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-The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 34, No.
-2, February, 1880, by Various
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- VOL. XXXIV. No. 2.
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- * * * * *
-
- “To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
-
- * * * * *
-
- FEBRUARY, 1880.
-
-
-
-
- _CONTENTS:_
-
-
- EDITORIAL.
-
- PARAGRAPHS 33
- ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA—KNOWING, GIVING,
- PRAYING 34
- TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS 35
- WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 36
- GENERAL NOTES 37
- NEW APPOINTMENTS 39
-
-
- THE FREEDMEN.
-
- GEORGIA CONFERENCE REVIEW 44
- EDUCATIONAL REPORT 46
- ATLANTA MISCELLANIES 47
- FLORIDA—Letter From Rev. Geo. Henry 48
- LOUISIANA—Schools and Churches: Rev. W. S. Alexander 49
- TENNESSEE—Labor among Convicts: Rev. H. S. Bennett 50
- TENNESSEE—Woman’s Work among Women: Miss Hattie A.
- Milton 51
- TENNESSEE—Student-Teachers from Le Moyne 52
-
-
- THE INDIANS.
-
- BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD: Rev. C. L. Hall 53
-
-
- THE CHINESE.
-
- THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS: Rev. W. C. Pond 54
-
-
- RECEIPTS 56
-
-
- CONSTITUTION 61
-
-
- AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 62
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
- NEW YORK.
-
- Published by the American Missionary Association,
-
- ROOMS, 56 READE STREET.
-
- * * * * *
-
- Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.
-
-Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter
-
-
-
-
- American Missionary Association,
-
- 56 READE STREET, N. Y.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- PRESIDENT.
-
- HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
-
-
- VICE-PRESIDENTS.
-
- Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.
- Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
- Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
- ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.
- Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.
- Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.
- WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.
- Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.
- Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.
- Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.
- Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.
- Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.
- Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.
- Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.
- Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
- HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.
- Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.
- Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.
- DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
- Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
- SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.
- Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.
- Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.
- Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.
- Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.
- Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
- EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.
- DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.
- Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.
- Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., 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. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.
- Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.
- Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.
- Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.
- S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
- PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.
- Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
- 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.
- E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.
- Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
- DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
- A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
- Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.
- FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
- JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.
- Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.
- Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
- J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
- E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
- C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
- Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.
- Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.
-
-
- CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
-
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._
-
-
- DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
-
- REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
- REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.
- REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._
- REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.
-
-
- EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
-
- ALONZO S. BALL,
- A. S. BARNES,
- GEO. M. BOYNTON,
- WM. B. BROWN,
- C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
- CLINTON B. FISK,
- ADDISON P. FOSTER,
- S. B. HALLIDAY,
- SAMUEL HOLMES,
- CHARLES A. HULL,
- EDGAR KETCHUM,
- CHAS. L. MEAD,
- WM. T. PRATT,
- J. A. SHOUDY,
- JOHN H. WASHBURN,
- G. B. WILLCOX.
-
-
-COMMUNICATIONS
-
-relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.
-
-
-DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
-
-may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New
-York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
-Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
-Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
-Life Member.
-
-
-
-
- THE
-
- AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
-
- * * * * *
-
- VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-American Missionary Association.
-
- * * * * *
-
-_A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year._—That is, we
-think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will
-you secure it for us in your church this year?
-
- * * * * *
-
-We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church,
-Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress
-Slash. Who will send them to us?
-
- * * * * *
-
-A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by mail,
-the other day, for a hundred copies of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY to
-put on a Christmas tree for members of his church, that he might
-thus awaken more interest in the missionary cause. We sent them.
-This is the first time we were ever asked to send our publications
-as “Christmas greens.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly
-prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred
-thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with
-a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must
-deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the
-Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he
-depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give
-even the crumbs.—_Congregationalist._
-
- * * * * *
-
-In this month of February, we publish, according to our custom,
-the list of our missionaries and teachers in the field; and we are
-proud of it, not for its length or numbers, but for the high and
-approved character of those who constitute it; nay, rather, we are
-thankful to Him under whom we all labor, that He has given to us
-and to each other so worthy a band of co-laborers, so intelligent
-and so devoted. We do not forget that these pastors and teachers
-are far from their homes, and that each is known personally to but
-a limited number of the friends of the Association, and we bespeak
-for them not only a general but a personal remembrance. Would it
-not be well to select some one whose work you, reader, will follow
-with especial interest, to whom you will some time write, assuring
-of your interest and prayers, and with whom you may establish and
-maintain a personal friendship? Pray for some one at least in this
-list by name, and you will be less likely to forget to pray for all
-the rest.
-
- * * * * *
-
-“_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of
-Jerusalem._”—So, in that hour of unearthly experience as recorded
-in the fifty-first Psalm, does David’s heart leap from the state of
-penitence and of forgiveness to take in the welfare of Zion. So,
-evermore, does the truest devotion inspire the missionary spirit.
-The first burden of our Lord’s Prayer is for a heavenly Kingdom
-on earth. His last prayer with and for His disciples, that they
-might be kept, and sanctified and glorified, was, “that the world
-may believe that thou hast sent me.” It is the instinct of a soul
-in communion with God, that in every prayer it should utter at
-least one petition for the coming of his Kingdom. So often do our
-lyric hymns, which are but a transcript of Christian experience,
-glance off from almost any line of thought and of feeling, to utter
-the great aspiration for the crowning of Christ in His spiritual
-realm. The nearer we come to God, the more do we long to have Him
-enthroned in all hearts.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA.
-
-Mr. Miller writes: “I am very glad to be able to announce to you
-the arrival of Bro. Nurse from America to join our work in Western
-Africa. His voyage was rather longer than had been expected, and he
-doubtless grew impatient as the ship neared this place, and stood
-several days under the silent influence of a calm.
-
-“Yesterday was Thanksgiving-day with you at home—not less so with
-him and his mother, from whom he had been separated for many
-years, as they met in warm embrace. How freely the tears rolled
-down the cheeks of that overjoyed mother, as she looked upon her
-son returned to her and the ‘dark continent,’ a missionary of the
-Gospel to assist in lifting up degraded, perishing mankind. Bro.
-Nurse is a little worn-out from his long voyage, but will soon get
-well rested, and we shall leave for Sherbro.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-KNOWING, GIVING, PRAYING.
-
-These are the three strands of the rope by which the car of
-missions is drawn. This is the trinity of Christian work. The three
-are one, and each one is only itself fully as it is with the three.
-
-One can have little interest in knowing of a work for which he
-neither gives nor prays. His knowledge will be indefinite and
-easily forgotten. It has no grip in it such as comes from a
-personal connection. In the nation’s war, men and women thought
-of it, read of it, were eager to know the latest tidings, because
-their sons and their wealth had been given to the cause which they
-believed was God’s, and their prayers were daily following as they
-traced the progress of the day.
-
-No one will give generously or sufficiently when he has not taken
-pains to know. You cannot get up much enthusiasm over a mere list
-of stations or catalogue of workers. Dr. Albert Bushnell says that
-half the Presbyterian churches in the United States give nothing to
-the cause of foreign missions, and that many who do not give do not
-pray. We should be willing to go further than that and say that
-none who do not give can pray effectually. They may repeat prayers
-possibly in public for missions, because that is the proper thing
-to do, but such are but “vain repetitions” against which we are
-warned.
-
-We all agree that missions need the prayers of Christians; that
-such prayer is the duty of all who bear the name of Christ. Then it
-is equally a duty for all such to fulfil the conditions by which
-they may be able to pray aright. It is a duty to know about the
-progress of the Redeemer’s cause. If He bids us say, “Thy kingdom
-come,” He will not be content with us if we sit with closed eyes,
-indifferent to the signs of its coming. But how many Christian
-people take pains to keep themselves informed of the affairs of the
-nations of the earth, their wars, their acts, their commerce, and
-skip the paragraphs which tell of the contests and conquests of
-Christ’s kingdom! How many who know of the strifes and supremacies
-of parties in Maine and Mississippi, know nothing at all of the
-religious state or progress of our land! Is it likely that such
-will give much, or pray earnestly?
-
-Nor will they pray aright unless they give. That makes it their
-work. That establishes their interest in it. That, if it be
-real giving—not mere throwing away to avoid the trouble or the
-embarrassment of saying No—based on intelligent appreciation of the
-need, enlarges and emphasizes and doubly underscores the prayer
-which, then, with the alms ascending, will surely find their way to
-God together.
-
-Friends, we want your prayers for us, for our workers and for our
-work. But we want prayers that are weighted by your gifts—they
-will rise the better for it; and that are illuminated with your
-intelligence—they will be read the better for it, even by the
-Father who “dwelleth in light.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
-
-This school was founded on the same comprehensive scale as
-the other chartered institutions of the American Missionary
-Association. In 1876, a beautiful site of eight acres, overlooking
-the valley of the Colorado River and the mountains beyond,
-was secured in the city of Austin, the capital of Texas, and
-subsequently paid for by the originator of the enterprise, Rev.
-Geo. J. Tillotson. Efforts were commenced at once to raise the
-funds for the first building, which is to serve all the purposes of
-a boarding school until the growth and ability of the institution
-shall necessitate and provide others. Dea. David Allen, of
-Connecticut, headed the subscription with $1,000, and to this
-amount has since added $250. David Banks, of Stanwich, Conn., a
-gentleman over 80 years of age, raised $1,200 more, subscribing
-one-third of it himself. The remainder of the amount we now have
-on hand was collected for the most part by Mr. Tillotson, who has
-kindly added the gift of his services to the enterprise founded by
-his liberality. The principal benefactors of the institution are
-all over seventy years of age.
-
-Work on the new building was commenced last summer, and is still
-going on. It is being constructed of brick, with some trimmings,
-and will have accommodations for seventy boarding students. The
-funds at our disposal for the object are barely sufficient to
-inclose the building. We need $7,000 additional in order to finish
-and furnish it for occupation by the 1st of October. The money
-already given, amounting to about $11,000, exclusive of the $5,000
-paid for the site, was subscribed largely in sums of $400 each by
-persons who are to have the privilege of naming the students’
-rooms, of which there will be thirty-five. A grand example has been
-given. Are there not others ready to follow?
-
-The burden of debt, and the struggle required to maintain the
-institutions already under way, has deterred this Association,
-during the past three years, from pressing the claims of this,
-our only school in Texas; but we believe the time has now come
-when we should earnestly solicit the gifts needful for its speedy
-completion. Already we have received the written indorsement of
-seventy-six of the leading citizens of Austin, saying, “We believe
-that such a school is very much needed, and that the enterprise
-will be hailed by very many of our best citizens as of great
-importance to the welfare of the State.” Texas has a territory
-larger than France, and constitutes no mean part of “the whole
-world” where we are commanded to go and teach. Will our friends aid
-us to go up at once and possess the land?
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA?
-
-We copy from the _Tribune_ the following opinion of Col. C. Chaillé
-Long, the African explorer, who preceded Stanley by a year in
-visiting Mtesa:
-
-If the heart of Africa is ever reached by civilizing influences,
-Colonel Long thinks the work must be done by intelligent colored
-people from the United States. They, if anybody, could keep
-communications open, introduce trade, and gradually train the
-natives in habits of systematic industry. Last spring, when public
-attention was attracted to the exodus of negroes from the Southern
-States, Colonel Long wrote a letter to the King of Belgium, who
-is President of the principal European society for exploring and
-civilizing Africa. In that letter he proposed that the King should
-stimulate, through the medium of his society, a movement to take a
-large body of the discontented blacks from our Southern States and
-settle them in Central Africa, opening with them a line of trading
-and missionary posts from the West Coast to the lake country.
-
-Colonel Long believed that thousands of the most industrious and
-best educated colored men in the Gulf States could be induced to
-go. Their presence in Africa would, he wrote, create no surprise or
-hostility among the natives, and they would soon acquire influence
-over the native tribes and start the work of civilization. In this
-way the experiment of opening the dark continent would be tried
-under the only conditions that afford the least promise of success.
-King Leopold wrote in reply that the project deeply interested him,
-and that he should give it his careful investigation, but nothing
-further has been heard from him. Colonel Long says it would cost
-a great deal of money to carry out the scheme, but the African
-exploring societies in Europe could raise it if they tried. He is
-not enthusiastic about the success of his plan, but is confident
-that it is the only one not foredoomed to failure. Equatorial
-Africa, he insists, will never be civilized by white men.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
-
-MACON, GA.—Pastor S. E. Lathrop is getting under way his
-Circulating Library for the colored people. He sends out a
-circular, printed on his own “Gospel Press,” that was given him
-as a home missionary in Wisconsin, appealing for the gift of new
-or second-hand books for this purpose. Gov. Colquitt and Senators
-Gordon and Hill have furnished some. Pres. A. L. Chapin, of
-Beloit, Wis., is putting up a trunk full. Sup’t Roy sent in a
-“carpet-bag” full. Who’ll follow up?
-
-MACON, GA.—A graduate from the Lewis High School writes: “I have
-worked faithfully for three months. I was assigned to a place where
-there was no school-house or church. The people had their meeting
-under an arbor. I worked with the patrons of the place until they
-built me a school-house. Since that they have erected a church at
-the expense of $350. It is 35 by 45 feet. We are holding protracted
-meetings. Three persons have been received in full connection,
-and many more are hovering around the altar. Our Sunday-school is
-prospering. Many are coming in. The old folks are more interested
-in this great work than the young. We are hammering down upon them.
-My school numbers thirty-nine scholars. I have received several
-petitions from the colored people, asking me to come again and
-teach for them.”
-
-MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.—A pleasant and profitable Sunday-school
-concert and Christmas exercise was held in the Dorchester Midway
-church. Mr. McIntosh, the superintendent and teacher, and Miss
-Douglass, the missionary, are doing good and successful work. Rev.
-Floyd Snelson is the pastor, and his children gave some exhibitions
-of their African treasures and experience. A watch-night
-prayer-meeting was held at his house New Year’s eve.
-
-CYPRESS SLASH, GA.—The people are getting up timbers for their new
-meeting-house.
-
-TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have had a blessed work here this week. Several
-of our pupils had been very thoughtful for a great while, some of
-them a year, and one or two even longer. They had held out stoutly,
-but last Sabbath afternoon one yielded. Saturday night, several
-asked for prayers. After church, three young men were converted.
-Monday morning, twelve more yielded. Monday afternoon, one of the
-most stubborn cases I ever met came into the fold. She had been
-trying to climb up some other way for more than two years. Tuesday
-afternoon another gave up, making in all eighteen within two days.
-Our term closed on Wednesday. Several went to their homes very
-anxious. I hope they may still be brought within the fold.
-
-FLORENCE, ALA.—The new church edifice mentioned in our last number
-was first planned through the benevolence of Mrs. J. Fowler,
-of Mendon, Ill., who contributed fully one-third of the total
-cost, and thus laid the foundation of this good enterprise. The
-completion of the work was made possible by “Howard.”
-
-WASHINGTON, D. C.—The American Missionary Association has called
-Rev. Simon P. Smith to a missionary work among the colored people
-of Washington. The Lincoln Mission, a Sabbath-school enterprise
-connected with the Congregational Church, has offered its capacious
-building, and here may yet arise a colored Congregational church.
-Mr. Smith is a colored clergyman, a graduate of Howard and then of
-Chicago Seminary, and well fitted for his work.—_Congregationalist._
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-GENERAL NOTES.
-
-
-The Freedmen.
-
-—The school work of the Presbyterian Church among the Freedmen
-reports 39 schools, 4,184 scholars, 58 (or, including 16 ministers
-and 6 catechists engaged in teaching in addition to their other
-duties, 80) teachers; making in both departments, including a
-few assistant teachers, 140 missionaries. Five of their higher
-schools report 1,126 pupils, of whom 145 taught part of the year,
-reporting 7,513 pupils. Of the teachers from four of these schools,
-77 superintended Sabbath-schools while teaching, and reported 4,043
-Sabbath-school scholars. These four schools report also 51 students
-preparing for the Gospel ministry.
-
-—The M. E. Church, through its Freedmen’s Aid Society, has aided
-in establishing and supporting 6 chartered colleges, 3 theological
-and one medical school, and 9 institutions not chartered. In
-these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year
-is classified as follows: Biblical, 453; law, 20; medical, 60;
-collegiate, 74; academic, 270; normal, 1,020; intermediate, 242;
-primary, 371. Total, 2,510.
-
-—A colored lawyer was recently admitted to practice in the Court
-of Appeals of Virginia. He is the first colored man who has ever
-enjoyed this privilege in that State. The motion for his admission
-was made by the son of ex-Gov. Wise.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-Africa.
-
-—On the 8th of July, Mr. James Stewart, C. E., then in charge
-of the Nyassa Mission, wrote to the Convener from Livingstonia.
-After building a dwelling-house for the head of the mission at
-Livingstonia, he sailed north to visit the stations of Marenga and
-Kaningina. He found all well. The Mangoni chiefs had presented
-the mission with eleven cows, but insist on their being used only
-in the country around Kaningina. Our own cattle—most precious
-property—were in good condition. At Livingstonia, advancing
-cultivation had driven off the pestilent and fatal tsetse fly.
-After a fortnight’s holiday, the school-boys and girls had returned
-to Christian instruction. Mr. Stewart had distributed toys and
-handkerchiefs as prizes at the examination. Namalambi, “a fine,
-promising boy,” was dux of the school. Mr. Stewart had already
-started for Lake Tanganika before the request of the London
-Missionary Society was telegraphed, and was hoping to meet and, if
-necessary, aid Messrs. Hoare and Hutley.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-The Indians.
-
-—The Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, devotes a large
-portion of his annual report to the Indian question. He states that
-the hostile Indians at the West are few compared with the whole
-number of the race. He states the Indian policy of the Department
-to be as follows:
-
-“The ends steadily pursued by it are: _First_, to set the Indians
-to work as agriculturists or herders, thus to break up their
-habits of savage life and to make them self-supporting; _second_,
-to educate their youth of both sexes, so as to introduce to the
-growing generation civilized ideas, wants and aspirations; _third_,
-to allot parcels of land to the Indians in severalty, and to give
-them individual titles to their farms in fee, inalienable for a
-certain period, thus to foster the pride of individual ownership
-of property, instead of their former dependence upon the tribe,
-with its territory held in common; _fourth_, when settlement in
-severalty with individual title is accomplished, to dispose, with
-their consent, of those lands on their reservations which are not
-settled and used by them, the proceeds to form a fund for their
-benefit which will gradually relieve the Government of the expenses
-at present provided for by the annual appropriations; _fifth_ when
-this is accomplished, to treat the Indians like other inhabitants
-of the United States under the laws of the land.
-
-“This policy, if adopted and supported by Congress, and carried out
-with wisdom and firmness, will in my opinion gradually bring about
-a solution of the Indian problem, without injustice to the Indians,
-and also without obstructing the development of the country. It
-will raise them to a level of civilization at least equal to that
-of the civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, and probably to
-a higher one, considering the stimulus of individual ownership in
-land. It will not take away from them by force what in justice and
-equity belongs to them, but induce them to part with what they
-cannot cultivate and use themselves for a fair compensation. It
-will open to progress and improvement large districts now held by
-Indians, which will then be of no real advantage to them and are
-now to nobody else.”
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-The Chinese.
-
-—Last February, Congress passed the bill prohibiting Chinese
-immigration which was vetoed by President Hayes. The very next day
-the new anti-Chinese constitution was adopted by the convention in
-California, denying the Chinaman the right to land, to labor, to
-vote, or even to live in any town or city. Soon came on the other
-side a decision of the Federal courts, adjudging the queue-cutting
-ordinance to be an unconstitutional violation of personal rights;
-and another, asserting that the treaty with China, granting its
-people a right of residence, gave them also a right of labor, and
-forbade any State to prohibit their employment. Chinese merchants
-meanwhile, unwilling to give up the commercial advantages assured
-to them by treaty, are establishing a line of steamers from China
-to the Sandwich Islands, and a connecting line thence to the
-Pacific coast. This record of the year’s events is memorable and
-full of suggestiveness.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-NEW APPOINTMENTS.
-
-1879-1880.
-
-
-The following list presents the names and post-office addresses
-of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions
-and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among
-the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,
-the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological
-Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the
-Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association.
-The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their
-own Boards of Trustees; but being either founded or fostered in
-the past by this Association, and representing the general work in
-which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list.
-
-
-THE SOUTHERN FIELD.
-
-REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., Field Superintendent.
-
- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
-
- WASHINGTON.
- _Theological Department, Howard University._
- Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., Washington, D. C.
- Rev. J. G. Craighead, D. D., Washington, D. C.
- Rev. Alexander Pitzer, D. D., Washington, D. C.
- Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., Washington, D. C.
- HOWARD MISSION.
- _Missionary._
- Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.
-
- * * * * *
-
- VIRGINIA.
-
- HAMPTON.
- _Minister._
- Rev. J. H. Denison, New Britain, Ct.
- NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.
- Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. Albert Howe, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. F. C. Briggs, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. G. B. Starkweather, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. E. B. French, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. Daniel F. Cock, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. M. B. Crowell, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Hampton, Va.
- Capt. Henry Romeyn, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Anna M. Hobbs, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
- Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
- Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
- Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.
- Miss Julia A. Wilson, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Lucy S. Shepard, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Angelina Ball, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Laura E. Coe, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Lucy D. Gillett, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Grace Harding, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Jane E. Davis, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Abby E. Cleaveland, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Mary J. Sherman, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Hampton, Va.
- Miss S. F. Sheppard, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Mary T. Galpin, Hampton, Va.
- Mrs. Eunice C. Dixon, Hampton, Va.
- Miss Elizabeth P. Hyde, Brooklyn, N. Y.
- Miss Emily Kimball, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. Thomas T. Brice, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. James C. Robbins, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. Frank D. Banks, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. John E. Fuller, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. W. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. W. H. Dagge, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. G. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.
- Mr. Booker Washington, Hampton, Va.
-
- CARRSVILLE.
- _Teacher._
- Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa.
-
- * * * * *
-
- NORTH CAROLINA.
-
- WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).
- NORMAL SCHOOL.
- _Minister and Superintendent._
- Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
- _Principal._
- Miss Isabel Phelps, Oswego, N. Y.
- _Assistants._
- Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
- Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N. H.
- Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
-
- RALEIGH.
- _Minister._
- Rev. George S. Smith, Raleigh, N. C.
- _Teachers._
- Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
- Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
-
- DUDLEY.
- _Minister._
- Rev. David Peebles, Dudley, N. C.
- _Teacher._
- Miss Alice M. Conley, Shelby, Ala.
-
- McLEANSVILLE.
- _Minister and Teacher._
- Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.
-
- WOODBRIDGE.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass.
-
- BEAUFORT.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N. C.
-
- SALEM CHURCH, TROY AND HILLTOWN.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Islay Walden, —— N. C.
-
- * * * * *
-
- SOUTH CAROLINA.
-
- CHARLESTON.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass.
- AVERY INSTITUTE.
- _Principal._
- Prof. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
- _Assistants._
- Miss H. E. Phelps, Hannibal, N. Y.
- Miss S. M. Tillotson, Wethersfield, Ct.
- Miss M. E. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
- Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C.
- Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S. C.
- Miss Monimia McKinlay, Charleston, S. C.
- Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N. Y.
- Mrs. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
-
- ORANGEBURG.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Thornton Benson, Talladega, Ala.
-
- GREENWOOD.
- BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
- Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N. Y.
-
- * * * * *
-
- GEORGIA.
-
- ATLANTA.
- _Ministers._
- Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
- Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
- ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.
- [A]Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.
- Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
- Rev. Horace Bumstead, Atlanta, Ga.
- Prof. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
- Prof. Frank W. Smith, Lincoln, Mass.
- Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N. Y.
- Mr. J. K. Hannahs, Newark, N. J.
- Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
- Miss Susie A. Cooley, Honek, Kansas.
- Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
- Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
- Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
- Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, Ohio.
- Miss E. F. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
- Miss Grace L. Robertson, Atlanta, Ga.
- Mrs. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
- _STORRS SCHOOL_, (104 Houston St.)
- _Principal._
- Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N. Y.
- _Assistants._
- Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N. H.
- Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
- Miss M. E. Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
- Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga.
- Miss Abbie Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
-
- MACON.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
- LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
- _Teachers._
- Miss Christene Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
- Miss Belle Haskins, Delmore, Kan.
- Mrs. C. M. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.
- Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
-
- AUGUSTA.
- _Teacher._
- Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.
-
- MARIETTA.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan, Atlanta, Ga.
-
- ATHENS.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. J. G. Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga.
-
- CUTHBERT.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Richard R. Wright, Atlanta, Ga.
-
- FORSYTH.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. William F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga.
-
- HAWKINSVILLE.
- _Teacher._
- Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn.
-
- FORT VALLEY.
- _Teacher._
- Miss S. V. Whitic, Macon, Ga.
-
- THOMASVILLE.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.
-
- AMERICUS.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. G. W. F. Phillips, Milledgeville, Ga.
-
- MILLEDGEVILLE.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Henry L. Walker, Augusta, Ga.
-
- CARTERSVILLE.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. T. C. Sheppard, Chattanooga, Tenn.
-
- SPARTA.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. R. H. Carter, Atlanta, Ga.
-
- ALBANY.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Peter A. Denegall, Savannah, Ga.
-
- WASHINGTON.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Edw. P. Stewart, —— S. C.
-
- SAVANNAH.
- _Minister and Supt. of Missions._
- Rev. R. F. Markham, Wheaton, Ill.
-
- BEACH INSTITUTE.
- _Principal._
- Mr. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.
- _Assistants._
- Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
- Miss Adelaide Daily, Fredonia, N. Y.
- Miss Anna Burgh, New York, N. Y.
- Miss E. H. Twichell, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
- Miss E. B. Willey, Andover, Mass.
- Mrs. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.
-
- WOODVILLE.
- _Minister and Teacher._
- Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
- _Assistant._
- Miss N. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
-
- MILLER’S STATION.
- _Minister and Teacher._
- Rev. John R. McLean, McLeansville, N. C.
- Miss E. W. Douglass, Decorah, Iowa.
-
- LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.
-
- McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
- THE GROVE.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
- _Teachers._
- John McIntosh, Jr., Savannah, Ga.
- Mrs. John McIntosh, Savannah, Ga.
-
- CYPRESS SLASH.
- _Minister._
- Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
-
-FOOTNOTE:
-
-[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission, West Africa.
-
- * * * * *
-
- ALABAMA.
-
- TALLADEGA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
- TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Rev. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
- Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
- Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
- Mr. George Atkins, Olivet, Mich.
- Miss A. E. Sawyer, Boxford, Mass.
- Miss Fannie Andrews, Milltown, Me.
- Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O.
- Miss H. P. Fisk, Beloit, Mich.
- Mrs. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
- Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
- Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, Me.
- _MISSION CHURCHES._
- ALABAMA FURNACE, KYMULGA, THE COVE, LAWSONVILLE.
- _Superintendent._
- Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
-
- SHELBY IRON WORKS.
- _Minister._
- Rev. J. D. Smith, Talladega, Ala.
-
- KYMULGA.
- _Teacher._
- Mr. Samuel B. White, Kymulga, Ala.
-
- ANNISTON.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.
-
- CHILDERSBURG.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.
-
- MOBILE.
- _Minister._
- Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
- EMERSON INSTITUTE.
- _Supt. and Teachers._
- Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
- Miss Kate Randall, Lorain, Ohio.
- Miss Ella F. Grover, Kingsville, Ohio.
- Miss Clara Boynton, Andover, Mass.
- Miss May Hickok, Kingsville, Ohio.
- Miss H. Jennie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
- Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
-
- MONTGOMERY, (P. O. Box 62).
