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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 32, No. 03, March, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: December 10, 2016 [EBook #53709] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MARCH 1878 *** - - - - -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. XXXII. No. 3. - - THE - - AMERICAN MISSIONARY. - - * * * * * - - “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.” - - * * * * * - - MARCH, 1878. - - - - - _CONTENTS_: - - - EDITORIAL. - - PARAGRAPHS 65 - PAYING THE DEBT 66 - NEGROLOGY 67 - BILLS IN CONGRESS 68 - EDUCATION AMONG THE FREEDMEN 69 - WHAT CAN THE WOMEN DO?—SCHOOL ITEMS 70 - NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES—TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION—NEGRO NOTES 71 - CHINESE NOTES 72 - POETRY. “No Room in the Inn” 74 - - - THE FREEDMEN. - - GEORGIA: Atlanta University 75 - GEORGIA MACON: Devotion to Study—Conversions to Christ 78 - ALABAMA: Breaking Ground for New Emerson Institute - Building. Prof. T. N. Chase 78 - TENNESSEE: A Debt Extinguisher—The Happiest Girl in the - Land. Rev. T. Cutler 79 - - - THE INDIANS. - - THE INDIAN COMMISSIONERS 80 - - - THE CHINESE. - - ADDRESS BY FUNG AFFOO 81 - - - AFRICA. - - THE MENDI MISSION 83 - - - COMMUNICATIONS. - - EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D. 84 - FROM A LIFE MEMBER.—SLAVE AND FREE LABOR COTTON. From the - N. Y. _Herald_ 85 - - - THE CHILDREN’S PAGE 86 - - - RECEIPTS 87 - - - WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. 92 - - * * * * * - - NEW YORK: - - Published by the American Missionary Association, - - ROOMS, 56 READE STREET. - - * * * * * - - Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance. - - * * * * * - - A. Anderson, Printer, 28 Frankfort St. - - - - - _American Missionary Association_, - - 56 Reade Street, N. Y. - - * * * * * - - - PRESIDENT. - - HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston. - - - VICE PRESIDENTS. - - Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio. - Rev. JONATHAN BLANCHARD, Ill. - Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis. - Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass. - Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me. - Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct. - Rev. SILAS MCKEEN, D. D., Vt. - WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I. - Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, 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. - Rev. D. M. GRAHAM, D. D., Mich. - 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., Ct. - Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y. - Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon. - Rev. EDWARD L. CLARK, N. Y. - 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 THATCHER, 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. - Rev. H. M. PARSONS, N. Y. - PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass. - Dea. JOHN WHITING, 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. - - - CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. - - REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _56 Reade Street, N. Y._ - - - DISTRICT SECRETARIES. - - REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_. - REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_. - REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago, Ill._ - - 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, - AUGUSTUS E. 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. - - -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. XXXII. MARCH, 1878. No. 3. - - * * * * * - - - - -_American Missionary Association._ - - * * * * * - -By the brief extracts, given on another page, from recent letters -of our African missionaries, it appears that they were at last -accounts in good health and heart, and hard at work re-organizing -the church and schools, repairing buildings, and laying foundations -for future work. The death of Rev. Barnabas Root had left the -mission without a minister, so that its higher work had been -greatly interrupted. To keep the numbers good, and the working -force equal to the necessities of the case, it has seemed both -to those recently sent out, and to the Executive Committee, that -there should be a speedy addition to the Missionary band. It has -been the experience of other organizations as well as our own, -that missionary work suffers by nothing more than by having too -few workers in a place. We hope, therefore, before this number of -our Magazine reaches its readers, that two more good men, with -their wives, will be on their way to join the Mendi Mission. Albert -Miller and Andrew Jackson have offered themselves, in response -to a general call read at the Fisk University by Prof. Spence. -The former is a preacher who has nearly completed the collegiate -course, the latter a teacher just finishing the normal course, and -each will be accompanied by a good wife, able to sing and teach: -(one of them was formerly with the Jubilee Singers.) - -Thus strengthened by the addition of these four “fellow-helpers -in the gospel,” we look for good tidings from month to month from -Africa, and have less fear that the force already on the field will -over-work themselves in that warm and trying climate. - - * * * * * - -General Charles H. Howard, of the _Advance_, owing to a recent -attack of pneumonia, will, under the advice of his physician, spend -the remainder of the winter, and the spring months, at the South. -It was natural for General Howard, from his former connection with -the American Missionary Association as its Western Secretary, to -take a special interest in its work at the South. He has planned, -with our hearty cooperation, to visit a number of the institutions -and churches under our charge, and to inform himself and the -readers of the _Advance_ as to the condition and progress of our -work among the freedmen. The Association heartily welcomes all -such friendly observation and criticism. General Howard is now -at Savannah, Ga., and, after a trip to Florida, will return to -visit our institutions farther West in the spring. He will publish -letters on the condition of Southern society, and the colored -population especially, with whose uplifting he feels the warmest -sympathy. - - -PAYING THE DEBT. - -We are rejoiced to be able to report cheering progress in the -payment of our debt. Our last statement, in the December number of -the MISSIONARY, announced the payment of $30,416, thus bringing -the debt down from $93,232.99 in 1876, to $62,816.90, as reported -at the Annual Meeting in 1877. It also gave a list of pledges of -$5,000, reducing the balance to $57,816.90. Pledges and payments -have been made since that date, which reduce the amount to a little -below $50,000. - -The spirit manifested by our friends in this movement, may be -gathered from extracts from the letters we have received. A liberal -friend in New England writes: “I have thought for a long time of -your Society, and of its just call upon me for aid, additional to -what I do when I send you our church collection. * * I will soon -send you my check for $1,000” [it has been received] “for your -debt, and I will add another thousand during 1878, conditioned upon -the total wiping out of the debt in 1878.” - -A friend in Hartford, Ct. says: “I have from time to time received -reports of the doings and wants of your Association with much -interest. You may count me in as one of twenty-five, for a thousand -dollars for liquidating your debt, and I hope the full number may -soon appear.” - -Another Connecticut friend writes: “After getting through with the -very busy month, and inspecting the balance sheets, I conclude to -anticipate a little on the strength of my hopes, and promise you -five hundred dollars toward the debt. I wish I could see my way -clear to do more.” - -A gentleman in Springfield, Mass., whose “Unabridged” contributions -we have often had occasion to acknowledge, sends us his check for -$500. “A worshipper at Indian Orchard,” remits $500. - -One of our liberal and constant patrons at the West, tells his -experience thus: “I could not see where the funds were to come -from to aid you, but yesterday, to my great joy, the inclosed -three hundred dollars dropped into my hands, and as a faithful and -favored steward, I take great pleasure in handing it over to you, -to aid in extinguishing the debt of the Association.” - -Many expressions of regret come to us from those whose hearts are -with us in this effort, but whose means will not permit them just -now to help. We wish to express our earnest hope that an effort, -so well begun, will not be suffered to fail. It will be seen that -some of the pledges are made on condition that the whole sum be -raised in a specified time—an additional reason for promptness -on the part of those who desire to aid in the movement. We have -avoided thus far, the expense of collecting agents, and we trust -that the friends of the Association will continue to forward their -contributions, and thus save us from any such outlay. It will be a -triumph of economy, as well as of liberality. - - * * * * * - -Rev. Peter J. Gulick, a veteran missionary of the A. B. C. F. -M., died at Kobe, Japan, Dec. 8th, 1877. We record his death -with affectionate regret, remembering his annual contributions -sent to us for many years, accompanied with expressions of his -deep interest, in the uplifting to Christian citizenship of the -destitute and despised people of his native land. - - * * * * * - -_The Council Fire_ is the title of a new Monthly Journal, of 16 -pages, devoted to the history, character, social life, religious -traditions, government, current legends, etc., of the American -Indian, including also discussions of our relations to him as a -people and a Government. The fact that it is under the editorial -management of Col. A. B. Meacham, formerly Indian Superintendent -and Peace Commissioner, is a guarantee of its character and value. -It gives the current history of Indian affairs in all parts of the -country. - - -NEGROLOGY.[A] - -The political calm in the Southern States has apparently given -leisure for a somewhat wide discussion of the negro: what he is -in himself, and what he may be in the State. It is largely a -discussion by Southern men, and from a more or less distinctively -Southern standpoint. - -_Mr. Stetson_ gives a series of answers to questions, representing -the negro as he is, morally, socially and politically: the sum of -it all being, what might be anticipated for a race of tropical -origin, held for generations in slavery, and suddenly endowed -with political equality. Sensual and emotional by nature, lazy -and thievish by training, clannish and easily misled as a voter, -his salvation will depend on his receiving education, but not by -a forcing process, and on his coming gradually to the independent -exercise of his civil rights. - -_The South Carolinian_ gives an apparently frank representation of -the situation as it appears to the native people of that State. -The present shows more honesty and less crime, a renewed interest -of the whites, and the banishment of the blacks from politics. No -party will be tolerated “which aggressively, and in real earnest, -advocates negro rights.” He says: “The whites regard the negro as -an inferior animal, admirably adapted to work and to wait, and look -on him, ‘in his proper place,’ with a curious mixture of amusement, -contempt and affection. It is when he aspires to participate in -politics, or otherwise claim privileges, that their hatred becomes -intense.” In regard to Education, he writes: “There is great -prejudice in this State against free schools for any color; nor -have the airs put on by colored-school children contributed to -remove it. Policy, however, and past promises will probably impel -the maintenance of a free-school system for some time, at least, -but on a less extensive scale. It is proper to add that some -cultured Southerners are in favor of educating and elevating the -negro, as the best way to solve our race difficulties. But it is -doubtful if their views will prevail against inherited prejudice.” - -But _The Louisianian_ takes stronger ground. The Southern question -germinated when a slave was first introduced into the American -colonies. The institution of slavery made all the difference; -giving rise in the South to a “domineering and proscriptive -aristocracy,” with regard to all of the African race, and putting -all whites—poor or rich, ignorant or educated—on a footing of -equality. “There was a nobility in the white skin, more sacred -and more respected than the one derived from the letters patent -of kings;” more even, apparently, than that based on intelligence -or virtue. Slavery made of the Southern planters, “high barons -in reality, although not in name.” In the North and West, on -the contrary, there was a democracy politically, but a social -aristocracy, not recognizing the equality of the white skin. The -writer says: “The aristocrats of the South were the real ones; -those of the North were spurious. The Southern question used to be, -that of the maintenance of this supremacy over the whole land by -these real aristocrats.” - -Now “mediocrity is enthroned,” and the Southern question is the -free negro question; a reversal has been made—the body politic -has had its feet up and its head down. The author seems to see -nothing but the race question: the law of animal life, where the -strong destroy the weak, is the highest law he can think of for -its solution; where a weak race comes in contact with a stronger, -it must merge into it, or “subserve its interests and prejudices,” -or be wiped out of existence, and Providence so orders it. “There -will never be peace and prosperity in the Southern States, as long -as Caucasian supremacy shall be opposed there;” but, “we intend to -control the negro vote by superior intelligence, by persuasion, and -not by violence.” - -Equal opportunity for education should, he thinks, be given to -the blacks; but they should be discouraged from all “aspirations -and efforts which will end in disappointment,” [and this is the -sentiment, also, of so earnest a worker as Col. Preston of Va.]; -“and hasten a more active and deadly struggle.” - -It will be a surprise, we doubt not, and a disappointment to many -of our Northern friends, to find that such views, especially -those of the admirably-written article in the _North American -Review_, still constitute the substratum of thought among the -cultivated classes of the Southern States. For what such men as -this accomplished writer think in their bed-chambers, finds very -different and much grosser expression among men of coarser fibre -and ruder touch. We do remember that the last two writers quoted, -are from the two longest and most sorely troubled States, where -sentiment is probably more extreme than elsewhere in the South; and -we hope, indeed, to some extent we know, that there are many of the -natives of these States, who are not represented by these views, -but who have freed themselves from the dominion of the old ideas of -race-rule and caste prejudice. But we are glad to see these free -discussions, and from these varying standpoints. - -We are pleased to see that education is still not absolutely -denied in them, though the motives for its acquirement are largely -taken away. But we suggest to our co-workers in this field that, -even though the various States in which these freedmen live, are, -and have been, extending the advantages of their public schools -to children of the blacks, yet, with such sentiments deep-seated -in the minds of the educated, and so the influential class, this -provision is uncertain, and may be at any time diminished or -withdrawn. The substantial foundation for the permanent and patient -work of the education of the negro, must be in the minds and hearts -of those who believe in his manhood and in his education, for some -sufficient use. - -In regard to the general question, we believe it a law of God that, -as intellectual attainment and moral character are in themselves -of far more consequence than complexion or race, those who are -equal in these higher spheres easily overlook the differences in -things below. If we understand it at all, the Christian idea is -not that the strong should destroy the weak, but “laboring, should -support” them. The noblest sight on earth is when a superior race, -or family, or individual—we care not which—reaches down to an -inferior race, or family, or individual, to lift them up toilfully -and patiently to its own higher level. The aristocracy of Christ’s -kingdom is an aristocracy of service. And, in its accomplished -peace, the lion does not eat the lamb, but they lie down together. -It may be worth our while to practice a little here. - -FOOTNOTE: - -[A] “The Southern Negro as He Is”: a Pamphlet, by George R. -Stetson, Boston, Mass. “The Result in South Carolina”: _Atlantic -Monthly_, by a South Carolinian. “The Southern Question”: _North -American Review_, by Charles Gayarré, of Louisiana. - - * * * * * - -—A variety of bills have been introduced into Congress affecting -the interests of the red man. One to organize a territorial -government, to secure land to individuals, to missions and to -Church societies, the residue of land to be forfeited to the United -States. Another granting right of way to two railroads, and still -another for “a military and post-road bisecting the territory from -North to South”; taking for it a strip five miles wide, some 300 -to 1,000 square miles. Our large army could certainly travel it -without elbowing one another. Another still is arranged, to make -Indians having an organized government citizens by wholesale. - -Unfortunately, most, if not all, these bills indicate by their -origin, as well as by their contents, that they are in the interest -of those ambitious to get possession of the lands set apart by -treaty to the Indians, and that they involve an utter disregard of -the plighted faith and the sworn promises of the nation. - - -EDUCATION AMONG THE FREEDMEN. - -Under this title appears a valuable article in the _Methodist -Quarterly Review_, for January, by S. G. Arnold, Esq., of -Washington, D. C. As an early testimony to the capacity of the -African race, he cites a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in -1791, to Benjamin Banneker, a free negro of Maryland, who had -shown remarkable inventive and constructive genius, and acquired a -thorough astronomical knowledge. Mr. Jefferson says: - - “Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, - that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to - those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of the - want of them, is owing only to the degraded condition of their - existence, both in Africa and America. * * * * I have taken the - liberty to send your Almanac to M. de Condorset, Secretary of the - Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic - Society, because I consider it a document to which your whole - color has a right, for their justification against the doubts - which have been entertained of them.” - -The writer then gives a graphic picture of the active efforts -of the Christian world, to educate and enlighten this needy and -neglected class, as soon as the Emancipation Act had given access -to them. From 1863 to 1866, the work in the Freedmen’s camps around -Washington was, perhaps, the most conspicuous of all; so that in -this latter year, 42 regular day-schools, with 71 teachers, were -caring for 3,930 pupils. These were sustained from New England -and the Middle States, and by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, -Friends, Congregational, and various undenominational agencies. - -Then came the era of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which expended some -thirteen millions of dollars, and the free-school law for the -District of Columbia. The history of the Normal school, established -with much self-denying effort, and against great obstacles, by -Miss Mytilla Miner, is given quite at length, and a full and -appreciative sketch of the beginning and development of the work -of the A. M. A. The story of Fisk University and the work of the -Jubilee Singers is told at length. We quote from the closing -paragraphs of Mr. Arnold, this impressive comparison: - - “At the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, the whole - population of the United States was not very different in point - of numbers, from that of the colored population now residing in - the Southern States. The country had then been settled for more - than 200 years, and there were large interests of production and - commerce and government, which would seem to demand very liberal - provisions for higher institutions of learning. But it may be - doubted whether the advantages for education were not inferior - to those now possessed by the colored population of the South, - after a probation in freedom of scarcely more than a dozen years. - The only colleges which appeared to have been in existence at - that time are in existence still, and can be told by the number - of your fingers. We have seen that there are now in the South, - for the benefit of the negro, between 30 and 40 institutions - for higher education, with an annual catalogue of nearly 5,000 - students; and although they do not, as yet, graduate annually - through all the higher departments of learning as many scholars - as were graduated from the 10 colleges that were in operation - prior to the Revolutionary War, because the training is not for - scholarship, but for special work, it seems probable that the - educational power is greater and exerts a wider influence. - - “But whether this is so or not, the result of these brief years - of Christian work must be regarded as a phenomenon in the history - of the world. It is often said of the movements of our time that - they are only history repeating itself; but if there is anything - in history like this generous outpouring of effort and means to - redeem a great mass of human merchandise, and lift it up out of - its squalor and wretchedness to the level of our common Christian - manhood, we exhort the friends of history to produce it.” - -We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity, to recognize the -generous appreciation of our work which we have always received -from our Methodist friends—indeed, some of them are “ourselves”—not -the least valuable indication of which is the cordial and kindly -tone of the article from which we have quoted above from their -leading Review. - - -WHAT CAN THE WOMEN DO? - -We are gratified with the evidence which is coming to us from -various quarters, of an increasing interest in our Southern work -on the part of our Christian women. A letter from Rhode Island -inquires the cost of supporting a female missionary to work among -the colored women of the South in their homes, after the plan -mentioned in the January MISSIONARY. Another letter from Vermont -asks, more generally, What can the women do? How can they best help -the work by money and by goods? A word comes even from a missionary -in Constantinople, endorsing Caucasian women’s work for Negro women -in America. - -In reply to such questions, we are happy to give all the light -we can. A lady missionary, to devote herself to the work named -above, can be sustained for from $350 to $450 a year, according to -location; or, a lady teacher in one of our established schools, -for $250. A student’s scholarship is from $70 to $80. We are, -of course, glad to accept money for such special purposes, and -to use it as we are instructed by the donors. One of the most -pressing needs just now, in which we are sure of sympathy from the -house-keeperly instincts of our good sisters, is that of bedding -and table-linen for our Educational institutions. We hear from the -matron of Tougaloo University, that the press of students is so -great that she has used her last quilt, and may have to take up -carpets to cover the students by night. Others are nearly as badly -off. Perhaps the women of the North can do no better thing than to -supply this want for the remainder of this winter, and more fully -for another year. - -We have no fear that we shall for a long time lack specialties of -wants and pressing needs, which will appeal to all who have an ear -to hear, and a heart to sympathize. Meanwhile, the great work goes -on in all its length and breadth, in which the Christian women of -the land may well join forces with the Christian men, as they have -always done, and do their part to save and elevate a needy race. - - * * * * * - - -ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS. - -TALLADEGA, ALA.—“There are five Sunday-school prayer-meetings every -Sabbath afternoon, in which much feeling is manifested. In these -meetings four have expressed the hope of a new life. Others are -much interested.” - -TOUGALOO, MISS.—“There is considerable religious interest. Several -are inquiring, and a few profess conversion. We are running over -with students. We have put up a bed in the north recitation-room of -the primary building, and shall probably have to arrange another -bed in the same room before this week closes. We know of others -that are coming next week, and so on, and what are we going to do -with them? We have concluded to purchase lumber at once and put up -_barracks_ for twenty students, for the prospect is that we shall -have that many more young men. We can accommodate six or eight -young women in the Peoria room. The erection of barracks will -involve an outlay of some three hundred dollars; but the lumber -will all come in play when we build the new chapel, which we shall -be obliged to have before the sessions of the next year begin. If -the school continues to prosper we shall probably commence another -year with a hundred boarders.” - -NASHVILLE, TENN.—“We have a good school this year; about 270 in -all. We hold a half-hour extra meeting in the boarding department. -Some inquirers. About twenty conversions last term.” - -ATLANTA, GA.—“School is full. We have more pupils than for several -years before. There is some religious interest, though not so much -as we wish. Our purpose and hope is to make you a big contribution -toward the debt, by not asking you for any aid this year.” - - -NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES. - -MARION, ALA.—“We had an interesting day, yesterday, in our church. -It was Communion. Four girls from twelve to sixteen years old, -and one young man of twenty years, were received on profession. -A Female Prayer-meeting has been commenced at the ‘Home,’ and -promises well. The Teacher’s Meeting is also held in our parlor -every Friday night. Our evening meetings are well attended. We -enjoy singing the ‘Gospel Hymns.’ The people almost all sing, and -are not afraid to hear their own voices. Last evening seven or -eight of the brethren took part, and one woman felt constrained to -say a few words. Perfect harmony and good-feeling seem to prevail -in the church, and the prospects for the coming year are quite -encouraging.” - -MACON, GA.—“Our church is greatly blessed in connection with the -Week of Prayer. Daily meetings have been held for three weeks, and -the interest continues good. Several conversions have cheered our -hearts.” - - * * * * * - -We have been favored with a copy of the “_Minutes of the -South-western Georgia Teachers’ Association (colored), held at -Howard Normal School, December 1, 1877._” - -The graduates and students of Atlanta University seem to be the -leading spirits in this Association. The exercises were very much -like those of similar associations or conventions, though without -the set speeches of old wheel-horses, which are of doubtful -advantage. - -That parliamentary gymnastics were not entirely ignored is evident -from the following quotation: “It was moved that the roll be -called, for the purpose of members paying their dues. Thereupon -quite a discussion arose, when the previous question was called -for; the previous question was seconded, but the main question was -lost.” - -The report says of the address of the President: “He very -graphically described the field in which we are to do the work that -is to be done, and how it is to be done. He said that he felt sure -that ‘the Great Disburser of Human Events’ held something good -in store for the Negro. Teachers, you are the salt of the race; -lose not your savor, but keep pushing on in this grand cause of -education, and the heights may yet be reached in our day.” - -The Committee on the Educational Condition of South-western Georgia -gives the reins to its tropical imagination for a moment, when it -says: “We are exceedingly sorry to find our people in some places -_sleeping on Poverty’s bedstead, covered with the blanket of -Ignorance_.” - -Their statement that, in the eight counties reported, the -public-school fund pays only from thirty-three and one-third to -eighty cents a month per pupil, and that for three months only, -would seem to indicate that the public-school system of Georgia -is not very expensive or uniform in its operation. But it is -to be hoped that this little plant, so cautiously set by the -poverty-stricken farmer, may have a steady growth into a large and -symmetrical tree. - -We are glad to note the enterprise of our colored friends in -sustaining and directing for themselves this Howard Normal School, -and in holding these educational meetings, and we recognize in it -one of the cheering results of our work. - - * * * * * - - -NEGRO NOTES. - -HOME. - -—A colored gentleman of high standing and great influence—a -life-long resident of Philadelphia—was invited by Mrs. Hayes to “be -seated and talk on the political situation,” when the following -conversation took place: “It is very quiet now at the South, we -learn?” “Yes, madam; it is the quietness of death to the colored -people. My son is in jail for the crime of aiding in carrying the -State of South Carolina for the President.” - -—Senator Blaine, in a speech at Hot Springs, Ark., put the Southern -question aptly thus: “Perfect peace in the South will everywhere -follow perfect justice. There is no man in the country who desires -strife for the sake of strife, but there will always be strife so -long as there is wrong.” - -—There is a quaint, straightforward way of putting things sometimes -that strikes right at the root of things, an art which our colored -friends of the South seem especially to understand. And here is -what was sung recently at one of their meetings in Jacksonville: - - If you see Peter asleep at de gate, - Kase de night befo’ he was up so late, - You needn’t ’spect, with your load ob sin, - Dat you’ll slip past him and steal right in: - De angels always acts on de squar’; - Dey know you here, an’ dey’ll know you dar. - -Such singing would not be in order in our churches. But, after all, -isn’t there a bit of truth right here, and may not these lines be -reflected on with considerable profit? - -—A colored man, who very sensibly consulted President Hayes, before -migrating to San Domingo, received a letter in reply, from which -the following is extracted: “I have given some consideration to -your question as to the emigration of colored people from Florida -to San Domingo. I am not well informed as to the advantages offered -by San Domingo to immigrants, but my impression is that your people -should not be hasty in deciding to leave this country. The mere -difference in climate is a very serious objection to removal. The -first generation, in all such removals, suffer greatly. It is my -opinion, also, that the evils which now affect you are likely -steadily, and I hope rapidly, to diminish. My advice is, therefore, -against the proposed emigration.” - - -FOREIGN. - -—Stanley’s African expedition cost $115,000, and he discovered -15,000,000 uncovered Africans. The Worcester _Press_ says six -heathen for five cents is very reasonable. - -—The missionaries of the Church Missionary Society to Lake Victoria -Nyanza have been cordially received by King Mtesa. When the passage -was read in the Society’s letter, in which a reference is made -to our Lord, the king ordered a salute to be fired, which was -explained to be for joy at the mention of the name of Jesus. The -king wished especially to know if the missionaries had brought the -book—the Bible. He has himself since acted as interpreter to his -people at the Sunday services. - - * * * * * - - -CHINESE NOTES. - -—It is not often that the report of a minority of one is invested -with so much importance or interest as that found, in an unfinished -condition, among the papers of the late Senator Morton. We give a -very brief synopsis of its main points: - -A cardinal principle in our government is its openness to -immigrants from all parts of the world; it is not limited in its -statement by color, character or creed. While the Oriental nations -have come on to our ground, it is proposed that we should go -back to that which they have abandoned, and for the same reasons -which they have given up—interference with trade and labor, and -corruption of morals and religion. - -The security of our nation depends not on material wealth nor -general intelligence, but in devotion to the doctrines upon which -the government was founded, “And the profound conviction in the -minds of the people that the rights of man are not conferred -by constitutions or written enactments, which may be altered -or abolished, but are God-given to every human being born into -the world, and cannot be violated by constitutions, enactments, -or governments, without trampling upon natural and inalienable -rights.” Growing out of these doctrines is the policy of free -immigration, which we are at liberty to regulate, but not -proscribe, as we may lay down the conditions of citizenship, but -not consistently forbid it. Having given political rights to the -negro, it is inconsistent to renew race prejudices, and exclude -the Asiatics on the ground of color, civilization and religion. -These are the actual grounds of the prejudice. But the question -is not one of naturalization, but of permission to come into our -country to work, to trade, and to acquire property, though the -senator deemed it impossible that they should be protected, save -as they should be allowed to become citizens, to vote and to be -represented in the government. He refers to the fact that the -Chinese take ship from a British port, and that our dealing in -regard to their importation must be with the English Government. He -brings important testimony to demonstrate the value of their labor -in the construction of railroads and in the harvesting of crops. -In these especially, by their freedom from combinations to control -the price of labor, and as having brought wages to a level, which, -though still higher than in other States, makes it possible for -Californian manufacturers to compete with those of other States -and countries. But for Chinese labor, he says, California would -not have more than one-half or two-thirds of her present white -population; it is indispensable to farming operations; their labor -is as free as any other. - -The majority report, in its concluding paragraphs, says that -the question that now arises on the Pacific Coast will probably -have to be met upon the banks of the Mississippi, and, perhaps, -on the Ohio and Hudson. It is a standing menace to republican -institutions and Christian civilization. Free institutions, founded -upon free schools and intelligence, can only be maintained when -based on intelligent and adequately paid labor. Adequate wages -are needed to give self-respect to the laborer, and the means of -education to his children. Family life is a great safeguard to -our political