{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_12087/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_12087","id":"gutenberg_12087","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12087","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Religious","Category: History - Schools & Universities","Category: Parenthood & Family Relations","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"{85}\n\nThe American Missionary\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nVol. XLII. April, 1888. No. 4.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nCONTENTS\n\n   EDITORIAL.\n        FINANCIAL--PARAGRAPH\n        MOUNTAIN WORK--ATLANTA UNIVERSITY\n        INDIAN ORDER--FROM GEO. W. CABLE\n        DEATH OF HON. A.S. BARNES\n        PARAGRAPHS\n        SPECIMENS OF SCHOOL ENDEAVOR\n        A SERIOUS ALARM IN GEORGIA\n        EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE SOUTH\n   THE SOUTH.\n        LETTER FROM AN EVANGELIST\n   THE CHINESE.\n        RESULTS THAT ELUDE THE STATISTICIAN\n   BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n        THE BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH\n   YOUNG FOLKS.\n        WHAT SUSIE FOUND AT TOUGALOO\n        LETTER FROM AN INDIAN PUPIL\n   RECEIPTS\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nNew York.\nPrice, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. Published by the American\nMissionary Association.\nEntered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter.\nRooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n{86}\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nPRESIDENT,\n\n------ ------\n\nVice-Presidents.\n\nRev. A.J.F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\n\nRev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n\nRev. F.A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n\nRev. D.O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.\n\nRev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\n\nCorresponding Secretaries.\n\nRev. M.E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\nRev. A.F. BEARD, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\nTreasurer.\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\nAuditors.\n\nPETER MCCARTEE.\n\nCHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\nExecutive Committee.\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n\nADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\nFor Three Years.\n\nLYMAN ABBOTT,\n\nA.S. BARNES,[1]\n\nJ.R. DANFORTH,\n\nCLINTON B. FISK,\n\nADDISON P. FOSTER,\n\nFor Two Years.\n\nS.B. HALLIDAY,\n\nSAMUEL HOLMES,\n\nSAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n\nCHARLES L. MEAD,\n\nELBERT B. MONROE,\n\nFor One Year.\n\nJ.E. RANKIN,\n\nWM. H. WARD,\n\nJ.W. COOPER,\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN,\n\nEDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\nDistrict Secretaries.\n\nRev. C.J. RYDER, 21 Cong'l House, Boston.\n\nRev. J.E. ROY, D.D., 151 Washington Street, Chicago.\n\nFinancial Secretary for Indian Missions.\n\nRev. CHAS. W. SHELTON,\n\nBureau of Woman's Work.\n\nSecretary, Miss D.E. EMERSON, 56 Reade Street, N.Y.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  COMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \"THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\" to\nthe Editor, at the New York Office.\n\n  DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post office orders, may be\nsent to H.W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when\nmore convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational\nHouse, Boston, Mass., or 151 Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A\npayment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.\n\n  FORM 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\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n{87}\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nVol. XLII. April, 1888. No. 4.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n American Missionary Association.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe acknowledge with gratitude to God and to his people the fact that\nour receipts during the month of February are such as greatly to\nencourage us.\n\nWe are cheered, not only by the benevolences which are reporting\nthemselves from the churches, but also by the kind words of sympathy\nand helpfulness which show us anew that this great and exigent work\nupon us was never nearer than now to the hearts of our pastors and\nchurches.\n\nWe may add that the month just past and those immediately before us\nare those upon which we must largely depend for our fiscal year. We\nare coming to the summer season, when contributions are less likely to\nbe taken. We trust that those who believe that God has called the\nAmerican Missionary Association to this immense work in the name of\nChrist, will not cease to pray that the hearts of men may be moved to\nheed the appeals of those who, through us, ask for the very bread of\nlife, and who will not have it unless we carry it to them.\n\nWe are now compelled to deny more appeals for help which ought to be\nheard than we are granting. Several schools which were begun by\nprivate enterprise with good intent, are now asking us to take them\nfrom their hands upon our own, where they can be perpetuated and\nsaved. We would like to save these schools to the needy people whose\nhope is in them, and to protect the churches from indiscriminate\nappeals for works which they have not authorized, and which we could\ndo with greater economy and better care; but for this we need a\ngenerous increase of gifts. Our faith was in Him who said, \"Knock, and\nit shall be opened unto you,\" and the doors were opened. God withdrew\nthe bolts of hindrance and said, \"Beloved, I have set before you an\nopen door.\" Our faith is in Him who also said \"Ask, and ye shall\nreceive.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nA friend has just sent us eighteen subscriptions to the _American\nMissionary_. This might be repeated easily by a thousand friends. There\nis {88} scarcely a self-sustaining church in the United States where\nit could not be done by one who would try to do it as an act of\nmissionary love. Some who read this, perhaps, will try and will\nsucceed.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe name of Rev. Frank Cross, who was appointed to the charge of the\nRosebud Indian Mission, was by mistake not printed in the roll of\nworkers. He is there, however, and his work has gone on bravely and\nhopefully.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe wish that the extent, and necessity, and hopefulness of our\nmountain work, were more fully understood by our readers. Now is our\nopportunity and the accepted time to answer the most urgent appeals\nfrom this neglected region in the heart of our country. Our\nCongregational churches are just what are needed to uplift these\npeople. One of our earnest missionaries writes us:--\n\n  \"The A.M.A. has done a work here to be profoundly grateful for as a\n  beginning, but thus far it is only playing around the edge of its\n  mountain work. This mountain region is of great extent. Sober\n  calculation from facts already gleaned, makes a thousand\n  Congregational churches in these mountains the possibility of the\n  future, if only the strategic points can now be occupied. One\n  church and one school to a county, should be our immediate aim;\n  then we can throw upon these the work of developing native teachers\n  and preachers for the rest. There are forty counties waiting for\n  us, and all our mountain work so far is in three or four. I see\n  this place where I am, changing like magic under the influence of\n  school and church, but the necessity for our going forward\n  oppresses me. I am ready for any additional labor, and will carry\n  any burden my strength will permit, if only the American Missionary\n  Association will take for its motto, 'One church and one school in\n  every mountain county, as fast as they can be established.' I feel,\n  when I see the need, as if I could plead the money right out of the\n  most self-indulgent members of our favored churches at home. It\n  would not be expensive as compared with other missionary work.\n  Cannot some way be devised for making a large advance on the\n  present movement?\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThose who thought to cripple Atlanta University because it could not\nyield its principles for the sake of a State appropriation of $8,000\nmade a mistake. They have helped that which they meant to hinder. The\nuniversity will get the money. Joseph's brethren took counsel together\nand said, \"We will see what will become of his dream,\" and they\nthought they had a sure thing when they put him in a pit, but they\ndiscovered {89} some years after that this was but a way-station on\nthe direct road to the Viceroyship of Egypt, and they saw what became\nof his dream.\n\nWhen Napoleon the First wished to hinder the Huguenot Church, he gave\nit a small stipend in order to retain hold of it. He appropriated just\nenough to keep it a cripple. When the State of Georgia thought the\neducation of the Negro was becoming too marked, it reversed the policy\nof the far-seeing Bonaparte and took its hands off. We have never\nthought that Napoleon was a truly good man, but we do believe that he\nhad a larger idea of the philosophy of control than the author of the\nGlenn Bill. If the State had held on, it might have hindered, but it\nhas lost its hold.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWould it not sound well to the American people to have it said that in\nthe United States of America, in the year 1888, our missionaries were\nimprisoned for reading the Bible to a heathen tribe of Indians who\nlived remote from civilization, the crime of it being that it was read\nin the only language which they could understand?\n\nYet \"the orders are,\" writes a missionary, \"that we shall hold only\ntwo services on a Sunday and two during the week, and that we shall\ncease to read the Bible in the Indian homes.\" This is the Government\nauthority of the great and free United States, but is there any\nauthority greater than God?\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nIn an eloquent address at the Old South Church in Boston, on Sunday,\nMarch 4th, George W. Cable accentuated in strong words the work in\nwhich we are engaged. \"Here is the mightiest, the widest, the most\nfruitful, the most abundant, the most prolific, missionary field that\nwas ever opened to any Christian people.\"\n\nWe quote from his address:\n\n  The benevolence of Northern men and women, yea, and even of\n  Northern children, helped to establish in the South these\n  missionary colleges, these educational missions, wherein not the\n  black man alone, not the black woman alone, but every one who was\n  qualified with orderly behavior and a rational intellect might\n  come, and get, not only an education, but a Christian education,\n  and not only a Christian education, but a Christian American\n  education. These institutions, standing out in the darkness when\n  nothing else stood by them, when the land was racked and torn and\n  bled afresh under the agonies of reconstruction, these institutions\n  began and carried on the blessed work of raising up leaders,\n  intellectual leaders, among the black people, for the guidance and\n  stimulation of the colored race toward the aspirations of American\n  citizenship and Christian intelligence.\n\n  These institutions, these missionary colleges in the South, have\n  carried the torch of liberty, these have upheld it, these have\n  taught American citizenship, these have given to the Southern\n  States 16,000 colored teachers, when nobody else would teach the\n  poor black boy--nay, or the poor white boy either. Seven millions\n  of people concerned in the matter, and the National Bureau of\n  Public Education reporting year after year that {90} the reason why\n  there are 600,000 colored youth out of the public schools, is not\n  because they don't want to go, but because there are not\n  school-houses and school teachers.\n\n  Here is the mightiest, the widest, the most fruitful, the most\n  abundant, the most prolific, missionary field that was ever opened\n  to any Christian people. It is right here at your doors. It is not\n  across the Pacific Ocean and it is not down yonder around the Cape\n  of Good Hope. Right here at our doors is the greediest people for\n  education and the gospel there is on the face of this earth, not\n  counted among our white race. I suppose that ninety-nine\n  one-hundredths of those who generously give to this cause believe\n  to-day that it is being given to in generous proportion. Ah! you\n  never figured on it. Why, if you knew the national value of this\n  work, to say nothing of its gospel value, you would quadruplicate\n  it before the year is out. You would not submit to it for a moment,\n  as citizens, not merely as members of Christ's Church.