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diff --git a/30158-0.txt b/30158-0.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60deb01 --- /dev/null +++ b/30158-0.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2341 @@ +*** 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. 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