institutions. Chinese immigration involves sordid -wages, no public schools, and the absence of the family. They show -few of the characteristics of a desirable population, and many to -be deprecated by any patriot. This problem is too important to -be treated with indifference. Congress should solve it, having -due regard to any rights already accrued under existing treaties, -and to humanity; but it must be solved, in the judgment of the -committee, unless our Pacific possessions are to be ultimately -given over to a race alien in all its tendencies, which will -make of it practically provinces of China, rather than States of -the Union. The committee recommend that measures be taken by the -Executive, looking toward a modification of the existing treaty -with China, confining it to strictly commercial purposes, and that -Congress legislate to restrain the great influx of Asiatics to this -country. - -—The San Francisco “Workingmen” (?) have, under the lead of -professional agitators, become more than ever threatening and -incendiary in their language. It was given out that the Chinese -passengers of the steamer Tokio would be attacked on their -arrival. At this point the authorities interfered. The mayor -appointed special police, and the two ringleaders were arrested -for conspiracy and misdemeanor, and put under heavy bail. General -McComb ordered the entire military force of the city to assemble at -the armories, and General McDowell gave assurance that the United -States troops would come to their aid if required. Under these -conditions the city scum ceased coming to the surface, but settled -quickly to the bottom, where it belongs. - -—Mr. Luttrell, a democratic member from California, has moved in -the House to amend the Steamboat Bill, so as to provide that no -American vessel shall employ, in any capacity whatever, a Chinese -or Mongolian. - -—Treasury statistics show arrivals from China of 160,979 up to -1875. In 1875 the arrivals were 19,033; but in 1876 the immigration -fell off to 16,879, owing to the April disturbance in that year -in California. For the first quarter of 1877 the number was only -965, but it soon began to rise again, and on June 31 the total -immigration was figured at 284,547. - -—The figures of the Custom House in San Francisco have been -collated to show that, out of a total of $6,692,000 paid for duties -on imports of foreign goods introduced during the past year, the -Chinese merchants paid $1,756,505, or over twenty-five per cent. -During the same time the Chinese paid for rent and water privileges -$223,000; for fire insurance, $96,000, and for marine insurance, -$86,000; they also paid $100,000 in taxes into the city treasury. - -—In 1875, of 7,643 arrests for drunkenness, not one was a Chinaman; -of 3,263 paupers admitted to the almshouse, only six were Chinamen; -of 83 murderers hanged during the last year in the United States -only one was a Chinaman. - -—Our antipathy is balanced to some extent by the appetite of Peru, -which has 60,000 Chinamen now within its borders, and so eagerly -desires more that an agent of the Peruvian Government is visiting -San Francisco with inducements to divert Chinese immigration to -that country. - - * * * * * - - -NO ROOM IN THE INN. - -REV. A. K. SPENCE, FISK UNIVERSITY. - -The occasion of the accompanying lines was this: While President -Hayes’ Peace Policy was being applauded through the land, a young -colored student, on his way to Fisk University, was detained -overnight at a station, as the trains did not make connection. A -hotel was near by, but he could not gain admission. He asked the -privilege of remaining in the depot, but that was not granted; so -he spent the whole night in the open air, pacing up and down to -keep warm and pass the time away. - -Ought there not to be in every hotel some comfortable place where a -colored man can get food and shelter? - - The weary stars went slowly westward to their rest, - And others from the east climbed up the zenith’s crest, - And chill winds smote him, shivering in the gloomy night. - Turning his wistful gaze to catch the morning light, - There, wrapped in sleep, on couches soft and warm, - The slumberers dream sweet dreams, nor think of fear or harm. - What has he done, with guilty hand and soul of sin, - That thus he stalks about, nor seeks the cheerful inn? - - His brow is dark, and dark the night, and dark his soul— - A tripple sea of gloom, whose waters o’er him roll! - And faith in man and God is low within his breast; - With many a bitter thought his heart is sore oppressed. - Like outlawed villain, stealing from the sight of men, - He crouches down, as if to sleep, nor slumbers then! - Athwart the darkness to his darker soul within, - The tantalizing light comes from the inn! - - But yesterday, huzzas came from a million throats, - ’Mid cannon’s boom and beat of drum and bugle’s notes, - And banners waved, and flowers were scattered by the fair, - And songs of peace and joy were in the quivering air; - And brothers, long estranged, clasped brothers once again, - And swore eternal peace and equal rights to men— - For him, though wrapped in clean attire, but sable skin, - No hospitable room is offered at the inn! - - Oh, brothers of this mighty land, from South to North, - Grasp hands of greeting, pour your pæans forth! - And ne’er by brother’s hand may brother’s blood be shed, - With burning towns and trampled fields and mangled dead! - Forget the past, nor let it rankle in your breast; - Rejoice together of one glorious land possessed! - But, oh! forget not him who, not for any sin, - But for the thing God made him, is debarred the inn! - - Oh, peaceful President of this great land, to thee - All thanks for thy good words for old fraternity! - Thy name shall be inscribed in gold on history’s page, - And read by countless multitudes from age to age, - If thou shalt teach a people, long in strife and feud, - To dwell in unity and seek each other’s good; - From prejudice of section, creed and race shalt win, - So all of every name and hue shall share the inn! - - Oh, brother of the sable brow, my brother, mine, - The night is dark and long, and yet the sun shall shine; - Patience be thine, and God-like charity and love, - And eye of faith and hope that looks to One above. - For scorn give benediction, and for insult prayer; - And go to Bethlehem’s manger, and remember there - Another was like thee, who, sinless, bore our sin! - And there shall yet be room for Christ, and thee, within the inn! - - * * * * * - - - - -THE FREEDMEN. - - * * * * * - - -GEORGIA. - - -Atlanta University. - - -ITS ORGANIZATION. - -REV. E. A. WARE, PRESIDENT. - -The first term of Atlanta University began, under its charter -granted in 1867, in Oct., 1869. The highest class, at that time, -was the junior preparatory. By a natural and steady growth, there -has come to be a regular college department, from which two -classes, (nine students), have been graduated, and in which there -are now twenty-four students; a scientific department, with four; -a preparatory, with 37; a higher normal, from which have graduated -five classes, (twenty-four students), and which numbers at present -68; and a lower normal, with 62 students. The higher normal begins -with the usual high-school studies, and continues four years. The -lower normal includes the grammar-school studies, and the first -two years of the higher normal course. Instruction in theology was -given, until the State aid was granted to the school; it has since -been discontinued. The home and family feature of the school is -made prominent. A lady has charge of the young men’s building, and, -so far as possible, takes the place of mother, making the house a -_home_, instead of a college barrack. The refining, elevating, and -restraining influence of this family life is incalculable. - -Every effort is put forth to make the Sabbath a power. The usual -church service is held in the morning, Sunday-school in the -afternoon, and prayer-meeting at night. The monthly missionary -concert is observed. The contributions at this meeting, for -the nine school months, amount to about fifty dollars. The -church prayer-meeting is held on Wednesday evening; the school -prayer-meeting for all the students on Friday afternoon. At this -meeting, the school makes weekly offerings, by the envelope -plan, toward the payment of the debt of the American Missionary -Association. - -The workers this year, including Pastor, Treasurer, Steward, -Housekeeper and Matron, number twelve. Among them are -representatives of Yale, Harvard, Amherst and Oberlin. - -The institution owns sixty acres of land, about one mile from the -centre of the city. That part of it occupied by the buildings, -commands an extended view in all directions. The buildings are -two plain, four-storied, brick dormitories, one for boys, the -other for girls. These also afford rooms for teachers, and the -basement and first floor of the boys’ building give space for -chapel, schoolrooms, library and reading-room. Many of these -rooms are entirely unfit for these uses, and are much needed for -sleeping rooms. By an hour’s work each day, the students care for -the buildings, cultivate the grounds, cut the wood, and do the -house-work, except the cooking. - -The Graves Library contains about four thousand volumes, and -has an endowment of five thousand dollars. The library and -reading-room are thoroughly used. Excepting for the library, the -school has no endowment, but depends for support on the American -Missionary Association, and the State of Georgia, which latter has -appropriated to it $8,000 annually. - -The name “University,” when adopted in 1867, signified nothing, -save as a prophecy. As such it was adopted. It foretold the -capacity of those, for whom the school was especially founded, to -advance in education, till they should need the advantages of a -full university course. It foretold the willingness of the friends -of humanity to furnish these advantages. There is no longer any -doubt of the complete fulfillment of the first prophecy, provided -the second can be speedily accomplished. - - * * * * * - - -ITS WORK. - -REV. C. W. FRANCIS. - -To prepare teachers for the education of the children of more than -half a million of poor and illiterate people is, and must remain, -the chief work of the school. The ability to read and write is the -smallest of the needs of the people, old and young, among whom -such teachers are called to labor. They must teach the elements of -morals and religion, of social and domestic life, must supply the -forces which are to shape and guide the people from serfdom up to -an intelligent, Christian citizenship. The course pursued in this -school consists essentially in separating the pupils by means of a -family school from all old associations and habits, and subjecting -them for months and years to a strong and watchful discipline, in -surrounding them with the most earnest and aggressive religious -influences, in giving them the best mental training and furnishing -which the time and facilities will allow, thus to stamp upon them -new characteristics, and mould them so that they will represent and -teach the best Christian culture and civilization. That they may -resist the strong influences pulling them down on every hand, they -need to be thoroughly fixed and set in character before leaving -school. Such a complete transformation of character and life as -is aimed at here, requires time and the constant exercise of the -highest skill and patience. It is no ordinary education which is -sought, but a special and peculiar training for a high and holy -missionary work. - -The demand for teachers from this school is continually greater -than the supply. In the last catalogue were the names of 214 -pupils, and of these, more than 150 are known to have engaged in -teaching during the year. In the previous year, out of 240, more -than 175 were at work in the same way. And this number includes -nearly every person in school whose age and attainments gave him -even the smallest fitness for the work. The school term lasts nine -months, and there is but one vacation, including the three summer -months. It is the practice of the pupils to pass directly from -school to their work in teaching, and many have done so for a -number of years, without going home or having a rest. They have in -day-schools an average attendance of thirty-five or forty; and as -most have night-schools, and nearly all organize Sabbath-schools -and temperance societies, it is not unreasonable to estimate that -more than 10,000 people are every season reached and instructed by -the present pupils of this school, while a still larger number are -under the instruction of former pupils. They, for the most part, -find their own places, collect the pupils, secure a building—either -a church, shed or cabin, or, in lack of these, build a log-house or -bush-arbor; and so, all through the hot months, the work goes on -from year to year. The seed is widely scattered, but it is not lost. - -This school bears a very close relation to the special church work -of the Association as well as to the general religious welfare of -the whole people. A large majority of the pupils become Christians -before leaving school, and only one or two have been graduated -without giving evidence of Christian character. There has been -special religious interest every year in the history of the school. -One missionary to Africa and several ministers in active service, -caught their inspiration here. - - -ITS INFLUENCE. - -REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD. - -The varied and powerful influence of Atlanta University is seldom -adequately estimated by the casual reader. Situated almost exactly -midway between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on the one hand, and -the Atlantic and Gulf coast on the other, it has an unsurpassed -opportunity for reaching the colored people of the South. Over most -of this large territory there is no other institution of so high a -grade, the nearest neighbors doing a similar work being Fisk and -Straight Universities at Nashville and New Orleans respectively. It -is especially fortunate in having no sectarian rivals to disturb -the harmony with which it is now doing a broad Christian work for -all denominations. - -The first and most direct influence of the institution is, of -course, upon its students. An observing visitor, listening to -a recitation, or attending any gathering of the students, can, -without much difficulty, distinguish the recent comers from the -older pupils. In modes of thought and expression, and in the -general bearing, the contrast is usually quite marked. These, -however, are only superficial indications of the deeper change that -is commonly wrought in the entire character. Frivolity is toned -down, carelessness corrected, punctuality secured, a respect for -the rugged virtues as well as the amenities of life stimulated, -and, in many cases, a sober and abiding religious earnestness -developed. - -The influence of the institution thus imparted to its students, is -next felt by the thousands of younger scholars whom the students -gather into their schools. So, too, the Sunday-schools and Churches -with which they are connected, and the entire communities in which -they move, receive a quickening impulse from their presence. “There -are three of us in that Sunday-school, _all with the University -ideas_,” was the significant remark of a graduate now teaching in a -large Southern city. - -Finally, the influence of Atlanta University upon the Southern -white people themselves has been a marked one. They have repeatedly -and handsomely acknowledged that the success of its instruction has -convinced them that the colored race can receive a high degree of -culture. The demonstration of this fact has an important bearing -upon the whole subject of public education. Not only the colored -people, but the white people of all classes, especially the poorer -classes, will receive great benefit from the quickening of public -sentiment, produced by the success of this institution. The last -official report on Atlanta University, by the Board of Visitors -appointed by the Governor, contains an emphatic recognition of its -very great influence, present and prospective. These are some of -the sentences from that report: “The Board are constrained to say -that the mental training was very satisfactory.” “No school in -Georgia ever had such a field, and its social as well as political -power may become immense.” “The pupils of that school will be -the moulders of their race in the State,” etc., etc. These are the -statements of influential white men in Georgia. Do the people of -the North realize how true they are? - - * * * * * - - -Devotion to Study—Conversions to Christ. - -REV. M. O. HARRINGTON, MACON. - -Many cases of interest come to notice in connection with our -school, showing the eager thirst for knowledge which these colored -people have. One incident to-day illustrates this. A young man, -twenty-two years of age, who has been connected with the school for -a few weeks, was obliged to go home a few days since, to attend to -matters of business. So anxious was he not to lose his position in -his class, that he started at 2.15 in the morning and walked about -forty miles, reaching Macon at 5 P.M. and this in the severest N. -E. rain-storm of the season. It makes our hearts sad to know of -many who would gladly come to our school, but cannot find boarding -places in town. - -The young man mentioned above has since found Christ to be his -Saviour. Rejoice with us! God is visiting us with His Spirit. The -Church is quickened to newness of life, and sinners are converted. -We observed the Week of Prayer; have continued the meetings every -night this week. Some of our strongest and best young men were the -first to start in the new life. All is quiet, but deep and earnest. - - * * * * * - - -ALABAMA. - -Breaking Ground for the New Emerson Institute Building. - -PROF. T. N. CHASE. - -On the 26th of December, ground was broken for the new Emerson -Institute building at Mobile, with appropriate services. A portion -of Scripture was read, and brief addresses were made by Rev. Mr. -Ash, pastor of the Congregational Church; Rev. Mr. Owens, Baptist; -Rev. Mr. Taylor, Methodist; Mr. Koons, principal of the school; and -Prof. Chase, of Atlanta University. Led by Miss Stevenson, Miss -Lord, a former teacher, and Miss Sawyer, of Talladega College, -the pupils of the school sang “Hold the Fort,” “Thank God for our -Country,” “Labor On,” etc., and Rev. Mr. Davis led in prayer. - -In the remarks, Mr. Ash spoke of education in its relation to the -individual, to society, to government, and to the Church. Mr. -Owens said that ignorance was our greatest enemy, and that the -building which was to be erected might be regarded as a fort, from -which guns were to be aimed at this inveterate foe, and exhorted -the people to sustain the teachers who were leading them in their -intellectual and moral warfare. Mr. Koons made a few statements -concerning the school, saying that its aim was not to advance -the interests of any political party or religious sect, but to -develop character and cultivate the minds and hearts of the people. -Mr. Taylor said he had been taught that the negro could not be -educated—that his brains lay in his heels, etc.; but he was glad to -see proof to the contrary in the speeches that had just been made -by Mr. Ash and Mr. Owens. Mr. Chase alluded to the burning of the -old Institute, the causes of delay in rebuilding, the fact that the -school was needed now, and the probability that it always would be. - -At the conclusion of these addresses, the old men, headed by Mr. -Taylor, claimed the privilege of removing the first earth; others -followed, without regard to age, color, sex or sect. - -The new lot is more accessible to the colored population than the -old one. It is known as Holley’s Garden, and has been a favorite -resort for picnic parties. On account of the great depreciation -in real-estate, the property, containing over two acres, and -having on it a house that will serve as a home for the teachers -and accommodate a few girls as boarders, and covered with nearly a -hundred large shade trees, mostly live-oak, has been purchased for -the small sum of $2,800. - -The new building is to be sixty-four feet long and fifty-four -in greatest width, and will accommodate 250 pupils, under five -teachers. Many of the bricks from the old building can be used, -since they were not injured by an excess of water at the time of -the fire. - - * * * * * - - -TENNESSEE. - -A Debt Extinguisher—The Happiest Girl in the Land. - -REV. TEMPLE CUTLER, CHATTANOOGA. - -On my return from the campaign in New England, I found the church -in a much better condition than I feared it might be. Except in the -falling off in the weekly offering, I could see no change. They had -been ministered to regularly on Sunday evenings, during my absence, -by Rev. J. C. Irwin, the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church. - -I was glad to find that a good degree of enthusiasm had been -awakened among them to assist in paying the debt of the A. M. -A. The Church had held a fair during my absence, at which they -realized about $20, which they had forwarded to you. The Band -of Hope had sent about the same amount. Then the band decided -to celebrate the anniversary of their freedom on the first of -January—Emancipation-Day—with a festival, the proceeds of which -should be appropriated to the debt. All the colored people, without -regard to church connection, were invited to be present and -contribute to this object. It was quite a success. The exercises -consisted of speaking, essays and songs, and were very creditable -to the performers. The singing was from the Hampton Cabin Songs, -some of which were new to this section. Among the speeches was one -on the emancipation of the blacks, another on the work of the A. -M. A. in the South, which were well delivered. One essay was on a -contrast between the slave and the freeman. Dr. Lawrence and wife, -who were here on a lecturing tour on temperance, were present. The -doctor made a short address, full of wit and good counsel. The -evening closed with a social entertainment. The proceeds, I think, -were about $30, which you have probably received ere this. - -The hearty interest manifested by all the colored people in the -payment of your debt is encouraging. If the wealthier people would -do as much in proportion as these poor people do, your debt would -not long be a burden. The Sabbath-school has caught the fever, and, -last Sunday, the proposition was made to send you all the money in -the treasury (about $15); but, on further consideration, it was -thought best to wait until we see how we shall pay for our lesson -papers. You will probably get the $15, however. I hear from other -Churches that a similar effort is being made among them. - -In addition to this, I am happy to say that the Week of Prayer -was observed, the meetings well attended, and the spirit of the -meetings excellent. Prayers were made for husbands and children -that are already answered, in a conviction on the part of those -prayed for that they must give attention to the things they hear. - -One of our most promising girls, who went to Tougaloo, Miss., a -few weeks ago, writes me that she has found the Saviour, and is so -happy. Let me mention another fact that has interested us here in -our home exceedingly. One of our girls has been very anxious to -get an education. Just before I went North, she asked me to see if -I could not find somebody who would help her. One friend gave me -$5, and that was all. Her heart was very sad when I told her that -I did not succeed in getting enough, but I encouraged her with -the assurance that if it was the Lord’s will that she should go, -He would open the way yet. In a few days I received a letter from -an old friend, whom I had not heard from for years, but who had -accidentally seen my name as connected with this work, in which was -a post-office order for $20. I put this with my $5, and told Jennie -she had better start; we would take this as an earnest of the whole -amount ($60) needed to finish the year. We are curious to know the -result of this venture. One thing we know, and that is, where to -find the happiest girl in the land. - - - - -THE INDIANS. - -[_From the New York Tribune._] - -THE INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. - -Annual Meeting—Missionary Co-operation—Interview with the President. - - -The Board of Indian Commissioners met in this city January 10th, -to receive the annual reports of the several religious bodies -to which, under the policy adopted by President Grant some -years ago, the selection of agents and other field employés of -the Indian service has been confided, and to make up their own -annual report. Representatives from the Presbyterian Foreign and -Domestic Missionary Boards, the Baptist Home Mission Society, -the several Yearly Meetings of Friends, the American Board, the -American Missionary Association, and the Unitarian Association, -were present. A report was received from the Episcopal Board. The -Methodist and Roman Catholic Boards sent no reports, and several of -the smaller denominations having agents also failed to present a -statement of their work. - -These annual conferences of the Board of Commissioners and -the representatives of the different religious denominations, -unofficial as they are, have been of great benefit to the -official administration of Indian affairs, and, at some critical -periods, have helped to save the peace policy from disaster. The -Conference this year has been unusually interesting, in view -of the disposition lately manifested to transfer the control -of Indian affairs to the War Department, and of a new class of -questions respecting the Indians themselves, which assume practical -importance in view of their rapid progress toward civilization. - -It appears that the religious sentiment of the country, as -represented by those who control and direct its efforts to civilize -and Christianize the Indians, is unanimously opposed to a change -in the present general policy toward the Indian, in the mode of -its administration; and many weighty facts and reasons are brought -to the support of this opposition. The new questions brought into -view, affecting the Indians themselves, are specified in the -following address to the Board of Indian Commissioners, adopted by -the representatives of the religious societies, and presented this -morning: - - “This Convention would respectfully express its deep interest - in certain recommendations, in relation to the welfare of the - Indians, which received the approval of similar conventions held - in former years, but which have not yet gained their rightful - place in the action of the Government. Among these are: - - “_First_—The extension of law over all the Indians, so as to - provide for the safety of property and of human life. - - “_Second_—Legal provision for the common-school education of - Indian children by the General Government, until such education - shall be provided by the several States in which they reside. - - “_Third_—Definite regulations to secure to Indians the possession - of land in fee and in severalty in all practicable cases by - titles properly guarded. - - “The Convention regards these three things as of the greatest - importance, indeed, as essential to the civilization of the - Indians, and as calling for the action of Congress without longer - delay. Further, the Convention would express grave doubts as to - the wisdom of removing Indian tribes to the Indian Territory, - or to larger reservations, in cases in which the Indians are in - a good measure prepared to abandon their tribal relationship, - and to enter on civilized life. They should, at the least, have - the option of remaining where they are subject to the conditions - of citizenship, before they are compelled to remove to distant - places, at the great hardship and suffering, and loss of health - and life, which such enforced removal always involves. At - the same time, this Convention is deeply impressed with the - importance of all wise measures that look to early self-support - of the Indians as citizens of our common country. - - “The Convention would close this address with thanks to Almighty - God for the progress that has been made under the humane policy - of the last few years, and for the evident advance of many of - the Indians in civilization and the knowledge of the Christian - religion.” - -It is understood that the Board of Commissioners will appoint a -committee to carry out these views as far as possible, by securing -necessary legislation by Congress. - -The following day the Convention, accompanied by the Board of -Commissioners, called on President Hayes by appointment. They were -presented to the President by General Clinton B. Fisk; and the Rev. -Drs. Lowrie, Clark, Strieby and Cutting, and Mr. Tatham, presented -their views briefly. Dr. Clark submitted a paper showing the -progress made under the present policy since 1868, claiming that it -was greater than that made in the fifteen years that preceded its -adoption. The President responded briefly, expressing his hearty -sympathy with all efforts to civilize and Christianize the Indians, -and his gratification at the progress that has been made, and -indicated practical methods to secure the additional legislation -desired. He did not seem to share the apprehensions of his visitors -respecting the early transfer of the management of Indian affairs -to the War Department. Mrs. Hayes, General Cox, former Secretary -of the Interior under President Grant when the Peace Policy was -adopted, and the Hon. Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, a member of the -Board of Indian Commissioners when it was first constituted, were -attentive and interested listeners, and took an active part in the -pleasant informal conversation that ensued. Following are some of -the items of Dr. Clark’s statement: - - 1868. 1877. - Houses occupied by Indians 7,476 22,199 - Number of Indian schools 111 330 - Number of teachers 134 437 - Scholars 4,713 11,515 - Acres of land cultivated by Indians 54,207 292,550 - Bushels wheat raised 126,117 688,278 - Bushels corn raised 467,363 4,656,952 - Bushels oats and barley raised 43,976 349,247 - Bushels vegetables raised 236,926 556,975 - Tons of hay 16,216 148,473 - Horses and mules owned by Indians 43,960 216,286 - Cattle owned by Indians 42,874 217,883 - Swine owned by Indians 29,890 121,358 - Sheep owned by Indians 2,683 587,444 - -In addition to these comparisons are the following figures: - - Number of Indians in U. S. about 278,000 - Wear citizens’ dress 112,903 - Houses built last year 1,103 - Money expended for education $337,379 - Indians who can read 40,397 - Learned to read last year 1,206 - Church buildings on reservations 207 - Indians, Church members, about 28,000 - Male Indians engaged in labor 34,632 - -(Five tribes in the Indian Territory are not included in these -figures.) - - * * * * * - - - - -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 Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E. -Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford, -Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq. - -SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq. - - * * * * * - - -ADDRESS BY FUNG AFFOO. - -The following address was delivered at the last Annual Meeting -of the California Chinese Mission by Mr. Fung Affoo, one of our -missionary helpers. It was listened to with much interest, and -at my request, Affoo has furnished it for publication in the -MISSIONARY. - - W. C. POND. - -“CHRISTIAN FRIENDS: I was asked to make an address here this -evening, but I have not much to say. I do not know your language -well enough. I have only a few words to say about the Chinese Young -Men’s Christian Association, of which I have been a member about -three years. This Association was organized not quite four years -ago. There are other Chinese Christian Societies besides this one, -in San Francisco and elsewhere in this State. This Association -has now a membership of 131; about three-fourths of the members -were gathered in during the last two years. It has given us great -encouragement, seeing that the work of this Association has been -thus far so successful through the help of God. But I am afraid -that some people would say that, while so much has been done for -the cause of Christianizing Chinese, only so little of the work -has been accomplished in return. But if they really knew the -difficulties and temptations in the way of our people becoming -Christians, they would say otherwise. - -“By being a member of the Association for three years, I have -known what their difficulties are. I will tell you a little of -it; perhaps it will illustrate to you some of their principal -difficulties. As the rule of our Association requires that ‘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,’ so, when he is a member, he must do accordingly; and -when he does that, his friends and relations will turn their -backs on him, and will have nothing to do with him. That makes -it very unpleasant, and he feels the loss of their friendship -very much; because it is a general thing among our people in this -country that, when a Chinaman first comes here from China, he is a -dependent on his friends and relatives, who provide him food and -shelter, and then find him employment until he has earned some -money; then he pays them back what seems to him right. He feels -it is his duty to respect and follow their advice, because of -their kindness to him when he was a stranger. So, when he becomes -a Christian, he not only feels he has lost those friends, but, -perhaps, sometimes gets a good whipping from his relatives also. -That not only prevents some from becoming Christians, but four or -five of our members have turned back under these circumstances. - -“But we make it one of our principal duties to make each one feel -that he has found some better friends in the Association than those -he has lost by becoming a Christian. Not long ago a young man -became a Christian, and his friends, not satisfied with abusing -and jeering at him, wrote a false report to his parents in China, -telling them that their son in California not only had forsaken his -old religion and the worshipping of his ancestors, but also had -cut off his long queue and dressed in foreigner’s clothes. When -they received this news, they wept and made many inquiries, and -worshipped all the gods they knew of, praying them to use their -spiritual power to turn their son back to be a Chinaman again, so -that, when they die, they will have some one to take care of their -bones and feed their ghosts. When the young man heard of this, he -wrote home to them, telling them it was true that he had become a -Christian, but it was not true that he had cut his queue and wore -the foreigner’s clothing, and said that he was a Chinaman still; he -would honor them just the same, and perhaps more. And he has not -heard from them speaking on this subject ever since. Now, friends, -such things as I have said often occur, but most of our members are -firm. When once they have become Christians, they will stick to it, -though they have so many hardships to bear. - -“They often encounter some hard questions about Christianity from -their heathen friends, such questions as, ‘If Jesus was the Son -of God and a good man, why did the people kill him on the cross? -People would never kill a good man that way.’ ‘You say, being -baptized with a little water pour on your head, and your sins are -no more. I can take the water and pour on my head, or wash me all -over fifty times a day!’ ‘You say God created heaven and earth and -man, and has power over everything; why He lets the devil live and -lead the people to go astray, and, when the people die, He will -condemn their souls and send them to hell?’ etc., etc. If they -cannot answer these questions, they will ask their teachers or -search the Scriptures to see what answer they can get from them—not -only that those questions may be answered but in hopes that their -heathen friends may be led to become Christians, also. - -“We feel we are weak and few in number, but we trust God, and lean -on His strong arm, that He will carry us through. We know that He -has been very good to us, and has given so many kind friends to -help us along; and we hope, through His goodness, that all our -people will soon know that Jesus is the only Saviour of the world.” - - * * * * * - - - - -AFRICA. - - * * * * * - - -THE MENDI MISSION. - - -The Church and the Sunday-School. - -REV. FLOYD SNELSON, GOOD HOPE STATION. - -We had our First Communion yesterday. It was a great day in the -church. All were in high spirits. We received one new convert, and -others are seeking the way of life. We observed the Week of Prayer -with the Church Mission Society, holding our meetings with each -other alternately through the week, beginning with us to-night. We -have a splendid Sabbath-school, and are doing all that we can to -make it better. - - * * * * * - - -The Day-School—The Christmas Entertainment—Knives and Forks. - -BENJAMIN JAMES, M. D. - -We have about sixty or more scholars, and, I tell you, to instruct -them in the way they teach schools in America is difficult; indeed, -more so than you have any idea of. With every attempt you make -to teach them in that way, you become more and more discouraged. -Our Sabbath-school is too large for the number of teachers at -present engaged, but we hope to remedy this soon. We gave them, -Thursday night, a Christmas entertainment. Mrs. Snelson cooked the -food, which was partly furnished by the members of the church, -and the remainder by ourselves. I was appointed to decorate the -chapel, and, I must say, to these people’s credit, that I never -had so many hands under my control in my life; and, as evergreen -after evergreen was placed in position, the laborers increased. -We not only had fruits, but poultry, vegetables, cakes, pies, -candies, raisins, and music. There were many strangers, such as -the Commander of the Port (a white man, with more decorations of -honor on his chest than in the ephod of a Jewish high-priest), the -Collector of the Port (white), the Catechist of the Established -Church (colored), seven merchants (two white and five colored), -the Postmaster (colored), Custom House officers in abundance (all -colored), military officials of all grades, from a captain to -a corporal. The church people, boatmen, and servants, were all -present. Several tables were set; but, I am sorry to say, that when -the laborers’ (such as carpenters and field hands) time came to sit -and to sup, the best had been consumed. - -I sat opposite a boat’s crew, and they began to laugh; as they -would use the knife, then the spoon (large), after that the fork, -such laughing after the use of each of these pieces of cutlery I -have never witnessed before. I began to inquire of the waiter, an -interpreter, what they were so much amused at, and he informed -me that they were laughing at their use of the knives, forks -and spoons. The spoons did not hold enough, they said; the food -rolled off the knife in their unsteady hands, and the fork was -like putting water in a fish-net instead of a calabash. Every day -since that, when they eat dinner, they laugh about those pieces of -cutlery. - -During Christmas-Day, services were had in the chapel; they were -begun at 5 o’clock, and continued until daylight. At 10 o’clock, -there was preaching to the prisoners through an interpreter. On -Thursday, at the banquet, we had singing and addresses to the day -and Sabbath-schools, for they both were invited. The girls were -marched from the chapel two by two, as were also the boys. This -was another new feature, and they were well pleased with it. - -I have had an extensive medical practice here and at Avery, and -have so much to do in this way, that I am compelled to ask you to -give me written instructions whom to attend, and how to proceed. - - * * * * * - - - - -COMMUNICATIONS. - - * * * * * - - -EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE. - -REV. J. E. RANKIN. D. D. - - The following paragraphs are from the paper read by Dr. Rankin at - the anniversary at Syracuse. It was intended that it should be - printed with the proceedings, but, by accident, it was not left - in the hands of the committee. We hope to publish it in full in a - series of documents which we have in preparation. - - After valuable historical statements, and a vivid picture of the - needs, and of the progress already made, among other good things, - the Doctor says: - -The southern portions of this country cannot always remain blind -to the truth that their _material prosperity_ depends upon the -employment of _educated labor_. Sociologists claim that an educated -laborer will produce twenty-five per cent. more than an uneducated -one. If a colored man is worth $100 a year without an education, -he is worth twenty-five per cent. more with one. The thrift of New -England has been largely dependent upon the common-school houses -there. Give a man education enough to transact ordinary business, -to enable him to keep his accounts in writing, to improve his mind -daily by reading, to understand the institutions of his country, to -have an insight into the laws which shall govern him in relation -to his neighbors and his God, to know his rights and his duties, -and he is twenty-five per cent. better as a _producer_ than he -was before. The necessity of keeping the colored man ignorant, of -keeping out discussions relating to human rights, involved the -other necessity of keeping a population unintelligent, unthinking -and, so far forth, unproductive, as appeared in the very implements -employed for tilling the soil. - -The southern portions of this country cannot long remain oblivious -of the fact that the _illiterate_ class are largely the _criminal_ -class; that ignorance fosters crime. In New England only seven -per cent. of the population—and these almost entirely of foreign -birth—are illiterate. Eighty per cent. of all the crime committed, -is by these illiterate persons. It really comes to this: “Which -is the wisest outlay of public money—that put into schools and -school-houses, or that put into almshouses and jails?” - -It is not merely intelligence which prevents crime. It is the -early formation of habits of industry. It is the pre-occupation -of the mind, so that it does not become the devil’s workshop. And -when one considers a late slave population, free but without the -training which freedom especially requires, inheriting all the evil -tendencies which slavery engenders; and then, on the other hand, a -white population, largely dependent for support upon the labor of -others, indolent from habit or from pride, and largely inheriting -analogous tendencies—it is easy to see that here is a state of -things especially favorable to crime. - -I know that these are _material_ considerations, that they are upon -a low plane of working, and very unlike those which actuated our -New England fathers, with whom the school-house was collateral to -the Church, and the spelling-book to the Bible. This of our fathers -is the higher plane of effort occupied by the American Missionary -Association. Political economists and statesmen can perceive the -material bearings of this subject, and, little by little, as light -spreads, the Southern States will be compelled for those reasons -to see that their people have facilities for education, will -comprehend the truth that school-houses and school-teachers add -to the value of acres—as the President lately said at Nashville. -Meanwhile, this Association, through its Normal Schools and -Universities, is training up colored teachers and preachers to -labor, as leaders, among their own people, as school systems shall -be founded and maintained by law. - -It is not enough that the different States of the South adopt a -liberal system of public schools. Where, among colored people, -shall suitable teachers be found? This race, like every other, -must work out its own salvation. Favored ones must mount high, and -reach down a helping hand to those below them. It cannot depend -wholly upon white teachers. Oh, if there could rise up from among -them gifted men and women, who were willing to devote themselves -to _their own race_, to different classes of their own race, just -for the sake of lifting them up from degradation! This is the aim -of these institutions of the American Missionary Association—to -train up the better, the choicer minds among colored youth, for the -work of teaching and preaching; so that they may be eager to devote -themselves to the mental and moral uplifting of their own race! -If this “land that was desolate is yet to become like the garden -of Eden”; if the thrift and industry of the more favored portions -of this land are yet to be seen in all portions, I believe that -no one agency will have been more instrumental in this, than the -institutions of learning early established for the colored people! - -At this time, the American Missionary Association limits its sphere -to schools of the higher class. If it can train the _teachers_; -if it can mould the minds and kindle the hearts of those who are -soon to mould the minds and kindle the hearts of the thousands of -colored children and youth, who are to be the colored men and women -of the future, it could not have a higher mission; it could not do -better, whether for the country or for the human race. - -Brethren, this is no longer a _Southern_ question—a question which -the South must be left to solve for themselves. We must help them, -as involved in the destiny which they work out for us, as well as -for themselves. For, if this millstone of ignorance be not taken -from their necks, we go down with them into the depths of the sea! - - * * * * * - - -FROM A LIFE MEMBER. - -I am glad you have returned to the old form of Magazine. Although -a Life Member, and thus entitled to receive it without pay, yet I -am glad to inclose fifty cents for it, and most earnestly hope each -and every one who receives the Magazine will do the same promptly, -and _thus increase the income of the A. M. A. twelve thousand and -five hundred dollars_. - - Yours sincerely, - A LIFE MEMBER. - - * * * * * - - -(_From the N. Y. Herald._) - -SLAVE AND FREE LABOR COTTON. - -Twelve crops of cotton have been raised by free labor, and the -comparison of the returns with an equal number of crops before the -war shows some interesting results. The period of free labor may -properly be divided into two portions—the first, including four -years, during which the crops of 1865 to 1868, both inclusive, -were made, and in which the labor system was greatly disorganized; -the second, including eight years—1869 to 1877—when free labor was -fairly well organized. If we divide the twelve crops preceding the -war in the same manner, we shall get the following results: - - FIRST PERIOD—FOUR YEARS. - - _Bales._ - Crops of 1849–’50 to 1852–’53, inclusive 10,729,874 - Add consumption of the South, not then - included in the commercial crop - statement 500,810 - ---------- - Total (slave) 11,230,684 - Crops of 1865–’66 to 1868–’69, inclusive - (free) 9,246,793 - ---------- - Excess of slave crop over free 1,983,891 - - - SECOND PERIOD—EIGHT YEARS. - - Crops of 1869–’70 to 1876–’77, inclusive, - being eight years of organized free - labor 31,570,212 - Crops of 1853–’54 to 1860–’61, inclusive, - being eight years of slave labor - immediately preceding the war 27,535,949 - Add Southern consumption then - excluded from commercial crop - statement, but included since - the war 1,261,892–28,797,841 - ---------- - Excess of free labor 2,772,371 - -In the last eight years free labor has, therefore, overtaken the -palmiest days of slavery, and has produced two and three-quarter -million bales more cotton. This crop is now more free from the -encumbrance of debt than ever before, and with it has been raised -a supply of food far greater than slavery ever compassed. - -Without entering into minute statistics, it is safe to say that the -money value of the thirty-one and a half million bales of cotton -produced in the last eight years has been over two thousand million -dollars in gold, and that over two-thirds of this value has been -exported. - -Texas, which seems to be the true land of the cotton farmer, has -made the greatest relative progress, now producing double the crop -of cotton that she made before the war. During the last cotton -year, on less than half of one per cent. of her area, or on less -than half an acre in a hundred, she produced a quantity of cotton -equal to one-half the entire consumption of the United States. - - * * * * * - - - - -THE CHILDREN’S PAGE. - - * * * * * - - -(_From the Southern Sentinel, Talladega College._) - -A YOUNG TEACHER’S STORY. - -I fully realized last April, for the first time, that I had begun -a missionary life, when I was helped into a covered wagon, where -there was not room enough to sit up straight for the supplies. I -had a dizzy headache before I had gone three miles; the smell of -bacon, cheese, tobacco, and whiskey was enough to make _any one_ -sick. I was wishing that the driver would take some of the things -out of the wagon so I could sit more comfortably, when he stopped -and took in four sacks of guano—my condition can be imagined better -than described. I thought the Lord called some one else, and I had -answered. When I got out, the man asked me which was the best—a -proud walk or poor ride. I only thanked him for his kindness, and -said nothing about which was best. - -Some say, time flies; it seemed to me that time had lost its wings. -At last the much-wished-for Tuesday appeared, beautiful and bright. -Just as I sat down to breakfast, I heard some one ask if the -school-mistress was in. As I had no appetite whatever, I excused -myself from the table, and went to the door to see what was wanted. -There were boys and girls of all sizes, with their buckets, books, -and slates, all ready for school. We were soon on our way to the -school-house; the walk was very pleasant through the piny woods. -The school-house was in a very pretty place; a few steps from the -door was a nice spring of water, and a large cave. We sang “What -shall the harvest be,” then prayed. It was quite difficult to get -their names. I asked one little girl her name; she said “Maggie.” I -asked her “Maggie what;” she said “Maggie nothing.” There was one -little girl in school that I thought never would get acquainted -with me. I asked her one day why she didn’t study her lesson; she -said she was wondering what kind of a woman I was. I asked her -what kind of a woman did she think I was; she said I looked like a -white woman to her. [_The writer is a dark person._] I told her she -might lay aside her books for ten minutes and take a good look at -me, so that she might be thoroughly convinced as to what kind of -a woman I was. I then asked her what she thought; but she thought -just the same. The weather was so warm, and the days so long, that -the children could scarcely keep awake. I would let them go to the -spring and bathe their faces, so they might keep awake longer. - -In the evening, four or five little children came and offered to -carry my books and bucket home, for the school-house had neither -door nor window, hence it was not safe to leave them there. I gave -each one something to carry, but they became quite troublesome. -Lucy would say, Mary had carried them twice, and she only once; so -I thought that it would be best to provide myself with a desk. This -I did by moving a plank from the floor and putting them all under -the house. That was no trouble whatever, for sometimes, while -walking the floor, the next thing I would know I would be under it. - -Whenever I went under, I expected to be snake-bitten before I could -get out. One day, one of the scholars let her pencil fall through -the crack of the floor, and asked me to let her get it. As I had -cautioned them about looking for snakes before putting their hands -under, I said nothing to her about it. Just as she reached down to -get the pencil, she fell back and screamed. I had not the power to -move for a few minutes, I was so sure she was snake-bitten. - -I looked under the floor, and there was the _largest rattlesnake I -ever saw_. We all got sticks and poles ready for a battle. I was -captain, so you may be sure which side whipped. The snake appeared -to be very angry; he made one strike, and I threw down my pole and -ran, and told the children to kill it if they could,—but they all -followed me. I was real glad whenever any of the children had to be -kept in, for I did not like to stay in the room alone. - -I walked two miles and a half every Sabbath, and sometimes through -the rain. If it rained hard while we were there, we would have -to get in one corner of the room to keep dry. We should be real -earnest if we would accomplish much good. I did everything that -was in my power, and felt that the Lord was with me and blessed my -efforts. - - * * * * * - - - - -RECEIPTS - -FOR JANUARY, 1878. - - * * * * * - - - MAINE, $692.38. - - Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. $70; T. U. C. $1 71.00 - Bath. Winter St. Ch. and Soc. 39.72 - Brownsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.41 - Castine. Rev. Alfred E. Ives 2.00 - Garland. Cong. Ch. 7.50 - Machias. Centre St. Sab. Sch. $25; Ladies’ - Prayer-Meeting $5.75, to const. MRS. WM. C. - HOLWAY, L. M.; “A Friend” $3 33.75 - Monson. R. W. Emerson 21.00 - North Yarmouth. Samuel H. Sweetser, to const. - MISS LUCRETIA H. SWEETSER, L. M. 30.00 - Orono. “A Friend” 5.00 - Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell $5; S. M. $1 6.00 - Oxford. Mary A. Ellis 2.00 - Portland. BEQUEST of Mrs. Samuel Tyler, by - Sarah A. Breslin 400.00 - Portland. Edward Gould 12.00 - Searsport. S. Thurston 10.00 - Sheepscot Bridge. Amos Flye 20.00 - South Freeport. Horatio Ilsley 2.00 - Winthrop. I. N. M. 1.00 - York. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 - - - NEW HAMPSHIRE, $424.27. - - Amherst. Miss C. M. Boylston 2.00 - Antrim. “A Friend” 100.00 - Chester. C.S.G. 0.25 - Colebrook. H. A. 1.00 - Concord. W. H. Pitman $2, _for Cal. Chinese - M._—Mrs. C. L. Gerould $2; Mrs. Cooper - Clark, bbl. of C. 4.00 - Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 12.10 - Dover. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $7; E. J. L. $1.00 8.00 - Farmington. First Cong. Ch. 14.50 - Fisherville. “Mrs. M. C. A.” 10.00 - Fitzwilliam. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hill 5.00 - Hancock. E. W. 1.00 - Harrisville. Darius Farwell 2.00 - Keene. Dea. E. Rand and Mrs. M. Townes $5 ea.; - Second Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1.40; Mrs. I. H. - Gates $5; Miss S. E. H. 50c. 16.90 - Lyme. S. W. Balch 5.00 - Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.83 - Mount Vernon. Mrs. C. W. Smith $5; J. A. - Stowell $5 10.00 - Nashua. Individuals 1.10 - New Ipswich. N. F. D. $1; J. W. C. 50c. 1.50 - Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.60 - North Hampton. E. Gove 10.00 - Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.50; Mrs. M. B. - Pratt $10 33.50 - Orfordville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 - Pembroke. “A Friend” 20.00 - Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const. - REV. E. H. RICHARDSON, D. D., L. M. 32.00 - Rindge. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.20 - Short Falls. Rev. I. W. C. 0.50 - Thornton’s Ferry. Ladies, by Mrs. Harriet N. - Eaton 2.25 - Temple. Mrs. W. K. $1; J. K. 50c. 1.50 - Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.04 - Wilton. A. B. C. 0.50 - Wolfboro. Mrs. Anne S. Banfield, to const. - RICHARD BANFIELD and ANNE FISKE BANFIELD, L. - M.’s 61.00 - - - VERMONT, $466.90. - - Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($30 of - which to const. MRS. F. C. WHITE, L. M.) 77.25 - Burlington. ESTATE of Mrs. R. S. Nichols, by - B. S. Nichols 100.00 - Burlington. “A Friend” $30, to const. MISS - ANNA E. CODEY, L. M.; N. S. H. $1; J. P. 50c. 31.50 - Castleton. Individuals 1.00 - Chester. G. H. C. 0.50 - East Hardwick. Ladies’ Soc., bbl. of C. and - $3, by Mrs. H. W. Stevens, Sec.; Mrs. L. W. - J. and Mrs. S. H. P. $1 4.00 - Fayetteville. Cong. Sab. Sch. $7; Asa Kidder $5 12.00 - Manchester. L. D. C. 0.50 - Newbury. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary A. Abbott, by - George Leslie 100.00 - Plainfield. C. S. 0.26 - Pomfret. Seth Conant 2.00 - Pittsford. Cong. Soc. 50.00 - Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $33.34; - J. H. B. 50c. 33.84 - Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.38; “Miss - A. T.” $5 28.38 - West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 12.42 - West Glover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 2.50 - West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Williamstown. R. D. N. 0.50 - Winchester. “A Friend of Missions” 2.25 - Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 3.00 - - - MASSACHUSETTS, $5,460.55. - - Amherst. L. S. Nash $2—Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $2 - and bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ 4.00 - Andover. Peter Smith 500.00 - Andover. Free Ch. $55.35 and bbl. of - dry-goods, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega C._—“A - Friend” $4; H. C. $1; Miss S. E. J. 50c.; E. - J. P. 25c. 61.10 - Auburn. “A Friend,” to const. JOHN DAVIS, L. M. 30.00 - Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $133.45; - “Friend” $20 153.45 - Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc. 46.00 - Billerica. Dea. H. B. S. 0.50 - Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. - $128.28; Mrs. Emily P. Eayrs $30, to const. - MISS EVELINE HOLCOMB. L. M.; C. G. Currier - of Old South Ch. $25; Phillips Ch., “A. F. - P.” $20; Central Ch. $10; Rev. Chas. Nichols - $5; Mrs. B. P. 50c. 218.78 - Boston Highlands. E. E. B. 0.50 - Boxford. Mrs. Elizabeth Sayward, _for Ind. - Sch. Talladega C._ 10.00 - Brockton. Joseph Hewitt $5.—Mrs. B. Sanford, - $2, _for a Student, Fisk U._ 7.00 - Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 79.19 - Campello. Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.17 - Cambridgeport. Geo. F. Kendall $5; G. B. C. - 50c.; A. A. P. 50c. 6.00 - Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 74.21 - Chelsea. Friends 2 bbls. of C; Mrs. P. N. P. - 50c. 0.50 - Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00 - Chicopee. Third Ch. $39.20; Second Ch. 15c. 39.35 - Dalton. Mrs. Z. M. Crane 100.00 - Danvers. C. W. L. 0.50 - East Braintree. Miss R. A. F. 0.50 - East Hampton. Payson Sab. Sch. $100; First Ch. - and Sab. Sch. by W. H. Wright, $37.50 137.50 - East Somerville. E. Stone $200; Franklin St. - Ch. and Soc. $75.15 275.15 - East Weymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 - Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) - $26.54; Young People’s Miss. Circle $20.05 - and 2 bbls of C.; Mrs. S. N. Briggs $10; - Mrs. Maria Fay $5 61.59 - Freetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $13.45; “A - Friend” $10 23.45 - Gardner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (_of which $8 for - Female Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._) 76.72 - Granby. Mrs. John Church’s S. S. Class $18, - and Mrs. R. H. Davis’ Class $12, _for Cal. - Chinese M._, and to const. REV. R. HENRY - DAVIS, L. M.—Cong. Sab. Sch. $10.43 40.43 - Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin 5.00 - Greenfield. Mrs. R. C. H. 0.50 - Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 26.80 - Gloucester. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 102.25 - Grafton. A. W. 0.25 - Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 91.26 - Greenwich. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.00 - Groton. Elizabeth Farnsworth $20; Union Ch. - and Soc. $8.13 28.13 - Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which $1 - _for C. M. Building in Cal._) 11.70 - Hanover Centre. Mary A. Smith 4.00 - Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. $123.65; - Mrs. S. C. 50c.; C. C. 50c. 124.65 - Hingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50 - Holbrook. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook and daughter, - bbl. of C. - Hollister. A. W. F. M. 1.00 - Holyoke. Second Ch. 15.00 - Hopkinton. D. S. 0.27 - Hubbardston. Sarah M. Ware 10.00 - Hyde Park. Mrs. C. L. Foote and Charles P. - Foote $5 ea. 10.00 - Ipswich. South Ch. and Soc. $26; Ladies’ - Prayer Meeting $5; Linebrook Ch. and Soc. $5 36.00 - Lancaster. Dea. L. R. 0.50 - Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.50 - Loudville. Mrs. W. S. R. 1.00 - Lowell. Eliot Ch. and Soc. $47.10; E. M. Buss - $5; High St. Ch. and Soc. 3.83—Friends, bbl. - of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._ 55.93 - Lynn. Josiah Richardson 3.00 - Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 69.75 - Medfield. Mrs. F. D. E. 1.50 - Methuen. W. M. $1; A. P. C. 50c. 1.50 - Milford. Mrs. B. Haywood 1.75 - Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.51 - Monson. “Ladies” $8;—Miss E. A. W. $1, _for - Midway Ch., Ga._ 9.00 - Montville. Sylvester Jones 2.00 - Newbury. First Ch. and Soc. $8.50; E. G. P. - 50c. 9.00 - Newburyport. Mrs. J. P. Cleaveland, a hhd. of - C., _for Ind. Sch., Talladega C._—S. N. B. - 50c. 0.50 - Newton. Freedman’s Aid Sew. Cir., by Ellen D. - Jackson, $70. _for Student Aid, Talladega - C._—E. D. J. 50c. 70.50 - North Adams. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.15 - North Amherst. H. S. $1; W. L. R. 50c. 1.50 - North Cambridge. _For Postage_ 0.10 - Northborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.09; Mrs. - A. E. D. F. 50c. 23.59 - North Hadley. Mrs. E. B. 1.00 - North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.16 - North Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.64 - Norton. Mrs. E. B. Wheaton 5.00 - Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $35; and Sab. - Sch. $15.67 50.67 - Peabody. T. S. 0.50 - Phillipston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.10 - Pittsfield. Asaph D. Foot 20.00 - Reading. Amos Temple 100.00 - Rochdale. S. P. $1; Mrs. R. W. 25c. 1.25 - Salem. J. H. T. 0.60 - Sandwich. Mrs. E. W. Wells $5; H. H. Nye $2 7.00 - Scotland. Rev. Isaac Dunham 10.00 - Southampton. Mrs. J. B. L. 0.50 - South Abington. Freedman’s Aid Soc. 2 bbls. of - C., _for Tougaloo U._—N. N. 50c. 0.50 - South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, - bbl. of C. - South Boston. Phillip’s Ch. 77.36 - South Weymouth. Second Ch. and Soc. 48.00 - South Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 - Springfield. Memorial Ch. $74.29; First Ch. - $62.56; Mrs. J. D. L. $1 137.85 - Sterling. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00 - Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.50; Mrs. A. - H. $1 20.50 - Stoughton. Mrs. B. E. Capen 2.00 - Sutton. J. W. M. 0.50 - Taunton. R. Luscombe 2.00 - Topsfield. Mrs. R. C. Towne and Friends, bbl. - of C. - Uxbridge. Willard Judson 2.00 - West Andover. Sab. Sch. 20.00 - Westborough. Rev. J. W. B. 0.50 - West Boylston. C. T. W. 0.50 - Westfield. Mrs. C. A. J. 1.00 - West Foxborough. J. M. P. 0.50 - West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15; “A - Friend” $2 17.00 - West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch. 23.96 - West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6.85; J. C. - Carr $2 8.85 - West Newton. ESTATE of Hadassah Stevens ($200 - _of which for Trinity Sch., Athens, Ala._) 800.00 - West Stockbridge Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.38 - Weymouth. ESTATE of Abby C. Pratt 582.30 - Whateley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.66 - Whitinsville. Executors, ESTATE E. W. Fletcher 200.00 - Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch. $37; Cong. Ch. - (ad’l) $5; Rev. J. R. Thurston $30; S. A. D. - 50c. 72.50 - Williamstown. Miss Emily Beckwith 10.00 - Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $12.09; “A - Friend” $10 22.09 - Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 138.50 - Worcester. Union Sab. Sch. $100; Plymouth Ch., - S. A. Pratt $25; M. W. 50c; Ladies’ Benev. - Soc. of Plymouth Ch., by Mrs. C. M. Draper, - Sec., 2 bbls. of C. 125.50 - Worthington. Mrs. M. S. Randall 2.00 - - - RHODE ISLAND, $79.82. - - Bristol. Mrs. R. R. 1.00 - Newport. D. B. F. 0.50 - Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. $49.82; - Elmwood Cong. Ch. and Soc. $7.50; M. E. L. - 50c; L. M. W. 50c 58.32 - - - CONNECTICUT, $3,332.95. - - Ansonia. “M. R. B.” 1.00 - Cheshire. “A Friend” 39.00 - Colchester. Mrs. M. J. G. 0.50 - Collinsville. “Friends” $100, _for Ag. Dept., - Talladega C._; Mrs. N. A. Bently $5, _for - Ind. Sch., Talladega C._; 105.00 - Cornwall. Miss H. D. C. 0.60 - Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift 10.00 - Bantam Falls. Eliada Kilbourn 5.00 - Bethlehem. H. B. 1.00 - Black Rock. Cong. Ch. 9.85 - Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 18.00 - Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch. $76.70; J. G. D. - $1; V. C. and J. B. $1 78.70 - Bristol. Cong. Ch. $169.77, to const. FRANCIS - O. LEWIS, ELLEN S. COOK, MRS N. L. BREWSTER, - MRS. S. P. NEWELL and MRS. FRANK ATWOOD, L. - M’S.—Ladies’ Home Miss. Ass’n $75, for _Ind. - Sch., Talladega C._ 244.77 - Burnside. Miss E. S. 1.00 - Danbury. E. B. 0.50 - Eastford. Cong. Ch. 7.64 - East Hartford. Cong. Ch. 60.00 - East Hampton. “Young People” $100, _for Ag. - Dept., Talladega C._; Talladega Miss. Soc. - $12, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega C._ 112.00 - Farmington. Cong. Ch. 158.43 - Glastonbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. - $200; G. M. J. 60c 200.60 - Greenwich. Geo. A. Palmer $30; Israel Peck - $5.50 35.50 - Greton. Cong. Ch. 7.20 - Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. $153.56; Mrs. - Mary C. Bemis $30.—Mrs. F. P. H. Wood and - Mrs. Geo. C. Perkins $20, _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega C._; Miss L. A. Bigelow $3, _for - Ind. Sch. Talladega C._ (_freight_).—Mrs. - John Olmsted $2.50; Mrs J. O. $1 210.06 - Hebron. L. W. R. 0.50 - Litchfield. “L. M.” 3.00 - Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.25 - Middletown. A. Doolittle $5; H. E. S. $1 6.00 - Milton. Mrs. Nelson T. Gorhan 2.50 - Millington. Cong. Ch. 2.25 - Mt. Carmel. “A Friend” 30.00 - Montville. First Cong. Ch. 4.00 - New Britain. Fred. G. Mead $70; _for Theo. - Scholarship, Straight U._—South Cong. Ch. - $44.43; Mrs. Wm H. Smith $30, to const. MISS - JULIA ANN KELSEY, L. M.—Mrs. Horace Wells - $20, and Levi S. Wells $10, _for - Scholarships, Straight U._—“Member South - Cong. Ch.” $10; Mrs. A. A. 51c 184.94 - New Haven. Mrs. Julia A. Dickerman $101; - College St. Ch. $40; Taylor Ch. $6; Henry - Johnson $5; S. S. T. and Mrs. E $1; C. A. S. - $1; J. M. 50c; A. L. 51c 155.01 - New London. Second Cong. Ch. $566.80; M. G. B. - 50c.; “Martha and Mary,” box of books 567.30 - North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.31 - North Lyme. H. M. 0.50 - Norwalk. Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n of First Cong. - Ch. $25; Mrs. Wm. B. St. John $3 28.00 - Norwich. Buckingham Sab. Sch. 25.00 - Old Lyme. “Three Friends” 13.00 - Stanwich. William Brush 100.50 - Stonington. R. Town 2.00 - South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Rocky Hill. Rev. Geo. Tillotson, _for Ind. - Sch. Talladega C._ 13.50 - Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.60 - Terryville. Dea. R. D. H. Allen $100; Cong. - Ch. Sab. Sch. $70, _for Ag. Dept., Talladega - C._ 170.00 - Thompsonville. D. P. 1.00 - Unionville. Cong. Ch. $30; Rev. J. A. Smith - $25; Dr. C. L. Beach $10; _for Ag. Dept. - Talladega C._—Edward Lyman $5 70.00 - Wapping. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 32.00 - Washington. “A few Friends” $9, by H. S. - Nettleton; F. A. F. $1 10.00 - Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. $150; “A Friend” - $100 250.00 - Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. CHARLES - A. BALDWIN and ARTHUR E. FREEMAN, L. M.’s 60.00 - Weatoque. T. J. W. 1.00 - West Haven. Cong. Ch. $19.13; Mrs. E. C. - Kimball $5 24.13 - West Meriden. E. K. Breckenbridge 10.00 - West Winsted. Second Cong. S. S., R. E. - Holmes’ Class 4.81 - Winsted. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $100; C. J. - Camp $50; J. T. Rockwell $20; Henry Gray - $20., _for Ag. Dept. Talladega C._ 190.00 - Woodbury. First Cong. Ch. $11.50; C. I. Miner - $5 16.50 - Yalesville. M. E. B. 1.00 - - - NEW YORK, $794.92. - - Albany. First Cong. Ch. 75.00 - Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher 20.00 - Berkshire. BEQUEST of Mary H. Allen, to const. - LUCY E. ALLEN, L. M, by James Allen 30.00 - Binghamton. Mrs. Harriet Halbert 5.00 - Black Creek. J. S. and M. T. $1 ea 2.00 - Brooklyn. Miss M. E. Horton $3; Mrs. Rev. - George Hollis $2 5.00 - Canastota. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Childs 5.00 - Chestertown. R. C. C. 1.00 - Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 5.00 - Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk. 3.00 - Deansville. “L.” 5.00 - Dryden. S. O. C. 0.50 - Dutchess Co. “A Friend,” _for Mobile, Ala._ 75.00 - East Otto. Mrs. D. T. 0.35 - Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol and T. - W. Chesebro $5 ea.; Dea. S. 50c 15.50 - Gouverneur. B. R. S. and E. R. B. 1.00 - Greenport. O. H. 0.50 - Homer. B. W. Payne and wife, to const. DEA. - EBENEZER RANNEY, L. M. 30.00 - Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones $10; A. S. P. 50c 10.50 - Kiantone. Mrs. E. C. Hall’s Young Ladies’ - Bible Class 8.00 - Kinderhook. W. I. 0.75 - Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, Marvin Day and - Alfred Seymour $5 ea.; J. H. W. $1 16.00 - Lockport. Cong. Ch. $32.57; Cong. Sab. Sch. - $30, to const. MISS FANNIE HAMILTON, L. M. 62.57 - Moira. Mrs. A. Dickinson. 1.25 - Morrisville. A. B. DeForest 50.00 - Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.67 - Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 19.09 - New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $15—“A Friend” - $10.50.—Wm. H. Ferrier $5, _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega C._—L. W. S. 35c 30.85 - North Walton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $8.09; - Missionary Soc. $19.42 27.51 - Orient. Miss K. M. W. 0.75 - Penn Yan. W. W. Taylor $5; W. T. $1 6.00 - Perry Centre. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Belle J. - Sheldon, Sec. 15.50 - Perrysburgh. Rev. Wm. Hall 18.00 - Pharsalia. “A few Friends,” by Rev. J. Clements 2.00 - Phœnix. Rev. H. P. Bake and family 5.00 - Rochester. Mrs. A. E. Albright $5; A. H. 55c 5.55 - Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. W. 0.50 - Sidney Plains. Rev. S. Johnson, bal. to const. - HON. O. C. WYMAN, L. M. 2.00 - Smyrna. Sab. Sch. Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch. 20.00 - Sodus. D. T. 1.00 - Spencerport. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 18.25 - Syracuse. Rev. J. C. H. 0.50 - Tarrytown. “A Friend” 70.00 - Tompkinsville. Mrs. M. S. 1.00 - Troy. M. and M. F. C. 0.50 - Volney. First Cong. Ch. $1.60, and Sab. Sch. - $6.18 7.78 - Walton. First Cong. Ch. $62.05.