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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 30158 ***
+
+[Illustration:
+
+The American Missionary
+
+VOL. XXXIX
+
+NO. 7
+
+July, 1885.]
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                   PAGE.
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+
+  THE FIGURES--FINANCIAL                                          187
+  EXERCISE OF BENEVOLENCE                                         188
+  THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.               189
+  PARAGRAPHS                                                      191
+  CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO--GRAVE OF LOVEJOY--WHAT
+    SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?                                 192
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  FISK UNIVERSITY                                                 195
+  ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE                                196
+  GREGORY INSTITUTE                                               198
+  RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TALLADEGA                                 199
+  LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN--THE OLD COMMISSARY
+    BUILDING                                                      201
+  STUDENT'S LETTER                                                202
+  OBITUARY: MRS. H. M. STEVENS                                    203
+  OBITUARY: MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE                                  204
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  STATE ORGANIZATIONS--VERMONT SCHOOL AT MCINTOSH, GA.--ILLINOIS
+    HOME MISS. UNION                                              205
+  A TRUE INCIDENT                                                 206
+
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+  THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE                               207
+
+
+RECEIPTS                                                          208
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Vice-Presidents._
+
+  Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
+  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
+  Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D. D., N. Y.
+  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D. D., Mass.
+  Rev. D. O. MEARS, D. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. JAMES POWELL, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+  W. H. ROGERS,
+  PETER McCARTEE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.
+  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+  _For Three Years._
+
+  LYMAN ABBOTT.
+  A. S. BARNES.
+  J. R. DANFORTH.
+  CLINTON B. FISK.
+  A. P. FOSTER.
+
+  _For Two Years._
+
+  S. B. HALLIDAY.
+  SAMUEL HOLMES.
+  SAMUEL S. MARPLES.
+  CHARLES L. MEAD.
+  ELBERT B. MONROE.
+
+  _For One Year._
+
+  J. E. RANKIN.
+  WM. H. WARD.
+  J. L. WITHROW.
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN.
+  EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.
+
+
+_District Secretaries._
+
+  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D. D., _21 Cong'l House, Boston._
+  Rev. J. E. ROY, D. D., _112 West Washington Street, Chicago._
+
+  Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON, _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+
+
+_Field Officer._
+
+  Prof. ALBERT SALISBURY, _Superintendent of Education._
+
+
+_Bureau of Woman's Work._
+
+  _Secretary_, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary: those relating to the collecting fields, to
+Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for
+the "American Missionary," to the Editor, at the New York Office.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+May be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+
+VOL. XXXIX.      JULY, 1885.        NO. 7
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+$365,000
+
+NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a
+day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized
+plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the
+pressing needs of the early future.--
+
+[FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE FIGURES.
+
+  _Receipts._                     Donations.    Legacies.       Total.
+
+  Oct. 1, 1884, to May 31, 1885  $136,972.82   $21,784.35    $158,757.17
+  Oct. 1, 1883, to May 31, 1884   132,507.66    21,710.40     154,218.06
+                                 -----------   ----------    -----------
+                              Inc. $4,465.16  Inc. $73.95 Inc. $4,539.11
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our financial storm signal is still out. That threatening forty
+thousand dollars' deficit does not let up in its indications of
+approach. The black clouds are plainly discernible. We have been for
+months anxiously watching their movements. Our prayers and efforts
+have been steadily turned towards their dissipation. We do not lose
+faith. We believe in our work. We believe in our friends. The work
+has merit. Our friends have ability. The two will come together and
+the merit will cause the ability to stand forth. There are many
+things very decidedly encouraging.
+
+Never in all our history has the work been more abundantly blessed.
+Our schools have been crowded and God's Spirit has come down in great
+power upon the hearts of our pupils. In one school the revival
+character of the religious services had to cease, because there were
+none left to be converted! Our churches have been revived and
+enlarged. A spirit of joy and thankfulness is in the hearts of our
+missionaries.
+
+Notwithstanding the hard times, our receipts from the churches and
+living donors are larger by several thousand dollars than they were
+at this time last year. These facts are the indications of a living
+cause and an able constituency. They call upon us to lift our heads
+in hope and to inspire one another to still greater activity, and, if
+need be, to self-denial. We have no legacies in sight, and we
+certainly do not desire our friends to die. Our prayer is that they
+may live; that they may live long. Apart from their gifts in money we
+desire the strength and the grandeur of their lives to aid us in
+carrying forward the great and growing work on hand. We again call
+upon them to help us round out this year without a debt.
+
+We take the liberty to point out one way in which they can do this.
+
+Our missionaries are, many of them, returning at this time of year
+for a brief rest at the North. They need it. They have earned it. It
+may seem wrong to tax these brave workers, but we venture to say that
+if they are invited to tell the public the story of their experience
+they will not refuse to do it; and we venture to say further, it will
+be a story the public will be glad to hear. Let them have a royal
+welcome home by the churches. In the language of Rev. Sam Jones, the
+noted Southern Evangelist, as he counseled the churches to receive
+the new converts, "Let it not be on the tips of your fingers or on
+the palms of your hands you receive them, but, on your hearts," and
+God will bless the welcome to the churches, to the missionaries and
+to the work. Hear their story, heed its lessons, and it will not be
+long before the clouds shall roll away and our financial storm-signal
+be taken down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The exercise of benevolence Christ never conditioned on human
+recognition. The publicans and heathen furnished examples on that
+plane. When Christianity uncovers its roots there is never anything
+commercial even hinted at. Sinners need salvation. That is enough.
+Divine love moves in the presence of necessity. Its movement is
+electric. Even if ingratitude smite it in the face; nay, worse, if
+malignancy would summon forces for its crucifixion, without relaxing
+an iota it breathes the prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know
+not what they do." Unswervingly Christ held along, doing right
+because it was right. Passion in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
+lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
+Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion when He saw the
+people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
+forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
+the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
+righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
+not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
+the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.
+
+It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as
+did the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that
+shall sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty.
+Opposition may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men
+may oppose them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
+misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
+it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
+work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
+development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
+doing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
+
+
+The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
+the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
+hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
+homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
+Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
+millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
+enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
+improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
+there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
+company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
+would seem absurd.
+
+But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
+They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
+immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
+their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
+and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
+department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
+in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
+arts, were all displayed to a remarkable degree in the large
+collection. Southerners and Northerners were alike astonished at what
+their eyes beheld. Those who thought that the negro has no higher
+mission than to be a "hewer of wood and drawer of water," were
+compelled either to change their minds or else to say they did not
+believe that the colored people did the work. It was amusing to hear
+the remarks of some of the latter class, as they looked at some
+beautiful specimens of negro handicraft or ingenuity.
+
+It may interest the readers of the MISSIONARY to glance at the great
+variety of lines along which negro ability put itself on exhibition.
+
+Examination papers from schools were very numerous, showing
+proficiency in penmanship, spelling, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
+free drawing, grammar and translations from the classics; fine
+needlework of all kinds; millinery; dress-making, tailoring; portrait
+and landscape painting in oil, water-colors and crayon; photography;
+sculpture; models of steamboats, locomotives, stationary engines, and
+railway cars; cotton presses, plows, cultivators, and reaping
+machines; wagons, buggies; tools of almost all kinds, from the hammer
+of the carpenter to the finely-wrought forceps of the dentist; piano
+and organ (both pipe and reed) making; carpentry, cabinet-making;
+upholstery; tin-smithing; black-smithing, boot and shoe making;
+basket and broom making; pottery, plain and glazed; brick-making;
+agricultural products, including all the cereals and fruits raised in
+the country; silk-worm culture; fruit preserving; flour from a mill,
+and machinery from a foundry owned by a colored man; patented
+inventions and improvements, nearly all of them useful and practical,
+were quite numerous; drugs and medicines; stationery, printing and
+publishing.
+
+Some of the articles on exhibition are worthy of special mention--a
+black walnut pulpit, in design and finish as beautiful and tasteful
+as any church might wish; a sofa finely upholstered, and the covering
+embroidered with artistically-executed needlework, showing four
+prominent events in the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture; a chandelier,
+very beautiful in design and finely finished; a complete set of
+dentist's instruments, in polish and finish remarkable; a little
+engine, made by a silversmith of Knoxville, who was a slave, and who
+has become a skilled workman of local reputation. He never worked in
+a shop till he had one of his own. He learned the use of tools
+without any instruction. These articles would certainly merit
+attention, even if put in competition with similar specimens of the
+very best workmanship.
+
+Neither the negroes nor their friends have any reason to regret that
+an exhibit was made. It was in every sense of the word creditable. It
+marks a progress simply wonderful, when all the circumstances are
+taken into the account. It is prophetic of a very hopeful future. It
+demonstrates that the negro race can enter every profession and
+calling in which the white man is found. It proclaims in tones that
+no one should misunderstand, that he who writes or speaks of the
+colored people should be careful how he pronounces judgment in regard
+to their capacity. They should be given a white man's chance. No
+trade nor occupation should be closed against them. Open doors should
+welcome to honorable competition, white and black alike. Let this be
+so, and in less than half a century there will not be a trade, nor
+profession, nor calling, in which black men will not be found in the
+front. There will be preachers and professors, and editors, and
+physicians, and lawyers, and statesmen, and teachers, and bankers,
+and business men, and artisans, and mechanics and farmers, of
+African descent, of whom, as brethren, the very greatest of white men
+will not need to be ashamed. Let writers on the negro stop theorizing
+about his capacity for this or that calling, and unite in demanding
+that he have a fair chance to become what God has made him capable of
+becoming. It is wrong, it is wicked for men who by voice and pen
+influence public sentiment, to conclude that because the negro is now
+a waiter, a boot-black, a barber, a laborer, that therefore he cannot
+be anything else, or even that he cannot probably be anything else.
+By the very force of circumstances he has been compelled to occupy
+these positions. By an unjust public sentiment he has been shut out
+from even an opportunity to prove his capacity to stand beside his
+white brother in every calling.
+
+Public sentiment should be reformed at this point; and the colored
+people's exhibition of what they have achieved in the short space of
+twenty years, in spite of opposition, and in spite of lack of
+opportunity, assures us that if they are permitted they will
+contribute no small share in securing the reformation. We advise all
+leaders of public sentiment who do not desire twenty-five or thirty
+years hence to be found eating their words of to-day, or explaining
+how it was that they came to be on ground so untenable, to heed the
+lessons of this Exposition, and range themselves with those who look
+at facts, and who recognize the prophetic power of facts, and
+heartily accept the prophecy, even if this prophecy run counter to
+what have been _their_ fancies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Colored People's Educational Day at the World's Exposition called
+out an immense crowd and proved to be of very great interest.
+Speeches were made by representatives of both races. Rev. Dr. Palmer,
+the eloquent Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, and Col. Wm.
+Preston Johnson, President of the Tulane University, represented the
+Louisiana whites, and in their speeches not only complimented the
+colored people on the progress they had made, but assured them of the
+hearty sympathy and co-operation of all good people in the South. The
+Rev. A. E. P. Albert, a graduate of our Straight University,
+represented the colored people. The newspapers published his speech
+in full. We have read it with much interest. It is a speech of
+considerable power. It is an honor to the man, to his race and to the
+A. M. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our Student's Letter this month is from Talladega College. The
+memories it portrays are not pleasant, but it is fitting to remember
+the pit out of which we have been digged. The darkness of the picture
+makes the present opportunities and privileges of the colored people
+to shine out all the brighter. Heartily can we thank God that these
+terrible things are now only a memory.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO.
+
+
+After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885,
+a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and
+Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the
+report, which was adopted:
+
+     Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary
+     Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points
+     of interest in the address. That is, that the American
+     Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000,
+     and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the
+     end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that
+     this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of
+     mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment
+     of this grand organization for years to come. It _need_ not be;
+     it _ought_ not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
+     it _will_ not be. Your committee therefore propose this
+     resolution:
+
+     _Resolved_, That we, the members of this association, will
+     individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
+     making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
+     year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
+     impending calamity.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"--CORRECTION.
+
+
+EDITOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.--DEAR SIR: Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
+168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
+There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
+in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
+the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
+a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
+remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
+an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
+freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
+monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
+over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?
+
+  H. L. HAMMOND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?
+
+
+A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!
+
+_Exclude them_, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
+problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
+and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
+became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
+America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
+it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
+before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
+immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.
+
+For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
+royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
+his authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
+diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
+But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
+move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
+Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
+conducted upon Puget Sound in smuggling Chinese from Vancouver's
+Island to our forbidden soil. Certain it is that many Chinese,
+failing to get tickets at Hong Kong for San Francisco, buy them to
+Victoria. Already it becomes a serious question what fence can be
+built along our northern frontier so close, so strong, so high that
+no Chinese can anywhere climb over, or crawl under, or work through.
+Mexico wants the Chinese, we hear. How far is it from the northern
+line of Mexico to the southern line of California and Arizona? And
+once across that line our Chinese invaders, coming slyly one by one,
+have won the fight and go and come at their own pleasure.
+
+Exclusion has not solved this problem, and it is safe to add that, as
+it should not, so it never will. For this policy is in contradiction
+to the vital principles of our national existence; and either it must
+be abandoned, or sooner or later this contradiction will develop into
+conflict irrepressible. Those vital principles are two: "All men
+created equal," and "All men endowed with certain inalienable
+rights," etc. Our fathers counted them to be self-evident, and placed
+them as twin pillars in our temple of liberty. Now, a nation cannot
+knock out its own foundation stones, cannot defy the laws of its own
+organic life without becoming divided against itself; and in the
+conflict ensuing, either its vital principles will be reaffirmed and
+rehabilitated, or else the nation dies. We have had one lesson at
+this point, and we ought not to need another for a dozen centuries.
+Exclusion is only a make-shift of the politicians, not the offspring
+of real statesmanship. It has not solved the problem, and it never
+will.
+
+What then shall we do? Educate and Christianize these heathen, we
+reply: So you will make them to be Chinese no longer, but Americans.
+This is the right answer, but, alas, how much easier said than done!
+The undertaking, hard enough at first, grows harder, in some
+respects, as the years roll on.
+
+One added difficulty is the wider diffusion of these strangers over
+our whole country. The prejudice which their peculiarities excite is
+thus extended, while the number to be reached in any one locality is
+diminished. Work for the Chinese ought now to be prosecuted, not
+simply in Sunday schools, but in Mission schools, kept in session
+every evening and alt through the year in most of the principal
+cities of the whole Union, as well as on the Pacific Coast. But the
+outward and visible encouragements will be smaller, because each
+Mission finds its particular field reduced in size.
+
+Another added difficulty is in an increased and deepened antagonism
+on the part of the great mass of Chinese to real Christianity.
+Multitudes have seen enough of the true light to reject it; and
+having rejected, now to hate it. Oh, it drives one back to God in an
+agony of mingled longing and despair to see this mighty multitude
+that will not come and be saved, drifting along in darkness and
+wretchedness through this life to the blackness of darkness beyond!
+And this is intensified by the thought of the children now quite
+numerous in our Chinese communities. We know to what the daughters
+are destined. We know what it is that gives them, in this country, a
+special money value; and as to the sons, one can scarcely conceive
+circumstances more perilous than those in which they are placed.
+Breathing our free American air, entering readily into the Young
+America spirit, they will not brook the harsh discipline which, in
+their native land, would have been submissively and perhaps with
+profit accepted. At the same time, the parents ill understand that
+discipline of love which adjusts itself to these new circumstances,
+and when it can no longer compel, succeeds in wooing and winning and
+molding aright the boyish heart. Demons incarnate, both American and
+Chinese, tempt these boys, while they are unprotected by any
+reverence either for the ancestors and idols of their own people or
+for the American God whom Americans by their conduct so cruelly
+belie.
+
+And this suggests another added difficulty: the contrast which our
+Chinese Christians cannot but observe between the precepts of the
+Bible, the example of Christ, the exhortations of those who led them
+to Jesus, and the practices of multitudes of American professors of
+religion. And, too often, they are led to do as we do, and not as we
+say. While at the same time the indifference of many professed
+Christians to the salvation of this Chinese, and the attitude of many
+churches toward those already converted, loads the problem down with
+difficulties such as might well drive us to despair.
+
+But, no; nothing shall drive us to despair. This problem must be
+solved. This mountain mass of heathenism must be--not removed and
+cast into the sea, but transformed into the mountain of the Lord's
+house, and made an element--an element of untold value and
+efficiency--in our American Zion. Let us have faith as the grain of
+mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
+commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
+courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
+difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
+non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
+that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
+any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
+thing to do--for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
+of the uncounted millions beyond the sea--we must, and we will, claim
+and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.
+
+  WM. C. POND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
+
+A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.
+
+
+Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
+and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
+that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
+on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
+Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
+Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
+societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
+the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
+great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
+28.
+
+This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
+be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
+interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
+The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
+college has been one marked feature and a source of great
+encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
+into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
+two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
+the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
+before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
+yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
+growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
+young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
+only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart and
+purpose; of the present class three have fallen by the hand of death
+within the four years and only three have dropped out for other
+causes.
+
+Commencement day revealed in the tone of the graduating orations a
+moral earnestness and uprightness of principle that called forth the
+commendation of our stranger guests. The best record of the class,
+however, is in the influence its members have exerted in the school
+during the whole of their Senior year.
+
+It may be remembered that a year ago the Alumni Association adopted a
+plan by which, beginning three years after graduation, at least one
+per cent. of the earnings of each member is to be appropriated to an
+endowment fund for Fisk University. Whenever the sum reaches $1,000,
+it is to be devoted to some chair in the University. This year the
+Treasurer reported $140 on hand. The beginning seems small, but who
+can tell to what the stream may grow? Part of the Alumni anniversary
+was given up to a memorial service for one who, after six years of
+faithful work among her people, has died within the year.
+
+On the evening devoted to the Normal Department, Prof. Salisbury was
+expected to address us on some educational topic. In his absence,
+Prof. Smith, of the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University, kindly
+filled the place and gave us an excellent address on Thomas Carlyle.
+Prof. Smith is of Southern birth, but has manifested a cordial
+friendliness and an interest that has led him to really investigate
+the work of Fisk University.
+
+On Commencement Day, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D. D., of Minneapolis,
+Minn., honored us with his presence and with an address, both wise
+and eloquent, on "Sublime Motives," holding up three as especially
+worthy to prompt to action: responsibility for the architecture of
+our own character, responsibility for the development of latent moral
+power, and the conservation of moral forces.
+
+Few who heard it will forget the solemn charge given to the
+graduating class by President Cravath, illustrated by an incident, as
+told by the Rev. Sam. Jones, of the battle of Nashville. General Hood
+saw a Federal battery making dreadful havoc in his army, and sent to
+a subordinate general a messenger, saying, "Give him my compliments,
+and tell him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The
+general was in the thick of the battle and could not be found. The
+same message was sent to another with the same result. Finally to a
+third he sent the messenger, saying, "Give him my _love_, and tell
+him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The battery
+was speedily taken and the message of affection returned to General
+Hood. So are these young people sent out with the love of teachers
+and friends, to capture the batteries that are dealing moral death to
+this people.
+
+After the degree of B. A. had been conferred on the fifteen
+graduates, that of M. A. was given to fourteen former graduates, who
+for three years or more have been engaged in scholarly employments.
+
+To add to the interest of Commencement, Gen. Fisk arrived the evening
+before, and closed the public exercises of Thursday with an address,
+whose pleasantry made every one forget the fatigue of five
+consecutive hours of speech-making. Several members of the
+Legislature, now in extra session in the Capitol, were present both
+at the Commencement exercises and at the collation which followed.
+
+A new and interesting feature of this anniversary was the part taken
+by the Girls' Industrial Department. A basket of cake made by members
+of the cooking class graced each table at the Commencement dinner and
+was by general consent pronounced excellent. In the Assembly Room of
+Jubilee Hall were displayed various garments and household articles
+neatly made by the sewing classes.
+
+Nothing has been said about examinations; they are like the bread of
+our daily meals, always expected and very important. A more thorough
+examination than usual was given the classes in drawing and in vocal
+music. One exercise in the latter examination was the singing at
+sight of a tune, in four parts, composed by a member of the class.
+
+Our halls are already deserted; nothing holds our students after
+Commencement: they scatter at once for work, and within a few weeks,
+in at least half a dozen States, miniature Fisk Universities will be
+in operation.
+
+  ANNA M. CAHILL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA.
+
+
+In beauty, interest and enthusiasm Hampton anniversary days abate
+nothing as years go on. The seventeenth anniversary exercises were
+held on May 21, with a graduating class of forty-two, of whom five
+were Indians. Visitors were present from North and South, East and
+West, and such expressions as "The half was not told me!" and "Why
+didn't I bring my wife?" were frequent, as usual.
+
+Of the morning examinations, one of the most interesting was a
+general exercise conducted by the chaplain, in review of the current
+news of the world, which is daily read and discussed with the
+students. Victor Hugo, French and English politics, the Afghan
+trouble, Russia and Nihilism, Irish Nationalists, France and China,
+England and Egypt, were touched in the questions, and the answers and
+general interest showed the value of this daily exercise. In the
+ancient history class, printed questions were shuffled and
+distributed among the students, and question and answer were spoken
+out promptly by each scholar, giving an attractive quickness and
+vivacity to the recitation. The class of little Indian geographers
+stood before a table on which was a miniature United States made of
+sand, with its Eastern elevations, its great central plains, and its
+high Western ranges. A thread of blue worsted, put in place by the
+young world-builders, simulated the Mississippi, while cities (in the
+guise of white buttons) sprang up with a rapidity unknown even in the
+great West. The practice-teaching class is always of especial
+interest and significance, as over ninety per cent of Hampton's
+students devote themselves to teaching as their life mission. A dozen
+little bright-eyed, brown-faced primaries from the "Butler" training
+school received a geography lesson from one of the senior girls,
+criticised by her class-mates. Its grand _finale_ was a miniature
+volcanic eruption, creating a sensation among the Butler mites.
+
+The industrial exhibits and the training shops, with their Negro and
+Indian apprentices, attracted interested attention, as usual.
+
+The emotions of anniversary day culminated in the afternoon
+exercises, in which were several incidents of unusual interest. The
+pretty and graceful salutatorian, fair as most of her hearers, was
+introduced as a young representative of the family of faithful Mary
+Peake, who, just escaped from slavery herself, taught the first
+"contraband school" at Hampton. This introduction roused the
+war-memories of Rev. Dr. Strieby, who, greeting the young girl as she
+stepped on the platform, told the story of the first missionary sent
+down to Old Point by the American Missionary Association, his
+reception by the contrabands as an angel of deliverance, and his
+first school, opened Sept. 17, 1861, with Mary Peake as its teacher,
+till she gave up her life in the work for her people.
+
+The pastor's class was represented by a Baptist minister from
+Hampton, who gave an account of the Old and New ministry, somewhat
+characteristic of both. This pastor's class has become an interesting
+feature of Hampton, with a mission of peace and good-will to both
+races and all sects and sections. Now in its second year, it numbers,
+as pupils, 17 colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity. Baptist and
+Methodist; and as teachers Rev. Mr. Frissell, chaplain, and Rev. Mr.
+Tolman, ex-chaplain of the school, Northern Congregationalist
+ministers, with Miss Alice Bacon, who thus worthily wears her
+venerated fathers mantle, and the Southern white ministers from
+Hampton, Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist, in unity of spirit that is
+verily "a good and a pleasant thing to see." The studies are the
+Bible and Bible history, pastoral theology and composition. In
+cultivating better understanding and kindly relations between these
+colored and white neighbors, and the relations of the school with
+both, as well as in helping meet the great need of an intelligent
+ministry, this pastor's class is doing important work. Some of its
+members board at the school, working their way in part like the other
+students, sometimes entering their classes. Some are helped to come
+by their congregations, who appreciate the opportunity.
+
+A handsome gold medal, presented by Mr. W. J. Demorest, of New York
+City, was awarded to Harris Barrett, of the senior class, for
+excellence in the junior elementary studies, the three R's,
+geography, grammar and spelling, in which the whole class were
+examined for the prize without special review, only one falling below
+an average of 50 per cent. on all, and five averaging above 90--a
+better showing than some Northern college seniors could make, I fear.
+
+As usual, some of the school's former graduates returned to tell the
+story of their labors, and nearly fifty were present on the
+invitation yearly renewed to all.
+
+The valedictorian was the youngest of a family of one sister and four
+brothers, children of a minister, who have graduated at the school,
+the last two with the honor of the valedictory.
+
+The Indian graduates were represented by two of their number, a young
+man of the Sac and Fox tribe, Indian Territory, who gave his own
+reasons for claiming and desiring citizenship for his people, which
+were: 1st, that the Indian also is a child of the Father; 2d, that
+he was once owner of the land; 3d, that without this protection and
+help he must perish; 4th, that with it he can become a useful member
+of the nation, a man among men. An Indian girl plead eloquently for
+the Indian woman, and protested against the use of "savage" as a
+synonym of Indian, since "there are also yellow savages, black
+savages and white savages." The representations of the past, present
+and future of Indian life will not soon be forgotten by those who saw
+them. The past's barbaric glories were typified by a tall young brave
+and Indian girl in the beautiful dress of the wilderness. They stood
+silent, like a vision of the ancient days, while their story was
+told. The present's pathos was represented by "_Lo_" the _very_ "poor
+Indian" and squaw in shabby blankets, bewailing--as their Indian
+interpreter explained--the loss of lands and buffalo, asking where to
+go next--"white man everywhere"; the future's hope by a promising
+pair of Hampton students, able to speak for themselves, work for
+themselves and teach their people, with their white brethren's help,
+in the Christian's road. As the three groups stood in striking
+tableau--a visible embodiment of truth which I wish every white
+citizen of the United States could have seen and taken to
+heart--their comrades of the Indian school rose behind them, and
+started a Dakota hymn, recognized by the melody as "From Greenland's
+Icy Mountains," or, as interpreted to Indian understanding, "From the
+very distant cold land--from the hot land far away." As the plaintive
+strain died away, it was taken up in English in the richer chorus of
+their colored schoolmates, and the whole audience, rising, joined in
+the grand third verse, "_Shall we whose souls are lighted_," with
+effect not to pass from their hearts.
+
+Diplomas were presented by Rev. Dr. Strieby, vice-president of the
+Board of Trustees, to the graduating class of seventeen colored and
+three Indian young women, and twenty colored and two Indian young
+men, 42 in all. Eloquent addresses were made also by Rev Dr. McVickar
+of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Armstrong of Norfolk, imprisoned once
+by General Butler because he would pray for Jefferson Davis, but now
+thanking God for the new order, and rejoicing in Negro education.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N. C.
+
+
+The year at Gregory Institute, as usual, has been a busy one, both in
+school and out. As a worthy colored member of our church expressed
+it, "We are tormented with Christian work at Wilmington." We have had
+this year a total enrollment of 284 pupils, and the percentage of
+attendance has never been greater. The pupils have, as a rule, worked
+well, and in many cases the progress has been very marked. While we
+are not completely satisfied with the results, yet there has been
+very much to encourage our labors. The Lord has been merciful in
+keeping the workers in good health, and there has been no death and
+but few cases of sickness among the pupils.
+
+The last week was taken up with examinations, both oral and written,
+and in perfecting arrangements for the anxiously looked-for event
+among our people, the closing exhibition.
+
+Such a clamoring for tickets one never heard. Of course, not
+one-fourth asked for could be issued, for lack of room; but, as far
+as possible, the parents were admitted. Although a thunder-storm,
+lasting about an hour, came up just as the doors were opened, the
+people continued to pour in until the hall was as full as an egg,
+upwards of 500 finding seats.
+
+The programme, which was a long and varied one, was carried out
+without any drawback whatever, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
+teachers and of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, who all planned so well to make
+it a success. For three and one-half hours the audience gave the
+closest attention, and the comments since have been very flattering.
+Several, including some Northerners, have declared it to be the best
+exhibition they ever attended.
+
+It would tire you to read the entire programme, so I will mention and
+describe briefly only a few of the pieces, though all were as
+creditably rendered as if it were a white school, with the singing
+perhaps better. The pupils, without exception, acquitted themselves
+nobly, and their neat appearance was worthy of special mention.
+
+You would have been pleasantly entertained had you witnessed the
+Missionary Colloquy, in which 20 girls, some taken from each
+department of the school, took part. First came a girl bearing the
+American flag and representing America, who spoke, and was then
+followed by another girl with a Bible, representing Christianity.
+Next came singly nine girls in costume, each to represent a heathen
+nation, and making an earnest plea for the Gospel. Then followed a
+band of nine little American missionary workers, each stepping to the
+front and telling how she had earned her money which she was about to
+give to the noble cause. After dropping her gift in a basket held by
+"America," she repeated these words: "O happy, happy child am I, to
+serve the Lord of earth and sky;" then taking her place, another came
+forward in the same way until all had spoken. "America" now hands her
+basket, with its treasure, to Christianity, whom she addresses; then
+both turn and address the heathen in concert. In the time, missionary
+hymns were sweetly sung by the girls, and the piece, as presented,
+was one of the finest I ever saw.
+
+The doll drill was another interesting part of the evening's
+entertainment. The little primary girls went through the different
+evolutions with almost military precision, eliciting rounds of
+applause.
+
+So I might name many pieces of almost equal interest, but suffice it
+for me to mention further only the closing. This was "The Cross and
+Crown," consisting of tableaux and recitations taken mostly from "The
+Cross-Bearer." The time occupied in this was fully 45 minutes; and
+although the hour was so late, our audience did not fail to
+appreciate this beautiful piece. Several of the older people being
+asked which piece they liked best, replied, "I believe I liked the
+one with the angel best."
+
+A very important part of the evening's work must not be omitted from
+mention. This was the presentation of certificates to the graduating
+class on the completion of the Elementary Normal Course ending with
+the 10th year or grade. The members of this class, one young man and
+two young ladies, have been reared up in our school, and would be a
+credit to any school. This is the first graduation from the course;
+and although the class is small, it has incited others to say, "I
+mean to stick to the school until I can stand where they did."
+
+We think the entertainment was filled with sermons, and we trust that
+the influence produced may be all for good.
+
+  GEO. A. WOODARD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN TALLADEGA.
+
+
+The second Sabbath in May was a notable day with our college church
+at Talladega. It was a feast of ingathering.
+
+As early as eight o'clock a band of young men assembled on the banks
+of Talladega Creek, that three of their number might be immersed. It
+was a lovely spring morning, and the green banks, the running waters,
+the sweet air, the bright sunshine, the hymns, the prayers, the
+remarks of the pastor, and the Sacrament itself (administered by Rev.
+Spencer Snell, the pastor having had a congestive chill the preceding
+week, and being forbidden to go into the water) were full of
+solemnity and sweet instruction.
+
+Two hours later we met again in the college chapel. One of the most
+pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
+been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
+was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
+be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
+year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
+overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
+and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
+people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
+his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
+church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
+sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
+people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
+three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
+None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.
+
+This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
+professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
+by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
+here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
+meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
+buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
+the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.
+
+The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
+than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
+the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
+colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
+not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
+of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
+had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.
+
+The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
+salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
+members, teachers, professors, president and pastor--we all felt this
+truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
+a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
+and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
+coming into the first meeting--and lest any should fail, from any
+cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
+the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew--the real
+object sought in the meetings was brought home to every member of the
+College and Church. When we had the list of names (with hardly an
+exception they furnished their own names), we were vividly reminded
+of the individuals for whom we were working and praying, and they
+knew, every one, that we were definitely working and praying for
+them. This gave a feeling of practical, concentrated work, such as
+seldom attends such meetings.
+
+Excepting this, there were no unusual means employed. The truth was
+very earnestly and simply preached. Immediate decision for Christ was
+pressed. Personal efforts were conscientiously made by teachers and
+students. Little prayer meetings, where from two to a dozen met for
+special prayer, were frequent, and the Lord blessed all the means
+used.
+
+Since the close of the protracted meeting, each Sabbath-school class
+has had its own weekly prayer meeting--a means of great good. Also a
+general young Christians' prayer meeting has been held weekly. In it
+effort has been made, not only to lead these new converts to take
+part in prayer and conference, but to instruct them upon some points
+too often neglected. Those who on this day united with the church
+could each, I think, give an intelligent statement of reasons why
+they should unite with the church; and, in so uniting, why they gave
+public assent to a confession of faith, and why they joined in
+covenant with God and his people.
+
+  MASON NOBLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
+
+
+Marked revivals have been in progress in all the colored churches of
+the city. With all the noise and superstition, we cannot doubt that
+there are not a few genuine conversions. And yet, while our students
+attend these meetings only to a limited extent, the influence upon
+them tends to interfere with our religious work.
+
+Last week it was my privilege to attend the meeting of the North
+Texas Association, held at Cleburne. Tillotson church, on
+application, was cordially admitted to membership. The same
+cordiality and courtesy were extended to Brother McLean, late of
+Talladega College, who applied for membership in his own behalf. Rev.
+J. W. Roberts, representing the colored church of Dallas, was also
+present. The dignified, scholarly bearing of both these brethren won
+for them golden opinions from all who listened to their reports and
+remarks. Not a few of those who were present at the various sessions
+were Southerners, but apparently none the less interested on that
+account. It was my fortune to be entertained by an ex-slaveholder,
+who served in the Confederate army through the war, but who
+nevertheless is a warm friend of the Congregational church in his
+town, and contributes to its support.
+
+The moderator and scribe of the association, seated side by side
+through the meetings, presented a striking contrast. The first was a
+business man, born in New England, quick, keen, decisive and
+energetic, an officer in the Union army through the war, since that
+time engaged in business in Texas, now the possessor of a large
+fortune, and thoroughly identified with, and enthusiastic concerning,
+the material and spiritual interests of his adopted State.
+
+The second was the pastor of the leading Congregational Church of the
+State, born in the South, educated for the law, a soldier in the
+Confederate army, for a time almost a wreck morally and physically,
+but now, by the grace of God, "clothed and in his right mind,"
+dignified, magnetic, an earnest, reverent student of the Bible, an
+able preacher and a beloved pastor.
+
+Thus, with representatives of the North and the South, the East and
+the West, the white race and the black, America, Sweden and Ireland,
+we had at least one marked feature of the Pentecost. But aside from
+that, the manifest presence of the Spirit, and the consequent harmony
+and good-fellowship, rendered our meeting in a still more important
+degree like that season which was the beginning of such a wonderful
+regeneration in the history of the world. It may be accepted, I doubt
+not, as one of the signs of the regeneration that is going on in the
+South, which is less wonderful only in the fact of being local rather
+than world-wide.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE OLD COMMISSARY BUILDING.
+
+
+We held a series of revival meetings at South Williamsburgh, in the
+old commissary building. Wish some of the good people of the North,
+who meet in churches and chapels, plastered and nicely warmed, and
+comfortably seated, could have dropped in upon us and spent an hour.
+Of course, they would have had the back-ache and cold feet, and,
+perhaps, carried away a flea or two, even in March, but they would
+have gone home saying, "If people can meet in such a place, some
+refined, intelligent ladies even, and continue to go night after
+night, I ought to be very, very willing to go to my church whenever
+the Lord calls a meeting and my presence and voice are necessary."
+But that you may appreciate the contrast with your pleasant place of
+meeting, let me take you to the old commissary building.
+
+It's a _box-house_; that is, it's made of boards set upright and
+nailed at the bottom and middle and top to joists. Over this crazy
+structure sets a roof made of long oaken shingles hewn with the broad
+axe. Step inside of the building, which will hold 125 people, and see
+the whole construction. Rough boards with the curve of the circular
+saw on them and now dingy with smoke, make the sides; oaken shingles
+black with smoke, slope above.
+
+A "cannon stove" sends most of its smoke through a rusty pipe up
+through a piece of sheet iron to the air. The sparks, and now and
+then a star, shine through about the pipe. Newspapers pasted over the
+widest cracks on the sides of the room keep out the heaviest drafts.
+I remember one night when it was snowing (even here, in March), a
+flurry of wind brought down a glistening shower on the shoulders of
+the congregation. The roof usually turns water, however.
+
+Please stand here by the door and talk to the people. Feet get cold?
+I don't wonder. The door was made an inch and a half too short. You
+ask "why in the name of health don't you fix it?" Well, just sit
+there against the wall. You sit down, and a projecting horizontal
+joist takes you right in the back of the neck and makes you crane
+your head forward in a most uncomfortable way. Poor place to get
+asleep; one would pitch right forward on the floor. You see, if we
+commenced to "fix up," we wouldn't know where to begin, for one lack
+is as great as another. One night we held a meeting in that building,
+and before morning the thermometer fell to zero. We need a good
+stove; that one is full of cracks in front, so we always left a boy
+to watch after meeting till the fire died out. We just make the house
+do; strips have been laid on the floor, paper pasted over the wall
+gaps, seats of rough boards set in the building, windows tightened,
+and there we gathered. God's Spirit met us in spite of cold and
+dinginess and needs. I believe ten or twelve rose for prayers during
+those two weeks. Since warm weather Brother Myers has continued the
+meetings, and I trust a score or more have given their hearts to the
+Lord.
+
+  JAS. T. FORD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+
+  TALLADEGA COLLEGE, Talladega, Ala., April, 1885.
+
+It is wonderful to notice how many and what interesting changes may
+take place during the few years of one's life. The first eleven years
+of my life I spent as a slave, but I have lived to see these glorious
+days of freedom. I was born upon my master's plantation in Monroe
+County, Ala., where I lived till 1865, when I was set at liberty with
+the rest of my unfortunate brethren.
+
+While living upon that plantation I saw many of the horrors of
+slavery with my own eyes. One of the mean and degrading things I
+remember was the way the slaves had to live, crowded together in one
+house. There were three or four different families, consisting of
+twelve or fifteen persons, all living in the same room. There was
+only one house for colored people, and it had only one room.
+
+Although my master did not have so many slaves and was not so mean as
+some other slave-holders about him, still, the treatment which his
+slaves received was shockingly cruel. I remember very distinctly the
+paddling block, the paddle, and the great whip used upon that place.
+There comes very vividly before my mind the whipping of a hired man.
+I know just how every rag of clothes was taken off, and how he was
+tied down in the front yard between the gate and the house, so that
+he could not move hand or foot, and how the master would whip him a
+while and walk about and smoke his pipe a while, as the poor hired
+slave lay upon the ground and cried for mercy, but there was none to
+help him.
+
+Whenever my thoughts go back to those dark days, I recollect the time
+when my own brother ran away because he was not willing to take the
+whipping which the master wanted to give him late one afternoon. I
+think of how the bloodhounds came, and how they chased him, while
+mother, brothers, and fellow-slaves stood trembling, and how glad all
+were when we learned that the dogs could not catch him.
+
+If I could forget all other heart-rending scenes of those dark days,
+I could not erase from my memory the cruel treatment which I saw my
+own mother receive. Though I was small, I think of how I used to see
+her work hard, and how she was scolded and cursed as she was driven
+about like a dog. I saw her laid upon that paddling-block, and I
+heard her distressing cries, but, like the rest of her children, I
+could do nothing.
+
+I love to contrast my present condition with what it was a few years
+ago, and as I do so I do not forget the A. M. A., whose workers found
+me in the lowest depths of ignorance and helped me up. When
+liberated, soon after the surrender, I could not read a word and did
+not know a letter. I do not remember that I had ever seen the inside
+of a book of any kind. It was in 1867 that I learnt the alphabet upon
+the plantation by the light of pine knots. During the years 1868 and
+1869 I was a rag-picker in the streets of Mobile. God has led me on,
+and now I am a student in Talladega College, and expect soon to have
+finished a course of study which will enable me to go forth to lead
+men to Christ and to teach them better methods of living. I speak of
+this contrast not boastfully, but humbly and with deep gratitude to
+God, who took me from the woes and degradation of slavery and has
+given me a double freedom. I am so glad for the schools the A. M. A.
+has in the South; I am so glad for what they have done for me.
+Through one of these schools I was led to Christ. Soon after that I
+felt called to the ministry; and in Talladega College I am permitted
+to finish a course of study, and to some degree equip myself for the
+work of life. All praise to an organization that seeks for poor,
+ignorant and sinful men, leads them to Christ, instructs them, and
+then sends them out to bless the world.
+
+  A STUDENT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MRS. H. M. STEVENS.
+
+
+Another veteran teacher of the A. M. A. has been called home to her
+rest. On the morning of May 7, at her home in St. Albans, Vt., Mrs.
+H. M. Stevens, known to A. M. A. workers as Miss E. M. Barnes, of
+Bakersfield, Vt., fell asleep after a severe and painful sickness of
+several mouths.
+
+Miss Barnes entered the service of the Association in 1865 and left
+it in 1882, to minister to her devoted friend and fellow laborer,
+Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens, in her last sickness. When released from
+this service of love her own health prevented her return to the
+Southern work. Her first year was spent at Arlington, Va. She spent
+six years in the Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., four years in the Le
+Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., and her last six in Fisk
+University--seventeen years of devoted, earnest and fruitful labor in
+behalf of the colored youth in the South.
+
+Since leaving the South her life has been a pleasant and useful one
+as Mrs. Stevens, the wife of a devoted husband and an earnest and
+zealous Christian woman in the city and the church where her lot was
+cast. The testimony to her nobility and earnestness of character was
+manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
+sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
+short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
+teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
+and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
+which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
+youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
+pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.
+
+She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
+Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
+most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
+place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
+a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
+there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
+have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
+Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
+entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
+uttermost."
+
+The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
+and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
+held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
+labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
+impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
+greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
+borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
+who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
+and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
+been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
+character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
+were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
+world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
+others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
+the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
+to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
+the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!
+
+  E. M. CRAVATH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.
+
+
+Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
+Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
+
+Miss Goodridge was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of a godly and
+New England ancestry. She became a Christian in her earliest years
+and joined the church when but a child. From the beginning she was
+instructed in the Scriptures, which can make wise unto salvation, and
+her nature, less rugged than that of some, was well perfected by
+grace. Seeking usefulness in needy fields, she offered herself to the
+A. M. A., and last year began her work in Talladega, where she proved
+herself a devoted and successful teacher, a woman of great refinement
+and goodness, and a faithful servant of Christ. Herself a disciple
+sitting at Jesus' feet, she never forgot her Master in her teaching,
+while her unconscious influence was powerful for good. Her illness
+was but of a few days' duration, nor was it considered fatal until
+within a few hours of the end. Winning in person and of rare beauty
+of character, she has greatly endeared herself to her associates and
+to all who knew her. Though death came suddenly it did not find her
+unprepared. Her hope was in Christ, and her end was a peaceful
+falling asleep.
+
+  H. S. DE FOREST.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+We are glad to report a movement in favor of State organizations for
+woman's work in our own country in co-operation with the Am. Home
+Miss. Soc., the Am. Miss. Assoc., the New West Ed. Com., etc. At a
+special meeting called at Saratoga on June 4, action was taken by the
+representatives of the several Woman's Missionary Societies,
+advocating the formation of State societies, whose object should be
+to co-operate with the established societies of the Congregational
+order, in raising funds and increasing intelligence respecting
+missionary work in this country.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Two years ago the ladies of Vermont pledged the support of one
+teacher at McIntosh, Ga., but increased their contributions until
+they assumed the entire support of the school. A year ago they
+undertook the expense of an addition to the school building, to be
+called the "Vermont School." In connection with the State
+Association, at Bellows Falls, a ladies' meeting was held on
+Wednesday morning, June 10, in behalf of the American Missionary
+Association, addressed by their teacher, Miss Plimpton, and by Miss
+Emerson, Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. The following report was
+submitted by the State Committee:
+
+     The committee re-appointed by the convention held at St. Albans
+     last June, to raise money for the school for the freedmen in
+     McIntosh, Ga., desires to present the following report for the
+     year:
+
+     FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1885.
+
+     Total contributions                                  $848.86
+     Expenses of postage and printing                       11.16
+
+     Remitted to H. W. Hubbard                             837.70
+     Add balance on hand May, 1884                         259.28
+                                                       ----------
+       Total                                            $1,096.98
+
+     Estimated expense of school this year      $856.00
+     To apply on new building                    240.98
+                                               -------- $1,096.98
+
+Acknowledgment was also made for barrels and boxes of clothing,
+papers, books, toys and materials for sewing school, with money sent
+to pay freight. Additional contributions are expected before Sept.
+30, to apply on the new school building.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At the recent meeting of the State Association of Illinois, held in
+Rockford, the ladies organized the "Illinois Home Miss. Union." The
+constitution adopted embraces all home causes as embodied in the
+following form:
+
+     ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Home
+     Missionary Union of the State of ----. Its object shall be to
+     promote missionary and evangelistic work in all parts of our
+     land by forming auxiliaries in the churches of the State, and
+     through them collecting money for the various existing societies
+     of the Congregational order.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A TRUE INCIDENT.
+
+
+At a little junction in Wisconsin, a score of passengers alighting
+from a train were told that the one they wished to take was four
+hours behind time. A big washout had swept away a bridge or
+embankment. There were a few exclamations of dismay and impatience,
+as that four hours delay meant the losing of other connections, the
+failure of many plans and appointments. It was a cold, rainy day,
+with a raw, penetrating east wind that speedily drove them all into
+the close, dismal waiting room. One woman, taking writing materials
+from a satchel, which she contrived to use for a desk, became utterly
+oblivious to everything as her pencil flew over the letter that would
+carry comfort and cheer to a far-off loved one. Suddenly she became
+conscious that a score of people were sitting in complete silence
+around her, with not a book or paper to read, looking as forlorn and
+miserable as possible. Laying aside her writing, she said, "My
+husband and I are missionaries among the colored people in Alabama. I
+am now on my way back to the work. Perhaps you might be interested to
+hear something about it, and if you care to ask any questions, I will
+be very happy to answer them."
+
+An old lady sitting near, bounced up in a great rage. "_I_ don't want
+to hear a _word_ about the niggers." The rest of her muttered
+exclamations were lost as she rushed out, slamming the door behind
+her.
+
+The missionary began to tell them about the climate, the tropical
+luxuriance of fruit and flowers, and of the great cotton fields. By
+that time questions began to pour in thick and fast, and in less than
+five minutes she had an eager audience listening to every word. She
+went on to tell of the condition of the colored people at the close
+of the war; ignorant, utterly destitute, with no more knowledge than
+a baby of how to shift for themselves; of the hard struggle it had
+been and still was for many of them to live; of the miserable
+pittance they generally received for their labor; of their home life,
+their peculiarities, and other things of interest.
+
+About that time the irate woman, unable longer to endure the
+discomfort of the weather outside, came quietly in, looking rather
+disgusted at the prospect of being obliged, after all, to hear
+something about "the niggers."
+
+The recital of some special incidents of peculiar trial and hardship
+which had come under the missionary's own observation brought tears
+of sympathy to many eyes; but best of all was the sudden conversion
+of our wrathful woman, who exclaimed: "I declare that's too bad! What
+makes them stand it? Why don't they all come North, where they could
+have a fair chance?" As she was told "the reason why," she grew full
+of sympathy and interest, and was even more eager than the others in
+suggestions and inquiries. But when they were told of what had
+already been done by the American Missionary Association and others
+toward establishing and maintaining schools and churches among them,
+of the devoted missionaries and teachers that had carried already so
+much of comfort and help into their sad lives, of the steady upward
+progress they were making in knowledge and intelligence, in the
+acquirement of homes and ability to care for themselves, all seemed
+to appreciate as never before the importance of the work that is
+being done in the South.
+
+The distant whistle of the train surprised them all, and as they
+crowded about the missionary to take her hand and bid her God speed
+in her blessed work, one woman said: "I used to give pennies to the
+work of the A. M. A., but they shall be dollars now."
+
+  MRS. A. W. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE.
+
+BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER
+
+
+Little Ida had been invited to attend a party made by white children
+at the school house. To her mother's mind the question of her going
+turned on her having a scarlet sash to wear. By the kindness of a
+child in the family where Ida and her mother, who figures in our
+story as "Aunt Chloe," had their home, the want was finally met.
+
+Now for the story of the scarlet sash, after it became Ida's
+property. She wore it to the party, where she laughed and sang, and
+played games, and looked like a poppy among the roses. She behaved
+very politely, too, like a well-trained child whose mother had lived
+in the "fust families."
+
+After that, she wore it in church and to Sunday-school. It looped
+itself beautifully over her best, brown striped dress, and gave her
+the sense of being equal in appearance with the other children.
+
+Miss Raymond, her teacher, told me that Ida really seemed to
+understand the lesson better, and to take more interest in reciting
+her golden text, after she came into possession of her precious sash.
+It was so thick and soft and rich; it felt so nice to the little
+black fingers, which every now and then stroked it lovingly. I am
+sure the sash was a means of grace to Ida.
+
+Children who have everything they want, who are clothed in purple and
+fine linen every day, cannot imagine how much delight a poor child
+sometimes takes in an innocent bit of finery.