- _Minister._
- Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
- SWAYNE SCHOOL.
- _Principal._
- Miss Martha J. Adams, Columbus, Wis.
- _Assistants._
- Miss Jane S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
- Miss May Merry, Providence, R. I.
- Miss Minerva Shufort, Montgomery, Ala.
- Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis, Montgomery, Ala.
- Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala.
- Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
-
- SELMA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.
-
- MARION.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
- _Missionaries._
- Mrs. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
- Miss Laura Hill, Boston, Mass.
-
- ATHENS.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Horace J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
- TRINITY SCHOOL.
- _Teachers._
- Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
- Rev. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
- Mrs. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
-
- FLORENCE.
- _Minister._
- Rev. William H. Ash, Providence, R. I.
-
- * * * * *
-
- TENNESSEE.
-
- NASHVILLE.
- _Ministers._
- Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
- Rev. Geo. W. Moore, Nashville, Tenn.
- FISK UNIVERSITY.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
- Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
- Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
- Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn.
- Rev. C. C. Painter, Gt. Barrington, Mass.
- Mr. Edward P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn.
- Mr. John Burrus, Nashville, Tenn.
- Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio.
- Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
- Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt.
- Miss Mary O. Swift, Lansing, Mich.
- Miss Irene E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
- Miss Sarah M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
- Miss Sarah A. Stevens, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
- Miss Mary Farrand, Ypsilanti, Mich.
- Miss Dora Ford, N. Abington, Mass.
-
- MEMPHIS.
- _Minister._
- Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
- LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
- _Principal._
- Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
- _Assistants._
- Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.
- Miss Emma Rand, Whitewater, Wis.
- Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
- Miss Hattie Milton, Romeo, Mich.
-
- CHATTANOOGA.
- _Minister._
- [A]Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
-
-FOOTNOTE:
-
-[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission.
-
- * * * * *
-
- KENTUCKY.
-
- BEREA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
- BEREA COLLEGE.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky.
- Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
- Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
- Rev. Charles G. Fairchild, Berea, Ky.
- Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
- Mr. Wm. Hart, Berea, Ky.
- Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublette, Ill.
- Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, Ohio.
- Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.
- Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.
- Miss —— Warren, Berea, Ky.
- Miss —— Clark, Berea, Ky.
- Miss Clara A. Saxton, Oberlin, Ohio.
- Miss C. W. Haynes, Oberlin, Ohio.
-
- CAMP NELSON.
- _Minister._
- Rev. John Drew, Berea, Ky.
- * * * * *
-
- MISSISSIPPI.
-
- TOUGALOO.
- _Minister._
- Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
- TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
- _Managers and Instructors._
- Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
- Prof. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
- Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.
- Miss Orra A. Angell. Greenville, R. I.
- Miss Fanny J. Webster, Berlin, Wis.
- Miss Irene C. Barnes, Greenville, R. I.
- Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
- Mrs. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
- Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.
-
- * * * * *
-
- LOUISIANA.
-
- NEW ORLEANS.
- _Ministers._
- Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
- Rev. Isaac Hall, New Orleans, La.
- Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.
- STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
- _Instructors and Managers._
- Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
- Prof. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
- Mr. Geo. S. Ely, Fredonia, N. Y.
- Miss Caroline Park, West Boxford, Mass.
- Miss H. J. Halleck, Success, L. I.
- Miss Lucia G. Merrill, Andover, Mass.
- Miss Frances Stevens, Oswego, N. Y.
- Mrs. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
-
- ABBERVILLE.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Charles E. Smith, New Orleans, La.
-
- NEW IBERIA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.
-
- * * * * *
-
- TEXAS.
-
- GOLIAD.
- _Minister._
- Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas.
-
- CORPUS CHRISTI.
- _Minister._
- Rev. S. M. Coles, New Haven, Conn.
-
- HELENA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Goliad, Texas.
-
- FLATONIA.
- _Minister._
- Rev. A. J. Turner, Flatonia, Texas.
-
- AUSTIN.
- _Teacher._
- Mrs. E. M. Garland, Austin, Texas.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AMONG THE CHINESE.
-
- _Superintendent._
- Rev. W. C. Pond, San Francisco, Cal.
- _Teachers._
- OAKLAND, Miss L. B. Mann.
- Miss L. Duncan.
- Mr. Lee Haim.
- Mr. Jee Gam.
- OROVILLE, Miss Jessamine Wood.
- PETALUMA, Miss M. C. Waterbury.
- Mr. Wah Yin.
- SACRAMENTO, Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
- Mr. Lem Chung.
- SAN FRANCISCO, Mr. Henry M. Pond.
- Mr. John Johnston.
- Mr. Chung Mon.
- Mr. S. Hackley.
- Mr. Low Quong.
- Mrs. M. A. Hackley.
- Miss F. N. Worley.
- Mrs. M. T. Huntling.
- SANTA BARBARA, Miss Helen E. Clark.
- STOCKTON, Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
- Mr. Hong Sing.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-AMONG THE INDIANS.
-
- _Lake Superior Agency, Wis._
- Agent, Dr. Isaac L. Mahan.
- Teacher, —— ——
- Teacher, Robert Pew.
-
- _Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory._
- Agent, —— ——
-
- _Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory._
- Agent, Charles Crissey.
- Teachers, (Connected with the Mission
- of the A.B.C.F.M.)
-
- _S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory._
- Agent, Edwin Eells.
- Missionary, Rev. Myron Eells.
- Teachers, (Supported by Gov’t.)
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA.
-
- _Missionaries and Assistants._
- Rev. A. P. Miller. Mrs. A. P. Miller.
- Rev. A. E. Jackson. Mrs. A. F. Jackson.
- Dr. Benjamin James. Mr. Elmore L. Anthony.
- Mr. A. E. White. Mr. Nathaniel Nurse.
- Rev. Geo. N. Jewett. Mr. Jos. H. Gerber.
- Mr. Sam. H. Goodman. Mr. Buel Tucker.
- Mr. James Pickett. Mrs. Lucy During.
-
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-
-
-
-
-THE FREEDMEN.
-
-REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,
-
-FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
-
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-
-
-GEORGIA.
-
-
-CONFERENCE REVIEW.
-
-This review of the state of religion in the Congregational churches
-of South Carolina and of Georgia, during this first year of their
-General Conference, shows abundant occasion of gratitude for
-general prosperity and spiritual blessing.
-
-The fact that all of our fourteen churches except one, have been
-represented in this Conference by their ministers and delegates,
-reveals an interest in its meetings, and in the doctrine of
-the fellowship of the churches, that is truly delightful. In
-this connection we cannot refrain from noting the grace of God
-conferred upon the churches in their custom of providing the
-necessary traveling expenses of their delegates. We hope that such
-messengers of the churches will reciprocate this consideration, and
-magnify their office, by making a full report of this and all such
-convocations to their respective assemblies for worship.
-
-We gratefully recognize the increase of our total membership by
-354, making the present number 949. One new church has been
-organized, that of Cypress Slash, which reports to us a membership
-of 54; a temporary cabin, built as a place for church and school,
-with the purpose soon to erect a more comely and permanent
-sanctuary; and also a new young minister who, with his wife, is
-already reaping missionary fruit.
-
-We note with gratification that every one of our churches is
-supplied with the ministry of the word, except that at Marietta,
-whose pastor, Rev. S. P. Smith, has been transferred to Washington
-City for the purpose of building up the 2d Congregational Church at
-the capital. So, with the same exception, every one of our churches
-has its own house of worship. Some of these are commodious and
-tasteful; others are very plain; but all are places of sanctuary
-comfort, and the worshippers are striving each year to increase
-their comeliness and convenience. During the year, three of these
-congregations have added to their meeting-houses the attraction of
-the church-going bell. Among a people, few of whom have clocks or
-watches, the church bell is their time-keeper, and the promoter
-of that promptness which adds a charm to the services of public
-worship.
-
-The doctrine of church discipline as a means of grace has been
-illustrated by a heroic use of the pruning knife upon these vines,
-that they may bring forth more fruit. The seeking of a clean
-membership is essential to the healthfulness and well-being of the
-churches.
-
-The cause of temperance has been kept near the heart of our
-members. One church, the Pilgrim, at Woodville, has a large and
-influential Band of Hope. All preach temperance and require its
-practice among their members. We are deeply convinced that the
-habit of intemperance is the devil’s best grip upon the poor and
-lowly people among whom we have our lot and our work, and that
-total abstinence is the only consistent rule for Christians. In
-a community where pastors and officers and members of Protestant
-churches indulge in the practice of drinking liquors, we feel
-called upon to bear an unremitting and uncompromising testimony
-against this violation of the spirit and the precept of the Gospel.
-
-We are confirmed in the wisdom of the union of the school-work
-and the church-work in our evangelizing process. The school
-prepares the way for the church. It brings along the young and
-hopeful material for the church membership. The church garners up
-such fruit. It reacts upon the school and the community by its
-educating and elevating influence. In our ideal, both unite in the
-one purpose of saving and edifying the souls of men. We desire
-to express our sincere gratefulness in view of the devoted and
-self-denying labor of the teachers in the schools associated with
-our churches.
-
-The higher schools and colleges within our bounds have gone along
-upon the plane of their former success. The Avery Institute, at
-Charleston, has passed through a change of administration without
-any diminution of its members or lowering of its high grade of
-scholarship. The Normal School at Greenwood, S. C., has held on in
-its beneficent way, enjoying the fine building and campus of an
-old time Baptist College. The Beach Institute in this city, with
-its cultivated and consecrated corps of seven teachers, with its
-fine body of pupils, with its thorough discipline and its decided
-moral and religious tone, is a power for good in this community
-and in this part of the State. The Dorchester Academy at Midway,
-the Lewis High School at Macon, and the Storrs School at Atlanta,
-have kept steadily upon the line of their extensive and beneficent
-influence. The Atlanta University maintains its high position as
-to classical and normal scholarship, and as to moral and religious
-tone, approved by the authorities of the Commonwealth and also
-by the favor of Heaven, in the enrolling during the year of a
-couple of score of its students among the disciples of the Great
-Master. Its independent Union Church, with 67 members, although not
-belonging to our body, is to us a sister in Christ, for whom our
-prayers and sympathies shall ever abound. Its Faculty consists
-of three graduates of Yale and one each of Harvard, Dartmouth and
-Amherst Colleges, and of half a dozen cultivated ladies. To these
-it has just added Prof. A. W. Farnham, who is introducing the most
-approved normal methods, not only for the benefit of the normal
-scholars but of all in the University. More than a dozen of its
-graduates are now teaching high schools in leading cities of the
-State of Georgia, and so starting from these centres, radiating
-influences that shall bless many more communities. We give thanks
-to God for the bequest of $50,000, by which the University will now
-be able to add still more to its spacious accommodations.
-
-We greatly rejoice in the new feature of the work within our
-limits, that of lady missionaries. We have four of them. One of
-these has been located at Charleston, one at Miller’s Station, one
-at Macon, and one in Atlanta. Woman’s work for women and children
-in these communities, we consider a Christly service of the utmost
-value. Woman can enter the homes as the pastor cannot; and yet she
-will make work for him in following up her discoveries. Her ready
-sympathy and happy tact will help her in stimulating to greater
-domestic comfort, and will aid her in doing good through many ways
-that are peculiarly her own.
-
-We are comforted by the educated young men who are coming forward
-to minister in our churches. Besides those who have been raised up
-in the “Beach” to minister to the churches that cluster about it,
-we are happy in the coming of four graduates of the Theological
-department of Talladega College in Alabama, three of whom are this
-week receiving ordination at the hands of our own church councils,
-and the other is the moderator of one of these Convocations. We are
-happy to express grateful obligation to that Christian institution
-in another State for this gift of her cultured sons, who are to us
-also a part of the ascension gift of our blessed Lord.
-
-We are devoutly grateful to God for the spiritual refreshings that
-have been enjoyed this year in our churches and schools. Some have
-had special seasons of revival. Others have had the dew in the
-fleece. Many souls have been brought into fellowship with Christ,
-and Christians have, we trust, been advanced somewhat in the
-process of purification.
-
-We cannot conclude this annual narrative without recording our
-gratitude to the American Missionary Association, which, under God,
-has been the occasion within a short period of all this school and
-church development as now represented by the Conference of Georgia.
-We remind ourselves, also, that this is only one of seven of these
-Conferences which have been the outgrowth of the same general
-Christianizing process at the South. We magnify the grace of God
-bestowed upon the churches and friends who have furnished that
-Association with the funds, the prayers and the sympathies, that
-were essential to this great work. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is
-marvelous in our eyes.”
-
- J. E. ROY.
- JOHN MCINTOSH.
- P. W. YOUNG.
-
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-
-
-EDUCATIONAL REPORT.
-
-At the Georgia Conference the Committee on Education make the
-following report:
-
-That “Education is the handmaid of Religion” has become an accepted
-maxim. To be remembered everywhere, it is of especial importance
-in this field. Religion has here been corrupted by ignorance, and
-has often degenerated into superstition. A devout and imaginative
-spirit has been betrayed into serious errors and gross excesses
-in the name of truth and godliness. More knowledge, more culture
-of mind, is necessary in many cases to prepare the way for the
-perception of the truth. The one great object of the Church of
-Christ in its labor among men is to save the souls of men by
-holding forth the word of Life; but to attain this, the Church must
-help to teach them what that word is, and how to read and study
-it for themselves. The Gospel seeks to prepare men, not only for
-the next life, but for this life also. It is fitted to bless the
-whole man, physical and mental, as well as spiritual. Education
-and Gospel piety must go together. The Committee would, therefore,
-recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:
-
-1. _Resolved_, That this Conference desires to emphasize the fact
-that the past year’s experience gives new occasion for gratitude
-that from the beginning of the American Missionary Association’s
-work in this field, the school and the church have been closely
-united.
-
-2. _Resolved_, That it is the deliberate judgment of this
-Conference that this field still requires the enlargement and
-vigorous prosecution of the school work, as a necessary aid to the
-upbuilding of our churches.
-
-3. _Resolved_, That the churches must not cease to pray fervently
-for those who are teaching in our elementary and higher schools,
-and for their pupils, that the instruction given and the mental
-culture gained may bear the stamp of Christian consecration.
-
-4. _Resolved_, That we desire to express our _warm sympathy with
-our young people_, who, in the face of many obstacles, are bravely
-pressing forward in their studies, to fit themselves for teachers
-or preachers, and would urge them to get as thorough and complete
-an education as possible.
-
- Respectfully submitted,
-
- C. W. HAWLEY,
- T. T. BENSON,
- WILSON CALLEN,
- _Committee_.
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-
-
-ATLANTA MISCELLANIES.
-
-BY A RESIDENT.
-
-—A Christmas concert was observed by the Sunday-school of the
-First Congregational Church of Atlanta, Georgia. It followed Dr.
-Vincent’s programme, which, with variations, was rendered with
-great success. The singing was excellent. The recitations and the
-responsive readings of Scripture were impressive. The recitations
-on the platform, of prose or poetry, a score or more, did not have
-a failure or a prompting. Every piece during the whole evening
-was about Christmas. The good reading and elocution were apparent
-as the result of the good training in the Storrs School, whose
-teachers are also instructors in the Sunday-school. Pastor C. W.
-Hawley seemed in his element as the leader of this service. Sup’t
-Roy made a talk at the close. The school numbers two hundred and
-twenty-five. It would greatly gladden the hearts of the friends of
-our work if they could only look in upon this and the many other
-such schools in the South.
-
-Atlanta has a monthly Sunday-school Teachers’ Institute.
-Pastor Hawley attends it. Atlanta’s County, Fulton, has also a
-Sunday-school Association, which convenes in the city quarterly.
-At the last meeting, as interest was warming up in favor of
-taking some more practical measures toward helping the colored
-Sunday-schools, it was found that the constitution limited the
-membership to such schools as were “all white.” Whereupon a
-_resolution_ of interest and of encouragement was adopted. At the
-last meeting of the State S. S. Association, held in Macon, a
-colored school in Savannah applied for membership. The matter was
-quieted for the time, but it is said that it will come up again.
-Upon the recommendation of Gov. Colquitt it is proposed to adopt
-the Brooklyn idea of a Children’s Day once a year; this not only
-for the City but for the State. In Atlanta there are fourteen
-colored Sunday-schools.
-
-—At an entertainment at the Atlanta University, during the
-holidays, the Field Superintendent gave one of his addresses upon
-the map of the United States.
-
-—At the watch-night service in the Trinity M. E. South Church, of
-Atlanta, one of the speakers, Rev. Dr. Potter, a Presiding Elder,
-dwelling upon the openings of benevolence during the last year,
-expatiated at length upon the million of dollars given by one
-estate to the American Board. Surely the children of light are
-beginning to do business upon something of the grand scale on which
-the children of this world project their schemes. It was stated
-at that meeting that during the year, under Pastor Heidt, the
-Trinity Church had received two hundred members, half of them upon
-confession of faith, and had paid off a debt of twenty thousand
-dollars. It seems that the M. E. General Conference, South, has
-abolished the feature of a six months’ probation. Only those are
-received who give evidence of conversion. The form in receiving a
-member that night was quite Congregational. This church has also
-advanced upon the policy of its sister at the North, in allowing a
-_four_ years’ pastorate, instead of _three_.
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-
-
-FLORIDA.
-
-Letter from Rev. Geo. Henry.
-
-DEAR SIR: I opened last Monday a day-school in addition to our
-Sunday-school. The necessity of this step will be apparent when I
-tell you that there are fifty children in this place who wish to
-attend school, but have been unable heretofore to do so, as the
-distance to the nearest colored school is from four to seven miles
-from their homes. Only a few of the larger ones have been able to
-attend.
-
-In my school I have dull and bright, lazy and industrious children,
-as you have in all other schools, but taking them altogether, they
-study as well and learn as quickly as any set of pupils I have ever
-seen. I have one little girl who did not know the alphabet last
-Monday, but by the end of the week was able to read little stories
-from a Reader rapidly and accurately. I have never anywhere seen
-such progress made by a young child.
-
-In view of the capability of the children to learn, there can
-scarcely be reason to doubt that the deplorable mental condition of
-the adult Freedmen is due to that institution which has been such a
-curse both to the slave and his owner. The public schools are open
-from three to four months each year; but so far they have been of
-very little use to the colored children, as they have been, as a
-rule, taught by incompetent persons. Most of the colored schools
-have colored teachers, and very few of them are either morally or
-intellectually qualified for the position. For example, the man who
-taught the school nearest to this place last winter used to bring
-his bottle with him to school. A woman of bad character and only
-rudimentary education has the same school this winter; yet this is
-one of the largest schools in the county. In a conversation which
-I had with Judge B——, a member of the Board of Public Instruction,
-he said that “the school money which had been spent for colored
-schools had been thrown away, for the children had not learned
-anything.” This is very nearly a correct statement of the case, for
-a bright child ten years of age would learn more in two months than
-boys 19 or 20 years old know who have attended these schools for
-years. Understand me, I think this is the fault of the teachers and
-not of the pupils.
-
-I believe that in my week-day school I shall be able to do as much
-for the improvement of the condition of the Freedmen as in any
-other way, and I am sure if you were here to look over the field
-you would agree with me.
-
-Our work in the Sunday-school is also very encouraging; not that
-the scholars are uniting with the church—for nearly all the older
-ones are members of churches now—but they are learning from the
-word of God those truths which are calculated to prepare them for
-useful lives in the earth and eternal happiness in the world to
-come.
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-
-
-LOUISIANA.
-
-The Schools and the Churches.
-
-BY REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.
-
-The work of education and evangelization among the Freedmen in
-this State was never more hopeful. By the provisions of the new
-constitution which was adopted at the recent election, the rate of
-taxation has been greatly reduced, and as a direct consequence,
-the appropriation for school purposes will be correspondingly cut
-down. The free colored schools will be the first to be struck by
-this wave of retrenchment. Many schools, especially in the country
-parishes, will be closed, or, at the best, be maintained for a
-very brief period in the year. New Orleans will feel this matter
-as keenly as the country, for the amount of taxation is strictly
-regulated by the new constitution. Only special gifts can possibly
-keep the schools up to the present standard. One of the most
-prominent educators in the city said to me, “I would not raise
-unnecessarily the cry of alarm, but a crisis is surely near at hand
-with our public schools.” The colored Normal School will certainly
-be discontinued. The Peabody fund will probably not be available
-for Louisiana another year. All these events, so unpropitious to
-the free school system of Louisiana, and so deeply to be deplored,
-render our work all the more necessary, and our prospect of
-enlarged usefulness the brighter.
-
-When we see the grand opportunity opening before our beloved
-University—an opportunity which has not the remotest resemblance
-to the fictitious and dreamy—we try to forget the plaintive words,
-“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” and rally our courage by the
-more inspiring prophecy, “The morning light is breaking.”
-
-When the glorious work of enlargement begins, will it not be in
-order to start at the Gulf of Mexico and gradually work up? We
-rather approve of that plan and are quite ready for it.
-
-CHURCH WORK IN LOUISIANA.
-
-“We hold our own, and something more,” is the word that comes up
-from the churches of our Association. Our annual meeting will
-be held at _Terrebonne_, the first Wednesday in April, and the
-brethren are eagerly anticipating it. Congregationalism is a
-plant of slow growth among the colored people, not from want of
-adaptation, but from lack of money to push it into fields now
-unoccupied or uncultivated. Money is needed to give new enterprises
-substantial encouragement in their difficult “beginnings”—to tide
-the pastors past the _starvation_ point—to give them “foothold”
-till strength comes to them in the natural growth of a good
-enterprise.
-
-The church at New Iberia, which welcomed our last annual
-conference, and which is memorable as the scene of a most precious
-revival, and suffered seriously in the loss, by a furious wind
-storm in September, of their tasteful and commodious chapel, is
-rallying grandly from the shock. By liberal subscriptions, by
-mortgaging their property, and by personal labor, they have put
-up and covered the frame of a larger building, and have stopped
-before finishing, simply because they could do no more. Two hundred
-dollars will put the new chapel in order for dedication. Shall they
-appeal in vain? We cannot afford to lose or to cripple this church.
-It has been a bright light on the prairie, and though the tempest
-levelled the building, it cannot—it must not—extinguish the light.
-
-Our own, the Central Church, sends greeting to all kind,
-sympathizing and praying friends in the North. All summer long,
-the members of the church have prayed in public and in private for
-a gracious out-pouring of the Divine Spirit. I found the church in
-an earnest, praying state. A greater degree of unity and cordial
-Christian fellowship prevails than I have ever before seen.
-To-morrow (Sunday, Jan. 4,) begins the “Week of Prayer.” If, in its
-results, it shall fulfil the longings and faith of this people,
-then will it indeed be the “Week of Weeks” to us in Central Church.
-Last night, at our preparatory service, seventy-five were present;
-five new members were received, of whom three came on profession of
-faith. It was a meeting of peculiar tenderness and spiritual power.
-After a brief lecture by the pastor, forty-two Christians spoke
-tender, earnest words of love to God, and devotion to His service.
-God grant I may have good tidings to send you in my next letter.
-
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-
-
-TENNESSEE.
-
-Labor Among Convicts.
-
-PROF. H. S. BENNETT, NASHVILLE.
-
-I have been superintendent of the Sunday-school in the Penitentiary
-of Tennessee, located at Nashville, for nine years, and several of
-the teachers of Fisk University have done so much in connection
-with that school that the work done there becomes a part of the
-influence of Fisk University. Hence, a brief description of a
-powerful work of grace, which has been in progress during the past
-three months, will appropriately find place in the columns of the
-MISSIONARY.
-
-During my connection with the prison school, several seasons of
-refreshing have been witnessed, and hundreds of the prisoners have
-expressed a hope in Christ.
-
-On returning from the North and resuming my duties as
-superintendent in the prison, in September, I noticed an unusual
-interest in the study of the Bible lesson. The remarks which were
-made at the close of the lesson were listened to with breathless
-interest. The interest was so marked that it was determined
-to give an opportunity to those who might desire to present
-themselves for prayers. This was done, and upwards of one hundred
-prisoners presented themselves. After a brief prayer-meeting,
-the prisoners were dismissed. On the next Sabbath, five or six
-made a profession of their faith in Christ, having been converted
-through the week. The work thus begun went on for two months,
-only one meeting for inquiry being held each week, and that at
-the close of the Sabbath-school. Another meeting was held on
-Sabbath morning, at which regular services were conducted by the
-chaplain. Each Sabbath, from three to six reported that they had
-found the Saviour. A deep religious interest pervaded the entire
-prison. Wherever little groups of prisoners were to be found, their
-conversation was upon the subject of religion. All the teachers
-felt that the Lord was present in power. At the end of two months
-thirty-five had found the Saviour, and ten or twelve backsliders
-had been reclaimed.
-
-On the last Sabbath of November an unusual scene was witnessed
-within the prison walls. Thirty-four prisoners were received into
-the prison church. As the long row of prisoners, arrayed in the
-stripes of the criminal, stood up to take upon them the covenant
-vows of the church, it was perceived that the work had been very
-great.
-
-Of the candidates, eight or ten were baptized by sprinkling, the
-rest by immersion. Ten or twelve remain to be taken into the church.
-
-The influence of the work among the prisoners is seen to be very
-salutary. The church service and the Sabbath-school are the two
-bright spots in the lives of the prisoners. From twenty to
-twenty-eight teachers, of both sexes and colors, Northern and
-Southern, engage in the work. Three hundred pupils, prisoners,
-attend with remarkable regularity, as the attendance is optional.
-The influence of the religious work is to inspire the prisoners
-with hope, and with a purpose to retrieve whatever they have lost
-by their folly and crime in the past. Scores of them go out and
-live useful and honorable lives. Of this we have abundant proof.
-
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-
-
-WOMAN’S WORK AMONG WOMEN.
-
-Answers to Prayer—“Scrubbing up with the Bible.”
-
-MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS, TENN.
-
-My heart is overflowing with thanks-giving, not so much for the
-great results that I have already seen—for the greatest results
-in this work are discerned only by the eye of faith—but that I am
-permitted to be the instrument, even in a humble way, of answering
-your prayers, and not only yours, but those of the poor suffering
-people here. So many times when administering to their wants, not
-only when giving them loaves and fishes, but when pointing them to
-a higher spiritual and moral life, they have remarked, “Miss, I
-know the Lord sent you in answer to prayer.”
-
-Sometimes I hesitate about going to places, and think I will do
-some other duty that day; but when the thought comes to me that it
-may be an opportunity to answer somebody’s prayer, I feel that I
-must go. Again, many times have my friends in the North answered
-my prayers. I will mention one instance which struck me as being
-remarkable. A very poor woman came to me asking for clothing for
-the little helpless children of her dying sister. I had just
-given out the last garment; but while talking with her I put up a
-prayer that something would come soon, and told her that I thought
-I should have something for her in a few days. Just then the
-door-bell rang, and I went to the door and found there a box, which
-I opened at once, and in it beheld the answer to my prayer! It was
-full of very nice and mostly new clothing for children. It was a
-literal fulfilment of the promise, “and it shall come to pass, that
-before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking
-I will hear.” And it is a comforting thought, that wherever God
-places us, He gives us the opportunity to answer other people’s
-prayers.
