{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_11764/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_11764","id":"gutenberg_11764","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11764","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Sociology","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"The American Missionary\n\nMarch, 1888.\nVol. XLII.\nNo. 3\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCONTENTS\n\nEDITORIAL.\n  FINANCIAL--PARAGRAPHS\n  PARAGRAPHS--DEATH OF MR. WM. L. CLARK\n  PARAGRAPHS\n  SHALL CHRIST OR MOHAMMED WIN AFRICA?\n  THE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n  LEWIS NORMAL INSTITUTE--TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY\n  GATHERING OF NEGROES AT MACON\n  ENGLISH IN OUR SCHOOLS\n  THE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE A.M.A. By Rev. F.F. Emerson\n  TO THE MEMORY OF DR. POWELL\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n  LETTER FROM GRAND RIVER, DAK\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n  A CHINESE CHRISTIAN IN CHINA\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n  HOW I BECAME A GOLDEN MISSIONARY\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE.\n  THE STORY OF THE BULLETS\n\nRECEIPTS\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNEW YORK:\n\nPUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nRooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPRESIDENT, ----\n\n_Vice-Presidents_.\nRev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\nRev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D. Ill.\nRev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\nRev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., MASS.\nRev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\n\n_Corresponding Secretaries_.\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\nRev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n_Treasurer_.\nH.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 _Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n_Auditors_.\nPETER MCCARTEE.\nCHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n_Executive Committee_.\nJOHN H WASHBURN, Chairman.\nADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n_For Three Years_\nLYMAN ABBOTT,\nA. . BARNES,\nJ.R. DANFORTH,\nCLINTON B. FISK,\nADDISON P. FOSTER,\n\n_For Two Years_.\nS. B. HALLIDAY,\nSAMUEL HOLMES,\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\nELBERT B. MONROE,\n\n_For One Year_.\nJ.E. RANKIN,\nWM. H. WARD,\nJ.W. COOPER,\nJOHN H. WASHBURN,\nEDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n_District Secretaries_.\nRev. C.J. RYDER. 21 _Cong'l House, Boston_.\nRev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 _Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n_Financial Secretary for Indian Missions_.\nRev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.\n\n_Secretary of Woman's Bureau_.\nMiss D.E. EMERSON, 56 _Reade St., N.Y._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; those relating to the collecting fields, to\nthe Corresponding Secretaries, or to the District Secretaries; letters\nfor \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to the Editor, at the New York Office.\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters or post-office orders, may be sent\nto H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more\nconvenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House,\nBoston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of\nthirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member,\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\"I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of ------ dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in ------ days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the 'American\nMissionary Association,' of New York City, to be applied, under the\ndirection of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its\ncharitable uses and purposes.\" The Will should be attested by three\nwitnesses.\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nVOL. XLII.  MARCH, 1888.  No. 3\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAmerican Missionary Association\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe believe that if we do the work to which God has called us, he will\nmove the hearts of his children to provide the money. By as much as our\nwork is successful, it is expansive. They are following closely in the\nsteps of the Master who are teaching and ministering unto the needy and\nthe poor. We are confident that they can safely trust in his word, \"Seek\nye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things\nshall be added unto you.\" If God sends our workers out he will send\nsupplies. There is no limit to the measure in which God can work on\nChristian hearts, to move his children to give for those who have gone\nforth to \"seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness.\"\n\nWhile God is abundantly blessing our work in our great and wide fields\namong four races, we may safely ask our Christian friends to appeal to\nhim that we shall have not only the needful funds to carry on the work\nwithout debt, but also enough to enable us to enter the doors which he\nopens. We are needing _eight thousand dollars_ to keep our accounts\nbalanced, and we ask those, in whose names we stand, to pray that all\nthese things be added unto us. Has any pastor forgotten to take the\ncollection?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRev. C.J. Ryder, recently assigned to the District Secretaryship of our\nEastern District, with rooms at Boston, will be found at the office in\nthe Congregational House, March 1st. He will be ready to respond to\ninvitations from the churches to present our cause, and can speak from a\nlarge experience in our widely-extended and varied work. We commend Mr.\nRyder to the churches.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPresident Woodworth, of Tougaloo University, is in the North for a few\nweeks, and will represent the growing and very hopeful interests of\nTougaloo, wherever he may be desired. Letters directed to our office in\nNew York will be forwarded to him.\n\nProf. Horace Bumstead, of Atlanta University, is now in the North to\npresent the needs of that institution, and we trust that he will have\nlarge success. He will be happy to send the _Atlanta Bulletin_ to those\nwho may write for it, addressing him at 148 Tremont Street, Boston. In\nthe light of the large convention of Negroes lately held at Macon, Ga.,\nthe _Bulletin_ will be found exceedingly suggestive.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Indian Presbytery of Dakota, composed of converted Sioux Indians,\nduring the last ecclesiastical year gave $571 more to Foreign Missions\nthan _any other presbytery in the synod_, and during the last synodical\nyear gave to the nine Boards of that church $234 more than any of the\nwhite presbyteries of the synod.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNannie Jones, a normal graduate at Fisk University, of the class of\n1886, is to go, under the auspices of the American Board, to the\nsouth-eastern part of Africa, about 600 miles from Natal. She is the\nfirst single colored woman sent out by the American Board. She has been\nadopted by the Ladies' Board of the Interior, whose head-quarters are at\nChicago.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe thank our friends anew for the many kind words of sympathy, in view\nof our loss, and for their appreciative testimonies in memory of our\ndeparted associate, Rev. Dr. Powell.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe hearty commendations of the \"AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" with enclosures\nfor renewed subscriptions, are also gratefully acknowledged.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe death of Mr. Wm. L. Clark, who passed away in November last, has\nremoved from the list of the early and efficient workers of the A.M.A.\nin the South, one who deserved the warmest regards for his fidelity, his\nexcellent services and his self-sacrificing spirit. Mr. Clark began his\nwork for the Association in 1868, as a teacher, in Bainbridge, Ga., and\nwas subsequently at Thomasville and Atlanta. He was for a time\nafterwards editor and publisher of a paper devoted to the interests of\nthe colored people and the South. His last years were spent in\nWashington, D.C.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAn intelligent negro, a graduate of one of our institutions, writes to\nus these words: \"The A.M.A. is doing more to quicken the hopes and\naspirations of the Southern Negro, and more toward arousing the Southern\nwhite man to just ideas of education, and more toward bringing the two\nraces to an acknowledgment of each other's rights and duties, than all\nother institutions or influences in the country.\"\n\nWhen the war closed there were 4,000,000 slaves set free in this\ncountry, absolutely poor, absolutely ignorant. The black race doubles\nitself in twenty years; and it is supposed that there are now about\n8,000,000 Negro people. Of these, 3,000,000 may have learned to read and\nwrite; there must be 5,000,000 still in illiterate and superstitious\ndarkness. That they are still trying hard to learn, will be accentuated\nby the perusal of a specimen of letters to us from locations less\nfavored than others:\n\n     \"Sir Deare Bretterin I will Rite you A few lines to let you no our\n     condison, we has had greatiel sickness her for the last few month.\n     But we hant had no Deth in the time of it, and we wont to no\n     somthing A Bout our School her at ------ for ef we can geet the\n     teacher we can have a good School now, for the is good many pepel\n     wating on us, now. we wode Be hapa to her from you all and then we\n     Can tell the Pepel what to Penon, and ef you Plese Rite to us A\n     Bout the Deed that we sent to you for we hant never hern from it\n     yeat unly By Rev. ------ and i woude Be glad to her from you A Bout\n     it\n\n     so Rite soon yours truly in Crist\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe American Missionary Association, which is the authorized and\nrecognized servant of the Congregational Churches, reporting to them\nfrom the fields to which it is sent in their name, not unfrequently\nmeets the fact that schools and churches in the South are appealing for\nsupport to those who hold us responsible for mission work in the South.\nThus many in the North from time to time, are contributing to schools or\nperhaps to churches there, under the impression that they are thus\ntaking the shortest path to the work which appeals to them.\n\nThere are many schools, of one kind and another, which have been started\nat the South by private parties on a purely independent basis. Many of\nthese are carried on for a little time and then are permitted to die out\nfor one reason and another; and many of them are working not only with a\ngreat lack of efficiency in comparison with the A.M.A. schools, but\nwithout supervision and without scrutiny. Some are located where it has\npleased those who located them to reside, without much reference to\nrelative necessities; and some are located so unwisely that the\nAssociation has been compelled to decline to take them, when through\nfatigue or failure they have been given up. Some of them owe their\nexistence to the fact that certain workers were found to be not adapted\nto the work, or were uncomfortable under supervision and\nsuperintendence. Some of them are conducted by those who have signally\nfailed in our schools. Their projectors are often skillful in\nletter-writing and in solicitation of funds for their specific\nenterprises, which being purely personal, have no large and ultimate\nachievement. Those who give cannot know whether the donations are most\nwisely used, nor is there any satisfactory method by which contributions\ncan be traced.\n\nThe Association, with its Superintendent continually in the field,\nreporting every fact to the Secretaries at the office, who in turn\nreport to the churches, is certainly much better prepared to direct the\ngifts of the benevolent in ways that shall not be unwise or\nirresponsible. As these circulars and letters of appeal are often\nreferred by those who receive them to the Secretaries, it is but their\nduty to say that all funds diverted from our treasury to schools or\nchurches in the South, under no watch and care, would without doubt go\nfurther and help the great work more to which the A.M.A. is consecrated,\nif they should be sent through the channel which the churches have\nordained, and which has not only this justification for its existence\nand work, but also the justification of long experience and success.\n\nIf the friends of the American Missionary Association, upon receiving\nappeals from colored pastors or people in the South, or from independent\nschools, would remember _that their own ordained agency_ can open and\nsupervise as many schools and churches as they will make possible with\ntheir contributions, no doubt less money would be diverted and far\ngreater efficiency secured. Schools in the North without supervision or\nsuperintendence, are usually inferior. Much more are these\nirresponsible, unadvised and independent schools in the South.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSHALL CHRIST OR MOHAMMED WIN AFRICA?\n\nUltimately Christ will, as we know by the sure word of prophecy;\nimmediately, Mohammed gains most rapidly, as present facts seem to\nindicate. The rapid strides of Mohammedanism in Africa have been noticed\nby nearly all recent explorers and travelers, but the full statement of\nthe fact has been brought forth more vividly in a remarkable book\nwritten by a remarkable man. The book is entitled, \"_Christianity, Islam\nand the Negro Race_.\" The author is Edward W. Blyden, LL.D., of whom it\nis said by a competent witness--and our own personal acquaintance with\nhim confirms the testimony, so far as we are competent to judge--that he\nis a great traveler and an accomplished linguist, equally familiar with\nHebrew and Arabic, with Greek and Latin, with five European and with\nseveral African languages, and, had he been born a European, might fill\nand adorn almost any public post. Dr. Blyden was born a full-blooded\nNegro in the Danish Island of St. Thomas, emigrated in his seventeenth\nyear to Liberia, entered an American missionary school and rose to the\nhead of it, became in 1862 Professor in the College of Liberia, and, two\nyears later, Secretary of State in the African Republic. In 1877, he\nrepresented Liberia at the Court of St. James, as Minister\nPlenipotentiary, and has been abundantly decorated with honorary\ndegrees.