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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 36, No.
+5, May, 1882, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most
+other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
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+Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 36, No. 5, May, 1882
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: September 7, 2018 [EBook #57859]
+
+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MAY 1882 ***
+
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+[Illustration:
+
+VOL. XXXVI.      MAY, 1882.       No. 5
+
+THE
+
+American Missionary
+
+“THEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER”
+
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,
+
+ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price, 50 Cents a Year, In Advance.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class
+matter.]
+
+
+
+
+                             CONTENTS.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+  EDITORIAL.
+                                                         PAGE.
+    PARAGRAPHS                                             129
+    BENEFACTIONS                                           130
+    CONCERNING ENDOWMENTS                                  131
+    DEATH OF REV. J. M. WILLIAMS                           133
+    GENERAL NOTES——Africa, Indians, Chinese                133
+    CUT OF MODOC FUNERAL                                   135
+    ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS                              136
+
+
+  THE FREEDMEN.
+
+    REVIVAL NEWS——From Tougaloo, Chattanooga,
+      Macon, Atlanta, Hampton, Paris and McIntosh          137
+    OUR YOUNGEST, THE TILLOTSON                            140
+    TEACHER’S INSTITUTE AT TALLADEGA                       140
+    HON. WM. E. DODGE AND ATLANTA UNIV.                    141
+    ATLANTA TEACHER AT MACON                               141
+
+
+  AFRICA.
+
+    MR. LADD’S JOURNAL                                     142
+    ELEPHANT HUNTING (cut)                                 143
+
+
+  THE CHINESE.
+
+    STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY——Chinese New-Year              147
+    JAPANESE PLEASURE PARTY                                149
+
+
+  CHILDREN’S PAGE.
+
+    THE GRASSHOPPER TEACHER                                150
+
+
+  RECEIPTS                                                 151
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+American Missionary Association,
+
+56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  PRESIDENT, HON. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.
+
+
+  CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
+
+    Rev. M. E. STRIEBY. D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+  TREASURER.
+
+    H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._
+
+
+  DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
+
+    Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
+    Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.
+    Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.
+
+
+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, Rev. C.
+L. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,
+or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may
+be addressed to the persons above named.
+
+
+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.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Annual Report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the
+Association and the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will
+be sent free on application.
+
+
+
+
+                                THE
+
+                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+            VOL. XXXVI.       MAY, 1882.         NO. 5.
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+The friends of the A. M. A. who examine the receipts acknowledged
+in this number of the MISSIONARY will be gratified to see a total
+of $31,976.58 for March, thus making up in some measure for the
+falling off in February. But too much encouragement must not be
+taken from this single item. Let it only stimulate our friends to
+a steady effort to round out the year with the $300,000 called for
+by the annual meeting and by the imperative needs of the work. To
+reach that sum $168,000 will be required for the remaining six
+months of the year, or $28,000 per month.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The most infamous enactments of the Congress of the United States
+have been made in response to the demands of caste prejudice; as
+for example in the Fugitive Slave Law. A parallel to this is found
+in the recent bill prohibiting Chinese immigration——an enactment
+injurious to this country, a wrong to China and a violation of the
+fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, and of
+the law of God. It is a shameful repudiation of our boast that
+this land is an asylum for the oppressed of all nations, and it
+is a cowardly acknowledgment that a hundred thousand inoffensive
+Chinamen can so excite and alarm a nation of fifty millions of
+people. It is with great gratification that we chronicle the
+veto of this bill by President Arthur. We only regret that he
+has not put the veto more squarely against the principle of such
+prohibition.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Popular virtue is spasmodic. It was a spasm of public righteousness
+that overthrew Wm. M. Tweed in New York. But the spasm soon passed
+and New York was again misgoverned. Sudden uprisings of enthusiasm
+in the temperance cause have given us prohibitory and other
+stringent laws, but soon again the tides of intemperance have swept
+onward. In missionary as well as reformatory work is the evil of
+these spasms felt. Some new developments of special need or of
+special encouragement arouse the churches, and unwonted streams of
+contributions pour into the treasuries of the Mission Boards. On
+the strength of these gifts the mission work is enlarged and new
+responsibilities are assumed, but ere long the decay of the special
+impulse leaves the Boards to face their newly-created obligations
+with an empty treasury.
+
+This has been specially true in regard to the work among the
+Freedmen. On the proclamation of Emancipation, and the enactment of
+laws giving the ballot to the blacks, the popular enthusiasm knew
+no bounds. Liberal benefactions called into life the Freedmen’s Aid
+Societies and filled the treasury of this Association. At length,
+however, the Freedmen fell into the hands of the politicians, and
+the nation lost interest in the conflicts of parties and factions
+over them. The Aid Societies were abandoned and the A. M. A. with
+its vast machinery was left in debt. Now, again, within the last
+few years has the public attention been aroused to the education
+of the colored people as their only hope and the nation’s only
+safety. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of
+the North, and Senator Brown and Dr. Haygood have re-echoed the
+sentiment for the South. During these late years the treasury of
+the A. M. A. has felt the new impulse, and again it has ventured
+upon enlargement. Shall it once more be left on the sands of a
+retreating tide and the work for the Freedmen be again crippled?
+Nothing will avert such a result but conscience and Christian
+principle on the part of the friends of the colored race. If this
+work ought to be done, and what patriot or Christian doubts it,
+then the patriot and the Christian must give it their steady and
+generous support.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+BENEFACTIONS.
+
+Mr. Garry Brooks has given $30,000 to found a Brooks Professorship
+at Oberlin College.
+
+The medical department of Dartmouth College receives $2,000 from
+the will of the late E. W. Stoughton, of New York.
+
+Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., has given $5,000 to
+the fund now being raised for an additional gymnasium building at
+Amherst College.
+
+Gen. James M. Coale, of Maryland, bequeathed $10,000 each to
+Georgetown College, D.C., and St. Mary’s Industrial School for
+Boys, Baltimore.
+
+The Marquis of Bute offers to add £10,000 to the fund to the
+proposed University College of Wales, provided the institution be
+established at Cardiff.
+
+Ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, has given $100,000 to Williams College
+for a new dormitory building. The gifts of Gov. Morgan to Wells
+College amount in all to $275,000.
+
+Miss Sarah Burr, of New York, bequeathed $95,000 for educational
+purposes in connection with institutions already established and
+$60,000 towards founding new ones.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+_During the past twelve months we have recorded under the head of
+“Benefactions” $9,118,500 to different educational institutions
+in the United States. The greater part of this was given for
+endowments and permanent educational facilities——a portion of it
+had been provided by donors during previous years, and a part
+still remains unpaid. Of the grand total only $66,500 was for
+Freedmen——the money for their support having for the most part come
+through the contribution boxes._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+CONCERNING ENDOWMENTS.
+
+The success already achieved by the institutions of this
+Association and the favor already won by them among all classes of
+the Southern people, amply justify the work hitherto carried on. It
+is believed that the time has fully come when this work should be
+put upon a more substantial basis. Permanent endowments are needed
+that these institutions may achieve that larger success which is
+rightly expected of them.
+
+Certain phases of our work, sometimes overlooked, greatly emphasize
+this need. Careful attention is invited to the following points:
+
+1. _The unusual difficulties attending the successful prosecution
+of our work._ It is no ordinary school teaching that we have
+undertaken to carry on in the South. Our pupils bring to the
+class-room absolutely no inheritance of scholarly mind. Only two
+or three generations separate them from the heathenism of the most
+uncivilized continent in the world. Some of them come with the
+most meagre vocabulary——a few hundred tattered and torn remnants
+of English words. Many of them have no equipment of general
+information, such as other children absorb from their parents. But
+worse than all is the evil inheritance which many of our pupils
+bring from centuries of heathenism and slavery. Let us be frank and
+add that even the great boon of freedom, so righteously conferred,
+has, by the very suddenness of its bestowal, unavoidably brought
+peculiar peril and damage to many of the freedmen.
+
+It is not a light task to deal with such material as this. Moral
+character must be developed at the outset and carefully nurtured
+all along. The rubbish of incorrect speech must be cleared away,
+and a correct and copious vocabulary formed. The commonest facts
+of general information must be imparted. Of course, in our higher
+institutions there is less of such work to be done; but a still
+more responsible and difficult task takes its place——that of
+preparing college and normal students to perform this same arduous
+primary work as teachers and leaders of their own people. Never was
+such a mass of ignorance thrown so suddenly upon the educational
+resources of a civilized people. But there is a brighter side.
+
+2. _The unprecedented facilities now available for the prosecution
+of our work._ Never was a civilized people so well prepared as
+our nation now is to meet this great emergency. The progress made
+in the science of education was never so great as it has been
+in recent years. The adaptation of methods of teaching to the
+varying necessities of pupils was never so well understood as now.
+Text-books and school apparatus, juvenile literature and helps for
+Biblical study were never so excellent as at present. The value
+of industrial training, even as an element in the most liberal
+culture, is receiving unwonted emphasis. In short, the accumulated
+wisdom of the latest and best century stands ready to serve us, if
+we only summon its aid. Much of it is in service already; but far
+more is needed than our present financial resources can command.
+
+3. _The necessity of a high order of talent in the teachers and
+managers of our work._ To understand thoroughly the needs of such
+pupils as crowd our schools, and to apply successfully the most
+approved educational methods, requires something more than an
+ordinary teacher. An eminent advocate of popular education has
+stated it as his belief that the most interesting and valuable
+improvements yet to be made in pedagogical science will be made in
+connection with the education of the colored people. But tyros and
+bunglers in teaching will never give us much that is interesting
+or valuable. The very best teaching ability must continually be
+employed in our schools and colleges, and be properly remunerated.
+
+4. _The relation of our work to the future of education in the
+South._ The justification of all Northern missionary teaching in
+the South has been that it was designed to accomplish what the
+Southern people were not prepared to do themselves. To whatever
+extent they may in the future take up our work, it will still be
+our mission to maintain that helpful leadership which it has been
+our privilege to exercise from the beginning. Our institutions
+should be the best and do the best work of any in the South. We
+should be the first to discern the peculiar needs of Southern
+pupils and the first to introduce whatever is new and excellent
+in educational appliances. We ought, for instance, to have
+at once industrial departments connected with all our larger
+institutions. Every normal and college graduate should be able
+to use intelligently either the wood-working or the iron-working
+tools; and the same expenditure of time and money which the Harvard
+and Yale boys make in learning to wield the oar and the bat would
+accomplish this much desired end. Already our institutions are
+being visited by Southern teachers eager to witness the advanced
+methods of teaching already introduced. We should always be able to
+reward such visitors by showing them something which they have not
+seen before. Above all, we should send out from our institutions
+such noble specimens of young manhood and womanhood as shall prove
+a stimulus to the whole educational work in the South.
+
+The destiny of the colored race is to be largely determined by the
+character of the young men and women now crowding forward into
+active life. The immediate future will demand all our resources,
+and more, to save these young people. In the more distant future,
+our success as influential leaders in education will depend largely
+upon the promptness with which our institutions are _now_ put upon
+a substantial basis. Every consideration of past success and of
+present and future need enforces our plea that these endowments
+should be provided at once.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+REV. J. M. WILLIAMS, of the Mendi Mission, died at Freetown,
+February 21. Mr. Williams was a native of British Guiana, and born
+in 1828. He was early impressed with a love to the Saviour and
+to Africa by his grandmother Christina, a native of the interior
+of Congo. He was educated in Ebenezer Chapel School, and studied
+theology with the pastor of the church; became assistant minister,
+then tutor in training school at Clarkson. But in his own words:
+“The promise of my childhood made to my grandmother that I would
+carry the word of God to Africa for her, when a man; this promise
+made with no other object than to soothe her in her tears for
+Africa, grew up with me, till I felt I would rather travel from
+town to town with my Bible, reading and publishing Christ the
+Saviour to my benighted brethren in Africa, than fill the most
+exalted and lucrative position in British Guiana or anywhere else.”
+In 1861 he went to Africa, and with the exception of three years
+spent in England remained there till the time of his death. Mr.
+Chase, who visited him in 1880 at Kaw Mendi, where the last five
+years of his life were spent, says: “For Africa Mr. Williams’
+effort may be considered a success. Very few missionaries could
+accomplish so much in so short a time in any field in Africa.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GENERAL NOTES.
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+——West Central Africa is to receive four missionaries from Oberlin,
+who will go out under appointment of the A. B. C. F. M.
+
+——The London _Standard_ has received from Durban a dispatch
+announcing the return of Mr. Richards, a missionary, who has been
+well received by Oumzila. The King has permitted him to establish a
+mission in his possessions.
+
+——Of forty physicians who offered themselves to accompany to the
+Gold Coast Mr. Praetorius, sub-inspector of the Basle Missions, the
+committee has chosen Dr. Ernest Maehli, of Swiss origin.
+
+——A survey is to be made for a light railway from the West African
+Gold Coast through the mining regions of the Wassan. If this road
+is constructed it will open up a country rich in palm oil, India
+rubber and precious metals.
+
+——John Smith Moffat has been sent to Lessouto as British
+representative. Born at Kourouman and brought up in England, he
+has still passed nearly 25 years in Africa, and exercised in the
+Transvaal a civil magistracy among the natives, whose interests,
+material and moral, he has always protected.
+
+——Capt. Foot, commander of the ship Ruby, has accepted a call of
+the Sultan of Zanzibar, with a view to the suppression of the slave
+trade, which appeared concentrated at Bemba. The Arab bark with
+which Capt. Brownrigg joined combat has been captured. The French
+and English governments have taken up the matter.
+
+——The Arab influence is said by the missionaries of the C. M. S. to
+be destroyed in Mtesa’s kingdom. “No fear of starving now,” writes
+Mr. O’Flaherty. “We can water our garden, which bears fruit twice
+a year. We live like lords on native food, have flesh meat twice a
+day. The climate is lovely, country beautiful, people affable and
+kind, and we are happy. Our work is so increasing daily that we do
+not know where to begin or what to do first.”
+
+——A section of the Geographical Society, of Lisbon, has been formed
+at Horta, chief town of Fayal, one of the Azores, and has commenced
+to seek means for establishing a help station for shipwrecks, a
+measure desired for a long time in this latitude where violent
+tempests so frequently surprise one.
+
+——Messrs. Thornycroft & Co., of England, are constructing a steamer
+for the use of the Baptist mission on the Upper Congo. The steamer
+is to be of steel, having twin screws for her more easy control
+and management amid the currents and sand-banks of the river. Her
+length will be 70 feet and she will draw only 12 inches of water.
+The lightness of flotation is secured by a singularly ingenious
+arrangement of the screws. The contract price of the vessel,
+complete and packed for transmission to the Congo, with a steel
+boat and duplicates of the most important portions of the machinery
+and gear, has been fixed at £1,700. To this will have to be added
+about £150 for sundry stores, so that the entire cost of the vessel
+will not exceed £2,000.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE INDIANS.
+
+——There are 5,500 Indians drawing rations at the Agency of Standing
+Rock, Dakota.
+
+——During the present session of Congress 140 bills relating to the
+Indians have been introduced, an average of one to about every
+1,700 Indians.
+
+——Thirty descendants of Indians in Delaware have asked to be
+admitted to the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant
+Church.
+
+——There are 1,000 Indians in the Everglades of Florida, speaking
+their own language. They are said to be friendly and honest in
+their dealing with the whites.
+
+——Among the 275,000 Indians reported in the United States there
+are 219 churches and 30,000 church members. Out of 70 tribes, 22
+are stated to be self-supporting.
+
+[Illustration: MODOC FUNERAL.]
+
+——The Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, have long had a law
+to prevent excessive cruelty to animals; inspired, it seems, not
+from any example of the whites, but from their own instincts of
+humanity. The penalty is a fine of thirty lashes.
+
+——A sub-committee appointed by Presbyterians to prepare a memorial
+for Congress relating to the Indians, adopted the following: “For
+Indians we want American education, we want American homes, we want
+American rights——the result, of which is American citizenship.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+——Shanghai, China, has a temperance society with 400 members.
+
+The Chinese pupils at Stockton and Oroville have purchased cabinet
+organs for their respective schoolrooms.
+
+——In order to introduce telegraphy into China, the authorities
+grant the free use of the wires to the people for a month.
+
+——A decree has been issued exempting all Chinese converts to
+Christianity from all levies for idolatrous worship, processions or
+theatrical performances.
+
+——The Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong says that the Catholic mission
+there took 400,000 Chinese children last year to bring up in the
+faith of their church.
+
+——A tract which is being distributed by the Japanese says:
+“Christianity is spreading like fire on a grassy plain, so that in
+capital and country there is no place where it is not preached.”
+
+——According to the latest statistics on the subject, there are
+at the present time 310 Protestant missionary agents in China.
+Reckoning the population of China at 350,000,000, a ratio is found
+of _one_ missionary agent to a population of 1,129,032.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.
+
+HOWARD UNIVERSITY, WASHINGTON, D.C.——The anniversary of the
+Theological Department will be on Friday evening, May 5, when
+addresses will be made by five young men, who will graduate,
+and who will be addressed at the close by some person yet to be
+selected.
+
+FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.——Friday night, May 20, public
+exercises of Class A., and the conferring of normal certificates.
+Sunday, 3 P.M., Baccalaureate sermon by President Cravath. Sunday
+night, Missionary address by Rev. C. L. Woodworth, of Boston,
+Mass. May 23, 24 and 25, examination of classes. Thursday, May 26,
+Commencement Day, Anniversary address by Rev. R. G. Hutchins, of
+Columbus, Ohio.
+
+TALLADEGA COLLEGE, TALLADEGA, ALA.——Baccalaureate sermon, Sunday
+morning, June 11, by President De Forest. Missionary sermon in the
+evening by Rev. Edward W. Bacon, of New London, Conn. Examinations
+on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday night, exercises of the
+Literary Societies. Tuesday night, address by Rev. E. W. Bacon.
+Thursday, Anniversary exercises and graduation of two from the
+Theological Department. Commencement concert in the evening.
+
+TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, TOUGALOO, MISS.——Examinations Thursday. Friday
+and Monday, May 25, 26 and 29. Sabbath-school Convention, Sunday,
+May 28. Annual sermon by the President, Sunday night. Exhibition,
+Tuesday night, May 30. Literary exercises of graduating class,
+Wednesday morning, May 31. Annual address, Wednesday, P.M., by Rev.
+Truman N. Post, of St. Louis.
+
+TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEX.——Public
+examinations, June 5 and 6. Closing exercises, June 7.
+
+WILMINGTON, N.C.——Examinations, June 1. Exhibition in Memorial
+Hall, June 2.
+
+CHARLESTON, S.C.——Commencement exercises, May 31. Address by Rev.
+E. J. Meynardy, D.D., of the Bethel M. E. Church.
+
+BEACH INSTITUTE, SAVANNAH, GA.——Closing exercises, May 31.
+Examinations and grading for next year during the week preceding,
+ending May 26.
+
+MACON, GA.——Friday, May 26, close of primary school. Saturday,
+closing exhibition of sewing-school. Sunday, address to the
+students of the Lewis High School, by J. W. Burke, Esq. Monday and
+Tuesday, examinations. Wednesday, May 31, closing exhibition, with
+presentation of certificates of scholarship. Wednesday evening,
+concert for the benefit of the school.
+
+LEMOYNE SCHOOL, MEMPHIS, TENN.——May 28, annual sermon. May 29,
+Junior exhibition. May 31, graduating exercises and the annual
+address.
+
+MOBILE, ALA.——Written examinations, May 23 and 24. Oral
+examinations, May 25. Closing exhibition on the night of the 26th.
+
+MONTGOMERY, ALA.——Examinations and closing exercises, May 30 and 31.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE FREEDMEN.
+
+REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+REVIVAL NEWS
+
+
+RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TOUGALOO.
+
+For the past two weeks there has been a great deal of religious
+interest among the students here. At the meetings, which have been
+held nearly every night during this time, twenty-nine persons have
+told us of their determination to serve God for the rest of their
+lives.
+
+Many of those who have lately begun this new life are young people,
+who have a good deal of influence over their classmates and
+associates. We feel glad to know that now they are on the side of
+Truth and are ready to use whatever influence they may have in the
+best way. Not only have sinners been converted, but Christians have
+been stirred up to do better work.
+
+One night, after a sermon upon the subject “Confession,” from the
+text: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me,” an invitation
+was given to all who felt it to be their duty to confess any sins
+that were weighing upon them. The first who arose was a young
+man who was converted a year or two ago, and who has ever since
+been foremost in every good work. He said that he had been guilty
+of an act of dishonesty which had caused him much sorrow. In a
+lesson that he had written upon the board a few days before he
+had misspelled a word. One letter was wrong, but as it happened
+to resemble very closely the right letter, he reported it as such
+when he saw his mistake. For the next three or four days he had
+no peace. He knew that he ought to confess the act to the teacher
+whom he had deceived, but he was afraid that she would lose all
+confidence in his integrity. He also tried to persuade himself that
+it was a very little thing, hardly worth reporting. Why not keep
+quiet about it? No one would ever find it out. But these thoughts
+brought no comfort with them. The more he thought about the matter,
+the more he felt convinced that his act was not a little thing. He
+knew that it was a _sin_, and therefore not a small thing.
+
+After praying about the matter, this suggestion came to him: “Since
+you have asked the Lord to forgive you, you have done all that is
+necessary. You need not ask your teacher’s forgiveness.”
+
+He soon saw that he ought not to expect God to pardon his sin until
+he had done what he could to set the matter right with his teacher.
+He felt now as if the very salvation of his soul depended upon
+his making this confession. As soon as possible, after coming to
+this conclusion, he went to her and acknowledged his sin. With this
+acknowledgement came peace.
+
+Other confessions followed this. Some told of similar acts of
+dishonesty, which they had committed. All who spoke expressed a
+sincere determination to do better for the future. We felt as if
+these confessions had cleared the moral atmosphere and made it
+possible for more effectual work to be done for those who did not
+profess to be Christians.
+
+Among the number recently converted is a middle-aged woman from the
+neighborhood. For at least thirteen years she has fully realized
+that she ought to lead a better life, but has been so much under
+the influence of old superstitions and ignorant associates, who
+told her that she could not be called a Christian until she would
+say that she had seen all sorts of impossible visions and had
+numerous strange experiences, that she has hardly known which way
+to turn. Now she has come out from under her yoke of bondage and
+feels as if she had seen a great light, a much clearer and better
+one than that for which she watched so many years.
+
+We are hoping and praying that the good, work which has been begun
+here may continue: that those who have started in the right way
+may have strength of character enough to keep in it, even when the
+prospect looks dark and they do not feel so full of enthusiasm as
+now.
+
+                                          _Miss F. J. Webster._
+
+
+A SUMMER SHOWER.
+
+It fell out of a clear sky, without foretokening of cloud or of
+electric display. It was at Chattanooga, in Pastor Joseph E.
+Smith’s church. At the regular Wednesday evening prayer meeting a
+young man announces that he has made up his mind to turn and live a
+Christian life. Good Deacon Morford asks of the pastor: “How would
+it do to have a meeting to-morrow night?” It is appointed. Two or
+three more at that time come out on the Lord’s side.
+
+Then a meeting every night is agreed upon, with a sermon from
+the pastor; and every night souls are hopefully born again. The
+series continues two weeks. For the last few days Pastor Penney and
+Superintendent Roy drop in to help glean a little. Over two-score
+souls are numbered among the believers. Forty are examined and
+approved by vote for membership in the church.
+
+But there was some preliminary work after all. The lady missionary,
+Mrs. Almira S. Steele, of Revere, Mass., who is sustained by the
+ladies of the Congregational churches of Chelsea, besides her
+general service, has had a Friday afternoon sociable for the
+women, which not only worked as a preparation but was used all
+through the revival with marked spiritual results. So her service
+in the Sunday-school, with the handling of the review intrusted
+to her, had borne upon the happy issue, and all the people, who
+are delighted with their lady assistant, trace the work back
+in part to her influence. The pastor, who had become almost
+discouraged, becomes a new man. The church is confirmed. This
+fruitage encourages the patient culturing of the Sabbath-school. It
+rewards proper teaching. There was no noise, no confusion. None of
+the inquirers were looking for visions and dreams, for long-drawn
+agonies, for “the power.” They were just marched up to the question
+of immediate submission and trust. This work shows how our little
+churches that are striving for purity and order and character may
+be spiritually empowered and built up.
+
+
+REFRESHING AT MACON.
+
+It will gratify our friends to know that our A. M. A. mission in
+Macon has been spiritually refreshed. There was a growing religious
+interest among the children of our day-school and Sunday-school,
+and early in February we were enabled to secure the aid of Rev.
+E. E. Rogers, of Orange, Conn. The neighborhood prayer-meetings
+and house-to-house visitation by day were followed by powerfully
+impressive meetings at night. The work spread remarkably among
+the children, many of whom have started out in the new life. For
+more than three weeks the scholars of our Lewis High School would
+voluntarily leave their play and spend the whole half-hour of noon
+recess in prayer and religious instruction at the parlor of the
+Mission Home to the number of sixty and upward. At one memorable
+pray-meeting in the school-house there were twelve or fifteen of
+the students who gave their hearts to God. It was a Pentecostal
+season, a time of great rejoicing to the faithful teachers who had
+so long prayed for their pupils. The clear, decided testimony of
+one bright little Sunday-school boy, eight years of age, who was
+converted in one of the Sunday-school prayer-meetings, would put
+to shame the half-way, timid professions of some older people.
+“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected
+praise.” Sixteen members of our Sunday-school have joined our
+(Congregational) church. Twenty-two in all have united, of whom
+eight are heads of families, while eight or ten of the students
+have joined other churches, where their families are connected. The
+daily meetings continued for six weeks, with the efficient help
+of Rev. D. Sherrell, of Savannah, for a few days, after Brother
+Rogers’ departure.
+
+
+GOOD HARVEST.
+
+The religious interest in Atlanta University, which was reported
+to you some time since, has continued for five weeks without any
+abatement, and a good harvest has already been gathered. The
+meetings have been well attended, in spite of some sickness and bad
+weather, and have been marked by an earnest attention to the truth
+and a fervent spirit of prayer. We have good reason to believe
+that many more than a score of souls have chosen the service of
+Christ, and they show a tenderness of devotion and a carefulness of
+demeanor which promise well for their stability.
+
+Scarcely one is left among those who made their home here who has
+not been deeply affected, and who has not taken some steps in
+advance. We do not expect any reaction or falling away from the
+uplift which the whole school seems to have experienced.
+
+
+INCREASE IN PRAYER MEETINGS.
+
+The prayer meetings at Hampton are well sustained, and the
+religious feeling in the school is good. There has been a marked
+increase in our prayer meetings this year. We often have 200 in
+our Sunday morning meeting conducted by the students, where last
+year there were only thirty or forty. We have kept up two Indian
+meetings during the week, in which a verse of the Bible is read in
+English by one of the students, then by all who can read English in
+concert, then by one in Dakota. Then it is explained. After trying
+several ways, this seemed to be the most satisfactory. Prayers are
+offered in Dakota, in Arizona and in English by the students.