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe American Missionary Association is called again to mourn the\ndecease of one of its officers. Hon. Alfred S. Barnes, a member of its\nExecutive Committee, after an illness extending over five months, at\nhis residence in Brooklyn, finished his earthly life on Friday,\nFebruary 17th, at the age of seventy-one years. Mr. Barnes was elected\non the Executive Board of the A.M.A. nineteen years ago, and had\nserved in that capacity continuously up to the day of his death. He\nwas a wise counsellor, large-minded in his views and honorable in his\nspirit, known throughout the land as one of the foremost publishers in\nthe country, largely interested in educational work, and yet he found\ntime for an earnest devotion to various enterprises in the Christian\nchurch. His fidelity and helpfulness in the service of the A.M.A. are\nfully known only to those who were associated with him. Many\norganizations of missionary and Christian work will miss his presence\nand the help of his generous stewardship, but none will feel his\ndeparture more truly than the American Missionary Association, which\nhas lost its President, one of its Secretaries, and this long-honored\nmember of its Executive Board within the last half-year. The greatness\nof his work in our service will be remembered and cherished.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe acknowledge among our exchanges, the _Fisk Herald_, published at\nNashville; the _Atlanta Bulletin_; the _Olio_, of Straight University; the\n_Tougaloo Quarterly_; the _Head and Hand_, of Le Moyne Normal Institute at\nMemphis; the _Helping Hand_, of Sherwood, Tenn.; _Our Work_, of Talladega\nCollege; the _Howard University Reporter_, of Washington; the _Word\nCarrier_, of Santee Agency, and _Iapi Oahe_, of Santee Agency; also the\n_Christian Aid_, published by our church in Dallas; the _Beach Record_,\n(occasional) by our school in Savannah.\n\nSeveral of these papers are models of their kind, publishing original\narticles written by the students and professors, and printed by the\nstudents with superior typographical skill. As indicators of progress,\nthey are full {91} of interest, apart from the items of local school\nand church intelligence with which they are freighted.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe commend to our readers, \"The Missionary Review of the World,\"\nedited jointly by Rev. J.M. Sherwood, D.D., of New York, and Rev. A.T.\nPierson, D.D., of Philadelphia.\n\nOne rises from its pages as if he had been breathing Christian ozone.\nThe editorials are upon living topics and issues, and are vigorously\npresented. The \"Review\" sweeps its vision over the entire world and it\nnot only sees, but knows how to tell what it sees. If the high\nstandard of literary excellence so far sustained can be continuously\nheld, we shall have a magazine of missions which will be the peer of\nour best literary monthlies in quality and interest.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe congratulate the Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing\nSociety on the acceptance of its appointment of Rev. Geo. M. Boynton\nas its Secretary. We have known him as a member of the Executive\nCommittee of the American Missionary Association, as editor of THE\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY, as a pastor, as a secretary of Associations and\nConferences, as a wise counsellor and genial brother. We regard him as\neminently fitted for the place to which he has been called. To Brother\nBoynton we extend most cordially a welcome to the honorable, the\nfraternity of the Secretaries.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nThe fifth annual report of the Executive Committee of the Indian\nRights Association, written by Mr. James B. Harrison, is a strong and\nvaluable contribution to the literature of Indian rights and wrongs,\nwhich should be considered by every friend of the Red Man. Respecting\nthe orders of the Indian office at Washington which abridge the\nliberty of religious teaching, this report characterizes them as\n\"unintelligent, arbitrary, despotic and unstatesmanlike, merely a blow\nat missionary work. There is no reason to suppose that a single Indian\nanywhere will ever learn ten words more of English by reason of these\norders. There is, indeed, no provision made by the Government for any\nincrease of facilities in the study of English. The damage to the\nmissionary work produced by these orders is their sole result. The\norders should be distinctly and wholly revoked and withdrawn. It is\nnot necessary that the missionaries and churches should submit. If\nthey will publish the facts fully these orders will be revoked. The\nfacts must come to light. Then the people of the country will have\nsomething to say.\"\n\nThe above quotation will give our readers the flavor of the pages.\n\"Plain words are best,\" and it is time that the country should have\nthem. {92} No one can read the statements in this able Report without\nhaving his heart stirred with honest indignation at the condition of\nIndian affairs, through the unfortunate unfitness of the Government\nBureau.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n SPECIMENS OF SCHOOL ENDEAVOR.\n\n   THREE COMPOSITIONS.\n\n     LETHER.\n\nLether is mad from the hide of animals. They first kill the animal\nthen the hide is sent to a tan yard and there it is tan are made\nlether from, then to a shoemaker's shop where it is made into boots\nshoes saddles. The finest of gloves is the kid skin glove, that is all\nI will say about kid skin gloves. Most of the bad boots and shoes we\nhave is horse lether or mule lether, that is all I will say about mule\nlether and horse lether. All the good boots and shoes we have is young\ncalf lether, that is all I will say about young calf lether.\n\nAll the boots shoes and every thing else we have made of lether is\nsecond thing because some poor animal was rob-ed of his coat that we\nmight have boots and many other things.\n\n----, aged 16.\n\n     NETELY.\n\nNetely are clean always and handsome to everybody. It are good in the\ncite of God and man for it are a good thing to be netely always for it\nmake a man look netely. If we all are netely it are a good thing to be\nclean for it are a good thing in the time of life so to be. Netely is\ndeserving of everybody and grate with all mankind. It are a good thing\nto be netely for it is beautiful and pretty. It are correct always and\nnever rong to nobody an it make a man feel better when he are netely\nan a nice looking person when he are netely are clean before every\nbody.\n\n----, aged 25.\n\n     DRIVE WAGGON.\n\nThat the kind of work I likes to do. When I drive waggon I rides a\nplenty. Riding are a good thing because when folks is sick it are good\nfor the helt. I likes to drive it because I have been loadin it. This\nsummer I hall fody. When I would load the barn yard wagon full of fody\nit would be high from the groun, that is nice but sometimes it would\nturn over, that would be truble. Truble are a bad thing.\n\n----, aged 17.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n   ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS AT AN EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS IN GEORGIA.\n\n_What is writing?_\n\n\"Writing is the Representation of the human voice on the 11th part of\na noun.\"\n{93}\n\n_How long since writing was invented?_\n\n\"From the creation of the world, or from the birth of Christ.\"\n\n_What are the chief products of the State of Georgia?_\n\n\"The chief products are Agriculture, Turpentine, rail-roads, lumber\nand grate deel of merchandice bussyness.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n A SERIOUS ALARM IN GEORGIA.\n\nThe American Missionary is not published for the entertainment of its\nreaders. It has a more serious purpose. It speaks for races who have\nsuffered grievous wrongs, and for peoples whose condition is\nexceedingly sad. It has to do with tragic facts, and much of what it\nhas to say must excite compassion, and must appeal both to the\nconsciences of our readers and to their sense of duty. To call upon\nthose whom God has blessed, to insert themselves into the woes and\nspiritual wants of others who need their help, is grave and serious.\n\nThis is one feature. There are others. The joy of the work and the joy\nof the worker, which we are called to record, are a relief to the\nstories of necessity, and are like beautiful pictures painted upon the\ndark background. When \"Our eyes have seen the glory of the coming of\nthe Lord,\" we can for the time forget the darkness upon which the\nlight shines, and sing our hallelujahs. If it is saddening to tell of\nthe night, it is cheering to mark the fact that the providences of God\nare working out his promises, and are surely bringing in God's day.\n\nOver and above the evils to which we must call earnest heed, the\ndangers which are not far away, and the exigencies of the cause of\nChrist, we are sure that no one can read the MISSIONARY without being\ncheered and quickened in gratitude to God for what he is graciously\ndoing for his needy ones through his people.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWith the serious duty on the part of those who are working together\nwith God for the salvation of men, there drift along in the current of\nhis providences certain incidents that are exceedingly droll.\n\nAs we have seen some very ludicrous manifestations of character and\nconduct in the terrible struggles of a battlefield, and have brushed\naside our tears at times for an irrepressible _bon mot_ in a hospital,\nso in the weighty and solemn considerations which continually appeal\nto us, and while we are anxiously asking how we can make the most\nbricks for the Lord's building with the least straw, incidents arise\nwhich not only throw light upon our serious work, but which are\nirresistibly amusing.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nWe think we should share with our readers a recent one which, when\n{94} we read it in the detail, impossible to be repeated here, made us\nsmile. Every time we re-perused it we thought it, as _Alice in\nWonderland_ said, \"curiouser and curiouser.\"\n\nOur readers are not strangers to the name and fame of the leading\neditor of the chief paper in Georgia. They have heard of him as an\neloquent orator with a brilliant imagination which saw a New South in\nalmost millennial array, and told of it with an enthusiasm so\ncontagious that to the sons of the Pilgrims after the fulness of a\ngreat dinner it seemed that the \"Promised day of Israel\" had at last\narrived. It is true that when this dinner had been thoroughly\ndigested, certain ones, removed from the afflatus of the occasion\nbegan to ask, \"Are these things so?\" And when the Glenn Bill sought\nthe endorsement of public opinion, and substantially received it with\nno word of reprobation from the eloquent orator and editor, some\nrecalled the speech of Sheridan in reply to Mr. Dundas, \"The right\nhonorable gentleman is indebted to his imagination for his facts.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nIn all this time no one suspected the _Atlanta Constitution_ of\npossessing the humorous character which it has lately revealed. In\nlate issues of February it has, in the garb of gravity, about two\ncolumns that are ridiculously funny.\n\nIt appears that Prof. Sumner Salter, a graduate of Amherst College, a\nson of an honored pastor of Iowa, a musical director of exceptional\ngifts and a teacher of eminent ability, was solicited by parties in\nAtlanta to take his residence there in the interest of the musical\ncultivation of such as could secure his services. He soon attracted\nthe patronage of society, and all went smoothly until the tempter\ncame. Alas, there was a serpent in Eden, so there was a skeleton in\nthe closet of the _Atlanta Constitution_. It was a dreadful skeleton.\nThe _Constitution_ seriously publishes the fact that \"it was whispered\nabout for some time,\" until patience ceased to be a virtue, when it\nsent a guardian of public safety in the form of a reporter to\ninvestigate. \"Was it really true that a white man who was giving music\nlessons to white people was also teaching a colored class at another\ntime and place? If so, what about the New South? The black man had no\nbusiness to be black, but he _was_ all the same, and being so what right\nhad Prof. Salter to teach _colored_ people to sing? Let the matter be\nthoroughly searched out. The reporter departed on his mission, with a\ncountenance more in sorrow than in anger, and returned _vice versa_.\n\n  \"'Tis true, 'tis pity,\n  And pity 'tis 'tis true.\"\n\nThe professor was actually doing this very absurd thing. He had taken\ncharge of a colored class in the church of which Rev. Evarts Kent is\nminister and was teaching them how rightly to use the talents with\nwhich God had so richly endowed them.\n{95}\n\nAccordingly, in the year of grace 1888, the _Atlanta Constitution_\npublishes the astounding fact, and calls the world to heed it, in\nconspicuous head lines:--\n\n  \"WHITE OR BLACK--A PROMINENT MUSICIAN WHO TEACHES BOTH COLORS--HIS\n  BUSINESS SAID TO BE INJURED.\"\n\nThen followed the whole sad story. The musician had been interviewed\nand investigated. He did not deny the serious charge to this\nsuperintendent of public proprieties. With a heart as hard as old\nPharaoh's he proposed to go on and do more likewise. In short, the\nrepresentative of the _Constitution_ could do nothing with this\nintractable professor. Hence \"he did not stand upon the order of his\ngoing, but went at once,\" and reported that \"_according to Mr. Suiter's\nown statement, he is teaching a colored class_, and he has lost a white\npupil, which shows that his course is hurting his business.