+
+Now, I want to tell you what became of the sash at last.
+
+One day the superintendent at the Sunday-school asked the children to
+come to order, because a lady was about to talk to them.
+
+The lady was a missionary; her work had been somewhere a great way
+off, among people who had hardly any money, and had a great deal of
+trouble to get bread and meat. Their minister, the lady said, had to
+live in a house dug right out of the side of a hill. She had lived in
+such a little bit of a house herself for a great many weeks. Poor as
+these people were, they had built a little church, and were trying
+very hard to pay for it. They had not any singing-books nor Bibles
+for their Sunday-school, nor any library-books; but the children
+thought nothing of walking five miles or more to go to Sunday-school.
+
+What would the children here in this lovely room give for those
+children in the far, far West?
+
+It happened that Ida's teacher had lately talked to her class about
+the meanness of giving to the Lord that which it cost them nothing to
+give. So when the collection-box was passed around, they dropped in
+their pennies and silver-pieces, and those who had nothing with them
+were told to bring their share on the next Sunday. And some of them
+began to plan their little sacrifices.
+
+Ida's dusky face was a study. Once or twice she paused, irresolute.
+At last, when school was over, she whispered;
+
+"Teacher, may I stay a moment?"
+
+"Yes, dear," said Miss Raymond.
+
+When the two were by themselves in the little half-circle where their
+class usually sat, Ida, with trembling hands, untied the beloved
+sash, and, laying it on her teacher's lap, said, "Please, Miss
+Raymond, this is the prettiest thing I've got, and I want to send it
+to the children who haven't any Bibles."
+
+"But the sash will do them no good, Ida."
+
+"The worf of it will," replied the child; "and it's worf free
+dollars, any way; mammy said so."
+
+Ida stooped down and kissed it; it was not giving what cost her
+nothing to part with her treasured ribbon.
+
+Mass Raymond took it with a tender look, rolled it up and carried it
+home.
+
+One evening, in her parlor, she told its story to a party of young
+people, and then remarked: "The sash ought to bring more than three
+dollars, when that little black girl gave it up so cheerfully."
+
+In a few moments there lay a little pile of silver and paper on the
+centre table, and Ida's sash had brought eight dollars for the good
+cause. Before the week was over it had gone from hand to hand, and
+the eight dollars became twenty without much difficulty.
+
+Fanny said she thought we ought to send the sash back to Ida, or give
+her another one; but no, that would have taken the sweetness from her
+self-denial.
+
+She came to school without her ribbon, having been scolded by Aunt
+Chloe, who could not understand her action, and thought it great
+folly; but all winter long there was a brave light in Ida's dark
+face, and a contented expression in her eyes. She had given the
+scarlet sash for Christ's sake, and he had blessed her deed, and
+owned her as one of his little ones. Happy Ida!
+
+     ABRIDGED FROM S. S. TIMES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1885.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MAINE, $278.87.
+
+  Augusta. Mrs. Skeeles' S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           $1.00
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong.
+    Ch., 20.32                                              95.32
+  Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                                40.00
+  Bethel. First Cong. Ch.                                    4.55
+  Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker                                5.00
+  Limington. "A. B."                                         2.00
+  North Bridgeton. Miss Proctor's Sch., _for Wilmington,
+    N. C._                                                   1.00
+  Norway. Ladies, bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Saint Albans. Mrs. W. S. Sewall and family                 1.50
+  Skowhegan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by A. L. Colby, Treas.     8.00
+  South Berwick. Mrs. Hodgkins' S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      14.00
+  South Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     6.50
+  Union. Cong Ch., 4; Ladies' Soc., 4                        8.00
+  Waterford. Centre Ch. Sab. Sch.                           10.00
+  By Mrs. J. P. Hubbard, Treas. Woman's Aux., _for
+    Missionary, Selma, Ala._ Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy,
+    3.--Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.--Casco, Mrs. Mayberry,
+    1.--Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.--Orland, Ch., by
+    Miss Buck, 23.--Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S.
+    Longfellow, 2                                           82.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60.
+
+  Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  10.61
+  Bedford. Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., _for Talladega
+    C._
+  Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.25
+  East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, _for Missionary, Austin,
+    Tex._                                                   20.00
+  Franklin. Mrs. R. C. Andrews, _for Indian M._              5.00
+  London. K. S. Price                                        5.00
+  Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00
+  Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.                           105.04
+  Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               15.70
+
+
+VERMONT, $537.36.
+
+  Bakersfield. By Mrs. J. A. Perkins, _for Missionary,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                           5.75
+  Brattleborough. E. Crosby & Co., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               31.00
+  Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                    17.61
+  Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                               19.85
+  Granby. Mrs. Nancy Appleton                                5.00
+  Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      15.00
+  Manchester. "A Friend"                                     5.00
+  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, pkg. C., 1.25 _Freight,
+    for Atlanta U._                                          1.25
+  Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            60.44
+  Newbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., 1.70
+    _Freight, for Atlanta U._                                1.70
+  New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.66
+  Plymouth. Coll. at Furnace                                  .69
+  Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.05
+  Townshend. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MRS. C. C. TAFT
+    L. M.                                                   25.76
+  Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00
+  Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. D. L. RAY
+    L. M.                                                   30.00
+  Ladies of Vermont, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, _for
+    McIntosh, Ga._, Benson, 10.--Bethel (5 of which for
+    building fund), 10.75--Bridport, 33.--Braintree,
+    5.--Charlotte, 30.25--East Hardwick (3 of which from
+    Young Ladies' Aid Soc.), 10.25--Fairlee, 11.--Franklin,
+    5.40.--New Haven, 25.06.--Newport, ad'l, 1.16.--North
+    Troy, 1.--Quechee, 1.--Saint Albans, 15.--Saint
+    Johnsbury, ad'l, 2.54.--Sharon, 10.--Swanton,
+    15.25.--West Rutland, 16.10.--Total, 202.76 (less
+    11.16 expenses)                                        191.60
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $3,636.44.
+
+  Alford and West Stockbridge Centre, Cong Ch's.             2.93
+  Amesbury. Cong. Ch.                                        9.00
+  Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+  Andover. Free Christian Church, 100, to const. MRS.
+    RUTH F. EMERSON, MRS. AGNES B. DONALD and BENJ. W.
+    FARNUM L. M's; Chapel, Ch. and Soc., 81                181.00
+  Athol. Evangelical Ch.                                    75.00
+
+  Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 539.14; Union Ch. and
+    Soc., 107.32; Park Street Ch. and Soc., ad'l, 10;
+    "Friend," _for Indian M._, 10; Mrs. E. P Eayrs,
+    5--Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+    Student Aid, Straight U._, 50--Charlestown.
+    Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 72.74--Chelsea. Woman's
+    Union Home M. Band, _for Missionary,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._, 60--Dorchester. Sab. Sch.
+    Class, Second Ch., _for Indian M., Dakota_, 1.58;
+    Mrs. E. J. W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,
+    50--Roxbury. Eliot Ch. and Soc.,
+    75.51--Somerville. Winter Hill Ch. and Soc., 20;
+    Henry Howard, 20; Broadway Ch. and Soc., 17.41;
+    M. P. Elliott, _Freight_, 2                          1,040.70
+
+  Bernardston. Miss M. L. Newcomb, 60.00, _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._; 20.00, _for Share_          80.00
+  Danvers Centre. Missionary Soc., Box S. S
+    Supplies, _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         160.71
+  East Bridgewater. Union Ch.                               32.23
+  East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.86
+  Fall River. Pastoral Aid Soc. of Central Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega, C._                        10.00
+  Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         25.00
+  Georgetown, First Cong Ch. and Soc.                       46.84
+  Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ELLIS
+    P. HARLOW L. M.                                         30.00
+  Hardwick. First Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                   5.00
+  Harvard. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Share_               20.00
+  Haverhill. D. Crowell's Bible Class, Centre Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              30.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              61.10
+  Holliston. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; Clothing,
+    val. 1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  6.00
+  Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       19.00
+  Lakeville. Precinct Ch.                                   53.00
+  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00
+  Littleton. "Friends," for Atlanta U.                      10.00
+  Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          52.96
+  Medway. Mrs. Geo. M. Richardson, _for Wilmington,
+    N. C., Freight_                                          1.00
+  Montague. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00
+  New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.                              52.00
+  Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., 77.30, to const.
+    JOSHUA HALE, JR., and JOSEPH H. CURRIER, L. M's;
+    North Ch., 68.65                                       145.95
+  Newton. Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Soc., _for Share_          20.00
+  Newton. Miss Annie Boyden, 2 bbls. of C., etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   74.10
+  Northampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                52.38
+  Northampton. "A Friend," 50; Cong. Ch., 25                75.00
+  Northampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Share_             20.00
+  Northampton. Miss J. B. Kingsley, _for Indian M._          1.00
+  North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           4.50
+  North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                      15.33
+  Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.29
+  Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00
+  Rutland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.15
+  Salem. Tabernacle Ch and Soc.                            320.81
+  Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._          10.00
+  Saugus. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.00
+  Shelburne Falls. Mrs. J. A. Richmond                       2.00
+  South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.                         87.30
+  South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 47.00
+  Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                       3.00
+  Springfield. "A Friend"                                    5.00
+  Topsfield. Mrs. Ephraim Perkins                            4.00
+  Ware. Livingston Band, _for Indian M., Fort Sul'y_        20.00
+  Watertown. Friend                                          1.00
+  Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Mission Soc. _for
+    Freight_                                                 2.00
+  Westfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            5.45
+  Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.                         44.26
+  Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     50.00
+  Whitinsville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle of Cong. Ch., box
+    of C., _for Macon, Ga._; 10 _for Freight_               10.00
+  Williamsburg. Ladies' Sew. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           40.00
+  Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   25.00
+  Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      93.55
+  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. Circle, _for Fisk University
+    Freight_                                                 1.50
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         100.00
+  By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n.
+    Holyoke, Second, 28.24--Palmer, 20--Springfield.
+    Olivet, 35.30; Mrs Edw. Clarke, 5; North Sab.
+    Sch., _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._, 25            113.54
+
+  CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+    MAINE--Farmington. Ladies' Soc.,
+    Bbl.--MASSACHUSETTS--Chelsea. W. H. M Band, bdl.
+    Papers--Hyde Park, W. H. M. Soc., bbl., _for
+    Jonesboro, Tenn._--Medway, Ladies' B. Soc., bbl.,
+    _for Wilmington, N. C._--Newton, Ladies' F. A.
+    Soc., bbl., _for Macon, Ga._--Somerville, Matthew
+    P. Elliot, pkg. Hats, _for Atlanta U._, Val.
+    50--Waquoit. Rev. Joshua Gay, box
+    Books--Westborough. Ladies' F. M. Soc.,
+    bbl.--Worcester, Ladies' B. U. of Piedmont Ch.,
+    bbl., _for Marietta, Ga._, Val. 50--Yarmouth,
+    Ladies' Sew. Circle, bbl., _for Fisk U._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $2.00.
+
+  Central Falls. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards, bbl. of Goods,
+    2 _Freight_                                              2.00
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,563.47.
+
+  Abington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.00
+  Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.                                  22.52
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     40.00
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," cask of C., etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bozrah. Cong Ch.                                           4.00
+  Bridgeport. "Cheerful Workers," _for Share_               22.00
+  Bridgeport. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wheeler & Wilson Sew.
+    Machine, _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Bridgeport. Miss Carrie Wood, box Bedding, etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith                                  1.50
+  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Conn. Sch. Quitman, Ga._  30.00
+  Darien. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_            10.00
+  East Hampton. Dea. Skinner, _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                      5.00
+  Gilead. Cong. Ch.                                         15.60
+  Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 50; Cong. Ch., 3.50            53.50
+  Hartford. Mrs. Catharine B. Hillyer, 30, to const.
+    LUCY TUDOR HILLYER L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Sab.
+    Sch., 10                                                40.00
+  Hartford. Centre Ch., 2 bbls. Bedding and C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills                               30.00
+  Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                                   27.30
+  New Britain. South Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES
+    PECK, GEO. P. ROCKWELL, OLIVER STANLEY, REV. CHAS
+    E. STEELE, JOHN B. TALCOTT and DEA. JOHN WIARD
+    L. M's                                                 192.88
+  New Haven. First Ch.                                     204.89
+  North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                                 41.85
+  Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 15.65, and Sab. Sch., 15              30.65
+  Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.50
+  Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.36
+  West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.00
+  Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      19.00
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         600.93
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,436.48
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Hartford. Estate of Dr. John R. Lee, by John
+    Hooker, Ex.                                            126.99
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,563.47
+
+
+NEW YORK, $2,499.90.
+
+  Albany. First Cong. Ch., 120.73; Chas. A. Beach, 25      145.73
+  Albion. Miss H. M. Woodward, _for Wilmington, N. C._       1.75
+  Bergen. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.50
+    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 429.06; Julius
+    Davenport, 100; South Cong. Ch., 50; "A Friend"
+    30, to const. MISS ELIZABETH CLEVELAND L. M.           609.06
+  Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey                              5.00
+  Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                          5.00
+  Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby                               1.00
+  Leroy. Mrs. A. McEwen                                      5.00
+  Lima. "A Friend"                                           2.00
+  New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; Gen. Clinton B.
+    Fisk, 30, to const. Mrs. LURETTA C. STICKEL L. M.      130.00
+  New York. Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 100; Rev. D. Stuart
+    Dodge, 100, _for Atlanta U._                           200.00
+  New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             25.00
+  Northville. Cong. Sab. Sch.          12.00
+  Perry Centre. Cong. Ch., 30, to const. MRS.
+    WILLIAM R. BATHRICK L. M.; R. J. Booth, pkg.
+    Papers                                                  30.00
+  Rushville. Cong. Ch.                                       4.57
+  Rutland. First Cong. Ch.                                   9.69
+  Saratoga. Miss F. A. Marvin, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            2.00
+  Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35.37; "Friends," 35,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         70.37
+  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Sab. Sch., _for Share_      20.00
+  Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.                               24.19
+  West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._)                                          81.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,395.86
+
+  LEGACIES.
+
+  New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, _for Atlanta U._       100.00
+  North Winfield. Estate of Miss E. Jane Alexander,
+    by Thomas E. Harrison and Olive E. Harrison, Exs.      500.00
+  Norwich. Estate of John Foote (90 of which to
+    const. MARY C. FOOTE, ACHSA S. FOOTE and SUSAN L.
+    PECK L. M.'s.), by John Mitchell, Ex.                  504.04
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $2,499.90
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $489.49.
+
+  Arlington. "A Friend."                                     2.00
+  Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    11.49
+  Maywood. E. K. Breckenridge                               20.00
+  Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const.
+    REV. JAMES POWELL, D. D., L. M.)                       376.00
+  Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._                       75.00
+  Montclair. Mrs Pratt's S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            5.00
+  Morristown. Miss Julia Dodge, half bbl. Papers, _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $77.10.
+
+  Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.                           28.20
+  Ridgway. "C. D. O."                                         .50
+  Scranton. Miss Sarah E. Hawley                            10.00
+  Shoemakertown. Cheltenham Academy, bbl. Boys' C., _for
+    Wilmington, N. C._
+  West Alexander. Jane C. Davidson                          38.40
+
+
+OHIO, $1,704.39.
+
+  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         6.78
+  Austinburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., _for
+    Fisk U._, 1.17 _for Freight_                             1.17
+  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 11.46; Mrs. Charlotte
+    Ruggles, 2                                              13.46
+  Cleveland. Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Euclid Av. Cong.
+    Ch., _for Missionary, Santee Agency_                    20.00
+  Conneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00
+  Elyria. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. E.
+    W. METCALF L. M.)                                      500.00
+  Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                    5.58
+  Freedom. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab Sch., 5                       15.00
+  Hudson. Cong. Ch., adl. _for Straight U._                   .50
+  Marietta. Miss M. B. Diamond, pkg. of C., _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  New Concord. Wm. Lee, Sen.                                 2.00
+  Norwalk and Peru. By Rev. H. Lawrence, box and
+    bbl. Bibles, Testaments, etc., _for Talladega C._
+  Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                  79.10
+  Oberlin. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 50 copies "Manual
+    of Praise," _for Chapel, Talladega C._
+  Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.                                    23.80
+  Wakeman. Cong. Ch.                                        14.00
+  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   13.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $704.39
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Austinburg. Estate of L. B. Austin, by William
+    Pulis, Ex.                                           1,000.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,704.39
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $681.09.
+
+  Chicago. Fist Cong. Ch., 100; N. E. Cong. Ch.,
+    44.03; South Cong. Ch., 34.83; Y. L. Miss'y Soc.
+    of N. E. Cong. Ch., 25.20                              204.06
+  Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00
+  Cobden. C. C. Wright                                       5.00
+  Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00
+  Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean                                      2.00
+  Geneseo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionaries_          55.00
+  Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ                              50.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       29.00
+  Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch.                                        20.00
+  Kewanee. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                        5.00
+  La Grange. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00
+  Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Terry, _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Lewiston. Mrs. Myron Phelps                               50.00
+  Lowell. V. G. Lutz                                         5.00
+  Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         13.00
+  Marseilles. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Missionary_         10.50
+  Mendon. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           21.00
+  Neponset. Cong. Ch.                                        6.20
+  Oak Park. Mrs. A. Ridell                                   2.00
+  Payson. Miss Lizzie Scarborough, _for Missionaries_       10.00
+  Peoria. Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., box of C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Rockford. A. D. Forbes                                    10.00
+  Rosemond. "Busy Bee Soc"                                   1.67
+  Seward. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
+    Missionaries_                                            6.00
+  Shirland. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00
+  Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                16.66
+  Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                   10.00
+  Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       17.00
+  Winnebago. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                     15.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $213.59.
+
+  Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     50.00
+  Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_                 20.00
+  Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00
+  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstacke_                                             20.00
+  Grass Lake. Union Meeting, _for Straight U._              21.03
+  Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mrs. H. Ralston                                  .50
+  Jackson. Mrs. L. H. Field, _for Straight U._               2.00
+  Lake Lynden. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           10.00
+  Litchfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
+    Share_                                                  12.50
+  Manistee. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00
+  Mattawan. First Cong. Ch.                                  2.60
+  Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          4.06
+  Reed City. Cong. Ch.                                       4.35
+  Romeo. Mrs. E. A. Berry, _for Straight U._                 1.00
+  Saint Joseph. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. (5 of which _for
+    Missionary, Indian M._)                                 10.00
+  Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        20.55
+
+
+IOWA, $1,019.41.
+
+  Afton. Ladies of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00
+  Algona. A. Zahlten                                        10.00
+  Anamosa. Women's Freedmen's Soc., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           15.00
+  Creston. Mrs. N. H. Whittlesey, _for Missionary,
+    New Orleans, La._                                        2.00
+  Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, 50; Young Ladies'
+    Miss'y Soc., 25; _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;
+    Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._                          75.00
+  Des Moines. Young People of Plym. Ch., _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._                              50.00
+  Des Moines. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. G. Otis, _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       28.18
+  Hawthorne. Rev. N. H. Blackmer                             4.00
+  Iowa City. Cong Ch.                                       46.45
+  Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                      17.75
+  Marshalltown. "A Friend."                                 10.00
+  Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      65.25
+  Rock Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  Tipton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.                   5.00
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Mrs. Geo. W. Reynolds, Treas.,
+    _for Missionary, New Orleans La._ Charles City,
+    10.--Chester Centre, 7.--Davenport,
+    24.25.--Grinnell, 80.--New Hampton, 5, Children's
+    Soc., 3.--North Des Moines, Mrs. St. John,
+    1.--Osage, 10.--Waterloo, 10.50                        150.75
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Ella E. Marsh, Treas., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._ Eldora, 2.50.--Iowa
+    Falls, 1.03.--Otho, 4.50.--Tabor, 15.--Webster
+    City, 2                                                 25.03
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $519.41
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Burlington. Estate of David Leonard, by Mrs. Mary
+    S. Leonard, Executrix                                  500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,019.41
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $751.29.
+
+  Clinton. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                            2.20
+  Geneva. Rev. J. K. Kilbourn, box of Books, etc.,
+    _for Macon Ga._, 3 _for Freight_                         3.00
+  La Crosse. Cong. Ch.                                      75.65
+  Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard                              15.00
+  Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.70
+  Madison. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           25.00
+  Milwaukee. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                18.34
+  Neenah. E. B. Ranney                                      40.00
+  Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Pulpit Bible, and 2
+    Books, _for Macon, Ga._
+  Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      28.40
+  Shopiere. Cong. Sab Sch.                                  12.00
+  Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall                               1.00
+  Waukesha. Young People's Miss'y. Soc. _for Share_         20.00
+  Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor                                  5.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $251.29
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Monroe. Estate of Mrs. Orrissa Rood, by J. L. Rood,
+    Ex.                                                    500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $751.29
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $20.60.
+
+  Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                    18.35
+  Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        2.25
+
+
+MISSOURI, $31.70.
+
+  Kirkville. J. S. Blackman                                  4.00
+  Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.                              27.70
+
+
+KANSAS, $72.84.
+
+  Cora. Cong. Ch.                                           12.00
+  Manhattan. "Friend."                                      10.00
+  Reno Centre. First Ch. of Christ                           2.77
+  Topeka. Tuition                                           17.07
+  Manhattan. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS CLARA CASTLE
+    L. M.                                                   31.00
+
+
+COLORADO, $8.70.
+
+  Highland Lake. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. (4.25 of
+    which _for Chinese M._)                                  8.70
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $42.97.
+
+  Albion. Cong. Ch.                                          7.30
+  Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.45
+  Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                    1.70
+  Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                      12.52
+  South Bend. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        5.00
+  Stanton. Mrs. Laura E. Dada                                5.00
+  Steele City. Cong. Ch.                                     6.00
+
+
+DAKOTA, $3.00.
+
+  Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00
+
+
+WASHINGTON TER., $2.75.
+
+  Cheyenne. "A Friend."                                      2.75
+
+
+WYOMING TER., $22.00.
+
+  Cheyenne, First Cong. Ch.                                 22.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $13.00.
+
+  Arcata. "A Friend"                                         5.00
+  Elk Creek. J. E. Lee                                       8.00
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $140.65.
+
+  Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              127.15
+  Washington. Howard U., Mon. Con. Coll.                    13.50
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $175.77.
+
+  Lexington. Tuition, 63.25; Rent, 2.77                     66.02
+  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     71.75
+  Woodbine. Tuition                                         38.00
+
+
+VIRGINIA, $8.55.
+
+  Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         8.55
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $781.81.
+
+  Jellico. Tuition                                          41.00
+  Jonesboro. Tuition                                         3.50
+  Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00
+  Maryville. Mrs. R. A. Frame, _for Maryville, Tenn.,
+    Freight_                                                 1.75
+  Memphis. Tuition                                         269.70
+  Nashville. Tuition, 396.86; Jackson St. Cong. Ch., 5     401.86
+  Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. C. Bennett, _for Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                                  50.00
+  Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                   2.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $251.20.
+
+  Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+  Wilmington. Tuition, 200.20; Cong. Ch., 10               210.20
+  Wilmington. Odd Minutes Miss'y Soc., 20; "Willing
+    Workers," 20; _for Indian M._                           40.00
+
+
+SOUTH CAROLINA, $319.50.
+
+  Charleston. Tuition, 304.50; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 15      319.50
+
+
+GEORGIA, $653.58.
+
+  Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                            264.95
+  Dalton. Rev. Milton Rowley, box Books, etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Macon. Tuition, 172.70; Rent, 4; Cong Ch., 16.05         192.75
+  Macon. Prof. A. J. Burger, Pulpit Bible _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  McIntosh. Tuition, 22.38; Rent, 1.50                      23.88
+  Savannah. Tuition, 152; Cong. Ch., 20                    172.00
+
+
+ALABAMA, $418.72.
+
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00
+  Mobile. Tuition                                          187.70
+  Mobile. Woman's H. M. Ass'n for _Missionary, Fort
+    Berthold_                                               10.00
+  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     25.00
+  Selma. First Cong. Ch., 14.75: Sab. Sch., 10; Mr. and
+    Mrs. E. C. Silsby, 10                                   34.75
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, _for Indian M._              15.00
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama                     5.00
+  Talladega. Tuition, 96; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15.27           111.27
+  Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Share_               20.00
+
+
+FLORIDA, $10.00.
+
+  Saint Augustine. Rent                                     10.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $36.00.
+
+  Tougaloo. Tuition                                         36.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $245.05.
+
+  Austin. Tuition                                          235.05
+  Fort Worth. M. Marty                                      10.00
+
+
+INCOMES, $462.50.
+
+  Avery Fund, for _Mendi M._                               300.00
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                       102.50
+  Luke Mem. Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._            10.20
+  Mrs. N. M. & Miss Abbie Stone Scholarship Fund, _for
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Straight U. Fund, _for Straight U._                       20.00
+  Yale Library Fund, for _Talladega C._                      4.80
+
+
+CANADA, $5.00.
+
+  Canada, Montreal. "C. A."                                  5.00
+                                                     ------------
+
+  Total for May                                        $17,372.89
+  Total from Oct. 1 to May 31                          158,757.17
+                                                     ============
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions for May                                    49.14
+  Previously acknowledged                                 969.94
+                                                      ----------
+  Total                                                $1,019.08
+                                                      ==========
+
+  H. W. Hubbard, Treas.,
+  56 Reade St., N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LUNDBORG'S PERFUMES.
+
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Edenia.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Marêchal Niel Rose.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Alpine Violet.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Lily of the Valley.
+
+
+LUNDBORG'S RHENISH COLOGNE.
+
+  A box containing Samples of all the above five articles prepaid
+  to your nearest Railroad Express Office (which should be named)
+  for Fifty Cents--Money Order, Stamps or Currency.
+
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+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary--Volume 39,
+No. 07, July, 1885, by Various
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+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 536px;">
+<img src="images/title.jpg" width="536" height="409" alt="The American Missionary, VOL. XXXIX, NO. 7, July, 1885." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">EDITORIAL.</div>
+<span class="linenum"><span class="smcap">Page.</span></span><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Figures&mdash;Financial</span><span class="linenum"><a href='#Page_187'>187</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Exercise of Benevolence</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_188'>188</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Colored People at the New Orleans Exposition.</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_189'>189</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Paragraphs</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_191'>191</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Congregational Association of Ohio&mdash;Grave of Lovejoy&mdash;What</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Shall We Do With the Chinese?</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_192'>192</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">THE SOUTH.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">Fisk University</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_195'>195</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Anniversary at Hampton Institute</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_196'>196</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Gregory Institute</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_198'>198</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Religious Interest at Talladega</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_199'>199</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Letter From Rev. J. H. Parr, Austin&mdash;The Old Commissary Building</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_201'>201</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Student's Letter</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_202'>202</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Obituary: Mrs. H. M. Stevens</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_203'>203</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Obituary: Miss O. E. Goodridge</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_204'>204</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">State Organizations&mdash;Vermont School at McIntosh, Ga.&mdash;Illinois</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2"> Home Miss. Union</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_205'>205</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">A True Incident</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_206'>206</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">CHILDREN'S PAGE.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Little Black Girl's Sacrifice</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_207'>207</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">RECEIPTS</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_208'>208</a> </span><br />
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+NEW YORK:<br />
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br />
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br />
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">President</span>, Hon. <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Washburn, LL. D.</span>, Mass.</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Vice-Presidents.</i><br /></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Goodell, D. D.</span>, Mo.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble, D. D.</span>, Ill.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">A. J. F. Behrends, D. D.</span>, N. Y.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie, D. D.</span>, Mass.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">D. O. Mears, D. D.</span>, Mass.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Corresponding Secretary.</i><br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">M. E. Strieby, D .D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Assistant Corresponding Secretary.</i><br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">James Powell, D. D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Treasurer.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">H. W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Auditors.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">W. H. Rogers,</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Peter McCartee</span>.</span>
+<br /><br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Executive Committee.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>, Secretary.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;"><i>For Three Years.</i></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>For Two Years.</i></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>For One Year.</i></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;"><span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3.75em;"><span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">J. R. Danforth.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;"><span class="smcap">J. L. Withrow</span>.</span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 4.75em;"><span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3.25em;"><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. P. Foster.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 6.25em;"><span class="smcap">Elbert B. Monroe.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Edmund L. Champlin.</span></span><br />
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>District Secretaries.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Woodworth, D. D.</span>, <i>21 Cong'l House, Boston</i>.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Roy, D. D.</span>, <i>112 West Washington Street, Chicago</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">Charles W. Shelton</span>, <i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center"><i>Field Officer.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Prof. <span class="smcap">Albert Salisbury</span>, <i>Superintendent of Education</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">
+<i>Bureau of Woman's Work.</i><br />
+<i>Secretary</i>, Miss <span class="smcap">D. E. Emerson</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h4>COMMUNICATIONS</h4>
+
+<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary: those relating to the collecting fields, to
+Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for
+the "American Missionary," to the Editor, at the New York Office.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h4>
+
+<p>May be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.</p>
+
+<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4>
+
+<p>"I <span class="smcap">bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+<h1>
+  <span class="small">THE</span><br /><span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>
+</h1>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+<table width="60%" summary="Title" align="center">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXIX.</b></td>
+    <td align="center" width="50%"><b>JULY, 1885.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 7.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="center large">American Missionary Association.</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center large">
+<b>$365,000</b>
+<br /><br />
+NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p class="large">Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a
+day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized
+plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the
+pressing needs of the early future.&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="right">
+[<span class="smcap">Finance Committee's Report Adopted by Annual Meeting at Salem</span>.]
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>THE FIGURES.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="The Figures">
+
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><i>Receipts.</i></td>
+<td align="right">Donations.&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="right">Legacies.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="right">Total.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Oct. 1, 1884, to May 31, 1885</td>
+<td align="right">$136,972.82</td>
+<td align="right">$21,784.35</td>
+<td align="right">$158,757.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Oct. 1, 1883, to May 31, 1884</td>
+<td align="right">132,507.66</td>
+<td align="right">21,710.40</td>
+<td align="right">154,218.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $4,465.16 </td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $73.95</td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $4,539.11</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Our financial storm signal is still out. That threatening forty
+thousand dollars' deficit does not let up in its indications of
+approach. The black clouds are plainly discernible. We have been for
+months anxiously watching their movements. Our prayers and efforts
+have been steadily turned towards their dissipation. We do not lose
+faith. We believe in our work. We believe in our friends. The work
+has merit. Our friends have ability. The two will come together and
+the merit will cause the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> ability to stand forth. There are many
+things very decidedly encouraging.</p>
+
+<p>Never in all our history has the work been more abundantly blessed.
+Our schools have been crowded and God's Spirit has come down in great
+power upon the hearts of our pupils. In one school the revival
+character of the religious services had to cease, because there were
+none left to be converted! Our churches have been revived and
+enlarged. A spirit of joy and thankfulness is in the hearts of our
+missionaries.</p>
+
+<p>Notwithstanding the hard times, our receipts from the churches and
+living donors are larger by several thousand dollars than they were
+at this time last year. These facts are the indications of a living
+cause and an able constituency. They call upon us to lift our heads
+in hope and to inspire one another to still greater activity, and, if
+need be, to self-denial. We have no legacies in sight, and we
+certainly do not desire our friends to die. Our prayer is that they
+may live; that they may live long. Apart from their gifts in money we
+desire the strength and the grandeur of their lives to aid us in
+carrying forward the great and growing work on hand. We again call
+upon them to help us round out this year without a debt.</p>
+
+<p>We take the liberty to point out one way in which they can do this.</p>
+
+<p>Our missionaries are, many of them, returning at this time of year
+for a brief rest at the North. They need it. They have earned it. It
+may seem wrong to tax these brave workers, but we venture to say that
+if they are invited to tell the public the story of their experience
+they will not refuse to do it; and we venture to say further, it will
+be a story the public will be glad to hear. Let them have a royal
+welcome home by the churches. In the language of Rev. Sam Jones, the
+noted Southern Evangelist, as he counseled the churches to receive
+the new converts, "Let it not be on the tips of your fingers or on
+the palms of your hands you receive them, but, on your hearts," and
+God will bless the welcome to the churches, to the missionaries and
+to the work. Hear their story, heed its lessons, and it will not be
+long before the clouds shall roll away and our financial storm-signal
+be taken down.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>The exercise of benevolence Christ never conditioned on human
+recognition. The publicans and heathen furnished examples on that
+plane. When Christianity uncovers its roots there is never anything
+commercial even hinted at. Sinners need salvation. That is enough.
+Divine love moves in the presence of necessity. Its movement is
+electric. Even if ingratitude smite it in the face; nay, worse, if
+malignancy would summon forces for its crucifixion, without relaxing
+an iota it breathes the prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know
+not what they do." Unswervingly Christ held along, doing right
+because it was right. Passion in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
+lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
+Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> when He saw the
+people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
+forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
+the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
+righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
+not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
+the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.</p>
+
+<p>It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as did
+the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that shall
+sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty. Opposition
+may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men may oppose
+them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
+misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
+it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
+work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
+development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
+doing.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.</h3>
+
+<p>The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
+the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
+hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
+homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
+Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
+millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
+enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
+improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
+there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
+company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
+would seem absurd.</p>
+
+<p>But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
+They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
+immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
+their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
+and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
+department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
+in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
+arts, were all displayed to a remarkable degree in the large
+collection. Southerners and Northerners were alike astonished at what
+their eyes beheld. Those who thought that the negro has no higher
+mission than to be a "hewer of wood and drawer of water," were
+compelled either to change their minds or else to say they did not
+believe that the colored people did the work. It was amusing to hear
+the remarks of some of the latter class, as they looked at some
+beautiful specimens of negro handicraft or ingenuity.</p>
+
+<p>It may interest the readers of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> to glance at the great
+variety of lines along which negro ability put itself on exhibition.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></p>
+<p>Examination papers from schools were very numerous, showing
+proficiency in penmanship, spelling, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
+free drawing, grammar and translations from the classics; fine
+needlework of all kinds; millinery; dress-making, tailoring; portrait
+and landscape painting in oil, water-colors and crayon; photography;
+sculpture; models of steamboats, locomotives, stationary engines, and
+railway cars; cotton presses, plows, cultivators, and reaping
+machines; wagons, buggies; tools of almost all kinds, from the hammer
+of the carpenter to the finely-wrought forceps of the dentist; piano
+and organ (both pipe and reed) making; carpentry, cabinet-making;
+upholstery; tin-smithing; black-smithing, boot and shoe making;
+basket and broom making; pottery, plain and glazed; brick-making;
+agricultural products, including all the cereals and fruits raised in
+the country; silk-worm culture; fruit preserving; flour from a mill,
+and machinery from a foundry owned by a colored man; patented
+inventions and improvements, nearly all of them useful and practical,
+were quite numerous; drugs and medicines; stationery, printing and
+publishing.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the articles on exhibition are worthy of special mention&mdash;a
+black walnut pulpit, in design and finish as beautiful and tasteful
+as any church might wish; a sofa finely upholstered, and the covering
+embroidered with artistically-executed needlework, showing four
+prominent events in the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture; a chandelier,
+very beautiful in design and finely finished; a complete set of
+dentist's instruments, in polish and finish remarkable; a little
+engine, made by a silversmith of Knoxville, who was a slave, and who
+has become a skilled workman of local reputation. He never worked in
+a shop till he had one of his own. He learned the use of tools
+without any instruction. These articles would certainly merit
+attention, even if put in competition with similar specimens of the
+very best workmanship.</p>
+
+<p>Neither the negroes nor their friends have any reason to regret that
+an exhibit was made. It was in every sense of the word creditable. It
+marks a progress simply wonderful, when all the circumstances are
+taken into the account. It is prophetic of a very hopeful future. It
+demonstrates that the negro race can enter every profession and
+calling in which the white man is found. It proclaims in tones that
+no one should misunderstand, that he who writes or speaks of the
+colored people should be careful how he pronounces judgment in regard
+to their capacity. They should be given a white man's chance. No
+trade nor occupation should be closed against them. Open doors should
+welcome to honorable competition, white and black alike. Let this be
+so, and in less than half a century there will not be a trade, nor
+profession, nor calling, in which black men will not be found in the
+front. There will be preachers and professors, and editors, and
+physicians, and lawyers, and statesmen, and teachers, and bankers,
+and business men, and artisans, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> mechanics and farmers, of
+African descent, of whom, as brethren, the very greatest of white men
+will not need to be ashamed. Let writers on the negro stop theorizing
+about his capacity for this or that calling, and unite in demanding
+that he have a fair chance to become what God has made him capable of
+becoming. It is wrong, it is wicked for men who by voice and pen
+influence public sentiment, to conclude that because the negro is now
+a waiter, a boot-black, a barber, a laborer, that therefore he cannot
+be anything else, or even that he cannot probably be anything else.
+By the very force of circumstances he has been compelled to occupy
+these positions. By an unjust public sentiment he has been shut out
+from even an opportunity to prove his capacity to stand beside his
+white brother in every calling.</p>
+
+<p>Public sentiment should be reformed at this point; and the colored
+people's exhibition of what they have achieved in the short space of
+twenty years, in spite of opposition, and in spite of lack of
+opportunity, assures us that if they are permitted they will
+contribute no small share in securing the reformation. We advise all
+leaders of public sentiment who do not desire twenty-five or thirty
+years hence to be found eating their words of to-day, or explaining
+how it was that they came to be on ground so untenable, to heed the
+lessons of this Exposition, and range themselves with those who look
+at facts, and who recognize the prophetic power of facts, and
+heartily accept the prophecy, even if this prophecy run counter to
+what have been <i>their</i> fancies.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>The Colored People's Educational Day at the World's Exposition called
+out an immense crowd and proved to be of very great interest.
+Speeches were made by representatives of both races. Rev. Dr. Palmer,
+the eloquent Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, and Col. Wm.
+Preston Johnson, President of the Tulane University, represented the
+Louisiana whites, and in their speeches not only complimented the
+colored people on the progress they had made, but assured them of the
+hearty sympathy and co-operation of all good people in the South. The
+Rev. A. E. P. Albert, a graduate of our Straight University,
+represented the colored people. The newspapers published his speech
+in full. We have read it with much interest. It is a speech of
+considerable power. It is an honor to the man, to his race and to the
+A. M. A.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Our Student's Letter this month is from Talladega College. The
+memories it portrays are not pleasant, but it is fitting to remember
+the pit out of which we have been digged. The darkness of the picture
+makes the present opportunities and privileges of the colored people
+to shine out all the brighter. Heartily can we thank God that these
+terrible things are now only a memory.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO.</h3>
+
+
+<p>After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885,
+a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and
+Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the
+report, which was adopted:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary
+Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points
+of interest in the address. That is, that the American
+Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000,
+and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the
+end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that
+this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of
+mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment
+of this grand organization for years to come. It <i>need</i> not be;
+it <i>ought</i> not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
+it <i>will</i> not be. Your committee therefore propose this
+resolution:</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That we, the members of this association, will
+individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
+making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
+year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
+impending calamity.</p></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"&mdash;CORRECTION.</h3>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Editor American Missionary.&mdash;Dear Sir:</span> Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
+168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
+There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
+in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
+the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
+a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
+remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
+an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
+freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
+monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
+over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">H. L. Hammond.</span></div>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?</h3>
+
+
+<p>A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!</p>
+
+<p><i>Exclude them</i>, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
+problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
+and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
+became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
+America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
+it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
+before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
+immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.</p>
+
+<p>For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
+royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
+his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
+diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
+But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
+move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
+Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
+conducted upon Puget Sound in smuggling Chinese from Vancouver's
+Island to our forbidden soil. Certain it is that many Chinese,
+failing to get tickets at Hong Kong for San Francisco, buy them to
+Victoria. Already it becomes a serious question what fence can be
+built along our northern frontier so close, so strong, so high that
+no Chinese can anywhere climb over, or crawl under, or work through.
+Mexico wants the Chinese, we hear. How far is it from the northern
+line of Mexico to the southern line of California and Arizona? And
+once across that line our Chinese invaders, coming slyly one by one,
+have won the fight and go and come at their own pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>Exclusion has not solved this problem, and it is safe to add that, as
+it should not, so it never will. For this policy is in contradiction
+to the vital principles of our national existence; and either it must
+be abandoned, or sooner or later this contradiction will develop into
+conflict irrepressible. Those vital principles are two: "All men
+created equal," and "All men endowed with certain inalienable
+rights," etc. Our fathers counted them to be self-evident, and placed
+them as twin pillars in our temple of liberty. Now, a nation cannot
+knock out its own foundation stones, cannot defy the laws of its own
+organic life without becoming divided against itself; and in the
+conflict ensuing, either its vital principles will be reaffirmed and
+rehabilitated, or else the nation dies. We have had one lesson at
+this point, and we ought not to need another for a dozen centuries.
+Exclusion is only a make-shift of the politicians, not the offspring
+of real statesmanship. It has not solved the problem, and it never
+will.</p>
+
+<p>What then shall we do? Educate and Christianize these heathen, we
+reply: So you will make them to be Chinese no longer, but Americans.
+This is the right answer, but, alas, how much easier said than done!
+The undertaking, hard enough at first, grows harder, in some
+respects, as the years roll on.</p>
+
+<p>One added difficulty is the wider diffusion of these strangers over
+our whole country. The prejudice which their peculiarities excite is
+thus extended, while the number to be reached in any one locality is
+diminished. Work for the Chinese ought now to be prosecuted, not
+simply in Sunday schools, but in Mission schools, kept in session
+every evening and alt through the year in most of the principal
+cities of the whole Union, as well as on the Pacific Coast. But the
+outward and visible encouragements will be smaller, because each
+Mission finds its particular field reduced in size.</p>
+
+<p>Another added difficulty is in an increased and deepened antagonism
+on the part of the great mass of Chinese to real Christianity.
+Multitudes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> have seen enough of the true light to reject it; and
+having rejected, now to hate it. Oh, it drives one back to God in an
+agony of mingled longing and despair to see this mighty multitude
+that will not come and be saved, drifting along in darkness and
+wretchedness through this life to the blackness of darkness beyond!
+And this is intensified by the thought of the children now quite
+numerous in our Chinese communities. We know to what the daughters
+are destined. We know what it is that gives them, in this country, a
+special money value; and as to the sons, one can scarcely conceive
+circumstances more perilous than those in which they are placed.
+Breathing our free American air, entering readily into the Young
+America spirit, they will not brook the harsh discipline which, in
+their native land, would have been submissively and perhaps with
+profit accepted. At the same time, the parents ill understand that
+discipline of love which adjusts itself to these new circumstances,
+and when it can no longer compel, succeeds in wooing and winning and
+molding aright the boyish heart. Demons incarnate, both American and
+Chinese, tempt these boys, while they are unprotected by any
+reverence either for the ancestors and idols of their own people or
+for the American God whom Americans by their conduct so cruelly
+belie.</p>
+
+<p>And this suggests another added difficulty: the contrast which our
+Chinese Christians cannot but observe between the precepts of the
+Bible, the example of Christ, the exhortations of those who led them
+to Jesus, and the practices of multitudes of American professors of
+religion. And, too often, they are led to do as we do, and not as we
+say. While at the same time the indifference of many professed
+Christians to the salvation of this Chinese, and the attitude of many
+churches toward those already converted, loads the problem down with
+difficulties such as might well drive us to despair.</p>
+
+<p>But, no; nothing shall drive us to despair. This problem must be
+solved. This mountain mass of heathenism must be&mdash;not removed and
+cast into the sea, but transformed into the mountain of the Lord's
+house, and made an element&mdash;an element of untold value and
+efficiency&mdash;in our American Zion. Let us have faith as the grain of
+mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
+commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
+courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
+difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
+non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
+that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
+any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
+thing to do&mdash;for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
+of the uncounted millions beyond the sea&mdash;we must, and we will, claim
+and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Wm. C. Pond.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>THE SOUTH.</h2>
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.</div>
+
+
+<p>Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
+and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
+that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
+on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
+Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
+Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
+societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
+the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
+great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
+28.</p>
+
+<p>This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
+be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
+interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
+The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
+college has been one marked feature and a source of great
+encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
+into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
+two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
+the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
+before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
+yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
+growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
+young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
+only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart and
+purpose; of the present class three have fallen by the hand of death
+within the four years and only three have dropped out for other
+causes.</p>
+
+<p>Commencement day revealed in the tone of the graduating orations a
+moral earnestness and uprightness of principle that called forth the
+commendation of our stranger guests. The best record of the class,
+however, is in the influence its members have exerted in the school
+during the whole of their Senior year.</p>
+
+<p>It may be remembered that a year ago the Alumni Association adopted a
+plan by which, beginning three years after graduation, at least one
+per cent. of the earnings of each member is to be appropriated to an
+endowment fund for Fisk University. Whenever the sum reaches $1,000,
+it is to be devoted to some chair in the University. This year the
+Treasurer reported $140 on hand. The beginning seems small, but who
+can tell to what the stream may grow? Part of the Alumni anniversary
+was given up to a memorial service for one who, after six years of
+faithful work among her people, has died within the year.</p>
+
+<p>On the evening devoted to the Normal Department, Prof. Salisbury was
+expected to address us on some educational topic. In his absence,
+Prof. Smith, of the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University, kindly
+filled the place and gave us an excellent address on Thomas Carlyle.
+Prof. Smith is of Southern birth, but has manifested a cordial
+friendliness and an interest that has led him to really investigate
+the work of Fisk University.</p>
+
+<p>On Commencement Day, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D. D., of Minneapolis,
+Minn., honored us with his presence and with an address, both wise
+and eloquent, on "Sublime Motives," holding up three as especially
+worthy to prompt to action:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> responsibility for the architecture of
+our own character, responsibility for the development of latent moral
+power, and the conservation of moral forces.</p>
+
+<p>Few who heard it will forget the solemn charge given to the
+graduating class by President Cravath, illustrated by an incident, as
+told by the Rev. Sam. Jones, of the battle of Nashville. General Hood
+saw a Federal battery making dreadful havoc in his army, and sent to
+a subordinate general a messenger, saying, "Give him my compliments,
+and tell him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The
+general was in the thick of the battle and could not be found. The
+same message was sent to another with the same result. Finally to a
+third he sent the messenger, saying, "Give him my <i>love</i>, and tell
+him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The battery
+was speedily taken and the message of affection returned to General
+Hood. So are these young people sent out with the love of teachers
+and friends, to capture the batteries that are dealing moral death to
+this people.</p>
+
+<p>After the degree of B. A. had been conferred on the fifteen
+graduates, that of M. A. was given to fourteen former graduates, who
+for three years or more have been engaged in scholarly employments.</p>
+
+<p>To add to the interest of Commencement, Gen. Fisk arrived the evening
+before, and closed the public exercises of Thursday with an address,
+whose pleasantry made every one forget the fatigue of five
+consecutive hours of speech-making. Several members of the
+Legislature, now in extra session in the Capitol, were present both
+at the Commencement exercises and at the collation which followed.</p>
+
+<p>A new and interesting feature of this anniversary was the part taken
+by the Girls' Industrial Department. A basket of cake made by members
+of the cooking class graced each table at the Commencement dinner and
+was by general consent pronounced excellent. In the Assembly Room of
+Jubilee Hall were displayed various garments and household articles
+neatly made by the sewing classes.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing has been said about examinations; they are like the bread of
+our daily meals, always expected and very important. A more thorough
+examination than usual was given the classes in drawing and in vocal
+music. One exercise in the latter examination was the singing at
+sight of a tune, in four parts, composed by a member of the class.</p>
+
+<p>Our halls are already deserted; nothing holds our students after
+Commencement: they scatter at once for work, and within a few weeks,
+in at least half a dozen States, miniature Fisk Universities will be
+in operation.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Anna M. Cahill.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA.</h3>
+
+<p>In beauty, interest and enthusiasm Hampton anniversary days abate
+nothing as years go on. The seventeenth anniversary exercises were
+held on May 21, with a graduating class of forty-two, of whom five
+were Indians. Visitors were present from North and South, East and
+West, and such expressions as "The half was not told me!" and "Why
+didn't I bring my wife?" were frequent, as usual.</p>
+
+<p>Of the morning examinations, one of the most interesting was a
+general exercise conducted by the chaplain, in review of the current
+news of the world, which is daily read and discussed with the
+students. Victor Hugo, French and English politics, the Afghan
+trouble, Russia and Nihilism, Irish Nationalists, France and China,
+England and Egypt, were touched in the questions, and the answers and
+general interest showed the value of this daily exercise. In the
+ancient history class, printed questions were shuffled and
+distributed among the students, and question and answer were spoken
+out promptly by each scholar, giving an attractive quickness and
+vivacity to the recitation. The class of little Indian geographers
+stood before a table on which was a miniature United States made of
+sand, with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> its Eastern elevations, its great central plains, and its
+high Western ranges. A thread of blue worsted, put in place by the
+young world-builders, simulated the Mississippi, while cities (in the
+guise of white buttons) sprang up with a rapidity unknown even in the
+great West. The practice-teaching class is always of especial
+interest and significance, as over ninety per cent of Hampton's
+students devote themselves to teaching as their life mission. A dozen
+little bright-eyed, brown-faced primaries from the "Butler" training
+school received a geography lesson from one of the senior girls,
+criticised by her class-mates. Its grand <i>finale</i> was a miniature
+volcanic eruption, creating a sensation among the Butler mites.</p>
+
+<p>The industrial exhibits and the training shops, with their Negro and
+Indian apprentices, attracted interested attention, as usual.</p>
+
+<p>The emotions of anniversary day culminated in the afternoon
+exercises, in which were several incidents of unusual interest. The
+pretty and graceful salutatorian, fair as most of her hearers, was
+introduced as a young representative of the family of faithful Mary
+Peake, who, just escaped from slavery herself, taught the first
+"contraband school" at Hampton. This introduction roused the
+war-memories of Rev. Dr. Strieby, who, greeting the young girl as she
+stepped on the platform, told the story of the first missionary sent
+down to Old Point by the American Missionary Association, his
+reception by the contrabands as an angel of deliverance, and his
+first school, opened Sept. 17, 1861, with Mary Peake as its teacher,
+till she gave up her life in the work for her people.</p>
+
+<p>The pastor's class was represented by a Baptist minister from
+Hampton, who gave an account of the Old and New ministry, somewhat
+characteristic of both. This pastor's class has become an interesting
+feature of Hampton, with a mission of peace and good-will to both
+races and all sects and sections. Now in its second year, it numbers,
+as pupils, 17 colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity. Baptist and
+Methodist; and as teachers Rev. Mr. Frissell, chaplain, and Rev. Mr.
