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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under +the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or +online at http://www.gutenberg.org/license + + + +Title: The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896 + +Author: Various + +Release Date: November 21, 2006 [Ebook #19890] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO 8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY - VOLUME 50, NO. 6, JUNE 1896*** + + + + + +The American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 6, June 1896 + + +by Various + + + + +Edition 1, (November 21, 2006) + + + + + +CONTENTS + + +Editorial + The Jubilee Year Fund. + FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES. + THE ACCEPTABLE MITES. + NO COLOR-LINE IN CLEVELAND. + ORANGE PARK NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN FLORIDA CLOSED BY THE + SHERIFF. + OUR CHURCHES. + THE TALENTED TENTH. + ALASKA MISSION. +The South. + HISTORY OF A CHURCH IN ALABAMA. + MEETINGS AMONG THE HILLS AND AT A CONVICT CAMP. + A BRIGHT AND CANDID VIEW OF OUR MOUNTAIN WORK. + REVIVALS. + ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. +The Indians. + REVIVAL--LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS. + Crow Agency, Montana +The Chinese. + Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares. + RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1896. + WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS + + + + + +NEW YORK: + +PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, +Bible House, Ninth St. and Fourth Ave., New York. + +Price, 50 Cents a Year in advance. + +Entered at the Post Office at New York N. Y., as second-class mail matter. + + + + + + +AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + + +PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS. + +_Vice-presidents._ + +REV. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill. +REV. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo. +REV. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. +REV. HENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y. +REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio. + +_Honorary Secretary and Editor._ + +REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + +_Corresponding Secretaries._ + +REV. A. F. BEARD, D.D., REV. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ +REV. C. J. RYDER, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + +_Recording Secretary._ + +REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _Bible House, N. Y._ + +_Treasurer._ + +H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _Bible House, N. Y._ + +_Auditors._ + +GEORGE S. HICKOK. +JAMES H. OLIPHANT. + +_Executive Committee._ + +CHARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. +CHARLES A. HULL, Secretary. + +_For Three Years._ + +SAMUEL HOLMES +SAMUEL S. MARPLES, +CHARLES L. MEAD, +WILLIAM H. STRONG, +ELIJAH HORR. + +_For Two Years._ + +WILLIAM HAYES WARD, +JAMES W. COOPER, +LUCIEN C. WARNER, +JOSEPH H. TWICHELL, +CHARLES P. PIERCE. + +_For One Year._ + +CHARLES A. HULL, +ADDISON P. FOSTER, +ALBERT J. LYMAN, +NEHEMIAH BOYNTON, +A. J. F. BEHRENDS. + +_District Secretaries._ + +REV. GEO. H. GUTTERSON, _21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass._ +REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D., _153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill._ + +_Secretary of Woman's Bureau._ + +MISS D. E. EMERSON, _Bible House, N. Y._ + + + + +COMMUNICATIONS + + +Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the +Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY," to the +Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the +Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary of the +Woman's Bureau. + + + + +DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS + + +In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent +to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Bible House, New York; or, when more +convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, +Boston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty +dollars constitutes a Life Member. + +NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.--The date on the "address label" indicates the time +to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to +the 10th of each month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the +change on the label will appear a month later. Please send early notice of +change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new +address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be +correctly mailed. + + + + +FORM OF A BEQUEST. + + +"I give and bequeath the sum of ---- dollars to the 'American Missionary +Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New +York." The will should be attested by three witnesses. + + + + + +THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY + + +VOL. L. +JUNE, 1896. +No. 6. + + + + +The Jubilee Year Fund. + + +Extract from the appeal of the Executive Committee of the American +Missionary Association: + + *Fifty Dollars a Share.* + +It is proposed to raise during the next six months a special Jubilee Year +Fund of $100,000 in shares of $50 each, with the hope and expectation that +these shares will be taken by the friends of missions without lessening +those regular contributions which must be depended upon to sustain the +current work. + + FORM OF A PLEDGE. + + Share, $50. + $100,000. + + THE JUBILEE YEAR FUND + OF THE + AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +I hereby take ..... shares (Fifty Dollars each) in the Jubilee Year Fund +of the American Missionary Association, to be paid before the close of the +fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1896. + + _Name_ . . . . . . . + + _P. O. Address_ . . . . . . . . + + + + +FIFTY-DOLLAR JUBILEE SHARES. + + +In the last number of THE MISSIONARY we gave the gratifying report of 34 +shares taken for this fund, and in the present number we have the pleasure +of adding 75 more. We are fully aware of the difficulties under which we +send forth the call for responses to this much-needed fund. Other appeals +have been made, and are still pressed upon the churches, all of them +worthy of the generosity with which they are met. + +But the ability of the churches to meet the demands of their varied +mission work is not exhausted, and the spirit of consecration among the +followers of Christ, even when self-denial must be practiced, has not +reached its limit. We therefore urge our appeal with strong confidence +that we shall not be felt to be intruders, but that we are simply trying +to fulfill the duty imposed upon us in carrying the Gospel to the most +needy and destitute in our land. + +We must repeat the plea made by our Executive Committee that in giving to +this Jubilee Fund, the contributions for our regular work, to which we are +committed and whose claims we cannot repudiate, may not be neglected. + + + + +THE ACCEPTABLE MITES. + + +ANDERSONVILLE, GA.--"Please find inclosed $2.31, which is a contribution +from our church toward paying the debt of the American Missionary +Association. It is very little, but more than I supposed the people would +raise, there is so little money in the place." + +GREENWOOD, S. C.--"It is a great pleasure to me to hand you herewith bank +draft for $11, which is the amount of our collection for the Lincoln +Memorial Day. I have delayed the remitting of this amount somewhat to give +others an opportunity who wished to contribute, but were not quite ready. +The amount is not large, but it is from the people and expresses in a +measure their interest in the work of the American Missionary Association. +The collection represents offerings of the young and old from a cent to a +dollar. What was done was done with a free heart." + + + + +NO COLOR-LINE IN CLEVELAND. + + +The Methodist General Conference and the hotels in Cleveland, O., deserve +great credit--the hotels for according to all delegates, regardless of +color, equal accommodations, and the Conference for its hearty indorsement +of their action. If this greatest gathering of the largest Protestant +church in America had nothing else to do, it might go with its grand +meeting from city to city securing this recognition of the brotherhood of +man. It is ardently hoped that the generous and liberal-minded hotel +keepers in Cleveland may not "backslide," and that if any single colored +delegate, clerical or lay, should come alone to Cleveland, even before the +close of the "six months' probation," he might not find the door closed +against him. + +The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church may be equally useful at +its meeting in Saratoga in preaching this same gospel of the brotherhood +of man, and in this case, too, permanency is very desirable, and it is +hoped, therefore, that in this event there may be the illustration of the +good old Presbyterian doctrine of the "perseverance of the saints." + + + + +ORANGE PARK NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL IN FLORIDA CLOSED BY THE SHERIFF. + + +It will be remembered that on Friday, the 10th of April, seven teachers +and two patrons of the Orange Park School, at Orange Park, Fla., were +arrested for violation of an enactment legalized a year ago by the State +Legislature under the instigation of William H. Sheats, the State +superintendent of education. + +The enactment, which we protest is in no just sense a law, forbids not +only white and colored persons to be instructed within the same building +at the same time, but it also forbids a white principal or matron or +guardians of the school rooming or living within the same building where +their pupils are. + +This enactment against the personal rights of education in a private +Christian school not supported or aided by the State, if sustained, would +destroy nearly all of the institutions carried on by Northern benevolence +in all of our Southern States. It would take the guardianship of manners +and morals out of the hands of those who have planted and sustained the +institutions until now, and who, in view of the millions yet uneducated +and untrained, are now needed as much as ever. It is not surprising, +therefore, that the National Council of Congregational Churches at +Syracuse in October requested the Association to take this question to the +highest courts, nor that the General Conference of the Methodist Church in +Cleveland has just passed a resolution denouncing this iniquitous +enactment, or that we are receiving constantly from our State and local +associations assurances of sympathy and support in our contest against +this reversion to barbarism. We quote a few of the opinions which have +come under our observation. + +From the _Congregationalist_: + + + "The ethics of Christ, Pilgrim traditions, and the U. S. + Constitution seemed paramount to the opinions of Florida + legislators, and the highest officials of the American Missionary + Association decided to defy and test the law. That the + denomination stands back of them may be reasonably inferred from + the resolution passed by the last Triennial National Council. Let + the American Missionary Association have the sinews of war with + which to employ the ablest counsel." + + +From the _Outlook_: + + + "The State of Florida not long ago took action which is a disgrace + to itself and a blot on the fair fame of our republic. Let our + people squarely face this issue. While we are protesting against + the treatment of missionaries in Turkey and calling upon the + Government to use all its power in their protection, Christian + teachers widely known and honored in one of the great States of + this republic are arrested simply because they presumed to + instruct a few white children under the same roof with colored + children. It is hard to speak of such conduct in mild words. The + question as to whether this is in reality a free republic is once + more at issue. The action of the State of Florida is as barbaric + as the persecutions of the Middle Ages." + + +From the _Independent_: + + + "Let the reader observe that this is not a law applying merely to + the public schools of the State. Such a law we condemn, but we + could not be surprised at it. This law is directed at this + particular institution, which is not a public school but a private + academy supported by the American Missionary Association. We have + been amazed that in this nineteenth century Christians could be + massacred by the thousands for not accepting the Moslem faith and + no hand raised to defend them. But that was in Turkey. Here in the + United States more than thirty years after the Proclamation of + Emancipation in one of the sovereign States of the Union, half a + dozen men and women are arrested for the crime of treating black + children and white children alike, for not drawing a caste line in + their own private grounds in a school they conduct at no expense + to the State. It is a curious humiliating occurrence for this + Jubilee year of the American Missionary Association." + + +From the _Advance_: + + + "Florida's disgraceful Sheats law, specially designed for the + teachers and supporters of Orange Park Academy, has at last been + put in force. The teachers of the Academy, the pastor of the + church, and the parents of the white pupils have been arrested for + violation of this law, which forbids any one to maintain or + patronize a school in which white persons and Negroes shall be + taught or boarded within the same building. + + And this is the State of Senator Call, who is declaiming so + eloquently in behalf of the Cuban insurgents, more than half of + whom are of Negro blood." + + +From the _Boston Standard_: + + + "A year ago the unconstitutional and vile