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[Illustration: FEBRUARY, 1883.

VOL. XXXVII.

NO. 2.

The American Missionary]




CONTENTS


                                                         PAGE.
  EDITORIAL.

    AMERICAN MISSIONARY—SOUTHERN M. E. CHURCH               33
    WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE          34
    FINANCIAL                                               36
    NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.
      BY PROF. C. C. PAINTER                                37
    CONNECTICUT CONVENTIONS                                 38
    BENEFACTIONS                                            39
    ITEMS FROM THE FIELD                                    40
    LIST OF MISSIONARIES AND TEACHERS                       41
    EDUCATIONAL WORK FOR FREEDMEN. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY     47


  THE SOUTH.

    THE HEMENWAY FARM. BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG              49
    CUT OF HEMENWAY FARM                                    51
    REVIVAL IN CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS                  52
    WORK AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.                              53


  THE CHINESE.

    MISSION WORK—GOOD RESULTS                               54


  CHILDREN’S PAGE.

    MISSIONARY MUSIC                                        56


  RECEIPTS                                                  57

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                             AUDITORS.

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                       EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman; A. P. FOSTER, Secretary; LYMAN
ABBOTT, ALONZO S. BALL, A. S. BARNES, C. T. CHRISTENSEN, FRANKLIN
FAIRBANKS, CLINTON B. FISK, S. B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, CHARLES
A. HULL, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WM. H. WARD, A. L.
WILLISTON.


                       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, 21
Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
Life Member.


                        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.

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                              WANTED
                             $375,000,
            Efficiently to prosecute the work in hand.


                           CO-OPERATION

Of every Congregational minister, and of every office bearer in
our Congregational churches to secure (_a_) an annual presentation
of the work, and claims of the A. M. A. in every Congregational
church; and (_b_) an annual contribution from every Congregational
church in the country for this great work.


                               HELP

Of every Congregational Sunday-school superintendent to secure from
his school a contribution to our “Student Aid Fund.”


                                AID

Of every Ladies’ Missionary Society to sustain our work among the
colored women and girls.


                            ENDOWMENTS

For Professorships and Scholarships in our schools. The time has
come when in our larger institutions the chairs of instruction
should be endowed, that the Association may be left to enlarge its
missionary work in other directions.


                               GIFTS

For the improvement of schools and churches already built, and the
erection of additional buildings, imperatively needed.


                           A SUBSCRIBER

In every family for our monthly magazine,

                     THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
                Subscription Price, 50c. per annum.

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                                THE

                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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           VOL. XXXVII.      FEBRUARY, 1883.      NO. 2.

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American Missionary Association.

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We are encouraged by the request for the renewal of the AMERICAN
MISSIONARY for 1883, and by the subscriptions already received.
The price is 50 cents. We aim to secure subscriptions sufficient
to meet the cost of the magazine, and this is a reminder to such
of our readers as desire to assist us in this object. We do what
we can to make it worth the price asked. Nearly all the articles
it contains are written expressly for the MISSIONARY, and pains is
taken to give variety and freshness to each number.

Upon annual application, the following persons are entitled to
receive the AMERICAN MISSIONARY free: life members, ministers
whose churches take an annual collection for the Association,
Superintendents of Sabbath Schools, and donors who contribute in a
year not less than five dollars.

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We wish to congratulate the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
on her growing helpfulness to the colored people. A recent and
most timely gift in this direction was that of Dr. Haygood, as the
agent for the disbursing of the John F. Slater Fund. His broad
liberality, his intimate knowledge of the Southern field, and
his honest impartiality make him just the man for that place. We
anticipate a most effective administration of the Slater Fund under
his care. Another event in the history of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South was the inauguration, in May last, at the General
Conference, of a plan for founding a school of high grade for the
training of teachers and preachers among the colored people. A new
and crowning impulse to this was given at the recent meeting of the
North Georgia Conference, in the appointment of Dr. Morgan Galloway
as the President of the new institution, which is to be located in
Augusta, Ga., and named “Paine College.” All honor to our Southern
Methodist friends for these movements in so important a matter, and
all success to them in these and every other like endeavor, which
their hearts may prompt them to plan and their hands to execute.

REVIVALS HOW AND WHEN, is the title of a very timely and useful
volume by Rev. Wm. W. Newell, D.D. The following subjects with
others are discussed: Why use the word revival, Evangelistic
meetings, Household revivals, Bible class and Sabbath-school
revivals, Revival preaching, Fixed laws for the promotion of
revivals, Temperance revivals, When should we have revivals. Dr.
Newell speaks from a rich experience of many years and enforces
his views with copious incidents and pertinent quotations from the
words of eminent men. The whole subject is discussed in a clear,
comprehensive and interesting manner. The book was prepared to
help ministers and laymen, and contains an abundance of suggestive
and available information. There is no work more dear to this
Association than revival work, and no volume has recently come to
our knowledge apparently more fitted to promote it.

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WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE.

There is nothing like it in any land—the opportunity of the
Christian women of America to labor for the uplift of womanhood the
world over. The call, however, for woman’s work in America during
the past twenty years seems to us to have been peculiarly urgent,
and yet we think the majority of the noble Christian women in our
churches have, up to this time, seen only dimly the demands upon
them in this regard. How loving, pitying woman, whose labors and
sacrifices are so abounding in behalf of women, should have seen
with so little responsive interest the necessities for work among
the colored women of this land, is among the marvels of Christian
ethics.

If women, anywhere, are under obligation to help women, it seems to
us the women in our churches are indebted, beyond words to tell,
to the negro women in the South. Their condition is what we have
_made_ it, and remains what we _will_ it.

But let us not convey the impression that Christian women have been
wholly indifferent to the wants of their colored sisters. On the
other hand, we affirm that there is not a brighter page in modern
missions, than that which records the labors and sacrifices of
Northern women for the lowly dwellers in the cabins of the South.
We only speak, comparatively, of the great body, who need to be
stirred and mastered, as have been the few who have hurried with
the medicine of light and love to relieve the stricken and the
despairing. These have sacrificed youth and beauty, and the hope of
family love and joy, in the attempt to serve a race. With a calm
and reverent step they have gone into the darkest homes of poverty
and suffering to clothe the naked, to minister to the sick, to
comfort the dying, and to save the perishing.

Twenty-one years ago, when this Association called for teachers
and missionaries to submit to reproach, and obloquy, and ostracism
for the sake of these needy ones, these _rare_ women, in numbers
beyond our ability to send, answered the call. And during all the
years they have stood at our doors, as they stand to-day, saying
“Send me.”

The work they have done in school building, in church building,
in home building and in character building, cannot be matched in
the history of this generation, certainly, and probably not in the
history of the world.

When it is remembered, that in 1863 the slaves in the South did not
own an acre of ground and had not a cent of taxable property—that
they had no right to know a letter of the alphabet, and that there
was not a legal marriage among them: but that in 1880 they were
taxed for a hundred millions of dollars—that some 800,000 of them
had learned to read, and that purer churches were teaching purer
and better morals, one can but exclaim, “What hath God wrought!”

This is, largely, due to the Christian teachers and missionaries of
the American Missionary Association. No society has sent so many
of them to the field, or has so signally demonstrated the quality
and the value of their work. If the history of many of the most
promising and useful of our graduates could be written up the story
would read like romance.

The draught upon mind, and heart, and body has been heavy and
exhausting. Not a few have left the service broken in health for
life, and others have paid the penalty of overwork in early graves.
All this they have not complained of; but their keenest anguish has
come from lack of that fullness and warmness of sympathy which they
had a right to expect from the whole Christian sisterhood of the
North. They ask for it now, and we ask for it in their name!

Will not our Christian women re-examine this question of their duty
with reference to the elevation of the colored race, and especially
of the women of that race? There can be no sure and lasting
elevation of that people without refined and intelligent homes; and
there can be no such homes without pure and intelligent colored
women to build them. Such women can be brought forward, only as
they have pure models to imitate, and refined teachers to instruct
and guide them.

Fortunately, Northern homes are full of such models and of such
teachers; and they only need the supporting word and hand of their
sisters to go forth in larger numbers, and to lay, more broadly and
grandly, the foundations of a regenerated South. They _know_ that
the colored woman can be elevated by the gospel of Christ, they
_know_ that she can take on culture like a garment, and be made a
power in redeeming her race.

May we not, then, once more call the attention of Christian women
to this work, so peculiarly theirs, and laid upon them by so many
providential tokens?

It will be of interest to a large circle of friends on both sides
of the water to learn of the marriage at Prof. Geo. L. White’s
residence, Fredonia, N.Y., of Miss Ella Sheppard, pianist of the
original Jubilee Singer Company, to Rev. Geo. W. Moore, of Oberlin.
Mr. Moore is a graduate of Fisk University and acted as pastor of
the Howard Chapel at Nashville for some time, where his labors
were much appreciated. He has recently been connected with the
theological department of Oberlin College and has preached with
acceptance to churches in Ohio.

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A FALLING OFF OF 17 PER CENT. IN DONATIONS FROM THE LIVING.

The receipts from living donors for the first three months of our
fiscal year amounted to $39,528.77, against $48,174.97 for the
corresponding months of the previous year, showing a falling off
of more than 17 per cent. The receipts from legacies, however,
amounted to $15,486.65, against $7,029.65 of the year before. The
total receipts for the three months ending Dec. 31st amounted to
$55,015.42, against $55,204.62 for the previous year.

The Committee on Finance at Cleveland estimated that for this
year $375,000 would be wanted, against $300,000 for the year then
closed, an increase of 25 per cent. If this gain had been realized,
we should have received for the first quarter $93,750 instead
of $55,015.42, a difference of $38,734.58. The friends of this
Association will see from these figures that if the plans suggested
at our Annual Meeting are carried out, not only must the smaller
sources of contributions be augmented, but the churches having the
means to give must contribute more largely. With this in view we
take the liberty of making the following suggestions:

1. That in localities where money is raised by solicitation from
a few old friends who have already taken a deep interest in the
Negroes, efforts for collecting funds be made immediately.

2. In parishes where the benevolent organizations connected with
the church give no assistance to the Freedmen, we suggest that
special efforts be made in Sabbath-schools, the monthly concert
and at the annual collection, so that the amount raised for this
Association may be in due proportion to that given to the other
missionary societies supported by the Congregational churches.

3. In churches that do not follow a fixed system as to time for
taking collections, we suggest that the claims of our work be
explained and urged at least once a year, and that contributions be
forwarded to us at the earliest date possible.

We commend these suggestions to that thoughtful and prayerful
consideration which we believe is justified and demanded by the
necessities of the great work in which we are engaged.

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THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.

BY PROF. C. C. PAINTER.

Broad questions of Statesmen receive tardy attention from the
average legislator because they receive but little from his
constituents, while such matters as the imposition or removal of a
tax upon cigars is to him of pressing interest, because it concerns
the “boys” who run the caucases. This is perhaps well, as questions
of policy are tentatively settled and affect only passing and
limited interests; issues that are fundamental and vital, which are
to be settled for all time, come to a full recognition slowly.

Statutes are enacted as average intellects may decide, or the
balance of selfishness allow, but laws are not made, but discovered
as God has enacted, and related them to permanent interests. The
making or unmaking of the one is the facile work of charlatans
when by some mysterious providence they find their way into our
legislative halls; the discovery of the other is work for seers and
statesmen which once done is done forever.

The Revised Statutes of this Congress make obsolete those of the
last, not necessarily because superior wisdom has devised better,
which must prove a permanent gain; but when a law of human society
has been recognized and so enunciated that it becomes a regulating
force, civilization has taken a forward step. The race is not
simply less disturbed and more comfortable because temporary
adjustments have been made of conflicting interests, but it is
richer and stronger because of an enduring possession, and we can
afford to labor and wait for such.

Each new application of an old principle calls for a fresh
statement of the principle. That man’s personal rights are
modified by the fact of his social relations, is a truth old as
the beginning of civilized life, but that he may not suffer his
children to grow up in ignorance, is a proposition startling to
many, and practically asserted by but few of our State governments,
though it is well-known that our government itself as well as all
our social interests are put in jeopardy by the ignorant citizen
who becomes a voter.

That the constitutional duty of the President to execute the laws,
and of Congress to provide for the safety of the Republic involved
the right to levy war against states, to blockade their harbors, to
emancipate their slaves, to dictate the Constitutions under which
they could resume their autonomy as States in the union, this was
recognized only in face of fearful dangers and admitted only when
established on many bloody fields of a desolating war, but is now
so familiar, so axiomatic that no one doubts the nation’s right to
defend its own life by all means which do not of themselves subvert
that life.

That the safety of the Republic requires a general diffusion of
intelligence no sane man will deny, and yet some assert that it
will subvert the fundamental principles of this government if it
practically secured this prime condition of its own life—that it
must delegate to other hands the control of conditions and facts
vital to its life, with no power or right to enforce attention to
them. The right and capacity of self-government are found only
in the virtue and intelligence of the people. If this be so, the
obligation of a free government to enforce the education of its
citizens is involved in its right to live.

This obligation is recognized, or should be, in the constitutional
guarantee of a Republican form of government to each State, for
the guarantee of such a form of government carries with it the
conditions essential to it, one of which, and a prime one, is the
intelligence of the citizen. This cannot be secured by the military
arm of the nation, but by the school-master alone, who thus becomes
a constitutional officer of the republic. The proposition that a
republican form of government may be maintained by force over a
people too ignorant to maintain it for themselves is too absurd for
serious debate.

