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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 33, No. 1, January 1879 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 28, 2016 [EBook #53618] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JANUARY 1897 *** - - - - -Produced by KarenD, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - - - - - VOL. XXXIII. No. 1. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - JANUARY, 1879. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - OUR OUTLOOK FOR 1879 1 - OUR APPEAL FOR THE NEW YEAR 2 - THE LORD’S WORK AND THE LORD’S COMING 3 - THE LONDON UNION MISSIONARY CONFERENCE 3 - POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE FREEDMEN: Rev. M. E. Strieby 4 - THESE MY BRETHREN 6 - FIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION: Prof. C. D. - Hartranft, D. D. 7 - RETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON 10 - ITEMS FROM THE CHURCHES 10 - GENERAL NOTES 11 - OUR QUERY COLUMN 14 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—Revival in Howard University 14 - VIRGINIA—A Destitute County 14 - ALABAMA—New Church at Shelby Iron Works—Talladega a - Missionary Centre 15 - FLORENCE—Thin End of the Wedge—First Thanksgiving Service 16 - MISSOURI—Free Schools in the State 17 - - - AFRICA. - - THE MENDI MISSION—A Church Organized and Dedicated at Avery 18 - - - THE INDIANS. - - THE LATE INDIAN WAR AND CHRISTIANITY: Rev Myron Eells 20 - - - THE CHINESE. - - CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE: Rev. - W. C. Pond 21 - - - RECEIPTS 24 - - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 27 - - - PLEASE READ, THINK, COPY AND MAIL 28 - - * * * * * - - NEW YORK: - - Published by the American Missionary Association, - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - - - - - American Missionary Association, - - 56 READE STREET, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE-PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass. - Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I. - Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I. - Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. Y. - Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill. - Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C. - Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La. - HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich. - Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H. - Rev. EDWARD HAWES, Ct. - DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio. - Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt. - SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa. - Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill. - EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H. - DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J. - Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct. - Rev. W. L. GAGE, Ct. - A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y. - Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio - Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn. - Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn. - Rev. GEORGE THACHER, LL. D., Iowa. - Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California. - Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon. - Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C. - Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis. - S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass. - Rev. WM. PATTON, D. D., Ct. - Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa. - Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct. - Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct. - Sir PETER COATS, Scotland. - Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng. - WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y. - J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ct. - DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct. - A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass. - Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y. - FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt. - JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_. - - EDGAR KETCHUM, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._ - H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Assistant Treasurer, N. Y._ - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_. - - - EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. - - ALONZO S. BALL, - A. S. BARNES, - EDWARD BEECHER, - GEO. M. BOYNTON, - WM. B. BROWN, - CLINTON B. FISK, - A. P. FOSTER, - E. A. GRAVES, - S. B. HALLIDAY, - SAM’L HOLMES, - S. S. JOCELYN, - ANDREW LESTER, - CHAS. L. MEAD, - JOHN H. WASHBURN, - G. B. WILLCOX. - - -COMMUNICATIONS - -relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above; letters for the Editor of the -“American Missionary” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York -Office. - - -DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS - -may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as _Assistant Treasurer_. - -A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. - -Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located. - - * * * * * - - - - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - VOL. XXXIII. JANUARY, 1879. No. 1. - - * * * * * - - -American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -OUR OUTLOOK FOR 1879. - -The review of our last year’s work has been so recently and -so fully given in connection with the annual meeting of the -Association, that it is scarcely needful for us to ask our readers -to join us in another survey of what has already been accomplished. -It is more fitting, as we stand upon the threshold of the new year, -to ask what are the signs of the times, and what the demands of the -work before us. - -There are still dark clouds in the Southern sky. A mere granting -of civil and political rights by formal enactment is of small -importance unless the rights themselves are honestly allowed and -faithfully accepted. The adjustment of alleged wrongs we must leave -to politicians if not to statesmen, and to courts of law if not -of justice. Our work, obscure and remote as it may seem, is more -fundamental and important than that of either Congresses or courts. -For by whatever defences the Freedman may or may not be surrounded, -the only safeguard of his rights must be in his fitness to exercise -and his ability to maintain them. It is for us, through all the -changes of the year, to keep steadily to our work. It is not -checked because the winter is upon us; nor will it be over when the -summer comes. It is not for this year’s harvesting alone that we -are working; we are sub-soiling and so laboring for the permanent -reclamation of these vast fields. We believe that more depends -upon the moral and intellectual elevation of the Freedmen of our -land, not only in regard to their welfare, but in regard to the -great questions of which they are only a factor, than upon anything -which can be done for them by legislative enactment or military -power. We purpose, then, to press on with the school and the -church. Intelligence and virtue are the Jachin and Boaz, the two -great pillars of the porch of the Temple of American citizenship -and liberty. While it rests on anything else, it is uncertain and -unsafe. - -Our lesser work at home among the Indians and Chinese will demand -the same moderate but constant share of our attention as before. -Our connection with the six Indian Agencies, through the Interior -Department, is not a matter of expense, but mainly of time and -care. If we shall be relieved from that, our missionary work will -still remain and may be enlarged. And though the immigration of -Chinamen has been checked to some degree, and their interest in -learning English has been abated by the abuse they have received, -the work has been, and is yet, too fruitful of good to be given up. - -Our African mission has passed through one year under its new -organization, with apparent prosperity and success. We shall need -to strengthen its forces before long. We shall want both the men -and the means. - -There is work enough in our outlook and encouragement to do it. We -would remind our readers as well as ourselves, that the year which -is most full of sacrifice and service for the Master, is most sure -of all to be _A Happy New Year_. - - * * * * * - - -OUR APPEAL FOR 1879. - -Our friends are thoroughly informed of the fact that our debt of -late has been rapidly diminishing. We are sorry to say that _the -same thing is true of our income_. That, too, has been growing -less. We learn that this is true, also, of our sister societies. -They, also, have noticed a falling off in their revenues. We do -not like to make much ado over our troubles; but we have been very -frank in acknowledging our mercies, and we owe it to the work, and -to those who sustain it, to tell them our perplexities as well. - -Our receipts for the last two months have been very inadequate -for the work we have in hand. What does this mean to us with this -outlook for 1879? Does it signify withdrawal from fields already -under cultivation? Already the Executive Committee have had under -serious advisement two cases, in which it was necessary either -to stop fruitful work at important points or spend a little more -money. Retrenchment is easier to talk of than to accomplish. It -costs as much sometimes to stop as to go on. A temporary suspension -is sometimes more expensive than continuous work. Our teachers are -engaged and our buildings are prepared for the year. Shall we stop -the whole machinery of a great factory to save the price of the gas -which lights it? That would be ruinous economy indeed. - -But we do not seriously believe that the friends of the three most -needy races on our continent have lost heart, or hope, or means, to -carry out the generous plans they have devised. These last months -of 1878 have been trying alike to them and to us. Our plea is only -this, that, with the new year (if the debt be not by that time -altogether a thing of the past), there may be a fresh and final -attack upon that enemy of our peace; and more even than this, that -there may be a fuller and a steadier flow of the Lord’s money into -our treasury for the wants of the work of 1879. - - * * * * * - -We are happy to say that a goodly number of ladies whom we have -asked to assume the responsibility of raising a share of $25, -towards the payment of our debt, have replied favorably. The -following extract from a letter sent us by one who has been -abundant in her efforts for the Freedmen, indicates the enthusiasm -and thankfulness with which some of the ladies respond: - -Your kind letter of November 26th found me watching in the sick -room of my brother; but my heart went right up to God in gratitude -that I was not forgotten by the officers of the A. M. A., and that -they still think I can do something to help on this great work. I -have never ceased to be interested in the work in all its length -and breadth, and to do what little I can for it. The debt has -occupied much of my thought. I have wanted to do something to help -pay it beyond the little I could give myself. Now that I can go out -under your guardianship, I will be one of two hundred to raise one -share ($25), and as much more as I can. I am sure the debt will -soon be paid. There should be no lack of funds to carry on this -work. It is very strange our _nation_ cannot see it and feel it -too. - -An old and faithful friend from Sag Harbor, N. Y., sends us thirty -dollars to make a life member. At the same time he asks us to star -the names of his two oldest children, who were among the first of -the twenty whom he has thus added to our list. They have gone up -higher. He concludes thus: - - I was much interested in reading the article in December number, - page 387, “Students Want to ‘Batch’—Who will Help?” I would like - for my $30 to go to assist in building one of those $100 houses. - Can’t you get some one to add the other $70, and put up one of - those dwellings for those scholars who are so anxious to get an - education to teach and to preach? - - * * * * * - - -THE LORD’S WORK AND THE LORD’S COMING. - -One of our friends, (Rev. T. S. Robie, North Carver, Mass.,) who -was at our annual meeting at Taunton, remembering doubtless that -the Prophetic Conference was in session during the same days in New -York City, puts the two things together thus: - - One comes from a meeting like that, through which glimpses are - caught of opportunities for work, of openings by the Unseen Hand - into spheres of service which stretch out into the future beyond - the range of our human vision, with the overwhelming conviction - that the Lord isn’t just at present to stop the wheels of this - world. It is not _like_ the Lord to give such problems to His - people, which are pressing upon this Christian nation today with - such power, and which demand time for their solution, and then - to cut the Gordian knot by the sword of His “coming,” as if He - had met with a tangled question which He himself could not untie. - The red, blue and white and black marble, which Divine Providence - has brought into this land, tell of a building of God grander - than any Persian palace, the foundations of which seem to be just - being laid, rather than the completion thereof to be nigh at - hand. The vastness of the preparation points to the magnificence - of the Lord’s dominion in the hearts and over the lives of men. - - The Book of God’s Providence is as much inspired as the Bible - itself. And whoever studies the former as prayerfully as the - latter, must labor hard to stifle the feeling that the clock of - earth, instead of getting ready to stop, is being wound up to - keep good time for a thousand years, as a prelude to that perfect - righteousness which shall dwell forever on the new earth and - beneath the new heavens. - - * * * * * - - -THE LONDON UNION MISSIONARY CONFERENCE. - -The London Union Missionary Conference was held in November. The -Congregational churches of America were represented by Dr. Clark -of the American Board, and Dr. O. H. White of the Freedmen’s Aid -Society, of London, who also represented the American Missionary -Association, to which the F. A. Society is auxiliary. The last -gathering of the kind in England was in 1860, at which one -hundred and twenty-six delegates assembled. The sessions were -mainly private, the societies represented were chiefly British, -and plans were discussed rather than achievements reported. This -later meeting was somewhat different in its character. Six hundred -delegates were in attendance from various lands and denominations -of Christians. It was not so much a conference on methods as a -comparison of results. The sessions of the week were apportioned -to the work in the various lands. A great mass of information was -collected, which will doubtless be more impressive and complete in -the volume of proceedings to be published, than it could have been -in the hearing. - -The character of the meetings may be inferred from the following -sketch of the time devoted to the “Dark Continent,” in which we -are especially interested. We copy from the correspondent of -the _Christian Union_: “Two sessions on Tuesday were devoted to -Africa and its many tribes. An Irish peer, the Earl of Cavan, -presided, and the attendance of delegates and friends was large. -Dr. Underhill, of the Baptist Missionary Society, discoursed on -the benefits of emancipation, and showed what an important bearing -the evangelizing of the negro race must have on the conversion of -all West Africa. Sir Fowell Buxton, the son of the great advocate -of emancipation forty years ago, described the three schemes now -being carried out for planting new missions on the three great -lakes of Central Africa. Dr. Stewart, of the Free Church Mission -at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyassa, described the principle and -the plan of the missionary institution at Lovedale, in the Cape -Colony, which he has managed for several years. This is a model -institution, with industrial as well as educational and theological -departments; and is just the thing which the native tribes of South -Africa need for their enlightenment. Dr. Lowe, the Secretary of the -Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, also read an admirable paper -on the work, methods and usefulness of medical missions generally. -Several of the medical missionaries who have recently gone out to -Africa were Dr. Lowe’s pupils. - -“Among the effective speakers on these African missions were -Dr. Waugemann, of Berlin, who described the work of the Berlin -Society, especially in the Transvaal; Dr. White, of the Freedmen’s -Aid Mission; the Rev. E. Schrenck, of Basle, who spoke of work -in Ashantee; and the Rev. Dr. Moffat, who told the Conference -about his Bechuanas, and of course with his strong gray hair and -his eighty-three years of age and sixty-two years of service for -Christ, received an ovation at its hands. The noble presence and -the stirring words of the grand old man on the African day were a -striking feature in the meetings of the Conference.” - -Such gatherings must help on the cause of Christian comity in -missions, as well as broaden the views of all who are engaged -in working the field under their hands. It is well to look up -sometimes from our own furrow, even if we have to stop ploughing -for a little, that we may realize that the field is the world, and -that the harvest belongs to one Master. - - * * * * * - - -THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE FREEDMEN. - -BY REV. M. E. STRIEBY. - -Was it wise to give the ballot to the ex-slaves? The answer that -came in the hour it was given, from the Congress that gave it, -from the Northern people that sustained it, and from the colored -people that enjoyed it, was an emphatic and enthusiastic “Yes!” -The answer that came at that hour from the Southern white man was -in a suppressed voice, and was an execration hissed out between -grinding teeth. Since that hour the voice of the Southern white -man has grown firmer, and, as it came up from misgoverned South -Carolina and Louisiana, has rounded out into a full-toned “No!” -Nay, more, it has been re-echoed from the North, and recently with -special emphasis from the lips of one of the purest Christian -scholars on the heights of Christian learning in New England. What -answer do I give? Unhesitatingly, “Yes!” I say nothing about the -mere party reason given either then or since, for I do not write -as a partisan. I put the wisdom of the ballot on more substantial -grounds. - -1. It saved the Freedmen from being again reduced to slavery. -Vagrant laws were passed, which confined them to the plantations -on which they had engaged to work, the end of which would have been -a serfdom attaching them to the soil. The ballot saved them from -this. - -2. It gave the Freedmen and the South a free school system—a -greater boon than Southern legislation ever gave them before—a -boon without which all else would have been well-nigh in vain. -That system was modeled after the best patterns at the North, and -although it has been somewhat modified and enfeebled in practical -operation, is yet a solid corner-stone in the foundation of the new -superstructure which the South is rearing. - -3. The ballot gave the Freedman a sense of self-respect, and -commanded for him the respect of others. To him it was an education -and an inspiration. It gave him the standing of a man among men, -and prompted him to become worthy of his position. It was a power -to him in the early days of his freedom, when he needed every help -to sustain him in that freedom; and to-day, though it is held in -check and almost useless, yet it is a slumbering giant, and is -watched with respectful caution by the whites. For who can tell -what such a slumbering power might do if aroused? - -At present the black voter is politically conquered. The “white -man’s government” is established, and it is the purpose of the -white man that it shall remain so. This has been easily attained in -the States where the white majority is undoubted. In the few States -where the blacks are in the majority, the white man is determined -to rule, peaceably if he can, forcibly if he must. The Chisholm -murder and the Hamburg massacre are but samples of the methods -that will be resorted to if the effort is pushed persistently -to restore the supremacy of the black man in politics. When we -remember how that supremacy in those States was abused, how can we -ask the restoration if the abuse must again follow? The problem -is difficult. It can be solved only by one formula. The black -man must be protected in his political rights, and he must be so -enlightened as to use and not abuse those rights. There will be no -permanent advantage from a mere partisan triumph of the black man. -If achieved, as matters now stand, bayonets will again be needed to -sustain it, and will become once more a source of angry discussion -at the North and of concentrated bitterness at the South. The -experiment may again be necessary; but a far better thing should be -speedily, steadily and efficiently pushed forward—the training of -the colored voter for an intelligent and responsible manhood and -citizenship. - -If every colored voter could be accompanied to the polls by a file -of soldiers armed with muskets, his ballot would represent the -musket and not the man. But if he becomes a property owner, with -all the interest in the welfare of the community which property -gives; if he is educated and can take an _intelligent_ interest -in the welfare of the community; and if he acquires a weight of -character that challenges respect, he will need no soldiers to -guard him to the polls, and his vote will represent the man and not -the musket. - -When the black man shall reach such a position he conquers -caste-prejudice and wipes out the color-line in politics. Color is -significant only as it represents condition. Change the condition -and the color is of no consequence. With that change the white and -black men at the South will divide on politics as white men do at -the North, from differing views as to the best measures to promote -public weal. - -Look on this picture: An armed and organized mob is breaking up a -political gathering of the blacks and their friends, and in the -background are the overawed Freedmen retiring from the polls. -Look, also, on this picture: A company of United States soldiers -are keeping guard over a body of legislators, mostly black, who, -with reckless rascality, are squandering the public funds, to -the ruin of the State and the disgrace of the nation. Turn not -from these pictures with indifference, for they are no fancy -sketches; nay, face them, for the history of at least two States -of this Union is liable to be a perpetual oscillation between the -two. But now look on this picture: A colored man is tilling his -land, adorning his home, and gathering around him the refinements -of life. Near by is the school-house, where his children, with -hundreds of others, are receiving the instruction of skilful -teachers, and not far off is the church edifice where that man and -his neighbors worship God under the ministration of a well educated -and pious minister. - -Which picture do we choose, not as a matter of artistic preference, -but as the practical model for patriotic work? The only safety is -to extend that last picture till it shall cover the whole canvas -and blot out the other two. In that way only can a life and death -struggle between two irreconcilable forces be avoided. - - * * * * * - - -“THESE MY BRETHREN.” - -In the Saviour’s great “Inasmuch” there is the power of -personality. “I was an hungered; I was thirsty; I was naked; I was -a stranger; I was sick; I was in prison.” It was Christ in the -person of these suffering and lowly ones; and service done to them -was done to Him. He might well have stopped there. But the marvel -of His personal identification with them is in the relationship -which He claims between Himself and them—“_these my brethren_.” -Oh, the touching condescension to name them by this title! What -we do for these humble and desolate ones we are not only doing -for our Lord, but for the brethren of our Lord. He takes it as a -special favor to Himself. And this service is graduated to the -lowest capacity—it is service done to only _one_ of the _least_ of -these. The standard is not that we should serve the mass of these -His brethren, but any one of them, according to the measure of our -ability, even down to a single act done to one of them in the right -spirit and as a revelation of a character in which we delight. Then -the obligation runs up to as great a number as our opportunity and -our ability may reach. - -The intervention of organic efficiency greatly multiplies the -duty and the privilege of the individual. The American Missionary -Association, as has been potently said, is set for the care of the -three despised races in our country. Though the Indian and the -Negro and the Chinaman are the objects of prejudice and violence -and injustice and hatred on the part of our people, nevertheless -Christ speaks of them as among “these my brethren;” and the prayers -and the sympathy, and the service and the giving of substance -in their behalf He counts as rendered to Him. This organization -cannot discharge any one’s personal duty, but its instrumentality -is offered to all who would use it in the discharge of individual -obligation to Christ and to His brethren. Its opportunities belong -to all who would use them, and by these a single Christian may -reach not only “unto one of the least of these,” but unto many. - -At the Great Day, when the Master shall surprise you, humble -Christian, with a benediction for service rendered to His brethren -among these despised ones, and you deprecatingly answer, _when_ -and _where_, His revealing response may be—_when_ you reached them -with your prayers and your substance through that Association which -offered you its means of operation. And surely all its workers -among these outcast peoples, in the ostracism and opposition -and hatred which confront them, may even in this life have their -abundant recompense in this, that they are serving those whom the -Master owns as “these my brethren.” - - * * * * * - - -FIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION. - -Notes of an Address at the Annual Meeting. - -BY PROF. C. D. HARTRANFT, D. D. HARTFORD, CONN. - -(1.) The Indians, the Negroes and the Chinese I regard as the -divinely appointed agents by which the principles that underlie -American civilization are to be finally tested. Every utterance -on the Fourth of July, from the Declaration of Independence till -this hour, has made the _right of asylum_ a pre-eminent feature -of American civilization. So whenever a man has been impelled by -the dictates of his conscience to leave his native land and seek -a foreign shore, that he might not be compelled to live in false -alliance with the Church and worship God in a way he did not elect; -whenever a man, full of noble impulses, has felt the hopelessness -of his life, so far as any ambitious scheme was concerned; or the -education of his children—a man feeling the tyranny of continuous -labor, without the possibility of accumulation—this man has ever -been gladly welcomed to America. So the Puritan, so the Huguenot, -so the Dutchman, so the Lutheran—whatever a man’s religious -training, America has given him hearty greeting. Even the atheist -and the infidel have found a refuge under the folds of this flag. -America has welcomed them to the shadow of her pines and palmettoes -and to her golden Pacific. But what a niggardly right of asylum -does she give to the poor Negro, as he is emancipated from his -bonds; and to the wretched Indian, whom she shuts up in Western -territories; and, most of all, to the poor Chinaman, as he comes -from his joss-house, with the instincts of a higher civilization -impelling him from the stagnation of centuries to the shores of the -Pacific! - -It behooves us to inquire whether this precious right of asylum is -to be denied to the weaker races; whether we are going to lose this -peculiar feature of our nation, that throws its broad land open to -the world. Is it not true now, as in the past, that this is a vast -sanctuary, and that if a man lays hold of the horns of its altar, -there shall be nothing to drag him from his possession of freedom? -He stands on holy ground. In the British islands, the races that -have appeared in its history have been amalgamated—welded by the -mace and the battle-axe. In France, the various tribes and races -that, one after another, possessed that land, were woven together, -in warp and woof, by fire and blood. In Germany, the Prussians -have brought together that great mass of people as one, through -bitter and tremendous wars, the echoes of which have scarce died -away. America proposes a far different solution. She recognizes the -nobility of the characteristics developed by the various races. She -wants the African, the Chinaman, the Teuton—all races—to labor side -by side; to develop not only her wealth and prosperity, but, most -of all, the typical American humanity. - -American civilization can better endure the savagery of the -Indian, the ignorance and brutality of the Negro, and the -semi-civilization of the Chinese, than it can afford to fraternize -with a civilization that is impregnated with a spirit of -ecclesiasticism, or endure the philosophies of St. Louis or the -Internationals. Rather is it for us to overcome these forces that -are the outcroppings of centuries of Roman development, as well as -those of Indian or Chinese or Negro semi-civilization. - -This right of asylum involves another thing—the right of a man -to say, “I will leave this land and go to another”—_the right to -migrate_ if he does not find things subservient to him. We once -hailed the Irishman to come and build our railroads. We welcome -the German now, as he comes and terraces our mountains and teaches -us how to garden. We welcome the Frenchman—we welcome all. But we -say, “Lo! poor Indian, go West. East of the Appalachian is too good -for you; we want it. Go West; go West. We will give no rest to the -soles of your feet.” Do we want the Black Hills? Migrate! We will -surround you with a cordon of soldiers and a cordon of Government -agents, who will eat the life out of you. Keep on, poor ignorant, -keep on! - -As to the African, there are not a few Americans, even in this -day, who think a righteous solution of the African question is to -ship them all off to the dark continent. So far as the American -Colonization Society keeps in view education and other Christian -instrumentalities, I bid them God-speed; but if they desire to send -the Negro out of the country, I say, No!