+Tolman, ex-chaplain of the school, Northern Congregationalist
+ministers, with Miss Alice Bacon, who thus worthily wears her
+venerated fathers mantle, and the Southern white ministers from
+Hampton, Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist, in unity of spirit that is
+verily "a good and a pleasant thing to see." The studies are the
+Bible and Bible history, pastoral theology and composition. In
+cultivating better understanding and kindly relations between these
+colored and white neighbors, and the relations of the school with
+both, as well as in helping meet the great need of an intelligent
+ministry, this pastor's class is doing important work. Some of its
+members board at the school, working their way in part like the other
+students, sometimes entering their classes. Some are helped to come
+by their congregations, who appreciate the opportunity.</p>
+
+<p>A handsome gold medal, presented by Mr. W. J. Demorest, of New York
+City, was awarded to Harris Barrett, of the senior class, for
+excellence in the junior elementary studies, the three R's,
+geography, grammar and spelling, in which the whole class were
+examined for the prize without special review, only one falling below
+an average of 50 per cent. on all, and five averaging above 90&mdash;a
+better showing than some Northern college seniors could make, I fear.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, some of the school's former graduates returned to tell the
+story of their labors, and nearly fifty were present on the
+invitation yearly renewed to all.</p>
+
+<p>The valedictorian was the youngest of a family of one sister and four
+brothers, children of a minister, who have graduated at the school,
+the last two with the honor of the valedictory.</p>
+
+<p>The Indian graduates were represented by two of their number, a young
+man of the Sac and Fox tribe, Indian Territory, who gave his own
+reasons for claiming and desiring citizenship for his people, which
+were: 1st, that the Indian also is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> a child of the Father; 2d, that
+he was once owner of the land; 3d, that without this protection and
+help he must perish; 4th, that with it he can become a useful member
+of the nation, a man among men. An Indian girl plead eloquently for
+the Indian woman, and protested against the use of "savage" as a
+synonym of Indian, since "there are also yellow savages, black
+savages and white savages." The representations of the past, present
+and future of Indian life will not soon be forgotten by those who saw
+them. The past's barbaric glories were typified by a tall young brave
+and Indian girl in the beautiful dress of the wilderness. They stood
+silent, like a vision of the ancient days, while their story was
+told. The present's pathos was represented by "<i>Lo</i>" the <i>very</i> "poor
+Indian" and squaw in shabby blankets, bewailing&mdash;as their Indian
+interpreter explained&mdash;the loss of lands and buffalo, asking where to
+go next&mdash;"white man everywhere"; the future's hope by a promising
+pair of Hampton students, able to speak for themselves, work for
+themselves and teach their people, with their white brethren's help,
+in the Christian's road. As the three groups stood in striking
+tableau&mdash;a visible embodiment of truth which I wish every white
+citizen of the United States could have seen and taken to
+heart&mdash;their comrades of the Indian school rose behind them, and
+started a Dakota hymn, recognized by the melody as "From Greenland's
+Icy Mountains," or, as interpreted to Indian understanding, "From the
+very distant cold land&mdash;from the hot land far away." As the plaintive
+strain died away, it was taken up in English in the richer chorus of
+their colored schoolmates, and the whole audience, rising, joined in
+the grand third verse, "<i>Shall we whose souls are lighted</i>," with
+effect not to pass from their hearts.</p>
+
+<p>Diplomas were presented by Rev. Dr. Strieby, vice-president of the
+Board of Trustees, to the graduating class of seventeen colored and
+three Indian young women, and twenty colored and two Indian young
+men, 42 in all. Eloquent addresses were made also by Rev Dr. McVickar
+of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Armstrong of Norfolk, imprisoned once
+by General Butler because he would pray for Jefferson Davis, but now
+thanking God for the new order, and rejoicing in Negro education.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N. C.</h3>
+
+<p>The year at Gregory Institute, as usual, has been a busy one, both in
+school and out. As a worthy colored member of our church expressed
+it, "We are tormented with Christian work at Wilmington." We have had
+this year a total enrollment of 284 pupils, and the percentage of
+attendance has never been greater. The pupils have, as a rule, worked
+well, and in many cases the progress has been very marked. While we
+are not completely satisfied with the results, yet there has been
+very much to encourage our labors. The Lord has been merciful in
+keeping the workers in good health, and there has been no death and
+but few cases of sickness among the pupils.</p>
+
+<p>The last week was taken up with examinations, both oral and written,
+and in perfecting arrangements for the anxiously looked-for event
+among our people, the closing exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>Such a clamoring for tickets one never heard. Of course, not
+one-fourth asked for could be issued, for lack of room; but, as far
+as possible, the parents were admitted. Although a thunder-storm,
+lasting about an hour, came up just as the doors were opened, the
+people continued to pour in until the hall was as full as an egg,
+upwards of 500 finding seats.</p>
+
+<p>The programme, which was a long and varied one, was carried out
+without any drawback whatever, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
+teachers and of Mr. and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> Mrs. Dodge, who all planned so well to make
+it a success. For three and one-half hours the audience gave the
+closest attention, and the comments since have been very flattering.
+Several, including some Northerners, have declared it to be the best
+exhibition they ever attended.</p>
+
+<p>It would tire you to read the entire programme, so I will mention and
+describe briefly only a few of the pieces, though all were as
+creditably rendered as if it were a white school, with the singing
+perhaps better. The pupils, without exception, acquitted themselves
+nobly, and their neat appearance was worthy of special mention.</p>
+
+<p>You would have been pleasantly entertained had you witnessed the
+Missionary Colloquy, in which 20 girls, some taken from each
+department of the school, took part. First came a girl bearing the
+American flag and representing America, who spoke, and was then
+followed by another girl with a Bible, representing Christianity.
+Next came singly nine girls in costume, each to represent a heathen
+nation, and making an earnest plea for the Gospel. Then followed a
+band of nine little American missionary workers, each stepping to the
+front and telling how she had earned her money which she was about to
+give to the noble cause. After dropping her gift in a basket held by
+"America," she repeated these words: "O happy, happy child am I, to
+serve the Lord of earth and sky;" then taking her place, another came
+forward in the same way until all had spoken. "America" now hands her
+basket, with its treasure, to Christianity, whom she addresses; then
+both turn and address the heathen in concert. In the time, missionary
+hymns were sweetly sung by the girls, and the piece, as presented,
+was one of the finest I ever saw.</p>
+
+<p>The doll drill was another interesting part of the evening's
+entertainment. The little primary girls went through the different
+evolutions with almost military precision, eliciting rounds of
+applause.</p>
+
+<p>So I might name many pieces of almost equal interest, but suffice it
+for me to mention further only the closing. This was "The Cross and
+Crown," consisting of tableaux and recitations taken mostly from "The
+Cross-Bearer." The time occupied in this was fully 45 minutes; and
+although the hour was so late, our audience did not fail to
+appreciate this beautiful piece. Several of the older people being
+asked which piece they liked best, replied, "I believe I liked the
+one with the angel best."</p>
+
+<p>A very important part of the evening's work must not be omitted from
+mention. This was the presentation of certificates to the graduating
+class on the completion of the Elementary Normal Course ending with
+the 10th year or grade. The members of this class, one young man and
+two young ladies, have been reared up in our school, and would be a
+credit to any school. This is the first graduation from the course;
+and although the class is small, it has incited others to say, "I
+mean to stick to the school until I can stand where they did."</p>
+
+<p>We think the entertainment was filled with sermons, and we trust that
+the influence produced may be all for good.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Geo. A. Woodard.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN TALLADEGA.</h3>
+
+<p>The second Sabbath in May was a notable day with our college church
+at Talladega. It was a feast of ingathering.</p>
+
+<p>As early as eight o'clock a band of young men assembled on the banks
+of Talladega Creek, that three of their number might be immersed. It
+was a lovely spring morning, and the green banks, the running waters,
+the sweet air, the bright sunshine, the hymns, the prayers, the
+remarks of the pastor, and the Sacrament itself (administered by Rev.
+Spencer Snell, the pastor having had a congestive chill the preceding
+week, and being forbidden to go into the water) were full of
+solemnity and sweet instruction.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span></p>
+<p>Two hours later we met again in the college chapel. One of the most
+pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
+been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
+was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
+be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
+year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
+overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
+and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
+people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
+his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
+church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
+sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
+people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
+three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
+None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.</p>
+
+<p>This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
+professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
+by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
+here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
+meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
+buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
+the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.</p>
+
+<p>The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
+than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
+the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
+colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
+not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
+of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
+had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.</p>
+
+<p>The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
+salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
+members, teachers, professors, president and pastor&mdash;we all felt this
+truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
+a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
+and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
+coming into the first meeting&mdash;and lest any should fail, from any
+cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
+the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew&mdash;the real
+object sought in the meetings was brought home to every member of the
+College and Church. When we had the list of names (with hardly an
+exception they furnished their own names), we were vividly reminded
+of the individuals for whom we were working and praying, and they
+knew, every one, that we were definitely working and praying for
+them. This gave a feeling of practical, concentrated work, such as
+seldom attends such meetings.</p>
+
+<p>Excepting this, there were no unusual means employed. The truth was
+very earnestly and simply preached. Immediate decision for Christ was
+pressed. Personal efforts were conscientiously made by teachers and
+students. Little prayer meetings, where from two to a dozen met for
+special prayer, were frequent, and the Lord blessed all the means
+used.</p>
+
+<p>Since the close of the protracted meeting, each Sabbath-school class
+has had its own weekly prayer meeting&mdash;a means of great good. Also a
+general young Christians' prayer meeting has been held weekly. In it
+effort has been made, not only to lead these new converts to take
+part in prayer and conference, but to instruct them upon some points
+too often neglected. Those who on this day united with the church
+could each, I think, give an intelligent statement of reasons why
+they should unite with the church; and, in so uniting, why they gave
+public assent to a confession of faith, and why they joined in
+covenant with God and his people.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Mason Noble.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Marked revivals have been in progress in all the colored churches of
+the city. With all the noise and superstition, we cannot doubt that
+there are not a few genuine conversions. And yet, while our students
+attend these meetings only to a limited extent, the influence upon
+them tends to interfere with our religious work.</p>
+
+<p>Last week it was my privilege to attend the meeting of the North
+Texas Association, held at Cleburne. Tillotson church, on
+application, was cordially admitted to membership. The same
+cordiality and courtesy were extended to Brother McLean, late of
+Talladega College, who applied for membership in his own behalf. Rev.
+J. W. Roberts, representing the colored church of Dallas, was also
+present. The dignified, scholarly bearing of both these brethren won
+for them golden opinions from all who listened to their reports and
+remarks. Not a few of those who were present at the various sessions
+were Southerners, but apparently none the less interested on that
+account. It was my fortune to be entertained by an ex-slaveholder,
+who served in the Confederate army through the war, but who
+nevertheless is a warm friend of the Congregational church in his
+town, and contributes to its support.</p>
+
+<p>The moderator and scribe of the association, seated side by side
+through the meetings, presented a striking contrast. The first was a
+business man, born in New England, quick, keen, decisive and
+energetic, an officer in the Union army through the war, since that
+time engaged in business in Texas, now the possessor of a large
+fortune, and thoroughly identified with, and enthusiastic concerning,
+the material and spiritual interests of his adopted State.</p>
+
+<p>The second was the pastor of the leading Congregational Church of the
+State, born in the South, educated for the law, a soldier in the
+Confederate army, for a time almost a wreck morally and physically,
+but now, by the grace of God, "clothed and in his right mind,"
+dignified, magnetic, an earnest, reverent student of the Bible, an
+able preacher and a beloved pastor.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, with representatives of the North and the South, the East and
+the West, the white race and the black, America, Sweden and Ireland,
+we had at least one marked feature of the Pentecost. But aside from
+that, the manifest presence of the Spirit, and the consequent harmony
+and good-fellowship, rendered our meeting in a still more important
+degree like that season which was the beginning of such a wonderful
+regeneration in the history of the world. It may be accepted, I doubt
+not, as one of the signs of the regeneration that is going on in the
+South, which is less wonderful only in the fact of being local rather
+than world-wide.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE OLD COMMISSARY BUILDING.</h3>
+
+
+<p>We held a series of revival meetings at South Williamsburgh, in the
+old commissary building. Wish some of the good people of the North,
+who meet in churches and chapels, plastered and nicely warmed, and
+comfortably seated, could have dropped in upon us and spent an hour.
+Of course, they would have had the back-ache and cold feet, and,
+perhaps, carried away a flea or two, even in March, but they would
+have gone home saying, "If people can meet in such a place, some
+refined, intelligent ladies even, and continue to go night after
+night, I ought to be very, very willing to go to my church whenever
+the Lord calls a meeting and my presence and voice are necessary."
+But that you may appreciate the contrast<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> with your pleasant place of
+meeting, let me take you to the old commissary building.</p>
+
+<p>It's a <i>box-house</i>; that is, it's made of boards set upright and
+nailed at the bottom and middle and top to joists. Over this crazy
+structure sets a roof made of long oaken shingles hewn with the broad
+axe. Step inside of the building, which will hold 125 people, and see
+the whole construction. Rough boards with the curve of the circular
+saw on them and now dingy with smoke, make the sides; oaken shingles
+black with smoke, slope above.</p>
+
+<p>A "cannon stove" sends most of its smoke through a rusty pipe up
+through a piece of sheet iron to the air. The sparks, and now and
+then a star, shine through about the pipe. Newspapers pasted over the
+widest cracks on the sides of the room keep out the heaviest drafts.
+I remember one night when it was snowing (even here, in March), a
+flurry of wind brought down a glistening shower on the shoulders of
+the congregation. The roof usually turns water, however.</p>
+
+<p>Please stand here by the door and talk to the people. Feet get cold?
+I don't wonder. The door was made an inch and a half too short. You
+ask "why in the name of health don't you fix it?" Well, just sit
+there against the wall. You sit down, and a projecting horizontal
+joist takes you right in the back of the neck and makes you crane
+your head forward in a most uncomfortable way. Poor place to get
+asleep; one would pitch right forward on the floor. You see, if we
+commenced to "fix up," we wouldn't know where to begin, for one lack
+is as great as another. One night we held a meeting in that building,
+and before morning the thermometer fell to zero. We need a good
+stove; that one is full of cracks in front, so we always left a boy
+to watch after meeting till the fire died out. We just make the house
+do; strips have been laid on the floor, paper pasted over the wall
+gaps, seats of rough boards set in the building, windows tightened,
+and there we gathered. God's Spirit met us in spite of cold and
+dinginess and needs. I believe ten or twelve rose for prayers during
+those two weeks. Since warm weather Brother Myers has continued the
+meetings, and I trust a score or more have given their hearts to the
+Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Jas. T. Ford.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>STUDENT'S LETTER.</h3>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Talladega College</span>, Talladega, Ala., April, 1885.</div>
+
+<p>It is wonderful to notice how many and what interesting changes may
+take place during the few years of one's life. The first eleven years
+of my life I spent as a slave, but I have lived to see these glorious
+days of freedom. I was born upon my master's plantation in Monroe
+County, Ala., where I lived till 1865, when I was set at liberty with
+the rest of my unfortunate brethren.</p>
+
+<p>While living upon that plantation I saw many of the horrors of
+slavery with my own eyes. One of the mean and degrading things I
+remember was the way the slaves had to live, crowded together in one
+house. There were three or four different families, consisting of
+twelve or fifteen persons, all living in the same room. There was
+only one house for colored people, and it had only one room.</p>
+
+<p>Although my master did not have so many slaves and was not so mean as
+some other slave-holders about him, still, the treatment which his
+slaves received was shockingly cruel. I remember very distinctly the
+paddling block, the paddle, and the great whip used upon that place.
+There comes very vividly before my mind the whipping of a hired man.
+I know just how every rag of clothes was taken off, and how he was
+tied down in the front yard between the gate and the house, so that
+he could not move hand or foot, and how the master would whip him a
+while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> and walk about and smoke his pipe a while, as the poor hired
+slave lay upon the ground and cried for mercy, but there was none to
+help him.</p>
+
+<p>Whenever my thoughts go back to those dark days, I recollect the time
+when my own brother ran away because he was not willing to take the
+whipping which the master wanted to give him late one afternoon. I
+think of how the bloodhounds came, and how they chased him, while
+mother, brothers, and fellow-slaves stood trembling, and how glad all
+were when we learned that the dogs could not catch him.</p>
+
+<p>If I could forget all other heart-rending scenes of those dark days,
+I could not erase from my memory the cruel treatment which I saw my
+own mother receive. Though I was small, I think of how I used to see
+her work hard, and how she was scolded and cursed as she was driven
+about like a dog. I saw her laid upon that paddling-block, and I
+heard her distressing cries, but, like the rest of her children, I
+could do nothing.</p>
+
+<p>I love to contrast my present condition with what it was a few years
+ago, and as I do so I do not forget the A. M. A., whose workers found
+me in the lowest depths of ignorance and helped me up. When
+liberated, soon after the surrender, I could not read a word and did
+not know a letter. I do not remember that I had ever seen the inside
+of a book of any kind. It was in 1867 that I learnt the alphabet upon
+the plantation by the light of pine knots. During the years 1868 and
+1869 I was a rag-picker in the streets of Mobile. God has led me on,
+and now I am a student in Talladega College, and expect soon to have
+finished a course of study which will enable me to go forth to lead
+men to Christ and to teach them better methods of living. I speak of
+this contrast not boastfully, but humbly and with deep gratitude to
+God, who took me from the woes and degradation of slavery and has
+given me a double freedom. I am so glad for the schools the A. M. A.
+has in the South; I am so glad for what they have done for me.
+Through one of these schools I was led to Christ. Soon after that I
+felt called to the ministry; and in Talladega College I am permitted
+to finish a course of study, and to some degree equip myself for the
+work of life. All praise to an organization that seeks for poor,
+ignorant and sinful men, leads them to Christ, instructs them, and
+then sends them out to bless the world.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">A Student.</span></div>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>OBITUARY.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>MRS. H. M. STEVENS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Another veteran teacher of the A. M. A. has been called home to her
+rest. On the morning of May 7, at her home in St. Albans, Vt., Mrs.
+H. M. Stevens, known to A. M. A. workers as Miss E. M. Barnes, of
+Bakersfield, Vt., fell asleep after a severe and painful sickness of
+several mouths.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Barnes entered the service of the Association in 1865 and left
+it in 1882, to minister to her devoted friend and fellow laborer,
+Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens, in her last sickness. When released from
+this service of love her own health prevented her return to the
+Southern work. Her first year was spent at Arlington, Va. She spent
+six years in the Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., four years in the Le
+Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., and her last six in Fisk
+University&mdash;seventeen years of devoted, earnest and fruitful labor in
+behalf of the colored youth in the South.</p>
+
+<p>Since leaving the South her life has been a pleasant and useful one
+as Mrs. Stevens, the wife of a devoted husband and an earnest and
+zealous Christian<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> woman in the city and the church where her lot was
+cast. The testimony to her nobility and earnestness of character was
+manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
+sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
+short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
+teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
+and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
+which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
+youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
+pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.</p>
+
+<p>She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
+Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
+most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
+place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
+a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
+there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
+have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
+Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
+entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
+uttermost."</p>
+
+<p>The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
+and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
+held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
+labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
+impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
+greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
+borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
+who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
+and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
+been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
+character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
+were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
+world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
+others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
+the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
+to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
+the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">E. M. Cravath.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
+Saratoga Springs, N. Y.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Goodridge was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of a godly and
+New England ancestry. She became a Christian in her earliest years
+and joined the church when but a child. From the beginning she was
+instructed in the Scriptures, which can make wise unto salvation, and
+her nature, less rugged than that of some, was well perfected by
+grace. Seeking usefulness in needy fields, she offered herself to the
+A. M. A., and last year began her work in Talladega, where she proved
+herself a devoted and successful teacher, a woman of great refinement
+and goodness, and a faithful servant of Christ. Herself a disciple
+sitting at Jesus' feet, she never forgot her Master in her teaching,
+while her unconscious influence was powerful for good. Her illness
+was but of a few days' duration, nor was it considered fatal until
+within a few hours of the end. Winning in person and of rare beauty
+of character, she has greatly endeared herself to her associates and
+to all who knew her. Though death came suddenly it did not find her
+unprepared. Her hope was in Christ, and her end was a peaceful
+falling asleep.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">H. S. De Forest.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</div>
+
+
+<p>We are glad to report a movement in favor of State organizations for
+woman's work in our own country in co-operation with the Am. Home
+Miss. Soc., the Am. Miss. Assoc., the New West Ed. Com., etc. At a
+special meeting called at Saratoga on June 4, action was taken by the
+representatives of the several Woman's Missionary Societies,
+advocating the formation of State societies, whose object should be
+to co-operate with the established societies of the Congregational
+order, in raising funds and increasing intelligence respecting
+missionary work in this country.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Two years ago the ladies of Vermont pledged the support of one
+teacher at McIntosh, Ga., but increased their contributions until
+they assumed the entire support of the school. A year ago they
+undertook the expense of an addition to the school building, to be
+called the "Vermont School." In connection with the State
+Association, at Bellows Falls, a ladies' meeting was held on
+Wednesday morning, June 10, in behalf of the American Missionary
+Association, addressed by their teacher, Miss Plimpton, and by Miss
+Emerson, Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. The following report was
+submitted by the State Committee:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The committee re-appointed by the convention held at St. Albans
+last June, to raise money for the school for the freedmen in
+McIntosh, Ga., desires to present the following report for the
+year:</p></div>
+
+<div class="center">FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1885.</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Committee report">
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Total contributions</td><td align="right">$848.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Expenses of postage and printing</td><td align="right">11.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Remitted to H. W. Hubbard</td><td align="right">837.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Add balance on hand May, 1884</td><td align="right">259.28</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="3" align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total</td><td align="right">$1,096.98</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Estimated expense of school this year</td><td align="right">$856.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>To apply on new building</td><td align="right">240.98</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align="right">$1,096.98</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>Acknowledgment was also made for barrels and boxes of clothing,
+papers, books, toys and materials for sewing school, with money sent
+to pay freight. Additional contributions are expected before Sept.
+30, to apply on the new school building.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>At the recent meeting of the State Association of Illinois, held in
+Rockford, the ladies organized the "Illinois Home Miss. Union." The
+constitution adopted embraces all home causes as embodied in the
+following form:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Article 1.</span> This Society shall be called the Woman's Home
+Missionary Union of the State of &mdash;&mdash;. Its object shall be to
+promote missionary and evangelistic work in all parts of our
+land by forming auxiliaries in the churches of the State, and
+through them collecting money for the various existing societies
+of the Congregational order.</p></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>A TRUE INCIDENT.</h3>
+
+
+<p>At a little junction in Wisconsin, a score of passengers alighting
+from a train were told that the one they wished to take was four
+hours behind time. A big washout had swept away a bridge or
+embankment. There were a few exclamations of dismay and impatience,
+as that four hours delay meant the losing of other connections, the
+failure of many plans and appointments. It was a cold, rainy day,
+with a raw, penetrating east wind that speedily drove them all into
+the close, dismal waiting room. One woman, taking writing materials
+from a satchel, which she contrived to use for a desk, became utterly
+oblivious to everything as her pencil flew over the letter that would
+carry comfort and cheer to a far-off loved one. Suddenly she became
+conscious that a score of people were sitting in complete silence
+around her, with not a book or paper to read, looking as forlorn and
+miserable as possible. Laying aside her writing, she said, "My
+husband and I are missionaries among the colored people in Alabama. I
+am now on my way back to the work. Perhaps you might be interested to
+hear something about it, and if you care to ask any questions, I will
+be very happy to answer them."</p>
+
+<p>An old lady sitting near, bounced up in a great rage. "<i>I</i> don't want
+to hear a <i>word</i> about the niggers." The rest of her muttered
+exclamations were lost as she rushed out, slamming the door behind
+her.</p>
+
+<p>The missionary began to tell them about the climate, the tropical
+luxuriance of fruit and flowers, and of the great cotton fields. By
+that time questions began to pour in thick and fast, and in less than
+five minutes she had an eager audience listening to every word. She
+went on to tell of the condition of the colored people at the close
+of the war; ignorant, utterly destitute, with no more knowledge than
+a baby of how to shift for themselves; of the hard struggle it had
+been and still was for many of them to live; of the miserable
+pittance they generally received for their labor; of their home life,
+their peculiarities, and other things of interest.</p>
+
+<p>About that time the irate woman, unable longer to endure the
+discomfort of the weather outside, came quietly in, looking rather
+disgusted at the prospect of being obliged, after all, to hear
+something about "the niggers."</p>
+
+<p>The recital of some special incidents of peculiar trial and hardship
+which had come under the missionary's own observation brought tears
+of sympathy to many eyes; but best of all was the sudden conversion
+of our wrathful woman, who exclaimed: "I declare that's too bad! What
+makes them stand it? Why don't they all come North, where they could
+have a fair chance?" As she was told "the reason why," she grew full
+of sympathy and interest, and was even more eager than the others in
+suggestions and inquiries. But when they were told of what had
+already been done by the American Missionary Association and others
+toward establishing and maintaining schools and churches among them,
+of the devoted missionaries and teachers that had carried already so
+much of comfort and help into their sad lives, of the steady upward
+progress they were making in knowledge and intelligence, in the
+acquirement of homes and ability to care for themselves, all seemed
+to appreciate as never before the importance of the work that is
+being done in the South.</p>
+
+<p>The distant whistle of the train surprised them all, and as they
+crowded about the missionary to take her hand and bid her God speed
+in her blessed work, one woman said: "I used to give pennies to the
+work of the A. M. A., but they shall be dollars now."</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. A. W. C.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>CHILDREN'S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER</div>
+
+
+<p>Little Ida had been invited to attend a party made by white children
+at the school house. To her mother's mind the question of her going
+turned on her having a scarlet sash to wear. By the kindness of a
+child in the family where Ida and her mother, who figures in our
+story as "Aunt Chloe," had their home, the want was finally met.</p>
+
+<p>Now for the story of the scarlet sash, after it became Ida's
+property. She wore it to the party, where she laughed and sang, and
+played games, and looked like a poppy among the roses. She behaved
+very politely, too, like a well-trained child whose mother had lived
+in the "fust families."</p>
+
+<p>After that, she wore it in church and to Sunday-school. It looped
+itself beautifully over her best, brown striped dress, and gave her
+the sense of being equal in appearance with the other children.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Raymond, her teacher, told me that Ida really seemed to
+understand the lesson better, and to take more interest in reciting
+her golden text, after she came into possession of her precious sash.
+It was so thick and soft and rich; it felt so nice to the little
+black fingers, which every now and then stroked it lovingly. I am
+sure the sash was a means of grace to Ida.</p>
+
+<p>Children who have everything they want, who are clothed in purple and
+fine linen every day, cannot imagine how much delight a poor child
+sometimes takes in an innocent bit of finery.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I want to tell you what became of the sash at last.</p>
+
+<p>One day the superintendent at the Sunday-school asked the children to
+come to order, because a lady was about to talk to them.</p>
+
+<p>The lady was a missionary; her work had been somewhere a great way
+off, among people who had hardly any money, and had a great deal of
+trouble to get bread and meat. Their minister, the lady said, had to
+live in a house dug right out of the side of a hill. She had lived in
+such a little bit of a house herself for a great many weeks. Poor as
+these people were, they had built a little church, and were trying
+very hard to pay for it. They had not any singing-books nor Bibles
+for their Sunday-school, nor any library-books; but the children
+thought nothing of walking five miles or more to go to Sunday-school.</p>
+
+<p>What would the children here in this lovely room give for those
+children in the far, far West?</p>
+
+<p>It happened that Ida's teacher had lately talked to her class about
+the meanness of giving to the Lord that which it cost them nothing to
+give. So when the collection-box was passed around, they dropped in
+their pennies and silver-pieces, and those who had nothing with them
+were told to bring their share on the next Sunday. And some of them
+began to plan their little sacrifices.</p>
+
+<p>Ida's dusky face was a study. Once or twice she paused, irresolute.
+At last, when school was over, she whispered;</p>
+
+<p>"Teacher, may I stay a moment?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, dear," said Miss Raymond.</p>
+
+<p>When the two were by themselves in the little half-circle where their
+class usually sat, Ida, with trembling hands, untied the beloved
+sash, and, laying it on her teacher's lap, said, "Please, Miss
+Raymond, this is the prettiest thing I've got, and I want to send it
+to the children who haven't any Bibles."</p>
+
+<p>"But the sash will do them no good, Ida."</p>
+
+<p>"The worf of it will," replied the child; "and it's worf free
+dollars, any way; mammy said so."</p>
+
+<p>Ida stooped down and kissed it; it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> was not giving what cost her
+nothing to part with her treasured ribbon.</p>
+
+<p>Mass Raymond took it with a tender look, rolled it up and carried it
+home.</p>
+
+<p>One evening, in her parlor, she told its story to a party of young
+people, and then remarked: "The sash ought to bring more than three
+dollars, when that little black girl gave it up so cheerfully."</p>
+
+<p>In a few moments there lay a little pile of silver and paper on the
+centre table, and Ida's sash had brought eight dollars for the good
+cause. Before the week was over it had gone from hand to hand, and
+the eight dollars became twenty without much difficulty.</p>
+
+<p>Fanny said she thought we ought to send the sash back to Ida, or give
+her another one; but no, that would have taken the sweetness from her
+self-denial.</p>
+
+<p>She came to school without her ribbon, having been scolded by Aunt
+Chloe, who could not understand her action, and thought it great
+folly; but all winter long there was a brave light in Ida's dark
+face, and a contented expression in her eyes. She had given the
+scarlet sash for Christ's sake, and he had blessed her deed, and
+owned her as one of his little ones. Happy Ida!</p>
+
+<div class="center medium">ABRIDGED FROM S. S. TIMES.</div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1885.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">MAINE, $278.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Augusta. Mrs. Skeeles' S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong. Ch., 20.32</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">95.32</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Limington. "A. B."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Bridgeton. Miss Proctor's Sch., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norway. Ladies, bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Albans. Mrs. W. S. Sewall and family</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Skowhegan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by A. L. Colby, Treas.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Berwick. Mrs. Hodgkins' S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Paris. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Union. Cong Ch., 4; Ladies' Soc., 4</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waterford. Centre Ch. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">By Mrs. J. P. Hubbard, Treas. Woman's Aux., <i>for Missionary, Selma,
+Ala.</i> Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy, 3.&mdash;Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.&mdash;Casco, Mrs.
+Mayberry, 1.&mdash;Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.&mdash;Orland, Ch., by Miss
+Buck, 23.&mdash;Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S. Longfellow, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">82.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br /><br />NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bedford. Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Franklin. Mrs. R. C. Andrews, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">London. K. S. Price</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">105.04</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />VERMONT, $537.36.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bakersfield. By Mrs. J. A. Perkins, <i>for Missionary, McIntosh, Ga.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Brattleborough. E. Crosby &amp; Co., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Granby. Mrs. Nancy Appleton</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manchester. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, pkg. C., 1.25 <i>Freight, for Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., 1.70 <i>Freight, for
+Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Plymouth. Coll. at Furnace</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.69</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Townshend. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. C. C. Taft</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.76</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. D. L. Ray</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Vermont, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>,
+Benson, 10.&mdash;Bethel (5 of which for building fund), 10.75&mdash;Bridport,
+33.&mdash;Braintree, 5.&mdash;Charlotte, 30.25&mdash;East Hardwick (3 of which from
+Young Ladies' Aid Soc.), 10.25&mdash;Fairlee, 11.&mdash;Franklin, 5.40.&mdash;New
+Haven, 25.06.&mdash;Newport, ad'l, 1.16.&mdash;North Troy, 1.&mdash;Quechee,
+1.&mdash;Saint Albans, 15.&mdash;Saint Johnsbury, ad'l, 2.54.&mdash;Sharon,
+10.&mdash;Swanton, 15.25.&mdash;West Rutland, 16.10.&mdash;Total, 202.76 (less 11.16
+expenses)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">191.60</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MASSACHUSETTS, $3,636.44.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Alford and West Stockbridge Centre, Cong Ch's.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Amesbury. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, bbl. of C., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Andover. Free Christian Church, 100, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Ruth F. Emerson,
+Mrs. Agnes B. Donald</span> and <span class="smcap">Benj. W. Farnum</span> L. M's; Chapel, Ch. and
+Soc., 81</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">181.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Athol. Evangelical Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span><div class="sub1">Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 539.14; Union Ch. and Soc., 107.32; Park
+Street Ch. and Soc., ad'l, 10; "Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i>, 10; Mrs. E.
+P Eayrs, 5&mdash;Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Straight U.</i>, 50&mdash;Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 72.74&mdash;Chelsea.
+Woman's Union Home M. Band, <i>for Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn.</i>,
+60&mdash;Dorchester. Sab. Sch. Class, Second Ch., <i>for Indian M., Dakota</i>,
+1.58; Mrs. E. J. W. Baker, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>, 50&mdash;Roxbury.
+Eliot Ch. and Soc., 75.51&mdash;Somerville. Winter Hill Ch. and Soc., 20;
+Henry Howard, 20; Broadway Ch. and Soc., 17.41; M. P. Elliott,
+<i>Freight</i>, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,040.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bernardston. Miss M. L. Newcomb, 60.00, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i>; 20.00, <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">80.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Danvers Centre. Missionary Soc., Box S. S Supplies, <i>for
+Williamsburg, Ky.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">160.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Bridgewater. Union Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.23</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fall River. Pastoral Aid Soc. of Central Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega, C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Georgetown, First Cong Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.84</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Ellis P. Harlow</span> L.
+M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hardwick. First Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Harvard. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Haverhill. D. Crowell's Bible Class, Centre Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">61.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Holliston. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; Clothing, val. 1, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lakeville. Precinct Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">53.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Littleton. "Friends," for Atlanta U.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.96</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Medway. Mrs. Geo. M. Richardson, <i>for Wilmington, N. C., Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montague. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., 77.30, to const. <span class="smcap">Joshua Hale,
+Jr.</span>, and <span class="smcap">Joseph H. Currier</span>, L. M's; North Ch., 68.65</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">145.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton. Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton. Miss Annie Boyden, 2 bbls. of C., etc., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">74.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.38</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. "A Friend," 50; Cong. Ch., 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. Miss J. B. Kingsley, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rutland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Salem. Tabernacle Ch and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">320.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saugus. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shelburne Falls. Mrs. J. A. Richmond</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">87.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Springfield. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Topsfield. Mrs. Ephraim Perkins</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ware. Livingston Band, <i>for Indian M., Fort Sul'y</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Watertown. Friend</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Mission Soc. <i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">44.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Whitinsville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle of Cong. Ch., box of C., <i>for
+Macon, Ga.</i>; 10 <i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Williamsburg. Ladies' Sew. Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">93.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. Circle, <i>for Fisk University Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n. Holyoke, Second,
+28.24&mdash;Palmer, 20&mdash;Springfield. Olivet, 35.30; Mrs Edw. Clarke, 5;
+North Sab. Sch., <i>for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss.</i>, 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">113.54</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Clothing, etc., received at Boston Office. Maine</span>&mdash;Farmington.
+Ladies' Soc., Bbl.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Massachusetts</span>&mdash;Chelsea. W. H. M Band, bdl.
+Papers&mdash;Hyde Park, W. H. M. Soc., bbl., <i>for Jonesboro,
+Tenn.</i>&mdash;Medway, Ladies' B. Soc., bbl., <i>for Wilmington, N.
+C.</i>&mdash;Newton, Ladies' F. A. Soc., bbl., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i>&mdash;Somerville,
+Matthew P. Elliot, pkg. Hats, <i>for Atlanta U.</i>, Val. 50&mdash;Waquoit.
+Rev. Joshua Gay, box Books&mdash;Westborough. Ladies' F. M. Soc.,
+bbl.&mdash;Worcester, Ladies' B. U. of Piedmont Ch., bbl., <i>for Marietta,
+Ga.</i>, Val. 50&mdash;Yarmouth, Ladies' Sew. Circle, bbl., <i>for Fisk U.</i></div></td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />RHODE ISLAND, $2.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Central Falls. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards, bbl. of Goods, 2 <i>Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CONNECTICUT, $1,563.47.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Abington. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. "Willing Workers," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. "Willing Workers," cask of C., etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bozrah. Cong Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. "Cheerful Workers," <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wheeler &amp; Wilson Sew. Machine, <i>for
+Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. Miss Carrie Wood, box Bedding, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Conn. Sch. Quitman, Ga.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Darien. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Hampton. Dea. Skinner, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gilead. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 50; Cong. Ch., 3.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">53.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Mrs. Catharine B. Hillyer, 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Lucy Tudor
+Hillyer</span> L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Centre Ch., 2 bbls. Bedding and C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Charles Peck, Geo. P.
+Rockwell, Oliver Stanley, Rev. Chas E. Steele, John B. Talcott</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Dea. John Wiard</span> L. M's</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">192.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Haven. First Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">204.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 15.65, and Sab. Sch., 15</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.65</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>
+<div class="sub1">Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westville. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">600.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,436.48</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Estate of Dr. John R. Lee, by John Hooker, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">126.99</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,563.47</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW YORK, $2,499.90.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albany. First Cong. Ch., 120.73; Chas. A. Beach, 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">145.73</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albion. Miss H. M. Woodward, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bergen. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 429.06; Julius Davenport, 100; South
+Cong. Ch., 50; "A Friend" 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Elizabeth Cleveland</span> L.
+M. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">609.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Leroy. Mrs. A. McEwen</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lima. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, 30, to const.
+Mrs. <span class="smcap">Luretta C. Stickel</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">130.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 100; Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 100, <i>for
+Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northville. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Perry Centre. Cong. Ch., 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. William R. Bathrick</span> L.
+M.; R. J. Booth, pkg. Papers</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rushville. Cong. Ch. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.57</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rutland. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.69</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saratoga. Miss F. A. Marvin, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35.37; "Friends," 35, <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Sab. Sch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.19</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. (50 of which <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">81.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,395.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACIES.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Winfield. Estate of Miss E. Jane Alexander, by Thomas E.
+Harrison and Olive E. Harrison, Exs.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norwich. Estate of John Foote (90 of which to const. <span class="smcap">Mary C. Foote,
+Achsa S. Foote</span> and <span class="smcap">Susan L. Peck</span> L. M.'s.), by John Mitchell, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">504.04</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2,499.90</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW JERSEY, $489.49.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Arlington. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.49</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maywood. E. K. Breckenridge</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. James Powell</span>,
+D. D., L. M.)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">376.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary,
+Tougaloo, Miss.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. Mrs Pratt's S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Morristown. Miss Julia Dodge, half bbl. Papers, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />PENNSYLVANIA, $77.10.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ridgway. "C. D. O."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Scranton. Miss Sarah E. Hawley </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shoemakertown. Cheltenham Academy, bbl. Boys' C., <i>for Wilmington,
+N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Alexander. Jane C. Davidson </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.40</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />OHIO, $1,704.39.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austinburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., <i>for Fisk U.</i>, 1.17
+<i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 11.46; Mrs. Charlotte Ruggles, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cleveland. Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., <i>for
+Missionary, Santee Agency</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Conneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Elyria. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. <span class="smcap">E. W. Metcalf</span> L. M.)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Four Corners. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.58</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Freedom. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab Sch., 5 </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch., adl. <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marietta. Miss M. B. Diamond, pkg. of C., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Concord. Wm. Lee, Sen.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norwalk and Peru. By Rev. H. Lawrence, box and bbl. Bibles,
+Testaments, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">79.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oberlin. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 50 copies "Manual of Praise," <i>for
+Chapel, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">23.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wakeman. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$704.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austinburg. Estate of L. B. Austin, by William Pulis, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,704.39</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ILLINOIS, $681.09.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chicago. Fist Cong. Ch., 100; N. E. Cong. Ch., 44.03; South Cong.
+Ch., 34.83; Y. L. Miss'y Soc. of N. E. Cong. Ch., 25.20</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">204.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cobden. C. C. Wright </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dundee. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Geneseo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">29.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kewanee. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">La Grange. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Terry, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lewiston. Mrs. Myron Phelps</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lowell. V. G. Lutz</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Malden. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marseilles. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mendon. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Neponset. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oak Park. Mrs. A. Ridell</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Payson. Miss Lizzie Scarborough, <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Peoria. Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., box of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rockford. A. D. Forbes</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rosemond. "Busy Bee Soc"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Seward. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shirland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winnebago. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MICHIGAN, $213.59.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., <i>for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span><div class="sub1">Grass Lake. Union Meeting, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Homestead. Morris Case</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Mrs. H. Ralston</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jackson. Mrs. L. H. Field, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Lynden. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Litchfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manistee. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mattawan. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Olivet. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Reed City. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Romeo. Mrs. E. A. Berry, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Joseph. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. (5 of which <i>for Missionary,
+Indian M.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Webster. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.55</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />IOWA, $1,019.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Afton. Ladies of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary, New Orleans,
+La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Algona. A. Zahlten</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Anamosa. Women's Freedmen's Soc., <i>for Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Creston. Mrs. N. H. Whittlesey, <i>for Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, 50; Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 25; <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Bbl. of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Des Moines. Young People of Plym. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Des Moines. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. G. Otis, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Grinnell. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.18</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hawthorne. Rev. N. H. Blackmer</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Iowa City. Cong Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marshalltown. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Muscatine. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">65.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rock Rapids. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tipton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Iowa, by Mrs. Geo. W. Reynolds, Treas., <i>for Missionary,
+New Orleans La.</i> Charles City, 10.&mdash;Chester Centre, 7.&mdash;Davenport,
+24.25.&mdash;Grinnell, 80.&mdash;New Hampton, 5, Children's Soc., 3.&mdash;North Des
+Moines, Mrs. St. John, 1.&mdash;Osage, 10.&mdash;Waterloo, 10.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">150.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Iowa, by Ella E. Marsh, Treas., <i>for Missionary, New
+Orleans, La.</i> Eldora, 2.50.&mdash;Iowa Falls, 1.03.&mdash;Otho, 4.50.&mdash;Tabor,
+15.&mdash;Webster City, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$519.41</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Burlington. Estate of David Leonard, by Mrs. Mary S. Leonard,
+Executrix</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,019.41</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WISCONSIN, $751.29.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Clinton. Ladies' H. M. Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Geneva. Rev. J. K. Kilbourn, box of Books, etc., <i>for Macon Ga.</i>, 3
+<i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">La Crosse. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Madison. Ladies' H. M. Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Milwaukee. Plym. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">18.34</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Neenah. E. B. Ranney</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Pulpit Bible, and 2 Books, <i>for Macon,
+Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rosendale. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shopiere. Cong. Sab Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waukesha. Young People's Miss'y. Soc. <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$251.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Monroe. Estate of Mrs. Orrissa Rood, by J. L. Rood, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$751.29</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MINNESOTA, $20.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">18.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rushford. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.25</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSOURI">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MISSOURI, $31.70.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kirkville. J. S. Blackman</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KANSAS, $72.84.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cora. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manhattan. "Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Reno Centre. First Ch. of Christ</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.77</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Topeka. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manhattan. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Clara Castle L. M.</span></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.00</td> </tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;COLORADO">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />COLORADO, $8.70.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Highland Lake. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. (4.25 of which <i>for Chinese
+M.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEBRASKA, $42.97.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albion. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ashland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fairfield. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Bend. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stanton. Mrs. Laura E. Dada</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Steele City. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;DAKOTA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />DAKOTA, $3.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WASHINGTON TER.">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WASHINGTON TER., $2.75.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheyenne. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.75</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WYOMING TER.">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WYOMING TER., $22.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheyenne, First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CALIFORNIA, $13.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Arcata. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Elk Creek. J. E. Lee</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $140.65.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Washington. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">127.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Washington. Howard U., Mon. Con. Coll.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.50</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KENTUCKY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KENTUCKY, $175.77.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lexington. Tuition, 63.25; Rent, 2.77</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">66.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Williamsburg. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">71.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Woodbine. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;VIRGINIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />VIRGINIA, $8.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Herndon. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.55</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TENNESSEE, $781.81.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jellico. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jonesboro. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maryville. Mrs. R. A. Frame, <i>for Maryville, Tenn., Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Memphis. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">269.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Nashville. Tuition, 396.86; Jackson St. Cong. Ch., 5</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">401.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. C. Bennett, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NORTH CAROLINA, $251.20.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Troy. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Tuition, 200.20; Cong. Ch., 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">210.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Odd Minutes Miss'y Soc., 20; "Willing Workers," 20; <i>for
+Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;SOUTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />SOUTH CAROLINA, $319.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Charleston. Tuition, 304.50; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 15</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">319.50</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />GEORGIA, $653.58.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">264.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dalton. Rev. Milton Rowley, box Books, etc., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span><div class="sub1">Macon. Tuition, 172.70; Rent, 4; Cong Ch., 16.05</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">192.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Macon. Prof. A. J. Burger, Pulpit Bible <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">McIntosh. Tuition, 22.38; Rent, 1.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">23.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Savannah. Tuition, 152; Cong. Ch., 20</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">172.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ALABAMA, $418.72.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mobile. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">187.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mobile. Woman's H. M. Ass'n for <i>Missionary, Fort Berthold</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. First Cong. Ch., 14.75: Sab. Sch., 10; Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
+Silsby, 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">34.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Talladega. Tuition, 96; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15.27</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">111.27</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;FLORIDA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />FLORIDA, $10.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Augustine. Rent</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MISSISSIPPI, $36.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">36.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TEXAS, $245.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austin. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">235.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fort Worth. M. Marty</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;INCOMES">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />INCOMES, $462.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Avery Fund, for <i>Mendi M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">300.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">102.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Luke Mem. Scholarship Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mrs. N. M. &amp; Miss Abbie Stone Scholarship Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Straight U. Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Yale Library Fund, for <i>Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.80</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CANADA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CANADA, $5.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Canada, Montreal. "C. A."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total for May</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$17,372.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total from Oct. 1 to May 31</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">158,757.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">===========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Subscriptions for May</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Previously acknowledged</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">969.94</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,019.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">=========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">56 Reade Street, N. Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="center">
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+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
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+
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+
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+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 72px;">
+<img src="images/img212.jpg" width="72" height="72" alt="Count Rumford." title="" />
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+
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+<br />
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+<br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF</span><br />
+<b>Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><p>There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority
+of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been
+offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want
+as this.</p>
+
+<p>It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.</p>
+
+<p>No danger can attend its use.</p>
+
+<p>Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to
+take.</p>
+
+<p>It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.</p>
+
+<p>Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on
+application.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="medium">MANUFACTURED BY THE</span><br />
+<b>RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,</b><br />
+<span class="medium"><b>Providence, R. I.,</b></span><br />
+<span class="medium">AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div>
+<b>
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">EFFICACIOUS.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">ECONOMICAL.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">PORTABLE.</span><br />
+</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center large"><br /><b>TARRANT'S EFFERVESCENT SELTZER APERIENT.</b></div>
+
+<div class="center medium">A palatable effervescing draught; affords immediate and permanent
+relief in</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 144px;">
+<img src="images/img226.jpg" width="144" height="130" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 144px;">
+<img src="images/img226.jpg" width="144" height="130" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div>
+<b>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Constipation,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Biliousness,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Headache,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">Heartburn,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 11em;">Flatulency,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 13em;">Dyspepsia.</span><br />
+</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><br />Corrects acidity of the stomach, allays fever and gently operates
+upon the bowels. It is emphatically a Household Remedy, invaluable
+for Travelers. As acceptable to the smallest child as to the
+strongest man.</div>
+
+<div class="center"><b>Sold by all Druggists.</b></div>
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 07,
+July, 1885, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
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+
+Title: The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 07, July, 1885
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: October 2, 2009 [EBook #30158]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
+
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+
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+[Illustration:
+
+The American Missionary
+
+VOL. XXXIX
+
+NO. 7
+
+July, 1885.]