\n\nDr. Blyden's opportunities for knowing the facts are unquestioned, and\nhis book presents in very striking array the advantages which in some\nrespects Islam enjoys over Christianity in the propagation of its faith\nin Africa. The discussion has been continued by Canon Taylor of York,\nEngland, and, more recently, in a very clear article in the _Nineteenth\nCentury_, by Dean R. Bosworth Smith. Our space does not permit us either\nto summarize the facts as to this progress, nor can we present all the\nreasons for it. But one of these reasons touches so nearly a point that\nis of such vital interest to American Christians, that we feel called\nupon to state it and emphasize it. We abridge the full statement thus:\nChristianity has labored under the great disadvantage of coming to the\nNegro in \"a foreign garb.\" Its teachers came from a land that first\nreached the Negro by capturing him as a slave; they came to him with the\nconscious or unconscious air of superiority born of race-prejudice.\nChristianity came to him as the creed, not of his friends, his\nwell-wishers, his kindred, but of his masters and oppressors. They\ndiffered from him in education, in manners, in color, in civilization.\nMohammedanism, on the other hand, reached the Negro in his own country,\nin the midst of his own surroundings. When it had acclimatized itself\nand taken root in the soil of Africa, it was handed on to others, and\nthen no longer exclusively by Arab missionaries, but by men of the\nNegro's own race, his own proclivities, his own color. The advantages of\nthis method of approach cannot be over-estimated. We care not to enter\nat all into the question of the value of the two religions nor of the\ngood they may respectively do for poor Africa. We wish simply to deal\nwith the methods and means, and with the peoples who may best employ\nthem. We again summarize the language of Dean Smith: The very fact that\nthere are millions of Negroes in America and the West India Islands,\nmany of whom are men of cultivation and lead more or less Christian\nlives, is proof positive that Christianity is welcomed by them. Is there\nnot room to hope that many of these men, returning to their own country,\nmay be able to present Christianity to their fellow-countrymen in a\nshape in which it has never yet been presented,--in which it would be\nvery difficult for Europeans or Americans ever to succeed in presenting\nit--to them, and may so develop a type of Christianity and civilization\ncombined which shall be neither American nor European, but African,\nredolent alike of the people and of the soil?\n\nThis is a point which the American Missionary Association has frequently\nurged, and which it had begun to exemplify by sending colored\nmissionaries to Western Africa. The experiment was in many respects\nsatisfactory, but we realized that a longer training and a more thorough\nmaturing of character were needed in those who had just emerged from the\ndarkness and limitations of slavery. But what greater hope can there be\nfor Africa than in the training of these millions, so apt in learning,\nso earnestly religious, and so well qualified to meet as brothers and\nfriends their kindred in the Dark Continent! Here is a work for American\nChristians, full of promise of a glorious harvest.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE VERNACULAR IN INDIAN SCHOOLS.\n\nAfter some considerable delay, Commissioner Atkins has issued revised\nRegulations in regard to the teaching of Indian languages in schools.\nThat our readers may have them in distinct form we append them:\n\n     \"1. No text books in the vernacular will be allowed in any school\n     where children are placed under contract, or where the Government\n     contributes, in any manner whatever, to the support of the school;\n     no oral instruction in the vernacular will be allowed at such\n     schools. The entire curriculum must be in the English language.\n\n     \"2. The vernacular may be used in missionary schools only for oral\n     instruction in morals and religion, where it is deemed to be an\n     auxiliary to the English language in conveying such instruction.\n\n     \"3. No person other than a native Indian teacher will be permitted\n     to teach in any Indian vernacular, and these native teachers will\n     only be allowed in schools not supported in whole or in part by the\n     Government, at remote points, where there are no Government or\n     contract schools where the English language is taught. These\n     schools under native teachers only, are allowed to teach in the\n     vernacular with a view of reaching those Indians who cannot have\n     the advantages of instruction in English, and they must give way to\n     the English-teaching schools as soon as they are established where\n     the Indians can have access to them.\"\n\nIn response to a special application for authority to instruct a class\nof theological students in the vernacular, at the Santee School, the\nCommissioner says:\n\n     \"There is no objection to your educating a limited number of\n     Indians in the vernacular, as missionaries, in some separate\n     building, entirely apart from the Santee School. This instruction\n     in the vernacular must be conducted entirely separate from the\n     English course, and must not interfere with English studies or be\n     considered part of the ordinary course for any other pupils of the\n     school than the limited number agreed upon, not to exceed thirty,\n     and all instruction in the vernacular must be conducted at no\n     expense to the Government.\"\n\nSince writing the above, we have received from Commissioner Atkins a\ncopy of rules designed to explain the orders quoted above. We are\nconstrained to say that these explanations will probably not remove the\nobjections that have been widely entertained against the rulings of the\nDepartment. It must be admitted, however, that there are difficulties in\nthe way of formulating regulations that in their details shall meet the\nviews of all parties concerned. On the one hand, there is the aim of\nCommissioner Atkins, in which we all coincide, to introduce the English\nlanguage among the Indians as speedily as possible. On the other hand,\nthere is the aim of the churches, in which we are glad to believe the\nCommissioner coincides, to spread the gospel as rapidly as possible\namong the Indians. The churches feel that it is a duty they owe to God\nand to those Indians who cannot understand English to teach them in\nthe language in which they were born, and they believe, too, as the\nresult of long experience, that Christian schools in the vernacular are\namong the most important means to that end, especially as pioneer\nmovements. American Christians believe, too, that they have the\nright as American citizens to use their own methods--tested by\nexperience--without the interference of the Government; and we believe\nthey will feel constrained to protest in every legitimate and honorable\nway against such interference. We hope that the Department of the\nInterior will yet make the needful concessions.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nRev. Dr. A.G. Haygood, the author of _Our Brother in Black_, and the\ngeneral administrator of the John F. Slater fund, was in Macon a few days\nago, visiting officially Lewis Normal Institute, which he pronounced an\nadmirable school. The doctor made a thorough inspection of the school,\nand expressed himself as greatly pleased with its present management\nunder Mrs. L.A. Shaw. He remarked that the improvement within the\nlast two years is very noticeable in all departments, that the teaching is\nvery thoroughly done and the industrial training systematically and\nefficiently carried on. Dr. Haygood preached, Sunday morning, at the\nCongregational Church to the edification of all who heard him.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe governor of Mississippi in his recent message commends our Institution\nat Tougaloo in the following generous terms:\n\n\"The information derived from the President and Board of Visitors of\n_Tougaloo University_ is of the most satisfactory character. During the\nyear, additional school and industrial buildings have been erected, thus\nmaking all the appointments of the Institution excellent and commodious.\nThe University is indebted to a generous-hearted gentleman of New York,\nStephen Ballard, Esq., for the funds necessary for these buildings. The\nlabor of erecting them was performed by the students under the direction\nof the Superintendent of Industries, thus economizing cost of labor, and\nat the same time demonstrating the valuable training of the students. The\ntimely and generous donation of Mr. Ballard serves to carry on under the\nsame roof, blacksmithing, wagon-making, painting, tinning and carpentry.\n\n\"This University not only endeavors to encourage and conduct intelligently\nfarm work of every description, but to teach and thoroughly instruct\nthe boys in the several industries mentioned, as well as in the use of the\nsteam-engine, saw, etc. The girls, in addition to the studies prescribed,\nare taught practical household duties in all their details. During the year\nRev. G.S. Pope, who has been President of the University for a decade,\nand who labored faithfully to advance its interests, was transferred to\nanother field of labor. His place is filled by Frank G. Woodworth, who\nassumes the Presidency of the Institution and who will earnestly strive to\nadvance its interests and sustain its already excellent reputation. This\nUniversity, by its successful management, commends itself to your favorable\nconsideration.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe most important gathering of negroes that probably has ever\noccurred, was in Macon, Ga., a few weeks since. Five hundred leading\nNegro representatives convened to discuss and adopt \"a thorough plan of\nState organization.\" A permanent organization was effected and named\nthe \"_United Brotherhood of Georgia_,\" the purpose of which is \"to resist\noppression, wrong and injustice.\" We note the following resolutions,\nwhich were passed by the convention:\n\n     _Resolved_, That we, in convention assembled, respectfully but\n     earnestly demand of the powers that be, that the Negro be given\n     what, and only what, he is entitled to.\n\n     _Resolved further_, That never, until we are in the fullest\n     enjoyment of our rights at the ballot-box, will we cease to agitate\n     and work for what justly belongs to us in the shape of suffrage.\n\n     _Further resolved_, That it shall be the policy of the colored race\n     to vote so as to bring the greatest division to the white voters of\n     this country, for in this we believe lies the boon of our desire.\n\nThe last resolution is not entirely plain to us, and we refrain from\ncomment upon it, but the convention itself, the fact of leadership\ntaking shape among the Negroes, and the forth-putting of their purposes,\nare very significant.\n\nWhen the Glenn Bill was born, and when the Georgia House of\nRepresentatives stood sponsor for its baptism, we believed that the\nenemy of righteousness had made a mistake, and that this particular\npiece of artillery would kick. They who think to thwart the providences\nof God usually help them forward. Christianity has had many a help from\nits opposers.\n\nUpon the incidental question of temperance, the sentiments of the\nconvention were voiced by one of the speakers in these words: \"The best\nthing for the Negro is industry, temperance, virtue, economy, union and\ncourage. Get land, get money, get education; be sober and be virtuous.\nWe have drunk enough whiskey since the war to build a railroad from\nAtlanta to Savannah. The Negro race cannot be great except as\nindividuals rise towards greatness.\" They are rising. A little more\nyeast, good friends.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe following illustrations of some features of our work are not sent\nforth for the sake of a smile, but for the thought which will be under\nthe smile. The text of the thought, which may be expanded at pleasure,\nwill be found in an ordinance of the United States, dated 1787, viz.:\n\"Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and\nthe happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be\nforever encouraged.\"\n\n\nENGLISH AS SHE IS \"NOT\" TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS.\n\nCONTINUED FROM THE NOTE BOOK OF A MISSIONARY TEACHER.\n\n\nGo to the great physicianer.\n\nI use consecrated lye.\n\nShe is a crippler.\n\nI seldomly hear that.\n\nO Lord, give us good thinking facticals.\n\nThe meeting will be in the basin of the church.\n\nO Lord, throw overboard all the load we'se totin, and the sins which\nupset us.\n\nJog them in remembrance of their vows.\n\nI want her to resist me with the ironing.\n\nI want all you people to adhere to the bell.\n\nThere will be no respectable people in heaven. (God is no respecter of\npersons.)\n\nI was much disencouraged.\n\nIt was said at the startment of this meeting.\n\nI take care of three head of children.\n\nWe have passed through many dark scenes and unseens.\n\nMay we have the eye of an eagle to see sin afar off and shun it.\n\nI have made inquiration at several places.\n\nA letter written jointly to represent the opinions of several persons,\nthus expresses itself to us: \"We are happy to write this letter to you in a\nconglomerate manner.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE A.M.A.\n\nBY REV. FORREST F. EMERSON.\n\n\nThe report of the Executive Committee on educational work in the South,\nconfirms the conviction which must have impressed itself on many minds,\nthat the Association is a divinely-appointed agency for carrying forward\na work delegated to us as a _nation_. God calls nations as he calls men,\nand consecrates them to a special work. Rome had a call, and fulfilled\nit, under the Divine Providence, and that call was to work out the idea,\nand demonstrate the necessity, of government, and to cultivate in the\nminds of men everywhere regard for the authority of law; Greece had her\nmission, and it was to teach the value of individual culture, both\nphysical and intellectual; the people of Israel had their call to teach\nthe doctrine of God, of his moral government, and of the eternal nature\nof moral law; and this Christian nation has its divine call, and that\ncall arises from the peculiar relation which it sustains to the other\nraces and nations of the earth.