Sheats law was passed by + the legislature of Florida. It was understood that this law was + particularly aimed at the Orange Park School, of the American + Missionary Association, whose fiftieth anniversary is to be + celebrated in this city next fall. This villainous statute was + enforced in the case of the Orange Park School on the entire body + of teachers, white men and women of spotless character and + self-sacrificing devotion to the mission, because of educating + teachers for the elevation of American citizenship. The normal + school is one of the best and most useful of the educational + agencies at work in the South, but had dared to ignore the + outrageous statute which makes it a crime for any school, public + or private, to teach black and white scholars in the same building + or have any white teachers to eat and sleep in the same house with + their Negro pupils. If these discretionary rights are not + guaranteed by our national Constitution to American citizens, then + the professed abolition of slavery and of the color line in + citizenship is a wretched farce. Nobody can question the intent of + the proclamation of emancipation of the constitutional amendment + that places the Negro on the same legal plane with the white + citizen of this country. We do not doubt the supreme and binding + authority of this legislature. We mistake the temper of the + American people if a blaze of indignation is not kindled by this + outrage from the Atlantic to the Pacific." + + +From _Frank Leslie's Weekly_: + + + "Under these provisions no citizen of Florida, it will be noted, + can under certain conditions educate his child. He is excluded + absolutely from the best educational institutions in the State if + these admit pupils of both white and colored parentage. The + defiance of the law was in obedience to a definite determination + on the part of the American Missionary Association to make a + distinct test of the statute." + + +From the _Boston Daily Advertiser_: + + + "The Sheats law in Florida was passed through the influence of + malice, prejudice, and partisan venom. Efforts have been made in + other Southern States to perpetrate similar outrages, but for the + most part without avail. The better public sentiment all over the + South is strongly against such meanness. This better sentiment has + asserted itself successfully elsewhere, and we do not doubt that + it will do so very soon in Florida." + + +From the _Boston Journal_: + + + "The American Missionary Association will be sustained by an + enlightened public sentiment in fighting to the last resort the + outrageous Florida law which makes it a crime to teach colored and + white pupils in the same school." + + +These comments are but samples of the sentiment which comes to the +Association respecting this attempt to challenge the constitutional +amendment which came with the emancipation of the colored people from +slavery. But now there is + + + +A SECOND CHAPTER. + + +After the teachers were arrested it was supposed that this would be the +end of the persecution until the statute should be tested by the courts. +Accordingly they returned to the work in the school as before. On the 4th +of May the Sheriff was instructed by the State Attorney to inquire into +this continued violation of the law, and if he found the school to be +going on as before, to arrest and rearrest, as long as the school should +be continued. In consequence the school was forced to close its sessions, +as the teachers were informed that they would be arrested over and over +again, and that new bail would be required for every successive day; this +not only for the teachers but for the patrons, which would be impossible +in the case of those who are colored. This is in accordance with the +published pronouncement of Supt. Sheats that he will prosecute and +persecute this Orange Park School out of existence. + + + + +MEMBERS OF THE ALBANY CONVENTION. + + +We are desirous of securing the names of the survivors of the little band +that gathered in Albany fifty years ago, and formed the American +Missionary Association. A few years since, we made a similar call to this +in the pages of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, but the responses were very few. +At the present date, we know of only two persons, Rev. John H. Byrd, +Lawrence, Kan., and Rev. Peter B. Thayer, Garland, Me., who were present +at that time. We hope, if there are any other survivors, they will write +to us promptly, and if there are persons whose eyes fall on this little +notice who happen to know of any person who was present at that meeting, +we will be much obliged if they will send us the name and address. + + + + +OUR CHURCHES. + + +We intend to present to our readers from time to time brief sketches of +some of our churches located in the South and elsewhere, with some account +of the condition of the membership as to property and education, with +glimpses of their poverty and hard struggles to support the pastor, with +occasionally the cheerful story of those who reach self-support. On +another page will be found a sketch by Pastor Snell of the church in +Talladega, Ala. + + + + +THE TALENTED TENTH. + + +In the discussion concerning Negro education we should not forget the +talented tenth man. An ordinary education may answer for the nine men of +mediocrity; but if this is all we offer the talented tenth man, we make a +prodigious mistake. The tenth man, with superior natural endowments, +symmetrically trained and highly developed, may become a mightier +influence, a greater inspiration to others than all the other nine, or +nine times nine like them. Without disparagement of faithful men of +moderate abilities, it may be said that in all ages the mighty impulses +that have propelled a people onward in their progressive career, have +proceeded from a few gifted souls. Sometimes these have been "self-made" +men, so-called, whose best powers were evoked by rare opportunities. +Oftener, they have been men of thoroughly disciplined minds, of sharpened +perceptive faculties, trained to analyze and to generalize; men of +well-balanced judgments and power of clear and forceful statement. + +It is this talented tenth man of our colleges that in after years reflects +more honor on his _alma mater_ than the other nine; it is this tenth man +that is the recognized leader in his profession and the leader of public +opinion. To him, rather than to the other nine, the many look for +suggestion and advice in important matters. He is an uncrowned king in his +sphere. + +This being true, I repeat that not to make proper provision for the high +education of the talented tenth man of the colored people is a prodigious +mistake. It is to dwarf the tree that has in it the potency of a grand +oak. Industrial education is good for the nine; the common English +branches are good for the nine; but that tenth man ought to have the best +opportunities for making the most of himself for humanity and God. + +The powers of this talented tenth man are often latent; unsuspected by +others and even by their possessor, and are evoked only under favorable +conditions, sometimes comparatively late in the youthful period of life. +In a symmetrical course of study calculated to bring into exercise every +mental faculty, somewhere, as by a touchstone, the particular aptitude of +the pupil may be discovered, the secret springs of power be opened; and +the man, having discovered himself, leaps forward to pre-eminence among +his fellows. Scores of such men and women are among the students in the +schools for the colored people of the South. A mere common education will +not disclose their uncommon powers; they need the test of the best. And +somewhere, at several central points at least, provision should be made +for the higher education of the talented tenth as well as ordinary +education for the other nine. + +The great need of the colored people of the South is wise leadership along +all lines of development; men of large and comprehensive views acquired by +contact and communion with the world's great thinkers; such men are needed +to-day even more than nine times as many with a little more practical +knowledge concerning the use of the saw, the jack-plane and the +blacksmith's forge. In our educational work for the colored people, +therefore, proper provision should be made for the talented tenth.--DR. +MOREHOUSE in _The Independent_. + + + + +ALASKA MISSION. + + +The following sentences from a personal letter of Miss Anna L. Dawes state +a profound truth in terse and impressive form: + + + "If any one is willing to go up there and live with those Eskimos, + I think the rest of us may well enough agree to help. Indeed, + nothing has been so good for me for some time as his (Mr. Lopp's) + visit. It not only makes our Christianity (mine at least) look + like a mustard seed, but makes you wonder whether it isn't a + _dead_ seed at that! I have been to hear Mr. Moody to-day, but he + didn't begin to give me such "conviction of sin" as the urgent and + eager interest Mr. Lopp showed in going back to his people up + there. I wonder just what the Lord does think of us all--some of + us, anyway?" + + +Mr. Lopp, whom Miss Dawes refers to, is pleading for funds to make it +possible to open the mission among the Eskimos. The American Missionary +Association was obliged to discontinue it for a year on account of the +straitened condition of the treasury. We are now making every effort to +gather funds outside of the current income of the Association, that there +may be at least one Christian mission conducted by Congregationalists in +this great northern mission field. Mr. Lopp's plea for "_his_ people" and +abandon of self-sacrifice both on the part of himself and his wife, +impress every one, as they did Miss Dawes. + +This is the only mission of the Congregational denomination in Alaska. No +other denomination plans to occupy this station if given up by the +American Missionary Association. The work requires about five hundred +dollars more than has been subscribed, and this must be in hand by the +first of June, when it is necessary for Mr. Lopp to sail, if he goes this +year. + + + + + +THE SOUTH. + + + + +HISTORY OF A CHURCH IN ALABAMA. + + +BY REV. SPENCER SNELL. + +The beautiful and healthful city of Talladega is located among the +Appalachian foot hills. The First Congregational church was organized in +the year 1868. The first members were people who came out of the colored +Baptist Church, and who had begun to look for a more intelligent mode of +worship and better religious instruction than it was possible to have in +churches whose pastors had been slaves and were uneducated. + +The first pastor of the church was Rev. H. E. Brown, of Ridgefield, O., +whom the American Missionary Association had sent into the South. Since +his retirement the pulpit has been occupied by several pastors, including +the acceptable services of professors of Talladega College. My pastorate +began in 1894. + +There are friendly relations between our church and the other colored +churches near at hand. The pastor is often invited to preach in the other +churches. The pastors of two of the Baptist churches are graduates of our +school here, and the pastor of one of the Methodist churches is now taking +lessons in our seminary. + +The present membership of the church is 219. Many of them are poor +students who have to be helped through school. The resident members have +but very little money. With one or two exceptions they receive small pay +for what they do. Those who have trades find but little here to do and +have to go away to get employment. Among the male members of the church +are farmers, mechanics, etc., and among the females those who do laundry +work, sewing, etc. Several of these women take the washing of families +home and work very hard for a very little money with which to subsist +their families, buy books, and pay tuition for their children in Talladega +College. + +There are about thirty-five members of the church who own their homes, and +about eleven who rent the places where they live. Several of the homes +owned by the members of the church are fairly comfortable for Southern +homes, having from two to seven rooms. None of them are costly. I do not +suppose that one of them cost $1,000. Neither is the furniture in them +costly. Scarcely any of them have carpets on their floors. They look upon +carpets as a luxury which they cannot afford. Plaster on the walls is +almost as rare as carpets on the floors. In some cases there is not a +rocking-chair in the house. The furniture they have is of a very ordinary +kind. + +The people have but very little money and are obliged to struggle long and +hard to get a little place to call home, in many cases buying the lumber +and hiring the carpenter on credit. This being the case, it takes them +years and years to pay for the little homes. The homes vary from the +fairly comfortable to the wretched. It is noticeable that those who have +had the advantages of an education have better homes than those who have +no education. + +There comes to mind as I write one very miserable home in which both the +parents are ignorant. There are three rooms to the house not nearly so +comfortable as the places where Northern farmers keep their horses and +cattle. There is neither stove nor grate in the house, but simply some +rocks on each side of the open fireplace on which they lay the green wood, +by which they sit and shiver while the cold winds blow through the cracks +in the floor and sides of the house. There are six children and only two +excuses for beds. One of these has on it a tick, the other has a pile of +dirty rags. There is not a whole table or chair in the house. + +And yet, these people, like