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                   PAGE.
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+
+  THE FIGURES--FINANCIAL                                          187
+  EXERCISE OF BENEVOLENCE                                         188
+  THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.               189
+  PARAGRAPHS                                                      191
+  CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO--GRAVE OF LOVEJOY--WHAT
+    SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?                                 192
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  FISK UNIVERSITY                                                 195
+  ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE                                196
+  GREGORY INSTITUTE                                               198
+  RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TALLADEGA                                 199
+  LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN--THE OLD COMMISSARY
+    BUILDING                                                      201
+  STUDENT'S LETTER                                                202
+  OBITUARY: MRS. H. M. STEVENS                                    203
+  OBITUARY: MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE                                  204
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  STATE ORGANIZATIONS--VERMONT SCHOOL AT MCINTOSH, GA.--ILLINOIS
+    HOME MISS. UNION                                              205
+  A TRUE INCIDENT                                                 206
+
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+  THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE                               207
+
+
+RECEIPTS                                                          208
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Vice-Presidents._
+
+  Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
+  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
+  Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D. D., N. Y.
+  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D. D., Mass.
+  Rev. D. O. MEARS, D. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. JAMES POWELL, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+  W. H. ROGERS,
+  PETER McCARTEE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.
+  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+  _For Three Years._
+
+  LYMAN ABBOTT.
+  A. S. BARNES.
+  J. R. DANFORTH.
+  CLINTON B. FISK.
+  A. P. FOSTER.
+
+  _For Two Years._
+
+  S. B. HALLIDAY.
+  SAMUEL HOLMES.
+  SAMUEL S. MARPLES.
+  CHARLES L. MEAD.
+  ELBERT B. MONROE.
+
+  _For One Year._
+
+  J. E. RANKIN.
+  WM. H. WARD.
+  J. L. WITHROW.
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN.
+  EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.
+
+
+_District Secretaries._
+
+  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D. D., _21 Cong'l House, Boston._
+  Rev. J. E. ROY, D. D., _112 West Washington Street, Chicago._
+
+  Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON, _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+
+
+_Field Officer._
+
+  Prof. ALBERT SALISBURY, _Superintendent of Education._
+
+
+_Bureau of Woman's Work._
+
+  _Secretary_, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary: those relating to the collecting fields, to
+Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for
+the "American Missionary," to the Editor, at the New York Office.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+May be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+
+VOL. XXXIX.      JULY, 1885.        NO. 7
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+$365,000
+
+NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a
+day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized
+plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the
+pressing needs of the early future.--
+
+[FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE FIGURES.
+
+  _Receipts._                     Donations.    Legacies.       Total.
+
+  Oct. 1, 1884, to May 31, 1885  $136,972.82   $21,784.35    $158,757.17
+  Oct. 1, 1883, to May 31, 1884   132,507.66    21,710.40     154,218.06
+                                 -----------   ----------    -----------
+                              Inc. $4,465.16  Inc. $73.95 Inc. $4,539.11
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our financial storm signal is still out. That threatening forty
+thousand dollars' deficit does not let up in its indications of
+approach. The black clouds are plainly discernible. We have been for
+months anxiously watching their movements. Our prayers and efforts
+have been steadily turned towards their dissipation. We do not lose
+faith. We believe in our work. We believe in our friends. The work
+has merit. Our friends have ability. The two will come together and
+the merit will cause the ability to stand forth. There are many
+things very decidedly encouraging.
+
+Never in all our history has the work been more abundantly blessed.
+Our schools have been crowded and God's Spirit has come down in great
+power upon the hearts of our pupils. In one school the revival
+character of the religious services had to cease, because there were
+none left to be converted! Our churches have been revived and
+enlarged. A spirit of joy and thankfulness is in the hearts of our
+missionaries.
+
+Notwithstanding the hard times, our receipts from the churches and
+living donors are larger by several thousand dollars than they were
+at this time last year. These facts are the indications of a living
+cause and an able constituency. They call upon us to lift our heads
+in hope and to inspire one another to still greater activity, and, if
+need be, to self-denial. We have no legacies in sight, and we
+certainly do not desire our friends to die. Our prayer is that they
+may live; that they may live long. Apart from their gifts in money we
+desire the strength and the grandeur of their lives to aid us in
+carrying forward the great and growing work on hand. We again call
+upon them to help us round out this year without a debt.
+
+We take the liberty to point out one way in which they can do this.
+
+Our missionaries are, many of them, returning at this time of year
+for a brief rest at the North. They need it. They have earned it. It
+may seem wrong to tax these brave workers, but we venture to say that
+if they are invited to tell the public the story of their experience
+they will not refuse to do it; and we venture to say further, it will
+be a story the public will be glad to hear. Let them have a royal
+welcome home by the churches. In the language of Rev. Sam Jones, the
+noted Southern Evangelist, as he counseled the churches to receive
+the new converts, "Let it not be on the tips of your fingers or on
+the palms of your hands you receive them, but, on your hearts," and
+God will bless the welcome to the churches, to the missionaries and
+to the work. Hear their story, heed its lessons, and it will not be
+long before the clouds shall roll away and our financial storm-signal
+be taken down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The exercise of benevolence Christ never conditioned on human
+recognition. The publicans and heathen furnished examples on that
+plane. When Christianity uncovers its roots there is never anything
+commercial even hinted at. Sinners need salvation. That is enough.
+Divine love moves in the presence of necessity. Its movement is
+electric. Even if ingratitude smite it in the face; nay, worse, if
+malignancy would summon forces for its crucifixion, without relaxing
+an iota it breathes the prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know
+not what they do." Unswervingly Christ held along, doing right
+because it was right. Passion in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
+lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
+Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion when He saw the
+people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
+forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
+the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
+righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
+not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
+the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.
+
+It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as
+did the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that
+shall sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty.
+Opposition may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men
+may oppose them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
+misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
+it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
+work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
+development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
+doing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
+
+
+The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
+the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
+hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
+homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
+Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
+millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
+enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
+improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
+there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
+company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
+would seem absurd.
+
+But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
+They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
+immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
+their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
+and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
+department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
+in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
+arts, were all displayed to a remarkable degree in the large
+collection. Southerners and Northerners were alike astonished at what
+their eyes beheld. Those who thought that the negro has no higher
+mission than to be a "hewer of wood and drawer of water," were
+compelled either to change their minds or else to say they did not
+believe that the colored people did the work. It was amusing to hear
+the remarks of some of the latter class, as they looked at some
+beautiful specimens of negro handicraft or ingenuity.
+
+It may interest the readers of the MISSIONARY to glance at the great
+variety of lines along which negro ability put itself on exhibition.
+
+Examination papers from schools were very numerous, showing
+proficiency in penmanship, spelling, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
+free drawing, grammar and translations from the classics; fine
+needlework of all kinds; millinery; dress-making, tailoring; portrait
+and landscape painting in oil, water-colors and crayon; photography;
+sculpture; models of steamboats, locomotives, stationary engines, and
+railway cars; cotton presses, plows, cultivators, and reaping
+machines; wagons, buggies; tools of almost all kinds, from the hammer
+of the carpenter to the finely-wrought forceps of the dentist; piano
+and organ (both pipe and reed) making; carpentry, cabinet-making;
+upholstery; tin-smithing; black-smithing, boot and shoe making;
+basket and broom making; pottery, plain and glazed; brick-making;
+agricultural products, including all the cereals and fruits raised in
+the country; silk-worm culture; fruit preserving; flour from a mill,
+and machinery from a foundry owned by a colored man; patented
+inventions and improvements, nearly all of them useful and practical,
+were quite numerous; drugs and medicines; stationery, printing and
+publishing.
+
+Some of the articles on exhibition are worthy of special mention--a
+black walnut pulpit, in design and finish as beautiful and tasteful
+as any church might wish; a sofa finely upholstered, and the covering
+embroidered with artistically-executed needlework, showing four
+prominent events in the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture; a chandelier,
+very beautiful in design and finely finished; a complete set of
+dentist's instruments, in polish and finish remarkable; a little
+engine, made by a silversmith of Knoxville, who was a slave, and who
+has become a skilled workman of local reputation. He never worked in
+a shop till he had one of his own. He learned the use of tools
+without any instruction. These articles would certainly merit
+attention, even if put in competition with similar specimens of the
+very best workmanship.
+
+Neither the negroes nor their friends have any reason to regret that
+an exhibit was made. It was in every sense of the word creditable. It
+marks a progress simply wonderful, when all the circumstances are
+taken into the account. It is prophetic of a very hopeful future. It
+demonstrates that the negro race can enter every profession and
+calling in which the white man is found. It proclaims in tones that
+no one should misunderstand, that he who writes or speaks of the
+colored people should be careful how he pronounces judgment in regard
+to their capacity. They should be given a white man's chance. No
+trade nor occupation should be closed against them. Open doors should
+welcome to honorable competition, white and black alike. Let this be
+so, and in less than half a century there will not be a trade, nor
+profession, nor calling, in which black men will not be found in the
+front. There will be preachers and professors, and editors, and
+physicians, and lawyers, and statesmen, and teachers, and bankers,
+and business men, and artisans, and mechanics and farmers, of
+African descent, of whom, as brethren, the very greatest of white men
+will not need to be ashamed. Let writers on the negro stop theorizing
+about his capacity for this or that calling, and unite in demanding
+that he have a fair chance to become what God has made him capable of
+becoming. It is wrong, it is wicked for men who by voice and pen
+influence public sentiment, to conclude that because the negro is now
+a waiter, a boot-black, a barber, a laborer, that therefore he cannot
+be anything else, or even that he cannot probably be anything else.
+By the very force of circumstances he has been compelled to occupy
+these positions. By an unjust public sentiment he has been shut out
+from even an opportunity to prove his capacity to stand beside his
+white brother in every calling.
+
+Public sentiment should be reformed at this point; and the colored
+people's exhibition of what they have achieved in the short space of
+twenty years, in spite of opposition, and in spite of lack of
+opportunity, assures us that if they are permitted they will
+contribute no small share in securing the reformation. We advise all
+leaders of public sentiment who do not desire twenty-five or thirty
+years hence to be found eating their words of to-day, or explaining
+how it was that they came to be on ground so untenable, to heed the
+lessons of this Exposition, and range themselves with those who look
+at facts, and who recognize the prophetic power of facts, and
+heartily accept the prophecy, even if this prophecy run counter to
+what have been _their_ fancies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Colored People's Educational Day at the World's Exposition called
+out an immense crowd and proved to be of very great interest.
+Speeches were made by representatives of both races. Rev. Dr. Palmer,
+the eloquent Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, and Col. Wm.
+Preston Johnson, President of the Tulane University, represented the
+Louisiana whites, and in their speeches not only complimented the
+colored people on the progress they had made, but assured them of the
+hearty sympathy and co-operation of all good people in the South. The
+Rev. A. E. P. Albert, a graduate of our Straight University,
+represented the colored people. The newspapers published his speech
+in full. We have read it with much interest. It is a speech of
+considerable power. It is an honor to the man, to his race and to the
+A. M. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our Student's Letter this month is from Talladega College. The
+memories it portrays are not pleasant, but it is fitting to remember
+the pit out of which we have been digged. The darkness of the picture
+makes the present opportunities and privileges of the colored people
+to shine out all the brighter. Heartily can we thank God that these
+terrible things are now only a memory.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO.
+
+
+After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885,
+a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and
+Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the
+report, which was adopted:
+
+     Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary
+     Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points
+     of interest in the address. That is, that the American
+     Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000,
+     and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the
+     end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that
+     this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of
+     mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment
+     of this grand organization for years to come. It _need_ not be;
+     it _ought_ not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
+     it _will_ not be. Your committee therefore propose this
+     resolution:
+
+     _Resolved_, That we, the members of this association, will
+     individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
+     making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
+     year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
+     impending calamity.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"--CORRECTION.
+
+
+EDITOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.--DEAR SIR: Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
+168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
+There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
+in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
+the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
+a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
+remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
+an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
+freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
+monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
+over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?
+
+  H. L. HAMMOND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?
+
+
+A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!
+
+_Exclude them_, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
+problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
+and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
+became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
+America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
+it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
+before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
+immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.
+
+For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
+royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
+his authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
+diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
+But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
+move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
+Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
+conducted upon Puget Sound in smuggling Chinese from Vancouver's
+Island to our forbidden soil. Certain it is that many Chinese,
+failing to get tickets at Hong Kong for San Francisco, buy them to
+Victoria. Already it becomes a serious question what fence can be
+built along our northern frontier so close, so strong, so high that
+no Chinese can anywhere climb over, or crawl under, or work through.
+Mexico wants the Chinese, we hear. How far is it from the northern
+line of Mexico to the southern line of California and Arizona? And
+once across that line our Chinese invaders, coming slyly one by one,
+have won the fight and go and come at their own pleasure.
+
+Exclusion has not solved this problem, and it is safe to add that, as
+it should not, so it never will. For this policy is in contradiction
+to the vital principles of our national existence; and either it must
+be abandoned, or sooner or later this contradiction will develop into
+conflict irrepressible. Those vital principles are two: "All men
+created equal," and "All men endowed with certain inalienable
+rights," etc. Our fathers counted them to be self-evident, and placed
+them as twin pillars in our temple of liberty. Now, a nation cannot
+knock out its own foundation stones, cannot defy the laws of its own
+organic life without becoming divided against itself; and in the
+conflict ensuing, either its vital principles will be reaffirmed and
+rehabilitated, or else the nation dies. We have had one lesson at
+this point, and we ought not to need another for a dozen centuries.
+Exclusion is only a make-shift of the politicians, not the offspring
+of real statesmanship. It has not solved the problem, and it never
+will.
+
+What then shall we do? Educate and Christianize these heathen, we
+reply: So you will make them to be Chinese no longer, but Americans.
+This is the right answer, but, alas, how much easier said than done!
+The undertaking, hard enough at first, grows harder, in some
+respects, as the years roll on.
+
+One added difficulty is the wider diffusion of these strangers over
+our whole country. The prejudice which their peculiarities excite is
+thus extended, while the number to be reached in any one locality is
+diminished. Work for the Chinese ought now to be prosecuted, not
+simply in Sunday schools, but in Mission schools, kept in session
+every evening and alt through the year in most of the principal
+cities of the whole Union, as well as on the Pacific Coast. But the
+outward and visible encouragements will be smaller, because each
+Mission finds its particular field reduced in size.
+
+Another added difficulty is in an increased and deepened antagonism
+on the part of the great mass of Chinese to real Christianity.
+Multitudes have seen enough of the true light to reject it; and
+having rejected, now to hate it. Oh, it drives one back to God in an
+agony of mingled longing and despair to see this mighty multitude
+that will not come and be saved, drifting along in darkness and
+wretchedness through this life to the blackness of darkness beyond!
+And this is intensified by the thought of the children now quite
+numerous in our Chinese communities. We know to what the daughters
+are destined. We know what it is that gives them, in this country, a
+special money value; and as to the sons, one can scarcely conceive
+circumstances more perilous than those in which they are placed.
+Breathing our free American air, entering readily into the Young
+America spirit, they will not brook the harsh discipline which, in
+their native land, would have been submissively and perhaps with
+profit accepted. At the same time, the parents ill understand that
+discipline of love which adjusts itself to these new circumstances,
+and when it can no longer compel, succeeds in wooing and winning and
+molding aright the boyish heart. Demons incarnate, both American and
+Chinese, tempt these boys, while they are unprotected by any
+reverence either for the ancestors and idols of their own people or
+for the American God whom Americans by their conduct so cruelly
+belie.
+
+And this suggests another added difficulty: the contrast which our
+Chinese Christians cannot but observe between the precepts of the
+Bible, the example of Christ, the exhortations of those who led them
+to Jesus, and the practices of multitudes of American professors of
+religion. And, too often, they are led to do as we do, and not as we
+say. While at the same time the indifference of many professed
+Christians to the salvation of this Chinese, and the attitude of many
+churches toward those already converted, loads the problem down with
+difficulties such as might well drive us to despair.
+
+But, no; nothing shall drive us to despair. This problem must be
+solved. This mountain mass of heathenism must be--not removed and
+cast into the sea, but transformed into the mountain of the Lord's
+house, and made an element--an element of untold value and
+efficiency--in our American Zion. Let us have faith as the grain of
+mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
+commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
+courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
+difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
+non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
+that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
+any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
+thing to do--for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
+of the uncounted millions beyond the sea--we must, and we will, claim
+and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.
+
+  WM. C. POND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
+
+A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.
+
+
+Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
+and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
+that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
+on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
+Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
+Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
+societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
+the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
+great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
+28.
+
+This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
+be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
+interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
+The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
+college has been one marked feature and a source of great
+encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
+into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
+two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
+the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
+before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
+yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
+growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
+young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
+only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart and
+purpose; of the present class three have fallen by the hand of death
+within the four years and only three have dropped out for other
+causes.
+
+Commencement day revealed in the tone of the graduating orations a
+moral earnestness and uprightness of principle that called forth the
+commendation of our stranger guests. The best record of the class,
+however, is in the influence its members have exerted in the school
+during the whole of their Senior year.
+
+It may be remembered that a year ago the Alumni Association adopted a
+plan by which, beginning three years after graduation, at least one
+per cent. of the earnings of each member is to be appropriated to an
+endowment fund for Fisk University. Whenever the sum reaches $1,000,
+it is to be devoted to some chair in the University. This year the
+Treasurer reported $140 on hand. The beginning seems small, but who
+can tell to what the stream may grow? Part of the Alumni anniversary
+was given up to a memorial service for one who, after six years of
+faithful work among her people, has died within the year.
+
+On the evening devoted to the Normal Department, Prof. Salisbury was
+expected to address us on some educational topic. In his absence,
+Prof. Smith, of the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University, kindly
+filled the place and gave us an excellent address on Thomas Carlyle.
+Prof. Smith is of Southern birth, but has manifested a cordial
+friendliness and an interest that has led him to really investigate
+the work of Fisk University.
+
+On Commencement Day, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D. D., of Minneapolis,
+Minn., honored us with his presence and with an address, both wise
+and eloquent, on "Sublime Motives," holding up three as especially
+worthy to prompt to action: responsibility for the architecture of
+our own character, responsibility for the development of latent moral
+power, and the conservation of moral forces.
+
+Few who heard it will forget the solemn charge given to the
+graduating class by President Cravath, illustrated by an incident, as
+told by the Rev. Sam. Jones, of the battle of Nashville. General Hood
+saw a Federal battery making dreadful havoc in his army, and sent to
+a subordinate general a messenger, saying, "Give him my compliments,
+and tell him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The
+general was in the thick of the battle and could not be found. The
+same message was sent to another with the same result. Finally to a
+third he sent the messenger, saying, "Give him my _love_, and tell
+him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The battery
+was speedily taken and the message of affection returned to General
+Hood. So are these young people sent out with the love of teachers
+and friends, to capture the batteries that are dealing moral death to
+this people.
+
+After the degree of B. A. had been conferred on the fifteen
+graduates, that of M. A. was given to fourteen former graduates, who
+for three years or more have been engaged in scholarly employments.
+
+To add to the interest of Commencement, Gen. Fisk arrived the evening
+before, and closed the public exercises of Thursday with an address,
+whose pleasantry made every one forget the fatigue of five
+consecutive hours of speech-making. Several members of the
+Legislature, now in extra session in the Capitol, were present both
+at the Commencement exercises and at the collation which followed.
+
+A new and interesting feature of this anniversary was the part taken
+by the Girls' Industrial Department. A basket of cake made by members
+of the cooking class graced each table at the Commencement dinner and
+was by general consent pronounced excellent. In the Assembly Room of
+Jubilee Hall were displayed various garments and household articles
+neatly made by the sewing classes.
+
+Nothing has been said about examinations; they are like the bread of
+our daily meals, always expected and very important. A more thorough
+examination than usual was given the classes in drawing and in vocal
+music. One exercise in the latter examination was the singing at
+sight of a tune, in four parts, composed by a member of the class.
+
+Our halls are already deserted; nothing holds our students after
+Commencement: they scatter at once for work, and within a few weeks,
+in at least half a dozen States, miniature Fisk Universities will be
+in operation.
+
+  ANNA M. CAHILL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA.
+
+
+In beauty, interest and enthusiasm Hampton anniversary days abate
+nothing as years go on. The seventeenth anniversary exercises were
+held on May 21, with a graduating class of forty-two, of whom five
+were Indians. Visitors were present from North and South, East and
+West, and such expressions as "The half was not told me!" and "Why
+didn't I bring my wife?" were frequent, as usual.
+
+Of the morning examinations, one of the most interesting was a
+general exercise conducted by the chaplain, in review of the current
+news of the world, which is daily read and discussed with the
+students. Victor Hugo, French and English politics, the Afghan
+trouble, Russia and Nihilism, Irish Nationalists, France and China,
+England and Egypt, were touched in the questions, and the answers and
+general interest showed the value of this daily exercise. In the
+ancient history class, printed questions were shuffled and
+distributed among the students, and question and answer were spoken
+out promptly by each scholar, giving an attractive quickness and
+vivacity to the recitation. The class of little Indian geographers
+stood before a table on which was a miniature United States made of
+sand, with its Eastern elevations, its great central plains, and its
+high Western ranges. A thread of blue worsted, put in place by the
+young world-builders, simulated the Mississippi, while cities (in the
+guise of white buttons) sprang up with a rapidity unknown even in the
+great West. The practice-teaching class is always of especial
+interest and significance, as over ninety per cent of Hampton's
+students devote themselves to teaching as their life mission. A dozen
+little bright-eyed, brown-faced primaries from the "Butler" training
+school received a geography lesson from one of the senior girls,
+criticised by her class-mates. Its grand _finale_ was a miniature
+volcanic eruption, creating a sensation among the Butler mites.
+
+The industrial exhibits and the training shops, with their Negro and
+Indian apprentices, attracted interested attention, as usual.
+
+The emotions of anniversary day culminated in the afternoon
+exercises, in which were several incidents of unusual interest. The
+pretty and graceful salutatorian, fair as most of her hearers, was
+introduced as a young representative of the family of faithful Mary
+Peake, who, just escaped from slavery herself, taught the first
+"contraband school" at Hampton. This introduction roused the
+war-memories of Rev. Dr. Strieby, who, greeting the young girl as she
+stepped on the platform, told the story of the first missionary sent
+down to Old Point by the American Missionary Association, his
+reception by the contrabands as an angel of deliverance, and his
+first school, opened Sept. 17, 1861, with Mary Peake as its teacher,
+till she gave up her life in the work for her people.
+
+The pastor's class was represented by a Baptist minister from
+Hampton, who gave an account of the Old and New ministry, somewhat
+characteristic of both. This pastor's class has become an interesting
+feature of Hampton, with a mission of peace and good-will to both
+races and all sects and sections. Now in its second year, it numbers,
+as pupils, 17 colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity. Baptist and
+Methodist; and as teachers Rev. Mr. Frissell, chaplain, and Rev. Mr.
+Tolman, ex-chaplain of the school, Northern Congregationalist
+ministers, with Miss Alice Bacon, who thus worthily wears her
+venerated fathers mantle, and the Southern white ministers from
+Hampton, Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist, in unity of spirit that is
+verily "a good and a pleasant thing to see." The studies are the
+Bible and Bible history, pastoral theology and composition. In
+cultivating better understanding and kindly relations between these
+colored and white neighbors, and the relations of the school with
+both, as well as in helping meet the great need of an intelligent
+ministry, this pastor's class is doing important work. Some of its
+members board at the school, working their way in part like the other
+students, sometimes entering their classes. Some are helped to come
+by their congregations, who appreciate the opportunity.
+
+A handsome gold medal, presented by Mr. W. J. Demorest, of New York
+City, was awarded to Harris Barrett, of the senior class, for
+excellence in the junior elementary studies, the three R's,
+geography, grammar and spelling, in which the whole class were
+examined for the prize without special review, only one falling below
+an average of 50 per cent. on all, and five averaging above 90--a
+better showing than some Northern college seniors could make, I fear.
+
+As usual, some of the school's former graduates returned to tell the
+story of their labors, and nearly fifty were present on the
+invitation yearly renewed to all.
+
+The valedictorian was the youngest of a family of one sister and four
+brothers, children of a minister, who have graduated at the school,
+the last two with the honor of the valedictory.
+
+The Indian graduates were represented by two of their number, a young
+man of the Sac and Fox tribe, Indian Territory, who gave his own
+reasons for claiming and desiring citizenship for his people, which
+were: 1st, that the Indian also is a child of the Father; 2d, that
+he was once owner of the land; 3d, that without this protection and
+help he must perish; 4th, that with it he can become a useful member
+of the nation, a man among men. An Indian girl plead eloquently for
+the Indian woman, and protested against the use of "savage" as a
+synonym of Indian, since "there are also yellow savages, black
+savages and white savages." The representations of the past, present
+and future of Indian life will not soon be forgotten by those who saw
+them. The past's barbaric glories were typified by a tall young brave
+and Indian girl in the beautiful dress of the wilderness. They stood
+silent, like a vision of the ancient days, while their story was
+told. The present's pathos was represented by "_Lo_" the _very_ "poor
+Indian" and squaw in shabby blankets, bewailing--as their Indian
+interpreter explained--the loss of lands and buffalo, asking where to
+go next--"white man everywhere"; the future's hope by a promising
+pair of Hampton students, able to speak for themselves, work for
+themselves and teach their people, with their white brethren's help,
+in the Christian's road. As the three groups stood in striking
+tableau--a visible embodiment of truth which I wish every white
+citizen of the United States could have seen and taken to
+heart--their comrades of the Indian school rose behind them, and
+started a Dakota hymn, recognized by the melody as "From Greenland's
+Icy Mountains," or, as interpreted to Indian understanding, "From the
+very distant cold land--from the hot land far away." As the plaintive
+strain died away, it was taken up in English in the richer chorus of
+their colored schoolmates, and the whole audience, rising, joined in
+the grand third verse, "_Shall we whose souls are lighted_," with
+effect not to pass from their hearts.
+
+Diplomas were presented by Rev. Dr. Strieby, vice-president of the
+Board of Trustees, to the graduating class of seventeen colored and
+three Indian young women, and twenty colored and two Indian young
+men, 42 in all. Eloquent addresses were made also by Rev Dr. McVickar
+of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Armstrong of Norfolk, imprisoned once
+by General Butler because he would pray for Jefferson Davis, but now
+thanking God for the new order, and rejoicing in Negro education.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N. C.
+
+
+The year at Gregory Institute, as usual, has been a busy one, both in
+school and out. As a worthy colored member of our church expressed
+it, "We are tormented with Christian work at Wilmington." We have had
+this year a total enrollment of 284 pupils, and the percentage of
+attendance has never been greater. The pupils have, as a rule, worked
+well, and in many cases the progress has been very marked. While we
+are not completely satisfied with the results, yet there has been
+very much to encourage our labors. The Lord has been merciful in
+keeping the workers in good health, and there has been no death and
+but few cases of sickness among the pupils.
+
+The last week was taken up with examinations, both oral and written,
+and in perfecting arrangements for the anxiously looked-for event
+among our people, the closing exhibition.
+
+Such a clamoring for tickets one never heard. Of course, not
+one-fourth asked for could be issued, for lack of room; but, as far
+as possible, the parents were admitted. Although a thunder-storm,
+lasting about an hour, came up just as the doors were opened, the
+people continued to pour in until the hall was as full as an egg,
+upwards of 500 finding seats.
+
+The programme, which was a long and varied one, was carried out
+without any drawback whatever, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
+teachers and of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, who all planned so well to make
+it a success. For three and one-half hours the audience gave the
+closest attention, and the comments since have been very flattering.
+Several, including some Northerners, have declared it to be the best
+exhibition they ever attended.
+
+It would tire you to read the entire programme, so I will mention and
+describe briefly only a few of the pieces, though all were as
+creditably rendered as if it were a white school, with the singing
+perhaps better. The pupils, without exception, acquitted themselves
+nobly, and their neat appearance was worthy of special mention.
+
+You would have been pleasantly entertained had you witnessed the
+Missionary Colloquy, in which 20 girls, some taken from each
+department of the school, took part. First came a girl bearing the
+American flag and representing America, who spoke, and was then
+followed by another girl with a Bible, representing Christianity.
+Next came singly nine girls in costume, each to represent a heathen
+nation, and making an earnest plea for the Gospel. Then followed a
+band of nine little American missionary workers, each stepping to the
+front and telling how she had earned her money which she was about to
+give to the noble cause. After dropping her gift in a basket held by
+"America," she repeated these words: "O happy, happy child am I, to
+serve the Lord of earth and sky;" then taking her place, another came
+forward in the same way until all had spoken. "America" now hands her
+basket, with its treasure, to Christianity, whom she addresses; then
+both turn and address the heathen in concert. In the time, missionary
+hymns were sweetly sung by the girls, and the piece, as presented,
+was one of the finest I ever saw.
+
+The doll drill was another interesting part of the evening's
+entertainment. The little primary girls went through the different
+evolutions with almost military precision, eliciting rounds of
+applause.
+
+So I might name many pieces of almost equal interest, but suffice it
+for me to mention further only the closing. This was "The Cross and
+Crown," consisting of tableaux and recitations taken mostly from "The
+Cross-Bearer." The time occupied in this was fully 45 minutes; and
+although the hour was so late, our audience did not fail to
+appreciate this beautiful piece. Several of the older people being
+asked which piece they liked best, replied, "I believe I liked the
+one with the angel best."
+
+A very important part of the evening's work must not be omitted from
+mention. This was the presentation of certificates to the graduating
+class on the completion of the Elementary Normal Course ending with
+the 10th year or grade. The members of this class, one young man and
+two young ladies, have been reared up in our school, and would be a
+credit to any school. This is the first graduation from the course;
+and although the class is small, it has incited others to say, "I
+mean to stick to the school until I can stand where they did."
+
+We think the entertainment was filled with sermons, and we trust that
+the influence produced may be all for good.
+
+  GEO. A. WOODARD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN TALLADEGA.
+
+
+The second Sabbath in May was a notable day with our college church
+at Talladega. It was a feast of ingathering.
+
+As early as eight o'clock a band of young men assembled on the banks
+of Talladega Creek, that three of their number might be immersed. It
+was a lovely spring morning, and the green banks, the running waters,
+the sweet air, the bright sunshine, the hymns, the prayers, the
+remarks of the pastor, and the Sacrament itself (administered by Rev.
+Spencer Snell, the pastor having had a congestive chill the preceding
+week, and being forbidden to go into the water) were full of
+solemnity and sweet instruction.
+
+Two hours later we met again in the college chapel. One of the most
+pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
+been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
+was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
+be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
+year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
+overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
+and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
+people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
+his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
+church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
+sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
+people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
+three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
+None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.
+
+This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
+professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
+by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
+here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
+meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
+buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
+the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.
+
+The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
+than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
+the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
+colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
+not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
+of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
+had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.
+
+The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
+salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
+members, teachers, professors, president and pastor--we all felt this
+truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
+a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
+and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
+coming into the first meeting--and lest any should fail, from any
+cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
+the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew--the real
+object sought in the meetings was brought home to every member of the
+College and Church. When we had the list of names (with hardly an
+exception they furnished their own names), we were vividly reminded
+of the individuals for whom we were working and praying, and they
+knew, every one, that we were definitely working and praying for
+them. This gave a feeling of practical, concentrated work, such as
+seldom attends such meetings.
+
+Excepting this, there were no unusual means employed. The truth was
+very earnestly and simply preached. Immediate decision for Christ was
+pressed. Personal efforts were conscientiously made by teachers and
+students. Little prayer meetings, where from two to a dozen met for
+special prayer, were frequent, and the Lord blessed all the means
+used.
+
+Since the close of the protracted meeting, each Sabbath-school class
+has had its own weekly prayer meeting--a means of great good. Also a
+general young Christians' prayer meeting has been held weekly. In it
+effort has been made, not only to lead these new converts to take
+part in prayer and conference, but to instruct them upon some points
+too often neglected. Those who on this day united with the church
+could each, I think, give an intelligent statement of reasons why
+they should unite with the church; and, in so uniting, why they gave
+public assent to a confession of faith, and why they joined in
+covenant with God and his people.
+
+  MASON NOBLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
+
+
+Marked revivals have been in progress in all the colored churches of
+the city. With all the noise and superstition, we cannot doubt that
+there are not a few genuine conversions. And yet, while our students
+attend these meetings only to a limited extent, the influence upon
+them tends to interfere with our religious work.
+
+Last week it was my privilege to attend the meeting of the North
+Texas Association, held at Cleburne. Tillotson church, on
+application, was cordially admitted to membership. The same
+cordiality and courtesy were extended to Brother McLean, late of
+Talladega College, who applied for membership in his own behalf. Rev.
+J. W. Roberts, representing the colored church of Dallas, was also
+present. The dignified, scholarly bearing of both these brethren won
+for them golden opinions from all who listened to their reports and
+remarks. Not a few of those who were present at the various sessions
+were Southerners, but apparently none the less interested on that
+account. It was my fortune to be entertained by an ex-slaveholder,
+who served in the Confederate army through the war, but who
+nevertheless is a warm friend of the Congregational church in his
+town, and contributes to its support.
+
+The moderator and scribe of the association, seated side by side
+through the meetings, presented a striking contrast. The first was a
+business man, born in New England, quick, keen, decisive and
+energetic, an officer in the Union army through the war, since that
+time engaged in business in Texas, now the possessor of a large
+fortune, and thoroughly identified with, and enthusiastic concerning,
+the material and spiritual interests of his adopted State.
+
+The second was the pastor of the leading Congregational Church of the
+State, born in the South, educated for the law, a soldier in the
+Confederate army, for a time almost a wreck morally and physically,
+but now, by the grace of God, "clothed and in his right mind,"
+dignified, magnetic, an earnest, reverent student of the Bible, an
+able preacher and a beloved pastor.
+
+Thus, with representatives of the North and the South, the East and
+the West, the white race and the black, America, Sweden and Ireland,
+we had at least one marked feature of the Pentecost. But aside from
+that, the manifest presence of the Spirit, and the consequent harmony
+and good-fellowship, rendered our meeting in a still more important
+degree like that season which was the beginning of such a wonderful
+regeneration in the history of the world. It may be accepted, I doubt
+not, as one of the signs of the regeneration that is going on in the
+South, which is less wonderful only in the fact of being local rather
+than world-wide.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE OLD COMMISSARY BUILDING.
+
+
+We held a series of revival meetings at South Williamsburgh, in the
+old commissary building. Wish some of the good people of the North,
+who meet in churches and chapels, plastered and nicely warmed, and
+comfortably seated, could have dropped in upon us and spent an hour.
+Of course, they would have had the back-ache and cold feet, and,
+perhaps, carried away a flea or two, even in March, but they would
+have gone home saying, "If people can meet in such a place, some
+refined, intelligent ladies even, and continue to go night after
+night, I ought to be very, very willing to go to my church whenever
+the Lord calls a meeting and my presence and voice are necessary."
+But that you may appreciate the contrast with your pleasant place of
+meeting, let me take you to the old commissary building.
+
+It's a _box-house_; that is, it's made of boards set upright and
+nailed at the bottom and middle and top to joists. Over this crazy
+structure sets a roof made of long oaken shingles hewn with the broad
+axe. Step inside of the building, which will hold 125 people, and see
+the whole construction. Rough boards with the curve of the circular
+saw on them and now dingy with smoke, make the sides; oaken shingles
+black with smoke, slope above.
+
+A "cannon stove" sends most of its smoke through a rusty pipe up
+through a piece of sheet iron to the air. The sparks, and now and
+then a star, shine through about the pipe. Newspapers pasted over the
+widest cracks on the sides of the room keep out the heaviest drafts.
+I remember one night when it was snowing (even here, in March), a
+flurry of wind brought down a glistening shower on the shoulders of
+the congregation. The roof usually turns water, however.
+
+Please stand here by the door and talk to the people. Feet get cold?
+I don't wonder. The door was made an inch and a half too short. You
+ask "why in the name of health don't you fix it?" Well, just sit
+there against the wall. You sit down, and a projecting horizontal
+joist takes you right in the back of the neck and makes you crane
+your head forward in a most uncomfortable way. Poor place to get
+asleep; one would pitch right forward on the floor. You see, if we
+commenced to "fix up," we wouldn't know where to begin, for one lack
+is as great as another. One night we held a meeting in that building,
+and before morning the thermometer fell to zero. We need a good
+stove; that one is full of cracks in front, so we always left a boy
+to watch after meeting till the fire died out. We just make the house
+do; strips have been laid on the floor, paper pasted over the wall
+gaps, seats of rough boards set in the building, windows tightened,
+and there we gathered. God's Spirit met us in spite of cold and
+dinginess and needs. I believe ten or twelve rose for prayers during
+those two weeks. Since warm weather Brother Myers has continued the
+meetings, and I trust a score or more have given their hearts to the
+Lord.
+
+  JAS. T. FORD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+
+  TALLADEGA COLLEGE, Talladega, Ala., April, 1885.
+
+It is wonderful to notice how many and what interesting changes may
+take place during the few years of one's life. The first eleven years
+of my life I spent as a slave, but I have lived to see these glorious
+days of freedom. I was born upon my master's plantation in Monroe
+County, Ala., where I lived till 1865, when I was set at liberty with
+the rest of my unfortunate brethren.
+
+While living upon that plantation I saw many of the horrors of
+slavery with my own eyes. One of the mean and degrading things I
+remember was the way the slaves had to live, crowded together in one
+house. There were three or four different families, consisting of
+twelve or fifteen persons, all living in the same room. There was
+only one house for colored people, and it had only one room.
+
+Although my master did not have so many slaves and was not so mean as
+some other slave-holders about him, still, the treatment which his
+slaves received was shockingly cruel. I remember very distinctly the
+paddling block, the paddle, and the great whip used upon that place.
+There comes very vividly before my mind the whipping of a hired man.
+I know just how every rag of clothes was taken off, and how he was
+tied down in the front yard between the gate and the house, so that
+he could not move hand or foot, and how the master would whip him a
+while and walk about and smoke his pipe a while, as the poor hired
+slave lay upon the ground and cried for mercy, but there was none to
+help him.
+
+Whenever my thoughts go back to those dark days, I recollect the time
+when my own brother ran away because he was not willing to take the
+whipping which the master wanted to give him late one afternoon. I
+think of how the bloodhounds came, and how they chased him, while
+mother, brothers, and fellow-slaves stood trembling, and how glad all
+were when we learned that the dogs could not catch him.
+
+If I could forget all other heart-rending scenes of those dark days,
+I could not erase from my memory the cruel treatment which I saw my
+own mother receive. Though I was small, I think of how I used to see
+her work hard, and how she was scolded and cursed as she was driven
+about like a dog. I saw her laid upon that paddling-block, and I
+heard her distressing cries, but, like the rest of her children, I
+could do nothing.
+
+I love to contrast my present condition with what it was a few years
+ago, and as I do so I do not forget the A. M. A., whose workers found
+me in the lowest depths of ignorance and helped me up. When
+liberated, soon after the surrender, I could not read a word and did
+not know a letter. I do not remember that I had ever seen the inside
+of a book of any kind. It was in 1867 that I learnt the alphabet upon
+the plantation by the light of pine knots. During the years 1868 and
+1869 I was a rag-picker in the streets of Mobile. God has led me on,
+and now I am a student in Talladega College, and expect soon to have
+finished a course of study which will enable me to go forth to lead
+men to Christ and to teach them better methods of living. I speak of
+this contrast not boastfully, but humbly and with deep gratitude to
+God, who took me from the woes and degradation of slavery and has
+given me a double freedom. I am so glad for the schools the A. M. A.
+has in the South; I am so glad for what they have done for me.
+Through one of these schools I was led to Christ. Soon after that I
+felt called to the ministry; and in Talladega College I am permitted
+to finish a course of study, and to some degree equip myself for the
+work of life. All praise to an organization that seeks for poor,
+ignorant and sinful men, leads them to Christ, instructs them, and
+then sends them out to bless the world.
+
+  A STUDENT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MRS. H. M. STEVENS.
+
+
+Another veteran teacher of the A. M. A. has been called home to her
+rest. On the morning of May 7, at her home in St. Albans, Vt., Mrs.
+H. M. Stevens, known to A. M. A. workers as Miss E. M. Barnes, of
+Bakersfield, Vt., fell asleep after a severe and painful sickness of
+several mouths.
+
+Miss Barnes entered the service of the Association in 1865 and left
+it in 1882, to minister to her devoted friend and fellow laborer,
+Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens, in her last sickness. When released from
+this service of love her own health prevented her return to the
+Southern work. Her first year was spent at Arlington, Va. She spent
+six years in the Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., four years in the Le
+Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., and her last six in Fisk
+University--seventeen years of devoted, earnest and fruitful labor in
+behalf of the colored youth in the South.
+
+Since leaving the South her life has been a pleasant and useful one
+as Mrs. Stevens, the wife of a devoted husband and an earnest and
+zealous Christian woman in the city and the church where her lot was
+cast. The testimony to her nobility and earnestness of character was
+manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
+sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
+short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
+teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
+and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
+which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
+youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
+pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.
+
+She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
+Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
+most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
+place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
+a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
+there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
+have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
+Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
+entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
+uttermost."
+
+The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
+and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
+held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
+labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
+impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
+greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
+borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
+who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
+and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
+been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
+character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
+were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
+world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
+others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
+the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
+to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
+the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!
+
+  E. M. CRAVATH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.
+
+
+Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
+Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
+
+Miss Goodridge was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of a godly and
+New England ancestry. She became a Christian in her earliest years
+and joined the church when but a child. From the beginning she was
+instructed in the Scriptures, which can make wise unto salvation, and
+her nature, less rugged than that of some, was well perfected by
+grace. Seeking usefulness in needy fields, she offered herself to the
+A. M. A., and last year began her work in Talladega, where she proved
+herself a devoted and successful teacher, a woman of great refinement
+and goodness, and a faithful servant of Christ. Herself a disciple
+sitting at Jesus' feet, she never forgot her Master in her teaching,
+while her unconscious influence was powerful for good. Her illness
+was but of a few days' duration, nor was it considered fatal until
+within a few hours of the end. Winning in person and of rare beauty
+of character, she has greatly endeared herself to her associates and
+to all who knew her. Though death came suddenly it did not find her
+unprepared. Her hope was in Christ, and her end was a peaceful
+falling asleep.
+
+  H. S. DE FOREST.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+We are glad to report a movement in favor of State organizations for
+woman's work in our own country in co-operation with the Am. Home
+Miss. Soc., the Am. Miss. Assoc., the New West Ed. Com., etc. At a
+special meeting called at Saratoga on June 4, action was taken by the
+representatives of the several Woman's Missionary Societies,
+advocating the formation of State societies, whose object should be
+to co-operate with the established societies of the Congregational
+order, in raising funds and increasing intelligence respecting
+missionary work in this country.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Two years ago the ladies of Vermont pledged the support of one
+teacher at McIntosh, Ga., but increased their contributions until
+they assumed the entire support of the school. A year ago they
+undertook the expense of an addition to the school building, to be
+called the "Vermont School." In connection with the State
+Association, at Bellows Falls, a ladies' meeting was held on
+Wednesday morning, June 10, in behalf of the American Missionary
+Association, addressed by their teacher, Miss Plimpton, and by Miss
+Emerson, Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. The following report was
+submitted by the State Committee:
+
+     The committee re-appointed by the convention held at St. Albans
+     last June, to raise money for the school for the freedmen in
+     McIntosh, Ga., desires to present the following report for the
+     year:
+
+     FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1885.
+
+     Total contributions                                  $848.86
+     Expenses of postage and printing                       11.16
+
+     Remitted to H. W. Hubbard                             837.70
+     Add balance on hand May, 1884                         259.28
+                                                       ----------
+       Total                                            $1,096.98
+
+     Estimated expense of school this year      $856.00
+     To apply on new building                    240.98
+                                               -------- $1,096.98
+
+Acknowledgment was also made for barrels and boxes of clothing,
+papers, books, toys and materials for sewing school, with money sent
+to pay freight. Additional contributions are expected before Sept.
+30, to apply on the new school building.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At the recent meeting of the State Association of Illinois, held in
+Rockford, the ladies organized the "Illinois Home Miss. Union." The
+constitution adopted embraces all home causes as embodied in the
+following form:
+
+     ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Home
+     Missionary Union of the State of ----. Its object shall be to
+     promote missionary and evangelistic work in all parts of our
+     land by forming auxiliaries in the churches of the State, and
+     through them collecting money for the various existing societies
+     of the Congregational order.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A TRUE INCIDENT.
+
+
+At a little junction in Wisconsin, a score of passengers alighting
+from a train were told that the one they wished to take was four
+hours behind time. A big washout had swept away a bridge or
+embankment. There were a few exclamations of dismay and impatience,
+as that four hours delay meant the losing of other connections, the
+failure of many plans and appointments. It was a cold, rainy day,
+with a raw, penetrating east wind that speedily drove them all into
+the close, dismal waiting room. One woman, taking writing materials
+from a satchel, which she contrived to use for a desk, became utterly
+oblivious to everything as her pencil flew over the letter that would
+carry comfort and cheer to a far-off loved one. Suddenly she became
+conscious that a score of people were sitting in complete silence
+around her, with not a book or paper to read, looking as forlorn and
+miserable as possible. Laying aside her writing, she said, "My
+husband and I are missionaries among the colored people in Alabama. I
+am now on my way back to the work. Perhaps you might be interested to
+hear something about it, and if you care to ask any questions, I will
+be very happy to answer them."
+
+An old lady sitting near, bounced up in a great rage. "_I_ don't want
+to hear a _word_ about the niggers." The rest of her muttered
+exclamations were lost as she rushed out, slamming the door behind
+her.
+
+The missionary began to tell them about the climate, the tropical
+luxuriance of fruit and flowers, and of the great cotton fields. By
+that time questions began to pour in thick and fast, and in less than
+five minutes she had an eager audience listening to every word. She
+went on to tell of the condition of the colored people at the close
+of the war; ignorant, utterly destitute, with no more knowledge than
+a baby of how to shift for themselves; of the hard struggle it had
+been and still was for many of them to live; of the miserable
+pittance they generally received for their labor; of their home life,
+their peculiarities, and other things of interest.
+
+About that time the irate woman, unable longer to endure the
+discomfort of the weather outside, came quietly in, looking rather
+disgusted at the prospect of being obliged, after all, to hear
+something about "the niggers."
+
+The recital of some special incidents of peculiar trial and hardship
+which had come under the missionary's own observation brought tears
+of sympathy to many eyes; but best of all was the sudden conversion
+of our wrathful woman, who exclaimed: "I declare that's too bad! What
+makes them stand it? Why don't they all come North, where they could
+have a fair chance?" As she was told "the reason why," she grew full
+of sympathy and interest, and was even more eager than the others in
+suggestions and inquiries. But when they were told of what had
+already been done by the American Missionary Association and others
+toward establishing and maintaining schools and churches among them,
+of the devoted missionaries and teachers that had carried already so
+much of comfort and help into their sad lives, of the steady upward
+progress they were making in knowledge and intelligence, in the
+acquirement of homes and ability to care for themselves, all seemed
+to appreciate as never before the importance of the work that is
+being done in the South.
+
+The distant whistle of the train surprised them all, and as they
+crowded about the missionary to take her hand and bid her God speed
+in her blessed work, one woman said: "I used to give pennies to the
+work of the A. M. A., but they shall be dollars now."
+
+  MRS. A. W. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE.
+
+BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER
+
+
+Little Ida had been invited to attend a party made by white children
+at the school house. To her mother's mind the question of her going
+turned on her having a scarlet sash to wear. By the kindness of a
+child in the family where Ida and her mother, who figures in our
+story as "Aunt Chloe," had their home, the want was finally met.
+
+Now for the story of the scarlet sash, after it became Ida's
+property. She wore it to the party, where she laughed and sang, and
+played games, and looked like a poppy among the roses. She behaved
+very politely, too, like a well-trained child whose mother had lived
+in the "fust families."
+
+After that, she wore it in church and to Sunday-school. It looped
+itself beautifully over her best, brown striped dress, and gave her
+the sense of being equal in appearance with the other children.
+
+Miss Raymond, her teacher, told me that Ida really seemed to
+understand the lesson better, and to take more interest in reciting
+her golden text, after she came into possession of her precious sash.
