,” or native village, situated on the mission grounds, and
-under the control of the missionary. The situation of the mission
-house is a fine one, but the adjacent country is wilder than at
-Good Hope. The house stands on a high promontory, and commands
-a very picturesque view both up and down the river. This river
-abounds in fish and alligators, while the banks are alive with
-monkeys.
-
-I was up at three A. M. on the 7th to help receive Mr. Kemp, who
-arrived from Good Hope Station at that hour. Later we visited the
-school together, examined the pupils in their various branches, and
-gave them a little talk, which they seemed to enjoy. Some of them
-were honored by such names as Wm. E. Gladstone and M. E. Strieby.
-Their appearance and behavior were very gratifying. The prayer
-meeting in the evening was fully attended, and indicated a marked
-degree of earnestness, the leader having some difficulty to bring
-it to a close. If hand-shaking is a means of grace, we enjoyed
-special privileges at the end of this meeting.
-
-I found oysters growing on trees (April 8th), and plucked a large
-branch. Bread and butter also grow on trees in this strange land.
-I had occasion to turn doctor to-day, and prescribed some fearful
-doses, right and left, with marked results, due probably to faith.
-
-After the ordination exercises at Good Hope (April 10th), a number
-of the ministerial brethren of the council went in a boat-load
-to attend service at the out-station of Debia, and although a
-severe tornado threatened to break up the meeting, we enjoyed an
-interesting and precious season together. The work at this point is
-full of encouragement, but greater facilities are needed to carry
-it on.
-
- * * * * *
-
-The painful news has just been received through Rev. O. H. White,
-D.D., of London, of the death of Rev. Kelly M. Kemp at Good Hope
-Station, Mendi Mission. Thus one more bright name has been added
-to the long list of missionary heroes and martyrs whose dust
-hallows the soil of Africa. No particulars have been received,
-and we cannot speak confidently as to the cause of his death.
-Those who have read the recent accounts of his ordination and
-reception at Good Hope need not be reminded of the high hopes
-that were entertained in regard to the work upon which he had but
-just entered with so much zeal. Mr. Kemp’s earnest consecration
-and varied experience and sweet Christian character had not only
-endeared him to all who knew him, but had given rich promise also
-of great good to the people among whom he had counted it all joy to
-labor.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AFRICAN NOTES.
-
-—The Sultan of Zanzibar is about to study the organization of the
-French navy. He was expected at Marseilles in July for that purpose.
-
-—Dr. Stacker is attempting to explore Lake Tsana in Abyssinia. If
-he succeeds in accomplishing this he purposes to push on to Ghera.
-
-—M. Viard, who has already explored the Niger and the Bénvé,
-in company with the Count of Semellé, is just attempting a new
-expedition for penetrating into the interior, and establishing
-there commercial stations.
-
-—Captain Neves Fereira, Governor of Benguela, and some other
-officers, have placed themselves at the disposition of the
-Geographical Society of Lisbon, for a new Portuguese expedition
-from the west to the east, upon an itinerary like that of Serpa
-Pinto.
-
-—P. Francisco Autuses, charged with establishing the mission of
-Zoumba upon the Zambeze, has set out from Lisbon for Mozambique.
-After studying theology and natural sciences at Louvain, he will
-devote himself to taking meteorological observations. He will
-establish a station for this purpose at Zoumba. In a little
-while he will be joined by a number of Portuguese workmen, whom
-government will send there to make the necessary buildings for a
-commercial office.
-
-—The Portuguese Commission of Public Works has constructed in the
-Province of Angola a telegraphic line of 344 kilometers from St.
-Paul de Loanda to Dondo and Calcullo. It has already rendered good
-service to commerce and the navigation of the Quanza. At Dondo
-everything is ready to prolong the line as far as Poungo Andongo.
-
-—The Sultan of Zanzibar has just explored the upper country of the
-Loufigi with an expedition, the command of which was entrusted
-to M. Beardall, who formerly studied the region of the Rovouma,
-and more recently has had under his care the construction of the
-Dar-es-Salam road.
-
-—The society formed at Sfax will establish at the most important
-points in the rich countries of Haussa, Bornou, Darfour, &c.,
-commercial stations, which will be at the same time scientific
-stations, and between which will pass regular caravans, well armed,
-to which will be joined special men, furnished with all necessary
-instruments for making topographical and meteorological surveys.
-
-—Four Roman Catholic missionaries have gone to the Baptist mission
-at San Salvador. They were brought by a Portuguese vessel to the
-point where the Congo ceases to be navigable, and escorted from
-thence to San Salvador by a lieutenant and a detachment of the
-navy. They carried with them some holy water, fire-arms, silver
-vases and a golden crown, and offered them to the King of San
-Salvador from the King of Portugal. The king received them and
-returned thanks, saying that it was the most beautiful present
-he had ever received. He has promised his protection to the
-missionaries.
-
-—Mr. James Stevenson, Esq., has offered £4,000 to the London
-Missionary Society and the Livingstonia Mission, provided they
-will, without delay, establish stations and maintain them on the
-line of road between Lake Tanganyika and Quilimane on the coast. It
-is expected that merchandise will be transported over this route
-by steamer up the Zambezi and Shiré to the falls of the latter
-river. There will also be steamboat facilities on the upper Shiré
-and the Nyassa lake, leaving only about three hundred miles for the
-transportation of goods by porters or domestic animals in order to
-reach the Tanganyika.
-
-
-FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA.
-
-REV. LEWIS GROUT.
-
-The Freedmen, properly educated, will make capital missionaries for
-Africa. After a careful study of the race for thirty years—fifteen
-on their own ancestral shores, and now fifteen in this land of
-ours—such is my conclusion concerning them. They have, naturally,
-some of the best traits to fit them for mission work. They are
-hopeful, for one thing, as every missionary should be. During all
-the long years of their bondage, and then during all the war, how
-did they hope on and hope ever that deliverance would come, till
-come it did! They are naturally a social people. Getting a new
-idea, a new truth, they talk it over, pass it on, keep it going.
-The missionary must be social, if he will do the most good. They
-are a sharp-minded, quick-witted people. For ability to read
-character, make a quick turn, a good use of passing events, or take
-a good illustration from nature, the Africans have no superiors.
-They are of a tropical constitution, most happy, healthy, and
-most at home in just such a climate as that of Africa. It is
-their native clime—a fact whose value can neither be denied nor
-over-estimated.
-
-Now keeping all these natural qualifications in mind, let us
-briefly notice some pertinent points in that most unique, varied
-experience and divinely appointed discipline through which God, in
-His providence, has been causing the Freedmen to pass for all these
-years, as giving them a yet more special preparation for the great
-mission work He has in store for them.
-
-First, experience in suffering. I know not how it may be with
-others, but for myself I have come, long since, to think that
-there is no discipline in this world like that of suffering,
-rightly used, to fashion us after the image of the Divine. In
-this way the Saviour himself is said to have been made perfect
-and fitted for His great redemptive work, (Heb. v., 8, 9). And
-when, in olden time, God would make choice of a people to be
-conservators and propagators of His truth in the world for ages,
-how did He prepare them for their mission? Not by sending them to
-college, but by sending them down into Egypt; and there, for long
-generations, did He keep them in bondage, and then for other long
-years in wanderings in the wilderness, till He had fitted them for
-His work, and ground into them a character which all the fiction
-of the ages has not yet ground out of them. So with the people
-of whom we speak—what an experience have they had in suffering!
-Surely, God must have in store for them some great and wondrous
-mission, for which He has intended this experience to be both
-presage and preparation. Then notice the discipline they have had
-as soldiers in the camp, on the march, on guard, in the battle,
-shoulder to shoulder with our men, sons, brothers, fathers, bravely
-fighting for the Union, that they might know what war is, and
-what it sometimes costs to secure liberty and save a nation from
-anarchy and ruin. See, too, what experience and discipline they
-are getting in civil and political life, in the use of the ballot,
-in the forming and reconstructing of states, in the framing of
-constitutions, in making and executing laws, in all the varied and
-complicated duties of citizens, magistrates, judges and rulers,
-that they may know how laws, states and nations are made and
-sustained, and so be prepared to go and plant these institutions
-and principles in the land of their fathers. And then, last and
-best of all, what an experience are they getting in the work of
-organizing and running Christian schools and pure churches among
-their own people, under the lead of our teachers and preachers in
-the South, that they may be prepared to do this same blessed work
-in that dark land which is so imploringly calling to them, as her
-own sons and daughters, to come with the school and the church to
-her help.
-
-I love to look at the work of the American Missionary Association
-in this Divine light. I love to come up in this way upon these
-highlands of God’s movements in Africa, and among her sons on our
-shores in this our day, and to get, as I think I can, in this way,
-some good look at the sweep and the purpose of His providence
-in the otherwise strange revolutions through which Africa, the
-Africans, and we ourselves are so swiftly passing.
-
-And now, what is wanting to bring this divinely planned enterprise
-to a speedy and glorious consummation, but that we do all come
-quick and glad into line with God?—that the Freedmen, the American
-Missionary Association, all its noble constituency of churches, the
-whole rank and file of God’s American army, tread firm and true to
-the music of His providence? So shall be generously furnished the
-men and the means He now asks, by which to hasten, in His time, the
-redemption of Africa unto Himself.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE,
-
-AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL.
-
-BY SECRETARY STRIEBY.
-
-As we are about to lay the corner-stone of a new school building,
-it is proper that I should answer the question, Why do we come down
-from the North to erect these buildings in the South?
-
-Before answering the question, I may say that if we come at all,
-it is not strange that we should select so beautiful a spot as
-this for a location; nor that we should come to Nashville, for
-there seems to be some sort of educational lodestone that attracts
-schools to this city. Joshua conquered a Moabite city called
-Kirjath-sepher, which scholars tell us means “Book City.” What
-could have given it that title in that remote era, whether the
-possession of one book or several books, when letters had probably
-not long been invented, must remain forever a mystery. So when
-Macaulay’s New Zealander, after having meditated on the ruins
-of London Bridge, shall come to this spot and meditate upon the
-ruins here, or when some Layard or Cesnola or Schliemann shall dig
-down deep into their foundations, this place may be denominated
-the “School City;” for at the earliest date of the settlement of
-Nashville, good schools were formed, and now the hill-tops are
-crowned and the streets are adorned with schools of the highest
-character. Nor are these for the white race alone. The Methodist
-Central Tennessee College, the Baptist Normal and Theological
-Institute, and neither last nor least, Fisk University, crowning
-these heights, attest the interest taken in the Christian education
-of the colored race.
-
-But why do we come here from the North to build these buildings?
-First, we come as fellow-citizens, who have shared in the agony of
-the late civil conflict, at the bottom of which lay negro slavery,
-and for which North and South were responsible, though it may be
-in different degrees. In the piping hot days of the anti-slavery
-contest, the Evangelical Alliance met in London. An English
-gentleman took the platform and delivered a scathing rebuke to
-America for slavery. Dr. Cox, our most celebrated off-hand orator
-of that day, took the floor, saying that of course America had
-her view as to who was responsible for negro slavery in America,
-whether Britons or Americans; “but,” said he, “I propose to take
-one corner of the mantle, and let the brother who has just spoken
-take the other corner, and we will walk backwards and throw it
-over the originator of negro slavery in America.” We come as
-fellow-citizens in a like spirit, ready to throw the mantle of
-charity over the past. But emancipation has introduced a new
-element. The ex-slaves need Christian education and elevation, and
-we come as Christian brethren and say to our friends at the South:
-We will take one corner of the mantle of Christian education, if
-you will take the other, and we will go _forward_, with our faces
-lifted to Heaven, and will throw that mantle over the emancipated
-slaves.
-
-This is the work we propose to do in the South, and wise and
-candid men both North and South are beginning to realize that the
-education of the negro race is the paramount duty of the nation
-to it. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of
-the North on this subject, while Col. Preston and Dr. Ruffner of
-Virginia, Sen. Brown and Pres. Haygood of Georgia, have nobly
-re-echoed the sentiment from the South. This Association goes
-farther than mere intellectual education. It believes that the
-Christian element lies at the foundation of all true character, and
-that character is the basis of all true manhood and citizenship.
-It has been the aim of this Association not merely to lift up the
-individual, but to apply the levers to the elevation of the mass,
-and hence it has founded in every large Southern State, schools
-fitted for the training of teachers, preachers and missionaries of
-the colored race. At Hampton, where the first slave-ship entered
-the continent, in the same year in which the Pilgrims landed on
-Plymouth Rock, the Association opened the first Freedman’s school
-in these United States. Under the energetic administration of Gen.
-Armstrong, Hampton Institute, with its broad lands, its large and
-commodious buildings, its steam-engine and multiplied mechanical
-employments, gives educational and industrial training to its large
-company of students, graduating about fifty pupils each year,
-ninety per cent. of whom go into the State as teachers, carrying
-with them, into the school, the Sunday-school, the prayer-meeting
-and the church a healthful Christian influence; while the noble
-old state of Virginia responds to the effort by a gift of $10,000
-a year for the support of the school. Atlanta University, with its
-two commodious buildings, and another soon to be added, imparts
-a higher range of teaching, including classic instruction to its
-pupils, and the state of Georgia responds with its gift of $8,000 a
-year. If you would see what is done at Fisk University, look around
-you and examine the classes under instruction in Jubilee Hall. But
-time would fail me to speak of Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo, Miss.;
-Straight University, New Orleans; Tillotson Institute, Austin,
-Texas; and of the other schools, normal, grammar and primary, which
-the Association sustains. From all these institutions we believe
-there are pupils now engaged in teaching, who have under their
-care 200,000 children, and that there are pastors in churches that
-we have founded, and in others not under our care, whom we have
-prepared to be intelligent and faithful preachers of the Gospel in
-this land and in Africa. We believe that the providence of God is
-bringing to pass a wonderful combination of discovery in Africa
-and of Christian education among the Freedmen, that is to have an
-immeasurable influence on the long neglected races of the Dark
-Continent.
-
-In these efforts for the colored people, we do not wish to make
-them vain nor to pauperize them. We believe our efforts have led
-thus far to neither of these results. The scholars going from our
-schools are not troubled with what is so aptly called the “big
-head,” and my observation shows that around our schools and others
-like them the colored people are inclined more than anywhere else
-to buy land, build houses and make comfortable Christian homes. Our
-purpose in erecting these buildings, in addition to the good that
-is done to the scholars under immediate instruction, is to inspire
-hope in the whole race. And we are doing it. A good colored deacon
-in one of our churches said that he expected no greater change to
-come over him when he entered Heaven than came over his race when
-the doors of the school-house were opened to it.
-
-In the prosecution of this, our great work, we have spent over
-$3,000,000, and to secure that sum we have had providential
-helpers. First on the roll and steadiest in the ranks are the
-Christian friends at the North and in Great Britain, whose firm
-support has been the stability of our efforts. We mention also
-the Freedmen’s Bureau, with its large and wise distribution of
-Government funds for educational purposes. This Bureau has not been
-popular at the South; but we believe the time will yet come when
-our Southern friends will learn to appreciate the work of Gen.
-Howard, the head of this Bureau, and of Gen. Fisk, who administered
-so wisely and impartially for both races the Bureau work in this
-and adjoining States. The Jubilee Singers need no eulogy in this
-presence; their monument stands before us in Jubilee Hall; yet
-no list of the providential helpers of this Association, and
-especially of Fisk University, could be complete without their
-names. And last, but not least, mention must be made of the noble
-generosity of Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, attested not only in the gift
-of $60,000, which is to build Livingstone Hall, whose corner-stone
-we lay to-day, but in like gifts throughout the land. God rejoices
-in the coming spring, when the frozen ground and the ice-covered
-streams give place to the springing grass and the budding leaves,
-coming forth to adorn and beautify the earth and to presage the
-approaching harvests. And so, without presumption, may His child,
-the giver of the bounty which rears this building, be permitted to
-rejoice as it sends forth its annual company of students, trained
-and adorned for a useful life that shall gladden and bless the
-world.
-
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-
-The Vicksburg _Herald_, rebuking a narrow-minded correspondent,
-says: “We are heartily in favor of the South from the Potomac to
-the Rio Grande being thoroughly and permanently Yankeeized. Yankee
-energy, Yankee schools, Yankee cultivation, Yankee railroads and
-Yankee capital are badly needed in the South, and will be welcomed
-by every Southern progressive patriot.”
-
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-
-
-BENEFACTIONS.
-
-—John P. Howard, of Burlington, has given $50,000 to the University
-of Vermont—the largest individual gift ever made to the institution.
-
-—The Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, N.Y., has offered to give
-$100,000 toward the general endowment of Rutgers College, New
-Brunswick, N.J., provided the remaining trustees contribute
-$400,000.
-
-—Dr. Hoffman, Dean of the Faculty of the General Protestant
-Episcopal Theological Seminary of New York, with his family, has
-given $75,000 toward the endowment of that institution.
-
-—Mr. John R. Buchtel, of Acton, Ohio, has added $75,000 to his
-gifts to the Buchtel College, making the entire amount about
-$200,000.
-
-—Mr. Wharton has given $100,000 to the Wharton School of Finance
-and Economy in connection with the University of Pennsylvania.
-
-—A benevolent lady has given $3,000 to Lincoln University for the
-erection of a tabernacle for the accommodation of visitors on
-anniversary occasions.
-
-—A lady, who does not wish her name published, has just given
-$100,000 to Princeton Theological Seminary.
-
-—Winthrop Hillyer, of Northampton, has given $35,000 to Smith
-College for an art building.
-
-—_Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed
-and over-flowing with students, and is now erecting Livingstone
-Missionary Hall, by the gift of Mrs. Stone; but endowments are the
-great necessity. Twenty-five thousand dollars will provide for a
-professorship, and there are seven such needing endowment._
-
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-
-
-CHINESE NOTES.
-
-—Chicago has fourteen naturalized Chinamen.
-
-—Dr. Chalmers reports that the native church in Hong Kong has
-increased in numbers from 83 to 216 during the decade, although,
-during the same period, no fewer than 77 members have removed to
-other parts of China, or have gone abroad.
-
-—The girl’s school in Shanghai, under the auspices of the London
-Missionary Society, numbers 100 scholars. A female missionary is
-employed at this point, who devotes her time to work among the
-women. Two ladies are also employed with marked success in the same
-branch of work at Hong Kong.
-
-—A Consul of the English Government in China, writing from Chefoo,
-says: “A great change has come over all classes in regard to
-Christianity; it has made vast strides in the land, in spite of the
-fewness of the missionaries; and whether we are inclined to rejoice
-in or deplore the fact, the spread of Christianity is inevitable.”
-
-—It is an interesting evidence of the growing power of Christianity
-in Japan that the people feel it necessary to bolster themselves
-up by mutual pledges so that they may be kept from becoming
-Christians. A Japanese paper reports that a number of citizens
-of Kioto, grieved at the rapid spread of the new religion, have
-established a society in which each member binds himself by
-solemn oaths never to embrace the Christian faith. Any member
-who disregards his vows will be ostracized. Men would not so set
-themselves did they not feel the power of the current.—_Missionary
-Herald._
-
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-
-
-INDIAN NOTES.
-
-—At Hampton there are seventy-nine Indian students, representing
-_sixteen_ different tribes.
-
-—Chief-elect Wildcat, a Shawnee boy, in the middle class at
-Hampton, is improving his spare time by compiling a small
-English-Indian dictionary. He says that his tribe has no such book,
-and one is greatly needed.
-
-—In the British possessions it is estimated that the total Indian
-population is less than one-tenth of the number found by the first
-European settlers.
-
-—Rev. John Sunday, an Indian preacher at Hamilton, Ont., is
-reported to have closed a recent address with the following
-language: “There is a gentleman who, I suppose, is now in this
-house. He is a very fine gentleman, but a very modest one. He does
-not like to show himself at these meetings. I do not know how long
-it is since I have seen him, he comes out so little. I am very much
-afraid that he sleeps a good deal of his time, when he ought to be
-out doing good. His name is Gold. Mr. Gold, are you here to-night,
-or are you sleeping in your iron chest? Come out, Mr. Gold, come
-out and help us do this great work, to preach the Gospel to every
-creature. Ah, Mr. Gold, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to
-sleep so much in your iron chest. Look at your white brother, Mr.
-Silver; he does a great deal of good while you are sleeping. Come
-out, Mr. Gold. Look, too, at your little brown brother, Mr. Copper;
-he is everywhere. Your poor little brown brother is running about,
-doing all that he can to help us. Why don’t you come out, Mr. Gold?
-Well, if you won’t show yourself, send us your shirt, that is, a
-bank note. That is all I have to say.”
-
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-
-
-
-
-THE FREEDMEN.
-
-REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
-
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-
-
-ANNIVERSARY REPORTS—CONTINUED.
-
-
-Atlanta University.
-
-PROF. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.
-
-Anniversary exercises are apt to afford but meagre indication of
-the real work accomplished by any school. To those of us who know
-the work of Atlanta University, such exercises seem especially
-inadequate to the faithful telling of what is being done here.
-When our good Christian friend, Philander Veryrich, hints that he
-is ready to come down here with a hundred thousand dollars in each
-pocket, to be emptied out wherever they will do the most good, I
-shall not especially urge his attendance upon our Commencement
-exercises. I shall ask him to spend with us either the first or the
-last Sunday evening of the school year. I shall beg him to preserve
-a strict _incognito_, and allow me to conceal him outside one of
-the windows, or behind one of the doors of our assembly room,
-with a peep-hole conveniently arranged. If it is the last Sunday
-evening before the vacation, he will hear many of the scholars
-speak with grateful appreciation of what the year’s work has done
-for them, and with enthusiastic hope of what they mean to do for
-others during their summer’s work of teaching. The members of the
-graduating class will recall their experience of six or seven or
-eight years in the Institution, and tell what a home it has been
-to them, and how much of what they have acquired in the training
-of mind and character is due to the Christian home influence of
-the school. If it is the first Sunday evening of the new school
-year, our benevolent friend will hear many of these same scholars
-tell of their summer’s work—how they have succeeded in some things
-and failed in others; what they have done in Sunday-school and
-temperance work; what obstacles they have met and conquered; what
-increasing favor they have found in the communities where they
-have labored. At either of these Sunday evening family gatherings
-(for such they are), I think our visiting friend will be struck
-with the simple straightforward way in which our scholars express
-themselves, with the extremely limited amount of what is sometimes
-called “gush,” and with the clear revelation which will be made to
-him that before, behind, around, and underneath everything else,
-the development of a thoroughly Christian character, and of a true
-manhood and womanhood, is the all-absorbing purpose of our work.
-But I am stultifying myself in trying to convey an impression
-of these gatherings to others. Even to our own corps of workers
-here, they come, twice a year, almost as a surprise and as a most
-inspiring revelation to ourselves of what God is permitting us to
-do.
-
-And still, however inadequate, our anniversary exercises have been
-full of interest, and have revealed much to those who have visited
-us for the first time. The Baccalaureate sermon was preached June
-12th, by our college pastor, Rev. Cyrus W. Francis, from 1st
-Tim. i. 19, “Holding faith and a good conscience;” and it was
-an earnest plea for the supremacy of the higher motives in the
-Christian warfare upon which the graduates were about to enter.
-Three days of public examinations followed, each day’s session
-being concluded by an exercise in music and light gymnastics. On
-the last day there was a display of what our girls have learned
-in the way of head-making. The walls of the front hall and one of
-the stairways were covered with specimens of the students’ drawing
-and map-making, indicating great progress in this department
-during the year. The normal work also has been making a decided
-advance. It is evident that those of us who teach the Greek, Latin
-and other higher branches will have to look well to our laurels.