-
-The interest in this work is constantly increasing as we know more
-about it. The outlook for the year on which we have already entered
-is very encouraging. A few days since, while visiting a very hard
-neighborhood, one mother who is a church member said, “You must
-come around often; we knew ye first, and ye ought to visit us most;
-we needs ye too. I allers lays close down to what ye say, like the
-knife to the grindstone, ‘cause I wants ye to sharpen me, so I will
-get to living better. I’s mighty keerless, tho’ sometimes I does
-try in a stamerin’ manner to talk to my trifling neighbors. Now
-do come around often and _scrub us up with the Bible_.” Another
-woman, who has a good home, said, “We are so glad to have you back,
-so we can have our prayer meetings again; for we like those quiet
-meetings, without any fuss; and we like a leader in whom we have
-confidence, to instruct us.”
-
-One of the pupils in our school urged me to start a Sunday-school
-in the Methodist church, of which she is a member. I went three or
-four times, accompanied by one of our teachers. The colored pastor
-gave us a hearty welcome; said he was proud that we had come to
-help, and that he was no respecter of persons. The number increased
-each week. Last Sunday it was very unpleasant. The tenacity of the
-red Memphis mud was marvelous; but when I arrived, a little late,
-at the church, having been detained to attend the burial of a
-baby, I found a goodly number, and the pastor was reviewing the
-last week’s lesson. We immediately proceeded with the lesson for
-the day, after which I told them I thought we had better organize a
-Sunday-school, as I only wished to be a teacher, and would rather
-some of their own number would be the officers. To this they gladly
-assented, and we organized. We have three classes. I furnish them
-with Sunday-school papers, as they have never had any. Twice,
-as the hour for service approached, the minister has given up
-preaching, saying they learned much more studying the Bible. As we
-were leaving the church a brother said, “I believe you is going to
-be jest the building up of this church.” Another said, “That is the
-kind of folks we colored ones needs; some one who is always at the
-post of duty, and is not afeard of mud and rain.”
-
-We have substantial evidence that our Northern friends have not
-forgotten the suffering ones here, in the shape of two barrels of
-very useful clothing, from Whitewater, Wis., and I have word that
-boxes from three other places are on the road. May those who give
-be as much blessed as those who receive, and we will strive to do
-all in our power to answer their prayers. “So we, being many, are
-one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”
-
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-
-
-STUDENT TEACHERS FROM LE MOYNE.
-
-MISS L. A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS.
-
-We have never kept any record of the teaching and Sunday-school
-work done by our pupils, but, within a few days, I have
-gratified my curiosity by taking notes from the lips of a few
-student-teachers. Here they are.
-
-Sixteen of our young people have during the summer taught one
-thousand and thirty-five (1,035) day pupils, and very nearly as
-many S. S. scholars. This does not include the teachers now at
-work, some of whom return to us next week, or in early spring.
-Probably this is only a fifth of the record, counting all former
-pupils.
-
-Some of the experiences are very droll, as of the young woman who
-saw new phases of life in Arkansas: “Would you believe it, that the
-_white_ people didn’t know as much as I do?” White and black always
-called her “the white lady,” and urged her return next season.
-
-Another young woman was assistant in a school of 80 children. The
-log school-house had no windows except board shutters; the seats
-were boards fastened upon blocks of wood; the blackboard was of her
-own manufacture. The building was so small that in pleasant weather
-she heard her recitations in a bush-arbor built against the side of
-the house.
-
-Some of the teachers had better accommodations. One young man had
-an excellent building in a community of thriving farmers. He has
-taught there for five seasons. Just now he is getting up a club for
-the _New York Tribune_ and reports ten subscribers.
-
-Another young man, a member of the senior class, could scarcely
-leave his people. A powerful revival in connection with the school
-had brought many aged people as well as children to confess Christ,
-and the converts were loth to part with their teacher and friend.
-The person who went after him does not weary of telling about the
-tears shed and pathetic expressions of regret.
-
-After two years of constant teaching, another writes, “There are so
-many things in life I can’t manage, I want to go to school again.”
-The most cheering sign of the year is this growing desire for more
-thorough preparation for the work of life.
-
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-
-
-
-
-THE INDIANS.
-
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-
-
-BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD.
-
-Rev. C. L. Hall, Fort Berthold, D. T.
-
-In the temporary vacancy of this Indian Agency, we gratefully
-acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Hall, who is in the service of the
-A. B. C. F. M., in writing us the interesting letter which we print
-herewith:
-
-I have had my privilege and my duty to co-operate with your society
-as represented by Hampton Institute, Virginia, and with the U. S.
-Government, in inducing a number of Indian youth to go East for
-education.
-
-We thank God that the Government, among other good movements it has
-undertaken, has taken this “new departure” in the matter of Indian
-education. The A. B. C. F. M. has for many years been educating
-Indians with success, and the present civilized condition of the
-Cherokees, Choctaws, and many of the Sioux, Nez Perces and other
-tribes, is owing to their efforts, and for some years past the
-A. M. A. has also undertaken like work with like success. Indian
-education is no new departure with us; but on the part of the
-Government it is, and it has given us great pleasure to help on the
-plans of the Secretary of the Interior and of Commissioner Hayt in
-this matter.
-
-The beginning of their “experiment” was here at Berthold. Captain
-Pratt, who was detailed by the Government to get fifty Indians
-from the mission, came to start his company at this agency, and I
-shall always feel that it was an honor to have been able to help
-him get a start. We did not know how the people would feel about
-sending their children to a distant and unknown country. They were
-superstitious about school and church influences. Would they trust
-the white man? Would they be sufficiently influenced by the desire
-for an education.
-
-Well, Captain Pratt had both experience and faith; he told us
-of his talks and prayer meetings with the prisoners in Florida,
-and of their desire for education, and of the willingness of
-Eastern Christian friends to help them; then we knelt down in
-the sitting-room of our mission home, that Sabbath evening, and
-committed our way unto the Lord. All was in doubt; some had refused
-to go; the chiefs would not send their children; but soon three
-youth (boys of eighteen or twenty years of age) came of their own
-accord and offered themselves. They had been attending our school
-and had learned in a measure to trust us. They said they knew it
-was a long way to go and a long time to stay, and it would be hard;
-but they were prepared to carry out their resolution to learn to
-be white men. Soon thirteen youth, nine boys and four girls, were
-secured, all from our school; it took the nucleus of our school;
-but we knew that this movement would create a new interest in
-education and bring us new scholars, as well as do more than we
-could for the old ones who should go away, so we gave them up
-willingly.
-
-With this beginning, Captain Pratt started down the river in a
-flat-bottom stern-wheel mission steamboat, one cold October day,
-collecting more from the river agencies as he went along till
-forty-nine were secured. The youth looked very sober as they
-started off; there were some very touching partings with friends,
-one of whom said, “I may not see a hair of him again;” and at the
-last look at them we saw blankets and coats waving in lieu of
-handkerchiefs on the upper deck of the boat. My heart was in my
-mouth as I thought of the boys and their Indian relatives, and of
-the better days in store for Indians, of which Uncle Sam was giving
-us a foretaste. All this was a year ago; to-day a hundred more from
-Dakota are on their way to Hampton and to Carlisle, and provision
-is being made for others in the West near their own homes. It is a
-beginning of better days, and I rejoice that our two Congregational
-societies can find occasion to co-operate with each other and the
-Government in behalf of the Indian.
-
-Now let us make a vigorous push, along with the forces now at work,
-to get him the protection of the U. S. Courts, so that he may have
-a better appeal than the only one now open to him, as Gen. Crook
-says—_his rifle_.
-
-In spite of the change of agents four times in less than four
-years, and in spite of all endeavors to break down Christian
-influences here, these Indians have steadily progressed. They are
-cultivating more land and doing it more thoroughly, showing more
-interest in schools, and a stronger desire to adopt civilized
-habits, one young man going so far as to come to me with the
-request, “Father, they say you are skilful; can you not make my
-shoes squeak for me? They don’t squeak like white people’s shoes.”
-
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-
-
-
-
-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 F. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,
-Jacob S. Taber, Esq.
-
-DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.
-Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,
-E. P. Sanford, Esq.
-
-SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palanche, Esq.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS.
-
-BY REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
-
-It is said that in connection with a somewhat enthusiastic
-collection for the American Board, taken ten years or more ago, at
-the First Congregational Church in this city, one card was sent up
-having this inscription: “Five dollars for Home missions, but ‘nary
-red’ for Foreign.” The Christian spirit of the expression and its
-rhetorical elegance are about equal. Yet it well represents one
-class of Christian workers and givers who believe intensely that
-charity begins at home, who like to _see_ what they are doing, and
-to watch its on-goings and to judge of its results for themselves.
-Foreign missions seem to them chimerical; the interest in such work
-romantic; and they don’t believe in romance and chimeras.
-
-We have sometimes met another class whose interest flags when
-they are brought in contact with the hard facts of any Christian
-work. For them, “’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.” To
-see and handle any Christian enterprise involves them inevitably
-in disappointment. They read the glowing pages of the _Herald_,
-and often feel their hearts burn within them; but if brought into
-actual, daily contact with the toils, the drudgeries of service,
-the days of small things, the months and years of discouragement
-through which, with faith that would not falter, God led his
-servants on to that which now makes those pages glow, they would
-soon become disheartened, possibly fault-finding, as though funds
-and men were being wasted on a work that makes so little show.
-
-We respectfully suggest to all such friends of our Chinese
-work that they remain in the East, and do not at present visit
-California; for Christ, as found in the souls for whom we labor,
-has no halo round his head—indeed, He had none when He wrought in
-that carpenter’s shop at Nazareth; when He walked, with dust-worn
-raiment and with weary feet, the ill-wrought trails of ancient
-Palestine; nor even when He hung upon the cross. There was no
-external beauty to make men desire him; and to many who at this
-distance are almost filled with envy at the high privileges Peter,
-James and John enjoyed of seeing his face and hearing his voice,
-and walking in his companionship, He might have seemed a “root out
-of dry ground, having no form nor comeliness.”
-
-At any rate, He abides to-day in souls that are very dark, that are
-very little sanctified—saints that by no means answer to the ideal
-saintliness—He abides in them; and while with patient love we bear
-with them, and while we hope on and work on, though faith feels
-like fainting and hope seems long deferred, we are _assured that
-we are serving_ HIM. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the
-least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”
-
-This is the period of the year when our work has least of what
-is outward and visible to stir enthusiasm. The weather is often
-stormy. The nights are often very dark. At some of the factories,
-work having broken across the boundary line which fading daylight
-fixed, holds on under gas-light till it is too late for our pupils
-to get to school. At any rate, many of them drop off; the average
-declines, and our hearts droop a little. It would be so much
-easier to work, if we could all the time be expanding, increasing,
-harvesting. Then, often, the pupils seem specially dull, and this
-one or that one in whom we have become deeply interested, and whom
-we supposed to have become somewhat enlightened, discloses a depth
-of darkness which we do not like to fathom, and shows that he has
-understood far less than we supposed. Among those whom we believe
-to be true followers of Christ, there crop out littlenesses of envy
-or jealousy or ill-humor, that perhaps would call down on them
-swift condemnation, did not all this remind us so much of what has
-stained our own Christian life.
-
-Now if our romantic friends should drop in upon us at such times,
-they might be sorely disappointed; might feel that we had drawn on
-our fancies for some of our facts; might possibly go away and add
-their own “Amen” to the scornful taunts of Godless newspapers upon
-“converted Chinamen.” And yet just such experiences of difficulty
-and discouragement belong to Christian work everywhere. If they
-do not form a necessary part of the discipline and training of
-the church, they certainly are unavoidable in the healing of
-sin-poisoned souls—in the education, the _leading out_ of men from
-darkness into light.
-
-I write these things, not because I have any special
-disappointments to communicate. I have none. And yet the state
-of the work just now is shadowed in these reflections. I have
-sometimes fancied—and felt that it was no mere fancy—that I could
-see in the story of our little mission, a tiny miniature of the
-history of the Apostolic Church. We had our little Pentecost to
-start with. We had the glow of a new love, the effervescence of a
-new life, the fresh joy of fraternal fellowship; prayer meetings
-carried, against my protest, for sheer delight in them, on into the
-small hours, by men who must be up and hard at work by six o’clock
-in the morning. Then after awhile we had our Ananias—two of them,
-since there was no wife to match Sapphira. And then we had disputes
-and little jealousies, like those of the Grecians against the
-Hebrews, and our scatterings by persecution and by other causes,
-in which, I rejoice to say, our disciples, like those of old, went
-here and there, preaching the word; so that with all that there has
-been at times to start anxiety, to test faith, to chasten hope, the
-work has kept moving on. Souls have been added constantly, _saved_
-souls, we trust. Much prayer has gone up to the throne of grace,
-and earnest work has followed it, and Christ, thank God, has proved
-himself to be stronger than the strong man armed.
-
-
-THE OROVILLE MISSION.
-
-We entered a new name on the list of our schools on the 1st of
-November. It is at Oroville, the county seat of Butte Co. It is
-taught by Miss Jessamine Wood, daughter of the Congregational
-pastor in that town. Years ago we began a work there, but under
-auspices that proved to be very unfavorable. Ever since, we have
-desired to renew the effort, but the way has not opened till
-now. There are few points in the interior of the State where
-so many Chinese—1,500, it is said—are congregated. The Chinese
-population of the town at one time out-numbered that of all other
-nationalities. Our school, at its outset, is very small, the
-attendance being only seven, but we trust it is the thin edge of a
-wedge which we may yet drive home with good effect. A helper will
-be set at work there, temporarily at least, after the holidays,
-by whom not only may the school be enlarged, but the Gospel be
-preached in the streets, and the war for Christ be carried into the
-very Africa of Oroville Chinatown.
-
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-
-
-
-
-RECEIPTS
-
-FOR DECEMBER, 1879.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
- MAINE, $250.54.
-
- Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15.50
- Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch. 35.09
- Brewer. First Ch. and Sab. Sch. 8.70
- Bridgeton. “Jean.” 5.00
- Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps 10.00
- Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.27
- Hallowell. Miss F. Littlefield, 2 Bbls. of C.
- Hampden. Cong. Ch. 9.50
- Litchfield. Ladies, Bbl. of C. Machias. Centre
- St. Ch. 1.88
- Newport. Mrs. M. S. N. 1.00
- Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $45.60;
- Individuals, $1. 46.60
- Norway. Mary K. Frost 5.00
- Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
- Skowhegan. Miss C. A. Weston, $20, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Mrs. W. Woodbury, $5,
- _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 25.00
- South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis, by Rev.
- G. Lewis 7.00
- Vassalborough. Joseph White 5.00
- Yarmouth. First Ch. and Soc. 22.00
-
-
- NEW HAMPSHIRE, $264.62.
-
- Amherst. Ladies’ Union Miss. Soc., _for
- Student Aid, Straight U._ 31.00
- Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.78
- Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.05
- Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.74
- Dover. E. J. L. 1.00
- East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, Bbl. of C.
- Fisherville. Cong. Ch. 17.61
- Francestown. Cong. Ch. 21.00
- Greenfield. Individuals, by Mrs. M. M. Foster 7.00
- Hanover Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
- Hillsborough Centre. H. O. C. 1.00
- Hopkintown. Rev. D. S. 0.60
- Jaffrey. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.
- Keene. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Second Ch.,
- $2.50, and Bbl. of C. 2.50
- Marlborough. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc., Bbl.
- of C. and $1 _for Freight_;—Freedmen’s Aid
- Soc. $10 _for Talladega_ 11.00
- Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 2.50
- Mason. Ladies, Bbl. of C. Nashua. First Cong.
- Ch. and Soc. 21.34
- New London. Mary K. Trussell 2.00
- Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50
- Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 5.00
- Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
- Stratham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
- Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
- Temple. Mrs. W. K. 1.00
- Tilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
- West Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
-
-
- VERMONT, $862.30.
-
- Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.28
- Burlington. J. P. 0.50
- Castleton. Mrs. L. G. S. 1.00
- Cambridge. Mrs. Hezekiah How 13.00
- Chester. G. H. C. 0.51
- East Barnard. L. B. 1.00
- East Hardwick. S. W. O. 1.00
- Essex Junction. E. T. M. 1.00
- Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
- Mechanicsville. C. E. B. 1.00
- Newbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Indians,
- Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 4.00
- Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($5 of which from
- Mrs. Ashley Blodgett) 10.00
- Pawlett. Miss D. Smith, ($1 _of which for
- Indian M._) 1.50
- Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.09
- Pittsford. Dea. Tiffany 2.00
- Randolph. Mrs. I. N. 1.00
- Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.50
- Rutland. East Parish, Cong. Ch. and Soc. 128.90
- Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Cong. Ch.
- _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
- Springfield. “A Friend” $200; Mrs. E. D.
- Parks, $100; Mrs. F. Parks, $100 400.00
- Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. S. T. FULLER, L. M. 46.52
- Townshend. Mrs. Mary Burnap, $5; Mrs. Anna
- Rice, $5; Rev. Geo. Porter, D. D. $2; 4
- Individuals, $1 each; Others, 75 cents 16.75
- West Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12;
- Cong. Sab. Sch. $8 20.00
- Williston. C. A. Seymour 5.00
- Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.25
- Woodstock. Hon. Frederick Billings 100.00
- Worcester. Mrs. J. H. 0.50
-
-
- MASSACHUSETTS, $5,241.25.
-
- Andover. Mary I. Abbott, $5; Mrs. F. R. B.,
- 50c.; Dea. H. C., 50c. 6.00
- Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
- Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
- const. REV. DANIEL E. ADAMS, L. M. 31.30
- Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., and
- $2.35 _for freight_ 2.35
- Auburn. Cong. Ch. 45.62
- Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 156.02
- Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc., $219;
- Mount Vernon Ch. and Soc., $155.47; Union
- Cong. Ch. and Soc., $103.25; “Two Friends,”
- $6 483.72
- Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. and Soc., $33,
- and Sab. Sch., $3.30;—Miss E. E. Backup, B.
- of C. _for Mendi M._ 33.30
- Braintree. Mrs. W. J. 0.50
- Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21;— ——
- $2 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 23.00
- Brookfield. Rev. C. E. S. 1.00
- Brimfield. First Cong. Ch. 27.64
- Buckland. C. W. Thayer 5.00
- Campello. —— Bbl. of C. and $5, _for Lady
- Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 5.00
- Charlestown. “S. M. S.” 10.00
- Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $53.89;
- Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $14.62 68.51
- Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch., (of which $32.62
- _for Teacher, Hampton N. & A. Inst._) 39.93
- Danvers. C. W. L. 0.50
- Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student
- Aid, Straight U._ 15.00
- Douglass. A. M. Hill, $10; Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
- $5 15.00
- Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch., $440.04, and
- Sab. Sch., $50; First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
- $24.17, and Sab. Sch., $50 564.21
- East Longmeadow. E. M. 1.00
- East Medway. H. D. 0.50
- East Taunton. Mrs. B. L. S. 0.50
- East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.10
- Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.52
- Framingham. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., 2 Bbls. of
- C. and $4 _for Freight_, by Mrs. Joseph
- Mann;—E. K. S., $1 5.00
- Freetown. “A Friend,” $8; Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
- $6.11 14.11
- Florence. Sab. Sch. Class, Julius Phelps,
- Teacher 9.37
- Gloucester. M. A. H. 0.10
- Hanover. C. C. 1.00
- Harwichport. Leonard Robbins 10.00
- Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones, $10; Mrs. J. B.
- Case, $5 15.00
- Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.14
- Holbrook. —— $35, _for Lady Missionary,
- Nashville, Tenn._;—Miss A. E. Holbrook, $5,
- and Bbl. of C. 40.00
- Holden. Cong. Soc. $23; Mrs. M. F. $1 24.00
- Holliston. A. W. F. M. 1.20
- Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. 16.75
- Hopkinton. Mrs. P. Claflin, _for Berea C._ 25.00
- Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.
- $16.45;—South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $15, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 31.45
- Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 350.00
- Lakeville. Betsey Kinsley 2.00
- Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.50
- Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21.71; Mrs.
- Sewall’s S. S. Class, Bbl. of C. 21.71
- Longmeadow. N. B. & A. C., 50c. each 1.00
- Lowell. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Hampton
- N. & A. Inst._ 90.43
- Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.81
- Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $16.91; North
- Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.27 19.18
- Malden. Rev. W. H. Willcox, $100, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._;—First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
- $47.08 147.08
- Mansfield. P. M. E. 1.00
- Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5; J.
- J. H. Gregory, one Box 5.00
- Marlborough. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Union Ch. 10.00
- Marion. ESTATE of John Pitcher, by Trustees 53.99
- Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
- Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
- Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by S. G.
- Sargent 25.00
- Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., $40, _for Student
- Aid, Atlanta U._;—Bbl. of C. 40.00
- Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 63.83
- Mill River. Miss M. R. Wilcox 10.00
- Mitteneague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.70
- Monson. E. F. Morris, $50; Cong. Ch. $30; to
- const. DEA. A. H. WHITE, L. M. 80.00
- Newbury. First Parish, Bbl. of C. Newburyport.
- Miss S. E. Teel 5.00
- New Braintree. Ladies’ Aid Soc. Bbl. of C.
- North Abington. —— $10;—Three Bbls. of C.
- and 48.75 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
- Tenn._ 58.75
- Northampton. “W.” 100.00
- North Andover. H. T. Parks, Bbl. of C.
- Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh 5.00
- North Brookfield. Members of Union Ch. $34;
- Union Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. $19.10 53.10
- North Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
- North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.93
- Oxford. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.34
- Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.54
- Peabody. T. S. 1.00
- Phillipston. A. & T. Ward 5.00
- Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.30
- Plymouth. C. W. P. 0.50
- Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 116.00
- Rochester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
- Rockland. Mr. Rice, $25; “Other Friends,”
- $12.35, _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
- Tenn._ 37.35
- Salem. J. H. T. 60c.; J. P. A. 50c. 1.10
- Sheffield. First Cong. Soc. 10.55
- South Abington. Sewing Circle, $25; Miss Mary
- Whitmarsh, $20; Miss C. Whitman, $5; Mrs. P.
- Healy, $5; —— Bbl. of C. and $5, _for Lady
- Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 60.00
- Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.41
- South Deerfield. Mrs. M. B. R. 0.50
- South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19.50;
- M. F. M., $1 20.50
- South Weymouth. Second Cong. S. S., Miss
- Grover’s Class, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00
- Springfield. South Ch., (Mrs. S. E. C.), $10;
- Mrs. A. C. H. $1.10 11.10
- Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.44
- Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Student
- Aid, Washington Sch., Raleigh, N. C._ 10.00
- Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
- CHARLES A. HASKELL, L. M. 30.00
- Templeton. Mrs. L. M. 1.00
- Tolland. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.
- Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00
- Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.75
- Townsend Harbor. S. F. W. 0.50
- Upton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.00
- Wakefield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
- Atlanta U._ 15.70
- Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.60
- Watertown. Mrs. W. L., 60c.; Mrs. J. B. 50c 1.10
- West Boxford. Ladies, by Mrs. H. T. Park, B.
- of C. and $2 _for Freight_; Mrs. C. E. Park,
- $3 _for Freight_ 5.00
- West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.00
- Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
- Westhampton. H. F. C. 1.00
- West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.33
- West Medway. S. P. 1.00
- Westminster. “A Friend.” 5.00
- West Newbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
- West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch. 41.00
- Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1,154.75
- Williamstown. Boys’ Miss. Soc., $10; Ladies of
- Cong Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., _for Woodbridge, N.
- C._ 10.00
- Winchendon. “A Friend,” $1; Mrs. M. D. B. $1 2.00
- Woburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch. ($25 of which
- from “A Friend,”) $100;—First Cong. Sab.
- Sch. $70, _for Student Aid, Hampton N. and
- A. Inst._ 170.00
- Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ($4 of which
- _for Berea C._) $36.54;—Washburn, Moen M’f’g
- Co., 6,700 ft. galv’d wire fencing, 10 lbs.
- galv’d Staples, _for Atlanta U._ 36.54
- —— —— 50.00
-
-
- RHODE ISLAND, $200.50.
-
- Barrington. Cong. Ch., $50; and Sab. Sch. $25 75.00
- Oak Lawn. Rev. Marcus Ames 10.00
- Pawtucket. Mrs. J. G. 0.50
- Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. $85;
- Josiah Chapin, $25; W. C. Chapin, $5 115.00
-
-
- CONNECTICUT, $1,814.09.
-
- Ansonia. “A Little Girl,” 0.10
- Black Rock. Cong. Ch. 21.00
- Bridgeport. C. G. D. 0.50
- Brooklyn. M. W. C., $1; S. H. T., $1 2.00
- Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. MRS.
- LEANDER BUELL, L. M. 48.07
- Cornwall. First Cong. Ch., $5; G. H. C., 60c. 5.60
- Darien. Miss B. D. 0.50
- Deep River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.90
- Eastford. Cong. Ch. 11.28
- East Hartford. First Ch. 20.00
- East Woodstock. C. D. 0.50
- Groton. Cong. Ch., $6.54, and Sab. Sch., $12.10 18.64
- Guilford. Dea. Eli Parmelee 10.00
- Haddam. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Hamden. H. H. 0.50
- Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.25
- Hartford. Second Cong. Ch., $93.61;—MRS. JOHN
- OLMSTED, $50, _for rebuilding Academic Hall,
- Hampton Inst._; and $10 _for Florence,
- Ala._, and to const. herself L. M.;—Mrs.
- Benton, $5 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
- Tenn._;—Rev. R. R. M., $1; Mrs. J. O., 50
- cts. 160.11
- Madison. Cong. Ch. 7.25
- Meriden. Miss P. 1.00
- Middleton. Sab. Sch. of South Ch. 25.00
- Millford. Plymouth Ch. $52.23; Plymouth Cong.
- Ch. Sab. Sch. $32, to const. MRS. OWEN T.
- CLARK, L. M.; “P.” $2 86.23
- Moodus. Amasa Day Chaffee, (a little friend)
- proceeds of his garden 3.00
- Moose Meadow. Mrs. H. L. E. 0.50
- New Britain. “Member of South Ch.” 5.00
- New Haven. Amos Townsend, $25; Third Cong.
- Ch., $24.90; Mrs. Dr. R. Crane, $10; Mrs.
- Julius Yale, $5; Mrs. E. B. 70c.; C. A. S.
- 60c.; W. O. S., 50c.; W. A. L., 50c. 67.20
- New London. TRUST ESTATE OF HENRY P. HAVEN,
- _for Fisk U._ 250.00
- New London. Mrs. Chapel, $50, _for Fisk
- U._;—First Ch. of Christ, Quar. Coll.
- $48.97; First Cong. Ch., $37.18 136.15
- New Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.84
- Newtown. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
- Norfolk. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 4 Bbls. of C.
- _for Woodbridge, N. C._
- North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.37
- North Stamford. Emily Waterbury 2.51
- North Woodbury. “M. J. C.” 2.00
- Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 35.63
- Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (ad’l), to const.
- MISS HANNAH L. RIPLEY, MISS ELIZABETH P.
- RIPLEY, MISS MARIA J. LEAVENS, MISS EMELINE
- F. NORTON, MISS CAROLINE B. SCARLETT, MISS
- JENNIE A. GORDON, MISS ALICE C. DYER, MISS
- AUGUSTA B. GREENE, MISS ELLA G. CILLEY, MISS
- JULIA M. PLUMMER, MISS FANNIE L. TREADWAY,
- MISS AUGUSTA P. GILLETT, MISS MARY L.
- HUNTINGTON, MISS HENRIETTA MEEKER, MISS
- ELLEN M. NUNN and MISS MARY J. PALMER, L.
- M.’s 200.00
- Norwich. “Friends,” Papyrograph, with entire
- outfit, _for Atlanta U._
- Portland. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 13.46
- Simsbury. Rev. W. D. McF. 0.50
- South Britain. E. M. Averill 2.00
- Southington. Cong. Ch. 16.00
- South Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
- Stamford. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. 7.88
- Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. 78.75
- Suffield. First Cong. Ch. 16.15
- Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 73.20
- Tolland. J. L. Clough, “Family Thanksgiving
- Donation” 2.00
- Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $48, by Dea.