—Chas. S. Fitch - $5, _for Mendi M._ 67.05 - Warsaw. Cong. Ch. 20.70 - West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - West Camden. Mrs. A. L. C. 1.00 - West Farms. J. A. 0.50 - Westford. Mrs. G. R. 1.00 - West Greece. S. B. B. 0.50 - Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.30 - Whitestown. James Symonds 5.00 - - - NEW JERSEY, $52.25. - - Bound Brook. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for - freight_ 2.75 - Irvington. Mrs. W. H. C. 1.00 - Morristown. Individuals 1.00 - Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. (100 - subscribers _for Mag._) $30; Robert D. Weeks - $6; David Owen $1, and bundle Song Rolls 37.00 - Newfield. Rev. C. Willey 10.00 - Paterson. Mrs. W. F. 0.50 - Raritan. Miss S. Provost, package of Papers. - - - PENNSYLVANIA, $668.75. - - Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovil 5.00 - Cherry Ridge. M. D. 1.00 - New Athens. A. B. McC. 1.00 - Philadelphia. Benjamin Coates 500.00 - Philadelphia. Rev. Geo. Morris $100, _for a - Teacher_.—W. P. F., $1.00; Miss M. E. M. - 50c.; Rev. H. L. P. 50c. 102.00 - Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Ch. _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 15.00 - Pittston. Meth. Prot. Ch. 3.65 - Riceville. Cong. Ch. 2.85 - Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, _for Le - Moyne Sch._ 38.25 - - - OHIO, $427.06. - - Alliance. Welsh Cong. Ch. 3.55 - Andover. O. B. Case 6.00 - Ashland. John Thompson 2.28 - Brighton. Mrs. L. A. Strong 2.00 - Cleveland. Miss M. J. Weaver 5.00 - Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch. 2.50 - Delta. Mrs. M. B. Tanner 2.00 - Dover. Second Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Freedom. Cong. Ch. 6.65 - Four Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.30 - Hudson. D. Trowbridge 3.00 - Germano. J. P. 0.50 - Granville. G. P. Bancroft 2.00 - Kingsville. Myron Whiting $12.50; Rev. Mr. - Cummings $10; Mrs. Sarah Cummings $2.50, - _for Ag. Dept., Talladega C._ 25.00 - Lenox. A. J. Holman 5.00 - Marietta. Mrs. E. W. Burgess 5.00 - Medina. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., _for Ind. Sch., - Talladega C._ 10.00 - Morgan. L. C. 0.50 - Moss Run. M. B. F. 0.50 - Nelson. Mrs. M. A. Fuller 3.00 - North Bloomfield. “Friends,” _for Ag. Dept., - Talladega C._ 62.37 - Norwalk. A. N. 1.00 - Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. $25.45.—Mrs. Jane - Miller $10.00, _for Ag. Dept., Talladega - C._—Mrs. J. S. B. 25c. 35.70 - Painesville. Cong. Ch. $36.43 ($2 of which - from Mrs. Morley, _for Straight U._).—R. and - R. C. Marshall $15; E. Ames $5.—D. E. Gove - $1.50, _for Talladega C._ 57.93 - Peru. “Friends,” _for Ag. Dept., Talladega C._ 46.50 - Radnor. Edward D. Jones 5.00 - Ravenna. Ira B. Cutts $5; S. H. $1 6.00 - Ripley. Mrs. Mary Tweed 2.50 - Ruggles. Mrs. S. T. 0.25 - St. Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sr. 5.00 - Salem. A. W. A. 1.00 - Sandusky. H. C. 1.00 - Savannah. W. K. 1.00 - Saybrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00 - Springfield. Children’s Mission Circle $17, - _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._—First Cong. - Ch. and Soc. $11.28 ($5 of which _for Mendi - M._) 28.28 - Steubenville. “Friends” 35.00 - Sullivan. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Toledo. Mrs. P. G. H. 0.50 - Twinsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch. $4.75; J. R. - Parmele $2 6.75 - West Andover. Mrs. M. S. B. 1.00 - Wellington. N. D. B. 50c.; C. F. 50c 1.00 - Xenia. W. S. S. 0.50 - - - INDIANA, $6.50. - - Dublin. H. M. 0.50 - Madison. G. W. Southwick 5.00 - Newville. A. D. 1.00 - - - ILLINOIS, $1,004.91. - - Chicago. New Eng. Ch. Sab. Sch. $69.36, _for a - Student, Fisk U._—N. E. Ch. M. C. Coll. - $11.72; Union Park Cong. Ch. $31.49; Mrs. - Wm. Balthir $1.50; W. S. 50c. 114.57 - Collinsville. J. F. Wadsworth and wife 10.00 - Crete. Sab. Sch., _for freight_ 2.10 - Elgin. First Cong. Ch. $14.20; Mrs. G. B. $1 15.20 - Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ 58.50 - Galena. Miss Anna Bran 2.00 - Geneseo. Mr. and Mrs. C. Perry 20.00 - Greenview. H. W. W. 0.50 - Hamlet. L. C. 1.00 - Kewanee. Cong. Ch. $51; Mrs. I. A. T. 60c.; C. - L. C. 50c. 52.10 - Macomb. Rev. G. H. S. 1.00 - Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson $1.50; Mrs. C. - I. O. V. $1 2.50 - New Windsor. Cong. Ch. 15.00 - Oak Park. Cong. Ch. 16.70 - Onargo. Mrs. L. C. Foster 100.00 - Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Student_ 20.00 - Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. 37.45 - Rochelle. Mrs. A. C. F. 1.00 - Rockford. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, - Talladega C._ 25.00 - Saint Charles. W. B. Lloyd 5.00 - Seward. First Cong. Ch. 24.02 - Tonica. V. G. Lutz $5; W. B. 50c. 5.50 - Waukegan. First Cong. Ch. 2.37 - Wheaton. “Friends” 23.40 - —— “Friends” 450.00 - - - MICHIGAN, $135.38. - - Adair. Henry Topping 5.00 - Alamo. J. H. 1.00 - Benzonia. “A Friend” 5.00 - Birmingham. Rev. J. McC. 0.50 - Columbus. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Detroit. “F. M. S.” 60c.; S. Z. 50c.; Mrs. H. - A. 50c. 1.60 - East Saginaw. Mrs. Mary W. Wilder 4.00 - Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. (with $13 ack. in Dec. - receipts), _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00 - Grand Rapids. Rev. Geo. A. Pollard 2.00 - Grass Lake. Joseph Swift $15.50; W. G. R. 25c. 15.75 - Hersey. Cong. Ch. 7.57 - Lansing. R. B. 0.50 - Newaygo. Rev. J. N. Hicks 5.00 - Oakwood. Cong. Ch. 6.05 - Olivet. Y. M. C. A. of Cong. Ch. $12.41; P. A. - Stone $5 17.41 - Port Huron. Individuals 1.00 - St. Johns. A. J. B. 0.50 - St. Joseph. J. S. 0.50 - Richmond. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Romeo. Miss T. L. C. 0.50 - Union City. Andrew Lucas and family 5.00 - Vermontville. Mrs. C. M. S. 1.00 - White Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garner $20; - Mrs. W. G. 50c. 20.50 - - - WISCONSIN, $201.37. - - Beloit. Second Cong. Ch. $28.35.—Second Cong. - Sab. Sch. $12.01, _for a Student, Fisk - U._—W. P. 50c. 40.86 - Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Smith 5.00 - Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. 20.00 - Oshkosh. H. S. M. 0.50 - Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Student_ 25.00 - Menasha. “A Friend” $15; Cong. Ch. $12.31 27.31 - Milton. Cong. Ch. 7.67 - Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch. 28.03 - Raymond. T. Sands $5; C. S. Davis $1 6.00 - Ripon. Rev. H. W. C. 0.50 - Sheboygan. Mrs. L. H. Chase 10.50 - Union Grove. Dr. A. 1.00 - Waukesha. Cong. Ch. $24; V. Tichenor $5. 29.00 - - - IOWA, $67.81. - - Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall 5.00 - Carroll. Rev. G. W. P. 0.50 - Chester. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., bbl of C. - and $2, _for freight_ 2.00 - Clay. Cong. Ch. 5.50 - Cresco. Cong. Ch. 6.40 - Eldora. “Busy Bees” Cong. Sab. Sch. $10; - Woman’s Cent. Soc. $4.85 14.85 - Kellogg. Cong. Ch. 7.00 - Lyons. “E. L. H.” 2.00 - Muscatine. E. W. 0.50 - Monroe. Cong. Ch. 3.56 - Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield and wife. 7.00 - Sherrills’ Mount. Rev. J. R. 0.50 - Sioux City. Wm. K. Smith. 3.00 - Waltham. Wm. Mason 10.00 - - - KANSAS, $47.38. - - Albany. C. B. S. 0.50 - Atchison. Cong. Ch. 18.00 - Burlingame. M. S. L. 0.25 - Manhattan. Cong. Ch. $16.43; Cong. Sab. Sch. - (Missionary Gardens) $7.88; Rev. Roswell - Parker $2.00 26.31 - Reno Centre. Cong. Ch. 2.32 - - - MINNESOTA, $113.46. - - Austin. Cong. Ch. $16.08.—Cong. Sab. Sch. - $8.55, _for a Student_ 24.63 - Faribault. Cong. Ch. 19.60 - Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 10.00 - Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 28.33 - Northfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, _for Student - Aid, Talladega C._—First Cong. Ch. $8.90 18.90 - Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 12.00 - - - NEBRASKA, $8.50. - - Fontanelle. By Rev. R. Gaylord 5.00 - Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke 3.50 - - - CALIFORNIA, $25. - - San Francisco. Mrs. N. Gray 25.00 - - - OREGON, $17.10. - - Forest Grove. Cong. Ch. 7.50 - The Dalles. Cong. Ch. 9.60 - - - MARYLAND, $20.50. - - Baltimore. W. K. Karson $10; R. K. H. 50c. 10.50 - Federalsburgh. Sarah A. Beals 10.00 - - - TENNESSEE, $412.50. - - Chattanooga. Rent $112; Cong. Ch. $29 141.00 - Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 101.85 - Nashville. Fisk University 169.65 - - - NORTH CAROLINA, $212.14. - - Raleigh. Public Fund $76.18; Washington Sch. - $20.38; Cong. Ch. $2.50 99.06 - Wilmington. Normal Sch. $106.75; Cong. Ch. - $6.33 113.08 - - - SOUTH CAROLINA, $186.50. - - Charleston. Avery Inst. 186.50 - - - ALABAMA, $305.05. - - Athens. Trinity Sch. 68.50 - Huntsville. Mr. J. H. C. 0.50 - Mobile. Emerson Inst. 155.50 - Selma. Cong. Ch. $7.75; First Cong. Ch. $6 13.75 - Talladega. Talladega College 66.80 - - - GEORGIA, $107.37. - - Macon. Lewis High Sch. 23.50 - Savannah. Beach Inst. 83.87 - - - LOUISIANA, $107.25. - - New Orleans. Straight University 107.25 - - - MISSISSIPPI, $1,067.00. - - Tougaloo. Public Fund 988.00 - Tougaloo. Tougaloo University 79.00 - - - MISSOURI, $5.00. - - Saint Louis. Mrs. P. Chapman 5.00 - - - INCOME FUND, $197.32. - - Graves Library, Atlanta University 150.00 - Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_ 47.32 - - - SCOTLAND, $100.00. - - Kilmarnock. John Stewart, _for a Teacher_ 100.00 - - - CANADA, $4.04. - - Paris. Mrs. N. Hamilton 4.04 - —————————— - Total $16,751.93 - - - Total to Dec. 31st, 1877 $42,305.54 - Of which for Debt 1,693.02 - —————————— - - Total, excluding amount for Debt 40,612.52 - —————————— - Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st. $57,364.45 - - H. W. HUBBARD, - _Ass’t Treas._ - - * * * * * - - RECEIVED FOR DEBT. - - Wentworth, N. H. Ephraim Cook 5.00 - Andover, Mass. John Smith 500.00 - Springfield, Mass. “H. M.” 500.00 - —— Mass. “A Worshipper at Indian Orchard” 500.00 - Oxford, Mass. “S. C. P.” 100.00 - Newburyport, Mass. “A Friend” 5.00 - Hartford, Conn. Erastus Collins 200.00 - Stanwich, Conn. Wm. Brush 100.00 - Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Mary G. Chittenden 20.00 - Chattanooga, Tenn. Band of Hope, No. 1. 30.00 - Nashville, Tenn. Teachers, Workers and - Students of Fisk University (ad’l) 8.00 - Charleston, S. C. Avery Inst., Proceeds of - Concert 38.60 - Orangeburg S. C. Ladies’ Miss. Assn’n of Cong. - Ch. 1.00 - Florence, Ala. Cong. Ch. 5.00 - Savannah, Ga. First Cong. Ch. 10.31 - Louisville, Ga. First Cong. Ch. 0.40 - —————————— - $2,023.31 - Previously acknowledged, Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st 1,693.02 - —————————— - Total to Jan’y 31st $3,716.33 - - - FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS. - - Exeter, N. H. Mrs. F. F. Olden $100.00 - East Hampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston 100.00 - Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Anna H. Phillips. 22.00 - —————————— - Total $222.00 - - - BUILDING FUND. - - Kewanee, Ill. “A Friend,” _for Emerson Inst., - Mobile, Ala._ 108.00 - Talladega, Ala. Rev. E. P. Lord 10.00 - —————————— - Total $118.00 - - - GREAT BRITAIN. - - London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc. £290 $1,422.45 - - * * * * * - - - - -_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., 11; -Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4. -_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62. - -=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_, 7. Total, 26. - -=TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS=—Among the Freedmen, 209; -among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. -Total, 252. =STUDENTS=—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course, -79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. 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 accomodate the increasing numbers of students; =MEETING HOUSES=, -for the new churches we are organizing; =MORE MINISTERS=, cultured -and pious, for these churches. - -3. =HELP FOR YOUNG MEN=, to be educated as ministers here and -missionaries to Africa—a pressing want. - -Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. -office, as below. - - NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. - BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21, Congregational House - CHICAGO Rev. Jas. 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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 32, No. 03, March, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: December 10, 2016 [EBook #53709] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, MARCH 1878 *** - - - - -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. XXXII.</p> -<p class="float-right">No. 3.</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">MARCH, 1878.</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">Paragraphs</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_65">65</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paying the Debt</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_66">66</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Negrology</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_67"> 67</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Bills in Congress</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_68">68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Education Among the Freedmen</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_69">69</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">What Can the Women Do?—School Items</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_70">70</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">News from the Churches—Teachers’ Association—Negro Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_71">71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Chinese Notes</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_72">72</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Poetry. <span class="chaplinen">“No Room in the Inn”</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_74">74</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Georgia: <span class="chaplinen">Atlanta University</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_75">75</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Georgia Macon: <span class="chaplinen">Devotion to Study—Conversions to Christ</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Alabama: <span class="chaplinen">Breaking Ground for New Emerson Institute -Building. Prof. T. N. Chase</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_78">78</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Tennessee: <span class="chaplinen">A Debt Extinguisher—The Happiest Girl in the -Land. Rev. T. Cutler</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_79">79</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Indian Commissioners</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_80">80</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address by Fung Affoo</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_81">81</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Mendi Mission</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_83">83</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">COMMUNICATIONS.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Education of the Colored People. <span class="chaplinen">Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D.</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_84">84</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="chapline">From a Life Member.—Slave and Free Labor Cotton. <span class="chaplinen">From the N. Y. <cite>Herald</cite></span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_85">85</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">THE CHILDREN’S PAGE</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_86">86</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">RECEIPTS</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_87">87</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter pp2">WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_92">92</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> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="small center">A. Anderson, Printer, 28 Frankfort St.</p> - - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2><i>American Missionary Association</i>,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 Reade Street, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon. E. S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table class="medium"><tr><td class="tdpr"> -Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Jonathan Blanchard</span>, Ill.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Silas McKeen</span>, D. D., Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, Mass.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">D. M. Graham</span>, D. D., Mich.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br /> -Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward L. Clark</span>, N. Y. -</td> - -<td> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa.<br /> -Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br /> -<span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">George Thatcher</span>, LL. D., Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br /> -<span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. H. M. <span class="smcap">Parsons</span>, N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Dea. <span class="smcap">John Whiting</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. Patton</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. 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. -</td> -</tr> -<tr><td class="center" colspan="2"><span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center medium"><span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. STRIEBY</span>, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center medium"> -<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, Ill.</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 class="medium"><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">Augustus E. 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 medium">relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above.</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p class="medium">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 class="medium">A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> - -<p class="medium">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_65" id="Page_65">[65]</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. XXXII.</span></div> -<div class="third center">MARCH, 1878.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 3.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<p class="center xlarge"><b><i>American Missionary Association.</i></b></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>By the brief extracts, given on another page, from recent letters -of our African missionaries, it appears that they were at last -accounts in good health and heart, and hard at work re-organizing -the church and schools, repairing buildings, and laying foundations -for future work. The death of Rev. Barnabas Root had left the -mission without a minister, so that its higher work had been -greatly interrupted. To keep the numbers good, and the working -force equal to the necessities of the case, it has seemed both -to those recently sent out, and to the Executive Committee, that -there should be a speedy addition to the Missionary band. It has -been the experience of other organizations as well as our own, -that missionary work suffers by nothing more than by having too -few workers in a place. We hope, therefore, before this number of -our Magazine reaches its readers, that two more good men, with -their wives, will be on their way to join the Mendi Mission. Albert -Miller and Andrew Jackson have offered themselves, in response -to a general call read at the Fisk University by Prof. Spence. -The former is a preacher who has nearly completed the collegiate -course, the latter a teacher just finishing the normal course, and -each will be accompanied by a good wife, able to sing and teach: -(one of them was formerly with the Jubilee Singers.)</p> - -<p>Thus strengthened by the addition of these four “fellow-helpers -in the gospel,” we look for good tidings from month to month from -Africa, and have less fear that the force already on the field will -over-work themselves in that warm and trying climate.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>General Charles H. Howard, of the <cite>Advance</cite>, owing to a recent -attack of pneumonia, will, under the advice of his physician, spend -the remainder of the winter, and the spring months, at the South. -It was natural for General Howard, from his former connection with -the American Missionary Association as its Western Secretary, to -take a special interest in its work at the South. He has planned, -with our hearty cooperation, to visit a number of the institutions -and churches under our charge, and to inform himself and the -readers of the <cite>Advance</cite> as to the condition and progress of our -work among the freedmen. The Association heartily welcomes all -such friendly observation and criticism. General Howard is now -at Savannah, Ga., and, after a trip to Florida, will return to -visit our institutions farther West in the spring. He will publish -letters on the condition of Southern society, and the colored -population especially, with whose uplifting he feels the warmest -sympathy.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[66]</a></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>PAYING THE DEBT.</h3> - -<p>We are rejoiced to be able to report cheering progress in the -payment of our debt. Our last statement, in the December number of -the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, announced the payment of $30,416, thus -bringing the debt down from $93,232.99 in 1876, to $62,816.90, as -reported at the Annual Meeting in 1877. It also gave a list of -pledges of $5,000, reducing the balance to $57,816.90. Pledges and -payments have been made since that date, which reduce the amount to -a little below $50,000.</p> - -<p>The spirit manifested by our friends in this movement, may be -gathered from extracts from the letters we have received. A liberal -friend in New England writes: “I have thought for a long time of -your Society, and of its just call upon me for aid, additional to -what I do when I send you our church collection. * * I will soon -send you my check for $1,000” [it has been received] “for your -debt, and I will add another thousand during 1878, conditioned upon -the total wiping out of the debt in 1878.”</p> - -<p>A friend in Hartford, Ct. says: “I have from time to time received -reports of the doings and wants of your Association with much -interest. You may count me in as one of twenty-five, for a thousand -dollars for liquidating your debt, and I hope the full number may -soon appear.”</p> - -<p>Another Connecticut friend writes: “After getting through with the -very busy month, and inspecting the balance sheets, I conclude to -anticipate a little on the strength of my hopes, and promise you -five hundred dollars toward the debt. I wish I could see my way -clear to do more.”</p> - -<p>A gentleman in Springfield, Mass., whose “Unabridged” contributions -we have often had occasion to acknowledge, sends us his check for -$500. “A worshipper at Indian Orchard,” remits $500.</p> - -<p>One of our liberal and constant patrons at the West, tells his -experience thus: “I could not see where the funds were to come -from to aid you, but yesterday, to my great joy, the inclosed -three hundred dollars dropped into my hands, and as a faithful and -favored steward, I take great pleasure in handing it over to you, -to aid in extinguishing the debt of the Association.”</p> - -<p>Many expressions of regret come to us from those whose hearts are -with us in this effort, but whose means will not permit them just -now to help. We wish to express our earnest hope that an effort, -so well begun, will not be suffered to fail. It will be seen that -some of the pledges are made on condition that the whole sum be -raised in a specified time—an additional reason for promptness -on the part of those who desire to aid in the movement. We have -avoided thus far, the expense of collecting agents, and we trust -that the friends of the Association will continue to forward their -contributions, and thus save us from any such outlay. It will be a -triumph of economy, as well as of liberality.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Rev. Peter J. Gulick, a veteran missionary of the A. B. C. F. -M., died at Kobe, Japan, Dec. 8th, 1877. We record his death -with affectionate regret, remembering his annual contributions -sent to us for many years, accompanied with expressions of his -deep interest, in the uplifting to Christian citizenship of the -destitute and despised people of his native land.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><cite>The Council Fire</cite> is the title of a new Monthly Journal, of 16 -pages, devoted to the history, character, social life, religious -traditions, government, current legends, etc., of the American -Indian, including also discussions of our relations to him as a -people and a Government. The fact that it is under the editorial -management of Col. A. B. Meacham, formerly Indian Superintendent -and Peace Commissioner, is a guarantee of its character and value. -It gives the current history of Indian affairs in all parts of the -country.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[67]</a></p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>NEGROLOGY.<a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a></h3> - -<p>The political calm in the Southern States has apparently given -leisure for a somewhat wide discussion of the negro: what he is -in himself, and what he may be in the State. It is largely a -discussion by Southern men, and from a more or less distinctively -Southern standpoint.</p> - -<p><cite>Mr. Stetson</cite> gives a series of answers to questions, representing -the negro as he is, morally, socially and politically: the sum of -it all being, what might be anticipated for a race of tropical -origin, held for generations in slavery, and suddenly endowed -with political equality. Sensual and emotional by nature, lazy -and thievish by training, clannish and easily misled as a voter, -his salvation will depend on his receiving education, but not by -a forcing process, and on his coming gradually to the independent -exercise of his civil rights.</p> - -<p><cite>The South Carolinian</cite> gives an apparently frank representation of -the situation as it appears to the native people of that State. -The present shows more honesty and less crime, a renewed interest -of the whites, and the banishment of the blacks from politics. No -party will be tolerated “which aggressively, and in real earnest, -advocates negro rights.” He says: “The whites regard the negro as -an inferior animal, admirably adapted to work and to wait, and look -on him, ‘in his proper place,’ with a curious mixture of amusement, -contempt and affection. It is when he aspires to participate in -politics, or otherwise claim privileges, that their hatred becomes -intense.” In regard to Education, he writes: “There is great -prejudice in this State against free schools for any color; nor -have the airs put on by colored-school children contributed to -remove it. Policy, however, and past promises will probably impel -the maintenance of a free-school system for some time, at least, -but on a less extensive scale. It is proper to add that some -cultured Southerners are in favor of educating and elevating the -negro, as the best way to solve our race difficulties. But it is -doubtful if their views will prevail against inherited prejudice.”</p> - -<p>But <cite>The Louisianian</cite> takes stronger ground. The Southern question -germinated when a slave was first introduced into the American -colonies. The institution of slavery made all the difference; -giving rise in the South to a “domineering and proscriptive -aristocracy,” with regard to all of the African race, and putting -all whites—poor or rich, ignorant or educated—on a footing of -equality. “There was a nobility in the white skin, more sacred -and more respected than the one derived from the letters patent -of kings;” more even, apparently, than that based on intelligence -or virtue. Slavery made of the Southern planters, “high barons -in reality, although not in name.” In the North and West, on -the contrary, there was a democracy politically, but a social -aristocracy, not recognizing the equality of the white skin. The -writer says: “The aristocrats of the South were the real ones; -those of the North were spurious. The Southern question used to be, -that of the maintenance of this supremacy over the whole land by -these real aristocrats.”</p> - -<p>Now “mediocrity is enthroned,” and the Southern question is the -free negro question; a reversal has been made—the body politic -has had its feet up and its head down. The author seems to see -nothing but the race question: the law of animal life, where the -strong destroy the weak, is the highest law he can think of for -its solution; where a weak race comes in contact with a stronger, -it must merge into it, or “subserve its interests and prejudices,” -or be wiped out of existence, and Providence so orders it.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_68" id="Page_68">[68]</a> “There -will never be peace and prosperity in the Southern States, as long -as Caucasian supremacy shall be opposed there;” but, “we intend to -control the negro vote by superior intelligence, by persuasion, and -not by violence.”</p> - -<p>Equal opportunity for education should, he thinks, be given to -the blacks; but they should be discouraged from all “aspirations -and efforts which will end in disappointment,” [and this is the -sentiment, also, of so earnest a worker as Col. Preston of Va.]; -“and hasten a more active and deadly struggle.”</p> - -<p>It will be a surprise, we doubt not, and a disappointment to many -of our Northern friends, to find that such views, especially -those of the admirably-written article in the <cite>North American -Review</cite>, still constitute the substratum of thought among the -cultivated classes of the Southern States. For what such men as -this accomplished writer think in their bed-chambers, finds very -different and much grosser expression among men of coarser fibre -and ruder touch. We do remember that the last two writers quoted, -are from the two longest and most sorely troubled States, where -sentiment is probably more extreme than elsewhere in the South; and -we hope, indeed, to some extent we know, that there are many of the -natives of these States, who are not represented by these views, -but who have freed themselves from the dominion of the old ideas of -race-rule and caste prejudice. But we are glad to see these free -discussions, and from these varying standpoints.</p> - -<p>We are pleased to see that education is still not absolutely -denied in them, though the motives for its acquirement are largely -taken away. But we suggest to our co-workers in this field that, -even though the various States in which these freedmen live, are, -and have been, extending the advantages of their public schools -to children of the blacks, yet, with such sentiments deep-seated -in the minds of the educated, and so the influential class, this -provision is uncertain, and may be at any time diminished or -withdrawn. The substantial foundation for the permanent and patient -work of the education of the negro, must be in the minds and hearts -of those who believe in his manhood and in his education, for some -sufficient use.</p> - -<p>In regard to the general question, we believe it a law of God that, -as intellectual attainment and moral character are in themselves -of far more consequence than complexion or race, those who are -equal in these higher spheres easily overlook the differences in -things below. If we understand it at all, the Christian idea is -not that the strong should destroy the weak, but “laboring, should -support” them. The noblest sight on earth is when a superior race, -or family, or individual—we care not which—reaches down to an -inferior race, or family, or individual, to lift them up toilfully -and patiently to its own higher level. The aristocracy of Christ’s -kingdom is an aristocracy of service. And, in its accomplished -peace, the lion does not eat the lamb, but they lie down together. -It may be worth our while to practice a little here.</p> - - -<p>FOOTNOTE:</p> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> “The Southern Negro as He Is”: a Pamphlet, by George -R. Stetson, Boston, Mass. “The Result in South Carolina”: <cite>Atlantic -Monthly</cite>, by a South Carolinian. “The Southern Question”: <cite>North -American Review</cite>, by Charles Gayarré, of Louisiana.</p></div> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>—A variety of bills have been introduced into Congress affecting -the interests of the red man. One to organize a territorial -government, to secure land to individuals, to missions and to -Church societies, the residue of land to be forfeited to the United -States. Another granting right of way to two railroads, and still -another for “a military and post-road bisecting the territory from -North to South”; taking for it a strip five miles wide, some 300 -to 1,000 square miles. Our large army could certainly travel it -without elbowing one another. Another still is arranged, to make -Indians having an organized government citizens by wholesale.</p> - -<p>Unfortunately, most, if not all, these bills indicate by their -origin, as well as by their contents, that they are in the interest -of those ambitious to get possession of the lands set apart by -treaty to the Indians, and that they involve an utter disregard of -the plighted faith and the sworn promises of the nation.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_69" id="Page_69">[69]</a></p> -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>EDUCATION AMONG THE FREEDMEN.</h3> - -<p>Under this title appears a valuable article in the <cite>Methodist -Quarterly Review</cite>, for January, by S. G. Arnold, Esq., of -Washington, D. C. As an early testimony to the capacity of the -African race, he cites a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in -1791, to Benjamin Banneker, a free negro of Maryland, who had -shown remarkable inventive and constructive genius, and acquired a -thorough astronomical knowledge. Mr. Jefferson says:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“Nobody wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, -that nature has given to our black brethren talents equal to -those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of the -want of them, is owing only to the degraded condition of their -existence, both in Africa and America. * * * * I have taken the -liberty to send your Almanac to M. de Condorset, Secretary of the -Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic -Society, because I consider it a document to which your whole -color has a right, for their justification against the doubts -which have been entertained of them.”</p></div> - -<p>The writer then gives a graphic picture of the active efforts -of the Christian world, to educate and enlighten this needy and -neglected class, as soon as the Emancipation Act had given access -to them. From 1863 to 1866, the work in the Freedmen’s camps around -Washington was, perhaps, the most conspicuous of all; so that in -this latter year, 42 regular day-schools, with 71 teachers, were -caring for 3,930 pupils. These were sustained from New England -and the Middle States, and by Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, -Friends, Congregational, and various undenominational agencies.