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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 37, No. 10, October, 1883 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: April 16, 2020 [EBook #61846] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCTOBER 1883 *** - - - - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - -[Illustration: OCTOBER, 1883. - -VOL. XXXVII. - -NO. 10. - -The American Missionary] - - - - -CONTENTS - - - PAGE. - - - EDITORIAL. - - ANNUAL MEETING—GOOD AS THREE WEEKS REVIVAL 289 - CONCERT EXERCISE—REV. STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D. 290 - OUR INDIAN WORK 291 - A VISIT TO THE DAKOTA MISSION 292 - THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE 294 - PAMPHLET NO. 8—A HYMN BOOK FOR OUR CHURCHES 296 - A LIFE NOT TOO LONG—BENEFACTIONS 297 - GENERAL NOTES—AFRICA, INDIAN, CHINESE 298 - A MARAUDING PARTY IN AFRICA (cut) 299 - REFLEX INFLUENCE OF A. M. A. 301 - WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA (cut) 302 - - - THE SOUTH. - - NOTES OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR IN LOUISIANA AND - MISSISSIPPI 303 - A WORD FROM TILLOTSON INSTITUTE 305 - LETTER FROM FLORENCE, ALA. 306 - LETTER FROM MCINTOSH, GA.—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 307 - - - THE CHINESE. - - RECRUITS FOR THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION 309 - - - BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK. - - MEETING OF BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK—THE PAPER MISSION - AND WHAT CAME OF IT 310 - - - CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - A TALK WITH THE CHILDREN 312 - TOPSY LEFT ALONE (cut) 313 - - - RECEIPTS 315 - - - PROPOSED CONSTITUTION 317 - - * * * * * - - NEW YORK: - PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, - Rooms, 56 Reade Street. - - * * * * * - - Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. - Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., - as second-class matter. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. - - * * * * * - - -PRESIDENT. - - Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass. - - -CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - Rev. M. E. 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E. -Emerson, 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. - - * * * * * - - - - - FINEST ARCADIA BEST - VELVETEEN. - - -GODEY’S - -LADY’S BOOK - -SAYS: - -“The ARCADIA VELVETEEN. It is ... much sought after for jackets and -trimmed suits for children’s costumes and ladies’ dinner dresses. -Its cost is also an element in its success, as it can be purchased -at the same price as ordinary brands.” - -[Illustration] - - FOR CHILDREN’S COSTUMES, - - THERE IS NOTHING IN THE MARKET - THAT CAN COMPARE WITH THE - - ARCADIA. - -_The advantages claimed for this Velveteen are not few. First, the -color, which is positive and lustrous in all shades. The appearance -is certainly very handsome and not easily distinguished from -velvet; it is thinner and finer in texture, and consequently less -heavy than ordinary velveteen, and takes the needle more easily -than any other make, and finally it will outwear any other material -of equal finish and dress._ - -[Illustration] - -THE - -BAZAR - -SAYS: - -“The ARCADIA VELVETEEN is an improvement upon ordinary velveteen -that is sure to be thoroughly appreciated, not only during the -coming winter, but for many seasons.” - -For the protection of the consumer we stamp every yard. - - ARCADIA - VELVETEEN - (REGISTERED) - -Be sure and look on the back of goods, and see you find this stamp. - - =SOLD BY= all Dry Goods Dealers, and at Wholesale by - SHAEN & CHRISTIE, 165 Church St., New York, U.S.A. - - * * * * * - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXVII. OCTOBER, 1883. NO. 10. - - * * * * * - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -ANNUAL MEETING. - -Preparations for our forthcoming Annual Meeting, to convene in the -Central Church, Brooklyn, October 30, are progressing favorably. -The indications are that we shall have one of the most important -meetings ever held by this Association. We hope to be able to -announce through the religious press and otherwise, in good season, -such particulars relating to speakers and accommodations as will be -of interest to our readers. For the present we refer them to the -announcement on the 4th page cover of this MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - -GOOD AS THREE WEEKS REVIVAL. - -The value of the annual meetings of our great missionary societies -is not measured chiefly by the amount of business transacted, -important and necessary as that is. The information imparted might -be gathered otherwise, but the full benefit to mind and heart can -only be had by participating in the devotions, the instructions in -righteousness, and, indeed, the arousements that are found among -the vast throng that assemble on these occasions. Dr. Withrow said, -at the Saratoga meeting of the Home Missionary Society: “These -three days are worth as much as three weeks revival in giving -a spiritual uplift to the churches.” We believe this to be no -extravagant assertion. Great religious gatherings of some sort have -been common from time immemorial. These have varied according to -the developments of the age. - -The problem of the church to-day is the world’s conversion. All -other questions are but side issues. The wonderful developments -of our modern civilization have been preparatory. They have made -it possible for the church to make rapid strides in hastening the -triumphs of the Redeemer’s kingdom. The facilities are ready. -Young men and women with trained faculties for the work are being -graduated from our schools of learning by the thousands. Nothing -is lacking but the disposition—the mind to work. The chief value of -these meetings is seen in their potency to impart this disposition. - -It is not many years since there was but one truly great and grand -distinctively missionary annual meeting in our land—the meeting -of the American Board. Then there came well up to the front the -annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, and latest, -the meeting of the Home Missionary Society, which, in point of -attendance from abroad, possibly, outnumbered any one ever held by -the Congregational brethren. Other denominations are progressing in -this direction. There is a wonderfully encouraging development all -along the line. The morning cometh; they who turn their thoughts -to our great missionary enterprises are looking toward it, and not -toward yesterday morning, as men blinded by misbelief continually -look. - -We call the attention of our readers to the fact that two of these -great annual meetings convene in October, and we trust that but -few obstacles will be deemed so weighty as to interfere with their -attendance. - - * * * * * - -THE demand for Our Temperance Concert Exercise, issued in the -May MISSIONARY, and also in circular form, has been steady and -encouraging. It was recently used in the First Church, Greenwich, -Conn., with gratifying success. Some features were introduced by -the pastor, Rev. Mr. Kellogg, not contemplated in the preparation -of the exercise. Selections were made from the communications on -temperance published in the same number of the MISSIONARY, and read -by different individuals. Words were adapted to Jubilee Songs, -giving a pleasing variety, and recitations introduced in addition -to, and in place of, those given in the paper. We again call the -attention of our friends to this Concert Exercise, with reference -to its use. - - * * * * * - -REV. STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D., LL. D., missionary to the American -Indians for forty years, died at the age of 71, at Beloit, Wis., -in August. Like Livingstone, in early life, he was desirous of -becoming a missionary to China, but yielded to what he considered -the overrulings of Providence, and in 1837, with his wife, -went into the far Northwest among the Sioux. He reduced their -language to writing, compiled a dictionary and translated the -Holy Scriptures and hymns. Ten well-ordered churches and many -out-stations were established in the region of his operations, -reaching beyond the British line. - -As an author, he did good service. His book, “_Mary and I—Forty -Years with the Sioux_,” has magnified the significance of Indian -missions. Another book, “_Gospel Among the Dakotas_,” portrays -vividly scenes of pioneer life. His memorial of Dr. Williamson is a -tribute worthy of the man and his successful efforts in behalf of -the Indians. Four of his children have labored among the Sioux, and -one of his daughters has entered upon work across the Pacific. Rev. -Alfred L. Riggs, principal of our school at Santee, and Thomas L. -Riggs, of Fort Sally, and Mrs. Martha Riggs Morris, at the Sisseton -agency, are carrying on the work so happily inaugurated by their -father. His life was one of incessant missionary toil, in which for -years he had been aided by his children, and to whom he bequeathed -its continuance, and in the midst of whom he passed from earth to -his reward on high. - - * * * * * - - -OUR INDIAN WORK. - -Never was there a more favorable time for enlargement on our -part. The new impulse to the general cause by General Grant’s -peace policy, augmented by the success of the schools at Hampton -and Carlisle, will be still more accelerated by the schools soon -to be completed by the Government at Chilloco, Indian Territory; -Lawrence, Kansas; and Genoa, Neb. When these are finished and -filled, the Indian schools throughout the country will accommodate -10,250 pupils of the 40,000 school population of the Indians at the -present time. Sec. Teller may be too sanguine in the expectation -that with adequate means the Indian problem will not be heard of in -the next generation, but never before could such a prediction come -so near being true. At all events, the nation and the Government -are fully aroused, and it becomes the American Missionary -Association to bestir itself to do its part. This Association -has now the responsibility of doing the Indian work for the -Congregational churches, the American Board having transferred to -it the whole of its Indian missions. A delegation of the Executive -Committee of the Association, consisting of Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D., -Rev. Addison P. Foster, Charles L. Mead, Esq., and the Secretary, -made recently a thorough inspection of all the schools and missions -with very favorable impressions, a report of which follows. - -Enlargement is imperatively needed in three directions, in addition -to the $20,000 for the current work: - -1. At the old and well-established mission at the Santee Agency, -Nebraska, Rev. A. L. Riggs thus details the immediate wants of -that station: additional industrial accommodations; extension of -carpenter shop, $250; blacksmith shop, with five forges, $750; -outfit of tools for the same, $150; general dining hall for -200 boarders, with laundry rooms, $5,000; outfit for the same, -including heating arrangements, kitchen ranges, laundry apparatus, -$1,500; making in all $7,650. Boarding-school house for girls at -Oahe, Fort Sully, $2,500. - -2. New mission stations and schools among the Indians now -unsupplied. Three station buildings for native teachers on the -Cheyenne River, $1,000; missionary’s house at Cherry Creek, -Cheyenne River, $1,500; mission among the Crows, $2,000. - -We invite the friends of Indian progress to select from the items -above given in both fields of enlargement the specific object for -completing which they will aid us in whole or in part. - -3. An agricultural, mechanical and Normal School, to be founded -perhaps somewhere in Peoria Bottom, a new Hampton located on the -border, with the white man’s civilization on one hand and the -Indian reservations close on the other. This, though it is an -urgent want and essential to the filling out of our general plan, -must await the careful search for a fitting location and the means -to give it a suitable inauguration. - -Where shall the work be done for the Indian? One successful -teacher in Indian schools says that the children should all be -brought East, and trained amid the white man’s civilization; -another gentleman, long connected with a Mission Board, holds -that the education should be given wholly among the tribes, so -that the pupils would be trained amid their people and not away -from sympathy with them. We believe _both_ methods are necessary. -The youth trained at home elevates his people as he rises, and -is himself strengthened and helped by his friends who come from -the East with the higher touch of the white man’s culture. Our -schools and missions, those now in progress and the one proposed, -afford the advantages of both plans. We shall aim to combine the -industrial, normal and religious training so as to fit the pupils, -male and female, for the practical duties of life in the field, the -shop and the home, in the school room, in the pulpit and the church. - -We have undertaken much. The hour has come for it, and we know that -the friends of the Indian will not suffer us to fail for want of -means. - - * * * * * - - -A VISIT TO THE DAKOTA MISSION. - -REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER. - -The transfer by the American Board of its Missions among the -Dakota Indians to the American Missionary Association made it -desirable that some of the officers of the Association should -acquaint themselves personally with the work. Accordingly, Rev. -M. E. Strieby, D.D., Secretary of the Association, and Rev. Wm. -Hayes Ward, D.D., of the _Independent_, C. L. Mead, Esq., and -your correspondent, all members of the Executive Committee, met -by appointment at the Santee Agency. Three of the party then -visited the mission station at Oahe, D.T., connected with the -Cheyenne Agency, where the party divided, Dr. Strieby returning -by way of the Sisseton Agency, Dr. Ward and Mr. Foster, under the -leadership of Rev. Thomas L. Riggs, the efficient missionary, -entering the great Sioux Reservation and traveling in an open wagon -between three and four hundred miles, mostly in Indian country. -This last-named expedition had not a little of excitement and -adventure. Camping out at night, fording swollen streams, sleeping -in an Indian wigwam, driving across trackless prairies by the -aid of a compass, running the divides, killing a rattlesnake, -preaching to the wild Indians through an interpreter, spending days -in Indian villages, where hideous heathen mummeries were in full -view, visiting the Indians’ strange earth-built lodges, and their -offensive scaffold burying grounds, we passed through a series of -experiences not soon to be forgotten. - -The American Missionary Association has become possessor of three -considerable mission stations among the Indians, in or near Dakota -Territory. At the Santee Agency, which is just across the Missouri -in Nebraska, about thirty miles up the river from Yankton, is a -large and very successful school, a church of Indians with an -Indian pastor, and one out-station with an immediate prospect -of a second. This school and mission work are under the general -superintendence of Rev. Alfred L. Riggs. The children in the -school come not only from the Santees on the Agency, but from long -distances, from the Sisseton Agency, Fort Berthold and Montana. -We were greatly pleased with the intelligence, the neatness and -Christian spirit of these students. They will certainly compare -favorably in every way with the bright young Indians we have seen -at Hampton. - -Oahe is the centre of a wide evangelistic work, which has been -organized and is carried on with great energy and success by Rev. -Thomas L. Riggs. At Oahe itself is a mission home, a neat chapel, -also used as a school-house, and three miles away, a second -school-house. A native church is organized here, ministered to most -acceptably by Yellow Hawk, an exemplary and industrious Indian. -We were specially interested in a prayer meeting of Indian women, -which was fully attended and heartily sustained. Oahe is on the -east side of the Missouri, where a considerable number of Indians -have given up their tribal relations, taken up land in severalty, -and become voting citizens of the United States. Immediately -across the river is the Sioux Reservation. This is greatly cut -up by sizable streams which flow down from the Black Hills. On -every stream are extensive and very fertile bottom-lands. Here -the Indians are located, living mostly in tents, but some in log -houses. They are chiefly wild Indians, only a few years since being -on the war-path, mainly different sections of Sitting Bull’s band. -They still wear blankets, and are gaudy in bead-work, and paint -and feathers. But they are now in wholesome fear of the government -and, better still, are anxious to be as white men. Mr. Riggs has -established four stations in Indian villages on the Cheyenne River, -and a fifth on the Grand River. At three of these stations there -is preaching by native pastors, Solomon Martun (or Bear’s Ear), -Isaac Renville and Edward Phelps, by name; at the other places are -schools. The mission at Ft. Berthold is among the Rees, Mandans -and Gros Ventres. These three small tribes long since combined -in one village for protection against their ancient foes, the -Sioux. Rev. C. L. Hall is the missionary here. A mission home and -a chapel are the buildings, both in excellent condition. The work -at this mission is slow in developing results, not from any lack -of faithfulness or adaptation on the part of the missionaries, -for their consecration and fitness are marked, but because these -Indians by their tribal divisions are jealous of one another, and -by their contact in the past with white men of bad character are -corrupt and hard to reach. Mr. Hall has an out-station in his care -at Devil’s Lake, where Rev. David Hopkins, a Sisseton Indian, is -laboring. - - THE ADVANCE. - - * * * * * - - -THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE. - -BY REV. LEWIS GROUT. - -Rev. Dr. J. L. Tucker’s speech on the above subject before the -Episcopal Church Congress, in Richmond, last October, has had -a very emphatic indorsement from professional and other men in -the South, and yet not without severe criticism from some of the -colored people, especially in Jackson, Miss., the home of Dr. -Tucker, where he made the speech. It seems that Dr. Tucker is a -man of Northern birth, that he was a soldier in the Confederate -army, after which he became a planter, then a rector, and that -he has had much experience and interest in the education of the -colored race, as planter, teacher and minister. And yet, with all -his acquaintance with that race, there are several important points -pertaining to their history, character and welfare, in which he is -sadly mistaken. - -The first mistake of his that I will notice has respect to the -character of the native African. In Africa, he says, “human life -has no sacredness, and men, women and children are slain as beasts -are, and even more carelessly, as less valuable. Human suffering -excites no pity, and blood flows like water.” “That what we call -morality, whether in the relations of the sexes, or in the sense of -truthfulness, or in the sense of honesty, has no lodgment whatever -in the native African’s breast;” and that they have “no words” for -gratitude, generosity, industry, truthfulness, honesty, modesty, -gentleness and virtue, because they have none of these ideas. -Now all this, and much more of the same sort, is the baldest of -hyperbole, far from the truth. During my fifteen years of labor in -that land, I made the study of African character and language a -specialty; and I believe that words representing the ideas above -named may be found in every language and dialect on the continent. -As to humanity and all kindred virtues, they are abreast, if not -ahead, of any and every other people that have not had the gospel. -For honesty and morality, under pure native rule, in many respects, -the Zulus and cognate tribes would put to shame the people in every -part of this land of ours. I have no reason to believe that I -ever lost a sixpence worth of anything, through their stealing, -in all those fifteen years of my stay among them; and as to the -relations of the sexes, I believe there are ten illegitimate births -here in New England to-day, where there was ever one in Zululand -previous to the incoming of the Dutch and English. To be sure, all -African tribes may not be abreast of what the Zulus used to be, in -these things. And yet Rev. Dr. Crummell, for many years a college -professor and rector of a parish in Liberia, says: “All along the -west coast of Africa the family tie and the marriage bond are as -strong as among any _primitive_ people.” “Their maidenly virtue, -the instinct to chastity, is a marvel.” - -2. Dr. Tucker says the colored people of the South are grossly -immoral. If he had made a very deserved exception of the many -who have been brought under the restraints of the gospel by good -mission work among them, within a few years, his charge would -have been more just. But whence came the great excess in vice -which he avers? Could anything else have been expected from long -generations of the peculiar training their bondage gave them? Under -the treatment they had, as Dr. Tucker says, “they quickly learned -to conceal,” “learned lying, stealing and adultery.” By a somewhat -minute detail, he shows how the familiarity and “the intrigues -which the white men” had with the black women wrought in them, as -he says, “the utter destruction of the very sense of virtue.” - -3. Dr. Tucker says nothing of importance has been accomplished by -Northern benevolence for the colored people, except to make them -worse—to “build strongholds for the devil in disguise,” to “build -up the kingdom of evil.” Now all this, in which his speech abounds, -I repudiate as false and slanderous. In the course of forty years -I have seen a good deal of mission work, of one kind and another, -at home and abroad, and under the auspices of almost every society -in the world. I have also seen the work of the American Missionary -Association among the Freedmen; and, as the result of all, I am -free to say, I believe Dr. Tucker may go the world over, time -through, ransack all history, and not be able to point to a time or -place where mission work and money have done more, in proportion to -the means employed, than has been done by this Association among -the colored people since their emancipation, two decades since. - -4. Dr. Tucker alleges that Northern missionaries are incompetent, -“don’t know what they are about,” or “how to reach the colored -people,” or “how to deal with them,” “barely know a Negro when they -see him.” Well, I am told there are some white people in the South, -who, themselves “don’t know a Negro when they see him,” in some -cases only as they trace his genealogy and find out who his mother -was. But how should Dr. Tucker, himself, be able to know all about -this matter, how to reach the colored people, how to lift them up, -how to heal them, better than other men of Northern birth? - -5. The counterpart of the above charge is, that the Southern whites -are the “only ones” who know how to do good mission work for the -colored race, and that we of the North must put all our money into -their “control.” But what have they ever done to prove such special -fitness to inspire the Negro with confidence in their teaching and -treatment, to prove their own faith in his capacity for a high -order of improvement, to encourage us to put “every dollar” of our -mission money into their hands? Why, after they had had the black -man in their own special teaching and treatment for more than two -centuries, utterly dissevered from pagan Africa, all plastic, -docile and confined, as he was, to their exclusive training, has -his original heathenism been so little improved as to leave the -Negro no better than Dr. Tucker represents him to be. And even now, -what great effort have they made for his improvement in the two -decades that have passed since his emancipation? - -Another mistake I find in Dr. Tucker’s speech, the greatest and -most fatal of all, and the last I will notice, is his color line -“plan” for all educational and religious work in the South—a school -and a church on this side of the street for the whites, a school -and a church on that side for the blacks—a double system, with, as -he says, “double the expense.” But neither a system such as that, -nor the spirit that desires or prompts it, will have any place on -earth when the gospel of Christ gets a proper ascendency in the -hearts and lives of men. - - * * * * * - -WE have issued Pamphlet No. 8, on _The Reflex Influence of the -Work of the American Missionary Association_, an address delivered -in Tremont Temple by Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., Fitchburg, Mass., -a quotation from which will be found elsewhere. Copies of this -Pamphlet will be supplied gratuitously on application, to those -wishing them for distribution. - - * * * * * - - -A HYMN BOOK FOR OUR CHURCHES. - -It is the “Manual of Praise,” published by E. J. Goodrich, Oberlin, -Ohio, compiled by the lamented Rev. Dr. Hiram Mead and J. B. -Rice. It has the cream of our hymnology, the worshipful, endeared -hymns to the number of six hundred. It has the wearing pieces of -Moody & Sankey. Compiled not by an ambitious amateur in musical -composition, it does not seek to force upon the churches a great -batch of new and unproven tunes. It was evidently put together for -practical purposes, and is small enough to go into a side or hip -pocket, a “multum in parvo.” It is cheap, coming by the dozen, for -introduction, so as not to cost over sixty cents a copy. It is -suited to all occasions. It has a logical arrangement, which will -be of constant advantage in the use of it, though those who have it -may not know just how the logic comes in, even as the perfection of -the art of elocution is to conceal the art. Where it has been used -in our institutions and schools, it has been much approved. It is -certainly a desideratum for our new churches in the South and in -the West. - - * * * * * - - -A LIFE NOT TOO LONG. - -One of our regular contributors, in transmitting his donation to -our treasury, accompanies his gift with the following cheering -words: “Through the goodness, mercy and truth which has not been -taken away from one highly undeserving, I am again permitted -the privilege of herewith inclosing a draft to your order for -the general use of the A. M. A., for $1,000. Whether now in my -eightieth year, I shall be permitted to repeat the pleasant -offerings, I know not. Shall I note the fact that coming from no -large store, I cannot see that they diminish it?” - - * * * * * - - -BENEFACTIONS. - -Mr. Robert L. Stuart has pledged $150,000 to Princeton College. - -Lincoln University is to receive $10,000 from the estate of the -late David B. Small, of York, Pa. - -Gen. A. G. P. Dodge has contributed $3,000 to be used in building -an academy at Jackson, Ky. - -The late William Ward of Brixton Hill left $100,000 to the -Corporation of London for the establishment and maintenance of a -high school for girls. - -Mr. C. F. McCay, formerly a professor in the University of Georgia, -has given that institution $20,000 in Georgia Railroad 6-per-cent -bonds. - -Sarah A. and Emily B. Sumner, of Albany, N.Y., have given $2,500 -each for an endowment fund for Rutgers College. - -The Northwestern University at Evanston has received $25,000 from -ex-Gov. Evans of Colorado. - -Ex President Wright, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has given -$100,000 for the establishment of a boys’ and girls’ college at -Tacoma, W.T. - -Carlton College, Northfield, Minn., has recently received $12,000 -from Edward H. Williams, Esq., of Philadelphia, for Williams Hall, -built in memory of his only son. - -Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle, of Guilford, Conn., has given $10,000 to the -Olivet College Library Fund as a memorial of her gifted son, Willie -Sage Tuttle. - -Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has received $25,000 from Mrs. Lydia -Messenger, making $56,000 in all donated by her for the benefit of -the institution. - -_Christian intelligence is the most potent agency for obliterating -the barbarism of caste prejudice; and the endowment of schools for -those who suffer from it, the most safe and certain means for its -overthrow._ - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -AFRICA. - -—The French Romanists have abandoned the country of Uganda. - -—It is reported that King Leopold II. of Belgium, with no selfish -or personal object, with no view of gaining territory or commercial -profits, and with no other motive than the highest and purest -philanthropy, is spending $400,000 a year from his own private -purse for the benefit of Africa. - -—A hydrographical expedition has been made to the coast of the -Maroc by Capt. Kerhallet and Mr. Dumoulin. - -—The project relative to placing a submarine telegraphic cable -between the Island of Teneriffe and St. Louis on the Senegal has -been voted by the French Chamber. - -—The Italian mission directed by Bianchi has safely arrived at -Samera, where they found the King of Abyssinia, to whom they gave -presents from the King of Italy. - -Monseigneur Lasserre, coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of the -Gauls, has obtained from Menelik the authorization to establish -himself among the Ittous Gauls, who have submitted to him. - -—Under the title of the French Factories of the Persian Gulf and -of Eastern Africa, a society has been formed for French oriental -commerce, of importation and exportation. - -—The native chief Ghowe having committed incursions upon the -territory of Sherbro near Sierra Leone, Major Talbot has burned -the village of Kwatamaha, massacred the inhabitants of Kahun and -pillaged and burnt Jalliah. - -—Some friends of the French mission at the Senegal have brought to -France three young negroes, who will be raised in the agricultural -colony of Sainte Foy, and prepared to return to St. Louis as -shoemakers, tailors, cooks, perhaps even teachers and evangelists. - -—Upon the demand of many chiefs of the Slave Coast, a protectorate -of France has been established upon the territories of Petit-Popo, -Grand-Popo and Porto-Seguro between the English possessions of the -Gold Coast and Whydah, beyond which is the territory of Porto-Novo -upon which the French protectorate is already recognized. - -—Major Machado, who has been at Lisbon to confer with the -Portuguese government on the subject of the railroad from Delagoa -Bay to Pretoria, has started for the Transvaal to complete the -track of the section from Incomati to Pretoria. A society has been -founded at Lisbon to ask the concession of this line. - -[Illustration: A MARAUDING PARTY IN AFRICA.] - - -THE INDIANS. - -—The Spirit of Missions urges the establishment of a Protestant -Episcopal Mission in Alaska, and the sending out of a Bishop from -the United States with a score of faithful priests and deacons to -second his efforts. - -—A missionary laboring in the Indian Territory reports to -the Sunday-school of the Collegiate Church, New York, that a -Sunday-school which he organized eight years ago has grown to be a -church of seventy members. In one of the Indian families he found a -grand piano. - -—Some years ago the pride of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe schools in -the Indian Territory, was their school herd of several hundred -cattle, which had been accumulated through a number of years’ -effort, without material expense to the government. This furnished -employment and prospective income for the school boys. At its most -successful period it was destroyed by an order from the Department -at Washington, directing that the cattle be distributed among -the Indians. After being without the herd for several years the -Department has now started a new one, by purchasing 600 cows and -heifers and placing them again under the care of the Indian school -boys. - - -THE CHINESE. - -—Not one in five hundred of the women of Shantung can read. - -—There are twenty self-supporting Protestant churches in China, and -nearly 400 which are partially so. - -—A Chinaman in a town called New-Bendigo, in Australia, where there -is a large Chinese colony, was asked recently what practical good -had been accomplished by the missionaries. He answered as follows: -Before, no one understood God’s Word. Good many work Sunday all -same as week day. Now, no work done on Sunday at New-Bendigo by -my countrymen. Perhaps chop little wood for house, or wash him -clothes; but no go work. No matter poor, every one no work on -Sunday. Before, all worship idols. Now, many come to church; he no -worship idols. When Lee Wah begin to read, good many had idols in -house; thirty more. Myself had one. Now, only ten houses and stores -in New-Bendigo with idols in them. Before, at old township, good -many Chinese steal fowls, everything. Now, no more steal; every one -work; go get job. Before, every night, Chinaman learn to practice -fight. I tell him too stupid fellow. You learn God’s Word you no -want to fight. Now, no more learn to fight. Learn God’s Word. -Before people no care for God’s Word; he no know or care. Now, good -many people like read God’s Word. Before, too much time, nothing to -do. Now, many say I learn to read God’s Word. Now, no more waste -time. I like to read. Before, good many make fun God’s Word; laugh. -Papers were put upon outside of store, make laugh at Christian. -Papers were put up on door of baptized men’s house. Now, heathen -men no more make fun; strong man’s hands tied up. Himself like it -now. Very quiet now. - - * * * * * - - -REFLEX INFLUENCE OF A. M. A. - -FROM ADDRESS BY REV. S. L. BLAKE, D.D. - -The direct increase to the wealth of the country, in diminishing -the number of mere consumers, and increasing the number of actual -producers and property-holders, puts the business world largely in -debt to this society. - -A few figures will help your understanding of the case. In -twenty-one years this society has spent $5,543,636.03—a yearly -average of $263,772.19. In seventeen years, from 1863 to 1880, -from not owning a single dollar’s worth of property of any sort -available for taxation, these people have come to hold property -taxed for $100,000,000, as appears from Southern tax-bills, which -show no respect of color—an average rate of increase from nothing, -of $5,882,352.94 a year. This is a yearly increase greater than -the whole amount spent by this society. That is, this society has -spent $1, and these people, from absolute pauperism, have come into -possession of over $21 of taxable property. These facts answer the -question whether the colored man can take care of himself, and show -that the labors of this society have a cash value which can easily -be computed. - -There is still another phase of the cash value of the labors of -this society, as related to the productive wealth of the country. -Here this society touches and increases our material prosperity. -I refer to a more equable distribution of ownership in the soil. -Surely no one can deny that to change five or six millions of -people from paupers to property-holders, produces a very material -effect upon the prosperity of the State. - -I believe that it is a settled canon of political economy that -a nation’s wealth is in its soil. Where there are but few -land-owners, and the tillers of the soil are tenants, wealth must -be in the hands of the few, and comparative if not absolute poverty -in the hands of the many. To this state of things belong social -classes, as widely separated from each other as continents. It -goes without saying that landed monopoly and general prosperity -of the people do not go together. I am no advocate of communism; -but I take the ground, and I believe it can be held, that the same -amount of property, somewhat evenly distributed among the people of -a country, adds more to its actual productive wealth and material -prosperity, than the same amount of money would do, held in the -hands of a few, who constitute an aristocracy of wealth and of -blood. Of course, in every state, some men must be vastly more -wealthy than others. But a comfortable competence in one’s hands -makes him entirely independent of his more wealthy neighbor. - -It is among the proofs of the increasing material prosperity of -this country, that the average size of farms has decreased from -199 acres in 1860 to 134 acres in 1880; and that the amount of -capital invested in farms exceeds the money invested in railroads, -and in manufacturing, including supplies, by over $2,000,000,000. -Gradually this vast preponderance of wealth is being more equably -distributed among the people. The plantation system, previous to -the war, gives way to the small farm, tilled and owned in many -cases by the former slaves. Take a single case. Liberty County, -Georgia, in 1860, was mostly taken up by large plantations. There -were but 48 farms, “of from three acres to one hundred acres each.” -In 1880 the county was almost entirely owned by colored people, and -there were 1,500 farms. This is an illustration of the yielding of -landed monopoly and aristocracy to popular ownership in the soil, -and to a more general and evenly diffused prosperity. The average -size of farms in fifteen slave States has been reduced from over -368 acres in 1860 to a trifle over 149 acres in 1880, over 50 per -cent. If you precipitate upon the population of a country 1,000,000 -citizens, who may become land-holders, you have struck a heavy blow -at landed monopoly, and taken a long stride toward increase of -material prosperity. - -Let me give you two or three further facts. In 1878 the freedmen -of Prince Edward County, Virginia, owned 2,305 acres of land, -an increase in eight years of 1,847 acres. In the county of -Rockbridge, Virginia, two thousand blacks were assessed for $50,000 -worth of real estate. In 1876 the colored people of Georgia owned -land valued at $1,234,104, and other property to swell the total -to $6,134,829. In the single State of Georgia these people, from -not owning a dollar, have come to possess property greater in value -than the entire sum spent by this Association in 21 years. Who says -that this alabaster box of ointment has been wasted? - -Material prosperity indicates a certain degree of intelligence. The -ignorant are not the wealthy nations of the globe. The work of this -Association in bringing these people up to a degree of intelligence -somewhat commensurate with their opportunities, and in lifting -them to a level of citizenship co-ordinate with the welfare and -prosperity of the State, has directly aided in this increase of the -material forces of the nation’s welfare. For if the actual amount -of property were not increased, yet the prospective wealth of the -nation must be by converting 6,000,000 illiterate paupers into -educated, independent property-holders. - -I find this in the last issue of the _American Missionary_, which -supports my position with high authority: “It has been estimated -at Washington that the annual profit to the country by the -conversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot be less than -$400,000,000.” This work has been done by this Association. - -Money given to the endowment of its institutions at the South would -yield a hundred fold in half a generation. - -[Illustration: WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA.] - - * * * * * - - - - -THE SOUTH. - -REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT. - -PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. - - * * * * * - - -NOTES OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. - -PRES. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D. - -An experiment in the form of a brief educational campaign in -Louisiana and Mississippi has been attended with the most -gratifying results, and has been to those identified with it a -revelation of what may be accomplished in the same direction. -Hitherto in our educational work in Louisiana we have depended, so -far as the patronage of the country parishes was concerned, upon -the good reports of the students, and the dawning conception, in -the minds of those living remote from the city, of the necessity -of an education. It occurred to Prof. Hitchcock and myself, as -we were likely to be detained in New Orleans the greater part of -the summer, that we could in no way better serve the interests -of Straight University than by presenting the facts of education -directly to the people, and pleading its claims wherever there -was “an open door.” We not only found doors wide open, but were -greeted from many parishes with the Macedonian cry, “Come over and -help us.” Our University was represented in the most important -centers, either by our graduates or those still upon our roll. -They had borne to their homes a grateful sense of good received at -the school, and entered enthusiastically into the matter of the -meetings. They were our _avant-couriers_, and most faithfully did -they spread the tidings of our coming. - -In the space of a single article we can do little more than -summarize, but we trust our enforced conciseness will not despoil -the narrative of its interest or value. The first important point -made was - - -_Baton Rouge._ - -The meeting on July 5 at the Capital of the State had been well -advertised, and was largely attended. The A. M. E. Church (Rev. -Mr. Jackson, pastor) was well filled. The majority of the audience -were young men, just the class we desired to reach. We had not -only a respectful, but an interested hearing. Mr. A. H. Colwell, -a talented graduate of Straight, who fills an important position -as teacher at Baton Rouge, presided at the organ, and at the -conclusion of the meeting made a neat address, moving a resolution -of thanks to the speakers. Rev. Mr. Jackson spoke with feeling and -intelligent appreciation of the demands of education. The ablest -white lawyer in Baton Rouge made a rousing speech, commending -heartily the objects of the meeting. - - -_Vicksburg._ - -The meeting at this point, July 9th, presents many facts worthy -of record. Our young men, Reynolds and Temple, graduates of the -present year, had been untiring in their efforts to make the -meeting a success. Every newspaper in Vicksburg had noticed it -editorially. Every colored pulpit had twice and thrice advertised -it, and urged the people to attend. Influential white people -had been invited, especially members of the School Board. The -Court-House had been applied for, and freely granted by the City -Council for the purposes of the meeting. On the day previous -(Sunday) it was my privilege to preach in two of the most important -colored churches of the city, while Prof. Hitchcock did good work -in the Sunday-Schools. On Sabbath evening I preached in the A. -M. E. Church (Rev. Mr. Carolina, pastor) to an audience of 800 -people. It was a rare privilege, and great was the joy of preaching -on the blessed religion of the Lord Jesus to so many people, -and all eager and reverent in their attention. On Monday night -the Court-House an imposing building situated on “the heights,” -overlooking the city, and the first object that attracts attention -as the boat enters the harbor, witnessed the gathering of an eager -and crowded assembly of men and women, roused to no common degree -of enthusiasm by the simple announcement of an “_educational -meeting_.” - -The Court-Room, with the wide halls approaching it and the deep -window recesses, was not large enough to accommodate the hundreds -who flocked to it. It was estimated that 800 entered and as many -more failed to get in. An organ had been brought from one of the -churches, a fine choir had been gathered, and very choice music was -rendered. The leading colored clergymen of the city were present. -The addresses which were made were plain matter-of-fact statements -of the nature and demands of education, the widespread illiteracy -of the colored people, the opportunity offered them of improving -their condition mentally, socially, materially and morally, and -the utter impossibility of their ever reaching a higher place in -any department of growth without the guiding and helping hand of -education. Great plainness of speech was used, and was not only -tolerated but approved by the audience. - -_Rev. C. K. Marshall, D.D._, the author of the vigorous and able -pamphlet entitled “The Colored Race Weighed in the Balance,” a -gentleman of great influence in Mississippi, kindly called upon us -at the hotel, and not only was present at the meeting, but made -an eloquent and telling address, replete with good points. He has -always been a friend of the colored race, and they do not forget -it now. Rev. Dr. Woodworth, of the M. E. Church South, and Hon. -Mr. Chamberlin. President of the School Board, were also present, -and spoke kindly words of approval of the objects of the meeting. -The leading paper of Vicksburg devoted a column and a half to a -favorable account of the proceedings. An old colored man, whom I -saw violently gesticulating as I was going down Court-House Hill, -said, “That meeting was worth one million dollars to our people.” -God grant it may be so. - - -_Plaquemine._ - -The crowning meeting of the campaign was in the town of -_Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville_, on Saturday night, July 28th. - -_Hon. T. T. Allain_, one of the most enterprising colored men in -the South, and one of the most consistent friends of education, -took the meeting in hand at the start, and spared neither time nor -money to bring it to the notice of the whole people. This meeting, -in all its appointments, was so unusual that I shall be pardoned -if I describe it quite minutely. We were met by a committee of -reception at the depot, and escorted to the hotel. One hour in -advance of the meeting, a large cannon, planted in the court-house -yard, made a tremendous salute, causing the very village to -tremble. Peal after peal went forth, each seeming louder than the -last. Torches were lighted and planted thickly in the court-yard, -which, by their glare and smoke, gave a weird look to the hundreds -of dusky faces gathering around them. A large brass band, with a -full complement of pieces, added to the novelty and effectiveness -of the scene. - -Think of it, dear friends! This was not a political meeting. It was -not a barbecue. It was simply a meeting called in the interests of -education among the colored people of Southern Louisiana, which has -always been regarded a “_pretty dark strip of woods_.” Well, now -for the meeting itself! Mr. Allain gracefully and ably presided, -and made a speech which did credit to his head and heart. For two -hours that densely packed assembly listened to Prof. Hitchcock -and myself with unflagging interest, manifested by frequent -applause. The Court-House and court-yard were filled, and our -audience without and within the building gave us a respectful and -appreciative hearing. Plaquemine has been called the “banner” town. -_We_ certainly have no desire to dispute her claim to the honorable -distinction, for the treatment we received there was “_royal_.” - -The meeting at _Donaldsonville_, July 12th, was a union of the -Baptist and Methodist congregations, and will result, we trust, -in the awakening of a new interest. I should be glad to speak -particularly, had I not reached the limit of my space, of meetings -held by Prof. Hitchcock at West Baton Rouge, St. Sophie, New Texas -and Beauregour, and visits to Monticello, Darrowville, and Point -a la Hache, where many of the families and homes of the students -were seen. Everywhere he was awarded a warm welcome. People rallied -to the meetings, sometimes from a distance of 12 miles. Genuine -enthusiasm was aroused, and the tide of public sentiment has been -turned, we believe, more strongly toward the “_School-House_,” and -that was our only object. The “door of opportunity” is fairly open. -Ought we not to enter it and tell the entire people the glad story -of education? - - * * * * * - - -A WORD FROM TILLOTSON INSTITUTE. - -PRES. W. E. BROOKS, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - -It is due the many donors and friends of Tillotson that a brief -report of the work of the past year be made. It is a pleasure to do -this, both because due and because of the hopeful prosperity which -has attended the institution. - -The land upon which to place the new dormitory and the buildings -for the mechanical department, when funds shall be secured, has -been bought at a cost of $5,000—$1,250 of which was from the Hon. -J. H. Raymond, of Austin. Some progress has also been made in -obtaining subscriptions for the new hall, which is imperatively -needed to meet the pressing demands which are made upon us from all -parts of the State. How urgent this call is may be inferred from -the fact that on the 2d day of last October, one day before the -opening of the school, Allen Hall was full to repletion, and the -work of turning away began, and continued throughout the year, so -that it is safe to say that for every one received one was refused. -We had one hundred in our boarding department during the year. -This necessitated placing four students in the larger rooms, and -three in nearly every other—too many by far, but there seemed to be -no other way. They begged to be received, while the two or three -already in the room, urging us to admit one more, made it difficult -to refuse. Put yourself, dear reader, in our place, and you will -appreciate our condition, and why we allowed this crowding process. -It was the best that could be done under the circumstances. Besides -the one hundred in the boarding department, we had ninety-one day -pupils, making our total attendance during the year 191. We have -no primary department. Our numbers would have been very greatly -increased if we had had the room to store them. - -In educational and religious results the past year has been -our best. More and better work has been done. The training has -been more thorough and systematic, and the real progress more -satisfactory. This was to be expected. Each year increases largely -our own knowledge of the work and how best to do it. - -Our religious services have been more largely attended and richer -in results. A goodly number found Christ, and gave clear evidence -of a change of heart. One in particular, who had been intemperate -and profane to a sad degree, underwent a complete transformation. -Our Sunday school was well attended, drawing in quite a number from -the outside, while our prayer meetings, on Sunday and Thursday -evenings, were pleasant and profitable. - -The temperance society, with a pledge prohibiting the use of both -rum and tobacco, embraced nearly every student of the institution. -They gave evidence that they had joined for life. Many of them are -doing good work in this direction, in the schools where they are -now engaged in teaching. We have reason to feel deeply grateful for -the advancement along the whole line of our threefold yet one work. - -Our closing exercises won the praise of the many who were present. -Among these were Gov. Ireland, ex-Gov. E. M. Pease, Hon. Mr. Swain, -Comptroller of State, Judge Delaney of the Court of Appeals, Prof. -Hogg, at the head of the schools of Fort Worth, and many other -prominent citizens of Austin. - -Able addresses were made by all of the above gentlemen and others; -but among them all none was more cordial and appreciative than that -of Gov. Ireland. He urged the students to continue to press onward -and upward, assuring them that the hour was close at hand when -merit will determine every man’s position, and not the color of his -skin. All, including those named, expressed themselves surprised -and pleased at what they saw and heard. It was the brightest day in -our history. - -This brief summary of the work of the past year indicates, but -cannot fully unfold, our need of more room. Young men and women -in the same building is an unfortunate necessity. It is the best -and only thing that can be done with safety to the work, and even -this is full of danger. Then to be forced to refuse admittance -to so many is unpleasant. We ought to keep the streams flowing -toward us, and not turn them in other directions or cause them to -cease flowing altogether. As our only institution in the great -Empire State we ought to provide liberally for it, that it may -carry forward the work so auspiciously begun. No field can be more -inviting. Nowhere in all the South is there a more Catholic spirit. -Everything conspires to insure large returns on all investments -in this department of Christian effort. Are there not friends who -will now come forward and render us needed help in the hour of our -necessity? Twenty thousand dollars in cash or approved pledges and -the new hall will be begun. Some two thousand are already secured. -Monuments of finest brass will perish through the wearing passage -of the ages, but those erected for the uplifting of a race are -imperishable. Will you help erect this? - - * * * * * - - -LETTER FROM FLORENCE, ALA. - -A person in attendance on revival meetings at this place writes to -Dr. Roy: - -“I hasten to tell you what a dear Saviour I have found. I have -accepted Him as mine and I mean to serve and trust Him the rest -of my life. Last Sunday the 20th year to a day since my marriage, -I resolved to be a Christian, but thought I would wait till the -middle of the week before starting. On last evening (Monday) I -drove my team down to the boat for passengers, but on finding that -I would probably have to carry them back and hence be kept from the -meeting, I drove away and attended church. When the invitation was -given I could wait no longer; went forward, gave my heart to Jesus, -and to-day I am a new man, not ashamed to tell the world. I was so -glad that I wish others could this afternoon in the praise meeting -speak for my Saviour, whose pleadings I have so long withstood. I -wanted to write you these words, because I knew you were anxious -for my salvation. How glad have I been always to meet you. No man -would I rather see or hear talk than you. You have caused me to -shed many a tear, but you didn’t know it. Oh I am so glad that -the Lord spared me that I might return to Him. I mean to give the -balance of my days to the blessed master. Shall do all I can to -have others come to Him and live for Him; pray for me that I may be -strong and useful. The Evangelist and his good wife are truly sent -out by the Lord. - -“Bro. Brown and they work nicely together. We just seem to be -in a good way. No doubt many will be converted. Up to this time -twelve have been brought out into the light. The Christians are -strengthened, the church encouraged and a good feeling prevails -among the people.” - - * * * * * - - -LETTER FROM McINTOSH, Ga. - -FROM REV. FLOYD SNELSON. - -Our school work has been vigilantly prosecuted this year, somewhat -to the end that the great demand which is made upon us for persons -to teach the public schools in this and adjoining counties might be -met. We have twenty-eight students licensed and sent out to work -this year, who have received all or a part of their training in our -school. Still a great many more are wanted. I have appeals before -me now for teachers for seven schools, made up and ready to begin -at any time, that I cannot supply. I do hope to see the day when -some lover of humanity will aid us with the facilities of a regular -boarding-school here, that this great need of teachers in the -common schools may be met. The twenty-eight that have gone out this -year to teach are allowed from 20 to 40 pupils. With an average of -30 in each of their schools, they will be able to start a light in -the dark minds of 840 needy ones. - -Our church work, I am very thankful to say, has also received an -additional Divine recognition. At our last communion season, which -was held July 22, sixteen persons, hopefully converted, came into -the fellowship of the church, and six children were brought to be -baptized. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. - -—An effort is being made by Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Paris, Texas, to -organize a church at Dood City, where he has been holding special -meetings. - -—A new house of worship has been dedicated at Belle Place, La. Rev. -Wm. Butler, pastor, was assisted by Rev. W. R. Polk, of New Iberia, -in the dedicatory services. The A. M. A. furnished a portion of the -funds for the building. - -—Rev. B. F. Foster, who labored the past year as pastor and -teacher at Fayetteville, Ark., will prosecute his studies at the -Theological Seminary, Chicago. Rev. John M. Shippen, a recent -graduate of the Theological Department of Howard University, has -accepted an invitation to occupy the place vacated by Mr. Foster. - -—Rev. George W. Moore, a graduate of Fisk University and Oberlin -Theological Seminary, has assumed the pastoral care of the Lincoln -Memorial Church, Washington, D.C., under favorable auspices. He is -to supply Dr. Rankin’s pulpit one Sunday. - -—Rev. Zechariah Simmons, a licentiate of the North Carolina -Association, has been appointed to take charge of the mission -at Woodbridge, N.C., with reference to the organization of a -church. The A. M. A. has recently purchased a parsonage for his -accommodation. - -—The church in Oaks, Alamance Co., N.C., is building a comfortable -house of worship under the supervision of Rev. J. N. Ray, its -pastor, who has received $100 from the A. M. A. for the furtherance -of the enterprise. Miss E. W. Douglass, an experienced missionary -teacher, has been appointed to labor at this point. - -—Mr. G. W. Jackson and his wife (Rose McCutcheon) are pushing their -mission day and Sunday-school work at Whiteside, Tenn. They have -been visited by Rev. Jos. E. Smith and Mrs. Steele of Chattanooga, -and meetings of much promise have been held. - -—The _Clarion_, of Jackson, Miss., gives an interesting report -of the colored Congregational Church, organized by the A. M. A. -in that city, with Rev. C. L. Harris, pastor. The church has a -membership of 16 and a Sabbath-school of 63. Services are held in -the hall of the Hope Fire Company. The citizens of Jackson have -subscribed liberally toward the erection of a house of worship. - -—Rev. S. N. Brown, while furnishing a vacation supply at Florence, -Ala., has been assisted by the evangelist, Rev. J. E. Fields, in a -series of revival meetings, which has resulted in an addition of -twenty members to the church. This is the church which was so much -depleted by the Exodus. - -—Rev. A. W. Curtis, of Marion, Ala., on invitation of Rev. Dr. -Raymond, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has preached on -exchange with him. This is said to be the first expression of -fellowship of this kind the A. M. A. preachers have received at the -South. Mr. Curtis has also accepted an invitation to exchange with -the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the same city. - -—Rev. Geo. W. Clark of Athens, Ga., and his people, with aid from -the A. M. A., have purchased a lot and are proceeding to build a -house of worship. Up to this time they have held their services in -the chapel of Knox Institute. - -—The A. M. A. is building a church at Pekin, N.C., with -accommodations for school purposes. - -—The church at Chattanooga, Tenn. (Rev. Jos. E. Smith, pastor), -have built a new fence about the meeting house, which has been -painted outside and inside and beautifully frescoed. - -—The St. Louis _Globe-Democrat_ says, in connection with the Press -Convention: “One remarkable paper was that represented at the -Convention by its business manager, R. C. Edmondson. It was _The -Fisk Herald_, a college paper published at the Fisk University -in Nashville, Tenn.; in fact, the only college paper the colored -people have. It is a nice eight-page tinted paper, well printed -and generally well reading journal.” The _Daily World_ says: “The -present number is of neat typographical appearance, and is filled -with interesting reading matter. A liberal encouragement should be -extended to this enterprise.” - -—The President of the Produce Exchange, Wilmington, N.C., speaking -of the school of the A. M. A., says: “The boys, after leaving -the institution, get employment more readily than others, because -their moral principles are higher, and because they are generally -better fitted for intelligent occupation than the majority of those -who profess to have received an elementary education. The people -of Wilmington have great cause for thankfulness that our Negro -population is so law-abiding and faithful to duty; and to take -courage from the results already accomplished in a transition so -violent from a life of slavery to that of freedom and citizenship -in the eyes of the law. The utmost harmony has prevailed between -the races for many years past, and instances of disagreement -between employers and employed are far more rare than among the -whites in the North.” - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - - -RECRUITS FOR THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION. - -REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -I trust that our friends do not forget how God has begun to fulfil -the prayer which the motto of our mission, “China for Christ,” -and the hearts of our Chinese Christians sent up during so many -years, in the establishment by the American Board of a Mission in -China to co-operate with ours, and to reach, first of all, the -swarming millions in those districts from which our immigrants -have come. In connection with the departure of Bro. Hager to this -field, our Congregational Association of Christian Chinese gave -$500 in cash, and one of its best members and my best helpers as a -co-laborer. Bro. Hager has established his head-quarters at Hong -Kong and has gathered there a school similar in all respects to -ours in California. But this is only a rendezvous. The main work -is elsewhere, preaching the gospel and scattering the word of life -on the main land. Lee Sam is busy with this already; enduring -hardness as a good soldier, and working almost alone. But he will -not be suffered to work long alone. Our helper for years past at -Sacramento, Lem Chung, sailed for China more than six weeks ago, -and has already, we hope been welcomed at Hong Kong. Sustaining for -years a relation to the Chinese of Sacramento every way equivalent -to that which an American pastor sustains in the community where -he labors, he so commended himself by his mental capacity, his -faithfulness, his Christian spirit and consistent walk that while -our Chinese brethren clung to him as few American churches do to -their pastors, he was also “of good report,” or, as the revision -reads it, “has good testimony from them that are without,” both -Chinese and Americans. Whether he will remain permanently in China -is not decided, but so long as he does remain, I doubt not he will -be ready for every good word and work. And now three others among -our helpers, Hong Sing of Santa Cruz, Wong Him Wong of Stockton -and Lou Quong of the West School in this city, are making ready to -depart. They go together. They hope to begin missionary work on -the steamer. They hope to continue it when they reach their native -land. We shall miss them greatly. They have approved themselves -in our service, workmen that needed not to be ashamed, rightly -dividing the word of truth and illustrating its power in their -consistent lives. But with reference to our great purpose, “China -for Christ,” our loss is a gain, and we gladly take others to fill -the vacant places, hoping that these too, trained to preach by -preaching and to teach by teaching, will follow their brethren to -the dark regions across the wide sea. - -At the time of this writing, a fortnight remains before the close -of our fiscal year. Toward the $12,500 which our work for the year -_must_ cost, we have received in cash and pledges $11,800. To find -$700 more within these two weeks seems to be quite impossible, -by virtue of any resources remaining within the superintendent’s -reach. He repeats over to himself: “My God shall supply all your -need;” he recounts to himself the many mercies past; and how, again -and again, in his own experience, what seemed impossible has come -to pass, and still he questions and he doubts, and asking, seeking, -knocking, can do no better than to cry, “Lord I believe, help thou -mine unbelief.” Before this reaches the eye of our readers, the -fiscal year will have closed, and the account will be made up: yet -_not so closed_ but that if any of our readers are willing to share -with me the load which open doors and proffered harvests have laid -upon me, their help would be most welcome and most _timely_. - - * * * * * - - - - -BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK. - -MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY. - - * * * * * - - -MEETING OF BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK. - -In connection with the Annual Meeting of the A. M. A. in Brooklyn, -notice of which is given elsewhere, there will be a Woman’s Meeting -in the interest of our Bureau of Woman’s Work. Report of mission -work among the Chinese on the Pacific Coast will be made by Mrs. -W. C. Pond, wife of Superintendent Pond; on Indian Missions, by -Mrs Alfred L. Riggs, wife of the Principal of our Santee School, -Nebraska; on work among the mountain whites of Kentucky, by Mrs. A. -A. Myers, wife of Rev. Mr. Myers, our missionary in that region; -on work among the colored people, by Miss Anna M. Cahill, late -Principal of Normal Department, Fisk University. Other ladies will -participate in the meeting, particulars concerning which, and also -as to the hour of the meeting, will be given in the religious press -at a later date. - - * * * * * - - -THE PAPER MISSION, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. - -BY MISS NANCY MARSH, PROVIDENCE, R.I. - -Since we commenced our mission, May, 1880, we have received many -letters asking “What can I do?” To such we have made various -suggestions. - -In Stoneham, Mass., the ladies felt they could not send boxes, but -wished to do something, so organized the “Stevens Home Missionary -Society,” and have sent to various places 779 papers and pamphlets, -and 7 Sunday-school books. They have basted 1,465 blocks of -patch-work and sent to seven teachers in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, -North Carolina and Ladies Island; have basted also 49 handkerchiefs -“from pieces of cloth, to teach the children to sew, and give them -what they needed.” Postage $5.22. They have also corresponded with -several pastors and teachers. The Secretary says; “I am delighted -with some of the correspondence, and enjoy the work very much; am -so glad to help even a little in this good work. I love some of the -dear teachers very much, and it has all come through their dear -letters, heart touching heart, and all for Jesus. Thank you for all -the interest you have taken to help us get started, and for your -aid right along; we have had no names except what you have given -us.” This society has proved very efficient, and they have been so -grateful for the privilege of working, it has been a pleasure to -find them opportunities; it has done them good as well as others. -Some of these letters have been read in their missionary concerts, -and awakened an increasing interest in the community. - -A lady in Chesterfield, Ill., formerly a teacher in Utah, and some -young friends have basted 300 blocks of patch-work for teachers in -Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee, feeling, she says, “that -our greatest privilege is to work for the Lord.” - -A letter came to us from Middleboro, Mass., saying, “I am very -anxious to do something for the missionaries, and, as I am an -invalid, and unable to give money, I thought I could cut and baste -patch-work if nothing more.” Recently we received a card stating -“I have sent 600 blocks to Chattanooga, Tenn., I would be glad to -do more, but am now unable to do any kind of work, but hope to -sometime, if ever so little.” In answer to inquiries, this lady -says: “The work I sent Mrs. S—— I did lying on my reclining chair -nearly as flat as a bed; but have been confined to my bed many -weeks at a time, and suffering more than words can tell.” Surely -this service performed for the Master, in such weariness and pain, -shall not lose its reward. - -From Claremont, N.H., the question came: “What can a mission circle -do for Christmas?” We suggested a place as affording ample scope -for their ingenuity and generosity; so “the Sunbeams” (the mission -circle) 25 in number, from six to fourteen years, sent rays of -light and gladness to cheer the hearts of these desolate people -in the shape of picture-frames, book-marks, work and scrap-bags, -mittens, pin-balls, spectacle-cases for the old ladies, etc. The -ladies of this place also sent a box of second-hand clothing, which -was greatly needed. - -There has been much labor in corresponding with so many persons: -69 letters and postals have been written. This includes work only -among the Freedmen, yet we have rejoiced in the interest awakened -in various places by this means, and are glad to help this good -cause in every way in our power. Aid has been given in various ways -and different places, which, including postage, makes $37.24. This -_patch-work_ has become quite an institution, 2,504 blocks have -been sent, greatly helping the teachers in their work, saving their -time and strength, and helping to form habits of industry which -are so essential to the well-being of these women and young girls, -thus fitting them for usefulness in the future. One old lady, who -is much interested in the young, and fond of patch-work, gave us -78 blocks very nicely basted, which were sent to Ladies Island, -so meeting the needs of a young girl whose quilt had come to a -standstill for want of materials. - -In 1882, in order to enlarge our field of operations, we sent -to Dr. Strieby for new names of pastors and teachers among the -Freedmen, and are now able to report that we have forwarded to the -Southern States 1,021 papers and pamphlets, 339 lesson papers, -122 tracts, 74 Scripture cards and 103 Christmas cards; postage -$5.72. Besides these, papers have been sent by several persons -in different States. A teacher in Texas writes, “I should like -Sunday-school papers, temperance, and other tracts, to distribute -as I visit among the people.” “Can make use of the patch-work -and any other sewing prepared; thanks for encouraging words, and -sympathy, we need your constant and earnest prayers.” - -From N.C.—“Your Christmas cards reached us safely; the children -enjoyed their gifts, and received them gratefully. My field is not -an easy one, but I am endeavoring with the Master’s help to plant -and replant fruitful seed. Any good reading matter is acceptable. -I need material for my sewing school (one dozen spools of cotton -and six crochet needles, were sent to this school by two young -ladies). Your letter was full of encouragement and good advice, -and strengthened me much. My work is chiefly among the children, -have 50 or 60 in Sunday-school in the morning, and about the same -number attend the Band of Hope every Sabbath afternoon. We have -prayer-meetings every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. I -have also a Bible-class for adults, which I teach an hour and a -half every Wednesday evening. Have received the patch-work from -Mrs. M., it is indeed a great help to have it basted, my time is so -occupied.” - -Ga.—The teacher writes: “Thanks for your interest in us, we pay -for our Sunday school papers, for we think the people prize them -more when they pay for them; but I can send what I receive into -the country, where they are very glad of them; sent your roll last -night out twenty-five miles to a place where they have nothing to -help them; have several places to which I can send, and profitably -use all I receive. We are trying to give the people a little -instruction in mission work; and take up a collection once in three -months; this people need nothing more than to understand that there -are others as poor as themselves, and they certainly are very poor, -but, as they receive, they must also give; true growth comes from -looking out. Our day school has over 100, and our Sunday school -nearly as many more, some coming four or five miles, and have been -very enthusiastic in their work. My scholars are looking forward to -teaching. Last summer 14 were out, and more will probably go this -summer. We are hoping to give them better ideas of religion, that -they may help to change the character of the coming generation. We -have organized a “Woman’s Missionary Society.” They are to meet -from house to house, taking their supper with them; think it will -go far toward making them better housekeepers, as well as teaching -them to make things, which they will sell, and so get a little -money into their treasury, then they can send a dollar to some -cause in which they are interested. Pray for the success of this -society for through it, I hope to reach the homes, and there is so -much to be done in the homes before there can be much improvement.” - -We have had cheering words from pastors in Arkansas and Kentucky, -telling of souls converted, Christians revived and children -gathered into Sunday schools. Our papers have been given where -there is great destitution of reading matter. - -At Christmas a few cards and papers were sent to a pastor in -Childersburg, Ala. He writes: “I want to thank your class for -their gifts to the children, who are destitute of such things. Our -church was burned a year ago, after a temperance lecture, but the -people are building better than before. We held services in our -church last winter without a stove, and the house all open, yet we -trust the Lord was with us; our school numbered 30 or 40 during the -cold weather and a larger number when pleasant. There are many who -cannot read, and many who can have no Bibles.” - -We have been much interested in these pastors and teachers, some -of them have made great sacrifices, and though not appreciated by -those who should sustain and encourage them, future generations -will rise up and call them blessed. We are very grateful to all the -kind friends who have helped us in our work by papers, postage, -patch-work, and in various ways and places, especially for the -Christian sympathy extended to these pastors and teachers. It has -been duly appreciated, and lightened many a burdened heart; so we -trust our “Paper Mission” has not been a failure in the Southern -States. - - * * * * * - - - - -CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -A TALK WITH THE CHILDREN. - -MISS IDA M. BEACH, SAVANNAH, GA. - -“The lady asked me was I agoin’ to hear the children make their -speeches,” said a little colored girl but just transplanted from -her Southern home to this Northern land. - -“What do you mean?” I asked. - -“Why, it is breakin’ up day in the schoolhouse over yonder, and the -children are goin’ to speak.” - -[Illustration: - - _From Harper’s Young People._ - -TOPSY LEFT ALONE.] - -Sitting by my window the next day, voices of children attracted -my attention. Looking up I saw two little ones—a brother and -sister—trudging along followed by another little girl. I noticed -the fresh white dresses and pretty aprons, and that they seemed -to be very much in earnest about something. A half hour later -the mother passed, and it dawned upon me, then, that it was the -“last day of school.” Afterward, riding by the school-house, and -peeping in, I saw rows of bright children and many happy parents -and friends. It brought to my mind another “last day,” where were -children dressed by just as loving hands in their white lawns, and -pink and cream buntings. Their songs were just as well sung—perhaps -better—for a lady, after spending a day in a public school of a New -England city, wrote: “The children are trained by a music teacher -who receives $800 a year, but their singing could not be compared -to that we heard by the pupils of ——,” referring to these of whom -I am telling you. Their little “speeches” were recited just as -distinctly; the teachers were just as proud; the parents just as -happy, nay, happier. I’ll tell you why by and by. - -Have you studied U.S. History? And do you remember the story of our -late Civil War? Then you know that one result of it was that nearly -four million slaves, who were owned by other people, to be bought -and sold like any other property, were made free. They could go -where they chose; work as they wanted to; receive the wages they -earned; make homes for themselves, and not be afraid that their -children would be torn away from them to go with another master. - -If you should take the cars in Richmond and ride though—what -States?—till you came to Florida, you would pass through miles and -miles of pinelands scattered all along. Set right in among the pine -trees are little log cabins, the homes of many of these people. -Owning little farms, raising their rice and corn, cotton and sweet -potatoes, they seem very happy indeed. I heard snatches of “Hold -the Fort” coming from within one of these cabins, and remembered -seeing a little church not far away, so I think they must have -Sunday-school, and use the “Gospel Hymns,” don’t you? - -Stopping over one train in a Southern city, and inquiring for the -homes of the colored people, you will be directed to almost any -lane. Shall I tell you about one I visited? - -Clara told me where to find her. Hunting around among many houses -which were nearly alike, I suddenly saw a face at a window which -I knew must be that of Clara’s mother. I crossed the street and -knocked at the door. It was old and weather-beaten, and fairly -creaked as I rapped. - -A little old woman, with a white turban bound about her head, -opened the door. With a courtesy and warm greeting she offered -me a chair. The floor was uncarpeted, but as clean as frequent -scrubbings with soap and water could make it. - -Two sticks were burning in the open fire-place, before which stood -a half dozen flat-irons. Mrs. —— apologized for “bein’ a ironin’ on -a Saturday,” and after giving a few finishing touches to a piece on -the board sat down to tell me about Clara. - -“My husban’ is dead, an’ it is very hard to get an hones’ livin’ -an’ keep Clara in school. She ain’t strong, ma’am, Clara ain’t, an’ -can’t do much hard work, but she love’ her books an’ want to teach. -She was graduate’ las’ year, but nothing would do but I mus’ sen’ -her this year. It is mighty hard to get the money, you know, ma’am, -but I never can give her nothing but an education. I never had none -myself, but, Clara, she is right smart in her books, ma’am. I wants -her to be educated.” The same story oft repeated, “the children, -the children they mus’ be educated.” - -Do you know, now, why those mothers were so happy when listening to -the songs and recitations of their children? Can you realize how -proud they are when they find that Nehemiah and Charles Henry can -read and write like any white boys? - -Who will hunt up nine others and be one of ten to save ten cents -each month to pay the tuition of one of these children? - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1883. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $222.07. - - Bangor. First Cong. Ch., 18.61; Rev. Joseph - Smith, 10 $28.61 - Bluehill. Mrs. E. W. Mayo, 4; Mrs. H. W. J., 1 5.00 - Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 12.85 - Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 69.60; Marshall - Cram, 10 79.60 - Brunswick. Mrs. John D. Lincoln, _for Selma, - Ala._ 2.00 - Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.02 - Ferry Village. Rev. R. D. Osgood 10.00 - Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.38 - Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Macon, Ga._ 3.00 - Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc. 21.61 - Limington. Miss A. Boothby 4.00 - Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $234.62. - - Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Candia Village. Jona. Martin 5.00 - Derry. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.65 - East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker 20.00 - Goffstown. Cong Ch. 37.74, and Sab. Sch., - 1.55, to const. MRS. HATTIE A. PAIGE L. M.; - “A Friend,” 30, to const. MISS LUELLA D. - CARPENTER L. M. 69.29 - Hampstead. Miss Ann M. Howard 5.00 - Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Mount Vernon. Cong Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.58 - Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.10 - West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 - - - VERMONT, $164.96. - - Barre. Cong. Ch. 12.50 - Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.00 - Jeffersonville. “A Friend.” 25.00 - Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 20.47; and Sab. - Sch., 1.80 22.27 - Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Foster - Hall Reading Room, Talladega C._ 20.00 - Pittsford. “D.” 1.00 - Post Mill Village. Mrs. C. M. Holbrook 1.00 - Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. 