\" \"Diligent\ninquiry has failed to bring to light any proof that he has notified\nhis _white_ pupils that he is teaching _colored_ people.\"\n\nLeaving out the meanness of this, has anyone read anything published\nlately more ridiculous? It is not necessary to quote the professor's\npublic reply. It simply claimed the right of manhood and common sense,\nand doubtless left the _Constitution_ wondering how a man capable of\nmaking it appear so foolish could yet descend to such depths of\nignominy as to teach people whose ancestors came from Africa, the\nunpardonable sin of singing praises to the Author of their being. To\nwhat deeps some will descend! Why should colored people add to the\ncriminality of being born black, the fearful temptation of pay in\nadvance to one who could teach them while he had pupils who had the\nmerit of having been born white?\n\nThis was really transpiring in the city of Atlanta several days in the\nmonth of February in the year 1888, and was in successive issues of\nthe _Constitution_, which shows among other things that there is\nlatitude, if not longitude, at a Brooklyn New England dinner.\nMeanwhile we think we hear Uncle Rastus quoting the prophecy, \"The\nmorning cometh and also the night,\" but he can't help laughing because\nit is \"awful funny.\"\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n THE EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE SOUTH.\n\nBY REV. W.F. SLOCUM.\n\nWe may remember at the outset that in this matter of the education of\nthe Negro we are treating a question which must be considered, to a\ncertain extent, ethnically. We are dealing with a people with race\npeculiarities: but it seems to me that it is very useless to ask\nwhether we are training an inferior stock. There was a time when the\nAnglo-Saxon stock was far inferior {96} to its present condition. We\nourselves are not enough removed from heathenism and barbarism to\nbecome very pharisaical.\n\nHere is a race with its idiosyncrasies, and its peculiar latent\npossibilities, which we cannot know until Christian education has\nunfolded them through many years. We ought not to wonder that in many\nrespects this people is yet in its moral and intellectual infancy; but\nwho dares say that it has not a future before it, with its statesmen,\nits poets, its painters, its men of letters; that it is not to have\nits own peculiar literature, its art, and even its own characteristic\nreligious expression, just as marked and important as those produced\nby any other race? Certainly we have as much reason for believing it\nas that the Teutonic race of the second century should produce its\nGoethe and its Schiller, its Kant and its Hegel, its Luther and its\nMelanchthon; or that the Frank of the fifth century should develop its\nVictor Hugo, its Lamartine, its Madam de Stael; or that out of the\nbarbarism, the cannibalism, the paganism of Norseman, Briton and\nSaxon, there should come Shakespeare, Spencer, Macaulay, Browning and\nGladstone. And we may not have to wait as long; for in spite of\nslavery's binding chain thrice drawn round his soul, the American\nNegro has been absorbing during the past from a civilization which has\nbeen fitting him somewhat for the large Christian movement of the\npresent. We are working for a people which in all probability will\nform at least one-eighth of our whole population; and we have the\nproblem of lifting them as a race up into Christian enlightenment. The\ndark skin is growing darker. There will be less and less of\nintermixture of blood between the two races. Hence all study of this\neducational question must have in view the large moral and\nintellectual enterprise of dealing with a race as a race. I believe\nthat there is nothing in all history to compare with this opportunity\nwhich has come to our very doors. Here is a nation in our land and\nwith it every perplexity, every difficulty, every embarrassment, and\nalso every encouragement, every hope, and every inspiration for work,\nthat can appeal to any foreign missionary. Here is this God-given task\nlaid at our very thresholds and with all the sentiments of patriotism\nand Christian devotion urging us to our large privilege.\n\nWhat the race needs now is right leadership, and for many years to\ncome we are to equip men and women religiously and intellectually,\nwho, in home, in church, in social and business life, will be moral\nand social leaders. And by this power of leadership I mean something\nfar other than those foolish conceits which have taken possession of a\nfew who have touched only the surface of the new life that is coming\nto this people.\n\nI have rather in mind leaders who shall have that moral and\nintellectual fitness which produces reverence, earnestness and\nhumility, leaders who can draw their people away from their\nfoolishness, weakness and self-consciousness into the larger life that\nis possible for them. Without a {97} doubt, what is needed is true\nleaders, and I wish to show where these leaders are now demanded.\n\nBefore the war, the South knew nothing of the benefits of public\nschools, and the private school was in harmony with its social and\npolitical conceptions; but of late, and especially during the last\ndecade, a remarkable change has taken place which is doing as much to\naffect the whole Southern problem as anything that has occurred there\nduring half a century. It is a movement in the South, which, however\nimperfectly it has been developed as yet, has come to remain, and will\nultimately affect every institution, social, political and religious,\nin our section of the country.\n\n_It is now being recognized in every Southern State that free\ngovernment is based upon a public common-school system_. It has taken\ntwo decades to incorporate this public school policy upon Southern\ninstitutions, but it has now the evidence of permanency and it is\noffering to Christian philanthropy an unparalleled opportunity, such\nas God seldom gives to any people, and one which should rally the\nchurches as never before in support of the great enterprises of the\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\nThere has been forced upon the New South the conclusion that the best\nway to increase its wealth is to increase the number of educated,\nintelligent producers, and with this conclusion it realizes that it\ncannot afford to let two million colored children grow up in hopeless\nilliteracy. It perceives that its very institutions will be imperiled\nby such a condition. I have through personal interviews with leading\neducators in a recent trip through the South, by correspondence and by\na careful examination of documents and reports from nearly all the\nSouthern States, undertaken to find just what is being done at the\npresent time in the public colored schools of the South.\n\nThe significance of this public school movement will be understood\nwhen it is remembered that the acceptance of the idea that the\nconstitution of a free State rests on universal education, marks a\ngreat change in theory; that this has come against the opinions of the\nold Bourbon party, which never forgets, and, it is to be feared, never\nlearns; whose political economy is represented by the expression,\n\"keep the negro down\"; which regards his enfranchisment as a political\noutrage and his education as a mistake and a failure; that it has\nrisen in the face of the poverty of the South and in the midst of its\nmost intense prejudices. For when the new educational movement began,\nthe property and a large part of the intelligence belonged to the\nopponents of the new educational policy, but now, in the words of a\nprominent Southern gentleman: \"The conviction has become very deep\nthat in the altered condition of our people the only hope left us is\nto do all that can be done towards elevating the masses irrespective\nof race.\" This certainly represents a tremendous transformation.\nWithout stopping to trace the causes that produced it, or even the\nlarge place the American Missionary Association work has in it, let me\nsimply quote from {98} a Southern Christian man, whose sympathies are\nfull of prejudice against the North, but who has wakened with the\nawakening of the New South.\n\nWriting of the educational movement, in a recent book, he says: \"Not a\nfew of the best men and women of the North have come to teach in these\ninstitutions for colored youth: their motives and their work have not\nalways been understood, but the Great Day will make manifest how they\nhave been constrained by the love of Christ, to spend years in work\nwhich has had many discouragements.\" ('The New South' by J.C.C.\nNewton.) A few statistics may give some general idea of the extent of\nthis movement.\n\nThe State of Alabama has 104,150 colored pupils enrolled in the public\nschools. It pays an average of $25.97 per month to nearly 2,000\ncolored teachers, and expends altogether $198,221 upon these colored\nschools. Georgia has 49 per cent. of its negro school population\nenrolled; that is, 119,248. In 1871, this State had 6,664 only in all\npublic and private colored schools. Its teachers of this race now\nnumber 2,272. 40,909 colored children are enrolled in Louisiana, with\n672 negro teachers, who receive an average of $23.73 per month.\n\nMississippi had last year 154,430 colored scholars. It employed 3,124\ncolored teachers who receive an average of $28.73 per month. North\nCarolina enrolled, in 1886, 117,562 colored pupils, employed 2,016\nteachers of the same race, paying them about the same as its white\nteachers, $23.38 per month. The colored school population of Tennessee\nnumbers 158,450, of whom 84,624 are enrolled in her 1,563 common\nschools, which are taught by 1,621 teachers of the same nationality. A\ncounty superintendent voluntarily adds: \"I should do our colored\nteachers an injustice not to speak of them. Most of them are earnest,\nzealous workers, doing all in their power for their race.\"\n\nTurning now to Texas we find that this State has nearly doubled its\nenrollment of colored pupils in three years, which now number 62,040,\nwith 1,696 licensed colored teachers who receive on an average, $41.73\nper month. Virginia has 111,114 out of a school population of 265,249\nwith 1,734 colored teachers who receive $28.65 per month.\n\nThat is, in eight representative States there are eight hundred\nthousand colored pupils who are now being trained by over fifteen\nthousand teachers of the same race. Now the simple but grave question\nthat every Christian patriot ought to ask himself is, \"What kind of\nteachers are these, and where are they to come from in the future?\" I\nasked that question of a gentleman who of all others ought to be able\nto answer it correctly and he replied, \"Nine-tenths of these teachers\ncome from the missionary schools, and of these nine-tenths, more than\none-half come from the institutions of the American Missionary\nAssociation.\" Now we can understand the truthfulness of the testimony\nof the Rev. J.L.M. Curry, D.D., the distinguished agent of the Peabody\nFund, who says: \"The most that {99} has been done at the South for the\neducation of the negroes has been done by the Congregationalists. The\nAmerican Missionary Association and those allied to it have been the\nchief agency, so far as benevolent effort is concerned, in diffusing\nright notions of religion, and in carrying education to the darkened\nmind of the negro.\"\n\nHere is the large door that God has opened for us, and through which\nwe are reaching this people, and in a still larger degree may carry\nthe truths of the Kingdom of God to them. What they need most of all\nis light. Give them that and the question of rights will take care of\nitself. When I was in New Orleans last May, President Hitchcock, of\nStraight University, pointed out to me in his office a pile of\nletters, which, he said, were applications for teachers for these\npublic schools, and those which he showed me represented the number of\napplications which he was not able to fill. And yet he is compelled\nevery term to turn away scores of young men and young women seeking to\nfit themselves for just this work, because there is not room for them\nand because there are not funds to care for them.\n\nAs to this new movement in the South, I do not conclude that more than\nthe first step has been taken, exceedingly important as that step is.\nMany of the schools as yet are in a wretched condition. The buildings\nin the rural districts are small and rudely built, and many of them\nare positively unfit to be used as school houses. There are neither\nmaps, nor charts or other appliances for the teacher's use in his\nwork, and in fact everything about these school houses is of the most\nprimitive type. The school year often does not exceed four months, and\nmany of these teachers are altogether unfit for their tasks.\n\nAre we to think the time has come to withhold our support and our\nprayers from this great work? Was there ever such an opportunity\noffered to any land as this which is presented to the Christian\nphilanthropy of our own?