+It was so thick and soft and rich; it felt so nice to the little
+black fingers, which every now and then stroked it lovingly. I am
+sure the sash was a means of grace to Ida.
+
+Children who have everything they want, who are clothed in purple and
+fine linen every day, cannot imagine how much delight a poor child
+sometimes takes in an innocent bit of finery.
+
+Now, I want to tell you what became of the sash at last.
+
+One day the superintendent at the Sunday-school asked the children to
+come to order, because a lady was about to talk to them.
+
+The lady was a missionary; her work had been somewhere a great way
+off, among people who had hardly any money, and had a great deal of
+trouble to get bread and meat. Their minister, the lady said, had to
+live in a house dug right out of the side of a hill. She had lived in
+such a little bit of a house herself for a great many weeks. Poor as
+these people were, they had built a little church, and were trying
+very hard to pay for it. They had not any singing-books nor Bibles
+for their Sunday-school, nor any library-books; but the children
+thought nothing of walking five miles or more to go to Sunday-school.
+
+What would the children here in this lovely room give for those
+children in the far, far West?
+
+It happened that Ida's teacher had lately talked to her class about
+the meanness of giving to the Lord that which it cost them nothing to
+give. So when the collection-box was passed around, they dropped in
+their pennies and silver-pieces, and those who had nothing with them
+were told to bring their share on the next Sunday. And some of them
+began to plan their little sacrifices.
+
+Ida's dusky face was a study. Once or twice she paused, irresolute.
+At last, when school was over, she whispered;
+
+"Teacher, may I stay a moment?"
+
+"Yes, dear," said Miss Raymond.
+
+When the two were by themselves in the little half-circle where their
+class usually sat, Ida, with trembling hands, untied the beloved
+sash, and, laying it on her teacher's lap, said, "Please, Miss
+Raymond, this is the prettiest thing I've got, and I want to send it
+to the children who haven't any Bibles."
+
+"But the sash will do them no good, Ida."
+
+"The worf of it will," replied the child; "and it's worf free
+dollars, any way; mammy said so."
+
+Ida stooped down and kissed it; it was not giving what cost her
+nothing to part with her treasured ribbon.
+
+Mass Raymond took it with a tender look, rolled it up and carried it
+home.
+
+One evening, in her parlor, she told its story to a party of young
+people, and then remarked: "The sash ought to bring more than three
+dollars, when that little black girl gave it up so cheerfully."
+
+In a few moments there lay a little pile of silver and paper on the
+centre table, and Ida's sash had brought eight dollars for the good
+cause. Before the week was over it had gone from hand to hand, and
+the eight dollars became twenty without much difficulty.
+
+Fanny said she thought we ought to send the sash back to Ida, or give
+her another one; but no, that would have taken the sweetness from her
+self-denial.
+
+She came to school without her ribbon, having been scolded by Aunt
+Chloe, who could not understand her action, and thought it great
+folly; but all winter long there was a brave light in Ida's dark
+face, and a contented expression in her eyes. She had given the
+scarlet sash for Christ's sake, and he had blessed her deed, and
+owned her as one of his little ones. Happy Ida!
+
+     ABRIDGED FROM S. S. TIMES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1885.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MAINE, $278.87.
+
+  Augusta. Mrs. Skeeles' S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           $1.00
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong.
+    Ch., 20.32                                              95.32
+  Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                                40.00
+  Bethel. First Cong. Ch.                                    4.55
+  Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker                                5.00
+  Limington. "A. B."                                         2.00
+  North Bridgeton. Miss Proctor's Sch., _for Wilmington,
+    N. C._                                                   1.00
+  Norway. Ladies, bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Saint Albans. Mrs. W. S. Sewall and family                 1.50
+  Skowhegan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by A. L. Colby, Treas.     8.00
+  South Berwick. Mrs. Hodgkins' S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      14.00
+  South Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     6.50
+  Union. Cong Ch., 4; Ladies' Soc., 4                        8.00
+  Waterford. Centre Ch. Sab. Sch.                           10.00
+  By Mrs. J. P. Hubbard, Treas. Woman's Aux., _for
+    Missionary, Selma, Ala._ Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy,
+    3.--Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.--Casco, Mrs. Mayberry,
+    1.--Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.--Orland, Ch., by
+    Miss Buck, 23.--Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S.
+    Longfellow, 2                                           82.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60.
+
+  Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  10.61
+  Bedford. Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., _for Talladega
+    C._
+  Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.25
+  East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, _for Missionary, Austin,
+    Tex._                                                   20.00
+  Franklin. Mrs. R. C. Andrews, _for Indian M._              5.00
+  London. K. S. Price                                        5.00
+  Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00
+  Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.                           105.04
+  Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               15.70
+
+
+VERMONT, $537.36.
+
+  Bakersfield. By Mrs. J. A. Perkins, _for Missionary,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                           5.75
+  Brattleborough. E. Crosby & Co., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               31.00
+  Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                    17.61
+  Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                               19.85
+  Granby. Mrs. Nancy Appleton                                5.00
+  Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      15.00
+  Manchester. "A Friend"                                     5.00
+  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, pkg. C., 1.25 _Freight,
+    for Atlanta U._                                          1.25
+  Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            60.44
+  Newbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., 1.70
+    _Freight, for Atlanta U._                                1.70
+  New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.66
+  Plymouth. Coll. at Furnace                                  .69
+  Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.05
+  Townshend. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MRS. C. C. TAFT
+    L. M.                                                   25.76
+  Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00
+  Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. D. L. RAY
+    L. M.                                                   30.00
+  Ladies of Vermont, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, _for
+    McIntosh, Ga._, Benson, 10.--Bethel (5 of which for
+    building fund), 10.75--Bridport, 33.--Braintree,
+    5.--Charlotte, 30.25--East Hardwick (3 of which from
+    Young Ladies' Aid Soc.), 10.25--Fairlee, 11.--Franklin,
+    5.40.--New Haven, 25.06.--Newport, ad'l, 1.16.--North
+    Troy, 1.--Quechee, 1.--Saint Albans, 15.--Saint
+    Johnsbury, ad'l, 2.54.--Sharon, 10.--Swanton,
+    15.25.--West Rutland, 16.10.--Total, 202.76 (less
+    11.16 expenses)                                        191.60
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $3,636.44.
+
+  Alford and West Stockbridge Centre, Cong Ch's.             2.93
+  Amesbury. Cong. Ch.                                        9.00
+  Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+  Andover. Free Christian Church, 100, to const. MRS.
+    RUTH F. EMERSON, MRS. AGNES B. DONALD and BENJ. W.
+    FARNUM L. M's; Chapel, Ch. and Soc., 81                181.00
+  Athol. Evangelical Ch.                                    75.00
+
+  Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 539.14; Union Ch. and
+    Soc., 107.32; Park Street Ch. and Soc., ad'l, 10;
+    "Friend," _for Indian M._, 10; Mrs. E. P Eayrs,
+    5--Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+    Student Aid, Straight U._, 50--Charlestown.
+    Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 72.74--Chelsea. Woman's
+    Union Home M. Band, _for Missionary,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._, 60--Dorchester. Sab. Sch.
+    Class, Second Ch., _for Indian M., Dakota_, 1.58;
+    Mrs. E. J. W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,
+    50--Roxbury. Eliot Ch. and Soc.,
+    75.51--Somerville. Winter Hill Ch. and Soc., 20;
+    Henry Howard, 20; Broadway Ch. and Soc., 17.41;
+    M. P. Elliott, _Freight_, 2                          1,040.70
+
+  Bernardston. Miss M. L. Newcomb, 60.00, _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._; 20.00, _for Share_          80.00
+  Danvers Centre. Missionary Soc., Box S. S
+    Supplies, _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         160.71
+  East Bridgewater. Union Ch.                               32.23
+  East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.86
+  Fall River. Pastoral Aid Soc. of Central Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega, C._                        10.00
+  Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         25.00
+  Georgetown, First Cong Ch. and Soc.                       46.84
+  Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ELLIS
+    P. HARLOW L. M.                                         30.00
+  Hardwick. First Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                   5.00
+  Harvard. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Share_               20.00
+  Haverhill. D. Crowell's Bible Class, Centre Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              30.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              61.10
+  Holliston. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; Clothing,
+    val. 1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  6.00
+  Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       19.00
+  Lakeville. Precinct Ch.                                   53.00
+  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00
+  Littleton. "Friends," for Atlanta U.                      10.00
+  Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          52.96
+  Medway. Mrs. Geo. M. Richardson, _for Wilmington,
+    N. C., Freight_                                          1.00
+  Montague. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00
+  New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.                              52.00
+  Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., 77.30, to const.
+    JOSHUA HALE, JR., and JOSEPH H. CURRIER, L. M's;
+    North Ch., 68.65                                       145.95
+  Newton. Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Soc., _for Share_          20.00
+  Newton. Miss Annie Boyden, 2 bbls. of C., etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   74.10
+  Northampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                52.38
+  Northampton. "A Friend," 50; Cong. Ch., 25                75.00
+  Northampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Share_             20.00
+  Northampton. Miss J. B. Kingsley, _for Indian M._          1.00
+  North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           4.50
+  North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                      15.33
+  Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.29
+  Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00
+  Rutland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.15
+  Salem. Tabernacle Ch and Soc.                            320.81
+  Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._          10.00
+  Saugus. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.00
+  Shelburne Falls. Mrs. J. A. Richmond                       2.00
+  South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.                         87.30
+  South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 47.00
+  Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                       3.00
+  Springfield. "A Friend"                                    5.00
+  Topsfield. Mrs. Ephraim Perkins                            4.00
+  Ware. Livingston Band, _for Indian M., Fort Sul'y_        20.00
+  Watertown. Friend                                          1.00
+  Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Mission Soc. _for
+    Freight_                                                 2.00
+  Westfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            5.45
+  Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.                         44.26
+  Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     50.00
+  Whitinsville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle of Cong. Ch., box
+    of C., _for Macon, Ga._; 10 _for Freight_               10.00
+  Williamsburg. Ladies' Sew. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           40.00
+  Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   25.00
+  Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      93.55
+  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. Circle, _for Fisk University
+    Freight_                                                 1.50
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         100.00
+  By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n.
+    Holyoke, Second, 28.24--Palmer, 20--Springfield.
+    Olivet, 35.30; Mrs Edw. Clarke, 5; North Sab.
+    Sch., _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._, 25            113.54
+
+  CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+    MAINE--Farmington. Ladies' Soc.,
+    Bbl.--MASSACHUSETTS--Chelsea. W. H. M Band, bdl.
+    Papers--Hyde Park, W. H. M. Soc., bbl., _for
+    Jonesboro, Tenn._--Medway, Ladies' B. Soc., bbl.,
+    _for Wilmington, N. C._--Newton, Ladies' F. A.
+    Soc., bbl., _for Macon, Ga._--Somerville, Matthew
+    P. Elliot, pkg. Hats, _for Atlanta U._, Val.
+    50--Waquoit. Rev. Joshua Gay, box
+    Books--Westborough. Ladies' F. M. Soc.,
+    bbl.--Worcester, Ladies' B. U. of Piedmont Ch.,
+    bbl., _for Marietta, Ga._, Val. 50--Yarmouth,
+    Ladies' Sew. Circle, bbl., _for Fisk U._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $2.00.
+
+  Central Falls. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards, bbl. of Goods,
+    2 _Freight_                                              2.00
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,563.47.
+
+  Abington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.00
+  Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.                                  22.52
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     40.00
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," cask of C., etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bozrah. Cong Ch.                                           4.00
+  Bridgeport. "Cheerful Workers," _for Share_               22.00
+  Bridgeport. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wheeler & Wilson Sew.
+    Machine, _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Bridgeport. Miss Carrie Wood, box Bedding, etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith                                  1.50
+  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Conn. Sch. Quitman, Ga._  30.00
+  Darien. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_            10.00
+  East Hampton. Dea. Skinner, _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                      5.00
+  Gilead. Cong. Ch.                                         15.60
+  Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 50; Cong. Ch., 3.50            53.50
+  Hartford. Mrs. Catharine B. Hillyer, 30, to const.
+    LUCY TUDOR HILLYER L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Sab.
+    Sch., 10                                                40.00
+  Hartford. Centre Ch., 2 bbls. Bedding and C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills                               30.00
+  Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                                   27.30
+  New Britain. South Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES
+    PECK, GEO. P. ROCKWELL, OLIVER STANLEY, REV. CHAS
+    E. STEELE, JOHN B. TALCOTT and DEA. JOHN WIARD
+    L. M's                                                 192.88
+  New Haven. First Ch.                                     204.89
+  North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                                 41.85
+  Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 15.65, and Sab. Sch., 15              30.65
+  Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.50
+  Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.36
+  West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.00
+  Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      19.00
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         600.93
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,436.48
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Hartford. Estate of Dr. John R. Lee, by John
+    Hooker, Ex.                                            126.99
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,563.47
+
+
+NEW YORK, $2,499.90.
+
+  Albany. First Cong. Ch., 120.73; Chas. A. Beach, 25      145.73
+  Albion. Miss H. M. Woodward, _for Wilmington, N. C._       1.75
+  Bergen. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.50
+    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 429.06; Julius
+    Davenport, 100; South Cong. Ch., 50; "A Friend"
+    30, to const. MISS ELIZABETH CLEVELAND L. M.           609.06
+  Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey                              5.00
+  Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                          5.00
+  Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby                               1.00
+  Leroy. Mrs. A. McEwen                                      5.00
+  Lima. "A Friend"                                           2.00
+  New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; Gen. Clinton B.
+    Fisk, 30, to const. Mrs. LURETTA C. STICKEL L. M.      130.00
+  New York. Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 100; Rev. D. Stuart
+    Dodge, 100, _for Atlanta U._                           200.00
+  New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             25.00
+  Northville. Cong. Sab. Sch.          12.00
+  Perry Centre. Cong. Ch., 30, to const. MRS.
+    WILLIAM R. BATHRICK L. M.; R. J. Booth, pkg.
+    Papers                                                  30.00
+  Rushville. Cong. Ch.                                       4.57
+  Rutland. First Cong. Ch.                                   9.69
+  Saratoga. Miss F. A. Marvin, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            2.00
+  Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35.37; "Friends," 35,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         70.37
+  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Sab. Sch., _for Share_      20.00
+  Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.                               24.19
+  West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._)                                          81.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,395.86
+
+  LEGACIES.
+
+  New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, _for Atlanta U._       100.00
+  North Winfield. Estate of Miss E. Jane Alexander,
+    by Thomas E. Harrison and Olive E. Harrison, Exs.      500.00
+  Norwich. Estate of John Foote (90 of which to
+    const. MARY C. FOOTE, ACHSA S. FOOTE and SUSAN L.
+    PECK L. M.'s.), by John Mitchell, Ex.                  504.04
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $2,499.90
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $489.49.
+
+  Arlington. "A Friend."                                     2.00
+  Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    11.49
+  Maywood. E. K. Breckenridge                               20.00
+  Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const.
+    REV. JAMES POWELL, D. D., L. M.)                       376.00
+  Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._                       75.00
+  Montclair. Mrs Pratt's S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            5.00
+  Morristown. Miss Julia Dodge, half bbl. Papers, _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $77.10.
+
+  Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.                           28.20
+  Ridgway. "C. D. O."                                         .50
+  Scranton. Miss Sarah E. Hawley                            10.00
+  Shoemakertown. Cheltenham Academy, bbl. Boys' C., _for
+    Wilmington, N. C._
+  West Alexander. Jane C. Davidson                          38.40
+
+
+OHIO, $1,704.39.
+
+  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         6.78
+  Austinburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., _for
+    Fisk U._, 1.17 _for Freight_                             1.17
+  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 11.46; Mrs. Charlotte
+    Ruggles, 2                                              13.46
+  Cleveland. Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Euclid Av. Cong.
+    Ch., _for Missionary, Santee Agency_                    20.00
+  Conneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00
+  Elyria. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. E.
+    W. METCALF L. M.)                                      500.00
+  Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                    5.58
+  Freedom. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab Sch., 5                       15.00
+  Hudson. Cong. Ch., adl. _for Straight U._                   .50
+  Marietta. Miss M. B. Diamond, pkg. of C., _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  New Concord. Wm. Lee, Sen.                                 2.00
+  Norwalk and Peru. By Rev. H. Lawrence, box and
+    bbl. Bibles, Testaments, etc., _for Talladega C._
+  Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                  79.10
+  Oberlin. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 50 copies "Manual
+    of Praise," _for Chapel, Talladega C._
+  Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.                                    23.80
+  Wakeman. Cong. Ch.                                        14.00
+  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   13.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $704.39
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Austinburg. Estate of L. B. Austin, by William
+    Pulis, Ex.                                           1,000.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,704.39
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $681.09.
+
+  Chicago. Fist Cong. Ch., 100; N. E. Cong. Ch.,
+    44.03; South Cong. Ch., 34.83; Y. L. Miss'y Soc.
+    of N. E. Cong. Ch., 25.20                              204.06
+  Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00
+  Cobden. C. C. Wright                                       5.00
+  Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00
+  Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean                                      2.00
+  Geneseo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionaries_          55.00
+  Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ                              50.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       29.00
+  Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch.                                        20.00
+  Kewanee. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                        5.00
+  La Grange. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00
+  Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Terry, _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Lewiston. Mrs. Myron Phelps                               50.00
+  Lowell. V. G. Lutz                                         5.00
+  Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         13.00
+  Marseilles. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Missionary_         10.50
+  Mendon. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           21.00
+  Neponset. Cong. Ch.                                        6.20
+  Oak Park. Mrs. A. Ridell                                   2.00
+  Payson. Miss Lizzie Scarborough, _for Missionaries_       10.00
+  Peoria. Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., box of C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Rockford. A. D. Forbes                                    10.00
+  Rosemond. "Busy Bee Soc"                                   1.67
+  Seward. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
+    Missionaries_                                            6.00
+  Shirland. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00
+  Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                16.66
+  Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                   10.00
+  Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       17.00
+  Winnebago. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                     15.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $213.59.
+
+  Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     50.00
+  Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_                 20.00
+  Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00
+  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstacke_                                             20.00
+  Grass Lake. Union Meeting, _for Straight U._              21.03
+  Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mrs. H. Ralston                                  .50
+  Jackson. Mrs. L. H. Field, _for Straight U._               2.00
+  Lake Lynden. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           10.00
+  Litchfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
+    Share_                                                  12.50
+  Manistee. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00
+  Mattawan. First Cong. Ch.                                  2.60
+  Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          4.06
+  Reed City. Cong. Ch.                                       4.35
+  Romeo. Mrs. E. A. Berry, _for Straight U._                 1.00
+  Saint Joseph. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. (5 of which _for
+    Missionary, Indian M._)                                 10.00
+  Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        20.55
+
+
+IOWA, $1,019.41.
+
+  Afton. Ladies of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00
+  Algona. A. Zahlten                                        10.00
+  Anamosa. Women's Freedmen's Soc., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           15.00
+  Creston. Mrs. N. H. Whittlesey, _for Missionary,
+    New Orleans, La._                                        2.00
+  Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, 50; Young Ladies'
+    Miss'y Soc., 25; _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;
+    Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._                          75.00
+  Des Moines. Young People of Plym. Ch., _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._                              50.00
+  Des Moines. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. G. Otis, _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       28.18
+  Hawthorne. Rev. N. H. Blackmer                             4.00
+  Iowa City. Cong Ch.                                       46.45
+  Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                      17.75
+  Marshalltown. "A Friend."                                 10.00
+  Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      65.25
+  Rock Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  Tipton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.                   5.00
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Mrs. Geo. W. Reynolds, Treas.,
+    _for Missionary, New Orleans La._ Charles City,
+    10.--Chester Centre, 7.--Davenport,
+    24.25.--Grinnell, 80.--New Hampton, 5, Children's
+    Soc., 3.--North Des Moines, Mrs. St. John,
+    1.--Osage, 10.--Waterloo, 10.50                        150.75
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Ella E. Marsh, Treas., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._ Eldora, 2.50.--Iowa
+    Falls, 1.03.--Otho, 4.50.--Tabor, 15.--Webster
+    City, 2                                                 25.03
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $519.41
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Burlington. Estate of David Leonard, by Mrs. Mary
+    S. Leonard, Executrix                                  500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,019.41
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $751.29.
+
+  Clinton. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                            2.20
+  Geneva. Rev. J. K. Kilbourn, box of Books, etc.,
+    _for Macon Ga._, 3 _for Freight_                         3.00
+  La Crosse. Cong. Ch.                                      75.65
+  Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard                              15.00
+  Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.70
+  Madison. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           25.00
+  Milwaukee. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                18.34
+  Neenah. E. B. Ranney                                      40.00
+  Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Pulpit Bible, and 2
+    Books, _for Macon, Ga._
+  Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      28.40
+  Shopiere. Cong. Sab Sch.                                  12.00
+  Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall                               1.00
+  Waukesha. Young People's Miss'y. Soc. _for Share_         20.00
+  Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor                                  5.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $251.29
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Monroe. Estate of Mrs. Orrissa Rood, by J. L. Rood,
+    Ex.                                                    500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $751.29
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $20.60.
+
+  Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                    18.35
+  Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        2.25
+
+
+MISSOURI, $31.70.
+
+  Kirkville. J. S. Blackman                                  4.00
+  Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.                              27.70
+
+
+KANSAS, $72.84.
+
+  Cora. Cong. Ch.                                           12.00
+  Manhattan. "Friend."                                      10.00
+  Reno Centre. First Ch. of Christ                           2.77
+  Topeka. Tuition                                           17.07
+  Manhattan. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS CLARA CASTLE
+    L. M.                                                   31.00
+
+
+COLORADO, $8.70.
+
+  Highland Lake. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. (4.25 of
+    which _for Chinese M._)                                  8.70
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $42.97.
+
+  Albion. Cong. Ch.                                          7.30
+  Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.45
+  Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                    1.70
+  Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                      12.52
+  South Bend. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        5.00
+  Stanton. Mrs. Laura E. Dada                                5.00
+  Steele City. Cong. Ch.                                     6.00
+
+
+DAKOTA, $3.00.
+
+  Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00
+
+
+WASHINGTON TER., $2.75.
+
+  Cheyenne. "A Friend."                                      2.75
+
+
+WYOMING TER., $22.00.
+
+  Cheyenne, First Cong. Ch.                                 22.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $13.00.
+
+  Arcata. "A Friend"                                         5.00
+  Elk Creek. J. E. Lee                                       8.00
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $140.65.
+
+  Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              127.15
+  Washington. Howard U., Mon. Con. Coll.                    13.50
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $175.77.
+
+  Lexington. Tuition, 63.25; Rent, 2.77                     66.02
+  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     71.75
+  Woodbine. Tuition                                         38.00
+
+
+VIRGINIA, $8.55.
+
+  Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         8.55
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $781.81.
+
+  Jellico. Tuition                                          41.00
+  Jonesboro. Tuition                                         3.50
+  Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00
+  Maryville. Mrs. R. A. Frame, _for Maryville, Tenn.,
+    Freight_                                                 1.75
+  Memphis. Tuition                                         269.70
+  Nashville. Tuition, 396.86; Jackson St. Cong. Ch., 5     401.86
+  Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. C. Bennett, _for Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                                  50.00
+  Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                   2.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $251.20.
+
+  Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+  Wilmington. Tuition, 200.20; Cong. Ch., 10               210.20
+  Wilmington. Odd Minutes Miss'y Soc., 20; "Willing
+    Workers," 20; _for Indian M._                           40.00
+
+
+SOUTH CAROLINA, $319.50.
+
+  Charleston. Tuition, 304.50; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 15      319.50
+
+
+GEORGIA, $653.58.
+
+  Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                            264.95
+  Dalton. Rev. Milton Rowley, box Books, etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Macon. Tuition, 172.70; Rent, 4; Cong Ch., 16.05         192.75
+  Macon. Prof. A. J. Burger, Pulpit Bible _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  McIntosh. Tuition, 22.38; Rent, 1.50                      23.88
+  Savannah. Tuition, 152; Cong. Ch., 20                    172.00
+
+
+ALABAMA, $418.72.
+
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00
+  Mobile. Tuition                                          187.70
+  Mobile. Woman's H. M. Ass'n for _Missionary, Fort
+    Berthold_                                               10.00
+  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     25.00
+  Selma. First Cong. Ch., 14.75: Sab. Sch., 10; Mr. and
+    Mrs. E. C. Silsby, 10                                   34.75
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, _for Indian M._              15.00
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama                     5.00
+  Talladega. Tuition, 96; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15.27           111.27
+  Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Share_               20.00
+
+
+FLORIDA, $10.00.
+
+  Saint Augustine. Rent                                     10.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $36.00.
+
+  Tougaloo. Tuition                                         36.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $245.05.
+
+  Austin. Tuition                                          235.05
+  Fort Worth. M. Marty                                      10.00
+
+
+INCOMES, $462.50.
+
+  Avery Fund, for _Mendi M._                               300.00
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                       102.50
+  Luke Mem. Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._            10.20
+  Mrs. N. M. & Miss Abbie Stone Scholarship Fund, _for
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Straight U. Fund, _for Straight U._                       20.00
+  Yale Library Fund, for _Talladega C._                      4.80
+
+
+CANADA, $5.00.
+
+  Canada, Montreal. "C. A."                                  5.00
+                                                     ------------
+
+  Total for May                                        $17,372.89
+  Total from Oct. 1 to May 31                          158,757.17
+                                                     ============
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions for May                                    49.14
+  Previously acknowledged                                 969.94
+                                                      ----------
+  Total                                                $1,019.08
+                                                      ==========
+
+  H. W. Hubbard, Treas.,
+  56 Reade St., N. Y.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LUNDBORG'S PERFUMES.
+
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Edenia.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Marêchal Niel Rose.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Alpine Violet.
+  Lundborg's Perfume, Lily of the Valley.
+
+
+LUNDBORG'S RHENISH COLOGNE.
+
+  A box containing Samples of all the above five articles prepaid
+  to your nearest Railroad Express Office (which should be named)
+  for Fifty Cents--Money Order, Stamps or Currency.
+
+Address: YOUNG, LADD & COFFIN, 24 Barclay St., New York.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+[Illustration: Count Rumford.]
+
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+
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+
+(LIQUID.)
+
+FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,
+DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY DIFFICULTIES, ETC.
+
+  PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF
+  Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.
+
+There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority
+of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been
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+as this.
+
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+
+No danger can attend its use.
+
+Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to
+take.
+
+It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.
+
+Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on
+application.
+
+  MANUFACTURED BY THE
+  RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,
+  Providence, R. I.,
+  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+EFFICACIOUS.  ECONOMICAL.  PORTABLE.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+TARRANT'S EFFERVESCENT SELTZER APERIENT.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A palatable effervescing draught; affords immediate and permanent
+relief in
+
+  Constipation,
+  Biliousness,
+  Headache,
+  Heartburn,
+  Flatulency,
+  Dyspepsia.
+
+Corrects acidity of the stomach, allays fever and gently operates
+upon the bowels. It is emphatically a Household Remedy, invaluable
+for Travelers. As acceptable to the smallest child as to the
+strongest man.
+
+Sold by all Druggists.
+
+
+
+
+
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+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_i" id="Page_i">[Pg i]</a></span></p>
+
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 536px;">
+<img src="images/title.jpg" width="536" height="409" alt="The American Missionary, VOL. XXXIX, NO. 7, July, 1885." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">EDITORIAL.</div>
+<span class="linenum"><span class="smcap">Page.</span></span><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Figures&mdash;Financial</span><span class="linenum"><a href='#Page_187'>187</a></span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Exercise of Benevolence</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_188'>188</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Colored People at the New Orleans Exposition.</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_189'>189</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Paragraphs</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_191'>191</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Congregational Association of Ohio&mdash;Grave of Lovejoy&mdash;What</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2">Shall We Do With the Chinese?</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_192'>192</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">THE SOUTH.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">Fisk University</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_195'>195</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Anniversary at Hampton Institute</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_196'>196</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Gregory Institute</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_198'>198</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Religious Interest at Talladega</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_199'>199</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Letter From Rev. J. H. Parr, Austin&mdash;The Old Commissary Building</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_201'>201</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Student's Letter</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_202'>202</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Obituary: Mrs. H. M. Stevens</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_203'>203</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">Obituary: Miss O. E. Goodridge</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_204'>204</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">State Organizations&mdash;Vermont School at McIntosh, Ga.&mdash;Illinois</span><br />
+<span class="chapline2"> Home Miss. Union</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_205'>205</a> </span><br />
+<span class="chapline">A True Incident</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_206'>206</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">CHILDREN'S PAGE.</div><br />
+<span class="chapline">The Little Black Girl's Sacrifice</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_207'>207</a> </span><br />
+<br />
+<span class="chapline">RECEIPTS</span><span class="linenum"> <a href='#Page_208'>208</a> </span><br />
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+NEW YORK:<br />
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.<br />
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.<br />
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+</div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_ii" id="Page_ii">[Pg ii]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">President</span>, Hon. <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Washburn, LL. D.</span>, Mass.</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Vice-Presidents.</i><br /></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Goodell, D. D.</span>, Mo.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble, D. D.</span>, Ill.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">A. J. F. Behrends, D. D.</span>, N. Y.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">Alex. McKenzie, D. D.</span>, Mass.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 15em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">D. O. Mears, D. D.</span>, Mass.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Corresponding Secretary.</i><br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">M. E. Strieby, D .D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Assistant Corresponding Secretary.</i><br />
+Rev. <span class="smcap">James Powell, D. D.</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center">
+<i>Treasurer.</i><br />
+<span class="smcap">H. W. Hubbard</span>, Esq., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Auditors.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 14em;"><span class="smcap">W. H. Rogers,</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Peter McCartee</span>.</span>
+<br /><br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>Executive Committee.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 8em;"><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>, Chairman.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>, Secretary.</span><br />
+<br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7.5em;"><i>For Three Years.</i></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>For Two Years.</i></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><i>For One Year.</i></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">Lyman Abbott.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 4.5em;"><span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 6em;"><span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3.75em;"><span class="smcap">Wm. H. Ward.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">J. R. Danforth.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Samuel S. Marples.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 2.5em;"><span class="smcap">J. L. Withrow</span>.</span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 4.75em;"><span class="smcap">Charles L. Mead.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3.25em;"><span class="smcap">John H. Washburn.</span></span><br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">A. P. Foster.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 6.25em;"><span class="smcap">Elbert B. Monroe.</span></span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;"><span class="smcap">Edmund L. Champlin.</span></span><br />
+<br />
+
+<div class="center"><i>District Secretaries.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Woodworth, D. D.</span>, <i>21 Cong'l House, Boston</i>.</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Roy, D. D.</span>, <i>112 West Washington Street, Chicago</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+
+<span style="margin-left: 10em;">Rev. <span class="smcap">Charles W. Shelton</span>, <i>Financial Secretary for Indian Missions</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center"><i>Field Officer.</i></div>
+<span style="margin-left: 12em;">Prof. <span class="smcap">Albert Salisbury</span>, <i>Superintendent of Education</i>.</span><br />
+<br />
+<div class="center">
+<i>Bureau of Woman's Work.</i><br />
+<i>Secretary</i>, Miss <span class="smcap">D. E. Emerson</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h4>COMMUNICATIONS</h4>
+
+<p>Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary: those relating to the collecting fields, to
+Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for
+the "American Missionary," to the Editor, at the New York Office.</p>
+
+
+<h4>DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</h4>
+
+<p>May be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.</p>
+
+<h4>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h4>
+
+<p>"I <span class="smcap">bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of &mdash;&mdash; dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in &mdash;&mdash; days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_187" id="Page_187">[Pg 187]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+<h1>
+  <span class="small">THE</span><br /><span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>
+</h1>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+<table width="60%" summary="Title" align="center">
+  <tr>
+    <td align="left" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">Vol.</span> XXXIX.</b></td>
+    <td align="center" width="50%"><b>JULY, 1885.</b></td>
+    <td align="right" width="25%"><b><span class="smcap">No.</span> 7.</b></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="center large">American Missionary Association.</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center large">
+<b>$365,000</b>
+<br /><br />
+NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p class="large">Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a
+day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized
+plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the
+pressing needs of the early future.&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="right">
+[<span class="smcap">Finance Committee's Report Adopted by Annual Meeting at Salem</span>.]
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>THE FIGURES.</h3>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="The Figures">
+
+<tr>
+<td align="center"><i>Receipts.</i></td>
+<td align="right">Donations.&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="right">Legacies.&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+<td align="right">Total.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Oct. 1, 1884, to May 31, 1885</td>
+<td align="right">$136,972.82</td>
+<td align="right">$21,784.35</td>
+<td align="right">$158,757.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Oct. 1, 1883, to May 31, 1884</td>
+<td align="right">132,507.66</td>
+<td align="right">21,710.40</td>
+<td align="right">154,218.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+<td align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td></td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $4,465.16 </td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $73.95</td>
+<td align="right">Inc. $4,539.11</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Our financial storm signal is still out. That threatening forty
+thousand dollars' deficit does not let up in its indications of
+approach. The black clouds are plainly discernible. We have been for
+months anxiously watching their movements. Our prayers and efforts
+have been steadily turned towards their dissipation. We do not lose
+faith. We believe in our work. We believe in our friends. The work
+has merit. Our friends have ability. The two will come together and
+the merit will cause the<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_188" id="Page_188">[Pg 188]</a></span> ability to stand forth. There are many
+things very decidedly encouraging.</p>
+
+<p>Never in all our history has the work been more abundantly blessed.
+Our schools have been crowded and God's Spirit has come down in great
+power upon the hearts of our pupils. In one school the revival
+character of the religious services had to cease, because there were
+none left to be converted! Our churches have been revived and
+enlarged. A spirit of joy and thankfulness is in the hearts of our
+missionaries.</p>
+
+<p>Notwithstanding the hard times, our receipts from the churches and
+living donors are larger by several thousand dollars than they were
+at this time last year. These facts are the indications of a living
+cause and an able constituency. They call upon us to lift our heads
+in hope and to inspire one another to still greater activity, and, if
+need be, to self-denial. We have no legacies in sight, and we
+certainly do not desire our friends to die. Our prayer is that they
+may live; that they may live long. Apart from their gifts in money we
+desire the strength and the grandeur of their lives to aid us in
+carrying forward the great and growing work on hand. We again call
+upon them to help us round out this year without a debt.</p>
+
+<p>We take the liberty to point out one way in which they can do this.</p>
+
+<p>Our missionaries are, many of them, returning at this time of year
+for a brief rest at the North. They need it. They have earned it. It
+may seem wrong to tax these brave workers, but we venture to say that
+if they are invited to tell the public the story of their experience
+they will not refuse to do it; and we venture to say further, it will
+be a story the public will be glad to hear. Let them have a royal
+welcome home by the churches. In the language of Rev. Sam Jones, the
+noted Southern Evangelist, as he counseled the churches to receive
+the new converts, "Let it not be on the tips of your fingers or on
+the palms of your hands you receive them, but, on your hearts," and
+God will bless the welcome to the churches, to the missionaries and
+to the work. Hear their story, heed its lessons, and it will not be
+long before the clouds shall roll away and our financial storm-signal
+be taken down.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>The exercise of benevolence Christ never conditioned on human
+recognition. The publicans and heathen furnished examples on that
+plane. When Christianity uncovers its roots there is never anything
+commercial even hinted at. Sinners need salvation. That is enough.
+Divine love moves in the presence of necessity. Its movement is
+electric. Even if ingratitude smite it in the face; nay, worse, if
+malignancy would summon forces for its crucifixion, without relaxing
+an iota it breathes the prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know
+not what they do." Unswervingly Christ held along, doing right
+because it was right. Passion in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
+lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
+Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_189" id="Page_189">[Pg 189]</a></span> when He saw the
+people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
+forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
+the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
+righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
+not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
+the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.</p>
+
+<p>It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as did
+the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that shall
+sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty. Opposition
+may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men may oppose
+them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
+misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
+it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
+work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
+development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
+doing.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.</h3>
+
+<p>The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
+the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
+hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
+homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
+Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
+millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
+enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
+improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
+there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
+company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
+would seem absurd.</p>
+
+<p>But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
+They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
+immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
+their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
+and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
+department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
+in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
+arts, were all displayed to a remarkable degree in the large
+collection. Southerners and Northerners were alike astonished at what
+their eyes beheld. Those who thought that the negro has no higher
+mission than to be a "hewer of wood and drawer of water," were
+compelled either to change their minds or else to say they did not
+believe that the colored people did the work. It was amusing to hear
+the remarks of some of the latter class, as they looked at some
+beautiful specimens of negro handicraft or ingenuity.</p>
+
+<p>It may interest the readers of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> to glance at the great
+variety of lines along which negro ability put itself on exhibition.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_190" id="Page_190">[Pg 190]</a></span></p>
+<p>Examination papers from schools were very numerous, showing
+proficiency in penmanship, spelling, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
+free drawing, grammar and translations from the classics; fine
+needlework of all kinds; millinery; dress-making, tailoring; portrait
+and landscape painting in oil, water-colors and crayon; photography;
+sculpture; models of steamboats, locomotives, stationary engines, and
+railway cars; cotton presses, plows, cultivators, and reaping
+machines; wagons, buggies; tools of almost all kinds, from the hammer
+of the carpenter to the finely-wrought forceps of the dentist; piano
+and organ (both pipe and reed) making; carpentry, cabinet-making;
+upholstery; tin-smithing; black-smithing, boot and shoe making;
+basket and broom making; pottery, plain and glazed; brick-making;
+agricultural products, including all the cereals and fruits raised in
+the country; silk-worm culture; fruit preserving; flour from a mill,
+and machinery from a foundry owned by a colored man; patented
+inventions and improvements, nearly all of them useful and practical,
+were quite numerous; drugs and medicines; stationery, printing and
+publishing.</p>
+
+<p>Some of the articles on exhibition are worthy of special mention&mdash;a
+black walnut pulpit, in design and finish as beautiful and tasteful
+as any church might wish; a sofa finely upholstered, and the covering
+embroidered with artistically-executed needlework, showing four
+prominent events in the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture; a chandelier,
+very beautiful in design and finely finished; a complete set of
+dentist's instruments, in polish and finish remarkable; a little
+engine, made by a silversmith of Knoxville, who was a slave, and who
+has become a skilled workman of local reputation. He never worked in
+a shop till he had one of his own. He learned the use of tools
+without any instruction. These articles would certainly merit
+attention, even if put in competition with similar specimens of the
+very best workmanship.</p>
+
+<p>Neither the negroes nor their friends have any reason to regret that
+an exhibit was made. It was in every sense of the word creditable. It
+marks a progress simply wonderful, when all the circumstances are
+taken into the account. It is prophetic of a very hopeful future. It
+demonstrates that the negro race can enter every profession and
+calling in which the white man is found. It proclaims in tones that
+no one should misunderstand, that he who writes or speaks of the
+colored people should be careful how he pronounces judgment in regard
+to their capacity. They should be given a white man's chance. No
+trade nor occupation should be closed against them. Open doors should
+welcome to honorable competition, white and black alike. Let this be
+so, and in less than half a century there will not be a trade, nor
+profession, nor calling, in which black men will not be found in the
+front. There will be preachers and professors, and editors, and
+physicians, and lawyers, and statesmen, and teachers, and bankers,
+and business men, and artisans, and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_191" id="Page_191">[Pg 191]</a></span> mechanics and farmers, of
+African descent, of whom, as brethren, the very greatest of white men
+will not need to be ashamed. Let writers on the negro stop theorizing
+about his capacity for this or that calling, and unite in demanding
+that he have a fair chance to become what God has made him capable of
+becoming. It is wrong, it is wicked for men who by voice and pen
+influence public sentiment, to conclude that because the negro is now
+a waiter, a boot-black, a barber, a laborer, that therefore he cannot
+be anything else, or even that he cannot probably be anything else.
+By the very force of circumstances he has been compelled to occupy
+these positions. By an unjust public sentiment he has been shut out
+from even an opportunity to prove his capacity to stand beside his
+white brother in every calling.</p>
+
+<p>Public sentiment should be reformed at this point; and the colored
+people's exhibition of what they have achieved in the short space of
+twenty years, in spite of opposition, and in spite of lack of
+opportunity, assures us that if they are permitted they will
+contribute no small share in securing the reformation. We advise all
+leaders of public sentiment who do not desire twenty-five or thirty
+years hence to be found eating their words of to-day, or explaining
+how it was that they came to be on ground so untenable, to heed the
+lessons of this Exposition, and range themselves with those who look
+at facts, and who recognize the prophetic power of facts, and
+heartily accept the prophecy, even if this prophecy run counter to
+what have been <i>their</i> fancies.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>The Colored People's Educational Day at the World's Exposition called
+out an immense crowd and proved to be of very great interest.
+Speeches were made by representatives of both races. Rev. Dr. Palmer,
+the eloquent Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, and Col. Wm.
+Preston Johnson, President of the Tulane University, represented the
+Louisiana whites, and in their speeches not only complimented the
+colored people on the progress they had made, but assured them of the
+hearty sympathy and co-operation of all good people in the South. The
+Rev. A. E. P. Albert, a graduate of our Straight University,
+represented the colored people. The newspapers published his speech
+in full. We have read it with much interest. It is a speech of
+considerable power. It is an honor to the man, to his race and to the
+A. M. A.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Our Student's Letter this month is from Talladega College. The
+memories it portrays are not pleasant, but it is fitting to remember
+the pit out of which we have been digged. The darkness of the picture
+makes the present opportunities and privileges of the colored people
+to shine out all the brighter. Heartily can we thank God that these
+terrible things are now only a memory.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_192" id="Page_192">[Pg 192]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO.</h3>
+
+
+<p>After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885,
+a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and
+Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the
+report, which was adopted:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary
+Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points
+of interest in the address. That is, that the American
+Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000,
+and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the
+end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that
+this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of
+mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment
+of this grand organization for years to come. It <i>need</i> not be;
+it <i>ought</i> not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
+it <i>will</i> not be. Your committee therefore propose this
+resolution:</p>
+
+<p><i>Resolved</i>, That we, the members of this association, will
+individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
+making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
+year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
+impending calamity.</p></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"&mdash;CORRECTION.</h3>
+
+
+<p><span class="smcap">Editor American Missionary.&mdash;Dear Sir:</span> Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
+168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
+There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
+in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
+the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
+a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
+remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
+an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
+freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
+monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
+over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">H. L. Hammond.</span></div>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?</h3>
+
+
+<p>A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!</p>
+
+<p><i>Exclude them</i>, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
+problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
+and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
+became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
+America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
+it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
+before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
+immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.</p>
+
+<p>For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
+royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
+his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
+diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
+But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
+move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
+Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
+conducted upon Puget Sound in smuggling Chinese from Vancouver's
+Island to our forbidden soil. Certain it is that many Chinese,
+failing to get tickets at Hong Kong for San Francisco, buy them to
+Victoria. Already it becomes a serious question what fence can be
+built along our northern frontier so close, so strong, so high that
+no Chinese can anywhere climb over, or crawl under, or work through.
+Mexico wants the Chinese, we hear. How far is it from the northern
+line of Mexico to the southern line of California and Arizona? And
+once across that line our Chinese invaders, coming slyly one by one,
+have won the fight and go and come at their own pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>Exclusion has not solved this problem, and it is safe to add that, as
+it should not, so it never will. For this policy is in contradiction
+to the vital principles of our national existence; and either it must
+be abandoned, or sooner or later this contradiction will develop into
+conflict irrepressible. Those vital principles are two: "All men
+created equal," and "All men endowed with certain inalienable
+rights," etc. Our fathers counted them to be self-evident, and placed
+them as twin pillars in our temple of liberty. Now, a nation cannot
+knock out its own foundation stones, cannot defy the laws of its own
+organic life without becoming divided against itself; and in the
+conflict ensuing, either its vital principles will be reaffirmed and
+rehabilitated, or else the nation dies. We have had one lesson at
+this point, and we ought not to need another for a dozen centuries.
+Exclusion is only a make-shift of the politicians, not the offspring
+of real statesmanship. It has not solved the problem, and it never
+will.</p>
+
+<p>What then shall we do? Educate and Christianize these heathen, we
+reply: So you will make them to be Chinese no longer, but Americans.
+This is the right answer, but, alas, how much easier said than done!
+The undertaking, hard enough at first, grows harder, in some
+respects, as the years roll on.</p>
+
+<p>One added difficulty is the wider diffusion of these strangers over
+our whole country. The prejudice which their peculiarities excite is
+thus extended, while the number to be reached in any one locality is
+diminished. Work for the Chinese ought now to be prosecuted, not
+simply in Sunday schools, but in Mission schools, kept in session
+every evening and alt through the year in most of the principal
+cities of the whole Union, as well as on the Pacific Coast. But the
+outward and visible encouragements will be smaller, because each
+Mission finds its particular field reduced in size.</p>
+
+<p>Another added difficulty is in an increased and deepened antagonism
+on the part of the great mass of Chinese to real Christianity.
+Multitudes<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_194" id="Page_194">[Pg 194]</a></span> have seen enough of the true light to reject it; and
+having rejected, now to hate it. Oh, it drives one back to God in an
+agony of mingled longing and despair to see this mighty multitude
+that will not come and be saved, drifting along in darkness and
+wretchedness through this life to the blackness of darkness beyond!
+And this is intensified by the thought of the children now quite
+numerous in our Chinese communities. We know to what the daughters
+are destined. We know what it is that gives them, in this country, a
+special money value; and as to the sons, one can scarcely conceive
+circumstances more perilous than those in which they are placed.
+Breathing our free American air, entering readily into the Young
+America spirit, they will not brook the harsh discipline which, in
+their native land, would have been submissively and perhaps with
+profit accepted. At the same time, the parents ill understand that
+discipline of love which adjusts itself to these new circumstances,
+and when it can no longer compel, succeeds in wooing and winning and
+molding aright the boyish heart. Demons incarnate, both American and
+Chinese, tempt these boys, while they are unprotected by any
+reverence either for the ancestors and idols of their own people or
+for the American God whom Americans by their conduct so cruelly
+belie.</p>
+
+<p>And this suggests another added difficulty: the contrast which our
+Chinese Christians cannot but observe between the precepts of the
+Bible, the example of Christ, the exhortations of those who led them
+to Jesus, and the practices of multitudes of American professors of
+religion. And, too often, they are led to do as we do, and not as we
+say. While at the same time the indifference of many professed
+Christians to the salvation of this Chinese, and the attitude of many
+churches toward those already converted, loads the problem down with
+difficulties such as might well drive us to despair.</p>
+
+<p>But, no; nothing shall drive us to despair. This problem must be
+solved. This mountain mass of heathenism must be&mdash;not removed and
+cast into the sea, but transformed into the mountain of the Lord's
+house, and made an element&mdash;an element of untold value and
+efficiency&mdash;in our American Zion. Let us have faith as the grain of
+mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
+commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
+courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
+difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
+non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
+that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
+any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
+thing to do&mdash;for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
+of the uncounted millions beyond the sea&mdash;we must, and we will, claim
+and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Wm. C. Pond.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_195" id="Page_195">[Pg 195]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>THE SOUTH.</h2>
+
+<div class="center"><span class="smcap">Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.</div>
+
+
+<p>Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
+and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
+that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
+on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
+Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
+Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
+societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
+the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
+great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
+28.</p>
+
+<p>This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
+be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
+interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
+The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
+college has been one marked feature and a source of great
+encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
+into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
+two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
+the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
+before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
+yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
+growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
+young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
+only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart and
+purpose; of the present class three have fallen by the hand of death
+within the four years and only three have dropped out for other
+causes.</p>
+
+<p>Commencement day revealed in the tone of the graduating orations a
+moral earnestness and uprightness of principle that called forth the
+commendation of our stranger guests. The best record of the class,
+however, is in the influence its members have exerted in the school
+during the whole of their Senior year.</p>
+
+<p>It may be remembered that a year ago the Alumni Association adopted a
+plan by which, beginning three years after graduation, at least one
+per cent. of the earnings of each member is to be appropriated to an
+endowment fund for Fisk University. Whenever the sum reaches $1,000,
+it is to be devoted to some chair in the University. This year the
+Treasurer reported $140 on hand. The beginning seems small, but who
+can tell to what the stream may grow? Part of the Alumni anniversary
+was given up to a memorial service for one who, after six years of
+faithful work among her people, has died within the year.</p>
+
+<p>On the evening devoted to the Normal Department, Prof. Salisbury was
+expected to address us on some educational topic. In his absence,
+Prof. Smith, of the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University, kindly
+filled the place and gave us an excellent address on Thomas Carlyle.