The right of the national government to interfere in case a State
neglects the education of its children, seems clear on the ground
of self-protection. The duty to aid the States struggling to
accomplish this work, but unable to do it, because of its vastness,
and of its own poverty, seems also clear, and has now become urgent
in view of the appalling facts revealed in the last census.

Our national Congress is constrained to hear the cry that is coming
up from all parts of the country calling attention to this duty.
Let not those who feel an interest in this, relax effort or lose
heart. It is not a measure to be adopted in a moment. It means
much; it involves much. It will bring with it new and seemingly
revolutionary conceptions of the functions of the government when
it reaches out its strong arms to defend its life, not in the sad
work of shooting down ignorant and brutalized parricides, but in
the better work of helping to qualify for their children, who are
to be charged with duties, the gravest which fall to men, and for
positions the highest to which ambition can impel them—the duties
and position of a citizen of this free republic.

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Arrangements have been made by the Missionary Society of
Connecticut to hold thirty conventions in the State, at which the
following benevolent societies supported by the Congregationalists
will be represented; American Board, American Congregational Union,
American Home Missionary Society, American Missionary Association,
American College and Education Society, New West Education
Commission, Congregational Publishing Society. The meetings for the
first month will be held as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 6, Stamford,
morning and afternoon; Wed. the 7th, Danbury, 1st Church, morning
and afternoon; Thursday the 8th, Hartford, Park Church, afternoon
and evening; Tuesday the 13th, Bridgeport, 1st Church, morning and
afternoon; Wednesday the 14th, New Milford, morning and afternoon;
Thursday, the 15th, Bridgeport, Park st. Church, morning and
afternoon; Tuesday the 20th, New Haven, 1st Church, afternoon
and evening; Wednesday the 21st, Ansonia, morning and afternoon;
Thursday the 22d, Hartford, South Church, afternoon and evening;
Tuesday the 27th, Middletown, 1st Church, morning and afternoon;
Wednesday the 28th, New Haven, College st. Church, morning and
afternoon.

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BENEFACTIONS.

Liberty E. Holden has given $150,000 to Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. John I. Blair has given $15,000 to Iowa College for building
purposes.

Atlanta University and Berea College have received $5,000 each for
endowment purposes from Mr. Tuthill King, of Chicago.

The University of Pennsylvania has received $20,000 towards the
endowment of a veterinary school in connection with the University.

John R. Buchtel has sold $200,000 worth of stock in the Buckeye
Works to Lewis Miller and his three sons, in order to make an
additional gift of $100,000 to Buchtel College.

James McLaren, a brother of Professor McLaren, of Toronto, Canada,
has subscribed $50,000 to endow a chair of Systematic Theology in
Knox College, Toronto.

Mrs. L. A. Messenger has given $25,000 in addition to her previous
large gifts to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.

Williams College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of J. B.
Jermain, as a memorial to his son, Barclay Jermain.

The gift of $10,000 from the late Tracy R. Edson, which his
trustees are now ready to pay, to the General Theological Seminary
for “The Tracy R. Edson Foundation,” makes over $160,000 received
by the Seminary in the last three years. The interest of Mr.
Edson’s gift is to be used in instructing students in the church
service.

_The number of persons over ten years of age among the colored
people who could not write, in the sixteen old slave states,
according to the census report of November, 1882, was upwards of
three millions; the number of native-born whites who were equally
illiterate was upwards of one and a half millions. We believe there
is no more imperative necessity than endowments for educational
institutions sustained for the purpose of ridding the country of
this illiteracy._

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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.

PARIS, Texas.—Rev. Byron Gunner is about to make his paper “The
Informer” a weekly.

FLORENCE, Ala.—Rev. S. G. Norcross, of North Conway, N.H., desiring
to spend five months in the South, is to take the place of the
lamented pastor, Rev. W. H. Ash, and Mrs. Norcross will have charge
of the school.

NEW ORLEANS, La.—In the Central Church, (Dr. Alexander’s) a series
of meetings held by the pastor, has resulted in some thirty hopeful
conversions. A friend from the North, who fell in upon them,
reports a quiet and deeply impressive service.

HELENA, Texas.—Pastor Mitchell Thompson rejoices with his people
in a revival of unusual seriousness and spirituality. Eight or ten
persons were joined to the company of believers. That the people
should attend through freezing weather was a thing almost unknown
before. They commonly hold such meetings in midsummer. The church
has been painted, the pastor doing the work.

SODDY, Tenn.—At the recent meeting of the Central South Conference
at Florence, Rev. W. H. Thomas and his Welsh Church at Soddy were
received, upon application, into the fellowship of the body. Rev.
Robert D. Thomas, of the Welsh Church at Knoxville, has been a
member for some time. He is now retiring from his charge and a
pastor will be sought who can preach in English a part of the time.

ATLANTA, GA.—Miss Ella W. Moore, a teacher in the Atlanta
University, has, by the special aid of friends, been able to
employ a teacher in a private school opened under her auspices. In
addition to the receipts in money, she has recently received (for
which she makes grateful acknowledgment) from Mrs. John B. Gough,
Worcester, Mass., patchwork, pictures, cards, tracts, etc.; from
Mrs. J. B. Shaw, Paxton, Ill., and Miss Amy Blatchford, Chicago,
valuable Sabbath-school papers and periodicals.

MERIDIAN, Miss.—By a council on the 15th of Dec., Mr. J. L. Grice,
a graduate of the college and theological department in Howard
University, a member of Dr. J. E. Rankin’s church, was ordained as
pastor after a most satisfactory examination. Sermon and right-hand
of fellowship, by Superintendent Roy; charge to the candidate, by
Rev. E. C. Stickel; address to the church, by Rev. C. B. Curtis;
and prayer of ordination, by Bishop Turner of the African M. E.
Church, the members of the council joining him in laying on of
hands. As the Bishop was holding a Conference in the city, he
attended both the afternoon and evening services of the Council,
after the members of that body had waited upon the Conference in
the morning. The Bishop stated that in attending a great many
examinations, he had never come upon a better one.

Owing to the space occupied by the list of our appointments for the
year we have been obliged to omit the publication of General Notes
and to hold over other matters of interest.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS.

1882-1883.

The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of
those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and
Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the
Freedmen in the South, and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast. The
Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their
own Boards of Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in
the past by this Association, and representing the general work in
which it is engaged their teachers are included in this list.


THE SOUTHERN FIELD.

    REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.,                   Field Superintendent.
    PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY,                 Supt. of Education.

  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
    WASHINGTON.
      _Theological Department, Howard University._
        Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D.,            Washington, D.C.
        Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D.,         Washington, D.C.
        Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.,            Washington, D.C.
        Rev. John G. Butler, D.D.,          Washington, D.C.
      LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH.
        _Pastor._
          Rev. S. P. Smith,                 Chicago, Ill.
        _Special Missionary._
          Mrs. C. B. Babcock,               Newburyport, Mass.

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  VIRGINIA.

    HAMPTON.
      _Minister._
        Rev. H. B. Frissell,                New York City.
      NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Gen. S. C. Armstrong,             Hampton, Va.
          Gen. J. F. B. Marshall,
            Treasurer,                      Hampton, Va.
          Mr. Albert Howe, Farm Manager,    Hampton, Va.
          Mr. F. C. Briggs, Business Agent, Hampton, Va.
          Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Engineer,      Hampton, Va.
          Mr. C. W. Betts, Printing Office, Wilmington, Del.
          Lieut. G. Le R. Brown, Com.,      Hampton, Va.
          Miss Mary F. Mackie,              Newburgh, N.Y.
          Miss Charlotte L. Mackie,         Newburgh, N.Y.
          Miss Mary T. Galpin,              Stockbridge, Mass.
          Miss Helen W. Ludlow,             New York City.
          Mrs. Edwin F. Coolidge,           Boston, Mass.
          Miss Jane E. Davis,               Troy, N.Y.
          Miss Myrtilla J. Sherman,         Brookfield, Mass.
          Miss Phebe C. Davenport,          Quaker Street, N.Y.
          Miss Sophia L. Brewster,          Brookfield, Mass.
          Miss Margaret Kenwell,            Mechanicsville, N.Y.
          Miss Anna E. Kemble,              Camden, N.Y.
          Miss Emma H. Lothrop,             Pittsfield, Mass.
          Miss Mary F. Dibble,              Seymour, Ct.
          Miss Martha M. Waldron,           South Otselie, N.Y.
          Miss Caroline Alfred,             Ellington, Ct.
          Miss Belle F. Small,              Amherst, N.Y.
          Miss Emma F. Marsh,               Worcester, Mass.
          Miss Mary W. Clock,               Islip, N.Y.
          Miss Margaret A. Guillon,         Petersburg, Va.
          Miss Mary A. Wheeler,             Boston, Mass.
          Mr. R. H. Hamilton,               Hampton, Va.
          Mr. Dudley Talbot,                Boston, Mass.
      INDIAN DEPARTMENT.
        Mr. J. H. McDowell, Chg. Workshop,  Hampton, Va.
        Mr. Edwin F. Coolidge,              Boston, Mass.
        Mrs. L. A. Seymour,                 Hampton, Va.
        Miss Isabel B. Eustis,              Springfield, Mass.
        Miss Laura E. Tileston,             Boston, Mass.
        Miss Josephine E. Richards,         Philadelphia, Pa.
        Mr. Geo. W. Brandom,                Clarksville, Va.
        Miss Lovey A. Mayo,                 Raleigh, N.C.
        Miss Cora A. Folsom,                Boston, Mass.
        Mr. Geo. J. Davis,                  Hampton, Va.
        Miss Jacobina Koch,                 Natick, Mass.
        Miss Mary E. Merritt,               Hampton, Va.
        Miss Georgia Washington,            Norfolk, Va.
      BUTLER SCHOOL.
        Miss Elizabeth Hyde,                Brooklyn, N.Y.
        Mr. Benj. F. Jones,                 Hampton, Va.
        Miss Mary A. Boner,                 Salem, N.C.
        Miss Louise K. Day,                 Elizabeth, N.J.
        Miss Lucy J. Boulding,              Burkeville, Va.
        Mr. Boswell S. White,               Matthews C. H., Va.
        Mr. Orpheus M. McAdoo,              Greensboro, N.C.
      CLERKS.
        Mr. F. B. Banks,                    Hampton, Va.
        Mr. Wm. M. Reid,                    Hampton, Va.
        Mr. W. H. Daggs,                    Hampton, Va.
        Miss Jessie P. Morgan,              Hamburg, Ct.
        Miss Emily Kimball,                 Boston, Mass.
        Mr. Fred N. Gilman,                 Hampton, Va.
        Mr. Geo. A. Blackmore,              Hampton, Va.
        Miss Ruth G. Tileston,              Boston, Mass.

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  NORTH CAROLINA.

    WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).
      _Minister._
        Rev. D. D. Dodge,                   Nashua, N.H.
      NORMAL SCHOOL.
        _Principal._
          Rev. W. H. Thrall,                Derby, Ct.
        _Assistants._
          Miss H. L. Fitts,                 Candia, N.H.
          Miss E. A. Warner,                Lowell, Mass.
          Miss Ella F. Jewett,              Pepperell, Mass.
          Miss Ernestine Patterson,         Providence, R.I.
          Miss Mary D. Hyde,                Zumbrota, Minn.
          Miss Kate A. Shepard,             New York City.
          Mrs. Janet Dodge,                 Nashua, N.H.
        _Special Missionary._
          Miss A. E. Farrington,            Portland, Me.

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    RALEIGH.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Geo. S. Smith,                 Raleigh, N.C.
      _Special Missionary._
        Miss E. P. Hayes,                   Limerick, Me.

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    DUDLEY.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. J. E. B. Jewett,               Pepperell, Mass.
        Mrs. J. E. B. Jewett,               Pepperell, Mass.

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    McLEANSVILLE.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. Alfred Connet,                 Solsberry, Ind.

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    CEDAR CLIFF.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. N. Ray,                     Cedar Cliff, N.C.

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    WOODBRIDGE.
      _Teacher._
        Mrs. G. A. Rumbley,                 Phila., Pa.

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    BEAUFORT.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. Michael Jerkins,               Beaufort, N.C.
      _Assistant._
        Miss Lydia Hatch,                   Beaufort, N.C.

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    LASSITER’S MILLS.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. Islay Walden,                  Lassiter’s Mills, N.C.
        Mrs. Islay Walden,                  Lassiter’s Mills, N.C.

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    TROY AND PEKIN.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. Wm. H. Ellis,                  Southfield, Mass.

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    DRY CREEK.
      _Teacher._
        Miss C. E. Smitherman,              High Pt., N.C.

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  SOUTH CAROLINA.

    CHARLESTON.
      _Minister._
        Rev. E. T. Hooker,                  Castleton, Vt.
      AVERY INSTITUTE.
        _Principal._
          Prof. A. W. Farnham,              Hannibal, N.Y.
        _Assistants._
          Miss Hattie E. Dowd,              Oswego, N.Y.
          Miss E. A. Huntoon,               Wallingford, Vt.
          Miss Addie M. Phelps,             Moravia, N.Y.
          Miss Lizzie S. Hayward,           Red Bank, N.J.
          Mr. J. C. Whittaker,              Charleston, S.C.
          Mr. E. A. Lawrence,               Charleston, S.C.
          Miss Etta E. Abbey,               Hamlet, N.Y.
          Miss M. H. McKinley,              Charleston, S.C.
          Miss H. E. Wells,                 Middletown, N.Y.
          Mrs. E. T. Hooker,                Castleton, Vt.
          Mrs. A. W. Farnham,               Hannibal, N.Y.