13.05 - Tyson Furnace. —— 1.14 - Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - ——. “Rutland Co.” 3.00 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $2,078.81. - - Amesbury. C. F. Hovey, 10.40; E. P. Elliott, 50c. 10.90 - Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 - Amherst. G. C. Munsell 2.00 - Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 17.00 - Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl. 0.25 - Blackstone. H. Hodgson 1.50 - Boston. “In memory of little Fannie,” 10; Mrs. - Susan Collin, 1 11.00 - Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.57 - Brookfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., - _for Fisk U._ - Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.27 - Coleraine. Mrs. Prudence Smith 2.50 - Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch., 32.17; Mrs. - Henrietta M. Daniels, 10 42.17 - Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00 - Granby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 80.00 - Haverhill. G. Merrill and wife, 150; Centre - Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34; Mrs. Mary B. Jones, 10 194.00 - Hopkinton. “Friends” 2.00 - Housatonic. Cong. Soc. 50.56 - Hubbardston. “A Friend” 4.50 - Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc. of First Cong. - Ch., Bundle of Goods, _for Santee Agency, Neb._ - Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for - Indian Aid, Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 50.00 - Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc 20.00 - Long Meadow. Gent’s Benev. Soc. 21.60 - Lowell. Rodolphus Stevens 15.00 - Lunenburg. “L. L. E. N.,” a Chronometer. - Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. & Soc. 10.00 - Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc., (30 of which to - const. REV. THEOPHILUS PARSONS SAWIN L. M., - and 30 from D. W. Wilcox to const. MISS EMMA - JOSEPHINE WILCOX, L. M.) 122.15 - Middletown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. - SAMUEL N. ROGERS and ALBERT W. LINCOLN, L. - Ms. 72.35 - Mill River. M. R. Wilcox 10.00 - Monson. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Mrs. C. O. - Chapin, 5 25.00 - Monterey. Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Newburyport. “A Friend” 5.00 - Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.60 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.97 - Peabody. “A Friend,” to const. MISS SUSANNA - MILLS, L. M. 30.00 - Phillipston. D. & L. Mixter 2.00 - Randolph. Miss Abbie W. Turner 10.00 - Reading. “A. H. M. S.” 2.50 - Revere. “A Friend,” by Mrs. A. S. Steele, _for - Orphans from Chattanooga at Tougaloo U._ 50.00 - Rockport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.30 - Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Fisk U._ 30.00 - Shelburne. First Cong. Soc. 83.76 - South Easton. “A Friend” 20.00 - South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - South Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc. 36.64 - Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 23.92; Hope - Cong. Ch. 39 62.92 - Sudbury. U. E. Ch. and Soc. 20.80 - Sunderland. Cong. Ch and Soc 40.00 - Sunderland. “M.” 2.00 - Wakefield. “Mission Workers,” _for Indian - girl, Bird’s Nest, Santee Agency_ 30.00 - West Boylston. Polly W. Ames, 3; Geo. W. Ames, - 2.50 5.50 - West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Worcester. Hiram Smith and family 30.00 - -------- - $1,508.31 - - LEGACY. - - Milbury. Estate of Asa Hayden, by Harriet W. - Hayden, Extx. 570.50 - -------- - $2,078.81 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $584.00. - - Central Falls. Cong. Ch 63.00 - Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 - Providence. Geo. H. Corliss 500.00 - - - CONNECTICUT, $3,398.82. - - Berlin. Mrs. C. M. Jarvis, _for Woman’s Work_ 5.00 - Bethel. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Birmingham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Branford. H. G. Harrison 5.00 - Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch. 4.15 - Central Village. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Chester. “I. O.” 5.00 - East Hampton. Cong Ch. 25.00 - Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. _for - Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ - Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. CLARENCE - BROWNING VORCE, L. M. 30.00 - Goshen. Cong. Ch. 14.78 - Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch., adl. 18.30 - Greenwich. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.31 - Griswold. First Cong.. Ch. 30.00 - Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100: Jos. W. - Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 7 207.00 - Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss 5.00 - New Britain. Mrs. Alonzo Astor 3.00 - New Haven. Nelson Hall 50.00 - Norfolk. “B.” 2.00 - North Guilford. Sarah R Fowler 6.00 - Norwich Town. “*. Cong. Ch.” 35.00 - Plantsville. “A Friend.” 300; E. E. Stone, - 100; H. D. Smith. 100; Stephen Walker, 60; - Geo. F. Smith, 25; E. W. Twichell, 25; O. W. - Stone, 20; W. S. Ward. 10; Mrs. J. C. P., 5; - C. L. Ames, 5; C. D. Smith, 5, _for Atlanta - U._ 655.00 - Putnam. Ladies, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 2.00 - Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch. 32.14 - Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - South Britain. Cong Ch. 36.00 - Stafford. Mrs. T. H. Thresher 5.00 - Stamford. “A Friend ” 5.00 - Terryville. Cong. Ch. 180, to const. MAGGIE - MCNAUGHTON, SUSIE BELLE GRANNIS, LURA - GENEVIEVE BUNNELL, ANNIE S. COOK and EMMA C. - L. CASTLE L. Ms.; Elizur Fenn. 5; Mrs. - Elizur Fenn, 5 190.00 - Thomaston. Cong Ch. 24.46 - Tolland. Cong. Ch. 13.59 - Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.43 - Union. Cong. Ch. 2.12 - West Hartford. Cong. Ch. 30.40 - West Hartford. Anson Chappell 5.00 - West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. 201.27 - Wethersfield. First Ch of Christ 60.59 - Wolcott. Cong. Ch. 10.03 - Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.25 - --------- - $1,798.82 - - LEGACIES. - - Goshen. Estate of Miss Sarah Beach, by Henry - Norton, Ex. 500.00 - New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven - (_of which_ $300 _for Talladega C._ and $200 - _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._) 850.00 - Orange. Estate of Mrs. H. Coe, by L. W. - Cutler. Ex. 250.00 - --------- - $3,398.82 - - - NEW YORK, $22,720.10. - - Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock 5.00 - Binghamton. Mrs. Chauncey Bean, _for Woman’s - Work_ 5.00 - Blauveltville. “A Friend” 1.50 - Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. _for - Missionaries, Fernandina, Fla._ 100.00 - Clifton Springs. Rev. Lewis Bodwell 2.00 - Coventryville. First Cong. Ch. 10.56 - Eaton. Cong. Ch. 13.25 - Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Ithaca. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. - Dept., Talladega C._ 35.00 - New York. “Friends” 50.00 - Nyack. John W. Towt 50.00 - Port Byron. Sarah B. Osburn, _for Chinese M._ 0.50 - Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch. 40.08 - Sherburne. Cong. Ch. 59.41 - West Groton. Cong. Ch. 19.54 Sab. Sch. 1.46 21.00 - Wellsville. Cong. Ch. 22.97 - Yaphank. Mrs. Hampton Overton, _for Chinese M._ 5.00 - ——. —— 60.08 - ------- - $491.35 - - LEGACIES. - - Deansville. Estate of Mrs. Polly M. Barton, by - D. W. Barton and Jos. F. Barton, Exs. 500.00 - Victor. Estate of Emeline Lewis, by D. Henry - Osborne, Ex. 21,728.75 - ---------- - $22,720.10 - - - NEW JERSEY, $1,110.00. - - Newfield. Rev. Charles Willy 10.00 - LEGACY. - Orange. Estate of John Hancock, by Exs. 1100.00 - --------- - $1,110.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $26.23. - - Cambridgeboro. Cong. Ch., 13.23; Ladies’ - Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch., 10 23.23 - Troy. Moss Grove Sab. Sch. 3.00 - - - OHIO, $302.87. - - Adam Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00 - Ashtabula. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. Dept., - Talladega C._ 28.20 - Chatham Center. Cong. Ch. 26.37 - Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch. 51.09 - Garrettsville. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Medina. Cong. Ch., to const. C. B. ABBOTT and - FRANK NETTLETON L. Ms. 75.12 - Medina. Ladies Miss’y Soc. _for Talladega C., - Freight_ 2.00 - Newburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. 8.52 - Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 20.57 - Toledo. First Cong. Ch. 52.00 - Wakeman. B. T. Strong 5.00 - Willoughby. Mary P. Hastings 12.00 - - - INDIANA, $10.00. - - Auburn. James Adams 10.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $508.46. - - Chenoa. Cong. Ch. 13.35 - Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 108.83; N. E. Cong. - Ch., 64.68; “A Friend” 50, to const. JAMES - W. PORTER L. M. 223.51 - Chicago. U. P. Cong. Sab Sch., _for Student - Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00 - Chicago. C. H. Morse, Scales, val. 31.75, _for - Talladega C._ - Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 35.00 - Hutsonville. C. V. Newton 5.00 - La Harpe. Cong. Ch. 10.50 - Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 24.41 - Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 14.36 - Newark. Horace Day 5.00 - Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens 10.00 - Prospect Park. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - Roseville. L. C. Axtell 100.00 - Woodburn. Cong. Ch. 10.33 - - - MICHIGAN, $126.33. - - Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. 31.41 - Benzonia. “A Friend” 10.00 - Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch. (3 of which from - Mrs. C. C. P. Taylor) 30.92 - Kalamazoo. “*” 3.00 - North Leoni. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Northville. D. Pomeroy 5.00 - Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok 20.00 - Ransom. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of First Cong. Ch., - _for Indian M._ 10.00 - Vermontville. “A Friend” 10.00 - - - IOWA, $272.13. - - Alden. Cong. Ch. 7.40 - Cedar Rapids. Mrs. T. M. Sinclair, _for a New - Mission, Poncas Indians_ 200.00 - Eldora. Cong. Ch. 4.68 - Grinnell. Prof. Fisk P. Brewer, _for Raleigh, - N.C._ 10.00 - Le Mars. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.61 - Lewis. Cong. Ch., 13; Mrs. O. C. Warne, 5 18.00 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 10.44 - Peterson. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - Sioux Rapids. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - -------- - $262.13 - - LEGACY. - - Grinnell. Estate of E. Marvin, by W. B. & J. - M. Dunn, Exrs. 10.00 - ------ - $272.13 - - - WISCONSIN, $359.14. - - Alderley. Mrs. Anna Reid, 2.50; Mrs. E. - Hubbard, $2.50 5.00 - Appleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 1.25; “A - Friend,” 75c., _for Lady Missionary, - Montgomery, Ala._ 2.00 - Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._ 2.46 - Beloit. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._ 75.85 - Bristol and Paris. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for - Lady Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._ 10.00 - Fond du Lac. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._ 10.00 - Janesville. Cong. Ch. 19.51 - Madison. First Cong. Ch. 75.00 - Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch. 43.32 - Racine. Mrs. Smith and Marsh 10.00 - Whitewater. “Friends,” by Prof. A. Salisbury, - _for Reading Rooms_ 106.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $131.27. - - Afton. L. I. Olds 10.00 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 41.18; Mrs. W. K. - Smith, 4.50 45.68 - Northfield. Cong Ch. 56.59 - Northfield. Mrs. Knowlton, 5; M. Bryant, 2; G. - M. Phillips, 2; Rev. A. Willey, 1.50; Mrs. - Norton, 1; Mrs. Nourse, 50c., _for Student - Aid, Talladega C._ 12.00 - Sauk Center. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D. 5.00 - Springfield. Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - - KANSAS, $34.34. - - Manhattan. First Cong. Ch. 20.64 - McPherson. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 6.70 - Olatne. Rev. W. W. McMillan 1.00 - ——. “W. H. M. S.” 6.00 - - - MISSOURI, $17.75. - - Brookfield. Cong. Ch. 7.75 - Kidder. S. O. Coult 5.00 - St. Louis. Mrs. R. Webb, _for Library, - Straight U._ 5.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $11.70. - - Creighton. First Cong. Ch. 6.70 - Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - DAKOTA, $10.06. - - Clark. Cong. Ch. 10.06 - - - COLORADO, $10.00. - - Colorado Springs. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 - - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $312.50. - - Washington. United States Gov., _for Sisseton - Agency_ 312.50 - - - TENNESSEE, $121.00. - - Chattanooga. Sales, by Mrs. A. S. Steele, _for - Orphans from Chattanooga at Tougaloo U._ 107.00 - Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Nashville. Howard Chapel Cong. Ch. 2.00 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00. - - Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $12.00. - - Charleston. Plymouth Ch. 10.00 - Greenwood. Coll. by Rev. L. C. J. 2.00 - - - GEORGIA, $82.50. - - Macon. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Lizzie A. Hodge, 15 30.00 - Savannah. Concert, Beach Inst, 32.50; Rent, 20 52.50 - - - ALABAMA, $121.90. - - Marion. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 2.20; Cong. - Ch., 55c. 2.75 - Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Selma. Cong Ch., 14.15; Temperance Concert, - 1.75 15.90 - Talladega. Talladega C. Tuition, 74.65; Cong. - Ch., 10 84.65 - Talladega. A. Bingham & Co., _for Needmore - Chapel, Talladega C._ 5.60 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $2.00. - - Jackson. Collected by Chas. L. Harris. 2. 00 - - - INCOMES, $287.85. - - Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 257.85 - Belden Fund, _for Talladega C._ 30.00 - - - TURKEY, $50.00. - - Constantinople. The Missionary Children’s - Missionary Soc. in Turkey and Bulgaria, by - Miss Belle Bliss, Treas., _for a girl, - Dakota Home_ 50.00 - - - INDIA, $4.85. - - Bombay. Women’s Benev. Sec., _for Dakota Home_ 4.85 - --------- - Total for August $33,333.26 - Total from Oct. 1 to Aug. 31 $262,579.95 - =========== - - - FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - Subscriptions 32.74 - Previously acknowledged 739.22 - ------- - Total $771.96 - ======= - - H. W. HUBBARD, Treas., - 56 Reade St., N.Y. - - * * * * * - - - - -PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. - - -ART. I. This society to be called the American Missionary -Association. - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort. - -ART. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of -thirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the -written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is -to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and -such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have -been completed. - -Every church which has within a year contributed to the funds of -the Association and every State Conference or Association of such -churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the -Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be -members of the Association for the year for which they were thus -appointed. - -ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in -the month of October or November, at such time and place as may be -designated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the -official publication of the Association for the preceding month. - -ART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, -five Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, -a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive -Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by -ballot. - -At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this -Constitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be -elected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for -three years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members -shall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others -as shall be required to fill vacancies. - -ART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting -and disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining -and dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of -missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies -in office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any -Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate -powers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries -and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in -general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the -Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies. -The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the -Annual Meeting. - -Five members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting -business. - -ART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association -who is not a member of some evangelical church. - -ART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may -appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency -of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon. - -ART. IX. 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XXXVII.</p> -<p class="xlarge center">NO. 10.</p> - -<h1>The American Missionary</h1> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> - <img src="images/header.jpg" width="500" height="412" alt="OCTOBER, 1883. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 10" /> -</div> - -<h2>CONTENTS</h2> - -<div class="center p1"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td> </td> - <td class="linenum smcap">Page.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Annual Meeting—Good as Three Weeks Revival</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_289">289</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Concert Exercise—Rev. Stephen R. Riggs, D.D.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_290">290</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Indian Work</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_291">291</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Visit to the Dakota Mission</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_292">292</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Relations of the Church to the Colored Race</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_294">294</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Pamphlet No. 8—A Hymn Book for our Churches</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_296">296</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Life not too Long—Benefactions</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_297">297</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">General Notes—Africa, Indian, Chinese</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_298">298</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Marauding Party in Africa - <span class="chaplinen">(cut)</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_299">299</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Reflex Influence of A. M. A.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_301">301</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">White Top Mountain, Virginia - <span class="chaplinen">(cut)</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_302">302</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE SOUTH.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Notes of an Educational Tour in Louisiana and Mississippi</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_303">303</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Word from Tillotson Institute</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_305">305</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Letter from Florence, Ala.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_306">306</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Letter from McIntosh, Ga.—Items from the Field</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_307">307</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Recruits for the South China Mission</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_309">309</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Meeting of Bureau of Woman’s Work—The - Paper Mission and What came of it</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_310">310</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">CHILDREN’S PAGE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Talk with the Children</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_312">312</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Topsy left Alone - <span class="chaplinen">(cut)</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_313">313</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline pp2">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_315">315</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline pp2">PROPOSED CONSTITUTION</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_317">317</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div> - <p class="center">NEW YORK:</p> - <p class="center">PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,</p> - <p class="center medium">Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</p> - - <hr class="quarter" /> - - <p class="center small">Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.</p> - <p class="center small">Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h2> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="medium center p1">PRESIDENT.</p> - -<p class="medium center"> - Hon. <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Washburn</span>, LL.D., Mass. -</p> - -<p class="medium center">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="medium center"> - Rev. <span class="smcap">M. E. Strieby</span>, D.D., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i> -</p> - -<p class="medium center">TREASURER.</p> - -<p class="medium center"> - <span class="smcap">H. W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i> -</p> - -<p class="medium center">AUDITORS.</p> - -<p class="medium center smcap"> - <span style="padding-right: 10px;">M. F. Reading.</span> - <span>Wm. A. Nash.</span> -</p> - - -<p class="medium center">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman; <span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>, -Secretary; <span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott</span>, <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>, -<span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>, <span class="smcap">C. T. Christensen</span>, <span class="smcap">Franklin -Fairbanks</span>, <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>, <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>, -<span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>, <span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>, <span class="smcap">Samuel S. -Marples</span>, <span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead</span>, <span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward</span>, -<span class="smcap">A. L. Williston</span></p> - - -<p class="medium center">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<p class="medium center"> - <span style="padding-right: 10px;">Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Woodworth</span>, D.D., <i>Boston</i>.</span> - Rev. <span class="smcap">G. D. Pike</span>, D.D., <i>New York</i>. -</p> -<p class="medium center">Rev. <span class="smcap">James Powell</span>, <i>Chicago</i>.</p> - -<p class="medium center">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="medium">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to -the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting -fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of -the “American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New -York Office; letters for the Bureau of Woman’s Work, to Miss D. E. -Emerson, at the New York Office.</p> - - -<p class="medium center">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p class="medium">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.</p> - - -<p class="medium center">FORM OF A BEQUEST.</p> - -<p class="medium">“<a id="Err_1" name="Err_1"></a><span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— -dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to -the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer -of the ‘American Missionary Association,’ of New York City, to be -applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the -Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should -be attested by three witnesses.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div style="margin: 10px; 0; 10px; 0;"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> - <img src="images/arcadia1.jpg" width="500" height="89" alt="FINEST ARCADIA BEST" /> -</div> -<p class="center xxxlarge gesperrt">VELVETEEN.</p> -<div style="width: 100%; display: block;"> - <div class="sidebyside" style="max-width: 20%;"> - <p class="center">GODEY’S</p> - <p class="center">LADY’S BOOK</p> - <p class="center medium">SAYS:</p> -<p class="left medium">“The <span class="smcap">Arcadia Velveteen</span>. It is ... much sought after for -jackets and trimmed suits for children’s costumes and ladies’ -dinner dresses. Its cost is also an element in its success, as it -can be purchased at the same price as ordinary brands.”</p> - </div> - - <div class="sidebyside" style="border-right: black solid 1px; border-left: black solid 1px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; max-width: 58%;"> - <div class="sidebyside" style="margin-left: 2px;"> - <img src="images/arcadia2.jpg" width="100" height="259" alt="girl" /> - </div> - <div class="sidebyside" style="max-width: 65%;"> - <p class="center">FOR CHILDREN’S COSTUMES,</p> - <p class="center small">THERE IS NOTHING IN THE MARKET THAT CAN COMPARE WITH THE</p> - <p class="center">ARCADIA.</p> - <p><em>The advantages claimed for this Velveteen are not few. First, the -color, which is positive and lustrous in all shades. The appearance -is certainly very handsome and not easily distinguished from -velvet; it is thinner and finer in texture, and consequently less -heavy than ordinary velveteen, and takes the needle more easily -than any other make, and finally it will outwear any other material -of equal finish and dress.</em></p> - <p class="medium">For the protection of the consumer we stamp every yard.</p> - <div class="center"> - <img src="images/arcadia4.jpg" width="180" height="93" alt="ARCADIA VELVETEEN (REGISTERED)" /> - </div> - <p class="medium">Be sure and look on the back of goods, and see you find this stamp.</p> - </div> - <div class="sidebyside"> - <img src="images/arcadia3.jpg" width="100" height="259" alt="girl" /> - </div> - </div> - - <div class="sidebyside" style="max-width: 20%;"> - <p class="center">THE</p> - <p class="center">BAZAR</p> - <p class="center medium">SAYS:</p> -<p class="left medium">“The <span class="smcap">Arcadia Velveteen</span> is an improvement upon ordinary -velveteen that is sure to be thoroughly appreciated, not only -during the coming winter, but for many seasons.”