+Prof. Smith is of Southern birth, but has manifested a cordial
+friendliness and an interest that has led him to really investigate
+the work of Fisk University.</p>
+
+<p>On Commencement Day, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D. D., of Minneapolis,
+Minn., honored us with his presence and with an address, both wise
+and eloquent, on "Sublime Motives," holding up three as especially
+worthy to prompt to action:<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_196" id="Page_196">[Pg 196]</a></span> responsibility for the architecture of
+our own character, responsibility for the development of latent moral
+power, and the conservation of moral forces.</p>
+
+<p>Few who heard it will forget the solemn charge given to the
+graduating class by President Cravath, illustrated by an incident, as
+told by the Rev. Sam. Jones, of the battle of Nashville. General Hood
+saw a Federal battery making dreadful havoc in his army, and sent to
+a subordinate general a messenger, saying, "Give him my compliments,
+and tell him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The
+general was in the thick of the battle and could not be found. The
+same message was sent to another with the same result. Finally to a
+third he sent the messenger, saying, "Give him my <i>love</i>, and tell
+him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The battery
+was speedily taken and the message of affection returned to General
+Hood. So are these young people sent out with the love of teachers
+and friends, to capture the batteries that are dealing moral death to
+this people.</p>
+
+<p>After the degree of B. A. had been conferred on the fifteen
+graduates, that of M. A. was given to fourteen former graduates, who
+for three years or more have been engaged in scholarly employments.</p>
+
+<p>To add to the interest of Commencement, Gen. Fisk arrived the evening
+before, and closed the public exercises of Thursday with an address,
+whose pleasantry made every one forget the fatigue of five
+consecutive hours of speech-making. Several members of the
+Legislature, now in extra session in the Capitol, were present both
+at the Commencement exercises and at the collation which followed.</p>
+
+<p>A new and interesting feature of this anniversary was the part taken
+by the Girls' Industrial Department. A basket of cake made by members
+of the cooking class graced each table at the Commencement dinner and
+was by general consent pronounced excellent. In the Assembly Room of
+Jubilee Hall were displayed various garments and household articles
+neatly made by the sewing classes.</p>
+
+<p>Nothing has been said about examinations; they are like the bread of
+our daily meals, always expected and very important. A more thorough
+examination than usual was given the classes in drawing and in vocal
+music. One exercise in the latter examination was the singing at
+sight of a tune, in four parts, composed by a member of the class.</p>
+
+<p>Our halls are already deserted; nothing holds our students after
+Commencement: they scatter at once for work, and within a few weeks,
+in at least half a dozen States, miniature Fisk Universities will be
+in operation.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Anna M. Cahill.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA.</h3>
+
+<p>In beauty, interest and enthusiasm Hampton anniversary days abate
+nothing as years go on. The seventeenth anniversary exercises were
+held on May 21, with a graduating class of forty-two, of whom five
+were Indians. Visitors were present from North and South, East and
+West, and such expressions as "The half was not told me!" and "Why
+didn't I bring my wife?" were frequent, as usual.</p>
+
+<p>Of the morning examinations, one of the most interesting was a
+general exercise conducted by the chaplain, in review of the current
+news of the world, which is daily read and discussed with the
+students. Victor Hugo, French and English politics, the Afghan
+trouble, Russia and Nihilism, Irish Nationalists, France and China,
+England and Egypt, were touched in the questions, and the answers and
+general interest showed the value of this daily exercise. In the
+ancient history class, printed questions were shuffled and
+distributed among the students, and question and answer were spoken
+out promptly by each scholar, giving an attractive quickness and
+vivacity to the recitation. The class of little Indian geographers
+stood before a table on which was a miniature United States made of
+sand, with<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_197" id="Page_197">[Pg 197]</a></span> its Eastern elevations, its great central plains, and its
+high Western ranges. A thread of blue worsted, put in place by the
+young world-builders, simulated the Mississippi, while cities (in the
+guise of white buttons) sprang up with a rapidity unknown even in the
+great West. The practice-teaching class is always of especial
+interest and significance, as over ninety per cent of Hampton's
+students devote themselves to teaching as their life mission. A dozen
+little bright-eyed, brown-faced primaries from the "Butler" training
+school received a geography lesson from one of the senior girls,
+criticised by her class-mates. Its grand <i>finale</i> was a miniature
+volcanic eruption, creating a sensation among the Butler mites.</p>
+
+<p>The industrial exhibits and the training shops, with their Negro and
+Indian apprentices, attracted interested attention, as usual.</p>
+
+<p>The emotions of anniversary day culminated in the afternoon
+exercises, in which were several incidents of unusual interest. The
+pretty and graceful salutatorian, fair as most of her hearers, was
+introduced as a young representative of the family of faithful Mary
+Peake, who, just escaped from slavery herself, taught the first
+"contraband school" at Hampton. This introduction roused the
+war-memories of Rev. Dr. Strieby, who, greeting the young girl as she
+stepped on the platform, told the story of the first missionary sent
+down to Old Point by the American Missionary Association, his
+reception by the contrabands as an angel of deliverance, and his
+first school, opened Sept. 17, 1861, with Mary Peake as its teacher,
+till she gave up her life in the work for her people.</p>
+
+<p>The pastor's class was represented by a Baptist minister from
+Hampton, who gave an account of the Old and New ministry, somewhat
+characteristic of both. This pastor's class has become an interesting
+feature of Hampton, with a mission of peace and good-will to both
+races and all sects and sections. Now in its second year, it numbers,
+as pupils, 17 colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity. Baptist and
+Methodist; and as teachers Rev. Mr. Frissell, chaplain, and Rev. Mr.
+Tolman, ex-chaplain of the school, Northern Congregationalist
+ministers, with Miss Alice Bacon, who thus worthily wears her
+venerated fathers mantle, and the Southern white ministers from
+Hampton, Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist, in unity of spirit that is
+verily "a good and a pleasant thing to see." The studies are the
+Bible and Bible history, pastoral theology and composition. In
+cultivating better understanding and kindly relations between these
+colored and white neighbors, and the relations of the school with
+both, as well as in helping meet the great need of an intelligent
+ministry, this pastor's class is doing important work. Some of its
+members board at the school, working their way in part like the other
+students, sometimes entering their classes. Some are helped to come
+by their congregations, who appreciate the opportunity.</p>
+
+<p>A handsome gold medal, presented by Mr. W. J. Demorest, of New York
+City, was awarded to Harris Barrett, of the senior class, for
+excellence in the junior elementary studies, the three R's,
+geography, grammar and spelling, in which the whole class were
+examined for the prize without special review, only one falling below
+an average of 50 per cent. on all, and five averaging above 90&mdash;a
+better showing than some Northern college seniors could make, I fear.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, some of the school's former graduates returned to tell the
+story of their labors, and nearly fifty were present on the
+invitation yearly renewed to all.</p>
+
+<p>The valedictorian was the youngest of a family of one sister and four
+brothers, children of a minister, who have graduated at the school,
+the last two with the honor of the valedictory.</p>
+
+<p>The Indian graduates were represented by two of their number, a young
+man of the Sac and Fox tribe, Indian Territory, who gave his own
+reasons for claiming and desiring citizenship for his people, which
+were: 1st, that the Indian also is<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_198" id="Page_198">[Pg 198]</a></span> a child of the Father; 2d, that
+he was once owner of the land; 3d, that without this protection and
+help he must perish; 4th, that with it he can become a useful member
+of the nation, a man among men. An Indian girl plead eloquently for
+the Indian woman, and protested against the use of "savage" as a
+synonym of Indian, since "there are also yellow savages, black
+savages and white savages." The representations of the past, present
+and future of Indian life will not soon be forgotten by those who saw
+them. The past's barbaric glories were typified by a tall young brave
+and Indian girl in the beautiful dress of the wilderness. They stood
+silent, like a vision of the ancient days, while their story was
+told. The present's pathos was represented by "<i>Lo</i>" the <i>very</i> "poor
+Indian" and squaw in shabby blankets, bewailing&mdash;as their Indian
+interpreter explained&mdash;the loss of lands and buffalo, asking where to
+go next&mdash;"white man everywhere"; the future's hope by a promising
+pair of Hampton students, able to speak for themselves, work for
+themselves and teach their people, with their white brethren's help,
+in the Christian's road. As the three groups stood in striking
+tableau&mdash;a visible embodiment of truth which I wish every white
+citizen of the United States could have seen and taken to
+heart&mdash;their comrades of the Indian school rose behind them, and
+started a Dakota hymn, recognized by the melody as "From Greenland's
+Icy Mountains," or, as interpreted to Indian understanding, "From the
+very distant cold land&mdash;from the hot land far away." As the plaintive
+strain died away, it was taken up in English in the richer chorus of
+their colored schoolmates, and the whole audience, rising, joined in
+the grand third verse, "<i>Shall we whose souls are lighted</i>," with
+effect not to pass from their hearts.</p>
+
+<p>Diplomas were presented by Rev. Dr. Strieby, vice-president of the
+Board of Trustees, to the graduating class of seventeen colored and
+three Indian young women, and twenty colored and two Indian young
+men, 42 in all. Eloquent addresses were made also by Rev Dr. McVickar
+of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Armstrong of Norfolk, imprisoned once
+by General Butler because he would pray for Jefferson Davis, but now
+thanking God for the new order, and rejoicing in Negro education.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N. C.</h3>
+
+<p>The year at Gregory Institute, as usual, has been a busy one, both in
+school and out. As a worthy colored member of our church expressed
+it, "We are tormented with Christian work at Wilmington." We have had
+this year a total enrollment of 284 pupils, and the percentage of
+attendance has never been greater. The pupils have, as a rule, worked
+well, and in many cases the progress has been very marked. While we
+are not completely satisfied with the results, yet there has been
+very much to encourage our labors. The Lord has been merciful in
+keeping the workers in good health, and there has been no death and
+but few cases of sickness among the pupils.</p>
+
+<p>The last week was taken up with examinations, both oral and written,
+and in perfecting arrangements for the anxiously looked-for event
+among our people, the closing exhibition.</p>
+
+<p>Such a clamoring for tickets one never heard. Of course, not
+one-fourth asked for could be issued, for lack of room; but, as far
+as possible, the parents were admitted. Although a thunder-storm,
+lasting about an hour, came up just as the doors were opened, the
+people continued to pour in until the hall was as full as an egg,
+upwards of 500 finding seats.</p>
+
+<p>The programme, which was a long and varied one, was carried out
+without any drawback whatever, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
+teachers and of Mr. and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_199" id="Page_199">[Pg 199]</a></span> Mrs. Dodge, who all planned so well to make
+it a success. For three and one-half hours the audience gave the
+closest attention, and the comments since have been very flattering.
+Several, including some Northerners, have declared it to be the best
+exhibition they ever attended.</p>
+
+<p>It would tire you to read the entire programme, so I will mention and
+describe briefly only a few of the pieces, though all were as
+creditably rendered as if it were a white school, with the singing
+perhaps better. The pupils, without exception, acquitted themselves
+nobly, and their neat appearance was worthy of special mention.</p>
+
+<p>You would have been pleasantly entertained had you witnessed the
+Missionary Colloquy, in which 20 girls, some taken from each
+department of the school, took part. First came a girl bearing the
+American flag and representing America, who spoke, and was then
+followed by another girl with a Bible, representing Christianity.
+Next came singly nine girls in costume, each to represent a heathen
+nation, and making an earnest plea for the Gospel. Then followed a
+band of nine little American missionary workers, each stepping to the
+front and telling how she had earned her money which she was about to
+give to the noble cause. After dropping her gift in a basket held by
+"America," she repeated these words: "O happy, happy child am I, to
+serve the Lord of earth and sky;" then taking her place, another came
+forward in the same way until all had spoken. "America" now hands her
+basket, with its treasure, to Christianity, whom she addresses; then
+both turn and address the heathen in concert. In the time, missionary
+hymns were sweetly sung by the girls, and the piece, as presented,
+was one of the finest I ever saw.</p>
+
+<p>The doll drill was another interesting part of the evening's
+entertainment. The little primary girls went through the different
+evolutions with almost military precision, eliciting rounds of
+applause.</p>
+
+<p>So I might name many pieces of almost equal interest, but suffice it
+for me to mention further only the closing. This was "The Cross and
+Crown," consisting of tableaux and recitations taken mostly from "The
+Cross-Bearer." The time occupied in this was fully 45 minutes; and
+although the hour was so late, our audience did not fail to
+appreciate this beautiful piece. Several of the older people being
+asked which piece they liked best, replied, "I believe I liked the
+one with the angel best."</p>
+
+<p>A very important part of the evening's work must not be omitted from
+mention. This was the presentation of certificates to the graduating
+class on the completion of the Elementary Normal Course ending with
+the 10th year or grade. The members of this class, one young man and
+two young ladies, have been reared up in our school, and would be a
+credit to any school. This is the first graduation from the course;
+and although the class is small, it has incited others to say, "I
+mean to stick to the school until I can stand where they did."</p>
+
+<p>We think the entertainment was filled with sermons, and we trust that
+the influence produced may be all for good.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Geo. A. Woodard.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN TALLADEGA.</h3>
+
+<p>The second Sabbath in May was a notable day with our college church
+at Talladega. It was a feast of ingathering.</p>
+
+<p>As early as eight o'clock a band of young men assembled on the banks
+of Talladega Creek, that three of their number might be immersed. It
+was a lovely spring morning, and the green banks, the running waters,
+the sweet air, the bright sunshine, the hymns, the prayers, the
+remarks of the pastor, and the Sacrament itself (administered by Rev.
+Spencer Snell, the pastor having had a congestive chill the preceding
+week, and being forbidden to go into the water) were full of
+solemnity and sweet instruction.</p>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_200" id="Page_200">[Pg 200]</a></span></p>
+<p>Two hours later we met again in the college chapel. One of the most
+pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
+been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
+was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
+be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
+year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
+overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
+and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
+people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
+his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
+church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
+sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
+people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
+three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
+None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.</p>
+
+<p>This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
+professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
+by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
+here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
+meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
+buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
+the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.</p>
+
+<p>The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
+than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
+the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
+colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
+not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
+of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
+had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.</p>
+
+<p>The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
+salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
+members, teachers, professors, president and pastor&mdash;we all felt this
+truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
+a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
+and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
+coming into the first meeting&mdash;and lest any should fail, from any
+cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
+the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew&mdash;the real
+object sought in the meetings was brought home to every member of the
+College and Church. When we had the list of names (with hardly an
+exception they furnished their own names), we were vividly reminded
+of the individuals for whom we were working and praying, and they
+knew, every one, that we were definitely working and praying for
+them. This gave a feeling of practical, concentrated work, such as
+seldom attends such meetings.</p>
+
+<p>Excepting this, there were no unusual means employed. The truth was
+very earnestly and simply preached. Immediate decision for Christ was
+pressed. Personal efforts were conscientiously made by teachers and
+students. Little prayer meetings, where from two to a dozen met for
+special prayer, were frequent, and the Lord blessed all the means
+used.</p>
+
+<p>Since the close of the protracted meeting, each Sabbath-school class
+has had its own weekly prayer meeting&mdash;a means of great good. Also a
+general young Christians' prayer meeting has been held weekly. In it
+effort has been made, not only to lead these new converts to take
+part in prayer and conference, but to instruct them upon some points
+too often neglected. Those who on this day united with the church
+could each, I think, give an intelligent statement of reasons why
+they should unite with the church; and, in so uniting, why they gave
+public assent to a confession of faith, and why they joined in
+covenant with God and his people.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Mason Noble.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_201" id="Page_201">[Pg 201]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Marked revivals have been in progress in all the colored churches of
+the city. With all the noise and superstition, we cannot doubt that
+there are not a few genuine conversions. And yet, while our students
+attend these meetings only to a limited extent, the influence upon
+them tends to interfere with our religious work.</p>
+
+<p>Last week it was my privilege to attend the meeting of the North
+Texas Association, held at Cleburne. Tillotson church, on
+application, was cordially admitted to membership. The same
+cordiality and courtesy were extended to Brother McLean, late of
+Talladega College, who applied for membership in his own behalf. Rev.
+J. W. Roberts, representing the colored church of Dallas, was also
+present. The dignified, scholarly bearing of both these brethren won
+for them golden opinions from all who listened to their reports and
+remarks. Not a few of those who were present at the various sessions
+were Southerners, but apparently none the less interested on that
+account. It was my fortune to be entertained by an ex-slaveholder,
+who served in the Confederate army through the war, but who
+nevertheless is a warm friend of the Congregational church in his
+town, and contributes to its support.</p>
+
+<p>The moderator and scribe of the association, seated side by side
+through the meetings, presented a striking contrast. The first was a
+business man, born in New England, quick, keen, decisive and
+energetic, an officer in the Union army through the war, since that
+time engaged in business in Texas, now the possessor of a large
+fortune, and thoroughly identified with, and enthusiastic concerning,
+the material and spiritual interests of his adopted State.</p>
+
+<p>The second was the pastor of the leading Congregational Church of the
+State, born in the South, educated for the law, a soldier in the
+Confederate army, for a time almost a wreck morally and physically,
+but now, by the grace of God, "clothed and in his right mind,"
+dignified, magnetic, an earnest, reverent student of the Bible, an
+able preacher and a beloved pastor.</p>
+
+<p>Thus, with representatives of the North and the South, the East and
+the West, the white race and the black, America, Sweden and Ireland,
+we had at least one marked feature of the Pentecost. But aside from
+that, the manifest presence of the Spirit, and the consequent harmony
+and good-fellowship, rendered our meeting in a still more important
+degree like that season which was the beginning of such a wonderful
+regeneration in the history of the world. It may be accepted, I doubt
+not, as one of the signs of the regeneration that is going on in the
+South, which is less wonderful only in the fact of being local rather
+than world-wide.</p>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>THE OLD COMMISSARY BUILDING.</h3>
+
+
+<p>We held a series of revival meetings at South Williamsburgh, in the
+old commissary building. Wish some of the good people of the North,
+who meet in churches and chapels, plastered and nicely warmed, and
+comfortably seated, could have dropped in upon us and spent an hour.
+Of course, they would have had the back-ache and cold feet, and,
+perhaps, carried away a flea or two, even in March, but they would
+have gone home saying, "If people can meet in such a place, some
+refined, intelligent ladies even, and continue to go night after
+night, I ought to be very, very willing to go to my church whenever
+the Lord calls a meeting and my presence and voice are necessary."
+But that you may appreciate the contrast<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_202" id="Page_202">[Pg 202]</a></span> with your pleasant place of
+meeting, let me take you to the old commissary building.</p>
+
+<p>It's a <i>box-house</i>; that is, it's made of boards set upright and
+nailed at the bottom and middle and top to joists. Over this crazy
+structure sets a roof made of long oaken shingles hewn with the broad
+axe. Step inside of the building, which will hold 125 people, and see
+the whole construction. Rough boards with the curve of the circular
+saw on them and now dingy with smoke, make the sides; oaken shingles
+black with smoke, slope above.</p>
+
+<p>A "cannon stove" sends most of its smoke through a rusty pipe up
+through a piece of sheet iron to the air. The sparks, and now and
+then a star, shine through about the pipe. Newspapers pasted over the
+widest cracks on the sides of the room keep out the heaviest drafts.
+I remember one night when it was snowing (even here, in March), a
+flurry of wind brought down a glistening shower on the shoulders of
+the congregation. The roof usually turns water, however.</p>
+
+<p>Please stand here by the door and talk to the people. Feet get cold?
+I don't wonder. The door was made an inch and a half too short. You
+ask "why in the name of health don't you fix it?" Well, just sit
+there against the wall. You sit down, and a projecting horizontal
+joist takes you right in the back of the neck and makes you crane
+your head forward in a most uncomfortable way. Poor place to get
+asleep; one would pitch right forward on the floor. You see, if we
+commenced to "fix up," we wouldn't know where to begin, for one lack
+is as great as another. One night we held a meeting in that building,
+and before morning the thermometer fell to zero. We need a good
+stove; that one is full of cracks in front, so we always left a boy
+to watch after meeting till the fire died out. We just make the house
+do; strips have been laid on the floor, paper pasted over the wall
+gaps, seats of rough boards set in the building, windows tightened,
+and there we gathered. God's Spirit met us in spite of cold and
+dinginess and needs. I believe ten or twelve rose for prayers during
+those two weeks. Since warm weather Brother Myers has continued the
+meetings, and I trust a score or more have given their hearts to the
+Lord.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Jas. T. Ford.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>STUDENT'S LETTER.</h3>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Talladega College</span>, Talladega, Ala., April, 1885.</div>
+
+<p>It is wonderful to notice how many and what interesting changes may
+take place during the few years of one's life. The first eleven years
+of my life I spent as a slave, but I have lived to see these glorious
+days of freedom. I was born upon my master's plantation in Monroe
+County, Ala., where I lived till 1865, when I was set at liberty with
+the rest of my unfortunate brethren.</p>
+
+<p>While living upon that plantation I saw many of the horrors of
+slavery with my own eyes. One of the mean and degrading things I
+remember was the way the slaves had to live, crowded together in one
+house. There were three or four different families, consisting of
+twelve or fifteen persons, all living in the same room. There was
+only one house for colored people, and it had only one room.</p>
+
+<p>Although my master did not have so many slaves and was not so mean as
+some other slave-holders about him, still, the treatment which his
+slaves received was shockingly cruel. I remember very distinctly the
+paddling block, the paddle, and the great whip used upon that place.
+There comes very vividly before my mind the whipping of a hired man.
+I know just how every rag of clothes was taken off, and how he was
+tied down in the front yard between the gate and the house, so that
+he could not move hand or foot, and how the master would whip him a
+while<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_203" id="Page_203">[Pg 203]</a></span> and walk about and smoke his pipe a while, as the poor hired
+slave lay upon the ground and cried for mercy, but there was none to
+help him.</p>
+
+<p>Whenever my thoughts go back to those dark days, I recollect the time
+when my own brother ran away because he was not willing to take the
+whipping which the master wanted to give him late one afternoon. I
+think of how the bloodhounds came, and how they chased him, while
+mother, brothers, and fellow-slaves stood trembling, and how glad all
+were when we learned that the dogs could not catch him.</p>
+
+<p>If I could forget all other heart-rending scenes of those dark days,
+I could not erase from my memory the cruel treatment which I saw my
+own mother receive. Though I was small, I think of how I used to see
+her work hard, and how she was scolded and cursed as she was driven
+about like a dog. I saw her laid upon that paddling-block, and I
+heard her distressing cries, but, like the rest of her children, I
+could do nothing.</p>
+
+<p>I love to contrast my present condition with what it was a few years
+ago, and as I do so I do not forget the A. M. A., whose workers found
+me in the lowest depths of ignorance and helped me up. When
+liberated, soon after the surrender, I could not read a word and did
+not know a letter. I do not remember that I had ever seen the inside
+of a book of any kind. It was in 1867 that I learnt the alphabet upon
+the plantation by the light of pine knots. During the years 1868 and
+1869 I was a rag-picker in the streets of Mobile. God has led me on,
+and now I am a student in Talladega College, and expect soon to have
+finished a course of study which will enable me to go forth to lead
+men to Christ and to teach them better methods of living. I speak of
+this contrast not boastfully, but humbly and with deep gratitude to
+God, who took me from the woes and degradation of slavery and has
+given me a double freedom. I am so glad for the schools the A. M. A.
+has in the South; I am so glad for what they have done for me.
+Through one of these schools I was led to Christ. Soon after that I
+felt called to the ministry; and in Talladega College I am permitted
+to finish a course of study, and to some degree equip myself for the
+work of life. All praise to an organization that seeks for poor,
+ignorant and sinful men, leads them to Christ, instructs them, and
+then sends them out to bless the world.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">A Student.</span></div>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>OBITUARY.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>MRS. H. M. STEVENS.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Another veteran teacher of the A. M. A. has been called home to her
+rest. On the morning of May 7, at her home in St. Albans, Vt., Mrs.
+H. M. Stevens, known to A. M. A. workers as Miss E. M. Barnes, of
+Bakersfield, Vt., fell asleep after a severe and painful sickness of
+several mouths.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Barnes entered the service of the Association in 1865 and left
+it in 1882, to minister to her devoted friend and fellow laborer,
+Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens, in her last sickness. When released from
+this service of love her own health prevented her return to the
+Southern work. Her first year was spent at Arlington, Va. She spent
+six years in the Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., four years in the Le
+Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., and her last six in Fisk
+University&mdash;seventeen years of devoted, earnest and fruitful labor in
+behalf of the colored youth in the South.</p>
+
+<p>Since leaving the South her life has been a pleasant and useful one
+as Mrs. Stevens, the wife of a devoted husband and an earnest and
+zealous Christian<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_204" id="Page_204">[Pg 204]</a></span> woman in the city and the church where her lot was
+cast. The testimony to her nobility and earnestness of character was
+manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
+sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
+short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
+teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
+and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
+which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
+youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
+pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.</p>
+
+<p>She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
+Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
+most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
+place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
+a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
+there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
+have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
+Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
+entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
+uttermost."</p>
+
+<p>The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
+and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
+held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
+labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
+impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
+greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
+borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
+who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
+and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
+been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
+character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
+were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
+world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
+others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
+the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
+to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
+the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">E. M. Cravath.</span></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.</h3>
+
+
+<p>Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
+Saratoga Springs, N. Y.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Goodridge was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of a godly and
+New England ancestry. She became a Christian in her earliest years
+and joined the church when but a child. From the beginning she was
+instructed in the Scriptures, which can make wise unto salvation, and
+her nature, less rugged than that of some, was well perfected by
+grace. Seeking usefulness in needy fields, she offered herself to the
+A. M. A., and last year began her work in Talladega, where she proved
+herself a devoted and successful teacher, a woman of great refinement
+and goodness, and a faithful servant of Christ. Herself a disciple
+sitting at Jesus' feet, she never forgot her Master in her teaching,
+while her unconscious influence was powerful for good. Her illness
+was but of a few days' duration, nor was it considered fatal until
+within a few hours of the end. Winning in person and of rare beauty
+of character, she has greatly endeared herself to her associates and
+to all who knew her. Though death came suddenly it did not find her
+unprepared. Her hope was in Christ, and her end was a peaceful
+falling asleep.</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">H. S. De Forest.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_205" id="Page_205">[Pg 205]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.</div>
+
+
+<p>We are glad to report a movement in favor of State organizations for
+woman's work in our own country in co-operation with the Am. Home
+Miss. Soc., the Am. Miss. Assoc., the New West Ed. Com., etc. At a
+special meeting called at Saratoga on June 4, action was taken by the
+representatives of the several Woman's Missionary Societies,
+advocating the formation of State societies, whose object should be
+to co-operate with the established societies of the Congregational
+order, in raising funds and increasing intelligence respecting
+missionary work in this country.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>Two years ago the ladies of Vermont pledged the support of one
+teacher at McIntosh, Ga., but increased their contributions until
+they assumed the entire support of the school. A year ago they
+undertook the expense of an addition to the school building, to be
+called the "Vermont School." In connection with the State
+Association, at Bellows Falls, a ladies' meeting was held on
+Wednesday morning, June 10, in behalf of the American Missionary
+Association, addressed by their teacher, Miss Plimpton, and by Miss
+Emerson, Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. The following report was
+submitted by the State Committee:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p>The committee re-appointed by the convention held at St. Albans
+last June, to raise money for the school for the freedmen in
+McIntosh, Ga., desires to present the following report for the
+year:</p></div>
+
+<div class="center">FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1885.</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Committee report">
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Total contributions</td><td align="right">$848.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Expenses of postage and printing</td><td align="right">11.16</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>&nbsp;</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Remitted to H. W. Hubbard</td><td align="right">837.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">Add balance on hand May, 1884</td><td align="right">259.28</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="3" align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Total</td><td align="right">$1,096.98</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>Estimated expense of school this year</td><td align="right">$856.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td>To apply on new building</td><td align="right">240.98</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="right">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;</td><td align="right">$1,096.98</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>Acknowledgment was also made for barrels and boxes of clothing,
+papers, books, toys and materials for sewing school, with money sent
+to pay freight. Additional contributions are expected before Sept.
+30, to apply on the new school building.</p>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<p>At the recent meeting of the State Association of Illinois, held in
+Rockford, the ladies organized the "Illinois Home Miss. Union." The
+constitution adopted embraces all home causes as embodied in the
+following form:</p>
+
+<div class="blockquot"><p><span class="smcap">Article 1.</span> This Society shall be called the Woman's Home
+Missionary Union of the State of &mdash;&mdash;. Its object shall be to
+promote missionary and evangelistic work in all parts of our
+land by forming auxiliaries in the churches of the State, and
+through them collecting money for the various existing societies
+of the Congregational order.</p></div>
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_206" id="Page_206">[Pg 206]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>A TRUE INCIDENT.</h3>
+
+
+<p>At a little junction in Wisconsin, a score of passengers alighting
+from a train were told that the one they wished to take was four
+hours behind time. A big washout had swept away a bridge or
+embankment. There were a few exclamations of dismay and impatience,
+as that four hours delay meant the losing of other connections, the
+failure of many plans and appointments. It was a cold, rainy day,
+with a raw, penetrating east wind that speedily drove them all into
+the close, dismal waiting room. One woman, taking writing materials
+from a satchel, which she contrived to use for a desk, became utterly
+oblivious to everything as her pencil flew over the letter that would
+carry comfort and cheer to a far-off loved one. Suddenly she became
+conscious that a score of people were sitting in complete silence
+around her, with not a book or paper to read, looking as forlorn and
+miserable as possible. Laying aside her writing, she said, "My
+husband and I are missionaries among the colored people in Alabama. I
+am now on my way back to the work. Perhaps you might be interested to
+hear something about it, and if you care to ask any questions, I will
+be very happy to answer them."</p>
+
+<p>An old lady sitting near, bounced up in a great rage. "<i>I</i> don't want
+to hear a <i>word</i> about the niggers." The rest of her muttered
+exclamations were lost as she rushed out, slamming the door behind
+her.</p>
+
+<p>The missionary began to tell them about the climate, the tropical
+luxuriance of fruit and flowers, and of the great cotton fields. By
+that time questions began to pour in thick and fast, and in less than
+five minutes she had an eager audience listening to every word. She
+went on to tell of the condition of the colored people at the close
+of the war; ignorant, utterly destitute, with no more knowledge than
+a baby of how to shift for themselves; of the hard struggle it had
+been and still was for many of them to live; of the miserable
+pittance they generally received for their labor; of their home life,
+their peculiarities, and other things of interest.</p>
+
+<p>About that time the irate woman, unable longer to endure the
+discomfort of the weather outside, came quietly in, looking rather
+disgusted at the prospect of being obliged, after all, to hear
+something about "the niggers."</p>
+
+<p>The recital of some special incidents of peculiar trial and hardship
+which had come under the missionary's own observation brought tears
+of sympathy to many eyes; but best of all was the sudden conversion
+of our wrathful woman, who exclaimed: "I declare that's too bad! What
+makes them stand it? Why don't they all come North, where they could
+have a fair chance?" As she was told "the reason why," she grew full
+of sympathy and interest, and was even more eager than the others in
+suggestions and inquiries. But when they were told of what had
+already been done by the American Missionary Association and others
+toward establishing and maintaining schools and churches among them,
+of the devoted missionaries and teachers that had carried already so
+much of comfort and help into their sad lives, of the steady upward
+progress they were making in knowledge and intelligence, in the
+acquirement of homes and ability to care for themselves, all seemed
+to appreciate as never before the importance of the work that is
+being done in the South.</p>
+
+<p>The distant whistle of the train surprised them all, and as they
+crowded about the missionary to take her hand and bid her God speed
+in her blessed work, one woman said: "I used to give pennies to the
+work of the A. M. A., but they shall be dollars now."</p>
+
+<div class="right"><span class="smcap">Mrs. A. W. C.</span></div>
+
+<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_207" id="Page_207">[Pg 207]</a></span></p>
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h2>CHILDREN'S PAGE.</h2>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<h3>THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE.</h3>
+
+<div class="center">BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER</div>
+
+
+<p>Little Ida had been invited to attend a party made by white children
+at the school house. To her mother's mind the question of her going
+turned on her having a scarlet sash to wear. By the kindness of a
+child in the family where Ida and her mother, who figures in our
+story as "Aunt Chloe," had their home, the want was finally met.</p>
+
+<p>Now for the story of the scarlet sash, after it became Ida's
+property. She wore it to the party, where she laughed and sang, and
+played games, and looked like a poppy among the roses. She behaved
+very politely, too, like a well-trained child whose mother had lived
+in the "fust families."</p>
+
+<p>After that, she wore it in church and to Sunday-school. It looped
+itself beautifully over her best, brown striped dress, and gave her
+the sense of being equal in appearance with the other children.</p>
+
+<p>Miss Raymond, her teacher, told me that Ida really seemed to
+understand the lesson better, and to take more interest in reciting
+her golden text, after she came into possession of her precious sash.
+It was so thick and soft and rich; it felt so nice to the little
+black fingers, which every now and then stroked it lovingly. I am
+sure the sash was a means of grace to Ida.</p>
+
+<p>Children who have everything they want, who are clothed in purple and
+fine linen every day, cannot imagine how much delight a poor child
+sometimes takes in an innocent bit of finery.</p>
+
+<p>Now, I want to tell you what became of the sash at last.</p>
+
+<p>One day the superintendent at the Sunday-school asked the children to
+come to order, because a lady was about to talk to them.</p>
+
+<p>The lady was a missionary; her work had been somewhere a great way
+off, among people who had hardly any money, and had a great deal of
+trouble to get bread and meat. Their minister, the lady said, had to
+live in a house dug right out of the side of a hill. She had lived in
+such a little bit of a house herself for a great many weeks. Poor as
+these people were, they had built a little church, and were trying
+very hard to pay for it. They had not any singing-books nor Bibles
+for their Sunday-school, nor any library-books; but the children
+thought nothing of walking five miles or more to go to Sunday-school.</p>
+
+<p>What would the children here in this lovely room give for those
+children in the far, far West?</p>
+
+<p>It happened that Ida's teacher had lately talked to her class about
+the meanness of giving to the Lord that which it cost them nothing to
+give. So when the collection-box was passed around, they dropped in
+their pennies and silver-pieces, and those who had nothing with them
+were told to bring their share on the next Sunday. And some of them
+began to plan their little sacrifices.</p>
+
+<p>Ida's dusky face was a study. Once or twice she paused, irresolute.
+At last, when school was over, she whispered;</p>
+
+<p>"Teacher, may I stay a moment?"</p>
+
+<p>"Yes, dear," said Miss Raymond.</p>
+
+<p>When the two were by themselves in the little half-circle where their
+class usually sat, Ida, with trembling hands, untied the beloved
+sash, and, laying it on her teacher's lap, said, "Please, Miss
+Raymond, this is the prettiest thing I've got, and I want to send it
+to the children who haven't any Bibles."</p>
+
+<p>"But the sash will do them no good, Ida."</p>
+
+<p>"The worf of it will," replied the child; "and it's worf free
+dollars, any way; mammy said so."</p>
+
+<p>Ida stooped down and kissed it; it<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_208" id="Page_208">[Pg 208]</a></span> was not giving what cost her
+nothing to part with her treasured ribbon.</p>
+
+<p>Mass Raymond took it with a tender look, rolled it up and carried it
+home.</p>
+
+<p>One evening, in her parlor, she told its story to a party of young
+people, and then remarked: "The sash ought to bring more than three
+dollars, when that little black girl gave it up so cheerfully."</p>
+
+<p>In a few moments there lay a little pile of silver and paper on the
+centre table, and Ida's sash had brought eight dollars for the good
+cause. Before the week was over it had gone from hand to hand, and
+the eight dollars became twenty without much difficulty.</p>
+
+<p>Fanny said she thought we ought to send the sash back to Ida, or give
+her another one; but no, that would have taken the sweetness from her
+self-denial.</p>
+
+<p>She came to school without her ribbon, having been scolded by Aunt
+Chloe, who could not understand her action, and thought it great
+folly; but all winter long there was a brave light in Ida's dark
+face, and a contented expression in her eyes. She had given the
+scarlet sash for Christ's sake, and he had blessed her deed, and
+owned her as one of his little ones. Happy Ida!</p>
+
+<div class="center medium">ABRIDGED FROM S. S. TIMES.</div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<h3>RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1885.</h3>
+
+<hr class="quarter" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MAINE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2">MAINE, $278.87.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Augusta. Mrs. Skeeles' S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong. Ch., 20.32</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">95.32</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Limington. "A. B."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Bridgeton. Miss Proctor's Sch., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norway. Ladies, bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Albans. Mrs. W. S. Sewall and family</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Skowhegan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by A. L. Colby, Treas.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Berwick. Mrs. Hodgkins' S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Paris. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Union. Cong Ch., 4; Ladies' Soc., 4</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waterford. Centre Ch. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">By Mrs. J. P. Hubbard, Treas. Woman's Aux., <i>for Missionary, Selma,
+Ala.</i> Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy, 3.&mdash;Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.&mdash;Casco, Mrs.
+Mayberry, 1.&mdash;Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.&mdash;Orland, Ch., by Miss
+Buck, 23.&mdash;Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S. Longfellow, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">82.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW HAMPSHIRE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br /><br />NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bedford. Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Franklin. Mrs. R. C. Andrews, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">London. K. S. Price</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">105.04</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;VERMONT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />VERMONT, $537.36.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bakersfield. By Mrs. J. A. Perkins, <i>for Missionary, McIntosh, Ga.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Brattleborough. E. Crosby &amp; Co., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.61</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Granby. Mrs. Nancy Appleton</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manchester. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, pkg. C., 1.25 <i>Freight, for Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">60.44</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., 1.70 <i>Freight, for
+Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Plymouth. Coll. at Furnace</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.69</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">26.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Townshend. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. C. C. Taft</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.76</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. D. L. Ray</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Vermont, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, <i>for McIntosh, Ga.</i>,
+Benson, 10.&mdash;Bethel (5 of which for building fund), 10.75&mdash;Bridport,
+33.&mdash;Braintree, 5.&mdash;Charlotte, 30.25&mdash;East Hardwick (3 of which from
+Young Ladies' Aid Soc.), 10.25&mdash;Fairlee, 11.&mdash;Franklin, 5.40.&mdash;New
+Haven, 25.06.&mdash;Newport, ad'l, 1.16.&mdash;North Troy, 1.&mdash;Quechee,
+1.&mdash;Saint Albans, 15.&mdash;Saint Johnsbury, ad'l, 2.54.&mdash;Sharon,
+10.&mdash;Swanton, 15.25.&mdash;West Rutland, 16.10.&mdash;Total, 202.76 (less 11.16
+expenses)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">191.60</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MASSACHUSETTS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MASSACHUSETTS, $3,636.44.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Alford and West Stockbridge Centre, Cong Ch's.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Amesbury. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, bbl. of C., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Andover. Free Christian Church, 100, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Ruth F. Emerson,
+Mrs. Agnes B. Donald</span> and <span class="smcap">Benj. W. Farnum</span> L. M's; Chapel, Ch. and
+Soc., 81</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">181.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Athol. Evangelical Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_209" id="Page_209">[Pg 209]</a></span><div class="sub1">Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 539.14; Union Ch. and Soc., 107.32; Park
+Street Ch. and Soc., ad'l, 10; "Friend," <i>for Indian M.</i>, 10; Mrs. E.
+P Eayrs, 5&mdash;Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
+Straight U.</i>, 50&mdash;Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 72.74&mdash;Chelsea.
+Woman's Union Home M. Band, <i>for Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn.</i>,
+60&mdash;Dorchester. Sab. Sch. Class, Second Ch., <i>for Indian M., Dakota</i>,
+1.58; Mrs. E. J. W. Baker, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>, 50&mdash;Roxbury.
+Eliot Ch. and Soc., 75.51&mdash;Somerville. Winter Hill Ch. and Soc., 20;
+Henry Howard, 20; Broadway Ch. and Soc., 17.41; M. P. Elliott,
+<i>Freight</i>, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,040.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bernardston. Miss M. L. Newcomb, 60.00, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i>; 20.00, <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">80.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Danvers Centre. Missionary Soc., Box S. S Supplies, <i>for
+Williamsburg, Ky.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">160.71</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Bridgewater. Union Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">32.23</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fall River. Pastoral Aid Soc. of Central Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Talladega, C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Georgetown, First Cong Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.84</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. <span class="smcap">Ellis P. Harlow</span> L.
+M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hardwick. First Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Harvard. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Haverhill. D. Crowell's Bible Class, Centre Cong. Ch., <i>for Student
+Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">61.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Holliston. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; Clothing, val. 1, <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lakeville. Precinct Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">53.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Littleton. "Friends," for Atlanta U.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.96</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Medway. Mrs. Geo. M. Richardson, <i>for Wilmington, N. C., Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montague. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., 77.30, to const. <span class="smcap">Joshua Hale,
+Jr.</span>, and <span class="smcap">Joseph H. Currier</span>, L. M's; North Ch., 68.65</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">145.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton. Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton. Miss Annie Boyden, 2 bbls. of C., etc., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">74.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">52.38</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. "A Friend," 50; Cong. Ch., 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northampton. Miss J. B. Kingsley, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.33</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rutland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Salem. Tabernacle Ch and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">320.81</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saugus. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shelburne Falls. Mrs. J. A. Richmond</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">87.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">47.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Springfield. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Topsfield. Mrs. Ephraim Perkins</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ware. Livingston Band, <i>for Indian M., Fort Sul'y</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Watertown. Friend</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Mission Soc. <i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">44.26</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Whitinsville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle of Cong. Ch., box of C., <i>for
+Macon, Ga.</i>; 10 <i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Williamsburg. Ladies' Sew. Soc., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">93.55</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. Circle, <i>for Fisk University Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n. Holyoke, Second,
+28.24&mdash;Palmer, 20&mdash;Springfield. Olivet, 35.30; Mrs Edw. Clarke, 5;
+North Sab. Sch., <i>for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss.</i>, 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">113.54</td>
+</tr>
+<tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Clothing, etc., received at Boston Office. Maine</span>&mdash;Farmington.
+Ladies' Soc., Bbl.&mdash;<span class="smcap">Massachusetts</span>&mdash;Chelsea. W. H. M Band, bdl.
+Papers&mdash;Hyde Park, W. H. M. Soc., bbl., <i>for Jonesboro,
+Tenn.</i>&mdash;Medway, Ladies' B. Soc., bbl., <i>for Wilmington, N.
+C.</i>&mdash;Newton, Ladies' F. A. Soc., bbl., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i>&mdash;Somerville,
+Matthew P. Elliot, pkg. Hats, <i>for Atlanta U.</i>, Val. 50&mdash;Waquoit.
+Rev. Joshua Gay, box Books&mdash;Westborough. Ladies' F. M. Soc.,
+bbl.&mdash;Worcester, Ladies' B. U. of Piedmont Ch., bbl., <i>for Marietta,
+Ga.</i>, Val. 50&mdash;Yarmouth, Ladies' Sew. Circle, bbl., <i>for Fisk U.</i></div></td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;RHODE ISLAND">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />RHODE ISLAND, $2.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Central Falls. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards, bbl. of Goods, 2 <i>Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CONNECTICUT">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CONNECTICUT, $1,563.47.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Abington. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. "Willing Workers," <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bethel. "Willing Workers," cask of C., etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bozrah. Cong Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. "Cheerful Workers," <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wheeler &amp; Wilson Sew. Machine, <i>for
+Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bridgeport. Miss Carrie Wood, box Bedding, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Conn. Sch. Quitman, Ga.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Darien. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">East Hampton. Dea. Skinner, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Gilead. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 50; Cong. Ch., 3.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">53.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Mrs. Catharine B. Hillyer, 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Lucy Tudor
+Hillyer</span> L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Centre Ch., 2 bbls. Bedding and C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Britain. South Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Charles Peck, Geo. P.
+Rockwell, Oliver Stanley, Rev. Chas E. Steele, John B. Talcott</span> and
+<span class="smcap">Dea. John Wiard</span> L. M's</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">192.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Haven. First Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">204.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.85</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 15.65, and Sab. Sch., 15</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.65</td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_210" id="Page_210">[Pg 210]</a></span>
+<div class="sub1">Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.36</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Westville. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">19.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">&mdash;&mdash;. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">600.93</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,436.48</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hartford. Estate of Dr. John R. Lee, by John Hooker, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">126.99</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,563.47</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW YORK">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW YORK, $2,499.90.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albany. First Cong. Ch., 120.73; Chas. A. Beach, 25</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">145.73</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albion. Miss H. M. Woodward, <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bergen. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 429.06; Julius Davenport, 100; South
+Cong. Ch., 50; "A Friend" 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Elizabeth Cleveland</span> L.
+M. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">609.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Leroy. Mrs. A. McEwen</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lima. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, 30, to const.
+Mrs. <span class="smcap">Luretta C. Stickel</span> L. M.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">130.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 100; Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, 100, <i>for
+Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">200.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Northville. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Perry Centre. Cong. Ch., 30, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. William R. Bathrick</span> L.
+M.; R. J. Booth, pkg. Papers</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">30.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rushville. Cong. Ch. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.57</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rutland. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">9.69</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saratoga. Miss F. A. Marvin, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35.37; "Friends," 35, <i>for Student Aid,
+Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">70.37</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Sab. Sch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">24.19</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. (50 of which <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">81.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,395.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACIES.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">100.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">North Winfield. Estate of Miss E. Jane Alexander, by Thomas E.
+Harrison and Olive E. Harrison, Exs.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norwich. Estate of John Foote (90 of which to const. <span class="smcap">Mary C. Foote,
+Achsa S. Foote</span> and <span class="smcap">Susan L. Peck</span> L. M.'s.), by John Mitchell, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">504.04</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$2,499.90</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEW JERSEY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEW JERSEY, $489.49.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Arlington. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">11.49</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maywood. E. K. Breckenridge</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. James Powell</span>,
+D. D., L. M.)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">376.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary,
+Tougaloo, Miss.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montclair. Mrs Pratt's S. S. Class, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Morristown. Miss Julia Dodge, half bbl. Papers, <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;PENNSYLVANIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />PENNSYLVANIA, $77.10.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch. </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ridgway. "C. D. O."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Scranton. Miss Sarah E. Hawley </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shoemakertown. Cheltenham Academy, bbl. Boys' C., <i>for Wilmington,
+N. C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Alexander. Jane C. Davidson </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.40</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;OHIO">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />OHIO, $1,704.39.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.78</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austinburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., <i>for Fisk U.</i>, 1.17
+<i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 11.46; Mrs. Charlotte Ruggles, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.46</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cleveland. Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., <i>for
+Missionary, Santee Agency</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Conneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Elyria. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. <span class="smcap">E. W. Metcalf</span> L. M.)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Four Corners. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.58</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Freedom. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab Sch., 5 </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch., adl. <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marietta. Miss M. B. Diamond, pkg. of C., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">New Concord. Wm. Lee, Sen.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Norwalk and Peru. By Rev. H. Lawrence, box and bbl. Bibles,
+Testaments, etc., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">79.10</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oberlin. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 50 copies "Manual of Praise," <i>for
+Chapel, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">23.80</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wakeman. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">14.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">West Andover. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$704.39</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austinburg. Estate of L. B. Austin, by William Pulis, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1,000.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,704.39</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ILLINOIS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ILLINOIS, $681.09.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chicago. Fist Cong. Ch., 100; N. E. Cong. Ch., 44.03; South Cong.