many others just as poor as they, are trying +to educate their children. They believe that in Christian education lies +the only redemption from this condition for them and their race, through +their children, who are enjoying privileges that were denied to them. + +There are not more than a dozen individuals in the church who are earning +a comfortable living. More than that number did so when times were better, +but now there is not much for them to do except conduct very poor farms, +on which they cannot earn enough to make themselves comfortable. + +There have been very few years in the history of the church when it did +not have a revival of religion. Of late it has been the custom to have two +series of special services each year--one during the winter, while the +school is in session, and another during the summer vacation. Effort is +made each year to have all the students converted. Of all the young people +who have graduated here only two have left without being professing +Christians. + +The growth of the church has not been rapid, but steady. During the days +of slavery the colored people were members of the churches to which their +masters belonged. None of them belonged to Congregational churches, and +so, when Congregationalism came to the South after the war, it was +entirely new to the former slaves and to those who had been their masters. + +The masses of the children and the young people still cling to the +churches which their parents were taught to love. It will, therefore, be +some time before Congregationalism will grow rapidly in the South. The +church has no building of its own, and no parsonage, but worships in the +chapel of Talladega College. The building in which the chapel is located +was erected by the white Baptists of the Coosa Valley Association before +the war as a college for their sons. Some of the old slaves who helped to +put up the building lived to see freedom, to see the building come into +the hands of the American Missionary Association, and to see their own +children study and graduate in it. + + + + +MEETINGS AMONG THE HILLS AND AT A CONVICT CAMP. + + +BY REV. H. E. PARTRIDGE. + +Perhaps nowhere is a religious meeting made more of than in the hill +country of the South. There are reasons _and_ reasons for the fact. Take a +real, genuine Methodist or Baptist matron, or brother, of fifty, and they +love Christ and His cause, and do not fail to associate their love for Him +and the work with the gathering in His name. If it be possible, they will +be in attendance when "the parson" comes round. The girls love to go; some +because they, too, are learning to love the service of the Master, some +because they have no other so good opportunity to see and be seen, and +others because everybody else goes. Where the girls and young ladies are +sure to be, there the boys and young men are apt to be; and so it comes +that when the meeting, especially the "big meeting," is to be held, the +people throng. And if you want to see a genuine democracy, untainted by +any kind of aristocracy, you could not find it better illustrated than +among the hills, at meeting time, in some log "church-house." No Sir +Wonderful to claim best pew, no usher to give you the place _he_ chooses. +You come with your wife and, following the custom, she goes to the left, +you to the right. I will not describe the service. The singing varies from +a wonderful chorus of praise that lacks nothing in volume in one +neighborhood, to the nasal-twanged hymn which some incompetent leader +sings almost alone in some other community. The old songs predominate, but +any brisk moving song of work of praise or progress easily becomes a +favorite, when once it has been sung long enough so that the words and +movement are mastered by a few. + +You will not be long in any big meeting or revival service before you will +hear: + + "Mother has a home, sweet home, + Mother has a home, sweet home, + Mother has a home, sweet home. + Lord, I want to join the angels; beautiful home." + +This is varied. Now it is Brother, Father, Preacher, or Sister who has a +home. + +You may not know the tune or words, but it will not be long before you are +singing with the rest, if you are a participator or worshiper, and not +that horrid and heartless thing, a critical looker-on. + +You know of the hand-shaking? If a sinner seeks to enter the Christian +life, he comes, on invitation of the minister, to shake hands at the close +of, or during, the service. And often service closes with an +all-round-hand-shake. There is a song started, like "Say, Brother, will +you meet me?" or some simple devotional hymn, and all rise and shake hands +all around, singing or praying, or speaking gently one to another. + +Ah! many a feud has sunk forever, many an unpleasantness has been +forgotten, many a half-ripe quarrel has been strangled, and many a +friendship has been strengthened and ripened in these services of emotion +and love, those hand-shakings of the Mountaineers. The blessings of the +peacemakers should be his who first introduced the service. + +Among other invitation hymns I have heard, I remember vividly: + + "Sinner, you are welcome, Yes, Yes, welcome + To the dying lamb." + +This, too, is varied. "Seeker," "Brother," "Sister," and "Everybody's +welcome" being sung. + +I could tell of parts I do not like, of excitements the reverse of helpful +to my devotional feelings, and of loudness mistaken for piety or zeal, but +so could others criticise the services at Dr. Cuyler's or Dr. Storrs's +church. I prefer to speak of the really good. + +May I tell you of a unique service? It was at the Convict Camp, near +Baker's X Roads, in Cumberland County, Tenn. + +No need to ring the bell--the congregation are assembled, and armed guards +are standing by lest someone should escape. Still a bell was tapped. +Silence at once. + +"Boys," I said, "when I was here before you kindly asked me to come and +speak to you again. I am here. Before I speak I want to have you sing. +Will you sing?" A moment's pause, and in the rich tones which the colored +people so often have, there rang out from scores of throats, one of those +weird songs of the race. It was of chariots and heaven, of songs and +praises, and of Jesus the King. I cannot reproduce or describe it. I +prayed for a blessing on our service, and several responded with +apparently as fervent "Amen" as ever came from Camp Meeting or Altar +service. Then I read passages, closing with a part of Romans 6: from the +twenty-third verse. I spoke briefly of "The wages of sin, and of the gift +of God." I almost fear I was harsh. Poor fellows--they were criminals, but +who is not guilty, before God, of violations of Divine law? + +As I pleaded for the starting of a better life, as I spoke of their +families, as I said "Some of you will be through with prison life soon," +as I talked of honesty, sobriety, and purity, there were moist eyes. I +asked for an expression at the close. All who will accept Jesus Christ, +and from this very hour live for Him, and with the strength he gives try +to forget the grievances you have thought to revenge; try to love and +serve one another here, in Christ's name, and others when released; strive +to do your work faithfully; in short, try to do what you think Christ +would want you to do--first, give me your hand, and then kneel with me in +prayer. Through the chinks and crevices of the stockade a score of men +thrust their hands, eager to respond to the invitation, and many knelt in +prayer. + +How much was make-believe? How much was genuine? The Searcher of hearts +alone knows. Sowing by all waters, I am willing to leave results with God. + +Another song, and then "Good-bye, boss!" "Good-bye, Captain!" "Come again, +preacher!" + +The days were weeks, and then! Criminal carelessness, perhaps. A premature +explosion of dynamite and powder combined on the railroad, and six of +these men had been discharged. Dead! A rough grave beside the track, God +knows the rest. They were convicts, they were blacks, but they were my +brothers and yours, children of one Father. + +I was tired that Sunday, but I am glad God let me go and give them another +invitation to the Christ-life. Perhaps in some other time and place I +shall talk over that service among the boys in black at Convict Camp, with +a soul in white over there. Who knows? + + + + +A BRIGHT AND CANDID VIEW OF OUR MOUNTAIN WORK. + + +The following letter comes from a member of the "Andover Band," three of +whom entered the work among the American Highlanders last year. It is the +first band of theological students organized in any of our seminaries for +work in the field of the American Missionary Association. It was a very +interesting movement and worthy the seminary that has sent out bands into +other parts of the country which have accomplished great results. + +The testimony is set forth by Prof. John C. Campbell, a cultured young +man, who looks on this interesting work with a fresh vision and gives +opinions well balanced respecting this field and others. + +It should be said that the letter was not written for publication. + + + +The year has been trying and wearing, but I take great satisfaction in +knowing that much has been accomplished. We have established ourselves in +the hearts of the people, I believe, and have the respect and co-operative +interest of the best men in this and adjoining counties, so I hope for +great things in the future if our friends in the North will only help us. + +Suspicion has given way to confidence, and I may even fire broadsides at +the tobacco habit now, even if it hits home. They are a trying, promising, +and loveable people. I admire those of my classmates who have heard the +voice of God (not the prompting of inclination) calling them to remain in +dear old hair-splitting New England; but, while I admire their bravery, I +am sorry for them, for it must seem as if they were striking in the air. +Here we see the enemy, and can strike directly at him, and one has some +satisfaction in getting weary and sick at heart in fighting at great odds +against a visible power instead of the more subtle powers "of the air." +But I digress! It is such a temptation to let myself out when +communicating with one who understands this discouraging, fascinating, and +encouraging work. This year's work has given me experience, as well as +gray hair, and even if my labors in the South should terminate this year, +I should feel that I had gained a great deal. I wish that all Northerners +could come to know the best element of the South, and show their +magnanimity as victors by helping the American Missionary Association do +the work which alone will make a new South. To me the South presents a +touching but heroic picture as she struggles nobly, but somewhat +uncertainly, toward the light, still the victim of her cavalier training, +still held back by the poor black and the poor white, the products of her +accursed institution. Now that is all abolished, she needs help from the +North. I doubt if we in the North would be any better had we been placed +in the same environment, and our superiority may be due as much to soil, +climate, and the consequent unprofitableness of slave labor, as to our +Puritan ancestry. + +The tide of immigration is beginning to turn toward this State from +Georgia, and many coming from the Dakotas. The mass of ignorance is +appalling. I realize in part, I think, the difficulty of getting the needs +of the whites before a sympathizing audience. When it comes to a white +man's needs and his condition, too many church members and others +substitute the scientific theory of the survival of the fittest for +Christ's law of love. They forget too, I fear, that many of these people +in the mountains are victims of slavery as innocent as the Negro; and they +do not see that their indifference is letting them lie in the hard bed +which circumstances, largely beyond their control, have made for them. If +they will only give us money, "greenbacks," if need be, and enable us to +get the young out of bed on their intellectual and spiritual feet, I shall +be satisfied. And if our Congressmen and politicians would bury the +"Bloody Shirt," and stop throwing stones over Mason and Dixon's fence, and +out of their personal means give, what is too often given uselessly, to +the Association and other similar Boards, the questions which spring from +sectional prejudice would soon be solved. I do believe that what the +American Missionary Association stands for is the panacea for all +political and social ills. + + + + +REVIVALS. + + + +CHARLOTTE, N.C. + + +BY REV. GEO. H HAINES. + +We are in the midst of a glorious revival. Rev. James Wharton was with us +six days. What wonderful help he has been to our work during his stay with +us. We had eleven hopeful conversions. We continued our meetings after he +left us, and our total number of conversions is twenty. Among the persons +who have left the ways of sin and turned into the way of life are two very +remarkable cases. A woman of about fifty years of age, a drunkard and one +of the most profane women in our city, asked the people of God to pray for +her. It seemed hard for her to understand the simple plan of salvation, +and that the Lord Jesus would save her if she would believe. The evening +after Mr. Wharton left she received the evidence of her conversion. I can +never tell how the news of this woman's conversion spread over the city. +It created as much excitement as the news of the man who was found by our +Saviour among the tombs. Crowds came to our services to see if the news +was true, and when they heard the testimony for Christ they rejoiced with +us. + +The other is a man of about the same age, who has been a great disbeliever +in the word of God, though