\n\nFor a long time it seemed as if this land was to be given exclusively to\nthe English race. The Dutch who settled here were assimilated and\nabsorbed; the Spaniards and Portuguese found a congenial clime in South\nAmerica; the French, by the progress of events, were prevented from\ngaining a foothold in New England, and with the sale of so-called\n\"Louisiana\"--an immense area extending from the Gulf to British\nAmerica,--France relinquished her last claim to ownership of any part of\nour domain. The period of history, from the landing at Jamestown and\nPlymouth to the war of 1812, and later, was the unfolding of events\nwhich pointed to the supremacy of the English in North America. Our\nreligion was Protestant and English; our literature took root in English\nforms of thought; our free institutions were the outcome of principles\nwhich had been, and now are, influential in English politics; our common\nlaw was English, our traditions of liberty were English, and that union\nof liberty and law which makes us strong, we inherited from our English\nfathers. So that in 1820, two hundred years after the arrival of the\nMayflower, we were essentially an English nation; old England broken\naway from old forms and precedents, the natural expansion of England\nunder new forms of government and society.\n\nNow it would have been pleasant, to human ways of thinking, if we could\nhave remained always thus homogeneous. But God had a work for us to do.\nWe were not left to sit down amidst the vast resources which the land\naffords for material prosperity, and just watch and foster our own\ngrowing and expanding life, but God gave us four problems to solve.\nThese four problems came to us from the four quarters of the globe, the\nIndian of America on the North, the Chinaman of Asia on the West, the\ndescendant of Africa on the South, and the emigrant of Europe on the\nEast, who poured, in great masses, through our Eastern gates, the German\nunbeliever, the Irish Catholic, the Mormon convert, and representatives\nof every race of Europe.\n\nThe English race, which still represents the heart and brain of the\nnation, confronts these four problems. The problem on the North and\nSouth we brought on ourselves, as results on the one hand of our neglect\nand injustice, and on the other of our cupidity and cruelty. The\ntroubles that come to us through our Eastern and Western ports, are\ndrawn to us by the attractive influence of our free institutions and our\nmaterial prosperity.\n\nWhat are we to do with these alien elements? Do as Rome did. When Rome\nheard of a hostile nation on her borders, she conquered it, attached it\nto the Empire, and made it a new pillar of imperial power. So are we to\nconquer every element of darkness and attach it to the kingdom of light,\nmaking it an element of strength in our American civilization and our\nAmerican Christianity. The difference in the method is the difference\nbetween paganism and Christianity, for while Rome conquered with a sword\nof steel, we conquer with the sword of the Spirit. We conquer by giving\ngifts unto men, the four gifts of law, land, letters and religion. We\nhave given law to the African and the European with citizenship and the\nballot; we have given land to the African and the European, and, thanks\nto Christian statesmanship, we will soon give it to the Indian in\nseveralty; and to all will we give letters and religion.\n\nIt is the peculiar glory of this Association that it deals more directly\nthan any other agency with the gravest and most urgent of these\nproblems, the education of the colored race, so that while the\nGovernment gives the Negro citizenship, and permits him to own land,\nthis society undertakes the work of fitting him for the ownership of\nland and for the responsibility of citizenship. And it is doing this in\nthe genuine way, through the gospel of Christ, and education as the\nhandmaid and helper of the gospel--that helper without which\nChristianity would be falsely conceived, and erroneously applied, and\nwithout which a failure would result in the ethical training of the\ncolored race. The Association, by its educational work, is thus\nfulfilling the divine purpose in the call made to us as a Christian\nnation.\n\nThe report of the committee also suggests the heroic element in our\nwork. It brings to mind the obstacles and difficulties which we are\ncalled upon to overcome. The illiteracy of the colored people is a fact\nimmense in extent and dark in its prophetic significance. Your hearts\nwere rejoiced, I know, by the statements of the changes going on in the\neducation of the colored children in several States through free\nschools. The need of this movement will be appreciated when we remember\nthe figures which bring before us the present illiterate condition of\nthe people. I present the outline of a report made in January, 1885,\nbased on reports of Albion Tourgee, and on articles in the _North\nAmerican Review_. According to that report, seventy-three per cent. of\nthe colored population of the South cannot read and write. In the eight\nGulf and Atlantic States, seventy-eight per cent. are in the same\ncondition. Over two millions of colored people in these eight States\ncannot read and write. But this is not all. We must take into account\nthe rapid increase of the negroes. In three States of the South they\nalready outnumber the whites. In eight States, they are about one-half\nthe population. In all the Southern States they increase faster than the\nwhite population. From 1870 to 1880, in the eight States mentioned\nabove, they increased thirty-four per cent., the whites only\ntwenty-seven per cent. The immigration of foreign-born whites will not\nchange the proportionate difference of increase, as the foreign-born\nwhite population has decreased 30,000 since the war, and the immigration\nof northern-born whites amounts to only a fraction of one per cent.\nAccording to the present rate of increase, the colored race in one\nhundred years from now will have a population many millions in excess of\nthe whites, since, while it will take thirty-five years for the white\nrace to double its numbers, the blacks will do so every twenty years. In\nless than twenty-five years from this date, the colored race in the\nSouth will outnumber the whites in nearly all the States, and then the\nworld will witness a conflict of races, the aspiration of the negro\nagainst the caste-prejudice of the white, the end and result of which no\nman can foresee.\n\nThese facts all point to the greatness of the work undertaken by this\nAssociation. Christian education is the only education for a race having\nbefore it such a future. The illiteracy which we deplore must be\novercome, but something more than that; that change must be provided\nfor, when the Negro in large numbers will pass from the quiet and\npeaceful pursuits of agriculture to be massed together in mine and\nfactory and the work of the mechanic arts, but something more than that;\nintelligence for the burden of citizenship must be given, but something\nmore than that; incentives to the accumulation of property and the\nbuilding of homes for themselves and their families must be encouraged,\nbut something more than that must be done. If we were simply patriots,\nwe would educate these people; if we were only philanthropists, or wise\nstatesmen, or political economists, we would still feel bound to educate\nthem. But we are more than these, we are Christians, and so there is one\nother thing we must do besides these I have mentioned, something which\nincludes all these and so is greater than they all--and that thing is to\nmake them Christian. Education is a part of the means to be used, and\nnot the total end and aim.\n\nFor what is education? Not the mere accumulation of knowledge, nor the\nmere training of the powers of the mind, but the building of manhood.\nYou have tempered your Damascus blade, but who is going to hold it--the\npatriot, or the rebel? You have your educated man with his printing\npress, but what is he going to print--the Police Gazette or the Gospel\nof St. John? You have built your college and found your young man, and\ntrained him up to the very highest point of mental excellence and power,\nbut what is he going to do with his mind? The mind is only an instrument\nunder the direction of the man. The great thing is the ethical man who\nis going to use this mind. If there is any thing the American people\nneed to learn, it is that there is one thing greater than talent, and\nthat is character--the love and regard for righteousness.\n\nIt is here that this Association does its work in the genuine way,\nregarding education as necessary for the colored race and for all races,\nnot as an end in itself, but as an instrument in the hands of a man\nethically and Christianly trained. The gospel must go with the school,\nso that we may train not only the hand and the brain, but also the\nconscience and the heart. When I think of the future of the Negro race\nin America, of the possibilities of that race already being revealed, of\nthe immense political significance of its position to-day, of the\ncertain increase of its numbers, of the inevitable collision of races by\nand by, unless there be a change in the spirit of the whites, I feel\nthat no education is to be trusted but Christian education, an education\nbased on the gospel of Christ.\n\nAnd to what purpose can any of us, with better hope of success, devote\nour time, our money, our labor? Let us have more money for this work. I\nwould say no word to depreciate foreign missions, but is not this after\nall the work of foreign missions? How will you influence the future of\nChina, or of Japan, or of Africa, or of Europe, in more direct,\nsympathetic, permanent ways, than by giving the gospel, and the\neducation that goes with the gospel, to those at our very doors from all\nthese lands, who shall carry back, and send back, to their own native\ncountries the same gospel they have learned in this?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTO THE MEMORY OF DR. POWELL.\n\nBY A PASTOR IN THE SOUTH.\n\n  One night, entranced, I sat spell-bound,\n    And listened in my place,\n  And made a solemn vow to be\n    A hero for my race.\n\n  He plead as but a few can plead.\n    With eloquence and might,\n  He plead for a humanity,\n    The Freedmen and the right.\n\n  His soul and true nobility\n    Went out in every word,\n  And strongly moved for better things\n    Was everyone that heard.\n\n  Too soon has death made good his claim\n    On him who moved us so;\n  Too great and white the harvest yet,\n    To spare him here below.\n\n  O! \"why this waste?\"--forgive me, Lord,\n    I would not Judas be;\n  Yet who will plead as he has plead,\n    For Freedmen and for me?\n\n  Perhaps, ah, yes! I know he will--\n    This sleeping Prince of Thine,\n  In many a multitude be heard,\n    Yet plead for right and mine.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\nLETTER FROM GRAND RIVER, DAK.\n\n\n_Dear Friends_:\n\nI have never seen a worse day in the Territory than to-day. The snow\nwas about two feet deep and light. Last night the wind began to blow,\nand to-day it is blowing a gale and the snow flies like powdered glass.\nNeither man nor beast can endure it. I cannot see my stable, which is\nwithin a stone's-throw of the house. I have wood and water enough in the\nhouse to last two or three days; so I shall not suffer personally, and I\nwill spend the time of imprisonment in writing, if I can, between making\nfires. The snow sifts through my door and window until I have a regular\nsnowbank all along the inside of the house. Though I am warm right by the\nstove, yet I cannot get the room warm enough to melt the snow. Last\nwinter and this are the hardest I have ever seen in the Territory.\n\nSo dear Dr. Powell has gone home! No one should feel sorry for him.\nHow grand and glorious thus to be called home to God! I do not think\nthe work here will suffer because he has gone from our sight. He is only\npromoted. God will no doubt let him work on in heaven; only gone from\nthe ills that the flesh is heir to. Dead? Oh no! he is not dead. He is\nliving evermore. May we all be as ready as was he for the final call!\n\nOn the same day that he died, we trust that there passed through the\ngates with him one of our Indian boys, whose cause Dr. Powell had so\neloquently pleaded. Harry Little-Eagle died like a hero. No one ever\nsuffered more for four months than he, and not once did his faith fail. He\nprayed and sang, and talked for Jesus as long as his strength held out.\nThe night before he died his voice returned, and he said: \"God gave it back\nto me and told me to talk to the people.\" He did. He said: \"I am\ngoing home, God will give me a greater work there to do. Do not cry.\nYou must keep a stout heart and give my message to all the people.\"\nThen he prayed, \"O Father, keep a big work for me. I have not lived\nhere long. I have only known thee a short time, and I have been a great\nsufferer. I have done nothing for thee. Keep some work up there for\nme. I want to help you.\" Then he said: \"Tell Winona to be brave;\ntell her to have a strong will; tell her to seek out the lost; some will\nbelieve and be saved. Tell her to continue to work for the people.\" I\nasked, \"Are you afraid now, when you are so near the water?\" \"No,\" he\nreplied, \"I am in a hurry to go home.\" To his father he said: \"God will\nsend you a comforter. I will help prepare a home for you, and my mother\nand sister and brother. I shall wait for you.\"\n\nHis father, Little-Eagle, seems inspired. New Year's Day he stood up\nbefore some Teton Indians and said: \"I am one of you. You all know me.\nYou all see me. You see the same body that has been on the war-path\nwith you many times; the same body that has been rigged out in paint\nand feathers and rattlers, and has danced with you in the dance. The\nbody is the same, but that is all. The part of me that your eyes cannot\nsee is not the same. I am not the same. I think differently; I feel\ndifferently; I plan differently. I like different things; I am a new man.\nMy heart is made clean in Christ. When I first tried to follow Christ, I\nwas satisfied. I tried to do right and I thought God would own me. When\nmy boy died he said: 'Tell the people that God has said, \"Thou shalt\nhave no God but me. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou\nshalt not commit adultery. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy.\"'\nThen my heart was heavy. All day and night I sat mute. I said: 'I have\ndone all these things and my boy never did any of them. He will be\nsaved and I shall be lost.' I went to Winona and told her. She told me:\n'My friend, if we never had sinned, Christ would not have died. Because\nyou sinned and broke God's laws, Christ died for you. His death makes\nyou his.' Then light came. Yes, I am a sinner, just like the rest of you.\nWe have all done the same things. Now I stand here acquitted. Come\nto Christ. Come to God. You seek after food for the body; that is all\nyour thought. I sought God, and when I sowed my seed in the spring, I\nprayed to God and attended to my soul, and God has taken care of my\nbody. I wished, and he made my field flourish when all yours dried up\nin the sun. If you will seek God he will take care of your bodies. Trust\nin the Lord. Put away heathen dances and plays. Be not like children;\nbe men and women and God will feed you.