- J. Atwater; Miss T. B. Bartholomew, $2 50.00
- Warren. First Ecclesiastical Ch. and Soc. 40.00
- West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.36
- West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.20
- Willimantic. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46.30;—Cong.
- Sab. Sch., $30, _for Student Aid, Straight
- U._ 76.30
- Winchester. Cong. Ch. 4.86
- Winsted. First Cong. Ch. 27.80
- Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. 7.00
- Vernon. E. M. Seymour, Bbl. of C.
-
-
- NEW YORK, $2,617.58.
-
- Adam’s Basin. L. D. 1.00
- Albany. First Cong. Ch. 60.70
- Alfred Centre. Mrs. Ida F. Kenyon 5.00
- Berkshire. Miss R. K. 1.00
- Binghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
- Brooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch.,
- $368.45;—Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $201, by
- Geo. H. Shirley, _for Rev. Geo. Henry,
- Fla._;—Miss Katherine Holmes, $2, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 571.45
- Bridgewater. Zenas Eldred 5.00
- Brier Hill. O. J. 0.50
- Chateaugay. Joseph Shaw 5.00
- Chestertown. R. C. C. 1.00
- Cincinnatus. Coll. Union Thanksgiving Service,
- by Rev. E. Rogers 10.00
- Cortland. Mrs. E. B. Dean 5.00
- Crown Point. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
- Samuel Buck, Treas. 10.00
- Durham. Mrs. H. Ingraham 2.00
- Dryden. ESTATE of Mrs. L. C. Phillips, by Mrs.
- M. L. Keeny, Executrix 500.00
- East Bloomfield. Russel B. Goodwin 4.03
- Ellington. “A Friend” 1,000.00
- Fairport. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
- Greenville. F. H. Wakeley 5.00
- Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres 5.00
- Homer. Mrs. Augusta Arnold, $3; F. F. Pratt, $2 5.00
- Madison. Rev. Geo. Hardy 10.00
- Mount Vernon. J Van Santvord 10.00
- New York. “X. Y. Z.” $100., _for Hampton N.
- and A. Inst._;—Class in Broadway Tab. Sab.
- Sch., by A. P. Dana, Teacher, $11, _for
- Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;—Washington Lee,
- $5; S. F. Haywood, $5; American Bible Soc.,
- Grant of Bibles, val. $505 121.00
- North Collins. A. H. 1.00
- Oriskany. Albert Halsey, $5; Mrs. Lucy B.
- Porter, deceased, $5; Rev. S. F. Porter and
- Wife, $5 15.00
- Palmyra. Mrs. M. A. Woodward 30.00
- Pulaski. S. C. 1.00
- Rochester. Miss E. Leavenworth, $5; A. Beebee,
- $5; Abraham Hubregtse, $2 12.00
- Rodman. Miss Eliza Gates, $25; John S. Sill,
- $10 35.00
- Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, $30, to const.
- HON. EVERETT A. CARPENTER, L. M.; “A Life
- Member,” $1 31.00
- Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok 2.00
- Smyrna. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss. Soc. 15.00
- Sparkill. Mrs. H. E. D. 1.00
- Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 34.40
- Waterville. Mrs. J. Candee, $4; Mrs. Wm.
- Winchill, $3 7.00
- Westmoreland. A. S. B. 0.50
- Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff, $4; Rev. J. S.
- P. $1 5.00
- Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 10.00
-
-
- NEW JERSEY, $28.
-
- Clayton. D. N. Moore, _for Lady Missionary,
- Nashville, Tenn._ 25.00
- Millstone. Mrs. J. T. C. 1.00
- Morristown. W. B. 1.00
- Newark. R. D. W. 1.00
-
-
- PENNSYLVANIA, $9.
-
- Guy’s Mills. S. O. F. 0.50
- North East. B. T. Spooner, $5; C. A. T. $1 6.00
- Providence. Welsh Cong. Ch. 2.00
- Plainfield. Mrs. H. B. O. 0.50
-
-
- OHIO, $599.34.
-
- Aurora. Cong. Ch. $4.50; Dea. O. S. 50c. 5.00
- Austinburg. L. D. R. 27c.; F. J. R. 50c. 0.77
- Brownhelm. Cong. Ch. 22.50
- Chagrin Fall. “Earnest Workers,” $20, _for
- Student Aid, Tougaloo U._;—Cong. Ch. $14.91 34.91
- Chardon. —— 1.00
- Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch. 13.64
- Claridon. L. T. Wilmot 10.00
- Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., $20.29; Mrs.
- H. P. Hickox, $10;—Mrs. Coggswell, $2, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._—Miss M. P. 50c. 32.79
- Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.10
- Delaware. Troedshewdalar Ch., $9; Wm. Bevan $5 14.00
- Dover. Cong. Ch. 9.00
- East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi
- M._ 2.00
- Elyria. Mrs. G., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
- Fostoria. C. M. 1.00
- Geneva. W. C. P. 1.00
- Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., $28.50; L. G., 50c. 29.00
- Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 8.50
- Madison. Mrs. Sarah Warner 10.00
- Mallet Creek. J. A. Bingham, M. D. 5.00
- Mansfield. S. M. S. 0.50
- Marietta. R. P., 50c.; Rev. I. M. P., 50c 1.00
- Mechanicstown. Susan Manifold 2.00
- Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by Mrs. M. J.
- Munger, Treas. 7.00
- Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike 5.00
- Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch., $9.30; Thomas D.
- Jones, $5 14.30
- North Eaton. M. O. 0.50
- Oberlin. J. W. Merrill, $100; Mrs. C. G.
- Finney, $20; P. B. H., 50c. 120.50
- Painesville. Edward Little, $1.50; Rev. S. W.
- P., $1 2.50
- Rootstown. Cong. Ch., $23; bal. to const. MRS.
- CHARLOTTE E. BICKFORD, L. M. 23.00
- Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, $5, _for
- Student, Tougaloo U._;—W. C. Sexton, $2 7.00
- Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. 0.50
- Sicily. S. W. Huggins 10.00
- Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar. Coll. 6.14
- Steubenville. Adna Tenney 20.00
- Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch. 6.00
- Twinsburg. J. R. Parmelee 2.00
- Wakeman. Cong. Ch., to const. MINOT PIERCE, L.
- M. 51.42
- Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 16.75
- Wellington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
- Welshfield. S. P. 0.51
- Wooster. D. B. 1.00
- York. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- —— “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 35.50
-
-
- INDIANA, $1.
-
- Newville. Rev. A. D. 1.00
-
-
- ILLINOIS, $998.47.
-
- Amboy. Bureau Ass’n of Ill., by Mrs. H. T.
- Ford, Treas., _for Lady Missionary_,
- _Liberty Co., Ga._ 25.00
- Beardstown. Cong. Ch. 5.00
- Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 7.00
- Chicago. “A Friend,” $250, by E. W.
- Blatchford, _for Student Aid, Atlanta
- U._;—N. E. Cong. Ch. (bal. Coll.) $109.22,
- and Mon. Con. Coll., $10.63;—Sab. Sch. of
- First Cong. Ch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk
- U._;—Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch. (of
- which $15 _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._),
- $25.75;—Miss R., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk
- U._;—L. D. 50c. 447.10
- Elgin. Mrs. Lovell, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
- Evanston. Cong. Ch., $21.56;—J. M. Williams,
- $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 26.56
- Fremont. Mrs. Robinson, _for Student Aid, Fisk
- U._ 5.00
- Galesburg. “Friends,” by Mrs. S. R. Holmes,
- _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.45
- Geneseo. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.58
- Highland. Cong. Ch. 20.00
- Jerseyville. G. W. Burke 10.00
- Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., $25, _for
- Student Aid, Straight U._;—Mrs. C. L. C., $1. 26.00
- La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. Nay, $2 2.00
- Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 25.50
- Lee Centre. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
- Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._ 15.03
- Lewistown. Mrs. M. Phelps 50.00
- Lisbon. G. K. 0.50
- Mendon. Mrs. C. T. 1.00
- Moline. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Ladies’ Aid
- Soc. of Cong. Ch., $25; “A Friend,” $1, _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 51.00
- Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Band, $50; First
- Cong. Sab. Sch., $42.60, _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 92.60
- Peoria. Wm. Truesdell, $10; Moses Pettingill,
- $10; J. T. Rogers, $5; Rev. H. A. Stevens,
- $2, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—Mrs. E.
- Woodruff, $2 29.00
- Polo. “Mrs. B. and M., Mrs. B., Mrs. P. and E.
- P.,” $18; “Three young friends,” $3.50, _for
- Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 21.50
- Pittsfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter 10.00
- Princeton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.25
- Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch., $12.75; L.
- Kingman, $10. 22.75
- Roseville. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.65
- Saint Charles. W. B. Lyons and Wife 5.00
- Sycamore. Rev. A. S. 1.00
- Western Springs. Mr. Williams, $2; Mr. A.,
- $1.; Miss J., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 4.00
- Winnebago. N. F. Parsons 10.00
-
-
- MICHIGAN, $414.22.
-
- Almont. Cong. Ch. 38.59
- Alpena. Mrs. S. Hitchcock 1.50
- Benzonia. Rev. J. S. Fisher 25.00
- Berrien Springs. Alexander B. Leeds 5.00
- Birmingham. Rev. J. McC., $1; Mrs. D. D. S., $1 2.00
- East Saginaw. ESTATE of Charles W. Wilder, by
- N. H. Culver, Admr. 100.00
- Jonesville. Mrs. R. L. H. 0.50
- Lodi. Eli Benton 50.00
- Memphis. ESTATE of Chester L. Dudley, by James
- H. Dudley 25.00
- Owosso. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._;—First Cong. Ch., $50 100.00
- Paw Paw. H. R. 1.00
- Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch. 16.03
- Union City. Cong. Ch. 36.60
- Vassar. Mrs. O. W. Selden 3.00
- Whitehall. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
-
-
- IOWA, $414.81.
-
- Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch., _for
- Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
- Castalia. W. H. Baker and Family, to const.
- MRS. ALMIRA A. RICHARDS, L. M. 35.00
- Cedar Falls. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
- Missionary in New Orleans_ 5.00
- Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 37.57
- Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 16.26
- Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington 5.00
- Decorah. First Cong. Ch. 32.68
- Des Moines. Cong. Ch. ($50 of which from
- ex-Gov. Samuel Merrill), $107.92; Ladies of
- Plymouth Ch. $11 118.92
- Fifteen-Mile Grove. G. C. H. 1.00
- Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 36.83
- Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 10.00
- Le Grand. J. N. Craig, $3; T. P. C., $1 4.00
- Lewis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
- Marion. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, $25; “Willing
- Workers” of Cong. Ch., Box of C., _for
- Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
- Montour. Cong. Ch. 12.54
- Stacyville. Cong. Ch. 17.50
- Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield 10.00
- Tabor. Miss J. E. Williams, $5, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._;—J. E. Williams, $2 7.00
- Waterloo. Mrs. W. W. T. 0.51
-
-
- WISCONSIN, $258.24.
-
- Appleton. Mrs. M. C. P. 0.50
- Beloit. “Friends” $5, _for Student Aid,
- Talladega C._;—Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1 6.00
- Cooksville. Ed. Gilley 5.00
- Janesville. “Life Member” 10.00
- Madison. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. J.
- H. OLIN, L. M. 30.00
- Menasha. First. Cong. Ch. 40.00
- Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 35.50
- Racine. Mrs. M. B. Erskine 5.00
- Sheboygan. David Ticknor 2.00
- Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. C. 1.00
- West Salem. William Munson 50.00
- Whitewater. Cong. Ch. 73.24
-
-
- KANSAS, $14.15.
-
- Manhattan. Mrs. M. P. 1.00
- Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
- Washington Creek. D. E. B. 1.00
- Waushara. Cong. Ch. 4.15
-
-
- MINNESOTA, $63.89.
-
- Faribault. Cong. Ch. 27.27
- Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 19.12
- Morris. Cong. Ch. 1.52
- Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 15.98
-
-
- NEBRASKA, $7.
-
- Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor 2.00
- Santee Agency. “A Friend of the Freedmen.” 5.00
-
-
- DAKOTA, $51.05.
-
- Yankton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for work among
- Women_ 51.05
-
-
- WASHINGTON TER., $25.
-
- Colfax. Rev. Cushing Eells 10.00
- S’kokomish. Cong. Ch. 15.00
-
-
- CALIFORNIA, $5.
-
- Chico. Lewis H. Morse, 1 copy of Worcester’s
- Unabridged Dictionary
- Nevada City. Charles Hepler 5.00
-
-
- MARYLAND, $100.
-
- Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for Student Aid,
- Fisk U._ 100.00
-
-
- TENNESSEE, $230.55.
-
- Chattanooga. J. W. H. 0.50
- Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 31.60
- Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition,
- $193.10;—Fisk U., Thanksgiving Offering,
- $5.35 _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 198.45
-
-
- NORTH CAROLINA, $108.01.
-
- Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition 7.60
- Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $94.50;
- First Cong. Ch. $5.91 100.41
-
-
- SOUTH CAROLINA, $342.50.
-
- Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition,
- $320.50;—Rev. T. Cutler, $20, _for Student
- Aid, Fisk U._—Cong. Ch., $2 342.50
-
-
- GEORGIA, $596.01.
-
- Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $215.60; Rent,
- 3; Atlanta U. Tuition, $94; Rent,
- $14.30;—Atlanta U., _for an Indian Student_,
- $50 376.90
- Bellmont. Cong. Ch. 1.50
- Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $53.35; Rent,
- $6.50 59.85
- Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107; Sales,
- $50.76 157.76
-
-
- ALABAMA, $523.60.
-
- Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 31.00
- Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition 201.25
- Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund 175.00
- Selma. Cong. Ch., $31.40; Rent, $5 36.40
- Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition, $79.45;
- W. S., 50c. 79.95
-
-
- MISSISSIPPI, $200.05.
-
- Natchez. Rev. C. A. 0.50
- New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 110.00
- Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $40.25; Rent,
- $48.80; by Rev. G. S. P., 50c. 89.55
-
-
- MISSOURI, $18.05.
-
- Ashburn. F. M. R. 1.00
- Miami. Elijah Nichols 5.00
- Neosho. “A Friend” 1.00
- Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch. 11.05
-
-
- INCOME FUND, $290.
-
- —— Avery Fund 190.00
- —— C. F. Dike Fund 50.00
- —— General Fund 50.00
-
-
- CANADA, $2.
-
- Union. Nathan Taylor 2.00
-
-
- PERSIA, $30.
-
- Oroomiah. Rev. and Mrs. B. Labaree 30.00
- —————————
- Total 16,580.82
- Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $43,157.87
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
-
- Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional
- pledge £3,000
- Brewer, Me. M. Hardy $100.00
- Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 1,515.34
- —————————
- Total $1,615.34
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.
-
- New London, Conn. First Cong. Ch. $50.00
- Brooklyn, N. Y. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch. (A.
- S. Barnes) 500.00
- Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler 125.00
- —————————
- Total 675.00
- Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts 192.00
- —————————
- Total $867.00
-
- * * * * *
-
- FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.
-
- Bangor, Me. Miss Perham $2.00
- Harwichport, Mass. Leonard Robbins 5.00
- Coral, Mich. Benjamin H. Lewis 5.00
- ——————
- Total 12.00
- Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 5.00
- ——————
- Total $17.00
-
- * * * * *
-
- Receipts for December 17,367.82
- Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st $45,740.21
- ==========
-
- H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
- 56 Reade St., N. Y.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-
-
-Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
-
-INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
-
- * * * * *
-
-
-ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
-ASSOCIATION.”
-
-ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
-Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
-knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
-which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
-fields of effort.
-
-ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
-faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is not a slaveholder, or in the
-practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,
-may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty
-dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have
-not professed their faith may be constituted life members without
-the privilege of voting.
-
-ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
-September, October or November, for the election of officers and
-the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall
-be designated by the Executive Committee.
-
-ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
-officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
-and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
-and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one
-representative.
-
-ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President,
-Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
-than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
-advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
-
-ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
-and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining
-and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and
-agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the
-transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the
-executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;
-the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the
-missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision
-of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually
-chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or
-missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.
-
-The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies
-occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;
-to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of
-incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
-officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the
-Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and
-for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,
-in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and
-general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the
-diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous
-promotion of the missionary work.
-
-Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
-transacting business.
-
-ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing
-officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields
-of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
-particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the
-known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment
-those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
-
-ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to
-the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain
-missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the
-agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
-
-ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without
-the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular
-annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
-submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in
-season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if
-so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.
-
-FOOTNOTE:
-
-[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
-belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
-Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
-of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
-of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
-obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
-the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
-wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
-
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-The American Missionary Association.
-
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-
-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., 13;
-Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6.
-_Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.
-
-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.; Savannah, Macon,
-Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,
-Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.
-
-TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253;
-among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total,
-296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63;
-in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former
-pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care
-of the Association, 13,000.
-
-
-WANTS.
-
-1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the
-growing work. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and
-_larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as the
-strong.
-
-2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to
-accommodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES for
-the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and
-pious, for these churches.
-
-3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and
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-
-Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
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-
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- BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
- CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.
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-1880.
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-We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing
-appreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year, and purpose to
-spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value to those
-interested in the work which it records.
-
-Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?
-
-A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own
-remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,
-will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our
-Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.
-
-Under the editorial supervision of Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, aided
-by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries
-and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional
-communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,
-the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture
-of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the
-Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as
-missionaries in 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.
-
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-Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and
-assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new
-year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.
-
-The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
-persons indicated on page 62.
-
-Donations and subscriptions should be sent to
-
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-
- * * * * *
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-TO ADVERTISERS.
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-Special attention is invited to the advertising department of the
-AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Among its regular readers are thousands of
-Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and Teachers in
-Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is, therefore,
-a specially valuable medium for advertising Books, Periodicals,
-Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning, Church
-Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &c.
-
-Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for
-space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its
-circulation.
-
-Advertisements must be received by the TENTH of the month, in order
-to secure insertion in the following number. All communications in
-relation to advertising should be addressed to
-
- THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,
- 56 Reade Street, New York.
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- * * * * *
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-☞ Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of
-the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning,
-when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.
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-Transcriber’s Notes:
-
-
-Ditto marks in tables were replaced by the text they represent in order
-to facilitate alignment for eBooks.
-
-Page number in the Contents for The Romance of Missions corrected from
-53 to 54.
-
-Spelling and punctuation were changed only where the error appears
-to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too numerous to
-list; the others are as follows:
-
-Extra “Mr.” removed from page 10 (Mr. F. C. Briggs).
-
-Changed “Aegncy” to “Agency” on page 53 (this Indian Agency).
-
-Changed “S’kokmish” to “S’kokomish” on page 60 in the Washington
-Ter. section.
-
-Changed “it” to “at” on page 62 (at least two months).
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-Changed “libeally” to “liberally” (dealt liberally with its friends)
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-<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXIV.</p>
-<p class="float-right smcap">No. 2.</p>
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-<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br />AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1>
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-<hr class="chap" />
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-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div>
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-<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">FEBRUARY, 1880.</p></div>
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-<div class="wrap"><h2><i>CONTENTS:</i></h2>
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-<table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents">
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- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Arrival of Mr. Nurse in Africa—Knowing, Giving, Praying</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Tillotson C. &amp; N. Institute, Austin, Texas</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Who Shall Civilize Africa—Items from the Field</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_36">36</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">General Notes</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_37">37</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">New Appointments</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_39">39</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Georgia Conference Review</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_44">44</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Educational Report</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_46">46</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Atlanta Miscellanies</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_47">47</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Florida—<span class="chaplinen">Letter From Rev. Geo. Henry</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_48">48</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Louisiana—<span class="chaplinen">Schools and Churches: Rev. W. S. Alexander</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_49"> 49</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Tennessee—<span class="chaplinen">Labor among Convicts: Rev. H. S. Bennett</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_50">50</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Tennessee—<span class="chaplinen">Woman’s Work among Women: Miss Hattie A. Milton</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_51">51</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Tennessee—<span class="chaplinen">Student-Teachers from Le Moyne</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_52">52</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">Boys for Hampton from Fort Berthold: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. C. L. Hall</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_53">53</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE CHINESE.</td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="chapline">The Romance of Missions: <span class="chaplinen">Rev. W. C. Pond</span></td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_54">54</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter pp2">RECEIPTS</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_56">56</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Constitution</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_61">61</a></td>
- </tr>
- <tr>
- <td class="toc-chapter smcap">Aim, Statistics, Wants</td>
- <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_62">62</a></td>
- </tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-<p class="center">NEW YORK.</p>
-<p class="center">Published by the American Missionary Association,</p>
-<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>.</p>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p class="center">Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</p>
-
-<p class="center medium">Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as second-class matter</p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<h2>American Missionary Association,</h2>
-
-<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p>
-<p class="center medium medium"><span class="smcap">Hon.</span> E. S. TOBEY, 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 />
- Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br />
- Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br />
- <span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br />
- <span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, D. D., 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. J.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</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 />
- <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>, D. D., 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., Minn.<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">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>, D. D., Ct.<br />
- <span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.
-</td>
-<td>
- 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">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 />
- <span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
- Dea. <span class="smcap">John C. Whitin</span>, Mass.<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.<br />
- <span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
- <span class="smcap">E. A. Graves</span>, Esq., N. J.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble</span>, D. D., Ill.<br />
- <span class="smcap">Daniel Hand</span>, Esq., Ct.<br />
- <span class="smcap">A. L. Williston</span>, Esq., Mass.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">A. F. Beard</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br />
- <span class="smcap">Frederick Billings</span>, Esq., Vt.<br />
- <span class="smcap">Joseph Carpenter</span>, Esq., R. I.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">E. P. Goodwin</span>, D. D., Ill.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">C. L. Goodell</span>, D. D., Mo.<br />
- <span class="smcap">J. W. Scoville</span>, Esq., Ill.<br />
- <span class="smcap">E. W. Blatchford</span>, Esq., Ill.<br />
- <span class="smcap">C. D. Talcott</span>, Esq., Ct.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">John K. McLean</span>, D. D., Cal.<br />
- Rev. <span class="smcap">Richard Cordley</span>, D. D., Kansas.
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-</div>
-
-<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p>
-
-<p class="center medium"><span class="smcap">Rev. M. E. STRIEBY</span>, D. D., <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p>
-
-<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p>
-<div class="center 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</i>.<br />
-<br />
- H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>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">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>,
-</td>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">C. T. Christensen</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Addison P. Foster</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,
-</td>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">Samuel Holmes</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Charles A. Hull</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Edgar Ketchum</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br />
-</td>
-<td class="tdpr">
- <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Pratt</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">J. A. Shoudy</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br />
- <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>.
-</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p>
-
-<p class="center">relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
-Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to
-the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American
-Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.</p>
-
-<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p>
-
-<p class="medium">may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New
-York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
-Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
-Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
-Life Member.</p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[33]</a></p>
-
-<p class="center">THE</p>
-
-<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p>
-
-<hr class="full top" />
-
-<div class="article">
-<div>
-<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXIV.</span></div>
-<div class="third center">FEBRUARY, 1880.</div>
-<div class="third right">No. 2.</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="full bottom" />
-
-<h2>American Missionary Association.</h2>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><em>A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year.</em>—That is, we
-think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will
-you secure it for us in your church this year?</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church,
-Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress
-Slash. Who will send them to us?</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by
-mail, the other day, for a hundred copies of the <span class="smcap">American
-Missionary</span> to put on a Christmas tree for members of his
-church, that he might thus awaken more interest in the missionary
-cause. We sent them. This is the first time we were ever asked to
-send our publications as “Christmas greens.”</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly
-prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred
-thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with
-a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must
-deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the
-Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he
-depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give
-even the crumbs.—<cite>Congregationalist.</cite></p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>In this month of February, we publish, according to our custom,
-the list of our missionaries and teachers in the field; and we are
-proud of it, not for its length or numbers, but for the high and
-approved character of those who constitute it; nay, rather, we are
-thankful to Him under whom we all labor, that He has given to us
-and to each other so worthy a band of co-laborers, so intelligent
-and so devoted. We do not forget that these pastors and teachers
-are far from their homes, and that each is known personally to but
-a limited number of the friends of the Association, and we bespeak
-for them not only a general but a personal remembrance. Would it
-not be well to select some one whose work you, reader,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[34]</a> will follow
-with especial interest, to whom you will some time write, assuring
-of your interest and prayers, and with whom you may establish and
-maintain a personal friendship? Pray for some one at least in this
-list by name, and you will be less likely to forget to pray for all
-the rest.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p>“<em>Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of
-Jerusalem.</em>”—So, in that hour of unearthly experience as recorded
-in the fifty-first Psalm, does David’s heart leap from the state of
-penitence and of forgiveness to take in the welfare of Zion. So,
-evermore, does the truest devotion inspire the missionary spirit.
-The first burden of our Lord’s Prayer is for a heavenly Kingdom
-on earth. His last prayer with and for His disciples, that they
-might be kept, and sanctified and glorified, was, “that the world
-may believe that thou hast sent me.” It is the instinct of a soul
-in communion with God, that in every prayer it should utter at
-least one petition for the coming of his Kingdom. So often do our
-lyric hymns, which are but a transcript of Christian experience,
-glance off from almost any line of thought and of feeling, to utter
-the great aspiration for the crowning of Christ in His spiritual
-realm. The nearer we come to God, the more do we long to have Him
-enthroned in all hearts.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA.</h3>
-
-<p>Mr. Miller writes: “I am very glad to be able to announce to you
-the arrival of Bro. Nurse from America to join our work in Western
-Africa. His voyage was rather longer than had been expected, and he
-doubtless grew impatient as the ship neared this place, and stood
-several days under the silent influence of a calm.</p>
-
-<p>“Yesterday was Thanksgiving-day with you at home—not less so with
-him and his mother, from whom he had been separated for many
-years, as they met in warm embrace. How freely the tears rolled
-down the cheeks of that overjoyed mother, as she looked upon her
-son returned to her and the ‘dark continent,’ a missionary of the
-Gospel to assist in lifting up degraded, perishing mankind. Bro.
