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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. 12, December, 1883 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: September 8, 2020 [EBook #63146] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER, 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: DECEMBER, 1883. - -VOL. XXXVII. - -NO. 12. - -The American Missionary] - - - - - CONTENTS - - * * * * * - - - PAGE. - - PARAGRAPHS 353 - PROCEEDINGS AT ANNUAL MEETING 354 - TREASURER’S REPORT 356 - ABSTRACT OF THE GENERAL SURVEY 357 - SAVINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING 359 - ADDRESS OF REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D. 360 - MISSIONARY LITERATURE, BY REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON 362 - REPORT ON CHINESE WORK 366 - ADDRESS OF REV. WM. A. BARTLETT, D.D. 367 - REPORT ON INDIAN WORK 370 - ADDRESS OF REV. DR. ANDERSON 371 - ADDRESS OF REV. J. C. PRICE 373 - CASTE IN AMERICA, BY SECRETARY STRIEBY 376 - REPORT ON EDUCATIONAL WORK 382 - ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT S. C. BARTLETT 383 - CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT THE SOUTH, BY REV. DR. GLADDEN 385 - ADDRESS OF PROF. C. G. FAIRCHILD 391 - REPORT ON CHURCH WORK 393 - ADDRESS OF REV. T. P. PRUDDEN 396 - REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 397 - ADDRESS OF REV. D. O. MEARS, D.D. 398 - ADDRESS OF REV. W. M. TAYLOR, D.D. 401 - ADDRESS OF REV. DR. DENNEN 404 - ADDRESS OF PROF. BARBOUR 406 - RECEIPTS 408 - CONSTITUTION 412 - - * * * * * - - - 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. - - -VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - REV. C. L. GOODELL, D.D.; REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D.; - REV. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D.; REV. J. E. RANKIN, D.D.; - REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D. - -CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.—REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., - _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ - -TREASURER.—H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._ - -AUDITORS.—WM. A. NASH, W. H. ROGERS. - - -EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman; A. P. FOSTER, Secretary; LYMAN ABBOTT, - A. S. BARNES, J. R. DANFORTH, CLINTON B. FISK, S. B. HALLIDAY, - EDWARD HAWES, SAMUEL HOLMES, CHARLES A. HULL, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, - CHARLES L. MEAD, S. H. VIRGIN, WM. H. WARD, J. L. WITHROW. - - -DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., _Boston_. - Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_. - Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - -relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to -the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting -fields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of -the “American Missionary.” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New -York Office; letters for the Bureau of Woman’s Work, to Miss D. 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. - - - * * * * * - - - [Illustration: Count Rumford.] - - HORSFORD’S - - ACID PHOSPHATE. - - (LIQUID.) - - FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL - EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS, - DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY - DIFFICULTIES, ETC. - - PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF - - Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass. - -There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical -authority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has -ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the -general want as this. - -It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste. - -No danger can attend its use. - -Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to -take. - -It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only. - -Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free -on application. - - MANUFACTURED BY THE - - RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS, - - Providence, R.I., - - AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. - - - * * * * * - - - MANHATTAN - - LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK, - - _156 and 158 Broadway._ - - THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. - - - DESCRIPTION—One of the oldest, strongest, best. - - POLICIES—Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash - surrender values. - - RATES—Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired. - - RISKS carefully selected. - - PROMPT, liberal dealing. - - -GENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to -whom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given. - -Address - - H. STOKES, President. - - H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec’y. J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P. - S. N. STEBBINS, Act’y. H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P. - - - - - THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXVII. DECEMBER, 1883. No. 12. - - * * * * * - - - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -We send this number of the MISSIONARY to some who do not receive -it regularly, hoping they will find it of such interest, and the -work it represents of so much concern, that they will be induced to -become regular subscribers. The price is 50 cents. - - * * * * * - -_Fifty Gold Dollars._—One of the newly-elected members of our -Executive Committee has placed in our treasury fifty gold dollars, -given to him to be used in charity, at his discretion, by a friend -in New Haven, who adopted this method of commemorating his fiftieth -birthday. The example is a good one, and we hope there are scores -of others who will follow it without necessarily waiting until they -are fifty before doing so. - - * * * * * - - - - -ANNUAL MEETING. - - -The Annual Meeting of this Association, held in Brooklyn, will be -remembered as one of special interest for several reasons: (1.) -The work done during the year was unusually encouraging; and the -reports of the committees on the several parts were discriminating -and full. (2.) The financial exhibit, showing once more a surplus -of receipts over expenditure, with, however, a falling off in -the income from the living, was examined with candor and with -warm recommendations for more liberal gifts. (3.) A topic of much -interest to the Association and to an honored sister missionary -society was considered at length in several papers, which we -present to our readers in full, without, however, intending to -hold the Association responsible for the individual views therein -expressed. - -The great number of the reports, papers and addresses compels us -to select and abridge, reserving some for publication in future -numbers of the MISSIONARY or in the Annual Report. Papers relating -to work for women will appear in the January number of the -MISSIONARY, and the Sermon, as usual, will be found in the Annual -Report. - - * * * * * - - - - -ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. - - -The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association was held in the commodious Central Congregational -Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., beginning Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 3 P.M. In -the absence of the President, detained by illness, Rev. J. E. -Rankin, D.D., one of the Vice-Presidents, presided. Rev. C. P. -Osborne was appointed Scribe, and Revs. F. E. Snow and G. P. Lane -Assistant Scribes. Committees were appointed as follows: - -_On Nominations._ Rev. G. R. W. Scott, D.D., Rev. Wm. A. Robinson, -Hon. David N. Camp, Rev. E. O. Bartlett and Rev. P. B. Davis. - -_Business._ Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., Rev. W. W. Scudder, D.D., -Rev. Frank Ayer, Rev. E. B. Palmer, H. H. Ricker, Esq. - -_Arrangements._ A. S. Barnes, Esq., Chas. A. Hull, Esq., Rev. G. D. -Pike, D.D., Wm. G. Hoople, Esq., Richard M. Montgomery, Esq., G. -Johnson, Jr., Esq. and Rev. S. B. Halliday. - -_Indian Missions._ Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., Rev. C. C. Painter, -Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Rev. Cushing Eells, D.D., and Mr. Wm. H. -McKinney. - -_Chinese Missions._ Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, D.D., Rev. Geo. M. -Boynton, Rev. Evarts Scudder, Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., and Rev. Geo. -S. Smith. - -_Educational Work._ President S. C. Bartlett, D.D., Rev. Washington -Gladden, D.D., Rev. C. G. Fairchild, Rev. G. L. Ewell, Rev. E. W. -Bacon. - -_Church Work._ Prof. Llewellyn Pratt, Rev. T. P. Prudden, Rev. C. -L. Woodworth, D.D., Rev. Isaac Hall, Rev. G. F. Gleason. - -_Finance._ Dea. Eliezur Porter, Rev. William M. Taylor, D.D., Rev. -D. O. Mears, D.D., Hon. H. D. Smith, Rev. Erastus Blakeslee. - -H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, read his annual report, which -was referred to the Committee on Finance. Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., -presented the report of the Executive Committee, which was referred -to the appropriate committees. Rev. G. M. Boynton read the report -of the Committee on the Constitution, which was referred to a -special committee. A half hour was spent in prayer and song. - -Tuesday evening, at 7:30, Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., conducted -devotional services, and Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, -preached the annual sermon, from Luke, 9:24. Rev. A. J. F. -Behrends, D.D., made an address of welcome. The Lord’s Supper was -administered by Rev. Samuel Scoville and Rev. W. S. Palmer, D.D. - -Wednesday morning, Rev. R. B. Howard conducted a half-hour -prayer-meeting. At 9 o’clock Dr. Rankin took the chair and read -an address on “The Gospel of Christ our only Solvent for Race -Difficulties.” A committee to confer with the Conference Committee -of the Am. Home Miss. Society selected at Saratoga, was appointed -as follows: President, S. C. Bartlett, D.D.; Rev. J. L. Withrow, -D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D., and -Rev. Wm. H. Ward, D.D. - -Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., Secretary of the Board of the United -Brethren in Christ, gave an account of the Mendi Mission. - -Rev. A. H. Bradford read a paper on “Woman in Modern Charity -and Missions.” Rev. G. M. Boynton read a paper on “The Place of -Missionary Literature in the Conversion of the World.” - -Prof. Albert Salisbury, of Atlanta, Ga., read a paper entitled: -“For What are We Sent?” Rev. A. A. Myers, of Williamsburg, Ky., -read a paper on the “Mountain White Work.” - -Five-minute speeches were made by Rev. Isaac H. Hall, of New -Orleans, La.; Rev. Geo. S. Smith, of Raleigh, N.C., and Rev. -Alfred Connet, of McLeansville, N.C. - -Wednesday afternoon, Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D., made a report on a -visit to the Dakota mission. The report of the Committee on Indian -Missions was read by Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., Chairman, and -addresses upon Indian affairs were made by Dr. Anderson, Rev. -Cushing Eells, D.D., Rev. Samuel G. Rankin and Rev. Anson Gleason, -formerly missionary to the Choctaws. The report of the Committee on -Chinese Missions was presented by Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, D.D., -Chairman, who also made an address. - -On motion of Rev. S. Wolcott, D.D., Resolved, That we place -on record our thorough disapproval, as an Association, of the -exclusive and prohibitory legislation of our government relative -to the Chinese. The report of the Committee on the Constitution -was presented by Rev. W. S. Palmer, Chairman, and accepted. After -discussion the Amended Constitution was adopted with no dissenting -vote. - -Evening Session.—Devotional Services were conducted by Rev. J. M. -Whiton, Ph. D. Addresses were made by a Chinaman, Ju Sing, from -Oakland, Cal.; by an Indian, Wm. Harrison McKinney, of the Choctaw -Nation, Indian Territory, a recent graduate of Roanoke University; -by a negro, Rev. J. C. Price, of Salisbury, N. C., graduate of -Lincoln University in 1879, and by Secretary James Powell. The -exercises were interspersed with singing by a choir of nine young -Chinamen, resident in Brooklyn and members of the Central Church -Sunday-School. - -Thursday Morning.—The half-hour prayer meeting was conducted by -Rev. Geo. S. Smith. At 9 o’clock Dr. Rankin resumed the chair. -Secretary M. E. Strieby read a paper on “Caste in America.” -President S. C. Bartlett read the report of the Committee on -Educational Work and made an address on that subject. A committee -to consider Secretary Strieby’s paper on “Caste in America” -was appointed, consisting of Deacon Samuel Holmes, General E. -Whittlesey, Rev. S. Wolcott, D.D., Rev. G. M. Boynton, Rev. D. -L. Furber, D.D. Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., made an address -on “Illiteracy in the South.” Rev. Edward W. Bacon, Rev. C. -G. Fairchild, and Rev. John L. Ewell, made addresses upon the -different phases of educational work at the South. Brief remarks -were also made by Rev. A. P. Foster and Rev. R. B. Howard. - -Thursday Afternoon.—After devotional services, Professor Llewellyn -Pratt, D.D., read the report of the Committee on Church Work, and -Rev. T. P. Prudden followed with an address. Rev. Erastus Blakeslee -read the report of the Committee on Finance. Dr. Wm. M. Taylor -made an address on “What the Bible Says About Giving.” Rev. D. O. -Mears, D.D., made an address on “The Function and Privilege of -the Churches.” Mrs. A. A. Myers, of Kentucky, read a statement -regarding the mountain people of the South. - -The following resolution was passed: “Whereas, the Finance -Committee, after careful examination of the needs of the -Association, have recommended that the contributions of churches, -Sunday-schools and individuals for the coming year be increased -50 per cent, above the amount given by them during the past year, -therefore, Resolved, That we approve this recommendation of the -Finance Committee, and urge contributors everywhere to increase -their contributions accordingly.” - -The Committee appointed to consider Secretary Strieby’s paper on -Caste in America made report through the Chairman, Dea. S. Holmes. - -Officers for the coming year were elected as printed on second page -of cover. - -The following resolution offered by Rev. E. Blakeslee was adopted: -Resolved, That if the Executive Committee now elected have any -question as to their legal status under the Constitution, they -be and hereby are authorized to take legal advice thereon, and, -if competent to do so, to arrange themselves in three classes -according to the terms of the new Constitution. - -Thursday Evening.—Rev. A. P. Foster conducted the devotional -services. - -Addresses were made by Rev. S. R. Dennen on “Spiritual Life -the Supreme Power in Your Work,” and by Dr. Wm. M. Barbour, on -“Spiritual Vitality the Crowning Necessity in Missionary Work.” - -A resolution of thanks offered by Secretary Woodworth was adopted, -and Dr. Behrends responded for the Brooklyn people in fitting -terms, and the meeting was dissolved. - -All the sessions were characterized by a hopeful spirit and by deep -spirituality which found frequent expression in the voice of prayer. - - * * * * * - - - - -SUMMARY OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE AMERICAN -MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30th, 1883. - - * * * * * - - - _RECEIPTS._ - - From Churches, Sabbath Schools, Missionary - Societies and Individuals $148,389.08 - From Estates and Legacies 126,366.73 - From Incomes, Sundry Funds 8,512.57 - From Tuition and Public Funds 25,191.06 - From Rents, Southern Property 848.85 - From U.S. Government for Education of Indians 750.00 - From Sale of Property 2,500.00 - ———————————$313,567.29 - Balance on hand Sept. 30, 1882 789.83 - ——————————— - $313,357.12 - =========== - - - _EXPENDITURES._ - - _The South._ - - For Church and Educational Work, Lands, - Buildings, etc. $230,022.15 - - _The Chinese._ - - For Superintendent, Teachers, Rent, etc. 11,021.90 - - _The Indians._ - - For Church and Educational Work 18,955.44 - - _Foreign Missions._ - - For Superintendent, Missionaries, etc., for - Mendi Mission 6,227.43 - For John Brown Steamer 3,714.81 - For Supplemental Arthington Fund 5,837.40 - For Support Aged Missionary in Jamaica 332.50 - - _Publications._ - - For American Missionary (22,000 Monthly), - Annual Reports, Clerk Hire, Postage, etc. 6,795.95 - - _Agencies._ - - For EASTERN DISTRICT.—District Secretary, - Agent, Clerk Hire, Traveling Expenses, - Printing, Postage, Rent, etc. 5,693.10 - For MIDDLE DISTRICT.—District Secretary, - Traveling Expenses, Printing, etc. 3,031.59 - For WESTERN DISTRICT.—District Secretary, - Clerk Hire, Special Grant and Traveling - Expenses, etc. - 4,074.53 - - _Administration._ - - For Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, - Secretary of Women’s Bureau and Clerk Hire 8,866.50 - - _Miscellaneous._ - - For Rent, Care of Rooms, Furniture, Repairs, - Traveling Expenses, Books, Stationery, - Postage, Expressage, Telegrams, etc. 3,572.10 - For Wills and Estates 1,987.96 - For Annual Meeting 1,334.75 - For Annuity Account, balance 986.55 - For Expenses of Committee on Constitutional - Amendments 248.75 - Amounts refunded, sent to the Treasurer by - mistake 105.39 - —————————$312,808.80 - Balance on hand Sept. 30, 1883 548.32 - ——————————— - $313,357.12 - =========== - - _Endowment Funds Received_, 1882-1883. - - Tuthill King Fund, for Atlanta University $5,000.00 - Tuthill King Fund, for Berea College 5,000.00 - Theological Department, Howard University 1,100.00 - N. M. and A. Stone Theological Scholarship, - for Talladega College 1,000.00 - ————————— $12,100.00 - - _Arthington Mission._ - - Received from Oct. 1, 1882, to Sept. 30, 1883 1,417.53 - - _Stone Building Fund._ - - Balance for Atlanta University, Stone Hall, paid 10,918.70 - - _RECAPITULATION._ - - Current Fund $312,567.29 - Endowment Fund 12,100.00 - Arthington Fund 1,417.53 - Stone Fund, balance 10,918.70 - ——————————— - $337,003.52 - =========== - - The receipts of Berea College, Hampton N. and A. Institute, - and State appropriation of Georgia to Atlanta University, - are added below, as presenting at one view the contributions - of the same constituency for the general work in which the - Association is engaged: - American Missionary Association $337,003.52 - Berea College 11,351.47 - Hampton N. and A. Institute (beside amount - through A. M. A.) 118,054.15 - Atlanta University 8,000.00 - ——————————— - $474,409.14 - =========== - - H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, - 56 Reade Street, New York. - - * * * * * - - - - -ABSTRACT OF THE GENERAL SURVEY. - - -WORK IN AFRICA. - -Mendi Mission. The income of the Avery Fund and the “John Brown” -steamer have been transferred for five years to the United -Brethren, who have a mission—Shengay—adjoining Mendi. - -The Arthington mission and fund have been offered to the United -Presbyterians, who have a successful mission in Egypt. - - -INDIAN WORK. - -Dakota missions transferred from the American Board to the A. M. A., -except the six churches of Sisseton Agency, which had been -transferred to the Home Mission Board of Pres. Gen. Assembly. -Leaving out those, we have now, including the mission in Washington -Territory, 5 stations, 9 schools, 5 churches, 12 missionaries, 25 -teachers, 1 native pastor, 12 native teachers, 271 church members, -356 pupils, 584 Sunday-school scholars. - - -WORK AMONG THE CHINESE. - -At our recommendation the American Board has opened a mission at -Hong Kong, China, a rally-centre for converted Chinamen returning -to their native land. - -In California the last year—Rev. W. C. Pond, Superintendent—19 -schools; 2,823 scholars; 40 teachers, of whom 14 are Chinese; 175 -have ceased from idolatry; 121 give evidence of conversion; 400 -during history of mission have turned to Christ. - - -WORK AMONG NEGROES. - -Work in twelve States of the South, and in Kansas and District of -Columbia; 8 chartered institutions; 12 high and normal schools; 42 -common schools; 279 teachers; and 9,640 students. The Theological -Department of Howard University has 34 students; Talladega, 14; -Fisk, 9; and Straight, 13, with 20 students in law. - -_New Buildings_: “Whitin Hall,” at New Orleans; “Cassedy Hall,” -at Talladega; Stone Hall at Atlanta finished; Library Building at -Macon, Ga.; schoolhouse at Hillsboro, N.C.; at Memphis, Le Moyne -Institute enlarged. - -_Industrial Work_: Farms at Talladega and Tougaloo and Atlanta; -shops at Memphis, Tougaloo, Macon, Charleston; cooking, nursing, -sewing, taught at Atlanta, Fisk, Tougaloo; house-work in all the -eight boarding schools. - -_Church Work_: Six new churches—At McLean’s, N.C.; Knoxville, -Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; Belle -Place, La. - -The six new churches of last year are all doing well. Total number -churches, 89; members, 5,974, an average of 67; additions, 667; on -profession, 528; Sunday-school scholars, 9,406; raised for church -purposes, $12,027.21; benevolent contributions, $1,049.35. - -Six new church edifices built at Pekin, Oaks and McLean’s, in N.C.; -at Knoxville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; Mobile, Ala. and Belle Place, -La.; Brick Church at Lawrence, Kan., rebuilt. - - -MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK. - -Besides original churches and schools in Kentucky, a new church and -academy at Williamsburg, Ky. Other missions coming on around this -place. The academy has had 108 scholars, who have paid as tuition -$303—not one failing to pay. Work encouraging. Color question -tested and carried in accordance with the principles of A. M. A. - - -WOMAN’S BUREAU. - -From September, 1861, on to the present time women have been -prominent workers. By 1864, 169 women workers; in 1865, 261; in -1866, 264; in 1870, 450; in 1869, 2,000 different ladies had -served; and to date not less than 3,000, an army of Gospelers! -Among Indians, 17 lady missionaries. Among Chinese in California, -24 lady missionary teachers. - -Miss D. E. Emerson has been appointed as secretary. She is -experienced on the field, and acquainted with the details of office -work, as clerk for the southern field. - - * * * * * - - -WANTS. - -1. For current work, $1,000 for every day of the year. - -2. Endowments in the several institutions. - -3. A Boys’ Hall at Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas. - -4. $10,000 to add to Edward Smith’s $10,000 to build the first -hall, at Little Rock, of Edward Smith’s College, for whose campus -(14 acres) he paid $5,500, already greatly enhanced in price. New -hall to be named for second donor. - - * * * * * - - - - -SAYINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING. - - -—Prof. Albert Salisbury: I do not approve the factory idea of -industrial instruction. - -—Dr. Withrow: Selfishness is as sure to destroy what it seeks to -save as a cancer is to kill. - -Never in this world was a monument made to memorialize a mere -money-getter. - -—Dr. Behrends: The color-line is only a section, and a very small -section at that, of the race-line. - -It is not in India alone that the existence of caste constitutes -one of the most serious obstacles to the progress of the Gospel. - -—Dr. Rankin: For Southern educational work this Society has put in -millions by the side of the United States Government’s millions. -The Government has given $5,000,000, this Society has given -$5,000,000. - -Westminster Abbey opened of its own accord to take the dust of -David Livingstone. Why? Because he stretched himself on Africa, as -the prophet stretched himself on the dead body of the widow’s son. - -—Rev. A. H. Bradford: Florence Nightingale robbed war of half its -terrors. - -These Women’s Boards of Missions do more than all other means -combined to keep alive the missionary spirit. - -The women of our day have reversed the Apostolic injunction and -are reading it, “Help those men.” We need to restore the original -reading, “Help those women.” - -—Rev. Isaac Hall: Speaking of the colored people’s futile efforts -to solve the race problem, he said: First we thought we would go -to Africa, but we couldn’t get ships enough: then we thought we -would go to Kansas, but we couldn’t get cars enough; then, since we -couldn’t get away, we decided we would stay; and now what are you -going to do about it? - -—Dr. Wm. Alvin Bartlett stigmatized the California law which -forbade a Chinaman to live in an apartment with less than 500 cubic -feet of air, and punished him with imprisonment in a cell with less -than 200 feet of air. - -The Chinese are not illiterate, but it is objected that they are -too numerous. Why, there are hardly Chinamen enough in our country -to be schoolmasters of our countrymen who cannot read and write. - -But the Chinese worship their ancestors. Well, I would rather -revere my ancestors than leave my children such pernicious doctrine -as the anti-Chinese people teach. It is better to worship your -ancestors than to damn your posterity. - -—Ju Sing recognized the fact that all Americans are not hostile -to Chinamen. “We know that there are some God’s people, and some -devil’s people.” - -—Nine young Chinamen, residents of Brooklyn and members of the -Central Sunday-School, sang Gospel Hymns. They also sang “Pass me -not, O Gentle Saviour,” done into Chinese, Jim Sing taking the -solo. - -—Secretary Powell: Now that slavery has gone, there must go with it -blind-eyed prejudice and anti-Christian caste. - -—Rev. J. C. Price, North Carolina: At the close of the war Canaan -was not entered, as a recent decision of the Supreme Court tells -us, but the Red Sea was crossed. Has the Negro grown? Then his -chief object was to be in Gen. Sherman’s army; if not in it in the -wake of it. Now he is looking about for property and education. - -The colored people of Georgia alone have acquired a property of -$6,000,000. In North Carolina from twelve to fifteen newspapers are -edited, owned and controlled by colored people. - -If God has made the Negro a man, he requires of him all the work of -a man. Then let Christian people do all they can to qualify him for -that work. He quotes the words of the Secretary: “The true solution -of the Negro problem is not to change his color or his place of -residence, but to change his character.” - -—Sec. Strieby: This Society is not handicapped for this work except -by its firm and well-known attitude against caste, and any other -Society equally faithful on that subject would soon be equally -handicapped. - -—Pres. Bartlett claimed to represent an institution that from -the very first has rejected the color line; a century ago it was -educating the Indians, a half a century the Negro shared its -privileges. Speaking of the Negro’s unquestioned piety he said: “He -sees hell impending, heaven before him and the chariot swings low.” - -—Dr. Gladden: No man has a right to engage in the work of governing -who does not know what just government is. I protest against that -kind of government. - -From 1870 to 1880 the colored voters at the South increased 30 per -cent.; their illiteracy increased only 20 per cent. The whites -at the South are gaining in intelligence but little, the blacks -splendidly. Most of the gain South is due to the education of the -Negro. - -How do you account for this gain? Did you ever hear of Fisk and -Berea and Atlanta? The census tables have heard of them if you have -not. - -Any society that is as really and thoroughly Christian as this one -will meet the same objection as this one. - -—Dr. Taylor: “Bring an offering and come unto my courts.” In -Scotland, where I was brought up, the first act of worship was to -lay a piece of money on the table. - -Sometimes a man assigns a debt so that what is due him is paid to -another. So the Lord Jesus has assigned the debt, and we are to pay -a large part of what we owe to him to the poor and needy; to the -benighted and degraded; to the Indian, the Negro and the heathen -that need the light. - -—Dr. Dennen: Speaking of denominational antipathies, he was -reminded of the brass oxen under the brazen laver standing with -their rumps toward each other and their eyes directed away to their -own selfish interests. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CROSS OF CHRIST THE ONLY SOLVENT FOR RACE DIFFICULTIES. - - -Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., who presided happily at our annual -meeting, read an interesting opening address, from which we give -the following extracts: - -The Cross of Christ proves man’s universal brotherhood. If He is -our brother-man, we are His brother-men. - -When last night we took that bread and drank that wine, what did -we do? We symbolized Christ’s human brotherhood. This He did for -humanity’s sake. What taint of Judaism had He? What recognition -did He ever make that He belonged to any single nationality, to -any single tribe, to any single class? Is He brother-man to the -Jew only, because he was born of a Jewish mother? Is He any less -brother-man to the Gentile? When we ate that bread, we ate that -which sets forth, what? God manifest in the flesh. God manifest in -the flesh of humanity. Not because we are Anglo-Saxon, and have -the Anglo-Saxon Bible, the Anglo-Saxon literature, the Anglo-Saxon -civilization, the Anglo-Saxon freedom and manhood, of which we -are so proud, have you and I a claim to this Brother-man? It is -because we are on the same human level with the other races, from -which we so much differ, and above which God has given us such an -exaltation. For such were we. It is because we are brother-men to -Frederick Douglas, and Sitting Bull, and the last Chinaman who has -been smuggled from the Celestial kingdom, because the continent -is too narrow for him and us. It is because we are so low and not -because we are so high, that we had a right to sit there; to eat -that bread, and drink that cup. That broken bread is the emblem, -not of Anglo-Saxon humanity, but of lost, degraded, fallen humanity. - -The Cross of Christ interprets man’s universal brotherhood. It -needs to be interpreted. It is the last thing man learns here; -that in Christ Jesus the humblest man is his equal. Ask almost -any man if he wants the elevation of his brother-man; if he wants -his brother-man in India, in China, in Japan, in the South, or on -the Pacific Coast, made his equal, and given a chance to outstrip -him, in the struggle for betterment? And he will usually answer, -“Why yes, of course. Do I not pray for it and contribute for it?” -But, will you sacrifice your prejudices for his sake? He needs -different religious influences, different educational influences, -different social influences, he needs to feel that he is no -longer ostracised, and that he may aspire for himself and his -children, just as you may. Will you adopt him into your religious, -educational, social circles? But, you reply: “That is a society -question.” It is a society question. And you belong to the Kingdom -of God; to the unseen society, which, by the power of His Cross, -this God-Man, who took the form of a servant, is gathering out -of the nations; you have fellowship with Him, in His humiliation -for humanity’s sake. And yet, you propose to decide this question -according to the laws and usages of a society to which you do -not belong, out of which God has called you, and against whose -inhumanity to man, against whose worldly pride the Cross is a -standard lifted up by God himself. You are under the most sacred -of bonds to record your testimony as belonging to quite another -society. - -In what sense, after all, are we brothers? Can society answer this -question? Can anything but the Cross of Christ? The Saviour gives -us a picture of what it is to be a true neighbor in the parable -of the Good Samaritan. “Who,” asks He, “was neighbor to him that -fell among thieves?” He that thought it was a society question, a -question of caste; he who came and looked on him, and passed by on -the other side? He that put money into the contribution box for -him, or sent some one else to help him to the hospital? No; only -the man that set him upon his own beast, carried him to an inn, and -took care of him. A man cannot live a neighbor to man if he is not -living a neighbor to God, as he is in Christ Jesus. - -Before the war, there was organized a benevolent society, whose -anniversary occurs the present week—a society to preach the Gospel -among the heathen. Its founders said, “We cannot take money that -has been coined from slave labor. It is the price of innocent -blood. It cries up to God for vengeance.” - -What is the history of that society? Why, the smoke of our civil -contest had hardly cleared away before it began to build up the -waste places of the South, heaping coals of fire upon the people -there. Under its auspices, the choicest daughters of New England -(as though they had been angels of God) went down there, with the -spelling-book and the Bible; took their share of the ostracism -meted out to the recent bondmen, for Jesus’ sake; many of them -laid down their lives there. There has scarcely been a foreign -missionary field in the world which has had more perils, which -has demanded greater sacrifices, which has developed spirits more -heroic, more Christ-like. The same spirit which led our brave boys -in blue to die to make men free, led their sisters to die to make -them holy. And what do you see to-day? This society has done more -to stay the tide of illiteracy, to lay the foundations of permanent -civil and religious prosperity than all the other agencies put -together. God’s secret is with them that fear Him. The men who, for -Christ’s sake, said, “We cannot set apart to God that which has -come from unpaid human labor; we cannot thus have fellowship with -the works of darkness;” these men God has put into the fore-front -of the great battle with ignorance and degradation—the great battle -in which the South begins to ask the Nation which cannot protect -the black man to come to her assistance, crying out, like Caesar -to Cassius, “Help, Cassius, or we sink!” They got their baptism -at the foot of the Cross. Look at the queenly institutions which -they have planted. Look at the thousands of the sons and daughters -of Ethiopia, whom they have developed into the mental, moral and -spiritual stature of true manhood; whom they have polished after -the similitude of a palace, fitted for professions, for business, -for home life. Look at the churches they have planted. This is -their conception of the brotherhood of man, as they have been -taught it at the Cross, as the Cross has interpreted it to them. - - I know no difference of race, - Of African and Saxon; - Of tawny skin, of rose-cheeked face, - Of hair of crisp and flaxen. - The soul within, that is the man, - There is God’s image hidden: - And there He looks, each guest to scan, - The bidden and unbidden. - - One God in love broods over all! - One pray’r to Him is taught us; - One name for mercy, when we call; - One ransom, Christ has brought us. - One heart of meekness, lowly mind, - Life’s counter currents breasting; - One Father’s House, we hope to find, - Within God’s bosom resting. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE PLACE OF MISSIONARY LITERATURE IN THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD. - -REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON. - - -The literature of missions has a threefold function in its -relation to the conversion of the world: to inform, to quicken -and to direct. It would be hard to over-estimate the importance -of the history and record of missionary efforts and successes in -their relation to the intelligence of the Christian people of -our land and our day. If we are exhorted to _add to our faith_, -virtue (manly and holy enterprise) _and to virtue, knowledge_, the -exhortation must apply (next to the knowledge of God and of His -word) to the knowledge of the history and progress of His kingdom -in the world. - -We do not call him even a fairly intelligent citizen of the United -States who does not know something of the history of his own -country—who does not know the general order of its great questions -and great conflicts. What shall we say of one who claims to have -his citizenship in heaven and yet is willingly ignorant of the -great battle-grounds of Christ’s kingdom of even the near past, and -so knows nothing of the questions which agitate the present day or -the forces of the foes now in the field? - -It is no small thing to follow the current history of the world, -as it has been brought so near to us in our day, and yet with what -eagerness the morning paper is looked for in every home of even -ordinary intelligence; and after the half-hour’s search, how often -to the question, “What is there of interest to-day?” the answer -comes, “Oh, nothing.” The journals are full of manufactured news; -political squabbles; stories of scandal and of crime; with now and -then some event which marks a step in the world’s progress of more -than ordinary consequence. It is often said that our missionary -periodicals are not of thrilling interest, but I am willing to -leave it to the testimony of any candid man whether they do not -at least fairly approximate the secular press in interest and -ability, only that men are more eager to know what is going on in -the kingdoms of this world than in the kingdom of our Lord and -Saviour Jesus Christ. It is the _appetite_ which largely gives its -savor to the food. _When our hearts are all aglow_ with love to the -Master of us all, and we want to know, above all things, that he is -being satisfied with the travail of his soul, _we do not count the -tidings of the advancement of his kingdom dull_. If his interests -are ours, we shall watch them. - -One of the great requisites to giving or praying is that men should -know to what their alms are directed and for what their prayers go -up to God. Let the missionary press, then, give us information, and -give it freely. The men and the women who read want to have, not -the impressions of other people reproduced, but the details which -made those impressions. They want the facts, set forth with vivid -exactness, with life-like coloring. It is only now and then one of -our missionaries at the front who seems to comprehend that he must -make us see what he sees, and must remember that his reflections -upon the things that have become familiar to him will not make -us familiar with the facts. If he can stir our imaginations and -make us his attendants during his day’s work, we shall be led to -sympathy and support. - -When the Church Missionary Society of London was making its -exploration into Africa the long pages of journal written on the -spot from day to day were the most thrilling pages of current -history that were being written; and many of you have not forgotten -the diary of our own Dr. Ladd of his journey up the Nile. Nothing -should be spared to open the eyes of the givers and the prayers -to what you may call instantaneous views of the workers at their -work. Give us the facts in the best possible shape if you want our -sympathy, our prayers, our money. Until you have done that, you -cannot, if you would, call down on us the condemnation spoken to -him that “_seeth_ his brother have need” and does not help him. - -But Christian character needs _inspiration_ as well as information. -It needs not only to know, but to feel; not only to have its eyes -made clear to see, but its heart stimulated to a worthy enthusiasm. -We do not get our _inspiration_ so much from great events as from -great men. Souls are quickened by quickening souls. The contagion -of enthusiasm spreads from life to life. That in the literature of -missions, which will especially kindle missionary enthusiasm is to -be found in the veins of the noble lives of the men and women who -have counted their lives not worth the keeping, for their love for -Christ and for the Kingdom of whom this world was not worthy, and -who, in the world, were least of all men of it. - -What other fuel can you find to build a fire of grand enthusiasm -for the Master like the one you have in the biography of missions? -Nowhere away from the sacred record can you find nobler events -of Christian living and devotion. Nowhere are there grander -illustrations of the spirit of Christian heroism. Nowhere more -stirring suggestions of the possible attainments of Christian grace. - -Nor do I recall a missionary biography which is morbid and so -misleading—which sets up an introspective and dyspeptic type of -piety as a model and standard. The missionary has no time to be -morbid. He has made a consecration of all his energies to his -Master. His life is led actually and daily by the high purpose -which he has set before him. His biography is not a picture of -still life. He cannot stop to take becoming attitudes, even before -his own eyes. He has no time to write a journal of his supposed -spiritual states. If you take his photograph you must take him in -motion, as nowadays they take a horse upon the race-track, and you -get him with every muscle set and every nerve charged with life. - -I know no better books for men or boys, for matrons or maidens, -than such books as these, in which you have such lives embalmed. - -Where can you find a manlier life than that of John Coleridge -Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, his diocese the island of the sea, -inhabited by blacks. The story of his patience and his pluck and -cheerful confidence is enough to dispel the worst type of malarial -saintship—shaky and intermittent. To see him with his senior bishop -approaching a new island, rowing in his small boat as near as was -safe to the breakers, and then the two pioneers of the Gospel -taking a header through the waves and swimming to the land to tell -the Gospel of great joy to the dusky and unclad islanders! There’s -tonic in the very reading. He could be a bishop without robes or -titles. God had sent him to be an overseer of lone regions and lost -souls. Or what could be more tragic than the final scene of his -death by the treacherous arrows of the natives, and the ghastly -tableau of the still young hero of God floating out in the boat -alone toward his waiting friends. - -There is a biography yet unwritten of one connected with the work -of this Association which, if it could be spread upon the record, -would equal this in the sincerity of his devotion, in purity of -his motive, in his bearing patiently when nearly all men spoke ill -of him, for Christ’s sake and the Gospel’s, and even friends for a -time began to doubt him, in his readiness to take up the hardest -thing there was to do until the end. You will know of whom I speak -when I tell you that he was equally the friend of the Indian and of -the negro; that he became the target of all the shafts of malice -when he sought to protect the poor Indian from his worse than -savage foes within the capital of the nation and on the western -reservation; that he became the victim of the deadly malaria of the -African coast, where he had gone to reorganize and direct the work -of this Association in the Mendi Mission. I speak of one whom we -all delight to honor and call reverend—the Reverend Edward P. Smith. - -And there are others still upon the field, whose names may or may -not be known to any wide fame with men, and women, too, who have -hazarded their lives for the privilege of preaching and of teaching -in the name of Christ. We cannot afford to lose the records of such -positive and aggressive Christianity for their stimulus to the -Christian character of those at home and those whose characters are -forming yet. - -Dr. Goodell names as one of the ten ways by which the world is to -be saved, that we keep the home and Sunday-school libraries full -of that most interesting and profitable of all our literature -for the young, the books written by Christ’s soldiers upon the -field of battle. I would emphasize even more than that—the books -written about these heroes of the faith and their lives of earnest -and joyful sacrifice. Who will not acknowledge that we need the -inspiration in our day? - -If the Christian world needs for its own sake the information -and the inspiration which can only come from the literature of -missions, the missionary work itself needs equally this means to -make its opportunities known to the Christian world. - -That is only in part, if at all, a Christian church which is not a -missionary church as well. The salt which has lost its savor is no -longer salt. It will save deception if you take off the label. It -is “good for nothing,” and is to be cast into the street only to -get rid of it, and not because it is good for a road. - -The true Church of Christ is concerned about the progress of his -kingdom, is in earnest sympathy with those who are at the front, -is eager in its outlook for new opportunities of service. To -such a waiting ear—and, brethren, it is waiting—come through the -missionary press the tidings of opportunity, the sound of doors, -long closed, creaking on their hinges as they fling open for the -feet of the delaying messengers of grace. This is the telephone -which summons to instant response. It sounds in the counting-rooms -of our men of business, and invites them to new investments in -behalf of those for whom God goes security, for “he that giveth -to the poor lendeth to the Lord.” It rings its summons in our -Theological Seminaries and among our younger brethren in the -ministry, and calls them to occupy until He comes. It goes into the -offices of the organizations through which the churches reach the -needy east and west, north and south, and says not pull down your -barns, but build greater ones; for, as are the broad farms of the -West to the old New England homesteads, so are the harvests to be -reaped to those which have been already gathered in. It mixes in -our homes, and calls on our sons and daughters to the waiting work. - -And neither we at home, nor those in the broad field, can afford to -be left unnoticed or uncalled. They need it that souls may be born -into the kingdom; we need it that we may by pure toil and sacrifice -grow unto the stature and the likeness of our risen Lord. - -The Church of Christ will not know more of the advancement of His -kingdom or of its hindrances than it is told. God will not save us -the trouble of the inquiry or the report. The Church of Christ will -have no more enthusiasm in the work than it gets by entering into -sympathy with those who do it, and with Him who died that it might -go on. - -And yet, in the light of all this already trite and quite -self-evident truth, you hear it said, even by those who are -concerned in the progress of the work, “What are we going to -do with this increasing mass of missionary literature? We are -quite flooded with it, and especially with these periodicals, -these Missionary Heralds, and Home Missionaries and American -Missionaries. Can’t we make it less? Can’t we combine them and -double the thing up? It bothers us.” Ah, brethren, the wonder is -that we do not cry for more and better. The wonder is not that so -many take the missionary magazines, but so few, and that so few of -those who take them read them. - -Brethren, the time will come—if the time comes when men seek first -His kingdom and His righteousness, not last—that Christian men and -women will not want to wait a month to glance over the few pages of -a missionary magazine; but will want to know the latest news of the -advancement of Christ’s Kingdom in the morning before they look to -see the stock-list or the scandal-list of the day before. When the -question of the morning will be what new progress, what new delays, -what new need for the advancing hosts of Christian warriors; and -at night the thought will be, the sun has gone to shine on other -fields and other laborers, and while we sleep this work goes on. -And in those days it shall go on with speed and sureness. - -Let our missionary literature then be not lessened in quantity -or deteriorated in quality. Let not our agents think the time is -lost in which they stop to tell us of the work. The growth of -Christ’s people at home is as important as the conquests of His -grace abroad, indeed, the last will be largely proportioned to the -first. Let ingenuity and enterprise be put into these channels of -communication. Let the facts be fresh and full—more fresh and full -than ever. Let them be clothed in choice and skillful diction. -Let us leave the arts which the satanic or the merely mundane -press monopolize to their uses. Let us not grudge the cost. It is -not cost of administration at all. It is not cost of collection, -though it helps that department greatly. It is more than all the -missionary work of each society for the constituency that supports -it. Our churches and our Christians here at home need it for their -own vitalizing and the direction of their awakened energies. If -our fires be not kept up at home the warmth will not be diffused. -These are days of organization. It used to be that if a man had -lost his way in these then dark country roads some one must go out -alone with his hand-lantern to guide him to safe shelter. Now your -streets are full of lamps, and your illuminated signs band them at -every corner. You may take all the care that is possible of the -lamps and burners; it will do no good if you neglect to keep the -fires up where the illuminating gas is made. If the fires go out -there the lights go out in every street and home. Do not let us ask -these organizations to lessen their efforts to inform, to quicken -and to guide our missionary zeal at home, as though it were not an -important part of their legitimate work. - - * * * * * - - - - -REPORT ON CHINESE WORK. - - -The report of your committee on the Chinese Department of the -American Missionary Association is as follows: The keynote of -the year’s work is success. Four more schools, 256 more scholars -enrolled, nine more teachers, with an increase of four Chinese -instructors. The number of those professing to forsake idolatry -in excess of last year, 19. There have 121 given good evidence of -conversion—last year 106, making 400 who have embraced Christianity -during the history of the Mission. Only seven thousand dollars of -the nearly twelve thousand dollars expenses of the mission came out -of the treasury of the Association. The number of local churches -contributing has doubled. The receipts of the “California Chinese -Mission” have gained 37 per cent. These gratifying facts inspire -confidence that this work in purpose and method is blessed of God. -They should beget a zeal commensurate with the hope they enkindle. - -The new mission established by the American Board in Hong Kong—the -natural fruit of this work—places peculiar emphasis upon its -value, as its initial demand came from Chinamen Christianized by -its influence. The Rev. Mr. Hager goes to this important control -not only with the prayers of his American brethren behind him, but -escorted over and welcomed by the devout supplications of specimen -Chinese converts. It is an omen of profound significance that four -or five Chinese workers for Christ, trained in these schools, -contribute their invaluable services to the enterprise. It is -equally suggestive that the Chinese Christians remaining behind -cheerfully gave $500, adding to their faith, men, and to men, -money, an evidence of the genuineness of their confidence. The past -year’s experience alone demonstrates that most of the ingenious, -infamous charges made against this people are lies. So Providence -has opened a golden opportunity. The narrow and bigoted ignorance, -lack of patriotism, lack of statesmanship, lack of humanity, lack -of equitable dealing exhibited by our Government in its recent -legislation on the Chinese question have corraled 75,000 of them on -these shores. It is the open day for Christian privilege. Cannot -the majority of these be surrounded by our faith, wrought on by the -power of Christianity, saturated by a genuine Christian life and -made the standing army for whom we shall send officers and soldiers -to conquest the empire? If the teeming millions are appalling can -we not subdue this installment isolated by inscrutable wisdom for -this Christian experiment? - -With such a present and pressing basis of appeal this work should -have abundant means to reach without delay the limit of its -capacity. - -If there be not vital Christian warmth sufficient in the United -States to resuscitate this waif upon our coasts, how can we hope to -rescue the myriad nation? It is floundering in the Arctic Ocean of -heathenism. - -Respectfully Submitted, - - W. A. BARTLETT, Chairman. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. WILLIAM ALVIN BARTLETT, D.D. - - -After remarking that the Chinese question was little in some -aspects, as when fifty million people frantically rise to defend -themselves against a paltry handful of 75,000 Chinamen, Dr. -Bartlett continues: But there is a sense in which it is large. It -is a large question to any man. We find, according to the best -accounts, 430 odd millions of Chinamen. It is the largest question -of statesmanship and of commerce to know how best to handle the -largest body of men who live together, and have lived together the -longest, on the planet, and that speak one language. - -But if it is large commercially, what is it in a Christian point -of view? We go here and there picking up the scraps and the -scattered remnants of races, but look at this majestic aggregation -of humanity; look at their tremendous history! It is the largest -question to-day before the missionary Christianity of the world. - -Well, I am to say a word or two about the Chinese in America. -How did they come here? They came here on the invitation of the -Americans. California boasted at first of the grand people they -were to receive. But that soon changed, and they began a system -of ingenious abuse, such as has never been equalled. Take the -laws passed by San Francisco—the “basket” law; the “cubic foot of -air” law, under which, if a Chinaman was found living in a room -with less than 500 cubic feet of air, he was thrust into a prison -where he would not have over 200 cubic feet of air; and the “tax” -law, under which Chinamen were taxed for sending their children to -school and not permitted to send them. Every man in the street took -the license himself of breaking every law of God and of humanity -by pounding and stoning them. Then, it was not enough for the -municipality to seize this question, but the State took hold of it. -The Legislature of California settled all ethnological questions at -once. They passed a law and said, by majority, that the Chinaman -was an _Indian_! That settled it. Then the nation took hold of it -and passed a law—these great 50,000,000 of people against 75,000 of -people. - -So the nation passed a law to keep the Chinamen out, violating all -the traditions of the country, and to import _the Chinese wall!_ -They ceased importing the Chinamen and imported their wall—a -barbaric, ramshackled old thing of a great many centuries. It was a -kind of waistband to the Chinese Empire when it was young; but they -burst it long ago and ran over it. - -This infamy was carried to this extent. A committee was appointed -by the United States Senate, and a corresponding committee from -the House, in 1876, to investigate this subject thoroughly. They -examined 130 witnesses. They took over 1,200 pages of evidence -from experts in all departments in regard to Chinese history and -ethnology and everything else. They met them face to face and -talked it over. Senator Sargent, the chairman of the Committee, -made this statement in his report. He says, in the first place, -that the Chinaman is an “_indigestible mass_.” Well, that is not -quite definite; a man hardly knows how to handle such a statement -as that. It is a kind of mince-pie, I suppose, in the body politic. -I think I shall leave that for the gastric juice to analyze. But -his next assertion is more practical. He says that the brain -capacity of the Chinaman is not sufficient to furnish motive power -for self-government; for all that, he has governed himself since -the time that Senator Sargent’s ancestors, assuming him to be an -Anglo-Saxon, were cautiously cracking acorns in Northern Europe and -wearing bearskins! Mr. Pixley, a gentleman we sent to California -from my part of the State of New York, a lawyer, and violently -opposed to the Chinaman, says in his opinion before this Committee -that the Chinaman is the inferior of any being that God ever made; -he says that a specimen cannot be produced that has ever been -affected in any particular by Christian influences, and that in -his (Pixley’s) opinion the Chinaman hasn’t any soul, or if he has -a soul it is not worth saving. Gentlemen, these things have been -put into laws and organized before people of influence, and their -animus spent itself in that infamous legislation in Congress which -abrogated a treaty without consultation and flew in the face of a -hundred years of precedents. - -What is the fact? Why, the fact is that Chinamen are human beings. -They are _honest_ human beings as the rule goes. The word of a -Chinese merchant in California is taken everywhere. They are -_industrious_ and _frugal_. Senator Cassidy said—he was very much -opposed to them—in this book of testimony to which I have referred: -“They are the most ingenious, industrious and frugal people on the -planet; and if they come into competition with us in low forms of -industry to-day, they will come in higher forms to-morrow.” - -There was an old philosopher who lived 500 years before Christ, -Confucius by name, who wrote certain maxims; and it does seem as -though he was inspired to look ahead precisely at this treaty that -they passed at Washington, when he said, “It is an evidence of the -superior man, of the great moral man, the true man, that he adheres -strictly to the old agreements, however long they may have stood.” -He was asked if he could put into one word what would express the -whole duty of man, and he said, “Is not that word '_reciprocity_'?” -(That was a “reciprocity” treaty.) He says, “We should not ask -another to do unto us what we would not be willing to do unto him.” -And then he says, “The superior man has regard to virtue and to the -sanctions of law; but the small man only thinks of himself and what -favors he is to receive.” It looks like an inspired and animated -riddling of this whole question as it stands to-day before the -nation. - -One of the largest land proprietors and wheat-growers in California -said that the work could not be done without the Chinamen; they -have reclaimed two millions of acres. - -Now, mind you, with all the wrongs that the Chinese have received -on our shores, every little disturbance on the Chinese coast which -has ever occurred, or where a mission station has been sacked by a -mob, we have collected and been paid every dollar of the damage; -and the Chinese Government has paid nearly a million dollars to -our Government for the wrongs perpetrated upon American people But -this Government has not paid a dollar to the Chinese. There is a -claim which the Chinese Embassy are now pressing on the Government, -for $40,000 that was destroyed in one night in Colorado; but the -reply upon such claims usually is, “We have not been in the habit -of paying such claims to Chinamen.” Isn’t that justice? Isn’t that -purity of legislation? - -The Chinese are an _educated people_. They have vast libraries, -large and broad, rich in literature. They have the lives of great -men. They know about our Washington: they teach about him in their -schools. Do we know anything about their Washingtons—about their -great men who have guided the grandest nation, in some respects, -that history has given us any account of for nearly 3,000 years, -possibly more? We know about Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale -College, taking the prizes in English composition. We know the -standing of their students in our colleges generally. We know the -fact that of the 75,000 Chinese in this country every one can -read and write. In this country, according to the census before -the last, we had over 5,000,000 who could not read and write; -so that there are hardly Chinamen enough in this country to be -schoolmasters to those of our number who cannot read and write! Dr. -Hedge in Boston stated some years ago that, in a conversation with -Charles Sumner, Sir John Bowring, the representative of Her Majesty -at the Court of Pekin, said that when he was there the Chinese -Ministers were the superiors of any European cabinet. Mr. Sumner -replied: “I am astonished! You do not pretend to compare them with -Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby and Mr. Gladstone?” Said he: “I mean -precisely what I say, without any invidious comparison; I will add -that the Prime Minister of China, during my residence in Pekin, has -not, in my opinion, his intellectual superior upon the planet.” - -The Chinese are a _cleanly_ people, a _decent_ people. The Chinese -laborer washes himself all over every day. As a rule they can -come into our mission schools and sit beside our ladies with -perfect propriety. When I was preaching in Indianapolis we had -every Chinaman in the city in our schools. They are not a clannish -people; they are glad for American society. - -They have crimes and vices. They are human. They lie and steal, -and gamble, and have their peculiar method of getting intoxicated -with opium. But I don’t know as it ever has been proven that they -can carry on lying to such a magnificent extent as we do in an -ordinary political campaign, and they have never risen to the -refined plundering of Wall street. They say they take opium, and -you know how they took it—they took it at the cannon’s mouth at -first. England must make 400 per cent. profit in the poppy fields -of India. It was shocking to them to the utmost; and their torment -has gone on ever since in homes that were never addicted to any -crazier drug than tea and knew nothing of a hell so orthodox -as the delirium tremens. The Emperor petitioned England, in a -document which I think has not its equal in all the documents of -Governments, not to set fire to the morals of his people by loading -them with their accursed opium. But they did. - -The Chinese worship their ancestors. Well, if I had to choose the -least of two improprieties, I think I would prefer to pay a very -hearty and cordial appreciation of my grandfather rather than to -curse my children with such doctrines as have been proposed toward -the Chinese. It is better, I think, to worship your ancestors than -to damn your posterity. - -But the Chinese have noble qualities. In the days of the yellow -fever at Memphis I was near it. We almost felt the hot breath of -that dreadful pestilence. We needed money and men; and there came a -telegram from San Francisco that the Chinese merchants of that city -had contributed $12,000 for the yellow fever sufferers. That looked -like putting the prayer of Christ upon the cross into physical -results: “Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” - -We know the Chinese philosophy, the height of their morality; we -know the purity of Confucius’ recommendations and the wondrous -statement of Lotse that we should love our enemies; and we know -that the highest crest waves of this Chinese morality throw spray -around the feet of Jesus. I have stood this summer in the far West. -I have stood where you can test civilization. There in Seattle -stood a university on our right hand, and on it the Indian words -_Al-Ki_—by and by—the motto of the Territory—“By and by we will -show you.” Brethren, I am not given to nightmares nor to day -dragons, but it did seem to me as we stood there and looked out -upon that majestic sheet of water, Puget Sound, being nearer in -the centre of the majority of the population in the planet than -we are here, that the day would come, with that matchless harbor, -that wonderful climate, with coal and iron in the vicinity, with -all cereals and fruits possible, when the throne of power would -be transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and when -the argosies of the world would float without any bar, either in -Puget Sound or in the cities around it, and ride there at peace -in the security of a gospelized and millennialized age. It can -only be done by our appreciation of the necessity of keeping our -Christianity clean and solid and aggressive, and on the old basis -of sin and salvation through a crucified Redeemer. - - * * * * * - - - - -REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INDIAN MISSIONS. - - -Your Committee, to whom has been referred that part of the annual -statement of the Executive Committee which relates to the American -Indians, desire to report as follows: - -The chief event of the year, in the Indian department, is the -adoption by this Association of the Indian Missions of the American -Board. Your Committee look upon this as an event of conspicuous -importance in the history of the Association. As long ago as 1872, -at the annual meeting of that year, the Committees on the Indian -and the foreign work suggested a double transfer—namely, the -transfer of the foreign missions of the Association to the American -Board, and the transfer of the Indian missions of the Board to -this Association. The propriety of such an exchange has seemed -obvious to many patrons of the two societies for some time. However -satisfactory the explanation of the existing condition of things -afforded by the historical development of the two organizations, -it was plain that the time had come for such a unifying and -concentrating of the work of this Association as would result from -leaving the foreign field to others, and assuming the care of those -missions in our own country which our foreign missionary society -had so well established. - -These missions are among the Dakotas, one of the most widely -extended and important of the American Indian stocks. The largest -of these missions—that at the Sisseton agency, formerly under the -care of the lamented Stephen R. Riggs—has chosen for its new mother -not our Association, but another missionary board, by which it -will doubtless be thoroughly cared for and warmly cherished. The -missions which actually come under our care constitute an important -group of churches and schools, and should be received with a hearty -welcome by an Association with such antecedents as this. The new -trust committed to us calls for new purpose and energy in our -specific work. - -We find that these Dakota missions are not dead or dying, but -thoroughly alive. And because they are thoroughly alive they need -very real help. The men in charge of them are men awake to their -opportunities, believers in a forward movement, and in whatever -legitimate experiments may be involved therein. We feel that in -all such experiments they should have the ready co-operation of -the Christian Church. We therefore heartily endorse the Executive -Committee in their plans for enlargement in the Dakota field—for -improvements in the mission property and in methods of work, where -they are called for, and the establishment of new missions in -places which promise success. - -One project, your Committee believe, deserves to be regarded -with special favor, the establishment of a school—agricultural, -mechanical and normal—at Fort Sully. The Executive Committee have -secured a delightful site for such a school, and they know the -man to take charge of it. What is wanted is money to furnish the -proper financial basis, and we can scarcely doubt that this will -be forth-coming. The industrial school method of missionary work -has already been thoroughly tested at the east—in Hampton and -Carlisle—and the verdict is altogether favorable. There is good -reason to believe that the adoption of the same method among the -Indians themselves would result in real benefit. Let the work of -instruction, in all its interesting details, be carried on where -the red man can see it, and it will surely make its impression upon -him. At all events, we have in favor of this view the opinions of -men who may be looked upon as experts in this matter. - -In adopting as its aim these Dakota missions, and thus enlarging -its strictly missionary work among the American Indians, the -American Missionary Association gives its approval anew to the -attempt, now so long continued, to Christianize the red men. There -are those who scoff at the idea of such a work; but history—not -to say the Gospel—teaches us better. No race of men has yet been -discovered so low that it cannot be reached and moved by the -religion of the Crucified, and the American Indians are certainly -no exception. The Indians as a whole are by no means the lowest -or the least susceptible; and the results on record are far from -insignificant. God has blessed the efforts of his church in their -behalf throughout the past two hundred years, and we know he will -continue to bless them. Respectfully submitted. - - JOSEPH ANDERSON, Chairman. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. DR. ANDERSON. - - -When the question arose in my mind in what line to follow up this -brief report, it seemed to me that the subject of Indian wrongs and -Indian rights had been sufficiently discussed for the present in -this Association and elsewhere, and that it might be of advantage -for us to look for a little while in another direction. - -There are few, I suppose, who are aware of the largeness of this -work as carried on upon our continent, few who appreciate the -amount of real labor and real suffering, I may say, endured in this -direction. In order to a correct estimate, it seems to me that -we ought not to lose sight of, but rather we ought to recognize, -the work which has been done by our Roman Catholic friends. They -began as long ago as 1611, and from that date onward until 1832, at -least, they carried on an extended work among the American Indians -upon eight or ten different and important fields. I find, by -looking over their lists, that 170 men gave themselves to the work -of saving the Indian from barbarism and elevating him to a higher -and Christian level during this period. - -Then, in order to a correct appreciation of this work, we must -remember also what our beloved friends, the Moravians, have -done—not only what they did in Greenland, not only what they did -in the West Indies, but what they did within the bounds of our -own nation, especially in Pennsylvania and farther west. And so, -too, we must recognize the work done by the Episcopalians and the -Methodists and the Presbyterians, who, through a long series of -years and in varied fields, have been laboring for the conversion -of the American Indian. - -But in none of these fields has a more satisfactory work been -done than that which has been done in this America of ours by the -Congregational churches and the men whom they have sent out. The -missionary work among the American Indians began with the founding -of the church in New England—began under the molding hand of John -Elliot in Massachusetts. A hundred years later than the day when -Elliot began that work another figure arose upon the stage of -history: David Brainerd, the humble, quiet young man, who gave -himself for Christ and for the beloved Indians, and labored and -suffered even unto death. And then, when we come down to 1813 or -thereabouts, we find the American Board, newly organized, turning -its attention to the Indians in the South and Southwest. In the -record of their early work we have such names as Cyrus Kingsbury -and Byington and Father Gleason, and in the far West Williamson and -Riggs, our lamented brethren to whom reference has already been -made, and many others, some of whom are still with us, including -our excellent brother and my fellow committeeman Rev. Cushing Eells. - -Here we have a list of heroes doing their work quietly, silently, -patiently, yet a work deserving to be called heroic, as much so as -that which has been done on the islands of the sea and on the other -side of the globe—a work in which noble men and women have taken -part. What is the result? Here is the good seed sewing. What kind -of a harvest has been gathered? There are those who think—perhaps -it is the common impression—that the results of Indian missions -have been meagre and of little value at the best; but let us -consider. It seems to me that in any such calculation some account -should be made of what may be called the reciprocal effect produced -in the lives of the missionaries themselves and of the churches -sending them forth. I observe that Dr. Shay, author of the History -of Catholic Missions in America, referring to the extinction of the -Spanish missions in the southern part of our country, says that -even if they have become extinct and if there are no results that -we can trace to-day, that does not count for their condemnation -any more than the disappearance of the works of art produced so -long ago by Apelles and Zeuxis is to the condemnation of those -workers. He might have gone farther and called attention to the -effect produced upon the artists themselves by their contributions -to ancient art, the effect produced upon the artist anywhere by the -work that he does in his own field, the effect produced upon the -reformer by the work of reform which he accomplishes, the results -produced in the lives of missionaries who constitute so large a -company in our church from their labors, their sufferings and their -sorrows. - -I noticed in a past number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY published -during the present year that a cut had been reproduced representing -a group of Indians watching a railroad train—an impressive -picture; and it suggested to me that our aim should be to bring -these Indians of the West where they shall not stand suspiciously -watching a railroad train, the emblem of advancing civilization, -but where they shall co-operate with us and appreciate the railroad -train and make it theirs. We want them to adopt as rapidly as -possible all the appliances of our civilization, and above all we -want them to accept the Lord Jesus Christ. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. J. C. PRICE. - - -On the 1st of January, 1863, the negro was like a newly-built ship -launched upon the waters without mast, sail or rudder. Pleased -with liberty, he thought his happiness complete; but a few months’ -experience taught him better. When the ballot was denied, when he -could not—nay, more, when he cannot—claim as a right or privilege -the comforts of travel; when deeply-rooted prejudice on account -of his color and previous condition of servitude confronted him -at every turn, he soon found that he had not reached the full -stature of an American citizen, but was still in his infancy. -And the question that presents itself to your minds, and to the -friends of the negro and to ours, the orphaned recipients of your -generosity, is, Has the negro grown any? has he made any noticeable -advancement? Or is he where freedom found him and where slavery -left him? January, 1863, found the negro penniless, ignorant, a -homeless wanderer, his chief object to be in General Sherman’s -army, or if not in it, in the wake of it; but he is now settled, -fixed, and by industry and by perseverance he has purchased homes, -and he and his children, through the generous aid of friends, have -received some education. The land that he once sowed in slavish -fear and reaped with trembling, he now sows in joy and gathers with -the gladsome shout of a free and jubilant harvester. In fact, the -material, as well as the intellectual and moral progress of the -negro has surprised his best friends. He has gone forth without -possessing the tattered garments that he wore, without a foot of -soil on which to tread, and he has purchased those homes. And not -only has he purchased them, but he has carried into them those -things which make home what it is—the comforts of home. It is -nothing strange to go into a Southern home and see a carpet on -the floor. If it is not on all of it, it will be a big piece in -the middle. And if you don’t find it all the way up-stairs, you -will find a little as you step on the first step. That shows a -disposition to do something that is elevating. And then the fact -that they have purchased these homes is something. I have seen it -repeated in the newspapers of the North—and I regret to say by men -who do not know the negro—that he is a lazy, shiftless fellow. -Well, they do not go down South, as we term it, and go into the -negroes’ houses. They do not go into his colleges and universities -and high schools, but they ride around by the station, they see a -few at the depot—a lot of lazy negroes, as you find a lot of lazy -white men under similar circumstances. They judge us unfairly. No -man is judged by the worst, but by the best. Did you want Lord -Chief Justice Coleridge to form an opinion of America by the men -that he met by accident or saw in the slums of New York—“lazy” -men, that he saw lounging around the corners of the streets? No; -you wanted him to judge you by your best, and you put your best -forward. Now, what we ask for the negro is that he be judged by his -best and not by his worst. Of course, the best is always in the -minority, but that is the way we are judged. If these same men were -to go into the South and go into the negroes’ homes, they would -find there very often excellent comfort. Some one has asked whether -the negro has any of this race prejudice in him. No; he will give -you the best bed and the fattest pig and the best chicken he has -got in the yard. There is no prejudice there. And then, not only -these things, but you find in many of their houses instruments of -music—some with an organ, some with a piano; and you can find young -girls there who can play on both, and if you want a little singing -they can do that too. Negroes can sing as well as my friends the -Chinamen. These things, too, are not only found in the cities but -in the country places and villages. - -The negro has done all this, notwithstanding that he has lost -millions—yes, the negro has been defrauded of millions, yet he -has accumulated millions, and in many instances he has become the -owner of the farms and plantations of his former master. It was no -longer than two or three years ago that the papers told us that -the farm of Mr. Jefferson Davis rightly belonged not to him, but -to two negroes, they having paid $200,000 for it. And these are -but examples. You go through the South and you find negroes owning -farms of 100 or 200 acres each; and I know of one man who owns 900 -acres, all of which he has bought since the war. We have gone forth -to the earth, and with the horny hands of toil we have made the -earth to answer to our appeals; and these have been the results. -Why, in Georgia alone there are more than 85,000 colored voters -who own 500,000 acres of land valued at about $1,244,000, besides -city property valued at $2,100,000, horses and mules, etc., valued -at, $2,000,000, making an aggregate for Georgia alone of more than -$6,000,000, which the colored people in that State now own. - -But why should I enumerate? In fact, the negro has made the -waste places of the South to blossom as the rose. He has built -its railroads, dug its canals, erected its mansions, makes its -carriages and buggies, and in 1878 produced for the American people -more than $250,000,000. In the face of these evidences, who would -dare question his industry, stigmatize him as “lazy,” and ridicule -his unskilled labor? - -But these are but the beginnings—the gray streaks of dawn ushering -in a brighter day for this toiling and long-oppressed son of Ham. -We are often reminded of what the negro was in ancient days, -especially in Northern Africa; but to-day we are forced to see what -he is in America, notwithstanding its prejudices and its political -oppression and persecution; we are forced to look at him rising in -his incomparable glory, the anomaly of the race and the wonder of -mankind. - -But there is another feature. The negro’s highest powers and -worthiest capabilities are not all shown in the development of -sterile marshes or barren highlands. If slavery brought out his -power of endurance, his patience and his unparalleled fidelity, -freedom called forth his intellectual ability and causes the world -to wonder at his rapid attainments. But this angel in him long -ago would have sought his native heaven, but slavery clipped his -wings, forbade his flight, and confined him to corn hills, cotton -rows, rice marshes and pine forests. But his wings are growing -again, and already he lifts himself somewhat from the earth. But -you say, “Are there any signs of his educational progress?” I -might answer by pointing to distinguished colored men who fill -positions of responsibility and emolument in this country. But -not only are there men who are educated among us, but there are -also schools of high grade whose portals are anxiously crowded -by young men and women thirsting for knowledge. I have taken one -State as an example of our material progress; let another show our -intellectual advancement. In 1861 there was not a school in North -Carolina to which persons of color were admitted. But to-day, in -addition to her common schools, she has Shaw University, Biddle -University, St. Augustine Normal School, four State Normal Schools, -Esther Seminary, Scotia Seminary, Bennett Seminary, and the Zion -Wesleyan Institute—institutions of high grade; these have in them -to-day an aggregate of 2,000 young men and women preparing for the -great work of uplifting their brethren, and every summer they go -forth throughout North Carolina and other Southern States doing -what they can for the improvement of their fellows. Besides this, -we have in North Carolina from twelve to fifteen newspapers, -weeklies, semi-weeklies and monthlies, edited, owned and controlled -by colored men. The negro has done something, and we consider it -something—something that we are proud of, especially when we think -of the manner in which it has been done. - -But, notwithstanding this favorable aspect of the condition of -the people as seen in these two States, we are forced to ask the -question—in fact it comes to us as we travel among the people—what -is our material progress in Georgia, what is North Carolina’s -educational outlook, when we consider the masses of the people -through the South? They are but a drop in the bucket. If you could -travel through that section and view the condition of the people -away off in the remote towns and districts, you would say so, -especially when you remember that the population has increased to -almost double its original number. Since 1863 the 4,000,000 have -grown to nearly 7,000,000. It is nothing strange to see the need -of instruction among the people, even among the ministry. It is my -theory that we must get the ministry straight first; and when we -have an intelligent ministry before the people, then we will soon -have an intelligent people. “Like priest” _always_ “like people”. - -It was truly said by President Tobey at the meeting of the A. M. A. -in Chicago that the presence of the negro in the United States is -of great significance, that the enthusiasms of political life in -our nation have resulted from his presence, and that he has been -the occasion of the most exhaustive discussion of the rights of -man and the formation of a new political party and is now the most -considerable element in our politics. That is true; but that is -telling us our disease without a cure. What is the remedy? That is -what you are here for to-night; that is what you have bean turning -over in your minds ever since you assembled. What is the remedy for -these existing political and social evils among us? We think it was -precisely set forth by the Secretary of the Association at that -same meeting when he said, “The true remedy for the existing evils -is not to change the negro’s color or his party, but to change his -_character_,” and that is what we ask. - -Legislation cannot solve the negro problem in this country. The -thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, the Civil Rights -Bill and the Constitution itself cannot solve the negro problem. -We must go behind the Constitution, behind the amendments; we must -go to the public sentiment. What effect has a law if there is not -a public sentiment to back it up? We have had the Civil Rights -Bill for several years, but what did it amount to in some sections -of the country? It amounted to nothing, because there was not a -public sentiment to sustain it. And it seems to me that we want to -educate the public sentiment and it is evident that the solution -of this great vexing problem can only come through the gradual and -thorough development of the negro’s mental and moral nature. I say -_thorough_, because some men think that the negro need have only an -elementary training, that he is not prepared for a higher training. -Why is he not? If it has taken centuries of culture, with the best -masters and the best teachers, to uplift the white race, why is it -not necessary to uplift the black race? God has made of one blood -all nations of men that dwell upon the face of the earth; and we -believe that there are only individual and not race distinctions as -to their mental and moral capabilities. Therefore, what one race -requires another race requires; and we feel assured that, when this -has been done, the millions of minds, both in this country and -in Africa, that are now rough and unshapen as the rock from the -quarry, will begin to show signs of symmetry under the constant -hammer and steady chisel of competent workmen. - -Then, and not till then, the negro’s sun of progress and -prosperity, whose earliest rays already gladden his eastern -horizon, will rise and climb the firmament of his glory until it -reaches its zenith, and from that zenith it will shed forth a light -that all the nations of the earth shall behold, whose heat shall -melt away all prejudice, in whose light all indignities and all -inhumanities shall vanish; and all these nations, in one united, -harmonious voice, shall cry aloud, “Ethiopia, Ethopia has indeed -and in truth stretched forth her hands unto God.” - - * * * * * - - - - -CASTE IN AMERICA. - -BY SECRETARY STRIEBY. - - -India has four castes, America two. The Hindoo castes are the -priest, soldier, merchant and laborer or Soodra. The last is the -largest and lowest and bears the weight of all the upper classes, -whom it is born to serve and by whom it is despised. The highest -caste may come down to the employments of the soldier or merchant, -but not to those of the Soodra, but, according to Hindoo orthodoxy, -the Soodra can as little enter a higher caste as a stone can become -a plant. - -America’s two castes are simply the white and the colored races. -The latter are the Soodras, and in the orthodox theology of slavery -they were born to serve the whites. But while that high orthodoxy -suffered a rude shock in the Proclamation of Emancipation, caste -comes in to save it from utter overthrow, and has fixed a great -gulf between the races, so that especially “they cannot pass to us -that would come from thence.” - -This proscription of the colored races includes the Indian and the -Chinaman, but for the sake of simplicity of presentation I shall -refer mainly to the most numerous race in this country—the Negro. - -By caste prejudice they are denied fellowship which Christ -enjoins—rights which the Constitution grants, access to trades, -professions and schools where they could compete with the whites. - -Caste is a worse sin in America than in India. In practicing it the -Hindoo obeys his gods and his veda; the American dishonors his God -and disobeys his Bible. The Hindoo is a heathen and is degraded -by caste; the American sends missionaries to convert him and to -denounce his caste, and yet sustains caste at home. The Hindoo is -consistent in denying equal rights to all men; the American boasts -that God made of one blood all nations, and that all men are free -and equal, and yet tolerates caste. - -In sustaining caste the American perpetuates the inconsistency and -shame of slavery. No greater inconsistency was ever shown than in -holding slaves in America after the Declaration of Independence; -and no greater shame than in the zealous defense of slavery by the -press, the pulpit and the theological seminaries—at the imperious -bidding of the slaveholder. Caste is the tap root of slavery, -and the defense of it is a repetition—nay, an aggravation—of the -apologies formerly made for slavery. Men will live to be ashamed of -this defense. - -Caste is a curse to America. - -It injures those who cherish it. Caste-prejudice is a sin. All -prejudice is narrow, born of ignorance and hate. Caste-prejudice, -therefore, by narrowing the mind and embittering the heart, harms -the American citizen both as a man and a Christian. It hinders the -progress of its victims. The slaves are emancipated—their continued -degradation is the nation’s danger, their elevation the nation’s -hope, and yet caste shuts up the avenues of trades, professions, -schools and churches, through which alone they can escape from -ignorance and degradation. If they rise it must be in spite of all -the obstacles that caste can throw in their way. - -It creates race antagonisms. The foreign immigration into this -country creates no antagonisms. It flows into the great river of -American life like brooklets, bringing down often their turbid -waters, but these are soon mingled and purified in the mightier -stream. But caste renders the colored races an opposing tide now -indeed overflowed and borne under, yet resisting their fate. That -they are overborne is seen in the nullifying of their vote in the -South and in denying them access to the rights, immunities and -privileges of the dominant class. But they are neither silent nor -submissive. We know how prompt and deadly is the resentment of the -Indian; the negro and the Chinaman are more quiet, but they resist -as best they can and await the time, in the conflict of tides, when -their volume and momentum will give them the preponderance. - -Nor is that awaiting vain, nor that time distant, in view of the -astonishingly rapid increase of the colored population—an increase -of over 500 per day—an increase of 35 per cent. in ten years, -as against 28 per cent. in the white population of the South. -It is easy to estimate in how few years the colored population -will equal the whites, and it is easy to see that, as this growth -goes on and long before the equal numbers are reached, the sense -of growing strength and of continued wrong will stimulate the -negative resistance of the present to the determined hostility -of the future; and when that race conflict comes, what human ken -can foretell the issue? But we may be sure that when it comes the -North, the whole nation, can no more keep out of it than it could -keep out of the dreadful conflict with slavery, out of which this -impending struggle grows. - -Special significance is given to all this by the recent decision -of the Supreme Court of the United States pronouncing the Civil -Rights Bill unconstitutional. This takes from the colored man the -last shadow of legal protection to rights which he, and all men for -themselves, consider essential to their manhood, and will stimulate -him to more determined resistance unless the conscience and good -sense of the white races shall speedily end this needless, yet -dangerous conflict. - -This leads me to ask: Is there a remedy for all this, and what is -it? Not in dragging the white man down, but in lifting the colored -man up. Both races must coöperate. The white man must let down the -ladder; the black man must climb. The white man must open the door -of the shop, and the black man must go in and do as good work as -the white man can. The white man must open the school house and -the black man must go in and become as good a scholar as the white -man is. The black man can never attain positions and honors by -demanding them simply because he is a black man; he must fairly -win them by being worthy of them. The white man cannot maintain -his superiority by denying the black man the chance of becoming -his equal. He cannot hold it by force. Slavery for a time enabled -him to do so, for then he had superior numbers and the aid of the -Government, but he has no longer that aid and he cannot always have -the weight of superior numbers. The white man must give the chance, -and the black man must take it and win his position. - -But the white man is not ready to give the chance—in other words, -surrender the vantage ground his color gives him. Here is a call -for an appeal to conscience. The subject must be discussed, North -and South, among white and black alike. As the anti-slavery reform -arose not out of the stagnant waters of indifference, but out -of the dashing stream of healthful agitation, so must the caste -reform be brought about. That discussion has begun in earnest, -and will not cease till caste be sent to that bourne to which -slavery, its ancestor, has gone and whence it shall never return. -But discussion must take shape; the Church must cease to sustain -caste. The time was when men were afraid to oppose slavery because -it would hinder the spread of their churches in the South. They -urged: “Why endanger the growth of our denomination by joining -in this useless clamor against slavery?” But the time came when -these same persons decided that it was more important to destroy -slavery than multiply churches that sustained slavery. Missionary -societies abandoned their churches in the South, and the great -national churches allowed themselves to be rent in twain rather -than uphold slavery. Only such an attitude against caste will -avail anything. When the North feels that ten churches or schools -that stand unequivocally against caste are more important than a -thousand churches or schools that sustain caste, then we shall see -the beginning of the end. - -But the colored people themselves must be educated out of caste. -Strange as it may seem, some of them are its abettors, and, -stranger still, they are so religiously. As men, they repudiate -it; as Christians, they sustain it. They prefer separation mainly, -perhaps, because they think the whites would not welcome them. -Other reasons may be given. Some of the members love excitement -in their worship, and this they can enjoy better if no whites are -present; the leaders can be bishops and rulers among their own -people, but, if joined to the whites, these honors are denied, or, -at least, unequally divided. Why is it that religion is compelled -to shield some of the greatest wrongs on earth? Albert Barnes said, -long before slavery was abolished: “There is no power _out_ of the -Church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained -_in_ it.” Must sinful and harmful caste, the baleful progeny of -slavery, find its bulwark in the Church—nay, in some of the colored -churches themselves? - -But this wish or willingness of these churches for separation is -gravely made use of by many most excellent people as a reason for -ceasing to make war against caste. It is said triumphantly: “See -how the colored people, welcomed to Dr. Goodell’s or Dr. Rankin’s -churches, prefer churches of their own.” Does their abetting -caste help to destroy it? Did the wish of the Israelites in the -wilderness to return to Egypt help them on to Canaan? If the -slaves in this country were ever content to remain slaves, as was -sometimes alleged, that was all the greater evidence of the curse -of slavery. If the Soodra consents to remain a Soodra, all the more -does he need the breaking of his bondage that he may become a man. -And so, if the colored people consent to caste separation, all the -more do they need emancipation from the bondage of caste. - -In this point of view the action of some of the large religious -bodies North and South in consenting to a separation on the color -line is riveting the chains of caste on the colored people, and -sustaining caste-prejudice in the hearts of the white race; and -it is seriously questioned by many considerate persons whether -the presence of two Congregational Missionary Societies in the -South, the one working mainly for the whites, and the other side by -side, mainly for the blacks, will not, with all explanations, be -construed into a sanction of caste. The question is fairly before -the churches, and should be met in a frank and Christian way. - -The presence with us to-day of a committee appointed by the -American Home Missionary Society to confer on this very subject -renders its consideration by this meeting a matter of comity and -of Christian duty, and to aid in its intelligent and harmonious -settlement I beg leave to contribute some facts and considerations. - -The A. M. A. was organized when the great missionary societies, -home and foreign, aided churches in the South that received -slaveholders as members. It was formed not as an anti-slavery -society, nor merely as a formal protest against slavery, but as -affording a channel through which anti-slavery Christians might -carry forward missions without complicity with slavery. Hence it -established missions in foreign lands and among the Indians, and -also home missions in the West. - -But in the progress of the anti-slavery movement the large -missionary societies withdrew their aid from slaveholding -churches, and soon thereafter came the opening for the great work -to be done for the freedmen. The Association was believed to be -providentially prepared to undertake this work, and hence it gave -up its home missions in the West and among the Indians and entered -with alacrity into this new field. - -The territory it occupied was the whole South, its schools being -located in every Southern State. But gradually it withdrew from -Delaware, Maryland, and unwisely, as I then thought, and now think, -from Florida. At the West it organized a few churches in Kansas, -which, however, it at length turned over to the American Home -Missionary Society, only resuming limited efforts there when the -great exodus of colored people thither took place. In Missouri it -never attempted much in church planting. It found that the Home -Missionary Society that had done so grand a work from the Atlantic -to the Pacific, rearing its monuments of light and piety along -the whole line of its march, had entered Missouri so effectually -that there was no more call for the Association in those parts, -and hence that state was soon and cheerfully surrendered to the -occupancy of that Society. In Texas the Association has established -one of its chartered institutions at Austin, the Tillotson -Collegiate and Normal Institute; it was the earliest Congregational -Society to plant churches in the State; its churches there, though -few, are more in number than that of any other Congregational -Society, and two calls are pressing upon us now for the -organization of new churches. Thus its field may be said to be the -“Solid South” leaving out Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Florida and -the new State of West Virginia. In this territory it has planted -its large and permanent educational institutions; its 89 churches, -united in eight conferences, covering nearly the whole South. - -The Association has been as much opposed to caste as to slavery, -as its early publications abundantly show, and has ever refused to -accept the limitation of a color line. Its schools and churches -have seemed to be almost wholly confined to the blacks, solely -because it allowed them to enter at all. But it has not confined -itself entirely to efforts for that race. It has founded schools -and churches mainly white. The church in Jacksonville, Fla., was -organized under its auspices. Its founders did not ask pecuniary -aid, but they did ask one of our District Secretaries to assist -in the organization, which he did, and spent nearly a month with -them afterward, supplying the pulpit until a permanent pastor -could be obtained. In Kentucky, John G. Fee, its first missionary -in the South, commissioned in 1848, formed white churches on an -anti-slavery basis. The same was done by Daniel Worth in North -Carolina. That church planting in Kentucky was followed by Berea -College, the most conspicuous example in the South of an anti-caste -institution, its pupils being in nearly equal numbers of both -races; and now more recently the example of Berea has been followed -by a church and school in Williamsburg, Ky., and in Clover Bottom. -Other openings of the same sort are presenting themselves in the -same region. - -The only movement made by Congregationalists to found white -churches in the territory occupied by the Association was begun -during or soon after the war. At that time the work of the -Association was in its infancy, and the broad and permanent -foundations which it has since laid were scarcely anticipated. On -the other hand, this new movement for white churches was mainly -confined to the largest cities and perhaps the thought of possible -competition was not entertained. At all events the movement was not -very successful and was very nearly abandoned. - -Whatever general impressions may have existed at that early day -as to the special work of the Association or whatever special -designations may since have been used as to the classes for -which it was mainly to labor, it never supposed that it was -to be confined entirely to those classes; and certainly now, -after nearly twenty years of almost exclusive occupancy of the -special territory to which it has confined itself, so far as -Congregationalists are concerned, it may well be supposed to look -with some surprise upon a movement recently inaugurated to enter -that same territory with missionary efforts that practically places -it on one side of a color line. - -An agreement was made between the two societies when this question -came before them, which provides temporarily and tentatively -against the repetition of any such interferences as that which -started this discussion. Both societies have agreed not to enter -into any field occupied by the other without mutual consultation. -But this agreement provides no permanent basis for a settlement of -the question which field each society shall occupy. It only insures -Christian co-operation and forbearance until a settlement be made. -What that settlement shall be is for the constituency of our -societies to determine, and to them we must leave it. The American -Board and the Association have made a harmonious arrangement of -their respective fields of labor, and it is to be hoped that an -adjustment equally satisfactory may be reached with the American -Home Missionary Society. - -In view of all this several questions ought to be considered. - -1. What is the field open before us among the white population of -the South? - -It is not the extent of the territory, nor the number of millions -of white people that are in the South, nor even the number that -need our school and Gospel advantages, but it is: _How many of them -can be reached by an anti-caste Gospel?_ - -It is not enough to say that we are to preach the Gospel, and if -people are converted the caste question will take care of itself. -Well do I remember when that plea and policy were in vogue in -regard to slavery. The Gospel was preached, churches were formed, -and the denominations were happy in their enlargement. Slavery also -did take care of itself, and good care, too, for it found snug -homes in these very churches. And well do I remember when these -same denominations cast slavery away from them and the coveted -churches along with it! - -The American churches cannot afford to repeat that experience in -regard to caste. What was done then in comparative innocence, -because done in ignorance, cannot now be done without great guilt -in the light of that experience. We must remember that it is more -important to destroy caste than to found churches that will sustain -caste. No work can be done by our churches among the white people -of the South that will stand the test, that does not proceed on -the avowed and practical repudiation of caste; no school opened -that does not welcome the colored child; no church formed that -does not present the open door, the open hand and the open heart -to “Our Brother in Black.” There are Congregationalists in the -South that are ready to welcome again the polity of New England -and at the same time welcome among them the colored races, and -there are native Southerners ready for our schools and churches, -and also ready to make no distinction on account of color, and to -all such we ought to carry with joyful hearts and ready hands the -institutions we so much cherish. But we ought not to enter upon the -effort under a misapprehension. The number of openings for this -kind of labor is not great. - -2. The question of two Congregational Societies on the Southern -field receives its greatest importance from its relation to -caste-prejudice. There are other difficulties. One of the saddest -features of the modern church extension at the West is the starting -of two or more feeble churches of different denominations in -small villages or among sparse populations, creating frictions -and rivalries where harmony and Christian fellowship are so -essential, and a waste of men and money where there is so much need -of economy. This would be aggravated in the poorer and sparser -settlements of the South, and still more aggravated if the same -denomination should, by two of its own societies there, thus come -into rivalry with itself. In the one case two houses are arrayed -against each other; in the other, a house is divided against -itself. It is the same railroad company running parallel lines in -competition with each other. - -But all these considerations, grave as they are, are of small -importance when compared with the danger that the division of the -labors of two societies, running mainly along the color line, -would be construed as lending the sanction of the denomination to -caste separation. This is the gravamen of the difficulty. I am -happy to say that the two societies are equally committed against -caste, and will equally and honorably repudiate all intentional -sanction of it. But the bare fact that one is avowedly working -mainly for the whites and the other mainly for the blacks, will, -in spite of all protests to the contrary, array them before the -public as separated only by the color line. It is not proper for -me to speak for another society, but for my own I must speak. The -American Missionary Association was born an opponent of slavery. -Amid poverty, sneers and reproach from the best of men, as well as -the worst of men, it pressed forward in its opposition till the -glorious end came. It must oppose caste as it did slavery. It began -its work among the freedmen as the avowed enemy of caste, and amid -much misapprehension and reproach at the South, it has pressed -onward until it has gained the respect of both races. That position -it cannot, and it ought not to be asked to, surrender or jeopardize -by being placed on one side of a line of separation in missionary -labors that has no reason for its existence except the colors of -the people to be benefited. - -3. If, in view of all the facts, it should be ultimately decided -that the Congregational churches should be represented at the South -by one missionary society, the decision should be reached in the -broadest spirit of Christian wisdom and kindness. - -The American Missionary Association is not eager to be pushed -forward into the mission work among the whites, but it knows -something of their needs, especially their need of deliverance -from caste-prejudice that mars the symmetry of their piety and -chills their hearts as slavery did, and that perpetuates a race -antagonism that must be crushed before the South can be safe or -prosperous. If the Association should be called to that work, it -has some experiences and facilities that would be helpful. Its past -record would be a guaranty that it would not foster caste. It would -have no temptation to found schools and churches mainly white that -should be rivals of its schools and churches mainly colored, and -it could have no reason to hesitate in establishing both, if both -were needed. It is not “handicapped” for this work except by its -firm and well-known attitude against caste, and any other society -equally faithful on that subject would soon be equally handicapped. -Its large planting of schools and churches, with a value of -property of nearly a million of dollars, gives it a position and an -influence that it would take any other society a long time and a -large outlay of funds to acquire—to say nothing of the facilities -it thus possesses to extend its work among both races. It has a -wide acquaintance with the Southern people, both white and colored, -and has won for itself a large place in their confidence, by its -quiet, unselfish and useful work for both. It has, moreover, -already done something in bringing the two races together in school -and church, and for this reason it is fitted to be a bond of union -and Christian fellowship between them. - -This Association, standing on the ruins of slavery, and amid the -schools and churches it has erected thereon for the benefit of the -colored race, and to some extent also for the white, would find it -both cognate and congenial to enlarge its work among the whites, -both the ignorant and the educated, carrying to them a gospel -that is not only uplifting and purifying, but that makes no caste -distinction in the school room or in the house of God. - - * * * * * - - - - -REPORT ON EDUCATIONAL WORK. - - -The Committee on the Educational Work of the A. M. A. would -respectfully report that they find the history of the past year -highly satisfactory and encouraging. It is a record of enlarged -accommodations at several of the institutions. Stone Hall, at -Atlanta, the fourth of the buildings erected by the munificence of -Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, has been completed. New buildings, or very -considerable additions to former buildings, have been constructed -at Midway, Macon, Talladega, Williamsburg, Hillsboro, Memphis and -New Orleans; yet from several quarters the call still comes for -more room. - -It is a record of increased practical efficiency. Industrial -training, which forms so important an adjunct of the work, has been -making progress by workshops established at Macon and Memphis, and -arrangements for carpentry schools at Tougaloo and Atlanta; while -farming education and training in housekeeping go on at various -points as heretofore, supplemented at Memphis by instruction in -nursing and hygiene; and Hampton continues to teach more vigorously -than ever a variety of handicrafts, such as printing, bookbinding, -iron and tin work, carpentry and wood turning, the manufacture of -sash and doors, shoe and harness making, tailoring and farming. -All this is, for the present, a very essential element of the -educational work. - -It is a record of some degree of expansion, although the main -aspect is rather one of consolidation and elevation. The number of -teachers has increased by twenty-eight and the number of common -schools by four; the number of pupils being but slightly greater -than last year. The grade of these institutions is steadily -advancing. Among these pupils are found, we are happy to say, -ninety theological students—twelve more than were reported last -year. The three Teachers’ Institutes, held in as many States, may -prove to be the entering wedge of another great instrument of -power and quickening influence. The crowded halls and interested -audiences of the anniversaries of so many of our Institutions are -a striking manifestation of genuine progress. When we remember -that the oldest of these institutions has seen but a quarter of a -century, and practically but twenty years of life time, and that -now we rejoice in eight chartered institutions, comparatively -strong and effective, twelve high and normal schools and forty-two -common schools, with 279 teachers doing their soul-expanding work, -we may well say “What hath God wrought.” Far as it falls short of -our desire and our duty, so far and more also does it exceed the -boldest reasonable expectations of the dark and cloudy time of the -beginning. - -But far the most satisfactory statement of the annual report is -its record of the religious spirit which guides, controls and -pervades this whole educational movement. The information that at -seven out of eight of the chartered institutions “special religious -interest has been manifest, adding scores and scores of these -scholars to the number of the disciples of Christ,” and that, “as -yet, but very few have been graduated from our various courses of -study who had not become Christians,” is a record of the crowning -mercy of God. So may it ever be. The heart and conscience must be -quickened with the intellect or there is no good hope for that -race, or for any other race. It must be _Christian_ education. The -school and the Church must move on together at the South as they -started together from Plymouth Rock, and they must extend, as far -as possible—certainly must offer—their joint benign influences, not -to a portion of the population, but to all classes and races alike. -For the part can receive its full benefit only in conjunction -with the benefit of the whole. This is no new principle, but the -method in which, as our annual reports show, this Association has -been proceeding throughout its history. Having always refused to -recognize the color-line, it can proceed on no other basis without -defeating its own ends, and compromising its own principles. And -the recent decision of the Supreme Court has rolled a new burden on -the Church. - -Hence it is that your committee look with much interest upon -the experiment, tried and effectually settled at Berea, and now -extending thence among the “mountain whites,” of including all -classes and races in the purview of our educational and Christian -work. We refer to the movement at Williamsburg, a county-seat -on the Cumberland River, which is simply a repetition of the -movement at Berea of twenty years ago—with this difference, that -the abolition of the color-line, both in church and school, -at Williamsburg, is fully accepted beforehand by an actual -constituency in that place. Here the establishment of an academy -to educate teachers for the common schools of the county—of whom, -as of the population, but a small portion are colored persons—went -hand in hand with the opening of the church to both races alike, -and has led most naturally to the establishment of three adjacent -preaching places, and the formation of another church at the -nearest railway station. This method, when viewed simply on its -own merits, seems to be at once the dictate of a wise Christian -economy, and an almost necessary sequence, or rather part, of the -work of Christian education. Within the particular regions where -this Association is planting its schools, exerting its influence -and gaining the confidence of the community, it would seem to -have peculiar advantages and a special call to leaven the whole -community with the institutions of the gospel; while the molding -influence of its Christian schools will be left incomplete, except -as permanently embodied, fortified and nourished by surrounding -Christian churches, built upon the same fundamental principles. -Similar in condition, character and wants to this Whitley County, -in Kentucky, is a great area of five hundred miles by two hundred, -beginning in Virginia and extending to Alabama, occupied chiefly by -a white population numbering nearly two millions, of whom more than -half the adults can neither read nor write. It is one of the most -needy and neglected regions of our country, and presents a pressing -call to Christian philanthropy to enter and occupy. - - S. C. BARTLETT, Chairman. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT S. C. BARTLETT. - - -There is perhaps some propriety in my saying an earnest word for -the educational work of this Association, representing as I do a -college that from its birth abolished the color line in education. -More than a century ago Dartmouth College was training the red -man and more than half a century ago the black man. Our first six -graduates included three missionaries to the Indians, and the last -class that entered contains a full-blooded Dakota and a Cherokee. -Fifty-nine years ago, twenty-two years before the first anniversary -of this Association, we were educating the negro. In 1824 a young -man from Martinique, of irreproachable character and conduct, but -with some African color and African blood in his veins, applied -for admission. Objections were raised in some quarters from the -fear that his presence would prove unwelcome. The students heard -of it, held meetings and sent a committee to urge his reception, -and under the direction of a most conservative Board of Trustees, -with Dr. Bennet Tyler at its head, he was admitted, and into one of -the most distinguished classes in the history of the institution. -There, in company with forty classmates, who from that small number -have furnished six college professors, two theological professors, -two college presidents, two Indian missionaries, a senator of the -United States and a judge of a Supreme Court, Edward Mitchell went -on in comfort, graduated with honor and did a good work in the -Baptist ministry. Since then many colored men have entered without -hindrance, inconvenience, disability or disrespect. They have been -the equal companions and in some instances the room-mates of their -fellow students. In June last two such young men graduated, one of -them an appointment man and a commencement speaker. - -We know the colored man as a student, a Christian and a gentleman. -And without making contrasts or comparisons, I will say that were -all our students as irreproachable as these last two colored men, -there would be no more discipline in the institution. We might burn -our college laws. - -I have seen the colored student elsewhere in Northern schools. Some -of you remember that choice young man, Barnabas Root, a Christian -scholar in America, though the son of a heathen chief in Africa. -I well remember his graduating oration at Knox College, second to -no other on that occasion. I remember him as three years a student -in Chicago Theological Seminary, in all respects the peer of his -classmates. When that young man passed away just on the threshold -of his missionary career, it was a grievous loss to his race and to -the church. - -It is not necessary to say that all are like these. But these show -what can be and sometimes will be. Educationally, they are a most -hopeful race, because, in the main eager for improvement. And with -whatever deductions, it may be doubted whether the summons to awake -and arise intellectually, socially and morally ever fell on the -ears of six or seven millions of people with such a simultaneous -thrill of response. When I look out on our educational work at the -South, I am greatly impressed with what has been already done, even -more than I am oppressed with what remains to be done. - -What have you done? No doubt it was a notable plan of the French -authorities in this country near two hundred years ago to encircle -this young nation with a chain of military stations from the Gulf -of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. But this Association has -done better than that. You have gone not to the outskirts, but to -the centre. You have planted your cordon of educational fortresses -from the Potomac and the Ohio almost to the Rio Grande, through -the heart of the South in all the great slave-holding States. They -are there to stay and to re-construct. They are already working -powerfully, not alone on the education of individual young men and -young women, but on the education of the community and of public -sentiment. What a change has the President of the Board of Trustees -of Berea College lived to behold—the man who was robbed and driven -out, but who now sees white men and black in nearly equal numbers -graduating together, and audiences of three or four thousand -gathered to hear them. And these sixteen other anniversaries lately -chronicled in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, with their interested -audiences and crowded halls, sometimes in stately buildings, are -the signal tokens of a great transformation. - -No more significant testimony could be given to this change than a -sort of wail in the _Atlantic Monthly_ over the “New Departure in -Negro Life,” a lament over the decadence of “the jocund customs of -the past,” with its thoughtless levity and hilarity, and over the -“half-hearted manner in which the characteristic festivities that -remain are gone through with.” What does it mean? It means, says -the writer, that “an unmistakable change in the negro character is -at hand, and in an advanced state of progress. He is putting away -childish things and striving in his own crude way to grasp matters -of higher import. The bulk of the race have learned to read after a -fashion. His primer, his _vade mecum_, is the Bible. Never before, -perhaps, in the history of the world, have two decades brought -about such a manifest change in a race. Religion, religionism, -forms the staple of his speech by day, and the stuff that his -dreams are made of by night.” - -Would that the picture was more completely true. But, thank God, it -is at least founded on fact. The race is aroused, and in earnest. -It is bent on accumulation, education, elevation. The world may pay -as little heed to the movement as did the Roman world in the time -of Tacitus to the Christian Church in the Eternal City; but the -time is not distant when the world will see that this quiet work is -one of the great movements of modern history. - - * * * * * - - - - -CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT THE SOUTH. - -BY REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D. - - -The problem that confronts us this morning is that which is -presented by the illiteracy of this country, and especially of -the Southern States. This is not the only problem before this -Association; the problem of the irreligion and heathenism which -infest many regions also claims our energies. There is moral -evil as well as ignorance to be met and fought and overcome. The -Association has an evangelical work as well as an educational work -in its hands; and though, as we shall see, these two are properly -one, yet it is now convenient to consider them separately. It is -the educational work that is now before us. - -We educate, because education is the servant of a pure religion. We -educate, because we are the missionaries of a faith which always -adds to itself virtue, and to its virtue knowledge. We educate, -because a genuine Christianity always educates; because the work -of the pulpit, the work of the Church everywhere must always be, -in considerable part, the work of education; but, more especially, -we of this Association educate, because the peoples with whom we -work are in peculiar need of education; and because nothing but -intelligence will ever break the fetters of degrading superstition -by which they are held, and lead them forth into the liberty of the -sons of God. - -We educate, also, because we love our country, and because we -believe that there is no other remedy for evils that now threaten -her very existence, but the remedy of Christian education. Thus we -are brought face to face with the problem of illiteracy. Illiteracy -in a republic; what does it signify? It is the creeping paralysis -that unnerves its arm; it is the malaria that poisons its blood; -it is the cataract that dims and finally destroys its vision; it -is the slow decay that consumes its life. Illiteracy, ignorance, -in a republic is, and must always be, assailing and undermining -its very foundations. It is the natural and deadly foe of free -government. No republic can live, no republic ought to live, in -which the voters are ignorant. Voting in a republic is governing; -and no man has any right to govern me who does not know enough to -govern himself. No man has any right to take part in the government -of the nation, who has not some notion of what right government -is. I protest against such government. I have never consented -to the justice of it, and I never will. I do not believe that -the State has any right to intrust this responsible business of -governing—and voting is governing—to the hands of men who cannot -read the ballots that they cast and who have no conception of the -duties of a citizen. - -But the State has done it; and what has been done cannot be undone -by any political methods. It is with the consequences that we -have to do. And the consequences are tremendous, appalling to -those who stop to consider them. The total number of men of voting -age in the Southern States at the last census was 4,154,125. Of -these 1,354,974 could neither read nor write. A little more than -thirty-two per cent. of the voters of those States were at that -time wholly illiterate. Think of that! Almost one-third of all the -voters in sixteen States of the Union so ignorant that they cannot -write their own names or read the simplest English sentence! And -these are our rulers. - -I know very well that you will find among these thirteen hundred -thousand illiterate voters not a few men of great natural -shrewdness and considerable general information, who may be fairly -qualified to discharge the duties of citizenship. There are men -to whom all print is shut, who can see quite as far into public -questions as many of those to whom print is as wide open as it -was to Silas Wegg. The alphabet test is by no means an infallible -test. Some who could not pass this test are well qualified for -citizenship. On the other hand, there are tens of thousands of -those who are reported among the literates, who are put down as -being able to read and write, and who are yet utterly ignorant. -They can manage to scrawl their names, perchance, or to skip and -tumble about a little among simple words in a primer: but the -reading and writing of which they boast is of no sort of use to -them as fitting them to vote intelligently. You would need to add a -great many figures to that array in the census if you should state -fully the facts in regard to the illiteracy of the Southern States. - -I think we shall all agree with Dr. Haygood when he says, as he -did at the meeting of the National Educational Association in -Washington last winter, “This is bad enough.” And perhaps we should -also be able to agree with him in the further statement that it “is -far from being the worst of this sad case. The worst,” he says, -“is this: the illiterate vote in these States is increasing. From -1870 to 1880 the increase of this army of ignorant voters in the -South amounted to 187,671.” Of course this is worse, in one sense; -for the more we learn of this illiteracy the worse we are off, no -doubt. But there is a brighter side to this picture, thank God! -It is dark enough, at best; and I want you to see it in all its -blackness; but I do not want to paint it any blacker than it is. -After you have seen the facts just as they are, you will still find -on your hands a stupendous task; but you will have, I trust, some -reasons for believing that it is not a hopeless task. - -It is true, then, as Dr. Haygood says, that there was a positive -increase of illiterate voters in the South between 1870 and 1880. -He makes this increase in round numbers 197,000; the figures I have -found increase it a little to 208,000. But that is not a _relative_ -increase. The increase in the illiterate vote does not keep pace -with the increase of the population. The population increased 30 -per cent. in the ten years; the illiterate vote increased less than -20 per cent. In 1870, more than 40 per cent. of the voters of the -South were illiterate; in 1880, only 32 per cent. were illiterate. - -This is what I call very substantial gain. Under the circumstances -I am inclined to call it a splendid gain, one that is quite worth -singing the doxology over, one that should cause us all to thank -God and take courage. - -But there are other features of the case to my own mind still more -significant. Dr. Haygood says in the same address to which I have -referred: “In this downward progress the two races keep well -together.” We have seen that it is not a downward, but an upward -progress. And I think we shall see that instead of the two races -keeping well together, one of them is falling a good ways behind. -Which is it? “The increase of the illiterate _white_ vote,” says -Dr. Haygood, “was 93,279; of the illiterate negro vote, 94,392. -The whites being in the majority, take the South as a whole, the -increase of the illiterate vote is relatively greater among the -Negroes.” - -This is a great misconception. Dr. Haygood has no purpose whatever -of misrepresenting the facts; we all know that. No man in the -country is doing better work for the colored people than he is -doing; no man deserves more honor; but he has misapprehended -the facts in this statement; and I know that he will be glad to -be corrected. It is true, then, that the actual increase of the -illiterate white vote in the Southern States during the last decade -was about the same as that of the illiterate Negro vote; 93,000 -of the one, 94,000 of the other. But how was it in 1870? In that -year there were in the Southern States 317,281 adult whites who -were illiterate, and 820,022 adult Negroes. There were at that -time considerably more than two and a half times as many Negro -illiterates as white illiterates. Now, if the Negroes have added to -their eight hundred thousand illiterates only about 94,000, while -the whites have added to their three hundred thousand about 93,000, -it seems to me that the relative increase is immensely greater -among the whites than among the Negroes. In fact, the increase -of the illiterate white vote, in the ten years, was more than -twenty-eight per cent., while the increase of the illiterate Negro -vote was only eleven and a half per cent. - -Dr. Haygood gives the figures with respect to several of the -States. “In Georgia,” he says, “the illiterate white voters in -1870 were 21,899; in 1880, 28,571; the illiterate Negro voters in -Georgia, in 1870, were 100,551; in 1880, 116,516.” Let us see what -these figures mean. In Georgia, in 1870, the whole number of males -of voting age was 237,640; in 1880, it was 321,438. The increase -of adult males was, therefore, about 31 per cent. But the increase -in the whole number of illiterate voters was only about 18-1/2 per -cent. according to Dr. Haygood’s figures. The white illiterates, -however, increased 30-1/2 per cent. while the colored illiterates -increased not quite 16 per cent. - -Two other States in which we are deeply interested, are reported -to us in Dr. Haygood’s figures, and, neglecting the numbers which -he gives, I will give you the percentages, which he neglects. In -Kentucky the number of male adults has increased 23 per cent. and -the whole number of illiterate voters about 21-1/2 per cent. But -the per cent. of increase among the illiterate white voters is very -nearly 23, almost keeping up with the increase of population, where -the per cent. of increase among illiterate Negro voters is not -quite fourteen. - -In Tennessee the facts are still more striking. The increase in the -whole number of males of voting age was, in the ten years, about 26 -per cent., while the increase in the number of illiterate voters -was only 13 per cent. The illiterate voters increased only half as -fast as the voting population. Here, evidently, a very successful -attack has been made upon the strongholds of illiteracy. But where -have these victories been gained—among the whites or the Negroes? -Almost wholly among the latter. The number of illiterate white -voters increased during the ten years 24 percent., almost as fast -as the population, while the illiterate Negro voters increased -during the same period _less than five per cent._ - -Taking these three States together, we find that the percentage of -increase of males of voting age was 27; of illiterate voters, 18; -of illiterate white voters, 25; of illiterate Negro voters, 12. - -Now these figures completely overthrow the statement that the -increase of illiteracy is relatively greater among the Negroes -than among the whites. They show that the proportions are all the -other way, tremendously the other way; the difference between the -two races is startling. The whites are gaining a little in this -battle with the powers of darkness; but it is very little; they -are scarcely doing more than hold their own; but the Negroes are -gaining splendidly; it is to them that the large increase in the -percentage of intelligent voters is mainly due. - -Now what does this mean? Of course it is due to several causes. -The Negroes had had but about five years of opportunity when the -census of 1870 was taken; in 1880 they had had fifteen years of -opportunity. That a better chance has been offered them, and that -they are taking the chance that has been offered them, these -figures assure us. But they tell us something more, that, to us, is -very significant. The gains of intelligence among the Negroes in -all parts of the South have been much more rapid than those of the -whites; but they have been more rapid in these three States than in -most other parts of the South; and why? Why? Did you ever hear of -Fisk, and Berea and Atlanta? The census tables have heard of them, -if you have not. - -It is to the hundreds of young people that go out every year from -these colleges, and such as these, teaching in public and in -private schools pupils of their own color, that this gain in the -battle with illiteracy at the South is due. They are the children -of the light, who are waging this victorious battle with the -powers of darkness. There has been great improvement, of course, -in the public schools of the South during this decade; but in -this improvement the whites have shared as well as the blacks; -the great reasons for the more rapid advancement of the blacks -are, first, that they are more eager for instruction than the -ignorant whites, and, secondly, that they are better supplied with -teachers—missionaries of education, who not only do much to supply -the demand for knowledge already existing, but who do still more to -increase this demand. - -We come back, now, from our brief excursion into this fruitful and -fascinating realm of percentages, to confront again that large -mass of illiteracy that lies athwart the path of this nation. Huge -it is, but, thank God, it looks not so vast and unmanageable as -once it seemed. It is growing; but the nation is growing faster; -relatively it is decreasing. It is far too formidable yet to be let -alone; so long as ignorance rules almost one-third of our rulers -in all of these sixteen States, no man has any right to relax -his vigilance or abate his energies. What these figures show is -simply this, that work tells; that our money is not wasted; that -our labor is not in vain in the Lord; that if we will only keep -it up with our giving and our working, if we will only see to it -that these same agencies that have done this grand work in the -past ten years are fully equipped to carry it on with increasing -vigor, we may hope to gain in the next ten years still more rapid -and decisive victories. The word that comes to every friend of -the American Missionary Association, to every benefactor in deed -or in purpose of these noble schools, is the word that Grant sent -to Sheridan after the battle of Five Forks: “Push things!” You’ve -got ’em running, these legions of ignorance and darkness; up and -after them; harry them on the flank, press them in the rear, till -they plunge like the herd of devil-pestered hogs, into the Gulf of -Mexico. - -You have got the forces to do this work. All you want to do is to -give them a better equipment. You want no new machinery; you only -want more power; no new organizations, but reinforcements of those -in the field. - -The kinds of educational work that this Association is doing -are exactly the kinds of work that must be done. The industrial -training given in some of the schools is admirable; the normal -training of teachers is work whose results are immediate and -beneficent; the higher education, too, is abundantly justified. If -there are any who have doubts on this last score, I am not one of -them. There is nothing that these six millions of colored people -need to-day more than they need thoroughly educated men of their -own race to be their leaders. More than any other class in this -country, they are in danger of being misled by petty demagogues and -small philosophers. We cannot too soon furnish them with social -and political and religious guides who have been trained by severe -discipline to think clearly, to consider questions broadly and -historically, to reason judicially and dispassionately, to chasten -the exuberance and verbosity of their own people with the dignity -and judgment that are the fruits of sound learning. Such examples -of high character and broad culture scattered about here and there -among the Negro people will do more to form their ideals and direct -their progress than can be done in any other way. I tell you that -the money spent in making first-class men in these colleges is as -well invested as any other money that you spend. The only thing to -be desired about such schools as Fisk and Atlanta is that their -standards be made higher and more inflexible, year by year, and -that their work be more and more thorough, so that the diploma -shall mean in every case just as much as the diploma of Amherst or -Williams or Bowdoin. - -It is a Christian education that pupils are receiving in these -schools of ours. Most of the pupils who go out from them to become -pastors, teachers, lawyers, physicians, merchants, citizens, -fathers and mothers are Christian men and women; and they become -messengers of a pure Gospel, living epistles of Christ, wherever -they go. Especially as teachers do they make their influence felt. -We cannot Christianize the public school systems of the Southern -States; but if we can Christianize the teachers, that is a much -more effective service. And that is precisely what we are doing in -all these Southern schools. - -This Association has been promoting Christian education at the -South in quite another fashion. Gently, without censure or -denunciation, by the silent influence of Christly lives, it has -been teaching the Southern people that caste is un-Christian. It -is a great lesson; it is a lesson hard to learn; and we must not -wonder at it: the social maxims and usages of centuries are not -changed in a day. But it will be learned by and by; patience and -fidelity and sweet reasonableness in those who teach it will have -their reward in God’s good time. It only needs that we should -quietly bear our testimony and wait; the leaven may be hidden -now, but it is working; and the time will surely come, and as -speedily as it ought to come, when from churches and from schools -the color line will disappear. I do not think that the people who -have commissioned and who support this Association in its work—the -great Congregational communion, on which it mainly depends—can -propose to themselves any better sort of work than that which this -Association is doing, or can afford to carry on that work in any -other way or by any other hands. It is true, as the figures I have -quoted have shown, that the colored people have received most of -the benefit of this work, and that the whites have profited by it -but little. This is true of the educational work, and of the church -work as well. But it is not because the schools and churches of -this Association are not open to whites and blacks on equal terms. -It is simply because they _are_ open to whites and blacks on equal -terms. This is the only reason why the whites do not generally -avail themselves of these excellent advantages. It is because the -basis on which these schools and churches rest is frankly and -thoroughly Christian—because caste is not tolerated in them—that -the white people of the South have held aloof from them. For the -present, until their convictions and feelings on this subject -shall have changed, the white people of the South will, generally, -hold themselves aloof from any church or school that rests on this -basis, no matter by whom it may be administered. Any society that -is as frankly and thoroughly Christian as this society has always -been, will have the same difficulty in reaching the whites that -this society experiences. - -It is possible that churches or schools might be established at -the South, nominally open to both races, but really intended -exclusively for the whites, into which some whites could be drawn. -You might put it into the constitution that no distinctions of -color were recognized in the church, and you might still keep -saying: “Of course colored people are welcome here, if they want to -come; but we think they will be happier and better off in churches -of their own.” Probably the colored people would not accept this -kind of welcome; and possibly some whites would be satisfied -with this method of establishing the color line. It would be an -effective method, no doubt. But is this the sort of thing that the -people calling themselves Congregationalists want to do? For one I -feel sure that it is not worth doing. I don’t believe that we can -afford to propagate two kinds of Congregationalism down there, one -of which is frankly and bravely Christian in its dealings with the -caste of color, and the other of which is, to say the least, less -frankly Christian, consenting, by its silence, to the maintenance -of the color line. Such a policy seems to me something other than -Christian, something less than Christian: and I, for my part, have -no time and no money to spend in propagating a Congregationalism -that is broader or narrower, or higher or lower, or tighter or -looser than simple Christianity. When our zeal for the propagation -of Congregationalism leads us to slur over the everlasting verities -of Christ’s kingdom, it is leading in doubtful ways. - -It has been said that this Association is handicapped by its -record and its methods in the work of reaching the whites of the -South. Perhaps it is. So was He handicapped in His work among -the Pharisees, of whom it was said: “Why eateth your Master with -publicans and sinners?” The burden it is bearing is the cross of -Christ; nothing else. It has gone down into humiliation with its -Master to succor and save these His brethren. Would it be better -for the Association to fling aside this burden? Would it be wise -for any other society going down into that field to work to refuse -to take it up or to try to hide it from the sight of men? - -The disability under which this Association labors is its glory. -And I do not believe that it will prove to be a permanent -impediment in its work. No; that cannot be. I believe in the -victorious might of Christian principles. The heroic faith and -patience of the men and women who have been toiling there so long -among Christ’s little ones, identifying themselves with the lowly -and giving their lives for them, neither striving nor crying -against the scorn that has greeted them, reviled but reviling -not again, must triumph in the end. It is the one power that is -irresistible. The barriers of caste will go down before it, and -the color line will no longer stain the threshold of the Christian -Church. - -So, then, I do not believe that we, as Congregationalists, need any -other agency in the Southern field than the one that has wrought -there so nobly in the years now past. I am sure that even the -educational work of this Association would be obstructed by the -entrance of any other missionary organization into this field. -Because I love and honor the Home Missionary Society, I do not want -to see it compromise itself or imperil the interests of Christ’s -kingdom at the South by turning from its proper work, its urgent -work, to try a doubtful experiment. And I trust this Association, -in all love and kindness, but with all needful frankness, will -express its wishes in this matter. Two little boys were astride of -a hobby-horse, and the one who was riding ahead was being crowded -out of the saddle, and was clinging with some difficulty to the -neck of the wooden steed. Finally he ventured: “Jimmy, don’t you -think if one of us should get off I could ride a little better?” -I hope that the American Missionary Society will say, by her -representatives here, to her honored sister, the American Home -Missionary Society: “Don’t you think that if one of us should keep -out of this Southern field, I could do my work in it a little -better?” I am sure that she has earned the right to express this -wish, and I have not the slightest fear that the wish will not be -heeded. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF PROF. C. G. FAIRCHILD. - - -From the trend of the discussion this morning I find that a -large responsibility has drifted into my hands. There is among -the churches in the North a deep, unmistakable interest in those -long-neglected ignorant whites of the South. It is a difficult -problem to tell how to turn this into channels that shall benefit -these people without on the one hand neglecting the work already -undertaken by this Association or, on the other, giving some -suspicion of countenancing a color line and perhaps bringing a -clashing of interests between sister societies. In the report -on education just received, special attention was turned to the -mountain whites. Perhaps the solution of our difficulties may be -found here. Certainly there will arise in your minds no suspicion -of waning interest in the colored people or sympathy with caste on -the part of those who have heretofore been closely connected with -this mountain work at Berea College and the surrounding regions. -It is their unanimous conviction that work undertaken for these -mountain people with firm faith in Christian brotherhood and -unswerving courage will assist in unfurling upon a higher masthead -the broad motto borne on the seal of Berea College for twenty-five -years past: “God hath made of one blood all nations of men.” - -The term “mountain” stands for much more than appears at first. -It stands for a larger, more inviting and fertile section than -many are aware of. It comprises a stretch of country commencing in -the Virginias and extending to Alabama, 500 miles one way by 200 -the other. Much of the land, not simply in valleys, but also upon -the benches of hillsides and even upon the broad mountain tops, -is as fertile as the better known sections of the South. At the -base of these hills lies an untold wealth of coal, iron and other -minerals which is, as yet, almost untouched, while the summits of -these hills are still crowned with the virgin forests. This country -supports now a population of two millions, though its capabilities -are wretchedly developed. The growth since the war in these regions -has been at almost double the ratio of that of other parts of the -South. - -But the term “mountain” bespeaks a country with different -social and political characteristics. Slavery had no use for a -self-respectful, laboring white man. The badge of manual labor was -a badge of servile degradation. Of two brothers one would chance -to get a little start, own a few slaves and all society would spur -him onward. The other, less fortunate at the start, would slip -away to some mountain hamlet and lead an uneventful, unambitious -life and bring up a large family in utter ignorance. He plodded on -his way, working only as necessity compelled him, instinctively -hating slavery, slave-owners and slaves. Thus slavery rejected not -simply this broken mountainous country, but the large class of -whites which inhabited this region. If the North cares to dignify -physical labor in the South, if it feels the need of a class that -has a natural love for free, republican institutions, if it cares -to have the common-school system take rooting in the soil, if -it desires a class of whites that shall be the wise, consistent -friends of the colored people, perhaps it may find that this large -body of whites rejected by slavery will prove the effective agency -under the divine planning for this purpose. The stone which the -builders rejected may become the head of the corner. - -But one or two railroads cross this section. There are few towns -of any importance, and a man who should own $10,000 worth of -property would be the great man for twenty miles around. They are -an agricultural people, each family living on its own little farm -of 50 to 100 acres, the homestead often having been handed down -through two or three generations. The houses range from the painted -and unpainted frame house of four to six rooms to the very common -little log hut of one to two rooms where you will find huddled -together at night a father and mother, and children of every age, -and you yourself if you happen to be their guest. The most that is -needed for family wants, from corn and bacon to tobacco, is raised -by themselves. Often such a family will not see $50 in cash the -year round. Even the old hand looms find a friendly shelter in -those Rip Van Winkle hollows. A man who moved from these regions -to Berea, that he might give his seven children an education, wore -upon his back his carefully preserved wedding suit, the wool for -which he himself had cut from the backs of his father’s sheep, and -which his mother, after spinning, and weaving, and dyeing with -butternut bark, had cut and made for him. A little shovel plough, -a hand-made hoe, and an unkempt mule with a straw collar make up -the agricultural outfit. The schoolhouse is a log hut sometimes -without doors and windows, or even a floor. For religious services, -dependence is placed upon the chance visits of an exhorter who -sometimes cannot read, and is even proud of getting his inspiration -at first hand. There is a section of Eastern Kentucky, 200 miles -one way by 100 the other, that has not a settled minister of any -denomination. Some hesitate about extending the work of this -Association beyond the blacks, but they need have little scruple -here, for this section of the map of our country is black through -illiteracy. More than half of the adult white population native -born, of the same stock and lineage that furnished from the more -favored sections the Clays and Breckenridges, that gave to this -country Abraham Lincoln—more than half of this white population -cannot read or write. Thus, not on the farther side of broad -oceans, or even the distant borders of our land, but right at hand -in the very heart of the best settled and most cultured part of our -country lies this territory, vast in extent, utterly neglected by -all uplifting agencies in the past, peculiarly susceptible to the -awakening influences of the changed social conditions at the South, -where there is an ignorance so dense that when we remember that -they are our brothers and sisters, not by Christian ties simply -but by direct blood and lineage, we must hang our heads in shame. -Surely if the Church at the North is sighing for new worlds to -conquer, what more claim can there possibly be upon its attention -and benevolence? - -It is a matter of congratulation that this work can be entered upon -by this Association at once and with vigor, without embarrassment -or exciting in any quarter criticism or suspicion. It is idle for -us to suppose that the social growth of generations enforced by -ignorance, savage heredity and marked physical characteristics, -has wasted away in less than a score of years. More vital than -any political problem or the growth of any special church polity -is the question whether the time can ever come in this country -when the negro in debating his chances and opportunities in life -shall not be made to feel that his color is a drawback to him. -In working out the solution of this problem this Association has -borne a part that is fast challenging the respect of the South -and the admiration of the North. This is a vantage ground that it -is hazardous to yield. The work of this Association is understood -everywhere to mean that nothing less than the utter demolishment -of every barrier in the upward progress of the negro race will -satisfy it. If, therefore, the churches lay upon it this further -work, we feel sure that not only by heritage will it prove true -to these fundamental principles, but that the workers at present -in the South will exercise an Argus-eyed vigilance that nowhere -shall there be a shadow of a suspicion that the spirit of caste has -influenced its action. Without rashness on one hand or neglecting -its opportunities on the other, the churches at the North can -thus safely gratify their present earnest and commendable, though -somewhat tardy, desire to benefit the needy whites of the South by -asking this Association to turn its attention specially to these -mountain whites. - -The friends of this Association should also remember that the man -whose name as a missionary has been the longest on your roll, the -Rev. John G. Fee, was born at the base of these Kentucky hills. -You should remember, too, that the men who made an anti-slavery -church and school in a slavery State years before the war were -these mountain whites. This Association nursed its firstborn on -these mountain slopes. As patriots, some of whose sons sleep on -that Southern soil, you should remember that this whole section -was loyal in the battle for a united country unstained by slavery. -West Virginia parted from the parent State under this patriotic -impulse. Some mountain counties in Kentucky sent more men into the -Union army than they had liable to military duty. Surely gratitude -for such help in that struggle is not so dead at the North that it -will not say to this Association: “If you have the opportunity by -churches and schools to repay in part the debt we owe, we will see -that you have the money and the men.” - - * * * * * - - - - -REPORT ON CHURCH WORK. - - -Your Committee finds in the report of the Executive Committee for -the past year, proof of healthy and steady growth in the work of -planting churches. The report records the organization of six new -churches, viz., McLeansville, N.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Birmingham, -Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Belle Place, La., -and one new State Association of six churches in Miss.; making the -whole number of churches eighty-nine, and of State Associations -eight. The additions to these churches during the past year have -been six hundred and sixty-seven; the number of scholars gathered -in the church and Mission Sunday-schools has been nine thousand -four hundred and four; the contributions for church work $12,027.21 -and for benevolent purposes $1,049.35. - -We are glad to find it to be the distinct aim of the Society to -press its work of evangelization to its consummation in Christian -churches, and that while its educational and industrial work must -from the nature of the case be general in its character, the -obligation is recognized to gather up the result, so far and as -fast as opportunity affords, in a more specific and permanent form. -An intelligent Christianity, such as is fostered in the academies, -seminaries and colleges maintained by the Society, demands a -church-polity that gives scope to the developed manhood and retains -it in a process of growth. Our work would be but half done did -we leave those brought under its influence to fall back into old -methods and be lost in the mass of ignorance and superstition. - -The Association was debarred from this distinctive work at first, -but when soon after the war, others, who had contributed to the -funds of this Society, seeing the magnitude of the undertaking, -wisely began efforts of their own, the Association was left to -the support of the Congregational churches, it directed its labors -to this end. This distinctive church-planting work began in 1867. -In that year the Society organized three churches. The statistics -of its growth in this direction are summarized thus: In 1867 there -were three churches; in 1870 there were twenty-three; in 1875, -fifty-six; in 1880, seventy-three; in 1883, eighty-nine. The -membership now numbers five thousand nine hundred and seventy-four, -an average of sixty-seven to each church. Every church but two has -a pastor, and eighty of the eighty-nine have their own houses of -worship. These churches give promise of permanency. They have not -sprung from a division or denominational spirit, and are not the -representations of restlessness or the mere desire to try some new -thing. Their roots are laid deep in the Christian education of the -schools, and their organization expresses the need of the growing -intelligence of those who compose them. Churches made of such -material, formed upon the New Testament plan, have thus far been -stable; those first formed are among the strongest. - -Nor are these churches isolated and independent. They have -recognized the principle of the fellowship of the churches and have -grouped themselves into eight State Conferences, thus giving to -our polity an example and an acknowledged position in that great -section of our land. It is gratifying to find from the reports that -the methods of this church-government are readily apprehended by -the members of these churches, and that in the order and discipline -of the individual churches and in the management of their councils -and conferences, they are showing capacity for self-control. - -This body of churches, so well organized and underlaid by Christian -schools, presents a record of sixteen years’ effort that does no -discredit to the Congregational name. - -While anxious for a more rapid growth in the future, and wishing -to extend the good influences which we believe will be felt by the -establishment of such churches, we would commend the wisdom and -prudence that have seized upon strong centers and have avoided the -hasty multiplication of churches for the sake of members. While -urging for the future the utmost watchfulness for opportunity and -the pushing of this branch of the work of the Association, we -express the hope that what is done be well done, that no discredit -may come to the cause of Christ, as represented by the churches of -our polity. It is not number but might that tells in the formation -processes of a people. A single church of genuine substance, -rightly constituted and ordered and working outward, is a germ -around which a whole community will take form. More than numbers, -the inherent vitality of this molds and fashions after the ideas -and principles with which it is charged. It has vitalizing and -organic power in it, and kindling the intelligence and awakening -the responsibility of its own members, it leads and sways the -people around it. It may work dimly for a time amid the surrounding -chaos, but presently as the social fabric thus woven is brought to -light, the figure appears and it commends itself as a true church -of Christ. - -But the work so well begun ought soon to be greatly enlarged. -The rapid growth of the colored population gives emphasis to -this—a growth that so far outstrips the means of education and -spiritual improvement as to leave a constantly increasing number -of illiterate voters and of degraded people. The benevolent -societies of the North, of every name and order, ought to multiply -their efforts for training the needed teachers—the business and -professional men, the mechanics and the educated and consecrated -ministers. Meantime, as the higher education of some advances, -there will be more and more demand for churches of our order. We -say this not from denominational feeling. We hold no invasive -attitude. We stir no controversy. We aim not at division, but -believing that the apostolic method of gathering churches is the -true one, that in its fluent and free adaptation, its simplicity -of form and order, in its investing Christ as the immediate Head -of each local church, in its putting the individual members upon -responsibility, and thus setting them to the study of God’s Word -for authority and the dependence upon the Divine Spirit for -guidance—that in this free and fraternal way of ordering the -churches there is a molding power for good beyond others, and -remembering its working and product elsewhere, we desire such fruit -of it all abroad. - -That Providence which always surpasses our thought in preparing -its agencies has given us for this work this Association with -its schools and machinery, its knowledge of the needs of the -section where its greatest efforts have been put forth. Started -with no expectation of founding churches, it yet has nothing in -its constitution limiting it to one kind of effort nor to any one -class or race. Its schools are open to all. Its churches are simply -Christian churches. It goes to teach and preach and to elevate the -masses. That is what is needed—no distinction of caste or class, -and in the organization of churches the recognition of a regenerate -membership on the principle that mankind are of one blood and on -the fellowship of all Christians. - -While practically its work has been mainly among the freedmen, -and while it may continue for some time to find itself limited to -them, theoretically its work is for all, and it should hold fast to -that principle. It should never form some churches for black men -and other churches for white men; but always Christian churches -for Christian men and women. We should deprecate any line drawn -in the Christian church based on difference in wealth, in social -position, in education, in color, in sex, in previous condition. -The only line to be drawn there is between those who give good -evidence of renewed hearts and those who do not. We recognize this -as the principle governing this Association, and therefore commend -it as the adequate agency for the evangelizing work of our churches -in the South. May it be abundantly sustained by the prayers and -sympathies and means of our churches at the North, and may it soon -find an open door through the ignorance and the prejudice by which -it is surrounded and be free to work among all classes at the South. - -And looking at the work already commenced among the freedmen, what -a goodly field is opened before us! What a beneficent influence we -can exert, not only on the seven millions in our own land, who are -part of our body politic, but upon a whole race counted by its many -millions in different parts of the world! What stores of prophetic -power are lodged in every true church we establish! We have but the -merest hint and initial sign in the little bands now gathered of -the possibilities lying before us! - -We commend this work to the churches at the North, and plead that -these older churches cherish a lively and effective interest in -all this outgrowth of themselves. There is danger that there may -be abatement of interest in this direction, and that the fostering -hand and special sympathy these weak churches, now that they are -churches, need in their struggles, be withheld. That distinctive -feature of Congregationalism which marks it off from sheer -independency needs to be emphasized. There are claims of community -in faith and order that should be gladly owned, and perfect -understanding and interchange should be cherished between all parts -of this fellowship of saints, mutual confidence and the gracious -tenderness of a love deeper than any kinship of race should cement -us in one. - -By our liberal things we shall stand. We have sent men and women -and means with large generosity, that inquired not whether -they served our own denomination or another, if only Christ’s -cause be promoted. The work already done is a fair movement to -self-forgetful charity. We should now make our beneficence more -and more the channel of grace and fellowship to brethren whom we -have made brethren. If we do indeed hold this church polity on such -terms of intelligence as to make it fit to hold it at all, if it be -no fault of the awakened ones at the South that they hold it, then -what has been so good and fruitful here we should make strong and -fruitful there. And if this Association has come in its legitimate -growth to the establishment of self-governed churches, accept them -as our own. Our seal is on them from the first. The time is ripe -for larger advance, and for more confidence in our own work. - -It is with gratitude we acknowledge the liberal plan with which -this Association is now supplementing its evangelizing and teaching -work with the timely and necessary work of church erection. It is -part of the same work. Nearly fourscore neat and serviceable church -edifices have already arisen under its auspices. No better work -and none looking more to permanent results has been done. Many a -missionary and pastor has found his work at once enlarged and all -his means of good multiplied, when the house of God has been given -him by its aid. And every such edifice stands forth as an eloquent -witness of your loving care for the people of the South, and serves -as a bond of union between the distant parts of our land. - -The same divine ordinance that opened this field to us, prescribes -our work in it. Now that our mission reveals itself, shall we -not accept it thankfully, impress ourselves purposely on this -vast field, and let the poor of all classes feel the strength of -Christian community and fellowship—for we are one? - - LEWELLYN PRATT, - Chairman. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. T. P. PRUDDEN. - - -Assuming that the church work of the Association was not for -sectarian propagandism, but for saving men from sin and its -consequences, he proceeded: - -Is it not evident, first of all, that the Church of Christ is -_the_ great and divinely ordained instrument for establishing the -Kingdom of God? Schools are undoubtedly instruments. But their -place is to supplement, not supplant, the Church. In that long line -of Christian work which, beginning at Jerusalem, has well-nigh -encircled the world, has not the Church of Christ been the chief -machinery through which the good seed of the Gospel has been sown -and the crop harvested, through which Christ’s servants have done -his work, through which a goodly influence has been exerted, -and through which Christian institutions have been founded and -preserved? We are seeking the civilization of a down-trodden race, -but what force was ever such a civilizer as the Christian Church? - -Church work is necessary if we are to retain and conserve the -results of school work. Let secular education train a man, and he -becomes more polished and better equipped for life and work. He -has greater power, but it may be a power for sin and selfishness, -as truly as for God and righteousness. Let Christian education -work upon him as it does in the schools of this Association, he -is still more polished, he has a spiritual life. Not when in -school, but when the school is left, is the Church most necessary. -The influence of the college cannot be about a man in his home, -the influence of the Church can. The help of a teacher is -transient, the help of a pastor and the associations of a church -are permanent. To expect these to retain the best fruits of that -Christian education which this Association is so widely diffusing, -unless churches take up, and carry on what the schools have begun, -is to expect more of the colored race, with its inheritance of -degradation, and slavery and little training, than we expect of the -white race with its inheritance of Christianity and freedom, and -abundant training. - -Closely allied to this is the need of church work to withstand -the evils that are incident to awakened thought and increased -knowledge. The air is laden with a sentiment of irreligion. -Educating a freedman is breaking up the hard sod of ignorance -in which such seeds of evil fall without taking root, providing -instead a soil that is very receptive. - -As our educational work is, and must be, destructive of the -religion of the old slave days, it becomes more emphatically our -duty to provide a positive and intelligent religion to take the -place of that which we destroy. Not to do so is to bring a possible -curse along with our good. Moreover, churches must furnish zealous -men and woman, whom education may prepare to do the Lord’s work. It -is not enough to rely upon the possibility of conversion while the -students are in college. The Church has an earlier and a broader -opportunity. It forms the homes and the influences that form the -children. A vast proportion of the pastors and missionaries of -the North have gone to college as Christians, instead of becoming -Christians when there. They have come from Christian homes. They -were sent by Christian parents whose love for God and man was -planted and trained in Christ’s Church. - -And, brethren, need I remind you that we are sowing for a slowly -maturing harvest. - -The special work for the colored race to do in this country and in -Africa is appalling, by reason of its vastness. And when we ask how -it shall be done, I affirm that the churches of Christ in the South -are to be great instruments. Successful foreign missions require -vigorous home missions. Do you smile at the idea of these feeble -churches ever furnishing financial support? One of them is reported -this year as giving $90 to this Association, $70 to the American -Board, $77 to home missions, while it spent $687 for itself. - -The time of defense and apology for church work is passed. It is no -longer an experiment. The night of doubt and preparation has gone. -The morning of small things when, waiting for more abundant light, -we moved with commendable slowness, has opened and glided on into -the broad full day. Now we can do what we never could before. - - * * * * * - - - - -EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. - - -Your Committee on Finance beg leave to report that they have -carefully examined the books of account and the various annual -statements of the Treasurer, and that as statements of the business -done by the Association they find them all in the most satisfactory -condition. The books are kept by a simple but comprehensive system -of double entry, by which a double-system of checks against error -is provided, and individual and representative accounts are -each kept in proper form. The annual statements of receipts and -expenditures, of investments, of permanent funds and of real estate -held by the Association are all properly certified to as correct by -the Auditors. The committee commend the financial administration of -the Association for its economy and faithfulness. - -The permanent funds held in trust by the Association, the income -of which is used according to the direction of the donors, amounts -to $203,863.60. These funds are invested mostly in U.S. government -bonds and in first mortgages on productive real estate, which are -an ample security for the amounts which they represent. The entire -safety of these investments speaks well for the financial officers -of the Association, and the wisely conservative regulations of the -by-laws of the Executive Committee regarding investments warrants -the fullest confidence in the continued security of funds committed -to their care. - -The permanent investment of the Association in lands and buildings -for church and educational purposes in the South, of which it holds -undisputed titles in its own name, is inventoried at $483,370. -Berea College, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and -Fisk and Atlanta Universities hold their own property by their -own boards of trustees. The estimated present value of all these -properties amounts to at least one million of dollars. - -Here are a million dollars worth of tools and machinery, all in -good running order, exactly adapted to the business in hand and -located at the best possible points for doing it. Does not this -fact appeal mightily to the churches to see to it that this great -investment which they have made be used to the best possible -advantage? He would be a poor business man, who would invest a -million of dollars in a “plant” and then scrimp his business for -lack of current funds. That would be a poor business, which with -that amount of money well invested for its purposes could not -secure the working capital necessary to use it to its full capacity. - -It takes a long time and much hard work to gather from the -benevolent a million dollars and to expend it judiciously in the -erection of churches, school-houses and colleges. Every dollar of -this money is freighted with prayer and winged with love. It will -be found again presently as treasure laid up in heaven. It is like -an inspiration to think how much of Christ’s spirit is represented -in these buildings built for the love of Him. But they must be -used. The very stones and brick will cry out against us, if we -neglect to follow up what has been done with still greater work in -the future. - -The Executive Committee in their annual report call for one -thousand dollars a day, as needed for current expenses the coming -year. In order to raise this sum the ordinary contributions must be -increased to $225,000, an advance of one-half over last year. In -view of the great issues at stake, and the unexampled opportunities -of the Association for doing its work, your Finance Committee -recommend that this increase be made. - -Let this be the key-note of our appeals this year: _One thousand -dollars a day; 50 per cent. advance on all contributions._ - -All of which is most respectfully submitted, - - ERASTUS BLAKESLEE, for the Committee. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. D. O. MEARS, D.D. - - -Now the question comes right here: shall we give according to what -we are, or what we have? One of the largest contributors in New -England told me the story of his conversion the other day, and it -was this, as we sat in the evening by his fireside. “My wife and -I,” he said, “had acquired a competence; money seemed to be coming -in. I had been brought up outside the Christian faith, and while -such a one was preaching on one occasion I debated the question: -Can I become a Christian? My wife found the light and for days I -wrestled with the question. Light would not come. I knew what it -was; it was my pocket book; shall that be included? When I decided -my pocketbook for Christ, then light broke in; and,” said he in -that narration, as a fit appendix to the whole, “I have never put -my means in any place where I have ever lost in all my experience.” - -It is said that after the events at Pentecost, Andrew went down -to China and preached and that Thomas also, whose finger ached to -pierce the nail-torn hands of his Master and whose fist was almost -doubled that it might be thrust into that pierced side, went down -to China to preach the everlasting Gospel. Now 75,000 of that -race, whose great engineering works were the world’s marvel 250 -years before the call of Abraham, whose emperor wrote a classic -a thousand years before David touched his sacred pen, are at our -very doors; and if it was worth while for Andrew and Thomas to go -from Jerusalem to China it is worth our work to preach to them and -teach them and call them to us when they are so near, is it not? I -remember it is written in the prophets, as I suppose Matthew read, -“Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God,” and Ethiopia -received the preaching of Matthew, so say many. I remember that -Mark founded the church in the upper part of that dark continent. -I remember that when our blessed Master fainted under the cross -it was an African who put his brawny shoulder under it and walked -by the side of our Lord, his Lord, to the crucifixion. And almost -as a revenge, though not revenge, Simon, the zealot, who looked -to Africa, was crucified himself in lower Egypt. If these thought -it worth while to evangelize Africa, what shall we say of the -7,000,000 of Africa’s sons at our very doors? - -The question now comes: Can we give? Is there money enough to give? -There is an article in the “Century” for November, I think it is, -which states, after computation from two cities of considerable -size, that four-fifths of the inhabitants were attendants upon -church services. The figures struck me with absolute astonishment -and consternation. And, you remember, a year ago it was said -that fully one-fifth of all the property in the United States, -according to calculation, is held in the hands of Christians. I -saw this so late that I had not time to go over it extensively; -so I took the single city of Worcester. I took the 322 highest -tax-payers in that city, and I called on a man who I supposed knew -best the church-going habits and pew-owning property of these -leading business men, and I said: “Will you tell me where this one -goes and that one goes?” We marked them off last Sunday night, -and of the whole 322 we found only 65 whom we did not know to be -church-goers; and it is safe to say from the percentage that 25 -of the 65 were church-goers—men who belonged to families that we -felt sure would attend the house of God. We knew that 255 attended -church; and adding the 25 that were doubtful, we had 280 out of -320 of the leading men in the city of Worcester that attend the -Protestant churches in that city. Take the banks. There are eleven -banks in Worcester, and we went over the names of the directors -and trustees. Out of the entire number (there were two unknown) we -found only three individuals that were not represented in a church, -and two of these were the same man—that is, one was a director in -two banks. - -Now, what is the use? Shall we say that the money belongs to the -evil and the piety to the good? The piety and the money, the heart -and the gold, are ever in the church. We are reading of a house to -be put up in a celebrated watering-place that will cost $750,000. -I saw that in the city of New York the land where that great -opera-house is, brought the sum of $700,000. The owner of this -property in either case would keep two great organizations like -this going; and I said, “What! do we want some of that money that -is to build that summer resort by the sea?” No, we don’t want it. -“But we would like some of that money that is beneath that splendid -building that is costing its millions?” No; we don’t want it. If -men will build houses for self, let the Christian do his work for -the Master, and let us outdo the world. - -But I must hasten. There is this demand of the nation upon us. -It is said that Robert Peel was riding with his daughter on her -birthday—he had given her a splendid riding habit, and the two -were admired by all who saw them, and the father looked with pride -upon his daughter—and in less than a week the daughter was beneath -the sod. The seamstress had sewed the habit while sitting by the -side of the bed of her husband groaning under the delirium of -the typhus; and in the chill that came upon him she had cast the -garment over him. The typhus of the garret became the typhus of -that celebrated house. And we are concerned with the swamps, with -the morasses, with these debased and poor colored people. We cannot -afford to be other. I would, if there were time, enlarge upon this -in connection with the report so admirably given; but I must pass -on. - -It is said that the Puritan captain Hodgdon was riding one day -at the head of his company near the mountains when he heard the -sound of a bugle. As he heard it he said to his soldiers: “Halt!” -and every man leaned on his arms. “List! I love to hear the sound -of the bugle: there is so much of God in it.” Yesterday came the -report from the counties of Kentucky. It was a bugle-blast to this -assembly. Was God in it? 500,000 people who could not read their -names, though written in characters that might be read 100 rods -off—500,000 illiterate, ten years of age and above, in Kentucky, -Tennessee and West Virginia! From the mountains there comes the -sound of the bugle that has stirred us. Did it wake us up? Was God -in it? I heard a voice in that sound. We are told in our press and -from our platforms that the A. M. A. is not doing full work in the -South, and other helpers must come. Wait. Don’t hurry. The bugle -has sounded; it was God that was sounding it. I ask for no vote -of this assembly. I call for no show of hands. Yet, if you wait -before God, you must answer in the name of this world to his call: -“I ordain you to go and devote $50,000 to the mountain work, in -Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.” It must be done. There is -no drawing back. - -It is said that when Robert Bruce was marching to meet Edward, and -came within sight of the glittering sheen, he said to his soldiers, -“Kneel down, every one”; and the army of Robert Bruce, with their -eyes to the earth and their lips moving, offered their prayers to -God, then rose up—a little army—and defeated the English. It was -God’s voice that sounded like a bugle. It is for the soldiers to -pray, and to fall where the bugle calls. - -One other point only, briefly, in regard to this question of the -demand that Christ makes on us. We must never establish a condition -that he has not established; never set up a standard which he -has not set up; but follow him and receive the blessing while we -follow. It was the remark of Augustus that he found Rome of brick -and left it of marble. Our fathers, a century ago, found this -nation half slave and half free. It is now left a free nation. God -grant it may become, by Christian effort, as good as it is free! In -a dark day of our war when the armies were failing, and the hopes -of the nation were placed in Lincoln and Lincoln lost hope, when -our courage depended upon him and our flag seemed as if about to be -rent by an unseen hand—when Lincoln said, “I see no hope”, for the -rush of the armies seemed away from the South and up back to the -North, Stanton uttered the words that gave courage to his heart: -“Weary man, don’t you know that the churches of the North are -everywhere praying for you?” And the weary look passed away from -his face, and the smile came back to its wonted place. The children -of Father Abraham need the prayers of the churches of Christ. - - * * * * * - - - - -WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GIVING. - -BY REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D. - - -In his sermon entitled “How to be a Christian in Trade,” a -discourse which illustrates the wonderful combination of practical -sagacity with spiritual insight, for which he was so remarkable, -Dr. Bushnell says that “the great problem we have now on hand is -the Christianizing of the money power of the world,” and again -that “what we wait for, and are looking hopefully to see, is the -consecration of the vast money power of the world to the work, and -cause, and kingdom of Jesus Christ. For that day, when it comes, -is the morning, so to speak, of the new creation. That tide-wave -in the money power can as little be resisted when God brings it -on as the tides of the sea; and like these also it will flow -across the world in a day.” This witness is true, and it becomes -us all, to pray and labor for the fulfilment of the prophecy that -men shall come, “their silver and their gold with them, unto the -name of the Lord our God.” But here the revival must begin in the -Church itself. In former times we have had revivals with distinct -characteristics. One was remarkable for the blessing which rested -on preaching, another for the spirit of prayer which seemed to be -poured out on the people generally; another for the interest that -was evoked in the study of the Scriptures. What we have yet to -see is a revival of which the chief distinguishing feature shall -be liberal giving to the cause of the Lord Jesus, and when that -comes it will be the prophecy of yet grander things for the promise -“prove me now herewith if I will not open you the windows of heaven -and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to -receive it,” was made, not in connection with an exhortation to -prayer, as so many who quote it seem to believe, but with immediate -reference to the honoring of God with our substance, for thus it -runs: “Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, and prove -me now herewith.” While, therefore, it is true that a spirit of -liberality in the support of the cause of Christ must be a fruit of -renewed life in the Church, it is also true that its manifestation -by the Church will be the forerunner of such spiritual triumphs -as it has never yet achieved. Thus it is of great moment that we -should use means for the awakening of Christians to a sense of the -importance of this matter, and few things, in my judgment, would -more efficiently contribute to the attainment of that end than -setting briefly and pointedly before them the teachings of the word -of God upon the subject. I cannot hope to cover all that ground in -the few minutes now at my disposal; the most I shall attempt will -be to take a general survey of it. - -Beginning, then, with the act of giving itself, I find that it is -spoken of as a part of self consecration to God, for when at the -close of his reign David brought out in the sight of all the people -the treasures which he had amassed for the building of the Temple -and sought to incite them to make an offering for the same purpose, -he said, “Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day -unto the Lord?” It is regarded as an act of worship, for God -commanded his people to “come into his courts and bring an offering -with them.” It is described by Paul as a “grace.” When writing to -the Corinthians he said, “Therefore as ye abound in everything, -in faith and utterance and knowledge, and in all diligence and -in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.” Only -think of it—“as ye abound in utterance, so abound in this grace -also.” What a blessed thing it would be in this America of ours, on -which the gift of tongues seems to have been so lavishly bestowed, -if Christians generally were as fluent in giving as they are in -speech! It is referred to again and again as a “communion” in such -passages as these: “Let him that is taught in the word communicate -to”—that is, have communion with Him, that teacheth in all good -things, “to do good and to communicate forget not,” or, as it might -be given more literally, “Of well doing and of communion be not -forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” In the -same sense Paul, who had just received a gift from the Philippians, -thanks God for their “fellowship,” that is, “communion” in the -gospel from the first day until now; and praises them for having -done well in communicating, or rather, for the word is the same, in -having communion with his affliction; while he records it to their -credit that no church communicated with him; or, for the word is -still the same, “had communion with him in the matter of giving -and receiving but they only.” To the same effect he says to the -Corinthians that the churches of Macedonia had begged him to take -upon him the “fellowship,”—that is, “communion”—of ministering to -the saints in carrying to Jerusalem their gifts to the poor of that -city, and he urges his readers to accept a part in the same service -that God might be glorified for “their liberal distribution”—that -is, for the liberality of the communion, for so the word still -is, “unto them and unto all men.” And to mention only one other -passage, the same apostle in his Epistle to the Romans bids his -readers “distribute to the necessities of the saints,”—that is, for -the word is still the same, “hold communion with the necessities -of the saints.” Thus the making of contributions for benevolence -in every form of it in which the Church is engaged is as really -a communion service as is the observance of the Lord’s Supper. -The same word is used in reference to both, and both alike are -manifestations of the oneness of all the people of Christ in their -common Lord. If this were more generally understood and felt by us -I am sure that we should all have greater enjoyment in that part of -the service on which so many look with disfavor, the making of a -contribution; for that, as Paul gives us to understand, is only the -manifestation by us in another form of the fellowship which we show -forth when the bread and wine of the supper are passed from hand -to hand among us. In this view of the case it is to be feared that -there are far more “_close_” communionists in the Church than those -who are commonly so denominated, and it may be well for us to take -the beam out of our own eyes before we seek to become oculists to -others. - -Further, this giving is distinctly spoken of in the New Testament -as a privilege. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said -“It is more blessed,” that is, it is a greater happiness “to give -than to receive.” In many enterprises in which men engage the cost -is more than the profit, “the play” as the French proverb has it, -“is not worth the candle,” but here there is always blessing; -blessing in the consciousness that we have the means of doing good; -blessing in entering into fellowship with God, whose happiness is -all that of giving out; and blessing in the fact that the joy of -the recipient comes back to us and redoubles our delight. - -But passing now from the act itself to the reward promised to it, -we find that set before us in three different ways. It is first, -temporal. “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first -fruits of all thine increase. So shall thy barns be filled with -plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” It is, -second, spiritual, for Paul in connection with his exhortation -to the Corinthians says: “God is able to make all grace abound -toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, -may abound to every good work being enriched in everything to all -bountifullness.” Was there ever such a piling of universal terms -one above the other as we have here? It seems as if the apostle -could not say enough to strengthen his assertion, and it is all -said in connection with cheerful giving. Nor is this all. He goes -on to say that the gifts of the Corinthians by evoking prayers -on their behalf from the hearts of the receivers, would return -in blessings into their own bosoms. You know how the process of -irrigation goes on in nature. All the rivers run into the ocean, -out of that the sun continually evaporates clouds, which the wind -blows back over the land, where they fall out in rain on the -mountains, and go to feed the rivers. Thus evermore the circle -is kept up and the lands are fertilized. Now in the same way the -gifts we make to God all run into the furtherance of his cause, and -are by him lifted up into the celestial region of his grace and -power, whence they descend again with new blessing into our hearts, -making both ourselves individually and the Church at large joyous -and productive. Then there is a third reward which is eternal; for -Jesus in the close of the parable of the prudent steward says: -“Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that -when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations.” -Money will not purchase our entrance into heaven. Nothing can do -that but the work of Christ; but the money which out of love to -Christ we give to his people and his cause will secure that we -shall be received in heaven by those whom we have been the means -of benefiting. As we enter they will take us by the hand and -lead us up to Him that sitteth on the throne, saying: This is he -whose efforts and whose gifts were, under thee, the means of our -being here; let it be done unto him as unto the man whom the King -delighteth to honor. And he will reply: Well done! “Inasmuch as ye -did it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye did it unto -me.” - -Then as to the manner of the giving. We are told that it should -be cheerful, for God loveth a cheerful giver. It should be no -stereotyped and immutable thing, the same through life, but “as -God has prospered us.” It should be systematic, as the result of -careful thought and weekly planning on the Lord’s day, under the -influence of the memory of His resurrection. For it was after his -great argument on the resurrection that Paul said “now concerning -the collection,” and it was because of its connection with that -resurrection that he specified “the first day of the week” as -that on which every one should “lay by him in store as God hath -prospered him.” Weekly storing in the Lord’s box at home on the -Lord’s day, that is what Paul recommends, and then when the Lord -makes his appeal to us we can cheerfully give Him of His own. In -the neglect of this plan, and the making of gatherings for this -and that cause as each comes along, we have the explanation of -the disfavor with which, in the public service, too many hear the -announcement that a contribution will be made. - -But now, finally, as to the motive. Here it is: “For ye know the -grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for -your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be -rich.” The bringing of such a motive to bear on so simple a thing -as the making of a contribution for the poor saints of Jerusalem -seems like cracking a nut with a Nasmyth steam hammer. But Paul -knew what he was doing when he dictated these words. He wanted to -exalt and consecrate all Christian beneficence by having it done -from the most powerful Christian motive. And after the presentation -of such a motive there is no more to be said. For when men know -the grace of Christ, they will never feel that they have given Him -enough, and till they know it they will never give _Him_ anything. -They may contribute to keep up appearances so as to be like other -people, or to gain a reputation, but they will never give to _Him_ -until they know His grace. This is the very pith and marrow of the -matter. Before men give to Christ they must receive from him, and -when they have received Christ Himself into their hearts they will -be impelled to give. _Im_pelled, not _com_pelled; for the delight -and the duty will coincide, or rather the duty will be merged in -the delight. So we come round to the point at which we set out. A -revived church will become a giving church, and a giving church is -the fore-herald of a converted world. - -How much owest thou thy Lord? That is the question which the giver -has to face. Sometimes in commercial circles a man will assign a -debt that is owing him to some one else, out of friendship, that -he may take it when he has collected it and use it for himself. -Much in the same way, I think, the Lord Jesus has assigned a large -portion of the debt which we owe to him to those who are around -us—to the unconverted at our doors, to those races among whom you -labor, to the pagans far away. This was what Paul felt when he -said, “I am debtor, both to the wise and to the unwise, both to the -Greek and to the Barbarian”; and it was the constant feeling of -that sense of obligation that gave his life its nobleness and its -usefulness. So let it be with us; and let us see in those for whom -appeal is made to us through this Association, the representatives -of Christ. - -There is a beautiful story told in Stevenson’s “Praying and -Working.” I am very fond of repeating it—I may have told it to -some of you before, but no matter—about a little child in the -orphanage of John Falk at Weimar. They were having supper in the -dining-hall, and the teacher gave thanks in the ordinary way before -the children began their meals, saying, “Come, Lord Jesus, and be -our guest to-night, and bless the mercies which Thou has provided.” -One little boy looked up and said, “Teacher, you always ask the -Lord Jesus to come, but he never comes. Will he ever come?” “Oh, -yes; if you will only hold on in faith, he will be sure to come.” -“Very well,” said the little boy, “I will set a chair for him -beside me here to-night to be ready when he comes.” And so the meal -proceeded. By-and-by there came a rap at the door, and there was -ushered in a poor half-frozen apprentice. He was taken to the fire -and his hands warmed. Then he was asked to partake of the meal, -and where should he go but to the chair which the little boy had -provided? and as he sat down there the little boy looked up with a -light in his eye, and said, “Teacher, I see it now! The Lord Jesus -was not able to come himself, and he sent this poor man in his -place. Isn’t that it?” - -Aye, that is just it. And so, brethren, the Lord Jesus isn’t able, -according to His plans for this world, to come personally yet among -us, but He has sent those colored people, Chinese, Indians and -heathen to make appeal in His behalf to us, and who among us will -set a chair for Him? There are many friends with whom I hardly -agree who are very anxiously waiting for the appearance of the -personal Christ among us, and they are wondering what they shall -do to welcome Him. Would that the eyes of these brethren and our -own too were opened to the perception of the Christ that is already -here, in the persons of those needing to be helped and educated and -elevated, and that their ears could hear His words, “Inasmuch as -ye do it unto one of the least of these His brethren ye do it unto -Christ.” - -That is the Christian philosophy of giving, and if a man does not -feel the force of these considerations I should be disposed to say -he has not yet begun to be a Christian. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF REV. DR. DENNEN. - - -The topic of this closing service is not only of prime importance, -but comes in its logical place. When your machinery is all -educational, industrial and church-wise, the final and vital -question is one of power to move it. The supreme motive power in -your work is _spiritual life_. - -Life is force, something capable of originating or resisting power -or motion. Physical life is that mysterious something no analysis -can detect, no alembic reveal, no power resist; which swells the -bud, opens the flower, sprouts the seed, ripens the harvest. - -Spiritual life, through another plane, is also a force, capable of -originating or resisting power or motion. Its realm is the human -soul, and draws nutriment from the soil, which that cunning chemist -we call life builds up into strength and beauty. - -Spiritual vitality performs a similar structural function. Once -made alive in Christ Jesus, the disciple seeks for spiritual -aliment. - -1. Now, spiritual life, like natural life, possesses _structural -power_. It is a master builder. One main function of the vital -principle in nature is to lay hold of inert matter and convert it -into living organisms. The growing tree absorbs tons of carbon -from the air. The local church, if a live one, takes up into her -membership more or less of the outlying population, and from aliens -converts them into fellow citizens of the saints and members of the -household of faith. - -The ability, then, of this noble Association, second to none in -the land, to advance the kingdom of Christ in the several fields -where it operates, will assuredly be conditioned upon the spirit -and vigor of the churches and individuals behind it, will be -determined, not so much by the amount of money it receives or the -number of workers it puts into the field, as by the prayers and -spiritual enthusiasm of its constituency. - -Carlyle once said: “The American Republic is going straight to the -devil. No government can long exist that receives the refuse of all -the rest of the world into its midst and makes citizens of them.” -Our free institutions are to undergo a strain in the near future, -I am sure, that has never yet been put upon them. Our American -churches are also to be put to a similar strain. Nay, the pressure -is already upon them. Are they equal to it? I believe so. We must, -however, leaven the multitudes of the ignorant and unsaved with our -Christianity, or they will leaven us with their illiteracy. Our -ability to meet the emergency already upon us will depend, under -God, upon our spiritual vitality. - -2. Another function of life is its expulsive power. What it cannot -use and assimilate it expels. It gathers the good and casts the bad -away. Strong, vigorous life depends as much upon the one function -as the other. The religious world is full of the germs and larvæ -of skepticism, theistic and atheistic assaults and criticisms. A -robust person can walk in the midst of pestilence unscathed, while -disease springs upon one whose vitality is depressed. Precisely the -same condition obtains in respect to the individual disciple, or -the church, or our missionary boards. - -The one effective answer to skepticism, then, of every grade and -degree of virulence; the one sovereign remedy for worldliness, -apathy and avarice of God’s people, is a new enduement of spiritual -power. Our lips must be touched with celestial fire and our hearts -bathed in Christ’s great love. - -3. Another quality of life is its expansive power. The mightiest -force in this world is life. It mocks at gravity; it defies -cohesion; bursts every band. The same expansive property inheres in -spiritual life. - -You might as well shut up a growing chicken in its shell as to -shut up a live Christianity in the shell of the fathers. No. Where -there is life there must be expansion. She breaks through old -traditions and prejudices, and steps out into new departures and -broader methods, and pushes on into new regions of thought and -conquest beyond. She lays her hand on the colored man of the South, -saves, educates him, equips him for the life that now is, as well -as for that which is to come. She stands on the shores of the great -Pacific, where the shining waves lave her feet and chant their -mighty anthems of freedom, and, with open, arms and a catholic -heart, free of all race prejudices, welcomes the Chinaman. She -uncovers the cross in the wigwam of the red man and bids the dusky -sons of the forest look and live. - -4. Once more spiritual life is the only complete bond of union. -Says President Hopkins, “It is on this that the whole method of God -in the restoration of man is based, and it is for the recognition -of this by men, and their adoption of God’s method of vitality and -unity, the tardy, laboring and discordant times wait. No partial -reform will do; no coming man. Everywhere men are divergent, -repellant. The bond of common humanity is but a string of tow to -bind the Samson of human selfishness and passions. There must be -a divine life, a divine centre. This center is Christ. He is the -life. The nexus which is to bind this selfish world in one, and -unite all races and nationalities in one common fellowship and -forward movement to disciple the world, is Christ in the souls of -all men. Amid every diversity of polity and people, He is the one -vivifying and unifying spirit. - -5. The principal question, however, is one of means. How is this -life to be secured? To get fresh water we go to the spring. To get -information we go to the sources of knowledge. To get spiritual -vitality we go to Christ. Life in nature is the product of living -organisms in contact. The strength and continuance of that life -depends upon the closeness of the contact. The steel must touch the -magnet to receive and retain magnetism. - -So spiritual life and zeal comes from contact with a living Christ. -The strength and fervor of that life is forever conditioned upon -the closeness of our contact with our living Head. - -No one thing so lowers spiritual heat and light as distance from -Christ. Neptune has not a thousandth part of our light and warmth. -He is too far away from the central orb. We are just now too far -away from Christ; hence our comparative barrenness. We must sit -where the fire and inspiration of His eye kindle in ours; where his -glowing enthusiasm passes over into us; where the greatness and -grandeur of the work He has given us to do shall thrill us and grow -upon us. Then we shall mount to its accomplishment on the wings of -eagles, and run and not be weary, and walk and not faint. - -Never had this Association more call for enthusiasm, never for -greater hopefulness. What did we see here last night—the black man -and red man, men from Asia and Africa and America, strangers and -proselytes, speak in their own tongues the wonderful works of God. - -I cheer you on to the labor of another year. As we go down from -this mount let us go to our upper chambers and, whether for eight -days or as many weeks, let us tarry and pray until we are endued -from on high and receive the tongues of flame and the utterance of -the Spirit. Then let us, in our various fields, gird up our loins -and go forth to achieve for the Lord of Hosts, resolved that before -another anniversary of this Association comes round we will, God -helping us, see thousands housed and happy in Christ’s dear love -all over our beloved land of very race and color. - - * * * * * - - - - -ADDRESS OF PROF. W. M. BARBOUR, D.D. - - -The topic assigned me is in the line of the theme just discussed -by Dr. Dennen. My friend and classmate Dr. Pike insisted upon my -coming over here and taking part in this evening meeting; and -he said, “Your theme will be: Spiritual Vitality the Crowning -Necessity in Missionary Work.” - -I shall take it for granted that other means have been set before -you and insisted upon—the one nearest always, money. That is a -great necessity in missionary work. You have heard, I have no -doubt, a good deal about that, and I merely wish to honor it as a -means under God of the most pressing necessity. We can do nothing -to send the blessings that God has put into our hearts abroad among -our fellow men without means; and the first means is money. But all -the money in the world will not serve our end. What is the next? -We must have men. But all the men in the world won’t do missionary -work, although we had them all enlisted in that work. Suppose -we had all the money we could use and all the men that offered -themselves and that we could procure; we would only have gone so -far. What else is needed? We need fitness in the men as another -great means. This is as necessary as money and men, this culture. -But after we have the men, and after we have them qualified, there -is still room for what in my theme to-night is called “the crowning -necessity.” You may take Yale College as it stands, with all its -culture, and you may turn out all our hundreds of young men down -into the South this blessed night; what could they do in missionary -work to-morrow morning? So you see that it is not the money, or the -men, or the culture that alone is needed; something more is needed, -and that is “spiritual vitality.” - -And now, beloved, to take the first step and to say the first thing -that must be said, in my judgment (since I am called here to give -my opinion), the first position that we must assume and which this -Association has assumed from its very start—although it is one of -the old things that Christ says a well-instructed scribe must take -out of his treasury—we must begin with God. We are to stand in -his presence, we are to summon him as our witness, we are to avow -ourselves openly and frankly, every day we live, as doing this for -him. - -I should like to know where our modern unbelief is that is such -a distress to us in all our efforts and in our inward life, when -you reverently, and in the deep meaning of thought say, “As the -Lord liveth”? Look at it. There are two schemes of the universe: -one, the Christian scheme, with a belief in the living God as -the original of all things—a personal being who is personally -interested in his creatures, and who is desiring, since he has made -him in his own image, to have man hold communion with himself, and -who desires to have all men reconciled to himself from their sin -and their misery and their unhappy life. There is another scheme -where there is no God, or, what is the same thing to us, we do not -know whether there is or not. And what is the idea of the universe -that follows from that? Why, that it must move along as the blind -force behind it shall urge it. Where is it going to land? The day -is coming, brethren, when we will cry, “Oh for the doctrine of a -predestinating God”—God with his eye on an end, and with an end to -which he is turning all things and which shall be satisfactory to -all the creatures that he has made in his image. - -Let us take a frank position here as a missionary society, and let -it be known that we openly and avowedly, by word and deed, take the -stand that we believe in God, and that we believe he is a living -God, and in his name and for his sake and to effect his purpose we -are going to the South, to the North, to the East, to the West, to -gain trophies that shall be to the glory of his redeeming grace, -since he has revealed to us, as we believe, the fact that he will -complete these ends through our agency. - - - - -RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1883. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $391.80. - - Banger. Hammond St. Ch., 100; First Cong. Ch. - 20 $120.00 - Bethel. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 - Brunswick. Mrs. S. C. F. Hammond, _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. CAPT. - REUBEN BLANCHARD L. M. 40.00 - Hampden. Charles E. Hicks. 7.00 - Lovell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - North Anson. “A Friend” 10.00 - Portland. Second Parish Ch. and Soc. 86.30 - South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis. 6.00 - Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. to Const. REV. - EDWARD E. BACON L. M. 46.50 - ——————— - $356.80 - - LEGACY. - - Bethel. Estate of Sarah W. Chapman by A. W. - Valentine, Ex. 35.00 - ——————— - 391.80 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $69.02. - - Amherst. Cong. Ch. 12.98 - Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.04 - Colebrook. “E. C. & W.” 2.00 - Concord. Dea. McQuesten, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 10.00 - Concord. Miss Lancaster, _for Fort Berthold_. 2.00 - Greenville. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l. 9.00 - Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 64.94 to - const. HOLMES R. PETTEE and H. W. HERRICK, - L. Ms. Incorrectly ack. in Nov. number from - Mass. - Tilton. A. H. Colby. 5.00 - - - VERMONT, $540.02. - - Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 90.72 - Benson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 39.58 - Burlington. Winooski Av. Cong. Ch. 107.28 - Castleton. W. C. Guernsey. 4.50 - Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.25 - Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00 - Manchester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C, - _for Raleigh, N.C._ 1 Bbl. _for Atlanta U._ - Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Norwich. Ashley Blodgett. 5.00 - Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 168.00 - Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - S. S. Work_. 26.00 - Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.25 - Westminster West. “A Friend.” 5.00 - Weybridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.44 - ——————— - $535.02 - - LEGACY. - - Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray. 5.00 - ——————— - $540.02 - - - MASSACHUSETTS $3,528.10. - - Agawam. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Ashby. “A Friend” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Boston. Mrs. C. A. 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Ch. and Soc. 30.00 - Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 50.00 - Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. - WILLIAM SINER, JR., HENRY A. WHITE and - GEORGE A. PEABODY L. M.’s. 100.00 - East Boston. Mrs. Joseph Robbins, _Bdl. of - Goods, for Dakota M._ - Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc. 140.00 - Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 - Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Granby. Cong. Ch., Children’s Mission Circle, - _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Building_. 45.00 - Hadley. E. Porter. 10.00 - Hanover Four Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.46 - Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50 - Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Indian Orchard. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 19.22 - Jamaica Plain. Cong. Ch. and Soc., in part. 160.00 - Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l. 10.00 - Lincoln. George Ropes, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00 - Lincoln. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 20.00 - Lowell. First Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 13.75 - Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.68; “A - Friend,” 1. 41.68 - Medford. “A Friend.” 5.00 - Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. to const. REV. JOHN - L. EWELL L. M. 30.00 - Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - New Bedford. Miss Helen M. Leonard. 1.00 - Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. 100.00 - Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.68 - North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25 - Northamption. A. L. Williston, 500; First - Cong. Ch., 247.68; Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. - 64. 811.68 - North Leominster. Mrs. S. F. Houghton. 5.00 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.26 - Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.36 - Phillipston. Ladies Benev. Soc Bdl. C. - Pittsfield. Rev. C. V. SPEAR to const. - himself, GEO. N. SPEAR and MRS. ELLEN M. - SPEAR L. Ms. 250.00 - Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for - Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 17.70 - Roxbury. Mrs. P. N. Livermore. 1.00 - Shirley Village. 500 copies “Youth’s - Companion” by Miss Nettie A. Dickson, _for - Marietta, Ga._ - South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.6 - Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.2 - South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, 2 - and Bbl. of C. 2.00 - Southborough. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.10 - South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - South Sudbury. Ladies’ Home Miss’y Soc. Bbl of - C., val., 34.17, _for Atlanta U._ - Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.40 - South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 51; - to const. AUGUSTINE LOUD and J. NEWTON DYER - L. Ms.; Ladies Mission Soc. of Second Ch., - 14. 65.00 - South Weymouth. Mrs. Lysander Heald’s S. S. - Class., Second Ch., 10, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._; Marion Heald, 1 _for a little - girl_ 11.00 - Spencer. Mrs. G. H. Marsh’s Class Cong. Sab. - Sch., 5; G. E. Manley, 5, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 10.00 - Springfield. South Cong. Ch. 32.38; First - Cong. Ch., 24.85 57.23 - Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 17.00 - Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 - Wakefield. Mission Workers, 45; Cong. Sab. - Sch., 16, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 61.00 - Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc., to - const. Dea. WILLARD LEWIS L. M. 35.30 - Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, _for Chinese M._ 5.00 - Westborough. “A Friend.” 43.00 - West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. Soc. 58.00 - Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 - West Granville. Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Westhampton. Cong. Ch. 13.00 - Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch. 2.12 - Whately. Cong. Ch. 7.83 - Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 139; Old South - Ch. and Soc. 41.63 to const. H. H. MERRIAM - L. M.; Central Ch. and Soc. 51.98; “A - Friend,” 25 257.61 - Yarmouth. Roy A. Eldridge, D.D. 50.00 - ——— “A Friend.” 5.00 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $1,063.18. - - Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00 - Providence. Central Cong. Ch. 800; Pilgrim - Cong. Ch. and Soc., 115; “A Friend,” 50.00; - North. Cong Ch. 23.13 988.13 - - - CONNECTICUT, $2,676.75. - - East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Elliott. Wm. Osgood 2.00 - East Avon. Cong. Ch. 38.00 - Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 19.97 - Bozrahville. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Bridgeport. South Ch. Sab. Sch., Box S. S. - Books, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ - Derby. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Fair Haven. First Ch. 50.00 - Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee - Agency, Neb._ 128.51 - Farmington. Cong. Ch. 59.77 - Franklin. Cong. Ch. 13.29 - Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 150.00 - Granby. First Cong. Ch. 8.95 - Hebron. J. and Mary Porter _for Tillotson C. & - N. Inst._ 10.00 - Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 - Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 75.00 - Milford. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Tillotson - C. & N. Inst._ and to const. S. E. FRISBIE - L. M. 32.00 - Mount Carmel. Mrs. J. M. Smith 10.00 - New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. 17.50 - New Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams’ S. S. Class, - 11; John Richards’ S. S. Class, 9, _for Fisk - U._ 20.00 - New Haven. Third Cong. Ch., 23; Howard Ave. - Ch., 9.22 32.22 - Norfolk. “A Friend,” _for Santee Agency_ 5.00 - North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler 10.00 - Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. 175.43 - Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.40 - Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 12.59 - Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. 23.72 - Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 103.59 - South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 14.00 - Stratford. “A Friend” 1.00 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 52.32 - Thompsonville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for - furnishing a room, Whitin Hall, Straight U._ 35.00 - Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.25 - Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson - C. and N. Inst. Building_ 60.00 - Wapping. F. W. Gilbert, for _Tillotson C. and - N. Inst._ 12.07 - Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.55 - Windsor. Cong. Ch. 105.00 - Winchester. “A Friend” 10.00 - Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for - Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Building_ 150.00 - ———————— - $1,590.13 - - - LEGACIES. - Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin - Talcott. Ex. 190.00 - Woodbridge. Estate of Mrs. Eliza Carrington 896.62 - ———————— - $2,676.75 - - - NEW YORK, $422.05. - - Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, $15; Mrs. Eliza A. - Bell, $3. 18.00 - Brooklyn, E. D. New England Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Deansville. Cong. Ch. 15.05 - East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, $30; Chas. E. - Clarke, $3. 33.00 - Elmira. Miss Clara Thurston. 5.00 - Hamilton. O. S. Campbell. 5.00 - Homer. Cong. C., $132.50; B. W. Payne, $10. 142.50 - Lysander. Cong. Ch. 26.00 - Middletown. First Cong. Ch. 16.26 - New Haven. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - North Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 5.81 - New York. American Bible Soc., Grant of - Scriptures, val. $307.50. - Nunda. “A Friend” ($5 of which _for Chinese - M._) 15.00 - Pompey. Mrs. Lucy Child, _for Indian Youth, - Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 5.00 - Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers, _for Emerson - Inst., Mobile, Ala._ 20.00 - Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston. 2.00 - Syracuse. C. A. Hamlin. 12.25 - Volney. Ludington Sab. Sch. 5.08 - West Winfield. Cong. Ch., to const. AARON - ADELBERT LEACH L. M. 31.10 - - - NEW JERSEY, $565.53. - - Chester. First Cong. Ch., $21.89, and Sab. - Sch., $6.52. 28.21 - East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 137.32 - Paterson. Mrs. Sarah A. Cook, _for Tillotson - C. & N. Inst._ 400.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00. - - New Castle. John Burgess. 5.00 - Philadelphia. “M.” 2.00 - - - OHIO, $791.41. - - Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch. 4.26 - Cleveland. T. P. Handy, $20; James Harmer, - $20; Misses S. and A. Walworth, - $30;—Whitney. $1; _for Parsonage, Topeka, - Kan._ 71.00 - Columbus. Eastwood Cong. Ch. $10; and Sab. - Sch., $5.70. 15.70 - Elyria. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $40; Cong. - Ch., “M. W. C.,” $10; Individual, $9. 59.00 - Fort Recovery. Pisgah Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Medina. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 20.00 - Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 35.60 - Painesville. Woman’s Missionary Soc., $20, - _for Indian M._, and $10 _for Chinese M._ - Incorrectly ack. from Mrs. L. A. M. Little - in Nov. number. - Pittsfield. A Friend. 12.00 - Springfield. Mrs. Warren’s Sab. Sch. Class of - Young Men. 5.00 - Steuben. Levi Platt. 1.00 - Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Tallmadge. C. P. Parmelee. 5.00 - Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 17.50 - Wilberforce. Mrs. Joseph Morrow. 5.00 - York. Cong. Ch. 20.35 - Youngstown. Mrs. Whitney. 1.00 - ——————— - $291.41 - - LEGACY. - - Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John - G. Jennings, Ex. 500.00 - —————— - $791.41 - - - INDIANA, $50.87. - - Liber. Cong. Ch. 1.68 - Michigan City. Cong. Ch. 37.00 - Michigan City. Mrs. C. W. Peck _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00 - Michigan City. “Ralph and Daisy,” 1.69; - “Golden Links,” 50c. _for Student Aid, - Storrs’ Sch., Atlanta. Ga_ 2.19 - - - ILLINOIS, $819.54. - - Albion. Olive Sab. Sch., $2.50; Mr. and Mrs. - James Green. $2. 4.50 - Byron. Cong. Ch. 9.17 - Carthage. Mrs. Sophia Miller. 1.50 - Chicago. First Cong. Ch. $197.21; “A - Chicagoan,” 100; N. E. Cong. Ch., 79.83. 377.04 - Chicago. Young Ladies Miss’y Soc., of U. P. - Ch., 17.79, _for Dakota M._; Miss Julia F. - White, 5, _for Printing Press, Santee - Agency_. 22.79 - Chicago. Mrs. W. C. Kent, 5; Clinton St. Sab. - Sch., 4.37, _for Student Aid, Storrs’ Sch. - Atlanta, Ga._ 9.37 - Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, 8 Pails of Paint, - _for Parsonage, Topeka, Kan._ - De Kalb. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Elgin. Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Evanston. Cong. Ch., ad’l. 10.00 - Galesburg. Mrs. Julia F. Wells. 25.00 - Galva. Cong. Ch. 22.45 - Ivanhoe. Young Men’s Miss’y Soc. 2.00 - Lombard. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 1.44 - Lisbon. Cong. Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._ 10.00 - Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, _for Chinese M._ and - to const. REV. EDWARD C. CRANE, L. M. 30.00 - North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam. 5.00 - Oak Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Miss’y, Little Rock, Ark._ 52.50 - Oak Park. Mr. Packard’s Sab. Sch., Boys, _for - Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 - Paxton. Cong. Ch. 28.00 - Port Byron. Mission Circle of Cong. Ch., _for - Lady Missionaries, Mobile, Ala., and Little - Rock, Ark._ 10.00 - Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss ($10 of which _for - Chinese M._) 20.00 - Prospect Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary at Mobile, Ala., and Little Rock, - Ark._ 6.00 - Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.33 - Thomasborough. H. M. Seymour. 1.00 - Waverly. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.45 - ——————— - $719.54 - - LEGACY. - - Forrest. Estate of Mrs. Mary Stewart, by S. A. - Hoyt, Ex. 100.00 - ——————— - $819.54 - - - MICHIGAN, $242.08. - - Adrian. A. J. Hood. 10.00 - Almont. Cong. Ch. 25.30 - Alpena. “A Friend,” $30; Woman’s Miss’y Soc., - $30; E. K. Potter, $25., _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 85.00 - Benzonia. Amasa Waters. 10.00 - Battle Creek. Miss Julia E. Williams. 5.00 - Edwardsburg. S. C. Olmsted. 10.00 - Frankfort. Cong. Ch. 2.39 - Greenville. Cong. Ch. 35.77 - Muskegon. Cong. Ch., $30; Woman’s Miss’y Soc. - $15. 45.00 - Northport. Cong. Ch. 11.62 - White Cloud. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. 2.00 - - - IOWA, $607.46. - - Anamosa. Ladies’ Freedman’s Soc. of Cong. Ch. - _for Lady Miss’y, New Orleans_. 10.00 - Boonesborough. Mrs. Anna M. Palmer. 10.00 - Decorah. Cong. Ch. 43.83 - Denmark. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - De Witt. Cong. Ch. 36.34 - Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 28.00 - Durant. “Friends” 14.00 - Garden Prairie. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 3.00 - Garwin. T. Dewey. 2.00 - Green Mountain. Cong. Ch. 7.11 - Green Mountain. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 1.25 - Keokuk. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 18.20 - Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. 18.16 - McGregor. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 9.71 - Meriden. Cong. Ch. 2.65 - Newell. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Red Oak. Cong. Ch. 24.36 - Waterloo. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 4.85 - ——————— - $257.46 - - LEGACY. - - Tabor. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, by A. - C. Gaston 350.00 - ——————— - $607.46 - - - WISCONSIN, $271.35. - - Brandon. Cong. Ch. 24.00 - Brandon. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid_. 6.00 - Clinton. James H. Cooper. 5.00 - Footville. Cong. Ch. 3.34 - Oshkosh. First Cong. Ch. 75.00 - Racine. Ladies at Convention, 14.51; Ladies of - Cong. Ch. 9, _for Lady Missionary, - Montgomery, Ala._ 23.51 - Ripon. Cong. Ch. 95.00 - Rosendale. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady - Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._ 3.50 - Shawano. “Faith.” 2.00 - Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. 19.00 - ———. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 15.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $116.72. - - Brownton. Cong. Ch. 2.40 - Cottage Grove. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Cottage Grove. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. adl. to - const. REV. WM. E. ARCHIBALD L. M. 3.50 - Duluth. Cong. Ch. 19.40 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 31.62; Second - Cong. Ch., 10; First Cong. Ch., 14.07. 55.69 - Owatonna. Woman’s Missionary Soc., Box of - household goods, val., 27.72, _for Athens, - Ala._ - Preston Lake. Cong. Ch. 0.95 - Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch. 11.40 - Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 6.90 - Sumpter. Cong. Ch. 0.60 - Waseca. Cong. Ch., 5.04; Ladies Miss’y Soc. of - Cong. Ch., 5.84 10.88 - - - KANSAS, $237.89. - - Cawker. W. L. Barr, _for Parsonage, Topeka, - Kan._ 4.00 - Great Bend. Cong. Ch. 4.62 - Topeka. First Cong. Ch., 75; M. Pierce, 41.21; - H. G. Lyons, 30; A. B. Whiting, 25; A. - Clark, 5; D. H. Forbes, 5; Wm. H. Williams, - 5; Topeka Lime Co., 3.06; _for Parsonage, - Topeka, Kan._ 189.27 - Topeka. Tuition 40.00 - - - MISSOURI, $10.00. - - Pierce City. Cong. Ch., 8.70; Incorrectly ack. - in Nov. number from Wis. - Kirskville. J. S. Blackman 10.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $64.70. - - Fremont. Cong. Ch. 25.00 - Lincoln. “K. and C.” 8.00 - Sutton. German Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 28.70 - - - COLORADO, $23.10. - - Coal Creek. Union Cong. Ch. 13.10 - Crested Butte. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - - CALIFORNIA, $2,006.90. - - San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission 1,906.90 - Oakland. Mrs. N. Gray, _for School House, - Hillsboro, N.C._ 100.00 - - - OREGON, $5.00. - - Eugene. Mrs. L. W. Judkins. 5.00 - - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $30.00. - - Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey, $25; Mrs. A. - N. Bailey, $5 30.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $12.00. - - Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $5.50. - - Troy. Cong. Ch. 0.50 - Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $10.00. - - Charleston. Plym. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - - GEORGIA, $395.08. - - Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 297.50, Rent, 3 300.50 - Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 - Macon. Cong. Ch. 4.58 - McIntosh. The Sisters Benev. Soc. of Medway - Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Nancy Snelson. Pres., - _for Mendi M._ 10.00 - Savannah. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta - U._ 50.00 - - - ALABAMA, $21.33. - - Marion. Cong. Ch. 1.33 - Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Talladega. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - - - FLORIDA, $230.00. - - ———. “A Friend in Florida” 230.00 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $27.00. - - Tougaloo. Tougaloo, Tuition, 2; Rent, 25 27.00 - - - TEXAS, $1.65. - - Helena. Temperance Concert Cong Ch. 1.65 - —————————— - Total for October. $15,242.98 - ========== - - * * * * * - - ENDOWMENT FUND. - - Boston, Mass. “A Friend of the Colored Race” - _for the Hastings Scholarship, to educate - Young men preparing for the Gospel Ministry, - Atlanta U._ 1,000.00 - - * * * * * - - RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, from May 24 to Sept. - 26, 1883. E. Palache, Treasurer. - - FROM AUXILIARY MISSIONS: Marysville, Chinese - Monthly Offerings, 31; Thirteen Annual - Members, 26.—Oroville, Chinese Monthly - Offerings, 2.70; Seven Annual Members, - 14.—Petaluma, Anniversary Coll., 13.50; - Chinese Annual Members, 30; American Annual - Members, 4; Chinese Monthly Offerings, - 13.25.—Sacramento, Cong. Ch. Coll., 7.80; - Chinese Monthly Offerings, 21; Fourteen - Annual Members, 28; Chinese, 25, to const. - Mrs. S. E. CARRINGTON L. M.—Santa Barbara, - Chinese Monthly Offerings, 22.70; Coll., - 31.80; Mrs. J. Bates, 4.—Santa Cruz, - Anniversary Coll., 5; Annual Members, 58; - Chinese Monthly Offerings, 25; Mrs. H. A. - Martin, 1; ———, Stockton, Anniversary Coll., - 6.20; Eight Annual Members, 16; Levi - Langdon, 3 $388.95 - FROM CHURCHES: Alameda, Cong. Ch., - 4.—Berkeley, Cong. Ch., 21.25.—Calaveras Co. - Churches, by Rev. A. Ostrom—Angels. 95c.; - Copperopolis, 1.25; Camp Seco, 2.30; - Murphy’s, 2.70; San Andreas, 95c.; Spring - Valley, 80c. ——— Farmdale, Cong. Ch., 7.50 - ——— Lockeford, Cong. Ch. Rev. and Mrs. W. H. - Pascoe, 5.—Los Angeles, Cong. Ch., 162.30; - Oakland, First Cong. Ch. 26.85; Twenty-three - Chinese, 25.30 to const. EDMUND R. SANFORD - L. M. Nine Annual Members, 18; Mrs. E. - Sanford, 5; Plymouth Av. Cong. Ch., 32; - Golden Gate Ch., 5.—Rio Vista, First Cong. - Ch., 10.—River Side, First Cong. Ch., - 5.20.—Saratoga, First Cong. Ch., 10.—San - Bernardino, Second Cong. Ch., 8.40.—San - Francisco, First Cong. Ch., in part, 50.50; - Green St. Ch., 14; Bethany Ch., in part, - Chinese Monthly Offerings, Central Sch., - 38.30; Bethany Sch., 14; West Sch. 26.35; - North Sch., 4.30; Annual Members, 122; ———, - 25, to const. REV. C. R. HAZEN, of Hong - Kong, L. M.; LOW QUONG, 25, to const. - himself L. M.; Dea. S. Woo, 5.50; Ny Bo - Hong, 5; Dea. Edmund Palache, 25, to const. - MISS HELEN W. POND L. M.; “Many Friends,” - 34.50 to const. LEE SAM of South China, L. - M.; Annual Members, 50; Miss Chaloner, - 5.—San Jose, Cong. Ch., 20.75.—Woodland, - Three Annual Members, 6 825.95 - FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS: “M. C. N.” 30; Hon. F. - F. Low, 25; Taber, Harker & Co., 25; C. - Adolphe Low & Co., 25; Redington & Co., 25; - E. Ransome & Co., 25; Williams, Dimond & - Co., 25; Parrott & Co., 25; Eppinger & Co., - 25; T. H. Selby & Co., 25; James M. Harrn, - 25; Wm. T. Coleman, 25; Cala, Furn. Mfg. - Co., 25; Liverpool, London & Globe Ins. Co., - 25; Imperial, London, Northern & Queens Ins. - Co., 25; “Cash, 405 Cala. St.,” 25; Miss - Mary Perkins, 25, to const. MRS. S. C. - PERKINS L. M.; J. J. Vasconcellos, 10; - George C. Boardman, 10; Augustus C. Flint, - 10; Israel W. Knox, 10; Rev. F. A. Field, - National City, 10; “Friends,” 40 520.00 - FROM EASTERN FRIENDS: “Friends in North - Maine,” 2.—Amherst, Mass., Mrs. R. A. - Lester, 100.—Stockbridge, Mass., Miss Alice - Byington, 50; Rev. F. B. Perkins, - 10.—Westfield, Mass., Misses Dickinson, 10 172.00 - ————————— - Total $1,906.90 - ========= - - H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer. - 56 Reade Street, N.Y. - - * * * * * - - - - -CONSTITUTION. - - -ART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary -Association. - -ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct -Christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a -knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own country and other -countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and -urgent fields of effort. - -ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted -members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty -dollars into its treasury, 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. Other -persons, by the payment of the same sum, may be made life members -without the privilege of voting. - -Every evangelical 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 Association, or, in case of its failure to -act, 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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Holbrook, the Musical Editor, -set about preparing the _Worship in Song_, and after years of labor -offered it for publication, and it now stands before the churches. -By common consent the general merit of the Songs for the Sanctuary -was in the musical editing, and it is safe to say that the mantle -that fell from that book dropped upon the shoulders of the Worship -in Song. Holbrook’s later and newer book contains the result of his -labor and experience through all these years, and his Worship in -Song is clearly the greatest improvement that could be made. - -In addition to the Hymns and Tunes, the book contains _Dr. R. S. -Storrs’ New Psalter_, which has recently been edited and enlarged -by Dr. Storrs, and contains also a brief statement by him of the -value of responsive reading in churches. 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Barnes & Co. have also recently published Prof. -Hopkins’ “_Liturgy_, or Book of Common Prayer for Non-Episcopal -Churches.” This _Liturgy_ is the result of many years of study, -after correspondence and comparison on the part of the author -with many leading Protestant clergymen. Upon publication it was -received with great interest by clergymen of all denominations, and -a large sale immediately began. It is safe to say that no other -book presenting a Liturgy for Presbyterian and Congregational -Churches was ever received with so great enthusiasm. The sale -steadily continues, and the interest awakened is sufficient to make -it certain that the plan finds favor. Clergymen and Committees -desiring to see and examine copies of any or all of the above books -can obtain them on approval, postage prepaid, by addressing the -publishers, - - -A. S. BARNES & CO., - -111 and 113 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK. - - -ATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York. - - - - -Transcriber’s Notes - - -Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions silently -corrected. 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XXXVII.</p> -<p class="xlarge center">NO. 12.</p> - -<h1>The American Missionary</h1> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> - <img src="images/header.jpg" width="500" height="419" alt="DECEMBER, 1883. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 12. The American Missionary" /> -</div> - - -<h2>CONTENTS</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div class="center p1"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td> </td> - <td class="linenum smcap">Page.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_353">353</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Proceedings at Annual Meeting</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_354">354</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Treasurer’s Report</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_356">356</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Abstract of the General Survey</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_357">357</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Savings at the Annual Meeting</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_359">359</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_360">360</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Missionary Literature, by Rev. Geo. M. Boynton</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_362">362</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Report on Chinese Work</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_366">366</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. Wm. A. Bartlett, D.D.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_367">367</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Report on Indian Work</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_370">370</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. Dr. Anderson</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_371">371</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. J. C. Price</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_373">373</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Caste in America, by Secretary Strieby</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_376">376</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Report on Educational Work</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_382">382</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address by President S. C. Bartlett</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_383">383</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Christian Education at the South, by Rev. Dr. Gladden</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_385">385</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Prof. C. G. Fairchild</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_391">391</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Report on Church Work</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_393">393</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. T. P. Prudden</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_396">396</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Report of Committee on Finance</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_397">397</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_398">398</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. W. M. Taylor, D.D.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_401">401</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. Dr. Dennen</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_404">404</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Prof. Barbour</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_406">406</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Receipts</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_408">408</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Constitution</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_412">412</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<div> - <p class="center">NEW YORK:</p> - <p class="center large">PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,</p> - <p class="center">Rooms, 56 Reade Street.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<div> - <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">VICE-PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D.</span>; - <span class="smcap">Rev. F. A. Noble, D.D.</span>; - <span class="smcap">Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D.</span>; - <span class="smcap">Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.</span>; - <span class="smcap">Rev. Alex. McKenzie, D.D.</span> -</p> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Corresponding Secretary.</span>—<span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. Strieby, D.D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i> -</p> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Treasurer.</span>—<span class="smcap">H. W. Hubbard, Esq.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N.Y.</i> -</p> - -<p class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Auditors.</span>—<span class="smcap">Wm. A. Nash</span>, <span class="smcap">W. H. Rogers</span>. -</p> - -<p class="medium center">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<p> - <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">A. S. Barnes</span>, - <span class="smcap">J. R. Danforth</span>, <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>, <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>, <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</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">S. H. Virgin</span>, <span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward</span>, <span class="smcap">J. L. Withrow</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, D.D.</span>, <i>Boston</i>.</span> - Rev. <span class="smcap">G. D. Pike, D.D.</span>, <i>New York</i>. -</p> -<p class="medium center">Rev. <span class="smcap">James Powell</span>, <i>Chicago</i>.</p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<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, <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>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">“<span class="smcap"><a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>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 class="advertisement"> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 100px;"> -<img src="images/rumsford.jpg" width="100" height="134" alt="COUNT RUMFORD." /> -</div> - -<p class="center xlarge">HORSFORD’S</p> -<p class="center xlarge"><b>ACID PHOSPHATE</b>.</p> - -<p class="center medium">(LIQUID.)</p> - -<p class="center">FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL<br /> -EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,<br /> -DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY <br /> -DIFFICULTIES, ETC. -</p> - -<p class="center medium">PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical -authority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has -ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the -general want as this.</p> - -<p class="medium">It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.</p> - -<p class="medium">No danger can attend its use.</p> - -<p class="medium">Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to take.</p> - -<p class="medium">It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.</p> - -<p class="medium">Prices reasonable. 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OF NEW YORK,</p> - -<p class="center medium"><i>156 and 158 Broadway.</i></p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center">THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<div class="medium hang"> - <p>DESCRIPTION—One of the oldest, strongest, best.</p> - - <p>POLICIES—Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash surrender values.</p> - - <p>RATES—Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.</p> - - <p>RISKS carefully selected.</p> - - <p>PROMPT, liberal dealing.</p> -</div> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">General Agents and Canvassers Wanted</span> in desirable -territory, to whom permanent employment and liberal compensation -will be given.</p> - -<p class="medium">Address</p> - -<p class="right"><b>H. STOKES, President.</b></p> - -<div class="sidebyside" style="min-width: 49%;"> - H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec’y.<br /> - S. N. STEBBINS, Act’y. -</div> -<div class="sidebyside right" style="min-width: 49%;"> - J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.<br /> - H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[353]</a> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<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">DECEMBER, 1883.</div> - <div class="third right">No. 12.</div> - </div> - <hr class="full bottom" /> - -<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p>We send this number of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> to some who do not -receive it regularly, hoping they will find it of such interest, -and the work it represents of so much concern, that they will be -induced to become regular subscribers. The price is 50 cents.</p> - - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><em>Fifty Gold Dollars.</em>—One of the newly-elected members of our -Executive Committee has placed in our treasury fifty gold dollars, -given to him to be used in charity, at his discretion, by a friend -in New Haven, who adopted this method of commemorating his fiftieth -birthday. The example is a good one, and we hope there are scores -of others who will follow it without necessarily waiting until they -are fifty before doing so.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> - -<p>The Annual Meeting of this Association, held in Brooklyn, will be -remembered as one of special interest for several reasons: (1.) -The work done during the year was unusually encouraging; and the -reports of the committees on the several parts were discriminating -and full. (2.) The financial exhibit, showing once more a surplus -of receipts over expenditure, with, however, a falling off in -the income from the living, was examined with candor and with -warm recommendations for more liberal gifts. (3.) A topic of much -interest to the Association and to an honored sister missionary -society was considered at length in several papers, which we -present to our readers in full, without, however, intending to -hold the Association responsible for the individual views therein -expressed.</p> - -<p>The great number of the reports, papers and addresses compels us -to select and abridge, reserving some for publication in future -numbers of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> or in the Annual Report. Papers -relating to work for women will appear in the January number of the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, and the Sermon, as usual, will be found in the -Annual Report.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[354]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.</h2> - -<p>The Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary -Association was held in the commodious Central Congregational -Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., beginning Tuesday, Oct. 30, at 3 -<span class="smcap lowercase">P.M.</span> In the absence of the President, detained by illness, -Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., one of the Vice-Presidents, presided. Rev. -C. P. Osborne was appointed Scribe, and Revs. F. E. Snow and G. P. -Lane Assistant Scribes. Committees were appointed as follows:</p> - -<p><i>On Nominations.</i> Rev. G. R. W. Scott, D.D., Rev. Wm. A. Robinson, -Hon. David N. Camp, Rev. E. O. Bartlett and Rev. P. B. Davis.</p> - -<p><i>Business.</i> Rev. A. J. F. Behrends, D.D., Rev. W. W. Scudder, D.D., -Rev. Frank Ayer, Rev. E. B. Palmer, H. H. Ricker, Esq.</p> - -<p><i>Arrangements.</i> A. S. Barnes, Esq., Chas. A. Hull, Esq., Rev. G. D. -Pike, D.D., Wm. G. Hoople, Esq., Richard M. Montgomery, Esq., G. -Johnson, Jr., Esq. and Rev. S. B. Halliday.</p> - -<p><i>Indian Missions.</i> Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., Rev. C. C. Painter, -Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Rev. Cushing Eells, D.D., and Mr. Wm. H. -McKinney.</p> - -<p><i>Chinese Missions.</i> Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, D.D., Rev. Geo. M. -Boynton, Rev. Evarts Scudder, Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., and Rev. Geo. -S. Smith.</p> - -<p><i>Educational Work.</i> President S. C. Bartlett, D.D., Rev. Washington -Gladden, D.D., Rev. C. G. Fairchild, Rev. G. L. Ewell, Rev. E. W. -Bacon.</p> - -<p><i>Church Work.</i> Prof. Llewellyn Pratt, Rev. T. P. Prudden, Rev. C. -L. Woodworth, D.D., Rev. Isaac Hall, Rev. G. F. Gleason.</p> - -<p><i>Finance.</i> Dea. Eliezur Porter, Rev. William M. Taylor, D.D., Rev. -D. O. Mears, D.D., Hon. H. D. Smith, Rev. Erastus Blakeslee.</p> - -<p>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, read his annual report, which -was referred to the Committee on Finance. Rev. J. E. Roy, D.D., -presented the report of the Executive Committee, which was referred -to the appropriate committees. Rev. G. M. Boynton read the report -of the Committee on the Constitution, which was referred to a -special committee. A half hour was spent in prayer and song.</p> - -<p>Tuesday evening, at 7:30, Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., conducted -devotional services, and Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston, -preached the annual sermon, from Luke, 9:24. Rev. A. J. F. -Behrends, D.D., made an address of welcome. The Lord’s Supper was -administered by Rev. Samuel Scoville and Rev. W. S. Palmer, D.D.</p> - -<p>Wednesday morning, Rev. R. B. Howard conducted a half-hour -prayer-meeting. At 9 o’clock Dr. Rankin took the chair and read -an address on “The Gospel of Christ our only Solvent for Race -Difficulties.” A committee to confer with the Conference Committee -of the Am. Home Miss. Society selected at Saratoga, was appointed -as follows: President, S. C. Bartlett, D.D.; Rev. J. L. Withrow, -D.D., Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., Rev. D. O. Mears, D.D., and -Rev. Wm. H. Ward, D.D.</p> - -<p>Rev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., Secretary of the Board of the United -Brethren in Christ, gave an account of the Mendi Mission.</p> - -<p>Rev. A. H. Bradford read a paper on “Woman in Modern Charity -and Missions.” Rev. G. M. Boynton read a paper on “The Place of -Missionary Literature in the Conversion of the World.”</p> - -<p>Prof. Albert Salisbury, of Atlanta, Ga., read a paper entitled: -“For What are We Sent?” Rev. A. A. Myers, of Williamsburg, Ky., -read a paper on the “Mountain White Work.”</p> - -<p>Five-minute speeches were made by Rev. Isaac H. Hall, of New -Orleans, La.;<a class="pagenum" name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[355]</a> Rev. Geo. S. Smith, of Raleigh, N.C., and Rev. -Alfred Connet, of McLeansville, N.C.</p> - -<p>Wednesday afternoon, Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D., made a report on a -visit to the Dakota mission. The report of the Committee on Indian -Missions was read by Rev. Joseph Anderson, D.D., Chairman, and -addresses upon Indian affairs were made by Dr. Anderson, Rev. -Cushing Eells, D.D., Rev. Samuel G. Rankin and Rev. Anson Gleason, -formerly missionary to the Choctaws. The report of the Committee on -Chinese Missions was presented by Rev. Wm. Alvin Bartlett, D.D., -Chairman, who also made an address.</p> - -<p>On motion of Rev. S. Wolcott, D.D., Resolved, That we place -on record our thorough disapproval, as an Association, of the -exclusive and prohibitory legislation of our government relative -to the Chinese. The report of the Committee on the Constitution -was presented by Rev. W. S. Palmer, Chairman, and accepted. After -discussion the Amended Constitution was adopted with no dissenting -vote.</p> - -<p>Evening Session.—Devotional Services were conducted by Rev. J. M. -Whiton, Ph. D. Addresses were made by a Chinaman, Ju Sing, from -Oakland, Cal.; by an Indian, Wm. Harrison McKinney, of the Choctaw -Nation, Indian Territory, a recent graduate of Roanoke University; -by a negro, Rev. J. C. Price, of Salisbury, N. C., graduate of -Lincoln University in 1879, and by Secretary James Powell. The -exercises were interspersed with singing by a choir of nine young -Chinamen, resident in Brooklyn and members of the Central Church -Sunday-School.</p> - -<p>Thursday Morning.—The half-hour prayer meeting was conducted by -Rev. Geo. S. Smith. At 9 o’clock Dr. Rankin resumed the chair. -Secretary M. E. Strieby read a paper on “Caste in America.” -President S. C. Bartlett read the report of the Committee on -Educational Work and made an address on that subject. A committee -to consider Secretary Strieby’s paper on “Caste in America” -was appointed, consisting of Deacon Samuel Holmes, General E. -Whittlesey, Rev. S. Wolcott, D.D., Rev. G. M. Boynton, Rev. D. -L. Furber, D.D. Rev. Washington Gladden, D.D., made an address -on “Illiteracy in the South.” Rev. Edward W. Bacon, Rev. C. -G. Fairchild, and Rev. John L. Ewell, made addresses upon the -different phases of educational work at the South. Brief remarks -were also made by Rev. A. P. Foster and Rev. R. B. Howard.</p> - -<p>Thursday Afternoon.