+
+A meeting is kept up by the English-speaking students among
+themselves in order to fit them to take part when they go back to
+their homes.
+
+
+PARIS, TEXAS.
+
+We are in the midst of a special work of grace. Nineteen have given
+evidence of having been born by the Holy Spirit. They all have been
+added to our church. Besides these, one came by letter from another
+denomination. Others are anxiously inquiring the way of life. All
+these converts, with two exceptions, are from the Sunday School.
+Among these “new-born babes” one is the wife of a minister and one
+is the wife of a deacon. The two oldest children of the pastor are
+among those that professed a hope in Christ.
+
+
+M’INTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.
+
+Last Sabbath was a “high day” with us. We have been holding extra
+meetings about four weeks. The result was the conversion of about
+fourteen persons, among whom were several of our most promising
+scholars. Our communion season came off last Sabbath, when nine of
+these converts came to unite with us.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+OUR YOUNGEST——THE TILLOTSON.
+
+The Austin branch of the Texas Central, a few miles below the
+capital, falls into the valley of the Colorado. As you run up that
+lovely vale, you soon see on the right, just out of the city, the
+Tillotson, a five-story stone and brick edifice, crowning a ground
+swell that overlooks the river and town. Its neat fence and the
+grounds graded by nature are attractive. As we roll up the valley,
+I see a fine carriage standing at the door; and this, as I come
+up to the place, I find to be the turnout of Gov. Pease, who has
+brought his family up to visit the institute and to call upon
+the family of teachers. An original Connecticut man, 30 years a
+resident of Texas, her Governor for a term, during which a fund of
+$2,000,000 was set apart for public schools, and now a trustee of
+the Tillotson, his interest and influence are worth much to such an
+institution at the South.
+
+But, so soon, the house is full to overflowing, in its
+assembly-rooms, in its dining-hall and in its dormitories. So that
+already the call is for another building. I find 140 scholars, of
+whom 65 are boarders. I find enthusiasm and spring in these freshly
+gathered students. In this State the colored people are getting
+land faster than in any other: partly, for the reason that, from
+the beginning, there was here the least opposition to their doing
+so; and, partly, from the fact that Texas is a new and largely a
+Western State; and so, these more well-to-do parents are ready to
+avail themselves of the advantage of such a school. The father of
+one of these young men was a slave, but now owns 500 acres of land,
+on which he has paid $6,000 of the $7,000 purchase money.
+
+The President, Rev. W. E. Brooks, who left his pastorate in West
+Haven, Conn., to take this position, is supported by Prof. J. J.
+Anderson, a graduate of Beloit College, with a dozen years of
+experience, and by Misses Hunt and Topping, graduates of Olivet,
+who are born teachers and disciplinarians. The President, besides
+teaching several classes, preaches on the Sabbath in the chapel,
+and also conducts a Sunday-school. He is welcomed to the pulpits of
+the city, and is on the friendliest terms with the first citizens.
+Rev. Dr. E. B. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church,
+is one of the trustees, and is greatly attentive to the interests
+of the Institute. Mrs. Brooks, an accomplished pianist, has
+_twenty-eight_ colored pupils in piano music, which shows the
+zest for cultivation. Once a week a lecture is delivered before
+the students by teachers or prominent citizens. The wife of Judge
+Garland, who has had an A. M. A. school in Austin for fifteen
+years, continues in a primary school near at hand; and the Judge
+himself, for the present stress, is volunteering a half-a-day of
+teaching for a month. A New Hampshire schoolmaster, he became a
+lawyer, then a judge in Texas, under appointment of Gov. Davis.
+
+A grand future is apparent for the Tillotson in this Empire of a
+Commonwealth. The only question is whether it can keep up with its
+opportunity and its demand. It gives us no time to rest. No sooner
+is it opened than it calls for more room. The growing brain makes
+room for itself, and so must this educational enterprise.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ALABAMA.
+
+TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE AT TALLADEGA.
+
+_President, Henry S. DeForest._
+
+Of late it has been the custom to end the spring term at Talladega
+College with a teachers’ institute, giving special training to
+those who are so soon to go out and teach. The one just held at
+the last of March has been very pleasant and helpful. Prof. A. J.
+Steele, of the Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., was present,
+bearing a large part in its instruction, and giving it the
+choicest fruits of his own training and experience. The Hon. H.
+Clay Armstrong, State Superintendent of Education, had a place on
+the programme, and Rev. Daniel Duncan, the County Superintendent,
+was present at every session from beginning to end. Three years
+ago, at the beginning of the series, he said, that was “the first
+institute ever held in Talladega County, from the creation of the
+world.” This one, especially, roused all his enthusiasm, and again
+and again he gave his testimony to the good that was effected.
+
+The need of such institutes and of the steady, persistent work of
+a college to train teachers and preachers is most apparent, when
+it is considered that probably not more than one in ten of the
+blacks, in a State where they make about half of the population,
+can read so as to make the sense, and half of the voters of all
+colors are unable to read either God’s Law or the amendments to
+the Constitution. Some are teaching who have never been at school
+themselves. School-houses are few, and often without floor, or
+window, or fireplace; desks and school-books are scarce; the
+school-year averages only 67 days, and the appropriation _per
+capita_ for the year is 97 cents.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+GEORGIA.
+
+HON. WILLIAM E. DODGE AND ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
+
+_Mrs. T. N. Chase._
+
+Some of you doubtless remember seeing a recent account of a very
+cordial welcome given Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, at a handsome
+reception in the home of Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York. The
+courtesy was soon reciprocated, and a few days ago the Atlanta
+_Constitution_——a democratic daily which stands at the head of
+Southern journals——announced the expected arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
+Dodge in Atlanta.
+
+This good man and his noble wife have made frequent trips to
+Georgia and Florida during the past ten years, always stopping to
+say a cheering word to Atlanta University and shake hands with
+two or three needy students, who each year for all this time have
+been supported by the generosity of these good people. To-day they
+visited the school, accompanied by Mrs. Gov. Colquitt and one of
+her lady friends.
+
+Mr. Dodge said he remembered well the first time he addressed the
+students. He wondered how many had a purpose to go out and gather
+forty and fifty about them to do for those in the dark places what
+had been done for them by their teachers on this hill. He begged
+them to remember that unless they sought first the kingdom of
+Heaven and its righteousness all other knowledge would be vain. He
+said he must add a word about temperance, in which he knew they
+were so much interested. He could not believe any before him would
+ever reel through the streets a staggering drunkard, but their only
+safety lay in total abstinence.
+
+His words were so instructive and his benign face so inspiring
+that the very instant he took his seat the entire school burst
+spontaneously into the plantation melody:
+
+    “Do you think I’ll make a soldier?”
+
+I might as easily describe an exquisite fragrance as these choruses
+of young voices from our 250 students, especially when singing this
+“spiritual,” whose words so touchingly portray the mingled hopes
+and fears of those deep, emotional natures. But, when in verses
+second and third they triumphantly sing:
+
+    “We are climbing Jacob’s ladder,
+    Every round goes higher, higher,”
+
+our hopes with theirs conquer our fears, and we sympathize with
+Mrs. Colquitt when she remarks: “I feel like making a speech to the
+school myself.”
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ATLANTA TEACHER AT MACON.
+
+_Miss Julia A. Goodwin._
+
+Everything here is new to us, and we enjoy the country-like city
+in its irregularity, broad streets, steep ascents and descents,
+its profusion of flowers, especially its roses. Then it is a real
+pleasure to compare the workings of the school and church with our
+own. We think we could not accomplish what these teachers do who
+are obliged to teach some of the time——two of them in one room,
+each conducting a recitation at one and the same time; but they
+work admirably together, without a particle of friction, and are
+a very happy family. Mrs. Lathrop’s sewing-school is also very
+interesting. As we walked into the room last Saturday morning,
+two old ladies, who were sewing just as busily as the children,
+arose from their seats and came across the room to greet us. One
+of them, whose sprightly manner and unwrinkled face would never
+have betokened her great age, said to us: “I am ninety-two years
+old if I live till Monday. I can’t do much, my hands are so stiff;
+but I thank the Lord that I can come here and sew a little;” and
+she showed us her patch-work squares with as evident satisfaction
+as any of the younger pupils. Ninety-two years old and learning to
+sew! Ah, thought I, most old ladies are through with their needle
+at that age. These sewing-schools must bring some comfort into many
+homes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AFRICA.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MR. LADD’S JOURNAL.
+
+_Saturday, Dec. 3._——We started from Assiout at five o’clock
+this morning on our voyage up the Nile. The air to-day has been
+wonderfully fine. The landscape, too, has presented a constantly
+varying panorama full of novelty, full of interest, full of beauty.
+We have called for a few moments at a number of villages to leave
+the mail. We have been peering through our glasses, as we sat under
+the awning on deck, at the natives along the banks in their varied
+costumes, and in almost no costume at all, at the high bluffs,
+which in some places rise abruptly from the river, and at the
+wonderful tombs with their hieroglyphic inscriptions cut out high
+up in the rocks. The river is full of boats of one kind or another
+coming and going.
+
+_Sunday, Dec. 4._——One misfortune of travel on the Nile is that any
+discussion of the weather becomes monotonous and trite. Every day
+is like every other day, beautiful, bright and balmy. No church
+bells ring for us to-day, so our thoughts naturally turn homeward.
+The views, as we slowly steam up the river are charming. We pass
+some bold headlands, call, as yesterday, at many villages by the
+way, and witness many interesting and peculiar scenes. A fringe of
+“shadoofs,” with half naked men hard at work at them watering the
+crops, keep up a constant creaking. We notice also great numbers of
+birds of every size and shape. We tie up for the night at Keneh,
+celebrated for its porous jugs, its dates, and once on a time, its
+dancing girls, whom the march of civilization has driven higher up
+the river.
+
+_Monday, Dec. 5._——We have seen something of what is left of the
+great city of Thebes, its magnificent temples, its stupendous
+halls, its wonderful colossi, its interesting tombs——Karnak and
+Luxor, on one side, Gourna on the other. It is hard to realize what
+pomp and splendor were once displayed among these ruins, still so
+grand in their desolation. The strong current of the river got
+the best of us to-day. The steamer in rounding a point could not
+be made to obey her helm, and before we knew what was going to
+happen, with full steam on we ran bunt up against and on to the
+steep bank. The men pushed and grunted, and finally we got clear
+and righted up again. We have witnessed a nearly total eclipse of
+the moon this evening, soon after it rose, which for the manner
+in which it came on and went off was very remarkable. We could
+hear the natives in their villages trying to frighten away the
+dragon which was supposed to be swallowing the moon. We tied up at
+Esneh for the night. Here we went ashore with torches and lights
+to visit a portion of a temple, which is in an excellent state of
+preservation. I first went to see the Mudir to get him to telegraph
+for us to Korosko for camels. He had retired for the night, but as
+our business could not be transacted at any other time, I sent in
+our orders from Cairo, and he soon appeared. Coffee was served, our
+papers made out, viz.: An order to the governors of places where we
+might call within his _mudirieh_ to show us proper attention, and a
+telegram signed by the Mudir to provide camels for us at Korosko.
+Then joining the rest of the party we visited the temple. The top
+of it is only a little above the successive deposits of ages, and
+one has to descend a long flight of steps to reach its floor. It is
+completely covered with sculptured work, which is finely preserved.
+This, however, is only the portico of the real temple, the entrance
+to which is walled up.
+
+[Illustration: ELEPHANT HUNTING]
+
+_Tuesday, Dec. 6._——Our steamer made a long stop at Edfou to-day,
+as is customary, to let passengers see its splendid temple. This is
+the most complete, and the best preserved in Egypt, and gives one
+the best idea of ancient Egyptian architecture. Its massive pylons
+had long been in sight as we steamed up the river. As soon as the
+steamer stopped we took donkeys and started toward them through the
+winding mud-walled streets of the little town. What a temple! A
+book would fail to do it justice! Every inch of it is covered with
+the most beautiful carving. I have not space nor time to tell of
+how we climbed the pylons and wandered through the dark mysterious
+chambers, and stood in admiration before those beautiful and ever
+varied pillars, and explored dark winding passages built in the
+walls themselves. One has an overwhelming sense of sublimity and
+awe as he stands under the shadow and in the profound hush of these
+sacred monuments of a departed glory. We tied up for the night at
+Gebel Silsileh, a narrow, rocky passage, through which the river
+seems to have burst its way. Here we went on shore and with the
+help of torches examined the tombs and chapels and noted quarries.
+The perfect silence here was almost painful. There was not even the
+usual gentle murmur of “backsheesh.” Returning to our steamer we
+took a moonlight row up the river, and over to the opposite shore.
+Ruins and moonlight, and a boat ride on the Nile! Could anything
+be more romantic? Here is a picture hung upon the walls of memory
+never to be forgotten.
+
+_Wednesday, Dec. 7._——We have run aground twice to-day. We passed
+the ruins of Comombo early this morning, and now we are at Assouan,
+with another stage of our journey accomplished. We have visited
+the bazaars, where all sorts of curiosities from Nubia and the
+Soudan are sold, and had crowds of wild-looking, long-haired,
+grease-smeared and more than half naked desert Arabs thronging
+around us, and have been besieged with strange looking people with
+stranger looking things to sell, of which we bought none. In fact,
+our novel experiences in and about the town would, if all told,
+be a tale too lengthy for these brief pages. We also visited the
+island of Elephantine, with its ruins of pottery, human skeletons,
+and interesting Nile meter. Ibrahim was dispatched the first thing
+on our arrival, to secure a dahabeyeh for us. He has returned, and
+reports that he has found one, such as it is, which will take us
+and our baggage from here to Korosko for £5. We have agreed to take
+two men, Mousa and Ibrahim Cohen, with us to Khartoum to lighten
+our expenses. Then we have Mongades, the Bible Society’s man with
+us, so that we shall really have to pay for the dahabeyeh only
+about £3. We have been invited to see a “fantasia,” but our taste
+not being cultivated in that direction we declined.
+
+_Thursday, Dec. 8._——Some one was sick in the night. Thinking it
+might be the Doctor I jumped out of bed to go to him, and landed
+in cold water! The ship had sprung a leak. All the rooms on one
+side were found to be flooded, and the engine-room was a pond. The
+pumps were put to work, but it was some hours before the water was
+where it belonged. Some things in my room were spoiled. We started
+early for Philæ, where our dahabeyeh lay, at the other end of the
+cataract. It was five miles, and we took camels so as to gain a
+little experience in riding preparatory to the long desert journey.
+Our route lay through the ancient bed of a river. On the way we
+visited the famous granite quarries, and saw the huge obelisk left
+partially cut out of its bed. We all went on board our dahabeyeh
+for lunch. The stars and stripes had been raised, and we also
+ordered up the English flag in honor of our guests. After lunch,
+while Ibrahim and Mourgan were getting our baggage on board, we,
+the party, took a small boat and rowed out to the interesting
+island of Philæ. First we rowed around it to get a comprehensive
+view of its beautiful temples. Then we landed, and examined them
+all in detail. We also visited the ruins of a little Christian
+church, which an American has discovered.
+
+_Friday, Dec. 9._——For some reason I did not sleep well, and was
+up early and over the side of the dahabeyeh for a good swim in
+the Nile. A light breeze soon sprang up, the sail was set, and at
+8.30 A.M. we were off, the Englishmen still in the cataract. We
+passed an island to the right of Philæ, stopped for a few moments
+at a little village where some of our sailors lived and then we
+were off again, slowly passing immense granite boulders, between
+narrow banks fringed with dom-palms and very black Nubians,
+creeping along pretty fast for the light wind that just fills our
+big sail. We pass Debod, and then towards evening the wind goes
+down, and we have to make the bank and tie up. We do not remain
+here long, however. Our Reis, who is a fine fellow, ever on the
+alert, hears a rustling in the trees, a gale is upon us; the big
+sail is quickly flung out, and we start almost with a bound and
+strike a rock! The captain reports “no leak,” and off we go again,
+fairly flying before the wind. After a while it dies down and once
+more we have to make the bank and tie up just this side of Gebel
+Kalabshe. Here we go ashore and wander about, but are quickly
+recalled by the Reis. A good steady breeze has followed the lull
+after the gale, and off we go. Now we enter scenery that in the
+deep shadows of the moonlight is grand and sublime in the extreme.
+The granite mountains tower up from the water’s edge close to us
+on either side. There are deep gorges and overhanging cliffs, and
+huge boulders around which the pent up river swirls and eddies. I
+have named this wild spot “The Gates of the Tropics,” for now we
+pass the invisible line and enter the tropics. The southern cross
+is clearly visible in the heavens near the horizon, and toward it
+we are flying on the wings of the wind. In the witchery of such
+an evening, in such a place, we sit on deck till long past the
+midnight hour.
+
+_Saturday, Dec. 10._——The captain has been up all night and we have
+made a good run of it. It is very hot, and the wind dying down.
+Over we go for a swim. We have passed a rock-temple, and another
+very good temple at Dakkeh. The flies are getting to be a perfect
+pest.
+
+_Sunday, Dec. 11._——The wind is lighter and our progress has been
+slower. However, we have gradually drawn away from the grand rocky
+mountains that rose up abruptly from the water’s edge on our
+left this morning, and now around us are the volcanic peaks that
+indicate the vicinity of Korosko. We reached Korosko at 4 P.M.,
+having made remarkably good time from Assouan. We noticed a queer
+peak just before reaching the town. There is a sacred mountain with
+a tomb upon it just at the rear of the village. Soon after our
+arrival the governor and various other officials came on board.
+The old governor was delighted when he found that we could talk
+together in Turkish. The usual formality of salaams, and coffee,
+etc., were duly exchanged. Our camels were ready for us.
+
+_Monday, Dec, 12._——We had a pleasant visit this morning from a
+merchant who arrived by caravan during the night from Darfur. We
+talked together in Greek. We have moved our boat higher up stream.
+Have received a number of visits from officials and sore-eyed men.
+The Doctor is having quite a practice. We have climbed the road
+that weary pilgrims tread to the top of the sacred mountain Gebel
+Aboo-Gowenah, whence we have had a fine, extensive view of the
+winding river, and the billowing ocean of volcanic peaks, and our
+own desert route that winds in and out among them. We send off a
+batch of letters for home, pack and get ready for our long journey.
+The bread is all made and properly dried.
+
+_Tuesday, Dec, 13._——Up about 5 A.M., roused the crowd, and pushed
+things as fast as possible. We expected to find the camels waiting
+on the bank, but not a living being was in sight. Hours went by and
+nobody appeared; we sent two men in different directions after the
+sheik of the camel-drivers, but he was not! Finally patience was
+exhausted. We went to the Governor’s house to see if we couldn’t
+start things up a little. He was pretending to hold court, but
+dismissed the case when he saw us. Then it being the proper thing
+to do we raised a row with His Majesty over our delay. It had the
+desired effect. The sheik was speedily produced, and we rode back
+to the boat on donkeys, with the whole crowd at our heels. Here
+we soon discovered that the governor, the sheik, and every other
+man in the crowd was determined to have a finger in the pie, and
+make us pay double the proper prices for all our camels. We talked
+and reasoned till 1 P.M. without avail. Then we grew righteously
+indignant. We laid down our terms——refused to listen to another
+word——gave orders to have everything put back on board the boat if
+they were not accepted, and threatened to go on to Wady Halfa and
+denounce the whole crowd of them as miserable rascals. Our terms
+were then accepted, and they thought a good deal more of us for
+standing for our rights instead of yielding to their exorbitant
+demands. Part of the money was paid and part held in reserve; the
+papers were made out, the baggage weighed and loaded, and at 1.30
+P.M. we started out. We went about a mile or two into the desert,
+and camped in a rocky ravine, and here we got everything into good
+shape, looked to everything connected with our water supply, and
+made ready for the real business of the long desert before us; and
+here begins our tent life.
+
+_Wednesday, Dec. 14._——Broke camp, and started the caravan at 8.30
+A.M. Now for the great desert journey! All the morning we pass peak
+after peak of a volcanic nature. At 2 P.M. we stopped, took a hasty
+bite of lunch in a sort of cave in a mountain called Elemnasir.
+Then on and on we go, swaying back and forth on our camels, and
+trying to “bone down” to the regular business before us. At 5.15
+P.M. we went into camp for the night, considering it wiser not
+to make too long a day of the first one, as camels and men were
+both fresh, but to reserve our forces for the great strain toward
+the last. The spot chosen for our camp is a wild place under the
+shelter of a volcanic peak called Diakazarkha. Up goes the tent,
+all hands taking hold with a will. Mourgan starts a fire; now then,
+in the words of the “old folks’” song, “Jerusha, put the kettle on
+and we’ll all take tea.” Mourgan produces a marvel of a meal for
+such a place, and we fall to at once to do it ample justice. Our
+caravan consists of 19 camels and 15 men. The guide is a strong,
+bold fellow, thoroughly up to his business, and evidently enjoys
+commanding his men. The camels get only 2½ quarts of dourra a day,
+carry about 400 lbs. each, and are expected to go without water
+till we reach Murrat. Our water supply is to last us till we reach
+the Nile at Aboo-Hamed, as the water at Murrat is not drinkable.
+How brightly the stars shine out here. The stillness of the desert
+soon rests upon the camp, broken only by the occasional growl of a
+camel, and the snoring of the men.
+
+_Thursday, Dec. 15._——We are all up early, take a hasty breakfast,
+pull down the tent, load the camels amid a chorus of roars and
+growls, and start the whole caravan at 7 A.M. More volcanic peaks.
+The ground is everywhere covered with balls of iron from the size
+of a large pea to that of a cannon-ball. The iron is so pure that
+the natives are able to beat these balls into knives, etc. Now
+we see our first mirage. It is a beautiful lake, whose surface,
+scarcely rippled by the gentle breeze, clearly reflects a distant
+mountain range. The illusion is perfect. We lunch in a cave in
+a place called Gamoor. We have met one caravan of cattle and
+another of two or three hundred camels. Our guide stopped to camp
+about five o’clock, thinking probably that we were exhausted by
+this time. He looked surprised but pleased when we protested, and
+informed him that we intended to make forced marches of at least
+twelve hours every day. On and on we went into the darkness, for
+it is dark at five. At 7.10 we halted and pitched our camp in a
+portion of the desert called _Nasbelhedoriah_. Before we arrived
+in camp there was a commotion. What’s the matter? Nothing, only
+the cook has fallen asleep and rolled off from his camel! But the
+shining, round face comes up with a grin, “All right, kutter herak
+kattir.” We are not half way to Murrat yet, and the water in our
+“bootleg” bottles and skins is as black as ink. A whole week more
+before we reach the river!
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+THE CHINESE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY.
+
+Figures may be dry, and yet I am sure that a summary of those
+contained in the February reports from our schools cannot but
+interest and gratify all friends of our work. No less than 116 new
+pupils were enrolled in our schools during that month. Change of
+location or other causes produced the removal from the schools of
+99. But the total number enrolled, 726, is the largest total ever
+reached, and the average attendance, 354, is also larger than ever
+before. Among the pupils thus enrolled are 119 who give evidence
+of Christian life. The total number who have become members of our
+schools during the fiscal year, thus far (_i.e._, from Sept. 1st to
+Feb. 28th) is 1,375.
+
+
+THE CHINESE NEW YEAR.
+
+In the month of February occurs the Chinese New Year Festival——the
+great holiday period for them of the entire twelvemonth. At my
+request, our teachers have given me some account of the way in
+which it was observed by our Christian Chinese in their respective
+localities.
+
+Rev. Mr. Ostrom, of Oroville, who has served as a missionary in
+China and whose heart is still there, states the following “general
+facts”: “Their preparation for the New Year is commenced weeks
+before the close of the old. One of the first things is to plant
+the Narcissus——a water lily called by the Chinese ‘the water angel
+flower’——so that it may be in bloom on New Year’s Day. A beautiful
+legend connected with this flower is everywhere told and believed
+in China. In a certain district of the Fo Kien province lived a man
+who had two wives and a son by each wife. The man died, leaving
+a farm, which the elder brother seized, allowing to the younger
+brother only a small, marshy corner, through which ran a sluggish
+stream. These lilies were found growing in the stream——all that the
+marsh and stream produced. The gentler younger brother, loving the
+beautiful flower, cultivated it, and found that it would always
+bloom on the New Year. Its beauty and fragrance won the admiration
+of many and the demand for the bulbs increased till finally it came
+in from all parts of China, and the wealth of the owner of the
+little stream and marsh soon surpassed that of the avaricious elder
+brother. Then, through some pretence, the latter took possession of
+the little stream and marsh, expecting thus to grasp the revenue
+from the sale of the lilies. But, lo! when New Year came, they
+refused to bloom. Conscience-stricken by this apparent rebuke
+of the gods, the marsh and the stream were surrendered to their
+rightful owner, and then, strange to say, the lilies bloomed forth
+as before.
+
+“Such is the legend; now for plain facts. At the close of the year
+the house is cleaned, and dressed on its posts and walls with
+new red paper containing good words from the sages. On the last
+day of the old year, every family worships the ancestral tablet,
+and the idols, with offerings of slain birds and other animals,
+with vegetable delicacies added. Eight kinds of meat are offered
+to the ancestral tablets, and only fish, pork and chicken to the
+idols. Fruit, and a pudding cooked in boiling lard are also used
+as offerings. These furnish the feasts for the following day; for
+the spirits only inhale the perfume, leaving the substance for base
+mortals.
+
+“On the last day of the old year, the married daughters must be at
+their husbands’ homes, and must not revisit the paternal roof till
+the New Year’s festival is over. The devotee rising very early on
+New Year’s morning, worships, first of all, the ancestors, burning
+incense, and red paper representing money, before the tablet, on
+each side of which candles have been lighted, and before which
+the offerings have been placed. Then the idols of the household
+are worshipped, and, next, those of the temple. Fire-crackers are
+snapped by the priests in the temple, and by all the people at
+their homes and their places of business. If any one has married,
+or is successful in gambling or in business, he expresses his
+gratitude by these explosives. Breakfast comes next, composed of
+vegetables only, for no blood must be shed or be used on New Year’s
+Day. Liquor distilled from rice is sipped from tiny cups. Now,
+calling and the exchange of cards follow. Only good words are to be
+spoken. It is a violation of etiquette, established by the custom
+of ages, to speak evil of, or to, any one during the first ten days
+of the New Year.”
+
+Such of these usages as are purely social are retained by our
+Christian Chinese: The house-cleaning which brings to our several
+mission houses a thorough renovation; the trimming upon the walls
+and elsewhere with evergreen wreaths, with bouquets of artificial
+flowers and other samples of Chinese art; the cultivation of the
+fragrant Narcissus, and the interchange of calls and cards and
+mutual good wishes; the treating with candies, fruits, and tiny
+cups of tea——guiltless of the American concomitants of sugar and
+cream——all these you will find our Christian Chinese carrying
+forward with no less zest than their heathen countrymen. In these
+cases, this year, they invited the teacher with the whole family to
+which she belonged, to a banquet after the Chinese style; and in
+_all_ cases the teachers seem to have been remembered with gifts
+selected often with exquisite taste and purchased at a considerable
+cost.