-Nurse is a little worn-out from his long voyage, but will soon get
-well rested, and we shall leave for Sherbro.”</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>KNOWING, GIVING, PRAYING.</h3>
-
-<p>These are the three strands of the rope by which the car of
-missions is drawn. This is the trinity of Christian work. The three
-are one, and each one is only itself fully as it is with the three.</p>
-
-<p>One can have little interest in knowing of a work for which he
-neither gives nor prays. His knowledge will be indefinite and
-easily forgotten. It has no grip in it such as comes from a
-personal connection. In the nation’s war, men and women thought
-of it, read of it, were eager to know the latest tidings, because
-their sons and their wealth had been given to the cause which they
-believed was God’s, and their prayers were daily following as they
-traced the progress of the day.</p>
-
-<p>No one will give generously or sufficiently when he has not taken
-pains to know. You cannot get up much enthusiasm over a mere list
-of stations or catalogue of workers. Dr. Albert Bushnell says that
-half the Presbyterian churches in the United States give nothing to
-the cause of foreign missions, and that many who do not give do not
-pray. We should be willing to go further than that and say<a class="pagenum" name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[35]</a> that
-none who do not give can pray effectually. They may repeat prayers
-possibly in public for missions, because that is the proper thing
-to do, but such are but “vain repetitions” against which we are
-warned.</p>
-
-<p>We all agree that missions need the prayers of Christians; that
-such prayer is the duty of all who bear the name of Christ. Then it
-is equally a duty for all such to fulfil the conditions by which
-they may be able to pray aright. It is a duty to know about the
-progress of the Redeemer’s cause. If He bids us say, “Thy kingdom
-come,” He will not be content with us if we sit with closed eyes,
-indifferent to the signs of its coming. But how many Christian
-people take pains to keep themselves informed of the affairs of the
-nations of the earth, their wars, their acts, their commerce, and
-skip the paragraphs which tell of the contests and conquests of
-Christ’s kingdom! How many who know of the strifes and supremacies
-of parties in Maine and Mississippi, know nothing at all of the
-religious state or progress of our land! Is it likely that such
-will give much, or pray earnestly?</p>
-
-<p>Nor will they pray aright unless they give. That makes it their
-work. That establishes their interest in it. That, if it be
-real giving—not mere throwing away to avoid the trouble or the
-embarrassment of saying No—based on intelligent appreciation of the
-need, enlarges and emphasizes and doubly underscores the prayer
-which, then, with the alms ascending, will surely find their way to
-God together.</p>
-
-<p>Friends, we want your prayers for us, for our workers and for our
-work. But we want prayers that are weighted by your gifts—they
-will rise the better for it; and that are illuminated with your
-intelligence—they will be read the better for it, even by the
-Father who “dwelleth in light.”</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</h3>
-
-<p>This school was founded on the same comprehensive scale as
-the other chartered institutions of the American Missionary
-Association. In 1876, a beautiful site of eight acres, overlooking
-the valley of the Colorado River and the mountains beyond,
-was secured in the city of Austin, the capital of Texas, and
-subsequently paid for by the originator of the enterprise, Rev.
-Geo. J. Tillotson. Efforts were commenced at once to raise the
-funds for the first building, which is to serve all the purposes of
-a boarding school until the growth and ability of the institution
-shall necessitate and provide others. Dea. David Allen, of
-Connecticut, headed the subscription with $1,000, and to this
-amount has since added $250. David Banks, of Stanwich, Conn., a
-gentleman over 80 years of age, raised $1,200 more, subscribing
-one-third of it himself. The remainder of the amount we now have
-on hand was collected for the most part by Mr. Tillotson, who has
-kindly added the gift of his services to the enterprise founded by
-his liberality. The principal benefactors of the institution are
-all over seventy years of age.</p>
-
-<p>Work on the new building was commenced last summer, and is still
-going on. It is being constructed of brick, with some trimmings,
-and will have accommodations for seventy boarding students. The
-funds at our disposal for the object are barely sufficient to
-inclose the building. We need $7,000 additional in order to finish
-and furnish it for occupation by the 1st of October. The money
-already given, amounting to about $11,000, exclusive of the $5,000
-paid for the site, was subscribed largely in sums of $400 each by
-persons who are to have the privilege<a class="pagenum" name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[36]</a> of naming the students’
-rooms, of which there will be thirty-five. A grand example has been
-given. Are there not others ready to follow?</p>
-
-<p>The burden of debt, and the struggle required to maintain the
-institutions already under way, has deterred this Association,
-during the past three years, from pressing the claims of this,
-our only school in Texas; but we believe the time has now come
-when we should earnestly solicit the gifts needful for its speedy
-completion. Already we have received the written indorsement of
-seventy-six of the leading citizens of Austin, saying, “We believe
-that such a school is very much needed, and that the enterprise
-will be hailed by very many of our best citizens as of great
-importance to the welfare of the State.” Texas has a territory
-larger than France, and constitutes no mean part of “the whole
-world” where we are commanded to go and teach. Will our friends aid
-us to go up at once and possess the land?</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA?</h3>
-
-<p>We copy from the <cite>Tribune</cite> the following opinion of Col. C. Chaillé
-Long, the African explorer, who preceded Stanley by a year in
-visiting Mtesa:</p>
-
-<p>If the heart of Africa is ever reached by civilizing influences,
-Colonel Long thinks the work must be done by intelligent colored
-people from the United States. They, if anybody, could keep
-communications open, introduce trade, and gradually train the
-natives in habits of systematic industry. Last spring, when public
-attention was attracted to the exodus of negroes from the Southern
-States, Colonel Long wrote a letter to the King of Belgium, who
-is President of the principal European society for exploring and
-civilizing Africa. In that letter he proposed that the King should
-stimulate, through the medium of his society, a movement to take a
-large body of the discontented blacks from our Southern States and
-settle them in Central Africa, opening with them a line of trading
-and missionary posts from the West Coast to the lake country.</p>
-
-<p>Colonel Long believed that thousands of the most industrious and
-best educated colored men in the Gulf States could be induced to
-go. Their presence in Africa would, he wrote, create no surprise or
-hostility among the natives, and they would soon acquire influence
-over the native tribes and start the work of civilization. In this
-way the experiment of opening the dark continent would be tried
-under the only conditions that afford the least promise of success.
-King Leopold wrote in reply that the project deeply interested him,
-and that he should give it his careful investigation, but nothing
-further has been heard from him. Colonel Long says it would cost
-a great deal of money to carry out the scheme, but the African
-exploring societies in Europe could raise it if they tried. He is
-not enthusiastic about the success of his plan, but is confident
-that it is the only one not foredoomed to failure. Equatorial
-Africa, he insists, will never be civilized by white men.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.</h3>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—Pastor S. E. Lathrop is getting under way
-his Circulating Library for the colored people. He sends out a
-circular, printed on his own “Gospel Press,” that was given him
-as a home missionary in Wisconsin, appealing for the gift of new
-or second-hand books for this purpose. Gov. Colquitt and Senators
-Gordon and Hill have furnished some. Pres. A. L. Chapin, of<a class="pagenum" name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[37]</a>
-Beloit, Wis., is putting up a trunk full. Sup’t Roy sent in a
-“carpet-bag” full. Who’ll follow up?</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Macon, Ga.</span>—A graduate from the Lewis High School writes:
-“I have worked faithfully for three months. I was assigned to a
-place where there was no school-house or church. The people had
-their meeting under an arbor. I worked with the patrons of the
-place until they built me a school-house. Since that they have
-erected a church at the expense of $350. It is 35 by 45 feet. We
-are holding protracted meetings. Three persons have been received
-in full connection, and many more are hovering around the altar.
-Our Sunday-school is prospering. Many are coming in. The old folks
-are more interested in this great work than the young. We are
-hammering down upon them. My school numbers thirty-nine scholars. I
-have received several petitions from the colored people, asking me
-to come again and teach for them.”</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">McIntosh, Liberty Co., Ga.</span>—A pleasant and profitable
-Sunday-school concert and Christmas exercise was held in the
-Dorchester Midway church. Mr. McIntosh, the superintendent and
-teacher, and Miss Douglass, the missionary, are doing good and
-successful work. Rev. Floyd Snelson is the pastor, and his children
-gave some exhibitions of their African treasures and experience. A
-watch-night prayer-meeting was held at his house New Year’s eve.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Cypress Slash, Ga.</span>—The people are getting up timbers for
-their new meeting-house.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Tougaloo, Miss.</span>—We have had a blessed work here this week.
-Several of our pupils had been very thoughtful for a great while,
-some of them a year, and one or two even longer. They had held out
-stoutly, but last Sabbath afternoon one yielded. Saturday night,
-several asked for prayers. After church, three young men were
-converted. Monday morning, twelve more yielded. Monday afternoon,
-one of the most stubborn cases I ever met came into the fold. She
-had been trying to climb up some other way for more than two years.
-Tuesday afternoon another gave up, making in all eighteen within
-two days. Our term closed on Wednesday. Several went to their homes
-very anxious. I hope they may still be brought within the fold.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Florence, Ala.</span>—The new church edifice mentioned in our
-last number was first planned through the benevolence of Mrs. J.
-Fowler, of Mendon, Ill., who contributed fully one-third of the
-total cost, and thus laid the foundation of this good enterprise.
-The completion of the work was made possible by “Howard.”</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Washington, D. C.</span>—The American Missionary Association
-has called Rev. Simon P. Smith to a missionary work among the
-colored people of Washington. The Lincoln Mission, a Sabbath-school
-enterprise connected with the Congregational Church, has offered
-its capacious building, and here may yet arise a colored
-Congregational church. Mr. Smith is a colored clergyman, a graduate
-of Howard and then of Chicago Seminary, and well fitted for his
-work.—<cite>Congregationalist.</cite></p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>GENERAL NOTES.</h3>
-
-
-<h4>The Freedmen.</h4>
-
-<p>—The school work of the Presbyterian Church among the Freedmen
-reports 39 schools, 4,184 scholars, 58 (or, including 16 ministers
-and 6 catechists engaged in teaching in addition to their other
-duties, 80) teachers; making in both departments, including a
-few assistant teachers, 140 missionaries. Five of their higher<a class="pagenum" name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[38]</a>
-schools report 1,126 pupils, of whom 145 taught part of the year,
-reporting 7,513 pupils. Of the teachers from four of these schools,
-77 superintended Sabbath-schools while teaching, and reported 4,043
-Sabbath-school scholars. These four schools report also 51 students
-preparing for the Gospel ministry.</p>
-
-<p>—The M. E. Church, through its Freedmen’s Aid Society, has aided
-in establishing and supporting 6 chartered colleges, 3 theological
-and one medical school, and 9 institutions not chartered. In
-these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year
-is classified as follows: Biblical, 453; law, 20; medical, 60;
-collegiate, 74; academic, 270; normal, 1,020; intermediate, 242;
-primary, 371. Total, 2,510.</p>
-
-<p>—A colored lawyer was recently admitted to practice in the Court
-of Appeals of Virginia. He is the first colored man who has ever
-enjoyed this privilege in that State. The motion for his admission
-was made by the son of ex-Gov. Wise.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>Africa.</h4>
-
-<p>—On the 8th of July, Mr. James Stewart, C. E., then in charge
-of the Nyassa Mission, wrote to the Convener from Livingstonia.
-After building a dwelling-house for the head of the mission at
-Livingstonia, he sailed north to visit the stations of Marenga and
-Kaningina. He found all well. The Mangoni chiefs had presented
-the mission with eleven cows, but insist on their being used only
-in the country around Kaningina. Our own cattle—most precious
-property—were in good condition. At Livingstonia, advancing
-cultivation had driven off the pestilent and fatal tsetse fly.
-After a fortnight’s holiday, the school-boys and girls had returned
-to Christian instruction. Mr. Stewart had distributed toys and
-handkerchiefs as prizes at the examination. Namalambi, “a fine,
-promising boy,” was dux of the school. Mr. Stewart had already
-started for Lake Tanganika before the request of the London
-Missionary Society was telegraphed, and was hoping to meet and, if
-necessary, aid Messrs. Hoare and Hutley.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>The Indians.</h4>
-
-<p>—The Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, devotes a large
-portion of his annual report to the Indian question. He states that
-the hostile Indians at the West are few compared with the whole
-number of the race. He states the Indian policy of the Department
-to be as follows:</p>
-
-<p>“The ends steadily pursued by it are: <em>First</em>, to set the Indians
-to work as agriculturists or herders, thus to break up their
-habits of savage life and to make them self-supporting; <em>second</em>,
-to educate their youth of both sexes, so as to introduce to the
-growing generation civilized ideas, wants and aspirations; <em>third</em>,
-to allot parcels of land to the Indians in severalty, and to give
-them individual titles to their farms in fee, inalienable for a
-certain period, thus to foster the pride of individual ownership
-of property, instead of their former dependence upon the tribe,
-with its territory held in common; <em>fourth</em>, when settlement in
-severalty with individual title is accomplished, to dispose, with
-their consent, of those lands on their reservations which are not
-settled and used by them, the proceeds to form a fund for their
-benefit which will gradually relieve the Government of the expenses
-at present provided for by the annual appropriations; <em>fifth</em> when
-this is accomplished, to treat the Indians like other inhabitants
-of the United States under the laws of the land.</p>
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[39]</a></p>
-
-<p>“This policy, if adopted and supported by Congress, and carried out
-with wisdom and firmness, will in my opinion gradually bring about
-a solution of the Indian problem, without injustice to the Indians,
-and also without obstructing the development of the country. It
-will raise them to a level of civilization at least equal to that
-of the civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, and probably to
-a higher one, considering the stimulus of individual ownership in
-land. It will not take away from them by force what in justice and
-equity belongs to them, but induce them to part with what they
-cannot cultivate and use themselves for a fair compensation. It
-will open to progress and improvement large districts now held by
-Indians, which will then be of no real advantage to them and are
-now to nobody else.”</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>The Chinese.</h4>
-
-<p>—Last February, Congress passed the bill prohibiting Chinese
-immigration which was vetoed by President Hayes. The very next day
-the new anti-Chinese constitution was adopted by the convention in
-California, denying the Chinaman the right to land, to labor, to
-vote, or even to live in any town or city. Soon came on the other
-side a decision of the Federal courts, adjudging the queue-cutting
-ordinance to be an unconstitutional violation of personal rights;
-and another, asserting that the treaty with China, granting its
-people a right of residence, gave them also a right of labor, and
-forbade any State to prohibit their employment. Chinese merchants
-meanwhile, unwilling to give up the commercial advantages assured
-to them by treaty, are establishing a line of steamers from China
-to the Sandwich Islands, and a connecting line thence to the
-Pacific coast. This record of the year’s events is memorable and
-full of suggestiveness.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>NEW APPOINTMENTS.</h2>
-
-<p class="center">1879-1880.</p>
-
-
-<p>The following list presents the names and post-office addresses
-of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions
-and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among
-the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,
-the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological
-Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the
-Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association.
-The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their
-own Boards of Trustees; but being either founded or fostered in
-the past by this Association, and representing the general work in
-which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list.</p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>THE SOUTHERN FIELD.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth"><span class="smcap">Rev. J. E. Roy</span>, D. D., Field Superintendent.</p>
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Theological Department, Howard University.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D.,</td>
-<td>Washington, D. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. J. G. Craighead, D. D.,</td>
-<td>Washington, D. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Alexander Pitzer, D. D.,</td>
-<td>Washington, D. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. John G. Butler, D. D.,</td>
-<td>Washington, D. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">HOWARD MISSION.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Missionary.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. S. P. Smith,</td>
-<td>Chicago, Ill.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[40]</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">VIRGINIA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">HAMPTON.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. J. H. Denison,</td>
-<td>New Britain, Ct.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Gen. S. C. Armstrong,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Gen. J. F. B. Marshall,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Albert Howe,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td><a name="Err1" id="Err1"></a>Mr. F. C. Briggs,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. G. B. Starkweather,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. E. B. French,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Daniel F. Cock,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. M. B. Crowell,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. J. B. H. Goff,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Capt. Henry Romeyn,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Anna M. Hobbs,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Charlotte L. Mackie,</td>
-<td>Newburgh, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary F. Mackie,</td>
-<td>Newburgh, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Isabel B. Eustis,</td>
-<td>Springfield, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Helen W. Ludlow,</td>
-<td>New York City.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Julia A. Wilson,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Lucy S. Shepard,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Angelina Ball,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Laura E. Coe,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Lucy D. Gillett,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Grace Harding,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Jane E. Davis,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Abby E. Cleaveland,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary J. Sherman,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Phebe C. Davenport,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss S. F. Sheppard,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary T. Galpin,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. Eunice C. Dixon,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Elizabeth P. Hyde,</td>
-<td>Brooklyn, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Emily Kimball,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Thomas T. Brice,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. James C. Robbins,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Frank D. Banks,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. John E. Fuller,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. W. M. Reid,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. W. H. Dagge,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. G. J. Davis,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Booker Washington,</td>
-<td>Hampton, Va.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CARRSVILLE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss M. A. Andrus,</td>
-<td>Riceville, Pa.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">NORMAL SCHOOL.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister and Superintendent.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. D. D. Dodge,</td>
-<td>Nashua, N. H.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Isabel Phelps,</td>
-<td>Oswego, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss E. A. Warner,</td>
-<td>Lowell, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. L. Fitts,</td>
-<td>Candia, N. H.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. Janet Dodge,</td>
-<td>Nashua, N. H.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">RALEIGH.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. George S. Smith,</td>
-<td>Raleigh, N. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. M. W. Martin,</td>
-<td>Worthington, Minn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. M. W. Martin,</td>
-<td>Worthington, Minn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">DUDLEY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. David Peebles,</td>
-<td>Dudley, N. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Alice M. Conley,</td>
-<td>Shelby, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">McLEANSVILLE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister and Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Alfred Connet,</td>
-<td>Solsberry, Ind.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">WOODBRIDGE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. William Ellis,</td>
-<td>Southfield, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">BEAUFORT.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Michael Jerkins,</td>
-<td>Beaufort, N. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">SALEM CHURCH, TROY AND HILLTOWN.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Islay Walden,</td>
-<td>—— N. C.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CHARLESTON.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Temple Cutler,</td>
-<td>Ipswich, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">AVERY INSTITUTE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. S. D. Gaylord,</td>
-<td>Grundy Centre, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. E. Phelps,</td>
-<td>Hannibal, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss S. M. Tillotson,</td>
-<td>Wethersfield, Ct.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss M. E. Gaylord,</td>
-<td>Grundy Centre, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. E. A. Lawrence,</td>
-<td>Charleston, S. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. M. L. Brown,</td>
-<td>Charleston, S. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Monimia McKinlay,</td>
-<td>Charleston, S. C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. E. Wells,</td>
-<td>Middletown, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. S. D. Gaylord,</td>
-<td>Grundy Centre, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ORANGEBURG.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Thornton Benson,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">GREENWOOD.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. J. D. Backenstose,</td>
-<td>Geneva, N. Y.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ATLANTA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Ministers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. C. W. Francis,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. C. W. Hawley,</td>
-<td>Amherst, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. E. A. Ware,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td><a name="FNanchor_1" id="FNanchor_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>Prof. T. N. Chase,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. C. W. Francis,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Horace Bumstead,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. J. F. Fuller,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. Frank W. Smith,</td>
-<td>Lincoln, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. A. W. Farnham,</td>
-<td>Hannibal, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. J. K. Hannahs,</td>
-<td>Newark, N. J.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Emma C. Ware,</td>
-<td>Norfolk, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Susie A. Cooley,</td>
-<td>Honek, Kansas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary E. Sands,</td>
-<td>Saco, Me.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. Lucy E. Case,</td>
-<td>Millbury, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Carrie H. Loomis,</td>
-<td>Hartford, Conn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary L. Santley,</td>
-<td>New London, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss E. F. Moore,</td>
-<td>Chicago, Ill.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Grace L. Robertson,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. J. F. Fuller,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2"><i>STORRS SCHOOL</i>, (104 Houston St.)</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
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-<td>Miss Amy Williams,</td>
-<td>Livonia Sta., N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Julia Goodwin,</td>
-<td>Mason, N. H.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Amelia Ferris,</td>
-<td>Oneida, Ill.</td>
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-<td>Miss M. E. Stevenson,</td>
-<td>Bellefontaine, Ohio.</td>
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-<td>Miss F. J. Norris,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Abbie Clark,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MACON.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop,</td>
-<td>New London, Wis.</td>
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-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.</td>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Christene Gilbert,</td>
-<td>Fredonia, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Belle Haskins,</td>
-<td>Delmore, Kan.</td>
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-<td>Mrs. C. M. Babcock,</td>
-<td>Newburyport, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Mrs. S. E. Lathrop,</td>
-<td>New London, Wis.</td>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">AUGUSTA.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Miss S. A. Hosmer,</td>
-<td>Ashley, Mass.</td>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MARIETTA.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ATHENS.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. J. G. Hutchins,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CUTHBERT.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. Richard R. Wright,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">FORSYTH.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. William F. Jackson,</td>
-<td>Augusta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">HAWKINSVILLE.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Miss M. B. Curtiss,</td>
-<td>Chattanooga, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">FORT VALLEY.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Miss S. V. Whitic,</td>
-<td>Macon, Ga.</td>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">THOMASVILLE.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. W. H. Harris,</td>
-<td>Savannah, Ga.</td>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">AMERICUS.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. G. W. F. Phillips,</td>
-<td>Milledgeville, Ga.</td>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MILLEDGEVILLE.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. Henry L. Walker,</td>
-<td>Augusta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CARTERSVILLE.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. T. C. Sheppard,</td>
-<td>Chattanooga, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">SPARTA.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. R. H. Carter,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ALBANY.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. Peter A. Denegall,</td>
-<td>Savannah, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON.</td>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
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-<td>Mr. Edw. P. Stewart,</td>
-<td>—— S. C.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">SAVANNAH.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister and Supt. of Missions.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. R. F. Markham,</td>
-<td>Wheaton, Ill.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">BEACH INSTITUTE.</td>
-</tr>
-
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Mr. J. K. Cole,</td>
-<td>Boxford, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss L. F. Partridge,</td>
-<td>Holliston, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Adelaide Daily,</td>
-<td>Fredonia, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss Anna Burgh,</td>
-<td>New York, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss E. H. Twichell,</td>
-<td>Saratoga Springs, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss E. B. Willey,</td>
-<td>Andover, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Mrs. J. K. Cole,</td>
-<td>Boxford, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">WOODVILLE.</td>
-</tr>
-
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister and Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke,</td>
-<td>Savannah, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistant.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss N. Headen,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</a></td>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MILLER’S STATION.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister and Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
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-<td>Rev. John R. McLean,</td>
-<td>McLeansville, N. C.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss E. W. Douglass,</td>
-<td>Decorah, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. Wilson Callen,</td>
-<td>Selma, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">THE GROVE.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. Floyd Snelson,</td>
-<td>McIntosh, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>John McIntosh, Jr.,</td>
-<td>Savannah, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. John McIntosh,</td>
-<td>Savannah, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">CYPRESS SLASH.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. A. J. Headen,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="pp2">FOOTNOTE:</td>
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-<td class="right" colspan="2"><a name="Footnote_1" id="Footnote_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Absent at the Mendi Mission, West Africa.</td>
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-</table>
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-<hr class="quarter" />
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-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">TALLADEGA.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. G. W. Andrews,</td>
-<td>Collinsville, Ct.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">TALLADEGA COLLEGE.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. H. S. DeForrest,</td>
-<td>Muscatine, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. G. W. Andrews,</td>
-<td>Collinsville, Ct.</td>
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-<td>Prof. Geo. N. Ellis,</td>
-<td>Olivet, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Mr. George Atkins,</td>
-<td>Olivet, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss A. E. Sawyer,</td>
-<td>Boxford, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Fannie Andrews,</td>
-<td>Milltown, Me.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss M. E. Carey,</td>
-<td>Huntsburg, O.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. P. Fisk,</td>
-<td>Beloit, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. H. S. DeForrest,</td>
-<td>Muscatine, Iowa.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. H. W. Andrews,</td>
-<td>Collinsville, Ct.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Miss J. C. Andrews,</td>
-<td>Milltown, Me.</td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2"><i>MISSION CHURCHES.</i></td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="statehead" colspan="2"><span class="smcap">Alabama Furnace, Kymulga, The Cove, Lawsonville.</span></td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Superintendent.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. G. W. Andrews,</td>
-<td>Collinsville, Ct.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">SHELBY IRON WORKS.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. J. D. Smith,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">KYMULGA.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Samuel B. White,</td>
-<td>Kymulga, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ANNISTON.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Rev. Peter J. McEntosh,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CHILDERSBURG.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
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-<td>Rev. Alfred Jones,</td>
-<td>Talladega, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MOBILE.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. O. D. Crawford,</td>
-<td>W. Bloomfield, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">EMERSON INSTITUTE.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Supt. and Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. O. D. Crawford,</td>
-<td>W. Bloomfield, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Kate Randall,</td>
-<td>Lorain, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Ella F. Grover,</td>
-<td>Kingsville, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Clara Boynton,</td>
-<td>Andover, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss May Hickok,</td>
-<td>Kingsville, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. Jennie Stevenson,</td>
-<td>Bellefontaine, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. O. D. Crawford,</td>
-<td>W. Bloomfield, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MONTGOMERY, (P. O. Box 62).</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. O. W. Fay,</td>
-<td>Geneseo, Ill.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">SWAYNE SCHOOL.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Martha J. Adams,</td>
-<td>Columbus, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Jane S. Hardy,</td>
-<td>Shelburne, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss May Merry,</td>
-<td>Providence, R. I.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Minerva Shufort,</td>
-<td>Montgomery, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis,</td>
-<td>Montgomery, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Anna Duncan,</td>
-<td>Montgomery, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. O. W. Fay,</td>
-<td>Geneseo, Ill.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">SELMA.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. C. B. Curtis,</td>
-<td>Burlington, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MARION.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Geo. E. Hill,</td>