—After devotional services, Professor Llewellyn -Pratt, D.D., read the report of the Committee on Church Work, and -Rev. T. P. Prudden followed with an address. Rev. Erastus Blakeslee -read the report of the Committee on Finance. Dr. Wm. M. Taylor -made an address on “What the Bible Says About Giving.” Rev. D. O. -Mears, D.D., made an address on “The Function and Privilege of -the Churches.” Mrs. A. A. Myers, of Kentucky, read a statement -regarding the mountain people of the South.</p> - -<p>The following resolution was passed: “Whereas, the Finance -Committee, after careful examination of the needs of the -Association, have recommended that the contributions of churches, -Sunday-schools and individuals for the coming year be increased -50 per cent, above the amount given by them during the past year, -therefore, Resolved, That we approve this recommendation of the -Finance Committee, and urge contributors everywhere to increase -their contributions accordingly.”</p> - -<p>The Committee appointed to consider Secretary Strieby’s paper on -Caste in America made report through the Chairman, Dea. S. Holmes.</p> - -<p>Officers for the coming year were elected as printed on second page -of cover.</p> - -<p>The following resolution offered by Rev. E. Blakeslee was adopted: -Resolved, That if the Executive Committee now elected have any -question as to their legal status under the Constitution, they -be and hereby are authorized to take legal<a class="pagenum" name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[356]</a> advice thereon, and, -if competent to do so, to arrange themselves in three classes -according to the terms of the new Constitution.</p> - -<p>Thursday Evening.—Rev. A. P. Foster conducted the devotional -services.</p> - -<p>Addresses were made by Rev. S. R. Dennen on “Spiritual Life -the Supreme Power in Your Work,” and by Dr. Wm. M. Barbour, on -“Spiritual Vitality the Crowning Necessity in Missionary Work.”</p> - -<p>A resolution of thanks offered by Secretary Woodworth was adopted, -and Dr. Behrends responded for the Brooklyn people in fitting -terms, and the meeting was dissolved.</p> - -<p>All the sessions were characterized by a hopeful spirit and by deep -spirituality which found frequent expression in the voice of prayer.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>SUMMARY OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF THE AMERICAN -MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION FOR THE YEAR ENDING SEPT. 30th, 1883.</h2> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="treas1" colspan="3"><i>RECEIPTS.</i></td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Churches, Sabbath Schools, Missionary Societies and Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">$148,389.08</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Estates and Legacies</td> -<td class="ramt">126,366.73</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Incomes, Sundry Funds</td> -<td class="ramt">8,512.57</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Tuition and Public Funds</td> -<td class="ramt">25,191.06</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Rents, Southern Property</td> -<td class="ramt">848.85</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From U.S. Government for Education of Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">750.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">From Sale of Property</td> -<td class="ramt">2,500.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -<td class="ramt">$313,567.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2"> Balance on hand Sept. 30, 1882</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">789.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$313,357.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">===========</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas1" colspan="3">EXPENDITURES.</td></tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">The South.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Church and Educational Work, Lands, Buildings, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">$230,022.15</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">The Chinese.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Superintendent, Teachers, Rent, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11,021.90</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">The Indians.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Church and Educational Work</td> -<td class="ramt">18,955.44</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Foreign Missions.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Superintendent, Missionaries, etc., for Mendi Mission</td> -<td class="ramt">6,227.43</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For John Brown Steamer</td> -<td class="ramt">3,714.81</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Supplemental Arthington Fund </td> -<td class="ramt">5,837.40</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Support Aged Missionary in Jamaica</td> -<td class="ramt">332.50</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Publications.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For American Missionary (22,000 Monthly), Annual Reports, Clerk Hire, Postage, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6,795.95</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Agencies.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For <span class="smcap">Eastern District</span>.—District Secretary, Agent, Clerk Hire, Traveling Expenses, Printing, Postage, Rent, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5,693.10</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For <span class="smcap">Middle District</span>.—District Secretary, Traveling Expenses, Printing, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3,031.59</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For <span class="smcap">Western District</span>.—District Secretary, Clerk Hire, Special Grant -and Traveling Expenses, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">4,074.53<a class="pagenum" name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[357]</a></td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Administration.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, Secretary of Women’s Bureau -and Clerk Hire</td> -<td class="ramt">8,866.50</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Miscellaneous.</td></tr> - - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Rent, Care of Rooms, Furniture, Repairs, Traveling Expenses, Books, -Stationery, Postage, Expressage, Telegrams, etc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3,572.10</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Wills and Estates</td> -<td class="ramt">1,987.96</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Annual Meeting</td> -<td class="ramt">1,334.75</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Annuity Account, balance</td> -<td class="ramt">986.55</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">For Expenses of Committee on Constitutional Amendments</td> -<td class="ramt">248.75</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amounts refunded, sent to the Treasurer by mistake</td> -<td class="ramt">105.39</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -<td class="ramt">$312,808.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2">Balance on hand Sept. 30, 1883</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">548.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$313,357.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">==========</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Endowment Funds Received, 1882-1883.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tuthill King Fund, for Atlanta University</td> -<td class="ramt">$5,000.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tuthill King Fund, for Berea College</td> -<td class="ramt">5,000.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Theological Department, Howard University</td> -<td class="ramt">1,100.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">N. M. and A. Stone Theological Scholarship, for Talladega College</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">———————</td> -<td class="ramt">$12,100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Arthington Mission.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Received from Oct. 1, 1882, to Sept. 30, 1883</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">1,417.53</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas2" colspan="3">Stone Building Fund.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Balance for Atlanta University, Stone Hall, paid</td> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">10,918.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td class="treas1" colspan="3">RECAPITULATION.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Current Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">$312,567.29</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Endowment Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">12,100.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Arthington Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">1,417.53</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stone Fund, balance</td> -<td class="ramt">10,918.70</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$337,003.52</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">==========</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">The receipts of Berea College, Hampton N. and A. Institute, -and State appropriation of Georgia to Atlanta University, -are added below, as presenting at one view the contributions -of the same constituency for the general work in which the -Association is engaged:</td> -<td> </td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">American Missionary Association</td> -<td class="ramt">$337,003.52</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berea College</td> -<td class="ramt">11,351.47</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampton N. and A. Institute (beside amount through A. M. A.)</td> -<td class="ramt">118,054.15</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta University</td> -<td class="ramt">8,000.00</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">——————</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$474,409.14</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">==========</td> -<td> </td> -</tr> -</table> - -<div style="margin-right: 10%;"> - <p class="right nob" style="margin-right: 30px;">H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer,</p> - <p class="right not">56 Reade Street, New York.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ABSTRACT OF THE GENERAL SURVEY.</h2> - - -<h3>WORK IN AFRICA.</h3> - -<p>Mendi Mission. The income of the Avery Fund and the “John Brown” -steamer have been transferred for five years to the United -Brethren, who have a mission—Shengay—adjoining Mendi.</p> - -<p>The Arthington mission and fund have been offered to the United -Presbyterians, who have a successful mission in Egypt.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[358]</a></p> - - -<h3>INDIAN WORK.</h3> - -<p>Dakota missions transferred from the American Board to the A. M. A., -except the six churches of Sisseton Agency, which had been -transferred to the Home Mission Board of Pres. Gen. Assembly. -Leaving out those, we have now, including the mission in Washington -Territory, 5 stations, 9 schools, 5 churches, 12 missionaries, 25 -teachers, 1 native pastor, 12 native teachers, 271 church members, -356 pupils, 584 Sunday-school scholars.</p> - - -<h3>WORK AMONG THE CHINESE.</h3> - -<p>At our recommendation the American Board has opened a mission at -Hong Kong, China, a rally-centre for converted Chinamen returning -to their native land.</p> - -<p>In California the last year—Rev. W. C. Pond, Superintendent—19 -schools; 2,823 scholars; 40 teachers, of whom 14 are Chinese; 175 -have ceased from idolatry; 121 give evidence of conversion; 400 -during history of mission have turned to Christ.</p> - - -<h3>WORK AMONG NEGROES.</h3> - -<p>Work in twelve States of the South, and in Kansas and District of -Columbia; 8 chartered institutions; 12 high and normal schools; 42 -common schools; 279 teachers; and 9,640 students. The Theological -Department of Howard University has 34 students; Talladega, 14; -Fisk, 9; and Straight, 13, with 20 students in law.</p> - -<p><i>New Buildings</i>: “Whitin Hall,” at New Orleans; “Cassedy Hall,” -at Talladega; Stone Hall at Atlanta finished; Library Building at -Macon, Ga.; schoolhouse at Hillsboro, N.C.; at Memphis, Le Moyne -Institute enlarged.</p> - -<p><i>Industrial Work</i>: Farms at Talladega and Tougaloo and Atlanta; -shops at Memphis, Tougaloo, Macon, Charleston; cooking, nursing, -sewing, taught at Atlanta, Fisk, Tougaloo; house-work in all the -eight boarding schools.</p> - -<p><i>Church Work</i>: Six new churches—At McLean’s, N.C.; Knoxville, -Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; Belle -Place, La.</p> - -<p>The six new churches of last year are all doing well. Total number -churches, 89; members, 5,974, an average of 67; additions, 667; on -profession, 528; Sunday-school scholars, 9,406; raised for church -purposes, $12,027.21; benevolent contributions, $1,049.35.</p> - -<p>Six new church edifices built at Pekin, Oaks and McLean’s, in N.C.; -at Knoxville, Tenn.; Louisville, Ky.; Mobile, Ala. and Belle Place, -La.; Brick Church at Lawrence, Kan., rebuilt.</p> - - -<h3>MOUNTAIN WHITE WORK.</h3> - -<p>Besides original churches and schools in Kentucky, a new church and -academy at Williamsburg, Ky. Other missions coming on around this -place. The academy has had 108 scholars, who have paid as tuition -$303—not one failing to pay. Work encouraging. Color question -tested and carried in accordance with the principles of A. M. A.</p> - - -<h3>WOMAN’S BUREAU.</h3> - -<p>From September, 1861, on to the present time women have been -prominent workers. By 1864, 169 women workers; in 1865, 261; in -1866, 264; in 1870, 450; in 1869, 2,000 different ladies had -served; and to date not less than 3,000, an army of Gospelers! -Among Indians, 17 lady missionaries. Among Chinese in California, -24 lady missionary teachers.</p> - -<p>Miss D. E. Emerson has been appointed as secretary. She is -experienced on the field, and acquainted with the details of office -work, as clerk for the southern field.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[359]</a></p> - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. For current work, $1,000 for every day of the year.</p> - -<p>2. Endowments in the several institutions.</p> - -<p>3. A Boys’ Hall at Tillotson Institute, Austin, Texas.</p> - -<p>4. $10,000 to add to Edward Smith’s $10,000 to build the first -hall, at Little Rock, of Edward Smith’s College, for whose campus -(14 acres) he paid $5,500, already greatly enhanced in price. New -hall to be named for second donor.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>SAYINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING.</h2> - - -<p>—Prof. Albert Salisbury: I do not approve the factory idea of -industrial instruction.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Withrow: Selfishness is as sure to destroy what it seeks to -save as a cancer is to kill.</p> - -<p>Never in this world was a monument made to memorialize a mere -money-getter.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Behrends: The color-line is only a section, and a very small -section at that, of the race-line.</p> - -<p>It is not in India alone that the existence of caste constitutes -one of the most serious obstacles to the progress of the Gospel.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Rankin: For Southern educational work this Society has put in -millions by the side of the United States Government’s millions. -The Government has given $5,000,000, this Society has given -$5,000,000.</p> - -<p>Westminster Abbey opened of its own accord to take the dust of -David Livingstone. Why? Because he stretched himself on Africa, as -the prophet stretched himself on the dead body of the widow’s son.</p> - -<p>—Rev. A. H. Bradford: Florence Nightingale robbed war of half its -terrors.</p> - -<p>These Women’s Boards of Missions do more than all other means -combined to keep alive the missionary spirit.</p> - -<p>The women of our day have reversed the Apostolic injunction and -are reading it, “Help those men.” We need to restore the original -reading, “Help those women.”</p> - -<p>—Rev. Isaac Hall: Speaking of the colored people’s futile efforts -to solve the race problem, he said: First we thought we would go -to Africa, but we couldn’t get ships enough: then we thought we -would go to Kansas, but we couldn’t get cars enough; then, since we -couldn’t get away, we decided we would stay; and now what are you -going to do about it?</p> - -<p>—Dr. Wm. Alvin Bartlett stigmatized the California law which -forbade a Chinaman to live in an apartment with less than 500 cubic -feet of air, and punished him with imprisonment in a cell with less -than 200 feet of air.</p> - -<p>The Chinese are not illiterate, but it is objected that they are -too numerous. Why, there are hardly Chinamen enough in our country -to be schoolmasters of our countrymen who cannot read and write.</p> - -<p>But the Chinese worship their ancestors. Well, I would rather -revere my ancestors than leave my children such pernicious doctrine -as the anti-Chinese people teach. It is better to worship your -ancestors than to damn your posterity.</p> - -<p>—Ju Sing recognized the fact that all Americans are not hostile -to Chinamen. “We know that there are some God’s people, and some -devil’s people.”</p> - -<p>—Nine young Chinamen, residents of Brooklyn and members of the -Central Sunday-School, sang Gospel Hymns. They also sang “Pass me -not, O Gentle Saviour,” done into Chinese, Jim Sing taking the -solo.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[360]</a></p> - -<p>—Secretary Powell: Now that slavery has gone, there must go with -it blind-eyed prejudice and anti-Christian caste.</p> - -<p>—Rev. J. C. Price, North Carolina: At the close of the war Canaan -was not entered, as a recent decision of the Supreme Court tells -us, but the Red Sea was crossed. Has the Negro grown? Then his -chief object was to be in Gen. Sherman’s army; if not in it in the -wake of it. Now he is looking about for property and education.</p> - -<p>The colored people of Georgia alone have acquired a property of -$6,000,000. In North Carolina from twelve to fifteen newspapers are -edited, owned and controlled by colored people.</p> - -<p>If God has made the Negro a man, he requires of him all the work of -a man. Then let Christian people do all they can to qualify him for -that work. He quotes the words of the Secretary: “The true solution -of the Negro problem is not to change his color or his place of -residence, but to change his character.”</p> - -<p>—Sec. Strieby: This Society is not handicapped for this work -except by its firm and well-known attitude against caste, and -any other Society equally faithful on that subject would soon be -equally handicapped.</p> - -<p>—Pres. Bartlett claimed to represent an institution that from -the very first has rejected the color line; a century ago it was -educating the Indians, a half a century the Negro shared its -privileges. Speaking of the Negro’s unquestioned piety he said: “He -sees hell impending, heaven before him and the chariot swings low.”</p> - -<p>—Dr. Gladden: No man has a right to engage in the work of -governing who does not know what just government is. I protest -against that kind of government.</p> - -<p>From 1870 to 1880 the colored voters at the South increased 30 per -cent.; their illiteracy increased only 20 per cent. The whites -at the South are gaining in intelligence but little, the blacks -splendidly. Most of the gain South is due to the education of the -Negro.</p> - -<p>How do you account for this gain? Did you ever hear of Fisk and -Berea and Atlanta? The census tables have heard of them if you have -not.</p> - -<p>Any society that is as really and thoroughly Christian as this one -will meet the same objection as this one.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Taylor: “Bring an offering and come unto my courts.” In -Scotland, where I was brought up, the first act of worship was to -lay a piece of money on the table.</p> - -<p>Sometimes a man assigns a debt so that what is due him is paid to -another. So the Lord Jesus has assigned the debt, and we are to pay -a large part of what we owe to him to the poor and needy; to the -benighted and degraded; to the Indian, the Negro and the heathen -that need the light.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Dennen: Speaking of denominational antipathies, he was -reminded of the brass oxen under the brazen laver standing with -their rumps toward each other and their eyes directed away to their -own selfish interests.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE CROSS OF CHRIST THE ONLY SOLVENT FOR RACE DIFFICULTIES.</h2> - - -<p>Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., who presided happily at our annual -meeting, read an interesting opening address, from which we give -the following extracts:</p> - -<p>The Cross of Christ proves man’s universal brotherhood. If He is -our brother-man, we are His brother-men.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[361]</a></p> - -<p>When last night we took that bread and drank that wine, what did -we do? We symbolized Christ’s human brotherhood. This He did for -humanity’s sake. What taint of Judaism had He? What recognition -did He ever make that He belonged to any single nationality, to -any single tribe, to any single class? Is He brother-man to the -Jew only, because he was born of a Jewish mother? Is He any less -brother-man to the Gentile? When we ate that bread, we ate that -which sets forth, what? God manifest in the flesh. God manifest in -the flesh of humanity. Not because we are Anglo-Saxon, and have -the Anglo-Saxon Bible, the Anglo-Saxon literature, the Anglo-Saxon -civilization, the Anglo-Saxon freedom and manhood, of which we -are so proud, have you and I a claim to this Brother-man? It is -because we are on the same human level with the other races, from -which we so much differ, and above which God has given us such an -exaltation. For such were we. It is because we are brother-men to -Frederick Douglas, and Sitting Bull, and the last Chinaman who has -been smuggled from the Celestial kingdom, because the continent -is too narrow for him and us. It is because we are so low and not -because we are so high, that we had a right to sit there; to eat -that bread, and drink that cup. That broken bread is the emblem, -not of Anglo-Saxon humanity, but of lost, degraded, fallen humanity.</p> - -<p>The Cross of Christ interprets man’s universal brotherhood. It -needs to be interpreted. It is the last thing man learns here; -that in Christ Jesus the humblest man is his equal. Ask almost -any man if he wants the elevation of his brother-man; if he wants -his brother-man in India, in China, in Japan, in the South, or on -the Pacific Coast, made his equal, and given a chance to outstrip -him, in the struggle for betterment? And he will usually answer, -“Why yes, of course. Do I not pray for it and contribute for it?” -But, will you sacrifice your prejudices for his sake? He needs -different religious influences, different educational influences, -different social influences, he needs to feel that he is no -longer ostracised, and that he may aspire for himself and his -children, just as you may. Will you adopt him into your religious, -educational, social circles? But, you reply: “That is a society -question.” It is a society question. And you belong to the Kingdom -of God; to the unseen society, which, by the power of His Cross, -this God-Man, who took the form of a servant, is gathering out -of the nations; you have fellowship with Him, in His humiliation -for humanity’s sake. And yet, you propose to decide this question -according to the laws and usages of a society to which you do -not belong, out of which God has called you, and against whose -inhumanity to man, against whose worldly pride the Cross is a -standard lifted up by God himself. You are under the most sacred -of bonds to record your testimony as belonging to quite another -society.</p> - -<p>In what sense, after all, are we brothers? Can society answer this -question? Can anything but the Cross of Christ? The Saviour gives -us a picture of what it is to be a true neighbor in the parable -of the Good Samaritan. “Who,” asks He, “was neighbor to him that -fell among thieves?” He that thought it was a society question, a -question of caste; he who came and looked on him, and passed by on -the other side? He that put money into the contribution box for -him, or sent some one else to help him to the hospital? No; only -the man that set him upon his own beast, carried him to an inn, and -took care of him. A man cannot live a neighbor to man if he is not -living a neighbor to God, as he is in Christ Jesus.</p> - -<p>Before the war, there was organized a benevolent society, whose -anniversary occurs the present week—a society to preach the Gospel -among the heathen. Its founders said, “We cannot take money that -has been coined from slave labor. It is the price of innocent -blood. It cries up to God for vengeance.”</p> - -<p>What is the history of that society? Why, the smoke of our civil -contest had<a class="pagenum" name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[362]</a> hardly cleared away before it began to build up the -waste places of the South, heaping coals of fire upon the people -there. Under its auspices, the choicest daughters of New England -(as though they had been angels of God) went down there, with the -spelling-book and the Bible; took their share of the ostracism -meted out to the recent bondmen, for Jesus’ sake; many of them -laid down their lives there. There has scarcely been a foreign -missionary field in the world which has had more perils, which -has demanded greater sacrifices, which has developed spirits more -heroic, more Christ-like. The same spirit which led our brave boys -in blue to die to make men free, led their sisters to die to make -them holy. And what do you see to-day? This society has done more -to stay the tide of illiteracy, to lay the foundations of permanent -civil and religious prosperity than all the other agencies put -together. God’s secret is with them that fear Him. The men who, -for Christ’s sake, said, “We cannot set apart to God that which -has come from unpaid human labor; we cannot thus have fellowship -with the works of darkness;” these men God has put into the -fore-front of the great battle with ignorance and degradation—the -great battle in which the South begins to ask the Nation which -cannot protect the black man to come to her assistance, crying -out, like Caesar to Cassius, “Help, Cassius, or we sink!” They -got their baptism at the foot of the Cross. Look at the queenly -institutions which they have planted. Look at the thousands of the -sons and daughters of Ethiopia, whom they have developed into the -mental, moral and spiritual stature of true manhood; whom they have -polished after the similitude of a palace, fitted for professions, -for business, for home life. Look at the churches they have -planted. This is their conception of the brotherhood of man, as -they have been taught it at the Cross, as the Cross has interpreted -it to them.</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">I know no difference of race,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Of African and Saxon;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Of tawny skin, of rose-cheeked face,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Of hair of crisp and flaxen.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The soul within, that is the man,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">There is God’s image hidden:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And there He looks, each guest to scan,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">The bidden and unbidden.<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">One God in love broods over all!<br /></span> -<span class="i4">One pray’r to Him is taught us;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">One name for mercy, when we call;<br /></span> -<span class="i4">One ransom, Christ has brought us.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">One heart of meekness, lowly mind,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Life’s counter currents breasting;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">One Father’s House, we hope to find,<br /></span> -<span class="i4">Within God’s bosom resting.<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>THE PLACE OF MISSIONARY LITERATURE IN THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">REV. GEO. M. BOYNTON.</p> - - -<p>The literature of missions has a threefold function in its -relation to the conversion of the world: to inform, to quicken -and to direct. It would be hard to over-estimate the importance -of the history and record of missionary efforts and successes in -their relation to the intelligence of the Christian people of -our land and our day. If we are exhorted to <em>add to our faith</em>, -virtue (manly and holy enterprise) <em>and to virtue, knowledge</em>, the -exhortation must apply (next to the knowledge of God<a class="pagenum" name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[363]</a> and of His -word) to the knowledge of the history and progress of His kingdom -in the world.</p> - -<p>We do not call him even a fairly intelligent citizen of the United -States who does not know something of the history of his own -country—who does not know the general order of its great questions -and great conflicts. What shall we say of one who claims to have -his citizenship in heaven and yet is willingly ignorant of the -great battle-grounds of Christ’s kingdom of even the near past, and -so knows nothing of the questions which agitate the present day or -the forces of the foes now in the field?</p> - -<p>It is no small thing to follow the current history of the world, -as it has been brought so near to us in our day, and yet with what -eagerness the morning paper is looked for in every home of even -ordinary intelligence; and after the half-hour’s search, how often -to the question, “What is there of interest to-day?” the answer -comes, “Oh, nothing.” The journals are full of manufactured news; -political squabbles; stories of scandal and of crime; with now and -then some event which marks a step in the world’s progress of more -than ordinary consequence. It is often said that our missionary -periodicals are not of thrilling interest, but I am willing to -leave it to the testimony of any candid man whether they do not -at least fairly approximate the secular press in interest and -ability, only that men are more eager to know what is going on in -the kingdoms of this world than in the kingdom of our Lord and -Saviour Jesus Christ. It is the <em>appetite</em> which largely gives its -savor to the food. <em>When our hearts are all aglow</em> with love to the -Master of us all, and we want to know, above all things, that he is -being satisfied with the travail of his soul, <em>we do not count the -tidings of the advancement of his kingdom dull</em>. If his interests -are ours, we shall watch them.</p> - -<p>One of the great requisites to giving or praying is that men should -know to what their alms are directed and for what their prayers go -up to God. Let the missionary press, then, give us information, and -give it freely. The men and the women who read want to have, not -the impressions of other people reproduced, but the details which -made those impressions. They want the facts, set forth with vivid -exactness, with life-like coloring. It is only now and then one of -our missionaries at the front who seems to comprehend that he must -make us see what he sees, and must remember that his reflections -upon the things that have become familiar to him will not make -us familiar with the facts. If he can stir our imaginations and -make us his attendants during his day’s work, we shall be led to -sympathy and support.</p> - -<p>When the Church Missionary Society of London was making its -exploration into Africa the long pages of journal written on the -spot from day to day were the most thrilling pages of current -history that were being written; and many of you have not forgotten -the diary of our own Dr. Ladd of his journey up the Nile. Nothing -should be spared to open the eyes of the givers and the prayers -to what you may call instantaneous views of the workers at their -work. Give us the facts in the best possible shape if you want our -sympathy, our prayers, our money. Until you have done that, you -cannot, if you would, call down on us the condemnation spoken to -him that “<em>seeth</em> his brother have need” and does not help him.</p> - -<p>But Christian character needs <em>inspiration</em> as well as information. -It needs not only to know, but to feel; not only to have its eyes -made clear to see, but its heart stimulated to a worthy enthusiasm. -We do not get our <em>inspiration</em> so much from great events as from -great men. Souls are quickened by quickening souls. The contagion -of enthusiasm spreads from life to life. That in the literature of -missions, which will especially kindle missionary enthusiasm is to -be found in the veins of the noble lives of the men and women who -have counted their lives<a class="pagenum" name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[364]</a> not worth the keeping, for their love for -Christ and for the Kingdom of whom this world was not worthy, and -who, in the world, were least of all men of it.</p> - -<p>What other fuel can you find to build a fire of grand enthusiasm -for the Master like the one you have in the biography of missions? -Nowhere away from the sacred record can you find nobler events -of Christian living and devotion. Nowhere are there grander -illustrations of the spirit of Christian heroism. Nowhere more -stirring suggestions of the possible attainments of Christian grace.</p> - -<p>Nor do I recall a missionary biography which is morbid and so -misleading—which sets up an introspective and dyspeptic type of -piety as a model and standard. The missionary has no time to be -morbid. He has made a consecration of all his energies to his -Master. His life is led actually and daily by the high purpose -which he has set before him. His biography is not a picture of -still life. He cannot stop to take becoming attitudes, even before -his own eyes. He has no time to write a journal of his supposed -spiritual states. If you take his photograph you must take him in -motion, as nowadays they take a horse upon the race-track, and you -get him with every muscle set and every nerve charged with life.</p> - -<p>I know no better books for men or boys, for matrons or maidens, -than such books as these, in which you have such lives embalmed.</p> - -<p>Where can you find a manlier life than that of John Coleridge -Patteson, Bishop of Melanesia, his diocese the island of the sea, -inhabited by blacks. The story of his patience and his pluck and -cheerful confidence is enough to dispel the worst type of malarial -saintship—shaky and intermittent. To see him with his senior -bishop approaching a new island, rowing in his small boat as near -as was safe to the breakers, and then the two pioneers of the -Gospel taking a header through the waves and swimming to the land -to tell the Gospel of great joy to the dusky and unclad islanders! -There’s tonic in the very reading. He could be a bishop without -robes or titles. God had sent him to be an overseer of lone regions -and lost souls. Or what could be more tragic than the final scene -of his death by the treacherous arrows of the natives, and the -ghastly tableau of the still young hero of God floating out in the -boat alone toward his waiting friends.</p> - -<p>There is a biography yet unwritten of one connected with the work -of this Association which, if it could be spread upon the record, -would equal this in the sincerity of his devotion, in purity of -his motive, in his bearing patiently when nearly all men spoke ill -of him, for Christ’s sake and the Gospel’s, and even friends for a -time began to doubt him, in his readiness to take up the hardest -thing there was to do until the end. You will know of whom I speak -when I tell you that he was equally the friend of the Indian and of -the negro; that he became the target of all the shafts of malice -when he sought to protect the poor Indian from his worse than -savage foes within the capital of the nation and on the western -reservation; that he became the victim of the deadly malaria of -the African coast, where he had gone to reorganize and direct the -work of this Association in the Mendi Mission. I speak of one whom -we all delight to honor and call reverend—the Reverend Edward P. -Smith.</p> - -<p>And there are others still upon the field, whose names may or may -not be known to any wide fame with men, and women, too, who have -hazarded their lives for the privilege of preaching and of teaching -in the name of Christ. We cannot afford to lose the records of such -positive and aggressive Christianity for their stimulus to the -Christian character of those at home and those whose characters are -forming yet.</p> - -<p>Dr. Goodell names as one of the ten ways by which the world is to -be saved, that we keep the home and Sunday-school libraries full -of that most interesting and profitable of all our literature -for the young, the books written by Christ’s soldiers<a class="pagenum" name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[365]</a> upon the -field of battle. I would emphasize even more than that—the books -written about these heroes of the faith and their lives of earnest -and joyful sacrifice. Who will not acknowledge that we need the -inspiration in our day?</p> - -<p>If the Christian world needs for its own sake the information -and the inspiration which can only come from the literature of -missions, the missionary work itself needs equally this means to -make its opportunities known to the Christian world.</p> - -<p>That is only in part, if at all, a Christian church which is not a -missionary church as well. The salt which has lost its savor is no -longer salt. It will save deception if you take off the label. It -is “good for nothing,” and is to be cast into the street only to -get rid of it, and not because it is good for a road.</p> - -<p>The true Church of Christ is concerned about the progress of his -kingdom, is in earnest sympathy with those who are at the front, -is eager in its outlook for new opportunities of service. To such -a waiting ear—and, brethren, it is waiting—come through the -missionary press the tidings of opportunity, the sound of doors, -long closed, creaking on their hinges as they fling open for the -feet of the delaying messengers of grace. This is the telephone -which summons to instant response. It sounds in the counting-rooms -of our men of business, and invites them to new investments in -behalf of those for whom God goes security, for “he that giveth -to the poor lendeth to the Lord.” It rings its summons in our -Theological Seminaries and among our younger brethren in the -ministry, and calls them to occupy until He comes. It goes into the -offices of the organizations through which the churches reach the -needy east and west, north and south, and says not pull down your -barns, but build greater ones; for, as are the broad farms of the -West to the old New England homesteads, so are the harvests to be -reaped to those which have been already gathered in. It mixes in -our homes, and calls on our sons and daughters to the waiting work.</p> - -<p>And neither we at home, nor those in the broad field, can afford to -be left unnoticed or uncalled. They need it that souls may be born -into the kingdom; we need it that we may by pure toil and sacrifice -grow unto the stature and the likeness of our risen Lord.</p> - -<p>The Church of Christ will not know more of the advancement of His -kingdom or of its hindrances than it is told. God will not save us -the trouble of the inquiry or the report. The Church of Christ will -have no more enthusiasm in the work than it gets by entering into -sympathy with those who do it, and with Him who died that it might -go on.</p> - -<p>And yet, in the light of all this already trite and quite -self-evident truth, you hear it said, even by those who are -concerned in the progress of the work, “What are we going to -do with this increasing mass of missionary literature? We are -quite flooded with it, and especially with these periodicals, -these Missionary Heralds, and Home Missionaries and American -Missionaries. Can’t we make it less? Can’t we combine them and -double the thing up? It bothers us.” Ah, brethren, the wonder is -that we do not cry for more and better. The wonder is not that so -many take the missionary magazines, but so few, and that so few of -those who take them read them.</p> - -<p>Brethren, the time will come—if the time comes when men seek first -His kingdom and His righteousness, not last—that Christian men and -women will not want to wait a month to glance over the few pages of -a missionary magazine; but will want to know the latest news of the -advancement of Christ’s Kingdom in the morning before they look to -see the stock-list or the scandal-list of the day before. When the -question of the morning will be what new progress, what new delays, -what new need for the advancing hosts of Christian warriors; and -at night the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[366]</a> thought will be, the sun has gone to shine on other -fields and other laborers, and while we sleep this work goes on. -And in those days it shall go on with speed and sureness.</p> - -<p>Let our missionary literature then be not lessened in quantity -or deteriorated in quality. Let not our agents think the time is -lost in which they stop to tell us of the work. The growth of -Christ’s people at home is as important as the conquests of His -grace abroad, indeed, the last will be largely proportioned to the -first. Let ingenuity and enterprise be put into these channels of -communication. Let the facts be fresh and full—more fresh and full -than ever. Let them be clothed in choice and skillful diction. -Let us leave the arts which the satanic or the merely mundane -press monopolize to their uses. Let us not grudge the cost. It is -not cost of administration at all. It is not cost of collection, -though it helps that department greatly. It is more than all the -missionary work of each society for the constituency that supports -it. Our churches and our Christians here at home need it for their -own vitalizing and the direction of their awakened energies. If -our fires be not kept up at home the warmth will not be diffused. -These are days of organization. It used to be that if a man had -lost his way in these then dark country roads some one must go out -alone with his hand-lantern to guide him to safe shelter. Now your -streets are full of lamps, and your illuminated signs band them at -every corner. You may take all the care that is possible of the -lamps and burners; it will do no good if you neglect to keep the -fires up where the illuminating gas is made. If the fires go out -there the lights go out in every street and home. Do not let us ask -these organizations to lessen their efforts to inform, to quicken -and to guide our missionary zeal at home, as though it were not an -important part of their legitimate work.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>REPORT ON CHINESE WORK.</h2> - - -<p>The report of your committee on the Chinese Department of the -American Missionary Association is as follows: The keynote of -the year’s work is success. Four more schools, 256 more scholars -enrolled, nine more teachers, with an increase of four Chinese -instructors. The number of those professing to forsake idolatry -in excess of last year, 19. There have 121 given good evidence -of conversion—last year 106, making 400 who have embraced -Christianity during the history of the Mission. Only seven -thousand dollars of the nearly twelve thousand dollars expenses -of the mission came out of the treasury of the Association. The -number of local churches contributing has doubled. The receipts of -the “California Chinese Mission” have gained 37 per cent. These -gratifying facts inspire confidence that this work in purpose and -method is blessed of God. They should beget a zeal commensurate -with the hope they enkindle.</p> - -<p>The new mission established by the American Board in Hong Kong—the -natural fruit of this work—places peculiar emphasis upon its -value, as its initial demand came from Chinamen Christianized by -its influence. The Rev. Mr. Hager goes to this important control -not only with the prayers of his American brethren behind him, but -escorted over and welcomed by the devout supplications of specimen -Chinese converts. It is an omen of profound significance that four -or five Chinese workers for Christ, trained in these schools, -contribute their invaluable services to the enterprise. It is -equally suggestive that the Chinese Christians remaining behind -cheerfully gave $500, adding to their faith, men, and to men, -money, an evidence of the genuineness of their confidence. The past -year’s experience alone<a class="pagenum" name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[367]</a> demonstrates that most of the ingenious, -infamous charges made against this people are lies. So Providence -has opened a golden opportunity. The narrow and bigoted ignorance, -lack of patriotism, lack of statesmanship, lack of humanity, lack -of equitable dealing exhibited by our Government in its recent -legislation on the Chinese question have corraled 75,000 of them on -these shores. It is the open day for Christian privilege. Cannot -the majority of these be surrounded by our faith, wrought on by the -power of Christianity, saturated by a genuine Christian life and -made the standing army for whom we shall send officers and soldiers -to conquest the empire? If the teeming millions are appalling can -we not subdue this installment isolated by inscrutable wisdom for -this Christian experiment?</p> - -<p>With such a present and pressing basis of appeal this work should -have abundant means to reach without delay the limit of its -capacity.</p> - -<p>If there be not vital Christian warmth sufficient in the United -States to resuscitate this waif upon our coasts, how can we hope to -rescue the myriad nation? It is floundering in the Arctic Ocean of -heathenism.</p> - -<p>Respectfully Submitted,</p> - -<p class="signature"><span class="smcap">W. A. Bartlett</span>, Chairman.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. WILLIAM ALVIN BARTLETT, D.D.</h2> - - -<p>After remarking that the Chinese question was little in some -aspects, as when fifty million people frantically rise to defend -themselves against a paltry handful of 75,000 Chinamen, Dr. -Bartlett continues: But there is a sense in which it is large. It -is a large question to any man. We find, according to the best -accounts, 430 odd millions of Chinamen. It is the largest question -of statesmanship and of commerce to know how best to handle the -largest body of men who live together, and have lived together the -longest, on the planet, and that speak one language.</p> - -<p>But if it is large commercially, what is it in a Christian point -of view? We go here and there picking up the scraps and the -scattered remnants of races, but look at this majestic aggregation -of humanity; look at their tremendous history! It is the largest -question to-day before the missionary Christianity of the world.</p> - -<p>Well, I am to say a word or two about the Chinese in America. -How did they come here? They came here on the invitation of the -Americans. California boasted at first of the grand people they -were to receive. But that soon changed, and they began a system of -ingenious abuse, such as has never been equalled. Take the laws -passed by San Francisco—the “basket” law; the “cubic foot of -air” law, under which, if a Chinaman was found living in a room -with less than 500 cubic feet of air, he was thrust into a prison -where he would not have over 200 cubic feet of air; and the “tax” -law, under which Chinamen were taxed for sending their children to -school and not permitted to send them. Every man in the street took -the license himself of breaking every law of God and of humanity -by pounding and stoning them. Then, it was not enough for the -municipality to seize this question, but the State took hold of it. -The Legislature of California settled all ethnological questions at -once. They passed a law and said, by majority, that the Chinaman -was an <em>Indian</em>! That settled it. Then the nation took hold of it -and passed a law—these great 50,000,000 of people against 75,000 -of people.</p> - -<p>So the nation passed a law to keep the Chinamen out, violating all -the traditions of the country, and to import <em>the Chinese wall!</em> -They ceased importing the Chinamen and imported their wall—a -barbaric, ramshackled old thing of a great many centuries. It was a -kind of waistband to the Chinese Empire when it was young; but they -burst it long ago and ran over it.</p> - -<p>This infamy was carried to this extent. A committee was appointed -by the United States Senate, and a corresponding committee from -the House, in 1876, to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[368]</a> investigate this subject thoroughly. They -examined 130 witnesses. They took over 1,200 pages of evidence -from experts in all departments in regard to Chinese history and -ethnology and everything else. They met them face to face and -talked it over. Senator Sargent, the chairman of the Committee, -made this statement in his report. He says, in the first place, -that the Chinaman is an “<em>indigestible mass</em>.” Well, that is not -quite definite; a man hardly knows how to handle such a statement -as that. It is a kind of mince-pie, I suppose, in the body politic. -I think I shall leave that for the gastric juice to analyze. But -his next assertion is more practical. He says that the brain -capacity of the Chinaman is not sufficient to furnish motive power -for self-government; for all that, he has governed himself since -the time that Senator Sargent’s ancestors, assuming him to be an -Anglo-Saxon, were cautiously cracking acorns in Northern Europe and -wearing bearskins! Mr. Pixley, a gentleman we sent to California -from my part of the State of New York, a lawyer, and violently -opposed to the Chinaman, says in his opinion before this Committee -that the Chinaman is the inferior of any being that God ever made; -he says that a specimen cannot be produced that has ever been -affected in any particular by Christian influences, and that in -his (Pixley’s) opinion the Chinaman hasn’t any soul, or if he has -a soul it is not worth saving. Gentlemen, these things have been -put into laws and organized before people of influence, and their -animus spent itself in that infamous legislation in Congress which -abrogated a treaty without consultation and flew in the face of a -hundred years of precedents.</p> - -<p>What is the fact? Why, the fact is that Chinamen are human beings. -They are <em>honest</em> human beings as the rule goes. The word of a -Chinese merchant in California is taken everywhere. They are -<em>industrious</em> and <em>frugal</em>. Senator Cassidy said—he was very -much opposed to them—in this book of testimony to which I have -referred: “They are the most ingenious, industrious and frugal -people on the planet; and if they come into competition with us -in low forms of industry to-day, they will come in higher forms -to-morrow.”</p> - -<p>There was an old philosopher who lived 500 years before Christ, -Confucius by name, who wrote certain maxims; and it does seem as -though he was inspired to look ahead precisely at this treaty that -they passed at Washington, when he said, “It is an evidence of the -superior man, of the great moral man, the true man, that he adheres -strictly to the old agreements, however long they may have stood.” -He was asked if he could put into one word what would express the -whole duty of man, and he said, “Is not that word '<em>reciprocity</em>'?” -(That was a “reciprocity” treaty.) He says, “We should not ask -another to do unto us what we would not be willing to do unto him.” -And then he says, “The superior man has regard to virtue and to the -sanctions of law; but the small man only thinks of himself and what -favors he is to receive.” It looks like an inspired and animated -riddling of this whole question as it stands to-day before the -nation.</p> - -<p>One of the largest land proprietors and wheat-growers in California -said that the work could not be done without the Chinamen; they -have reclaimed two millions of acres.</p> - -<p>Now, mind you, with all the wrongs that the Chinese have received -on our shores, every little disturbance on the Chinese coast which -has ever occurred, or where a mission station has been sacked by a -mob, we have collected and been paid every dollar of the damage; -and the Chinese Government has paid nearly a million dollars to -our Government for the wrongs perpetrated upon American people But -this Government has not paid a dollar to the Chinese. There is a -claim which the Chinese Embassy are now pressing on the Government, -for $40,000 that was destroyed in one night in Colorado; but the -reply upon such claims usually<a class="pagenum" name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[369]</a> is, “We have not been in the habit -of paying such claims to Chinamen.” Isn’t that justice? Isn’t that -purity of legislation?</p> - -<p>The Chinese are an <em>educated people</em>. They have vast libraries, -large and broad, rich in literature. They have the lives of great -men. They know about our Washington: they teach about him in their -schools. Do we know anything about their Washingtons—about their -great men who have guided the grandest nation, in some respects, -that history has given us any account of for nearly 3,000 years, -possibly more? We know about Yung Wing, who graduated at Yale -College, taking the prizes in English composition. We know the -standing of their students in our colleges generally. We know the -fact that of the 75,000 Chinese in this country every one can -read and write. In this country, according to the census before -the last, we had over 5,000,000 who could not read and write; -so that there are hardly Chinamen enough in this country to be -schoolmasters to those of our number who cannot read and write! Dr. -Hedge in Boston stated some years ago that, in a conversation with -Charles Sumner, Sir John Bowring, the representative of Her Majesty -at the Court of Pekin, said that when he was there the Chinese -Ministers were the superiors of any European cabinet. Mr. Sumner -replied: “I am astonished! You do not pretend to compare them with -Lord Palmerston, Lord Derby and Mr. Gladstone?” Said he: “I mean -precisely what I say, without any invidious comparison; I will add -that the Prime Minister of China, during my residence in Pekin, has -not, in my opinion, his intellectual superior upon the planet.”</p> - -<p>The Chinese are a <em>cleanly</em> people, a <em>decent</em> people. The Chinese -laborer washes himself all over every day. As a rule they can -come into our mission schools and sit beside our ladies with -perfect propriety. When I was preaching in Indianapolis we had -every Chinaman in the city in our schools. They are not a clannish -people; they are glad for American society.</p> - -<p>They have crimes and vices. They are human. They lie and steal, -and gamble, and have their peculiar method of getting intoxicated -with opium. But I don’t know as it ever has been proven that they -can carry on lying to such a magnificent extent as we do in an -ordinary political campaign, and they have never risen to the -refined plundering of Wall street. They say they take opium, and -you know how they took it—they took it at the cannon’s mouth at -first. England must make 400 per cent. profit in the poppy fields -of India. It was shocking to them to the utmost; and their torment -has gone on ever since in homes that were never addicted to any -crazier drug than tea and knew nothing of a hell so orthodox -as the delirium tremens. The Emperor petitioned England, in a -document which I think has not its equal in all the documents of -Governments, not to set fire to the morals of his people by loading -them with their accursed opium. But they did.</p> - -<p>The Chinese worship their ancestors. Well, if I had to choose the -least of two improprieties, I think I would prefer to pay a very -hearty and cordial appreciation of my grandfather rather than to -curse my children with such doctrines as have been proposed toward -the Chinese. It is better, I think, to worship your ancestors than -to damn your posterity.</p> - -<p>But the Chinese have noble qualities. In the days of the yellow -fever at Memphis I was near it. We almost felt the hot breath of -that dreadful pestilence. We needed money and men; and there came a -telegram from San Francisco that the Chinese merchants of that city -had contributed $12,000 for the yellow fever sufferers. That looked -like putting the prayer of Christ upon the cross into physical -results: “Lord, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”</p> - -<p>We know the Chinese philosophy, the height of their morality; we -know the purity of Confucius’ recommendations and the wondrous -statement of Lotse that<a class="pagenum" name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[370]</a> we should love our enemies; and we know -that the highest crest waves of this Chinese morality throw spray -around the feet of Jesus. I have stood this summer in the far West. -I have stood where you can test civilization. There in Seattle -stood a university on our right hand, and on it the Indian words -<i lang="lut" xml:lang="lut">Al-Ki</i>—by and by—the motto of the Territory—“By and by we -will show you.” Brethren, I am not given to nightmares nor to day -dragons, but it did seem to me as we stood there and looked out -upon that majestic sheet of water, Puget Sound, being nearer in -the centre of the majority of the population in the planet than -we are here, that the day would come, with that matchless harbor, -that wonderful climate, with coal and iron in the vicinity, with -all cereals and fruits possible, when the throne of power would -be transferred from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and when -the argosies of the world would float without any bar, either in -Puget Sound or in the cities around it, and ride there at peace -in the security of a gospelized and millennialized age. It can -only be done by our appreciation of the necessity of keeping our -Christianity clean and solid and aggressive, and on the old basis -of sin and salvation through a crucified Redeemer.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON INDIAN MISSIONS.</h2> - - -<p>Your Committee, to whom has been referred that part of the annual -statement of the Executive Committee which relates to the American -Indians, desire to report as follows:</p> - -<p>The chief event of the year, in the Indian department, is the -adoption by this Association of the Indian Missions of the American -Board. Your Committee look upon this as an event of conspicuous -importance in the history of the Association. As long ago as 1872, -at the annual meeting of that year, the Committees on the Indian -and the foreign work suggested a double transfer—namely, the -transfer of the foreign missions of the Association to the American -Board, and the transfer of the Indian missions of the Board to -this Association. The propriety of such an exchange has seemed -obvious to many patrons of the two societies for some time. However -satisfactory the explanation of the existing condition of things -afforded by the historical development of the two organizations, -it was plain that the time had come for such a unifying and -concentrating of the work of this Association as would result from -leaving the foreign field to others, and assuming the care of those -missions in our own country which our foreign missionary society -had so well established.</p> - -<p>These missions are among the Dakotas, one of the most widely -extended and important of the American Indian stocks. The largest -of these missions—that at the Sisseton agency, formerly under -the care of the lamented Stephen R. Riggs—has chosen for its new -mother not our Association, but another missionary board, by which -it will doubtless be thoroughly cared for and warmly cherished. The -missions which actually come under our care constitute an important -group of churches and schools, and should be received with a hearty -welcome by an Association with such antecedents as this. The new -trust committed to us calls for new purpose and energy in our -specific work.</p> - -<p>We find that these Dakota missions are not dead or dying, but -thoroughly alive. And because they are thoroughly alive they need -very real help. The men in charge of them are men awake to their -opportunities, believers in a forward movement, and in whatever -legitimate experiments may be involved therein.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[371]</a> We feel that in -all such experiments they should have the ready co-operation of -the Christian Church. We therefore heartily endorse the Executive -Committee in their plans for enlargement in the Dakota field—for -improvements in the mission property and in methods of work, where -they are called for, and the establishment of new missions in -places which promise success.</p> - -<p>One project, your Committee believe, deserves to be regarded -with special favor, the establishment of a school—agricultural, -mechanical and normal—at Fort Sully. The Executive Committee have -secured a delightful site for such a school, and they know the -man to take charge of it. What is wanted is money to furnish the -proper financial basis, and we can scarcely doubt that this will -be forth-coming. The industrial school method of missionary work -has already been thoroughly tested at the east—in Hampton and -Carlisle—and the verdict is altogether favorable. There is good -reason to believe that the adoption of the same method among the -Indians themselves would result in real benefit. Let the work of -instruction, in all its interesting details, be carried on where -the red man can see it, and it will surely make its impression upon -him. At all events, we have in favor of this view the opinions of -men who may be looked upon as experts in this matter.</p> - -<p>In adopting as its aim these Dakota missions, and thus enlarging -its strictly missionary work among the American Indians, the -American Missionary Association gives its approval anew to the -attempt, now so long continued, to Christianize the red men. There -are those who scoff at the idea of such a work; but history—not -to say the Gospel—teaches us better. No race of men has yet been -discovered so low that it cannot be reached and moved by the -religion of the Crucified, and the American Indians are certainly -no exception. The Indians as a whole are by no means the lowest -or the least susceptible; and the results on record are far from -insignificant. God has blessed the efforts of his church in their -behalf throughout the past two hundred years, and we know he will -continue to bless them. Respectfully submitted.