+
+But with our Christian Chinese these days are holy days rather than
+holidays. The week is a week of prayer. In all their sociality
+their religion is remembered and their Saviour is recognized. If
+on their special reception-day, a minister is among the first to
+call, he will be likely to be asked to open the day’s enjoyment
+with prayer. Every day there are special religious services; and
+connected with these, fresh resolves of consecration to Christ and
+fresh and earnest intercessions for each other and for their still
+benighted countrymen. One such meeting I attended by appointment at
+the home of our Oakland brethren. I remained with them an hour and
+a half. The school there had been in an unsatisfactory condition;
+running down in attendance and in spiritual power, while the
+schools in this city and at most other points were advancing
+in both respects. We looked the facts in the face; prayed over
+them; and then took counsel together. The result was a unanimous
+determination to take up missionary work among their countrymen
+with more earnestness and more system than ever before, and with
+God’s help to make their school as large and as efficient for good
+as possible.
+
+[Illustration: JAPANESE PLEASURE PARTY.]
+
+Perhaps the account given by Mrs. Carrington, of the services at
+Sacramento, presents the week’s work as fairly as any. “A watch
+meeting closed the old year and opened the new. On Saturday evening
+there was a union meeting at the Presbyterian Mission House. On
+Wednesday evening a New Year’s banquet was given at our Mission
+House. Rev. Dr. Dwinell and Mrs. Dwinell, with the superintendent
+and teachers in the Chinese Sunday-school and other friends, were
+present. Other evenings were spent in less formal but more social
+worship, and on Saturday evening, February 25, a crowning union
+service was held at our Mission House. The room was filled to
+overflowing. Twenty or more of the American friends were present,
+and much interest was manifested. And so this New Year’s festival
+was closed.”
+
+As between the hurried and meaningless New Year’s calls, with
+the accessories of unwholesome food in gluttonous quantities,
+washed down by poisonous wines and fiery liquors, which the old
+Knickerbocker custom has entailed upon Americans, and these
+festivities of our Christian Chinese, it does not take me long to
+judge which ought to be preferred.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CHILDREN’S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+THE GRASSHOPPER TEACHER.
+
+_By M. K. Smith. Atlanta University, Ga._
+
+A young lad who had found his way from the West coast of Africa to
+Atlanta University entered my class in entomology last October.
+Shortly after, when naming the teachers under whose instructions he
+came daily, he quaintly designated me as his “grasshopper teacher.”
+
+In order to give some idea of the amount of enthusiasm the common
+grasshopper is capable of rousing in the mind of the average
+colored student, it may be interesting to give a brief explanation
+of the method of study pursued.
+
+The pupils had no particular love for the troublesome insect;
+in fact, they had hitherto entertained for him a sentiment the
+reverse of friendly, and when I gave each student a pin upon which
+a grasshopper (it had been killed by immersion in alcohol) was
+transfixed, a dissatisfied giggle or a contemptuous sniff from each
+gave evidence that the little world of the class-room was decidedly
+out of sympathy with the existing state of affairs.
+
+The African boy refused to touch a “specimen,” and regarded me
+with an expression in which surprise, fear and defiance were
+blended. The fear was doubtless the result of experience with
+poisonous insects in his fatherland, while the surprise was that
+a grasshopper should usurp the place of a book, for which the
+savage has all the superstitious reverence which characterizes
+the civilized student, and the defiance probably arose from a
+resolution that no earthly power should induce him to touch the
+strange animal. I did not urge him, but quickly called attention
+to the insect in hand. Without much difficulty they found the
+principal parts, to which I gave the names, head, thorax and
+abdomen. By the time these words were written on the board the
+class was pacified, for the colored student loves new words whose
+significations are beyond his comprehension just as well as his
+white brother. When the shape of the head was considered the
+students realized for the first time the lack of words which is so
+general among these people. “It’s like a horse’s head,” broke forth
+a boy, impetuously, while a hum of approval ran along the forms. I
+accepted the resemblance, and asked them to observe other things in
+connection with the head, and very soon the eyes were mentioned. I
+drew on the board a diagram of hexagonal cells, closely connected,
+and explained that the compound eye of the grasshopper is composed
+of _facets_ of similar form and each having power of sight.
+
+“Why, he is better off than we are,” exclaimed a wondering youth.
+“We have only two eyes apiece, while he has thousands of ’em.
+What’s that for?”
+
+“God made him that way,” returned another, as he handled his
+“specimen” a little more gently, while the African boy leaned over
+to get a good look at those queer eyes that were even nicer than
+his own.
+
+I then called attention to the position of the eyes on the head and
+secured the statement that by their being placed just as they are
+the insect can see before, behind and on both sides at the same
+time. In a moment more than a dozen hands were waving wildly in
+the air, while two excited youths came to their feet as suddenly
+as if they had been moved after the manner of a “Jack in the box.”
+“I know, I know,” shouted one, “they are there so that he can see
+danger all round him. Many a time I’ve tried to catch him, and I
+would steal up behind him and ease my hand up soft, soft (the boy
+illustrated the action) and then just when I thought I had him, he
+was off!” and the lad’s hands were outspread to imitate the sudden
+movement of the insect.
+
+I directed attention to the place where the head joins the thorax.
+“He’s got a collar on,” shouted one. “What is that for?” “To
+cover the seam nicely, and keep it from harm,” answered another,
+before I had time to speak, “and it’s made mighty pretty, too,” he
+continued, admiringly. “I should like to know what this means?”
+exclaimed another, who had extended his investigations, and now
+held up to the astonished gazers the under wings, spread out as
+they had never before seen them. I wish, dear reader, you could
+have been with us that day, to have felt with me the delight of
+those people, who for almost the first time were using their eyes
+as I think God intended they should be used——to give light to the
+understanding. “Just like a thin lady’s gray veil,” suggested a
+little girl, as soon as she found a chance to speak, whereupon a
+quizzical laugh arose, until she explained that the veil was thin,
+and not the lady.
+
+The African boy at the very next lesson held out his hand for a
+“specimen,” and throughout the term was as much interested as the
+others, striving with all his might to announce his discoveries
+in correct English. The grasshopper became popular. We studied
+him for more than two weeks and then felt we were only beginning
+his acquaintance. The students spent their leisure in watching
+grasshoppers eat, in studying their habits and in finding out
+their uses. The lessons went on with an eagerness that made the
+“grasshopper teacher” fear that something must be wrong, for it
+seemed against all law and order that teacher and taught should
+have such an uninterruptedly good time.
+
+The pleasure was ever new, while, side by side with the development
+of power to think and reason, grew a sense of God’s care over and
+nearness to his creatures.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1882.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+  MAINE, $311.45.
+
+    Bangor. Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D. ($30 of which
+      to const. MRS. SARAH L. WARREN L. M.)                  $50.00
+    Bangor. Miss Haynes, _for Student Aid,
+      Straight U._                                             2.00
+    Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00
+    Brownsville. Cong Ch. and Soc.                            17.00
+    Brunswick. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $1.70, _for
+      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                1.70
+    Calais. J. Barker, _for Student Aid, Talladega
+      C._                                                     25.00
+    East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovewell, $5;
+      Joseph Loring, $3; Mrs. Sarah Morton, $2.               10.00
+    Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        9.80
+    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.00
+    Hallowell. “Friends,” _for Furnishing Room,
+      Talladega C._                                           13.00
+    Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker.                               5.00
+    Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.                              5.20
+    Litchfield Corner. Cong. Ch.                              10.00
+    Lyman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  6.07
+    Machias. Center Street Cong. Ch., $5.89, and
+      Sab. Sch., $5; E. G. L., $1                             11.89
+    Orono. Cong. Ch.                                           1.04
+    Portland. St. Lawrence Street Cong. Ch. and
+      Soc.                                                    14.53
+    Scarborough. Cong. Ch., “A Friend”                        50.00
+    Searsport. “A Friend,” $5; M. C. B., 50c                   5.50
+    Union. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._
+    Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.21
+    Wells. First Cong. Ch and Soc.                            18.51
+    Winterport. Mrs. DR. E. MANTER, _for Chinese
+      M._, and to const. herself L.M.                         30.00
+    Winthrop. I. N. M.                                         1.00
+
+
+  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $420.72.
+
+    Amherst. L. and L. R. Melendy, $100, _for
+      Mendi M._, and $10 _for John Brown Steamer_            110.00
+    Auburn. Mrs. Sally Coult, to const. MRS.
+      HATTIE C. HOUGHTON L. M.                                30.00
+    Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            15.36
+    Boscawen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              14.00
+    Concord. “P. S. G.,” _for John Brown Steamer_              1.00
+    Derry. Rev. B. F. Parsons                                  5.00
+    Exeter. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., val. $45
+      _for Kansas Refugees_.
+    Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             9.88
+    Fisherville. “A Friend,” to const. MISS JULIA
+      SARGENT L. M.                                           30.00
+    Groton. Mrs. Parker Blood, $20, and Bundle of
+      C.                                                      20.00
+    Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.16
+    Hanover. Cong. Ch., 30 copies “Songs of the
+      Sanctuary,” _for Athens, Ga._
+    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                         17.71
+    Keene. Miss E. R.                                          1.00
+    Lancaster. Mrs. A. M. Amsden.                              5.00
+    Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  50.91
+    Lyndeborough. Cong. Ch.                                    4.45
+    Manchester. “Pillsbury”                                    5.00
+    Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.65
+    Milford. Nathan Jewett. $5; D. S. Burnham, $5             10.00
+    Nashua. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                              64.60
+
+
+  VERMONT, $257.11.
+
+    Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch.                              14.40
+    Clarendon. “A Friend”                                      5.00
+    Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00
+    East Berkshire. Cong. Ch.                                 11.00
+    Fair Haven. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00
+    Felchville. M. C. F.                                       0.50
+    Grafton. “A Friend”                                       10.00
+    Jericho. Second Cong Ch. and Soc.                         11.51
+    Ludlow. Mrs. Luther Martin                                10.00
+    Middlebury. Mrs. H. B. S.                                  1.00
+    New Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                                12.00
+    Newbury. Miss E. D.                                        0.50
+    North Bennington. Cong. Ch.                                9.67
+    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.84
+    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                     11.51
+    Pittsford. Thomas D. Hall                                  5.00
+    Pittsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46;
+      incorrectly ack. in April number from
+      Pittsfield
+    Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.56
+    Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00
+    Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00
+    Vergennes. Mrs. H. S.                                      0.53
+    West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          18.09
+                                                          —————————
+                                                            $232.11
+
+    LEGACIES.
+
+    Waterbury. Estate of Harriet F. Russ, by
+      Daniel Russ, Ex.                                        25.00
+                                                          —————————
+                                                            $257.11
+
+  MASSACHUSETTS, $5,538.21.
+
+    Abington. F. P. H., $1; H. F. R., $1                       2.00
+    Adams. Rev. L. V. Price                                   16.00
+    Amherst. Mrs H. D. Fearing, $10; Infant Class
+      First Cong. Sab. Sch., $10; _for Student
+      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        20.00
+    Amherst. Miss Sarah Ensign, _for Student Aid_              5.00
+    Andover. South Ch. and Soc., $38.54; J. H. T., $1         39.54
+    Andover. South Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._                                           30.36
+    Ashburnham. E. L. E.                                       0.50
+    Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+      JOSIAH HAVEN and MOSES HILL L. Ms                       60.00
+    Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     6.08
+    Auburndale. Box of C. _for Macon, Ga._
+    Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, $25, _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._, and $45 _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega U._                                           70.00
+    Bedford. M. E. R.                                          0.50
+    Berlin. Mrs. W. A. Houghton                                5.00
+    Beverly. Miss M. E. T.                                     0.50
+    Beverly. Ladies of Washington St. Soc., Bbl.
+      of C. _for Fisk U._
+    Boston. S. D. Smith, Organs, $300; Old South
+      Ch. and Soc., $293.79; C. F. R., 50c                   594.22
+    Boston. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., package Books
+      _for Library, Macon, Ga._
+    Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. W.
+      S. COGGIN L. M.                                         30.00
+    Brockton. Mrs. L. C. Sanford, _for Freight_                3.00
+    Cambridge. F. C. Swett, $2; E. W. F., $1                   3.00
+    Cambridgeport. G. B. C., 50c.; I. A. N., 50c               1.00
+    Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc., $80.56; A.
+      W. P., 50c                                              81.06
+    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($55 of
+      which _for Lady Missionary, Chattanooga,
+      Tenn._)                                                 57.60
+    Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $9.44; I.
+      H. S., $1                                               10.44
+    Chicopee. Mrs. W. L. B.                                    1.00
+    Cohasset. “A Friend”                                       1.00
+    Deerfield. Mrs. C. E. W.                                   0.50
+    Dorchester. Mrs. E. T.                                     1.00
+    East Charlemont. P. F.                                     1.00
+    East Hampton. Mrs. E. G. Williston, $100;
+      First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60.71; E. A. C.,
+      50c                                                    161.21
+    East Medway. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     10.10
+    East Somerville. Woman’s Home Missionary
+      Ass’n, _for Lady Missionaries_                         204.78
+    East Somerville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._                                           40.00
+    Edgartown. J. W. Coffin                                    3.00
+    Enfield. “A Friend”                                      100.00
+    Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.                             30.00
+    Framingham. “A Friend,” to const. MRS. MARY A.
+      W. DAVIS L. M.                                          30.00
+    Framingham. Hymn and Tune Books, _for Macon,
+      Ga._
+    Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   33.49
+    Gardner. H. B.                                             1.00
+    Goshen. Cong. Ch.                                          8.00
+    Haverhill. “For work among Colored People.”
+      $1; E. W., 50c                                           1.50
+    Hopkinton. Mrs. P. J. Claflin                             25.00
+    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 20.12
+    Indian Orchard. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  15.37
+    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         13.00
+    Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
+      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              50.00
+    Jamaica Plain. N. F. R.                                    0.50
+    Kingston. L. A. McGlauthlin, Bundle “_Youths’
+      Companion_,” _for Macon, Ga._
+    Lawrence. Mr. Coit, _for Talladega C._                     2.00
+    Lee. Mrs. E. B.                                            1.00
+    Lincoln. M. S. R., 50c.; L. C. J., 50c                     1.00
+    Littleton. Dea. Otis Manning, to const. EDWARD
+      C. HAUGHTON L. M.                                       31.00
+    Littleton. Ladies’ Mission Circle, by Mrs. J.
+      C. Houghton, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._               8.00
+    Ludlow. Children’s Soc., _for Freight_                     2.00
+    Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc.                                25.00
+    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          59.83
+    Mansfield. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    14.22
+    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for Church
+      Building_                                            1,000.00
+    Medford. “A Friend”                                        0.25
+    Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                15.25
+    Milford. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                            5.00
+    Milton. S. D. Hunt. Bbl. of C., _for Macon,
+      Ga._
+    Mt. Auburn. Rev. D. N. S.                                  0.50
+    Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond                                10.00
+    New Boston. “N. B.”                                       50.00
+    Newbury. First Ch. and Soc.                               18.50
+    Newburyport. Philip H. Lunt                               25.00
+    Newton Center. S. A. E.                                    0.50
+    Northampton. “A Friend,” $100; H. R. R., $1              101.00
+    North Billerica. J. D. Gould, Books, _for
+      Freedmen’s Library, Macon, Ga._
+    Northbridge Center. Collected by Edith Putnam
+      (eight years old)                                        3.07
+    Norton. Mrs. E. B. Wheeler, _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           25.00
+    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  15.26
+    Petersham. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     3.08
+    Phillipston. A. & T. Ward, $5; D. & L. Mixter,
+      $2                                                       7.00
+    Plymouth. Pilgrimage Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   65.03
+    Rockport. W. H. Patch                                      5.00
+    Salem. Young Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of South Ch.,
+      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 5.00
+    Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12; E.
+      Maynard, $5                                             17.00
+    Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc., $10; “A
+      Friend,” $1                                             11.00
+    South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        56.23
+    South Deerfield. Cong. Ch.                                20.33
+    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
+      _for John Brown Steamer_                                10.00
+    South Framingham. G. M. Amsden                             5.00
+    South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+      $10.18; Mrs. E. L. R., 50c.; Mrs. S. M. N.,
+      50c                                                     11.18
+    Springfield. “H. M.”                                   1,000.00
+    Springfield. Mrs. Persis Burnham ($1 of which
+      _for John Brown Steamer_)                                2.00
+    Stoneham. A.R.                                             0.50
+    Stoughton. Mrs. B. E. C.                                   1.00
+    Templeton. Trinitarian Sab. Sch., _for John
+      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00
+    Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  5.00
+    Townsend Harbor. S. M. P.                                  1.00
+    Ware. C. C. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                     25.00
+    Watertown. Mrs. S. S. and Mrs. J. H. S.                    1.20
+    Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+      $107.75; Mrs. M. M. Morse, $30, to const.
+      Rev. LYMAN WHITING L. M.                               137.75
+    Westfield. First Cong. Ch.                                44.07
+    West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00
+    West Hampton. I. G. Jewett ($1.50 of which
+      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._)                              2.00
+    Westport. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.17
+    West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        4.46
+    West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.                      15.00
+    West Stockbridge. Village Ch. and Soc.                    28.07
+    Wymouth and Braintree. Union Ch. and Soc.                 42.20
+    Worcester. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., $161.50;
+      Mrs. F. C., 50c.                                       162.00
+    Wrentham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.00
+    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        43.12
+                                                          —————————
+                                                          $4,973.21
+
+    LEGACIES.
+
+    Beverly. Dane St. Ch., Estate of Mrs. Susan C.
+      Pickett, _for 17 Life Memberships_                     510.00
+    Boston. Estate of Rev. Dr. Hooker, Books, _for
+      Freedmen’s Library, Macon, Ga._
+    Oakham. Estate of Perley Ayres, by Wm. S.
+      Spear, Ex.                                              55.00
+                                                          —————————
+                                                          $5,538.21
+
+
+  RHODE ISLAND, $30.00.
+
+    Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
+      Rebuilding Emerson Inst._                               20.00
+    Providence. “Baptist.”                                    10.00
+
+
+  CONNECTICUT, $2,826.67.
+
+    Ansonia. “A Friend”                                       10.00
+    Avon. Mrs. E. L. Robbins                                   5.00
+    Black Rock. Cong. Ch.                                     24.00
+    Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.                              117.48
+    Canaan. “M. A. N.,” _for Chinese M._                       5.00
+    Canton Center. A. L. S.                                    1.00
+    Colchester. Mrs. W. E. Gillette, $5; Mary B.
+      Gillette, $5                                            10.00
+    Collinsville. Ladies Mission Soc., $16, _for
+      Student Aid_; H. S. Collins, $10, _for Theo.
+      Dept., Talladega C._                                    26.00
+    East Windsor Hill. E. O. C.                                1.00
+    East Woodstock. James Walker                               2.00
+    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                 100.00
+    Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.                                30.00
+    Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student
+      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                           41.02
+    Georgetown. E. Gilbert, _for Macon, Ga._                   5.00
+    Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $16.45; B. A., $1                17.45
+    Hartford. South Cong. Ch., $250; Geo. P.
+      Bissell, $50; John S. Wells, $20                       320.00
+    Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Church, $25; “M. J.,”
+      $25; Mrs. G. O. Perkins, $50, _for Theo. Dept.,
+       Talladega C._                                         100.00
+    Hartford. Center Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+      John Brown Steamer_                                     66.00
+    Higganum. Selden Gladwin                                   6.00
+    Hotchkissville. “Widow’s Mite”                             5.00
+    Kent. Cong. Soc.                                          29.25
+    Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch., $10; Miss Mary A.
+      Hopson, $5, _for John Brown Steamer_                    15.00
+    Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.                               18.57
+    Mansfield. Geo. F. King                                    2.00
+    Mansfield Center. Mrs. E. S. Fitch                         3.00
+    Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills, to const. HERBERT
+      L. MILLS and CHARLES ROWLAND MILLS L. Ms.               60.00
+    Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, _for Tillotson
+      C. & N. Inst._                                          25.00
+    Milldale. H. H. C.                                         1.00
+    New Britain. South Cong. Ch., Mrs. Mary E.
+      House, $30, to const. WILLIAM A. HOUSE L. M.;
+      “A Member,” $5; A. N. Lewis, $10                        45.00
+    New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Dwight Place Cong.
+      Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_                           30.00
+    New Haven. Mrs. Mary L. Skinner, _for
+      Talladega C._                                          100.00
+    New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, $244 (of which
+      F. C. Sherman, $100; Wm. E. Chandler, $60,
+      to const. WILLIAM WOODS CHANDLER and ROBERT
+      WOODS CHANDLER L. Ms.); “A Friend,” $5; “A
+      Friend,” $5                                            254.00
+    New Hartford. Miss C. Richards, _for John
+      Brown Steamer_                                           2.00
+    New London. “First Church of Christ.”                     39.21
+    New Milford. G. N.                                         1.00
+    Norfolk. Robbins Battelle, _for Talladega C._             25.00
+    North Branford. J. A. Palmer                               2.00
+    Northford. G. W.                                           1.00
+    North Stamford. “A Friend”                                 2.00
+    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($20 of which
+      _for John Brown Steamer_)                              271.67
+    Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch.                                 42.50
+    Plymouth. A. S. B.                                         1.00
+    Prospect. Cong. Ch. $11; People of Prospect,
+      Bbl. of C.                                              11.00
+    Roxbury. “Two Friends,” _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                 2.00
+    Simsbury. Mrs. Lucy A. A. Hoskins                          2.00
+    Somersville. Cong. Ch.                                    45.25
+    South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.                            30.00
+    Stafford. Mrs. T. H. Thresher                              5.00
+    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      81.77
+    Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+      Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                           60.00
+    Washington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                10.00
+    Washington. “Z,” _for Indian M._                           1.00
+    Waterbury. Dr. John De Forest, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                     100.00
+    Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                      20.00
+    West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         50.00
+    West Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams, _for Freight,
+      for Macon, Ga._                                          2.00
+    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            21.50
+    West Suffield. Cong. Ch.                                   6.00
+    Wethersfield. Geo. Stillman                                2.00
+    Wethersfield. Sab. Sch. Class, by Jane C.
+      Francis, _for John Brown Steamer_                       10.00
+    Winthrop. Miss C. Rice, $2: Mrs. M. A. J., $1              3.00
+    Woodbridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.
+    Woodbury. Mrs. C. P. Churchill, _for Indian M._            2.00
+    Woodstock. E L. Snow                                     500.00
+
+
+  NEW YORK, $12,895.25.
+
+    Batavia. Mrs. A. D. L.                                     1.10
+    Brighton Heights. S. I. Reformed Ch., _for
+      Talladega C._                                           20.50
+    Brooklyn. Henry C. Hulbert, $100, _for Student
+      Aid_; A. J. Newton, $100; Cash, $1, _for
+      Talladega C._                                          201.00
+    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Fernandina, Fla._                           25.00
+    Brooklyn. Freedmen’s Helpers, $18, and Bbl. of
+      C., _for Macon, Ga._                                    18.00
+    Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., $20.52; A. S., $1               21.52
+    Buffalo. Mrs. Wm. G. Bancroft, _for Tillotson
+      C. & N. Inst._                                          50.00
+    Buffalo. “I. M. S.,” _for John Brown Steamer_              1.00
+    Cazenovia. Mrs. H. L. W.                                   0.51
+    Chestertown. Fish St. Congregation, $2.27;
+      Mill Brook Congregation, $3.27; Chester
+      Wesleyan M. Congregation, $7.55, by Rev. S.
+      H. Foster                                               13.09
+    Coxsackie. Mrs. P. H. Silvester, _for John
+      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00
+    Floyd. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                     2.12
+    Fredonia. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Presb. Ch.,
+      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                               2.75
+    Greene. Mrs. W. H. B.                                      1.00
+    Griffin’s Mills. Mrs. Theo. Olden, $2; Mrs.
+      Theo. Olden, $2                                          4.00
+    Hudson. A. S. P.                                           1.00
+    Hughsonville. S. H. S.                                     0.50
+    Jewett. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius North                         30.00
+    Le Rey. Miss D. A. Phillips                               15.00
+    Lockport. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                   46.83
+    Lockport. Cong. Ch, and Sab. Sch., _for John
+      Brown Steamer_                                          10.00
+    Millville. Cong. Soc.                                      4.37
+    New York. “A Friend”                                  10,000.00
+    New York. W. H. De Forest, $100; Anson Phelps
+      Stokes, $50; “A Friend,” $1, _for Student
+      Aid_; Henry G. De Forest, $100; Dr. John
+      Hall, $25 _for Memorial Scholarships_; Chas.
+      N. Taintor, $50; Ralph Wells, $25, _for
+      Talladega C._                                          351.00
+    New York. D. I. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                     50.00
+    New York. Bethany Sab. Sch., Mrs. S. T.
+      Gordon’s Class, _for John Brown Steamer_                10.00
+    New York. Rev. A. J. G.                                    0.50
+    New York. American Bible Soc.; Grant of
+      Scriptures; val., $76.50.
+    New York. Taintor Bros. Merrill & Co., Package
+      School and Hymn Books, _for Macon, Ga._
+    Patchogue. Cong. Sab. Ch., _for Freight_                   2.46
+    Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor                                     3.00
+    Pitcher. Bellany Allen                                     5.00
+    Port Leyden. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00
+    Salem. B. C.                                               1.00
+    Sandy Hill. Mrs. Susan Rogers, _for Student
+      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        5.00
+    Schroon Lake. Cong. Ch.                                   10.00
+    Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, _for Talladega C._            50.00
+    Syracuse. W. E. Abbott                                    50.00
+    Union Falls. Francis E. Duncan, $10; Mrs.
+      Fanny D. Duncan, $10; Miss Margaret B.
+      Duncan, $5                                              25.00
+    Walton. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega
+      C._                                                     25.00
+    Windsor. Rev. J. S. Pattengill, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00
+    Yaphank. “A Friend”                                        5.00
+                                                          —————————
+                                                         $11,079.25
+
+    LEGACIES.
+
+    Bergen. Estate of I. M. Hitchcock, by A. E.
+      Hitchcock, Ex.                                       1,000.00
+    Bridgewater. Estate of Jane Turner, by Wm. C.
+      Marsh, Ex.                                             500.00
+    Kingsborough. Estate of Mrs. M. S. Judson, by
+      D. B. Judson                                           116.00
+    Randolph. Estate of Mrs. D. C. Bush, by Mrs.
+      C. C. Fitch                                            200.00
+                                                          —————————
+                                                         $12,895.25
+
+
+  NEW JERSEY, $141.50.
+
+    Lakewood. By Rev. G. L.                                    0.50
+    Montclair. Mrs A. F. Pratt’s Sab. Sch. Class,
+      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                          6.00
+    Newark. C. S. Haines, $30; David Owen, $5                 35.00
+    Newark. David Ripley, _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           25.00
+    Paterson. J. C. Ryle, $50; G. G. Tillotson,
+      $25; _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                      75.00
+
+
+  PENNSYLVANIA, $317.21.
+
+    Guy’s Mills. Randolph Cong. Ch. _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._                                           16.10
+    Guy’s Mills. S. O. F.                                      1.00
+    Le Raysville. Cong. Ch., $9.33; Rev. J. R., 75c.          10.08
+    Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. to const.