—a thousand times, No! Let -us solve the problem right here where God has placed them. - -And we say to the Chinese, as he comes upon his ship, “Turn your -prow back towards the Flowery Kingdom; don’t touch our golden -West.” Is that the spirit that welcomes the Irishman, the German, -the Italian, the Frenchman? Why not give as broad an opening to the -Chinaman as to the Irishman? - -(2.) In the next place, God is testing that principle which is -set forth in the preamble of our Constitution—_the right of a man -to pursue happiness in such a way as he may elect_, provided he -does no wrong to his neighbor. And I opine that although happiness -involves the pursuit of higher aims, it begins on the basis of -labor. Labor is the essential element of American civilization. -If I labor, then I have the right of choice to enter into -whatever labor I please. No matter whether I am an adept or not, -circumstances will give the verdict. With the right of choice of -a man’s calling comes the right of competition. Carry it to its -extreme, if you please. If there are fifty-two thousand clerks, -I have a right to become the fifty-two thousand and first, and -starve. Then, after the inherent right of labor follows the right -to such property as I may accumulate. What I may produce, that -is mine absolutely, and no man can touch it. Here we are brought -face to face with this tremendous question between Irish and -German labor, and the low-priced labor of either the Negro or the -Chinaman. But, American citizens and Christians, if we respect -the right of a man to exercise such functions as God has given -him in such way as his conscience may dictate, and to choose his -own occupation, shall we not defend this right of labor, and the -right to pursue happiness as each may elect, and in the face of -Communism, defend the right of the Chinese to enter the market and -compete with all labor of whatever nationality? - -(3.) There is a _third right_ or principle put to the test—_that -every man is equal before the law_. Whether he be Jew or Gentile, -Irishman or German, Negro or Chinaman, he is the equal of all men -before God. But what justice can a Chinaman get out of a Hoodlum -court? What justice has the Negro got out of a Southern court? To -the establishment of that justice we must bend our energies, for -it is vital to our institutions that a man before the law is equal -with his neighbor. If you have broken the shackles of the Negro, -break those of the Indian. If he outrages the law, try him by -process of the law and make him amenable, but deal with him as a -citizen. I opine that we shall arrive at this, sooner or later. Of -course this includes with it the privilege of every one to enter -public life, provided he proves his capacity. - -(4.) But there is another principle being tested, and that is _the -right of education_. It is a settled point in the development of -American civilization, that education is essential to the proper -discipline of the citizen—some degree, at least, of elementary -education. Now when, according to the census of 1870, in the States -of Mississippi and Texas, 96 per cent. of the colored people were -thoroughly ignorant; and when in another State, 95 per cent. were -completely ignorant; in another, 93 per cent.; in two others, 91 -per cent.; and in a last one, 90 per cent.; 88 per cent. of the -entire colored people of the South being in perfect ignorance;—does -it not behoove us to have a law for compulsory education if we -hope to have true culture and citizenship? Was our late President -far from right when he brought forward this idea? What salvation -is there for the Southern States unless universal education shall -be carried into effect? As the right to enter into competition is -inherent as much as the right of choice in labor, so we regard -the right of choice of one’s religion. The whole way should be -made open for the highest acquisition of intellectual and moral -knowledge. - -(5.) So, too, our Protestant Christianity is under test. And -here we are encountered at once by the fact that Christians -still cultivate the caste spirit. If the Jew drew such a subtle -line between himself and the Gentile, the white Christian draws -a similar line between himself and the black Christian. If the -Greek considered himself to be of such high intelligence that he -classed all others as barbarians, Christians allow their prejudices -to make the same broad distinctions between different classes -of humanity, which it was the office of Jesus Christ—blessed be -His name!—to obliterate and utterly extinguish. That prejudice, -that caste spirit which Christians cultivate in the North to an -extent that amounts to social ostracism, must be broken down, if -we would maintain Protestant Christianity. Further, this question -connects itself with the true _missionary spirit_. The best way to -evangelize China is to evangelize the Chinese as they come to the -Pacific Coast. The best way to evangelize Africa is to evangelize -the African Negro of the South. Over against Protestant Christians -in the South and the Chinese on the Pacific is that dark power -which has involved the world in hopeless contentions. There stands -the Jesuit with his deep, treacherous features, his characterless -casuistry, and his sacrifice of all things else to glorify the -Church of Rome, no matter what may be the result on his country. -That subtle power which permeates our political institutions -with such great magnitude and force, stands face to face with -Protestantism in the South—with the Negro question, the Chinese -question, and the Indian question. If we are to serve Protestant -Christianity, we must free ourselves of caste, and learn to love -the African and the Chinaman at our doors. It is easy to speak well -of the Chinaman away off in China—to have an overflow of sympathy -for the poor African away in the dark continent; but it is a very -different thing to have sympathy for them in this country. The -spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must actuate us and lead us to -this. - -These, then, are _the five great principles_ that underlie American -civilization—principles that are being tested by these three races -or nationalities. Our professions are large. Let us live up to them -in these five great principles. It is Lord Bacon who says that -“When hempe is spun, England is done”—meaning that when Henry, -Elizabeth, Mary, Philip and Edward had passed away, England would -be done. We may say that _if these five principles_—the right of -asylum, the right of labor, of political freedom, of education, and -free play to Protestant Christianity be done—America is done. God -save the State! - -And what is the agency—or one agency—by which that may be -accomplished? The American Missionary Association, because it -gives us Christian education. Because it brings together the -college, the church and the home. And will not your devotion to a -pure Christianity, free from the spirit of caste, and filled with -the spirit of genuine love, manifest itself by your support of such -an Association? May we not gauge your feelings in regard to these -five principles by the support you give to such a society? May we -not implore you that as you value the rights of property and free -government you array yourself solidly against Communism and its -ally—Romanism; because these are craftily working together. - -Would you behold free Protestant Christianity established in this -country? Then give your support to this Association, that these -three races may prove us to be a people who love liberty in its -deepest significance as liberty in Christ. - - * * * * * - - -RETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON. - -Just after the annual meeting we learned that the health of -Mrs. Snelson was in such condition as to make her speedy return -from the Mendi Mission, West Africa, a probable necessity. Her -husband has arrived with herself, their children, and those of -Dr. James, whose wife had died abroad. The change of climate and -of occupation has already proved of great benefit to her. It is -a great disappointment to us all to lose so soon the earnest and -discreet service of the head of our Mendi Mission. Whether he will -be able to return or not is still an unsettled question. But these -experiences are teaching us some valuable lessons. First of them is -this,—that we must send no men or women to the West Coast of Africa -without submitting them to a severe physical examination, such as -is required for enlistment into the army or as a prerequisite to a -life insurance policy. For we find that upon those who went from -this country in thoroughly sound health, with no weakness from -previous disease or tendency to special complaints, the climate -has had little or no bad effect; but where there was any such -predisposition or impairment of physical vigor, the malarial heats -of the West coast have hastened its rapid development. We send no -more recruits, then, without medical attestation to their soundness -of body, in addition to the testimony we have heretofore required -as to their intellectual and spiritual health. - -Mr. Snelson brings much valuable information from the field, which -we hope to lay before our readers at an early day. - - * * * * * - - -NEWS AND ITEMS FROM THE CHURCHES. - -MACON, GA.—Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, who was graduated eight years -ago from the Chicago Theological Seminary, commenced pastoral work -at Macon, December 1st. He writes: “I am quite agreeably surprised -with everything thus far. I shall do the best I can for this -people, with God’s help.” - -MARIETTA, GA.—The school prospers, and, with two other schools, is -exerting a marked influence on the people. The Sunday-school and -literary society are both doing good work. - -MARION, ALA.—Rev. Geo. E. Hill writes: “Our church has received -from the Sunday-school at Weymouth, Mass., Colton’s large -missionary map, and I have had the pleasure of introducing my -people to a view of the world—the field of missions. They propose -to contribute monthly to the cause. Our Sunday-school is filling -up.” - -MONTGOMERY, ALA.—Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., who commenced work for -the winter December 1st, writes: “My first impressions are very -favorable. My heart is drawn out toward the people, and I expect to -enjoy my work for them very much.” - -SELMA, ALA.—Rev. C. B. Curtis has gone from Burlington, Wis., to -the charge of the church here. - -SHELBY, ALA.—A Congregational church was organized October 10th, -by Rev. G. W. Andrews, of the Theological Department of Talladega -College, consisting of twenty-one members (twelve men and nine -women). Rev. J. D. Smith, a graduate of Talladega Theological -Department, is pastor. - - * * * * * - - -GENERAL NOTES. - - -The Freedmen. - -—Over 3,000 people attended the Agricultural Fair for colored -people held at Talladega, Ala., in November, under the auspices of -the college. Stock, farm products, cookery, needle and fancy work, -flowers and pictures, were brought in for exhibition. Contests were -held in athletic sports, and in spelling, declaiming, etc., between -students of the different schools. Several hundred white people -attended, and showed their interest by acting as judges on the -committees with the colored people. The fair was kept entirely free -from all the objectionable features which so often mar our State -fairs, and indeed was opened with prayer, and, after the addresses -and award of premiums, closed with the Doxology. - -—Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid -Society of the M. E. Church, reports that its work during this -year “has never been exceeded in any year of its history. It has -erected more school edifices, more commodious and commanding; -educated more teachers, prepared more ministers, led more souls to -Christ, and set in operation more streams of elevating influence, -done more and better work for Christ and humanity, than in any like -period before.” The financial statement for the year ending July -1, 1878, gives its total receipts for the year as $63,403, and -its expenditures, mainly for salaries and board of teachers and -educational expenses, including $3,000 paid on its debt, at the -same. The society has aided in the establishment of five chartered -institutions having full collegiate powers, three theological and -two medical schools, also chartered, and ten other educational -institutions. - -—Dr. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Virginia, -claims that $850,000 was collected from the people and set apart -by law for the support of the common schools, and charges that -this, with the interest, has been diverted from its proper use and -applied to the ordinary expenses of the State Government. - -—A national colored Baptist educational convention was held last -summer at Nashville, Tenn. In an address published by them they -offer heartfelt thanks to Northern Baptists, who alone have -helped them to what educational facilities they have enjoyed. -To the Southern white Baptists they are grateful for the “good -resolutions” they have passed in favor of the black man. They -urge the colored Baptists to support their own publishing house, -newspaper, and the educational enterprises of the American Baptist -Home Mission Society. - -—Public sentiment has almost effaced the color line in Virginia; -given political freedom and safety in North Carolina; and created -a powerful party of “Independents” in Georgia; and it will bring -South Carolina to her senses in time. Moral forces require more -time and patience than physical force.—_Christian Union_. - -—Two colored students of Mr. Spurgeon’s Pastor’s College, Rev. -Messrs. Richardson and Johnson, with their wives, have left England -as missionaries to Central Africa. They were all freed slaves from -this country. - -—The Rev. Alfred Saher, English Baptist Missionary at the -Cameroons, West Africa, has translated the Bible into the language -of the people, and now reports upwards of 2,000 converts. - - * * * * * - - -The Indians. - -—Mr. Wheeler writes from Keshena Agency, Wisconsin, of the second -successful Agricultural Fair among the Menomonees. About 200 -entries of corn and potatoes were made, with other vegetables, -grains and grasses in abundance. The displays of woman’s work and -of live stock were very fine. A ploughing match was held. About -$200 was expended in premiums, voted from the tribal funds for -that purpose. Advantage was taken of the opportunity for giving -instruction in the arts of agriculture, and for exhorting them to -keep their children faithfully in the schools. Such gatherings both -prove and promote progress. - -—Brig. Gen. Pope reports that the late outbreak of the Cheyennes -was caused by starvation. He says of the Indians in general: “If -they are left with the means to go to war, as is the custom, we -simply sleep on a volcano. Unless, therefore, ample, and above all, -regular supplies of food can be guaranteed to the Indians, I am -compelled, in justice to the Government and the frontier settlers, -to ask that more troops be sent to the agencies in the Indian -Territory, and that at least two of the posts in Western Kansas be -largely reinforced by cavalry. I have also to ask that any Indians -sent from the North into this department be disarmed and dismounted -before being sent here, so that they can be placed in the same -condition as the Indians with whom they are to live.” - -—Major Mizener reports more in detail:—The causes which led to the -leaving of the Northern Cheyennes may be summed up as follows: -They were disappointed in the country. Their rations were poor -and entirely insufficient. They were home-sick, despondent and -disappointed, and were anxious to get back to a country better -known to them, and where game was to be had, while here they did -not have enough to eat. - -—General Sheridan attributes our Indian wars to two classes of -causes; the first being the constant encroachment upon the lands -of the Indians, sacredly guaranteed to them by treaty, and the -constant removal of the tribes to distant reservations, in which -they are again troubled by the tide of immigration. He says no -other nation in the world would have attempted the reduction of -these wild tribes, and occupation of their country, with less than -60,000 or 70,000 men. - -—Secretary Schurz affirms that the real cause of Indian wars has -been the breaking of treaties. He recites an exhaustive history of -Indian wars to show that this has been the case, and that very few -of the wars have arisen from the maladministration of agents. - -—Gen. Sherman, in his annual report, declares that many of the -Indians prefer death to agricultural toil; that to convert them -from a nomadic into a pastoral race is the first and fundamental -problem; that each tribe must be dealt with according to its own -nature; that whatever department of the Government is charged with -this work, must be intrusted with large discretion to adapt its -measures to emergencies. He traces the Indian wars generally to -broken promises, insufficient rations and impending starvation. - -—Of the joint committee to which the transfer of the Indians to -the War Department is referred, the three members of the Senate -are from Nebraska, Kentucky and Illinois; of the five members of -the House, but one comes from as far East as this. The committee, -therefore, represents communities that favor the army. It is -understood that the Indians themselves do not desire the change; -that the army does not want the responsibility; yet that it will -probably be done, unless the President interferes, because the -Indian ring desires it, and because the army makes it a point of -honor. - - * * * * * - - -The Chinese. - -—The First Church in San Francisco, Dr. Stone’s, has just opened -a new and well-appointed room in the basement for its mission and -Chinese Sunday-school. The Petaluma Church has also enlarged its -lecture-room for the use of its Chinese school. - -—As the Chinese children are not permitted to enter the San -Francisco public schools, those who have embraced Christianity are -taught in the Union Mission in the old Globe Hotel. The school has -two sessions, one of which is conducted by an American lady, the -other by Hung Mung Chung, who is a fine Chinese scholar and a man -of much dignity and scholarly attainments, said to be a lineal -descendant of Confucius. During the past year Hung Mung Chung was -baptized and became a member of the Protestant Church for Chinese. -He teaches the children the Chinese classics and the maxims and -precepts of Confucius. Each session of the school is closed by -singing and repeating the Lord’s Prayer—in the morning in English, -in the afternoon in Chinese. - -—The San Francisco Chinamen contributed $1,200 to the yellow fever -sufferers of the South. The sand-lot meetings have not yet reported -the amount of their collections. - -—The Chinese Sunday-school in Chicago has been in existence nearly -six months, with an average attendance of fourteen scholars. It is -said that the number can be largely increased if teachers can be -procured. - -—Rev. W. P. Paxson, Superintendent of the missionary work of the -American S. S. Union in their Southwestern Department, says: “One -striking event in my missionary work has been the organization of a -Chinese Sunday-school in St. Louis.” - -—Mr. Ha Shan Sin was baptized last Sabbath by Rev. E. D. Murphy -at the Immanuel Presbyterian Chapel of this city. The young man -is about twenty-two years old, was born in San Francisco, though -he has spent most of his life in China. This is the sixth of the -Chinamen that have been received into the churches of this city. -Three have been enrolled among the members of the Fourth Avenue -Presbyterian Church, Dr. Howard Crosby’s. - -—The first Chinaman was admitted to citizenship in the United -States by naturalization, last week, and we count the event an -auspicious one just at this time. The man is Wong Ah Lee; by -trade he is a cigar-maker, and his wife is an Irish-woman. With -a view, mainly, to make a case which can be carried up to a -conclusive decision from the highest court, the Judge here ruled -that a Chinaman is either white or black, and so must come in. -California’s ruling has been that a Mongolian is neither white or -black, and so cannot come in.—_Congregationalist_, December 4. - - * * * * * - - -OUR QUERY COLUMN. - - _Query._—South of the Ohio River the work of caring for the - sick falls to the colored people. During the past weeks there - has been greater demand for skilled nurses than for competent - teachers. How can A. M. A. schools prepare their students for - this important profession? What is the best method of instructing - pupils in a knowledge of the simpler details concerning the - proper care of the sick? - - TEACHER. - -We shall be glad to have full answers to this important inquiry -from those who have had experience. It calls attention to a most -important part of the teacher’s work. Meanwhile, we would suggest -that the _Hampton Sanitary Tracts_ may be found very useful for -distribution, or to be read to older pupils and parents. The first -three can be obtained by addressing the “Hampton Tract Editing -Committee,” Hampton Institute, Va. The cost is five cents apiece, -or four dollars a hundred copies. They are entitled: No. 1, “The -Health Laws of Moses;” No. 2, “Preventable Diseases;” No. 3, “Duty -of Teachers.” This last seems to be exactly addressed to the case -in hand. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - * * * * * - - -DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. - -Revival in Howard University. - -Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., President. - -You will be glad to hear that there is much religious interest in -our institution at the present time. It has been gradually coming -on all the autumn, but was greatly aided by the week of prayer -held by the Young Men’s Christian Association of the University in -concert with other Associations. Some ten or twelve of the students -think that they have begun the new life lately, and we look for -further good results. This is highly encouraging, as showing that -in addition to the educational advantages which gather around our -location, spiritual blessings may also be received. We desire the -prayers of all Christians that the work may be continued with -power. Our theological students have been deeply interested in the -meetings for prayer, and have rendered valuable aid. - - * * * * * - - -VIRGINIA. - -A Destitute County. - -The following extract from a letter by an esteemed friend in a -central county in Virginia is suggestive of the many dark places -throughout the South yet unreached by the school or the church: - -The field in this county alone is an ample one. The colored -population of the county largely exceeds the white, and the yearly -ratio of increase is in excess of the white. A half generation has -passed since the era of emancipation, and it is melancholy, indeed, -to any Christian mind and heart, to contemplate how rapidly this -portion of the population, in the very heart of one of the oldest -States in the Union, is crowding the broad road to perdition; -how, in the entire absence of all organized efforts for elemental -education and proper religious instruction, they are relapsing into -semi-heathenism. There is not to-day a single school of any kind -or character for them within the limits of the county (which may -be safely estimated to contain five thousand souls of all ages and -sexes of the colored race), except the Sabbath-school which has -been taught by the writer. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -New Church at Shelby Iron Works—Talladega a Missionary Centre. - -Rev. G. W. Andrews, Talladega. - -A Congregational church of twenty-one members was organized -Oct. 10th, at Shelby Iron Works, Alabama. This is the fifteenth -Congregational church planted by the A. M. A. in this State. Eight -of them are in the vicinity of Talladega College, the most distant -being forty miles away. They are the out-growth of the mission work -carried on by the teachers and pupils of the college. - -This new church at Shelby begins its existence under most favorable -circumstances, most of its members being present or former pupils -of the college. All are colored people; two are preparing for the -ministry; one has been a student at Oberlin, Ohio; one was for some -time a resident of Hartford, Ct., and more recently of Columbus, -Ohio, a graduate of the high school there and a former pupil here; -one is principal of an academy of ten years’ standing at Shelby and -a graduate from Talladega. With two or three exceptions, all of -them have for some years been trained in our Sunday-schools. The -Shelby Iron Company is in hearty sympathy with the movement; the -Superintendent, himself a Methodist, coming into the preliminary -meeting and saying publicly that the Iron Company would look with -peculiar favor on this church should it be organized, recognizing -as it did the necessity for more intelligent Christian instruction -for the colored people. - -The sectarian walls, which in the South are built heaven-high, -have in this particular place been badly shattered. There is no -outspoken opposition on the part of the colored people, as in every -other place known to me. The different denominations worship in the -same building, the lower story being devoted to the school and the -upper one to the churches. The Iron Company own about two-thirds of -the building, the original cost being three thousand dollars. - -I suppose there are a million of dollars invested by the Shelby -Iron Company at this place, mostly owned in the North. One owner -is an honored member of the Centre Church, Hartford, Ct.; another, -of the Park St. Church, Boston; another is a Massachusetts man -well known among “iron men” both in this country and abroad. The -Superintendent is a noble Christian man from Illinois, and was a -colonel in the recent war. Several of the local managers are from -the North, some are from the South. Most of the workmen, white -and colored, who stand all day side by side, are gathered from -the surrounding region. Here the North and South meet and learn -to know and love each other. The Iron Company is helping to solve -the great national problem no less truly than missionary schools -and churches. It seems to me sometimes that its entire business -is carried on as a kind of missionary enterprise on the broadest -basis. Owning thirty thousand acres of land immediately about the -“Iron Works,” it exercises wholesome restraint over all classes. -Nothing seems to be overlooked; the church, the school, the home, -the village morals, the town adornments and the State, are all -cared for. - -Talladega College, a college only in name yet, is the rallying -point for our missionary work in this State. It is just such a -college as a missionary college should be, its whole work as a -school being subordinate to the church. It is a training school, -patterned after the missionary colleges of the American Board. -Its grand aim is to raise up a native ministry so as to plant -churches, and through them carry an intelligent gospel to the -masses. We are not especially afraid that there will be any lack -of school-teachers. With our eye fixed steadily on our missionary -work, enough who cannot attain to the Christian ministry will -become teachers, and they, catching the spirit of the institution, -will become missionary teachers. It is surprising to see how this -spirit has taken possession of our pupils. There is scarcely one -who goes into the country to teach who does not organize his -Sabbath-school as promptly as his day-school, and pursue it with -even more interest. It is the first thing he reports on his return. -Hundreds are converted by this means; Bibles, tracts, religious -literature, and light are spread in all directions; thus are -constantly carried forward many Sabbath-schools, and through them a -glorious pioneer Christian work. Out of this work have grown eight -churches, so near to the college as to be its special care, and in -which a hundred conversions are reported for the summer just ended. - -Of the twenty pupils in the Theological department, all have been -reaping in this missionary field during the summer vacation, about -one-half as preachers. The home church takes a lively interest in -them during their absence. Prayer is made to God without ceasing -in their behalf, and often interested members go out to aid them -in their revival meetings. Letters are constantly received from -them to be read at the monthly missionary concert, and public -thanksgiving is rendered for the good work they report. Thus is -maintained a lively interest in Christian missions and Christian -work. - -There has been an evident increase of interest in our mission -churches about the college this summer; all but one report revivals -of greater or less power; one reports thirty-two additions by -confession; four report the completion of their houses of worship, -free of debt—houses hitherto unplastered and otherwise much -exposed, but now neat and comfortable, and everybody is happy -over it. One is building a new house of worship unlike any of -the others; it is built of logs, large and commodious. One poor -fellow was so intent on pushing forward to completion his house -of worship, that he expended all his salary for the summer, and -then pawned his Sunday clothes. On his return to school he reports -twenty-three conversions, his house of worship completed, but no -money in his pocket. If ever there was a man worthy of aid, he is. -He is now in my back-yard sawing wood. You will hear from him some -day. These young prophets of the Lord are making rapid progress in -the knowledge of the Bible and the system of theology, and wherever -they go, are beginning to be recognized by all classes as well -qualified to break the Bread of Life to their people. - -I am glad to report that the white people, seeing the character -and efficiency of these young men, are coming to understand and -appreciate our work. I believe they heartily approve what we are -doing. I have repeatedly experienced their hospitality this summer, -and had many conversations with them relating to our mission here. -From the president of a well-known college, down to the poor man -who did not know his letters, I have found nothing but approval. -The time is not far distant when this approval will be more -outspoken and pronounced. When the Christian men of the South and -your missionary workers from the North understand each other, from -that day they are one in Christian work. We bless God for this new -feast of love. Pray that no political excitement may interrupt the -growing good feeling. - - * * * * * - - -The Thin End of the Wedge—A First Thanksgiving Service. - -REV. WILLIAM H. ASH, FLORENCE. - -Our work here in Florence is the “thin end of the wedge,” and with -sufficient facilities, the smiles of the Master, and patience -in its workers, great good will result. The services are well -attended, and sometimes the house is disagreeably filled, and we -are without the proper means of ventilation. The members of the -church begged me to express for them to the Association their -sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the _new organ_ sent them; it -has increased the interest of our services greatly. Last Thursday, -Nov. 28, the first Thanksgiving service ever held in this place -among the colored people was observed in our church; therefore it -has a history in connection with our work here. I made it a union -service, inviting the Baptists and Methodists to worship with us. -This congregation of Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists -worshipped as though Christ was the Head of the Church, instead of -any one of the denominations present. The service was solemn and -intelligent. It truly seemed that the Lord was in His holy temple. -After service a gentleman of about sixty or seventy years of age -said, “I have been here forty years, but I never heard of such a -thing as a Thanksgiving service among the colored people.” This is -the “dawn of a new age.” Pray for us. - - * * * * * - - -MISSOURI. - -Free Schools in the State. - -REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT. - -This noble Western State, plowed by war and sowed to freedom, is -now coming on with harvests of temporal and moral prosperity. -As I have been going over its territory, looking after the five -school-houses of the Association, I have been delighted with the -evidences of progress in the free school system. It is a great joy -to see in these cities and towns the new, large, two-story brick -school-houses of modern style and furnishing. The system works -more slowly into the back settlements. But in a Kansas City paper -I see it stated that in the country places of Jackson County there -are _one hundred and fifty_ of these schools. At Warrensburg I saw -the imposing three-story stone edifice of the State Normal School, -built by that town and its county of Johnson, and now occupied by -_four hundred_ pupils from every part of the State. - -Special provision is made in the law for its enforcement in behalf -of free schools for the colored children. These are managed by -the same school board and are supported from the same tax fund. -These officers are compelled to provide schools wherever there are -fifteen of such scholars in the district. If they fail to do it, -it is the duty of the Superintendent to require it to be done. I -met one case where the out-districts declined to co-operate with -the Board in this matter, when only a threatened appeal to the -Superintendent brought them to terms. I have been gratified to -see the heartiness with which the five boards I have dealt with -are pushing the free school system in behalf of blacks as well as -whites. Nor have I been deceived, as some may imagine. - -The Lincoln Institute at the Capitol, as a Normal School for -colored teachers, receives an annual appropriation from the State -of $5,000. A democratic editor told me that that was considered as -a matter of honor, and that so there was no danger of its being -discontinued. This institution of sacred name had also a sacred -origin. For its founding, the 62d and 65th Regiments of U. S. -colored infantry, when discharged from service in January, 1866, -contributed a fund of $6,379. The Freedmen’s Bureau furnished -$8,000; the Western Sanitary Commission, $2,000; and agents Beal -and Lane raised $2,000. The building is of brick, 60×70 feet, -three stories high, a comely structure crowning a hill just out -of Jefferson City. Its current catalogue enrolls 123 students. It -is controlled by a local board, of which the Governor and State -Superintendent are _ex-officio_ members. Revs. R. D. Foster and M. -Henry Smith have served as principals the most of the time since -it was opened in 1871. - -The Association has its five school houses at Troy, Fulton, -Westport, Warrensburg and Lebanon. These were procured in part by -aid from the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1867–9. They were at first run by -teachers sent from the North, but were gradually taken up by the -local school boards. I find them all in such use now. Three will -probably be sold to those boards at their present low valuation. -Two will be sold to local colored Methodist churches, as the -schools require larger and better houses, which the authorities -intend to build. These houses have also been used all the time as -places of worship by the colored people. The seven or eight colored -teachers in these schools were educated in Lincoln, Fisk, and -kindred institutions. I have found them young people of character, -and of tact in handling their schools. They have to be examined. -They receive from $35 to $45 a month, about the same as white -common-school teachers. - -The A. M. A. has done the work of initiation. By this tour of -inspection I am deeply convinced of the wisdom of the A. M. A. in -putting its strength upon Normal and Collegiate institutions, and -so doing a wholesale business. Raise up teachers and send them back -into the country. Raise up the men and women for the professions -and for the higher walks of social life. That is the work. - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -A CHURCH ORGANIZED AND DEDICATED AT AVERY - -A meeting of Counsel and Advice was convened September 29th at -Avery Station, by order of Rev. Floyd Snelson, and, on solicitation -of the minister in charge, Rev. A. E. Jackson, to organize and -dedicate a church to God. Owing to our inability to reach Avery -on Saturday in time to hold preliminary exercises, examination -of candidates for admission, etc., this part of our duty was -deferred till Sunday morning. This, with our other duties, made our -programme for the day quite full. - -Early Sunday morning the Board met in the church to begin the -labors of the day. The sun shone brightly, yet we could but feel -that many round us were groping in darkness, without any clear idea -of Him in whose image they are made. Brother Snelson was elected -moderator, and A. P. Miller secretary. Brother Gomer, General Agent -of Shengay Mission, who favored us with his presence, offered -prayer. “Guide me, oh! Thou great Jehovah!” was sung. - -In absence of letter missive, the minister in charge gave his -reasons why a church should be established or organized at Avery. -He spoke of the willingness of the people to receive the story -of the Cross; said that some came far to hear “God palaver,” and -express their joy in being permitted so to do. Brother Hallock, -the interpreter (native), and Brother Wise, were asked several -questions. Their reasons were clear and very satisfactory. It seems -evident that the industrial work at this station, which gives -employment to many, is a means of good both to mission and people. -It was deemed fit to organize a church at Avery, to be known as the -Second Congregational Church of the Mendi Mission. - -By 11 o’clock, at the ringing of the second bell, the chapel was -crowded with natives, for the most part in native costume. Brother -Snelson spoke to them through an interpreter, telling them the -object of our coming together. The candidates for admission to the -Church were then called forward. “A charge to keep I have” was -sung by the congregation. Prayer was offered by Brother Snelson, -after which the missionary hymn, “From Greenland’s icy mountains,” -was sung; and as it was being sung, each missionary, as he looked -upon the sable congregation, could but feel that the “harvest is -plenteous, but the laborers are few.” - -The roll was then called by Brother Jackson; after which the -candidates were examined, and by vote of the Council eighteen were -received into full membership. Some of the candidates were not -received because of not being legally married. They were instructed -to attend to this matter, and then they might be received into the -church. They are to remain under watch-care until this obligation -is met. After examination of candidates, Brother Snelson spoke to -them about things peculiar to their country—slavery, polygamy, etc. -The meeting was then dismissed to meet at 7 P. M. Brother Gomer, -who has for years known our work, expressed his astonishment at -seeing so large a congregation assembled in the house of God at -this place, and at the good order kept throughout the exercises. -Some of those received were old members, while others were new -converts, among whom were three chiefs, Peah Carle, Carray Phemah, -and Sei Lōtō. These men exercise a vast influence over their -people, and their being reached makes the reaching of their people -easier. - -The people assembled at the ringing of the second bell. “Praise -God from Whom all blessings flow” was sung. Brother Snelson then -led the congregation in the Lord’s Prayer. A hymn was sung, after -which the Rev. J. Gomer offered prayer. “Alas! and did my Saviour -bleed?” was sung. Portions of Scripture were read by A. P. Miller. -The services of organization and dedication were combined, owing to -want of time. Brother Snelson spoke through the interpreter, and -told the candidates what their step meant—turning from death unto -life. The church, too, he said, we had come together to dedicate to -God and His service. Brother Snelson preached, choosing Luke xii. -32, as his text—“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s -good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” A comparison was made -between the people to whom these words were spoken and these our -benighted brethren. The promises of God were dwelt upon. We must -trust in Him for salvation. The dedicatory prayer was then offered -by Rev. A. P. Miller. A hymn was sung. The right hand of fellowship -was given by Bro. A. E. White. The address was delivered by Rev. J. -Gomer. The Lord’s supper was then celebrated; Brothers Gomer and -Jackson presided. It was a solemn scene. The Doxology was sung, -and the benediction pronounced by A. P. Miller. The meeting was -one long to be remembered. One more stronghold is now erected in -this land of night to tear down the powers of darkness. We have all -reason to thank God for His blessings thus far. A better day is -dawning for these benighted, long-neglected sons of Africa. - -Brother Gomer says that more laborers (colored) are wanted in his -mission. We, too, in a work so vast, can but ask God to prepare -such as are needed for a work so difficult. - -We ask the prayers of all lovers of mankind that the work -begun here may not only succeed, but that its influence may be -far-reaching. - - REV. FLOYD SNELSON, _Moderator_. - REV. A. P. MILLER, _Secretary_. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE INDIANS. - - * * * * * - - -THE LATE INDIAN WAR AND CHRISTIANITY. - -REV. MYRON EELLS, S’KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. - - * * * * * - -We have had another Indian war, and, as usual, there has been a -cry in favor of turning the Indians over to the War Department. -There are some, however, of us who will persist in seeing something -favorable to Christianity and the present policy even in this war, -and we think we have our reasons for it. - -I do not propose, at present, to thoroughly discuss the causes -of the war, for I am not well enough acquainted with them to do -so intelligently. Some will lay the blame on Government, some -on a Christian policy, and some on the Indians. Perhaps all may -have to bear a part. Although I believe that the Government -has often treated the Indians wrongfully, yet a long course of -observation has convinced me that the Indians are not all saints, -and when the Government is often crooked, either intentionally or -unintentionally, and two crooked sticks come together, there is -almost always sure to be trouble. - -The published statements of General Crook, who is not supposed to -be very sentimental in his feelings toward the Indians, and who was -at the Fort Hall Agency at the beginning of the war, implicates the -Government severely. - -A residence of nearly three years in Idaho, 1871–1874, in the -very region of the war, led me to believe that very little was -energetically done for Christianizing those Indians. This has -been true at some Agencies. Their annual reports show that while -the Government opened wide the doors for Christian work, when -the present policy was adopted, and said, “We will give you -opportunity, encouragement and aid, if you will only send the -Indians missionaries,” yet that Christians have failed to take hold -of the work as they ought to have done. If this was true of the -Indians engaged in the late war, Christians may have to bear a part -of the blame. - -Notwithstanding all this, some laurels have been added by the -late war to the Christian work which has been done among the -Indians. One “who wishes to be understood” has written a letter -in which he speaks very harshly against the Christian workers on -the Yakama Reservation, where Father Wilbur, of the Methodist -Episcopal Church, has been successfully laboring for sixteen -years. He says: “The present reservation system is a failure in -every respect. We, who daily come in contact with the Indians, -cannot be made to believe that prayer-books, praying generals, -and Methodist preachers, (or any other preachers,) are a good -safeguard against the tomahawk and the scalping-knife; and the -pseudo-philanthropists, the Christian-mongers of the East, who -are paying thousands to send missionaries among these barbarians, -would do us a favor if they would keep them away; and if the U. -S. Government would be less influenced in its conduct toward the -Indians by the advocates of Christianity, our wives and children -might be annually spared the sight of murdered husbands and -fathers. So far we have been loyal, while Indians, with passes -from Wilbur and other Agents, have been on the war-path. We have -reliable information that some of the dead Indians found after the -battles near Pendleton had on their persons passes from Wilbur.” - -Now it is probably a fact that some of the Umatilla Indians, and -perhaps a few of the Yakamas, were engaged in aiding the enemy. -There are always some renegade Indians connected with each tribe, -as well as white renegades and tramps. As tribes, however, they did -not engage in the war, and comparatively few individuals did. - -In the Indian war of 1855–6, before Father Wilbur went among these -same Yakamas, they were the leading spirits, and it was the most -wide-spread war which has ever devastated this coast. If they and -the Umatillas had joined in this war, it would have been far more -terrible than it has been. Inducements were not wanting to lead -them into it. It is said on good authority that two thousand horses -were offered them by the hostiles if they would join them, and yet -they refused. An army officer in command of one of the battles said -that some of those Indians did nobly in aiding our soldiers to gain -the victory. - -It may be said that they had too much permanent property in homes -and farms, to allow them to engage in the war; for they knew that -if they should do so, they would certainly in the end lose it all. -This is undoubtedly so; and yet when Father Wilbur went among them -they had none of this kind of property, but only movable property -which they could carry with them even in war, as the Bannocks have -done. It is a fact that Christianity gave them this property. - -It may again be said that they were thoroughly whipped in 1855–6 -and were afraid to engage in war again. They were thus whipped, and -the remembrance of it may, even now, do them good. But in 1862–3 -Gen. Crook, the noted Indian fighter, just as thoroughly thrashed -the Indians in Idaho, in precisely the same region where the late -war was carried on, and the praise of his effectual work is still -in the mouths of the old citizens. This was seven years later than -the Yakama war, and so much fresher in the minds of the Indians. -No, it was evidently Christianity which prevented their joining in -the war. - -Gen. Howard, too, has added new laurels to his reputation. It must -be remembered that he is the principal one of our generals who -has not been in favor of the transfer of the Indians to the War -Department. This praying general has prosecuted the war with such -vigor that the strong papers with strong arguments have sustained -him, and almost invariably those who went with him in his rough -marches have defended him, such as newspaper correspondents, -scouts and the like, and the “stay at homes” have been about the -only ones who have found fault. His recent conference with the -Umatilla Indians since the war has shown such firmness, justice and -Christianity as to win for him very many friends among those who -previously opposed him, thus showing again that Christianity is -the way of dealing with the Indians. So Christianity has won its -laurels even in this war. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHINESE. - - * * * * * - - -“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.” - -Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association. - -PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. -Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. -F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. -H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., -Jacob S. Taber, Esq. - -DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. -Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, -E. P. Sanford, Esq. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -“THE CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE.” - -Its Origin and Organization. - -REV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO. - -Soon after our work among the Chinese began to yield results in -souls apparently converted, I felt the necessity of banding the -converts together for mutual fellowship, for instruction, and for -test-work; for it seemed unwise, considering the difficulties -under which we must labor in determining the genuineness of the -conversions, to bring them at once to baptism and the church. -Yet they must not be left quite outside the fold, and I proposed -to them the organization of _The Chinese Christian Class_, into -which any Chinese might come who, in the judgment of those already -members of the class, had begun to believe in Christ. This class -was to have frequent meetings for prayer and for instruction in the -Bible; its members were to maintain a fraternal watchfulness over -each other, and were to be baptized only when, through a probation -of at least six months, they had proved to be steadfast and true. - -This class at first comprised only such Chinese as had been led -to Christ through the work of the Third Congregational Church in -this city, of which I was then the pastor. Afterwards it was found -desirable to receive to membership the Chinese connected with other -congregations, and to enlarge somewhat the scope or design of the -class. It was therefore reorganized under its present name, but -with the same principles and conditions of membership. Some of -the benefits, in the way of mutual aid and protection, which the -heathen Chinese seek to secure through their “Six Companies,” our -Christian Chinese, who have renounced all connection with the “Six -Companies,” gain through this Association. Its rooms are their -places of resort; a sort of home. They have made a little beginning -towards a library of Chinese works, mainly religious, written by -the missionaries. The regulations of this Association, prepared by -the Chinese, without assistance or suggestion, so far as I know, -from any American, have been translated for me into English, and -will be printed in full in our Annual Report. I quote here the 2d, -3d, 6th, and 8th Articles: - -“2d. Any one who desires to become a member of this Association -must forsake idolatry and all bad habits, and prove himself to be -a follower of Christ. He must bring references from one or more -members. His name must be brought before the Society a week before -he can be admitted, and he is received upon a vote of two-thirds of -the members. He must himself sign his name, and pay the sum of two -dollars as entrance fee, and twenty-five cents every three months, -this money being used to defray the expenses of the Association. He -is expected to do all he can to bring in new members, and to lead -his countrymen to Christ.” - -“3d. The members are expected to take part in the meetings for -worship, giving counsel and encouragement to one another. If any -member does wrong, he is to be kindly entreated and led back to the -right.” - -“6th. If any member continue in the violation of the regulations -of the Association, after three successive remonstrances, he must -be expelled from the Association. If he afterwards repent and -desire to come back, he is admitted without an entrance fee; his -admittance depending upon the sincerity of his repentance, as -judged by the members of the Association.” - -“8th. If any member desire to go back to China, he must give notice -to the Association one month beforehand. He must not go until he -has paid all his debts here. If he is really obliged to go before -he can pay his debts, he must find some one who will be security -for him.” - -There are now four Branch Associations, two in San Francisco, one -in Oakland, and one in Sacramento. Each branch supports itself -and is governed by its own officers. There are three—President, -Vice-President, and Secretary who also acts as Treasurer. The -statistics of these “Branches” are as follows: Oakland, 36 members, -one expelled, five gone to China, 11 baptized; total contributions, -$472.20, of which $117.25 was for Bible and missionary work in -California and China. Sacramento, 14 members; contributions, -$103.80. San Francisco, 82 members, four expelled, two gone to -China, 10 baptized; contributions, $351.00, of which $178.00 -were for Bible and missionary work. Bethany (San Francisco), 9 -members, 3 baptized; contributions $244.50, of which $71.00 were -for Bible and missionary purposes. There are besides these, 23 -members belonging to the Central Association, who on account of -their places of residence are not yet identified with any “Branch,” -so that the total membership is 164. Of these 33 were received -the past year. The total amount contributed for all purposes was -$1,181.50. - -Besides this company of 164, there are 30 or more Chinese who have -been converted, as we hope, at Santa Barbara, San Leandro, Stockton -and elsewhere, in connection with our schools; and besides the -contributions above reported, there has been raised at Petaluma, -Stockton and elsewhere, certainly not less than $100. When we -consider the poverty of these young men, the smallness of their -wages, the drafts made upon them for parents and others dependent -upon them in China, then this $1,300 which they have contributed -during the past year for the nurture of their own Christian life, -or for the salvation of others, grows to its true proportions—in -our view, a token of real Christian heroism. - -I quote the closing sentences of the statement written for me by -the Secretary of the Association: “No death has occurred during -the past year. Our Heavenly Father has greatly prospered us, for -which we return Him hearty thanks. We are grateful that He has -put into our hearts a desire to have our parents and countrymen -in China brought to a knowledge of the Christian religion. We are -endeavoring to open a Chapel in Chuck Hum, China, and if we only -had means, could open as many as we desire. Most all the letters -that are sent to China members of the Association contain something -about the Christian religion, and urging the people at home to -discard idols and believe in the Saviour.” - - -OUR LAST MONTH’S WORK, - -as I reviewed it in the monthly reports, saddened me, and brought -over me the first big _wave_ of discouragement which I have felt -since I entered on this service. The enrolment and the attendance -were both much less than I expected, and some of our smaller -schools seemed ready to die. I quote from one of these reports as -an example: “You will see that the average is very low, and I am -afraid it will be still lower. The boys seem to have lost their -interest in the school, and I am afraid that I am losing mine. It -is very discouraging to me, after doing a hard day’s work (for I am -working very hard just now), to walk three-fourths of a mile and -then have but one or two come to the school. Thank God there are -one or two faithful ones.” * * * “Now, Mr. Pond, I have laid the -case before you, and I ask your prayers in behalf of this little -school struggling to keep alive, and for the teacher also, that he -may not weary in well-doing, but that God will help him bear this -cross and try to save, at least, one soul.” To receive letter after -letter like that, while it draws out one’s love and prayer for the -writer, sets one also to asking, “Where is the Lord,” and what will -become of our work at this rate? But before the reports were all -in, news came that _six_, at least, during the month, had forsaken -their idols and appeared to have become disciples of Christ, and we -“thanked God and took courage.” Brethren, pray for us. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR NOVEMBER, 1878. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $163.74. - - Belfast. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $3.00 - Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which - $25.55 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._) - $51.97.—Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 71.97 - Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams. $10. (ad’l) to - const. REV. LEWIS J. THOMAS, L. M.—W. H. W., - 50c. 10.50 - Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.07 - Hallowell. Mrs. Flagg, $10; H. K. Baker, $5; - _for Printing Press, Talladega, Ala._ - (Incorrectly ack. in Dec. number.) - Searsport. First Cong. Soc. 25.00 - Thomaston. “Matt. vi. 3” 10.00 - Wells. B. Maxwell 15.00 - Wilton. Cong. Ch. 9.20 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $217.75. - - Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 - Candia Village. Jona. Martin 5.00 - Concord. Ladies of North Ch., bbl. of C. - Exeter. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $27.—“Friends” in Second Cong. Ch. $12, _for - a Teacher_ 39.00 - Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.37 - Keene. Mrs. Wm. W. 0.50 - Kensington. “Friends” _for N. H. Memorial - Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 6.70 - Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, $30; - First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23 53.00 - New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $27. - _for Wilmington Memorial Inst._) $31.41; - Proceeds of 16th Annual Fair, held by - Children of Cong. Ch. $12 43.41 - Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, _for N. H. - Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ and to - const. TENNY K. PAGE, L. M. 30.00 - Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.16 - Thornton’s Ferry. Individuals, by Mrs. H. N. - Eaton 4.00 - Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.61 - - - VERMONT, $244.22 - - Burlington. M. C. Torrey 5.00 - Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. JOSEPH - S. SHAW, L. M. 37.60 - Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 - Newbury. P. W. Ladd 5.00 - Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg 2.00 - Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00 - Saint Johnsbury. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Blodgett, - to const. REV. WILLIAM P. BENNETT, L. M. 30.00 - Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. ALBERT H. CHENEY, - L. M. 43.43 - Tunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.59 - West Enosburgh. Henry Fassett 5.00 - West Fairlee. Cong. Ch. $12; “A Friend” $1 13.00 - Westford. Cong. Ch. and Society 10.00 - West Westminster. Cong. Ch. 12.45 - Windham. Cong. Ch. 12.54; Rev. D. N. Goodrich, - $2 14.54 - Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.61 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $4,329.83. - - Andover. Mrs. Jonathan Poor, $15.50.—“A - Friend,” $4.00, _for Straight U._ 19.50 - Berkley. Cong. Ch. 25.68 - Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($25 _of - which for Wilmington, N. C._) 654.51 - Boston. —— —— $15.00; “A Friend,” 75 c.; S. D. - Smith, 2 organs, val. $200 15.75 - Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. Sab. School 20.11 - Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. Pilgrim - Cong. Ch., $30.00, to const. Mrs. W. A. - WARD, L. M.; Prospect St. Cong. Sab. School, - $12.34 42.34 - Brimfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bbl. of C. - Brookline. E. H. C. 2.00 - Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight - U._ 25.00 - Dorchester. “A Friend,” 1.00 - Easthampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00 - Enfield. Edward Smith 200.00 - Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 158.00 - Fitchburgh. J. A. Conn, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 50.00 - Florence. Florence Ch. 110.00 - Foxborough. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5.40; W. P. P., - 50c. 5.90 - Framingham. Ladies of Plym. Ch., 2 bbls. of C. - Georgetown. Sab. Sch. Class in Memorial Ch. 10.00 - Globe Village. Evan. Ch. 34.76 - Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $27.75; Carrie S. - Dixon, $10, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 37.75 - Harwich. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 2 bbls. of C. - _for Marion, Ala._ - Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch. 48.34 - Holden. Mrs. J. T. 0.50 - Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. _in part_ 340.48 - Lawrence. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. _for - Straight U._ 10.00 - Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00 - Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.25 - Lexington. Hancock Cong. Church 12.43 - Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. - Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. (F. F. Battles) 50.00 - Lunenburg. “Friend.” 5.00 - Lynnfield Centre. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 0.25 - Malden. W. A. Wilde, $25, _for bell, Atlanta, - Ga._; H. R. B. $1 26.00 - Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - GEO. F. KERN and MISS AUGUSTA P. ADAMS, L. - M.’s 60.00 - Milford. Con. Sab. Sch. _for Chinese M._ 19.00 - Millbury. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. half bbl. of - bedding, _for Atlanta U._ - Myricksville Precinct. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 110.85 - New Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. 49.74 - Newburyport. No. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.27 - Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 140.75 - Norfolk. “Friends” $20, _for Woodbridge, N. - C._; Cong. Sab. Ch. $8; Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $6.75 34.75 - Northampton. “W.” 100.00 - Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh 5.00 - North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg, pkg. of C. - Norwood. Mrs. H. N. Fuller 5.00 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.50 - Peabody. South Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight - U._ 25.00 - Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - Phillipston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. bbl. of C. - Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Rockport. John Parsons 3.00 - Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Salem. South Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Straight U._ 25.00 - Scotland. James M. Leonard 2.00 - South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 - Southampton. Cong. Ch. $14; Benj. N. Norton $3 17.00 - Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.55 - Southfield. “Friends,” $1.10 and pkg. S. S. - books 1.10 - South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.00 - Springfield. Memorial Ch. 24.48 - Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.25 - Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc. 40.81 - Truro. Rev. E. W. N. 1.00 - Westborough. Freedmen’s Mission Assn., 3 bbls. - of C., _one of which for Atlanta U._ - Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1,158.50 - Winchendon. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. - $9.64; Geo. Cummings, $10 19.64 - Winchester. Stephen Cutter 5.00 - West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.11 - Worcester. Union Ch., $60.62; Old So. Cong. - Ch., $54.36 114.98 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $198.95. - - Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 73.95 - Providence. “A Friend,” $100; Josiah Chapin, - $25 125.00 - - - CONNECTICUT, $893.73. - - Ansonia. Cong. Ch. 32.00 - Ashford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Avon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 120.00 - Black Rock. Mrs. J. P. Britten 5.00 - Colchester. Rev. S. G. Willard _for Straight - U._ 20.00 - East Haddam. C. Higgins 5.00 - East Woodstock. H. C. 0.25 - Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 14.74 - Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch. 28.00 - Georgetown. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - Glastenbury. Cong. Ch. 150.00 - Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.46 - Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 - Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. $86.50; Windsor - Ave. Cong. Ch. $27.60.—Mrs. Chas. F. Howard, - $25, _for Howard U._ 139.10 - Kensington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.00 - Lebanon. First Ch. and South Soc. $18; Betsy - Metcalf, $10 28.00 - Meriden. Julius W. Yale 5.00 - Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, $5; Albert - Baldwin, $5; Lucy B. Miles, $10, _for - Printing Press, Talladega, Ala._ - (incorrectly ack. in Dec. number.) - New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.30 - New Hartford. First Cong. Sab. Sch., John - Richard’s Bible Class, $5; Rev. F. H. Adams’ - Bible Class, $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 - New Haven. College St. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - North Granby. First Cong. Ch. 5.35 - Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 36.86 - Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student - Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 - Stamford. First Cong. Ch. 26.52 - Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 20.15 - West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 - West Meriden. H. C. 1.00 - Wethersfield. Horace Savage 2.00 - Winchendon. Coll. by I. A. Bronson 15.00 - Woodbury. North Cong. Ch. 17.00 - ——. “A Friend,” 50.00 - - - NEW YORK, $877.45. - - Adams Basin. L. D. 1.00 - Brooklyn. J. Davenport 50.00 - Buffalo. W. G. Bancroft 200.00 - Clyde. ESTATE of T. Grimshaw, by A. Traver, Ex. 100.00 - Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Derby. Mrs. J. B. 1.00 - Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.66 - Hancock. Cong. Ch. 0.25 - Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 - Ithaca. Mrs. H. Selby and others 1.50 - Lockport. H. W. Nichols 5.00 - Madison. G. H. H. 0.51 - Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 26.13 - New York. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dodge, _for - Student Aid, Atlanta U._, $200; E. S., 40c 200.40 - Norwich. “A Friend,” $20; Mrs. R. A. B. $1 21.00 - Nunda. Four Ladies of Presb. Ch., bbl. of C. - and $1 _for Freight_ 1.00 - Oriskany. A. Halsey, Mrs. L. B. Porter, and - Rev. S. F. Porter, $5 ea. 15.00 - Paris. Val. Pierce $12, Mrs. Pierce $5 17.00 - Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard 150.00 - Randolph. MRS. DEMARIUS SHELDON, to const. - herself L. M. 30.00 - Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Ch. 10.00 - ——. “A Friend,” 5.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $71. - - Boonton. Mrs. W. G. L. 1.00 - Montclair. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, - Hampton Inst._ 70.00 - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $31.00. - - Centre Road. J. A. Scovel 5.00 - Newcastle. Mrs. J. W. 1.00 - Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for - Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00 - - - OHIO, $144.80. - - Berea. First Cong. Ch. 2.50 - Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 16.80 - Cleveland. M. H. B. 0.50 - East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden 2.00 - Edinburg. Cong. Ch. 19.00 - Hudson. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Lenox. Balance Subscription, _for Tougaloo - Inst._, by Nelson French 4.50 - Mechanicstown. S. M. 1.00 - Medina. Cong. Ch. and So., bal. to const. W. - F. ECCLESTON and T. E. ROWE, L. M’s.—50 cts. - additional for _Tougaloo U._ 15.50 - Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike 5.00 - Rochester. Cong. Ch. 4.00 - Twinsburgh. L. W. and R. F. Green 4.00 - Wellington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 - - - INDIANA, $5.00. - - Kokoma. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $112.91. - - Chicago. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.00 - Delavan. R. Houghton 8.00 - Evanston. Cong. Ch. 42.03 - Galesburg. ESTATE Warren C. Willard, by Prof. - T. R. Willard 14.00 - Huntley. Rev. D. C. 1.00 - Kewanee. Mrs. C. E. Chapin, _for Student Aid, - Atlanta U._ 5.00 - Nora. G. W. Warner 10.00 - Rantoul. Cong. Ch. 2.88 - Rockford. Mrs. Penfield, _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 10.00 - Princeton. Mrs. J. T. Wells 15.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $497.19. - - Ann Arbor. Dea. Sylvester Morris 5.00 - Cross Village. Mrs. A. A. C. 0.50 - Detroit. First Cong. Ch. 293.56 - East Riverton. Mrs. J. Barnes 10.00 - Hudson. Individuals 3.50 - Hillsdale. J. W. Ford 2.00 - Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50 - Kalamazoo. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $5.19; - Friends, $3.30 8.49 - Lodi. Eli Benton 40.00 - Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok, $10 _for Camp Nelson_, - $5 _for Emerson Inst._, $5 _for Indian M._ - and $5 _for Chinese M._ 25.00 - Niles. Dr. James Lewis 5.00 - Port Huron. First Cong. Ch. 34.00 - Romeo. Cong. Ch. 35.42 - Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 22.22 - Vienna. Union Cong. Ch. 11.00 - - - IOWA, $183.48. - - Anamosa. Cong. Ch. 13.83 - Castalia. W. H. Baker and family, to const. - MRS. HANNAH WILLIAMS, L. M. 35.00 - Davenport. Capt. A. E. Adams, _for - Scholarship, Talladega C._ 50.00 - Elk River. Cong. Ch. 3.00 - Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch. 8.00 - Maquoketa. Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch. 20.04 - Monona. Cong. Ch. 6.00 - Monticello. Children’s Band 0.20 - Riceville. Girls’ Miss. Soc. 10.90 - Stacyville. Cong. Ch. 14.21 - Traer. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 10.00 - Waterloo. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 12.30 - - - WISCONSIN, $29.68. - - Beloit. First Cong. Ch., bale of C. _for - Montgomery, Ala._ - Geneva Lake. W. H. H. 0.50 - Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch. 15.18 - Waupun. Cong. Soc. 14.00 - - - KANSAS, $3.50. - - Russell. S. H. Falley 2.50 - Solomon City. M. W. E. 1.00 - - - MINNESOTA, $90.33. - - Lake City. Sab. Sch. and Friends, _for - Straight U._ 41.00 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 19.33 - Hawley. Adna Colburn, Sr., $20; Adna Colburn, - Jr., $10 30.00 - - - WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $22.96. - - S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. of Christ 18.10 - White River. Cong. Ch. 4.86 - - - NEBRASKA, $5.00. - - Silver. Melinda Bowen 5.00 - - - MISSOURI. $4.00. - - Warrensburg. Rent 4.00 - - - MARYLAND, $280.00. - - Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, $200 _for a - Teacher_, and $80 _for a Student, Fisk U._ 280.00 - - - GEORGIA, $230.66. - - Atlanta. Atlanta University 113.00 - Brunswick. School Children, by S. B. Morse, - _for Mendi M._ 1.17 - Savannah. Beach Inst. 115.60 - Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Mendi M._ 0.89 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $28.76. - - Newbern. C. E. W. 0.50 - Raleigh. Washington Sch. 25.50 - Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 2.76 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $262.66. - - Charleston. Avery Inst. 262.66 - - - CALIFORNIA, $40.00. - - Oakville. A. A. Bancroft 40.00 - - - CANADA, $15.04. - - Toronto. Mrs. J. Thom ($5 _of which for Cal. - Chinese M._) 15.04 - ———————— - Total 8,983.64 - Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th $15,835.30 - - H. W. HUBBARD, - _Ass’t Treas._ - - - RECEIVED FOR DEBT. - - Amherst, N. H. L. and L. K. Melendy 1000.00 - East Woodstock, Conn. Rev. E. H. Pratt 1.00 - New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Norman Hart 25.00 - Wilton, Conn. Rev. S. J. M. Merwin 50.00 - Wilton, Conn. Miranda B. Merwin 25.00 - Andover, Mass. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 - Florence, Mass. “A. L. W.” 500.00 - Foxborough, Mass. A. L. Payson 1.00 - Malden, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 159.55 - Lakeville, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. - MRS. CAROLINE L. WARD, L. M. 34.11 - Pittsfield, Mass. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 - Scotland, Mass. “A Friend.” 2.00 - West Barnstable, Mass. Rev. B. Paine 5.00 - Albany, N. Y. Mrs. M. M. Learned 25.00 - Clifton Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Andrew Pierce 25.00 - Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. J. E. Howard 25.00 - Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. Garry Brooks 25.00 - New York, N. Y. —— 25.00 - Penn Yan, N. Y. Mrs. D. B. Prosser 25.00 - Rochester, N. Y. Gen. A. W. Riley 25.00 - Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. Mrs. Anar H. Barnes 30.00 - Centre Road, Penn. J. A. Scovel 5.00 - Belpre, Ohio. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Fort Recovery, Ohio. M. W. Diggs 5.00 - Paddys Run, Ohio. Sarah Wilkin 5.00 - Painsville, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Beardslee 4.00 - Oberlin, Ohio. Pres. J. H. Fairchild 10.00 - Michigan City, Ind. Correction. J. C. Haddock, - $5. (Nov. number) should read Mrs. Clara W. - Peck, $5. - Buda, Ill. J. B. Stuart 10.00 - Chicago, Ill. Prof. G. N. Boardman 5.00 - Geneseo, Ill. P. H. Taylor 5.00 - Providence, Ill. Correction. Mrs. H. B. - Gulliver, $6. (Nov. number) should read “A - few Friends,” $6. - Wethersfield, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg 5.00 - Alamo, Mich. Julius Hackley 20.00 - Broadhead, Wis. Mrs. W. W. Matter 3.50 - Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. James Baker 5.00 - Patch Grove, Wis. M. A. Garsich 1.00 - Whitewater, Wis. Mrs. R. Coburn 1.00 - Natal, South Africa. Mrs. Abbie T. Wilder 10.00 - ———————— - Total 2,125.16 - Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 4,659.04 - ———————— - Total 6,784.20 - - - FOR TILLOTSON NORMAL AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Wells, Me. Mrs. B. A. Maxwell 15.00 - East Hartford, Conn. H. L. Goodwin 50.00 - Hartford, Conn. Mrs. John Olmstead 50.00 - Hebron, Conn. B. A. Bissell 5.00 - Hebron, Conn. Dea. Jasper Porter 5.00 - Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to - const. CORNELIA M. COLE, L. M. 30.00 - Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah T. Salisbury 50.00 - Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Wheat 5.00 - Olivet, Mich. Wm. B. Palmer 200.00 - ——. Individuals 5.00 - —————— - Total 415.00 - Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 190.00 - —————— - Total 605.00 - - - FOR YELLOW FEVER FUND. - - Thetford, Vt. Sarah J. Rugg 2.00 - Portland, Conn. First Cong. Ch. 41.92 - Andover, Mass. Chapel Ch. and Soc. $64.55 and - Sab. Sch. $15 79.55 - Troy, N. Y. “Little Mary and Margaret Cushman - and Mamma.” 1.00 - Orwell, N. Y. “A few Friends in Cong. Ch.,” by - Rev. F. N. Greeley 12.00 - Orange, N. J. Trinity Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.00 - Tabor, Iowa. Cong. Ch. 6.40 - —————— - 152.87 - Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 154.17 - —————— - Total 307.04 - - - ENDOWMENT FUND. - - Norwood, Mass. ESTATE of Samuel Morrill, by - Edward H. Morrill, Ex. 500.00 - - * * * * * - - - - -The American Missionary Association. - - * * * * * - - -AIM AND WORK. - -To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its -main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens -and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely -related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE -in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane -and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in -AFRICA. - - -STATISTICS. - -CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va. 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; -Ga., 12; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; -Texas, 5. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 66. - -INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE -SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega Ala.; -Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; -and Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, -Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; -Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11. _Other -Schools_, 18. Total 37. - -TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, -231; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. -Total, 279. STUDENTS—In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College -Course, 106; in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, -taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. -INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000. - - -WANTS. - -1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by -_regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble -as well as the strong. - -2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational -institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; -MEETING HOUSES, for the new churches we are organizing; -MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for these churches. - -3. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 33, No. 1, January 1879 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: November 28, 2016 [EBook #53618] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JANUARY 1897 *** - - - - -Produced by KarenD, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div> -<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXIII.</p> -<p class="float-right">No. 1.</p> -</div> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">JANUARY, 1879.</p></div> - -<div class="wrap"><h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> - -<div class="center"> -<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Outlook for 1879</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Appeal for the New Year</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_2">2</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Lord’s Work and the Lord’s Coming</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The London Union Missionary Conference</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_3">3</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Political Progress of the Freedmen: - <span class="chaplinen">Rev. M. E. Strieby</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">These My Brethren</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_6">6</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Five Tests of American Civilization: - <span class="chaplinen">Prof. C. D. Hartranft, D. D.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_7"> 7</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Return of Rev. Floyd Snelson</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Items From The Churches</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">General Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Our Query Column</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">District of Columbia— - <span class="chaplinen">Revival in Howard University</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Virginia— - <span class="chaplinen">A Destitute County</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama— - <span class="chaplinen">New Church at Shelby Iron Works—Talladega a Missionary Centre</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Florence— - <span class="chaplinen">Thin End of the Wedge—First Thanksgiving Service</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Missouri— - <span class="chaplinen">Free Schools in the State</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Mendi Mission— - <span class="chaplinen">A Church Organized and Dedicated at Avery</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Late Indian War and Christianity: - <span class="chaplinen">Rev Myron Eells</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Congregational Association of Christian Chinese: - <span class="chaplinen">Rev. W. C. Pond</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_27">27</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter">PLEASE READ, THINK, COPY AND MAIL</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_28">28</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<div class="center"> -NEW YORK:<br /> -Published by the American Missionary Association,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>. - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>American Missionary Association,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. 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Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> -Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Daniel Hand</span>, Esq., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. L. Williston</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. F. Beard</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Frederick Billings</span>, Esq., Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Joseph Carpenter</span>, Esq., R. I. -</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. STRIEBY</span>, D. D., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.<br /> -<br /> - EDGAR KETCHUM, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">E. A. Graves</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Sam’l Holmes</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">S. S. Jocelyn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="center">relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above; letters for the Editor of the -“American Missionary” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York -Office.</p> - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p>may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as <i>Assistant Treasurer</i>.</p> - -<p>A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> - -<p>Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[1]</a></p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<p class="center">THE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> - -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXIII.</span></div> -<div class="third center">JANUARY, 1879. </div> -<div class="third right">No. 1.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<p class="center xlarge"><b>American Missionary Association.</b></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>OUR OUTLOOK FOR 1879.</h3> - -<p>The review of our last year’s work has been so recently and -so fully given in connection with the annual meeting of the -Association, that it is scarcely needful for us to ask our readers -to join us in another survey of what has already been accomplished. -It is more fitting, as we stand upon the threshold of the new year, -to ask what are the signs of the times, and what the demands of the -work before us.</p> - -<p>There are still dark clouds in the Southern sky. A mere granting -of civil and political rights by formal enactment is of small -importance unless the rights themselves are honestly allowed and -faithfully accepted. The adjustment of alleged wrongs we must leave -to politicians if not to statesmen, and to courts of law if not -of justice. Our work, obscure and remote as it may seem, is more -fundamental and important than that of either Congresses or courts. -For by whatever defences the Freedman may or may not be surrounded, -the only safeguard of his rights must be in his fitness to exercise -and his ability to maintain them. It is for us, through all the -changes of the year, to keep steadily to our work. It is not -checked because the winter is upon us; nor will it be over when the -summer comes. It is not for this year’s harvesting alone that we -are working; we are sub-soiling and so laboring for the permanent -reclamation of these vast fields. We believe that more depends -upon the moral and intellectual elevation of the Freedmen of our -land, not only in regard to their welfare, but in regard to the -great questions of which they are only a factor, than upon anything -which can be done for them by legislative enactment or military -power. We purpose, then, to press on with the school and the -church. Intelligence and virtue are the Jachin and Boaz, the two -great pillars of the porch of the Temple of American citizenship -and liberty. While it rests on anything else, it is uncertain and -unsafe.</p> - -<p>Our lesser work at home among the Indians and Chinese will demand -the same moderate but constant share of our attention as before. -Our connection with the six Indian Agencies, through the Interior -Department, is not a matter of expense, but mainly of time and -care. If we shall be relieved from that, our missionary work will -still remain and may be enlarged. And though the immigration of -Chinamen has been checked to some degree, and their interest in -learning English has been abated by the abuse they have received, -the work has been, and is yet, too fruitful of good to be given up.