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    ORANGEBURG.
      _Minister._
        Rev. T. T. Benson,                  Orangeburg, S.C.

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    GREENWOOD.
      BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
        Mr. J. D. Backenstose,              Geneva, N.Y.
        Mr. Wm. Clark,                      Greenwood, S.C.

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    LADIES’ ISLAND.
      Miss M. H. Clary,                     Conway, Mass.

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  GEORGIA.

    ATLANTA.
      _Ministers._
        Rev. C. W. Francis,                 Atlanta, Ga.
        Rev. Evarts Kent,                   Chicago, Ill.
      ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. E. A. Ware,                  Atlanta, Ga.
          Prof. T. N. Chase,                Atlanta, Ga.
          Rev. C. W. Francis,               Atlanta, Ga.
          Rev. Horace Bumstead, D.D.,       Atlanta, Ga.
          Mr. H. M. Sessions,               Hampden, Mass.
          Mr. Chas. P. Sinnott,             Marshfield, Mass.
          Prof. Wm. M. Aber,                Newark, N.J.
          Miss Emma C. Ware,                Norfolk, Mass.
          Miss Mary E. Sands,               Saco, Me.
          Miss Carrie H. Loomis,            Hartford, Conn.
          Miss Ella W. Moore,               Chicago, Ill.
          Mrs. Lucy E. Case,                Millbury, Mass.
          Miss Mary L. Santley,             Wellington, Ohio.
          Miss Rebecca Massey,              Oberlin, Ohio.
          Miss Sarah E. Marsh,              Lake Forest, Ill.
          Miss Margaret Neel,               Livonia, N.Y.
          Mrs. Lucinda F. Vache,            Harrisburg, Pa.
          Miss Jessie E. Smith,             Northfield, Mass.
          Miss Virginia F. Smith,           Northfield, Mass.
          Mrs. A. S. Newman,                Deerfield, Mass.
      STORRS SCHOOL (104 Houston St.).
        _Principal._
          Miss Amy Williams,                Livonia Sta., N.Y.
        _Assistants._
          Miss Julia A. Goodwin,            Mason, N.H.
          Miss Amelia L. Ferris,            Oneida, Ill.
          Mrs. C. G. Ball,                  Palermo, N.Y.
          Miss Alice M. Field,              Bachellorville, N.Y.
          Miss Nellie L. Cloudman,          South Windham, Me.
          Miss Carrie J. Parrey,            Chicago, Ill.
        _Special Missionary._
          Miss Lizzie Stevenson,            Bellefontaine, O.

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    MACON.
      _Minister._
        Rev. S. E. Lathrop,                 New London, Wis.
      LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
        _Principal._
          Mr. W. A. Hodge,                  W. Rosendale, Wis.
        _Assistants._
          Mrs. W. A. Hodge,                 W. Rosendale, Wis.
          Miss Alice W. Lindsley,           Avondale, Ill.
          Miss Jennie M. Woodworth,         Clyde, O.
          Miss Ella B. Pickett,             Norwalk, O.
          Miss Emma L. Sprague,             Fitchville, O.
          Mrs. S. E. Lathrop,               New London, Wis.

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    MARIETTA.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. E. J. Penney,                  Marietta, Ga.

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    FORSYTH.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. O. A. Combs,                    Atlanta, Ga.

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    AUGUSTA.
      _Teacher._
        Miss S. A. Hosmer,                  Ashley, Mass.

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    THOMASVILLE.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. W. H. Harris,                   Savannah, Ga.

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    ALBANY.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. W. C. Greene,                   Albany, Ga.

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    HAWKINSVILLE.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. E. P. Johnson,                  Hawkinsville, Ga.

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    WASHINGTON.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. E. J. Stewart,                  Washington, Ga.

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    CUTHBERT.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. F. H. Henderson,                Cuthbert, Ga.

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    STONE MOUNTAIN.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. Eugene Martin,                  Atlanta, Ga.

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    BAINBRIDGE.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. H. H. Williams,                 Atlanta, Ga.

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    ATHENS.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Geo. V. Clark,                 Atlanta, Ga.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. P. E. Spratlin,                 Athens, Ga.

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    BYRON.
      _Minister._
        Rev. N. B. James,                   New Orleans, La.

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    SAVANNAH.
      _Minister and Sup’t of Missions._
        Rev. Dana Sherrill,                 Forrest, Ill.
      BEACH INSTITUTE.
        _Principal._
          Mr. H. H. Wright,                 Oberlin, O.
        _Assistants._
          Miss Ida M. Beach,                Vernon, Ct.
          Miss Edna F. Connor,              Henniker, N.H.
          Miss A. F. Daily,                 Fredonia, N.Y.
          Miss Georgiana Hunter,            Brooklyn, N.Y.,
          Miss Mary F. Lord,                Fredonia, N.Y.
          Mrs. Dana Sherrill,               Forrest, Ill.
        _Special Missionary._
          Miss J. S. Hardy,                 Shelburne, Mass.

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    WOODVILLE.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke,           Savannah, Ga.
      _Assistant._
        Miss E. A. Thompson,                Savannah, Ga.

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    MILLER’S STATION.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        ————                                ————

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    LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Wilson Callen,                 Selma, Ala.

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    EAST SAVANNAH.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. H. Stephens,                East Savannah, Ga.

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    McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
      THE GROVE.
        _Minister._
          Rev. Floyd Snelson,               McIntosh, Ga.
        _Teachers._
          Miss Rose M. Kinney,              Oberlin, O.
          Miss Carrie I. Gibson,            Boston, Mass.

    CYPRESS SLASH.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. A. J. Headen,                  Talladega, Ala.

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  FLORIDA.

    FERNANDINA.
      Rev. George Henry,                    Brooklyn, N.Y.

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  ALABAMA.

    TALLADEGA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. O. W. Fay,                     Geneseo, Ill.
      TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. H. S. De Forest, D.D.,       Muscatine, Ia.
          Rev. G. W. Andrews,               Collinsville, Ct.
          Rev. O. W. Fay,                   Geneseo, Ill.
          Mr. Geo. H. Howe,                 Orwell, Pa.
          Mr. Geo. N. Ellis,                Olivet, Mich.
          Mr. C. B. Rice,                   W. Brattleboro, Vt.
          Mr. W. L. Hunter,                 Elizabeth, N.J.
          Miss L. F. Partridge,             Holliston, Mass.
          Miss M. E. Carey,                 Huntsburg, O.
          Mrs. Clara S. Rindge,             Homer, N.Y.
          Miss F. M. Andrews,               Milltown, N.B.
          Miss J. C. Andrews,               Milltown, N.B.
          Miss Frances Yeomans,             Danville, Ill.
          Mrs. H. S. De Forest,             Muscatine, Ia.
          Mrs. H. W. Andrews,               Collinsville, Ct.
          Mrs. Geo. N. Ellis,               Olivet, Mich.
          Mrs. O. W. Fay,                   Geneseo, Ill.
          Mrs. Geo. H. Howe,                Orwell, Pa.

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    KYMULGA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Spencer Snell,                 Talladega, Ala.

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    SHELBY IRON WORKS.
      Rev. J. R. Sims,                      Talladega, Ala.

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    CHILDERSBURG.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Alfred Jones,                  Talladega, Ala.

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    ANNISTON.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. H. W. Conley,                  Talladega, Ala.
      _Assistant._
        Mrs. H. W. Conley,                  Talladega, Ala.

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    LAWSONVILLE AND COVE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Peter J. McEntosh,             Talladega, Ala.

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    ALABAMA FURNACE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. B. Grant,                   Talladega, Ala.

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    TECUMSEH.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. Milus Harris,                  Talladega, Ala.

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    MOBILE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. O. D. Crawford,                W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
      EMERSON INSTITUTE.
        _Principal._
          Miss Emma R. Caughey,             Kingsville, O.
        _Assistants._
          Miss Josie Miller,                S. Saginaw, Mich.
          Miss Isadore M. Caughey,          Kingsville, O.
          Miss Carrie E. Ferris,            Passaic, N.J.
          Miss Ruby A. Smith,               Belmont, N.Y.
          Miss Helen D. Barton,             Terre Haute, Ind.
          Miss Mary F. Felt,                Temple, N.H.
          Mrs. O. D. Crawford,              W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
        _Special Missionary._
          Miss Eunice M. Clark,             Elgin, Ill.

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    MONTGOMERY (P. O. Box 62).
      _Minister._
        Rev. R. C. Bedford,                 Watertown, Wis.
      _Special Missionary._
        Miss R. G. Jillson,                 Providence, R.I.

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    SELMA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. C. B. Curtis,                  Burlington, Wis.
      _Special Missionary._
        Miss Mary K. Lunt,                  New Gloucester, Me.

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    MARION.
      _Minister._
        Rev. A. W. Curtis,                  Crete, Nebraska.
      _Teacher._
        Miss Elizabeth Plimpton,            Walpole, Mass.

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    ATHENS.
      _Minister._
        Rev. H. S. Williams,                Wetumpka, Ala.
      TRINITY SCHOOL.
        _Teachers._
          Miss M. F. Wells,                 Ann Arbor, Mich.
          Miss Helen M. Woodward,           Albion, N.Y.
          Miss Mary E. Wolverton,           Easton, Pa.

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    FLORENCE.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        [A]Rev. W. H. Ash,                  Florence, Ala.
        Rev. S. G. Norcross,                North Conway, N.H.
        Mrs. S. G. Norcross,                North Conway, N.H.

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  TENNESSEE.

    NASHVILLE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Henry S. Bennett,              Nashville, Tenn.
      FISK UNIVERSITY.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. E. M. Cravath,               Nashville, Tenn.
          Rev. A. K. Spence,                Nashville, Tenn.
          Rev. H. S. Bennett,               Nashville, Tenn.
          Rev. F. A. Chase,                 Nashville, Tenn.
          Prof. J. M. McPherron,            Nashville, Tenn.
          Rev. C. W. Hawley,                Amherst, Mass.
          Miss Helen C. Morgan,             Cleveland, O.
          Miss Anna M. Cahill,              Binghamton, N.Y.
          Mrs. L. A. Shaw,                  Owego, N.Y.
          Miss Laura A. Parmelee,           Toledo, Ohio.
          Miss Juliet B. Smith,             Scotland, Mass.
          Miss Mary E. Edwards,             Westhampton, Mass.
          Miss Hattie Curtis,               Vermontville, Mich.
          Miss Henrietta Matson,            N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
          Miss Martha A. Perry,             Holden, Mass.
          Miss Margaret M. Foote,           Norwich, N.Y.
          Miss Addie L. Clark,              Amherst, Mass.
          Miss Fanny Gleason,               Brooklyn, N.Y.
          Mrs. A. K. Spence,                Nashville, Tenn.
          Mrs. E. M. Cravath,               Nashville, Tenn.
      HOWARD MISSION.
        _Minister._
          Rev. Wm. A. Sinclair,             Washington, D.C.

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    CHATTANOOGA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Jos. E. Smith,                 Atlanta, Ga.
      _Special Missionary._
        Mrs. A. S. Steele,                  Revere, Mass.

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    MEMPHIS.
      _Minister._
        Rev. B. A. Imes,                    Oberlin, O.
      LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
        _Principal._
          Prof. A. J. Steele,               Whitewater, Wis.
        _Assistants._
          Rev. B. A. Imes,                  Oberlin, O.
          Miss Frances D. McNair,           Brodhead, Wis.
          Miss Ruth E. Stinson,             Woolwich, Me.
          Miss L. Ada Lyman,                Oconomowoc, Wis.
          Miss M. M. Miller,                Madison, Wis.
          Miss Mary A. Cornes,              Medina, N.Y.
          Miss Minnie A. Fowle,             Milwaukee, Wis.
          Mrs. B. A. Imes,                  Oberlin, Ohio.

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    WHITESIDE.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. G. W. Jackson,                  Tougaloo, Miss.

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  KENTUCKY.

    BEREA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. John G. Fee,                   Berea, Ky.
      BEREA COLLEGE.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D.,       Berea, Ky.
          Rev. John G. Fee,                 Berea, Ky.
          Prof. L. V. Dodge,                Berea, Ky.
          Prof. Walter E. C. Wright,        Berea, Ky.
          Prof. P. D. Dodge,                Berea, Ky.
          Rev. B. S. Hunting,               Sublet, Ill.
          Miss L. A. Darling,               Akron, O.
          Miss Kate Gilbert,                W. Brookfield, Mass.
          Mrs. H. F. Woodruff,              Grand Rapids, Mich.
          Miss E. F. Moore,                 Wattsburg, Pa.
          Miss Annie M. Johnston,           East Trumbull, O.
          Miss Jennie Lester,               Berea, Ky.
          Miss Ida M. Clark,                Berea, Ky.
          Miss Eurie J. Hamilton,           Berea, Ky.
          Miss Maria A. Muzzy,              Romeo, Mich.