\"\n\nThese were his words. He spoke the truth, for he is the only Indian\nwho had an abundant crop.\n\nLittle Eagle cannot speak an English word. His son Harry who died\ncould read English a little. He learned at Santee. But his knowledge of\nthe Bible, and his Bible-reading to the people and his work for Christ, were\nin his own tongue. It was the truth in his own tongue that saved Little\nEagle. _Shall we not, then, teach the children Christian truths in their\nown language?_\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\nA CHINESE CHRISTIAN IN CHINA.\n\n\nChin Toy was a shoemaker until he accepted my invitation to become a\nMissionary Helper. His education, in English and as a Christian, has\nbeen wholly in our humble mission work. He is now engaged in\nevangelistic service. Having recently returned from a visit to his\nnative land, I asked him to give me an account of his experience there.\nI give it below to the readers of the _Missionary_. W.C. POND.\n\n     DEAR PASTOR:--You asked me kindly to give you my experience during\n     my visit in China. I stayed home about ten months. I had a very\n     hard time there at first, because I have no Christian friends who\n     live near enough to help me. The temptations around me very great.\n     My father and my uncle wanted me to help in their store: they had\n     sacrifice-paper and candles for the offering of idols for sale.\n     This hurted my feeling very much. I told them I was a Christian. I\n     could not help in that business, for I know it was against the law\n     of the true God. They laughed at me and said I was very foolish to\n     believe such a doctrine. I found it very difficult to enlighten\n     their minds.\n\n     Two weeks after I got home was a birthday of my grandfather, who\n     died many years ago. My father set some sacrifices on the parlor\n     table, before the ancestral tablet; he wanted me to bow down and\n     worship with him, but I refused. I told him while I honored my\n     grandfather a great deal, yet I could not worship him. The\n     Christians only worship the one true God. This made him very angry\n     at me, he so angry that he did not take his breakfast that\n     morning. From this time on, my father was cross to me very often,\n     he called me a man without conscience. I did not mind about that,\n     for I knew he loved me in his heart. He had not learned what\n     Christianity was. I tried to please him all I could. When he\n     scolded me I answered him softly. I prayed for him and for all my\n     relatives every day. I asked the Lord to send the Holy Spirit to\n     them, that they might prove what was good. Two or three months\n     afterward, I found my father and relatives changed a great deal.\n     They seemed to like Christianity more than they did.\n\n     Sometimes I showed them some things which they never saw before,\n     such as photograph album, Holy Bible, book of mission stories with\n     many pictures in it. I explained the pictures to them and they were\n     all pleased. I also told them that these good books were presented\n     by my kind teachers. I gave the names of these faithful workers of\n     the Lord and said they were the best friends of the Chinese, the\n     reason was that they love Jesus. I then went on and told them about\n     the true God, and his blessed Son Jesus, who love the whole world.\n     They all kept quiet and listen attentively. Besides these, I show\n     them my coal-oil stove, alarm clock, thermometer, etc. These things\n     greatly pleased them. I told them the wonderful arts, the\n     machineries, railways and the telegraphs. These news led them spoke\n     out in a loud voice, \"The people in Christian land have more wisdom\n     than our Chinese.\" I said, \"God gave this wisdom, our Chinese must\n     love the true God and forsake the idols, then God will send the\n     Holy Spirit to make us wise and happy, and love to do good. The\n     Bible says, Trust the Lord and do good.\" After this, I found\n     opportunity to preach the gospel every day. Though I could not make\n     them become Christians yet, I was glad they shew so much interest\n     in receiving the good seeds. Nearly every day, some people came in\n     our little store and asked me to tell them about this new doctrine.\n     During March, Rev. C.R. Hager paid us a visit. Our store was\n     crowded with people. They all came to see him. He preached to them.\n     Several of the students had a long talk with him.\n\n     On the day of my marriage, my father did not compel me to worship\n     the idols and ancestors. I felt very thankful for the Lord's help\n     in this matter. My mother used to believe in all kinds of\n     superstitions. If any one in the family was sick, she would go to a\n     sorcerer and ask for some charms to heal the sick one. I told her\n     that this kind of belief and doing were all wrong. I shew her how\n     to pray the true God, and taught her to say the Lord's prayer. One\n     day my sister was sick in bed, and my mother called me home to pray\n     for her. I asked my mother whether she had been to the sorcerer or\n     not. She said she had not. I then opened the Bible and read the\n     first eleven verses from the fourth chapter of Matthew. I knelt and\n     prayed, while my mother and all the rest of the family kept silent.\n     When I said the Lord's prayer at the close, I asked them to follow\n     me, but they were too bashful to comply. I am glad to say that my\n     sister's health was restored, and this greatly pleased my mother.\n\n     During the month of March, the Chinese worship their ancestors at\n     their respective graves. This kind of worship has two meanings, one\n     is to repair and decorate the graves, the other, to worship with\n     sacrifice, consisting of already cooked chicken and pork, and paper\n     which represents money and clothing. My father and relatives, of\n     course, follow the same custom. I accompanied them to the graves,\n     but I only helped them in repairing the graves. Some of these\n     relatives were school teachers. They spoke scornfully at me for not\n     worshiping. They said, \"You cannot show honor to your ancestors\n     without kneeling before them.\" I then said to them, \"Can you tell\n     me the origin of sacrifice? Who established it, and for what\n     purpose?\" This seemed to strike them like lightning, for they all\n     stood and had nothing to say. I then said, let me give you the\n     origin. I told them that after God created heaven and earth and all\n     things, he finally made a man and a woman, and placed them in Eden,\n     the paradise, and how they sinned against God's command by eating\n     the forbidden fruit. This brought death into the world. They were\n     driven out of Paradise and had to work hard for a livelihood, but\n     God was so merciful that he promised that the seed of the woman\n     shall bruise the head of the serpent; that is, he would provide a\n     Saviour, by which death could be conquered. God told them that when\n     they sinned again, they must offer sacrifice and confess their\n     sins, then God would forgive them. From that time on, the people\n     offer sacrifice. This sacrifice is a type of Jesus, who gave his\n     life and died on the cross for all who are willing to believe in\n     him. So Jesus paid it all, and after his crucifixion there is no\n     more offering required. That is the reason why the Christians do\n     not offer sacrifice, and why I do not worship in this manner. For\n     no one deserves our worship but God alone. I only honor the\n     ancestors with my heart. I love them just as much as you do\n     yourselves.\n\n     When they heard this explanation, they were greatly surprised. Then\n     they spoke among themselves by saying, \"His doctrine is good; this\n     is all news to us; our Confucius books never tell us about the\n     origin of sacrifice.\" This seemed to break down their pride a great\n     deal, and after this they shew great willingness to listen to the\n     Word of Life. Oh! how I long to have them learn of Jesus and become\n     His followers. I not only pray for them, but every one in our\n     village. May the Lord bless the seed sown in their hearts.\n     Moreover, may He enlighten every soul in China. Yours in Christ,\n     CHIN TOY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe are in need of clothing to be sent to our mission stations in the\nSouth. Second-hand clothing will be of use if it is yet durable. All such\nhelps should be sent to our office in New York, 56 Reade St., and we will\nforward promptly where most needed.\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\nWOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,\nMrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee,\nMrs. Henry Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford,\nConn.\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. C.C. Creegan, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin, Ohio.\n\nIll.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs.\nC.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago, I11.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. Mary B. Warren, Lansing, Mich.\n\nWis.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. C. Matter, Brodhead, Wis.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,\nMrs. H.L. Chase, 2,750 Second Ave., South,\nMinneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary,\nMrs. Ella B. Marsh, Grinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary,\nMrs. Addison Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union,\nSecretary, Mrs. W.H. Thrall, Amour, Dak.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNot many weeks since, the Congregational Sunday-school of Ithaca, N.Y.,\nsent us forty-five dollars towards the education of an Indian girl at\nSantee Agency, saying \"we expect to make it seventy dollars.\" The story\n\"How I Became A Golden Missionary,\" tells how they did it. It is a clear\ncase of evolution. If any of our young people do not know what evolution\nis, they can learn how to start one by reading\n\nHOW I BECAME A GOLDEN MISSIONARY.\n\nMy birthplace was in a very Superior region, as for millions of years I\nhad dwelt near Lake Superior. My superior quality almost defied the arts\nof man. I first became conscious of existence when being liberated from\nmy copper prison. I was, as I heard men say, ninety per cent. pure\ncopper. Up to this time I had never been disturbed, but now sounded\nsharply the click of the hammer upon the cold chisel that rudely\nseparated me from all that had been most closely associated with me. I\nheard men say that I was to be made over; and I was transported far away\nto a place where I was exposed to fierce fires, and without suffering I\nwas made to assume a liquid form. I was then poured into a mold from\nwhich I came out, verily, a new creature. I was very bright and\nbeautiful, shining and glowing, as if still retaining in myself the\nfires that had transformed me. I now discovered that I had a new name,\nfor they called me \"One Cent,\" and gave me this motto, \"In God we\ntrust.\"\n\nI heard it said that I was a tool to assist in civilization, and I soon\nfound myself aiding men in commercial transactions. I had manifold\nexperiences and, like most useful people, found that while age increased\nmy usefulness it subdued my glitter. At last, after many, many years, I\nfell into the hands of a Sabbath-school Superintendent with a missionary\nspirit, and by him was distributed with many of my companions to the\nchildren of his Sabbath-school, with the injunction to multiply. I fell\ninto the hands of a boy who undertook to help me in a business way\nwhich should tend to my rapid increase. At the end of a fixed period I\nand my companions were to be returned to the Superintendent with our\nrespective gains; and then, after relating our experiences, we were to\nbe sent forth as missionaries to the Indians. Before this, my aims had\nbeen simply to aid in commerce, with no definite plan before me, and\nlike all who have no fixed purpose, I drifted here and there and took no\nspecial interest in the world. But now I was to become a missionary; I\nwas not only to aid in civilization but in advancing Christianity.\n\nMy new aim in life made me anxious concerning the boy who was to be my\nhelper. I took the deepest interest in all his plans in regard to me and\nlistened attentively when he bargained with his father for a fourth of a\ncent's worth of yarn and the use of a needle with which to darn his\nfather's socks. I thought that a boy of sixteen who was willing to\nincrease me by undertaking to darn his father's stockings, deserved all\nthe aid that I could give him. I looked on with interest and admiration,\nwhile he, with earnest toil, completed his task. When the task was\nended, I found myself increased from one to three cents. This small\nbeginning was in reality the most important of all our transactions and\ndemonstrated that we could work harmoniously together.\n\nWhile he went to the St. Lawrence for his vacation, he did not give me a\nvacation nor wrap me in a napkin, but left me where I grew to four\ncents. Then we invested my whole increase in hickory nuts, which\ntransaction increased me to fifteen cents. I here discovered that I had\nnot only multiplied but had become of a more precious metal. I was now\nsilver. We now invested in peanuts and hickory nuts and I was increased\nfrom fifteen to thirty cents. The community in which we lived manifested\nsuch a fondness for peanuts that we again invested and I found myself\nincreased to seventy-five cents.\n\nComing in contact with one who mourned over sleepless nights, we\nundertook to add to her comfort by making a hop pillow. Having invested\nin materials, and the boy making the pillow himself upon the machine, we\nrealized an increase of twenty-five cents. Now to my great surprise and\nstill greater delight, I found that I had again been transformed into a\nmore precious metal. I was now gold. As I could attain no higher degree\nin precious metals, it was decreed that in this form I should go forth\non my career as a missionary.\n\nGood-bye to you, Lottie, and Rose, and Marion, and John, and Carl, and\nWaldo. Our association has been very pleasant together, and I hope that\nin taking leave of you I am not to pass altogether from your knowledge.\nI should desire that this history of my growth and increase may\naccompany me, that in time to come I may be able to report to you of the\ngood that through me you have been able to accomplish. Once more\ngood-bye.\n\nYOUR HAPPY MISSIONARY GOLD DOLLAR.\n\n\n\nCHILDREN'S PAGE.\n\nTHE STORY OF THE BULLETS.