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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 32, No. 12, December, 1878 - -Author: Various - -Release Date: May 26, 2017 [EBook #54792] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER 1878 *** - - - - -Produced by Ralph, Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - - - - - - -</pre> - - - -<div> -<p class="float-left smcap">Vol. XXXII.</p> -<p class="float-right">No. 12.</p> -</div> - -<h1><span class="small">THE</span><br /> - -AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</h1> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline">“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”</p></div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="wrap"><p class="centerline xlarge">DECEMBER, 1878.</p></div> - -<div class="wrap"> -<h2><i>CONTENTS</i>:</h2> -</div> - - - -<div class="center"> - <table class="toc" summary="Table of Contents"> - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">EDITORIAL.</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Abstract of the Report of the - Executive Committee of the<br />A. M. A.</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_353">353</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Anniversary of the American - Missionary Association</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_356">356</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address of Rev. Sylvanus Heywood</td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_371">371</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address on Chinese Missions in - America: <span style="font-variant: normal;">Rev. E. S. Atwood</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_373">373</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Address upon the African - Mission: Rev. <span style="font-variant: normal;">G. D. Pike</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_377">377</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Annual Meeting</td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_379">379</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Paragraphs</td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_381">381</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Items from Schools and Churches</td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_382">382</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE FREEDMEN.</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline"><a name="Err_1" id="Err_1"></a>Atlanta, Ga.—<span style="font-variant: normal;">Students’ Reports - of Summer Work: Mrs. T. N. Chase</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_383">383</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Tennessee.—<span style="font-variant: normal;">Woman’s Work among - Women: Miss Hattie Milton</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_385">385</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">North Carolina.—<span style="font-variant: normal;">Students Want - to “Batch”: Rev. Alfred Connett</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_387">387</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Talladega, Alabama.—<span style="font-variant: normal;">The Story - of Ambrose Headen</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_388">388</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">A Grateful Ward</td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_389">389</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">AFRICA.</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">The Mendi Mission: <span style="font-variant: normal;">Rev. A. E. - Jackson</span></td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_389">389</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="conthead" colspan="2">THE INDIANS.</td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="chapline">Sisseton Agency:<span style="font-variant: normal;"> E. H. C. - Hooper, Agent</span></td> - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_392">392</a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td class="toc-chapter">RECEIPTS</td> - - <td class="linenum"><a href="#Page_394">394</a></td> - </tr> - </table> - </div> - - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<div class="center">NEW YORK:<br /> - -Published by the American Missionary Association,<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Rooms, 56 Reade Street</span>. -</div> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center"><b>Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.</b></p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="center medium">A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.</p> - -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> -<h2><i>American Missionary Association</i>,</h2> - -<p class="center">56 READE STREET, N. Y.</p> - -<hr class="quarter" /> - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon. E. S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table><tr><td class="tdpr"> -Hon. <span class="smcap">F. D. Parish</span>, Ohio.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Jonathan Blanchard</span>, Ill.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">E. D. Holton</span>, Wis.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">William Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D. D., Me.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Silas McKeen</span>, D. D., Vt.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Wm. C. Chapin</span>, Esq., R. I.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. T. Eustis</span>, Mass.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>, R. I.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Thatcher Thayer</span>, D. D., R. I.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Ray Palmer</span>, D. D., N. Y.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. M. Sturtevant</span>, D. D., Ill.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. W. Patton</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">Seymour Straight</span>, La.<br /> - -Rev.<span class="smcap"> D. M. Graham</span>, D. D., Mich.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Horace Hallock</span>, Esq., Mich.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Cyrus W. Wallace</span>, D. D., N. H.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward Hawes</span>, Ct.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Douglas Putnam</span>, Esq., Ohio.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">Thaddeus Fairbanks</span>, Vt.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Samuel D. Porter</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">M. M. G. Dana</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - -Rev.<span class="smcap"> H. W. Beecher</span>, N. Y.<br /> - -Gen. <span class="smcap">O. O. Howard</span>, Oregon.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Edward L. Clark</span>, N. Y.<br /> -</td> - -<td> -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. F. Magoun</span>, D. D., Iowa<br /> - -Col. <span class="smcap">C. G. Hammond</span>, Ill.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Edward Spaulding</span>, M. D., N. H.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">David Ripley</span>, Esq., N. J.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - -Rev.<span class="smcap"> W. L. Gage</span>, Ct.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> - -Rev.<span class="smcap"> J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">George Thacher</span>, LL. D., Iowa.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stone</span>, D. D., California.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">G. H. Atkinson</span>, D. D., Oregon.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. E. Rankin</span>, D. D., D. C.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Chapin</span>, D. D., Wis.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">S. D. Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. M. Parsons</span>, N. Y.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Peter Smith</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> - -Dea. <span class="smcap">John Whiting</span>, Mass.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. Patton</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> - -Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> - -Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> - -Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> - -<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y. -</td></tr> -<tr><td class="center" colspan="2"> -<span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>56 Reade Street, N. Y.</i></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> C. L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAS. POWELL, <i>Chicago, Ill.</i><br /> -<br /> - EDGAR KETCHUM, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>.<br /> -</div> - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> - -<table><tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Alonzo S. Ball</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. S. Barnes</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Edward Beecher</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Geo. M. Boynton</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Wm. B. Brown</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">Clinton B. Fisk</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">A. P. Foster</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">E. A. Graves</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">S. B. Halliday</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Sam’l Holmes</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - <span class="smcap">S. S. Jocelyn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Andrew Lester</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">Chas. L. Mead</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">John H. Washburn</span>,<br /> - <span class="smcap">G. B. Willcox</span>. -</td></tr> -</table> - - -<p class="center p1 small">COMMUNICATIONS</p> - -<p class="center">relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to -either of the Secretaries as above.</p> - - - - -<p class="center p1 small">DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS</p> - -<p>may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when -more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational -House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. -Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his -order as <i>Assistant Treasurer</i>.</p> - -<p>A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.</p> - -<p>Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each -letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in -which it is located.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_353" id="Page_353">[Pg 353]</a></span></p> -<hr class="full" /> -</div> -<div class="article"> -<p class="center">THE</p> - -<p class="center xxlarge">AMERICAN MISSIONARY.</p> - -<hr class="full top" /> - -<div> -<div class="third" style="padding-left: 2%"><span class="smcap">Vol. XXXII.</span></div> -<div class="third center">DECEMBER, 1878.</div> -<div class="third right">No. 12.</div> -</div> - -<hr class="full bottom" /> - -<p class="center xlarge"><i><b>American Missionary Association.</b></i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>ABSTRACT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE -OF THE A. M. A.</h3> - - -<p>The Report opens with an expression of thanks to God for the general prosperity of -its work, obituary notices of the Rev. Silas McKeen, D. D., of Bradford, Vt., a Vice-President, -and <a name="Err_2" id="Err_2"></a>Mrs. Benjamin James, of the Mendi Mission, and a brief review of the -marked progress of the last thirty-two years in the line of its aim and effort.</p> - - -<h4>The Freedmen.</h4> - -<p>The educational work of the Association has been vigorously sustained, with increasing -numbers, and at the cost of great self-denial on the part of both teachers and -pupils. New buildings have been erected for the Emerson Institute at Mobile, Ala., -for the Lewis High School and Norwich Chapel at Macon, Ga., for the Straight University -at New Orleans, La., and for the Beach Institute at Savannah, Ga., under the -supervision of Prof. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta. They are simple but commodious, and -admirably adapted for their uses, better located than formerly, and cost no more than -the insurance received for the buildings which they replace. <a name="Err_3" id="Err_3"></a>The institutions of the -Association are excellently located.</p> - -<p>The early educational work was, of necessity, altogether primary. As the States -assumed the support of common schools, the Association gave itself more and more to -Normal teaching, and has always found a demand for more teachers than its schools -could furnish. A few more each year are advancing into the collegiate and professional -courses. Its one Law and three Theological classes have been well sustained, and it has -also co-operated with the Presbytery of Washington in the support of the Theological -Department of Howard University. The practical and moral importance of the Industrial -Departments is also referred to. During the year small amounts have been -added to the salaries of a number of common-school teachers, graduates from its institutions, -enabling them to extend the time of their school-year from three or six to nine -months.</p> - -<p>The need of this work is emphasized by the fact that there are still 3,500,000 -over ten years of age in the South who cannot read, over 1,135,000 of whom are legal -voters. The need of permanent endowments and of student aid are also dwelt upon. A -depiction of the influence of these institutions in the homes, the common schools, the -churches, and upon the sentiment of the people of the South, and especially of the positiveness -of their religious influence, concludes this part of the Report.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_354" id="Page_354">[Pg 354]</a></span></p> -<p>The report of church work adds five new churches organized during the year to its -list. Judged by the measure of accessions to membership by profession of faith, these -sixty-four churches have not been dead nor fruitless. Fifteen of them report from eleven -to fifty such additions each, making an average of over twenty-four, and amounting to 368 -in all. Indications of growth are also found in increased efforts for self-support and for -systematic giving. The Sunday-schools of the churches not only are well sustained, but -the teachers go out into churches of other orders, and into mission work, thus reaching -many thousands of youth and children.</p> - -<p>The cause of temperance has been advancing in these churches. The six local conferences -have, by their annual meetings, shown progress and done good. The difficulties -of a rapid extension of church work in the South are referred to, and the hope expressed, -of surmounting such of them as may be overcome under the field-superintendence -of Rev. Dr. Roy, who will very soon be in his headquarters at Atlanta.</p> - -<p>In summing up the work among the Freedmen, encouragement is drawn from the -fact that some of the best pastors and teachers now in the field were taken from the -streets by the missionary teachers of the Association, and have developed under its care -to be its fellow-helpers; also, that results appear to be more permanent and substantial.</p> - - -<h4>Africa.</h4> - -<p>Four missionaries were sent, Feb. 8, to the reinforcement of the five who sailed the -September before. The outlook was discouraging in both its material and spiritual aspects. -But they went to work practically and hopefully, and have labored with good -success. Twenty-two new members have been received into the church at Good Hope. -Preaching services and Sunday and day-schools have also been opened at Avery and -Debia.</p> - -<p>The missionaries desire increased facilities for taking the children into their homes -under their constant care, a work which they have begun already. The industrial work -at Avery has been revived. These missionary families, numbering fifteen souls in all, -have endured the trying climate, and that through its sickly season, as well as could -have been hoped. All of them have been sick; one of their number has died; none of -them are in impaired health, so far as can be learned.</p> - -<p>The report speaks of the intention to strengthen this mission as it may seem to demand, -of the need of means with which to do it, and of the missionary interest awakened -in the South, and especially at Hampton and Fisk.</p> - - -<h4>The Indians.</h4> - -<p>The necessity of changing agents has made much unexpected work, and the difficulties -of supplying their places are referred to. The work of Rev. Mr. Eells at S’Kokomish -is spoken of. The Indians show increasing interest in education, but the unsettled condition -of their affairs prevents the best success. The recommendations made by the -representatives of the various religious denominations to the Board of Commissioners -are recited. The possibility of a transfer of the Indians to the War Department is -alluded to, and deprecated as a long step in retreat.</p> - - -<h4>The Chinese in America.</h4> - -<p>The outcries against the Chinaman, and the abuse he receives on every hand, are -alluded to as having had already an influence in diminishing the number of those coming -to our shores.</p> - -<p>The Association has sustained eleven schools during the year, with 1,492 pupils. -The Chinese Congregational Association and the Bethany Home have been kept up, with -increasing usefulness. Seventy-five have been hopefully converted during the year. -The indebtedness of the Association to Rev. Wm. C. Pond, its superintendent in that<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_355" id="Page_355">[Pg 355]</a></span> -work, is heartily acknowledged. The desire of the Chinese converts for the conversion -of their own people in their native land is referred to as a convincing proof that they -have entered into the spirit of the Master. The new Chinese embassy to this country -is spoken of as full of promise in regard to all the questions affecting that race.</p> - - -<h4>Finances.</h4> - -<p>The receipts of the year have been $195,601.65; the expenses have been $188,079.46, -leaving a balance of $7,522.19. The current receipts are not equal by $13,063.23 to -those of the preceding year, the falling off being mainly in legacies; and the $17,904.92 -in cash (and $6,950 in pledges) for the debt may have somewhat lessened the regular -gifts.</p> - -<p>The debt, two years ago, was $93,000; one year ago it was $63,000; what has -been received and saved for it together this year amounts to $25,427.11, which has reduced -it to $37,389.79, and pledges are held for $6,950, which, when redeemed, will further -diminish it to $30,439.79.</p> - -<p>The Committee recognize the hand of the Lord, and the hearts of His people in this -good showing. The Report makes special mention of the gifts from the field for this -object, and yet the remaining debt is deeply deplored as preventing the enlargement of -the work. The careful and wise use of the funds in its hands encourages the Association -to ask for the removal of this its last hindrance.</p> - - -<h4>Sundries.</h4> - -<p>References to the co-operation of the Freedmen’s Missions Aid Society in England, -the return of the Jubilee Singers, the changes successfully made in the form and -editing of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and the generous aid of the American Bible -Society, conclude the Report.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<h4>THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h4> - -<p class="amrole"><i>Statistics of its Work and Workers—General Summary.</i></p> - - -<h5>Workers.</h5> - -<p><i>Missionaries</i>—at the South, 69; among the Indians, 1; in the Foreign field, 9; -total, 79.</p> - -<p><i>Teachers</i>—at the South, 150; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 10; -Native helpers in the Foreign field, 6; total, 183.</p> - -<p><i>Matrons</i>, 9; in Business Department, 9. Total number of Workers, 280.</p> - - -<h5>Churches.</h5> - -<p><i>Churches</i>—at the South, 64; among the Indians, 1; in the Foreign field, 1; total, 66.</p> - -<p><i>Church Members</i>—at the South, 4,189; among the Indians, 19; in the Foreign -field, 44; total, 4,252. Total number Sabbath-school Scholars, 7,517.</p> - - -<h5>Schools.</h5> - -<p><i>Schools</i>—at the South, 37; among the Chinese, 11; among the Indians, 6; in the -Foreign field, 3; total, 57.</p> - -<p><i>Pupils</i>—at the South, 7,229; among the Chinese, 1,492; among the Indians, 245; -in the Foreign field, 177; total, 9,143.</p> - - -<h5>Details of School Work at the South.</h5> - -<p><i>Chartered Institutions</i>, 8.—Hampton N. and A. Institute, Hampton, Va.: Number -of pupils, 332; boarding accommodations, for 180. Berea College, Berea, Ky.: Number -of pupils, 273; boarding accommodations for 180. Fisk University, Nashville, -Tenn.: Number of pupils, 338; boarding accommodations for 150. Atlanta University,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_356" id="Page_356">[Pg 356]</a></span> -Atlanta, Ga.: Number of pupils, 244; boarding accommodations for 150. Talladega -College, Talladega, Ala.: Number of pupils, 272; boarding accommodations for -100. Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss.: Number of pupils, 193; boarding accommodations -for 90. Straight University, New Orleans, La.: Number of pupils, -287; no boarding accommodations. Normal Institute, Austin, Texas: Number of -pupils, 146.</p> - -<p><i>Other Institutions</i>, 11.—Normal School, Wilmington, N. C.: Number of pupils, -126; Washington School, Raleigh, N. C., 435; Avery Institute, Charleston, S. C., 294; -Brewer Normal School, Greenwood, S. C., 58; Storrs School, Atlanta, Ga., 701; -Lewis High School, Macon, Ga., 93; Trinity School, Athens, Ala., 158; Emerson Institute, -Mobile, Ala., 117; Swayne School, Montgomery, Ala., 436; Burrell School, -Selma, Ala., 421; Le Moyne School, Memphis, Tenn., 184; Common Schools, 18;—total, -37.</p> - - -<h5>Pupils Classified.</h5> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr> -<td>Theological, 88; Law, 17; Collegiate, 106; Collegiate Preparatory, 160; Normal, -1,459; Grammar, 1,016; Intermediate, 2,048; Primary, 2,398</td> -<td class="ramt">7,292</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td>Studying in two grades,</td> -<td class="ramt">63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">——-</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td></td> -<td class="ramt">7,229</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p style="margin-left: 4.5em;">Scholars in the South, taught by our former pupils, estimated at 100,000.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> -</div> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.</h3> - - -<p>The American Missionary Association held its Thirty-second Anniversary -in the Broadway Congregational Church, Taunton, Mass., commencing October -29, 1878.</p> - -<p>President Edward S. Tobey called the Association to order at three P. M. -Rev. Edward H. Merrill, D. D., of Ripon, Wis., conducted the devotional service, -reading selections from the Scriptures, and leading in prayer. Rev. -Leverett S. Woodworth, of Campello, Mass., was elected Secretary, and Rev. -Samuel Harrison, of Pittsfield, Assistant Secretary.</p> - -<p>The President appointed the following Nominating Committee: Rev. Lyman -S. Rowland, Rev. George M. Boynton, Rev. Thomas K. Fessenden and -J. E. Porter, Esq.</p> - -<p>Rev. George M. Boynton presented the Annual Report of the Executive -Committee. On motion, the report was accepted, and its various portions -referred to appropriate committees.</p> - -<p>The report of the Treasurer was presented by Henry W. Hubbard, Esq., -Assistant Treasurer, and was referred to the Committee on Finance.</p> - -<p>The Committee on Nominations reported the following list of committees:</p> - -<p>1. <i>Committee of Arrangements.</i>—Rev. Mortimer Blake, D. D., Rev. Morton -Dexter, Rev. E. S. Atwood, Chas. H. Atwood, Esq., Dea. E. H. Reed, H. B. -Palmer, Esq., Rev. T. T. Richmond.</p> - -<p>2. <i>Committee on Business.</i>—Rev. S. M. Newman, Rev. C. L. Woodworth, -Eleazer Porter, Esq.</p> - -<p>3. <i>Committee, on Nominations.</i>—Rev. Lyman S. Rowland, Rev. George -M. Boynton, Rev. Thos. K. Fessenden, Dea. Edwin Talcott.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_357" id="Page_357">[Pg 357]</a></span></p> -<p>4. <i>Committee on Finance.</i>—Hon. E. H. Sawyer, A. S. Barnes, Esq., A. L. -Williston, Esq., Geo. H. Corliss, Esq., S. D. Smith, Esq., Hon. Rufus Frost, -Abiel Abbott, Esq.</p> - -<p>5. <i>Committee on Moral and Religious Education</i> (especially among colored -women of the South).—Rev. H. P. DeForrest, Rev. C. D. Barrows, Rev. Albert -H. Heath, Rev. Henry Hopkins, Rev. I. C. Thatcher, Rev. E. W. Allen, -Rev. Geo. A. Tewksbury.</p> - -<p>6. <i>Committee on Normal and Higher Education in the South.</i>—Rev. Wm. -W. Adams, D. D., Rev. J. W. Wellman, D. D., Rev. Frederick Alvord, Rev. -E. H. Merrill, D. D., Rev. H. J. Patrick, Rev. R. K. Harlow, Rev. Calvin -Cutler.</p> - -<p>7. <i>Committee on Church Extension in the South.</i>—Rev. Edward Strong, -D. D., Rev. Wm. L. Gaylord, Rev. A. H. Plumb, Rev. A. E. Winship, -Rev. D. O. Mears, Rev. O. T. Lanphear, D. D., Rev. M. Burnham.</p> - -<p>8. <i>Committee on Chinese Missions in America.</i>—Rev. E. S. Atwood, Rev. -E. H. Byington, Rev. G. R. W. Scott, Rev. J. D. Kingsbury, Rev. Charles -B. Sumner, Rev. Henry M. Grout, D. D., Rev. J. M. Bell.</p> - -<p>9. <i>Committee on Indian Missions in America.</i>—Hon. A. C. Barstow, Rev. -Geo. F. Wright, Rev. Cyrus Richardson, Col. Franklin Fairbanks, B. C. -Hardwick, Esq., Rev. A. P. Marvin, Rev. Franklin P. Chapin.</p> - -<p>10. <i>Committee on African Missions.</i>—Rev. Reuen Thomas, D. D., Rev. -Geo. A. Oviatt, Rev. G. R. Leavitt, Rev. Franklin Ayer, Rev. W. S. Hubbell, -Dea. Edward Kendall, Rev. John C. Labaree, Rev. G. D. Pike.</p> - -<p>11. <i>Committee on Religious Services and Prayer-Meeting.</i>—Rev. Horace -Winslow, Rev. R. B. Howard.</p> - -<p>I. Paper by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D. Subject—“The Work of Half -a Generation among the Freedmen.” Committee—Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, -D. D., Rev. Geo. E. Street, Rev. James H. Lyon, Rev. E. P. Blodgett, Rev. -Geo. E. Freeman, Rev. Henry A. Blake.</p> - -<p>II. By Rev. Stacy Fowler. Subject—“The Element of Present Time -all-important in what we do to save this Country.” Committee—Rev. -Jacob Ide, Jr., Rev. W. W. Woodworth, Rev. Chester W. Hawley, Rev. -Davis Foster, Rev. Henry E. Barnes.</p> - -<p>III. By Rev. Geo. Leon Walker, D. D. Subject—“The Denominational -Polity of the American Missionary Association.” Committee—Rev. Samuel -P. Leeds, D. D., Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D., Rev. Henry W. Jones, Rev. J. -B. Clark, Rev. John V. Hilton.