\n\nI might tell of the needs of the cabin home life as I have seen them\nin these States, how the scholars from Christian schools are the\nleaven that is slowly transforming this, the greatest of all human\ninstitutions; how while from one-quarter to one-half of the colored\npopulation is progressing, gaining in education, property and\ncharacter, there is another large part of the race that is either\nstationary or sinking into more miserable conditions. Are we seeking\nfor paganism to battle with? Here it is in our own proud land. Do we\nwant the opportunity of Christianizing a nation? Here it is; and with\npossibilities just as marked as those of any people that ever ascended\nthe scale of intelligence and Christian morality.\n\nThe problem of the New South is not merely one of successful\nrailroads, of busy factories or of paying plantations, but much more\nis it one of upright, wise, Christian manhood and womanhood. This is\nthe work to which we are most truly called of the Eternal Father.\n{100}\n\nNobly has the American Missionary Association entered into these\nlabors; but believe me, there is a larger work before it than it has\nyet accomplished.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n LETTER FROM AN EVANGELIST.\n\nAfter my return from England for another winter's service in Gospel\nwork among the people of the South, I began at\n\n  WASHINGTON, D.C.\n\nI had promised Rev. G.W. Moore last winter, before sailing for my home\nin England, to assist him in special religious effort. From the very\ncommencement of the meetings a good spirit was manifest, which\ndeepened day by day until forty or more persons professed faith in\nChrist, young and old being reached by the power of the gospel. One\nman sixty-one years of age surrendered to the overtures of God's love\nand received Christ as his Saviour. Another of seventy-five years was\npointed out to me as a hardened sinner. When approached he was full of\nself and reason, \"I don't believe in mourner's benches and such like;\ndo you think my going there will make me a Christian or do me any\ngood?\" \"No, but it will show the people you are intending to make a\nstart for Heaven, and it will enlist their sympathy and prayers,\" I\nreplied.\n\nFinally he knelt with me in the aisle with his head bowed on the end\nof the seat while I prayed. Soon the big tears were dropping from his\neyes and he went home that night under conviction. The following night\nhe returned. He was again prayed for, but went away undecided. The\nnext night as soon as inquirers were given an opportunity to present\nthemselves for prayers he was the first to respond, and the sinful man\nof seventy-five years had yielded his heart to Christ, and could sing\nfrom his heart \"Happy day, when Jesus washed my sins away.\" His wife,\nwho was present, rushed forward, and tears of joy ran down their\ncheeks. Scarcely a dry eye was to be seen, while above all there was\njoy in Heaven over another sinner saved. Deacon R. came to me\nafterwards and said, \"Why, did you ever see what a change in the man\nin three days, and at last how he 'caved in.'\"\n\nTen persons made profession of their faith, in January. Two of these\nwere teachers in the public schools. There were four conversions in\none family. Since these meetings, many extra services have been held,\nwith fruitful results. There are family altars where none before\nexisted. The work in Washington under Mr. Moore is very hopeful. My\nnext point was\n\n  SELMA, ALA.\n\nwhich I entered full of hopes as to successful meetings, and was not\ndisappointed. {101} During my stay there, lasting three weeks, sixty\nprofessed to be converted. Most of these, through the efforts of Rev.\nC.B. Curtis and his wife, were formed into a \"Children's Band,\" while\nothers joined the churches. This is a most important feature in\npastoral work, where the majority of the converts are children. They\nneed to have something that will help them in their spiritual and new\nlife and which may be instrumental in preserving them from\ntemptations, snares and pitfalls, laid to entrap them by the enemy of\ntheir souls.\n\nI never before realized how easily people are led away by false\nteachers, nor saw so manifestly brought out the fulfillment of the\nScriptures, [2 Pet. ii, 1] \"But there were false prophets among the\npeople, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily\nshall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought\nthem, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall\nfollow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall\nbe evil spoken of.\"\n\nA man calling himself a \"prophet\" and a \"faith doctor\" had been for\nsome time experimenting upon people, both white and black, and\nprofessed to cure them of all their ailments. He had been holding\nmeetings in a cottage weekly, and had gathered many followers, who\nwere, alas, for the most part professing Christians. He announced that\non the following Sunday he would hold the passover feast, burn the\nBible, and, in plain words, would do wonders, the like of which had\nnot been heard of for years. Accordingly, on Sunday morning, with a\nfew of his followers, he came to the house of a Negro, and during the\nceremony commanded a white woman to place her head on the table and\noffer herself as a sacrifice. She refused, upon which a Negro woman\nlaid her head upon the table. He immediately raised an old cavalry\nsword and, with one blow, nearly severed her head from her body, and\nthen commanded that they should \"drag her out at once and put her with\nher feet towards the East and she will rise after three days.\"\n\nSoon there was a cry of murder raised; the false prophet was arrested\nafter a struggle, and he, with a number of his followers, was safely\nlodged in the penitentiary, where it is to be hoped he will at least\nbe kept from cutting off any more women's heads. Oh, how great the\nneed of faithful men to lift up their voices like a trumpet, and spare\nthem not, and show to these needy people, so religiously inclined, the\nway of truth!\n\n  TALLADEGA COLLEGE\n\nwas the next place visited. Beginning the New Year, which is usually\nthe \"week of prayer,\" for two weeks the \"old, old story\" was told on\nevery night among the resident students and scholars. At other times,\nservices would be held in the Cassidy school in the morning, or in the\nafternoon, as school duties would permit. The Theological class, as\nwell as the teachers and faculty, interested themselves greatly in\nseeking to win the unsaved to Jesus. Following out the teaching of the\nNew Testament, the students {102} went out two and two in the\nsurrounding neighborhood, calling at the homes of the people,\nconversing and praying in the family. They often returned with great\njoy to tell of the success and kindness they had met wherever they\nwent. I am thankful to our blessed Lord to be able to report that not\nonly forty or more of the young people were converted but also that\nprofessing Christians were strengthened in faith, all promising to do\nwhat God had required of them and to go to their respective homes,\nsome of them hundreds of miles away, to make known a Saviour's love\nand to carry light as far as possible in the surrounding darkness.\nWhile here the Macedonian cry was heard from\n\n  JENIFER.\n\nI went there for a brief service. The first night the church was full,\nalthough the weather was stormy. The spirit of God brooded over the\nmeeting and five came forward for prayer. The next night still was\nunpleasant, yet some of the congregation came several miles, and at\nthe close eleven inquirers asked for prayers. A brother in the\ncongregation rose, and, in pleading terms, his voice faltering,\nbegged, \"Oh, brodder, please do stop wid us; see de mourners; see de\nwork de Lord is doing; please you brodder don't go away and leab us.\"\nAfter such heartfelt words I could but stay all the week, when sixteen\nprofessed to have accepted Christ, or, as they put it, to have \"found\nreligion.\"\n\nMiss Smith, at her home for motherless girls, is doing a noble work\nhere. Rev. J.B. Grant is highly respected by all in the village and\nhas a good name, which is worth more than great riches.\n\n  IRONATON\n\nwas the next place visited. It was exceedingly muddy and dark, yet the\npeople came out well. At the close of the first meeting the\ncongregation arose _en masse_ and asked that I would remain a day\nlonger, which I did.\n\n  MARION, ALA.\n\nI went to Marion with some doubts upon my mind as to the results. The\nfirst evening after my arrival I was very sick and threatened with a\nsevere attack of chills and fever, but I was helped to strength enough\nto preach with difficulty. Twenty-five inquirers asked for prayers.\nSome that night became \"new creatures in Christ Jesus,\" and every\nnight as the meetings progressed the interest deepened and spread,\nuntil other churches were reached by the influence and their services\ngiven up that their members might come to our church and share in the\nwork and blessing. Every night large numbers of seekers came to\nChrist. On one night twelve expressed their faith in a new life. Among\nthe many inquirers was one who for twelve years had been an anxiety to\nher friends on account of her state of mind, and her conversion caused\ngreat joy in the church.\n\nShort morning meetings were held in the various schools in the town,\nand in a town-school seventeen seekers found the Lord Jesus precious\nto {103} their souls. Up to this time, during two weeks, more than one\nhundred profess to have been converted.\n\nI am happy to report that now, with the exception of two or three of\nthe students, all in the new A.M.A. school have been reached by the\ngospel and are rejoicing that God's love has been shed abroad in their\nhearts. This blessing can be traced in a great measure to the faithful\nScriptural teaching which Rev. A.W. Curtis and his devoted wife had\nbeen giving previous to my coming among them, prayer meetings having\nbeen held in the church for some time beforehand, and women's meetings\nat the pastor's home, led by Mrs. Curtis, thus preparing the way for\nthe nightly preaching of the gospel. I go next to Mobile.\n\nJAMES WHARTON, Evangelist.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n RESULTS THAT ELUDE THE STATISTICIAN.\n\nBY REV. C.T. WEITZEL.\n\nThere are some effects which cannot be put into statistics. A boy's\nprogress in a study is but imperfectly declared by the monthly report\nor the examination \"stand.\" Much of the work accomplished in a Chinese\nmission school, is impossible to tabulate. Like the marvelous\nclearness of the atmosphere in Santa Barbara on a bright morning after\na night of rain, it quite eludes the statistician.\n\nBut effects may be felt, though we cannot represent them by figures.\nGo with me some evening through the Chinese quarter of our city; note\nthe faces of the loungers in every door-way and at every corner. Watch\nthe expression, or the want of expression, in these stolid, brutal,\nrepulsive faces of opium-smokers and gamblers. Then step over with me\nto the Chinese mission-house two squares away. Before you enter, look\nin through the half-open door and take a survey of the scene within.\nThe room is well-lighted, and contains, among other things, two long\ntables, a dozen benches, a cabinet organ, and a few chairs. The walls\nare bright with Scripture texts and illustrations from sacred history.\nAbout fifteen young Chinamen are seated at the tables, all reading and\nstudying aloud in true Chinese fashion. Just as you enter the teacher,\ntouches the bell. Books are closed and all take seats on the benches\nin front of the organ. A Chinese evangelist is present, and while he\nmakes an impassioned address, accompanied by most expressive gestures,\nyou are free to study the faces upturned to listen. What a contrast to\nthe faces you have just left in Chinatown, idly staring at the\npasser-by, or, vacant of all interest, staring at nothing! At a glance\nyou perceive effects which must be seen to be appreciated. You feel\nthat not only is the whole atmosphere of this place essentially\ndifferent {104} from that of the Chinese quarter, but there is also an\nessential difference between those who frequent the one and the other.\n\nSocially, intellectually, spiritually, the Chinese mission-school does\nits beneficent work. It must be borne in mind that the Chinaman in\nCalifornia is away from home. He is exposed to all the temptations of\na stranger in a strange land, removed from the restraining influences\nof a community where one is known. Subject an equal number of men of\nany other nation to this severe test, and I doubt much if they would\nbear it as well. The mission school serves the purpose of a strong\nsocial support. So far as possible it takes the place of a home. It\npractically separates its attendants into a community by itself. It\ndoes much to keep them from contact with their vicious countrymen in\nChinatown. It does much to bring them into contact with those whose\ninfluence upon them will be good. It does much to furnish a healthy\nsocial atmosphere in which to pass the hours of the afternoon and\nevening, which every Chinese servant is at liberty to spend as he\nwill.\n\nIntellectually the work in the Chinese missions is already far beyond\nthe elementary stage, and is growing more virile every year.\n\nBut everything is made but the means to the spiritual end. Not for an\nhour is this lost sight of. The whole drift of the teaching, the\nsongs, the pictures, the Scripture text, is to make known Christ.