his wife was a member of our church. He was a +very strong man in all the societies in the city. He has been led out of +darkness into light. The people say: "God bless Mr. Wharton." Our +Sunday-school has grown wonderfully in the last month. Indeed, every +department of our church work is looking up. + + + +BEAUFORT, N.C. + + +BY REV. J.P. SIMS. + +Evangelist Wharton's visit did us a great deal of good. Not only have +souls been converted, but the church has been edified. In the revival +there were six hopeful conversions, and four joined our church, among them +a very promising young man. + +Our people are becoming more and more willing to divide their little mite +with the church. They make a special effort once a month to help raise the +pastor's salary by giving what they call a "surprise party," bringing +packages of flour, sugar, coffee, meal, rice, fish, etc., for which I give +them credit. Sometimes the unconverted are with them. They come in +singing, fill the table, then a prayer, and return at once, singing as +they go. By this process we are able to send in a better report than we +have been doing. + + + +CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS, LA. + + +BY REV. JOHN W. WHITTAKER. + +We have just passed through a precious season of revival. We began a +series of meetings during the week of prayer. God's presence and blessing +were manifestly with us, so we were constrained to continue them another +week, holding meetings every night. Fifteen were turned to God. Nine of +them have united with our church and have begun service for the Master. +The meetings were well attended, and our whole church was stirred up to +more faithful work for God and humanity. Our church is steadily increasing +in strength. Almost every Sabbath some one is taken into membership. We +have on our books nearly two hundred and fifty people who have pledged +themselves to give weekly on an average ten cents or more toward the +support of the church. We love the American Missionary Association, and +appreciate all that it is doing for us. We need its aid just now. We +cannot get on without it. But we do not mean to make what you do for us an +excuse for doing less for ourselves. + + + + +ITEMS FROM THE FIELD. + + +DENOMINATIONAL FRATERNITY.--From High Point, N. C., we have the following: + + + One of the great hindrances to the evangelization of the colored + people in the South is the constant flaunting of denominational + banners by ignorant and unprincipled preachers. But I am happy to + say, that at our special services on Lincoln Memorial Day, this + spirit of evil was buried in High Point, at least for one day. It + was pleasant to see Methodists, Baptists, and Congregationalists + working harmoniously together to make the occasion successful. One + brother and wife gave us 45 cents, and the pastor of the Baptist + Church, after speaking a word in behalf of the American Missionary + Association came forward and deposited a quarter on the table, at + the same time urging his members to give liberally to help it + overcome its great burden of debt. I am pleased also to note the + self-denial of two faithful members, a mother and daughter of our + own church, who out of their poverty gave 50 cents each. Both of + these good women are out in service, and although their earnings + are very small, they never give less than 25 cents each whenever + special efforts are made to raise money for the support of the + work. + + +GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCES OF THE PAST.--Rev. James Brown, of Anniston, Ala., +recalls some memories of the past: + + + When we met as a church on October 22, to pray for the success of + the American Missionary Association, it was touching to hear the + testimony of people from thirty-five to fifty years of age as to + the self-sacrificing spirit of the missionaries of the American + Missionary Association, as they came from Talladega to this + section more than twenty-five years ago. Some told how the + missionaries had to hide from place to place to keep out of the + reach of the Ku Klux, the speakers being almost eye-witnesses to + the murder of Mr. Luke, a few miles from this place. If some of + our Northern friends could have heard the words of gratitude for + the work of the American Missionary Association, and seen the + tears of joy over what has been accomplished, they would know that + their labors and gifts had not been in vain. + + +LIBERAL GIVING FROM A SMALL INCOME.--Rev. A. L. DeMond, of Lowell, N. C., +writes: + + + The people have had a heavy burden upon them during the hard times + of these winter months when there is so little for them to do in + the way of earning money. Of their little means they give freely + and gladly. Many of them are paid for their work in provisions at + the stores so that they do not receive much money. One poor woman + said to me: "I can always give a little something because I get + _forty cents every week_ for my washing." She lives in a little + log cabin, through the sides of which the wind often whistles, but + every Sunday she gives something for the church of Christ. + + +A POOR WOMAN'S FINE FEELING.--One day last year our laundress sent her +oldest boy, a lad fourteen years of age, on an errand. He was gone an hour +or more longer than she expected him to be. Upon his return she asked him +what he had been doing all that time. He told her that an expressman had +been run away with, and had been quite badly hurt. He had helped get the +man into a store, had gone for a doctor, and had done all that he could +for him. When he left him the man told him to go to his office the next +day and he would give him something. The boy's mother at once said that he +mustn't think of taking anything for what he had done for the man when he +was in trouble. + +Who can say that the colored people are incapable of fine feeling? This +poor woman was certainly not so well provided with this world's goods that +she had no use for money. On the contrary, she was a widow, with a family +of five children that she had kept together and had sent to school at the +cost of much sacrifice and years of hard work at the washtub. + + + + + +THE INDIANS. + + + + +REVIVAL--LIBERAL CONTRIBUTIONS. + + +MISS M. C. COLLINS, FORT YATES, N. DAK. + +I am sure you will be glad to hear of the great, may I say "revival," +which seems to be upon us. On March 1 at our regular communion we received +into the church fifteen adults, and there were eight marriages and nine +children baptized. Six of these people came from Flying-By region (Miss +Lord's people). She is rejoicing. One, Swift Cloud, and his wife, are a +middle-aged couple, who lived here when I first came to this village. They +are a good addition to our force. Then Two-Runs and his wife are two good +people, Miss Lord's near neighbors, and will be a great help to her. The +others uniting came from my village, and we now have only two men and +their wives in this village who are not in the church. Bird-Dog, another +of Miss Lord's people, and his wife and sister have given me their names +as candidates for membership at the next communion. The Y. M. C. A. down +there are hauling logs to build a place to meet in. The little cabin we +put up is already too small. + +Our contributions for Native Missionary work, from October 1 to March 1, +all told, on Standing Rock Agency, are $206.47. + +Women's Missionary $107.20 +Societies have given +Y. M. C. A. 57.99 +Grand River Church 21.78 +Standing Rock Church 19.50 +Elkhorn (on Grand River), 45.65 +the Women's Society +Y. M. C. A. 26.39 + +Beside this our church here has given about $15 to the Lincoln Memorial +Fund for the Association and $10 to buy table and chairs for the pulpit. +Our Christians are going from house to house to pray with the sick, and +many of these people are being brought to Christ through this means. On +communion Sunday we opened the folding doors and yet the church was so +full that three of us sat down on the little platform behind the pulpit. + +I forgot to tell you that aside from this $206 we raised $200 to build a +chapel at One Bull's, where Elias was. The house is too little. + +We are not "lazy, good-for-nothing Indians, fit only for the soldiers' +target." We are men and women struggling against clannishness and +superstition--against evil without and within--reaching up to you who know +the blessedness of the Light of the Gospel, asking you to reach down, down +into our dark lives and lift us up. Let us get a glimpse on this side of +the beauties of Heaven. + +We need your help, and bye and bye we will join your forces and help you +to gather with God's fold other tribes and nations who know not God. Do +not cut us down this spring. It will break our hearts with discouragement. + +God help people to hear our prayer. We shake hands with God's people in +the name of Jesus Christ our Saviour. + +P.S.--Three of the people outside the church in this village have given me +their names as candidates for church membership at the May communion. + + + + +CROW AGENCY, MONTANA.--The growth of the missionary work among the Indians +at the Crow Agency, Montana, is very encouraging. Recent reports from this +field bring information of large gatherings in the religious services, and +in the church services and Sunday-school. Our missionary, Rev. J. G. +Burgess, is planning to spend several weeks this summer among the camps on +the prairies to which the Indians withdraw during the warmer months. A +chapel is very much needed at this mission in order to afford a place for +religious gatherings and such instruction as the missionary and his wife +are able to give these Indians. This mission of the American Missionary +Association is the only Protestant mission among the entire Crow tribe. + + + + + +THE CHINESE. + + + + +THE OROVILLE MISSION. + + +BY REV. W.C. POND, D.D. + + [Illustration: New Years Cake.] + + New Years Cake. + + +The cake of which we give a picture is more than a monument to the +artistic cookery of which some of our brethren there are capable. It was +made in a sort of Christian competition with the rude and senseless +operations by which their idol-worshiping countrymen observed their great +annual festival. And on Salvation Army principles, though not after their +methods, it called the attention of multitudes both of Chinese and +Americans to the Mission House and the Mission work and the Saviour for +whom our brethren were eager to bear witness. They did not confine their +attention to cake-making nor express their loyalty to Christ in that way +alone, but made up a very respectable sum, which, as "New Year's Gifts to +Jesus," they placed in our treasury. + +The picture, as we are able to give it in our magazine, is not large +enough to show all the points of interest about this cake. It represents, +of course, a Chinese pagoda, but with the idols omitted. Possibly there is +in it a little symbolism of _ascent_--the excelsior spirit which comes +from new life in Christ. Beginning at the shell foundation, we see two +cards which bear in Chinese an inscription literally translated thus: +"Eyes see; hands must not touch." Above this were the more abrupt or +pointed English words: "Hands off." Over the door at the head of the steps +is a framed inscription: "Happy New Year, 1896." In what might be called +the second story there is another inscription, which, being interpreted, +reads: "Blessed News Chapel"--_i.e._, Gospel Chapel--while on the right +post are characters which, literally translated, mean: "Blessed Land: good +cultivating"--_i.e._, to good cultivation this happy land yields large +returns. On the left-hand post the characters literally translated mean: +"News Chapel: righteous pastor: forms intimate friends"--_i.e._, the +righteous pastor of this Gospel Chapel makes warm friends. + +On either side of the cake are Chinese New Year's lilies (narcissus) +growing to perfection in saucers supplied with nothing except clean +pebbles and pure water--these are said to symbolize purity and mercy. +Above the lilies rise great clusters of artificial flowers, which also +have some symbolical import; I am unable to say what. + +This will be a good place to say a few words about this mission, which has +now been in existence for more than twenty years. During all this period +it has occupied, _rent free_, a small brick building belonging to our +ex-Governor and United States Senator, Hon. George C. Perkins, who began +his wonderfully successful career in this town of Oroville. He has not +even required us to pay the taxes upon it, and when a rumor reached my +ears that his agent had received an offer for the purchase of it, Mr. +Perkins kindly assured me that we should have the first chance to buy it, +and he would help us out by a generous donation. That's the sort of man he +is. + +There has always been a large Chinese population engaged mainly in mining, +whose headquarters were at Oroville. When our mission was established the +number was estimated at not less than twenty-five hundred. Chinatown was +quite extensive and all its frail structures swarmed, like bee-hives, with +inhabitants. There are no such throngs now, but there are still people +enough to call forth the most and the best that we can do for them. + +A large number of Chinese have here been turned from idol-worship to the +love of Jesus. I have at hand no means of scanning the long roll--reaching +up to many hundreds--of those who have for longer or shorter periods been +brought here to know something of Christ. And the frequent change of +teachers has rendered impossible any adequate statement of results. Among +those whom I specially remember are three Yongs: One, Yong Jim, an +unusually well-educated man who, after being a missionary helper in +several of our fields, returned to China, and has done gospel-work there +in connection with the American Board; another, Yong Kay, was a delegate +from California to the great convention of the Y. P. S. C. E. in Boston, +and made several addresses there, which were well received. He is now +preaching the Word in that city. Yet another of the same family has been +for several years a leader in Christian work among the Chinese in New +York. The Christians in California and elsewhere belonging to this family +have a little missionary work of their own among their relatives in China +in addition to what they do through our Chinese Missionary Society. The +work at Oroville is now in excellent hands. We have a good +helper--intelligent, wise, steadfast--who almost wholly supports himself, +drawing but five dollars per month from our treasury, and giving back a +goodly portion of this. The teachers are faithful and earnest, and I +rejoice to add that for several years our church in that town has +recognized its responsibility for this work, has given it the right hand +of fellowship, and has aided it with generous gifts. + + + + +Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares. + + +Rev. MILO N. MILES, Iowa City, Ia. + +FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL, East Orange, N. J. + +Miss M. F. AIKEN, Maiden, Mass. + +Mrs. MARY R. ENGLESBY, Burlington, Vt. + +Rev. GEO. W. REED and WIFE, Fort Yates, N. D. + +E. A. GOODNOW, Worcester, Mass., two shares. + +BROADWAY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Norwich, Conn., twenty shares. + +CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Watertown, Conn. + +Judge WM. H. UPSON, Akron, O. + +TRINITARIAN CONG'L CH., Norton, Mass., four shares. + +Rev. J. E. ROY, D.D., Chicago, Ill. + +Mrs. A. B. ROSS, Cambridgeboro, Pa. + +ARTHUR'S MISSION, Millbury, Mass., two shares. + +HORACE TRACEY PITKIN, New Hartford, Conn. + +Mrs. EMMA P. SHUMWAY, Groton, Mass. + +Mrs. AUGUSTA S. THURSTON, Whitinsville, Mass. + +HIGH ST. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Auburn, Me. + +FIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY, Keene, N. H. + +Dea. M. M. FISHER, Medway, Mass. + +E. FISHER RICHARDSON, Medway, Mass. + +Mrs. HARRIET P. SOMERS, Boston, Mass. + +FROM A FRIEND IN MEMORY OF HER MOTHER, Boston, Mass. + +Mrs. M. N. PHELPS, Foxboro, Mass. + +Dr. R. N. BAUGHMAN, Marseilles, Ill., two shares. + +WINDHAM CONFERENCE of Connecticut. + +MARY R. CUMMINGS, for heirs of W. H. Cummings, two shares. + +Mrs. A. L. BAYLEY, Amesbury, Mass. + +CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND DEPARTMENTS, Flushing, N. Y. + +Mrs. LUCY S. CONNOR, Henniker, N. H. + +JOHN P. JUBE, Newark, N. J. + +Mrs. SARAH C. KELLOGG, in memory of her Father, Rev. E. J. Comings, +Kingsville, O. + +Miss ABBY W. TURNER, Randolph, Mass., two shares. + +CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND DEPARTMENTS, Grand View, Tenn. + +Rev. J. G. BURGESS and Wife, Crow Agency, Mont. + +BY A FRIEND in memory of Rev. J. H. Stearns, D.D., Epping, N. H. + +A MEMBER OF SOUTH CHURCH, Salem, Mass. + +NELSON VALENTINE, in memory of Mrs. R. W. Valentine, New Gloucester, Me. + +CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Auburndale, Mass. + +Mrs. JULIA E. BRICK, Brooklyn, N. Y. + +GLOUCESTER EVANGELICAL CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY, Chepachet, R. I. + +Mrs. JOHN H. WASHBURN, New York. + +GEO. W. MARSTON, San Diego, Cal. + +Mrs. ANNA LEE MARSTON, San Diego, Cal. + +JAMES A. SMITH, Osage, Iowa. + +S. B. FRENCH, Chicago, Ill. + +SOUTH CHURCH, Salem, Mass., two shares. + +NORFOLK CONFERENCE, Mass. + + Previously reported, 34 +Subscriptions reported 75 +above, + ---- +Total number of shares 109 +reported, + + + + +RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1896. + + +_THE DANIEL HAND FUND_ + +_For the Education of Colored People_. + +Income for April $1,100.00 +Previously acknowledged 31,307.35 + ---------- + $32,407.35 + ========== + + + + +CURRENT RECEIPTS. + + + MAINE, $417.24. +Alfred. Cong. Ch. 9.50 +Auburn. High St. Cong. 57.81 +Ch. (50 of which _for +Share Jubilee Fund_) +Auburn. Sixth St. Cong. 15.00 +Ch. +Auburn. Sixth St. Cong. +Ch., B. of C. _for +Andersonville, Ga._ +Belfast. First Cong. Ch. 50.00 +Biddeford. "Friends" in 6.00 +Pavillion Ch. +Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 16.00 +Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. 14.55 +and Soc. +Bridgton. Mrs. Julia P. 1.75 +Hall, _for Freight to +Grand View, Tenn._ +Bucksport. S.S. Class by 2.13 +M.S. Blodgett, _for +Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ +Cumberland Center. 3.00 +Helping Hand Soc., _for +Student Aid, McIntosh, +Ga._ +East Otisfield. Mrs. 1.00 +Susan K. Loring +Eastport. Central Cong. 6.50 +Ch., 5.50; Jun. End. Soc. +Central Cong. Ch., 1; +Lincoln Mem. Day Offering +Farmington. Miss. C.N. 2.00 +Bixby, _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +Gardiner. Marietta +Parshley, Bbl. C. _for +Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Hallowell. Ladies' Prayer 5.00 +Circle, _for Central Ch., +New Orleans, La._ +Kennebunk. Union Ch. and 46.90 +Soc. +Litchfield Corners. Cong. 5.00 +Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., _for +Indian M._ +Portland. "To help pay 25.00 +the debt" +Portland. Class in S. S. 10.00 +Second Parish Cong. Ch., +_for Mountain Work_ +Portland. Y. P. S. C. E. 10.00 +Bethel Ch., _for Student +Aid, Lincoln Acad., +King's Mountain, N. C._ +South Berwick. Bbl. C. +_for Blowing Rock, N. C._ +South Gardiner. Cong. Ch. 6.00 +Standish. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Vinal Haven. Miss Minnie 6.00 +A. Whitten, 5; Mrs. +Carrie L. Paige, 1, _for +Student Aid, McIntosh, +Ga._ +Wells. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Yarmouth. First Parish 30.00 +Church +Maine Woman's Aid to A. +M. A., by Mrs. Ida V. +Woodbury, Treas.: +Albany. Mrs. H. G. 5.00 +Lovejoy, 3; Mrs J.E. +Bird, 1; ----, 1 +Biddeford. Pavilion Ch. 5.00 +Lewiston. Pine St. Ch. 30.00 +(10 of which _for Student +Aid, Straight U._) +Portland. Bethel Ch. 23.10 + ------- 63.10 + + NEW HAMPSHIRE, $533.68. +Alstead Center. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Sab. Sch., 2.68; Ladies' +Circle, 2.32 +Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and 14.17 +Soc. +Concord. First Cong. Ch. 100.88 +(8 of which _for the +Debt_) to const. JOHN C. +RICHARDS, LOUIS B. TEBAU, +and MRS. ANN G. CLARK +L.M.'s +Concord. "Friend" 5.00 +Durham. Cong. Ch. 20.00 +East Derry. Mrs. Day, 2.30 +_for Wilmington, N. C._ +East Derry. Cong. Ch., +Bbl. C., freight paid +_for Wilmington, N. C._ +Epping. Cong. Ch., 6.23; 11.23 +Mrs. Shepherd's S. S. +Class, 5 +Epping. Two Bbls. C. _for +Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. 41.00 +Farmington. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Hampstead. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Hancock. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 3.58 +Keene. First Cong. Ch., 50.00 +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Meriden. Florence +Robinson, Box C. _for +Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Nashua. Pilgrim Ch., 153.44 +123.44 to const. MISS +JESSIE A. PLUMMER, MISS +M. E. EMERSON, MRS. A. K. +WOODBURY and H. E. +KENDALL L.M.'s; Y. P. S. +C. E. of Pilgrim Ch., 30 +to const. WILLIAM +JENNINGS L.M. +Newfields. Miss H. L. 33.50 +Fitts, Col., _for +Wilmington, N. C._ +Newmarket. Thos. H. 10.00 +Wiswall +Newport. Cong. Ch. 36.18 +Penacook. C.H. Saunders, +Case New Boots and Shoe +_for McIntosh, Ga._ +Rye. Cong. Ch. 4.40 +West Concord. L. M. S. of +Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ +New Hampshire Female +Cent. Inst. and Home +Missionary Union, Miss A. +A. McFarland, Treas.: +West Concord Y. L. M. 20.00 +Soc., _for Tougaloo U._ + + VERMONT, $271.85. +Brattleboro. Center Cong. 99.67 +Ch. +Brattleboro. Mrs. C. B. 5.00 +Rice, _for Fisk U._ +Burlington. First Ch., 50.00 +Mrs. Mary R. Engelesby, +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Burlington. Cong. Ch., +Box Goods, Freight paid, +_for McIntosh, Ga._ +Chelsea. Cong. Ch., _for 1.30 +Freight to McIntosh, Ga._ +Essex Juction. Cong. Ch. 10.89 +Fairlee. "A Friend" 10.00 +Jeffersonville. Second 5.00 +Cong. Ch. of Cambridge +Newport. First Cong. Ch. 16.25 +Norwich. Mrs B. B. Newton 5.00 +Peacham. Cong. Ch. and S. 5.00 +S., adl., "A Friend" +Putney. Ladies' Aid Soc., +of Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. +_for Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Quechee. Cong. Ch. 23.81 +Rutland. John Howard 4.00 +Vergennes. Cong. Ch. 15.00 +West Randolph. Susan E. 5.00 +Albin +Williamstown. Cong. Ch. 7.00 +Williston. Cong. Ch. 8.93 + + MASSACHUSETTS, $5,068.95. +Abington. First Cong. Ch. 6.55 +Amherst. South Cong. Ch. 2.39 +Arlington. Mrs. E. T. +Hillard, Bbl. C. _for +McIntosh, Ga._ +Ballardvale. Union Cong. 25.75 +Ch. +Berlin. Cong. Ch. 18.21 +Boston. Union Cong. Ch. 211.36 +Old South Ch., adl. 115.00 +Old South Ch., Miss C. M. 40.00 +Clapp, _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +Mrs. Harriet P. Somers, 50.00 +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Wm. Shaw, _for Student 35.00 +Aid, Straight U._ +Charlestown. Winthrop 35.68 +Cong. Ch. +Dorchester. Second Cong. 96.34 +Ch. +Dorchester. Mrs. Jacob 10.00 +Fullerton +Jamaica Plain. Boylston 38.50 +Cong. Ch. +Roxbury. Eliot Cong. Ch. 131.75 + -------- 763.63 +Boxford. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 +Braintree. First Cong. 3.83 +Ch. +Brockton. "Cottage 8.00 +Prayer Circle" of Cong. +Ch., _for Wilmington, N. +C._ +Brookline. Harvard Cong. 103.77 +Ch. +Buckland. Ladies of +Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. +_for Macon, Ga._ +Cambridgeport. Prospect 117.35 +St. Cong. Ch., 87.06; +Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 25.29; +Mrs. Mary E. Hidden, 5 +Cambridgeport. Y. P. S. 10.00 +C. E. of Pilgrim Ch., +_for Central Ch., New +Orleans, La._ +Carlisle. C. E. Soc., by 25.00 +Mrs W. B. Chamberlin, +_for Saluda Sem., N. C._ +Charlton. Cong. Ch. 6.50 +Cohasset. Ladies of Cong. +Ch., Bbl. of C. _for +Macon, Ga._ +Concord Junction. Union 1.00 +Ch. +Conway. Cong. Ch. and 41.00 +Sab. Sch. +Dedham. Sab. Sch. First 20.47 +Cong. Ch., _for Indian +Schp., Fort Berthold, N. +D._ +Dunstable. Cong. Ch., to 30.00 +const. MRS. JAMES E. +WESTON L.M. +East Bridgewater. Union 25.00 +Cong. Ch., Extra Cent a +day Band +Enfield. Cong. Ch. 30.00 +Fall River. Central Cong. 25.00 +Ch., adl. +Falmouth. North Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Florence. Florence Cong. 18.30 +Ch. +Foxboro. Mrs M. N. 50.00 +Phelps, _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ +Framingham. Plymouth 36.75 +Cong. Ch. (10 of which +_for Indian M._) +Gill. Y. P. S. C. E., by 5.90 +Jessie S. Moore, Sec., +_for Central Ch., New +Orleans, La._ +Great Barrington. James 5.00 +Bird, _for Jubilee Fund_ +Greenfield. Mrs. E. M. 25.00 +Russell +Groton. Union Cong. Ch., 50.00 +Mrs. Emma P. Shumway, +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Groveland. Rev. L.F. 1.37 +Berry, _for Freight to +Grand View, Tenn._ +Hamilton. Mrs. E. F. +Knowlton and Friends, +Bbl. C. _for Saluda, N. +C._ +Haverhill. Algernon P. 50.00 +Nichols, _for Fisk U._ +Haverhill. Riverside Ch., 9.23 +6.50; Fourth Ch., 2.73 +Haydenville. Cong. Ch. 7.24 +and Soc. +Housatonic. Prim. Sab. 2.00 +Sch. Class, _for Student +Aid, McIntosh, Ga._ +Ipswich. Sab. Sch. of 50.00 +South Ch., _for Indian +M., Fort Berthold, N. D._ +Lawrence. "Friend," _for 0.20 +Student Aid, Beach Inst._ +Lexington. Hancock Cong. 14.25 +Ch. +Malden. Miss M. F. Aiken 5.00 +Malden. First Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Y. P. S. C. E., _for +Gloucester Sch., +Cappahosic, Va._ +Mansfield. Ortho. Cong. 22.00 +Ch. +Maplewood. Y. P. S. C. E. 15.00 +of Cong. Ch. +Marion. Sab. Sch. Cong. 5.69 +Ch. +Marshfield Hills. Mrs. G. 2.00 +H. Morss, _for Woman's +Work_ +Medway. Dea. M. M. 100.00 +Fisher, 50, _for Share +Jubilee Fund_; E. Fisher +Richardson, 50, _for +Share Jubilee Fund_ +Melrose. Ortho. Cong. 31.60 +Ch., _for Indian M._ +Melrose. Wm. W. Boynton 15.00 +Melrose Highlands. "Thank 2.50 +Offering" +Middleboro. First Cong. 16.00 +Ch. +Millbury. "Arthurs 100.00 +Mission," _for 2 Shares +Jubilee Fund_ +Milton. "A Friend," _for 10.00 +new building, Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +Mount Hermon. Mount 25.00 +Hermon Miss'y Soc., _for +Fisk U._ +Natick. Rev. C. F. 5.00 +Robinson +New Boston. A. E. 6.00 +Callender +Newton. Eliot Ch. 90.00 +Newton Center. First 94.77 +Cong. Ch. +Newton Highlands. Cong. 110.62 +Ch., Easter Sunday +Northampton. Dorcas 55.00 +Society, _for Student +Aid, Tougaloo U._ +North Brookfield. First 22.70 +Cong. Ch. and Soc. +North Brookfield. Extra 20.00 +Cent a Day Band, First +Cong. Ch., _for a horse, +Hagan, Ga._ +North Carver. Cong. Ch. 14.00 +Northfield. Y. P. S. C. 5.00 +E., by Elsie Duncan +North Leominster. Cong. 16.00 +Ch., 14; Y. P. S. C. E. +of Cong. Ch., 2 +North Leominster. Y. L. +Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., +Bbl. C. _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ +Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 7.08 +Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. 250.00 +(200 of which _for 4 +Shares Jubilee Fund_) +Pittsfield. First Cong. 54.29 +Ch. +Randolph. Ladies' Benev. 