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[2]</a></p> - -<p>Our African mission has passed through one year under its new -organization, with apparent prosperity and success. We shall need -to strengthen its forces before long. We shall want both the men -and the means.</p> - -<p>There is work enough in our outlook and encouragement to do it. We -would remind our readers as well as ourselves, that the year which -is most full of sacrifice and service for the Master, is most sure -of all to be <em>A Happy New Year</em>.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>OUR APPEAL FOR 1879.</h3> - -<p>Our friends are thoroughly informed of the fact that our debt of -late has been rapidly diminishing. We are sorry to say that <em>the -same thing is true of our income</em>. That, too, has been growing -less. We learn that this is true, also, of our sister societies. -They, also, have noticed a falling off in their revenues. We do -not like to make much ado over our troubles; but we have been very -frank in acknowledging our mercies, and we owe it to the work, and -to those who sustain it, to tell them our perplexities as well.</p> - -<p>Our receipts for the last two months have been very inadequate -for the work we have in hand. What does this mean to us with this -outlook for 1879? Does it signify withdrawal from fields already -under cultivation? Already the Executive Committee have had under -serious advisement two cases, in which it was necessary either -to stop fruitful work at important points or spend a little more -money. Retrenchment is easier to talk of than to accomplish. It -costs as much sometimes to stop as to go on. A temporary suspension -is sometimes more expensive than continuous work. Our teachers are -engaged and our buildings are prepared for the year. Shall we stop -the whole machinery of a great factory to save the price of the gas -which lights it? That would be ruinous economy indeed.</p> - -<p>But we do not seriously believe that the friends of the three most -needy races on our continent have lost heart, or hope, or means, to -carry out the generous plans they have devised. These last months -of 1878 have been trying alike to them and to us. Our plea is only -this, that, with the new year (if the debt be not by that time -altogether a thing of the past), there may be a fresh and final -attack upon that enemy of our peace; and more even than this, that -there may be a fuller and a steadier flow of the Lord’s money into -our treasury for the wants of the work of 1879.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="intro">We are happy to say that a goodly number of ladies whom we have -asked to assume the responsibility of raising a share of $25, -towards the payment of our debt, have replied favorably. The -following extract from a letter sent us by one who has been -abundant in her efforts for the Freedmen, indicates the enthusiasm -and thankfulness with which some of the ladies respond:</p> - -<p>Your kind letter of November 26th found me watching in the sick -room of my brother; but my heart went right up to God in gratitude -that I was not forgotten by the officers of the A. M. A., and that -they still think I can do something to help on this great work. I -have never ceased to be interested in the work in all its length -and breadth, and to do what little I can for it. The debt has -occupied much of my thought. I have wanted to do something to help -pay it beyond the little I could give myself. Now that I can go out -under your guardianship, I will be one of two hundred to raise one -share ($25), and as much more as I can. I am sure the debt will -soon be paid. There should be no lack of funds to carry on this -work. It is very strange our <em>nation</em> cannot see it and feel it -too.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[3]</a></p> - -<p class="intro">An old and faithful friend from Sag Harbor, N. Y., sends us thirty -dollars to make a life member. At the same time he asks us to star -the names of his two oldest children, who were among the first of -the twenty whom he has thus added to our list. They have gone up -higher. He concludes thus:</p> - -<p>I was much interested in reading the article in December number, -page 387, “Students Want to ‘Batch’—Who will Help?” I would like -for my $30 to go to assist in building one of those $100 houses. -Can’t you get some one to add the other $70, and put up one of -those dwellings for those scholars who are so anxious to get an -education to teach and to preach?</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE LORD’S WORK AND THE LORD’S COMING.</h3> - -<p class="intro">One of our friends, (Rev. T. S. Robie, North Carver, Mass.,) who -was at our annual meeting at Taunton, remembering doubtless that -the Prophetic Conference was in session during the same days in New -York City, puts the two things together thus:</p> - -<p>One comes from a meeting like that, through which glimpses are -caught of opportunities for work, of openings by the Unseen Hand -into spheres of service which stretch out into the future beyond -the range of our human vision, with the overwhelming conviction -that the Lord isn’t just at present to stop the wheels of this -world. It is not <em>like</em> the Lord to give such problems to His -people, which are pressing upon this Christian nation today with -such power, and which demand time for their solution, and then -to cut the Gordian knot by the sword of His “coming,” as if He -had met with a tangled question which He himself could not untie. -The red, blue and white and black marble, which Divine Providence -has brought into this land, tell of a building of God grander -than any Persian palace, the foundations of which seem to be just -being laid, rather than the completion thereof to be nigh at -hand. The vastness of the preparation points to the magnificence -of the Lord’s dominion in the hearts and over the lives of men.</p> - -<p>The Book of God’s Providence is as much inspired as the Bible -itself. And whoever studies the former as prayerfully as the -latter, must labor hard to stifle the feeling that the clock of -earth, instead of getting ready to stop, is being wound up to -keep good time for a thousand years, as a prelude to that perfect -righteousness which shall dwell forever on the new earth and -beneath the new heavens.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE LONDON UNION MISSIONARY CONFERENCE.</h3> - -<p>The London Union Missionary Conference was held in November. The -Congregational churches of America were represented by Dr. Clark -of the American Board, and Dr. O. H. White of the Freedmen’s Aid -Society, of London, who also represented the American Missionary -Association, to which the F. A. Society is auxiliary. The last -gathering of the kind in England was in 1860, at which one -hundred and twenty-six delegates assembled. The sessions were -mainly private, the societies represented were chiefly British, -and plans were discussed rather than achievements reported. This -later meeting was somewhat different in its character. Six hundred -delegates were in attendance from various lands and denominations -of Christians. It was not so much a conference on methods as a -comparison of results. The sessions of the week were apportioned -to the work in the various lands. A great mass of information was -collected, which will doubtless be more impressive and complete in -the volume of proceedings to be published, than it could have been -in the hearing.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[4]</a></p> - -<p>The character of the meetings may be inferred from the following -sketch of the time devoted to the “Dark Continent,” in which we -are especially interested. We copy from the correspondent of -the <cite>Christian Union</cite>: “Two sessions on Tuesday were devoted to -Africa and its many tribes. An Irish peer, the Earl of Cavan, -presided, and the attendance of delegates and friends was large. -Dr. Underhill, of the Baptist Missionary Society, discoursed on -the benefits of emancipation, and showed what an important bearing -the evangelizing of the negro race must have on the conversion of -all West Africa. Sir Fowell Buxton, the son of the great advocate -of emancipation forty years ago, described the three schemes now -being carried out for planting new missions on the three great -lakes of Central Africa. Dr. Stewart, of the Free Church Mission -at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyassa, described the principle and -the plan of the missionary institution at Lovedale, in the Cape -Colony, which he has managed for several years. This is a model -institution, with industrial as well as educational and theological -departments; and is just the thing which the native tribes of South -Africa need for their enlightenment. Dr. Lowe, the Secretary of the -Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society, also read an admirable paper -on the work, methods and usefulness of medical missions generally. -Several of the medical missionaries who have recently gone out to -Africa were Dr. Lowe’s pupils.</p> - -<p>“Among the effective speakers on these African missions were -Dr. Waugemann, of Berlin, who described the work of the Berlin -Society, especially in the Transvaal; Dr. White, of the Freedmen’s -Aid Mission; the Rev. E. Schrenck, of Basle, who spoke of work -in Ashantee; and the Rev. Dr. Moffat, who told the Conference -about his Bechuanas, and of course with his strong gray hair and -his eighty-three years of age and sixty-two years of service for -Christ, received an ovation at its hands. The noble presence and -the stirring words of the grand old man on the African day were a -striking feature in the meetings of the Conference.”</p> - -<p>Such gatherings must help on the cause of Christian comity in -missions, as well as broaden the views of all who are engaged -in working the field under their hands. It is well to look up -sometimes from our own furrow, even if we have to stop ploughing -for a little, that we may realize that the field is the world, and -that the harvest belongs to one Master.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE POLITICAL PROGRESS OF THE FREEDMEN.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">BY REV. M. E. STRIEBY.</p> - -<p>Was it wise to give the ballot to the ex-slaves? The answer that -came in the hour it was given, from the Congress that gave it, -from the Northern people that sustained it, and from the colored -people that enjoyed it, was an emphatic and enthusiastic “Yes!” -The answer that came at that hour from the Southern white man was -in a suppressed voice, and was an execration hissed out between -grinding teeth. Since that hour the voice of the Southern white -man has grown firmer, and, as it came up from misgoverned South -Carolina and Louisiana, has rounded out into a full-toned “No!” -Nay, more, it has been re-echoed from the North, and recently with -special emphasis from the lips of one of the purest Christian -scholars on the heights of Christian learning in New England. What -answer do I give? Unhesitatingly, “Yes!” I say nothing about the -mere party reason given either then or since, for I do not write -as a partisan. I put the wisdom of the ballot on more substantial -grounds.</p> - -<p>1. It saved the Freedmen from being again reduced to slavery. -Vagrant laws<a class="pagenum" name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[5]</a> were passed, which confined them to the plantations -on which they had engaged to work, the end of which would have been -a serfdom attaching them to the soil. The ballot saved them from -this.</p> - -<p>2. It gave the Freedmen and the South a free school system—a -greater boon than Southern legislation ever gave them before—a -boon without which all else would have been well-nigh in vain. -That system was modeled after the best patterns at the North, and -although it has been somewhat modified and enfeebled in practical -operation, is yet a solid corner-stone in the foundation of the new -superstructure which the South is rearing.</p> - -<p>3. The ballot gave the Freedman a sense of self-respect, and -commanded for him the respect of others. To him it was an education -and an inspiration. It gave him the standing of a man among men, -and prompted him to become worthy of his position. It was a power -to him in the early days of his freedom, when he needed every help -to sustain him in that freedom; and to-day, though it is held in -check and almost useless, yet it is a slumbering giant, and is -watched with respectful caution by the whites. For who can tell -what such a slumbering power might do if aroused?</p> - -<p>At present the black voter is politically conquered. The “white -man’s government” is established, and it is the purpose of the -white man that it shall remain so. This has been easily attained in -the States where the white majority is undoubted. In the few States -where the blacks are in the majority, the white man is determined -to rule, peaceably if he can, forcibly if he must. The Chisholm -murder and the Hamburg massacre are but samples of the methods -that will be resorted to if the effort is pushed persistently -to restore the supremacy of the black man in politics. When we -remember how that supremacy in those States was abused, how can we -ask the restoration if the abuse must again follow? The problem -is difficult. It can be solved only by one formula. The black -man must be protected in his political rights, and he must be so -enlightened as to use and not abuse those rights. There will be no -permanent advantage from a mere partisan triumph of the black man. -If achieved, as matters now stand, bayonets will again be needed to -sustain it, and will become once more a source of angry discussion -at the North and of concentrated bitterness at the South. The -experiment may again be necessary; but a far better thing should be -speedily, steadily and efficiently pushed forward—the training of -the colored voter for an intelligent and responsible manhood and -citizenship.</p> - -<p>If every colored voter could be accompanied to the polls by a file -of soldiers armed with muskets, his ballot would represent the -musket and not the man. But if he becomes a property owner, with -all the interest in the welfare of the community which property -gives; if he is educated and can take an <em>intelligent</em> interest -in the welfare of the community; and if he acquires a weight of -character that challenges respect, he will need no soldiers to -guard him to the polls, and his vote will represent the man and not -the musket.</p> - -<p>When the black man shall reach such a position he conquers -caste-prejudice and wipes out the color-line in politics. Color is -significant only as it represents condition. Change the condition -and the color is of no consequence. With that change the white and -black men at the South will divide on politics as white men do at -the North, from differing views as to the best measures to promote -public weal.</p> - -<p>Look on this picture: An armed and organized mob is breaking up a -political gathering of the blacks and their friends, and in the -background are the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[6]</a> overawed Freedmen retiring from the polls. -Look, also, on this picture: A company of United States soldiers -are keeping guard over a body of legislators, mostly black, who, -with reckless rascality, are squandering the public funds, to -the ruin of the State and the disgrace of the nation. Turn not -from these pictures with indifference, for they are no fancy -sketches; nay, face them, for the history of at least two States -of this Union is liable to be a perpetual oscillation between the -two. But now look on this picture: A colored man is tilling his -land, adorning his home, and gathering around him the refinements -of life. Near by is the school-house, where his children, with -hundreds of others, are receiving the instruction of skilful -teachers, and not far off is the church edifice where that man and -his neighbors worship God under the ministration of a well educated -and pious minister.</p> - -<p>Which picture do we choose, not as a matter of artistic preference, -but as the practical model for patriotic work? The only safety is -to extend that last picture till it shall cover the whole canvas -and blot out the other two. In that way only can a life and death -struggle between two irreconcilable forces be avoided.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>“THESE MY BRETHREN.”</h3> - -<p>In the Saviour’s great “Inasmuch” there is the power of -personality. “I was an hungered; I was thirsty; I was naked; I was -a stranger; I was sick; I was in prison.” It was Christ in the -person of these suffering and lowly ones; and service done to them -was done to Him. He might well have stopped there. But the marvel -of His personal identification with them is in the relationship -which He claims between Himself and them—“<em>these my brethren</em>.” -Oh, the touching condescension to name them by this title! What -we do for these humble and desolate ones we are not only doing -for our Lord, but for the brethren of our Lord. He takes it as a -special favor to Himself. And this service is graduated to the -lowest capacity—it is service done to only <em>one</em> of the <em>least</em> of -these. The standard is not that we should serve the mass of these -His brethren, but any one of them, according to the measure of our -ability, even down to a single act done to one of them in the right -spirit and as a revelation of a character in which we delight. Then -the obligation runs up to as great a number as our opportunity and -our ability may reach.</p> - -<p>The intervention of organic efficiency greatly multiplies the -duty and the privilege of the individual. The American Missionary -Association, as has been potently said, is set for the care of the -three despised races in our country. Though the Indian and the -Negro and the Chinaman are the objects of prejudice and violence -and injustice and hatred on the part of our people, nevertheless -Christ speaks of them as among “these my brethren;” and the prayers -and the sympathy, and the service and the giving of substance -in their behalf He counts as rendered to Him. This organization -cannot discharge any one’s personal duty, but its instrumentality -is offered to all who would use it in the discharge of individual -obligation to Christ and to His brethren. Its opportunities belong -to all who would use them, and by these a single Christian may -reach not only “unto one of the least of these,” but unto many.</p> - -<p>At the Great Day, when the Master shall surprise you, humble -Christian, with a benediction for service rendered to His brethren -among these despised ones, and you deprecatingly answer, <em>when</em> -and <em>where</em>, His revealing response may be—<em>when</em> you reached them -with your prayers and your substance through that Association which -offered you its means of operation. And surely all its workers -among<a class="pagenum" name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[7]</a> these outcast peoples, in the ostracism and opposition -and hatred which confront them, may even in this life have their -abundant recompense in this, that they are serving those whom the -Master owns as “these my brethren.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>FIVE TESTS OF AMERICAN CIVILIZATION.</h3> - -<h4>Notes of an Address at the Annual Meeting.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">BY PROF. C. D. HARTRANFT, D. D. HARTFORD, CONN.</p> - -<p>(1.) The Indians, the Negroes and the Chinese I regard as the -divinely appointed agents by which the principles that underlie -American civilization are to be finally tested. Every utterance -on the Fourth of July, from the Declaration of Independence till -this hour, has made the <em>right of asylum</em> a pre-eminent feature -of American civilization. So whenever a man has been impelled by -the dictates of his conscience to leave his native land and seek -a foreign shore, that he might not be compelled to live in false -alliance with the Church and worship God in a way he did not elect; -whenever a man, full of noble impulses, has felt the hopelessness -of his life, so far as any ambitious scheme was concerned; or the -education of his children—a man feeling the tyranny of continuous -labor, without the possibility of accumulation—this man has ever -been gladly welcomed to America. So the Puritan, so the Huguenot, -so the Dutchman, so the Lutheran—whatever a man’s religious -training, America has given him hearty greeting. Even the atheist -and the infidel have found a refuge under the folds of this flag. -America has welcomed them to the shadow of her pines and palmettoes -and to her golden Pacific. But what a niggardly right of asylum -does she give to the poor Negro, as he is emancipated from his -bonds; and to the wretched Indian, whom she shuts up in Western -territories; and, most of all, to the poor Chinaman, as he comes -from his joss-house, with the instincts of a higher civilization -impelling him from the stagnation of centuries to the shores of the -Pacific!</p> - -<p>It behooves us to inquire whether this precious right of asylum is -to be denied to the weaker races; whether we are going to lose this -peculiar feature of our nation, that throws its broad land open to -the world. Is it not true now, as in the past, that this is a vast -sanctuary, and that if a man lays hold of the horns of its altar, -there shall be nothing to drag him from his possession of freedom? -He stands on holy ground. In the British islands, the races that -have appeared in its history have been amalgamated—welded by the -mace and the battle-axe. In France, the various tribes and races -that, one after another, possessed that land, were woven together, -in warp and woof, by fire and blood. In Germany, the Prussians -have brought together that great mass of people as one, through -bitter and tremendous wars, the echoes of which have scarce died -away. America proposes a far different solution. She recognizes the -nobility of the characteristics developed by the various races. She -wants the African, the Chinaman, the Teuton—all races—to labor side -by side; to develop not only her wealth and prosperity, but, most -of all, the typical American humanity.</p> - -<p>American civilization can better endure the savagery of the Indian, -the ignorance and brutality of the Negro, and the semi-civilization -of the Chinese, than it can afford to fraternize with a -civilization that is impregnated with a spirit of ecclesiasticism, -or endure the philosophies of St. Louis or the Internationals. -Rather is it for us to overcome these forces that are the -outcroppings of centuries of Roman development, as well as those of -Indian or Chinese or Negro semi-civilization.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[8]</a></p> - -<p>This right of asylum involves another thing—the right of a man -to say, “I will leave this land and go to another”—<em>the right to -migrate</em> if he does not find things subservient to him. We once -hailed the Irishman to come and build our railroads. We welcome -the German now, as he comes and terraces our mountains and teaches -us how to garden. We welcome the Frenchman—we welcome all. But we -say, “Lo! poor Indian, go West. East of the Appalachian is too good -for you; we want it. Go West; go West. We will give no rest to the -soles of your feet.” Do we want the Black Hills? Migrate! We will -surround you with a cordon of soldiers and a cordon of Government -agents, who will eat the life out of you. Keep on, poor ignorant, -keep on!</p> - -<p>As to the African, there are not a few Americans, even in this -day, who think a righteous solution of the African question is to -ship them all off to the dark continent. So far as the American -Colonization Society keeps in view education and other Christian -instrumentalities, I bid them God-speed; but if they desire to send -the Negro out of the country, I say, No!—a thousand times, No! Let -us solve the problem right here where God has placed them.</p> - -<p>And we say to the Chinese, as he comes upon his ship, “Turn your -prow back towards the Flowery Kingdom; don’t touch our golden -West.” Is that the spirit that welcomes the Irishman, the German, -the Italian, the Frenchman? Why not give as broad an opening to the -Chinaman as to the Irishman?</p> - -<p>(2.) In the next place, God is testing that principle which is -set forth in the preamble of our Constitution—<em>the right of a man -to pursue happiness in such a way as he may elect</em>, provided he -does no wrong to his neighbor. And I opine that although happiness -involves the pursuit of higher aims, it begins on the basis of -labor. Labor is the essential element of American civilization. -If I labor, then I have the right of choice to enter into -whatever labor I please. No matter whether I am an adept or not, -circumstances will give the verdict. With the right of choice of -a man’s calling comes the right of competition. Carry it to its -extreme, if you please. If there are fifty-two thousand clerks, -I have a right to become the fifty-two thousand and first, and -starve. Then, after the inherent right of labor follows the right -to such property as I may accumulate. What I may produce, that -is mine absolutely, and no man can touch it. Here we are brought -face to face with this tremendous question between Irish and -German labor, and the low-priced labor of either the Negro or the -Chinaman. But, American citizens and Christians, if we respect -the right of a man to exercise such functions as God has given -him in such way as his conscience may dictate, and to choose his -own occupation, shall we not defend this right of labor, and the -right to pursue happiness as each may elect, and in the face of -Communism, defend the right of the Chinese to enter the market and -compete with all labor of whatever nationality?</p> - -<p>(3.) There is a <em>third right</em> or principle put to the test—<em>that -every man is equal before the law</em>. Whether he be Jew or Gentile, -Irishman or German, Negro or Chinaman, he is the equal of all men -before God. But what justice can a Chinaman get out of a Hoodlum -court? What justice has the Negro got out of a Southern court? To -the establishment of that justice we must bend our energies, for -it is vital to our institutions that a man before the law is equal -with his neighbor. If you have broken the shackles of the Negro, -break those of the Indian. If he outrages the law, try him by -process of the law and make him amenable, but deal with him as a -citizen. I opine that we shall arrive at this, sooner or later. Of -course this includes with it the privilege of every one to enter -public life, provided he proves his capacity.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[9]</a></p> - -<p>(4.) But there is another principle being tested, and that is <em>the -right of education</em>. It is a settled point in the development of -American civilization, that education is essential to the proper -discipline of the citizen—some degree, at least, of elementary -education. Now when, according to the census of 1870, in the States -of Mississippi and Texas, 96 per cent. of the colored people were -thoroughly ignorant; and when in another State, 95 per cent. were -completely ignorant; in another, 93 per cent.; in two others, 91 -per cent.; and in a last one, 90 per cent.; 88 per cent. of the -entire colored people of the South being in perfect ignorance;—does -it not behoove us to have a law for compulsory education if we -hope to have true culture and citizenship? Was our late President -far from right when he brought forward this idea? What salvation -is there for the Southern States unless universal education shall -be carried into effect? As the right to enter into competition is -inherent as much as the right of choice in labor, so we regard -the right of choice of one’s religion. The whole way should be -made open for the highest acquisition of intellectual and moral -knowledge.</p> - -<p>(5.) So, too, our Protestant Christianity is under test. And -here we are encountered at once by the fact that Christians -still cultivate the caste spirit. If the Jew drew such a subtle -line between himself and the Gentile, the white Christian draws -a similar line between himself and the black Christian. If the -Greek considered himself to be of such high intelligence that he -classed all others as barbarians, Christians allow their prejudices -to make the same broad distinctions between different classes -of humanity, which it was the office of Jesus Christ—blessed be -His name!