-<td>Boston, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Missionaries.</td>
-</tr>
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-<td>Mrs. Geo. E. Hill,</td>
-<td>Boston, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss Laura Hill,</td>
-<td>Boston, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ATHENS.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Horace J. Taylor,</td>
-<td>McMinnville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">TRINITY SCHOOL.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Miss M. F. Wells,</td>
-<td>Ann Arbor, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td>Rev. H. J. Taylor,</td>
-<td>McMinnville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. H. J. Taylor,</td>
-<td>McMinnville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
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-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
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-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">FLORENCE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. William H. Ash,</td>
-<td>Providence, R. I.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">NASHVILLE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Ministers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Henry S. Bennett,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Geo. W. Moore,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">FISK UNIVERSITY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. E. M. Cravath,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. A. K. Spence,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. H. S. Bennett,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. F. A. Chase,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. C. C. Painter,</td>
-<td>Gt. Barrington, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Edward P. Gilbert,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. John Burrus,</td>
-<td>Nashville, Tenn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Helen C. Morgan,</td>
-<td>Cleveland, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Henrietta Matson,</td>
-<td>N. Bloomfield, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss E. M. Barnes,</td>
-<td>Bakersfield, Vt.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary O. Swift,</td>
-<td>Lansing, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Irene E. Gilbert,</td>
-<td>Fredonia, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Sarah M. Wells,</td>
-<td>Big Rapids, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Sarah A. Stevens,</td>
-<td>St. Johnsbury, Vt.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Mary Farrand,</td>
-<td>Ypsilanti, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Dora Ford,</td>
-<td>N. Abington, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">MEMPHIS.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. H. S. Williams,</td>
-<td>Wetumpka, Ala.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">LE MOYNE SCHOOL.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Principal.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. A. J. Steele,</td>
-<td>Whitewater, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Laura A. Parmelee,</td>
-<td>Toledo, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Emma Rand,</td>
-<td>Whitewater, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Ella Hamilton,</td>
-<td>Whitewater, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Hattie Milton,</td>
-<td>Romeo, Mich.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CHATTANOOGA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2"><a name="FNanchor_2" id="FNanchor_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[A]</a>Rev. Jos. E. Smith,</td>
-<td>Atlanta, Ga.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="pp2">FOOTNOTE:</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="right" colspan="2"><a name="Footnote_2" id="Footnote_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> Absent at the Mendi Mission.</td>
-</tr>
-
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">KENTUCKY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">BEREA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. John G. Fee,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">BEREA COLLEGE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D.,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. John G. Fee,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. L. V. Dodge,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Charles G. Fairchild,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. P. D. Dodge,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Wm. Hart,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. B. S. Hunting,</td>
-<td>Sublette, Ill.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss L. A. Darling,</td>
-<td>Akron, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Kate Gilbert,</td>
-<td>W. Brookfield, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Jennie Lester,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss —— Warren,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss —— Clark,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Clara A. Saxton,</td>
-<td>Oberlin, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss C. W. Haynes,</td>
-<td>Oberlin, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CAMP NELSON.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. John Drew,</td>
-<td>Berea, Ky.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">TOUGALOO.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. G. S. Pope,</td>
-<td>Strongsville, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Managers and Instructors.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. G. S. Pope,</td>
-<td>Strongsville, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. D. I. Miner,</td>
-<td>Bavaria, Kansas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Kate K. Koons,</td>
-<td>Sulphur Springs, O.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Orra A. Angell.</td>
-<td>Greenville, R. I.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Fanny J. Webster,</td>
-<td>Berlin, Wis.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Irene C. Barnes,</td>
-<td>Greenville, R. I.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. G. S. Pope,</td>
-<td>Strongsville, Ohio.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. D. I. Miner,</td>
-<td>Bavaria, Kansas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss S. L. Emerson,</td>
-<td>Hallowell, Me.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">LOUISIANA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">NEW ORLEANS.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Ministers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. W. S. Alexander,</td>
-<td>Pomfret, Conn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Isaac Hall,</td>
-<td>New Orleans, La.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Henry Ruffin,</td>
-<td>New Orleans, La.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="schoolhead" colspan="2">STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Instructors and Managers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. W. S. Alexander,</td>
-<td>Pomfret, Conn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Prof. J. M. McPherron,</td>
-<td>New Orleans, La.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Geo. S. Ely,</td>
-<td>Fredonia, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Caroline Park,</td>
-<td>West Boxford, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss H. J. Halleck,</td>
-<td>Success, L. I.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Lucia G. Merrill,</td>
-<td>Andover, Mass.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Miss Frances Stevens,</td>
-<td>Oswego, N. Y.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. J. M. McPherron,</td>
-<td>New Orleans, La.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">ABBERVILLE.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Charles E. Smith,</td>
-<td>New Orleans, La.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">NEW IBERIA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. William Butler,</td>
-<td>New Iberia, La.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="statehead" colspan="2">TEXAS.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">GOLIAD.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. B. C. Church,</td>
-<td>Goliad, Texas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">CORPUS CHRISTI.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. S. M. Coles,</td>
-<td>New Haven, Conn.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">HELENA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Mitchell Thompson,</td>
-<td>Goliad, Texas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">FLATONIA.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Minister.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. A. J. Turner,</td>
-<td>Flatonia, Texas.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2">AUSTIN.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teacher.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mrs. E. M. Garland,</td>
-<td>Austin, Texas.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[44]</a></td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h3>AMONG THE CHINESE.</h3>
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Superintendent.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. W. C. Pond,</td>
-<td>San Francisco, Cal.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Teachers.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">OAKLAND,</td>
-<td>Miss L. B. Mann.<br />
-Miss L. Duncan.<br />
-Mr. Lee Haim.<br />
-Mr. Jee Gam.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">OROVILLE,</td>
-<td>Miss Jessamine Wood.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">PETALUMA,</td>
-<td>Miss M. C. Waterbury.<br />
-Mr. Wah Yin.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">SACRAMENTO,</td>
-<td>Mrs. S. E. Carrington.<br />
-Mr. Lem Chung.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">SAN FRANCISCO,</td>
-<td>Mr. Henry M. Pond.<br />
-Mr. John Johnston.<br />
-Mr. Chung Mon.<br />
-Mr. S. Hackley.<br />
-Mr. Low Quong.<br />
-Mrs. M. A. Hackley.<br />
-Miss F. N. Worley.<br />
-Mrs. M. T. Huntling.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">SANTA BARBARA,</td>
-<td>Miss Helen E. Clark.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="vtop">STOCKTON,</td>
-<td>Mrs. M. B. Langdon.<br />
-Mr. Hong Sing.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h3>AMONG THE INDIANS.</h3>
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2"><i>Lake Superior Agency, Wis.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Agent,</td>
-<td>Dr. Isaac L. Mahan.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Teacher,</td>
-<td>—— ——</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Teacher,</td>
-<td>Robert Pew.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2"><i>Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Agent,</td>
-<td>—— ——</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2"><i>Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Agent,</td>
-<td>Charles Crissey.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Teachers,</td>
-<td>(Connected with the Mission of the A.B.C.F.M.)</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td colspan="2">
-<hr class="tiny" /></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="cityhead" colspan="2"><i>S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Agent,</td>
-<td>Edwin Eells.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Missionary,</td>
-<td>Rev. Myron Eells.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Teachers,</td>
-<td>(Supported by Gov’t.)</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="quarter" />
-
-<h3>MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA.</h3>
-
-<table class="appt">
-<tr>
-<td class="jobhead" colspan="2">Missionaries and Assistants.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. A. P. Miller.</td>
-<td>Mrs. A. P. Miller.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. A. E. Jackson.</td>
-<td>Mrs. A. F. Jackson.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Dr. Benjamin James.</td>
-<td>Mr. Elmore L. Anthony.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. A. E. White.</td>
-<td>Mr. Nathaniel Nurse.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Rev. Geo. N. Jewett.</td>
-<td>Mr. Jos. H. Gerber.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. Sam. H. Goodman.</td>
-<td>Mr. Buel Tucker.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td>Mr. James Pickett.</td>
-<td>Mrs. Lucy During.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2>
-
-<p class="secauth">REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,</p>
-
-<p class="secauth">FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>GEORGIA.</h3>
-
-
-<h4>CONFERENCE REVIEW.</h4>
-
-<p>This review of the state of religion in the Congregational churches
-of South Carolina and of Georgia, during this first year of their
-General Conference, shows abundant occasion of gratitude for
-general prosperity and spiritual blessing.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>The fact that all of our fourteen churches except one, have been
-represented in this Conference by their ministers and delegates,
-reveals an interest in its meetings, and in the doctrine of
-the fellowship of the churches, that is truly delightful. In
-this connection we cannot refrain from noting the grace of God
-conferred upon the churches in their custom of providing the
-necessary traveling expenses of their delegates. We hope that such
-messengers of the churches will reciprocate this consideration, and
-magnify their office, by making a full report of this and all such
-convocations to their respective assemblies for worship.</p>
-
-<p>We gratefully recognize the increase of our total membership by
-354, making the present number 949. One new church has been
-organized, that of Cypress Slash, which reports to us a membership
-of 54; a temporary cabin, built as a place for church and school,
-with the purpose soon to erect a more comely and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[45]</a> permanent
-sanctuary; and also a new young minister who, with his wife, is
-already reaping missionary fruit.</p>
-
-<p>We note with gratification that every one of our churches is
-supplied with the ministry of the word, except that at Marietta,
-whose pastor, Rev. S. P. Smith, has been transferred to Washington
-City for the purpose of building up the 2d Congregational Church at
-the capital. So, with the same exception, every one of our churches
-has its own house of worship. Some of these are commodious and
-tasteful; others are very plain; but all are places of sanctuary
-comfort, and the worshippers are striving each year to increase
-their comeliness and convenience. During the year, three of these
-congregations have added to their meeting-houses the attraction of
-the church-going bell. Among a people, few of whom have clocks or
-watches, the church bell is their time-keeper, and the promoter
-of that promptness which adds a charm to the services of public
-worship.</p>
-
-<p>The doctrine of church discipline as a means of grace has been
-illustrated by a heroic use of the pruning knife upon these vines,
-that they may bring forth more fruit. The seeking of a clean
-membership is essential to the healthfulness and well-being of the
-churches.</p>
-
-<p>The cause of temperance has been kept near the heart of our
-members. One church, the Pilgrim, at Woodville, has a large and
-influential Band of Hope. All preach temperance and require its
-practice among their members. We are deeply convinced that the
-habit of intemperance is the devil’s best grip upon the poor and
-lowly people among whom we have our lot and our work, and that
-total abstinence is the only consistent rule for Christians. In
-a community where pastors and officers and members of Protestant
-churches indulge in the practice of drinking liquors, we feel
-called upon to bear an unremitting and uncompromising testimony
-against this violation of the spirit and the precept of the Gospel.</p>
-
-<p>We are confirmed in the wisdom of the union of the school-work
-and the church-work in our evangelizing process. The school
-prepares the way for the church. It brings along the young and
-hopeful material for the church membership. The church garners up
-such fruit. It reacts upon the school and the community by its
-educating and elevating influence. In our ideal, both unite in the
-one purpose of saving and edifying the souls of men. We desire
-to express our sincere gratefulness in view of the devoted and
-self-denying labor of the teachers in the schools associated with
-our churches.</p>
-
-<p>The higher schools and colleges within our bounds have gone along
-upon the plane of their former success. The Avery Institute, at
-Charleston, has passed through a change of administration without
-any diminution of its members or lowering of its high grade of
-scholarship. The Normal School at Greenwood, S. C., has held on in
-its beneficent way, enjoying the fine building and campus of an
-old time Baptist College. The Beach Institute in this city, with
-its cultivated and consecrated corps of seven teachers, with its
-fine body of pupils, with its thorough discipline and its decided
-moral and religious tone, is a power for good in this community
-and in this part of the State. The Dorchester Academy at Midway,
-the Lewis High School at Macon, and the Storrs School at Atlanta,
-have kept steadily upon the line of their extensive and beneficent
-influence. The Atlanta University maintains its high position as
-to classical and normal scholarship, and as to moral and religious
-tone, approved by the authorities of the Commonwealth and also
-by the favor of Heaven, in the enrolling during the year of a
-couple of score of its students among the disciples of the Great
-Master. Its independent Union Church, with 67 members, although not
-belonging to our body, is to us a sister in Christ, for whom our
-prayers and sympathies shall ever abound. Its Faculty consists<a class="pagenum" name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[46]</a>
-of three graduates of Yale and one each of Harvard, Dartmouth and
-Amherst Colleges, and of half a dozen cultivated ladies. To these
-it has just added Prof. A. W. Farnham, who is introducing the most
-approved normal methods, not only for the benefit of the normal
-scholars but of all in the University. More than a dozen of its
-graduates are now teaching high schools in leading cities of the
-State of Georgia, and so starting from these centres, radiating
-influences that shall bless many more communities. We give thanks
-to God for the bequest of $50,000, by which the University will now
-be able to add still more to its spacious accommodations.</p>
-
-<p>We greatly rejoice in the new feature of the work within our
-limits, that of lady missionaries. We have four of them. One of
-these has been located at Charleston, one at Miller’s Station, one
-at Macon, and one in Atlanta. Woman’s work for women and children
-in these communities, we consider a Christly service of the utmost
-value. Woman can enter the homes as the pastor cannot; and yet she
-will make work for him in following up her discoveries. Her ready
-sympathy and happy tact will help her in stimulating to greater
-domestic comfort, and will aid her in doing good through many ways
-that are peculiarly her own.</p>
-
-<p>We are comforted by the educated young men who are coming forward
-to minister in our churches. Besides those who have been raised up
-in the “Beach” to minister to the churches that cluster about it,
-we are happy in the coming of four graduates of the Theological
-department of Talladega College in Alabama, three of whom are this
-week receiving ordination at the hands of our own church councils,
-and the other is the moderator of one of these Convocations. We are
-happy to express grateful obligation to that Christian institution
-in another State for this gift of her cultured sons, who are to us
-also a part of the ascension gift of our blessed Lord.</p>
-
-<p>We are devoutly grateful to God for the spiritual refreshings that
-have been enjoyed this year in our churches and schools. Some have
-had special seasons of revival. Others have had the dew in the
-fleece. Many souls have been brought into fellowship with Christ,
-and Christians have, we trust, been advanced somewhat in the
-process of purification.</p>
-
-<p>We cannot conclude this annual narrative without recording our
-gratitude to the American Missionary Association, which, under God,
-has been the occasion within a short period of all this school and
-church development as now represented by the Conference of Georgia.
-We remind ourselves, also, that this is only one of seven of these
-Conferences which have been the outgrowth of the same general
-Christianizing process at the South. We magnify the grace of God
-bestowed upon the churches and friends who have furnished that
-Association with the funds, the prayers and the sympathies, that
-were essential to this great work. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is
-marvelous in our eyes.”</p>
-
-<table class="sigs">
-<tr><td>J. E. Roy.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>John McIntosh.</td></tr>
-<tr><td>P. W. Young.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>EDUCATIONAL REPORT.</h4>
-
-<p>At the Georgia Conference the Committee on Education make the
-following report:</p>
-
-<p>That “Education is the handmaid of Religion” has become an accepted
-maxim. To be remembered everywhere, it is of especial importance
-in this field. Religion has here been corrupted by ignorance, and
-has often degenerated into superstition. A devout and imaginative
-spirit has been betrayed into serious errors and gross excesses
-in the name of truth and godliness. More knowledge, more culture
-of mind, is necessary in many cases to prepare the way for the
-perception of the truth. The one great object of the Church of
-Christ in its<a class="pagenum" name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[47]</a> labor among men is to save the souls of men by
-holding forth the word of Life; but to attain this, the Church must
-help to teach them what that word is, and how to read and study
-it for themselves. The Gospel seeks to prepare men, not only for
-the next life, but for this life also. It is fitted to bless the
-whole man, physical and mental, as well as spiritual. Education
-and Gospel piety must go together. The Committee would, therefore,
-recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:</p>
-
-<p>1. <em>Resolved</em>, That this Conference desires to emphasize the fact
-that the past year’s experience gives new occasion for gratitude
-that from the beginning of the American Missionary Association’s
-work in this field, the school and the church have been closely
-united.</p>
-
-<p>2. <em>Resolved</em>, That it is the deliberate judgment of this
-Conference that this field still requires the enlargement and
-vigorous prosecution of the school work, as a necessary aid to the
-upbuilding of our churches.</p>
-
-<p>3. <em>Resolved</em>, That the churches must not cease to pray fervently
-for those who are teaching in our elementary and higher schools,
-and for their pupils, that the instruction given and the mental
-culture gained may bear the stamp of Christian consecration.</p>
-
-<p>4. <em>Resolved</em>, That we desire to express our <em>warm sympathy with
-our young people</em>, who, in the face of many obstacles, are bravely
-pressing forward in their studies, to fit themselves for teachers
-or preachers, and would urge them to get as thorough and complete
-an education as possible.</p>
-
-<p>
-<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Respectfully submitted,</span><br />
-</p>
-<table class="sigs">
-<tr><td>C. W. Hawley,</td></tr>
-<tr><td>T. T. Benson,</td></tr>
-<tr><td>Wilson Callen,</td></tr>
-<tr><td style="padding-left: 30%;"><i>Committee</i>.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>ATLANTA MISCELLANIES.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">BY A RESIDENT.</p>
-
-<p>—A Christmas concert was observed by the Sunday-school of the
-First Congregational Church of Atlanta, Georgia. It followed Dr.
-Vincent’s programme, which, with variations, was rendered with
-great success. The singing was excellent. The recitations and the
-responsive readings of Scripture were impressive. The recitations
-on the platform, of prose or poetry, a score or more, did not have
-a failure or a prompting. Every piece during the whole evening
-was about Christmas. The good reading and elocution were apparent
-as the result of the good training in the Storrs School, whose
-teachers are also instructors in the Sunday-school. Pastor C. W.
-Hawley seemed in his element as the leader of this service. Sup’t
-Roy made a talk at the close. The school numbers two hundred and
-twenty-five. It would greatly gladden the hearts of the friends of
-our work if they could only look in upon this and the many other
-such schools in the South.</p>
-
-<p>Atlanta has a monthly Sunday-school Teachers’ Institute.
-Pastor Hawley attends it. Atlanta’s County, Fulton, has also a
-Sunday-school Association, which convenes in the city quarterly.
-At the last meeting, as interest was warming up in favor of
-taking some more practical measures toward helping the colored
-Sunday-schools, it was found that the constitution limited the
-membership to such schools as were “all white.” Whereupon a
-<em>resolution</em> of interest and of encouragement was adopted. At the
-last meeting of the State S. S. Association, held in Macon, a
-colored school in Savannah applied for membership. The matter was
-quieted for the time, but it is said that it will come up again.
-Upon the recommendation of Gov. Colquitt it is proposed to adopt
-the Brooklyn idea of a Children’s Day once a year; this not only
-for the City but for the State. In Atlanta there are fourteen
-colored Sunday-schools.</p>
-
-<p>—At an entertainment at the Atlanta University, during the
-holidays, the Field Superintendent gave one of his<a class="pagenum" name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[48]</a> addresses upon
-the map of the United States.</p>
-
-<p>—At the watch-night service in the Trinity M. E. South Church, of
-Atlanta, one of the speakers, Rev. Dr. Potter, a Presiding Elder,
-dwelling upon the openings of benevolence during the last year,
-expatiated at length upon the million of dollars given by one
-estate to the American Board. Surely the children of light are
-beginning to do business upon something of the grand scale on which
-the children of this world project their schemes. It was stated
-at that meeting that during the year, under Pastor Heidt, the
-Trinity Church had received two hundred members, half of them upon
-confession of faith, and had paid off a debt of twenty thousand
-dollars. It seems that the M. E. General Conference, South, has
-abolished the feature of a six months’ probation. Only those are
-received who give evidence of conversion. The form in receiving a
-member that night was quite Congregational. This church has also
-advanced upon the policy of its sister at the North, in allowing a
-<em>four</em> years’ pastorate, instead of <em>three</em>.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>FLORIDA.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">Letter from Rev. Geo. Henry.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Dear Sir</span>: I opened last Monday a day-school in addition to
-our Sunday-school. The necessity of this step will be apparent when
-I tell you that there are fifty children in this place who wish to
-attend school, but have been unable heretofore to do so, as the
-distance to the nearest colored school is from four to seven miles
-from their homes. Only a few of the larger ones have been able to
-attend.</p>
-
-<p>In my school I have dull and bright, lazy and industrious children,
-as you have in all other schools, but taking them altogether, they
-study as well and learn as quickly as any set of pupils I have ever
-seen. I have one little girl who did not know the alphabet last
-Monday, but by the end of the week was able to read little stories
-from a Reader rapidly and accurately. I have never anywhere seen
-such progress made by a young child.</p>
-
-<p>In view of the capability of the children to learn, there can
-scarcely be reason to doubt that the deplorable mental condition of
-the adult Freedmen is due to that institution which has been such a
-curse both to the slave and his owner. The public schools are open
-from three to four months each year; but so far they have been of
-very little use to the colored children, as they have been, as a
-rule, taught by incompetent persons. Most of the colored schools
-have colored teachers, and very few of them are either morally or
-intellectually qualified for the position. For example, the man who
-taught the school nearest to this place last winter used to bring
-his bottle with him to school. A woman of bad character and only
-rudimentary education has the same school this winter; yet this is
-one of the largest schools in the county. In a conversation which
-I had with Judge B——, a member of the Board of Public Instruction,
-he said that “the school money which had been spent for colored
-schools had been thrown away, for the children had not learned
-anything.” This is very nearly a correct statement of the case, for
-a bright child ten years of age would learn more in two months than
-boys 19 or 20 years old know who have attended these schools for
-years. Understand me, I think this is the fault of the teachers and
-not of the pupils.</p>
-
-<p>I believe that in my week-day school I shall be able to do as much
-for the improvement of the condition of the Freedmen as in any
-other way, and I am sure if you were here to look over the field
-you would agree with me.</p>
-
-<p>Our work in the Sunday-school is also very encouraging; not that
-the scholars are uniting with the church—for nearly<a class="pagenum" name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[49]</a> all the older
-ones are members of churches now—but they are learning from the
-word of God those truths which are calculated to prepare them for
-useful lives in the earth and eternal happiness in the world to
-come.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>LOUISIANA.</h3>
-
-<h4>The Schools and the Churches.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">BY REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.</p>
-
-<p>The work of education and evangelization among the Freedmen in
-this State was never more hopeful. By the provisions of the new
-constitution which was adopted at the recent election, the rate of
-taxation has been greatly reduced, and as a direct consequence,
-the appropriation for school purposes will be correspondingly cut
-down. The free colored schools will be the first to be struck by
-this wave of retrenchment. Many schools, especially in the country
-parishes, will be closed, or, at the best, be maintained for a
-very brief period in the year. New Orleans will feel this matter
-as keenly as the country, for the amount of taxation is strictly
-regulated by the new constitution. Only special gifts can possibly
-keep the schools up to the present standard. One of the most
-prominent educators in the city said to me, “I would not raise
-unnecessarily the cry of alarm, but a crisis is surely near at hand
-with our public schools.” The colored Normal School will certainly
-be discontinued. The Peabody fund will probably not be available
-for Louisiana another year. All these events, so unpropitious to
-the free school system of Louisiana, and so deeply to be deplored,
-render our work all the more necessary, and our prospect of
-enlarged usefulness the brighter.</p>
-
-<p>When we see the grand opportunity opening before our beloved
-University—an opportunity which has not the remotest resemblance
-to the fictitious and dreamy—we try to forget the plaintive words,
-“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick,” and rally our courage by the
-more inspiring prophecy, “The morning light is breaking.”</p>
-
-<p>When the glorious work of enlargement begins, will it not be in
-order to start at the Gulf of Mexico and gradually work up? We
-rather approve of that plan and are quite ready for it.</p>
-
-<h5>CHURCH WORK IN LOUISIANA.</h5>
-
-<p>“We hold our own, and something more,” is the word that comes up
-from the churches of our Association. Our annual meeting will
-be held at <em>Terrebonne</em>, the first Wednesday in April, and the
-brethren are eagerly anticipating it. Congregationalism is a
-plant of slow growth among the colored people, not from want of
-adaptation, but from lack of money to push it into fields now
-unoccupied or uncultivated. Money is needed to give new enterprises
-substantial encouragement in their difficult “beginnings”—to tide
-the pastors past the <em>starvation</em> point—to give them “foothold”
-till strength comes to them in the natural growth of a good
-enterprise.</p>
-
-<p>The church at New Iberia, which welcomed our last annual
-conference, and which is memorable as the scene of a most precious
-revival, and suffered seriously in the loss, by a furious wind
-storm in September, of their tasteful and commodious chapel, is
-rallying grandly from the shock. By liberal subscriptions, by
-mortgaging their property, and by personal labor, they have put
-up and covered the frame of a larger building, and have stopped
-before finishing, simply because they could do no more. Two hundred
-dollars will put the new chapel in order for dedication. Shall they
-appeal in vain? We cannot afford to lose or to cripple this church.
-It has been a bright light on the prairie, and though the tempest
-levelled the building, it cannot—it must not—extinguish the light.</p>
-
-<p>Our own, the Central Church, sends greeting to all kind,
-sympathizing and<a class="pagenum" name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[50]</a> praying friends in the North. All summer long,
-the members of the church have prayed in public and in private for
-a gracious out-pouring of the Divine Spirit. I found the church in
-an earnest, praying state. A greater degree of unity and cordial
-Christian fellowship prevails than I have ever before seen.
-To-morrow (Sunday, Jan. 4,) begins the “Week of Prayer.” If, in its
-results, it shall fulfil the longings and faith of this people,
-then will it indeed be the “Week of Weeks” to us in Central Church.
-Last night, at our preparatory service, seventy-five were present;
-five new members were received, of whom three came on profession of
-faith. It was a meeting of peculiar tenderness and spiritual power.
-After a brief lecture by the pastor, forty-two Christians spoke
-tender, earnest words of love to God, and devotion to His service.
-God grant I may have good tidings to send you in my next letter.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>TENNESSEE.</h3>
-
-<h4>Labor Among Convicts.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">PROF. H. S. BENNETT, NASHVILLE.</p>
-
-<p>I have been superintendent of the Sunday-school in the Penitentiary
-of Tennessee, located at Nashville, for nine years, and several of
-the teachers of Fisk University have done so much in connection
-with that school that the work done there becomes a part of the
-influence of Fisk University. Hence, a brief description of a
-powerful work of grace, which has been in progress during the past
-three months, will appropriately find place in the columns of the
-<span class="smcap">Missionary</span>.</p>
-
-<p>During my connection with the prison school, several seasons of
-refreshing have been witnessed, and hundreds of the prisoners have
-expressed a hope in Christ.</p>
-
-<p>On returning from the North and resuming my duties as
-superintendent in the prison, in September, I noticed an unusual
-interest in the study of the Bible lesson. The remarks which were
-made at the close of the lesson were listened to with breathless
-interest. The interest was so marked that it was determined
-to give an opportunity to those who might desire to present
-themselves for prayers. This was done, and upwards of one hundred
-prisoners presented themselves. After a brief prayer-meeting,
-the prisoners were dismissed. On the next Sabbath, five or six
-made a profession of their faith in Christ, having been converted
-through the week. The work thus begun went on for two months,
-only one meeting for inquiry being held each week, and that at
-the close of the Sabbath-school. Another meeting was held on
-Sabbath morning, at which regular services were conducted by the
-chaplain. Each Sabbath, from three to six reported that they had
-found the Saviour. A deep religious interest pervaded the entire
-prison. Wherever little groups of prisoners were to be found, their
-conversation was upon the subject of religion. All the teachers
-felt that the Lord was present in power. At the end of two months
-thirty-five had found the Saviour, and ten or twelve backsliders
-had been reclaimed.</p>
-
-<p>On the last Sabbath of November an unusual scene was witnessed
-within the prison walls. Thirty-four prisoners were received into
-the prison church. As the long row of prisoners, arrayed in the
-stripes of the criminal, stood up to take upon them the covenant
-vows of the church, it was perceived that the work had been very
-great.</p>
-
-<p>Of the candidates, eight or ten were baptized by sprinkling, the
-rest by immersion. Ten or twelve remain to be taken into the church.</p>
-
-<p>The influence of the work among the prisoners is seen to be very
-salutary. The church service and the Sabbath-school are the two
-bright spots in the lives of the prisoners. From twenty to<a class="pagenum" name="Page_51" id="Page_51">[51]</a>
-twenty-eight teachers, of both sexes and colors, Northern and
-Southern, engage in the work. Three hundred pupils, prisoners,
-attend with remarkable regularity, as the attendance is optional.
