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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 35, No. 9, September, 1881 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: December 2, 2017 [EBook #56102] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, SEPTEMBER 1881 *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXV. NO. 9. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - SEPTEMBER, 1881. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - ANNUAL MEETING—FINANCIAL—OUR BROADSIDE 257 - THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORK OF MISSIONS 258 - HEALING OF THE NATION’S WOUND 260 - SUGGESTION WORTH PASSING ALONG 261 - BENEFACTIONS—GENERAL NOTES 262 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - OUR CHURCH WORK BROADSIDE. - Washington, D.C.; Hampton, Va. 265 - Wilmington, Beaufort, N.C.; Charleston, - Orangeburg, S.C.; First Cong. Ch., - Atlanta, Ga. 266 - Cut First Cong. Ch., Atlanta, Ga. 267 - Atlanta Univ., Savannah, Ga. 268 - Woodville, Marietta, Cypress Slash, Ga. 269 - Belmont and Louisville, Ga.; Talladega, - Mobile, Marlon, Ala. 270 - Montgomery, Selma, Ala. 271 - Shelby Iron Works, Childersburg, Florence, - Ala.; Tougaloo, Miss.; Cong. - Churches of Louisiana 272 - Nashville, Memphis, Tenn. 275 - Chattanooga, Tenn.; Berea, Ky.; Little - Rock, Ark. 276 - Goliad, Paris, Flatonia, Texas 277 - Corpus Christi, Texas 278 - - - THE CHINESE. - - JOTTINGS FROM THE FIELD 278 - - - WOMAN’S HOME MISS. ASSOC’N. - - MISS WILSON’S WORK IN KANSAS 280 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - PAULPHEMIA’S MA 282 - - - RECEIPTS 284 - - CONSTITUTION 287 - - AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 288 - - * * * * * - - - NEW YORK: - Published by the American Missionary Association, - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - -Entered at the Poet Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. - - - - -American Missionary Association, - -56 READE STREET, N.Y. - - * * * * * - - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D.D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D.D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R.I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D.D., Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R.I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D.D., R.I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D.D., N.J. - Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D.D., N.Y. - Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D.D., Ill. - Rev. W. W. PATTON, D.D., D.C. - Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D.D., N.H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D.D., Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D.D., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N.Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D.D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M.D., N.H. - Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D.D., Ct. - Rev. W. L. GAGE, D.D., Ct. - A. S. HATCH, Esq., N.Y. - Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D., Ohio. - Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn. - Rev. A. L. STONE, D.D., California. - Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D.D., Oregon. - Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D.D., D.C. - Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D.D., Wis. - S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass. - 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, _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, - A. J. 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. - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXV. SEPTEMBER, 1881. NO. 9. - - * * * * * - - - - -_American Missionary Association._ - - * * * * * - - -The Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association will be held in Worcester, Mass., commencing November -1st, at 3 P. M. For particulars see fourth page of cover. - - * * * * * - - -FINANCIAL. - -This month brings around the close of another fiscal year. -Our balances will be struck on the 30th of September, and we -are exceedingly anxious that all parties, either churches or -individuals, who have intended to contribute to our work during -the current year, should do so as early as possible. Our appeal -is that you give to this cause liberally as the Lord may have -prospered you. Our receipts for the nine months to June 30th were -very encouraging, but the receipts for July, the first month of the -last quarter, have not been as large as we had reason to hope. The -increase over July of last year has been only fourteen per cent, -instead of twenty-five per cent., the amount necessary to carry -forward the additional work we have undertaken. But we trust that -our friends will enable us to meet these appropriations without -embarrassing our treasury. Every dollar received during the next -thirty days will help us to meet our pressing demands, and possibly -save us from closing the year with debt. - - * * * * * - - -OUR BROADSIDE. - -We give room in this number of the MISSIONARY to a broadside on -Church work. Our object is to present to our patrons, at a view, an -array of the large number of new churches we have established for -the colored people. A majority of the pastors employed by us have -been connected in some capacity with our Institutions, a goodly -number of them having graduated from the theological classes at -Talladega College, Fisk and Straight Universities. - -It may be said, with grateful assurance and peculiar emphasis, -that this Association _establishes_ its churches. It prepares -a constituency by its day and Sabbath-schools, and from this -educates a ministry. In this way it develops a demand for a pure -church, and also the possibility of maintaining it when established. - -It will be observed that nearly all the churches reported have -been blessed during the year with additions to their numbers, -and that many have made improvements upon their property. The -Sabbath-schools have everywhere received due attention, and much of -the progress in the different churches has been made possible by -the earnest, prayerful and unremitting labors of our missionaries -in this department of religious work. Missionary meetings and -societies have been greatly encouraged and the cause of temperance -widely promoted. Many of the young converts have found their way -to institutions of learning, and many have engaged in teaching and -missionary service. - -When it is taken into account that these young churches are -reformed churches, and that their church life is a new experience -among the colored people, where they shine as lights in the world, -it will be readily seen, we think, that this branch of our work -augurs most hopefully a day of better things for the new South, and -that the hearts and hands of these brethren, whose letters will be -found elsewhere, should be strengthened, and their numbers largely -increased. - - * * * * * - - -THE PLACE OF THE CHURCH IN THE WORK OF MISSIONS. - -In these days, when science is pushing her inquiries in every -direction with reference to the discovery of new facts, in order -that she may deduce therefrom the course of nature and the system -of the universe, there is danger that we overlook the basis in -man’s moral constitution on which, alone, knowledge can have the -highest significance and value. The drift is seen not merely in the -public schools, but in the college and the professional seminary, -which, more and more, are reducing education to the acquisition of -facts, or to a simple intellectual drill. The scientific method, -so called, has no place for moral agents or moral causes, and so -its account of the world is forever rendered on a physical rather -than on a metaphysical basis. With such a tendency in education, -this Association can have no sympathy. It is the friend of all good -learning, and will do its utmost to advance education; but it does -not believe that a man can be well or symmetrically educated until -his moral faculties are disciplined in advance of, and equally -_with_, his intellectual. For this reason it would put the church -at the center and foundation of all its work. In this respect it -would co-operate with God, accepting His own appointed agency -for the moral instruction of mankind. The church, as the great -moral teacher, bears the stamp of a divine origin and authority. -Its function is to teach divine truth, and to put man into right -moral relations to the deep order of the universe. Any system of -education, then, which ignored the church, or even set her in -the background, would fail in a well rounded development of all -the mental powers. A partial substitute may be found in other -professions and other institutions, but nothing can take the place -of the church as the authoritative teacher of moral and spiritual -truth. - -It is well to remember, also, that that which best develops and -educates the moral powers is the best possible discipline for -the mind itself. No subjects require clearer perception, sharper -analysis and more discriminating reason than moral subjects, and -no men show keener minds than those who have been trained to -reason on moral questions. Illustrations of this in ancient times -are found in the Jewish patriarchs, and in modern times in the -people of Scotland and of New England. And yet the common schools -of these latter countries, until within fifty years, were of the -rudest sort, and only taught the simplest elements of an English -education. But their people, trained in the sanctuary, under a -ministry which was able to reason of righteousness, temperance and -a judgment to come, were as strong intellectually as they were -tough and clear-minded morally. - -Senator Hoar, in his recent oration before the law school of Yale -College, asserted and proved that the best lawyers of the last -generation were indebted to the strong pulpits of New England more -than to anything else for their intellectual clearness, and for -their judicial discrimination and force. - -Let there be a strong pulpit in any community, and there will be -strong men around it, mentally and morally, though the schools are -of the simplest. On the other hand, if the pulpit be weak and the -outcoming moral influences be feeble, though the schools be ever -so well equipped and endowed, the people around will lack high -purpose, and scholarship itself will be frivolous and effeminate, -destitute of the rugged strength which comes to natures fed from -the deep roots of moral earnestness and conviction. - -It need hardly be said that the great need of the South, especially -among the colored people, is a _strong_ church and a _pure_ church; -for slavery damaged the colored man morally vastly more that it -did intellectually. Indeed, his intellect was rather sharpened -by the invention and craft on which it was constantly put, while -the forces which strengthened the will and nourished a pure heart -were the weakest possible; and yet nine persons out of ten suppose -the damage was intellectual, and are greatly surprised when our -teachers assure them that colored children are as bright, and learn -as readily, as white children. - -A moment’s reflection would satisfy any one that the weakness would -be on the moral side, for the reason that the life of the slave was -so ordered as to ignore all moral distinctions and to violate all -moral obligations. Hence, the building up should be strongest on -the moral side. No greater mistake could be made than to attempt -to graft on to a low moral character a high degree of intellectual -culture. Should we send forth a generation of students, with sharp -wits and dull moral perceptions, we might contribute to the roll of -more adroit villains, but we should add little to the list of good -men. - -The church, therefore, should be emphasized at all points and -at all times. It should command for its preachers the best and -the ablest men. Both races need this. Only this can destroy the -conditions which made it possible that white blood should now be -running in the veins of three-fourths of the colored people. The -Southern pulpit has failed to sufficiently enforce either good -morals or practical righteousness. For lack of this, slavery was -possible, and dueling and violence covered the land with blood. -The remedy for this is a new and right system of moral teaching. -This, we repeat, is the peculiar function of the pulpit. That this -may be made _possible_, churches pure and intelligent must be -established all over the South. It should be done now, because we -are laying the foundations and determining the character of the -coming generations. If the first crop of leaders are morally weak, -they will enfeeble their successors, and perhaps vitiate the seed -and the crop for all time to come. - -We need to put into the African blood the iron of the Puritan faith -and purpose, so that they may do for the African continent what -our fathers did for America. The first men sent to that dark land -should hold the ideas and principles out of which may be evolved -churches, schools, homes and Christian states, from the mouths of -the Nile and the Congo clear down to the golden Cape. If we cannot -inoculate the colored race with those moral sensibilities and -forces which will render them charitable, humane and just, then we -look to them in vain for help in the salvation of our own land, as -well as in the founding of Christian institutions and Christian -states for the continent of Africa. - - * * * * * - - -HEALING OF THE NATION’S WOUND. - -It was a gaping, festering sore that was left by the fratricidal -war. A speedy healing was not to be expected. It took nearly a -century for the mother country and America to get over their -grievance. There is much of encouragement that this later feud will -be more speedily composed. There have been some special influences -at work. The occurrence of the Centennial tended to divert -attention from the old trouble, to arouse the spirit of patriotism -and to abate ill-will. The prevalence of an epidemic at the South -for two seasons gave the North an opportunity to express moral and -material sympathy, which did much to awaken reciprocal