</p> - -<p>IV. By Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D. Subject—“A Revival of Righteousness -in the Prosecution of Christian Work among the Despised Races of -America.” Committee—Rev. B. F. Hamilton, Rev. Wm. V. W. Davis, Rev. -H. D. Walker, Rev. Henry R. Craig, Rev. Wm. T. Briggs.</p> - -<p>V. By Rev. C. L. Woodworth. Subject—“America’s Opportunity the -World’s Salvation.” Committee—Rev. J. M. Green, Rev. Samuel Bell, Rev. -G. F. Stanton, Rev. Chas. P. Nason, Rev. Franklin S. Hatch, Rev. J. K. -Aldrich.</p> - -<p>Rev. Stephen M. Newman reported the order of exercises for the ensuing -sessions. Secretary Strieby urged upon the Association the need of prayer in<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_358" id="Page_358">[Pg 358]</a></span> -the meetings. The President called upon the Rev. E. B. Hooker to lead in -prayer. After singing, the Benediction was pronounced by Rev. E. H. Merrill, -D. D. The Association then adjourned until 7.30 P. M.</p> - - -<h4>Evening Session.</h4> - -<p>At 7.30 P. M. the President called the Association to order. Scriptures -were read and prayer offered by Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D. Rev. Samuel -E. Herrick, D. D. delivered a sermon from I Peter, ii. 9. Secretary Strieby -offered the closing prayer. The Association then adjourned until nine A. M. -of Wednesday.</p> - - -<h4>Wednesday, October 30.</h4> - -<p>At 8.15 a prayer-meeting was conducted by Rev. Horace Winslow. At -nine, the Association was called to order by Pres. Edward S. Tobey. Prayer -was offered by Rev. John O. Means.</p> - -<p>Rev. Stacy Fowler, of Cambridge, read a paper on “The Element of -Present Time all-important in what we do to save this Country.”</p> - -<p>Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., read a paper on “The Denominational -Polity of the American Missionary Association.”</p> - -<p>District-Secretary Chas. L. Woodworth read a paper on “America’s Opportunity -the World’s Salvation.”</p> - -<p>After singing, the Association adjourned until two P. M.</p> - - -<h4>Afternoon Session.</h4> - -<p>At two P. M. the Association was called to order by President Edward -S. Tobey. The session was opened with singing “How firm a foundation ye -saints of the Lord,” and with prayer by Rev. Stephen H. Hayes.</p> - -<p>Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D., of Worcester, read a paper upon “The Revival -of Righteousness in the Prosecution of Christian Work among the Despised -Races of America,” which was referred to a committee.</p> - -<p>Hon. Amos C. Barstow, of Providence, R. I., read the report of the committee -on the Indians as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> -<p>The Committee to whom was referred so much of the Annual Report as relates to -the work of the Association among the Indians, are glad to be able to approve the -action of the Executive Committee for the past year, both with respect to its missions -and its agencies. They beg also to indorse and emphasize the sentiment—twice repeated -in the Report—that “the unsettled condition of the Indians, growing out of -their frequent and enforced removal, sometimes for long distances, and at short notice, -continues to rob the efforts put forth in their behalf of much of their rightful success.”</p> - -<p>Like the dove sent out from the Ark, the Indian has found no rest for the sole of -his foot. Of the 275,000 Indians in what is now our country, fifty years ago 130,000 -were east of the Mississippi River, where now but 25,000 remain.</p> - -<p>At first we were content to crowd them beyond the Mississippi, but our example at -the East has proved contagious among the settlers of the new States west of the Mississippi, -and now all these States, by their influence over the General Government, are -emptying their Indians into the Territories. The Pawnees and Poncas, and the great -bands of Sioux Indians, under those famous chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tail—in all -15,000—have been pushed out of Nebraska within two years. The great States of -Iowa and Kansas have but 1,000 each remaining in their borders, and Missouri has -none. At the present moment, Colorado is making an effort to push the 3,200 Ute - -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_359" id="Page_359">[Pg 359]</a></span> - -Indians, who have always lived upon her soil, either beyond her borders or up into the -mountains, 7,000 feet above the sea level, and far above the possibility of self-support.</p> - -<p>The Stockbridge Indians, whose original home was amid the beautiful valleys of old -Berkshire, in Massachusetts, and who, while there—130 years ago—enjoyed the stated -ministry of David Brainard, and afterwards of Jonathan Edwards, were moved west as -far as the State of New York, ninety years ago. Since then they have been moved five -times, and now a remnant of the tribe occupy a little reservation in Northern Wisconsin. -Why should they have been exposed to such perils as haunt a people, thus violently -and repeatedly torn up by the roots, and compelled to make new homes far distant -from the graves of their sires? Or, rather, civilized and Christianized as they are -and were, why should they not long ago have come to individual homestead rights of -portions of their land in fee, <em>with citizenship</em>, as do multitudes of foreigners, of far -less education? Instead of girding the Indians about with bands of love, and holding -them to their ancient homes, where they could be easily reached by Gospel influences, -the nation has taken it for granted that the “wilderness and solitary place” was the -only fit home for them; and therefore, in the expressive language of Red Cloud, has -“kept them on wheels.” We have been crowding them before the ever-increasing -column of our Western emigration, and even now, the hand of the nation does not -spare, neither does its heart relent. The Santee and other bands of Indians, fully civilized, -are now petitioners for the right to take up homesteads that shall cover the present -allotments, already cultivated and improved by them. Their petition is indorsed by -the Indian Bureau and Interior Department, and though urged upon Congress last winter -by all the added influence of the Board of Indian Commissioners, nothing was -done. Congress has always shown more willingness to <em>feed</em> the Indians than to <em>locate</em> -them. To secure progress in civilization, we must locate them—give them permanent -homes, with all the motives for industry which they will inspire. To herd and feed -them from the public crib permanently, like cattle, is to degrade and pauperize them, -rather than to civilize and bring them to self-support.</p> - -<p>There is a feeling quite too common in the community, that Indians, after all, are -only <em>outlaws</em>, <em>Ishmaelites</em>, <em>savages</em>, “having no rights which white men are bound -to respect,” and no elements of character which encourage efforts for their improvement.</p> - -<p>A popular encyclopædia affirms that, “as a race, the animal propensities in the -Indian strongly preponderate over the intellectual, and render their civilization, even -with the help of education and Christianity, an event <em>hardly to be hoped for</em>.” Neither -the experience of Christian philanthropists, nor the facts of history, will justify this -sweeping assertion.</p> - -<p>We do not claim that they have taken on them the nature of angels. We only -claim that they are <span class="smcap">men</span>, and that our Divine Master made no mistake in giving His -Gospel to enlighten them, His blood to redeem them, or His command to us to publish -that Gospel to them. If Eliot and Brainard and Edwards found encouragement for -Christian efforts in their behalf, why may not the Christians of this generation labor -for them with hope? Are we wiser or better than they? Or are the Indians worse -and their condition more hopeless, than in the days of our fathers?</p> - -<p>It is safe to affirm, in spite of all the obstacles in their path, that, under the efforts -put forth in their behalf, many of the Indian tribes are making commendable progress -in civilization, and large numbers of them are bringing forth in their lives the peaceable -fruits of righteousness.</p> - -<p>We, therefore, recommend not only that the Association continue its work for the -evangelization of the Indians, but that it enlarge and extend it, as fast as God in His -providence may open the way.</p> - -<table width="80%"> -<tr> -<td class="tdpr"> -<span class="smcap">A. C. Barstow</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Col. Franklin Fairbanks</span>, -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> -<span class="smcap">Rev. A. P. Marvin</span>,<br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. Geo. F. Wright</span>.<br /> -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_360" id="Page_360">[Pg 360]</a></span></p> -<p>On motion, it was voted that the report be accepted, and taken up for discussion -on Thursday forenoon.</p> - -<p>The report of the committee on the paper of Rev. George L. Walker, D. D. -was read by Rev. Samuel P. Leeds, D. D., who opened the discussion of the report, -followed by Rev. Samuel Harrison, of Pittsfield, and Rev. Addison P. Foster, -of Jersey City. Secretary Strieby was invited to speak upon the pending -question. Rev. George Juchau and Rev. David O. Mears continued the -discussion.</p> - -<p>On motion of Secretary Strieby, it was voted “That the papers read before -this body, together with the reports of the committees thereon, be accepted -and referred to the Executive Committee for publication at its discretion.”</p> - -<p>Rev. Benj. F. Hamilton, D. D., gave the report of the committee on -the paper presented by Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D. The report was discussed -by Rev. Benj. F. Hamilton, Rev. Albert H. Plumb, Rev. Jesse Jones, -Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., and Rev. George F. Wright.</p> - -<p>Rev. Jeremiah K. Aldrich, of Nashua, reported in behalf of the committee -upon the paper presented by Dist. Sec. Chas. L. Woodworth. The report was -discussed by Secretary Strieby, and Rev. Geo. F. Stanton, of Weymouth. -The report was accepted, and the following resolution, appended thereto, was -adopted:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><i>Resolved</i>, That, as God raised up His ancient people, and made them the repository -of the truth, to prepare the way for the advent of the Saviour, when the fullness of -time should come, so He has raised up this nation to carry forward that truth to its -final consummation, and that it becometh us to put forth every possible effort for -accomplishing this work, in humble reliance upon the direct agency of the Holy Spirit, -believing that God will bless well-directed, earnest Christian effort, energize and apply -the truth by the personal presence and power of a living Christ; and that we regard -the American Missionary Association as one of the most direct and efficient agencies -for securing this end, and would press its claim upon our churches for an increase in -benevolent contributions, that its work may be enlarged and prosecuted with increased -vigor.</p></div> - -<p>At 5.15 the Association adjourned to meet at 7.30 P. M. Benediction by -Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D.</p> - - -<h4>Evening Session.</h4> - -<p>7.30.—President Edward S. Tobey in the chair. Rev. Thomas T. Richmond -offered prayer. The evening session was occupied by those who were -formerly in the employ of the Association.</p> - -<p>Addresses were made by Rev. Charles M. Southgate, of Dedham., Rev. -Sylvanus Heywood, of N. H., Rev. Martin L. Williston, of N. Y., and Rev. -Walter S. Alexander, of New Orleans, President of Straight University.</p> - -<p>During the evening the choir sang several Jubilee Songs.</p> - -<p>Adjourned at 9.30 P. M. to meet Thursday morning at nine A. M.</p> - - -<h4>Thursday Morning Session.</h4> - -<p>Rev. D. O. Mears conducted a prayer-meeting at 8.15 A. M. President -Tobey called the Association to order at 9.15 A. M. Prayer was offered by -Rev. William Mellen.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_361" id="Page_361">[Pg 361]</a></span></p> -<p>Rev. Davis Foster read the report of the committee on the paper presented -by Rev. Stacy Fowler.</p> - -<p>Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D., read the report of the committee on the paper -presented by Secretary Strieby.</p> - -<p>Hon. Edmund D. Sawyer gave the report of the committee on Finance as -follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The Committee appointed to consider and examine the Financial statement of the -American Missionary Association, covering the receipts and expenditures for the year -ending September 30th, 1878, respectfully submit the following Report:</p> - -<p>The receipts from all sources have been $195,601.65, or about thirteen thousand -dollars less than for the preceding year. The expenses, including amounts paid for -church and educational work, publications, cost of collecting funds and cost of administration, -have been $167,728.23. There is due the Tillotson Normal and Collegiate -Institute $2,446.31, and there has been paid towards cancelling the debt $25,427.11. -Of the amount paid upon the debt, the sum of $17,904.92 was contributed directly for -the purpose, and $7,522.19 has been saved from the income of the year. Your Committee -are happy to testify, that the administration of the affairs of the Association -appears to have been conducted with wisdom, ability and faithfulness. While the -work for the year has not been curtailed, the receipts have been less. Yet from them -quite a sum has been saved towards cancelling the indebtedness. It is greatly to be -regretted, that the receipts during the year have not been sufficient to pay in full the -debt, as there still remains unpaid, and unprovided for, the sum of $30,439.79. Certainly -it would seem that our churches could easily contribute this sum, which, if done, -would give your Executive Committee new courage to plan for the extension of work -now so well established and wisely conducted.</p> - -<p>Your Committee would suggest that an effort be made to extend the paying circulation -of the monthly publication, the “<span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>,” which is now so attractive -and desirable, communicating as it does, information relating to the operations -and needs of the Association, and the progress made in the different fields of its occupation. -The administrative expenses seem to us small, compared with the magnitude -and importance of the work accomplished, giving evidence that this department is conducted -with great economy, and most conscientious fidelity.</p> - -<p>When we consider the nature and extent of the work committed to the care of this -organization, and that the appeal comes to us as a Christian duty, to help educate and -Christianize these millions of our own citizens, now living in a condition of ignorance -and degradation, we are forced to the conclusion, that our churches do not realize -sufficiently, either their obligation or privilege, to meet the call with liberal and glad -contributions.</p> - -<p>The annual receipts of this Association, engaged in Christian work second in importance -of no other, ought to be greatly increased. May we not ask the Pastors of -our churches, to bring to the attention of their congregations, the necessities of those -for whom this Association is laboring; and we urge individual Christians to such faithful -labor and consecration as will extend a knowledge of the needs and deepen the interest -felt in this great and good work, so that contributions may be largely increased.</p> - -<p>From an examination of the various statements submitted, showing in detail the -operations of the Association, and the condition of the property interests it has in -charge, your Committee are prepared to commend it most heartily to the continued -confidence and sympathy of our churches, and to recommend that every effort be -made to secure enlarged receipts, so that the debt shall speedily be paid and the increased -work that so needs to be done can be undertaken.</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 2%;"> -<span class="smcap">E. H. Sawyer.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">A. L. Williston.</span> -</p></div> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_362" id="Page_362">[Pg 362]</a></span></p> -<p>The report was discussed by Secretary Strieby, District-Secretaries Woodworth, -Pike, and Powell, Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. George F. Stanton, Rev. -Addison P. Foster, Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., Hon. Edward S. Tobey, -Rev. Rowland B. Howard, Rev. Albert H. Plumb.</p> - -<p>Rev. John S. Ewell led in prayer.</p> - -<p>On motion, it was voted “that a committee of three be appointed to present -to the churches the expression of the Association concerning its debt.” -The Rev. George A. Oviatt, Rev. George F. Stanton and Rev. William L. -Gaylord were appointed such committee.</p> - -<p>Rev. Heman P. DeForrest read the report of the committee on “Moral -and Religious Education,” as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The Committee, to whom was assigned the topic of “Moral and Religious Education, -especially among the colored women of the South,” offer their Report with a deep conviction -of the central and commanding importance of the work thus indicated. The two -faculties which, in the Freedman, need chief attention, are his intellect and his conscience. -Of these, the moral faculty must take precedence in importance. By the effect -of slavery, and its accompanying influences, acting through many generations, a blight -amounting, in some directions, well-nigh to extinguishment, has fallen upon his moral -sense. His education, under the old system, did not develop this faculty, for it was -only the hard education of rough contact with life and with men, which, indeed, sharpened -his intellect sometimes, but buried conscience yet deeper under the weight of false -teaching and falser custom. His religion did not help him here, for it has been a sensuous -and emotional experience, not deemed inconsistent with the grossest violations of -moral law. It is the work of Associations like this to solemnize, in his behalf, the marriage, -subject to no subsequent divorce, of religion and morality. And it is, we believe, -a happy quality of the genius of Congregationalism, that it will not pour oil upon the -flame of emotional piety, but will chiefly emphasize the spiritual truths and moral laws -which forever underlie all true religion.</p> - -<p>But now the question arises, whether, in all our planning and thinking for the Freedman, -too little has not been said and thought by our churches in regard to the Freedwoman.</p> - -<p>She, like her brother, has been debased by slavery; debased, moreover, in the very -citadel of her sacred womanhood, until the very instinct on which the sanctity of the -home must rest, if it exist at all, has become almost extirpated.</p> - -<p>There can be no elevation of the Freedman that does not rest upon the moral -restoration of the Freedwoman. The position of woman is everywhere the measure -of moral attainment, and here, where she has become the sport and lawful prey of -two races, she more than ever holds the key of the situation.</p> - -<p>The feeling, gaining strength through all the experience of our missionaries and teachers -and superintendents, that an effort needs to be made for her benefit distinctly, now -demands expression in the councils of this body.</p> - -<p>Your Committee has no new light upon this subject; it has no specific to offer for the -evil which makes so great a demand upon our sympathy. We can only appeal to this -body, and to the churches, whether now, in the spectacle of two and a half millions of -Freedwomen, of whom only a mere fraction are yet under the influence of schools and -pure churches, lifting up their cry, not “from Greenland’s icy mountains, nor India’s -coral strand,” nor whence “Afric’s sunny fountains roll down their golden sand,” but -from the sunny half of these United States of America, we have not a call of God, which -the dullest ear cannot fail to hear. And we, brethren and sisters, are charged with the -duty of responding to this cry, with no uncertain sound.</p> - -<p>The Committee feel the responsibility which rests upon them in undertaking to propose -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_363" id="Page_363">[Pg 363]</a></span> - -new measures, and hesitate to offer too radical suggestions. Yet, they cannot be -deaf to the appeal of this kind of work, or content themselves with vague and general -exhortations. We hail as a good omen, and as an indication of Providence as to the -course to be taken, the fact that already, through the influence of one Christian lady of -the Northwest, a lady missionary, specially instructed to labor among the homes of the -Freedmen, by personal contact, for the moral and religious education of the colored -woman, is now actually at work. Our recommendation is that, following out this beginning, -Christian women of mature experience and wise tact be appointed, to such an -extent as funds will permit, who shall labor for the elevation of the Freedwomen, by -those methods of personal influence which are, of all, most efficient. We believe that in -no other way can we strike so nearly at the root of the ignorance and immorality which, -in behalf of the Freedmen, we contend against.</p> - -<p>But, obviously, it would not be right to take the funds appropriated for education or -church extension for this purpose, and thereby curtail a work which needs, on the contrary, -to be at once extended. Whence shall the support of these lady workers come, -then?</p> - -<p>We feel constrained, in reply, to appeal to that large and earnest body to whom we are -not wont to appeal in vain—the Christian women of our Northern churches. Suppose that -in each church an appeal should be made to the ladies, already doing much in missionary -work, and sending generous supplies of clothing and other necessaries to the Freedmen, -to assume the responsibility of supporting, either themselves or in conjunction with -neighboring churches, these female workers among the Freedwomen. Could they, would -they resist the appeal of this sister of theirs, upon whom iron despotism has set its mark of -deep degradation, through no fault of hers, and who now lifts up appealing eyes, pleading -to be restored to the sisterhood of the pure and the holy, to whom manhood owes all -that is noblest and highest in its proudest development? We know them better than to -imagine any such refusal. We believe the Christian women of the North, when once this -channel is opened, will see in it their choice opportunity, and respond in a way that shall -set forward our work by a great advance.</p> - -<p>And we further offer the suggestion, following again a thought which has been born, -and has already, to a degree, taken form, in the field of labor, that in the principal centres -of the Southern field, local organizations of women may be constituted, which shall have -special charge of this work, and through which the funds raised may be applied to their -purpose.</p> - -<p>By this three-fold chain of operations—the appointment of Christian women of mature -character to special labor among the Freedwomen, the organization of local boards of -women at the several centres of operation, and support by the Christian ladies of the -North—it seems to the Committee that this important and too long neglected work may -be simply and effectually accomplished. And, as rapidly as the developments will -allow, we believe the work in the field should be passed into the hands of the elevated -and Christianized Freedwoman herself, who, not only by visitation, but by the example -of her own holy womanhood, and her own Christian home, shall disseminate the forces -of light through all the darkness of the land where she lives.</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 5%;"><span class="smcap">Rev. H. P. DeForrest.</span></p> -</div> - -<p>Rev. G. S. Pope, of Tougaloo, Miss., spoke upon the topic.</p> - -<p>The report of the committee on the “Normal Work of the Association” -was presented by Rev. W. W. Adams, D. D., as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Your Committee congratulate the Association on the work of the year, as represented -in the Report. It is but seventeen years since the first school for Freedmen was opened, -and but twelve years since the first Normal school was started. Last year 7,229 pupils -were under instruction in the schools of this Association, of whom 1,459 were in Normal -schools. The increase in the number of pupils of all grades last year, over the number -of the year before, was 1,789; in Normal schools the increase was 126; in college and -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_364" id="Page_364">[Pg 364]</a></span> - -professional schools, 50. The eagerness of the colored people to obtain at least a rudimentary -education has ever been a most encouraging sign. The young man who last -year walked fifty miles with his trunk upon his back that he might enter school, recalls -the zeal of the late Dr. Goodell, of Constantinople, who, in his youth, also walked sixty -miles, with a trunk strapped upon his back, that he might enter the Phillips Academy at -Andover. The demand for teachers from the Normal schools—quite beyond the ability -to supply them—is one of the surest indications that the schools are meeting an urgent -need. But the tendency of some pupils to consider themselves qualified to become -teachers, after obtaining the merest rudiments of knowledge, is earnestly to be deprecated -and discouraged. It needs to be dealt with as an easily besetting sin. The replacing -of the burned buildings by new ones, at a cost within the amounts of insurance -recovered, the better location of some of them, the increasing, and increasingly expressed -sympathy of the better classes of Southern whites with the educational work of -the Association, are also occasions of congratulation. The devotion of a portion of the -time of pupils to manual labor is to be commended on grounds of economy, of industrial -training, of the best and most diversified moral culture.