</p> - </div> -</div> -<div> - <div class="thirdm xxlarge right"><b>SOLD BY</b></div> - <div class="tthirds center"><b>all Dry Goods Dealers, and at Wholesale by</b><br /> - <span style="margin-left: 1em;"><b>SHAEN & CHRISTIE, 165 Church St., New York, U.S.A.</b></span> - </div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_289" id="Page_289">[289]</a></p> - -<div class="article"> - <p class="center">THE</p> - <p class="xxxlarge center smcap">American Missionary.</p> - - <hr class="full top" /> - <div> - <div class="third smcap" style="padding-left: 2%;">Vol. XXXVII.</div> - <div class="third center">OCTOBER, 1883.</div> - <div class="third right">No. 10.</div> - </div> - <hr class="full bottom" /> - - <h2 title="EDITORIAL">American Missionary Association.</h2> - <hr class="chap" /> - - <h3>ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> - -<p>Preparations for our forthcoming Annual Meeting, to convene in the -Central Church, Brooklyn, October 30, are progressing favorably. -The indications are that we shall have one of the most important -meetings ever held by this Association. We hope to be able to -announce through the religious press and otherwise, in good season, -such particulars relating to speakers and accommodations as will be -of interest to our readers. For the present we refer them to the -announcement on the 4th page cover of this <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>GOOD AS THREE WEEKS REVIVAL.</h3> - -<p>The value of the annual meetings of our great missionary societies -is not measured chiefly by the amount of business transacted, -important and necessary as that is. The information imparted might -be gathered otherwise, but the full benefit to mind and heart can -only be had by participating in the devotions, the instructions in -righteousness, and, indeed, the arousements that are found among -the vast throng that assemble on these occasions. Dr. Withrow said, -at the Saratoga meeting of the Home Missionary Society: “These -three days are worth as much as three weeks revival in giving -a spiritual uplift to the churches.” We believe this to be no -extravagant assertion. Great religious gatherings of some sort have -been common from time immemorial. These have varied according to -the developments of the age.</p> - -<p>The problem of the church to-day is the world’s conversion. All -other questions are but side issues. The wonderful developments -of our modern civilization have been preparatory. They have made -it possible for the church to make rapid strides in hastening the -triumphs of the Redeemer’s kingdom. The facilities are ready. -Young men and women with trained faculties for the work are being -graduated from our schools of learning<a class="pagenum" name="Page_290" id="Page_290">[290]</a> by the thousands. Nothing -is lacking but the disposition—the mind to work. The chief -value of these meetings is seen in their potency to impart this -disposition.</p> - -<p>It is not many years since there was but one truly great and grand -distinctively missionary annual meeting in our land—the meeting -of the American Board. Then there came well up to the front the -annual meetings of the American Missionary Association, and latest, -the meeting of the Home Missionary Society, which, in point of -attendance from abroad, possibly, outnumbered any one ever held by -the Congregational brethren. Other denominations are progressing in -this direction. There is a wonderfully encouraging development all -along the line. The morning cometh; they who turn their thoughts -to our great missionary enterprises are looking toward it, and not -toward yesterday morning, as men blinded by misbelief continually -look.</p> - -<p>We call the attention of our readers to the fact that two of these -great annual meetings convene in October, and we trust that but -few obstacles will be deemed so weighty as to interfere with their -attendance.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">The</span> demand for Our Temperance Concert Exercise, issued -in the May <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, and also in circular form, has -been steady and encouraging. It was recently used in the First -Church, Greenwich, Conn., with gratifying success. Some features -were introduced by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Kellogg, not contemplated -in the preparation of the exercise. Selections were made from the -communications on temperance published in the same number of the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, and read by different individuals. Words -were adapted to Jubilee Songs, giving a pleasing variety, and -recitations introduced in addition to, and in place of, those given -in the paper. We again call the attention of our friends to this -Concert Exercise, with reference to its use.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">Rev. Stephen R. Riggs</span>, D.D., LL. D., missionary to the -American Indians for forty years, died at the age of 71, at -Beloit, Wis., in August. Like Livingstone, in early life, he was -desirous of becoming a missionary to China, but yielded to what -he considered the overrulings of Providence, and in 1837, with -his wife, went into the far Northwest among the Sioux. He reduced -their language to writing, compiled a dictionary and translated -the Holy Scriptures and hymns. Ten well-ordered churches and many -out-stations were established in the region of his operations, -reaching beyond the British line.</p> - -<p>As an author, he did good service. His book, “<cite>Mary and I—Forty -Years with the Sioux</cite>,” has magnified the significance of Indian -missions. Another book, “<cite>Gospel Among the Dakotas</cite>,” portrays -vividly scenes of pioneer life. His memorial of Dr. Williamson is a -tribute worthy of the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_291" id="Page_291">[291]</a> man and his successful efforts in behalf of -the Indians. Four of his children have labored among the Sioux, and -one of his daughters has entered upon work across the Pacific. Rev. -Alfred L. Riggs, principal of our school at Santee, and Thomas L. -Riggs, of Fort Sally, and Mrs. Martha Riggs Morris, at the Sisseton -agency, are carrying on the work so happily inaugurated by their -father. His life was one of incessant missionary toil, in which for -years he had been aided by his children, and to whom he bequeathed -its continuance, and in the midst of whom he passed from earth to -his reward on high.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>OUR INDIAN WORK.</h3> - -<p>Never was there a more favorable time for enlargement on our -part. The new impulse to the general cause by General Grant’s -peace policy, augmented by the success of the schools at Hampton -and Carlisle, will be still more accelerated by the schools soon -to be completed by the Government at Chilloco, Indian Territory; -Lawrence, Kansas; and Genoa, Neb. When these are finished and -filled, the Indian schools throughout the country will accommodate -10,250 pupils of the 40,000 school population of the Indians at the -present time. Sec. Teller may be too sanguine in the expectation -that with adequate means the Indian problem will not be heard of in -the next generation, but never before could such a prediction come -so near being true. At all events, the nation and the Government -are fully aroused, and it becomes the American Missionary -Association to bestir itself to do its part. This Association -has now the responsibility of doing the Indian work for the -Congregational churches, the American Board having transferred to -it the whole of its Indian missions. A delegation of the Executive -Committee of the Association, consisting of Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D., -Rev. Addison P. Foster, Charles L. Mead, Esq., and the Secretary, -made recently a thorough inspection of all the schools and missions -with very favorable impressions, a report of which follows.</p> - -<p>Enlargement is imperatively needed in three directions, in addition -to the $20,000 for the current work:</p> - -<p>1. At the old and well-established mission at the Santee Agency, -Nebraska, Rev. A. L. Riggs thus details the immediate wants of -that station: additional industrial accommodations; extension of -carpenter shop, $250; blacksmith shop, with five forges, $750; -outfit of tools for the same, $150; general dining hall for -200 boarders, with laundry rooms, $5,000; outfit for the same, -including heating arrangements, kitchen ranges, laundry apparatus, -$1,500; making in all $7,650. Boarding-school house for girls at -Oahe, Fort Sully, $2,500.</p> - -<p>2. New mission stations and schools among the Indians now -unsupplied. Three station buildings for native teachers on the -Cheyenne<a class="pagenum" name="Page_292" id="Page_292">[292]</a> River, $1,000; missionary’s house at Cherry Creek, -Cheyenne River, $1,500; mission among the Crows, $2,000.</p> - -<p>We invite the friends of Indian progress to select from the items -above given in both fields of enlargement the specific object for -completing which they will aid us in whole or in part.</p> - -<p>3. An agricultural, mechanical and Normal School, to be founded -perhaps somewhere in Peoria Bottom, a new Hampton located on the -border, with the white man’s civilization on one hand and the -Indian reservations close on the other. This, though it is an -urgent want and essential to the filling out of our general plan, -must await the careful search for a fitting location and the means -to give it a suitable inauguration.</p> - -<p>Where shall the work be done for the Indian? One successful -teacher in Indian schools says that the children should all be -brought East, and trained amid the white man’s civilization; -another gentleman, long connected with a Mission Board, holds -that the education should be given wholly among the tribes, so -that the pupils would be trained amid their people and not away -from sympathy with them. We believe <em>both</em> methods are necessary. -The youth trained at home elevates his people as he rises, and -is himself strengthened and helped by his friends who come from -the East with the higher touch of the white man’s culture. Our -schools and missions, those now in progress and the one proposed, -afford the advantages of both plans. We shall aim to combine the -industrial, normal and religious training so as to fit the pupils, -male and female, for the practical duties of life in the field, the -shop and the home, in the school room, in the pulpit and the church.</p> - -<p>We have undertaken much. The hour has come for it, and we know that -the friends of the Indian will not suffer us to fail for want of -means.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>A VISIT TO THE DAKOTA MISSION.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.</p> - -<p>The transfer by the American Board of its Missions among the -Dakota Indians to the American Missionary Association made it -desirable that some of the officers of the Association should -acquaint themselves personally with the work. Accordingly, Rev. -M. E. Strieby, D.D., Secretary of the Association, and Rev. Wm. -Hayes Ward, D.D., of the <cite>Independent</cite>, C. L. Mead, Esq., and -your correspondent, all members of the Executive Committee, met -by appointment at the Santee Agency. Three of the party then -visited the mission station at Oahe, D.T., connected with the -Cheyenne Agency, where the party divided, Dr. Strieby returning -by way of the Sisseton Agency, Dr. Ward and Mr. Foster, under the -leadership of Rev. Thomas L. Riggs, the efficient missionary, -entering the great Sioux Reservation and traveling in an open wagon -between three and four hundred miles, mostly in Indian country. -This last-named expedition had<a class="pagenum" name="Page_293" id="Page_293">[293]</a> not a little of excitement and -adventure. Camping out at night, fording swollen streams, sleeping -in an Indian wigwam, driving across trackless prairies by the -aid of a compass, running the divides, killing a rattlesnake, -preaching to the wild Indians through an interpreter, spending days -in Indian villages, where hideous heathen mummeries were in full -view, visiting the Indians’ strange earth-built lodges, and their -offensive scaffold burying grounds, we passed through a series of -experiences not soon to be forgotten.</p> - -<p>The American Missionary Association has become possessor of three -considerable mission stations among the Indians, in or near Dakota -Territory. At the Santee Agency, which is just across the Missouri -in Nebraska, about thirty miles up the river from Yankton, is a -large and very successful school, a church of Indians with an -Indian pastor, and one out-station with an immediate prospect -of a second. This school and mission work are under the general -superintendence of Rev. Alfred L. Riggs. The children in the -school come not only from the Santees on the Agency, but from long -distances, from the Sisseton Agency, Fort Berthold and Montana. -We were greatly pleased with the intelligence, the neatness and -Christian spirit of these students. They will certainly compare -favorably in every way with the bright young Indians we have seen -at Hampton.</p> - -<p>Oahe is the centre of a wide evangelistic work, which has been -organized and is carried on with great energy and success by Rev. -Thomas L. Riggs. At Oahe itself is a mission home, a neat chapel, -also used as a school-house, and three miles away, a second -school-house. A native church is organized here, ministered to most -acceptably by Yellow Hawk, an exemplary and industrious Indian. -We were specially interested in a prayer meeting of Indian women, -which was fully attended and heartily sustained. Oahe is on the -east side of the Missouri, where a considerable number of Indians -have given up their tribal relations, taken up land in severalty, -and become voting citizens of the United States. Immediately -across the river is the Sioux Reservation. This is greatly cut -up by sizable streams which flow down from the Black Hills. On -every stream are extensive and very fertile bottom-lands. Here -the Indians are located, living mostly in tents, but some in log -houses. They are chiefly wild Indians, only a few years since being -on the war-path, mainly different sections of Sitting Bull’s band. -They still wear blankets, and are gaudy in bead-work, and paint -and feathers. But they are now in wholesome fear of the government -and, better still, are anxious to be as white men. Mr. Riggs has -established four stations in Indian villages on the Cheyenne River, -and a fifth on the Grand River. At three of these stations there -is preaching by native pastors, Solomon Martun (or Bear’s Ear), -Isaac Renville and Edward Phelps, by name; at the other places are -schools. The mission at Ft. Berthold is among the Rees, Mandans -and Gros Ventres.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_294" id="Page_294">[294]</a> These three small tribes long since combined -in one village for protection against their ancient foes, the -Sioux. Rev. C. L. Hall is the missionary here. A mission home and -a chapel are the buildings, both in excellent condition. The work -at this mission is slow in developing results, not from any lack -of faithfulness or adaptation on the part of the missionaries, -for their consecration and fitness are marked, but because these -Indians by their tribal divisions are jealous of one another, and -by their contact in the past with white men of bad character are -corrupt and hard to reach. Mr. Hall has an out-station in his care -at Devil’s Lake, where Rev. David Hopkins, a Sisseton Indian, is -laboring.</p> - -<p class="right smcap">The Advance.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">BY REV. LEWIS GROUT.</p> - -<p>Rev. Dr. J. L. Tucker’s speech on the above subject before the -Episcopal Church Congress, in Richmond, last October, has had -a very emphatic indorsement from professional and other men in -the South, and yet not without severe criticism from some of the -colored people, especially in Jackson, Miss., the home of Dr. -Tucker, where he made the speech. It seems that Dr. Tucker is a -man of Northern birth, that he was a soldier in the Confederate -army, after which he became a planter, then a rector, and that -he has had much experience and interest in the education of the -colored race, as planter, teacher and minister. And yet, with all -his acquaintance with that race, there are several important points -pertaining to their history, character and welfare, in which he is -sadly mistaken.</p> - -<p>The first mistake of his that I will notice has respect to the -character of the native African. In Africa, he says, “human life -has no sacredness, and men, women and children are slain as beasts -are, and even more carelessly, as less valuable. Human suffering -excites no pity, and blood flows like water.” “That what we call -morality, whether in the relations of the sexes, or in the sense of -truthfulness, or in the sense of honesty, has no lodgment whatever -in the native African’s breast;” and that they have “no words” for -gratitude, generosity, industry, truthfulness, honesty, modesty, -gentleness and virtue, because they have none of these ideas. -Now all this, and much more of the same sort, is the baldest of -hyperbole, far from the truth. During my fifteen years of labor in -that land, I made the study of African character and language a -specialty; and I believe that words representing the ideas above -named may be found in every language and dialect on the continent. -As to humanity and all kindred virtues, they are abreast, if not -ahead, of any and every other people that have not had the gospel. -For honesty and morality, under pure native rule, in many respects, -the Zulus and cognate tribes would put to shame the people in every -part of this land of ours. I have no reason<a class="pagenum" name="Page_295" id="Page_295">[295]</a> to believe that I -ever lost a sixpence worth of anything, through their stealing, -in all those fifteen years of my stay among them; and as to the -relations of the sexes, I believe there are ten illegitimate births -here in New England to-day, where there was ever one in Zululand -previous to the incoming of the Dutch and English. To be sure, all -African tribes may not be abreast of what the Zulus used to be, in -these things. And yet Rev. Dr. Crummell, for many years a college -professor and rector of a parish in Liberia, says: “All along the -west coast of Africa the family tie and the marriage bond are as -strong as among any <em>primitive</em> people.” “Their maidenly virtue, -the instinct to chastity, is a marvel.”</p> - -<p>2. Dr. Tucker says the colored people of the South are grossly -immoral. If he had made a very deserved exception of the many -who have been brought under the restraints of the gospel by good -mission work among them, within a few years, his charge would -have been more just. But whence came the great excess in vice -which he avers? Could anything else have been expected from long -generations of the peculiar training their bondage gave them? Under -the treatment they had, as Dr. Tucker says, “they quickly learned -to conceal,” “learned lying, stealing and adultery.” By a somewhat -minute detail, he shows how the familiarity and “the intrigues -which the white men” had with the black women wrought in them, as -he says, “the utter destruction of the very sense of virtue.”</p> - -<p>3. Dr. Tucker says nothing of importance has been accomplished by -Northern benevolence for the colored people, except to make them -worse—to “build strongholds for the devil in disguise,” to “build -up the kingdom of evil.” Now all this, in which his speech abounds, -I repudiate as false and slanderous. In the course of forty years -I have seen a good deal of mission work, of one kind and another, -at home and abroad, and under the auspices of almost every society -in the world. I have also seen the work of the American Missionary -Association among the Freedmen; and, as the result of all, I am -free to say, I believe Dr. Tucker may go the world over, time -through, ransack all history, and not be able to point to a time or -place where mission work and money have done more, in proportion to -the means employed, than has been done by this Association among -the colored people since their emancipation, two decades since.</p> - -<p>4. Dr. Tucker alleges that Northern missionaries are incompetent, -“don’t know what they are about,” or “how to reach the colored -people,” or “how to deal with them,” “barely know a Negro when they -see him.” Well, I am told there are some white people in the South, -who, themselves “don’t know a Negro when they see him,” in some -cases only as they trace his genealogy and find out who his mother -was. But how should Dr. Tucker, himself, be able to know all about -this matter, how to reach the colored people, how to lift them up, -how to heal them, better than other men of Northern birth?</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_296" id="Page_296">[296]</a></p> - -<p>5. The counterpart of the above charge is, that the Southern whites -are the “only ones” who know how to do good mission work for the -colored race, and that we of the North must put all our money into -their “control.” But what have they ever done to prove such special -fitness to inspire the Negro with confidence in their teaching and -treatment, to prove their own faith in his capacity for a high -order of improvement, to encourage us to put “every dollar” of our -mission money into their hands? Why, after they had had the black -man in their own special teaching and treatment for more than two -centuries, utterly dissevered from pagan Africa, all plastic, -docile and confined, as he was, to their exclusive training, has -his original heathenism been so little improved as to leave the -Negro no better than Dr. Tucker represents him to be. And even now, -what great effort have they made for his improvement in the two -decades that have passed since his emancipation?</p> - -<p>Another mistake I find in Dr. Tucker’s speech, the greatest and -most fatal of all, and the last I will notice, is his color line -“plan” for all educational and religious work in the South—a -school and a church on this side of the street for the whites, a -school and a church on that side for the blacks—a double system, -with, as he says, “double the expense.” But neither a system such -as that, nor the spirit that desires or prompts it, will have any -place on earth when the gospel of Christ gets a proper ascendency -in the hearts and lives of men.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><span class="smcap">We</span> have issued Pamphlet No. 8, on <cite>The Reflex Influence -of the Work of the American Missionary Association</cite>, an address -delivered in Tremont Temple by Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., Fitchburg, -Mass., a quotation from which will be found elsewhere. Copies of -this Pamphlet will be supplied gratuitously on application, to -those wishing them for distribution.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>A HYMN BOOK FOR OUR CHURCHES.</h3> - -<p>It is the “Manual of Praise,” published by E. J. Goodrich, Oberlin, -Ohio, compiled by the lamented Rev. Dr. Hiram Mead and J. B. -Rice. It has the cream of our hymnology, the worshipful, endeared -hymns to the number of six hundred. It has the wearing pieces of -Moody & Sankey. Compiled not by an ambitious amateur in musical -composition, it does not seek to force upon the churches a great -batch of new and unproven tunes. It was evidently put together for -practical purposes, and is small enough to go into a side or hip -pocket, a “multum in parvo.” It is cheap, coming by the dozen, for -introduction, so as not to cost over sixty cents a copy. It is -suited to all occasions. It has a logical arrangement, which will -be of constant advantage in the use of it, though those who have it -may not know just how the logic comes in, even as the perfection of -the art of elocution is to conceal the art. Where it has been used -in<a class="pagenum" name="Page_297" id="Page_297">[297]</a> our institutions and schools, it has been much approved. It is -certainly a desideratum for our new churches in the South and in -the West.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>A LIFE NOT TOO LONG.</h3> - -<p>One of our regular contributors, in transmitting his donation to -our treasury, accompanies his gift with the following cheering -words: “Through the goodness, mercy and truth which has not been -taken away from one highly undeserving, I am again permitted -the privilege of herewith inclosing a draft to your order for -the general use of the A. M. A., for $1,000. Whether now in my -eightieth year, I shall be permitted to repeat the pleasant -offerings, I know not. Shall I note the fact that coming from no -large store, I cannot see that they diminish it?”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>BENEFACTIONS.</h3> - -<p>Mr. Robert L. Stuart has pledged $150,000 to Princeton College.</p> - -<p>Lincoln University is to receive $10,000 from the estate of the -late David B. Small, of York, Pa.</p> - -<p>Gen. A. G. P. Dodge has contributed $3,000 to be used in building -an academy at Jackson, Ky.</p> - -<p>The late William Ward of Brixton Hill left $100,000 to the -Corporation of London for the establishment and maintenance of a -high school for girls.</p> - -<p>Mr. C. F. McCay, formerly a professor in the University of Georgia, -has given that institution $20,000 in Georgia Railroad 6-per-cent -bonds.</p> - -<p>Sarah A. and Emily B. Sumner, of Albany, N.Y., have given $2,500 -each for an endowment fund for Rutgers College.</p> - -<p>The Northwestern University at Evanston has received $25,000 from -ex-Gov. Evans of Colorado.</p> - -<p>Ex President Wright, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has given -$100,000 for the establishment of a boys’ and girls’ college at -Tacoma, W.T.</p> - -<p>Carlton College, Northfield, Minn., has recently received $12,000 -from Edward H. Williams, Esq., of Philadelphia, for Williams Hall, -built in memory of his only son.</p> - -<p>Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle, of Guilford, Conn., has given $10,000 to the -Olivet College Library Fund as a memorial of her gifted son, Willie -Sage Tuttle.</p> - -<p>Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has received $25,000 from Mrs. Lydia -Messenger, making $56,000 in all donated by her for the benefit of -the institution.</p> - -<p><em>Christian intelligence is the most potent agency for obliterating -the barbarism of caste prejudice; and the endowment of schools for -those who suffer from it, the most safe and certain means for its -overthrow.</em></p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_298" id="Page_298">[298]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3> - - -<h4>AFRICA.</h4> - -<p>—The French Romanists have abandoned the country of Uganda.</p> - -<p>—It is reported that King Leopold II. of Belgium, with no selfish -or personal object, with no view of gaining territory or commercial -profits, and with no other motive than the highest and purest -philanthropy, is spending $400,000 a year from his own private -purse for the benefit of Africa.