+      BARTON F. BLAKE, HARRY P. BOWER, HARRY M.
+      BOWDEN, JAMES R. DANFORTH, JR., LEWIS W. H.
+      GIESE, EDWARD P. HALL, GEORGE HOBBS and
+      FRANK P. PENDLETON L. Ms.                              280.03
+    South Bethlehem. Mrs. H. D. Kitchell                      10.00
+
+
+  OHIO, $528.87.
+
+    Austinburg. First Cong. Ch.                               16.00
+    Bellefontaine. Mrs. R. I. Lindsay, _for John
+      Brown Steamer_                                           5.00
+    Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                9.00
+    Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee                                     6.50
+    Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student
+      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       10.00
+    Cleveland. J. S., $1; A. R. B., $1; A. L. P.,50c           2.50
+    Delaware. By Sarah Evans                                   2.50
+    Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.92
+    Huntsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Q. Phelps                         4.00
+    Huntsburgh. Mrs. V. R. P. _for Indian M._                  1.00
+    Jefferson. Ladies Miss’y Soc. _for Student
+      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                       23.00
+    Lenox. A. J. Holman                                       10.00
+    Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $59.87,
+      and Sab. Sch., $64.59                                  124.46
+    Madison. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $4.15 _for
+      Freight, for Selma, Ala._                                4.15
+    Madison. Mrs. M. P. St. John, _for Freight_                2.00
+    Madison. Ladies, Bbl. Books and Papers _for
+      Summerfield, Ala._
+    Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H.                              1.00
+    Mechanicstown. Mrs. S. M.                                  1.00
+    Metamora. Mrs. M. S.                                       1.00
+    Newark. Welch Cong. Ch.                                   12.80
+    North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. ($2.80 of which
+      from Rev. J. B. Stocking)                                4.03
+    Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $90; Mrs. D. H. P.,
+      51c.                                                    90.51
+    Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,
+      _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                     75.00
+    Painesville. Rev. S. W. Pierson, $5; E. E. J., $1          6.00
+    Peru. “Friends,” by Rev. H. Lawrence, _for
+      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              55.00
+    Pierpont. Mrs. S. W.                                       1.00
+    Springfield. “Friend,” _for Student Aid.
+      Tougaloo U._                                             5.00
+    Springfield. W. A. F.                                      1.00
+    Tallmadge. Miss Josephine Pierce, bal. to
+      const. MISS JOSEPHINE M. WOLCOTT L. M.                   6.00
+    Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed. $10; J. H. S., 50c.           10.50
+    Unionville. Mrs. E. F. Burnelle                            5.00
+    Wellington. Edward West ($10 of which _for
+      John Brown Steamer_)                                    30.00
+    Youngstown. “Mahoning”                                     1.00
+
+
+  ILLINOIS, $2.659.52.
+
+    Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer                                45.40
+    Champaign. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                15.00
+    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., $164.25; Mrs. S. A. S.,
+      $1; Mrs. F. E., 50c.                                   165.75
+    Chicago. First Presb. Ch., _for Berea C._                100.00
+    Chicago. C. B. Bouton, _for Student Aid, Fisk
+      U._                                                     50.00
+    Chicago. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               21.00
+    Danville. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Presb. Ch.,
+      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         30.00
+    Earlville. Mrs. Mary T. Murray                             2.00
+    Elmore. Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM HUMPHREY
+      L. M.                                                   30.00
+    Elmhurst. Seth Wadhams, _for Prof’s Home,
+      Talladega, Ala._                                     1,550.00
+    Freeport. L. A. Warner                                    25.00
+    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.                               100.00
+    Galva. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
+      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   15.00
+    Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                    28.80
+    Hutsonville. C. V. N.                                      1.00
+    Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                                25.00
+    Lyonsville. Cong. Ch., in part                            11.00
+    Lyndon. “A Friend,” $4; “A Friend,” $1, _for
+      John Brown Steamer_                                      5.00
+    Marseilles. Cong. Ch.                                     12.76
+    Naperville. Cong. Ch., $7.30; A. A. Smith, $5             12.30
+    New Windsor. Cong. Ch.                                     8.70
+    Oak Park. Mr. Packard’s Class of Boys, Cong.
+      Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid Talladega C._               14.25
+    Ontario. Cong. Ch.                                        25.00
+    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00
+    Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for
+      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                  100.00
+    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       30.00
+    Port Byron. Mission Circle                                 8.00
+    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss, $15; Cong. Sab.
+      Sch., $6.25                                             21.25
+    Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter                         10.00
+    Providence. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                                25.00
+    Rochelle. C. H. Holcomb                                   20.00
+    Rosemond. Cong. Ch. ($5.92 of which from Sab.
+      Sch.), _for John Brown Steamer_                         19.97
+    Seward. Cong. Ch., $18.10, and Sab. Sch., $12             30.10
+    Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Savannah, Ga._                               5.09
+    Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                            10.00
+    Tonica. F. A. Wood                                        10.00
+    Western Springs. Union Meeting                             6.44
+    Wethersfield. Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                           5.00
+    Wheaton. Cong. Ch.                                        16.30
+    Wilmette. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._                                            6.25
+    Winnetka. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                                18.50
+    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       4.66
+
+
+  MICHIGAN, $467.87.
+
+    Ada. Mrs. A. A. Morris                                     5.00
+    Adrian. Plymouth Ch., $7.03; Benj. S. Allen,
+      $2.97                                                   10.00
+    Battle Creek. “J. E. W.”                                   5.00
+    Birmingham. Mrs. E. B. A.                                  1.00
+    Calumet. Cong. Ch.                                       252.61
+    Covert. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. (ad’l), _for
+      John Brown Steamer_                                     10.00
+    Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
+      Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._                        50.00
+    Detroit. “S. Z.,” 50c.; D. G. P., 50c.                     1.00
+    Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch.                             20.45
+    Imlay. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.                                 8.00
+    Milford. Mrs. E. G.                                        1.00
+    North Lansing. Plymouth Cong Ch.                          37.81
+    Pentwater. First Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of
+      Books, _for Macon, Ga._
+    Romeo. Mary A. Dickinson, _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                50.00
+    Saint Clair. S. F. H.                                      1.00
+    Saint Josephs. Mrs. E. A. H. Grosvenor, _for
+      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   10.00
+    Ypsilanti. Cong Ch.                                        5.00
+
+
+  WISCONSIN, $386.75.
+
+    Appleton. Mrs. S. R. Page, Box C. and $2.25,
+      _for Macon, Ga._                                         2.25
+    Beloit. African M. E. Sab. Sch, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                       4.00
+    Black Earth. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.25
+    Bristol. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. and $1.50
+      _for Freight, for Macon, Ga._                            1.50
+    Cumberland. W. B. Hopkins, M.D.                           10.00
+    Delavan. Miss E. E.                                        0.50
+    Eau Claire. Cong. Ch.                                     38.00
+    Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           20.00
+    Emerald Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                       8.50
+    Fort Howard. Mrs. D. C. Curtis, Bbl. of C.,
+      _for Macon Ga._
+    Fox Lake. William Dawes                                  200.00
+    Madison. First Cong. Ch., $45, and 50 Vols.
+      “Songs of Christian Praise,” _for Talladega
+      C._                                                     45.00
+    Milwaukee. Young Peoples’ Mission Circle, _for
+      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              16.00
+    Ripon. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., _for
+      Macon, Ga._
+    River Falls. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             2.50
+    Rosendale. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             0.25
+    Saint Clair. F. M., _for Freight_                          1.00
+    Sheboygan. First Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes Books and
+      C. and $10 _for Freight, for Macon, Ga._                10.00
+    West Rosendale. Mrs. A. Martin, $20, _for
+      Student Aid, Lewis High Sch._; First Cong.
+      Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Macon, Ga._                       20.00
+    Westfield. C. C.                                           1.00
+    Whitewater. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, Talladega, Ala._                             3.00
+
+
+  IOWA, $1,694.33.
+
+    Anamosa. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
+      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            5.00
+    Anita. $6.50; Eldora. Ladies of Ch., $10.83;
+      Tabor, Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., $15; by Miss
+      Henry L. Chase, _for Lady Missionary, New
+      Orleans, La._                                           32.33
+    Burlington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Fisk U._                                                20.00
+    Burlington. Miss M. L.                                     1.00
+    Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, _for
+      Student Aid, Straight U._                               25.00
+    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 30.00
+    Chester Center. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00
+    Davenport. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
+      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           26.00
+    Dubuque. Young People’s Benev. Soc., $50; Mrs.
+      James Beach, $5.30, _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           55.30
+    Dubuque. W. C. W.                                          0.50
+    Des Moines. James Callaman, $1,000; Ex. Gov.
+      Samuel Merrill, $250, _for President’s
+      House, Talladega C._                                 1,250.00
+    Des Moines. “Ten Young Men,” $50; “Friends”
+      $50, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                   100.00
+    Grinnell. S. H. H.                                         0.51
+    Keokuk. Mrs. M. W.                                         0.50
+    Keokuk. ————, _for John Brown Steamer_                     5.00
+    Lyons. Ladies’ Circle, _for Lady Missionary,
+      New Orleans, La._                                       10.00
+    Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           20.00
+    Oldfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  9.08
+    Osage. Cong. Ch.                                          18.00
+    Quasqueton. Rev. W. S. Potwin, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                       5.00
+    Shenandoah. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Student
+      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        8.00
+    Sioux City. Mrs. W. K. S.                                  0.51
+    Tabor. Ladies, $12; Mrs. John Todd, $10, _for
+      Student Aid, Straight U._                               22.00
+    Waverly. M. H. G.                                          0.50
+    Wayne. D. C. S.                                            1.00
+    West Liberty. Mrs. L. K. Sisson, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                      22.50
+    West Liberty. “Busy Bees,” Package
+      Sewing-School Material, _for Macon, Ga._
+    Winthrop. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
+      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            6.60
+    Wittemberg. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.00
+
+
+  KANSAS, $4.50.
+
+    Anthony. Rev. T. D. C.                                     0.75
+    Cora. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_            1.25
+    Ridgeway. Cong. Ch.                                        2.50
+
+
+  MINNESOTA, $128.79.
+
+    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         3.50
+    Clear Water. Cong. Ch., $3; C. M. S., 50c.                 3.50
+    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.33; Second
+      Cong. Ch., $4.                                          24.33
+    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                        14.38
+    Morris. A. A. S.                                           0.50
+    Red Wing. Mrs. Julia B. Nelson.                           10.00
+    Saint Paul. Plymouth Ch.                                  72.58
+
+
+  NEBRASKA, $2.00.
+
+    Wayne. G. H. S.                                            1.00
+    Wheatland. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                 1.00
+
+
+  MISSOURI, $9.80.
+
+    Holden. “Mrs. S. E. H.,” _for ed. of Indians,
+      Hampton N. and A. Inst._                                 3.00
+    Saint Louis. Francis Whitney.                              6.80
+
+
+  OREGON, $9.15.
+
+    Forest Grove. Cong. Ch., $3.15; Mrs. M. R. W., $1          4.15
+    Portland. Mr. H. Williams.                                 5.00
+
+
+  CALIFORNIA, $10.00.
+
+    San Bernardino. Mr. Emeline Smith, _for
+      Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Austin, Texas_               10.00
+
+
+  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $2.36.
+
+    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                           2.36
+
+
+  NORTH CAROLINA, $214.00.
+
+    Dudley. Public Fund.                                      30.00
+    Raleigh. Cong. Ch., _for John Brown Steamer_               2.00
+    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00
+    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                         177.00
+
+
+  SOUTH CAROLINA, $289.25.
+
+    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         279.25
+    Charleston. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                            10.00
+
+
+  TENNESSEE, $468.60.
+
+    Chattanooga. Rev. J. W. White and Others, _for
+      Mag._                                                    2.50
+    Chattanooga. M. Blanche Curtis, _for Student
+      Aid, Tougaloo U._                                        2.00
+    Maryville. Rev. T. J. L., _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                 1.00
+    Memphis. LeMoyne Sch., Tuition                           180.60
+    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              271.95
+    Nashville. Miss’y Soc. of Fisk U., $10; Fisk
+      U. Students, 55c., _for John Brown Steamer_             10.55
+
+
+  GEORGIA, $836.41.
+
+    Atlanta. Storrs’ School, Tuition, $245.40;
+      Rent, $3.                                              248.40
+    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition                             231.59
+    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. ($35.20 of which _for
+      Student Aid, Storrs’ Sch._), $57; Cong. Sab.
+      Sch., $4.50.                                            91.80
+    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition                           83.72
+    Macon. Hon. James H. Blount, 155 Vols. Pub.
+      Doc., _for Library, Macon, Ga._
+    McIntosh. Tuition.                                        25.75
+    Savannah. Beach Inst., $143.30; Rent, $11.85.            155.15
+
+
+  ALABAMA, $503.87.
+
+    Alabama Furnace. Cong. Ch., _for John Brown
+      Steamer_                                                 3.25
+    Anniston. Tuition.                                         5.00
+    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          2.50
+    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           152.80
+    Mobile. Cong. Ch., $2; A. E., _for Emerson
+      Inst._, $1.                                              3.00
+    Montgomery. Public Fund.                                 175.00
+    Selma. Cong. Ch.                                          43.15
+    Selma. Mission Workers, _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                           11.50
+    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition                         104.67
+    Talladega. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
+      Talladega C._                                            3.00
+
+
+  LOUISIANA, $202.25.
+
+    New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition                202.25
+
+
+  MISSISSIPPI, $131.94.
+
+    Jackson. R. F.                                             0.24
+    Tougaloo. Tougaloo University, Tuition                   129.70
+    Tougaloo. F. J. Webster, _for Student Aid,
+      Tougaloo U._                                             2.00
+
+
+  TEXAS, $192.20.
+
+    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 190.75
+    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                    1.45
+
+
+  INCOME FUND, $455.
+
+    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               355.00
+    C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                        50.00
+    General Fund                                              50.00
+
+
+  CANADA, $9.50.
+
+    Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes, D.D., $4; Charles
+      Alexander, $2.; Theo. Lyman, $2, and “Juv.
+      Miss. Box of the family,” $1.50                          9.50
+
+
+  FRANCE, $30.
+
+    Paris. Mrs. E. W. Hitchcock, _for Talladega C._           30.00
+
+
+  CHINA, $1.50.
+
+    Pao-ting-fu. Mrs. Isaac Pierson, _for Student
+      Aid, Talladega C._                                       1.50
+                                                          —————————
+      Total                                              $31,976.58
+      Total from Oct. 1 to March 31.                    $132,022.55
+                                                         ==========
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.
+
+    From Oct. 1 to March 31.                               2,191.73
+
+         *       *       *       *       *
+
+  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.
+
+    Conn. Watertown. “A Friend,” _for support of
+      President of Talladega College_                      5,000.00
+                                                         ==========
+
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+
+Musical Editor of “Songs for the Sanctuary.” “Baptist Praise Book.”
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+
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+
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+                   THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL STATEMENT
+
+                              OF THE
+
+                        CONNECTICUT MUTUAL
+
+                      Life Insurance Company,
+
+                        OF HARTFORD, CONN.
+
+
+  NET ASSETS, January 1, 1881                           $47,833,628.70
+    RECEIVED IN 1881:
+      For premiums                         $5,238,811.82
+      For Interest and Rents                2,830,328.08
+      Profit and Loss                          91,626.11
+                                           —————————————
+                                                          8,160,766.01
+                                                         —————————————
+                                                        $55,994,394.71
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+  DISBURSED IN 1881.
+
+    TO POLICY HOLDERS:
+  For claims by death and
+    matured endowments        $3,718,646.87
+  Surplus returned to Policy
+    holders                    1,284,342.53
+  Lapsed and surrendered
+    Policies                   1,081,234.81
+                              —————————————
+      TOTAL TO POLICY HOLDERS              $6,084,224.21
+
+    EXPENSES:
+  Commissions to Agents         $286,797.05
+  Salaries of Officers, Clerks
+    and all others employed on
+    salary                       103,541.93
+  Medical Examiners’ fees         10,540.25
+  Printing, Advertising, Legal,
+    Real Estate and all other
+    expenses                     276,607.84
+                                ———————————
+                                             $677,487.07
+  TAXES                                       454,590.06
+                                             ———————————
+                                                          7,216,301.34
+                                                          ————————————
+    BALANCE NET ASSETS, DEC. 31, 1881                   $48,778,093.37
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+  SCHEDULE OF ASSETS.
+
+  Loans upon Real Estate, first lien                    $18,037,201.12
+  Loans upon Stocks and Bonds                               401,303.28
+  Premium notes on Policies in force                      3,347,600.47
+  Cost of Real Estate owned by the Company               12,657,974.92
+  Cost of United States Registered Bonds                  4,618,853.10
+  Cost of State Bonds                                       619,900.00
+  Cost of City Bonds                                      2,572,300.84
+  Cost of other Bonds                                     3,407,480.00
+  Cost of Bank Stock                                        122,761.00
+  Cost of Railroad Stock                                     26,000.00
+  Cash in Bank                                            2,933,319.50
+  Balance due from agents, secured                           33,399.14
+                                                        ——————————————
+                                                        $48,778,093.37
+    ADD
+  Interest due and accrued                   $925,583.50
+  Rents accrued                                14,373.88
+  Market value of stocks and bonds over
+    cost                                      497,676.02
+  Net premiums in course of collection——NONE.
+  Net deferred quarterly and semi-annual
+    premiums                                   43,058.08
+                                             ———————————
+                                                          1,480,691.48
+                                                        ——————————————
+        GROSS ASSETS, December 31, 1881                 $50,258,784.85
+
+    LIABILITIES:
+  Amount required to re-insure all
+    outstanding policies, net, assuming
+    4 per cent. interest                  $45,810,598.00
+  All other liabilities                     1,060,614.87
+                                          ——————————————
+                                                         46,871,212.87
+                                                        ——————————————
+  SURPLUS, by Connecticut Standard, 4 per cent.          $3,387,571.98
+  SURPLUS, by New York Standard, 4-½ per cent., about     6,500,000.00
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Ratio of expense of management to receipts in 1881    8.30 per cent.
+  Policies in force December 31, 1881, 63,913,
+    insuring                                           $159,039,867.89
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+  JACOB L. GREENE, President.
+  JOHN M. TAYLOR, Secretary.
+  W. G. ABBOT, Ass’t Secretary.
+  D. H. WELLS, Actuary.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+    Physicians have Prescribed over Half a Million Packages of
+
+                      VITALIZED PHOS-PHITES,
+
+And have found this BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD indispensable in the
+treatment of all Diseases of Debility, and in all Mental or Nervous
+Disorders.
+
+It restores to the busy, active brain of man or woman the energy
+and ability that has been lost by disease, worry or overwork. It
+restores vitality where there has been debility and nervousness,
+and prevents loss of memory and brain fatigue; it is a regenerator
+of the tired brain and nerves.
+
+In impaired vitality it restores to the system that which has been
+wasted in excitement, in abuses, in excessive bodily or mental
+emotions.
+
+It _prevents_ consumption and other diseases of debility.
+
+            F. CROSBY CO., 664 and 666 Sixth Ave., N.Y.
+
+        For Sale by Druggists; or by mail in P. O. order,
+                  bill or postage stamps, $1.00.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                     BALL’S HEALTH PRESERVING
+
+                              CORSET
+
+                      SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW
+
+[Illustration: EVERY CORSET WARRANTED SATISFACTORY OR MONEY
+REFUNDED]
+
+By a novel arrangement of fine coiled wire spring, which yield
+readily to every movement of the wearer, the most =Perfect Fitting=
+and comfortable corset ever made is secured.
+
+Is Approved by the Best Physicians. For sale by all leading dealers.
+
+                        Lady Agents Wanted.
+
+                       Price by Mail, $1.50.
+
+                       Manufactured only by
+
+                        CHICAGO CORSET CO.,
+
+                          Chicago, Ill.,
+
+               and FOY, HARMON & Co., New Haven Ct.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: THE RISING SUN STOVE POLISH]
+
+    For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil.
+    For freeness from dust and slowness to soil.
+    And also for cheapness ’tis yet unsurpassed.
+    And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.
+
+    Of all imitations ’tis well to beware;
+    The half risen sun every package should bear;
+    For this is the “trade mark” the MORSE BROS. use,
+    And none are permitted the mark to abuse.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                         ESTABLISHED 1780.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Set Complete in Terry, $58. Set complete in Plush, $64. Parlor,
+Lodge and Church Furniture. No charge for packing. Send for
+Illustrated Catalogue.
+
+                        SHAW, APPLIN & CO.,
+                                      27 Sudbury St., Boston.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.
+
+[Illustration:
+
+  Smith
+  AMERICAN
+  ORGANS
+  ARE THE BEST.]
+
+
+                 _Catalogues Free on Application._
+
+Address the Company either at
+
+  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;
+  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;
+  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;
+  ATLANTA, GA., 37 Whitehall Street;
+  Or, DEFIANCE, O.
+
+
+                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+[Illustration: Estey Organ]
+
+  J. Estey & Co
+  Brattleboro Vt.
+
+As musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for
+home, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,
+and durability.
+
+                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                     THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+                Special attention is invited to the
+
+                      ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.
+
+With a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly, in the best families
+in the land, it becomes a valuable medium for the advertisement of
+standard and reliable articles.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                          [Illustration]
+
+                              BABCOCK
+
+                               FIRE
+
+                           EXTINGUISHER
+
+
+                   A Sentinel that Never Sleeps.
+
+
+                          SIMPLE!
+
+                            EFFECTIVE!
+
+                                 DURABLE!
+
+
+                          S. F. HAYWARD,
+
+                          GENERAL AGENT,
+
+                     407 Broadway, N.Y. City.
+
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+                     60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.
+
+One ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence.
+One strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large
+cattle. One strand at bottom will keep out hogs.
+
+                   Washburn & Moen Man’f’g Co.,
+
+                         WORCESTER, MASS.,
+
+                         Manufacturers of
+
+                    Patent Steel Barb Fencing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheap or put up so
+quickly. Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps. Unaffected
+by fire, wind or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly
+stock. Impassable by man or beast.
+
+No other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors and
+tenants, or large planters in the South.
+
+Shipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of Fencing.
+Can be kept on the Reel for transient uses.
+
+           CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.
+
+Send for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.
+
+
+                 *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+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 District of Columbia, 1; Virginia,
+1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky,
+7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana,
+18; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 1.
+Total, 82.
+
+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, Tex.——8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington,
+N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;
+Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.——11. _Other
+Schools_, 35. Total, 54.
+
+TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.——Among the Freedmen, 319;
+among the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,
+369. STUDENTS.——In theology, 104; law, 20; in college course, 91;
+in other studies, 8,884. Total, 9,108. 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 directed on second page cover.
+
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+We are anxious to put the AMERICAN MISSIONARY on a paying basis. We
+intend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons to aid us:
+
+1. More of our readers can take pains to send us either the
+moderate subscription price (50 cents), or $1.00, naming a friend
+to whom we may send a second copy.
+
+2. A special friend in each church can secure subscribers at
+club-rates (12 copies for $5 or 25 copies for $10).
+
+3. Business men can benefit themselves by advertising in a
+periodical that has a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly and that
+goes to many of the best men and families in the land. Will not our
+friends aid us to make this plan a success?
+
+We nevertheless renew the offer hitherto made, that the MISSIONARY
+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.
+
+Subscriptions and advertisements should be sent to H. W. HUBBARD,
+Treasurer, 56 Reade street, New York, N.Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+ATKIN & PROUT, PRINTERS, 12 BARCLAY ST., N.Y.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber’s Notes:
+
+
+Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.
+Inconsistent small caps retained as printed.
+
+Page number for Benefactions corrected in the Contents.
+
+“Pesbyterian” changed to “Presbyterian” on page 150. (Presbyterian
+Mission House)
+
+“Talladaga” changed to “Talladega” in the Danville entry on page
+155. (for Student Aid, Talladega C.)
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 36,
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+
+
+<div class="article">
+<h1 title="The American Missionary"></h1>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 301px;">
+<img src="images/coversmall.jpg" width="301" height="500"
+alt="VOL. XXXVI. MAY, 1882. No. 5
+
+THE
+
+American Missionary
+
+“THEY ARE RISING ALL ARE RISING, THE BLACK AND WHITE TOGETHER”
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+Published by the American Missionary Association,
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+Price, 50 Cents a Year, In Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter." />
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<h2>CONTENTS.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents">
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>&nbsp;</td>
+    <td class="linenum">Page.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_129">129</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Benefactions</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_130">130</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Concerning Endowments</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_131">131</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Death of Rev. J.&nbsp;M. Williams</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_133">133</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">General Notes——<span class="chaplinen">Africa, Indians, Chinese</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_133">133</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Cut of Modoc Funeral</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_135">135</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Anniversary Announcements</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_136">136</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Revival News——<span class="chaplinen">From Tougaloo, Chattanooga,
+Macon, Atlanta, Hampton, Paris and McIntosh</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_137">137</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Our Youngest, the Tillotson</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_140">140</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Teacher’s Institute at Talladega</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_140">140</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Hon. Wm. E. Dodge and Atlanta Univ.</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_141">141</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">atlanta Teacher at Macon</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_141">141</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Mr. Ladd’s Journal</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_142">142</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Elephant Hunting (<span class="chaplinen">cut</span>)</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_143">143</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Statistics for February——<span class="chaplinen">Chinese New-Year</span></td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_147">147</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">Japanese Pleasure Party</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_150">149</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline">The Grasshopper Teacher</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_150">150</a></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="chapline pp2">RECEIPTS</td>
+    <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_151">151</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+<div class="article">
+<p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary Association,</p>
+
+<p class="center large">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="officers">
+<p class="center p1"><span class="smcap">President, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN</span>, Mass.</p>
+
+
+<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Rev. M.&nbsp;E. STRIEBY. D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></p>
+
+
+<p class="position">TREASURER.</p>
+
+<p class="center">H.&nbsp;W. HUBBARD, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i></p>
+
+
+<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p>
+
+<p class="center">Rev. C.&nbsp;L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.
+  <span style="padding-left: 5%;">Rev. G.&nbsp;D. PIKE, D.D., <i>New York</i>.</span>
+</p>
+<p class="center">Rev. JAMES POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="position pp2">COMMUNICATIONS</p>
+
+<p class="medium">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,
+to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the
+“American Missionary,” to Rev. G.&nbsp;D. Pike, D.D., at the New York
+Office.</p>
+
+
+<p class="position">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p>
+
+<p class="medium">may be sent to H.&nbsp;W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C.