</p> - -<p>We very earnestly commend to the friends of the Association the appeal of its officers -for permanent endowments of the higher institutions. The elevation of the colored race -must be in large measure the work of colored men and women. But they must first be -trained for their work in institutions established among them. Without endowment -there is no assurance of permanence in the institutions we have already given them; -without endowment they are not established; the labor of the past is not secured from -total loss in the future. It needs to be distinctly emphasized, also, that the permanent -establishment of educational institutions of a high order is the great work of this Association -among the colored men, and the foundation for all uplifting work beside. The -continuous training of our schools—intellectual, industrial, social and moral training, -all in one—is needed for the development of higher ideals and nobler types of character, -and, we are happy to add, has already resulted in such development in not a few of the -pupils. This training is needed as a counterpoise to the operation, otherwise mischievous -because unbalanced, of some prominent forces of the African temperament; needed to -hold the imagination within the limits of reason and righteousness, to curb emotional -excess, to save life from becoming the sport of changeful impulses. Experience has -proved that the training given changes the type of piety greatly for the better. It is -not less fervent, but it is less exclusively and wildly emotional. It becomes more -rational, more consistent; it has more of principle and character in it; it is more truly -a service of righteousness, more reputable, more effective for good. In order that church -membership may be helpful rather than harmful to righteousness, and that church life -among the Africans may be genuinely Christian, there is urgent need of a worthier -Christian education of the African ministry. It is peculiarly our work to give that education. -The general education provided for through our Normal schools is indispensable, -that the colored people may deserve and command the respect of their white fellow-citizens -at the South; that they may clearly understand their rights as citizens; may -know how to secure them and make wise use of them.</p> - -<p>It has been truly said that the work of uplifting the colored race is, from beginning -to end, a long, slow process of education. In that process the Normal schools and higher -institutions of the American Missionary Association have a place second in importance -to no other. We have begun a good work; the question now is, whether we shall do it -or leave it undone through lack of establishing the institutions we have founded.</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 3%;"> -<span class="smcap">Rev. Wm. W. Adams, D. D.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. J. W. Wellman, D. D.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. E. H. Merrill, D. D.</span> -</p></div> - -<p>Remarks were made upon the report by Rev. Edward H. Merrill, D. D.</p> - -<p>After singing, the Association adjourned to meet at two <span class="smcap">p. m.</span></p> - -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_365" id="Page_365">[Pg 365]</a></span> -<h4>Afternoon Session.</h4> - -<p>At two <span class="smcap">p. m.</span>, the Lord’s Supper was celebrated; Rev. Joshua W. Wellman, -D. D., and Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., officiating.</p> - -<p>The Association was called to order at 2.45 <span class="smcap">p. m.</span>, President E. S. Tobey -in the chair.</p> - -<p>The committee on the debt of the Association, to which Secretary Strieby -was added, presented the following statement and suggestions:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The American Missionary Association at its meeting in Taunton, Mass., adopted -the following statement and suggestions respecting its debt:</p> - -<p>The debt of this Association has been, and still is, a great hindrance to its progress, -preventing that advance which is so much needed along the whole line of endeavors. -The Association welcomes, with hearty thanks to God, the report of its treasurer, -announcing the still further reduction of the debt, bringing the amount down, if all -pledges are paid, to $25,000. An effort having been made at this meeting to secure -pledges of $25 each, encouraging responses were made, amounting to over $3,000.</p> - -<p>In view of these facts it was resolved that an effort be made for the total extinction -of the debt, and the following suggestions are offered as to the methods in which our -friends may aid us:</p> - -<p>1. Individuals and households, who are interested in our work, may send pledges -of one or more shares (of $25 each), as their ability and benevolence may suggest, the -more wealthy being asked to remember that if the debt is paid, some of the contributions -must be large and liberal.</p> - -<p>2. Pastors may invite their congregations to make such pledges.</p> - -<p>3. Pastors may (as some have volunteered at this meeting to do) bring the subject -before the local conferences, and awaken an interest in securing such pledges.</p> - -<p>4. The Day of Thanksgiving is near at hand, and a glad offering for this purpose may -be an acceptable gift to the God of all mercies, as well as helpful to the Association.</p> - -<p>5. The holiday season, not far distant, may be made the occasion of like offerings. -The Association intrusts to its Executive officers the duty of selecting and carrying out -the best methods for laying these suggestions before the friends of the despised -races of America.</p> -</div> - -<p>The report was accepted and adopted.</p> - -<p>Rev. Edward Strong, D. D., read the report of the Committee on Church -Extension, as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The Committee to whom was referred the portion of the Annual Report which -relates to Church Extension at the South, submit the following:</p> - -<p>We notice that the church work, like the educational, is growing on our hands. Five -new churches—especially if each prove a metropolitan or mother church—is a gain for -which to give thanks and from which to take courage. Sixty-five churches in all, though -most of them are connected with our educational institutions, or near them, is certainly -not a bad showing for thirteen years of labor.</p> - -<p>We notice also, with pleasure, a cheering growth the last year by conversions from -the world. In fifteen only of the churches, this growth gives a total of 358 additions, -an average of twenty-four. Have our Northern churches done so well? It is equally -gratifying to learn what kind of Christians our churches South are making, or seeking -to make; to know our students are pledged to work; what these converts think of the -standard of morality enjoined by the Gospel; the honesty, purity and truth—in short, -the practical righteousness which God ordains. We rejoice to know that this Association -has planted, and is training, these Southern churches to be the salt of that part of -the earth—cities on a hill, lights in dark places—so recognized, having the reputation of -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_366" id="Page_366">[Pg 366]</a></span> - -being Bible Christians—industrious, virtuous, zealous of good works—thus already having -obtained a good report.</p> - -<p>It is cheering to learn that some of the best of the pastors of these sixty-five -churches have been raised not only from bondage, but from all the degradation of -slavery—boys picked up in the street, and polished like diamonds, for the Master’s use.</p> - -<p>We have certainly made a beginning in the matter of church extension, as in that -of education. Not the least gratifying feature is seen in the character, the growing -influence, and reputation, even among the whites, which these churches enjoy, though -some of them are numerically small. By your instrumentality and the grace of God, -they have learned what a Christian character is, and that Christ’s friends are not those -who can sing loud and pray loud, whether they are honest or thievish, tell the truth or -lies, are virtuous or licentious; not those who, with these immoralities, crowd sanctuaries -and make them echo; but, rather, those who keep the commandments of God.</p> - -<p>This Association crowded the years before the war fighting against the extension of -slavery; then crowded the years during the war, and those immediately following it, -with efforts to teach the colored people to read the Bible; and later, devoted itself to -the work of planting higher institutions—as at Hampton and Nashville and New Orleans—in -order to make of the blacks men of a higher, nobler type, teaching and -preaching men, worthy to lead their host. Shall it now set them to no grand work of -evangelization among their fellows?</p> - -<p>The question is, whether you, who have always been identified with Congregationalism, -and still love it, after long trial and large observation, will give it a fair trial South? -We rejoice in your plan to move slowly in this, and wisely. We warmly approve -your selection of Dr. J. E. Roy to reconnoitre the whole field, and report.</p> - -<p>Palfrey says, “Faith in God, faith in man, and in work,” was the brief formula -taught by the founders of New England. May we not, the children of the Pilgrims, -have faith enough in God and in these men to give them the church polity of these -founders?</p> - -<p>We are encouraged to recommend the planting of Congregational churches among -the blacks, because we have great advantages in so doing. The eager aspiration of the -blacks to be men, will help. Congregationalism has a clean record South. Has any -other of our leading denominations? There is no prejudice to be overcome by it, as a -polity. In the competitions of the denominations on the ground, will not there be an -advantage for us? Then, again, the colored people look upon this Association as a -tried friend, and trust it. Is not this an advantage? And, further, has not Providence -opened the South to our polity, as well as piety, in a marked manner? The work -already accomplished has shown the tree to be good, and given it favor widely, even -among the old masters. Hence the aid given to our institutions by several of the States. -Hence the high hope of many whites, that our work will do much to tone up the blacks -in all that belongs to good citizenship, good morality, and proper church discipline. -As Mohammedan Turkey, and Pagan Hawaii and India, have welcomed the Christian -homes planted among them by the missionaries, and as the mission churches have been -a leaven of light in their social and political life, so it has been, and will more and -more be, as you establish your church centres over the South.</p> - -<p>In conclusion, then, we approve what seems to be the thought of the Executive -Committee—to “advance its activities in the direction of saving souls at the South, -and organize churches of our polity, as really missionary centres of leavening influence. -Let the trial of our polity at the South be a fair and full one, carrying out our ideas of -Christian doctrine and morality. Thus, as we pray and believe, will that wilderness -the sooner bud and blossom like the rose.” We recommend, therefore, the adoption -of the following resolution:</p> - -<p><i>Resolved</i>, That this Association approves the plan of its Executive Committee—to -make a careful examination of the field at the South, and infuse new activity into its -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_367" id="Page_367">[Pg 367]</a></span> - -church work, organizing churches, where the way is open, on the principles of the -Congregational order.</p> - -<table class="sigs" width="80%"> -<tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - Rev. Edward Strong, D. D.<br /> - Rev. Wm. L. Gaylord. -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - Rev. A. H. Plumb.<br /> - Rev. D. O. Mears. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="center"> - Rev. O. T. Lanphear, D. D. -</td> -</tr> -</table> -</div> - - -<p>The resolution was adopted.</p> - -<p>Rev. Edward S. Atwood, of Salem, presented the report of the committee -upon the “Chinese in America,” as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The Committee, to whom was referred that portion of the Annual Report which relates -to mission work among the Chinese in America, would respectfully submit the -following:</p> - -<p>We recognize with satisfaction the positive and demonstrable success of the Association -in this department of labor—a success emphatically evidenced by the 1,500 -gathered into the day-schools; the increased usefulness of the Bethany Home; -the seventy-five conversions during the year, and the ardent desire of these newly-born -souls for the Gospel light to shine on their native and beloved land. Were we to stop -here and content ourselves with the mere statistics of progress, we should have no hesitation -in saying to the officers and the missionaries of the Association, “Servants of God, -well done!”</p> - -<p>But simple justice compels a larger view of the matter. There is something to be -taken into account besides these nominal assets. The chief worth of the work done lies -in the fact that, in the doing of it, the Association has been loyal to its old and fixed -theory, that a man is a man everywhere and always, with a soul to be saved, and a -Saviour sufficient for its needs. Questions of nationality are irrelevant. The simple -fact of humanity is all that needs to be known in order to institute a legitimate claim -for the giving of the Gospel, by those who have it in trust. In this department of work, -loyalty has not been an easy matter. The rough, unreasoning passions of the mob have -glanced fiercely against it. Iniquity, baptised with the name of legislation, has endeavored -to thwart it. The conciliatory conservatism of timid, good men, has been eager to -dispense its soporific platitudes, and generous in prescribing its universal panacea for all -difficulties—“Let us have peace!” The unwarrantable enmity to the Mongolian on the -Pacific Coast has been supplemented and reinforced by the unaccountable apathy on -the Atlantic shore of the continent. Yet, undaunted by these accumulated obstacles, the -Association has said, like the great Missionary Apostle; “None of these things move -me.” “The waves of the Yellow Sea,” it has said, “break on a land peopled by men -for whom Christ died. If we can reach them without crossing thousands of intervening -leagues of ocean, so much the better.” In spite of hostility, often white-hot; in spite of -statute books, whose leaves were blistered with iniquitous provisions; in spite of the -furious rage of lawless crowds, the Association has passed through the thick and -peril of opposition of every sort, and taken by the hand the despised Mongolian, against -whom so many scowling faces were set, and so many angry hands raised, and called him -“Brother,” claiming kinship, and tendering the richest offices of help. For this, especially, -the constituency of this Association should say to its management: “Vastly well -done.” The old banner under which the Society was organized is still “full high advanced.” -It is no small honor in these degenerate times to find men who are faithful to -their trust at any cost.</p> - -<p>But more than this, it is believed that in this department the Association is doing -germinal work. The few early ears that have ripened for our encouragement are types -and prophecies of a greater coming harvest. In any other view of the matter the religion -of the Gospel is spiritual class legislation. It is suited to the needs of the few and not -the many. The Cross loses its power under the shadow of the Great Wall; and men -scorn, as well they may, such a deduction as that; they are shut up to the only other -possible conclusion, that the school, the mission work, the unfolded Word, will effect -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_368" id="Page_368">[Pg 368]</a></span> -in the Pacific Coast, and among the Chinese immigrants, just what it effects here and -among us. And, therefore, we say to the Association that its high mission in this hour -is to push its work. Let it turn a deaf ear to all pleadings to stay its hand, however -plausible those pleadings may be, and from whatever quarter they may come. Let it -distrust the shallow expedients of so-called statesmen, who are even shallower than their -expedients. Let it give no heed to the unreasoning taunts and empty rage of Communism, -but push its work; secure in the fact that back of its efforts is the intelligent -Christian public sentiment of the land; and still more encouraged by the greater fact, -that the God who has made of one blood all nations, and provided one Gospel for all men, -is saying with an emphasis that cannot be mistaken, “Go forward!”</p> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 5%;"> -<span class="smcap">Rev. E. S. Atwood.</span><br /> -<span class="smcap">Rev. G. R. W. Scott.</span> -</p></div> - -<p>The report was discussed by Rev. E. S. Atwood, Rev. Jesse H. Jones, of -North Abington, Rev. Geo. E. Freeman, of Abington, Rev. A. P. Marvin, of -Lancaster, Rev. S. H. Emery, of Taunton, and Col. Amos Tappan, of Ipswich. -The report was accepted, and the resolution adopted.</p> - -<p>Rev. Geo. A. Oviatt gave the report in behalf of the committee on the -“Work of the Association in Africa” as follows:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>Your Committee on so much of the report of the Executive Committee as relates to -the Mendi Mission in Africa, beg leave to submit the following:</p> - -<p>At the time of the last Annual Meeting of this body, the first company of colored missionaries -was on its way to the Mendi Mission. The plan of sending out to Africa men -and women of African descent redeemed from American slavery, converted and educated -at the South, was long and thoroughly considered before it was adopted for action. -Great care was exercised in selecting this first band of colored missionaries, and it is evident -that the right workers were sent forth to test the experiment—persons of deep, earnest -piety, of more than ordinary common sense, and of sound education, as their communications -to the Executive Committee show. In February two other missionaries, and -their wives, were sent out to help the too small number of those who set sail for Africa -in September.</p> - -<p>This year’s trial has proved two things: (1) That persons of African descent -can endure the sickly climate of the country of which their ancestors were natives, better -than white missionaries: and (2) That converted and educated Freedmen and women -are equal to the work of wise, thorough missionary labor in the land of their fathers. -Everything at the stations to which these brethren and sisters were sent, seems to -have been improved under their management. Converts have been multiplied and pupils -gathered into the schools in augmented numbers.</p> - -<p>The call is for an enlarged number of missionaries to occupy this promising field, and -for more ample provisions to enable them to take a larger number of native children into -their homes, “to be under their care, as well as removed from the debasing influences of -their heathen surroundings.”</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee express the hope that, with the strengthening of these -mission stations, “they may be made the point of departure for a mission into the interior -of Africa.”</p> - -<p>It is a grand, inspiriting idea, that the men and women the best adapted to civilize -and Christianize the millions of Africa, are to be found among those who, at the South, -were so lately in bondage, and fitted for their work as foreign missionaries in Normal -schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries, planted and sustained by Northern philanthropists -and Christians, not on Northern but Southern soil.</p> - -<p>The Executive Committee can only delay to enlarge these missionary operations -in Africa on account of the too limited amount of means in the Treasury of the Association.</p> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_369" id="Page_369">[Pg 369]</a></span> - -<p>Your Committee present the following <i>Resolutions</i>:</p> - -<p>1. That we recognize with heartfelt gratitude to God, His evident approval of the -plan of attempting to evangelize Africa by the sons and daughters of Africans born in -this country, brought out of slavery under the Proclamation of Emancipation of President -Lincoln, and here converted and educated for this glorious work in their fatherland.</p> - -<p>2. That we cannot do otherwise than lay on the churches the responsibility of increasing -their contributions in aid of this Association, so as to enable it, at once, to enlarge its -operations connected with the Mendi Mission, in the hope of sending from this, as a -centre, bands of laborers into the interior of the continent.</p> - -<table class="sigs" width="80%"> -<tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - Rev. Geo. A. Oviatt.<br /> - Rev. Franklin Ayer. -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - Rev. John C. Labaree.<br /> - Rev. G. D. Pike. -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -</div> - -<p>The resolutions were adopted.</p> - -<p>The report was discussed by Rev. G. D. Pike, and was then accepted, and -the resolution adopted.</p> - -<p>Rev. George M. Boynton presented, as the report of the Nominating Committee, -the following nominations:</p> - - -<p class="center p1 small">PRESIDENT.</p> -<p class="center"><span class="smcap">Hon. E. S. TOBEY</span>, Boston.</p> - -<div> -<p class="position">VICE-PRESIDENTS.</p> - -<table><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">Wm. Claflin</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Stephen Thurston</span>, D.D., Me.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Samuel Harris</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">William 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. 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>, 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">W. M. Barbour</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -</td> - -<td> -Rev. <span class="smcap">W. L. Gage</span>, Ct.<br /> -<span class="smcap">A. S. Hatch</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. H. Fairchild</span>, D. D., Ohio<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">H. A. Stimson</span>, Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">J. W. Strong</span>, D. D., Minn.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Geo. Thatcher</span>, LL. D., Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">A. L. Stoke</span>, D. D., Cal.<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 Whitin</span>, Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. Patton</span>, D. D., Ct.<br /> -Hon. <span class="smcap">J. B. Grinnell</span>, Iowa.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Wm. T. Carr</span>, Ct.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Horace Winslow</span>, Ct.<br /> -Sir <span class="smcap">Peter Coats</span>, Scotland.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">Henry Allon</span>, D. D., London, Eng.<br /> -<span class="smcap">Wm. E. Whiting</span>, Esq., N. Y.<br /> -<span class="smcap">J. M. Pinkerton</span>, Esq., Mass.<br /> -Rev. <span class="smcap">F. A. Noble</span>, D. D.,<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 /> -</td></tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p class="position">CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.</p> - -<p class= "center">Rev. <span class="smcap">M. E. Strieby</span>, D. D., N. Y.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_370" id="Page_370">[Pg 370]</a></span></p> - -<p class="position">DISTRICT SECRETARIES.</p> - -<div class="center"> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> CHARLES L. WOODWORTH, <i>Boston</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> G. D. PIKE, <i>New York</i>.<br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> JAMES POWELL, <i>Chicago</i>.<br /> -<br /> - EDGAR KETCHUM, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Treasurer</i>, <i>N. Y.</i><br /> - H. W. HUBBARD, <span class="smcap">Esq.</span>, <i>Assistant Treasurer</i>, <i>N. Y.</i><br /> - <span class="smcap">Rev.</span> M. E. STRIEBY, <i>Recording Secretary</i>, <i>N. Y.</i><br /> -</div> - - - -<p class="position">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.</p> -<div class="center"> -<table class="sigs" width="50%"> -<tr> -<td class="tdpr"> - Alonzo S. Ball.<br /> - A. S. Barnes.<br /> - Edward Beecher.<br /> - Geo. M. Boynton.<br /> - Wm. B. Brown.<br /> - Clinton B. Fisk.<br /> - A. P. Foster. -</td> -<td class="tdpr"> - E. A. Graves.<br /> - S. B. Halliday.<br /> - Samuel Holmes.<br /> - S. S. Jocelyn.<br /> - Andrew Lester.<br /> - Chas. L. Mead.<br /> - John H. Washburn. -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td colspan="2" class="center"> - G. B. Willcox. -</td> - -</tr> -</table> -</div> - -<p>By vote of the Association, the officers named by the committee were -elected. President Tobey made remarks appropriate to his election as -President.</p> - -<p>By vote of the Association, the report of the committee on the Indians was -taken from the table, and discussed by President Tobey.</p> - -<p>By invitation, Rev. Dr. Rust, Corresponding Secretary of the Freedmen’s -Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, addressed the Association.</p> - -<p>District-Secretary Powell extended an invitation from the Congregational -Churches of Chicago to the Association, to hold the next Annual Meeting -in Chicago. The Association voted to recommend to the Executive Committee -that, if deemed expedient by them, the invitation be accepted.</p> - -<p>The Secretary then read the minutes, which were adopted.</p> - -<p>After the Benediction by Rev. Stephen M. Newman, the Association adjourned -to meet at 7.30 P. M.</p> - - -<h4>Thursday Evening.</h4> - -<p>An audience filling the church assembled at 7.30 o’clock. The services -opened with a voluntary by the choir. Prayer was offered by Rev. Jonathan -Edwards, of Grantville, Mass. The hymn “Great God of nations” was then -sung by the choir and congregation. Secretary Strieby, then read a -paper on “The Work of Half a Generation among the Freedmen.” The hymn, -“The morning light is breaking” was sung. An address by Rev. Dr. Hartranft, -of Hartford, followed. The hymn “My country, ’tis of thee” was sung. -An address was then made by Rev. Albert H. Plumb, of Boston. The following -vote of thanks to the churches of Taunton, for their reception of the Association, -as proposed by Secretary Woodworth, was unanimously passed:</p> - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>The American Missionary Association renders hearty thanks to the Congregational -churches of this city, for the invitation to hold its Thirty-second Anniversary in Taunton. -Especially to the Broadway church, for the use of its house of worship for the different -sessions of the meeting, and of its chapel and parlors for the Committees and -friends in attendance; to the Winslow church, for the use of its chapel and parlors -for the entertainment of their numerous guests from abroad; to the families of the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_371" id="Page_371">[Pg 371]</a></span> -Congregational churches, for abounding and pleasant hospitality; to the Committee of -Arrangements, for wise and generous plans to meet all demands of the meeting and the -wants of the guests; to the chorister and choir of this church, for most delightful aid in -the service of song, and to all who have contributed to render the meeting a pleasure and -a profit to those who have been in attendance.</p> - -<p>Also, it renders sincere thanks to the writers of the different papers, and to the Committees -and speakers who have given time and thought, and so greatly aided in the -power and success of the meeting.