—to obliterate and utterly extinguish. That prejudice, -that caste spirit which Christians cultivate in the North to an -extent that amounts to social ostracism, must be broken down, if -we would maintain Protestant Christianity. Further, this question -connects itself with the true <em>missionary spirit</em>. The best way to -evangelize China is to evangelize the Chinese as they come to the -Pacific Coast. The best way to evangelize Africa is to evangelize -the African Negro of the South. Over against Protestant Christians -in the South and the Chinese on the Pacific is that dark power -which has involved the world in hopeless contentions. There stands -the Jesuit with his deep, treacherous features, his characterless -casuistry, and his sacrifice of all things else to glorify the -Church of Rome, no matter what may be the result on his country. -That subtle power which permeates our political institutions -with such great magnitude and force, stands face to face with -<a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>Protestantism in the South—with the Negro question, the Chinese -question, and the Indian question. If we are to serve Protestant -Christianity, we must free ourselves of caste, and learn to love -the African and the Chinaman at our doors. It is easy to speak well -of the Chinaman away off in China—to have an overflow of sympathy -for the poor African away in the dark continent; but it is a very -different thing to have sympathy for them in this country. The -spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ must actuate us and lead us to -this.</p> - -<p>These, then, are <em>the five great principles</em> that underlie American -civilization—principles that are being tested by these three races -or nationalities. Our professions are large. Let us live up to them -in these five great principles. It is Lord Bacon who says that -“When hempe is spun, England is done”—meaning that when Henry, -Elizabeth, Mary, Philip and Edward had passed away, England would -be done. We may say that <em>if these five principles</em>—the right of -asylum, the right of labor, of political freedom, of education, and -free play to Protestant Christianity be done—America is done. God -save the State!</p> - -<p>And what is the agency—or one agency—by which that may be -accomplished?<a class="pagenum" name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[10]</a> The American Missionary Association, because it -gives us Christian education. Because it brings together the -college, the church and the home. And will not your devotion to a -pure Christianity, free from the spirit of caste, and filled with -the spirit of genuine love, manifest itself by your support of such -an Association? May we not gauge your feelings in regard to these -five principles by the support you give to such a society? May we -not implore you that as you value the rights of property and free -government you array yourself solidly against Communism and its -ally—Romanism; because these are craftily working together.</p> - -<p>Would you behold free Protestant Christianity established in this -country? Then give your support to this Association, that these -three races may prove us to be a people who love liberty in its -deepest significance as liberty in Christ.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>RETURN OF REV. FLOYD SNELSON.</h3> - -<p>Just after the annual meeting we learned that the health of -Mrs. Snelson was in such condition as to make her speedy return -from the Mendi Mission, West Africa, a probable necessity. Her -husband has arrived with herself, their children, and those of -Dr. James, whose wife had died abroad. The change of climate and -of occupation has already proved of great benefit to her. It is -a great disappointment to us all to lose so soon the earnest and -discreet service of the head of our Mendi Mission. Whether he will -be able to return or not is still an unsettled question. But these -experiences are teaching us some valuable lessons. First of them is -this,—that we must send no men or women to the West Coast of Africa -without submitting them to a severe physical examination, such as -is required for enlistment into the army or as a prerequisite to a -life insurance policy. For we find that upon those who went from -this country in thoroughly sound health, with no weakness from -previous disease or tendency to special complaints, the climate -has had little or no bad effect; but where there was any such -predisposition or impairment of physical vigor, the malarial heats -of the West coast have hastened its rapid development. We send no -more recruits, then, without medical attestation to their soundness -of body, in addition to the testimony we have heretofore required -as to their intellectual and spiritual health.</p> - -<p>Mr. Snelson brings much valuable information from the field, which -we hope to lay before our readers at an early day.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>NEWS AND ITEMS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, who was graduated -eight years ago from the Chicago Theological Seminary, commenced -pastoral work at Macon, December 1st. He writes: “I am quite -agreeably surprised with everything thus far. I shall do the best I -can for this people, with God’s help.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marietta, Ga.</span>—The school prospers, and, with two other -schools, is exerting a marked influence on the people. The -Sunday-school and literary society are both doing good work.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marion, Ala.</span>—Rev. Geo. E. Hill writes: “Our church has -received from the Sunday-school at Weymouth, Mass., Colton’s large -missionary map, and I have had the pleasure of introducing my -people to a view of the world—the field of missions. They propose -to contribute monthly to the cause. Our Sunday-school is filling -up.”</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[11]</a></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Montgomery, Ala.</span>—Rev. Flavel Bascom, D.D., who commenced -work for the winter December 1st, writes: “My first impressions -are very favorable. My heart is drawn out toward the people, and I -expect to enjoy my work for them very much.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Selma, Ala.</span>—Rev. C. B. Curtis has gone from Burlington, -Wis., to the charge of the church here.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Shelby, Ala.</span>—A Congregational church was organized October -10th, by Rev. G. W. Andrews, of the Theological Department of -Talladega College, consisting of twenty-one members (twelve men and -nine women). Rev. J. D. Smith, a graduate of Talladega Theological -Department, is pastor.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3> - - -<h4>The Freedmen.</h4> - -<p>—Over 3,000 people attended the Agricultural Fair for colored -people held at Talladega, Ala., in November, under the auspices of -the college. Stock, farm products, cookery, needle and fancy work, -flowers and pictures, were brought in for exhibition. Contests were -held in athletic sports, and in spelling, declaiming, etc., between -students of the different schools. Several hundred white people -attended, and showed their interest by acting as judges on the -committees with the colored people. The fair was kept entirely free -from all the objectionable features which so often mar our State -fairs, and indeed was opened with prayer, and, after the addresses -and award of premiums, closed with the Doxology.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen’s Aid -Society of the M. E. Church, reports that its work during this -year “has never been exceeded in any year of its history. It has -erected more school edifices, more commodious and commanding; -educated more teachers, prepared more ministers, led more souls to -Christ, and set in operation more streams of elevating influence, -done more and better work for Christ and humanity, than in any like -period before.” The financial statement for the year ending July -1, 1878, gives its total receipts for the year as $63,403, and -its expenditures, mainly for salaries and board of teachers and -educational expenses, including $3,000 paid on its debt, at the -same. The society has aided in the establishment of five chartered -institutions having full collegiate powers, three theological and -two medical schools, also chartered, and ten other educational -institutions.</p> - -<p>—Dr. Ruffner, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Virginia, -claims that $850,000 was collected from the people and set apart -by law for the support of the common schools, and charges that -this, with the interest, has been diverted from its proper use and -applied to the ordinary expenses of the State Government.</p> - -<p>—A national colored Baptist educational convention was held last -summer at Nashville, Tenn. In an address published by them they -offer heartfelt thanks to Northern Baptists, who alone have -helped them to what educational facilities they have enjoyed. -To the Southern white Baptists they are grateful for the “good -resolutions” they have passed in favor of the black man. They -urge the colored Baptists to support their own publishing house, -newspaper, and the educational enterprises of the American Baptist -Home Mission Society.</p> - -<p>—Public sentiment has almost effaced the color line in Virginia; -given political freedom and safety in North Carolina; and created -a powerful party of<a class="pagenum" name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[12]</a> “Independents” in Georgia; and it will bring -South Carolina to her senses in time. Moral forces require more -time and patience than physical force.—<cite>Christian Union</cite>.</p> - -<p>—Two colored students of Mr. Spurgeon’s Pastor’s College, Rev. -Messrs. Richardson and Johnson, with their wives, have left England -as missionaries to Central Africa. They were all freed slaves from -this country.</p> - -<p>—The Rev. Alfred Saher, English Baptist Missionary at the -Cameroons, West Africa, has translated the Bible into the language -of the people, and now reports upwards of 2,000 converts.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>The Indians.</h4> - -<p>—Mr. Wheeler writes from Keshena Agency, Wisconsin, of the second -successful Agricultural Fair among the Menomonees. About 200 -entries of corn and potatoes were made, with other vegetables, -grains and grasses in abundance. The displays of woman’s work and -of live stock were very fine. A ploughing match was held. About -$200 was expended in premiums, voted from the tribal funds for -that purpose. Advantage was taken of the opportunity for giving -instruction in the arts of agriculture, and for exhorting them to -keep their children faithfully in the schools. Such gatherings both -prove and promote progress.</p> - -<p>—Brig. Gen. Pope reports that the late outbreak of the Cheyennes -was caused by starvation. He says of the Indians in general: “If -they are left with the means to go to war, as is the custom, we -simply sleep on a volcano. Unless, therefore, ample, and above all, -regular supplies of food can be guaranteed to the Indians, I am -compelled, in justice to the Government and the frontier settlers, -to ask that more troops be sent to the agencies in the Indian -Territory, and that at least two of the posts in Western Kansas be -largely reinforced by cavalry. I have also to ask that any Indians -sent from the North into this department be disarmed and dismounted -before being sent here, so that they can be placed in the same -condition as the Indians with whom they are to live.”</p> - -<p>—Major Mizener reports more in detail:—The causes which led to the -leaving of the Northern Cheyennes may be summed up as follows: -They were disappointed in the country. Their rations were poor -and entirely insufficient. They were home-sick, despondent and -disappointed, and were anxious to get back to a country better -known to them, and where game was to be had, while here they did -not have enough to eat.</p> - -<p>—General Sheridan attributes our Indian wars to two classes of -causes; the first being the constant encroachment upon the lands -of the Indians, sacredly guaranteed to them by treaty, and the -constant removal of the tribes to distant reservations, in which -they are again troubled by the tide of immigration. He says no -other nation in the world would have attempted the reduction of -these wild tribes, and occupation of their country, with less than -60,000 or 70,000 men.</p> - -<p>—Secretary Schurz affirms that the real cause of Indian wars has -been the breaking of treaties. He recites an exhaustive history of -Indian wars to show that this has been the case, and that very few -of the wars have arisen from the maladministration of agents.</p> - -<p>—Gen. Sherman, in his annual report, declares that many of the -Indians prefer death to agricultural toil; that to convert them -from a nomadic into a pastoral race is the first and fundamental -problem; that each tribe must be dealt with according<a class="pagenum" name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[13]</a> to its own -nature; that whatever department of the Government is charged with -this work, must be intrusted with large discretion to adapt its -measures to emergencies. He traces the Indian wars generally to -broken promises, insufficient rations and impending starvation.</p> - -<p>—Of the joint committee to which the transfer of the Indians to -the War Department is referred, the three members of the Senate -are from Nebraska, Kentucky and Illinois; of the five members of -the House, but one comes from as far East as this. The committee, -therefore, represents communities that favor the army. It is -understood that the Indians themselves do not desire the change; -that the army does not want the responsibility; yet that it will -probably be done, unless the President interferes, because the -Indian ring desires it, and because the army makes it a point of -honor.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>The Chinese.</h4> - -<p>—The First Church in San Francisco, Dr. Stone’s, has just opened -a new and well-appointed room in the basement for its mission and -Chinese Sunday-school. The Petaluma Church has also enlarged its -lecture-room for the use of its Chinese school.</p> - -<p>—As the Chinese children are not permitted to enter the San -Francisco public schools, those who have embraced Christianity are -taught in the Union Mission in the old Globe Hotel. The school has -two sessions, one of which is conducted by an American lady, the -other by Hung Mung Chung, who is a fine Chinese scholar and a man -of much dignity and scholarly attainments, said to be a lineal -descendant of Confucius. During the past year Hung Mung Chung was -baptized and became a member of the Protestant Church for Chinese. -He teaches the children the Chinese classics and the maxims and -precepts of Confucius. Each session of the school is closed by -singing and repeating the Lord’s Prayer—in the morning in English, -in the afternoon in Chinese.</p> - -<p>—The San Francisco Chinamen contributed $1,200 to the yellow fever -sufferers of the South. The sand-lot meetings have not yet reported -the amount of their collections.</p> - -<p>—The Chinese Sunday-school in Chicago has been in existence nearly -six months, with an average attendance of fourteen scholars. It is -said that the number can be largely increased if teachers can be -procured.</p> - -<p>—Rev. W. P. Paxson, Superintendent of the missionary work of the -American S. S. Union in their Southwestern Department, says: “One -striking event in my missionary work has been the organization of a -Chinese Sunday-school in St. Louis.”</p> - -<p>—Mr. Ha Shan Sin was baptized last Sabbath by Rev. E. D. Murphy -at the Immanuel Presbyterian Chapel of this city. The young man -is about twenty-two years old, was born in San Francisco, though -he has spent most of his life in China. This is the sixth of the -Chinamen that have been received into the churches of this city. -Three have been enrolled among the members of the Fourth Avenue -Presbyterian Church, Dr. Howard Crosby’s.</p> - -<p>—The first Chinaman was admitted to citizenship in the United -States by naturalization, last week, and we count the event an -auspicious one just at this time. The man is Wong Ah Lee; by -trade he is a cigar-maker, and his wife is an Irish-woman. With -a view, mainly, to make a case which can be carried up to a -conclusive<a class="pagenum" name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[14]</a> decision from the highest court, the Judge here ruled -that a Chinaman is either white or black, and so must come in. -California’s ruling has been that a Mongolian is neither white or -black, and so cannot come in.—<cite>Congregationalist</cite>, December 4.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>OUR QUERY COLUMN.</h3> - -<p class="intro"><i>Query.</i>—South of the Ohio River the work of caring for the -sick falls to the colored people. During the past weeks there -has been greater demand for skilled nurses than for competent -teachers. How can A. M. A. schools prepare their students for -this important profession? What is the best method of instructing -pupils in a knowledge of the simpler details concerning the -proper care of the sick?</p> - -<p class="right nomargin smcap">Teacher.</p> - -<p class="p1">We shall be glad to have full answers to this important inquiry -from those who have had experience. It calls attention to a most -important part of the teacher’s work. Meanwhile, we would suggest -that the <cite>Hampton Sanitary Tracts</cite> may be found very useful for -distribution, or to be read to older pupils and parents. The first -three can be obtained by addressing the “Hampton Tract Editing -Committee,” Hampton Institute, Va. The cost is five cents apiece, -or four dollars a hundred copies. They are entitled: No. 1, “The -Health Laws of Moses;” No. 2, “Preventable Diseases;” No. 3, “Duty -of Teachers.” This last seems to be exactly addressed to the case -in hand.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</h3> - -<h4>Revival in Howard University.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">Rev. Wm. W. Patton, D.D., President.</p> - -<p>You will be glad to hear that there is much religious interest in -our institution at the present time. It has been gradually coming -on all the autumn, but was greatly aided by the week of prayer -held by the Young Men’s Christian Association of the University in -concert with other Associations. Some ten or twelve of the students -think that they have begun the new life lately, and we look for -further good results. This is highly encouraging, as showing that -in addition to the educational advantages which gather around our -location, spiritual blessings may also be received. We desire the -prayers of all Christians that the work may be continued with -power. Our theological students have been deeply interested in the -meetings for prayer, and have rendered valuable aid.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>VIRGINIA.</h3> - -<h4>A Destitute County.</h4> - -<p>The following extract from a letter by an esteemed friend in a -central county in Virginia is suggestive of the many dark places -throughout the South yet unreached by the school or the church:</p> - -<p>The field in this county alone is an ample one. The colored -population of the county largely exceeds the white, and the yearly -ratio of increase is in excess of the white. A half generation has -passed since the era of emancipation, and it is melancholy, indeed, -to any Christian mind and heart, to contemplate how rapidly this -portion of the population, in the very heart of one of the oldest -States in the Union, is crowding the broad road to perdition; -how, in the entire absence of all organized efforts for elemental -education and proper religious instruction, they are relapsing into -semi-heathenism. There is not to-day a single school of any kind -or character for<a class="pagenum" name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[15]</a> them within the limits of the county (which may -be safely estimated to contain five thousand souls of all ages and -sexes of the colored race), except the Sabbath-school which has -been taught by the writer.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ALABAMA.</h3> - -<h4>New Church at Shelby Iron Works—Talladega a Missionary Centre.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">Rev. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.</p> - -<p>A Congregational church of twenty-one members was organized -Oct. 10th, at Shelby Iron Works, Alabama. This is the fifteenth -Congregational church planted by the A. M. A. in this State. Eight -of them are in the vicinity of Talladega College, the most distant -being forty miles away. They are the out-growth of the mission work -carried on by the teachers and pupils of the college.</p> - -<p>This new church at Shelby begins its existence under most favorable -circumstances, most of its members being present or former pupils -of the college. All are colored people; two are preparing for the -ministry; one has been a student at Oberlin, Ohio; one was for some -time a resident of Hartford, Ct., and more recently of Columbus, -Ohio, a graduate of the high school there and a former pupil here; -one is principal of an academy of ten years’ standing at Shelby and -a graduate from Talladega. With two or three exceptions, all of -them have for some years been trained in our Sunday-schools. The -Shelby Iron Company is in hearty sympathy with the movement; the -Superintendent, himself a Methodist, coming into the preliminary -meeting and saying publicly that the Iron Company would look with -peculiar favor on this church should it be organized, recognizing -as it did the necessity for more intelligent Christian instruction -for the colored people.</p> - -<p>The sectarian walls, which in the South are built heaven-high, -have in this particular place been badly shattered. There is no -outspoken opposition on the part of the colored people, as in every -other place known to me. The different denominations worship in the -same building, the lower story being devoted to the school and the -upper one to the churches. The Iron Company own about two-thirds of -the building, the original cost being three thousand dollars.</p> - -<p>I suppose there are a million of dollars invested by the Shelby -Iron Company at this place, mostly owned in the North. One owner -is an honored member of the Centre Church, Hartford, Ct.; another, -of the Park St. Church, Boston; another is a Massachusetts man -well known among “iron men” both in this country and abroad. The -Superintendent is a noble Christian man from Illinois, and was a -colonel in the recent war. Several of the local managers are from -the North, some are from the South. Most of the workmen, white -and colored, who stand all day side by side, are gathered from -the surrounding region. Here the North and South meet and learn -to know and love each other. The Iron Company is helping to solve -the great national problem no less truly than missionary schools -and churches. It seems to me sometimes that its entire business -is carried on as a kind of missionary enterprise on the broadest -basis. Owning thirty thousand acres of land immediately about the -“Iron Works,” it exercises wholesome restraint over all classes. -Nothing seems to be overlooked; the church, the school, the home, -the village morals, the town adornments and the State, are all -cared for.</p> - -<p>Talladega College, a college only in name yet, is the rallying -point for our missionary work in this State. It is just such a -college as a missionary college should be, its whole work as a -school being subordinate to the church. It is a training school, -patterned after the missionary colleges of the American Board. -Its grand aim is to raise up a native ministry so as to plant -churches, and through them carry an intelligent<a class="pagenum" name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[16]</a> gospel to the -masses. We are not especially afraid that there will be any lack -of school-teachers. With our eye fixed steadily on our missionary -work, enough who cannot attain to the Christian ministry will -become teachers, and they, catching the spirit of the institution, -will become missionary teachers. It is surprising to see how this -spirit has taken possession of our pupils. There is scarcely one -who goes into the country to teach who does not organize his -Sabbath-school as promptly as his day-school, and pursue it with -even more interest. It is the first thing he reports on his return. -Hundreds are converted by this means; Bibles, tracts, religious -literature, and light are spread in all directions; thus are -constantly carried forward many Sabbath-schools, and through them a -glorious pioneer Christian work. Out of this work have grown eight -churches, so near to the college as to be its special care, and in -which a hundred conversions are reported for the summer just ended.</p> - -<p>Of the twenty pupils in the Theological department, all have been -reaping in this missionary field during the summer vacation, about -one-half as preachers. The home church takes a lively interest in -them during their absence. Prayer is made to God without ceasing -in their behalf, and often interested members go out to aid them -in their revival meetings. Letters are constantly received from -them to be read at the monthly missionary concert, and public -thanksgiving is rendered for the good work they report. Thus is -maintained a lively interest in Christian missions and Christian -work.</p> - -<p>There has been an evident increase of interest in our mission -churches about the college this summer; all but one report revivals -of greater or less power; one reports thirty-two additions by -confession; four report the completion of their houses of worship, -free of debt—houses hitherto unplastered and otherwise much -exposed, but now neat and comfortable, and everybody is happy -over it. One is building a new house of worship unlike any of -the others; it is built of logs, large and commodious. One poor -fellow was so intent on pushing forward to completion his house -of worship, that he expended all his salary for the summer, and -then pawned his Sunday clothes. On his return to school he reports -twenty-three conversions, his house of worship completed, but no -money in his pocket. If ever there was a man worthy of aid, he is. -He is now in my back-yard sawing wood. You will hear from him some -day. These young prophets of the Lord are making rapid progress in -the knowledge of the Bible and the system of theology, and wherever -they go, are beginning to be recognized by all classes as well -qualified to break the Bread of Life to their people.</p> - -<p>I am glad to report that the white people, seeing the character -and efficiency of these young men, are coming to understand and -appreciate our work. I believe they heartily approve what we are -doing. I have repeatedly experienced their hospitality this summer, -and had many conversations with them relating to our mission here. -From the president of a well-known college, down to the poor man -who did not know his letters, I have found nothing but approval. -The time is not far distant when this approval will be more -outspoken and pronounced. When the Christian men of the South and -your missionary workers from the North understand each other, from -that day they are one in Christian work. We bless God for this new -feast of love. Pray that no political excitement may interrupt the -growing good feeling.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>The Thin End of the Wedge—A First Thanksgiving Service.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. WILLIAM H. ASH, FLORENCE.</p> - -<p>Our work here in Florence is the “thin end of the wedge,” and with -sufficient facilities, the smiles of the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[17]</a> Master, and patience -in its workers, great good will result. The services are well -attended, and sometimes the house is disagreeably filled, and we -are without the proper means of ventilation. The members of the -church begged me to express for them to the Association their -sincere and heartfelt gratitude for the <em>new organ</em> sent them; it -has increased the interest of our services greatly. Last Thursday, -Nov. 28, the first Thanksgiving service ever held in this place -among the colored people was observed in our church; therefore it -has a history in connection with our work here. I made it a union -service, inviting the Baptists and Methodists to worship with us. -This congregation of Baptists, Methodists, and Congregationalists -worshipped as though Christ was the Head of the Church, instead of -any one of the denominations present. The service was solemn and -intelligent. It truly seemed that the Lord was in His holy temple. -After service a gentleman of about sixty or seventy years of age -said, “I have been here forty years, but I never heard of such a -thing as a Thanksgiving service among the colored people.” This is -the “dawn of a new age.” Pray for us.