\nEvery evening's lesson ends with worship. For a month or more the\nChinese preacher to whom I have referred, has held evangelistic\nservices in the Santa Barbara mission. To-day he leaves for points\nfarther south to do the same work elsewhere.\n\nIn no year, may I add, have there been so many conversions among the\nChinese on this coast as in the one just past.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.\n\nMISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\n CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\nME.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C.A. Woodbury,\nWoodfords, Me.\n\nVT.--Woman's Aid to A.M.A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry\nFairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\nCONN.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171\nCapitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\nN.Y.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.C. Creegan,\nSyracuse, N.Y.\n\nOHIO.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,\nOberlin, Ohio.\n\nILL.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151\nWashington St., Chicago, Ill.\n\nMICH.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,\nLansing, Mich.\n\nWIS.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter, Brodlhead,\nWis.\n\nMINN.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H.L. Chase, 2,750\nSecond Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.\n\nIOWA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella K. Marsh,\nGrinnell, Iowa.\n\nKANSAS.--Woman's Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison\nBlanchard, Topeka, Kan.\n\nSOUTH DAKOTA.--Woman's Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W.H. Thrall,\nAmour, Dak.\n{105}\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n THE BLACK WOMAN OF THE SOUTH.\n\nThe Rev. Alexander Crummell, D.D., formerly a missionary in Africa and\nnow Rector of St. Luke's Church in Washington, D.C., is a native of\nAfrica, a graduate of one of the leading Universities of England, who\nadds to the strength and graces of a sound scholarship, the devotion\nof a noble Christian character.\n\nFrom an address made by him upon the \"Needs and Neglects of the Black\nWoman of the South,\" we quote his plea for \"Woman's Work for Woman.\"\nReferring to the Negro woman in slavery days, he says:\n\n  \"She was a 'hewer of wood and a drawer of water.' She had to keep\n  her place in the gang from morn till eve, under the burden of a\n  heavy task, or under the stimulus or the fear of a cruel lash. She\n  was a picker of cotton. She labored at the sugar mill and in the\n  tobacco factory. When, through weariness or sickness, she had\n  fallen behind her allotted task, then came, as punishment, the\n  fearful stripes upon her shrinking, lacerated flesh.\n\n  \"Her home life was of the most degrading nature. She lived in the\n  rudest huts, and partook of the coarsest food, and dressed in the\n  scantiest garb, and slept, in multitudinous cabins, upon the\n  hardest boards!\n\n  \"There was no sanctity of family, no binding tie of marriage, none\n  of the fine felicities and the endearing affections of home. Few of\n  these things were the lot of the Southern black woman. Instead,\n  thereof, a gross barbarism, which tended to blunt the tender\n  sensibilities, to obliterate feminine delicacy and womanly shame,\n  came down as her heritage from generation to generation; and it\n  seems a miracle of providence and grace that, notwithstanding these\n  terrible circumstances, so much struggling virtue lingered amid the\n  rude cabins, that so much womanly worth and sweetness remained, as\n  slaveholders themselves have borne witness to.\n\n  \"Freed, legally, she has been; but the act of emancipation had no\n  talismanic influence to reach to and alter and transform her\n  degrading social life. The truth is, 'Emancipation Day' found her a\n  prostrate and degraded being; and, although it has brought numerous\n  advantages to her sons, it has produced but the simplest changes in\n  _her_ social and domestic condition. She is still the crude, rude,\n  ignorant mother. Remote from cities, the dweller still in the old\n  plantation hut, neighboring to the sulky, disaffected master-class,\n  who still think her freedom was a personal robbery of themselves,\n  none of the 'fair humanities' have visited her humble home. The\n  light of knowledge has not fallen upon her eyes. The fine\n  domesticities which give the charm to family life, and which, by\n  the refinement and delicacy of womanhood, preserve the civilization\n  of nations, have not come to _her_. She has still the rude, coarse\n  labor of men. With her rude husband, she still shares the hard\n  service of a field-hand. Her house, which shelters, perhaps, some\n  six or eight children, embraces but two rooms. Her furniture is of\n  the rudest kind. The clothing of the household is scant and of the\n  coarsest material; has oft-times the garniture of rags, and for\n  herself and offspring is marked, not seldom, by the absense {106}\n  of both hats and shoes. She has rarely been taught to sew, and the\n  field-labor of slavery times has kept her ignorant of the habitudes\n  of neatness and the requirements of order. Indeed, coarse food,\n  coarse clothes, coarse living, coarse manners, coarse companions,\n  coarse surroundings, coarse neighbors, both white and black, yea,\n  everything coarse, down to the coarse, ignorant, senseless\n  religion, which excites her sensibilities and starts her passions,\n  go to make up the life of the masses of black women in the hamlets\n  and villages of the South. This is the state of black womanhood.\n\n  \"And now look at the _vastness_ of this degradation. If I had been\n  speaking of the population of a city, or town, or even a village,\n  the tale would be a sad and melancholy one. But I have brought\n  before you the condition of _millions of women_. And when you think\n  that the masses of these women live in the rural districts; that\n  they grow up in rudeness and ignorance; that their former masters\n  are using few means to break up their hereditary degradation, you\n  can easily take in the pitiful condition of this population and\n  forecast the inevitable future to multitudes of females, unless a\n  mighty special effort is made for the improvement of the black\n  womanhood of the South.\n\n  \"I am anxious for a permanent and uplifting civilization to be\n  engrafted on the Negro race in this land. And this can only be\n  secured through the womanhood of a race. If you want the\n  civilization of a people to reach the very best elements of their\n  being, and then, having reached them, there to abide as an\n  indigenous principle, you must imbue the _womanhood_ of that people\n  with all its elements and qualities. Any movement which passes by\n  the female sex is an ephemeral thing. Without them, no true\n  nationality, patriotism, religion, cultivation, family life, or\n  true social status, is a possibility. In this matter it takes two\n  to make one--mankind is a duality. The male may bring, as an\n  exotic, a foreign graft, say, of civilization, to a new people. But\n  what then! Can a graft live or thrive of itself? By no manner of\n  means. It must get vitality from the stock into which it is put;\n  and it is the women who give the sap to every human organization\n  which thrives and flourishes on earth.\n\n  \"I plead, therefore, for the establishment of at least one large\n  '_Industrial school_' in every Southern State for the black girls of\n  the South. I ask for the establishment of schools which may serve\n  specially the home life of the rising womanhood of my race.\n\n  \"I want _boarding schools_ for the _industrial training_ of one hundred\n  and fifty or two hundred of the poorest girls, of the ages of\n  twelve to eighteen years.\n\n  \"I wish the intellectual training to be limited to reading,\n  writing, arithmetic and geography.\n\n  \"I would have these girls taught to do accurately all domestic\n  work, such as sweeping floors, dusting rooms, scrubbing,\n  bed-making, washing and ironing, sewing, mending and knitting.\n  {107}\n\n  \"I would have the trades of dress-making, millinery, straw-plating,\n  tailoring for men, and such like, taught them.\n\n  \"The art of cooking should be made a specialty, and every girl\n  should be instructed in it.\n\n  \"In connection with these schools, garden plats should be\n  cultivated, and every girl should be required daily, to spend at\n  least an hour in learning the cultivation of small fruits,\n  vegetables and flowers.\n\n  \"It is hardly possible to exaggerate either the personal, family or\n  society influence which would flow from these schools. Every class,\n  yea, every girl in an out-going class, would be a missionary of\n  thrift, industry, common-sense, and practicality. They would go\n  forth, year by year, a leavening power into the houses, towns and\n  villages of the Southern black population; girls fit to be the\n  wives of the honest peasantry of the South, the worthy matrons of\n  their numerous households.\n\n  \"I am looking after the domestic training of the _masses_; for the\n  raising up of women meet to be the helpers of poor men, the _rank\n  and file_ of black society, all through the rural districts of the\n  South.\n\n  \"A true civilization can only be attained when the life of woman is\n  reached, her whole being permeated by noble ideas, her fine taste\n  enriched by culture, her tendencies to the beautiful gratified and\n  developed, her singular and delicate nature lifted up to its full\n  capacity, and then, when all these qualities are fully matured,\n  cultivated and sanctified, all their sacred influences shall circle\n  around ten thousand firesides, and the cabins of the humblest\n  freedmen shall become the homes of Christian refinement through the\n  influence of the uplifted and cultivated black woman of the South.\"\n\nThe above appeal is in the line of our American Missionary Association\nwork. While we have higher schools and institutions for more thorough\neducation, which these Negro women need as much as any women in the\nworld, we are increasingly developing this idea which Dr. Crummell\neloquently pleads.\n\nWe remind our friends and those Christian women who are interested in\nthe uplifting of Negro womanhood, that the American Missionary\nAssociation, the _ordained agency_ of the Congregational Churches for\nthis work, could do much more of it if the means were forthcoming. The\nmarked success of the domestic training in our schools at Tougaloo,\nMiss., Talladega, Ala., Thomasville, Ga., Memphis, Tenn., and other\npoints, shows the advantage gained in the twenty-five years'\nexperience which the A.M.A. has had in its work for the Negroes.\n\nWe need the co-operation of all Christian women in carrying on these\nIndustrial Schools already established, and to enable us to establish\nand carry forward _many more_.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n{108}\n\n  YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n WHAT SUSIE FOUND AT TOUGALOO.\n\n(SEE FEBRUARY AMERICAN MISSIONARY.)\n\nA roomful of girls of various sizes and complexions, all very much\nintent upon their work, and no one thinking just at that moment of a\ntraveled fairy daughter, to adopt and love as her own, sent by a\nbeneficent and tender-hearted northern \"Fay.\" I doubt if Susie ever\nbefore saw so many \"little women\" laboring with needles and trying to\nset the troublesome stitches straight and even, to keep the thread\nfrom tangling and the seam clean. The results are far from perfection,\nbut they are encouraging.\n\nSome of the children _wear_ thimbles, and some set them upon their desks\nand _wiggle_ the needle through without their aid. Here is a child so\ntiny that no thimble in the box will serve her. She has a delicate\nface, with big brown eyes, and her fingers are the slenderest of\nappendages to her atoms of hands. Her sister, a year or so older, has\na round, chubby face, with plump, dimpled, brown hands, but these fat\nfingers also must grow to the smallest thimble. Here is a quiet,\nmodest little girl whose five baptismal names, Cynthia Ann Finetta\nBloomfield Celeste, furnish her nothing prettier for every day use\nthan \"Lusty.\" She could not thread a needle or tie a knot when she\njoined the Hope Band, and the second year she wore one of the smallest\nthimbles with a bit of cloth inside for \"chinking\" to keep it on. Here\nSusie's sympathies are drawn out towards a thin, nervous-looking\nlittle Frances, who has a hand and foot crippled. She walks painfully\nalong to her place and holds her work at a disadvantage in the poor\nlittle cramped left hand, but she likes to be there with the others.\n\nMost of the heads are covered with little tight braids, on some heads\nstanding at every angle, on some laid smoothly down, one braid tied to\nanother. A few have their curly hair cropped close, and here is a\nlittle girl with a bushy mass overshadowing her lively face. She takes\nbut a stitch or two until she goes up to the front and holds her work\nout for her teacher's inspection. Some time elapses before that lady\ncan notice it and say, \"That is pretty good, Lena; now go right on\ncarefully.