-The influence of the religious work is to inspire the prisoners
-with hope, and with a purpose to retrieve whatever they have lost
-by their folly and crime in the past. Scores of them go out and
-live useful and honorable lives. Of this we have abundant proof.</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>WOMAN’S WORK AMONG WOMEN.</h4>
-
-<h5>Answers to Prayer—“Scrubbing up with the Bible.”</h5>
-
-<p class="secauth">MISS HATTIE A. MILTON, MEMPHIS, TENN.</p>
-
-<p>My heart is overflowing with thanks-giving, not so much for the
-great results that I have already seen—for the greatest results
-in this work are discerned only by the eye of faith—but that I am
-permitted to be the instrument, even in a humble way, of answering
-your prayers, and not only yours, but those of the poor suffering
-people here. So many times when administering to their wants, not
-only when giving them loaves and fishes, but when pointing them to
-a higher spiritual and moral life, they have remarked, “Miss, I
-know the Lord sent you in answer to prayer.”</p>
-
-<p>Sometimes I hesitate about going to places, and think I will do
-some other duty that day; but when the thought comes to me that it
-may be an opportunity to answer somebody’s prayer, I feel that I
-must go. Again, many times have my friends in the North answered
-my prayers. I will mention one instance which struck me as being
-remarkable. A very poor woman came to me asking for clothing for
-the little helpless children of her dying sister. I had just
-given out the last garment; but while talking with her I put up a
-prayer that something would come soon, and told her that I thought
-I should have something for her in a few days. Just then the
-door-bell rang, and I went to the door and found there a box, which
-I opened at once, and in it beheld the answer to my prayer! It was
-full of very nice and mostly new clothing for children. It was a
-literal fulfilment of the promise, “and it shall come to pass, that
-before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking
-I will hear.” And it is a comforting thought, that wherever God
-places us, He gives us the opportunity to answer other people’s
-prayers.</p>
-
-<p>The interest in this work is constantly increasing as we know more
-about it. The outlook for the year on which we have already entered
-is very encouraging. A few days since, while visiting a very hard
-neighborhood, one mother who is a church member said, “You must
-come around often; we knew ye first, and ye ought to visit us most;
-we needs ye too. I allers lays close down to what ye say, like the
-knife to the grindstone, ‘cause I wants ye to sharpen me, so I will
-get to living better. I’s mighty keerless, tho’ sometimes I does
-try in a stamerin’ manner to talk to my trifling neighbors. Now
-do come around often and <em>scrub us up with the Bible</em>.” Another
-woman, who has a good home, said, “We are so glad to have you back,
-so we can have our prayer meetings again; for we like those quiet
-meetings, without any fuss; and we like a leader in whom we have
-confidence, to instruct us.”</p>
-
-<p>One of the pupils in our school urged me to start a Sunday-school
-in the Methodist church, of which she is a member. I went three or
-four times, accompanied by one of our teachers. The colored pastor
-gave us a hearty welcome; said he was proud that we had come to
-help, and that he was no respecter of persons. The number increased
-each week. Last Sunday it was very unpleasant. The tenacity of the
-red Memphis mud was marvelous; but when I arrived, a little late,
-at the church, having been detained to attend<a class="pagenum" name="Page_52" id="Page_52">[52]</a> the burial of a
-baby, I found a goodly number, and the pastor was reviewing the
-last week’s lesson. We immediately proceeded with the lesson for
-the day, after which I told them I thought we had better organize a
-Sunday-school, as I only wished to be a teacher, and would rather
-some of their own number would be the officers. To this they gladly
-assented, and we organized. We have three classes. I furnish them
-with Sunday-school papers, as they have never had any. Twice,
-as the hour for service approached, the minister has given up
-preaching, saying they learned much more studying the Bible. As we
-were leaving the church a brother said, “I believe you is going to
-be jest the building up of this church.” Another said, “That is the
-kind of folks we colored ones needs; some one who is always at the
-post of duty, and is not afeard of mud and rain.”</p>
-
-<p>We have substantial evidence that our Northern friends have not
-forgotten the suffering ones here, in the shape of two barrels of
-very useful clothing, from Whitewater, Wis., and I have word that
-boxes from three other places are on the road. May those who give
-be as much blessed as those who receive, and we will strive to do
-all in our power to answer their prayers. “So we, being many, are
-one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.”</p>
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<h4>STUDENT TEACHERS FROM LE MOYNE.</h4>
-
-<p class="secauth">MISS L. A. PARMELEE, MEMPHIS.</p>
-
-<p>We have never kept any record of the teaching and Sunday-school
-work done by our pupils, but, within a few days, I have
-gratified my curiosity by taking notes from the lips of a few
-student-teachers. Here they are.</p>
-
-<p>Sixteen of our young people have during the summer taught one
-thousand and thirty-five (1,035) day pupils, and very nearly as
-many S. S. scholars. This does not include the teachers now at
-work, some of whom return to us next week, or in early spring.
-Probably this is only a fifth of the record, counting all former
-pupils.</p>
-
-<p>Some of the experiences are very droll, as of the young woman who
-saw new phases of life in Arkansas: “Would you believe it, that the
-<em>white</em> people didn’t know as much as I do?” White and black always
-called her “the white lady,” and urged her return next season.</p>
-
-<p>Another young woman was assistant in a school of 80 children. The
-log school-house had no windows except board shutters; the seats
-were boards fastened upon blocks of wood; the blackboard was of her
-own manufacture. The building was so small that in pleasant weather
-she heard her recitations in a bush-arbor built against the side of
-the house.</p>
-
-<p>Some of the teachers had better accommodations. One young man had
-an excellent building in a community of thriving farmers. He has
-taught there for five seasons. Just now he is getting up a club for
-the <cite>New York Tribune</cite> and reports ten subscribers.</p>
-
-<p>Another young man, a member of the senior class, could scarcely
-leave his people. A powerful revival in connection with the school
-had brought many aged people as well as children to confess Christ,
-and the converts were loth to part with their teacher and friend.
-The person who went after him does not weary of telling about the
-tears shed and pathetic expressions of regret.</p>
-
-<p>After two years of constant teaching, another writes, “There are so
-many things in life I can’t manage, I want to go to school again.”
-The most cheering sign of the year is this growing desire for more
-thorough preparation for the work of life.</p>
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_53" id="Page_53">[53]</a></p>
-
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">Rev. C. L. Hall, Fort Berthold, D. T.</p>
-
-
-<p>In the temporary vacancy of <a name="Err2" id="Err2"></a>this Indian Agency, we gratefully
-acknowledge the courtesy of Mr. Hall, who is in the service of the
-A. B. C. F. M., in writing us the interesting letter which we print
-herewith:</p>
-</div>
-
-<p>I have had my privilege and my duty to co-operate with your society
-as represented by Hampton Institute, Virginia, and with the U. S.
-Government, in inducing a number of Indian youth to go East for
-education.</p>
-
-<p>We thank God that the Government, among other good movements it has
-undertaken, has taken this “new departure” in the matter of Indian
-education. The A. B. C. F. M. has for many years been educating
-Indians with success, and the present civilized condition of the
-Cherokees, Choctaws, and many of the Sioux, Nez Perces and other
-tribes, is owing to their efforts, and for some years past the
-A. M. A. has also undertaken like work with like success. Indian
-education is no new departure with us; but on the part of the
-Government it is, and it has given us great pleasure to help on the
-plans of the Secretary of the Interior and of Commissioner Hayt in
-this matter.</p>
-
-<p>The beginning of their “experiment” was here at Berthold. Captain
-Pratt, who was detailed by the Government to get fifty Indians
-from the mission, came to start his company at this agency, and I
-shall always feel that it was an honor to have been able to help
-him get a start. We did not know how the people would feel about
-sending their children to a distant and unknown country. They were
-superstitious about school and church influences. Would they trust
-the white man? Would they be sufficiently influenced by the desire
-for an education.</p>
-
-<p>Well, Captain Pratt had both experience and faith; he told us
-of his talks and prayer meetings with the prisoners in Florida,
-and of their desire for education, and of the willingness of
-Eastern Christian friends to help them; then we knelt down in
-the sitting-room of our mission home, that Sabbath evening, and
-committed our way unto the Lord. All was in doubt; some had refused
-to go; the chiefs would not send their children; but soon three
-youth (boys of eighteen or twenty years of age) came of their own
-accord and offered themselves. They had been attending our school
-and had learned in a measure to trust us. They said they knew it
-was a long way to go and a long time to stay, and it would be hard;
-but they were prepared to carry out their resolution to learn to
-be white men. Soon thirteen youth, nine boys and four girls, were
-secured, all from our school; it took the nucleus of our school;
-but we knew that this movement would create a new interest in
-education and bring us new scholars, as well as do more than we
-could for the old ones who should go away, so we gave them up
-willingly.</p>
-
-<p>With this beginning, Captain Pratt started down the river in a
-flat-bottom stern-wheel mission steamboat, one cold October day,
-collecting more from the river agencies as he went along till
-forty-nine were secured. The youth looked very sober as they
-started off; there were some very touching partings with friends,
-one of whom said, “I may not see a hair of him again;” and at the
-last look at them we saw blankets and coats waving in lieu of
-handkerchiefs on the upper deck of the boat. My heart was in my
-mouth as I thought of the boys and their Indian relatives, and of
-the better days in store for Indians, of which Uncle Sam was giving
-us a foretaste. All this was a year ago; to-day a hundred more from
-Dakota are on their way to Hampton and to Carlisle,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_54" id="Page_54">[54]</a> and provision
-is being made for others in the West near their own homes. It is a
-beginning of better days, and I rejoice that our two Congregational
-societies can find occasion to co-operate with each other and the
-Government in behalf of the Indian.</p>
-
-<p>Now let us make a vigorous push, along with the forces now at work,
-to get him the protection of the U. S. Courts, so that he may have
-a better appeal than the only one now open to him, as Gen. Crook
-says—<em>his rifle</em>.</p>
-
-<p>In spite of the change of agents four times in less than four
-years, and in spite of all endeavors to break down Christian
-influences here, these Indians have steadily progressed. They are
-cultivating more land and doing it more thoroughly, showing more
-interest in schools, and a stronger desire to adopt civilized
-habits, one young man going so far as to come to me with the
-request, “Father, they say you are skilful; can you not make my
-shoes squeak for me? They don’t squeak like white people’s shoes.”</p>
-
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>THE CHINESE.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”</h3>
-
-<h4>Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.</h4>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">President</span>: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D.
-<span class="smcap">Vice-presidents</span>: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C.
-Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E.
-Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward
-F. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Directors</span>: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer,
-Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev.
-John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.</p>
-
-<p class="medium"><span class="smcap">Secretary</span>: Rev. W. C. Pond. <span class="smcap">Treasurer</span>: E.
-Palanche, Esq.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS.</h3>
-
-<p class="secauth">BY REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.</p>
-
-<p>It is said that in connection with a somewhat enthusiastic
-collection for the American Board, taken ten years or more ago, at
-the First Congregational Church in this city, one card was sent up
-having this inscription: “Five dollars for Home missions, but ‘nary
-red’ for Foreign.” The Christian spirit of the expression and its
-rhetorical elegance are about equal. Yet it well represents one
-class of Christian workers and givers who believe intensely that
-charity begins at home, who like to <em>see</em> what they are doing, and
-to watch its on-goings and to judge of its results for themselves.
-Foreign missions seem to them chimerical; the interest in such work
-romantic; and they don’t believe in romance and chimeras.</p>
-
-<p>We have sometimes met another class whose interest flags when
-they are brought in contact with the hard facts of any Christian
-work. For them, “’Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.” To
-see and handle any Christian enterprise involves them inevitably
-in disappointment. They read the glowing pages of the <cite>Herald</cite>,
-and often feel their hearts burn within them; but if brought into
-actual, daily contact with the toils, the drudgeries of service,
-the days of small things, the months and years of discouragement
-through which, with faith that would not falter, God led his
-servants on to that which now makes those pages glow, they would
-soon become disheartened, possibly fault-finding, as though funds
-and men were being wasted on a work that makes so little show.</p>
-
-<p>We respectfully suggest to all such friends of our Chinese
-work that they remain in the East, and do not at present visit
-California; for Christ, as found in the souls for whom we labor,
-has no halo round his head—indeed,<a class="pagenum" name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</a> He had none when He wrought in
-that carpenter’s shop at Nazareth; when He walked, with dust-worn
-raiment and with weary feet, the ill-wrought trails of ancient
-Palestine; nor even when He hung upon the cross. There was no
-external beauty to make men desire him; and to many who at this
-distance are almost filled with envy at the high privileges Peter,
-James and John enjoyed of seeing his face and hearing his voice,
-and walking in his companionship, He might have seemed a “root out
-of dry ground, having no form nor comeliness.”</p>
-
-<p>At any rate, He abides to-day in souls that are very dark, that are
-very little sanctified—saints that by no means answer to the ideal
-saintliness—He abides in them; and while with patient love we bear
-with them, and while we hope on and work on, though faith feels
-like fainting and hope seems long deferred, we are <em>assured that we
-are serving</em> <span class="smcap">Him</span>. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of
-the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”</p>
-
-<p>This is the period of the year when our work has least of what
-is outward and visible to stir enthusiasm. The weather is often
-stormy. The nights are often very dark. At some of the factories,
-work having broken across the boundary line which fading daylight
-fixed, holds on under gas-light till it is too late for our pupils
-to get to school. At any rate, many of them drop off; the average
-declines, and our hearts droop a little. It would be so much
-easier to work, if we could all the time be expanding, increasing,
-harvesting. Then, often, the pupils seem specially dull, and this
-one or that one in whom we have become deeply interested, and whom
-we supposed to have become somewhat enlightened, discloses a depth
-of darkness which we do not like to fathom, and shows that he has
-understood far less than we supposed. Among those whom we believe
-to be true followers of Christ, there crop out littlenesses of envy
-or jealousy or ill-humor, that perhaps would call down on them
-swift condemnation, did not all this remind us so much of what has
-stained our own Christian life.</p>
-
-<p>Now if our romantic friends should drop in upon us at such times,
-they might be sorely disappointed; might feel that we had drawn on
-our fancies for some of our facts; might possibly go away and add
-their own “Amen” to the scornful taunts of Godless newspapers upon
-“converted Chinamen.” And yet just such experiences of difficulty
-and discouragement belong to Christian work everywhere. If they
-do not form a necessary part of the discipline and training of
-the church, they certainly are unavoidable in the healing of
-sin-poisoned souls—in the education, the <em>leading out</em> of men from
-darkness into light.</p>
-
-<p>I write these things, not because I have any special
-disappointments to communicate. I have none. And yet the state
-of the work just now is shadowed in these reflections. I have
-sometimes fancied—and felt that it was no mere fancy—that I could
-see in the story of our little mission, a tiny miniature of the
-history of the Apostolic Church. We had our little Pentecost to
-start with. We had the glow of a new love, the effervescence of a
-new life, the fresh joy of fraternal fellowship; prayer meetings
-carried, against my protest, for sheer delight in them, on into the
-small hours, by men who must be up and hard at work by six o’clock
-in the morning. Then after awhile we had our Ananias—two of them,
-since there was no wife to match Sapphira. And then we had disputes
-and little jealousies, like those of the Grecians against the
-Hebrews, and our scatterings by persecution and by other causes,
-in which, I rejoice to say, our disciples, like those of old, went
-here and there, preaching the word; so that with all that there has
-been at times to start anxiety, to test faith, to chasten hope, the
-work has<a class="pagenum" name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</a> kept moving on. Souls have been added constantly, <em>saved</em>
-souls, we trust. Much prayer has gone up to the throne of grace,
-and earnest work has followed it, and Christ, thank God, has proved
-himself to be stronger than the strong man armed.</p>
-
-
-<h4>THE OROVILLE MISSION.</h4>
-
-<p>We entered a new name on the list of our schools on the 1st of
-November. It is at Oroville, the county seat of Butte Co. It is
-taught by Miss Jessamine Wood, daughter of the Congregational
-pastor in that town. Years ago we began a work there, but under
-auspices that proved to be very unfavorable. Ever since, we have
-desired to renew the effort, but the way has not opened till
-now. There are few points in the interior of the State where
-so many Chinese—1,500, it is said—are congregated. The Chinese
-population of the town at one time out-numbered that of all other
-nationalities. Our school, at its outset, is very small, the
-attendance being only seven, but we trust it is the thin edge of a
-wedge which we may yet drive home with good effect. A helper will
-be set at work there, temporarily at least, after the holidays,
-by whom not only may the school be enlarged, but the Gospel be
-preached in the streets, and the war for Christ be carried into the
-very Africa of Oroville Chinatown.</p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<h2>RECEIPTS</h2>
-
-<p class="center large">FOR DECEMBER, 1879.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $250.54.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">$15.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.09</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brewer. First Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeton. “Jean.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">28.27</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hallowell. Miss F. Littlefield, 2 Bbls. of C.
-Hampden. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Litchfield. Ladies, Bbl. of C.
-Machias. Centre St. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.88</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newport. Mrs. M. S. N.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $45.60;
-Individuals, $1.</td>
-<td class="ramt">46.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norway. Mary K. Frost</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Searsport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Skowhegan. Miss C. A. Weston, $20, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—Mrs. W. Woodbury, $5,
-<i>for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis,
-by Rev. G. Lewis</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vassalborough. Joseph White</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. First Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $264.62.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amherst. Ladies’ Union Miss. Soc., <i>for Student
-Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.78</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">39.05</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.74</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dover. E. J. L.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Derry. Mrs. M. G. Pigeon, Bbl. of C.
-Fisherville. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.61</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Francestown. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greenfield. Individuals, by Mrs. M. M. Foster</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hillsborough Centre. H. O. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hopkintown. Rev. D. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jaffrey. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.
-Keene. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Second Ch.,
-$2.50, and Bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marlborough. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc.,
-Bbl. of C. and $1 <i>for Freight</i>;—Freedmen’s
-Aid Soc. $10 <i>for Talladega</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">11.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mason. Ladies, Bbl. of C.
-Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. Mary K. Trussell</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Student Aid,
-Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stratham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sullivan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Temple. Mrs. W. K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $862.30.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burlington. J. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Castleton. Mrs. L. G. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cambridge. Mrs. Hezekiah How</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chester. G. H. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Barnard. L. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hardwick. S. W. O.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Essex Junction. E. T. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mechanicsville. C. E. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Indians,
-Hampton N. &amp; A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($5 of which
-from Mrs. Ashley Blodgett)</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pawlett. Miss D. Smith, ($1 <i>of which for
-Indian M.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peacham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.09</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsford. Dea. Tiffany</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Randolph. Mrs. I. N.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ripton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rutland. East Parish, Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">128.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Cong. Ch.
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. “A Friend” $200; Mrs. E. D.
-Parks, $100; Mrs. F. Parks, $100</td>
-<td class="ramt">400.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stowe. Cong. Ch. to const. <span class="smcap">S. T. Fuller</span>,
-L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">46.52</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Townshend. Mrs. Mary Burnap, $5; Mrs.
-Anna Rice, $5; Rev. Geo. Porter, D. D. $2;
-4 Individuals, $1 each; Others, 75 cents</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.75<a class="pagenum" name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[57]</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Charlestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $12;
-Cong. Sab. Sch. $8</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Williston. C. A. Seymour</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodstock. Hon. Frederick Billings</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Mrs. J. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $5,241.25.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Andover. Mary I. Abbott, $5; Mrs. F. R. B.,
-50c.; Dea. H. C., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashburnham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
-const. <span class="smcap">Rev. Daniel E. Adams</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
-and $2.35 <i>for freight</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Auburn. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">45.62</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">156.02</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch. and Soc., $219;
-Mount Vernon Ch. and Soc., $155.47;
-Union Cong. Ch. and Soc., $103.25; “Two
-Friends,” $6</td>
-<td class="ramt">483.72</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.,
-$33, and Sab. Sch., $3.30;—Miss E. E.
-Backup, B. of C. <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">33.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Braintree. Mrs. W. J.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brockton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21;— —— $2
-<i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Rev. C. E. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brimfield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.64</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Buckland. C. W. Thayer</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Campello. —— Bbl. of C. and $5, <i>for Lady
-Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charlestown. “S. M. S.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $53.89;
-Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $14.62</td>
-<td class="ramt">68.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch., (of which $32.62
-<i>for Teacher, Hampton N. &amp; A. Inst.</i>)</td>
-<td class="ramt">39.93</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danvers. C. W. L.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danvers Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. <i>for Student
-Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Douglass. A. M. Hill, $10; Cong. Ch. and
-Soc., $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch., $440.04,
-and Sab. Sch., $50; First Cong. Ch. and
-Soc., $24.17, and Sab. Sch., $50</td>
-<td class="ramt">564.21</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Longmeadow. E. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Medway. H. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Taunton. Mrs. B. L. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.52</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Framingham. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., 2
-Bbls. of C. and $4 <i>for Freight</i>, by Mrs. Joseph
-Mann;—E. K. S., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Freetown. “A Friend,” $8; Cong. Ch. and
-Soc., $6.11</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.11</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Florence. Sab. Sch. Class, Julius Phelps,
-Teacher</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.37</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Gloucester. M. A. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover. C. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Harwichport. Leonard Robbins</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones, $10; Mrs.
-J. B. Case, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.14</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holbrook. —— $35, <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Nashville, Tenn.</i>;—Miss A. E. Holbrook, $5,
-and Bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holden. Cong. Soc. $23; Mrs. M. F. $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">24.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holliston. A. W. F. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hopkinton. Mrs. P. Claflin, <i>for Berea C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.45;—South
-Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $15, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">31.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">350.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lakeville. Betsey Kinsley</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">41.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21.71; Mrs.
-Sewall’s S. S. Class, Bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.71</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Longmeadow. N. B. &amp; A. C., 50c. each</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lowell. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., <i>for Hampton
-N. &amp; A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">90.43</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.81</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lynn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $16.91;
-North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $2.27</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.18</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Malden. Rev. W. H. Willcox, $100, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—First Cong. Ch. and
-Soc., $47.08</td>
-<td class="ramt">147.08</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mansfield. P. M. E.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5;
-J. J. H. Gregory, one Box</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marlborough. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Union
-Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marion. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of John Pitcher, by Trustees</td>
-<td class="ramt">53.99</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Methuen. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Joseph F. Ingalls, by
-S. G. Sargent</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., $40, <i>for Student
-Aid, Atlanta U.</i>;—Bbl. of C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">63.83</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mill River. Miss M. R. Wilcox</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mitteneague. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Monson. E. F. Morris, $50; Cong. Ch. $30;
-to const. <span class="smcap">Dea. A. H. White</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">80.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newbury. First Parish, Bbl. of C.
-Newburyport. Miss S. E. Teel</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Braintree. Ladies’ Aid Soc. Bbl. of C.
-North Abington. —— $10;—Three Bbls. of C.
-and 48.75 <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
-Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">58.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northampton. “W.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Andover. H. T. Parks, Bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Brookfield. Members of Union Ch.
-$34; Union Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. $19.10</td>
-<td class="ramt">53.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.93</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oxford. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peabody. T. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Phillipston. A. &amp; T. Ward</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plymouth. C. W. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">116.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rochester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rockland. Mr. Rice, $25; “Other Friends,”
-$12.35, <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">37.35</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Salem. J. H. T. 60c.; J. P. A. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sheffield. First Cong. Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.55</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Abington. Sewing Circle, $25; Miss
-Mary Whitmarsh, $20; Miss C. Whitman,
-$5; Mrs. P. Healy, $5; —— Bbl. of C. and
-$5, <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Southbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.41</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Deerfield. Mrs. M. B. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.
-$19.50; M. F. M., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. S. S., Miss
-Grover’s Class, <i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. South Ch., (Mrs. S. E. C.), $10;
-Mrs. A. C. H. $1.10</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.44</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, <i>for Student
-Aid, Washington Sch., Raleigh, N. C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Swampscott. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
-<span class="smcap">Charles A. Haskell</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Templeton. Mrs. L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tolland. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.
-Topsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">60.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Townsend Harbor. S. F. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Upton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">33.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wakefield. Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student Aid,
-Atlanta U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Warren. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Watertown. Mrs. W. L., 60c.; Mrs. J. B. 50c</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Boxford. Ladies, by Mrs. H. T. Park,
-B. of C. and $2 <i>for Freight</i>; Mrs. C. E. Park,
-$3 <i>for Freight</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">61.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westford. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westhampton. H. F. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.33</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Medway. S. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westminster. “A Friend.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Newbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">41.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1,154.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Williamstown. Boys’ Miss. Soc., $10; Ladies
-of Cong Ch., 3 Bbls. of C., <i>for Woodbridge,
-N. C.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winchendon. “A Friend,” $1; Mrs. M. D. B. $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00<a class="pagenum" name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[58]</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woburn. First Cong. Sab. Sch. ($25 of
-which from “A Friend,”) $100;—First
-Cong. Sab. Sch. $70, <i>for Student Aid, Hampton
-N. and A. Inst.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">170.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. ($4 of
-which <i>for Berea C.</i>) $36.54;—Washburn,
-Moen M’f’g Co., 6,700 ft. galv’d wire
-fencing, 10 lbs. galv’d Staples, <i>for Atlanta
-U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">36.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— ——</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $200.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Barrington. Cong. Ch., $50; and Sab. Sch.
-$25</td>
-<td class="ramt">75.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oak Lawn. Rev. Marcus Ames</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pawtucket. Mrs. J. G.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Providence. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. $85;
-Josiah Chapin, $25; W. C. Chapin, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">115.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $1,814.09.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">
-Ansonia. “A Little Girl,”</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Black Rock. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">21.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgeport. C. G. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. M. W. C., $1; S. H. T., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs.
-Leander Buell</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">48.07</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cornwall. First Cong. Ch., $5; G. H. C., 60c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Darien. Miss B. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Deep River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Eastford. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.28</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Hartford. First Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. C. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Groton. Cong. Ch., $6.54, and Sab. Sch.,
-$12.10</td>
-<td class="ramt">18.64</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Guilford. Dea. Eli Parmelee</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Haddam. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hamden. H. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Hartford. Second Cong. Ch., $93.61;—<span class="smcap">Mrs.
-John Olmsted</span>, $50, <i>for rebuilding Academic
-Hall, Hampton Inst.</i>; and $10 <i>for Florence,
-Ala.</i>, and to const. herself L. M.;—Mrs.
-Benton, $5 <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
-Tenn.</i>;—Rev. R. R. M., $1; Mrs. J. O., 50 cts.</td>
-<td class="ramt">160.11</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Meriden. Miss P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Middleton. Sab. Sch. of South Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millford. Plymouth Ch. $52.23; Plymouth
-Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $32, to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs.
-Owen T. Clark</span>, L. M.; “P.” $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">86.23</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moodus. Amasa Day Chaffee, (a little friend)
-proceeds of his garden</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moose Meadow. Mrs. H. L. E.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Britain. “Member of South Ch.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Haven. Amos Townsend, $25; Third
-Cong. Ch., $24.90; Mrs. Dr. R. Crane, $10;
-Mrs. Julius Yale, $5; Mrs. E. B. 70c.; C. A.
-S. 60c.; W. O. S., 50c.; W. A. L., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">67.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. <span class="smcap">Trust Estate of Henry P.
-Haven</span>, <i>for Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">250.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London. Mrs. Chapel, $50, <i>for Fisk U.</i>;—First
-Ch. of Christ, Quar. Coll. $48.97;
-First Cong. Ch., $37.18</td>
-<td class="ramt">136.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">77.84</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newtown. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norfolk. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 4 Bbls. of C.
-<i>for Woodbridge, N. C.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Greenwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.37</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Stamford. Emily Waterbury</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Woodbury. “M. J. C.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwalk. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.63</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. (ad’l), to
-const. <span class="smcap">Miss Hannah L. Ripley</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Elizabeth
-P. Ripley</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Maria J. Leavens</span>,
-<span class="smcap">Miss Emeline F. Norton</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Caroline
-B. Scarlett</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Jennie A. Gordon</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss
-Alice C. Dyer</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Augusta B. Greene</span>,
-<span class="smcap">Miss Ella G. Cilley</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Julia M. Plummer</span>,
-<span class="smcap">Miss Fannie L. Treadway</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss
-Augusta P. Gillett</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss Mary L. Huntington</span>,
-<span class="smcap">Miss Henrietta Meeker</span>, <span class="smcap">Miss
-Ellen M. Nunn</span> and <span class="smcap">Miss Mary J. Palmer</span>,
-L. M.’s</td>
-<td class="ramt">200.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Norwich. “Friends,” Papyrograph, with
-entire outfit, <i>for Atlanta U.</i></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Portland. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.46</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Simsbury. Rev. W. D. McF.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Britain. E. M. Averill</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Southington. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">South Windsor. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stamford. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.88</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stonington. Second Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">78.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Suffield. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.15</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">73.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tolland. J. L. Clough, “Family Thanksgiving
-Donation”</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $48, by
-Dea. J. Atwater; Miss T. B. Bartholomew,
-$2</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Warren. First Ecclesiastical Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.36</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">93.20</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Willimantic. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $46.30;—Cong.