good-will on -the part of the people of that section. - -When President Garfield was shot, the people of the South rose up -with as much indignation and sympathy as those of the North. It was -a benediction for the Nation to be lifted by such a ground-swell -of emotion, and that the impulse of Christian patriotism. We feel -confident that President Garfield, restored to soundness, will by -this dreadful dispensation be all the more disposed to temper his -administration with fairness and righteousness, such as will carry -on the process of healing in the body politic. - -The Peabody fund and its judicious disbursement at the South is -doing its work of palliating feeling. Miss Willard’s tour of -temperance lecturing through the South was a hopeful revelation of -harmonious sentiment. Dr. Mayo’s eminently successful educational -visitation was in the same line. - -Then it is also clearly manifest that the scheme of the North -for aiding the South in the education of the colored people is -coming to be recognized there-away as one of pure philanthropy and -patriotism. The testimony of Dr. Haygood in his book, “Our Brother -in Black,” to this effect, is but the expression of not a little -of latent sentiment. He pronounces “immortal honor” upon these -teachers. He says that without such service the South would be -uninhabitable by this time. Our teachers and preachers, dwelling -there from year to year, and returning North betimes, become -interpreters of the mutual and improving good feeling. They command -respect at the South, they retain affectionate regard at the North, -and so become a bond of union between the two sections. More and -more this process will go on with happiest results. - -The National Cotton Exposition to be held this fall at Atlanta, -upon a gigantic scale, will be another mighty loom for weaving the -fabric of national good-will. - -We be one people, with one English inheritance of language and -history, of character and civilization, with a common possession of -Revolutionary glory and of pride in our national development. We -must let the dead bury their dead. We must push on in all proper -ways to remove prejudice and to restore confidence. Service for our -common country in the way of evangelization and of righteous civil -administration, will be one of the most effective aids in healing -the Nation’s wound. - - * * * * * - - -A SUGGESTION WORTH PASSING ALONG. - -After the presentation of the cause of the American Missionary -Association recently to a church in Connecticut, the pastor made -the following suggestion to his people: - -“We have now had this great subject before us. We shall never, -probably, see it more clearly. We shall never, probably, feel its -importance more. What shall we do about it? I was going to announce -a contribution for next Sabbath; but perhaps it will rain; perhaps -you will not be here; perhaps you will forget. Besides, I notice -that church plates do not hold a great deal. We make them a small -business. We ought to do more for this cause. We want to do more. -And so, if I can find two or three young ladies ready for the work, -I will send them to your houses. Be ready! Look the matter all -over, and do as good a thing as you can. After that, perhaps, we -will pick up the stray bits when Sunday comes.” - -It is pleasant to add that the pastor found canvassers without -difficulty, and that about three times the amount usually given by -plate collections was gathered. - -Atlanta University undertakes the work of “head-making” so far -as this means the development of a clear and sensible intellect, -controlled by a good heart. It was, however, “_bread_-making,” and -not “head-making,” which the types in our August number should have -mentioned to the credit of the Atlanta girls, whose loaves, rolls -and Yankee doughnuts so delighted the gentlemen of the examining -committee at the recent anniversary. Plain cooking is a part of the -regular instruction in Atlanta University. - - * * * * * - - -BENEFACTIONS. - -—Beloit College, Wis., has received $10,000 from Mrs. J. S. -Herrick, to be applied for a new observatory. - -—The bequest of Col. Wm. E. Putnam to Marietta College, Ohio, will -probably amount to $35,000. - -—Mr. Reuben J. Flick, a member of the First Presbyterian Church of -Wilkesbarre, has recently given $20,000 to Lincoln University. - -—Mr. Geo. I. Seney has recently added $100,000 to his gift to -Wesleyan University, the interest of which is to be given in prizes -to students. - -—Mr. A. L. Williston and wife have given $10,000 for a new -observatory at Mt. Holyoke Seminary, in memory of their deceased -son. - -—The late Ebenezer Alden, M.D., of Randolph, left a legacy of -$5,000 to Phillips Academy, Andover, for helping students, or -paying for instruction, at the discretion of the tutors. - -—A friend of Yale Divinity School has given $10,500 for a new -library building, which is now being erected between Marquand -Chapel and West Divinity Hall. - -—Mr. Leander McCormick, of Chicago, has donated his splendid -telescope, costing $50,000, to the University of Virginia, and -offers to build the observatory to receive it. - -—Mr. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, of New York, has given $25,000 to the -University of Virginia, and Mr. Lewis Brooks, of Rochester, N.Y., -has given a splendid museum, costing about $60,000, to the same -institution. - -—_Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., has Jubilee Hall completed -and overflowing 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._ - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -AFRICA. - -—M. Matheis has been sent out by the French Government to explore -the region extending from the bend of the Niger to Lake Tchad. - -—The question of the establishment of a small railroad on the -Decanville plan, between Ogooué and Alima, is being considered. - -—M. J. Thomson left London the 6th of May to go to Zanzibar, from -whence he will proceed to make the geological exploration of the -Rovouma for the Sultan of Zanzibar. - -—Messrs. Demietri and Michieli, agents of the Italian Society of -Commerce in Africa, have set out from Khartoum for the Red Sea at -the head of a caravan of 700 camels, laden with various kinds of -merchandise. - -—The Commercial Association of Lisbon has moved a patriotic -subscription, the proceeds of which will be offered to the -Government to co-operate with it in the foundation of civilizing -stations in the Portuguese African colonies. - -—An Italian party consisting of an officer and 14 men, while -attempting to penetrate Abyssinia from Assab Bay, have been -massacred in the interior. It is possible that the Italian -Government may send a military expedition to demand redress. - -—Until recently there has been no bank in the English colonies -of Western Africa. Many of the merchants have been hindered from -entering into negotiations with these colonies by the difficulty of -obtaining reliable information relative to the state of commerce. -But the Bank of West Africa has now been established, with a -capital of 500,000 pounds sterling, having its centre at London, and -stations at Sierra Leone, Lagos, and later at Cape Coast, at the -Gambia, and wherever the exigencies of commerce render it necessary. - -—Dr. Lenz affirms that the soil of the Sahara is not as sterile -as is commonly believed. In Iguidi, in particular, they found -many foraging places for the camels, and they often saw troops of -antelopes and gazelles fleeing at the approach of the caravan. Dr. -Lenz did not follow the example of Barth, but went rather to pay -his addresses to the Kahia, who made his stay in Timbuctoo the most -agreeable possible. He gave him a fine house, and served him each -day an abundant and delicious repast—wheaten bread, butter and -honey, mutton and beef, chickens and game. - -—Stanley has fixed the site of his second station at Isangila, -about 50 kilometers from Vivi. To reach this point, he traversed a -very dangerous country, where the population is scattered and which -offered no resources. The difficulties were increased by the amount -of baggage to transport, provisions, boats, &c., the whole weighing -42 tons—an enormous weight, considering the nature of the country -and the means of transportation. He was obliged to throw bridges -across the rivers, fill up the ravines, open, hatchet in hand, a -route across dense forests, blow up rocks, or drag the wagons by -force of arm along the sides of steep mountains. And still it was -not possible to advance with all his baggage at once. He had to -open the way with a group of pioneers, and after advancing a little -to make a halt, pitch a camp, then go back to bring by instalments -the rest of the convoy, till all were united. - - * * * * * - - -THE INDIANS. - -—Gen. C. H. Howard has been appointed Indian Inspector to succeed -Dr. I. H. Mahan, who resigned his position on account of failing -health. - -—Rev. S. Hall Young, of Fort Wrangel, Alaska, writes: “With a live -missionary, a saw-mill and a Christian trader in the N. W. T. Co.’s -store, we can make that the model mission of Alaska.” - -—Indians are employed on the California Southern R. R. with -satisfactory results, and it is predicted with a reasonable degree -of assurance that the experiment will prove to be a favorable means -of civilizing the Indians. - -—The Santees had 2,344 acres under cultivation last year. They -raised 7,000 bushels of wheat, 2,000 of oats, 3,000 of corn, and -made 1,000 tons of hay for their stock. They also manufactured -120,000 bricks. It is the opinion of Mr. Lightner, their agent, -that as soon as the Nation is willing to recognize the Indian as a -citizen, holding him amenable to the laws governing the white man, -we may expect his civilization to advance with double rapidity. - - * * * * * - - -THE CHINESE. - -—There are 585 Chinese children in the public schools of San -Francisco. - -—There are two Chinese papers in San Francisco. One man performs -the functions of editor, publisher, compositor, press-man, -book-keeper and office boy of the _Wah Kee_. This wonderful and -versatile man is fifty years old. The paper has 1,000 subscribers, -and costs ten cents per copy, or $5 per year. - -—Candidates for missionary work in China have opportunity to study -the language at Oxford, Eng., in the department under charge of -Prof. Legge. The English Presbyterian Foreign Mission Committee, -believing that more can be accomplished by three months’ study at -Oxford than by a year spent in the unhealthy regions of China, have -adopted the plan of sending their missionaries to the former place, -to avail themselves of the instruction of Prof. Legge. - -—Upwards of 2,000 Chinese have recently landed in two weeks’ time -in Australia. They come for the most part from Hong Kong, where -there is great depression in business and much suffering among the -people. The tide of emigration, which formerly set so strongly -towards the Pacific coast, seems recently to have been somewhat -diverted to Australia and the Sandwich Islands. - -—The Government of China has decided to erect telegraphs from -Shanghai to Tientsin and other cities. Already hundreds of -telephones are in use. Questions in relation to railway systems -are being agitated, and a committee has been appointed for the -purpose of thoroughly canvassing the matter, submitting plans, etc. -Unquestionably a number of railways will be constructed within the -next five years, and perhaps sooner. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - -REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA. - - * * * * * - -OUR CHURCH WORK BROADSIDE. - - -LINCOLN MISSION, WASHINGTON, D.C. - -REV. S. P. SMITH. - -I am glad to say that the religious state of the Lincoln Memorial -Church at present is good. It was organized the 10th of last -January with eleven members. In April the Lord poured out a special -blessing upon us, the result of which was eight converts. The -church has doubled its membership since its organization. In this -revival there was a little girl converted about nine years old, and -an aged mother about seventy-five. We have had only one admitted to -the church by letter; ten on confession of faith. There is quite -a large temperance work here carried on by Mrs. Babcock. This -temperance society is known as the Lincoln Mission Band of Hope. - -Our Sunday-school is very large in the winter, but it thins out -in the summer. The largest attendance during any time through the -winter was 530. - -The Lincoln Mission building in which our church worships has been -greatly improved. The large hall has been re-plastered and painted -inside and out. - -We have sent two from the Lincoln Mission to Howard University. -This church also sent $4.06 to the American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -HAMPTON, VA. - -REV. H. B. FRISSELL. - -There have been admitted to church membership in Bethesda Chapel -during the year 31 persons—28 on profession of their faith and -three by letter. Of these, 15 were Indians, one white, and the -remainder colored students. With the growth of the school the -congregation at the chapel has so increased as to make it necessary -to add another wing to the building. Two prayer meetings have been -kept up by the colored students, one on the Sabbath and one on a -week day evening, the attendance and interest being well sustained. -The Indians have their own prayer meetings, where they take part in -their own tongue. They manifest a most earnest desire to know the -Bible, and spend much time in reading and studying it. - -Most of the students of the school have been enrolled as members -of the temperance society during the past year. Considerable work -has been done in the country about. One of the students organized -a temperance society in the village of Hampton, and several -interesting meetings have been held. The subject of local option is -likely to come up in the fall, and the society hopes to make itself -felt on the right side. - -There has been an average attendance of 300 in Sunday-school. Forty -students have been engaged in the Sunday-schools in the vicinity, -three as superintendents and the remainder as teachers. One of the -schools