+Ch., 34.83; Y. L. Miss'y Soc. of N. E. Cong. Ch., 25.20</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">204.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cobden. C. C. Wright </div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dundee. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Geneseo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">55.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">29.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kewanee. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">La Grange. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Terry, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lewiston. Mrs. Myron Phelps</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lowell. V. G. Lutz</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Malden. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marseilles. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mendon. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Neponset. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oak Park. Mrs. A. Ridell</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Payson. Miss Lizzie Scarborough, <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Peoria. Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., box of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rockford. A. D. Forbes</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rosemond. "Busy Bee Soc"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.67</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Seward. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., <i>for Missionaries</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shirland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">16.66</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Winnebago. Cong. Ch., <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MICHIGAN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MICHIGAN, $213.59.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., <i>for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_211" id="Page_211">[Pg 211]</a></span><div class="sub1">Grass Lake. Union Meeting, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">21.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Homestead. Morris Case</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Mrs. H. Ralston</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jackson. Mrs. L. H. Field, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Lynden. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Litchfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manistee. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mattawan. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.60</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Olivet. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.06</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Reed City. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Romeo. Mrs. E. A. Berry, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Joseph. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. (5 of which <i>for Missionary,
+Indian M.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Webster. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.55</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;IOWA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />IOWA, $1,019.41.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Afton. Ladies of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., <i>for Missionary, New Orleans,
+La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Algona. A. Zahlten</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Anamosa. Women's Freedmen's Soc., <i>for Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Creston. Mrs. N. H. Whittlesey, <i>for Missionary, New Orleans, La.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, 50; Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 25; <i>for
+Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>; Bbl. of C., <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Des Moines. Young People of Plym. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
+C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Des Moines. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. G. Otis, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Grinnell. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.18</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Hawthorne. Rev. N. H. Blackmer</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Iowa City. Cong Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">46.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marshalltown. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Muscatine. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">65.25</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rock Rapids. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tipton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Iowa, by Mrs. Geo. W. Reynolds, Treas., <i>for Missionary,
+New Orleans La.</i> Charles City, 10.&mdash;Chester Centre, 7.&mdash;Davenport,
+24.25.&mdash;Grinnell, 80.&mdash;New Hampton, 5, Children's Soc., 3.&mdash;North Des
+Moines, Mrs. St. John, 1.&mdash;Osage, 10.&mdash;Waterloo, 10.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">150.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ladies of Iowa, by Ella E. Marsh, Treas., <i>for Missionary, New
+Orleans, La.</i> Eldora, 2.50.&mdash;Iowa Falls, 1.03.&mdash;Otho, 4.50.&mdash;Tabor,
+15.&mdash;Webster City, 2</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.03</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$519.41</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Burlington. Estate of David Leonard, by Mrs. Mary S. Leonard,
+Executrix</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,019.41</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WISCONSIN">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WISCONSIN, $751.29.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Clinton. Ladies' H. M. Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Geneva. Rev. J. K. Kilbourn, box of Books, etc., <i>for Macon Ga.</i>, 3
+<i>for Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">La Crosse. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">75.65</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Madison. Ladies' H. M. Soc., <i>for Missionary, Austin, Tex.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Milwaukee. Plym. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">18.34</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Neenah. E. B. Ranney</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Pulpit Bible, and 2 Books, <i>for Macon,
+Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rosendale. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">28.40</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Shopiere. Cong. Sab Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waukesha. Young People's Miss'y. Soc. <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$251.29</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td colspan="2" align="center"><div class="medium">LEGACY.</div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Monroe. Estate of Mrs. Orrissa Rood, by J. L. Rood, Ex.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">500.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$751.29</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MINNESOTA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MINNESOTA, $20.60.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">18.35</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Rushford. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.25</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSOURI">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MISSOURI, $31.70.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Kirkville. J. S. Blackman</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">27.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KANSAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KANSAS, $72.84.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cora. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manhattan. "Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Reno Centre. First Ch. of Christ</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.77</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Topeka. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">17.07</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Manhattan. First Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Clara Castle L. M.</span></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">31.00</td> </tr>
+</table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;COLORADO">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />COLORADO, $8.70.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Highland Lake. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. (4.25 of which <i>for Chinese
+M.</i>)</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.70</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NEBRASKA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NEBRASKA, $42.97.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Albion. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">7.30</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Ashland. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.45</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fairfield. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.52</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">South Bend. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Stanton. Mrs. Laura E. Dada</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Steele City. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">6.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;DAKOTA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />DAKOTA, $3.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WASHINGTON TER.">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WASHINGTON TER., $2.75.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheyenne. "A Friend."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.75</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;WYOMING TER.">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />WYOMING TER., $22.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Cheyenne, First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">22.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CALIFORNIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CALIFORNIA, $13.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Arcata. "A Friend"</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Elk Creek. J. E. Lee</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $140.65.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Washington. First Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">127.15</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Washington. Howard U., Mon. Con. Coll.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">13.50</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;KENTUCKY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />KENTUCKY, $175.77.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Lexington. Tuition, 63.25; Rent, 2.77</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">66.02</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Williamsburg. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">71.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Woodbine. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">38.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;VIRGINIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />VIRGINIA, $8.55.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Herndon. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">8.55</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TENNESSEE">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TENNESSEE, $781.81.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jellico. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">41.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Jonesboro. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">3.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">12.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Maryville. Mrs. R. A. Frame, <i>for Maryville, Tenn., Freight</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Memphis. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">269.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Nashville. Tuition, 396.86; Jackson St. Cong. Ch., 5</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">401.86</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. C. Bennett, <i>for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">50.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">2.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;NORTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />NORTH CAROLINA, $251.20.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Troy. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">1.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Tuition, 200.20; Cong. Ch., 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">210.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Wilmington. Odd Minutes Miss'y Soc., 20; "Willing Workers," 20; <i>for
+Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">40.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;SOUTH CAROLINA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />SOUTH CAROLINA, $319.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Charleston. Tuition, 304.50; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 15</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">319.50</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;GEORGIA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />GEORGIA, $653.58.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">264.95</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Dalton. Rev. Milton Rowley, box Books, etc., <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_212" id="Page_212">[Pg 212]</a></span><div class="sub1">Macon. Tuition, 172.70; Rent, 4; Cong Ch., 16.05</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">192.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Macon. Prof. A. J. Burger, Pulpit Bible <i>for Macon, Ga.</i></div></td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">McIntosh. Tuition, 22.38; Rent, 1.50</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">23.88</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Savannah. Tuition, 152; Cong. Ch., 20</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">172.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;ALABAMA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />ALABAMA, $418.72.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Marion. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mobile. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">187.70</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mobile. Woman's H. M. Ass'n for <i>Missionary, Fort Berthold</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch.</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. First Cong. Ch., 14.75: Sab. Sch., 10; Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
+Silsby, 10</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">34.75</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, <i>for Indian M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">15.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Talladega. Tuition, 96; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15.27</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">111.27</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Soc., <i>for Share</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;FLORIDA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />FLORIDA, $10.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Saint Augustine. Rent</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;MISSISSIPPI">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />MISSISSIPPI, $36.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">36.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;TEXAS">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />TEXAS, $245.05.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Austin. Tuition</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">235.05</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Fort Worth. M. Marty</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.00</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;INCOMES">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />INCOMES, $462.50.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Avery Fund, for <i>Mendi M.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">300.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Howard Theo. Fund, <i>for Howard U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">102.50</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Luke Mem. Scholarship Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">10.20</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Mrs. N. M. &amp; Miss Abbie Stone Scholarship Fund, <i>for Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">25.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Straight U. Fund, <i>for Straight U.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">20.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Yale Library Fund, for <i>Talladega C.</i></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">4.80</td> </tr> </table></div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;CANADA">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />CANADA, $5.00.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Canada, Montreal. "C. A."</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">5.00</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total for May</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$17,372.89</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total from Oct. 1 to May 31</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">158,757.17</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">===========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<table class="receipts" border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" summary="Receipts&mdash;FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY">
+<tr><td align="center" colspan="2"><br />FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</td></tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Subscriptions for May</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">49.14</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1">Previously acknowledged</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">969.94</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash;&mdash; </td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"> Total</div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">$1,019.08</td>
+</tr>
+
+<tr>
+<td><div class="sub1"></div></td>
+<td align="right" valign="bottom">=========</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+</div>
+
+<p>
+<span style="margin-left: 20em;">H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 25em;">56 Reade Street, N. Y.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="xlarge"><b>LUNDBORG'S</b></span><br />
+<span class="large"><b>PERFUMES.</b></span><br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote2">
+<br />
+<b>Lundborg's Perfume</b>, Edenia.<br />
+<b>Lundborg's Perfume</b>, Mar&ecirc;chal Niel Rose.<br />
+<b>Lundborg's Perfume</b>, Alpine Violet.<br />
+<b>Lundborg's Perfume</b>, Lily of the Valley.<br />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+<span class="large"><b>LUNDBORG'S<br />RHENISH COLOGNE.</b></span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><br />A box containing <b>Samples</b> of all the above five articles <b>prepaid</b> to
+your nearest <b>Railroad</b> Express Office (which should be named) for
+Fifty Cents&mdash;Money Order, Stamps or Currency.</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><br />Address: <b>YOUNG, LADD &amp; COFFIN, 24 Barclay St., New York.</b></div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div class="figcenter" style="width: 72px;">
+<img src="images/img212.jpg" width="72" height="72" alt="Count Rumford." title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+<span class="large">HORSFORD'S<br />
+
+<b>ACID PHOSPHATE.</b></span><br />
+
+<span class="medium">(LIQUID.)</span>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<br />
+FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXHAUSTION,<br /> NERVOUSNESS,
+DIMINISHED VITALITY,<br /> URINARY DIFFICULTIES,<br /> ETC.
+<br /><br />
+
+<span class="medium">PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF</span><br />
+<b>Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><p>There seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority
+of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has ever been
+offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want
+as this.</p>
+
+<p>It is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.</p>
+
+<p>No danger can attend its use.</p>
+
+<p>Its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to
+take.</p>
+
+<p>It makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.</p>
+
+<p>Prices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on
+application.</p>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center">
+<span class="medium">MANUFACTURED BY THE</span><br />
+<b>RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,</b><br />
+<span class="medium"><b>Providence, R. I.,</b></span><br />
+<span class="medium">AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.</span>
+</div>
+
+<hr class="section" />
+
+<div>
+<b>
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">EFFICACIOUS.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">ECONOMICAL.</span>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">PORTABLE.</span><br />
+</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="center large"><br /><b>TARRANT'S EFFERVESCENT SELTZER APERIENT.</b></div>
+
+<div class="center medium">A palatable effervescing draught; affords immediate and permanent
+relief in</div>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 144px;">
+<img src="images/img226.jpg" width="144" height="130" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div class="figright" style="width: 144px;">
+<img src="images/img226.jpg" width="144" height="130" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<div>
+<b>
+<span style="margin-left: 3em;">Constipation,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 5em;">Biliousness,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;">Headache,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 9em;">Heartburn,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 11em;">Flatulency,</span><br />
+<span style="margin-left: 13em;">Dyspepsia.</span><br />
+</b>
+</div>
+
+<div class="figcenter">&nbsp;</div>
+
+<div class="adquote"><br />Corrects acidity of the stomach, allays fever and gently operates
+upon the bowels. It is emphatically a Household Remedy, invaluable
+for Travelers. As acceptable to the smallest child as to the
+strongest man.</div>
+
+<div class="center"><b>Sold by all Druggists.</b></div>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 07,
+July, 1885, by Various
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
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+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: The American Missionary--Volume 39, No. 07, July, 1885
+
+Author: Various
+
+Release Date: October 2, 2009 [EBook #30158]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD, and the Online
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+
+
+
+
+
+
+[Illustration:
+
+The American Missionary
+
+VOL. XXXIX
+
+NO. 7
+
+July, 1885.]
+
+
+CONTENTS
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+                                   PAGE.
+
+EDITORIAL.
+
+
+  THE FIGURES--FINANCIAL                                          187
+  EXERCISE OF BENEVOLENCE                                         188
+  THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.               189
+  PARAGRAPHS                                                      191
+  CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO--GRAVE OF LOVEJOY--WHAT
+    SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?                                 192
+
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+  FISK UNIVERSITY                                                 195
+  ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE                                196
+  GREGORY INSTITUTE                                               198
+  RELIGIOUS INTEREST AT TALLADEGA                                 199
+  LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN--THE OLD COMMISSARY
+    BUILDING                                                      201
+  STUDENT'S LETTER                                                202
+  OBITUARY: MRS. H. M. STEVENS                                    203
+  OBITUARY: MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE                                  204
+
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+  STATE ORGANIZATIONS--VERMONT SCHOOL AT MCINTOSH, GA.--ILLINOIS
+    HOME MISS. UNION                                              205
+  A TRUE INCIDENT                                                 206
+
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+  THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE                               207
+
+
+RECEIPTS                                                          208
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+NEW YORK:
+
+PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
+
+Rooms, 56 Reade Street.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.
+
+Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class
+matter.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+PRESIDENT, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Vice-Presidents._
+
+  Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
+  Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
+  Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D. D., N. Y.
+  Rev. ALEX. McKENZIE, D. D., Mass.
+  Rev. D. O. MEARS, D. D., Mass.
+
+
+_Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Assistant Corresponding Secretary._
+
+  Rev. JAMES POWELL, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Treasurer._
+
+  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+
+_Auditors._
+
+  W. H. ROGERS,
+  PETER McCARTEE.
+
+
+_Executive Committee._
+
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.
+  A. P. FOSTER, Secretary.
+
+  _For Three Years._
+
+  LYMAN ABBOTT.
+  A. S. BARNES.
+  J. R. DANFORTH.
+  CLINTON B. FISK.
+  A. P. FOSTER.
+
+  _For Two Years._
+
+  S. B. HALLIDAY.
+  SAMUEL HOLMES.
+  SAMUEL S. MARPLES.
+  CHARLES L. MEAD.
+  ELBERT B. MONROE.
+
+  _For One Year._
+
+  J. E. RANKIN.
+  WM. H. WARD.
+  J. L. WITHROW.
+  JOHN H. WASHBURN.
+  EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.
+
+
+_District Secretaries._
+
+  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D. D., _21 Cong'l House, Boston._
+  Rev. J. E. ROY, D. D., _112 West Washington Street, Chicago._
+
+  Rev. CHARLES W. SHELTON, _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._
+
+
+_Field Officer._
+
+  Prof. ALBERT SALISBURY, _Superintendent of Education._
+
+
+_Bureau of Woman's Work._
+
+  _Secretary_, Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+COMMUNICATIONS
+
+Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
+Corresponding Secretary: those relating to the collecting fields, to
+Rev. James Powell, D. D., or to the District Secretaries; letters for
+the "American Missionary," to the Editor, at the New York Office.
+
+
+DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
+
+May be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
+or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
+Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
+Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
+Life Member.
+
+FORM OF A BEQUEST.
+
+"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ---- dollars, in
+trust, to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person
+who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
+'American Missionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied,
+under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to
+its charitable uses and purposes." The Will should be attested by
+three witnesses.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
+
+VOL. XXXIX.      JULY, 1885.        NO. 7
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+American Missionary Association.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+$365,000
+
+NEEDED FOR THE CURRENT YEAR.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Your Committee are convinced that not less than a THOUSAND DOLLARS a
+day are imperatively demanded to perfect the admirably organized
+plans of the Association, even for the present, to say nothing of the
+pressing needs of the early future.--
+
+[FINANCE COMMITTEE'S REPORT ADOPTED BY ANNUAL MEETING AT SALEM.]
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE FIGURES.
+
+  _Receipts._                     Donations.    Legacies.       Total.
+
+  Oct. 1, 1884, to May 31, 1885  $136,972.82   $21,784.35    $158,757.17
+  Oct. 1, 1883, to May 31, 1884   132,507.66    21,710.40     154,218.06
+                                 -----------   ----------    -----------
+                              Inc. $4,465.16  Inc. $73.95 Inc. $4,539.11
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our financial storm signal is still out. That threatening forty
+thousand dollars' deficit does not let up in its indications of
+approach. The black clouds are plainly discernible. We have been for
+months anxiously watching their movements. Our prayers and efforts
+have been steadily turned towards their dissipation. We do not lose
+faith. We believe in our work. We believe in our friends. The work
+has merit. Our friends have ability. The two will come together and
+the merit will cause the ability to stand forth. There are many
+things very decidedly encouraging.
+
+Never in all our history has the work been more abundantly blessed.
+Our schools have been crowded and God's Spirit has come down in great
+power upon the hearts of our pupils. In one school the revival
+character of the religious services had to cease, because there were
+none left to be converted! Our churches have been revived and
+enlarged. A spirit of joy and thankfulness is in the hearts of our
+missionaries.
+
+Notwithstanding the hard times, our receipts from the churches and
+living donors are larger by several thousand dollars than they were
+at this time last year. These facts are the indications of a living
+cause and an able constituency. They call upon us to lift our heads
+in hope and to inspire one another to still greater activity, and, if
+need be, to self-denial. We have no legacies in sight, and we
+certainly do not desire our friends to die. Our prayer is that they
+may live; that they may live long. Apart from their gifts in money we
+desire the strength and the grandeur of their lives to aid us in
+carrying forward the great and growing work on hand. We again call
+upon them to help us round out this year without a debt.
+
+We take the liberty to point out one way in which they can do this.
+
+Our missionaries are, many of them, returning at this time of year
+for a brief rest at the North. They need it. They have earned it. It
+may seem wrong to tax these brave workers, but we venture to say that
+if they are invited to tell the public the story of their experience
+they will not refuse to do it; and we venture to say further, it will
+be a story the public will be glad to hear. Let them have a royal
+welcome home by the churches. In the language of Rev. Sam Jones, the
+noted Southern Evangelist, as he counseled the churches to receive
+the new converts, "Let it not be on the tips of your fingers or on
+the palms of your hands you receive them, but, on your hearts," and
+God will bless the welcome to the churches, to the missionaries and
+to the work. Hear their story, heed its lessons, and it will not be
+long before the clouds shall roll away and our financial storm-signal
+be taken down.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The exercise of benevolence Christ never conditioned on human
+recognition. The publicans and heathen furnished examples on that
+plane. When Christianity uncovers its roots there is never anything
+commercial even hinted at. Sinners need salvation. That is enough.
+Divine love moves in the presence of necessity. Its movement is
+electric. Even if ingratitude smite it in the face; nay, worse, if
+malignancy would summon forces for its crucifixion, without relaxing
+an iota it breathes the prayer, "Father, forgive them, for they know
+not what they do." Unswervingly Christ held along, doing right
+because it was right. Passion in all its forms of unbalanced feeling
+lay far beneath His holy life. A righteous indignation against
+Phariseeism He felt; He was moved with compassion when He saw the
+people scattered abroad as sheep without a shepherd; in numberless
+forms in the presence of sorrow and want His emotion was stirred, but
+the machinations of wicked men against the establishment of
+righteousness, He contemplated with imperturbable equanimity. It was
+not merely that He had a strong faith that all such opposition was
+the imagination of a vain thing. He knew that it was so.
+
+It may not be given His disciples to walk so much by knowledge as
+did the Master, but where He leads, they can follow in a faith that
+shall sustain them and give them triumph in every path of duty.
+Opposition may meet them. Difficulties may lie in the path. Evil men
+may oppose them, and good men, misinterpreting their motives and
+misunderstanding their work, may misrepresent them. But what matters
+it? Conscious in the strength that they are doing right, they will
+work on unhindered and undisturbed. Christian virtue finds in its own
+development all the reward necessary to stimulate continuance in well
+doing.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE COLORED PEOPLE AT THE NEW ORLEANS EXPOSITION.
+
+
+The colored people of the United States are just twenty years out of
+the house of bondage. With long centuries of barbarism and two
+hundred and fifty years of slavery behind them, they started out
+homeless, landless, moneyless and experienceless. The New Orleans
+Exposition was to have exhibits from all lands: Asia, with its
+millennium of transmitted achievements; Europe, with its centuries of
+enlightened development; the United States, with their wonderful
+improvements on the best the world had produced, were all to be
+there. What show could the twenty-year-old freedmen make in such
+company? The very idea of their attempting to put in an appearance
+would seem absurd.
+
+But the colored people desired at least to stand up and be counted.
+They determined to be there. The entire gallery in one end of the
+immense Government building was assigned them, and the specimens of
+their skill more than filled it. They came from nearly every State
+and Territory in the Union. Their exhibits represented almost every
+department of mechanical, agricultural and artistic skill. Excellence
+in workmanship, fertility in invention, tastefulness in the fine
+arts, were all displayed to a remarkable degree in the large
+collection. Southerners and Northerners were alike astonished at what
+their eyes beheld. Those who thought that the negro has no higher
+mission than to be a "hewer of wood and drawer of water," were
+compelled either to change their minds or else to say they did not
+believe that the colored people did the work. It was amusing to hear
+the remarks of some of the latter class, as they looked at some
+beautiful specimens of negro handicraft or ingenuity.
+
+It may interest the readers of the MISSIONARY to glance at the great
+variety of lines along which negro ability put itself on exhibition.
+
+Examination papers from schools were very numerous, showing
+proficiency in penmanship, spelling, arithmetic, algebra, geometry,
+free drawing, grammar and translations from the classics; fine
+needlework of all kinds; millinery; dress-making, tailoring; portrait
+and landscape painting in oil, water-colors and crayon; photography;
+sculpture; models of steamboats, locomotives, stationary engines, and
+railway cars; cotton presses, plows, cultivators, and reaping
+machines; wagons, buggies; tools of almost all kinds, from the hammer
+of the carpenter to the finely-wrought forceps of the dentist; piano
+and organ (both pipe and reed) making; carpentry, cabinet-making;
+upholstery; tin-smithing; black-smithing, boot and shoe making;
+basket and broom making; pottery, plain and glazed; brick-making;
+agricultural products, including all the cereals and fruits raised in
+the country; silk-worm culture; fruit preserving; flour from a mill,
+and machinery from a foundry owned by a colored man; patented
+inventions and improvements, nearly all of them useful and practical,
+were quite numerous; drugs and medicines; stationery, printing and
+publishing.
+
+Some of the articles on exhibition are worthy of special mention--a
+black walnut pulpit, in design and finish as beautiful and tasteful
+as any church might wish; a sofa finely upholstered, and the covering
+embroidered with artistically-executed needlework, showing four
+prominent events in the life of Toussaint l'Ouverture; a chandelier,
+very beautiful in design and finely finished; a complete set of
+dentist's instruments, in polish and finish remarkable; a little
+engine, made by a silversmith of Knoxville, who was a slave, and who
+has become a skilled workman of local reputation. He never worked in
+a shop till he had one of his own. He learned the use of tools
+without any instruction. These articles would certainly merit
+attention, even if put in competition with similar specimens of the
+very best workmanship.
+
+Neither the negroes nor their friends have any reason to regret that
+an exhibit was made. It was in every sense of the word creditable. It
+marks a progress simply wonderful, when all the circumstances are
+taken into the account. It is prophetic of a very hopeful future. It
+demonstrates that the negro race can enter every profession and
+calling in which the white man is found. It proclaims in tones that
+no one should misunderstand, that he who writes or speaks of the
+colored people should be careful how he pronounces judgment in regard
+to their capacity. They should be given a white man's chance. No
+trade nor occupation should be closed against them. Open doors should
+welcome to honorable competition, white and black alike. Let this be
+so, and in less than half a century there will not be a trade, nor
+profession, nor calling, in which black men will not be found in the
+front. There will be preachers and professors, and editors, and
+physicians, and lawyers, and statesmen, and teachers, and bankers,
+and business men, and artisans, and mechanics and farmers, of
+African descent, of whom, as brethren, the very greatest of white men
+will not need to be ashamed. Let writers on the negro stop theorizing
+about his capacity for this or that calling, and unite in demanding
+that he have a fair chance to become what God has made him capable of
+becoming. It is wrong, it is wicked for men who by voice and pen
+influence public sentiment, to conclude that because the negro is now
+a waiter, a boot-black, a barber, a laborer, that therefore he cannot
+be anything else, or even that he cannot probably be anything else.
+By the very force of circumstances he has been compelled to occupy
+these positions. By an unjust public sentiment he has been shut out
+from even an opportunity to prove his capacity to stand beside his
+white brother in every calling.
+
+Public sentiment should be reformed at this point; and the colored
+people's exhibition of what they have achieved in the short space of
+twenty years, in spite of opposition, and in spite of lack of
+opportunity, assures us that if they are permitted they will
+contribute no small share in securing the reformation. We advise all
+leaders of public sentiment who do not desire twenty-five or thirty
+years hence to be found eating their words of to-day, or explaining
+how it was that they came to be on ground so untenable, to heed the
+lessons of this Exposition, and range themselves with those who look
+at facts, and who recognize the prophetic power of facts, and
+heartily accept the prophecy, even if this prophecy run counter to
+what have been _their_ fancies.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The Colored People's Educational Day at the World's Exposition called
+out an immense crowd and proved to be of very great interest.
+Speeches were made by representatives of both races. Rev. Dr. Palmer,
+the eloquent Presbyterian divine, of New Orleans, and Col. Wm.
+Preston Johnson, President of the Tulane University, represented the
+Louisiana whites, and in their speeches not only complimented the
+colored people on the progress they had made, but assured them of the
+hearty sympathy and co-operation of all good people in the South. The
+Rev. A. E. P. Albert, a graduate of our Straight University,
+represented the colored people. The newspapers published his speech
+in full. We have read it with much interest. It is a speech of
+considerable power. It is an honor to the man, to his race and to the
+A. M. A.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Our Student's Letter this month is from Talladega College. The
+memories it portrays are not pleasant, but it is fitting to remember
+the pit out of which we have been digged. The darkness of the picture
+makes the present opportunities and privileges of the colored people
+to shine out all the brighter. Heartily can we thank God that these
+terrible things are now only a memory.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF OHIO.
+
+
+After the address of Secretary Powell before this body, May 13, 1885,
+a committee consisting of Rev. James Brand, Rev. Enoch F. Baird and
+Thos. C. Reynolds was appointed to report upon it. We subjoin the
+report, which was adopted:
+
+     Your committee appointed to report upon the speech of Secretary
+     Powell beg leave to call attention to but one of the many points
+     of interest in the address. That is, that the American
+     Missionary Association is now in debt to the amount of $30,000,
+     and that unless special efforts are made by the churches, the
+     end of the year will see a debt of $40,000. It is manifest that
+     this will necessarily mean the suspension of some forms of
+     mission work, the crippling of others and the sad embarrassment
+     of this grand organization for years to come. It _need_ not be;
+     it _ought_ not to be; if Christian men and women do their duty,
+     it _will_ not be. Your committee therefore propose this
+     resolution:
+
+     _Resolved_, That we, the members of this association, will
+     individually urge upon the churches under our charge the duty of
+     making earnest and special efforts during the remainder of the
+     year to relieve the American Missionary Association from this
+     impending calamity.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"GRAVE OF LOVEJOY"--CORRECTION.
+
+
+EDITOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.--DEAR SIR: Did Brother Imes (June No., p.
+168) misunderstand Father Johnson, or has the old man forgotten?
+There was no "hasty burial by the river." The body remained all night
+in the warehouse, was taken to the house the next day and buried from
+the house in the cemetery. Johnson dug two graves there; the first in
+a spot afterward taken for a road or walk, and the second where the
+remains now lie. The memorial tablet was put there in good faith by
+an editor of Alton, who greatly admired Lovejoy's defense of the
+freedom of the press. But will there never be a more appropriate
+monument? Is "Spare him now he is buried" all that is ever to be said
+over the grave of Elijah P. Lovejoy?
+
+  H. L. HAMMOND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE CHINESE?
+
+
+A momentous, an urgent, and a very hard question!
+
+_Exclude them_, said the politicians, and close out thus forever the
+problem their presence involves. This seems, at first sight, a simple
+and easy, albeit a rather rough, answer. And so the Exclusion bill
+became a law. But it is almost certain that there are more Chinese in
+America to-day because of that law than there would have been without
+it. They came in such great numbers after the law was enacted and
+before it went into operation that (as I think) the decrease in
+immigration since that date has not as yet offset that increase.
+
+For nearly three years on our shore our King Canute has sat in his
+royal chair forbidding the tide to rise. As long as ebb-tide lasts
+his authority seems to be respected, and the problem of these
+diurnal encroachments of the sea upon the land seems to be solved.
+But when the time for flood-tide comes again, Canute will have to
+move his chair, his mandates to the contrary notwithstanding.
+Already, if rumor is to be believed, a profitable business is
+conducted upon Puget Sound in smuggling Chinese from Vancouver's
+Island to our forbidden soil. Certain it is that many Chinese,
+failing to get tickets at Hong Kong for San Francisco, buy them to
+Victoria. Already it becomes a serious question what fence can be
+built along our northern frontier so close, so strong, so high that
+no Chinese can anywhere climb over, or crawl under, or work through.
+Mexico wants the Chinese, we hear. How far is it from the northern
+line of Mexico to the southern line of California and Arizona? And
+once across that line our Chinese invaders, coming slyly one by one,
+have won the fight and go and come at their own pleasure.
+
+Exclusion has not solved this problem, and it is safe to add that, as
+it should not, so it never will. For this policy is in contradiction
+to the vital principles of our national existence; and either it must
+be abandoned, or sooner or later this contradiction will develop into
+conflict irrepressible. Those vital principles are two: "All men
+created equal," and "All men endowed with certain inalienable
+rights," etc. Our fathers counted them to be self-evident, and placed
+them as twin pillars in our temple of liberty. Now, a nation cannot
+knock out its own foundation stones, cannot defy the laws of its own
+organic life without becoming divided against itself; and in the
+conflict ensuing, either its vital principles will be reaffirmed and
+rehabilitated, or else the nation dies. We have had one lesson at
+this point, and we ought not to need another for a dozen centuries.
+Exclusion is only a make-shift of the politicians, not the offspring
+of real statesmanship. It has not solved the problem, and it never
+will.
+
+What then shall we do? Educate and Christianize these heathen, we
+reply: So you will make them to be Chinese no longer, but Americans.
+This is the right answer, but, alas, how much easier said than done!
+The undertaking, hard enough at first, grows harder, in some
+respects, as the years roll on.
+
+One added difficulty is the wider diffusion of these strangers over
+our whole country. The prejudice which their peculiarities excite is
+thus extended, while the number to be reached in any one locality is
+diminished. Work for the Chinese ought now to be prosecuted, not
+simply in Sunday schools, but in Mission schools, kept in session
+every evening and alt through the year in most of the principal
+cities of the whole Union, as well as on the Pacific Coast. But the
+outward and visible encouragements will be smaller, because each
+Mission finds its particular field reduced in size.
+
+Another added difficulty is in an increased and deepened antagonism
+on the part of the great mass of Chinese to real Christianity.
+Multitudes have seen enough of the true light to reject it; and
+having rejected, now to hate it. Oh, it drives one back to God in an
+agony of mingled longing and despair to see this mighty multitude
+that will not come and be saved, drifting along in darkness and
+wretchedness through this life to the blackness of darkness beyond!
+And this is intensified by the thought of the children now quite
+numerous in our Chinese communities. We know to what the daughters
+are destined. We know what it is that gives them, in this country, a
+special money value; and as to the sons, one can scarcely conceive
+circumstances more perilous than those in which they are placed.
+Breathing our free American air, entering readily into the Young
+America spirit, they will not brook the harsh discipline which, in
+their native land, would have been submissively and perhaps with
+profit accepted. At the same time, the parents ill understand that
+discipline of love which adjusts itself to these new circumstances,
+and when it can no longer compel, succeeds in wooing and winning and
+molding aright the boyish heart. Demons incarnate, both American and
+Chinese, tempt these boys, while they are unprotected by any
+reverence either for the ancestors and idols of their own people or
+for the American God whom Americans by their conduct so cruelly
+belie.
+
+And this suggests another added difficulty: the contrast which our
+Chinese Christians cannot but observe between the precepts of the
+Bible, the example of Christ, the exhortations of those who led them
+to Jesus, and the practices of multitudes of American professors of
+religion. And, too often, they are led to do as we do, and not as we
+say. While at the same time the indifference of many professed
+Christians to the salvation of this Chinese, and the attitude of many
+churches toward those already converted, loads the problem down with
+difficulties such as might well drive us to despair.
+
+But, no; nothing shall drive us to despair. This problem must be
+solved. This mountain mass of heathenism must be--not removed and
+cast into the sea, but transformed into the mountain of the Lord's
+house, and made an element--an element of untold value and
+efficiency--in our American Zion. Let us have faith as the grain of
+mustard seed. Let us hear the voice which adds to our great
+commission the promise: "Lo, I am with you alway." Let us take
+courage at the remembrance of mercies past. With all these
+difficulties upon us it still remains true that no other
+non-Protestant foreigners are as accessible to us as the Chinese; and
+that in proportion to the resources of men and money used, scarcely
+any evangelistic work yields equal visible returns. There is only one
+thing to do--for Christ's sake, for our country's sake, for the sake
+of the uncounted millions beyond the sea--we must, and we will, claim
+and conquer these precious souls for their Redeemer and our Lord.
+
+  WM. C. POND.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE SOUTH.
+
+PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.
+
+A CLASS OF FIFTEEN GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE.
+
+
+Anniversary week at Fisk University is closed. Its alternate shower
+and sunshine have fairly represented the rejoicing and the sadness
+that always come with this harvest time of the year. The week began
+on the evening of Friday, May 22, with the exhibition of the Senior
+Preparatory Class, and was followed by the Baccalaureate and
+Missionary sermons on Sunday, the anniversaries of the literary
+societies and the alumni association, and the graduating exercises of
+the Normal Department on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and the final
+great day of the feast, the College Commencement, on Thursday, May
+28.
+
+This programme has become so fixed that to go over it in detail would
+be monotonous; let us rather note a few of the significant and
+interesting facts that belong particularly to this anniversary week.
+The comparatively large size of the classes entering and leaving
+college has been one marked feature and a source of great
+encouragement. Thirteen young men and three young women were received
+into the Freshman class, and a few days later thirteen young men and
+two young women, having completed four years of college work, took
+the degree of B. A. This is more than double the largest class ever
+before graduated from Fisk, and while the increase in numbers cannot
+yet be sustained with regularity from year to year, it does show a
+growth in our work and a strengthening of purpose on the part of our
+young people. In 1874, a class of six young men entered college, but
+only two ever got beyond the threshold: the others lost heart and
+purpose; of the present class three have fallen by the hand of death
+within the four years and only three have dropped out for other
+causes.
+
+Commencement day revealed in the tone of the graduating orations a
+moral earnestness and uprightness of principle that called forth the
+commendation of our stranger guests. The best record of the class,
+however, is in the influence its members have exerted in the school
+during the whole of their Senior year.
+
+It may be remembered that a year ago the Alumni Association adopted a
+plan by which, beginning three years after graduation, at least one
+per cent. of the earnings of each member is to be appropriated to an
+endowment fund for Fisk University. Whenever the sum reaches $1,000,
+it is to be devoted to some chair in the University. This year the
+Treasurer reported $140 on hand. The beginning seems small, but who
+can tell to what the stream may grow? Part of the Alumni anniversary
+was given up to a memorial service for one who, after six years of
+faithful work among her people, has died within the year.
+
+On the evening devoted to the Normal Department, Prof. Salisbury was
+expected to address us on some educational topic. In his absence,
+Prof. Smith, of the chair of Greek in Vanderbilt University, kindly
+filled the place and gave us an excellent address on Thomas Carlyle.
+Prof. Smith is of Southern birth, but has manifested a cordial
+friendliness and an interest that has led him to really investigate
+the work of Fisk University.
+
+On Commencement Day, Rev. R. G. Hutchins, D. D., of Minneapolis,
+Minn., honored us with his presence and with an address, both wise
+and eloquent, on "Sublime Motives," holding up three as especially
+worthy to prompt to action: responsibility for the architecture of
+our own character, responsibility for the development of latent moral
+power, and the conservation of moral forces.
+
+Few who heard it will forget the solemn charge given to the
+graduating class by President Cravath, illustrated by an incident, as
+told by the Rev. Sam. Jones, of the battle of Nashville. General Hood
+saw a Federal battery making dreadful havoc in his army, and sent to
+a subordinate general a messenger, saying, "Give him my compliments,
+and tell him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The
+general was in the thick of the battle and could not be found. The
+same message was sent to another with the same result. Finally to a
+third he sent the messenger, saying, "Give him my _love_, and tell
+him I ask at his hands the battery in the Locust Grove." The battery
+was speedily taken and the message of affection returned to General
+Hood. So are these young people sent out with the love of teachers
+and friends, to capture the batteries that are dealing moral death to
+this people.
+
+After the degree of B. A. had been conferred on the fifteen
+graduates, that of M. A. was given to fourteen former graduates, who
+for three years or more have been engaged in scholarly employments.
+
+To add to the interest of Commencement, Gen. Fisk arrived the evening
+before, and closed the public exercises of Thursday with an address,
+whose pleasantry made every one forget the fatigue of five
+consecutive hours of speech-making. Several members of the
+Legislature, now in extra session in the Capitol, were present both
+at the Commencement exercises and at the collation which followed.
+
+A new and interesting feature of this anniversary was the part taken
+by the Girls' Industrial Department. A basket of cake made by members
+of the cooking class graced each table at the Commencement dinner and
+was by general consent pronounced excellent. In the Assembly Room of
+Jubilee Hall were displayed various garments and household articles
+neatly made by the sewing classes.
+
+Nothing has been said about examinations; they are like the bread of
+our daily meals, always expected and very important. A more thorough
+examination than usual was given the classes in drawing and in vocal
+music. One exercise in the latter examination was the singing at
+sight of a tune, in four parts, composed by a member of the class.
+
+Our halls are already deserted; nothing holds our students after
+Commencement: they scatter at once for work, and within a few weeks,
+in at least half a dozen States, miniature Fisk Universities will be
+in operation.
+
+  ANNA M. CAHILL.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+ANNIVERSARY AT HAMPTON INSTITUTE, VIRGINIA.
+
+
+In beauty, interest and enthusiasm Hampton anniversary days abate
+nothing as years go on. The seventeenth anniversary exercises were
+held on May 21, with a graduating class of forty-two, of whom five
+were Indians. Visitors were present from North and South, East and
+West, and such expressions as "The half was not told me!" and "Why
+didn't I bring my wife?" were frequent, as usual.
+
+Of the morning examinations, one of the most interesting was a
+general exercise conducted by the chaplain, in review of the current
+news of the world, which is daily read and discussed with the
+students. Victor Hugo, French and English politics, the Afghan
+trouble, Russia and Nihilism, Irish Nationalists, France and China,
+England and Egypt, were touched in the questions, and the answers and
+general interest showed the value of this daily exercise. In the
+ancient history class, printed questions were shuffled and
+distributed among the students, and question and answer were spoken
+out promptly by each scholar, giving an attractive quickness and
+vivacity to the recitation. The class of little Indian geographers
+stood before a table on which was a miniature United States made of
+sand, with its Eastern elevations, its great central plains, and its
+high Western ranges. A thread of blue worsted, put in place by the
+young world-builders, simulated the Mississippi, while cities (in the
+guise of white buttons) sprang up with a rapidity unknown even in the
+great West. The practice-teaching class is always of especial
+interest and significance, as over ninety per cent of Hampton's
+students devote themselves to teaching as their life mission. A dozen
+little bright-eyed, brown-faced primaries from the "Butler" training
+school received a geography lesson from one of the senior girls,
+criticised by her class-mates. Its grand _finale_ was a miniature
+volcanic eruption, creating a sensation among the Butler mites.
+
+The industrial exhibits and the training shops, with their Negro and
+Indian apprentices, attracted interested attention, as usual.
+
+The emotions of anniversary day culminated in the afternoon
+exercises, in which were several incidents of unusual interest. The
+pretty and graceful salutatorian, fair as most of her hearers, was
+introduced as a young representative of the family of faithful Mary
+Peake, who, just escaped from slavery herself, taught the first
+"contraband school" at Hampton. This introduction roused the
+war-memories of Rev. Dr. Strieby, who, greeting the young girl as she
+stepped on the platform, told the story of the first missionary sent
+down to Old Point by the American Missionary Association, his
+reception by the contrabands as an angel of deliverance, and his
+first school, opened Sept. 17, 1861, with Mary Peake as its teacher,
+till she gave up her life in the work for her people.
+
+The pastor's class was represented by a Baptist minister from
+Hampton, who gave an account of the Old and New ministry, somewhat
+characteristic of both. This pastor's class has become an interesting
+feature of Hampton, with a mission of peace and good-will to both
+races and all sects and sections. Now in its second year, it numbers,
+as pupils, 17 colored pastors of Hampton and vicinity. Baptist and
+Methodist; and as teachers Rev. Mr. Frissell, chaplain, and Rev. Mr.
+Tolman, ex-chaplain of the school, Northern Congregationalist
+ministers, with Miss Alice Bacon, who thus worthily wears her
+venerated fathers mantle, and the Southern white ministers from
+Hampton, Episcopal, Baptist and Methodist, in unity of spirit that is
+verily "a good and a pleasant thing to see." The studies are the
+Bible and Bible history, pastoral theology and composition. In
+cultivating better understanding and kindly relations between these
+colored and white neighbors, and the relations of the school with
+both, as well as in helping meet the great need of an intelligent
+ministry, this pastor's class is doing important work. Some of its
+members board at the school, working their way in part like the other
+students, sometimes entering their classes. Some are helped to come
+by their congregations, who appreciate the opportunity.
+
+A handsome gold medal, presented by Mr. W. J. Demorest, of New York
+City, was awarded to Harris Barrett, of the senior class, for
+excellence in the junior elementary studies, the three R's,
+geography, grammar and spelling, in which the whole class were
+examined for the prize without special review, only one falling below
+an average of 50 per cent. on all, and five averaging above 90--a
+better showing than some Northern college seniors could make, I fear.
+
+As usual, some of the school's former graduates returned to tell the
+story of their labors, and nearly fifty were present on the
+invitation yearly renewed to all.
+
+The valedictorian was the youngest of a family of one sister and four
+brothers, children of a minister, who have graduated at the school,
+the last two with the honor of the valedictory.
+
+The Indian graduates were represented by two of their number, a young
+man of the Sac and Fox tribe, Indian Territory, who gave his own
+reasons for claiming and desiring citizenship for his people, which
+were: 1st, that the Indian also is a child of the Father; 2d, that
+he was once owner of the land; 3d, that without this protection and
+help he must perish; 4th, that with it he can become a useful member
+of the nation, a man among men. An Indian girl plead eloquently for
+the Indian woman, and protested against the use of "savage" as a
+synonym of Indian, since "there are also yellow savages, black
+savages and white savages." The representations of the past, present
+and future of Indian life will not soon be forgotten by those who saw
+them. The past's barbaric glories were typified by a tall young brave
+and Indian girl in the beautiful dress of the wilderness. They stood
+silent, like a vision of the ancient days, while their story was
+told. The present's pathos was represented by "_Lo_" the _very_ "poor
+Indian" and squaw in shabby blankets, bewailing--as their Indian
+interpreter explained--the loss of lands and buffalo, asking where to
+go next--"white man everywhere"; the future's hope by a promising
+pair of Hampton students, able to speak for themselves, work for
+themselves and teach their people, with their white brethren's help,
+in the Christian's road. As the three groups stood in striking
+tableau--a visible embodiment of truth which I wish every white
+citizen of the United States could have seen and taken to
+heart--their comrades of the Indian school rose behind them, and
+started a Dakota hymn, recognized by the melody as "From Greenland's
+Icy Mountains," or, as interpreted to Indian understanding, "From the
+very distant cold land--from the hot land far away." As the plaintive
+strain died away, it was taken up in English in the richer chorus of
+their colored schoolmates, and the whole audience, rising, joined in
+the grand third verse, "_Shall we whose souls are lighted_," with
+effect not to pass from their hearts.
+
+Diplomas were presented by Rev. Dr. Strieby, vice-president of the
+Board of Trustees, to the graduating class of seventeen colored and
+three Indian young women, and twenty colored and two Indian young
+men, 42 in all. Eloquent addresses were made also by Rev Dr. McVickar
+of Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. Armstrong of Norfolk, imprisoned once
+by General Butler because he would pray for Jefferson Davis, but now
+thanking God for the new order, and rejoicing in Negro education.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+GREGORY INSTITUTE, WILMINGTON, N. C.
+
+
+The year at Gregory Institute, as usual, has been a busy one, both in
+school and out. As a worthy colored member of our church expressed
+it, "We are tormented with Christian work at Wilmington." We have had
+this year a total enrollment of 284 pupils, and the percentage of
+attendance has never been greater. The pupils have, as a rule, worked
+well, and in many cases the progress has been very marked. While we
+are not completely satisfied with the results, yet there has been
+very much to encourage our labors. The Lord has been merciful in
+keeping the workers in good health, and there has been no death and
+but few cases of sickness among the pupils.
+
+The last week was taken up with examinations, both oral and written,
+and in perfecting arrangements for the anxiously looked-for event
+among our people, the closing exhibition.
+
+Such a clamoring for tickets one never heard. Of course, not
+one-fourth asked for could be issued, for lack of room; but, as far
+as possible, the parents were admitted. Although a thunder-storm,
+lasting about an hour, came up just as the doors were opened, the
+people continued to pour in until the hall was as full as an egg,
+upwards of 500 finding seats.
+
+The programme, which was a long and varied one, was carried out
+without any drawback whatever, thanks to the untiring efforts of the
+teachers and of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge, who all planned so well to make
+it a success. For three and one-half hours the audience gave the
+closest attention, and the comments since have been very flattering.
+Several, including some Northerners, have declared it to be the best
+exhibition they ever attended.
+
+It would tire you to read the entire programme, so I will mention and
+describe briefly only a few of the pieces, though all were as
+creditably rendered as if it were a white school, with the singing
+perhaps better. The pupils, without exception, acquitted themselves
+nobly, and their neat appearance was worthy of special mention.
+
+You would have been pleasantly entertained had you witnessed the
+Missionary Colloquy, in which 20 girls, some taken from each
+department of the school, took part. First came a girl bearing the
+American flag and representing America, who spoke, and was then
+followed by another girl with a Bible, representing Christianity.
+Next came singly nine girls in costume, each to represent a heathen
+nation, and making an earnest plea for the Gospel. Then followed a
+band of nine little American missionary workers, each stepping to the
+front and telling how she had earned her money which she was about to
+give to the noble cause. After dropping her gift in a basket held by
+"America," she repeated these words: "O happy, happy child am I, to
+serve the Lord of earth and sky;" then taking her place, another came
+forward in the same way until all had spoken. "America" now hands her
+basket, with its treasure, to Christianity, whom she addresses; then
+both turn and address the heathen in concert. In the time, missionary
+hymns were sweetly sung by the girls, and the piece, as presented,
+was one of the finest I ever saw.
+
+The doll drill was another interesting part of the evening's
+entertainment. The little primary girls went through the different
+evolutions with almost military precision, eliciting rounds of
+applause.
+
+So I might name many pieces of almost equal interest, but suffice it
+for me to mention further only the closing. This was "The Cross and
+Crown," consisting of tableaux and recitations taken mostly from "The
+Cross-Bearer." The time occupied in this was fully 45 minutes; and
+although the hour was so late, our audience did not fail to
+appreciate this beautiful piece. Several of the older people being
+asked which piece they liked best, replied, "I believe I liked the
+one with the angel best."
+
+A very important part of the evening's work must not be omitted from
+mention. This was the presentation of certificates to the graduating
+class on the completion of the Elementary Normal Course ending with
+the 10th year or grade. The members of this class, one young man and
+two young ladies, have been reared up in our school, and would be a
+credit to any school. This is the first graduation from the course;
+and although the class is small, it has incited others to say, "I
+mean to stick to the school until I can stand where they did."
+
+We think the entertainment was filled with sermons, and we trust that
+the influence produced may be all for good.
+
+  GEO. A. WOODARD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RELIGIOUS INTEREST IN TALLADEGA.
+
+
+The second Sabbath in May was a notable day with our college church
+at Talladega. It was a feast of ingathering.
+
+As early as eight o'clock a band of young men assembled on the banks
+of Talladega Creek, that three of their number might be immersed. It
+was a lovely spring morning, and the green banks, the running waters,
+the sweet air, the bright sunshine, the hymns, the prayers, the
+remarks of the pastor, and the Sacrament itself (administered by Rev.
+Spencer Snell, the pastor having had a congestive chill the preceding
+week, and being forbidden to go into the water) were full of
+solemnity and sweet instruction.
+
+Two hours later we met again in the college chapel. One of the most
+pressing needs of this church is a house of worship. There has not
+been, rain or shine, since I came here, a Sabbath congregation that
+was not too large for our chapel. Growth is impossible. How it will
+be during the college vacation, I cannot say; but during this college
+year it has always been uncomfortably crowded, and every Sabbath has
+overflowed up on to the platform. This morning all seats were filled
+and extra benches occupied. The Lord's table was spread for His
+people, and after a sermon from the text, "How can this man give us
+his flesh to eat?" forty were received into the fellowship of the
+church and welcomed to the table. Of these, thirty were baptized by
+sprinkling. To those acquainted with the ways and prejudices of these
+people, the fact that we sprinkled thirty, while we immersed only
+three (these three were mature men), will be full of significance.
+None others asked to be immersed, or suggested it.
+
+This addition to our church embraced about one-third of the number
+professing conversion during our recent series of meetings, conducted
+by Brother Field. Others will come to us, but many who are students
+here will join the churches at their homes. The success of those
+meetings, reaching as they did every student in the college
+buildings, with a single exception, was so notable that a word as to
+the manner in which they were conducted may be of interest.
+
+The beginning of the extra meetings was providentially postponed more
+than once. They did not begin with the coming of the new pastor in
+the fall, nor with the week of prayer, nor with the day of prayer for
+colleges. These occasions were all used, but our extra meetings did
+not begin until the desire for them and the feeling of our great need
+of the Divine blessing had grown strong in the church, nor until they
+had been talked and prayed over, prepared and planned for.
+
+The meetings were held for a special purpose. They were for the
+salvation of the students of the College. Students and church
+members, teachers, professors, president and pastor--we all felt this
+truth. But when every member of the College who felt that he was not
+a Christian, was asked to write his or her name on a slip of paper,
+and put it into the contribution basket at the chapel door when
+coming into the first meeting--and lest any should fail, from any
+cause, to give us his own name, every student was asked to furnish
+the name of any unsaved fellow-student of whom he knew--the real
+object sought in the meetings was brought home to every member of the
+College and Church. When we had the list of names (with hardly an
+exception they furnished their own names), we were vividly reminded
+of the individuals for whom we were working and praying, and they
+knew, every one, that we were definitely working and praying for
+them. This gave a feeling of practical, concentrated work, such as
+seldom attends such meetings.