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    LEXINGTON.
      NORMAL SCHOOL.
        _Instructors._
          Prof. Geo. F. Jewett,             Peperell, Mass.
          Mr. Charles H. Jewett,            Pepperell, Mass.
          Miss Hettie C. Minton,            Bowling Green, O.
          Mrs. G. F. Jewett,                Pepperell, Mass.

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    CAMP NELSON.
      _Teacher._
        Miss Juan R. Kumler,                Oberlin, O.

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    LOUISVILLE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. D. Smith,                   Louisville, Ky.

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    WILLIAMSBURG.
      _Minister._
        Rev. A. A. Myers,                   Williamsburg, Ky.
      _Teachers._
        Mr. W. E. Wheeler,                  Marshfield, Wis.
        Mrs. W. E. Wheeler,                 Marshfield, Wis.

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    CLOVER BOTTOM.
      _Teacher._
        Miss M. R. Barton,                  ——, Ohio.

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    BEATTYVILLE.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. A. W. Titus,                    Berea, Ky.

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  KANSAS.

    TOPEKA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. R. F. Markham,                 Twelve Mile, Kan.
      _Missionary._
        Miss Alice Braman,                  Wayland, Mass.

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    LAWRENCE.
      _Minister._
        Rev. H. R. Pinckney,                Lawrence, Kan.

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    EUREKA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. W. W. Weir,                    Eureka, Kan.

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  ARKANSAS.

    LITTLE ROCK.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Y. B. Sims,                    Talladega, Ala.
      _Special Missionary._
        Miss Elizabeth M. Keyes,            Unionville, Ct.

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    FAYETTEVILLE.
      _Minister and Teacher._
        Rev. B. F. Foster,                  Fayetteville, Ark.
        Mrs. B. F. Foster,                  Fayetteville, Ark.

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  MISSISSIPPI.

    TOUGALOO.
      _Minister._
        Rev. G. S. Pope,                    Strongsville, O.
      TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. G. S. Pope,                  Strongsville, O.
          Rev. E. C. Stickel,               Oberlin, O.
          Rev. Azel Hatch,                  Oberlin, O.
          Miss Kate K. Koons,               Sulphur Springs, O.
          Miss Mary H. Scott,               Amherst, Mass.
          Miss Fannie J. Webster,           Berlin, Wis.
          Miss H. M. Hegeman,               Island City, N.Y.
          Miss Josephine Kellogg,           Clyde, O.
          Miss Jennie L. Hollegreen,        Fredonia, N.Y.
          Mrs. G. S. Pope,                  Strongsville, O.
          Mrs. E. C. Stickel,               Oberlin, O.
          Mrs. Azel Hatch,                  Oberlin, O.
          Miss S. L. Emerson,               Hallowell, Me.
          Miss Anna Coffin,                 Haverhill, Mass.

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    CALEDONIA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. M. J. Witherspoon,             Caledonia, Miss.

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    MERIDIAN.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. L. Grice,                   Washington, D.C.
      _Teacher._
        Miss Rosa McCutcheon,               Tougaloo, Miss.

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  LOUISIANA.

    NEW ORLEANS.
      _Ministers._
        Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D.,         Pomfret, Ct.
        Rev. Isaac H. Hall,                 New Orleans, La.
        Rev. Henry Ruffin,                  New Orleans, La.
      STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D.,       Pomfret, Ct.
          Mr. R. C. Hitchcock,              Thompsonville, Ct.
          Mr. W. J. McMurtry,               Wayne, Mich.
          Mr. J. B. Cannon,                 West Suffield, Ct.
          Miss Florence L. Sperry,          Topeka, Kan.
          Miss Katherine T. Plant,          Minneapolis, Minn.
          Miss Thirza J. Miller,            Pepperell, Mass.
          Miss M. M. Jewett,                Pepperell, Mass.
          Miss Flora A. Austin,             Nashua, N.H.
          Mrs. Hannah A. Lord,              Centre Lebanon, Me.
          Mrs. R. C. Hitchcock,             Thompsonville, Ct.
        _Special Missionary._
          Miss A. D. Gerrish,               Leetonia, O.

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    NEW IBERIA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. W. R. Polk,                    New Iberia, La.

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    FAUSSE POINT.
      _Minister._
        Rev. William Butler,                New Iberia, La.

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  TEXAS.

    AUSTIN.
      TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.
        _Instructors and Managers._
          Rev. W. E. Brooks,                W. Haven, Ct.
          Mr. W. L. Gordon,                 Austin, Tex.
          Mrs. W. L. Gordon,                Austin, Tex.
          Miss Helen C. Montague,           Kalamazoo, Mich.
          Miss Adelia Hunt,                 Elkhorn, Wis.
          Miss Alice F. Topping,            Olivet, Mich.
          Mrs. M. E. Garland,               Austin, Tex.
          Mrs. W. E. Brooks,                W. Haven, Ct.

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    GOLIAD.
      _Minister._
        Rev. B. C. Church,                  Goliad, Texas.
      _Teacher._
        Mr. J. R. S. Hallowell,             New Orleans, La.

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    HELENA.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Mitchell Thompson,             Helena, Tex.

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    CORPUS CHRISTI.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. W. Strong,                  Talladega, Ala.

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    FLATONIA AND LULING.
      _Minister._
        Rev. Thos. E. Hillson,              New Orleans, La.
      _Teachers._
        Miss M. E. Green,                   Flatonia, Tex.
        Miss H. Cunningham,                 Tougaloo, Miss.

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    PARIS.
      _Minister._
        Rev. J. W. Roberts,                 Savannah, Ga.
      _Teacher._
        Rev. Byron Gunner,                  Talladega, Ala.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] Deceased.

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AMONG THE CHINESE.

  Berkeley—                         Miss A. M. Fulton
  Marysville—                       Miss M. A. Flint. Joe Jet.
  Oakland—                          Miss Clara M. Fisher.
                                    Miss Mattie L. Sanford.
                                    Miss Margie L. Brewer.
  Petaluma—                         Mrs. Carrie L. Ross.
                                    Wong Ock.
  Sacramento—                       Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
                                    Lem Chung.
  San Francisco Central, No. 1—     Mr. D. F. Sheldon.
                                    Jee Gam.
                                    Miss J. S. Worley.
                                    Miss Anna L. Snook.
  San Francisco, Central, No. 2—    Miss M. C. Waterbury.
                                    Miss E. D. Worley.
                                    Lee Sam. Yong Jin.
  San Francisco. Barnes—            Mrs. C. A. Sheldon.
                                    Miss J. M. Sheldon.
                                    Lu D. Luce.
  San Francisco. Bethany—           Mrs. J. C. Snook.
                                    Hong Sing.
  San Francisco. West—              Miss F. A. Worley.
                                    Lon Quong.
  San Francisco. North—             Mr. J. J. Mason.
                                    Chung Won.
  Santa Barbara—                    Mrs. H. C. Hough.
                                    Woo Young.
  Santa Cruz—                       Mrs. M. Willett.
  Stockton—                         Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
                                    Him Wong.

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RESUMÉ OF EDUCATIONAL WORK BY BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS FOR FREEDMEN.

EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE OF SECRETARY STRIEBY IN THE FORTHCOMING
VOLUME OF THE SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.

WORK OF A. M. A.

The first school for the Freedmen was established by the American
Missionary Association. On the 17th of September, 1861, only five
months after the beginning of the war, that school was opened at
Hampton, Va., where many fugitive slaves had congregated under the
protection of the guns of Fortress Monroe. The spot overlooked
the waters on which the first slave ship entered the American
Continent. The Association steadily extended its work, until
it had founded chartered institutions in every large Southern
State;—Berea College, Berea, Ky.; Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.;
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn.; Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo University,
Tougaloo, Miss.; Straight University, New Orleans, La.; Tillotson
Collegiate and Normal Institute, Austin, Texas. Land has also been
purchased for the Edward Smith College, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It has 49 other schools of different grades. Connected with some
of its chartered institutions are Theological, Law and Industrial
Departments. Those at Hampton, Talladega and Tougaloo, have large
farms. Chartered Institutions, 8; Normal and High Schools, 11;
Common Schools, 38; Total, 57; Teachers, 241; Students, 9,608.
Howard University, Washington, D.C., established by the Freedmen’s
Bureau, in 1882 had 29 teachers and 349 students. The theological
department is sustained mainly by the A. M. A.


FREEDMEN’S AID SOCIETIES.

The “Freedmen’s Aid Societies” were early organized. The first
was formed in Boston, Feb. 7th, a second in New York, Feb. 23d,
1863. Others followed rapidly—in Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland,
and elsewhere throughout the North, and in 1865 the teachers
employed by all the societies numbered 634. With a view to economy
and efficiency they were consolidated in 1866, in the “American
Freedmen’s Union Commission.” These societies devoted themselves
in large part at first to physical relief and the organization
of labor. But ere long, the education of the Freedmen became
their chief endeavor and they accomplished much good in the line
of secular education. But the several branches were at length
abandoned or became absorbed in the societies of the religious
organizations. The Commission itself closed in 1869.


THE BAPTISTS.

The Baptists, who conduct their work, both educational and church,
among the Freedmen, through their Home Missionary Society, entered
early into the establishment of schools; beginning in the Spring of
1862 with schools at St. Helena and Beaufort, S.C., and afterwards
adding others at Fortress Monroe, Washington, Knoxville and New
Orleans. Missionaries were appointed to preach, and to teach
day-schools, and assistants, both male and female, were sent out;
from 3,000 to 5,000 pupils were taught yearly, until about 1872,
when the secular or day-school system was given up, and efforts
concentrated on permanent or higher institutions, some of which
had been planted in 1865. In 1882, the Society has under its
care 12 schools as follows: Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.;
Richmond Institute, Richmond, Va.; Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C.;
Benedict Institute, Columbia, S.C.; Atlanta Seminary, Atlanta,
Ga.; Nashville Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; Leland University, New
Orleans, La.; Natchez Seminary, Natchez, Miss.; Alabama Normal
and Theological School at Selma, Ala.; Florida Institute, Live
Oak, Fla.; Bishop College, Marshall, Tex.; Louisville Normal and
Theological School, Louisville, Kentucky. Normal instruction is
given in most of the schools; industrial education in several; and
Biblical instruction in all. In four institutions a collegiate
course is pursued. Five are chartered institutions. In 1882,
Schools, 12; Teachers, 79; Pupils, 2,397. The Free Will Baptists
have an excellent institution, Storer College, at Harper’s Ferry,
W. Va., with 5 Teachers and 245 Students.


THE FRIENDS.

The Friends, true to the principles of the founder of their
denomination, George Fox, entered at once the opened door for
relieving the physical necessities of the Freedmen, and at length
established schools among them; but when the public schools
furnished the education, they gradually withdrew. They now maintain
Southland College, Helena, Ark., with 277 Pupils, a school in
Maryville, Tenn., with 13 Instructors and 211 Pupils, and one in
Philadelphia with 291 Pupils, with the supervision of 22 other
schools in the South sustained for several months in the year. The
Friends (Hicksite), entered the work in 1862, furnishing supplies
at first, afterwards sustaining schools numbering at one time 25.
They now have one school with 150 scholars.


THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

The Methodist Episcopal Church had from the first co-operated with
the undenominational Aid Societies in the care of the Freedmen, in
relieving physical suffering and in giving instruction in primary
education. But it concentrated its efforts by the organization, in
Cincinnati, Aug. 6, 1866, of “The Freedmen’s Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.” This Society now reports six chartered
institutions, viz.: Central Tennessee College, Nashville, Tenn.;
Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.; Claflin University, Orangeburg,
S.C.; New Orleans University, New Orleans, La.; Rust University,
Holly Springs, Miss.; Wiley University, Marshall, Texas. Four
theological schools, viz.: Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore,
Md.; Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga.; Baker Institute,
Orangeburg, S.C., and Thomson Biblical Institute, New Orleans, La.
One medical college, viz., Meharry Medical College, Nashville,
Tenn.; and 14 institutions not chartered. Total number of
institutions, 35; teachers, 95; pupils, 3,506. It gives special
attention to Biblical instruction, and at Clark University a
Department of Industry is established. The African Methodist
Episcopal Church founded and sustained Wilberforce University at
Xenia, Ohio, with 13 teachers and 170 students.


THE PRESBYTERIANS.

The “Presbyterian Committee of Missions for Freedmen,” was
organized by the General Assembly in 1865 and began its work
at once, by sending preachers and teachers to the South. Its
efforts thus far are confined to the two Carolinas, Virginia and
Tennessee, with a few missions and schools in Georgia, Kentucky
and Florida. It has under its care three chartered institutions:
Biddle University, Charlotte, N.C. (with a Theological Department),
Wallingford Academy, Charleston, S.C., and Scotia Seminary,
Concord, N.C.; 2 normal schools; 3 graded schools, and 50 parochial
schools. Total number of schools, 58; teachers, 108; scholars,
6,088. Lincoln University (Lincoln University P. O.), Oxford, Pa.,
has an able corps of 13 professors and 200 students—18 theological,
100 collegiate, 82 preparatory. The United Presbyterians have two
schools, one in Abbyville, Va., with 4 teachers and 245 students,
the other in Chase City, Va., with 3 teachers and 251 students.


THE EPISCOPALIANS.