\n\nAmong some unpublished papers of the late Rev. Dr. Pike, we find the\nfollowing story, which we know will be of interest to our readers, both\nfrom the sketch itself and the association with its author:\n\nA few years after Gen. Hooker fought his famous battle of the clouds, I\nvisited Lookout Mountain, and, while searching for some memento on the\nbattle-field, picked up a slightly bruised rifle bullet. This to me was\na real prize. It was not too large, it would keep.\n\nA slight illness, aggravated by the fatigue of the day, induced me to\naccept the urgent request of a former acquaintance to spend the night\nwith him upon the mountain. During the evening, I chanced to show him\nthe bullet, saying I thought myself quite fortunate in finding it.\n\n\"Oh,\" said he, \"that's nothing. A colored woman after the battle\ngathered and sold so many that she was able to purchase a cow with the\nmoney, and now that cow supports her family.\"\n\nI left Chattanooga the nest morning, and thought no more of the incident\nfor a dozen years. A short time since, however, I was spending the night\nin a small village in one of the mountain towns of Tennessee. At\nnightfall, looking out from my hotel, I observed a company of colored\npeople ambling along towards a low wooden meeting-house, and time\nhanging heavily on my hands, I decided to join the dusky worshipers. I\nslipped in, therefore, when the meeting was a little under way, and\nallowed myself to be ushered up to the front seat, directly under the\neye of an intelligent looking young man who proved to be the preacher\nfor the occasion. After a few opening services, which embraced the usual\nvariety in ordinary churches, the minister took for his text the\npassage, \"Ask, and ye shall receive, seek and ye shall find, knock and\nit shall be opened unto you.\"\n\n\"Now,\" said he, when he had gotten on well with his introduction, \"you\nmust not believe you will surely receive precisely the thing you ask for\nin just the way you might like it. Let me give you an illustration from\nmy personal experience. When a little boy, I lived with my mother on the\nsouthern slope of Lookout Mountain, and remember well the day that Gen.\nHooker fought his great battle up there and how he and his soldiers\nmarched bravely away. For a long time the children and the grown people\nsearched the battle-fields over, day after day, hoping to find things of\nvalue. My mother made it her business to hunt for bullets, and at length\nthe number she gathered herself and took from us boys was so great that\nshe was able to purchase a cow with the money they brought.\n\n\"A benevolent gentleman living in New York at this time soon after\nsecured the Government buildings on the top of the mountain that had\nbeen used for the sick soldiers, and fitted them up nicely for Northern\nteachers, who opened a boarding-school for white students. I took milk\nto the institution from our cow, every morning, and how I wished that I\nmight gain admittance to the school and procure an education! One day I\nheard the scholars reciting in concert, 'Ask and ye shall receive, seek\nand ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.' It came over\nme most powerfully and I repeated it again and again. I said it to my\nmother, and inquired of her what it meant, and why it impressed me so,\nand who it was that said it.\n\n\"She replied, 'I dunno. I reckon I'se heard dem words afore. 'Pears like\ndey was spoke by the bressed Lord.'\n\n\"The more I thought of it, the more undecided I was what I could do, or\nwhat my mother could do for me, I knew, however, that the Lord could do\neverything.\n\n\"Well, the nest time I met the good-natured teacher who managed the\nschool, I made bold to ask him to allow me to tell him all about it, and\nthis was his reply. 'Our Lord made that promise long before the\ndiscovery of America and the establishment of the peculiar institutions\nof this country. If he had lived at this day, I reckon,' he continued\nwith a look of drollery, 'he would have said \"Ask and ye shall\nreceive--if you aint a nigger.\" I can't take you into my school because\nyou are black, but I'll send you down to the American Missionary school\nat Chattanooga. You can ask and receive there whether you are black or\nwhite.'\n\n\"So, shortly after he told my experience to the teacher in the town, who\narranged that my mother should take me and the cow to a little farm just\nout of the city, giving me an opportunity to attend his school regularly\nuntil I was fitted to enter an institution of a higher grade. I then\nwent away and pursued a course of study for six years, teaching during\nthe summer and receiving aid from my mother, who kept the cow all the\nwhile for her own support and my assistance. I asked, I received, but\nnot just in the way I hoped.\"\n\nWhen he had finished speaking, I took him heartily by the hand, told him\nof my early visit to the mountain and the bullet still in my possession.\nI talked with him about his teachers, his struggles for self-help, his\naim to work for the progress of the church and his consecration to the\nduties of the Christian ministry. I conversed with him in reference to\nothers of his acquaintance and believe that his experience serves to\nillustrate the ingenuity of the colored people in seeking their own\nadvancement.\n\n  \"They climb like corals, grave on grave,\n  But pave a path that's sunward,\n  They're beaten back in many a fray,\n    Yet newer strength they borrow;\n  And where the vanguard rests to-day,\n    The rear shall camp to-morrow.\"\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1888.\n\nMAINE, $977.34.\n\nAuburn. SAMUEL J.M. PERKINS, to const.\nhimself L.M. ...$30.00\n\nBangor. Hammond St. Ch. ...15.50\nBangor. Center Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._ ...5.00\n\nBath. Winter St. Ch., 100; Central Cong.\nCh. and Soc., 34 ...134.00\n\nBelfast. Miss E.M. Pond, Bbl. of C.; Miss\nG. Longfellow, Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington,\nN.C._\n\nBrewer. Mrs. C.S. Hardy, 10; M. Hardy,\n10, _for Indian M._ ...20.00\n\nBrunswick. Mrs. S.C.L. Clement, _for\nStudent Aid, Atlanta U._ ...25.00\n\nBrunswick. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian M._ ...8.10\n\nCastine. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nCastine. Class 9, Trin. Sab. Sch., _for Student\nAid, Tougaloo U._ ...2.32\n\nCumberland Center. Silas M. Rideout, _for\nMountain Work_ ...1.00\n\nEast Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovel, 5; Rev.\nJ. Loring, 2; Mrs. Sarah P. Morton, 1 ...8.00\n\nEllsworth. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. C.F.W.\nHUBBARD L.M. ...41.33\nFarmington Falls. Cong. Ch. ...2.02\n\nGorham. \"Helping Hand Soc.,\" _for\nFreight_ ...2.00\n\nHallowell. Mrs. F.C. Page, 15 _for Mountain\nWork_ and 10 _for Indian M._ ...25.00\n\nLimerick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...10.87\nMadison. Cong. Ch. ...1.00\n\nNew Castle. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding,\n_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nNorridgewock. Mrs. Caroline F. Dole, _for\nFreight_ ...1.45\n\nNorth Yarmouth. Dea. Asa A. Lufkin ...5.00\n\nPortland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n197; High St. Ch., 195.72; Williston Ch.,\n69.39; Rev. I.P. Warren, 60, to const.\nSTANLEY P. WARREN, M.D., and MRS.\nSUSAN H. CANADA L.M.'s; Friends in\nWest Cong. Ch., 5; Seamen's Bethel Ch.,\n5 ...532.11\n\nPortland. Sab. Sch of Seamen's Bethel,\n_for Indian M._ ...2.00\n\nPortland. Infant S.S. Class, St. Lawrence\nSt. Ch., _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...3.00\n\nPortland. Mrs. J.M. Gould, 2.50; Mr. and\nMrs. Geo. H. Plummer, 1 _for Indian M._ ...3.50\n\nSouth Berwick. Mrs. Lewis' S.S. Class,\n_for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...2.00\n\nUnion. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Bedding,\n_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nWaldoboro. First Cong. Ch. ...12.00\n\nWoolwich. E.M. Gardner, _for Tougaloo\nU._ ...0.50\n\n----. Mrs. M.W. Stone, _for Pupils, Fort\nBerthold, Indian M._ ...70.00\n\n\nNEW HAMPSHIKE, $518.38.\n\nAmherst. Miss L.F. Boylston (20 of which\n_for Woman's Work_) ...70.00\n\nBedford. Presb. Ch. ...12.67\nChester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...20.00\n\nConcord. Dea. F. Coffin's Class, 10, and\nJos. T. Sleeper's Class, 10, South Cong.\nCh., _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...20.00\n\nDerry. Ladies' Aux., First Cong. Ch., _for\nWoman's Work_ ...20.00\n\nFarmington. First Cong. Ch. ...23.77\n\nGreat Falls. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for\nWoman's Work_ ...25.00\n\nHarrisville. Mrs. L.B. Richardson, 10;\nDarius Farwell, 2 ...12.00\n\nKeene. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 90,\nto const. GEORGE E. HITcHCOCK, MRS.\nHARRIET L. BUCKMINSTER and LUCY M.\nCARLTON L.M.'s Sab. Sch of Second\nCong. Ch., 48.49 ...$138.49\n\nLebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...45.00\n\nLempster. Helen Bingham and Marianna\nSmith ...5.00\n\nLondonderry. Charles S. Pillsbury ...1.00\n\nManchester. Sab. Sch., by E. Ferren,\nTreas., _for Pupils, Fort Berthold, Indian\nM._ ...75.00\n\nMerrimac. First Cong. Ch. ...2.85\n\nPembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, 5;\nA Friend, 2 ...7.00\n\nPembroke. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...2.00\n\nRindge. Ladies' Sewing Cir., _for Freight_ ...5.00\n\nSouth Newmarket. 2 Bbls. of C., _for Wilmington,\nN.C._\n\nUnion. \"Do Good Soc.,\" by Mrs. G.S.\nButler, _for Indian M._ ...1.00\n\nWest Lebanon. Mission Band of Cong.\nCh. ...20.00\n\nWinchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...12.60\n\n\nVERMONT, $737.77.\n\nBarnet. Cong. Ch., 70, to const. ALEXANDER\nHOLMES and EMELINE H. WALLACE\nL.M.'s Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 17.85 ...87.85\n\nBennington. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.\nCh., 10, Mrs. G.W. Hannan, 2; A.B.\nValentine, 1, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...13.00\n\nBethel. Mrs. Laura F. Sparhawk ...5.00\n\nBrattleboro. \"A Friend,\" 50; E. Crosby,\n25, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...75.00\n\nBrookfield. Second Cong. Ch. ...25.51\nBrownington. S.S. Tinkham ...5.00\n\nCastleton. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by\nMrs. Henry Fairbanks ...3.00\n\nChester. Cong. Ch. ...33.50\n\nDorset. Ten Cent Collection, _for McIntosh,\nGa._, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks ...7.20\n\nEast Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,\n48.86; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 3.50 ...52.36\n\nEssex Junction. Cong. Ch. ...10.70\n\nGranby. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by\nMrs. Henry Fairbanks ...1.40\n\nGranby. Infant Class Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...1.15\n\nHardwick. H.R. Mack, _for Indian M._ ...5.00\n\nHartland. Class in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\nMcIntosh, Ga._ ...7.00\n\nManchester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of\nC., etc., _for Atlanta, U._\n\nMontpelier. \"C.L.S.C.,\" _for Storrs Sch._ ...9.00\nMontpelier. Sab. Sch. of Bethany Ch. ...8.00\n\nMontpelier. Ladies of Bethany Ch., Box\nof C., val. 75, _for McIntosh, Ga._\n\nNewbury. Hon. P.W. Ladd ...5.00\n\nPlainfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,\nGa._ ...3.00\n\nRutland. Cong. Ch., 81.47; Sab. Sch. of\nCong. Ch., 10 ...91.47\n\nSaint Johnsbury. Sab. Sch. of South\nCong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...40.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. \"Little Helpers\" Miss'y\nCircle of South Ch., _for McIntosh, Ga._, by\nMrs. Henry Fairbanks ...10.00\n\nSaint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., _for\nRosebud M._ ...3.41\n\nSalisbury. Monthly Concert, 15; J.E.\nWeeks, _for McIntosh, Ga._ ...20.00\n\nSpringfield. F.V.A. Townsend, to const,\nERVIN A. TOWNSEND L.M. ...30.00\n\nSwanton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,\nGa._ ...2.00\n\nWestbrook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nRosebud Indian M._ ...5.00\n\nWindham. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...15.00\nWindsor. \"A Friend,\" 25; Cong. Ch., 8 ...33.00\nWoodstock. Cong. Ch. ...7.22\n\nLadies of Vermont, _for McIntosh, Ga._:\n\nBarnet. Bbl. of C.\nBarton. \"  \".\n\nBrownington. Bbl. of C. ...$5.00\nCambridge. Bbl. of C. ...2.00\nCharlotte. Half-Bbl. of C. ...2.00\nDerby. Bbl. of C. ...3.00\n\nFarihaven. Bbl. of C.\n\nGreensboro. \"  \" ...3.00\n\nIsland Pond. \"  \"\nLowell. Half-Bbl. of C.\nMontpelier. Box of C.\n\nNorth Craftsbury. Bbl. of C ...3.00\nWallingford. ...0.50\n\nWeybridge. Bbl of C. ...2.00\n------  $20.50\n-------\n$633.77\n\n\nLEGACY.\n\nBradford. Estate of Mrs. C.D. Redington,\n_for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Henry\nFairbanks ...100.00\n\n-------\n$737.77\n\n\nMASSACHUSETTS, $16,495.66.\n\nAmherst. Mrs. Elijah Ayers, Bbl. of C.,\netc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nAndover. \"A Friend,\" to const. Miss\nLUCY J. KIMBALL L.M. ...75.00\n\nAndover. L.G. Merrill, _for Student Aid,\nMobile, Ala._ ...10.00\n\nAndover. Mrs. Wm. Abbot, Pkg. Books,\netc., and 1.42 _for Student Aid, Sherwood,\nTenn._ ...1.42\n\nAshburnham. M. Wetherbee ...2.00\n\nAttleboro. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n60; First Cong. Ch., 16.53 ...74.53\n\nBeverly. Washington St., Cong. Ch. ...79.45\n\nBeverly. Member of Dane St. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._ ...2.00\n\nBoston. Park St. Homeland Circle,\n101, _for Tougaloo U._;\n54 _for Student Aid,\nStriaght U._; 3 _for Indian\nM._, and to const MRS.\nDAVID GREGG, MRS. ADDIS\nE. BOWLER, MRS.\nCHARLES E. SPENCER,\nMRS. ALBERT F. FISHER\nand MISS ALICE L TENNEY\nL.M.'s ...158.00\n\n\"  Park St. Ch., add'l ...115.00\n\n\"  \"Partial payment of the\ndebt due from the North\nto the Colored Race in\nthe South\" ...50.00\n\n\" Mrs. C.A. Spaulding, to\nconst MRS. MARY W.\nWOOD L.M., _for Student\nAid, Straight U._ ...30.00\n\n\" Ezar Farnsworth, _for\nOahe Ind'l Sch._ ...30.00\n\n\" \"A Friend,\" to const.\nDEA. THOMAS Y. CROWELL\nL.M. ...30.00\n\n\" \"W.E.M.\" ...25.00\n\nCharlestown. Mrs. C.W. Flint,\nPkg. of C., _for Tougaloo\nU._\n\nDorchester. Second Cong. Ch. ...115.32\n\n\" \"Friends,\" _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ ...10.00\n\n\" Miss Mary A. Tuttle,\n_for Marie Adlof Sch'p\nFund_ ...1.00\n\n\" Miss M.E. Lapham,\nHalf-Bbl. of C., _for\nWilmington, N.C._\n\nJamaica Plain. \"Gleaners,\" _for\nFreight, Oahe Ind'l Sch._ ...1.70\n\nRoxbury. Immanuel Cong. Ch. ...58.40\n\" \"Friend\" ...10.00\n\n\" Sab. Sch. of Highland\nCh., 9.94, and Bdl. of S.S.\nPapers, _for Jackson, M._ ...$9.94\n\n------  $654.36\n\nBrimfield. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._ ...5.00\n\nBrookline. Harvard Ch. ...75.95\n\nCambridge. Bible Class, S.M. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Atlanta U._ ...25.00\n\nCambridge. First Cong. Ch., _for Storrs\nSch._ ...9.00\n\nCambridge. Mrs. M.L.C. Whitney ...1.50\n\nCampello. South Cong. Ch., 25.00; Mrs.