where the students have become interested has increased in -numbers from 40 to over 200. - -Thirty Bible students go out from the school on Sunday afternoons -to read to the old people. They are everywhere received with a -hearty welcome by those who have been deprived of the privileges -which their children enjoy. - -The Missionary Society of the school has raised $229. As the last -winter was of unusual severity, the most of this amount was spent -in the relief of the misery at our very doors. During the winter -the students went out every week to mend the huts of the poor, to -carry them bedding, clothes and food. - -A Christian association has been formed in the school, so that -those who come here from denominations that do not allow their -joining our church may feel that they have duties here as Christian -workers. So far as possible, the thought of their individual -responsibility for the souls of those around them is impressed upon -them. - - * * * * * - - -WILMINGTON, N.C. - -REV. D. D. DODGE. - -We record a steady interest and growth in grace; one added by -profession, one by letter, one adult and six children baptized; -Sunday-school in good condition; large classes and good attention. -The improvement of property has been great, as already described in -the MISSIONARY. - -One of the most encouraging facts is this, which has come to our -knowledge in several different ways, that when any one wishes to -get a trustworthy servant, the fact of membership in our church is -considered a most excellent recommendation. Experience has taught -employers its value. - - * * * * * - - -BEAUFORT, N.C. - -REV. MICHAEL JERKINS. - -Our church is steadily increasing in numbers, and we are more -encouraged than ever. Four were added to our number last month. The -cause of temperance is prospering. We have a prohibitory law, and -no licenses are granted in the county and parish. The Sunday-school -work is hopeful, the number in attendance averaging about 120. - - * * * * * - - -PLYMOUTH CHURCH., CHARLESTON, S.C. - -REV. TEMPLE CUTLER. - -The most encouraging feature of our work is the Sunday-school. We -have 120 in attendance, with an average of 82. Some difficulty is -found in procuring teachers. We manage, however, to keep up a good -degree of interest among the children. We have a Band of Hope that -numbers 120, mostly children, growing up to take part in the future -conflict over alcohol in this state. - -During the winter we had a series of meetings that seemed to -quicken some of the old backsliders, who, we trust, will prove of -great help to the church, and a few conversions which resulted in -the bracing up of our spiritual energies considerably. - -The people have raised about $500 for various purposes, about $200 -of which went to repair the church, $100 to pay the debt, and the -rest for current expenses. - - * * * * * - - -ORANGEBURG, S.C. - -REV. T. T. BENSON. - -We have been highly blessed by the Lord this year in our church -work, both temporal and spiritual. In April we enjoyed a revival -season, during which seven persons were converted to Christ, five -of whom have united with our church. Our Sabbath-school numbers 45, -and is doing well. New hymn books have been purchased, the church -has been repaired, painted and plastered, and a chandelier secured. -Three members of our church are absent teaching. One young man is -engaged in missionary work. - - * * * * * - - -FIRST CONG. CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA. - -REV. C. W. HAWLEY. - -Last February and March were months of revival and ingathering. The -work commenced in the Storrs School, and the teachers there and -in the Sunday-school had precious answers to prayer and precious -rewards of labor. Never was it more plain that church and school -are strongly wedded and mutually helpful. Almost daily meetings -were held for several weeks, all quiet, orderly, solemn; short -sermons, many prayers and much individual testimony for the Lord. -Rev. Henry E. Brown and wife and Brother J. E. Lathrop, of Macon, -rendered good help to the pastor. - -[Illustration: FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, ATLANTA, GA.] - -March 13th was a memorable Sabbath, 28 uniting by profession and -two by letter. In April, seven joined by profession, and in May, -four more by profession and three by letter, making an addition of -44 in the three months. - -A new temperance society has been organized; new members, almost -without exception, take total abstinence pledge, and but few old -members are known to have the drinking habit. - -The Sunday-school is prospering; over 50 in the infant class; -sometimes over 300 are present in all. - -With the aid of the American Missionary Association and Northern -friends we have a fine new bell. Church property is valuable and -in good order. We have paid up our church debt, and have now a -fine church costing $5,000, with a seating capacity for 500, and a -basement under the whole for Sunday-school rooms. During the year -ending January 1, 1881, the church raised for debt and current -expenses about $800. - -Many of our young people are in Storrs School or Atlanta -University. One has just graduated from the theological department -in Howard University; six or more, now or formerly members of our -church, are at work in the Gospel ministry, and two score or more -are, or have been, engaged in teaching among their people. - - * * * * * - - -ATLANTA UNIVERSITY CHURCH. - -REV. C. W. FRANCIS. - -The church of Christ in Atlanta University is made up entirely of -teachers and pupils in that school, and so has a somewhat different -sphere from many of our sister churches. It now numbers 88 members, -having received larger accessions during the past year than in any -other year of its history, 22 having joined, all save two upon -profession of faith. - -A very gracious revival prevailed for the last five months of the -school year, during which time more than 50 persons were converted, -several more of whom will unite with this church after longer -experience, and the rest with churches at their homes. It was a -delightful and precious work, affecting nearly every member of -the school, quickening the religious life of former members, and -gathering in a harvest week by week up to the close of the year. - -The temperance work is made a special care, as the need for it -is so great, and all who go away to teach during their summer -vacation, as all do save six or eight of the younger members, have -furnished them a package of selected temperance literature, and -are instructed in methods for its use, after careful instruction -upon the general subject, so that all are engaged in mission work -of that character in the schools which they teach and the families -which they visit. - -About $75 was raised during the year at the monthly missionary -meetings, which was given to promote the temperance work. - -About 75 members of the church are now engaged in teaching their -summer schools, most of them taking the lead in Sunday-schools, and -so exercising a genuine missionary influence over a great number of -people. - - * * * * * - - -SAVANNAH, GA. - -REV. B. D. CONKLING. - -There has been a good deal of sickness among our people and -the missionaries. We have had additions to the church at each -communion. The Sunday-school work is prospering finely, the pennies -outnumbering the attendance every Sunday but two from January -1st to June 1st. The average attendance at the Sunday-school for -January was 112, which gradually increased until, in May, the -average was 162⅘. The average collections of the Sunday-school for -May were $2.12⅘ for each Sunday. - -From January 1st to May 31st the congregation raised for church and -missionary purposes $83.71; and the Sunday-school, during the same -time, $36.73. This does not include some $25 raised to provide an -excursion for the Sunday-school and its friends. Several members -during the year, who are either ministers or ministers’ wives, took -letters of dismission; others still are in some of the institutions -of the American Missionary Association for higher learning. More or -less missionary work is being done constantly by resident members -of this church. - -While it is not a large church, it has had, and does have, a large -influence for good throughout the whole city; especially has it -been the means of revolutionizing in the way of improvement the -Sunday-school work here and here-abouts. - - * * * * * - - -WOODVILLE, GA. - -REV. J. H. H. SENGSTACKE. - -This church was organized in the year 1871. In the year 1875 Mr. -J. H. H. Sengstacke, teacher of the public school at Woodville, -was elected pastor. At that time the membership consisted of 12 -persons. They worshiped in an old building about one-third of a -mile from the present edifice. The church was at first known as -the Woodville Congregational church; but at the beginning of Mr. -Sengstacke’s ministry the name was changed to Pilgrim church. The -American Missionary Association built a new house of worship, -and Mr. S. was set apart for the Gospel ministry. The church has -been growing rapidly ever since, the congregation at present -averaging 200. The Sabbath-school is flourishing. In the year 1877, -Sengstacke Band of Hope was organized. Rev. J. M. Smith’s people, -of Grand Rapids, Mich., have done much towards building up this -work. In 1877 the church purchased a bell and an organ. - -In 1878 the American Missionary Association built a neat little -parsonage. - -In 1879 the church was ceiled and painted inside. - -In 1880 the people, with aid from the American Missionary -Association, raised the meeting house on a brick basement, also the -church was repainted and new seats were added. - -In 1881 a new fence was put around the lot, and the meeting house -was improved on the outside, trees were set out, and a lot was -purchased at the Five Mile for mission work. Pilgrim church has had -revivals every year. - - * * * * * - - -MARIETTA, GA. - -REV. EDGAR J. PENNEY. - -On my arrival a year ago, only seven persons (four men and three -women) responded as members of the church. Since my ordination -last December, 13 have been admitted, six by letter and seven by -profession. This encourages us in great measure to labor on. The -Sunday-school has shown a steady increase for some months and is -making real progress. We are better able than ever to hold those -who came at first out of mere curiosity. The following quotation -respecting temperance forms a part of the constitution of the -church: “Any member convicted of using intoxicating liquor other -than as a medicine shall be liable to discipline.” Three of our -members spent the past six months in Atlanta University. - - * * * * * - - -CYPRESS SLASH, LIBERTY CO., GA. - -REV. ANDREW J. HEADEN. - -We have a church of 60 members, and our work is growing in favor -both with white and colored; five have recently been added by -profession. Our Sunday-school is increasing in numbers and -interest. One young man has gone to the Hampton Institute to fit -himself for a teacher. Our church property has been improved, and a -parsonage erected at a cost of about $230, in connection with which -there are ten acres of land. The field here is a promising one, and -considering that the church has been organized only two years and a -half, the progress of the work seems to us very encouraging. - - * * * * * - - -BELMONT AND LOUISVILLE, GA. - -REV. WILSON CALLEN. - -The work of ingathering in these churches has been slow and steady. -Some who had been negligent have returned and manifested an -interest in the church. At Belmont 11 new members have been added -during the past four years. - -There is a good attendance at Louisville, although but two have -united with the church during my ministry. There is great need -of temperance work among the people. The Sabbath-schools are in -tolerable good condition. We have very little church property, and -we are not able to keep what we have in good repair. - - * * * * * - - -TALLADEGA COLLEGE CHURCH, ALA. - -PRES. H. S. DE FOREST, D.D. - -Preaching, Sunday-school, church and neighborhood prayer meetings, -with class of Bible readers, monthly concert, and meeting of the -Woman’s Missionary Society, have been kept up in usual order and -with a good degree of interest during the year. For three weeks, -meetings were held each evening. Several, chiefly students boarding -in the college family, found Christ, and the church was revived. - -The preaching was first and mainly to Christians rather than to -the impenitent. Besides the mission churches which have grown out -of the College church, the students and teachers have sustained -five Sunday-schools in needy districts. The College church has -rare facilities for distributing illustrated Sunday-school and -temperance papers. The parish missionary has faithfully pursued her -work, discovering and relieving much of want, and speaking to the -neglected. - -A temperance society has been organized, embracing in its -membership those not connected with the College church, with a -pledge of abstinence from the use of tobacco in all its forms, as -well as from the use and sale of intoxicating liquors. - - * * * * * - - -MOBILE, ALA. - -REV. O. D. CRAWFORD. - -A revival followed the State Conference in March; 15 persons -between the ages of 13 and 18 manifested a deep interest, and -received so much light on the supreme question, as carried them -beyond the reach of the ordinary instruction of the colored -churches and revival seasons. The church was much blessed. - -We received to fellowship one young man, a pupil in the Institute, -of rare promise. Several temperance sermons were preached, and 30 -names secured to the pledge. - -The church building was moved through the street to its more -eligible location on the Institute grounds, and improved by a large -front door and steps and cornice. - -Out of their deep poverty the people raised about one dollar at -each monthly concert of prayer for missions. Two lady members are -engaged in teaching in public schools acceptably. - - * * * * * - - -MARION, ALA. - -REV. A. W. CURTIS. - -Marion is an old town, quite an educational centre, but in all -other respects left high and