-Fewer visitors to the school ask to hear the classics translated;
-more wish to see how the three R’s are taught. No exercise of
-the examination days riveted the attention of our friends more
-firmly than the exercise in teaching one of the grammar-school
-grades, by one of the members of the senior normal class, with
-following criticisms from the other members of the class. However,
-we classical instructors rejoice in all this, for we know that
-hereafter we shall have better equipped pupils for grappling with
-Xenophon and Cicero. It ought to be mentioned here that one of the
-most valuable exercises of our winter term this year was a three
-days’ Teachers’ Institute, in which all the teachers and scholars
-participated, and in which much light was thrown upon the improved
-methods of teaching, now attracting such wide attention. A further
-impetus was given to thought and effort in this direction by the
-visit of our friend, the Rev. A. D. Mayo, co-editor of the _Journal
-of Education_, whose four lectures and one sermon before our
-students, and whose private talk and counsel with our teachers on
-certain phases of our work, will not soon be forgotten.
-
-A very large audience, as usual, packed the Friendship Baptist
-church on Thursday, to listen to the essays of eleven of the
-graduating class, and to the address of the invited orator of the
-day. Five young men and twelve young women received the diplomas of
-the school. The Commencement address was delivered by Rev. Atticus
-G. Haygood, D.D., President of Emory College at Oxford, in this
-State. Those who are now reading his recently published book, “Our
-Brother in Black,” will not need to be told that his address was
-listened to with the greatest pleasure and approval by all who
-were present. It was a plain, forcible and thoroughly wholesome
-presentation of some of the ways in which the true greatness of
-the State must be secured, and the relation thereto of education
-and of such institutions as ours. Dr. Haygood represents, most
-nobly, that rapidly multiplying element among the Southern people
-which believes in the motto, “Look up and not down, out and not in,
-forward and not backward, and lend a hand.” May his tribe increase.
-
-One of the most excellent features of the address was, as one
-auditor suggested, the fact that it would have been just as
-appropriate for delivery before the Athens (State) University as
-before the Atlanta University.
-
-The Alumni meeting, Thursday afternoon, brought together a goodly
-number of the graduates of former years. The spirit of the remarks
-made at this gathering gives, every year, an increasing assurance
-of the stability and self-propagating character of the work in
-which we are engaged.
-
-The report of the Visiting Committee, appointed by the Governor of
-the State, has just been published. It furnishes renewed evidence
-of the growing favor which our work is meeting with among the
-people of Georgia. The remarks made to the school on the last
-day of the examinations, by Rev. Mr. Wilkes, the chairman of the
-sub-committee, who prepared this report, were full of good sense
-and kindly feeling. The speaker told of his life-long service
-as a teacher, and how it had begun with the instruction of a
-little colored boy, his father’s slave, in the safe seclusion
-of the corn-crib, in the days when such teaching was a criminal
-offense. None who heard him could doubt the entire sincerity of
-his words of sympathy and encouragement. It is astonishing how
-rapidly and widely the work of Atlanta University is coming to be
-appreciated. Among the applications for teachers which have lately
-been received, have been several from county school commissioners,
-who say, in substance, “The teachers we have met with from your
-Institution are of such a quality that we desire now to supply all
-our schools from the same source.” Let our friends at the North
-take courage. Their investments, so far, are bearing compound
-interest at a high rate. When these lines reach the eyes of the
-readers of the MISSIONARY, some ten thousand children, all over
-this great State, will be gathered under the instruction of our
-pupils. Next October we shall get the reports of this work. As soon
-as our friend, Philander Veryrich, will send me his address, I
-will give him the date of the Sunday evening gathering, from which
-he can learn more about our work than from whole volumes of the
-AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
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-
-
-TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
-
-MRS. THOS. N. CHASE.
-
-After following with tender anxiety so many classes through their
-graduating exercises at Atlanta, it has been very pleasant for
-me, this year, to witness the closing exercises of two similar
-Institutions. This one at Talladega I have been urged to report for
-the MISSIONARY.
-
-The sermon before the graduating class was preached by Pres. H.
-S. De Forest upon the worth of the soul. His eloquent review of
-the grand geologic ages told of the greater grandeur of Him for
-whom they were prepared. His allusions to the soul’s capacity to
-think, feel and choose, to its immortality and cost of redemption,
-must have brought to the class an overwhelming sense of their
-responsibility. In closing, they were asked to remember that what a
-man may be is infinitely more than what he can sell himself to get.
-
-The Missionary Society had the promise of an address on Sunday
-evening by Dr. G. B. Willcox, of Chicago Theological Seminary. A
-telegram announcing his sickness was throwing its shadow over us,
-when, as unexpectedly, Rev. H. M. Ladd dropped in upon us, only
-a few days home from Africa. He hastened South to catch the last
-days of Talladega and Atlanta sessions, hoping to find recruits for
-African missions.
-
-On Monday the examinations began. This Institution is fortunate
-in having an excellent primary school in the building. It is a
-constant object lesson to the little army of teachers who go out
-every summer to teach just such children, and also dignifies
-primary work, which, in spite of Frœbel, Pestalozzi and the
-truly wise and good everywhere, is too often considered of minor
-importance. The principal of the intermediate department has
-remarkable ability in bringing her pupils up to her high standard
-of excellence. In the rear of her school-room is a power for good
-which is inestimable. It consists in a long, low table with seats.
-On it are fastened, by a very simple contrivance, interesting and
-instructive illustrated papers and magazines, which the children
-are allowed to read after lessons are prepared. In an age when
-the best literature floods our land in such cheap forms that the
-humblest need never thirst, what nobler philanthropy than to allure
-these often worse than homeless children on to an early taste for
-good reading?
-
-The normal work and classes in natural science are in charge of a
-graduate lately from Beloit College and Whitewater Normal School.
-The classical department is in charge of an Olivet graduate, whose
-three years here have proved him invaluable. A most interesting
-acquisition to the corps of teachers is a scientific farmer, a
-graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College. To enjoy the
-delicious vegetables from his garden is enough to convert a sceptic
-in scientific agriculture. It really looks as though, under his
-skill, these unsightly acres of red clay were, in time, to blossom
-as the rose. The joy and pride of this Institution, however, is its
-theological department, and well it may be. Its class of eleven
-were examined two hours of one of their hot days, and nobody seemed
-weary. The clear, simple topics, recited in such an interesting,
-lucid style, tolerated no hovering fog, that I had supposed always,
-more or less, mystified a recitation in systematic theology. The
-accuracy of their knowledge in Bible history, too, was wonderful.
-None but a born teacher could have secured such results from
-a class of that grade of scholarship. Classes in geometry and
-rhetoric told unmistakably of thorough work.
-
-We were entertained, Monday evening, by prize speaking and essay
-reading; Tuesday evening, by an interesting account of Mr. Ladd’s
-African experience, in place of the expected address by Dr.
-Willcox; Wednesday evening, by the ordination of two candidates;
-Thursday evening, by a musical concert. There are a few rare voices
-here that vocal training would develop into marvellous sweetness.
-
-Thursday was graduating day, and as the class was much smaller
-than usual, five young men from the preparatory department gave
-orations. They were all excellent in matter and delivery. Their
-effect would have been more pleasing, however, had there been a
-greater variety of subjects or of treatment. Doubtless, in the
-depths of these students’ hearts, no subjects are so momentous as
-“The curse of Canaan;” “Cannot we, too, become great men?” “The
-ballot,” etc. But what has pleased me here more than anything else,
-however, is the excellent spirit manifested by the students in the
-family. There is, especially among the young men, an earnestness
-of purpose shown that is simply grand. Possibly it is, in part,
-owing to the fact that so many are from the country, schooled by
-hard work, away from the follies of city life. There is here no
-airing of exquisite broadcloth nor swinging of fancy canes. All
-are respectful, unassuming, and possessed of a modesty that seems
-to reach beneath their delightful demeanor and give them a true
-estimate of their abilities. At family devotions, the last morning
-before the school separated, one of the graduates led us in prayer.
-I cannot think that the thought and tones of that prayer will
-ever leave me. The ear of the Omnipotent must have heard those
-pathetic pleadings that his fellow-students might be sustained by
-the Everlasting Arms as they took up their heavy burdens, often
-in the midst of terrible temptations. We who send out these large
-numbers of young men and women to reach the masses, feel the need
-of your prayers and sympathies; but how much more do these young
-and inexperienced ones, as they go out to battle with ignorance,
-envy, intemperance and every form of vice! We never realize how
-great our hopes are for them till we occasionally get a great shock
-by the death of one, or the overcoming and fall of another. We
-reach but a few. Surely our work and the entire Southern work of
-the American Missionary Association centres in those who go out to
-reach the millions. If they fail, we have failed. How important
-that we hold up such a high standard of character, that they shall
-be beacon lights instead of tapers that shall soon go out in the
-darkness.
-
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-
-
-TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
-
-(From the Daily Statesman)
-
-Tillotson Institute is presided over by the Rev. W. E. Brooks, a
-gentleman of evident Christian piety, an accomplished scholar, and
-a man thoroughly impressed with the dignity and importance of his
-trust. Professor Brooks is ably assisted in the educational part
-of his work by Miss Hunt, an experienced and successful teacher of
-the young, as her class examinations, conducted at the Institute
-on the 9th inst., fully demonstrated; the boys and girls, in the
-careful and prolonged examinations to which they were subjected by
-their teachers and the visitors present, displaying an accuracy
-of information and a fullness of understanding highly commendable
-to themselves, and a just source of pride to their faithful and
-efficient teachers. The examination in English grammar, including
-analysis and parsing, was excellent, as was that also in geography.
-The result of the examination in arithmetic, algebra and Latin
-showed an uncommon proficiency on the part of the students,
-considering the fact that they have been at this school and under
-this training scarcely more than six months.
-
-President Brooks has the real welfare of his pupils at heart,
-and is educating them in a practical as well as theoretical way.
-He is teaching them how to become useful and honorable men and
-women, and his labors have the cordial approval of all our best
-citizens. President Brooks is so much gratified with his success
-thus far that he visits the North shortly, hoping to get further
-aid in establishing this school, and proposes, if his expectations
-are realized, to add a mechanical and agricultural department
-to his present course of instruction. The school closed with an
-attendance of one hundred and seven pupils. This under-taking is
-a very praiseworthy one, and will, we doubt not, meet with the
-encouragement it most certainly deserves. In Virginia, Tennessee
-and Louisiana these schools for the colored youth are attracting
-the attention and securing the liberal approval of the legislatures
-and public men of those states, and so it will be here.
-
-We noticed among the many visitors present at the examination,
-Gov. Pease, Rev. Mr. Wright, Judge Fulmore, Mr. A. P. Wooldridge,
-Profs. Winn and Johnson, all of whom expressed themselves highly
-gratified with the success of the school.
-
-We recommend to our people who take an interest in education
-to visit this Institution. They can be assured of a polite and
-hospitable welcome, and most of them will be surprised and pleased
-to see what a superior school and school building we have in our
-midst.
-
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-
-
-AVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON.
-
-The school year at Avery Institute closed Thursday, June 30, the
-last three days being given to public exercises. Tuesday was
-“examination day.” I wish you all could see the school as it looked
-that morning from the rostrum. The bright eager eyes, the earnest
-faces, the neat appropriate style of dress, and the respectful
-scholar-like behavior of the students, even the tiniest ones, are
-a strong contrast to the appearance of the street children. You
-suppose our scholars belong to a better class than the street
-children? To be sure they do; but these same lower classes may
-become respectable, and have much more to encourage them to rise,
-than those had who have already struggled up. The visitors were,
-of course, friends of the school and of the scholars, and they
-said many kind and appreciative things about the school and the
-recitations they heard. We tried to make the examinations strictly
-honest. Every scholar was given a chance, as far as possible, to
-show what he had done in every study he had pursued; and to take
-the words of those who visited the different classes, the result
-was satisfactory.
-
-Wednesday was “children’s day,” when the little ones in the lower
-rooms gave the entertainment, and the older scholars attended as
-guests, with other friends of the small entertainers. The affair
-was very child-like and pretty. The recitations and dialogues
-were such as the children could appreciate; the songs bright,
-airy little things; and the singing a half-shy dainty rippling
-of very sweet music. Through all there was no appearance of the
-“Now-all-are-looking-at-me” feeling that sometimes makes children’s
-exhibitions such pitiful things.
-
-On Thursday was the Anniversary. The course of study having been
-extended one year, there was no graduating class. The exercises
-consisted of essays by members of the upper classes, the recitation
-of a few poems, one or two dialogues, and music. The music was very
-good, the dialogues natural, the recitations well chosen and well
-spoken, that entitled “Mona’s Water” being very strongly rendered;
-but the most interesting part of this entertainment was the essays.
-Three prizes had been offered, and three gentlemen of the city
-acted as judges, to decide on the merits of the different essays.
-All were called good, and with reason. Those of the youngest
-class in essay writing were delightfully child-like, natural and
-original. That on “Intemperance,” to which the prize was awarded,
-had besides a strong-hearted earnestness and depth of thought that
-were surprising. The essays of the middle class showed more mature
-thought, or, perhaps, a reaching out towards mature thought—a calm
-looking forward and trying to prepare for earnest living. The prize
-in this class came to the essay entitled, “We Learn not for School,
-but for Life.” The essays of the upper class seemed to have for a
-key-note a sentiment we always find among the best of our people
-here, when we get at their hearts and hopes and aspirations—the
-elevation of their race. Do not think there was any sameness in
-these essays. Each reached this thought in a different way. It
-gleamed out in “Everything was Made to be Happy;” it made itself
-felt as one of the foundations of “Progress;” and it formed the
-crown of the prize essay, “Nothing Great is Lightly Won,” when,
-after brave words calling to action, it closed with the quotation
-from Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life:”
-
- “Lives of great men all remind us,
- We may make our lives sublime,” etc.,
-
-leaving one with the thought that helping others is the best and
-greatest work here, and that our lives must be right towards God if
-we would really help.
-
-In the evening of this same day the Normal exhibition was held.
-Every part of the programme was well executed.
-
- C.
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-
-
-LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
-
-REV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON, GA.
-
-The closing examinations occupied nearly two days, May 31st and
-June 1st. The attendance of parents and other visitors was larger
-than at any previous occasion for some years past, showing perhaps
-an increasing interest in educational matters. Most of the older
-scholars (about fifteen of them) had left previously to teach
-country schools; but the classes which were examined acquitted
-themselves remarkably well. The questioning by the teachers threw
-them upon their own resources, and proved the excellent instruction
-they have had. The noticeable quickness and readiness of answer,
-and the mastery of each branch of study, showed that they have
-been trained to think for themselves, and not merely to learn
-by rote. In reading, geography, history, grammar, composition,
-arithmetic, algebra, natural philosophy, and other branches, the
-scholars showed very commendable proficiency, and again answered
-the often-answered question, “Can the negro learn?”
-
-One thing highly commended by all the visitors, and an important
-feature of the instruction, was the constant use of writing.
-The scholars spell out their lessons by writing on slate or
-black-board. They frequently prepare written compositions or
-reviews of lessons in grammar and geography, and in many ways
-are taught to express in written characters the thoughts drawn
-from their studies. Thus the facts are firmly fixed in mind, and
-they learn also by the same process to write, spell, capitalize,
-punctuate and compose. Some of the exercises written as ordinary
-lessons displayed handsome penmanship.
-
-Several leading white citizens attended the exercises, and
-expressed themselves as being much pleased. Among them were
-Professor Williams, principal of the State Asylum for the Blind,
-located here, a firm friend of negro education; and Professor
-Link, a professional teacher of many years’ experience, who said,
-significantly, in private: “I attend all the white schools, and
-I don’t see any difference”—which is quite an admission for a
-native Southerner. There was also Rev. J. W. Burke, a leading
-Methodist Episcopal clergyman, publisher and assistant editor of
-the _Wesleyan Christian Advocate_, well known as an excellent
-Christian man and a true friend of the negro. All the visitors
-showed decided interest and pleasure. A violent rain-storm arising
-in the afternoon doubtless kept away many who would have attended.
-
-The literary exercises were held in the church at 4 p. m., June
-1st, in the presence of a large and attentive audience. The
-school, marching in to organ music, were massed together upon the
-pulpit platform, one tier above another, making a very striking
-and memorable group. As I looked into the bright eyes and smiling
-faces of all shades of color, from jet black to almost pure white,
-and noted the neat, tasty dress, and the beaming of intelligence
-from the animated features, and remembered the thoroughness of
-the examination they had passed, I looked back to another scene,
-sixteen years ago, when, as a soldier in General Wilson’s cavalry,
-we took possession of this city, and heard the rumors of peace
-confirmed, just at the end of the long and bloody war. That was
-my first sight of the negroes of Macon. Then they were uncouth,
-ragged, ignorant and untrained; but now what a change! I thanked
-God and took courage.
-
-As the school stood in this grouped position, they sang beautifully
-the song “Our Motto,” in which the chorus of each verse was “Be
-faithful, firm and true.” Then repeating together the Twenty-third
-Psalm, and chanting the Lord’s Prayer, they took their seats in
-the body of the church, and the literary programme went on. The
-reading of selections and compositions, the declamations and music,
-were all well rendered. The singing was especially deserving of
-notice, as, on account of the severe illness of Miss Raynor, the
-music teacher, the scholars were deprived of their accustomed
-organ accompaniment and musical leadership. But they had been
-well trained, and acquitted themselves with much credit to their
-teacher and themselves. A song entitled “The Farmer’s Boy,” with
-a whistling chorus, was especially well sung and whistled. The
-senior class sang a parting song, and the benediction by Rev. J. W.
-Burke at 6 P. M. closed the arduous and successful year’s work of
-the school.
-
-During the year there have been 162 pupils enrolled. Miss C. H.
-Gilbert, who has been principal for the past three years, is a very
-successful and experienced instructor, and deserves great credit
-for the thoroughness and progress of the school. The assistants,
-Misses J. A. Raynor and C. M. Park, have also done faithful and
-valuable work. The school has almost outgrown its present quarters,
-and much needs increased accommodations. The daily Macon _Telegraph
-and Messenger_ published full and eulogistic reports of the closing
-exercises.
-
-Mrs. Elizabeth Lathrop, wife of the Macon missionary, has been
-doing an important work in the industrial line among the girls
-during the year. Laboring simply as minister’s wife, she has
-accomplished a good deal of missionary work, not the least
-important of which has been the sewing school. Beginning last
-December with twelve pupils, the number increased to 133 on the
-roll, with an average weekly attendance of 55. Northern friends
-have contributed thread, needles and other material, and during
-the seven months the class have made, under the instruction of
-Mrs. Lathrop, three hundred and six garments (aprons, dresses,
-handkerchiefs and under clothing), besides twenty-six patch-work
-quilts, all but three of these completely finished. On June 4th
-there was an exhibition of these articles at the Lewis High School,
-an astonishment to all who beheld. The mothers sat there with
-glad, grateful tears rolling down their cheeks, at the thought
-of the benefits received in this manner. Speeches of eulogistic
-gratitude were made by the colored Methodist preachers, and the day
-closed with the distribution of the garments to the girls who had
-made them. Much good has been accomplished in this way, and this
-industrial training is receiving, as it should, more attention than
-formerly in different places.
-
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-
-
-
-
-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., Robert B. Forman, Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low,
-Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey,
-D.D., Jacob S. Taber.
-
-DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.
-Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,
-A. L. Van Blarcon, Esq., George Harris, Esq., and the Secretary ex
-officio.
-
-SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.
-
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-
-
-THE ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON.
-
-Last month I gave some account of our anniversary at Sacramento,
-with the address by Lem Chung. Last Sabbath evening, June 19th, we
-held our anniversary at Stockton. It was an exceedingly interesting
-and useful service. The church was well filled—better than ever
-before when I have been there. The report of the secretary, Mr.
-M. J. Nightingale, and the supplementary one by the teacher, Mrs.
-M. B. Langdon, showed good work done with glad results. Just 100
-Chinese had been enrolled as pupils in the school during the year,
-though the largest enrolment in any one month was 49. The average
-attendance on some months rose to 35 or 36, but the average for the
-year was 25. Two of the pupils have been baptized and received
-into the Congregational church in Stockton during the year, and
-others are now ready to be thus received.
-
-The exercises by the pupils were well rendered. The pastor of the
-church, Rev. John Hooper, made an earnest and effective address,
-pledging his own sympathy and co-operation in such terms as will be
-very helpful to us in the year to come. Your superintendent said
-a few words also; but that which thrilled us most of all was the
-brief and modest address of our new helper, Lee Pak Yuen, converted
-in connection with our Oakland Mission, and a member of the First
-Congregational church in that city. I give it to our readers just
-as it was uttered.
-
-
-ADDRESS BY LEE PAK YUEN.
-
-Dear Friends and Teachers: I am very glad to see you all, but I
-have not much to say to you. I can only tell you how I became a
-Christian.
-
-For the first three years I was in California I did not like Jesus,
-and I did scold those Chinese Christians who spoke about him. I
-only liked to go and gamble, and play cards and drink. So I had no
-money to live on. I felt very sorry; but afterward I was asked to
-come to school, and for many months in school I also talked against
-Jesus; but the teacher did not scold me, but was very kind to me.
-He taught me, at length, to read this verse in Matt. ix. 13, “For I
-am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” But,
-at last, the Holy Spirit convinced me to believe in Jesus with all
-my heart, and now I thank you very much for what you have done for
-me and for my countrymen. I hope the Lord bless you, and bring many
-to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
-
-I know the Lord is very strong. He helps every one to believe in
-Him. Without Him we can do nothing. He will watch over us and take
-care of us. Now I will tell you what I did while I was in China.
-I left California to go back to China to my father’s house. He
-called me to worship the gods, but I would not. My father had made
-all preparations for my worshiping. He took my hand to go out of
-the door to worship the ancestors, and he wanted me to kneel down
-and pray to them. Because I would not, he scolded me and called me
-crazy.
-
-I came out to Hong Kong and stopped there one month. I then went
-back to my home, and found my father crying, and all very sad. I
-asked, “What is the matter?” My father answered: “You are no good.
-You come home and will not worship my gods. The gods will kill your
-brothers.” I then went to see my brothers, and found one of them
-very sick indeed. The doctor said he cannot live two days. I almost
-cried myself. My father then said to me: “If he dies I shall kill
-you. If I do not kill you, all your other brothers will die.” I
-then took my father’s hand, and knelt down and asked the Lord Jesus
-to bless him; but my father scolded me all the time, for he did
-not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. He heard my
-prayer for my brother’s sickness. In twenty days he was all well.
-All the people of my village called me Christ; but I said, I am not
-Christ; he is in heaven. The Bible says, “Whatsoever ye shall ask
-the Father in my name I will do it.”
-
-My dear friends, I hope you will not forget to pray for China, that
-all may be brought to believe in the true God. Let us remember
-the promise, “Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for
-thine inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for thy
-possession.”
-
-
-THE MAY REPORTS.