\nAllen Leach, 50 cts. ...25.50\n\nCharlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...27.35\n\nChesterfield. \"Hill Top Gleaners,\" _for\nIndian M._ ...11.00\n\nChesterfield. Cong. Ch. ...4.00\nClinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...21.71\n\nClinton. Mrs. H.N. Bigelow, by W.H.M.\nSoc., _for Talladega C._ ...15.00\n\nConway. Cong. Ch. ...13.00\nCurtisville. Mrs. Frances M. Clarke ...5.00\n\nDalton. Zenas Crane, Jr. _for Mountain\nWhite Work_ ...100.00\n\nDalton. Mrs. James B. Crane ...100.00\n\nEast Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for\nStudent Aid, Talladega C._ ...25.00\n\nEast Cambridge. Ladies' Union Scoiable,\nBbl. of C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nEast Dennis. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Talladega C._ ...15.00\n\nEnfield. E.P. Smith, 50; Miss L.E. Fairbanks'\nSab. Sch. Class, 25; Mrs. J.E.\nWood's Sab. Sch. Class, 10; Mrs. Geo.\nC. Ewing, 10; Mrs. J.E. Clark, 5; Mrs.\nC. Savage, 5; Mrs. Bartlett's Sab. Sch.\nClass, 7; H. Graves, 1, _for Indian M._ ...113.00\n\nEnfield. Mrs. J.S. Wood, _for Indian Student\nAid_ ...40.00\n\nEnfield. Mrs. M. McClary, 5; Miss\nSmith's Sab. Sch. Class, 5; Mrs. Richards'\nSab. Sch. Class, 3.70; Miss Crowthers'\nSab. Sch. Class, 2.30; _for Rosebud\nIndian M._ ...16.00\n\nEnfield. Woman's Missionary Society ...28.25\n\nFall River. First Cong. Ch., 111.62; Third\nCong. Ch., 8.89 ...120.51\n\nFalmouth. First Ch. ...16.00\n\nFramingham. Mary L. Bridgeman and\nFriends, Box Books, etc., _for Sherwood,\nTenn._\n\nGeorgetown. Sab. Sch. of Memorial Ch. ...7.20\nGilbertville. Cong. Ch. ...37.30\nGloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...108.40\nGrafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...49.91\n\nHaverhill. Center Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n86; West Cong. Ch. 16, bal. to const.\nMRS. ABBIE C. HAZELTINE L.M. ...102.00\n\nHaverhill. Algernon P. Nichols, _for Student\nAid, Talladega C._ ...100.00\n\nHaverhill. Sab. Sch. Classes of West\nCong. Ch.; Eben Websters's 14.42; Amos\nHazeline's 8.34; Nos. 9 and 10; 8.12;\n_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...30.98\n\nHaydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...20.00\n\nHolliston. \"Friends,\" 5; Class of Young\nMen, Cong. Sab. Sch., 3; _for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._ ...8.00\n\nHolliston. \"Friends,\" Spoons., Val. 11.61,\n_for Talladega C._\n\nHolyoke. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Santee Indian M._ ...17.50\n\nHolyoke. Mrs. Corrain's Class of Girls,\n18 Aprons, Reading Matter, etc., _for Macon,\nGa._\n\nLawrence. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of Bedding,\netc., 3 _for Freight, for Talladega C._ ...3.00\n\nLeicester. First Cong. Ch. ...98.46\n\nLeicester. Member of First Cong. Ch.\n_for Talladega C._ ...2.60\n\nLeominster. Miss Carrie Woods' Sab.\nSch. Class, Box of Articles, _for Talladega\nC._\n\nLowell. Kirk St. Ch. ...$175.00\n\nMalden. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of\nC. etc., _for Straight U._\n\nMarlboro. T.B. Patch ...1.00\n\nMarshfield. Rev. E. Alden, _for Student\nAid, Atlanta, U._ ...20.00\n\nMedfield. Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ ...3.00\n\nMerrimac. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. to\nconst. EDWARD C. HOPPER L.M. ...50.00\n\nMerrimac. Cong. Ch. ...39.35\nMiddleton. \"Friends,\" _for Mobile, Ala._ ...2.00\n\nMilford. \"Friends,\" _for Student Aid,\nTalladega C._ ...5.00\n\nMillbury. First Cong. Ch. ...49.68\nMonson. Miss Sarah E. Bradford ...4.00\nNewton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. ...38.41\nNewton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...92.98\n\nNorth Amherst. \"Friends,\" 17; Mrs. G.E.\nFisher, 15, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...32.00\n\nNorth Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...25.00\n\nNorth Brookfield. Union Ch., Box of Bedding,\n_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nNorthfield. Trin. Cong. Ch. ...10.00\n\nNorth Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch.,\n_for Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00\n\nNorth Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. ...7.96\nNorth Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...16.39\n\nNorton. Mrs. C.P. Harrison, _for Macon,\nGa._ ...10.00\n\nNorton. Young Ladies of Wheaton Sem.\n_for Woman's Work_ ...10.00\n\nNorwood. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ ...40.00\n\nOakham. Cong. Ch. ...19.00\nOtis. Rev. S.W. Powell ...3.00\nOxford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...26.33\nPepperell. Evan. Cong. Ch. ...22.00\n\nPittsfield. Mrs. Harriet A. Campbell, 100,\nincorrectly ack. in Feb. from Dalton,\nMass.\n\nPittsfield. Mrs. H.M. Hurd, Bbl. of C.,\n_for Jonesboro, Tenn._\n\nQuincy. Rev. Edward Norton, _for Student\nAid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00\n\nSalem. South Ch. and Soc. ...81.92\nSalem. Young Ladies, _for Freight_ ...3.00\n\nSomerville. E. Stone, _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...50.00\n\nSouthampton. Cong. Soc., _for Freight_ ...3.00\n\nSouth Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch., 2;\n\"A Friend,\" 5, _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...7.00\n\nSouth Weymouth. Mrs. H.W. Bolster,\nBbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nSpencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...148.91\n\nSpencer. Benev. Soc. and Cong. Ch., Bbl.\nof C., etc., _for Atlanta U._\n\nSpringfield. Pkg. of C. and Bed-quilt,\nfrom Miss Minnie A. Dickinson's Class of\nGirls, _for Miss Douglass, Oaks, N.C._\n\nStockbridge. Cong. Ch. ...62.43\nStoughton. Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ ...1.00\n\nSturbridge. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...6.42\n\nSunderland. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian M._ ...7.03\n\nSwampscott. Cong. Ch., to const. MISS\nMARY E. STORY L.M. ...30.00\n\nTownsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...23.73\n\nTownsend. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\nBox of Books, etc., Cash 3, _for Sherwood,\nTenn._ ...3.00\n\nWaltham. \"The Missionary Nine,\" _for\nTalladega C._ ...4.00\n\nWare. Primary Class, Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...2.00\n\nWatertown. Phillips Mission Band, _for\nStudent Aid, Straight U._ ...50.00\n\nWebster. R.B. Eddy, _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...1.00\n\nWellesley. \"Two Friends,\" _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._ ...6.00\n\nWellesley Hills. Cong. Ch., (50 of which\n_for Indian M._) ...100.00\n\nWestfield. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for\nStraight U._\n\nWesthampton. \"A&A,\" ...10.00\n\nWest Medford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,\n_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...$1.00\n\nWest Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.\nCh., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ ...35.00\n\nWest Somerville. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\nBbl. and Box of Bedding, _for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn._\n\nWeymouth. Mrs. Vaughan, Bbl. of C.,\n_for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nWakefield. Cong. Ch. ...43.25\nWhitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad'l ...25.00\nWilliamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 66.20\n\nWilliamstown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.\nCh., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...20.00\n\nWinchedon. Atlanta Soc., Bbl. of C.,\netc., _for Atlanta U._\n\nWoburn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 195;\nMrs. Susan S. Greenough, 5 ...200.00\n\nWorcester. Piedmont Ch., 84; Thomas\nW. Thompson, 20 ...104.00\n\nWorcester. Mission Harvesters, Salem\nSt. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...75.00\n\nWorcester. _For Kindergarten, Atlanta,\nGa._ ...20.00\n\nWorcester. \"Lady Member Main St.\nBapt. Ch.,\" _for Indian M._ ...10.00\n\n----. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...18.58\n\nBy Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Co.\nBenev. Ass'n.\n\nEast Longmeadow. ...17.50\nMonson. ...31.85\nSouth Hadley Falls. ...15.00\nSpringfield. South. ...99.52\n\" First. ...68.56\nWest Springfield. Park St. ...15.00\n\nWestfield. First, _for Hampton\nN.&A. Inst._ ...70.00\n---------  317.43\n\n---------\n$4,545.00\n\n\nLEGACIES.\n\nChicopee. Estate of Maria Smith, by E.B.\nClark, Ex. ...1000.00\n\nDanvers. Estate of Mrs. Caroline Gould,\nby Chas. H. Gould, Ex. ...500.00\n\nDeerfield. Estate of Tamesin S. Clark,\nby S.D. Drury, Ex. ...2000.00\n\nLancaster. Estate of Miss Sophia Stearns,\nby Wm. M. Wyman, Ex. ...4.04\n\nNewtonville. Estate of Mrs. Mary P.\nHayes, by Wm. Laing, Ex. ...4268.78\n\nRoxbury. Estate of H.B. Hooker, D.D.,\nby Arthur W. Tuffts, Ex. ...50.00\n\nSherborn. Estate of Mrs. Anna Barber,\nby Lowell Cooidge, Ex. ...356.88\n\nSpringfield. Estate of Charles Merriam,\nby Charles Marsh, Ex. ...3000.00\n\nWest Brookfield. Estate of Mrs. Lucy\nEllis (proceeds sales of 5 shares of\nstocks), Geo. Davis, Adm'r, by Langdon\nS. Ward ...733.75\n\nWorcester. Estate of Charlotte E. Metcalf,\nby Mrs. Mary M. Chester ...36.33\n\n----------\n$16,495.66\n\n\nCLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nMason, N.H. By L. June Goodwin, Bbl.,\n_for Storrs Sch._\n\nRindge, N.H. Ladies' B. Soc., 2 Bbls.,\nVal, 81.57, _for Storrs Sch._\n\nGoffstown, N.H. By Miss E. Kendall,\nBbl., _for Oaks, N.C._\n\nEast Cambridge, Mass. Miss M.F. Aiken,\nBox, _for Kittrell, N.C._\n\nFramingham, Mass. \"Friends,\" Bbl., _for\nKittrell, N.C._\n\nLawrence, Mass. Ladies' Benev. Soc., of\nLawrence St. Ch., Bbl., Val., 78.36,\n_for Talladega C._\n\nMarlboro, Mass. Bbl.\n\nMedfield, Mass. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl.,\n_for Oaks, N.C._\n\nNatick, Mass. Primary Dept. of First\n\nCong. Ch., Box Gifts, _for Sab. Sch., Chattanooga, Tenn._\n\nNorwood, Mass. Agnes P. Robbing, Box,\n_for Savannah, Ga._\n\nStoughton, Mass. Cong. Ch., Half Bbl.,\n_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._\n\nWatertown, Mass. Collected by Mrs.\nWoodworth, 2 Bbls., _for Oaks, N.C._\n\nWeatboro, Mass. Ladies Freedmen's\nAss'n, Bbl., Val., 51, _for Atlanta, U._\n\n\nRHODE ISLAND, $1,020.21.\n\nCentral Falls. Cong. Ch., _for student Aid,\nIndian M._ ...$107.25\n\nEast Providence. Samuel Belden (60 of\nwhich to const. HENRY A. BREWSTER\nand EVA BELDEN CHURHCILL L. M's) ...150.00\n\nNewport. Mrs. Eliza D.W. Thayer, _for\nSantee Indian M._ ...12.00\n\nNewport Misa Sophia L. Little (1 _for\nWoman's Work_) ...5.00\n\nProvidence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...500.00\n\nProvidence. Union Cong. Ch. _for Indian\nM._ ...54.80\n\nProvidence. Union Cong. Ch. _for Ramona\nInd. Sch._ ...8.50\n\nProvidence. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong.\nCh., _for Studend Aid, Fisk U._ ...50.00\n\nProvidence. Center Cong. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Talladega C._ ...45.00\n\nProvidence, Beneficent and Cong. Ch's,\n43.16; Dr. Vose, 1; Caroline Danielson,\n1, _for Indian M._ ...45.16\n\nProvidence. Lady of Pilgrim Cong. Ch.,\n4 new Cloaks\n\nTiverton Four Corners. Sab. Sch. of Cong.\nCh., 14, \"A Friend,\" 1 ...15.00\n\nWesterly. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nWesterly. Mrs. Mary T. Babcock, _for\nMountain Work_ ...1.50\n\n\nCONNECTICUT, $4,486.56.\n\nBantam. S.H. Dudley ...1.00\n\nBerlin. Golden Ridge Missionary Circle,\nby Elizabeth P. Wilcox ...25.00\n\nBethel. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from \"A\nFriend,\" thank offering) ...54.24\n\nCollinsvllle. Howard Collins, _for Talladega\nC._ ...10.00\n\nBirmingham. Mrs. Chas. A. Sterling, _for\nIndian M._ ...5.00\n\nBridgeport. \"Four o'clocks\" First Cong.\nCh., _for Rosebud Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nCanaan. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Ch., _for\nOaks, N.C._ ...21.05\n\nCanaan. Ladies' Missionary Sac, _for Conn.\nInd'l Sch., Ga._ ...14.00\n\nColchester. W.C.T.U., Bbl. Ot C., _for\nTalladega C._\n\nCromwell. Cong. Ch. ...121.01\nDanbury. First Cong. Ch. ...108.77\nEast Hartland. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ...16.15\nEast River. Mrs. Caroline M. Washburne, ...100.00\n\nEast Woodstock. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n25.25; Mrs. Paine's S.S. Class of boys,\n1.25, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...26.50\n\nEast Woodstock. Silas Newton, 2.50;\nMrs. Emma L. Finck, 2.50 ...5.00\n\nEnfield. Ladies' Soc. First Cong. Ch.,\nBbl. of C., etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nFairfield. Mrs. A.B. Nichols, _for Mountain\nWork_ ...6.00\n\nFair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. ...40.02\n\nFair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong.\nCh., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...25.00\n\nFair Haven. Sab. Sch. of second Cong.\nCh., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch._ ...11.13\n\nFarmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., add'l ...10.00\nGroton. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ ...25.30\nGuilford. Mrs. Sarah A. Todd ...5.00\n\nHadlyme. R.E. Hungerford, 100; Jos. W.\nHungerford, 100 ...200.00\n\nHartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 279.02;\nMrs. M. C. Bemis, 20; \"A Friend,\" Asylum\nHill Cong. Ch., 5 ...304.02\n\nHartford. Newton Case, 100 _for Talladega C._;\nR. Mather, 5O _for Talladega C._; Mrs.\nF.H. Wood, 10 _for Talladega C._ ...160.00\n\nHartford. \"A Friend,\" Christmas Gifts\nand 5 _for Postage_ ...5.00\n\nHartford. Sarah Porter Cooley, Box\nChristmas Gifts, _for Thomasvtlle, Ga._\n\nHigganum. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch., _for\nRosebud Indian M._ ...4.10\n\nJewett City. Second Cong. Ch. ...15.00\nKensington. Cong. Ch. ...25.75\n\nLakeville. Mrs. G.B. Burrall's Sab. Sch.\nClass, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...25.00\n\nLebanon. Goshen Soc. ...5.91\nLyme. First Cong. Ch. ...45.00\n\nMeriden. E.K. Breckenridge ...4.50\n\nMiddlebury. Cong. Ch. ...10.54\n\nMllford. Plymouth Ch. ...50.00\n\nMontvllle. First Cong. Ch. ...7.50\n\nMystic Bridge. Cong. Ch. ...17.00\n\nNaugatucK. Cong. Ch. (75 of which _for\nIndian M._) ...200.00\n\nNew Britain. Sab. Sch, of First Cong. Ch.,\n_for Indian M._ ...50.00\n\nNew Canaan. True Blue Card, Coll. by\nHelen and Rose Rogers ...1.50\n\nNew Haven. Davenport Ch., 82.68; College\nSt. Cong. Ch., 72.30 ...154.98\n\nNew Haven. Mrs. Henry Farnam, _for\nOahe Ind'l Sch._ ...20.00\n\nNew Haven. Ithamar W. Butler ...1.00\nNew London. Second Cong. Ch. ...625.62\n\nNew London. Mary L. Miner, 50; Judge\nJohn G. Crump, 5, _for Indian M._ ...55.00\n\nNew London. \"Friends, First Cong. Ch.,\"\n_for Rosebud Indian M._ ...31.00\n\nNewtown. Cnog. Ch. and Soc. ...15.00\n\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talldega\nC._ ...1.00\n\nNorth Guilford. A.E. Bartlett ...2.30\nNorth Woodstock. Cong. Ch. ...2.50\n\nNorwich. Second Cong. Ch., 228.07; First\nCong. Ch., 22.57 ...250.64\n\nNorwichtown. \"*, First Cong. Ch.