</p> - -<p class="signature"> - <span class="smcap">Joseph Anderson</span>, Chairman. -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. DR. ANDERSON.</h2> - - -<p>When the question arose in my mind in what line to follow up this -brief report, it seemed to me that the subject of Indian wrongs and -Indian rights had been sufficiently discussed for the present in -this Association and elsewhere, and that it might be of advantage -for us to look for a little while in another direction.</p> - -<p>There are few, I suppose, who are aware of the largeness of this -work as carried on upon our continent, few who appreciate the -amount of real labor and real suffering, I may say, endured in this -direction. In order to a correct estimate, it seems to me that -we ought not to lose sight of, but rather we ought to recognize, -the work which has been done by our Roman Catholic friends. They -began as long ago as 1611, and from that date onward until 1832, at -least, they carried on an extended work among the American Indians -upon eight or ten different and important fields. I find, by -looking over their lists, that 170 men gave themselves to the work -of saving the Indian from barbarism and elevating him to a higher -and Christian level during this period.</p> - -<p>Then, in order to a correct appreciation of this work, we must -remember also what our beloved friends, the Moravians, have -done—not only what they did in Greenland, not only what they did -in the West Indies, but what they did within<a class="pagenum" name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[372]</a> the bounds of our -own nation, especially in Pennsylvania and farther west. And so, -too, we must recognize the work done by the Episcopalians and the -Methodists and the Presbyterians, who, through a long series of -years and in varied fields, have been laboring for the conversion -of the American Indian.</p> - -<p>But in none of these fields has a more satisfactory work been -done than that which has been done in this America of ours by the -Congregational churches and the men whom they have sent out. The -missionary work among the American Indians began with the founding -of the church in New England—began under the molding hand of -John Elliot in Massachusetts. A hundred years later than the day -when Elliot began that work another figure arose upon the stage -of history: David Brainerd, the humble, quiet young man, who gave -himself for Christ and for the beloved Indians, and labored and -suffered even unto death. And then, when we come down to 1813 or -thereabouts, we find the American Board, newly organized, turning -its attention to the Indians in the South and Southwest. In the -record of their early work we have such names as Cyrus Kingsbury -and Byington and Father Gleason, and in the far West Williamson and -Riggs, our lamented brethren to whom reference has already been -made, and many others, some of whom are still with us, including -our excellent brother and my fellow committeeman Rev. Cushing Eells.</p> - -<p>Here we have a list of heroes doing their work quietly, silently, -patiently, yet a work deserving to be called heroic, as much so as -that which has been done on the islands of the sea and on the other -side of the globe—a work in which noble men and women have taken -part. What is the result? Here is the good seed sewing. What kind -of a harvest has been gathered? There are those who think—perhaps -it is the common impression—that the results of Indian missions -have been meagre and of little value at the best; but let us -consider. It seems to me that in any such calculation some account -should be made of what may be called the reciprocal effect produced -in the lives of the missionaries themselves and of the churches -sending them forth. I observe that Dr. Shay, author of the History -of Catholic Missions in America, referring to the extinction of the -Spanish missions in the southern part of our country, says that -even if they have become extinct and if there are no results that -we can trace to-day, that does not count for their condemnation -any more than the disappearance of the works of art produced so -long ago by Apelles and Zeuxis is to the condemnation of those -workers. He might have gone farther and called attention to the -effect produced upon the artists themselves by their contributions -to ancient art, the effect produced upon the artist anywhere by the -work that he does in his own field, the effect produced upon the -reformer by the work of reform which he accomplishes, the results -produced in the lives of missionaries who constitute so large a -company in our church from their labors, their sufferings and their -sorrows.</p> - -<p>I noticed in a past number of the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> -published during the present year that a cut had been reproduced -representing a group of Indians watching a railroad train—an -impressive picture; and it suggested to me that our aim should -be to bring these Indians of the West where they shall not -stand suspiciously watching a railroad train, the emblem of -advancing civilization, but where they shall co-operate with us -and appreciate the railroad train and make it theirs. We want -them to adopt as rapidly as possible all the appliances of our -civilization, and above all we want them to accept the Lord Jesus -Christ.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[373]</a></p> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. J. C. PRICE.</h2> - - -<p>On the 1st of January, 1863, the negro was like a newly-built ship -launched upon the waters without mast, sail or rudder. Pleased -with liberty, he thought his happiness complete; but a few months’ -experience taught him better. When the ballot was denied, when he -could not—nay, more, when he cannot—claim as a right or privilege -the comforts of travel; when deeply-rooted prejudice on account -of his color and previous condition of servitude confronted him -at every turn, he soon found that he had not reached the full -stature of an American citizen, but was still in his infancy. -And the question that presents itself to your minds, and to the -friends of the negro and to ours, the orphaned recipients of your -generosity, is, Has the negro grown any? has he made any noticeable -advancement? Or is he where freedom found him and where slavery -left him? January, 1863, found the negro penniless, ignorant, a -homeless wanderer, his chief object to be in General Sherman’s -army, or if not in it, in the wake of it; but he is now settled, -fixed, and by industry and by perseverance he has purchased homes, -and he and his children, through the generous aid of friends, have -received some education. The land that he once sowed in slavish -fear and reaped with trembling, he now sows in joy and gathers with -the gladsome shout of a free and jubilant harvester. In fact, the -material, as well as the intellectual and moral progress of the -negro has surprised his best friends. He has gone forth without -possessing the tattered garments that he wore, without a foot of -soil on which to tread, and he has purchased those homes. And not -only has he purchased them, but he has carried into them those -things which make home what it is—the comforts of home. It is -nothing strange to go into a Southern home and see a carpet on -the floor. If it is not on all of it, it will be a big piece in -the middle. And if you don’t find it all the way up-stairs, you -will find a little as you step on the first step. That shows a -disposition to do something that is elevating. And then the fact -that they have purchased these homes is something. I have seen it -repeated in the newspapers of the North—and I regret to say by men -who do not know the negro—that he is a lazy, shiftless fellow. -Well, they do not go down South, as we term it, and go into the -negroes’ houses. They do not go into his colleges and universities -and high schools, but they ride around by the station, they see a -few at the depot—a lot of lazy negroes, as you find a lot of lazy -white men under similar circumstances. They judge us unfairly. No -man is judged by the worst, but by the best. Did you want Lord -Chief Justice Coleridge to form an opinion of America by the men -that he met by accident or saw in the slums of New York—“lazy” -men, that he saw lounging around the corners of the streets? No; -you wanted him to judge you by your best, and you put your best -forward. Now, what we ask for the negro is that he be judged by his -best and not by his worst. Of course, the best is always in the -minority, but that is the way we are judged. If these same men were -to go into the South and go into the negroes’ homes, they would -find there very often excellent comfort. Some one has asked whether -the negro has any of this race prejudice in him. No; he will give -you the best bed and the fattest pig and the best chicken he has -got in the yard. There is no prejudice there. And then, not only -these things, but you find in many of their houses instruments of -music—some with an organ, some with a piano; and you can find -young girls there who can play on both, and if you want a little -singing they can do that too. Negroes can sing as well as my -friends the Chinamen. These things, too, are not only found in the -cities but in the country places and villages.</p> - -<p>The negro has done all this, notwithstanding that he has lost -millions—yes, the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[374]</a> negro has been defrauded of millions, yet he -has accumulated millions, and in many instances he has become the -owner of the farms and plantations of his former master. It was no -longer than two or three years ago that the papers told us that -the farm of Mr. Jefferson Davis rightly belonged not to him, but -to two negroes, they having paid $200,000 for it. And these are -but examples. You go through the South and you find negroes owning -farms of 100 or 200 acres each; and I know of one man who owns 900 -acres, all of which he has bought since the war. We have gone forth -to the earth, and with the horny hands of toil we have made the -earth to answer to our appeals; and these have been the results. -Why, in Georgia alone there are more than 85,000 colored voters -who own 500,000 acres of land valued at about $1,244,000, besides -city property valued at $2,100,000, horses and mules, etc., valued -at, $2,000,000, making an aggregate for Georgia alone of more than -$6,000,000, which the colored people in that State now own.</p> - -<p>But why should I enumerate? In fact, the negro has made the -waste places of the South to blossom as the rose. He has built -its railroads, dug its canals, erected its mansions, makes its -carriages and buggies, and in 1878 produced for the American people -more than $250,000,000. In the face of these evidences, who would -dare question his industry, stigmatize him as “lazy,” and ridicule -his unskilled labor?</p> - -<p>But these are but the beginnings—the gray streaks of dawn ushering -in a brighter day for this toiling and long-oppressed son of Ham. -We are often reminded of what the negro was in ancient days, -especially in Northern Africa; but to-day we are forced to see what -he is in America, notwithstanding its prejudices and its political -oppression and persecution; we are forced to look at him rising in -his incomparable glory, the anomaly of the race and the wonder of -mankind.</p> - -<p>But there is another feature. The negro’s highest powers and -worthiest capabilities are not all shown in the development of -sterile marshes or barren highlands. If slavery brought out his -power of endurance, his patience and his unparalleled fidelity, -freedom called forth his intellectual ability and causes the world -to wonder at his rapid attainments. But this angel in him long -ago would have sought his native heaven, but slavery clipped his -wings, forbade his flight, and confined him to corn hills, cotton -rows, rice marshes and pine forests. But his wings are growing -again, and already he lifts himself somewhat from the earth. But -you say, “Are there any signs of his educational progress?” I -might answer by pointing to distinguished colored men who fill -positions of responsibility and emolument in this country. But -not only are there men who are educated among us, but there are -also schools of high grade whose portals are anxiously crowded -by young men and women thirsting for knowledge. I have taken one -State as an example of our material progress; let another show our -intellectual advancement. In 1861 there was not a school in North -Carolina to which persons of color were admitted. But to-day, in -addition to her common schools, she has Shaw University, Biddle -University, St. Augustine Normal School, four State Normal Schools, -Esther Seminary, Scotia Seminary, Bennett Seminary, and the Zion -Wesleyan Institute—institutions of high grade; these have in -them to-day an aggregate of 2,000 young men and women preparing -for the great work of uplifting their brethren, and every summer -they go forth throughout North Carolina and other Southern States -doing what they can for the improvement of their fellows. Besides -this, we have in North Carolina from twelve to fifteen newspapers, -weeklies, semi-weeklies and monthlies, edited, owned and controlled -by colored men. The negro has done<a class="pagenum" name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[375]</a> something, and we consider it -something—something that we are proud of, especially when we think -of the manner in which it has been done.</p> - -<p>But, notwithstanding this favorable aspect of the condition of -the people as seen in these two States, we are forced to ask -the question—in fact it comes to us as we travel among the -people—what is our material progress in Georgia, what is North -Carolina’s educational outlook, when we consider the masses of the -people through the South? They are but a drop in the bucket. If you -could travel through that section and view the condition of the -people away off in the remote towns and districts, you would say -so, especially when you remember that the population has increased -to almost double its original number. Since 1863 the 4,000,000 have -grown to nearly 7,000,000. It is nothing strange to see the need -of instruction among the people, even among the ministry. It is my -theory that we must get the ministry straight first; and when we -have an intelligent ministry before the people, then we will soon -have an intelligent people. “Like priest” <em>always</em> “like people”.</p> - -<p>It was truly said by President Tobey at the meeting of the A. M. A. -in Chicago that the presence of the negro in the United States is -of great significance, that the enthusiasms of political life in -our nation have resulted from his presence, and that he has been -the occasion of the most exhaustive discussion of the rights of -man and the formation of a new political party and is now the most -considerable element in our politics. That is true; but that is -telling us our disease without a cure. What is the remedy? That is -what you are here for to-night; that is what you have bean turning -over in your minds ever since you assembled. What is the remedy for -these existing political and social evils among us? We think it was -precisely set forth by the Secretary of the Association at that -same meeting when he said, “The true remedy for the existing evils -is not to change the negro’s color or his party, but to change his -<em>character</em>,” and that is what we ask.</p> - -<p>Legislation cannot solve the negro problem in this country. The -thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, the Civil Rights -Bill and the Constitution itself cannot solve the negro problem. -We must go behind the Constitution, behind the amendments; we must -go to the public sentiment. What effect has a law if there is not -a public sentiment to back it up? We have had the Civil Rights -Bill for several years, but what did it amount to in some sections -of the country? It amounted to nothing, because there was not a -public sentiment to sustain it. And it seems to me that we want to -educate the public sentiment and it is evident that the solution -of this great vexing problem can only come through the gradual and -thorough development of the negro’s mental and moral nature. I say -<em>thorough</em>, because some men think that the negro need have only an -elementary training, that he is not prepared for a higher training. -Why is he not? If it has taken centuries of culture, with the best -masters and the best teachers, to uplift the white race, why is it -not necessary to uplift the black race? God has made of one blood -all nations of men that dwell upon the face of the earth; and we -believe that there are only individual and not race distinctions as -to their mental and moral capabilities. Therefore, what one race -requires another race requires; and we feel assured that, when this -has been done, the millions of minds, both in this country and -in Africa, that are now rough and unshapen as the rock from the -quarry, will begin to show signs of symmetry under the constant -hammer and steady chisel of competent workmen.</p> - -<p>Then, and not till then, the negro’s sun of progress and -prosperity, whose earliest rays already gladden his eastern -horizon, will rise and climb the firmament of his glory until it -reaches its zenith, and from that zenith it will shed forth a light -that all the nations of the earth shall behold, whose heat shall -melt away all prejudice,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[376]</a> in whose light all indignities and all -inhumanities shall vanish; and all these nations, in one united, -harmonious voice, shall cry aloud, “Ethiopia, Ethopia has indeed -and in truth stretched forth her hands unto God.”</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>CASTE IN AMERICA.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">BY SECRETARY STRIEBY.</p> - - -<p>India has four castes, America two. The Hindoo castes are the -priest, soldier, merchant and laborer or Soodra. The last is the -largest and lowest and bears the weight of all the upper classes, -whom it is born to serve and by whom it is despised. The highest -caste may come down to the employments of the soldier or merchant, -but not to those of the Soodra, but, according to Hindoo orthodoxy, -the Soodra can as little enter a higher caste as a stone can become -a plant.</p> - -<p>America’s two castes are simply the white and the colored races. -The latter are the Soodras, and in the orthodox theology of slavery -they were born to serve the whites. But while that high orthodoxy -suffered a rude shock in the Proclamation of Emancipation, caste -comes in to save it from utter overthrow, and has fixed a great -gulf between the races, so that especially “they cannot pass to us -that would come from thence.”</p> - -<p>This proscription of the colored races includes the Indian and the -Chinaman, but for the sake of simplicity of presentation I shall -refer mainly to the most numerous race in this country—the Negro.</p> - -<p>By caste prejudice they are denied fellowship which Christ -enjoins—rights which the Constitution grants, access to trades, -professions and schools where they could compete with the whites.</p> - -<p>Caste is a worse sin in America than in India. In practicing it the -Hindoo obeys his gods and his veda; the American dishonors his God -and disobeys his Bible. The Hindoo is a heathen and is degraded -by caste; the American sends missionaries to convert him and to -denounce his caste, and yet sustains caste at home. The Hindoo is -consistent in denying equal rights to all men; the American boasts -that God made of one blood all nations, and that all men are free -and equal, and yet tolerates caste.</p> - -<p>In sustaining caste the American perpetuates the inconsistency and -shame of slavery. No greater inconsistency was ever shown than in -holding slaves in America after the Declaration of Independence; -and no greater shame than in the zealous defense of slavery by the -press, the pulpit and the theological seminaries—at the imperious -bidding of the slaveholder. Caste is the tap root of slavery, and -the defense of it is a repetition—nay, an aggravation—of the -apologies formerly made for slavery. Men will live to be ashamed of -this defense.</p> - -<p>Caste is a curse to America.</p> - -<p>It injures those who cherish it. Caste-prejudice is a sin. All -prejudice is narrow, born of ignorance and hate. Caste-prejudice, -therefore, by narrowing the mind and embittering the heart, harms -the American citizen both as a man and a Christian. It hinders -the progress of its victims. The slaves are emancipated—their -continued degradation is the nation’s danger, their elevation -the nation’s hope, and yet caste shuts up the avenues of trades, -professions, schools and churches, through which alone they can -escape from ignorance and degradation. If they rise it must be in -spite of all the obstacles that caste can throw in their way.</p> - -<p>It creates race antagonisms. The foreign immigration into this -country creates no antagonisms. It flows into the great river of -American life like brooklets,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[377]</a> bringing down often their turbid -waters, but these are soon mingled and purified in the mightier -stream. But caste renders the colored races an opposing tide now -indeed overflowed and borne under, yet resisting their fate. That -they are overborne is seen in the nullifying of their vote in the -South and in denying them access to the rights, immunities and -privileges of the dominant class. But they are neither silent nor -submissive. We know how prompt and deadly is the resentment of the -Indian; the negro and the Chinaman are more quiet, but they resist -as best they can and await the time, in the conflict of tides, when -their volume and momentum will give them the preponderance.</p> - -<p>Nor is that awaiting vain, nor that time distant, in view of the -astonishingly rapid increase of the colored population—an increase -of over 500 per day—an increase of 35 per cent. in ten years, -as against 28 per cent. in the white population of the South. -It is easy to estimate in how few years the colored population -will equal the whites, and it is easy to see that, as this growth -goes on and long before the equal numbers are reached, the sense -of growing strength and of continued wrong will stimulate the -negative resistance of the present to the determined hostility -of the future; and when that race conflict comes, what human ken -can foretell the issue? But we may be sure that when it comes the -North, the whole nation, can no more keep out of it than it could -keep out of the dreadful conflict with slavery, out of which this -impending struggle grows.</p> - -<p>Special significance is given to all this by the recent decision -of the Supreme Court of the United States pronouncing the Civil -Rights Bill unconstitutional. This takes from the colored man the -last shadow of legal protection to rights which he, and all men for -themselves, consider essential to their manhood, and will stimulate -him to more determined resistance unless the conscience and good -sense of the white races shall speedily end this needless, yet -dangerous conflict.</p> - -<p>This leads me to ask: Is there a remedy for all this, and what is -it? Not in dragging the white man down, but in lifting the colored -man up. Both races must coöperate. The white man must let down the -ladder; the black man must climb. The white man must open the door -of the shop, and the black man must go in and do as good work as -the white man can. The white man must open the school house and -the black man must go in and become as good a scholar as the white -man is. The black man can never attain positions and honors by -demanding them simply because he is a black man; he must fairly -win them by being worthy of them. The white man cannot maintain -his superiority by denying the black man the chance of becoming -his equal. He cannot hold it by force. Slavery for a time enabled -him to do so, for then he had superior numbers and the aid of the -Government, but he has no longer that aid and he cannot always have -the weight of superior numbers. The white man must give the chance, -and the black man must take it and win his position.</p> - -<p>But the white man is not ready to give the chance—in other words, -surrender the vantage ground his color gives him. Here is a call -for an appeal to conscience. The subject must be discussed, North -and South, among white and black alike. As the anti-slavery reform -arose not out of the stagnant waters of indifference, but out -of the dashing stream of healthful agitation, so must the caste -reform be brought about. That discussion has begun in earnest, -and will not cease till caste be sent to that bourne to which -slavery, its ancestor, has gone and whence it shall never return. -But discussion must take shape; the Church must cease to sustain -caste. The time was when men were afraid to oppose slavery because -it would hinder the spread of their churches in the South. They -urged: “Why endanger the growth of our denomination by joining -in this useless clamor against slavery?” But the time came when -these same persons decided that it was more important to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[378]</a> destroy -slavery than multiply churches that sustained slavery. Missionary -societies abandoned their churches in the South, and the great -national churches allowed themselves to be rent in twain rather -than uphold slavery. Only such an attitude against caste will -avail anything. When the North feels that ten churches or schools -that stand unequivocally against caste are more important than a -thousand churches or schools that sustain caste, then we shall see -the beginning of the end.</p> - -<p>But the colored people themselves must be educated out of caste. -Strange as it may seem, some of them are its abettors, and, -stranger still, they are so religiously. As men, they repudiate -it; as Christians, they sustain it. They prefer separation mainly, -perhaps, because they think the whites would not welcome them. -Other reasons may be given. Some of the members love excitement -in their worship, and this they can enjoy better if no whites are -present; the leaders can be bishops and rulers among their own -people, but, if joined to the whites, these honors are denied, or, -at least, unequally divided. Why is it that religion is compelled -to shield some of the greatest wrongs on earth? Albert Barnes said, -long before slavery was abolished: “There is no power <em>out</em> of the -Church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained -<em>in</em> it.” Must sinful and harmful caste, the baleful progeny of -slavery, find its bulwark in the Church—nay, in some of the -colored churches themselves?</p> - -<p>But this wish or willingness of these churches for separation is -gravely made use of by many most excellent people as a reason for -ceasing to make war against caste. It is said triumphantly: “See -how the colored people, welcomed to Dr. Goodell’s or Dr. Rankin’s -churches, prefer churches of their own.” Does their abetting -caste help to destroy it? Did the wish of the Israelites in the -wilderness to return to Egypt help them on to Canaan? If the -slaves in this country were ever content to remain slaves, as was -sometimes alleged, that was all the greater evidence of the curse -of slavery. If the Soodra consents to remain a Soodra, all the more -does he need the breaking of his bondage that he may become a man. -And so, if the colored people consent to caste separation, all the -more do they need emancipation from the bondage of caste.</p> - -<p>In this point of view the action of some of the large religious -bodies North and South in consenting to a separation on the color -line is riveting the chains of caste on the colored people, and -sustaining caste-prejudice in the hearts of the white race; and -it is seriously questioned by many considerate persons whether -the presence of two Congregational Missionary Societies in the -South, the one working mainly for the whites, and the other side by -side, mainly for the blacks, will not, with all explanations, be -construed into a sanction of caste. The question is fairly before -the churches, and should be met in a frank and Christian way.</p> - -<p>The presence with us to-day of a committee appointed by the -American Home Missionary Society to confer on this very subject -renders its consideration by this meeting a matter of comity and -of Christian duty, and to aid in its intelligent and harmonious -settlement I beg leave to contribute some facts and considerations.</p> - -<p>The A. M. A. was organized when the great missionary societies, -home and foreign, aided churches in the South that received -slaveholders as members. It was formed not as an anti-slavery -society, nor merely as a formal protest against slavery, but as -affording a channel through which anti-slavery Christians might -carry forward missions without complicity with slavery. Hence it -established missions in foreign lands and among the Indians, and -also home missions in the West.</p> - -<p>But in the progress of the anti-slavery movement the large -missionary societies withdrew their aid from slaveholding -churches, and soon thereafter came the opening for the great work -to be done for the freedmen. The Association was believed<a class="pagenum" name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[379]</a> to be -providentially prepared to undertake this work, and hence it gave -up its home missions in the West and among the Indians and entered -with alacrity into this new field.</p> - -<p>The territory it occupied was the whole South, its schools being -located in every Southern State. But gradually it withdrew from -Delaware, Maryland, and unwisely, as I then thought, and now think, -from Florida. At the West it organized a few churches in Kansas, -which, however, it at length turned over to the American Home -Missionary Society, only resuming limited efforts there when the -great exodus of colored people thither took place. In Missouri it -never attempted much in church planting. It found that the Home -Missionary Society that had done so grand a work from the Atlantic -to the Pacific, rearing its monuments of light and piety along -the whole line of its march, had entered Missouri so effectually -that there was no more call for the Association in those parts, -and hence that state was soon and cheerfully surrendered to the -occupancy of that Society. In Texas the Association has established -one of its chartered institutions at Austin, the Tillotson -Collegiate and Normal Institute; it was the earliest Congregational -Society to plant churches in the State; its churches there, though -few, are more in number than that of any other Congregational -Society, and two calls are pressing upon us now for the -organization of new churches. Thus its field may be said to be the -“Solid South” leaving out Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Florida and -the new State of West Virginia. In this territory it has planted -its large and permanent educational institutions; its 89 churches, -united in eight conferences, covering nearly the whole South.</p> - -<p>The Association has been as much opposed to caste as to slavery, -as its early publications abundantly show, and has ever refused to -accept the limitation of a color line. Its schools and churches -have seemed to be almost wholly confined to the blacks, solely -because it allowed them to enter at all. But it has not confined -itself entirely to efforts for that race. It has founded schools -and churches mainly white. The church in Jacksonville, Fla., was -organized under its auspices. Its founders did not ask pecuniary -aid, but they did ask one of our District Secretaries to assist -in the organization, which he did, and spent nearly a month with -them afterward, supplying the pulpit until a permanent pastor -could be obtained. In Kentucky, John G. Fee, its first missionary -in the South, commissioned in 1848, formed white churches on an -anti-slavery basis. The same was done by Daniel Worth in North -Carolina. That church planting in Kentucky was followed by Berea -College, the most conspicuous example in the South of an anti-caste -institution, its pupils being in nearly equal numbers of both -races; and now more recently the example of Berea has been followed -by a church and school in Williamsburg, Ky., and in Clover Bottom. -Other openings of the same sort are presenting themselves in the -same region.</p> - -<p>The only movement made by Congregationalists to found white -churches in the territory occupied by the Association was begun -during or soon after the war. At that time the work of the -Association was in its infancy, and the broad and permanent -foundations which it has since laid were scarcely anticipated. On -the other hand, this new movement for white churches was mainly -confined to the largest cities and perhaps the thought of possible -competition was not entertained. At all events the movement was not -very successful and was very nearly abandoned.</p> - -<p>Whatever general impressions may have existed at that early day -as to the special work of the Association or whatever special -designations may since have been used as to the classes for -which it was mainly to labor, it never supposed that it was -to be confined entirely to those classes; and certainly now, -after nearly<a class="pagenum" name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[380]</a> twenty years of almost exclusive occupancy of the -special territory to which it has confined itself, so far as -Congregationalists are concerned, it may well be supposed to look -with some surprise upon a movement recently inaugurated to enter -that same territory with missionary efforts that practically places -it on one side of a color line.</p> - -<p>An agreement was made between the two societies when this question -came before them, which provides temporarily and tentatively -against the repetition of any such interferences as that which -started this discussion. Both societies have agreed not to enter -into any field occupied by the other <a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>without mutual consultation. -But this agreement provides no permanent basis for a settlement of -the question which field each society shall occupy. It only insures -Christian co-operation and forbearance until a settlement be made. -What that settlement shall be is for the constituency of our -societies to determine, and to them we must leave it. The American -Board and the Association have made a harmonious arrangement of -their respective fields of labor, and it is to be hoped that an -adjustment equally satisfactory may be reached with the American -Home Missionary Society.</p> - -<p>In view of all this several questions ought to be considered.</p> - -<p>1. What is the field open before us among the white population of -the South?</p> - -<p>It is not the extent of the territory, nor the number of millions -of white people that are in the South, nor even the number that -need our school and Gospel advantages, but it is: <em>How many of them -can be reached by an anti-caste Gospel?</em></p> - -<p>It is not enough to say that we are to preach the Gospel, and if -people are converted the caste question will take care of itself. -Well do I remember when that plea and policy were in vogue in -regard to slavery. The Gospel was preached, churches were formed, -and the denominations were happy in their enlargement. Slavery also -did take care of itself, and good care, too, for it found snug -homes in these very churches. And well do I remember when these -same denominations cast slavery away from them and the coveted -churches along with it!</p> - -<p>The American churches cannot afford to repeat that experience in -regard to caste. What was done then in comparative innocence, -because done in ignorance, cannot now be done without great guilt -in the light of that experience. We must remember that it is more -important to destroy caste than to found churches that will sustain -caste. No work can be done by our churches among the white people -of the South that will stand the test, that does not proceed on -the avowed and practical repudiation of caste; no school opened -that does not welcome the colored child; no church formed that -does not present the open door, the open hand and the open heart -to “Our Brother in Black.” There are Congregationalists in the -South that are ready to welcome again the polity of New England -and at the same time welcome among them the colored races, and -there are native Southerners ready for our schools and churches, -and also ready to make no distinction on account of color, and to -all such we ought to carry with joyful hearts and ready hands the -institutions we so much cherish. But we ought not to enter upon the -effort under a misapprehension. The number of openings for this -kind of labor is not great.</p> - -<p>2. The question of two Congregational Societies on the Southern -field receives its greatest importance from its relation to -caste-prejudice. There are other difficulties. One of the saddest -features of the modern church extension at the West is the starting -of two or more feeble churches of different denominations in -small villages or among sparse populations, creating frictions -and rivalries where harmony and Christian fellowship are so -essential, and a waste of men and money where there is so much need -of economy. This would be aggravated in the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[381]</a> poorer and sparser -settlements of the South, and still more aggravated if the same -denomination should, by two of its own societies there, thus come -into rivalry with itself. In the one case two houses are arrayed -against each other; in the other, a house is divided against -itself. It is the same railroad company running parallel lines in -competition with each other.</p> - -<p>But all these considerations, grave as they are, are of small -importance when compared with the danger that the division of the -labors of two societies, running mainly along the color line, -would be construed as lending the sanction of the denomination to -caste separation. This is the gravamen of the difficulty. I am -happy to say that the two societies are equally committed against -caste, and will equally and honorably repudiate all intentional -sanction of it. But the bare fact that one is avowedly working -mainly for the whites and the other mainly for the blacks, will, -in spite of all protests to the contrary, array them before the -public as separated only by the color line. It is not proper for -me to speak for another society, but for my own I must speak. The -American Missionary Association was born an opponent of slavery. -Amid poverty, sneers and reproach from the best of men, as well as -the worst of men, it pressed forward in its opposition till the -glorious end came. It must oppose caste as it did slavery. It began -its work among the freedmen as the avowed enemy of caste, and amid -much misapprehension and reproach at the South, it has pressed -onward until it has gained the respect of both races. That position -it cannot, and it ought not to be asked to, surrender or jeopardize -by being placed on one side of a line of separation in missionary -labors that has no reason for its existence except the colors of -the people to be benefited.</p> - -<p>3. If, in view of all the facts, it should be ultimately decided -that the Congregational churches should be represented at the South -by one missionary society, the decision should be reached in the -broadest spirit of Christian wisdom and kindness.</p> - -<p>The American Missionary Association is not eager to be pushed -forward into the mission work among the whites, but it knows -something of their needs, especially their need of deliverance -from caste-prejudice that mars the symmetry of their piety and -chills their hearts as slavery did, and that perpetuates a race -antagonism that must be crushed before the South can be safe or -prosperous. If the Association should be called to that work, it -has some experiences and facilities that would be helpful. Its past -record would be a guaranty that it would not foster caste. It would -have no temptation to found schools and churches mainly white that -should be rivals of its schools and churches mainly colored, and -it could have no reason to hesitate in establishing both, if both -were needed. It is not “handicapped” for this work except by its -firm and well-known attitude against caste, and any other society -equally faithful on that subject would soon be equally handicapped. -Its large planting of schools and churches, with a value of -property of nearly a million of dollars, gives it a position and an -influence that it would take any other society a long time and a -large outlay of funds to acquire—to say nothing of the facilities -it thus possesses to extend its work among both races. It has a -wide acquaintance with the Southern people, both white and colored, -and has won for itself a large place in their confidence, by its -quiet, unselfish and useful work for both. It has, moreover, -already done something in bringing the two races together in school -and church, and for this reason it is fitted to be a bond of union -and Christian fellowship between them.</p> - -<p>This Association, standing on the ruins of slavery, and amid the -schools and churches it has erected thereon for the benefit of the -colored race, and to some extent also for the white, would find it -both cognate and congenial to enlarge its<a class="pagenum" name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[382]</a> work among the whites, -both the ignorant and the educated, carrying to them a gospel -that is not only uplifting and purifying, but that makes no caste -distinction in the school room or in the house of God.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>REPORT ON EDUCATIONAL WORK.</h2> - - -<p>The Committee on the Educational Work of the A. M. A. would -respectfully report that they find the history of the past year -highly satisfactory and encouraging. It is a record of enlarged -accommodations at several of the institutions. Stone Hall, at -Atlanta, the fourth of the buildings erected by the munificence of -Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, has been completed. New buildings, or very -considerable additions to former buildings, have been constructed -at Midway, Macon, Talladega, Williamsburg, Hillsboro, Memphis and -New Orleans; yet from several quarters the call still comes for -more room.</p> - -<p>It is a record of increased practical efficiency. Industrial -training, which forms so important an adjunct of the work, has been -making progress by workshops established at Macon and Memphis, and -arrangements for carpentry schools at Tougaloo and Atlanta; while -farming education and training in housekeeping go on at various -points as heretofore, supplemented at Memphis by instruction in -nursing and hygiene; and Hampton continues to teach more vigorously -than ever a variety of handicrafts, such as printing, bookbinding, -iron and tin work, carpentry and wood turning, the manufacture of -sash and doors, shoe and harness making, tailoring and farming. -All this is, for the present, a very essential element of the -educational work.</p> - -<p>It is a record of some degree of expansion, although the main -aspect is rather one of consolidation and elevation. The number of -teachers has increased by twenty-eight and the number of common -schools by four; the number of pupils being but slightly greater -than last year. The grade of these institutions is steadily -advancing. Among these pupils are found, we are happy to say, -ninety theological students—twelve more than were reported last -year. The three Teachers’ Institutes, held in as many States, may -prove to be the entering wedge of another great instrument of -power and quickening influence. The crowded halls and interested -audiences of the anniversaries of so many of our Institutions are -a striking manifestation of genuine progress. When we remember -that the oldest of these institutions has seen but a quarter of a -century, and practically but twenty years of life time, and that -now we rejoice in eight chartered institutions, comparatively -strong and effective, twelve high and normal schools and forty-two -common schools, with 279 teachers doing their soul-expanding work, -we may well say “What hath God wrought.” Far as it falls short of -our desire and our duty, so far and more also does it exceed the -boldest reasonable expectations of the dark and cloudy time of the -beginning.</p> - -<p>But far the most satisfactory statement of the annual report is its -record of the religious spirit which guides, controls and pervades -this whole educational movement. The information that at seven out -of eight of the chartered institutions “special religious interest -has been manifest, adding scores and scores of these scholars to -the number of the disciples of Christ,” and that, “as yet, but -very few have been graduated from our various courses of study who -had not become Christians,” is a record of the crowning mercy of -God. So may it ever be. The heart and conscience must be quickened -with the intellect or there is no good hope for that race, or for -any other race. It must be <em>Christian</em> education.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[383]</a> The school and -the Church must move on together at the South as they started -together from Plymouth Rock, and they must extend, as far as -possible—certainly must offer—their joint benign influences, not -to a portion of the population, but to all classes and races alike. -For the part can receive its full benefit only in conjunction -with the benefit of the whole. This is no new principle, but the -method in which, as our annual reports show, this Association has -been proceeding throughout its history. Having always refused to -recognize the color-line, it can proceed on no other basis without -defeating its own ends, and compromising its own principles. And -the recent decision of the Supreme Court has rolled a new burden on -the Church.</p> - -<p>Hence it is that your committee look with much interest upon -the experiment, tried and effectually settled at Berea, and now -extending thence among the “mountain whites,” of including all -classes and races in the purview of our educational and Christian -work. We refer to the movement at Williamsburg, a county-seat -on the Cumberland River, which is simply a repetition of the -movement at Berea of twenty years ago—with this difference, -that the abolition of the color-line, both in church and school, -at Williamsburg, is fully accepted beforehand by an actual -constituency in that place. Here the establishment of an academy to -educate teachers for the common schools of the county—of whom, as -of the population, but a small portion are colored persons—went -hand in hand with the opening of the church to both races alike, -and has led most naturally to the establishment of three adjacent -preaching places, and the formation of another church at the -nearest railway station. This method, when viewed simply on its -own merits, seems to be at once the dictate of a wise Christian -economy, and an almost necessary sequence, or rather part, of the -work of Christian education. Within the particular regions where -this Association is planting its schools, exerting its influence -and gaining the confidence of the community, it would seem to -have peculiar advantages and a special call to leaven the whole -community with the institutions of the gospel; while the molding -influence of its Christian schools will be left incomplete, except -as permanently embodied, fortified and nourished by surrounding -Christian churches, built upon the same fundamental principles. -Similar in condition, character and wants to this Whitley County, -in Kentucky, is a great area of five hundred miles by two hundred, -beginning in Virginia and extending to Alabama, occupied chiefly by -a white population numbering nearly two millions, of whom more than -half the adults can neither read nor write. It is one of the most -needy and neglected regions of our country, and presents a pressing -call to Christian philanthropy to enter and occupy.</p> - -<p class="signature"> - <span class="smcap">S. C. Bartlett</span>, Chairman. -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT S. C. BARTLETT.</h2> - - -<p>There is perhaps some propriety in my saying an earnest word for -the educational work of this Association, representing as I do a -college that from its birth abolished the color line in education. -More than a century ago Dartmouth College was training the red -man and more than half a century ago the black man. Our first six -graduates included three missionaries to the Indians, and the last -class that entered contains a full-blooded Dakota and a Cherokee. -Fifty-nine years ago, twenty-two years before the first anniversary -of this Association, we were educating the negro. In 1824 a young -man from Martinique, of irreproachable character and conduct, but -with some African color and African blood in his veins, applied -for admission. Objections were raised in some quarters from the -fear that<a class="pagenum" name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[384]</a> his presence would prove unwelcome. The students heard -of it, held meetings and sent a committee to urge his reception, -and under the direction of a most conservative Board of Trustees, -with Dr. Bennet Tyler at its head, he was admitted, and into one of -the most distinguished classes in the history of the institution. -There, in company with forty classmates, who from that small number -have furnished six college professors, two theological professors, -two college presidents, two Indian missionaries, a senator of the -United States and a judge of a Supreme Court, Edward Mitchell went -on in comfort, graduated with honor and did a good work in the -Baptist ministry. Since then many colored men have entered without -hindrance, inconvenience, disability or disrespect. They have been -the equal companions and in some instances the room-mates of their -fellow students. In June last two such young men graduated, one of -them an appointment man and a commencement speaker.</p> - -<p>We know the colored man as a student, a Christian and a gentleman. -And without making contrasts or comparisons, I will say that were -all our students as irreproachable as these last two colored men, -there would be no more discipline in the institution. We might burn -our college laws.</p> - -<p>I have seen the colored student elsewhere in Northern schools. Some -of you remember that choice young man, Barnabas Root, a Christian -scholar in America, though the son of a heathen chief in Africa. -I well remember his graduating oration at Knox College, second to -no other on that occasion. I remember him as three years a student -in Chicago Theological Seminary, in all respects the peer of his -classmates. When that young man passed away just on the threshold -of his missionary career, it was a grievous loss to his race and to -the church.</p> - -<p>It is not necessary to say that all are like these. But these show -what can be and sometimes will be. Educationally, they are a most -hopeful race, because, in the main eager for improvement. And with -whatever deductions, it may be doubted whether the summons to awake -and arise intellectually, socially and morally ever fell on the -ears of six or seven millions of people with such a simultaneous -thrill of response. When I look out on our educational work at the -South, I am greatly impressed with what has been already done, even -more than I am oppressed with what remains to be done.</p> - -<p>What have you done? No doubt it was a notable plan of the French -authorities in this country near two hundred years ago to encircle -this young nation with a chain of military stations from the Gulf -of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. But this Association has -done better than that. You have gone not to the outskirts, but to -the centre. You have planted your cordon of educational fortresses -from the Potomac and the Ohio almost to the Rio Grande, through -the heart of the South in all the great slave-holding States. They -are there to stay and to re-construct. They are already working -powerfully, not alone on the education of individual young men and -young women, but on the education of the community and of public -sentiment. What a change has the President of the Board of Trustees -of Berea College lived to behold—the man who was robbed and driven -out, but who now sees white men and black in nearly equal numbers -graduating together, and audiences of three or four thousand -gathered to hear them. And these sixteen other anniversaries -lately chronicled in the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>, with their -interested audiences and crowded halls, sometimes in stately -buildings, are the signal tokens of a great transformation.</p> - -<p>No more significant testimony could be given to this change than a -sort of wail in the <em>Atlantic Monthly</em> over the “New Departure in -Negro Life,” a lament over the decadence of “the jocund customs of -the past,” with its thoughtless<a class="pagenum" name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[385]</a> levity and hilarity, and over the -“half-hearted manner in which the characteristic festivities that -remain are gone through with.” What does it mean? It means, says -the writer, that “an unmistakable change in the negro character is -at hand, and in an advanced state of progress. He is putting away -childish things and striving in his own crude way to grasp matters -of higher import. The bulk of the race have learned to read after a -fashion. His primer, his <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">vade mecum</i>, is the Bible. Never before, -perhaps, in the history of the world, have two decades brought -about such a manifest change in a race. Religion, religionism, -forms the staple of his speech by day, and the stuff that his -dreams are made of by night.”</p> - -<p>Would that the picture was more completely true. But, thank God, it -is at least founded on fact. The race is aroused, and in earnest. -It is bent on accumulation, education, elevation. The world may pay -as little heed to the movement as did the Roman world in the time -of Tacitus to the Christian Church in the Eternal City; but the -time is not distant when the world will see that this quiet work is -one of the great movements of modern history.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT THE SOUTH.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">BY REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D.</p> - - -<p>The problem that confronts us this morning is that which is -presented by the illiteracy of this country, and especially of -the Southern States. This is not the only problem before this -Association; the problem of the irreligion and heathenism which -infest many regions also claims our energies. There is moral -evil as well as ignorance to be met and fought and overcome. The -Association has an evangelical work as well as an educational work -in its hands; and though, as we shall see, these two are properly -one, yet it is now convenient to consider them separately. It is -the educational work that is now before us.</p> - -<p>We educate, because education is the servant of a pure religion. We -educate, because we are the missionaries of a faith which always -adds to itself virtue, and to its virtue knowledge. We educate, -because a genuine Christianity always educates; because the work -of the pulpit, the work of the Church everywhere must always be, -in considerable part, the work of education; but, more especially, -we of this Association educate, because the peoples with whom we -work are in peculiar need of education; and because nothing but -intelligence will ever break the fetters of degrading superstition -by which they are held, and lead them forth into the liberty of the -sons of God.</p> - -<p>We educate, also, because we love our country, and because we -believe that there is no other remedy for evils that now threaten -her very existence, but the remedy of Christian education. Thus we -are brought face to face with the problem of illiteracy. Illiteracy -in a republic; what does it signify? It is the creeping paralysis -that unnerves its arm; it is the malaria that poisons its blood; -it is the cataract that dims and finally destroys its vision; it -is the slow decay that consumes its life. Illiteracy, ignorance, -in a republic is, and must always be, assailing and undermining -its very foundations. It is the natural and deadly foe of free -government. No republic can live, no republic ought to live, in -which the voters are ignorant. Voting in a republic is governing; -and no man has any right to govern me who does not know enough to -govern himself. No man has any right to take part in the government -of the nation, who has not some notion of what right government -is. I protest against such government. I have never consented -to the justice of it, and I never will. I do not believe that -the State has any right to intrust this responsible business of -governing<a class="pagenum" name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[386]</a>—and voting is governing—to the hands of men who cannot -read the ballots that they cast and who have no conception of the -duties of a citizen.</p> - -<p>But the State has done it; and what has been done cannot be undone -by any political methods. It is with the consequences that we -have to do. And the consequences are tremendous, appalling to -those who stop to consider them. The total number of men of voting -age in the Southern States at the last census was 4,154,125. Of -these 1,354,974 could neither read nor write. A little more than -thirty-two per cent. of the voters of those States were at that -time wholly illiterate. Think of that! Almost one-third of all the -voters in sixteen States of the Union so ignorant that they cannot -write their own names or read the simplest English sentence! And -these are our rulers.</p> - -<p>I know very well that you will find among these thirteen hundred -thousand illiterate voters not a few men of great natural -shrewdness and considerable general information, who may be fairly -qualified to discharge the duties of citizenship. There are men -to whom all print is shut, who can see quite as far into public -questions as many of those to whom print is as wide open as it -was to Silas Wegg. The alphabet test is by no means an infallible -test. Some who could not pass this test are well qualified for -citizenship. On the other hand, there are tens of thousands of -those who are reported among the literates, who are put down as -being able to read and write, and who are yet utterly ignorant. -They can manage to scrawl their names, perchance, or to skip and -tumble about a little among simple words in a primer: but the -reading and writing of which they boast is of no sort of use to -them as fitting them to vote intelligently. You would need to add a -great many figures to that array in the census if you should state -fully the facts in regard to the illiteracy of the Southern States.</p> - -<p>I think we shall all agree with Dr. Haygood when he says, as he -did at the meeting of the National Educational Association in -Washington last winter, “This is bad enough.” And perhaps we should -also be able to agree with him in the further statement that it “is -far from being the worst of this sad case. The worst,” he says, -“is this: the illiterate vote in these States is increasing. From -1870 to 1880 the increase of this army of ignorant voters in the -South amounted to 187,671.” Of course this is worse, in one sense; -for the more we learn of this illiteracy the worse we are off, no -doubt. But there is a brighter side to this picture, thank God! -It is dark enough, at best; and I want you to see it in all its -blackness; but I do not want to paint it any blacker than it is. -After you have seen the facts just as they are, you will still find -on your hands a stupendous task; but you will have, I trust, some -reasons for believing that it is not a hopeless task.</p> - -<p>It is true, then, as Dr. Haygood says, that there was a positive -increase of illiterate voters in the South between 1870 and 1880. -He makes this increase in round numbers 197,000; the figures I have -found increase it a little to 208,000. But that is not a <em>relative</em> -increase. The increase in the illiterate vote does not keep pace -with the increase of the population. The population increased 30 -per cent. in the ten years; the illiterate vote increased less than -20 per cent. In 1870, more than 40 per cent. of the voters of the -South were illiterate; in 1880, only 32 per cent. were illiterate.</p> - -<p>This is what I call very substantial gain. Under the circumstances -I am inclined to call it a splendid gain, one that is quite worth -singing the doxology over, one that should cause us all to thank -God and take courage.</p> - -<p>But there are other features of the case to my own mind still more -significant. Dr. Haygood says in the same address to which I have -referred: “In this downward<a class="pagenum" name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[387]</a> progress the two races keep well -together.” We have seen that it is not a downward, but an upward -progress. And I think we shall see that instead of the two races -keeping well together, one of them is falling a good ways behind. -Which is it? “The increase of the illiterate <em>white</em> vote,” says -Dr. Haygood, “was 93,279; of the illiterate negro vote, 94,392. -The whites being in the majority, take the South as a whole, the -increase of the illiterate vote is relatively greater among the -Negroes.”</p> - -<p>This is a great misconception. Dr. Haygood has no purpose whatever -of misrepresenting the facts; we all know that. No man in the -country is doing better work for the colored people than he is -doing; no man deserves more honor; but he has misapprehended -the facts in this statement; and I know that he will be glad to -be corrected. It is true, then, that the actual increase of the -illiterate white vote in the Southern States during the last decade -was about the same as that of the illiterate Negro vote; 93,000 -of the one, 94,000 of the other. But how was it in 1870? In that -year there were in the Southern States 317,281 adult whites who -were illiterate, and 820,022 adult Negroes. There were at that -time considerably more than two and a half times as many Negro -illiterates as white illiterates. Now, if the Negroes have added to -their eight hundred thousand illiterates only about 94,000, while -the whites have added to their three hundred thousand about 93,000, -it seems to me that the relative increase is immensely greater -among the whites than among the Negroes. In fact, the increase -of the illiterate white vote, in the ten years, was more than -twenty-eight per cent., while the increase of the illiterate Negro -vote was only eleven and a half per cent.