+L. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass.,
+or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may
+be addressed to the persons above named.</p>
+
+
+<p class="position">FORM OF A BEQUEST.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of ————
+dollars, in trust, to pay the same in ———— days after my decease to
+the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
+of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be
+applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
+Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should
+be attested by three witnesses.</p>
+
+<p class="medium pp2">The Annual Report of the A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. contains the Constitution of the
+Association and the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will
+be sent free on application.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_129" id="Page_129">[129]</a></p>
+
+<div class="article">
+<p class="center">THE</p>
+<p class="xxxlarge center smcap">American Missionary.</p>
+
+<hr class="full top" />
+
+<div>
+<div class="third smcap" style="padding-left: 2%">Vol. XXXVI.</div>
+<div class="third center">MAY, 1882.</div>
+<div class="third right">No. 5.</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full bottom" />
+
+<h2 title="EDITORIAL.">American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h3 title="PARAGRAPHS"></h3>
+
+<p>The friends of the A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. who examine the receipts acknowledged
+in this number of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> will be gratified to see
+a total of $31,976.58 for March, thus making up in some measure for
+the falling off in February. But too much encouragement must not
+be taken from this single item. Let it only stimulate our friends
+to a steady effort to round out the year with the $300,000 called
+for by the annual meeting and by the imperative needs of the work.
+To reach that sum $168,000 will be required for the remaining six
+months of the year, or $28,000 per month.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>The most infamous enactments of the Congress of the
+United States have been made in response to the demands of
+caste prejudice; as for example in the Fugitive Slave Law. A
+parallel to this is found in the recent bill prohibiting Chinese
+immigration——an enactment injurious to this country, a wrong
+to China and a violation of the fundamental principles of the
+Declaration of Independence, and of the law of God. It is a
+shameful repudiation of our boast that this land is an asylum for
+the oppressed of all nations, and it is a cowardly acknowledgment
+that a hundred thousand inoffensive Chinamen can so excite and
+alarm a nation of fifty millions of people. It is with great
+gratification that we chronicle the veto of this bill by President
+Arthur. We only regret that he has not put the veto more squarely
+against the principle of such prohibition.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p>Popular virtue is spasmodic. It was a spasm of public
+righteousness that overthrew Wm. M. Tweed in New York. But the
+spasm soon passed and New York was again misgoverned. Sudden
+uprisings of enthusiasm in the temperance cause have given us
+prohibitory and other stringent laws, but soon again the tides
+of intemperance have swept onward. In missionary as well as
+reformatory work is the evil of these spasms felt. Some new
+developments of special need or of special encouragement arouse
+the churches, and unwonted streams of contributions<a class="pagenum" name="Page_130" id="Page_130">[130]</a> pour into the
+treasuries of the Mission Boards. On the strength of these gifts
+the mission work is enlarged and new responsibilities are assumed,
+but ere long the decay of the special impulse leaves the Boards to
+face their newly-created obligations with an empty treasury.</p>
+
+<p>This has been specially true in regard to the work among the
+Freedmen. On the proclamation of Emancipation, and the enactment of
+laws giving the ballot to the blacks, the popular enthusiasm knew
+no bounds. Liberal benefactions called into life the Freedmen’s Aid
+Societies and filled the treasury of this Association. At length,
+however, the Freedmen fell into the hands of the politicians, and
+the nation lost interest in the conflicts of parties and factions
+over them. The Aid Societies were abandoned and the A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. with
+its vast machinery was left in debt. Now, again, within the last
+few years has the public attention been aroused to the education
+of the colored people as their only hope and the nation’s only
+safety. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of
+the North, and Senator Brown and Dr. Haygood have re-echoed the
+sentiment for the South. During these late years the treasury of
+the A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. has felt the new impulse, and again it has ventured
+upon enlargement. Shall it once more be left on the sands of a
+retreating tide and the work for the Freedmen be again crippled?
+Nothing will avert such a result but conscience and Christian
+principle on the part of the friends of the colored race. If this
+work ought to be done, and what patriot or Christian doubts it,
+then the patriot and the Christian must give it their steady and
+generous support.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>BENEFACTIONS.</h3>
+
+<p>Mr. Garry Brooks has given $30,000 to found a Brooks Professorship
+at Oberlin College.</p>
+
+<p>The medical department of Dartmouth College receives $2,000 from
+the will of the late E.&nbsp;W. Stoughton, of New York.</p>
+
+<p>Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, Vt., has given $5,000 to
+the fund now being raised for an additional gymnasium building at
+Amherst College.</p>
+
+<p>Gen. James M. Coale, of Maryland, bequeathed $10,000 each to
+Georgetown College, D.C., and St. Mary’s Industrial School for
+Boys, Baltimore.</p>
+
+<p>The Marquis of Bute offers to add £10,000 to the fund to the
+proposed University College of Wales, provided the institution be
+established at Cardiff.</p>
+
+<p>Ex-Gov. Morgan, of New York, has given $100,000 to Williams College
+for a new dormitory building. The gifts of Gov. Morgan to Wells
+College amount in all to $275,000.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Sarah Burr, of New York, bequeathed $95,000 for educational
+purposes<a class="pagenum" name="Page_131" id="Page_131">[131]</a> in connection with institutions already established and
+$60,000 towards founding new ones.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<p><em>During the past twelve months we have recorded under the head of
+“Benefactions” $9,118,500 to different educational institutions
+in the United States. The greater part of this was given for
+endowments and permanent educational facilities——a portion of it
+had been provided by donors during previous years, and a part
+still remains unpaid. Of the grand total only $66,500 was for
+Freedmen——the money for their support having for the most part come
+through the contribution boxes.</em></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>CONCERNING ENDOWMENTS.</h3>
+
+<p>The success already achieved by the institutions of this
+Association and the favor already won by them among all classes of
+the Southern people, amply justify the work hitherto carried on. It
+is believed that the time has fully come when this work should be
+put upon a more substantial basis. Permanent endowments are needed
+that these institutions may achieve that larger success which is
+rightly expected of them.</p>
+
+<p>Certain phases of our work, sometimes overlooked, greatly emphasize
+this need. Careful attention is invited to the following points:</p>
+
+<p>1. <em>The unusual difficulties attending the successful prosecution
+of our work.</em> It is no ordinary school teaching that we have
+undertaken to carry on in the South. Our pupils bring to the
+class-room absolutely no inheritance of scholarly mind. Only two
+or three generations separate them from the heathenism of the most
+uncivilized continent in the world. Some of them come with the
+most meagre vocabulary——a few hundred tattered and torn remnants
+of English words. Many of them have no equipment of general
+information, such as other children absorb from their parents. But
+worse than all is the evil inheritance which many of our pupils
+bring from centuries of heathenism and slavery. Let us be frank and
+add that even the great boon of freedom, so righteously conferred,
+has, by the very suddenness of its bestowal, unavoidably brought
+peculiar peril and damage to many of the freedmen.</p>
+
+<p>It is not a light task to deal with such material as this. Moral
+character must be developed at the outset and carefully nurtured
+all along. The rubbish of incorrect speech must be cleared away,
+and a correct and copious vocabulary formed. The commonest facts
+of general information must be imparted. Of course, in our higher
+institutions there is less of such work to be done; but a still
+more responsible and difficult task takes its place——that of
+preparing college and normal students to perform this same arduous
+primary work as teachers and leaders of their own people. Never was
+such a mass of ignorance thrown so suddenly upon the educational
+resources of a civilized people. But there is a brighter side.</p>
+
+<p>2. <em>The unprecedented facilities now available for the prosecution
+of our</em><a class="pagenum" name="Page_132" id="Page_132">[132]</a> <em>work.</em> Never was a civilized people so well prepared as
+our nation now is to meet this great emergency. The progress made
+in the science of education was never so great as it has been
+in recent years. The adaptation of methods of teaching to the
+varying necessities of pupils was never so well understood as now.
+Text-books and school apparatus, juvenile literature and helps for
+Biblical study were never so excellent as at present. The value
+of industrial training, even as an element in the most liberal
+culture, is receiving unwonted emphasis. In short, the accumulated
+wisdom of the latest and best century stands ready to serve us, if
+we only summon its aid. Much of it is in service already; but far
+more is needed than our present financial resources can command.</p>
+
+<p>3. <em>The necessity of a high order of talent in the teachers and
+managers of our work.</em> To understand thoroughly the needs of such
+pupils as crowd our schools, and to apply successfully the most
+approved educational methods, requires something more than an
+ordinary teacher. An eminent advocate of popular education has
+stated it as his belief that the most interesting and valuable
+improvements yet to be made in pedagogical science will be made in
+connection with the education of the colored people. But tyros and
+bunglers in teaching will never give us much that is interesting
+or valuable. The very best teaching ability must continually be
+employed in our schools and colleges, and be properly remunerated.</p>
+
+<p>4. <em>The relation of our work to the future of education in the
+South.</em> The justification of all Northern missionary teaching in
+the South has been that it was designed to accomplish what the
+Southern people were not prepared to do themselves. To whatever
+extent they may in the future take up our work, it will still be
+our mission to maintain that helpful leadership which it has been
+our privilege to exercise from the beginning. Our institutions
+should be the best and do the best work of any in the South. We
+should be the first to discern the peculiar needs of Southern
+pupils and the first to introduce whatever is new and excellent
+in educational appliances. We ought, for instance, to have
+at once industrial departments connected with all our larger
+institutions. Every normal and college graduate should be able
+to use intelligently either the wood-working or the iron-working
+tools; and the same expenditure of time and money which the Harvard
+and Yale boys make in learning to wield the oar and the bat would
+accomplish this much desired end. Already our institutions are
+being visited by Southern teachers eager to witness the advanced
+methods of teaching already introduced. We should always be able to
+reward such visitors by showing them something which they have not
+seen before. Above all, we should send out from our institutions
+such noble specimens of young manhood and womanhood as shall prove
+a stimulus to the whole educational work in the South.</p>
+
+<p>The destiny of the colored race is to be largely determined by the
+character of the young men and women now crowding forward into
+active life.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_133" id="Page_133">[133]</a> The immediate future will demand all our resources,
+and more, to save these young people. In the more distant future,
+our success as influential leaders in education will depend largely
+upon the promptness with which our institutions are <em>now</em> put upon
+a substantial basis. Every consideration of past success and of
+present and future need enforces our plea that these endowments
+should be provided at once.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+<h3 title="DEATH OF REV. J. M. WILLIAMS"></h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Rev. J.&nbsp;M. Williams</span>, of the Mendi Mission, died at
+Freetown, February 21. Mr. Williams was a native of British Guiana,
+and born in 1828. He was early impressed with a love to the Saviour
+and to Africa by his grandmother Christina, a native of the
+interior of Congo. He was educated in Ebenezer Chapel School, and
+studied theology with the pastor of the church; became assistant
+minister, then tutor in training school at Clarkson. But in his own
+words: “The promise of my childhood made to my grandmother that I
+would carry the word of God to Africa for her, when a man; this
+promise made with no other object than to soothe her in her tears
+for Africa, grew up with me, till I felt I would rather travel
+from town to town with my Bible, reading and publishing Christ
+the Saviour to my benighted brethren in Africa, than fill the
+most exalted and lucrative position in British Guiana or anywhere
+else.” In 1861 he went to Africa, and with the exception of three
+years spent in England remained there till the time of his death.
+Mr. Chase, who visited him in 1880 at Kaw Mendi, where the last
+five years of his life were spent, says: “For Africa Mr. Williams’
+effort may be considered a success. Very few missionaries could
+accomplish so much in so short a time in any field in Africa.”</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>
+
+
+<h4>AFRICA.</h4>
+
+<p>——West Central Africa is to receive four missionaries from Oberlin,
+who will go out under appointment of the A.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;M.</p>
+
+<p>——The London <em>Standard</em> has received from Durban a dispatch
+announcing the return of Mr. Richards, a missionary, who has been
+well received by Oumzila. The King has permitted him to establish a
+mission in his possessions.</p>
+
+<p>——Of forty physicians who offered themselves to accompany to the
+Gold Coast Mr. Praetorius, sub-inspector of the Basle Missions, the
+committee has chosen Dr. Ernest Maehli, of Swiss origin.</p>
+
+<p>——A survey is to be made for a light railway from the West African
+Gold Coast through the mining regions of the Wassan. If this road
+is constructed it will open up a country rich in palm oil, India
+rubber and precious metals.</p>
+
+<p>——John Smith Moffat has been sent to Lessouto as British
+representative. Born at Kourouman and brought up in England, he
+has still passed<a class="pagenum" name="Page_134" id="Page_134">[134]</a> nearly 25 years in Africa, and exercised in the
+Transvaal a civil magistracy among the natives, whose interests,
+material and moral, he has always protected.</p>
+
+<p>——Capt. Foot, commander of the ship Ruby, has accepted a call of
+the Sultan of Zanzibar, with a view to the suppression of the slave
+trade, which appeared concentrated at Bemba. The Arab bark with
+which Capt. Brownrigg joined combat has been captured. The French
+and English governments have taken up the matter.</p>
+
+<p>——The Arab influence is said by the missionaries of the C.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;S. to
+be destroyed in Mtesa’s kingdom. “No fear of starving now,” writes
+Mr. O’Flaherty. “We can water our garden, which bears fruit twice
+a year. We live like lords on native food, have flesh meat twice a
+day. The climate is lovely, country beautiful, people affable and
+kind, and we are happy. Our work is so increasing daily that we do
+not know where to begin or what to do first.”</p>
+
+<p>——A section of the Geographical Society, of Lisbon, has been formed
+at Horta, chief town of Fayal, one of the Azores, and has commenced
+to seek means for establishing a help station for shipwrecks, a
+measure desired for a long time in this latitude where violent
+tempests so frequently surprise one.</p>
+
+<p>——Messrs. Thornycroft &amp; Co., of England, are constructing a steamer
+for the use of the Baptist mission on the Upper Congo. The steamer
+is to be of steel, having twin screws for her more easy control
+and management amid the currents and sand-banks of the river. Her
+length will be 70 feet and she will draw only 12 inches of water.
+The lightness of flotation is secured by a singularly ingenious
+arrangement of the screws. The contract price of the vessel,
+complete and packed for transmission to the Congo, with a steel
+boat and duplicates of the most important portions of the machinery
+and gear, has been fixed at £1,700. To this will have to be added
+about £150 for sundry stores, so that the entire cost of the vessel
+will not exceed £2,000.</p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h4>THE INDIANS.</h4>
+
+<p>——There are 5,500 Indians drawing rations at the Agency of Standing
+Rock, Dakota.</p>
+
+<p>——During the present session of Congress 140 bills relating to the
+Indians have been introduced, an average of one to about every
+1,700 Indians.</p>
+
+<p>——Thirty descendants of Indians in Delaware have asked to be
+admitted to the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant
+Church.</p>
+
+<p>——There are 1,000 Indians in the Everglades of Florida, speaking
+their own language. They are said to be friendly and honest in
+their dealing with the whites.</p>
+
+<p>——Among the 275,000 Indians reported in the United States there
+are<a class="pagenum" name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a> 219 churches and 30,000 church members. Out of 70 tribes, 22
+are stated to be self-supporting.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 431px;">
+<img src="images/funeral.jpg" width="431" height="500" alt="" />
+<div class="caption">MODOC FUNERAL.</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>——The Choctaw Nation, in the Indian Territory, have long had a law
+to prevent excessive cruelty to animals; inspired, it seems, not
+from any example of the whites, but from their own instincts of
+humanity. The penalty is a fine of thirty lashes.</p>
+
+<p>——A sub-committee appointed by Presbyterians to prepare a memorial
+for Congress relating to the Indians, adopted the following: “For
+Indians we want American education, we want American homes, we want
+American rights——the result, of which is American citizenship.”</p>
+
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_136" id="Page_136">[136]</a></p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h4>THE CHINESE.</h4>
+
+<p>——Shanghai, China, has a temperance society with 400 members.</p>
+
+<p>The Chinese pupils at Stockton and Oroville have purchased cabinet
+organs for their respective schoolrooms.</p>
+
+<p>——In order to introduce telegraphy into China, the authorities
+grant the free use of the wires to the people for a month.</p>
+
+<p>——A decree has been issued exempting all Chinese converts to
+Christianity from all levies for idolatrous worship, processions or
+theatrical performances.</p>
+
+<p>——The Catholic Bishop of Hong Kong says that the Catholic mission
+there took 400,000 Chinese children last year to bring up in the
+faith of their church.</p>
+
+<p>——A tract which is being distributed by the Japanese says:
+“Christianity is spreading like fire on a grassy plain, so that in
+capital and country there is no place where it is not preached.”</p>
+
+<p>——According to the latest statistics on the subject, there are
+at the present time 310 Protestant missionary agents in China.
+Reckoning the population of China at 350,000,000, a ratio is found
+of <em>one</em> missionary agent to a population of 1,129,032.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h3>ANNIVERSARY ANNOUNCEMENTS.</h3>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Howard University, Washington, D.C.</span>——The anniversary
+of the Theological Department will be on Friday evening, May 5,
+when addresses will be made by five young men, who will graduate,
+and who will be addressed at the close by some person yet to be
+selected.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.</span>——Friday night, May
+20, public exercises of Class A., and the conferring of normal
+certificates. Sunday, 3 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span>, Baccalaureate sermon by
+President Cravath. Sunday night, Missionary address by Rev. C.
+L. Woodworth, of Boston, Mass. May 23, 24 and 25, examination of
+classes. Thursday, May 26, Commencement Day, Anniversary address by
+Rev. R.&nbsp;G. Hutchins, of Columbus, Ohio.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.</span>——Baccalaureate sermon,
+Sunday morning, June 11, by President De Forest. Missionary sermon
+in the evening by Rev. Edward W. Bacon, of New London, Conn.
+Examinations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Monday night,
+exercises of the Literary Societies. Tuesday night, address by Rev.
+E.&nbsp;W. Bacon. Thursday, Anniversary exercises and graduation of
+two from the Theological Department. Commencement concert in the
+evening.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss.</span>——Examinations
+Thursday. Friday and Monday, May 25, 26 and 29. Sabbath-school
+Convention, Sunday, May 28. Annual sermon by the President, Sunday
+night. Exhibition, Tuesday night, May 30. Literary exercises of
+graduating class, Wednesday morning, May 31. Annual address,
+Wednesday, <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span>, by Rev. Truman N. Post, of St. Louis.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Institute, Austin,
+Tex.</span>——Public examinations, June 5 and 6. Closing exercises,
+June 7.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Wilmington, N.C.</span>——Examinations, June 1. Exhibition in
+Memorial Hall, June 2.</p>
+
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_137" id="Page_137">[137]</a></p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Charleston, S.C.</span>——Commencement exercises, May 31. Address
+by Rev. E.&nbsp;J. Meynardy, D.D., of the Bethel M.&nbsp;E. Church.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Beach Institute, Savannah, Ga.</span>——Closing exercises, May 31.
+Examinations and grading for next year during the week preceding,
+ending May 26.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>——Friday, May 26, close of primary school.
+Saturday, closing exhibition of sewing-school. Sunday, address to
+the students of the Lewis High School, by J.&nbsp;W. Burke, Esq. Monday
+and Tuesday, examinations. Wednesday, May 31, closing exhibition,
+with presentation of certificates of scholarship. Wednesday
+evening, concert for the benefit of the school.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">LeMoyne School, Memphis, Tenn.</span>——May 28, annual sermon. May
+29, Junior exhibition. May 31, graduating exercises and the annual
+address.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala.</span>——Written examinations, May 23 and 24. Oral
+examinations, May 25. Closing exhibition on the night of the 26th.</p>
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Montgomery, Ala.</span>——Examinations and closing exercises, May
+30 and 31.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
+
+<p class="secauth">REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., <span class="smcap">Field Superintendent, Atlanta,
+Ga.</span></p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h3>REVIVAL NEWS</h3>
+
+
+<h4>RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TOUGALOO.</h4>
+
+<p>For the past two weeks there has been a great deal of religious
+interest among the students here. At the meetings, which have been
+held nearly every night during this time, twenty-nine persons have
+told us of their determination to serve God for the rest of their
+lives.</p>
+
+<p>Many of those who have lately begun this new life are young people,
+who have a good deal of influence over their classmates and
+associates. We feel glad to know that now they are on the side of
+Truth and are ready to use whatever influence they may have in the
+best way. Not only have sinners been converted, but Christians have
+been stirred up to do better work.</p>
+
+<p>One night, after a sermon upon the subject “Confession,” from the
+text: “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me,” an invitation
+was given to all who felt it to be their duty to confess any sins
+that were weighing upon them. The first who arose was a young
+man who was converted a year or two ago, and who has ever since
+been foremost in every good work. He said that he had been guilty
+of an act of dishonesty which had caused him much sorrow. In a
+lesson that he had written upon the board a few days before he
+had misspelled a word. One letter was wrong, but as it happened
+to resemble very closely the right letter, he reported it as such
+when he saw his mistake. For the next three or four days he had
+no peace. He knew that he ought to confess the act to the teacher
+whom he had deceived, but he was afraid that she would lose all
+confidence in his integrity. He also tried to persuade himself that
+it was a very little thing, hardly worth reporting. Why not keep
+quiet about it? No one would ever find it out. But these thoughts
+brought no comfort with them. The more he thought about the matter,
+the more he felt convinced that his act was not a little thing. He
+knew that it was a <em>sin</em>, and therefore not a small thing.</p>
+
+<p>After praying about the matter, this suggestion came to him: “Since
+you have asked the Lord to forgive you, you have done all that is
+necessary. You need not ask your teacher’s forgiveness.”</p>
+
+<p>He soon saw that he ought not to expect God to pardon his sin until
+he had done what he could to set the matter right with his teacher.
+He felt now as<a class="pagenum" name="Page_138" id="Page_138">[138]</a> if the very salvation of his soul depended upon
+his making this confession. As soon as possible, after coming to
+this conclusion, he went to her and acknowledged his sin. With this
+acknowledgement came peace.</p>
+
+<p>Other confessions followed this. Some told of similar acts of
+dishonesty, which they had committed. All who spoke expressed a
+sincere determination to do better for the future. We felt as if
+these confessions had cleared the moral atmosphere and made it
+possible for more effectual work to be done for those who did not
+profess to be Christians.</p>
+
+<p>Among the number recently converted is a middle-aged woman from the
+neighborhood. For at least thirteen years she has fully realized
+that she ought to lead a better life, but has been so much under
+the influence of old superstitions and ignorant associates, who
+told her that she could not be called a Christian until she would
+say that she had seen all sorts of impossible visions and had
+numerous strange experiences, that she has hardly known which way
+to turn. Now she has come out from under her yoke of bondage and
+feels as if she had seen a great light, a much clearer and better
+one than that for which she watched so many years.</p>
+
+<p>We are hoping and praying that the good, work which has been begun
+here may continue: that those who have started in the right way
+may have strength of character enough to keep in it, even when the
+prospect looks dark and they do not feel so full of enthusiasm as
+now.</p>
+
+<p class="signature"><i>Miss F.&nbsp;J. Webster.</i></p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+
+<h4>A SUMMER SHOWER.</h4>
+
+<p>It fell out of a clear sky, without foretokening of cloud or of
+electric display. It was at Chattanooga, in Pastor Joseph E.
+Smith’s church. At the regular Wednesday evening prayer meeting a
+young man announces that he has made up his mind to turn and live a
+Christian life. Good Deacon Morford asks of the pastor: “How would
+it do to have a meeting to-morrow night?” It is appointed. Two or
+three more at that time come out on the Lord’s side.</p>
+
+<p>Then a meeting every night is agreed upon, with a sermon from
+the pastor; and every night souls are hopefully born again. The
+series continues two weeks. For the last few days Pastor Penney and
+Superintendent Roy drop in to help glean a little. Over two-score
+souls are numbered among the believers. Forty are examined and
+approved by vote for membership in the church.</p>
+
+<p>But there was some preliminary work after all. The lady missionary,
+Mrs. Almira S. Steele, of Revere, Mass., who is sustained by the
+ladies of the Congregational churches of Chelsea, besides her
+general service, has had a Friday afternoon sociable for the
+women, which not only worked as a preparation but was used all
+through the revival with marked spiritual results. So her service
+in the Sunday-school, with the handling of the review intrusted
+to her, had borne upon the happy issue, and all the people, who
+are delighted with their lady assistant, trace the work back
+in part to her influence. The pastor, who had become almost
+discouraged, becomes a new man. The church is confirmed. This
+fruitage encourages the patient culturing of the Sabbath-school. It
+rewards proper teaching. There was no noise, no confusion. None of
+the inquirers were looking for visions and dreams, for long-drawn
+agonies, for “the power.” They were just marched up to the question
+of immediate submission and trust. This work shows how our little
+churches that are striving for purity and order and character may
+be spiritually empowered and built up.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>REFRESHING AT MACON.</h4>
+
+<p>It will gratify our friends to know that our A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. mission in
+Macon has been spiritually refreshed. There was a growing religious
+interest among the children of our day-school and Sunday-school,
+and early in February we were enabled to secure the aid of Rev.
+E.&nbsp;E. Rogers, of Orange, Conn. The neighborhood<a class="pagenum" name="Page_139" id="Page_139">[139]</a> prayer-meetings
+and house-to-house visitation by day were followed by powerfully
+impressive meetings at night. The work spread remarkably among
+the children, many of whom have started out in the new life. For
+more than three weeks the scholars of our Lewis High School would
+voluntarily leave their play and spend the whole half-hour of noon
+recess in prayer and religious instruction at the parlor of the
+Mission Home to the number of sixty and upward. At one memorable
+pray-meeting in the school-house there were twelve or fifteen of
+the students who gave their hearts to God. It was a Pentecostal
+season, a time of great rejoicing to the faithful teachers who had
+so long prayed for their pupils. The clear, decided testimony of
+one bright little Sunday-school boy, eight years of age, who was
+converted in one of the Sunday-school prayer-meetings, would put
+to shame the half-way, timid professions of some older people.
+“Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected
+praise.” Sixteen members of our Sunday-school have joined our
+(Congregational) church. Twenty-two in all have united, of whom
+eight are heads of families, while eight or ten of the students
+have joined other churches, where their families are connected. The
+daily meetings continued for six weeks, with the efficient help
+of Rev. D. Sherrell, of Savannah, for a few days, after Brother
+Rogers’ departure.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>GOOD HARVEST.</h4>
+
+<p>The religious interest in Atlanta University, which was reported
+to you some time since, has continued for five weeks without any
+abatement, and a good harvest has already been gathered. The
+meetings have been well attended, in spite of some sickness and bad
+weather, and have been marked by an earnest attention to the truth
+and a fervent spirit of prayer. We have good reason to believe
+that many more than a score of souls have chosen the service of
+Christ, and they show a tenderness of devotion and a carefulness of
+demeanor which promise well for their stability.</p>
+
+<p>Scarcely one is left among those who made their home here who has
+not been deeply affected, and who has not taken some steps in
+advance. We do not expect any reaction or falling away from the
+uplift which the whole school seems to have experienced.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>INCREASE IN PRAYER MEETINGS.</h4>
+
+<p>The prayer meetings at Hampton are well sustained, and the
+religious feeling in the school is good. There has been a marked
+increase in our prayer meetings this year. We often have 200 in
+our Sunday morning meeting conducted by the students, where last
+year there were only thirty or forty. We have kept up two Indian
+meetings during the week, in which a verse of the Bible is read in
+English by one of the students, then by all who can read English in
+concert, then by one in Dakota. Then it is explained. After trying
+several ways, this seemed to be the most satisfactory. Prayers are
+offered in Dakota, in Arizona and in English by the students.</p>
+
+<p>A meeting is kept up by the English-speaking students among
+themselves in order to fit them to take part when they go back to
+their homes.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>PARIS, TEXAS.</h4>
+
+<p>We are in the midst of a special work of grace. Nineteen have given
+evidence of having been born by the Holy Spirit. They all have been
+added to our church. Besides these, one came by letter from another
+denomination. Others are anxiously inquiring the way of life. All
+these converts, with two exceptions, are from the Sunday School.