25.00 +Ass'n., by Miss Abby W. +Turner, _for Share, +Tougaloo U._ +Reedville. Geo. L. Rice 5.00 +Rockland. C. E. Society, +2 Bbls. C. _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ +Roslindale. Cong. Ch., 12.00 +Children's M. Band, _for +Allen N. and I. Sch., +Thomasville, Ga._ +Salem. South Cong. Ch. 141.56 +Salem. Tabernacle Ch. (1 58.02 +of which _for Indian M._) +Salem. Sab. Sch. Crombie 15.00 +St. Cong. Ch., _for +Santee Indian Sch., +Santee, Neb._ +Somerset. Mrs. A. L. 2.00 +Morrill, Bbl. Goods; 2 +_for freight, for +Meridian, Miss._ +South Deerfield. L. S. 2.00 +Clary +South Hadley Falls. L. M. 10.00 +S., _for Student Aid, +Straight U._ +South Hadley Falls. Cong 8.51 +Ch. +South Hadley Falls. Jr. 6.00 +End. Soc., Cong Ch., _for +Student Aid, Gregory +Inst._ +South Weymouth. Mrs. Wm. 9.00 +Dyer, _for Student Aid, +Allen N. and I. Sch., +Thomasville, Ga._ +Springfield. Cong. Ch., +Bbl. C.; Y. P. S. E. of +North Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. +_for Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Sterling. Evan. Cong. Ch. 18.18 +Stockbridge. Miss A. 10.00 +Byington, _for Gloucester +Sch., Cappahosic, Va._ +Stoughton. Cong. Ch. 8.28 +Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. 18.65 +Upton. First Cong. Ch. 38.04 +Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 25.98 +Wakefield. "Inasmuch 10.00 +Circle" of King's +Daughters Cong. Ch., _for +Gloucester Sch., +Cappahosic, Va._ +Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 68.56 +Waltham. "Friend" _for 0.72 +freight to Beach Inst._ +Walpole. "Friends" 30.00 +Ware. First Cong. Ch. 21.35 +Wareham. C. E. Soc., _for 1.40 +freight to Tougaloo, +Miss._ +Warren. Sab. Sch. Cong. 23.80 +Ch., _for Cumberland Gap, +Tenn._ +Warren. Y. P. S. C. E., 4.00 +_for Student Aid, +McIntosh, Ga._ +Watertown. Phillips Cong. 127.15 +Ch. +Westboro. Evan. Cong. 25.00 +Ch., Y. L. B. Soc., _for +Saluda, N. C._ +Westboro. Cong. Ch., Y. 5.00 +P. S. C. E, _for Student +Aid, Allen N. and I. +Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ +West Boxford. Cong. Ch. 7.50 +Westfield. ---- 1.00 +West Newbury. L. M. Soc., 5.00 +First Cong. Ch. _for +Student Aid, Straight U._ +Westport. Pacific Union 12.50 +Cong. Ch. +West Springfield. Park 32.25 +St. Cong. Ch. +West Springfield. First 10.00 +Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. +E., _for Central Ch., New +Orleans, La._ +West Stockbridge. Village 20.00 +Cong. Ch. +Whitinsville. "Thank 50.00 +Offering," _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ +Willbraham. "A Friend" 30.63 +Woods Holl. Mrs. G. G. +Dodge, Bbl. C. _for +Wilmington, N. C._ +Worcester. Plymouth Cong. 310.00 +Ch. (100 of which from E. +A. Goodnow, _for Two +Shares Jubilee Fund_) +Worcester. Mr. and Mrs. 100.00 +Samuel R. Heywood, _for +Two Shares Jubilee Fund_ +Worcester. Union Ch., 131.93 +91.93; Piedmont Ch., 30; +Chas. O. Bachelor, 10 +Woman's Home Missionary +Association of Mass. and +R.I., Miss Annie C. +Bridgman, Treas.: +For Salaries of Teachers 340.00 +Brighton. Sab Sch. Evan. 15.00 +Ch., _for Indian Schp. +Oahe, S. D._ +Brimfield. Mrs. J.W. 1.00 +Browning, _for work for +Chinese Women_ +"A Friend in Memory of 50.00 +her Mother," _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ + -------- 406.00 + --------- + $4,568.95 + + ESTATE. +Chelsea. Estate of Elvira 500.00 +L. Harding, _for +Freedmen, Indian and +Chinese M._, by Edwin D. +Sibley, Adm'r + --------- + $5,068.95 + + RHODE ISLAND, $114.09. +Central Falls. Hon. E. L. 100.00 +Freeman, _for Two Shares +Jubilee Fund_ +Newport. United Cong. 12.89 +Ch., quarterly +Providence. Y. P. S. C. 1.20 +E., No. Cong. Ch. + + CONNECTICUT, $3,423.76. +Abington. Rev. E. B. Pike 5.00 +Andover. C. E. Soc., by 5.68 +Ernest K. Post, Sec. +Berlin. Mrs. T. M. 5.00 +Warner, _for Moorehead, +Miss._ +Bethlehem. "A Friend." 4.00 +Branford. Cong. Ch., 5; 8.00 +A. E. Hammer, 2; L. J. +Nichols, 1 +Bridgeport. Second Cong. 56.89 +Ch., 48.60; West End +Cong. Ch., 8.29 +Bristol. Miss Lena J. 47.60 +Upson, 30; Sab. Sch. of +Cong. Ch., 17.60, _for +Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ +Bristol. Cong. Ch. 25.00 +Center Brook. Ladies of 25.00 +Cong. Ch., _for Allen N. +and I. Sch., Thomasville, +Ga._ +Chaplin. Cong. Ch. to 30.00 +const. WINSLOW B. GALLUP +L. M. +Cheshire. Henry Gaylord, 50.00 +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Clinton. "A Friend." 5.00 +Cornwall. Second Cong. 37.30 +Ch., to const. WALTER B. +JOHNSON L. M. +Cornwall Hollow. Y. P. S. 9.00 +C. E., _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +Coventry. Second Cong. 21.63 +Ch. +Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 6.04 +Derby. Second Cong. Ch., 49.47 +32.00 to const. REV. +EDWARD C. FELLOWS L.M.; +First Cong. Ch., 17.47 +Danbury. West St. Cong. 10.00 +Ch. +Darien. Cong. Ch. 11.38 +East Canaan. Sab. Sch. 14.00 +Cong. Ch., _for Allen N. +and I. Sch., Thomasville, +Ga._ +East Hampton. Cong. Ch. 22.35 +East Hartland. Cong. Ch., 6.00 +adl. +East Haven. Cong. Ch. 35.50 +(15.50 of which _for +Central Ch., New Orleans, +La._) +Enfield. Rev. O. W. 20.00 +Means, _for Student Aid, +Tougaloo U._ +Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 18.00 +Farmington. C. E. Soc., 15.00 +by Mary J. Hart, Treas., +_for Central Ch., New +Orleans, La._ +Franklin. Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Greenfield Hill. Cong. 36.26 +Ch., 26.26; Y. P. S. C. +E., by M. Louise Meeker, +Treas., 10 +Guilford. First Cong. 31.00 +Ch., 30 to const. MISS +LAURA E. BRISTOL L. M.; +Capt. Chas. Griswold, 1 +Hartford. First Cong. 138.03 +Ch., 124.03; Asylum Hill +Cong. Ch., "A Friend," +10; Elizabeth Loomis, 4 +Hartford. Atwood 90.00 +Collins, 50; Daniel R. +Howe, 40, _for Student +Aid Tougaloo U._ +Hartford. Sab. Sch. Pearl 40.35 +St. Cong. Ch., _for Fisk +U._ +Higganum. Woman's Cong. 20.00 +H.M. Soc. by Katharine E. +Huntington, Treas. +Kent. First Cong. Ch. 12.46 +Lisbon. Cong. Ch. 13.00 +Lyme. Y. P. S. C. E., 5.00 +_for Jonesboro, Tenn._ +Madison. First Cong. Ch. 6.87 +Mansfield Center. "A 1.00 +Friend." +Middlefield. Miss Anna 1.50 +G. Birdsey's Sab. Sch. +Class, _for Student Aid, +Tougaloo U._ +Middle Haddam. Second 12.52 +Cong. Ch. +New Britain. "Friends," 25.00 +_for Student Aid, +Tougaloo U._ +New Britain. First Ch. of +Christ. Box of house +linen _for Marion, Ala._ +New Hartford. Horace 50.00 +Tracy Pitkin, _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ +New Hartford. North Cong. 1.50 +Ch., Jun. C. E., _for +Student Aid, A. N. and I. +Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ +New Hartford. Ladies' Aid +Society, Box C. _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ +New Haven. Yale Sem., 25.00 +Rev. S. Harris, D.D., 10; +Mrs. C. H. Dill, 5; E. H. +Sperry, 5; Wells +Campbell, 3; J. W, +Nichols, 2 +New Haven. By Mrs. C.A. 3.20 +Pyne, _for Gloucester +Sch., Cappahosic, Va._ +New London. First Ch. of 48.62 +Christ +New London. Sab. Sch. 29.15 +First Ch. of Christ, _for +Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ +New London. Alice C. 6.00 +Crandall, _for Student +Aid, A. N. and I. Sch., +Thomasville, Ga._ +New London. First Ch., 0.89 +Chinaman's Class in Sab. +Sch., _for Chinese M. in +Cal._ +Norfolk. Y. P. S. C. E., 3.00 +by Rev. H.W. Carter +Norfolk. ----, _for 1.72 +freight to Grand View, +Tenn._ +Norwich. Broadway Cong. 1,000.00 +Ch., Special offering +_for Twenty Shares +Jubilee Fund_ +Norwich. Broadway Cong. 2.59 +Ch., _for freight to +McIntosh, Ga._ +Norwich. Second Cong. 5.19 +Sab. Sch., Mrs. C. W. +Morrison's Class +Norwich. Miss Rossiter, 8.00 +_for Athens, Ala._ +Norwich. Ladies of Park 0.40 +Ch., _for freight to +Blowing Rock, N. C._ +Orange. Cong. Ch. 14.26 +Plainfield. First Cong. 10.05 +Ch. +Plainfield. Y. P. S. C. 2.01 +E., by Amelia V. L. +Arnold, Treas. +Plainville. Cong. Ch. 28.87 +Plantsville. Cong. Ch. 90.77 +Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 1.70 +Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 33.81 +Portland. First Cong. 25.00 +Ch., Ladies' Soc., _for +Share, Mountain Teacher_ +(10 of which, bal. to +const. MRS. WESLEY W. +SMITH L. M.) +Seymour. Cong. Ch. 6.32 +Somers. "C. B. P." 30.00 +Stafford. Mrs. Thomas H. 5.00 +Thresher +Stratford. Sab. Sch. 10.00 +Cong. Ch., _for Lowell, +N. C._ +Stratford. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Storrs. Cong. Ch. 11.55 +Suffield. First Cong. 48.04 +Ch., 23.04, and Sab. Sch. +25 (30 of which to const. +MRS. KATE B. MERRILL L. +M. and 11.85 bal. to +const. MISS NELLIE C. +WANDKE L. M. +Taftville. Cong. Ch. 12.38 +Talcottville. Mrs S. A. 5.00 +Talcott, _for Student +Aid, Allen N. and I. +Sch., Thomasville, Ga._ +Terryville. Mrs. Bates, 18.00 +_for Student Aid, +Tougaloo U._ +Terryville. Allentown 10.00 +Sab. Sch., _for Student +Aid, Tougaloo U._ +Thomaston. First Cong. 14.19 +Ch. +Tolland. Cong. Ch. 36.90 +Torringford. Ch. and Soc. 22.58 +Trumbull. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Union. Cong. Ch. 15.16 +Waterbury. Second Cong. 35.00 +Ch., Woman's Benev. Soc., +_for Indian Schp., Santee +Sch._ +Watertown. Cong. Ch., 35; 50.00 +Sab. Sch., 10, and Y. P. +S. C. E., 5, _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ +Wallingford. Cong. Ch., 2.00 +Ladies' Benev. Soc., 2, +and Bbl. C. _for Saluda, +N. C._ +West Cornwall. Y. P. S. 8.00 +C. E., _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +West Hartford. First Ch. 17.99 +of Christ +West Haven. First Ch. 13.22 +West Haven. Wm. H. 5.00 +Moulthrop, _for Pleasant +Hill, Tenn._ +Whitneyville. Cong. Ch., 30.00 +to const. REV. CHARLES F. +CLARKE L. M. +Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 51.75 +Wilton. Cong. Ch. and C. 19.52 +E. Soc. +Wilton. Sab. Sch. Cong. 3.00 +Ch., _for Chinese Mission +Home, San Francisco, +Cal._ +Windham. Conference of 50.00 +Cong. Churches, by Rev. +S. H. Fellows, Register, +_for Share Jubilee Fund_ +Woman's Congregational +Home Missionary Union of +Conn., Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, +Treas.: +Danbury. West St. Ch. Y. 20.60 +L. M. S. (60c. of which +_for Student Aid, +Williamsburg Acad._ +Hartford. First Ch. Jun. 50.00 +Aux. +Hartford. First Ch. 25.00 +"Thank Offering" +Meriden. First Ch. 10.00 +Guardian Soc. +New Britain. So. Ch. 1.50 +Aux., adl. +Newington. L. H. M. U. 8.50 +Norwich. Park Ch., 400.00 +154.65; Broadway Ch., +150; Second Ch., 50; +First Ch., 20; Taftville +Ch., 10.35; Greenville +Ch., 15, _for Salary of a +Teacher at Blowing Rock, +N. C._ + -------- 515.60 + + NEW YORK, $2,158.47. +Binghamton. Mrs. Edward 10.00 +Taylor +Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. 14.00 +Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch. 77.54 +Brooklyn. Central Cong. 37.50 +Sab. Sch., _for Indian +M., Santee Agency, Neb._ +Brooklyn. C. E. League of 10.00 +Clinton Av. Cong. Ch., +_for Pleasant Hill, +Tenn._ +Brooklyn. Lee Av. Cong. +Ch., Bbl. of Groceries +_for King's Mountain, N. +C._, New England Ch. C. +E. Soc., Bbl. C. _for +Athens, Ala._; Episcopal +Ch. Y. L. Guild, Pkg. +Sew. Material _for +Lexington, Ky._ +Carthage. W. M. S., Box 2.00 +Carpet and Household +Supplies, and 2 _for +freight to Blowing Rock, +N. C._ +Corona. Mrs. W. J. Peck, +Pkg. Literature for +_Beach Inst._ +Geneva. Miss Estella 2.00 +Fiero, _for Student Aid, +Tougaloo, Miss._ +Grand Island. First Cong. 7.20 +Ch. +Ithaca. Sab. Sch. First 40.00 +Cong. Ch., _for Big Creek +Gap, Tenn._ +Jamestown. Sab. Sch. of 33.36 +Cong. Ch., Special Easter +Offering _for Hagan, Ga._ +Livonia. Mrs. William 20.00 +Calvert and Sister +Madison. Cong. Ch., H. M. 3.50 +S. +Maine. First Cong. Ch. 28.89 +Newark Valley. H. M. +Society, Bbl. C. _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ +New York. Broadway 500.00 +Tabernacle, Lucien C. +Warner, M.D. +New York. Lucien C. 230.00 +Warner, M.D., _for Share +Jubilee Fund_, 50; Chas. +L. Mead, _for Share +Jubilee Fund_, 50; Misses +S. L. and D. E. Emerson, +_for Share Jubilee Fund_, +50; Bethany Ch. Sab. +Sch., 50; Broadway Tab., +"A Friend," Jubilee +Offering, 25; "M. C. H.," +3; Sab. Sch. Class Mount +Hope Cong. Ch., 2 +New York. Miss Grace H. +Dodge, 2 Cases Books _for +Beach Inst._ +Rochester. Mrs. H. Clark, 5.00 +Easter Offering +Salamanca. Cong. Ch., 2.47 +adl. +Schenectady. Cong. Ch. Y. 8.00 +P. S. C. E., by Grace M. +Chadsey, Sec., _for +Woman's Work_ +Sherburne. First Cong. 159.91 +Ch. to const. MRS. CORA +H. LITTLE, MISS HARRIET +MARSTERS, and CHARLES +BICKERT L.M.'s +Sinclairville. Cong. Ch., +Bbl. C. _for Blowing +Rock, N. C._ +Warsaw. Cong. Ch. 8.41 +West Newark. D. J. 3.00 +Bothwick, _for Central +Ch., New Orleans, La._ +Woodhaven. Jr. C. E. Soc. 2.00 +of First Cong. Ch., _for +new building, Cal. +Chinese M._ +Yaphank. Mrs. Hampton 10.00 +Overton +FOR GLOUCESTER SCH., +CAPPAHOSIC, VA.: +Franklin. A.J. Parsons, 8.50 +4; Miss A. E. Barnes, 2; +"A Friend," 1; S. P. +Smith, 50c.; Rufus Wood, +50c.; Miss A. J. +Jennings, 25c.; Mrs. G. +W. Bennet, 25c. +New York. Dr. B. Lord 10.00 +Syracuse. D. H. Gowing 25.00 +Troy. Mrs. Christie, 2; 10.00 +Mrs. John Nhear, 2; Mrs. +Shields, 2; Mrs. Cowell, +1; Mrs. Proudfoot, 1; +Others, 2 + -------- 53.50 +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of N. Y., Mrs. J. +J. Pearsall, Treas.: +W. H. M. U. 200.00 +Antwerp. W. M. S. 2.00 +Albany. First Ch. S. S., 10.00 +_for Student Aid, Howard +U._ +Albany. Clinton Av. Ch., 6.00 +L. A. S. +Brooklyn. Ch. of the 371.20 +Pilgrims, W. H. M. S., +100; Tompkins Av. Ch., +King's Daughters, 50; +Lewis Av. Ch., W. M. S., +55.00; Lewis Av. Ch., +Evangel. Circle to const. +MRS. D. E. CROCHERON +L.M., 36.20; Lewis Av., +Y. P. S. C. E., to const. +WILBUR MORRIS L.M., 30; +Clinton Av. Y. L. G., 60; +Clinton Av. L. B. S., +_for New Chinese Mission +House, San Francisco, +Cal._, 25; So. Ch. Jun. +C. E., _for Student Aid, +Fort Berthold, N. D._, 15 +Buffalo. First Ch., W. H. 25.00 +M. S. +Candor. Y. L. G. _for 10.00 +Schp. Saluda, N. C._ +Crown Point. Aux. 15.49 +East Rockaway. Bethany 3.00 +Ch. W. A. +Ithaca. W. M. S. (23.01 63.00 +which _for Alaska M._) +Jamesport. L. S. 10.00 +Morrisville. C. E. _for 5.50 +Central Ch., New Orleans, +La._ +New York City. Broadway 17.50 +Tab. Ch. Soc. Woman's +Work +Norwich. W. M. S., to 30.00 +const. MISS MARY +ELIZABETH DECKER L.M. +Pokeepsie. C. E. _for 15.00 +Industrial Work, Fisk U._ +Riverhead. W. H. M. U. 19.00 +Utica. Bethesda Ch., H. 5.00 +M. S. +Walton. W. M. S. 10.00 +Warsaw. "Earnest Workers" 60.00 +to const. MRS. CHARLES H. +FARGO and MRS. E.R. VAN +ALLEN L.M.'s +Watertown. C. E. 8.30 +Watertown. Jun. M. C. 4.20 + -------- 890.19 + + NEW JERSEY, $533.69. +East Orange. Sab. Sch. 50.36 +First Cong. Ch., by Miss +Georgiana Stevenson, +Treas., _for Share +Jubilee Fund_ +East Orange. Mrs. C. B. +Clark's Class, Bags _for +Sewing Class, Athens, +Ala._ +Montclair. First Cong. 335.58 +Ch. +Montclair. Lot of Bedding +for Talladega C., ack. in +April Missionary, should +read Ladies' H. M. Soc., +Barrel and Bale of Goods, +val. 120, _for Talladega +C._, and Goods for +Rutland, Ga., val 52. +Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. 