-
-I add the following item, clipped from _The Pacific_ of June 8th:
-
-The monthly reports for May from the various mission schools of the
-California Chinese mission are very encouraging. The work is larger
-and, as we gladly believe, _better_ than ever before—more schools,
-more teachers, more pupils, and, we trust, many souls seeking
-Christ. The statistics are as follows: Schools, 14; teachers and
-helpers, 27; pupils enrolled, 566; of whom 190 were received
-during May, against 68 who left the schools. The aggregate average
-attendance was 314. Since the beginning of the present fiscal year
-(Sept. 1, 1880), 1,245 pupils have been enrolled. Of the pupils now
-in the schools, 136 are reported as giving evidence of conversion.
-
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-
-
-
-
-WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
-
-Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.
-
- MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_.
- MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY,
-
-IN CONNECTION WITH THE WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
-
-For the benefit of ladies interested in home missionary work, but
-prevented from forming or joining auxiliaries, we have this month a
-new plan to propose, a plan which offers some of the advantages of
-both individual and co-operative work.
-
-The Twenty Minutes a-Day Working Society originated, we believe,
-in England, where it appears to be accomplishing great good. Its
-characteristic features are found in other associations among
-English ladies, who seem to have a special liking for being bound
-together by aim and rules without organization or meetings. But the
-idea has been adopted in some of the churches of our country also,
-and, it is said, with admirable success.
-
-The following are the rules by which the members of this society
-bind themselves:
-
-1. To work twenty minutes a day, or two hours a week, according to
-convenience.
-
-2. Each lady to furnish her own materials, and make such articles
-as are suitable either for home missionaries and their families at
-the West, or for distribution among the colored people.
-
-3. To contribute at least one book a year, not necessarily new.
-
-4. To contribute fifty cents a year for the purpose of defraying
-expenses of transportation, &c.
-
-5. To pray each day for those to whom these gifts are sent, and
-also for the prosperity of our organization.
-
-6. Articles made are to be sent twice a year to the rooms of the
-Woman’s Home Missionary Association, at such times as shall be
-designated by the committee.
-
-For further information apply to the Secretary of the Woman’s Home
-Missionary Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston.
-
-The interest roused by the late Home Missionary Convention at
-Chicago shows how real and earnest is the purpose in the hearts
-of many of our people to undertake with new determination and
-zeal the task of keeping and of recovering this land for a true
-Christianity. Every day exposes anew to us, if our eyes are open,
-the monstrous and fatal dangers which threaten our Republic. But
-do we consider, does each Christian reflect, that not one of these
-evils, not one evil, would endanger our beloved country, if the
-good news brought by Christ were accepted and worked out in every
-home and every life?
-
-“Ten times one is ten;” yes, there is well unfolded the secret of
-Christian life and strength, and of the coming millennium. Let each
-of us now say: “I have been saved by the knowledge of Christ; to
-how many can I convey this knowledge the coming year? Can I send
-it to ten more? to one more? It is not for me to wait to see what
-ten others will do. What can I do, and now, to help recover what
-is lost, to keep what is yet ours in our dear land?” Oh, let us
-try it. We are not doing enough, and our time of working may be
-short, if we let the enemy come in like a flood; but let us work,
-each work, alone, together; work and pray, for we have already seen
-something of what God’s power and goodness can do in multiplying
-single-handed and feeble (?) efforts made in His name.
-
-A word more to the children about the Sunday-school papers. A
-generous response has come in, but still the Secretary has a large
-number of names of schools ready to receive above the number of
-those ready to give. Are there not other Sunday-schools with
-papers to send? Is there not some girl or boy ready to undertake
-to collect the same? Do not be afraid to send a few, if you have
-not many, only send them regularly and with prayer. Do not forget
-to be “ready to distribute, willing to communicate.” This is your
-opportunity as well as that of your father and mother, and the work
-is great. Write to the Secretary of the Woman’s Home Missionary
-Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., and she will
-send you the name of a school where the boys and girls will be, you
-can hardly think how, eager and glad to get your papers.
-
-Receipts of Woman’s Home Missionary Association from May 31 to June
-27, 1881:
-
- From auxiliaries $169.92
- ” life members 20.00
- ” annual members 2.00
- ” donations 52.50
- ——————
- $244.42
-
-Boxes and barrels:
-
- From W. Newton, Aux. to Mrs.
- Babcock, valued at $30.00
- ” Son of Rev. Mr. Alvord,
- Nashua, to Miss Wilson. 50.00
- ” Miss. Sunbeams, Phillip’s Ch.,
- South Boston, to the West 15.00
-
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-
-
-
-
-CHILDREN’S PAGE.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-GRACIE’S MISTAKE.
-
-MRS. HARRIET A. CHEEVER.
-
-“Just think, mamma! grandpa Gray gave me a five dollar bill just as
-he was getting into the cars to go home, and said I might do just
-what I pleased with it; wasn’t that splendid?”
-
-“Yes, Gracie, what shall you do with it?”
-
-“Don’t know yet, shall have to think;” and Gracie flattened her
-nose against the window-pane one short moment, the next she
-exclaimed:
-
-“Oh, see, ma, there goes one of those colored students; do you
-suppose they ever learn much?”
-
-Something in the child’s tone pained Mrs. Gray, and she answered
-seriously:
-
-“Just as much as any others; my little girl has yet to learn that
-any difference in young men that is only skin deep is a very slight
-difference, and none whatever in the sight of God.”
-
-“Well,” replied the petted child, “I like white folks best, and
-_always shall_;” and she gave her pretty head with its fair hair a
-smart little toss. Before her mother could reply, she asked hastily:
-
-“May I run across the bit of woods and see Jennie Hale a little
-while?”
-
-Her mother said yes, and the next moment Gracie was skipping along
-through the “bit of woods” towards the home of her little friend,
-when all at once she struck her foot against a little stump,
-bounded into the air for an instant, then fell heavily. There she
-lay moaning in dreadful pain.
-
-“Oh, dear!” she cried, “I’ve broken my ankle, I know I have, and
-that horrid Dr. Stuart will have to set it, and he sha’n’t, he
-sha’n’t! I’ll die if he does! Oh, dear, what shall I do!”
-
-Dr. Frank Bates, a colored student in the medical department of the
-college for freedmen, close by, was walking slowly along with a
-book in his hand—a way these students have, somehow, of improving
-every moment—when he thought he heard a moan. He listened, and sure
-enough it _was_ a moan, very near, too, and putting the book in his
-pocket, he soon reached the spot where Gracie was lying.
-
-He was a very tall, strong young man, but tender-hearted and gentle
-as a woman could be. He knelt beside Gracie, who cried with pain
-when he tried to lift her.
-
-“There, there,” he crooned pityingly, his great, soft eyes full
-of compassion; “wait a moment, and Dr. Frank’ll make it all right
-for poor sissy;” and seeing at once what was the real trouble, he
-fortunately found a little board, and tearing his bright Madras
-handkerchief into strips, with what skill he could carefully
-splintered and bandaged the broken limb; then lifting her firmly in
-his strong arms, he carried her steadily and safely along to her
-home.
-
-Grade’s mother, in all her distress at her little girl’s pain,
-did not forget to thank him warmly for what he had done. Then
-she added. “Now we will send for Dr. Stuart, and soon have you
-comfortable, poor little Gracie.”
-
-But to Mrs. Gray’s surprise, Gracie cried out: “Oh no, no, mamma,
-let Dr. Frank stay; I know my limb is broken and must be set all
-right; he told me so; but I want Dr. Frank; I’ll be good, only let
-him stay.”
-
-Turning to the young giant who stood quietly by, Mrs. Gray asked if
-he dared undertake the case, and understood properly what must be
-done.
-
-And he proved he did understand perfectly, for not even the famous
-Dr. Stuart could more carefully or skillfully have done what was
-needed than did Dr. Frank.
-
-Such friends as they grew to be—the dark-skinned, intelligent young
-student, and his fair little patient!
-
-One day Gracie said to her father, “Papa, sha’n’t you pay Dr. Frank
-just as much for what he has done for me as you should any one
-else?”
-
-Mr. Gray thought a moment, then replied:
-
-“Yes, Gracie, I certainly shall; it is only right; he has earned it
-as fairly certainly as any one else could have done.”
-
-And what a help and encouragement it was, the handsome sum which
-Gracie’s grateful papa paid to Dr. Frank one day. But one other
-day, the great tears stood in Dr. Frank’s fine dark eyes, and he
-couldn’t say a word for a long time, when Gracie made him a present
-of her five dollar bill “to buy a book with, to remember her by,”
-she said child-like; but when he could find his voice again, he
-said so sadly, that Gracie will never forget it:
-
-“No fear that Dr. Frank will ever forget the first dear white child
-who ever gave him kind words and dared trust him. I am very, very
-grateful for dear little sissy’s dollars; but oh, the kind words
-are the sweetest sounds Dr. Frank has ever heard yet.”
-
-One day Gracie asked her mother if she remembered how proudly she
-said she should _always_ like white folks best.
-
-“Yes, I remember,” replied her mother.
-
-“So does God,” said Gracie very gently; “but I’ve been praying Him
-to remember it no more, for what _should_ I have done without my
-good, kind Dr. Frank?”
-
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-
-
-
-
-RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1881.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- MAINE, $147.08.
-
- Augusta. Benj. Spaulding $5.00
- Bangor. Hammond St. Sab. Sch. 11.00
- Blanchard. “D.B.” 10.00
- Brunswick. J. W. Perry, _for Wilmington, N.C._ 5.00
- East Union. David Fowler 5.00
- Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps 10.00
- Gorham. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and $2.50 _for
- freight, for Selma, Ala._ 2.50
- Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch. 5.11
- North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid,
- Selma, Ala._ 27.45
- Portland. Ladies’ Aux. H. M. A. of Williston
- Ch., Box of C. and $1.52 _for freight, for
- Wilmington, N.C._ 1.52
- Saint Albans. Rev. W. S. Sewall 6.50
- Winterport. Mrs. Dr. E. Manter, _for
- California Chinese M._ 52.00
- York. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
-
-
- NEW HAMPSHIRE, $136.39.
-
- Amoskeag. Mrs. Henry B. Stearns, $2; Mrs. N.
- Stearns, $2 4.00
- Dover. S. H. F. 0.50
- Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
- Franklin Falls. J. B. H. 1.00
- Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.50
- Goffstown. G. P. 1.00
- Hampstead. Ann M. Howard 5.00
- Hanover. Dartmouth College Ch. and Soc. 22.00
- Hollis. Cong. Ch. 6.19
- Mason. Cong. Ch. 4.75
- Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
- Nashua. Lavinia Albert, _for Wilmington, N.C._ 2.00
- Stoddard. Rev. B. Southworth 5.00
- Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.45
- Wakefield. Rev. Nathaniel Barker 2.00
-
-
- VERMONT, $318.03.
-
- East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
- Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.17
- Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.15
- Jericho Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.25
- Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.60
- McIndoe’s Falls. Dea. W. R. Monteith 5.00
- Newport. M. Benton Hall 2.00
- Newbury. Mrs. D. J. 1.00
- New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.47; Rev. S.
- Knowlton, $10 30.47
- North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh 5.00
- Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10; Mrs. B. B.
- Newton, $5 15.00
- Richmond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.24
- Saint Albans. Mrs. M. A. Stranahan’s S. S.
- Class, Cong. Ch., $50; Young Men’s Bible
- Class, $10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 60.00
- Saint Albans. Class in First Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00
- Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
- Shoreham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.23
- Underhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
- Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
- Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.92
-
-
- MASSACHUSETTS, $6,403.46.
-
- Amherst. W. S. Clark, _for repairs, Talladega
- C._ 50.00
- Andover. Chapel Ch. and Soc. 93.92
- Andover. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. J. C.
- Dove, $55, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;
- Sab. Sch. of Free Ch., $10, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 65.00
- Ashburnham. M. W. 1.00
- Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $41.54, to
- const. REV. J. WADHAMS, L.M.; B. Howes, $1.30 42.84
- Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.44
- Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding 46.00
- Bedford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.
- MARY W. HANAFORD, L. M. 39.66
- Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc. 83.03
- Boston. “Wilberforce.” 2,014.00
- Boston. Immanuel Cong. Ch. and Soc. $100;
- Central Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $20; “W. E. M.” $10 130.00
- Boston. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._ 7.00
- Brocton. “A Friend” 10.00
- Brookline. “S. A. C.” 10.00
- Cambridge. Children’s Doll Show, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield 50.00
- Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31.28;
- Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11 42.28
- Chelsea. Mrs. E. C. 0.50
- Conway. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 22.00
- Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 182.56
- Easthampton. Mrs. Emily G. Williston 150.00
- East Medway. Mrs. E. D. 1.00
- East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
- REV. J. W. MALCOLM, L. M. 53.00
- Framingham. “A Friend.” 5.00
- Globe Village. Mrs. T. M. 1.00
- Groton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 63.65
- Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.66
- Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.31
- Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.26
- Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc 52.85
- Hyde Park. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Athens, Ala._ 25.00
- Hubbardston. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tougaloo U._ 9.00
- Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.36
- Lynnfield Centre. Cong Ch. and Soc. 5.57
- Linden. Young People’s Soc., _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 6.00
- Long Meadow. Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n. 15.80
- Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.64
- Mansfield. W. J. T., 75c.; S. E. S., 25c 1.00
- Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
- Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 25.00
- Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.46
- Monson. Mrs. C. C. Chapin and her S. S. Class,
- _for ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A.
- Inst._ 12.00
- Montville. Sylvester Jones 2.00
- New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. 96.78
- Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00
- Newburyport and Amesbury. Ladies, _for
- Washington, D.C._ 6.50
- Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch., $57.11; P.
- H. Lunt, $25 82.11
- Newburyport. Miss Mary Couch, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber’s Bible
- Class, $50; Mrs. M. B. Furber, $25, _for
- Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 75.00
- Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.98
- Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.04
- North Brookfield. Miss A. W. Johnson, $5; Miss
- A. W. Johnson and Friends, Bbl. of C., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- North Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
- DEA. DAVID PRATT, L. M. 30.00
- Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 59.00
- Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 64.93
- Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
- Paxton. “Friends,” by E. L. Rowell, _for
- rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 4.00
- Peabody. Prof. J. K. Cole, _for Student Aid,
- Straight U._ 10.00
- Peabody. Thomas Stimpson, _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 5.00
- Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50
- Reading. Bethesda Cong. Ch. and Soc., $52.79;
- Mrs. W. W., 50c 53.29
- Rockville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
- Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. 278.25
- Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 30.00
- Shirley Village. L. Holbrook, $5; L. F. L., 50c 5.50
- Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
- South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll. 16.00
- South Hadley. Teachers and Pupils of Mount
- Holyoke Sem. (40c. _of which for rebuilding
- Tougaloo, Miss._) 14.90
- Springfield. “M.” 1000.00
- Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;
- “A Friend,” $1 32.00
- Springfield. Olivet Cong. Sab. Sch. _for
- Indian boys and girls, Hampton N. and A.
- Inst._ 23.22
- Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 51.82
- Tolland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.93
- Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.75
- Uxbridge. Mrs. Charles Ellis 2.00
- Wakefield. “Mission Workers” of Cong. Ch.,
- $15; Three Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., $13,
- _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 28.00
- Walpole. Rev. H. L. Kendall 10.00
- West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
- Westhampton. Cong. Ch. 12.23
- Wellesley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
- Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch. 3.56
- West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
- West Springfield. Park St. Ch. and Soc. 44.54
- West Springfield. Mission Band of Cong. Ch.
- _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00
- Worcester. Union Sab. Sch. $35, _for
- furnishing room, Stone Hall_, and $15 _for
- Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
- Worcester. Cent. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
- Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
- Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 22.00
- Winchester. N. W. C. H. 0.50
- Yarmouth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
- _for Charleston, S.C._
- —— “A Friend” 10.00
- ————————
- 5,919.12
-
- LEGACY.
-
- Danvers. Estate of Mrs. Jonas Fiske, by
- Ebenezer Peabody 484.34
- ————————
- 6,403.46
-
-
- RHODE ISLAND, $89.26.
-
- Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 84.26
- Providence. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._ 5.00
-
-
- CONNECTICUT, $4,358.30.
-
- Bridgeport. Daniel E. Marsh, _for Tillotson C.
- and N. Inst._ 100.00
- Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch. 77.73
- Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
- Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 89.34
- Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30; Cong.
- Sab. Sch., $5 35.00
- East Hampton. Dea. Samuel Skinner, _for
- Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
- East Hartford. E. A. Williams 20.00
- East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
- MISS EMMA LYON, L. M. 30.00
- Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.35
- Georgetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.70
- Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 125.00
- Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.97
- Hartford. Roland Mather, $500; Mrs. L. C.
- Dewing, $100; “A Friend,” $50; Talcot St.
- Cong. Ch. (collected by five little girls),
- $21.18 671.18
- Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss 5.00
- Kent. First Cong. Soc. 34.84
- Ledyard. Cong. Ch. 19.45
- Manchester. First Cong. Ch. 56.89
- Meriden. E. T. 1.00
- Middletown. A. Doolittle 5.00
- Morris. H. W. 0.50
- Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for ed. of an
- African lad_ 66.87
- New Britain. Young Ladies’ Soc., Bbl. and Box
- of C. and $5 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 5.00
- New Haven. James H. Foy, $10 _for Student Aid_
- and $25 _for furnishing a room, Talladega C._ 35.00
- New London. “A friend in First Ch.” _for
- Talladega C._ 300.00
- New London. First Ch. 57.71
- New Preston Hill. Cong. Ch. 14.00
- North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
- Northfield. Cong. Ch. 31.50
- North Haven. E. Dickerman 2.00
- Plainville. Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. TITUS
- DARROW, L. M. 66.00
- Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25; Dea. T.
- Higgins, $25, _for Tougaloo U._ 50.00
- Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 88.07
- Putnam. “Mrs. E. W. S.,” $20; Mrs. M. A. K.
- $15, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 35.00
- Scitico. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Selma,
- Ala._ 75.00
- Somerville. Cong Ch. $65.54; Sab. Sch. of
- Cong. Ch., Box of S. S. Books 65.54
- Stamford. Miss H. H. 0.50
- Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.04
- Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 68.90
- Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 73.00
- Wallingford. T. B. Bartholomew 5.00
- West Stafford. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Wilton. Cong. Ch. 15.50
- Winsted. C. B. Hallett 10.00
- Woodbury. North Cong. Ch. 18.00
- Woodstock. E. L. Snow, $350; First Cong. Ch.
- and Soc., $20.22 370.22
- Vernon. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.50; “A Friend,”
- $2, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 15.50
- ————————
- 2,858.30
-
- LEGACIES.
-
- Bridgeport. Estate of Mrs. Laura Sherman, by
- Mrs. Mary B. Loomis, Executrix 500.00
- New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven,
- _for Talladega C._ 1,000.00
- ————————
- 4,358.30
-
-
- NEW YORK, $779.92.
-
- Bangor. R. H. Farr 20.00
- Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $171.90; South
- Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $3 174.90
- Brooklyn. Ladies, _for Washington, D.C._ 21.00
- Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. 45.98
- Connecticut. Mrs. R. K. 1.00
- Cortland. Ladies of Home Miss. Soc., Box of
- papers and 25c. _for freight_ 0.25
- Coventry. S. A. Beardsley 5.00
- Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G.
- Fairchild, $5 10.00
- Deansville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.25
- Fredonia. Sab Sch. of Presb. Ch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._, and to const. MRS. SUSAN G.
- WHITE, L. M. 50.00
- Floyd. Cong. Ch. 2.53
- Groton. Cong. Ch. 25.77
- Ithaca. First Cong. Ch. 40.50
- Little Valley. Cong. Ch. 3.60
- Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
- Mexico. Mrs. Susan K. Butterfield 50.00
- Middletown. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
- Munnsville. Cong. Ch. 7.00
- New York. S. T. Gordon, _for Student Aid, Fisk
- U._ 200.00
- New York. S. T. Gordon, 275 copies of “The New
- Song.”
- Owego. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
- Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 18.23
- Sidney Plain. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.71
- Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston 2.00
- North Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 2.25
- Spencerport. “A Friend” 20.00
- Ticonderoga. H. P. Bake and family 5.00
- Triangle. Gerrit S. Morse 2.00
- Wellsville. First Cong. Ch. 21.95
-
-
- NEW JERSEY, $94.24.
-
- East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. 23.74
- Elizabeth. Mrs. H. W. P. 1.00
- Jersey City. “S. E. H.” 10.00
- Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $15; Mrs. J.
- F. Pratt’s Sab. Sch. Class, $5. _for Student
- Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00
- Newark. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
- furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 24.00
- New Brunswick. Mrs. S. L. C. 0.50
- Paterson. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch. 10.00
- Vineland. Mrs. M. A. Cone 5.00
-
-
- PENNSYLVANIA, $29.48.
-
- Ebensburgh. Cong. Ch. Mon. Colls. 11.48
- Mercer. J. K. 1.00
- Mercersburg. Thomas C. Johnston (of which $2
- _for Chinese_ and $2 _for Mendi M._) 5.00
- Philadelphia. M. E. M. 1.00
- Prentiss Vale. Mrs. William Lovejoy, bal. to
- const. MRS. J. T. HALL, L. M. 10.00
- Terrytown. Dr. G. F. H. 1.00
-
-
- OHIO, $574.63.
-
- Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson 2.28
- Ashtabula. Women’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
- _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
- Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.79
- Brighton. Cong. Ch. 5.14
- Cardington. W. A. Nichols 5.00
- Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch. 101.00
- Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch., $100, and Sab.
- Sch. $10, _for Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._ 110.00
- Cleveland. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
- East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi
- M._ 5.00
- Greensburgh. Mrs. H. B. Harrington, _for
- Tougaloo U._ 10.00
- Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, _for rebuilding,
- Tougaloo U._ 10.00
- Madison. L. H. Ree, _for Strieby Hall,
- Tougaloo U._ 50.00
- Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.93; Women’s
- Beneficent Soc. of First Ch., $17.12; Young
- People’s Soc. of First Ch., $17.37, to
- const. MRS. SAMUEL AU, MRS. JOHN LAWSON,
- MISS VIOLA PLEASANTS, L. Ms 96.42
- Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 10.00
- Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for
- Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00
- Oberlin. J. W. Merrill 30.00
- Sandusky. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of Bedding,
- _for Fisk U._
- Wellington. —— 5.00
-
-
- ILLINOIS, $300.74.
-
- Beecher. Mrs. A. H. Perry, _for freight_ 2.00
- Chicago. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- Chicago. Mrs. Flovelle’s S. S. Class, N. E.
- Ch., _for Emerson Inst._ 1.24
- Dundee. Mrs. W. D. 1.00
- Geneseo. Women’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
- Geneseo. Henry Nourse, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 42.50
- Kewannee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
- Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 30.00
- Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps 50.00
- Moline. Thomas Jewett, _for Ladies’ Hall,
- Tougaloo U._ 50.00
- Moline. Mrs. Sarah L. Barnard, _for Student
- Aid. Fisk U._ 3.00
- Princeton. Mrs. C. Cook 5.00
- Quincy. L. Kingman 10.00
- Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of First Cong.
- Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
- Tonica. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
- —— “A Friend.” 1.00
-
-
- MICHIGAN, $84.50.
-
- Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch., _for
- Student Aid. Talladega C._ 12.00
- Benzonia. Cong. Ch., $11.12; “Friends,” $4.88 16.00
- Chelsea. John C. Winans 10.00
- Coral. Benj. H. Lewis 5.50
- Flint. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 10.00
- Milford. Mrs. Wm. A. Arms (Silver Wedding
- Thank Offering) 5.00
- Northville. D. Pomeroy 5.00
- Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
- Aid. Fisk U._ 15.00
- Richland. Dea. J. B. 1.00
- Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe 5.00
-
-
- IOWA, $506.07.