</p> -</div> - -<p>A response was made by Rev. Dr. Blake, of the Committee of Arrangements. -The closing prayer was offered by Rev. A. H. Plumb, of Boston. -The Doxology was sung, and, with the Benediction by Rev. Dr. Hartranft, the -Association adjourned.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>ADDRESS OF REV. SYLVANUS HEYWOOD.</h3> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<span class="smcap">Mr. President and Christian Friends:</span> - -<p>I do not feel that I can stand here to give any instruction, nor scarcely any stimulus, -in the work you are engaged in. Your presence is enough for that. But there are four -or five points which seem to need special emphasis at this time—points upon which there -appears to be some doubt in the minds of the people of the North.</p> - -<p>First, is there absolute necessity of a higher education for the Freedmen in the United -States? I do not say of a common-school education, for all admit the necessity of that. -But I apprehend that there are many people who doubt the policy of founding universities -at the South. I have a suspicion that thousands of dollars have been withheld -from this Association for that very reason. This seems to me a most important work. I -think upon it depends the vital principle of equal rights for all. You may enact laws, -and hedge them about with penalties for securing the rights of the blacks, but law alone -will prove a failure. But give to them the highest Christian culture, and they will not -only demand, but command, their rights. Give them a common-school education, and it -will be a blessing to them; but with nothing more, they will remain but hewers of wood -and drawers of water. They will be <em>in</em> society, but not <em>of</em> it. But give them the highest -culture among cultured men, and the case will be far different. It is too late in the -day to raise the question whether they are capable of this. This Association has demonstrated -that, day by day. I have spent ten years as a teacher among the whites, and -two among the blacks; and I must say that I accomplished more in those two years than -in the ten—more in the way of giving instruction. I say it is too late to raise that question -at all. It is already demonstrated. Let them be educated with broad culture. Let -them have the training that will put them in possession of practical skill, such as shall -win success. Let them have their own lawyers, well trained in legal lore, so that they -shall be able—in that natural eloquence in which they excel—to carry conviction to dignified -courts. Let them have clergymen, not only earnest and sanctified, but able to -cope with the deep things of science and theology—men able to stand before the most -learned bodies. Let them have statesmen, well grounded in philosophy, history and -government, so that they will be able not only to win victories upon the stump, but in -the halls of legislation. Let their homes become homes of Christian culture and social -refinement Then, and not till then, will they cease to struggle for their rights, and will -take them; and not a dog will dare wag his tongue against them.</p> - -<p>I feel that this is a subject of the most vital importance. Whoever considers it, I -think will say that this Association has been wise in planting these influences at the -South. I believe that here lies the master-key to its social and political problems.</p> - -<p>The next point to which I would call your attention is the necessity of planting new -churches all over the South—Congregational churches. People ask if they need such -churches down there now. Certainly; and it is practically impossible to work there without -them. We must work there with them. We have heard to-day that the old churches -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_372" id="Page_372">[Pg 372]</a></span> -in the shadow of our institutions have grown purer and better. It is absolutely necessary -that there should be an influence from the outside upon these churches. Men ask -after the Uncle Toms of the South—ask if it is all imagination. By no means. The -Uncle Toms of the South are met just about as frequently as the Harlan Pages of the -North.</p> - -<p>Men say that the old churches largely stand in the way of their own people. -People testify that one of the greatest obstacles in the way of this educational question -is to be found in the pastors themselves of those churches. As a class, they do not want -their flocks to know more than they do. This is one of the greatest difficulties to be contended -with. We must have churches outside of the old ones. Does not the grace of -God abound in them? Yes, I believe there are multitudes who have it. But when that -question is asked, I am always reminded of that familiar anecdote of the old clergyman -who had a fair daughter who was noted for her violent temper. A young man became -enamored of her, and asked for her hand. The old man was not willing to palm off -damaged goods. He said, “It is not wise to take her.” “Why not?” said the young -man; “isn’t she a Christian; isn’t she converted?” “Yes,” said the old man, “but -you must remember that the grace of God can live where you and I can’t.” So the -grace of God can bring forth influences to serve Him down there, but these churches -stand as an obstacle. It is absolutely necessary to form new churches, that we be not -burdened by the old effete organizations. I believe in Congregationalism. It may be -very well for those of a different polity to talk of the God of the hills and the valleys -and the dry places and streams; but our God is the King of the whole earth. It may be -well for those of a different polity to quote their different authorities, but the only authority -we recognize is the authority of Him whose dominion stretches from sea to sea -and from pole to pole. Such is Congregationalism. It is adapted to every human being -God has made. It may indeed take on different forms. You have pure, limpid water. -Pour it into different vessels, but it will be the same limpid water still. So, take Congregationalism -in the tropics or wherever you please, and it will be Congregationalism -still.</p> - -<p>Brother Pike would not pardon me if I did not allude to Africa. The ways of God -are mysterious. We must walk by faith, and not by sight. We hear His voice saying, -“This is the way; walk ye in it.” In this darkness we see His hand. The providence -of God towards this nation, for generations, was exceedingly mysterious. But during the -last forty years it has been becoming exceedingly clear. In the raising of this Society -and the doing away with slavery, we can see almost visibly the hand of God displayed -upon the midnight sky, pointing to that dark continent, saying we should send these -freemen forth as apostles of light, to purify and make glad their ancestral homes. And I -believe the providence of God is leading us to still greater achievements.</p> - -<p>This Association, born amid the throes of slavery, is almost the only organization -that stands for that principle which underlies the oneness of humanity. It seems to -have been raised up that through it the churches might bring their influence to bear -upon the vital issue of the hour. What is it? The same as it has been from the beginning -of this nation—the same as in India—caste is the barrier everywhere. The battle -rages to-day from Maine to California between classes of men. It is for this Association -to stand up and contend against the foes that arise against whatever is good and right. -If this Association ever hesitates thus to stand, whether it be in South Carolina, Massachusetts, -or the Black Hills, then will its prestige be lost. But, thank God, there is no -such fate for this Society. When the wolves of Communism are barking about our -doors; when the shrieks of degrading socialism come up into our ears, it is no time to -hesitate. It is time to resist their filth and set up the banner of that pure Gospel, under -whose folds can be no bondman—neither Chinaman nor black—but where all shall -enjoy the equality of the sons of God. We can almost see the hand of God visibly pouring -into this nation from all sides as into the extended hopper of a mighty mill, that -here they may be amalgamated. Here He brought the red man of the forest; then the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_373" id="Page_373">[Pg 373]</a></span> -Anglo-Saxon race; then He reached out to Africa and plucked up the black diamond; -then He sent the phlegmatic Teutons and the Scandinavians; and even now He is opening -old Cathay and pouring upon us swarms of Asiatics. “He hath made of one blood -all nations of men that dwell upon the face of the whole earth.” There is no proposition -which so awakens the fiendish hate of mankind as this. States and nations are -rising up in indignation against this purpose of God. It belongs to Christian people to -stand up and denounce God’s curse on whoever shall deny His will. Accursed be he -who dares to keep out any nation or tribe under the heavens! Accursed any political -party that goes through the country trying to raise a quarrel between men! Yea, -accursed will be the nation itself that dares to make enactments to separate or make -distinctions between races of men! It belongs to Christian people to stand up, and, -in the teeth of antagonism, in defiance of States, governments, legislatures, and -Protestant Congresses in the United States—to declare, “What God hath joined together, -let not man put asunder.”</p> - -<p>There are many insects from which we shrink with loathing. But here comes the -naturalist who takes his lens and pours in upon the insect the solar ray, and we stand -back in amazement at the beauty and perfection of the work of God. It is the duty of -us all to act the part of the naturalist towards these despised races—these degraded -classes. Let us put them under the lens of that wonderful utterance: “Inasmuch -as ye did it unto one of the least of these ye did it unto me.” Pour into that lens the -light of the last day, and we shall see them endued with the majesty of the Most High God.</p> - -<p>I believe this the pressing duty of the hour. If we shall take counsel of our fears—if -we are afraid to let Christianity grapple with infidel Romanism, even with heathenism, -God will remand us back to forty years in the wilderness, <a name="Err_4" id="Err_4"></a>but will bring in our children -to drive out these Anakim of our faithless terror.</p> -</div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>ADDRESS ON CHINESE MISSIONS IN AMERICA.</h3> - -<p class="center">REV. E. S. ATWOOD.</p> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p>I am requested to add to the written report a few words, which will be unreasonably -brief, in view of the importance of the subject. I count it a great misfortune that we should -have been obliged to postpone to the last, weary, unenthusiastic hours of our meeting, the -consideration of a subject which is one of the great problems this Association is set to solve. -It would have been well for us if we had been allowed time to open the information -that is accessible to us on this subject. There are many who think the Chinese question -a very small affair. We get but faint rumors of it on these Eastern shores. Yet that -little cloud on the Western horizon, not larger than a man’s hand to-day, is destined to -cover the whole land, and will either be found to be filled with tempests or refreshing -rain, according as the people meet the exigencies of the hour. The Chinese question -will by-and-by, I believe, assume a proportion quite equal to that of the negro question. -There is this peculiarity about it—almost every other department of work in this -Association is amply provided for. The question of the evangelization of the Indian is -comparatively a temporary question; for not many generations will pass before only a -scattered remnant of Indian tribes will be left in this land. The welfare and lifting up -of the black race is continually under consideration. But who cares for the Chinese? -The discussion in regard to them is limited and local. And yet their presence on this -continent is a matter of national interest. It starts grave problems, that have somehow -to be studied and solved.</p> - -<p>There are three classes in the land to-day who are studying this question, and are -giving us their conclusions upon it. First of all, we have the Communists, east and west, -who are trying to grapple with the question, and settle it. We have one Dennis Kearney -going up and down the land, and men say he is a loud-mouthed demagogue, whose -utterances have no weight of public opinion behind them. Not at all, Mr. President. -Dennis Kearney is a representative man—a John the Baptist, crying, “Prepare ye the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_374" id="Page_374">[Pg 374]</a></span> -way of the Devil, and make his paths straight.” Communism, as a whole, proposes to -deal with the Chinese, by driving them out from the land. If you doubt that assertion, -look at the facts. Documentary statements in regard to the matter, compiled by B. S. -Brooks, an eminent counsellor on the Pacific Coast, have been presented to a Joint Commission -of both Houses of Congress. I wish they could be put into the hands of every -Christian man. Unfortunately, the books that give any real information on these statistics -are somehow not easily accessible. This setting forth of facts in the documents of -Mr. Brooks, shows incontrovertibly that Communism in California is murderous in its -intent towards the Chinese.</p> - -<p>It has put its intention into acts. It has outraged unoffending men, and struck them -down relentlessly in the public street. Violence of that sort is comparatively safe. The -testimony of the Chinaman cannot be taken in opposition to the white man. The only -chance a Chinaman, who is about to be murdered, has to obtain justice, is to secure a -white witness to see it done. The rougher element on the Western coast is bound to -annihilate the Chinaman. And all for no good reason. They are not numerous. There -are only 100,000 Chinamen scattered up and down the coast. They foment no disturbances. -There are only two offenses charged against them—grave offenses—and these -are, that they live economically, and don’t get drunk; and so are able to work for lower -wages than the masses of the Irish and native-born population.</p> - -<p>There is another power trying to solve this problem, and that is the politicians. They -are no more successful than the Communists. They have secured the enactment of certain -statutes, but those statutes are often iniquitous. The Legislature of California has -enacted what seems to me the most infamous laws that ever disgraced any statute-book. -The Fugitive Slave Law was a Golden Rule in comparison. Let us see. It is well -known that the Chinamen are laundry men. They do their work in their shops, and -carry it out themselves. Forthwith, the Legislature of San Francisco enacts that every -laundryman who carries his work out with a horse shall pay a dollar a month; but every -laundryman who carries it out by hand shall pay <span class="smcap">fifteen</span> dollars a month.</p> - -<p>The Chinese are gregarious. They crowd together in tenement-houses, from which -people of other nationalities are excluded. By Section Second of an Act approved April -3, 1876, by the Legislature of California, it is provided that “Any person or persons -found sleeping or lodging, or who hires or uses for the purpose of sleeping, any room or -apartment which contains less than 500 cubic feet of space in the clear, for each person -so occupying such room or apartment, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall, -upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten, or more than fifty dollars, or -by both such fine and imprisonment.” That is, says Mr. Brooks, as a penalty for lodging -in rooms containing less than 500 cubic feet of space, they are to be thrust into -prison cells of less than one-fifth the dimension. Certainly</p> - - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“For ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain,<br /></span> -<span class="i1">The heathen Chinee is [<span class="smcap">not</span>] peculiar.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>Mr. Luttrell moved in Congress that the steamboat bills be so amended as to forbid -the employment of a Chinaman in any capacity whatsoever. Congressman Shelley, of -Alabama, introduced a bill providing that all Chinamen coming to the United States, -except officially, be taxed $250 per capita, or serve five years in the penitentiary. -The Chinese in California are made to pay more than $42,000 school taxes annually, -while their children are not admitted to the public schools, neither are there other schools -provided for them. Thirteen hundred Chinamen asked the California Legislature for school -privileges for 3,000 of their children, seeking only such as are provided for those of African -and Indian descent. Their petition was immediately laid on the table, and stigmatized -as dangerous. This is only a specimen of this class legislation on the Pacific Coast. -They are very ingenious there. Just as fast as one law is decided unconstitutional, they -have another.</p> - -<p>Communism crushes the Chinese. The politician says, “They sha’n’t come here -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_375" id="Page_375">[Pg 375]</a></span> - -if we can prevent it by oppressive legislation.” As a protest against the unreasonableness -of this course of procedure, the testimony of Postmaster-General Key is of special -value. In a recent conversation, he gave the following as the result of his observations -during his visit to the Pacific Coast: “The politicians,” said Mr. Key, “are almost -to a man against the Chinese, and antagonize them bitterly. The merchants, the -manufacturers, the farmers, and nearly the entire employing class, are very fond of the -Chinese, and prefer them to any other laborers. They speak in the highest terms of -the Chinese; they say that they are docile, obedient, obliging, punctual, hardworking, -and faithful; they are exceedingly thrifty and economical; they are temperate in their -habits, do not drink liquor of any kind, eat very little meat, and live almost entirely on -rice. It is wonderful to see how little a Chinaman can live on. Their economy struck -me as something marvellous. Large numbers of them sleep in a single ill-ventilated -room; they constantly violate the fundamental laws of health, yet they are seemingly -very healthy. I was astonished to learn they had no hospital. I was shown through -the Chinese Quarter of San Francisco by the Mayor, and saw everything in that locality; -but there are a number of places here in Washington fully as bad, if not worse, than anything -I saw in Chinatown. I also observed that the railroad companies employed a large -number of Chinamen, and found them excellent workmen.” Evidently, the politicians -are not competent to the settlement of the Chinese question.</p> - -<p>The American Missionary Association takes hold of the matter in the right way. It -says: Let the Chinese come and be treated as men. Let them have the gospel preached -to them, and be lifted into a civilization that is level with your own. Communism has -not succeeded, so far. The politician has not succeeded. The American Missionary -Association has shown itself able to grapple with the question. They have got hold of -the right end of the rope. If they are encouraged by the churches of America, they will -solve this problem.</p> - -<p>There appeared in the <cite>Congregationalist</cite>, some weeks ago, an editorial of great merit, -in which this radical mistake was made: it was a sort of apology for the Chinese, because -they were so few in numbers. It said they were decreasing instead of increasing. -Why, Mr. Chairman, look across the ocean and see that great nation, covering one-tenth -of the globe, and holding one-third its population. So crowded is it that millions -(even more than our entire population) who never have a home upon land, are born, live -and die floating upon rivers and canals. A more industrious race is not; neither can -agriculture, which still ranks far above any other employment, be found anywhere else -carried to such perfection of thoroughness. There is no idleness among these millions. -The monstrous human ant-heap is astir. They are also an educated people, nimble in -figures, as well as in all kinds of labor. There is but one written language for all the -population, which has been transmitted, with even no dialectic changes, for at least 2,500 -years. It is a nation industrious and frugal. We talk about the heathen Chinese, but -we had better talk about the heathen Anglo-Saxon. What useful art is practised to-day -that China has not had for centuries? What we count the great discoveries of modern -science, may turn out not to be so modern after all. I saw a statement made within -ten days, that it has been discovered that Edison’s phonograph was known in China two -hundred years before Edison was born. China has a history—a record which cannot be -ignored.</p> - -<p>We do vastly ill when we talk about the “heathen Chinee.” Their religion is something -against which we set our faces; but their character is worth commendation. I -was talking, the other day, with a gentleman who had passed the greater part of his -life in China. He said there was not an element in the Japanese character that was not -in the Chinese, and of the two, he considers the Chinese the more hopeful. In dealing -with the Chinese, we are not dealing with refuse material. China is a great nation. It -has its place among the foremost of the earth. It is a sad thing for this great nation of -ours, if it cannot endure the little leaven on the Pacific Coast. Do you suppose it will -affect the great mass of Christianity unfavorably?</p> -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_376" id="Page_376">[Pg 376]</a></span> - -<p>Over 300 of the Chinese have already been received as members of the Protestant -Churches in California, and 700 are under Christian instruction, studying the doctrines -of our faith, while 1,000 attend Sunday-school, and two young men are preparing -for the Christian ministry. Even those who do not come under the influence of such -instruction can scarcely be said to be the worst people in the land. In 1875, of the 7,643 -arrests for drunkenness, not one was a Chinaman; of the 3,263 paupers admitted to -the alms-house, only six were Chinamen; of 83 murderers hanged during the last -year in the United States, not one was a Chinaman.</p> - -<p>If any other race, born or naturalized, on this continent, can show a similarly good -record, let them step to the front and declare it.</p> - -<p>The truth is, Mr. President, we are only standing on the threshold of this great -question. I believe if you and I live to come to these meetings ten years hence, less will -be said about the blacks and more about the Chinese. We need to understand this great -work now opening before us. We ought to remove one source of prejudice against the -Chinese. Men say the Chinese must go, because their coming reduces their wages. I -happen to have a statement of wages in California for the past year, clipped only a few -months since from a San Francisco paper: Carpenters, from $3 to $3.50; bricklayers, -$4 to $5; painters, $3; plasterers, $3.50; hod-carriers, $3; stone-cutters, $4; machinists, -$3 to $4; common laborers, $2; house work in families, per week, $6 to $7. Can -we make a show equally in favor of the wages of the workingmen on this sun-rise side -of the continent, where the Chinese are insignificant as a competing power? The truth -is, all this cry about their taking the bread out of our children’s mouths is simply -nonsense.</p> - -<p>But it is said there is another difficulty. The Irishman comes to this country, and -is assimilated. The German, also, and is assimilated. The Chinaman comes, and he alone -is not assimilated. Why not? First of all there is no provision for his naturalization, if -he desires it. The sixth article of the Burlingame Treaty provides that “Chinese subjects -visiting or residing in the United States, shall enjoy the same privileges, immunities -and exemptions in respect to travel or residence as may be enjoyed by the citizen-subjects -of the most favored nation; but nothing herein contained shall be held to confer -naturalization upon the citizens of the United States in China, nor upon subjects of -China in the United States.” More than this, there is a certain stress of public opinion, -which is weightier than treaty provisions. The head of the Chinese Embassy in -this country was confronted with this question; <a name="Err_5" id="Err_5"></a>“Why is it that your countrymen come -here alone, without any families?” He replied: “It is about as much as a Chinaman -can do to keep his head on his shoulders alone, without bringing his family.” There is -nothing in the nature of things to prevent the absorption of the Mongolian into American -citizenship. It seems to be the peculiar office of this nation to assimilate every -element. It makes no difference what our estimate of a man is; if he is a man he can, -by the power of the gospel, be brought into oneness with us. Walk up and down the -pavement of the mosque of St. Sophia, and here and there you brush with your steps -bits of gilded and colored glass that, rude in shape and void of beauty, seem only fit to -be swept into a corner; but lift your eyes to the seraphim that blaze in flaming mosaics -on the ceiling, and you see how the artist’s skill has wrought just such rough fragments -into forms of grandeur that awe the soul. Our American Christianity gathers the best -and the worst of the race forces of the world, and is able, by God’s good help, out of -them to compact a nationality with which to face the world.</p> - -<p>“The Chinese must go,” Mr. Kearney says. Yes, we accept that motto, but we put -our own meaning to it. We say, “the Chinese must go” and come, whenever and -wherever they please. This Association is called of God, I believe, to stand up and -assert that, as it has opportunity, no effort shall be spared to give them place among the -sanctified of the land.</p></div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_377" id="Page_377">[Pg 377]</a></span></p> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>ADDRESS UPON THE AFRICAN MISSION.</h3> - -<p class="center">REV. G. D. PIKE.</p> - - -<div class="blockquot"> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mr. President</span>:—In seconding the report respecting the Mendi Mission, I beg -leave to say, that there are four points of interest we ought to consider.