</p> - -<p>—A hydrographical expedition has been made to the coast of the -Maroc by Capt. Kerhallet and Mr. Dumoulin.</p> - -<p>—The project relative to placing a submarine telegraphic cable -between the Island of Teneriffe and St. Louis on the Senegal has -been voted by the French Chamber.</p> - -<p>—The Italian mission directed by Bianchi has safely arrived at -Samera, where they found the King of Abyssinia, to whom they gave -presents from the King of Italy.</p> - -<p>Monseigneur Lasserre, coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of the -Gauls, has obtained from Menelik the authorization to establish -himself among the Ittous Gauls, who have submitted to him.</p> - -<p>—Under the title of the French Factories of the Persian Gulf and -of Eastern Africa, a society has been formed for French oriental -commerce, of importation and exportation.</p> - -<p>—The native chief Ghowe having committed incursions upon the -territory of Sherbro near Sierra Leone, Major Talbot has burned -the village of Kwatamaha, massacred the inhabitants of Kahun and -pillaged and burnt Jalliah.</p> - -<p>—Some friends of the French mission at the Senegal have brought to -France three young negroes, who will be raised in the agricultural -colony of Sainte Foy, and prepared to return to St. Louis as -shoemakers, tailors, cooks, perhaps even teachers and evangelists.</p> - -<p>—Upon the demand of many chiefs of the Slave Coast, a protectorate -of France has been established upon the territories of Petit-Popo, -Grand-Popo and Porto-Seguro between the English possessions of the -Gold Coast and Whydah, beyond which is the territory of Porto-Novo -upon which the French protectorate is already recognized.</p> - -<p>—Major Machado, who has been at Lisbon to confer with the -Portuguese government on the subject of the railroad from Delagoa -Bay to Pretoria, has started for the Transvaal to complete the -track of the section from Incomati to Pretoria. A society has been -founded at Lisbon to ask the concession of this line.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_299" id="Page_299">[299]</a></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/party.jpg" width="500" height="334" alt="" /> -<div class="center">A MARAUDING PARTY IN AFRICA.</div> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_300" id="Page_300">[300]</a></p> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4>THE INDIANS.</h4> - -<p>—The Spirit of Missions urges the establishment of a Protestant -Episcopal Mission in Alaska, and the sending out of a Bishop from -the United States with a score of faithful priests and deacons to -second his efforts.</p> - -<p>—A missionary laboring in the Indian Territory reports to -the Sunday-school of the Collegiate Church, New York, that a -Sunday-school which he organized eight years ago has grown to be a -church of seventy members. In one of the Indian families he found a -grand piano.</p> - -<p>—Some years ago the pride of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe schools -in the Indian Territory, was their school herd of several hundred -cattle, which had been accumulated through a number of years’ -effort, without material expense to the government. This furnished -employment and prospective income for the school boys. At its most -successful period it was destroyed by an order from the Department -at Washington, directing that the cattle be distributed among -the Indians. After being without the herd for several years the -Department has now started a new one, by purchasing 600 cows and -heifers and placing them again under the care of the Indian school -boys.</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4>THE CHINESE.</h4> - -<p>—Not one in five hundred of the women of Shantung can read.</p> - -<p>—There are twenty self-supporting Protestant churches in China, -and nearly 400 which are partially so.</p> - -<p>—A Chinaman in a town called New-Bendigo, in Australia, where -there is a large Chinese colony, was asked recently what practical -good had been accomplished by the missionaries. He answered as -follows: Before, no one understood God’s Word. Good many work -Sunday all same as week day. Now, no work done on Sunday at -New-Bendigo by my countrymen. Perhaps chop little wood for house, -or wash him clothes; but no go work. No matter poor, every one -no work on Sunday. Before, all worship idols. Now, many come to -church; he no worship idols. When Lee Wah begin to read, good many -had idols in house; thirty more. Myself had one. Now, only ten -houses and stores in New-Bendigo with idols in them. Before, at old -township, good many Chinese steal fowls, everything. Now, no more -steal; every one work; go get job. Before, every night, Chinaman -learn to practice fight. I tell him too stupid fellow. You learn -God’s Word you no want to fight. Now, no more learn to fight. Learn -God’s Word. Before people no care for God’s Word; he no know or -care. Now, good many people like read God’s Word. Before, too much -time, nothing to do. Now, many say I learn to read God’s Word. -Now, no more waste time. I like to read. Before, good many make -fun God’s Word; laugh. Papers were put upon outside of store, make -laugh at Christian. Papers were put up on door of baptized men’s -house. Now, heathen men no more make fun; strong man’s hands tied -up. Himself like it now. Very quiet now.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_301" id="Page_301">[301]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4>REFLEX INFLUENCE OF A. M. A.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">FROM ADDRESS BY REV. S. L. BLAKE, D.D.</p> - -<p>The direct increase to the wealth of the country, in diminishing -the number of mere consumers, and increasing the number of actual -producers and property-holders, puts the business world largely in -debt to this society.</p> - -<p>A few figures will help your understanding of the case. In -twenty-one years this society has spent $5,543,636.03—a yearly -average of $263,772.19. In seventeen years, from 1863 to 1880, -from not owning a single dollar’s worth of property of any sort -available for taxation, these people have come to hold property -taxed for $100,000,000, as appears from Southern tax-bills, which -show no respect of color—an average rate of increase from nothing, -of $5,882,352.94 a year. This is a yearly increase greater than -the whole amount spent by this society. That is, this society has -spent $1, and these people, from absolute pauperism, have come into -possession of over $21 of taxable property. These facts answer the -question whether the colored man can take care of himself, and show -that the labors of this society have a cash value which can easily -be computed.</p> - -<p>There is still another phase of the cash value of the labors of -this society, as related to the productive wealth of the country. -Here this society touches and increases our material prosperity. -I refer to a more equable distribution of ownership in the soil. -Surely no one can deny that to change five or six millions of -people from paupers to property-holders, produces a very material -effect upon the prosperity of the State.</p> - -<p>I believe that it is a settled canon of political economy that -a nation’s wealth is in its soil. Where there are but few -land-owners, and the tillers of the soil are tenants, wealth must -be in the hands of the few, and comparative if not absolute poverty -in the hands of the many. To this state of things belong social -classes, as widely separated from each other as continents. It -goes without saying that landed monopoly and general prosperity -of the people do not go together. I am no advocate of communism; -but I take the ground, and I believe it can be held, that the same -amount of property, somewhat evenly distributed among the people of -a country, adds more to its actual productive wealth and material -prosperity, than the same amount of money would do, held in the -hands of a few, who constitute an aristocracy of wealth and of -blood. Of course, in every state, some men must be vastly more -wealthy than others. But a comfortable competence in one’s hands -makes him entirely independent of his more wealthy neighbor.</p> - -<p>It is among the proofs of the increasing material prosperity of -this country, that the average size of farms has decreased from -199 acres in 1860 to 134 acres in 1880; and that the amount of -capital invested in farms exceeds the money invested in railroads, -and in manufacturing, including supplies, by over $2,000,000,000. -Gradually this vast preponderance of wealth is being more equably -distributed among the people. The plantation system, previous to -the war, gives way to the small farm, tilled and owned in many -cases by the former slaves. Take a single case. Liberty County, -Georgia, in 1860, was mostly taken up by large plantations. There -were but 48 farms, “of from three acres to one hundred acres each.” -In 1880 the county was almost entirely owned by colored people, and -there were 1,500 farms. This is an illustration of the yielding of -landed monopoly and aristocracy to popular ownership in the soil, -and to a more general and evenly diffused prosperity. The average -size of farms in fifteen slave States has been reduced from over -368 acres in 1860 to a trifle over 149 acres in 1880, over 50 per -cent. If you precipitate upon the population of a country 1,000,000 -citizens, who may become land-holders, you have struck a heavy blow -at landed monopoly, and taken a long stride toward increase of -material prosperity.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_302" id="Page_302">[302]</a></p> - -<p>Let me give you two or three further facts. In 1878 the freedmen -of Prince Edward County, Virginia, owned 2,305 acres of land, -an increase in eight years of 1,847 acres. In the county of -Rockbridge, Virginia, two thousand blacks were assessed for $50,000 -worth of real estate. In 1876 the colored people of Georgia owned -land valued at $1,234,104, and other property to swell the total -to $6,134,829. In the single State of Georgia these people, from -not owning a dollar, have come to possess property greater in value -than the entire sum spent by this Association in 21 years. Who says -that this alabaster box of ointment has been wasted?</p> - -<p>Material prosperity indicates a certain degree of intelligence. The -ignorant are not the wealthy nations of the globe. The work of this -Association in bringing these people up to a degree of intelligence -somewhat commensurate with their opportunities, and in lifting -them to a level of citizenship co-ordinate with the welfare and -prosperity of the State, has directly aided in this increase of the -material forces of the nation’s welfare. For if the actual amount -of property were not increased, yet the prospective wealth of the -nation must be by converting 6,000,000 illiterate paupers into -educated, independent property-holders.</p> - -<p>I find this in the last issue of the <cite>American Missionary</cite>, which -supports my position with high authority: “It has been estimated -at Washington that the annual profit to the country by the -conversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot be less than -$400,000,000.” This work has been done by this Association.</p> - -<p>Money given to the endowment of its institutions at the South would -yield a hundred fold in half a generation.</p> -</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/whitetop.jpg" width="500" height="417" alt="" /> -<div class="center">WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA.</div> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_303" id="Page_303">[303]</a></p> - -<div class="article"> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>THE SOUTH.</h2> - -<p class="secauth smcap">Rev. Joseph E. Roy, D.D., Field Superintendent.</p> - -<p class="secauth smcap">Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>NOTES OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">PRES. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.</p> - -<p>An experiment in the form of a brief educational campaign in -Louisiana and Mississippi has been attended with the most -gratifying results, and has been to those identified with it a -revelation of what may be accomplished in the same direction. -Hitherto in our educational work in Louisiana we have depended, so -far as the patronage of the country parishes was concerned, upon -the good reports of the students, and the dawning conception, in -the minds of those living remote from the city, of the necessity -of an education. It occurred to Prof. Hitchcock and myself, as -we were likely to be detained in New Orleans the greater part of -the summer, that we could in no way better serve the interests -of Straight University than by presenting the facts of education -directly to the people, and pleading its claims wherever there -was “an open door.” We not only found doors wide open, but were -greeted from many parishes with the Macedonian cry, “Come over and -help us.” Our University was represented in the most important -centers, either by our graduates or those still upon our roll. -They had borne to their homes a grateful sense of good received at -the school, and entered enthusiastically into the matter of the -meetings. They were our <i lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">avant-couriers</i>, and most faithfully did -they spread the tidings of our coming.</p> - -<p>In the space of a single article we can do little more than -summarize, but we trust our enforced conciseness will not despoil -the narrative of its interest or value. The first important point -made was</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4><i>Baton Rouge.</i></h4> - -<p>The meeting on July 5 at the Capital of the State had been well -advertised, and was largely attended. The A. M. E. Church (Rev. -Mr. Jackson, pastor) was well filled. The majority of the audience -were young men, just the class we desired to reach. We had not -only a respectful, but an interested hearing. Mr. A. H. Colwell, -a talented graduate of Straight, who fills an important position -as teacher at Baton Rouge, presided at the organ, and at the -conclusion of the meeting made a neat address, moving a resolution -of thanks to the speakers. Rev. Mr. Jackson spoke with feeling and -intelligent appreciation of the demands of education. The ablest -white lawyer in Baton Rouge made a rousing speech, commending -heartily the objects of the meeting.</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4><i>Vicksburg.</i></h4> - -<p>The meeting at this point, July 9th, presents many facts worthy -of record. Our young men, Reynolds and Temple, graduates of the -present year, had been untiring in their efforts to make the -meeting a success. Every newspaper in Vicksburg had noticed it -editorially. Every colored pulpit had twice and thrice advertised -it, and urged the people to attend. Influential white people -had been invited, especially members of the School Board. The -Court-House had been applied for, and freely granted by the City -Council for the purposes of the meeting. On the day previous -(Sunday) it was my privilege to preach in two of the most important -colored churches of the city, while Prof. Hitchcock did good work -in the Sunday-Schools. On Sabbath evening I preached in the A. M. E. -Church (Rev. Mr. Carolina,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_304" id="Page_304">[304]</a> pastor) to an audience of 800 -people. It was a rare privilege, and great was the joy of preaching -on the blessed religion of the Lord Jesus to so many people, -and all eager and reverent in their attention. On Monday night -the Court-House an imposing building situated on “the heights,” -overlooking the city, and the first object that attracts attention -as the boat enters the harbor, witnessed the gathering of an eager -and crowded assembly of men and women, roused to no common degree -of enthusiasm by the simple announcement of an “<em>educational -meeting</em>.”</p> - -<p>The Court-Room, with the wide halls approaching it and the deep -window recesses, was not large enough to accommodate the hundreds -who flocked to it. It was estimated that 800 entered and as many -more failed to get in. An organ had been brought from one of the -churches, a fine choir had been gathered, and very choice music was -rendered. The leading colored clergymen of the city were present. -The addresses which were made were plain matter-of-fact statements -of the nature and demands of education, the widespread illiteracy -of the colored people, the opportunity offered them of improving -their condition mentally, socially, materially and morally, and -the utter impossibility of their ever reaching a higher place in -any department of growth without the guiding and helping hand of -education. Great plainness of speech was used, and was not only -tolerated but approved by the audience.</p> - -<p><i>Rev. C. K. Marshall, D.D.</i>, the author of the vigorous and able -pamphlet entitled “The Colored Race Weighed in the Balance,” a -gentleman of great influence in Mississippi, kindly called upon us -at the hotel, and not only was present at the meeting, but made -an eloquent and telling address, replete with good points. He has -always been a friend of the colored race, and they do not forget -it now. Rev. Dr. Woodworth, of the M. E. Church South, and Hon. -Mr. Chamberlin. President of the School Board, were also present, -and spoke kindly words of approval of the objects of the meeting. -The leading paper of Vicksburg devoted a column and a half to a -favorable account of the proceedings. An old colored man, whom I -saw violently gesticulating as I was going down Court-House Hill, -said, “That meeting was worth one million dollars to our people.” -God grant it may be so.</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<h4><i>Plaquemine.</i></h4> - -<p>The crowning meeting of the campaign was in the town of -<em>Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville</em>, on Saturday night, July 28th.</p> - -<p><i>Hon. T. T. Allain</i>, one of the most enterprising colored men in -the South, and one of the most consistent friends of education, -took the meeting in hand at the start, and spared neither time nor -money to bring it to the notice of the whole people. This meeting, -in all its appointments, was so unusual that I shall be pardoned -if I describe it quite minutely. We were met by a committee of -reception at the depot, and escorted to the hotel. One hour in -advance of the meeting, a large cannon, planted in the court-house -yard, made a tremendous salute, causing the very village to -tremble. Peal after peal went forth, each seeming louder than the -last. Torches were lighted and planted thickly in the court-yard, -which, by their glare and smoke, gave a weird look to the hundreds -of dusky faces gathering around them. A large brass band, with a -full complement of pieces, added to the novelty and effectiveness -of the scene.</p> - -<p>Think of it, dear friends! This was not a political meeting. It was -not a barbecue. It was simply a meeting called in the interests of -education among the colored people of Southern Louisiana, which has -always been regarded a “<em>pretty dark strip of woods</em>.” Well, now -for the meeting itself! Mr. Allain gracefully<a class="pagenum" name="Page_305" id="Page_305">[305]</a> and ably presided, -and made a speech which did credit to his head and heart. For two -hours that densely packed assembly listened to Prof. Hitchcock -and myself with unflagging interest, manifested by frequent -applause. The Court-House and court-yard were filled, and our -audience without and within the building gave us a respectful and -appreciative hearing. Plaquemine has been called the “banner” town. -<em>We</em> certainly have no desire to dispute her claim to the honorable -distinction, for the treatment we received there was “<em>royal</em>.”</p> - -<p>The meeting at <em>Donaldsonville</em>, July 12th, was a union of the -Baptist and Methodist congregations, and will result, we trust, -in the awakening of a new interest. I should be glad to speak -particularly, had I not reached the limit of my space, of meetings -held by Prof. Hitchcock at West Baton Rouge, St. Sophie, New Texas -and Beauregour, and visits to Monticello, Darrowville, and Point -a la Hache, where many of the families and homes of the students -were seen. Everywhere he was awarded a warm welcome. People rallied -to the meetings, sometimes from a distance of 12 miles. Genuine -enthusiasm was aroused, and the tide of public sentiment has been -turned, we believe, more strongly toward the “<em>School-House</em>,” and -that was our only object. The “door of opportunity” is fairly open. -Ought we not to enter it and tell the entire people the glad story -of education?</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>A WORD FROM TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">PRES. W. E. BROOKS, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</p> - -<p>It is due the many donors and friends of Tillotson that a brief -report of the work of the past year be made. It is a pleasure to do -this, both because due and because of the hopeful prosperity which -has attended the institution.</p> - -<p>The land upon which to place the new dormitory and the buildings -for the mechanical department, when funds shall be secured, has -been bought at a cost of $5,000—$1,250 of which was from the Hon. -J. H. Raymond, of Austin. Some progress has also been made in -obtaining subscriptions for the new hall, which is imperatively -needed to meet the pressing demands which are made upon us from all -parts of the State. How urgent this call is may be inferred from -the fact that on the 2d day of last October, one day before the -opening of the school, Allen Hall was full to repletion, and the -work of turning away began, and continued throughout the year, so -that it is safe to say that for every one received one was refused. -We had one hundred in our boarding department during the year. This -necessitated placing four students in the larger rooms, and three -in nearly every other—too many by far, but there seemed to be -no other way. They begged to be received, while the two or three -already in the room, urging us to admit one more, made it difficult -to refuse. Put yourself, dear reader, in our place, and you will -appreciate our condition, and why we allowed this crowding process. -It was the best that could be done under the circumstances. Besides -the one hundred in the boarding department, we had ninety-one day -pupils, making our total attendance during the year 191. We have -no primary department. Our numbers would have been very greatly -increased if we had had the room to store them.</p> - -<p>In educational and religious results the past year has been -our best. More and better work has been done. The training has -been more thorough and systematic, and the real progress more -satisfactory. This was to be expected. Each year increases largely -our own knowledge of the work and how best to do it.</p> - -<p>Our religious services have been more largely attended and richer -in results. A goodly number found Christ, and gave clear evidence -of a change of heart. One in particular, who had been intemperate -and profane to a sad degree, underwent<a class="pagenum" name="Page_306" id="Page_306">[306]</a> a complete transformation. -Our Sunday school was well attended, drawing in quite a number from -the outside, while our prayer meetings, on Sunday and Thursday -evenings, were pleasant and profitable.</p> - -<p>The temperance society, with a pledge prohibiting the use of both -rum and tobacco, embraced nearly every student of the institution. -They gave evidence that they had joined for life. Many of them are -doing good work in this direction, in the schools where they are -now engaged in teaching. We have reason to feel deeply grateful for -the advancement along the whole line of our threefold yet one work.</p> - -<p>Our closing exercises won the praise of the many who were present. -Among these were Gov. Ireland, ex-Gov. E. M. Pease, Hon. Mr. Swain, -Comptroller of State, Judge Delaney of the Court of Appeals, Prof. -Hogg, at the head of the schools of Fort Worth, and many other -prominent citizens of Austin.</p> - -<p>Able addresses were made by all of the above gentlemen and others; -but among them all none was more cordial and appreciative than that -of Gov. Ireland. He urged the students to continue to press onward -and upward, assuring them that the hour was close at hand when -merit will determine every man’s position, and not the color of his -skin. All, including those named, expressed themselves surprised -and pleased at what they saw and heard. It was the brightest day in -our history.</p> - -<p>This brief summary of the work of the past year indicates, but -cannot fully unfold, our need of more room. Young men and women -in the same building is an unfortunate necessity. It is the best -and only thing that can be done with safety to the work, and even -this is full of danger. Then to be forced to refuse admittance -to so many is unpleasant. We ought to keep the streams flowing -toward us, and not turn them in other directions or cause them to -cease flowing altogether. As our only institution in the great -Empire State we ought to provide liberally for it, that it may -carry forward the work so auspiciously begun. No field can be more -inviting. Nowhere in all the South is there a more Catholic spirit. -Everything conspires to insure large returns on all investments -in this department of Christian effort. Are there not friends who -will now come forward and render us needed help in the hour of our -necessity? Twenty thousand dollars in cash or approved pledges and -the new hall will be begun. Some two thousand are already secured. -Monuments of finest brass will perish through the wearing passage -of the ages, but those erected for the uplifting of a race are -imperishable. Will you help erect this?</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>LETTER FROM FLORENCE, ALA.</h3> - -<p>A person in attendance on revival meetings at this place writes to -Dr. Roy:</p> - -<p>“I hasten to tell you what a dear Saviour I have found. I have -accepted Him as mine and I mean to serve and trust Him the rest -of my life. Last Sunday the 20th year to a day since my marriage, -I resolved to be a Christian, but thought I would wait till the -middle of the week before starting. On last evening (Monday) I -drove my team down to the boat for passengers, but on finding that -I would probably have to carry them back and hence be kept from the -meeting, I drove away and attended church. When the invitation was -given I could wait no longer; went forward, gave my heart to Jesus, -and to-day I am a new man, not ashamed to tell the world. I was so -glad that I wish others could this afternoon in the praise meeting -speak for my Saviour, whose pleadings I have so long withstood. I -wanted to write you these<a class="pagenum" name="Page_307" id="Page_307">[307]</a> words, because I knew you were anxious -for my salvation. How glad have I been always to meet you. No man -would I rather see or hear talk than you. You have caused me to -shed many a tear, but you didn’t know it. Oh I am so glad that -the Lord spared me that I might return to Him. I mean to give the -balance of my days to the blessed master. Shall do all I can to -have others come to Him and live for Him; pray for me that I may be -strong and useful. The Evangelist and his good wife are truly sent -out by the Lord.