89.75 +Paterson. Auburn St. 8.00 +Cong. Ch., Y. P. S. C. E. +Westfield. Ladies' Miss'y +Soc., Bbl, Literature +and C. _for McIntosh, +Ga._ +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of the N. J. Assn., +by Mrs. J. H. Denison, +Treas.: +Montclair. First Cong. 50.00 +Ch. W. H. M. S. + + PENNSYLVANIA, $135.57. +Cambridgboro. Mrs. A. B. 50.00 +Ross, _for Share Jubilee +Fund_, and to const. +HARRIETTE M. ROSS, L.M. +New Milford. H. A. 10.00 +Summers +Philadelphia. By J. D. 5.00 +Kelley, _for Gloucester +Sch., Cappahosic, Va._ +Pittsburg. First Cong. 10.00 +Ch. +Ridgway. First Cong. Ch. 51.25 +Ridgway. First Cong. Ch. 5.00 +S. S. Class, _for +McIntosh, Ga._ +Spring Creek. Cong. Ch. 1.82 +West Spring Creek. Cong. 2.50 +Ch. + + OHIO, $647.50. +Akron. First Cong. Ch. 215.71 +(50 of which for Judge +Wm. H. Upson, _for share +in Jubilee Fund_, 110; +West Cong. Ch., 100; +Arlington St. Cong. Ch., +5.71 +Akron. Infant Class, Sab. 8.50 +Sch. Cong. Ch., _for +Kindergarten, Memphis, +Tenn._ +Ashtabula. King's +Daughters, Bbl C. _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ +Aurora. Cong. Ch., 3.70 +Lincoln Mem. Day Offering +Bowling Green. James O. 5.00 +Troup, _for Fisk U._ +Castalia. First Cong. Ch. 12.09 +Cleveland. Euclid Av. 46.33 +Cong. Ch. +Cleveland. Euclid Av. +Cong. Ch., by previous +contributions, +constitutes ROY C. +FOSTER, MISS MILLY E. +BROWN, MRS. ANNA +BRADSHAW, and MRS. THOMAS +WILSON L.M's. +Cleveland. Euclid Av. Ch. +Ladies' Soc., Bbl. C. +_for Birmingham, Ala._ +Cleveland. Pilgrim Ch., 87.00 +quarterly, 72; Franklin +Av. Cong. Ch., 10; Mrs. +F. W. Low, 5 +Cleveland. Pilgrim Cong. +Ch., Bbl. C. _for +Wilmington, N. C._ +Coolville. Cong. Ch. 4.10 +Dover. Jr. C. E. Soc. of +Cong. Ch., Box and Bbl. +C. _for Tougaloo, Miss._ +East Cleveland. Miss 1.00 +Elizabeth Burton, _for +Student Aid, Ballard +Normal Sch._ +Freedom. Cong. Ch. 8.41 +Hamilton. Children, First +Presb. Ch., Box Goods +_for McIntosh, Ga._ +Hudson. Cong. Ch. 8.00 +Jefferson. Ladies' Aid +Soc., Bbl. C. _for +Tougaloo, Miss._ +Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 40.90 +North Madison. Y. P. S. 2.00 +C. E., by Miss H. E. +Branch, Pres. +Oberlin. Second Cong. 143.80 +Ch., 94.24; First Cong. +Ch., quarterly 49.56 +Oberlin. New Oberlin S. 3.50 +C. E., by J. M.Cook, Sec. +Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., +2, Bbl. C. _for Tougaloo, +Miss._; "Friends," Box C. +_for Wilmington, N. C._ +Oxford. "L. E. K." 3.00 +Painesville. Cong. Miss'y 10.00 +Soc. of Lake Erie Sem., +_for Student Aid, Ballard +Normal Sch._ +Sandusky. First Cong. Ch. 38.46 +Springfield. Elenor M. 5.00 +Purcell +Strongsville. Member 1.00 +Cong. Ch., adl. + + ILLINOIS, $737.77. +Alton. Church of the 85.86 +Redeemer +Bloomington. Mrs. M. E. 5.00 +Horr +Bowmansville. Cong. Ch. 12.39 +Chapin. Prairie Sab. Sch. +Bbl. C. _for Moorhead, +Miss._ +Chicago. University Ch., 11.50 +adl. 6.50; Central Ch. C. +E. Soc., 5 +Crescent. Cong. Ch. 4.14 +Danville. C. M. Young, 100.00 +50, Dr. and Mrs. S. C. T. +Kingsley, 50 _for +furnishing Theo. Dept., +Fisk U._ +Dundee. Cong. Ch., 21.35, 23.35 +and Sab. Sch., 2 +Earlville. "J. A. D." 25.00 +Elmhurst. "M. S.," Bbl. +of C. _for Moorhead, +Miss._ +Evanston. Cong. Ch. 118.00 +Farmington. Sab. Sch. 3.00 +Cong. Ch., _for Mountain +Work_ +Farmington. Cong. Ch. to 56.00 +const. MILTON G. BREWER +L.M. +Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 13.48 +Jacksonville. "Friends." 12.00 +Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch., +Bbl. C. _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ +La Grange. W. M. S. 25.00 +La Salle. First Cong. Ch. 6.20 +Loda. Ladies' Missionary 11.00 +Soc., _for Fisk U._ +Marseilles. Dr. R. N. 100.00 +Baughman, _for Two Shares +Jubilee Fund_ +Moline. "A Friend," _for 1.00 +Moorhead, Miss._ +Nora. Sab. Sch. Cong. 10.00 +Ch., _for Moorhead, +Miss._ +Normal. Birthday box, S. 1.08 +S. First Cong. Ch. +Plainfield. Cong. Ch., 37.77 +32.25 and Sab. Sch., +5.52, to const. REV. I. +D. STONE L. M. +Plymouth. W. H. M. S., 1.00 +Box Bedding and 1 for +Freight, _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ + ------- + $662.77 + + ESTATE. +Cornwall. Estate of Mrs. 75.00 +Samantha McConoughey, by +James K. Blish + ------- + $737.77 + + MICHIGAN, $608.42. +Agricultural College. 5.00 +Prof. R. C. Kedzie +Bay Mills. Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Bronson. Cong. Ch. 3.00 +Church. A. W. Douglass 5.00 +Detroit. German Ch., Y. 7.00 +P. S. C. E., by Rev. A. +Huelster, 4; Mount Hope +Sab. Sch., 3 +Dexter. Cong. Ch. 1.50 +Hillsdale. John W. Ford 1.00 +Hudson. "Anon" (250 of 500.00 +which _for Skyland Inst., +Blowing Rock, N. C._) to +const. MRS. MARY E. LANE, +JAMES SCHERMERHORN, MRS. +EMMA S. TODD, REV. WM. M. +JENKINS, REV. JOHN L. +COLLIER, MRS. NANCY BARR, +REV. E. N. COREY, REV. +DANIEL M. FISK, ARTHUR +BEARDSELL, and MISS CLARA +PEASE L.M.'s +Ludington. Willie +Hammond, Papers _for +Athens, Ala._ +Olivet. Y. P. S. C. E., 9.00 +8; Mrs. L. B. Prosser, 1, +_for Student Aid, +Lexington, Ky._ +Prattville. Sab. Sch. 2.25 +Cong. Ch., 1.77; C. E. +Soc., 48c., by Rev. I. W. +Bell +Romeo. Miss E. B. 25.00 +Dickinson +Three Oaks. Y. P. S. C. +E., Box of C. _for +Moorhead, Miss._ +Vicksburg. Sab. Sch. +Cong. Ch., Box Papers, +_for Athens, Ala._ +Ypsilanti. Bbl. of C. +_for Athens, Ala._ +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of Michigan, by +Mrs. E. F. Grabill, +Treas.: +Ann Arbor. Mrs. Clara W. 5.00 +Peck, Memorial, _for +Student Aid, Lincoln +Acad., King's Mountain, +N. C._ +Benton Harbor. W. M. U. 3.00 +Bridgman. W. H. M. 25.17 +S.,25c.; Cheboygan, W. H. +M. S., 10; Greenville, W. +H. M. S., 4 17; +Greenville, Y. W. Guild, +5; Ludington, W. H. M. +S., 5; Tipton, 75c., _for +Student Aid, Indian Sch., +Santee, Neb._ +Coloma. W. M. S. 0.25 +Covert. W. M. S. 5.00 +Frankfort. W. H. M. U. 5.00 +Galesburg. W. M. S. 1.00 +Grand Rapids. Plymouth 0.50 +Ch. W. M. S. +Homestead. W. H. M. S. 0.25 +Portland. W. M. S. 0.25 +Somerset. W. M. S. 0.75 +Vicksburg. W. H. M. S. 1.00 +Whittaker. W. H. M. S. 0.50 + -------- 47.67 + + IOWA, $520.89. +Algona. First Cong. Ch., 44.00 +Y. P. S. C. E., 25; +King's Daughters, 19, +_for Fisk U._ +Ames. Cong. Ch. 26.68 +Belmond. Cong. Ch. 6.60 +Cedar Rapids. Willing +Workers. Box Literature, +etc., _for Beach Inst._ +Clay. Cong. Ch., 14.75; 23.15 +Y. P. S. C. E., 5.40; Y. +L. M. Soc., 3 +Garwin. Talmon Dewey 3.50 +Genoa Bluff. Cong. Ch. 7.45 +Gilbert Station. Cong. 13.18 +Ch. +Green Mountain. "Children 2.50 +of Green Mountain Ch." +Iowa City. Rev M. N. 50.00 +Miles, _for Share Jubilee +Fund_ +Mason City. Cong. Ch., 7.00 +_for Student Aid, Allen +N. and I. Sch., +Thomasville, Ga._ +McGregor. Mrs. J. N. 10.00 +Gilchrist +Minden. Mrs. P. M. 0.50 +Pawour, _for Freight to +Moorhead, Miss._ +Preston. Cong. Ch. 5.10 +Winthrop. Cong. Ch., 8.00 +Ladies' M. Soc. +Iowa Woman's Home +Missionary Union, Miss +Belle L. Bentley, Treas.: +Alpha. L. H. M. S. 5.00 +Cedar Rapids. First Ch., 0.25 +W. M. S. +Clinton. W. M. S. 10.00 +Des Moines. W. M. S. 3.82 +Dubuque. First Ch., W. M. 23.50 +S. +Eldon. Y. P. S. C. E. 3.00 +Grinnell. W. H. M. U. 11.85 +Independence. L. M. S. 6.01 +Independence. Mrs. 1.70 +Moses's S. S. Class, _for +Student Aid_ +Keosauqua. W. M. S. 9.00 +Mason City. W. M. S. 9.00 +Miles. W. M. S. 1.93 +Mount Pleasant. S. S. 0.68 +Sloan. Mrs. S. K. 5.00 +Gallaher +Talmage. Busy Bee Miss. 10.00 +Band + -------- 113.33 + ------- + $320.89 + + ESTATE. +Denmark. Estate of Dea. 200.00 +Oliver Brooks, by Thomas +S. Taylor, Executor + ------- + $520.89 + + WISCONSIN, $187.27. +Baraboo. L. H. M. S., Box +Towels, etc., _for +Lexington, Ky._ +Beloit. First Cong. Ch. 15.00 +Dodgeville. Welsh Cong. 3.00 +Ch. +Fond du Lac. First Cong. 21.00 +Ch. +Hartland. Mrs. Mary Le 3.00 +Roy, _for Freight to +Tougaloo, Miss._ +New London. First Cong. 12.69 +Ch. +Portage. Mrs. G. A. 1.00 +Jones, _for Mountain +Work_ +Potosi. Rev. L. B. Nobis 15.00 +Rosendale. Sab. Sch., 3.81 +Cong. Ch. +South Milwaukee. First 5.00 +Cong. Ch. +Tomah. Cong. Ch. 5.23 +Viroqua. Miss. Soc. 4.30 +Washburn. Cong. Ch., L. +M. S., Pkg. Sew. Material +_for Lexington, Ky._ +Whitewater. Cong, Ch. 14.39 +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of Wisconsin, Mrs. +C.M. Blackman, Treas.: +Arena. W. M. S. 0.85 +Beloit. First Ch., W. M. 4.75 +S. +Clinton. W. M. S. 4.00 +Eau Claire. W. M. S. 3.00 +Fond du Lac. W. M. S. 10.00 +Fort Atkinson. W. M. S. 1.25 +Green Bay. W. M. S. 20.00 +Kenosha. W. M. S. _for 25.00 +Share_ +Madison. Y. L. M. S., 3.50 +2.50; W. M. S., 1 +Plattville. W. H. M. S. 1.50 +Windsor. W. M. S. 10.00 + -------- 83.85 + + MINNESOTA, $92.09. +Ash Creek. Cong. Ch. 1.91 +Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. 2.67 +Freeborn. Cong. Ch., 7.67 +7.15, and Sab. Sch., 52c. +Kanaranzi. Cong. Ch. 0.58 +Mazeppa. Ladies' Miss. 5.00 +Soc., _for Jonesboro, +Tenn._ +Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 43.54 +Minneapolis. Ladies of 1.60 +Lowry Hill Cong. Ch., +_for Jonesboro, Tenn._ +Minneapolis. Plymouth 1.36 +Cong. Ch. _for freight to +King's Mountain, N. C._ +Ortonville. Jr. C. E. 0.75 +Soc. +Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch. 6.00 +Worthington. Union Cong. 6.11 +Ch., 3.36; Union Cong. +Sab. Sch., 2.75 +Zumbrota. First Cong. Ch. 14.90 + + MISSOURI, $30.50. +Clinton. A. C. Hancock 0.50 +Garden City. W. R. Wills, 12.00 +10; F. P. Morlan, 1; I. +E. Morlan, 1 +Index. P. M. Wills 0.50 +Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. 17.50 + + KANSAS, $36.61. +Brookville. Sab. Sch. 0.60 +Cong. Ch. Lincoln Mem. +Day Offering +Dover. Cong. Ch. 2.15 +Hill City. Mrs. T. 1.00 +Garnett, _for Lincoln +Sch., Meridian, Miss._ +Wabaunsee. First Ch. of 1.25 +Christ +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of Kansas, by Mrs. +E. C. Read, Treas.: + Arkansas City 5.00 + Carbondale 3.60 + Fairview 2.00 + Goshen 2.00 + Hiawatha 2.65 + Jinsley. Jr. C. E. Soc. 1.00 + Oneida 4.50 + Plevna 1.50 + Salina 5.00 + Wellington 5.00 + ----- + $32.23 + Less State expenses 0.64 + ----- 31.61 + + NEBRASKA, $11.04. +Blair. Cong. Ch. 5.24 +Columbus. Dwight, Robbie, 0.30 +and Elton Dickenson, _for +Moorhead, Miss._ +Santee Agency. Pilgrim 0.50 +Ch., Lincoln Mem. Day +Offering +Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 5.00 +Jun. C. E. Soc. + + NORTH DAKOTA, $81.64. +Fort Yates. "Little 50.00 +Harold's Gift," _for +Share Jubliee Fund_ +Wahpeton. First Cong. Ch. 7.64 +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of North Dakota, by +Mrs. J. M. Fisher, +Treas.: + Wahpeton. Easter Jubilee 24.00 + Offering + + SOUTH DAKOTA, $23.22. +Meekling. C. E. Soc. 1.00 +Milbank. Sab. Sch. Cong. 7.11 +Ch. +Mission Hill. Cong. Ch. 4.25 +Rapid City. Cong. Soc. 5.40 +Springfield. Sab. Sch. 3.46 +Cong. Ch. +Waubay. Cong. Ch. 2.00 + + ARIZONA, $10.00. +Prescott. Sab. Sch. Cong. 10.00 +Ch., _for Student Aid, +Straight U._ + + COLORADO. +Grand Junction. Ladies +First Cong. Ch., Box C. +and Papers _for Tougaloo, +Miss._ + + CALIFORNIA, $254.60. +Cloverdale. Cong. Ch., Y. 3.80 +P. S. C. E. +Redlands. Rebecca H. 10.00 +Smiley +San Francisco. The 205.65 +California Chinese +Mission, William +Johnstone, Treas. (See +items below) +Ventura. Cong. Ch. 25.15 +Woman's Home Missionary +Union of Southern Cal., +Mrs. Mary M. Smith, +Treas.: + Riverside. First Cong. 10.00 + Ch. + + OREGON, $4.00. +Albany. First Cong. Ch. 4.00 + + DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $228.18. +Washington. Emily S. Cook 5.00 +Washington. First Cong. 223.18 +Ch. (50 of which from +Genl. E. Whittlesey to +const. GEO. P. WHITTLESEY +L.M.) + + VIRGINIA, $20.75. +_For Gloucester Sch., +Cappahosic, Va._: + The Gloucester Ed. Club 10.00 +Gloucester. By Miss S. A. 9.75 +Robinson, 3; "A Friend," +2; By Letters, 1.75; Miss +M. M. Hunt, 1; N. +Gregory, 1; Mrs. G. H. +Townsend, 1 + Ivondale. By Rev. J. 1.00 + Robinson + ----- 20.75 + + KENTUCKY, $12.26. +Redash. Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Pioneer. Cong. Ch. 0.70 +Williamsburg. 9.56 +Williamsburg Acad., 8.08; +Children of Primary +Dept., 1.48; Jubilee +Offering + + TENNESSEE, $26.85. +Bon Air. Cong. Ch. 2.00 +Knoxville. Miss I. F. 5.00 +Hubbard +Memphis. Missionary Union 10.00 +of Second Cong. Ch. +Nashville. King's 5.00 +Daughters, Fisk U. +Pomona. Cong. Ch. 4.85 + + NORTH CAROLINA, $3.06. +Moncure. Cong. Ch., 2.00 +Lincoln Mem. Day Offering +Tryon. Cong. Ch. 1.06 + + GEORGIA, $25.10. +Albany. Y. P. S. C. E. 2.00 +Macon. G. C. Burrage, 5.10 +2.60; Miss A. M. +Woodruff, 2; Miss E. B. +Scobie. 50c., _for +Student Aid, Ballard +Normal Sch._ +McIntosh. A Friend, 10; 18.00 +Prof. Fred. W. Foster, 4; +Mrs. M. W. Foster, 3; +Miss C. A. Whitaker, 1; +_for Student Aid, +McIntosh, Ga._ +Savannah. Box and Pkg. +Literature and Toys, +source unknown, _for +Beach Inst._ + + ALABAMA, $8.95. +Ironaton. Rev. P. O. 3.00 +Wailes +Mobile. Cong. Ch. Sab. 1.50 +Sch., "Little Gleaners," +1; "A small class of +small people," 50c. +Sand Mountain. 