</p> - -<p>Then came the era of the Freedmen’s Bureau, which expended some -thirteen millions of dollars, and the free-school law for the -District of Columbia. The history of the Normal school, established -with much self-denying effort, and against great obstacles, by -Miss Mytilla Miner, is given quite at length, and a full and -appreciative sketch of the beginning and development of the work -of the A. M. A. The story of Fisk University and the work of the -Jubilee Singers is told at length. We quote from the closing -paragraphs of Mr. Arnold, this impressive comparison:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“At the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, the whole -population of the United States was not very different in point -of numbers, from that of the colored population now residing in -the Southern States. The country had then been settled for more -than 200 years, and there were large interests of production and -commerce and government, which would seem to demand very liberal -provisions for higher institutions of learning. But it may be -doubted whether the advantages for education were not inferior -to those now possessed by the colored population of the South, -after a probation in freedom of scarcely more than a dozen years. -The only colleges which appeared to have been in existence at -that time are in existence still, and can be told by the number -of your fingers. We have seen that there are now in the South, -for the benefit of the negro, between 30 and 40 institutions -for higher education, with an annual catalogue of nearly 5,000 -students; and although they do not, as yet, graduate annually -through all the higher departments of learning as many scholars -as were graduated from the 10 colleges that were in operation -prior to the Revolutionary War, because the training is not for -scholarship, but for special work, it seems probable that the -educational power is greater and exerts a wider influence.</p> - -<p>“But whether this is so or not, the result of these brief years -of Christian work must be regarded as a phenomenon in the history -of the world. It is often said of the movements of our time that -they are only history repeating itself; but if there is anything -in history like this generous outpouring of effort and means to -redeem a great mass of human merchandise, and lift it up out of -its squalor and wretchedness to the level of our common Christian -manhood, we exhort the friends of history to produce it.”</p></div> - -<p>We gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity, to recognize the -generous appreciation of our work which we have always received -from our Methodist friends—indeed, some of them are “ourselves”—not -the least valuable indication of which is the cordial and kindly -tone of the article from which we have quoted above from their -leading Review.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_70" id="Page_70">[70]</a></p> -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>WHAT CAN THE WOMEN DO?</h3> - -<p>We are gratified with the evidence which is coming to us from -various quarters, of an increasing interest in our Southern work -on the part of our Christian women. A letter from Rhode Island -inquires the cost of supporting a female missionary to work among -the colored women of the South in their homes, after the plan -mentioned in the January <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>. Another letter from -Vermont asks, more generally, What can the women do? How can they -best help the work by money and by goods? A word comes even from a -missionary in Constantinople, endorsing Caucasian women’s work for -Negro women in America.</p> - -<p>In reply to such questions, we are happy to give all the light -we can. A lady missionary, to devote herself to the work named -above, can be sustained for from $350 to $450 a year, according to -location; or, a lady teacher in one of our established schools, -for $250. A student’s scholarship is from $70 to $80. We are, -of course, glad to accept money for such special purposes, and -to use it as we are instructed by the donors. One of the most -pressing needs just now, in which we are sure of sympathy from the -house-keeperly instincts of our good sisters, is that of bedding -and table-linen for our Educational institutions. We hear from the -matron of Tougaloo University, that the press of students is so -great that she has used her last quilt, and may have to take up -carpets to cover the students by night. Others are nearly as badly -off. Perhaps the women of the North can do no better thing than to -supply this want for the remainder of this winter, and more fully -for another year.</p> - -<p>We have no fear that we shall for a long time lack specialties of -wants and pressing needs, which will appeal to all who have an ear -to hear, and a heart to sympathize. Meanwhile, the great work goes -on in all <a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>its length and breadth, in which the Christian women of -the land may well join forces with the Christian men, as they have -always done, and do their part to save and elevate a needy race.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ITEMS FROM THE SCHOOLS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>—“There are five Sunday-school -prayer-meetings every Sabbath afternoon, in which much feeling is -manifested. In these meetings four have expressed the hope of a new -life. Others are much interested.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tougaloo, Miss.</span>—“There is considerable religious interest. -Several are inquiring, and a few profess conversion. We are -running over with students. We have put up a bed in the north -recitation-room of the primary building, and shall probably have to -arrange another bed in the same room before this week closes. We -know of others that are coming next week, and so on, and what are -we going to do with them? We have concluded to purchase lumber at -once and put up <em>barracks</em> for twenty students, for the prospect -is that we shall have that many more young men. We can accommodate -six or eight young women in the Peoria room. The erection of -barracks will involve an outlay of some three hundred dollars; but -the lumber will all come in play when we build the new chapel, -which we shall be obliged to have before the sessions of the next -year begin. If the school continues to prosper we shall probably -commence another year with a hundred boarders.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nashville, Tenn.</span>—“We have a good school this year; about -270 in all. We hold a half-hour extra meeting in the boarding -department. Some inquirers. About twenty conversions last term.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atlanta, Ga.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_71" id="Page_71">[71]</a></span>—“School is full. We have more pupils than -for several years before. There is some religious interest, though -not so much as we wish. Our purpose and hope is to make you a big -contribution toward the debt, by not asking you for any aid this -year.”</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap">Marion, Ala.</span>—“We had an interesting day, yesterday, in -our church. It was Communion. Four girls from twelve to sixteen -years old, and one young man of twenty years, were received on -profession. A Female Prayer-meeting has been commenced at the -‘Home,’ and promises well. The Teacher’s Meeting is also held -in our parlor every Friday night. Our evening meetings are well -attended. We enjoy singing the ‘Gospel Hymns.’ The people almost -all sing, and are not afraid to hear their own voices. Last evening -seven or eight of the brethren took part, and one woman felt -constrained to say a few words. Perfect harmony and good-feeling -seem to prevail in the church, and the prospects for the coming -year are quite encouraging.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—“Our church is greatly blessed in connection -with the Week of Prayer. Daily meetings have been held for three -weeks, and the interest continues good. Several conversions have -cheered our hearts.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We have been favored with a copy of the “<cite>Minutes of the -South-western Georgia Teachers’ Association (colored), held at -Howard Normal School, December 1, 1877.</cite>”</p> - -<p>The graduates and students of Atlanta University seem to be the -leading spirits in this Association. The exercises were very much -like those of similar associations or conventions, though without -the set speeches of old wheel-horses, which are of doubtful -advantage.</p> - -<p>That parliamentary gymnastics were not entirely ignored is evident -from the following quotation: “It was moved that the roll be -called, for the purpose of members paying their dues. Thereupon -quite a discussion arose, when the previous question was called -for; the previous question was seconded, but the main question was -lost.”</p> - -<p>The report says of the address of the President: “He very -graphically described the field in which we are to do the work that -is to be done, and how it is to be done. He said that he felt sure -that ‘the Great Disburser of Human Events’ held something good -in store for the Negro. Teachers, you are the salt of the race; -lose not your savor, but keep pushing on in this grand cause of -education, and the heights may yet be reached in our day.”</p> - -<p>The Committee on the Educational Condition of South-western Georgia -gives the reins to its tropical imagination for a moment, when it -says: “We are exceedingly sorry to find our people in some places -<em>sleeping on Poverty’s bedstead, covered with the blanket of -Ignorance</em>.”</p> - -<p>Their statement that, in the eight counties reported, the -public-school fund pays only from thirty-three and one-third to -eighty cents a month per pupil, and that for three months only, -would seem to indicate that the public-school system of Georgia -is not very expensive or uniform in its operation. But it is -to be hoped that this little plant, so cautiously set by the -poverty-stricken farmer, may have a steady growth into a large and -symmetrical tree.</p> - -<p>We are glad to note the enterprise of our colored friends in -sustaining and directing for themselves this Howard Normal School, -and in holding these educational meetings, and we recognize in it -one of the cheering results of our work.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>NEGRO NOTES.</h3> - -<h4>HOME.</h4> - -<p>—A colored gentleman of high standing and great influence—a -life-long resident of Philadelphia—was invited by Mrs. Hayes to “be -seated and talk on the political situation,” when the following -conversation took place: “It is very quiet now at the South, we -learn?”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_72" id="Page_72">[72]</a> “Yes, madam; it is the quietness of death to the colored -people. My son is in jail for the crime of aiding in carrying the -State of South Carolina for the President.”</p> - -<p>—Senator Blaine, in a speech at Hot Springs, Ark., put the Southern -question aptly thus: “Perfect peace in the South will everywhere -follow perfect justice. There is no man in the country who desires -strife for the sake of strife, but there will always be strife so -long as there is wrong.”</p> - -<p>—There is a quaint, straightforward way of putting things sometimes -that strikes right at the root of things, an art which our colored -friends of the South seem especially to understand. And here is -what was sung recently at one of their meetings in Jacksonville:</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If you see Peter asleep at de gate,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Kase de night befo’ he was up so late,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">You needn’t ’spect, with your load ob sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dat you’ll slip past him and steal right in:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">De angels always acts on de squar’;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Dey know you here, an’ dey’ll know you dar.<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>Such singing would not be in order in our churches. But, after all, -isn’t there a bit of truth right here, and may not these lines be -reflected on with considerable profit?</p> - -<p>—A colored man, who very sensibly consulted President Hayes, before -migrating to San Domingo, received a letter in reply, from which -the following is extracted: “I have given some consideration to -your question as to the emigration of colored people from Florida -to San Domingo. I am not well informed as to the advantages offered -by San Domingo to immigrants, but my impression is that your people -should not be hasty in deciding to leave this country. The mere -difference in climate is a very serious objection to removal. The -first generation, in all such removals, suffer greatly. It is my -opinion, also, that the evils which now affect you are likely -steadily, and I hope rapidly, to diminish. My advice is, therefore, -against the proposed emigration.”</p> - - -<h4>FOREIGN.</h4> - -<p>—Stanley’s African expedition cost $115,000, and he discovered -15,000,000 uncovered Africans. The Worcester <cite>Press</cite> says six -heathen for five cents is very reasonable.</p> - -<p>—The missionaries of the Church Missionary Society to Lake Victoria -Nyanza have been cordially received by King Mtesa. When the passage -was read in the Society’s letter, in which a reference is made -to our Lord, the king ordered a salute to be fired, which was -explained to be for joy at the mention of the name of Jesus. The -king wished especially to know if the missionaries had brought the -book—the Bible. He has himself since acted as interpreter to his -people at the Sunday services.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>CHINESE NOTES.</h3> - -<p>—It is not often that the report of a minority of one is invested -with so much importance or interest as that found, in an unfinished -condition, among the papers of the late Senator Morton. We give a -very brief synopsis of its main points:</p> - -<p>A cardinal principle in our government is its openness to -immigrants from all parts of the world; it is not limited in its -statement by color, character or creed. While the Oriental nations -have come on to our ground, it is proposed that we should go -back to that which they have abandoned, and for the same reasons -which they have given up—interference with trade and labor, and -corruption of morals and religion.</p> - -<p>The security of our nation depends not on material wealth nor -general intelligence, but in devotion to the doctrines upon which -the government was founded,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_73" id="Page_73">[73]</a> “And the profound conviction in the -minds of the people that the rights of man are not conferred by -constitutions or written enactments, which may be altered or -abolished, but are God-given to every human being born into -the world, and cannot be violated by constitutions, enactments, -or governments, without trampling upon natural and inalienable -rights.” Growing out of these doctrines is the policy of free -immigration, which we are at liberty to regulate, but not -proscribe, as we may lay down the conditions of citizenship, but -not consistently forbid it. Having given political rights to the -negro, it is inconsistent to renew race prejudices, and exclude -the Asiatics on the ground of color, civilization and religion. -These are the actual grounds of the prejudice. But the question -is not one of naturalization, but of permission to come into our -country to work, to trade, and to acquire property, though the -senator deemed it impossible that they should be protected, save -as they should be allowed to become citizens, to vote and to be -represented in the government. He refers to the fact that the -Chinese take ship from a British port, and that our dealing in -regard to their importation must be with the English Government. He -brings important testimony to demonstrate the value of their labor -in the construction of railroads and in the harvesting of crops. -In these especially, by their freedom from combinations to control -the price of labor, and as having brought wages to a level, which, -though still higher than in other States, makes it possible for -Californian manufacturers to compete with those of other States -and countries. But for Chinese labor, he says, California would -not have more than one-half or two-thirds of her present white -population; it is indispensable to farming operations; their labor -is as free as any other.</p> - -<p>The majority report, in its concluding paragraphs, says that -the question that now arises on the Pacific Coast will probably -have to be met upon the banks of the Mississippi, and, perhaps, -on the Ohio and Hudson. It is a standing menace to republican -institutions and Christian civilization. Free institutions, founded -upon free schools and intelligence, can only be maintained when -based on intelligent and adequately paid labor. Adequate wages -are needed to give self-respect to the laborer, and the means of -education to his children. Family life is a great safeguard to -our political institutions. Chinese immigration involves sordid -wages, no public schools, and the absence of the family. They show -few of the characteristics of a desirable population, and many to -be deprecated by any patriot. This problem is too important to -be treated with indifference. Congress should solve it, having -due regard to any rights already accrued under existing treaties, -and to humanity; but it must be solved, in the judgment of the -committee, unless our Pacific possessions are to be ultimately -given over to a race alien in all its tendencies, which will -make of it practically provinces of China, rather than States of -the Union. The committee recommend that measures be taken by the -Executive, looking toward a modification of the existing treaty -with China, confining it to strictly commercial purposes, and that -Congress legislate to restrain the great influx of Asiatics to this -country.</p> - -<p>—The San Francisco “Workingmen” (?) have, under the lead of -professional agitators, become more than ever threatening and -incendiary in their language. It was given out that the Chinese -passengers of the steamer Tokio would be attacked on their -arrival. At this point the authorities interfered. The mayor -appointed special police, and the two ringleaders were arrested -for conspiracy and misdemeanor, and put under heavy bail. General -McComb ordered the entire military force of the city to assemble at -the armories, and General McDowell gave assurance that the United -States troops would come to their aid if required. Under these -conditions the city scum ceased coming to the surface, but settled -quickly to the bottom, where it belongs.</p> - -<p>—Mr. Luttrell, a democratic member from California, has moved in -the House to amend the Steamboat Bill, so as to provide that no -American vessel shall employ, in any capacity whatever, a Chinese -or Mongolian.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_74" id="Page_74">[74]</a></p> - -<p>—Treasury statistics show arrivals from China of 160,979 up to -1875. In 1875 the arrivals were 19,033; but in 1876 the immigration -fell off to 16,879, owing to the April disturbance in that year -in California. For the first quarter of 1877 the number was only -965, but it soon began to rise again, and on June 31 the total -immigration was figured at 284,547.</p> - -<p>—The figures of the Custom House in San Francisco have been -collated to show that, out of a total of $6,692,000 paid for duties -on imports of foreign goods introduced during the past year, the -Chinese merchants paid $1,756,505, or over twenty-five per cent. -During the same time the Chinese paid for rent and water privileges -$223,000; for fire insurance, $96,000, and for marine insurance, -$86,000; they also paid $100,000 in taxes into the city treasury.</p> - -<p>—In 1875, of 7,643 arrests for drunkenness, not one was a Chinaman; -of 3,263 paupers admitted to the almshouse, only six were Chinamen; -of 83 murderers hanged during the last year in the United States -only one was a Chinaman.</p> - -<p>—Our antipathy is balanced to some extent by the appetite of Peru, -which has 60,000 Chinamen now within its borders, and so eagerly -desires more that an agent of the Peruvian Government is visiting -San Francisco with inducements to divert Chinese immigration to -that country.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>NO ROOM IN THE INN.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. A. K. SPENCE, FISK UNIVERSITY.</p> - -<p class="medium hang">The occasion of the accompanying lines was this: While President -Hayes’ Peace Policy was being applauded through the land, a young -colored student, on his way to Fisk University, was detained -overnight at a station, as the trains did not make connection. A -hotel was near by, but he could not gain admission. He asked the -privilege of remaining in the depot, but that was not granted; so -he spent the whole night in the open air, pacing up and down to -keep warm and pass the time away.<br /><br /> -Ought there not to be in every hotel some comfortable place where -a colored man can get food and shelter?</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">The weary stars went slowly westward to their rest,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And others from the east climbed up the zenith’s crest,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And chill winds smote him, shivering in the gloomy night.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Turning his wistful gaze to catch the morning light,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">There, wrapped in sleep, on couches soft and warm,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The slumberers dream sweet dreams, nor think of fear or harm.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">What has he done, with guilty hand and soul of sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That thus he stalks about, nor seeks the cheerful inn?<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">His brow is dark, and dark the night, and dark his soul—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">A tripple sea of gloom, whose waters o’er him roll!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And faith in man and God is low within his breast;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With many a bitter thought his heart is sore oppressed.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Like outlawed villain, stealing from the sight of men,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">He crouches down, as if to sleep, nor slumbers then!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Athwart the darkness to his darker soul within,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The tantalizing light comes from the inn!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">But yesterday, huzzas came from a million throats,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">’Mid cannon’s boom and beat of drum and bugle’s notes,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And banners waved, and flowers were scattered by the fair,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And songs of peace and joy were in the quivering air;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And brothers, long estranged, clasped brothers once again,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And swore eternal peace and equal rights to men—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For him, though wrapped in clean attire, but sable skin,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">No hospitable room is offered at the inn!<br /></span><a class="pagenum" name="Page_75" id="Page_75">[75]</a> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, brothers of this mighty land, from South to North,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Grasp hands of greeting, pour your pæans forth!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And ne’er by brother’s hand may brother’s blood be shed,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With burning towns and trampled fields and mangled dead!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Forget the past, nor let it rankle in your breast;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Rejoice together of one glorious land possessed!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But, oh! forget not him who, not for any sin,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">But for the thing God made him, is debarred the inn!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, peaceful President of this great land, to thee<br /></span> -<span class="i0">All thanks for thy good words for old fraternity!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Thy name shall be inscribed in gold on history’s page,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And read by countless multitudes from age to age,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">If thou shalt teach a people, long in strife and feud,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">To dwell in unity and seek each other’s good;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">From prejudice of section, creed and race shalt win,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">So all of every name and hue shall share the inn!<br /></span> -</div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Oh, brother of the sable brow, my brother, mine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The night is dark and long, and yet the sun shall shine;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Patience be thine, and God-like charity and love,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And eye of faith and hope that looks to One above.<br /></span> -<span class="i0">For scorn give benediction, and for insult prayer;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And go to Bethlehem’s manger, and remember there<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Another was like thee, who, sinless, bore our sin!<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And there shall yet be room for Christ, and thee, within the inn!<br /></span> -</div></div> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>GEORGIA.</h3> - - -<h4>Atlanta University.</h4> - - -<h5>ITS ORGANIZATION.</h5> - -<p class="secauth">REV. E. A. WARE, PRESIDENT.</p> - -<p>The first term of Atlanta University began, under its charter -granted in 1867, in Oct., 1869. The highest class, at that time, -was the junior preparatory. By a natural and steady growth, there -has come to be a regular college department, from which two -classes, (nine students), have been graduated, and in which there -are now twenty-four students; a scientific department, with four; -a preparatory, with 37; a higher normal, from which have graduated -five classes, (twenty-four students), and which numbers at present -68; and a lower normal, with 62 students. The higher normal begins -with the usual high-school studies, and continues four years. The -lower normal includes the grammar-school studies, and the first -two years of the higher normal course. Instruction in theology was -given, until the State aid was granted to the school; it has since -been discontinued. The home and family feature of the school is -made prominent. A lady has charge of the young men’s building, and, -so far as possible, takes the place of mother, making the house a -<em>home</em>, instead of a college barrack. The refining, elevating, and -restraining influence of this family life is incalculable.</p> - -<p>Every effort is put forth to make the Sabbath a power. The usual -church service is held in the morning, Sunday-school in the -afternoon, and prayer-meeting at night. The monthly missionary -concert is observed. The contributions at this meeting, for -the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_76" id="Page_76">[76]</a> nine school months, amount to about fifty dollars. The -church prayer-meeting is held on Wednesday evening; the school -prayer-meeting for all the students on Friday afternoon. At this -meeting, the school makes weekly offerings, by the envelope -plan, toward the payment of the debt of the American Missionary -Association.</p> - -<p>The workers this year, including Pastor, Treasurer, Steward, -Housekeeper and Matron, number twelve. Among them are -representatives of Yale, Harvard, Amherst and Oberlin.</p> - -<p>The institution owns sixty acres of land, about one mile from the -centre of the city. That part of it occupied by the buildings, -commands an extended view in all directions. The buildings are -two plain, four-storied, brick dormitories, one for boys, the -other for girls. These also afford rooms for teachers, and the -basement and first floor of the boys’ building give space for -chapel, schoolrooms, library and reading-room. Many of these -rooms are entirely unfit for these uses, and are much needed for -sleeping rooms. By an hour’s work each day, the students care for -the buildings, cultivate the grounds, cut the wood, and do the -house-work, except the cooking.</p> - -<p>The Graves Library contains about four thousand volumes, and -has an endowment of five thousand dollars. The library and -reading-room are thoroughly used. Excepting for the library, the -school has no endowment, but depends for support on the American -Missionary Association, and the State of Georgia, which latter has -appropriated to it $8,000 annually.</p> - -<p>The name “University,” when adopted in 1867, signified nothing, -save as a prophecy. As such it was adopted. It foretold the -capacity of those, for whom the school was especially founded, to -advance in education, till they should need the advantages of a -full university course. It foretold the willingness of the friends -of humanity to furnish these advantages. There is no longer any -doubt of the complete fulfillment of the first prophecy, provided -the second can be speedily accomplished.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h5>ITS WORK.</h5> - -<p class="secauth">REV. C. W. FRANCIS.</p> - -<p>To prepare teachers for the education of the children of more than -half a million of poor and illiterate people is, and must remain, -the chief work of the school. The ability to read and write is the -smallest of the needs of the people, old and young, among whom -such teachers are called to labor. They must teach the elements of -morals and religion, of social and domestic life, must supply the -forces which are to shape and guide the people from serfdom up to -an intelligent, Christian citizenship. The course pursued in this -school consists essentially in separating the pupils by means of a -family school from all old associations and habits, and subjecting -them for months and years to a strong and watchful discipline, in -surrounding them with the most earnest and aggressive religious -influences, in giving them the best mental training and furnishing -which the time and facilities will allow, thus to stamp upon them -new characteristics, and mould them so that they will represent and -teach the best Christian culture and civilization. That they may -resist the strong influences pulling them down on every hand, they -need to be thoroughly fixed and set in character before leaving -school. Such a complete transformation of character and life as -is aimed at here, requires time and the constant exercise of the -highest skill and patience. It is no ordinary education which is -sought, but a special and peculiar training for a high and holy -missionary work.</p> - -<p>The demand for teachers from this school is continually greater -than the supply. In the last catalogue were the names of 214 -pupils, and of these, more than 150 are known to have engaged in -teaching during the year. In the previous year, out of 240, more -than 175 were at work in the same way. And this number includes -nearly every person in school whose age and attainments gave him -even the smallest fitness for the work. The school term lasts nine -months, and there is but one vacation, including the three summer -months. It is the practice of the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_77" id="Page_77">[77]</a> pupils to pass directly from -school to their work in teaching, and many have done so for a -number of years, without going home or having a rest. They have in -day-schools an average attendance of thirty-five or forty; and as -most have night-schools, and nearly all organize Sabbath-schools -and temperance societies, it is not unreasonable to estimate that -more than 10,000 people are every season reached and instructed by -the present pupils of this school, while a still larger number are -under the instruction of former pupils. They, for the most part, -find their own places, collect the pupils, secure a building—either -a church, shed or cabin, or, in lack of these, build a log-house or -bush-arbor; and so, all through the hot months, the work goes on -from year to year. The seed is widely scattered, but it is not lost.</p> - -<p>This school bears a very close relation to the special church work -of the Association as well as to the general religious welfare of -the whole people. A large majority of the pupils become Christians -before leaving school, and only one or two have been graduated -without giving evidence of Christian character. There has been -special religious interest every year in the history of the school. -One missionary to Africa and several ministers in active service, -caught their inspiration here.</p> - - -<h5>ITS INFLUENCE.</h5> - -<p class="secauth">REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD.</p> - -<p>The varied and powerful influence of Atlanta University is seldom -adequately estimated by the casual reader. Situated almost exactly -midway between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on the one hand, and -the Atlantic and Gulf coast on the other, it has an unsurpassed -opportunity for reaching the colored people of the South. Over most -of this large territory there is no other institution of so high a -grade, the nearest neighbors doing a similar work being Fisk and -Straight Universities at Nashville and New Orleans respectively. It -is especially fortunate in having no sectarian rivals to disturb -the harmony with which it is now doing a broad Christian work for -all denominations.</p> - -<p>The first and most direct influence of the institution is, of -course, upon its students. An observing visitor, listening to -a recitation, or attending any gathering of the students, can, -without much difficulty, distinguish the recent comers from the -older pupils. In modes of thought and expression, and in the -general bearing, the contrast is usually quite marked. These, -however, are only superficial indications of the deeper change that -is commonly wrought in the entire character. Frivolity is toned -down, carelessness corrected, punctuality secured, a respect for -the rugged virtues as well as the amenities of life stimulated, -and, in many cases, a sober and abiding religious earnestness -developed.</p> - -<p>The influence of the institution thus imparted to its students, is -next felt by the thousands of younger scholars whom the students -gather into their schools. So, too, the Sunday-schools and Churches -with which they are connected, and the entire communities in which -they move, receive a quickening impulse from their presence. “There -are three of us in that Sunday-school, <em>all with the University -ideas</em>,” was the significant remark of a graduate now teaching in a -large Southern city.