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>MISSOURI.</h3> - -<h4>Free Schools in the State.</h4> - -<p class="secauth"><span class="smcap">REV. J. E. Roy, D. D., Field Superintendent.</span></p> - -<p>This noble Western State, plowed by war and sowed to freedom, is -now coming on with harvests of temporal and moral prosperity. -As I have been going over its territory, looking after the five -school-houses of the Association, I have been delighted with the -evidences of progress in the free school system. It is a great joy -to see in these cities and towns the new, large, two-story brick -school-houses of modern style and furnishing. The system works -more slowly into the back settlements. But in a Kansas City paper -I see it stated that in the country places of Jackson County there -are <em>one hundred and fifty</em> of these schools. At Warrensburg I saw -the imposing three-story stone edifice of the State Normal School, -built by that town and its county of Johnson, and now occupied by -<em>four hundred</em> pupils from every part of the State.</p> - -<p>Special provision is made in the law for its enforcement in behalf -of free schools for the colored children. These are managed by -the same school board and are supported from the same tax fund. -These officers are compelled to provide schools wherever there are -fifteen of such scholars in the district. If they fail to do it, -it is the duty of the Superintendent to require it to be done. I -met one case where the out-districts declined to co-operate with -the Board in this matter, when only a threatened appeal to the -Superintendent brought them to terms. I have been gratified to -see the heartiness with which the five boards I have dealt with -are pushing the free school system in behalf of blacks as well as -whites. Nor have I been deceived, as some may imagine.</p> - -<p>The Lincoln Institute at the Capitol, as a Normal School for -colored teachers, receives an annual appropriation from the State -of $5,000. A democratic editor told me that that was considered as -a matter of honor, and that so there was no danger of its being -discontinued. This institution of sacred name had also a sacred -origin. For its founding, the 62d and 65th Regiments of U. S. -colored infantry, when discharged from service in January, 1866, -contributed a fund of $6,379. The Freedmen’s Bureau furnished -$8,000; the Western Sanitary Commission, $2,000; and agents Beal -and Lane raised $2,000. The building is of brick, 60×70 feet, -three stories high, a comely structure crowning a hill just out -of Jefferson City. Its current catalogue enrolls 123 students. It -is controlled by a local board, of which the Governor and State -Superintendent are <i lang="la" xml:lang="la">ex-officio</i> members. Revs. R. D. Foster and M. -Henry Smith have served<a class="pagenum" name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[18]</a> as principals the most of the time since -it was opened in 1871.</p> - -<p>The Association has its five school houses at Troy, Fulton, -Westport, Warrensburg and Lebanon. These were procured in part by -aid from the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1867–9. They were at first run by -teachers sent from the North, but were gradually taken up by the -local school boards. I find them all in such use now. Three will -probably be sold to those boards at their present low valuation. -Two will be sold to local colored Methodist churches, as the -schools require larger and better houses, which the authorities -intend to build. These houses have also been used all the time as -places of worship by the colored people. The seven or eight colored -teachers in these schools were educated in Lincoln, Fisk, and -kindred institutions. I have found them young people of character, -and of tact in handling their schools. They have to be examined. -They receive from $35 to $45 a month, about the same as white -common-school teachers.</p> - -<p>The A. M. A. has done the work of initiation. By this tour of -inspection I am deeply convinced of the wisdom of the A. M. A. in -putting its strength upon Normal and Collegiate institutions, and -so doing a wholesale business. Raise up teachers and send them back -into the country. Raise up the men and women for the professions -and for the higher walks of social life. That is the work.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>AFRICA.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>A CHURCH ORGANIZED AND DEDICATED AT AVERY</h3> - -<p>A meeting of Counsel and Advice was convened September 29th at -Avery Station, by order of Rev. Floyd Snelson, and, on solicitation -of the minister in charge, Rev. A. E. Jackson, to organize and -dedicate a church to God. Owing to our inability to reach Avery -on Saturday in time to hold preliminary exercises, examination -of candidates for admission, etc., this part of our duty was -deferred till Sunday morning. This, with our other duties, made our -programme for the day quite full.</p> - -<p>Early Sunday morning the Board met in the church to begin the -labors of the day. The sun shone brightly, yet we could but feel -that many round us were groping in darkness, without any clear idea -of Him in whose image they are made. Brother Snelson was elected -moderator, and A. P. Miller secretary. Brother Gomer, General Agent -of Shengay Mission, who favored us with his presence, offered -prayer. “Guide me, oh! Thou great Jehovah!” was sung.</p> - -<p>In absence of letter missive, the minister in charge gave his -reasons why a church should be established or organized at Avery. -He spoke of the willingness of the people to receive the story -of the Cross; said that some came far to hear “God palaver,” and -express their joy in being permitted so to do. Brother Hallock, -the interpreter (native), and Brother Wise, were asked several -questions. Their reasons were clear and very satisfactory. It seems -evident that the industrial work at this station, which gives -employment to many, is a means of good both to mission and people. -It was deemed fit to organize a church at Avery, to be known as the -Second Congregational Church of the Mendi Mission.</p> - -<p>By 11 o’clock, at the ringing of the second bell, the chapel was -crowded with natives, for the most part in native costume. Brother -Snelson spoke to them through an interpreter, telling them the -object of our coming together. The candidates for admission to the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[19]</a> -Church were then called forward. “A charge to keep I have” was -sung by the congregation. Prayer was offered by Brother Snelson, -after which the missionary hymn, “From Greenland’s icy mountains,” -was sung; and as it was being sung, each missionary, as he looked -upon the sable congregation, could but feel that the “harvest is -plenteous, but the laborers are few.”</p> - -<p>The roll was then called by Brother Jackson; after which the -candidates were examined, and by vote of the Council eighteen were -received into full membership. Some of the candidates were not -received because of not being legally married. They were instructed -to attend to this matter, and then they might be received into the -church. They are to remain under watch-care until this obligation -is met. After examination of candidates, Brother Snelson spoke to -them about things peculiar to their country—slavery, polygamy, etc. -The meeting was then dismissed to meet at 7 <span class="medium">P. M.</span> Brother -Gomer, who has for years known our work, expressed his astonishment -at seeing so large a congregation assembled in the house of God at -this place, and at the good order kept throughout the exercises. -Some of those received were old members, while others were new -converts, among whom were three chiefs, Peah Carle, Carray Phemah, -and Sei Lōtō. These men exercise a vast influence over their -people, and their being reached makes the reaching of their people -easier.</p> - -<p>The people assembled at the ringing of the second bell. “Praise -God from Whom all blessings flow” was sung. Brother Snelson then -led the congregation in the Lord’s Prayer. A hymn was sung, after -which the Rev. J. Gomer offered prayer. “Alas! and did my Saviour -bleed?” was sung. Portions of Scripture were read by A. P. Miller. -The services of organization and dedication were combined, owing to -want of time. Brother Snelson spoke through the interpreter, and -told the candidates what their step meant—turning from death unto -life. The church, too, he said, we had come together to dedicate to -God and His service. Brother Snelson preached, choosing Luke xii. -32, as his text—“Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s -good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” A comparison was made -between the people to whom these words were spoken and these our -benighted brethren. The promises of God were dwelt upon. We must -trust in Him for salvation. The dedicatory prayer was then offered -by Rev. A. P. Miller. A hymn was sung. The right hand of fellowship -was given by Bro. A. E. White. The address was delivered by Rev. J. -Gomer. The Lord’s supper was then celebrated; Brothers Gomer and -Jackson presided. It was a solemn scene. The Doxology was sung, -and the benediction pronounced by A. P. Miller. The meeting was -one long to be remembered. One more stronghold is now erected in -this land of night to tear down the powers of darkness. We have all -reason to thank God for His blessings thus far. A better day is -dawning for these benighted, long-neglected sons of Africa.</p> - -<p>Brother Gomer says that more laborers (colored) are wanted in his -mission. We, too, in a work so vast, can but ask God to prepare -such as are needed for a work so difficult.</p> - -<p>We ask the prayers of all lovers of mankind that the work -begun here may not only succeed, but that its influence may be -far-reaching.</p> - -<div class="float-left"> </div> -<div class="float-left"> - <span class="smcap">Rev. Floyd Snelson</span>, <i>Moderator</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev. A. P. Miller</span>, <i>Secretary</i>. -</div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[20]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>THE LATE INDIAN WAR AND CHRISTIANITY.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. MYRON EELLS, S’KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We have had another Indian war, and, as usual, there has been a -cry in favor of turning the Indians over to the War Department. -There are some, however, of us who will persist in seeing something -favorable to Christianity and the present policy even in this war, -and we think we have our reasons for it.</p> - -<p>I do not propose, at present, to thoroughly discuss the causes -of the war, for I am not well enough acquainted with them to do -so intelligently. Some will lay the blame on Government, some -on a Christian policy, and some on the Indians. Perhaps all may -have to bear a part. Although I believe that the Government -has often treated the Indians wrongfully, yet a long course of -observation has convinced me that the Indians are not all saints, -and when the Government is often crooked, either intentionally or -unintentionally, and two crooked sticks come together, there is -almost always sure to be trouble.</p> - -<p>The published statements of General Crook, who is not supposed to -be very sentimental in his feelings toward the Indians, and who was -at the Fort Hall Agency at the beginning of the war, implicates the -Government severely.</p> - -<p>A residence of nearly three years in Idaho, 1871–1874, in the -very region of the war, led me to believe that very little was -energetically done for Christianizing those Indians. This has -been true at some Agencies. Their annual reports show that while -the Government opened wide the doors for Christian work, when -the present policy was adopted, and said, “We will give you -opportunity, encouragement and aid, if you will only send the -Indians missionaries,” yet that Christians have failed to take hold -of the work as they ought to have done. If this was true of the -Indians engaged in the late war, Christians may have to bear a part -of the blame.</p> - -<p>Notwithstanding all this, some laurels have been added by the -late war to the Christian work which has been done among the -Indians. One “who wishes to be understood” has written a letter -in which he speaks very harshly against the Christian workers on -the Yakama Reservation, where Father Wilbur, of the Methodist -Episcopal Church, has been successfully laboring for sixteen -years. He says: “The present reservation system is a failure in -every respect. We, who daily come in contact with the Indians, -cannot be made to believe that prayer-books, praying generals, -and Methodist preachers, (or any other preachers,) are a good -safeguard against the tomahawk and the scalping-knife; and the -pseudo-philanthropists, the Christian-mongers of the East, who -are paying thousands to send missionaries among these barbarians, -would do us a favor if they would keep them away; and if the U. -S. Government would be less influenced in its conduct toward the -Indians by the advocates of Christianity, our wives and children -might be annually spared the sight of murdered husbands and -fathers. So far we have been loyal, while Indians, with passes -from Wilbur and other Agents, have been on the war-path. We have -reliable information that some of the dead Indians found after the -battles near Pendleton had on their persons passes from Wilbur.”</p> - -<p>Now it is probably a fact that some of the Umatilla Indians, and -perhaps a few of the Yakamas, were engaged in aiding the enemy. -There are always some renegade Indians connected with each tribe, -as well as white renegades and tramps. As tribes, however, they did -not engage in the war, and comparatively few individuals did.</p> - -<p>In the Indian war of 1855–6, before<a class="pagenum" name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[21]</a> Father Wilbur went among these -same Yakamas, they were the leading spirits, and it was the most -wide-spread war which has ever devastated this coast. If they and -the Umatillas had joined in this war, it would have been far more -terrible than it has been. Inducements were not wanting to lead -them into it. It is said on good authority that two thousand horses -were offered them by the hostiles if they would join them, and yet -they refused. An army officer in command of one of the battles said -that some of those Indians did nobly in aiding our soldiers to gain -the victory.</p> - -<p>It may be said that they had too much permanent property in homes -and farms, to allow them to engage in the war; for they knew that -if they should do so, they would certainly in the end lose it all. -This is undoubtedly so; and yet when Father Wilbur went among them -they had none of this kind of property, but only movable property -which they could carry with them even in war, as the Bannocks have -done. It is a fact that Christianity gave them this property.</p> - -<p>It may again be said that they were thoroughly whipped in 1855–6 -and were afraid to engage in war again. They were thus whipped, and -the remembrance of it may, even now, do them good. But in 1862–3 -Gen. Crook, the noted Indian fighter, just as thoroughly thrashed -the Indians in Idaho, in precisely the same region where the late -war was carried on, and the praise of his effectual work is still -in the mouths of the old citizens. This was seven years later than -the Yakama war, and so much fresher in the minds of the Indians. -No, it was evidently Christianity which prevented their joining in -the war.</p> - -<p>Gen. Howard, too, has added new laurels to his reputation. It must -be remembered that he is the principal one of our generals who -has not been in favor of the transfer of the Indians to the War -Department. This praying general has prosecuted the war with such -vigor that the strong papers with strong arguments have sustained -him, and almost invariably those who went with him in his rough -marches have defended him, such as newspaper correspondents, -scouts and the like, and the “stay at homes” have been about the -only ones who have found fault. His recent conference with the -Umatilla Indians since the war has shown such firmness, justice and -Christianity as to win for him very many friends among those who -previously opposed him, thus showing again that Christianity is -the way of dealing with the Indians. So Christianity has won its -laurels even in this war.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<h4>Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</h4> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. -<span class="smcap">Vice-Presidents</span>: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C. -Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. -Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., -Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, -Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, -Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. -John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. -Palache, Esq.</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h3>“THE CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE.”</h3> - -<h4>Its Origin and Organization.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. WM. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p> - -<p>Soon after our work among the Chinese began to yield results in -souls apparently converted, I felt the necessity of banding the -converts together for mutual fellowship, for instruction, and for -test-work; for it seemed unwise, considering the difficulties -under which we must labor in determining the genuineness of the -conversions, to bring them at once to baptism and the church.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[22]</a> -Yet they must not be left quite outside the fold, and I proposed -to them the organization of <i>The Chinese Christian Class</i>, into -which any Chinese might come who, in the judgment of those already -members of the class, had begun to believe in Christ. This class -was to have frequent meetings for prayer and for instruction in the -Bible; its members were to maintain a fraternal watchfulness over -each other, and were to be baptized only when, through a probation -of at least six months, they had proved to be steadfast and true.</p> - -<p>This class at first comprised only such Chinese as had been led -to Christ through the work of the Third Congregational Church in -this city, of which I was then the pastor. Afterwards it was found -desirable to receive to membership the Chinese connected with other -congregations, and to enlarge somewhat the scope or design of the -class. It was therefore reorganized under its present name, but -with the same principles and conditions of membership. Some of -the benefits, in the way of mutual aid and protection, which the -heathen Chinese seek to secure through their “Six Companies,” our -Christian Chinese, who have renounced all connection with the “Six -Companies,” gain through this Association. Its rooms are their -places of resort; a sort of home. They have made a little beginning -towards a library of Chinese works, mainly religious, written by -the missionaries. The regulations of this Association, prepared by -the Chinese, without assistance or suggestion, so far as I know, -from any American, have been translated for me into English, and -will be printed in full in our Annual Report. I quote here the 2d, -3d, 6th, and 8th Articles:</p> - -<p>“2d. Any one who desires to become a member of this Association -must forsake idolatry and all bad habits, and prove himself to be -a follower of Christ. He must bring references from one or more -members. His name must be brought before the Society a week before -he can be admitted, and he is received upon a vote of two-thirds of -the members. He must himself sign his name, and pay the sum of two -dollars as entrance fee, and twenty-five cents every three months, -this money being used to defray the expenses of the Association. He -is expected to do all he can to bring in new members, and to lead -his countrymen to Christ.”</p> - -<p>“3d. The members are expected to take part in the meetings for -worship, giving counsel and encouragement to one another. If any -member does wrong, he is to be kindly entreated and led back to the -right.”</p> - -<p>“6th. If any member continue in the violation of the regulations -of the Association, after three successive remonstrances, he must -be expelled from the Association. If he afterwards repent and -desire to come back, he is admitted without an entrance fee; his -admittance depending upon the sincerity of his repentance, as -judged by the members of the Association.”</p> - -<p>“8th. If any member desire to go back to China, he must give notice -to the Association one month beforehand. He must not go until he -has paid all his debts here. If he is really obliged to go before -he can pay his debts, he must find some one who will be security -for him.”</p> - -<p>There are now four Branch Associations, two in San Francisco, one -in Oakland, and one in Sacramento. Each branch supports itself -and is governed by its own officers. There are three—President, -Vice-President, and Secretary who also acts as Treasurer. The -statistics of these “Branches” are as follows: Oakland, 36 members, -one expelled, five gone to China, 11 baptized; total contributions, -$472.20, of which $117.25 was for Bible and missionary work in -California and China. Sacramento, 14 members; contributions, -$103.80. San Francisco, 82 members, four expelled,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[23]</a> two gone to -China, 10 baptized; contributions, $351.00, of which $178.00 -were for Bible and missionary work. Bethany (San Francisco), 9 -members, 3 baptized; contributions $244.50, of which $71.00 were -for Bible and missionary purposes. There are besides these, 23 -members belonging to the Central Association, who on account of -their places of residence are not yet identified with any “Branch,” -so that the total membership is 164. Of these 33 were received -the past year. The total amount contributed for all purposes was -$1,181.50.</p> - -<p>Besides this company of 164, there are 30 or more Chinese who have -been converted, as we hope, at Santa Barbara, San Leandro, Stockton -and elsewhere, in connection with our schools; and besides the -contributions above reported, there has been raised at Petaluma, -Stockton and elsewhere, certainly not less than $100. When we -consider the poverty of these young men, the smallness of their -wages, the drafts made upon them for parents and others dependent -upon them in China, then this $1,300 which they have contributed -during the past year for the nurture of their own Christian life, -or for the salvation of others, grows to its true proportions—in -our view, a token of real Christian heroism.</p> - -<p>I quote the closing sentences of the statement written for me by -the Secretary of the Association: “No death has occurred during -the past year. Our Heavenly Father has greatly prospered us, for -which we return Him hearty thanks. We are grateful that He has -put into our hearts a desire to have our parents and countrymen -in China brought to a knowledge of the Christian religion. We are -endeavoring to open a Chapel in Chuck Hum, China, and if we only -had means, could open as many as we desire. Most all the letters -that are sent to China members of the Association contain something -about the Christian religion, and urging the people at home to -discard idols and believe in the Saviour.”</p> - -<p class="center medium">OUR LAST MONTH’S WORK,</p> - -<p>as I reviewed it in the monthly reports, saddened me, and brought -over me the first big <em>wave</em> of discouragement which I have felt -since I entered on this service. The enrolment and the attendance -were both much less than I expected, and some of our smaller -schools seemed ready to die. I quote from one of these reports as -an example: “You will see that the average is very low, and I am -afraid it will be still lower. The boys seem to have lost their -interest in the school, and I am afraid that I am losing mine. It -is very discouraging to me, after doing a hard day’s work (for I am -working very hard just now), to walk three-fourths of a mile and -then have but one or two come to the school. Thank God there are -one or two faithful ones.” * * * “Now, Mr. Pond, I have laid the -case before you, and I ask your prayers in behalf of this little -school struggling to keep alive, and for the teacher also, that he -may not weary in well-doing, but that God will help him bear this -cross and try to save, at least, one soul.” To receive letter after -letter like that, while it draws out one’s love and prayer for the -writer, sets one also to asking, “Where is the Lord,” and what will -become of our work at this rate? But before the reports were all -in, news came that <em>six</em>, at least, during the month, had forsaken -their idols and appeared to have become disciples of Christ, and we -“thanked God and took courage.” Brethren, pray for us.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[24]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="section">FOR NOVEMBER, 1878.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $163.74.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belfast. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">$3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of -which $25.55 <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>) -$51.97.—Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, <i>for -Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">71.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams. $10. (ad’l) to -const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Lewis J. Thomas</span>, L. M.—W. H. W., -50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hallowell. Mrs. Flagg, $10; H. K. Baker, -$5; <i>for Printing Press, Talladega, Ala.</i> -(Incorrectly ack. in Dec. number.) -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Searsport. First Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. “Matt. vi. 3”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wells. B. Maxwell</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.20</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $217.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Candia Village. Jona. Martin</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. Ladies of North Ch., bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Exeter. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $27.—“Friends” -in Second Cong. Ch. $12, <i>for -a Teacher</i></td> -<td class="ramt">39.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keene. Mrs. Wm. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kensington. “Friends” <i>for N. H. Memorial -Inst., Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns, $30; -First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23</td> -<td class="ramt">53.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which -$27. <i>for Wilmington Memorial Inst.</i>) $31.41; -Proceeds of 16th Annual Fair, held by -Children of Cong. Ch. $12</td> -<td class="ramt">43.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, <i>for N. H. -Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C.</i> and to -const. <span class="smcap">Tenny K. Page</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thornton’s Ferry. Individuals, by Mrs. H. -N. Eaton</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.61</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $244.22</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. M. C. Torrey</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. -<span class="smcap">Joseph S. Shaw</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">37.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury. P. W. Ladd</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Johnsbury. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Blodgett, -to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. William P. Bennett</span>, -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. <span class="smcap">Albert H. -Cheney</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tunbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Enosburgh. Henry Fassett</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Fairlee. Cong. Ch. $12; “A Friend” -$1</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch. and Society</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Westminster. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. 12.54; Rev. D. N. -Goodrich, $2</td> -<td class="ramt">14.54</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.61</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $4,329.83.