\" Lena returns slowly to her place, takes a stitch or two\nmore and repeats the performance. When will the work be completed? O\nno, that is the way she used to do, but _now_--\n\nA middle-sized \"Topsy\" comes pushing rudely forward, tossing her head\nand whispering disagreeable things to those she has to pass, and Susy\nhopes she will not be brought into any closer relations with _her_, when\nshe happens to see her tenderly fondling a broken-armed, broken-legged\ndollie, while her work is being adjusted, and thinks somewhat better\nof her. There are several Lilies and Roses in this growing garden. The\nlilies are not white and the roses are not red, but more attractive\nand interesting to their teacher's eyes than the black pansies the\nflower gardeners {109} labored so long to produce. Their teacher is\nfond of flowers and has her windows full, even in winter, but she does\nnot smile upon them with such a heartful of affection as upon these,\nnor can those bask in the light of her merry face more freely. As her\nshort, round figure moves down the aisle and back, and Susie gets a\ngood look at her, she says to herself, \"Why surely this is Mrs. Santa\nClaus! How glad I am!\" and it is not a strange conclusion, for her\nfigure and expression _are_ like the poet's description of dear Saint\nNick.\n\nHere is a girl in one of the side seats a good deal taller than her\nteacher. Through the long, bright, warm summer she works in the cotton\nand the corn, alongside of father, brothers, uncles, men and women,\nboys and girls. Her hands are enlarged and roughened with toil, but\nshe is taking pains to learn how to do this useful indoor work\nskillfully too.\n\nThere is a goodly company of these larger girls, but Susie does not\nfeel any more afraid of them, nor of \"the middle-sized bears and the\nwee tiny, small bears\" than did little Silverhair in the nursery tale.\nShe doubts, however, if these largest ones have not laid aside\ndollies, and thinks she must look among the \"leaster\" ones for the\nlittle _step-mother_ who will respect her own little Fay-mother's\nrequest to \"take good care of her.\" But when the sewing-lesson is\nended and she notices one and another bring to light a little\ndollie-daughter to hug in her arms as she walks homeward, and sees the\nsociable interest of all the rest, she feels no further doubt about\nthe mother-love in all these little Southern bosoms and resigns all\ncare as to which one shall be hers, leaving the whole question to Mrs.\nSanta Claus.\n\nPerhaps some day we may call upon her when she is fully domesticated\nin her new home. There will not be many comforts and conveniences in\nthat home. Possibly when we ask for Susie, her mamma will draw a\nlittle old box from under the head of her bed, as once when I called\nupon one of these little girls and asked her if she had a doll. It had\nlost some of its limbs and it was dressed in odds and ends, tacked\ntogether by the untaught little mother, but when I set the dollie on\nmy knee and pretended to drink tea out of one of the tiny toy cups set\nforth from the same treasure-box, you could not find a more hilarious\nlittle mamma anywhere, though you should pick out one with all nursery\nstores at her command.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n A LETTER FROM ONE OF OUR INDIAN PUPILS IN NEBRASKA.\n\nSANTEE AGENCY, NEB.\n\n_Dear Eastern Friends_:--We have had five good prayer meetings during\ntwo weeks, and I am very glad to tell you dear friends that some of\nour school-mates said they will try and do as God wants them to do.\nAnd some pray who never did before. No words can tell how I felt one\nevening {110} after we came home from meeting. Just before I went up\nstairs I asked the Matron if I could talk Dakota to tell my room-mate\nabout the meeting. The subject was, \"What must I do to be saved?\" I\ntold it to her the best I could. After I was through talking I asked\nher if she understood all what I meant and she said \"Yes.\" We both\nwere silent for one minute. I was praying to God in my heart to help\nme to help this dear school-mate of mine. Then in a little while she\nsaid, \"I believe in Jesus and now I will always try and be a\nChristian.\" When she said that, I couldn't do anything more, I was so\nglad that my tears came. And before we went to sleep I ask her to pray\nafter I did, and she did; this was the first time she prayed in her\nown words. It was so dark and I couldn't see anything but I knew she\nwas crying by the way she spoke. After long time I thought she went to\nsleep; but all at once she call my name and said, \"I wish tomorrow\nmorning they would sing in Dakota, '_Ring the bells in heaven, there is\ngreat joy to-day_.'\" Dear friends we kindly ask you to remember us when\nyou offer prayer to our dear God.\n\nYour friend,\n\n----\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1888.\n\n   MAINE, $1,119.63.\n\nAuburn. High St. Cong. Ch. 117.28 of which for Indian M. and 39.74\nfor Chinese M. 302.85\n\nAugusta. Joel Spalding, to const. HON. WM. P. FRYE L.M. 30.00\n\nBangor. Central Cong. Ch. 75; Hammond St. Cong. Ch., 2, for Pleasant\nHill, Tenn. 77.00\n\nBridgeton. By Mrs. Hale, Pkg. Basted Work, for Selma, Ala.\n\nCastine. Wm. G. Sargent, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00\n\nCenter Lebanon. Sab. Sch. Class., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 4.10\n\nDenmark. Box of C., for Mobile, Ala.\n\nEast Orrington, Sab. Sch. 2; Miss M.F. George, 1, for Pleasant Hill,\nTenn. 3.00\n\nEdgecomb. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00\n\nFarmington Falls. By Miss Susan G. Crowell, for Freight 0.65\n\nHampden. Cong. Ch. 4.80\n\nHarpswell. Mrs. John Dinsmore. for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 7.00\n\nIsland Falls. Miss D. Merriman, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 2.50\n\nLimington. Cong. Ch. 12.50\n\nMonson. Rev. R.W. Emerson, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00\n\nNewcastle. Mrs. Wm. Heath, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 1.00\n\nNew Gloucester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. and Box of C., 1.75 for\nFreight, for Selma, Ala. 1.75\n\nNew Sharon, Cong. Ch. 3.00\n\nNorth Bridgeton. Cong. Ch. 2.25\n\nNorway. Mrs. Amos. I. Holt, Bbl. of C., for Wilmington, N.C.; ---- 2,\nfor Freight 2.00\n\nOrkland. H.T. and S.E. Buck, 20; Mrs. Trott, 3; \"A Friend,\" 1 24.00\n\nPortland. \"A Friend\" (10 of which for Rosebud Indian M.) 15.00\n\nSaco. First Parish Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. ELLA C. INGALLS L.M.\n30.00\n\nScarboro. Cong. Ch. 5.16\n\nSkowhegan. Ladies of Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Selma, Ala.\n\nSouth Paris. by Mrs. Austin, Pkg. Work, for Selma, Ala.\n\nUnion. 2 Classes, little girls in Sab. Sch., by Mrs. F.V. Norcross for\nPleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00\n\nWells. B. Maxwell. 25.00\n\nWestbrook. Second Cong. Ch. 25.57\n\nWilton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Selma, Ala.\n\nYarmouthville. Rev. Amasa Loring, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 2.00\n\n----. \"Friend in Maine,\" bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A. MERRILL L.M.\n10.50\n\nBy Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Treas. W.A. to A.M.A., for Woman's Work:\n\nLadies of Maine 500.00\n\n   NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.01.\n\nAmherst. Rev. A.J. McGown 10.00\n\nAuburn. Benjamin Chase, for Indian M. 2.00\n\nCandia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50\n\nColebrook. \"A Friend,\" Pkg. of Coats, Val. 16.16.\n\nEast Derry, First Ch. 18.03\n\nEast Jaffrey. \"A Friend\" 15.00\n\nEnfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00\n\nEpping. Cong. Ch. 37.00\n\nGoffstown. Bbl. of C., Val. 30, for Greenwood, S.C., 1.40 for Freight\n1.40\n\nGreat Falls. Mrs. J.A. Stickney, Bbl. and Box of C. and Christmas\ngifts, for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nGreenfield. Cong. Ch. 15.50\n\nGreenfield. \"Friends\" for Storrs Sch. 8.50\n\nGreenland. Cong. Ch. 15.56\n\nHancock. By Miss B.D. Robertson 5.63\n{111}\n\nHenniker. By Miss B.D. Robertson 5.80\n\nLyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.81\n\nManchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. ALLEN L. FRENCH L.M.\n53.18\n\nMason. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nNashua. Miss Sarah Kendall, for Greenwood, S.C. 3.00\n\nNashua. 2 Bbls. of C., for Greenwood, S.C., 2 for Freight 2.00\n\nNewport. Cong. Ch. 40.10\n\nPittsfield. Box and Bbl. of C., etc., for Marion, Ala.\n\nSouth Newmarket. For Freight 2.50\n\nWest Lebanon. Tilden Sem., Box of C. and Christmas Gifts, for Storrs\nSch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nBy George Swain:\n\nAmherst. Cong. Ch. 1.50\n\nGreenville. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\nMason. Mrs. P.S. Wilson 2.00\n\n.----\n\n.13.50\n\n   VERMONT. $174.06.\n\nBethel. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for McIntosh, Ga. 3.43\n\nEast Hardwick. O. Paine 0.50\n\nFairhaven. For McIntosh, Ga. 5.35\n\nIrasburg. Mrs. J.E. Chamberlin 5.00\n\nJamaica. Ladies, for McIntosh, Ga. by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 2.00\n\nLyndon. Dr. L.W. Hubbard 2.00\n\nMiddlebury. Bbl. of C., and 2 for McIntosh, Ga. 2.00\n\nMontpeller. Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nNorth Thetford. Cong. Ch. 7.00\n\nNorwich. Cong. Ch., 15; \"A Friend,\" 5 20.00\n\nPeru. Dea. Edmund Batchelder, 3; Rev. A.B. Peffers, 2. 5.00\n\nPittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey 10.00\n\nPost Mills. Cong. Ch. (3 of which for McIntosh, Ga.) 8.00\n\nQuechee. Bbl. of C. and 1.75 for McIntosh, Ga. 1.75\n\nSaint Johnsbury East. Cong. Ch. 6.50\n\nShoreham. R.H. Holmes 5.00\n\nStratford. Cong, Ch. 25.00\n\nTownshend. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs. Anna Rice) 25.53\n\nWells River. Cong. Ch. 20.00\n\nWest Brattleboro. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 15; A.L. Grout, 5, for\nMcIntosh, Ga. 20.00\n\n   MASSACHUSETTS, $5,925.07\n\nAmesbury. Union Evang. Ch. 4.03\n\nAmherst. \"A Friend,\" to const. JOHN RICHARDS L.M. 30.00\n\nAndover. Rev. F.W. Greene, 20; A Friend, 10 30.00\n\nAndover. Juv. Miss'y Soc. of West Parish, for Indian Student Aid 15.00\n\nAndover. Ladies of Free Ch., Bbl. of C., for Marion, Ala.\n\nAshfield. \"A Friend\" 1.16\n\nAuburn. Infant Class. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\nGa. 7.00\n\nBelchertown. Mrs. D.B. Bruce, to const. REV. CHARLES R. BRUCE L.M.\n30.00\n\nBeverly. Dane St. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 50.00\n\nBoston. J.H. Nichols, A.A. Lawrence and S.W. Marston, Val. Sch. Books\nand Sch. Apparatus\n\nDorchester. Miss Mary A. Tutle, for Marie Adlof Sch'p Fund 0.40\n\nJamaica Plain. Miss Nellie Riley, Pkg cards, etc., for Straight U.\n----\n\n.0.40\n\nBoxboro. Cong. Ch. 15.00\n\nBoxford. A Friend, for Ch., Corbin, Ky. 5.00\n\nBrimfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 10.60\n\nBuckland. First Cong. Ch., for Sherwood, Tenn. 4.00\n\nCambridgeport. Miss Hannah E. Moore 8.00\n\nChelsea. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 7.50\n\nChelsea. Miss E. Davenport 5.00\n\nChelsea. Mrs. Emma B. Evans, for Indian M. 5.00\n\nClinton. Young People's Mite Soc., for Indian Sch'p 43.00\n\nCohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.33\n\nCummington. Mrs. H.M. Porter 3.00\n\nDalton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky.\n45.00\n\nDracut. First Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\nDunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.74\n\nEast Douglas. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.97\n\nEast Weymouth. Ch. and Sab. Sch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 50.00\n\nGeorgetown. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.50\n\nGlobe Village. Young Helpers of Evan. Free Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk\nU. 25.00\n\nGreenwich. Daniel Parker, deceased, by Mrs. M.P. Estey 5.00\n\nGroton. Ladies' Benev. Soc., by Mrs. Caroline Blood, for Freight 2.00\n\nHampshire Co. \"A Friend\" 5.00\n\nHaverhill. Sab. Sch. of West Cong. Ch., for Freight 3.00\n\nHyde Park. Woman's H.M.U. and Children's M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\nfor Tougaloo U., and to const. MISS ALICE GRAY L.M. 30.00\n\nIpswich. South Cong. Ch. 20.00\n\nLakeville. Mrs. C.L. Ward 25.00\n\nLawrence. Lawrence St. Ch. and Soc. 150.00\n\nLong Meadow. \"A Friend,\" for Indian M. 1.00\n\nLowell. John St. Cong. Ch., 41.92; \"A Friend in Elliot Ch.\" 5; Geo. C.\nOsgood, M.D., 1.50 48.42\n\nLowell. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for\nWilmington, N.C.\n\nMalden. Infant Sab. Sch., for Straight U. 10.00\n\nManchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.75\n\nMansfield. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for Wilmington, N.C. 8.17\n\nMiddlefield. Cong. Ch. 28.00\n\nMonson. Mrs. Abbie G. Smith 5.00\n\nNeponset. Stone Mission Circle of Trin. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid,\nWilmington, N.C. 10.00\n\nNewburyport. \"Friends,\" for Mountain Work 3.00\n\nNorfolk. Cong. Ch. 2.14\n\nNorth Abington. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\nNorth Adams. \"A Friend\" 10.00\n\nNorthhampton. \"C\" 100.00\n\nNorthbridge. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\nNorth Brookfield. Freight on Box to Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 4.60\n\nNorth Leominister. Mrs. S.F. Houghton, to const. REV. F.A. BALCOM L.M.\n30.00\n\nPeabody. Sab. Sch. of South Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 50.00\n\nPeabody. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., Box Books and Christmas Gifts,\nfor Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nPepperell. Ladies of Cong. Soc., Bbl. of C., for Greenwood, S.C., 2\nfor Freight 2.00\n\nRandolph. Collected by Mrs. J.C. Labaree, 30; Y.L. Miss'y Soc,. Bbl.\nof C., for Tougaloo, U. 30.00\n\nRandolph. Annie T. and Marion Belcher 10.00\n\nReading. Cong. Ch. 18.00\n\nRoyalston. \"A Friend,\" 10; ----, Bbl. of C., for Greenwood, S.C. 10.00\n\nRoyalston. First Cong. Ch. 2.50\n\nSomerset. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n\nSomerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. Cong. Ch., for Indian Student\nAid, add'l 40.00\n{112}\n\nSomerville. Winter Hill Cong. Ch., 17.50; Day St. Ch., 10.50 28.00\n\nSomerville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Freight 3.35\n\nSouth Amherst. South Cong. Ch. 6.12\n\nSouth Braintree. Cong. Ch. 11.00\n\nSouthington. Ladies' Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C., for Tougaloo, Miss\n\nSouth Weymouth. Children's Soc., Bbl. of Christmas Gifts\n\nSpencer. Mrs. G.H. Marsh's S.S. Class, for Wilmington, N.C. 7.00\n\nSpringfield. \"H.M.\" 1000.00\n\nTaunton. Union Cong. Ch. 27.50\n\nWaltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 15.80\n\nWaltham. Sab. Sen. Class, for Storrs Sch. Atlanta, Ga. 3.00\n\nWarren. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N.\nInst. 42.00\n\nWatertown. Mrs. M. Pryor 0.50\n\nWellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc 123.14\n\nWellesley. Wellesley College, to const. GEORGE W. CABLE L.M. 45.00\n\nWellesley. \"Friends\" in Wellesley Col., for Marion, Ala 26.00\n\nWest Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00\n\nWesthampton. ladies' Benev. Soc., for Tougaloo U 10.00\n\nWestminster. \"Cheerful Givers,\" for Student Aid, Fisk U 5.00\n\nWest Newton. Earnest Workers, for Student Aid, Storrs Sch 5.00\n\nWest Springfield. Mrs. Lucy m. Bagg, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 50.00\n\nWeymouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 55.00\n\nWhitman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.00\n\nWinchendon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 20.00\n\nWinchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.59\n\nWorchester. Old So. Ch., to const. GEO. R. BLISS and MRS. GEO. M.\nPIERSE L.M.'s 61.26\n\nYarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn 25.00\n-------------- $2,925 07\n\nLEGACY.\n\nWhitinsville. Estate of Chas. P. Whitin, by Edward Whitin, Ex. 3000.00\n-------------- $5,925 07\n\nCLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.\n\nFarmington Falls, Me. By Miss Susan G. Crosswell, Box, for\nWilliamsburg, Ky\n\nLitchfield, Me. Ladies' Aid Soc., Bbl., for Williamsburg, Ky\n\nBrookfield, Mass. Mrs. R.B. Montague. Bbl., for Sherwood, Tenn\n\nCambridgeport, Mass. Miss Lacena Palmer, Basted Patchwork\n\nCambridgeport, Mass. By Mrs. R.L. Snow, Box and Bbl., for Tougaloo U\n\nHaverhill, Mass. West Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl., for Talladega C.\n\nHyde Park, Mass. W.H.M.U., of First Cong. Ch., Bbl., Val. 40 for\nTougaloo U.\n\nRoxbury, Mass. Mrs. Arthur W. Tuffts, Box, for Sherwood, Tenn\n\nSomerville, Mass. Mission Circle of Franklin St. Ch., Bbl., for Santee\nIndian M.\n\n   RHODE ISLAND, $448.63.\n\nEast Providence. Samuel Belden, for Atlanta U 100.00\n\nNewport. United Cong. Ch. 34.68\n\nPawtucket. \"Friends,\" Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 105.00\n\nProvidence. Sam. Sch. of Union Cong. Ch., 50 for Indian M. and 25 for\nWilliamsburg Ky 75.00\n\nProvidence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 131.87\n\nRiverside. Riverside Cong. Ch 2.08\n\n   CONNECTICUT, $2,001.63.\n\nBerlin. \"A Friend,\" 70; The Misses Churchill, 2, for Student Aid,\nTougaloo U. 72.00\n\nBranford. E. Davis 1.00\n\nBridgeport. First Cong. Ch 129.76\n\nBristol. Sab. Sch. Class, for Indian Sch'p 14.00\n\nColumbia. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 3, and Bbl. of C., for Louisville, Ky\n3.00\n\nDanbury. \"A Friend,\" for Lexington, Ky. 50.00\n\nEast Canaan. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\nEast Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 29.77 and Box of Christmas\nGifts, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky 29.77\n\nEast Wallingford. Mrs. Benj. Hall 3.50\n\nEnfield. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., for Indian Sch'p Fund 25.00\n\nFairfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Tougaloo U 25.00\n\nGaylordsville. Miss Grace Hendricks, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 10.00\n\nGlastonbury. \"Friends,\" for Indian M. 217.00\n\nHartford. Teachers and Scholars, Sab. Sch. of Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.,\n12.50 for Santee Indian Sch.; 10 for Atlanta U.; 5 for Chinese Sch.\nCal. 27.50\n\nHartford. Sab. Sch. of Windsor Av. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U\n20.00\n\nLakeville. Mrs. S.C. Robbins 4.50\n\nLedyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc 22.77\n\nMansfield Center. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Half Bbl, of C., etc.,\nfor Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga\n\nMiddletown. Sab. Sch of First Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 25.00\n\nMilton. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\nNaugatuck. \"Young Friends,\" for Indian Sch'p 70.00\n\nNew Britian. Miss Mary L. Stanley, 9 for Student Aid; Miss Mary L.\nStanley and Miss Daniels, Box of C, for Williamsburg, Ky 9.00\n\nNew haven. \"A Friend\" 10.00\n\nNew Haven. Davenport Ch., for Indian M 5.50\n\nNew Haven. First Ch., Miss Barnes' S.S. Class and Others. Box for Jones'\nKindergarten, Storrs Sch\n\nNew London. \"Member of Second Ch.\" 1.00\n\nNorfolk \"A Friend\" 4.50\n\nNorth Branford. Sab. Sch., for Oaks, N.C. 20.00\n\nNorth Coventry. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg,\nKy 24.00\n\nNorwalk. Miss C.L. Marsh, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst 10.00\n\nNorwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., for Santee Indian M. 50.87\n\nNorwich. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch 2.08\n\nPoquonock. Willing Workers of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg,\nKy. 9.00\n\nSalisbury. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Indian M 12.50\n\nSharon. John H. Cleaveland 5.00\n\nSimsbury. Miss'y Soc. for Freight 3.00\n\nSouth Coventry. Dea. and Mrs. Kingsbury, 10; Miss Louisa Lord, 5 for\nWilliamsburg, Ky 15.00\n\nSouth Glastonbury. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 10.58\n\nSouthington. First Cong. Ch., for Thomasville, Ga 1.50\n\nSouthport. \"A Friend\" 30.00\n\nSouthport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Indian M 8.92\n\nThomaston. Cong. Ch. 35.15\n\nThompsonville. Mrs. J.C. Simpson, 5; Miss Maggie Drigg, 5, for Student\nAid, Straight U 10.00\n\nUnionville. First Ch. of Christ 37.92\n\nUnionville. \"A Friend,\" Communion Service, 8 pieces, for Ch., Austin,\nTex\n\nWarren. Cong. Ch. 21.00\n\nWaterbury. First Cong. Ch. 200.86\n\nWaterbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., First Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\nGa 25.00\n{113}\n\nWaterbury. \"A Friend,\" for Santee Indian M. 50.00\n\nWaterbury. Sunshine Circle, for Indian M. 5.00 West Hartford. \"S.H.,\"\nfor Indian M. 10.00\n\nWest Hartland. Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 6.00\n\nWeston. Cong. Ch. 10.00\n\nWindham. Ladies' Soc. Cong. Ch., Box of C., etc., for Thomasville.,\nGa.\n\nWoodbridge. Cong. Ch. 14.83\n\nWoodbury. Ladies' Miss. Soc. of South Cong. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l Sch.,\nGa. 25.00 Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. S.M.\nHotchkiss, Sec.:\n\nKent. Sab. Sch. of Cong, Ch., for Mountain White Work 20.00\n\nNew Haven. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of College St. Ch., for Conn. Ind'l\nSch. 35.00\n\n------- 55.00\n\n--------- $1,497.96\n\nLEGACIES.\n\nDurham. Estate of Dea. Gaylord Newton, by H.G. Newton, to const. HENRY\nG. NEWTON, MISS LOIS CAMP and THOMAS R. NOBLE L.M.'s 100.00\n\nNew Haven. Estate of Mary Dutton, by Samuel D. Gilbert, Ex. 100.00\n\nWoodbury. Estate of Sarah J. Deming, by Anson A. Root, Adm. 303.67\n\n--------- $2,001 63\n\n   NEW YORK, $1,676.98.\n\nAdams Basin. Mrs. H. Clark 5.00\n\nAquebogue. Cong. Ch. 11.00\n\nBinghamton. Cong. Bible Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00\n\nBrooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch., for Atlanta U., to\nconst. REV. ROBERT R. MEREDITH, D.D., REV. GEO. F. PENTECOST, D.D.,\nHENRY T. HOLT and MRS. ELMA M. STEBBINS L.M.'s 123.00\n\nBrooklyn, Ladies' Circle, Lee Av. Cong. Ch., 22; South Bushwick Sab.\nSch., 12; Daughters of the King, Lee Av., Cong. Ch., 7; Penny Offering\nPark Av. Sab. Sch., 5; Mrs. Anna Pollock, 3, for Student Aid. Mrs.\nSarah Wilde, 10; Miss Sarah Hulst, 5; Daughters or the King, Lee Av.\nCong. Sab. Sch., Pkg. of C.; Flossie Bringham, 1; Carrie Strong, 1,\nfor Student Aid. Ladies' Circle, Lee Av. Cong. Ch., 2 Boxes of C.;\nSouth Bushwick Reformed Sab. Sch., 2 Bbls. of C. and Box of Books, for\nWilliamsburg, Ky. 66.00\n\nBrooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., for Santee Indian M. 37.50\n\nBrooklyn. Park Cong. Ch., 16.43; A.G. Brinkckerhoff, 5 21.43\n\nFairport. J.E. Howard 50.00\n\nFlushing. First Cong. Ch. 56.00\n\nGloversville. Cong. Ch. 235.34\n\nHoneoye. Cong. Ch. 26.00\n\nKiantone. Cong. Ch. 4.50\n\nLawrenceville. Lucius Hulburd 5.00\n\nLima. Mrs. Orson Warner 2.00\n\nLisbon. First Cong. Ch., 8.51; Mrs. Wm. Sheldon, 1 9.51\n\nMiller's Place. Mount Sinai Cong. Ch. 12.00\n\nNew York. Miss D.E. Emerson, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 25.00\n\nNew York. \"A Friend,\" Christmas Gift, for Williamsburg, Ky. 5.00\n\nParis. Cong. Ch. 24.00\n\nPerry Centre. Cong. Soc., for Freight 1.25\n\nRiverhead. Cong. Ch. 10.30\n\nRochester. Mrs. E.R. Andrews 4.50\n\nUnion Valley. Wm. C. Angel 5.00\n\nWalton. First Cong. Ch. 69.82\n\nWalton. Cong. Sab. Sch., Christmas Gifts, 33.93, and 2 Bbls. of C.,\netc.; H.E. St. John, 9; Miss Jennie Hull, 2, for Student Aid,\nWilliamsburg, Ky. 44.93\n\nWest Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 20 of which for Student Aid, Fisk U. 41.00\n\nWoodbridge. First Cong. Ch. 8.37\n\n--------\n\n$938.45\n\nLEGACY.\n\nWaverly. Estate of Mrs. Phebe Bepburne, Howard Elmer, Ex. 738.53\n\n---------\n\n$1,676.98\n\n   NEW JERSEY, $36.91.\n\nColt's Neck. Reformed Ch. 5.16\n\nEast Orange. \"True Blue Card,\" Collected by Mary Brenner 1.00\n\nLakewood. Rev. Geo. and E.O. Langdon 3.00\n\nNewark. \"X.Y.\" 1.75\n\nNewark. \"A Sister in Christ,\" Box Papers, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nUpper Montclair. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. Of C., for Storrs\nSch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nWestfield. \"A Friend\" 1.00\n\n----. \"Heart's Content\" 25.00\n\n   PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.\n\nBraddock. Thomas Addenbrook, Box Books, etc., for Sherwood, Tenn.\n\nGuy's Mills. Mrs. F. Maria Guy 2.00\n\nLinesville. M.T. Donaldson 5.00\n\n   OHIO, $407.82.\n\nAustinburg. Cong. Ch. 11.00\n\nBerea. First Cong. Ch. 6.50\n\nCleveland. Jennings Av. Cong. Ch., 75; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 72.16; John\nJay Low, 20 167.16\n\nCleveland. Mount Zion Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 8.64\n\nCleveland. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Box of C., for Tillotson C. & N.\nInst.\n\nMedina. W.H. Sipher 2.00\n\nMount Vernon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 19.37\n\nNorth Ridgeville. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Box Canned Fruit; Cong. Sab.\nSch., Bbl. of Goods, for Williamsburg, Ky.\n\nOberlin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., 10; \"A Friend,\" 12.50; Mrs.\nL.G.B. Hills, 5 27.50\n\nOberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., for Lexington, Ky. 15.00\n\nOberlin. Mrs. Vance, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 5.00\n\nOberlin. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta,\nGa.\n\nPainesville. First Cong. Ch. 27.90\n\nPainesville. Y.L.M. Soc., of First Cong. Ch., for Fort Berthold Indian\nM. 4.75\n\nSouth Salem. Daniel S. Pricer 5.00\n\nToledo. Miss A.M. Nicholas, for Wilmington, N.C.. 5.00\n\nWest Andover. \"Friends,\" by L.L. Coleman 10.00\n\nWilloughby. Lyndon Freeman 1.50\n\nOhio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treas.,\nfor Woman's Work:\n\nBurton. Mrs. A.S. Hotchkiss 3.00\n\nCleveland. L.H.M.S., of Euclid Av. Ch. 20.00 Cleveland. Euclid Av.\nCh., L.M. Soc. 20.00\n\nColumbus. Eastwood Ch., Y.L.M. Soc. 10.00\n\nColumbus. Eastwood Ch., \"Family Mite Box.\" 12.00\n\nWilloughby. Mrs. Mary P. Hastings 26.00\n\n----- 91.00\n{114}\n\n   INDIANA, $25.00.\n\nBloomington, Mrs. A.B. Woodford, for Student Aid, Fisk U. 5.00\n\nNew Corydon. Geo. Storz 20.00\n\n   ILLINOIS, $468.20.