</p> - -<p>Dr. Haygood gives the figures with respect to several of the -States. “In Georgia,” he says, “the illiterate white voters in -1870 were 21,899; in 1880, 28,571; the illiterate Negro voters in -Georgia, in 1870, were 100,551; in 1880, 116,516.” Let us see what -these figures mean. In Georgia, in 1870, the whole number of males -of voting age was 237,640; in 1880, it was 321,438. The increase -of adult males was, therefore, about 31 per cent. But the increase -in the whole number of illiterate voters was only about 18½ per -cent. according to Dr. Haygood’s figures. The white illiterates, -however, increased 30½ per cent. while the colored illiterates -increased not quite 16 per cent.</p> - -<p>Two other States in which we are deeply interested, are reported -to us in Dr. Haygood’s figures, and, neglecting the numbers which -he gives, I will give you the percentages, which he neglects. In -Kentucky the number of male adults has increased 23 per cent. and -the whole number of illiterate voters about 21½ per cent. But -the per cent. of increase among the illiterate white voters is very -nearly 23, almost keeping up with the increase of population, where -the per cent. of increase among illiterate Negro voters is not -quite fourteen.</p> - -<p>In Tennessee the facts are still more striking. The increase in the -whole number of males of voting age was, in the ten years, about 26 -per cent., while the increase in the number of illiterate voters -was only 13 per cent. The illiterate voters increased only half as -fast as the voting population. Here, evidently, a very successful -attack has been made upon the strongholds of illiteracy. But where -have these victories been gained—among the whites or the Negroes? -Almost wholly among the latter. The number of illiterate white -voters increased during the ten years 24 percent., almost as fast -as the population, while the illiterate Negro voters increased -during the same period <em>less than five per cent.</em></p> - -<p>Taking these three States together, we find that the percentage of -increase of males of voting age was 27; of illiterate voters, 18; -of illiterate white voters, 25; of illiterate Negro voters, 12.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[388]</a></p> - -<p>Now these figures completely overthrow the statement that the -increase of illiteracy is relatively greater among the Negroes -than among the whites. They show that the proportions are all the -other way, tremendously the other way; the difference between the -two races is startling. The whites are gaining a little in this -battle with the powers of darkness; but it is very little; they -are scarcely doing more than hold their own; but the Negroes are -gaining splendidly; it is to them that the large increase in the -percentage of intelligent voters is mainly due.</p> - -<p>Now what does this mean? Of course it is due to several causes. -The Negroes had had but about five years of opportunity when the -census of 1870 was taken; in 1880 they had had fifteen years of -opportunity. That a better chance has been offered them, and that -they are taking the chance that has been offered them, these -figures assure us. But they tell us something more, that, to us, is -very significant. The gains of intelligence among the Negroes in -all parts of the South have been much more rapid than those of the -whites; but they have been more rapid in these three States than in -most other parts of the South; and why? Why? Did you ever hear of -Fisk, and Berea and Atlanta? The census tables have heard of them, -if you have not.</p> - -<p>It is to the hundreds of young people that go out every year from -these colleges, and such as these, teaching in public and in -private schools pupils of their own color, that this gain in the -battle with illiteracy at the South is due. They are the children -of the light, who are waging this victorious battle with the -powers of darkness. There has been great improvement, of course, -in the public schools of the South during this decade; but in -this improvement the whites have shared as well as the blacks; -the great reasons for the more rapid advancement of the blacks -are, first, that they are more eager for instruction than the -ignorant whites, and, secondly, that they are better supplied with -teachers—missionaries of education, who not only do much to supply -the demand for knowledge already existing, but who do still more to -increase this demand.</p> - -<p>We come back, now, from our brief excursion into this fruitful and -fascinating realm of percentages, to confront again that large -mass of illiteracy that lies athwart the path of this nation. Huge -it is, but, thank God, it looks not so vast and unmanageable as -once it seemed. It is growing; but the nation is growing faster; -relatively it is decreasing. It is far too formidable yet to be let -alone; so long as ignorance rules almost one-third of our rulers -in all of these sixteen States, no man has any right to relax -his vigilance or abate his energies. What these figures show is -simply this, that work tells; that our money is not wasted; that -our labor is not in vain in the Lord; that if we will only keep -it up with our giving and our working, if we will only see to it -that these same agencies that have done this grand work in the -past ten years are fully equipped to carry it on with increasing -vigor, we may hope to gain in the next ten years still more rapid -and decisive victories. The word that comes to every friend of -the American Missionary Association, to every benefactor in deed -or in purpose of these noble schools, is the word that Grant sent -to Sheridan after the battle of Five Forks: “Push things!” You’ve -got ’em running, these legions of ignorance and darkness; up and -after them; harry them on the flank, press them in the rear, till -they plunge like the herd of devil-pestered hogs, into the Gulf of -Mexico.</p> - -<p>You have got the forces to do this work. All you want to do is to -give them a better equipment. You want no new machinery; you only -want more power; no new organizations, but reinforcements of those -in the field.</p> - -<p>The kinds of educational work that this Association is doing -are exactly the kinds of work that must be done. The industrial -training given in some of the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[389]</a> schools is admirable; the normal -training of teachers is work whose results are immediate and -beneficent; the higher education, too, is abundantly justified. If -there are any who have doubts on this last score, I am not one of -them. There is nothing that these six millions of colored people -need to-day more than they need thoroughly educated men of their -own race to be their leaders. More than any other class in this -country, they are in danger of being misled by petty demagogues and -small philosophers. We cannot too soon furnish them with social -and political and religious guides who have been trained by severe -discipline to think clearly, to consider questions broadly and -historically, to reason judicially and dispassionately, to chasten -the exuberance and verbosity of their own people with the dignity -and judgment that are the fruits of sound learning. Such examples -of high character and broad culture scattered about here and there -among the Negro people will do more to form their ideals and direct -their progress than can be done in any other way. I tell you that -the money spent in making first-class men in these colleges is as -well invested as any other money that you spend. The only thing to -be desired about such schools as Fisk and Atlanta is that their -standards be made higher and more inflexible, year by year, and -that their work be more and more thorough, so that the diploma -shall mean in every case just as much as the diploma of Amherst or -Williams or Bowdoin.</p> - -<p>It is a Christian education that pupils are receiving in these -schools of ours. Most of the pupils who go out from them to become -pastors, teachers, lawyers, physicians, merchants, citizens, -fathers and mothers are Christian men and women; and they become -messengers of a pure Gospel, living epistles of Christ, wherever -they go. Especially as teachers do they make their influence felt. -We cannot Christianize the public school systems of the Southern -States; but if we can Christianize the teachers, that is a much -more effective service. And that is precisely what we are doing in -all these Southern schools.</p> - -<p>This Association has been promoting Christian education at the -South in quite another fashion. Gently, without censure or -denunciation, by the silent influence of Christly lives, it has -been teaching the Southern people that caste is un-Christian. It -is a great lesson; it is a lesson hard to learn; and we must not -wonder at it: the social maxims and usages of centuries are not -changed in a day. But it will be learned by and by; patience and -fidelity and sweet reasonableness in those who teach it will have -their reward in God’s good time. It only needs that we should -quietly bear our testimony and wait; the leaven may be hidden now, -but it is working; and the time will surely come, and as speedily -as it ought to come, when from churches and from schools the color -line will disappear. I do not think that the people who have -commissioned and who support this Association in its work—the -great Congregational communion, on which it mainly depends—can -propose to themselves any better sort of work than that which this -Association is doing, or can afford to carry on that work in any -other way or by any other hands. It is true, as the figures I have -quoted have shown, that the colored people have received most of -the benefit of this work, and that the whites have profited by it -but little. This is true of the educational work, and of the church -work as well. But it is not because the schools and churches of -this Association are not open to whites and blacks on equal terms. -It is simply because they <em>are</em> open to whites and blacks on equal -terms. This is the only reason why the whites do not generally -avail themselves of these excellent advantages. It is because the -basis on which these schools and churches rest is frankly and -thoroughly Christian—because caste is not tolerated in them—that -the white people of the South have held aloof from them. For the -present, until their convictions and feelings on<a class="pagenum" name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[390]</a> this subject -shall have changed, the white people of the South will, generally, -hold themselves aloof from any church or school that rests on this -basis, no matter by whom it may be administered. Any society that -is as frankly and thoroughly Christian as this society has always -been, will have the same difficulty in reaching the whites that -this society experiences.</p> - -<p>It is possible that churches or schools might be established at -the South, nominally open to both races, but really intended -exclusively for the whites, into which some whites could be drawn. -You might put it into the constitution that no distinctions of -color were recognized in the church, and you might still keep -saying: “Of course colored people are welcome here, if they want to -come; but we think they will be happier and better off in churches -of their own.” Probably the colored people would not accept this -kind of welcome; and possibly some whites would be satisfied -with this method of establishing the color line. It would be an -effective method, no doubt. But is this the sort of thing that the -people calling themselves Congregationalists want to do? For one I -feel sure that it is not worth doing. I don’t believe that we can -afford to propagate two kinds of Congregationalism down there, one -of which is frankly and bravely Christian in its dealings with the -caste of color, and the other of which is, to say the least, less -frankly Christian, consenting, by its silence, to the maintenance -of the color line. Such a policy seems to me something other than -Christian, something less than Christian: and I, for my part, have -no time and no money to spend in propagating a Congregationalism -that is broader or narrower, or higher or lower, or tighter or -looser than simple Christianity. When our zeal for the propagation -of Congregationalism leads us to slur over the everlasting verities -of Christ’s kingdom, it is leading in doubtful ways.</p> - -<p>It has been said that this Association is handicapped by its -record and its methods in the work of reaching the whites of the -South. Perhaps it is. So was He handicapped in His work among -the Pharisees, of whom it was said: “Why eateth your Master with -publicans and sinners?” The burden it is bearing is the cross of -Christ; nothing else. It has gone down into humiliation with its -Master to succor and save these His brethren. Would it be better -for the Association to fling aside this burden? Would it be wise -for any other society going down into that field to work to refuse -to take it up or to try to hide it from the sight of men?</p> - -<p>The disability under which this Association labors is its glory. -And I do not believe that it will prove to be a permanent -impediment in its work. No; that cannot be. I believe in the -victorious might of Christian principles. The heroic faith and -patience of the men and women who have been toiling there so long -among Christ’s little ones, identifying themselves with the lowly -and giving their lives for them, neither striving nor crying -against the scorn that has greeted them, reviled but reviling -not again, must triumph in the end. It is the one power that is -irresistible. The barriers of caste will go down before it, and -the color line will no longer stain the threshold of the Christian -Church.</p> - -<p>So, then, I do not believe that we, as Congregationalists, need any -other agency in the Southern field than the one that has wrought -there so nobly in the years now past. I am sure that even the -educational work of this Association would be obstructed by the -entrance of any other missionary organization into this field. -Because I love and honor the Home Missionary Society, I do not want -to see it compromise itself or imperil the interests of Christ’s -kingdom at the South by turning from its proper work, its urgent -work, to try a doubtful experiment. And I trust this Association, -in all love and kindness, but with all needful frankness,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[391]</a> will -express its wishes in this matter. Two little boys were astride of -a hobby-horse, and the one who was riding ahead was being crowded -out of the saddle, and was clinging with some difficulty to the -neck of the wooden steed. Finally he ventured: “Jimmy, don’t you -think if one of us should get off I could ride a little better?” -I hope that the American Missionary Society will say, by her -representatives here, to her honored sister, the American Home -Missionary Society: “Don’t you think that if one of us should keep -out of this Southern field, I could do my work in it a little -better?” I am sure that she has earned the right to express this -wish, and I have not the slightest fear that the wish will not be -heeded.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF PROF. C. G. FAIRCHILD.</h2> - - -<p>From the trend of the discussion this morning I find that a -large responsibility has drifted into my hands. There is among -the churches in the North a deep, unmistakable interest in those -long-neglected ignorant whites of the South. It is a difficult -problem to tell how to turn this into channels that shall benefit -these people without on the one hand neglecting the work already -undertaken by this Association or, on the other, giving some -suspicion of countenancing a color line and perhaps bringing a -clashing of interests between sister societies. In the report -on education just received, special attention was turned to the -mountain whites. Perhaps the solution of our difficulties may be -found here. Certainly there will arise in your minds no suspicion -of waning interest in the colored people or sympathy with caste on -the part of those who have heretofore been closely connected with -this mountain work at Berea College and the surrounding regions. -It is their unanimous conviction that work undertaken for these -mountain people with firm faith in Christian brotherhood and -unswerving courage will assist in unfurling upon a higher masthead -the broad motto borne on the seal of Berea College for twenty-five -years past: “God hath made of one blood all nations of men.”</p> - -<p>The term “mountain” stands for much more than appears at first. -It stands for a larger, more inviting and fertile section than -many are aware of. It comprises a stretch of country commencing in -the Virginias and extending to Alabama, 500 miles one way by 200 -the other. Much of the land, not simply in valleys, but also upon -the benches of hillsides and even upon the broad mountain tops, -is as fertile as the better known sections of the South. At the -base of these hills lies an untold wealth of coal, iron and other -minerals which is, as yet, almost untouched, while the summits of -these hills are still crowned with the virgin forests. This country -supports now a population of two millions, though its capabilities -are wretchedly developed. The growth since the war in these regions -has been at almost double the ratio of that of other parts of the -South.</p> - -<p>But the term “mountain” bespeaks a country with different -social and political characteristics. Slavery had no use for a -self-respectful, laboring white man. The badge of manual labor was -a badge of servile degradation. Of two brothers one would chance -to get a little start, own a few slaves and all society would spur -him onward. The other, less fortunate at the start, would slip -away to some mountain hamlet and lead an uneventful, unambitious -life and bring up a large family in utter ignorance. He plodded on -his way, working only as necessity compelled him, instinctively -hating slavery, slave-owners and slaves. Thus slavery rejected not -simply this broken mountainous country, but the large class of -whites which inhabited this region. If the North cares to dignify -physical labor in the South, if it feels the need of a class that -has a natural love for free, republican institutions, if<a class="pagenum" name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[392]</a> it cares -to have the common-school system take rooting in the soil, if -it desires a class of whites that shall be the wise, consistent -friends of the colored people, perhaps it may find that this large -body of whites rejected by slavery will prove the effective agency -under the divine planning for this purpose. The stone which the -builders rejected may become the head of the corner.</p> - -<p>But one or two railroads cross this section. There are few towns -of any importance, and a man who should own $10,000 worth of -property would be the great man for twenty miles around. They are -an agricultural people, each family living on its own little farm -of 50 to 100 acres, the homestead often having been handed down -through two or three generations. The houses range from the painted -and unpainted frame house of four to six rooms to the very common -little log hut of one to two rooms where you will find huddled -together at night a father and mother, and children of every age, -and you yourself if you happen to be their guest. The most that is -needed for family wants, from corn and bacon to tobacco, is raised -by themselves. Often such a family will not see $50 in cash the -year round. Even the old hand looms find a friendly shelter in -those Rip Van Winkle hollows. A man who moved from these regions -to Berea, that he might give his seven children an education, wore -upon his back his carefully preserved wedding suit, the wool for -which he himself had cut from the backs of his father’s sheep, and -which his mother, after spinning, and weaving, and dyeing with -butternut bark, had cut and made for him. A little shovel plough, -a hand-made hoe, and an unkempt mule with a straw collar make up -the agricultural outfit. The schoolhouse is a log hut sometimes -without doors and windows, or even a floor. For religious services, -dependence is placed upon the chance visits of an exhorter who -sometimes cannot read, and is even proud of getting his inspiration -at first hand. There is a section of Eastern Kentucky, 200 miles -one way by 100 the other, that has not a settled minister of any -denomination. Some hesitate about extending the work of this -Association beyond the blacks, but they need have little scruple -here, for this section of the map of our country is black through -illiteracy. More than half of the adult white population native -born, of the same stock and lineage that furnished from the more -favored sections the Clays and Breckenridges, that gave to this -country Abraham Lincoln—more than half of this white population -cannot read or write. Thus, not on the farther side of broad -oceans, or even the distant borders of our land, but right at hand -in the very heart of the best settled and most cultured part of our -country lies this territory, vast in extent, utterly neglected by -all uplifting agencies in the past, peculiarly susceptible to the -awakening influences of the changed social conditions at the South, -where there is an ignorance so dense that when we remember that -they are our brothers and sisters, not by Christian ties simply -but by direct blood and lineage, we must hang our heads in shame. -Surely if the Church at the North is sighing for new worlds to -conquer, what more claim can there possibly be upon its attention -and benevolence?</p> - -<p>It is a matter of congratulation that this work can be entered upon -by this Association at once and with vigor, without embarrassment -or exciting in any quarter criticism or suspicion. It is idle for -us to suppose that the social growth of generations enforced by -ignorance, savage heredity and marked physical characteristics, -has wasted away in less than a score of years. More vital than -any political problem or the growth of any special church polity -is the question whether the time can ever come in this country -when the negro in debating his chances and opportunities in life -shall not be made to feel that his color is a drawback to him. -In working out the solution of this problem this Association has -borne a part that is<a class="pagenum" name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[393]</a> fast challenging the respect of the South -and the admiration of the North. This is a vantage ground that it -is hazardous to yield. The work of this Association is understood -everywhere to mean that nothing less than the utter demolishment -of every barrier in the upward progress of the negro race will -satisfy it. If, therefore, the churches lay upon it this further -work, we feel sure that not only by heritage will it prove true -to these fundamental principles, but that the workers at present -in the South will exercise an Argus-eyed vigilance that nowhere -shall there be a shadow of a suspicion that the spirit of caste has -influenced its action. Without rashness on one hand or neglecting -its opportunities on the other, the churches at the North can -thus safely gratify their present earnest and commendable, though -somewhat tardy, desire to benefit the needy whites of the South by -asking this Association to turn its attention specially to these -mountain whites.</p> - -<p>The friends of this Association should also remember that the man -whose name as a missionary has been the longest on your roll, the -Rev. John G. Fee, was born at the base of these Kentucky hills. -You should remember, too, that the men who made an anti-slavery -church and school in a slavery State years before the war were -these mountain whites. This Association nursed its firstborn on -these mountain slopes. As patriots, some of whose sons sleep on -that Southern soil, you should remember that this whole section -was loyal in the battle for a united country unstained by slavery. -West Virginia parted from the parent State under this patriotic -impulse. Some mountain counties in Kentucky sent more men into the -Union army than they had liable to military duty. Surely gratitude -for such help in that struggle is not so dead at the North that it -will not say to this Association: “If you have the opportunity by -churches and schools to repay in part the debt we owe, we will see -that you have the money and the men.”</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>REPORT ON CHURCH WORK.</h2> - - -<p>Your Committee finds in the report of the Executive Committee for -the past year, proof of healthy and steady growth in the work of -planting churches. The report records the organization of six new -churches, viz., McLeansville, N.C.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Birmingham, -Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Fayetteville, Ark.; and Belle Place, La., -and one new State Association of six churches in Miss.; making the -whole number of churches eighty-nine, and of State Associations -eight. The additions to these churches during the past year have -been six hundred and sixty-seven; the number of scholars gathered -in the church and Mission Sunday-schools has been nine thousand -four hundred and four; the contributions for church work $12,027.21 -and for benevolent purposes $1,049.35.</p> - -<p>We are glad to find it to be the distinct aim of the Society to -press its work of evangelization to its consummation in Christian -churches, and that while its educational and industrial work must -from the nature of the case be general in its character, the -obligation is recognized to gather up the result, so far and as -fast as opportunity affords, in a more specific and permanent form. -An intelligent Christianity, such as is fostered in the academies, -seminaries and colleges maintained by the Society, demands a -church-polity that gives scope to the developed manhood and retains -it in a process of growth. Our work would be but half done did -we leave those brought under its influence to fall back into old -methods and be lost in the mass of ignorance and superstition.</p> - -<p>The Association was debarred from this distinctive work at first, -but when soon after the war, others, who had contributed to the -funds of this Society, seeing the magnitude of the undertaking, -wisely began efforts of their own, the Association<a class="pagenum" name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[394]</a> was left to -the support of the Congregational churches, it directed its labors -to this end. This distinctive church-planting work began in 1867. -In that year the Society organized three churches. The statistics -of its growth in this direction are summarized thus: In 1867 there -were three churches; in 1870 there were twenty-three; in 1875, -fifty-six; in 1880, seventy-three; in 1883, eighty-nine. The -membership now numbers five thousand nine hundred and seventy-four, -an average of sixty-seven to each church. Every church but two has -a pastor, and eighty of the eighty-nine have their own houses of -worship. These churches give promise of permanency. They have not -sprung from a division or denominational spirit, and are not the -representations of restlessness or the mere desire to try some new -thing. Their roots are laid deep in the Christian education of the -schools, and their organization expresses the need of the growing -intelligence of those who compose them. Churches made of such -material, formed upon the New Testament plan, have thus far been -stable; those first formed are among the strongest.</p> - -<p>Nor are these churches isolated and independent. They have -recognized the principle of the fellowship of the churches and have -grouped themselves into eight State Conferences, thus giving to -our polity an example and an acknowledged position in that great -section of our land. It is gratifying to find from the reports that -the methods of this church-government are readily apprehended by -the members of these churches, and that in the order and discipline -of the individual churches and in the management of their councils -and conferences, they are showing capacity for self-control.</p> - -<p>This body of churches, so well organized and underlaid by Christian -schools, presents a record of sixteen years’ effort that does no -discredit to the Congregational name.</p> - -<p>While anxious for a more rapid growth in the future, and wishing -to extend the good influences which we believe will be felt by the -establishment of such churches, we would commend the wisdom and -prudence that have seized upon strong centers and have avoided the -hasty multiplication of churches for the sake of members. While -urging for the future the utmost watchfulness for opportunity and -the pushing of this branch of the work of the Association, we -express the hope that what is done be well done, that no discredit -may come to the cause of Christ, as represented by the churches of -our polity. It is not number but might that tells in the formation -processes of a people. A single church of genuine substance, -rightly constituted and ordered and working outward, is a germ -around which a whole community will take form. More than numbers, -the inherent vitality of this molds and fashions after the ideas -and principles with which it is charged. It has vitalizing and -organic power in it, and kindling the intelligence and awakening -the responsibility of its own members, it leads and sways the -people around it. It may work dimly for a time amid the surrounding -chaos, but presently as the social fabric thus woven is brought to -light, the figure appears and it commends itself as a true church -of Christ.</p> - -<p>But the work so well begun ought soon to be greatly enlarged. -The rapid growth of the colored population gives emphasis to -this—a growth that so far outstrips the means of education and -spiritual improvement as to leave a constantly increasing number -of illiterate voters and of degraded people. The benevolent -societies of the North, of every name and order, ought to multiply -their efforts for training the needed teachers—the business and -professional men, the mechanics and the educated and consecrated -ministers. Meantime, as the higher education of some advances, -there will be more and more demand for churches of our order. We -say this not from denominational feeling. We hold no invasive<a class="pagenum" name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[395]</a> -attitude. We stir no controversy. We aim not at division, but -believing that the apostolic method of gathering churches is the -true one, that in its fluent and free adaptation, its simplicity -of form and order, in its investing Christ as the immediate Head -of each local church, in its putting the individual members upon -responsibility, and thus setting them to the study of God’s Word -for authority and the dependence upon the Divine Spirit for -guidance—that in this free and fraternal way of ordering the -churches there is a molding power for good beyond others, and -remembering its working and product elsewhere, we desire such fruit -of it all abroad.</p> - -<p>That Providence which always surpasses our thought in preparing -its agencies has given us for this work this Association with -its schools and machinery, its knowledge of the needs of the -section where its greatest efforts have been put forth. Started -with no expectation of founding churches, it yet has nothing in -its constitution limiting it to one kind of effort nor to any one -class or race. Its schools are open to all. Its churches are simply -Christian churches. It goes to teach and preach and to elevate the -masses. That is what is needed—no distinction of caste or class, -and in the organization of churches the recognition of a regenerate -membership on the principle that mankind are of one blood and on -the fellowship of all Christians.</p> - -<p>While practically its work has been mainly among the freedmen, -and while it may continue for some time to find itself limited to -them, theoretically its work is for all, and it should hold fast to -that principle. It should never form some churches for black men -and other churches for white men; but always Christian churches -for Christian men and women. We should deprecate any line drawn -in the Christian church based on difference in wealth, in social -position, in education, in color, in sex, in previous condition. -The only line to be drawn there is between those who give good -evidence of renewed hearts and those who do not. We recognize this -as the principle governing this Association, and therefore commend -it as the adequate agency for the evangelizing work of our churches -in the South. May it be abundantly sustained by the prayers and -sympathies and means of our churches at the North, and may it soon -find an open door through the ignorance and the prejudice by which -it is surrounded and be free to work among all classes at the South.</p> - -<p>And looking at the work already commenced among the freedmen, what -a goodly field is opened before us! What a beneficent influence we -can exert, not only on the seven millions in our own land, who are -part of our body politic, but upon a whole race counted by its many -millions in different parts of the world! What stores of prophetic -power are lodged in every true church we establish! We have but the -merest hint and initial sign in the little bands now gathered of -the possibilities lying before us!</p> - -<p>We commend this work to the churches at the North, and plead that -these older churches cherish a lively and effective interest in -all this outgrowth of themselves. There is danger that there may -be abatement of interest in this direction, and that the fostering -hand and special sympathy these weak churches, now that they are -churches, need in their struggles, be withheld. That distinctive -feature of Congregationalism which marks it off from sheer -independency needs to be emphasized. There are claims of community -in faith and order that should be gladly owned, and perfect -understanding and interchange should be cherished between all parts -of this fellowship of saints, mutual confidence and the gracious -tenderness of a love deeper than any kinship of race should cement -us in one.</p> - -<p>By our liberal things we shall stand. We have sent men and women -and means with large generosity, that inquired not whether -they served our own denomination<a class="pagenum" name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[396]</a> or another, if only Christ’s -cause be promoted. The work already done is a fair movement to -self-forgetful charity. We should now make our beneficence more -and more the channel of grace and fellowship to brethren whom we -have made brethren. If we do indeed hold this church polity on such -terms of intelligence as to make it fit to hold it at all, if it be -no fault of the awakened ones at the South that they hold it, then -what has been so good and fruitful here we should make strong and -fruitful there. And if this Association has come in its legitimate -growth to the establishment of self-governed churches, accept them -as our own. Our seal is on them from the first. The time is ripe -for larger advance, and for more confidence in our own work.</p> - -<p>It is with gratitude we acknowledge the liberal plan with which -this Association is now supplementing its evangelizing and teaching -work with the timely and necessary work of church erection. It is -part of the same work. Nearly fourscore neat and serviceable church -edifices have already arisen under its auspices. No better work -and none looking more to permanent results has been done. Many a -missionary and pastor has found his work at once enlarged and all -his means of good multiplied, when the house of God has been given -him by its aid. And every such edifice stands forth as an eloquent -witness of your loving care for the people of the South, and serves -as a bond of union between the distant parts of our land.</p> - -<p>The same divine ordinance that opened this field to us, prescribes -our work in it. Now that our mission reveals itself, shall we -not accept it thankfully, impress ourselves purposely on this -vast field, and let the poor of all classes feel the strength of -Christian community and fellowship—for we are one?</p> - -<p class="signature"> - <span class="smcap">Lewellyn Pratt</span>, Chairman. -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. T. P. PRUDDEN.</h2> - - -<p>Assuming that the church work of the Association was not for -sectarian propagandism, but for saving men from sin and its -consequences, he proceeded:</p> - -<p>Is it not evident, first of all, that the Church of Christ is -<em>the</em> great and divinely ordained instrument for establishing the -Kingdom of God? Schools are undoubtedly instruments. But their -place is to supplement, not supplant, the Church. In that long line -of Christian work which, beginning at Jerusalem, has well-nigh -encircled the world, has not the Church of Christ been the chief -machinery through which the good seed of the Gospel has been sown -and the crop harvested, through which Christ’s servants have done -his work, through which a goodly influence has been exerted, -and through which Christian institutions have been founded and -preserved? We are seeking the civilization of a down-trodden race, -but what force was ever such a civilizer as the Christian Church?</p> - -<p>Church work is necessary if we are to retain and conserve the -results of school work. Let secular education train a man, and he -becomes more polished and better equipped for life and work. He -has greater power, but it may be a power for sin and selfishness, -as truly as for God and righteousness. Let Christian education -work upon him as it does in the schools of this Association, he -is still more polished, he has a spiritual life. Not when in -school, but when the school is left, is the Church most necessary. -The influence of the college cannot be about a man in his home, -the influence of the Church can. The help of a teacher is -transient, the help of a pastor and the associations of a church -are permanent. To expect these to retain the best fruits of that -Christian education which this Association is so widely diffusing, -unless churches take up, and carry<a class="pagenum" name="Page_397" id="Page_397">[397]</a> on what the schools have begun, -is to expect more of the colored race, with its inheritance of -degradation, and slavery and little training, than we expect of the -white race with its inheritance of Christianity and freedom, and -abundant training.</p> - -<p>Closely allied to this is the need of church work to withstand -the evils that are incident to awakened thought and increased -knowledge. The air is laden with a sentiment of irreligion. -Educating a freedman is breaking up the hard sod of ignorance -in which such seeds of evil fall without taking root, providing -instead a soil that is very receptive.</p> - -<p>As our educational work is, and must be, destructive of the -religion of the old slave days, it becomes more emphatically our -duty to provide a positive and intelligent religion to take the -place of that which we destroy. Not to do so is to bring a possible -curse along with our good. Moreover, churches must furnish zealous -men and woman, whom education may prepare to do the Lord’s work. It -is not enough to rely upon the possibility of conversion while the -students are in college. The Church has an earlier and a broader -opportunity. It forms the homes and the influences that form the -children. A vast proportion of the pastors and missionaries of -the North have gone to college as Christians, instead of becoming -Christians when there. They have come from Christian homes. They -were sent by Christian parents whose love for God and man was -planted and trained in Christ’s Church.</p> - -<p>And, brethren, need I remind you that we are sowing for a slowly -maturing harvest.</p> - -<p>The special work for the colored race to do in this country and in -Africa is appalling, by reason of its vastness. And when we ask how -it shall be done, I affirm that the churches of Christ in the South -are to be great instruments. Successful foreign missions require -vigorous home missions. Do you smile at the idea of these feeble -churches ever furnishing financial support? One of them is reported -this year as giving $90 to this Association, $70 to the American -Board, $77 to home missions, while it spent $687 for itself.</p> - -<p>The time of defense and apology for church work is passed. It is no -longer an experiment. The night of doubt and preparation has gone. -The morning of small things when, waiting for more abundant light, -we moved with commendable slowness, has opened and glided on into -the broad full day. Now we can do what we never could before.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.</h2> - - -<p>Your Committee on Finance beg leave to report that they have -carefully examined the books of account and the various annual -statements of the Treasurer, and that as statements of the business -done by the Association they find them all in the most satisfactory -condition. The books are kept by a simple but comprehensive system -of double entry, by which a double-system of checks against error -is provided, and individual and representative accounts are -each kept in proper form. The annual statements of receipts and -expenditures, of investments, of permanent funds and of real estate -held by the Association are all properly certified to as correct by -the Auditors. The committee commend the financial administration of -the Association for its economy and faithfulness.</p> - -<p>The permanent funds held in trust by the Association, the income -of which is used according to the direction of the donors, amounts -to $203,863.60. These funds are invested mostly in U.S. government -bonds and in first mortgages on productive<a class="pagenum" name="Page_398" id="Page_398">[398]</a> real estate, which are -an ample security for the amounts which they represent. The entire -safety of these investments speaks well for the financial officers -of the Association, and the wisely conservative regulations of the -by-laws of the Executive Committee regarding investments warrants -the fullest confidence in the continued security of funds committed -to their care.</p> - -<p>The permanent investment of the Association in lands and buildings -for church and educational purposes in the South, of which it holds -undisputed titles in its own name, is inventoried at $483,370. -Berea College, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, and -Fisk and Atlanta Universities hold their own property by their -own boards of trustees. The estimated present value of all these -properties amounts to at least one million of dollars.</p> - -<p>Here are a million dollars worth of tools and machinery, all in -good running order, exactly adapted to the business in hand and -located at the best possible points for doing it. Does not this -fact appeal mightily to the churches to see to it that this great -investment which they have made be used to the best possible -advantage? He would be a poor business man, who would invest a -million of dollars in a “plant” and then scrimp his business for -lack of current funds. That would be a poor business, which with -that amount of money well invested for its purposes could not -secure the working capital necessary to use it to its full capacity.</p> - -<p>It takes a long time and much hard work to gather from the -benevolent a million dollars and to expend it judiciously in the -erection of churches, school-houses and colleges. Every dollar of -this money is freighted with prayer and winged with love. It will -be found again presently as treasure laid up in heaven. It is like -an inspiration to think how much of Christ’s spirit is represented -in these buildings built for the love of Him. But they must be -used. The very stones and brick will cry out against us, if we -neglect to follow up what has been done with still greater work in -the future.</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee in their annual report call for one -thousand dollars a day, as needed for current expenses the coming -year. In order to raise this sum the ordinary contributions must be -increased to $225,000, an advance of one-half over last year. In -view of the great issues at stake, and the unexampled opportunities -of the Association for doing its work, your Finance Committee -recommend that this increase be made.</p> - -<p>Let this be the key-note of our appeals this year: <em>One thousand -dollars a day; 50 per cent. advance on all contributions.</em></p> - -<p>All of which is most respectfully submitted,</p> - -<p class="signature"> - <span class="smcap">Erastus Blakeslee</span>, for the Committee. -</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. D. O. MEARS, D.D.</h2> - - -<p>Now the question comes right here: shall we give according to what -we are, or what we have? One of the largest contributors in New -England told me the story of his conversion the other day, and it -was this, as we sat in the evening by his fireside. “My wife and -I,” he said, “had acquired a competence; money seemed to be coming -in. I had been brought up outside the Christian faith, and while -such a one was preaching on one occasion I debated the question: -Can I become a Christian? My wife found the light and for days I -wrestled with the question. Light would not come. I knew what it -was; it was my pocket book; shall that be<a class="pagenum" name="Page_399" id="Page_399">[399]</a> included? When I decided -my pocketbook for Christ, then light broke in; and,” said he in -that narration, as a fit appendix to the whole, “I have never put -my means in any place where I have ever lost in all my experience.”</p> - -<p>It is said that after the events at Pentecost, Andrew went down -to China and preached and that Thomas also, whose finger ached to -pierce the nail-torn hands of his Master and whose fist was almost -doubled that it might be thrust into that pierced side, went down -to China to preach the everlasting Gospel. Now 75,000 of that -race, whose great engineering works were the world’s marvel 250 -years before the call of Abraham, whose emperor wrote a classic -a thousand years before David touched his sacred pen, are at our -very doors; and if it was worth while for Andrew and Thomas to go -from Jerusalem to China it is worth our work to preach to them and -teach them and call them to us when they are so near, is it not? I -remember it is written in the prophets, as I suppose Matthew read, -“Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God,” and Ethiopia -received the preaching of Matthew, so say many. I remember that -Mark founded the church in the upper part of that dark continent. -I remember that when our blessed Master fainted under the cross -it was an African who put his brawny shoulder under it and walked -by the side of our Lord, his Lord, to the crucifixion. And almost -as a revenge, though not revenge, Simon, the zealot, who looked -to Africa, was crucified himself in lower Egypt. If these thought -it worth while to evangelize Africa, what shall we say of the -7,000,000 of Africa’s sons at our very doors?</p> - -<p>The question now comes: Can we give? Is there money enough to give? -There is an article in the “Century” for November, I think it is, -which states, after computation from two cities of considerable -size, that four-fifths of the inhabitants were attendants upon -church services. The figures struck me with absolute astonishment -and consternation. And, you remember, a year ago it was said -that fully one-fifth of all the property in the United States, -according to calculation, is held in the hands of Christians. I -saw this so late that I had not time to go over it extensively; -so I took the single city of Worcester. I took the 322 highest -tax-payers in that city, and I called on a man who I supposed knew -best the church-going habits and pew-owning property of these -leading business men, and I said: “Will you tell me where this one -goes and that one goes?” We marked them off last Sunday night, -and of the whole 322 we found only 65 whom we did not know to be -church-goers; and it is safe to say from the percentage that 25 -of the 65 were church-goers—men who belonged to families that we -felt sure would attend the house of God. We knew that 255 attended -church; and adding the 25 that were doubtful, we had 280 out of -320 of the leading men in the city of Worcester that attend the -Protestant churches in that city. Take the banks. There are eleven -banks in Worcester, and we went over the names of the directors -and trustees. Out of the entire number (there were two unknown) we -found only three individuals that were not represented in a church, -and two of these were the same man—that is, one was a director in -two banks.</p> - -<p>Now, what is the use? Shall we say that the money belongs to the -evil and the piety to the good? The piety and the money, the heart -and the gold, are ever in the church. We are reading of a house to -be put up in a celebrated watering-place that will cost $750,000. -I saw that in the city of New York the land where that great -opera-house is, brought the sum of $700,000. The owner of this -property in either case would keep two great organizations like -this going; and I said, “What! do we want some of that money that -is to build that summer resort by the sea?” No, we don’t want it. -“But we would like some of that money that is beneath that splendid -building that is costing its millions?” No; we don’t want it.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_400" id="Page_400">[400]</a> If -men will build houses for self, let the Christian do his work for -the Master, and let us outdo the world.</p> - -<p>But I must hasten. There is this demand of the nation upon us. -It is said that Robert Peel was riding with his daughter on her -birthday—he had given her a splendid riding habit, and the two -were admired by all who saw them, and the father looked with pride -upon his daughter—and in less than a week the daughter was beneath -the sod. The seamstress had sewed the habit while sitting by the -side of the bed of her husband groaning under the delirium of -the typhus; and in the chill that came upon him she had cast the -garment over him. The typhus of the garret became the typhus of -that celebrated house. And we are concerned with the swamps, with -the morasses, with these debased and poor colored people. We cannot -afford to be other. I would, if there were time, enlarge upon this -in connection with the report so admirably given; but I must pass -on.</p> - -<p>It is said that the Puritan captain Hodgdon was riding one day -at the head of his company near the mountains when he heard the -sound of a bugle. As he heard it he said to his soldiers: “Halt!” -and every man leaned on his arms. “List! I love to hear the sound -of the bugle: there is so much of God in it.” Yesterday came the -report from the counties of Kentucky. It was a bugle-blast to this -assembly. Was God in it? 500,000 people who could not read their -names, though written in characters that might be read 100 rods -off—500,000 illiterate, ten years of age and above, in Kentucky, -Tennessee and West Virginia! From the mountains there comes the -sound of the bugle that has stirred us. Did it wake us up? Was God -in it? I heard a voice in that sound. We are told in our press and -from our platforms that the A. M. A. is not doing full work in the -South, and other helpers must come. Wait. Don’t hurry. The bugle -has sounded; it was God that was sounding it. I ask for no vote -of this assembly. I call for no show of hands. Yet, if you wait -before God, you must answer in the name of this world to his call: -“I ordain you to go and devote $50,000 to the mountain work, in -Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia.” It must be done. There is -no drawing back.</p> - -<p>It is said that when Robert Bruce was marching to meet Edward, and -came within sight of the glittering sheen, he said to his soldiers, -“Kneel down, every one”; and the army of Robert Bruce, with their -eyes to the earth and their lips moving, offered their prayers to -God, then rose up—a little army—and defeated the English. It was -God’s voice that sounded like a bugle. It is for the soldiers to -pray, and to fall where the bugle calls.</p> - -<p>One other point only, briefly, in regard to this question of the -demand that Christ makes on us. We must never establish a condition -that he has not established; never set up a standard which he -has not set up; but follow him and receive the blessing while we -follow. It was the remark of Augustus that he found Rome of brick -and left it of marble. Our fathers, a century ago, found this -nation half slave and half free. It is now left a free nation. God -grant it may become, by Christian effort, as good as it is free! In -a dark day of our war when the armies were failing, and the hopes -of the nation were placed in Lincoln and Lincoln lost hope, when -our courage depended upon him and our flag seemed as if about to be -rent by an unseen hand—when Lincoln said, “I see no hope”, for the -rush of the armies seemed away from the South and up back to the -North, Stanton uttered the words that gave courage to his heart: -“Weary man, don’t you know that the churches of the North are -everywhere praying for you?” And the weary look passed away from -his face, and the smile came back to its wonted place. The children -of Father Abraham need the prayers of the churches of Christ.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_401" id="Page_401">[401]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT GIVING.</h2> - -<p class="secauth">BY REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.</p> - - -<p>In his sermon entitled “How to be a Christian in Trade,” a -discourse which illustrates the wonderful combination of practical -sagacity with spiritual insight, for which he was so remarkable, -Dr. Bushnell says that “the great problem we have now on hand is -the Christianizing of the money power of the world,” and again -that “what we wait for, and are looking hopefully to see, is the -consecration of the vast money power of the world to the work, and -cause, and kingdom of Jesus Christ. For that day, when it comes, -is the morning, so to speak, of the new creation. That tide-wave -in the money power can as little be resisted when God brings it -on as the tides of the sea; and like these also it will flow -across the world in a day.” This witness is true, and it becomes -us all, to pray and labor for the fulfilment of the prophecy that -men shall come, “their silver and their gold with them, unto the -name of the Lord our God.” But here the revival must begin in the -Church itself. In former times we have had revivals with distinct -characteristics. One was remarkable for the blessing which rested -on preaching, another for the spirit of prayer which seemed to be -poured out on the people generally; another for the interest that -was evoked in the study of the Scriptures. What we have yet to -see is a revival of which the chief distinguishing feature shall -be liberal giving to the cause of the Lord Jesus, and when that -comes it will be the prophecy of yet grander things for the promise -“prove me now herewith if I will not open you the windows of heaven -and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to -receive it,” was made, not in connection with an exhortation to -prayer, as so many who quote it seem to believe, but with immediate -reference to the honoring of God with our substance, for thus it -runs: “Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, and prove -me now herewith.” While, therefore, it is true that a spirit of -liberality in the support of the cause of Christ must be a fruit of -renewed life in the Church, it is also true that its manifestation -by the Church will be the forerunner of such spiritual triumphs -as it has never yet achieved. Thus it is of great moment that we -should use means for the awakening of Christians to a sense of the -importance of this matter, and few things, in my judgment, would -more efficiently contribute to the attainment of that end than -setting briefly and pointedly before them the teachings of the word -of God upon the subject. I cannot hope to cover all that ground in -the few minutes now at my disposal; the most I shall attempt will -be to take a general survey of it.</p> - -<p>Beginning, then, with the act of giving itself, I find that it is -spoken of as a part of self consecration to God, for when at the -close of his reign David brought out in the sight of all the people -the treasures which he had amassed for the building of the Temple -and sought to incite them to make an offering for the same purpose, -he said, “Who then is willing to consecrate his service this day -unto the Lord?” It is regarded as an act of worship, for God -commanded his people to “come into his courts and bring an offering -with them.” It is described by Paul as a “grace.” When writing to -the Corinthians he said, “Therefore as ye abound in everything, -in faith and utterance and knowledge, and in all diligence and -in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.” Only -think of it—“as ye abound in utterance, so abound in this grace -also.” What a blessed thing it would be in this America of ours, on -which the gift of tongues seems to have been so lavishly bestowed, -if Christians generally were as fluent in giving as they are in -speech! It is referred to again and again as a “communion” in such -passages as these: “Let him that is taught in the word communicate -to”—that is, have<a class="pagenum" name="Page_402" id="Page_402">[402]</a> communion with Him, that teacheth in all good -things, “to do good and to communicate forget not,” or, as it might -be given more literally, “Of well doing and of communion be not -forgetful, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.” In the -same sense Paul, who had just received a gift from the Philippians, -thanks God for their “fellowship,” that is, “communion” in the -gospel from the first day until now; and praises them for having -done well in communicating, or rather, for the word is the same, in -having communion with his affliction; while he records it to their -credit that no church communicated with him; or, for the word is -still the same, “had communion with him in the matter of giving -and receiving but they only.” To the same effect he says to the -Corinthians that the churches of Macedonia had begged him to take -upon him the “fellowship,”—that is, “communion”—of ministering to -the saints in carrying to Jerusalem their gifts to the poor of that -city, and he urges his readers to accept a part in the same service -that God might be glorified for “their liberal distribution”—that -is, for the liberality of the communion, for so the word still -is, “unto them and unto all men.” And to mention only one other -passage, the same apostle in his Epistle to the Romans bids his -readers “distribute to the necessities of the saints,”—that -is, for the word is still the same, “hold communion with the -necessities of the saints.” Thus the making of contributions for -benevolence in every form of it in which the Church is engaged is -as really a communion service as is the observance of the Lord’s -Supper. The same word is used in reference to both, and both alike -are manifestations of the oneness of all the people of Christ in -their common Lord. If this were more generally understood and felt -by us I am sure that we should all have greater enjoyment in that -part of the service on which so many look with disfavor, the making -of a contribution; for that, as Paul gives us to understand, is -only the manifestation by us in another form of the fellowship -which we show forth when the bread and wine of the supper are -passed from hand to hand among us. In this view of the case it is -to be feared that there are far more “<em>close</em>” communionists in the -Church than those who are commonly so denominated, and it may be -well for us to take the beam out of our own eyes before we seek to -become oculists to others.</p> - -<p>Further, this giving is distinctly spoken of in the New Testament -as a privilege. Remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He said -“It is more blessed,” that is, it is a greater happiness “to give -than to receive.” In many enterprises in which men engage the cost -is more than the profit, “the play” as the French proverb has it, -“is not worth the candle,” but here there is always blessing; -blessing in the consciousness that we have the means of doing good; -blessing in entering into fellowship with God, whose happiness is -all that of giving out; and blessing in the fact that the joy of -the recipient comes back to us and redoubles our delight.</p> - -<p>But passing now from the act itself to the reward promised to it, -we find that set before us in three different ways. It is first, -temporal. “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first -fruits of all thine increase. So shall thy barns be filled with -plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.” It is, -second, spiritual, for Paul in connection with his exhortation -to the Corinthians says: “God is able to make all grace abound -toward you, that ye always, having all sufficiency in all things, -may abound to every good work being enriched in everything to all -bountifullness.” Was there ever such a piling of universal terms -one above the other as we have here? It seems as if the apostle -could not say enough to strengthen his assertion, and it is all -said in connection with cheerful giving. Nor is this all. He goes -on to say that the gifts of the Corinthians by evoking prayers -on their behalf from the hearts of the receivers, would return -in blessings<a class="pagenum" name="Page_403" id="Page_403">[403]</a> into their own bosoms. You know how the process of -irrigation goes on in nature. All the rivers run into the ocean, -out of that the sun continually evaporates clouds, which the wind -blows back over the land, where they fall out in rain on the -mountains, and go to feed the rivers. Thus evermore the circle -is kept up and the lands are fertilized. Now in the same way the -gifts we make to God all run into the furtherance of his cause, and -are by him lifted up into the celestial region of his grace and -power, whence they descend again with new blessing into our hearts, -making both ourselves individually and the Church at large joyous -and productive. Then there is a third reward which is eternal; for -Jesus in the close of the parable of the prudent steward says: -“Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that -when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations.” -Money will not purchase our entrance into heaven. Nothing can do -that but the work of Christ; but the money which out of love to -Christ we give to his people and his cause will secure that we -shall be received in heaven by those whom we have been the means -of benefiting. As we enter they will take us by the hand and -lead us up to Him that sitteth on the throne, saying: This is he -whose efforts and whose gifts were, under thee, the means of our -being here; let it be done unto him as unto the man whom the King -delighteth to honor. And he will reply: Well done! “Inasmuch as ye -did it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye did it unto -me.”