-
- Burlington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 27.50
- Chester Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 12.00
- Council Bluffs. N. P. Dodge, _for furnishing
- room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
- Cresco. Ladies’ Aid Soc., _for Lady
- Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 1.00
- Decorah. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
- Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 15.00
- Dubuque. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
- Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 20.00
- Dubuque. Young Ladies’ Benev. Soc., _for
- Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
- Des Moines. Cong. Ch., $6.35; Women’s Miss.
- Soc. of Cong. Ch., $16.65, _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 23.00
- Des Moines. Mrs. C. H. Getchell $35, and Mrs.
- A. W. Rollins $35, _for furnishing rooms,
- Stone Hall_; Mrs. Samuel Merrill, $25, _for
- Student Aid, Talladega C._ 95.00
- Eldora. Mrs. J. S. R. 0.25
- Eldon. F. M. 0.51
- Emerson. A. A. F. & E. H. F. 1.00
- Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 20.00
- Green Mountain. Cong. Ch. 28.54
- Keokuk. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady
- Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 12.50
- Mason City. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.50
- Mount Pleasant. James McDowell 2.20
- Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 10.00
- Muscatine. Henry Hoover, _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 2.00
- Reinbeck. Collection at Central Association,
- _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 7.00
- Sergeant’s Bluff. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for
- Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 1.00
- Sheldon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
- Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 2.00
- Sonora. Charles Fisher 50.00
- South Muscatine. Mission Sab. Sch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- Tipton. William Coutts 5.00
- Waterloo. Cong. Ch. $80.07, and Joseph Bennett
- $2, _for President’s House_; Cong. Sab. Sch.
- $20, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 102.07
-
-
- WISCONSIN, $138.56.
-
- Elkhorn. “C. E. W.” 5.00
- Evansville. Cong. Ch. 11.85
- Leeds. Cong. Ch. 7.05
- Milford. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
- Milwaukee. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Spring St. Ch.
- _for furnishing room, Stone Hall, Straight
- U._ 50.00
- Milwaukee. C. D Booth 2.00
- Racine. Star Missionary Soc. of First Presb.
- Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 40.00
- Racine. Mrs. R. B. Miner 1.50
- Windsor. Union Cong. Ch. 21.16
-
-
- KANSAS, $8.57.
-
- Carbondale. Cong. Ch. 3.57
- Whiting. S. P. Belden 5.00
-
-
- MINNESOTA, $70.88.
-
- Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 15.00
- Litchfield. “Friends.” 3.00
- Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 33.94
- Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch. 7.94
- Northfield. Mrs. A. Willey, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._ 10.00
- Zumbrota. Mrs. H. S. D. 1.00
-
-
- NEBRASKA, $2.50.
-
- Harvard. Cong. Ch. 2.50
-
-
- CALIFORNIA, $2,293.75.
-
- San Francisco. Receipts of the California
- Chinese Mission 2,293.75
-
-
- OREGON, 50c.
-
- Springfield. Mrs. M. A. S. 0.50
-
-
- NORTH CAROLINA, $212.36.
-
- Dudley. Pub. Sch. Fund, $75; Tuition, $28.89 103.89
- Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition 103.47
- Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00
-
-
- SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.50.
-
- Charleston. Avery Normal Inst., Tuition 265.50
-
-
- TENNESSEE, $353.20.
-
- Chattanooga. Miss Blanche Curtis, _for Student
- Aid, Atlanta U._ 40.00
- Chattanooga. W. F., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
- Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition, $154; “A
- Friend,” _for printing_, $18.25 172.25
- Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 139.95
-
-
- GEORGIA, $735.13.
-
- Athens. Lizzie McCombs, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
- Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $305.35; Rent,
- $3 308.35
- Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $94.25; Rent,
- $5.69; First Cong. Ch., $25 124.85
- Atlanta. Peabody Fund, _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 100.00
- Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $62.75; Cong.
- Ch., $5 67.75
- McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition 18.30
- Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $90.88; Rent,
- $20 110.88
-
-
- ALABAMA, $383.95.
-
- Marion. Cong. Ch. 3.35
- Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $92.95;
- Emersonian Mission Band, $9.55; Cong. Ch.,
- $1.20 104.70
- Montgomery. City Fund 210.00
- Selma. First Cong. Ch. 27.50
- Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition 33.40
- Talladega. Dea. Hardwick, $2; W. B., $1;
- Others $2, _for repairs, Talladega C._ 5.00
-
-
- MISSISSIPPI, $164.20.
-
- Carroll Co. “Friends,” by H. Tanner, _for
- Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._ 5.25
- Copiah Co. “Friends,” by E. E. Sims, _for
- Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U._ 6.00
- Gillsberg. W. H. T. 0.50
- Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $112.45; Rent,
- $40 152.45
-
-
- LOUISIANA, $168.15.
-
- New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 168.15
-
-
- TEXAS, $105.00.
-
- Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition 104.00
- Goliad. Rev. M. T. 1.00
-
-
- INCOME FUND, $290.00.
-
- Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 190.00
- C. F. Dike Fund 50.00
- General Fund 50.00
-
-
- ENGLAND, $10.00.
-
- Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes 10.00
-
-
- SCOTLAND, $200.00.
-
- Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowall, by Rev. Geo.
- Morris, _for a Teacher, Fisk U._ 200.00
- ——————————
- Total 19,224.35
- Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th $169,712.19
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
-
- Newton, Mass. Eliot Sewing Soc., $26, and Bbl.
- of Bedding, _for furnishing a room_ 26.00
- Spencer, Mass. Young Ladies’ Soc., by Mrs. J.
- W. Temple, $25, and Bbl. of Bedding, _for
- furnishing two rooms_ 25.00
- Southington, Conn. Mrs. W. M. McLaughlin, $23,
- and package of Bedding, _for furnishing a
- room_ 23.00
- Irvington, N.Y. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin 5.00
- Adams Mills, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Smith 13.00
- —————
- Total 92.00
- Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June
- 30th 4,857.71
- —————————
- Total $4,949.71
-
- * * * * *
-
- RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION,
-
- _From Jan. 17th to May 17th, 1881._
-
- E. PALACHE, _Treasurer_.
-
- I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:
- Marysville Chinese Mission:
- Chinese monthly offerings $33.40
- Sacramento Chinese Mission:
- Chinese monthly offerings $29.10
- Mr. Lubin 3.00 32.10
- Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:
- Chinese monthly offerings 24.00
- N. C. Pitcher }
- Mrs. N. C. Pitcher } An. Mem. 4.00 28.00
- Stockton Chinese Mission:
- Chinese monthly offerings 12.00
- —————
- Total 105.50
-
- II. From Churches:
- Oakland First Cong. Ch. Coll. $13.60
- Sacramento First Cong. Ch. Coll. 10.50
- San Francisco:
- First Cong. Ch. Coll. 32.70
- Two Annual Members 4.50 37.20
- —————
- Total 61.30
-
- III. From Individuals:
- Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. 1,000.00
- By Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co. Alexander
- Balfour, Esq., and Hon. Stephen Williamson,
- M.P. of Liverpool, England, each $500 1,000.00
- Hon. O. C. Pratt 100.00
- Chinese 1.50
- ————————
- Total 2,101.50
-
- IV. From Eastern Friends:
- Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Edward B. Huntington, to
- constitute W. R. Burnham Esq., a life member 25.00
- Newark, N.J. 0.45
- —————
- Total 25.45
- ———————
- Grand Total $2,293.75
-
- * * * * *
-
- GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND.
-
- Lebanon Springs, N.Y. Miss Belinda Sanford $1,000.00
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
-
- London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc., by
- Rev. O. H. White, D.D., £1,169 5s. 0d. 5,670.86
- Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June
- 30th 20,613.76
- —————————
- Total $26.284.62
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
- 56 Reade St., N.Y.
-
-
-
-
-American Missionary Association,
-
-56 READE STREET, N.Y.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- PRESIDENT.
-
- HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
-
-
- VICE-PRESIDENTS.
-
- Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.
- Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
- Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
- Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me.
- Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct.
- WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I.
- Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass.
- Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I.
- Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I.
- Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J.
- Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y.
- Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill.
- Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C.
- Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
- Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H.
- Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct.
- DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
- Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
- Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn.
- Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y.
- Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.
- Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa.
- Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
- EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N.H.
- Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct.
- Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct.
- A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y.
- Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio.
- Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.
- Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., California.
- Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D.D., Oregon.
- Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., D.C.
- Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D.D., Wis.
- S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
- Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
- Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.
- Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.
- Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.
- Rev. HENRY ALLON, D.D., London, Eng.
- WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N.Y.
- J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.
- E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N.J.
- Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.
- DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
- A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
- Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., N.Y.
- FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
- JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R.I.
- Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D.D., Ill.
- Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D.D., Mo.
- J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
- E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
- C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
- Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D.D., Cal.
- Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D.D., Kansas.
- Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D.D., Mass.
- Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D.D., Ill.
- Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., N.Y.
- Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.
- Rev. E. B. WEBB, D.D., Mass.
- Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.
- Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.
-
-
- CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
-
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._
-
-
- DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
-
- REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
- REV. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.
- REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N.Y._
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.
-
-
- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
-
- ALONZO S. BALL,
- A. S. BARNES,
- C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
- CLINTON B. FISK,
- ADDISON P. FOSTER,
- S. B. HALLIDAY,
- J. A. HAMILTON,
- SAMUEL HOLMES,
- CHARLES A. HULL,
- CHAS. L. MEAD,
- SAMUEL S. MARPLES,
- WM. T. PRATT,
- J. A. SHOUDY,
- JOHN H. WASHBURN.
-
-
-COMMUNICATIONS
-
-relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., 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.
-
-
-
-
-Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
-
-INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
-ASSOCIATION.”
-
-ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
-Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
-knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
-which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
-fields of effort.
-
-ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
-faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the
-practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,
-may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty
-dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have
-not professed their faith may be constituted life members without
-the privilege of voting.
-
-ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
-September, October or November, for the election of officers and
-the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall
-be designated by the Executive Committee.
-
-ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
-officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
-and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
-and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one
-representative.
-
-ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,
-Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
-than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
-advisory, and the Treasurer ex officio, members.
-
-ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
-and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling, 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 toward the INDIANS. It has also a
-mission in AFRICA.
-
-
-STATISTICS.
-
-CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South
-Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14;
-Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the
-Indians_, 1. Total, 76.
-
-INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE
-SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;
-Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;
-and Austin, Texas—8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
-Raleigh, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon,
-Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,
-Tenn.—12. _Other Schools_, 31. Total, 51.
-
-TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 284;
-among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total,
-330. STUDENTS—In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75;
-in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former
-pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care
-of the Association, 13,000.
-
-
-WANTS.
-
-1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
-growing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and
-_larger_ contributions from the churches, the feeble as well us the
-strong.
-
-2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to
-accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for
-the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and
-pious, for these churches.
-
-3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
-missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
-
-Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
-office as below:
-
- NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.
- BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21
- Congregational House.
- CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 112 West Washington
- Street.
-
-
-MAGAZINE.
-
-This Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the
-Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen
-who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of
-Sabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;
-to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
-not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year
-not less than five dollars.
-
-Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in
-their last Will and Testament are earnestly requested to use the
-following
-
-
-FORM OF A BEQUEST.
-
-“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in
-trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person
-who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
-‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied,
-under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,
-to its charitable uses and purposes.”
-
-The Will should be attested by three witnesses (in some States
-three are required, in other States only two), who should write
-against their names their places of residence (if in cities,
-their street and number). The following form of attestation will
-answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
-and declared by the said (A. B.) as his last Will and Testament,
-in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in
-his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
-subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required
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-
-We regard the _Missionary_ as the best means of communication with
-our friends, and to them the best source of information regarding
-our work.
-
-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 editorial supervision at this office, 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 January number and the new year. The price is only
-Fifty Cents per annum.
-
-The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
-persons indicated on page 256. Donations and subscriptions should
-be sent to
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
- 56 Reade Street, New York.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-TO ADVERTISERS.
-
-Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the
-AMERICAN MISSIONARY. It numbers among its regular readers very
-many frugal, well-to-do people in nearly every city and village
-throughout our Northern and Western States. It is therefore a
-specially valuable medium for advertising all articles commonly
-used in families of liberal, industrious and enterprising habits of
-life.
-
-Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
-to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
-relation to advertising should be addressed to
-
- THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,
- 56 Reade Street, New York.
-
- * * * * *
-
-Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of the
-AMERICAN MISSIONARY, can aid us in this respect by mentioning, when
-ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.
-
-
-DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.
-
-
-
-
-Transcriber’s Notes
-
-
-Obviously printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.
-
-Inconsistent capitalization of a.m. and p.m. retained, due to
-multiple authors.
-
-Missing “e” in “Kewannee” replaced on page 252.
-
-
-
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-
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-<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXV.</p>
-<p class="float-right smcap">No. 8.</p>
-</div>
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-<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />American Missionary.</h1>
-<hr class="chap" />
-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div>
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-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">AUGUST, 1881.</p></div>
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-<div class="wrap"><h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2>
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-<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents">
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Paragraph—<span class="chaplinen">The Mendi Mission</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_225">225</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Illustration—<span class="chaplinen">Mission Home, Mendi Mission</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#mendi">228</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Death of Rev. Kelly M. Kemp</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_230">230</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">African Notes</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_230">230</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Freedmen For Africa: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. Lewis Grout</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_232">232</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Address at Nashville: <span class="chaplinen">Sec’y Strieby</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_233">233</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Benefactions</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_236">236</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Chinese and Indian Notes</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_237">237</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
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- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Anniversary Reports—<span class="chaplinen">Continued.</span></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chaplinei">Ga.: Atlanta University</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_238">238</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chaplinei">Ala.: Talladega College</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_240">240</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chaplinei">Texas: Tillotson Institute, Austin</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_242">242</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chaplinei">S.C.: Avery Institute, Charleston</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_242">242</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chaplinei">Ga.: Lewis High School, Macon</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_243">243</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Anniversary at Stockton</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_245">245</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">WOMAN’S HOME MISS. ASSOC’N.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Twenty Minutes a-Day Working Society</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_247">247</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Gracie’s Mistake: <span class="chaplinen">Mrs. Harriet A. Cheever</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_248">248</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap pp2">Receipts</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_250">250</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap">List of Officers</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_254">254</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Constitution</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_255">255</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Aim, Statistics, Wants, etc.</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_256">256</a></td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-</div>
-
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-<p class="center">NEW YORK:</p>
-<p class="center">Published by the American Missionary Association,</p>
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-<div class="center" >
-<img src="images/map.jpg" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">MAP OF PROTESTANT MISSION STATIONS IN AFRICA.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_225" id="Page_225">[225]</a></p>
-
-<div class="article">
- <p class="center">THE</p>
- <p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p>
- <hr class="full top" />
- <div>
- <div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXV.</span></div>
- <div class="third center">AUGUST, 1881.</div>
- <div class="third right">No. 8.</div>
- </div>
- <hr class="full bottom" />
- <h2><i>American Missionary Association.</i></h2>
- <hr class="chap" />
-
-<p>We publish on the opposite page a map of Africa, upon which is
-represented, by crosses, the location of the different Protestant
-mission stations of that continent. The Mendi Mission on the West
-Coast, and the proposed Arthington Mission in the Nile Basin, are
-specially indicated by dotted lines. We give, also, elsewhere a cut
-of the Mission Home at Good Hope Station, Mendi Mission.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>THE MENDI MISSION.</h3>
-
-<h4>SUGGESTIONS, WITH EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">REV. H.&nbsp;M. LADD.</p>
-
-<p>Much of the mission work in Africa, at least upon the West Coast,
-has a basis in industrial work of some kind. Many causes have
-conspired to hinder this branch of civilizing work at the Mendi
-Mission. Without stopping to specify what these may have been,
-no one can doubt that the chief reason why the saw-mill at Avery
-has failed to be a source of income to the Association, is the
-difficulty of transporting the lumber to market. This mill, with
-a circular and an upright saw, with a good head of water during
-the larger part of the year, and with timber near at hand, is the
-only mill of the kind on the West Coast. There is a good demand for
-such lumber as the mill can produce, but the chief market is 120
-miles distant. No one in Africa, however much he might want lumber,
-would be guilty of going 120 miles for it, nor even 120 rods, if
-he could help it. In former times the lumber was taken to the
-market in a large boat, propelled by oar and sail; but the climate
-and the worms have claimed that boat as their own. Here is a most
-potent agency, an attractive centre for goods. The mill might be
-producing thousands of feet of lumber a day, and yet if there were
-no way to carry this lumber to the point where it could be sold,
-its production would only become a burden. What is needed to insure
-the best success of the mill, and of all the industrial departments
-connected with it, is an easy and quick means of transportation.
-This would not only make the mill a really civilizing institution
-and a paying piece of property, but if a small steamer or tug-boat
-were thus in use, it would more than pay its own<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_226" id="Page_226">[Pg 226]</a></span> way in the
-regular trips it would make, and by the incidental services it
-could render to other mission stations where similar industrial
-work is carried on. There are promises enough to insure the
-successful running of such a steamer. It should be adapted to
-towing a lumber boat of large capacity to and from Freetown, and
-should also be adapted to carrying passengers up and down the
-rivers. It would accomplish more work in a given time than any
-other project yet proposed on this coast, would dispense with the
-small army of boatmen and fleet of boats now maintained, and would
-be the solution of the question in regard to the mill. But why keep
-up this mill? Why have an industrial department? Simply because the
-spiritual interests of the mission are involved in it and demand
-it. There must be a physical basis for any successful work upon
-the minds and hearts of the people in this part of Africa. This
-has been demonstrated in other missions than our own. The people
-need a place to tie to, and something to draw them to that place
-in order to receive any lasting good. They need to learn habits of
-industry along with the Gospel. They need to be lifted out of their
-barbarism by increasing their wants and showing them how to supply
-them.</p>
-
-<p>These are a few of the considerations that make this industrial
-work a sort of entering wedge for the Gospel. The situation of
-things at the Avery Station is, however, such as to convince
-those who have considered the matter, that the keen edge of this
-entering wedge must be the sharp prow of a little steamer. There
-can be scarcely a doubt, that the facilities afforded by such a
-steamer would give a much needed impetus to the whole work of the
-Association upon the West Coast.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>JOHN BROWN MEMORIAL STEAMER.</h4>
-
-<p>Here is now an opportunity to turn to account the latent forces
-that lie pent up within easy reach. But how shall the steamer
-preach its practical sermon unless it be sent? Some one must send
-it. Many hands make light work, especially when they contain the
-contributions of willing hearts. Why may not the many little
-rills, and springs, and even drops of love for the colored race,
-flow together and float this steamer? Why not send, as some one
-has suggested, old John Brown, of Harper’s Ferry, in a memorial
-steamer over to Africa, to carry forward in a higher sense the work
-of freedom which he began here, and which shall never end till
-his soul has ceased its marching on? About $10,000 are needed to
-furnish such a steamer as is required. Who will take the first $100
-share in the steamer “John Brown” soon to leave for the coast of
-Africa?</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>ADVANCE TO THE INTERIOR.</h4>
-
-<p>If we may believe one-half of the glowing accounts which come to us
-regarding the high table-lands of the interior, one or two hundred
-miles back from the coast, the region is full of rich promises
-as the scene of future missionary operations. It is said that
-the land is rich, the country wonderfully beautiful and healthy,
-the population dense, and cattle and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_227" id="Page_227">[Pg 227]</a></span> horses abundant. There are
-difficulties in the way of reaching this country, but they are
-not insurmountable. One of our missionaries (Mr. Williams), well
-fitted for the work, has pushed his way back into this region, and
-reports very strongly in its favor. He brought back a horse with
-him as corroborative evidence of his statements, and there can be
-no doubt that in this healthier upland region the natives are more
-intelligent, more industrious, and every way superior, while they
-are also ready to welcome any who come among them for purposes
-of peace. Our present stations upon the coast, three in number,
-furnish excellent starting points and bases of supply, and should
-be maintained largely as such. But it should be our aim to work
-back from the low, malarious coast into these healthier and more
-promising highlands just as soon as the proper men and the means
-can be found. Starting from the stations already established, it
-would seem to be a wise thing to locate a chain of stations within
-easy distances of each other, stretching back to the mountains.
-At these points the missionaries could reside two by two, with
-mutual helpfulness and support. The natives of this region talk
-the same general language as upon the coast. They are said to be
-remarkably fine singers, and are fond of music. They manufacture
-great quantities of cloth and various other articles of a superior
-quality. They are, however, reported to be the husbands of many
-wives, counting their honors by the number of their wives. The
-rivers that drain this region afford an imperfect approach to the
-country, but are available for considerable distances. Let the
-means and the men be found, and this healthier and more promising
-country can soon be captured for Christ. It is only a question of
-time. This push for the interior must soon be made, and a larger
-and better work must soon be inaugurated.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL.</h4>
-
-<p>On Wednesday, March 23d, we sighted the point of Sierra Leone by
-early dawn. The country as approached from the sea is beautiful.
-The serrated Lion Mountains slope to the water’s edge, covered
-with a luxuriance of tropical vegetation. The city of Freetown at
-a little distance appears comparatively well built. The public
-buildings are large and attract immediate attention, the streets
-are wide and regularly laid out; and the whole external aspect
-strikes one as much finer than what is naturally expected on this
-coast; but a nearer view suggests the truth of the old saying that
-“Familiarity breeds contempt.” The stay here was short, but into
-the time was crowded a variety of strange and novel experiences.
-From this point the mission boat “Olive Branch” carried us to
-Good Hope Station, on Sherbro Island, where we landed late in the
-evening of March 30th. This trip of about one hundred and twenty
-miles occupied three days and two nights, and was, perhaps, the
-most trying part of our journey. We experienced several severe
-tornadoes on the way, and suffered from the intense glare of the
-sun, now nearly vertical, and the difficulty of procuring proper
-food. Having reached the mission house, we at once made ourselves
-<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_229" id="Page_229">[Pg 229]</a></span>
-as much at home as possible. Thursday, March 31st, we were all
-up at an early hour, and went out before the intense heat of the
-day to inspect the grounds and buildings. The fine property of
-the mission had evidently suffered in many ways from neglect. All
-the buildings stood in need of repairs, and a large portion of
-the grounds, including the little cemetery where Barnabas Root is
-buried, was overgrown with bush. The spiritual condition of the
-church and station seemed also to bear some resemblance to its
-outward condition. It was not hopeless, but somewhat depressed.
-The grounds in the immediate vicinity of the mission house gave
-evidence, however, that the missionaries had neither forgotten to
-exercise their taste, nor been wasteful of the small force and
-slender means at their command. So, also, the spiritual condition
-of the station presented some encouraging features. The warm
-reception which Mr. Kemp and his wife received on every side gave
-some reason to hope that the church would yet nourish under his
-judicious care.</p>
-
-<a name="mendi" id="mendi"></a>
-<div class="figcenter">
-<img src="images/mendi.jpg" alt="" />
-<p class="caption">MISSION HOME, MENDI MISSION.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>Friday, April 1st, was emphatically a day of calls. It had been
-quickly noised abroad that the new missionaries from America had
-arrived, and many availed themselves of the first opportunity to
-bid them welcome to Africa. Possibly a little curiosity was mingled
-with their politeness, but we did not care to analyze too closely,
-and were glad to see them all. The people we met were generally
-fine looking, of a rich, brown color, and not burdened by any
-superfluity of clothing. They talked a broken English, which was
-almost as difficult to understand as a new language.</p>
-
-<p>To say that Sunday, April 3d, was a warm day would convey but a
-slight idea of the truth. When the thermometer indicates over 90°
-in America we are apt to call it rather warm; but a new adjective
-is needed to characterize African heat at 90°, for it is something
-so entirely different from the summer broils of other countries.