The “Protestant Episcopal Freedmen’s Commission” was organized
October, 1865, and in a few months it opened schools in Petersburg,
Va., Wilmington and Raleigh, N.C. The first year the teachers
numbered 23, and the scholars, day and night, 1,600. The Committee
for Domestic Missions (under whose care this work now is), reported
in 1882, 2 normal schools with 8 teachers each, and 11 schools with
one teacher each. The normal schools are at Raleigh, N.C., and at
Petersburg, Va.


THE ROMAN CATHOLICS.

The Catholic Directory for 1882 reports for the Archdiocese of
Baltimore 1 academy for colored girls, with 60 pupils, and 4 other
schools with 693 pupils; total, 753; Archdiocese of New Orleans,
7 schools, 330 pupils; Archdiocese of St. Louis, 1 school, 120
pupils; Diocese of Louisville, 6 schools, 332 pupils; Diocese of
Natchez, 3 schools, 80 pupils; Diocese of Natchitoches, 2 schools,
40 pupils; Diocese of Savannah, 2 schools, 75 pupils; Diocese
of St. Augustine, 6 schools, number of pupils not given. Total
schools, 30; pupils reported, 1,730.

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THE SOUTH.

REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.

PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

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THE HEMENWAY FARM.

BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.

In 1878, when the 150 acres of arable land of the Hampton Institute
could offer no more farm work to the increasing number of negro
and Indian students, a generous lady, of Boston, Mass., gave,
principally for the benefit of the Indians, the sum of nine
thousand dollars, to purchase a fine grass and grain farm of 350
acres, five miles from the school, to which was added, by purchase,
250 acres more, and to it has been given the name “Hemenway Farm,”
as a memorial to the husband of the giver.

It was placed in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. H. Vanison, both
graduates of Hampton, but has been under the general control of Mr.
Albert Howe, formerly of Dorchester, Mass., manager of the Normal
School farm.

During the three and a half summer (vacation) months, the sixty
Indian boys, excepting about one-third who go to Berkshire Co.,
Mass., to work with the farmers, spend by turns, in squads of
twelve or fifteen, two weeks at a time at this farm, taking part
in the stock and farming operations, which are carried on on
a larger and simpler scale than at the school. They thus get
a wholesome change from life in the workshops, besides useful,
practical knowledge. A general knowledge of agriculture and stock
is important for those who are learning trades.

The steady working force of the farm is composed of from eight to
ten colored boys, who begin October 1st each year, working till the
next October, ten hours a day, studying every night from seven till
nine o’clock, under the direction of Mrs. Vanison. They receive,
besides their board, from $8 to $10 a month, which, excepting $3 a
month for clothing, they are expected to save to pay future school
expenses. They are an ignorant, destitute class, but, as a rule,
are most willing, earnest and deserving students. After working all
day, they study harder at night than any others in the school. Ten
hours of handling lumber at the saw-mill, or steady work on the
farm, or in the machine shop, is no trifling duty, but they are
eager for their night lessons.

The ten at the Hemenway Farm are a part of 130 “work students,”
thirty of them girls, employed in the various industrial
departments, constituting about one-third of the colored pupils
at Hampton. They devote a preliminary year to day labor and night
study, to fit themselves to enter the junior class of this year’s
course, and to accumulate a small fund, averaging $75 for the year,
to help meet cost of board, ten dollars a month, besides clothing
and books. This is done in part by working two days each week of
the regular course. With strict economy and working all vacations,
they maintain themselves through the entire course graduating
without receiving a dollar in charity, some, however, need help the
last year and none are more worthy of it.

The effect on their characters is excellent. Good as it is, that
they shall earn and learn in this way, it is even better for the
habits, ideas and manliness it promotes. The entire class is
mature, averaging 19 years of age. Mr. Vanison is as excellent a
manager as we care to have; his wife keeps house, sees to the boys’
meals, rooms and washing, and teaches them nights, besides raising
some 500 chickens, at which she has a wonderful “knack.”

The farm was cultivated last year as follows; 75 acres in wheat,
80 acres in oats, 112 in corn, 35 in clover and orchard grass,
the rest in pasture, a few acres being devoted to vegetables and
an orchard. Much was done in clearing old ditch banks. The stock
consists of 50 hogs and pigs, 110 sheep and lambs, 6 colts, and
from 10 to 20 beef cattle, which are bought in the neighborhood,
fattened on the pasture and killed at the school, two or three a
week being required there.

The Hemenway farm, of 600 acres, some 60 acres of it marshy, is
situated in Elizabeth City County, on Bach River, which is an
estuary half a mile in width. The house is a famous, but plain,
old Southern mansion, in which Gen. Washington once dined. Until
1878 it had been for many generations in the hands of an old
aristocratic family, whom the war impoverished, and their place
was sold for debt. The location is a beautiful one; the region is
quite Englishlike in appearance, with its rich, level fields and
its hedge-rows. In summer, delicious breezes blow up the river from
Chesapeake Bay, four miles distant.

Oysters and fish abound in its water front; a handsome lawn and
fine old trees surround the house, all of which are a delight to
the boys, especially to the Indians, who have long summer mornings.

The past season a plain but pretty cottage was added to the old
house, which was too small, containing a dining-room, kitchen,
laundry, and bedrooms for the boys upstairs. This leaves rooms, as
was intended by the giver, for tired teachers to come and rest for
a night from the cares and din of the institute, to whom the quiet
and beauty of “Shellbanks,” its former name, is a great comfort.
I must not forget to mention the ample barn, stable, cow-shed,
tool-house, corn-crib, extensive stacks of straw, and wind-mill for
pumping water for the stock.

[Illustration: HEMENWAY FARM.]

This is entirely a negro affair; no white person lives on the
place. Its Christian character and influence are earnest and
emphatic. Nothing in the Hampton system is more satisfactory
than this farm. I hope others like it will be provided for other
institutions, but to fit up an old Southern farm after buying it,
costs about as much as the land costs.

An unexpected advantage of the farm is its being an excellent place
for a badly-behaved Indian boy, when only one is sent there. He
is punished by being separated from his old friends, but the ten
colored fellows carry him along in their daily routine of work and
study; he has no one to “cut up” with; he improves in spite of
himself; the plan has never failed to work well; he finally likes
it and returns changed for the better.

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REVIVAL IN CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS.

W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.

It has been our custom in previous years to begin our special
religious meetings the first of January in connection with the
“Week of Prayer.” But this year the Church seemed in readiness at
an earlier date, and we felt that we were obeying the call of the
Lord to “go forward” when we began our special effort to reach the
impenitent, on the night of December 1st. The Friday preceding had
been observed as a day of fasting and prayer. For many days the
spirit of prayer and consecration had been evidently deepening upon
the part of the great majority of the Lord’s people. People who,
for some trivial reason, had been alienated, came together in the
spirit of forgiveness. A great desire was expressed, and I have no
doubt felt, to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord. Our lady
missionary with unsurpassed devotion, visited all the families of
the congregation, making in the short space of ten weeks some 600
visits. The effort was made to reach every one who sustained even
a nominal relation to our church, as a member or casual attendant,
and invite him to our revival services.

The result was all and more than we anticipated. The church was
thronged every night. The very first night several presented
themselves for prayer. The number of inquirers increased till we
counted more than fifty. One by one, with a quietness and depth
of feeling that impressed every heart, these earnest inquirers
came into the light, and were made to “rejoice in hope of the
glory of God.” The two manly and dearly beloved sons of the Dean
of our Faculty, were among the first to share in the blessings of
the revival. God only knows our joy when they came forward with
the rest, and bowed before God as suppliants for His mercy and
forgiveness. Never did the words of Holy Writ, which have fallen
from the lips of so many believers, sound sweeter than when one of
these young men recited as his verse at the breakfast table, the
morning after his conversion, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.”

A pleasant and somewhat unusual feature of this revival has been
its influence upon the men. On more than one occasion we counted
twelve men on the “Mourners’ seats.” Thirty-four professed
conversion. We hope and believe they have been “born again.” A
class of 35 are waiting in joyful anticipation of taking the vows
of God upon them in the Church, and of receiving their “first
communion.”

I should do injustice to my own feelings did I not speak of the
earnest sympathy and hearty co-operation of all the teachers in the
University in this religious movement. We moved in this matter as a
united body, with but one object in view: the glory of God, and the
upbuilding of the Kingdom of His Son.


ADDITIONAL REPORT OF THE REVIVAL.

PROF. R. C. HITCHCOCK.

The revival which has been in progress for several weeks at Central
Church has been to me a constant wonder. Even in sedate old
Connecticut a revival season is usually a scene of much emotional
excitement, and it is often impossible to tell how much is sincere
and permanent; but this revival has been all through marked by a
quiet, deep and reverential character. It was my first opportunity
for observation of such meetings among the colored people. I had
heard and read a great deal of the tumultuous excitement on such
occasions, and each night I looked to see, when they should be
fairly “warmed up,” such scenes as I had had pictured. What I
actually did see was this. Each night the pastor preached a short,
practical gospel sermon, packed full with reasons why religion
should be chosen and chosen now, to an earnest, attentive audience.
Then he stepped down in front, and in kind but strong words invited
all who felt the truth of what had been said and wished to become
Christians, to come forward for conversation and the prayers of
the church. Most of those who accepted the invitation were men of
middle age and young men; a few were young ladies.

Night after night this went on; while the pastor and others were
talking with those who came forward, the audience engaged in
singing. No general invitation was given to speak or pray, a few
only being called on each night to take part. Each night some
souls found peace and joy. It was my good fortune to talk with
nearly every one of the converts, and I found all, so far as I
could judge, thoroughly in earnest; no one scared or urged into
confessions, but each, as the new hope was born in his soul,
rising, generally with streaming eyes, to tell what God had done
for him and ask for fellowship and prayerful help.

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SCHOOL AND CHURCH WORK AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.

BY REV. B. F. FOSTER.

We began work here on the 5th of September, and opened school
under very favorable auspices. We have had 92 pupils enrolled.
Our school is the only one for colored children within a radius
of 65 miles. We are giving some attention to church work, and are
using our school-house as a place of worship. We have service
every Sabbath morning at eleven o’clock—the audiences are large.
We are gratified to say that the influence of the teachers takes
fast hold upon both parent and pupil. We have Sunday-school
every afternoon at three o’clock, and these services are largely
attended. Thanksgiving day was appropriately commemorated. A
sermon was preached in the morning by the missionary pastor. All
who were present seemed deeply impressed with the word. The chapel
was beautifully and tastefully festooned with autumn leaves and
berries, and the walls were embellished with appropriate mottoes
of the sacred Scriptures. At seven o’clock in the evening a very
large number of patrons and friends of the school gathered, and
partook of a repast prepared as a thanksgiving token for them by
the teachers and pupils. Toasts were responded to by the several
pastors of the town and teachers. I said we had service in our
chapel at 11 A.M. every Sunday. We could induce as many to come
in the evening if we had lamps to light up our chapel. Equally as
good results would come from a weekly prayer-meeting, if we had
sufficient lights. We heartily accept this opportunity of asking
the friends of some of our Northern churches to give us of their
old ones—chandelier lamps. The Lord’s Supper was celebrated the
first time, since beginning our work here, last Sunday. Truly,
the Lord was with his people on that solemn occasion. At this
service the missionary pastor’s first and only little daughter was
baptized, which increased the interest of the meeting. To carry
this blessed Supper to Christ’s brethren and sisters, Mrs. Foster’s
pie-pans were used for the emblems of his body, and two borrowed
mugs for the emblem of his blood. From this the friends of God’s
poor will see we would thank them very much to assist us in getting
a communion set. The people among whom we are working are very
poor. Few of them have homes.

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THE CHINESE.

REV. W. C. POND, SUPERINTENDENT.

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MISSION WORK—GOOD RESULTS.

SACRAMENTO MISSION.—Mrs. Rilla Carrington, who for the last three
years has most faithfully and successfully conducted the Sacramento
Mission, is required by the state of her health to take a vacation.
It will be only a vacation, and I hope and expect that two or
three months of recuperation will bring her back fresh and strong,
and good for another three years of steady and faithful service.
During her absence, her sister will take her place, and will fill
it well. In communicating her desire for this respite, she indulges
in some reminiscences which, I am sure, will interest our readers.
“During the past three years and a quarter, more than 450 have, for
a longer or shorter period, been members of our Sacramento school.
I would that all who come with us in the school could remain until
they are converted and ready to work for the salvation of their
people. We know of the good service of many who have gone out from
us to visit their homes. For instance, Fong Get Roy, who wrote you
something of his work while in China: he has not ceased to labor
for Christ since his return; Fong Gee, whose father, now dead, was
a heathen priest, was always zealous while here with us; sometimes
speaking to his country-men for an hour or more at a time, showing
them, in the most ridiculous light, the folly of idol and ancestral
worship, and holding up Christ as the only hope of salvation. His
health gave out, and he was compelled to return to China—being
helped by the brethren of San Francisco and Sacramento to do so.
There he is working at his trade for a mere pittance, and giving
what time he can for the conversion of his country-men. Wong Loung
visited his home a year ago, and was married, in accordance with
Chinese customs, to one to whom he had been betrothed in childhood
by his parents. Because he had renounced the religion of his
fathers, he suffered much indignity from members of his family—the
persecutions becoming so great he was obliged to leave home. But
the result was that he returned to America more determined than
ever to hold fast to Christ. Louis Sing, too, was under great
pressure while in China to take part in worship with his relations,
but could not, he said, because he knew the uselessness of such
worship. We hear of Gwan Lee, our organist, as standing firm amidst
the powers of darkness—holding fast to the living faith. He is one
of those whom the present law prohibits from returning to this
country. We all feel as though we could not give him up, and that
some way must be found by which he may come back.