</p> - -<p>Finally, the influence of Atlanta University upon the Southern -white people themselves has been a marked one. They have repeatedly -and handsomely acknowledged that the success of its instruction has -convinced them that the colored race can receive a high degree of -culture. The demonstration of this fact has an important bearing -upon the whole subject of public education. Not only the colored -people, but the white people of all classes, especially the poorer -classes, will receive great benefit from the quickening of public -sentiment, produced by the success of this institution. The last -official report on Atlanta University, by the Board of Visitors -appointed by the Governor, contains an emphatic recognition of its -very great influence, present and prospective. These are some of -the sentences from that report: “The Board are constrained to say -that the mental training was very satisfactory.”<a class="pagenum" name="Page_78" id="Page_78">[78]</a> “No school in -Georgia ever had such a field, and its social as well as political -power may become immense.” “The pupils of that school will be the -moulders of their race in the State,” etc., etc. These are the -statements of influential white men in Georgia. Do the people of -the North realize how true they are?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>Devotion to Study—Conversions to Christ.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. M. O. HARRINGTON, MACON.</p> - -<p>Many cases of interest come to notice in connection with our -school, showing the eager thirst for knowledge which these colored -people have. One incident to-day illustrates this. A young man, -twenty-two years of age, who has been connected with the school for -a few weeks, was obliged to go home a few days since, to attend to -matters of business. So anxious was he not to lose his position in -his class, that he started at 2.15 in the morning and walked about -forty miles, reaching Macon at 5 P.M. and this in the severest N. -E. rain-storm of the season. It makes our hearts sad to know of -many who would gladly come to our school, but cannot find boarding -places in town.</p> - -<p>The young man mentioned above has since found Christ to be his -Saviour. Rejoice with us! God is visiting us with His Spirit. The -Church is quickened to newness of life, and sinners are converted. -We observed the Week of Prayer; have continued the meetings every -night this week. Some of our strongest and best young men were the -first to start in the new life. All is quiet, but deep and earnest.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ALABAMA.</h3> - - -<p class="section">Breaking Ground for the New Emerson Institute Building.</p> - -<p class="secauth">PROF. T. N. CHASE.</p> - -<p>On the 26th of December, ground was broken for the new Emerson -Institute building at Mobile, with appropriate services. A portion -of Scripture was read, and brief addresses were made by Rev. Mr. -Ash, pastor of the Congregational Church; Rev. Mr. Owens, Baptist; -Rev. Mr. Taylor, Methodist; Mr. Koons, principal of the school; and -Prof. Chase, of Atlanta University. Led by Miss Stevenson, Miss -Lord, a former teacher, and Miss Sawyer, of Talladega College, -the pupils of the school sang “Hold the Fort,” “Thank God for our -Country,” “Labor On,” etc., and Rev. Mr. Davis led in prayer.</p> - -<p>In the remarks, Mr. Ash spoke of education in its relation to the -individual, to society, to government, and to the Church. Mr. -Owens said that ignorance was our greatest enemy, and that the -building which was to be erected might be regarded as a fort, from -which guns were to be aimed at this inveterate foe, and exhorted -the people to sustain the teachers who were leading them in their -intellectual and moral warfare. Mr. Koons made a few statements -concerning the school, saying that its aim was not to advance -the interests of any political party or religious sect, but to -develop character and cultivate the minds and hearts of the people. -Mr. Taylor said he had been taught that the negro could not be -educated—that his brains lay in his heels, etc.; but he was glad to -see proof to the contrary in the speeches that had just been made -by Mr. Ash and Mr. Owens. Mr. Chase alluded to the burning of the -old Institute, the causes of delay in rebuilding, the fact that the -school was needed now, and the probability that it always would be.</p> - -<p>At the conclusion of these addresses, the old men, headed by Mr. -Taylor, claimed the privilege of removing the first earth; others -followed, without regard to age, color, sex or sect.</p> - -<p>The new lot is more accessible to the colored population than the -old one. It is known as Holley’s Garden, and has been a favorite -resort for picnic parties. On account of the great depreciation -in real-estate, the property, containing over two acres, and -having on it a house that will serve as a home for the teachers -and accommodate a few girls as boarders, and covered with nearly a -hundred large shade trees, mostly live-oak, has been purchased for -the small sum of $2,800.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></p> - -<p>The new building is to be sixty-four feet long and fifty-four -in greatest width, and will accommodate 250 pupils, under five -teachers. Many of the bricks from the old building can be used, -since they were not injured by an excess of water at the time of -the fire.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>TENNESSEE.</h3> - -<p class="section">A Debt Extinguisher—The Happiest Girl in the Land.</p> - -<p class="secauth">REV. TEMPLE CUTLER, CHATTANOOGA.</p> - -<p>On my return from the campaign in New England, I found the church -in a much better condition than I feared it might be. Except in the -falling off in the weekly offering, I could see no change. They had -been ministered to regularly on Sunday evenings, during my absence, -by Rev. J. C. Irwin, the pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church.</p> - -<p>I was glad to find that a good degree of enthusiasm had been -awakened among them to assist in paying the debt of the A. M. -A. The Church had held a fair during my absence, at which they -realized about $20, which they had forwarded to you. The Band -of Hope had sent about the same amount. Then the band decided -to celebrate the anniversary of their freedom on the first of -January—Emancipation-Day—with a festival, the proceeds of which -should be appropriated to the debt. All the colored people, without -regard to church connection, were invited to be present and -contribute to this object. It was quite a success. The exercises -consisted of speaking, essays and songs, and were very creditable -to the performers. The singing was from the Hampton Cabin Songs, -some of which were new to this section. Among the speeches was one -on the emancipation of the blacks, another on the work of the A. -M. A. in the South, which were well delivered. One essay was on a -contrast between the slave and the freeman. Dr. Lawrence and wife, -who were here on a lecturing tour on temperance, were present. The -doctor made a short address, full of wit and good counsel. The -evening closed with a social entertainment. The proceeds, I think, -were about $30, which you have probably received ere this.</p> - -<p>The hearty interest manifested by all the colored people in the -payment of your debt is encouraging. If the wealthier people would -do as much in proportion as these poor people do, your debt would -not long be a burden. The Sabbath-school has caught the fever, and, -last Sunday, the proposition was made to send you all the money in -the treasury (about $15); but, on further consideration, it was -thought best to wait until we see how we shall pay for our lesson -papers. You will probably get the $15, however. I hear from other -Churches that a similar effort is being made among them.</p> - -<p>In addition to this, I am happy to say that the Week of Prayer -was observed, the meetings well attended, and the spirit of the -meetings excellent. Prayers were made for husbands and children -that are already answered, in a conviction on the part of those -prayed for that they must give attention to the things they hear.</p> - -<p>One of our most promising girls, who went to Tougaloo, Miss., a -few weeks ago, writes me that she has found the Saviour, and is so -happy. Let me mention another fact that has interested us here in -our home exceedingly. One of our girls has been very anxious to -get an education. Just before I went North, she asked me to see if -I could not find somebody who would help her. One friend gave me -$5, and that was all. Her heart was very sad when I told her that -I did not succeed in getting enough, but I encouraged her with -the assurance that if it was the Lord’s will that she should go, -He would open the way yet. In a few days I received a letter from -an old friend, whom I had not heard from for years, but who had -accidentally seen my name as connected with this work, in which was -a post-office order for $20. I put this with my $5, and told Jennie -she had better start; we would take this as an earnest of the whole -amount ($60) needed to finish the year. We are curious to know the -result of this venture. One thing we know, and that is, where to -find the happiest girl in the land.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_80" id="Page_80">[80]</a></p> - - -<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="secauth">[<cite>From the New York Tribune.</cite>]</p> - -<h3>THE INDIAN COMMISSIONERS.</h3> - -<p class="section">Annual Meeting—Missionary Co-operation—Interview with the President.</p> - -<p>The Board of Indian Commissioners met in this city January 10th, -to receive the annual reports of the several religious bodies -to which, under the policy adopted by President Grant some -years ago, the selection of agents and other field employés of -the Indian service has been confided, and to make up their own -annual report. Representatives from the Presbyterian Foreign and -Domestic Missionary Boards, the Baptist Home Mission Society, -the several Yearly Meetings of Friends, the American Board, the -American Missionary Association, and the Unitarian Association, -were present. A report was received from the Episcopal Board. The -Methodist and Roman Catholic Boards sent no reports, and several of -the smaller denominations having agents also failed to present a -statement of their work.</p> - -<p>These annual conferences of the Board of Commissioners and -the representatives of the different religious denominations, -unofficial as they are, have been of great benefit to the -official administration of Indian affairs, and, at some critical -periods, have helped to save the peace policy from disaster. The -Conference this year has been unusually interesting, in view -of the disposition lately manifested to transfer the control -of Indian affairs to the War Department, and of a new class of -questions respecting the Indians themselves, which assume practical -importance in view of their rapid progress toward civilization.</p> - -<p>It appears that the religious sentiment of the country, as -represented by those who control and direct its efforts to civilize -and Christianize the Indians, is unanimously opposed to a change -in the present general policy toward the Indian, in the mode of -its administration; and many weighty facts and reasons are brought -to the support of this opposition. The new questions brought into -view, affecting the Indians themselves, are specified in the -following address to the Board of Indian Commissioners, adopted by -the representatives of the religious societies, and presented this -morning:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>“This Convention would respectfully express its deep interest -in certain recommendations, in relation to the welfare of the -Indians, which received the approval of similar conventions held -in former years, but which have not yet gained their rightful -place in the action of the Government. Among these are:</p> - -<p>“<i>First</i>—The extension of law over all the Indians, so as to -provide for the safety of property and of human life.</p> - -<p>“<i>Second</i>—Legal provision for the common-school education of -Indian children by the General Government, until such education -shall be provided by the several States in which they reside.</p> - -<p>“<i>Third</i>—Definite regulations to secure to Indians the possession -of land in fee and in severalty in all practicable cases by -titles properly guarded.</p> - -<p>“The Convention regards these three things as of the greatest -importance, indeed, as essential to the civilization of the -Indians, and as calling for the action of Congress without longer -delay. Further, the Convention would express grave doubts as to -the wisdom of removing Indian tribes to the Indian Territory, -or to larger reservations, in cases in which the Indians are in -a good measure prepared to abandon their tribal relationship, -and to enter on civilized life. They should, at the least, have -the option of remaining where they are subject to the conditions -of citizenship, before they are compelled to remove to distant -places, at the great hardship and suffering, and loss of health -and life, which such enforced removal always involves. At -the same time, this Convention is deeply impressed with the -importance of all wise measures that look to early self-support -of the Indians as citizens of our common country.</p> - -<p>“The Convention would close this address with thanks to Almighty -God for the progress that has been made under the humane policy -of the last few years, and for the evident advance of many of -the Indians in civilization and the knowledge of the Christian -religion.”</p></div> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_81" id="Page_81">[81]</a></p> - -<p>It is understood that the Board of Commissioners will appoint a -committee to carry out these views as far as possible, by securing -necessary legislation by Congress.</p> - -<p>The following day the Convention, accompanied by the Board of -Commissioners, called on President Hayes by appointment. They were -presented to the President by General Clinton B. Fisk; and the Rev. -Drs. Lowrie, Clark, Strieby and Cutting, and Mr. Tatham, presented -their views briefly. Dr. Clark submitted a paper showing the -progress made under the present policy since 1868, claiming that it -was greater than that made in the fifteen years that preceded its -adoption. The President responded briefly, expressing his hearty -sympathy with all efforts to civilize and Christianize the Indians, -and his gratification at the progress that has been made, and -indicated practical methods to secure the additional legislation -desired. He did not seem to share the apprehensions of his visitors -respecting the early transfer of the management of Indian affairs -to the War Department. Mrs. Hayes, General Cox, former Secretary -of the Interior under President Grant when the Peace Policy was -adopted, and the Hon. Henry S. Lane, of Indiana, a member of the -Board of Indian Commissioners when it was first constituted, were -attentive and interested listeners, and took an active part in the -pleasant informal conversation that ensued. Following are some of -the items of Dr. Clark’s statement:</p> - -<table class="medium"> -<tr> -<td> </td> -<td class="ramt">1868.</td> -<td class="ramt">1877.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Houses occupied by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">7,476</td> -<td class="ramt">22,199</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Number of Indian schools</td> -<td class="ramt">111</td> -<td class="ramt">330</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Number of teachers</td> -<td class="ramt">134</td> -<td class="ramt">437</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Scholars</td> -<td class="ramt">4,713</td> -<td class="ramt">11,515</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Acres of land cultivated by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">54,207</td> -<td class="ramt">292,550</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Bushels wheat raised</td> -<td class="ramt">126,117</td> -<td class="ramt">688,278</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Bushels corn raised</td> -<td class="ramt">467,363</td> -<td class="ramt">4,656,952</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Bushels oats and barley raised</td> -<td class="ramt">43,976</td> -<td class="ramt">349,247</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Bushels vegetables raised</td> -<td class="ramt">236,926</td> -<td class="ramt">556,975</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Tons of hay</td> -<td class="ramt">16,216</td> -<td class="ramt">148,473</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Horses and mules owned by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">43,960</td> -<td class="ramt">216,286</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Cattle owned by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">42,874</td> -<td class="ramt">217,883</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Swine owned by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">29,890</td> -<td class="ramt">121,358</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Sheep owned by Indians</td> -<td class="ramt">2,683</td> -<td class="ramt">587,444</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>In addition to these comparisons are the -following figures:</p> - -<table class="medium"> -<tr> -<td>Number of Indians in U. S. about</td> -<td class="ramt">278,000</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Wear citizens’ dress</td> -<td class="ramt">112,903</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Houses built last year</td> -<td class="ramt">1,103</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Money expended for education</td> -<td class="ramt">$337,379</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Indians who can read</td> -<td class="ramt">40,397</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Learned to read last year</td> -<td class="ramt">1,206</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Church buildings on reservations</td> -<td class="ramt">207</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Indians, Church members, about</td> -<td class="ramt">28,000</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Male Indians engaged in labor</td> -<td class="ramt">34,632</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td colspan="2">(Five tribes in the Indian Territory are not included in these -figures.)</td> -</tr> - -</table> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3> - -<p class="section">Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</p> - -<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 Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, -Rev. W. E. Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. -Sanford, Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq.</p> - -<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. -<span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E. Palache, Esq.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>ADDRESS BY FUNG AFFOO.</h3> - -<p>The following address was delivered at the last Annual Meeting -of the California Chinese Mission by Mr. Fung Affoo, one of our -missionary helpers. It was listened to with much interest, and -at my request, Affoo has furnished it for publication in the -<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p> - -<p class="right smcap">W. C. Pond.</p> - -<p>“<span class="smcap">Christian Friends</span>: I was asked to make an address here -this evening, but I have not much to say. I do not know your -language well enough. I have only a few words to say about the -Chinese Young Men’s Christian Association, of which I have been -a member about three years. This Association was organized not -quite four years ago. There are other Chinese Christian Societies -besides this one, in San Francisco and elsewhere in this State. -This Association has now a membership of 131; about<a class="pagenum" name="Page_82" id="Page_82">[82]</a> three-fourths -of the members were gathered in during the last two years. It -has given us great encouragement, seeing that the work of this -Association has been thus far so successful through the help of -God. But I am afraid that some people would say that, while so -much has been done for the cause of Christianizing Chinese, only -so little of the work has been accomplished in return. But if they -really knew the difficulties and temptations in the way of our -people becoming Christians, they would say otherwise.</p> - -<p>“By being a member of the Association for three years, I have -known what their difficulties are. I will tell you a little of -it; perhaps it will illustrate to you some of their principal -difficulties. As the rule of our Association requires that ‘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,’ so, when he is a member, he must do accordingly; and -when he does that, his friends and relations will turn their -backs on him, and will have nothing to do with him. That makes -it very unpleasant, and he feels the loss of their friendship -very much; because it is a general thing among our people in this -country that, when a Chinaman first comes here from China, he is a -dependent on his friends and relatives, who provide him food and -shelter, and then find him employment until he has earned some -money; then he pays them back what seems to him right. He feels -it is his duty to respect and follow their advice, because of -their kindness to him when he was a stranger. So, when he becomes -a Christian, he not only feels he has lost those friends, but, -perhaps, sometimes gets a good whipping from his relatives also. -That not only prevents some from becoming Christians, but four or -five of our members have turned back under these circumstances.</p> - -<p>“But we make it one of our principal duties to make each one feel -that he has found some better friends in the Association than those -he has lost by becoming a Christian. Not long ago a young man -became a Christian, and his friends, not satisfied with abusing -and jeering at him, wrote a false report to his parents in China, -telling them that their son in California not only had forsaken his -old religion and the worshipping of his ancestors, but also had -cut off his long queue and dressed in foreigner’s clothes. When -they received this news, they wept and made many inquiries, and -worshipped all the gods they knew of, praying them to use their -spiritual power to turn their son back to be a Chinaman again, so -that, when they die, they will have some one to take care of their -bones and feed their ghosts. When the young man heard of this, he -wrote home to them, telling them it was true that he had become a -Christian, but it was not true that he had cut his queue and wore -the foreigner’s clothing, and said that he was a Chinaman still; he -would honor them just the same, and perhaps more. And he has not -heard from them speaking on this subject ever since. Now, friends, -such things as I have said often occur, but most of our members are -firm. When once they have become Christians, they will stick to it, -though they have so many hardships to bear.</p> - -<p>“They often encounter some hard questions about Christianity from -their heathen friends, such questions as, ‘If Jesus was the Son -of God and a good man, why did the people kill him on the cross? -People would never kill a good man that way.’ ‘You say, being -baptized with a little water pour on your head, and your sins are -no more. I can take the water and pour on my head, or wash me all -over fifty times a day!’ ‘You say God created heaven and earth and -man, and has power over everything; why He lets the devil live and -lead the people to go astray, and, when the people die, He will -condemn their souls and send them to hell?’ etc., etc. If they -cannot answer these questions, they will ask their teachers or -search the Scriptures to see what answer they can get from them—not -only that those questions may be answered but in hopes that their -heathen friends may be led to become Christians, also.</p> - -<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_83" id="Page_83">[83]</a></p> - -<p>“We feel we are weak and few in number, but we trust God, and lean -on His strong arm, that He will carry us through. We know that He -has been very good to us, and has given so many kind friends to -help us along; and we hope, through His goodness, that all our -people will soon know that Jesus is the only Saviour of the world.”</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>AFRICA.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>THE MENDI MISSION.</h3> - - -<h4>The Church and the Sunday-School.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. FLOYD SNELSON, GOOD HOPE STATION.</p> - -<p>We had our First Communion yesterday. It was a great day in the -church. All were in high spirits. We received one new convert, and -others are seeking the way of life. We observed the Week of Prayer -with the Church Mission Society, holding our meetings with each -other alternately through the week, beginning with us to-night. We -have a splendid Sabbath-school, and are doing all that we can to -make it better.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - - -<h4>The Day-School—The Christmas Entertainment—Knives and Forks.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">BENJAMIN JAMES, M. D.</p> - -<p>We have about sixty or more scholars, and, I tell you, to instruct -them in the way they teach schools in America is difficult; indeed, -more so than you have any idea of. With every attempt you make -to teach them in that way, you become more and more discouraged. -Our Sabbath-school is too large for the number of teachers at -present engaged, but we hope to remedy this soon. We gave them, -Thursday night, a Christmas entertainment. Mrs. Snelson cooked the -food, which was partly furnished by the members of the church, -and the remainder by ourselves. I was appointed to decorate the -chapel, and, I must say, to these people’s credit, that I never -had so many hands under my control in my life; and, as evergreen -after evergreen was placed in position, the laborers increased. -We not only had fruits, but poultry, vegetables, cakes, pies, -candies, raisins, and music. There were many strangers, such as -the Commander of the Port (a white man, with more decorations of -honor on his chest than in the ephod of a Jewish high-priest), the -Collector of the Port (white), the Catechist of the Established -Church (colored), seven merchants (two white and five colored), -the Postmaster (colored), Custom House officers in abundance (all -colored), military officials of all grades, from a captain to -a corporal. The church people, boatmen, and servants, were all -present. Several tables were set; but, I am sorry to say, that when -the laborers’ (such as carpenters and field hands) time came to sit -and to sup, the best had been consumed.</p> - -<p>I sat opposite a boat’s crew, and they began to laugh; as they -would use the knife, then the spoon (large), after that the fork, -such laughing after the use of each of these pieces of cutlery I -have never witnessed before. I began to inquire of the waiter, an -interpreter, what they were so much amused at, and he informed -me that they were laughing at their use of the knives, forks -and spoons. The spoons did not hold enough, they said; the food -rolled off the knife in their unsteady hands, and the fork was -like putting water in a fish-net instead of a calabash. Every day -since that, when they eat dinner, they laugh about those pieces of -cutlery.</p> - -<p>During Christmas-Day, services were had in the chapel; they were -begun at 5 o’clock, and continued until daylight. At 10 o’clock, -there was preaching to the prisoners through an interpreter. On -Thursday, at the banquet, we had singing and addresses to the day -and Sabbath-schools, for they both were invited. The girls were -marched from the<a class="pagenum" name="Page_84" id="Page_84">[84]</a> chapel two by two, as were also the boys. This -was another new feature, and they were well pleased with it.</p> - -<p>I have had an extensive medical practice here and at Avery, and -have so much to do in this way, that I am compelled to ask you to -give me written instructions whom to attend, and how to proceed.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - - -<h2>COMMUNICATIONS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>EDUCATION OF THE COLORED PEOPLE.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. J. E. RANKIN. D. D.</p> - -<p class="medium hang">The following paragraphs are from the paper read by Dr. Rankin at -the anniversary at Syracuse. It was intended that it should be -printed with the proceedings, but, by accident, it was not left -in the hands of the committee. We hope to publish it in full in a -series of documents which we have in preparation.<br /><br /> -After valuable historical statements, and a vivid picture of the -needs, and of the progress already made, among other good things, -the Doctor says:</p> - -<p>The southern portions of this country cannot always remain blind -to the truth that their <em>material prosperity</em> depends upon the -employment of <em>educated labor</em>. Sociologists claim that an educated -laborer will produce twenty-five per cent. more than an uneducated -one. If a colored man is worth $100 a year without an education, -he is worth twenty-five per cent. more with one. The thrift of New -England has been largely dependent upon the common-school houses -there. Give a man education enough to transact ordinary business, -to enable him to keep his accounts in writing, to improve his mind -daily by reading, to understand the institutions of his country, to -have an insight into the laws which shall govern him in relation -to his neighbors and his God, to know his rights and his duties, -and he is twenty-five per cent. better as a <em>producer</em> than he -was before. The necessity of keeping the colored man ignorant, of -keeping out discussions relating to human rights, involved the -other necessity of keeping a population unintelligent, unthinking -and, so far forth, unproductive, as appeared in the very implements -employed for tilling the soil.</p> - -<p>The southern portions of this country cannot long remain oblivious -of the fact that the <em>illiterate</em> class are largely the <em>criminal</em> -class; that ignorance fosters crime. In New England only seven -per cent. of the population—and these almost entirely of foreign -birth—are illiterate. Eighty per cent. of all the crime committed, -is by these illiterate persons. It really comes to this: “Which -is the wisest outlay of public money—that put into schools and -school-houses, or that put into almshouses and jails?”</p> - -<p>It is not merely intelligence which prevents crime. It is the -early formation of habits of industry. It is the pre-occupation -of the mind, so that it does not become the devil’s workshop. And -when one considers a late slave population, free but without the -training which freedom especially requires, inheriting all the evil -tendencies which slavery engenders; and then, on the other hand, a -white population, largely dependent for support upon the labor of -others, indolent from habit or from pride, and largely inheriting -analogous tendencies—it is easy to see that here is a state of -things especially favorable to crime.</p> - -<p>I know that these are <em>material</em> considerations, that they are upon -a low plane of working, and very unlike those which actuated our -New England fathers, with whom the school-house was collateral to -the Church, and the spelling-book to the Bible. This of our fathers -is the higher plane of effort occupied by the American Missionary -Association. Political economists and statesmen can perceive the -material bearings of this subject, and, little by little, as light -spreads, the Southern States will be compelled for those reasons -to see that their people have facilities for education, will -comprehend the truth that school-houses and school-teachers add -to the value of acres—as the President lately said at Nashville. -Meanwhile, this Association, through its Normal Schools and -Universities, is training up<a class="pagenum" name="Page_85" id="Page_85">[85]</a> colored teachers and preachers to -labor, as leaders, among their own people, as school systems shall -be founded and maintained by law.</p> - -<p>It is not enough that the different States of the South adopt a -liberal system of public schools. Where, among colored people, -shall suitable teachers be found? This race, like every other, -must work out its own salvation. Favored ones must mount high, and -reach down a helping hand to those below them. It cannot depend -wholly upon white teachers. Oh, if there could rise up from among -them gifted men and women, who were willing to devote themselves -to <em>their own race</em>, to different classes of their own race, just -for the sake of lifting them up from degradation! This is the aim -of these institutions of the American Missionary Association—to -train up the better, the choicer minds among colored youth, for the -work of teaching and preaching; so that they may be eager to devote -themselves to the mental and moral uplifting of their own race! -If this “land that was desolate is yet to become like the garden -of Eden”; if the thrift and industry of the more favored portions -of this land are yet to be seen in all portions, I believe that -no one agency will have been more instrumental in this, than the -institutions of learning early established for the colored people!</p> - -<p>At this time, the American Missionary Association limits its sphere -to schools of the higher class. If it can train the <em>teachers</em>; -if it can mould the minds and kindle the hearts of those who are -soon to mould the minds and kindle the hearts of the thousands of -colored children and youth, who are to be the colored men and women -of the future, it could not have a higher mission; it could not do -better, whether for the country or for the human race.</p> - -<p>Brethren, this is no longer a <em>Southern</em> question—a question which -the South must be left to solve for themselves. We must help them, -as involved in the destiny which they work out for us, as well as -for themselves. For, if this millstone of ignorance be not taken -from their necks, we go down with them into the depths of the sea!</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<h3>FROM A LIFE MEMBER.</h3> - -<p>I am glad you have returned to the old form of Magazine. Although -a Life Member, and thus entitled to receive it without pay, yet I -am glad to inclose fifty cents for it, and most earnestly hope each -and every one who receives the Magazine will do the same promptly, -and <em>thus increase the income of the A. M. A. twelve thousand and -five hundred dollars</em>.</p> - -<div> - <div class="float-left right">Yours sincerely,</div> - <div class="float-right"><span class="smcap">A Life Member</span>.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="secauth">(<cite>From the N. Y. Herald.</cite>)</p> - -<h3>SLAVE AND FREE LABOR COTTON.