-No wonder that this is an unhealthy climate. The land is low, the
-water stagnant, the air moist, vegetation thick, and the heat
-intense. In the morning I preached in the mission church to an
-attentive audience on “The light that shineth in a dark place,” and
-was present at a service in the Mendi language at the school-house
-in the afternoon. The prayer meeting in the evening was well
-attended and full of interest.</p>
-
-<p>On Monday, April 4th, we went in the “Olive Branch” to Avery
-Station, on the Mahna River, a branch of the Bargroo, forty miles
-inland. The trip took all of one night, the boatmen rowing and
-keeping time to their oars with a weird, monotonous singing all the
-way.</p>
-
-<p>The inspection of the station at Avery consumed the early morning
-hours of Tuesday. We visited the mill, the boat houses, the coffee
-farm, the cassada fields, the rice houses, the boy’s department,
-the store, the church and school-room, and last, but not least, the
-“faki,” or native village, situated on the mission grounds, and
-under the control of the missionary. The situation of the mission
-house is a fine one, but the adjacent country is wilder than at
-Good Hope. The house stands on a high promontory,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_230" id="Page_230">[Pg 230]</a></span> and commands
-a very picturesque view both up and down the river. This river
-abounds in fish and alligators, while the banks are alive with
-monkeys.</p>
-
-<p>I was up at three <span class="smcap lowercase">A.&nbsp;M.</span> on the 7th to help receive Mr.
-Kemp, who arrived from Good Hope Station at that hour. Later we
-visited the school together, examined the pupils in their various
-branches, and gave them a little talk, which they seemed to enjoy.
-Some of them were honored by such names as Wm. E. Gladstone and M.
-E. Strieby. Their appearance and behavior were very gratifying. The
-prayer meeting in the evening was fully attended, and indicated a
-marked degree of earnestness, the leader having some difficulty
-to bring it to a close. If hand-shaking is a means of grace, we
-enjoyed special privileges at the end of this meeting.</p>
-
-<p>I found oysters growing on trees (April 8th), and plucked a large
-branch. Bread and butter also grow on trees in this strange land.
-I had occasion to turn doctor to-day, and prescribed some fearful
-doses, right and left, with marked results, due probably to faith.</p>
-
-<p>After the ordination exercises at Good Hope (April 10th), a number
-of the ministerial brethren of the council went in a boat-load
-to attend service at the out-station of Debia, and although a
-severe tornado threatened to break up the meeting, we enjoyed an
-interesting and precious season together. The work at this point is
-full of encouragement, but greater facilities are needed to carry
-it on.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>The painful news has just been received through Rev. O.&nbsp;H. White,
-D.D., of London, of the death of Rev. Kelly M. Kemp at Good Hope
-Station, Mendi Mission. Thus one more bright name has been added
-to the long list of missionary heroes and martyrs whose dust
-hallows the soil of Africa. No particulars have been received,
-and we cannot speak confidently as to the cause of his death.
-Those who have read the recent accounts of his ordination and
-reception at Good Hope need not be reminded of the high hopes
-that were entertained in regard to the work upon which he had but
-just entered with so much zeal. Mr. Kemp’s earnest consecration
-and varied experience and sweet Christian character had not only
-endeared him to all who knew him, but had given rich promise also
-of great good to the people among whom he had counted it all joy to
-labor.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>AFRICAN NOTES.</h3>
-
-<p>—The Sultan of Zanzibar is about to study the organization of the
-French navy. He was expected at Marseilles in July for that purpose.</p>
-
-<p>—Dr. Stacker is attempting to explore Lake Tsana in Abyssinia. If
-he succeeds in accomplishing this he purposes to push on to Ghera.</p>
-
-<p>—M. Viard, who has already explored the Niger and the Bénvé,
-in company with the Count of Semellé, is just attempting a new
-expedition for penetrating into the interior, and establishing
-there commercial stations.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_231" id="Page_231">[Pg 231]</a></span></p>
-
-<p>—Captain Neves Fereira, Governor of Benguela, and some other
-officers, have placed themselves at the disposition of the
-Geographical Society of Lisbon, for a new Portuguese expedition
-from the west to the east, upon an itinerary like that of Serpa
-Pinto.</p>
-
-<p>—P. Francisco Autuses, charged with establishing the mission of
-Zoumba upon the Zambeze, has set out from Lisbon for Mozambique.
-After studying theology and natural sciences at Louvain, he will
-devote himself to taking meteorological observations. He will
-establish a station for this purpose at Zoumba. In a little
-while he will be joined by a number of Portuguese workmen, whom
-government will send there to make the necessary buildings for a
-commercial office.</p>
-
-<p>—The Portuguese Commission of Public Works has constructed in the
-Province of Angola a telegraphic line of 344 kilometers from St.
-Paul de Loanda to Dondo and Calcullo. It has already rendered good
-service to commerce and the navigation of the Quanza. At Dondo
-everything is ready to prolong the line as far as Poungo Andongo.</p>
-
-<p>—The Sultan of Zanzibar has just explored the upper country of
-the Loufigi with an expedition, the command of which was entrusted
-to M. Beardall, who formerly studied the region of the Rovouma,
-and more recently has had under his care the construction of the
-Dar-es-Salam road.</p>
-
-<p>—The society formed at Sfax will establish at the most important
-points in the rich countries of Haussa, Bornou, Darfour, &amp;c.,
-commercial stations, which will be at the same time scientific
-stations, and between which will pass regular caravans, well armed,
-to which will be joined special men, furnished with all necessary
-instruments for making topographical and meteorological surveys.</p>
-
-<p>—Four Roman Catholic missionaries have gone to the Baptist mission
-at San Salvador. They were brought by a Portuguese vessel to the
-point where the Congo ceases to be navigable, and escorted from
-thence to San Salvador by a lieutenant and a detachment of the
-navy. They carried with them some holy water, fire-arms, silver
-vases and a golden crown, and offered them to the King of San
-Salvador from the King of Portugal. The king received them and
-returned thanks, saying that it was the most beautiful present
-he had ever received. He has promised his protection to the
-missionaries.</p>
-
-<p>—Mr. James Stevenson, Esq., has offered £4,000 to the London
-Missionary Society and the Livingstonia Mission, provided they
-will, without delay, establish stations and maintain them on the
-line of road between Lake Tanganyika and Quilimane on the coast. It
-is expected that merchandise will be transported over this route
-by steamer up the Zambezi and Shiré to the falls of the latter
-river. There will also be steamboat facilities on the upper Shiré
-and the Nyassa lake, leaving only about three hundred miles for the
-transportation of goods by porters or domestic animals in order to
-reach the Tanganyika.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_232" id="Page_232">[Pg 232]</a></span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>FREEDMEN FOR AFRICA.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">REV. LEWIS GROUT.</p>
-
-<p>The Freedmen, properly educated, will make capital missionaries for
-Africa. After a careful study of the race for thirty years—fifteen
-on their own ancestral shores, and now fifteen in this land of
-ours—such is my conclusion concerning them. They have, naturally,
-some of the best traits to fit them for mission work. They are
-hopeful, for one thing, as every missionary should be. During all
-the long years of their bondage, and then during all the war, how
-did they hope on and hope ever that deliverance would come, till
-come it did! They are naturally a social people. Getting a new
-idea, a new truth, they talk it over, pass it on, keep it going.
-The missionary must be social, if he will do the most good. They
-are a sharp-minded, quick-witted people. For ability to read
-character, make a quick turn, a good use of passing events, or take
-a good illustration from nature, the Africans have no superiors.
-They are of a tropical constitution, most happy, healthy, and
-most at home in just such a climate as that of Africa. It is
-their native clime—a fact whose value can neither be denied nor
-over-estimated.</p>
-
-<p>Now keeping all these natural qualifications in mind, let us
-briefly notice some pertinent points in that most unique, varied
-experience and divinely appointed discipline through which God, in
-His providence, has been causing the Freedmen to pass for all these
-years, as giving them a yet more special preparation for the great
-mission work He has in store for them.</p>
-
-<p>First, experience in suffering. I know not how it may be with
-others, but for myself I have come, long since, to think that there
-is no discipline in this world like that of suffering, rightly
-used, to fashion us after the image of the Divine. In this way the
-Saviour himself is said to have been made perfect and fitted for
-His great redemptive work, (Heb. v., 8, 9). And when, in olden
-time, God would make choice of a people to be conservators and
-propagators of His truth in the world for ages, how did He prepare
-them for their mission? Not by sending them to college, but by
-sending them down into Egypt; and there, for long generations,
-did He keep them in bondage, and then for other long years in
-wanderings in the wilderness, till He had fitted them for His
-work, and ground into them a character which all the fiction of
-the ages has not yet ground out of them. So with the people of
-whom we speak—what an experience have they had in suffering!
-Surely, God must have in store for them some great and wondrous
-mission, for which He has intended this experience to be both
-presage and preparation. Then notice the discipline they have had
-as soldiers in the camp, on the march, on guard, in the battle,
-shoulder to shoulder with our men, sons, brothers, fathers, bravely
-fighting for the Union, that they might know what war is, and
-what it sometimes costs to secure liberty and save a nation from
-anarchy and ruin. See, too, what experience and discipline they
-are getting in civil and political life, in the use of the ballot,
-in the forming<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_233" id="Page_233">[Pg 233]</a></span> and reconstructing of states, in the framing of
-constitutions, in making and executing laws, in all the varied and
-complicated duties of citizens, magistrates, judges and rulers,
-that they may know how laws, states and nations are made and
-sustained, and so be prepared to go and plant these institutions
-and principles in the land of their fathers. And then, last and
-best of all, what an experience are they getting in the work of
-organizing and running Christian schools and pure churches among
-their own people, under the lead of our teachers and preachers in
-the South, that they may be prepared to do this same blessed work
-in that dark land which is so imploringly calling to them, as her
-own sons and daughters, to come with the school and the church to
-her help.</p>
-
-<p>I love to look at the work of the American Missionary Association
-in this Divine light. I love to come up in this way upon these
-highlands of God’s movements in Africa, and among her sons on our
-shores in this our day, and to get, as I think I can, in this way,
-some good look at the sweep and the purpose of His providence
-in the otherwise strange revolutions through which Africa, the
-Africans, and we ourselves are so swiftly passing.</p>
-
-<p>And now, what is wanting to bring this divinely planned enterprise
-to a speedy and glorious consummation, but that we do all come
-quick and glad into line with God?—that the Freedmen, the American
-Missionary Association, all its noble constituency of churches, the
-whole rank and file of God’s American army, tread firm and true to
-the music of His providence? So shall be generously furnished the
-men and the means He now asks, by which to hasten, in His time, the
-redemption of Africa unto Himself.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>ADDRESS AT NASHVILLE,</h3>
-
-<h4>AT THE LAYING OF THE CORNER-STONE OF LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">BY SECRETARY STRIEBY.</p>
-
-<p>As we are about to lay the corner-stone of a new school building,
-it is proper that I should answer the question, Why do we come down
-from the North to erect these buildings in the South?</p>
-
-<p>Before answering the question, I may say that if we come at all,
-it is not strange that we should select so beautiful a spot as
-this for a location; nor that we should come to Nashville, for
-there seems to be some sort of educational lodestone that attracts
-schools to this city. Joshua conquered a Moabite city called
-Kirjath-sepher, which scholars tell us means “Book City.” What
-could have given it that title in that remote era, whether the
-possession of one book or several books, when letters had probably
-not long been invented, must remain forever a mystery. So when
-Macaulay’s New Zealander, after having meditated on the ruins
-of London Bridge, shall come to this spot and meditate upon the
-ruins here, or when some Layard or Cesnola or Schliemann shall dig
-down deep into their foundations, this place may be denominated
-the “School City;” for at the earliest date<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_234" id="Page_234">[Pg 234]</a></span> of the settlement of
-Nashville, good schools were formed, and now the hill-tops are
-crowned and the streets are adorned with schools of the highest
-character. Nor are these for the white race alone. The Methodist
-Central Tennessee College, the Baptist Normal and Theological
-Institute, and neither last nor least, Fisk University, crowning
-these heights, attest the interest taken in the Christian education
-of the colored race.</p>
-
-<p>But why do we come here from the North to build these buildings?
-First, we come as fellow-citizens, who have shared in the agony of
-the late civil conflict, at the bottom of which lay negro slavery,
-and for which North and South were responsible, though it may be
-in different degrees. In the piping hot days of the anti-slavery
-contest, the Evangelical Alliance met in London. An English
-gentleman took the platform and delivered a scathing rebuke to
-America for slavery. Dr. Cox, our most celebrated off-hand orator
-of that day, took the floor, saying that of course America had
-her view as to who was responsible for negro slavery in America,
-whether Britons or Americans; “but,” said he, “I propose to take
-one corner of the mantle, and let the brother who has just spoken
-take the other corner, and we will walk backwards and throw it
-over the originator of negro slavery in America.” We come as
-fellow-citizens in a like spirit, ready to throw the mantle of
-charity over the past. But emancipation has introduced a new
-element. The ex-slaves need Christian education and elevation, and
-we come as Christian brethren and say to our friends at the South:
-We will take one corner of the mantle of Christian education, if
-you will take the other, and we will go <em>forward</em>, with our faces
-lifted to Heaven, and will throw that mantle over the emancipated
-slaves.</p>
-
-<p>This is the work we propose to do in the South, and wise and
-candid men both North and South are beginning to realize that the
-education of the negro race is the paramount duty of the nation
-to it. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of
-the North on this subject, while Col. Preston and Dr. Ruffner of
-Virginia, Sen. Brown and Pres. Haygood of Georgia, have nobly
-re-echoed the sentiment from the South. This Association goes
-farther than mere intellectual education. It believes that the
-Christian element lies at the foundation of all true character, and
-that character is the basis of all true manhood and citizenship.
-It has been the aim of this Association not merely to lift up the
-individual, but to apply the levers to the elevation of the mass,
-and hence it has founded in every large Southern State, schools
-fitted for the training of teachers, preachers and missionaries of
-the colored race. At Hampton, where the first slave-ship entered
-the continent, in the same year in which the Pilgrims landed on
-Plymouth Rock, the Association opened the first Freedman’s school
-in these United States. Under the energetic administration of Gen.
-Armstrong, Hampton Institute, with its broad lands, its large and
-commodious buildings, its steam-engine and multiplied mechanical
-employments, gives educational and industrial training to its large
-company of students, graduating about fifty pupils each year,
-ninety per cent. of whom go into the State<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_235" id="Page_235">[Pg 235]</a></span> as teachers, carrying
-with them, into the school, the Sunday-school, the prayer-meeting
-and the church a healthful Christian influence; while the noble
-old state of Virginia responds to the effort by a gift of $10,000
-a year for the support of the school. Atlanta University, with its
-two commodious buildings, and another soon to be added, imparts
-a higher range of teaching, including classic instruction to its
-pupils, and the state of Georgia responds with its gift of $8,000 a
-year. If you would see what is done at Fisk University, look around
-you and examine the classes under instruction in Jubilee Hall. But
-time would fail me to speak of Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo, Miss.;
-Straight University, New Orleans; Tillotson Institute, Austin,
-Texas; and of the other schools, normal, grammar and primary, which
-the Association sustains. From all these institutions we believe
-there are pupils now engaged in teaching, who have under their
-care 200,000 children, and that there are pastors in churches that
-we have founded, and in others not under our care, whom we have
-prepared to be intelligent and faithful preachers of the Gospel in
-this land and in Africa. We believe that the providence of God is
-bringing to pass a wonderful combination of discovery in Africa
-and of Christian education among the Freedmen, that is to have an
-immeasurable influence on the long neglected races of the Dark
-Continent.</p>
-
-<p>In these efforts for the colored people, we do not wish to make
-them vain nor to pauperize them. We believe our efforts have led
-thus far to neither of these results. The scholars going from our
-schools are not troubled with what is so aptly called the “big
-head,” and my observation shows that around our schools and others
-like them the colored people are inclined more than anywhere else
-to buy land, build houses and make comfortable Christian homes. Our
-purpose in erecting these buildings, in addition to the good that
-is done to the scholars under immediate instruction, is to inspire
-hope in the whole race. And we are doing it. A good colored deacon
-in one of our churches said that he expected no greater change to
-come over him when he entered Heaven than came over his race when
-the doors of the school-house were opened to it.</p>
-
-<p>In the prosecution of this, our great work, we have spent over
-$3,000,000, and to secure that sum we have had providential
-helpers. First on the roll and steadiest in the ranks are the
-Christian friends at the North and in Great Britain, whose firm
-support has been the stability of our efforts. We mention also
-the Freedmen’s Bureau, with its large and wise distribution of
-Government funds for educational purposes. This Bureau has not been
-popular at the South; but we believe the time will yet come when
-our Southern friends will learn to appreciate the work of Gen.
-Howard, the head of this Bureau, and of Gen. Fisk, who administered
-so wisely and impartially for both races the Bureau work in this
-and adjoining States. The Jubilee Singers need no eulogy in this
-presence; their monument stands before us in Jubilee Hall; yet
-no list of the providential helpers of this Association, and
-especially of Fisk University, could be complete without their
-names. And last, but not least, mention must be made of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_236" id="Page_236">[Pg 236]</a></span> noble
-generosity of Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, attested not only in the gift
-of $60,000, which is to build Livingstone Hall, whose corner-stone
-we lay to-day, but in like gifts throughout the land. God rejoices
-in the coming spring, when the frozen ground and the ice-covered
-streams give place to the springing grass and the budding leaves,
-coming forth to adorn and beautify the earth and to presage the
-approaching harvests. And so, without presumption, may His child,
-the giver of the bounty which rears this building, be permitted to
-rejoice as it sends forth its annual company of students, trained
-and adorned for a useful life that shall gladden and bless the
-world.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>The Vicksburg <cite>Herald</cite>, rebuking a narrow-minded correspondent,
-says: “We are heartily in favor of the South from the Potomac to
-the Rio Grande being thoroughly and permanently Yankeeized. Yankee
-energy, Yankee schools, Yankee cultivation, Yankee railroads and
-Yankee capital are badly needed in the South, and will be welcomed
-by every Southern progressive patriot.”</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>BENEFACTIONS.</h3>
-
-<p>—John P. Howard, of Burlington, has given $50,000 to the
-University of Vermont—the largest individual gift ever made to the
-institution.</p>
-
-<p>—The Hon. Robert H. Pruyn, of Albany, N.Y., has offered to
-give $100,000 toward the general endowment of Rutgers College,
-New Brunswick, N.J., provided the remaining trustees contribute
-$400,000.</p>
-
-<p>—Dr. Hoffman, Dean of the Faculty of the General Protestant
-Episcopal Theological Seminary of New York, with his family, has
-given $75,000 toward the endowment of that institution.</p>
-
-<p>—Mr. John R. Buchtel, of Acton, Ohio, has added $75,000 to his
-gifts to the Buchtel College, making the entire amount about
-$200,000.</p>
-
-<p>—Mr. Wharton has given $100,000 to the Wharton School of Finance
-and Economy in connection with the University of Pennsylvania.</p>
-
-<p>—A benevolent lady has given $3,000 to Lincoln University for
-the erection of a tabernacle for the accommodation of visitors on
-anniversary occasions.</p>
-
-<p>—A lady, who does not wish her name published, has just given
-$100,000 to Princeton Theological Seminary.</p>
-
-<p>—Winthrop Hillyer, of Northampton, has given $35,000 to Smith
-College for an art building.</p>
-
-<p>—<em>Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed
-and over-flowing with students, and is now erecting Livingstone
-Missionary Hall, by the gift of Mrs. Stone; but endowments are the
-great necessity. Twenty-five thousand dollars will provide for a
-professorship, and there are seven such needing endowment.</em></p>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_237" id="Page_237">[Pg 237]</a></span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>CHINESE NOTES.</h3>
-
-<p>—Chicago has fourteen naturalized Chinamen.</p>
-
-<p>—Dr. Chalmers reports that the native church in Hong Kong has
-increased in numbers from 83 to 216 during the decade, although,
-during the same period, no fewer than 77 members have removed to
-other parts of China, or have gone abroad.</p>
-
-<p>—The girl’s school in Shanghai, under the auspices of the London
-Missionary Society, numbers 100 scholars. A female missionary is
-employed at this point, who devotes her time to work among the
-women. Two ladies are also employed with marked success in the same
-branch of work at Hong Kong.</p>
-
-<p>—A Consul of the English Government in China, writing from Chefoo,
-says: “A great change has come over all classes in regard to
-Christianity; it has made vast strides in the land, in spite of the
-fewness of the missionaries; and whether we are inclined to rejoice
-in or deplore the fact, the spread of Christianity is inevitable.”</p>
-
-<p>—It is an interesting evidence of the growing power of
-Christianity in Japan that the people feel it necessary to bolster
-themselves up by mutual pledges so that they may be kept from
-becoming Christians. A Japanese paper reports that a number of
-citizens of Kioto, grieved at the rapid spread of the new religion,
-have established a society in which each member binds himself by
-solemn oaths never to embrace the Christian faith. Any member
-who disregards his vows will be ostracized. Men would not so set
-themselves did they not feel the power of the current.—<cite>Missionary
-Herald.</cite></p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>INDIAN NOTES.</h3>
-
-<p>—At Hampton there are seventy-nine Indian students, representing
-<em>sixteen</em> different tribes.</p>
-
-<p>—Chief-elect Wildcat, a Shawnee boy, in the middle class at
-Hampton, is improving his spare time by compiling a small
-English-Indian dictionary. He says that his tribe has no such book,
-and one is greatly needed.</p>
-
-<p>—In the British possessions it is estimated that the total Indian
-population is less than one-tenth of the number found by the first
-European settlers.</p>
-
-<p>—Rev. John Sunday, an Indian preacher at Hamilton, Ont., is
-reported to have closed a recent address with the following
-language: “There is a gentleman who, I suppose, is now in this
-house. He is a very fine gentleman, but a very modest one. He does
-not like to show himself at these meetings. I do not know how long
-it is since I have seen him, he comes out so little. I am very much
-afraid that he sleeps a good deal of his time, when he ought to be
-out doing good. His name is Gold. Mr. Gold, are you here to-night,
-or are you sleeping in your iron chest? Come out, Mr.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_238" id="Page_238">[Pg 238]</a></span> Gold, come
-out and help us do this great work, to preach the Gospel to every
-creature. Ah, Mr. Gold, you ought to be ashamed of yourself to
-sleep so much in your iron chest. Look at your white brother, Mr.
-Silver; he does a great deal of good while you are sleeping. Come
-out, Mr. Gold. Look, too, at your little brown brother, Mr. Copper;
-he is everywhere. Your poor little brown brother is running about,
-doing all that he can to help us. Why don’t you come out, Mr. Gold?
-Well, if you won’t show yourself, send us your shirt, that is, a
-bank note. That is all I have to say.”</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
-
-<p class="secauth">REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., <span class="smcap">Field Superintendent, Atlanta,
-Ga.</span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>ANNIVERSARY REPORTS—<span class="smcap">Continued</span>.</h3>
-
-<h4>Atlanta University.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">PROF. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.</p>
-
-<p>Anniversary exercises are apt to afford but meagre indication of
-the real work accomplished by any school. To those of us who know
-the work of Atlanta University, such exercises seem especially
-inadequate to the faithful telling of what is being done here.