1.45 +Individuals, Lincoln Mem. +Day Offering +Selma. Burrell Sch. 2.00 +Shelby. First Cong. Ch. 1.00 + + LOUISIANA, $27.71. +Chocahoula. Cong. Ch. 1.00 +Hammond. Cong. Ch. and 20.71 +Sab. Sch., Easter +Offering +New Orleans. Carrie E. 5.00 +Hodgman, _for Student +Aid, Straight U._ +New Orleans. Morris Brown 1.00 +Ch. + + FLORIDA, $15.00. +Sanford. Mrs. Moses Lyman 10.00 +Winter Park. Mr. and Mrs. 5.00 +Nathan Barrows + + MISSISSIPPI, $116.65. +Meridian. "Friend," _for 10.00 +Student Aid, Meridian_ +Moorhead. Unknown Source, +Bbl. of C. +Tougaloo. Cong. Ch., 106.65 +28.60; Miss Emma A. +Robertson, 15.05; Miss A. +M. Whitsey, 29; Miss Emma +C. Redick, 14; Mrs. L. M. +Sisson, 10; Miss Carrie +E. Parkhurst, 10, _for +Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ + + TEXAS, $5.00. +Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. 5.00 + + ----, $10.00 +----. "Friend." 10.00 + + JAPAN, $5.00. +Japan. "A Friend," _for 5.00 +Student Aid_, _Tougaloo +U._ + ---------- +Donations $15,627.36 +Estates 775.00 + ---------- + $16,402.36 + + INCOME, $807.50. +Avery Fund, _for Mendi 418.82 +M._ +Mrs. S. N. Brewer 20.93 +Endowment Fund +C. F. Dike Fund, _for 50.00 +Straight U._ +E. B. Eldridge Endowment 225.00 +Fund +Fisk University. Theo. 4.50 +Endowment Fund +General Endowment Fund 50.00 +E. A. Hand Endowment Fund 11.25 +S. M. Strong Fund, _for 27.00 +Saluda N. C._ + ------- 807.50 + + TUITION, $4,575.15. +Cappahosic, Va. Tuition 9.20 +Lexington, Ky. Tuition 85.25 +Williamburg, Ky. Tuition 147.65 +Grand View, Tenn. Tuition 72.53 +Jonesboro, Tenn. Public 50.00 +Fund +Knoxville, Tenn. Tuition 35.00 +Memphis, Tenn. Tuition 434.60 +Nashville, Tenn. Tuition 669.77 +Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 49.95 +Tuition +Beaufort, N. C. Tuition 12.55 +Blowing Rock, N. C. 20.57 +Tuition +Chapel Hill. N. C. 13.60 +Tuition +Enfield, N. C. Tutition 28.75 +Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition 20.20 +King's Mountain, N. C. 30.00 +Tuition +Saluda, N. C. Tuition 33.55 +Troy, N. C. Tuition 0.70 +Whittier, N. C. Tuition 39.27 +Wilmington, N. C. Tuition 162.00 +Charleston, S. C. Tuition 314.45 +Greenwood, S. C. Tuition 110.42 +Albany, Ga. Tuition 118.30 +Andersonville, Ga. 13.75 +Tuition +Atlanta, Ga. Storrs Sch. 155.50 +Tuition +Macon, Ga. Tuition 207.00 +Marietta, Ga. Tuition 8.20 +Marshallville, Ga. 2.40 +Tuition +Thomasville, Ga. Tuition 47.60 +McIntosh, Ga. Tuition 78.66 +Savannah, Ga. Tuition 151.12 +Woodville, Ga. Tuition 2.50 +Athens, Ala. Tuition 76.31 +Marion, Ala. Tuition 44.05 +Mobile, Ala. Tuition 85.60 +Nat, Ala. Tuition 48.00 +Selma, Ala. Tuition 94.45 +Meridian, Miss. Tuition 95.60 +Moorhead, Miss. Tuition 17.45 +Tougaloo, Miss. Tuition 314.75 +New Orleans, La. Tuition 511.00 +Martin, Fla. Public Fund 20.00 +Orange Park, Fla. Tuition 54.70 +Austin, Texas. Tuition 88.20 + ------- 4,575.15 + ---------- +Total for April $21,785.01 + =========== + + SUMMARY. +Donations $102,727.14 +Estates 67,711.42 + ----------- + $170,438.56 +Income 7,160.26 +Tuition 28,066.15 + ----------- +Total from Oct. 1 to $205,664.97 +April 30 + ============ + + FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. +Subscriptions for April $42.06 +Previously acknowledged 358.78 + -------- +Total $400.84 + + RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, + William Johnstone, Treasurer, from February + 14 to March 21, 1896. +Local Missions: +Fresno. Chinese Mon. 7.35 +Offs., 4; Annual Membs., +2; First Cong. Ch., 1.35 +Los Angeles. Chinese Mon. 7.00 +Offs. +Marysville. Chinese Mon. 8.40 +Offs. +Oakland. Chinese Mon. 73.00 +Offs., 6; Anniversary +Offs. First Cong. Ch. (of +which Rev. S. M. +Freeland, 5; S. T. +Alexander, 5; Mrs. H. R. +Jones, 2.50; Mrs. F. F. +Barbour, 1.50; Jue Sue, +5; Chin Wah, 2), 67 +Oroville. Chinese Mon. 7.70 +Offs., 2.20; New Year's +gifts to Jesus, 5.50 +Petaluma. Chinese Mon. 3.25 +Offs. +Riverside. Chinese Mon. 3.20 +Offs. +Sacramento. Chinese Mon. 8.50 +Offs. +San Bernardino. Chinese 4.25 +Mon. Offs. +San Diego. Chinese Mon. 3.75 +Offs. +San Francisco. Central 5.80 +Chinese Mon. Offs. +San Francisco. West 2.40 +Chinese Mon. Offs. +Santa Barbara. Chinese 6.05 +Mon. Offs. +Santa Cruz. Chinese Mon. 6.35 +Offs. +Ventura. Chinese Mon. 2.25 +Offs. +Vernondale. Chinese Mon. 2.00 +Offs. +Watsonville. Chinese Mon. 1.50 +Offs. + ------ 152.75 +Prescott, Arizona. First 14.90 +Cong. Ch. Chinese Mission +Worcester, Mass. 7.00 +"Friends" +FOR CHINESE MOTHERS AND +CHILDREN: +Boston, Mass. Mount 20.00 +Vernon Chinese Sab. Sch. +New Haven, Ct. Mrs J. E. 1.00 +Pond +Central California. W. H. 10.00 +M. U. + ------ 31.00 + -------- +Total $205.65 + ======== + + + + +H. W. HUBBARD, Treas., +Bible House, N. Y. + + + + +WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS + + + MAINE. + WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A. + +_State Committee_--Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury, Woodfords; Mrs. A.T. Burbank, +Yarmouth; Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor. + + NEW HAMPSHIRE. + FEMALE CENT. INSTITUTION AND HOME MISS. UNION. + +President--Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth. Secretary--Mrs. N. W. Nims, 16 +Rumford St., Concord. Treasurer--Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord. + + VERMONT. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, W. Brattleboro. Secretary--Mrs. M. K. +Paine, Windsor. Treasurer--Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury. + + MASS. and R.I. + (1)WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 9 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass. +Secretary--Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congregational House, Boston. +Treasurer--Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congregational House, Boston. + + CONNECTICUT. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New Britain. Secretary--Mrs. C. +T. Millard, 36 Lewis St., Hartford. Treasurer--Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 +Spring St., Hartford. + + NEW YORK. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Green Ave., Brooklyn. Secretary--Mrs. Wm. +Spalding, 511 Orange St., Syracuse. Treasurer--Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 230 +Macon St., Brooklyn. + + NEW JERSEY. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE N. J. ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair. Secretary--Mrs R. J. Hegeman, +32 Forest Street, Montclair. Treasurer--Mrs. J. H. Dennison, 150 +Belleville Ave., Newark. + + PENNSYLVANIA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford. Secretary--Mrs. C. F. Yennie, +Ridgway. Treasurer--Mrs. T. W. Jones, 511 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia. + + OHIO. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary Grounds, Cincinnati. +Secretary--Mrs. J. W. Moore, 836 Hough Ave., Cleveland. Treasurer--Mrs. G. +B. Brown, 2116 Warren St., Toledo. + + INDIANA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, Indianapolis. Treasurer--Mrs. A. +H. Ball, Dewhurst. + + ILLINOIS. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Issac Claflin, Lombard. Secretary--Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 +Washington St., Chicago. Treasurer--Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette. + + MISSOURI. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes Street, Kansas City. +Secretary--Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave., Kansas City. Treasurer--Mrs. +K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave., Kansas City. + + IOWA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell. Secretary--Mrs. H. H. Robbins, +Grinnell. Treasurer--Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave., Des Moines. + + MICHIGAN. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Av., Grand Rapids. +Secretary--Mrs. C. C. Denison, 132 N. College Ave., Grand Rapids. +Treasurer--Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville. + + WISCONSIN. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison. Secretary--Mrs. A. O. Wright, +Madison. Treasurer--Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater. + + MINNESOTA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East Ninth Street, St. Paul. +Secretary--Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, S.E., Minneapolis. +Treasurer--Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield. + + NORTH DAKOTA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. W. P. Cleveland, Caledonia. Secretary--Mrs. Silas Daggett, +Harwood. Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo. + + SOUTH DAKOTA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Bowdle. Secretary--Mrs. W. H. Thrall, +Huron. Treasurer--Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Huron. + + BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City. Secretary--Mrs. H. H. +Gilchrist, Hot Springs. Treasurer--Miss Grace Lyman, Hot Springs. + + NEBRASKA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete. Secretary--Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Second +Street, Lincoln. Treasurer--Mrs. James W. Dawes, Crete. + + KANSAS. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. F. E. Storrs, Topeka. Secretary--Mrs. George L. Epps, +Topeka. Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Read. Parsons. + + COLORADO. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette Street, Denver. +Secretary--Mrs. Chas. Westley, Box 508, Denver. Treasurer--Mrs. B. C. +Valantine, Highlands. + + WYOMING. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. P. F. Powelson, Cheyenne. Secretary--Mrs. J. A. Riner, +Cheyenne. Treasurer--Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs. + + MONTANA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula. Secretary--Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 +Dearborn Ave., Helena. Treasurer--Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston. + + IDAHO. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise. Secretary--Mrs. E. A. Paddock, +Weiser. Treasurer--Mrs. D. L. Travis, Pocatello. + + WASHINGTON. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. A. J. Bailey, 1614 Second Ave., Seattle. Secretary--Mrs. +W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K. Street, Tacoma. Treasurer--Mrs. J. W. George, +620 Fourth Street, Seattle. + + OREGON. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland. Secretary--Mrs. George +Brownell, Oregon City. Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 Third Street, +Portland. + + CALIFORNIA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY. + +President--Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th Street, Oakland. Secretary--Mrs. +L. M. Howard, 911 Grove Street, Oakland. Treasurer--Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 +Harrison Street, Oakland. + + SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Warren F. Day, 253 S. Hope St., Los Angeles. +Secretary--Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles. +Treasurer--Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, Riverside. + + NEVADA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno. Secretary--Mrs. Margaret N. Magill, +Reno. Treasurer--Mrs. Mary Clow, Reno. + + UTAH (Including Southern Idaho). + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah. Secretary--Mrs. +W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth Street, E., Salt Lake City, Utah. Treasurer--Mrs. +Dana W. Bartlett, Salt Lake City, Utah. Secretary for Idaho--Mrs. Oscar +Sonnenkalb, Pocatello, Idaho. + + NEW MEXICO. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. C. E. Winslow, Albuquerque. Secretary--Mrs. E. W. Lewis, +301 So. Edith Street, Albuquerque. Treasurer--Mrs. H. W. Bullock, +Albuquerque. + + OKLAHOMA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher. Secretary--Mrs. L. E. Kimball, +Guthrie. Treasurer--Mrs. L. S. Childs, Choctaw City. + + INDIAN TERRITORY. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. John McCarthy, Vinita. Secretary--Mrs. Fayette Hurd, +Vinita. Treasurer--Mrs. R. M. Swain, Vinita. + + NORTH CAROLINA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville. Secretary and Treasurer--Miss +A. E. Farrington, Oaks. + + GEORGIA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Avenue, Atlanta. Secretary--Mrs. H. +A. Kellam, Atlanta. Treasurer--Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville. + + FLORIDA. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville. Secretary--Mrs. Nathan Barrows, +Winter Park. Treasurer--Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen. + + ALABAMA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. M. A. Dillard, Selma. Secretary--Mrs. J. S. Jackson, +Montgomery. Treasurer--Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega. + + TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY and ARKANSAS. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE TENNESSEE ASSOCIATION. + +President--Mrs. G. W. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Univ., Nashville. Secretary--Mrs. +E. J. Lewis, 15 Echols Street, Memphis. Treasurer--Mrs. J. E. Moreland, +216 N. McNairy Street, Nashville. + + MISSISSIPPI. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Avenue, Meridian. Secretary--Mrs. +Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo Univ., Tougaloo. Treasurer--Mrs. L. H. Turner, +3012 12th Street, Meridian. + + LOUISIANA. + WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond. Secretary--Mrs. Matilda Cabrère, +New Orleans. Treasurer--Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, Straight Univ., New +Orleans. + + TEXAS. + WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION. + +President--Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas. Secretary--Mrs. H. Burt, Lock Box +563, Dallas. Treasurer--Mrs. C. I. Scofield, Dallas. + + + + + + +FOOTNOTES + + + 1 While the W. H. M. A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass. + and R. 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