“We are not only made glad by work done far away, but workers are
here with us—true hearts that love to do something for Jesus
every day. Several have joined the Association this year; among
them, Fong Bow, who is one of the class for whom I requested your
prayers several months ago. He seemed to have much to hold him
back; outside influence made it hard for him to decide. He has been
a member of the school so long that we feel more than usually happy
in his coming. May we not hope and still pray, in faith, for the
other members of the class? This mission work is ever a source of
comfort and pleasure to me, and I know I cannot remain away from it
if blessed with health.”


LOU QUONG, ON HEATHEN PRAYERS AND REAL PRAYER.

Each Wednesday afternoon I meet the Chinese helpers in the schools
of this city for a drill in Bible study, and to receive and remark
upon the sketches of sermons, which they have prepared during the
week. Here is one which Lou Quong brought in yesterday. James 5:16.

“The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”

My subject is all on prayer to-day, and it is very needful to all
Christians, especially to those who really mean to be the followers
of the Lord Jesus, and to be workers in the Master’s field. I
will mention a few things of the heathen prayers, which were
occasionally offered to the heathen gods in China as well as in
this city. So far as I can judge there is no true prayer which was
ever offered to their gods, and I, having been born in a heathen
nation, therefore know them well. Each certain prayer belongs to a
certain god. You cannot take one god’s prayer to pray to others; if
you do, you will get no blessing, because you got the wrong prayer,
their prayers not having to come from the heart, but being learned
only from the history of a certain god, so they mostly repeat the
words as near as they can remember. There is not a single prayer
that really comes from the heart. They come only from the lips;
and besides this, when they pray, they do not, like our Christian
people, pray for bad and good, and even for our enemies, and for
all nations; their prayers are only for a certain thing, a certain
matter, for riches, for honors, and for glory, and to have more
sons born than girls; for their father and mother, brothers and
sisters, that they might have a long life. If they have any one
which they do not like, they would pray their God to destroy his
whole family. By this we know that such a prayer our true God will
not hear, but rather punish them. I have a great deal more to say
about the heathen prayer, but I have no time for it just now. So I
must go on to the true prayer, which our Lord Jesus Christ taught
his disciples to say. Yet even such a true and short prayer as
that, which we have repeated every evening in our schools, many of
us would forget before we go to bed at night. This won’t do, my
Christian brethren. We must give all our hearts to God before we
shut our eyes. We cannot pray to God for a certain thing that must
be done while our hearts are on something else, or are doubting
whether God could hear us or not. Suppose to-morrow you intend to
go out and look for a place, so you would pray to God to help you
and to give you one, and you believe he will do it, and then when
to-morrow comes you would lie in bed until afternoon. Then you got
up, thinking that was too late, and would not go. This, indeed,
would make you think that God did not hear your prayer last night.
This is the whole trouble that sometimes God don’t answer our
prayer; but I am very sure that God has heard all my prayers and
has answered all which are for good. When we have a certain matter
that we cannot manage at all, and when we would bring it to God, we
must first make our hearts ready to pray and then without doubting
draw out the true thoughts of our hearts and feel that God is above
us and Jesus is on one side. Then comes the Holy Spirit into our
hearts to teach us how to pray. After we got up from prayer I am
sure we can feel that we were heard, and if we are not answered
on a certain hour we must wait and pray without ceasing until it
comes, for God not, like man, would fail you sometime. This is the
kind of prayer that God does hear. So James says, “The effectual,
fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much;” that is, God does
always hear and answer the true prayer.




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[Illustration]

MISSIONARY MUSIC.

    Have you ever brought a penny to the missionary box—
    A penny which you might have spent like other little folks?
    And when it falls among the rest, have you ever heard a ring,
    Like a pleasant sound of welcome which the other pennies sing?

    This is missionary music, and it has a pleasant sound,
    For pennies make a shilling, and shillings make a pound;
    And many pounds together the gospel news will send,
    Which tell the distant heathen that the Saviour is their Friend.

    And oh! what joyous music is the missionary song,
    When it seems to come from every heart and sounds from every
      tongue—
    When happy Christian little ones all sing with one accord
    Of the time when realms of darkness shall be kingdoms of the Lord!

    But sweeter far than all, which Jesus loves to hear,
    Are children’s voices when they breathe a missionary prayer—
    When they bring the heart-petition to the great Redeemer’s throne,
    That He will choose the heathen out, and take them for His own.

    This is the music Jesus taught when he was here below;
    This is the music Jesus loves to hear in glory now;
    And many a one from, distant lands will reach His heavenly home,
    In answer to the children’s prayer, “O Lord, Thy kingdom come!”

    Then, missionary children, let this music never cease;
    Work on, work on in earnest, for the Lord, the Prince of Peace;
    There is praying work and paying work for every heart and hand,
    Till the missionary chorus shall go forth through all the land.

                                                       —_Selected._

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RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1882.

       *       *       *       *       *


  MAINE, $524.18.

    Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               $19.00
    Augusta. Miss E. F., 1; Mrs. F. L., 1, _for
      Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_                        2.00
    Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       150.00
    Brewer. First Cong. Ch., 8, and Sab. Sch., 5              13.00
    Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       45.03
    Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. JOHN
      BLANCHARD L. M.                                         45.00
    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             82.45
    Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                6.00
    Gorham. Cong. Ch. bal. to const. MRS. RUFUS
      FOGG and DANIEL BILLINGS L. M’s                         25.95
    Limerick. Bbl. of C., _for Raleigh N.C._
    Paris. Mrs. K., _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.
      (Land)_                                                  1.00
    Portland. Williston Ch. and Soc., 30; T. B.
      Percy, 5                                                35.00
    Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       20.00
    Skowhegan. Eddie A. Hussey, 5; Mary Steward,
      2; L. P. W., 1; Mrs. L. T. H., 1; _for
      Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_                        9.00
    South Bridgeton. Cong. Ch.                                35.00
    South Paris. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                              20.00
    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        15.70


  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $324.31.

    Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), _for
      Student Aid Atlanta U._ and to const. GEO.
      P. DOW L. M.                                            15.00
    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                1.63
    Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             17.37
    Concord. “Friends.”                                        3.00
    Gorham. Cong. Ch.                                          2.48
    Greenfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            13.30
    Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             10.25
    Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             27.45
    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               9.03
    Keene. Ladies Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., Bbl.
      of C. and $2.50 _for Freight, for McIntosh,
      Ga._                                                     2.50
    Keene. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch.                         127.78
    Northampton. E. Gove                                      10.00
    Pittsfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for
      Marion, Ala._
    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.38
    Rochester. Cong. Ch., _for Straight U._                   21.00
    Seabrook and Hampton Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch.,
      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 7.50
    Swanzey. Mrs. R. Williams                                  2.00
    Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Goodyear                              2.00
    Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.51
    Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 9.11
    West Campton. T. J. Sanborn                                5.00
    West Lebanon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C.,
      _for Marietta, Ga._
    Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. Christmas
      Gifts, _for Savannah, Ga._
    Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             1.78
    Wolfborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     18.24


  VERMONT, $557.28.

    Alburgh. Cong. Ch.                                        10.00
    Ascutneyville. Dea. N. Gage                                5.00
    Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                35.50
    Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         56.44
    Benson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
      Storrs Sch._                                             5.00
    Benson. Ezra Strong, 10; Mrs. Annie Howard, 5;
      Mrs. L. B., 1; _for Kindergarten, Atlanta,
      Ga._                                                    16.00
    Burlington. “A Friend”                                     7.00
    Cabot. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00
    Cambridge. “Daughters of Mrs. Nancy Howe,
      deceased”                                                5.00
    Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, to const. MRS.
      GEO. H. MORSS L. M.                                     30.00
    Dorset. Ladies, Cask of C., _for Raleigh
      N.C._, 3, _for Freight_                                  3.00
    East Berkshire. E. W. Hatch and Others, 1 ea.,
      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 5.00
    East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox                                5.00
    Essex. “Cash”                                              0.50
    Greensborough. Hattie Cutler (a dying girl’s
      gift), 5; Mrs. K., 1; Mrs. S., 50c., _for
      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                              6.50
    Hartford. Ephraim Morris, 100; Second Cong.
      Ch., 26.16                                             126.16
    Montpelier. Bethany Sab. Sch.                             11.95
    New Haven. A. M. Roscoe, 5; Miss A. W. Kent’s
      S. S. Class, 2.05, _for Kindergarten,
      Atlanta, Ga._                                            7.05
    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               12.00
    Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               34.86
    Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey                         10.00
    Royalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. _for
      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.85
    Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 16.53; A. W.
      Kenney, 14                                              30.53
    Saxton’s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        11.04
    Vergennes. ——, 2; 2 Bbls. C., _for Washington,
      D.C._                                                    2.00
    Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 15; Rev. J.
      L. S., 50c.                                             15.50
    West Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          9.25
    West Townsend. A. R. Pierce.                               4.00
    Windham. Cong. Ch., 24.50, and Sab. Sch., 4.50            29.00
                                                            -------
                                                            $514.13

    LEGACIES.

    Jericho. Estate of Hosea Spaulding, C. M.
      Spaulding, 10; A. C. Spaulding, 5; Nellie M.
      Spaulding, 3; E. J. Spaulding, 3                        21.00
    North Ferrisburgh. Estate of Sylvia Dean, by
      J. M. and Wm. L. Dean, Ex’s.                            22.15
                                                            -------
                                                            $557.28


  MASSACHUSETTS, $6,118.07.

    Andover. Old South Ch. and Soc.                          100.00
    Andover. Free Ch., _for Straight U._                      40.00
    Amherst. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00
    Amherst. Miss Mary H. Scott, _for Student Aid,
      Tougaloo U._                                             3.00
    Ashfield. H. Taylor and family                            10.00
    Ashland. New Year’s Offering                               2.00
    Auburn. Cong. Ch.                                         44.59
    Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           176.30
    Beverly. “A Friend”                                        4.00
    Boston. Union Ch. and Soc., _for Howard U.,
      Washington, D.C._                                      120.26
    Boston. Miss Elizabeth Peabody, _for
      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                             20.00
    Bradford. Ladies of Adamville, Two Bbls. of
      C., _for Wilmington, N.C._
    Brighton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        91.00
    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Mon. Con.                       6.03
    Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              10.00
    Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Lady
      Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                         54.89
    Chelsea. Miss Annie P. James, _for Student
      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        30.00
    Chelsea. Ladies Union Home M. Band, _for Lady
      Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                         25.24
    Chelsea. “Tithe”                                           1.50
    Chelsea. Ladies’ Union H. M. Band, Box C.,
      val. 30, _for Glendower, Va._
    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch.                                46.54
    Clinton. First Evan. Cong Ch. and Soc.                   105.00
    Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.48
    Conway. “Conway,” _for John Brown Steamer_                 1.00
    Cotuit. Union Ch. and Soc.                                14.66
    Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.                          34.51
    Duxbury. “Duxbury”                                         1.00
    Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch., 398.20; First
      Cong. Sab. Sch., 13.10                                 411.30
    East Hampton. E. L. W., _for John Brown
      Steamer_                                                 1.00
    East Longmeadow. E. M.                                     0.50
    Framingham. Plym. Ch. and Soc., 2 Bbls. C.
    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         75.00
    Goshen. Cong Ch. and Soc.                                 10.15
    Grafton. Ladies Sew. Circle of Cong. Ch., Bbl.
      Comforters, _for Atlanta U._
    Greenfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                16.63
    Greenfield. “M. O. F.,” _for Tillotson C. & N.
      Inst._                                                   2.00
    Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker                           2.00
    Hadley. First Ch.                                          9.21
    Hardwick. E. B. Foster                                     5.00
    Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               24.50
    Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      200.00
    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            6.32
    Holliston. “Bible Christians,” of Dist. No. 4             25.00
    Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             34.14
    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.35
    Lakeville. Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.23; “K,” 4.50               11.73
    Lancaster. Evan. Sab. Sch.                                10.00
    Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch.                               22.60
    Lee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                               75.00
    Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   60.20
    Lexington. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., _for
      McIntosh, Ga._
    Lincoln. “Friends.” by Frank W. Smith, 11
      Bbls. Apples, _for Atlanta U._
    Lowell. M. E. Bartlett, _for Student Aid,
      Wilmington, N.C._                                       20.00
    Lowell. George F. Willey                                  10.40
    Ludlow. Cong. Ch.                                         28.78
    Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            23.87
    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          54.11
    Marblehead. J. J. H. Gregory, 35; Young
      Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., 20, _for Student Aid,
      Fisk U._                                                55.00
    Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             11.00
    Millbury. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
      Atlanta U._                                             15.00
    Monson. Cong. Ch.                                         15.00
    Montville. Sylvester Jones                                 2.00
    Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                             50.00
    New Bedford. “Friend”                                     10.00
    Newbury. Ladies of First Parish, 50c.; Bbl.
      C., val. 20, _for Tougaloo, Miss._                       0.50
    Newbury. “J. D.” Bbl. and Box C., _for
      Tougaloo, Miss._
    Newburyport. Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc.               117.11
    Newburyport. “A Friend,” _for Washington, D.C._            1.00
    Newton. J. W. Davis, _for Student Aid, Atlanta
      U._                                                     50.00
    North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         60.00
    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
      const. DANA J. PRATT and MRS. JAMES N.
      JENCKS, L. M.’s                                         90.00
    North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student
      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         6.21
    Northampton. ——, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._            10.00
    North Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          23.34
    Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch.                                1.37
    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 58.41;
      First Cong. Ch., 50.; South Cong. Ch. and
      Soc., 38.09; Second Cong. Sab. Sch., 6                 152.50
    Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         13.16
    Reading. Bethesda Ch. and Soc.                            52.50
    Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              42.00
    Royalston. Mrs. E. B. Ripley, Box of C. and 3,
      _for freight, for Talladega C._                          3.00
    Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           76.09
    Salem. “A Friend,” _for Washington, D.C._                  1.00
    Shrewsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            24.00
    South Boston. Phillips Ch. and Soc.                      160.00
    South Braintree. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for
      Atlanta U._
    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    24.00
    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. to const.
      JOSEPH DYER, L. M.                                      48.00
    Springfield. “E. M. P.” (10 of which _for John
      Brown Steamer_), to const. MRS. E. B. JONES,
      L. M.                                                   30.00
    Springfield. Charles H. Barrows                            5.00
    Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              30.00
    Stockbridge. Cong. Ch.                                    67.23
    Suffolk Co. “S. H.”                                      500.00
    Sutton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          15.00
    Warren. Cong. Ch.                                         60.00
    Watertown. Phillip’s Ch. Sewing Circle, _for
      Freight_                                                 2.00
    Watertown. Phillip’s Mission Band, 2 Bbls. C.,
      _for McIntosh, Ga._
    Waverly. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               12.23
    Wayland. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          8.00
    Wellesley Hills. Grantville Cong. Ch. and Soc.            72.00
    Westfield. Second Con. Sab. Sch, _for
      Washington, D.C._                                       31 00
    Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     26.09
    West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           5.45
    West Newton. Cong. Ch. and So., 65.58 J. C. C., 1         66.58
    West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.                      19.52
    Whitinsville. Village Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 867.90
    Worcester. Mrs. Eliza A. H. Grosvenor, _for
      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   20.00
    Worcester. C. E. S.                                        1.00
                                                           --------
                                                          $5,076.57