</p> - -<p>1. One is the Providential call of this Association to Tropical Africa. At the beginning -of its existence, as Abraham heard the voice of the Lord, saying, “Get thee -out of thy country, into a land I will shew thee,” so the fathers of this Association -heard the call of God and entered the Dark Continent, anticipatory of those great -events about to transpire. In 1842, when the Mendi Mission was established by the -return of the Amistad captives, who had been freed from slavery in America, the most -important parts of Central Africa were either left blank on our maps, or filled up with -great deserts, mountains of the moon, and figures of lions and dragons. It was -known, however, that the Mendi country was a great slave preserve, from which ten -thousand black people were sent annually into bondage. The Amistad Committee at -once pre-ëmpted a portion of that great and wonderful missionary field, which is now -so signally attracting the attention of the civilized world.</p> - -<p>2. A second point of interest pertains to the land that has been shown us.</p> - -<p>By turning to your maps, you will discover that the back lot of the Mendi Mission -extends eastwards 4,200 miles, on the parallel of about seven degrees north latitude, -over a fertile zone of tropical country. Mr. Stanley tells us the object of his journey -was, “To flash a torch of light across the western half” of this zone. Other explorers -have contributed their light. Lieutenant Burton, in ’57, carried his torch as far as the -Tanganyika. Captain Speke announced to the world about the same time that he had -discovered a mighty inland sea, surrounded on every side by the “richest and pleasantest -garden in the world;” and the Victoria Nyanza Lake, with Mtesa’s kingdom, were -added to our knowledge and wealth—alluring alike to the statesman, merchant and missionary. -Meanwhile David Livingstone moved up from the southeast, illumining the -whole regions of the Zambezi River—the Nyassa, Bangweolo and Tanganyika Lakes—proceeding -as far as Nyangwe on the unknown Lualaba—scattering through all his -reports those seed thoughts respecting Christian missions, that have developed into -desires to carry the light of life to the “real heathen” in those latitudes. Then, Sir -Samuel Baker called the attention of the world afresh to ancient Ethiopia, with one -hundred and forty millions of acres of the richest land in the world; covered with millions -of people, herds of cattle, and a varied and luxurious vegetation. Discovering -also the Albert Nyanza Lake, embosomed amidst mountain ranges—the abodes of frost -and snow—and hardy, warlike tribes. Dr. Schweinfurth also penetrated far into the -back lot of our mission; flashing his chemical and botanical light, revealing most -beautiful flora—every variety of fauna and fish—to say nothing of pigmies and giants. -Neither has Commander Cameron contributed the least by his journey across the Continent -from East to West. The light given us by these seven explorers is woven into -a rainbow of promise, which spans those unknown slave preserves of former generations—beautiful -as “Canaan’s fair and happy land” to the Father of the faithful.</p> - -<p>If you start from our Mendi Mission and proceed a few hundred miles southeast, -you enter the West African gold fields in Ashantee land, where the native rulers are -covered with golden ornaments, carrying gold-hilted swords, and attended by hundreds -of followers, wearing gold plates upon their breasts, with royal cooks serving their -masters with golden spoons. If you journey still farther, to one degree of North -latitude on the Livingstone, you reach a country where they build their temples of -ivory, and construct their boats with accommodations for eighty oarsmen, and fight -their battles with vast armies. If you keep straight on, you reach Munza’s kingdom, -“enriched by such beauties as might be worthy of Paradise.” Still further, you see the -arena of the missionary labors of Rev. Chas. New; where high mountains rise one above -another until they are lost in clouds—mountains with beautiful slopes, covered -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_378" id="Page_378">[Pg 378]</a></span> -with patches of cultivated land, and irrigated by brooks, streams and torrents, which -tumble and splash on all sides. Meanwhile, you would have journeyed over countries -six thousand feet above the level of the sea with an equable climate, and other favorable -conditions, such as led Captain Speke to prophecy that in course of time “one of the -greatest nations on earth” would be built up in the heart of Africa.</p> - -<p>3. But there is another point of quite as much interest to us. I refer to the inspirations -that have been kindled in the hearts of Christians in Africa’s behalf; the efforts -that have been put forth since our Mission was established for reclaiming Africa. -Here let me refer briefly to parallel Providences. There are three of these which are -very striking: (1) The revelations to us of the fertility, resources and people of the -vast interior of Central Africa; (2) The abolition of American slavery; (3) The -eagerness of people of African descent for education at the South, coupled with a -great desire to emigrate to Africa (It is probable that not less than half a million -black people in America have signified their desire to go to Africa within the last -twelve months). To this must be added the desire manifested by Christians of our -own race, everywhere to follow up these providences with missionary endeavors. -These have been put forth by the English, Scotch, German and American; skirting -the borders of Equatorial Africa, both on the East and West Coast; resulting in the -conversion of thousands of heathen during the past twenty-five years. Since the -close of our war, and more especially during the past five years, great enthusiasm has -been manifested for what are termed Central African Missions—missions in the lake -regions upon the highlands of the interior.</p> - -<p>The Scotch and English have planted their stations on the Nyassa Lake. The London -Missionary Society had, at last reports, a corps of missions, heading towards the -Tanganyika, while the Church Missionary Society has occupied Mtesa’s kingdom, in -Uganda, on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, and the Baptists of Great Britain are -searching for a station on the Livingstone River. The fertile country thus being entered, -extends for four thousand miles from east to west, in some latitudes, and three -thousand from north to south, and probably contains a hundred million people.</p> - -<p>In the providence of God, the American Missionary Association is on that ground. -It is the one missionary society of our denomination that sustains missions there. We -believe we have an inheritance in that country, and a great destiny in connection with -its redemption. We have been true to the negro from the beginning, seeking to do -right in his behalf, without fear or favor. I think it is not too much to assert that -heaven believes in this Association; that God created it, and will use it for great things -in Africa. Good men have believed in it. Mr. Avery gave to it property valued at -$100,000, for African Missions. Others, we trust, will follow his example; for we suspect -the negro was right when his attentive ear caught the accents which he wove into -his song:</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i4">“The Lord said to Gabriel:<br /></span> -<span class="i5">Take down the silver trumpet,<br /></span> -<span class="i5">Loud as the seven thunders!<br /></span> -<span class="i5">Wake the sleeping nations—<br /></span> -<span class="i5">You will see the Christian rising.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>We are truly seeing the Christian rising—as “the trumpet sounds it in our souls”—that -God has come to reclaim Africa.</p> - -<p>4. The fourth point of interest relates to what we have been trying to do about it. -The story of the departure of our colored missionaries has been sufficiently told. The -result of their first year’s efforts has been spread before you. Let me give you, in -their own language, their convictions as to the best missions for Africa. Mr. A. E. -White—a Hampton student, now at Avery Station—writes: “You would like to know -what I think about colored missionaries. My firm belief is that they can do more than -any other missionaries under the sun. The natives look upon a white person as unnatural, -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_379" id="Page_379">[Pg 379]</a></span> -and think he is above them in every way, and that God made him so. They -also think it is of no use for them to try to do the things they see the white man do. -But, on the other hand, when they see a colored man do anything, they think if he can -do it, they can do it themselves. Do not think I say this because I am a colored man. -I say it because I know it is true.”</p> - -<p>Mr. Albert Miller, who went out from the Fisk University, writes: “If Africa is to -be evangelized, as I believe it will be, it must be done through the children of the -summer and sunny clime, educated and Christianized in the South. You in America -can’t see this as plainly as one who mingles with this people, and has all chances to investigate -in regard to this matter.”</p> - -<p>It gives us pleasure to state that the success of our colored band beyond the great -waters, warrants as strong expressions as those I have quoted. A letter from Rev. -Floyd Snelson, dated West Africa, September 13th, contains the following: “The 24th -of this month will make one year since we left New York. Result of work, three -stations are opened, nearly three hundred children have been enrolled in the day -schools, and about the same number, old and young, in Sabbath-schools. From among -these numbers, twenty-four have given their hearts to Christ and united with the -Church, and are endeavoring to lead Christian lives. The object of the missionary is -to go forward with the work into the interior. There are many places which might be -opened to the saving of souls, if the money and men were furnished.”</p> - -<p>I repeat, brethren, we had an early call to our African field. God has spanned His -bow of light and promise over it. He has kindled inspirations in our hearts concerning -it. He has prospered the freedmen who have gone forth for its redemption.</p> - -<p>Surely we have a right to believe “the great Admiral, who knows the way,” has -taken our ship in tow, and, as the Jubilees sing,</p> - -<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">“The old Ark is a movering, a movering, a movering;<br /></span> -<span class="i1">The old Ark is movering, a movering along.”<br /></span> -</div></div> - -<p>Shall we remember our birthright, and enter more fully upon our inheritance? -Shall we go up, with the other great missionary societies, to possess this land? Shall -we return over the sea, with songs and rejoicing, those sable sons and daughters, whose -fathers came with chains and groans to our American shore?</p> - -<p>Notwithstanding our great work at the South, I verily believe this to be our greatest, -and that the mighty Ruler of all events will crown our efforts in this direction -with magnificent success. Therefore, Mr. President, I most heartily second this -Report.</p></div> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>THE ANNUAL MEETING.</h3> - - -<p>We have given, as usual, in the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> next following our Annual Meeting, a -large part of our increased space to the Report of the Executive Committee, the minutes -of the meeting, and the addresses made on that occasion. Here we need only to -add a few general observations on the special features of the three days at Taunton.</p> - -<p>First of all, the attendance was gratifying both as to numbers and quality. The -earlier sessions drew together more people than are ordinarily present at the start; -and, despite the two rainy days which followed, the numbers increased to the end. -The evening meetings were crowded, and, had the weather been fine, would have doubtless -overflowed, so as to have made the opening of a second church necessary. It -was a representative gathering, too, of ministers, well known for their active interest -in all good works, and of substantial laymen from Massachusetts and the coasts beyond. -We should be glad if, more and more, the men who contribute either largely or -statedly to our work, would come to these assemblies, and question the methods of our -work and of our administration of their gifts. The executive officers of the Association<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_380" id="Page_380">[Pg 380]</a></span> -desire to maintain relations of perfect frankness with those whose trustees they -are, are glad to answer all inquiries, and to submit to all intelligent criticism, to meet -with the special committees when requested, and to give all possible information;—sure -that, as in this case, such detailed knowledge of their ways and works will only furnish -a better basis for the confidence, so largely given, of the churches and the -friends of the lowly.</p> - -<p>We need not repeat here what is fully set forth in the preceding pages—the reports -of the year’s work and of its indorsement by the constituency of the Association. -Rather we will confine ourselves to the things which do not there appear.</p> - -<p>The sermon, on the first evening, by Rev. S. E. Herrick, D. D., was full of grand -thoughts, clothed in words of forceful grace, from the text: “But ye <em>are</em> a chosen generation, -a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew -forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous -light.”—1. Peter, ii, 9.</p> - -<p>Three thoughts were deduced from those words set forth, and with ample illustration: -(1) God has a people in the world, not marked by geographical or race lines, -and yet one people and one nation, who are such through their relation to God by Jesus -Christ; (2) This people has undergone a marvellous transformation from darkness -into His light; (3) It is intrusted with a solemn priestly function, a sacrificial work, -for the redemption of men. The special priestly work of God’s people in this land was -set forth, and the historic fact that, having failed to fulfill it, they were made to suffer -on the altar of sacrifice, and that unless they should meet the obligations of their -office now, they must again be called to an account.</p> - -<p>Five papers of great value were read during the meetings. These have been printed -in full in the supplement to the Boston <cite>Traveller</cite>, and largely circulated among our -friends.</p> - -<p>1. “The Present Time all-important in the salvation of our Country,” by Rev. Stacy -Fowler, D.D. The paper showed how this was a critical time in our history as a -nation; the great need, a revival of “the American spirit,” especially in these three respects—the -nation’s faith in God, the purity of the family, and the elevation of the -lowly. The Church must do the work. Incidentally, a strong argument was made to -show the deteriorating tendency of the amalgamation of races, sustained by the testimony -of Prof. Lewis Agassiz.</p> - -<p>2. “The Denominational Polity of the American Missionary Association,” by Rev. -G. L. Walker, D. D. The real question is, shall we only seek to Christianize, or shall -we also try to Congregationalize the Freedmen? The paper discussed the nature of -Congregationalism, and the prevalent characteristics of the colored race; and, from the -comparison, drew conclusions not very favorable to the prospects of denominational -success, yet by no means discrediting what has already been accomplished in that direction, -or discouraging further efforts.</p> - -<p>3. “America’s Opportunity the World’s Salvation,” by Rev. C. L. Woodworth. -The end of Christian work is to spread the saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. -This needs human activities, directed with strategic wisdom and sanctified energy. -Each nation has its peculiar work: England to send forth Christian and civilizing -agencies through her widely scattered colonies; America to Christianize the peoples -from other lands who come to her shores; and to send back, through them, the Gospel of -Christian civilization to their benighted countrymen.</p> - -<p>4. “A Revival of Righteousness toward the Despised Races of America,” by Rev. -Ebenezer Cutler, D. D. That they are despised is the main indictment which the -paper details at length. This unrighteousness prejudices our Christian work, restrains<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_381" id="Page_381">[Pg 381]</a></span> -the heartiness of many, even, who are engaged in it, and hinders the blessing of God on -our labors. This revival must begin by reflection, leading to repentance; must go on to -the repeal of unjust and the execution of just laws, to a righteous public sentiment, -and such atonement as can be made for past wrongs.</p> - -<p>5. “The Work of Half a Generation among the Freedmen,” by Secretary Strieby, -in which the progress since emancipation was traced, supported by much important -testimony, in material, educational and religious prosperity.</p> - -<p>We have given these brief analyses only to serve as an index to the contents of -these papers, and not at all as a substitute for their perusal. Still less would it be -possible to make good to our readers the misfortune of their absence from this inspiring -gathering. We are confident that we shall feel the impulse of it through the year.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<p>We are close upon the threshold of a new year. The churches, many of them, at -this time, are making up their schedules of benevolence for 1879. Do not forget, -we pray you, to give a good place to the Association, whose work is among -the least of these, the Master’s brethren, in our own land. Do not forget, you who -apportion your weekly contributions among the various fields, to give its due share, as -God shall give you light, to this peculiar work which presses its claims by so many -sacred pleas, and on the timely cultivation of which depend so largely the permanence -and purity of the spring itself. We would not have you neglect Judea, and Samaria, -nor even the uttermost parts of the earth, but only beseech you, earnestly and tearfully, -<em>Don’t forget Jerusalem</em>.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Several thousand dollars of the money pledged for the reduction of our debt, is -made conditional upon our paying up the full amount by the end of this year. We -beg our friends to bear this fact in mind, as a spur to make their thoughts quicker, and -their hands obey their generous promptings without delay. We cannot afford to lose -this offered help, and you cannot afford to have us. The impetus given at the Annual -Meeting to this debt-destroying work is not abated; our friends are reminding us of -their interest daily; some of those who were present at the meeting are pressing it, on -their own account, in the States from which they came. How soon will you enable -us to make our proclamation of emancipation from this bondage?</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Our readers will see that we have endeavored, in this number of the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span>, to -present them with the doings and the sayings of the Annual Meeting not already put -into print and circulation. The valuable and stirring addresses by Rev. Messrs. Atwood, -Heywood and Pike, we have been able to get in form already. Other equally thoughtful -and forcible addresses, though reported, have not yet come to us in such shape that -we can use them immediately. What you find here is what you did not find in the Supplement -to the <cite>Traveller</cite>. We beg you, then, to “read, mark, learn and inwardly digest.”</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A new cartridge, No. 5, of the series of pamphlets begun last year, is ready for distribution, -and contains Secretary Strieby’s review of half a generation of work among -the Freedmen. As a collation of facts and testimony, we commend it as furnishing to -thoughtful men the means of forming their own opinions on the success of past labors, -and on the hopefulness and the duty of pressing on the good work already begun -patiently to the desired end.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Three Communion Sets are needed for as many churches near Talladega, Ala. -Churches at the North can make good use of their old ones if they are about to replace -them with new.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_382" id="Page_382">[Pg 382]</a></span></p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>We invite attention to the call of Mr. Connett, in another column, for means to -erect cheap cottages for the accommodation of students. The small sum needed for -each cottage will enable many of our readers to accomplish a definite and useful object, -who cannot undertake larger enterprises. We indorse most heartily the appeal.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Miss Rebecca Tyler Bacon, daughter of Rev. Leonard Bacon, D.D., died at New -Haven, Ct., October 26th, 1878. She was a woman of rare gifts, of great intelligence, -and of extraordinary ability. She had the true missionary spirit in a self-sacrificing devotion -for the welfare of others, especially of the unfortunate and the debased.</p> - -<p>The Normal Institute, at Hampton, Va., was much indebted to her wise management -for its successful organization, and the impress of her mind and spirit will remain while -that institution stands. She was a power for good in her native city, where her counsel -and direction were given to many public and private charities, with untiring devotion.</p> - -<p>Her faithful and tender ministry as the eldest daughter and sister, amid trials and sorrow, -are best appreciated by those whom she cheered, and comforted, and strengthened. -Thousands in our churches will deeply sympathize with her honored and venerable father -in this bereavement.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="article"> - -<h3>ITEMS FROM SCHOOLS AND CHURCHES.</h3> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Wilmington, N. C.</span>—Religious interest is reported. Two young men have been -received into the church. Others seem very thoughtful. “Our little flock is a -working one.”</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">McLeansville, N. C.</span>—The Lord’s Supper was administered, October 13th, to about -100 communicants. Eleven united with the church on profession, ten of whom received -baptism.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Atlanta, Ga.</span>—The University is fuller than ever before at this time of the year. -The girls’ hall is crowded, and more are coming. The church, under Mr. Ashley’s -care, is flourishing in numbers and activity. Several conversions have occurred during -the summer. Fifteen persons stand propounded for membership. Storrs School, which -has been for several years under the care of the city Board of Education, is opened this -fall again, under the care of the A. M. A., and is full to the limit of its capacity.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Savannah, Ga.</span>—Mr. Koons has been transferred from the Emerson Institute, at -Mobile, to the Beach Institute, at Savannah, which has re-opened in its new building, -with over 200 pupils.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Mobile, Ala.</span>—Rev. D. L. Hickok goes from Talladega to Mobile, to take charge -both of the church and of Emerson Institute.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Anniston, Ala.</span>—A large number of conversions are reported at this place. Thirty-four -members were received into the church Sept. 22d. Twenty-six were baptized.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Montgomery, Ala.</span>—Swayne School re-opened October 1st. It has enrolled the first -week, 334 pupils. The teachers from the North reached their posts just in time, for the -city was quarantined against Louisville the day after their arrival.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Talladega, Ala.</span>—There have been four or five conversions in the last few weeks in -this church, and continued meetings in all the mission churches about here with a -marked degree of interest.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Helena, Texas.</span>—As the result of protracted meetings, following the meeting of the -Association, ten persons were received into the church.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tougaloo, Miss.</span>—The University will re-open on Thanksgiving Day.</p> -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_383" id="Page_383">[Pg 383]</a></span></p> -<p><span class="smcap">New Orleans, La.</span>—On account of the terrible plague of the Summer, Straight -University will not be opened until the first Monday in December.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Nashville, Tenn.</span>—At Fisk University the yellow fever deterred the students from -a prompt attendance at the beginning of the term. The school is increasing weekly.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chattanooga, Tenn.</span>—The Central South Conference met here November 7th.</p> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h2>THE FREEDMEN.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>ATLANTA, GA.</h3> - -<h4>Students’ Reports of Summer Work.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">MRS. T. N. CHASE.</p> - - -<p>School has opened with larger numbers -than for several years. Our graduates -seem to be doing much toward recommending -the school. The first Sabbath -afternoon of each new school-year is given -up to reports from our students, who have -been teaching through our summer vacation -of three months. Nothing in all our -school work interests me so much as these -reports. The only alloy in my enjoyment -is that thousands of Northern friends, -whose hearts would be equally cheered by -them, cannot enjoy them too.</p> - -<p>Those who attend meetings of the A. B. -C. F. M., and are thrilled with the reports -of returned missionaries, know something -of our pleasure. Yet, I suspect ours is -greater, for these missionaries are of our own -training, many of them led to Jesus in our -own school, and the fields reported are the -benighted spots of our native land.</p> - -<p>I will copy a few jottings, hastily taken -at the time. The first one says: “I have -the same old story to report, except a few -new things. Have taught in Monroe Co. -for four summers. The first year no white -people visited the school; the second -two came; the third year four; this year -thirty or forty. All think highly of Atlanta -University, and the Commissioner -begged me to supply the county with -teachers from this school. People are not -willing to sell land. Colored people doing -well as they can; anxious to get up higher -and want teachers to help them up.”</p> - -<p>Another says: “I had a half hour of -Bible study each morning. Devoted part -of Friday afternoons to talks against tobacco -and whiskey. All the Sunday-school -material the people had was a catechism -and some papers left locked up by the last -Atlanta teacher and not used since. Only -four colored people own land. Landowners -seem to ask such a price as they know -never can be paid. Some bargain for land, -and then pay enormous interest. One man -pays one hundred and fifty dollars a year -interest—all he can save. I advised them -to save their money till they got enough to -pay cash for their land. Met several white -young men, professing Christians, and had -pleasant talks with them. Closed school a -little before it was time to return, and -picked cotton in the meantime.”