dry on a side switch. Hence our -church and work is a good deal like that of New England—a good -place to emigrate from. There is not business enough to give work -at home, and the young people have to go away; we are trying to -make it a good home and training-school, and look for the results -elsewhere. This summer nearly all our men are abroad for work—many -at Tougaloo, working on the new building—some renting land in the -district around. Most of the young women as they marry find homes -abroad for the same reason. - -The children and young people who were converted last spring hold -out well, and form the principal part of our number at prayer -meeting. We see occasionally also those who united with other -churches. Ten united on confession at our first communion, four -at the second. So far as I can learn, all our church are strictly -temperance folks. Our Sunday-school is small. We have had three -Sunday-schools kept up in the country by members of our church who -had day schools in those districts. - -Most of our members have homes which they are making more valuable -by improvement, while property in town has greatly depreciated. Our -church have undertaken to raise $100 and to build a school-house -this summer. It may be a question whether they will succeed in the -latter as soon as they have planned. - -Ten of the young people of our church have been at Talladega -during the past year, two at Fisk, and one in Tougaloo. Four of -our members have been teaching school with good success and one is -preaching. - -A young man who graduated with honor at the Normal here last week -was converted with us. He wishes to go to Africa, but will probably -go under Methodist auspices, according to his friends’ wish. I have -found a large field and a very needy one. - - * * * * * - - -MONTGOMERY, ALA. - -REV. O. W. FAY. - -With our church, the past year has been one of more than ordinary -encouragement and blessing. Spiritual growth is manifest. Special -meetings were held during the week of prayer and three weeks -following; result, several hopeful conversions; 12 have united -with the church, six by letter and six by profession. A healthful -sentiment in favor of temperance prevails throughout the church and -congregation, cherished by special services and efforts through -the year. Not one person to my knowledge is addicted to the use of -drink. Sunday-school is vigorous with enthusiasm, numbering 175 -pupils. Decided improvement both in attendance and contributions -have been made during the year. Though this has been financially -a hard year for our people, nevertheless in loyalty to church -obligation they have done better than ever before in their history. -Nine of our members have been in attendance at Talladega College -and Fisk University during the year; three of these are studying -for the ministry. As a whole, the church work at this point has a -bright side, and we feel like thanking God and taking courage. - - * * * * * - - -SELMA, ALA. - -REV. C. B. CURTIS. - -Our church observed the week of prayer with a good degree of -interest, which was followed by a series of meetings continuing -through the month of January. Five were added to the church by -profession and four by letter. An effort was made in behalf of -temperance by all the churches, in the beginning of the year, -to send a petition to the Legislature for the suppression of -intemperance, but failed as to results. Christmas, a temperance -Sunday-school concert was held. The Sunday-school has been steadily -increasing, as shown by the following figures, which give the -average attendance for six months: January 82, February 77¾, March -83¼, April 84¾, May 112, June 101¾. - -A mission school at the house of the pastor has been in operation -for the year, with an average attendance of 18 weekly. - -An effort has been made to raise a special donation for the A. M. A., -that the Association may receive the $50 pledged as a duplicate -from a friend in Massachusetts. The “Mission Workers” of the -church and Sunday-school have made by sales, and given for various -purposes, $30.45. Six of our pupils are at school at Talladega, two -at Tougaloo. Ten members are engaged in teaching or missionary work. - -Interest in the cause of missions has been furthered by a -“missionary tea party,” held at the home of the pastor. Items of -intelligence from the broad field interested all. - - * * * * * - - -SHELBY IRON WORKS, ALA. - -REV. J. R. SIMS. - -I can only give you a brief report of my work, as I have been here -but a short time. - -We have not had any revival, only in the church there seems to be a -renewed spirit among her members. - -We deem the Sunday-school work of vital importance, and endeavor -to increase its interest from time to time; average attendance, -90; teachers five. Our building is now being newly painted, and we -hope to finish plastering by the 1st of October. Five pupils from -the church have been sent to some institution of learning. Number -engaged in missionary work, five. - -The work, as a whole, seems to be hopeful. We ask your prayers that -we may be strengthened. - - * * * * * - - -CHILDERSBURG, ALA. - -REV. ALFRED JONES. - -Revival work has been very encouraging. Most of the youth have been -led to embrace religion in consequence of our meetings. Thirty have -joined our church, 22 of whom came through since I have been here. -Our church is a temperance church; everybody looks upon us as a -temperance people. We have the best Sabbath-school in Childersburg. -We have plastered our meeting house and added a church farm worth -$250, and a bell worth $45. Four of our church members are studying -at different institutions. - - * * * * * - - -FLORENCE, ALA. - -REV. WM. H. ASH. - -We have built a beautiful parsonage this year which is said to -be the prettiest house in town. Our field of labor is one where -the minister plans his work, and then pulls off his coat and -sees that it is done. Since I took charge here, two years ago, -a suitable house of worship has been erected. Meanwhile, I have -acted as pastor and taught a school. Six were added to the church -by profession, and a temperance society has been organized. It is -the only temperance society in connection with any of the colored -churches in town. When I came here I found an old house, that had -been used for a bar-room and gambling shop, fitted up for a house -of worship. This has been abandoned, the lot upon which it stood -well fenced, and a meeting house built. - -We sent one pupil to Fisk University last year, and raised $160 for -building and repairs. - - * * * * * - - -TOUGALOO, MISS. - -REV. G. S. POPE. - -There has been no special revival this year. Steady progress, -however, has been made, resulting in frequent conversions. Eleven -have been added to the church on profession of faith, and four by -letter. - -It is a rare thing for any of our students to hold themselves -outside of the temperance work. They not only become temperance men -and women here, but temperance workers when they leave. From 1,000 -to 1,500 signers of the pledge are secured by them each summer -vacation. They sometimes commence Sunday-school work previous -to the opening of their day schools, and during vacation it is -estimated that they instruct about 4,000 Sunday-school scholars. -Fifty-eight of our church members have been engaged in teaching -during the year. - - * * * * * - - -CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES OF LOUISIANA—GENERAL SURVEY. - -REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D. - -Of the 18 churches in the South-western Association, the first -organization bears date June 14th, 1868; so that if we are not the -infant association, we are certainly among the youngest members of -the Congregational household. - -There have been seven annual meetings of our Association, two -occurring in 1870 and 1871, and then regularly from 1876 to 1881 -inclusive. There has been growth in several directions. - -1st, _morally_. The standard in moral instruction and practice is -higher, by a marked difference, than at the beginning of our church -life. The church is not a harbor for unholy and impure persons, -where the outward profession atones for the faults of the private -life; but the scene of watchfulness and charitable judgment, where -the weak are helped, the penitent encouraged, and the persistent -wrong-doer is discountenanced and disfellowshiped. - -2d. In intelligence. The ministers and church members have a -clearer understanding of the proprieties of church order and -discipline. - -The public services of the Lord’s day have grown quiet and -devotional, a deeper tone of reverence pervades the preaching, and -mere emotion has been succeeded by _intelligent conviction_ and a -_reasonable faith_. - -3d. There is a more direct aim for the best spiritual results. -The conversion of the heart and the saving of the lost is more -and more the end and the aim of preaching. Between this and the -crude emotional spasmodic methods of the past, there is an almost -inconceivable difference. - - -_Central Church, New Orleans (Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D., -Pastor)._—This church was in 1870 the University church, and has -always been intimately associated with Straight University. The -president of the University has been the acting pastor since -January 1st, 1876. Most of the teachers in the University are -earnest workers in the Sabbath-school. - -From a membership of 35 in 1876, almost all of whom were old -people, the membership has been increased to 210. Hardly a year -has passed without witnessing in this church scenes of revival -interest. Every winter has had its harvest months. - -During the past winter, a revival of great power occurred in -the church, resulting in 50 conversions. Mr. James Wharton, of -Barrow-in-Furness, England, was an honored agent of the Lord in -this blessed work. - -The annual expenses of the church, averaging $650, are always paid -promptly, and this year, in addition, the church has remitted $100 -to the treasury of the American Missionary Association. - - -_Spain St. Church, New Orleans (Rev. Henry A. Ruffin, Pastor)._—Mr. -Ruffin was a student in the theological department of Straight -University for four or five years, and was in charge of the church -at the same time, as he is to-day. - -The church has been disturbed during the year by a few bad men, -ambitious to rule, and so obstructing the progress of the Lord’s -work and restricting the influence and usefulness of the pastor; -but by patience and wise counsels the difficulty seems to be tided -over, and the church started on a new career of prosperity. - - -_Morris Brown Chapel, New Orleans (Rev. Isaac H. Hall, -Pastor)._—Mr. Hall was a delegate of the S.W. Association to the -National Council at St. Louis. He was a student for several years -at Straight University. The church has had a constant though not -rapid growth. Its membership of 110 represents a good deal of -hard work in prayer. A few converts are gathered in every year. -The church has a small debt of about $250, which it is struggling -bravely to discharge. Whenever a dollar can be transferred from -the fund for ordinary expenses to sinking fund it is done, and -the church will celebrate its jubilee when the last dollar of -indebtedness is paid. - - -_Algiers and Gretna._—There are two churches across the river from -New Orleans, one in Algiers and the other in Gretna. Rev. James -Craig is pastor at Algiers, and Rev. Putney W. Ward at Gretna. With -better schools in these two places, there would be better churches. -The mass of the people need enlightening, and until it is done the -church will dash against the breakers. Ignorance is never in accord -with quiet, progressive and spiritual church life. These churches -have now reached a crisis in their history which means either fatal -disaster or a new and better lease of life. May God guide and -bring order out of confusion. In the parish of St. Mary we have an -interesting and hopeful group of churches. - - -_Terrebonne (Rev. Daniel Clay, Pastor)._—The house of worship -is new, tasteful and admirably fitted for its purposes. Neatly -painted, with good bell, the church-yard surrounded by a -whitewashed fence, and in the rear the pretty cottages of the -pastor and his son, nothing more could be desired. It is really -beautiful. And how happy Bro. Clay is—how proud of his church and -immense congregation! He feels that God has been good to him, and -after many fierce storms, has conducted him to a peaceful and happy -old age. - -This church was built and paid for by the voluntary offerings of -the people. I think they have never solicited a dollar of outside -aid. They have built just as fast as they could pay for the work. -No shadow of debt has ever dimmed their joy. - -The Association met with this church in April. Great congregations -flocked to the meetings, and immediately upon the adjournment of -the Association, a revival of peculiar grace and tenderness was -enjoyed, and some precious souls “given their liberty.” - - -_Terrebonne Station (Rev. Benjamin Field, licensed Preacher, acting -Pastor). Lafourche Crossing (Rec. Wm. Reid, Pastor)._—These two -churches are under the general supervision of Bro. Clay, and look -to him for counsel as to a father. There is a peculiar bond binding -these little churches of like faith together. When the Lord’s work -is revived in one, the others hasten to share in the blessing, -and when trouble is developed in one, the others are quick to -sympathize and help. The Lafourche church are proposing to buy a -new lot and build a pretty chapel. They have very great faith in -their prospective growth. - - -_New Iberia._—St. Paul’s church is one of the strongest and most -stable in the Association. The September gale leveled their old -building. It was a blessing in disguise, for a new and substantial -church has risen in its place. How much the stimulus of necessity -will accomplish! - -Rev. W. R. Polk, a _protege_ of Dr. Cuyler, is the pastor. The -services are orderly and intelligent. Situated in the midst -of one of the most fruitful sections of the state, and almost -every colored man owning his homestead, and some of them