\" ...58.00\nOld Lyme. First Cong. Ch. ...4.16\n\nOld Saybrook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian M., Hampton Inst._ ...24.86\n\nOld Saybrook. Young girls of Seaside\nMission Band for Home Work, _for Santee\nIndian M._ ...11.00\n\nGrange. Cong. Ch. ...8.14\nPlainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...6.00\n\nPlainville. Solomon Curtis, to const. MRS.\nJENNET H. KINGSBURY, MRS. LILIAN\nBENTLEY, MISS MARY TOMLINSON, BEAYTON\nLEWIS, CHAS. RYDER, MISS HELEN\nWOODRUFF, MISS CELIS BASSET, MRS.\nOLIVE HEMINWAY, W.S. PEASE, ETTA\nFENN and FRANK SPRAGUE L.M.'S ...800.00\n\nPomfret. First Cong. Ch. ...33.67\n\nPreston City. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Oaks,\nN.C._ ...17.30\n\nPutnam. \"A Friend,\" _for Student Aid,\nFisk U._ ...17.50\n\nRockville. Second Cong. Ch. ...72.94\nSalisbury. Cong. Ch. ...30.47\n\nSalisbury. Sab. Sch. Class of Mra. Sarah\nA. Clark, _for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._ ...7.25\n\nSomers. Cong. Ch. ...7.50\nSouthington. Cong. Ch. ...68.00\nSouth Windsor. First Cong. Ch. ...6.37\nTolland. Cong. Ch. ...11.00\n\nTorrington. \"valley Gleaners,\" _for Pupils\nFort Berthold, Indian M._ ...25.00\n\nTorrington. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. Bedding,\netc., _for Talladega C._\n\nVernon Center. Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nWallingford; Albert P. Hough, _for Rosebud\nIndian M._ ...5.00\n\nWaterbury. Ladiea' Soc., Second Cong.\nCh., Box of C., etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nWatertown. Mrs. F. Scott's Class, _for\nPupils, Fort Berthold, Indian M._ ...10.00\n\nWestchester. Cong. Ch. ...$15.09\n\nWest Hartford. Anson Chappell, 10; Mrs.\nC.R. Swift, 5; \"A Friend,\" 3 ...18.00\n\nWethersfield. Miss J.C. Francis' S.S.\nClass, _for Rosebud Indian M._, and to\nconst. CHARLES S. ADAMS L.M. ...30.00\n\nWilton. Cong. Ch. ...60.00\n\nWinthrop. Mrs. M.A. Jones, 1.50; Mrs.\nC. Rice, 1 ...2.50\n\nWolcott. Cong. Ch. ...6.00\nWoodbury. Coral Workers, _for Freight_ ...2.50\n----. _For Hope Station, Indian M._ ...75.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of\nConn., by Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, Sec., _for\nConn. Ind'l Sch., Ga._\n\nBridgeport. L.H.M.S. of\nFirst Cong. Ch. ...25.00\n\nNaugatuck. Ladies. ...25.00\nSuffield. Y.L.H.M. Circle ...12.87\nTorrington. Aux. ...7.00\n\nHartford. First Ch. Aux.,\n_for Student Aid, Williamsburg,\nKy._ ...20.00\n------- 89.87\n\n\nNEW YORK, $4,248.76.\n\nBinghamton. \"A Friend\" ...6.00\n\nBrooklyn. Clinton Av. Cong. Ch. (100 of\nwhich from Geo. H. Nichols, _for Student\nAid, Talladega C._), 861; Clinton Av. Cong.\nCh. (J.D.) 500 ...1361.00\n\nBrooklyn. Woman's Miss'y Soc. of Lewis\nAv. Cong. Ch., _for Woman's Work_ ...13.05\n\nChateaguay. Joseph Shaw ...5.00\nCohoes. Mrs. I. Terry ...2.00\n\nCopaque Iron Works. Union Sab. Sch.,\n_for Oahe Ind'l Sch._ ...10.00\n\nFrankfort. Dewey Hopkins ...1.50\nGalway. Delia C. Davis, _for Atlanta U._ ...5.00\n\nGoshen. Fannie E. Crane, _for Marie Adlof\nSch'p Fund_ ...1.50\n\nGreigsville. Mrs. F.A. Gray ...1.00\n\nIthaca. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian Student Aid_, to const. GEORGE\nF. BEARDSLEY L.M. ...45.00\n\nJamestown. Mrs. Julia Jones Hall ...2000.00\nLisle. R.C. Osborn ...5.00\n\nLockport. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. Bedding,\netc., _for Talladega C._\n\nMalone. Mrs. Mary K. Wead ...100.00\n\nMillville. Mrs. James M. Linsley, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._ ...1.00\n\nMorristown. First Cong. Ch. ...8.00\nMorrisville. Cong. Ch. ...4.09\n\nNew Lebanon Center. Rev. F.W. Everest,\n5; Mrs. F.W. Everest, Pkg. of C. ...5.00\n\nNew York. Pilgrim Ch., 140.05 to const.\nWILLIAM H. HOWE, C.J. HASBROUCK,\nM.D., ARTHUR S. LANE and REUREN\nSMALL L.M.'S; \"A Friend,\" 100; \"Mrs.\nR.\" 50 ...290.05\n\nNew York. Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch., _for\nPupils, Fort Berthold, Indian M._ ...50.00\n\nNew York. \"A Friend,\" 5 _for Moblie,\nAla._; 5 _for Fisk U._ ...10.00\n\nNew York. S.T. Gorton, Music, Val. 50,\n_for Talladaga C._\n\nNorth Walton. Cong. Ch. ...18.00\n\nNorwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.37; H.T.\nDunham, 10 ...46.37\n\nPeeksville. Mrs. and Mrs. John R. Ayer ...5.00\n\nPerry Center. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl.\nof C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._\n\nPort Chester. Milo Mead ...4.00\n\nPoughkeepsie. Jno. F. Winslow, _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ ...10.00\n\nPoughkeepsie. Young Ladies' Soc., _for\nFisk U._ ...10.00\n\nRome. Wm. B. Hammond ...10.00\n\nSaratoga. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega\nC._ ...20.00\n\nSherburne. \"Friends,\" Fancy Articles, _for\nFair, Talladega C._\n\nSherburne. Miss Hattie Lathrop, Pkg. Pen\nWipers, _for Athens, Ala._\n\nSpencerport. Primary Dept., by Miss\nCelia M. Day ...$8.00\n\nSpring Valley. Miss Mary C. Waterbury,\n_for Special Evang'l Work, Chinese M._ ...30.00\n\nVernon Center. G.C. Judson ...2.00\n\nWalton. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\nWilliamsburg, Ky._ ...35.44\n\nWarsaw. Indian Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\nSantee Indian M._ ...27.25\n\nWaterville. Mrs. Wm. Winchell ...5.00\n\nWest Winfield. Cong. Ch., to const. REV.\nA.E. KINMOUTH L.M. ...30.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs.\nL.H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman's Work_:\n\nAlbany. Ladies Aux., to\nconst. MRS. ELLEN L. TENNEY\nL.M. ...30.00\n\nBrooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Puritan\nCong. Ch. ...28.51\n\nHomer. Ladies' Aux. ...5.00\n-------- 63.51\n\n\nNEW JERSEY, $107.44.\n\nArlington. Mrs. G. Overacre ...0.50\n\nEast Orange. \"A Friend,\" 50; \"Friends\"\nin Grove St. Ch., 6; \"A Friend,\" 1 ...57.00\n\nSalem. W. Graham Tyler, to const. MRS.\nSALLIE R. TYLER L.M. ...30.00\n\nUpper Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Christian\nUnion Ch. ...19.94\n\n\nPENNSYLVANIA, $28.50.\n\nCarbondale. Rev. D.L. Davis ...2.50\nClaysville. Mrs. Jennie D. Sheller ...5.00\n\nFranklin. Sab. Sch. of M.E. Ch., _for Student\nAid, Wilmington, N.C._ ...8.00\n\nNew Milford. Horace A. Summers ...5.00\nProvidence. Welsh Cong. Ch. ...3.00\nWest Alexander. Thomas McCleery ...5.00\n\n\nOHIO, $439.94.\n\nAndover Center. Cong. Ch. ...2.85\nAshland. Mrs. Eliza Thomson ...2.28\n\nBerea. James S. Smedley, 5; First Cong.\nCh., 3.70 ...8.70\n\nChester Cross Roads. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nClaridon. L.T. Wilmot, 10 bal. to const.\nS.E. WILMOT L.M.; Sab. Sch. of Cong.\nCh., 10 ...20.00\n\nDelaware. William Bevan ...5.00\n\nDover. 2 Boxes Christmas Gifts, 1 Box\nS.S. Papers; Mrs. Whitney, Christmas\ndinner _for Teachers_; 3 little Aldrich Children,\n.80, _for Athens, Ala._ ...0.80\n\nGeneva. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for Grand\nView, Tenn._ ...10.00\n\nGeneva. \"W\" ...1.00\nGreensburg. Mrs. H.B. Harrington ...5.00\n\nHarmar. Mrs. Lydia N. Hart, _for Oahe\nInd'l Sch._ ...75.00\n\nLenox. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\nLyme. Cong. Ch. ...16.27\n\nMedina. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of\nC., _for Macon, Ga._ val. 30\n\nNew Lyme. A.J. Holman ...10.00\nNorth Benton. Simon Hartzell ...5.00\nOverlin. First Ch. ...48.02\nPerrysburg. Rev. J.K. Deering ...0.75\nRadnor. Edward D. Jones ...5.00\nSpringfield. First Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\nSpringfield. Bbl. of C., Miss Jessie M.\nGarfield (for Freight, 1) _for Wilmington,\nN.C._ ...1.00\n\nTallmadge. MISS SARAH M. HALL, 30, to\nconst. herself L.M.; \"A Friend,\" 9.50 ...39.50\n\nToledo. Ladies' Soc., Cen. Cong. Ch., _for\nWoman's Work_ ...6.00\n\nToledo. Central Cong. Ch. ...5.50\n\nToledo. Miss A.M. Nichols, Bbl. of C.,\nPupils of La Grange Sch., 2 Bbls. of C.,\n_for Wilmington, N.C._\n\nTwinsburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 30, to\nconst. E.B. Lane L.M.; \"A Friend.\" 2 ...$82.00\n\nUnionville. Mrs. E.F. Burnelle, 5; Mrs.\nElvira Stratton, 2 ...7.00\n\nWillington. ----, _for Oahe Ind'I Sch._ ...25.00\n\nWindham. Wm. A. Perkins ...5.00\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union,\nby Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\n_for Woman's Work:_\n\nCleveland. Plymouth Ch.\nL.B.S. Aux. ...1.00\n\nCleveland. First Cong. Ch.\nL.H.M.S. ...2.27\n\nHudson. L.H.M.S. ...5.00\n\nOberlin. Second Cong. Ch. L.M.S. ...44.00\n\nSalem. Mrs. D.A. Allen ...6.00\n\nSpringfield. First Cong. Ch.\nL.M.S. ...20.00\n\n------ 78.27\n\n\nINDIANA, $2.00.\n\nSparta. John Hawkswell ...2.00\n\n\nILLINOIS, $734.16.\n\nAtkinson. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Norrs,\n_for Talladega C._ ...10.00\n\nBatavia. Cong. Ch. ...36.00\n\nBelvidere. Mrs. M.C. Foote, 4.50 _for Beach\nInst., Savannah, Ga._, and 3 _for Woman's\nWork_ ...7.50\n\nCamp Point. Mrs. S.B. McKinney ...10.00\n\nChicago. New England Ch., 54.47; Leavitt\nSt. Cong. Ch., 18.83; Y.L.M.S. Of New\nEng. Ch., 17.03 ...90.33\n\nChicago. Mrs. Jermiah Porter, _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ ...25.00\n\nChicago. By Ella W. Moore, _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U._ ...11.20\n\nChicago. Jennie A. Dickinson, Bdl. S.S.\nPapers, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nConcord. Joy Prairie Soc. Bbl. of C., _for\nMobile, Ala._\n\nCrete. Phineas Chapman, to const. MRS.\nE.C. REED L.M. ...50.00\n\nDowner Groves. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...4.00\n\nElgin. \"A Friend,\" to const. Rev. G.R.\nMILTON L.M. ...75.00\n\nElgin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\nFisk U._ ...25.00\n\nEmington. Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nGalesburg. First Cong. Ch. ...35.14\n\nGalesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\nBox of Books, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nHinsdale, Cong. Ch. ...20.00\n\nMattoon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nIndian M._ ...7.20\n\nMorrison. William Wallace and Robert\nWallace ...55.00\n\nNaperville. A.A. Smith ...4.00\n\nNew Grandchain. Rev. P.W. Wallace ...2.50\n\nPaxton. Mrs. J.B. Shaw, _for Student Aid,\nAtlanta U._ ...15.00\n\nPrinceton. Mrs. R.D. Harrison, _for Student\nAid, Fisk U._ ...5.00\n\nRockford. First Cong. Ch. ...46.80\n\nRoscoe. Ladies' Soc., Cong. Ch., Box of\nC., etc., _for Thomasville, Ga._\n\nRoseville. Mrs. L.C. Axtell, Bbl. of Hats,\n_for Talledega C._; Mrs. S.J. Axtell, Bbl.\nof Hats, _for Sherwood, Tenn._\n\nSycamore. Henry Wood ...10.00\n\nWayne. Cong. Ch. ...7.50\n\n---- \"Cash\" ...0.50\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Ill.,\nby Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman's\nWork_:\n\nAmboy. Mission Band ...24.00\n\nCanton. W.H.M.U. First Ch. ...4.15\n\nChicago. L.M. Soc. New England Ch. ...22.32\n\nChicago. W.M. Soc. Lincoln Park Ch. ...$8.80\n\nPort Byron, L.M. Soc. ...14.30\n\nRockford. Y.L.M. Soc. First\nCh., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ ...40.00\n\nRockford. Y.L.M. & F.M.\nSoc. of Second Ch. ...2.50\n\nSheffield ...4.50\n\nToulon. \"Lamplighters\" ...1.00\n\n----- 121.67\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Ill.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\n\nChebanse. Aux. to Ill. U. ...5.50\n\nMorris. W.M.S. ...10.00\n\nOak Park, L.B. Soc. ...16.50\n\nToulon. H.M.U. ...0.95\n\nSterling. W.M.S. ...10.00\n\nWilmette, Aux. to Ill. U. ...5.87\n\n-------  48.82\n\n\nMICHIGAN, $458.78.\n\nAllegan. N.B. West, to const. C.F.\nGRIMER L.M. ...29.90\n\nAllegan. First Cong. Ch., _for Sch'p, Fisk U._ ...2.00\n\nAlpena. \"A Sister,\" _for Student Aid, Atlanta\nU._ ...25.00\n\nAnn Arbor. Young People's Miss'y Soc.\nof First Cong. Ch. ...60.00\n\nArmada. Cong. Ch., 15.70 and Sab. Sch.,\n3.30 ...19.00\n\nBenton Harbor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of\nCong. Ch., Bbl. of C., etc., _for Athens,\nAla._\n\nCharlotte. First Cong. Ch. ...15.00\n\nDetroit. Rev. John D. McLanlin, 25 _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._; 25 _for Indian M._\nand to const JOHN MACKIE L.M. ...50.00\n\nGrand Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...7.30\n\nGrand Ledge. E. Beckwith ...10.00\n\nGrand Rapids. Y.L. Park Miss'y Soc.,\n_for Santee Indian M._ ...20.00\n\nHopkins Station. Second Cong. Ch. ...19.00\n\nJackson, Mrs. Z.H. Field and Ladies of\nCong. Ch., Box of 100 dressed dolls, _for\nTougaloo, Miss._\n\nManistee, Y.L. Mission Circle, _for Oahe\nInd'l Sch._ ...25.00\n\nMemphis. \"Cheerful Workers,\" by L.G.\nRussell, _for Athens, Ala._ ...1.00\n\nSouth Haven. Clark Pierce ...10.00\n\nThree Oaks. Cong. Ch. ...43.00\n\nThree Oaks. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Fisk U._ ...7.00\n\nUnion City. \"A Friend\" ...100.00\n\nWhite Lake. Robert Garner ...10.00\n\n----. Mrs. H.W. Floyd, _for Pupils, Fort\nBerthold, Indian M._ ...5.58\n\n\nWISCONSIN, $425.19.\n\nAppleton. First Cong. Ch. ...45.58\n\nBerlin. W.H.M.U. of Cong. Ch. ...5.00\n\nDelavan. Cong. Ch. ...91.60\n\nEau Claire. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., 15;\n\"Soc. of Cheerful Givers,\" 3.84; Second\nCong. Ch., 3 ...21.84\n\nFond du Lac. ----, _for Kindergarten, Atlanta,\nGa._ ...25.00\n\nHartford. \"In memory of Mary L. Freeman\" ...15.00\n\nLake Geneva. Cong. Ch. ...9.28\n\nMilwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch., 25;\nWilliam Dawes, 20 ...45.00\n\nNew Richmond. First Cong. Ch. ...35.65\n\nRacine. Sab. Sch. of First Presb. Ch., _for\nMarie Adlof Sch'p Fund_ ...25.00\n\nRacine. Mrs. C.E. Marsh, 20; Mrs. D.D.\nNichols, 50 cts. ...20.50\n\nRipon. Y.M.C.A., of Ripon College ...1.50\n\nRiver Falls. Miss H.E. Levings, _for Pupils,\nFort Berthold, Indian M._ ...35.00\n\nSalem. Mrs. R. Hartnell, Year's Sub.\n\"Rural New Yorker,\" _for Athens, Ala._\n\nSun Prairie. Sab. Sch. of First Cong Ch. ...6.80\n\nWhitewater. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. ...10.86\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Wis.,\n_for Woman's Work_:\n\nArena. L.H.M.S.                                    87\n\nBaraboo. L.H.M.S.                                3 00\n\nBloomington. Mrs. M.D. Beardsley.                2 00\n\nEau Claire. L.H.M.S.                             3 25\n\nEau Claire. L.H.M.S. _for Oahe Indian M_.   5 00\n\nEvansville. L.H.M.S.                             1 00\n\nMadison. L.H.M.S.                                5 40\n\nRipon. L.H.M.S.                                 10 00\n\nWyoming. L.H.M.S.                                1 06\n\n                                    -----    $31 58\n\n\nIOWA, $218.82.