-When our good Christian friend, Philander Veryrich, hints that he
-is ready to come down here with a hundred thousand dollars in each
-pocket, to be emptied out wherever they will do the most good, I
-shall not especially urge his attendance upon our Commencement
-exercises. I shall ask him to spend with us either the first or the
-last Sunday evening of the school year. I shall beg him to preserve
-a strict <i lang="it" xml:lang="it">incognito</i>, and allow me to conceal him outside one of
-the windows, or behind one of the doors of our assembly room,
-with a peep-hole conveniently arranged. If it is the last Sunday
-evening before the vacation, he will hear many of the scholars
-speak with grateful appreciation of what the year’s work has done
-for them, and with enthusiastic hope of what they mean to do for
-others during their summer’s work of teaching. The members of the
-graduating class will recall their experience of six or seven or
-eight years in the Institution, and tell what a home it has been
-to them, and how much of what they have acquired in the training
-of mind and character is due to the Christian home influence of
-the school. If it is the first Sunday evening of the new school
-year, our benevolent friend will hear many of these same scholars
-tell of their summer’s work—how they have succeeded in some things
-and failed in others; what they have done in Sunday-school and
-temperance work; what obstacles they have met and conquered; what
-increasing favor they have found in the communities where they
-have labored. At either of these Sunday evening family gatherings
-(for such they are), I think our visiting friend will be struck
-with the simple straightforward way in which our scholars express
-themselves, with the extremely limited amount of what is sometimes
-called “gush,” and with the clear revelation which will be made to
-him that before, behind, around, and underneath everything else,
-the development of a thoroughly Christian character, and of a true
-manhood and womanhood, is the all-absorbing purpose of our work.
-But I am stultifying myself in trying to convey an impression
-of these gatherings to others. Even to our own corps of workers
-here, they come, twice a year,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_239" id="Page_239">[Pg 239]</a></span> almost as a surprise and as a most
-inspiring revelation to ourselves of what God is permitting us to
-do.</p>
-
-<p>And still, however inadequate, our anniversary exercises have been
-full of interest, and have revealed much to those who have visited
-us for the first time. The Baccalaureate sermon was preached June
-12th, by our college pastor, Rev. Cyrus W. Francis, from 1st
-Tim. i. 19, “Holding faith and a good conscience;” and it was
-an earnest plea for the supremacy of the higher motives in the
-Christian warfare upon which the graduates were about to enter.
-Three days of public examinations followed, each day’s session
-being concluded by an exercise in music and light gymnastics. On
-the last day there was a display of what our girls have learned
-in the way of head-making. The walls of the front hall and one of
-the stairways were covered with specimens of the students’ drawing
-and map-making, indicating great progress in this department
-during the year. The normal work also has been making a decided
-advance. It is evident that those of us who teach the Greek, Latin
-and other higher branches will have to look well to our laurels.
-Fewer visitors to the school ask to hear the classics translated;
-more wish to see how the three R’s are taught. No exercise of
-the examination days riveted the attention of our friends more
-firmly than the exercise in teaching one of the grammar-school
-grades, by one of the members of the senior normal class, with
-following criticisms from the other members of the class. However,
-we classical instructors rejoice in all this, for we know that
-hereafter we shall have better equipped pupils for grappling with
-Xenophon and Cicero. It ought to be mentioned here that one of the
-most valuable exercises of our winter term this year was a three
-days’ Teachers’ Institute, in which all the teachers and scholars
-participated, and in which much light was thrown upon the improved
-methods of teaching, now attracting such wide attention. A further
-impetus was given to thought and effort in this direction by the
-visit of our friend, the Rev. A.&nbsp;D. Mayo, co-editor of the <cite>Journal
-of Education</cite>, whose four lectures and one sermon before our
-students, and whose private talk and counsel with our teachers on
-certain phases of our work, will not soon be forgotten.</p>
-
-<p>A very large audience, as usual, packed the Friendship Baptist
-church on Thursday, to listen to the essays of eleven of the
-graduating class, and to the address of the invited orator of the
-day. Five young men and twelve young women received the diplomas of
-the school. The Commencement address was delivered by Rev. Atticus
-G. Haygood, D.D., President of Emory College at Oxford, in this
-State. Those who are now reading his recently published book, “Our
-Brother in Black,” will not need to be told that his address was
-listened to with the greatest pleasure and approval by all who
-were present. It was a plain, forcible and thoroughly wholesome
-presentation of some of the ways in which the true greatness of
-the State must be secured, and the relation thereto of education
-and of such institutions as ours. Dr. Haygood represents, most
-nobly, that rapidly multiplying element among the Southern people
-which believes in the motto, “Look up and not down, out and not in,
-forward and not backward, and lend a hand.” May his tribe increase.</p>
-
-<p>One of the most excellent features of the address was, as one
-auditor suggested, the fact that it would have been just as
-appropriate for delivery before the Athens (State) University as
-before the Atlanta University.</p>
-
-<p>The Alumni meeting, Thursday afternoon, brought together a goodly
-number of the graduates of former years. The<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_240" id="Page_240">[Pg 240]</a></span> spirit of the remarks
-made at this gathering gives, every year, an increasing assurance
-of the stability and self-propagating character of the work in
-which we are engaged.</p>
-
-<p>The report of the Visiting Committee, appointed by the Governor of
-the State, has just been published. It furnishes renewed evidence
-of the growing favor which our work is meeting with among the
-people of Georgia. The remarks made to the school on the last
-day of the examinations, by Rev. Mr. Wilkes, the chairman of the
-sub-committee, who prepared this report, were full of good sense
-and kindly feeling. The speaker told of his life-long service
-as a teacher, and how it had begun with the instruction of a
-little colored boy, his father’s slave, in the safe seclusion
-of the corn-crib, in the days when such teaching was a criminal
-offense. None who heard him could doubt the entire sincerity of
-his words of sympathy and encouragement. It is astonishing how
-rapidly and widely the work of Atlanta University is coming to be
-appreciated. Among the applications for teachers which have lately
-been received, have been several from county school commissioners,
-who say, in substance, “The teachers we have met with from your
-Institution are of such a quality that we desire now to supply all
-our schools from the same source.” Let our friends at the North
-take courage. Their investments, so far, are bearing compound
-interest at a high rate. When these lines reach the eyes of the
-readers of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, some ten thousand children, all
-over this great State, will be gathered under the instruction of
-our pupils. Next October we shall get the reports of this work. As
-soon as our friend, Philander Veryrich, will send me his address, I
-will give him the date of the Sunday evening gathering, from which
-he can learn more about our work than from whole volumes of the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>TALLADEGA COLLEGE.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">MRS. THOS. N. CHASE.</p>
-
-<p>After following with tender anxiety so many classes through their
-graduating exercises at Atlanta, it has been very pleasant for
-me, this year, to witness the closing exercises of two similar
-Institutions. This one at Talladega I have been urged to report for
-the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p>
-
-<p>The sermon before the graduating class was preached by Pres. H.
-S. De Forest upon the worth of the soul. His eloquent review of
-the grand geologic ages told of the greater grandeur of Him for
-whom they were prepared. His allusions to the soul’s capacity to
-think, feel and choose, to its immortality and cost of redemption,
-must have brought to the class an overwhelming sense of their
-responsibility. In closing, they were asked to remember that what a
-man may be is infinitely more than what he can sell himself to get.</p>
-
-<p>The Missionary Society had the promise of an address on Sunday
-evening by Dr. G.&nbsp;B. Willcox, of Chicago Theological Seminary. A
-telegram announcing his sickness was throwing its shadow over us,
-when, as unexpectedly, Rev. H.&nbsp;M. Ladd dropped in upon us, only
-a few days home from Africa. He hastened South to catch the last
-days of Talladega and Atlanta sessions, hoping to find recruits for
-African missions.</p>
-
-<p>On Monday the examinations began. This Institution is fortunate
-in having an excellent primary school in the building. It is a
-constant object lesson to the little army of teachers who go out
-every summer to teach just such children, and also dignifies
-primary work, which, in spite of Frœbel, Pestalozzi and the
-truly wise and good everywhere, is too often considered of minor
-importance. The principal of the intermediate department has
-remarkable ability in bringing her pupils up to her high standard
-of excellence. In the rear of her school-room is a power for good
-which is inestimable. It consists in a long, low table with seats.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_241" id="Page_241">[Pg 241]</a></span>
-On it are fastened, by a very simple contrivance, interesting and
-instructive illustrated papers and magazines, which the children
-are allowed to read after lessons are prepared. In an age when
-the best literature floods our land in such cheap forms that the
-humblest need never thirst, what nobler philanthropy than to allure
-these often worse than homeless children on to an early taste for
-good reading?</p>
-
-<p>The normal work and classes in natural science are in charge of a
-graduate lately from Beloit College and Whitewater Normal School.
-The classical department is in charge of an Olivet graduate, whose
-three years here have proved him invaluable. A most interesting
-acquisition to the corps of teachers is a scientific farmer, a
-graduate of Massachusetts Agricultural College. To enjoy the
-delicious vegetables from his garden is enough to convert a sceptic
-in scientific agriculture. It really looks as though, under his
-skill, these unsightly acres of red clay were, in time, to blossom
-as the rose. The joy and pride of this Institution, however, is its
-theological department, and well it may be. Its class of eleven
-were examined two hours of one of their hot days, and nobody seemed
-weary. The clear, simple topics, recited in such an interesting,
-lucid style, tolerated no hovering fog, that I had supposed always,
-more or less, mystified a recitation in systematic theology. The
-accuracy of their knowledge in Bible history, too, was wonderful.
-None but a born teacher could have secured such results from
-a class of that grade of scholarship. Classes in geometry and
-rhetoric told unmistakably of thorough work.</p>
-
-<p>We were entertained, Monday evening, by prize speaking and essay
-reading; Tuesday evening, by an interesting account of Mr. Ladd’s
-African experience, in place of the expected address by Dr.
-Willcox; Wednesday evening, by the ordination of two candidates;
-Thursday evening, by a musical concert. There are a few rare voices
-here that vocal training would develop into marvellous sweetness.</p>
-
-<p>Thursday was graduating day, and as the class was much smaller
-than usual, five young men from the preparatory department gave
-orations. They were all excellent in matter and delivery. Their
-effect would have been more pleasing, however, had there been a
-greater variety of subjects or of treatment. Doubtless, in the
-depths of these students’ hearts, no subjects are so momentous as
-“The curse of Canaan;” “Cannot we, too, become great men?” “The
-ballot,” etc. But what has pleased me here more than anything else,
-however, is the excellent spirit manifested by the students in the
-family. There is, especially among the young men, an earnestness
-of purpose shown that is simply grand. Possibly it is, in part,
-owing to the fact that so many are from the country, schooled by
-hard work, away from the follies of city life. There is here no
-airing of exquisite broadcloth nor swinging of fancy canes. All
-are respectful, unassuming, and possessed of a modesty that seems
-to reach beneath their delightful demeanor and give them a true
-estimate of their abilities. At family devotions, the last morning
-before the school separated, one of the graduates led us in prayer.
-I cannot think that the thought and tones of that prayer will
-ever leave me. The ear of the Omnipotent must have heard those
-pathetic pleadings that his fellow-students might be sustained by
-the Everlasting Arms as they took up their heavy burdens, often
-in the midst of terrible temptations. We who send out these large
-numbers of young men and women to reach the masses, feel the need
-of your prayers and sympathies; but how much more do these young
-and inexperienced ones, as they go out to battle with ignorance,
-envy, intemperance and every form of vice! We never<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_242" id="Page_242">[Pg 242]</a></span> realize how
-great our hopes are for them till we occasionally get a great shock
-by the death of one, or the overcoming and fall of another. We
-reach but a few. Surely our work and the entire Southern work of
-the American Missionary Association centres in those who go out to
-reach the millions. If they fail, we have failed. How important
-that we hold up such a high standard of character, that they shall
-be beacon lights instead of tapers that shall soon go out in the
-darkness.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>TILLOTSON INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">(From the Daily Statesman)</p>
-
-<p>Tillotson Institute is presided over by the Rev. W.&nbsp;E. Brooks, a
-gentleman of evident Christian piety, an accomplished scholar, and
-a man thoroughly impressed with the dignity and importance of his
-trust. Professor Brooks is ably assisted in the educational part
-of his work by Miss Hunt, an experienced and successful teacher of
-the young, as her class examinations, conducted at the Institute
-on the 9th inst., fully demonstrated; the boys and girls, in the
-careful and prolonged examinations to which they were subjected by
-their teachers and the visitors present, displaying an accuracy
-of information and a fullness of understanding highly commendable
-to themselves, and a just source of pride to their faithful and
-efficient teachers. The examination in English grammar, including
-analysis and parsing, was excellent, as was that also in geography.
-The result of the examination in arithmetic, algebra and Latin
-showed an uncommon proficiency on the part of the students,
-considering the fact that they have been at this school and under
-this training scarcely more than six months.</p>
-
-<p>President Brooks has the real welfare of his pupils at heart,
-and is educating them in a practical as well as theoretical way.
-He is teaching them how to become useful and honorable men and
-women, and his labors have the cordial approval of all our best
-citizens. President Brooks is so much gratified with his success
-thus far that he visits the North shortly, hoping to get further
-aid in establishing this school, and proposes, if his expectations
-are realized, to add a mechanical and agricultural department
-to his present course of instruction. The school closed with an
-attendance of one hundred and seven pupils. This under-taking is
-a very praiseworthy one, and will, we doubt not, meet with the
-encouragement it most certainly deserves. In Virginia, Tennessee
-and Louisiana these schools for the colored youth are attracting
-the attention and securing the liberal approval of the legislatures
-and public men of those states, and so it will be here.</p>
-
-<p>We noticed among the many visitors present at the examination,
-Gov. Pease, Rev. Mr. Wright, Judge Fulmore, Mr. A.&nbsp;P. Wooldridge,
-Profs. Winn and Johnson, all of whom expressed themselves highly
-gratified with the success of the school.</p>
-
-<p>We recommend to our people who take an interest in education
-to visit this Institution. They can be assured of a polite and
-hospitable welcome, and most of them will be surprised and pleased
-to see what a superior school and school building we have in our
-midst.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>AVERY INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON.</h4>
-
-<p>The school year at Avery Institute closed Thursday, June 30, the
-last three days being given to public exercises. Tuesday was
-“examination day.” I wish you all could see the school as it looked
-that morning from the rostrum. The bright eager eyes, the earnest
-faces, the neat appropriate style of dress, and the respectful
-scholar-like behavior of the students, even the tiniest ones, are
-a strong contrast to the appearance of the street children. You
-suppose our scholars belong to a better class than<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_243" id="Page_243">[Pg 243]</a></span> the street
-children? To be sure they do; but these same lower classes may
-become respectable, and have much more to encourage them to rise,
-than those had who have already struggled up. The visitors were,
-of course, friends of the school and of the scholars, and they
-said many kind and appreciative things about the school and the
-recitations they heard. We tried to make the examinations strictly
-honest. Every scholar was given a chance, as far as possible, to
-show what he had done in every study he had pursued; and to take
-the words of those who visited the different classes, the result
-was satisfactory.</p>
-
-<p>Wednesday was “children’s day,” when the little ones in the lower
-rooms gave the entertainment, and the older scholars attended as
-guests, with other friends of the small entertainers. The affair
-was very child-like and pretty. The recitations and dialogues
-were such as the children could appreciate; the songs bright,
-airy little things; and the singing a half-shy dainty rippling
-of very sweet music. Through all there was no appearance of the
-“Now-all-are-looking-at-me” feeling that sometimes makes children’s
-exhibitions such pitiful things.</p>
-
-<p>On Thursday was the Anniversary. The course of study having been
-extended one year, there was no graduating class. The exercises
-consisted of essays by members of the upper classes, the recitation
-of a few poems, one or two dialogues, and music. The music was very
-good, the dialogues natural, the recitations well chosen and well
-spoken, that entitled “Mona’s Water” being very strongly rendered;
-but the most interesting part of this entertainment was the essays.
-Three prizes had been offered, and three gentlemen of the city
-acted as judges, to decide on the merits of the different essays.
-All were called good, and with reason. Those of the youngest
-class in essay writing were delightfully child-like, natural and
-original. That on “Intemperance,” to which the prize was awarded,
-had besides a strong-hearted earnestness and depth of thought that
-were surprising. The essays of the middle class showed more mature
-thought, or, perhaps, a reaching out towards mature thought—a calm
-looking forward and trying to prepare for earnest living. The prize
-in this class came to the essay entitled, “We Learn not for School,
-but for Life.” The essays of the upper class seemed to have for a
-key-note a sentiment we always find among the best of our people
-here, when we get at their hearts and hopes and aspirations—the
-elevation of their race. Do not think there was any sameness in
-these essays. Each reached this thought in a different way. It
-gleamed out in “Everything was Made to be Happy;” it made itself
-felt as one of the foundations of “Progress;” and it formed the
-crown of the prize essay, “Nothing Great is Lightly Won,” when,
-after brave words calling to action, it closed with the quotation
-from Longfellow’s “Psalm of Life:”</p>
-
-<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
-<span class="i0">“Lives of great men all remind us,<br /></span>
-<span class="i0">We may make our lives sublime,” etc.,<br /></span>
-</div></div>
-
-<p>leaving one with the thought that helping others is the best and
-greatest work here, and that our lives must be right towards God if
-we would really help.</p>
-
-<p>In the evening of this same day the Normal exhibition was held.
-Every part of the programme was well executed.</p>
-
-<p class="signature">C.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">REV. S.&nbsp;E. LATHROP, MACON, GA.</p>
-
-<p>The closing examinations occupied nearly two days, May 31st and
-June 1st. The attendance of parents and other visitors was larger
-than at any previous occasion for some years past, showing perhaps
-an increasing interest in educational matters. Most of the older
-scholars (about fifteen of them) had left previously<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[Pg 244]</a></span> to teach
-country schools; but the classes which were examined acquitted
-themselves remarkably well. The questioning by the teachers threw
-them upon their own resources, and proved the excellent instruction
-they have had. The noticeable quickness and readiness of answer,
-and the mastery of each branch of study, showed that they have
-been trained to think for themselves, and not merely to learn
-by rote. In reading, geography, history, grammar, composition,
-arithmetic, algebra, natural philosophy, and other branches, the
-scholars showed very commendable proficiency, and again answered
-the often-answered question, “Can the negro learn?”</p>
-
-<p>One thing highly commended by all the visitors, and an important
-feature of the instruction, was the constant use of writing.
-The scholars spell out their lessons by writing on slate or
-black-board. They frequently prepare written compositions or
-reviews of lessons in grammar and geography, and in many ways
-are taught to express in written characters the thoughts drawn
-from their studies. Thus the facts are firmly fixed in mind, and
-they learn also by the same process to write, spell, capitalize,
-punctuate and compose. Some of the exercises written as ordinary
-lessons displayed handsome penmanship.</p>
-
-<p>Several leading white citizens attended the exercises, and
-expressed themselves as being much pleased. Among them were
-Professor Williams, principal of the State Asylum for the Blind,
-located here, a firm friend of negro education; and Professor
-Link, a professional teacher of many years’ experience, who said,
-significantly, in private: “I attend all the white schools, and
-I don’t see any difference”—which is quite an admission for a
-native Southerner. There was also Rev. J.&nbsp;W. Burke, a leading
-Methodist Episcopal clergyman, publisher and assistant editor of
-the <cite>Wesleyan Christian Advocate</cite>, well known as an excellent
-Christian man and a true friend of the negro. All the visitors
-showed decided interest and pleasure. A violent rain-storm arising
-in the afternoon doubtless kept away many who would have attended.</p>
-
-<p>The literary exercises were held in the church at 4 p. m., June
-1st, in the presence of a large and attentive audience. The
-school, marching in to organ music, were massed together upon the
-pulpit platform, one tier above another, making a very striking
-and memorable group. As I looked into the bright eyes and smiling
-faces of all shades of color, from jet black to almost pure white,
-and noted the neat, tasty dress, and the beaming of intelligence
-from the animated features, and remembered the thoroughness of
-the examination they had passed, I looked back to another scene,
-sixteen years ago, when, as a soldier in General Wilson’s cavalry,
-we took possession of this city, and heard the rumors of peace
-confirmed, just at the end of the long and bloody war. That was
-my first sight of the negroes of Macon. Then they were uncouth,
-ragged, ignorant and untrained; but now what a change! I thanked
-God and took courage.</p>
-
-<p>As the school stood in this grouped position, they sang beautifully
-the song “Our Motto,” in which the chorus of each verse was “Be
-faithful, firm and true.” Then repeating together the Twenty-third
-Psalm, and chanting the Lord’s Prayer, they took their seats in
-the body of the church, and the literary programme went on. The
-reading of selections and compositions, the declamations and music,
-were all well rendered. The singing was especially deserving of
-notice, as, on account of the severe illness of Miss Raynor, the
-music teacher, the scholars were deprived of their accustomed
-organ accompaniment and musical leadership. But they had been
-well trained, and acquitted themselves with much credit to their
-teacher and themselves. A song entitled “The Farmer’s Boy,” with
-a whistling chorus,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_245" id="Page_245">[Pg 245]</a></span> was especially well sung and whistled. The
-senior class sang a parting song, and the benediction by Rev. J.&nbsp;W.
-Burke at 6 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.&nbsp;M.</span> closed the arduous and successful year’s
-work of the school.</p>
-
-<p>During the year there have been 162 pupils enrolled. Miss C.&nbsp;H.
-Gilbert, who has been principal for the past three years, is a very
-successful and experienced instructor, and deserves great credit
-for the thoroughness and progress of the school. The assistants,
-Misses J.&nbsp;A. Raynor and C.&nbsp;M. Park, have also done faithful and
-valuable work. The school has almost outgrown its present quarters,
-and much needs increased accommodations. The daily Macon <cite>Telegraph
-and Messenger</cite> published full and eulogistic reports of the closing
-exercises.</p>
-
-<p>Mrs. Elizabeth Lathrop, wife of the Macon missionary, has been
-doing an important work in the industrial line among the girls
-during the year. Laboring simply as minister’s wife, she has
-accomplished a good deal of missionary work, not the least
-important of which has been the sewing school. Beginning last
-December with twelve pupils, the number increased to 133 on the
-roll, with an average weekly attendance of 55. Northern friends
-have contributed thread, needles and other material, and during
-the seven months the class have made, under the instruction of
-Mrs. Lathrop, three hundred and six garments (aprons, dresses,
-handkerchiefs and under clothing), besides twenty-six patch-work
-quilts, all but three of these completely finished. On June 4th
-there was an exhibition of these articles at the Lewis High School,
-an astonishment to all who beheld. The mothers sat there with
-glad, grateful tears rolling down their cheeks, at the thought
-of the benefits received in this manner. Speeches of eulogistic
-gratitude were made by the colored Methodist preachers, and the day
-closed with the distribution of the garments to the girls who had
-made them. Much good has been accomplished in this way, and this
-industrial training is receiving, as it should, more attention than
-formerly in different places.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3>
-
-<p class="section"><i>Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</i></p>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J.&nbsp;K. McLean, D.D.
-<span class="smcap">Vice-presidents</span>: Rev. A.&nbsp;L. Stone, D.D., Robert B. Forman,
-Rev. T.&nbsp;K. Noble, Hon. F.&nbsp;F. Low, Rev. I.&nbsp;E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon.