</p> - -<p>Then as to the manner of the giving. We are told that it should -be cheerful, for God loveth a cheerful giver. It should be no -stereotyped and immutable thing, the same through life, but “as -God has prospered us.” It should be systematic, as the result of -careful thought and weekly planning on the Lord’s day, under the -influence of the memory of His resurrection. For it was after his -great argument on the resurrection that Paul said “now concerning -the collection,” and it was because of its connection with that -resurrection that he specified “the first day of the week” as -that on which every one should “lay by him in store as God hath -prospered him.” Weekly storing in the Lord’s box at home on the -Lord’s day, that is what Paul recommends, and then when the Lord -makes his appeal to us we can cheerfully give Him of His own. In -the neglect of this plan, and the making of gatherings for this -and that cause as each comes along, we have the explanation of -the disfavor with which, in the public service, too many hear the -announcement that a contribution will be made.</p> - -<p>But now, finally, as to the motive. Here it is: “For ye know the -grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for -your sakes he became poor that ye through his poverty might be -rich.” The bringing of such a motive to bear on so simple a thing -as the making of a contribution for the poor saints of Jerusalem -seems like cracking a nut with a Nasmyth steam hammer. But Paul -knew what he was doing when he dictated these words. He wanted to -exalt and consecrate all Christian beneficence by having it done -from the most powerful Christian motive. And after the presentation -of such a motive there is no more to be said. For when men know -the grace of Christ, they will never feel that they have given Him -enough, and till they know it they will never give <em>Him</em> anything. -They may contribute to keep up appearances so as to be like other -people, or to gain a reputation, but they will never give to <em>Him</em> -until they know His grace. This is the very pith and marrow of the -matter. Before men give to Christ they must receive from him, and -when they have received Christ Himself into their hearts they will -be impelled to give. <em>Im</em>pelled, not <em>com</em>pelled; for the delight -and the duty will coincide, or rather the duty will be merged in -the delight. So we come round to the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_404" id="Page_404">[404]</a> point at which we set out. A -revived church will become a giving church, and a giving church is -the fore-herald of a converted world.</p> - -<p>How much owest thou thy Lord? That is the question which the giver -has to face. Sometimes in commercial circles a man will assign a -debt that is owing him to some one else, out of friendship, that -he may take it when he has collected it and use it for himself. -Much in the same way, I think, the Lord Jesus has assigned a large -portion of the debt which we owe to him to those who are around -us—to the unconverted at our doors, to those races among whom you -labor, to the pagans far away. This was what Paul felt when he -said, “I am debtor, both to the wise and to the unwise, both to the -Greek and to the Barbarian”; and it was the constant feeling of -that sense of obligation that gave his life its nobleness and its -usefulness. So let it be with us; and let us see in those for whom -appeal is made to us through this Association, the representatives -of Christ.</p> - -<p>There is a beautiful story told in Stevenson’s “Praying and -Working.” I am very fond of repeating it—I may have told it to -some of you before, but no matter—about a little child in the -orphanage of John Falk at Weimar. They were having supper in the -dining-hall, and the teacher gave thanks in the ordinary way before -the children began their meals, saying, “Come, Lord Jesus, and be -our guest to-night, and bless the mercies which Thou has provided.” -One little boy looked up and said, “Teacher, you always ask the -Lord Jesus to come, but he never comes. Will he ever come?” “Oh, -yes; if you will only hold on in faith, he will be sure to come.” -“Very well,” said the little boy, “I will set a chair for him -beside me here to-night to be ready when he comes.” And so the meal -proceeded. By-and-by there came a rap at the door, and there was -ushered in a poor half-frozen apprentice. He was taken to the fire -and his hands warmed. Then he was asked to partake of the meal, -and where should he go but to the chair which the little boy had -provided? and as he sat down there the little boy looked up with a -light in his eye, and said, “Teacher, I see it now! The Lord Jesus -was not able to come himself, and he sent this poor man in his -place. Isn’t that it?”</p> - -<p>Aye, that is just it. And so, brethren, the Lord Jesus isn’t able, -according to His plans for this world, to come personally yet among -us, but He has sent those colored people, Chinese, Indians and -heathen to make appeal in His behalf to us, and who among us will -set a chair for Him? There are many friends with whom I hardly -agree who are very anxiously waiting for the appearance of the -personal Christ among us, and they are wondering what they shall -do to welcome Him. Would that the eyes of these brethren and our -own too were opened to the perception of the Christ that is already -here, in the persons of those needing to be helped and educated and -elevated, and that their ears could hear His words, “Inasmuch as -ye do it unto one of the least of these His brethren ye do it unto -Christ.”</p> - -<p>That is the Christian philosophy of giving, and if a man does not -feel the force of these considerations I should be disposed to say -he has not yet begun to be a Christian.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF REV. DR. DENNEN.</h2> - - -<p>The topic of this closing service is not only of prime importance, -but comes in its logical place. When your machinery is all -educational, industrial and church-wise, the final and vital -question is one of power to move it. The supreme motive power in -your work is <em>spiritual life</em>.</p> - -<p>Life is force, something capable of originating or resisting power -or motion. Physical life is that mysterious something no analysis -can detect, no alembic reveal,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_405" id="Page_405">[405]</a> no power resist; which swells the -bud, opens the flower, sprouts the seed, ripens the harvest.</p> - -<p>Spiritual life, through another plane, is also a force, capable of -originating or resisting power or motion. Its realm is the human -soul, and draws nutriment from the soil, which that cunning chemist -we call life builds up into strength and beauty.</p> - -<p>Spiritual vitality performs a similar structural function. Once -made alive in Christ Jesus, the disciple seeks for spiritual -aliment.</p> - -<p>1. Now, spiritual life, like natural life, possesses <em>structural -power</em>. It is a master builder. One main function of the vital -principle in nature is to lay hold of inert matter and convert it -into living organisms. The growing tree absorbs tons of carbon -from the air. The local church, if a live one, takes up into her -membership more or less of the outlying population, and from aliens -converts them into fellow citizens of the saints and members of the -household of faith.</p> - -<p>The ability, then, of this noble Association, second to none in -the land, to advance the kingdom of Christ in the several fields -where it operates, will assuredly be conditioned upon the spirit -and vigor of the churches and individuals behind it, will be -determined, not so much by the amount of money it receives or the -number of workers it puts into the field, as by the prayers and -spiritual enthusiasm of its constituency.</p> - -<p>Carlyle once said: “The American Republic is going straight to the -devil. No government can long exist that receives the refuse of all -the rest of the world into its midst and makes citizens of them.” -Our free institutions are to undergo a strain in the near future, -I am sure, that has never yet been put upon them. Our American -churches are also to be put to a similar strain. Nay, the pressure -is already upon them. Are they equal to it? I believe so. We must, -however, leaven the multitudes of the ignorant and unsaved with our -Christianity, or they will leaven us with their illiteracy. Our -ability to meet the emergency already upon us will depend, under -God, upon our spiritual vitality.</p> - -<p>2. Another function of life is its expulsive power. What it cannot -use and assimilate it expels. It gathers the good and casts the bad -away. Strong, vigorous life depends as much upon the one function -as the other. The religious world is full of the germs and larvæ -of skepticism, theistic and atheistic assaults and criticisms. A -robust person can walk in the midst of pestilence unscathed, while -disease springs upon one whose vitality is depressed. Precisely the -same condition obtains in respect to the individual disciple, or -the church, or our missionary boards.</p> - -<p>The one effective answer to skepticism, then, of every grade and -degree of virulence; the one sovereign remedy for worldliness, -apathy and avarice of God’s people, is a new enduement of spiritual -power. Our lips must be touched with celestial fire and our hearts -bathed in Christ’s great love.</p> - -<p>3. Another quality of life is its expansive power. The mightiest -force in this world is life. It mocks at gravity; it defies -cohesion; bursts every band. The same expansive property inheres in -spiritual life.</p> - -<p>You might as well shut up a growing chicken in its shell as to -shut up a live Christianity in the shell of the fathers. No. Where -there is life there must be expansion. She breaks through old -traditions and prejudices, and steps out into new departures and -broader methods, and pushes on into new regions of thought and -conquest beyond. She lays her hand on the colored man of the South, -saves, educates him, equips him for the life that now is, as well -as for that which is to come. She stands on the shores of the great -Pacific, where the shining waves lave her feet and chant their -mighty anthems of freedom, and, with open, arms and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_406" id="Page_406">[406]</a> a catholic -heart, free of all race prejudices, welcomes the Chinaman. She -uncovers the cross in the wigwam of the red man and bids the dusky -sons of the forest look and live.</p> - -<p>4. Once more spiritual life is the only complete bond of union. -Says President Hopkins, <a name="Err_6" id="Err_6"></a>“It is on this that the whole method of God -in the restoration of man is based, and it is for the recognition -of this by men, and their adoption of God’s method of vitality and -unity, the tardy, laboring and discordant times wait. No partial -reform will do; no coming man. Everywhere men are divergent, -repellant. The bond of common humanity is but a string of tow to -bind the Samson of human selfishness and passions. There must be -a divine life, a divine centre. This center is Christ. He is the -life. The nexus which is to bind this selfish world in one, and -unite all races and nationalities in one common fellowship and -forward movement to disciple the world, is Christ in the souls of -all men. Amid every diversity of polity and people, He is the one -vivifying and unifying spirit.</p> - -<p>5. The principal question, however, is one of means. How is this -life to be secured? To get fresh water we go to the spring. To get -information we go to the sources of knowledge. To get spiritual -vitality we go to Christ. Life in nature is the product of living -organisms in contact. The strength and continuance of that life -depends upon the closeness of the contact. The steel must touch the -magnet to receive and retain magnetism.</p> - -<p>So spiritual life and zeal comes from contact with a living Christ. -The strength and fervor of that life is forever conditioned upon -the closeness of our contact with our living Head.</p> - -<p>No one thing so lowers spiritual heat and light as distance from -Christ. Neptune has not a thousandth part of our light and warmth. -He is too far away from the central orb. We are just now too far -away from Christ; hence our comparative barrenness. We must sit -where the fire and inspiration of His eye kindle in ours; where his -glowing enthusiasm passes over into us; where the greatness and -grandeur of the work He has given us to do shall thrill us and grow -upon us. Then we shall mount to its accomplishment on the wings of -eagles, and run and not be weary, and walk and not faint.</p> - -<p>Never had this Association more call for enthusiasm, never for -greater hopefulness. What did we see here last night—the black man -and red man, men from Asia and Africa and America, strangers and -proselytes, speak in their own tongues the wonderful works of God.</p> - -<p>I cheer you on to the labor of another year. As we go down from -this mount let us go to our upper chambers and, whether for eight -days or as many weeks, let us tarry and pray until we are endued -from on high and receive the tongues of flame and the utterance of -the Spirit. Then let us, in our various fields, gird up our loins -and go forth to achieve for the Lord of Hosts, resolved that before -another anniversary of this Association comes round we will, God -helping us, see thousands housed and happy in Christ’s dear love -all over our beloved land of very race and color.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>ADDRESS OF PROF. W. M. BARBOUR, D.D.</h2> - - -<p>The topic assigned me is in the line of the theme just discussed -by Dr. Dennen. My friend and classmate Dr. Pike insisted upon my -coming over here and taking part in this evening meeting; and -he said, “Your theme will be: Spiritual Vitality the Crowning -Necessity in Missionary Work.”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_407" id="Page_407">[407]</a></p> - -<p>I shall take it for granted that other means have been set before -you and insisted upon—the one nearest always, money. That is a -great necessity in missionary work. You have heard, I have no -doubt, a good deal about that, and I merely wish to honor it as a -means under God of the most pressing necessity. We can do nothing -to send the blessings that God has put into our hearts abroad among -our fellow men without means; and the first means is money. But all -the money in the world will not serve our end. What is the next? -We must have men. But all the men in the world won’t do missionary -work, although we had them all enlisted in that work. Suppose -we had all the money we could use and all the men that offered -themselves and that we could procure; we would only have gone so -far. What else is needed? We need fitness in the men as another -great means. This is as necessary as money and men, this culture. -But after we have the men, and after we have them qualified, there -is still room for what in my theme to-night is called “the crowning -necessity.” You may take Yale College as it stands, with all its -culture, and you may turn out all our hundreds of young men down -into the South this blessed night; what could they do in missionary -work to-morrow morning? So you see that it is not the money, or the -men, or the culture that alone is needed; something more is needed, -and that is “spiritual vitality.”</p> - -<p>And now, beloved, to take the first step and to say the first thing -that must be said, in my judgment (since I am called here to give -my opinion), the first position that we must assume and which this -Association has assumed from its very start—although it is one of -the old things that Christ says a well-instructed scribe must take -out of his treasury—we must begin with God. We are to stand in -his presence, we are to summon him as our witness, we are to avow -ourselves openly and frankly, every day we live, as doing this for -him.</p> - -<p>I should like to know where our modern unbelief is that is such -a distress to us in all our efforts and in our inward life, when -you reverently, and in the deep meaning of thought say, “As the -Lord liveth”? Look at it. There are two schemes of the universe: -one, the Christian scheme, with a belief in the living God as -the original of all things—a personal being who is personally -interested in his creatures, and who is desiring, since he has made -him in his own image, to have man hold communion with himself, and -who desires to have all men reconciled to himself from their sin -and their misery and their unhappy life. There is another scheme -where there is no God, or, what is the same thing to us, we do not -know whether there is or not. And what is the idea of the universe -that follows from that? Why, that it must move along as the blind -force behind it shall urge it. Where is it going to land? The day -is coming, brethren, when we will cry, “Oh for the doctrine of a -predestinating God”—God with his eye on an end, and with an end to -which he is turning all things and which shall be satisfactory to -all the creatures that he has made in his image.</p> - -<p>Let us take a frank position here as a missionary society, and let -it be known that we openly and avowedly, by word and deed, take the -stand that we believe in God, and that we believe he is a living -God, and in his name and for his sake and to effect his purpose we -are going to the South, to the North, to the East, to the West, to -gain trophies that shall be to the glory of his redeeming grace, -since he has revealed to us, as we believe, the fact that he will -complete these ends through our agency.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_408" id="Page_408">[408]</a></p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1883.</h2> - - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $391.80.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Banger. Hammond St. Ch., 100; First -Cong. Ch. 20</td> -<td class="ramt">$120.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brunswick. Mrs. S. C. F. Hammond, <i>for -Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to -const. <span class="smcap">Capt. Reuben Blanchard</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampden. Charles E. Hicks.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lovell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Anson. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. Second Parish Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">86.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. to Const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. Edward E. Bacon L. M.</span></td> -<td class="ramt">46.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$356.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel. Estate of Sarah W. Chapman -by A. W. Valentine, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">391.80</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $69.02.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colebrook. “E. C. & W.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Dea. McQuesten, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Miss Lancaster, <i>for Fort -Berthold</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., -64.94 to const. <span class="smcap">Holmes R. Pettee</span> and -<span class="smcap">H. W. Herrick</span>, L. Ms. Incorrectly -ack. in Nov. number from Mass.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tilton. A. H. Colby.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $540.02.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">90.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benson. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Winooski Av. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">107.28</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castleton. W. C. Guernsey.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. -of C, <i>for Raleigh, N.C.</i> 1 Bbl. <i>for -Atlanta U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Ashley Blodgett.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">168.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. -Sch., <i>for S. S. Work</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westminster West. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weybridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.44</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$535.02</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$540.02</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS $3,528.10.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashby. “A Friend” <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, <i>for Student -Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Miss Faxon, <i>for Fort Berthold</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. S. C. Dizer, <i>for Student -Aid, Tougaloo U.</i> and to const. himself -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">76.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Campello. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and -Soc. ad’l to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. and Mrs. John -F. Blades, Lewis D. Doten and Geo. -W. Packard</span> L. Ms.</td> -<td class="ramt">95.73</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">66.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Concert, under auspices of -Ladies’ Union Home Mission Band, <i>for -Student Aid, Hampton N. and A. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">54.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Miss Annie P. James, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i> and to const. <span class="smcap">W. -H. Singleton</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. “Friends” Books <i>for Library, -Chattanooga, Tenn.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coleraine. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. McGee, -4; John Gilchrist, 1.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Rev. H. M. Grout, D.D., and -Others, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">40.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to -const. <span class="smcap">William Siner, Jr.</span>, <span class="smcap">Henry A. -White</span> and <span class="smcap">George A. Peabody</span> L. M.’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Boston. Mrs. Joseph Robbins, <i>Bdl. -of Goods, for Dakota M.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">140.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby. Cong. Ch., Children’s Mission -Circle, <i>for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. -Building</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadley. E. Porter.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover Four Corners. Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Indian Orchard. Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.22</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Cong. Ch. and Soc., in -part.</td> -<td class="ramt">160.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., -ad’l.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lincoln. George Ropes, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lincoln. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., -40.68; “A Friend,” 1.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medford. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. John L. Ewell</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Bedford. Miss Helen M. Leonard.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">68.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northamption. A. L. Williston, 500; -First Cong. Ch., 247.68; Edwards Ch. -Benev. Soc. 64.</td> -<td class="ramt">811.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Leominster. Mrs. S. F. Houghton.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phillipston. Ladies Benev. Soc Bdl. C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Rev. <span class="smcap">C. V. Spear</span> to const. -himself, <span class="smcap">Geo. N. Spear</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Ellen -M. Spear</span> L. Ms.</td> -<td class="ramt">250.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Sab. Sch. -<i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">17.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roxbury. Mrs. P. N. Livermore.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shirley Village. 500 copies “Youth’s -Companion” by Miss Nettie A. Dickson, -<i>for Marietta, Ga.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><a name="Err_4" id="Err_4"></a>South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.6</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><a name="Err_5" id="Err_5"></a>Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.2<a class="pagenum" name="Page_409" id="Page_409">[409]</a> -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. -Draper, 2 and Bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southborough. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Sudbury. Ladies’ Home Miss’y -Soc. Bbl of C., val., 34.17, <i>for -Atlanta U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and -Soc., 51; to const. <span class="smcap">Augustine Loud</span> -and <span class="smcap">J. Newton Dyer</span> L. Ms.; Ladies -Mission Soc. of Second Ch., 14.</td> -<td class="ramt">65.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Mrs. Lysander -Heald’s S. S. Class., Second Ch., 10, -<i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Marion -Heald, 1 <i>for a little girl</i></td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spencer. Mrs. G. H. Marsh’s Class -Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; G. E. Manley, 5, -<i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. South Cong. Ch. 32.38; -First Cong. Ch., 24.85</td> -<td class="ramt">57.23</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for -Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wakefield. Mission Workers, 45; Cong. -Sab. Sch., 16, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">61.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc., -to const. Dea. <span class="smcap">Willard Lewis</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, <i>for -Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">43.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">58.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Granville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westhampton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whately. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 139; -Old South Ch. and Soc. 41.63 to const. -<span class="smcap">H. H. Merriam</span> L. M.; Central Ch. and -Soc. 51.98; “A Friend,” 25</td> -<td class="ramt">257.61</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. Roy A. Eldridge, D.D.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——— “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $1,063.18.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Central Cong. Ch. 800; -Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., 115; -“A Friend,” 50.00; North. Cong Ch. -23.13</td> -<td class="ramt">988.13</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $2,676.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elliott. Wm. Osgood</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Avon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">38.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bozrahville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. South Ch. Sab. Sch., Box -S. S. Books, <i>for Tillotson C. & N. -Inst.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Derby. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. First Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Santee -Agency, Neb.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">128.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">59.77</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">150.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hebron. J. and Mary Porter <i>for Tillotson -C. & N. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch. <i>for -Tillotson C. & N. Inst.</i> and to const. -<span class="smcap">S. E. Frisbie</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Carmel. Mrs. J. M. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford. North Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams’ -S. S. Class, 11; John Richards’ S. S. -Class, 9, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Third Cong. Ch., 23; Howard -Ave. Ch., 9.22</td> -<td class="ramt">32.22</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norfolk. “A Friend,” <i>for Santee -Agency</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">175.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Poquonock. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">103.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Killingly. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stratford. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thompsonville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for -furnishing a room, Whitin Hall, -Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">29.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Tillotson -C. and N. Inst. Building</i></td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wapping. F. W. Gilbert, for <i>Tillotson -C. and N. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">12.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">37.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">105.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchester. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, <i>for -Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Building</i></td> -<td class="ramt">150.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$1,590.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACIES.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by -Edwin Talcott. Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">190.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodbridge. Estate of Mrs. Eliza Carrington</td> -<td class="ramt">896.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$2,676.75</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $422.05.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, $15; Mrs. -Eliza A. Bell, $3.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn, E. D. New England Cong. -Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Deansville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, $30; -Chas. E. Clarke, $3.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elmira. Miss Clara Thurston.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hamilton. O. S. Campbell.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Homer. Cong. C., $132.50; B. W. -Payne, $10.</td> -<td class="ramt">142.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lysander. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Pitcher. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.81</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. American Bible Soc., Grant -of Scriptures, val. $307.50.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nunda. “A Friend” ($5 of which <i>for -Chinese M.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pompey. Mrs. Lucy Child, <i>for Indian -Youth, Hampton N. & A. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers, <i>for -Emerson Inst., Mobile, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pitcher. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Syracuse. C. A. Hamlin.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Volney. Ludington Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.08</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Winfield. Cong. Ch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Aaron Adelbert Leach</span> L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.10</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $565.53.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. First Cong. Ch., $21.89, and -Sab. Sch., $6.52.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">137.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paterson. Mrs. Sarah A. Cook, <i>for Tillotson -C. & N. Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">400.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Castle. John Burgess.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. “M.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $791.41.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. T. P. Handy, $20; James -Harmer, $20; Misses S. and A. Walworth, -$30;—Whitney. $1; <i>for Parsonage, -Topeka, Kan.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">71.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Columbus. Eastwood Cong. Ch. $10; -and Sab. Sch., $5.70.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elyria. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $40; -Cong. Ch., “M. W. C.,” $10; Individual, -$9.</td> -<td class="ramt">59.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_410" id="Page_410">[410]</a> -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Recovery. Pisgah Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lafayette. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. Woman’s Missionary Soc., -$20, <i>for Indian M.</i>, and $10 <i>for -Chinese M.</i> Incorrectly ack. from -Mrs. L. A. M. Little in Nov. number.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. A Friend.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Mrs. Warren’s Sab. Sch. -Class of Young Men.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Steuben. Levi Platt.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Strongsville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tallmadge. C. P. Parmelee.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilberforce. Mrs. Joseph Morrow.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Youngstown. Mrs. Whitney.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$291.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, -by John G. Jennings, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$791.41</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $50.87.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Liber. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Michigan City. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">37.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Michigan City. Mrs. C. W. Peck <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Michigan City. “Ralph and Daisy,” 1.69; -“Golden Links,” 50c. <i>for Student Aid, -Storrs’ Sch., Atlanta. Ga</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.19</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $819.54.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Albion. Olive Sab. Sch., $2.50; Mr. and -Mrs. James Green. $2.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Byron. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Carthage. Mrs. Sophia Miller.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. First Cong. Ch. $197.21; “A -Chicagoan,” 100; N. E. Cong. Ch., -79.83.</td> -<td class="ramt">377.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Young Ladies Miss’y Soc., of -U. P. Ch., 17.79, <i>for Dakota M.</i>; Miss -Julia F. White, 5, <i>for Printing Press, -Santee Agency</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Mrs. W. C. Kent, 5; Clinton -St. Sab. Sch., 4.37, <i>for Student Aid, -Storrs’ Sch. Atlanta, Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">9.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, 8 Pails of -Paint, <i>for Parsonage, Topeka, Kan.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">De Kalb. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elgin. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Evanston. Cong. Ch., ad’l.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. Mrs. Julia F. Wells.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galva. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ivanhoe. Young Men’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lombard. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.44</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lisbon. Cong. Ch., <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, <i>for Chinese -M.</i> and to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Edward C. -Crane</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Lady Miss’y, Little Rock, Ark.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">52.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Mr. Packard’s Sab. Sch., -Boys, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paxton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Port Byron. Mission Circle of Cong. -Ch., <i>for Lady Missionaries, Mobile, -Ala., and Little Rock, Ark.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss ($10 of -which <i>for Chinese M.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Prospect Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Lady Missionary at Mobile, Ala., and -Little Rock, Ark.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomasborough. H. M. Seymour.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waverly. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$719.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Forrest. Estate of Mrs. Mary Stewart, -by S. A. Hoyt, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$819.54</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $242.08.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adrian. A. J. Hood.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Almont. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alpena. “A Friend,” $30; Woman’s -Miss’y Soc., $30; E. K. Potter, $25., -<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">85.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia. Amasa Waters.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Battle Creek. Miss Julia E. Williams.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Edwardsburg. S. C. Olmsted.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Frankfort. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.39</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.77</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Muskegon. Cong. Ch., $30; Woman’s -Miss’y Soc. $15.</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northport. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White Cloud. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $607.46.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Anamosa. Ladies’ Freedman’s Soc. of -Cong. Ch. <i>for Lady Miss’y, New Orleans</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boonesborough. Mrs. Anna M. Palmer.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Decorah. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Denmark. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">De Witt. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dunlap. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Durant. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garden Prairie. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garwin. T. Dewey. </td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Green Mountain. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Green Mountain. Ladies of Cong. Ch., -<i>for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, -La.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keokuk. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss’y Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.71</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newell. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Red Oak. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of Cong. -Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$257.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="center" colspan="2">LEGACY.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tabor. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, -by A. C. Gaston</td> -<td class="ramt">350.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">$607.46</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $271.35.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brandon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brandon. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student -Aid</i>.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clinton. James H. Cooper.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Footville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oshkosh. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Racine. Ladies at Convention, 14.51; -Ladies of Cong. Ch. 9, <i>for Lady Missionary, -Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">23.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ripon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">95.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rosendale. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Lady Missionary, Montgomery, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shawano. “Faith.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">———. “A Friend,” <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $116.72.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brownton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cottage Grove. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cottage Grove. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. -adl. to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Wm. E. Archibald</span> -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Duluth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 31.62; -Second Cong. Ch., 10; First Cong. -Ch., 14.07.</td> -<td class="ramt">55.69</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Owatonna. Woman’s Missionary Soc., -Box of household goods, val., 27.72, -<i>for Athens, Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Preston Lake. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sumpter. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waseca. Cong. Ch., 5.04; Ladies Miss’y -Soc. of Cong. Ch., 5.84</td> -<td class="ramt">10.88<a class="pagenum" name="Page_411" id="Page_411">[411]</a> -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $237.89.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cawker. W. L. Barr, <i>for Parsonage, -Topeka, Kan.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Great Bend. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.62</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch., 75; M. Pierce, -41.21; H. G. Lyons, 30; A. B. Whiting, -25; A. Clark, 5; D. H. Forbes, 5; Wm. -H. Williams, 5; Topeka Lime Co., 3.06; -<i>for Parsonage, Topeka, Kan.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">189.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Topeka. Tuition</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $10.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pierce City. Cong. Ch., 8.70; Incorrectly -ack. in Nov. number from Wis.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kirskville. J. S. Blackman</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $64.70.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fremont. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lincoln. “K. and C.”</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sutton. German Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weeping Water. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.70</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">COLORADO, $23.10.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coal Creek. Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crested Butte. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $2,006.90.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">San Francisco. The California Chinese -Mission</td> -<td class="ramt">1,906.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oakland. Mrs. N. Gray, <i>for School -House, Hillsboro, N.C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eugene. Mrs. L. W. Judkins.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $30.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. Gen. E. Whittlesey, $25; -Mrs. A. N. Bailey, $5</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $12.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $5.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</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, $10.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Plym. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $395.08.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 297.50, -Rent, 3</td> -<td class="ramt">300.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McIntosh. The Sisters Benev. Soc. of -Medway Cong. Ch., by Mrs. Nancy -Snelson. Pres., <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, -Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $21.33.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FLORIDA, $230.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">———. “A Friend in Florida”</td> -<td class="ramt">230.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $27.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo, Tuition, 2; Rent, -25</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS, $1.65.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Helena. Temperance Concert Cong Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2">Total for October.</td> -<td class="ramt">$15,242.98</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">========</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENDOWMENT FUND.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston, Mass. “A Friend of the Colored -Race” <i>for the Hastings Scholarship, -to educate Young men preparing for -the Gospel Ministry, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE -MISSION, from May 24 to Sept. 26, 1883. E. -Palache, Treasurer.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">From Auxiliary Missions</span>: Marysville, -Chinese Monthly Offerings, 31; Thirteen -Annual Members, 26.—Oroville, -Chinese Monthly Offerings, 2.70; Seven -Annual Members, 14.—Petaluma, Anniversary -Coll., 13.50; Chinese Annual -Members, 30; American Annual -Members, 4; Chinese Monthly Offerings, -13.25.—Sacramento, Cong. Ch. -Coll., 7.80; Chinese Monthly Offerings, -21; Fourteen Annual Members, -28; Chinese, 25, to const. Mrs. <span class="smcap">S. E. -Carrington</span> L. M.—Santa Barbara, -Chinese Monthly Offerings, 22.70; -Coll., 31.80; Mrs. J. Bates, 4.—Santa -Cruz, Anniversary Coll., 5; Annual Members, -58; Chinese Monthly Offerings, -25; Mrs. H. A. Martin, 1; ———, Stockton, -Anniversary Coll., 6.20; Eight -Annual Members, 16; Levi Langdon, 3</td> -<td class="ramt">$388.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">From Churches</span>: Alameda, Cong. Ch., 4.—Berkeley, -Cong. Ch., 21.25.—Calaveras -Co. Churches, by Rev. A. Ostrom—Angels. -95c.; Copperopolis, 1.25; -Camp Seco, 2.30; Murphy’s, 2.70; San -Andreas, 95c.; Spring Valley, 80c. -——— Farmdale, Cong. Ch., 7.50 -——— Lockeford, Cong. Ch. Rev. -and Mrs. W. H. Pascoe, 5.—Los -Angeles, Cong. Ch., 162.30; Oakland, -First Cong. Ch. 26.85; Twenty-three -Chinese, 25.30 to const. <span class="smcap">Edmund -R. Sanford</span> L. M. Nine Annual -Members, 18; Mrs. E. Sanford, 5; -Plymouth Av. Cong. Ch., 32; Golden -Gate Ch., 5.—Rio Vista, First Cong. -Ch., 10.—River Side, First Cong. Ch., -5.20.—Saratoga, First Cong. Ch., 10.—San -Bernardino, Second Cong. Ch., -8.40.—San Francisco, First Cong. Ch., -in part, 50.50; Green St. Ch., 14; -Bethany Ch., in part, Chinese Monthly -Offerings, Central Sch., 38.30; Bethany -Sch., 14; West Sch. 26.35; North -Sch., 4.30; Annual Members, 122; -———, 25, to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. C. R. Hazen</span>, -of Hong Kong, L. M.; <span class="smcap">Low Quong</span>, -25, to const. himself L. M.; Dea. S. Woo, -5.50; Ny Bo Hong, 5; Dea. Edmund -Palache, 25, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Helen W. -Pond</span> L. M.; “Many Friends,” 34.50 -to const. <span class="smcap">Lee Sam</span> of South China, -L. M.; Annual Members, 50; Miss -Chaloner, 5.—San Jose, Cong. Ch., -20.75.—Woodland, Three Annual -Members, 6</td> -<td class="ramt">825.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">From Individual Donors</span>: “M. C. N.” -30; Hon. F. F. Low, 25; Taber, -Harker & Co., 25; C. Adolphe Low -& Co., 25; Redington & Co., 25; -E. Ransome & Co., 25; Williams, -Dimond & Co., 25; Parrott & Co., 25; -Eppinger & Co., 25; T. H. Selby & -Co., 25; James M. Harrn, 25; Wm. T. -Coleman, 25; Cala, Furn. Mfg. Co., 25; -Liverpool, London & Globe Ins. Co., -25; Imperial, London, Northern & -Queens Ins. Co., 25; “Cash, 405 Cala. -St.,” 25; Miss Mary Perkins, 25, to -const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. S. C. Perkins</span> L. M.; J. J. -Vasconcellos, 10; George C. Boardman, -10; Augustus C. Flint, 10; Israel -W. Knox, 10; Rev. F. A. Field, -National City, 10; “Friends,” 40</td> -<td class="ramt">520.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">From Eastern Friends</span>: “Friends in -North Maine,” 2.—Amherst, Mass., -Mrs. R. A. Lester, 100.—Stockbridge, -Mass., Miss Alice Byington, 50; Rev. -F. B. Perkins, 10.—Westfield, Mass., -Misses Dickinson, 10</td> -<td class="ramt">172.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total2">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$1,906.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">========</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<div style="margin-right: 10%;"> - <p class="right nob" style="margin-right: 30px;"><span class="smcap">H. W. 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Ten -Thousand Dollars</b> were paid for the <b>use of our Patent</b> by -one Railroad Company for <b>Locomotive Headlights</b>, it being -considered the most wonderful light ever produced for the purpose. -We have retained the exclusive right to make <b>Magic Lanterns</b> -on precisely the same principle, and the <b>Electro Radiant</b> is -the result. The adjustment of Reflector, Lenses, Tubes, Slide Rest, -and Cone are made with mathematical nicety. Optical laws governing -such adjustments have been accurately calculated, so that you have -in our Lanterns far more than appears, and we are placing within -the reach of all unsurpassed advantages for <b>Learning, Amusement, -and Profit</b>.</p> - -<p>The <b>Transparent Slides</b> for these Lanterns embrace views -illustrating <b>wonderful Natural Scenes</b> from different parts -of the world. 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D. if <b>$3.00</b> on -account is sent with the order, the purchaser paying the balance, -<b>$9.00</b>, at the express office.</p> - -<p>Full instructions and list of other views sent with each Lantern. -Send money-order or registered letter.</p> - -<p class="center large"><b>Send all orders to WORLD MANUFACTURING CO., 122 Nassau Street, New -York.</b></p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_416" id="Page_416">[416]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xxxlarge">MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS.</p> - -<p class="center medium">A cable dispatch announces that at the</p> - -<p class="center">International Industrial Exhibition</p> - -<p class="center medium">(1883) now in progress (1883) at</p> - -<p class="center large">AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS,</p> - -<p class="center">These Organs have been Awarded the</p> - -<p class="center xlarge">GRAND DIPLOMA OF HONOR,</p> - -<p class="center">Being the VERY HIGHEST AWARD, ranking above the GOLD MEDAL, and -given only for EXCEPTIONAL SUPER-EXCELLENCE.</p> - -<p class="center medium">THUS IS CONTINUED THE UNBROKEN SERIES OF TRIUMPHS OF THESE ORGANS</p> - -<p class="center large">AT EVERY GREAT WORLD’S INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION FOR SIXTEEN YEARS,</p> - -<p class="center large">No other American Organs having been found equal to them in any.</p> - - -<p class="medium">THE RECORD OF TRIUMPHS of MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS in such severe and -prolonged comparisons by the BEST JUDGES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS IN THE -WORLD now stands: at</p> - -<table class="center medium"><tr> - <td class="dividers">PARIS,<br />1867<br />FRANCE.</td> - <td class="dividers">VIENNA,<br />1873<br />AUSTRIA.</td> - <td class="dividers">SANTIAGO,<br />1875<br />CHILI.</td> - <td class="dividers"><span class="smcap">Phila.,</span><br />1876<br />U.S. AMER.</td> - <td class="dividers">PARIS<br />1878<br />FRANCE.</td> - <td class="dividers">MILAN,<br />1881<br />ITALY</td> - <td class="dividers">AMSTERDAM,<br />1883<br />NETHERLANDS.</td> -</tr></table> - -<p class="center xxlarge"><b>The Testimony of Musicians is Equally Emphatic.</b></p> - -<div class="center sidebyside" style="width: 100%;"> - <div class="half"> - <img src="images/leftglobe.jpg" width="250" height="246" alt="THE NEW WORLD SAYS - “MUCH THE BEST MUSICIANS GENERALLY SO REGARD THEM” THEO-THOMAS AND - THOUSANDS OF OTHERS." /> - </div> - <div class="half"> - <img src="images/rightglobe.jpg" width="250" height="255" alt="THE OLD WORLD SAYS - “MATCHLESS” “UNRIVALED” FRANZ LISZT AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS." /> - </div> -</div> - -<p class="center xlarge"><b>A NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE FOR 1883-4</b></p> - -<p class="medium">(dated October, 1883) is now ready and will be sent free; including -MANY NEW STYLES—the best assortment and most attractive organs we -have ever offered. <span class="smcap">One Hundred Styles</span> are fully described -and illustrated, adapted to all uses, in plain and elegant cases in -natural woods, and superbly decorated in gold, silver and colors. -Prices, $22 for the smallest size, but having as much power as any -single reed organ and the characteristic Mason & Hamlin excellence, -up to $900 for the largest size. 50 styles between $100 and $200. -<em>Sold also for easy payments.</em> Catalogues free.</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO.,</p> - -<p class="center">154 Tremont St., Boston; 46 East 14th Street (Union Square), New -York; 149 Wabash Avenue, Chicago.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center">7 PER CENT. to 8 PER CENT.</p> -<p class="center">Interest Net to Investors</p> -<p class="center">In First Mortgage Bonds ON</p> -<p class="center">IMPROVED FARMS in</p> -<p class="center">Iowa, Minnesota</p> -<p class="center">and Dakota,</p> -<p class="center medium">SECURED BY</p> -<p class="center xlarge">ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,</p> -<p class="center">BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,</p> -<p class="center">EMMETSBURG, IOWA.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center medium"><em>11 Years’ Experience. Loans Absolutely Safe.</em></p> - -<p class="center">References and Circulars forwarded on Application.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><i>BRANCH BANKS AT MITCHELL AND HURON, D. T.</i></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xxlarge"><b>PAYSON’S</b></p> -<p class="center xxlarge">INDELIBLE INK,</p> -<p class="center medium">FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A<br />COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A<br />PREPARATION.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center">It still stands unrivaled after 50 years’ test.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><b>THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">Sales now greater than ever before.</p> - -<p class="medium">This Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all rivals.</p> - -<p class="medium">Report of Judges: “For simplicity of application and indelibility.”</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center medium">INQUIRE FOR</p> - -<p class="gesperrt center"><b>PAYSON’S COMBINATION!!!</b></p> - -<p class="medium">Sold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many -Fancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement" style="margin: auto; width: 300px;"> -<p class="center"><b>ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.</b></p> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> -<img src="images/smith.jpg" width="300" height="266" alt="Smith American Organs" /> -</div> - -<p class="center xxlarge"><b>ARE THE BEST.</b></p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center medium"><em>Catalogues Free on Application.</em></p> - -<p class="medium">Address the Company either at</p> - -<p class="medium indent nob">BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;</p> -<p class="medium indent nob">LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;</p> -<p class="medium indent nob">KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;</p> -<p class="medium indent nob">ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;</p> -<p class="medium indent nob">Or, DEFIANCE, O.</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center large"><b>OVER 95,000 SOLD.</b></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement center"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 200px;"> -<img src="images/risingsun.jpg" width="200" height="109" alt="THE Rising sun STOVE POLISH" /> -</div> - -<div class="poem" style="display: inline-block;"> - <div class="stanza"> - <span class="i0">For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,</span><br /> - <span class="i0">For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,</span><br /> - <span class="i0">And also for cheapness ’tis yet unsurpassed,</span><br /> - <span class="i0">And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.</span><br /> - </div> - <div class="stanza"> - <span class="i0">Of all imitations ’tis well to beware;</span><br /> - <span class="i0">The half risen sun every package should bear;</span><br /> - <span class="i0">For this is the “trade mark” the MORSE BROS. use,</span><br /> - <span class="i0">And none are permitted the mark to abuse.</span><br /> - </div> -</div> -</div> - - -<div class="article box"> -<p class="center xxxlarge">NOTES ON CHURCH WORSHIP.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<p>When the Hymn and Tune Book, “Songs for the Sanctuary,” had -outgrown its freshness, Mr. Joseph P. Holbrook, the Musical Editor, -set about preparing the <cite>Worship in Song</cite>, and after years of labor -offered it for publication, and it now stands before the churches. -By common consent the general merit of the Songs for the Sanctuary -was in the musical editing, and it is safe to say that the mantle -that fell from that book dropped upon the shoulders of the Worship -in Song. Holbrook’s later and newer book contains the result of his -labor and experience through all these years, and his Worship in -Song is clearly the greatest improvement that could be made.</p> - -<p>In addition to the Hymns and Tunes, the book contains <cite>Dr. R. S. -Storrs’ New Psalter</cite>, which has recently been edited and enlarged -by Dr. Storrs, and contains also a brief statement by him of the -value of responsive reading in churches. The selections of Psalms -and Scripture for responsive reading is by far the best that has -yet been published for Congregational and Presbyterian purposes, -and, as the old edition was widely used, so this will be the -standard and the best. The <cite>Worship in Song with Psalter</cite>, by -Storrs and Holbrook, is a successful and popular combination.</p> - -<p><a name="Err_8" id="Err_8"></a>Another Hymn and Tune Book of very great importance, on account -of its giving standard classical music throughout, is Hall & -Lasar’s <cite>Evangelical Hymnal</cite>. This book has already been adopted -in Harvard College, Trinity College and other institutions, and is -being favorably considered by many churches. It is a marked step -in advance of all other Hymn and Tune Books, and is the recognized -standard of the Church Hymn-book of the near future.</p> - -<p>Messrs. A. S. Barnes & Co. have also recently published Prof. -Hopkins’ “<cite>Liturgy</cite>, or Book of Common Prayer for Non-Episcopal -Churches.” This <cite>Liturgy</cite> is the result of many years of study, -after correspondence and comparison on the part of the author -with many leading Protestant clergymen. Upon publication it was -received with great interest by clergymen of all denominations, and -a large sale immediately began. It is safe to say that no other -book presenting a Liturgy for Presbyterian and Congregational -Churches was ever received with so great enthusiasm. The sale -steadily continues, and the interest awakened is sufficient to make -it certain that the plan finds favor. Clergymen and Committees -desiring to see and examine copies of any or all of the above books -can obtain them on approval, postage prepaid, by addressing the -publishers,</p> - - -<p class="center xxxlarge">A. S. BARNES & CO.,</p> - -<p class="center large">111 and 113 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center small"><span class="smcap">Atkin & Prout</span>, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2> - - -<p>Obvious printer’s punctuation errors and omissions silently -corrected. Period spelling and inconsistent hyphenation retained. -Ditto marks replaced with the text the represent to facilitate -eBook text alignment.</p> - -<p>Missing “t” added in “at” on the inside cover (<a href="#Err_1">at the New York -Office</a>)</p> - -<p>Changed “BEQEATH” to “BEQUEATH” on the inside cover (<a href="#Err_2">I BEQUEATH to -my executor</a>).</p> - -<p>Changed “consultatation” to “consultation” on page 380 (<a href="#Err_3">without -mutual consultation</a>)</p> - -<p>Missing digits in the entries for <a href="#Err_4">South Amherst</a> and -<a href="#Err_5">Southampton</a> on page 408 could not be determined.</p> - -<p>Unbalanced quotation marks on page 406 left in place as it is not -possible to determine where they should be closed (<a href="#Err_6">It is on this -that the whole method</a>)</p> - -<p>Changed “Fragance” to “Fragrance” on page 413 (<a href="#Err_7">Beauty and Fragrance</a>)</p> - -<p>Changed “Amother” to “Another” on the back cover (<a href="#Err_8">Another Hymn and -Tune Book</a>)</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 37, -No. 12, December, 1883, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER, 1883 *** - -***** This file should be named 63146-h.htm or 63146-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/6/3/1/4/63146/ - -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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