</h3> - -<p>Twelve crops of cotton have been raised by free labor, and the -comparison of the returns with an equal number of crops before the -war shows some interesting results. The period of free labor may -properly be divided into two portions—the first, including four -years, during which the crops of 1865 to 1868, both inclusive, -were made, and in which the labor system was greatly disorganized; -the second, including eight years—1869 to 1877—when free labor was -fairly well organized. If we divide the twelve crops preceding the -war in the same manner, we shall get the following results:</p> - -<table> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FIRST PERIOD—FOUR YEARS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2"><i>Bales.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Crops of 1849–’50 to 1852–’53, inclusive</td> -<td class="ramt">10,729,874</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Add consumption of the South, not then -included in the commercial crop statement</td> -<td class="ramt">500,810</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total (slave)</td> -<td class="ramt">11,230,684</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Crops of 1865–’66 to 1868–’69, inclusive -(free)</td> -<td class="ramt">9,246,793</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Excess of slave crop over free</td> -<td class="ramt">1,983,891</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SECOND PERIOD—EIGHT YEARS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td>Crops of 1869–’70 to 1876–’77, inclusive, -being eight years of organized free -labor</td> -<td class="ramt">31,570,212</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Crops of 1853–’54 to 1860–’61, inclusive, -being eight years of slave labor immediately -preceding the war</td> -<td class="ramt">27,535,949</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Add Southern consumption then -excluded from commercial -crop statement, but included -since the war</td> -<td class="ramt" style="width: 30%;">1,261,892–28,797,841</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Excess of free labor</td> -<td class="ramt">2,772,371</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>In the last eight years free labor has, therefore, overtaken the -palmiest days of slavery, and has produced two and three-quarter -million bales more cotton. This crop is now more free from the -encumbrance<a class="pagenum" name="Page_86" id="Page_86">[86]</a> of debt than ever before, and with it has been raised -a supply of food far greater than slavery ever compassed.</p> - -<p>Without entering into minute statistics, it is safe to say that the -money value of the thirty-one and a half million bales of cotton -produced in the last eight years has been over two thousand million -dollars in gold, and that over two-thirds of this value has been -exported.</p> - -<p>Texas, which seems to be the true land of the cotton farmer, has -made the greatest relative progress, now producing double the crop -of cotton that she made before the war. During the last cotton -year, on less than half of one per cent. of her area, or on less -than half an acre in a hundred, she produced a quantity of cotton -equal to one-half the entire consumption of the United States.</p> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2>THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<p class="secauth">(<cite>From the Southern Sentinel, Talladega College.</cite>)</p> - -<h3>A YOUNG TEACHER’S STORY.</h3> - -<p>I fully realized last April, for the first time, that I had begun -a missionary life, when I was helped into a covered wagon, where -there was not room enough to sit up straight for the supplies. I -had a dizzy headache before I had gone three miles; the smell of -bacon, cheese, tobacco, and whiskey was enough to make <em>any one</em> -sick. I was wishing that the driver would take some of the things -out of the wagon so I could sit more comfortably, when he stopped -and took in four sacks of guano—my condition can be imagined better -than described. I thought the Lord called some one else, and I had -answered. When I got out, the man asked me which was the best—a -proud walk or poor ride. I only thanked him for his kindness, and -said nothing about which was best.</p> - -<p>Some say, time flies; it seemed to me that time had lost its wings. -At last the much-wished-for Tuesday appeared, beautiful and bright. -Just as I sat down to breakfast, I heard some one ask if the -school-mistress was in. As I had no appetite whatever, I excused -myself from the table, and went to the door to see what was wanted. -There were boys and girls of all sizes, with their buckets, books, -and slates, all ready for school. We were soon on our way to the -school-house; the walk was very pleasant through the piny woods. -The school-house was in a very pretty place; a few steps from the -door was a nice spring of water, and a large cave. We sang “What -shall the harvest be,” then prayed. It was quite difficult to get -their names. I asked one little girl her name; she said “Maggie.” I -asked her “Maggie what;” she said “Maggie nothing.” There was one -little girl in school that I thought never would get acquainted -with me. I asked her one day why she didn’t study her lesson; she -said she was wondering what kind of a woman I was. I asked her -what kind of a woman did she think I was; she said I looked like a -white woman to her. [<em>The writer is a dark person.</em>] I told her she -might lay aside her books for ten minutes and take a good look at -me, so that she might be thoroughly convinced as to what kind of -a woman I was. I then asked her what she thought; but she thought -just the same. The weather was so warm, and the days so long, that -the children could scarcely keep awake. I would let them go to the -spring and bathe their faces, so they might keep awake longer.</p> - -<p>In the evening, four or five little children came and offered to -carry my books and bucket home, for the school-house had neither -door nor window, hence it was not safe to leave them there. I gave -each one something to carry, but they became quite troublesome. -Lucy would say, Mary had carried them twice, and she only once; so -I thought that it would be best to provide myself with a desk. This -I did by moving a plank from the floor and putting them all under -the house. That was no trouble<a class="pagenum" name="Page_87" id="Page_87">[87]</a> whatever, for sometimes, while -walking the floor, the next thing I would know I would be under it.</p> - -<p>Whenever I went under, I expected to be snake-bitten before I could -get out. One day, one of the scholars let her pencil fall through -the crack of the floor, and asked me to let her get it. As I had -cautioned them about looking for snakes <a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>before putting their hands -under, I said nothing to her about it. Just as she reached down to -get the pencil, she fell back and screamed. I had not the power to -move for a few minutes, I was so sure she was snake-bitten.</p> - -<p>I looked under the floor, and there was the <em>largest rattlesnake I -ever saw</em>. We all got sticks and poles ready for a battle. I was -captain, so you may be sure which side whipped. The snake appeared -to be very angry; he made one strike, and I threw down my pole and -ran, and told the children to kill it if they could,—but they all -followed me. I was real glad whenever any of the children had to be -kept in, for I did not like to stay in the room alone.</p> - -<p>I walked two miles and a half every Sabbath, and sometimes through -the rain. If it rained hard while we were there, we would have -to get in one corner of the room to keep dry. We should be real -earnest if we would accomplish much good. I did everything that -was in my power, and felt that the Lord was with me and blessed my -efforts.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - - -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> - -<p class="center">FOR JANUARY, 1878.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $692.38.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. $70; T. U. C. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">71.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bath. Winter St. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brownsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castine. Rev. Alfred E. Ives</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Garland. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Machias. Centre St. Sab. Sch. $25; Ladies’ -Prayer-Meeting $5.75, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Wm. -C. Holway</span>, L. M.; “A Friend” $3</td> -<td class="ramt">33.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson. R. W. Emerson</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Yarmouth. Samuel H. Sweetser, to -const. <span class="smcap">Miss Lucretia H. Sweetser</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orono. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell $5; S. M. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. Mary A. Ellis</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. <span class="smcap">Bequest</span> of Mrs. Samuel Tyler, -by Sarah A. Breslin</td> -<td class="ramt">400.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. Edward Gould</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Searsport. S. Thurston</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sheepscot Bridge. Amos Flye</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Freeport. Horatio Ilsley</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winthrop. I. N. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $424.27.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. Miss C. M. Boylston</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Antrim. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. C.S.G.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colebrook. H. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Concord. W. H. Pitman $2, <i>for Cal. Chinese -M.</i>—Mrs. C. L. Gerould $2; Mrs. Cooper -Clark, bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $7; E. J. L. $1.00</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fisherville. “Mrs. M. C. A.”</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitzwilliam. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hill</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hancock. E. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Harrisville. Darius Farwell</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keene. Dea. E. Rand and Mrs. M. Townes -$5 ea.; Second Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1.40; Mrs. -I. H. Gates $5; Miss S. E. H. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.90</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyme. S. W. Balch</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Meriden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Mrs. C. W. Smith $5; J. A. -Stowell $5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashua. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">1.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Ipswich. N. F. D. $1; J. W. C. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hampton. E. Gove</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.50; Mrs. -M. B. Pratt $10</td> -<td class="ramt">33.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orfordville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pembroke. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const. -<span class="smcap">Rev. E. H. Richardson, D. D.</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rindge. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Short Falls. Rev. I. W. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thornton’s Ferry. Ladies, by Mrs. Harriet -N. Eaton</td> -<td class="ramt">2.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Temple. Mrs. W. K. $1; J. K. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.04</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilton. A. B. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolfboro. Mrs. Anne S. Banfield, to const. -<span class="smcap">Richard Banfield</span> and <span class="smcap">Anne Fiske -Banfield</span>, L. M.’s</td> -<td class="ramt">61.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $466.90.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. -($30 of which to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. F. C. White</span>, -L. M.)</td> -<td class="ramt">77.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. R. S. Nichols, -by B. S. Nichols</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. “A Friend” $30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss -Anna E. Codey</span>, L. M.; N. S. H. $1; J. P. -50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Castleton. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. G. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. Ladies’ Soc., bbl. of C. -and $3, by Mrs. H. W. Stevens, Sec.; Mrs. -L. W. J. and Mrs. S. H. P. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fayetteville. Cong. Sab. Sch. $7; Asa Kidder -$5</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manchester. L. D. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Mary A. Abbott, -by George Leslie</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. C. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pomfret. Seth Conant</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsford. Cong. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. -$33.34; J. H. B. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.84</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.38; -“Miss A. T.” $5</td> -<td class="ramt">28.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.42</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Glover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_88" id="Page_88">[88]</a></td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williamstown. R. D. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchester. “A Friend of Missions”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $5,460.55.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. L. S. Nash $2—Ladies’ Benev. -Soc. $2 and bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington, N. -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Peter Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Free Ch. $55.35 and bbl. of dry-goods, -<i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i>—“A -Friend” $4; H. C. $1; Miss S. E. J. 50c.; -E. J. P. 25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">61.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Auburn. “A Friend,” to const. <span class="smcap">John Davis</span>, -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $133.45; -“Friend” $20</td> -<td class="ramt">153.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">46.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Billerica. Dea. H. B. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. -$128.28; Mrs. Emily P. Eayrs $30, to const. -<span class="smcap">Miss Eveline Holcomb</span>. L. M.; C. G. -Currier of Old South Ch. $25; Phillips Ch., -“A. F. P.” $20; Central Ch. $10; Rev. -Chas. Nichols $5; Mrs. B. P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">218.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. E. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxford. Mrs. Elizabeth Sayward, <i>for Ind. -Sch. Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brockton. Joseph Hewitt $5.—Mrs. B. Sanford, -$2, <i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">79.19</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Campello. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cambridgeport. Geo. F. Kendall $5; G. B. -C. 50c.; A. A. P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">74.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chelsea. Friends 2 bbls. of C; Mrs. P. N. -P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Third Ch. $39.20; Second Ch. -15c.</td> -<td class="ramt">39.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dalton. Mrs. Z. M. Crane</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danvers. C. W. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Braintree. Miss R. A. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. Payson Sab. Sch. $100; First -Ch. and Sab. Sch. by W. H. Wright, $37.50</td> -<td class="ramt">137.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Somerville. E. Stone $200; Franklin -St. Ch. and Soc. $75.15</td> -<td class="ramt">275.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Weymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) -$26.54; Young People’s Miss. Circle $20.05 -and 2 bbls of C.; Mrs. S. N. Briggs $10; -Mrs. Maria Fay $5</td> -<td class="ramt">61.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Freetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $13.45; -“A Friend” $10</td> -<td class="ramt">23.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gardner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (<i>of which $8 -for Female Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">76.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granby. Mrs. John Church’s S. S. Class -$18, and Mrs. R. H. Davis’ Class $12, <i>for -Cal. Chinese M.</i>, and to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. R. -Henry Davis</span>, L. M.—Cong. Sab. Sch. -$10.43</td> -<td class="ramt">40.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Great Barrington. Mrs. L. M. Chapin</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Mrs. R. C. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gloucester. Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">102.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grafton. A. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">91.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Groton. Elizabeth Farnsworth $20; Union -Ch. and Soc. $8.13</td> -<td class="ramt">28.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which -$1 <i>for C. M. Building in Cal.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">11.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover Centre. Mary A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. -$123.65; Mrs. S. C. 50c.; C. C. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">124.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holbrook. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook and daughter, -bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hollister. A. W. F. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. D. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hubbardston. Sarah M. Ware</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. Mrs. C. L. Foote and Charles -P. Foote $5 ea.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ipswich. South Ch. and Soc. $26; Ladies’ -Prayer Meeting $5; Linebrook Ch. and -Soc. $5</td> -<td class="ramt">36.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Dea. L. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Loudville. Mrs. W. S. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Eliot Ch. and Soc. $47.10; E. M. -Buss $5; High St. Ch. and Soc. 3.83—Friends, -bbl. of C., <i>for Wilmington, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">55.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lynn. Josiah Richardson</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">69.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medfield. Mrs. F. D. E.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Methuen. W. M. $1; A. P. C. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. Mrs. B. Haywood</td> -<td class="ramt">1.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">61.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson. “Ladies” $8;—Miss E. A. W. $1, <i>for -Midway Ch., Ga.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montville. Sylvester Jones</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Ch. and Soc. $8.50; E. G. -P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newburyport. Mrs. J. P. Cleaveland, a -hhd. of C., <i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i>—S. -N. B. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. Freedman’s Aid Sew. Cir., by -Ellen D. Jackson, $70. <i>for Student Aid, -Talladega C.</i>—E. D. J. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">70.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Adams. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">32.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Amherst. H. S. $1; W. L. R. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Cambridge. <i>For Postage</i></td> -<td class="ramt">0.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $23.09; -Mrs. A. E. D. F. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Hadley. Mrs. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norton. Mrs. E. B. Wheaton</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $35; and -Sab. Sch. $15.67</td> -<td class="ramt">50.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peabody. T. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phillipston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Asaph D. Foot</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reading. Amos Temple</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochdale. S. P. $1; Mrs. R. W. 25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. J. H. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandwich. Mrs. E. W. Wells $5; H. H. Nye -$2</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Scotland. Rev. Isaac Dunham</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southampton. Mrs. J. B. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Abington. Freedman’s Aid Soc. 2 -bbls. of C., <i>for Tougaloo U.</i>—N. N. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, -bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Boston. Phillip’s Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">77.36</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">48.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Memorial Ch. $74.29; First -Ch. $62.56; Mrs. J. D. L. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">137.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sterling. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.50; Mrs. -A. H. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">20.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stoughton. Mrs. B. E. Capen</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sutton. J. W. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton. R. Luscombe</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Topsfield. Mrs. R. C. Towne and Friends, -bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Uxbridge. Willard Judson</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Andover. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westborough. Rev. J. W. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Boylston. C. T. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Mrs. C. A. J.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Foxborough. J. M. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15; -“A Friend” $2</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6.85; -J. C. Carr $2</td> -<td class="ramt">8.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Newton. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Hadassah Stevens -($200 <i>of which for Trinity Sch., Athens, -Ala.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">800.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Stockbridge Village. Cong. Ch. and -Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weymouth. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Abby C. Pratt</td> -<td class="ramt">582.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whateley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.66</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Executors, <span class="smcap">Estate</span> E. W. -Fletcher</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch. $37; Cong. -Ch. (ad’l) $5; Rev. J. R. Thurston $30; S. -A. D. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">72.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williamstown. Miss Emily Beckwith</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $12.09; -“A Friend” $10</td> -<td class="ramt">22.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">138.50<a class="pagenum" name="Page_89" id="Page_89">[89]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Union Sab. Sch. $100; Plymouth -Ch., S. A. Pratt $25; M. W. 50c; -Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Plymouth Ch., by -Mrs. C. M. Draper, Sec., 2 bbls. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">125.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worthington. Mrs. M. S. Randall</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $79.82.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol. Mrs. R. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newport. D. B. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peace Dale. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. $49.82; -Elmwood Cong. Ch. and Soc. $7.50; M. E. -L. 50c; L. M. W. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">58.32</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $3,332.95.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ansonia. “M. R. B.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cheshire. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">39.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Colchester. Mrs. M. J. G.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Collinsville. “Friends” $100, <i>for Ag. Dept., -Talladega C.</i>; Mrs. N. A. Bently $5, <i>for -Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i>;</td> -<td class="ramt">105.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cornwall. Miss H. D. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bantam Falls. Eliada Kilbourn</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethlehem. H. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Black Rock. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. Second Cong. Ch. $76.70; J. -G. D. $1; V. C. and J. B. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">78.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. $169.77, to const. <span class="smcap">Francis -O. Lewis</span>, <span class="smcap">Ellen S. Cook</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs N. L. -Brewster</span>, <span class="smcap">Mrs. S. P. Newell</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. -Frank Atwood</span>, L. M’S.—Ladies’ Home -Miss. Ass’n $75, for <i>Ind. Sch., Talladega -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">244.77</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burnside. Miss E. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Danbury. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eastford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hartford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. “Young People” $100, <i>for -Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i>; Talladega Miss. -Soc. $12, <i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">112.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">158.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Glastonbury. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. -$200; G. M. J. 60c</td> -<td class="ramt">200.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenwich. Geo. A. Palmer $30; Israel -Peck $5.50</td> -<td class="ramt">35.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. $153.56; Mrs. -Mary C. Bemis $30.—Mrs. F. P. H. Wood -and Mrs. Geo. C. Perkins $20, <i>for Ind. -Sch., Talladega C.</i>; Miss L. A. Bigelow $3, -<i>for Ind. Sch. Talladega C.</i> (<i>freight</i>).—Mrs. -John Olmsted $2.50; Mrs J. O. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">210.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hebron. L. W. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Litchfield. “L. M.”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown. A. Doolittle $5; H. E. S. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milton. Mrs. Nelson T. Gorhan</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mt. Carmel. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montville. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Britain. Fred. G. Mead $70; <i>for Theo. -Scholarship, Straight U.</i>—South Cong. Ch. -$44.43; Mrs. Wm H. Smith $30, to const. -<span class="smcap">Miss Julia Ann Kelsey</span>, L. M.—Mrs. -Horace Wells $20, and Levi S. Wells $10, -<i>for Scholarships, Straight U.</i>—“Member -South Cong. Ch.” $10; Mrs. A. A. 51c</td> -<td class="ramt">184.94</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. Mrs. Julia A. Dickerman $101; -College St. Ch. $40; Taylor Ch. $6; Henry -Johnson $5; S. S. T. and Mrs. E $1; C. A. -S. $1; J. M. 50c; A. L. 51c</td> -<td class="ramt">155.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New London. Second Cong. Ch. $566.80; -M. G. B. 50c.; “Martha and Mary,” box of -books</td> -<td class="ramt">567.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Lyme. H. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwalk. Ladies’ Benev. Ass’n of First -Cong. Ch. $25; Mrs. Wm. B. St. John $3</td> -<td class="ramt">28.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Buckingham Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Old Lyme. “Three Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stanwich. William Brush</td> -<td class="ramt">100.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stonington. R. Town</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Killingly. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rocky Hill. Rev. Geo. Tillotson, <i>for Ind. -Sch. Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Terryville. Dea. R. D. H. Allen $100; Cong. -Ch. Sab. Sch. $70, <i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega -C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">170.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thompsonville. D. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Unionville. Cong. Ch. $30; Rev. J. A. -Smith $25; Dr. C. L. Beach $10; <i>for Ag. -Dept. Talladega C.</i>—Edward Lyman $5</td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wapping. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid, -Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">32.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. “A few Friends” $9, by H. S. -Nettleton; F. A. F. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. $150; “A -Friend” $100</td> -<td class="ramt">250.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. -<span class="smcap">Charles A. Baldwin</span> and <span class="smcap">Arthur E. -Freeman</span>, L. M.’s</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Weatoque. T. J. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Haven. Cong. Ch. $19.13; Mrs. E. C. -Kimball $5</td> -<td class="ramt">24.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Meriden. E. K. Breckenbridge</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Winsted. Second Cong. S. S., R. E. -Holmes’ Class</td> -<td class="ramt">4.81</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winsted. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $100; C. -J. Camp $50; J. T. Rockwell $20; Henry -Gray $20., <i>for Ag. Dept. Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">190.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodbury. First Cong. Ch. $11.50; C. I. -Miner $5</td> -<td class="ramt">16.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yalesville. M. E. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $794.92.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Albany. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Berkshire. <span class="smcap">Bequest</span> of Mary H. Allen, to -const. <span class="smcap">Lucy E. Allen</span>, L. M, by James -Allen</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Binghamton. Mrs. Harriet Halbert</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Black Creek. J. S. and M. T. $1 ea</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Miss M. E. Horton $3; Mrs. -Rev. George Hollis $2</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Canastota. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Childs</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chestertown. R. C. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coxsackie. Rev. M. Lusk.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Deansville. “L.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dryden. S. O. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dutchess Co. “A Friend,” <i>for Mobile, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Otto. Mrs. D. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fulton. J. C. Galispie, Almon Bristol and -T. W. Chesebro $5 ea.; Dea. S. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">15.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gouverneur. B. R. S. and E. R. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenport. O. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Homer. B. W. Payne and wife, to const. -<span class="smcap">Dea. Ebenezer Ranney</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones $10; A. S. P. -50c</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kiantone. Mrs. E. C. Hall’s Young Ladies’ -Bible Class</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kinderhook. W. I.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, Marvin Day -and Alfred Seymour $5 ea.; J. H. W. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lockport. Cong. Ch. $32.57; Cong. Sab. -Sch. $30, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss Fannie Hamilton</span>, -L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">62.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moira. Mrs. A. Dickinson.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrisville. A. B. DeForest</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Sinai. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark Valley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $15—“A -Friend” $10.50.—Wm. H. Ferrier $5, <i>for -Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i>—L. W. S. 35c</td> -<td class="ramt">30.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Walton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $8.09; -Missionary Soc. $19.42</td> -<td class="ramt">27.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orient. Miss K. M. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Penn Yan. W. W. Taylor $5; W. T. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Perry Centre. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Belle -J. Sheldon, Sec.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Perrysburgh. Rev. Wm. Hall</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pharsalia. “A few Friends,” by Rev. J. -Clements</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Phœnix. Rev. H. P. Bake and family</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochester. Mrs. A. E. Albright $5; A. H. -55c</td> -<td class="ramt">5.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sidney Plains. Rev. S. Johnson, bal. to -const. <span class="smcap">Hon. O. C. Wyman</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt"><a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Smyrna. Sab. Sch. Missionary Soc. of -Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sodus. D. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_90" id="Page_90">[90]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spencerport. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Syracuse. Rev. J. C. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tarrytown. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">70.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tompkinsville. Mrs. M. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Troy. M. and M. F. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Volney. First Cong. Ch. $1.60, and Sab. Sch. $6.18</td> -<td class="ramt">7.78</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walton. First Cong. Ch. $62.05.—Chas. S. Fitch $5, <i>for Mendi M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">67.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warsaw. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Camden. Mrs. A. L. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Farms. J. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Mrs. G. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Greece. S. B. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitestown. James Symonds</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $52.25.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bound Brook. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Irvington. Mrs. W. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morristown. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. (100 subscribers <i>for Mag.</i>) $30; Robert D. Weeks $6; David Owen $1, and bundle Song Rolls</td> -<td class="ramt">37.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newfield. Rev. C. Willey</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paterson. Mrs. W. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raritan. Miss S. Provost, package of Papers.</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $668.75.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovil</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cherry Ridge. M. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Athens. A. B. McC.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Benjamin Coates</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Philadelphia. Rev. Geo. Morris $100, <i>for a Teacher</i>.—W. P. F., $1.00; Miss M. E. M. 50c.; Rev. H. L. P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">102.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. Third Presb. Ch. <i>for Student -Aid, <a name="Err_4" id="Err_4"></a>Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittston. Meth. Prot. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Riceville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, <i>for Le Moyne Sch.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">38.25</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $427.06.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alliance. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. O. B. Case</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashland. John Thompson</td> -<td class="ramt">2.28</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brighton. Mrs. L. A. Strong</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Miss M. J. Weaver</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Delta. Mrs. M. B. Tanner</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Freedom. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.65</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Four Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.30</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. D. Trowbridge</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Germano. J. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Granville. G. P. Bancroft</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kingsville. Myron Whiting $12.50; Rev. Mr. Cummings $10; Mrs. Sarah Cummings $2.50, <i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lenox. A. J. Holman</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marietta. Mrs. E. W. Burgess</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medina. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., <i>for Ind. Sch., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morgan. L. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Moss Run. M. B. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nelson. Mrs. M. A. Fuller</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Bloomfield. “Friends,” <i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">62.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwalk. A. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. $25.45.—Mrs. Jane Miller $10.00, <i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i>—Mrs. J. S. B. 25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. Cong. Ch. $36.43 ($2 of which from Mrs. Morley, <i>for Straight U.</i>).—R. and R. C. Marshall $15; E. Ames $5.—D. E. Gove $1.50, <i>for Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">57.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Peru. “Friends,” <i>for Ag. Dept., Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">46.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Radnor. Edward D. Jones</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ravenna. Ira B. Cutts $5; S. H. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ripley. Mrs. Mary Tweed</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ruggles. Mrs. S. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sr.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Salem. A. W. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandusky. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. W. K.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Children’s Mission Circle $17, <i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>—First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $11.28 ($5 of which <i>for Mendi M.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">28.28</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Steubenville. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sullivan. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Toledo. Mrs. P. G. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Twinsburgh. Cong. Sab. Sch. $4.75; J. R. Parmele $2</td> -<td class="ramt">6.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Andover. Mrs. M. S. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellington. N. D. B. 50c.; C. F. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Xenia. W. S. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $6.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dublin. H. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. G. W. Southwick</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newville. A. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $1,004.91.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. New Eng. Ch. Sab. Sch. $69.36, -<i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i>—N. E. Ch. M. C. -Coll. $11.72; Union Park Cong. Ch. $31.49; -Mrs. Wm. Balthir $1.50; W. S. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">114.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Collinsville. J. F. Wadsworth and wife</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crete. Sab. Sch., <i>for freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elgin. First Cong. Ch. $14.20; Mrs. G. B. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">15.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ</td> -<td class="ramt">58.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galena. Miss Anna Bran</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneseo. Mr. and Mrs. C. Perry</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greenview. H. W. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hamlet. L. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kewanee. Cong. Ch. $51; Mrs. I. A. T. 60c.; C. L. C. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macomb. Rev. G. H. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson $1.50; Mrs. C. I. O. V. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Windsor. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.70</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Onargo. Mrs. L. C. Foster</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Payson. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for a Student</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">37.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rochelle. Mrs. A. C. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. First Cong. Ch., <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Charles. W. B. Lloyd</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seward. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.02</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tonica. V. G. Lutz $5; W. B. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waukegan. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.37</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wheaton. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">23.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">450.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $135.38.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adair. Henry Topping</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alamo. J. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Benzonia. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Rev. J. McC.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Columbus. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Detroit. “F. M. S.” 60c.; S. Z. 50c.; Mrs. H. A. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. Mrs. Mary W. Wilder</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. (with $13 ack. in Dec. receipts), <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. Rev. Geo. A. Pollard</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grass Lake. Joseph Swift $15.50; W. G. R. 25c.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hersey. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.57</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lansing. R. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newaygo. Rev. J. N. Hicks</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oakwood. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet. Y. M. C. A. of Cong. Ch. $12.41; P. A. Stone $5</td> -<td class="ramt">17.41</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Port Huron. Individuals</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Johns. A. J. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Joseph. J. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Richmond. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Romeo. Miss T. L. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union City. Andrew Lucas and family</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Vermontville. Mrs. C. M. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garner $20; Mrs. W. G. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $201.37.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. Second Cong. Ch. $28.35.—Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $12.01, <i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i>—W. P. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.86</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fort Atkinson. Mrs. Caroline Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[91]</a></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">20.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oshkosh. H. S. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for a Student</i></td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Menasha. “A Friend” $15; Cong. Ch. $12.31</td> -<td class="ramt">27.31</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.67</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.03</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raymond. T. Sands $5; C. S. Davis $1</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ripon. Rev. H. W. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sheboygan. Mrs. L. H. Chase</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Union Grove. Dr. A.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waukesha. Cong. Ch. $24; V. Tichenor $5.</td> -<td class="ramt">29.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $67.81.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Carroll. Rev. G. W. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., bbl of C. and $2, <i>for freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Clay. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cresco. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.40</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eldora. “Busy Bees” Cong. Sab. Sch. $10; Woman’s Cent. Soc. $4.85</td> -<td class="ramt">14.85</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kellogg. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lyons. “E. L. H.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Muscatine. E. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monroe. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.56</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield and wife.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherrills’ Mount. Rev. J. R.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sioux City. Wm. K. Smith.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waltham. Wm. Mason</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $47.38.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Albany. C. B. S.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atchison. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burlingame. M. S. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manhattan. Cong. Ch. $16.43; Cong. Sab. Sch. (Missionary Gardens) $7.88; Rev. Roswell Parker $2.00</td> -<td class="ramt">26.31</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reno Centre. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.32</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $113.46.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Austin. Cong. Ch. $16.08.—Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.55, <i>for a Student</i></td> -<td class="ramt">24.63</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Faribault. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.60</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hamilton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">28.33</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega C.</i>—First Cong. Ch. $8.90</td> -<td class="ramt">18.90</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $8.50.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fontanelle. By Rev. R. Gaylord</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke</td> -<td class="ramt">3.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $25.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">San Francisco. Mrs. N. Gray</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OREGON, $17.10.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Forest Grove. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">The Dalles. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MARYLAND, $20.50.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Baltimore. W. K. Karson $10; R. K. H. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Federalsburgh. Sarah A. Beals</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $412.50.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. Rent $112; Cong. Ch. $29</td> -<td class="ramt">141.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">101.85</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk University</td> -<td class="ramt">169.65</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $212.14.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Public Fund $76.18; Washington Sch. $20.38; Cong. Ch. $2.50</td> -<td class="ramt">99.06</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch. $106.75; Cong. Ch. $6.33</td> -<td class="ramt">113.08</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $186.50.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">186.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $305.05.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">68.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntsville. Mr. J. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">155.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Selma. Cong. Ch. $7.75; First Cong. Ch. $6</td> -<td class="ramt">13.75</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega College</td> -<td class="ramt">66.80</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $107.37.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.50</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst.</td> -<td class="ramt">83.87</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA, $107.25.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight University</td> -<td class="ramt">107.25</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $1,067.00.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Public Fund</td> -<td class="ramt">988.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo University</td> -<td class="ramt">79.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $5.00.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Saint Louis. Mrs. P. Chapman</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND, $197.32.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Graves Library, Atlanta University</td> -<td class="ramt">150.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Avery Fund, <i>for Mendi Mission</i></td> -<td class="ramt">47.32</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SCOTLAND, $100.00.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kilmarnock. John Stewart, <i>for a Teacher</i></td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $4.04.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paris. Mrs. N. Hamilton</td> -<td class="ramt">4.04</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$16,751.93</td> -</tr> - -<tr><td> -<table class="subtab"> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total to Dec. 31st, 1877</td> -<td class="ramt">$42,305.54</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Of which for Debt</td> -<td class="ramt">1,693.02</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————</td> -</tr> -</table> -</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total, excluding amount for Debt</td> -<td class="ramt">40,612.52</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st.</td> -<td class="ramt">$57,364.45</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 14%;">H. W. HUBBARD,</p> -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 10%;"><i>Ass’t Treas.</i></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wentworth, N. H. Ephraim Cook</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Mass. John Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield, Mass. “H. M.”</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">—— Mass. “A Worshipper at Indian Orchard”</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Oxford, Mass. “S. C. P.”</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td>Newburyport, Mass. “A Friend”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Conn. Erastus Collins</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Stanwich, Conn. Wm. Brush</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Guilford, Conn. Mrs. Mary G. Chittenden</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chattanooga, Tenn. Band of Hope, No. 1.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashville, Tenn. Teachers, Workers and Students of Fisk University (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charleston, S. C. Avery Inst., Proceeds of Concert</td> -<td class="ramt">38.60</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orangeburg S. C. Ladies’ Miss. Assn’n of Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Florence, Ala. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Savannah, Ga. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.31</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Louisville, Ga. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.40</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">$2,023.31</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged, Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st</td> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">1,693.02</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="total">Total to Jan’y 31st</td> -<td class="ramt">$3,716.33</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Exeter, N. H. Mrs. F. F. Olden</td> -<td class="ramt">$100.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton, Mass. Mrs. Emily G. Williston</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middletown, Conn. Mrs. Anna H. Phillips.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$222.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">BUILDING FUND.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kewanee, Ill. “A Friend,” <i>for Emerson Inst., Mobile, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">108.00</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talladega, Ala. Rev. E. P. Lord</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">$118.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GREAT BRITAIN.</td></tr> -<tr> -<td class="sub1">London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc. £290</td> -<td class="ramt">$1,422.45<a class="pagenum" name="Page_92" id="Page_92">[92]</a></td> -</tr> -</table> - - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2><i>The American Missionary Association.</i></h2> -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<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"><b>Freedmen</b></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"><b>Chinese</b></span> in America, and to -co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy -towards the <span class="smcap"><b>Indians</b></span>. It has also a mission in -<span class="smcap"><b>Africa</b></span>.</p> - - -<h3>STATISTICS.</h3> - -<p><span class="smcap"><b>Churches</b></span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. -C., 2; Ga., 11; Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; -Kansas, 2; Texas, 4. <i>Africa</i>, 1. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 2. Total, 62.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap"><b>Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the -South</b></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>, 7. Total, 26.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap"><b>Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants</b></span>—Among the -Freedmen, 209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; -in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252. <span class="smcap"><b>Students</b></span>—In -Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, -5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by former pupils of our -schools, estimated at 100,000. <span class="smcap"><b>Indians</b></span> under the -care of the Association, 13,000.</p> - - -<h3>WANTS.</h3> - -<p>1. A steady <span class="smcap"><b>Increase</b></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"><b>Additional Buildings</b></span> for our higher educational -institutions, to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; -<span class="smcap"><b>Meeting Houses</b></span>, for the new churches we are -organizing; <span class="smcap"><b>More Ministers</b></span>, cultured and pious, for -these churches.</p> - -<p>3. <span class="smcap"><b>Help for Young Men</b></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><span class="smcap">New York </span></td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr> -<tr><td><span class="smcap">Boston</span></td><td> Rev. C. L. 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Powell, 112 West Washington St.</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 an year -not less than five dollars.</p> - -<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap"><b>American Missionary -Association</b></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,” 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]. 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D. 1850,</b></p> - <p class="large center">THE</p> - <p class="xxxlarge center"><b>MANHATTAN</b></p> - <p class="large center"><b>Life Insurance Co.,</b></p> - <p class="center">156 Broadway, New York,</p> - <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="xlarge">$7,400,000</td> - <td class="large center">DEATH<br />CLAIMS,</td> - </tr></table> - <p class="center"><b>HAS PAID</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="xlarge"><b>$4,900,000</b></td> - <td class="center"><b>Return Premiums to<br />Policy-Holders</b>,</td> - </tr></table> - <p class="center"><b>HAS A SURPLUS OF</b></p> - <table><tr> - <td class="xlarge"><b>$1,700,000</b></td> - <td class="center medium">OVER<br />LIABILITIES,</td> - </tr></table> - <p class="medium center"><em>By New York Standard of Valuation</em>.</p> - <p class="center"><em>It gives the Best Insurance on<br />the Best Lives at the most<br />Favorable Rates.</em></p> - <p class="medium center">EXAMINE THE PLANS AND RATES OF THIS COMPANY.</p> - <table class="medium"> - <tr><td class="large center">HENRY STOKES, <span class="smcap">President</span>,</td></tr> - <tr><td>C. 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PEARSON, <i>Vice-President</i>.</p> - -<p class="right">EDWARD A. STRONG, <i>Secretary</i>.</p> - -<p class="center">BENJ. C. MILLER, <i>Treasurer</i>.</p> - -<p class="right">B. J. MILLER, <i>Actuary</i>.</p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xxlarge"><span class="smcap">Fuller, Warren & Co.</span></p> - -<p class="center medium">MANUFACTURERS OF</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">STOVES, RANGES,</p> - -<p class="center xlarge"><b>Furnaces, Fire-Place Heaters, &c.</b></p> - -<p class="center medium">THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT AND VARIETY IN THE MARKET.</p> - -<p class="center medium">EXCLUSIVE MAKERS OF</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge"><i>P. P. Stewart’s Famous Stoves</i>.</p> - -<div class="small"> -We continue to make a discount of twenty-five per cent. from our -prices on these well-known Cooking and Parlor Stoves, to Clergymen -and College Professors. Orders and letters in response to this -notice, addressed to our New York house, will receive prompt -attention. -<img class="inline" src="images/handpointingright.jpg" width="30" height="14" alt="" /> -Special terms to <em><b>Clergymen</b></em> on all our Goods. -<img class="inline" src="images/handpointingleft.jpg" width="30" height="14" alt="" /> -</div> - -<p class="small">Send for Catalogues and Circulars to</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 8%;">FULLER, WARREN & CO.</p> -<p class="right">236 Water St., New York.</p> - -<div> - <div class="third small">TROY.</div> - <div class="third small center">CHICAGO.</div> - <div class="third small right">CLEVELAND.</div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center xxxlarge smcap"><b>Coopers’ Best</b></p> - -<p class="center medium">STATIONARY AND PORTABLE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge"><b>Steam Engines</b></p> - -<p class="center" style="padding-right: 10%;">Circular Saw Mills,</p> - -<p class="center" style="padding-left: 10%;">French Burr Grist Mills,</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge"><b>Mill Machinery</b></p> - -<p class="center"><b>AND SUPPLIES,</b></p> - -<p class="center">Millwrights and Contractors.</p> - -<p class="center small">CIRCULARS FREE.</p> - -<p class="center"><b>Cooper M’f’g Co.</b></p> - -<div> - <div class="third small center"><b>State what is<br />Wanted.</b></div> - <div class="tthirds medium right"><b>Mt. Vernon, Ohio.</b></div> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="advertisement"> -<p class="center large"><b>Morton’s Gold Pens.</b></p> - -<p class="center small">ALSO EVERY VARIETY OF</p> - -<p class="center medium"><i>GOLD, SILVER, CELLULOID, PEARL<br /> - AND IVORY PENCILS AND<br /> - PEN CASES</i>.</p> - -<p class="small">These Goods have stood the test of nearly thirty years, and no -pains or expense is spared to maintain their character as the best -Goods in the market.</p> - -<p class="small medium">THE TRADE SUPPLIED AT LOWEST TERMS.</p> - -<div class="small"> -<img class="inline" src="images/handpointingright.jpg" width="30" height="14" alt="" /> -Where these Goods are not found on sale, they can be ordered -directly from <span class="smcap">Morton</span> by mail. -</div> - -<p class="center"><b>No. 25 Maiden Lane, N. Y.</b></p> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em;"> -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> -<img src="images/marvin.jpg" width="500" height="526" alt="Marvin's Safes" /> -</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="box" style="margin-top: 2em; padding: 2%;"> -<p class="xlarge center">THE THIRTY-SECOND VOLUME OF</p> - -<p class="large center">THE</p> - -<p class="xxxlarge center">American Missionary,</p> - -<p class="large center">ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - - -<p class="center"><b>SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">Besides giving news from the Institutions and Churches aided by the -Association among the Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the -Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in Western Africa, -it will be the vehicle of important views on all matters affecting -the races among which it labors, and will give a monthly summary of -current events relating to their welfare and progress.</p> - -<p class="medium">We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, and shall be glad to -increase the number indefinitely, knowing from experience that to -be informed of our work is to sympathize with, and desire to aid it.</p> - -<p class="medium">The Subscription Price will be, as formerly, <b>Fifty Cents a -Year, in Advance</b>. We also offer to send <b>One Hundred copies -to one address</b>, for distribution in Churches or to clubs -of subscribers, for $30., with the added privilege of a Life -Membership to such person as shall be designated. The Magazine will -be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the persons indicated on -Page 92. Donations and subscriptions should be sent to</p> - -<p class="center">H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t. Treas.,</p> - -<p class="right">56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center"><b>ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">A limited space in our Magazine will henceforth be devoted to -the interests of Advertisers, to whom our low rates and large -circulation give its pages special value. Our readers are of the -best and most enterprising in the country, having an established -character for integrity and thrift that constitute them valued -customers in all departments of business.</p> - -<p class="medium">To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who are accustomed to -the “<span class="medium">RULES</span>” of the best Newspapers, requiring “<span class="medium">DOUBLE -RATES</span>” for these “<span class="medium">LUXURIES</span>,” our wide pages, fine -paper, and superior printing, with <b>no extra charge for cuts</b>, -are advantages readily appreciated, and which add greatly to the -appearance and effect of business announcements.</p> - -<p class="medium">We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this department, -and solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to -advertise.</p> - -<p class="medium">Advertisements must be received by the <span class="medium">TENTH</span> of the -month, in order to secure insertion in the following number. All -communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to</p> - -<p class="right">J. H. DENISON, 56 Reade St., N. Y.</p> - - -<hr class="full p1" /> - - -<p class="center xxxlarge">LESTER SAW.</p> - -<p class="center">The New Lester Saw is Made of Iron, with all the working parts of - Steel, and Contains all known Improvements to this Date.</p> - -<div class="half"> - <div class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> - <img src="images/lester.jpg" width="300" height="444" alt="" /> - </div> -</div> -<div class="half" style="padding-left: 1%;"> -<p class="small">It is handsomely painted red and green, with red stripes, and -presents a beautiful appearance. Those parts which are not painted -are either polished or japanned. We warrant the Saw to be just as -herein stated, and we know it will give entire satisfaction, being -a more expensive machine than those which we formerly sold for $25.</p> - -<p class="small">It consists of—</p> - -<p class="small"><span class="smcap">First.</span>—A <b>SCROLL-SAW</b>, with Tilting-Table for inlaid -work; arms 18 inches in the clear; clamps which will hold saws of -any length or width, and face them in four different directions; -cutting lumber from one-sixteenth to one inch in thickness; speed, -1,000 strokes per minute.</p> - -<p class="small"><span class="smcap">Second.</span>—A <b>CIRCULAR-SAW</b>, two and one-half inches in -diameter, which will cut lumber one-half inch and less; with an -iron table, four by five inches.</p> - -<p class="small"><span class="smcap">Third.</span>—A <b>DRILLING ATTACHMENT</b>, with six Stubbs’s -Steel Drills, of various sizes, for wood or iron work.</p> - -<p class="small"><span class="smcap">Fourth.</span>—An <b>EMERY WHEEL</b>, with wide and narrow rim.</p> - -<p class="small"><span class="smcap">Fifth.</span>—A <b>TURNING-LATHE</b>, with iron ways and rest, -steel centres, and three best steel turning tools; length of ways, -15 inches; distance between centres, 9 inches; swing, 3 inches; -length of slide-rest, 4½ inches; number of revolutions per minute, -7,000.</p> - -<p class="small">Also, with each machine, six Saw-Blades, a Wrench, Screw-Driver, -extra Belt, and two sheets of Designs, with a nice box for the -small tools, and a box for the whole machine. It is taken apart -when shipped, and packed in a box, but the working parts are all -left in place, and the frame is put together again by a single bolt.</p> -</div> - -<p class="center"><b>PRICE FOR EVERYTHING ABOVE NAMED $8.00.</b></p> - -<p class="center">The Same, without the Lathe and Circular-Saw, $6.00.</p> - -<p class="small">When desired, we furnish with the Lathe a very nice Drill-Chuck, -for working metal, and a Tail-Stock, with a screw centre, for $2 -extra.</p> - -<p class="small">No Saw will be sent C. O. D. The machine alone weighs 47 lbs., and, -with the box, 70 lbs. The express charges on one machine are about -$2 for 1,000 miles, and about half as much by fast freight. Two -machines by freight go at about the same price as one. Money may be -sent by mail, by Post-Office Order, registered letter, or draft on -New York. For sale by dealers at same price, with the addition of a -reasonable amount for freight.</p> - -<p class="small"><em>We also keep a full stock of Tools and Supplies in the -Bracket-Sawing line.</em></p> - -<p class="center"><b>MILLER’S FALLS CO., 74 Chambers St., New York.</b></p> -</div> - - -<hr class="full" /> -<h2><a name="Transcribers_Notes" id="Transcribers_Notes">Transcriber’s Notes:</a></h2> - -<p>“breath” changed to “breadth” on page 70. (<a href="#Err_1">its length and breadth</a>)</p> - -<p>“puting” changed to “putting” on page 87. (<a href="#Err_2">before putting their -hands under</a>)</p> - -<p>Missing zeros added to the amount column in the <a href="#Err_3">Sidney Plains</a> entry -on page 89.</p> - -<p>“Taladega” changed to “Talladega” in the <a href="#Err_4">Pittsburgh</a> entry on page -90.</p> - -<p>“freinds” changed to “friends” on page 94. 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