-Samuel Cross, Rev. S.&nbsp;H. Willey, D.D., Jacob S. Taber.</p>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Mooar, D.D., Hon. E.&nbsp;D. Sawyer,
-Rev. E.&nbsp;P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev.
-John Kimball, A.&nbsp;L. Van Blarcon, Esq., George Harris, Esq., and the
-Secretary ex officio.</p>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W.&nbsp;C. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E.
-Palache, Esq.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h3>THE ANNIVERSARY AT STOCKTON.</h3>
-
-<p>Last month I gave some account of our anniversary at Sacramento,
-with the address by Lem Chung. Last Sabbath evening, June 19th, we
-held our anniversary at Stockton. It was an exceedingly interesting
-and useful service. The church was well filled—better than ever
-before when I have been there. The report of the secretary, Mr.
-M.&nbsp;J. Nightingale, and the supplementary one by the teacher, Mrs.
-M.&nbsp;B. Langdon, showed good work done with glad results. Just 100
-Chinese had been enrolled as pupils in the school during the year,
-though the largest enrolment in any one month was 49. The average
-attendance on some months rose to 35 or 36, but the average for the
-year was 25. Two of the pupils have been baptized and received<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_246" id="Page_246">[Pg 246]</a></span>
-into the Congregational church in Stockton during the year, and
-others are now ready to be thus received.</p>
-
-<p>The exercises by the pupils were well rendered. The pastor of the
-church, Rev. John Hooper, made an earnest and effective address,
-pledging his own sympathy and co-operation in such terms as will be
-very helpful to us in the year to come. Your superintendent said
-a few words also; but that which thrilled us most of all was the
-brief and modest address of our new helper, Lee Pak Yuen, converted
-in connection with our Oakland Mission, and a member of the First
-Congregational church in that city. I give it to our readers just
-as it was uttered.</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>ADDRESS BY LEE PAK YUEN.</h4>
-
-<p>Dear Friends and Teachers: I am very glad to see you all, but I
-have not much to say to you. I can only tell you how I became a
-Christian.</p>
-
-<p>For the first three years I was in California I did not like Jesus,
-and I did scold those Chinese Christians who spoke about him. I
-only liked to go and gamble, and play cards and drink. So I had no
-money to live on. I felt very sorry; but afterward I was asked to
-come to school, and for many months in school I also talked against
-Jesus; but the teacher did not scold me, but was very kind to me.
-He taught me, at length, to read this verse in Matt. ix. 13, “For I
-am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” But,
-at last, the Holy Spirit convinced me to believe in Jesus with all
-my heart, and now I thank you very much for what you have done for
-me and for my countrymen. I hope the Lord bless you, and bring many
-to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.</p>
-
-<p>I know the Lord is very strong. He helps every one to believe in
-Him. Without Him we can do nothing. He will watch over us and take
-care of us. Now I will tell you what I did while I was in China.
-I left California to go back to China to my father’s house. He
-called me to worship the gods, but I would not. My father had made
-all preparations for my worshiping. He took my hand to go out of
-the door to worship the ancestors, and he wanted me to kneel down
-and pray to them. Because I would not, he scolded me and called me
-crazy.</p>
-
-<p>I came out to Hong Kong and stopped there one month. I then went
-back to my home, and found my father crying, and all very sad. I
-asked, “What is the matter?” My father answered: “You are no good.
-You come home and will not worship my gods. The gods will kill your
-brothers.” I then went to see my brothers, and found one of them
-very sick indeed. The doctor said he cannot live two days. I almost
-cried myself. My father then said to me: “If he dies I shall kill
-you. If I do not kill you, all your other brothers will die.” I
-then took my father’s hand, and knelt down and asked the Lord Jesus
-to bless him; but my father scolded me all the time, for he did
-not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ as our Saviour. He heard my
-prayer for my brother’s sickness. In twenty days he was all well.
-All the people of my village called me Christ; but I said, I am not
-Christ; he is in heaven. The Bible says, “Whatsoever ye shall ask
-the Father in my name I will do it.”</p>
-
-<p>My dear friends, I hope you will not forget to pray for China, that
-all may be brought to believe in the true God. Let us remember
-the promise, “Ask of me, and I will give you the heathen for
-thine inheritance, and the uttermost part of the earth for thy
-possession.”</p>
-</div>
-
-<div class="article">
-<h4>THE MAY REPORTS.</h4>
-
-<p>I add the following item, clipped from <cite>The Pacific</cite> of June 8th:</p>
-
-<p>The monthly reports for May from the various mission schools of
-the California Chinese mission are very encouraging. The work is
-larger and, as we gladly believe, <em>better</em> than ever before—more<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_247" id="Page_247">[Pg 247]</a></span>
-schools, more teachers, more pupils, and, we trust, many souls
-seeking Christ. The statistics are as follows: Schools, 14;
-teachers and helpers, 27; pupils enrolled, 566; of whom 190 were
-received during May, against 68 who left the schools. The aggregate
-average attendance was 314. Since the beginning of the present
-fiscal year (Sept. 1, 1880), 1,245 pupils have been enrolled. Of
-the pupils now in the schools, 136 are reported as giving evidence
-of conversion.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h2>
-
-<p class="secauth">Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.</p>
-
-<p class="secauth">
- <span style="padding-right: 5%;"><span class="smcap">Miss Nathalie Lord</span>, <i>Secretary</i>.</span>
- <span class="smcap">Miss Abby W. Pearson</span>, <i>Treasurer</i>.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>TWENTY MINUTES A-DAY WORKING SOCIETY,</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">IN CONNECTION WITH THE WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p>
-
-<p>For the benefit of ladies interested in home missionary work, but
-prevented from forming or joining auxiliaries, we have this month a
-new plan to propose, a plan which offers some of the advantages of
-both individual and co-operative work.</p>
-
-<p>The Twenty Minutes a-Day Working Society originated, we believe,
-in England, where it appears to be accomplishing great good. Its
-characteristic features are found in other associations among
-English ladies, who seem to have a special liking for being bound
-together by aim and rules without organization or meetings. But the
-idea has been adopted in some of the churches of our country also,
-and, it is said, with admirable success.</p>
-
-<p>The following are the rules by which the members of this society
-bind themselves:</p>
-
-<p>1. To work twenty minutes a day, or two hours a week, according to
-convenience.</p>
-
-<p>2. Each lady to furnish her own materials, and make such articles
-as are suitable either for home missionaries and their families at
-the West, or for distribution among the colored people.</p>
-
-<p>3. To contribute at least one book a year, not necessarily new.</p>
-
-<p>4. To contribute fifty cents a year for the purpose of defraying
-expenses of transportation, &amp;c.</p>
-
-<p>5. To pray each day for those to whom these gifts are sent, and
-also for the prosperity of our organization.</p>
-
-<p>6. Articles made are to be sent twice a year to the rooms of the
-Woman’s Home Missionary Association, at such times as shall be
-designated by the committee.</p>
-
-<p>For further information apply to the Secretary of the Woman’s Home
-Missionary Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston.</p>
-
-<p>The interest roused by the late Home Missionary Convention at
-Chicago shows how real and earnest is the purpose in the hearts
-of many of our people to undertake with new determination and
-zeal the task of keeping and of recovering this land for a true
-Christianity. Every day exposes anew to us, if our eyes are open,
-the monstrous and fatal dangers which threaten our Republic. But
-do we consider, does each Christian reflect, that not one of these
-evils, not one evil, would endanger our beloved country, if the
-good news brought by Christ were accepted and worked out in every
-home and every life?</p>
-
-<p>“Ten times one is ten;” yes, there is well unfolded the secret of
-Christian life and strength, and of the coming millennium. Let each
-of us now say: “I have been saved by the knowledge of Christ; to
-how many can I convey this knowledge the coming year? Can I send
-it to ten<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_248" id="Page_248">[Pg 248]</a></span> more? to one more? It is not for me to wait to see what
-ten others will do. What can I do, and now, to help recover what
-is lost, to keep what is yet ours in our dear land?” Oh, let us
-try it. We are not doing enough, and our time of working may be
-short, if we let the enemy come in like a flood; but let us work,
-each work, alone, together; work and pray, for we have already seen
-something of what God’s power and goodness can do in multiplying
-single-handed and feeble (?) efforts made in His name.</p>
-
-<p>A word more to the children about the Sunday-school papers. A
-generous response has come in, but still the Secretary has a large
-number of names of schools ready to receive above the number of
-those ready to give. Are there not other Sunday-schools with
-papers to send? Is there not some girl or boy ready to undertake
-to collect the same? Do not be afraid to send a few, if you have
-not many, only send them regularly and with prayer. Do not forget
-to be “ready to distribute, willing to communicate.” This is your
-opportunity as well as that of your father and mother, and the work
-is great. Write to the Secretary of the Woman’s Home Missionary
-Association, 20 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., and she will
-send you the name of a school where the boys and girls will be, you
-can hardly think how, eager and glad to get your papers.</p>
-
-<p>Receipts of Woman’s Home Missionary Association from May 31 to June
-27, 1881:</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr>
-<td>From</td>
-<td>auxiliaries</td>
-<td class="ramt">$169.92</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td> ”</td>
-<td>life members</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td> ”</td>
-<td>annual members</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td> ”</td>
-<td>donations</td>
-<td class="ramt">52.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">——————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">$244.42</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<p>Boxes and barrels:</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr>
-<td>From</td>
-<td>W. Newton, Aux. to Mrs. Babcock, valued at</td>
-<td class="ramt">$30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td> ”</td>
-<td>Son of Rev. Mr. Alvord, Nashua, to Miss Wilson.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td> ”</td>
-<td>Miss. Sunbeams, Phillip’s Ch., South Boston, to the West</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2>CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>GRACIE’S MISTAKE.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">MRS. HARRIET A. CHEEVER.</p>
-
-<p>“Just think, mamma! grandpa Gray gave me a five dollar bill just as
-he was getting into the cars to go home, and said I might do just
-what I pleased with it; wasn’t that splendid?”</p>
-
-<p>“Yes, Gracie, what shall you do with it?”</p>
-
-<p>“Don’t know yet, shall have to think;” and Gracie flattened her
-nose against the window-pane one short moment, the next she
-exclaimed:</p>
-
-<p>“Oh, see, ma, there goes one of those colored students; do you
-suppose they ever learn much?”</p>
-
-<p>Something in the child’s tone pained Mrs. Gray, and she answered
-seriously:</p>
-
-<p>“Just as much as any others; my little girl has yet to learn that
-any difference in young men that is only skin deep is a very slight
-difference, and none whatever in the sight of God.”</p>
-
-<p>“Well,” replied the petted child, “I like white folks best, and
-<em>always shall</em>;” and she gave her pretty head with its fair hair a
-smart little toss. Before her mother could reply, she asked hastily:</p>
-
-<p>“May I run across the bit of woods and see Jennie Hale a little
-while?”</p>
-
-<p>Her mother said yes, and the next moment Gracie was skipping along
-through the “bit of woods” towards the home of her little friend,
-when all at<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_249" id="Page_249">[Pg 249]</a></span> once she struck her foot against a little stump,
-bounded into the air for an instant, then fell heavily. There she
-lay moaning in dreadful pain.</p>
-
-<p>“Oh, dear!” she cried, “I’ve broken my ankle, I know I have, and
-that horrid Dr. Stuart will have to set it, and he sha’n’t, he
-sha’n’t! I’ll die if he does! Oh, dear, what shall I do!”</p>
-
-<p>Dr. Frank Bates, a colored student in the medical department of the
-college for freedmen, close by, was walking slowly along with a
-book in his hand—a way these students have, somehow, of improving
-every moment—when he thought he heard a moan. He listened, and
-sure enough it <em>was</em> a moan, very near, too, and putting the book
-in his pocket, he soon reached the spot where Gracie was lying.</p>
-
-<p>He was a very tall, strong young man, but tender-hearted and gentle
-as a woman could be. He knelt beside Gracie, who cried with pain
-when he tried to lift her.</p>
-
-<p>“There, there,” he crooned pityingly, his great, soft eyes full
-of compassion; “wait a moment, and Dr. Frank’ll make it all right
-for poor sissy;” and seeing at once what was the real trouble, he
-fortunately found a little board, and tearing his bright Madras
-handkerchief into strips, with what skill he could carefully
-splintered and bandaged the broken limb; then lifting her firmly in
-his strong arms, he carried her steadily and safely along to her
-home.</p>
-
-<p>Grade’s mother, in all her distress at her little girl’s pain,
-did not forget to thank him warmly for what he had done. Then
-she added. “Now we will send for Dr. Stuart, and soon have you
-comfortable, poor little Gracie.”</p>
-
-<p>But to Mrs. Gray’s surprise, Gracie cried out: “Oh no, no, mamma,
-let Dr. Frank stay; I know my limb is broken and must be set all
-right; he told me so; but I want Dr. Frank; I’ll be good, only let
-him stay.”</p>
-
-<p>Turning to the young giant who stood quietly by, Mrs. Gray asked if
-he dared undertake the case, and understood properly what must be
-done.</p>
-
-<p>And he proved he did understand perfectly, for not even the famous
-Dr. Stuart could more carefully or skillfully have done what was
-needed than did Dr. Frank.</p>
-
-<p>Such friends as they grew to be—the dark-skinned, intelligent
-young student, and his fair little patient!</p>
-
-<p>One day Gracie said to her father, “Papa, sha’n’t you pay Dr. Frank
-just as much for what he has done for me as you should any one
-else?”</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Gray thought a moment, then replied:</p>
-
-<p>“Yes, Gracie, I certainly shall; it is only right; he has earned it
-as fairly certainly as any one else could have done.”</p>
-
-<p>And what a help and encouragement it was, the handsome sum which
-Gracie’s grateful papa paid to Dr. Frank one day. But one other
-day, the great tears stood in Dr. Frank’s fine dark eyes, and he
-couldn’t say a word for a long time, when Gracie made him a present
-of her five dollar bill “to buy a book with, to remember her by,”
-she said child-like; but when he could find his voice again, he
-said so sadly, that Gracie will never forget it:</p>
-
-<p>“No fear that Dr. Frank will ever forget the first dear white child
-who ever gave him kind words and dared trust him. I am very, very
-grateful for dear little sissy’s dollars; but oh, the kind words
-are the sweetest sounds Dr. Frank has ever heard yet.”</p>
-
-<p>One day Gracie asked her mother if she remembered how proudly she
-said she should <em>always</em> like white folks best.</p>
-
-<p>“Yes, I remember,” replied her mother.</p>
-
-<p>“So does God,” said Gracie very gently; “but I’ve been praying Him
-to remember it no more, for what <em>should</em> I have done without my
-good, kind Dr. Frank?”</p>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_250" id="Page_250">[Pg 250]</a></span></p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-
-<h2>RECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1881.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $147.08.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Augusta. Benj. Spaulding</td>
-<td class="ramt">$5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bangor. Hammond St. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Blanchard. “D.B.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brunswick. J.&nbsp;W. Perry, <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Union. David Fowler</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ellsworth. Mrs. L.&nbsp;T. Phelps</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gorham. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and $2.50 <i>for
-freight, for Selma, Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.11</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. <i>for Student Aid,
-Selma, Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">27.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Portland. Ladies’ Aux. H.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. of Williston
-Ch., Box of C. and $1.52 <i>for freight, for
-Wilmington, N.C.</i> </td>
-<td class="ramt">1.52</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. Rev. W.&nbsp;S. Sewall</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winterport. Mrs. Dr. E. Manter, <i>for California
-Chinese M.</i> </td>
-<td class="ramt">52.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $136.39.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amoskeag. Mrs. Henry B. Stearns, $2;
-Mrs. N. Stearns, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dover. S.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Franklin Falls. J.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;H. </td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Goffstown. G.&nbsp;P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Ann M. Howard </td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover. Dartmouth College Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hollis. Cong. Ch. </td>
-<td class="ramt">6.19</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mason. Cong. Ch. </td>
-<td class="ramt">4.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nashua. Lavinia Albert, <i>for Wilmington, N.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stoddard. Rev. B. Southworth</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Troy. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wakefield. Rev. Nathaniel Barker </td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $318.03.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fayetteville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.17</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jericho Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">45.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">McIndoe’s Falls. Dea. W.&nbsp;R. Monteith</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newport. M. Benton Hall</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newbury. Mrs. D.&nbsp;J.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.47;
-Rev. S. Knowlton, $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.47</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh</td>
-<td class="ramt"> 5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10; Mrs.
-B.&nbsp;B. Newton, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Richmond. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.24</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. Mrs. M.&nbsp;A. Stranahan’s S.&nbsp;S.
-Class, Cong. Ch., $50; Young Men’s Bible
-Class, $10, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. Class in First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Shoreham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.23</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Underhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.92</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $6,403.46.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amherst. W.&nbsp;S. Clark, <i>for repairs, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Andover. Chapel Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">93.92</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Andover. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. J.&nbsp;C.
-Dove, $55, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>;
-Sab. Sch. of Free Ch., $10, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">65.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashburnham. M.&nbsp;W. </td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $41.54, to
-const. <span class="smcap">Rev. J. Wadhams</span>, L.M.; B. Howes,
-$1.30 </td>
-<td class="ramt">42.84</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">93.44</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C.&nbsp;A. Spaulding</td>
-<td class="ramt">46.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bedford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs.
-Mary W. Hanaford</span>, L.&nbsp;M. </td>
-<td class="ramt">39.66</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">83.03</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston. “Wilberforce.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">2,014.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston. Immanuel Cong. Ch. and Soc. $100;
-Central Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $20; “W.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;M.”
-$10</td>
-<td class="ramt">130.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston. Ladies, <i>for Washington, D.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brocton. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brookline. “S.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;C.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cambridge. Children’s Doll Show, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31.28;
-Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11</td>
-<td class="ramt">42.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Mrs. E.&nbsp;C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Conway. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">182.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Easthampton. Mrs. Emily G. Williston</td>
-<td class="ramt">150.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Medway. Mrs. E.&nbsp;D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
-const. <span class="smcap">Rev. J.&nbsp;W. Malcolm</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">53.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Framingham. “A Friend.” </td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Globe Village. Mrs. T.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">63.65</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">26.66</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.31</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.26</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc</td>
-<td class="ramt">52.85</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Athens, Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hubbardston. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Tougaloo
-U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.36</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lynnfield Centre. Cong Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Linden. Young People’s Soc., <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Long Meadow. Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.80</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.64</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mansfield. W.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;T., 75c.; S.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;S., 25c</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.46</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monson. Mrs. C.&nbsp;C. Chapin and her S.&nbsp;S.
-Class, <i>for ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N.
-and A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montville. Sylvester Jones</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Bedford. North Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">96.78</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newburyport and Amesbury. Ladies, <i>for
-Washington, D.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">6.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch., $57.11;
-P.&nbsp;H. Lunt, $25</td>
-<td class="ramt">82.11</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Miss Mary Couch, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton Centre. Ladies of Mrs. Furber’s
-Bible Class, $50; Mrs. M.&nbsp;B. Furber, $25,
-<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">60.98</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.04</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. Miss A.&nbsp;W. Johnson, $5;
-Miss A.&nbsp;W. Johnson and Friends, Bbl. of
-C., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
-const. <span class="smcap">Dea. David Pratt</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">59.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oakham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">64.93</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Paxton. “Friends,” by E.&nbsp;L. Rowell, <i>for
-rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peabody. Prof. J.&nbsp;K. Cole, <i>for Student Aid,
-Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peabody. Thomas Stimpson, <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Reading. Bethesda Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
-$52.79; Mrs. W.&nbsp;W., 50c </td>
-<td class="ramt">53.29<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_251" id="Page_251">[Pg 251]</a></span>
-</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">278.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Shirley Village. L. Holbrook, $5; L.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;L., 50c</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Somerset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M.&nbsp;C.
-Coll.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Hadley. Teachers and Pupils of
-Mount Holyoke Sem. (40c. <i>of which for rebuilding
-Tougaloo, Miss.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. “M.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">1000.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;
-“A Friend,” $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. Olivet Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Indian
-boys and girls, Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">23.22</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">51.82</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tolland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.93</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Uxbridge. Mrs. Charles Ellis</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wakefield. “Mission Workers” of Cong.
-Ch., $15; Three Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch.,
-$13, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">28.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Walpole. Rev. H.&nbsp;L. Kendall</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westhampton. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.23</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellesley. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">44.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Mission Band of Cong. Ch.
-<i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Sab. Sch. $35, <i>for furnishing
-room, Stone Hall</i>, and $15 <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Cent. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., <i>for Student Aid,
-Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winchester. N.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
-<i>for Charleston, S.C.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">5,919.12</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danvers. Estate of Mrs. Jonas Fiske, by
-Ebenezer Peabody</td>
-<td class="ramt">484.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">6,403.46</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $89.26.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Central Falls. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">84.26</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Providence. Ladies, <i>for Washington, D.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $4,358.30.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. Daniel E. Marsh, <i>for Tillotson
-C. and N. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">77.73</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">89.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30;
-Cong. Sab. Sch., $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hampton. Dea. Samuel Skinner, <i>for
-Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hartford. E.&nbsp;A. Williams</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
-const. <span class="smcap">Miss Emma Lyon</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Georgetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">125.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.97</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hartford. Roland Mather, $500; Mrs. L.&nbsp;C.
-Dewing, $100; “A Friend,” $50; Talcot St.
-Cong. Ch. (collected by five little girls),
-$21.18</td>
-<td class="ramt">671.18</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kent. First Cong. Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">34.84</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ledyard. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Manchester. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">56.89</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Meriden. E.&nbsp;T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Middletown. A. Doolittle</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Morris. H.&nbsp;W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for ed. of
-an African lad</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">66.87</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Britain. Young Ladies’ Soc., Bbl. and
-Box of C. and $5 <i>for freight, for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Haven. James H. Foy, $10 <i>for Student
-Aid</i> and $25 <i>for furnishing a room,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. “A friend in First Ch.” <i>for
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">300.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. First Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">57.71</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Preston Hill. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Haven. E. Dickerman</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plainville. Cong. Ch. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Titus
-Darrow</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">66.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25; Dea. T.
-Higgins, $25, <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">88.07</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Putnam. “Mrs. E.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;S.,” $20; Mrs.
-M.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;K. $15, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Scitico. “Friends,” <i>for Student Aid, Selma,
-Ala.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Somerville. Cong Ch. $65.54; Sab. Sch. of
-Cong. Ch., Box of S.&nbsp;S. Books</td>
-<td class="ramt">65.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stamford. Miss H.&nbsp;H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Suffield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.04</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">68.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">73.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wallingford. T.&nbsp;B. Bartholomew</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilton. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winsted. C.&nbsp;B. Hallett</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodstock. E.&nbsp;L. Snow, $350; First Cong.
-Ch. and Soc., $20.22</td>
-<td class="ramt">370.22</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vernon. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.50; “A Friend,”
-$2, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">2,858.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. Estate of Mrs. Laura Sherman,
-by Mrs. Mary B. Loomis, Executrix</td>
-<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. Trust Estate of Henry P.
-Haven, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">4,358.30</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $779.92.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bangor. R.&nbsp;H. Farr</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $171.90; South
-Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $3</td>
-<td class="ramt">174.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Ladies, <i>for Washington, D.C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">45.98</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Connecticut. Mrs. R.&nbsp;K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cortland. Ladies of Home Miss. Soc., Box of
-papers and 25c. <i>for freight</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Coventry. S.&nbsp;A. Beardsley</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Mrs. E.&nbsp;F. Spoor, $5; Miss A.&nbsp;G.