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Mrs. Jonathan Poor, $15.50.—“A -Friend,” $4.00, <i>for Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">19.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berkley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($25 -<i>of which for Wilmington, N. C.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">654.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. —— —— $15.00; “A Friend,” -75 c.; S. D. Smith, 2 organs, val. $200</td> -<td class="ramt">15.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. Sab. School</td> -<td class="ramt">20.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. Pilgrim -Cong. Ch., $30.00, to const. Mrs. <span class="smcap">W. A. -Ward</span>, L. M.; Prospect St. Cong. Sab. -School, $12.34</td> -<td class="ramt">42.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brimfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. E. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dorchester. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Easthampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Enfield. Edward Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">158.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburgh. J. A. Conn, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Florence. Florence Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">110.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Foxborough. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5.40; W. P. -P., 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Framingham. Ladies of Plym. Ch., 2 bbls. -of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Georgetown. Sab. Sch. Class in Memorial -Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Globe Village. Evan. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.76</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $27.75; Carrie -S. Dixon, $10, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">37.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harwich. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 2 bbls. of C. -<i>for Marion, Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">48.34</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holden. Mrs. J. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. <i>in part</i></td> -<td class="ramt">340.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lawrence. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for -Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lexington. Hancock Cong. Church</td> -<td class="ramt">12.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Littleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. (F. F. Battles)</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lunenburg. “Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lynnfield Centre. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden. W. A. Wilde, $25, <i>for bell, Atlanta, -Ga.</i>; H. R. B. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to -const. <span class="smcap">Geo. F. Kern</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Augusta P. -Adams</span>, L. M.’s</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Con. Sab. Sch. <i>for Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbury. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. half bbl. of -bedding, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Myricksville Precinct. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">110.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">49.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburyport. No. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">140.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norfolk. “Friends” $20, <i>for Woodbridge, -N. C.</i>; Cong. Sab. Ch. $8; Cong. Ch. and -Soc. $6.75</td> -<td class="ramt">34.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northampton. “W.”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Mrs. S. J. Kellogg, pkg. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwood. Mrs. H. N. Fuller</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. South Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Straight -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phillipston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rehoboth. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockport. John Parsons</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. South Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Straight -U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Scotland. James M. Leonard</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southampton. Cong. Ch. $14; Benj. N. -Norton $3</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">38.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southfield. “Friends,” $1.10 and pkg. S. S. -books</td> -<td class="ramt">1.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Memorial Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.25<a class="pagenum" name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[25]</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.81</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Truro. Rev. E. W. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough. Freedmen’s Mission Assn., -3 bbls. of C., <i>one of which for Atlanta U.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">1,158.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchendon. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. -$9.64; Geo. Cummings, $10</td> -<td class="ramt">19.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchester. Stephen Cutter</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Ch., $60.62; Old So. -Cong. Ch., $54.36</td> -<td class="ramt">114.98</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $198.95.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Central Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">73.95</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. “A Friend,” $100; Josiah -Chapin, $25</td> -<td class="ramt">125.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $893.73.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ansonia. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Avon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">120.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Black Rock. Mrs. J. P. Britten</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colchester. Rev. S. G. Willard <i>for Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Haddam. C. Higgins</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Enfield. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fair Haven. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Georgetown. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Glastenbury. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">150.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.46</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. $86.50; Windsor -Ave. Cong. Ch. $27.60.—Mrs. Chas. F. -Howard, $25, <i>for Howard U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">139.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kensington. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. First Ch. and South Soc. $18; -Betsy Metcalf, $10</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden. Julius W. Yale</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Rev. Geo. H. Griffin, $5; Albert -Baldwin, $5; Lucy B. Miles, $10, <i>for Printing -Press, Talladega, Ala.</i> (incorrectly ack. -in Dec. number.)</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford. First Cong. Sab. Sch., John -Richard’s Bible Class, $5; Rev. F. H. -Adams’ Bible Class, $5, <i>for Student Aid, -Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. College St. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Granby. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.86</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stamford. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.52</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Meriden. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield. Horace Savage</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchendon. Coll. by I. A. Bronson</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $877.45.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adams Basin. L. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. J. Davenport</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Buffalo. W. G. Bancroft</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clyde. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of T. Grimshaw, by A. -Traver, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Derby. Mrs. J. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.66</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ithaca. Mrs. H. Selby and others</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lockport. H. W. Nichols</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. G. H. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Dodge, <i>for -Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>, $200; E. S., 40c</td> -<td class="ramt">200.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. “A Friend,” $20; Mrs. R. A. B. -$1</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nunda. Four Ladies of Presb. Ch., bbl. of C. -and $1 <i>for Freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oriskany. A. Halsey, Mrs. L. B. Porter, and -Rev. S. F. Porter, $5 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paris. Val. Pierce $12, Mrs. Pierce $5</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard</td> -<td class="ramt">150.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Randolph. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Demarius Sheldon</span>, to -const. herself L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. “A Friend,”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $71.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boonton. Mrs. W. G. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montclair. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, -Hampton Inst.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $31.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Centre Road. J. A. Scovel</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newcastle. Mrs. J. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $144.80.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berea. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. M. H. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Edinburg. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lenox. Balance Subscription, <i>for Tougaloo -Inst.</i>, by Nelson French</td> -<td class="ramt">4.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mechanicstown. S. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Cong. Ch. and So., bal. to const. -<span class="smcap">W. F. Eccleston</span> and <span class="smcap">T. E. Rowe</span>, L. M’s.—50 cts. -additional for <i>Tougaloo U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochester. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Twinsburgh. L. W. and R. F. Green</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kokoma. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $112.91.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Delavan. R. Houghton</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Evanston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">42.03</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> Warren C. Willard, by -Prof. T. R. Willard</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntley. Rev. D. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kewanee. Mrs. C. E. Chapin, <i>for Student -Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nora. G. W. Warner</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rantoul. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.88</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. Mrs. Penfield, <i>for Student Aid, -Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton. Mrs. J. T. Wells</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $497.19.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ann Arbor. Dea. Sylvester Morris</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cross Village. Mrs. A. A. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Detroit. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">293.56</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Riverton. Mrs. J. Barnes</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hillsdale. J. W. Ford</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $5.19; -Friends, $3.30</td> -<td class="ramt">8.49</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lodi. Eli Benton</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok, $10 <i>for Camp Nelson</i>, -$5 <i>for Emerson Inst.</i>, $5 <i>for Indian M.</i> -and $5 <i>for Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Niles. Dr. James Lewis</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Romeo. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.42</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.22</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vienna. Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $183.48.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Anamosa. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castalia. W. H. Baker and family, to const. -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Hannah Williams</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Davenport. Capt. A. E. Adams, <i>for Scholarship, -Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elk River. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Maquoketa. Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.04<a class="pagenum" name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[26]</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monona. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monticello. Children’s Band</td> -<td class="ramt">0.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Riceville. Girls’ Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stacyville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Traer. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.30</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $29.68.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. First Cong. Ch., bale of C. <i>for Montgomery, -Ala.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva Lake. W. H. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Atkinson. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.18</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waupun. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $3.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Russell. S. H. Falley</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Solomon City. M. W. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $90.33.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lake City. Sab. Sch. and Friends, <i>for -Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">41.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hawley. Adna Colburn, Sr., $20; Adna -Colburn, Jr., $10</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $22.96.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. of Christ</td> -<td class="ramt">18.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White River. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.86</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $5.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Silver. Melinda Bowen</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI. $4.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warrensburg. Rent</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MARYLAND, $280.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, $200 <i>for a -Teacher</i>, and $80 <i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">280.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $230.66.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Atlanta University</td> -<td class="ramt">113.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brunswick. School Children, by S. B. -Morse, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">115.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.89</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $28.76.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbern. C. E. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Washington Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.76</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $262.66.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">262.66</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $40.00.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oakville. A. A. Bancroft</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $15.04.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toronto. Mrs. J. Thom ($5 <i>of which for -Cal. Chinese M.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">15.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"> Total</td> -<td class="ramt">8,983.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th</td> -<td class="ramt">$15,835.30</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right" style="margin-bottom: 0%; padding-right: 15%;">H. W. HUBBARD,</p> -<p class="right" style="margin-top: 0%; padding-right: 10%;"><i>Ass’t Treas.</i></p> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst, N. H. L. and L. K. Melendy</td> -<td class="ramt">1000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Woodstock, Conn. Rev. E. H. Pratt</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Norman Hart</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton, Conn. Rev. S. J. M. Merwin</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton, Conn. Miranda B. Merwin</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Mass. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Florence, Mass. “A. L. W.”</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Foxborough, Mass. A. L. Payson</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">159.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lakeville, Mass. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to -const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Caroline L. Ward</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield, Mass. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Scotland, Mass. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Barnstable, Mass. Rev. B. Paine</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Albany, N. Y. Mrs. M. M. Learned</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clifton Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Andrew Pierce</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. J. E. Howard</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fairport, N. Y. Mrs. Garry Brooks</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. ——</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Penn Yan, N. Y. Mrs. D. B. Prosser</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochester, N. Y. Gen. A. W. Riley</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sacketts Harbor, N. Y. Mrs. Anar H. Barnes</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Centre Road, Penn. J. A. Scovel</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Belpre, Ohio. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Recovery, Ohio. M. W. Diggs</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paddys Run, Ohio. Sarah Wilkin</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painsville, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Beardslee</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin, Ohio. Pres. J. H. Fairchild</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Michigan City, Ind. Correction. J. C. Haddock, -$5. (Nov. number) should read Mrs. -Clara W. Peck, $5.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Buda, Ill. J. B. Stuart</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00 -</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago, Ill. Prof. G. N. Boardman</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneseo, Ill. P. H. Taylor</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence, Ill. Correction. Mrs. H. B. -Gulliver, $6. (Nov. number) should read -“A few Friends,” $6.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wethersfield, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alamo, Mich. Julius Hackley</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Broadhead, Wis. Mrs. W. W. Matter</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milwaukee, Wis. Mrs. James Baker</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Patch Grove, Wis. M. A. Garsich</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitewater, Wis. Mrs. R. Coburn</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Natal, South Africa. Mrs. Abbie T. Wilder</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">2,125.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">4,659.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">6,784.20</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON NORMAL AND COLLEGIATE -INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wells, Me. Mrs. B. A. Maxwell</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hartford, Conn. H. L. Goodwin</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. Mrs. John Olmstead</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hebron, Conn. B. A. Bissell</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hebron, Conn. Dea. Jasper Porter</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to -const. <span class="smcap">Cornelia M. Cole</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Syracuse, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah T. Salisbury</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin, Ohio. Mrs. C. C. Wheat</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet, Mich. Wm. B. Palmer</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">——. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">415.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">190.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">605.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR YELLOW FEVER FUND.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thetford, Vt. Sarah J. Rugg</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland, Conn. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Mass. Chapel Ch. and Soc. $64.55 -and Sab. Sch. $15</td> -<td class="ramt">79.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy, N. Y. “Little Mary and Margaret -Cushman and Mamma.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orwell, N. Y. “A few Friends in Cong. -Ch.,” by Rev. F. N. Greeley</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange, N. J. Trinity Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tabor, Iowa. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">152.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts</td> -<td class="ramt">154.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">307.04</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ENDOWMENT FUND.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwood, Mass. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Samuel Morrill, -by Edward H. Morrill, Ex.</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[27]</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> -<div class="article"> - -<h2>The American Missionary Association.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3> - -<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with -the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted -its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their -duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries -in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the -caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate -with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the -<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p> - - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va. 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; -Ga., 12; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; -Texas, 5. <i>Africa</i>, 1. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 1. Total 66.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the -South.</span>—<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega Ala.; -Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; -and Austin, Texas, 8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at Wilmington, -Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; -Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11. <i>Other -Schools</i>, 18. Total 37.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>—Among the Freedmen, -231; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. -Total, 279. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College -Course, 106; in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, -taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. -<span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="medium">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with -the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by -<em>regular</em> and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble -as well as the strong.</p> - -<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span>, for the new churches we are organizing; -<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here -and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p> - -<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below.</p> - -<table> - <tr><td class="smcap" style="padding-right: 20px;">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr> - <tr><td class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House.</td></tr> - <tr><td class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.</td></tr> -</table> - -<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3> - -<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the -Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen -who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of -Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; -to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does -not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year -not less than five dollars.</p> - -<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary -Association</span> in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly -requested to use the following</p> - - -<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— -dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to -the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer -of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be -applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the -Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p> - -<p>The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States -three are required—in other States only two], who should write -against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, -their street and number]. The following form of attestation will -answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published -and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, -in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in -his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto -subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required -that the Will should be made at least two months before the death -of the testator.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[28]</a></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> -<div class="article"> -<p class="center large">PLEASE READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT IT.</p> - -<p><i>The “American Missionary” is printed and circulated for the -information of its constituency, and to keep alive their practical -interest in the work of the Association.</i></p> - -<p><i>It costs money to prepare and send to its readers so large an -edition as we find necessary.</i></p> - -<p class="center">THE SUBSCRIPTION PRICE IS ONLY FIFTY CENTS A YEAR.</p> - -<p><i>A large number of its readers come within the classes who are -entitled to it free.</i></p> - -<p><i>If others who desire to read it will send 50 cents to pay for -their Magazine, beside their gifts for the missionary work, it will -not only cease to be in any sense an expense to the treasury, but a -source of revenue.</i></p> - -<p><i>Is the request below, then, too great a favor to ask?</i></p> - -<hr class="full" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> -<p class="center large">PLEASE COPY THIS FORM AND MAIL IT.</p> - -<p class="right"><i>January 1st, 1879.</i></p> - -<p><i><span class="smcap">H. 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