+Among these “new-born babes” one is the wife of a minister and one
+is the wife of a deacon. The two oldest children of the pastor are
+among those that professed a hope in Christ.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>M’INTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.</h4>
+
+<p>Last Sabbath was a “high day” with us. We have been holding extra
+meetings about four weeks. The result was<a class="pagenum" name="Page_140" id="Page_140">[140]</a> the conversion of about
+fourteen persons, among whom were several of our most promising
+scholars. Our communion season came off last Sabbath, when nine of
+these converts came to unite with us.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h3>OUR YOUNGEST——THE TILLOTSON.</h3>
+
+<p>The Austin branch of the Texas Central, a few miles below the
+capital, falls into the valley of the Colorado. As you run up that
+lovely vale, you soon see on the right, just out of the city, the
+Tillotson, a five-story stone and brick edifice, crowning a ground
+swell that overlooks the river and town. Its neat fence and the
+grounds graded by nature are attractive. As we roll up the valley,
+I see a fine carriage standing at the door; and this, as I come
+up to the place, I find to be the turnout of Gov. Pease, who has
+brought his family up to visit the institute and to call upon
+the family of teachers. An original Connecticut man, 30 years a
+resident of Texas, her Governor for a term, during which a fund of
+$2,000,000 was set apart for public schools, and now a trustee of
+the Tillotson, his interest and influence are worth much to such an
+institution at the South.</p>
+
+<p>But, so soon, the house is full to overflowing, in its
+assembly-rooms, in its dining-hall and in its dormitories. So that
+already the call is for another building. I find 140 scholars, of
+whom 65 are boarders. I find enthusiasm and spring in these freshly
+gathered students. In this State the colored people are getting
+land faster than in any other: partly, for the reason that, from
+the beginning, there was here the least opposition to their doing
+so; and, partly, from the fact that Texas is a new and largely a
+Western State; and so, these more well-to-do parents are ready to
+avail themselves of the advantage of such a school. The father of
+one of these young men was a slave, but now owns 500 acres of land,
+on which he has paid $6,000 of the $7,000 purchase money.</p>
+
+<p>The President, Rev. W.&nbsp;E. Brooks, who left his pastorate in West
+Haven, Conn., to take this position, is supported by Prof. J.&nbsp;J.
+Anderson, a graduate of Beloit College, with a dozen years of
+experience, and by Misses Hunt and Topping, graduates of Olivet,
+who are born teachers and disciplinarians. The President, besides
+teaching several classes, preaches on the Sabbath in the chapel,
+and also conducts a Sunday-school. He is welcomed to the pulpits of
+the city, and is on the friendliest terms with the first citizens.
+Rev. Dr. E.&nbsp;B. Wright, pastor of the Northern Presbyterian Church,
+is one of the trustees, and is greatly attentive to the interests
+of the Institute. Mrs. Brooks, an accomplished pianist, has
+<em>twenty-eight</em> colored pupils in piano music, which shows the
+zest for cultivation. Once a week a lecture is delivered before
+the students by teachers or prominent citizens. The wife of Judge
+Garland, who has had an A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A. school in Austin for fifteen
+years, continues in a primary school near at hand; and the Judge
+himself, for the present stress, is volunteering a half-a-day of
+teaching for a month. A New Hampshire schoolmaster, he became a
+lawyer, then a judge in Texas, under appointment of Gov. Davis.</p>
+
+<p>A grand future is apparent for the Tillotson in this Empire of a
+Commonwealth. The only question is whether it can keep up with its
+opportunity and its demand. It gives us no time to rest. No sooner
+is it opened than it calls for more room. The growing brain makes
+room for itself, and so must this educational enterprise.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h3>ALABAMA.</h3>
+
+<h4>TEACHERS’ INSTITUTE AT TALLADEGA.</h4>
+
+<p class="center"><i>President, Henry S. DeForest.</i></p>
+
+<p>Of late it has been the custom to end the spring term at Talladega
+College with a teachers’ institute, giving special training to
+those who are so soon to go out and teach. The one just held at
+the last of March has been very pleasant and helpful. Prof. A.&nbsp;J.
+Steele, of the Le Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., was present,
+bearing a large part in its instruction,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_141" id="Page_141">[141]</a> and giving it the
+choicest fruits of his own training and experience. The Hon. H.
+Clay Armstrong, State Superintendent of Education, had a place on
+the programme, and Rev. Daniel Duncan, the County Superintendent,
+was present at every session from beginning to end. Three years
+ago, at the beginning of the series, he said, that was “the first
+institute ever held in Talladega County, from the creation of the
+world.” This one, especially, roused all his enthusiasm, and again
+and again he gave his testimony to the good that was effected.</p>
+
+<p>The need of such institutes and of the steady, persistent work of
+a college to train teachers and preachers is most apparent, when
+it is considered that probably not more than one in ten of the
+blacks, in a State where they make about half of the population,
+can read so as to make the sense, and half of the voters of all
+colors are unable to read either God’s Law or the amendments to
+the Constitution. Some are teaching who have never been at school
+themselves. School-houses are few, and often without floor, or
+window, or fireplace; desks and school-books are scarce; the
+school-year averages only 67 days, and the appropriation <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">per
+capita</i> for the year is 97 cents.</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h3>GEORGIA.</h3>
+
+<h4>HON. WILLIAM E. DODGE AND ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.</h4>
+
+<p class="center"><i>Mrs. T.&nbsp;N. Chase.</i></p>
+
+<p>Some of you doubtless remember seeing a recent account of a very
+cordial welcome given Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia, at a handsome
+reception in the home of Hon. William E. Dodge, of New York. The
+courtesy was soon reciprocated, and a few days ago the Atlanta
+<cite>Constitution</cite>——a democratic daily which stands at the head of
+Southern journals——announced the expected arrival of Mr. and Mrs.
+Dodge in Atlanta.</p>
+
+<p>This good man and his noble wife have made frequent trips to
+Georgia and Florida during the past ten years, always stopping to
+say a cheering word to Atlanta University and shake hands with
+two or three needy students, who each year for all this time have
+been supported by the generosity of these good people. To-day they
+visited the school, accompanied by Mrs. Gov. Colquitt and one of
+her lady friends.</p>
+
+<p>Mr. Dodge said he remembered well the first time he addressed the
+students. He wondered how many had a purpose to go out and gather
+forty and fifty about them to do for those in the dark places what
+had been done for them by their teachers on this hill. He begged
+them to remember that unless they sought first the kingdom of
+Heaven and its righteousness all other knowledge would be vain. He
+said he must add a word about temperance, in which he knew they
+were so much interested. He could not believe any before him would
+ever reel through the streets a staggering drunkard, but their only
+safety lay in total abstinence.</p>
+
+<p>His words were so instructive and his benign face so inspiring
+that the very instant he took his seat the entire school burst
+spontaneously into the plantation melody:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“Do you think I’ll make a soldier?”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>I might as easily describe an exquisite fragrance as these choruses
+of young voices from our 250 students, especially when singing this
+“spiritual,” whose words so touchingly portray the mingled hopes
+and fears of those deep, emotional natures. But, when in verses
+second and third they triumphantly sing:</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span class="i0">“We are climbing Jacob’s ladder,<br /></span>
+<span class="i0">Every round goes higher, higher,”<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>our hopes with theirs conquer our fears, and we sympathize with
+Mrs. Colquitt when she remarks: “I feel like making a speech to the
+school myself.”</p>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h4>ATLANTA TEACHER AT MACON.</h4>
+
+<p class="center"><i>Miss Julia A. Goodwin.</i></p>
+
+<p>Everything here is new to us, and we enjoy the country-like city
+in its irregularity, broad streets, steep ascents and descents,
+its profusion of flowers, especially its roses. Then it is a real
+pleasure<a class="pagenum" name="Page_142" id="Page_142">[142]</a> to compare the workings of the school and church with our
+own. We think we could not accomplish what these teachers do who
+are obliged to teach some of the time——two of them in one room,
+each conducting a recitation at one and the same time; but they
+work admirably together, without a particle of friction, and are
+a very happy family. Mrs. Lathrop’s sewing-school is also very
+interesting. As we walked into the room last Saturday morning,
+two old ladies, who were sewing just as busily as the children,
+arose from their seats and came across the room to greet us. One
+of them, whose sprightly manner and unwrinkled face would never
+have betokened her great age, said to us: “I am ninety-two years
+old if I live till Monday. I can’t do much, my hands are so stiff;
+but I thank the Lord that I can come here and sew a little;” and
+she showed us her patch-work squares with as evident satisfaction
+as any of the younger pupils. Ninety-two years old and learning to
+sew! Ah, thought I, most old ladies are through with their needle
+at that age. These sewing-schools must bring some comfort into many
+homes.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>AFRICA.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h3>MR. LADD’S JOURNAL.</h3>
+
+<p><i>Saturday, Dec. 3.</i>——We started from Assiout at five o’clock
+this morning on our voyage up the Nile. The air to-day has been
+wonderfully fine. The landscape, too, has presented a constantly
+varying panorama full of novelty, full of interest, full of beauty.
+We have called for a few moments at a number of villages to leave
+the mail. We have been peering through our glasses, as we sat under
+the awning on deck, at the natives along the banks in their varied
+costumes, and in almost no costume at all, at the high bluffs,
+which in some places rise abruptly from the river, and at the
+wonderful tombs with their hieroglyphic inscriptions cut out high
+up in the rocks. The river is full of boats of one kind or another
+coming and going.</p>
+
+<p><i>Sunday, Dec. 4.</i>——One misfortune of travel on the Nile is that any
+discussion of the weather becomes monotonous and trite. Every day
+is like every other day, beautiful, bright and balmy. No church
+bells ring for us to-day, so our thoughts naturally turn homeward.
+The views, as we slowly steam up the river are charming. We pass
+some bold headlands, call, as yesterday, at many villages by the
+way, and witness many interesting and peculiar scenes. A fringe of
+“shadoofs,” with half naked men hard at work at them watering the
+crops, keep up a constant creaking. We notice also great numbers of
+birds of every size and shape. We tie up for the night at Keneh,
+celebrated for its porous jugs, its dates, and once on a time, its
+dancing girls, whom the march of civilization has driven higher up
+the river.</p>
+
+<p><i>Monday, Dec. 5.</i>——We have seen something of what is left of the
+great city of Thebes, its magnificent temples, its stupendous
+halls, its wonderful colossi, its interesting tombs——Karnak and
+Luxor, on one side, Gourna on the other. It is hard to realize what
+pomp and splendor were once displayed among these ruins, still so
+grand in their desolation. The strong current of the river got
+the best of us to-day. The steamer in rounding a point could not
+be made to obey her helm, and before we knew what was going to
+happen, with full steam on we ran bunt up against and on to the
+steep bank. The men pushed and grunted, and finally we got clear
+and righted up again. We have witnessed a nearly total eclipse of
+the moon this evening, soon after it rose, which for the manner
+in which it came on and went off was very remarkable. We could
+hear the natives in their villages<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_143" id="Page_143">[Pg 143]</a></span> trying to frighten away the
+dragon which was supposed to be swallowing the moon. We tied up at
+Esneh for the night. Here we went ashore with torches and lights
+to visit a portion of a temple, which is in an excellent state of
+preservation. I first went to see the Mudir to get him to telegraph
+for us to Korosko for camels. He had retired for the night, but as
+our business could not be transacted at any other time, I sent in
+our orders from Cairo, and he soon appeared. Coffee was served, our
+papers made out, viz.: An order to the governors of places where we
+might call within his <i lang="ar" xml:lang="ar">mudirieh</i> to show us proper attention, and a
+telegram signed by the Mudir to provide camels for us at Korosko.
+Then joining the rest of the party we visited the temple. The top
+of it is only a little above the successive deposits of ages, and
+one has to descend a long flight of steps to reach its floor. It is
+completely covered with sculptured work, which is finely preserved.
+This, however, is only the portico of the real temple, the entrance
+to which is walled up.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/hunt.jpg" width="500" height="316" alt="" />
+<div class="caption">ELEPHANT HUNTING</div>
+</div>
+
+<p><i>Tuesday, Dec. 6.</i>——Our steamer made a long stop at Edfou to-day,
+as is customary, to let passengers see its splendid temple. This is
+the most complete, and the best preserved in Egypt, and gives one
+the best idea of ancient Egyptian architecture. Its massive pylons
+had long been in sight as we steamed up the river. As soon as the
+steamer stopped we took donkeys and started toward them through the
+winding mud-walled streets of the little town. What a temple! A
+book would fail to do it justice! Every inch of it is covered with
+the most beautiful carving. I have not space nor time to tell of
+how we climbed the pylons and wandered through the dark mysterious
+chambers, and stood in admiration before those beautiful and ever
+varied pillars, and explored dark winding passages built in the
+walls themselves. One has an overwhelming sense of sublimity and
+awe as he stands under the shadow and in the profound hush of these
+sacred monuments of a departed glory. We tied up for the night at
+Gebel Silsileh, a narrow, rocky passage, through which the river
+seems to have burst its way. Here we went on shore and with the
+help of torches examined the tombs and chapels and noted quarries.
+The perfect silence here was almost painful. There was not even the
+usual gentle murmur of “backsheesh.” Returning to our steamer we
+took a moonlight row up the river, and over to the opposite shore.
+Ruins and moonlight, and a boat ride on the Nile! Could anything
+be more romantic? Here is a picture hung upon the walls of memory
+never to be forgotten.</p>
+
+<p><i>Wednesday, Dec. 7.</i>——We have run aground twice to-day. We passed
+the ruins of Comombo early this morning, and now we are at Assouan,
+with another stage of our journey accomplished. We have visited
+the bazaars, where all sorts of curiosities from Nubia and the
+Soudan are sold, and had crowds of wild-looking, long-haired,
+grease-smeared and more than half naked desert Arabs thronging
+around us, and have been besieged with strange looking people with
+stranger looking things to sell, of which we bought none. In fact,
+our novel experiences in and about the town would, if all told,
+be a tale too lengthy for these brief pages. We also visited the
+island of Elephantine, with its ruins of pottery, human skeletons,
+and interesting Nile meter. Ibrahim was dispatched the first thing
+on our arrival, to secure a dahabeyeh for us. He has returned, and
+reports that he has found one, such as it is, which will take us
+and our baggage from here to Korosko for £5. We have agreed to take
+two men, Mousa and Ibrahim Cohen, with us to Khartoum to lighten
+our expenses. Then we have Mongades, the Bible Society’s man with
+us, so that we shall really have to pay for the dahabeyeh only
+about £3. We have been invited to see a “fantasia,” but our taste
+not being cultivated in that direction we declined.</p>
+
+<p><i>Thursday, Dec. 8.</i>——Some one was sick in the night. Thinking it
+might be the Doctor I jumped out of bed to go to him, and landed
+in cold water! The ship had<a class="pagenum" name="Page_145" id="Page_145">[145]</a> sprung a leak. All the rooms on one
+side were found to be flooded, and the engine-room was a pond. The
+pumps were put to work, but it was some hours before the water was
+where it belonged. Some things in my room were spoiled. We started
+early for Philæ, where our dahabeyeh lay, at the other end of the
+cataract. It was five miles, and we took camels so as to gain a
+little experience in riding preparatory to the long desert journey.
+Our route lay through the ancient bed of a river. On the way we
+visited the famous granite quarries, and saw the huge obelisk left
+partially cut out of its bed. We all went on board our dahabeyeh
+for lunch. The stars and stripes had been raised, and we also
+ordered up the English flag in honor of our guests. After lunch,
+while Ibrahim and Mourgan were getting our baggage on board, we,
+the party, took a small boat and rowed out to the interesting
+island of Philæ. First we rowed around it to get a comprehensive
+view of its beautiful temples. Then we landed, and examined them
+all in detail. We also visited the ruins of a little Christian
+church, which an American has discovered.</p>
+
+<p><i>Friday, Dec. 9.</i>——For some reason I did not sleep well, and was
+up early and over the side of the dahabeyeh for a good swim in the
+Nile. A light breeze soon sprang up, the sail was set, and at 8.30
+<span class="smcap lowercase">A.M.</span> we were off, the Englishmen still in the cataract.
+We passed an island to the right of Philæ, stopped for a few
+moments at a little village where some of our sailors lived and
+then we were off again, slowly passing immense granite boulders,
+between narrow banks fringed with dom-palms and very black Nubians,
+creeping along pretty fast for the light wind that just fills our
+big sail. We pass Debod, and then towards evening the wind goes
+down, and we have to make the bank and tie up. We do not remain
+here long, however. Our Reis, who is a fine fellow, ever on the
+alert, hears a rustling in the trees, a gale is upon us; the big
+sail is quickly flung out, and we start almost with a bound and
+strike a rock! The captain reports “no leak,” and off we go again,
+fairly flying before the wind. After a while it dies down and once
+more we have to make the bank and tie up just this side of Gebel
+Kalabshe. Here we go ashore and wander about, but are quickly
+recalled by the Reis. A good steady breeze has followed the lull
+after the gale, and off we go. Now we enter scenery that in the
+deep shadows of the moonlight is grand and sublime in the extreme.
+The granite mountains tower up from the water’s edge close to us
+on either side. There are deep gorges and overhanging cliffs, and
+huge boulders around which the pent up river swirls and eddies. I
+have named this wild spot “The Gates of the Tropics,” for now we
+pass the invisible line and enter the tropics. The southern cross
+is clearly visible in the heavens near the horizon, and toward it
+we are flying on the wings of the wind. In the witchery of such
+an evening, in such a place, we sit on deck till long past the
+midnight hour.</p>
+
+<p><i>Saturday, Dec. 10.</i>——The captain has been up all night and we have
+made a good run of it. It is very hot, and the wind dying down.
+Over we go for a swim. We have passed a rock-temple, and another
+very good temple at Dakkeh. The flies are getting to be a perfect
+pest.</p>
+
+<p><i>Sunday, Dec. 11.</i>——The wind is lighter and our progress has been
+slower. However, we have gradually drawn away from the grand
+rocky mountains that rose up abruptly from the water’s edge on
+our left this morning, and now around us are the volcanic peaks
+that indicate the vicinity of Korosko. We reached Korosko at 4
+<span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span>, having made remarkably good time from Assouan.
+We noticed a queer peak just before reaching the town. There is
+a sacred mountain with a tomb upon it just at the rear of the
+village. Soon after our arrival the governor and various other
+officials came on board. The old governor was delighted when he
+found that we could talk together in Turkish. The usual formality
+of salaams, and coffee, etc., were duly exchanged. Our camels were
+ready for us.</p>
+
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_146" id="Page_146">[146]</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Monday, Dec, 12.</i>——We had a pleasant visit this morning from a
+merchant who arrived by caravan during the night from Darfur. We
+talked together in Greek. We have moved our boat higher up stream.
+Have received a number of visits from officials and sore-eyed men.
+The Doctor is having quite a practice. We have climbed the road
+that weary pilgrims tread to the top of the sacred mountain Gebel
+Aboo-Gowenah, whence we have had a fine, extensive view of the
+winding river, and the billowing ocean of volcanic peaks, and our
+own desert route that winds in and out among them. We send off a
+batch of letters for home, pack and get ready for our long journey.
+The bread is all made and properly dried.</p>
+
+<p><i>Tuesday, Dec, 13.</i>——Up about 5 <span class="smcap lowercase">A.M.</span>, roused the crowd,
+and pushed things as fast as possible. We expected to find the
+camels waiting on the bank, but not a living being was in sight.
+Hours went by and nobody appeared; we sent two men in different
+directions after the sheik of the camel-drivers, but he was not!
+Finally patience was exhausted. We went to the Governor’s house to
+see if we couldn’t start things up a little. He was pretending to
+hold court, but dismissed the case when he saw us. Then it being
+the proper thing to do we raised a row with His Majesty over our
+delay. It had the desired effect. The sheik was speedily produced,
+and we rode back to the boat on donkeys, with the whole crowd at
+our heels. Here we soon discovered that the governor, the sheik,
+and every other man in the crowd was determined to have a finger
+in the pie, and make us pay double the proper prices for all our
+camels. We talked and reasoned till 1 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> without avail.
+Then we grew righteously indignant. We laid down our terms——refused
+to listen to another word——gave orders to have everything put back
+on board the boat if they were not accepted, and threatened to go
+on to Wady Halfa and denounce the whole crowd of them as miserable
+rascals. Our terms were then accepted, and they thought a good deal
+more of us for standing for our rights instead of yielding to their
+exorbitant demands. Part of the money was paid and part held in
+reserve; the papers were made out, the baggage weighed and loaded,
+and at 1.30 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> we started out. We went about a mile or
+two into the desert, and camped in a rocky ravine, and here we got
+everything into good shape, looked to everything connected with
+our water supply, and made ready for the real business of the long
+desert before us; and here begins our tent life.</p>
+
+<p><i>Wednesday, Dec. 14.</i>——Broke camp, and started the caravan at 8.30
+<span class="smcap lowercase">A.M.</span> Now for the great desert journey! All the morning we
+pass peak after peak of a volcanic nature. At 2 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> we
+stopped, took a hasty bite of lunch in a sort of cave in a mountain
+called Elemnasir. Then on and on we go, swaying back and forth
+on our camels, and trying to “bone down” to the regular business
+before us. At 5.15 <span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> we went into camp for the night,
+considering it wiser not to make too long a day of the first one,
+as camels and men were both fresh, but to reserve our forces for
+the great strain toward the last. The spot chosen for our camp is a
+wild place under the shelter of a volcanic peak called Diakazarkha.
+Up goes the tent, all hands taking hold with a will. Mourgan starts
+a fire; now then, in the words of the “old folks’” song, “Jerusha,
+put the kettle on and we’ll all take tea.” Mourgan produces a
+marvel of a meal for such a place, and we fall to at once to do
+it ample justice. Our caravan consists of 19 camels and 15 men.
+The guide is a strong, bold fellow, thoroughly up to his business,
+and evidently enjoys commanding his men. The camels get only 2½
+quarts of dourra a day, carry about 400 lbs. each, and are expected
+to go without water till we reach Murrat. Our water supply is to
+last us till we reach the Nile at Aboo-Hamed, as the water at
+Murrat is not drinkable. How brightly the stars shine out here. The
+stillness of the desert soon rests upon the camp, broken only by
+the occasional growl of a camel, and the snoring of the men.</p>
+
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_147" id="Page_147">[147]</a></p>
+
+<p><i>Thursday, Dec. 15.</i>——We are all up early, take a hasty breakfast,
+pull down the tent, load the camels amid a chorus of roars and
+growls, and start the whole caravan at 7 <span class="smcap lowercase">A.M.</span> More
+volcanic peaks. The ground is everywhere covered with balls of iron
+from the size of a large pea to that of a cannon-ball. The iron is
+so pure that the natives are able to beat these balls into knives,
+etc. Now we see our first mirage. It is a beautiful lake, whose
+surface, scarcely rippled by the gentle breeze, clearly reflects
+a distant mountain range. The illusion is perfect. We lunch in a
+cave in a place called Gamoor. We have met one caravan of cattle
+and another of two or three hundred camels. Our guide stopped to
+camp about five o’clock, thinking probably that we were exhausted
+by this time. He looked surprised but pleased when we protested,
+and informed him that we intended to make forced marches of at
+least twelve hours every day. On and on we went into the darkness,
+for it is dark at five. At 7.10 we halted and pitched our camp in
+a portion of the desert called <em>Nasbelhedoriah</em>. Before we arrived
+in camp there was a commotion. What’s the matter? Nothing, only
+the cook has fallen asleep and rolled off from his camel! But the
+shining, round face comes up with a grin, “All right, kutter herak
+kattir.” We are not half way to Murrat yet, and the water in our
+“bootleg” bottles and skins is as black as ink. A whole week more
+before we reach the river!</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h3>THE STATISTICS FOR FEBRUARY.</h3>
+
+<p>Figures may be dry, and yet I am sure that a summary of those
+contained in the February reports from our schools cannot but
+interest and gratify all friends of our work. No less than 116 new
+pupils were enrolled in our schools during that month. Change of
+location or other causes produced the removal from the schools of
+99. But the total number enrolled, 726, is the largest total ever
+reached, and the average attendance, 354, is also larger than ever
+before. Among the pupils thus enrolled are 119 who give evidence
+of Christian life. The total number who have become members of our
+schools during the fiscal year, thus far (<i lang="la" xml:lang="la">i.e.</i>, from Sept. 1st to
+Feb. 28th) is 1,375.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h3>THE CHINESE NEW YEAR.</h3>
+
+<p>In the month of February occurs the Chinese New Year Festival——the
+great holiday period for them of the entire twelvemonth. At my
+request, our teachers have given me some account of the way in
+which it was observed by our Christian Chinese in their respective
+localities.</p>
+
+<p>Rev. Mr. Ostrom, of Oroville, who has served as a missionary in
+China and whose heart is still there, states the following “general
+facts”: “Their preparation for the New Year is commenced weeks
+before the close of the old. One of the first things is to plant
+the Narcissus——a water lily called by the Chinese ‘the water angel
+flower’——so that it may be in bloom on New Year’s Day. A beautiful
+legend connected with this flower is everywhere told and believed
+in China. In a certain district of the Fo Kien province lived a man
+who had two wives and a son by each wife. The man died, leaving
+a farm, which the elder brother seized, allowing to the younger
+brother only a small, marshy corner, through which ran a sluggish
+stream. These lilies were found growing in the stream——all that the
+marsh and stream produced. The gentler younger brother, loving the
+beautiful flower, cultivated it, and found that it would always
+bloom on the New Year. Its beauty and fragrance won the admiration
+of many and the demand for the bulbs increased till finally it came
+in from all parts of China, and the wealth<a class="pagenum" name="Page_148" id="Page_148">[148]</a> of the owner of the
+little stream and marsh soon surpassed that of the avaricious elder
+brother. Then, through some pretence, the latter took possession of
+the little stream and marsh, expecting thus to grasp the revenue
+from the sale of the lilies. But, lo! when New Year came, they
+refused to bloom. Conscience-stricken by this apparent rebuke
+of the gods, the marsh and the stream were surrendered to their
+rightful owner, and then, strange to say, the lilies bloomed forth
+as before.</p>
+
+<p>“Such is the legend; now for plain facts. At the close of the year
+the house is cleaned, and dressed on its posts and walls with
+new red paper containing good words from the sages. On the last
+day of the old year, every family worships the ancestral tablet,
+and the idols, with offerings of slain birds and other animals,
+with vegetable delicacies added. Eight kinds of meat are offered
+to the ancestral tablets, and only fish, pork and chicken to the
+idols. Fruit, and a pudding cooked in boiling lard are also used
+as offerings. These furnish the feasts for the following day; for
+the spirits only inhale the perfume, leaving the substance for base
+mortals.</p>
+
+<p>“On the last day of the old year, the married daughters must be at
+their husbands’ homes, and must not revisit the paternal roof till
+the New Year’s festival is over. The devotee rising very early on
+New Year’s morning, worships, first of all, the ancestors, burning
+incense, and red paper representing money, before the tablet, on
+each side of which candles have been lighted, and before which
+the offerings have been placed. Then the idols of the household
+are worshipped, and, next, those of the temple. Fire-crackers are
+snapped by the priests in the temple, and by all the people at
+their homes and their places of business. If any one has married,
+or is successful in gambling or in business, he expresses his
+gratitude by these explosives. Breakfast comes next, composed of
+vegetables only, for no blood must be shed or be used on New Year’s
+Day. Liquor distilled from rice is sipped from tiny cups. Now,
+calling and the exchange of cards follow. Only good words are to be
+spoken. It is a violation of etiquette, established by the custom
+of ages, to speak evil of, or to, any one during the first ten days
+of the New Year.”</p>
+
+<p>Such of these usages as are purely social are retained by our
+Christian Chinese: The house-cleaning which brings to our several
+mission houses a thorough renovation; the trimming upon the walls
+and elsewhere with evergreen wreaths, with bouquets of artificial
+flowers and other samples of Chinese art; the cultivation of the
+fragrant Narcissus, and the interchange of calls and cards and
+mutual good wishes; the treating with candies, fruits, and tiny
+cups of tea——guiltless of the American concomitants of sugar and
+cream——all these you will find our Christian Chinese carrying
+forward with no less zest than their heathen countrymen. In these
+cases, this year, they invited the teacher with the whole family to
+which she belonged, to a banquet after the Chinese style; and in
+<em>all</em> cases the teachers seem to have been remembered with gifts
+selected often with exquisite taste and purchased at a considerable
+cost.</p>
+
+<p>But with our Christian Chinese these days are holy days rather than
+holidays. The week is a week of prayer. In all their sociality
+their religion is remembered and their Saviour is recognized. If
+on their special reception-day, a minister is among the first to
+call, he will be likely to be asked to open the day’s enjoyment
+with prayer. Every day there are special religious services; and
+connected with these, fresh resolves of consecration to Christ and
+fresh and earnest intercessions for each other and for their still
+benighted countrymen. One such meeting I attended by appointment at
+the home of our Oakland brethren. I remained with them an hour and
+a half. The school there had been in an unsatisfactory condition;
+running<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_150" id="Page_150">[Pg 150]</a></span> down in attendance and in spiritual power, while the
+schools in this city and at most other points were advancing
+in both respects. We looked the facts in the face; prayed over
+them; and then took counsel together. The result was a unanimous
+determination to take up missionary work among their countrymen
+with more earnestness and more system than ever before, and with
+God’s help to make their school as large and as efficient for good
+as possible.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/japan.jpg" width="500" height="312" alt="" />
+<div class="caption">JAPANESE PLEASURE PARTY.</div>
+</div>
+
+<p>Perhaps the account given by Mrs. Carrington, of the services at
+Sacramento, presents the week’s work as fairly as any. “A watch
+meeting closed the old year and opened the new. On Saturday evening
+there was a union meeting at the <a id="Err1" name="Err1"></a>Presbyterian Mission House. On
+Wednesday evening a New Year’s banquet was given at our Mission
+House. Rev. Dr. Dwinell and Mrs. Dwinell, with the superintendent
+and teachers in the Chinese Sunday-school and other friends, were
+present. Other evenings were spent in less formal but more social
+worship, and on Saturday evening, February 25, a crowning union
+service was held at our Mission House. The room was filled to
+overflowing. Twenty or more of the American friends were present,
+and much interest was manifested. And so this New Year’s festival
+was closed.”</p>
+
+<p>As between the hurried and meaningless New Year’s calls, with
+the accessories of unwholesome food in gluttonous quantities,
+washed down by poisonous wines and fiery liquors, which the old
+Knickerbocker custom has entailed upon Americans, and these
+festivities of our Christian Chinese, it does not take me long to
+judge which ought to be preferred.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<h3>THE GRASSHOPPER TEACHER.</h3>
+
+<p class="center"><i>By M.&nbsp;K. Smith. Atlanta University, Ga.</i></p>
+
+<p>A young lad who had found his way from the West coast of Africa to
+Atlanta University entered my class in entomology last October.