-Fairchild, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Deansville. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fredonia. Sab Sch. of Presb. Ch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>, and to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Susan
-G. White</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Floyd. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.53</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.77</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Little Valley. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mexico. Mrs. Susan K. Butterfield</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Middletown. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Munnsville. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York. S.&nbsp;T. Gordon, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York. S.&nbsp;T. Gordon, 275 copies of “The
-New Song.”</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Owego. Bbl. of C., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pitcher. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.23</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sidney Plain. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.71</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Pitcher. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Spencerport. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ticonderoga. H.&nbsp;P. Bake and family</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Triangle. Gerrit S. Morse</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.95</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $94.24.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.74</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Elizabeth. Mrs. H.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jersey City. “S.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;H.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_252" id="Page_252">[Pg 252]</a></span>
-</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $15; Mrs.
-J.&nbsp;F. Pratt’s Sab. Sch. Class, $5. <i>for Student
-Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newark. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for furnishing
-room, Stone Hall, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">24.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Brunswick. Mrs. S.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Paterson. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vineland. Mrs. M.&nbsp;A. Cone</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $29.48.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ebensburgh. Cong. Ch. Mon. Colls.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.48</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mercer. J.&nbsp;K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mercersburg. Thomas C. Johnston (of which
-$2 <i>for Chinese</i> and $2 <i>for Mendi M.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. M.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Prentiss Vale. Mrs. William Lovejoy, bal.
-to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. J.&nbsp;T. Hall</span>, L.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Terrytown. Dr. G.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $574.63.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashtabula. Women’s Miss. Soc. of Cong.
-Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.79</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brighton. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.14</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cardington. W.&nbsp;A. Nichols</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">101.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Vine St. Cong. Ch., $100, and
-Sab. Sch. $10, <i>for Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">110.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, <i>for
-Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greensburgh. Mrs. H.&nbsp;B. Harrington, <i>for
-Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, <i>for rebuilding,
-Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. L.&nbsp;H. Ree, <i>for Strieby Hall, Tougaloo
-U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.93; Women’s
-Beneficent Soc. of First Ch., $17.12; Young
-People’s Soc. of First Ch., $17.37, to const.
-<span class="smcap">Mrs. Samuel Au</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. John Lawson</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss
-Viola Pleasants</span>, L. Ms</td>
-<td class="ramt">96.42</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student Aid,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,
-<i>for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. J.&nbsp;W. Merrill</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sandusky. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of Bedding,
-<i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellington. ——</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $300.74.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beecher. Mrs. A.&nbsp;H. Perry, <i>for freight</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicago. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, Fisk
-U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicago. Mrs. Flovelle’s S.&nbsp;S. Class, N.&nbsp;E.
-Ch., <i>for Emerson Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.24</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dundee. Mrs. W.&nbsp;D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Women’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Henry Nourse, <i>for Student Aid,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">42.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1"><a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>Kewannee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady
-Missionary, Savannah, Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moline. Thomas Jewett, <i>for Ladies’ Hall,
-Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moline. Mrs. Sarah L. Barnard, <i>for Student
-Aid. Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. C. Cook</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Quincy. L. Kingman</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of First Cong.
-Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tonica. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $84.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch.,
-<i>for Student Aid. Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Benzonia. Cong. Ch., $11.12; “Friends,”
-$4.88</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chelsea. John C. Winans</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Coral. Benj. H. Lewis</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Flint. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milford. Mrs. Wm. A. Arms (Silver Wedding
-Thank Offering)</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northville. D. Pomeroy</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Owosso. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
-Aid. Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Richland. Dea. J.&nbsp;B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Warren. Rev. J.&nbsp;L. Beebe</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $506.07.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burlington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">27.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chester Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Council Bluffs. N.&nbsp;P. Dodge, <i>for furnishing
-room, Stone Hall, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cresco. Ladies’ Aid Soc., <i>for Lady Missionary,
-New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Decorah. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady
-Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady
-Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Young Ladies’ Benev. Soc., <i>for
-Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Cong. Ch., $6.35; Women’s
-Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch., $16.65, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Mrs. C.&nbsp;H. Getchell $35, and Mrs.
-A.&nbsp;W. Rollins $35, <i>for furnishing rooms,
-Stone Hall</i>; Mrs. Samuel Merrill, $25, <i>for
-Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">95.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Eldora. Mrs. J.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Eldon. F.&nbsp;M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Emerson. A.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;F. &amp; E.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Green Mountain. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Keokuk. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for Lady Missionary,
-New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">12.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mason City. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mount Pleasant. James McDowell</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Henry Hoover, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Reinbeck. Collection at Central Association,
-<i>for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sergeant’s Bluff. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for
-Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sheldon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady Missionary,
-New Orleans, La.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sonora. Charles Fisher</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Muscatine. Mission Sab. Sch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tipton. William Coutts</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Cong. Ch. $80.07, and Joseph Bennett
-$2, <i>for President’s House</i>; Cong. Sab.
-Sch. $20, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">102.07</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $138.56.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Elkhorn. “C.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;W.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Evansville. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.85</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Leeds. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.05</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milford. Bbl. of C., <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Spring St.
-Ch. <i>for furnishing room, Stone Hall, Straight
-U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. C. D Booth</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Racine. Star Missionary Soc. of First Presb.
-Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Racine. Mrs. R.&nbsp;B. Miner</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windsor. Union Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.16</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $8.57.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Carbondale. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whiting. S.&nbsp;P. Belden</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $70.88.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Excelsior. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Litchfield. “Friends.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">33.94</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. E.&nbsp;D. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.94</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northfield. Mrs. A. Willey, <i>for Student Aid,
-Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Zumbrota. Mrs. H.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_253" id="Page_253">[Pg 253]</a></span>
-</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $2.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Harvard. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $2,293.75.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">San Francisco. Receipts of the California
-Chinese Mission</td>
-<td class="ramt">2,293.75</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON, 50c.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. M.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $212.36.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dudley. Pub. Sch. Fund, $75; Tuition,
-$28.89</td>
-<td class="ramt">103.89</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">103.47</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Normal Inst., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">265.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $353.20.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Miss Blanche Curtis, <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. W.&nbsp;F., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition, $154;
-“A Friend,” <i>for printing</i>, $18.25</td>
-<td class="ramt">172.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">139.95</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $735.13.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Athens. Lizzie McCombs, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $305.35;
-Rent, $3</td>
-<td class="ramt">308.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $94.25; Rent,
-$5.69; First Cong. Ch., $25</td>
-<td class="ramt">124.85</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Peabody Fund, <i>for Student Aid,
-Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $62.75;
-Cong. Ch., $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">67.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $90.88;
-Rent, $20</td>
-<td class="ramt">110.88</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $383.95.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $92.95; Emersonian
-Mission Band, $9.55; Cong. Ch.,
-$1.20</td>
-<td class="ramt">104.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montgomery. City Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">210.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Selma. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">33.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Talladega. Dea. Hardwick, $2; W.&nbsp;B., $1;
-Others $2, <i>for repairs, Talladega C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $164.20.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Carroll Co. “Friends,” by H. Tanner, <i>for
-Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Copiah Co. “Friends,” by E.&nbsp;E. Sims, <i>for
-Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gillsberg. W.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $112.45;
-Rent, $40</td>
-<td class="ramt">152.45</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $168.15.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">168.15</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, $105.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">104.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Goliad. Rev. M.&nbsp;T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND, $290.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">190.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">C.&nbsp;F. Dike Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">General Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENGLAND, $10.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Albyns. Miss S.&nbsp;L. Ropes</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $200.00.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Glasgow. Mrs. Ann McDowall, by Rev.
-Geo. Morris, <i>for a Teacher, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">19,224.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to June 30th</td>
-<td class="ramt">$169,712.19</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL
-INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newton, Mass. Eliot Sewing Soc., $26, and
-Bbl. of Bedding, <i>for furnishing a room</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Spencer, Mass. Young Ladies’ Soc., by Mrs.
-J.&nbsp;W. Temple, $25, and Bbl. of Bedding,
-<i>for furnishing two rooms</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Southington, Conn. Mrs. W.&nbsp;M. McLaughlin,
-$23, and package of Bedding, <i>for furnishing
-a room</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Irvington, N.Y. Mrs. R.&nbsp;W. Lambdin</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Adams Mills, Ohio. Mrs. M.&nbsp;A. Smith</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">92.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to
-June 30th</td>
-<td class="ramt">4,857.71</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$4,949.71</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="3">RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE
-MISSION,</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="center" colspan="3"><i>From Jan. 17th to May 17th, 1881.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="center" colspan="3"><span class="smcap">E. Palache</span>, <i>Treasurer</i>.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">I. From our Auxiliaries, viz.:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Marysville Chinese Mission:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Chinese monthly offerings</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">$33.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Sacramento Chinese Mission:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Chinese monthly offerings</td>
-<td class="ramt">$29.10</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Mr. Lubin</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Santa Barbara Chinese Mission:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Chinese monthly offerings</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.00</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">N.&nbsp;C. Pitcher }</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Mrs. N.&nbsp;C. Pitcher } An. Mem.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Stockton Chinese Mission:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Chinese monthly offerings</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">105.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">II. From Churches:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Oakland First Cong. Ch. Coll.</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">$13.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Sacramento First Cong. Ch. Coll.</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">San Francisco:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">First Cong. Ch. Coll.</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.70</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub3">Two Annual Members</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">37.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">61.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">III. From Individuals:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie &amp; Co.</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">By Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie &amp; Co.
-Alexander Balfour, Esq., and
-Hon. Stephen Williamson, M.P.
-of Liverpool, England, each $500</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Hon. O.&nbsp;C. Pratt</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Chinese</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">2,101.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">IV. From Eastern Friends:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Norwich, Conn., Mrs. Edward B.
-Huntington, to constitute W.&nbsp;R.
-Burnham Esq., a life member</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub2">Newark, N.J.</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Grand Total</td>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">$2,293.75</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lebanon Springs, N.Y. Miss Belinda Sanford</td>
-<td class="ramt">$1,000.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid
-Soc., by Rev. O.&nbsp;H. White, D.D.,
-£1,169 5s. 0d.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5,670.86</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to
-June 30th</td>
-<td class="ramt">20,613.76</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>&nbsp;</td>
-<td class="ramt">—————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$26.284.62</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<div style="padding-right: 5%;">
-<p class="signature"><span style="padding-right: 5%;">H.&nbsp;W. HUBBARD, <i>Treas.</i>,</span><br />
-56 Reade St., N.Y.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_254" id="Page_254">[Pg 254]</a></span></p>
-
-
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2 title="List of Officers">American Missionary Association,</h2>
-
-<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N.Y.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p>
-
-<p class="center medium"><span class="smcap">Hon. E.&nbsp;S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p>
-
-
-<p class="position">VICE-PRESIDENTS.</p>
-
-<div class="center">
- <div class="medium vpcol">
- <ul>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">F.&nbsp;D. Parish</span>, Ohio.</li>
- <li>Hon.<span class="smcap"> E.&nbsp;D. Holton</span>, Wis.</li>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D.D., Me.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D.D., Ct.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R.I.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;T. Eustis</span>, D.D., Mass.</li>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;C. Barstow</span>, R.I.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D.D., R.I.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D.D., N.J.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;M. Sturtevant</span>, D.D., Ill.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;W. Patton</span>, D.D., D.C.</li>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.</li>
- <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D.D., N.H.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, D.D., Ct.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.</li>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">M.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;G. Dana</span>, D.D., Minn.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">H.&nbsp;W. Beecher</span>, N.Y.</li>
- <li>Gen. <span class="smcap">O.&nbsp;O. Howard</span>, Washington Ter.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">G.&nbsp;F. Magoun</span>, D.D., Iowa.</li>
- <li>Col. <span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;G. Hammond</span>, Ill.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M.D., N.H.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D.D., Ct.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;L. Gage</span>, D.D., Ct.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N.Y.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;H. Fairchild</span>, D.D., Ohio.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">H.&nbsp;A. Stimson</span>, Mass.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;L. Stone</span>, D.D., California.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">G.&nbsp;H. Atkinson</span>, D.D., Oregon.</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
- <div class="medium vpcol">
- <ul>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;E. Rankin</span>, D.D., D.C.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;L. Chapin</span>, D.D., Wis.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">S.&nbsp;D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.</li>
- <li>Dea. <span class="smcap">John C. Whitin</span>, Mass.</li>
- <li>Hon. <span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.</li>
- <li>Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D.D., London, Eng.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N.Y.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;A. Graves</span>, Esq., N.J.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">F.&nbsp;A. Noble</span>, D.D., Ill.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Daniel Hand</span>, Esq., Ct.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;L. Williston</span>, Esq., Mass.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;F. Beard</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Frederick Billings</span>, Esq., Vt.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Joseph Carpenter</span>, Esq., R.I.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;P. Goodwin</span>, D.D., Ill.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;L. Goodell</span>, D.D., Mo.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;W. Scoville</span>, Esq., Ill.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;W. Blatchford</span>, Esq., Ill.</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;D. Talcott</span>, Esq., Ct.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">John K. McLean</span>, D.D., Cal.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">Richard Cordley</span>, D.D., Kansas.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">W.&nbsp;H. Willcox</span>, D.D., Mass.</li>
- <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> G.&nbsp;B. Willcox</span>, D.D., Ill.</li>
- <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Wm. M. Taylor</span>, D.D., N.Y.</li>
- <li>Rev.<span class="smcap"> Geo. M. Boynton</span>, Mass.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">E.&nbsp;B. Webb</span>, D.D., Mass.</li>
- <li>Hon.<span class="smcap"> C.&nbsp;I. Walker</span>, Mich.</li>
- <li>Rev. <span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;H. Ross</span>, Mich.</li>
- </ul>
- </div>
-</div>
-
-<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p>
-<p class="center medium">
- <span class="smcap">Rev. M.&nbsp;E. STRIEBY</span>, D.D., 56 <i>Reade Street, N.Y.</i>
-</p>
-
-<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p>
-<table class="medium">
- <tr><td class="nosp"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C.&nbsp;L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="nosp"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G.&nbsp;D. PIKE, D.D., <i>New York</i>.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="nosp"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.</td></tr>
-</table>
-<table class="medium p1">
- <tr><td class="nosp">H.&nbsp;W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N.Y.</i></td></tr>
- <tr><td class="nosp"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M.&nbsp;E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p>
-
-<div class="execc medium">
- <ul>
- <li><span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">A.&nbsp;S. Barnes</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">C.&nbsp;T. Christensen</span>,</li>
- </ul>
-</div>
-<div class="execc medium">
- <ul>
- <li><span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">S.&nbsp;B. Halliday</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;A. Hamilton</span>,</li>
- </ul>
-</div>
-<div class="execc medium">
- <ul>
- <li><span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>,</li>
- <li>&nbsp;</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,</li>
- </ul>
-</div>
-<div class="execc medium">
- <ul>
- <li><span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">Wm. T. Pratt</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">J.&nbsp;A. Shoudy</span>,</li>
- <li><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>.</li>
- </ul>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p>
-
-<p class="center medium">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. <span class="smcap">G.&nbsp;D. Pike</span>, D.D., at the New York
-Office.</p>
-
-
-<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p>
-
-<p class="medium">may be sent to H.&nbsp;W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New
-York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
-Congregational House, Boston Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
-Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
-Life Member.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_255" id="Page_255">[Pg 255]</a></span></p>
-
-
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2>
-
-<p class="section">INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American
-Missionary Association</span>.”</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to
-conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and
-diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other
-countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and
-urgent fields of effort.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> who
-professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder,
-or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to
-the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment
-of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others
-who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members
-without the privilege of voting.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
-September, October or November, for the election of officers and
-the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall
-be designated by the Executive Committee.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of
-the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of
-such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary
-societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled
-to one representative.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President,
-Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
-than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
-advisory, and the Treasurer ex officio, members.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the
-collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counseling,
-sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons)
-missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields;
-and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually
-appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other
-benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
-jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject
-always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a
-reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
-aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
-shall be final.</p>
-
-<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies
-occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;
-to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of
-incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
-officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the
-Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and
-for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,
-in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and
-general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the
-diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous
-promotion of the missionary work.</p>
-
-<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
-transacting business.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in
-appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting
-fields of labor and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
-particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the
-known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment
-those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals
-agreeing to the principles of this society, and wishing to appoint
-and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so
-through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually
-agreed upon.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made to this Constitution
-without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a
-regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
-submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in
-season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if
-so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>
-
-
-<p>FOOTNOTE:</p>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among
-others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men
-without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning
-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the
-necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit; repentance, faith and
-holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul;
-and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of
-the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_256" id="Page_256">[Pg 256]</a></span></p></div>
-
-
-
-<div class="article">
-<h2><i>The American Missionary Association.</i></h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3>
-
-<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with
-the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted
-its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their
-duties as citizens and Christians in America, and as missionaries
-in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
-caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate
-with the Government in its humane and Christian policy toward the
-<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p>
-
-
-<h3>STATISTICS.</h3>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Virginia, 1; North Carolina,
-6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4;
-Alabama, 14; Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. <i>Africa</i>, 2.
-<i>Among the Indians</i>, 1. Total, 76.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the
-South.</span>—<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega,
-Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New
-Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas—8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at
-Wilmington, Raleigh, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah,
-Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.;
-Memphis, Tenn.—12. <i>Other Schools</i>, 31. Total, 51.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>—Among the
-Freedmen, 284; among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in
-Africa, 13. Total, 330. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 102; Law,
-23; in College Course, 75; in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052.
-Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at
-150,000. <span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p>
-
-
-<h3>WANTS.</h3>
-
-<p>1. A steady <span class="smcap lowercase">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with
-the growing work. This increase can only be reached by <em>regular</em>
-and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches, the feeble as well us
-the strong.</p>
-
-<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational
-institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students;
-<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span> for the new churches we are organizing;
-<span class="smcap">more Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p>
-
-<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here
-and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p>
-
-<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A.
-office as below:</p>
-
-<table>
- <tr><td class="smcap">New York</td><td>H.&nbsp;W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C.&nbsp;L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational House.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 112 West Washington Street.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3>
-
-<p>This Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the
-Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen
-who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of
-Sabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;
-to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
-not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year
-not less than five dollars.</p>
-
-<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary
-Association</span> in their last Will and Testament are earnestly
-requested to use the following</p>
-
-
-<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3>
-
-<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of ——
-dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to
-the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
-of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be
-applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
-Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p>
-
-<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses (in some States
-three are required, in other States only two), who should write
-against their names their places of residence (if in cities,
-their street and number). The following form of attestation will
-answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
-and declared by the said (A.&nbsp;B.) as his last Will and Testament,
-in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A.&nbsp;B., and in
-his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
-subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required
-that the Will should be made at least two months before the death
-of the testator.</p>
-</div>
-
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- <p class="center large">PAYSON’S COMBINATION!!!</p>
- <p class="medium nostretch">Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many
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- <p class="center"><b>AGENTS WANTED.</b> Apply at the Home Office.</p>
- <p class="right">HENRY STOKES, President.</p>
- <p>J.&nbsp;L. HALSEY, Secretary.</p>
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-
-<p class="medium">During the coming month we will send free by mail a copy of the
-Revised Edition of the New Testament (Oxford Edition, limp cloth,
-red edges), a very handsome book, to any subscriber who will
-renew his subscription to the <span class="smcap">Witness</span> now, by sending us
-$1.50 by money order, bank draft, or registered letter. Even if
-subscription is not due until next year, by remitting the amount
-now, the subscription will be extended and the Testament sent at
-once. This is the edition authorized by the English and American
-committees, and it contains a history of the revision and an
-appendix giving the list of American corrections which were not
-concurred in by the English committee.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">A club of three copies of <span class="smcap">Witness</span> for a year, directed
-separately, will be sent for $4 remitted direct to this office, and
-also three copies of this Testament.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">A club of six <span class="smcap">Gems of Poetry</span> for a year will be $4, and
-three copies of Revised New Testament will be sent gratis with it.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">A club of nine <span class="smcap">Sabbath Reading</span> will be sent for a year for
-$4, and three copies of Revised New Testament gratis.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">All directed separately and all postpaid.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">Address,</p>
-
-<p class="center">JOHN DOUGALL &amp; CO.,</p>
-<p class="right medium"><i>No. 21 Vandewater Street, N.Y.</i></p>
-</div>
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-
-<div class="center">
- <div style="display: inline-block">
- <p class="center xlarge">J.&nbsp;B. WILLIAMS &amp; CO.,</p>
- <p class="center large">GLASTONBURY, CONN.,</p>
- <p class="center small">MANUFACTURERS OF</p>
- <p class="center xxlarge">Shaving and Toilet Soaps.</p>
- <hr class="tiny" />
- <p class="medium nostretch">For over 30 years this firm has made the manufacture of <b>Shaving
-Soaps</b> a specialty, and their Yankee Barber’s Bar, and other
-Soaps, enjoy a reputation among Barbers, as well as those who shave
-themselves, unequaled by any other.</p>
- <p class="medium nostretch">To all of our readers who are seeking for the <b>very best Shaving
-Soap</b>, we would say, be sure and get some of the following
-(<em>carefully avoiding counterfeits</em>):</p>
- <ul class="large left">
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-the United States.</p>
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-</div>
-
-<div class="box">
-<p class="center xlarge">THE THIRTY-FIFTH VOLUME</p>
-
-<p class="center medium">OF THE</p>
-
-<p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary.</p>
-
-<p class="center large">1881.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<p><b>Shall we not have a largely increased Subscription List for
-1881?</b></p>
-
-<p class="medium">We regard the <cite>Missionary</cite> as the best means of communication with
-our friends, and to them the best source of information regarding
-our work.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own
-remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,
-will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our
-Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">Under editorial supervision at this office, 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 <cite>American Missionary</cite>
-furnishes a vivid and reliable picture of the work going forward
-among the Indians, the Chinamen on the Pacific Coast, and the
-Freedmen as citizens in the South and as missionaries in Africa.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">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 January number and the new year. The price is only
-Fifty Cents per annum.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
-persons indicated on page 256. Donations and subscriptions should
-be sent to</p>
-
-<p class="signature">
-<span class="large" style="padding-right: 5%">H.&nbsp;W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</span><br />
-56 Reade Street, New York.
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<p class="center xlarge">TO ADVERTISERS.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>. It numbers among its regular readers
-very many frugal, well-to-do people in nearly every city and
-village throughout our Northern and Western States. It is therefore
-a specially valuable medium for advertising all articles commonly
-used in families of liberal, industrious and enterprising habits of
-life.</p>
-
-<p class="medium">Advertisements must be received by the <span class="smcap lowercase">TENTH</span> of the
-month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All
-communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to</p>
-
-<p class="center large">THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,</p>
-<p class="signature">56 Reade Street, New York.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<p class="medium">Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of
-the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>, can aid us in this respect by
-mentioning, when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in
-our Magazine.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center small">DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.</p>
-
-
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
-
-
-<p>Obviously printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.</p>
-
-<p>Inconsistent capitalization of a.m. and p.m. retained, due to
-multiple authors.</p>
-
-<p>Missing “e” in “<a href="#Err_1">Kewannee</a>” replaced on page 252.</p>
-
-<p>Page 228 is not missing. In the original, the Mendi Mission drawing takes up the entire page.
-It has been moved to the end of the first paragraph on page 229 to facilitate eBook formatting.</p>
-
-
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