</p> - -<p>One of our girls, who graduates this -year, says: “The people seem poorer than -last year; crops failed. The land is poor, -and they pay high rent for it. But the -children are advancing in knowledge each -year. The school is well classified. Had -an exhibition at close. Did not spend -much time on it, but had them learn their -parts well. Several white visitors attended -it. One of the gentlemen talked well to -the people on morals. He went around -and told the people I was very smart. I -was told another one said I could read and -write better than any white woman in the -county.”</p> - -<p>Another girl said: “The white people -did not want teachers from Atlanta, because -they took the money out of the -county. They kept me, however, and -wanted the people to watch me. When I -closed they urged me to stay till Christmas.”</p> - -<p>One of our youngest teachers said: “I<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_384" id="Page_384">[Pg 384]</a></span> -reached the place in which I was to teach -on ‘Big Meeting’ day, and the people were -very angry to see me, for a daughter of -the most prominent colored man of the -place had been teaching there some years, -and wished to continue. She was very -incompetent, and the Commissioner had -sent for me. The father electioneered for -his daughter at the ‘big meeting,’ told -them she would wait on them for their -pay; she would be there if there was but -one scholar; she’d always look after her -chickens, etc.; but the Commissioner said -to them: ‘This young man can write the -best hand in the county, and you’d better -take him.’ So, after offering to teach for a -very little from the patrons, I got the -school. A white man had given the people -some land if they would build a -church. They did so, but used it during -the week for school. This made the donor -of the land angry, as he did not wish them -to have a school. The year before he and -his wife went to the building, drove off the -teacher, and then he nailed up the door on the -inside, while his wife stood on guard with -his gun. This summer, when my school -was nearly through, the building was -burned. It was very plain who did it. So, -for the little while, we all went to a cotton-gin -house. We laid some shingles down -for a floor, and hauled some logs in for -seats. A paper laid over the gin served for -my desk. We had our closing exercises -under a bush arbor. One day I asked the -children, ‘How many drink whiskey?’ -Twenty or thirty held up their hands and said -‘pa and ma drink it, and give it to me.’”</p> - -<p>Another says: “I see great improvement -in old people and children. Good -many own land and are still buying. One -man owns two hundred acres. Another -bought some land for eight hundred dollars, -and paid half last year, and is in a fair way -to pay the rest this year. I did not ask a -boy or girl to quit whiskey or tobacco, but -I preached temperance by example and -quiet conversation. There is harmony between -the races. They visit each other’s -churches. The bell of a white church tolled -for a colored woman. This year I had my -first exhibition, because I thought they -better learn to read and write first, then -exhibit after they had something to show. -Prepared the children after school. All -the white people attended.”</p> - -<p>Another said: “The morals of the people -are fearful. They don’t expect teachers to -teach morality. Every example set before -our people is one that has been contaminated -by slavery. If I see any one making -for this place I feel something will be done -for him. Every Atlanta student I see, I -feel, ‘There goes one that will liberate our -people from the monster, Immorality.’ -Asked the barkeeper if he sold much to -ministers and church members. He replied, -‘Most who buy are church members.’ -Then he said, ‘Do you see that -man with a big locket on his watch chain? -He owes me six dollars for whiskey.’ He -was the prominent minister of the place. -Still there is much progress in temperance. -There is an increasing kindly feeling between -the rich and poor. I heard the -editor of the Macon <cite>Telegraph</cite> talk to the -colored people. He said the Atlanta University -was doing more for the State than -the white State University at Athens, and -that the recitations were better.”</p> - -<p>Another, whose health would not allow -him to teach, and who stayed here at the -Home to work on the farm, said: “Above -all, we want God with us all the time, from -this day on. Once, during the summer, I -had for a moment such a conception of -God, that I felt if it continued five minutes -I could not live.” These words fell -upon my ears like the experiences of a Finney, -because they were from one who has -no patience with “dream religion,” and -whose godly life here for six years has been -a constant inspiration to us.</p> - -<p>Another said: “People are roused to -the subject of education. Children complain -if kept at home. The people can buy -land easily. Treated well by white men. -Most of the whiskey drunk is by white -people. Every man in the county knows -of Atlanta University. At the closing exercises, -a man begged all to save money -enough to go up to the College Commencement.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_385" id="Page_385">[Pg 385]</a></span> -He’d been once, and should go -next year, if he had to walk.”</p> - -<p>All told of the Sunday-school work; -some gave experiences in begging money, -hauling lumber, and putting up school and -church buildings, and most closed by saying, -“I hope I did some good.” One -sweet girl said it in this way: “I left the -results with the Great Reaper, hoping in -due time He will gather His sheaves.”</p> - -<p>These reports help much in removing -prejudices and narrow, one-sided views of -the South. While one sees the people -retrograding and the whites overbearing, -another has a bright view on the other -side.</p> - -<p>This great number and variety of yearly -reports impress us most, however, with -the magnitude of our work, and the great -need we have of your prayers, that this -may be a pure fountain whom whence -healing streams only shall flow.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> -<div class="article"> - -<h3>TENNESSEE.</h3> - -<h4>Woman’s Work Among Women.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">MISS HATTIE MILTON, MEMPHIS.</p> - - -<p>Out of a population of 40,000, one-third -are colored. Many of the children attend -school a few months during the year; but -the parents think if their son John Quincy -Adams Anderson attends school two weeks -out of four, he will “learn a heap,” and be -ready to graduate in a year or two. However, -some of the children do make good -progress at school; but the home influence -is so degrading that the necessity of missionary -work among the mothers is felt -more and more, as we see more of their -homes. Many are too poor to send their -children to school at all; consequently they -have no opportunity of becoming better.</p> - -<p>In my daily visits from house to house I -found them in a wretched condition, filth -and vermin reigning supreme. Often, on -entering these abodes, my sensibilities were -so shocked that I could not speak at first—dogs, -cats, chickens and children clamoring -for the hoe cake in the ashes or the unleavened -dough baking on the stove-cover, -which, when done, is broken and handed -around to each, sometimes with the addition -of a dripping bit of bacon. In many of -these homes the table is never set, the entire -furniture consisting of a bed, two -chairs, a trunk, box, cupboard, bundle of -rags and a poor stove, if there is no fireplace. -They sometimes own the board -shanties in which they live, and rent the -ground they stand on; and when they wish -to move, they pull down the shanty, move it -to the new place, and put it up again.</p> - -<p>I was usually received kindly; by some -enthusiastically. One old ex-slave, learning -the nature of my errand at her house, said, -raising her hands above her turbaned head, -“Oh, bless the Lord! Thank the Lord! for -He has heard the prayer of His downtrodden -people, and put it into the hearts -of His dear children in the North to send -some one to instruct us. My blessed baby, -come as often as you can, and read to Aunt -Hettie, for she is an ole Etheopum, and -don’t know nothing.” After I left, she -rushed around to her neighbors, saying, -“Bless the Lord! for He has heard our -prayer, and sent an angel right down from -heaven to instruct us, and she has been to -my house this evenin’.” They were usually -glad—many were anxious—to hear the Bible -read, some insisting on paying me, saying, -“Do take it. We wants you to come often, -for we don’t hear anything like it anywhere -else.” One woman, wishing, as she said, to -do something for the Lord, and having no -money, sent me a nice warm dinner. They -are very liberal, giving as long as they have -a nickel, whether they rightly own it or not.</p> - -<p>Some who were suspicious said, “Never -heerd tell of white lady going to humble -colo’d cabin to read the Bible. Look like -it’s mighty queer.” These suspicions had -to be overcome in various ways. Often, by -attending the sick ones, the good will of the -neighbors would be secured. One poor -creature, who had not been washed in six -months, and was almost dead, after I had -bathed her and put on her clean clothes—furnished -by the good Northern friends—thanked -me and said, “Thank the Lord! -when we get home to heaven, we will all -have on clean clothes.” Her last days of -suffering were thus made more comfortable.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_386" id="Page_386">[Pg 386]</a></span> -I went in often, as she loved to hear the -Bible read, and singing. But a few weeks -later, I went in one morning, and found her -poor remains stretched out on a rough -board, resting on two chairs. Thus she lay -in state, in her winding-sheet. A plate, -placed on her crossed hands, with its mute -appeal for money to bury her, told how poor -they were.</p> - -<p>One day a very black woman met me on -the street and said, “How d’y’, Miss. You -don’t know me; but I knows you, for you is -the one what visits the sick; and I heard -you read the Bible, and I wants ye to read -it to me. We all loves ye, and we all says, -‘If any one is gwine right up to heaven, it -is you.’” I often found the best way to -reach the mother was through her children. -By giving them little presents, they would -become fond of me. Then the mother, who -was proud of them, would say, “I wants -my children to be better than me, but don’t -know how to make them so. I whips them -a heap, but they is bad all the time.” After -convincing one mother that she was teaching -her children to lie by her daily example, -she said, “Sure enough! Never thought -of that afore. I alus wondered why my -children would lie so, ’cause I alus tells ’em -not to. Now, Miss, you come often, and -teach me; I needs it much as any one. How -can we be expected to do better? No one -we go with does any better; and in ole -slave times, if master saw us with a book, -he would ‘slap our jaws;’ so we cannot -read to find out better.” Another said, -“This is the first work I have seen that -looked like really making our homes better.”</p> - -<p>Finding the mothers and daughters knew -but little about sewing, an industrial school -was started, where they met once a week, -and were taught how to cut, fit and make -garments. The material for this school was -furnished by the good people of Romeo. A -small sum was charged for each garment, -when finished, and used to purchase more -material. Also a small price was charged -for a few of the more valuable garments sent -in boxes, the persons gladly paying the -small sum, which was used to procure medicine -and other comforts for the sick ones.</p> - -<p>I also added something to this fund by giving -lessons to some who were able and willing -to pay for the instruction.</p> - -<p>Sunday was my most busy day; besides -attending church and Sabbath-school, I -went out to read the Bible to those who -were not at home during the week. I -seemed to find no rest days; indeed, there -was so much for one pair of hands to do, -that many times I could not sleep as much -as needed. Another meeting was held -weekly. I gave Bible readings on those -subjects which were of the most interest -and importance to mothers, after which we -had a prayer-meeting, which was often -very interesting.</p> - -<p>Near the end of the year, a temperance -movement was started in our church and -Sabbath-school; many signed the pledge, -among whom were about thirty from my -class. The colored people are very intemperate, -and nearly all the women use snuff -and tobacco. One, who was complaining of -her poverty, upon being told she could ill -afford to use snuff and tobacco, said she -only paid ten cents a box, and was astonished -to find that in a year it amounted to -half as much as her rent. She seemed to -try to live an honest Christian life, and before -I left had given up all her bad habits, -and was very proud and happy.</p> - -<p>Although these people are naturally religious, -still their religion consists in going -to meeting, where they sing, pray, and relate -imaginary experiences, and get -wrought up to such a pitch that they -scream, roll on the floor, and often remain -until the small hours of the night. They -go home, thinking they are very holy, but -have no idea of showing it by a well-ordered -life; on the contrary, they continue to live -with unlawful companions, steal and lie -with impunity; in fact, in many respects, -they will compare with their heathen forefathers, -from whom they have inherited -their superstitions and forms of worship. -The bonds of slavery have prevented them -from becoming enlightened.</p> - -<p>However, I am glad to say there are -some grand exceptions to this dark picture; -some noble Christians, a few who have good<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_387" id="Page_387">[Pg 387]</a></span> -homes. Among these, the good accomplished -by the mission-school and the little -Congregational church, sustained by the -A. M. A., can be seen. The pastor, Mr. -Mallory, allows no wife whipping in his -church, and he has caused the large number -of those who were living together unlawfully -to be married. Indeed, his church -will compare favorably with white churches -of the North. These things show the -dawning of day to these benighted people, -and give us great encouragement to proceed -with our work. But the mass are -worse than tongue can tell or pen portray. -I feel that in my description the half of -woe and degradation has not been told. -The Lord was with me in this work, and -was a present help in every time of need. -Many mornings I would start out with a -heavy heart, for it would seem that my -efforts to do good were almost in vain; but -trusting alone in Jesus, I would go forward. -Just then the Lord would show me that -some one was becoming better, and I would -return at evening upbraiding myself for my -want of faith, and reminded of that Scripture -which says, “He that goeth forth, -and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall -doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing -his sheaves with him.” It was a precious -privilege to comfort these broken-hearted -ones with His words, of whom it -was said: “Never man spake like this -Man.”</p> - -<p>The Bible is the only book the colored -people have any confidence in. A sick -man, whom I visited, said he would like to -hear the Bible read through; he was not a -Christian. For some time he seemed but -little interested; but one day he greeted -me with a smile, saying: “I can trust the -Lord now, and it is all that Bible-reading. -Many have talked to me before, but I -never thought of what they said; but I -could not forget these words from the -Bible, and I studied about it all the time, -and last week, after you left me, I just did -as the Bible said: gave up all, and trusted -Jesus. I am ready to go now, and am not -afraid.”</p> - -<p>When the time drew near for me to -return North, the women said: “What -will we do without you? Who will visit -us when sick, and read comforting words -from the Bible? And who will teach us -how to train up our children? Now that -we have had some one to do these things -for us, we feel as if we could not get along -without you.” And many were the expressions -of gratitude towards those dear -ladies in the North, who had sent them a -missionary, and many the prayers offered -in their behalf. There were many signs of -encouragement, though, no doubt, much -seed that was sown will not spring up at -once, but in the future will bear precious -fruit, for the Lord will not permit His -word to return unto Him void. This has -been the happiest year of my life, for this -work has its own reward, both to the missionary -and those who send her, which is -more valuable than silver or gold. I sometimes -think the angels might almost envy -us in this work.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>NORTH CAROLINA.</h3> - -<h4>Students Want to “Batch”—Who Will Help?</h4> - -<p class="secauth">REV. ALFRED CONNETT, McLEANSVILLE.</p> - - -<p>We hear almost daily of young men and -young women who would come here to -school if they could only get a room where -they could “batch.” I can only hear of -one vacant house within two miles of the -school, and that is engaged by two students -who have not yet returned. Small -buildings, say 12×20, one story, two rooms, -can be built for about $100 each, and land -bought at $6 to $10 per acre, possibly $20 -for small tracts. By making some provision -of this kind to accommodate students, -we should at once draw in ten to -twenty students, and these the very ones -we most need to reach: namely, those -who are preparing to teach, and to preach. -Thus, the school would become more widely -and more permanently useful. These -buildings are needed immediately, or part -of them. It is difficult, if not impossible, -with their limited means, for the students to -obtain board, with suitable accommodations. -The white people do not wish to -take in boarders, unless at high figures,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_388" id="Page_388">[Pg 388]</a></span> -and the colored people have, usually, but -one room in their log houses.</p> - -<p>Cannot some church, individual, or individuals, -do a work for Christ in this way? -If this, or something similar is not done, -we shall let an important and precious -opportunity slip through our fingers.</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>TALLADEGA, ALABAMA.</h3> - -<h4>The Story of Ambrose Headen,</h4> - -<p class="secauth">AS TOLD BY HIMSELF.</p> - - -<p>I am fifty-six years old; was born in -Chatham Co., N. C.; was a slave forty-three -years, sixteen years in North Carolina -and twenty seven in Alabama. I -have lived in this county forty years. My -young master in North Carolina was four -years older than myself; he had nine slaves, -and I was the only male. He died just -before I was sixteen. When I was thirteen -I went to learn the carpenter’s trade. I was -taken from my mother and sent away to -nurse children when I was six. I served -three years at the carpenter’s bench and at -that time my master died, and I had to be -sold to pay his debts.</p> - -<p>On the day appointed for the sale I went -fourteen miles on foot, and alone, to the -place where I was to be sold. On my way -I tried to lay some plan to run away. A -white woman said she would help me, and -told me to go into a certain swamp and -she would feed me and help me away, but -I was afraid of the dogs and the men that -would catch me. No one can tell my feelings -on my way to the sale, but I knew I -had to go. At the place of sale were 500 -people come together to see me sold, and to -buy me. I was the only one to be -sold. I was on the block three hours -while the men were bidding for me. Five -of these men were speculators, and the rest -were mostly people that lived in that region. -While they were selling me there -was a good deal of brandy drunk, and they -offered me some as I was very tired standing; -and I said, “No, sir, I have sorrow -enough on me now without drinking that.” -I was finally knocked off to a very bad man -for $1,780. This man lived about thirteen -miles from my old home, and when I knew -that he was my master I burst into tears, -heart-broken. The overseer took me behind -the store and tried to stop me from crying, -but I could not stop. At last, my new -master said if any one would give for me as -much as he had, he might have me, and a -man from Alabama, who was out to North -Carolina on a visit, said he would, and so I -sold again to this man from Alabama, -and after three months I was taken away -from all my friends away down to Alabama. -My new master proved to be a good man, -a member of the Baptist Church, and I -lived with him twenty-seven years until -emancipation. One thing I forgot to tell -you, and it made a deep impression on my -mind: at the time I was being sold in -North Carolina, a man in the crowd cried -out with a loud voice, “Hell will boil and -overflow at such work as this.” I never can -forget that expression.</p> - -<p>I was set free by two wills; the first one -was burned, and so I was kept in slavery. -Once, after I had been absent from home -some time, my mistress, on my return, -came rushing out to the gate and crying -with a loud voice, “Oh, Ambrose, Ambrose! -I had rather live in the smokiest -cabin on the place, and had your master’s -will done, than to be in the king’s palace,” -but the will was burned and so it could not -be done. The other will that set me free was -made ten years before emancipation; but -emancipation came before my master died, -and so his will did me no good.</p> - -<p>During all my slave life I never lost sight -of freedom. It was always on my heart; it -came to me like a solemn thought, and often -circumstances much stimulated the desire to -be free and raised great expectation of it. -We slaves all knew when an Abolitionist -got into Congress. We knew it when -there was just one there, and we watched -it all the way until there was a majority -there. I don’t know hardly how we got -the knowledge, but we always knew. We -always called “freedom” “possum,” so as -to keep the white people from knowing -what we were talking about. We all understood -it.</p> - -<p>Some years before emancipation, my<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_389" id="Page_389">[Pg 389]</a></span> -master signed $900 to be paid in work -towards building a Baptist College where -we lived. He sent me to work out his -subscription. I had four children of my -own, and I thought that it was hard for -me to work out this $900, when I could -have no privilege of educating my own -children. I little thought then that my -children would ever graduate at this college, -but God has turned things about so -that three of my children have graduated, -and the fourth will graduate next June; -so that when I worked out this subscription -of my master, I was building a college for -myself and my family. While at work on -this college, I fell into a conversation with -the white carpenters at work there, and -they said “niggers” would do nothing “if -set free.” I told them if they would take -me out into the woods and strip every rag -from me, and set me free, that in ten -years I would school my children.</p> - -<p>Just after emancipation my master said: -“Ambrose, I want you to let Nannie stay -with her mistress; she can’t do without -her.” I said: “Master, I always thought -that if ever I was free I would educate my -children; if ’twas not for that, sir, I would -accommodate you.” “Ambrose,” said he, -“I hardly thought you would deny me.” -I said: “I can’t do any better, sir.” -With this we separated, and now all my -children are good scholars; one is a minister; -one has charge of an academy; I have -a good house of seven rooms, and eleven -acres of land about it, besides a farm of -320 acres in the country.</p> - -<p>Nothing can illustrate the great change -that has come over us, unless it is the change -in passing from earth to heaven. You -could see the force of this illustration if -you knew our history—if you only knew -the dark Egypt we have come through. I -believe emancipation will work out as great -things for us as it did for Israel.</p> - -<p>When the college and the Congregational -Church were planted here I joined -the church, and have never been sorry for it. -I love the missionary cause, and would rather -give all I have than to see it go down.</p> - -<p>I love to think of my son down in Selma -preaching. There was quite a scare there -about the yellow fever, and my son wrote -me to know what he should do; I wrote -him back, “to look to the Lord, and stand -to his post.”</p> -</div> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h3>A GRATEFUL WARD.</h3> - -<h4>A Letter from an Indian.</h4> - - -<p>I thank you, gentlemen, you kind and -good. By and by I see you and tell you. -You give money to Mrs. Caruthers to help -me learn. I try to learn fast. Indian no -talk much English. May be very soon I -understand. Long ago I an Indian, now I -don’t think so. I think gust the same -white man. Now I want be same as good -white man. Here this country good -Tarrytown I like. Your a</p> - -<p class="right"><span class="smcap">Kiowa French Zone Ke-uh.</span></p> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> -<div class="article"> - -<h2>AFRICA.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>THE MENDI MISSION.</h3> - -<p class="secauth">REV. A. F. JACKSON, AVERY.</p> - - -<p>When one enters upon this kind of work, -he enters upon a tedious and arduous one—a -work accompanied with many dark and -gloomy days, as well as some bright ones. -I suppose that you are aware that my -work has been assigned me at Avery, or -Mannah Bargroo Station, on the Little -Sherbro river, about fifty-eight miles from -Good Hope. At this station all of the -agricultural work is carried on. We have -here a mill, coffee-farm and ginger farm. -I employ in the mill seven native men all -the while; and on the farm two native -men; besides a crew of boatmen, that row -our boat from British Sherbro to the neighboring -villages to sell the lumber that is -sawed at our mill. We are enabled to -keep one boat running all the while, and -it is manned by natives entirely. They -make first-rate crewmen, and have a decided<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_390" id="Page_390">[Pg 390]</a></span> -advantage over a similar act of Englishmen -or Americans, from the fact that -they are always naked, and there is no impediment -in case of an accident. All of -them can swim in almost any kind of -water. They do not stop to question whether -there be alligators in the water or not, -but go at the command. I can say that I -have tried them sufficiently in all ways, -and I have as yet found them all to -be quite honest, with the exception of one -man, who very politely went into my lot of -goods on the way from Good Hope to my -station, and took therefrom five or six -yards of baft to trade for rice. This is the -only dishonest act that I have known any -one to commit since my arrival on the -coast of Africa.