+Shortly after, when naming the teachers under whose instructions he
+came daily, he quaintly designated me as his “grasshopper teacher.”</p>
+
+<p>In order to give some idea of the amount of enthusiasm the common
+grasshopper is capable of rousing in the mind of the average
+colored student, it may be interesting to give a brief explanation
+of the method of study pursued.</p>
+
+<p>The pupils had no particular love for the troublesome insect;
+in fact, they had hitherto entertained for him a sentiment the
+reverse of friendly, and when I gave each student a pin upon which
+a grasshopper (it had been killed by immersion in alcohol) was
+transfixed, a dissatisfied giggle or a contemptuous sniff from each
+gave evidence that the little world of the class-room was decidedly
+out of sympathy with the existing state of affairs.</p>
+
+<p>The African boy refused to touch a “specimen,” and regarded me
+with an expression in which surprise, fear and defiance were
+blended. The fear was doubtless the result of experience with
+poisonous insects in his fatherland, while the surprise was that
+a grasshopper should usurp the place of a book, for which the
+savage has all the superstitious reverence which characterizes
+the civilized student, and the defiance probably arose from a
+resolution that no earthly power should induce him to touch the
+strange animal. I did not urge him, but quickly called attention
+to the insect in hand. Without much difficulty they found the
+principal parts, to which I gave the names, head, thorax and
+abdomen. By the time these words were written on the board the
+class was pacified, for the colored student loves new words whose
+significations are beyond his comprehension just as well as his
+white brother. When the shape of the head was considered the
+students realized for the first time the lack of words which is so
+general among these people. “It’s like a horse’s head,” broke forth
+a<a class="pagenum" name="Page_151" id="Page_151">[151]</a> boy, impetuously, while a hum of approval ran along the forms. I
+accepted the resemblance, and asked them to observe other things in
+connection with the head, and very soon the eyes were mentioned. I
+drew on the board a diagram of hexagonal cells, closely connected,
+and explained that the compound eye of the grasshopper is composed
+of <i>facets</i> of similar form and each having power of sight.</p>
+
+<p>“Why, he is better off than we are,” exclaimed a wondering youth.
+“We have only two eyes apiece, while he has thousands of ’em.
+What’s that for?”</p>
+
+<p>“God made him that way,” returned another, as he handled his
+“specimen” a little more gently, while the African boy leaned over
+to get a good look at those queer eyes that were even nicer than
+his own.</p>
+
+<p>I then called attention to the position of the eyes on the head and
+secured the statement that by their being placed just as they are
+the insect can see before, behind and on both sides at the same
+time. In a moment more than a dozen hands were waving wildly in
+the air, while two excited youths came to their feet as suddenly
+as if they had been moved after the manner of a “Jack in the box.”
+“I know, I know,” shouted one, “they are there so that he can see
+danger all round him. Many a time I’ve tried to catch him, and I
+would steal up behind him and ease my hand up soft, soft (the boy
+illustrated the action) and then just when I thought I had him, he
+was off!” and the lad’s hands were outspread to imitate the sudden
+movement of the insect.</p>
+
+<p>I directed attention to the place where the head joins the thorax.
+“He’s got a collar on,” shouted one. “What is that for?” “To
+cover the seam nicely, and keep it from harm,” answered another,
+before I had time to speak, “and it’s made mighty pretty, too,” he
+continued, admiringly. “I should like to know what this means?”
+exclaimed another, who had extended his investigations, and now
+held up to the astonished gazers the under wings, spread out as
+they had never before seen them. I wish, dear reader, you could
+have been with us that day, to have felt with me the delight of
+those people, who for almost the first time were using their eyes
+as I think God intended they should be used——to give light to the
+understanding. “Just like a thin lady’s gray veil,” suggested a
+little girl, as soon as she found a chance to speak, whereupon a
+quizzical laugh arose, until she explained that the veil was thin,
+and not the lady.</p>
+
+<p>The African boy at the very next lesson held out his hand for a
+“specimen,” and throughout the term was as much interested as the
+others, striving with all his might to announce his discoveries
+in correct English. The grasshopper became popular. We studied
+him for more than two weeks and then felt we were only beginning
+his acquaintance. The students spent their leisure in watching
+grasshoppers eat, in studying their habits and in finding out
+their uses. The lessons went on with an eagerness that made the
+“grasshopper teacher” fear that something must be wrong, for it
+seemed against all law and order that teacher and taught should
+have such an uninterruptedly good time.</p>
+
+<p>The pleasure was ever new, while, side by side with the development
+of power to think and reason, grew a sense of God’s care over and
+nearness to his creatures.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="article">
+<h2>RECEIPTS FOR MARCH, 1882.</h2>
+
+<hr class="chap" />
+
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $311.45.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bangor. Rev. I.&nbsp;P. Warren, D.D. ($30
+of which to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Sarah L. Warren</span>
+L.&nbsp;M.)</td>
+<td class="ramt">$50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bangor. Miss Haynes, <i>for Student Aid,
+Straight U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brownsville. Cong Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brunswick. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $1.70,
+<i>for Freight, for Selma, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Calais. J. Barker, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovewell, $5;
+Joseph Loring, $3; Mrs. Sarah Morton,
+$2.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hallowell. “Friends,” <i>for Furnishing
+Room, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hallowell. Mrs. H.&nbsp;K. Baker.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield Corner. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Machias. Center Street Cong. Ch., $5.89,
+and Sab. Sch., $5; E.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;L., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Orono. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.04</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland. St. Lawrence Street Cong. Ch.
+and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.53</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Scarborough. Cong. Ch., “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Searsport. “A Friend,” $5; M.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;B.,
+50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Union. Ladies, Bbl. of C., <i>for Selma,
+Ala.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wells. First Cong. Ch and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winterport. Mrs. <span class="smcap">Dr. E. Manter</span>, <i>for
+Chinese M.</i>, and to const. herself L.M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. I.&nbsp;N.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_152" id="Page_152">[152]</a></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $420.72.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Amherst. L. and L.&nbsp;R. Melendy, $100,
+<i>for Mendi M.</i>, and $10 <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">110.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Auburn. Mrs. Sally Coult, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs.
+Hattie C. Houghton</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boscawen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Concord. “P.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;G.,” <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Derry. Rev. B.&nbsp;F. Parsons</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Exeter. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., val.
+$45 <i>for Kansas Refugees</i>.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fisherville. “A Friend,” to const. <span class="smcap">Miss
+Julia Sargent</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Mrs. Parker Blood, $20, and
+Bundle of C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hanover. Cong. Ch., 30 copies “Songs
+of the Sanctuary,” <i>for Athens, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hollis. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keene. Miss E.&nbsp;R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Mrs. A.&nbsp;M. Amsden.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.91</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyndeborough. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Manchester. “Pillsbury”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milford. Nathan Jewett. $5; D.&nbsp;S. Burnham,
+$5</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashua. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">64.60</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $257.11.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clarendon. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Berkshire. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Felchville. M.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grafton. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jericho. Second Cong Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Mrs. Luther Martin</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middlebury. Mrs. H.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newbury. Miss E.&nbsp;D.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Bennington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.84</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsford. Thomas D. Hall</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pittsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46; incorrectly
+ack. in April number from
+Pittsfield</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">26.56</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Strafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Vergennes. Mrs. H.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.53</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$232.11</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waterbury. Estate of Harriet F. Russ,
+by Daniel Russ, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$257.11</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $5,538.21.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Abington. F.&nbsp;P.&nbsp;H., $1; H.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;R., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Adams. Rev. L.&nbsp;V. Price</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Amherst. Mrs H.&nbsp;D. Fearing, $10; Infant
+Class First Cong. Sab. Sch., $10;
+<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Amherst. Miss Sarah Ensign, <i>for Student
+Aid</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. South Ch. and Soc., $38.54;
+J.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;T.,$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">39.54</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Andover. South Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">30.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ashburnham. E.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;E.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
+const. <span class="smcap">Josiah Haven</span> and <span class="smcap">Moses Hill</span>
+L. Ms</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Auburndale. Box of C. <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ayer. Mrs. C.&nbsp;A. Spaulding, $25, <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>, and $45 <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">70.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bedford. M.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Berlin. Mrs. W.&nbsp;A. Houghton</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Beverly. Miss M.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Beverly. Ladies of Washington St. Soc.,
+Bbl. of C. <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. S.&nbsp;D. Smith, Organs, $300; Old
+South Ch. and Soc., $293.79; C.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;R.,
+50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">594.22</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Houghton, Mifflin &amp; Co., package
+Books <i>for Library, Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
+<span class="smcap">Rev. W.&nbsp;S. Coggin</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brockton. Mrs. L.&nbsp;C. Sanford, <i>for
+Freight</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cambridge. F.&nbsp;C. Swett, $2; E.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;F.,
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. G.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;C., 50c.; I.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;N.,
+50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.,
+$80.56; A.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;P., 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">81.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($55
+of which <i>for Lady Missionary, Chattanooga,
+Tenn.</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">57.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+$9.44; I.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;S., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Mrs. W.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cohasset. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Deerfield. Mrs. C.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dorchester. Mrs. E.&nbsp;T.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Charlemont. P.&nbsp;F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Hampton. Mrs. E.&nbsp;G. Williston,
+$100; First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+$60.71; E.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;C., 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">161.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Medway. First Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Somerville. Woman’s Home Missionary
+Ass’n, <i>for Lady Missionaries</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">204.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Somerville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Edgartown. J.&nbsp;W. Coffin</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Enfield. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Framingham. “A Friend,” to const.
+<span class="smcap">Mrs. Mary A.&nbsp;W. Davis</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Framingham. Hymn and Tune Books,
+<i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">33.49</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Gardner. H.&nbsp;B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Goshen. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Haverhill. “For work among Colored
+People.” $1; E.&nbsp;W., 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Mrs. P.&nbsp;J. Claflin</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Indian Orchard. Evan. Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. Sab.
+Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. N.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kingston. L.&nbsp;A. McGlauthlin, Bundle
+“<i>Youths’ Companion</i>,” <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Mr. Coit, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lee. Mrs. E.&nbsp;B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lincoln. M.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;R., 50c.; L.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;J., 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Littleton. Dea. Otis Manning, to const.
+<span class="smcap">Edward C. Haughton</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Littleton. Ladies’ Mission Circle, by Mrs.
+J.&nbsp;C. Houghton, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta
+U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Children’s Soc., <i>for Freight</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">59.83</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.22</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marblehead. Hon. J.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;H. Gregory, <i>for
+Church Building</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Medford. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milford. “Friends,” <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_153" id="Page_153">[153]</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milton. S.&nbsp;D. Hunt. Bbl. of C., <i>for Macon,
+Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mt. Auburn. Rev. D.&nbsp;N.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Natick. Mrs. S.&nbsp;E. Hammond</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Boston. “N.&nbsp;B.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Philip H. Lunt</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newton Center. S.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;E.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northampton. “A Friend,” $100; H.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;R., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">101.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Billerica. J.&nbsp;D. Gould, Books,
+<i>for Freedmen’s Library, Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northbridge Center. Collected by Edith
+Putnam (eight years old)</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norton. Mrs. E.&nbsp;B. Wheeler, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Petersham. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Phillipston. A. &amp; T. Ward, $5; D. &amp; L.
+Mixter, $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Pilgrimage Cong. Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">65.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rockport. W.&nbsp;H. Patch</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Salem. Young Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of
+South Ch., <i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+$12; E. Maynard, $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc.,
+$10; “A Friend,” $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">56.23</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Deerfield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.
+Sab. Sch., <i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Framingham. G.&nbsp;M. Amsden</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. and
+Soc., $10.18; Mrs. E.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;R., 50c.; Mrs.
+S.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;N., 50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.18</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. “H.&nbsp;M.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. Persis Burnham ($1 of
+which <i>for John Brown Steamer</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoneham. A.R.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Mrs. B.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Templeton. Trinitarian Sab. Sch., <i>for
+John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Townsend Harbor. S.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ware. C.&nbsp;C. Hitchcock, <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Watertown. Mrs. S.&nbsp;S. and Mrs. J.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and
+Soc., $107.75; Mrs. M.&nbsp;M. Morse, $30,
+to const. Rev. <span class="smcap">Lyman Whiting</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">137.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">44.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hampton. I.&nbsp;G. Jewett ($1.50 of
+which <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westport. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Stockbridge. Village Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">28.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wymouth and Braintree. Union Ch. and
+Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">42.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+$161.50; Mrs. F.&nbsp;C., 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">162.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wrentham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">43.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">—————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$4,973.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Beverly. Dane St. Ch., Estate of Mrs.
+Susan C. Pickett, <i>for 17 Life Memberships</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">510.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Boston. Estate of Rev. Dr. Hooker,
+Books, <i>for Freedmen’s Library, Macon,
+Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oakham. Estate of Perley Ayres, by
+Wm. S. Spear, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">55.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">—————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$5,538.21</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $30.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Sab. Sch.,
+<i>for Rebuilding Emerson Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. “Baptist.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $2,826.67.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ansonia. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Avon. Mrs. E.&nbsp;L. Robbins</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Black Rock. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">24.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">117.48</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Canaan. “M.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;N.,” <i>for Chinese M.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Canton Center. A.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Colchester. Mrs. W.&nbsp;E. Gillette, $5;
+Mary B. Gillette, $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Collinsville. Ladies Mission Soc., $16,
+<i>for Student Aid</i>; H.&nbsp;S. Collins, $10, <i>for
+Theo. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Windsor Hill. E.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. James Walker</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Enfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fairfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., <i>for
+Student Aid, Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">41.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Georgetown. E. Gilbert, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch., $16.45; B.&nbsp;A.,
+$1</td>
+<td class="ramt">17.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hartford. South Cong. Ch., $250; Geo.
+P. Bissell, $50; John S. Wells, $20</td>
+<td class="ramt">320.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Church,
+$25; “M.&nbsp;J.,” $25; Mrs. G.&nbsp;O. Perkins,
+$50, <i>for Theo. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hartford. Center Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
+<i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">66.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Higganum. Selden Gladwin</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hotchkissville. “Widow’s Mite”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kent. Cong. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">29.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch., $10; Miss Mary
+A. Hopson, $5, <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Litchfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.57</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mansfield. Geo. F. King</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mansfield Center. Mrs. E.&nbsp;S. Fitch</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills, to const.
+<span class="smcap">Herbert L. Mills</span> and <span class="smcap">Charles Rowland
+Mills</span> L. Ms.</td>
+<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, <i>for Tillotson
+C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milldale. H.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch., Mrs.
+Mary E. House, $30, to const. <span class="smcap">William
+A. House</span> L.&nbsp;M.; “A Member,” $5; A.
+N. Lewis, $10</td>
+<td class="ramt">45.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Dwight Place
+Cong. Ch., <i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Mrs. Mary L. Skinner, <i>for
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Haven. Ch. of the Redeemer, $244
+(of which F.&nbsp;C. Sherman, $100; Wm.
+E. Chandler, $60, to const. <span class="smcap">William
+Woods Chandler</span> and <span class="smcap">Robert Woods
+Chandler</span> L. Ms.); “A Friend,” $5; “A
+Friend,” $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">254.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Hartford. Miss C. Richards, <i>for
+John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New London. “First Church of Christ.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">39.21</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Milford. G.&nbsp;N.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Robbins Battelle, <i>for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Branford. J.&nbsp;A. Palmer</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Northford. G.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Stamford. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($20
+of which <i>for John Brown Steamer</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">271.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">42.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. A.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Prospect. Cong. Ch. $11; People of
+Prospect, Bbl. of C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Roxbury. “Two Friends,” <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Simsbury. Mrs. Lucy A.&nbsp;A. Hoskins</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Somersville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">45.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Stafford. Mrs. T.&nbsp;H. Thresher</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">81.77</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Washington. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_154" id="Page_154">[154]</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Washington. “Z,” <i>for Indian M.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waterbury. Dr. John De Forest, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Rev. F.&nbsp;H. Adams, <i>for
+Freight, for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Suffield. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Geo. Stillman</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Sab. Sch. Class, by Jane
+C. Francis, <i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Miss C. Rice, $2: Mrs. M.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;J., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodbury. Mrs. C.&nbsp;P. Churchill, <i>for Indian
+M.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodstock. E L. Snow</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $12,895.25.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Batavia. Mrs. A.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brighton Heights. S.&nbsp;I. Reformed Ch.,
+<i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Henry C. Hulbert, $100, <i>for
+Student Aid</i>; A.&nbsp;J. Newton, $100;
+Cash, $1, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">201.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, Fernandina, Fla.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Freedmen’s Helpers, $18,
+and Bbl. of C., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">18.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., $20.52; A.&nbsp;S., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Buffalo. Mrs. Wm. G. Bancroft, <i>for Tillotson
+C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Buffalo. “I.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;S.,” <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cazenovia. Mrs. H.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chestertown. Fish St. Congregation,
+$2.27; Mill Brook Congregation, $3.27;
+Chester Wesleyan M. Congregation,
+$7.55, by Rev. S.&nbsp;H. Foster</td>
+<td class="ramt">13.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Mrs. P.&nbsp;H. Silvester, <i>for
+John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Floyd. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.12</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fredonia. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Presb.
+Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Greene. Mrs. W.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;B.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Griffin’s Mills. Mrs. Theo. Olden, $2;
+Mrs. Theo. Olden, $2</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. A.&nbsp;S.&nbsp;P.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hughsonville. S.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jewett. Mr. and Mrs. Lucius North</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Le Rey. Miss D.&nbsp;A. Phillips</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lockport. First Cong. Ch. and Sab.
+Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">46.83</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lockport. Cong. Ch, and Sab. Sch., <i>for
+John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Millville. Cong. Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">10,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. W.&nbsp;H. De Forest, $100; Anson
+Phelps Stokes, $50; “A Friend,”
+$1, <i>for Student Aid</i>; Henry G. De
+Forest, $100; Dr. John Hall, $25 <i>for Memorial
+Scholarships</i>; Chas. N. Taintor,
+$50; Ralph Wells, $25, <i>for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">351.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. D.&nbsp;I. Carson, <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Bethany Sab. Sch., Mrs. S.
+T. Gordon’s Class, <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Rev. A.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. American Bible Soc.; Grant
+of Scriptures; val., $76.50.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New York. Taintor Bros. Merrill &amp; Co.,
+Package School and Hymn Books, <i>for
+Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Patchogue. Cong. Sab. Ch., <i>for Freight</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Penn Yan. W.&nbsp;M. Taylor</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pitcher. Bellany Allen</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Port Leyden. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Salem. B.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sandy Hill. Mrs. Susan Rogers, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Schroon Lake. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, <i>for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Syracuse. W.&nbsp;E. Abbott</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Union Falls. Francis E. Duncan, $10;
+Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, $10; Miss Margaret
+B. Duncan, $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Walton. “Friends,” <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Windsor. Rev. J.&nbsp;S. Pattengill, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Yaphank. “A Friend”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">—————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$11,079.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bergen. Estate of I.&nbsp;M. Hitchcock, by
+A.&nbsp;E. Hitchcock, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Estate of Jane Turner, by
+Wm. C. Marsh, Ex.</td>
+<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Kingsborough. Estate of Mrs. M.&nbsp;S.
+Judson, by D.&nbsp;B. Judson</td>
+<td class="ramt">116.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Randolph. Estate of Mrs. D.&nbsp;C. Bush,
+by Mrs. C.&nbsp;C. Fitch</td>
+<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">—————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">$12,895.25</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $141.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lakewood. By Rev. G.&nbsp;L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montclair. Mrs A.&nbsp;F. Pratt’s Sab. Sch.
+Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newark. C.&nbsp;S. Haines, $30; David
+Owen, $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newark. David Ripley, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Paterson. J.&nbsp;C. Ryle, $50; G.&nbsp;G. Tillotson,
+$25; <i>for Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $317.21.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Guy’s Mills. Randolph Cong. Ch. <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">16.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Guy’s Mills. S.&nbsp;O.&nbsp;F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Le Raysville. Cong. Ch., $9.33; Rev. J.
+R., 75c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. to
+const. <span class="smcap">Barton F. Blake</span>, <span class="smcap">Harry P.
+Bower</span>, <span class="smcap">Harry M. Bowden</span>, <span class="smcap">James R.
+Danforth, Jr.</span>, <span class="smcap">Lewis W.&nbsp;H. Giese</span>,
+<span class="smcap">Edward P. Hall</span>, <span class="smcap">George Hobbs</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Frank P. Pendleton</span> L. Ms.</td>
+<td class="ramt">280.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">South Bethlehem. Mrs. H.&nbsp;D. Kitchell</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $528.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Austinburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bellefontaine. Mrs. R.&nbsp;I. Lindsay, <i>for
+John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bryan. S.&nbsp;E. Blakeslee</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” <i>for
+Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cleveland. J.&nbsp;S., $1; A.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;B., $1; A.&nbsp;L.&nbsp;P.,50c</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Delaware. By Sarah Evans</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.92</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntsburgh. Mr. and Mrs. Q. Phelps</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Huntsburgh. Mrs. V.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;P. <i>for Indian
+M.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jefferson. Ladies Miss’y Soc. <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lenox. A.&nbsp;J. Holman</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
+$59.87, and Sab. Sch., $64.59</td>
+<td class="ramt">124.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Ladies, Bbl. of C. and $4.15
+<i>for Freight, for Selma, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">4.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Mrs. M.&nbsp;P. St. John, <i>for
+Freight</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. Ladies, Bbl. Books and Papers
+<i>for Summerfield, Ala.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M.&nbsp;K.&nbsp;H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mechanicstown. Mrs. S.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Metamora. Mrs. M.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Newark. Welch Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">12.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Ridgeville. Cong. Ch. ($2.80 of
+which from Rev. J.&nbsp;B. Stocking)</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $90; Mrs. D.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;P., 51c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">90.51<a class="pagenum" name="Page_155" id="Page_155">[155]</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong.
+Ch., <i>for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Painesville. Rev. S.&nbsp;W. Pierson, $5; E.
+E.J., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peru. “Friends,” by Rev. H. Lawrence,
+<i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">55.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pierpont. Mrs. S.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. “Friend,” <i>for Student
+Aid. Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Springfield. W.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tallmadge. Miss Josephine Pierce, bal.
+to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Josephine M. Wolcott</span>
+L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed. $10; J.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;S., 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Unionville. Mrs. E.&nbsp;F. Burnelle</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wellington. Edward West ($10 of which
+<i>for John Brown Steamer</i>)</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Youngstown. “Mahoning”</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $2.659.52.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alton. Ch. of the Redeemer</td>
+<td class="ramt">45.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Champaign. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch., $164.25; Mrs.
+S.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;S., $1; Mrs. F.&nbsp;E., 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">165.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Presb. Ch., <i>for Berea C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. C.&nbsp;B. Bouton, <i>for Student Aid,
+Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chicago. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for Lady
+Missionary, Mobile, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Danville. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Presb.