in the -realization of the freedman’s ambition, “_forty acres and a mule_,” -there is a look of prosperity about church and people that is -refreshing. They are now self-supporting. They are also rejoicing -over several additions to the church on profession of faith. - -We must now group together a few churches, small as yet, but giving -promise of great usefulness. They are situated in important centres -with respect to colored population, and the absence of churches -except at great distances. - - -_Lockport and Harangville_—Under the missionary supervision of -Brother Ward, of Gretna. He pays them a monthly or semi-monthly -visit, and they do the best they can in the interval. When they -get stronger they will require and can pay for the regular services -of a resident minister. - - -_Peteance and Little Pecan_—Under the pastoral care of Rev. Wm. -Butler. Mr. Butler teaches a day school at Peteance, five miles -from New Iberia. Both these churches have houses of worship, and -are full of faith in the increase of future years. God grant their -faith may be rewarded. - - -Churches at _Bayou Du Large_ (Rev. Humphrey Williams, Pastor), -and at _Grand Bayou_ (S. Williams, Pastor), are new churches, -organized within the year, attracted by the simplicity, liberty and -spirituality of the Congregational mode of government. They have -cordially united hands with us. - - -_Abberville_—Needs a house of worship, and until it is built we -cannot begin to write its history. A church without a shelter is a -church in the wilderness indeed; and in this part of the world is -no church, but a scattered flock seeking a fold. - - -_Lake Peigneur (Rev. C. E. Smith, Pastor)._—This church enjoys -stated preaching. When the pastor is absent, some layman who has -the “gift” of exhorting calls the people together. The homes of -the people are often far apart. It is a rich prairie section, and -all or nearly all come on horse-back. There is very little abject -poverty. The labor of the men and women is sought, and commands a -living price. The land itself can be purchased from $10 to $15 per -acre, and so our friends are driving down the stakes into _their -own soil_. Once the negro had a right only in “God’s acre,” and not -that till he was dead. Now he holds the _title-deed_ to his own -property, sealed with the great seal of Louisiana. God be praised! -How restful to the tired laborer is a bed in his own cottage! How -much better Christian he can be, with his own home, with all the -amenities and domestic comforts of the family circle, and with the -inducements thus supplied to be good and to do good! - - * * * * * - - -UNION CHURCH, NASHVILLE, TENN. - -REV. H. S. BENNETT. - -This is a University church, and the work done by it is so -intimately connected with that done by the University that they -cannot be separated. Its membership is now 171 and is composed -largely of students. During vacation its meetings stop. It was -organized in 1868, and since that time no year has passed in the -history of the University without from 12 to 70 conversions. During -the past school year two powerful seasons of refreshing resulted -in the conversion of 68 students. The additions to the church have -been mostly on profession of faith, and have averaged more than -20 annually. In connection with the institution, of which the -church is a part, are a Sunday-school, a college, Y.M.C.A., and a -missionary society for the evangelization of Africa. Many class -prayer meetings are also held. - -From the University between 100 and 150 students, most of whom are -members of the church, go out to teach school during vacation. -These teachers organize Sunday-schools and temperance societies. -Five of the students have already gone as missionaries to Africa; -others are preparing to go, having consecrated themselves to the -work of African missions. Many of the students, members of the -church, are now engaged in the work of preaching the Gospel in the -churches of the South; others are preparing to preach. The work was -never so promising as now. - - * * * * * - - -MEMPHIS, TENN. - -REV. B. A. IMES. - -I can only speak of special interest awakened last fall and -early winter, carried on mainly among the young people of the -American Missionary Association school (Le Moyne Normal). Many -of these pupils were also our Sunday-school scholars. Of perhaps -40 converted, six united with our church. Since November 1, 1880, -seven have united with this church on profession and nine by letter. - -The Sunday-school is well attended, averaging from 100 to 140 -during the latter part of winter and spring, and now in vacation -about 75; general interest good. - -Since January 1st, money raised for missionary purposes $20. - -About 12 pupils of Le Moyne School are from our church, some of -them members, others from families in part or entirely connected -with it. One young man is teaching during the summer; will be in -school next year. - - * * * * * - - -CHATTANOOGA, TENN. - -REV. JOS. E. SMITH. - -The year has not passed without giving us tokens of God’s special -favor. The hopeful conversion of four persons, who are standing -firm in the faith and doing good service in the church, and the -renewed quickening of the whole church, are some of the happy -results of the Holy Spirit’s special presence. The Sunday-school is -full of interest; average attendance about 90 scholars, with eight -earnest teachers who were once our scholars. The Sunday-school -has a library of about 70 volumes of good books, which are quite -generally read by the school. - -Twenty-one persons have left us at different times to engage in -study either in Atlanta or Fisk University, nine of whom are -teaching and doing good work otherwise, while one is over in the -southern part of France preaching the Gospel. The church has paid -$26.10 toward missionary purposes. - - * * * * * - - -BEREA, KY. - -REV. JOHN G. FEE. - -The church here is the one church of the place, undenominational, -unsectarian. All who here profess faith in the Lord Jesus as their -personal Saviour from sin, and are baptized in His name as His true -followers, are recognized as in the body, and their fellowship is -cherished whilst they maintain Christian character. - -The present membership is 171; number added during the past year, -13; average attendance at the Sabbath-school, 192. Four other -Sabbath-schools are under the supervision of members of the church; -in these there is a total average attendance of 208. - -During the past year we erected here a neat plain building as a -church house and college chapel. It will seat some 500 people. - -We have here, conducted and managed chiefly by members of the -church, the most vigorous temperance association in the state, -including over 1,600 pledges. Our relations to the churches and -people around us are eminently friendly and pleasant. There is to -us an open door that no man can shut. To God be the glory. - -The church at Union Chapel, Jackson County, has just entered into a -new church house; has the aid of two resident elders, and a monthly -visit from Bro. Bunting, associate pastor at Berea. The churches -in Bracken and Lewis Counties are without a pastor; they sustain a -regular prayer meeting and Sunday-school. - -The church at Camp Nelson, Jessamine County, is without a regular -pastor. The members keep up frequent meetings and a promising -Sunday-school. We expect the presence and aid of Rev. J. T. Browne -as a pastor to some of these churches. Many useful fields could be -occupied if we had support for pastors. - - * * * * * - - -LITTLE ROCK, ARK. - -REV. B. F. FOSTER. - -Our work here, as you know, is in its very infancy; organized -27th of February, 1881, with 40 communicants. Since then we have -received by recommendation or letter 32 more. Our Sunday-school is -in excellent condition, averages 80 scholars, besides teachers, -&c. Our greatest need is competent Christian teachers. We have -purchased a lot in a very desirable part of the city (corner lot) -at $400. Have paid $140 toward it. Have laid the foundation on it -for a church. We are now negotiating for lumber, &c., with which -to erect the superstructure. Hope to go into it November 1st, and -also to lay the corner-stone very soon. Have raised since organized -$468 for church purposes. Hope to send one pupil to Fisk next fall. -Probably we may send two. Mrs. Foster (the pastor’s wife) expects -to begin missionary work here next fall. We pride ourselves on -being among a benevolent, generous class of Christians. All are -hopeful of success. Some certainly will be Congregationalists. Will -some Christian philanthropist help us? - - * * * * * - - -GOLIAD, TEXAS. - -REV. B. C. CHURCH. - -After years of toil and waiting we are made to rejoice in a revival -of religion; not the old, with its fanaticism and immoralities. -It is no easy task to educate an unlettered people to reject the -past and adopt a new and higher form of Christian life; to change -a prayerless and violent home into one of song and praise. This is -our work. - -After a meeting of fifteen days we received five persons into the -church on profession of faith, all from the Sunday-school, two -of whom are teachers. After a few days’ rest we opened a meeting -with the church in Helena, that continued eleven days. As a result -we received seven members. These, too, were connected with the -Sunday-school. In both meetings the interest continued till the -close. - -Rev. M. Thompson, my associate in work with these two churches, is -a brother greatly beloved by all who know him. If he had a few more -books, and our churches had one communion service between them, -many hearts would rejoice and many thanks would be given to the -donors. - - * * * * * - - -PARIS, TEXAS. - -REV. J. W. ROBERTS. - -We have had no special revival since last summer. Four, however, -have been added to the church during the year, two by letter and -two by profession. Without any formal organization, I am happy -to say that my people are abstainers from intoxicating liquors. -There is a temperance society in the city, but I do not espouse -its cause, because it is a secret society. Our Sabbath-school is -crowded every Lord’s day. We are endeavoring to introduce the -catechism, and thus far have been quite successful. Our great need -is a house of worship. We can scarcely hold services in the old -barn we now occupy on account of leakage when it rains and snows. -We have recently purchased a very desirable church lot not far from -the centre of the city, on which we expect to erect a new church. - -Two of my male members are carrying on missionary work in the -country with encouraging success. We sustain a neighborhood prayer -meeting, which is doing much good. A bright future is before us. - - * * * * * - - -FLATONIA, TEXAS. - -REV. T. E. HILLSON. - -I have only been in charge of this mission one year. On my arrival -I found everything to discourage me. Both white and black people -were prejudiced against the work of the Association, but the -future, perhaps, will tell better. I have the pleasure of preaching -to a congregation most of the time which cannot be comfortably -seated in the church building. We have a membership of twenty, -which is quite small, but the material for a Congregational church -has not matured in Texas yet. When young men and women possessing -the power of the Holy Spirit shall have taught among these people, -then Congregational churches will commence to spring up over Texas. -Over 45 of our young men and women have joined the temperance -union. I have also a benevolent literary society organized, which -is making good progress. - - * * * * * - - -CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS. - -REV. J. W. STRONG. - -Our church has been revived and all its services are well attended. -The whole church is a temperance society. We are becoming more -and more in favor with other churches both white and colored. The -hope of our church is in the boys and girls at school. Already two -ministers have gone forth from us, one of whom is doing good work -for four Baptist churches which he has in charge. The other one -also is a great power for good. Our church has been more anxious -for the souls of men than for their names upon its list. The -attendance at the Sabbath-school is good, made up in part of a -large Bible class of elderly people. - - * * * * * - - - - -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. - - * * * * * - - -JOTTINGS FROM THE FIELD. - -The following cheery item it was my privilege to publish in the -_Pacific_ of June 20th. I am sure that it will interest the readers -of the MISSIONARY: - -In connection with our California Chinese mission, thirteen schools -were sustained during the month of June. This is one less than -were in operation in May, the school at Tucson, Arizona, having -been discontinued temporarily. But the number of pupils enrolled -was 595—a net gain over the preceding month of 45, and the largest -enrollment ever reported. The average attendance was 314—larger -by 10 than during the preceding month, and larger than was ever -reported before. In the course of this fiscal year, thus far, not -less than 1,465 Chinese have been enrolled in these schools, and -have thus been reached by Gospel influences. Among the pupils now -in the schools, 128 are reported as giving evidence of conversion. - -_Laborers wanted for God’s Harvest._—Christ bids us pray for these. -I ask the readers of the MISSIONARY to join us in prayer for more -Chinese helpers made fit by the power of God’s Spirit for the work -that they, they alone, can do. The teacher in one of our more -recently established schools writes me as follows: “I find it very -hard to get along alone. We sadly need an efficient Chinese helper. -The boys are beginning to think and ask so many questions, and -each requires so much time for himself, that it is often after ten -o’clock P. M. when I get through. Then there are so many Chinese -outside that we cannot reach, and who will not come to school; and -they need some one to meet with them and talk to them in their own -language.” - -What is true of this school is just as true of all the rest. We -have now nine of those helpers employed. I should like to add -four to the list as soon as September 1st. Can I have the means to -sustain them? I believe that if the Lord will send forth the men, I -will trust Him for the money. But I certainly purpose not to waste -the Lord’s money sustaining men whom I alone, not He, have called -into the field. Unite with us in prayer for the _right_ men. - -_A Helper’s Sermon._—Lou Quong is at present our helper in the -West School in this city. He is a servant in a Christian family, -working at reduced wages in order to get time for missionary work. -What he thus loses I make up to him by way of salary. With the -other helpers in this city and Oakland, he meets me at our Central -Mission House for a review of the week’s Bible lessons, and for -mutual conference on all matters bearing on our mission. One of -the exercises is the presentation by each helper of a sketch of a -sermon for criticism and other suggestions from me. The following -was submitted yesterday (June 20th) by Lou Quong. I think that the -readers of the MISSIONARY have never heard from him before. - -The text (assigned to all in common on the preceding Wednesday) was -in John xiii. 34, “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love -one another: as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” - -“Our Lord has given us a new commandment to learn—that we should -love one another. Well, but how many commandments are there? -There are ten old commandments which the Lord gave Moses. The old -commandments say, ‘Thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.’ Why -does Jesus give us this new one? Is Christ any better than God? No, -they are the same. It is because Jesus saw the people of the world -needed more charity. Therefore, Christ gave us this one that we -must love one another with brotherly love. - -“2. But how can we love one another? Can we love all our brethren -without loving God? Or can we love God without loving our brethren? -No, we cannot love our brethren without loving God, neither can we -love God without loving His people. But we must first love God; -then we shall be able to love the brethren. Do not you know what -the Bible says, ‘we love God because He first loved us.’ _Love_ is -the _greatest word_ in the world. We cannot possibly do anything -without this word. Love the brethren of God’s church as if they -were your own brethren. But what is the reason that we should love -them as our own brethren? Yes, they are truly our own brethren. -Why? Because we are all made of one blood. At the beginning, did -not God make a man and a woman, and told them to love one another, -and keep His commandments? But at last they broke His commands, so -God turned them out of Paradise. Now are they not the father and -mother of us all? Of course, they are. This is why we ought to love -them that are God’s children as well as our own brethren. - -“3. But how are we able to love one another? Shall we love them -when they love us? That is a very easy way, but this not the way -of love at all. Or shall we say, we will love them, but the heart -is not willing to do so? Is this the way to love? Or, shall we say -by mouth, yes, we will love him truly, but still try to listen to -him when he talks, or preaching, or studying, to find fault with -him, and go right off and tell some one else instead of telling -his fault before him by yourself alone; is this the way to love? -Or, he speak something against me; then I do not like to speak to -him any more: is that the way to love? Or, to wait, find out all -his mistakes and all his faults, and then go find some one who you -think best,—who you think love you very much, and who you think can -help you any way, and who do always to please you with talk, and -who can scold them better than you, for perhaps they are better -person than you, and perhaps they have more respect of men; and -your heart is full of envying, and always try to knock him down: is -this the way to love one another? Is that your _brother_, that you -ought to treat him so? No, my friends, this is not the way to love -at all. But we are _truly_ to love one another; this is our duty. -What Jesus told us to do, we must do it by heart, not by talk, -nor by pleasing, neither by any other way. But first knowing that -God is always looking down from above, so we must be careful how -we love God and our brother. This is what we ought to have;—that -is, we must first have our hearts pure, then comes the peaceable, -gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and _good fruits of -righteousness, without partiality and without hypocrisy_. Do it by -heart. Amen.” - -I have transcribed it just as it was brought in—the first draft -roughly penciled—and the italics are his own. As a work of -homiletic art, it is open to criticism certainly; but as an -utterance of truth, it may reach the case, and fitly stir the -conscience of many an American Christian, as well as of our Chinese -believers. - -I close with, this extract from the report of the teacher of our -Barnes School: “The most enjoyable lessons to me are those in the -Bible, and I am often surprised at the interest shown, and the -questions and answers given. * * * Last night in Sabbath-school -one was learning the passage, ‘Take heed that ye do not your alms -before men,’ etc. I asked him if he knew what that meant. He -answered, ‘When you give away something, or do something kind to -any body, don’t go talk about it, tell everybody. If you do, God -think you too much foolie.’ I think I have given his exact words.” - - * * * * * - - - - -WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. - -Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston. - -MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_. MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_. - - * * * * * - - -MISS WILSON’S WORK AMONG THE REFUGEES IN KANSAS. - -Miss Julia Wilson, sent out October last by the W.H.M.A., writes -from Baxter Springs, Kansas: The blessing of God has seemed to rest -upon our work from the beginning, in opening the way before us and -in giving us favor with the people for whom we labor. - -Kind friends have sent us generous aid, whereby we have been -able to meet our charity work, which although only a small part -of the great whole, is nevertheless a very important part, not -only because we are thus enabled to relieve want and suffering, -but because of the opportunity thereby given to gain a personal -influence over individuals. We often have thirty visitors in a day. -A few minutes are given to one; often hours of precious time must -be given to others, for thus only are their hearts kept with ours. -We encourage, aid, advise as circumstances demand. We are with -our people in sickness, death and also at their funerals. We have -a woman’s school four or five times a week; but our Bible school -is our corner-stone. We have a large attendance in the adult’s -room and also in the children’s department. They listen with -earnestness, and I always feel at the close that the Lord has been -with us. This people have been so accustomed to a mixture of error -with the truth, that simple Bible truth is new to them. I will not -speak of difficulties that must be met and overcome, only to say -that if we did not know we are here in the strength of the Lord, we -might as well go home, so strong a hold has sin in its worst and -most debasing forms upon these people. “But the people who sat in -darkness have seen a great light,” and “they that dwelt in the land -of the shadow of death, upon them has the light shined.” What a -privilege to be a light-bearer for the Lord—to hold the fort at any -point against the might of Satan! For Jesus signals, “I am coming.” -Yes, “We’ll wave the answer back to Heaven. By thy grace we will.” - -We would like to give to the readers the diary of Miss. W. for one -month, but have only space for the report of two or three days, to -show how constantly her head, heart and hands are busy in her work: - -1st. Sunday-school book, papers and slate pencil to Mr. B., who -came twelve miles. To preacher D., bundle of clothing for himself -and family. 2d, sent soap to H. family, who camped under a tree -after traveling 200 miles; they were wet, weary and hungry. Again, -sent rice to Mrs. G., thread and cloth for children’s clothes to -Mrs. B., the same to Mrs. L., one of whom walked eight miles, -the other twelve, to attend the woman’s school; lesson papers, -Sunday-school papers and cards to three young people who walked -eight miles to reach the mission. Lesson to Mrs. A. in button-hole -making, thread for practice, cards to H. children, and lesson to -Cora. Supper cooked and given to a family of six tired, hungry -people, the most wretched I have seen, also a night’s lodging in -our church. Coat, shirt and decent grave clothes to B. Land given -to three women, two of whom walked eight and the other twelve miles. - -The friends who have so generously responded to Miss Wilson’s needs -will see by this report how she has by their gifts been able to -meet the urgent necessities of these poor suffering people. Miss -Wilson lives with her helper, who was a pupil at Hampton Institute -for a time, in a small cottage “shaded from the intense heat by -trees, and furnished with a good well of water, worth more than -a gold mine,” surrounded by the cottages of her people, and so -enabled to bring to bear upon them the influence of a Christian -home. - -Boxes and barrels sent during the month of July: - - From Auxiliary in Plainville, Conn., clothing valued $25.70 - ” Highland, Ill., to Miss Wilson, Baxter Springs, - Kansas, one box valued 48.70 - ” Philips Church, South Boston, Ladies’ Benevolent - Society to Miss Wilson, box valued 55.31 - To Home Missionaries at the West, box valued 132.19 - -Receipts of Woman’s Home Missionary Association from June 27 to -July 25, 1881: - - From auxiliaries $360.50 - ” life members 80.00 - ” donations 165.95 - ” annual members 4.00 - ——————— - $610.45 - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -PAULPHEMIA’S MA. - - “Oh! who is dat a comin’? Don’t you grieve for me. - De Lord don’t want you to grieve for me. - ’Tis ole Father Gable (Gabriel),” etc., etc. - -Over and over again sounded the weird melody, mingling with the -strains of martial music that floated from the barracks opposite. -Paulphemia seemed to appreciate better her own melody, with its -accompaniment of heels knocking against the gate-post on which -she sat, than the patriotic “Rally round the flag, boys,” of the -musicians. - -It was after the war and Paulphemia was free. Surely, she knew all -this, for hadn’t her pa fallen in battle, bravely fighting? and -hadn’t she fled with her dear widowed missus and little missuses -in as great terror as they when the Union army entered the city? -For she loved this mistress, and was only dimly sure that freedom -was to be such a glorious thing. Surely no one knew better than -Paulphemia that she was free, and yet where was the use in singing -all day, “I’se free, thank de Lord,” or of falling on her knees -periodically to shout and praise God, as “_maw_” did? - -I have said that she seemed to appreciate better her own doleful -melody than the martial music; in reality, though, her song was a -kind of “Get thee behind me, Satan,” to the tempter urging her to -run over to the barracks. - -Indeed Paulphemia’s cup was one of mingled joy and pain, and -therein, although as black as ebony, she was akin to us. True, she -was free; that meant she had no more _toting_ of missus’ babies. -But when she lived with missus, she didn’t have to live with ma; -and Paulphemia would have told you, “this ma ain’t my ma, ’cause -my own dear ma done died,” and this ma had decreed that the child -should not run loose hither and yon, and especially should not -go over to the fort and barracks. Paulphemia almost envied the -little dwarf, her neighbor, poor little Joe Morgan, whose body and -limbs were so distorted and mixed up that he could scratch his ear -or his little woolly head with his toes. For the amusement this -accomplishment afforded the soldiers, he was welcome at any time, -and in this way picked up many a penny. - -“Paulphemie,” shouted an imperative voice, “I’se a gwine ter whip -you, chile, if you darst go over to them quarters!” The old woman, -with her threat and her stick for enforcing it, appeared most -opportunely in the cabin door, for the child had slid from the -gate-post and in another second would have rallied round the flag; -but with a face expressive of innocence itself, she responded, -“I’se jis a comin’, maw!” This meekness deceived the old woman and -she changed her menacing tones. “Honey,” she said, “your _pore_ -ma’s done died, an’ nebber lived to see us free! Say, honey, reckon -you’d like for to be a lady like ole missus?” “Dunno,” answered -Paulphemia, for “Yankee Doodle” was just then driving her almost -wild. “Say, honey, reckon you’d like for to go to the big paid -school?” - -At this the child opened wider her big eyes, for next to the -barracks in point of mystery was the large school into which -she had longed to penetrate. “You get learning, chile, an’ get -religion, an’ sure ’nough you’se a lady like ole missus.” This was -what the old woman told Paulphemia then, and afterward put her to -school. - -Years came and went as years will do, some three or four or five; -and after a time the blue-coats vanished from the city, martial -music was no more heard, and the forts crowning the beautiful -hills and all the barracks about them became deserted and silent. -Still the school in the hospital buildings continued and increased -in prosperity, and still the years rolled on, fourteen of them, and -even the hospital buildings became deserted, for the Freedmen’s -school had long since outgrown its quarters, and from one of the -beautiful hills it proudly and peacefully looks down upon the city, -that proudly and in peace gazes up to it. - -On a day when the Southern sunshine was brightest, one of the -professors, on his way to the University, was stopped by an aged -colored woman, bowed over on a walking-stick, and hobbling to -meet him. “Howdy,” said she, “is you de teacher up yonder?” and -she pointed to the stately hall. “Yes, auntie,” he replied with -a smile. “Can I do anything for you?” “Reckon you don’t ’member -Paulphemie Watkins?”