</p> - -<p>“Bro. Brown and they work nicely together. We just seem to be -in a good way. No doubt many will be converted. Up to this time -twelve have been brought out into the light. The Christians are -strengthened, the church encouraged and a good feeling prevails -among the people.”</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>LETTER FROM McINTOSH, Ga.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">FROM REV. FLOYD SNELSON.</p> - -<p>Our school work has been vigilantly prosecuted this year, somewhat -to the end that the great demand which is made upon us for persons -to teach the public schools in this and adjoining counties might be -met. We have twenty-eight students licensed and sent out to work -this year, who have received all or a part of their training in our -school. Still a great many more are wanted. I have appeals before -me now for teachers for seven schools, made up and ready to begin -at any time, that I cannot supply. I do hope to see the day when -some lover of humanity will aid us with the facilities of a regular -boarding-school here, that this great need of teachers in the -common schools may be met. The twenty-eight that have gone out this -year to teach are allowed from 20 to 40 pupils. With an average of -30 in each of their schools, they will be able to start a light in -the dark minds of 840 needy ones.</p> - -<p>Our church work, I am very thankful to say, has also received an -additional Divine recognition. At our last communion season, which -was held July 22, sixteen persons, hopefully converted, came into -the fellowship of the church, and six children were brought to be -baptized.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h3> - -<p>—An effort is being made by Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Paris, Texas, to -organize a church at Dood City, where he has been holding special -meetings.</p> - -<p>—A new house of worship has been dedicated at Belle Place, La. -Rev. Wm. Butler, pastor, was assisted by Rev. W. R. Polk, of New -Iberia, in the dedicatory services. The A. M. A. furnished a -portion of the funds for the building.</p> - -<p>—Rev. B. F. Foster, who labored the past year as pastor and -teacher at Fayetteville, Ark., will prosecute his studies at the -Theological Seminary, Chicago. Rev. John M. Shippen, a recent -graduate of the Theological Department of Howard University, has -accepted an invitation to occupy the place vacated by Mr. Foster.</p> - -<p>—Rev. George W. Moore, a graduate of Fisk University and Oberlin -Theological Seminary, has assumed the pastoral care of the Lincoln -Memorial Church, Washington, D.C., under favorable auspices. He is -to supply Dr. Rankin’s pulpit one Sunday.</p> - -<p>—Rev. Zechariah Simmons, a licentiate of the North Carolina -Association, has been appointed to take charge of the mission -at Woodbridge, N.C., with reference<a class="pagenum" name="Page_308" id="Page_308">[308]</a> to the organization of a -church. The A. M. A. has recently purchased a parsonage for his -accommodation.</p> - -<p>—The church in Oaks, Alamance Co., N.C., is building a comfortable -house of worship under the supervision of Rev. J. N. Ray, its -pastor, who has received $100 from the A. M. A. for the furtherance -of the enterprise. Miss E. W. Douglass, an experienced missionary -teacher, has been appointed to labor at this point.</p> - -<p>—Mr. G. W. Jackson and his wife (Rose McCutcheon) are pushing -their mission day and Sunday-school work at Whiteside, Tenn. -They have been visited by Rev. Jos. E. Smith and Mrs. Steele of -Chattanooga, and meetings of much promise have been held.</p> - -<p>—The <cite>Clarion</cite>, of Jackson, Miss., gives an interesting report -of the colored Congregational Church, organized by the A. M. A. -in that city, with Rev. C. L. Harris, pastor. The church has a -membership of 16 and a Sabbath-school of 63. Services are held in -the hall of the Hope Fire Company. The citizens of Jackson have -subscribed liberally toward the erection of a house of worship.</p> - -<p>—Rev. S. N. Brown, while furnishing a vacation supply at Florence, -Ala., has been assisted by the evangelist, Rev. J. E. Fields, in a -series of revival meetings, which has resulted in an addition of -twenty members to the church. This is the church which was so much -depleted by the Exodus.</p> - -<p>—Rev. A. W. Curtis, of Marion, Ala., on invitation of Rev. Dr. -Raymond, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has preached on -exchange with him. This is said to be the first expression of -fellowship of this kind the A. M. A. preachers have received at the -South. Mr. Curtis has also accepted an invitation to exchange with -the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the same city.</p> - -<p>—Rev. Geo. W. Clark of Athens, Ga., and his people, with aid from -the A. M. A., have purchased a lot and are proceeding to build a -house of worship. Up to this time they have held their services in -the chapel of Knox Institute.</p> - -<p>—The A. M. A. is building a church at Pekin, N.C., with -accommodations for school purposes.</p> - -<p>—The church at Chattanooga, Tenn. (Rev. Jos. E. Smith, pastor), -have built a new fence about the meeting house, which has been -painted outside and inside and beautifully frescoed.</p> - -<p>—The St. Louis <cite>Globe-Democrat</cite> says, in connection with the -Press Convention: “One remarkable paper was that represented at -the Convention by its business manager, R. C. Edmondson. It was -<cite>The Fisk Herald</cite>, a college paper published at the Fisk University -in Nashville, Tenn.; in fact, the only college paper the colored -people have. It is a nice eight-page tinted paper, well printed -and generally well reading journal.” The <cite>Daily World</cite> says: “The -present number is of neat typographical appearance, and is filled -with interesting reading matter. A liberal encouragement should be -extended to this enterprise.”</p> - -<p>—The President of the Produce Exchange, Wilmington, N.C., speaking -of the school of the A. M. A., says: “The boys, after leaving the -institution, get employment more readily than others, because -their moral principles are higher, and because they are generally -better fitted for intelligent occupation than the majority of those -who profess to have received an elementary education. The people -of Wilmington have great cause for thankfulness that our Negro -population is so law-abiding and faithful to duty; and to take -courage from the results already accomplished in a transition so -violent from a life of slavery to that of freedom and citizenship -in the eyes of the law. The utmost harmony has prevailed between -the races for many years past, and instances of disagreement -between employers and employed are far more rare than among the -whites in the North.”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_309" id="Page_309">[309]</a></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>RECRUITS FOR THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p> - -<p>I trust that our friends do not forget how God has begun to fulfil -the prayer which the motto of our mission, “China for Christ,” -and the hearts of our Chinese Christians sent up during so many -years, in the establishment by the American Board of a Mission in -China to co-operate with ours, and to reach, first of all, the -swarming millions in those districts from which our immigrants -have come. In connection with the departure of Bro. Hager to this -field, our Congregational Association of Christian Chinese gave -$500 in cash, and one of its best members and my best helpers as a -co-laborer. Bro. Hager has established his head-quarters at Hong -Kong and has gathered there a school similar in all respects to -ours in California. But this is only a rendezvous. The main work -is elsewhere, preaching the gospel and scattering the word of life -on the main land. Lee Sam is busy with this already; enduring -hardness as a good soldier, and working almost alone. But he will -not be suffered to work long alone. Our helper for years past at -Sacramento, Lem Chung, sailed for China more than six weeks ago, -and has already, we hope been welcomed at Hong Kong. Sustaining for -years a relation to the Chinese of Sacramento every way equivalent -to that which an American pastor sustains in the community where -he labors, he so commended himself by his mental capacity, his -faithfulness, his Christian spirit and consistent walk that while -our Chinese brethren clung to him as few American churches do to -their pastors, he was also “of good report,” or, as the revision -reads it, “has good testimony from them that are without,” both -Chinese and Americans. Whether he will remain permanently in China -is not decided, but so long as he does remain, I doubt not he will -be ready for every good word and work. And now three others among -our helpers, Hong Sing of Santa Cruz, Wong Him Wong of Stockton -and Lou Quong of the West School in this city, are making ready to -depart. They go together. They hope to begin missionary work on -the steamer. They hope to continue it when they reach their native -land. We shall miss them greatly. They have approved themselves -in our service, workmen that needed not to be ashamed, rightly -dividing the word of truth and illustrating its power in their -consistent lives. But with reference to our great purpose, “China -for Christ,” our loss is a gain, and we gladly take others to fill -the vacant places, hoping that these too, trained to preach by -preaching and to teach by teaching, will follow their brethren to -the dark regions across the wide sea.</p> - -<p>At the time of this writing, a fortnight remains before the close -of our fiscal year. Toward the $12,500 which our work for the year -<em>must</em> cost, we have received in cash and pledges $11,800. To find -$700 more within these two weeks seems to be quite impossible, -by virtue of any resources remaining within the superintendent’s -reach. He repeats over to himself: “My God shall supply all your -need;” he recounts to himself the many mercies past; and how, again -and again, in his own experience, what seemed impossible has come -to pass, and still he questions and he doubts, and asking, seeking, -knocking, can do no better than to cry, “Lord I believe, help thou -mine unbelief.” Before this reaches the eye of our readers, the -fiscal year will have closed, and the account will be made up: yet -<em>not so closed</em> but that if any of our readers are willing to share -with me the load which open doors and proffered harvests have laid -upon me, their help would be most welcome and most <em>timely</em>.</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_310" id="Page_310">[310]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h2>BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.</h2> - -<p class="secauth"><span class="smcap">Miss D. E. Emerson, Secretary.</span></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>MEETING OF BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.</h3> - -<p>In connection with the Annual Meeting of the A. M. A. in Brooklyn, -notice of which is given elsewhere, there will be a Woman’s Meeting -in the interest of our Bureau of Woman’s Work. Report of mission -work among the Chinese on the Pacific Coast will be made by Mrs. -W. C. Pond, wife of Superintendent Pond; on Indian Missions, by -Mrs Alfred L. Riggs, wife of the Principal of our Santee School, -Nebraska; on work among the mountain whites of Kentucky, by Mrs. A. -A. Myers, wife of Rev. Mr. Myers, our missionary in that region; -on work among the colored people, by Miss Anna M. Cahill, late -Principal of Normal Department, Fisk University. Other ladies will -participate in the meeting, particulars concerning which, and also -as to the hour of the meeting, will be given in the religious press -at a later date.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>THE PAPER MISSION, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">BY MISS NANCY MARSH, PROVIDENCE, R.I.</p> - -<p>Since we commenced our mission, May, 1880, we have received many -letters asking “What can I do?” To such we have made various -suggestions.</p> - -<p>In Stoneham, Mass., the ladies felt they could not send boxes, but -wished to do something, so organized the “Stevens Home Missionary -Society,” and have sent to various places 779 papers and pamphlets, -and 7 Sunday-school books. They have basted 1,465 blocks of -patch-work and sent to seven teachers in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, -North Carolina and Ladies Island; have basted also 49 handkerchiefs -“from pieces of cloth, to teach the children to sew, and give them -what they needed.” Postage $5.22. They have also corresponded with -several pastors and teachers. The Secretary says; “I am delighted -with some of the correspondence, and enjoy the work very much; am -so glad to help even a little in this good work. I love some of the -dear teachers very much, and it has all come through their dear -letters, heart touching heart, and all for Jesus. Thank you for all -the interest you have taken to help us get started, and for your -aid right along; we have had no names except what you have given -us.” This society has proved very efficient, and they have been so -grateful for the privilege of working, it has been a pleasure to -find them opportunities; it has done them good as well as others. -Some of these letters have been read in their missionary concerts, -and awakened an increasing interest in the community.</p> - -<p>A lady in Chesterfield, Ill., formerly a teacher in Utah, and some -young friends have basted 300 blocks of patch-work for teachers in -Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee, feeling, she says, “that -our greatest privilege is to work for the Lord.”</p> - -<p>A letter came to us from Middleboro, Mass., saying, “I am very -anxious to do something for the missionaries, and, as I am an -invalid, and unable to give money, I thought I could cut and baste -patch-work if nothing more.” Recently we received a card stating -“I have sent 600 blocks to Chattanooga, Tenn., I would be glad to -do more, but am now unable to do any kind of work, but hope to -sometime, if ever so little.” In answer to inquiries, this lady -says: “The work I sent Mrs. S—— I did lying on my reclining chair -nearly as flat as a bed; but have been confined to my bed many -weeks at a time, and suffering more than words can <a class="pagenum" name="Page_311" id="Page_311">[311]</a>tell.” Surely -this service performed for the Master, in such weariness and pain, -shall not lose its reward.</p> - -<p>From Claremont, N.H., the question came: “What can a mission circle -do for Christmas?” We suggested a place as affording ample scope -for their ingenuity and generosity; so “the Sunbeams” (the mission -circle) 25 in number, from six to fourteen years, sent rays of -light and gladness to cheer the hearts of these desolate people -in the shape of picture-frames, book-marks, work and scrap-bags, -mittens, pin-balls, spectacle-cases for the old ladies, etc. The -ladies of this place also sent a box of second-hand clothing, which -was greatly needed.</p> - -<p>There has been much labor in corresponding with so many persons: -69 letters and postals have been written. This includes work only -among the Freedmen, yet we have rejoiced in the interest awakened -in various places by this means, and are glad to help this good -cause in every way in our power. Aid has been given in various ways -and different places, which, including postage, makes $37.24. This -<em>patch-work</em> has become quite an institution, 2,504 blocks have -been sent, greatly helping the teachers in their work, saving their -time and strength, and helping to form habits of industry which -are so essential to the well-being of these women and young girls, -thus fitting them for usefulness in the future. One old lady, who -is much interested in the young, and fond of patch-work, gave us -78 blocks very nicely basted, which were sent to Ladies Island, -so meeting the needs of a young girl whose quilt had come to a -standstill for want of materials.</p> - -<p>In 1882, in order to enlarge our field of operations, we sent -to Dr. Strieby for new names of pastors and teachers among the -Freedmen, and are now able to report that we have forwarded to the -Southern States 1,021 papers and pamphlets, 339 lesson papers, -122 tracts, 74 Scripture cards and 103 Christmas cards; postage -$5.72. Besides these, papers have been sent by several persons -in different States. A teacher in Texas writes, “I should like -Sunday-school papers, temperance, and other tracts, to distribute -as I visit among the people.” “Can make use of the patch-work -and any other sewing prepared; thanks for encouraging words, and -sympathy, we need your constant and earnest prayers.”</p> - -<p>From N.C.—“Your Christmas cards reached us safely; the children -enjoyed their gifts, and received them gratefully. My field is not -an easy one, but I am endeavoring with the Master’s help to plant -and replant fruitful seed. Any good reading matter is acceptable. -I need material for my sewing school (one dozen spools of cotton -and six crochet needles, were sent to this school by two young -ladies). Your letter was full of encouragement and good advice, -and strengthened me much. My work is chiefly among the children, -have 50 or 60 in Sunday-school in the morning, and about the same -number attend the Band of Hope every Sabbath afternoon. We have -prayer-meetings every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. I -have also a Bible-class for adults, which I teach an hour and a -half every Wednesday evening. Have received the patch-work from -Mrs. M., it is indeed a great help to have it basted, my time is so -occupied.”</p> - -<p>Ga.—The teacher writes: “Thanks for your interest in us, we pay -for our Sunday school papers, for we think the people prize them -more when they pay for them; but I can send what I receive into -the country, where they are very glad of them; sent your roll last -night out twenty-five miles to a place where they have nothing to -help them; have several places to which I can send, and profitably -use all I receive. We are trying to give the people a little -instruction in mission work; and take up a collection once in three -months; this people need nothing more than to understand that -<a id="Err_2" name="Err_2"></a>there -are others as poor as themselves, and they certainly are very poor, -but, as they receive, they must also give; true growth comes from -looking out. Our day school has over 100, and our Sunday school -nearly as many more,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_312" id="Page_312">[312]</a> some coming four or five miles, and have been -<a id="Err_3" name="Err_3"></a>very enthusiastic in their work. My scholars are looking forward to -teaching. Last summer 14 were out, and more will probably go this -summer. We are hoping to give them better ideas of religion, that -they may help to change the character of the coming generation. We -have organized a <a id="Err_4" name="Err_4"></a>“Woman’s Missionary Society.” They are to meet from -house to house, taking their supper with them; think it will go far -toward making them better housekeepers, as well as teaching them -to make things, which they will sell, and so get a little money -into their treasury, then they can send a dollar to some cause in -which they are interested. Pray for the success of this society for -through it, I hope to reach the homes, and there is so much to be -done in the homes before there can be much improvement.”</p> - -<p>We have had cheering words from pastors in Arkansas and Kentucky, -telling of souls converted, Christians revived and children -gathered into Sunday schools. Our papers have been given where -there is great destitution of reading matter.</p> - -<p>At Christmas a few cards and papers were sent to a pastor in -Childersburg, Ala. He writes: “I want to thank your class for -their gifts to the children, who are destitute of such things. -<a id="Err_5" name="Err_5"></a>Our -church was burned a year ago, after a temperance lecture, but the -people are building better than before. We held services in our -church last winter without a stove, and the house all open, yet we -trust the Lord was with us; our school numbered 30 or 40 during the -cold weather and a larger number when pleasant. There are many who -cannot read, and many who can have no Bibles.”</p> - -<p>We have been much interested in these pastors and teachers, some -of them have made great sacrifices, and though not appreciated by -those who should sustain and encourage them, future generations -will rise up and call them blessed. We are very grateful to all the -kind friends who have helped us in our work by papers, postage, -patch-work, and in various ways and places, especially for the -Christian sympathy extended to these pastors and teachers. It has -been duly appreciated, and lightened many a burdened heart; so we -trust our “Paper Mission” has not been a failure in the Southern -States.</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>A TALK WITH THE CHILDREN.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">MISS IDA M. BEACH, SAVANNAH, GA.</p> - -<p>“The lady asked me was I agoin’ to hear the children make their -speeches,” said a little colored girl but just transplanted from -her Southern home to this Northern land.</p> - -<p>“What do you mean?” I asked.</p> - -<p>“Why, it is breakin’ up day in the schoolhouse over yonder, and the -children are goin’ to speak.”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_313" id="Page_313">[313]</a></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 338px;"> -<img src="images/topsy.jpg" width="338" height="500" alt="" /> -<div class="right small"><cite>From Harper’s Young People.</cite></div> -<div class="center">TOPSY LEFT ALONE.</div> -</div> - -<p>Sitting by my window the next day, voices of children attracted -my attention. Looking up I saw two little ones—a brother and -sister—trudging along followed by another little girl. I noticed -the fresh white dresses and pretty aprons, and that they seemed -to be very much in earnest about something. A half hour later -the mother passed, and it dawned upon me, then, that it was the -“last day of school.” Afterward, riding by the school-house, and -peeping in, I saw rows of bright children and many happy parents -and friends. It brought to my mind<a class="pagenum" name="Page_314" id="Page_314">[314]</a> another “last day,” where -were children dressed by just as loving hands in their white -lawns, and pink and cream buntings. Their songs were just as well -sung—perhaps better—for a lady, after spending a day in a public -school of a New England city, wrote: “The children are trained by -a music teacher who receives $800 a year, but their singing could -not be compared to that we heard by the pupils of ——,” referring -to these of whom I am telling you. Their little “speeches” were -recited just as distinctly; the teachers were just as proud; the -parents just as happy, nay, happier. I’ll tell you why by and by.</p> - -<p>Have you studied U.S. History? And do you remember the story of our -late Civil War? Then you know that one result of it was that nearly -four million slaves, who were owned by other people, to be bought -and sold like any other property, were made free. They could go -where they chose; work as they wanted to; receive the wages they -earned; make homes for themselves, and not be afraid that their -children would be torn away from them to go with another master.</p> - -<p>If you should take the cars in Richmond and ride though—what -States?—till you came to Florida, you would pass through miles and -miles of pinelands scattered all along. Set right in among the pine -trees are little log cabins, the homes of many of these people. -Owning little farms, raising their rice and corn, cotton and sweet -potatoes, they seem very happy indeed. I heard snatches of “Hold -the Fort” coming from within one of these cabins, and remembered -seeing a little church not far away, so I think they must have -Sunday-school, and use the “Gospel Hymns,” don’t you?</p> - -<p>Stopping over one train in a Southern city, and inquiring for the -homes of the colored people, you will be directed to almost any -lane. Shall I tell you about one I visited?</p> - -<p>Clara told me where to find her. Hunting around among many houses -which were nearly alike, I suddenly saw a face at a window which -I knew must be that of Clara’s mother. I crossed the street and -knocked at the door. It was old and weather-beaten, and fairly -creaked as I rapped.</p> - -<p>A little old woman, with a white turban bound about her head, -opened the door. With a courtesy and warm greeting she offered -me a chair. The floor was uncarpeted, but as clean as frequent -scrubbings with soap and water could make it.</p> - -<p>Two sticks were burning in the open fire-place, before which stood -a half dozen flat-irons. Mrs. —— apologized for “bein’ a ironin’ -on a Saturday,” and after giving a few finishing touches to a piece -on the board sat down to tell me about Clara.</p> - -<p>“My husban’ is dead, an’ it is very hard to get an hones’ livin’ -an’ keep Clara in school. She ain’t strong, ma’am, Clara ain’t, an’ -can’t do much hard work, but she love’ her books an’ want to teach. -She was graduate’ las’ year, but nothing would do but I mus’ sen’ -her this year. It is mighty hard to get the money, you know, ma’am, -but I never can give her nothing but an education. I never had none -myself, but, Clara, she is right smart in her books, ma’am. I wants -her to be educated.” The same story oft repeated, “the children, -the children they mus’ be educated.”</p> - -<p>Do you know, now, why those mothers were so happy when listening to -the songs and recitations of their children? Can you realize how -proud they are when they find that Nehemiah and Charles Henry can -read and write like any white boys?</p> - -<p>Who will hunt up nine others and be one of ten to save ten cents -each month to pay the tuition of one of these children?</p> -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_315" id="Page_315">[315]</a></p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="article"> -<h2>RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1883.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $222.07.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. First Cong. Ch., 18.61; Rev. -Joseph Smith, 10</td> -<td class="ramt">$28.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bluehill. Mrs. E. W. Mayo, 4; Mrs. H. W. J., -1</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brewer. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 69.60; -Marshall Cram, 10</td> -<td class="ramt">79.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brunswick. Mrs. John D. Lincoln, <i>for -Selma, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.02</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ferry Village. Rev. R. D. Osgood</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, <i>for Macon, -Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Limington. Miss A. Boothby</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $234.62.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Candia Village. Jona. Martin</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Derry. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goffstown. Cong Ch. 37.74, and Sab. -Sch., 1.55, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Hattie A. -Paige</span> L. M.; “A Friend,” 30, to const. -<span class="smcap">Miss Luella D. Carpenter</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">69.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Miss Ann M. Howard</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $164.96.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jeffersonville. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 20.47; -and Sab. Sch., 1.80</td> -<td class="ramt">22.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, <i>for -Foster Hall Reading Room, Talladega -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsford. “D.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Post Mill Village. Mrs. C. M. Holbrook</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tyson Furnace. ——</td> -<td class="ramt">1.14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “Rutland Co.”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $2,078.81.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amesbury. C. F. Hovey, 10.40; E. P. -Elliott, 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. -Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. G. C. Munsell</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blackstone. H. Hodgson</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. “In memory of little Fannie,” -10; Mrs. Susan Collin, 1</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of -C., <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">54.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coleraine. Mrs. Prudence Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch., 32.17; -Mrs. Henrietta M. Daniels, 10</td> -<td class="ramt">42.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">80.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. G. Merrill and wife, 150; -Centre Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34; Mrs. -Mary B. Jones, 10</td> -<td class="ramt">194.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Housatonic. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hubbardston. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">4.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc. of -First Cong. Ch., Bundle of Goods, <i>for -Santee Agency, Neb.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., -<i>for Indian Aid, Hampton N. & A. -Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Long Meadow. Gent’s Benev. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Rodolphus Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lunenburg. “L. L. E. N.,” a Chronometer.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. & Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc., (30 of -which to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Theophilus Parsons -Sawin</span> L. M., and 30 from D. W. -Wilcox to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Emma Josephine -Wilcox</span>, L. M.)</td> -<td class="ramt">122.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. -to const. <span class="smcap">Samuel N. Rogers</span> and <span class="smcap">Albert -W. Lincoln</span>, L. Ms.</td> -<td class="ramt">72.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mill River. M. R. Wilcox</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Mrs. C. O. -Chapin, 5</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monterey. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburyport. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. “A Friend,” to const. <span class="smcap">Miss -Susanna Mills</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phillipston. D. & L. Mixter</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Randolph. Miss Abbie W. Turner</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reading. “A. H. M. S.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Revere. “A Friend,” by Mrs. A. S. -Steele, <i>for Orphans from Chattanooga -at Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shelburne. First Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">83.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Easton. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 23.92; -Hope Cong. Ch. 39</td> -<td class="ramt">62.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sudbury. U. E. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sunderland. Cong. Ch and Soc</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sunderland. “M.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wakefield. “Mission Workers,” <i>for -Indian girl, Bird’s Nest, Santee -Agency</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boylston. Polly W. Ames, 3; Geo. -W. Ames, 2.50</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Springfield. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Hiram Smith and family</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$1,508.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milbury. Estate of Asa Hayden, by Harriet -W. Hayden, Extx.</td> -<td class="ramt">570.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$2,078.81</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $584.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Central Falls. Cong. Ch</td> -<td class="ramt">63.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Geo. H. Corliss</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $3,398.82.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berlin. Mrs. C. M. Jarvis, <i>for Woman’s -Work</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Branford. H. G. Harrison</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Central Village. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. “I. O.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. Cong Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_316" id="Page_316">[316]</a> -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. <i>for -Tillotson C. & N. Inst.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. -<span class="smcap">Clarence Browning Vorce</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goshen. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch., adl.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Griswold. First Cong.. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100: Jos. -W. Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 7</td> -<td class="ramt">207.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain. Mrs. Alonzo Astor</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Nelson Hall</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norfolk. “B.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Guilford. Sarah R Fowler</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich Town. “*. Cong. Ch.”</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plantsville. “A Friend.” 300; E. E. -Stone, 100; H. D. Smith. 100; Stephen -Walker, 60; Geo. F. Smith, 25; E. W. -Twichell, 25; O. W. Stone, 20; W. S. -Ward. 10; Mrs. J. C. P., 5; C. L. Ames, -5; C. D. Smith, 5, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">655.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Putnam. Ladies, <i>for Student Aid, -Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.14</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Britain. Cong Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stafford. Mrs. T. H. Thresher</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stamford. “A Friend ”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Terryville. Cong. Ch. 180, to const. -<span class="smcap">Maggie McNaughton</span>, <span class="smcap">Susie Belle -Grannis</span>, <span class="smcap">Lura Genevieve Bunnell</span>, -<span class="smcap">Annie S. Cook</span> and <span class="smcap">Emma C. L. Castle</span> -L. Ms.; Elizur Fenn. 5; Mrs. Elizur -Fenn, 5</td> -<td class="ramt">190.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tolland. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Anson Chappell</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">201.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. First Ch of Christ</td> -<td class="ramt">60.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolcott. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.03</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$1,798.82</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Goshen. Estate of Miss Sarah Beach, -by Henry Norton, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. -Haven (<i>of which</i> $300 <i>for Talladega -C.</i> and $200 <i>for Tillotson C. & N. -Inst.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">850.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. Estate of Mrs. H. Coe, by L. W. -Cutler. Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">250.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$3,398.82</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $22,720.10.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Binghamton. Mrs. Chauncey Bean, <i>for -Woman’s Work</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blauveltville. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for -Missionaries, Fernandina, Fla.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clifton Springs. Rev. Lewis Bodwell</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coventryville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eaton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ithaca. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Theo. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nyack. John W. Towt</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Port Byron. Sarah B. Osburn, <i>for Chinese -M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.08</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherburne. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">59.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Groton. Cong. Ch. 19.54 Sab. -Sch. 1.46</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellsville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yaphank. Mrs. Hampton Overton, <i>for -Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. ——</td> -<td class="ramt">60.08</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$491.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Deansville. Estate of Mrs. Polly M. -Barton, by D. W. Barton and Jos. F. -Barton, Exs.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Victor. Estate of Emeline Lewis, by -D. Henry Osborne, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">21,728.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$22,720.10</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $1,110.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newfield. Rev. Charles Willy</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. Estate of John Hancock, by -Exs.</td> -<td class="ramt">1100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$1,110.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $26.23.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeboro. Cong. Ch., 13.23; -Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch., 10</td> -<td class="ramt">23.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy. Moss Grove Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $302.87.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adam Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashtabula. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Theo. -Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">28.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chatham Center. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">51.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">C. B. Abbott</span> -and <span class="smcap">Frank Nettleton</span> L. Ms.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Ladies Miss’y Soc. <i>for Talladega -C., Freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburg. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toledo. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wakeman. B. T. Strong</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Willoughby. Mary P. Hastings</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $10.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Auburn. James Adams</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $508.46.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chenoa. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 108.83; N. E. -Cong. Ch., 64.68; “A Friend” 50, to -const. <span class="smcap">James W. Porter</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">223.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. U. P. Cong. Sab Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. C. H. Morse, Scales, val. -31.75, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hutsonville. C. V. Newton</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">La Harpe. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lamoille. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lockport. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. Horace Day</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Prospect Park. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roseville. L. C. Axtell</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodburn. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.33</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $126.33.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch. (3 of -which from Mrs. C. C. P. Taylor)</td> -<td class="ramt">30.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. “*”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Leoni. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northville. D. Pomeroy</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ransom. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of First -Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vermontville. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $272.13.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alden. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cedar Rapids. Mrs. T. M. Sinclair, <i>for a -New Mission, Poncas Indians</i></td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eldora. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Prof. Fisk P. Brewer, <i>for Raleigh, -N.C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Le Mars. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lewis. Cong. Ch., 13; Mrs. O. C. -Warne, 5</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.44</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peterson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sioux Rapids. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$262.13<a class="pagenum" name="Page_317" id="Page_317">[317]</a> -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Estate of E. Marvin, by W. B. -& J. M. Dunn, Exrs.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">$272.13</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $359.14.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alderley. Mrs. Anna Reid, 2.50; Mrs. -E. Hubbard, $2.50</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Appleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 1.25; -“A Friend,” 75c., <i>for Lady Missionary, -Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary, Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady -Missionary, Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">75.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol and Paris. Ladies of Cong. Ch., -<i>for Lady Missionary, Montgomery, -Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fond du Lac. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Lady Missionary, Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Janesville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Racine. Mrs. Smith and Marsh</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitewater. “Friends,” by Prof. A. -Salisbury, <i>for Reading Rooms</i></td> -<td class="ramt">106.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $131.27.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Afton. L. I. Olds</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 41.18; -Mrs. W. K. Smith, 4.50</td> -<td class="ramt">45.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">56.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Mrs. Knowlton, 5; M. Bryant, -2; G. M. Phillips, 2; Rev. A. Willey, -1.50; Mrs. Norton, 1; Mrs. Nourse, -50c., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sauk Center. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $34.34.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manhattan. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McPherson. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">6.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olatne. Rev. W. W. McMillan</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “W. H. M. S.”</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $17.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kidder. S. O. Coult</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Louis. Mrs. R. Webb, <i>for Library, -Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $11.70.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Creighton. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">DAKOTA, $10.06.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clark. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.06</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">COLORADO, $10.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colorado Springs. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $312.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. United States Gov., <i>for Sisseton -Agency</i></td> -<td class="ramt">312.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $121.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Sales, by Mrs. A. S. Steele, -<i>for Orphans from Chattanooga at -Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">107.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville. Howard Chapel Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $12.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwood. Coll. by Rev. L. C. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $82.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macon. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Lizzie A. -Hodge, 15</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Concert, Beach Inst, 32.50; -Rent, 20</td> -<td class="ramt">52.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $121.90.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 2.20; -Cong. Ch., 55c.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Selma. Cong Ch., 14.15; Temperance -Concert, 1.75</td> -<td class="ramt">15.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega C. Tuition, 74.65; -Cong. Ch., 10</td> -<td class="ramt">84.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. A. Bingham & Co., <i>for Needmore -Chapel, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $2.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jackson. Collected by Chas. L. Harris.</td> -<td class="ramt">2. 00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOMES, $287.85.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">257.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belden Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $50.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Constantinople. The Missionary Children’s -Missionary Soc. in Turkey and -Bulgaria, by Miss Belle Bliss, Treas., -<i>for a girl, Dakota Home</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIA, $4.85.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bombay. Women’s Benev. Sec., <i>for -Dakota Home</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2">Total for August</td> -<td class="ramt">$33,333.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total from Oct. 1 to Aug. 31</td> -<td class="ramt">$262,579.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">=========</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Subscriptions</td> -<td class="ramt">32.74</td> -</tr> - - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged</td> -<td class="ramt">739.22</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">———</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$771.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">=======</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<div style="margin-right: 10%;"> - <p class="right nob" style="margin-right: 30px;">H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,</p> - <p class="right not">56 Reade St., N.Y.</p> -</div> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>PROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h2> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This society to be called the American Missionary -Association.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to -conduct Christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse -a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries -which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent -fields of effort.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Members may be constituted for life by the -payment of thirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, -with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that -the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a<a class="pagenum" name="Page_318" id="Page_318">[318]</a> -life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the -payment shall have been completed.</p> - -<p>Every church which has within a year contributed to the funds of -the Association and every State Conference or Association of such -churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the -Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be -members of the Association for the year for which they were thus -appointed.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be -held in the month of October or November, at such time and place as -may be designated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in -the official publication of the Association for the preceding month.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The officers of the Association shall be a -President, five Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or -Secretaries, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and -an Executive Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be -elected by ballot.</p> - -<p>At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this -Constitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be -elected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for -three years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members -shall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others -as shall be required to fill vacancies.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Art. 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M. A.</p> - -<p>The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association will be held in the Central Congregational Church, -Brooklyn, N.Y. (Dr. Behrends), beginning Tuesday, October 30 at 3 -<span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> and closing on the evening of Thursday, November 1.</p> - -<p>The sermon will be preached by Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of -Boston, Mass., Tuesday evening, at 7:30, to be followed by the -communion service.</p> - -<p>The citizens of Brooklyn will cordially welcome to their homes -all persons in attendance at the meetings. Those wishing such -hospitality are requested to forward their applications to Richard -M. Montgomery, 169 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., before October -15, specifying in their letters the time of their proposed arrival.</p> - -<p>Applicants will receive cards of introduction to families in which -they will be entertained. Should any person after receiving a card -of assignment decide not to attend the meetings, he will please -notify the Committee at once, that his place may be given to some -other applicant.</p> - -<p>Negotiations are in progress to secure reduced rates of travel over -different railway and steamboat lines, the results of which will be -given at an early day.</p> - -<p>Any further information which may be needed will be gladly -furnished on application to either of the undersigned.</p> - -<p>WM. G. HOOPLE, Chairman, 325 Greene Avenue.</p> -<p class="right">RICHARD M. MONTGOMERY, Secretary, 169 Columbia Heights.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/estey.jpg" width="500" height="374" alt="Estey Organ -As musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for -home, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship, -and durability. SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE." /> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -<p class="center small"><span class="smcap">Atkin & Prout</span>, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2> - - -<p>Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions silently -corrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the -multiplicity of authors.</p> - -<p>Changed “<span class="smcap lowercase">BEQEATH</span>” to -“<span class="smcap lowercase">BEQUEATH</span>” on the inside cover -(<a href="#Err_1"><span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “us” to “as” on page 311 (<a href="#Err_2">there are others as poor as -themselves</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “enthusastic” to “enthusiastic” on page 312 (<a href="#Err_3">very -enthusiastic in their work</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “Woman’ Msissionary” to “Woman’s Missionary” on page 312 -(<a href="#Err_4">Woman’s Missionary Society</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “purned” to “burned” on page 312 (<a href="#Err_5">Our church was burned a -year ago</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “Fragance” to “Fragrance” on page 319 (<a href="#Err_6">Beauty and Fragrance</a>)</p> -<hr class="full" /> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 37, -No. 10, October, 1883, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, OCTOBER 1883 *** - -***** This file should be named 61846-h.htm or 61846-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/1/8/4/61846/ - -Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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