\n\nBurlington. Cong. Ch.                                         20 12\n\nCedar Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nTalladega C._                                             5 18\n\nCedar Rapids. Cong. Mission Sab. Sch.,\nBirthday Box.                                                3 65\n\nClay. Infant Class Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\nSantee Indian M_.                                         1 48\n\nClear Lake. Y.P.S.C.E., _for Woman's\nWork_.                                                    2 00\n\nGenoa Bluffs. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for\nStudent Aid, Straight U_.                                 5 00\n\nGrinnell. Cong. Ch.                                            9 54\n\nMonticello. Cong. Ch., 13; Ladies' Miss'y\nSoc., _for Woman's Work_ 12.                           25 00\n\nNew Providence. \"A Friend\".                                    5 00\n\nOskaloosa. Cong. Ch., add'l.                                   3 62\n\nShenandoah. Busy Bees Miss'y Soc. of\nCong. Ch., _for Beach Inst. Savannah, Ga_.             25 00\n\nStrawberry Point. Sab. Sch. First Cong.\nCh. (_5 for Santee Indian M_.)                          8 85\n\nTabor. Cong. Ch.                                              12 30\n\nTyrone. Mrs. Mary A. Payne.                                    2 00\n\nWaterloo. J.H. Leavitt, _for Talladega C_.                 5 00\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa,\n_for Woman's Work_:\n\nCedar Rapids. W.H.M.U.                          10 80\n\nDubuque. L.M.S.                                 25 00\n\nDes Moines. W.M.S., Plymouth Ch.                11 65\n\nGrinnell. W.H.M.U.                               9 23\n\nMagnolia. W.H.M.U.                               2 10\n\nMarion. Y.P. Soc.                               15 00\n\nMcGregor.                                        6 30\n\nStacyville.                                      5 00\n\n                                                    -----    $85 08\n\n\nMINNESOTA, $230.69.\n\nAustin. W.H.M.S., Box of Mags. etc,. _for\n  Jonesboro', Tenn_.\n\nFreeborn. Cong. Ch.                                            2 00\nGlencoe. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch_.                 5 54\nHutchinson. Cong. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch_.              3 91\nLitchfield. \"M.E.W.\"                                           5 00\nLitchfield. M.E. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch_.               2 06\nMazeppa. Half-Bbl. of Papers, _for Wilmington, N.C._\nMedford. Cong. Ch.                                             5 00\n\nMinneapolis. Union Ch., 13.75; Horace\nLeighton, 10; J.F. Elwell, 5; Como Av.\nCh., 3.39; Primary Class, Plym. Ch. Sab.\nSch., 3, G. Leighton, 1; Mrs. Bevin, 1;\nBart and Helen Libby, 50 cts., _for Oahe\n\nInd'l Sch_.                                              37 64\nMinneapolis. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,\n_for Student Aid, Atlanta U_.                          34 40\nMinneapolis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                                11 60\nNorthfield. \"A Friend,\" _for Mountain Work_.              5 00\n\nRushford. Rev. A.F. Burwell, Box of\n  Books, _for Jonesboro' Tenn_.\nSaint Paul. Plymouth Ch., 26.41; Pacific\nCong. Ch., 5.05                                             31 46\n\nSaint Paul. House of Hope, _for Oahe Ind'l Sch_.         21 00\nSaint Paul. Sab. Sch. Class of Boys, _for\nStudent Aid. Talledega C_.                                 1 50\nSaint Paul. Miss Susie, Chittenden and\n\"Friends,\" Bbl. of C., etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn_.\nWabashaw. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  10 12\nWilmar. Presb. Ch., _for Oahe Ind'l Sch_.                 4 46\nWinona. First Cong. Ch.                                       50 00\nZambrota. Half-Bbl. of Papers, for _Wilmington, N.C._\n\n\nMISSOURI, $268.36.\n\nKansas City. First Cong. Ch.                                 151 96\nMeadville. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Woman's Work_.       5 50\nSaint Louis. First Cong. Ch., 66.28; Pilgrim\nCong. Ch. add'l, 44.62.                                    110 90\n\n\nKANSAS, $13.90.\n\nSabetha. Cong. Ch.                                            10 00\nWano. Cong. Ch.                                                3 90\n\n\nDAKOTA, $140.47.\n\nFort Berthold. Miss Briggs, _for Debt_.                  10 00\nOahe. ---_for Endowment, Oahe Ind'l Sch_.                40 00\nOahe. \"One of the teachers,\" _for Oahe\nInd'l Sch_.                                              14 00\nRedfield. Cong Ch. and Sab. Sch.                               9 80\n                                                             ------\n                                                             $73 80\nLegacy.\n\nDakota, Legacy (in part) of Mrs. L.H.\nPorter, by Rev. S.F. Porter, Ex.                            66 67\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $140.47\n\n\nNEBRASKA, $14.92\n\nFranklin. Cong. Ch.                                            5 12\nFremont. Cong. Ch.                                             7 55\nSteele City. Cong. Ch.                                         2 25\n\n\nOREGON, $1.88.\n\nEast Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                 1 88\n\n\nWASHINGTON TER. $25.00.\n\nSeattle. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                                   25 00\n\n\nCOLORADO, $29.97.\n\nDenver. John R. Hanna.                                        25 00\nDenver. Miss A.R. Bell, 1; Ladies First\nCong. Ch., _for Freight_, 47 cts. _for Oahe\nInd'l Sch.                                                   1 47\nHighland Lake. Cong. Ch.                                       3 50\n\n\nCALIFORNIA, $171.40\n\nArcata. Miss S.P. Locke.                                       4 00\nMartinez. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                               5 00\nOakland. Edison D. Hale, _for Atlanta U_.                 2 00\nPomona. Mary F. Wheeler.                                       1 00\nRiverside. Chas. W. Herron's Class in Sab. Sch.                5 65\nSan Francisco. Receipts of the California\nChinese Mission                                            153 75\n\n\nDISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $10.00.\n\nWashington. \"A Friend,\" _for Indian M_.                  10 00\n\n\nMARYLAND, $25.00.\n\nBaltimore. Martin Hawley, _for Talladega C_.             25 00\n\n\nVIRGINIA, $70.00.\n\nHampton. \"A Thank Offering,\" _for Oahe Indl'l Sch_.      70 00\n\n\nKENTUCKY, $5.10.\n\nBerea. \"Church at Berea\".                                      5 10\n\nTENNESSEE, $1,116.00.\n\nCrossville. Cong. Ch. ......................        $2 73\nDeer Lodge. Cong, Ch., Christmas Offering...         2 95\nGrand View. Cong. Ch., 6, and Sab. Sch.\n10, New Year's Offering...................        16 00\nHelenwood. Cong. Ch. .......................         3 00\nJonesboro. Pub. Sch. Fund, 75; Tuition,\n15.60                                             90 60\nJonesboro. \"Unknown Friends,\" S. S.\nPapers ...................................\nMemphis. Tuition ...........................       398 85\nNashville. Tuition, 534.70; Rent, 6.50;\nRev. F. A. Chase, Christmas Offering, 10;\n\"A Friend,\" 10; Howard Ch., Christmas\nOffering, 4.47                                   565 67\nRobbins. Mrs. A. C. Ellis ..................         5 00\nSherwood. Union Ch., Christmas Coll.,\n6.25; Union Ch. Sab. Sch., Birthday Box,\n5.54 .....................................        11 79\n\nNORTH CAROLINA, $224.10.\n\nLassiter's Mills. Cong. Ch. ................         1 00\nMcLeansville. First Cong. Ch., 1.40; Second\nCong. Ch., 35 cts.                                 1 75\nMelville, Ch. and Sab. Sch. ................         1 55\nWilmington. Tuition, 178.10; Cong. Ch.,\n30 .......................................       208 10\nWilmington. By Miss H. L. Fitts, _for Student\nAid_...................................         7 50\nWilmington.  Primary Classes in Sab.\nSch., Miss Hyde's Class, 2.30; Miss Denton's\nClass, 40 cts.; Mr. Littleton's Class,\n1.50, _for Rosebud Indian M. ...........         4 20\n\nSOUTH CAROLINA, $213.00\n\nCharleston. Tuition ........................       213 00\n\nGEORGIA, $762.96.\n\nAndersonville. Cong. Ch., Christmas Coll.            1 30\nAtlanta. Storrs. Sch., Tuition .............       240 00\nAtlanta. Teachers and Students, Atlanta\nU., _for Indian M._ .................        15 00\nAtlanta. Nettie Stith ......................         1 00\nCypress Slash. Cong. Ch. 2, and Sab. Sch.\n50 cts. ..................................         2 50\nMacon. Tuition .............................       137 85\nMarietta. Ch. and Sab. Ch...................         4 00\nMcIntosh. Tuition ..........................        57 00\nRutland. Cong. Ch., Christmas Coll..........         1 00\nSavannah. Tuition, 211.45; First Cong. Ch.,\nTaylor St., 8.45 .........................       219 90\nThomasville. Tuition, 67.50: Conn. Ind'I\nSch., Christmas Thank Offering, 5.........        72 50\n\nALABAMA, $630.29.\n\nAthens. Tuition.............................        37 90\nBirmingham. Cong. Ch.. _for Talladega C._       4 00\nMarion. Tuition. ...........................       120 00\nMobile. Tuition, 257.40; Emerson Inst.,\nChristmas gift, 7.33; Cong. Ch. 3.60 and\nSab. Sch., 1.01 ..........................       269 34\nMontgomery. Cong. Ch, 10; Dr. Dorsette.\n60 cts., _for Student Aid, Talladega C_      10 60\nRowland. Rev. E. Reynolds, Box of Books,\n_for Sherwood, Tenn_.................\nSelma. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\nTalledega C_. .........................        15 00\nShelby Iron Works. Cong. Ch., 5 _for Talledega\nC.,_ Cong. Ch., Christmas Offerings, 5         10 00\nTalladega. Tuition, 162.20; Cove Ch., 2..          164 30\nTalladega. Sab. Suh., New Year's Offering,\n_for Indian M._ .....................         9 35\n\nFLORIDA, $30.00.\n\nJacksonville. Sarah M. Burt, _for Student\nAid, Atlanta U_........................        25 00\nOrange Park. Cong. Ch. .....................         5 00\n\nLOUISIANA, $391.00\n\nNew Orleans. Tuition .......................       290 00\nNew Orleans. S. B. Steers, _for Theo. Student\nAid, Talledega C. ........................       100 00\n-----. Mr. Exidor, _for Student Aid, Fisk U        1 00\n\nMISSISSIPPI, $129.85\n\nJackson. Cong. Ch., Christmas and\nThanksgiving Coll's.......................         2 00\nPiney Grove. Christmas Offering, by Rev.\nE. Tapley ................................           30\nTougaloo. Tuition, 105.55; Rent, 2; Sab.\nSch., 20 .................................       127 55\n\nTEXAS, $121.40\n\nAustin. Tuition ............................       111 40\nCorpus Christi. Cong. Ch. ..................        10 00\n\nINCOMES, $510.88\n\nAvery Fund, _for Mend\u00c3\u00ad M_ .............       110 00\nPlumb Sch'p Fund, _for Fisk U_........        240 88\n\nNEWFOUNDLAND, $1.00\n\nSt. Johns. Mrs. A.F. Steer .................         1 00\n                                                  =======\nDonations ..................................   $20,166 93\nIncomes ....................................       810 53\nLegacies ...................................    12,116 45\nRents ......................................         8 50\nTuition ....................................     3,225 90\n                                                ---------\nTotal for January .................   $36,325 61\nTotal from Oct. 1 to Jan'y 31 .....    91,415 51\n\nENDOWMENT FUND.\n\nBaldwinsville, N. Y. Howard Carter, _for\nEd. of Theo. Students_ ................       500 00\n\nFOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for January ..................      $152 13\nPreviously acknowledged ....................       275 96\n                                                  -------\nTotal ................................      $456 09\n\nReceipts of the California Chinese Mission,\nreceived since Sept. 30th, on account of expenses\nof year ending August 31, 1887.  E. Palache,\nTreas.:\n\nFrom Auxiliary Missions. - Alameda,\nChinese Am. Mem's, 18; Cong. Ch.,\n6.25. Oakland, Chinese Ann. Mem's,\n80; Mrs. E. C. Keutz, 2. - Oroville, Chinese\nAnn. Mem's, 4. - Sacremento, Chinese\nAnn. Mems, 30. - Other Ann. Mem's 6.            96 95\n\nFrom Churches. - Antioch, Cong. Ch.\nSab. Sch., 5 - Bryon, Cong. Ch., Rev.\nW. H. Tubb, 1. - Clayton, Cong. Ch.,\nRev. J. H. Strong, 2. - Oakland, First\nCong. Ch., Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D. D.,\n2 - San Francisco, Bethany Ch. Chinese\nAnn. Mem's, 10.50 - Other Ann.\nMem's, 2 ...............................        22 50\n\nFrom Individual - Geo. C. Boardman .......        10 00\n\nFrom Eastman Friends - South Braintree,\nMass., Rev. Jathan B. Sewall ...........        25 00\n                                                   ------\nTotal ..............................      $153 75\n\nH. W. Hubbard, Treasurer,\n55 Reade St., N. Y.\n\nAdvertisements\n\nExhibition of Dress Goods.\n\nJAMES McCREERY & CO.\n\nAnnounce for the opening days in March\nthe initial display of importations of Dress\nGoods for the Spring and Summer Season.\nThe styles to be shown are a marked departure\nfrom former seasons, and include the\nwidest range of superior plain materials, in\nnew shades, and the approved parti-colored\nfabrics, \"Arrowette Cloths,\" \"Ombre\nStripes,\" and \"ALMA BEIGE,\" with\nhem-stitched borders. 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Manager\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Musical 1888.\n\nThe musical NEW YEAR is here, and we greet it\nwith the \"sound of Cornet\" (or any other musical\ninstrument, for all of which Oliver Ditson &\nCo. provide the very best Instruction Books).\n\nWith the New Year, many new pupils will commence\nto learn the Piano; to them and their\nteachers we commend\n\nRICHARDSON'S NEW METHOD\nFOR THE PIANOFORTE,\n\na peerless book, which has held the lead for many\nyears, and, unaffected by the appearance of other\nundoubtedly excellent instructors, still sells like\na new book. Price, $3.\n\nCHILDREN'S DIADEM [30 cts., $2 per doz.]\nis filled with happy\nand beautiful SUNDAY SCHOOL SONGS, and is one\nof the best of its class.  The newest book.\n\nUNITED VOICES [50 cts., $4.80 per doz.] furnishes\nabundance of the best\nSCHOOL SONGS for a whole year. The newest book.\n\nBooks that sell everywhere and all the time:\n\nCollege Songs 50 cts., War Songs 50cts.,\nJubilee and Plantation Songs 30 cts.,\nMinstreal Songs, new and old $2, Good\nOld Songs we used to Sing $1.\n\nKINKEL'S COPY BOOK [75 cts.] with the\nElements and Exercises to be written, is a\nuseful book for teachers and scholars.\n\n_Any Book Mailed for the Retail Price._\n\n_Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston._\n\nC.H. DITSON & Co., 867 Broadway, New York.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18186}