-Sab. Sch., $30, <i>for Student Aid,
-Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">76.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winchester. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.86</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winsted. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.80</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vernon. E. M. Seymour, Bbl. of C.</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $2,617.58.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Adam’s Basin. L. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Albany. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">60.70</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Alfred Centre. Mrs. Ida F. Kenyon</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Berkshire. Miss R. K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Binghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch., $368.45;—Central
-Cong. Sab. Sch., $201, by Geo. H.
-Shirley, <i>for Rev. Geo. Henry, Fla.</i>;—Miss
-Katherine Holmes, $2, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">571.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Zenas Eldred</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brier Hill. O. J.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chateaugay. Joseph Shaw</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">Cincinnatus. Coll. Union Thanksgiving
-Service, by Rev. E. Rogers</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cortland. Mrs. E. B. Dean</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Crown Point. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
-Samuel Buck, Treas.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Durham. Mrs. H. Ingraham</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dryden. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. L. C. Phillips, by
-Mrs. M. L. Keeny, Executrix</td>
-<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Bloomfield. Russel B. Goodwin</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.03</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ellington. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fairport. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Greenville. F. H. Wakeley</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Homer. Mrs. Augusta Arnold, $3; F. F.
-Pratt, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Rev. Geo. Hardy</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. J Van Santvord</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New York. “X. Y. Z.” $100., <i>for Hampton
-N. and A. Inst.</i>;—Class in Broadway Tab.
-Sab. Sch., by A. P. Dana, Teacher, $11, <i>for
-Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>;—Washington Lee,
-$5; S. F. Haywood, $5; American Bible
-Soc., Grant of Bibles, val. $505</td>
-<td class="ramt">121.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Collins. A. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oriskany. Albert Halsey, $5; Mrs. Lucy B.
-Porter, deceased, $5; Rev. S. F. Porter and
-Wife, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Palmyra. Mrs. M. A. Woodward</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pulaski. S. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rochester. Miss E. Leavenworth, $5; A.
-Beebee, $5; Abraham Hubregtse, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rodman. Miss Eliza Gates, $25; John S.
-Sill, $10</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sag Harbor. Chas. N. Brown, $30, to const.
-<span class="smcap">Hon. Everett A. Carpenter</span>, L. M.; “A
-Life Member,” $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saratoga Springs. Nathan Hickok</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Smyrna. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss.
-Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sparkill. Mrs. H. E. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">34.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waterville. Mrs. J. Candee, $4; Mrs. Wm.
-Winchill, $3</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Westmoreland. A. S. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50<a class="pagenum" name="Page_59" id="Page_59">[59]</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff, $4; Rev. J.
-S. P. $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $28.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Clayton. D. N. Moore, <i>for Lady Missionary,
-Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Millstone. Mrs. J. T. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Morristown. W. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newark. R. D. W.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $9.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Guy’s Mills. S. O. F.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North East. B. T. Spooner, $5; C. A. T. $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Providence. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Mrs. H. B. O.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $599.34.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Aurora. Cong. Ch. $4.50; Dea. O. S. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Austinburg. L. D. R. 27c.; F. J. R. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.77</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brownhelm. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chagrin Fall. “Earnest Workers,” $20, <i>for
-Student Aid, Tougaloo U.</i>;—Cong. Ch. $14.91</td>
-<td class="ramt">34.91</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chardon. —— </td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">13.64</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Claridon. L. T. Wilmot</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch., $20.29; Mrs.
-H. P. Hickox, $10;—Mrs. Coggswell, $2,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Miss M. P. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.79</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Delaware. Troedshewdalar Ch., $9; Wm.
-Bevan $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Dover. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">9.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, <i>for
-Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Elyria. Mrs. G., <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fostoria. C. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneva. W. C. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., $28.50; L. G., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">29.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lafayette. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. Mrs. Sarah Warner</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mallet Creek. J. A. Bingham, M. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mansfield. S. M. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marietta. R. P., 50c.; Rev. I. M. P., 50c</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mechanicstown. Susan Manifold</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by Mrs.
-M. J. Munger, Treas.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nelson. Dea. Harvey Pike</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newark. Welsh Cong. Ch., $9.30; Thomas
-D. Jones, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">14.30</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">North Eaton. M. O.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oberlin. J. W. Merrill, $100; Mrs. C. G.
-Finney, $20; P. B. H., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">120.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Painesville. Edward Little, $1.50; Rev. S.
-W. P., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Rootstown. Cong. Ch., $23; bal. to const.
-<span class="smcap">Mrs. Charlotte E. Bickford</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">23.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saybrook. Sab. Sch. District No. 3, $5, <i>for
-Student, Tougaloo U.</i>;—W. C. Sexton, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sicily. S. W. Huggins</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar. Coll.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.14</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Steubenville. Adna Tenney</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Strongsville. Free Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Twinsburg. J. R. Parmelee</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wakeman. Cong. Ch., to const. <span class="smcap">Minot
-Pierce</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">51.42</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wauseon. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wellington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Welshfield. S. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wooster. D. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">York. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— “A Friend,” <i>for Mendi M.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INDIANA, $1.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Newville. Rev. A. D.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $998.47.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Amboy. Bureau Ass’n of Ill., by Mrs. H. T.
-Ford, Treas., <i>for Lady Missionary</i>, <i>Liberty
-Co., Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beardstown. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chandlerville. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chicago. “A Friend,” $250, by E. W. Blatchford,
-<i>for Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>;—N. E.
-Cong. Ch. (bal. Coll.) $109.22, and Mon.
-Con. Coll., $10.63;—Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
-Ch., $50, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—Ladies’
-Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch. (of which $15 <i>for
-Student Aid, Atlanta U.</i>), $25.75;—Miss R.,
-$1, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—L. D. 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">447.10</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Elgin. Mrs. Lovell, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Evanston. Cong. Ch., $21.56;—J. M. Williams,
-$5, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">26.56</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fremont. Mrs. Robinson, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Galesburg. “Friends,” by Mrs. S. R. Holmes,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">35.45</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Geneseo. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.58</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Highland. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">20.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jerseyville. G. W. Burke</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., $25, <i>for
-Student Aid, Straight U.</i>;—Mrs. C. L. C., $1.</td>
-<td class="ramt">26.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. Nay, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lamoille. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lee Centre. Ladies’ Soc. of Cong. Ch., <i>for
-Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">15.03</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lewistown. Mrs. M. Phelps</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lisbon. G. K.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mendon. Mrs. C. T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Moline. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Ladies’
-Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., $25; “A Friend,”
-$1, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">51.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Band, $50; First
-Cong. Sab. Sch., $42.60, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">92.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Peoria. Wm. Truesdell, $10; Moses Pettingill,
-$10; J. T. Rogers, $5; Rev. H. A.
-Stevens, $2, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—Mrs.
-E. Woodruff, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">29.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Polo. “Mrs. B. and M., Mrs. B., Mrs. P.
-and E. P.,” $18; “Three young friends,”
-$3.50, <i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">21.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Mrs. Elizabeth Carter</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Princeton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for
-Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">16.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch., $12.75; L.
-Kingman, $10.</td>
-<td class="ramt">22.75</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Roseville. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.65</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Charles. W. B. Lyons and Wife</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sycamore. Rev. A. S.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Western Springs. Mr. Williams, $2; Mr. A.,
-$1.; Miss J., $1, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Winnebago. N. F. Parsons</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $414.22.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Almont. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">38.59</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Alpena. Mrs. S. Hitchcock</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Benzonia. Rev. J. S. Fisher</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Berrien Springs. Alexander B. Leeds</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Birmingham. Rev. J. McC., $1; Mrs. D. D.
-S., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">East Saginaw. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Charles W. Wilder,
-by N. H. Culver, Admr.</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Jonesville. Mrs. R. L. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lodi. Eli Benton</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Memphis. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Chester L. Dudley, by
-James H. Dudley</td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Owosso. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—First Cong. Ch., $50</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Paw Paw. H. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.03</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Union City. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Vassar. Mrs. O. W. Selden</td>
-<td class="ramt">3.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitehall. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $414.81.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch.,
-<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Castalia. W. H. Baker and Family, to const.
-<span class="smcap">Mrs. Almira A. Richards</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cedar Falls. Ladies of Cong. Ch., <i>for Lady
-Missionary in New Orleans</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">37.57</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">16.26</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Decorah. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">32.68</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Des Moines. Cong. Ch. ($50 of which from
-ex-Gov. Samuel Merrill), $107.92; Ladies
-of Plymouth Ch. $11</td>
-<td class="ramt">118.92<a class="pagenum" name="Page_60" id="Page_60">[60]</a></td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Fifteen-Mile Grove. G. C. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Grinnell. Ladies of Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.83</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Iowa City. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Le Grand. J. N. Craig, $3; T. P. C., $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Lewis. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Marion. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, $25; “Willing
-Workers” of Cong. Ch., Box of C., <i>for Student
-Aid, Straight U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">25.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montour. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.54</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Stacyville. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">17.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Seneca. Rev. O. Littlefield</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tabor. Miss J. E. Williams, $5, <i>for Student
-Aid, Fisk U.</i>;—J. E. Williams, $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Mrs. W. W. T.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.51</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $258.24.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Appleton. Mrs. M. C. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beloit. “Friends” $5, <i>for Student Aid, Talladega
-C.</i>;—Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1</td>
-<td class="ramt">6.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Cooksville. Ed. Gilley</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Janesville. “Life Member”</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Madison. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. <span class="smcap">J.
-H. Olin</span>, L. M.</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Menasha. First. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">40.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">35.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Racine. Mrs. M. B. Erskine</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Sheboygan. David Ticknor</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. C.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">West Salem. William Munson</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Whitewater. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">73.24</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $14.15.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Manhattan. Mrs. M. P.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Topeka. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">8.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Washington Creek. D. E. B.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Waushara. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">4.15</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $63.89.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Faribault. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">27.27</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">19.12</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Morris. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.52</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Northfield. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l)</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.98</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $7.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Beaver Crossing. Mrs. E. Taylor</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Santee Agency. “A Friend of the Freedmen.”</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">DAKOTA, $51.05.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Yankton. Woman’s Miss. Soc., <i>for work
-among Women</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">51.05</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WASHINGTON TER., $25.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Colfax. Rev. Cushing Eells</td>
-<td class="ramt">10.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1"><a name="Err3" id="Err3"></a>S’kokomish. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">15.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CALIFORNIA, $5.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chico. Lewis H. Morse, 1 copy of Worcester’s
-Unabridged Dictionary</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nevada City. Charles Hepler</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MARYLAND, $100.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, <i>for Student Aid,
-Fisk U.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">100.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TENNESSEE, $230.55.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Chattanooga. J. W. H.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition, $193.10;—Fisk
-U., Thanksgiving Offering, $5.35
-<i>for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn.</i></td>
-<td class="ramt">198.45</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $108.01.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">7.60</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $94.50;
-First Cong. Ch. $5.91</td>
-<td class="ramt">100.41</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $342.50.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $320.50;—Rev.
-T. Cutler, $20, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Cong.
-Ch., $2</td>
-<td class="ramt">342.50</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $596.01.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $215.60; Rent,
-3; Atlanta U. Tuition, $94; Rent, $14.30;—Atlanta
-U., <i>for an Indian Student</i>, $50</td>
-<td class="ramt">376.90</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bellmont. Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $53.35;
-Rent, $6.50</td>
-<td class="ramt">59.85</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $107; Sales,
-$50.76</td>
-<td class="ramt">157.76</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ALABAMA, $523.60.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">31.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mobile. Emerson Institute, Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">201.25</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">175.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Selma. Cong. Ch., $31.40; Rent, $5</td>
-<td class="ramt">36.40</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Talladega. Talladega College, Tuition, $79.45;
-W. S., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">79.95</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSISSIPPI, $200.05.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Natchez. Rev. C. A.</td>
-<td class="ramt">0.50</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition</td>
-<td class="ramt">110.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $40.25;
-Rent, $48.80; by Rev. G. S. P., 50c.</td>
-<td class="ramt">89.55</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $18.05.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Ashburn. F. M. R.</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Miami. Elijah Nichols</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Neosho. “A Friend”</td>
-<td class="ramt">1.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Saint Louis. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">11.05</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">INCOME FUND, $290.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— Avery Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">190.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— C. F. Dike Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">—— General Fund</td>
-<td class="ramt">50.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $2.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Union. Nathan Taylor</td>
-<td class="ramt">2.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PERSIA, $30.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Oroomiah. Rev. and Mrs. B. Labaree</td>
-<td class="ramt">30.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">16,580.82</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st</td>
-<td class="ramt">$43,157.87</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Leeds, Eng. Robert Arthington, conditional
-pledge £3,000</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brewer, Me. M. Hardy</td>
-<td class="ramt">$100.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">1,515.34</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total2">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$1,615.34</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL
-INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">New London, Conn. First Cong. Ch.</td>
-<td class="ramt">$50.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Brooklyn, N. Y. Clinton Ave. Cong. Ch. (A.
-S. Barnes)</td>
-<td class="ramt">500.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler</td>
-<td class="ramt">125.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">675.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Oct. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">192.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$867.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.</td></tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Bangor, Me. Miss Perham</td>
-<td class="ramt">$2.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Harwichport, Mass. Leonard Robbins</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Coral, Mich. Benjamin H. Lewis</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">12.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="sub1">Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts</td>
-<td class="ramt">5.00</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">——————</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total</td>
-<td class="ramt">$17.00</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<hr class="tiny" />
-
-<table class="receipts">
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Receipts for December</td>
-<td class="ramt">17,367.82</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="total">Total from Oct. 1st to Dec. 31st</td>
-<td class="ramt">$45,740.21</td>
-</tr>
-
-<tr>
-<td class="ramt" colspan="2">==========</td>
-</tr>
-</table>
-
-<p class="right" style="padding-right: 20%;">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Treas.</i>,</p>
-<p class="right" style="padding-right: 10%;">56 Reade St., N. Y.<a class="pagenum" name="Page_61" id="Page_61">[61]</a></p>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>Constitution of the American Missionary Association.</h2>
-
-<p class="center">INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. I.</span> This Society shall be called “<span class="smcap">The American
-Missionary Association</span>.”</p>
-</div>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. II.</span> The object of this Association shall be to
-conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and
-diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other
-countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and
-urgent fields of effort.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. III.</span> Any person of evangelical sentiments,<a name="FNanchor_3" id="FNanchor_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[A]</a> who
-professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ who is not a slaveholder,
-or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to
-the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment
-of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others
-who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members
-without the privilege of voting.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IV.</span> This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
-September, October or November, for the election of officers and
-the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall
-be designated by the Executive Committee.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. V.</span> The annual meeting shall be constituted of
-the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of
-such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary
-societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled
-to one representative.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VI.</span> The officers of the Society shall be a President,
-Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
-Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
-than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
-advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VII.</span> To the Executive Committee shall belong the
-collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling,
-sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons)
-missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields;
-and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually
-appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other
-benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical
-jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject
-always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a
-reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any
-aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference
-shall be final.</p>
-
-<p>The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies
-occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;
-to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of
-incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
-officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the
-Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and
-for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,
-in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and
-general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the
-diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous
-promotion of the missionary work.</p>
-
-<p>Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
-transacting business.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. VIII.</span> This society, in collecting funds, in
-appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting
-fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
-particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the
-known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment
-those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. IX.</span> Missionary bodies, churches or individuals
-agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint
-and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so
-through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually
-agreed upon.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Art. X.</span> No amendment shall be made to this Constitution
-without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a
-regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
-submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in
-season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if
-so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.</p>
-
-
-<p>FOOTNOTE:</p>
-
-<div class="footnote">
-
-<p><a name="Footnote_3" id="Footnote_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3"><span class="label">[A]</span></a> By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among
-others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men
-without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning
-Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the
-necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and
-holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul;
-and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of
-the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.</p>
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[62]</a></p></div>
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>The American Missionary Association.</h2>
-
-<hr class="chap" />
-
-
-<h3>AIM AND WORK.</h3>
-
-<p>To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with
-the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted
-its main efforts to preparing the <span class="smcap">Freedmen</span> for their
-duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries
-in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the
-caste-persecuted <span class="smcap">Chinese</span> in America, and to co-operate
-with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the
-<span class="smcap">Indians</span>. It has also a mission in <span class="smcap">Africa</span>.</p>
-</div>
-
-<h3>STATISTICS.</h3>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Churches</span>: <i>In the South</i>—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2;
-Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2;
-Texas, 6. <i>Africa</i>, 2. <i>Among the Indians</i>, 1. Total 70.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the
-South.</span>—<i>Chartered</i>: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.;
-Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.;
-and Austin, Texas, 8. <i>Graded or Normal Schools</i>: at Wilmington,
-Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon,
-Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis,
-Tenn., 12. <i>Other Schools</i>, 24. Total 44.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.</span>—Among the Freedmen,
-253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13.
-Total, 296. <span class="smcap">Students</span>—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College
-Course, 63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars
-taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000.
-<span class="smcap">Indians</span> under the care of the Association, 13,000.</p>
-
-
-<h3>WANTS.</h3>
-
-<p>1. A steady <span class="medium">INCREASE</span> of regular income to keep pace with
-the growing work. This increase can only be reached by <em>regular</em>
-and <em>larger</em> contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as
-the strong.</p>
-
-<p>2. <span class="smcap">Additional Buildings</span> for our higher educational
-institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students;
-<span class="smcap">Meeting Houses</span> for the new churches we are organizing;
-<span class="smcap">More Ministers</span>, cultured and pious, for these churches.</p>
-
-<p>3. <span class="smcap">Help for Young Men</span>, to be educated as ministers here
-and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.</p>
-
-<p>Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A.
-office, as below:</p>
-
-<table>
-<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">New York</td><td>H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.</td></tr>
-<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">Boston</td><td>Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.</td></tr>
-<tr><td style="padding-right: 1em;" class="smcap">Chicago</td><td>Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.</td></tr>
-</table>
-
-
-<h3>MAGAZINE.</h3>
-
-<p>This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the
-Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen
-who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of
-Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries;
-to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does
-not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year
-not less than five dollars.</p>
-
-<p>Those who wish to remember the <span class="smcap">American Missionary
-Association</span> in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly
-requested to use the following</p>
-
-
-<h3>FORM OF A BEQUEST.</h3>
-
-<p>“<span class="smcap">I bequeath</span> to my executor (or executors) the sum of ——
-dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to
-the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
-of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be
-applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
-Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”</p>
-
-<p>The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States
-three are required—in other States only two], who should write
-against their names, their places of residence [if in cities,
-their street and number]. The following form of attestation will
-answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published
-and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament,
-in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in
-his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto
-subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required
-that the Will should be made <a name="Err4" id="Err4"></a>at least two months before the death
-of the testator.</p>
-
-<p><a class="pagenum" name="Page_63" id="Page_63">[63]</a></p>
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- <td class="center"><span class="large">CRAMPTON’S</span><br /><span class="larger">PURE OLD</span></td>
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-<p class="center xxlarge">PALM SOAP,</p>
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-<p class="center larger" style="padding-right: 10%;">The Laundry, the Kitchen, and</p>
-<p class="center larger" style="padding-left: 10%;">For General Household Purposes,</p>
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-<p class="center">MANUFACTURED BY</p>
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-<p class="center large">CRAMPTON BROTHERS,</p>
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-<p class="center"><i>Cor. Monroe &amp; Jefferson Sts., N. Y.</i></p>
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-<p class="center">Send for Circular and Price List.</p>
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-<p>Crampton’s old Palm Soap for the Laundry, the Kitchen, and for
-general Household purposes. The price of the “Palm Soap” is $4.20
-per box of 100 three-quarter pound bars—75 pounds in box. To any
-one who will send us an order for 10 boxes with cash, $42, we will
-send one box extra free as a premium. Or the orders may be sent to
-us for one or more boxes at a time, with remittance, and when we
-have thus received orders for ten boxes we will send the eleventh
-box free as proposed above. If you do not wish to send the money
-in advance, you may deposit it with any banker or merchant in good
-credit in your town, with the understanding that he is to remit to
-us on receipt of the soap, which is to be shipped to his care.</p>
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-<p class="center">Address,</p>
-<p class="center">CRAMPTON BROTHERS,</p>
-<p class="center">Cor. Monroe and Jefferson Sts., New York.</p>
-
-<table width="100%" summary="">
- <tr>
- <td class="right"><img src="images/bottomleftpointer.jpg" alt="pointer" /></td>
- <td class="center"><span class="large">FOR SALE</span><br /><span>BY ALL</span><br /><span class="large">MERCHANTS.</span></td>
- <td class="left"><img src="images/bottomrightpointer.jpg" alt="pointer" /></td>
- </tr>
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-<p class="center xxlarge">The Perfected Type Writer.</p>
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-<img src="images/typewriter.jpg" width="400" height="331" alt="typewriter" />
-</div>
-
-
-<p class="center xlarge">THE MINISTER’S BEST ASSISTANT.</p>
-
-<p>Writes faster than the pen, making beautiful manuscript for the
-pulpit, or copy for the printer.</p>
-
-
-<p class="center large">EQUALLY VALUABLE FOR ALL BUSINESS PURPOSES.</p>
-
-<p>Machines Improved and Prices Reduced. Send for Circular and Terms to</p>
-
-<p class="center xlarge"><b>FAIRBANKS &amp; CO.,</b></p>
-<div class="inline" style="width: 100%;">
- <div class="float-left">Agents for the World.</div>
- <div class="float-right">311 Broadway, N. Y.</div>
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- <div class="float-left">
- <table style="padding-left: 10%;">
- <tr><td class="center large" style="border-bottom: solid black 1px;">J. <img src="images/icon2.jpg" width="20" height="16" alt="" />
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- </td></tr>
- <tr><td class="center large" style="border-bottom: solid black 1px;">59 Carmine St., N. Y.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="center large" style="border-bottom: solid black 1px;">CHURCH <img src="images/icon1.jpg" width="16" height="21" alt="" />FURNISHERS</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="center">Memorial Windows, Memorial Tablets,</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="center">Sterling Silver Communion Services.</td></tr>
- <tr><td class="center">SEND FOR CIRCULAR.</td></tr>
- <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
- <tr><td>&nbsp;</td></tr>
- </table>
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-<hr class="full" />
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-<div class="advertisement">
-<p class="large center">Every Man His Own Printer.</p>
-
-<div class="inline">
- <div class="float-right">
- <img src="images/press.jpg" width="258" height="219" alt="" />
- </div>
- <div class="float-left vtop">
- <p class="larger center">Excelsior <b>$3</b> Printing Press.</p>
- <p class="medium">Prints cards, labels, envelopes, &amp;c.; larger sizes for larger work.
-For business or pleasure, young or old. Catalogue of Presses, Type,
-Cards, &amp;c., sent for two stamps.</p>
- <p class="center">KELSEY &amp; CO., M’f’rs, Meriden, Conn.</p>
- </div>
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-<div class="figcenter" style="width: 450px;">
-<img src="images/marvin.jpg" width="450" height="480" alt="Marvin's Safes" />
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-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="advertisement">
- <p class="center xxlarge">W. &amp; B. DOUGLAS,</p>
- <p class="center large">Middletown, Conn.,</p>
- <p class="center">MANUFACTURERS OF</p>
- <p class="center xxxlarge">PUMPS,</p>
- <p>HYDRAULIC RAMS, GARDEN ENGINES, PUMP CHAIN AND FIXTURES, IRON
-CURBS, YARD HYDRANTS, STREET WASHERS, ETC.</p>
-
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- <div class="float-left">
- <div class="figcenter" style="width: 153px;">
- <img src="images/pump.jpg" width="153" height="300" alt="pump" />
- </div>
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- <div class="float-right">
- <p class="medium">Highest Medal awarded them by the Universal Exposition at Paris,
-France, in 1867; Vienna, Austria, in 1873; and Philadelphia, 1876.</p>
- <hr class="tiny" />
- <p class="larger center">Founded in 1832.</p>
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- <p class="center"><b>85 &amp; 87 John St.</b><br />NEW YORK,</p>
- <p class="small center">AND</p>
- <p class="center"><b>197 Lake Street,</b><br />CHICAGO.</p>
- <p class="larger center"><i>For Sale by all Regular Dealers.</i></p>
- </div>
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-<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;">
- <p class="center large">THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME</p>
- <p class="center">OF THE</p>
- <p class="center xxlarge">American Missionary,</p>
- <p class="center xlarge">1880.</p>
-
-<p>We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing
-appreciation of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> during the past year, and
-purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still greater value
-to those interested in the work which it records.</p>
-
-<p>Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for 1880?</p>
-
-<p>A little effort on the part of our friends, when making their own
-remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in forming Clubs,
-will easily double our list, and thus widen the influence of our
-Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our work.</p>
-
-<p>Under the editorial supervision of Rev. <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,
-aided by the steady contributions of our intelligent missionaries
-and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional
-communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere, the
-<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span> furnishes a vivid and reliable picture
-of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on the
-Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South and as
-missionaries in Africa.</p>
-
-<p>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>Patriots and Christians interested in the education and
-Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it, and
-assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and the new
-year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.</p>
-
-<p>The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if preferred, to the
-persons indicated on page 62.</p>
-
-<p>Donations and subscriptions should be sent to</p>
-
-<p class="center large">H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,</p>
-<p class="right">56 Reade Street, New York.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-
-<p class="center xlarge">TO ADVERTISERS.</p>
-
-<p>Special attention is invited to the advertising department of
-the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>. Among its regular readers are
-thousands of Ministers of the Gospel, Presidents, Professors and
-Teachers in Colleges, Theological Seminaries and Schools; it is,
-therefore, a specially valuable medium for advertising Books,
-Periodicals, Newspapers, Maps, Charts, Institutions of Learning,
-Church Furniture, Bells, Household Goods, &amp;c.</p>
-
-<p>Advertisers are requested to note the moderate price charged for
-space in its columns, considering the extent and character of its
-circulation.</p>
-
-<p>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="center large">THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT,</p>
-<p class="right">56 Reade Street, New York.</p>
-
-
-<hr class="tb" />
-
-<p><b><img src="images/pointer.jpg" width="27" height="17" alt="hand pointing" /> Our friends who are interested in the Advertising Department of
-the “American Missionary” can aid us in this respect by mentioning,
-when ordering goods, that they saw them advertised in our Magazine.</b></p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center small">DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, Printer, 101 Chambers Street, New York.</p>
-
-
-
-<hr class="full" />
-<div class="article">
-<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2>
-
-<p>Ditto marks in tables were replaced by the text they represent in order
-to facilitate alignment for eBooks.</p>
-
-<p>Page number in the Contents for The Romance of Missions corrected from
-53 to 54.</p>
-
-<p>Spelling and punctuation were changed only where the error appears
-to be a printing error. The punctuation changes are too numerous to
-list; the others are as follows:</p>
-
-<p>Extra “Mr.” removed from page 10 (<a href="#Err1">Mr. F. C. Briggs</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Changed “Aegncy” to “Agency” on page 53 (<a href="#Err2">this Indian Agency</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Changed “S’kokmish” to “S’kokomish” on page 60 in the <a href="#Err3">Washington
-Ter. section.</a></p>
-
-<p>Changed “it” to “at” on page 62 (<a href="#Err4">at least two months</a>).</p>
-
-<p>Changed “libeally” to “liberally” (<a href="#Err5">dealt liberally with its friends</a>)</p>
-</div>
-
-
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