</p> - -<p>I have said a good deal about my boatmen, -and will now give you a brief sketch of -the habits and customs of this people. In the -first place, the men go entirely naked, with -the exception of a cloth they wear, something -like that of an American baby’s -diaper. The women wear about four yards -of cloth thrown carelessly around them, -covering the lower extremities, and tied -by the ends about the waist.</p> - -<p>When one dies, they have what they call -“the cry,” in which all join. They go for -miles to attend “the cry.” The body of -the deceased is wrapped in matting, and -conveyed to its long resting-place—a hole -which is dug for that purpose. This has -always been their mode of burying, and in -many instances they prefer it to our way.</p> - -<p>As to the general build of this people it -is quite good. They possess very good -features, as a general thing, having -smooth skins and round faces. Their noses -are not so flat as the American negro’s; -neither are their eyes so red and blood-shot. -Their mouths are not so disfigured. -The most of them have quite a neat lip, -not so thick as that of the American -negro. Their hands and feet are generally -small. Their bodies are very straight and -well developed. It is astonishing to see -how they carry burdens, either upon the -head or back, with a loop so that it can -be fastened around their foreheads.</p> - -<p>A good stout man will carry as much on -his head and back as you can pack on a -young ass three years old, and they never -murmur. They live in mud houses covered -with thatch, but a thatch inferior to anything -we know of in America. It is made -of bamboo, and only lasts from nine to -twelve months.</p> - -<p>They subsist on rice, cassada, cocoa, fufu, -crencray, palaver-sauce and fish. Any one -of these vegetables mentioned will grow -without any attention at all, except the -cocoa, and that is a very tender plant, -indeed, and the consequence is, that they -have less of it than anything else. The -cocoa and cassada are the only vegetables -that I have learned to eat. The cocoa, -after it is cooked, is much like an -Irish potato, and makes a very palatable -dish, indeed. The cassada, when cooked, -resembles an American squash, and is -a very nice dish for dinner or breakfast. -Should a person presume to eat these vegetables -mentioned, without having been a -good while in the country, he at once had -better have a mill-stone hanged about his -neck, and his body committed to the briny -deep. He would fare about as well. No -foreigner, of whatever nationality he may -be, can come into Africa and subsist at -first upon the native productions.</p> - -<p>We are all aware that Africa has long -been called the burying-ground of missionaries. -The reasons are, in my judgment, -these: In the first place, missionaries in -going to Africa generally exert themselves -too much on entering the field. The climate -is such as rapidly to reduce one’s physical -strength. It is a custom among all persons, -as soon as they have been informed of -their malady, at once to retire to their beds, -and demand that a physician be called. -The calling of the physician is all right; -but it is far better to keep out of bed, and -to keep moving; for if you give up and -go to bed, you are almost sure to die. -Another reason, as I before said, is trying -to live on native productions too early -after arriving on the continent.</p> - -<p>I must say, just here, that two-thirds of -what you hear about Africa is fabulous. At<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_391" id="Page_391">[Pg 391]</a></span> -least it is so in the region in which our -missions are established. There is a great -deal said about the native bread-tree. -There is such a thing as a bread-tree in this -country, but it is almost as scarce in -the region in which the mission is established -as the orange-tree is in the States, -and you are aware how plentiful the orange-tree -is there. The fabulous tree so called, -might very appropriately have been named -a squash-tree, because it bears no similarity -to bread, and will not answer at all in -the place of bread. When green, or before -it is plucked, it bears a close similarity -to what is known in the States as the hedge -orange, and, when cooked, it tastes something -between a potato-pumpkin and squash.</p> - -<p>There are some oranges here, but they -are scarce. They do not seem to be a -native fruit, because they do not grow everywhere -in the country, but only where the -ground is cleared up, and the undergrowth -cut down. They are not of a rich yellow -color like an American orange, but greenish -and small. They have quite a delicious taste, -somewhat devoid of juice, when compared -with our Florida orange, but equal to it in -sweetness. We have another fruit here, -known as the lime. It bears a close similarity -to a lemon; in fact the only difference -that I can detect is, that the -lemon as a general thing is larger, and not -so round. As to the pine-apple, it grows only -where it is taken care of; it may grow in -the wilds, but never bears fruit. The rice -that is grown in Africa is not so good as -that in the States. It is really the -main thing grown upon the continent in -the way of eatables. If you buy two -bushels of rough rice, you will not get -more than sixteen quarts that can be used, -and you must pay from 2s. 9d. to 3s. per -bushel. This, I am sorry to say, is about -the way with all the country productions.</p> - -<p>Knowing that you are always anxious -concerning our health, I, perhaps, ought to -have spoken of it sooner. I am in quite good -health, and have been since my first attack -of the African fever. My wife has had -quite a severe attack of the fever; so -severe that I thought I should lose her; -but God in his goodness saw fit to spare -her to me. She has never regained -her strength, but I trust that God in some -way or other will restore her to perfect -health again.</p> - -<p>The religious work at Avery is going on -nicely. I found here a small chapel, but -no church members. Dr. James had kept -up a prayer-meeting, and there was some -interest among the people, but there had -been no ingathering of souls to Christ. -After looking around and seeing the real -condition of things, I came to the conclusion -that whatever was done must be done -quickly; so I made it my aim to get at the -people at once with the truths of Jesus -Christ, and they seemed to take right hold -of them as fast as given to them. I -adopted this plan: to take my Bible every -evening and go out among the regular -heathen; but I soon found out that I was -unable to reach them in that way, from the -fact that I could not speak their language. -So I gave that plan up, and adopted the -one of going among them twice a week, -and taking with me my Bible and an interpretor. -This I found to be the best plan; -so then and there I got hold of the people. -Now, having found this to work well, -I began to preach to the people in their -own villages and “fackies,” as they call -them. After I found out that I could -gather them together in their fackies, I -then set to work to persuade them to come -to my church; which I did with great success, -and from time to time I gathered into -the church the following persons and names. -June 16th, I opened the doors of the -church, and enrolled the following: H. -C. Hallock L., Isaac Vincent L., James -Cole L., John Davis R., Samuel Wise R., -Richard Wilkerson R., Yamba R., One -Pound R., Henry Peters R., Small Banna -R., William Wilberforce L., Mrs. Lucker -L., Mrs. Peters R., Mrs. Hannah Vincent -L., and a Sherbro chief, A. P. Cardy R.</p> - -<p>June 30th, I opened the doors of the -church again, and enrolled the following: -James Picket L., Sarah Tucker R., Mrs. -Elizabeth Beal R., Elizabeth Wilberforce<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_392" id="Page_392">[Pg 392]</a></span> -R., Mrs. Mary Cole L., Mrs. Nancy Davis -R., Madam Damba R., Madam Dambee R. -July 28th, I opened the doors and took the -following names. The chief Karry Pherner -L., chief, Lalula R., John Bull R., -Cunda R., Kirby R., Matilda Leatum L., -Mrs. Yamba R., Mrs. One Pound R., and -Bye R. As I neglected to tell you in regard -to the conversion of these persons I -will give you some idea of it by the following -letters. The letter “R” signifies recently -converted, and the letter “L” long converted. -I must say that the especial blessing -of the Lord seemed very near all on the 4th -of August. This was the first Lord’s Supper -celebrated at Avery Station. On this -day I preached to a very large number of -native men and women. I baptized seven -grown persons and four children, making a -total of eleven persons baptized.</p> - -<p>This people, as a general thing, have -very many troubles among themselves that -must be settled at once, in order to secure -peace among them. If you have gained -their confidence, they will at all times -call upon you to settle any disturbance -that may occur among them, it matters -not how difficult the case may be. Great -caution is required in rendering your -decision, otherwise it may cause speedy -bloodshed and panic throughout the -region. I am sorry to say that the -prospects are quite threatening just -now for an outbreak at any time -in the region adjacent to Avery and the -Little Boom. But I hope that it will not -be very serious. The Governor is expected -to investigate the Boom trouble this week, -and it is thought that it can be settled -without any serious damage to either side. -I have felt greatly the lack of reading matter -at my Station. There are many dreary -hours out here that might be whiled away -with good reading matter. I rather think -that some of the good friends in New York -would be glad to send a paper or two now -and then to a poor wayfarer on the distant -shores of Africa.</p> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<div class="article"> - -<h2>THE INDIANS.</h2> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<h3>SISSETON AGENCY.</h3> - -<h4>Farming Tools Bought.</h4> - -<p class="secauth">E. H. C. HOOPER, AGENT</p> - -<p>For several years past, till last year, the -crops on this reserve have been nearly all -destroyed by grasshoppers; but this season -promises an abundant harvest. The farming -has been attended with unusual success, -and the Indians feel very much encouraged -with the result of their farm labor.</p> - -<p>At present there are 2,191 acres of -land broken on this reservation, 450 acres -of which are new land broken during this -season. Seventeen hundred acres are under -cultivation by the Indians. There was a -much larger acreage plowed last fall than -ever before at the same season of the year, -and, under the supervision of our farmer, it -was well prepared for seeding in the spring. -Nearly all our Indians, who were without -seed, were provided from the warehouse -early in the season, and manifested a good -degree of interest in planting and cultivating.</p> - -<p>Early in July, many of the Indian -farmers, feeling confident of a large yield -of grain, were very earnest in their appeals -for grain cradles and other appliances with -which to secure their crops. And, under -authority from the Department, a lot of -grain cradles were bought and issued to them. -But the number purchased was insufficient -to supply the wants of all, and a considerable -portion of the wheat in small -fields was cut with scythes.</p> - -<p>Several of our Indians who have large -wheat fields, have bought harvesters for -themselves, at a cost of from $165 to -$200 each, and are to pay for them from -the proceeds of their sales of wheat; this -is a move in the right direction and cannot -be too highly commended.</p> - -<p>All our Indians are half-breeds (with -but few exceptions, and these generally -confined to very old people) wear citizens’ -dress, and a large majority of them live in -very comfortable houses, made of hewed<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_393" id="Page_393">[Pg 393]</a></span> -logs, and are furnished with cook-stoves, -tables, seats, and other housekeeping conveniences.</p> - -<p>There are some forty frame buildings -occupied by our Indians, several of which -are two stories high and painted, all having -more or less land under cultivation.</p> - - -<h4>Schools.</h4> - -<p>During ten months of the year—(the -Manual Labor School eleven months)—three -schools have been in successful operation: -the Manual Labor School, the -Good-Will Boarding and Day-School, and -the Ascension School. The Manual Labor -School building, situated one and a half -miles from the agency, was originally provided -with seats for fifty-six scholars, but -the sleeping accommodations for this number -of children have never been sufficient, and -during the past year our carpenter has -made an addition of several new sleeping -rooms, and improved the condition of the -old ones, which has added very much to -the comfort and convenience of the pupils.</p> - -<p>There are only four or five boys of sufficient -age to be serviceable about the farm -or garden. When out of school they were -kept at work preparing the ground for -seeding and cultivating, besides attending -to the stock and farm work generally, all -being done under the immediate supervision -of the principal, who is, fortunately, a -good farmer.</p> - -<p>After the regular school hours, the girls -are taught sewing of all kinds; cutting, -making and trimming dresses, repairing -garments; darning, knitting and use of -sewing machine; also all kinds of housework, -cooking, and the work of the dairy. -After service in the evening, instructions -are given in music, instrumental and vocal, -in which both boys and girls take an -unusual interest and show a marked improvement -during the year. Mr. Tuckey, -the present principal, assumed the duties of -his office May 1st, and has been untiring in -his exertions to advance the pupils in -their studies, and, for the short time which -he has been with them, appears to have -been very successful. The two female assistants -having had two years’ experience -here, and been deeply interested in their -pupils, have proved very valuable and -successful teachers, and have the confidence -and respect of the parents.</p> - -<p>The time of the matron is fully occupied -from six A. M. to nine P. M., in looking -after and providing for the numerous wants -of the pupils, and in this difficult and laborious -work has proved to be very efficient.</p> - -<p>The Good Will Mission Boarding and -Day-School is situated one and three -quarter miles from the agency; the children -are rationed and supplied in part with -clothing from the warehouse, but the other -expenses—salaries, etc—are borne by the -A. B. C. F. M. This school has accommodated -as many as thirty-two scholars, part -of them boarding at houses in the vicinity.</p> - -<p>The day-school, situated at Ascension, -about six miles from the agency, had, -some months, thirty scholars; they live in -the vicinity of the school-house, and are -quite regular in attendance.</p> - -<p>In addition to these three schools, two -others were opened, and reading, writing -and arithmetic in Dakota were taught by -Indian teachers, during two months in the -spring, with an average daily attendance -of eighteen scholars each. These -schools were opened at the earnest request -of several of the leading men in their -vicinity, in the form of a petition -to the agent. These parents seemed in -earnest in their efforts to have the schools -opened, and showed a continued interest in -them by frequent visits during the time -they were in operation.</p> - -<p>The estimated number of children of -school-going age on this reserve is -three hundred, and we have two brick -school-houses, built in 1873, at an estimated -cost of $600 each—one situated -about one and a half miles south of the -agency, and the other at the Mayasan, -twenty miles distant; both are provided -with improved seats, tables, etc., and -will accommodate forty scholars each; -neither of them has been used, for school -purposes to any extent since they were built, -but allowed to remain unoccupied.</p> -</div> -<hr class="full" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_394" id="Page_394">[Pg 394]</a></span></p> - -<h2>RECEIPTS</h2> -<p class="center larger">FOR OCTOBER, 1878.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MAINE, $169.24.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">16.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Augusta. Collected by Francis Littlefield, -<i>for Printing Press, Talladega, Ala.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">35.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Augusta. Joel Spalding</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bangor. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bluehill. Mrs. S. E. D. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. $5; G. -A. P. 50c</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fryeburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.73</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hallowell. Emma French, bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Limerick. S. F. H. <i>for Raleigh, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Waterford. S. E. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orland. A. L. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Portland. J. B. Libby, <i>for Raleigh, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woolwich. D. C. Farnham</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW HAMPSHIRE, $236.90.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atkinson. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to -const. <span class="smcap">Job Atwood Dow</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Claremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. S. Foye, <i>for Raleigh, N. C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. Mrs. Dr. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Keene. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Second Ch., -bbl. of C. and $2.50 <i>for freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mason. L. J. G.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.68</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northwood Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $25.75; Mrs. -Putnam $5</td> -<td class="ramt">30.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15.60; “S. -E. P.” $5</td> -<td class="ramt">20.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><a name="Err_7" id="Err_7"></a>Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.60</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">VERMONT, $274.63.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlotte. Nettie A. Parker</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Coventry. M. C. Pearson</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East St. Johnsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McIndoes. Mrs. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montgomery. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Friends</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Johnsbury. South Ch. Ladies’ Soc., <i>for -Student Aid, Talladega C.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">125.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">St. Johnsbury. “A Memorial.”</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.21</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Charleston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MASSACHUSETTS, $2,486.64.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. -and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.51</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. $75; -S. E. H. $1; College Ch. $37.25</td> -<td class="ramt">113.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. South Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barnstable Co. “A Traveller.”</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Mrs. Harding Woods</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blackstone. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">19.05</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Second Dorchester Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">395.80</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston. Dr. H. B. Hooker</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boston Highlands. Immanuel Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.35, and -Sab. Sch. $4.66</td> -<td class="ramt">15.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bridgewater. Central Sq. Cong. Ch. and -Soc. $74.63, and Sab. Sch. $15</td> -<td class="ramt">89.63</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookfield. Evan Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brookline. Howard Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">63.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Campello. Ladies’ Sewing Circle, bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">66.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $19, and Sab. -Sch. $5.09</td> -<td class="ramt">24.09</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cummington. “Friends”</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dracut. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Easthampton. C. S. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc. -(of which $25 <i>for Student, Atlanta U.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">76.69</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Foxborough. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">140.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Great Barrington. “A. C. T.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanover. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.73</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones $10; “A -Friend” $2; Mrs. Stephen Chase $10; Mrs. -L. P. F. 25c</td> -<td class="ramt">22.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holbrook. Bequest of E. N. Holbrook</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holbrook. E. Everett Holbrook $50; Mrs. -C. S. Holbrook $25</td> -<td class="ramt">75.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">33.22</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lancaster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.55; -Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15</td> -<td class="ramt">41.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lenox. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Littleton. “A Friend” $25; Cong. Ch. and -Soc. $14</td> -<td class="ramt">39.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Rev. Smith Baker $25 <i>for Bell, Atlanta, -Ga.</i>; Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22.69</td> -<td class="ramt">47.69</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Pawtucket Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.74</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lowell. Correction: N. C. Wiley $25 in November, -should read Hon. Nathan Crosby -$25.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lunenburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">47.92</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marlborough. T. B. Patch</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Medfield. Lydia A. Dow $2,—Ladies, bbl. of -C. and $2 <i>for freight</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Methuen. Joseph F. Ingalls</td> -<td class="ramt">60.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mitteneaque. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson. Austin Newell</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Adams. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.47</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Leominster. Cong. Ch. of Christ</td> -<td class="ramt">4.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Reading. Frank H. Foster</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Wilmington. L. F. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newbaryport. Belleville Cong. Ch. $50; -Foster W. Smith $5</td> -<td class="ramt">55.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Newton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $33.17; -North Evan. Ch. and Soc. $5</td> -<td class="ramt">38.17</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orange. Ladies of Cong. Ch. bbl. of C.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsfield. Ladies’ Soc., by Mrs. H. M. Hurd, -2 bbls of C., <i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Reading. Dea. Hiram Barnes</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.35</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Abington. “Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southborough. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) -to const. <span class="smcap">Rev. S. K. Bonnell</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. $60, -to const. <span class="smcap">Mrs. Lucy P. Lewis</span> and <span class="smcap">Mrs. Maria A. Fearing</span>, -L. M’s; Union Cong. -Ch. $9.43</td> -<td class="ramt">69.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17.66; -South Cong. Ch. and Soc. $15.21</td> -<td class="ramt">32.87</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton. Union Cong. Ch. $18.19; Mrs. A. -P. G. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">19.19</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Townsend. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Uxbridge. First Evan. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">27.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Webster. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.64</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.32</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Medway. C. A. Adams</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Worcester. Rev. W. J. White $2; “A -Friend” $1</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RHODE ISLAND, $26.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Little Compton. Cong. Sab. Sch. $23; E. -Wilbur $2; G. A. G. $1</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_395" id="Page_395">[Pg 395]</a></span></td> -</tr> -</table> - - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CONNECTICUT, $1,003.29.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ashford. Rev. C. P. Grosvenor</td> -<td class="ramt">7.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol. Mrs. Phebe L. Alcott</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">62.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Woodstock. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">29.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">41.59</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Greens Farms. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford. Mrs. C. T. Hillyer, to const. -<span class="smcap">James Edgar Gregg</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. -<span class="smcap">Edwin P. Angier</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">35.16</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">38.45</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. $37.50; -South Cong. Ch. $10.60</td> -<td class="ramt">48.10</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Haven. “W. C. S.”</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Old Lyme. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.43</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">23.97</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainville. “A Friend,” to const. <span class="smcap">Frank -Barnes</span>, <span class="smcap">Samuel Beard</span> and <span class="smcap">Edward W. -Hart</span> L. M.’s</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pomfret. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pequonock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">21.13</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">24.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Prospect. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">7.84</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Southbury. C. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">South Britain. “Friends,” by N. P. Johnson</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">52.72</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Talcottville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">112.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Thomaston. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">43.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westbrook. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">34.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Westford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Williamantic. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">40.27</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolcottville. L. Wetmore</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wolcottville. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. -A. E. Perrin, $26, and bbl. of C.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Woodstock. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.90</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW YORK, $459.13.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sherburne. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">60.06</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spencerport. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Whitney’s Point. Mrs. E. Rogers</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Batavia. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">21.12</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Binghamton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">32.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood $15; Mrs. Eliza -A. Bell $2</td> -<td class="ramt">17.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Brier Hill. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Camden. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">31.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Eagle Mills. Mrs. Maria S. Hatch</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gloversville. Cong. Sab. Sch. $50, (James S. -Hosmer, Supt.,) <i>for a Student, Fisk U.</i>; -Cong. Ch. (ad’l) $1</td> -<td class="ramt">51.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lima. Mrs. M. Sprague, <i>for Student Aid</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Madison. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marcellus. First Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">22.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marcellus. E. L. $1; F. H. B. 50c.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Masonville. Miss S. P.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Morrisville. Mrs. M. G. De Forest</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Munnsville. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mandana Barber, by -N. S. Hall and E. J. Barber, Ex’s.</td> -<td class="ramt">125.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York. Gen. C. B. Fisk, to const. <span class="smcap">Miss -Helen C. Morgan</span>, L. M.</td> -<td class="ramt">30.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEW JERSEY, $11.68.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.68</td> -</tr> -</table> - - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">PENNSYLVANIA, $56.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Blossburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. (of which $2 -from John Hughes, Sen.)</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Norristown. Mrs. Mary W. Cook</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Pittsburgh. B. Preston</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sharpeburg. Joseph Turner</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">West Alexander. “J. S.”</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">OHIO, $221.73.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover. O. B. Case $3; Mrs. O. B. Case $12</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chatham. Cong. Ch. $2.88; C. F. Thatcher -$2, <i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">4.88</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cleveland. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, <i>for -Le Moyne Library, Memphis, Tenn.</i>—Euclid -Ave. Cong. Ch. $18.60</td> -<td class="ramt">43.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cincinnati. Rent, <i>for the Poor in New Orleans</i></td> -<td class="ramt">36.38</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.58</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Fitchville. First Cong. Ch. $14; Second -Cong. Ch. $6.40</td> -<td class="ramt">20.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Gambier. James S. Sawer</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lodi. Cong. Ch. $6.25; “A Friend” 30c., -<i>for Tougaloo, Miss.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">6.55</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Mantua. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Marysville. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.29</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">North Benton. Simon Hartzell</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $2.55 -from Mrs. A. Morley, <i>for Straight U.</i>)</td> -<td class="ramt">26.79</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rootstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Ruggles. A. F. Weston</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Tallmadge. Mrs. C. H. Sackett, <i>for Tougaloo, -Miss.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellington. Edwin Wadsworth $5; Nathaniel -D. Billings $5</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">ILLINOIS, $1,071.58.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chicago. New England Cong. Ch. (of which -$100 <i>for Howard U.</i>) $191.33.—First Cong. -Ch. Sab. Sch. $50, <i>for a Student, Howard U.</i> -—Sab. Sch. of Leavitt St. Cong. Ch. -$9.50, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—New Eng. -Ch., Ladies’ M. S. $5</td> -<td class="ramt">255.83</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Downer’s Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dover. Cong. Ch., Theo. W. Nichols</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Elgin. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.88</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Farmington. S. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galva. Mrs. B. S. Eldridge, <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Griggsville. “Friends,” by Mrs. H. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Huntley. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lee Centre. Cong. Ch. $11.60, and Sab. -Sch. $1.36</td> -<td class="ramt">12.96</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lisbon. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">13.20</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Naperville. A. A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">2.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Plainfield. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Polo. Robert Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Princeton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">93.26</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Roscoe. Mrs. A. A. Tuttle</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandwich. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">18.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">San Jose. S. J. and S. T.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l).</td> -<td class="ramt">45.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Walnut Hill. Mrs. E. D. W.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wheaton. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. H. -W. Cobb, 2 bbls. of C., <i>for Savannah, Ga.</i></td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MICHIGAN, $158.27.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adrian. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.85</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Armada. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">11.11</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Flint. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., <i>for -Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Galesburg. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., <i>for Student -Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">13.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grand Rapids. B. Stocking</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hopkins Station. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., -<i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. -$25, <i>for Student Aid, Fisk U.</i>—Mrs. -Boughton $2</td> -<td class="ramt">27.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lansing. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">36.48</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olivet. Cong. Ch. $30.33.—Dea. S. F. Drury -$10, <i>for Straight U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">40.33</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Paw Paw. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">IOWA, $140.85.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Chester. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">26.99</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Davenport. Edwards’ Cong. Sab. Sch., <i>for -Student, Fisk U.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dutch Creek. P. F. N.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Franklin. Dea. J. B.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Grinnell. A. C. H.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">17.31</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Quasqueton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shenandoah. A. S. L.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Strawberry Point. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Waterloo. Mrs. M. B. F.</td> -<td class="ramt">0.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Winthrop. I. H. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">WISCONSIN, $100.13.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Appleton. “Lena,” <i>for Chinese M.</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Beloit. First Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">14.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_396" id="Page_396">[Pg 396]</a></span> -</td> -</tr> - - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Cooksville. Edward Gilley</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Dartford. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.73</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Evansville. “Friends,” by Mrs. Pratt (ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneva. Presb. Ch., quar. coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hudson. Sophronia H. Childs</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New Richmond. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.40</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Royalton. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">8.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Shopiere. John H. Cooper</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sparta. L. S. Bingham</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">KANSAS, $28.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Council Grove. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lane. Mrs. N. D. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Olathe. “A Friend,” <i>for Chinese</i></td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osawatomie. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Valley Falls. J. Hillier $10; Mrs. L. B. Wilson -$2</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">White City. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MINNESOTA, $40.17.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Afton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lake City. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">10.60</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.07</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Spring Valley. Cong. Ch., quar. coll.</td> -<td class="ramt">12.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NEBRASKA, $36.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">4.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Crete. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lincoln. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Red Cloud. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">2.50</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">MISSOURI, $6.05.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Warrensburg. Rent</td> -<td class="ramt">2.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">3.30</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">NORTH CAROLINA, $59.87.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Raleigh. Washington Sch. $15—Miss E. P. -Hayes $10, <i>for desks</i>—Proceeds concert -$27; “Friends” $6.15</td> -<td class="ramt">58.15</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wilmington. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.72</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">SOUTH CAROLINA, $1.50.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Orangeburg. Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.50</td> -</tr> -</table> -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">GEORGIA, $238.60.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Atlanta. Storrs Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">238.60</td> -</tr> -</table> -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">CANADA, $5.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Montreal. Rev. Henry Wilkes, D. D.</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">TURKEY, $5.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Constantinople. Rev. M. H. Hitchcock</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> -</table> -<table class="receipts"> -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">JAPAN, $15.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Osaka. Rev. W. W. Curtis</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table class="receipts"> -<tr> -<td class="ramt" colspan="2">—————</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="total">Total</td> -<td class="ramt">$6,851.66</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p class="right" style="padding-right: 10%;">H. W. HUBBARD, <i>Ass’t Treas.</i></p> - -<hr class="tenth" /> - -<table class="receipts"> - -<tr><td class="statehead" colspan="2">RECEIVED FOR DEBT.</td></tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Augusta, Me. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">23.25</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Bethel, Me. “A reader of the <span class="smcap">American Missionary</span>.”</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Short Falls, N. H. J. W. C.</td> -<td class="ramt">1.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Andover, Mass. Mrs. W. W. Dove</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Billerica, Mass. Cong. Sab. Sch.</td> -<td class="ramt">6.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Malden, Mass. Chas. Heath</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Monson, Mass. E. F. Morris</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Palmer, Mass. First Cong. Ch.</td> -<td class="ramt">9.67</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Scotland, Mass. Royal Keith</td> -<td class="ramt">50.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Scotland, Mass. “A Friend.”</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Springfield, Mass. Ira Merrill</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton, Mass. H. H. Fish</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton, Mass. Andrew S. Briggs</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton, Mass. Joseph Dean</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Taunton, Mass. Individuals, Annual Meeting</td> -<td class="ramt">39.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Wellesley, Mass. “C. B. D.”</td> -<td class="ramt">25.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence, R. I. Joseph Carpenter</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Providence, R. I. Geo. H. Corliss</td> -<td class="ramt">500.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Hampton, Ct. Dea. Saml. Skinner</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Hartford, Ct. Mrs. H. A. Perkins</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">New York, N. Y. Rev. G. D. Pike</td> -<td class="ramt">100.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Randolph, N. Y. Mrs. Diantha C. Bush</td> -<td class="ramt">20.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">East Orange, N. J. Grove St. Cong. Ch.<br /> -(ad’l)</td> -<td class="ramt">33.86</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Ohio.</span>—<i>Oberlin</i>: Jane C. Miller and others -$5; <i>Charleston</i>: Thomas Hatfield $5; <i>Lafayette</i>: -E. J. Phinney $5; <i>Brighton</i>: -Cong. Ch. $6.65; <i>Berea</i>: C. W. D. Miller -$3.36; <i>Bellevue</i>: Mrs. R. A. Severance $11; -<i>North Benton</i>: Simon Hartzell $5; <i>Marysville</i>: -Ruth McAdams $5; <i>Huntsburg</i>: A. -E. Millard $10</td> -<td class="ramt">56.01</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Adams’ Mills, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Smith</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Burton, Ohio. “A few Friends,” by C. C. -$12 (incorrectly acknowledged in November -number).</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Indianapolis, Ind. N. A. Hyde $5; Mrs. E. -L. Runnells $4</td> -<td class="ramt">9.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Illinois.</span>—<i>Atlanta</i>: Samuel J. Chapin $9; -<i>Plainfield</i>: Mrs. S. E. Royce $6; <i>Rockford</i>: -T. D. Robertson $50; <i>Canton</i>: John B. -Allen $5; Mrs. Vittum and Miss McCutchan -$5; <i>Peoria</i>: Moses Pettengill $50; -<i>Providence</i>: Dea. George B. Cushing $5; -<i>Paxton</i>: S. P. Bushnell $25; <i>Amboy</i>: Mrs. -W. B. Adams and others $5; <i>Danville</i>: -Mrs. A. M. Swan $5; Mrs. W. E. Chandler -$5; <i>La Salle</i>: D. Lathrop $10; <i>Galesburg</i>: -Col. by Eli Farnham $19; <i>Lyndon</i>: -“Widow’s Mite” $1</td> -<td class="ramt">200.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Geneseo, Ill. Mrs. E. L. Atkinson</td> -<td class="ramt">15.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sandwich, Ill. J. P. Adams</td> -<td class="ramt">10.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Michigan.</span>— <i>Owosso</i>: A. Gould $10; <i>Union -City</i>: Col. by Mrs. E. E. Bostwick, $10.50; -<i>Greenville</i>: Col. by Mrs. J. L. Patton, $10; -<i>Jackson</i>: Mrs. E. Page $10; <i>Adrian</i>: Mrs. -Jane M. Geddes $5</td> -<td class="ramt">45.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Romeo, Mich. <span class="smcap">Estate</span> of Mrs. Mary Ann -Dickinson, deceased, by H. O. Smith, -Financial Agent</td> -<td class="ramt">1,000.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Wisconsin</span>—<i>Oconomowoc</i>: “Additional” -25c; <a name="Err_6" id="Err_6"></a><i>Fond du Lac</i>: Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $5.50; -<i>Sparta</i>: Rev. H. E. Keller, wife and son, -$16; <i>Milwaukee</i>: Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Holton -$50; Mrs. Arnold $2; <i>Janesville</i>: Mrs. -D. A. Beal $2</td> -<td class="ramt">75.75</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1"><span class="smcap">Iowa</span>—<i>Grinnell</i>: Col. by Mrs. Pres. Magoun, -$30; E. L. Leavitt $5; <i>Charles City</i>: -Mrs. C. E. Raymond $10; <i>Des Moines</i>: -Woman’s Miss. Soc. of Plym. Cong. Ch. -$10; <i>Lansing</i>: Mrs. A. H. Houghton $1.50; -<i>Rockford</i>: Anna E. Gates $7</td> -<td class="ramt">63.50</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Manhattan, Kans. Mrs. R. D. Parker</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Northfield, Minn. Mrs. J. W. Strong</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. Dr. Robbins</td> -<td class="ramt">5.00</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td class="sub1">Sisseton Agency, Dakota. 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N.Y.</b></i></p> - -<p class="medium center">Send for Circular and Price List.</p> - -</div> - -<div class="box" style="padding: 2%;"> - - -<p class="xxlarge center">THE THIRTY-THIRD VOLUME</p> - -<p class=" center">OF THE</p> - -<p class="xxxlarge center smcap">American Missionary,</p> - -<p class="xxlarge center">1879.</p> - - -<p>We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the increasing appreciation of -the <span class="smcap">Missionary</span> during the year now nearly past; 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 1879?</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>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> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p class="xlarge center"><b>SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">Besides giving news from the Institutions and -Churches aided by the Association among the -Freedmen in the South, the Indian tribes, the -Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the Negroes in -Western Africa, it will be the vehicle of important -views on all matters affecting the races among -which it labors, and will give a monthly summary -of current events relating to their welfare and -progress.</p> - -<p class="medium">We publish <b>25,000</b> copies per month, and shall -be glad to increase the number indefinitely, knowing -from experience that to be informed of our -work is to sympathize with, and desire to aid it.</p> - -<p class="medium">The Subscription Price will be, as formerly, -<b>Fifty Cents a Year, in Advance</b>. We also -offer to send <b>One Hundred copies to one -address</b>, for distribution in Churches or to clubs -of subscribers, for $30., with the added privilege of -a Life Membership to such person as shall be designated. -The Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if -preferred, to the persons indicated on Page 318. -Donations and subscriptions should be sent to</p> - -<p class="center">H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t Treas.,</p> - -<p class="medium right"> -56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.<br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<p class="xlarge center"><b>ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT.</b></p> - -<p class="medium">A limited space in our Magazine is devoted to -Advertisements, for which our low rates and large -circulation make its pages specially valuable. Our -readers are among the best in the country, having -an established character for integrity and thrift -that constitute them valued customers in all -departments of business.</p> - -<p class="medium">To Advertisers using display type and Cuts, who -are accustomed to the “<span class="smcap medium">RULES</span>” of the best Newspapers, -requiring “<span class="smcap medium">DOUBLE RATES</span>” for these -“<span class="smcap medium">LUXURIES</span>,” our wide pages, fine paper, and -superior printing, with <b>no extra charge for these -cuts</b>, are advantages readily appreciated, and -which add greatly to the appearance and effect of -business announcements.</p> - -<p class="medium">We are, thus far, gratified with the success of this -department, and solicit orders from all who have -unexceptionable wares to advertise.</p> - -<p class="medium">Advertisements must be received by the <span class="smcap 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">J. H. DENISON, Adv’g Agent,</p> - -<p class="medium right"> -56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.<br /> -</p> - -<hr class="tiny" /> - -<div><p> -<img class="inline" src="images/handpointingright.jpg" width="30" height="14" alt="" /> -<b>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> - -</div> - - -<h2>Transcriber’s Notes:</h2> - -<p>Punctuation and spelling were changed only where the error appears -to be a printing error. Inconsistent hyphenation was retained -as there are numerous authors. The punctuation changes are too -numerous to list; the others are as follows:</p> - -<p>“Atlanla” changed to “Atlanta” on page front01 (<a href="#Err_1">Atlanta, -Ga.—Students’ Reports</a>)</p> - -<p>“Benjamim” changed to “Benjamin” on page 353 (<a href="#Err_2">Mrs. Benjamin James, -of the Mendi Mission</a>)</p> - -<p>“he” changed to “the” on page 353 (<a href="#Err_3">The institutions of the -Association are excellently located.</a>)</p> - -<p>“ou rchildren” changed to “our children” on page 373 (<a href="#Err_4">but will -bring in our children</a>)</p> - -<p>“contrymen” changed to “countrymen” on page 376 (<a href="#Err_5">Why is it that -your countrymen come</a>)</p> - -<p>“Riudge” changed to “Rindge” on page 394 (<a href="#Err_7">Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.</a>)</p> - -<p>“Fon du Lac” changed to “Fond du Lac” on page 396 (<a href="#Err_6">Fond du Lac: -Ladies’ Miss. Soc.</a>)</p> - -<p>Ditto marks in tables were replaced with the text they represent, -in order to help the text line up properly in all media.</p> - - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary -- Volume 32, -No. 12, December, 1878, by Various - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, DECEMBER 1878 *** - -***** This file should be named 54792-h.htm or 54792-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/7/9/54792/ - -Produced by Ralph, Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by Cornell University Digital Collections) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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