\n\nAlbion. James Green 10.00\n\nBunker Hill. D.E. Pettengill 1.00\n\nCanton. Cong. Ch. 42.20\n\nChicago. Sedgwick St. Sab. Sch. 25.00\n\nChicago. Major E.D. Redington, for Lexington, Ky. 17.00\n\nEarlville. Mrs. Rindell, 1; Mabel Rindell, 20 cts.; Bertie Rindell, 15\ncts. 1.35\n\nGalesburg. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Fisk U. 10.00\n\nGeneseo. First Cong. Ch. 145.18\n\nGreenville. Ladies' Miss'y Circle, Box of C., Val. 25\n\nJoliet. \"A Thank Offering\" 5.00\n\nLa Grange. W.M.S., for Chinese M. 5.00\n\nLake View. Church of the Redeemer 22.55\n\nLyonsville. Cong. Ch. 5.60\n\nNaperville. Prof. Geo. W. Sindlinger, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 10.00\n\nOdell. Mrs. H.E. Dana 10.00\n\nOttawa. First Cong. Ch. 32.66\n\nPrinceton. Mrs. R.D. Harrison, for Student Aid, Fisk U. 1.00\n\nProspect Park. Cong. Ch., in part 7.00\n\nShabbona. Woman's Miss'y Soc., 2 Boxes Papers, etc., for Sherwood,\nTenn.\n\nTurner. Mrs. R. Currier 1.00\n\nWheaton. College Ch. of Christ, in part 28.81\n\nWinnebago. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for Woman's Work 9.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Ill., Mrs. B.L. Leavitt, Treas., for\nWoman's Work:\n\nChicago. L.M. Soc. of New Eng. Ch. 30.00\n\nOak Park. Ladies' Benev. Circle 23.00\n\nRockford. Peter Holman Fund, First Ch. 20.65\n\nSheffield. Aux. 5.20\n\n------ 78.85\n\n   MICHIGAN, $90.01\n\nAllendale. Cong. Ch. 2.75\n\nAnn Arbor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Athens,\nAla.\n\nBanks. Cong. Ch. 8.70\n\nCheboygan. First Cong. Ch., add'l 0.97\n\nGrand Rapids. First Cong. Ch. 25.50\n\nHopkins. First Ch. 6.50\n\nLaingsburg. Cong. Ch. 4.50\n\nLansing. Cong. Ch. 7.00\n\nNorthville. D. Pomeroy 5.00\n\nSalem. Miss'y Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., for Athens, Ala. 5.59\n\nSouth Haven. First Cong. Ch. 14.50\n\n----. \"Muskegon\" 2.00\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Mich., by Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Treas.,\nfor Woman's Work:\n\nBay City. W.H.M.S. 2.00\n\nCheboygan. W.H.M.S. 5.00\n\n------ 7.00\n\n   WISCONSIN, $222.03.\n\nBaraboo. Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.\n\nBoscobel. Cong. Ch. 2.25\n\nBristol and Paris. Christian Endeavor Soc., 2.55; Ladies' Soc. of\nCong. Ch., Bbl. of C., for Thomasville, Ga. 2.55\n\nBrodhead. Cong. Ch. 4.27\n\nDarlington. Cong. Ch. ..7.33\n\nFond du Lac. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. C., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta,\nGa.\n\nGreen Bay. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., for Austin, Tex.\n\nJanesville. \"Friends,\" Box of C., for Marion, Ala.\n\nLa Crosse. \"A Friend,\" 25; Cong. Ch., 10 35.00\n\nLake Geneva. Mrs. Geo. Allen 5.00\n\nLeeds. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\nMazo Manie. Cong. Ch. 7.07\n\nMilwaukee. Plymouth Ch. 40.58\n\nPeshtigo. Cong. Ch. 3.22\n\nSparta. Cong. Ch. 40.41\n\nStoughton. Miss Sewell's S.S. Class, Christmas Gifts, for Austin,\nTexas\n\nWaukesha. \"Friends,\" for Student Aid, Marion Ala. 15.00\n\nWauwatosa. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Box of C., for Austin, Texas\n\nWindsor. Cong. Ch. 18.75\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Wis., for Woman's Work:\n\nGreen Bay. W.M.S. 9.00\n\nMilwaukee. W.H.M.U., Grand Av. Ch. 25.00\n\nStoughton. Sab. Sch. Birthday Box 1.60\n\n------- 35.60\n\n   IOWA, $204.31\n\nBurlington. Mercy Lewis, for Chinese M. 0.50\n\nCedar Rapids. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., Birthday Offerings 1.97\n\nCherokee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Straight U. 10.00\n\nChester Center. Cong. Ch. 9.85\n\nDanville. L. Mix 5.00\n\nDenmark. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 14.50 Farragut. Mrs. L.S. Chapin, for\nWoman's Work 2.00\n\nGarnaville. Rev. G.M. Porter 3.00\n\nHull. Mrs. E.C. Davidson, for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky. 6.00\n\nIowa City. Sab. Sch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 15.00\n\nIowa City. Mrs. R.A. McClain 5.00\n\nMcGregor. J.H. Ellsworth 10.00\n\nMcGregor. S.S. Class, by Mrs. S.J. Peterson, for Student Aid, Straight\nU. 5.00\n\nMcGregor. Mrs. C.E. Daniels, for Freight 2.30\n\nNew Hampton. First Cong. Ch. 12.30\n\nNewton. Wittenberg Sab. Sch. 14.78\n\nSioux City. First Cong. Ch. 44.00\n\nStuart. Bbl. of C., for Savannah, Ga.\n\nTabor. Cong. Ch., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 10.00\n\nTipton. Mrs. M.D. Clapp 3.50\n\nTyrone. Wm. Griffiths 0.25\n\nWoman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, for Woman's Work:\n\nGrinnell. W.H.M.U. 3.68\n\nLe Mars. \" \" 5.73\n\nMcGregor. L.M.S. 6.95\n\nOsage. W.M.S. 3.00\n\nTipton. L.M.S. 10.00\n\n------- 29.36\n\n   MINNESOTA, $220.25.\n\nBrainerd. First Cong. Ch. 12.00\n\nHancock. Sab. Sch. Miss'y Soc., for Savannah, Ga. 5.00\n\nLeech Lake. C.P. Allen, M.D. 30.00\n\nPlainview. Cong. Ch. 14.11\n\nPlainview. Box of S.S. Supplies, for Corbin, Ky.\n\nRochester. W.J. Eaton, 50; Cong. Ch., 40.87 90.87\n\nSauk Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.00\n\nSauk Center. \"Little Lights,\" Box Papers, etc., for Jonesboro, Tenn.\n\nStillwater. Grace Cong. Ch. 2.92\n\nWabasha. Cong. Sab. Sch. and Y.P.S.C.E. 27.25\n{115}\n\nWorthington. Union Cong. Ch. 21.55\n\nZumbrota. Cong. Ch. 8.55\n\n   MISSOURI, $236.60.\n\nBevier. Luella J. Hudelson 2.00\n\nKansas City. Olivet Cong. Ch., in part 9.05\n\nSt. Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 200; Third Cong. Ch., 10.55 210.55\n\nSt. Louis. Mrs. R.H. Webb, for Straight U. 10.00\n\nWebster Groves. Cong. Ch. 5.00\n\n   KANSAS, $85.65.\n\nAtchison. Cong. Ch., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 5.00\n\nDover. Cong. Ch. 2.80\n\nLawrence. Second Cong. Ch., \"Thank Offering\" 1.00\n\nTopeka. Woman's H.M. Soc., for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga. 75.00\n\nTopeka. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 2 Bbls. of C. for Storrs Sch., Atlanta,\nGa.\n\nWakarusa. Cong. Ch. 1.85\n\n   DAKOTA, $5.00.\n\nSioux Falls. W.M.S., by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Terr. Treas. 5.00\n\n   NEBRASKA, $47.00.\n\nCowles. Cong. Ch. 2.00\n\nOmaha. First Cong. Ch. (in part) 10.00\n\nOxford. F.A. Wood 5.00\n\nWahoo. Cong. Ch., to const. Rev. A.A. CRESSMAN L.M. 30.00\n\n   CALIFORNIA, $62.50.\n\nRiverside. C.W. Herron's S.S. Class, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 8.00\n\nSan Luis Obispo. Rev. E.N. Bartlett 4.50\n\nSanta Barbara. Rev. Edward Hildreth, to const. PHILO C. HILDRETH L.M.\n50.00\n\n   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $70.00.\n\nWashington. \"Two Members First Cong. Ch.,\" for Indian M., and to\nconst. MRS. SARAH B.A. ROBINSON and MISS SARAH M. ROBINSON L.M.'s\n60.00\n\nWashington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 10.00\n\n   MARYLAND, $393.16.\n\nBaltimore. First Cong. Ch. 105 of which for Indian M. 393.16\n\n   KENTUCKY, $450.86.\n\nLexington. Tuition 314.21\n\nWilliamsburg. Tuition 136.65\n\n   TENNESSEE, $1,126.03.\n\nGrand View. Tuition 45.00\n\nJonesboro. Tuition, 22.25; County Fund, 40 62.25\n\nMemphis. Tuition 467.20\n\nNashville. Tuition, 509.08; Rent, 6.50 515.58\n\nPleasant Hill. Miss J.A. Calkins, 31; Mrs. Shroyer, 1; \"A Friend,\" 1;\n\"A Friend,\" by Mrs. Shroyer, 1, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 34.00\n\nSherwood. Mrs. O.N. Alden 2.00\n\n   NORTH CAROLINA, $177.35.\n\nRaleigh. First Cong. Ch., Christmas Offering 4.85\n\nTroy. By S.D. Leak 1.00\n\nWilmington. Tuition 163.00\n\nWilmington. By Miss H.L. Fitts 8.50\n\n   SOUTH CAROLINA, $228.62.\n\nCharleston. Tuition 228.62\n\n   GEORGIA, $882.94.\n\nAtlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition 295.85\n\nAtlanta. First Cong. Ch., Birthday Offerings 1.04\n\nMacon. Tuition 246.35\n\nMarietta. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 1.00\n\nMcIntosh. Tuition 58.75\n\nSavannah. Tuition 207.70\n\nThomasville. Tuition 72.25\n\n   ALABAMA, $706.35.\n\nAthens. Tuition 57.75\n\nBirmingham. Christmas Gift, Cong. Ch. 5.60\n\nIronaton. Cong. Ch. 1.50\n\nJenifer. Cong. Ch. 3.60\n\nMarion. Tuition, 130.50; \"Southern Friend\" (C.W.L.). for Marion,\nAla., 5; Cong. Ch., 3 138.50\n\nMobile. Tuition 288.90\n\nSelma. \"Two Southern Friends,\" for Marion, Ala. 30.00\n\nSelma. W.M. Ass'n, Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 5.00\n\nTalladega. Tuition 176.10\n\n   FLORIDA, $80.00.\n\nOrlando. M. Marty 10.00\n\nSaint Augustine. Pub. Sch. Fund 70.00\n\n   LOUISIANA, $419.75\n\nNew Orleans. Tuition 389.75\n\nNew Orleans. M.L. Berger, D.D., to const himself L.M. 30.00\n\n   MISSISSIPPI, $209.65.\n\nPort Gibson. Mrs. M.S. Bradford, for Freight 1.85\n\nTougaloo. Tuition 206.30\n\nTougaloo. Rent 2.00\n\n   TEXAS, $127.84.\n\nAustin. Tuition, 123.84; \"Friends.\" 4; Mr. Blatchford, Ag't, 1\nWebster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1 Webster's Academic Dictionary, for\nTillotson C. & N. Inst. 127.84\n\n   INCOMES, $29.05.\n\nAvery Fund, for Mendi M. 29.05\n\n   CANADA, $10.00.\n\nMontreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00\n\nToronto. Mrs. Jane Ebbs 5.00\n\n   TURKEY, $10.00.\n\nVan. Rev. Geo. C. Raynolds 10.00\n\n==========\n\nDonations 10,146.59\n\nLegacies 4,242.20\n\nIncomes 29.05\n\nTuition 4,250.05\n\nRents 8.50\n\n----------\n\nTotal for February 18,676.39\n\nTotal from Oct. 1 to Feb'y 29 110,091.90\n\n==========\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n   FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\nSubscriptions for February 104.41\n\nPreviously acknowledged 458.09\n\n------\n\nTotal 562.50\n\n======\n\nH.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n\n56 Reade St., N.Y.\n{116}\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nJAMES McCREERY & CO.\n\ninvite special attention to the\n\nFURLEY & BUTTRUM\n\nCelebrated English Fine Merino Underwear, in all weights and grades\nfor men, women and children, for the spring and summer season.\n\nORDERS BY MAIL will receive prompt attention.\n\nBROADWAY and ELEVENTH ST.,\n\nNEW YORK.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nLiquid Cottage Colors.\n\nThe best MIXED PAINTS manufactured. Guaranteed to give perfect\nsatisfaction if properly applied. They are heavy bodied, and for work\nthat does not require an extra heavy coat, they can be thinned (with\nour Old Fashioned Kettle-boiled Linseed Oil) and still cover better\nthan most of the mixed paints sold in the market, many of which have\nso little stock in them that they will not give a good solid coat.\n\nSome manufacturers of mixed paints direct NOT to rub out the paint,\nbut to FLOW it on; the reason being that if such stuff were rubbed out\nthere would be but little left to cover, would be transparent. Our\nCottage Colors have great strength or body, and, like any good paint,\nshould be worked out well under the brush. The covering property of\nthis paint is so excellent as to allow this to be done.\n\nPut up for shipment as follows: In 3-gal. and 5-gal. bailed buckets,\nalso barrels; in cans of 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 1-gal. and 2-gal. each.\n\nSample Cards of Colors, Testimonials and prices sent on application to\n\nChicago White Lead & Oil Co.,\n\nCor. Green & Fulton Streets,\n\nCHICAGO, ILL.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n6%, 7%.\n\nTHE AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO. OF EMMETTSBURG, IOWA,\n\nwith a PAID-UP CAPITAL of $600,000, SURPLUS $75,000, offers First\nMortgage Loans drawing SEVEN per cent., both Principal and Interest\nFULLY GUARANTEED. Also 6 per cent. ten-year Debenture Bonds, secured\nby 105 per cent. of First Mortgage Loans held in trust by the\nMERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, New York. 5 per cent. certificates of\ndeposit for periods under one year.\n\n7 2/3% CAN BE REALIZED BY CHANGING 4 Per Ct. Government Bonds Into 6\nPer Cent. Debentures.\n\nWrite for full information and reference to the Company at\n\n150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.\n\nA.L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\nMUSIC IN THE SPRING\n\nThere are yet some weeks of cool weather in which to prepare and\npractice music for the concluding concerts and festivals of the\nseason.\n\nIt is quite time to send for our complete and rich lists of EASTER\nMUSIC\n\nNow let girls and boys begin to practice the sweet CANTATAS--VOICES OF\nNATURE, or FOREST JUBILEE BAND, or MERRY COMPANY, or NEW FLORA'S\nFESTIVAL; each 40 cents, or $3.60 per dozen.\n\nPupils of the higher schools will like DRESS REHEARSAL (50c., or $4.50\nper doz.), NEW FLOWER QUEEN (60c., or $5.40 per doz.), or HAYMAKERS\n($1.00, or $9.00 per doz.)\n\nFine Cantatas of moderate difficulty for adults are: HEROES OF '76\n($1.00), HERBERT AND ELSA (75c.), JOSEPH'S BONDAGE ($1.00), REBECCA\n(65c.), RUTH AND BOAZ (65c.), WRECK OF HESPERUS (35c), FAIR MELUSINA\n(75c.), BATTLE OF HUNS (80c.), Send for lists.\n\nFor Male Quartets and Choruses:\n\nSANGERFEST ($1.38), MALE VOICE GLEE BOOK ($1.00), EMERSON'S QUARTETS\nAND CHORUSES (60 cts.), EMERSON'S MALE VOICE GEMS ($1.00).\n\nMailed for the Retail Price.\n\nOliver Ditson & Co., Boston.\n\nC.H. DITSON & CO., 867 Broadway, New York.\n\n     *     *     *     *     *\n\n  Footnote 1: Deceased.","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 42, No. 04, April, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":16754}