+Ch., <a name="Err2" id="Err2"></a><i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Earlville. Mrs. Mary T. Murray</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Elmore. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">William
+Humphrey</span> L.&nbsp;M.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Elmhurst. Seth Wadhams, <i>for Prof’s
+Home, Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1,550.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Freeport. L.&nbsp;A. Warner</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Galva. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
+<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Griggsville. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">28.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Hutsonville. C.&nbsp;V.&nbsp;N.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyonsville. Cong. Ch., in part</td>
+<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyndon. “A Friend,” $4; “A Friend,”
+$1, <i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marseilles. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">12.76</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Naperville. Cong. Ch., $7.30; A.&nbsp;A.
+Smith, $5</td>
+<td class="ramt">12.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Windsor. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Mr. Packard’s Class of Boys,
+Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">14.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ontario. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Payson. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J.&nbsp;L. Griswold, <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Port Byron. Mission Circle</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. P.&nbsp;B. Corss, $15; Cong.
+Sab. Sch., $6.25</td>
+<td class="ramt">21.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Providence. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rochelle. C.&nbsp;H. Holcomb</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rosemond. Cong. Ch. ($5.92 of which
+from Sab. Sch.), <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">19.97</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Seward. Cong. Ch., $18.10, and Sab.
+Sch., $12</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Lady
+Missionary, Savannah, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.09</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tolona. Mrs. L. Haskell, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tonica. F.&nbsp;A. Wood</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Western Springs. Union Meeting</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Mrs. A.&nbsp;B. Kellogg</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wheaton. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">16.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmette. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">6.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winnetka. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">18.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Woodstock. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.66</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $467.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ada. Mrs. A.&nbsp;A. Morris</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Adrian. Plymouth Ch., $7.03; Benj. S.
+Allen, $2.97</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Battle Creek. “J.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;W.”</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Mrs. E.&nbsp;B.&nbsp;A.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Calumet. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">252.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Covert. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. (ad’l),
+<i>for John Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Detroit. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
+<i>for Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Detroit. “S.&nbsp;Z.,” 50c.; D.&nbsp;G.&nbsp;P., 50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">20.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Imlay. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milford. Mrs. E.&nbsp;G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">North Lansing. Plymouth Cong Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">37.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pentwater. First Cong. Sab. Sch., Box
+of Books, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Romeo. Mary A. Dickinson, <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Clair. S.&nbsp;F.&nbsp;H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Josephs. Mrs. E.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;H. Grosvenor,
+<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ypsilanti. Cong Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $386.75.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Appleton. Mrs. S.&nbsp;R. Page, Box C. and
+$2.25, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Beloit. African M.&nbsp;E. Sab. Sch, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Black Earth. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Bristol. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. and
+$1.50 <i>for Freight, for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cumberland. W.&nbsp;B. Hopkins, M.D.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Delavan. Miss E.&nbsp;E.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eau Claire. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">38.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Emerald Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">8.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fort Howard. Mrs. D.&nbsp;C. Curtis, Bbl. of
+C., <i>for Macon Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Fox Lake. William Dawes</td>
+<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Madison. First Cong. Ch., $45, and 50
+Vols. “Songs of Christian Praise,” <i>for
+Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">45.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Young Peoples’ Mission
+Circle, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ripon. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., <i>for
+Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">River Falls. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Rosendale. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">0.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Clair. F.&nbsp;M., <i>for Freight</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sheboygan. First Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes
+Books and C. and $10 <i>for Freight, for
+Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Rosendale. Mrs. A. Martin, $20,
+<i>for Student Aid, Lewis High Sch.</i>;
+First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., <i>for Macon,
+Ga.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Westfield. C.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Whitewater. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, Talladega, Ala.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $1,694.33.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Anamosa. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for Lady
+Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Anita. $6.50; Eldora. Ladies of Ch.,
+$10.83; Tabor, Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., $15;
+by Miss Henry L. Chase, <i>for Lady Missionary,
+New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">32.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Burlington. Miss M.&nbsp;L.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R.&nbsp;D. Stephens, <i>for
+Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chester Center. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chester Center. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for
+Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Davenport. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dubuque. Young People’s Benev. Soc.,
+$50; Mrs. James Beach, $5.30, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">55.30<a class="pagenum" name="Page_156" id="Page_156">[156]</a></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dubuque. W.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Des Moines. James Callaman, $1,000;
+Ex. Gov. Samuel Merrill, $250, <i>for
+President’s House, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1,250.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Des Moines. “Ten Young Men,” $50;
+“Friends” $50, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Grinnell. S.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;H.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keokuk. Mrs. M.&nbsp;W.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Keokuk. ————, <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Lyons. Ladies’ Circle, <i>for Lady Missionary,
+New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Oldfield. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Osage. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">18.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Quasqueton. Rev. W.&nbsp;S. Potwin, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Shenandoah. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., <i>for
+Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Sioux City. Mrs. W.&nbsp;K.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tabor. Ladies, $12; Mrs. John Todd,
+$10, <i>for Student Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Waverly. M.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;G.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wayne. D.&nbsp;C.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Liberty. Mrs. L.&nbsp;K. Sisson, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">22.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">West Liberty. “Busy Bees,” Package Sewing-School
+Material, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Winthrop. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for
+Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">6.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wittemberg. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $4.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Anthony. Rev. T.&nbsp;D.&nbsp;C.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Cora. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Ridgeway. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $128.79.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Audubon. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Clear Water. Cong. Ch., $3; C.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;S.,
+50c.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $20.33;
+Second Cong. Ch., $4.</td>
+<td class="ramt">24.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. E.&nbsp;D. First Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">14.38</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Morris. A.&nbsp;A.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Red Wing. Mrs. Julia B. Nelson.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Paul. Plymouth Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">72.58</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $2.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wayne. G.&nbsp;H.&nbsp;S.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wheatland. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $9.80.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Holden. “Mrs. S.&nbsp;E.&nbsp;H.,” <i>for ed. of
+Indians, Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Saint Louis. Francis Whitney.</td>
+<td class="ramt">6.80</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON, $9.15.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Forest Grove. Cong. Ch., $3.15; Mrs.
+M.&nbsp;R.&nbsp;W., $1</td>
+<td class="ramt">4.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Portland. Mr. H. Williams.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $10.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">San Bernardino. Mr. Emeline Smith,
+<i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Austin,
+Texas</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $2.36.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.36</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $214.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Dudley. Public Fund.</td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Cong. Ch., <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">177.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $289.25.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">279.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Charleston. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $468.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rev. J.&nbsp;W. White and
+Others, <i>for Mag.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. M. Blanche Curtis, <i>for
+Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Maryville. Rev. T.&nbsp;J.&nbsp;L., <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Memphis. LeMoyne Sch., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">180.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">271.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Nashville. Miss’y Soc. of Fisk U., $10;
+Fisk U. Students, 55c., <i>for John Brown
+Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">10.55</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $836.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs’ School, Tuition, $245.40;
+Rent, $3.</td>
+<td class="ramt">248.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">231.59</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. ($35.20 of
+which <i>for Student Aid, Storrs’ Sch.</i>),
+$57; Cong. Sab. Sch., $4.50.</td>
+<td class="ramt">91.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">83.72</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Macon. Hon. James H. Blount, 155
+Vols. Pub. Doc., <i>for Library, Macon,
+Ga.</i></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">McIntosh. Tuition.</td>
+<td class="ramt">25.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., $143.30; Rent,
+$11.85.</td>
+<td class="ramt">155.15</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $503.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Alabama Furnace. Cong. Ch., <i>for John
+Brown Steamer</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Anniston. Tuition.</td>
+<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">152.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Mobile. Cong. Ch., $2; A.&nbsp;E., <i>for Emerson
+Inst.</i>, $1.</td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Public Fund.</td>
+<td class="ramt">175.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Selma. Cong. Ch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">43.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Selma. Mission Workers, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">11.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">104.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Talladega. “A Friend,” <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $202.25.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University, Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">202.25</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $131.94.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Jackson. R.&nbsp;F.</td>
+<td class="ramt">0.24</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University, Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">129.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. F.&nbsp;J. Webster, <i>for Student
+Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, $192.20.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Austin. Tillotson C. &amp; N. Inst., Tuition</td>
+<td class="ramt">190.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
+<td class="ramt">1.45</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND, $455.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">355.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">C.&nbsp;F. Dike Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">General Fund</td>
+<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $9.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes, D.D.,
+$4; Charles Alexander, $2.; Theo. Lyman,
+$2, and “Juv. Miss. Box of the
+family,” $1.50</td>
+<td class="ramt">9.50</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FRANCE, $30.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Paris. Mrs. E.&nbsp;W. Hitchcock, <i>for Talladega
+C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CHINA, $1.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Pao-ting-fu. Mrs. Isaac Pierson, <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega C.</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">——————</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total</td>
+<td class="ramt">$31,976.58</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1 to March 31.</td>
+<td class="ramt">$132,022.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">==========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">From Oct. 1 to March 31.</td>
+<td class="ramt">2,191.73</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<table class="receipts">
+<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td class="sub1">Conn. Watertown. “A Friend,” <i>for support
+of President of Talladega College</i></td>
+<td class="ramt">5,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+<td class="ramt">==========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
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+to the above address, and get the latest terms.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="medium">N.&nbsp;B.——Beware of imitators.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">☞ NO HUMBUG.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_158" id="Page_158">[158]</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center xxlarge"><b>PAYSON’S</b></p>
+
+<p class="center xxxlarge">INDELIBLE INK,</p>
+
+<p class="center medium">FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A<br />
+COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A<br />
+PREPARATION.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center">It still stands unrivaled after 50 years’ test.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center"><b>THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.</b></p>
+
+<p class="medium">Sales now greater than ever before.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">This Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all
+rivals.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">Report of Judges: “For simplicity of application and indelibility.”</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center medium">INQUIRE FOR</p>
+
+<p class="gesperrt center"><b>PAYSON’S COMBINATION!!!</b></p>
+
+<p class="medium">Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many
+Fancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center xxxlarge"><b>N.Y. WITNESS.</b></p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p>☞ <span class="medium">There will be many important events occurring during the
+coming year that you will not know about unless you take the
+<span class="smcap">Witness</span>. Do you know now, for instance, that a sober
+and Christian young man, a private soldier of the U.S. Army,
+has been thrown into prison and subjected to great privations
+and indignities by his superior officers——treated worse than
+the miserable wretch Guiteau——for writing a letter to the
+<span class="smcap">Witness</span>——a letter which is of great importance to all
+young men and all parents? There are many things published in the
+<span class="smcap">Witness</span> that other papers dare not print, for fear of
+offending some rich and powerful corporation, and so losing their
+patronage.</span></p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>The price of the WITNESS is $1.50<br />
+a year, post-paid; club price,<br />
+five for $6.00. Sample<br />
+copy sent free.</b></p>
+
+<p>Ministers, Missionaries, Evangelists of all Denominations, and
+Teachers can have the WITNESS for One Dollar a year.</p>
+
+<p class="center xxxlarge"><b>JOHN DOUGALL &amp; CO.,</b></p>
+<p class="center"><b>New York Witness Office,</b></p>
+<p class="center">17 to 21 VANDEWATER St., NEW YORK.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/desk.jpg" width="200" height="171" alt="desk" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="medium"><b>Case’s School Furniture.</b>——Parties about to purchase School
+Furniture are invited to correspond with us. Our work is all of
+the most approved patterns, and is unequaled for strength and
+durability.</p>
+
+<p class="medium"><b>Camp’s Outline Maps.</b>——Set of 9 maps, with key. No. 1,
+Hemispheres; No. 2, North America; No. 3, United States; No. 4,
+South America; No. 5, Europe; No. 6, Asia; No. 7, Africa; No. 8,
+Oceanica; No. 9, Physical World.</p>
+
+<p class="medium"><b>Case’s Bible Atlas.</b>——Embracing 16 full-page maps, quarto
+size, beautifully printed in colors, covering the whole ground of
+Biblical Geography; also 16 pages of Explanatory Notes on the maps.
+Sent by mail on receipt of price; bound in boards, $1.; cloth,
+$1.50. <em>Agents wanted.</em></p>
+
+<p class="medium">Circulars sent on application.</p>
+
+<p class="center large"><b>O.&nbsp;D. CASE &amp; CO., Publishers</b></p>
+<p class="center medium">AND</p>
+<p class="center">School Furniture Manufacturers,</p>
+<p class="center">HARTFORD, —— CONN.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center xlarge">KELLY &amp; JONES,</p>
+<p class="center">202 Greene Street, — New York.</p>
+<p class="center large"><b>LOW AND HIGH PRESSURE</b></p>
+<p class="center xlarge gesperrt">STEAM</p>
+<p class="center small">AND OTHER</p>
+<p class="center xxxlarge">HEATING APPARATUS.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center medium">We make a Specialty of</p>
+
+<p class="center"><b>Steam Heating and Ventilating Apparatus,<br />
+for Churches, Schools,<br />
+Public Buildings and Private<br />
+Residences.</b></p>
+
+<p class="medium">Plans and Specifications of the latest and most approved methods
+furnished on application.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="medium">Our apparatus is in operation in the following buildings:</p>
+
+<p class="medium">Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; Atlanta University, Atlanta,
+Georgia; Third Judicial District Court House, New York City; Museum
+of Art, New York City; Liverpool &amp; London &amp; Globe Insurance Co.,
+New York City; State College, near Bellefonte, Pa.; New York State
+Reformatory, Elmira, N.Y.; Point St. School, Providence, R.I.;
+Board of Education (Schools), Pittsburgh, Pa.; Van Wert Co. Court
+House, Van Wert, Ohio; Mahoning Co. Court House, Youngstown, Ohio;
+Washington Co. Court House, Washington, Pa.</p>
+<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_159" id="Page_159">[159]</a></p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center">THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL STATEMENT</p>
+<p class="center small">OF THE</p>
+<p class="center xxlarge">CONNECTICUT MUTUAL</p>
+<p class="center xxxlarge">Life Insurance Company,</p>
+<p class="center large"><b>OF HARTFORD, CONN.</b></p>
+
+<hr class="tb" />
+
+<table class="medium">
+  <tr>
+    <td>NET ASSETS, January 1, 1881</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$47,833,628.70</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent">RECEIVED IN 1881:</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">For premiums</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$5,238,811.82</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">For Interest and Rents</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">2,830,328.08</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">Profit and Loss</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">91,626.11</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">8,160,766.01</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$55,994,394.71</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center" colspan="4">————————————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center large" colspan="4">DISBURSED IN 1881.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent">TO POLICY HOLDERS:</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">For claims by death and matured endowments</td>
+    <td class="ramt">$3,718,646.87</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Surplus returned to Policy holders</td>
+    <td class="ramt">1,284,342.53</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Lapsed and surrendered Policies</td>
+    <td class="ramt">1,081,234.81</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">—————</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">TOTAL TO POLICY HOLDERS</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$6,084,224.21</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent">EXPENSES:</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Commissions to Agents</td>
+    <td class="ramt">$286,797.05</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Salaries of Officers, Clerks and all others employed on salary</td>
+    <td class="ramt">103,541.93</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Medical Examiners’ fees</td>
+    <td class="ramt">10,540.25</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Printing, Advertising, Legal, Real Estate and all other expenses</td>
+    <td class="ramt">276,607.84</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">—————</td>
+    <td class="ramt">$677,487.07</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>TAXES</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">454,590.06</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">—————</td>
+    <td class="ramt">7,216,301.34</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">BALANCE NET ASSETS, DEC. 31, 1881</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$48,778,093.37</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center" colspan="4">————————————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center large" colspan="4">SCHEDULE OF ASSETS.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Loans upon Real Estate, first lien</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$18,037,201.12</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Loans upon Stocks and Bonds</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">401,303.28</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Premium notes on Policies in force</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">3,347,600.47</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of Real Estate owned by the Company</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">12,657,974.92</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of United States Registered Bonds</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">4,618,853.10</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of State Bonds</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">619,900.00</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of City Bonds</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">2,572,300.84</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of other Bonds</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">3,407,480.00</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of Bank Stock</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">122,761.00</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cost of Railroad Stock</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">26,000.00</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Cash in Bank</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">2,933,319.50</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Balance due from agents, secured</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">33,399.14</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$48,778,093.37</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent">ADD</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Interest due and accrued</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$925,583.50</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Rents accrued</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">14,373.88</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Market value of stocks and bonds over cost</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">497,676.02</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Net premiums in course of collection——NONE.</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Net deferred quarterly and semi-annual premiums</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">43,058.08</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">—————</td>
+    <td class="ramt">1,480,691.48</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent2">GROSS ASSETS, December 31, 1881</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$50,258,784.85</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="indent">LIABILITIES:</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Amount required to re-insure all outstanding policies, net, assuming 4 per cent. interest</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$45,810,598.00</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>All other liabilities</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">1,060,614.87</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+    <td class="ramt">46,871,212.87</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">——————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">SURPLUS, by Connecticut Standard, 4 per cent.</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$3,387,571.98</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">SURPLUS, by New York Standard, 4-½ per cent., about</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">6,500,000.00</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center" colspan="4">————————————</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Ratio of expense of management to receipts in 1881</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">8.30 per cent.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="hang">Policies in force December 31, 1881, 63,913, insuring</td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td></td>
+    <td class="ramt">$159,039,867.89</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td class="center" colspan="4">————————————</td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<p class="right">JACOB L. GREENE, President.</p>
+<table class="medium" style="width: 100%;">
+  <tr>
+    <td>JOHN M. TAYLOR, Secretary.</td>
+    <td class="center">W.&nbsp;G. ABBOT, Ass’t Secretary.</td>
+    <td class="right">D.&nbsp;H. WELLS, Actuary.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_160" id="Page_160">[160]</a></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center medium">Physicians have Prescribed over Half a Million Packages of</p>
+
+<p class="center xxxlarge">VITALIZED PHOS-PHITES,</p>
+
+<p class="center medium">And have found this BRAIN AND NERVE FOOD indispensable in the
+treatment of all Diseases of Debility, and in all Mental or Nervous
+Disorders.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">It restores to the busy, active brain of man or woman the energy
+and ability that has been lost by disease, worry or overwork. It
+restores vitality where there has been debility and nervousness,
+and prevents loss of memory and brain fatigue; it is a regenerator
+of the tired brain and nerves.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">In impaired vitality it restores to the system that which has been
+wasted in excitement, in abuses, in excessive bodily or mental
+emotions.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">It <em>prevents</em> consumption and other diseases of debility.</p>
+
+<p class="center large">F. CROSBY CO., 664 and 666 Sixth Ave., N.Y.</p>
+<p class="center medium">For Sale by Druggists; or by mail in P.&nbsp;O. order, bill or postage stamps, $1.00.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<p class="center large">BALL’S HEALTH PRESERVING</p>
+
+<div class="half">
+  <div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+    <img src="images/corset.jpg" width="200" height="261" alt="Corset" />
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="half">
+  <p class="center large">CORSET</p>
+  <p class="center">SOMETHING ENTIRELY NEW</p>
+  <p class="medium">By a novel arrangement of fine coiled wire spring, which yield
+readily to every movement of the wearer, the most <b>Perfect
+Fitting</b> and comfortable corset ever made is secured.</p>
+  <p class="medium">Is Approved by the Best Physicians. For sale by all leading dealers.</p>
+  <p class="center medium">Lady Agents Wanted.</p>
+  <p class="center medium"><b>Price by Mail, $1.50.</b></p>
+  <p class="center medium">Manufactured only by</p>
+  <p class="center medium">CHICAGO CORSET CO.,</p>
+  <p class="center medium">Chicago, Ill.,</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">and FOY, HARMON &amp; Co., New Haven Ct.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/risingsun.jpg" width="200" height="109" alt="The Rising Sun Stove Polish" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="medium">For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil.</p>
+<p class="medium">For freeness from dust and slowness to soil.</p>
+<p class="medium">And also for cheapness ’tis yet unsurpassed.</p>
+<p class="medium">And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.</p>
+<br />
+<p class="medium">Of all imitations ’tis well to beware;</p>
+<p class="medium">The half risen sun every package should bear;</p>
+<p class="medium">For this is the “trade mark” the MORSE BROS. use,</p>
+<p class="medium">And none are permitted the mark to abuse.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center">ESTABLISHED 1780.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;">
+<img src="images/furniture.jpg" width="300" height="187" alt="furniture" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="medium">Set Complete in Terry, $58. Set complete in Plush, $64. Parlor,
+Lodge and Church Furniture. No charge for packing. Send for
+Illustrated Catalogue.</p>
+
+<p class="center medium">SHAW, APPLIN &amp; CO.,</p>
+<p class="right medium">27 Sudbury St., Boston.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center"><b>ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.</b></p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;">
+<img src="images/smith.jpg" width="400" height="355" alt="Smith
+  AMERICAN
+  ORGANS
+  ARE THE BEST." />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center medium"><em>Catalogues Free on Application.</em></p>
+
+<p class="medium">Address the Company either at</p>
+<p class="medium indent">BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;</p>
+<p class="medium indent">LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;</p>
+<p class="medium indent">KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;</p>
+<p class="medium indent">ATLANTA, GA., 37 Whitehall Street;</p>
+<p class="medium indent">Or, DEFIANCE, O.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center large">OVER 95,000 SOLD.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;">
+<img src="images/estey.jpg" width="500" height="363" alt="Estey Organ
+J. Estey &amp; Co
+Brattleboro Vt." />
+</div>
+
+<p class="medium">As musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for
+home, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,
+and durability.</p>
+
+<p class="center">SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center smcap">The American Missionary.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+<p class="center medium">Special attention is invited to the</p>
+
+<p class="center large">ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">With a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly, in the best families
+in the land, it becomes a valuable medium for the advertisement of
+standard and reliable articles.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<div class="half">
+  <div class="figcenter" style="width: 94px;">
+    <img src="images/babcock.jpg" width="94" height="200" alt="Fire Extinguisher" />
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class="half">
+  <p class="center xlarge">BABCOCK</p>
+  <p class="center">FIRE</p>
+  <p class="center xxlarge">EXTINGUISHER</p>
+  <hr class="tiny" />
+  <p class="center medium">A Sentinel that Never Sleeps.</p>
+  <hr class="tiny" />
+  <p class="nospace"><b>SIMPLE!</b></p>
+  <p class="center nospace"><b>EFFECTIVE!</b></p>
+  <p class="right nospace"><b>DURABLE!</b></p>
+  <p class="center medium">S.&nbsp;F. HAYWARD,</p>
+  <p class="center small">GENERAL AGENT,</p>
+  <p class="center small">407 Broadway, N.Y. City.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="advertisement">
+
+<p class="center large">60,000 TONS USED IN 1881.</p>
+
+<p class="small">One ton will build two miles of staunch three-strand Barb Fence.
+One strand will make an old wooden fence impassable to large
+cattle. One strand at bottom will keep out hogs.</p>
+
+<p class="center large">Washburn &amp; Moen Man’f’g Co.,</p>
+<p class="center">WORCESTER, MASS.,</p>
+<p class="center small">Manufacturers of</p>
+<p class="center">Patent Steel Barb Fencing.</p>
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;">
+<img src="images/fence.jpg" width="200" height="62" alt="fence" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="small">A STEEL Thorn Hedge. No other Fencing so cheap or put up so
+quickly. Never rusts, stains, decays, shrinks nor warps. Unaffected
+by fire, wind or flood. A complete barrier to the most unruly
+stock. Impassable by man or beast.</p>
+
+<p class="small"><b>No other Fence Material so easily handled by small proprietors
+and tenants, or large planters in the South.</b></p>
+
+<p class="small"><b>Shipped on spools containing 100 pounds, or eighty rods of
+Fencing. Can be kept on the Reel for transient uses.</b></p>
+
+<p class="center medium">CHEAPEST, BEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE OF FENCES.</p>
+
+<p class="small">Send for Illustrative Pamphlets and Circulars, as above.</p>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<div class="box">
+<p class="xxlarge center">THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</p>
+
+<hr class="tiny" />
+
+
+<p class="center">AIM AND WORK.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with
+the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted
+its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their
+duties as citizens and Christians in America, and as missionaries
+in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
+caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate
+with the Government in its humane and Christian policy toward the
+<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">STATISTICS.</p>
+
+<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>——In District of Columbia, 1;
+Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13;
+Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 1; Arkansas, 1;
+Louisiana, 18; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. <i>Africa</i>, 3. <i>Among the
+Indians</i>, 1. Total, 82.</p>
+
+<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the
+South.</span>——<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega,
+Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans,
+La., and Austin, Tex.——8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: Wilmington,
+N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;
+Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.——11. <i>Other
+Schools</i>, 35. Total, 54.</p>
+
+<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>——Among the
+Freedmen, 319; among the Chinese, 28; among the Indians, 9; in
+Africa, 13. Total, 369. <span class="smcap">Students.</span>——In theology, 104; law,
+20; in college course, 91; in other studies, 8,884. Total, 9,108.
+Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at
+150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center">WANTS.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">1. A steady <span class="smcap lowercase">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with
+the growing work. This increase can only be reached by <em>regular</em>
+and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches, the feeble as well as
+the strong.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational
+institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students;
+<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span> for the new churches we are organizing;
+<span class="smcap">more Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here
+and missionaries to Africa——a pressing want.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A.&nbsp;M.&nbsp;A.
+office as directed on second page cover.</p>
+
+
+<p class="center large">THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">We are anxious to put the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> on a paying
+basis. We intend to make it worth its price, and we ask our patrons
+to aid us:</p>
+
+<p class="medium">1. More of our readers can take pains to send us either the
+moderate subscription price (50 cents), or $1.00, naming a friend
+to whom we may send a second copy.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">2. A special friend in each church can secure subscribers at
+club-rates (12 copies for $5 or 25 copies for $10).</p>
+
+<p class="medium">3. Business men can benefit themselves by advertising in a
+periodical that has a circulation of 20,000 copies monthly and that
+goes to many of the best men and families in the land. Will not our
+friends aid us to make this plan a success?</p>
+
+<p class="medium">We nevertheless renew the offer hitherto made, that the
+<span class="smcap">Missionary</span> will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the
+Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen
+who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of
+Sabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;
+to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
+not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year
+not less than five dollars.</p>
+
+<p class="medium">Subscriptions and advertisements should be sent to <span class="smcap">H.&nbsp;W.
+Hubbard</span>, Treasurer, 56 Reade street, New York, N.Y.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class="center small smcap">Atkin &amp; Prout, Printers, 12 Barclay St., N.Y.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2>
+
+
+<p>Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions corrected.
+Inconsistent small caps retained as printed.</p>
+
+<p>Page number for Benefactions corrected in the Contents.</p>
+
+<p>“Pesbyterian” changed to “Presbyterian” on page 150. (<a href="#Err1">Presbyterian
+Mission House</a>)</p>
+
+<p>“Talladaga” changed to “Talladega” in the Danville entry on page
+155. (<a href="#Err2">for Student Aid, Talladega C.</a>)</p>
+
+<p>Full-page illustrations in the articles were moved to sit between paragraphs.
+Page numbers for these pages have been omitted.</p>
+
+<hr class="full" />
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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