—and as she spoke the name, her voice grew even -more tremulous. - -The professor regretfully said he did not recall her. “I ’spects -you doesn’t,” added the old auntie. “Well, down yonder, sah, when -dis yere school was a baby, you know, down yonder in de guv’ment -buildings, my Paulphemie went to your paid school; she got religion -thar, and—and (wiping slowly her eyes) she done got de _choleray_ -and done died, nigh on ter fourteen year ago now, sah. Praise de -Lord! she got religion, and she gone home ter glory!” And then the -poor old thing, after placing her walking-stick so that she could -safely lean on it and have her hands free, removed from her bosom -a handkerchief, and with trembling fingers untied a knot in one -corner; then she placed in the professor’s hand, counting them out -one by one, six silver dollars. “For my Paulphemie’s larnin’, sah. -I couldn’t pay it sooner, sah; but, sure ’nough, its done laid like -a stone right here all dese yere years,” she said, putting her hand -on her heart. "I prayed de Lord an’ I said, O! good Lord, don’t -lemme come home to glory till I done paid for Paulphemie’s larnin’! -It’s a pretty day, sah; I lives a right smart o’ way yonder, an’ my -ole feet don’t go fast, so good evening."[A] With those words she -would have gone. The professor’s eyes were moist, and he had hardly -spoken, so strange had been the scene, but now he followed her, -begging her gently to keep the money. With pride and almost anger -she refused, and after learning where her home was, he was obliged -to let her go, contenting himself with a plan to fully make up to -her in some way the sum she had left in his hands. - -Walking slowly and thoughtfully toward the University, he seemed to -hear not “the still, sad music of humanity;” for how could he dare -to _pity_ a soul so noble? But an angel’s plaudit spoke for her, -“She hath done what she could.” - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] This incident of the aged colored woman’s honesty is true, and -occurred during the past winter. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1881. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $171.23. - - Bath. Central Ch. and Soc. $15.00 - Portland. State St. Ch. 150.00 - South Paris. Cong. Ch. 6.23 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $293.23. - - Centre Harbor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 - Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100.57, to - const. MRS. SARA H. HARRINGTON, L. M.; Miss - A. J. H. and Others, $2; “A Friend,” $1 103.57 - Fitzwilliam. MRS. LOUISA HILL, to const. - herself L. M. 30.00 - Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Hollis. Cong. Ch. 5.20 - Reese. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 39.00 - Milford. Cong. Ch. ($10 of wh. bal. to const. - ANDREW J. HUTCHINSON, L. M.) 18.75 - Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.27 - New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. 12.44 - Pembroke. “A. T.” 5.00 - Short Falls. I. W. Chandler 2.00 - Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - - - VERMONT, $1,181.45. - - Brownington & Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and - Soc. 20.83 - Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.72 - Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd 25.00 - Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Shoreham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 0.51 - Springfield. A. Woolson 200.00 - West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $9.88; Mrs. Fannie C. Gaines, $5 14.88 - West Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00 - Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.26 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. - LYDIA WHEELER, and DEA. C. D. HAZEN, L. M’s 52.25 - ———————— - 381.45 - - LEGACY. - Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood, - by Geo. P. Haywood, Ex. 800.00 - ———————— - 1,181.45 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $8,237.48. - - Amesbury. Mrs. A. L. Bayley, to const. REV. W. - F. SLOCUM, L. M. 30.00 - Amherst. First Cong. Ch., $25; South Cong. Ch. - and Soc., $6 31.00 - Andover. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc., $93.41, to - const. REBECCA J. POOR, AGNES DEAR and MARY - RICHARDSON, L. M’s; Chapel Ch. and Soc. - (ad’l) $20 113.41 - Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00 - Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 - Boston. Highland Cong. Ch. and Society, - $37.50; Rev. Photius Fisk, $10; Mrs. M. L. - 50c.; Mrs. J. L. T., 50c.; J. T. J., 51c. 49.01 - Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch. 80.49 - Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. 112.91 - Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Sewing Circle of - Pilgrim Ch., Box of C. - Campello. “A Friend” 50.00 - Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.38; - Mrs. A. E. P., 50c. 38.88 - Concord. Ellen T. Emerson 10.00 - Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Douglas. “A Friend” 1.00 - Easthampton. First Ch. Sab. Sch. 23.17 - Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Greenfield. First Cong Ch. and Soc. 12.75 - Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 - Littleton. “A Friend” 50.00 - Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for - Buildings at Wilmington, N.C._ 1,500.00 - Marlborough. Union Ch. and Soc. 57.00 - Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.43 - Medway. Village Ch. and Soc. 85.06 - Medway. Mrs. Fisher, _for Straight U._ 5.00 - Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.25 - Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - New Bedford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00 - Newburyport. Miss L. B. Goodrich 4.00 - Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 160.00 - Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., - $46.45; S. A. E., 50c. 46.95 - Northampton. “A Friend” 150.00 - Northfield. Miss M. E. Hilliard 5.00 - North Somerville. “A Friend,” $1; “A Friend,” $1 2.00 - Orleans. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00 - Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.05 - Salem. South Church and Soc., $73.22; - “Friend,” $5 78.22 - Sandwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 53.25 - South Dennis. Cong Ch. and Soc. 12.04 - Sudbury. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. - $29, and $3 _for freight, for Tillotson C. & - N. Inst._ 3.00 - Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., _for - furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 50.00 - Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $24.84; - S. N. W., $1 25.84 - Townsend. Cong. Ch., by Dea. W. Haynes 5.00 - Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.23 - Watertown. Phillips Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 - West Roxbury. S. D. Smith 100.00 - West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett 5.00 - Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00 - Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 17.20 - Wilmington. J. Skilton 10.00 - Wilmington. Rev. D. T. Noyes, Bbl. of C. _for - Refugees_. - Woburn. “Friends.” 1.00 - Worcester. Central Ch. and Soc., $169.24; - Union Ch. and Soc., $140.10; Salem St. Cong. - Ch., $6 315.34 - —— “A Friend” 2.50 - ———————— - 3,875.98 - - LEGACIES. - Worcester. Estate of I. Washburn, by P. C. - Bacon, Adm. 3,361.50 - Boston. Estate of Hon. Stephen N. Stockwell, - by Geo. W. Merritt and W. W. Clapp, Executors 1,000.00 - ———————— - 8,237.48 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $1,035.00. - - Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers and Miss - Charlotte De Wolf, _for Fisk U._ 1,000.00 - Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 - Little Compton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - rebuilding, Tougaloo U._ 14.00 - - - CONNECTICUT, $2,387.92. - - Barkhamsted. Rev. J. B. Clarke 2.00 - Berlin. Second Cong. Ch., $22; Miss C. R. C., $1 23.00 - Canaan. “The Children” 5.00 - Collinsville. “A Friend” 2.00 - Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.85 - Danielsonville. J. C. B. 0.50 - Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc. - ($50 of which for furnishing a room in Stone - Hall, Straight U.), to const. EDWIN A. - PECKHAM, MISS ELLEN WILLIAMS and LORENZO - LILLIBRIDGE, L. M’s 100.00 - East Canaan. Cong. Ch. 20.84 - East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 71.75 - Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.74 - Enfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00 - Farmington. Cong. Ch. 45.83 - Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lord 10.00 - Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 23.00 - Hadlyme. “L.” 2.00 - Hartford. Centre Ch., $789; Asylum Hill Cong. - Ch., $188.21 977.21 - Hebron. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Higganum. Cong. Ch., to const. R. J. GLADWIN, - L. M. 44.00 - Hockanum. South Cong. Ch., $9.63; Mrs. E. M. - Roberts, $5; Mrs. S. W. and Miss M. B., 50c. - ea. 15.63 - Ledyard. Sab. Sch., by Edward Cook, Treas. 10.00 - Meriden. Third Cong. Ch. 22.76 - Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 29.50 - Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.55 - New Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 11.51 - North Guilford. S. R. Fowler 6.00 - North Haven. Cong. Ch., to const. GEO. H. - COOPER and CULLEN B. FOOTE, L. M’s 72.53 - Putnam. Sab. Sch., of Second Cong. Ch., _for - ed. of an Indian boy, Hampton N. and A. - Inst._ 30.00 - Putnam. “A Friend” 17.50 - Redding. Cong. Ch. 15.69 - Rockville. Rev. S. B. F. 0.51 - Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 61.68 - Stamford. Cong. Ch. 111.00 - Simsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.35 - South Killingly. Rev. Wm. H. Beard 5.00 - Stratford. Asa S. Curtis 2.00 - Woodbury. Mrs. C. P. Churchill, _for Indian M._ 2.00 - ———————— - 1,887.92 - - LEGACY. - New London. “Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven” 500.00 - ———————— - 2,387.92 - - - NEW YORK, $1,540.32. - - Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach 25.00 - Brentwood. E. F. Richardson 15.00 - Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., Geo. A. - Bell, Supt., _for Missionaries at Ladies - Island, S.C., and Fernandina, Fla._ 125.00 - Ithaca. Mrs. Lucy Thurber 5.00 - Jamestown. Sab. Sch. and Cong. Ch., _for - school, Athens, Ala._ 12.50 - Marilla. “A Friend” 1.00 - New York. S. T. Gordon, $200; N.Y. Colored - Mission Sab. Sch., 135, West 30th St., $3.15 203.15 - Oswego. Cong. Ch. 65.90 - Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch., $29.52; - First Cong. Ch., $12 41.52 - Sing Sing. “Friends” 5.00 - Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 17.25 - Walton. “A Friend,” _for Steamer “John Brown,” - Mendi M._ 10.00 - West Camden. Miss N. Curtiss, $1.25; P. S. S., - 75c. 2.00 - West Groton. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - ———————— - 540.32 - - LEGACY. - Nineveh. Estate of Col. Reuben Lovejoy, by - Mrs. Mary B. Lovejoy, Executrix 1,000.00 - ———————— - 1,540.32 - - - NEW JERSEY, $10.70. - - Newark. “A Friend” 0.70 - Troy. Mrs. Jane Ford 10.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $15.00. - - Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland 5.00 - West Alexander. —— 10.00 - - - OHIO, $336.99. - - Andover. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Clarksfield. W. A. A. 1.00 - Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., $42.37, ($30 - of which to const. J. W. ELLSWORTH, L. M.); - R. B. Johns, $2.50 44.87 - Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.15 - Freedom. Cong. Ch., by Rev. Geo. Thompson 8.00 - Garrettsville. Cong. Ch. 13.00 - Hudson. Hiram Thompson 5.00 - Lodi. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Madison. Mrs. James Dayton, Bbl. of Papers and - $2.30 _for freight, for Macon, Ga._ 2.30 - Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., $17.46; W. G. B., - 50c. 17.96 - Oberlin. Rev. Geo. Thompson, _for Mendi M._ 5.00 - Oberlin. Sab. Sch. in Farrer Neighborhood 2.00 - Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 39.24 - Randolph. W. J. Dickinson 10.00 - Ravenna. Cong. Ch. 41.18 - Savannah. James Lawson 5.00 - Sharon Centre. Mrs. L. A. J. and Mrs. E. R., - 50c. ea. 1.00 - Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 4.76 - Strongsville. Lyman H. Freeman, _for - furnishing a room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo U., - and bal. to const._ CLARA M. HOWARD, L. M. 5.00 - Tallmadge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.60 - Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for S. S. work, - Mobile, Ala._ 25.47 - West Andover. Cong. Ch. 22.46 - - - INDIANA, $100.00. - - Michigan City. First Cong. Ch. 100.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $1,004.09. - - Aurora. Mrs. Philena Johnson 10.00 - Bondville. “A Friend” 5.00 - Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Canton. First Cong. Ch. 28.00 - Chesterfield. Mrs. T. Dowland 5.00 - Byron. Mrs. T. H. Read, $10; Cong. Ch., $8.53 18.53 - Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., $350.40; South - Cong. Ch., $33.30; New England Cong. Ch. - (Mon. Con.), $12; M. A., $1 396.70 - Chicago. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Plymouth Cong. - Ch., $50; Woman’s Miss. Soc. of South Cong. - Ch., $8.75; Mrs. M. W. Mabbs, $5, _for Lady - Missionary, Mobile, Ala._ 63.75 - Downers Grove. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Earlville. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which to const. - MISS TILLIE HART, L. M.) 41.50 - Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Fisk U._ 50.00 - Elmhurst. Seth Wadhams 25.00 - Elmwood. Cong. Ch. 42.65 - Galena. Mrs. Anne Bean 2.00 - Galesburg. Mrs. E. T. Parker, $30; Ladies’ - Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $10 40.00 - Hutsonville. C. V. NEWTON, to const. himself, - L. M. 30.00 - Jacksonville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00 - Lamoille. Ladies of Cong. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 20.00 - Loda. Cong. Ch. (Decoration Day offering) 13.34 - Lyonsville. Cong. Ch. 16.89 - Malden. Cong. Ch. 10.25 - Maple Park. J. G. Snow 5.00 - Millburn. Cong. Ch. 23.75 - Moline. Miss Etta M. Pitts 10.00 - Northampton. R. W. Gilliam 5.00 - Oak Park. Mrs. Lyman G. Holley 5.00 - Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.00 - Sycamore. Cong. Ch., $77.03; Henry Wood, $10 87.03 - Wayne. Cong. Ch. 9.20 - Wilmette. Mrs. A. T. S. 0.50 - Woodburn. Children’s Nickel Mite Soc., by Eula - E. Carson, Treas. 5.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $213.62. - - Delhi. Norman Dwight 10.00 - Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - Woodville, Ga._ 30.00 - Greenville. Mrs. E. Middleton 2.00 - Hudson. Cong. Ch. 21.54 - Kensington. John Thompson 2.00 - Litchfield. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 12.00 - Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 43.80 - Romeo. “A Friend,” $20, _for Indian M._; and - $20, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst._, and to - const. CHARLES FAIRFIELD, L. M. 40.00 - Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 12.28 - Somerset. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Unadilla. Mrs. Agnes D. Bird 2.00 - Wayne. Cong. Ch. 16.00 - White Lake. John Garner 2.00 - - - IOWA, $510.89. - - Anamosa. Cong. Ch., $3.50, and Sab. Sch., $3.95 7.45 - Belle Plaine. J. P. Henry, $5; Mrs. C. M. - Henry, $5; Freddie and Josie Henry, 50c. ea. 11.00 - Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds 5.00 - Cresco. Cong. Ch. 6.50 - Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, _for Stone Hall, - Talladega C._ 10.00 - Davenport. Rev. J. G. Merrill, _for - President’s House, Talladega, Ala._ 50.00 - Des Moines. Cong. Ch. (of which $100 from Hon. - Saml. Merrill) 173.28 - Dunlap. W. S. Preston, _for furnishing a room - in Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00 - Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.26 - Humboldt. Mrs. L. K. Lorbeer, $2; Mrs. L. A. W., $1 3.00 - Le Grand. L. M. Craig. _for Tougaloo U._ 12.00 - Lyons. First Cong. Ch. 24.00 - Monterey. Cong. S. S. Class, _for Chinese M._ 0.50 - Muscatine. Cong. Ch. 42.85 - Muscatine. Capt. W. A. Clark, _for Stone Hall, - Talladega C._ 5.00 - Osage. General Association of Iowa 10.00 - Osage. Woman’s Missionary Soc., $4.50 _for - Student Aid, Fisk U._, and $4 _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 8.50 - Tabor. Cong. Ch. 63.00 - Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.55 - - - MISSOURI, $23.35. - - Holden. “Mrs. S. E. H.”, _for ed. of Indians, - Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 2.00 - Stewartsville. Cong. Ch. 13.58 - Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 7.77 - - - WISCONSIN, $213.41. - - Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 4.50 - Brandon. “Busy Bees.” _for Student Aid, - Tougaloo U._ 11.18 - Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Geneva. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 10.00 - Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. 36.57 - Highland. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - La Crosse. Boy’s prayer meeting, Cong. Ch. 11.00 - Menominee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.00 - Milton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 2.50 - Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. Miss. Soc., - _for Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 10.00 - Monroe. “Our Family Missionary Box,” 4.75 - New Richmond. First Cong. Ch. 16.98 - Waupun. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $5 _for - Chinese M., and_ $5 _for Indian M._) $57.63; - Cong. Sab Sch., $15 72.63 - West Salem. Mrs. Mary L. Clark, Box of Books - and Papers, and $2.30 _for freight, for - Macon, Ga._ 2.30 - White Water. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady - Missionary, Talladega, Ala._ 2.00 - - - KANSAS, $5.25. - - Meriden. L. A. 0.25 - Topeka. Justin Hillyer 5.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $107.34. - - Austin. Cong. Ch. 21.64 - Elk River. Cong. Ch. 3.68 - Faribault. Cong. Ch. 25.18 - Glyndon. Mrs. S. N. Millard 3.66 - Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $30.20; - “Cash,” $1 31.20 - Plainview. Woman’s Cent. Soc. 7.50 - Red Wing. Mrs. J. B. N. 0.50 - Saint Charles. Cong. Ch. 6.98 - Saint Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell 5.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $11.13. - - Crete. Cong. Ch. (of which $6.34 _for Cal. - Chinese M._) 10.13 - Red Cloud. Cong. Ch. 1.00 - - - DAKOTA TERRITORY, 50c. - - Bon Homme. Rev. D. B. N. 0.50 - - - WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $18.75. - - New Tacoma. Mrs. E. T. 1.00 - Skokomish. Cong. Mission Ch., _for Indian M._ 17.75 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00. - - Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $219.75. - - Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition 219.75 - - - TENNESSEE, $2.71. - - Chattanooga. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.71 - Nashville. E. P. G. 1.00 - - - GEORGIA, $136.35. - - Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $37.50; Rent, - $6.00 43.50 - Atlanta. Students and Teachers of Atlanta - University, _for Cal. Chinese M._ 85.00 - Macon. Cong. Ch., $5; Lewis High School, - Tuition, 85c. 5.85 - Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, _for - Church building_ 2.00 - - - ALABAMA, $39.11. - - Marion. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Selma. First Cong. Ch., $7.25; Woman’s Miss. - Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $10 17.25 - Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition 17.86 - Tuskegee. “Friends,” by Mrs. M., _for Strieby - Hall, Tougaloo U._ 1.00 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $2,022.95. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 22.95 - Tougaloo. State Appropriation 2,000.00 - - - TEXAS, $2.30. - - Corpus Christi. First Cong. Ch. 2.30 - - - INCOME FUND, $1,266.78. - - Avery Fund 711.41 - Graves Library Fund 150.00 - Theological Endowment Fund 404.37 - ————————— - Total 21,112.60 - Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st $190,824.79 - - * * * * * - - - FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Goshen, Conn. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing - a room_ $25.00 - Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June - 30th 4,949.71 - ———————— - Total $4,974.71 - - * * * * * - - - FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA. - - Rehoboth, Mass. “A young brother in Cong. Ch.” $5.00 - Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to June - 30th 26,284.62 - —————————— - Total $26,289.62 - - * * * * * - - - ENDOWMENT FUND. - - Buda, Ill. By Mrs. A. M. Haley, in memory of - Samuel Gordon Haley, for two Haley - Scholarships in Fisk U. $2,000.00 - - - H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, - 56 Reade St., N.Y. - - * * * * * - - - - -Constitution of the American Missionary Association. - -INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849. - - * * * * * - - -ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY -ASSOCIATION.” - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort. - -ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes -faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the -practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, -may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty -dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have -not professed their faith may be constituted life members without -the privilege of voting. - -ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of -September, October or November, for the election of officers and -the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall -be designated by the Executive Committee. - -ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular -officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, -and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, -and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one -representative. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, -Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less -than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be -advisory, and the Treasurer ex officio, members. - -ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting -and disbursing of funds; the appointing, 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 as the -strong. - -2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to -accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for -the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and -pious, for these churches. - -3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and -missionaries to Africa—a pressing want. - -Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office as below: - - NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street. - BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational - House. - CHICAGO Rev. Jas. 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 -that the Will should be made at least two months before the death -of the testator. - - * * * * * - - - - - PAYSON’S - - Indelible Ink, - - FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A - COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A - PREPARATION. - - - It still stands unrivaled after 50 years’ test. - - - _THE SIMPLEST & BEST._ - -Sales now greater than ever before. - -This Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all -rivals. - -Report of Judges: “For simplicity of application and indelibility.” - - - INQUIRE FOR - - PAYSON’S COMBINATION!!! - -Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many -Fancy Goods and Furnishing Houses. - - - * * * * * - - - [Illustration] - - J. & R. 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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. - -A club of three copies of WITNESS for a year, directed separately, -will be sent for $4 remitted direct to this office, and also three -copies of this Testament. - -A club of six GEMS OF POETRY for a year will be $4, and three -copies of Revised New Testament will be sent gratis with it. - -A club of nine SABBATH READING will be sent for a year for $4, and -three copies of Revised New Testament gratis. - -All directed separately and all postpaid. - -Address, - - JOHN DOUGALL & CO., - _No. 21 Vandewater Street, N.Y._ - - - * * * * * - - - Northfield Meetings. - - AN EXCELLENT REPORT - - OF THE - - Meetings at Northfield - - WILL BE FOUND IN THE - - New York Witness of August 11, 18, 25 and September 1st. - - -The Four Copies will be sent post-paid for =TEN CENTS=, or for =25 -Cents= the Witness will be sent to any address =THREE MONTHS, ON -TRIAL=. - - JOHN DOUGALL & CO., - _21 Vandewater St._, - NEW YORK. - - - * * * * * - - - - -Annual Meeting. - - * * * * * - - -The American Missionary Association will hold its Thirty-fifth -Anniversary in the city of Worcester, November 1-3. - -On Tuesday, at three o’clock P. M., the Executive Committee will -render their Annual Report. - -At 7.30 o’clock, Tuesday evening, the Annual Sermon will be -preached by Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D.D., of Hartford, Communion -following. - -On Wednesday morning, papers will be read on topics of special -interest relating to the work. - -Wednesday afternoon and Thursday will be occupied with Reports of -Committees and addresses thereon. - -On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, there will be addresses from -Senator George F. Hoar, Judge A. W. Tourgée, President M. H. -Buckham, and other distinguished speakers. - -The Committees on hospitality, reduction of railroad fares, and -other matters of detail pertaining to the meeting, will be duly -published in the religious papers. - -The Executive Committee proposes the following amendments to the -Constitution of the American Missionary Association to be submitted -to the Annual Meeting for action thereon, viz.: - -ART. III. Any person who contributes to the funds of the -Association may become a member thereof for the current year by -requesting to be enrolled as such at the time such contribution is -paid into the treasury of the Association, and any contributor to -the amount of thirty dollars, at one time, may, on request to that -effect, be enrolled as a Life Member. - -ART. V. The Annual Meeting shall consist of the Officers, Life -Members who have been such prior to the first day of October -preceding the time of such meeting, such persons as have been -enrolled as members within one year prior to that date, and of -delegates from churches that have within the year contributed -to the funds of the Society, and from State Associations and -Conferences, each of such churches, associations and conferences to -be entitled to one delegate. - -ART. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President, -Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries, (who shall also keep -the records of the Association,) Treasurer, Auditors, and an -Executive Committee of not less than twelve members. - -ART. VII. After “dismissing,” omit the parenthesis. Omit ART. -VIII., and number ARTS. IX. and X. respectively VIII. and IX. - - * * * * * - - -DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK. - - - - -Transcriber’s Notes: - - -Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected. -Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to various authors. - -Missing letter “t” inserted in the word “at” on page 263. (having -its centre at London) - -Missing digit inserted in the Newton entry on page 284. “1 0.00” -changed to “160.00”. Arithmetic used to derive the missing digit. - -Missing “g” inserted into the word “Cong.” in the Pittsfield entry -on page 284. - -“Tillottson” corrected to “Tillotson” in the first line of page 286. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 35, -No. 9, September, 1881, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, SEPTEMBER 1881 *** - -***** This file should be named 56102-0.txt or 56102-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/6/1/0/56102/ - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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