+
+Excepting this, there were no unusual means employed. The truth was
+very earnestly and simply preached. Immediate decision for Christ was
+pressed. Personal efforts were conscientiously made by teachers and
+students. Little prayer meetings, where from two to a dozen met for
+special prayer, were frequent, and the Lord blessed all the means
+used.
+
+Since the close of the protracted meeting, each Sabbath-school class
+has had its own weekly prayer meeting--a means of great good. Also a
+general young Christians' prayer meeting has been held weekly. In it
+effort has been made, not only to lead these new converts to take
+part in prayer and conference, but to instruct them upon some points
+too often neglected. Those who on this day united with the church
+could each, I think, give an intelligent statement of reasons why
+they should unite with the church; and, in so uniting, why they gave
+public assent to a confession of faith, and why they joined in
+covenant with God and his people.
+
+  MASON NOBLE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+LETTER FROM REV. J. H. PARR, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
+
+
+Marked revivals have been in progress in all the colored churches of
+the city. With all the noise and superstition, we cannot doubt that
+there are not a few genuine conversions. And yet, while our students
+attend these meetings only to a limited extent, the influence upon
+them tends to interfere with our religious work.
+
+Last week it was my privilege to attend the meeting of the North
+Texas Association, held at Cleburne. Tillotson church, on
+application, was cordially admitted to membership. The same
+cordiality and courtesy were extended to Brother McLean, late of
+Talladega College, who applied for membership in his own behalf. Rev.
+J. W. Roberts, representing the colored church of Dallas, was also
+present. The dignified, scholarly bearing of both these brethren won
+for them golden opinions from all who listened to their reports and
+remarks. Not a few of those who were present at the various sessions
+were Southerners, but apparently none the less interested on that
+account. It was my fortune to be entertained by an ex-slaveholder,
+who served in the Confederate army through the war, but who
+nevertheless is a warm friend of the Congregational church in his
+town, and contributes to its support.
+
+The moderator and scribe of the association, seated side by side
+through the meetings, presented a striking contrast. The first was a
+business man, born in New England, quick, keen, decisive and
+energetic, an officer in the Union army through the war, since that
+time engaged in business in Texas, now the possessor of a large
+fortune, and thoroughly identified with, and enthusiastic concerning,
+the material and spiritual interests of his adopted State.
+
+The second was the pastor of the leading Congregational Church of the
+State, born in the South, educated for the law, a soldier in the
+Confederate army, for a time almost a wreck morally and physically,
+but now, by the grace of God, "clothed and in his right mind,"
+dignified, magnetic, an earnest, reverent student of the Bible, an
+able preacher and a beloved pastor.
+
+Thus, with representatives of the North and the South, the East and
+the West, the white race and the black, America, Sweden and Ireland,
+we had at least one marked feature of the Pentecost. But aside from
+that, the manifest presence of the Spirit, and the consequent harmony
+and good-fellowship, rendered our meeting in a still more important
+degree like that season which was the beginning of such a wonderful
+regeneration in the history of the world. It may be accepted, I doubt
+not, as one of the signs of the regeneration that is going on in the
+South, which is less wonderful only in the fact of being local rather
+than world-wide.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE OLD COMMISSARY BUILDING.
+
+
+We held a series of revival meetings at South Williamsburgh, in the
+old commissary building. Wish some of the good people of the North,
+who meet in churches and chapels, plastered and nicely warmed, and
+comfortably seated, could have dropped in upon us and spent an hour.
+Of course, they would have had the back-ache and cold feet, and,
+perhaps, carried away a flea or two, even in March, but they would
+have gone home saying, "If people can meet in such a place, some
+refined, intelligent ladies even, and continue to go night after
+night, I ought to be very, very willing to go to my church whenever
+the Lord calls a meeting and my presence and voice are necessary."
+But that you may appreciate the contrast with your pleasant place of
+meeting, let me take you to the old commissary building.
+
+It's a _box-house_; that is, it's made of boards set upright and
+nailed at the bottom and middle and top to joists. Over this crazy
+structure sets a roof made of long oaken shingles hewn with the broad
+axe. Step inside of the building, which will hold 125 people, and see
+the whole construction. Rough boards with the curve of the circular
+saw on them and now dingy with smoke, make the sides; oaken shingles
+black with smoke, slope above.
+
+A "cannon stove" sends most of its smoke through a rusty pipe up
+through a piece of sheet iron to the air. The sparks, and now and
+then a star, shine through about the pipe. Newspapers pasted over the
+widest cracks on the sides of the room keep out the heaviest drafts.
+I remember one night when it was snowing (even here, in March), a
+flurry of wind brought down a glistening shower on the shoulders of
+the congregation. The roof usually turns water, however.
+
+Please stand here by the door and talk to the people. Feet get cold?
+I don't wonder. The door was made an inch and a half too short. You
+ask "why in the name of health don't you fix it?" Well, just sit
+there against the wall. You sit down, and a projecting horizontal
+joist takes you right in the back of the neck and makes you crane
+your head forward in a most uncomfortable way. Poor place to get
+asleep; one would pitch right forward on the floor. You see, if we
+commenced to "fix up," we wouldn't know where to begin, for one lack
+is as great as another. One night we held a meeting in that building,
+and before morning the thermometer fell to zero. We need a good
+stove; that one is full of cracks in front, so we always left a boy
+to watch after meeting till the fire died out. We just make the house
+do; strips have been laid on the floor, paper pasted over the wall
+gaps, seats of rough boards set in the building, windows tightened,
+and there we gathered. God's Spirit met us in spite of cold and
+dinginess and needs. I believe ten or twelve rose for prayers during
+those two weeks. Since warm weather Brother Myers has continued the
+meetings, and I trust a score or more have given their hearts to the
+Lord.
+
+  JAS. T. FORD.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+STUDENT'S LETTER.
+
+
+  TALLADEGA COLLEGE, Talladega, Ala., April, 1885.
+
+It is wonderful to notice how many and what interesting changes may
+take place during the few years of one's life. The first eleven years
+of my life I spent as a slave, but I have lived to see these glorious
+days of freedom. I was born upon my master's plantation in Monroe
+County, Ala., where I lived till 1865, when I was set at liberty with
+the rest of my unfortunate brethren.
+
+While living upon that plantation I saw many of the horrors of
+slavery with my own eyes. One of the mean and degrading things I
+remember was the way the slaves had to live, crowded together in one
+house. There were three or four different families, consisting of
+twelve or fifteen persons, all living in the same room. There was
+only one house for colored people, and it had only one room.
+
+Although my master did not have so many slaves and was not so mean as
+some other slave-holders about him, still, the treatment which his
+slaves received was shockingly cruel. I remember very distinctly the
+paddling block, the paddle, and the great whip used upon that place.
+There comes very vividly before my mind the whipping of a hired man.
+I know just how every rag of clothes was taken off, and how he was
+tied down in the front yard between the gate and the house, so that
+he could not move hand or foot, and how the master would whip him a
+while and walk about and smoke his pipe a while, as the poor hired
+slave lay upon the ground and cried for mercy, but there was none to
+help him.
+
+Whenever my thoughts go back to those dark days, I recollect the time
+when my own brother ran away because he was not willing to take the
+whipping which the master wanted to give him late one afternoon. I
+think of how the bloodhounds came, and how they chased him, while
+mother, brothers, and fellow-slaves stood trembling, and how glad all
+were when we learned that the dogs could not catch him.
+
+If I could forget all other heart-rending scenes of those dark days,
+I could not erase from my memory the cruel treatment which I saw my
+own mother receive. Though I was small, I think of how I used to see
+her work hard, and how she was scolded and cursed as she was driven
+about like a dog. I saw her laid upon that paddling-block, and I
+heard her distressing cries, but, like the rest of her children, I
+could do nothing.
+
+I love to contrast my present condition with what it was a few years
+ago, and as I do so I do not forget the A. M. A., whose workers found
+me in the lowest depths of ignorance and helped me up. When
+liberated, soon after the surrender, I could not read a word and did
+not know a letter. I do not remember that I had ever seen the inside
+of a book of any kind. It was in 1867 that I learnt the alphabet upon
+the plantation by the light of pine knots. During the years 1868 and
+1869 I was a rag-picker in the streets of Mobile. God has led me on,
+and now I am a student in Talladega College, and expect soon to have
+finished a course of study which will enable me to go forth to lead
+men to Christ and to teach them better methods of living. I speak of
+this contrast not boastfully, but humbly and with deep gratitude to
+God, who took me from the woes and degradation of slavery and has
+given me a double freedom. I am so glad for the schools the A. M. A.
+has in the South; I am so glad for what they have done for me.
+Through one of these schools I was led to Christ. Soon after that I
+felt called to the ministry; and in Talladega College I am permitted
+to finish a course of study, and to some degree equip myself for the
+work of life. All praise to an organization that seeks for poor,
+ignorant and sinful men, leads them to Christ, instructs them, and
+then sends them out to bless the world.
+
+  A STUDENT.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+OBITUARY.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MRS. H. M. STEVENS.
+
+
+Another veteran teacher of the A. M. A. has been called home to her
+rest. On the morning of May 7, at her home in St. Albans, Vt., Mrs.
+H. M. Stevens, known to A. M. A. workers as Miss E. M. Barnes, of
+Bakersfield, Vt., fell asleep after a severe and painful sickness of
+several mouths.
+
+Miss Barnes entered the service of the Association in 1865 and left
+it in 1882, to minister to her devoted friend and fellow laborer,
+Miss Sarah A. G. Stevens, in her last sickness. When released from
+this service of love her own health prevented her return to the
+Southern work. Her first year was spent at Arlington, Va. She spent
+six years in the Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., four years in the Le
+Moyne Institute, Memphis, Tenn., and her last six in Fisk
+University--seventeen years of devoted, earnest and fruitful labor in
+behalf of the colored youth in the South.
+
+Since leaving the South her life has been a pleasant and useful one
+as Mrs. Stevens, the wife of a devoted husband and an earnest and
+zealous Christian woman in the city and the church where her lot was
+cast. The testimony to her nobility and earnestness of character was
+manifested in signal ways by the church and people during her
+sickness, and she has evidently left behind a precious memory of her
+short life in St. Albans. I have before me a letter written to a
+teacher in Fisk University less than three weeks before her death,
+and it will interest her friends to learn how the years of her life
+which she spent in the work of giving help to the struggling colored
+youth of the South looked to her as she lay upon her dying bed in her
+pleasant home surrounded by the friends that loved her so well.
+
+She wrote: "I thank the Lord for the years He gave me in that
+Southern land. Those seventeen years were the hardest, happiest and
+most satisfying of my life. I have ever thanked God for giving me a
+place among that noble band of workers. I have arranged to establish
+a permanent scholarship at Fisk, so that my influence will still live
+there after I am gone. I loved the work there more than any other I
+have ever done. In all my weakness I am resting in the Everlasting
+Arms, and find there strength sufficient to support, trusting
+entirely to the blood that cleanseth from all sin and saves unto the
+uttermost."
+
+The news of Mrs. Stevens' death was telegraphed to Fisk University,
+and on the Sunday night following, an impressive memorial service was
+held in the chapel of Livingstone Hall. The story of her life and
+labors, as told by those who knew her well, produced a deep
+impression upon the students, and will bear in their lives fruit in
+greater consecration and the spirit of self-sacrifice. The testimony
+borne by several of the young men who were about to graduate, and one
+who had already graduated, to the influence exerted on their lives
+and character by Mrs. Stevens was the highest tribute that could have
+been paid to the gentleness, nobility and spirituality of her
+character. To her counsel, encouragement and sympathy they felt they
+were indebted for their best inspiration. Her influence lives in the
+world, and will continue to increase through the lives and labors of
+others whom she led to the feet of their Lord, and to consecration to
+the uplifting of their race. May the spirit of Mrs. Stevens continue
+to be the spirit of those who represent the A. M. A. in its work for
+the uplifting of a depressed but struggling race!
+
+  E. M. CRAVATH.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS O. E. GOODRIDGE.
+
+
+Died, at Talladega, Ala., May 25, 1885, Miss O. E. Goodridge, of
+Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
+
+Miss Goodridge was born in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., of a godly and
+New England ancestry. She became a Christian in her earliest years
+and joined the church when but a child. From the beginning she was
+instructed in the Scriptures, which can make wise unto salvation, and
+her nature, less rugged than that of some, was well perfected by
+grace. Seeking usefulness in needy fields, she offered herself to the
+A. M. A., and last year began her work in Talladega, where she proved
+herself a devoted and successful teacher, a woman of great refinement
+and goodness, and a faithful servant of Christ. Herself a disciple
+sitting at Jesus' feet, she never forgot her Master in her teaching,
+while her unconscious influence was powerful for good. Her illness
+was but of a few days' duration, nor was it considered fatal until
+within a few hours of the end. Winning in person and of rare beauty
+of character, she has greatly endeared herself to her associates and
+to all who knew her. Though death came suddenly it did not find her
+unprepared. Her hope was in Christ, and her end was a peaceful
+falling asleep.
+
+  H. S. DE FOREST.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
+
+
+We are glad to report a movement in favor of State organizations for
+woman's work in our own country in co-operation with the Am. Home
+Miss. Soc., the Am. Miss. Assoc., the New West Ed. Com., etc. At a
+special meeting called at Saratoga on June 4, action was taken by the
+representatives of the several Woman's Missionary Societies,
+advocating the formation of State societies, whose object should be
+to co-operate with the established societies of the Congregational
+order, in raising funds and increasing intelligence respecting
+missionary work in this country.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Two years ago the ladies of Vermont pledged the support of one
+teacher at McIntosh, Ga., but increased their contributions until
+they assumed the entire support of the school. A year ago they
+undertook the expense of an addition to the school building, to be
+called the "Vermont School." In connection with the State
+Association, at Bellows Falls, a ladies' meeting was held on
+Wednesday morning, June 10, in behalf of the American Missionary
+Association, addressed by their teacher, Miss Plimpton, and by Miss
+Emerson, Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. The following report was
+submitted by the State Committee:
+
+     The committee re-appointed by the convention held at St. Albans
+     last June, to raise money for the school for the freedmen in
+     McIntosh, Ga., desires to present the following report for the
+     year:
+
+     FOR THE YEAR ENDING MAY 31, 1885.
+
+     Total contributions                                  $848.86
+     Expenses of postage and printing                       11.16
+
+     Remitted to H. W. Hubbard                             837.70
+     Add balance on hand May, 1884                         259.28
+                                                       ----------
+       Total                                            $1,096.98
+
+     Estimated expense of school this year      $856.00
+     To apply on new building                    240.98
+                                               -------- $1,096.98
+
+Acknowledgment was also made for barrels and boxes of clothing,
+papers, books, toys and materials for sewing school, with money sent
+to pay freight. Additional contributions are expected before Sept.
+30, to apply on the new school building.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+At the recent meeting of the State Association of Illinois, held in
+Rockford, the ladies organized the "Illinois Home Miss. Union." The
+constitution adopted embraces all home causes as embodied in the
+following form:
+
+     ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Home
+     Missionary Union of the State of ----. Its object shall be to
+     promote missionary and evangelistic work in all parts of our
+     land by forming auxiliaries in the churches of the State, and
+     through them collecting money for the various existing societies
+     of the Congregational order.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+A TRUE INCIDENT.
+
+
+At a little junction in Wisconsin, a score of passengers alighting
+from a train were told that the one they wished to take was four
+hours behind time. A big washout had swept away a bridge or
+embankment. There were a few exclamations of dismay and impatience,
+as that four hours delay meant the losing of other connections, the
+failure of many plans and appointments. It was a cold, rainy day,
+with a raw, penetrating east wind that speedily drove them all into
+the close, dismal waiting room. One woman, taking writing materials
+from a satchel, which she contrived to use for a desk, became utterly
+oblivious to everything as her pencil flew over the letter that would
+carry comfort and cheer to a far-off loved one. Suddenly she became
+conscious that a score of people were sitting in complete silence
+around her, with not a book or paper to read, looking as forlorn and
+miserable as possible. Laying aside her writing, she said, "My
+husband and I are missionaries among the colored people in Alabama. I
+am now on my way back to the work. Perhaps you might be interested to
+hear something about it, and if you care to ask any questions, I will
+be very happy to answer them."
+
+An old lady sitting near, bounced up in a great rage. "_I_ don't want
+to hear a _word_ about the niggers." The rest of her muttered
+exclamations were lost as she rushed out, slamming the door behind
+her.
+
+The missionary began to tell them about the climate, the tropical
+luxuriance of fruit and flowers, and of the great cotton fields. By
+that time questions began to pour in thick and fast, and in less than
+five minutes she had an eager audience listening to every word. She
+went on to tell of the condition of the colored people at the close
+of the war; ignorant, utterly destitute, with no more knowledge than
+a baby of how to shift for themselves; of the hard struggle it had
+been and still was for many of them to live; of the miserable
+pittance they generally received for their labor; of their home life,
+their peculiarities, and other things of interest.
+
+About that time the irate woman, unable longer to endure the
+discomfort of the weather outside, came quietly in, looking rather
+disgusted at the prospect of being obliged, after all, to hear
+something about "the niggers."
+
+The recital of some special incidents of peculiar trial and hardship
+which had come under the missionary's own observation brought tears
+of sympathy to many eyes; but best of all was the sudden conversion
+of our wrathful woman, who exclaimed: "I declare that's too bad! What
+makes them stand it? Why don't they all come North, where they could
+have a fair chance?" As she was told "the reason why," she grew full
+of sympathy and interest, and was even more eager than the others in
+suggestions and inquiries. But when they were told of what had
+already been done by the American Missionary Association and others
+toward establishing and maintaining schools and churches among them,
+of the devoted missionaries and teachers that had carried already so
+much of comfort and help into their sad lives, of the steady upward
+progress they were making in knowledge and intelligence, in the
+acquirement of homes and ability to care for themselves, all seemed
+to appreciate as never before the importance of the work that is
+being done in the South.
+
+The distant whistle of the train surprised them all, and as they
+crowded about the missionary to take her hand and bid her God speed
+in her blessed work, one woman said: "I used to give pennies to the
+work of the A. M. A., but they shall be dollars now."
+
+  MRS. A. W. C.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+CHILDREN'S PAGE.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+THE LITTLE BLACK GIRL'S SACRIFICE.
+
+BY MRS. M. E. SANGSTER
+
+
+Little Ida had been invited to attend a party made by white children
+at the school house. To her mother's mind the question of her going
+turned on her having a scarlet sash to wear. By the kindness of a
+child in the family where Ida and her mother, who figures in our
+story as "Aunt Chloe," had their home, the want was finally met.
+
+Now for the story of the scarlet sash, after it became Ida's
+property. She wore it to the party, where she laughed and sang, and
+played games, and looked like a poppy among the roses. She behaved
+very politely, too, like a well-trained child whose mother had lived
+in the "fust families."
+
+After that, she wore it in church and to Sunday-school. It looped
+itself beautifully over her best, brown striped dress, and gave her
+the sense of being equal in appearance with the other children.
+
+Miss Raymond, her teacher, told me that Ida really seemed to
+understand the lesson better, and to take more interest in reciting
+her golden text, after she came into possession of her precious sash.
+It was so thick and soft and rich; it felt so nice to the little
+black fingers, which every now and then stroked it lovingly. I am
+sure the sash was a means of grace to Ida.
+
+Children who have everything they want, who are clothed in purple and
+fine linen every day, cannot imagine how much delight a poor child
+sometimes takes in an innocent bit of finery.
+
+Now, I want to tell you what became of the sash at last.
+
+One day the superintendent at the Sunday-school asked the children to
+come to order, because a lady was about to talk to them.
+
+The lady was a missionary; her work had been somewhere a great way
+off, among people who had hardly any money, and had a great deal of
+trouble to get bread and meat. Their minister, the lady said, had to
+live in a house dug right out of the side of a hill. She had lived in
+such a little bit of a house herself for a great many weeks. Poor as
+these people were, they had built a little church, and were trying
+very hard to pay for it. They had not any singing-books nor Bibles
+for their Sunday-school, nor any library-books; but the children
+thought nothing of walking five miles or more to go to Sunday-school.
+
+What would the children here in this lovely room give for those
+children in the far, far West?
+
+It happened that Ida's teacher had lately talked to her class about
+the meanness of giving to the Lord that which it cost them nothing to
+give. So when the collection-box was passed around, they dropped in
+their pennies and silver-pieces, and those who had nothing with them
+were told to bring their share on the next Sunday. And some of them
+began to plan their little sacrifices.
+
+Ida's dusky face was a study. Once or twice she paused, irresolute.
+At last, when school was over, she whispered;
+
+"Teacher, may I stay a moment?"
+
+"Yes, dear," said Miss Raymond.
+
+When the two were by themselves in the little half-circle where their
+class usually sat, Ida, with trembling hands, untied the beloved
+sash, and, laying it on her teacher's lap, said, "Please, Miss
+Raymond, this is the prettiest thing I've got, and I want to send it
+to the children who haven't any Bibles."
+
+"But the sash will do them no good, Ida."
+
+"The worf of it will," replied the child; "and it's worf free
+dollars, any way; mammy said so."
+
+Ida stooped down and kissed it; it was not giving what cost her
+nothing to part with her treasured ribbon.
+
+Mass Raymond took it with a tender look, rolled it up and carried it
+home.
+
+One evening, in her parlor, she told its story to a party of young
+people, and then remarked: "The sash ought to bring more than three
+dollars, when that little black girl gave it up so cheerfully."
+
+In a few moments there lay a little pile of silver and paper on the
+centre table, and Ida's sash had brought eight dollars for the good
+cause. Before the week was over it had gone from hand to hand, and
+the eight dollars became twenty without much difficulty.
+
+Fanny said she thought we ought to send the sash back to Ida, or give
+her another one; but no, that would have taken the sweetness from her
+self-denial.
+
+She came to school without her ribbon, having been scolded by Aunt
+Chloe, who could not understand her action, and thought it great
+folly; but all winter long there was a brave light in Ida's dark
+face, and a contented expression in her eyes. She had given the
+scarlet sash for Christ's sake, and he had blessed her deed, and
+owned her as one of his little ones. Happy Ida!
+
+     ABRIDGED FROM S. S. TIMES.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1885.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+MAINE, $278.87.
+
+  Augusta. Mrs. Skeeles' S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           $1.00
+  Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75; First Cong.
+    Ch., 20.32                                              95.32
+  Bath. Central Ch. and Soc.                                40.00
+  Bethel. First Cong. Ch.                                    4.55
+  Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker                                5.00
+  Limington. "A. B."                                         2.00
+  North Bridgeton. Miss Proctor's Sch., _for Wilmington,
+    N. C._                                                   1.00
+  Norway. Ladies, bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Saint Albans. Mrs. W. S. Sewall and family                 1.50
+  Skowhegan. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., by A. L. Colby, Treas.     8.00
+  South Berwick. Mrs. Hodgkins' S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      14.00
+  South Paris. Cong. Ch.                                     6.50
+  Union. Cong Ch., 4; Ladies' Soc., 4                        8.00
+  Waterford. Centre Ch. Sab. Sch.                           10.00
+  By Mrs. J. P. Hubbard, Treas. Woman's Aux., _for
+    Missionary, Selma, Ala._ Albany, Mrs. Lovejoy,
+    3.--Bridgeton, Miss Hale, 1.--Casco, Mrs. Mayberry,
+    1.--Denmark, Ch., by Miss Davis, 2.--Orland, Ch., by
+    Miss Buck, 23.--Portland, State St. Ch., 50; Rev. S.
+    Longfellow, 2                                           82.00
+
+
+NEW HAMPSHIRE, $202.60.
+
+  Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  10.61
+  Bedford. Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., _for Talladega
+    C._
+  Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.25
+  East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, _for Missionary, Austin,
+    Tex._                                                   20.00
+  Franklin. Mrs. R. C. Andrews, _for Indian M._              5.00
+  London. K. S. Price                                        5.00
+  Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00
+  Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc.                           105.04
+  Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               15.70
+
+
+VERMONT, $537.36.
+
+  Bakersfield. By Mrs. J. A. Perkins, _for Missionary,
+    McIntosh, Ga._                                           5.75
+  Brattleborough. E. Crosby & Co., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               31.00
+  Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                    17.61
+  Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.                               19.85
+  Granby. Mrs. Nancy Appleton                                5.00
+  Hyde Park. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      15.00
+  Manchester. "A Friend"                                     5.00
+  Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, pkg. C., 1.25 _Freight,
+    for Atlanta U._                                          1.25
+  Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            60.44
+  Newbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. Bedding, etc., 1.70
+    _Freight, for Atlanta U._                                1.70
+  New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.66
+  Plymouth. Coll. at Furnace                                  .69
+  Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               26.05
+  Townshend. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MRS. C. C. TAFT
+    L. M.                                                   25.76
+  Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             25.00
+  Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. D. L. RAY
+    L. M.                                                   30.00
+  Ladies of Vermont, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, _for
+    McIntosh, Ga._, Benson, 10.--Bethel (5 of which for
+    building fund), 10.75--Bridport, 33.--Braintree,
+    5.--Charlotte, 30.25--East Hardwick (3 of which from
+    Young Ladies' Aid Soc.), 10.25--Fairlee, 11.--Franklin,
+    5.40.--New Haven, 25.06.--Newport, ad'l, 1.16.--North
+    Troy, 1.--Quechee, 1.--Saint Albans, 15.--Saint
+    Johnsbury, ad'l, 2.54.--Sharon, 10.--Swanton,
+    15.25.--West Rutland, 16.10.--Total, 202.76 (less
+    11.16 expenses)                                        191.60
+
+
+MASSACHUSETTS, $3,636.44.
+
+  Alford and West Stockbridge Centre, Cong Ch's.             2.93
+  Amesbury. Cong. Ch.                                        9.00
+  Amherst. Miss M. H. Scott, bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
+  Andover. Free Christian Church, 100, to const. MRS.
+    RUTH F. EMERSON, MRS. AGNES B. DONALD and BENJ. W.
+    FARNUM L. M's; Chapel, Ch. and Soc., 81                181.00
+  Athol. Evangelical Ch.                                    75.00
+
+  Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 539.14; Union Ch. and
+    Soc., 107.32; Park Street Ch. and Soc., ad'l, 10;
+    "Friend," _for Indian M._, 10; Mrs. E. P Eayrs,
+    5--Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
+    Student Aid, Straight U._, 50--Charlestown.
+    Winthrop Ch. and Soc., 72.74--Chelsea. Woman's
+    Union Home M. Band, _for Missionary,
+    Chattanooga, Tenn._, 60--Dorchester. Sab. Sch.
+    Class, Second Ch., _for Indian M., Dakota_, 1.58;
+    Mrs. E. J. W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,
+    50--Roxbury. Eliot Ch. and Soc.,
+    75.51--Somerville. Winter Hill Ch. and Soc., 20;
+    Henry Howard, 20; Broadway Ch. and Soc., 17.41;
+    M. P. Elliott, _Freight_, 2                          1,040.70
+
+  Bernardston. Miss M. L. Newcomb, 60.00, _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._; 20.00, _for Share_          80.00
+  Danvers Centre. Missionary Soc., Box S. S
+    Supplies, _for Williamsburg, Ky._
+  Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         160.71
+  East Bridgewater. Union Ch.                               32.23
+  East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                4.86
+  Fall River. Pastoral Aid Soc. of Central Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega, C._                        10.00
+  Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         25.00
+  Georgetown, First Cong Ch. and Soc.                       46.84
+  Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ELLIS
+    P. HARLOW L. M.                                         30.00
+  Hardwick. First Calvinistic Ch. and Soc.                   5.00
+  Harvard. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Share_               20.00
+  Haverhill. D. Crowell's Bible Class, Centre Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              30.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              61.10
+  Holliston. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch., 6; Clothing,
+    val. 1, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                  6.00
+  Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       19.00
+  Lakeville. Precinct Ch.                                   53.00
+  Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00
+  Littleton. "Friends," for Atlanta U.                      10.00
+  Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          52.96
+  Medway. Mrs. Geo. M. Richardson, _for Wilmington,
+    N. C., Freight_                                          1.00
+  Montague. First Cong. Ch.                                 16.00
+  New Bedford. First Cong. Ch.                              52.00
+  Newburyport. Belleville Ch. and Soc., 77.30, to const.
+    JOSHUA HALE, JR., and JOSEPH H. CURRIER, L. M's;
+    North Ch., 68.65                                       145.95
+  Newton. Ladies' Freedmen's Aid Soc., _for Share_          20.00
+  Newton. Miss Annie Boyden, 2 bbls. of C., etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   74.10
+  Northampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                52.38
+  Northampton. "A Friend," 50; Cong. Ch., 25                75.00
+  Northampton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Share_             20.00
+  Northampton. Miss J. B. Kingsley, _for Indian M._          1.00
+  North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           4.50
+  North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                      15.33
+  Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          41.29
+  Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.                                       20.00
+  Rutland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.15
+  Salem. Tabernacle Ch and Soc.                            320.81
+  Salem. Crombie St. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._          10.00
+  Saugus. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.00
+  Shelburne Falls. Mrs. J. A. Richmond                       2.00
+  South Framingham. South Cong. Ch.                         87.30
+  South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                 47.00
+  Spencer. Mrs. G. P. Ladd's S. S. Class, _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                       3.00
+  Springfield. "A Friend"                                    5.00
+  Topsfield. Mrs. Ephraim Perkins                            4.00
+  Ware. Livingston Band, _for Indian M., Fort Sul'y_        20.00
+  Watertown. Friend                                          1.00
+  Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Mission Soc. _for
+    Freight_                                                 2.00
+  Westfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            5.45
+  Weymouth and Braintree. Union Ch.                         44.26
+  Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
+    U._                                                     50.00
+  Whitinsville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle of Cong. Ch., box
+    of C., _for Macon, Ga._; 10 _for Freight_               10.00
+  Williamsburg. Ladies' Sew. Soc., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           40.00
+  Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._   25.00
+  Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      93.55
+  Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. Circle, _for Fisk University
+    Freight_                                                 1.50
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         100.00
+  By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass'n.
+    Holyoke, Second, 28.24--Palmer, 20--Springfield.
+    Olivet, 35.30; Mrs Edw. Clarke, 5; North Sab.
+    Sch., _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._, 25            113.54
+
+  CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
+    MAINE--Farmington. Ladies' Soc.,
+    Bbl.--MASSACHUSETTS--Chelsea. W. H. M Band, bdl.
+    Papers--Hyde Park, W. H. M. Soc., bbl., _for
+    Jonesboro, Tenn._--Medway, Ladies' B. Soc., bbl.,
+    _for Wilmington, N. C._--Newton, Ladies' F. A.
+    Soc., bbl., _for Macon, Ga._--Somerville, Matthew
+    P. Elliot, pkg. Hats, _for Atlanta U._, Val.
+    50--Waquoit. Rev. Joshua Gay, box
+    Books--Westborough. Ladies' F. M. Soc.,
+    bbl.--Worcester, Ladies' B. U. of Piedmont Ch.,
+    bbl., _for Marietta, Ga._, Val. 50--Yarmouth,
+    Ladies' Sew. Circle, bbl., _for Fisk U._
+
+
+RHODE ISLAND, $2.00.
+
+  Central Falls. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards, bbl. of Goods,
+    2 _Freight_                                              2.00
+
+
+CONNECTICUT, $1,563.47.
+
+  Abington. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  2.00
+  Ansonia. First Cong. Ch.                                  22.52
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     40.00
+  Bethel. "Willing Workers," cask of C., etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bozrah. Cong Ch.                                           4.00
+  Bridgeport. "Cheerful Workers," _for Share_               22.00
+  Bridgeport. Nathaniel Wheeler, Wheeler & Wilson Sew.
+    Machine, _for Wilmington, N. C._
+  Bridgeport. Miss Carrie Wood, box Bedding, etc., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith                                  1.50
+  Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Conn. Sch. Quitman, Ga._  30.00
+  Darien. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_            10.00
+  East Hampton. Dea. Skinner, _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                      5.00
+  Gilead. Cong. Ch.                                         15.60
+  Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 50; Cong. Ch., 3.50            53.50
+  Hartford. Mrs. Catharine B. Hillyer, 30, to const.
+    LUCY TUDOR HILLYER L. M.; Windsor Av. Cong. Sab.
+    Sch., 10                                                40.00
+  Hartford. Centre Ch., 2 bbls. Bedding and C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Middlefield. Lyman A. Mills                               30.00
+  Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch.                                   27.30
+  New Britain. South Cong. Ch., to const. CHARLES
+    PECK, GEO. P. ROCKWELL, OLIVER STANLEY, REV. CHAS
+    E. STEELE, JOHN B. TALCOTT and DEA. JOHN WIARD
+    L. M's                                                 192.88
+  New Haven. First Ch.                                     204.89
+  North Cornwall. Cong. Ch.                                 41.85
+  Roxbury. Cong. Ch., 15.65, and Sab. Sch., 15              30.65
+  Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               20.50
+  Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              17.36
+  West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.00
+  Westville. Cong. Ch.                                      19.00
+  ----. "A Friend"                                         600.93
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,436.48
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Hartford. Estate of Dr. John R. Lee, by John
+    Hooker, Ex.                                            126.99
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,563.47
+
+
+NEW YORK, $2,499.90.
+
+  Albany. First Cong. Ch., 120.73; Chas. A. Beach, 25      145.73
+  Albion. Miss H. M. Woodward, _for Wilmington, N. C._       1.75
+  Bergen. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.50
+    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 429.06; Julius
+    Davenport, 100; South Cong. Ch., 50; "A Friend"
+    30, to const. MISS ELIZABETH CLEVELAND L. M.           609.06
+  Chateaugay. Rev. C. C. Torrey                              5.00
+  Chittenango. Mrs. Amelia L. Brown                          5.00
+  Ellington. Mrs. Anson Crosby                               1.00
+  Leroy. Mrs. A. McEwen                                      5.00
+  Lima. "A Friend"                                           2.00
+  New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; Gen. Clinton B.
+    Fisk, 30, to const. Mrs. LURETTA C. STICKEL L. M.      130.00
+  New York. Mrs. Wm. E. Dodge, 100; Rev. D. Stuart
+    Dodge, 100, _for Atlanta U._                           200.00
+  New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, _for Student Aid,
+    Atlanta U._                                             25.00
+  Northville. Cong. Sab. Sch.          12.00
+  Perry Centre. Cong. Ch., 30, to const. MRS.
+    WILLIAM R. BATHRICK L. M.; R. J. Booth, pkg.
+    Papers                                                  30.00
+  Rushville. Cong. Ch.                                       4.57
+  Rutland. First Cong. Ch.                                   9.69
+  Saratoga. Miss F. A. Marvin, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            2.00
+  Sherburne. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35.37; "Friends," 35,
+    _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         70.37
+  Syracuse. Primary Dept. Plym. Sab. Sch., _for Share_      20.00
+  Wellsville. First Cong. Ch.                               24.19
+  West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. (50 of which _for Student
+    Aid, Fisk U._)                                          81.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,395.86
+
+  LEGACIES.
+
+  New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, _for Atlanta U._       100.00
+  North Winfield. Estate of Miss E. Jane Alexander,
+    by Thomas E. Harrison and Olive E. Harrison, Exs.      500.00
+  Norwich. Estate of John Foote (90 of which to
+    const. MARY C. FOOTE, ACHSA S. FOOTE and SUSAN L.
+    PECK L. M.'s.), by John Mitchell, Ex.                  504.04
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $2,499.90
+
+
+NEW JERSEY, $489.49.
+
+  Arlington. "A Friend."                                     2.00
+  Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    11.49
+  Maywood. E. K. Breckenridge                               20.00
+  Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const.
+    REV. JAMES POWELL, D. D., L. M.)                       376.00
+  Montclair. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
+    _for Missionary, Tougaloo, Miss._                       75.00
+  Montclair. Mrs Pratt's S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                            5.00
+  Morristown. Miss Julia Dodge, half bbl. Papers, _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+
+
+PENNSYLVANIA, $77.10.
+
+  Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.                           28.20
+  Ridgway. "C. D. O."                                         .50
+  Scranton. Miss Sarah E. Hawley                            10.00
+  Shoemakertown. Cheltenham Academy, bbl. Boys' C., _for
+    Wilmington, N. C._
+  West Alexander. Jane C. Davidson                          38.40
+
+
+OHIO, $1,704.39.
+
+  Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         6.78
+  Austinburg. Ladies' Benev. Soc., bbl. of C., _for
+    Fisk U._, 1.17 _for Freight_                             1.17
+  Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 11.46; Mrs. Charlotte
+    Ruggles, 2                                              13.46
+  Cleveland. Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Euclid Av. Cong.
+    Ch., _for Missionary, Santee Agency_                    20.00
+  Conneaut. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 10.00
+  Elyria. First Cong. Ch. (30 of which to const. E.
+    W. METCALF L. M.)                                      500.00
+  Four Corners. Cong. Ch.                                    5.58
+  Freedom. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab Sch., 5                       15.00
+  Hudson. Cong. Ch., adl. _for Straight U._                   .50
+  Marietta. Miss M. B. Diamond, pkg. of C., _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  New Concord. Wm. Lee, Sen.                                 2.00
+  Norwalk and Peru. By Rev. H. Lawrence, box and
+    bbl. Bibles, Testaments, etc., _for Talladega C._
+  Oberlin. First Cong. Ch.                                  79.10
+  Oberlin. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 50 copies "Manual
+    of Praise," _for Chapel, Talladega C._
+  Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch.                                    23.80
+  Wakeman. Cong. Ch.                                        14.00
+  West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   13.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $704.39
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Austinburg. Estate of L. B. Austin, by William
+    Pulis, Ex.                                           1,000.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,704.39
+
+
+ILLINOIS, $681.09.
+
+  Chicago. Fist Cong. Ch., 100; N. E. Cong. Ch.,
+    44.03; South Cong. Ch., 34.83; Y. L. Miss'y Soc.
+    of N. E. Cong. Ch., 25.20                              204.06
+  Chicago. Union Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
+    Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00
+  Cobden. C. C. Wright                                       5.00
+  Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00
+  Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean                                      2.00
+  Geneseo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionaries_          55.00
+  Glencoe. Cong. Ch. of Christ                              50.00
+  Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       29.00
+  Ivanhoe. Cong. Ch.                                        20.00
+  Kewanee. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg                        5.00
+  La Grange. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00
+  Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Terry, _for Student Aid,
+    Fisk U._                                                50.00
+  Lewiston. Mrs. Myron Phelps                               50.00
+  Lowell. V. G. Lutz                                         5.00
+  Malden. Cong. Ch.                                         13.00
+  Marseilles. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Missionary_         10.50
+  Mendon. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           21.00
+  Neponset. Cong. Ch.                                        6.20
+  Oak Park. Mrs. A. Ridell                                   2.00
+  Payson. Miss Lizzie Scarborough, _for Missionaries_       10.00
+  Peoria. Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch., box of C., _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Rockford. A. D. Forbes                                    10.00
+  Rosemond. "Busy Bee Soc"                                   1.67
+  Seward. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
+    Missionaries_                                            6.00
+  Shirland. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00
+  Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch.                                16.66
+  Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell                                   10.00
+  Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._       17.00
+  Winnebago. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                     15.00
+
+
+MICHIGAN, $213.59.
+
+  Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega
+    C._                                                     50.00
+  Calumet. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Share_                 20.00
+  Charlotte. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00
+  Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
+    Sengstacke_                                             20.00
+  Grass Lake. Union Meeting, _for Straight U._              21.03
+  Homestead. Morris Case                                     5.00
+  Kalamazoo. Mrs. H. Ralston                                  .50
+  Jackson. Mrs. L. H. Field, _for Straight U._               2.00
+  Lake Lynden. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
+    Talladega C._                                           10.00
+  Litchfield. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
+    Share_                                                  12.50
+  Manistee. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00
+  Mattawan. First Cong. Ch.                                  2.60
+  Olivet. Cong. Ch.                                          4.06
+  Reed City. Cong. Ch.                                       4.35
+  Romeo. Mrs. E. A. Berry, _for Straight U._                 1.00
+  Saint Joseph. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. (5 of which _for
+    Missionary, Indian M._)                                 10.00
+  Webster. Cong. Ch.                                        20.55
+
+
+IOWA, $1,019.41.
+
+  Afton. Ladies of Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00
+  Algona. A. Zahlten                                        10.00
+  Anamosa. Women's Freedmen's Soc., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           15.00
+  Creston. Mrs. N. H. Whittlesey, _for Missionary,
+    New Orleans, La._                                        2.00
+  Davenport. Rev. J. A. Reed, 50; Young Ladies'
+    Miss'y Soc., 25; _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;
+    Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._                          75.00
+  Des Moines. Young People of Plym. Ch., _for
+    Student Aid, Talladega C._                              50.00
+  Des Moines. Bbl. of C., by Mrs. S. G. Otis, _for
+    Talladega C._
+  Grinnell. Cong. Ch.                                       28.18
+  Hawthorne. Rev. N. H. Blackmer                             4.00
+  Iowa City. Cong Ch.                                       46.45
+  Maquoketa. Cong. Ch.                                      17.75
+  Marshalltown. "A Friend."                                 10.00
+  Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      65.25
+  Rock Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                     5.00
+  Tipton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch.                   5.00
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Mrs. Geo. W. Reynolds, Treas.,
+    _for Missionary, New Orleans La._ Charles City,
+    10.--Chester Centre, 7.--Davenport,
+    24.25.--Grinnell, 80.--New Hampton, 5, Children's
+    Soc., 3.--North Des Moines, Mrs. St. John,
+    1.--Osage, 10.--Waterloo, 10.50                        150.75
+  Ladies of Iowa, by Ella E. Marsh, Treas., _for
+    Missionary, New Orleans, La._ Eldora, 2.50.--Iowa
+    Falls, 1.03.--Otho, 4.50.--Tabor, 15.--Webster
+    City, 2                                                 25.03
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $519.41
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Burlington. Estate of David Leonard, by Mrs. Mary
+    S. Leonard, Executrix                                  500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                        $1,019.41
+
+
+WISCONSIN, $751.29.
+
+  Clinton. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                            2.20
+  Geneva. Rev. J. K. Kilbourn, box of Books, etc.,
+    _for Macon Ga._, 3 _for Freight_                         3.00
+  La Crosse. Cong. Ch.                                      75.65
+  Lake Geneva. Mary J. Barnard                              15.00
+  Lake Mills. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.70
+  Madison. Ladies' H. M. Soc., _for Missionary,
+    Austin, Tex._                                           25.00
+  Milwaukee. Plym. Cong. Ch.                                18.34
+  Neenah. E. B. Ranney                                      40.00
+  Oshkosh. Mrs. Lucy Bartlett, Pulpit Bible, and 2
+    Books, _for Macon, Ga._
+  Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      28.40
+  Shopiere. Cong. Sab Sch.                                  12.00
+  Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall                               1.00
+  Waukesha. Young People's Miss'y. Soc. _for Share_         20.00
+  Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor                                  5.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $251.29
+
+  LEGACY.
+
+  Monroe. Estate of Mrs. Orrissa Rood, by J. L. Rood,
+    Ex.                                                    500.00
+                                                       ----------
+                                                          $751.29
+
+
+MINNESOTA, $20.60.
+
+  Minneapolis. Plym. Ch.                                    18.35
+  Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        2.25
+
+
+MISSOURI, $31.70.
+
+  Kirkville. J. S. Blackman                                  4.00
+  Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.                              27.70
+
+
+KANSAS, $72.84.
+
+  Cora. Cong. Ch.                                           12.00
+  Manhattan. "Friend."                                      10.00
+  Reno Centre. First Ch. of Christ                           2.77
+  Topeka. Tuition                                           17.07
+  Manhattan. First Cong. Ch., to const. MISS CLARA CASTLE
+    L. M.                                                   31.00
+
+
+COLORADO, $8.70.
+
+  Highland Lake. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc. (4.25 of
+    which _for Chinese M._)                                  8.70
+
+
+NEBRASKA, $42.97.
+
+  Albion. Cong. Ch.                                          7.30
+  Ashland. Cong. Ch.                                         5.45
+  Cedar Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                    1.70
+  Fairfield. Cong. Ch.                                      12.52
+  South Bend. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                        5.00
+  Stanton. Mrs. Laura E. Dada                                5.00
+  Steele City. Cong. Ch.                                     6.00
+
+
+DAKOTA, $3.00.
+
+  Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                       3.00
+
+
+WASHINGTON TER., $2.75.
+
+  Cheyenne. "A Friend."                                      2.75
+
+
+WYOMING TER., $22.00.
+
+  Cheyenne, First Cong. Ch.                                 22.00
+
+
+CALIFORNIA, $13.00.
+
+  Arcata. "A Friend"                                         5.00
+  Elk Creek. J. E. Lee                                       8.00
+
+
+DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $140.65.
+
+  Washington. First Cong. Ch.                              127.15
+  Washington. Howard U., Mon. Con. Coll.                    13.50
+
+
+KENTUCKY, $175.77.
+
+  Lexington. Tuition, 63.25; Rent, 2.77                     66.02
+  Williamsburg. Tuition                                     71.75
+  Woodbine. Tuition                                         38.00
+
+
+VIRGINIA, $8.55.
+
+  Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         8.55
+
+
+TENNESSEE, $781.81.
+
+  Jellico. Tuition                                          41.00
+  Jonesboro. Tuition                                         3.50
+  Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00
+  Maryville. Mrs. R. A. Frame, _for Maryville, Tenn.,
+    Freight_                                                 1.75
+  Memphis. Tuition                                         269.70
+  Nashville. Tuition, 396.86; Jackson St. Cong. Ch., 5     401.86
+  Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. C. Bennett, _for Pleasant Hill,
+    Tenn._                                                  50.00
+  Pleasant Hill. Cong. Ch.                                   2.00
+
+
+NORTH CAROLINA, $251.20.
+
+  Troy. Cong. Ch.                                            1.00
+  Wilmington. Tuition, 200.20; Cong. Ch., 10               210.20
+  Wilmington. Odd Minutes Miss'y Soc., 20; "Willing
+    Workers," 20; _for Indian M._                           40.00
+
+
+SOUTH CAROLINA, $319.50.
+
+  Charleston. Tuition, 304.50; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 15      319.50
+
+
+GEORGIA, $653.58.
+
+  Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition                            264.95
+  Dalton. Rev. Milton Rowley, box Books, etc., _for
+    Macon, Ga._
+  Macon. Tuition, 172.70; Rent, 4; Cong Ch., 16.05         192.75
+  Macon. Prof. A. J. Burger, Pulpit Bible _for Macon,
+    Ga._
+  McIntosh. Tuition, 22.38; Rent, 1.50                      23.88
+  Savannah. Tuition, 152; Cong. Ch., 20                    172.00
+
+
+ALABAMA, $418.72.
+
+  Marion. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00
+  Mobile. Tuition                                          187.70
+  Mobile. Woman's H. M. Ass'n for _Missionary, Fort
+    Berthold_                                               10.00
+  Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     25.00
+  Selma. First Cong. Ch., 14.75: Sab. Sch., 10; Mr. and
+    Mrs. E. C. Silsby, 10                                   34.75
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n, _for Indian M._              15.00
+  Selma. Woman's Miss'y Ass'n of Alabama                     5.00
+  Talladega. Tuition, 96; Cong. Sab. Sch., 15.27           111.27
+  Talladega. Woman's Miss'y Soc., _for Share_               20.00
+
+
+FLORIDA, $10.00.
+
+  Saint Augustine. Rent                                     10.00
+
+
+MISSISSIPPI, $36.00.
+
+  Tougaloo. Tuition                                         36.00
+
+
+TEXAS, $245.05.
+
+  Austin. Tuition                                          235.05
+  Fort Worth. M. Marty                                      10.00
+
+
+INCOMES, $462.50.
+
+  Avery Fund, for _Mendi M._                               300.00
+  Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._                       102.50
+  Luke Mem. Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._            10.20
+  Mrs. N. M. & Miss Abbie Stone Scholarship Fund, _for
+    Talladega C._                                           25.00
+  Straight U. Fund, _for Straight U._                       20.00
+  Yale Library Fund, for _Talladega C._                      4.80
+
+
+CANADA, $5.00.
+
+  Canada, Montreal. "C. A."                                  5.00
+                                                     ------------
+
+  Total for May                                        $17,372.89
+  Total from Oct. 1 to May 31                          158,757.17
+                                                     ============
+
+
+FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
+
+  Subscriptions for May                                    49.14
+  Previously acknowledged                                 969.94
+                                                      ----------
+  Total                                                $1,019.08
+                                                      ==========
+
+  H. W. Hubbard, Treas.,
+  56 Reade St., N. Y.
+
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