    LEGACIES.

    Malden. Estate of Delcina E. Bailey                       29.00
    North Brookfield. Estate of Miss Lydia C.
      Dodge, by Wm. P. Haskell, Ex.                          515.00
    Saxonville. Estate of Henrietta M. Fuller                250.00
    Westborough. Estate of Jabez G. Fisher, by J.
      A. Fayerweather, Ex.                                   200.00
    Woburn. Estate of Dea. Thomas Richardson                  47.50
                                                           --------
                                                          $6,118.07


  RHODE ISLAND. $111.52.

    Barrington. Cong. Ch. 64.93, and Sab. Sch.
      22.43                                                   87.36
    Kingston. Cong. Ch.                                       24.16


  CONNECTICUT, $2,531.88.

    Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew, 25, “Friends,” by
      Rev. E. P. Payson, 13., _for Tillotson C. &
      N. Inst. Building_                                      38.00
    Barkhamsted. Rev. J. B. Clarke                             2.00
    Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.                                     15.20
    Bridgeport. Park St. Ch. and Soc. bal. to
      const. MISS MARY SWINERTON, L. M.                       10.35
    Bridgeport. Edward Sterling, 5; “Two Friends,”
      2, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Building_                7.00
    Bristol. Ladies H. M. Soc. Bbl. of C., _for
      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._, 3, _for freight_               3.00
    Canaan. Mrs. Mason Noble                                   7.00
    Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.
      WILLIAM BUMPUS, L. M.                                   43.33
    Clinton. Miss E. C. Hull, 2., Mrs. W. D. H.,
      1, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Land)_                  3.00
    Colchester. C. B. McCall                                   5.00
    Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift                            10.00
    Danielsonville. 2 casks and 1 barrel of C.,
      _for Washington, D.C._
    Deep River. Cong. Ch. to const. JOSEPH B.
      BANNING, L. M.                                          30.35
    Eastford. Cong. Ch.                                       10.38
    East Hampton. “Friends,” Bell, val, 75; _for
      Tillotson, C. & N. Inst._
    East Hartford. First Ch.                                  21.24
    East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        20.00
    East Woodstock. Mrs. H. L., 1.; Miss E. L., 1              2.00
    Falls Village. First Cong. Ch.                            14.08
    Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    166.69
    Goshen. Mrs. Moses Lyman                                   5.00
    Greenwich. T. H. Delano                                    5.00
    Guilford. Daniel Hand                                    101.00
    Guilford. “A Friend in Third Ch,” _for Student
      Aid, Tillotson C & N. Inst._                             6.00
    Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.00
    Hartford. “A Friend,” 300; Mrs. H. A. Perkins,
      200; _for Tillotson, C. & N. Inst.
      (Building)_                                            500.00
    Higganum. “Friend”                                         5.00
    Kensington. Cong. Ch.                                     12.00
    Litchfield. “C. J.”                                        8.00
    Long Ridge. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00
    Madison. Cong. Ch.                                        24.50
    Meriden. Center Cong. Ch.                                 71.00
    Meriden. Homer Curtis, 7 Doz. Knives, _for
      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._
    Milford. First Cong. Ch.                                  40.00
    Millington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             6.00
    Milton. Cong. Ch.                                          6.00
    Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                                   19.73
    New Britain. First Ch. of Christ                          51.62
    New Britain. A. N. Lewis, 10, _for Building_,
      “Friends,” 2, Miss Bush and “Friend,” 1.50,
      _for Land_, Mrs. I. N. Carleton, 2, _for
      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                15.50
    New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. 22.33, Samuel
      Couch, 10                                               32.33
    New Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams’ Bible Class,
      _for Student Aid Fisk U._                               12.00
    New Haven. I. C. Benedict, 10; H. H. Strong,
      10; Herbert Barnes, 10; Miss B., 1; Mrs. J. B.,
      20c. _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.
      (Land)_, Miss Lucy Murray, 3, _for Tillotson
      C. & N. Inst. (Building)_                               34.20
    New Haven. Third Cong. Ch., 22, Mrs. Eunice M.
      Crane, 10                                               32.00
    New London. First Ch.                                     49.35
    New Milford. First Cong. Ch.                              95.89
    Newington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             22.73
    North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett                            11.75
    Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch.                              100.00
    Norwich. Broadway Sab. Sch., 25 _for Student
      Aid, Atlanta U._, and 25 _for Tillotson C. &
      N. Inst. (Building)_                                    50.00
    Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.                                 100.00
    North Stamford. E. S. Waterbury                            2.00
    Poquonock. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. CHAS. H.
      PETTIBONE L. M.                                         50.00
    Putnam. “Friends,” Bbl. of goods, _for
      Woodville. Ga._
    Rockville. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. adl. _for
      John Brown Steamer_                                      4.50
    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                       11.58
    Southport. Cong. Ch.                                      28.12
    Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               6.06
    Torringford. “Two Friends.”                               25.00
    Torrington. Young Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl of
      C. and 2 _for freight, for Talladega, Ala._              2.00
    Washington. F. A. F.                                       1.00
    Washington. “Z,” _for Indian M._                           1.00
    Wauregan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              21.50
    Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Ch.                             25.00
    Westport. E. W. Taylor, 50; Cong. Ch., 10;
      Jas. C. Hubbell, 10; Horace Staples, 6;
      Capt. Francis Sherwood, 5; S. B. Wakeman, 5;
      Mrs. M. R. R., 1; E. W., 1, _for Tillotson
      C. & N. Inst. Building_                                 88.00
    West Haven. Mrs. Clarence E. Thompson, 5; Mrs.
      Emeline Smith, 10, _for Tillotson C. & N.
      Inst. Building_                                         15.00
    Wethersfield. Ladies, _for Tillotson C. & N.
      Inst._                                                  28.50
    Windsor Locks. Young Ladies’ Social Circle,
      100; Cong. Sab. Sch., 100; Geo. P. Clark, 5,
      _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Building_                 205.00
    Winsted. First Cong. Ch.                                  35.15
    Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch.                               14.00
    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch., bal. to const.
      Prof. WILLIAM E. BUNTEN, L. M.                          20.25


  NEW YORK, $838.69.

    Alfred Centre. Mrs. J. F. Kenyon                           5.00
    Aquebogue. Cong. Ch.                                      17.25
    Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch., 381.34; “A Friend,” 10           391.34
    Brooklyn. “A Friend,” _for Washington, D.C._               5.00
    Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., Box of
      Christmas Gifts, _for Marion, Ala._
    Camden. “A Friend”                                         1.00
    Chateaugay. Joseph Shaw                                    5.00
    Chesterfield. Mrs. M. A. Higby                             1.50
    Cincinnatus. Union Service Coll.                          15.00
    Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk                                    5.00
    Durham. Hannah Ingraham                                    2.50
    Ellenville. Mrs. M. B. Holt                                6.00
    Ellington. Mrs. H. B. Rice, 10; Mrs. E. Rice, 4           14.00
    Elizabethtown. Rev. W. T. Herrick                          5.00
    Fairport. First Cong. Ch.                                100.00
    Galway. Delia C. Davis, _for Atlanta U._                   5.00
    Hartford. Miss H. E. Bacon                                 1.00
    Homer. Mrs. Augusta Arnold, 2.50; F. F. Pratt,
      2                                                        4.50
    Locust Valley. Mrs. Sarah Palmer (1. of which
      _for Lady Missionary, Savannah, Ga._)                    6.00
    McGrawville. “A Friend”                                    5.00
    New Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            4.00
    New York. “Carrie T.,” _for Straight U._                  50.00
    New York. Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, to const. ANNA
      M. CAHILL L. M.                                         30.00
    New York. “A Friend.” Assortment of
      Carpenter’s Tools, val. 200, _for Sch. of
      Carpentry, Atlanta U._; Dewey Mfg. Co.,
      Combination Saw with Lathe, val. 8, _for
      Ind. Dept., Atlanta U._
    Oriskany. Albert Halsey, 10; Mrs. E. D.
      Porter, 2                                               12.00
    Pekin. Abigail Peck                                       10 00
    Prattham. Edward Halsey                                    2.00
    Rome. John B. Jervis                                      25.00
    Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, to const. MISS
      ELLA W. BROWN L. M.                                     30.00
    Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok                            1.50
    Smyrna. Sab. Sch. Miss’y Soc. of First Cong.
      Ch., to const. COURTNEY E. FERRIS and LYNN
      D. WILLCOX L. Ms.                                       60.00
    Tarrytown. Dr. A. Smith                                    5.00
    Ticonderoga. Rev. Henry P. Bake                            5.00
    Tompkinsville. Mrs. Maria Snyder                           2.00
    Troy. Mary F. Cushman, 1.50; Margaret J.
      Cushman, 1.50                                            3.00
    West Camden. N. C.                                         0.50
    West Winfield. Cong. Ch., 31, incorrectly ack.
      in the December number from Richfield
      Springs.
    Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                        3.60


  NEW JERSEY, $163.59.

    Bernardsville. Jos. L. Roberts                            40.00
    Colt’s Neck. Reformed Ch.                                  6.17
    East Orange. Trin. Cong. Ch.                             132.17
    Jersey City. First Cong. Ch.                              59.25
    Lakewood. Rev. Geo. L. Hovey                               5.00
    Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey                               15.00
    Paterson. Mrs. A. C. W.                                    1.00
    Raritan. Miss S. Provost                                   5.00


  PENNSYLVANIA, $1,111.00.

    Espyville. Mrs. Theodate Linn                              2.00
    Hyde Park. Plymouth Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. and
      Band of Hope, 1 ea., _for John Brown Steamer_            3.00
    Lynn. Mrs. S. W. Smith                                     2.00
    Pittsburgh. B. Preston                                    50.00
    Troy. Chas. C. Paine                                   1,050.00
    West Alexander. John McCoy                                 4.00


  OHIO, $565.71.

    Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson                               2.28
    Bellefontaine. John Lindsay, _for John Brown
      Steamer_                                                 5.00
    Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00
    Castalia. Mrs. I. W. S.                                    1.00
    Chagrin Falls. First Cong. Ch.                            21.30
    Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Vine St. Cong. Ch.,
      _for John Brown Steamer_                                 5.40
    Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson
      C. and N. Inst._                                        13.00
    Claridon. L. T. Wilmot                                    10.00
    Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., 124.33, to
      const. MRS. JULIA A. WELLMAN, MRS. EMMA L.
      KILBOURN and MRS. J. E. SWIFT L. Ms.; Chas
      E. Webster, 9                                          133.33
    Eaton. M. O.                                               0.50
    Freedom. Cong. Ch.                                         8.00
    Greenfield. Wm. Smith                                      4.00
    Huntington. Joseph T. Haskell                             10.00
    Huntsburgh. Quartus Phelps, 3; Mrs. R. S., 1;
      Miss V. R. P., _for Indian M._                           5.00
    Medina. First Cong. Ch.                                    4.00
    North Benton. Margaret J. Hartzell                         1.50
    Painesville. Miss L. P. Bentley, 10; C. C. J.,
      1, _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. (Land)_               11.00
    Pittsfield. Cong. Ch.                                      6.30
    Ruggles. Cong. Ch.                                        19.50
    Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton                                    1.50
    South Ridge. U. H.                                         0.50
    Thomastown. Welsh Cong. Ch.                               10.00
    Toledo. Central Cong. Ch.                                 35.60
                                                            -------
                                                            $315.71

    LEGACY.

    Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton.                    250.00
                                                            -------
                                                            $565.71


  ILLINOIS. $1,882.90.

    Alton. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)                                    1.00
    Chicago. First Cong. Ch. (in part)                       113.43
    Chicago. H. M. Hooper, 25: Mr. and Mrs. Frank
      Hayes, 12.50; John Dole, 12.50; _for Student
      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00
    Chicago. “Friend,” 3; Mrs. W. C. K., 1; _for
      Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._                              4.00
    Chicago. South Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for
      Washington, D.C._
    Cobden. E. W. T.                                           0.50
    Dover. Cong. Ch.                                          42.00
    Elgin. Cong. Ch.                                          28.06
    Evanston. J. M. Williams, _for Student Aid,
      Fisk U._                                               100.00
    Farmington. Phineas Chapman                               50.00
    Farm Ridge. Rev. J. P. Hiester, _for the
      Chinese_                                                 5.00
    Geneseo. First Cong. Ch.                                 110.00
    Greenville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
      Aid, Fisk U._                                           22.10
    Highland Park. L. S. Bingham                               5.00
    Jacksonville. Cong. Ch.                                   37.05
    Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                 13.20
    Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         10.70
    Millburn. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
      Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                               30.00
    Ottawa. Cong. Ch.                                         60.00
    Payson. J. K. Scarborough, 62, to const. MISS
      NORA HAMPTON and MISS ELLEN MARIA GRUBB, L.
      Ms.; Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Cong. Ch. 15                  97.00
    Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                     10.00
    Paxton. “Friends,” 8.51; Cong. Sab. Sch.,
      1.49, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                     10.00
    Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb. Jr., 30; W. H.
      Holcomb, Sr., 1.50                                      31.50
    Rosemond. Cong. Ch.                                       19.00
    Tonica. “V. G. L.”                                         5.00
    Toulon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.
      Fisk U._                                                12.50
    Turner. Mrs. Currier                                       2.50
    Waukegan. Young Ladies’ Miss’y Soc.                       10.00
    Woodstock. Cong. Ch.                                       3.36
                                                            -------
                                                            $882.90
    LEGACY.

    Hinsdale. Estate of Alanson P. Kennedy, by
      Mrs. Sarah S. Kennedy, Executrix, _for
      Orphan Students_                                    $1,000.00
                                                           --------
                                                          $1,822.90


  INDIANA, $1.00.

    Michigan City. “Golden Links Soc.,” First
      Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                 1.00


  MICHIGAN, $501.10.

    Battle Creek. “A Friend,” 5; Miss S. A. G., 1              6.00
    Church’s Corners. A. W. Douglass, 5; C.
      Clement, 5; Jas. Robbins, 2; T. R., 1; Dea.
      W., 1: Mrs. J. W., 1; Others, 1                         16.00
    Clio. Cong. Ch.                                            4.68
    Detroit. Mrs. C. H. Ladd                                  10.00
    Dowagiac. Cong. Ch.                                       14.42
    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     50.00
    Homer. Mrs. C. C. Evarts                                   3.00
    Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett                                1.50
    Kalamazoo. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS
      MARY A. DEAN, MRS. H. E. MONTAGUE, DEA.
      DAVID TURNBULL, MISS ALICE EVERETT and MISS
      ALICE L. SABIN L. Ms.                                  166.56
    Milford. Ansley A. Arms and Others, 30, to
      const. MRS. MARY B. ARMS L. M.; Mrs. E. G., 1           31.00
    Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                         95.70
    Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   2.45
    Romeo. Miss E. B. Dickinson                               50.00
    Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.                                    35.54
    Shelby. Cong. Ch.                                         13.25
    Warren. C. S. B.                                           1.00


  IOWA, $114.99.

    Creston. Pilgrim Parish, Ladies’ Miss. Soc.,
      _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                          25.00
    Denmark. Cong. Ch.                                        40.00
    Grinnell. “H. L.,” _for destitute colored
      people, Mobile, Ala._                                    5.00
    Lewis. Cong. Ch.                                          16.69
    McGregor. Young Ladies’ Mission Band of Cong.
      Ch. _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.
      (Building)_                                             10.00
    Shenandoah. Cong. Ch.                                      8.30
    Winthrop. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00


  WISCONSIN, $205.17.

    Appleton. Mrs. O. Smith, _for Student Aid,
      Fisk U._                                                10.00
    Beloit. Second Cong. Ch., 39.36 “A Friend,” 10            49.36
    Depere. Cong. Ch.                                         16.89
    Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch.                                    25.00
    Fort Howard. Rev. L. C. C., _for Student Aid,
      Fisk U._                                                 1.00
    New London. Cong. Ch., Thanksgiving Col. _for
      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                               2.30
    Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch.                            46.39
    Racine. Welch Cong. Ch.                                    5.19
    Ripon. Cong. Ch. ad’l                                      9.04
    Ripon. Dea. Harwood, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._            5.00
    Waupun. Cong. Ch., 20; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15                35.00


  KANSAS, $31.00.

    Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker                               10.00
    Meriden. J. Rutty and Family                              10.00
    Topeka. Miss Sue Stephenson, 5; Miss S., 1;
      Miss M. C., 1; Mrs. B., 1, _for Student Aid,
      Straight U._                                             8.00
    Wellsville. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00


  MISSOURI, $14.50.

    Sedalia. Cong. Ch.                                        14.50


  MINNESOTA, $408.90.

    Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon                                  10.00
    Faribault. “Helping Hands,” _for Student Aid,
      Tougaloo U._                                            25.00
    Mantorville. First Cong. Ch.                              18.31
    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 52.57; Second Cong.
      Ch. 4.50                                                57.07
    Minneapolis. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                32.76
    Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (_special_)                  150.00
    Northfield. Cong. Ch.                                    102.46
    Zumbrota. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
      Wilmington, N.C._                                        9.40
    Zumbrota. “Friends,” 2 Bbls. C., 3.99 _for
      Freight, for Wilmington, N.C._                           3.90


  NEBRASKA, $21.00.

    Crete. Rev. D. B. P., _for Tillotson C. & N.
      Inst. (Land)_                                            1.00
    Exeter. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.                               15.00
    Exeter. “The Cheerful Givers,” by Austin P.
      Dean, Treas., _for John Brown Steamer_                   5.00


  DAKOTA, $14.50.

    Chamberlain. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
    Jamestown. Mrs. M. S. Wells                                9.50


  COLORADO, $41.00.

    Denver. First Cong. Ch.                                   40.00
    South Pueblo. Cong. Ch.                                    1.00


  CALIFORNIA, $10.00.

    Santa Cruz. Pliny Fay                                     10.00


  WASHINGTON TER., $5.40.

    S’kokomish. Cong. Ch.                                      5.40


  MARYLAND, $5.00.

    Federalsburgh. Sarah A. Beals                              5.00


  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $3.25.

    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                           2.25
    Washington. “Willing Workers of Lincoln
      Mission,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                  1.00


  KENTUCKY, $178.25.

    Lexington. Tuition                                       178.25


  TENNESSEE, $651.25.

    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          234.15
    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              407.10
    Nashville. Rev. F. A. Chase                               10.00


  NORTH CAROLINA, $253.85.

    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition                         248.85
    Wilmington. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N.
      Inst. Building_                                          5.00


  SOUTH CAROLINA, $354.75.

    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition                         344.75
    Charleston. Plymouth Ch.                                  10.00


  GEORGIA, $890.53.

    Atlanta. Storr’s Sch., Tuition, 470.26; Rent, 6          476.26
    Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, 190.45; Rent, 3;
      First Cong. Ch., 30                                    223.45
    Macon. Cong. Ch.                                          10.00
    Marietta. “The Penny Babies,” by Papa Penny                1.00
    McIntosh. Tuition                                          8.34
    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 129.40; Rent,
      17; Cong. Ch., 25.08                                   171.48


  ALABAMA, $59.75.

    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             47.00
    Marion. Cong. Ch., 7; Tuition, 5.75                       12.75


  FLORIDA, $10.20.

    Daytona. Cong. Ch.                                        10.20


  MISSISSIPPI, $418.24.

    Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, 273.14; Rent,
      145.10                                                 418.24


  LOUISIANA, $242.50.

    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        242.50


  TEXAS, $199.35.

    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Tuition,
      190.85; Rent, 2.50                                     193.35
    Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch.                                  4.00
    Luling. Quinton B. Neale, M.D.                             2.00


  INCOMES, $1,096.50.

    Theological Fund, _for Howard U._                        500.00
    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               261.50
    Graves’ Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._                   150.00
    General Endowment Fund                                    50.00
    Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                              50.00
    Plumb Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                     50.00
    Town Bonds, Greenwich, N.Y., _for Straight U._            35.00


  CANADA, $10.00.

    Yorkville. Rev. Edward Ebbs                               10.00
                                                         ----------
      Total                                              $20,471.06
      Total from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31                       $55,015.42
                                                         ==========

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  FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

    Subscriptions                                            141.55

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  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.

    Chicago, Ill. Tuthill King, _for Atlanta U._           5,000.00

                                       H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,
                                               56 Reade St., N.Y.

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               COMPARATIVE WORTH OF BAKING POWDERS.


  =ROYAL= (Absolutely Pure)             XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =GRANT’S= (Alum Powder)[A]            XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =RUMFORD’S= (Phosphate), when fresh   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =HANFORD’S=, when fresh               XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =REDHEAD’S=                           XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =CHARM= (Alum Powder)[A]              XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =AMAZON= (Alum Powder)[A]             XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =CLEVELAND’S= (Short weight, ¾ oz.)   XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =PIONEER= (San Francisco)             XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =CZAR=                                XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =DR. PRICE’S=                         XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  =SNOW FLAKE= (Groff’s, St. Paul)      XXXXXXXXXXXX
  =LEWIS’=                              XXXXXXXXXX
  =CONGRESS=                            XXXXXXXXX
  =HECKER’S=                            XXXXXXX
  =GILLET’S=                            XXXXX
  =HANFORD’S=, when not fresh           XXXXX
  =C. E. ANDREWS & CO.= (Contains alum) XXX
      (Milwaukee.)      “Regal.”[A]
  =BULK= (Powder sold loose)            XXX
  =RUMFORD’S=, when not fresh           XX


 Reports of Government Chemists as to Purity and Wholesomeness of
                     the Royal Baking Powder.

  “I have tested a package of Royal Baking Powder, which I
  purchased in the open market, and find it composed of pure
  and wholesome ingredients. It is a cream of tartar powder of
  a high degree of merit, and does not contain either alum or
  phosphates, or other injurious substances.

                                          “E. G. LOVE, Ph.D.”

  “It is a scientific fact that the Royal Baking Powder is
  absolutely pure.

                                          “H. A. MOTT, Ph.D.”

  “I have examined a package of Royal Baking Powder, purchased by
  myself in the market. I find it entirely free from alum, terra
  alba, or any other injurious substance.

                                        “HENRY MORTON, Ph.D.,
               President of Stevens Institute of Technology.”

  “I have analyzed a package of Royal Baking Powder. The
  materials of which it is composed are pure and wholesome.

                        “S. DANA HAYES, State Assayer, Mass.”

  “June 23, 1882.—We have made a careful analytical test of Royal
  Baking Powder, purchased by ourselves in the open market here,
  and in the original package. We find it to be a cream of tartar
  powder of the highest degree of strength, containing nothing
  but pure, wholesome, and useful ingredients.

      “JUAN H. WRIGHT, M.D.,} Analytical Chemists, St. Louis.
       ALBERT MERRELL, M.D.,}”

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The Royal Baking Powder received the highest award over all
competitors at the Vienna World’s Exposition, 1873; at the
Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876; at the American Institute, and at
State Fairs throughout the country.

No other article of human food has ever received such high,
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NOTE.—The above DIAGRAM illustrates the comparative worth of
various Baking Powders, as shown by Chemical Analysis and
experiments made by Professor Schedler. A one pound can of each
powder was taken, the total leavening power or volume in each can
calculated, the result being as indicated in the above diagram.
This practical test for worth by Professor Schedler only proves
what every observant consumer of the Royal Baking Powder knows
by experience, that, while it costs a few cents per pound more
than the ordinary kinds, it is far more economical, and, besides,
affords the advantage of better work.

A single trial of the Royal Baking Powder will convince any
fair-minded person of these facts.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] While the diagram shows some of the alum powders to be of a
higher degree of strength than other powders ranked below them, it
is not to be taken as indicating that they have any value. All alum
powders, no matter how high their strength, are to be avoided as
dangerous.


ATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.




Transcriber’s Notes


Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions silently
corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the
multiplicity of authors. Arithmetic errors in the receipts have
been retained as printed.

Ditto marks replaced with the text they represent to facilitate
eBook alignment.

Images have been moved outside of paragraphs, resulting in page
numbers that are slightly off.

Corrected “neigborhood” to “neighborhood” on page 50. (bought in
the neighborhood)

“Tilotson” changed to “Tillotson” in the Guilford entry on page 59.





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